Appendix IV: Members elected in 1628 who failed to pay the Forced Loan or refused to serve as Loan Commissioners
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Members elected in 1628 who failed to pay the Forced Loan or refused to serve as Loan Commissioners
PC: summoned before the Privy Council to explain refusal
Name | Seat | Nature of dissent and punishment inflicted |
Sir William Armyne, 1st bt. | Lincolnshire | PC; imprisoned; exiled to Oxfordshire |
John Arundell | Tregony | said to have refused |
Sir Edward Ayscough | Lincoln | PC; imprisoned; exiled to Suffolk |
Sir Hervey Bagot, 1st bt. | Staffordshire | may have failed to serve as a Loan commissioner |
Sir Nathaniel Barnardiston | Suffolk | PC; imprisoned; exiled to Sussex and Lincolnshire |
Sir Francis Barrington | Essex | refused to serve as Loan commissioner; imprisoned; exiled to Surrey |
Sir Ambrose Browne, 1st bt. | Surrey | PC; paid |
Sir Richard Buller | Saltash | PC; paid under duress |
James Bunce | London | imprisoned; exiled to Yorkshire |
Christopher Clitherow | London | possibly evaded Loan |
Sir William Constable, 1st bt. | Scarborough | twice called before PC; ?exiled |
William Coryton | Cornwall | PC; imprisoned |
Sir Thomas Dacres | Hertfordshire | PC |
Edmund Day | Ipswich | PC, presumably to explain non-payment |
Sir Dudley Digges | Kent | PC; imprisoned; may have paid under duress |
(Sir) Walter Earle | Dorset | PC; imprisoned |
Sir John Eliot | Cornwall | PC; imprisoned |
George Gollop | Southampton | initially refused, but paid under threat of summons before PC |
Sir Thomas Grantham | Lincoln | PC; imprisoned; exiled to Dorset and Kent |
Bevill Grenville | Launceston | refused |
Sir George Gresley, 1st bt. | Newcastle-under-Lyme | may have evaded; certainly he paid very late |
Sir Harbottle Grimston, 1st bt. | Essex | PC; imprisoned; exiled to Northamptonshire |
John Hampden | Wendover | PC; imprisoned; exiled to Hampshire |
Sir John Heveningham | Norfolk | PC; imprisoned |
Sir Peter Heyman | Hythe | failed to pay or answer summons before PC |
Hickes, Sir Wm, 1st bt. | Tewkesbury | returned as a defaulter |
Sir John Hotham, 1st bt. | Beverley | called before PC twice; ?exiled |
Sir John Jackson | Pontefract | PC; threatened to hang any tenant who paid; put under house arrest in London |
Sir John Jennyns | St. Albans | initially refused, but paid under threat of summons before PC |
Ignatius Jourdain | Exeter | defaulted pleading poverty |
Richard Knightley | Northamptonshire | PC; imprisoned; placed under house arrest |
Walter Long II | Bath | refused to pay |
Sir Oliver Luke | Bedfordshire | PC; imprisoned; exiled to Berkshire |
Sir William Masham, 1st bt. | Colchester | refused to serve as a Loan commissioner; imprisoned; exiled to Berkshire |
Humphrey Nicoll | Bodmin | PC |
Francis Nicolls | Northamptonshire | PC |
Sir Edward Osborne, 1st bt. | East Retford | evaded Loan; paid late |
Sir Guy Palmes | Rutland | evaded Loan |
Sir Robert Phelips | Somerset | evaded Loan by hiding in London |
Sir Robert Poyntz | Gloucestershire | PC; imprisoned; exiled to Northamptonshire |
William Purefoy | Coventry | PC |
George Radcliffe | Callington | PC; imprisoned; exiled to Kent |
Sir Beauchamp St. John | Bedford | PC; imprisoned |
Edward Scott | Hythe | refused to serve as a Loan commissioner |
Sir John Stanhope II | Leicester | evaded payment and service as a Loan commissioner |
Nathaniel Stephens | Gloucestershire | PC (may have paid eventually) |
Sir John Strangways | Dorset | PC; imprisoned; exiled to Bedfordshire |
Nathaniel Tomkins | Christchurch | evaded Loan |
Nicholas Trefusis | Newport | PC; removed from the bench; paid under duress |
Sir William Twysden | Winchelsea | evaded payment |
Henry Waller | London | presumed refuser |
Sir Henry Wallop | Hampshire | refused to subscribe to the Loan |
Christopher Wandesford | Thirsk | evaded Loan |
Sir Thomas Wentworth | Yorkshire | evaded Loan; PC; imprisonment; Exiled to Kent |
Richard Whithed | Lymington | refused to subscribe to the Loan |
Sir John Wray | Lincolnshire | refused; imprisoned before being placed under house arrest in Middlesex |