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Sir Henry Vane
Vane, Sir Henry (the Younger)
Vane, Sir Henry (the Younger) (1613–62) Leading Parliamentarian, son of Sir Henry Vane (the Elder). He served briefly as governor of Massachusetts (1636–37) then played a leading role in the English
LONG PARLIAMENT until 1660. A promoter of the
SOLEMN LEAGUE AND COVENANT and the
SELF-DENYING ORDINANCE, from 1643 to 1653 he was the civil leader of the Parliamentary cause, while
CROMWELL directed the army. He opposed the trial and execution of
CHARLES I and in 1653 disagreed with Cromwell over the expulsion of the Rump Parliament. After a period out of politics, he helped to bring about the recall of the Rump (1659). At the
RESTORATION he was arrested and executed for treason.
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A true portrait
Magazine article from: The Spectator; 5/14/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...commissioned by the 28-year-old Sir Henry Vane-Tempest to commemorate the victory...animal and that he never raced again. Vane-Tempest engaged Stubbs to paint...afterwards. Having won the wager, Vane-Tempest also intended to cash in...
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Making Heretics: Militant Protestantism and Free Grace in Massachusetts, 1636-1641.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: The Historian; 3/22/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...in previous literature and elevates the importance of Sir Henry Vane and Thomas Shepard. Winship restates the generally...s importance in order to draw attention away from Henry Vane and Thomas Shepard. Vane, one of the most important...
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Eye in the sky from the past - No 23 Wynyard Hall
Newspaper article from: The Northern Echo; 2/23/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...all came to a moment of crisis when Sir Henry Vane-Tempest died at the age of 44...decided that Frances Anne should marry Sir Charles Stewart, the third Marquess...sell, and the estate was bought by Sir John Hall, who had recently sold...
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Echo memories - Bells that echoed sound of the medieval miners
Newspaper article from: The Northern Echo; 7/17/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...managed to off-load the lot to Sir Henry Vane for 18,000. This was now the agricultural...to have been too dangerous for the Vanes to have enclosed. Its extraordinary...the Bishop's pessimism and the Vanes' interest in farming, coal mining...
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Martyrs and Martyrdom in England, c. 1400-1700.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Renaissance Quarterly; 3/22/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...study of Charles I and John Coffey's discussion of Sir Henry Vane the younger. Both essays examine the way in which political...of a Christ, while the Restoration's millenarian, Sir Henry Vane, who presented himself as a biblical apocalyptic...
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Efforts that kept the mines afloat
Newspaper article from: The Northern Echo; 3/22/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...Cockfield Fell Colliery from the second Earl of Darlington, Sir Henry Vane of Raby Castle. Dixon was a remarkable fellow. He...for Dixon to conduct anymore experiments. (It was Sir Henry's son, the third Earl of Darlington who tried to...
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The Times and Trials of Anne Hutchinson.(Book review)
Magazine article from: The Historian; 3/22/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...ambiguous relationships with John Cotton, John Wheelwright, Sir Henry Vane, and their adversary Thomas Shepard, who saw all deviation...orthodoxy as subversion. With Wheelwright banished and Vane (who left the colony) out of the way, Cotton took a...
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HEART of the dale
Newspaper article from: The Northern Echo; 9/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...traders. Sharp-eyed visitors will notice that its weather vane is perforated by two bullet holes, reputedly created...into a state of disrepair, it was eventually acquired by Sir Henry Vane in 1630. He had much of it dismantled and the stone carted...
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Finer flower
Newspaper article from: The Northern Echo; 8/21/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...in England to have celebrated the Roman mass in Latin. Sir Henry Vane, first of the present line of Barnards, bought Raby...shake the pew mat as if it were a table cloth. Harry Vane, Lord Barnard's son, sits in isolation behind the...
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WALKS - Thorsgill Wood and Egglestone Abbey
Newspaper article from: The Northern Echo; 11/30/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...several further owners before it passed into the hands of Sir Henry Vane in 1630, who subsequently made Raby Castle his main...never became a very wealthy or powerful abbey. Following Henry VIII's Dissolution of the Monasteries in the 16th century...
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Sir Henry Vane
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Sir Henry Vane The English statesman Sir Henry Vane (1613-1662...Commonwealth. The career of Sir Henry, or Harry, Vane the...court was still open to Vane, and in 1639 he was...Scots to obedience. Both Vanes were returned to the...
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Vane, Sir Henry (the Younger)
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History
Vane, Sir Henry (the Younger) (1613–62) Leading Parliamentarian, son of Sir Henry Vane (the Elder). He served briefly as governor of Massachusetts...
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Vane, Sir Henry
Book article from: World Encyclopedia
Vane, Sir Henry (1613–62) English statesman...the Long Parliament , Charles I dismissed Vane. During the English Civil War , he secured...League and Covenant (1643) with Scotland. Vane negotiated with Charles I and opposed the...
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Vane, Sir Henry the elder
Book article from: A Dictionary of British History
Vane, Sir Henry the elder (1589–1655) and Sir Henry the younger (1613–62). Politicians of contrasted character. The father was a worldly minded courtier,bent on accumulating a great landed estate. The son was a...
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John Winthrop
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...broad democracy. It was while he was deputy governor and Sir Henry Vane (1613-62) was governor that Winthrop bitterly and...Anne Hutchinson and her followers, who were supported by Vane. The force of his influence on the history of Massachusetts...
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