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APPENDIX G 635 14 Feb. 1648/9, 13 Feb. 1649/50, 13 Feb. 1650/1, 24 Nov. 1652, 13 May to 25 Oct. 1659, and 25 Feb. to 6 Mar. 1659/60. Chancellor of Univ. of Cambridge Oct. 1652; Commissioner of the Treasury 2 Aug. 1654; and member of a Committee for Advancement of Trade 12 July 1655. He was sum. to the "Other House," 10 Dec. 1657, but never took his seat.(^) He was a member of the " Restored Rump," 7 May 1659 to 16 Mar. 1659/60. At the Restoration he was prohibited from holding any public office, 2 Aug. 1660, and retired to his estate at Long- thorpe, but left England in i662,C') and remained abroad until his death. He m., istly, about i629,('=) Joan, da. and h. of Sir James Altham, of Markshall, Essex, by Elizabeth, da. of Sir Francis Barrington. He w;., 2ndly, 21 Jan. 1638/9, at High Laver, Essex, Elizabeth, da. and coh. of Henry Cromwell, of Upwood, Hunts, which Elizabeth was ist cousin to Oliver Cromwell, afterwards Lord Protector. He ;«., 3rdly, i Oct. 1 645, Elizabeth, widow of Caleb Cockcroft, of London, merchant {bur. 7 Mar. 1644/5), i^^ <^^- of Daniel Oxenbridge, M.D.,('^) of Daventry, Northants, and London, by Katherine, da. of Thomas Harby. He d. 31 Dec. 1673, aged about 75.(°) His widow w., 3rdly, Sir Humphrey Sydenham, of Chilworthy, Somerset; she J. there, i Mar. 1679/80, and was bur. at Combe Nicholas. SAYE AND SELE [11] William Fiennes,(') only s. and h. of Richard (Fiennes), 7th Baron Saye and Sele. He was sum. to the "Other House," 10 Dec. (») When the House was called over, 2 Feb. 1657/8, he was entered as absent " by reason of the busines of the Terme." {MSS. of the House of Lards). Josiah Bcrners writes to John Hobart, 29 Nov. 1659: "Those of the Committee of Un- safely that sett are Fleetwood, Desborough, Bury, Huson, Holland, Tichborne, Whitlock, Warreston, Sidenham, and sometimes Ireton ... St. John lyes close and meddles not." {C/arke Papers, vol. iv, p. 300). C") He embarked at Seaford, Sussex, 5 Nov. 1662, on board the Adventure (Richard Lemon, of Brighthelmstone, master), from which he was transferred to a French fishing boat, and landed at Havre-de-Grace, whence he proceeded to Basle. {S.A.S. Collections, vol. xvii, p. 151). He was at Augsburg in 1669. (Ludlow's Memoirs, vol. ii, p. 419). ("=) Foss, Judges, vol. vi, p. 477. "Joan, da. of Oliver St. John, Esquier, and Joan hys wife," was hap. at High Laver, Essex, 27 Jan. 1 630/1. ("*) He was Fellow of the College of Physicians. His 2nd da., Katherine Oxen- bridge, was the 2nd wife of Major Gen. Philip Skippon. See under Skippon, P- 637- (=) Noble's Protectorate House of Cromwell, vol. ii, p. 25. He is described as "an ancient man, with black hair, full faced and full bodied." {S. P. Dom., Charles II, vol. Ixiii, No. 56). Clarendon writes: "He was a man reserved, and of a dark and clouded countenance, very proud, and conversing with very few, and those men of his own humour and inclinations." [Hist, of the Rebellion, Book iii, § 32). "Saye and Seale was a seriously subtle Peece, and always averse to the Court ways, something out of pertinaciousness; his Temper and Constitution ballancing