ROLLE, Francis (aft.1627-86), of Shapwick, Som. and East Tytherley, Hants

Family and Education

b. aft. 1627, o.s. of Henry Rolle† of Shapwick, l.c.j.k.b. 1648-55, and Margaret, da. of Thomas Bennett, Mercer and alderman, of St Pancras, Soper Lane, London.Le Neve’s Pedigrees, 301-2. educ. I. Temple 5 Nov. 1646; called, 27 June 1653;I. Temple admissions database. Emmanuel, Camb. 25 Jan. 1647.Al. Cant. m. 23 Jan. 1655, Priscilla, da. and coh. of Thomas Foote*, 1s. 6da.Trans. of the Regs. of...S. Mary Woolchurch Haw ed. J.M.S. Brooke and A.W.C. Hallen (1886), 361; London Vis. Pedigrees 1664 ed. J.B. Whitmore and A.W.H. Clarke (Harl. Soc. xcii), 65; Shapwick par. reg. suc. fa. 1656; Kntd. 1 Mar. 1665.Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 240. bur. 6 Apr. 1686 6 Apr. 1686.[F.H.N.] Suckling, ‘Some notes on the manor of East Tytherley’, Procs. Hants Field Club and Arch. Soc. ix. 17-18.

Offices Held

Local: commr. sewers, Som. 21 Nov. 1654-aft. Dec. 1660.C181/6, pp. 74, 394; C181/7, pp. 24, 26. J.p. 4 Mar. 1657-July 1660, Sept. 1660–80; Hants Apr. 1659-July 1660.C231/6, pp. 360, 431; C231/7, p. 38. Commr. assessment, Hants, Som. 9 June 1657, 26 Jan. 1660, 1 June 1660, 1661, 1664, 1672, 1677, 1679;A. and O.; SR; An Ordinance for an Assessment (1660, E.1075.6). ejecting scandalous ministers, Som. 16 Dec. 1657;SP25/78, p. 334. oyer and terminer, Western circ. June 1659–10 July 1660;C181/6, p. 377. militia, Hants, Som. 26 July 1659, 12 Mar. 1660;A. and O. poll tax, 1660.SR. Sheriff, Hants 1664; Som. 1672. 1672List of Sheriffs (L. and I. ix), 56, 125. Commr. for inquiry, Finkley Forest, Hants; New Forest 1672, 1673, 1676, 1679;CTB iii. 1080, 1212, iv. 124, v. 410, vi. 199; Use and Abuse of a Forest Resource ed. R.P. Reeves (New Forest rec. ser. i. 2006), 98. recusants, Hants, Som. 1675.CTB iv. 790, 791.

Civic: freeman, Portsmouth 1665; Winchester 1675.Portsmouth Recs. ed. East, 358.

: of Shapwick, Som. and East Tytherley, Hants.

Volume

Commons 1640-1660

Web Title

ROLLE, Francis (aft.1627-86), of Shapwick, Som. and East Tytherley, Hants

Will

18 Dec. 1678, pr. 3 Feb. 1687.PROB11/386/163.

Estates

inherited lands at Shapwick, Som. 1656.PROB11/259/158.

Oxford 1644

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Religion

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