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div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">For other people with similar names, see <a href="/wiki/John_Wild_(disambiguation)" class="mw-redirect mw-disambig" title="John Wild (disambiguation)">John Wild</a> and <a href="/wiki/John_Wilde_(disambiguation)" class="mw-disambig" title="John Wilde (disambiguation)">John Wilde</a>.</div> <p> <b>John Wilde</b> (or <b>Wylde</b>;<sup id="cite_ref-MI_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-MI-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> 1590–1669) was an English lawyer and politician. As a <a href="/wiki/Serjeant-at-law" title="Serjeant-at-law">serjeant-at-law</a> he was referred to as <b>Serjeant Wilde</b> before he was appointed <a href="/wiki/Judge" title="Judge">judge</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHerbertBawcutt199610_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHerbertBawcutt199610-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was a judge, <a href="/wiki/Chief_baron_of_the_exchequer" class="mw-redirect" title="Chief baron of the exchequer">chief baron of the exchequer</a>, and member of the <a href="/wiki/Council_of_State_(England)" class="mw-redirect" title="Council of State (England)">Council of State</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Commonwealth_of_England" title="Commonwealth of England">Commonwealth period</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life">Early life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_Wilde_(jurist)&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>He was the son and heir of <a href="/wiki/George_Wylde_I" title="George Wylde I">George Wylde</a><sup id="cite_ref-MI_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-MI-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> of <a href="/wiki/Worcester,_England" title="Worcester, England">Worcester</a>, The Harriots, <a href="/wiki/Droitwich" class="mw-redirect" title="Droitwich">Droitwich</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Kempsey,_Worcestershire" title="Kempsey, Worcestershire">Kempsey</a>, Worcestershire,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEZaller2004_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEZaller2004-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Serjeant-at-law" title="Serjeant-at-law">serjeant-at-law</a>, who also represented <a href="/wiki/Droitwich_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Droitwich (UK Parliament constituency)">Droitwich</a> in parliament, by his wife Frances, daughter of Sir Edmund Huddleston, of <a href="/wiki/Sawston" title="Sawston">Sawston</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cambridgeshire" title="Cambridgeshire">Cambridgeshire</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-MI_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-MI-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He matriculated from <a href="/wiki/Balliol_College,_Oxford" title="Balliol College, Oxford">Balliol College, Oxford</a>, on 18 January 1605, aged 14, and graduated <a href="/wiki/Bachelor_of_Arts" title="Bachelor of Arts">B.A.</a> on 20 October 1607 and <a href="/wiki/Master_of_Arts_(Oxbridge_and_Dublin)" class="mw-redirect" title="Master of Arts (Oxbridge and Dublin)">M.A.</a> on 4 July 1610.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWilliams1900226_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWilliams1900226-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Wilde became a student of the <a href="/wiki/Inner_Temple" title="Inner Temple">Inner Temple</a> in about November 1602, and was <a href="/wiki/Called_to_the_bar" class="mw-redirect" title="Called to the bar">called to the bar</a> in 1612. He was elected a <a href="/wiki/Bencher" title="Bencher">bencher</a> in 1628, and created a serjeant-at-law in 1636.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWilliams1900226–228_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWilliams1900226–228-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was appointed under-steward of <a href="/wiki/Kidderminster" title="Kidderminster">Kidderminster</a> by the new charter for that borough on 4 August 1636.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBurton189074_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBurton189074-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He served for Droitwich in the parliaments of 1620–22, 1624, 1625, 1626, 1628–29, and March to May 1640. In the parliament of 1626 he took part in the debate against <a href="/wiki/George_Villiers,_1st_Duke_of_Buckingham" title="George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham">George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham</a>, when he argued from <a href="/wiki/Bracton" class="mw-redirect" title="Bracton">Bracton</a> that common fame was a sufficient ground for accusation.