WITTEWRONGE, Sir John (1618-93), of Rothamsted, Wheathamstead, Herts., and Talerddig, Mont.

Family and Education

bap. 1 Nov. 1618, o. surv. s. of Jacob Wittewronge, brewer, of Grantham Lane, London and West Ham, Essex and 2nd w. Anne, da. and coh. of Gerard Van Acker, merchant, of Antwerp, London and Rotterdam.The Marriage, Baptismal, and Burial Regs….of the Dutch Reformed Church, Austin Friars, ed. W.J.C. Moens (Lymington, 1884), 82; Herts. RO, DE/Lw/Z21/4, p. 5, 8-9; DE/Lw/F18, unfol.; ‘Ped. of Wittewronge of Ghent in Flanders’, Miscellanea Genealogica et Heraldica, 4th ser. ii. 9-10. educ. Trinity, Oxf. 1634;Al. Ox. travelled abroad (Low Countries) 1637.PC2/47, p. 219; Herts. RO, DE/Lw/Z21/26. m. (1) 30 Dec. 1638, Mary (d. 4 Apr. 1640), da. of Sir Thomas Myddelton* of Chirk Castle, Denb., 1s.;Herts. RO, DE/Lw/Z21/4, p. 9; ’Ped. of Wittewronge’, 10-11. (2) 23 June 1641 (with £2,500), Elizabeth (d. 6 Oct. 1649), da. of Timothy Myddelton of Stansted Mountfichet, Essex, 3s. (1 d.v.p.), 1da.;Herts. RO, DE/Lw/F11; DE/Lw/Z21/4, pp. 9-10; ‘Ped. of Wittewronge’, 10, 74. (3) 4 July 1650, Catherine (d. 10 Apr. 1659), da. of Maurice Thomson, merchant, of Bishopsgate Street, London, 3da.Herts. RO, DE/Lw/Z21/4, pp. 10-11; ‘Ped. of Wittewronge’, 10. suc. fa. 1622;Herts. RO, DE/Lw/Z21/4, p. 6. Kntd. 16 Feb. 1641;Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 208. cr. bt. 2 May 1662.Complete Baronetage, iii. 247. bur. 23 June 1693.Clutterbuck, Herts. i. 411.

Offices Held

Local: commr. loans on Propositions, Herts. 12 July 1642.LJ v. 207b. Dep. lt. Aug. 1642–5.Herts. RO, DE/Lw/Z22/5. Commr. assessment, 24 Feb. 1643, 18 Oct. 1644, 21 Feb. 1645, 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648, 7 Apr., 7 Dec. 1649, 26 Nov. 1650, 10 Dec. 1652, 24 Nov. 1653, 9 June 1657, 26 Jan., 1 June 1660, 1677, 1679; Mont. 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648, 7 Apr., 7 Dec. 1649, 26 Nov. 1650, 10 Dec. 1652, 24 Nov. 1653, 9 June 1657, 26 Jan., 1 June 1660, 1677, 1679;A. and O.; An Act for an Assessment (1653, E.1062.28); An Ordinance...for an Assessment (1660, E.1075.6); SR. sequestration, Herts. 27 Mar. 1643; defence of Herts. 31 Mar., 18 Dec. 1643; levying of money, 7 May, 3 Aug. 1643; Eastern Assoc. 10 Aug., 20 Sept. 1643; association, London and neighbouring cos. 19 Sept. 1643. July 1644 – July 1660A. and O. J.p. Herts.; St Albans liberty 3 Aug. 1644–?, 9 July 1658–18 Sept. 1660; St Albans borough 3 Aug. 1644–?, 4 Oct. 1658–18 Sept. 1660; Mont. 1648-Dec. 1686.C231/6, pp. 5, 396, 407; C181/5, ff. 241r, 241v; C181/6, pp. 312, 317, 396; PC2/71, p. 378; Justices of the Peace ed. Phillips, 143–53. Commr. oyer and terminer, St Albans borough 3 Aug. 1644; St Albans liberty 3 Aug. 1644, 4 Oct. 1658-aft. Oct. 1659;C181/5, ff. 241r, 241v; C181/6, pp. 316, 397. Home circ. by Feb. 1654–10 July 1660;C181/6, pp. 9, 372. commr. New Model ordinance, Herts. 17 Feb. 1645; commr. I. of Ely, 12 Aug. 1645.A. and O. Visitor, St Albans g.s. 1645.VCH Herts. ii. 64. Commr. associated cos. of N. Wales, Mont. 21 Aug. 1648; militia, Herts. 2 Dec. 1648, 26 July 1659, 12 Mar. 1660; Mont. 2 Dec. 1648; N. Wales 26 July 1659; Bucks. 12 Mar. 1660; composition for delinquency and sequestration, N. Wales 10 Aug. 1649; ejecting scandalous ministers, Herts. 28 Aug. 1654;A. and O. for public faith, 24 Oct. 1657.Mercurius Politicus, no. 387 (22–9 Oct. 1657), 62 (E.505.35). Sheriff, 1658 – 59; Mont. 1664–5.List of Sheriffs (L. and I. ix.), 64, 263. Commr. poll tax, Herts. 1666.SR.

Military: capt. militia ft. Herts. Aug. 1642–?The Impact of the First Civil War on Herts. ed. A. Thomson (Herts. Rec. Soc. xxiii.), 1. Col. Herts. volunteers (parlian.), ?Jan.-Dec. 1643.Herts. RO, D/Z55/01; CJ iii. 54a; Impact of the First Civil War ed. Thomson, 101; SP28/11, ff. 143, 145, 147.

Parlimentarian

WITTEWRONGE, Sir John (1618-93), of Rothamsted, Wheathamstead, Herts., and Talerddig, Mont.

: of Rothamsted, Wheathamstead, Herts. and Talerddig, Mont.

Likenesses

Likenesses: oils, attrib. P. Vanderbank, 1688.“Observations of Weather”: the Weather Diary of Sir John Wittewronge of Rothamsted, 1684-89, ed. M.H. Williams and J. Stevenson (Herts. Rec. Soc. xv.), frontispiece.

Volume

Commons 1640-1660

Web Title

WITTEWRONGE, Sir John (1618-93), of Rothamsted, Wheathamstead, Herts., and Talerddig, Mont.

Will

7 June 1688, pr. 3 July 1693.PROB11/413/436; PROB11/416/30.

Estates

granted manor of Rothamsted, Wheathamstead, Herts. by his mother, bef. 1640;VCH Herts. ii. 303. inherited manor of Talerddig, Mont. from his mother, 1647;PROB11/199/232. bought manor of Kinsbourne alias Harpendenbury, Wheathamstead, for £765 14s 10d and manor of Wheathampstead and Harpenden for £1,014 8s 11d in sale of episcopal lands, Feb. 1650;VCH Herts. ii. 297. bought manor of Stanton, Stantonbury, Bucks. from Sir Peter Temple* for £400, 1653;Herts. RO, DE/Lw/E44; VCH Bucks. iv. 464. allocated lands in barony of Moyashel and Magheradernon, West Meath, 1654.CSP Ire. 1647-60, p. 547; CSP Ire. Adv. 1642-59, p. 348.

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Little Piazza, Covent Garden 1647.Survey of London, xxxvi. 97.

Religion

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