James Chaloner

James Chaloner [In some contemporary records, like [http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=26211#s6 House of Commons Journal Volume 8 9 June 1660] , his name is also spelt James Challoner] (1602–1660) was an English politician on the Parliamentary side in the English Civil War, and commissioner at the trial of King Charles I.

On the 10 April 1648 he became the Member of Parliament for Aldborough, Yorkshire. He was not excluded from Parliament during Pride's Purge on 20 December 1648 and declared his opposition for the earlier Commons vote accepting Charles I's answers in the Treaty of Newport as grounds for continuing negotiations. In January 1649 he was appointed to sit as a commissioner at the Trial of Charles I and sat for a total of six sessions and unlike his elder brother Thomas Chaloner he did not sign the royal death warrant.H.C.G. Matthew (Editor), Brian Harrison (Editor) (2004). Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, ISBN 0-19-861412-8. David Scott, "Chaloner, James" cites
* HoP, Commons, 1690–1715 [draft]
* JHC, 2–7 (1640–59)
* MSS relating to James Chaloner, BL, Add. MS 71448
* G. W. Johnson, ed., The Fairfax correspondence: memoirs of the reign of Charles the First, 2 vols. (1848)
* R. Bell, ed., Memorials of the civil war … forming the concluding volumes of the Fairfax correspondence, 2 vols. (1849)
* J. Chaloner, A short treatise of the Isle of Man, ed. J. G. Cumming, Manx Society, 10 (1864)
* CSP dom., 1636–61 · Seventh report, HMC, 6 (1879), 147
* J. G. Muddiman, The trial of King Charles the First (1928)
* N. Yorks. CRO, ZFM/alum mines, 1.3, 5
* Wood, Ath. Oxon., new edn, 3.50–53
* [W. Prynne] , A full declaration of the true state of the secluded members case (1660) [Thomason tract E 1013(22)]
* Mercurius Pragmaticus (12–19 Dec 1648) [Thomason tract E 476(35)]
* Heads of a Diarie, collected out of the Journalls of both Houses of Parliament (26 Dec 1648) [TT E 536 (34)] ·
* Parliamentary Intelligencer (26 Dec 1659–2 Jan 1660) [Thomason tract E 182(16)]
*Archives: BL, Add. MS 71448 · N. Yorks. CRO, MSS, Mic. 2050 · N. Yorks. CRO, MSS relating to alum mines, ZFM | BL, Add. MSS 18979, fol. 207; 36792, fols. 13, 57v, 62v, 69, 79v · Bodl. Oxf., Fairfax MS 32, fol. 179 · Bodl. Oxf., Nalson MS IV, fols. 90, 213, 244v, 317 · TNA: PRO, C181/6; E115/104/120; LR2/266, fol. 1; PSO 2/180]

During the Interregnum he was active in the Commonwealth and enjoyed the patronage of Thomas Fairfax, but under the Protectorate he played no active part in National politics. In 1655 He fell under suspicion of encouraging Fairfax to join the Sealed Knot uprising in Yorkshire, so to remove him from scrutiny Fairfax found him an appointment as governor of the Isle of Man. He was still the governor in 1659 when he declared for General George Monck during the second Commonwealth. The London faction of the New Model Army arrested him, but on 7 December that year as the London faction's star fell and Monack's rose. the Rump ordered Chaloner's release, and in January 1660 confirmed his governorship of the Isle of Man. He died there in July 1660 professing his support for the Royalist cause and explaining away his part in the Regicide as an attempt on his part "to keep things from falling into a worse condition" (BL, Add. MS 71448, fol. 67).

He was born in the parish of St Olave, Silver Street, London, the fourth son of naturalist Sir Thomas Chaloner. He left a son and two daughters unprovided for as he was named as exempted from the Act of Indemnity and Oblivion and all his possessions were confiscated by the state under the "forfeitures not extending to Life" terms of the act. He was most likely buried on the Isle of Man.

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