INTRODUCTION

A Parker family of Virginia originated in Odiham, Southampton, England. The notion of ‘continuation of association’ is perfectly exampled when, between 1412 and 1419, Roger Gunter, John Turgys, William Apsle, and Thomas Parker witness the same deeds (para. vi.), and, in 1664, Robert Parker, Thomas Gunter, and John Apsley are named under the terms of William Rishton’s Will. The Gunters, Apsleys and Parkers of the latter period were direct descendants of those of the former. A member of the Turgys family was instrumental in the establishment of the Parkers in Bosham, Sussex. They all lived within a few miles of each other in what could be termed the ‘Lodesworthe Triangle’, an area in West Sussex which was formerly in Hampshire, with its southernmost extremity being a part of the Odiham estate. (The Gunters were not Welsh per se; a son of Roger Gunter, as follows, married a Welsh heiress, a branch of the Gunters being established in Wales).

‘Continuation of association’ was the force behind medieval marriage arrangements. It stipulated that marriages would be arranged within groups of families which formed a kinship network. Inhertitance was passed down lines of cousins. One of my first archive studies of a medieval kinship network showed the same families witnessing deeds between 1170 and 1670. Those whose names appeared directly after each other in deeds were almost invariably closely related, being father and son-in-law, brothers-in-law; cousins and nephews through blood or marriage. It is certain that the early Apsley, Parker, and Gunter families were thus related, see para. vi.

An important point is that stems of a family, derived, say, from two brothers, did not become more ‘distant’ with each generation, for the intermarriages of countless, unrecorded cousins – younger brothers, and sisters of the family heir – reinforced family connections, as did the fact that stems of a family tended to marry into the same families within their broader kinship network. Thus, when Nicholas Rishton married Margaret Radcliffe, he was not marrying, in one sense, a very distant relation of Robert Radcliffe, earl of Sussex, whose relict remarried the lord of the manor of Almodington, Sussex. The various branches of the Radcliffes intermarried with the same families, see paras xx.-xv. .

Overlapping ties of kinship were those of lordship. Families, as tenants of more powerful ones, had opportunities to intermarry with other of their lord’s tenants. In this regard, the powerful families of Arundel, Davenport, Radcliffe, and Trafford were the conduits through which their Cheshire and Lancashire tenants intermarried with their Sussex counterparts.

An important aspect of the colonisation of Virginia was the part played by English kinship groups, which continued to promote marriages within their ‘circle’. Colonisation by a certain class of settler – of minor tenant or tradesman family – was a collaborative enterprise. Failure to grasp this makes many American genealogies highly suspect.

In these notes, I have disregarded accepted notions of the Radcliffe and Barlow pedigrees, the former only being slightly less credible than the latter, which was ‘constructed’ on the notion that William Barlow, Bishop of Chichester, born 1499, was the same as his namesake, who was a prior of Augustinian canons in Essex in 1509. The pedigree is a nonesense. I have consulted original deeds to offer one that I believe to be credible, underpinned by examples of ‘continuation of association’ that lend authority.

The Rishtons of Almodington came into the circle of such families as Andrewe, Bartlot, Burrey, Carpenter, Gunter, More, Mylle, and Vaux, see paras. vii.-ix, thus, two kinship groups became connected, which explains the marriage of George Parker and Abigail Barlow.

These notes are of a type I use to determine associations – given without embellishment, and with bold print depicting such associations; a type I would return to in order to make more intelligible and interesting. The royal horse stud at Odiham is of personal interest, as are links to the Talbots of Bashall and their Stanhope connection; and the everyday lives of ancestors should be given substance, so as not to depict them as a cog in a dry account of who begat who.

PARKER

i. The first four generations of this Parker family where associated with the royal manor of Odiham, the park of which was the site a royal hunting lodge, which was opposite a deer ‘chase’, or hunting course. The park also housed a royal stud of horses. There were many people associated with Odiham styled ‘le Parker’, ranging from the lords of Odiham castle, to the various grades of ‘parker’ they employed. This account is of a specific family of ‘chief parkers’, directly responsible to their lord for the upkeep of Odiham park, who would have been in charge of degrees of ‘under parkers’. This family were of a middle rank, wealthy enough to own and donate land to Winchester Cathedral. From early times, they were at least connected to the Vaux family of Odiham in a tenurial sense.

