WROTH, Robert (1488/89-1535), of Durants, Enfield, Mdx.

Family and Education

b. 1488 /89, 2nd but 1st surv. s. of John Wroth of Durants by Joan. educ. G. Inn. m. by 1517, Jane, da. of Sir Thomas Haute of Kent, wid. of Thomas Goodere of Hadley, Herts., 4s. inc. Thomas 2da. suc. fa. 23 Aug. 1517.Date of birth estimated from age at fa.’s i.p.m.s, C142/32/31, 83, 57/7, 33. PCC 36 Hogen, 16 Pyckering correcting visitation peds. as Vis. Essex (Harl. Soc. xiii), 132; LP Hen. VIII, ii; D. O. Pam, Protestant Gentlemen: the Wroths of Enfield and Loughton (Edmonton Hundred Hist. Soc. occasional ppr. n.s. xxv), passim.

Offices Held

J.p. Mdx. 1522 – d.; commr. subsidy 1523, 1524; other commissions, Herts., London and Mdx. 1525 – d.; steward, manor of Cheshunt, Herts. 1524 – d.; attorney-gen. duchy of Lancaster 1531 – d., steward, Savoy manor 1532 – d., Herts. and Mdx. 1534 – d.; steward, Finsbury, Mdx. 1532 – d.; jt. (with Thomas Cromwell) steward, Westminster abbey 1534 – d.; steward, manor of Edmonton, Mdx. Feb. 1535–d.LP Hen. VIII, iii, iv, viii; Somerville, Duchy, i. 407; Somerville, The Savoy, 235; City of London RO, Guildhall, rep. 8, f. 233; Westminster abbey, reg. 3, f. 298v.

Parlimentarian

WROTH, Robert (1488/89-1535), of Durants, Enfield, Mdx.

Main residence: Durants, Enfield, Mdx.

Author

H.M.

Volume

Commons 1509-1558

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

No

Addresses

Religion