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 648 APPENDIX G Alderman of London and Col. of the " Orange Regt." of Trained-bands, da. of Bigley Carleton, of London, grocer. He d'. 28 July, and was bur. 6 Aug. 1675, at Fawley.(^) Will dat. 17 May 1675, P^"- 1° Nov. 1676, by Dame Mary his relict. ('') She was bur. 31 July 1684, at Chilton. WOLSELEY [29] Charles Wolseley,('=) of Wolseley, co. Stafford, s. and h. of Sir Robert W., of Morton, in the same co., Bart., by Mary, 2nd da. of Sir George Wroughton, of Wilcot, Wilts; b. about 1629; sue. his father as 2nd Bart. 21 Sep. 1646. M.P. for co. Oxford, in the " Barebones " Pari., 4 July 1653; for co. Stafford 12 July 1654, and 20 Aug. 1656; and for Stafford, in the Convention Pari., 30 Mar. 1660. Member of the Lord Protector's Council,('*) with a salary of £1,000 per ann., 16 Dec. 1653, and 13 June 1657. He was sum. to the " Other House," 10 Dec. 1657, and took his seat, as "Charles Lord Wolseley," 20 Jan. 1657/8; he also sat in Richard Cromwell's House of Lords, signed the proclamation in which he was declared Protector, 3 Sep. 1658, and was one of his Privy Council. At the Restoration he was pardoned, but lived in retirement, " occupying himself with gardening." Hew?., 12 May 1648, at Hanworth, Midx., Anne,(°) 5th da. of William (Fiennes), ist Viscount Save and Sele, by Elizabeth, 6th da. of John Temple, of Stowe, Bucks. He ^. 9 Oct. 1 7 14, and was bur. at Colwich, co. Stafford, aged 85. M.L {") Wood states that he was bur. "in an isle joyning to the church of Fawley, which he had built for a burying-place for his family." {Jthenae, vol. iii, p. 1046). A portrait of Whitelocke is in the National Portrait Gallery. ('') He desires to be hdr. "without any pompe or much charge in the burying place of my family in Fawley Church in Bucks." In the Probate Act Book for 1676 he is described as " Dns. Bulstrode Whitelocke, Miles, nuper de Chilton Parke in Com. Wilts." Chilton Park was a small estate in the parish of Chilton Foliat, near Hungerford, "once the property of a near relative," and purchased with his third wife's money. (') He bore for arms: Silver a talbot passant Gules. (d^ " A gentleman who came something late into play on this side, being con- verted from a cavalier in a good hour. He became one of the little parliament, which he helped to break, and to set the protector on the throne ; for which worthy service he was, as he well deserved, taken in to be one of his council ; a man of constancy and certainty in his principles, much like the wind." {Second Narrative of the late Parliament). («) Their 5th da., Bridget, was h. at Isleworth, Midx., 10 Mar. 1657/8. (Lysons' Environs, vol. iii, p. 114).