{"id":18755,"date":"2025-10-27T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/historyofparliament.com\/?p=18755"},"modified":"2025-11-19T11:41:47","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T11:41:47","slug":"john-robartes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/historyofparliament.com\/2025\/10\/27\/john-robartes\/","title":{"rendered":"John Robartes, 2nd Baron Robartes of Truro (later earl of Radnor): reading in the revolution"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In this guest article, Dr Sophie Aldred<\/a>, lecturer in Early Modern History at the University of Oxford, explores the library of Lord Robartes and what it tells us of his political position during the revolutionary years of the 1640s.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Variously described as of an \u2018unsociable nature and impetuous disposition\u2019, \u2018sour\u2019, \u2018surly\u2019, and a \u2018destroyer of every body\u2019s business\u2019, John Robartes, 2nd Baron Robartes of Truro and later earl of Radnor, was not the sort to invite affectionate remembrance. For the historian of the seventeenth century, however, the survival of his library at Lanhydrock in Cornwall, together with his notebooks and commonplace books, softens the impression. Read alongside the pronouncements of his public career, these materials show how a peer of the 1640s operated intellectually as well as practically, and how processes of reading and reflection were pressed into the day-to-day business of politics.<\/p>\n\n\n

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John Robartes, 2nd Robartes of Truro, c.1683. Artist unknown, studio of Godfrey Kneller. Accessed via Wikimedia Commons<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

John Robartes was born in 1606 to the wealthy Cornish merchant Richard Robartes and Frances Robartes n\u00e9e Hender. In 1621 Richard bought the barony of Truro for the eyewatering sum of \u00a310,000 at the behest of the unpopular George Villiers, 1st duke of Buckingham. John himself seemed keen to forget this recent ennoblement, striking out references to it in print. <\/p>\n\n\n

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Robartes’ copy of Hamon L’Estrange, The Reign of King Charles (1655), p.43. \u00a9 Dr Sophie Aldred. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Little is known of John Robartes\u2019 early education. Edward Hyde, earl of Clarendon, sneered that his \u2018proud and imperious\u2019 humours were \u2018increased by an ill Education; for excepting some years spent in the Inns of Court amongst the Books of the Law, he might be very justly said to have been born and bred in Cornwall\u2019 [Clarendon, Life<\/em>, ii. 238\u20139]. In fact, Robartes studied at Exeter College, Oxford under John Prideaux before being admitted to Lincoln\u2019s Inn in February 1630 alongside William Lord Russell (later 5th earl of Bedford), Robert Greville, 2nd Baron Brooke, and Oliver St John: all men later prominent in opposition to Charles I and connected to networks of godly aristocratic critics of the king\u2019s personal rule.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

