ASTON, Sir Roger (d.1612), of Edinburgh and Cranfold, Mdx.

Family and Education

Illegit. s. of Thomas Aston of Aston, Cheshire. educ. Oxf. MA 1605. Al. Ox. m. (1) bef. 1596, Marjory Stuart (d. 11 Apr. 1606), lady-in-waiting to Anne of Denmark, da. of Andrew Stewart, Lord Ochiltree [S], several s. d.v.p. 4da.; (2) Cordelia, da. of Sir John Stanhope* of Elvaston, Derbys. 1s. Scots Peerage ed. J.B. Paul, 516; SRO, E34/47, f. 3; D. Lysons, Mdx. Par. bet. 22-3; Vis. Derbys. 1569 and 1611, p. 80. Kntd. 18 Apr. 1603. Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 101. d. 23 May 1612. sig. Roger Aston.

Offices Held

Master huntsman [S] by 1580–1603; SRO, E34/35, f. 8v. gent. of the chamber [S] 1587–1603; K.M. Brown, ‘The Scottish Aristocracy, Anglicization and the Ct. 1603–38’, HJ, xxxvi. 553, n. 31. gent. of the bedchamber 1603–d.; Ibid.; Add. 34765, f. 34. master falconer 1603 – d., ?master huntsman 1603–d.; HMC Hatfield, xxi. 269. master, gt. wardrobe (jt.) 1605 – 06, (sole) 1606–d. C66/1676; 66/1697; E179/70/122; Lysons, bet. 22–3; Letters of Jas. VI and I ed. G.P.V. Akrigg, 238.

Kpr. Cooling Park, Kent 1603, CSP Dom. 1603–10, p. 57. game, Greenwich, Kent 1603, CSP Dom. Addenda, 1603–25, p. 531. St. James’s Park, Westminster 1604, Mansion House, St. James, Westminster 1609; CSP Dom. 1603–10, pp. 153, 506. j.p. Kent 1606–d., Cal. Assize Recs. Kent Indictments Jas. I, ed. J.S. Cockburn, 28, 104. Mdx. by 1608. SP14/33, f. 41.

Patentee, greenwax fines, duchy of Lancaster 1604 – d., glassmaking [I] 1606–11. CSP Dom. 1603–10, pp. 158, 174, 175, 333; E.S. Godfrey, English Glassmaking, 55, 66.

Parlimentarian

ASTON, Sir Roger (d.1612), of Edinburgh and Cranfold, Mdx.

Main residences: Edinburgh; Cranfold, Mdx.

Author

C.R.K.

Volume

Commons 1604-1629

Web Title

ASTON, Sir Roger (-d.1612)

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

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