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Member_of_the_Long_Parliament">Member of the Long Parliament</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_Wilde_(jurist)&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Member of the Long Parliament"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>On 21 October 1640 Wilde was returned as one of the <a href="/wiki/Knights_of_the_shire" class="mw-redirect" title="Knights of the shire">knights of the shire</a> for <a href="/wiki/Worcestershire_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Worcestershire (UK Parliament constituency)">Worcestershire</a> to the <a href="/wiki/Long_Parliament" title="Long Parliament">Long Parliament</a>. He was chairman of the committee appointed to prepare the <a href="/wiki/Laudianism" title="Laudianism">impeachment against the thirteen bishops</a> concerned in making the new canons, which on 3 August 1641 he presented to the <a href="/wiki/House_of_Lords" title="House of Lords">House of Lords</a>. In December he presided over a committee of inquiry as to a plot to bring in the army to overawe the parliament, and on 6 January 1642 he was chairman of the committee of the house appointed to sit in the <a href="/wiki/Guildhall,_London" title="Guildhall, London">Guildhall, London</a>, to consider the safety of the kingdom and city, and the preservation of the privileges of parliament, which were threatened by the seizure of the members' papers and the king's demand for the arrest of the <a href="/wiki/Five_members" class="mw-redirect" title="Five members">five members</a>. The same month he reported a conference with the lords respecting the action of the attorney-general, <a href="/wiki/Edward_Herbert_(attorney-general)" title="Edward Herbert (attorney-general)">Sir Edward Herbert</a>, and conducted the impeachment of Herbert which was ordered by the Commons.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWilliams1900226–228_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWilliams1900226–228-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On the outbreak of the <a href="/wiki/First_English_Civil_War" title="First English Civil War">First English Civil War</a>, the Commons recommended him for appointment as a deputy-lieutenant of Worcestershire on 18 March 1642, and he was made a <a href="/wiki/Sequestration_Committee" class="mw-redirect" title="Sequestration Committee">sequestration commissioner</a> for that county in April 1643. In February 1643 he was recommended for the post of chief baron of the exchequer in the unsuccessful propositions made by the Commons to the king. He was one of the twenty members of parliament who were lay members of the <a href="/wiki/Westminster_Assembly" title="Westminster Assembly">Westminster Assembly</a> which met on 1 July 1643.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWilliams1900226–228_5-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWilliams1900226–228-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Parliament, at Wilde's suggestion, ordered a new <a href="/wiki/Great_Seal_of_the_Realm" title="Great Seal of the Realm">Great Seal of the Realm</a> in the place of that which <a href="/wiki/Edward_Littleton,_1st_Baron_Lyttleton_of_Mounslow" class="mw-redirect" title="Edward Littleton, 1st Baron Lyttleton of Mounslow">Edward Littleton, 1st Baron Lyttleton of Mounslow</a> had carried to the king. It was resolved to entrust the new seal to six commissioners, comprising two lords and four commoners, and on 10 November 1643 Wilde was elected as one of the latter. By successive votes these commissioners, notwithstanding the <a href="/wiki/Self-denying_ordinance" class="mw-redirect" title="Self-denying ordinance">self-denying ordinance</a>, retained the custody of the seal for three years, when on 30 October 1646 they surrendered it to the speakers of the two houses.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWilliams1900226–228_5-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWilliams1900226–228-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Wilde was one of the managers on the part of the Commons (where he still kept his seat) in the <a href="/wiki/Impeachment" title="Impeachment">impeachment</a> of Archbishop <a href="/wiki/William_Laud" title="William Laud">William Laud</a>, whose trial commenced on 12 March 1644. He served on most of the principal committees of the Long parliament. He was made <a href="/wiki/Recorder_(legal_office)" class="mw-redirect" title="Recorder (legal office)">recorder</a> of Worcester in July 1646. The Commons ordered him and others to hold <a href="/wiki/Assizes" title="Assizes">assizes</a> in the counties of <a href="/wiki/Gloucester" title="Gloucester">Gloucester</a>, <a href="/wiki/Monmouth" title="Monmouth">Monmouth</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Hereford" title="Hereford">Hereford</a>. Subsequently, he was ordered to go the <a href="/wiki/Oxfordshire" title="Oxfordshire">Oxfordshire</a> and <a href="/wiki/Hampshire" title="Hampshire">Hampshire</a> circuits. As judge of assize, he condemned <a href="/wiki/Captain" title="Captain">Captain</a> John Burley to be hanged at <a href="/wiki/Winchester" title="Winchester">Winchester</a> for causing a drum to be beaten for 'God and King Charles' at <a href="/wiki/Newport,_Isle_of_Wight" title="Newport, Isle of Wight">Newport, Isle of Wight</a>, to rescue the captive king, while he directed the grand jury to ignore the bill of indictment against Major <a href="/w/index.php?title=Edmund_Rolph&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Edmund Rolph (page does not exist)">Edmund Rolph</a> for plotting to murder the king.