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s. of Robert Writtle of Essex by Eleanor (fl.1452), da. of Robert Ramsey of High Laver, Essex. CCR, 1429-35, p. 162; VCH Essex, iv. 89; Genealogist, n.s. iv. 203. m. (1) Joan (d.c.1461), da. of John Hende (1409-61) of Essex by Griselda, da. of Hamon Belknap (d.1429) of Beckley, Suss., 2s. (1 d.v.p.); CIPM, xxi. 113-15; C140/7/14; 12/6; VCH Essex, iv. 243; VCH Suss. ix. 144; Essex Rev. vii. 140; LP Hen. VIII, i. no. 289 (17); PCC 21 Wattys (PROB11/6, ff. 158-9). (2) Katherine (d. July 1493), da. of Thomas Baston of London; 3da. Genealogist, n.s. iv. 203; PCC 4 Vox (PROB11/10, f. 21); CFR, xxii. no. 447; CIPM Hen. VII, i. 895; PCC 21 Wattys. Joan bore Walter’s son and heir, but Katherine’s will indicates that she must have been the mother of at least one of his daughters: PCC 4 Vox.
Offices Held

Escheator, Essex and Herts. 7 Dec. 1450 – 28 Nov. 1451.

Clerk of the estreats at the Exchequer 19 June 1455-bef. 19 Oct. 1456. PRO List ‘Exchequer Officers’, 89.

J.p. Essex 28 Nov. 1455–8, 14 July 1461 (q.)-Mar. 1462, 1 Mar. 1463 – Nov. 1465, 12 Nov. 1465 (q.)-Dec. 1469, 21 Dec. 1469–70, 14 July 1472 – d.

Commr. of sewers, Essex, Mdx. Feb. 1456 (from Stratford le Bow to Horndon and then to Hockley, Tollesbury and Wigborough), June, Nov. 1461 (coast and marshes from ‘Tempylmylle’ to chapel of St. Katherine on Bow bridge to Horndon and then to Hockley, Tollesbury and Wigborough); of inquiry, Essex Feb. 1466 (complaint of John Twyer), Aug. 1473 (unpaid farms), Dec. 1473 (lands of the late James Butler, earl of Wiltshire); to distribute tax allowance June 1468; of oyer and terminer Feb. 1472 (treasons and other offences of Sir Thomas de Vere and others); array Mar. 1472.

Surveyor of customs, Bristol 12 Apr. 1461–26 Oct. 1462. CPR, 1461–7, pp. 20, 216.

Collector of customs, Sandwich 21 July 1461–14 May 1462. CFR, xx. 5, 6, 7; xx. 70; E403/825, m. 7; E356/21, rot. 19d.

Sheriff, Essex and Herts. 5 Nov. 1468 – 4 Nov. 1469, 11 Apr.-8 Nov. 1471. He accounted from Mich. 1470.

Parlimentarian
WRITTLE, Walter, of London and Chigwell and Little Hallingbury and Stansted and Bobbingworth, Essex.
Main residences: London; Chigwell; Little Hallingbury; Stansted; Bobbingworth, Essex.
Waythell, Wirtyll, Wretell, Wrethyll, Wretyl, de Writele, Writell, Wryttyll, Wyrtyll
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C.E.M.
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Commons 1422-1461
Will
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Oxford 1644
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