WROTH (WROTHE), Sir Thomas (1584-1672), of Petherton Park, North Petherton, Som.

Family and Education

bap. 5 May 1584, 1st s. of Thomas Wroth, counsellor at law, of the Inner Temple and Blenden Hall, Bexley, Kent and Joanna, da. and coh. of Thomas Bulman of London;St Stephen Coleman Street, London par. reg.; Vis. Kent 1619-21 (Harl. Soc. xlii), 214; Vis. London 1633, 1634 and 1635 (Harl. Soc. xv, xvii), ii. 374; Collinson, Som. iii. 69. bro. of Sir Peter Wroth*. educ. Gloucester Hall, Oxf. 1 July 1600;Al. Ox. I. Temple, 8 Feb. 1607.I. Temple admissions database; I. Temple Recs. ii. 28. m. c.1614, (with £3,000) Margaret (d. 14 Oct. 1635), da. of Richard Rich of Leighs, Essex, 1 ch. d.v.p.Vis. London 1633, 1634 and 1635, ii. 374; W.D. Montagu, 7th duke of Manchester, Court and Society from Elizabeth to Anne (1864), i. 344, 347. suc. fa. 1610; Kntd. 11 Nov. 1613.Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 153. d. 11 July 1672.HP Commons, 1660-1690, ‘Sir Thomas Wroth’.

Offices Held

j.p. Kent 1616 – 22; Som. 1624 – aft.25, Aug. 1636-bef. Oct. 1660.C231/4, ff. 18, 167; C66/2858; QS Recs. Som. Charles I, p. xviii; J. Broadway, R. Cust and S.K. Roberts, ‘Additional docquets of commissions of the peace’, Parl. Hist. xxxii. 235; C193/13/1, f. 52v; C193/13/3, f. 54v; A Perfect List (1660). Commr. sewers, 1625-aft. Aug. 1660.C181/3, f. 186; C181/5, ff. 205, 268; C181/6, pp. 74, 394; C181/7, p. 24. Sheriff, 1639–40.Coventry Docquets, 369; List of Sheriffs (L. and I. ix), 125. Commr. assessment, 1642, 27 Jan. 1643, 24 Feb. 1643, 18 Oct. 1644, 23 June 1647, 7 Apr., 7 Dec. 1649, 26 Nov. 1650, 10 Dec. 1652, 24 Nov. 1653, 9 June 1657, 26 Jan., 1 June 1660;SR; A. and O.; An Act for an Assessment (1653, E.1062.28); An Ordinance…for an Assessment (1660, E.1075.6). loans on Propositions, 20 July 1642;LJ v. 226a. Som. contributions, 27 Jan. 1643; levying of money, 7 May, 3 Aug. 1643; commr. for Som. 1 July 1644; militia, 2 Dec. 1648, c. 1650, 26 July 1659, 12 Mar. 1660;A. and O.; R. Williams, ‘County and Municipal Government in Cornw., Devon, Dorset and Som. 1649–60’ (Bristol Univ. Ph.D. thesis, 1981), 166–7. oyer and terminer, Western circ. by Feb. 1654–10 July 1660;C181/6, pp. 8, 377. ejecting scandalous ministers, Som. 28 Aug. 1654.A. and O.

member, council for New England, 1620.A. Brown, Genesis of the United States (1890), 1064. Commr. govt. of Virg. 1624;Recs. of the Virg. Co. (Washington, 1906–35), ed. S.M. Kingsbury, iv. 491. govt. Somers Is. [Bermuda] 1655.CSP Col. 1574–1660, p. 404.

recorder, Bridgwater 1628–62.Som. RO, Bridgwater bor. arch. D/B/bw 2409, f. 38.

?capt. of horse (parlian.), 1642–3;SP28/256, pt 2, unfol. col. Som. July 1649.CSP Dom. 1649–50, p. 256.

member, cttee. for plundered ministers, 15 May 1646, 4 July 1650.CJ iv. 545b; vi. 437a. Commr. exclusion from sacrament, 5 June 1646, 29 Aug. 1648; appeals, visitation Oxf. Univ. 1 May 1647; high ct. of justice, 6 Jan. 1649; removing obstructions, sale of bishops’ lands, 20 June 1649;A. and O. for compounding, 2 Nov. 1649.CJ vi. 318a. Member, cttee. regulating universities, 22 May 1651.CJ vi. 577b. Commr. tendering oath to MPs, 18 Jan. 1658.CJ vii. 578a.

elder, Taunton, Bridgwater and Dunster classis, Som. 1647.Shaw, Hist. Eng. Church, ii. 421.

Parlimentarian

WROTHE, Sir Thomas (1584-1672), of Petherton Park, Som.

of Petherton Park, Som., North Petherton.

WROTHE

Volume

Commons 1640-1660

Web Title

WROTH (WROTHE), Sir Thomas (1584-1672), of Petherton Park, North Petherton, Som.

Will

1 Feb. 1672, pr. 24 Aug. 1672.PROB11/339/530.

Estates

inherited manor of Newton-Regis, North Petherton, Som. 1633.VCH Som. vi. 286; E115/410/116; E115/421/1; E115/426/23.

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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