Sir Edward Hussey, 1st Baronet

From Wikipedia, November 2014:

Sir Edward Hussey, 1st Baronet (10 October 1585 – 22 March 1648) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons of England in 1640. He supported the Royalist side in the English Civil War.

Hussey was the son of Sir Charles Hussey of Honington and his wife Ellen Birch, daughter of Lord Chief Baron Birch. He was created a Baronet, of Honington in the County of Lincolnshire on 19 June 1611. In 1618 he was High Sheriff of Lincolnshire and had the role again in 1638.[1]

In April 1640, Hussey was elected Member of Parliament for Lincolnshire in the Short Parliament.[2]

Hussey fought for the King in the Civil War and was one of those disqualified from public office under the Treaty of Uxbridge.[1]

Hussey married Elizabeth Auton, daughter of George Auton and had four sons and five daughters. His son Thomas died in 1641 and Hussey was succeeded in the baronetcy by his grandson Thomas. Another grandson William was an ambassador under William III.[1]

ID: I2561 Name: Edward Hussey Suffix: 1st Bt Prefix: Sir Sex: M Birth: ABT 1589 1 Death: 22 MAR 1648 Residence: Honington, Lincs Occupation: Royalist Note: 1

   2nd son.

   Created baronet by James I on 29 June 1611.

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   King James I created a baronet[cy] for Edward Hussey June 29, 1611.

   He was sheriff of County Lincolnshire in 1618 and again in 1637.

   In 1637 he reported to the king that "some tenants have refused to pay taxes," according to "History of Lincolnshire."

   According to "Progresses of King James I," "he took up arms for Charles I and suffered greatly for his loyalty, being plundered several times to the value of £10,000, having his lands sequestered and being fined £9,000 for his composition. In 1644, he was removed from His Majesty's councils and restrained from coming within the verge of the court." Edward Hussey had a very difficult time with Parliament after the hostilities ended, according to "Calendar of Committee for Compounding."

   "November 29, 1645, Sir Henry Hussey having fallen ill at Honington, on his way to the Committee for Compounding, and being very aged and infirm, begs that his wife may compound for him. December 16, 1645. Pleads that he has the Speaker's pass to come into Parliament's quarters. His delinquincy was that he lived in Newark, but he was never in arms. Has taken the National Covenant and Oath. His estate is but for life, being wholly settled, long before the wars, upon his children.

   On February 24, 1646, William Knight of Honington petitioned the Committee for Compounding "for leniency in his delinquency in attending his master, Sir Edward Hussey to Newark," according to "Calendar of Committee for Compounding." He affirmed that he never bore arms against Parliament. He was fined £60 and pardoned.

   On July 30, 1646, the fine of Edward Hussey was set at £10,200. On January 4, 1647, Elizabeth Anton Hussey petitioned the committee that she be allowed to continue to operate the family farm "to keep it from ruin, paying more than another would." The committee granted her request.

   In early 1647, Edward Hussey petitioned the committee to accept a settlement of £3,000 as full payment of his fine, but the committee declined his request. On February 7, 1647, the fine was reduced to £8,750.

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   Children born to Edward Hussey and Elizabeth Anton Hussey include:

   Jane Hussey born about 1611

   Thomas Hussey born in 1613

   John Hussey born about 1614

   Edward Hussey born about 1616

   Mary Hussey born about 1617

   Sarah Hussey born about 1619

   William Hussey born about 1620

   Susan Hussey born about 1621

   Rebecca Hussey born about 1622

   Charles Hussey born about 1627

   Bridget Hussey born about 1628

   Robert Hussey born in 1630

   Anne Hussey born about 1633

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   During the civil war the family which held Doddington, the Husseys, had influential members on both sides so the house was by passed by any destructive factions unlike the Jermyn family's house at Torksey just a few miles away which was burned by Royalists.

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   The group of Newton estates affords two examples of small monastic estates passing rapidly from

   hand to hand. In Barkston five pieces of meadow had been held by Stixwould Priory as parcel of its grange of Honington, which at the Dissolution had gone to Sir Edward Hussey.

   (www.lincolnshire.gov.uk/upload/public/attachments/551/REPORT6.pd)

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   Grandfather of Sir Thomas Hussey, with whom the baronetcy expired. Sir Thomas left two surviving daughter, his co-heirs, viz: Elizabeth, mar. Richard Ellis, Esq and d.s.p. and Sarah who married Robert Apreece, Esq. of Washingley, co Huntingdon and had issue, Thomas Apreece, whose son and heir, Thomas-Hussey Apreece, Esq. of Washingley was created a baronet 4 June 1792.

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   "All four pictures are portraits, and represent members of the Pochin and Hussey families, though unfortunately identifications are not available for all of ... ... 4. John, Baron Hussey of Sleaford, Lincs., 1466?-1537; this is clearly a mistaken identification, since the technique of the painting and the costume point decisively to a mid-seventeenth century date and the true identity of the sitter is established by a portrait of Sir Edward Hussey, Kt., of Honington, Lincs., created baronet 16..."

   The Master I. W. F., by A. C. Sewter.The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs, Vol. 77, No. 448 (Jul., 1940), pp. 20-21+23-25

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Father: Charles Hussey b: ABT 1532 Mother: Ellen Birch

Marriage 1 Elizabeth Anton b: 1591

   Married: ABT 1609 2

Children

   Has Children Jane Hussey b: ABT 1612

Sources:

   Type: Web Site

   Title: The Hussey Manuscript

   URL: http://www.llano.net/gowen/hussey_millenium/husseyms_001.htm

   Type: Book

   Periodical: History of the manor and township of Doddington, otherwise Doddington-Pigot, in the county of Lincoln and its successive owners, with pedigrees

   Author: Robert Eden George Cole

   Publication: J. Williamson, printer

   Date: 1897