On his return to Westminster he took the chair for an estate bill. He spent the Christmas recess in Dorset, where he was reported as speaking ‘very disrespectfully’ of Clarendon. Charles was so much impressed that he personally ordered an augmentation to Churchill’s somewhat dubious arms, on the grounds of his war service and his ‘present loyalty as a Member of the House of Commons’. Nevertheless, after the autumn recess he served on the committee for the execution of those under attainder, and was among those sent to the King to ask for the return of Vane and Lambert for this purpose. It was under Bennet’s patronage that he first appeared at Court and became one of the government managers in the Commons, while Lord Wharton seems to have regarded him as a moderate. Accordingly he attached himself to the rising interest of Sir Henry Bennet, who observed that he ‘spoke confidently and often, and upon some occasions seemed to have credit in the House’, though but ‘of ordinary condition and mean fortunes’. Churchill received no encouragement from Clarendon, possibly owing to the absence in Guernsey of Sir Hugh Pollard, who was expected to manage the west country Members. He also took the chair for the bill to reduce to 3 per cent the interest payable on loans to Cavaliers, and helped to manage conferences on the corporations bill and the bill of pains and penalties. As chairman of the committee of inquiry into a seditious pamphlet attacking the former measure, he reported on 15 July that William Prynne had admitted responsibility. Though in the earlier sessions of the Cavalier Parliament there is some possibility of confusion with John Churchill I, he was probably appointed to all the committees of major political significance, including those for the corporations and uniformity bills. But at Westminster he was quick to make his mark. He took little interest in his constituency alone among its four Members he made no contribution to the cost of rebuilding the harbour bridge. Although called to the bar in 1652, as a Cavalier he was forbidden to practise but he is not known to have engaged in royalist conspiracy during the Interregnum, living quietly with his wife’s relatives until his father’s death.4Ĭhurchill was returned for Weymouth in 1661 as a follower of the Earl of Bristol. Churchill himself saw service with the King’s forces in the west until wounded in the arm in December 1645. During the Civil War his father, who had resigned his Chancery post to his cousin (Sir) John Churchill, was active as commissioner of array, compounding for £440 in 1646 on property valued at £245 p.a. John’s during the period of Laud’s greatest munificence to the college but a few years later, as a law student, he was haled before the Privy Council for publicly drinking confusion to the Archbishop. Churchill himself became an undergraduate at St. His father studied law at the Middle Temple, and became deputy registrar of Chancery, in which capacity he acted as jackal, and later Judas, to Bacon. for settlement 1662-9 clerk-comptroller of the green cloth 1664-d.3īiography Churchill constructed for himself an impressive pedigree, but he was in fact the grandson of a Dorset copyholder. for loyal and indigent officers, Dorset 1662, dep. of Sir John Drake† of Ashe, Musbury, Devon, 8s. of John Churchill of Wootton Glanville, Dorset by 1st w. Son of John Churchill, of Wootton Glanville and Sarah Churchillįather of Henry Churchill Winston Churchill Winston Churchill Arabella Churchill, Royal Mistress of James II John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough and 16 others Admiral George Churchill, MP General Charles Churchill, MP Dorothy Churchill Mountjoy Churchill Jasper Churchill Theobald Churchill Mary Churchill Barbara Churchill Anne Hyde Helen Churchill Barbara Churchill Henricus Churchill Anne Churchill Winston Churchill Elizabeth Churchill and Henrietta Churchill « lessīrother of Margaret Bartlett Joseph Churchill Mary Scovile Sarah Collins William Sampson Churchill, of Dorchester and 5 others Elizabeth Buckler Thomas Churchill John Churchill Anne Spencer and Josiah Churchill « lessĬHURCHILL, Winston (1620-88), of Minterne Magna, Dorset and Whitehall.īap. St.Martins-in-the-fields, London nx to son "Cavalier Colonel", "Cavalier Colonel Churchill"
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