John Manners, 8th Earl of Rutland

John Manners, 8th Earl of Rutland

John Manners, 8th Earl of Rutland (10 June 1604 – 29 September 1679) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1640 until 1641 when he inherited the peerage.

Manners was the son of Sir George Manners of Haddon Hall, Derbyshire and his wife Grace Pierrepont daughter of Sir Henry Pierrepont (MP).[1] The 8th earl was the great-grandson of Thomas Manners, 1st Earl of Rutland. He was admitted at Queens' College, Cambridge in spring 1619 and was awarded MA in 1621. He was admitted at the Inner Temple in November 1621. In 1632 he was High Sheriff of Derbyshire.[2]

In April 1640, Manners was elected Member of Parliament for Derbyshire in the Short Parliament.[3] In 1641 he inherited the Earldom on the death of his second cousin George Manners, 7th Earl of Rutland on 29 March. He was a moderate Parliamentarian and took the covenant in 1643. In 1646 he was Chief Justice in Eyre, North of Trent.[2]

After the Restoration, Lord Rutland became Lord Lieutenant of Leicestershire on 14 February 1667 and held the post to 7 July 1677.[2]

Lord Rutland died aged 75 and was buried at Bottesford, Leicestershire.[2]

Manners married Frances Montagu, daughter of Sir Edward Montagu, 1st Baron Montagu of Boughton, in 1628. They had seven children:

• Lady Grace Manners (d. 15 February 1700), married first Patrick Chaworth, 3rd Viscount Chaworth and after his death, married Sir William Langhorne, 1st Baronet, this marriage lasted less than a year due to her own death.[4]
• Lady Margaret Manners (d. 1682), married James Cecil, 3rd Earl of Salisbury and had issue.
• Lady Frances Manners (c. 1636–1660), married John Cecil, 4th Earl of Exeter and had issue.
• John Manners, 1st Duke of Rutland (1638–1711)
• Lady Elizabeth Manners (c. 1654–1700), married James Annesley, 2nd Earl of Anglesey and had issue.
• Lady Dorothy Manners (c. 1656–1698), married Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 2nd Earl of Shaftesbury and had issue.
• Lady Anne Manners (c. 1655–?), married Scrope Howe, 1st Viscount Howe.

From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Manners,_8th_Earl_of_Rutland

