Daily entries from the 17th century London diary
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John Crew, born 1598, eldest son of Sir Thomas Crew, Sergeant-at- Law and Speaker of the House of Commons. He sat for Brackley in the Long Parliament. Created Baron Crew of Stene, in the county of ampton, at the coronation of Charles II. He married Jemima, daughter and co-heir of Edward Walgrave (or Waldegrave) of Lawford, Essex. His house was in Lincoln’s Inn Fields. He died December 12th, 1679.
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Description of John Crew(e) and family
from Bryant’s Pepys bio:“[Pepys] often dined at the table of Montagu’s father-in-law, the Presbyterian magnate, John Crewe, at his fine new house in Lincoln’s Inn Fields. Here he was always welcome: the Crewes, for all their greatness, were simple-hearted folk, and with the young members of the family, Lady Montagu and her brothers, Thomas and John, Pepys was almost on terms of equality. As for old John Crewe himself, he was always ready to discuss business or politics with this intelligent, respectful, prudent young man, his son-in-law’s servant and kinsman, as he waited at his bedside or coach door. Only his wife was somewhat of a trial: ‘the same, weak, silly lady as ever’, Pepys found her long after, ‘asking such saintly questions’.”
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Crew, Charles I, and Hinchingbrooke
In 1647, Charles I had been put in the custody of the puritans controlling parliament, and John Crew was one of those responsible for overseeing him in Northamptonshire.
In June, the army snatched the king from parliament’s control, although Crew still may have accompanied him. The captive king, his military controllers and “probably Crew,” all visited Hinchingbrooke, where Crew’s pregnant daughter, Jemima Montagu, was then mistress.
(Source: Claire Tomalin’s “Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self,” 2002, p. 28)
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1648 — A “secluded member” of parliament
Crew was one of the members of parliament who were removed in Pride’s Purge of December 1648. The purge removed members who were not enthusiastic about putting King Charles I on trial.
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And it was this Parliament that remained that was called the Rump. When one realizes how all this was in the minds of the next several generations, it is easier to see happenings in the colonies and France as predetermined.
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Ld. Crewe introduced.
In the like Manner John Lord Crewe was introduced, between the Lord Mountagu and the Lord Rockingham; and his Writ being read, he was brought to the Barons Bench, and placed next below the Lord AshleyFrom: British History Online
Source: House of Lords Journal Volume 11: 11 May 1661. House of Lords Journal Volume 11, ().
URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=14100
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Headlines jan 9th in the daily Grail ‘Lord Crewe gets to decide the fate of curates and their stipen’
ORDERED, That the Lord Crewe is added to the Committee for Allowances to Curates.From: British History Online
Source: House of Lords Journal Volume 11: 9 January 1662. Journal of the House of Lords: volume 11, ().
URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=14190#s2
Date: 13/01/2005
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“He had three brothers: Thomas (of Crawley, Hunts.), Nathaniel (of Gray’s Inn), and Salathiel (of Hinton, Northants.)” L&M, iii.253.n2.
References in the diary
- 1660
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Jan: 2, 10, 11, 16, 17, 18, 21, 25, 28, 29
Feb: 6, 7, 14, 15, 19, 21, 22, 23, 28
Mar: 1, 2, 3, 6, 7, 8, 9, 17, 18, 21, 22, 23
Apr: 26, 29
May: 3, 23
Jun: 9, 11, 12, 13, 14, 16, 18, 19, 21, 22, 24, 25, 30
Aug: 16, 21
Sep: 3, 18, 25, 27
Oct: 8, 17, 30
Nov: 10, 17
Dec: 6, 26, 31
- 1661
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Jan: 19, 28
Feb: 11, 26
Mar: 2, 7
Apr: 20
Jun: 22
Sep: 3, 25
Nov: 13
- 1662
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Jan: 17
Feb: 4, 12, 21
Mar: 31
Apr: 21
May: 7
Jun: 18
Jul: 26
Sep: 22, 24
Oct: 24
Nov: 10, 24
Dec: 24
- 1663
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Jan: 26
Feb: 16
May: 4, 15
Jul: 22
Sep: 7, 11, 23
Oct: 21
- 1664
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Jul: 4, 15
Aug: 17
Oct: 17
- 1665
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Jan: 9
Jun: 2
Jul: 15, 16, 31
Aug: 1, 3
- 1666
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Jan: 17
May: 15
Jul: 26
Nov: 5, 27
- 1667
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Mar: 6