Biography of Peter Ball MP -1680

In 1626 Peter Ball MP was elected MP Tiverton.

In Apr 1640 Peter Ball MP was elected MP Tiverton in the Short Paliament.

After Apr 1640 Peter Ball MP was appointed Attorney General to Henrietta Maria Bourbon Queen Consort England (age 30).

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Evelyn's Diary. 11 Jan 1662. I received of Sir Peter Ball, the Queen's (age 52) attorney, a draft of an Act against the nuisance of the smoke of London, to be reformed by removing several trades which are the cause of it, and endanger the health of the King (age 31) and his people. It was to have been offered to the Parliament, as his Majesty (age 31) commanded.

Pepy's Diary. 04 Jun 1662. After eating some fish that we had bought upon the water at Falconer's, we went to Woolwich, Kent [Map], and there viewed our frames of our houses, and so home, and I to my Lord's, who I find resolved to buy Brampton Manor of Sir Peter Ball1, at which I am glad.

Note 1. Sir Peter Ball was the Queen's (age 23) Attorney-General, and Evelyn mentions, in his Diary (January 11th, 1661-62), having received from him the draft of an act against the nuisance of the smoke of London.

Pepy's Diary. 23 Aug 1662. By and by, as we were walking in my Lord's walk, comes my Lord, and so we broke our discourse and went in with him, and after I had put them away I went in to my Lord, and he and I had half an hour's private discourse about the discontents of the times, which we concluded would not come to anything of difference, though the Presbyters would be glad enough of it; but we do not think religion will so soon cause another war. Then to his own business. He asked my advice there, whether he should go on to purchase more land and to borrow money to pay for it, which he is willing to do, because such a bargain as that of Mr. Buggins's, of Stukely, will not be every day to be had, and Brampton is now perfectly granted him by the King (age 32) - I mean the reversion of it - after the Queen's death; and, in the meantime, he buys it of Sir Peter Ball his present right.

Pepy's Diary. 21 Jan 1667. Thence with them to Westminster Hall [Map], they setting me down at White Hall, where I missed of finding Sir G. Carteret (age 57), up to the Lords' House, and there come mighty seasonably to hear the Solicitor about my Lord Buckingham's (age 38) pretence to the title of Lord Rosse. Mr. Atturny Montagu (age 49) is also a good man, and so is old Sir P. Ball; but the Solicitor and Scroggs after him are excellent men.

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In 1680 Peter Ball MP died.