MEMOIR 



OF 



COL. ROBERT VENABLES. 



OF the author, Colonel Robert Venables, but little is 

 known, and that little not very satisfactory. Among 

 the Manuscripts in the Harleian Collection, are several 

 Pedigrees of the Families of Venables : particularly in 

 that marked ' ] 393, f. 39,' where the great ancestor of 

 Venables is stated to have been Gabriel Venables, who 

 came over with William the Conqueror, and afterwards 

 received the Earldom of Kinderton, in Cheshire, from 

 Hugh Lupus. Another Manuscript, No. 2059, recites 

 a deed from one of the family, residing at Northwich, 

 as early as anno 1260. 



But reverting more immediately to the subject 

 of this notice, the Harleian Manuscript ' 1993, f. 52.' 

 contains a paper, partly in the hand writing of Colonel 

 Venables, which furnishes a detailed account of the 

 time he served in the Parliament Army in Cheshire, 

 and of the pay due to him from 1643 to 1646. From 

 this authority it appears, that in 1644 he was made 

 Governor of Chester; and from other sources we learn, 

 that in 1645, he was Governor of Tarvin. In 1649, he 

 was Commander in Chief of the Forces hi Ulster, in 

 Ireland, and had the towns of Lisnegarvy, Antrim, and 



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