Martin P-L writes:

1626-1718. Father in law of Sir Thomas.
A.P-L has his portrait, painted by Dahl, and a silver goblet given him by the King of Denmark.
1653 succeeded Milton as Latin (ie. foreign) Secretary to Cromwell's Council.  [Milton had gone blind and was reduced to Latin Sec. Extraordinary.  He had wanted his fellow poet, Marvell, to succeed him.]
1656 sailed to Portugal, representing Cromwell, to ratify a treaty.  On this expedition he was insulted and maimed.  Given £1,000 compensation by the English government.
1657 envoy to King of Denmark.  He was received in Denmark in great style, to the envy of other envoys.  Cromwell was hoping to unite Britain, Denmark and Sweden.
1658 sent to Sweden.  Returned on leave, a knight, knight marshal of the palace, Knight of the Order of the Elephant of Denmark.  But while he was on leave, the monarchy was restored, and he was left high and dry.  For the next 30 years he did very little: a few books on diplomacy (eg. Observations on the Dominion and Sovereignity of the Seas), some unpublished epigrams in verse. [See Thirloe’s State Papers for a few mentions of Meadows in 1658 and 1659.]
1690s given various government jobs, eg. member of the first Council of Trade, Commissioner for Taking Public Accounts, Commissioner for Promoting of Trade.  [You can imagine him now as a European Commissioner.]
1718 died.  Buried at Lilford.  The Earls of Manvers are in direct male descent from him.
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From Barry Coward's "Oliver Cromwell" (pub1991 by Longmans):

"In August 1865 Cromwell confided to a Swedish ambassador in London, Christer Bonde, that 'it was a matter of grief to him that he had been so ill-educated that he scarcely ventures to speak any other language than English'. A year later Bonde was shocked to learn that, after the departures of Philip Meadowes [sic] to Portugal, few in the Cromwellian entourage were proficient in one of the main languages of diplomacy." (p.169)

"...Cromwell, through his ambassador Philip Meadowes, played a key role in bringing about peace in the Baltic by the Treaty of Roskilde in February 1658..."  (p.173)

The tankard has on it:
(a) On the front the arms of Meadows impaled with those of Lucy.
(b) On the lid a crest of an eagle rampant (or proper?).  Might this be the Denmark crest?  No!  It is the Meadowe one!
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TFPL, Nov 2005.  He married when he was thirty-five, relatively late. Almost certainly being a fellow of Queens kept him single (being a celibate occupation).  Presumably he stayed at Queens until he was appointed Latin Secretary.  But even then he did not marry until eight years after becoming Latin Secretary.
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From the The Survey of London vols 33-34, pp. 384-411: he lived at 33 Gerrard Street from 1685 to his death in 1718.
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The Danish king made him a Knight of the Order of the Elephant.
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In the transcript of the Hammersmith parish register in Coll Top. et Gen, vol iii, p. 318, it says in a footnote to some entries for his daughters burials, he was buried at Hammersmith in 1718 aged 94 and adds “See Lysons, ii, p. 415. - whatever that might be!)
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2010, TFPL. Found in a trancript of Parish Histories surveyed by Suffolk County Council for the village of Bentley, Suffolk.  See http://www.bentley.suffolk.gov.uk/history.htm.

SUB-MANORS
    OLD HALL BENTLEY/CHURCH HOUSE
    1086           Believed to have been lands belonging to Count Alan.
    15th cent.     Linked to Levington, Nacton, Holbrook and Holton St. Mary
                   (Fastolf family)
    circa 1532     Annexed to main manor (Lional Talmach)
    1662           Sir Philip Meadow owns
    1798           Benjamin Keene owns and with which family the manor remains.
    BENTLEY FASTOLFS
    l086           Also believed to have been lands belonging to Count Alan
    13th cent.     Linked to Nacton, Walton and Holbrook (Richard de Holbroke)
    14th cent.     Links at some point with Old Hall Bentley (Sir John Fastolf)
    1529           Sir Richard Broke died seised
    1662           Absorbed by Old Hall (Sir Philip Meadow)
    DODNASH
    1292           William Charles owns
    14/15th cent.  Dodnash Priory
    1525           Links with Falkenham, Felixstowe, Nacton, Burstall, Chattisham,
                   Hintlesham, Wherstead (Cardinal Wolsey who made it part of
                   foundation of his college at Ipswich)
    1530           Annexed to main manor (Lional Tollemache)
    1662           Absorbed by Old Hall (Sir Philip Meadow)
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From Collectanea Topographica et Genealoica:

Vol 3, p. 318: “Ann Meadows, d. of Sr Philip and Lady, bur. March 31 1687 8s 8d [burial fee]  Lucy Meadows, bur Nov 17 Nov 17 1693.”  with a footnote of “Sir Philip Meadows, Envoy to Denmark 1657, and afterwards Knight Marshal (The paternal grandfather of the first Earl Manvers).  He was himself buried at Hammersmith in 1718, aet 94.  See Lysons, ii. p. 415.

