Biography of Henry Mildmay 1593-1668
Paternal Family Tree: Mildmay
Around 1593 Henry Mildmay was born to Humphrey Mildmay (age 38).
On 09 Aug 1613 [his father] Humphrey Mildmay (age 58) died.
In Apr 1619 Henry Mildmay (age 26) and Anne Halliday (age 18) were married.
In 1620 Edward Hungerford (age 24) and [his sister-in-law] Margaret Halliday Lady Hungerford were married.
In Apr 1620 Henry Mildmay (age 27) was appointed Master of the Jewel Office.
On 08 Aug 1620 Henry Mildmay (age 27) entered at Gray's Inn.
In 1621 Henry Mildmay (age 28) was elected MP Maldon.
In 1623 [his son] William Mildmay was born to Henry Mildmay (age 30) and [his wife] Anne Halliday (age 22).
On 03 Feb 1624 Henry Mildmay (age 31) was elected MP Westbury.
In 1625 Henry Mildmay (age 32) was elected MP Maldon during the Useless Parliament.
In 1628 Henry Mildmay (age 35) was elected MP Maldon.
In Apr 1640 Henry Mildmay (age 47) was elected MP Maldon during the Short Parliament.
In Nov 1640 Henry Mildmay (age 47) was elected MP Maldon during the Long Parliament.
On 21 Apr 1641 Henry Mildmay (age 48) voted against the attainder of Thomas Wentworth 1st Earl Strafford (age 48).
On 23 Jan 1649 King Charles I of England, Scotland and Ireland (age 48) was tried at Westminster Hall [Map] by Henry Mildmay (age 56). The fifty-nine signatories of his Death Warrant were:
14 Major-General William Goffe
21 Admiral Richard Deane
42 John Jones
45 Major General Charles Fleetwood
54 Gregory Clement
55 John Downes
57 Thomas Scot
58 John Carew
The commissioners who sat at the trial but did not sign the Death Warrant included:
William Monson 1st Viscount Monson (age 50)
James Harington 3rd Baronet (age 41)
The Captain of the Guard was Daniel Axtell (age 27). The guards included Francis Hacker, Matthew Tomlinson (age 31).
The Solicitor-General was John Cook (age 41).
In Mar 1657 [his wife] Anne Halliday (age 56) died.
On 26 Apr 1659 [his son-in-law] Robert Brooke (age 22) and [his daughter] Anne Mildmay were married.
On 15 May 1660 Henry Mildmay (age 67) was ordered to attend the committee appointed to consider Charles II's reception, and give an account of the whereabouts of the crowns, robes, sceptres, and jewels belonging to the king.
After 15 May 1660 Henry Mildmay (age 67) was captured by Heneage Finch 3rd Earl Winchilsea (age 32) at Rye [Map].
On 29 Aug 1660 the Indemnity and Oblivion Act became law. The act was a general pardon for everyone who had committed crimes during the Civil War and Interregnum with the exception of certain crimes such as murder (without a licence granted by King or Parliament), piracy, buggery, rape and witchcraft, and people named in the act such as those involved in the regicide of Charles I.
Henry Mildmay (age 67) was excepted from the Indemnity and Oblivion Act.
James Harington 3rd Baronet (age 52) was exempted. In 1661 his Baronetcy was forfeit for life.
On 01 Jul 1661 Henry Mildmay (age 68) was sentenced and degraded from his honours and titles and to be drawn every year on the anniversary of the king's sentence (27 Jan) upon a sledge through the streets to and under the gallows at Tyburn [Map], with a rope about his neck, and so back to the Tower of London [Map], there to remain a prisoner during his life.
Pepy's Diary. 27 Jan 1662. That being done we went home again. This morning, going to take water upon Tower-hill [Map], we met with three sleddes standing there to carry my Lord Monson (age 63) and Sir H. Mildmay (age 69) and another, to the gallows and back again, with ropes about their necks; which is to be repeated every year, this being the day of their sentencing the King (age 31).
On 31 Mar 1664 Henry Mildmay (age 71) was issued with a warrant for his transportation to Tangier, but on account of his feeble health he was allowed a servant.
Pepy's Diary. 14 May 1665. After dinner my wife and she and Mercer to Thomas Pepys's wife's christening of his first child, and I took a coach, and to Wanstead, the house where Sir H. Mildmay (age 72) died, and now [his son-in-law] Sir Robert Brookes (age 28) lives, having bought it of the Duke of Yorke (age 31), it being forfeited to him. A fine seat, but an old-fashioned house; and being not full of people looks desolately.
On 07 Jan 1666 [his daughter] Anne Mildmay died.
In 1668 Henry Mildmay (age 75) died at Tangier.
[his daughter] Susan Mildmay was born to Henry Mildmay and Anne Halliday.
[his father] Humphrey Mildmay and Mary Capell were married.
[his son] Henry Mildmay was born to Henry Mildmay and Anne Halliday.
[his daughter] Mary Mildmay was born to Henry Mildmay and Anne Halliday.
[his daughter] Anne Mildmay was born to Henry Mildmay and Anne Halliday.
Kings Wessex: Great x 18 Grand Son of King Edmund "Ironside" I of England
Kings Gwynedd: Great x 16 Grand Son of Owain "Great" King Gwynedd
Kings Seisyllwg: Great x 21 Grand Son of Hywel "Dda aka Good" King Seisyllwg King Deheubarth
Kings Powys: Great x 17 Grand Son of Maredudd ap Bleddyn King Powys
Kings England: Great x 10 Grand Son of King Edward "Longshanks" I of England
Kings Scotland: Great x 16 Grand Son of Malcolm III King Scotland
Kings Franks: Great x 14 Grand Son of Louis VII King Franks
Kings France: Great x 12 Grand Son of Louis "Lion" VIII King France
Father: Humphrey Mildmay 9 x Great Grand Son of King Edward "Longshanks" I of England
Great x 2 Grandfather: James Walsingham
Great x 1 Grandfather: William Walsingham
Great x 3 Grandfather: Walter Writtle
Great x 2 Grandmother: Eleanor Writtle
GrandMother: Mary Walsingham 8 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward "Longshanks" I of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Thomas Denny
Great x 3 Grandfather: William Denny
Great x 2 Grandfather: Edmund Denny
Great x 1 Grandmother: Joyce Denny 7 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward "Longshanks" I of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: William Troutbeck
Great x 3 Grandfather: Robert Troutbeck 5 x Great Grand Son of King Edward "Longshanks" I of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Margaret Stanley Baroness Grey Codnor
4 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward "Longshanks" I of England
Great x 2 Grandmother: Mary Troutbeck 6 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward "Longshanks" I of England
Henry Mildmay 10 x Great Grand Son of King Edward "Longshanks" I of England
