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bap. 8 Mar. 1581,St Lawrence Jewry, London, par. reg. o.s. of Robert Roe, Haberdasher, of London, and Eleanor, da. of Robert Jermy of Antigham, Norf.Add. 4168, ff. 16-17v; Vis. Glos. 1623 (Harl. Soc. xxi), 8-9. educ. Magdalen, Oxf. 6 July 1593;Al. Ox. M. Temple, 25 Nov. 1597.M. Temple Admiss. i. 72. m. 15 Dec. 1614,Mems. of St Margaret’s Church, Westminster ed. A.M. Burke (1914), 323. Eleanor (bur. 6 Dec. 1675),Lyson, Environs of London, i. 745. da. of Sir Thomas Cave of Stanford, Northants., wid. of Sir George Beeston of Beeston, Cheshire, s.p.; 1 adopted da.Bridges, Northants. i. 79. suc. fa. 1587.HP Commons 1604-1629. Kntd. 23 Mar. 1605.Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 137. d. 6 Nov. 1644.Ath. Ox. iii. 114.
Offices Held

Diplomatic: member, embassy to Spain, 1605. Amb. to the Great Mogul 1615 – 18; the Sublime Porte 1621 – 28; Denmark, Sweden and Poland 19 June 1629 – June 1630; Hamburg May 1638- Apr./May 1640; Ratisbon and Vienna 8 May 1641-June/July 1642.G.M. Bell, Handlist of British Diplomatic Representatives (1990), 23, 34, 63, 212, 215, 273, 285; Add. 4168, 4169, 4170, 1471, 1472; Harl. 1901; Coventry Docquets, 90.

Mercantile: member, Virg. council, 1607; cttee. Virg. Co. 1609; E. I. Co. 1619 – 21; Levant Co. 1621.HP Commons 1604–1629. Commr. plantation of Virg. 1631;T. Rymer, Foedera viii. pt. 3, p 192. piracy, 1632.C115/M35/8398. Member, Fishery Co. by 1633; dep. gov. by 8 Mar. 1637.HMC 5th Rep. 355; CSP Dom. 1636–7, p. 489. Member, Merchant Adventurers’ Co. 1638.HP Commons 1604–1629.

Court: gent. privy chamber, ?extraordinary, by 1615; extraordinary, by 1632.The Embassy of Sir Thomas Roe to India, ed. W. Foster (1926), 58; LC5/132, p. 284. Chan. of the Garter, 19 Dec. 1636–d.Coventry Docquets, 199; CSP Dom. 1636–7, p. 336. PC, 23 June 1640.PC2/52, p. 572.

Local: commr. sewers, River Welland, Lincs., Northants. and Rutland 26 Feb. 1634;C181/4, f. 161. River Lea, Essex, Mdx. and Kent 14 Mar. 1642.C181/5, f. 227v. J.p. Northants. 1634 – 36; Mdx. 4 Apr. 1637-at least 1641.Coventry Docquets, 72; HP Commons 1604–1629. Commr. array (roy.), 24 June 1642.Northants. RO, FH133.

Parlimentarian
ROE (ROWE), Sir Thomas (1581-1644), of Rendcomb, Glos. and St. Martin’s Lane, Westminster; later of Woodford, Essex
: Westminster and Essex., Woodford.
ROE
Likenesses

Likenesses: oils, attrib. M.J. van Miereveldt, 1634;Hessische Hausstiftung, Germany. oil on panel, aft. M.J. van Miereveldt;NPG. line engraving, G. Vertue aft. M.J. van Miereveldt, 1741.BM; NPG.

Volume
Commons 1640-1660
Web Title

ROWE (ROE), Sir Thomas (1581-1644), of St Martin’s Lane, Westminster, and Woodford, Essex.

Will
8 July 1644, pr. 16 Mar. 1647.PROB11/199/680.
Estates
Bulwick, Northants. from 1587; land in Glos.; lease on house in St Martin’s Lane, London, from 1614; house at Cranford, Mdx., from 1635; manor of Woodford, Essex, from July 1640, for £3,373 17s; further 40 acres of land at Woodford bought 1641 for £544.M. Strachan, Sir Thomas Roe 1581-1644: A Life (Salisbury, 1989), 120, 225, 243; Lysons, Environs of London, iv. 273-87; VCH Essex, vi. 344-8. Received about £2,500 from Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden.CSP Dom. 1628-9, pp. 575, 577; 1629-31, p. 6; 1631-3, pp. 276-7; The Private Corresp. of Jane Kady Cornwallis Bacon 1613-1644, ed. J. Moody (2003), 213-14; Strachan, 189-208; Letters of Elizabeth Stuart Queen of Bohemia ed. N. Akkerman (Oxford, 2013), 78-80 and passim. £100 p.a. as chan. of the Garter, 19 Dec. 1637.Coventry Docquets, 199.
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