ALDWORTH, Robert (c.1624-76), of Broad Street, Bristol and Lincoln’s Inn.

Commr. for execution of ordinances, Bristol 1644, assessment 1644 – 52, 1657, Jan. 1660–1, 1673 – 74, freeman 1645, town clerk 1653 – d., member, soc. of merchant venturers 1654; recorder, Devizes by 1654 – 61; commr. for scandalous ministers, Som. 1654, security 1656; j.p. Som. 1656 – Mar. 1660, Glos. 1657 – Mar. 1660; commr. for militia, Bristol 1659, Mar. 1660, col. of militia by 1658 – ?Feb. 1660; reader, L. Inn 1671, treas. 1673–4.CSP Dom. 1661–2, p. 224; Merchant Venturers (Bristol Rec. Soc. xvii), 77; H. Bull, Hist. Devizes, 284; Devizes Bor. Annals ed. Cunnington, i. 133; J. Latimer, Annals of Bristol, 281; HMC Popham, 145.

Commr. for obstructions 1649 – 51, 1652–?8, prohibition of tobacco planting 1652; trustee for disafforestation 1653; judge of poor prisoners 1654.