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  • Baron John Belasyse of Worlaby is recorded as living in Whitton from 1671 until his death in 1689
    He was the second son of Thomas, first Lord Fauconburg. a Yorkshireman. Joining the King at Oxford on the outbreak of the Civil War he was created Baron Belasyse of Worlaby, Lincolnshire, and raised six regiments [ http://www.sealedknot.org/regiment.asp?RN=Belasyse ]
    of horse and foot at his own cost. He took part in the battles of Edgehill, Brentford, Newbury, Selby and Naseby; and the sieges of Reading, Bristol and Newark
    Belasyse was appointed Governor of Tangier and served from 1664 until 1666 but, as a Catholic Lord
    He married three times, his first marriage produced a son and daughter, his second no children and there were four daughters from his third. His son Henry died in 1668 leaving a son also Henry who inherited the title, dying in 1692.

  • from L&M Companion
    …Two of [John Belasyse, 1st Baron Belasyse (1614-89)]’s sons appear in the diary, principally as duellists—Sir Henry, his eldest, and John. Sir Henry, an Anglican convert and briefly an M.P. (Grimsby 1666-7) served on the committee in charge of a bill to stop duelling. He was killed in a drunken quarrel in 1667.

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References in the diary

1660
May: 7
1662
Feb: 22
1663
May: 15