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6io APPENDIX G He was bap. 13 Oct. 1631. M.P. for Bucks 1656-57; for Wendover 5 Apr. 1661, 3 Feb. iSyS/c), and 6 Aug. 1679; for Bucks 2 Feb. 1680/1; for Wendover 12 Jan. 1688/9; and for Bucks 19 Feb. 1689/90. He was sum. to the " Other House," 10 Dec. 1 657, and took his seat, as " Richard Lord Hampden," 20 Jan. 1657/8; he also sat in Richard Cromwell's House of Lords. (*) He acted as Chairman of the Pari. Committee which declared the throne vacant, 28 Jan. 1688/9; P.C. 14 Feb. 1688/9; Lord Commissioner of the Treasury 8 Apr. 1689; Chanc. of the Exchequer 18 Mar. 1689/90, which office he resigned Feb. 1693/4. He is said to have been offered a peerageC") by William 111, which he declined. He m., before 1655, Letitia, 2nd da. of William (Paget), 6th Baron Paget of Beaudesert, by Frances, ist da. of Henry (Rich), ist Earl of Holland. He J. in Dec. 1695, and was htr. 2 Jan. 1695/6, at Hampden, aged 64. Will dat. 19 June 1695, pr. 2 Mar. 1695/6. HESILRIGE [38] Arthur Hesilrige (or Haselrigge),() s. and h. of Sir Thomas H., of Noseley Hall, co. Leicester (who was cr. a Baronet, 21 July 1622, and </. II Jan. 1629/30), by Frances, da. and h. of William Gorges, of Alderton, Northants. He was a strong Republican; raised a troop of Horse, which he com. at Edgehill, 23 Oct. 1642; Col. of a regt. of Cuirassiers, called " The Lobsters," (f) in 1643, and "adventured far in the wars"; Gov. of Newark 1647. M.P. for co. Leicester 12 Mar. 1639/40, and 22 Oct. 1640-45; for Newcastle-on-Tyne 12 July 1654 and 1656; and for CO. Leicester 1 659. He brought in the Bill for the attainder of the Earl of Strafford in 1640; and the Militia Bill, 7 Dec. 1641, for which he was impeached by the King 3 Jan. 1641/2. Member of the Committee of Both Kingdoms, 16 Feb. 1643/4; Commissioner for Scandalous Offences 5 June 1646, for Compounding with Delinquents 8 Feb. 1646/7, and for the Militia in the Northern Counties 23 May 1648. He was one of the (=) " Mr. Hampden, now Lord Hampden, a young gentleman of Buckingham- shire, son of the late Colonel Hampden, that noble patriot and defender of the rights and liberties of the English nation, of famous memory. ... It is very hard to say how fit he is to be a lord, and how well a negative voice over the good people of this land, and his father's friends in particular, will become the son of such a father." {Second Narrative of the late Parliament). C") Luttrell writes, 26 Apr. 1694: "Mr. Hampden and Sir Edward Seymor are out of being Commissioners of the Treasury; the former will be made an English baron." {Brief Relation, vol. iii, p. 300). (") He bore for arms: Silver a cheveron Vert between three hazel leaves. (^) " A regiment of five hundred horse, under the command of Sir Arthur Haslerigge, which were so prodigiously armed that they were called by the other side the regiment of lobsters, because of their bright iron shells with which they were covered, being perfect cuirassiers; and were the first seen so armed on either side." (Clarendon's History of the Rebellion, book vii, p. 104). This regiment is said to have contributed to the defeat of the Pari, forces at Round way Down, 13 July 1643, where, we read, " Hazelrig's lobsters were turned into crabs, and crawled backwards."