Arthur Hopton, MP

• HOPTON, Arthur (d.1607), of Blythburgh, Suff. and Witham Friary, Som.
• 1st s. of (Sir) Owen Hopton by Anne, da. and coh. of Sir Edward Echingham. educ. G. Inn 1562. m. Rachel, da. of Edmund Hall† of Gretford, Lincs., 5s. 11da. suc. uncle Sir Ralph Hopton 1571, fa. 1595. KB July 1603.
• Offices Held
  • J.p. Som. from c.1573, sheriff 1583-4, col. of musters c.1588; j.p. Suff. from c.1590, grain commr. 1586.1
• In 1571, when Hopton was returned for Dunwich, his father was knight of the shire for Suffolk. His direct patron, however, may have been one of the Wingfields. By 1588, Hopton had himself sufficient standing to be elected to the county seat, though the family were gradually mortgaging and losing the greater part of their Suffolk property. Hopton himself removed to Somerset soon after this Parliament, troubled by litigation and burdened by debts. In his second Parliament he took charge of the bill dealing with Orford harbour (13, 14 Feb. 1589) and was on the committee of a legal bill (17 Feb.). He died on 20 Nov. 1607.2
• From: http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1558-1603/member/ho... ___________________
• Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, Volume 27
• Hopton, Arthur by Charles Harding Firth ‎
• HOPTON, Sir ARTHUR (1588?–1650), diplomatist, fifth son of Sir Arthur Hopton of Witham, Somerset, by Rachael, daughter of Edmund Hall of Gretford, Lincolnshire, was born about 1588 (Blore, Rutlandshire, p. 133; Visit. of Somerset, 1623, Harl. Soc. xi. 57; Notes and Queries, 1st ser. iv. 497; Skelton, Antiquities of Oxfordshire, ‘Bampton,’ p. 4). Sir Owen Hopton, lieutenant of the Tower, was his grandfather. His father, at one time high sheriff of Somerset, was created K.B. in 1603. Arthur matriculated as a member of Lincoln College, Oxford, on 15 March 1604–5 (Clark, Register of the University of Oxford, ii. 281). When Lord Cottington was sent as ambassador extraordinary to Spain (October 1629), Hopton accompanied him as secretary, and on the conclusion of Cottington's mission he was left there as English agent (Cal. State Papers, Dom. 1629–31 p. 107, 1635 p. 467). Garrard writes to Wentworth in 1635, announcing that by Cottington's request Hopton is to be recalled and made clerk of the council; but it is doubtful whether this appointment actually took place (Strafford Letters, i. 511). Hopton was knighted on 2 Feb. 1637–8, and succeeded Lord Aston as ambassador in Spain (ib. iii. 149; Cal. Clarendon State Papers, i. 1491; Metcalfe, Book of Knights, p. 194). He seems to have remained in Spain throughout the civil wars (Cal. of Committee for Advance of Money, p. 667). When his nephew, Sir Ralph Hopton, was raised to the peerage a limitation in favour of Sir Arthur Hopton and his heirs male was inserted in the patent. Hopton was again in England in 1649, and was on 7 June 1649 visited by Evelyn, who terms him ‘a most excellent person,’ and records some of his stories about Spain (Evelyn, Diary, ed. 1879, ii. 5, 477). He died on 6 March 1649–50, aged 62, and was buried in the chancel of the church of Black Bourton, near Bampton in Oxfordshire (Skelton, Antiquities of Oxfordshire, ‘Bampton,’ p. 4).
• Many of Hopton's despatches are among Clarendon's papers in the Bodleian Library, and some are printed in the ‘Clarendon State Papers.’ The Tanner MSS. contain several letters from Hopton relating to the Portuguese revolution in 1640 (lxv. 224, 229, 268).
