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Family and Education
b. 1591, 1st s. of George Wylde† of the Harriots and Frances, da. of Sir Edmund Huddleston of Sawston, Cambs.; bro. of George*.C142/356/104; Vis. Worcs. 1634 (Harl. Soc. xc), 105; St Peter, Droitwich par. reg. educ. I. Temple 30 Jan. 1603;I. Temple database. Balliol, Oxf. 18 Jan. 1605 ‘aged 14’, BA 1607 (incorp. Camb. 1608), MA Oxf. 1610.Al. Ox. m. (1) by 10 Oct. 1613, 1da. ?d.v.p.;St Peter, Droitwich par. reg. (2) Anne (d. 6 May 1624),G. Griffiths, Hist. of Tong, Salop (1894), 79-80. da. of Sir Thomas Harris†, 1st bt. of Tong, Salop, sjt.-at-law, 1da. suc. fa. 1616. d. 1669.E. Foss, Judges of Eng. vi. 522.
Offices Held

Legal: called, I. Temple 29 Jan. 1612; auditor steward’s accts. 1626 – 27, 1635 – 36; auditor, accts. of treas. 1627 – 28; bencher, 3 Nov. 1628; steward for reader, 1629; reader, 1630. 29 May 1636CITR i. 65, 153, 164, 170, 174, 183, 185, 225. Sjt.-at-law,; adm. Serjeants’ Inn, Chancery Lane 31 Jan. 1637; treas. 1639–42. 6 Feb. 1647Baker, Serjeants at Law, 186, 544. Assize judge, Oxf. circ., 15 June 1659;CJ v. 76ab; vii. 686b, 687b, 748a; C181/6, p. 369; C231/6, pp. 79, 81. Western circ. (Hants, Dorset, Devon only) 8 July 1647;CJ v. 236ab; C231/6, p. 96; Western Circ. Assize Orders, 258, 262, 264. (Wilts., Cornw., Som. only) 31 Jan., 13 May, Oct. 1648;CJ v. 451a, 598a; vi. 49a; Western Circ. Assize Orders, 272, 274, 278. special commn. oyer and terminer, Hants 10 Jan. 1648;CJ v. 425b. Canterbury 18 Apr. 1648.CJ v. 534a. C. bar. exch. 15 Nov. 1648 – 16 Dec. 1653; 18 Jan.-29 May 1660.W.H. Bryson, Equity Side of the Exchequer (Cambridge, 1975), 177; CJ vii. 814b.

