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166:, and the second Sir Robert Yeamans, who, like his brother, was created a baronet on 31 December 1666 and died without issue, being buried in St. Mary Redclyffe, Bristol, on 7 Feb 1686–7. But both affiliations are fictitious; Sir John was born not later than 1611, and Sir Robert was baptised on 19 April 1617, and both were apparently sons of John Yeamans, brewer, of Redcliffe, whose will is dated 1645 ( 369: 123:
Yeaman is said in the Royalist accounts to have left by his wife, a kinswoman also named Yeamans, eight very young children, and a ninth was born posthumously. Many other members of the family are mentioned as taking prominent part in local affairs at Bristol and at Barbados. The only child of the
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to raise troops from Bristol, but in December, before he could accomplish the task, the city was occupied by a parliamentary force under the command of Colonel Essex. In February 1643 Nathaniel Fiennes became the parliamentary military governor of the city.
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threatened to execute a similar number of parliamentary prisoners in his hands. The threat proved useless, as Fiennes also held other notable Royalist prisoners recently captured by Sir
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was published by parliament on 13 March, various witnesses were examined in March and April, and on 8 May Yeamans was condemned to death by a court-martial as a traitor.
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Fiennes heard of the plot, and on 7 March, before they could execute the plan, Yeamans and his principal confederates were arrested in his house on Wine Street.
128:'s release in 1660. Other members of the Yeamans family were Quakers, and one of them married Isabel, daughter of Margaret Fell, and stepdaughter of Fox. 410: 82:, and the king sent him a commission to enlist men in his service. Prince Rupert was to bring four thousand horse and two thousand foot to 50:, incumbent of St. Philip's, Bristol, where he was noted as a puritan, and from 1615 till his death prebendary of Bristol Cathedral. 425: 104:
on his raid into Herefordshire, so to forestall a blood bath King Charles ordered that no retaliatory executions should take place.
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Royalist whose relationship to him is established is his daughter Anne, who married , the quaker of Reading, and interceded for
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Yeamans came of a numerous Bristol family, and was probably closely related to William Yeamans (1578–1632?), a graduate of
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to aid in the capture of Bristol by the Royalists. The plot was discovered by the parliamentary governor
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Early in 1643 Yeamans conceived a plan for turning the city over to a royalist army under the command of
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Pollard, A. F. (January 2008) . "Yeamans, Robert (d. 1643)". In Kelsey, Sean (rev.) (ed.).
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Dates are in the Julian calendar with the start of year adjusted to 1 January (see
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and Yeomans was tried as a traitor, found guilty by court-martial and executed.
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opposite his house along with his co-conspirator and friend
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Robert Yeamans was a well-known merchant and councillor of
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People executed by the Kingdom of England by hanging
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Bristol
Royalists
Nathaniel Fiennes
Balliol College, Oxford
Bristol
sheriff
Charles I of England
Prince Rupert
Oxford
Durdham Down
Lord Forth
William Waller
hanged, drawn and quartered
George Bouchier
George Fox
Old Style and New Style dates
John Yeamans
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