DYOT, Sir Richard (1589-1660), of Stafford, Sadler alias Robe Street, Lichfield, Staffs. and the Inner Temple, London.

Family and Education

bap. 7 Dec. 1589, 1st s. of Anthony Dyott† and 1st w. Catherine, da. of John Harcourt of Ranton Abbey, Staffs.Thornton, Leics. par. reg.; Shaw, Staffs. i. 362; Vis. Staffs. ed. H. S. Grazebrook (Collns. Hist. Staffs. ser. 1, v. pt. ii), 118-19. educ. Corpus Christi, Oxf. 12 Oct. 1604, BA 9 Dec. 1607;Al. Ox. I. Temple 26 Apr. 1607.CITR ii. 29. m. 4 Jan. 1615, Dorothy (bur. 11 Apr. 1672), da. and h. of Richard Dorington, grocer and alderman of Stafford, 6s. (2 d.v.p.).Vis. Staffs. ed. Grazebrook, 118-19; Shaw, Staffs. i. 335. suc. fa. Apr. 1622;Coll. Top. et Gen. v. 208. Kntd. 13 Sept. 1635;Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 203. d. 8 Mar. 1660.Shaw, Staffs. i. 335.

Offices Held

Legal: called, I. Temple 11 June 1615.CITR ii. 90. Justice, council of the north, 7 Mar. 1628-Aug. 1641.CSP Dom. 1628–9, p. 8; R.R. Reid, King’s Council in the North (1921), 498. Steward (jt.), reader’s dinner, I. Temple 23 June 1633.CITR ii. 206. Temporal chan. palatinate of Dur. by 30 Mar. 1639-at least Mar. 1640.C181/5, p. 336; Cat. of Mss in the I. Temple ed. J.C. Davies (1972), ii. 928.

Civic: steward, Lichfield 12 Sept. 1622–41.Harwood, Lichfield, 345. Feoffee, Lichfield Conduit Lands trust by 1634-bef. Apr. 1657.P. Laithwaite, Hist. of the Lichfield Conduit Lands Trust (Lichfield, 1947), 79. Recorder, Stafford by 1624–31.Wm. Salt. Lib. S.MS.369, pp. 160–1; Staffs. RO, D1323/E/1, ff. 193v, 200.

Local: commr. subsidy, Lichfield 1624. 20 Mar. 1629 – 25 Feb. 1630C212/22/23. J.p. liberties of Ripon, 15 Mar. 1633-aft. Dec. 1641;C181/3, f. 265; C181/4, ff. 7v, 134v, 177; C181/5, ff. 19, 217. liberties of Cawood, Wistow and Otley, Yorks. 20 Mar. 1629 – 25 Feb. 1630, 1 July 1630-aft. Dec. 1641;C181/3, f. 266; C181/4, ff. 8v, 54v, 176v; C181/5, ff. 18v, 216v. Yorks. (E., N., W. Riding) June 1630-aft. 1641;C231/5, pp. 35, 36; C66/2858. Staffs. 8 July 1634-aft. Oct. 1642;C231/5, p. 143; Staffs. RO, Q/SO/5, p. 142. co. Dur. 30 Mar. 1639-aft. 1641.C231/5, p. 336; C66/2858. Commr. gaol delivery, liberty of Ripon 20 Mar. 1629 – 25 Feb. 1630, 15 Mar. 1633-aft. Dec. 1641;C181/3, f. 265v; C181/4, ff. 8, 135, 178; C181/5, ff. 19v, 217. co. Dur. 29 Mar. 1639-aft. July 1640;C181/5, ff. 134, 179. oyer and terminer, Northern circ. 28 May 1630-aft. June 1641;C181/3, f. 61v; C181/4, ff. 108, 197v; C181/5, ff. 7v, 203. recusants, northern cos. July 1630-aft. July 1638;C231/5, p. 113; CSP Dom. 1629–31, pp. 301, 383; Rymer, Foedera, ix. pt. 1, p. 58; pt. 2, p. 162. charitable uses, Staffs. 6 Feb. 1634 – aft.June 1639; co. Dur. 22 Aug. 1639-aft. Nov. 1641;C192/1, unfol. sewers, 1 Dec. 1634;C181/4, f. 189. swans, Staffs. and Warws. 12 Feb. 1635, 6 Feb. 1638;C181/4, f. 199v; C181/5, f. 91. assizes, co. Dur. 29 Mar. 1639-aft. July 1640;C181/5, ff. 134, 179. array, Staffs. 16 July 1642.Northants. RO, FH133.

Central: master in chancery, extraordinary, by 1656–?Staffs. RO, D661/1/29.

Parlimentarian

DYOTT, Richard (c.1590-1660), of Stafford, Sadler alias Robe Street, Lichfield, Staffs. and the Inner Temple, London

: of Stafford, Staffs., Sadler alias Robe Street, Lichfield and London., the Inner Temple.

Likenesses

Likenesses: line engraving, W. Ward, c.1800-10.BM.

Volume

Commons 1640-1660

Web Title

DYOT, Sir Richard (1589-1660), of Stafford, Sadler alias Robe Street, Lichfield, Staffs. and the Inner Temple, London.

Will

14 Dec. 1659, pr. 16 Apr. 1663.Staffs. RO, P/C/11, Lichfield consistory ct. wills (Lichfield Peculiar), Sir Richard Dyot.

Estates

in the early 1630s, assessed at £10 for distraint of knighthood.E407/35, f. 155. Inherited manor of Freeford, Staffs. which he let in 1632 for £100 p.a.Staffs. RO, D661/2/139; VCH Staffs. xiv. 257. By 1632, he was leasing the former Franciscan friary in Foregate Street, Stafford.S. Edeswick, Survey of Staffs. ed. T. Harwood (1844), 154; VCH Staffs. vi. 207. About 1637, he and two other gentlemen purchased a messuage in Plumstead, Kent, for £2,000.C7/100/28. In 1638, he purchased manor of Fulfen, Staffs.VCH Staffs. xiv. 279. By c.1640, his estate inc. manors of Freeford and Fulfen, lands in Fisherwick, Streethay, Tamhorn and Whittington, a watermill in Darnford and 12 messuages and 388 acres of land in Lichfield, Staffs.Staffs. RO, D661/1/775. In 1642, he leased his estate to pay debts of about £1,500, reserving £100 p.a. from the rents for his own use.Staffs. RO, D661/1/33. In the mid-1640s, his estate in Chorley, Freeford, Lichfield, Stafford, Stychbrook and Whittington (but not inc. his lands in Fulfen and Morghull) was valued at £430 p.a.; and in 1646, these same properties, inc. his lands in Morghull and Streethay, were valued at £250 p.a.Staffs. RO, D661/1/33; D260/M/F/4/18, f. 16. In 1645, he acquired lands in Whittington and Tamworth, Staffs.Staffs. RO, D661/1/47. By 1656, his estate inc. lands and tenements in Elford, Freeford, Lichfield, Morghull, Streethay, Tamhorn, Whittington and Wiggington, Staffs.Staffs. RO, D661/1/59. In 1666, his house in Streethay was assessed at 14 hearths and his house in Sadler Street, Lichfield, at 16 hearths.‘The 1666 hearth tax’ (Collns. Hist. Staffs. ser. 3, 1923), 211; ‘Hearth tax for Lichfield’ ed. P. Laithwaite (Collns. Hist. Staffs. ser. 3, 1936, pt. ii), 150.

Oxford 1644

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