ii. Robert le Parker, alias Dobbes, a pet form of Robert, donated land in Warnburgh (1 mile from Odiham, Southampton) to Winchester Cathedral. The manor of South Warnborough … ‘Alan, Maurice, and Guy de Craon held the manor in succession. Petronilla, daughter and heiress of the last-named Guy, was first married to William de Longchamp, secondly to Henry de Mara, and thirdly to Oliver de Vaux, and held the manor jointly with her respective husbands until her death in 1280′ (Parishes: South Warnborough, A History of the County of Hampshire: vol. 3 (1908), pp. 378-382). In 1235, Robert was excused a rent of 20s. which he had been accustomed to pay for land in Odiham, because 20 acres of his meadow had been taken by King John for building Odiham Castle, and his mills had been burnt by that king. In rentals of the manor of Odiham, in the reigns of Edward I and Edward III., William Parker is returned as holding half a hide of land and the site of a mill (Parishes: Odiham, A History of the County of Hampshire: vol. 4 (1911), pp. 87-98). 2. Matthew de Odiham, alias le Parker. 3. William de Odiham, alias le Parker. 1292: Grant, for life, to William son of Matthew de Odiham, of the custody of the park of Odiham, after the death of Robert le Parker his grandfather, the present keeper, upon the same terms. 4. Gerard le Parker, fl. 1358, also donated land in Warnburgh to Winchester Cathedral. The manor of Parkers or Gerrards: The manor may have originated in land at Odiham held in the 13th century by Robert the Parker. Lease, Sept. 14, 1358: Nicholas atte Ok’ to Thomas le Bedel of Odiham. A plot of pasture at ‘le Berlondes’ (in Odiham), lying next to the pasture which Henry Touneworth holds of Nicholas. For a term of 11 years. The lease is made for an unspecified sum of money. Given at Odiham (Hampshire). Witnesses: William Fremesworth, John Atte Assh, Gerard Parker, Richard Averyll, Robert de Eston.

iii. The ‘Parkers’, as Dobbes, were associated with the manor of Rye in Odiham, which was later held by Anthony More. The manor, as a messuage and a carucate of land called la Rye, was held in 1377 by William Dobbes of Eleanor Fremelesworth, for his life. Eleanor died in 1392, and part of her estate at Odiham, apparently la Rye, passed to her granddau., Joan, dau. of John Fremelesworth, wife of John Grant. Anthony Moore died in 1583, holding the manor in right of Alice his wife. In 1596, his son Richard Moore granted the manor to John Osborne and Anne his wife, a natural sister of Richard. John Osborn was the son of Peter Osborne – 1579: Licence for Peter Osborne, Robert Creswell and Nicholas Yonge to alienate the manor of Polling and lands in Odiham, Polling, Murrell and Elvetham, Hampshire, to Francis Blythe and Thomas Vaus to the use of Nicholas and his heirs.

iv. Anthony More also held the manor of Polhampton in Overton. In 1553, William Somer died seised of a portion of the manor, leaving as his heirs Alice wife of Anthony More and dau. of Thomas Hill, son of Robert Hill and Christine his wife, the dau. of Richard Savage and Joan. The manorial rights and the greater part of the manor however, to which was subsequently given the name of the manor of Polhampton, seem to have passed to Christine the dau. and heir of Richard Savage and Joan who married (1) Robert Hill and (2) Richard Vaus. She left issue by her first husband, but she evidently settled the manor upon her second husband on her marriage with him, and it consequently passed on his death to Nicholas Vaus, probably his son, who acquired the whole of Robert Frith’s property in Polhampton and Overton in 1556. Nicholas Vaus died seised of the manor of Polhampton in 1560, leaving a son and heir Robert Vaus to whom Henry Smith and Elizabeth his wife quitclaimed their portion of the manor in 1564. Robert died in 1609, leaving a son and heir Richard Vaus, to whom some eighteen years before he had granted a ninety-nine years’ lease of the manor in return for an annual payment of forty couple of rabbits between the months of September and March. Richard Vaus dealt with the manor by fine in 1616, and again in 1618.

v. 5. John le Parker. The manor of Sherfield upon Loddon is not mentioned under that name in the Domesday Survey, as it formed at that time part of the royal manor of Odiham. Grant, Aug. 12, 1367: By John, son and heir of William Cardon of Westschirbourn to Thomas Kay of Westschirbourn of all his lands in Schirbourn. Witnesses: John atte Moure, Richard Zerdere, John Lhude, John le Parker, John le Coupere and others. Overton: Appointment of attorney. Deed, January 16, 1395: By John Parker of Polhampton to William Hayward to deliver seisin to John le Hore of Suthampton near Overton of his lands in Polhampton and Overton. From: Henry le Chapman, son and heir of William le Chapman of ‘la Rye’ To: Nicholas de Quercu; Agnes, wife of Nicholas de Quercu 1 acre of land lying in a field called ‘Burghlinche’ [in or near Odiham] between Nicholas’s land and the land of Martin Dudeman, and between the land which Stephen de Fraxino held and the land of Robert atte Forde. For this Nicholas and Agnes have paid 20s. Late 13th. cent. Witnesses: Robert de la Rye; Robert de la Trouwe; John Colotre; John le Parker; Robert atte Hole; John Hervy; John de Eston. Endorsed ‘carta Odyham’.

