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Col. Robert Slingsby

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  • Wheatley: “Colonel, afterwards Sir Robert Slingsby, Bart., appointed Comptroller of the Navy in 1660. He died October 28th, 1661, and Pepys grieved for his loss.”
    L&M: “Second son of Sir Guildford (himself Comptroller 1611-d 31); Entered naval service 1633; secretary to Strafford and protege of Digby. He refused in 1642 to serve under the parliamentary admiral and after a brief imprisonment became a colonel in the royalist army, and later an active royalist agent, well tought of by Clarendon.”

  • Husband of Elizabeth: http://www.pepysdiary.com/p/1857.php

  • A look ahead to next year for Sir Robt:
    1662 c. 29 Sir Robert Slingsby’s estate: sale of lands for payment of debts.
    http://www.legislation.hmso.gov.uk/legislation/chron-tables/private/chron03.htm

  • Here is his request by executors for sales of property to pay Debts.
    request by House of Commons
    3. “An Act for Sale of Sir Robert Slyngsby, deceased, his Lands, for Payment of his Debts.”

    From: British History Online
    Source: House of Lords Journal Volume 11: 22 February 1662. Journal of the House of Lords: volume 11, ().
    URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=14225
    Date: 21/02/2005

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References in the diary

A graph of all the references in the diary

1660
Sep: 5, 10, 24, 25, 28
Oct: 6, 15, 30, 31
Nov: 10, 12, 14, 26
Dec: 7, 9, 10, 12, 14
1661
Jan: 11, 12, 13, 15, 16, 19, 21, 22, 27, 28, 29
Feb: 2, 4, 19, 23
Mar: 8, 28, 30
Apr: 15, 16, 26
May: 21, 27, 30
Jun: 4, 5, 10, 12, 13
Jul: 3, 29
Aug: 23, 24
Sep: 9, 14, 16, 25
Oct: 22, 23, 24, 26, 27, 30
1664
Jul: 20