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William Aston (Irish judge)
Sir William Aston (1613-1671) was an English born barrister and soldier who fought with distinction in Ireland for King Charles I during the English Civil War. Although he made his peace with the Cromwellian regime after the King's defeat, he is generally believed to have remained at heart a convinced Royalist, and was rewarded for his loyalty to the Crown with a seat on the Irish High Court Bench after the Restoration.〔Ball, F. Elrington ''The Judges in Ireland 1221-1921'' London John Murray 1926 Vol. 1 p.346〕 His eldest son was hanged for murder in 1686; his last direct male descendant, also named William Aston, was de jure 6th Lord Aston of Forfar.〔Cokayne ''Complete Peerage'' Reprinted Gloucester 2000 Vol. 1 p.289〕
==Background==
He was born at Leigh in Staffordshire, son of John Aston and Margery Walton, and great-grandson of Sir Walter Aston, who was the grandfather of the 1st Lord Aston of Forfar. He entered Gray's Inn in 1639, and then moved to Ireland. In 1646 he was serving as a major in the Royalist army under Col. Sir Anthony Hungerford,〔National Library of Ireland, Genealogical Office: Ms.45, p.67, "Certificate of Arms of Sergeant Major William Aston, grandson of the uncle of Lord Aston of Texall in Staffordshire and then in Col. Hungerford’s Regt., May 20, 1647"〕〔Burke, Bernard. 2007 Heritage Books. The General Armory of England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales Volume 1, p.31〕 and was then described as an "honest royalist"; yet a few years later he was serving in the Cromwellian army, and later sat in the Irish Protectorate Parliaments of 1656 and 1659.〔Ball p.268〕〔The Parliamentary History of England, 1760, p.21〕 Elrington Ball argues that despite his apparent change of side, his loyalty to the Crown was never really in doubt: certainly in 1660 he was known to be actively supporting the Restoration of Charles II. The new regime praised him for his "early and faithful adherence to the King": he was knighted and made a justice of the Court of King's Bench (Ireland).〔 He was Recorder of Drogheda in 1655.〔D'Alton, John. History of Drogheda, Volume 1, p.259〕
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