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Sir William Fermor, 1st Baronet

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Probably from a private grudge, efforts were made by two Northamptonshire gentlemen, John Willoughby and John Digby, on different occasions, to ruin his character with the government. Fermor was summoned before the council, but it having been proved that the reports against him were slanderous, and
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for his estates to the amount of £1,400, being allowed, however, to collect his own rents on condition of paying them in to the use of the government. In 1651, the authorities having discovered that Fermor had four or five years before married Mary, daughter of
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sharing in a double return. The matter was passed to the House to consider, but Fermor died before a resolution could be reached, after which the House ruled that Crew had been duly elected. Fermor was also appointed
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In 1655 a further charge was brought against Fermor of destroying the Protector's deer and encouraging deer-stealers, but, though summoned again before the council, no punishment is recorded.
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in 1603, and died in 1640, when Dame Anna applied for the wardship of her son, who was underage. William was born at Cokayne House,
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Collins ascribes his death to smallpox, caught while assisting in the ceremonies of the knights of the Bath at the coronation;(
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in 1660, but died before a decision could be reached on whether he or another candidate had been elected.
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for Northamptonshire in 1642, and served as a captain of the cavalry with the royalist forces at the
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and forced to apologise to Fermor, while he was commended for his behaviour "as a man of honour".
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The year after his father's death, on 6 September 1641, William was created a baronet, by King
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that Willoughby and Digby had each challenged him to fight a duel, they were sent to
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or Lempster in 1692, while his son and successor, Thomas, became the first
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Fermor lived peaceably, though with greatly diminished means, at
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A Major Farmer was sent in 1659 with a troop of horse to secure
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Fermor's fortunes revived. In May 1660 he took his seat on the
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Argent, a fess sable between three lion's heads erased gules
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Royalist military personnel of the English Civil War
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Charles I, 1640–1, page 218 212:Thomas Wenman, 2nd Viscount Wenman 14: 626: 501:Dictionary of National Biography 476: 442:, Dom. Charles II, 1661, page 47 165: 445: 429: 223:. On 18 April he was created a 210:on the interest of his cousin, 31:Sir William Fermor, 1st Baronet 615:Military personnel from London 585:People from the City of London 455:, p. 371 cites Collins's 413: 401: 385: 369: 353: 328: 289: 273: 193: 1: 325:, first series xxvi. folio 51 266: 186:, but failed in the attempt, 56: 492:Fermor, William (1623?-1661) 394:, p. 371 cites: Baker, 317:, p. 371 cites: Dring, 298:, p. 371 cites: Burke, 249:Edward, 2nd Viscount Campden 231:. Sir William was buried at 100: 7: 51:restoration of the monarchy 10: 631: 551: 538: 533: 526: 238: 115:Charles, Prince of Wales 93:. He matriculated from 488:Emily Tennyson Bradley 300:Dorm. and Ext. 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Index


Royalist
English Civil War
restoration of the monarchy
Hatton Fermor
Easton Neston
William Cockayne
lord mayor of London
Richard Fermor
James I
Old Broad Street
St Peter le Poer
Exeter College, Oxford
Charles I
Privy Councillor
Charles, Prince of Wales
commissioner of array
Battle of Edgehill
Easton Neston
Commonwealth
compound
Hugh Perry
Viscount Camden
the Tower
Carlisle
George Monck
Richard Elton
Restoration
privy council
Brackley

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