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Miles Corbet (1595–1662) was an English politician, recorder of Yarmouth and a regicide of King Charles I.
Miles Corbett | |
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| Member of Parliament for Yarmouth | |
| In office 17 March 1628 – 16 March 1660 | |
| Preceded by | Sir John Corbet, 1st Baronet |
| Personal details | |
| Born | c. 1594 Sprowston, Norfolk |
| Died | 19 April 1662 Tyburn gallows |
| Nationality | English |
| Political party | Parliamentarian |
| Occupation | Member of Parliament |
| Profession | Lawyer |
Life
editBorn a member of the Corbet family he was the son of Sir Thomas Corbet of Sprowston, Norfolk and the younger brother of Sir John Corbet, 1st Baronet, MP for Great Yarmouth from 1625 to 1629. He entered Lincoln's Inn and was appointed Recorder of Great Yarmouth.[1]
Miles succeeded his brother John as MP for Yarmouth, England, serving from 1640 to 1653,[2] and was a signatory of the death warrant of Charles I.
In 1644, he was made clerk of the Court of Wards. In 1649, Oliver Cromwell granted the estate of Malahide Castle to Corbet after the Cromwellian Conquest of Ireland. In 1655, Corbet was appointed Chief Baron of the Irish Exchequer.[1]
After the restoration of King Charles II in 1660, the castle was returned to its ancestral owners. All the 59 men who had signed the death warrant of Charles I were in grave danger of severe punishment because they were considered regicides. Miles Corbet, like many of them, fled England. He went to the Netherlands where he thought he would be safe. However, along with two other regicides, John Okey and John Barkstead, he was arrested by the English ambassador to the Netherlands, Sir George Downing, and returned to England under guard. After a trial, Corbet was found guilty, and executed on 19 April 1662. In his dying speech he said:
When I was first called to serve in parliament I had an estate; I spent it in the service of the parliament. I never bought any king's or bishop's lands; I thought I had enough, at least I was content with it; that I might serve God and my country was that I aimed at.[1]
References
edit- ^ a b c Firth 1887.
- ^ David Plant (2 August 2005). "Biography of Miles Corbet". British-civil-wars.co.uk. Retrieved 16 August 2014.
- Attribution
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Firth, Charles Harding (1887). "Corbet, Miles". In Stephen, Leslie (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 12. London: Smith, Elder & Co. pp. 202–203.
External links
edit- The former home of Miles Corbet
- Barber, Sarah. "Corbett, Miles (1594/5–1662)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004.