HEATH, Robert (1575-1649), of the Inner Temple, London and Mitcham, Surr.; later of Serjeants’ Inn, Fleet Street and Brasted Place, Kent.

Escheator, Kent and Mdx. 1599–1600; List of Escheators comp. A.C. Wood (L. and I. Soc. lxxii), 71. commr. aid, Surr. 1612; Harl. 354, f. 68v. j.p. Surr. 1612-at least 1641, Cal. Assize Recs. Surr. Indictments, Jas. I ed. J.S. Cockburn, 76; ASSI 35/83/5. Suss. 1613-at least 1625, Cal. Assize Recs. Suss. Indictments, Jas. I ed. J.S. Cockburn, 50; T. Rymer, Foedera, viii. pt. 2, p. 16. Essex 1618 – 20, Kent 1618 – at least42, Mdx. 1618 – at least36, Westminster 1620 – at least32, Beds., Bucks., Hunts., Suff., Isle of Ely, Cambs. 1632–6, C231/4, ff. 73, 102; 231/5, f. 77; Cal. Assize Recs. Essex Indictments, Jas. I ed. J.S. Cockburn, 235; SP16/212; Cal. Assize Recs. Kent Indictments, Chas. I ed. J.S. Cockburn, 421; C193/13/2. Cornw., Devon, Glos., Dorset, Hants, Som., Wilts., 1638 – at least43, Derbys., Rutland 1639, Cal. of Docquets of Ld. Kpr. Coventry ed. J. Broadway, R. Cust and S.K. Roberts (L. and I. Soc. spec. ser. xxxiv-vii), 66, 75–6; Docquets of Letters Patent 1642–6 ed. W.H. Black, 94. liberties of Southwell and Scroby, Notts. 1641, Cawood and Ripon liberties, Yorks. 1641; C181/5, ff. 216–17. commr. gaol delivery, London 1618 – 34, 1640 – 41, Isle of Ely, Cambs. 1632–4, C181/2, f. 324; 181/4, ff. 122, 160, 171; 181/5, ff. 186, 207. oyer and terminer, London and Mdx. 1618 – 34, 1640 – 41, Essex 1621, Home circ. 1622 – 42, the Verge 1627 – 34, Norf. circ. 1632 – 34, 1642, Western circ. 1638, 1643, Oxf. circ. 1641, Northern circ. 1641, C181/2, ff. 323v, 326; 181/3, ff. 28v, 64v, 217; 181/4, ff. 109v, 171-v, 175v, 182v; 181/5, ff. 105, 186, 191, 203, 207, 213, 218, 222; Docquets of Letters Patent 1642–6, pp. 90–1. sewers, London 1618 – 23, 1629 – 32, Gt. Fens 1618 – 21, 1627 – 41, Mdx. 1619 – 20, 1627, 1630, 1639, Essex and Mdx. 1622, Surr. and Kent 1624 – 25, Essex, Mdx. and Kent, Cambs. 1627, Essex 1631, 1633, Surr. 1632, C181/2, ff. 325, 327, 347v; 181/2, f. 18v, 104, 213v, 255v; 181/3, ff. 63, 114v, 136v, 158v, 161v, 214v, 220v; 181/4, ff. 63v, 76, 126, 128v, 136; 181/5, ff. 142v, 214. survey, L. Inn Fields, Mdx. 1618, new buildings, London 1619, 1625, 1630, Mdx. 1624, Rymer, vii. pt. 3, p. 83; vii. pt. 4, p. 96; viii. pt. 1, p. 70, pt. 3, p. 114; CD 1621, vii. 336. assurances London, 1619–20, C181/2, ff. 336, 357 inquiry, Tiptree Heath, Essex 1620, Ibid. f. 357. subsidy, Kent, Mdx. and London 1621 – 22, 1624, Surr. 1622, 1624,C212/22/20–1, 23. enclosure, Fens 1622, 1624, C181/3, ff. 49v, 126v. survey, Tiptree Heath, Essex 1623, Ibid. f. 95. repair of Bowes bridge and causeway, Mdx. 1623; Ibid. f. 97. kpr. (jt.) Houghton Park, Beds. 1623; C66/2296. gov. Charterhouse hosp., London 1625–44; G.S. Davies, Charterhouse in London, 352; LMA, Acc/1876/G/02/02, f. 72. commr. annoyances, Mdx. 1625, C181/3, f. 157. Forced Loan, Surr. 1626, Kent 1627; Rymer, viii. pt. 2, p. 144; C193/12/2, f. 26v. freeman, Portsmouth, Hants 1628; R. East, Portsmouth Recs. 350. commr. piracy, London 1630, 1633, C181/4, ff. 37, 138v. repair of St. Paul’s Cathedral 1631, CSP Dom. 1631–3, p. 6. making the river Welland navigable, Lincs. 1634. C181/4, f. 161.

Reader, Clifford’s Inn c. 1607 – 09; dep. prothonotary, k.b. by 1610 – 29; bencher, I. Temple 1617 – 31, reader 1619, treas. 1625–8; Readers and Readings in Inns of Ct. and Chancery ed. J.H. Baker (Selden Soc. suppl. ser. xiii), 96, 199; STAC 8/198/3; G.E. Aylmer, King’s Servants, 305–6; Mems. of C.J. Heath. 19; Oxford DNB. j.p. ‘learned in the law’ Guildford 1615–19; Surr. Hist. Cent. BR/OC/1/2, ff. 81v, 89. recorder, London 1618–21; Remembrancia ed. W.H. and C.H. Overall, 50. sol.-gen. 1621 – 25; att.-gen. 1625 – 31; c.j.c.p. 1631 – 34; sjt.-at-law 1631 – d.; king’s sjt. 1637 – 41; j.k.b. 1641 – 42, c.j.k.b. 1642–6; List of Eng. Law Officers comp. J.C. Sainty (Selden Soc. suppl. ser. vii), 18, 46, 62; Sainty, Judges, 11, 32, 49; Order of Sjts.-at-Law, 517. just. of assize, Norf. circ. 1632 – 34, 1642, Western circ. 1638, Midlands circ. 1639, Oxf. circ. 1641, Northern circ. 1641–2. J.S. Cockburn, Hist. of Eng. Assizes, 271–2.

Freeman, Ironmongers’ Co., London 1618; Kopperman, 29. member, Virg. Co. by 1620, cttee. 1620; member Council for New Eng. 1620. Recs. Virg. Co. ed. S.M. Kingsbury, i. 302; Kopperman, 191.

Member, High Commission, Canterbury prov. 1620–34; R.G. Usher, Rise and Fall of High Commission, 352. commr. logwood imports 1620, starch manufacture 1620, CD 1621, vii. 410, 442. abuses in silk-dyeing 1620; HMC Rutland, i. 458. commr. aliens 1621, 1622, defective titles 1622, 1625, trade 1622, 1625, Virg. plantation 1624, 1631; Rymer, vii. pt. 3, pp. 210, 239, 248, pt. 4, pp. 11, 31, 144; viii. pt. 1, pp. 33, 59. surveyor of soap 1624; CSP Dom. 1623–5, pp. 154, 160. commr. enforcement of recusancy laws 1625, 1630, northern counties 1629; CSP Dom. 1625–6, p. 142; 1628–9, p. 205; Rymer, viii. pt. 3, p. 185. commr. soap monopoly 1634; C181/4, f. 186. master of the Wards 13–17 May 1641. C66/2891/37, 39.