John affirmed his entr\u00e9e <\/em>into this circle that same year when he married Lucy Rich, daughter of Robert Rich, 2nd earl of Warwick, and it was likely through Warwick that Robartes acquired a seat on the board of the Providence Island Company \u2013 a venture notable more for the godly convictions of its investors than for its colonial achievements. Robartes\u2019 own investment was trifling (mere pounds compared to the thousand laid down by William Fiennes, 1st Viscount Saye and Sele) yet it was enough to place him alongside the king\u2019s most persistent critics. There can be little doubt that Robartes shared both in the geopolitical assumptions of the Providence group, and the godly ideals that infused their perception of the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When Robartes took his seat in the Lords in 1640 he joined his former board members (now referred to as the \u2018Pro Scots\u2019 group, \u2018Puritan Party\u2019, or even \u2018junto\u2019 [P. Warwick, Memoirs of the Reign of Charles I<\/em>, 173]) in opposition. He was often named to committees and generally voted with his allies, though not unthinkingly: in May 1641 he \u2018positively\u2019 and unusually for an associate of the junto \u2018refused [the Protestation], alleging there was no law that enjoined it, and the consequence of such voluntary engagements might produce effects that were not then intended\u2019 (Clarendon, Hist. rebellion<\/em>, iii. 187). His notebooks from this period hint at the roots of this independence, revealing not only his preoccupations, but the way in which his interpretation of the nation\u2019s ills was refracted through his reading.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One such notebook, compiled between 1640 and 1641, opens with a revealing interlude from the fifteenth century. \u2018During the time of Henry V of England\u2019, wrote Robartes, \u2018the Kingdom of the French lost its freedom and noble properties\u2019. Its Parliament had \u2018urgently and under necessity\u2019 granted the king a right to levy taxes, and \u2018until this day the authority to demand taxes remains with the king \u2026 creating strife and difficulties amongst the once fierce and free peoples\u2019. Thus, Robartes surmised, \u2018the danger of necessity is known\u2019 (BL, Harleian 2325, f. 2r).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There can be little doubt as to the lesson here drawn. If the motto scrawled on a subsequent folio \u2013 Lege historiam ne fias historia<\/em>, \u2018Read history, lest you become history\u2019 \u2013 were not clear enough (BL, Harleian 2325, f. 4r), Robartes also copied from earlier editions of the Journal of the House of Lords<\/em> various instances where Charles had couched his requests for money in the language of \u2018public necessity\u2019: the free gift in July 1626, the Forced Loan, Privy Seal loans in 1628, the levying of tonnage and poundage in 1629, as well as \u2018ship money\u2019 in 1637. This was not, he recognised, entirely novel. James VI & I had done the same. Yet whereas James conceded that a king was bound \u2018by a double oath to the observation of the fundamentall lawes of his kingdom\u2019 (Workes<\/em>, 1616, p.531, underlining Robartes\u2019), Robartes\u2019 reading of Charles\u2019s conduct suggested that his son entertained no such restraint. Worse still, as his research into the cleric Roger Maynwaring shows, were those close to the king who combined arguments from necessity with a more worrying appeal to absolutist principles. Only Parliament, it would appear from the statutes Robartes copied out, could defend against such \u2018Machiavellian counsellors\u2019, the most notorious of whom was almost certainly Thomas Wentworth, 1st earl of Strafford.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Robartes was one of the most active peers in the Lords\u2019 proceedings against Strafford, serving on the committee of 3 December 1640 to examine witnesses, and on each of the joint committees investigating his conduct. The same notebook, as well as the flyleaves of his books, are crowded with references to treason statutes \u2013 testimony not only to the energy Robartes poured into considering Strafford\u2019s case, but also to the grounds on which he found him guilty. Whilst some historians have suggested that of the articles drawn up against Strafford only articles fifteen and twenty-three contained anything that was actually \u2018treason\u2019, Robartes\u2019 notes suggest otherwise. Alongside the statute of 25 Edward III he noted the case of Empson and Dudley, condemned under Henry VIII for \u2018withdrawing the hearts of the subjects from the king\u2019. Marginal references to John Eliot in 1626 and Elizabeth Barton under Henry VIII point in the same direction. For Robartes, treason did not consist only in a direct act against the monarch\u2019s person, but also in creating division between king and people.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Robartes\u2019 copy of the Univ. Of Oxford, Proteleia, <\/em>flyleaves with his jottings of various treason statutes. \u00a9 Dr Sophie Aldred. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Seen in this light, the articles against Strafford, alleging that he had \u2018laboured to alienate the Hearts of the King\u2019s liege People from His Majesty\u2019, struck him as treason in the fullest sense. When the impeachment faltered and the bill of attainder was brought forward, Robartes had little difficulty persuading himself of its justice. He had considered other precedents \u2013 peers allowed to go at large or degraded rather than condemned \u2013 but concluded that Strafford\u2019s offences left no such room for leniency. His later annotations, and his protests when the attainder was reversed in the 1660s, confirm that he continued to regard Strafford\u2019s execution as both necessary and lawful.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Robartes\u2019 copy of F. Pulton, Collection of Sundry Statutes <\/em>(1636), with torn reference to Strafford\u2019s trial. \u00a9 Dr Sophie Aldred. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Robartes was to read his way through many more of the debates of the Long Parliament, though the military duties that drew him away from the House between 1642 and early 1645 also drew him away from his library. His exploits in these years left little to admire. The debacle at Lostwithiel in 1644 ended in an ignominious escape by fishing boat, and when he returned to political life after 1645, his reflections reveal a man increasingly unsettled not only by the king\u2019s duplicity but also by the radicalism of Parliament and the army. By 1649 it was not the execution of Charles I that most disturbed him, but the abolition of the House of Lords. In his notes he copied a verse from Lamentations<\/em>: \u2018Servants rule over us; there is none to deliver us out of their hand.\u2019 For a peer who had long believed the Lords to be the \u2018screen and bank\u2019 mediating between king and commons, their destruction was the true calamity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like the House of Lords, though, it was not the end for Lord Robartes. After retreating to his library in the 1650s \u2013 on better terms with his books than with many of his former allies \u2013 he returned after the Restoration as privy councillor, lord privy seal, and eventually lord president of the council. Edward Hyde, 1st earl of Clarendon admitted that \u2018for all men alive who had so few friends, he had the most followers\u2019 (Life<\/em>, ii. 239). And when, after his disastrous sojourn as lord lieutenant of Ireland \u2013 a posting he had long coveted, and just as swiftly squandered \u2013 he retired to Lanhydrock, it was once again to strike up conversation with the texts that had been his companions since the first days of the Short Parliament.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

S.A.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Further Reading:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

S. Aldred, \u2018Medicine, Marriage and Masculinity in Early Modern England: John Robartes and the Library at Lanhydrock House 1630\u201385\u2019, Historical Research <\/em>98:281 (2025), pp.333-49.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 C. Holmes, \u2018Parliament, Liberty, Taxation and Property\u2019, in J. Hexter (ed.), Parliament and Liberty<\/em> from the Reign of Elizabeth to the Civil War <\/em>(Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1992), pp.122-53.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

C. Russell, \u2018The Theory of Treason in the Trial of Strafford\u2019, English Historical Review <\/em>80:314 (1965) pp.30-50.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

W. R. Stacy, \u2018Matter of Fact, Matter of Law, and the Attainder of the Earl of Strafford\u2019, American Journal of Legal History <\/em>29:4 (1985), pp.323\u201347.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A. Cambers, Godly Reading: Print, Manuscript and Puritanism in England, 1580-1720 <\/em>(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A. Grafton, N. Popper, W. Sherman (eds.), Gabriel Harvey and the History of Reading: Essays by Lisa Jardine and Others<\/em> (London: UCL Press, 2024).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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