This is a different Sir John Lenthall who was the controversial keeper of the Marshalsea and King’s Bench prisons in Southwark for many years. He died in 1669 and left a will. He was the elder brother of Speaker William Lenthall and therefore the uncle of the Sir John Lenthall MP mentioned in the previous annotations. For further information see Rosemary O’Day, An Elite family in early modern England: the Temples of Burton Dassett and Stowe (Boydell Press, 2018) and Theme 10: Lenthall Letters in Rosemary O’Day, Ed., Selected documents from Stowe Temple Family Papers at the Huntington Library, Ca. (Buckinghamshire Record Society, forthcoming 2023)
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This is a different Sir John Lenthall who was the controversial keeper of the Marshalsea and King’s Bench prisons in Southwark for many years. He died in 1669 and left a will. He was the elder brother of Speaker William Lenthall and therefore the uncle of the Sir John Lenthall MP mentioned in the previous annotations. For further information see Rosemary O’Day, An Elite family in early modern England: the Temples of Burton Dassett and Stowe (Boydell Press, 2018) and Theme 10: Lenthall Letters in Rosemary O’Day, Ed., Selected documents from Stowe Temple Family Papers at the Huntington Library, Ca. (Buckinghamshire Record Society, forthcoming 2023)