 1585 - 1666 (~ 81 years)
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| Name |
Strangways, John |
| Born |
27 Sep 1585 |
England  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Buried |
30 Dec 1666 |
Melbury, Dorset, England |
| Person ID |
I03060 |
My Genealogy |
| Last Modified |
16 Jun 2015 |
| Father |
Strangways, John, b. Abt 1552, Of Melbury, Dorset, England , d. 1593, Of Melbury, Dorset, England (Age ~ 41 years) |
| Mother |
Thynne, Dorothy, b. Abt 1560, Of Longleat, Wiltshire, England , bur. 25 Sep 1592, Melbury Osmond, Dorset, England (Age ~ 32 years) |
| Married |
Abt 1580 |
England |
| Family ID |
F01081 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family 1 |
Trenchard, Grace, b. 5 Jan 1583, Of Wolverton, Dorset, England , bur. 24 Aug 1652, Melbury, Dorset, England (Age ~ 69 years) |
| Married |
Abt 1600 |
England |
| Children |
| + | 1. Strangways, Howarda, b. Abt 1605, England , d. 24 Feb 1645, England (Age ~ 40 years) |
| + | 2. Strangways, Giles, b. 3 Jun 1615, Of Melbury Sampford, Dorset, England , bur. 20 Jul 1675, Melbury Sampford, Dorset, England (Age ~ 60 years) |
| | 3. Strangways, James, b. Abt 1616, Of Melbury Sampford, Dorset, England |
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| Family ID |
F01918 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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| Notes |
- Description Will of Sir John Strangways of Melbury Sampford, Dorset Date 12 February 1667 Catalogue reference PROB 11/323
Mentions grandsons John, Thomas and Wadham, granddaughters Grace Hussey, daughter of my daughter, long deceased , the Lady howard Dyve, Judith and Susanna daughters of my son Giles, Dyve Hussey son of Grace Hussey, George Strangeways my nephew,
1650-1652 Bundle of letters, papers and draft of 2 deeds re. the division of Merefield and Foukfield and Clanger in parish of Whitelackington between Wadham Wyndham and John Strangeways and William Brome. [Inherited from Nicholas Wadham 1610], and a survey of Merefield 1624
St Nicholas Church, Abottsbury, Dorset
...The clerestory windows are typically Henry VIII, and the font is octagonal in Perpendicular style with arched panels. There is no structural division between the nave and the chancel, but, in 1638, Sir John Strangeways (1584-1666), descendent of Sir Giles who bought the Abbey estate in 1543 put a plaster barrel ceiling over the two east bays. It has six family shields one of which records the Strangeways marriages and the center panels contain figures of angels.
Renaissance English Text Society
Catalogue Page
VOLUME XXIX
The Commonplace Book of Sir John Strangways (1645-1666)
Edited by Thomas G. Olsen
Sir John Strangways (1585-1666), a Royalist MP for Dorset, Weymouth, and Melcombe Regis, took up arms against the Parliamentarian troops of Sir Thomas Fairfax at the siege of Sherborne Castle on 15 August 1645. He was soon after brought before the House of Commons on charges of high treason and was imprisoned in the Tower of London until his release on 15 May 1648. During and after his incarceration, Strangways kept a commonplace book in which he gathered together the conventional wisdom of his age, assembled arguments for his political and moral views, versified biblical and devotional writings, and recorded his original poems. The manuscript is of particular interest because of the range of materials Strangways assembled in these pages: expressions of moral philosophy are organized alongside detailed, careful defenses of the Stuart monarchy, the established church, and the rule of law.
This critical edition of Strangways's manuscript, an important literary and historical document of nearly 300 leaves, contains a transcription of the entire commonplace book, an account of all textual properties, and a detailed critical commentary. The edition’s substantial introduction is by far the most extensive biographical and critical assessment of Strangways to date, though in the last two decades several important studies of seventeenth-century English political life have made selective uses of the manuscript. This edition will prove valuable for historians and literary critics generally, and particularly for specialists in the history of parliament, English law, and the seventeenth-century church, as well scholars of the Civil War and Interregnum periods.
2004 / 326 pages / 86698-318-X / MR275 / $45, £37
* John Strangways, buried with others of his notable family in the little church at Melbury Sampford, close to the great house. His Latin epitaph records that he was " faithful to the King for whom he stood up, boldly and continuously, throughout the severest hardships, while the internecine conspiracy was at its height ; suffering the loss of his private possessions, imprisonment, and every indignity, with the greatest fortitude, and now " at the date of his death, at the age of eighty-two, on December 30, 1666 " beholding the restoration of King Charles II."
[no title] PB/2/165 20 Jan. 22 Jas. I. (1624/5)
Contents: Lease for 99 years
1) Sir John Strangways of Abbotsbury, Dorset, knight
2) Robert Bucknoll, his son
Consideration: natural love, etc.
Rent: 24s 6d
1/3 Wittcombe, Farway, Devon
(son in law??)
Strangways ( Sir John, Royalist in the civil war, d. 1666) Indenture, sale of land and property in North Horton, Devon by Strangways to Stephen Berry, for the sum of £130, D.s. “JStrangways 1649”, manuscript on vellum, wax seal, folds, slightly yellowed, 485 x 710mm., 26th March 1649.
Strangways, father of Giles Strangways (1615-75), Royalist and politician. “Taken prisoner with his brother-in-law at the fall of Sherborne Castle (1645), he [Giles] spent nearly three years in the Tower with Wortley and other leading Cavaliers until his father paid the maximum delinquincy fine of £10,000.” - (DNB).This document is undoubtedly part of Sir John’s fundraising effort.
Dorset Record Office:
Conveyance of a messuage or tenement in Broadmayne (mentions Broomehille, South Close, North Meadow Close, Cockes Close). Sir John Strangwaies [Strangways] of Abbotsbury, Sir Thomas Trenchard of Charminster, Sir Thomas Freke of Iwerne Courtney, John Freke his son and heir, and Bampfeild Chafyne of Folke (1), to John Williams of Perry House in the parish of Sturminster Newton, gentleman, and George Williams of Plumber in the parish of Lidlinch [Lydlinch], gentleman (2) (D.1099/1) item10 Jan 1626
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JOHN STRANGWAYS, of Mamhull, Dorset, gent. Will dated 86-7 ; Hutch- J Nov. 23, 1680, proved June 3, 1681, by Elizabeth Strangways, the ^i. 149, u. ^^^^ j-jQQ North.] My wife Elizabeth. To my son in law James Bisse, of Badcombe, Esq., ;^8oo, he to settle an annuity of ;^i2o on my daughter Grace, his now wife. My daughter Elizabeth, wife of W" H^nicott My godson John Andrews, under age, son of Tho* Andrews, of Melbury Osmond, Dorset. Residue to my wife, sole Extrix.
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