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APPENDIX G 597 Angell, of London; b. 21 Aug. 1625. He entered the Pari, army in or before 1645, ^°°'^ P^^ '" ^^^ siege of Newark 1645/6, and raised a troop of Horse Aug. 1651. M.P. for Carmarthen 1654, and for Northants 1656-57. He was knighted by the Lord Protector, at Whitehall, 16 July 1657, and app. one of the Lords of his Bedchamber, Master of the Horse, and Ranger of Whittlewood Forest. He was present at the reception of the Dutch Ambassadors 1654; attended the two investitures of Oliver Cromwell as Lord Protector, 16 Dec. 1653 and 20 June 1657; and carried the Sword of State at the installation of Richard Cromwell, 27 Jan. 1658/9. He was sum. to the "Other House," 10 Dec. 1657, and took his seat, as "John Lord Cleypole," 20 Jan. 1657/8; he also sat in Richard Cromwell's House of Lords.(^) At the Restoration " he found not an enemy, but in every one a friend." He was, however, arrested in June 1678, and imprisoned in the Tower, on suspicion ot being concerned in a plot against Charles II; but as there was no evidence against him, he was soon released. He m., istly, at Holy Trinity Church, Ely, 13 Jan. 1645/6, ElizabethjC') 2nd da. of Oliver Cromwell, the Lord Protector, by Elizabeth, da. of Sir James Bourchier, of Felstead, Essex. She d. 6, and was bur. 10 Aug. 1658, in Henry Vll's Chapel, Westminster Abbey, aged 29.() He m., 2ndly, June 1670, Blanche, widow of Lancelot Stavely. He d. 26 June 1688. Will dat. 20 June, pr. 14 Nov. 1688. ('^) COOPER [62] Thomas Cooper (^) is said to have been a member of the Tallow Chandlers' Company, and is also described as " a shopkeeper, or Salter, in Southwark."(') He was one of the Militia Committee for Southwark, («) " Much need not be said of him; his relation, as son-ia-law, to the protector is sufficient to bespeak him every way fit to be taken out of the house, and made a lord; and having so long time had a negative voice over his wife. Spring-garden, the ducks, deer, horses, and asses in James's Park, is the better skilled how to exercise it again in the other house, over the good people of these nations." [Second Narratlvt of the late Parliament). Mrs. Hutchinson calls him " a debauched ungodly cavalier." [Memoirs of Col. Hutchinson, igo6 edit., p. 298). C") She was bap. at All Saints Church, Huntingdon, 2 July 1629; so that she was under 17 at date of her marriage. She was her father's favourite child, "being a lady of an excellent spirit and judgment, and of a most noble disposition, eminent in all princely qualities." [Mercurius PoUticus). [^) Whitelocke writes, in his Memorials, 7 Aug. 1658: "News of the Death of the Lady Elizabeth Claypole yesterday at Hampton-Court; she was a Lady of excellent Parts, dear to her Parents, and civil to all Persons, and courteous and friendly to all Gentlemen of her acquaintance; her Death did much grieve her Father." C') In it he is described as "John Claypoole of London Esq." He mentions his wife, " Mrs. Blanch Claypoole," and his da., " Mrs. Bridgett Claypoole." («) The family was of South Weston, Oxon. G.E.C. Margaret Cooper, of South- weston, widow, in her will dat. 10 Mar. 1619/20, pr. 24 Oct. 1620, mentions her son Thomas (then a minor), and her cousin Thomas Cooper and his three children. (P.C.C, 105 Soane). (') "Major Cooper, Salter of Southwark," was app. to the Committee for Com- pounding, as Sequestrator in Surrey, 21 Jan. 1 650/1.