page_title: Denny Ashburnham
section_title: Career
hierarchical_section_title: Denny Ashburnham / Career
caption_attribution_description: English: Draft letter of 1669 from Sir Robert Long to Sir George Downing, instructing that Downing pay Sir Denny Ashburnham 6 pounds interest on 200 pounds lent. Signed by Long. Hand written. 86 mm x 240 mm. Courtesy of the British Museum, London.
context_page_description: Sir Denny Ashburnham, 1st Baronet was an English landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1660 and 1689.
context_section_description: Ashburnham was a Commissioner for the Militia and became  a Justice of the Peace for Sussex in March 1660. In April 1660, he was elected Member of Parliament (MP) for Hastings in the Convention Parliament. He was re-elected MP for Hastings in 1661 for the Cavalier Parliament. On 15 May 1661, he was created a baronet, of Bromham, in the County of Sussex. In 1665, Ashburnham was appointed a Commissioner of the Excise, a post he held for the next three years and again from 1688 until 1689.  He became a Deputy Lieutenant for Sussex in 1670. He was a Victualler of the Navy in 1671 and also between 1673 and 1677. Ashburnham was several times a Commissioner for Assessment and between 1683 and 1689 served as Commissioner for Hearth-tax. In 1685, he was nominated mayor of Hastings.
  In the aftermath of the so-called Popish Plot, Ashburnham was summoned in the trial of Titus Oates as a witness.
  Ashburnham died at the age of about 68 and was buried at Guestling on 11 December 1697.
caption: Letter from Sir Robert Long to Sir George Downing, instructing payment to Sir Denny Ashburnham of £6 interest on £200 lent. 1669
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