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Richard Salwey

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Richard Salwey(1615 – 1685?) was an English politician who sat in theHouse of Commonsvariously between 1645 and 1659. He was a republican in politics and fought on theParliamentaryside in theEnglish Civil War.

Life[edit]

Richard Salwey was the son ofHumphrey Salweyof Stanford Court atStanford-on-Teme,Worcestershireand his wife, Anne Littleton, daughter ofSir Edward Littletonand Mary Fisher ofPillaton Hall,Staffordshire.His father was a lawyer and MP forWorcestershire.[1]Salwey became a grocer and merchant in London.

Salwey's father was active in the parliamentary cause, and Salwey became a major in the Parliamentarian army.[1]In 1645, he was electedMember of ParliamentforAppleby.[2]He made his name in parliamentary affairs as member of the commissions on Irish matters.[3]

In 1647, he travelled with Sir Thomas Wharton, Sir Robert King,Sir John Clotworthy,and Sir Robert Meredith to negotiate with theDuke of Ormond.[4]He was a commissioner for theTender of Unionin 1651.[5]

The beginning of theFirst Anglo-Dutch Warsaw a shake-up of the naval organisation, after defeat at theBattle of Dungeness,and withHenry Vaneand George Thomson, Salwey and his allyJohn Carewmade up the group of four effectively overseeing the Navy for Parliament.[6][7]

Salwey was a supporter ofOliver Cromwell,but broke with him at the end of theRump Parliament,together withFrancis Allen.[8]He was a member ofBarebone's Parliament,nominated forWorcestershire.[2][9]He clashed with Cromwell in April 1653; and he lost his Navy position at the end of the year in a general Admiralty change.[10]He was appointed to the newCouncil of Stateformed after the Rump was dissolved, but boycotted its meetings.[11]

Salwey was one of a number of radical puritans who had a house inClapham,Surrey during the late 1640s and early 1650s. He also returned to Clapham in 1683 for the last two years of his life.[12]He was out of the country as English ambassador inConstantinople,appointed by the Lord Protector on 14 August 1654. He begged to excused the duty on 8 February 1655, and never left England.[citation needed]

In 1659, Salwey was active again in parliament as a member of the restored Rump parliament. He became a member of committee of theCommittee of Safetyand Council of State, in May of that year, and a commissioner for the Navy. The Committee sent him with Sir Henry Vane as heads of a delegation toJohn Lawson,a refractory republican Vice-Admiral, without success.[13]

On 16 January 1660, he withWilliam Sydenhamwas expelled from Parliament; he was sent to theTower of London.[14]

After theRestorationhe was suspected of complicity in theFarnley Wood Plot,in 1663–64.[3]

Salwey married, in 1641, to Anne Waring, the daughter of Richard Waring, grocer and a London alderman involved in theLevant Company.[1]He had the resources to build a country house at Haye Park inShropshire,[15]and his residence is often given as the neighbouringRichard’s Castle,over the county boundary inHerefordshire;his son of the same name then built nearby atMoor Park.[16]

Notes[edit]

  1. ^abcBurke, John (1835).A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Commoners of Great Britain.Vol. 1. pp. 153–154.Retrieved26 June2013.
  2. ^abWillis, Browne(1750).Notitia Parliamentaria, Part II: A Series or Lists of the Representatives in the several Parliaments held from the Reformation 1541, to the Restoration 1660...London. pp.229–239.
  3. ^ab"Salwey, Richard".Dictionary of National Biography.London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
  4. ^Toby Christopher Barnard, Jane Fenlon,The Dukes of Ormonde, 1610-1745(2000), p. 91.
  5. ^David Plant (7 March 2010)."Timeline 1651".British-civil-wars.co.uk. Archived fromthe originalon 18 February 2012.Retrieved26 June2013.
  6. ^Blair Worden,The Rump Parliament 1648-1653(1974), p. 314.
  7. ^David Plant (17 April 2011)."Timeline 1652".British-civil-wars.co.uk.Retrieved26 June2013.
  8. ^Blair Worden,The Rump Parliament 1648-1653(1974), p. 336.
  9. ^"List of members nominated for Parliament of 1653 | Diary of Thomas Burton esq, volume 4 (pp. 499-500)".British-history.ac.uk.Retrieved26 June2013.
  10. ^E. B. Fryde, D. E. Greenway, S. Porter, I. Roy,Handbook of British Chronology(1996), p. 142.
  11. ^Austin Woolrych,p. 156.
  12. ^"History".claphamhistorian.com.Retrieved28 December2022.
  13. ^David Plant (26 November 2009)."Sir Henry Vane, the younger, 1613-62".British-civil-wars.co.uk.Retrieved26 June2013.
  14. ^David Plant (5 September 2008)."Timeline 1660".British-civil-wars.co.uk.Retrieved26 June2013.
  15. ^"Moor Park School".Moorpark.org.uk.Retrieved26 June2013.
  16. ^J. E. Farnell,The Navigation Act of 1651, the First Dutch War, and the London Merchant Community,The Economic History Review, New Series, Vol. 16, No. 3 (1964), pp. 439–454.

Further reading[edit]

  • Stephen K. Roberts,Richard Salwey, member of the Long Parliament and commissioner for the navy,History Today, Vol. 53, May 2003.
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