 1607 - 1680 (~ 72 years)
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| Name |
Harrington, James |
| Title |
Sir |
| Christened |
30 Dec 1607 |
Merton, Oxfordshire, England  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Buried |
1680 |
Merton, Oxfordshire, England |
| Died |
Apr 1680 |
Europe |
| Person ID |
I03528 |
My Genealogy |
| Last Modified |
22 Sep 2017 |
| Family |
Wright, Katherine, c. 21 Sept 1617, St Lawrence Jewry and St Mary Magdalene, London, England , bur. 15 Jun 1675, Merton, Oxfordshire, England (Age ~ 57 years) |
| Married |
02 Aug 1632 |
St Peters, St Albans, Hertford, England |
| Children |
| | 1. Harrington, Robert, c. 17.01.1635/36, St Michael, Highgate, London, England , bur. 10 Mar 1716, St Andrew, Holborn, London, England |
| | 2. Harrington, Mary [Natural] |
| | 3. Harrington, Edmond, c. 3 May 1633, St Olave Old Jewry, London, England , bur. 9 Aug 1708, Reigate, Surrey, England (Age ~ 75 years) |
| | 4. Harrington, John, b. Abt 1635, Of London, England |
| | 5. Harrington, Catherine, b. Abt 1636, Of London, England , bur. 17 Mar 1653/54, Ickleham, Middlesex, England (Age ~ 18 years) |
| + | 6. Harrington, Margarey, b. Abt 1637, Of London, England , d. Nov 1679, Of Wiltshire, England (Age ~ 42 years) |
| | 7. Harrington, James, c. 5 Nov 1638, St Olave Old Jewry, London, England |
| | 8. Harrington, Edward, c. 10 Nov 1639, St Peter Le Poor, London, England , d. 27 Mar 1716, England (Age ~ 76 years) |
| + | 9. Harrington, Henry, c. 26 Oct 1640, Highgate, London, England , d. Aft 1708 (Age ~ 68 years) |
| + | 10. Harrington, Martha, c. 1 Jul 1641, Highgate, London, England |
| | 11. Harrington, Elizabeth, c. 23 Jun 1644, St Michael, Highgate, London, England , bur. 7 Nov 1647, Ickleham, Middlesex, England (Age ~ 3 years) |
| | 12. Harrington, William, c. 7 Jun 1647, Ickleham, Middlesex, England |
| | 13. Harrington, Elizabeth, b. Abt 1648, Of London, England , bur. 1 Dec 1654, Ickleham, Middlesex, England (Age ~ 6 years) |
| | 14. Harrington, Lucy, c. 7 Apr 1648, St Giles, Ickenham, Middlesex, England , d. 1709-1715, England (Age ~ 66 years) |
| + | 15. Harrington, Catherine, c. 9 Aug 1655, Ickleham, Middlesex, England , d. 25 Nov 1686, England (Age ~ 31 years) |
| | 16. Harrington, Anne, b. Abt 1660, England , bur. 24 Aug 1717, Merton, Oxfordshire, England (Age ~ 57 years) |
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| Last Modified |
17 Nov 2017 |
| Family ID |
F01055 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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| Notes |
- Sir James Harrington Knt of Ridlington, Rutland, London:
Judge in the trial of Charles first. Exiled to Europe and died there.
A Margery Harrington daughter of Sir James Harrington Bart marries Edmund Richmond Webb. Same person??
Text: Harrington, Jas. (Sir), Bt., regicide, attainted. 1660 , aet. 49. (Winst. Reg. 152; Kingkrs. 1, 100; MS.) Book: Obituary Prior to 1800 (as far as Relates to England, Scotland, and Ireland), Compiled by Sir William Musgrave, 6th Bart., of Hayton Castle, Co. Cumberland, and Entitled by him "A General Nomenclator and Obituary, with Referrence to the Books Where the Persons are Mentioned, and Where some Account of their Character is to be Found." Collection: England, Scotland, Ireland: Musgrave's Obituaries Prior To 1800, Parts 3 & 4
Katherine Wright's husband, Sir James Harrington, was one of the King's judges, and it amused Pepys to see the screen which he put up in the hall at Swakeleys, over which he had set, "the King's head and my lord of Essex on one side and Fairfax on the other; and upon the other side of the screene, the parson of the parish and the lord of the manor and his sisters." (fn. 58) ... Whether the lord of the manor was Harrington himself, or Richard Shoreditch the lord of Ickenham, Pepys does not say. At the Restoration Sir James Harrington fled the country (fn. 60) and the following letter written to his wife from abroad sufficiently describes his adversities :
"My Deare,
I am surprised by thy last letter but, however, God and the Kinges will be done for to both of them I doe freely submitt myselfe, but for mee to make any proposition is not proper because it is not in my power to performe, for such is my condition as till my estate be cleared I am not able to raise any monnies because I can propound nothinge for security thereoff: But that my noble Lord Latherdale (to whose favours I am soe exceedingly obliged though I haue for [for] the reason aboue said bin necessitated to be hetherto thereoff neglectiue) may clearly understand my condition & accordingly know how to represent it to his maiesty, I haue here expressed the particular of my estate and debts, which pray thee present (with my humble service to his Lordshipe) with this assurance that if upon the dilligentest [search] enquiry can be made they be not found to be really true, then let mee not find any favour, and if truthe, as for such I here assert them, I humbly spreade my sad condition therein before his maiesty for his gracious mercy and compassion towards an antient family and numerous issue; for praying God for a blessinge on the endeavours and for his Maiesties temporall and eternal hapinesse I remaine Thy most affectionat husband James Harington. (fn. 61)
This 19th of March, 1660 (New Style 1661).
