j.p. Yorks. (W. Riding) 23 June 1630-c.1644;
col. of ft. (roy.) c.Aug. 1642-c.Apr. 1646.
WENTWORTH, Sir George II (1599-1660), of Woolley, Royston, Yorks.
Family and Education
b. 1599, 3rd s. of Michael Wentworth (d. 2 Jan. 1642) of Woolley, and Frances, da. of Sir George Downes of Pawnton, Herefs.Dugdale’s Vis. Yorks. ii. 322; Leeds Univ. Lib. MS/DEP/Wentworth Woolley Hall/32/2, bdle. D. educ. I. Temple 6 Feb. 1618.I. Temple Admiss. Database. m. (1) (settlement 1 Oct. 1621, with £1,500), Anne (d. 19 Aug. 1624), da. of Thomas 1st Baron Fairfax of Cameron† [S], 2s. (d.v.p.);SP23/199, p. 151; Bodl. Fairfax 30, f. 150; Leeds Univ. Lib. MS/DEP/Wentworth Woolley Hall/10/1, no. 27; Dugdale’s Vis. Yorks. ii. 322. (2) (settlement 3 Oct. 1626, with £5,000), Everild (d. 9 Sept. 1639), da. of Christopher Maltby of Maltby, Stainton, Yorks., 2s. (d.v p.) 3da.SP23/199, p. 126; Leeds Univ. Lib. YAS/DD57/C/C.40; MS/DEP/Wentworth Woolley Hall/10/1, no. 29; MS/DEP/Wentworth Woolley Hall/48; Dugdale’s Vis. Yorks. ii. 322-3. Kntd. 25 Apr. 1630;Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 197. d. 19 Oct. 1660.Dugdale’s Vis. Yorks. ii. 322.
Offices Held
of Woolley, Royston, Yorks.
Volume
Commons 1640-1660
Web Title
Will
14 Sept. 1660, cod. 18 Oct. 1660, pr. 30 Oct. 1660.Borthwick, Prob. Reg. 44, f. 309.
Estates
in the early 1630s, Wentworth’s fa. was fined £40 for distraint of knighthood.‘Compositions for not taking knighthood at the coronation of Charles I’ ed. W.P. Baildon, in Misc. 1 (Yorks. Arch. Soc. rec. ser. lxi), 91. In 1631, Wentworth purchased a third part of manors of Filey, Maltby and Muston, Yorks. for £1,650.E. Riding Archives, DDHU/17/27. In 1634, purchased manor of Darnton, Yorks.G.E. Wentworth, ‘Hist. of the Wentworths of Woolley’, YAJ xii. 25. and a third of manor of Maltby, Yorks.C54/3012/13. In 1635, purchased manors of Farsley and Wadlands, Yorks, for £2,300.Leeds Univ. Lib. YAS/DD12/I/18/8, 10, 11. In 1641, purchased capital messuage of Brearley, Yorks. for £650.Leeds Univ. Lib. YAS/MD363/10C. In 1646, estate inc. manors of Woolley and Notton and tithes and lands in adjoining townships; manor and capital messuage of Farsley and Wadlands; manors of Brackenholme and Darton; a third of manor of Maltby; franktenements in manors of Kirskill, Maltby, Owston and Poole and in lands and tenements in Arthington, Leathley and Poole; and an annuity out of lands and tenements in Boroughbridge, Yorks. In all, estate was reckoned to be worth about £1,000 p.a. although it was charged with annuities and rents totalling £245 p.a.SP23/199, pp. 117-20, 151-3; CJ v. 486a; Yorks. Stuart Fines ed. W. Brigg (Yorks. Arch. Soc. rec. ser. lviii), 186. His debts amounted to £600.CJ v. 486a. At d. estate worth about £1,250 p.a. and personal estate valued at £1,130.Leeds Univ. Lib. YAS/DD12/II/24/48; MS/DEP/Wentworth Woolley Hall/16, 40, 48.
Oxford 1644
Yes
1640 Volume
oxford
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