WIGHTWICK, Samuel (c.1592-1662), of Marlston, Bucklebury, Berks. and the Inner Temple, London.

Family and Education

b. c.1592, 3rd s. of Francis Wightwick (bur. 5 Mar. 1616) of Wightwick, Tettenhall, Staffs., and Margaret, da. of Matthew Moreton of Ingleton.A L. Humphreys, Bucklebury, a Berks. Par. 351; Vis. Staffs. ed. H.S. Grazebrook (Wm. Salt Arch. Soc. pt. 2, v), 313; D. Macleane, Hist. of Pembroke Coll. Oxf. 178; Tettenhall Par. Reg. ed. H. R. Thomas, 197. educ. Clifford’s Inn; I. Temple 15 Feb. 1629.I. Temple Admiss. Database. m. (1) 22 Apr. 1622, da. of one Wright of Brookset, Essex, 6s. (3 d.v.p.) 3da. (2 d.v.p.);St John, Egham par. reg.; Pembroke Coll. Oxf., PMB/P/4/1/1; Vis. Staffs. ed. Grazebrook, 313; Macleane, Pembroke Coll. 178; PROB11/309, ff. 35v-36; CITR ii. 362; Cal. Ct. Mins. E. I. Co. 1650-4 ed. E.B. Sainsbury, 35, 127. (2) aft. 1636, Mary, da. of ?, wid. of ?, s.p.PROB11/309, ff. 35v, 36. d. 24 Aug. 1662.Humphreys, Bucklebury, 194, 351.

Offices Held

Legal: called, I. Temple 28 Nov. 1630; associate bencher, 14 Nov. 1638.CITR ii. 187, 245. Jt. (dep.) chief clerk for enrolling pleas, KB 7 Dec. 1629–56, 1660 – d.; chief clerk, Feb. 1656–60.Coventry Docquets, 177; CSP Dom. 1661–2, p. 345; Oxford DNB, ‘Robert Henley’; HP Commons 1660–90, ‘Sir Robert Henley’.

Local: commr. for Berks. by Aug. 1645.SP28/251, pt. 1, unfol. (Order dated 11 Aug. 1645). J.p. 7 Jan. 1647-bef. Oct. 1660;C231/6, p. 73. Westminster 13 Apr. 1653-Mar. 1660.C231/6, p. 256. Commr. assessment, Berks. 23 June 1647, 16 Feb., 17 Apr. 1648, 10 Dec. 1652, 9 June 1657; Westminster 10 Dec. 1652, 24 Nov. 1653;A. and O.; LJ x. 206a; An Act for an Assessment (1653, E.1062.28). sewers, Mdx. 31 Jan. 1654, 5 Feb. 1657;C181/6, pp. 6, 201. Berks. 7 Aug. 1657;C181/6, p. 255. River Kennet, Berks. and Hants 13 Oct. 1657;C181/6, p. 262. oyer and terminer, Oxf. circ. by Feb. 1654-June 1659;C181/6, pp. 11, 303. ejecting scandalous ministers, Berks. 28 Aug. 1654; militia, 12 Mar. 1660.A. and O.

Parlimentarian

WIGHTWICK, Samuel (c.1592-1662), of Marlston, Bucklebury, Berks. and the Inner Temple, London.

: of Marlston, Berks., Bucklebury and London., the Inner Temple.

Likenesses

Likenesses: oil on canvas, unknown, 1652.Pembroke Coll. Oxf.

Volume

Commons 1640-1660

Web Title

WIGHTWICK, Samuel (c.1592-1662), of Marlston, Bucklebury, Berks. and the Inner Temple, London.

Will

20 July 1661, pr. 3 Sept. 1662.PROB11/309, f. 35v.

Estates

in 1625 and 1628, kinsman Richard Wightwick conveyed to him his estates in Bowdown, Bucklebury, Marlston and Thatcham, Berks.Pembroke Coll. Oxf., PMB/G/4/1/1/2, 4-5; Macleane, Pembroke Coll. 193. In 1654, he purchased manor of Sutton Courtenay, Berks. from the treason trustees.CCC, 1626. In about 1660, his eldest son John’s estate in Berks. was reckoned to be worth approximately £800 p.a.Burke, Commoners, i. 688. At his d. estate inc. manor of Bramley, Yorks., which he had purchased from Thomas Savile, 1st earl of Sussex; and lands and tenements in Shadwell, Mdx.PROB11/309, f. 35v.

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Long Ditch, St Margaret, Westminster (1651-2).WCA, SMW/E/47/1593-7 (St Margaret, Westminster army assessment bks. 1651-2).

Religion

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