In a contemporary pamphlet the prosecution is described as 'so unjust that the L.
EBWIN DICTIONARY TRIAL
He was indicted for perjury, and a true bill found against him in November 1691 by the grand jury of Ossulston hundred in Middlesex but upon his trial in the following February he was acquitted. In the following year Edwin was the victim of a malicious prosecution conducted by Sir Bartholomew Shower, afterwards recorder of London. He was also colonel of a regiment of the trained bands but in March 1690, on the churchmen becoming a majority in the court of lieutenancy, Edwin and five other aldermen who held nonconformist opinions, were turned out, and five others belonging to the church party chosen in their places. Besides being an officer of the Artillery Company, he became captain of the regiment of horse volunteers, a corps of four hundred citizens, established in July 1689 and maintained at their own expense, with the king as their colonel and the Earl of Monmouth as lieutenant-colonel. Edwin took a prominent part in the military affairs of the city. Edwin continued to hold the office, to which a salary of 1,000 l. He and six others were appointed by the king, in April 1689, commissioners of excise, but in the following September all were dismissed excepting Edwin and Sir Henry Ashurst, and other wealthy citizens were appointed in their room. 1689, to Tower ward, which he continued to represent until his death. Edwin was elected alderman of the ward of Cheap, in succession to William Kiffen, the baptist minister, who suffered notorious persecution from James II, but he again removed, 22 Oct. In December Edwin, with his colleague and the aldermen of London, attended the Prince of Orange on his entry into London, and took part in February in the proclamation of the king and queen in Cheapside and at the Royal Exchange. In August 1688 Edwin was chosen sheriff of London and Middlesex, entering upon his duties on 11 Oct. It was probably before this that he purchased the considerable estate and mansion of Llanmihangel Plas in Glamorganshire, from Sir Robert Thomas, bart., the last of a long line of manorial lords of that name ( Nicholas, Hist, of Glamorganshire, 1874, p. On the 18th of the following month the king knighted him at Whitehall, and a few weeks later appointed him sheriff of Glamorganshire for the ensuing year ( London Gazette, No. 1687 he was sworn in as alderman of Tower ward, on the direct appointment of the king, in the place of Sir John Chapman, discharged by the royal mandate. This seems to have brought him under the notice of James II, who was anxious to conciliate the dissenters, in order to obtain their help in relaxing the penal laws against the Roman catholics. Edwin was a nonconformist, and very firm in his opinions. He afterwards became a member of the company of Skinners. In 1694, however, he was dismissed from the office of assistant for his continued non-attendance at the court meetings. In 1678 he was admitted a freeman of the Barber-Surgeons' Company by redemption, becoming afterwards an assistant of the company, and master in 1688. His marriage and success in trade (probably as a wool merchant) brought him great wealth. Peter-le-Poor, where his son Samuel was living at the time of his marriage in September 1697 ( Chester, Marriage Licenses, ed. He afterwards appears to have removed to the neighbouring parish of St. 1673 Thomas, 4 July 1676 and Charles, 7 Feb. Helen's, and here his four eldest children were born-Samuel, baptised 12 March 1671 Humphrey, 24 Feb. He began business as a merchant in Great St. Of his two sisters, Mary, the younger, became the wife of Sir Edward Dering, who in 1701 wrote a curious book bewailing her death entitled 'The most excellent Maria, in a brief character of her incomparable virtues and goodness.' Edwin came to London, and in or before 1670 married Elizabeth, the daughter of Samuel Sambrooke, a wealthy London merchant of the ward of Bassishaw, and sister of Sir Jeremy Sambrooke. He was the only son of William Edwin, twice mayor of Hereford, by his wife, Anne, of the family of Mansfield. EDWIN, Sir HUMPHREY (1642–1707), lord mayor of London, descended from the ancient family of Edwin of Herefordshire, was born at Hereford in 1642.
0 kommentar(er)
