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Family and Education
bap. 19 Oct. 1623, 1st s. of Richard Aldworth*, mercer of Bristol and Mary, da. of John Doughty† of Bristol, mercer and alderman.Bristol All Saints par. reg.; Al. Ox. educ. Lincoln Coll. Oxf. 6 July 1638; L. Inn 23 Sept. 1640.Al. Ox.; LI Admiss. i. 244. m. 1652, Dorothy, da. of Thomas Hooke, merchant of Bristol, 1s. 4da. suc. fa. 2 Aug. 1655.Bristol RO, 09459/3(d); Bristol Deposition Bks. 1643-7, 243; Bristol Deposition Bks. 1650-4, 201. d. 20 Mar. 1676.All Saints par. reg.; Barrett, Hist. Bristol, 446.
Offices Held

Local: commr. for Bristol, 1 July 1644; assessment, 18 Oct. 1644, 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648, 7 Apr., 7 Dec. 1649, 26 Nov. 1650, 10 Dec. 1652, 24 Nov. 1653, 9 June 1657, 26 Jan., 1 June 1660;A. and O.; An Act for an Assessment (1653, E.1062.28); An Ordinance...for an Assessment (1660, E.1075.6). Bristol militia, 22 June 1648;LJ x. 341b. militia by Aug. 1651, 26 July 1659, 12 Mar. 1660;Bodl. Tanner 55, f. 1; A. and O.; Bristol RO, 04264/6, p. 8. nisi prius, 17 June 1654–71;C181/6, pp. 46, 380; C181/7, pp. 54, 582. ejecting scandalous ministers, Som. 28 Aug. 1654. c. 1656 – Mar. 1660A. and O. J.p.; Glos. 7 Mar. 1657-Mar. 1660.C231/6, p. 361. Commr. for public faith, Bristol 24 Oct. 1657.Mercurius Politicus no. 387 (22–9 Oct. 1657), 63 (E.505.35).

Civic: burgess, Bristol 24 Jan. 1646;Bristol RO, 04359/2, f. 332v. town clerk, 13 Oct. 1653–d.;Bristol RO, 04264/5, p. 54. member, common council, 15 Sept. 1659.Bristol RO, 04264/5, p. 193. Recorder, Devizes by 1654–27 Sept. 1661.Waylen, Devizes, 284; Cunnington, Devizes, 133.

Legal: called, L. Inn 18 Nov. 1647; bencher, 18 Nov. 1669;Al. Ox.; LI Admiss. i. 244; LI Black Bks. ii. 375; iii. 66. autumn reader, 1671; treas. 1673–4.LI Black Bks. ii. 375; iii. 66, 71, 90, 92, 97.

Central: commr. removing obstructions, sale of bishops’ lands, 20 June 1649; removing obstructions, sale of confiscated lands, 1 Apr. 1652. Trustee, sale of royal forests, 22 Nov. 1653. Judge, causes of poor prisoners, 9 June, 11 Aug. 1654. Commr. security of protector, England and Wales 27 Nov. 1656.A. and O. Master in chancery, extraordinary, c.Dec. 1667–?d.C231/7, p. 316.

Mercantile: member, Soc. of Merchant Venturers of Bristol, 25 Apr. 1654–d.Soc. of Merchant Venturers, merchants’ hall bk. of procs. 1639–70, p. 249.

Military: col. and capt. militia, Bristol 3 Apr. 1655; col. by 9 Jan. 1660, re-appointed 16 Jan. 1660.Bristol RO, 04264/5, p. 80; 04264/6, pp. 7, 8; 04026/24, p. 240.

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Volume
Commons 1640-1660
Web Title

ALDWORTH, Robert (1623-76), of Bristol and Lincoln’s Inn, Mdx.

Will
not found.
Estates
lessee of tenement in Small St. Bristol 1654;Topography of Medieval and Early Modern Bristol I (Bristol Rec. Soc. xlviii), 157. lands at ‘Ashley’, farm at Publow, Som. and profits of vaults and cellars of house in Broad St. Bristol, inherited from fa.Bristol Deposition Bks. 1643-7, 243.
Oxford 1644
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