ROLLE, John (1598-1657/8), of St Mary Aldermanbury, London.

Family and Education

bap. 13 Apr. 1598, 4th s. of Robert Rolle (d. 1633) of Heanton Satchville, Petrockstow, Devon, and Joan, da. of Thomas Hele† of Flete, Devon; bro. of Sir Samuel* and Henry†.Vivian, Vis. Devon, 654. educ. appr. Levant merchant, c.1617.SP105/148, f. 109v; A.C. Wood, Hist. of Levant Co. (1935), 215. m. Alice, da. of Sir George Chudleigh† of Ashton, Devon, 2s. d. bef. 13 Jan. 1658.PROB11/272/171.

Offices Held

Mercantile: member, Levant Co. 1624.SP105/148, f. 109v.

Local: ?member, Hon. Artillery Coy. 1627. 1 July 1644Ancient Vellum Bk. 41. Commr. for Devon,; assessment, 18 Oct. 1644, 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648, 7 Apr. 1649, 10 Dec. 1652, 24 Nov. 1653, 9 June 1657.A. and O; An Act for an Assessment (1653, E.1062.28). J.p. by 6 Mar. 1647–9.S.K. Roberts, ‘Devon JPs’, in Devon Documents ed. T. Gray (Exeter, 1996), 160.

Central: member, cttee. of navy and customs by 5 Aug. 1642;Supra, ‘Committee of Navy and Customs’; CJ ii. 378b. cttee. for Irish affairs, 3 Sept. 1642.CJ ii. 750b. Commr. for navy, 15 Sept. 1642.A. and O. Member, cttee. for admlty. and Cinque Ports, 19 Oct. 1642,LJ v. 407b. 19 Apr. 1645; cttee. for foreign plantations, 2 Nov. 1643;A. and O. cttee. for foreign affairs, 24 July 1644;CJ iii. 568a; LJ vi. 640b. cttee. for excise, 6 June 1645;A. and O. cttee. for powder, match and bullet, 30 June 1645;LJ vii. 468a. Star Chamber cttee. of Irish affairs, 1 July 1645. Commr. exclusion from sacrament, 5 June 1646, 29 Aug. 1648.A. and O.

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Volume

Commons 1640-1660

Web Title

ROLLE, John (1598-1657/8), of St Mary Aldermanbury, London.

Will

21 Nov. 1657, pr. 13 Jan. 1658.PROB11/272/171.

Estates

by d. owned houses in St Mary Aldermanbury, London, and Widecombe, Stokenham, Devon; also held 750 Irish acres in Garrycastle barony, King’s Co. Ireland. Bulk of estate in money or goods.PROB11/272/171; Bottigheimer, Eng. Money and Irish Land, 209.

Oxford 1644

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