WROTH, Sir Robert I (c.1539-1606), of Durants (alias Gartons), Enfield, Mdx.; Loughton (or Lucton) Hall, Essex and Leadenhall Street, London

Family and Education

b. c. 1539, 1st s. of Sir Thomas Wroth† and Mary, da. of Richard Rich, 1st Bar. Rich; bro. of John† and Richard†. educ. St. John’s Camb. ‘impubes’ 1552; G. Inn 1559. m. Susan, da. and h. of John Stonard of Loughton, 4s. inc. Robert II*. suc. fa. 1573, fa.-in-law 1579;Vis. Essex (Harl. Soc. xiii), 330; Mdx. Peds. (Harl. Soc. lxv), 17; Arch. Cant. xii. 315; GI Admiss.; Al. Cant. The visitations name Wroth’s father-in-law Francis Stonard, but this is evidently incorrect: W.C. Waller, ‘An Extinct County Fam.: Wroth of Loughton Hall’, Trans. Essex Arch. Soc. viii. n.s. 148. Kntd. by 19 Sept. 1597.HMC Hatfield, vii. 387. d. 27 Jan. 1606.

Offices Held

J.p. Mdx. c.1573-at least 1604,Eg. 2345, f. 25; SP12/145, f. 28; APC, 1590–1, p. 326; 1598–9, p. 142; C66/1620. Essex by 1580-at least 1604;SP12/145, f. 16; APC, 1597, p. 304; C66/1620. commr. gaol delivery, Newgate 1577,HMC Hatfield, ii. 164. London 1602–d.;C181/1, ff. 22v, 127. bailiff and woodward, Enfield Chase, Mdx. by 1580–d.,D. Pam, Story of Enfield Chase, 35; HMC Hatfield, iv. 440; Ducatus Lancastriae, iii. 451; DL5/24, p. 72. riding forester, Waltham Forest, Essex 1589-at least 1597,W.R. Fisher, Forest of Essex, 379; Lansd. 83, f. 216. walker 1603,CSP Dom. 1603–10, p. 10. kpr. Leyton and Ongar Walks, Essex by 1597 – at least1604, Waltham Walk and Clinton Walk, Waltham Forest by 1604;Lansd. 83, f. 216; E115/102/69; E403/1699, unfol., payment of 15 Jan. 1604. commr. subsidy, Essex 1581, 1585, 1589, 1591, 1603–5,Lansd. 32, f. 62v; E115/28/4,13; 115/94/106; 115/146/128, 144; 115/147/86; 115/339/3. Mdx. 1581, 1586, 1594 – 95, 1597, 1600, 1602–3;Lansd. 32, f. 68v; E115/28/44; 115/94/96; 115/148/10, 56, 98, 106. commr. musters, Mdx. 1583-at least 1600;HMC Hatfield, v. 524; xiii. 239; xiv. 148; APC, 1588, pp. 144, 202; 1595–6, pp. 42, 156; 1596–7, pp. 386, 388; 1597–8, p. 357. capt. militia, Essex by 1587-at least 1588,APC, 1587–8, p. 11; HMC Foljambe, 38. sheriff 1587–8;List of Sheriffs comp. A. Hughes (PRO, L. and I. ix), 45. commr. sewers, river Lea, Essex, Herts. and Mdx. by 1587-at least 1589,Lansd. 53, f. 168v; 60, f. 90. Havering and Dagenham, Essex 1597,APC, 1597, p. 304. Mdx. and Essex 1604, Mdx. and London 1605;C181/1, ff. 89v, 115. commr. oyer and terminer, Marshalsea 1597,C231/1, f. 46. London 1601–d.,C181/1, ff. 11, 126. Mdx. 1601 – d., to indict Henry Brooke alias Cobham, 11th Lord Cobham, 1603, Ibid. ff. 13v, 66v, 125v. charitable uses, Essex 1600, 1604, C93/1/19; 93/3/12 the Verge 1604,C181/1, f. 93v. swans, home counties 1605,Ibid. f. 113v. inquiry into Gunpowder Plot, Mdx. 1606.Ibid. f. 132.

Commr. trial of Dr. Parry, 1585, Anthony Babington 1586, Patrick O’Cullen 1593, Valentine Thomas 1598;Oxford DNB; State Trials ed. T.B. Howell, i. 1129. commr. inquiry, goods of Lord Cobham and Sir Walter Ralegh† 1603, Lord Grey and others 1603;C181/1, f. 72v. commr. Union 1604.Ibid. 208b.

Parlimentarian

WROTH, Sir Robert I (c.1539-1606), of Durants (alias Gartons), Enfield, Mdx.; Loughton (or Lucton) Hall, Essex and Leadenhall Street, London

Main residences: Durants (alias Gartons), Enfield, Mdx. and Loughton (or Lucton) Hall, Essex and Leadenhall Street, London.

Author

A.D.T.

Volume

Commons 1604-1629

Web Title

WROTH, Sir Robert I (c.1539-1606)

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

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Religion

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