Vol 4, p. 399: [Additions and Corrections to Vol 3] “P. 318. In the Hammersmith register occurs in the year 1686
                                         £ s d
  Buried Feb 4 Francis Lucy              0 8 0
  Sent me by Mis Lucy a G. (guinea)      1 1 6
  It appears from the same book that Mis Lucy paid the Minister, Mr John Wade, 1l. “Pewage” from lady-day 1685-6 to Lady-day 1686-7; and from the Register book of Benefactions it appears that in 1685 Francis Lucy, Esq. gave some land for the enlargement of the Chapelyard at Hammersmith. (Faulkner’s Fulham, p. 160.)  That the person buried was this gentleman is shown by the coffin-plate recently found in or near Hammersmith church, bearing this inscription: “Here lyeth ye body of Frances Lucy, Esq. youngest son of Sr Thomas Lucy of Charlecott, in ye county of Warwick.  Died January ye 30th in ye 90th yeare of his age, anno dom’ 1686-7.”  He was Member of parliament for Warwick, 1676-1685, and brother to Dr. William Lucy, bishop of St David’s 1660-1677.  Francis married in Feb 1631, Elizabeth, dau. and coh. of Bevill Molesworth, of Hoddesdon, co. Herts Esq. and left issue three daughters: 1. Elizabeth, mary. to Sir Edward Atkins, Baron of the Exchequer; 2. Constance, mary. to Sir Philip Meadows, Ambassador to Sweden, and was grandmother of the first Earl Manvers; and 3. Martha, mary. to Sir Samuel Eyre, Judge of the King’s Bench.  Sir Philip Meadows was buried at Hammersmith in 1718, as were others of his family (see vol. iii. p. 318).”
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From “A Handlist of British Diplomatic Representatives 1509-1688” by Gary M Bell, pub Royal Hist Soc 1990:

Denmark
MEADOW, Philip (later Sir Philip; 1626-1718) [cf DNB]

3 Sep 1657- c.1 Oct 1659: Ambassador Extraordinary
Audience: 20 Sept 1659
£1000/an
Secretary: Isaac Ewers

He went to Sweden (q.v.) July through Aug 1658 and Aug through Sept 1659.  He also had responsibilities in Poland and the Hanse (qq.v.)

Instructions: PRO, SP/75/15, ff 241-4; Abbott, W. (ed.), The Writings … of Oliver Cromwell (Cambridge, Mass., 1937-47), iv, pp. 605-07; ThSP, vi, p. 478; Weiss, J., ‘Propositio Protectoris Angliae ad Regem Daniae,’ Historiches Jahrbuch, xiv, p. 608.

Correspondence: ThSP, vi-vii; Jenks, E., ‘Some Correspondence of Thurlowe and Meadowe,’ EHR, vii (1892), pp. 720-42; Montagu, E., The Journal of Edward Montague, the earl of Sandwich…ed R. Anderson (1929); PRO, ‘Third Report on the Royal Archives of Denmark…,’ Reports of the Deputy Keeper…, xlvii.
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Portugal
MEADOW, Philip (1626-1718)
19 Feb 1656 - c. 6 Nov 1656:  Special Agent
Audience: 7 Apr 1656

Instructions: Suggested in ThSP, iv, pp. 588, 681-2, 758.
Correspondence: ThSP, iv.
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Sweden
MEADOW, Sir Philip (1628-1718)
3 Sep 1657 - c. § Oct 1659:  Ambassador Extraordinary
Audience: 10 July 1658
£1000/an
Secretaries: William Godolphin and John Werden

He was, in these years, an ambassador who had various diplomatic responsibilities in Denmark, Poland and the Hanse (qq.v), besides in Sweden.  He seems to have been in Sweden specifically from July through Aug of 1658 and Aug through Sep of 1659.

Various Instructions for Sweden: PRO, SP/95/5A, ff. 66-74; ThSP, vii, pp. 63-4.