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• John Manners, 8th Earl of Rutland1
• M, #15904, b. 10 June 1604, d. 29 September 1679
• Last Edited=6 Jan 2013
• John Manners, 8th Earl of Rutland was born on 10 June 1604. He was the son of Sir George Manners and Grace Pierrepont. He married Hon. Frances Montagu, daughter of Edward Montagu, 1st Baron Montagu of Boughton and Frances Cotton, in 1628 at Barnwell Castle, Northamptonshire, England.2 He died on 29 September 1679 at age 75.
• He gained the title of 20th Baron de Ros. He gained the title of 8th Earl of Rutland.
• Children of John Manners, 8th Earl of Rutland and Hon. Frances Montagu
  • Lady Frances Manners+3 d. 2 Dec 1660
  • Lady Margaret Manners+4 d. b 30 Aug 1682
  • Dorothy Manners+ d. Jun 1698
  • Lady Elizabeth Manners+1 d. 7 Dec 1700
  • Lady Anne Manners4
  • Lady Grace Manners+5 b. 1632, d. 15 Feb 1699/0
  • John Manners, 1st Duke of Rutland+ b. 29 May 1638, d. 10 Jan 1711
• Citations
• [S6] G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., 13 volumes in 14 (1910-1959; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume I, page 134. Hereinafter cited as The Complete Peerage.
• [S6] Cokayne, and others, The Complete Peerage, volume XI, page 264.
• [S37] BP2003 volume 1, page 1363. See link for full details for this source. Hereinafter cited as. [S37]
• [S37] BP2003. [S37]
• [S6] Cokayne, and others, The Complete Peerage, volume III, page 156.
• From: http://www.thepeerage.com/p1591.htm#i15904 __________________
• John MANNERS (8º E. Rutland)
• Born: 10 Jun 1604, Aylestone, Leicester, England
• Died: 29 Sep 1679, Nether Haddon, England
• Buried: St. Mary the Virgin Church, Bottesford, Leicesterhire, England
• Father: George MANNERS of Haddon (Sir Knight)
• Mother: Grace PIERREPOINT
• Married: Frances MONTAGUE (C. Rutland) 1628, Barnwell Castle, Northampton, England
• Children:
  • 1. John MANNERS (1º D. Rutland) (b. 29 May 1638) (m. Catherine Noel)
  • 2. Frances MANNERS (C. Exeter)
  • 3. Margaret MANNERS (C. Salisbury)
  • 4. George MANNERS (d. young)
  • 5. Edward MANNERS (d. young)
  • 6. Roger MANNERS (d. young)
  • 7. Grace MANNERS (V. Chaworth)
  • 8. Dorothy MANNERS (C. Shaftesbury)
  • 9. Elizabeth MANNERS (C. Anglesey)
  • 10. Anne MANNERS (V. Howe)
  • 11. Mary MANNERS (d. 1669)
• From: http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/MANNERS.htm#John MANNERS (8º E. Rutland) ____________
• MANNERS, John (1604-1679), of Haddon Hall, Derbys.
• b. 10 June 1604, 2nd but 1st surv. s. of Sir George Manners† of Haddon Hall and Grace, da. of Sir Henry Pierrepont† of Holme Pierrepont, Notts.1 educ. Queens’, Camb. 1619, MA 1621; I. Temple 1621; travelled abroad 1622-3 (France); riding academy Angers 1623.2 m. 1628, Frances (d. 19 May 1671), da. of Sir Edward Montagu* of Boughton, Northants., 4s. (3 d.v.p.) 7da. (2 d.v.p.). suc. fa. 1623, cos. Sir George Manners* as 8th earl of Rutland 29 Mar. 1641. d. 29 Sept. 1679. 3
• Offices Held
  • J.p. Derbys. 1626-at least 1641, by 1657-at least c.1665,4 (custos rot. by Mar.-c.Oct. 1660),5 Notts. 1647-?49, 1660-at least c.1665, Yorks. (W. Riding) 1647-?49,6 Lincs. (Holland, Kesteven, Lindsey) by 1660-at least c.1665, Leics. by 1660-at least c.1665;7 commr. oyer and terminer, Midland circ. 1626-42, 1659-at least 1674,8 Mdx. 1644-5,9 Lincs. 1645,10 Forced Loan, Derbys. 1626-7, Derby, Derbys. 1627,11 charitable uses, Derbys. 1629, 1632, 1635;12 sheriff, Derbys. 1632-3,13 dep. lt. by 1634-at least 1640;14 commr. subsidy, Derbys. 1641,15 sewers, Lincs., Lincoln, and Newark hundred, Notts. 1642, 1660-70,16 Gt. Fens 1646, 1654-9,17 Notts. 1669,18 array, Derbys. 1642;19 ld. lt. Derbys. 1642,20 Leics. 1667-77;21 commr. gaol delivery, Derby 1645;22 c.j. in eyre (north) 1646-61;23 commr. visitation, Oxf. Univ. 1647, militia, Derbys. and Lincs. 1648, Lincs. 1660;24 recorder Grantham, Lincs. 1662-77;25 commr. swans, Lincs. 1664.26
  • Commr. to conserve peace betw. Eng. and Scotland, 1643, 1646-7,27 to the Scottish Parl. 1643, great seal 1643, New Model Army 1645, 1647, excise 1645, treaty with Scots 1645, exclusion from sacrament 1646, 1648, sale of bps.’ lands 1646, indemnity 1647, navy and customs 1647.28
• Manners’ grandfather, a younger son of the 1st earl of Rutland, married a coheir to one of Derbyshire’s greatest estates centred on Haddon in the High Peak hundred, and sat for Nottinghamshire in the first two Elizabethan Parliaments. His father represented Nottingham in 1589 and Derbyshire in 1593. The family owned a large smelting plant, and by the beginning of the seventeenth century derived much of their income from lead, although their profits were supplemented by stone quarrying and coalmining.29 Manners inherited his estate while still a minor and his wardship was purchased by his mother.30 By the time he came of age, in 1622, he had a good prospect of eventually becoming earl of Rutland. The only surviving son of his second cousin, Francis Manners, 6th earl of Rutland, had died in infancy, while the 6th earl’s brother, George Manners*, who would ultimately succeed to the title in 1632, was childless, leaving Manners as the next male heir. However, by the time Manners reached his majority a significant portion of the family’s estates had been settled on the 6th earl’s daughter on her marriage to George Villiers, marquess of Buckingham.31
