Biography of Henry Mildmay 1593-1668

Paternal Family Tree: Mildmay

1624 Happy Parliament

1625 Useless Parliament

1640 Short Parliament

1640 Long Parliament

1649 Trial of Charles I

1660 Indemnity and Oblivion Act

Around 1593 Henry Mildmay was born to Humphrey Mildmay (age 38).

On 9th August 1613 [his father] Humphrey Mildmay (age 58) died.

On 9th August 1617 Henry Mildmay (age 24) was knighted at Kendal [Map].

In April 1619 Henry Mildmay (age 26) and Anne Halliday (age 18) were married.

In April 1620 Henry Mildmay (age 27) was appointed Master of the Jewel Office.

On 8th August 1620 Henry Mildmay (age 27) entered at Gray's Inn.

In 1621 Henry Mildmay (age 28) was elected MP Maldon.

In 1623 [his son] William Mildmay was born to Henry Mildmay (age 30) and [his wife] Anne Halliday (age 22).

Happy Parliament

On 3rd February 1624 Henry Mildmay (age 31) was elected MP Westbury.

Useless Parliament

In 1625 Henry Mildmay (age 32) was elected MP Maldon during the Useless Parliament.

In 1628 Henry Mildmay (age 35) was elected MP Maldon.

Short Parliament

In April 1640 Henry Mildmay (age 47) was elected MP Maldon during the Short Parliament.

Long Parliament

In November 1640 Henry Mildmay (age 47) was elected MP Maldon during the Long Parliament.

On 21st April 1641 Henry Mildmay (age 48) voted against the attainder of Thomas Wentworth 1st Earl Strafford (age 48).

Trial of Charles I

                    On 23rd January 1649 King Charles I of England, Scotland and Ireland (age 48) was tried at Westminster Hall [Map] by Henry Mildmay (age 56). The fifty-nine signatories of his Death Warrant were:
                
                    1 John Bradshaw                

                    2 Thomas Grey                

                    3 Oliver Cromwell                

                    4 Edward Whalley                

                    7 John Danvers                

                    9 Henry Ireton                

                    11 Hardress Waller                

                    14 Major-General William Goffe
                
                    17 General Thomas Harrison                

                    21 Admiral Richard Deane
                
                    27 Adrian Scrope                

                    34 Richard Ingoldsby                

                    42 John Jones
                
                    45 Major General Charles Fleetwood                

                    54 Gregory Clement
                
                    55 John Downes
                
                    57 Thomas Scot
                
                    58 John Carew                

                    The commissioners who sat at the trial but did not sign the Death Warrant included:
                
                    William Monson 1st Viscount Monson (age 50)
                
                    James Harington 3rd Baronet (age 41)
                
                    The Captain of the Guard was Daniel Axtell (age 27). The guards included Francis Hacker, Matthew Tomlinson (age 31).
                
                    The Solicitor-General was John Cook (age 41).

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In March 1657 [his wife] Anne Halliday (age 56) died.

On 26th April 1659 [his son-in-law] Robert Brooke (age 22) and [his daughter] Anne Mildmay were married.

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The Chronicle of Walter of Guisborough, a canon regular of the Augustinian Guisborough Priory, Yorkshire, formerly known as The Chronicle of Walter of Hemingburgh, describes the period from 1066 to 1346. Before 1274 the Chronicle is based on other works. Thereafter, the Chronicle is original, and a remarkable source for the events of the time. This book provides a translation of the Chronicle from that date. The Latin source for our translation is the 1849 work edited by Hans Claude Hamilton. Hamilton, in his preface, says: "In the present work we behold perhaps one of the finest samples of our early chronicles, both as regards the value of the events recorded, and the correctness with which they are detailed; Nor will the pleasing style of composition be lightly passed over by those capable of seeing reflected from it the tokens of a vigorous and cultivated mind, and a favourable specimen of the learning and taste of the age in which it was framed." Available at Amazon in eBook and Paperback.