Local: j.p. Worcs. by 18 Apr. 1620-Mar. 1660;Harl. 1043, f. 7. Herefs. 15 Aug. 1644-bef. Oct. 1653;Brampton Bryan MS 27/4; C193/13/4, f. 41. Montgom. by 13 Mar. 1648-bef. Oct. 1653;Justice of the Peace ed. Phillips, 143–4. Glos. by Feb. 1650-bef. Oct. 1660;C193/13/3, f. 26v. Devon, Dorset, Hants, Leics., Mdx., Norf., Northants., Salop, Som., Suff., Westminster, Wilts. by Feb. 1650-bef. c.Sept. 1656;C193/13/3, ff. 13, 15, 41, 45, 47v, 35, 53v, 54v, 56, 60, 68v, 81v; C193/13/4, ff. 18, 22, 51v, 59, 67, 71, 81, 83v, 86, 92, 108, 127v. Cornw., Essex, Kent, Mon., Oxon., Surr., Warws., Anglesey, Caern., Denb., Flint, Merion. by Feb. 1650-bef. Oct. 1653.C193/13/3, ff. 9v, 24, 32v, 44, 51, 62, 65v; C193/13/4, ff. 13, 34v, 47v, 65v, 77, 96, 102v; Justice of the Peace ed. Phillips, 13, 31, 49–50, 76, 111, 359–60. Commr. subsidy, Worcs. 1622, 1628;C212/22/21; E179/283/27. charitable uses, Worcester 9 Apr. 1624;Worcester Chamber Order Bk. 190. Worcs. 10 May 1624, 1 July 1631, 9 June 1638;C93/10/13, C93/17/6, C93/13/8. Forced Loan, 1627;C193/12/2, f. 63. sewers, River Avon, Glos. and Worcs. 29 June 1629;C181/4, f. 18. gaol delivery, Worcs. and Worcester 24 Mar. 1630, 9 Mar. 1638;C181/4, f. 44v; C181/5, f. 100. Norf. 3 July 1644-aft. Sept. 1645;C181/5, ff. 234v, 260v. Essex 4 July 1644-aft. June 1645;C181/5, ff. 238, 254. Kent, Surr. 4 July 1644;C181/5, ff. 236v, 238, 239v. Newgate gaol 16 Nov. 1644 – aft.Nov. 1645, 9 Jan. 1654;C181/5, ff. 244, 265; C181/6, p. 1. oyer and terminer, Oxf. circ. 9 June 1632, 23 Jan. 1637 – aft.Jan. 1642, by Feb. 1654-June 1659;C181/5, ff. 62v, 219; C181/6, pp. 10, 302. London 12 Jan. 1644 – aft.Nov. 1645, 9 Jan. 1654;C181/5, ff. 230v, 265; C181/6, p. 1. Mdx. 13 Jan. 1644 – aft.Jan. 1645, 9 Jan. 1654;C181/5, ff. 231, 246v; C181/6, p. 3. Norf. 3 July 1644-aft. Sept. 1645;C181/5, ff. 234, 260v. Essex 4 July 1644-aft. June 1645;C181/5, ff. 237v, 254. Kent, Surr. 4 July 1644;C181/5, ff. 236, 239. Lincs. 26 Apr. 1645;C181/5, f. 252. Worcs., ?Glos. July 1646.Whitelocke, Diary, 187; J. Dorney, Certain Speeches (1653), 23. Member, council in the marches of Wales by 12 May 1633.NLW, Herbert mss. series ii. bdle. 12. Commr. assessment, Worcs. 1642, 24 Feb. 1643, 18 Oct. 1644, 23 June 1647, 11 Feb. 1648, 7 Apr., 7 Dec. 1649, 26 Nov. 1650, 10 Dec. 1652, 24 Nov. 1653, 9 June 1657, 26 Jan., 1 June 1660; Worcester 16 Feb. 1648, 26 Jan., 1 June 1660; Mdx. 10 Dec. 1652, 26 Jan. 1660;SR; A. and O.; An Act for an Assessment (1653, E.1062.28); An Ordinance…for an Assessment (1660, E.1075.6). sequestration, Worcs. 27 Mar. 1643; levying of money, 7 May, 3 Aug. 1643; commr. for Glos., Herefs. and S. E. Wales, 10 May 1644.A. and O. Kpr. Hainault Walk, Waltham Forest, Essex July 1644.CCC 2480. Commr. for Worcester, 23 Sept. 1644; militia, Worcs. and Worcester 2 Dec. 1648, 26 July 1659, 12 Mar. 1660; Glos., Mdx. 26 July 1659, 12 Mar. 1660.A. and O. Custos rot. Worcs. 3 July 1651–22 Nov. 1655;C231/6, pp. 270, 319; Cal. QS Pprs. ed. Willis Bund, i. 324. Glos. by Oct. 1653-bef. Oct. 1660.C193/13/4, f. 38. Commr. ejecting scandalous ministers, Worcs. 28 Aug. 1654; Westminster militia, 28 June 1659.A. and O.

Civic: recorder, Droitwich 8 Nov. 1624-bef. 6 Oct. 1662;C66/2326; Worcs. Archives, 261.4/BA 1006 box 34, 680. Worcester 2 Mar. 1640 – 28 Aug. 1643, 24 July 1646–14 Sept. 1660.Worcester Chamber Order Bk. 337, 372, 414; Worcs. Archives, 496.5/BA 9360, A14, chamber order bk. 1650–68, f. 38. Under-steward, Kidderminster 1636.J.R. Burton, Hist. Kidderminster (1890), 74.