Endorsed :-For his Louing wife [att] The Lady Harington at her Lodginge in Fleet Street, these.
In the accompanying particulars of his property Sir James states : "I have a house besides (during my wifes life) in Ickenham called Swakely with landes wourth per annu 260L. which after her death goeth to my eldest son and his children if he have any and soe to others in remaindre and is out of my power and disposall." Harrington's debts amounted to £8,113, on which he had to pay annual interest of £486 out of an income of £770, leaving (besides Swakeleys) only £284 "for the maintenance of my family and to make provision for my wife and 12 children vnpouided for."
There is attached to Ickenham Church, at the west end of the north aisle, a mortuary chapel, curiously built with upright arched niches for coffins, and erected in the latter part of the 17th century for interments from Swakeleys House. The coffins were removed and buried in the churchyard in 1921, and the chapel is now used as a vestry. Some inscription plates remain, and the first of these in date commemorates Sir Edward Harrington, Bt., the father of Sir James.
The following is a facsimile :-
WITHIN THIS ARCH IS IMMVRED THE BODIE
OF Sr EDWARD HARINGTON KNIGHT AND BARONET
ELDEST SONNE TO Sr IAMES HARINGTON OF RIDLINGTON
KNIGHT AND BARONET THIRD BROTHER TO IOHN
LORD HARINGTON OF EXTON IN THE
COVNTY OF RVTLAND WHO MARRIED WITH
MARGERY DOYLIE DAVGHTER AND COHEIRE OF
ROBERT DOYLIE OF MERTON IN THE COVNTY OF OXON
ESQ, BY WHOM HE HAD FOVRTEENE CHILDEREN
IAMES HARINGTON HIS ELDEST SONNE OF SWAKELY
IN THE COVNTY OF MIDLESEX KNIGHT
AND BARONET HE WAS TRANSLATED HENCE IN OCTOBER 1652
Three other plates record the deaths of three of Sir James Harrington's daughters, two of them being named Elizabeth:
WITHIN THIS PILLER IS INSHRINED THE BODIE OF ELIZABETH HARINGTON
SIXT DAVGHTER TO Sr IAMES HARINGTON OF SWAKELY KNIGHT AND BARONET
WHO FELL ASLEEPE IN THE THIRD YEARE OF HIR CHILDHOOD 7 OF NOVEMB 1647
WITHIN THIS PLACE IS INCEOSED THE BODIE OF KATHERINE HARINGTON
SECOND DAVGHTER OF SIR IAMES HARINGTON OF SWAKELY IN THE COVNTY OF
MIDLESEX KNIGHT AND BARONETT WHO DECEASED THE 17 DAY OF MARCH 1653
IN THE SEAVENTEENTH YEARE OF HIR VIRGINITY
VNDER THIS MARBLE LIETH IN TOVMBED THE MAYDEN DVST OF ELIZABETH HARINGTON
EIGHTH DAVGHTER OF Sr IAMES HARINGTON OF SWAKELY IN Ye COVNTY OF MIDLESEX KNIGHT AND BARONETT WHO IN Ye FIRST DAY OF DECEMB; 1654 AND IN THE SIXT
YEARE OF HIR CHILDHOODE FELL ASLEEPE
From: 'Swakeleys: Historical notes', Survey of London Monograph 13: Swakeleys, Ickenham (1933), pp. 1-21. URL: <http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=117768> Date accessed: 11 April 2011.
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These houses, together with No. 50, occupy the site of a house which William to Sir James Harrington in 1656, then described as a messuage, garden, yard, stable and hayloft, and 20 feet adjoining to the west side of the stable, 35 feet in length towards Kentish Town,with the barn thereon and one pole of ground. ... Sir James must have lived at Highgate some years before he bought the house, since he had a son, Henry, baptised at Highgate Chapel in 1640, and a daughter, Martha,in 1642, and he had a lease of the house which he assigned to his sister, Lucy Harrington, in 1653. His father, Sir Edward Harrington of Swakeleys, had died in October, 1652. In 1647, 1653 and 1654, three of his daughters were buried at Swakeleys.(ref. 87) He sat as one of the judges of King Charles I, and fled from England at the Restoration. In the account of his property attached to a letter which he sent to his wife in 1661, he included "A House at Highgate in Middlesex, mortgaged and forfeited for £400...
From: 'No. 48 West Hill and Hollyside', Survey of London: volume 17: The parish of St Pancras part 1: The village of Highgate (1936), pp. 69-71. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=65015 Date accessed: 29 November 2011.
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