- John Fiennes
John Fiennes was an English
Member of Parliament during the Civil War and Commonwealth period.Fiennes was the third son of the 1st Viscount Saye and Sele. At the outbreak of the
English Civil War he joined the Parliamentary side, was colonel of a regiment of horse by 1643, and served at theBattle of Naseby .He was elected to the
Long Parliament as member for Morpeth, probably in 1645, but was one of the MPs excluded inPride's Purge in December 1648. In 1658, he was chosen a member ofCromwell's Upper House .References
* Concise Dictionary of National Biography (1930)
*D Brunton & D H Pennington, "Members of the Long Parliament" (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1954)
*"Cobbett's Parliamentary history of England, from the Norman Conquest in 1066 to the year 1803" (London: Thomas Hansard, 1808) [http://www2.odl.ox.ac.uk/gsdl/cgi-bin/library?e=p-000-00---0modhis06--00-0-0-0prompt-10---4------0-1l--1-en-50---20-about---00001-001-1-1isoZz-8859Zz-1-0&a=d&cl=CL1]
* Mark Noble, "Memoirs of several persons and families... allied to or descended from... the Protectorate-House of Cromwell" (Birmingham: Pearson & Rollason, 1784) [http://books.google.com/books?id=qFQDAAAAMAAJ&pg=PR1&lpg=PR1&dq=mark+noble+memoirs+of+several+persons+and+families+allied+to+or+descended+from+the+%22protectorate+house%22+of+cromwell+birmingham+pearson+%26+rollason+1784&source=web&ots=HHLqC0IlNm&sig=GmM5DZjMBx8bQQEzATG2MzaJssM]
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