WHITLEY, Roger (c.1618-97), of St. John’s Hospital, Chester; Pall Mall, Westminster and Peele Hall, Cheshire.

Capt. of horse (royalist) 1642, col. 1644 – 46; gov. Aberystwyth 1644 – 46; maj. Lord Gerard’s Horse 1662 – 63, 1666 – 67; quarter-master-gen. 1667.Flints. Hist. Soc. xxii. 9–13; CSP Dom. 1661–2, p. 577; 1665–6, p. 557.

Gent. usher of the privy chamber (supernumerary) 1644 – ?63; registrar of indentured emigrants to America 1664 – 86; kt. harbinger by 1669 – 75; dep. postmaster-gen. 1672 – 77; freeman, E.I. Co. 1674; commr. for disbandment 1679; gent. of the privy chamber 1689–d.CSP Dom. 1645–7, p. 447; 1661–2, p. 78; 1663–4, p. 182; 1672–3, p. 4; 1686–7, p. 79; APC Col. i. 384; Cal. Treas. Bks. iii. 221, 1242; iv. 747; vi. 58; H. Robinson, Post Office, 54; Cal. Ct. Mins. E.I. Co. ed. Sainsbury, x. 110; Carlisle, Privy Chamber, 204.

Freeman, Denbigh 1644; master of St. John’s hosp. Chester c. May 1660 – d.; j.p. Flints. July 1660–87, 1689 – d.; commr. for assessment, Flints. 1661 – 63, 1665 – 80, Westminster 1665 – 69, Cheshire and Salop 1679 – 80, Cheshire, Chester and Flints. 1689 – 90, loyal and indigent officers, Flints. 1662; farmer of excise, N. Wales 1662 – 74, receiver of hearth-tax Anglesey, Denb. and Flints. 1664 – 66, 1669 – 74; freeman, Chester 1666, alderman 1680 – 84, Aug. 1688 – d., treas. 1688 – 89, mayor 1692 – 96; registrar of customs, London to 1672; commr. for pressing seamen, Lancs., Cheshire and N. Wales 1672; custos rot. Flints. Oct.-Nov. 1689.Flints. Hist. Soc. xxii. 10; Nicholas Pprs. (Cam. Soc. ser. 3, xxxi), 193; Hemingway, Chester, ii. 141; CSP Dom. 1659–60, p. 427; Fenwick, Chester, 318; Cal. Treas. Bks. i. 429; ii. 34, 73; iii. 360, 567, 856; Chester corp. assembly bk. 2, ff. 154, 192; 3, ff. 35–54.