Alternate Spellings of Family Name:

• Wotton
• Wooton
• Watton
• Ooton
• Wauton
• de Wotton
• de Wauton

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Medieval & Tudor Kent Wills at Lambeth - Book 21 Page 48

Nicholas WOTTON, Will 4 January 1447

NICHOLAS WOTTON, citizen and wollen draper (& Lord Mayor) of London, 4 January 1447. To be buried in the parish church of Bokton Malherbe [ Boughton Malherb ] before the image of Saint Thomas the Martyr and after my body is so buried I will that all my goods &c I have given to Nicholas & Richard my sons for a store, with divers manors as in my will more plainly appears, be divided into three parts, one part to Margaret my wife, the second to Nicholas and Richard my sons between them.
To the high altar of the church of St. Laurence de Pulkney, London 20s. I make John Fray, chief baron of the Exchequer of our Lord the King, John Bamburgh, Master John Horlee, Nicholas my son and Richard my son my executors. Residue for my soul my father’s mother’s souls etc. Witnesses: John Bamburgh, Master Thomas Swalow, Nicholas Watton, and Richard Watton sons. Proved 23 November 1448 by Nicholas and Richard Wotton, sons of deceased. (The will, though referred to is not entered) (166b

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• Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, Volume 63
• Wotton, Edward (1489-1551) by Albert Frederick Pollard
• WOTTON, Sir EDWARD (1489–1551), treasurer of Calais, born in 1489, was the eldest son of Sir Robert Wotton, by his wife Anne, daughter of Sir Henry Belkman. Sir Robert was grandson of Nicholas Wotton (1372-1448), member of the Drapers' Company of London, who was sheriff in 1400 and lord mayor in 1415, and again in 1430, and represented the city in parliament continuously from 1406 to 1429 (Off. Ret. i. 269-316). He acquired the manor of Boughton Malherbe, Kent, by his marriage with Joan, only daughter and heir of Robert Corbie of that place, and was succeeded by his son Nicholas, who died on 9 April 1481 (Col. Inq. post mortem, Henry VII. i. 694); the latter's son. Sir Robert, born in 1465, was knighted by Edward IV, served as sheriff of Kent in 1498-9, was made lieutenant of Guianes, and from 1510 to 1519 was knight-porter of Calais. He left issue two sons, Edward and Dr. Nicholas Wotton [q.v.], and three daughters, of whom Margaret (d. 1541) was the second wife of Thomas Grey, second marquis of Dorset [q. v.]
• .... etc.
• .... Hasted states that he died on 8 Nov. 1550, but he attended the council on the 22nd of that month, and in January 1550-1 was suppressing disorder in Kent. In the same year also he was included in various commissions among which the young king proposed to divide the work of the privy council. Apparently it was on 8 Nov. 1551 that he died (Inquisitio post mortem, Edward VI, vol. xciii, No. 113); he was buried in Boughton Malherbe church.
• Wotton married, first, Dorothy, fourth daughter of Sir Robert Rede [q. v.] (she died on 8 Sept. 1529); and he married, secondly, Ursula, daughter of Sir Robert Dymoke and widow of Sir John Rudaton, lord mayor of London (Metcalfe, Visit. of Lincolnshire, p. 42). By her Wotton had no issue, but by his first wife he was father of
• Thomas Wotton (1521–1587), .... etc.
• From: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Wotton,_Edward_(1489-1551)_(DNB00) __________________