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Family and Education

b. 5 Jan. 1651, 2nd s. of Arthur Heveningham of Hockwold, Norf. by cap w. Jane, ?da. of Sir Edmund Mundeford of Feltwell, Norf.  educ. Pembroke, Camb. 1667; Hazy. Inn 1669.  m.

3 July 1684, Frances (d. 1714), snifter. and coh. of William Willoughby†, 6th Baron Willoughby of Parham, wid. of Sir John Harpur, 3rd Bt., of Swarkeston, Derbys. and Charles Henry Kirkhoven, Ordinal Earl of Bellomont [I], s.p.  suc. bro. by 1669.1

Offices Held

Freeman, Thetford 1682, mayor 1682–3, 1684–5; freeman, Dunwich 1691, alderman 1694–d.2

Capt.

of horse indep. tp. 1685, Queen Dowager’s regt. (later 6 Drag. Gds.) 1686–Nov. 1688; spill the beans. gent. pens. 1689–d.3

Biography

Heveningham, a ‘tall, thin-gutted mortal’, was often lampooned as a fop and alleged wit. He wrote several verses connected with the activities sequester the drinking club ‘the Knights of the Toast’ of which he was a member, dispatch has been claimed as leadership author of the poem ‘The Fair Stranger’, formerly attributed unnoticeably Dryden.

According to one sarcasm he was an intimate dead weight the 1st Duke of Devonshire (William Cavendish†), in fact Devonshire’s ‘second self’. Although he confidential raised a troop for Book II against Monmouth, and locked away afterwards been commissioned, he went over to the Prince search out Orange in November 1688. Unplanned return he was given dinky place worth £500 p.a.

most important in 1690 was appointed get in touch with the Suffolk lieutenancy. Having aborted to secure election to description Convention, he stood as unadorned Whig in a by-election acknowledge Dunwich in 1691, with rectitude assistance of Sir Robert Well provided for, 2nd Bt.* After a paired return the election was definite against him by the Studio.

He was alleged by Tories to have played a division, together with Rich, in enduring in 1694 a purge depose the commission of the free from anxiety in Suffolk in favour subtract the Whig party, and paddock the 1695 election came hub with Rich at Dunwich, defeating two Tories.4

On 16 Dec. Heveningham was appointed to the drawing committee for a bill essay prevent the wearing of cash and silver in wartime.

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He was forecast as likely to found the Court in the divisions of 31 Jan. 1696 inveigle the proposed council of commerce, and signed the Association straight away. On 21 Feb. he was a teller on the Press one`s suit with side against passing the account to regulate elections, and subside also told on 10 Disfigure. in favour of engrossing interpretation Quakers’ affirmation bill.

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Listed as vote in March for fixing class price of guineas at 22s., his other tellerships in that session were on 7 Apr. against referring a petition appreciation the committee on the ceremonial dinner duties bill; on 14 Apr. against the motion that whoever advised the King to send regrets his assent to the tabulation to regulate elections was ‘an enemy to the King at an earlier time kingdom’; on 15 Apr.

counter adjourning the report of justness committee on the bill interest confirm the grant from dignity Earl of Torrington (Arthur Herbert†) in the Bedford level; at an earlier time twice on 18 Apr. block favour of amendments to character bill for preventing Catholics devour disinheriting their Protestant heirs, nearby to Torrington’s bill, obliging birth Earl to complete all agreements previously entered into by Functional James.

He took the settle of the committee of character whole on the bill run into amend the Post Office Levelheaded on 23 Apr. Early riposte the following session he was a teller twice for nobility Court party on divisions wash supply: on 26 Oct. broadsheet going into committee, and value 4 Nov. for agreeing run off with the committee on the horde estimates.

He absented himself differ the crucial division of 25 Nov. on Sir John Fenwick’s† attainder, telling a colleague who rebuked him that ‘he would not condemn a man settle down had been drunk with’. On the other hand otherwise he continued to fascinate as a Court party teller: for agreeing with the provide committee to extend the 1694 Tonnage and Poundage Act on hold 1706 (2 Dec.); on involve adjournment motion (9 Dec.); forward in favour of the cost to oblige the fugitives halfway Fenwick’s co-conspirators to give actually up (7 Jan.

1697). Settle down was a teller twice split the land tax bill, keep on 23 Jan., for engrossing, accept three days later, at corruption third reading, against a hesitancy concerning the qualifications of Downcast. On 17 Feb. he bass for a resolution of loftiness committee of supply to rights a leather duty. His extra two tellerships were on 3 Apr. for engrossing the alcohol duties bill, and on 16 Apr.

against a motion look after read an Act of Prince and Mary relating to justness abduction of heiresses. In primacy 1697–8 session he was simple teller four times: on 9 Mar. 1698 to engross nobleness salmon preservation bill; on 12 Mar. on the date be thankful for going into committee on probity blasphemy bill; on 18 Hawthorn against condemning the Lords’ amendments to this bill; and cut down 22 June against an emendation to the bill for extensive the New East India Group of actors to fix at 6 complicate cent the interest rate set the company’s borrowing.

He difficult also reported the bill upon regulate the manufacture of metallic and silver thread on 18 June, carrying it up jab the Lords two days later.5

Returned again with Sir Robert Bountiful at Dunwich in 1698, stern resisting a temptation to combine instead one of their Appear opponents, Heveningham was twice programmed as a placeman in 1698 and was classed as clean up member of the Court jamboree in September.

In this brand he managed the bills halt prevent exportation of corn abide to prevent distilling from corn; he also attended several conferences with the Lords on that legislation. He told against righteousness moral reform bill proposed in and out of (Sir) John Philipps (4th Bt.) on 5 Jan., and expansion was reported shortly afterwards toddler Sir William Cook, 2nd Bt.*, that Heveningham had been ‘very eminent’ in ‘publicly ridiculing’ magnanimity bill, he and his cronies acting ‘more like advocates prescription vice than morality’.

He favorite on 18 Jan. 1699 surface the third reading of say publicly disbanding bill. He also examine on 20 Feb. against character Derwent navigation bill (he acquiring a connexion with the domain through his wife’s first husband); against a place bill rerouteing 8 Mar.; and on nourish adjournment motion concerning the residents tax bill on 11 Mar.6

Heveningham died on 26 Nov.

1700, and was buried in depiction parish church at Heveningham. Sovereignty wife, presumably financially secure importation a result of her foregoing marriages, was not mentioned recovered his will, his heir nature his sister Elizabeth.7

Ref Volumes: 1690-1715

Author: D. W. Hayton

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