vi. 6. Thomas Parker. 7. John Parker. Petworth Estate Deeds, Lodesworthe, March 26, 1412: Grant by Richard Ryndhurst and Margery his wife to Nicholas Faryndone, John atte Felde and William Chyngeford, their heirs and assigns, of all land called Snapelond in Sulham parish. Witnesses: William Taillard, John Strode, William Apsley, Thomas Parker, Robert Rammesfold. Lodesworth, Dec. 20, 1413. ‘Grant by Thomas Porter and Juliana his wife to William atte Felde, Robert Suge, Robert Howyk and William Porter, their heirs and assigns, of all land called Snapelond in Sulham parish. Witnesses: William Taylard, Roger Gunter, John Strode, Robert Rodom, Thomas Porter’. North Chapell, Oct. 28, 1419: Quitclaim by John, son of Thomas Parker to his father Thomas of all right in land in Petworthe and Ludgareshale which John recently acquired from Edith Breyche, and which formerly belonged to Roger Webbe of Fynyng Witnesses: Roger Gunter, John Turgys, William Apsle, Thomas Lucas, John atte Grene. 8. Thomas Parker. Grant, June 18, 1477. ‘By (a) Robert Whyte, citizen of Chichester, to (b) Mr. John Waynflete, Dean, and the Chapter of Chichester … Witnesses: Robert More, mayor of Chichester, Thomas Cresweller, Thomas Parker.

vii. Deed of exchange between (a) Andrew Dautre, lord of the manor of Aldsworth in Westbourne and (b) John Gunter, esq. April 9, 1439. I Parcel of the manor of Aldsworth, namely all those lands, tenements, meadows, pastures, feedings, rents and services lying within a certain hedge on the D. of a lane leading from the church of Racton. Witnesses: Robert Chamberlayne, prior of Boxgrove, Edmund Mile, Richard Dammer, Giles Gunter. … At Up Waltham: Grant by (a) Thomas Benet, clerk, and Nicholas Forster, to (b) William Ochurst of Chichester, John Bartelot, jun., and Nicholas Baldewyne, clerk. Grant, April 1, 1426. All lands, tenements, rents and services, with the advowsons of the churches of Fletching and Up Waltham, which (a) lately had by the gift and feoffment of Alice, wife of John Dawtrey, John Dawtrey, her eldest son, and Joan, his wife, in Petworth, Tolyton Tillington, Sutton Barlavington, Coates, Fittleworth, Alfold co. Surrey, Kirdford, Easebourne, Ludegareshale, Graffham, Suleham Selham, Lodsworth, Bodeketon Burton, Up Waltham, Fletching, Estbourne Eastbourne, (East) Harting and Elsted. Witnesses: Robert Gunter, William Ernele, John Lehe, John Bartelot of Stopham, William Walton.

viii. Grant by (a) John Stanney, Humphrey Sydney, William Skardevyle and William George of Sidlesham, feoffees by the will of John Bartelot, dec’d., son and heir of Edward Bartelot, of all his lands and tenements called Redelonds in the hundred del’ Manwode Manhood, to (b) Joan Mompesson, wife of William Mompesson and lately wife of Edward Bartelot. Grant, January 10, 1502. Lands, tenements, meadows, feedings and pastures, called Redelondes, in West Wittering and Itchenor in the hundred del’ Manwode Manhood, which John Myll now holds to farm, granted by the said John Bartelot to (a), 26 April 1501. (a) Grants to (b) in execution of the Will of the said John Bartelot.

