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APPENDIX G 645 and aunt of Oliver, the Lord Protector. He is said to have been ap- prenticed to a woollen draper,(^) but ent. the Pari, army on the outbreak of the Civil War; Capt. before 2 May 1643, when he was commissioned to seize the horses and goods of malignants; Major ot Cromwell's regt. ot Horse 1 643 ; fought gallantly at Gainsborough, and at Marston Moor 2 July 1644; Col. of Horse, in the "New Model," 15 Feb. 1644/5; C"^- "f one division of the " Ironsides " at Naseby, [4 June 1645, where he charged and routed Langdale's Horse; at the storming of Bristol, 10 Sep. i 645 ; took Ban- bury in May 1 646, C") and Worcester in July of the same year. He was app. oneof the Judges at the King's trial, 6 Jan. 1648/9, attended every sitting but one, and signed the death-warrant. He went to Scotland, with Cromwell, as Commissary-Gen. of the Horse, 1650; was wounded at Dunbar, 3 Sep. 1650; and fought at Worcester, 3 Sep. 1651. His regt. was quartered at Nottingham in Dec. i65i.(') Commissioner of the High Court of Justice 21 Nov. 1653. " Major-Gen. of the Militia " for Lincoln, Notts, Stafford, Leicester, and WVwick, 9 Aug. 1655. M.P. for Notts 1654-55, and 1656-57. He was sum. to the "Other House," 10 Dec. 1657, and took his seat, as " Edward Lord Whalley, Cofhissary Generall of the Horse," 20 Jan. 1657/8; he also sat in Richard Cromwell's House of Lords, and signed the proclamation in which he was declared Protector, 3 Sep. 1658. He supported Richard Cromwell against the " Wallingford House " party, and would have fought for him, but his regt. would not obey his orders. C^) He was deprived of his command, by the " Restored Rump," 5 Aug. 1659. At the Restoration he was absolutely excepted from pardon, for life and estate, 9 July, and attainted 14 Dec. 1660. A reward of ^loo was offered for his arrest 22 Sep. 1660, but he escaped to New England, with his son-in-law. Major Gen. Goffe, landing at Boston, Mass., 27 July 1660. He »;., istly, Judith, da. of John Duffell, of Rochester, Kent. He w., 2ndly, Mary, sister of Sir George Middleton. He d. in 1674 or 1675,0 ^^ Hadley, Mass., and was bur. there. (•) " Edward Whaly, formerly a Wollen Draper or petty merchant in London, where not thriving, and being much in Debt, he fled into Scotland till the Warres began, which he hath found a more gainfull trade." [Mystery of the Good old Came, p. 34). " No great zealot for the cause." {Second Narrative of the late Parliament). i^) For which action he received the thanks of Pari., 9 May 1646, and ;^ioo to purchase two horses. ("=) "Two troops of Colonel Whaley's Regiment quartered at Nottingham had Meetings twice a Week, where their Officers and some of their Soldiers did prench and pray ; for which they were hated and cursed by the Presbyterians and their Preachers, who say They are the greatest Plague that ever did befal that Town." (Whitelocke's Memorials, 9 Dec. 1 651). i^) Ludlow writes, 21 Apr. 1659, "Col. VVhalley's regiment of horse for the most part left him, and went off to St. James's, which he seeing, opened his breast and desired them to shoot him." {Memoirs, vol. ii, p. 69). (') A letter from Major Gen. Goffe to his wife, in 1674, describes him as still alive, but very infirm. (Stiles' Regicides, p. 1 1 8).