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 646 APPENDIX G WHARTON [17] Philip Wharton,(^) s. and h. of Sir Thomas W., of Easby, co. York, by Philadelphia, da. of Robert (Carey), ist Earl of Monmouth; sue. his grandfather, as 4th Baron Wharton, 26 Mar. 1625. He was one of the " Commanders in the Armies of the Commonwealth,"('') and was sum. to the "Other House," 10 Dec. 1657, but never took his seat.('^) For fuller particulars see " Wharton," Barony, cr. 1 545. WHITELOCKE [21] Bulstrode WhitelockEjC*) of Fawley Court, Bucks,(') and Buckingham House, Chelsea, Midx.,Q only s. and h. of Sir James W., Justice of the King's Bench (who d. 22 June 1632), by Elizabeth, ist da. of Edward Bulstrode, of Hedgeley Bulstrode, Bucks, by Cecil, da. of Sir John Croke, of Chilton, in the same co. He was h. 6 Aug. 1605, in Fleet Street, London; ed. at Merchant Taylors' school 1615-20; matric. Oxford (St. John's Coll.) 8 Dec. 1620; called to the Bar, at the Middle Temple, 1626. M.P. for Stafford 1626; for Great Marlow, in the Long Pari., 23 Nov. 1640; for Bucks 5 Oct. 1654, 20 Aug. 1656, and 7 May 1659 to 16 Mar. 1659/60. Recorder of Abingdon 1631, of Oxford 1647, and of Bristol 1652. High Steward of Oxford 13 June 1649; Gov. of West- minster school 26 Sep. 1649; and Gov. of the Almshouses of Windsor Castle 2 Sep. 1654. Chairman of the Committee for trial of Lord Strafford, Nov. 1640.(8) Dep. Lieut, of Bucks 1642; Lay Member of the Assembly of (^) He bore for arms: Sable a sleeve of Silver; with an augmentation (gr. 23 Apr. 1553) of "a border engrailed Gold remplised with lyons legs in saltire rased Gules armed Azure." {Genealoght, N.S., vol. viii, p. 127). (•>) Wood relates that "at Edghill battel . . . colonel Philip lord Wharton . . . after all his men had run away, hid himself in a saw-pit." [Athenae, vol. iii, p. 177). This appears to have been his sole military achievement! (•=) When the House was called over, 2 Feb. 1657/8, he was one of the eleven " Lords " who " being called Did not appeare nor any excuse made for them." (^) He bore for arms : Azure a cheveron engrailed between three falcons Gold. {Visitation of Buch, 1634). (') The manor house at Fawley was occupied by Sir John Byron's regt. of Horse, in Nov. 1642, when the whole place was ransacked and pillaged, and many valuable books and MSS. were wantonly destroyed. Whitelocke writes: "Sir John Biron gave order that they should commit no Insolence at my House, nor plunder my goods; but Soldiers are not easily govern'd. . . . Divers Writings of Consequence, and Books which were left in my Study, some of them they tore in Pieces, others they burnt to light their Tobacco, and some they carried away with them to my extreme great Loss and Prejudice. . . . They broke down my Park Pales, killed most of my Deer, and let out all the rest . . . and so they parted." {Afemorials, p. 65). (') This historic mansion had previously belonged to George Villiers, the great Duke of Buckingham, and Whitelocke obtained a 21 years' lease of the premises from Pari, in 1650. {Patent Roll, 2 Mar. 1649/50). For an interesting account of the house and its various owners, see Lysons' Environs, vol. ii, pp. 86-88. (8) Lord Strafford, alluding to the Committee, is reported to have said " that