On 15th May 1660 Henry Mildmay (age 67) was ordered to attend the committee appointed to consider Charles II's reception, and give an account of the whereabouts of the crowns, robes, sceptres, and jewels belonging to the king.

After 15th May 1660 Henry Mildmay (age 67) was captured by Heneage Finch 3rd Earl Winchilsea (age 32) at Rye [Map].

Indemnity and Oblivion Act

                    On 29th August 1660  the Indemnity and Oblivion Act became law. The act was a general pardon for everyone who had committed crimes during the Civil War and Interregnum with the exception of certain crimes such as murder (without a licence granted by King or Parliament), piracy, buggery, rape and witchcraft, and people named in the act such as those involved in the regicide of Charles I.
                
                    Henry Mildmay (age 67) was excepted from the Indemnity and Oblivion Act.
                
                    James Harington 3rd Baronet (age 52) was exempted. In 1661 his Baronetcy was forfeit for life.

On 1st July 1661 Henry Mildmay (age 68) was sentenced and degraded from his honours and titles and to be drawn every year on the anniversary of the king's sentence (27 Jan) upon a sledge through the streets to and under the gallows at Tyburn [Map], with a rope about his neck, and so back to the Tower of London [Map], there to remain a prisoner during his life.

Samuel Pepys' Diary. 27th January 1662. That being done we went home again. This morning, going to take water upon Tower-hill [Map], we met with three sleddes standing there to carry my Lord Monson (age 63) and Sir H. Mildmay (age 69) and another, to the gallows and back again, with ropes about their necks; which is to be repeated every year, this being the day of their sentencing the King (age 31).

On 31st March 1664 Henry Mildmay (age 71) was issued with a warrant for his transportation to Tangier [Map], but on account of his feeble health he was allowed a servant.

Samuel Pepys' Diary. 14th May 1665. After dinner my wife and she and Mercer to Thomas Pepys's wife's christening of his first child, and I took a coach, and to Wanstead, Essex, the house where Sir H. Mildmay (age 72) died, and now [his son-in-law] Sir Robert Brookes (age 28) lives, having bought it of the Duke of Yorke (age 31), it being forfeited to him. A fine seat, but an old-fashioned house; and being not full of people looks desolately.

On 7th January 1666 [his daughter] Anne Mildmay died.

In 1668 Henry Mildmay (age 75) died at Tangier [Map].

[his daughter] Mary Mildmay was born to Henry Mildmay and Anne Halliday.

[his son] Henry Mildmay was born to Henry Mildmay and Anne Halliday.

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The Chronicle of Geoffrey le Baker of Swinbroke. Baker was a secular clerk from Swinbroke, now Swinbrook, an Oxfordshire village two miles east of Burford. His Chronicle describes the events of the period 1303-1356: Gaveston, Bannockburn, Boroughbridge, the murder of King Edward II, the Scottish Wars, Sluys, Crécy, the Black Death, Winchelsea and Poitiers. To quote Herbert Bruce 'it possesses a vigorous and characteristic style, and its value for particular events between 1303 and 1356 has been recognised by its editor and by subsequent writers'. The book provides remarkable detail about the events it describes. Baker's text has been augmented with hundreds of notes, including extracts from other contemporary chronicles, such as the Annales Londonienses, Annales Paulini, Murimuth, Lanercost, Avesbury, Guisborough and Froissart to enrich the reader's understanding. The translation takes as its source the 'Chronicon Galfridi le Baker de Swynebroke' published in 1889, edited by Edward Maunde Thompson. Available at Amazon in eBook and Paperback.

[his daughter] Anne Mildmay was born to Henry Mildmay and Anne Halliday.

[his father] Humphrey Mildmay and Mary Capell were married.

[his daughter] Susan Mildmay was born to Henry Mildmay and Anne Halliday.

Biography of Henry Mildmay 1593-1668

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