Colepeper, JOHN

Colepeper, JOHN, was a native of Sussex, but, save that he had seen much foreign service, little is known of him till his return for Kent in 1640 to the Long Parliament. There he pursued a course much the same as Hyde's (see CLARENDON), and in January 1642 was created Chancellor of the Exchequer, a twelvemonth later Master of the Rolls, and in 1644 Lord Colepeper. With Hyde he attended Prince Charles to the western counties, and from Jersey he brought him to Henrietta Maria, to whose party he thenceforth attached himself. He lived to see the Restoration, dying on 11th June 1660. He was an able, far-seeing councillor, but rough and unstable.