of the Inner Temple (Cooke, Admissions, 1547–1660, p. 106). On 10 Dec. 1591 he had assigned to him, his wife Frances, and his son Roger, the lease of Lidcourt Meadows, Eastry, Kent, for their three lives (Cal. State Papers, Dom. 1591-4, p. 142), and in 1595, 1596, and 1597 had other small grants arising out of lands in Kent (ib. 1598-1601, pp. 527, 528, 531). He was M.P. for Sandwich in 1588-9, 1592-3, 1597, and 1601; for Saltash, Cornwall, in March 1603-4; for Kent in 1614; and for New Romney in January 1620-1. On 12 Dec. 1598 he had license granted him to travel beyond seas for his increase in good knowledge and learning' (ib. 1598-1601, p. 132). He was appointed sheriff of Kent in 1602 (ib. 1601-1603, p. 268), and at the coronation of James I, on 25 July 1603, was made knight of the Bath (Metcalfe, Book of Knights, p. 150). He was also a commissioner of sewers for Kent (Cal. State Papers, Dom. 1619-23, p. 281). Manwood was not only learned himself, but a patron of learned men, whom he liked to gather round him at his seat at St. Stephens, otherwise Hackington, near Canterbury. He is mentioned with great respect by Camden (Britannia, ed. 1607, p. 239), and was a member of the Society of Antiquaries in 1617, when application was made for a charter (Archæologia, i. xxi). His lavish style of living involved him in difficulties, and he had to quit the country in August 1021. Broken in health he ventured back as far as Dover in April 1624, hoping to persuade his creditors to accept some arrangement whereby he might be suffered to end his days in his own country. His lifelong friend, Lord Zouch, wrote to Secretary Conway begging him to use his influence with the king for Manwood's protection (Cal. State Papers, Dom. 1623-5, p. 213).
Manwood died in 1625, and was buried in St. Stephen's Church, leaving a large family by his wife Frances (1573-1638), daughter of Sir George Hart of Lullingstone, Kent. (Beret, County Genealogies, 'Kent,' p. 356). John Manwood (d. 1053), his second son and ultimate successor to the estates, was one of the gentlemen of the king's privy chamber, and was knighted on 3 April 1618 (Metcalfe, p. 173). In 1639 he was lieutenant-governor of Dover Castle, and in April 1640 was elected M.P. for Sandwich. About 1637 he sold the estate of St. Stephen's to Colonel Sir Thomas Colepeper, and, having married a Dutch lady as his second wife, resided thenceforth a good deal in Holland (Hasted, Kent, fol, ed., hi. 595). Another son, Thomas Manwood, student of the Inner Temple 1610, and B.A. Lincoln College, Oxford, 1611, was drowned in France in 1613 (Foster, Alumni Oxon. 1500-1714, iii. 968). His premature death was gracefully commemorated by William Browne of Tavistock in the fourth eclogue of 'The Shepherd's Pipe' (1614). A daughter, Elizabeth, married Sir Thomas Walsingham [q. v.]
Part of the manuscript of Sir Roger Williams's 'The Actions of the Lowe Countries' having fallen into Manwood's hands, he gave it to Sir John Hay ward for revision, and published it in 1618, 4to, prefixing an epistle dedicatory to Sir Francis Bacon. He hoped that the publication might prove 'a meane of drawing the residue into light.'
Two of Manwood s letters to Lord Zouch, dated 1620, are in Egerton MS. 2584, ff. 98, 129. A register of documents relating to his estates, dated 1551-1619, is Additional MS. 29759.
[Boys's Sandwich, 1792, p. 249; Notes and Queries, 3rd ser. iv. 477; Lansd. MS. 109, art. 97.]
MANWOOD, Sir ROGER (1525–1592), judge, second son of Thomas Manwood, a substantial draper of Sandwich, Kent, by Catherine, daughter of John Galloway of Cley, Hundred of South Greenhow, Norfolk, was born at Sandwich in 1525. Educated at St. Peter's school, Sandwich, he was admitted in 1548 to the Inner Temple, where he was called to the bar in 1555. The same year he was appointed recorder of Sandwich, and entered parliament as member for Hastings. In 1557-8 he exchanged Hastings for Sandwich, which he continued to represent until 1572. He resigned the recordership of Sandwich in 1566, but acted as counsel for the town until his death. Manwood was also, for some years prior to his elevation to the bench of the common pleas, steward, i.e. judge, of the chancery and admiralty courts of Dover.
At the Inner Temple revels of Christmas 1561 Manwood played the part of lord chief baron in the masque of 'Palaphilos' [cf. Hatton, Sir Christopher, 1540–1591]. Heearly attracted the favourable notice of the queen' who in 1563 granted him the royal manor of St. Stephen's, or Hackington, Kent, which he made his principal seat, rebuilding the house in magnificent style. He was reader at the Inner Temple in Lent 1565; his reading on the statute 21 Hen. VIII, c. 3, is extant in Harleian MS. 5265 (see also Thoresby, Ducat Leod. Cat. of MSS. in 4to, No. 119). He was a friend of Sir Thomas Gresham and Archbishop Parker,
