John Weld (merchant)

John was the son of Sir Humphrey Weld, citizen and Grocer, who derived from Eaton, Cheshire, and his first wife, Ann Wheler.

[4] On 1 May 1610 Sir Humphrey made his will, making the customary division of his estate into three parts, one of which went entirely to his son John because his two sisters had already been advanced.

were named among the 24 Assistants forming the Council of the Newfoundland Company, in King James's founding charter,[7] together with their cousins John and Humphrey Slaney (nephews and associates of Sir Stephen, whose own sons predeceased him,[8][9] and who died in 1608[10]), merchants with wide-ranging interests operating out of the parish of St Martin Pomary.

[17] In 1619 Sir John purchased the manor of Barnet from Anthony Butler, and it became part of the inheritance of his son and heir Humphrey.

[22] He married Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Sir William Romney (died 1611[23]), Alderman of London,[24] at St Martin Pomary on 4 February 1610/11.

It included these verses: "The wicked like a wasted candle sincke Within the socket, and there, dye, and stincke: But righteous men dissolvèd yield a s[c]ent Like precious odours, when their box is rent, And so did hee: at his departure giving A lasting sweetnes, to refresh ye living.

[1][22] Dorothy (died 1610) had a handsome small wall monument on the south side of the chancel of St Andrew Undershaft church.