• A contemporary Arthur Hopton (1588?–1614), astrologer, apparently of the Herefordshire family of Hopton, has been confused by Wood with the diplomatist. Wood gives the astrologer the parentage which belongs to the diplomatist, and represents him as graduating from Lincoln College, Oxford, at the dates which apply only to the diplomatist. At Oxford, according to Wood, the astrologer acquired such a reputation that he was called ‘the miracle of his age for learning.’ But it is uncertain whether the astrologer studied at Oxford at all. Entering Clement's Inn, London, the astrologer is said to have become an intimate friend of Selden, and to have been ‘much valued by him and by all the noted men of that time.’ Wood adds that he died in his twenty-sixth year, 1614, in the parish of St. Clement Danes, London.
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• [Wood's Athenæ Oxon. (ii. 151, ed. Bliss), where the two Arthur Hoptons are hopelessly confused; Wood's Fasti, i. 321; the works of Arthur Hopton, the astrologer.]
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• HOPTON, Robert (c.1575-1638), of Ditcheat, Som. and Llanthony Abbey, Mon.
• b. c.1575, 1st s. of Sir Arthur Hopton† KB of Blythburgh, Suff. and Witham Friary, Som. and Rachel, da. of Edmund Hall† of Gretford, Lincs.; bro. of Thomas*.1 m. c.1594, Jane, da. and h. of Rowland Kemeys of Vaerdre, Mon., wid. of Sir Henry Jones (d. c.1591/2) of Ivy Bridge, Westminster, 2s. incl. Ralph* (1 d.v.p.), 4da.2 suc. fa. 1607.3 admon. 17 Sept. 1638.4 sig. Robert Hopton.
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• Robert Hopton (died 1638) was an English landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons in two parliaments between 1604 and 1622.
• Hopton was the eldest son of Sir Arthur Hopton of Witham Friary, Somerset and his wife Rachel Hall, daughter of Edmund Hall of Gretford, Lincolnshire. In 1604, he was elected Member of Parliament for Shaftesbury. Between about 1609 and 1617 he was engaged in the construction of Evercreech House. He was Sheriff of Somerset for the year 1618 to 1619. In 1621 he was elected MP for Somerset.[1]
• By his wife Jane Kemeys, Hopton was the father of Ralph Hopton, 1st Baron Hopton; William Hopton; Abigail Hopton, who married Nicholas Stillwell; Mary Hopton, who married Sir Henry Mackworth; Margaret Hopton, who married Sir Baynham Throckmorton, MP; Catherine Hopton; and Rachael Hopton.
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• HOPTON, Thomas (1584/5-1638), of Westminster
• b. 1584/5, 4th s. of Sir Arthur Hopton† of Blythburgh, Suff. and Witham Friary, Som. and Rachel, da. of Edmund Hall† of Gretford, Lincs.;1 bro. of Robert*. educ. Magdalen Hall, Oxf. 1602, aged 18; L. Inn 1607; travelled abroad 1611.2 m. lic. 20 Apr. 1622 (with £80), Elizabeth, da. of William Smythe of West Ham, Essex, s.p.3 kntd. 16 July 1633;4 d. bet. 18 July and 8 Aug. 1638.5
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• Sir Owen Hopton (c.1519-1595) was an English administrator and politician.
• He was born the son of Sir Arthur Hopton of Cockfield Hall, Yoxford and knighted in 1561.
• He was the Lieutenant of the Tower of London from 1570 to 1590. He was therefore in charge of the most significant prisoners of the age, supervised all torture and controlled the armoury.[1]
• He was Member of Parliament, for Suffolk (1559 and 1571), for Middlesex (1572 and 1584) [1] and for Arundel (1589). He was appointed Sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk for 1564.[2]
• He married Anne, the daughter and coheiress of Sir Edward Echingham. They had three sons, including Arthur, and two daughters. His daughter Mary married William Brydges, 4th Baron Chandos.
• From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owen_Hopton ______________
• John Bingham (1615–1673) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1645 and 1659. He served in the Parliamentary army in the English Civil War.
