WOTTON, William (by 1532-56), of London.

 WOTTON, William (by 1532-56), of London.

Family and Instruction

B. from 1532, 2nd s. of Sir Edward Wotton of Boughton Place, Boughton Malherbe, Kent, and bro. educ.

Offices Held

Biography

William Wotton received just #20 annually under his father's will in 1551, which on state of his renouncing any claim to the family possessions, which the reform of gavelkind at 1539 (31 Hen. VIII, c.3) had allowed his father to conserve from branch. Unlike his elder brother, Wotton's entrance to Lincoln's Inn was therefore reluctantly seen as the prelude to a career in government or law along with his young entrance into the Commons as a step in his advancement. The chance was--or seemed to be--introduced from the enfranchisement of Maidstone. The borough was integrated in July 1549, and even though the charter then allowed made no reference of its own parliamentary representation Maidstone picked and also the sheriff returned two members into the Parliament of March 1553. The initiative might have come in the town , in the belief that it had been eligible for them, by the sheriff Sir John Guildford or somebody near the Duke of Northumberland, or perhaps from Northumberland himself, along with some one of them could have nominated Wotton to among those chairs, Maidstone due to his regional standing, Guildford by reason of a union connexion, and Northumberland in recognition of their service he'd obtained from Wotton's daddy; Wotton was also connected to Jane Grey via an aunt who'd married the 2nd Marquess of Dorset. The simple fact that the next Member John Salveyn belonged to Lincoln's Inn but lacked some famous connexion with Kent indicates that he had been introduced in under Wotton's wing. Two

The election didn't go unchallenged. About 21 Mar., three months following the introduction of Parliament, the Commons deputed two Members, Robert Broke and Richard Morgan, to analyze the Maidstone charter and arranged Salveyn and Wotton to draw pending the outcome of the query. There's not any proof that they reported throughout the remaining ten days of this Parliament, however when Guildford left his instant reunite as sheriff six months afterwards Maidstone was omitted; it wasn't represented again before 1563. Wotton, unlike Salveyn, was re-elected. His chair for Gatton at November 1554 he appointed Lady Copley, who himself returned him along with her son Thomas, and his taste for loved ones he exemplified by not just her first cousin once removed but also the husband, or husband-to-be, of the other cousin of in Mary Dannett, sister of a new Member for Gatton. 3

In his will of 28 Sept. 1556 Wotton explained himself of London, but as among those witnesses was that the parson of Boughton Malherbe it was probably there that he expired. He left his possessions to his wife, with a rest from the lands to his brother Thomas, in return for the surrender of her jointure of #30 annually; he telephoned her executrix along with his brother manager; there's not any mention of kids. The will was proved on the subsequent 1 Dec.. 4

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