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John Melhuish was an English merchant and politician. He was a Member of Parliament for Truro, Cornwall 1554 to 1555. [1]
John Melhuish was a tin merchant from Truro. After a municipal career as a Mayor of Truro he was elected to Parliament along with Nicholas Randall. [1] In 1553 they aligned with Queen Mary and voted against the Protestant opposition to the Crown. [1] In 1554 Melhuish abandoned Parliament without a licence and evaded summons to the King's Bench. [1] For three years in a row, 1555 to end of 1557, he was fined for contempt of court in absentia. [1] Officers of the Duchy of Cornwall pressed their own charges against Melhuish. [1] Bankrupted, he fled his home town and sought protection from his creditors, which was granted by the Crown in 1558. [1] He settled near Buckfastleigh in Devon, styled himself "late of Truro" and retired from politics. [1]
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Sir Arthur Champernowne was an English politician, high sheriff and soldier who lived at Dartington Hall in Devon, England.
Sir Roger Cholmeley was Lord Chief Justice of the Court of King's Bench from 1552 to 1553. From 1535 to 1545 he was Recorder of London and served in the House of Commons. He is possibly best remembered for his endowment to found a free grammar school, Highgate School, at London.
The Vyvyans are a prominent Cornish family who were members of Parliament, baronets, and landowners in Penwith and Kerrier since the 15th century. The Vyvyan family have held the large Trelowarren Estate in the parish of Mawgan-in-Meneage in west Cornwall for nearly 600 years. They moved to Trelowarren in 1427 from Trevegean, St. Buryan when they acquired Trelowarren through marriage to the daughter of Honora Ferrers, heiress to the estate of the previous owner, Richard Ferrers. Trelowarren's first garden is recorded in 1428. In the English Civil War (1642–1651) the Vyvyans were royalist supporters. Sir Richard Vyvyan (1613–1724), 1st Baronet, was given a large equestrian portrait of King Charles I (1600–1649), a copy of the famous painting by Anthony van Dyck, by King Charles II (1630–1685) in recognition of his support.
Sir Robert Broke SL was an English judge, politician and legal writer. Although a landowner in rural Shropshire, he made his fortune through more than 20 years' service to the City of London. MP for the City in five parliaments, he served as Speaker of the House of Commons in 1554. He is celebrated as the author of one of the Books of authority. A prominent religious conservative, he founded a notable recusant dynasty. His surname is also rendered Brooke, and occasionally Brook, which are, for modern readers, better indicators of pronunciation.
John Arundell, Esquire, of Trerice in Cornwall, later given the epithet "Jack for the King", was a member of an ancient Cornish gentry family, who as a Royalist during the Civil War served King Charles I as Governor of Pendennis Castle, Falmouth. In 1646 he retained the castle in a heroic manner during a five-month-long siege by Fairfax, during which his forces were reduced by hunger to eating their horses, and finally achieved an honourable surrender
John Rolle (1598–1648) was a Turkey Merchant and also served as MP for the Rolle family's controlled borough of Callington, Cornwall, in 1626 and 1628 and for Truro, Cornwall, in 1640 for the Short Parliament and in November 1640 for the Long Parliament. He supported the Parliamentarian side in the English Civil War.
Hannibal Vyvyan, sometimes spelled Vivian, of Trelowarren in Cornwall, was an English Member of Parliament (MP).
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William St. Aubyn, of Mawgan in Meneage, Cornwall, was an English politician.
Thomas Martin (1521-1593), of Winterbourne St. Martin, Dorset; Steeple Morden, Cambridgeshire, and London, was an English lawyer, controversialist and politician. He was prominent in the trial of Thomas Cranmer.
George Leigh or Lye was an English politician.
Nicholas Snell, of Kington St Michael, Wiltshire, was an English landowner and politician.
Richard Cornwall was an English politician.
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