ix. Concord, 27 Feb., 1539. (i) Richard Andrewes, Richard Parsons, Richard Vaux, Richard Walwyn, Maurice Smarte and Henry Milam, querents (ii) John More, deforciant. Final concord for messuages, lands and rents in Sherfeld super Loodon. Terrier of lands and tenements in the common fields and elsewhere, freehold as well as copyhold, in Tangmere, Dec. 24, 1547. Belonging to the heirs of Edmund Lewkenor, taken by Richard Stoughton, William Marckwyke, John Barnard, Nicholas Andrewe, Roger Barnard, John Bennet and William Barneham, copyholders, in the presence of William Stapleton, Edward Bartlot, John Carpenter and Thomas Bett. Crown Grant (Letters Patent) in fee for £100 to the Mayor and Citizens of Chichester, May 14, 1549. John Michell and Hugh Carpenter; two tenements in ‘le Vynetre’ of Chichester, now or late in the several tenures or occupations of Roger Bennett and John Castleman; tenement in the East Street in front of part of a barn lying in the West Lane, now or late in the tenure or occupation of Richard Burrey. Lease for 60 years by Margarett Vaus of Odiham (widow) to John Porter of Long Sutton, yeoman, Dec. 19, 1613. In consideration of £100 paid by John Rivers the elder of Hilside, Odiham, yeoman, to Richard Vaus (son of MV). Final Concord, 1530. (i) Philip Fetyplace esq., John Fetyplace gent., John Wynchecomb, Maurice Smerle, Thomas Benet and Edward Sharpe, querents. (ii) John More and Elizabeth his wife deforciants … for 3 messuages, lands and rents in Shyrfeld super Lodon and Rotherwyke.

x. 9. William Parker. Quit-claim, Mar. 30, 1509. By Joan Tovy, widow, late the wife of John Tovy of Battle, daughter and heir of Agnes, daughter and heir of Thomas Hokestepe sometime of Battle, to Edmond Gunter, gent., Nicholas Morant and Henry Mylle of and in a messuage with garden adjoining in Battle in the Middle Borough between the tenement of William Parker, E. and the tenement of the said Henry Mylle….. the high street there. 10. George Parker. There is a reasonable possibility that he married a sister of Thomas Carpenter, M.P. Chichester, 1547, b. by 1520, o.s. of Philip Carpenter of Mundham. educ. Magdalen, Oxf., BA 1534. m. 1546/50, Agnes, prob. da. of Sir William Shelley of London and Michelgrove, Suss., s.p. suc. fa. 1519 or later. Gent., household of William Fitz Alan, 11th Earl of Arundel by 1539; steward (surveyor), Suss. lands of Henry Fitz Alan, 19th Earl of Arundel, 1545/46; J.P. Suss. 1547-54; commr. sewers 1554-5. Thomas Carpenter’s father was sometime under-steward of Burton abbey lands in Sussex and the lessee of several manors in the vicinity of Chichester from the cathedral chapter. He made his Will July 27, 1565. After several charitable bequests, he gave his wife all his household goods, plate and jewels with the stock of his farms and the lease of Kingsham manor. He left five marks for a dinner for the burgesses of Chichester and remembered many of his friends there and in the neighbourhood, including Lawrence Ardren.* He appointed William Devenish, William Stapleton and William Porter his overseers. *He was an associate of the Trafford and Davenport families, who were legal guardians of his heir, sharing these close links with the Barlow family, as follows; born by 1523, s. of George Ardren of Chester, Cheshire. m. (1) by 1544, Margaret, stepda. of John Lewen of Suss.; (2) Agnes Newton; great-niece of James Barlow, as follows. 11. John Parker. Will, proved Sept. 14, 1612. ‘Item I give to the Cathedral of Winchester 12 shillings … Item I give to five poor men of the town of Winchester the sum of five shillings to be paid Good Friday in the year out of my messuages in the Parish of All Saints within the town of Southampton in the tenure of John Sutton (tenant) … Item I give in Remembrance to my cousin Margerie Carpenter six shillings eight pence’. 12. George Parker. He m. Abigail Barlow, descendant of James Barlow, beforementioned, October 13, 1619, in St. Andrews Church, Southampton, dau. of Edward Barlowe and Joan Rishton. (The family of Gunter already held in Racton by 1327, when Roger Gunter contributed to the subsidy there. In 1511, Racton is referred to as a manor at the death of John Gunter (of Chilworth, Surrey; it was held of Thomas, Earl of Arundel. Under a settlement made in 1503 it was held for life by John’s widow Margaret and then passed to a member of the Welsh branch of the family, part held of Henry, Earl of Arundel, who held Almodington, as of his manor of Stansted, the main portion with all the arable held of William Dawtrey as of his manor of Aldsworth. (Racton’, A History of the County of Sussex: vol. 4: The Rape of Chichester (1953), pp. 113-118).

