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SIR HENRY VANE (1589-1654)

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Originally appearing in Volume V27, Page 892 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SIR See also:HENRY See also:VANE (1589-1654)  , See also:English secretary of See also:state, eldest son of See also:Henry See also:Vane or Fane, of Hadlow, See also:Kent, a member of an See also:ancient See also:family of that See also:county, by his second wife, See also:Margaret, daughter of See also:Roger See also:Twysden of See also:East See also:Peckham, Kent, was See also:born on the 18th of See also:February 1589 . He matriculated from Erase-See also:nose See also:College, See also:Oxford, on the 15th of See also:June 1604, was admitted to See also:Gray's See also:Inn in 16o6, and was knighted by See also:James I. on the 3rd of See also:March 1611 . He See also:purchased several offices at See also:court, was made See also:comptroller of the See also:king's See also:household about 1629, and in spite of a See also:sharp See also:quarrel with See also:Buckingham managed to keep the king's favour, in 1639 becoming treasurer . He was returned to See also:parliament in 1614 for See also:Lostwithiel, from 1621 to 1626 for See also:Carlisle, in 1628 for See also:Retford, and in the See also:Short and See also:Long Parliament, assembled in 1640, he sat for See also:Wilton . He was despatched on several See also:missions in 1629 and 163o to See also:Holland, and in 1631 to Gustavus See also:Adolphus to secure the restitution of the See also:Palatinate, but without success . In 1630 Vane had become a privy councillor and one of the See also:chief advisers of the king . He was made a See also:commissioner of the See also:Admiralty in 1632 and for the colonies in 1636 . He was one of the eight privy councillors appointed to See also:manage affairs in See also:Scotland on the outbreak of the troubles there, and. on the 3rd of February 164o, through the See also:influence of the See also:queen and of the See also:marquis of See also:Hamilton and in opposition to the wishes of See also:Strafford, he was made secretary of state in the See also:room of See also:Sir See also:John See also:Coke . In the Short Parliament, which assembled in See also:April, it See also:fell to Vane, in his See also:official capacity, to demand supplies . He proposed a bargain by which the king should give up See also:ship-See also:money and receive in return twelve subsidies . Parliament, however, proved intractable and was dissolved on the 5th of May, to prevent a See also:vote against the continuance of the See also:war with the Scots . In the See also:impeachment of Strafford, Vane played a very important See also:part and caused the See also:earl's destruction .

He asserted that Strafford had advised the king at a See also:

meeting of the privy See also:council, " You have an See also:army in See also:Ireland; you may employ it to reduce this See also:kingdom." He refused to admit or deny the meaning attributed by the See also:prosecution that " this kingdom " signified See also:England; he was unsupported by the recollection of any other privy councillor, and his statement could not be corroborated by his own notes, which had been destroyed by See also:order of the king, but a copy obtained through his son, the younger Vane, was produced by See also:Pym and owned by Vane to be genuine . He was on See also:bad terms with Strafford, who had opposed his See also:appointment to See also:office and who had given him See also:special provocation by assuming the See also:barony of Raby, a See also:title ardently desired by Vane himself .

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