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b. 4 Nov. 1553, G. Ormerod, Hist. Cheshire, ii. 137. 2nd s. of Richard Wilbraham (d.1612) of Nantwich, Cheshire, and Elizabeth, da. of Thomas Maisterson of Nantwich. Vis. Cheshire (Harl. Soc. lix), 260. educ. Shrewsbury sch., Salop 1570; Shrewsbury Sch. Regestum Scholarium comp. E. Calvert, 33. St. John’s, Camb. 1573; Al. Cant. G. Inn 1576, called 1583. PBG Inn, i. 26, 55. m. by 1601, Mary, da. of Edward Baber†, sjt.-at-law, of Aldwick, Som., 3da. Cass, 162; C142/354/136. Kntd. 20 May 1603. Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 109. d. 31 July 1616. C142/354/136. sig. Roger Wilbraham.
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Solicitor gen. [I] 1585–1603, R. Lascelles, Liber Munerum Publicorum Hiberniae, i. pt. 2, p. 75. acting att. gen. [I] 1591–3; APC, 1591, p. 13; CSP Ire. 1592–6, p. 77. commr. Munster plantation [I] 1586-at least 1595, CSP Ire. 1586–8, p. 148; T. Rymer, Foedera, vii. pt. 1, p. 164. Ulster plantation from 1609, CSP Ire. 1608–10, p. 171. Irish causes 1611, Ibid. 1611–14, p. 22. inquiry into Irish Parl. 1613. APC, 1613–14, pp. 154–5.

Ancient, G. Inn 1586, bencher 1595, Lent reader 1598. PBG Inn, i. 71, 110, 135.

Master of Requests 1600–d.; APC, 1599–1600, p. 282; Lansd. 273, f. 13v. member, High Commission, Canterbury prov. 1601–13; R.G. Usher, Rise and Fall of High Commission, 360; HMC Hatfield, xv. 224; xvi. 290. kpr. of recs., Tower of London 1602–3; C66/1570; CSP Dom. 1603–10, p. 15. chan., Queen Anne’s household 1603–d.; LR6/154/9; PROB 11/128, f. 343. surveyor of the Wards 1607–d. C66/1748.

Commr. oyer and terminer, Marshalsea 1601, London 1601 – at least15, Mdx. 1603 – d., Verge 1604-at least 1615, C231/1, f. 101; C181/1, ff. 11, 43v, 93v; 181/2, f. 235v, 239v, 251. piracy, Eng. 1601, Rymer, vii. pt. 2, p. 14. gaol delivery, Newgate, London 1601–d., C181/1, f. 11v; 181/2, f. 253. sewers, London 1606 – at least15, Mdx. 1606, 1611, Ibid. ff. 19v, 140v, 153, 243. determine limits of Tower of London 1608, Ibid. f. 70. annoyances, Surr. 1611, Mdx. 1613, C181/2, ff. 142, 199. subsidy, Mdx. 1608. SP14/31/1.

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WILBRAHAM, Sir Roger (1553-1616), of St. John’s Gateway, Clerkenwell, London; later of Ludgraves, Monken Hadley, Mdx.
Main residences: St. John's Gateway, Clerkenwell, London; Ludgraves, Monken Hadley, Mdx.
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P.M.H.
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Commons 1604-1629
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WILBRAHAM, Sir Roger (1553-1616)

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