John Ashburnham (Royalist)
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John Ashburnham was an English courtier, diplomat and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1640 and 1667. He supported the Royalist cause in the English Civil War and wa
John Ashburnham around 1630, portrait by Daniel Mytens.
Monument to John Ashburnham and his two wives by Thomas Burman
John Poulett, 1st Baron Poulett, of Hinton St George, Somerset, was an English sailor and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1610 and 1621 and was later raised to the peerage.
John Ashburnham (Royalist)
…no pardon (13 October). He was constantly harassed. He had acquired an estate by his second marriage with the Dowager Lady Poulett (1649) (Widow of John Poulett, 1st Baron Poulett), and Charles II gave him permission to stay in England to preserve it. Royalists, however, suspected his fidelity, and (March 1650) in a memorial to…
John, First Lord Poulett, painting by anonymous artist (British School), c.1640.
Elizabeth Poulet, 1616, by Robert Peake the Elder, Denver Art Museum