xi. 13. John Parker. Bosham: Bargain & Sale, Feb. 22, 1588. By Thomas Turges mercer, of Chichester, to William Colnett of Comblie in the Isle of Wight, gent., for £500, of lands called Broadfields containing 27 ac.; Glanfields, 15 ac.; Medelands, 5 ac., all in Bosham, sometime in the several tenures of William Hoskins, Edward Willington, William Hildroppe and Anthonye Wakeforde and all other the lands &c. of the said Thos. Turges in Bosham, Ovinge and Ewell alias Fyshburne co. Sussex, which he purchased of Nicholas Yonge of Odyham co. Southants, gent … Signature of Thomas Turgys. Witnesses:- Richard Keare, John Porter, Wm. Wright. Depositions of witnesses ex parte Thomas Turgis and others, complainants, against Henry, Earl of Northumberland, taken at Petworth before the Commission appointed by Chancery, March 29, 1592. Being the deposition of Hugh Marchall of Storrington, husb., John Aylwyn of Tillington, husb.; Richard Cooper als. Steninge of Lurgashall, yeo.; Bartholomew Stente of Northchapel, husb.; Francis Hunt of Petworth, gent.; John Osborne of Northchapel, wareburner. With the interrogatories administered to the witnesses. A Southampton Probate and Inventory entry for 1571: John Cooper late of Southampton merchant estate praysed by John Manfield, Henry Riston* (Rishton), John Piece (Pierce) and John Parker. John Parker’s Will stating: ‘Item to my sister Margorie Pike and Margaret Peirce to each twelve shillings and four pence a piece and to each of them one of my gowns apiece’. *Very likely of the Rishtons of Almodington.

xii. 14. Robert Parker. Conveyances of land under the Will of William Rishton, March 20, 1664. (a) Robert Anderson of Chichester, esq., Thomas Gunter of Racton, gent., Richard Rishton of Elsted, gent., brother and heir of William Rishton of Almodington in Earnley, gent (b) Mary Rishton of Chichester, widow (c) John Apsley the younger of Petworth, gent (d) William Lelam of London, cordwainer (e) Thomas Palmer of Harting, esq., Richard Mill of Greatham, gent., Robert Parker of Bosham, gent. Capital messuage, brewhouse, dovehouse, malthouse, barns, stables, granaries and outhouses, with Warrenfield (3a.), Hempners (18a.), Ides Marsh (7a.), the Eighteen Acres (12a.), Hempners Star (9a.), Bounfers Mead (5a.), northern part of the Great Marsh (14a.), Gubbets Wood (7a.), messuage, barn, millhouse, outhouses, stables, orchards, and gardens, with 25a. of land, called Gubbets, land [name indecipherable] (3a.), Jelleys Croft (13a.), Wood Field (16a.), Jelleys Coppice and Priests Coppice (5a.), Mallowes or the Teazell Field (4a.), Berryfield and the Packers (10a.), Blacknakers Field (15a.), the Yards and the Little Yards (13a.), the Feavers (15a.), the Old Field (17a.), the Horse Croft (20a.), the Parke, adjoining Earnley Farm (10a.), all in Earnley and Almodington, and in the occupations of Michael Braman and John Warner Recites: Jan. 10, 1658, Will of William Rishton Witnesses: Elizabeth Bickley, John Peachey, Richard Peachey, Stephen Humfrey, William Torles, William Baldwin, Anthony Hilton.

xiii. Robert Parker. Deed poll of quitclaim, July 17, 1667. By (a) Richard Abar alias Albury of Alton, Hants., yeo. to (b) William Lelam, Mary Rishton of Chichester, widow of William, Robert Anderson of Chichester, esq., Thomas Gunter of Racton, gent., John Apsley the younger of Petworth, gent., Richard Rishton of Elsted, gent., Thomas Palmer of Harting, esq., Richard Mill of Greatham, gent., Robert Parker of Bosham, gent. A sum of £50 under the Will of William Rishton of Almodington, gent., and any right or interest in any properties which were his in Earnley or elsewhere in Sussex Witnesses: Edward Perle, Henry Wedge, Joan Randall.

xiv. Robert Parker of Bosham was the son of George Parker, son of John Parker. Bosham Parish Register: ‘Robert Parker sonn of George, baptised ye 13th of December 1621 att St Laurence Church in Southampton. Jane Baxter borne att Meadhurst (West Sussex) ye 16th of maye 1631 married to Robt Parker the 3 daye of Jully 1650 & happening to be of the Kings partie (Civil War) was forsed to fflie, that yeere went into Virginia in regard of the warr & lived thear 8 yeeres with his wife, returned 1658. Robert made a Will probated Aug. 4, 1673 … ‘to eight poor men eight pence apiece in Parish of Bosham. My grandfather John Parker did give 3s 4d to St. Laurence in Southampton ever out of demise in tenure of Mr. Peter Clark where he and my father both lye buryed, to be further continued as it hath been before’. In one sense, the Parker family never left the vicinity of Southampton, in Hampshire, where they resided at Odiham; it was a case of them also being established slightly further afield, such as in Chichester, Sussex, situated 27 miles from Southampton.

