Family/Spouse: Mary Compton. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Knighted in 1697

Barrington + Judith Milbank. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Barrington Bourchier (c 1627 - 29 October 1695) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1660.

Barrington Bourchier was the son of John Bourchier of Beningborough, Yorkshire. He was admitted to Gray's Inn on 16 March 1641. In 1658 he was High Sheriff of Yorkshire. His father was a regicide and at the Restoration was attainted and had his lands forfeited. However on his father's death in 1660 Bourchier had the forfeited lands restored to him.

In 1660, Bourchier was elected Member of Parliament for Thirsk in the Convention Parliament.

Bourchier had a son also called Barrington.

References
[1] The register of admissions to Gray's inn, 1521-1889, together with the register of marriages in Gray's inn chapel, 1695-1754
[2] 'Parishes: Newton-upon-Ouse', A History of the County of York North Riding: Volume 2 (1923), pp. 160-164. Date accessed: 12 April 2011
[3] History of Parliament Online - Bourchier, Barrington

from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barrington_Bourchier
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From Mark Noble's "Memoirs of the persons and families who by females are allied to or descended from the protectorate-House of Cromwell" pub in 1784:

"From the above marriage [Catherine Barrington to William Bourchier] sprung Barrington Bourchier, esq, of Benningborough, in Yorkshire, who was to have been a knight of the royal oak and whose estate was £1000 per annum."

http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1660-1690/member/bourchier-barrington-1627-95
Constituency
Dates
THIRSK
1660
Family and Education

b. c.1627, 1st s. of Sir John Bourchier of Beningbrough by Anne, da. of William Rolfe of Hadleigh, Suff. educ. G. Inn 1641 m. Frances, da. of Sir William Strickland, 1st Bt., of Boynton, Yorks., 1s. 2da. suc. fa. 1660; kntd. 24 Oct. 1676.1
Offices Held

Commr. for northern assoc., Yorks. (N. Riding) 1645, j.p. 1646-53, 1656-July 1660, 1677-Feb. 1688, Nov. 1688-d., commr. for assessment 1657, Jan. 1660-1, 1673-80, 1689-90; sheriff, Yorks. 1658-Feb. 1660, commr. for militia 1659, Mar. 1660; dep. lt. (N. Riding) 1685-Feb. 1688, Oct. 1688-d., of militia horse by 1688, col. of militia ft. ?1689-d.2
Biography

The Yorkshire Bourchiers were descended from an illegitimate son of the second Lord Berners. They acquired Beningbrough from the crown in 1556, and Bourchier’s great-grandfather was returned for Scarborough in 1586. His father, who had been imprisoned by Strafford in a dispute concerning enclosures, supported the Parliamentarians during the Civil War. He was returned to the Long Parliament as a recruiter for Ripon and signed the King’s death warrant in 1649.3

Bourchier himself was persuaded by his uncle, Sir Henry Cholmley, to join in Booth’s rising in 1659 ‘on assurance that his father’s offence would be no prejudice to him if he would so assist’. He was described as the only martyr for signing the Yorkshire declaration for a free Parliament in February 1660, and was removed from the shrievalty. At the general election he was defeated at Aldborough, but he was returned to the Convention for Thirsk after a contest. Lord Wharton marked him as a friend, but noted that he was abroad. He played no part in the Convention, and was unable to prevent his father’s exception from the Act of Indemnity, though he died before it became law. On 9 Nov. Cholmley presented his petition against his father’s inclusion in the attainder bill, which was successful; and in 1661 he was granted Beningbrough and all his father’s other lands ‘notwithstanding a proviso in the statute ... that nothing therein contained shall discharge the lands ... from all penalties and forfeitures’. He was even proposed for the order of the Royal Oak, with an estate of £1,000 p.a. Subsequently he devoted his energies to local affairs and to his estates, which he augmented by the purchase of two further manors. He had probably conformed to the Church by 1676 when he was knighted, and in the following year he was restored to the commission of the peace, on which he remained throughout the exclusion crisis. He never stood again, but in 1688 he replied to the lord lieutenant’s questions on the Test Act and Penal Laws:

If I shall be chosen a Member of Parliament I think myself obliged to give my vote according to the reason of the debate of the House of Commons. ... If I shall concern myself in the election of any to serve as a Member of Parliament, I think myself obliged to give my vote for such as shall to the best of my judgment serve the King and kingdom honestly and faithfully.

He was removed from local office but restored in the autumn. He was buried at Newton-on-Ouse on 29 Oct. 1695, the last of the family to sit in Parliament.

