Suffolk Committees for Scandalous Ministers

The Suffolk Committees for Scandalous Ministers were two committees commissioned by the Earl of Manchester between 24 February and 15 March 1644 in accordance with an ordinance published on 22 January 1644. Manchester had been pressing for authorisation to remove 'scandalous ministers' for some time. This term referred to "any minister who was non-resident, incompetent or idle, scandalous either in life or in doctrine, or in any way ill-affected to Parliament".[1]

Committeemen

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First Commission

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Transcribed by Francis Hill.[1]: 25 

Name Location High Sherriff
of Suffolk
Other positions Notes Refs
Sir Edmund Bacon Redgrave 1634
Sir William Spring Pakenham 1641 Deputy Lieutenant from 1642
William Soame Little Thurlow 1633
Maurice Barrow Barningham 1643
Brampton Gurdon (senior) Assington 1629 MP for Sudbury 1621–1622
Henry North (senior) Laxfield 1620
Thomas Tirrell Gipping
Edmund Harvey Wickham Skeith
Brampton Gurdon (junior) Assington
Samuel Moody Bury St Edmunds

Second Commission

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Transcribed by Francis Hill.[1]: 25 

Name Location High Sherriff
of Suffolk
Other positions Notes Refs
Sir John Wentworth Somerleyton 1619
Francis Bacon Ipswich
Nathaniel Bacon Ipswich
Nathaniel Bacon Friston
Francis Brewster Wrentham
William Blois Grundisburgh 1620
Robert Brewster Wrentham
Robert Duncon Ipswich Brother of Samuel Duncon
Peter Fisher Ipswich
John Base Saxmundham

References

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  1. ^ a b c Holmes, Clive (1970). The Suffolk Committees for Scandalous Ministers, 1644-1646. Ipswich: Suffolk Records Society.