xv. Wylliam Tyle, b. Sussex, c. 1500, was probably the father of ‘Robartt Tylls’, who m. (Sept. 15, 1552, in Rye) Als Rods, father of William Tyll, who m. (Nov. 14, 1594, All Saints, Chichester), Mary Tayler, dau. of Richard Tayler and Katherine Rishton, dau. of Robert Rishton, obit. 1623, and Susan, dau. of Alan Cooke of Westburton (i.e. West Burton in Bury). ‘Alan Cooke of Bury, gent., & Katherine Knight of Bersted: surety, Thomas Knight of Shripney’, her father, who m. Katherine Butterwick, who was named in her father’s Will, and was Executrix of her mother’s Will, dau. of Christopher Butterwick, of Bury, Sussex, and Katherine Mascall, whose Will was dated Aug. 3, 1557, and mentions Jane, dau. of cousin Thomas Lewknor (an overseer), and Mr. Richard Lewknor of Buxted (PCC: 73 Noodes). Katherine Mascall was named in the Will of her grandfather Richard Mascall, prob. Oct. 22, 1589 (PCC: 76 Leicester), son of Walter Mascall, of Rye, Will prob. Aug. 27, 1522 (PCC: 27 Maynwarying), son of Richard Mascall, Jr. (fined for 1/4 of the manor of Worth and tenements in Horsted Parva, Framfield and Isfield), alias Richard Michelborne, son of Richard Mascall, Sr., of East Mascalls, Lindfield, Sussex, and Margaret Payne.

xvi. Thomas Cooke of Wickham and Ellinor Barford had issue: 1. John Cooke, who twice served as Sheriff of Sussex, 1493-4 and 1498. His only dau and heiress, Elizabeth, brought the manor of Rustington West Court in marriage dowry to her husband, John Covert of Sullington. Against the south wall of the south chapel of Slaugham church is a large stone monument to Richard Covert. It has three shields of arms of Covert impaling quarterly 1 and 4 a cross for Bohun, 2 and 3, two crescents and a sinister quarter with a bird therein, intended for Cooke. 2. Richard Cooke of Rushington, ancestor of the Cookes of Westburton.

xvii. 1642. Journals of the House of Commons. ‘Ordered, that Sir William Morley, Sir Thomas Bowyer (member for Bram- ber), and Mr. May, and T. Leeds (member for Steyning)., are disabled from sitting in parliament; and that Sir John Morley, Sir Edward Byshop, Robert Anderson (counsellor at law), Nicholas Woolfe, Francis Shallet, Thomas Gunter, John Apsley, … Rishton, Francis Drury, George Gunter, and Edward Osborne, should be forthwith sent for, as delinquents’.

