Roberts baronets of Bow (1681)

The Roberts Baronetcy, of Bow in the County of Essex (Middlesex, in fact), was created in the Baronetage of England on 2 February 1681 for the merchant and landowner John Roberts.

[3][7] Roberts was a lay impropriator of the Bromley church from 1662, and claimed it to be outside the jurisdiction of the Bishop of London.

In 1678 he chose, with the support of the congregation, the Cambridge graduate William Wray as minister there, then vicar of East Tilbury.

He was perpetual curate at the church from 1681; officially, however, he was rector of West Tilbury from 1682.

and chaplain to a person of honour", was published in 1681, with a dedication to "The Right Worshipful Sir John Roberts Baronett.