Family and Education
bap. 25 Sept. 1622, 1st s. of Sir Samuel Rolle* of Heanton Satchville and 2nd w. Margaret, da. of Sir Thomas Wise† of Sydenham, Marystowe.Stoke Damerel par. reg.; Vivian, Vis. Devon, 655. educ. I. Temple 14 Nov. 1640.I. Temple database. m. bef. Mar. 1647, Lady Arabella Clinton, da. and coh. of Theophilus, 4th earl of Lincoln, 2s. (1 d.v.p.) 3da. (1 d.v.p.). suc. fa. Dec. 1647.Vivian, Vis. Devon, 654-5; PROB11/204/39. d. bef. June 1660.CJ viii. 68b.
Offices Held

Military: lt.-col. (parlian.) in regt. of his fa. bef. May 1643. Gov. Barnstaple May-Aug. 1643. Col. in Devon regt. Aug. 1643–?Oct. 1647.J.B. Gribble, Memorials of Barnstaple (1830), 446; M. Coate, ‘An original diary of Col. Robert Bennett’, Devon and Cornw. N and Q, xviii. 258; CSP Dom. 1645–7, p. 416; SP28/266/2, f. 82. Col. militia ft. Devon 2 Mar. 1650, Apr. 1660–d.CSP Dom. 1650, p. 504; Parliamentary Intelligencer no. 16 (9–16 Apr. 1660), 253 (E.183.3).

Local: j.p. Devon by 6 Mar. 1647 – d.; Cornw. by Feb. 1650–?, 13 Sept. 1653–?d.C193/13/3, f. 10; C193/13/4, f. 14; Devon RO, DQS 28/3; C231/6, p. 266. Commr. assessment, Cornw. 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648, 7 Apr., 7 Dec. 1649, 26 Nov 1650, 10 Dec. 1652; Devon 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. 1660;A. and O.; An Act for an Assessment (1653, E.1062.28). Cornw. militia, 7 June 1648;LJ x. 311a. Devon militia, 7 June 1648;LJ x. 311b. militia, 2 Dec. 1648, c. 1650, 26 July 1659, 12 Mar. 1660; Cornw. c.1650.A. and O.; R. Williams, ‘County and Municipal Government in Cornw., Devon, Dorset and Som. 1649–60’ (Bristol Univ. Ph.D. thesis, 1981), 167–8, 170. Sheriff, Devon 1649–50.List of Sheriffs (L. and I. ix), 37. Commr. ejecting scandalous ministers, Devon and Exeter 28 Aug. 1654.A. and O.

Central: cllr. of state, 2 Jan. 1660.CJ vii. 801a, 852b.

: of Heanton Satchville, Petrockstowe, Devon.
Volume
Commons 1640-1660
Web Title

ROLLE, Robert (1622-60), of Heanton Satchville, Petrockstowe, Devon.

Will
17 Feb. 1660, pr. 11 Feb. 1661.PROB11/303/269.
Estates
3 manors in Devon, inc. Petrockstowe.PROB11/303/269.
Oxford 1644
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