Master of the robes 1662-79; ambassador to Poland Nov.-Dec. 1676; plenip. at Nymwegen and envoy to The Hague 1677-8; ld. of Treasury Mar. 1679, first ld. Nov. 1679-84; PC 19 Nov. 1679-Dec. 1688, 1 Mar. 1692-d., ld. pres. 1684-5, 1710-d.; gent. of the bed-chamber 1680-5; gov. Merchant Adventurers 1684-c.92; ld. treas. 1685-7; postmaster-gen. and chancellor to Queen Mary of Modena 1685-9; commr. for ecclesiastical affairs 1686-7. He was first returned for Newport in 1660 after William Morice I had chosen to sit for Plymouth. No sooner had he taken his seat than his father, the lord chancellor, recommended him as a candidate for Oxford University at the next general election. He was created MA and returned unopposed, though still under age, to the Cavalier Parliament. He was probably named to no committees before 1663, although he may have been sometimes confused in the Journals with his cousin Lawrence Hyde. He then seems to have become moderately active, sitting on perhaps 67 commisions. On succeeding Lord Mansfield (Henry Cavendish) as master of the robes in 1662, he 'was thought the smoothest man in Court', though easily provoked into a rage, when 'he would swear like a cutter'. On March 28th, 1663 a Roman Catholic wrote that presumably Hyde and his brother had voted on opposite sides in the division over debating the Declaration of Indulgence. One of the cousins helped to consider the bill against unlawful meetings of dissenters and the charge against Sir Richard Temple, and both were appointed to the committees for the bills against pluralities and the sale of offices in the same session.
Master of the robes 1662-79; ambassador to Poland Nov.-Dec. 1676; plenip. at Nymwegen and envoy to The Hague 1677-8; ld. of Treasury Mar. 1679, first ld. Nov. 1679-84; PC 19 Nov. 1679-Dec. 1688, 1 Mar. 1692-d., ld. pres. 1684-5, 1710-d.; gent. of the bed-chamber 1680-5; gov. Merchant Adventurers 1684-c.92; ld. treas. 1685-7; postmaster-gen. and chancellor to Queen Mary of Modena 1685-9; commr. for ecclesiastical affairs 1686-7. He was first returned for Newport in 1660 after William Morice I had chosen to sit for Plymouth. No sooner had he taken his seat than his father, the lord chancellor, recommended him as a candidate for Oxford University at the next general election. He was created MA and returned unopposed, though still under age, to the Cavalier Parliament. He was probably named to no committees before 1663, although he may have been sometimes confused in the Journals with his cousin Lawrence Hyde. He then seems to have become moderately active, sitting on perhaps 67 commisions. On succeeding Lord Mansfield (Henry Cavendish) as master of the robes in 1662, he 'was thought the smoothest man in Court', though easily provoked into a rage, when 'he would swear like a cutter'. On March 28th, 1663 a Roman Catholic wrote that presumably Hyde and his brother had voted on opposite sides in the division over debating the Declaration of Indulgence. One of the cousins helped to consider the bill against unlawful meetings of dissenters and the charge against Sir Richard Temple, and both were appointed to the committees for the bills against pluralities and the sale of offices in the same session.
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