Richard Canning (abt. 1587 - abt. 1650)

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Richard Canning married Jane Stafford, daughter of _______ Stafford of Stafford, co. Stafford. Richard Canning's widow died 27 April 1685.

Richard Canning, 2nd son of Richard Canning of Foxcote, was admitted to the Middle Temple in London on 12 Feb. 1613.

"1630. June 21, Foxcott. William Canning [letter] to Endymion Porter. His brother Richard [Canning] has taken Porter's house at Aston [sub-Edge], and wishes to have his lands there, which John Evans holds. All his little ones are in good health, but Phill. is the best company, being so peart and merry a fellow." [Cal. State Papers-Domestic, p. 287]

1638. Richard Canning. June 5. "Rental of the manors of Aston-sub-edge and Mickleton, co. Gloucester, for one half year, due to Endymion Porter at May day 1638; total, 144 pounds 15 s. Among the tenants were Sir Nicholas Overbury, Thomas Southern, and Richard Canning. A chief rent of 5 pounds was payable to Sir Edward Fisher." [Cal. S.P.-Domestic, p. 492]

"Among the [Royalist] garrison [at Campden House, Chipping Campden, in May 1645] was Richard Canning of Foxcote, near Ilmington (whose brother William had married Endymion Porter's sister), an ancester of the great George Canning, the statesman. . ."

Campden House was the seat of Sir Baptist Hicks, Baron Ilmington and Viscount Campden. The burning of this great house in May 1645 was an architectural and cultural calamity for the county.

TNA SP 20/13/62 (National Archives, Kew) "Letter advocating the sequestration of the estate of Captain Richard Canning of Foxcott (Foxcote) in Warwickshire, a recusant royalist. People mentioned: Nicholas Petty; Earl of Northampton; Elizabeth Austin; William Canning; Michael Spark; John Baskerville; Simon Rowney. Place mentioned: Ilmington, Warwickshire. Date: 15 Oct 1647"

"[Arms of] "Canning or Canninges. - Arg., three Moors' heads . . .

"Confirmed by Ralph Brooke, York Herald, to Richard Canning, of Foxcote, Co. Warwick, and of Hidcott, Co. Gloucester, fifth in descent from Thomas Canning, who (temp. Hen. VI.) mar. Agnes, daug. and h. of John Solman, of Foxcote."

In April 2017, Strutt & Parker advertised Hidcote Manor for sale, with 21 acres, with a price guide of 3 million pounds. Hidcote Manor, and Foxcote, lie on the hill above Chipping Campden, Gloucestershire.

Sources

• *Visitation of Warwickshire (1619)
• Memorials of the Canynges Family, by George Pryce (1854)
• MIDDLE TEMPLE RECORDS (1904), ed. by Charles Hopwood
• A HISTORY OF CHIPPING CAMPDEN (1958), by Christopher Whitfield, p. 129
• TNA SP 20/13/62
• discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/C13442117
• WARWICKSHIRE ARMS AND LINEAGES (1866), by Frederick Wilson Kittermister, p. ___