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APPENDIX G 637 Gov. of Bristol 2 Dec. 1645; Commissioner of iMartial Law, for London and Westminster, 3 Apr. 1646; app. Marshal Gen. of the army in Ireland 6 Apr. 1647; and " Major-Gen. of the Militia," for Midx. and London, 9 Aug. 1655. M.P. for Barnstaple, Devon, 9 Dec. 1646; for Lyme Regis, Norfolk, 10 July 1654 and 1656; and, in the "Restored Rump," 7 May 1659 to 16 Mar. 1659/60. Councillor of State 14 Feb. 1648/9, 13 Feb. 1649/50, 13 Feb. 1650/1, 24 Nov. 1652, and 13 June 1657. He was app. one of the Judges for the King's trial, 6 Jan. 1648/9, but declined to act. Gov. of the Almshouses of Windsor Castle 2 Sep. 1654. He was sum. to the "Other House," 10 Dec. 1657, and took his seat, as " Phillip Lord Skippon," 20 Jan. 1657/8; he also satin Richard Crom- well's House of Lords, signed the proclamation in which he was declared Protector, 3 Sep. 1658, and was a member of his Privy Council. He ;»., istly, 14 May 1622, at Frankenthall, in the Netherlands, Maria, da. of ( — ) CoMEs.() She d. 24, and was bur. 31 Jan. 1655/6, in the chancel of Acton Church, Midx., aged 54. M-I.C") He w., 2ndly, 25 Aug. 1657, Katherine,('=) widow of Sir Richard Phillipps,('^) of Picton Castle, Pem- broke, 2nd Bart, (who d. before 7 Aug. 1648), and before that of John Fowler, of Bucklersbury, citizen and clothworker of London {Imr. 20 Dec. 1642), 2nd da. of Daniel Oxenbridge, M.D., of Daventry, Northants, and London, by Katherine, da. of Thomas Harry. He d. in 1660. Will dat. 21 Feb. 1659/60, with codicil 26 June, pr. 25 Oct. 1660. His widow d. before 16 Apr. 1678.0 STEELE [28] William SteelEjO s. of Richard S., of Giddy Hall, in Sandbach, Cheshire, and Finchley, Midx., by Letitia, da. of ( — ) Shawe;(8) b. 16 10, (^) The arms impaled with her husband's, on her monument in Acton Church, are those of Combe (of cos. Hertford, Bucks, and Warwick) — u/z. Ermine three Hons passant Gules. Skippon mentions "my Cozen Captain Richard Comes" in his will. C") "Mary the wife of the Right honrable Phillip Mager Gennerall Scipon, was buried in the chancill of Acton, tlie 31st of January 1655/6." {Par. Reg.). (•=) Her da., Katherine Fowler, bap. at St. Mary Woolchurch, ii Jan. 1631/2, m., as his 2nd wife (lie. dat. 23 Aug. 1648), James Phillipps, of the Priory, Cardigan, with " consent of her mother Dame Catherine Phillipps, of Picton Castle, co. Pem- broke, Widow." She was " the incomparable Mrs. K. P.," better known as Orinda, " who among her sex has distinguished herself by her celebrated poems and letters ; she was bred in the school at Hackney, and it must be owned was a woman of the times, and loved poetry better than presbytery." (Ambrose Barnes, Memoirs, 1716). C) "Major General Skippon was this day married to Baron[et] Philhpp's widow." {News-letter, 25 Aug. 1657). Sir Richard Phillipps, in his will dat. 17 Mar. 1647/8, pr. 22 Jan. 1648/9 by Dame Katherine P., relict and executrix, mentions their Mar. Sett., dat. 31 Dec. 1646, of which Clement Oxenbridge was a trustee. (•) Admon. grant, 16 Apr. 1678 : " Dna Catherina Phillips ats Skippon," late of the parish of St. Bride's, London, widow. He bore for arms: Gules a fesse compony Ermine and Azure between two lions' heads razed Silver, with three Silver billets on a chief Azure. (*) Richard Steele and Letitia Shawe were married at Sandbach in 1602. {Par. Reg.).