Roberts baronets of Bow (1681)

The Roberts Baronetcy, of Bow in the County of Essex (Middlesex, in fact), was created in the Baronetage of England on 2 February 1681 for the merchant and landowner John Roberts. The title became extinct on his death in 1692.[3]

Escutcheon of the Roberts baronets of Bow, appearing in the 1st and 4th quarters of the Roberts monument in Bromley Church[1][2]

Roberts baronets, of Bow (1681)
  • Sir John Roberts, 1st Baronet (c. 1620–1692).[3]

Roberts owned the Manor House, Upper Bromley, built by Sir John Jacob, 1st Baronet who died in 1666, with the manor.[4] There was a memorial to him in St Mary's Church, Bromley St Leonard's, destroyed in World War II;[5] a design for it has been attributed to William Stanton.[6] The monument was constructed by Roberts for his first wife Margery Amy; it had a later inscription added by his widowed second wife Deborah.[2] She then remarried to Sir Joseph Tyley (surname given as Tity in Cokayne); there was litigation in Tyley v Roberts about the estate, a leading case about new trial.[3][7]

Roberts was a lay impropriator of the Bromley church from 1662, and claimed it to be outside the jurisdiction of the Bishop of London. In 1678 he chose, with the support of the congregation, the Cambridge graduate William Wray as minister there, then vicar of East Tilbury. He was perpetual curate at the church from 1681; officially, however, he was rector of West Tilbury from 1682.[8][9][10] The state of blessedness by W.W., a sermon on Colossians, 1:12[11] by "W. W., M.A. and chaplain to a person of honour", was published in 1681, with a dedication to "The Right Worshipful Sir John Roberts Baronett."[12]

Notes
  1. Burke, Bernard (1884). The General Armory of England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales: Comprising a Registry of Armorial Bearings from the Earliest to the Present Time. Wm. Clowes & Sons for the Publishers, Burke's Peerage, in conjunction with Shaw Publishing Company. p. 860.
  2. "The Church of St. Mary, British History Online". www.british-history.ac.uk.
  3. Cokayne, George Edward (1904). Complete Baronetage. Vol. IV. W. Pollard & Co., Ltd. p. 114.
  4. "The Manor House of the Upper Manor, British History Online". www.british-history.ac.uk.
  5. Plate 93: Hackney, Church of St. John the Baptist. Poplar, Church of St. Mary, Bromley, British History Online.
  6. Whinney, Margaret (1 January 1992). Sculpture in Britain, 1530-1830. Yale University Press. p. 445. ISBN 978-0-300-05318-0.
  7. Riddell, William Renwick (1916). "New Trial at the Common Law". The Yale Law Journal. 26 (1): 56. doi:10.2307/787322. ISSN 0044-0094.
  8. Dunstan, James (1862). The History of the Parish of Bromley St. Leonard, Middlesex: With Historical Illustrations. Hunt & Son. p. 61.
  9. "William Wray (WRY667W)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  10. "Andrewes, Lancelot (1675–1692) (CCEd Person ID 165979)". The Clergy of the Church of England Database 1540–1835. Retrieved 23 September 2023.
  11. Colossians 1:12
  12. "The state of blessedness by W.W." quod.lib.umich.edu.
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