Clarendon says that he informed parliament at the beginning of March ‘that the money the house stood in need of, or a greater sum, was ready to be paid to whomsoever they would appoint to receive it’ ( Rebellion, ed. 1640–1 Penington informed the commons that, in consequence of the restoration of Godfrey Goodman to his see, they had decided to lend nothing. They afterwards undertook to raise 60,000 l. 1640 he announced in the house that his constituents had subscribed 21,000 l. It is said that he impoverished himself in the cause. Penington's influence in the city was invaluable to parliament, on the outbreak of hostilities, in raising loans and supplies for the army. 1640 he presented a petition to the commons from fifteen thousand citizens against the innovations of Archbishop Laud. He was returned to both the Short and Long parliaments in 1640 as member for the city. His house was in Wood Street, Cheapside, and he was a prominent member of St. In 1638 Penington was chosen high sheriff of London ( ib. Peter, Buckinghamshire, where he purchased an estate before 1635, he refused to comply with the injunction for bowing at the name of Jesus, and complaint was made to Archbishop Laud ( Cal. He was elected an alderman of London 29 Jan. Isaac received a good education, and succeeded to his father's business as a fishmonger, as well as to his estates in Norfolk and Suffolk. The family invariably spelt their surname with a single n in the first syllable. Admiral Sir John Penington, whose financial and domestic affairs Isaac helped to direct, was his second cousin. Benet's, Gracechurch Street, London, on 11 Nov. He was grandson of William Penington, born at Henham, Essex, and buried at St. 18 April 1628), a merchant of London, by his first wife, Judith, daughter of Isaac Shetterden of London. PENINGTON, or PENNINGTON, Sir ISAAC (1587?–1661), lord mayor of London, born in London about 1587, was eldest son of Robert Penington ( d.
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