DYOTT, Richard (c.1590-1660), of Stafford, Sadler alias Robe Street, Lichfield, Staffs. and the Inner Temple, London
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Family and Education
b. c. 1590, 1st s. of Anthony Dyott* and 1st w. Catherine, da. of John Harcourt of Ranton Abbey, Staffs. educ. Corpus Christi, Oxf. 1604, BA 1607; I. Temple 1607, called 1615.Al. Ox.; CITR, ii. 29, 90.m. 4 Jan. 1615, Dorothy (bur. 11 Apr. 1672), da. and h. of Richard Dorington, grocer and alderman of Stafford, 6s. (2 d.v.p.).Vis. Staffs. ed. H.S. Grazebrook (Wm. Salt Arch. Soc. 1884), pp. 118-19; CITR, ii. 357.suc. fa. 1622; Kntd. 13 Sept. 1635. Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 203.d. 8 Mar. 1660. sig. Ric[hard] Dyot.
Offices Held
Steward, Lichfield 1622–41; T. Harwood, Hist. Lichfield, 345. recorder, Stafford by 1624–31; Wm. Salt Lib., ms 369, pp. 160–1. justice, Council in the North 1628–41;CSP Dom. 1628–9, p. 8; R. Reid, Council in the North, 498. steward, reader’s dinner (jt.), I. Temple 1633;CITR, ii. 206. temporal chan., Palatinate of Dur. 1639-at least 1640; Staffs. RO, D661/1/732; Cat. of Mss in I. Temple ed. J. Conway Davies, ii. 928. master in Chancery extraordinary c.1655. Staffs. RO, D661/1/29.
Commr. subsidy, Lichfield 1624; C212/22/23. j.p. Ripon, Yorks. 1629, C181/4, f. 7v. Yorks. (W., N. and E. Ridings) 1630 – at least40, Staffs. 1634 – at least40, co. Dur. 1639-at least 1640; C231/5, ff. 35–6, 143, 336; C66/2858. commr. gaol delivery, Ripon 1629-at least 1633, C181/4, ff. 8, 135. recusancy, northern counties 1630,CSP Dom. 1629–31, pp. 301, 383. oyer and terminer, Northern circ. 1632, C181/4, f. 108. charitable uses, Staffs. 1634, 1637-at least 1639, C192/1, unfol. sewers 1634, swans, Staffs. and Warws. 1635, C181/4, ff. 189, 199v. array, Staffs. 1642, Northants. RO, FH133. assessment (roy.) 1643. J.C. Wedgwood, Staffs. Parl. Hist. (Wm. Salt Soc.), ii. 23.