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

Local: 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.

Colonial: 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.

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

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

Central: 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.

Religious: 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

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