17th Century Noble Nicolls Family St Tudy, North Cornwall, England
- 30 November 2022
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The amazing family monument above is that of the Nicolls family inside St Tudy Church, Cornwall, England. Below is some information on the Nobel Nicholls family.
Anthony Nicholl was born 14 November 1611, one of many children born to Humphrey Nicholl (1577–1643), and Philippa Rouse (died 1669). His father was a member of the Cornish gentry and his mother was half-sister to John Pym.[1][2] The family descended from Oto Nicoll, a Guernsey immigrant who sat for Lostwithiel in 1437 and acquired Penvose in 1446.
He married Amey Speckett (1609–1685), whose family came from Thornbury, Devon; they had nine children, five sons and four daughters. After his death, she married another member of the local gentry.
He was a member of the Long Parliament, closely connected with Pym and Hamden. Indeed, but for Pym’s influence, he would never have been allowed to take his seat, for he had not been legally elected. He took the “solemn League and Covenant” with other Presbyterians to buy Scotch help in the war against King Charles I. When the king was captured in 1647, he refused to vote for his death and was accordingly accused by Cromwell of “high crimes and misdemeanours” and impeached. He was released from prison the next year and appointed Master of the Armouries in the Tower, in which office he died 1659. He was buried at the Savoy, France. His son Humphrey (cp. 5) erected this monument.
Humfrey Nicoll (son of the above) is named on a marble tablet at the foot as a Patron of Letters, Peace and Religion and zealous in the cause of the restored Monarchy. Humphrey Nicholls was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1628 to 1629.
Nicholls was the son of Humphrey Nicholls of Cornwall. He matriculated at Exeter College, Oxford, on 28 March 1595, aged 17. He was of Penvose, St. Tudy, Cornwall. In 1628, he was elected member of parliament for Bodmin and sat until 1629, when King Charles decided to rule without parliament for eleven years. Nicholls died at about 65 and was buried on 31 March 1642.
His son *Anthony 1679-1721 (no tablet), in conjunction with Edward Trelawny, Rector from 1667-1727, secured Letters Patent in 1705, granting two fair days for the benefit of the poor on the Parish Feast Days. *Anthony had no tablet because he was most likely put into slavery or had his entire inheritance, which would’ve included vast amounts of land confiscated by the newly self-appointed massacres.
“Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Surely in the fire of my jealousy have I spoken against the residue of the heathen, and against all *Idumea, which have appointed my land into their possession with the joy of all their heart, with despiteful minds, to cast it out for a prey.” Ezekiel-36: 5 KJV
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