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SIR JOHN GLANVILL.
st 0 IR JOHN GLANVILL, Knt, (fays Wood) was a younger fon of
John Glanvill of Taviftock, in Devonshire, one of the Juftices of the
Common Bench, (who died 27th July, 1600) and he, the third fon of ano-
ther John of the fame place ; where, and in that county their name was
genteel and ancient. When he was young he was not educated in this Uni-
verfity; (Oxford) but was (as his father before him) bred an attorney, and
afterwards ftudied the common Law in Lincoln’s-Inn, and, with the help
of his father’s notes, became a great proficient. When he was a counfellor
of fome years ftanding, he was elected Recorder of Plymouth, and Burgefs
for that place, to ferve in feveral parliaments: in the fifth of Charles Ift.
he was Lent reader of his Inn, and on the 20th of May, 1639, he was made
Serjeant at Law; at which time, having engaged himfelf to be abetter
fervant to the King than formerly, (for in feveral Parliaments he had been
an enemy to the Prerogative) he was in the year following elected Speaker
for that Parliament which began at Weftminfter on the 13th of April,
in which he fhewed himfelf adive to promote the King’s defires: on the
6th of July, the fame year, he was made one of the King’s Serjeants,
being then efteemed an excellent orator, a good lawyer, and an ornament
to his profeflion, and on the 7th of Auguft 1641, he received the honour
of knighthood from his Majefty at Whitehall; afterwards, when the
King was forced to leave the Parliament, he followed him to Oxon, and
was very ferviceable to him in many refpeds. In 1645 he was difenabled
from being a member of Parliament, fitting at Weftminfter, for his delin-
quency, as it was then called; fo that retiring to his home after the King’s
caufe declined, he was committed to prifon, where continuing till he made
his compofition, he was releafed in 1648. Under his name are thefe things
extant: (1.) Enlargements and Aggravations upon the fixth, feventh, and
eighth articL s againft George Duke of Buckingham, anno 1626. See ni
John Ruftiworth’s collodions under 1626. (2.) Speech at a general com-
o F
SIR JOHN GLANVILL.
st 0 IR JOHN GLANVILL, Knt, (fays Wood) was a younger fon of
John Glanvill of Taviftock, in Devonshire, one of the Juftices of the
Common Bench, (who died 27th July, 1600) and he, the third fon of ano-
ther John of the fame place ; where, and in that county their name was
genteel and ancient. When he was young he was not educated in this Uni-
verfity; (Oxford) but was (as his father before him) bred an attorney, and
afterwards ftudied the common Law in Lincoln’s-Inn, and, with the help
of his father’s notes, became a great proficient. When he was a counfellor
of fome years ftanding, he was elected Recorder of Plymouth, and Burgefs
for that place, to ferve in feveral parliaments: in the fifth of Charles Ift.
he was Lent reader of his Inn, and on the 20th of May, 1639, he was made
Serjeant at Law; at which time, having engaged himfelf to be abetter
fervant to the King than formerly, (for in feveral Parliaments he had been
an enemy to the Prerogative) he was in the year following elected Speaker
for that Parliament which began at Weftminfter on the 13th of April,
in which he fhewed himfelf adive to promote the King’s defires: on the
6th of July, the fame year, he was made one of the King’s Serjeants,
being then efteemed an excellent orator, a good lawyer, and an ornament
to his profeflion, and on the 7th of Auguft 1641, he received the honour
of knighthood from his Majefty at Whitehall; afterwards, when the
King was forced to leave the Parliament, he followed him to Oxon, and
was very ferviceable to him in many refpeds. In 1645 he was difenabled
from being a member of Parliament, fitting at Weftminfter, for his delin-
quency, as it was then called; fo that retiring to his home after the King’s
caufe declined, he was committed to prifon, where continuing till he made
his compofition, he was releafed in 1648. Under his name are thefe things
extant: (1.) Enlargements and Aggravations upon the fixth, feventh, and
eighth articL s againft George Duke of Buckingham, anno 1626. See ni
John Ruftiworth’s collodions under 1626. (2.) Speech at a general com-