WIGSTON, Roger (1482/83-1542), of Wolston, Warws.

Commr. subsidy, Leicester 1515, Coventry 1523, 1524, enclosures, midlands 1517, for survey of monasteries, Warws. 1536, loan 1542; receiver, Beaumont lands 1516 – 30, jt. (with Sir John Dauntesey) receiver-gen., wards’ lands Feb. 1518 – Oct. 1520; j.p. Warws. 1522 – d., Salop and Staffs. 1536 – d., Worcs., Glos. 1537 – d., Herefs. 1538 – d., Cheshire 1539 – d.; recorder, Coventry by 1524 – 41; receiver, duchy of Lancaster, Tutbury honor, surveyor and receiver, Castle Donington 1528 – 42; gen. surveyor, King’s woods 1530, member, council in the marches of Wales 1534; solicitor, Kenilworth abbey, Warws. and St. Mary’s college, Warwick by 1536; steward, Pinley priory, Warws. by 1536; sheriff, Warws. and Leics. 1541–2.LP Hen. VIII, ii-iv, vii, x-xii, xviii, add.; Statutes, iii. 169; E179/123/120, 133/120; H. E. Bell, Ct. of Wards and Liveries, 10; Somerville, Duchy, i. 544; Coventry Leet Bk. (EETS cxxxiv), ii. passim; Val. Eccles. iv. 5n; Leicester Recs. iii. 34.