Sir Benjamin Ayloffe, 2nd Baronet (1592–1662) was a Sheriff in Essex and supported the Royalist cause in the English Civil War

English Civil War

The English Civil War was a series of armed conflicts and political machinations between Parliamentarians and Royalists...

. After the restoration he was an member of Parliament (M.P.) for Essex from 1661 until his death.

Biography

Benjamin was born on 29 August 1592. He was the second son of Sir William Ayloffe, 1st Baronet

Sir William Ayloffe, 1st Baronet

Sir William Ayloffe of Braxtead Magna, in Essex, was knighted by James I in 1603, created a baronet in 1612 and sat as a member of parliament for Stockbridge from 1621 to 1622.-Biography:...

 and his first wife Catharine, daughter and coheir to John Sterne, of Melbourn

Melbourn

Melbourn is a large village in the far south west of Cambridgeshire, England. It is located next to the A10 just north of Royston. Melbourn has over 4,400 inhabitants...

, Cambridgeshire

Cambridgeshire

Cambridgeshire is a county in England, bordering Lincolnshire to the north, Norfolk to the northeast, Suffolk to the east, Essex and Hertfordshire to the south, and Bedfordshire and Northamptonshire to the west...

. His elder brother William died within the lifetime of his father so Benjamin inherited the estates and the baronetcy

Ayloffe Baronets

Ayloffe Baronet was created in the Baronetage of England by James I on 25 November 1611. It became extinct on 19 April 1781.#Sir William Ayloffe, 1st Baronet , knighted by James I in 1603, created a baronet in 1612 and sat as a member of parliament for Stockbridge from 1621 to 1622.#Sir Benjamin...

 on his father's death in 1627.

At the outbreak of the English Civil War King Charles I

Charles I of England

Charles I was King of England, King of Scotland, and King of Ireland from 27 March 1625 until his execution in 1649. Charles engaged in a struggle for power with the Parliament of England, attempting to obtain royal revenue whilst Parliament sought to curb his Royal prerogative which Charles...

 appointed Sir Benjamin High Sheriff of Essex

High Sheriff of Essex

The High Sheriff of Essex was an ancient High Sheriff title originating in the time of the Angles, not long after the invasion of the Kingdom of England, which was in existence for around a thousand years...

. Consequently he was imprisoned by Parliament, his estates being sequestrated

Committee for Compounding with Delinquents

In 1643, near the start of the English Civil War, Parliament set up two committees the Sequestration Committee which confiscated the estates of the Royalists who fought against Parliament, and the Committee for Compounding with Delinquents which allowed Royalists whose estates had been...

 and himself obliged to sell that of Brittains. He was fined, 29 May 1649, £2,000, increased to £3,000.

In the first Parliament after the restoration of the monarchy Sir Benjamin served as one of the Knights of the Shire for Essex. He died in 1662 and was buried at Braxted.

Family

Sir Benjamin (like his father) married three times. Firstly, about 1611, to Alice, daughter of Martin Avondale. She died and was buried on 28 November 1612, at Hornchurch, they had no children. He remarried on 9 May 1616, at Barking, Essex, to Margaret (she was 5th daughter of Thomas Fanshawe

Thomas Fanshawe (remembrancer of the exchequer)

Thomas Fanshawe , was remembrancer of the exchequer.-Background:Fanshawe was the eldest son of John Fanshawe of Fanshawe Gate, Derbyshire, where he was born some time in the reign of Henry VIII, and probably about 1530...

, of Jenkins in Barking, remembrancer of the exchequer, and sister to Sir Henry Fanshawe

Henry Fanshawe

-Early life:Henry Fanshawe, baptised 15 August 1569, was the elder son of Thomas Fanshawe by his first wife, Mary, daughter of Antony Bourchier and was thus a half-brother of Thomas Fanshawe. In November 1586 he became a student of the Inner Temple...

). They had one daughter: Catharine, who married Thomas Hardwick, of Leeds, in Yorkshire and three sons:

• William
  Sir William Ayloffe, 3rd Baronet
  Sir William Ayloffe, 3rd Baronet of Great Braxted. He was an officer in the Royalist army during the English Civil War.-Biography:...
  
  , his son and heir;
• Benjamin
  Sir Benjamin Ayloffe, 4th Baronet
  -Biography:Benjamin Ayloffe was born in 1631. He was the younger son of Sir Benjamin Ayloffe an his second wife, Margaret the 5th daughter of Thomas Fanshawe ....
  
  , who succeed to the baronetcy on the death of his brother;
• Henry, who had to wife, Dorothy (daughter and heir of Richard Bulkeley, of Chedle, in Cheshire), and was father to Sir John Ayloffe
  Sir John Ayloffe, 5th Baronet
  Sir John Ayloffe, 5th Baronet Rector of Stanford Rivers in Essex from 1707 until 1730.-Biography:John was the son of Henry Ayloffe Henry Ayloffe, of Pandets, , and Dorothy...
  
  , of Stanford-Rivers, in Essex.

Sir Benjamin's third marriage was to Margaret, sister of George Porter

George Porter

George Hornidge Porter, Baron Porter of Luddenham, OM, FRS was a British chemist.- Life :Porter was born in Stainforth, near Thorne, South Yorkshire. He was educated at Thorne Grammar School, then won a scholarship to the University of Leeds and gained his first degree in chemistry...

. She remarried John Wall, of St. Clement Danes, Middlesex and died 1682.