• Bingham was the son of Richard Bingham, of Bingham's Melcombe, Dorset and his wife Jane Hopton, daughter of Sir Arthur Hopton.[1] He matriculated at Brasenose College, Oxford on 9 December 1631, aged 18. He was a student of the Middle Temple in 1632.[2]
• In the Civil War, Bingham was colonel of a regiment of the parliamentary army and Bingham's Melcombe was used as the headquarters of the local parliamentary forces.[3] He was governor of Poole, and took part in the siege of Corfe Castle.[2] He was elected Member of Parliament for Shaftesbury in 1645 in the Long Parliament[4] and survived Pride's Purge to serve in the Rump Parliament.[2] He was nominated MP for Dorset in 1653 for the Barebones Parliament and elected MP for Dorset in 1654, 1656 and 1658 for the First, Second and Third Protectorate Parliaments.
• Bingham married firstly Frances Trenchard, daughter of John Trenchard, and secondly Jane Norwood of Gloucestershire. He had no male heir and was succeeded by his nephew Richard.[1]
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• Sir John Ernle (1620–1697) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1654 and 1695. He was one of the longest-serving Chancellors of the Exchequer of England, a position he held from 2 May 1676 to 9 April 1689.
• Ernle was the eldest surviving son of John Ernle of Whetham House, Calne and his wife Philadelphia Hopton, daughter of Sir Arthur Hopton of Witham Friary, Somerset. .... etc.
• Ernle died in 1697 and was buried at Calne on 27 June 1697. He made several charitable bequests to the poor of Calne, Highworth and Bury Blunsdon.[3] A free school for five boys founded by Ernle continued in his home county, Wiltshire, until 1829.
• Ernle married firstly under a settlement made on 1 March 1646, Susan Howe, daughter of Sir John Howe, 1st Baronet of Little Compton, Withington, Gloucestershire and had two sons and seven daughters. He married secondly on 19 September 1672, Elizabeth Seymour widow of Charles Seymour, 2nd Baron Seymour of Trowbridge and daughter of William Alington, 1st Baron Alington of Killard.[1] He was the father of Sir John Ernle, a notable naval officer of the Third Anglo-Dutch War.
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• Sir Nicholas Bacon (28 December 1510 – 20 February 1579) was an English politician during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I of England, notable as Lord Keeper of the Great Seal. He was the father of the philosopher and statesman Sir Francis Bacon.
• He was born at Chislehurst, Kent, the second son of Robert Bacon (1479–1548) of Drinkstone, Suffolk, by his wife Eleanor (Isabel) Cage. .... etc.
• Bacon married firstly, Jane Ferneley (d.1552), whose sister, Anne Ferneley (d.1596), married Sir Thomas Gresham.[4] By Jane Ferneley Bacon had six surviving children, three sons and three daughters:[4]
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  • Sir Nathaniel Bacon (c.1546 – November 1622), who married firstly, in July 1569, Anne Gresham (d.1594), the illegitimate daughter of Sir Thomas Gresham, founder of the Royal Exchange, by Anne Dutton, and secondly, on 21 July 1597, to Dorothy Hopton (c.1570–1629), widow of William Smith of Burgh Castle, Suffolk, and daughter of Arthur Hopton.[5][6]
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• The Journal of the British Archaeological Association, Volume 32
• https://books.google.com/books?id=QjEGAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA378&lpg=PA378&d...
• Pg.377
• The Cole Family. — In the Heralds' Visitation of the county of Somerset, 1623,1 we find the following genealogy of the Cole family certified by the signature of Richard Cole himself in the Heralds' Book.
