Henry Mildmay 1593-1668

Around 1593 Henry Mildmay was born to Humphrey Mildmay [aged 38].

On 9th August 1613 [his father] Humphrey Mildmay [aged 58] died.

On 9th August 1617 Henry Mildmay [aged 24] was knighted at Kendal [Map].

In April 1619 Henry Mildmay [aged 26] and Anne Halliday [aged 18] were married.

In April 1620 Henry Mildmay [aged 27] was appointed Master of the Jewel Office.

On 8th August 1620 Henry Mildmay [aged 27] entered at Gray's Inn.

In 1621 Henry Mildmay [aged 28] was elected MP Maldon.

In 1623 [his son] William Mildmay was born to Henry Mildmay [aged 30] and [his wife] Anne Halliday [aged 22].

In 1628 Henry Mildmay [aged 35] was elected MP Maldon.

On 21st April 1641 Henry Mildmay [aged 48] voted against the attainder of Thomas Wentworth 1st Earl Strafford [aged 48].

In March 1657 [his wife] Anne Halliday [aged 56] died.

On 26th April 1659 Robert Brooke [aged 22] and [his daughter] Anne Mildmay were married.

On 15th May 1660 Henry Mildmay [aged 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 15th May 1660 Henry Mildmay [aged 67] was captured by Heneage Finch 3rd Earl Winchilsea [aged 32] at Rye [Map].

On 1st July 1661 Henry Mildmay [aged 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.

Samuel Pepys' Diary. 27th January 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 [aged 63] and Sir H. Mildmay [aged 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 [aged 31].

On 31st March 1664 Henry Mildmay [aged 71] was issued with a warrant for his transportation to Tangier [Map], but on account of his feeble health he was allowed a servant.

Samuel Pepys' Diary. 14th 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, Essex, the house where Sir H. Mildmay [aged 72] died, and now Sir Robert Brookes [aged 28] lives, having bought it of the Duke of Yorke [aged 31], it being forfeited to him. A fine seat, but an old-fashioned house; and being not full of people looks desolately.

On 7th January 1666 [his daughter] Anne Mildmay died.

In 1668 Henry Mildmay [aged 75] died at Tangier [Map].

[his daughter] Mary Mildmay was born to Henry Mildmay and Anne Halliday.

[his son] Henry Mildmay was born to Henry Mildmay and Anne Halliday.

[his daughter] Anne Mildmay was born to Henry Mildmay and Anne Halliday. She married 26th April 1659 Robert Brooke.

[his father] Humphrey Mildmay and Mary Capell were married.

[his daughter] Susan Mildmay was born to Henry Mildmay and Anne Halliday.