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWilliams1900226–228_5-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWilliams1900226–228-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On 12 October 1646 Parliament filled the vacancies on the judicial bench, and they appointed him chief baron of the exchequer, replacing <a href="/wiki/Richard_Lane_(barrister)" title="Richard Lane (barrister)">Sir Richard Lane</a>, who had been appointed by the King. Wilde retained this position in 1649 when the king was beheaded; but though nominated by parliament a member of the high court of justice for the trial of the king on 1 January 1649, he, like the other judges, took care not to attend any of its meetings, and his excuses were allowed. He took the new oaths of office under <a href="/wiki/Commonwealth_of_England" title="Commonwealth of England">the Commonwealth</a>, and was elected a member of the first <a href="/wiki/English_Council_of_State" title="English Council of State">council of state</a> on 14 February. He was placed upon numerous committees, and was re-elected on 12 February 1650 to the second council of state, which lasted until 15 February 1651. He was one of the militia commissioners for <a href="/wiki/Worcestershire" title="Worcestershire">Worcestershire</a> on 25 September 1651.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWilliams1900226–228_5-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWilliams1900226–228-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Protectorate">Protectorate</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_Wilde_(jurist)&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Protectorate"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>When <a href="/wiki/Oliver_Cromwell" title="Oliver Cromwell">Oliver Cromwell</a> assumed the position of <a href="/wiki/Lord_Protector#Cromwellian_Commonwealth" title="Lord Protector">lord protector</a> in December 1653, he replaced Wilde with <a href="/wiki/William_Steele_(Lord_Chancellor_of_Ireland)" title="William Steele (Lord Chancellor of Ireland)">William Steele</a> as chief baron. (Hardres, <i>Reports</i>). Wilde keenly felt this slight. He remained out of judicial employment during the remainder of Oliver Cromwell's life, and it is probable that he retired to his Worcestershire estate. He acted as <a href="/wiki/Justice_of_the_peace" title="Justice of the peace">justice of the peace</a>, and was made a <a href="/wiki/Commissioner" title="Commissioner">commissioner</a> for raising the assessment in the county in 1656.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWilliams1900226–228_5-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWilliams1900226–228-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In <a href="/wiki/Third_Protectorate_Parliament" title="Third Protectorate Parliament">Richard Cromwell's parliament</a>, which lasted from January to April 1659, Wilde again served as member for Droitwich, and there presented a petition praying a restoration to his former office as chief baron, and for payment of the arrears due to him for his salary. The former was refused, but the latter was granted.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWilliams1900226–228_5-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWilliams1900226–228-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Second_Commonwealth">Second Commonwealth</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_Wilde_(jurist)&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Second Commonwealth"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>On the return of the Rump parliament, on 7 May 1659, Wilde resumed his place as a member, and on 16 June following the house ordered that Wilde and other justices go the circuit. He was restored by parliament to his former post of chief baron on 17 January 1660. He assisted the lords in several committees of the <a href="/wiki/Convention_Parliament_(1660)" title="Convention Parliament (1660)">Convention Parliament</a> and escaped further question.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Restoration">Restoration</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_Wilde_(jurist)&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Restoration"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>When King Charles returned in May, he appointed <a href="/wiki/Sir_Orlando_Bridgeman,_1st_Baronet,_of_Great_Lever" title="Sir Orlando Bridgeman, 1st Baronet, of Great Lever">Sir Orlando Bridgeman</a> in his place as chief baron, but in consequence of his having assisted the lords in several committees of the Convention parliament, Wilde escaped further question, and, was not excluded from the general pardon in the <a href="/wiki/Act_of_Indemnity_of_1660" class="mw-redirect" title="Act of Indemnity of 1660">Act of Indemnity</a>. Aged 70 he retired to his house at Hampstead, where he died in 1669.