• "William Cole lived in the time of King Edward III and Richard II, who came from Colchester in the time of the said King Edward III with a gentleman called Mr. Foskye, who ws lord of Bradstone, near Baynham House, when the said W. Cole fell acquainted with a widow and married her, and dwelt there, the said farm now called Baynham Farm, but then called Avenscourt ; ch: Thomas Cole
  • Thomas Cole of Avenscourt, t. Henry IV and Henry V ; ch: Morris Cole
    • Morris Cole, ditto, t. Henry VI and Edward IV ; ch: Alice (m. Giles Dymeni of Gloucester), John, Thomas, Edward (of Avenscourt) Cole
      • John Cole of Newport, Cornwall, Henry VII and VIII; ch: Richard (m. Alice Carr), Thomas, John, William (m. Ann Ashe) Cole
        • Richard Cole = Alice Carr, who died 1604; twice M.P. and Mayor of Bristol, 1585; M.P., 1593; bought Nailsea Court, 1582; d. s. p., 1599
        • Thomas Cole of Wike, Gloucestershire, = .... Foocott or Gostlett, of Marshfield. It appears from R. Coles' will that Will. Cole, father of Richard Cole, was his brother
        • John Cole,2 1623, from whom descended Christofer Cole of Henbury
        • William Cole, Sheriff of Bristol, 1604 = Ann, d. and h. of John Ashe, Bristol, d. 1626; buried in Nailsea Church, according to the burial registration ; ch: Richard (m. Ann Hopton), William (b.1600, d.1657), Ann (m. W. Collins June 3, 1629.) Cole
          • Richard Cole, b. 1588, Sheriff of Somerset, 1646, = Ann, d. of Sir A. Hopton of Wilians. He died 1650
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• Pg.378
• Richard Cole, who bought Nailsea Court in 1582, seems to have been a citizen of much wealth and consequence in Bristol. .... Richard Cole married Alice Carr.
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• Alice Carr, the wife of Richard Cole, was the sister of John Carr, the wealthy soap-boiler of Bristol, the munificent founder of Queen Elizabeth's Hospital at Bristol. He endowed it with the manor of Congersbury and Wick St. Lawrence, who died 1586, and was buried in St. Werburgh's Church. Richard Cole died 1599. His will is in Doctors' Commons, London. His wife was Alice, 1604. Both bequeathed large sums in charity to the poor in Bristol. She mentions in her will her son Richard; but probably
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• Pg.379
• he died young, and the estate of Nailsea Court was inherited by William, the nephew of Richard Cole, who resided at the Court. He was Sheriff of Bristol, 1604; married Ann, daughter and coheiress of John Ashe and Margaret Carr (see further on); and died 1626. Buried in Nailsea Church.
• Richard Cole, his eldest son, succeeded to the estate, and lived at Nailsea Court. Born 1588, he was a county magistrate and High Sheriff of Somerset, 1646. He died 7th, 1650, aged sixty-two. He married Ann, daughter of Sir Arthur Hopton of Witham Friary, near Frome, in Somerset. She died June 9th, 1650, only two days after her husband. Both were buried in Nailsea Church.1
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• Pg.380
• Mrs. Cole of Nailsea Court was thus the aunt of the celebrated royalist General, Lord Hopton. We know not which cause her husband espoused during the civil wars. They died within two days of each other, in 1650.1 They had two children: 1. Samuel, who died young, 1626, aged twelve.
• 2. Dorothy, who married at Nailsea, Oct. 29, 1635, Alexander Popham. In the Mayor's Chapel, Bristol, there is an inscription to the virtuous Dorothy Popham, late wife of the Honourable Colonel Alexander Popham. She was the daughter of R. Cole of Nailsea. She died 1643. "Also Alexander, son and heir of Alexander and Dorothy Popham, buried 1642." ....
• Apparently, as Richard Cole left no children, the Nailsea Court estate devolved on his brother, William Cole,2 born 1600, died 1657. I cannot find any mention of his wife, so perhaps he never married. .... etc.
• Probably at William Cole's death, in 1657, the estate of
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• Pg.381
• Nailsea Court came to William Collins, Esq.,1 who had married, June 3, Anne Cole, sister of Richard and William Cole, .... etc. _____________________

Sir Arthur Hopton of Witham Friary, Somerset.

His father, Owen Hopton was a sheriff of Somerset under Elizabeth I, was created a knight of the Bath in 1603. Mother was Anne Hopton Husband of Rachel Hopton Father of Katherine Hopton; Dorothy Bacon; Robert Hopton, MP; Philadelphia Ernle; PHILADELPHIA ERNLE, Owen Hopton, Sir; Margaret Hopton; Salina Hopton; Ralph Hopton; Jane Hopton; Thomas Hopton; Arthur Hopton, Jr., Sir; Ann Hopton; Henry Hopton; Willoughby Hopton; Frances Jones and Dorothy Bacon « less Brother of Mary Hopton; George Hopton; Ralph Hopton; Cecily Hopton; Ann Hopton and William Hopton Another tree info: 

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