• Described by Sir Joseph Williamson† as ‘a harmless, soft man’, and by his own admission ‘the worse [sic] in the world at words’,32 Manners was a ruthless estate manager whose determination to exploit the mineral resources of his estates to the full embroiled him in a long and bitter dispute with the Derbyshire ‘free miners’.33 Returned for Derbyshire to the second Caroline Parliament, Manners played no recorded part in its proceedings, being excused attendance on 5 Apr. 1626 because of illness.34 Following the dissolution Manners pledged to pay £20 when the government contemplated raising money in the form of Privy Seal loans, and in the following year he was active as a Forced Loan commissioner.35
• In 1628 Manners and his mother purchased £800 worth of land in Leicester Forest.36 Two years later he paid £50 as composition for knighthood.37 Following the settlement of a dispute between the duchess of Buckingham and the 7th earl of Rutland over the inheritance of the 6th earl’s estate, in 1634 he gained possession of Belvoir Castle, the ancestral home of the earls of Rutland, as well as an income of £2,000 a year.38 He again served as knight of the shire for Derbyshire in the Short Parliament, and succeeded as 8th earl of Rutland in March 1641. Although appointed to office by Parliament, he pleaded ill health to avoid committing himself to the parliamentarian cause, and during the Interregnum his house in the Strand became a centre of worship for those who still used the banned Book of Common Prayer.39 He drew up a brief will on 29 Apr. 1677 and died at Haddon in September 1679, being buried at Bottesford in Leicestershire in the following month. His son John sat in the Cavalier Parliament for Leicestershire under the courtesy title of Lord Roos, and was raised to a dukedom in 1703.40
• From: http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1604-1629/member/ma... _______________
• Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, Volume 36
• Manners, John (1604-1679) by William Arthur Jobson Archbold
• MANNERS, JOHN, eighth Earl of Rutland (1604–1679), eldest son of Sir George Manners (d 1623) of Haddon, was cousin of George, seventh earl of Rutland, and was descended from Sir John Manners, the second son of Thomas Manners, first earl of Rutland [q. v.] His mother was Grace, second daughter of Sir Henry Pierrepoint and sister to Robert, earl of Kingston. He was born at Aylestone, Leicestershire, on 10 June 1604, and educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he does not seem to have graduated. In November 1621 he became a member of the Inner Temple. He was high sheriff of Derbyshire in 1634 and 1636, and M.P. for the same county from 1640 to 1642. On 29 March 1642 he succeeded as eighth earl of Rutland. Throughout the struggle between the king and parliament Rutland was a moderate parliamentarian. In January 1642–3, when parliament was summoned to Oxford, he was one of the twenty-two peers who remained at Westminster. In July 1643 he was sent with Lord Grey on a mission from the parliament to Edinburgh to ask for assistance from the Scots (cf. Hist. MSS. Comm. 5th Rep. App. pt. i. pp. 96, 112). He retired, however, on the plea of ill-health. On 16 Oct. 1643 he took the covenant. In November 1643 he was nominated first commissioner of the great seal, but was excused at his own request. Belvoir was taken by the royalists under Sir Gervase Lucas early in 1643, and all Rutland's estate was soon in the hands of the enemy, who wasted the timber. In November 1645 the castle was stormed by a party under Sydenham Poyntz, the outworks were taken, and on 3 Feb. 1645–6 the garrison marched out under a capitulation. In 1645 Rutland was sent to Scotland as chief commissioner from the English parliament. On 28 Nov. 1646 he was made lord warden of the forests north of the Trent. On 9 Oct. 1647 Fairfax gave orders to garrison Belvoir for the parliament, as it had been disgarrisoned, and Rutland was proposed in 1648 as a commissioner to treat with the king in the Isle of Wight. He was also made one of the navy committee. In May 1648 more horse soldiers were sent to Belvoir, much to Rutland's discontent, which was increased in May 1649, when the council of state recommended that the house should be demolished. Rutland complained that he had lost three years' rents. He received 1,500l. compensation for the damage done in dismantling Belvoir, and after this time lived chiefly at Nether Haddon in Derbyshire. After the Restoration he rebuilt the house at Belvoir, completing it in 1668. On 14 Feb. 1667 he became lord-lieutenant of Leicestershire, and died at Nether Haddon 29 Sept. 1679. He was buried at Bottesford, Leicestershire. He married in 1628 Frances (d. 1671), second daughter of Edward, first lord Montagu of Boughton. He was succeeded by his third son, John, ninth earl and first duke of Rutland , who is separately noticed. Three portraits, by Van der Eyden, by Cooper, and in miniature, are at Belvoir.
