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Sir Edward Hungerford (1596–1648) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1614 and 1648. He was colonel of a regiment in the Parliamentary army in the English Civil War. He occupied and plundered Salisbury in 1643, and took Wardour and Farleigh castles.〔The Internet Archive: Lee, Sidney (1903), Dictionary of National Biography (Index and Epitome ), ( p. 661 ) (also main DNB xxviii 254)〕 ==Biography== Hungerford was the eldest son, by his first wife, of Sir Anthony Hungerford of Black Bourton (1564–1627). In 1614 he was elected Member of Parliament for Wootton Bassett in the Addled Parliament. He was elected as M.P. for Chippenham in 1621 and for Wiltshire in 1624. He was deputy-lieutenant for Wiltshire in 1624. In 1625 he was created Knight of the Bath. He was elected MP for Cricklade in 1628 and sat until 1629 when King Charles decided to rule without parliament for eleven years. He was Sheriff of Wiltshire in 1631. In April 1640 Hungerford was elected MP for Chippenham in the Short Parliament. He was re-elected MP fr Chippenham for the Long Parliament in November 1640. At the outbreak of the civil war he took the side of the parliament, and on 11 July 1642 was sent to execute the militia ordinance in Wiltshire. He was excluded from pardon in the king's declaration of grace to the inhabitants of Wiltshire (2 November 1642), and, after being put in command of the Wiltshire forces, made Devizes his headquarters. In December 1642 he attacked Lord Cottington at Fonthill, threatening to bring his troops into the house, where Lord Cottington lay sick, unless he paid £1,000 to the parliament. Against such treatment Lord Cottington appealed to the parliament, and the speaker desired Sir Edward to desist. In January 1643 Hungerford had a violent quarrel with Sir Edward Baynton, the parliamentary governor of Malmesbury, each accusing the other of intended treachery. In February 1643 he occupied and plundered Salisbury, but finding himself unsupported by the county, evacuated Devizes and retired to Bath. "When Waller recaptured Malmesbury for the parliament (22 March 1643) he appointed Hungerford governor, but while Hungerford was still at Bath seeking supplies, Malmesbury was abandoned by the officer whom he had nominated to represent him. Hungerford published a 'Vindication' of his conduct, dated at Bath 28 April 1643 (London, 6 May 1643, 4to). After taking part with Sir William Waller in the battles of Lansdowne and Roundway Down,〔 cites: Claredon, ''Hist''. ed. Macray, iii. 82''n'', 85''n''.〕 Hungerford besieged Lady Arundel in Wardour Castle (2–8 May 1643).〔 cites: ''Mercurius Rusticus'', No. 5.〕 He treated the lady with little grace, carrying her with scant ceremony to Hatch and thence to Shaftesbury, and keeping her the while "without a bed to lie on".〔 Subsequently Hungerford attacked Farleigh Castle, which was garrisoned for the king and under the command of Colonel John Hungerford, said to be Sir Edward's half-brother. The castle surrendered to Sir Edward in September 1645. He had a reversionary right to the property under the will of his mother's uncle, Sir Edward Hungerford (died 1607), but the testator's widow had a life-interest, and she lived there till 1653.〔 Hungerford in 1625 lived at Corsham, Wiltshire, but after 1645 he seems to have settled at Farleigh. He died in 1648, and was buried in the chapel of Farleigh Castle. His will was proved 26 October 1648. He obtained a license, dated 26 February 1620, to marry Margaret, daughter and coheiress of William Holliday, an alderman of London.〔 cites: Chester, ''Marriage Licenses'', ed. Foster, p. 728.〕 She had no issue by him, and survived him till 1672, when she was also buried at Farleigh.〔 In 1653 Margaret petitioned the Council of State to pay her £500, a small part of the sum borrowed from her husband by the parliament. Parliament had ordered repayment in 1649.〔 cites: ''Cal. State Papers'', 1652–3 pp. 421, 440, 456, 1653–4 pp. 410–11.〕 Oliver Cromwell appears to have interested himself in her case.〔 cites: Carlyle, ''Cromwell'', iii. 210.〕 Sir Edward's reversionary interest in the Farleigh estates passed to his royalist half-brother Anthony Hungerford (d. 1657).〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Edward Hungerford (Roundhead)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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