Hamon le Strange
Sir Hamon le Strange (1583 – 31 May 1654) was an English politician who sat in the
Royalist cause in the English Civil War. His family were Norfolk gentry long based at their manor of Hunstanton
.
Life and career
Le Strange was the son of Sir Nicholas le Strange of Hunstanton and his wife Mary Bell, and a great-grandson of the MP Sir Nicholas L'Estrange.[1] He was admitted to Queens' College, Cambridge on 26 July 1601 and knighted on 13 March 1604. From 1608 to 1609 he was the High Sheriff of Norfolk.[2]
In 1614 and again in 1625 Le Strange was elected
In 1616 a priest, Thomas Tunstal, escaped from Wisbech Castle to Norfolk. L'Estrange had him pursued and apprehended. He was tried at Norwich and condemned and executed.[4]
During the
Parliamentarians. When it surrendered, Hamon's family had to pay over £1000 in compensation. Other bills accrued and enemies arranged for its lands to be forfeited in 1649–1651.[5]
Family
Le Strange married
Sedgeford, Norfolk.[7]
They are known to have had four children.
- Hamon was a writer on history, theology and liturgy.[8]
- Roger, was a religious pamphleteer.
- baronet.
- Elizabeth married the Parliamentarian politician Sir William Spring.
Le Strange died in 1654 aged 71.[2]
References
- ^ Accessed: 18 June 2014 "Smethdon Hundred: Hunstanton Lordship", An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk: volume 10" (1809), pp. 312–328.
- ^ a b c "le Strange, Hamon (LSTN601H)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- ^ Browne Willis Notitia parliamentaria, or, An history of the counties, cities, and boroughs in England and Wales.... The whole extracted from mss. and printed evidences (1750), pp. 176–239.
- ISBN 9780571091300.
- ^ "L'ESTRANGE, Sir Hamon (1583-1654), of Hunstanton, Norf". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 30 December 2021.
- ^ le Strange Papers in the Norfolk Record Office – refs: AA5; A66 & A73
- required.)
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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: "L'Estrange, Hamon (1605–1660)". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
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