![]() ![]() He left no wife or children to inherit his estate, which he left to his three surviving brothers as executors: Sir George, William, and Sir Walter Vane. With his connections to power diminished, Charles Vane apparently retired to private life - even moreso with the Restoration of the monarchy in 1660.Ĭharles Vane signed his Will on 12 July 1672. In 1655, their father Sir Henry Vane the elder died. In 1653, Charles' brother Sir Henry Vane the younger was forced from power by Oliver Cromwell. He would henceforth styled himself as "of Chopwell". įollowing this successful adventure, Charles Vane in 1652 purchased a new home in County Durham where his father and most of his brothers were then situated: Chopwell Manor, which came on the block after its former owner was sequestered by the Commonwealth. The occasion was the presence in Lisbon of a privateering fleet commanded by the royalist prince Rupert, to which the king of Portugal had granted refuge, to the displeasure of the English Commonwealth. But shortly afterward, on 29 January of the next year, he was appointed resident agent of the commonwealth at Portugal, and departed with a fleet commanded by. On 19 November 1649, Charles Vane was appointed deputy to his brother Sir Henry Vane, treasurer of the navy. However, in most other documents of the time, he was referred to as "Mister" or "Esquire", with no military title. ![]() However, in 1646, Captain Charles Vane, then commander of Raby Castle, was named to the county committee of Durham and appointed a deputy lieutenant. He may have entered the Inner Temple in 1637. Like several other of his brothers, Charles was educated as a boy "beyond seas". He entered Magdelene College, Oxford, at age 15 on 17 March 1636/7, and on 6 December 1638, Oxford incorporated an M A degree received from the Huguenot university of Saumur. Ĭharles Vane did not seem to have ambitions for a military career. ![]() He was born 1 November 1620 at Chancery Lane, London, as recorded in the parish register of Shipbourne St Giles, Kent, where he was probably baptised, as were other children of the family. Charles Vane was the fourth surviving son of Sir Henry Vane and his wife Frances Darcy. ![]()
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