Correspondence: ThSP, vii; Jenks, ‘Correspondence of Thurloe and Meadowe.’
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From “The Orders of Knighthood and the Formation of the British Honours System”, p. 238, by Antti Matikkala

“Danish Order of the Elephant

“During this period there were three English Knights of the prestigious Danish Order of the Elephant. In regard to the ‘prohibition’ against receiving foreign honours without the sovereign’s consent, the most interesting is the case of Sir Philip Meadows (or Meadow), a Cromwellian diplomat, knighted by the lord protector in 1658, who was made a Knight of the Order of the Elephant while ambassador extraordinary to Denmark, 1657-9.  Like all honours conferred during the Interregnum, his Cromwellian knighthood was considered invalid after the Restoration. However, he was knighted again by Charles II in 1662.  The fact that Meadows had been made a knight of the Danish order was a surprise to the English, let alone that he wore it, and he was told not to wear it any longer and resign from the order.  There is no record of Meadows’s resignation from the order, but it appears that Charles II gave him an augmentation--’on a canton gules, a lion passant guardant Or’--to his coat of arms, probably as some kind of compensation.”
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In C H Cooper’s “Memorial of Cambridge is this entry:

“Sir Philip Meadows, Fellow, Latin Secretary to Oliver Cromwell, and Ambassador to Portugal, Denmark and Sweden, died 1718.”

Quoted in a list of eminent alumni of Queens College, Cambridge at <http://www.queens.cam.ac.uk/page-242>;.

And the same site has this in a list of fellows:

“c1647
Sir Philip Meadowe or Meadows, M.A., B.D., Kt. Latin Secretary to Cromwell's Council, Envoy to Lisbon and Stockholm, Ambassador to Sweden, Knight, Commissioner of Public Accounts, Commissioner of Trade. Author. d.1718 (aged 93).”
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The follwoing Meadows children with a father in Philip Meadows were baptised in London:

Last Name First Name Born Died Event Record set  Location

Meadowe  Elizabetha    1662  —  1662  England Births & Baptisms 1538-1975  Westminster, London
Meadows  Constancia    1664  —  1664  England Births & Baptisms 1538-1975  Westminster, London
Meadow   Philippus     1672  —  1672  England Births & Baptisms 1538-1975  Westminster, London
Meadows  Francis       —     —  1678  England Births & Baptisms 1538-1975  Chelsea, London
Meadows  Charles       —     —  1679  England Births & Baptisms 1538-1975  Chelsea, London
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His burial index tramscrobed by Cliff Webb:

First name(s)  Philip
Last name      Meadows
Occupation     snr.    [TFPL: Might this have been ’Sir’?]
Burial year    1718
Burial date    18 Sep 1718
Parish         Hammersmith
City           London
County         Middlesex
Country        England
Source         Middlesex Burials
Record set     Greater London Burial Index
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Gules a chevron ermine between three pelicans vulning themselves proper in canton a crowned lion of England.

RCL P-L gives the same arms but without the lion sejeant in canton.

As yet I have not found any identification of the tinctures of the canton or the lion sejeant in the canton.

From Burke's 1842 Armory, not from the tankard.
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In “Grantees of Arms to the End of the XVII Century” by the late Joseph Foster, edited by W Harry Rylands and published by the Harleian Society in 1915, vol III, it is written on p. 168:

“Meadows, Sir Philip, his lady was dau. and h. of .... Lucy; 20 Feb 1662-3, by Walker [Garter?]. Her Coll., fo. 49; Harl. MS. 1172, fo. 72b.”

One day it will be worth getting a copy of the documentation in the ‘Her. Coll.’.

TFPL, Seot 2018: The Catalogue of the Harliean MS has on p. 577 of Vol I, this entry from MS 1172:

“166. Trick of the Arms, with the Augmentation granted to Sir Philip Meadowes, by Sir Edward Walker, Garter.  ibid [82 b.]”

Note that this is NOT the 72b quoted above.
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TFPL, Oct 2012: Apparently the canton with lion was probably an augmentation from Charles II when Philip was knighted for the third time, by Chas II in 1662.

Shaw’s Knights of England shows that Philip was knighted in Whitehall on 24 Nov 1662.
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TFPL, Sep 2018: after one or two approaches on the Meadowe genealogy I noted that his arms were still not clearly understood.  Accordingly I have asked the College of Arms to give me some more information on the grant and augmentation of 20 Feb 1662-3.

The initial response is that their documentation is only a note of the facts of:

“a grant of Augmentation by His Majesty’s Special Licence, to Sir Philip Meadowe of Bentley, co. Suffolk, Kt., dated 20 February 1662. A pen and ink sketch or trick of the Arms is included. [Coll Arm Mss Walker’s Grants 1/13 and 2/49].

