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 626 APPENDIX G 20, and was bur. 16 May 1664, in Cranley Church,(*) "being about 63 years." M.I. His will dat. 5 Mar. 1663/4, pr. 5 July 1664. His widow d. 27 Aug. 1679, and was bur. there, aged 78. M.I. Her will dat. 26 Feb. 1673/4, published 24 Aug. 1679, pr. 3 Dec. 1679. PACKE [51] Christopher PackEjC") of Basinghall St'r., in the City of London, and Prestwold Manor, co. Leicester, s. of Thomas P., of Ketter- ing, Northants, by Katherine his wife; b. about 1598. He amassed a large fortune in the woollen trade; a freeman of the Drapers' Company, Master in 1648; Gov. of the Company of Merchant Adventurers 1657; and a Commissioner of the Customs. Commissioner for Compounding with Delinquents 8 Feb. 1646/7; Alderman of Cripplegate Ward 1647; Sheriff of London and Midx. 1649; Lord Mayor 1655. He was knighted at Whitehall, by the Lord Protector, 20 Sep. 1655. M.P. for the City of London 1656-57. On 23 Feb. 1656/7 he brought forward his celebrated " Address and Remonstrance," desiring Cromwell to assume the title of King and to restore the House of Lords. ('') He was sum. to the " Other House," 10 Dec. 1657, and took his seat, as "Christopher Lord Pack," 20 Jan. 1657/8; he also sat in Richard Cromwell's House of Lords. At the Restoration he was included in the Act of Indemnity, 29 Aug. 1660, but was forbidden to hold any public office. He »/., istly, Jane, da. of Thomas Newman, of Newbury, Berks, merchant draper, by Anne, da. of John Kendrick, Mayor of Reading; she d. s.p. He m., 2ndly, before 1634, Anne, ist da. of Simon Edmonds, of Howell, co. Lincoln, Sheriff of London in 1646, by Mary, da. of Thomas Boothby, of London; she d. in 1 657, leaving issue. He m., 3rdly, Elizabeth, widow of ( — ) Herring, Alderman of London, da. of ( — ) Richards; she d. s.p. He d. 27 May 1682, and was bur. in Prestwold Church, aged about 84. M.I. (») " His death was as much lamented and regretted as perhaps any man's ever was, of his rank; and his funeral was attended by such a concourse of people of all conditions, as even to give some umbrage to the King, then at Hampton Court. I have been told by some who saw it, that the train of people who followed his hearse, in coaches, on horseback, and afoot, held from Clandon almost to Guildford near three miles. He was buried at Cranley where the ancient seat of the family had been." {Ons/ow MSS., as above, p. 484). (•>) He bore for arms: Quarterly Sable and Gold with a cinqfoil Ermine in the quarter. {Visitation of Leicestershire, 1682). (') " Alderman Pack, one of the new made knights, for the good service he did the protector and his family by his presenting the bill for kingship: it is said he obtained from the protector ... a discharge from an account of sixteen thousand pounds, which he and the rest of the then commissioners were liable to make good, for so much run-out-of cash, in the time of their commission for the customs." {Harl. Miscellany, p. 408).