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 126 WHARTON. gata, Lfmdf»D, 8 April 1622. He d. 26 March 1625, aged 70, aod was bur. in iba family Tault at Healaugh. Will pr. at York, 1626. Inq, p. mori^^) IV. 1625. 4, Philip (Wharton), Baron Wharton, grandson and h., beiug lat a. and h. of Sir Thomaa Wharton, of Eaaby, oo. York, by Philadelphia, (*>) da. of Robert (Carvt), let Earl ov Mommouth, which Thomaa (aometime of Gaioa Coll, Cambridge, knighted 26 April 1611, and who d. v.p. 17 April 1622, being bur. at Baaby, aged 84) waa 2d(«) but only aurv. a. of the kce Baron. He waa b. 8 April 1618 ; matric. at Oxford (Bx. Coll.) 8 March 1626/6 ; and Mue. to tKe peerage, 26 Maroli 1625, being sum. to pari, from 8 Nov. (1689) 15 Car. I. to 19 May (1685) 1 Jac. II, He waa a pronounced Puritan, and took an active part for the Pari, in the Civil War ; waa one of the 16 '* popular " noblemen (<>) to treat with the Soota at Ripon in Sep., and at London in Nov. 1640, aa alao in July 1646 ; was one of " the commanden "(*) in the armiea of the Oommonwealth,(0 being. 20 Oct 1642, in the battle of fidgehill, at the head of hia raiment, all of whom, however, ran away.(f} On the nomination of Ptu-t. he waa, in 1642, L.-Lieut« of the oountiea of Lancaster and Buckingham, and in 1644 of Westmorland ; Speaker of the Houae of Lords, 27 May 1642 and 26 Feb. 1645, it being voted in pari., 1 Dea 1645, Westminster Assembly of Divines by whom, in 1648, 2%e Shorter Oateehum waa drawn up. He was sum. to Cromwell's "House of Lords," 10 Deo. 1657,0) ^ also 27 Jan. 1658/9 to Richard Cromwell's pari. At the Reatoration he was '<)ne of the cavalcade to eacort the King on his landing. He was imprisoned ^ the Tower, 16 Feb. 1676/7 to 29 July following, for declaring the Long i*arL dissolved by its fifteen months' prorogntiou. He waa suspected of fraud in promoting the pa«4iiig uf the " JlaUa* Oorpui " Act, and of being concerned in some of the many plots of that period. He was one of the first to declare for William III., to whom, in Feb. 1688/9, he wa» P.C. He m., firstly (settlement 20 Sep. 16812), Elizabeth, da. and h. of Sir Rowland Wamdisford, of PickhUl, CO. York, Attorney Gen. of the Court of Wards, by Catherine, da. of Thomas Wbhtwobth, of North Elmsall, in that county. She, who was living 10 Oct. 1685, d. s.p.m., and was bur, at Kirkby Stephen. Ho fA., secondly, 7 Sep. 1637, at Wiucnendon, Bucks, Jane, da. and h. of Arthur QoouwiN, of Wiudiendon afad., and of Wooburn in that county, by Jane, da. of Uidiard ( Wknman), 1st Vjsooumt Wknuan OP TUAif, [I.]. She, who was bap. 28 Feb. 1618 at Wooburn, d. thei-e 21 and was bur. 28 April 1658, at Winchendou. He m., thirdly, 4 Aug, 1661, at Littlecot, Wilts, Anne,(l^) widow of Col. Edward Popuau, da. of Willtiiuj Cark, of Fernihurst, {^) In this, the yearly value of his estates is given as (but) £484 7s. 4d., but his grandson, the 4th I^ord, is said, when of age in 1634, to have inherited something under £8,000 a year. (*>) They were m. 11 April 1611, at St. Margaret's, Westm. She was living as a widow, 10 Oct. 1685. (") His elder br., Sir Qeorge Wharton, who wi. Anne, da. of John (Mauners), Karl of Kutlaud, d. v.p. and 8.p., 8 Nov. 1609, being (as was his antagonist) slain, near Islington, in a duel with Sir James Stewart. {^) See their names in vol. iii, p. 286, note '' b," tub ** Essex." («) See lint of them in vol. i, p. 299, note *' d," tub <* Bedford." (0 In Peacock'a ^* Army lists of Uonndbeads," &c., 1642 (p. 61), appears, 11 June 1642, "Philip, Lord Wharton, Baron of Scarborough, Lord General of Ireland," but this designation of him as ** Baron of Scarbonnigh '* is apparently incoirect (<) The names of the officers of this |$allant [!j troop are given in Lipscomb's Buckf (vol. i, pp. f 45*548), where, also, is his own verboae account of the flight, as narrated by him to the House of Lords. According to Wood's Athetue, he hid himself in a saw pit after this liattle, which appeara to luive been his sole military achievement. {^) Whitelock, p. 188. (0 See vol. ii, p. 81, note <*c," iub *'Buniell," for a list of the 62 members thereof. (k In the elaborate account of "Kerr of Fernihi:st" by "S * * *," [t.e., R. R Stoddart, Lyon Clerk Depute], in the Oentalot/itt, 1st series, vol. ii, pp. 282-289, no such person appears. Possibly, however, ** William Kerr, alia$ Kirkaldy, of Grange," is meant. He (who is omitted in Wood's Dovylae) was next yr. br. to Andrew, 1st liord Jedbun;h [S.], both being elder brothers (of the Imlf blood) to Robert Kerr olhervHai Oarr, the well known Barl of Somerset, '
 * ' that Lord Wharton be made an KarL"(^) He was one of the Lay Members of the