John Ashburnham (Royalist)
John Ashburnham (1603 – 15 June 1671) was an English courtier, diplomat and politician who sat in the
Royalist cause in the English Civil War
and was an attendant on the King.
Daniel Mytens
.Background
Ashburnham was the eldest son of Sir John Ashburnham by
groom of the bedchamber.[1]
Ashburnham became wealthy and lent money to the king: in 1638 the Star-chamber fine on
Sir Walter Long, 1st Baronet and his brother, was assigned to Ashburnham. The next year a warrant under the privy seal enabled him to regain his ancestral estate of Ashburnham. He sat as a member of parliament for Hastings in the Long Parliament in 1640. As a partisan of the king, he began to absent himself, and he was proceeded against for contempt (6 May 1642). The king wrote a letter to the Commons in his justification but the house maintained its prior right to the obedience of its member. Ashburnham was 'discharged and disabled' (5 February 1643), and his estate was sequestrated (14 September).[1]
Civil War
Ashburnham was a faithful adherent and attendant to Charles I in the
Henrietta Maria at Paris.[1]
In 1647 the army had the king in custody at
Robert Hammond. If Hammond were not to be trusted, the fugitive Charles could secretly take ship for France. In the end Berkeley revealed the hiding-place to Hammond; Charles refused the desperate offer of Ashburnham to kill Hammond, and again became virtually a prisoner.[1][2]
Commonwealth period
Subsequently, the
Guernsey Castle were for sending money to the king.[1]
1660 Restoration
After the
William Ashburnham shared in an enterprise for reviving the manufacture of tapestry at the Mortlake Tapestry Works
(March and April 1667).
His large memorial tomb by Thomas Burman stands in St Peter's Church in Ashburnham, East Sussex.
Family
Ashburnham's daughter Elizabeth married Sir Hugh Smith, 1st Baronet of Long Ashton.[3] His grandson John was ennobled as Baron Ashburnham in 1689, and his great-grandson as Earl of Ashburnham, a title that became extinct in 1924.[1][4]
Notes
- ^ a b c d e f Browne 1885, pp. 162–163
- ^ a b c Bantock 2004, p. [page needed]
- ^ Burke 1838, p. 493.
- ^ The National Archives 2008.
References
- Bantock, Anton (2004). Ashton Court. Tempus. ISBN 0-7524-3213-3.
- Burke, John (1838). A genealogical and heraldic history of the extinct and dormant baronetcies of England, by J. and J.B. Burke. p. 493.
- "Ashburnham family archive". The National Archives. 18 December 2008. Retrieved 3 October 2017.
Attribution:
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Browne, Richard Charles (1885). "Ashburnham, John". In Stephen, Leslie (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 2. London: Smith, Elder & Co. pp. 162–163.
External links
- A Narrative by John Ashburnham of his Attendance on King Charles the First from Oxford to the Scotch Army, and from Hampton Court to Isle of Wight, John Ashburnham, George Ashburnham, Vol. II, Payne and Foss, Paternoster Row, London, 1830
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