“The records of the College of Arms do not seem to preserve a full copy of any Patent issued in relation to this grant. It is possible that no Patent as such was issued, if the prime mover was the Crown, for in some cases the Crown it seems effectively made the grant by its own document and the College of Arms was only informed of the fact of the grant being made. It is possible that a Royal Warrant for the augmentation might survive in the Public Records, but this is by no means always or even often the case.”

But this alone suggests that these arms have risen in the scale of importance in that they, or at least the augmentation, were clearly granted directly by the Sovereign.

Watch this space...
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TFPL, Sept 2018: A photo of the trick with brief details has been duly provided by Peter O’Donoghue, York Herald.  This lead to my finding an article in the Coat of Arms No 42 of Winter 1960 by C. W. Scott-Giles, Fitzalan Pursuivant Extraordinary with the title “Seventeenth Century Augmentations of Honour in which he says that Sir Philip Meadowe’s was “with a crowned lion of England to Sir Philip Meadowe”.

The trick has the tinctures indicated but tragically they are not legible.  However the description of “crowned lion of England” enables me to say that the canton must have been Gules a lion passant guardant crowned Or.

So his arms now becomes:

“Gules a chevron ermine between three pelicans vulning themselves proper in canton Gules a crowned lion passant guardant Or.”

However it is odd to have both the fields, of the shield and of the canton as Gules.  I am going to ask York a question about this.

I did not need to ask York any more as a close examination of the image he sent me revealed that the trick tinctures were legible and the field was ‘b’, blue, or azure in heraldic (I suspect they used ‘b’ rather than ‘a’ or even ‘az’ as that would get confused with argent - Fox-Davies confirms this in “Complete Guide to Heraldry”, edition 7 reprinted 1954, p. 77).

So Philip Meadowe’s arms have become:

“Azure a chevron ermine between three pelicans vulning themselves proper in canton Gules a crowned lion passant guardant Or.”

At the end of his article, Scott-Giles remarks:

“Reviewing the recipients of these augmentations, together with others there is not the space to deal with, one finds that, loyal and worthy men though they were, few of them were of great eminence. It will, perhaps, put the augmentations granted during this period into perspective if we reflect that in similar circumstances today many of these men, instead of receiving an heraldic distinction, would be appointed to the third, fourth or fifth class of one of the Orders of Chivalry.”
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Meadows, Sir Philip 1626-1718

Name: Meadows, Sir Philip
Dates: 1626-1718
Active Date: 1666
Gender: Male

Field of Interest: Politics, Government and Political Movements
Occupation: Diplomatist
Place of Baptism: Chattisham, Suffolk
Education: Queens' College, Cambridge
Burial: Hammersmith
Spouse: Constance, second daughter and coheiress of Francis Lucy
Sources: Gent. Mag. 1824, ii. 518; Burke's Peerage, 1889, p...
Contributor: T. S. [Thomas Seccombe]