• [Doyle's Official Baronage; Collins's Peerage, ed. Brydges, vol. i.; Eller's Belvoir Castle, pp. 68 sq.; Gardiner's Great Civil War, i. 209; Evelyn's Diary, iv. 180; Clarendon's Hist. of the Rebellion, Oxford edit., vol. vii.; Cal. of State Papers, Dom. 1644 pp. 40, 47, 1649–50 pp. 66, &c.; Cal. of the MSS. preserved at Belvoir (Hist. MSS. Comm.); Cal. of the Proc. of the Comm. for Advance of Money, pp. 39, 40, &c.; Nichols's Leicestershire, ii. 50 sq.]
• From: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Manners,_John_(1604-1679)_(DNB00) _________________
• John Manners
• Birth: Jun. 10, 1604 Leicestershire, England
• Death: Sep. 29, 1679 Nether Haddon, Derbyshire, England
• Earl of Rutland
• Family links:
• Spouse:
• Frances Montagu Manners (1613 - 1671)*
• Children:
  • John Manners (1638 - 1711)*
• Burial: St Mary the Virgin Churchyard, Bottesford, Melton Borough, Leicestershire, England
• Find A Grave Memorial# 148607267
• From: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=148607267 ___________
• MANNERS, John, Lord Roos (1638-1711), of Belvoir Castle, Leics.
• b. 29 May 1638, 3rd but o. surv. s. of John Manners†, 8th Earl of Rutland, by Frances, da. of Edward Montagu†, 1st Barren Montagu of Boughton. educ. travelled abroad c.1662-5. m. (1) 13 July 1658 (with £10,000), Lady Anne Pierrepont (div. 1670), da. and coh. of Henry, 1st Mq. of Dorchester, 1da. d.v.p.; (2) 10 Nov. 1671, Lady Diana Bruce (d. 15 July 1672), da. of Robert Bruce, 1st Earl of Ailesbury, wid. of Sir Seymour Shirley, 5th Bt., of Staunton Harold, Leics., 1s. d.v.p.; (3) 8 Jan. 1674, Catherine, da. of Baptist Noel, 3rd Viscount Campden, 2s. 2da. cr. Baron Manners of Haddon 29 Apr. 1679; suc. fa. as 9th Earl of Rutland 29 Sept. 1679; cr. Duke of Rutland 29 Mar. 1703.1
• .... etc.
• From: http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1660-1690/member/ma... ____________
• MANNERS, Sir George (c.1580-1641), of Fulbeck, Lincs. and The Savoy, Mdx.
• b. c.1580, 4th but 3rd surv. s. of John Manners, 4th earl of Rutland (d.1588), of Belvoir, Lincs. and Elizabeth, da. of Francis Charlton of Apley Castle, Salop; bro. of (Sir) Oliver†.1 educ. Christ’s, Camb. 1594-8, MA 1612; Oxf. 1598; I. Temple 1606.2 m. 3 Mar. 1605,3 Frances, da. of Sir Edward Carey† of Aldenham, Herts., master of the jewels 1595-1618, wid. of Ralph Baeshe of Stansted Abbots, Herts., s.p.4 kntd. 12 July 1599;5 suc. bro. as 7th earl of Rutland 17 Dec. 1632. d. 29 Mar. 1641.6
• .... etc.
• .... He died at his house in the Savoy on 29 Mar. 1641, and in accordance with his wishes, was buried with his ancestors at Bottesford.80 He was remembered by Bulstrode Whitelocke* as a man ‘of good and pleasant discourse’, who ‘understood business well and managed it prudently when he would be troubled with it’.81 His heir was his cousin, John*, who sat for Derbyshire in 1626 and 1640.
• From: http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1604-1629/member/ma... ___________
• HOWE, Sir Scrope (1648-1713), of Langar, Notts.
• b. Nov. 1648, 1st s. of John Grobham Howe† and bro. of Emanuel Scrope Howe* and John Grobham Howe*. educ. Christ Church, Oxf. 1665, MA 1665. m. (1) 20 Apr. 1672 (with £10,000), Lady Anne, da. of John Manners†, 8th Earl of Rutland, 2s. d.v.p. 3da. (1 d.v.p.); (2) lic. 15 July 1698, Juliana, da. of William Alington†, 3rd Baron Alington of Killard [I], 2s. 3da. Kntd. 11 Mar. 1663; suc. fa. 1679; cr. Visct. Howe [I] 16 May 1701.1
• ....
• From: http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1690-1715/member/ho... ________________
• Links
• https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Manners,_John_(1638-1711)_(DNB00)
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Chaworth,_3rd_Viscount_Chaworth
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Cecil,_3rd_Earl_of_Salisbury
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Cecil,_4th_Earl_of_Exeter
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Manners,_1st_Duke_of_Rutland
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Annesley,_2nd_Earl_of_Anglesey
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Ashley-Cooper,_2nd_Earl_of_Sh...
• https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Howe,_Scrope_(DNB00)
• http://genealogics.org/getperson.php?personID=I00003381&tree=LEO

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