Appendix IV: Members elected in 1628 who failed to pay the Forced Loan or refused to serve as Loan Commissioners

Published in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1604-1629, ed. Andrew Thrush and John P. Ferris, 2010
Available from Cambridge University Press

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

Ref Volumes: 1604-1629

Author: Andrew Thrush

End Notes