Anthony Stapley

Anthony Stapley
Anthony Stapley
Born	30 August 1590
Died	before 31 January 1655 (age 64)

Anthony Stapley (born 30 August 1590 – buried 31 January 1655) was one of the regicides of King Charles I of England.^[1]

Stapley was M.P. for

Council of State in 1649–1653, vice-admiral of Sussex in 1650 and a member of interim council and of supreme assembly in 1653.^[2]

Biography

Stapley was baptised at Framfield on 30 August 1590, was the son of Anthony Stapley of Framfield, Sussex, by his third wife, Ann, daughter of John Thatcher of Priesthawes, Sussex. The Stapley family removed about 1615 from Framfield to Patcham. Anthony about 1640 gave £10 to the new building at Christ's College, Cambridge, and was probably educated there.^[3]^[4]

Stapley represented the borough of

Barebones Parliament of 1653 and the First Protectorate Parliament of 1654.^[1]

In January 1640 Stapley, then a justice of the peace, was reported to Dr.

committee of both kingdoms on 26 February. He was ordered by both bodies to observe Waller's commands. While detained in London he was exonerated from all blame in the event of disaster at Chichester. He resumed the command of the town and garrison at the termination of the proceedings early in March. He retained his governorship till 1645, when he was succeeded by Colonel Algernon Sidney. In January 1644 he was deputy lieutenant of the county of Sussex.^[1]

Stapley was one of the

act of Pardon and Oblivion of 6 June 1660 (which meant that his estate was subject to confiscation).^[1]

Family

Stapley married Ann, daughter of George Goring of Danny, and sister of George, Lord Goring. She was buried at Patcham on 11 November 1637. By her Stapley had three sons and one daughter. Stapley married a second wife, "Dame Anne Clarke", who predeceased him on 15 January 1654. Sir John Stapley (1628–1701), the second but eldest surviving son abandoned the political views of his father, became entangled in a plot for the return of Charles II as did his brother Antony.^[1]

Notes

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Porter 1898, p. 105.
^ Lee 1903, p. 1238.
^ "Stapley, Anthony (STPY590A)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
^ Porter 1898, pp. 104–105.

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Attribution

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Lee, Sidney, ed. (1903). "Stapley, Anthony". Index and Epitome. Dictionary of National Biography. Cambridge University Press. p. 1238.
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Porter, Bertha (1898). "Stapley, Anthony". In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 54. London: Smith, Elder & Co. pp. 104–105. cites:
- Berry's County Genealogy—Sussex, p. 85;
- Sussex Archæological Collections, i. 36, iv. 300, v. 88–91, xvi. 78, 108–9, 113, 116, 119–20;
- Masson's Milton, iv. 13, 224, 354, 446, 501, 505, 523;
- Commons' Journals, i. 878, iii. 362, 401, 403, 616, vi. 146, vii. 37, 42, 303, viii. 61;
- Official List of Members of Parliament;
- Cal. of State Papers, Dom. 1639 to 1654 passim;
- Vicars's Jehovah-Jireh, pp. 234–40;
- Dallaway's Western Sussex, vol. i. pp. 14, 20, vol. II. pt. i. p. 28;
- Rushworth's Memorials, III. ii. 480;
- Nalson's Trial of Charles I;
- Mark Noble, Lives of the Regicides, pp. 240–6;
- Thomas Walker Horsfield's Sussex, ii. app. pp. 49, 55;
- Thurlow State Papers (Birch), passim;
- Macrae's Cal. of Clarendon State Papers, iii. 281, 312, 358, 374, 388–9, 405;
- Clarendon's Hist. of the Rebellion (Macrae), vi. 58–9, 63;
- Burke's Extinct Baronetage;
- P. C. C. 189 (Aylett);
- Registers of Patcham, Addit. MS. 5698, f. 118.

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