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APPENDIX G 647 Divines 1 2 June 1 643 ; Commissioner " to regulate the Office and Officers of Arms" 19 Mar. 1645/6, for Scandalous Offences 5 June 1646, and for Com- pounding with Delinquents 8 Feb. 1646/7. He was nom. one of the Committee to draw up the charge against the King, 23 Dec. 1648, but declined to attend, and took no part in the trial. (") Councillor of State 14 Feb. 1648/9, 13 Feb. 1649/50, 13 Feb. 1 650/1, 24 Nov. 1652, and 13 May to 25 Oct. 1659. Lord Commissioner of the Great Seal 15 Mar. 1647/8, 8 Feb. 1648/9, 14 July 1654 to 6 June 1655, 30 Jan. to 14 May 1659, and I Nov. 1659. Commissioner of the Treasury 2 Aug. i654.() Ambassador to Sweden 14 Sep. 1653 to i July i654.('=) Knighted before 2 May 1655. Member of the Committee for Trade and Navigation 2 Nov. 1655. He was sum. to the "Other House," 10 Dec. 1657, and took his seat, as " Bulstrode Lord Whitelock one of the Lords Com" of the Treasury," 20 Jan. 1657/8; he also sat in Richard Cromwell's House of Lords. He was offered a Viscountcy in 1658, but declined the honour.C*) At the Restoration he obtained a pardon from Charles II (for a considera- tion), and spent the rest of his life in retirement at Chilton Park, Wilts. He m., istly, in June 1630, Rebecca,(') da. of Thomas Bennet, Alderman of London, by Dorothy, da. of Richard May, of Mayfield, Sussex, and sister of Sir Humphrey May, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. She d. 9, and was bur. 1 1 May 1634, at Fawley. He w., 2ndly, 10 Nov. 1634, at Fawley, Frances, ist da. of William (Willoughby), 3rd Baron WiLLOUGHBY OF Parham, by Frances, 2nd da. of John (Manners), 4th Earl of Rutland. She was bur. 19 May 1648, at Fawley. He w., 3rdly, II Sep. 1650, at Hackney, Midx.,(') Mary, widow of Rowland Wilson, Glynne and Maynard used him like advocates, but Pahner and Whitelocke used him like gentlemen, and yet left out nothing material to be urged against him." [Memoirs of Bulstrode If'hitelocke, p. 153). (*) Whitelocke writes, 26 Dec. 1648, "I told Sir Thomas Widdrington that I was resolved not to meddle in that Business about the Trial of the King's ; it being contrary to my Judgment." And, on the day of the King's execution, 30 Jan. 1648/9, "I went not to the House, but stay'd ail Day at home in my Study and at my Prayers, that this Day's work might not so displease God as to bring prejudice to this poor afflicted Nation." [Memorials, pp. 365, 376). () This was a permanent appointment, with a salary of ^1,000 per ann. (■=) He was voted ^2,000 for his services, 6 Sep. 1654. "In which embassy Christina queen of that country made him a knight of the honourable order of Amaranta." (Wood's Athenae, vol. iii, p. 1043 ' ^"'^ Ashmole's Oreier of the Garter, P- 75)- C*) "1658. Aug. 21. A Bill signed by his Highness for a Patent to make me a Viscount, and in Secretary Thurloe's hand to be passed ; but I did not tiiink it convenient for me." (Whitelocke's Memorials, p. 674). See ante, p. 615, note " b." (') Whitelocke's first wife, he informs us, was "tall and comely, of a tender and good nature, of ingenuous and rational discourse, when her parts were not eclipsed by sickness;" unfortunately she suffered from temporary fits of insanity. "The Right Honourable Bulstrode Lord Whitelock was married to the worshipful Mary Wilson the nth day of September, being Wednesday, 1650." (Lysons' Environs, vol. iii, p. 492).