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Sir John Northcote, 1st Baronet

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Will of THOMAS COWARD, of Wells, Somerset, gent., dated 7 Jan. 1619, proved 27 Apr. 1621, by Mary Coward the relict, & Thomas Coward the son. To be buried at St Cuthberts. To my younger son William Coward, the mansion in Chamberlain Street, where Hugh Halswell, Esq'., now dwelleth.
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Effigies of Sir John Northcote, 1st Baronet (1599–1676) and his wife Grace Halswell (died 1675). Detail from base of monument to his father John Northcote (1570–1632), Newton St Cyres Church. On a cartouche above are shown the arms of Northcote
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1679–1689. Tynte was a cousin of Grace Halswell, being the son of Jane Halswell (died 1650) (sole heiress of Rev. Hugh Halswell (died 1672) of Halswell), the wife of John Tynte, whose inheritance became the manor of
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Grace Halswell (died 1675), wife of Sir John Northcote, 1st Baronet (1599–1676). Detail from her kneeling effigy at base of monument to her father-in-law John Northcote (1570–1632), Newton St Cyres Church
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he took a leading role in organising a petition from Devon to the Speaker that the vacant seats should be filled. In the Convention Parliament of 1660 he was elected both for Devon and for
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Vivian, Lt.Col. J.L., (Ed.) The Visitations of the County of Devon: Comprising the Heralds' Visitations of 1531, 1564 & 1620, Exeter, 1895, p. 582, pedigree of Northcote
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Vivian, Lt.Col. J.L., (Ed.) The Visitations of the County of Devon: Comprising the Heralds' Visitations of 1531, 1564 & 1620, Exeter, 1895, p.582, pedigree of Northcote
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Sir John Northcote, 1st Baronet (1599–1676), detail of his kneeling effigy at base of monument he erected to his father John Northcote (1570–1632) in
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was published in 1887. However, its authenticity was challenged on the grounds that it covered a period before Sir John had a seat in the House.
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Northcote was kept captive until the autumn of 1644, when he was exchanged, and resumed his Parliamentary seat in May 1645. He subscribed to the
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Susanna Northcote (born 1633), married in 1653, as his 2nd wife, Col. Robert Fortescue (1617–1677), 2nd son of Hugh Fortescue (1593–1663) of
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Northcote married Grace Halswell (died 1675), a daughter and heiress of Hugh Halswell (died 1626) of Chamberlain Street,
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Notebook of Sir John Northcote, containing Memoranda of Proceedings during the first session of the Long Parliament, 1640
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Cobbett's Parliamentary history of England, from the Norman Conquest in 1066 to the year 1803
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Northcote's Regiment at the British Civil War Project (archived at the Wayback Machine).
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Victoria County History, Somerset, Volume 6, 1992, Goathurst: Manors, pp. 47–49
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in December 1648, but returned to the House of Commons once more as Member for
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in all three Parliaments of the Protectorate. In the last of these, during
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by his wife Mary Rolle, daughter of Robert Rolle (died 1633) of
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John Northcote (born 1629), 2nd son, married Catherine Foljambe.
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Members of the Parliament of England (pre-1707) for Barnstaple
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Halswell Northcote (born 1639), 4th son, married Mary Crooke.
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Elizabeth Northcote (born 1638), married Thomas Pointingdon.
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Helms, M. W., biography of Sir John Northcote published in
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Members of the Parliament of England (pre-1707) for Devon
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at various times between 1640 and 1676. He supported the
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Having Presbyterian sympathies, on the outbreak of the
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William II Northcote (born 1648), married Alice Leigh
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Newton St Cyres
Member of Parliament
Barnstaple
Member of Parliament
Devon
Member of Parliament
Ashburton
High Sheriff of Devon
Arthur
John Northcote
Exeter College, Oxford

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impaling
House of Commons
Parliamentarian
English Civil War
John Northcote
Newton St Cyres
Crediton
King's Nympton
Domesday Book
East Down
Heraldic Visitations
Crediton
Exeter College, Oxford
Middle Temple
Member of Parliament

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