Central: member, recess cttee. 9 Sept. 1641;CJ ii. 288a. cttee. for Irish affairs, 3 Sept. 1642;CJ ii. 750b. cttee. for sequestrations, 27 Mar. 1643.CJ iii. 21b. Commr. conserving peace betw. England and Scotland, 20 May 1643, 7 July 1646, 28 Oct. 1647.LJ vi. 55b; LJ viii. 411a; ix. 500a. Member, Westminster Assembly, 12 June 1643. Commr. gt. seal 10 Nov. 1643, 19 Mar. 1646.A. and O. Member, cttee. for excise, 6 June 1645, 29 May 1645.A. and O.; CJ vi. 219b. Commr. exclusion from sacrament, 5 June 1646, 29 Aug. 1648. Cllr. of state, 13 Feb. 1649, 13 Feb. 1650.A. and O. Member, cttee. of navy and customs, 29 May 1649.CJ vi. 219b.

Parlimentarian
WYLDE (WILDE), John (c.1591-c.1669), of the Harriots, Droitwich, Worcs. and the Inner Temple, London; later of Serjeants’ Inn, Chancery Lane, London and Hampstead, Mdx.
: Worcs., Droitwich and Serjeants’ Inn, Chancery Lane and Mdx., Hampstead.
Volume
Commons 1640-1660
Web Title

WYLDE, John (1591-1669), of the Harriots, Droitwich, Worcs., Inner Temple and Serjeants’ Inn, Chancery Lane, and Hampstead, Mdx.

Will
Not found.
Estates
Sold house at Huntingdrop, Dodderhill, Worcs. 1 Sept. 1616 for £56;Worcs. Archives, 705:7/BA 7335/35/2. owned house in Coken St. Worcester, 1630s;Worcs. Archives, 496.5/BA 9360, A10, box 3, vols. 2, city accts. 1623-39, f. 3. leased 6 ‘bullaries’ (salt-pits) at Droitwich, 19 messuages and a garden in Worcester for 99 years, £800 and peppercorn rent, 4 June 1642;Worcs. Archives, 705:232/BA 5955/7/8. owned house of 17 hearths on Belsize estate, Hampstead, Mdx. prob. by 1643;VCH Mdx. ix. 51, 96; CJ iii. 142a. co–purchaser messuages and 30 acres in Great Comberton, Worcs. Feb. 1644;C54/3315/17. borrowed £1,248 from Thomas Gwillim, June 1644;C54/3317/59. paid £100 of £500 awarded him as commr. of great seal, Sept. 1645;SC6/Chas I/1664 m.16. reputed to have received £2,000 from the Derby House cttee. 1648;The Second Centurie [1648], 5 (E.465.13). with Humphrey Salwey* bought tithes of Sir Thomas Lyttelton* on authority of cttee. for advance of money for £2,160, Feb. 1649, to maintain four ministers;C54/3450/28; C54/3582/46. was paid £250 for one term, part of £1,000 p.a. as c. bar. exch. 22 Nov. 1649;E404/237, unfol. bought fee farm rents of Impney manor, Dodderhill, Worcs. for £90, and of Droitwich, for £738 16s 6d, 29 Apr. 1650;E308/7, pt. 1 (c) ff. 8, 78. bought 15 acres of woodland in Himbleton, Worcs. for £130, Jan. 1652;C54/3627/23. owned 5 bullaries or salt-pits, Droitwich, 1660s.PROB11/435, f. 149.
Oxford 1644
No
Addresses
House in Belsize estate, Hampstead, Mdx. from 1643.VCH Mdx. ix. 51, 96; CJ iii. 142a.
Religion
Presented Thomas Garland to St. Peter, Droitwich, 9 Nov. 1640.Worcs. Archives, 732.4/BA 2337/23. With Humphrey Salwey* presented George Lawrence to amalgamated parishes of St Andrew and St Helen, Worcester, 21 Apr. 1647.Worcs. Archives, Worcester St Helen’s par. reg. Recommended John Freeston for living of Hampton Lovett, Worcs. 17 Dec. 1652; Roger Norbury for living of St Andrew, Droitwich, Worcs. 1 Dec. 1653.Add. 36792, ff. 58v, 78v. Presented Roger Norbury to St Peter, Droitwich, 23 Oct. 1663.Worcs. Archives, 732.4/BA 2337/25.
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