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previous fine of ;^4.583 to the round sum of ^^4,000. When, in 

 1655, a further levy of one tenth the value of the estates of 

 delinquents was made, another fine of ^^4,000 was put upon 

 Sir John, by far the largest sum demanded of any Derbyshire 

 delinquent. 



The following is Randle Holmes' description of the loyalty of 

 this Derbyshire sheriff : — 



"Sir John Harper of Swarson in the Hundred of Repingdon 

 and Gresly Knight, who for his own virtues and actions received 

 the honour of Knighthood from the hands of King Charles the 

 First at his Court of Whit Hall the IV. of July Anno mdcxxx., 

 with whom he faithfully adheretl against those Antimonarchial 

 spirits in the Late Long Parliament in Anno xlii. in his Majesties 

 distressed condition, For this piece of Loyalty he was brought 

 under the cursed Lash of Sequestration, and payd for the same 

 four Thousand pounds, besides Cx pounds per annum settled on 

 those parsons, who in their pulpets blew the greatest blast." * 



He died in 1677, without surviving issue. His uncle, Henry 

 Harpur, who purchased the Calke estate in 1621, was made a 

 baronet in 1626, and his grandson, Sir John Harpur, Bart., 

 united the Swarkeston and Calke properties by becoming heir 

 to his father's cousin in 1677. Sir Henry Harpur's third son 

 was William Harpur of Derby, and afterwards of Bilston. He 

 •is referred to in the two last of these Harpur sequestration papers. 

 Randle Holmes thus describes the first baronet of Calke : — 



" Henry Harpur of Calke, created Baronet eight of September 

 Anno Dom. mdcxxvi. This family hath deserved to be recorded 

 amongst the Kings Royall party, for both the Father and Son 

 faithfully adhered unto that pious King Charles the First, and 

 stood with an invinciable constancy against that compacte 

 rebellious crewe of the Parliamentarians then in Armes against 

 their known Sovereign, whose principles they abhorred ; But 

 stood as an Oak uumoveable and participated with the rest of 



* Harl. MSS. 2043, f. 145. 



