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Hezekiah Haynes
(died 1693) supported the parliamentary cause during the
English Civil War
rising to the rank of major. During the
Interregnum
, under the patronage of his war time commander General
Charles Fleetwood
, he held a number of administrative posts in the under the early
Commonwealth and Protectorate
. He supported his old general during the late Commonwealth, and after spending 18 months in prison during the first couple of years of the
Restoration
, he retired to the family estate of
Copford Hall
in
Essex
.
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Biography
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Haynes supported the parliamentary cause during the
English Civil War
. At the outbreak of war he took a captains commission in Colonel
Holborne's
regiment of foot. He transferred to
Charles Fleetwood's
cavalry regiment and by 1645 had risen to the rank of major. He fought at
Battle of Preston
in 1648, commanded the regiment at the
Battle of Dunbar
in 1650 and may well have
fought at Worcester
in the last battle of the Civil War.
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During the
Interregnum
he held a number of administrative posts, all of them in and around his home region of
East Anglia
.
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From August 1655 until January 1657 while
England and Wales
were under the
rule of the Major-Generals
, he was a deputy to
Charles Fleetwood
, along with
George Fleetwood
and
William Packer
. Each carried out the day-to-day administration in different counties in the region assigned to their governor.
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After the death of
Oliver Cromwell
, Haynes supported the
Wallingford House party
when they overthrew
Richard Cromwell
and in 1659 introduced the short lived second Commonwealth. In December, shortly before the Restoration, the
Rump Parliament
ordered him to leave London and return home, but he chose not to. In November 1660 he was arrested on suspicion of subversion, and held in the
Tower of London
for 18 months. He was released in April 1662 upon payment of a £5,000 bond for his future good behaviour. He retired to his family estate of
Copford Hall
and lived quietly until his death on 26 August 1693.
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Family
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Haynes was the second son of
John Haynes
of Copford Hall in
Essex
and Mary Thornton, daughter of Robert Thornton of Nottingham. In the early 1650s he married Anne, daughter of Thomas Smithsby, the former saddler to Charles I. They had at least one son.
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Haynes passed the family seat of Copford Hall over to his son in 1684, and moved to
Coggeshall
where he died in 1693.
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References
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- Durston, Christopher. "Haynes, Hezekiah (d. 1693)",
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
, Oxford University Press, Sept 2004; online edn, Jan 2008
Retrieved 26 Nov 2009
- Plant, David.
Hezekiah Haynes, Major-General, d.1693
, the British Civil Wars and Commonwealth website
- Royal, Trevor;
Civil War: The Wars of the Three Kingdoms 1638-1660
; Pub Abacus 2006; (first published 2004);
ISBN
978-0-349-11564-1