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:''Hungerford should not be confused with his namesake and contemporary, the Royalist Member of Parliament Anthony Hungerford'' Anthony Hungerford (1614/15?–1657), was a Colonel in the English Parliamentary army who fought in Ireland during the War of the Three Kingdoms. ==Biography== In September 1646 Anthony Hungerford pressed for a commission as governor of the parliamentarian garrison at Stoke, and for an appointment as major of the standing companies in Shropshire. Subsequently the parliament seems to have accepted his services, and sent him to Ireland, where he landed on 30 April 1647. He was colonel of a regiment at Drogheda in 1648. In 1650, after being shot in the head at the Battle of Dungan's Hill in County Meath,〔Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Historical Manuscripts Commission. Report on the manuscripts of the Earl of Egmont. Vol. I. Part II. (Percival family) (p.445 ) "...Colonel Hungerford shot in the mouth..."〕 he returned to England, where he busied himself in 'discovering' papists' and other delinquents' estates.〔Committee for Advance of Money-Cases 2 March 1653.〕 In July 1652 the council of state granted him £100 to enable him to return to Ireland.〔 Cites: ''Cal. State Papers'', Dom. 1651-2, p. 610.〕 He was in 1653 a prisoner for debt in the "upper bench" in London, and petitioned parliament for payment of his commission as a debtor. According to a certificate from Sir John Danvers, he was "of most honest and religious conversation, very free from the common vices of swearing, drunkenness, &c.,and most valiant and faithful" in the service of the parliament. He obtained leave to return to Ireland, but on 28 March 1654 his regiment was disbanded, and he himself was left in urgent need. A weekly pension of 20s. was granted him by the Council of State on 17 April 1655.〔 Cites: ''Cal. State Papers'', Dom. 1651-2.〕 He died on 9 June 1657.〔 Cites: Thurloe, ''State Papers'', vi. 594.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Anthony Hungerford (Roundhead)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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