WESTON, Richard (c.1578/9-1658), of Hagley manor, Rugeley, Staffs. and the Inner Temple, London

J.p. Staffs. 1618-at least 1636, C231/4, f. 68; SP16/405. Anglesey and Caern. 1632 – 38, Merion. 1632–4, JPs in Wales and Monm. ed. Phillips, 10–11, 29, 47. Essex 1634 – at least36, Kent 1634 – at least36, Herts. 1634; commr. subsidy, Staffs. 1621 – 22, 1624, Lichfield, Staffs. 1621–2, C212/22/20–1, 23. knighthood fines, Staffs. 1630–1, E178/7154, ff. 289c; 178/5638. oyer and terminer, Home circ. 1635, C181/5, f. 8. swans, Warws. and Staffs. 1635, C181/4, f. 199v. charitable uses, Staffs. 1637-at least 1639. C192/1, unfol.

Auditor (jt.), treas.’s accts., I. Temple, 1622, steward’s accts. (jt.) 1623, steward for the reader’s dinner 1624, bencher 1626 – 34, reader’s attendant 1627, summer reader 1628; CITR, ii. 134, 140, 143, 155, 161, 167. justice, gt. sessions, N. Wales circ. by 1632; sjt.-at-law 1634; bar. of exch. 1634–46 (disabled by Parl. 24 Nov. 1645); Sainty, Judges, 124; A. and O. i. 805. judge of assize, Home circ. 1634–9. J.S. Cockburn, Hist. of English Assizes, 271–2; CSP Dom. 1636–7, p. 43; 1637, pp. 270–1; 1638–9, p. 283.

Commr. to inquire and and compound regarding unpaid fines 1640; CSP Dom. 1640, p. 135. commr. (roy.) to examine the accts. of John Ashburnham* 1645. Docquets of Letters Patent 1642–6 ed. W.H. Black, 273.