The memoirs and memorials of Sir Hugh Cholmley of Whitby, 1600-1657
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The memoirs and memorials of Sir Hugh Cholmley of Whitby, 1600-1657
（Record series (Yorkshire Archaeological Society), v. 153）
Yorkshire Archaeological Society in association with The Boydell Press, 2000
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At head of title: Yorkshire Archaeological Society
Includes bibliography and index
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Adds significantly to the small number of personal records that have come down to us of what it was like to live through the Civil Wars. TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT (John Morrill) Sir Hugh Cholmley played many roles in an extraordinary life, transforming himself from a spendthrift play-boy into a successful estate manager, local militia officer, and member of parliament for Scarborough. He became identified with a parliamentary group of rebellious Yorkshire gentry who conspired to kill Charles I's chief minister, the earl of Strafford, but after holding Scarborough's harbour and castle for Parliament he suddenly and controversially defected to the Royalist cause; after the king's defeat he endured years in exile before returning to a ruined estate in Yorkshire. Dr Binns' book is the first to bring together Sir Hugh's surviving writings, which bear witness to some of the most momentous events in English history: of principal importance are his autobiography and his three Civil War essays on the tragic fate of the Hothams, the bloody battle on Marston Moor, and the great siege of Scarborough Castle.
JACK BINNS is former history master at Scarborough Sixth Form College, and Scarborough in the Civil War period has been the focus of much of his research as a local historian.
Table of Contents
- Preface: the life and works of Sir Hugh Cholmley. The memoirs: introduction - purpose, history, the manuscript, historical value, text
- the memorials: introduction, text - "some observations and memorialls touching the Hothams", "memorialls touching the Battle of Yorke", "memorialls tuching Scarbrough". Appendices: Sir Hugh Cholmley, 1600-1657 - chronology
- writ of extent for Cholmley estate, 11 November 1626
- recovery deed listing Cholmley properties, 5 September 1638
- Cholmley's pre-war sales of land in Whitby town from October 1638 to September 1640
- Cholmley's post-war sales of land in Whitby town from February 1649 to October 1657
- Cholmley's pre-war sales of land in Robin Hood's Bay, Fyling Thorpe, Raw and Dales from August 1649 to November 1657
- Whitby town properties recorded in Cholmley lease book
- letter from Sir Hugh Cholmley to Scarborough bailiffs, 1 February 1626
- letter from sir Hugh Cholmley to Viscount Wentworth, Lord deputy in Ireland, May 1635
- copy of Sir Hugh Cholmley's last will, 19 November 1657.
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