John Weaver (Stamford MP)

John Weaver (died March 1685) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1645 and 1659.

He supported the Parliamentarian side in the Civil War Weaver was of North Luffenham, Rutland, and was admitted a freeman of Stamford, Lincolnshire on 25 October 1631.

[3] He became one of the recognised leaders of the Independents and remained in the House of Commons after Pride's Purge, although he refused to sit as one of the judges in the trial of King Charles I.

[3] In December 1659, Weaver helped Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury and others in securing the Tower of London for the parliament, after the army had turned out the Long parliament.

Weaver died in 1685 and was buried at North Luffenham on 25 March 1685.

Arms of Weaver, adopted c.1300: Or, on a fess azure between two cotises gules as many garbs of the field. [ 1 ]