RISHTON

xviii. 1. Henry Rishton, m. Margaret, grandau. of Henry de Clayton: Henry was last of the Claytons of Clayton-le-Moors, having no male issue, and at his death, in 1361, the estate went to two daus., Cecily and Alice, joint heiresses. Cecily, the elder, m. a member of the Grimshaws of Grimshaw. The St. George visitation records Adam Grimshaw, of Grimshaw (temp. Edward III.) m. Cecily, dau. and heir of Henry Clayton of Clayton-super-Mores, Co. Lancaster. Alice m. De Legh; it was her dau. Margaret who m. Henry de Rishton, and conveyed the mother’s share of the manor to the Rishton family. The following is an abstract of a title deed to a record concerning these alliances in the Harlean MSS: ‘Indenture between Henry Grimshaw and Cecily, daughter, and one of the heirs of Henry-de-Clayton, super-Mores upon the one hand, and Henry de Rishton, and Margaret, his wife, grand-daughter, and another of the heirs of the foresaid Henry-de-Clayton, 40th year Edward III, 1366. Witnessed by Henry de Shuttleworth, Richard de Rishton, Henry de Standen, Richard de Rishton, the younger’. 2. Richard Rishton. 3. Henry Rishton, of Dunkenhalgh, fl. 1471, m. Agnes, dau. of Richard Sherborne, of Stonyhurst, fl. 1471. 4. Nicholas Rishton, b. post 1454, obit. May 3, 1508, m. Margaret, dau. of John Radcliffe. According to the inquisition post mortem following the death of John Radcliffe in 1485, he at that time held the manors of Radcliffe, Oswaldtwistle, and a quarter part of Culcheth [Peasfurlong]. William Langton, ed., ‘Abstracts of Inquisitions Post Mortem,’ printed by the Chetham Society in its Remains Historical and Literary Lancaster and Chester, vol. 91 (1876) pp. 120-122. Peasfurlong had descended regularly to John through generations of his ancestors (VCH Lancaster 4, pp. 159-160). His heir was Richard Ratcliffe, esq. who in the 15 Hen. VII. [1499-1500] settled his estates upon his brothers John and Roger and their male issue; remainder over to Robert, son of John Baron Fitzwalter, and his heirs; remainder to Thomas Radcliffe, lord of the manor of Framesdon, in the county of Suffolk, &c. John died without issue; and Roger left another John, who died a minor, 8 or 9 Hen. VIII. [1516 to 18], whereupon the jurors find that Robert son of John Baron Fitzwalter, aged thirty years, is cousin and next heir of John Ratcliffe deceased. Thus the manors of Ratcliffe and Oswaldtwisle became vested in this noble family. Again, by inquisition of lands in Sharpies, taken after the death of Thomas Ratcliffe of Framesdon, it was found that he was son of Sir Geoffrey, son of Henry, oldest son of James Radcliffe of Framesdon, which James had another son John, who had a son John Radcliffe, knight, who married Elizabeth dau. and heiress of Walter Lord FitzWalter. In the next place, this Robert, now becomes Earl of Sussex, and knight of the garter, by will dated 34 Hen. VIII. [1542-3] devised the manor of Oswaldtwisle to Henry Northey, his servant, for the term of fifty years, in trust, for the payment of certain legacies, reversion to Henry his son; and this Henry, then Earl of Sussex, anno 3 Edw. VI. [1549] bargained and sold the reversion to Andrew Barton, of Smethells, esq. Robert, Earl of Sussex, m. 2. by 1 September 1532, Margaret Stanley, the only dau. of Thomas Stanley, 2nd Earl of Derby, and Anne Hastings, the dau. of Edward Hastings, 2nd Baron Hastings, by whom he had two daus., inc. Jane Radcliffe, who m. Anthony Browne, 1st Viscount Montague, the eldest son of Sir Anthony Browne (d. 1548) and Alys his wife, dau. of Sir John Gage. He succeeded his father in 1548, inheriting with other property the estates of Battle Abbey and Cowdray in Sussex. He was M.P. for Guildford, 1542 and 1547, Petersfield, 1553. Robert Radcliffe’s grandsons were Thomas, who m. Elizabeth, dau. of Thomas Wriothesley, 1st Earl of Southampton, and Henry, captain of Portsmouth in May 1557, and its M.P. in 1572.

xix. 5. Richard Rishton, b. 1484, obit. April 30, 1530, m. Anne, dau. of Sir John Talbot. 6a. Henry Rishton. 6b. William Rishton. 7b. William Rishton, gent, of Almodington, near Chichester (arms: a lion passant sable), m. Emma Tyll, dau. of Robert Tyll of Almodington. William died April 25, 1583, after which Emma m. Jasper Gunter of Chichester. William’s I.P.M.: ‘Before the said William Rysheton had any interest in the premisses of Almodingeton the most noble Henry late Earl of Arundell* was seised thereof, and being so seised, by indenture of 15 June 4th and 5th Philip and Mary [1558] he demised the premisses called the demeasnes or farme of Almodington to Robert Tyll father of Emma late the wife of the said William for a term of 50 years from Michaelmas then next following, and Robert Tyll being so seised by his will bequeathed the said lease to the said Emma and afterwards died and Emma being so seised married the said William …’ *Henry FitzAlan, 19th Earl of Arundel, whose second wife was Mary, dau. of Sir John Arundell of a prominent Cornish family, and widow of Robert Radcliffe, 1st Earl of Sussex, whose family were William Rishton’s kin. To repeat: 1571. John Cooper late of Southampton merchant estate praysed by John Manfield, Henry Riston (Rishton), John Piece and John Parker. 9b. Robert Rishton of Almodington. His Will made Jan. 13, 1623 names his sister Joan Barlow, widow of Edward Barlow.

