During the ownership of Thomas Coningsby, a Royalist leader in Hertfordshire, the house was plundered by the Parliamentarians.
He was one of the managers of Henry Sacheverell's trial, and, like most of the prominent whigs, he lost his seat in parliament as a result of the ensuing tory reaction.
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Philippa Congsby (née Phillipa Fitzwilliam; 1530 Melton, Milton, Northamptonshire – 1596) married to Sir Thomas Coningsby and had 11 children.