Barrington + Frances Strickland. Frances was born in 1624; died in 1676. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: High Sherrif of Northumberland

Notes:

high-sheriff of Northumberland, took a prominent part in the restoration of CHARLED II., and was one of the gentlemen of the town of Newcastle
who raised a sum of money, and sent it to the king, when an exile at Breda, Holland. See Burke's Landed Gentry vol II

Mark + Dorothy Cock. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Birth: Abt 1591, Beningborough, Yorkshire, England
• Death: 5 Dec 1659, London, England

Notes:

regicide; Member of Parliament for Ripon, 1645; one of Charles I's judges, 1648; signed death-warrant; member of Council of State, 1651 and 1652; surrendered as regicide, 1660, but died before settlement of exceptions to Act of Indemnity.

From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bourchier_%28regicide%29
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Sir John Bourchier or Bourcher (c. 1595 – August 1660) was an English parliamentarian, Puritan and one of the regicides of King Charles I.


John Bourchier was the son of William Bourchier of Beningbrough and grandson of Sir Ralph Bourchier. He was probably educated at Christ's College, Cambridge, and was admitted to Gray's Inn in 1609/10. He was knighted in 1609.[1]

In 1625, Bourchier was appointed as a Justice of the Peace for the three Yorkshire Ridings. When Charles dissolved Parliament and sought to raise money through the forced loans in 1627, Sir John was one of those who refused. At the outbreak of the English Civil War, he was arrested and imprisoned in York until 1643. He was elected Member of Parliament for Ripon in 1647; at Pride's Purge, he was one of the MPs permitted to keep his seat in Commons.

As a judge at the trial of King Charles, he was one of the signatories of the King's death warrant. After the Restoration, May 1660, Bourchier was too ill to be tried as a regicide, and died, unrepentant, a few months later.

"During these contests between the two Houses, toufhing the exceptions to be made, Sir John Bourchier, who had been one of the King's judges, and had rendered himself within the time limit by the proclamation, being of a great age and very infirm, was permitted to lodge at a private house belonging to one of his daugheters. In this place he was seized with so dangerous a fit of illness, that those about him who were his nearest relations, despairing of his recovery, and presuming that an acknowledgment from him of his sorrow, for the part he had in the condemnation of the King, might tend to procure some favour to them from those in power, they earnestly pressed him to give them that satisfaction. But he being highly displeased with their request, rose suddenly from his chair, which for some days he had not been able to do without assistance; and receiving fresh vigour from the memory of that action, said, 'I tell you, it was a just act; God and all good men will own it.' And having thus expressed himself, he sat down again, and soon after quietly ended his life."[2]

Bourchier was a great-grandson of Margaret Pole, 8th Countess of Salisbury who had been beheaded by order of King Henry VIII; Charles I was a great-great-grandson of Margaret Tudor-a sister of King Henry VIII. He was the great-great-great-grandson of Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick, who was known as the "Kingmaker" for helping to place both Edward IV and Henry VI upon the throne during the War of the Roses.
"

from http://bcw-project.org/biography/sir-john-bourchier
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Yorkshire Puritan who signed the King's death warrant and died unrepentant before being brought to trial as a regicide.

John Bourchier was the eldest surviving son of William Bourchier of Beningborough in Yorkshire, who was certified a lunatic in 1598, after which Bourchier was brought up under the wardship of his mother and uncle. After attending Cambridge and Gray's Inn, he was knighted in 1619 and appointed Justice of the Peace for all three Yorkshire Ridings in 1625.

A devout Puritan, Bourchier refused to pay the forced loans demanded by King Charles I in 1627, and clashed with the Council of the North in a dispute over royal enclosures in the Forest of Galtres near York in 1633, for which he was heavily fined. When King Charles summoned the Yorkshire gentry to attend him on Heworth Moor in June 1642, Bourchier argued violently with the Royalist Lord Savile. On the outbreak of civil war, he was arrested and imprisoned at York until June 1643. He made his way to Hull, where he was involved in the arrest of Sir John Hotham and his son.

In the spring of 1647, Bourchier was elected MP for Ripon and was one of the Members allowed to retain their seats after Pride's Purge in 1648. He sat as one of the King's judges and signed the death warrant. During the Commonwealth, he was active on various committees and was appointed a Trier and Ejector in 1654. Too ill to be brought to trial as a regicide, Bourchier died unrepentant in August 1660.
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John married Anne Rolfe in 1617 in Hadley, Suffolk, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]