John Dove

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Not to be confused with John Doe.

John Dove (−1664/65) was a

Restoration.[1][2]

Little is known about Dove's background, although his father, Henry, had been

Mayor of Salisbury in 1645 and 1650) were zealous parliamentarians,[2] serving on a number of county committees from 1644,[3] and he was elected to the Long Parliament for Salisbury in 1645 in the place of an ejected Royalist.[4] He was made a colonel of the Wiltshire militia in 1650 and was commended in August 1651 by the Council of State for his zeal.[2]

Dove's influence within the county and at Westminster enabled him to acquire a considerable fortune, with which he was able to purchase sequestered royalist and episcopal estates at Fountell in Hampshire,[5] Blewbury in Berkshire,[6] and Winterbourne Earls in Wiltshire. In 1655, whilst serving as Sheriff of Wiltshire, he was captured at Salisbury during the Penruddock uprising, narrowly escaping being hanged thanks to the intervention of some of the rebels. This clemency did not prevent Dove from having John Lucas, one of his saviours, executed. Another rebel, Hugh Grove, who was executed at Exeter, accused Dove of having given false witness against him. Grove's estate at Chisenbury Priory, near Enford, had been sequestered in 1650 and granted to Dove.[2]

On 29 March 1655, Dove wrote to

juror chosen for either jury who could not be depended upon to be well disposed to the government of the day and recommended Thurloe to proceed capitally against the "chief actors that were commissionated, as they said, by Charles Stuart".[1]

Dove was removed from the Salisbury corporation under its new charter of 1656, but was restored in 1659, when he also resumed his seat in the

Corporation Act.[2] He retired to his estate at Ivychurch, near Alderbury, where he died some time before March 1665.[7]

Notes

  1. ^ a b Noble, pp. 182–183 at books.google.com
  2. ^ a b c d e Goodwin, ODNB
  3. ^ Acts and Ordinances of the Interregnum, ed. C H Firth and R S Rait, 3 Vols (1911), passim. at www.british-history.ac.uk
  4. ^ Pugh
  5. ^ Cassan
  6. ^ 'Parishes: Blewbury with Upton and Aston Upthorpe', A History of the County of Berkshire: Volume 3 (1923), pp. 280–291. at www.british-history.ac.uk
  7. TNA
    , PROB 11/316, sig. 24).

References

  • Cassan, Stephen H. (1827). The Lives of the Bishops of Winchester, 2 Vols., at www.archive.org.
  • Gordon Goodwin, "Dove, John (d. 1664/5)", rev. Andrew Warmington,
    Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 accessed 16 Oct 2009
    . Cites:
    • Benson and H. Hatcher, Old and New Sarum or Salisbury, 2 vols. (1843)
    • R. C. Hoare, The history of modern Wiltshire, 2/1: Hundreds of Everley, Ambresbury, and Underditch (1826)
    • CSP dom., 1650–51; 1655
    • D. Brunton and D. H. Pennington, Members of the Long Parliament, (1954)
    • C. H. Firth and R. S. Rait, eds., Acts and ordinances of the interregnum, 1642–1660, 3 vols. (1911)
    • J. Easton, A chronology of remarkable events relative to the city of New Sarum, 5th edn (1824)
    • Thurloe, State papers
    • Will
      TNA
      , PROB 11/316, sig. 24
    • VCH Wiltshire, vol. 5
  • Noble, Mark. 'The Life of JOHN DOVE, Esq.' in The lives of the English regicides: and other commissioners of the pretended High court of justice, appointed to sit in judgment upon their sovereign, King Charles the First (1798)
  • Pugh, R.B. & Crittall Elizabeth (editors 1957). Parliamentary History of Wiltshire, 1629–60: Victoria County History of Wiltshire, volume 5, at www.british-history.ac.uk, accessed 18 Oct 2009
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