Co-subject: Meadows, [Sir] Philip
Dates: d. 1757
Active Date: 1737
Gender: Male

Article
Meadows, Sir Philip 1626-1718, diplomatist, baptised at Chattisham, Suffolk, on 4 Jan. 1625-6 (Page, Suffolk, p. 13), was fifth son of Daniel Meadowe (1571-1651) of Chattisham, by his wife Elizabeth, and grandson of William Meddowe or Meadowe (d. 1588), as the name was anciently spelt, of Witnesham. Philip was educated at Queens' College, Cambridge, whence he graduated M.A. In October 1653 he was appointed, on Thurloe's recommendation, Latin secretary to Cromwell's council at a salary of 100l., soon augmented to 200l. a year. The appointment was made in order to relieve Milton, who was then receiving 15s. 10ód. a day from the council, but whose blindness incapacitated him from the full discharge of his duties, and who virtually became henceforth `Latin secretary extraordinary' (Cal. State Papers, Dom. 1653-4, p. 386). The poet would have preferred the appointment of Andrew Marvell (in whose interest he wrote to Bradshaw) as his assistant; but Meadows soon gave complete satisfaction, and henceforth did the bulk of the routine work in the department (Masson, Milton, iv. 479, 526, 575-80). In March 1656 he was selected to represent the Lord Protector at Lisbon in respect to the ratification of the treaty between England and Portugal, and he sailed from Portsmouth in the Phenix, Captain Whetstone, on the 11th of the month (Cal. State Papers, Dom. 1655-6, pp. 236, 503-4). Good news received from him in July were qualified by the report that he had been insulted and `maimed' in the execution of his duty (ib.; and cf. Cal. of Clarendon State Papers, iii. 154); lands to the value of 100l. a year were granted to him by way of compensation; but no confiscated property of precisely the right amount being instantly available, this was commuted by a lump sum of 1,000l. Meadows returned from Lisbon in the Phenix towards the end of November. In February 1657 it was decided to send him as envoy to Frederick III, king of Denmark. His goods were to pass free of customs and excise, and he was to have 400l. for preliminary expenses in addition to 1,000l. a year salary. A Mr. Sterry was appointed to act as secretary during his absence on two hundred marks a year, and Meadows sailed in the Assistance in August 1657. He arrived at Elsinore in September (Thurloe, p. 509), and was received at Copenhagen about the 20th, his entry and reception being `more solemn than usual, to the regret of some other ministers residing in the court' (ib.). In March 1657-8 he gave a full account to Thurloe of the treaty of Roskild (8 March) between Frederick III and Charles Gustavus of Sweden. Though Denmark lost considerably by the treaty, Cromwell was unwilling to see her absorbed by Sweden, and did what he could to protect her interests. Meadows had an interview with Charles X after the treaty, and described him as perfectly well disposed to the Protector. He presented him with a handsome sword, which Charles swore to use against the house of Austria. The envoy now asked permission to return to England, but was sent to take part as a mediator in negotiations pending between the kings of Sweden and Poland. The task was very delicate, especially as the Polish monarch's sentiments with regard to Cromwell were quite uncertain, and it was soon relinquished.
During the spring of 1658 Meadows was knighted, and was sent as ambassador to the court of Sweden, but he was unable to exert much influence. Cromwell was endeavouring to unite Sweden and Denmark with England, France, and if possible Brandenburg, against Austria and Spain. Charles Gustavus had other views. He recommenced war with Denmark, marched an army across the frozen waters of the Baltic, and before the end of 1658 was bombarding the Danish capital. A witness of these exploits, Meadows remained with Charles before Copenhagen, giving him vague promises of English support as his position grew more and more embarrassing. Brandenburg and the Dutch came to Denmark's aid, and Charles's situation became most precarious. The English fleet under Edward Montague, earl of Sandwich [q.v.], appeared in the Sound in April 1659, and Charles now confidently anticipated support; but Meadows was only empowered to insist upon the status quo as defined by the peace of Roskild, and this principle was soon adopted as the basis for an armistice. Meadows, however, returned to England on leave (July 1659) before the terms of the peace were finally enforced, or supplemented and confirmed by the treaty of Copenhagen in 1660. Meadows had been created a knight of the order of the Elephant of Denmark, and by Cromwell a knight-marshal of the palace (1658). At the Restoration his position was untenable, and in February 1660 he was turned out of his lodgings at Whitehall to make room for [Sir] William Temple. Little is heard of him in his retirement until 1677, when he published `A Narrative of the Principal Actions occurring in the Wars betwixt Sueden and Denmark before and after the Roschild Treaty, with the Counsels and Measures by which those actions were directed, together with a View of the Suedish and other Affairs as they stood in Germany in the year 1675, with relation to England,' London, 12mo, dedicated to the Right Hon. Earl of Bristol. Four years later he published `A Brief Enquiry into Leagues and Confederacies made betwixt Princes and Nations, with the Nature of their Obligations,' a not very lucid protest against the inconsistency of English foreign policy under Charles II (printed in Somers Tracts, 1812, viii. 22). In 1689 appeared his interesting `Observations concerning the Dominion and Sovereignty of the Seas, being an Abstract of the Marine Affairs of England,' London, 4to. Here, while accepting the general conclusions of Selden's `Mare Clausum,' the author deprecates a policy of encroachment. He inquires what is meant by `dominion of the sea,' and what things are incident to such a dominion. He considers England's claim to salutation by the flag and topsail, a practice in which he discovers both inconsistencies and dangers, treats of the exclusion of foreign men-of-war from British waters, and finally of marine jurisdiction, fishing rights, and other subsidiary topics. In 1690 Meadows was exchanging verses and epigrams with John Cotton, and the latter writes: `In this traffic of poetry I am the great gainer, for Sir Ph. doth exchange (as Glaucus did with Diomedes) ¨æ¯úxp ¨p‚õx/Ç∂' (Aubrey, Bodleian Letters, 1813, i. 19).
Restored to favour at the revolution, Meadows was in January 1691-2 appointed commissioner for taking public accounts, and in May 1696 created a member of the original council of trade. He was reappointed commissioner for the promoting of trade in January 1707-8, with a salary of 1,000l. a year (Harl. MS. 2263, ff. 152, 333). He died, aged 93, on 16 Sept. 1718, and was buried at Hammersmith (Chron. Regist. 1718, p. 34).

