Godfrey Bosvile

Colonel Godfrey Bosvile II[3] (1596–1658) (or Bosville[4]) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1640 to 1653.

[6] Bosvile took the protestation, and was appointed commissioner for Yorkshire, Warwick and Coventry.

He obtained a commission in the Parliamentary army and he rose to the rank of colonel.

In 1643, he marched from Coventry with eight hundred horses, and took the garrisoned house of Sir Thomas Holt.

His name was put down as one of the commissioners of the high court of justice to try the king, but he declined taking any part in the trial.

Arms of Bosville: Argent, five lozenges conjoined in fess gules and in chief three bear's heads erased at the neck sable muzzled or [ 1 ] as quartered (with a canton ermine ) by the Bosville Macdonald baronets of Thorpe Hall, Rudston [ 2 ]