John Sotherton the younger (1562–1631) was an English judge, member of a prominent parliamentary, judicial and mercantile family of London and East Anglia, who became Cursitor Baron of the Exchequer in 1610.
[1][2] He was the son of John Sotherton, who was from 16 June 1579 until his death, on 26 October 1605, Baron of the Court of Exchequer, by his second wife, Maria, daughter of Edward Woton, M.D.,[3] who was buried by the side of her husband in the church of St. Botolph, Aldersgate Street, London.
for London 1593–8,[4] and Nowell Sotherton (d. 1610), John's uncle, was Cursitor Baron of the Exchequer from July 1606.
[5] Nicholas Sotherton, Sheriff of Norwich in 1572, was author of a history of Robert Kett's Rebellion, The Commoyson in Norfolk, 1549.
[11] In 1600 Sotherton purchased the manor of Wadenhall, in the parish of Waltham, Kent, from the crown, which became the inheritance of his son John.
[13] He was appointed Receiver-General for the counties of Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire in July 1604, and was advanced to the post of Cursitor Baron of the Exchequer on 29 October 1610.
In that year he assisted in deliberating the special verdict against John Mackalley for the murder of a Serjeant to the Sheriffs.
[14] He sat regularly as one of the Commissioners of Gaol Delivery for the City of London, was joined with Sir Julius Caesar, Sir Francis Bacon and others in a Commission of Ways and Means in August 1612, and at a later date was one of the Assessors of Compositions for Defective Titles, and an Inspector of Nuisances for Middlesex.