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Family and Education
bap. 18 Mar. 1593, 1st s. of Nicholas Wentworth of Lillingstone Lovell and Susanna, da. and coh. of Roger Wigston of Wolston.Wolston par. reg.; Vis. Oxon. 1669, 1675 (Harl. Soc. n.s. xii), 105. educ. Magdalen Hall, Oxf. 1610, BA 1611;Al. Ox. L. Inn 1 Apr. 1613.L. Inn Admiss. i. 162. suc. fa. 10 Apr. 1613.W.L. Rutton, Three Branches of the Family of Wentworth (1891), 300. KB 1 Feb. 1626.Shaw, Knights of Eng. i. 162. unm. d. 1 Dec. 1675.Vis Oxon. 1669, 1675 (Harl. Soc. n.s. xii), 105; Rutton, Wentworth, 286.
Offices Held

Local: commr. Forced Loan, Oxon. 1627.C193/12/2, f. 45v. Sheriff, 5 Nov. 1634–5.List of Sheriffs (List and Index ix), 110. Commr subsidy, Oxon., Warws. 1641; further subsidy, 1641; poll tax, 1641; contribs. towards relief of Ireland, 1642; SR. assessment, Warws. 1642, 24 Feb. 1643, 18 Oct. 1644, 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648, 7 Apr., 7 Dec. 1649; Oxon. 1642, 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; Warws. and Coventry 21 Feb. 1645, 26 Nov. 1650, 10 Dec. 1652, 24 Nov. 1653, 9 June 1657, 26 Jan. 1660; Bucks. 17 Mar. 1648; Northants. 7 Apr., 7 Dec. 1649, 26 Nov. 1650, 10 Dec. 1652. SR; A. and O.; An Act for an Assessment (1653, E.1062.28); CJ iii. 279a; An Ordinance ... for an Assessment (1660, E.1075.6). Dep. lt. Warws. 18 Mar. 1642–?CJ ii. 485b. Commr. for Warws. and Coventry, assoc. of Staffs. and Warws. 31 Dec. 1642; sequestration, Warws. 27 Mar. 1643; levying of money, Coventry 7 May 1643; Warws. and Coventry 3 Aug. 1643; commr. for Oxon. 25 June 1644. 1645 – Sept. 1653A. and O. J.p. Warws. ?, by c. Sept. 1656 – bef.Oct. 1660; Oxon. by Feb. 1650 – bef.Oct. 1653, by c.Sept. 1656-bef. Oct. 1660.C193/13/3, ff. 51, 65v; C193/13/4, f. 77v; C193/13/6, ff. 69v, 90v; A. Hughes, Politics, Religion and Civil War in Warws. 1620–60 (Cambridge, 1987), 356. Commr. New Model ordinance, Warws. and Coventry 17 Feb. 1645; militia, 2 Dec. 1648, 26 July 1659, 12 Mar. 1660; Bucks. 2 Dec. 1648; Oxon. 26 July 1659, 12 Mar. 1660;A. and O. oyer and terminer, Oxf. circ. by Feb. 1654-June 1659;C181/6, pp. 10, 302. Midland circ. by Feb. 1654–10 July 1660.C181/6, pp. 15, 370.

Central: member, cttee. for plundered ministers, 31 Dec. 1642;CJ ii. 909a. cttee. for sequestrations, 27 Mar. 1643;CJ iii. 21b. cttee. for advance of money, 2 May 1643;CJ iii. 67b. cttee. of safety, 2 Nov. 1643.CJ iii. 299b; LJ vi. 294a. Commr. exclusion from sacrament, 5 June 1646, 29 Aug. 1648. Member, cttee. for sale of bishops’ lands, 30 Nov. 1646. Commr. appeals, visitation Oxf. Univ. 1 May 1647; high ct. of justice, 6 Jan. 1649;A. and O. for compounding, 9 Apr. 1649.CJ vi. 182b. Member, cttee. of navy and customs, 29 May 1649; cttee. for excise, 29 May 1649. 29 May 1649CJ vi. 219b. Commr. Gt. Level of the Fens,; removing obstructions, sale of bishops’ lands, 20 June 1649.A. and O. Member, cttee. for the army, 20 July 1649, 2 Jan., 17 Dec. 1652.CJ vi. 265a; A. and O. Cllr. of state, 20 Feb. 1650, 25 Nov. 1651, 25 Nov. 1652.CJ vi. 369a, vii. 42b, 220a,b.

: Oxon. and Warws., Wolston.
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Likenesses: oils, unknown.Whereabouts unknown; Rutton, Wentworth, 289.

Volume
Commons 1640-1660
Web Title

WENTWORTH, Sir Peter (1593-1675), of Lillingstone Lovell, Oxon. and Wolston, Warws.

Will
23 Dec. 1673, pr. 24 Feb. 1676.PROB11/350, f. 204.
Estates
Awarded estate of George Warner at Wolston in lieu of Warner’s composition for delinquency, by ordinance, 8 Oct. 1647.CJ v. 328a, 341b; CCC 47, 1454-6. At d. lands in Lillingstone Lovell and Wolston; and Leckhampstead, Bucks. Bequests of cash and annuities in will of £4,435.PROB11/350, f. 204; Rutton, Wentworth, 287.
Oxford 1644
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