Meadows married, in April 1661, Constance, second daughter and coheiress of Francis Lucy of Westminster, by whom he had a son and three daughters, of whom Elizabeth married Sir Thomas Powys [q.v.], while a second espoused Richard Dyott, commissioner of stamp duties from 1708 to 1710, in which year he was convicted of fraud and sent to Newgate, but soon afterwards pardoned (see Swift, Journal to Stella, letter v.). The son, Philip Meadows d. 1757, who was a commissioner of excise from 1698 to 1700, was on 2 July 1700 appointed knight-marshal of the king's household, and formally knighted by William III on 23 Dec. 1700 at Hampton Court; he succeeded Stanhope as envoy to Holland in December 1706, was in 1707 despatched on a special mission to the emperor, and during his absence appointed controller of army accounts (Cal. State Papers, Treasury, 1708-14, passim); in November 1708 he presented a memorial to the emperor in favour of the protestants of Silesia, but before his vigorous protest had time to take effect he was succeeded by Lord Raby in August 1709. He subsequently took up his abode at Richmond, and died at Brompton on 5 Dec. 1757, leaving issue by his wife Dorothy, sister of Hugh Boscawen, first viscount Falmouth, three sons and five daughters (Wentworth Papers, p. 98; Boyer, Queen Anne, 1735, pp. 338, 395). Of these the third son, Philip (1708-1781), deputy-ranger of Windsor Park, married in 1734 Frances, only daughter of William Pierrepoint, viscount Newark, a niece to Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, and was father of Charles, who succeeded to the Kingston estates on the death of the dowager-duchess in 1788, took the name of Pierrepoint, and was on 9 April 1806 created Earl Manvers; and of Sir William Medows [q.v.].

Sources
Gent. Mag. 1824, ii. 518; Burke's Peerage, 1889, p. 923, and Extinct Peerages, p. 428; A. Page's Supplement to the Suffolk Traveller, 1844, p. 74; Thurloe's State Papers, ed. Birch, vi. vii. passim; Cal. State Papers, Dom. Ser. 1653-60, passim; Hist. MSS. Comm. 11th Rep. App. iv. 254, 296, 13th Rep. App. v. 183; Cooper's Memorials of Cambridge, i. 313; Dyer's Modern Europe, iii. 337; Luttrell's Brief Relation, passim; Patrick's Autob. p. 20; Litt. Cromwellii, 1676, passim; Add. MS. 5131, 5132, passim, and 19141, ff. 342-59 (Davy's Suffolk Collections); Brit. Mus. Cat.

Contributor: T. S.

published:  1894
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The Marriage Allegation date is 4th April 1661.  The text is (very roughly):

April the 4th, 1661

Which day appeared Ferdinando Kelly servant to Sr Phillipp Meadows Kt of St Martins in the Fields in the County of Middx and brought a letter under the seal of the said Sr Phillipp his master wch mains (/) in thi ... of this Office with the desire that Licence may be granted for ... to marry ... one Constance Lucey ... aged about 18 years , daughter of Francis Lucey of the parish aforesaid Esq nad ... signfified by the same letter & also alledged by the said Ferdinando that the parents & ... ... ...  ... to the said ... marriage, formall writing in law
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Licence for the said Sr Phillipp and Constance Lucy to be marryed in the parish church of St Martin in the Fields ...
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(signed) Ferdinando Kelly
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And FamilySearch has this purported record of their marriage:

groom's name:                     Philip Meadow
bride's name:                     Constance Lucy
marriage date:                    09 Apr 1661
marriage place:                   Saint Clement Danes,Westminster,London,England
indexing project (batch) number:  M04160-6
system origin:                    England-ODM
source film number:               1042328
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Transcription from the register:

First name(s)           Philip
Last name               Meadow
Marriage year           1661
Parish                  St Clement Danes
Spouse's first name(s)  Constance
Spouse's last name      Lucy
County                  Middlesex
Country                 England
Archive                 City of Westminster Archives Centre
Record set              Westminster Marriages

and from the image of the register:

“Philip Meadow and Constance Lucy Marryed April 9 1661”
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