WILSON, Rowland (1613-50), of Bishopsgate St, London.

Family and Education

bap. 1 Sept. 1613, s. of Rowland Wilson (d. 16 May 1654), Vintner of St Martin Outwich, London and Merton Abbey, Surr. and Mary, da. of John Tiffin of London.St Lawrence Jewry (Harl. Soc. Regs. lxx), 33; Vis. London (Harl. Soc. xviii), 356. m. (lic. 29 Jan. 1634), Mary, da. of Bigley Carleton, Grocer of London. s.p..Vis. London, 356; London Mar. Lics., 1484. d. 19 Feb. 1650.J.B. Marsh, The Story of Harecourt (1871), 33.

Offices Held

Civic: freeman, Vintners’ Co. by 1634; liveryman, 10 July 1638.GL, MS 15201/4, frontispiece; MS 15211/2, pp. 302, 413. Common cllr. London by Oct. 1645;Juxon Jnl., 90. alderman, 28 Nov. 1648–d.; Beaven, Aldermen of London i. 59. sheriff, 13 July 1649–d.Whitelocke, Diary, 241; CJ vi. 259a.

Local: capt. Hon. Artillery Coy. 11 Feb. 1634.Raikes, Ancient Vellum Bk., 46. Commr. sewers, Kent and Surr. 18 Mar.-aft. Nov. 1645;C181/5, ff. 249v, 264v. defence of Surr. 1 July 1645;A. and O. London militia, 15 Aug. 1645, 23 July, 2 Sept. 1647, 17 Jan. 1649;A, and O.; Whitelocke, Mems. ii. 136. martial law in London, 3 Apr. 1646.A. and O. J.p. Surr. 8 June 1646–d.C231/6, p. 47. Commr. militia, 2 Dec. 1648;A. and O. assessment, London, Surr. 7 Apr., 7 Dec. 1649. Asst. London corporation for poor , 7 May 1649.A. and O.

Mercantile: freeman, E. I. Co. 26 Feb. 1641–?Cal. Ct. Mins. E. India Co. 1640–3, p.147.

Military: lt.-col. orange regt. London trained bands, c. 1642; col. by Oct. 1643 – July 1647, Aug. 1647-c.Nov. 1648.An exact list… of Several Regiments (1642, 669.f.68); Whitelocke, Diary, 149; Nagel, ‘The Militia of London, 1641–9’ (London Univ. PhD thesis, 1982), 316–20.

Central: commr. ct. martial, 16 Aug. 1644; redemption of distressed captives, 9 July 1645; high ct. of justice, 6 Jan. 1649.A. and O. Member, cttee. of navy and customs, 13 Jan. 1649;CJ vi. 117a. cttee. for excise, 10 Feb. 1649.CJ vi. 137b. Cllr. of state, 13 Feb. 1649. Member, cttee. for the army, 17 Apr. 1649. Trustee, capitular lands, 30 Apr. 1649; sale of capitular lands, 31 July 1649. Commr. removing obstructions, sale of bishops’ lands, 20 June 1649.A. and O. Member, cttee. for plundered ministers, 5 Sept. 1649.CJ vi. 290a. Gov. Westminster sch. and almshouses, 26 Sept. 1649.A. and O.

Parlimentarian

WILSON, Rowland (1613-50), of Bishopsgate St, London.

: of Bishopsgate St, London.

Volume

Commons 1640-1660

Web Title

WILSON, Rowland (1613-50), of Bishopsgate St, London.

Will

16 Feb. 1650, pr. 2 Apr. 1650.PROB11/212/8.

Estates

Fa.’s estate said to be worth £2,000 p.a.;Whitelocke, Diary, 149. unspecified stock held in partnership with fa.PROB11/212/8.

Oxford 1644

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