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWilliams1900228_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWilliams1900228-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Assessment">Assessment</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_Wilde_(jurist)&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Assessment"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Wilde's character has been variously judged; <a href="/wiki/Bulstrode_Whitelocke" title="Bulstrode Whitelocke">Sir Bulstrode Whitelocke</a> (a <a href="/wiki/Roundhead" title="Roundhead">Roundhead</a>), describes him as learned in his profession, but of more reading than depth of judgement, and as executing his office with diligence and justice. The <a href="/wiki/Edward_Hyde,_1st_Earl_of_Clarendon" title="Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon">Earl of Clarendon</a> (a <a href="/wiki/Cavalier" title="Cavalier">Cavalier</a>) calls him an infamous judge, and John Burton speaks of his tiresome speeches.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWilliams1900228_9-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWilliams1900228-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Family">Family</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_Wilde_(jurist)&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Family"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Wilde married Anne, eldest daughter and coheir of <a href="/wiki/Sir_Thomas_Harries,_1st_Baronet" title="Sir Thomas Harries, 1st Baronet">Sir Thomas Harries, 1st Baronet</a>, M.P., serjeant-at-law, of <a href="/wiki/Tong_Castle" title="Tong Castle">Tong Castle</a>, Shropshire.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWilliams1900228_9-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWilliams1900228-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> who died in 1624 aged 16 at the birth of their only child. There is no record of a subsequent marriage. He died aged about 79 at his house in Hampstead<sup id="cite_ref-MI_1-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-MI-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and was buried at <a href="/wiki/Wherwell_Abbey" title="Wherwell Abbey">Wherwell Priory</a>, Hampshire, then the seat of <a href="/wiki/Charles_West,_5th_Baron_De_La_Warr" title="Charles West, 5th Baron De La Warr">Charles West, 5th Baron De La Warr</a> who had married Wilde's only child and heiress, Anne.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWilliams1900228_9-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWilliams1900228-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_Wilde_(jurist)&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Notes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-MI-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-MI_1-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-MI_1-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-MI_1-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-MI_1-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">monumental inscriptions, church of St Peter de Witton Droitwich</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEHerbertBawcutt199610-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHerbertBawcutt199610_2-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFHerbertBawcutt1996">Herbert & Bawcutt 1996</a>, p. 10.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEZaller2004-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEZaller2004_3-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFZaller2004">Zaller 2004</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEWilliams1900226-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWilliams1900226_4-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFWilliams1900">Williams 1900</a>, p. 226.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEWilliams1900226–228-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWilliams1900226–228_5-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWilliams1900226–228_5-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWilliams1900226–228_5-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWilliams1900226–228_5-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWilliams1900226–228_5-4"><sup><i><b>e</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWilliams1900226–228_5-5"><sup><i><b>f</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWilliams1900226–228_5-6"><sup><i><b>g</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWilliams1900226–228_5-7"><sup><i><b>h</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFWilliams1900">Williams 1900</a>, pp. 226–228.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEBurton189074-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBurton189074_6-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFBurton1890">Burton 1890</a>, p. 74.