{{Short description|Welsh magistrate}} {{Use British English|date=March 2012}} {{Use dmy dates|date=June 2020}} {{Infobox person | honorific_prefix = | name = Henry Milbourne | honorific_suffix = | image = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = circa 1600 | birth_place = | death_date = after 1692 | death_place = | death_cause = | resting_place = | resting_place_coordinates = <!-- {{Coord|LAT|LONG|display=inline}} --> | monuments = | education = | occupation = Magistrate | years_active = | known_for = | spouse = | partner = | children = | parents = | relatives = | awards = }}
'''Henry Milbourne''', also '''Milburne''' or '''Milborne''', (circa 1600 – after 1692) was a Welsh magistrate who served as the Recorder of Monmouth and as agent to the Duke of Beaufort.<ref name="McClain2001"/><ref name="Kissack1975">{{cite book|last=Kissack|first=K. E.|title=Monmouth: the making of a county town|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tRYjAAAAMAAJ|accessdate=13 March 2012|date=October 1975|publisher=Phillimore|isbn=978-0-85033-209-4|page=34}}</ref>
==Biography== Milbourne hailed from Wonastow, near Monmouth, South Wales and reportedly had his seat at Wonastow Court. He is also linked to the village of Clytha.<ref name="McClain2001">{{cite book|last=McClain|first=Molly|title=Beaufort: The Duke and his Duchess, 1657–1715|url=https://archive.org/details/beaufortdukehisd00mccl|url-access=registration|accessdate=13 March 2012|date=11 May 2001|publisher=Yale University Press|isbn=978-0-300-08411-5|page=[https://archive.org/details/beaufortdukehisd00mccl/page/129 129]}}</ref><ref name="UnderdownAmussen1995">{{cite book|last1=Underdown|first1=David|last2=Amussen|first2=Susan Dwyer|last3=Kishlansky|first3=Mark A.|title=Political Culture and Cultural Politics in Early Modern England: Essays presented to David Underdown|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TWG7AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA122|year=1995|publisher=Manchester University Press ND|isbn=978-0-7190-4695-7|page=122}}</ref><ref name="Britain1982" /> He was the uncle of William Milbourne (c.1633–1660), also of Wonastow, and in 1658, William is recorded as entering his uncle's chambers at the Middle Temple.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1660-1690/member/milborne-william-1633-60|title=The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1660–1690, ed. B.D. Henning|publisher=Boydell and Brewe|year=1983}}</ref> He was also the great-uncle of the MP Clayton Milbourne (aft. 1676–1726).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1690-1715/member/milborne-clayton-1676-1726|title=The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1690–1715|publisher=D. Hayton, E. Cruickshanks, S. Handley|year=2002}}</ref>
Milbourne served as a steward at the Jesuit college at The Cwm which was owned by the Worcester Estate, in the parish of Llanrothal, Herefordshire in the 1670s. During this period, Milbourne probably lived in nearby Hilston House, a few miles away across the border in Monmouthshire. He is known to have been the steward of Cwm at the time it was raided, during the Popish Plot in 1678, by Border Protestants such as Herbert Croft, John Arnold of Monmouthshire and ultra-Protestant Charles Price.<ref name="Britain1982">{{cite book|author=Catholic Record Society (Great Britain)|title=Recusant history|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=24cjAQAAIAAJ|accessdate=9 March 2012|year=1982|publisher=Catholic Record Society.|page=81}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|url=http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract;jsessionid=B8484418F58CEEB575C8523F5B6DEB58.journals?fromPage=online&aid=3337696|title=Anti-popery on the Welsh Marches in the Seventeenth Century|journal=The Historical Journal|publisher= Cambridge University Press|date=1 June 1980 |volume =23|issue= 2 |accessdate=13 March 2012}}</ref> Arnold reportedly gave some of his harshest criticism to Milbourne, describing him as an "undoubted Papist" who only "held lands wirth £100 per annum in one county, but is made justice of the peace in four".<ref name="UnderdownAmussen1995"/><ref>{{cite journal|url=http://cylchgronaucymru.llgc.org.uk/browse/viewpage/llgc-id:1277425/llgc-id:1287682/llgc-id:1287752/getText|title=Wales and the Order of the Royal Oak|journal=National Library of Wales Journal |volume=Cyf. 24|issue= rh. 3 |date=1986|accessdate=13 January 2012}}</ref> He denounced Milbourne in the House of Commons but with little success; several MPs believed Arnold's report was poorly constructed and some believed that the lord-lieutenant was a Catholic activist in South Wales.<ref name="UnderdownAmussen1995"/> Also involved in the dispute was Milbourne's uncle Rowland Prichard,<ref name="Uncle">{{cite web|url=http://cylchgronaucymru.llgc.org.uk/browse/viewpage/llgc-id:1073091/llgc-id:1080171/llgc-id:1080211/getText|title=Nathan Rogers and the Wentwood Case : a continuing issue in Monmouthshire politics from Charles I to the Chartists /Welsh History Review Vol. 14|year=1989|publisher=Welsh History Review|accessdate=13 March 2012}}</ref> who claimed "to pay an extra £10 a year rent to be allowed to have mass said at his house at Llanrothal" and one of Milborne's servants.<ref name="WC">{{cite web|url=http://cylchgronaucymru.llgc.org.uk/browse/viewpage/llgc-id:1073091/llgc-id:1080171/llgc-id:1080214/getText|title=Nathan Rogers and the Wentwood Case : a continuing issue in Monmouthshire politics from Charles I to the Chartists /Welsh History Review Vol. 14|year=1989|publisher=Welsh History Review|accessdate=13 March 2012}}</ref> Milbourne is said to have "laid violent hands on the chief constable so that the servant could escape" and was fined a shilling per Sunday, which Milbourne refused to levy.<ref name="WC"/> Milbourne was then involved in the Wentwood Case along with the Deputy Governor of Chepstow.<ref name="WC"/> Milbourne assisted John Aubrey<ref name="Aubrey2006">{{cite book|last=Aubrey|first=John|title=The Natural History of Wiltshire|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=goF_8tPuYykC&pg=PA137|year=2006|publisher=Echo Library|isbn=978-1-4068-0716-5|page=137}}</ref> and Thomas Fuller<ref name="FullerNuttall1840">{{cite book|last1=Fuller|first1=Thomas|last2=Nuttall|first2=P. Austin|title=The History of the Worthies of England|url=https://archive.org/details/historyofworthie02full|accessdate=13 March 2012|year=1840|publisher=T. Tegg|page=[https://archive.org/details/historyofworthie02full/page/439 439]}}</ref> with research for their works.
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