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John Ashburnham (Royalist)

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239: 56: 473: 227:), and Charles II gave him permission to stay in England to preserve it. Royalists, however, suspected his fidelity, and (March 1650) in a memorial to the king asked whether they might trust him. He was sued for debts contracted for the late Charles I. He was forced to compound for one half of his estate, was bound in heavy securities to appear, when required, before the 167:, where Charles was in constant fear of assassination. At Ashburnham's suggestion he made proposals to the Scottish commissioners for his sudden journey to London and personal treaty with the parliament. But the arrangement fell through. Charles was then impatient to be gone, commanded Ashburnham and his other confidants, 115:
in 1640. As a partisan of the king, he began to absent himself, and he was proceeded against for contempt (6 May 1642). The king wrote a letter to the Commons in his justification but the house maintained its prior right to the obedience of its member. Ashburnham was 'discharged and disabled' (5
187:. If Hammond were not to be trusted, the fugitive Charles could secretly take ship for France. In the end Berkeley revealed the hiding-place to Hammond; Charles refused the desperate offer of Ashburnham to kill Hammond, and again became virtually a prisoner. 141: 223:(August), and was included among the delinquents who were to expect no pardon (13 October). He was constantly harassed. He had acquired an estate by his second marriage with the Dowager Lady Poulett (1649) (Widow of 231:, and his private journeys were licensed by a pass from the council. For three years he was asked by committees to discover who had lent the king money during the wars. His three banishments to 483: 238: 642: 519: 637: 128:, and became the treasurer and paymaster of the king's army. His name occurs in seven negotiations for peace. He was one of the commissioners at the 632: 529:
A Narrative by John Ashburnham of his Attendance on King Charles the First from Oxford to the Scotch Army, and from Hampton Court to Isle of Wight
148:. Hudson was released, and Ashburnham was positively commanded by the king to flee before confirmation of the order to send him up to London as a 81: 73: 184: 108: 282:, of whom (January 1665) he was made one of the guardians. His loans to Charles I were paid by grants of crown leases. He and his brother 563: 267: 99:
and his brother, was assigned to Ashburnham. The next year a warrant under the privy seal enabled him to regain his ancestral estate of
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as a place where the king might be concealed. The plan was to sound out the governor of the island, Colonel
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A genealogical and heraldic history of the extinct and dormant baronetcies of England, by J. and J.B. Burke
132:(1644), and one of the four appointed to lay the king's proposals before parliament (December 1645). When 539: 259: 149: 607: 602: 559: 263: 104: 85: 80:. His father was a wastrel and died in 1620, but his mother was related to Lady Villiers, mother of 271: 255: 612: 580: 322: 172: 129: 513: 532:, John Ashburnham, George Ashburnham, Volume II, Payne and Foss, Paternoster Row, London, 1830 437: 418: 220: 168: 49: 163:, and allowed him his choice of servants. Ashburnham resumed his attendance on his master at 279: 232: 204: 200: 153: 145: 112: 55: 321:. His grandson John was ennobled as Baron Ashburnham in 1689, and his great-grandson as 487: 216: 208: 133: 95:
Ashburnham became wealthy and lent money to the king: in 1638 the Star-chamber fine on
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prepared to besiege Oxford, and Charles determined upon flight, Ashburnham and
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could be received. He made his way safely to Holland, and thence to Queen
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Ashburnham was a faithful adherent and attendant to Charles I in the
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February 1643), and his estate was sequestrated (14 September).
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at various times between 1640 and 1667. He supported the
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shared in an enterprise for reviving the manufacture of
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Ashburnham was the eldest son of Sir John Ashburnham by
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English courtier, diplomat and politician (1603–1671)
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John Ashburnham (MP)
John Ashburnham (disambiguation)
House of Commons
Royalist
English Civil War

Daniel Mytens
Elizabeth
Thomas Beaumont
George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham
Charles I
groom of the bedchamber
Sir Walter Long, 1st Baronet
Ashburnham
member of parliament
Hastings
Long Parliament
First English Civil War
Treaty of Uxbridge
Thomas Fairfax
Michael Hudson
his journey
Newark-on-Trent
delinquent
Henrietta Maria
Holmby
Hampton Court
Sir John Berkeley
William Legge
John Oglander

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