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-7">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">(<a href="#CITEREFWilliams1900">Williams 1900</a>, p. 226) cites <i>Parl Hist.</i> ii. 53.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-8">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">(<a href="#CITEREFWilliams1900">Williams 1900</a>, p. 228) cites:Whitelocke, Memorials, ed. Henry Reeve, p. 673.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEWilliams1900228-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWilliams1900228_9-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWilliams1900228_9-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWilliams1900228_9-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWilliams1900228_9-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFWilliams1900">Williams 1900</a>, p. 228.</span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_Wilde_(jurist)&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite id="CITEREFBurton1890" class="citation book cs1">Burton, John Richard (1890). <i>A history of Kidderminster, with short accounts of some neighbouring parishes</i>. London: E. Stock. p. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/stream/historyofkidderm00burt#page/74/mode/1up">74</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=A+history+of+Kidderminster%2C+with+short+accounts+of+some+neighbouring+parishes&rft.place=London&rft.pages=74&rft.pub=E.+Stock&rft.date=1890&rft.aulast=Burton&rft.aufirst=John+Richard&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJohn+Wilde+%28jurist%29" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFHerbertBawcutt1996" class="citation book cs1">Herbert, Sir Henry; Bawcutt, N. W (1996). Bawcutt, N. W (ed.). <i>The control and censorship of Caroline drama: the records of Sir Henry Herbert, Master of the Revels 1623–73</i> (illustrated ed.). Oxford University Press. p. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=4GWTfOSu98QC&pg=PA10">10</a>. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-19-812246-3" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-19-812246-3"><bdi>978-0-19-812246-3</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+control+and+censorship+of+Caroline+drama%3A+the+records+of+Sir+Henry+Herbert%2C+Master+of+the+Revels+1623%E2%80%9373&rft.pages=10&rft.edition=illustrated&rft.pub=Oxford+University+Press&rft.date=1996&rft.isbn=978-0-19-812246-3&rft.aulast=Herbert&rft.aufirst=Sir+Henry&rft.au=Bawcutt%2C+N.+W&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJohn+Wilde+%28jurist%29" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFZaller2004" class="citation encyclopaedia cs1">Zaller, Robert (2004). "Wilde, John (1590–1669)". <i><a href="/wiki/Oxford_Dictionary_of_National_Biography" class="mw-redirect" title="Oxford Dictionary of National Biography">Oxford Dictionary of National Biography</a></i>. Oxford University Press. <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.1093%2Fref%3Aodnb%2F29399">10.1093/ref:odnb/29399</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=Wilde%2C+John+%281590%E2%80%931669%29&rft.btitle=Oxford+Dictionary+of+National+Biography&rft.pub=Oxford+University+Press&rft.date=2004&rft_id=info%3Adoi%2F10.1093%2Fref%3Aodnb%2F29399&rft.aulast=Zaller&rft.aufirst=Robert&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJohn+Wilde+%28jurist%29" class="Z3988"></span></li></ul> <dl><dt>Attribution</dt></dl> <ul><li><span class="noviewer" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/12px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/18px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/24px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="410" data-file-height="430" /></span></span> This article incorporates text from a publication now in the <a href="/wiki/Public_domain" title="Public domain">public domain</a>: <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFWilliams1900" class="citation encyclopaedia cs1">Williams, W. R (1900). "<a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dictionary_of_National_Biography,_1885-1900/Wilde,_John" class="extiw" title="s:Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Wilde, John">Wilde, John</a>". In <a href="/wiki/Sidney_Lee" title="Sidney Lee">Lee, Sidney</a> (ed.). <i><a href="/wiki/Dictionary_of_National_Biography" title="Dictionary of National Biography">Dictionary of National Biography</a></i>. Vol. 61. London: Smith, Elder & Co. pp. 226–228.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=Wilde%2C+John&rft.btitle=Dictionary+of+National+Biography&rft.place=London&rft.pages=226-228&rft.pub=Smith%2C+Elder+%26+Co&rft.date=1900&rft.aulast=Williams&rft.aufirst=W.+R&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJohn+Wilde+%28jurist%29" class="Z3988"></span></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_Wilde_(jurist)&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: External links"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1604-1629/member/wylde-john-1591-1669">John Wylde <i>The History of Parliament online</i></a></li></ul> <table class="wikitable 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