176 THE HISTORY OF NEWMARKET. [Book X. 



^^^ Sir Henry Mildmav, Knight, was a younger brother 

 of Sir Thomas Mildmay, of Moulsham Hall, Essex, who was 

 knighted July 23, 1603, created a Baronet June 29, 161 1, and 

 who died without surviving issue February 13, 1625-6, when 

 the family estates in Essex reverted to Sir Henry, member of 

 the Council of State during the Interregnum, above men- 

 tioned, who seems to have chiefly resided at Woodham- 

 Walter, county Essex. He died in 1654. 



^'^^ John Colepeper (Lord Colpeper), was the son of 

 a knight of the same name, living at Wigsell, in Sussex ; and 

 he spent some years in foreign parts, doing good service as a 

 soldier, and reputed to be of great courage, but of a rough 

 nature, his hot temper leading him too frequently into quarrels 

 and duels. After his marriage he became very tractable, and 

 was elected member of Parliament for Kent, in the Long Par- 

 liament. Charles I., sensible of his value, admitted him to the 

 Privy Council, and on January 6, 1642, made him Chancellor 

 of the Exchequer. After the royal standard had been set up 

 at Nottingham, Colepeper was one of the bearers of the king's 

 message to the Commons, with an offer to treat, so as to 

 prevent the effusion of blood and the miseries of civil war. 

 He must have anticipated the answer, from the manner in 

 which he was received in the House. They would not permit 

 him to take his seat as a member, but obliged him to deliver 

 his message at the bar, and then withdraw. On January 28, 

 1643, he was promoted to the Mastership of the Rolls. He 

 took it as adding to his dignity and profit, without regard to 

 its accustomed duties, for in those troubled times there was 

 less need of lawyers than of counsellors and soldiers. As a 

 counsellor, he was used on the most private occasions, and was 

 added to the junto, which, as a cabinet council, attended to 

 the king's affairs ; as a soldier, he was ever by the king's side, 

 and took part in all his battles with the most distinguished 

 bravery. In reward for these services, the king, on October 

 14, 1644, created him a peer, by the title of Lord Colepeper, 

 of Thoresway in Lincolnshire, and named him of the council 

 of the Duke of York. In the calamitous events which fol- 