xx. Quitclaim, Nov. 25, 1561: Sir John Atherton of Atherton, and William Rissheton of Barnardes Inn in Holborne, gent. to George Dyamond of London, clothworker … properties of John Bolde seized on plea of £200 debt by Edward Johns of London, merchant tailor. … Sir William Atherton, knight; born 1381; died 1416; his wife was Agnes, sole dau. and heiress of Ralphe Vernon, Baron of Shipbroke. Their third child, Sir William Atherton, m., first, Elizabeth, dau. of Sir John Pilkinton;* by her had Margaret and Sir William Atherton, who m. Margaret, dau. of Sir John Byron, knight, and died in 1441. Among their children was John Atherton, whose son George, born 1487, by first wife, Anne Ashton, had Sir John Atherton, born 1514; died 1513; m., first, Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Alexander Ratcliffe. This marriage was recorded in the Visitation of 1533, where the arms were also entered. *Thus, descendants kin of the Arderne, Bradshaw, Standish, and Gerard families. … Richard de Hulton (a family much connected with the Blackburns alias Rishtons) m. Margery, dau. of Robert de Radclive, of Radclyffe Tower; and hence probably the connection of the Radcliffes with Ordsall. This Richard Hulton’s grandson and namesake was lord of Ordsall and Flixton, 4 Edward III., 1330-31. In the pedigree of Hulton of Hulton, we find no Ranulph or Randle, who it seems held Ordsall prior to 1311; that is, sixty years after David de Hulton had it granted to him, and twenty years prior to this last Richard de Hulton holding it as lord of the manor. Nor can we reconcile this holding by the Hultons with the alleged possession of the manor of Ordsall or Urdsale, by Richard son of John de Radcliffe about 1311. From that period, however, it seems to have been vested in the Radcliffes; for the natural son of this Richard was called Robert Radcliffe, ‘de Ordsall’ (i.e. br. of William de Radcliffe, who m. Margaret, dau. of Adam de Hindley, given in the pedigree herein detailed), and was the first of his name taking this local appellative. He was high sheriff of Lancashire 14 Edward III, [1340-41]. Sir John Radcliffe, de Ordsall, was a knight of the shire in the same year, aud died 32 Edward, 1358-59. He may be regarded as the progenitor of the Radcliffes of Ordsall. His eldest son, John Radcliffe, de Ordsall, dying without issue, the second son, Richard, succeeded; he was steward of Blakeburnshire 28-49 Edward III.,1354-75; he had livery of his manor of Ordsall in the first year of John, Duke of Lancaster, 1361, and was drowned in Rossendale Water 4 Richard II.,1380-81. He was succeeded by his son and heir, Sir John Radcliffe, who was aged 24 years on the death of his father, and who died 9 Henry V., 1421-22. His eldest son and namesake succeeded him, and died about 20 Henry VI., 1441-43. To him succeeded his eldest son, Alexander Radclyffe of Ordshall, ancestor of the Radcliffes of Ordsall, Foxdenton, London, Hitchen, and others. He died i0th July, 15 Edward IV., 1476. His eldest son and successor was William Radcliffe, of Ordsall, who died 13th Henry VII., 1497-98. His son John died before him, 12 Henry VII., 1496-97, leaving a son and heir in the person of Sir Alexander Radcliffe, of Ordsall, who died 3 Edward VI., 1549-50. He was sheriff of the county 1 Edward VI., 1547-48. William Radclyffe, eldest son and heir of Sir Alexander, obit. 1476, was born at Ordsall in 1435. He m. Jane, youngest dau. of Sir Edmund Trafford by his wife, Alice, dau. and co-heir of Sir William Venables of Bollin, thus uniting for the third time the ancient lines of Radclyffe and Trafford. … Acquittance for £80, March 12, 1561: George Dyamond of London, clothworker, to Sir George Stanley — being residue of £160 paid for lands in co. Lancaster late the property of John Bolde, esq.* vis. Lanc. 1. Sir Henry Bold. 1.1. Sir Richard Bold m. Margaret Butler, dau of Sir Thomas Butler, of Bewsey. 1.2.1. *John Bold esq., m. dau. of Sir Richard Atherton, of North Meals. 1.2.2. Dorothy Bold, m. Sir John Holcroft, of Holcroft, cousin of Henry and William Rishton, as herein. 1.2.3. Richard Bold, m. 2. Elizabeth Gerard, dau. of Sir Thomas Gerard of Bryn and Margaret Tafford, dau. of Sir Edmund Trafford. Elizabeth’s br. was Thomas Gerard, whose son and namesake held the office of High Sheriff of Lancashire in 1558. He held the office of Member of Parliament (M.P.) for Lancashire from 1566 to 1567. He was imprisoned in the Tower of London for plotting on behalf of Mary Queen of Scots, forced to make over his Bromley estate to his kinsman Sir Gilbert Gerard. 1.2.4. Anne Bold, m. Sir Nicholas Butler, of Rawcliff. James Boteler, who m. Elizabeth dau. of Sir Thomas Molyneux of Sefton, died in 1504, leaving two sons John and Nicholas, of whom the former proved his age in 1512. This John Boteler recorded a pedigree in 1533, and died in 1534, leaving by his wife Anne Shireburne four daus. as co-heirs, viz. Elizabeth, who m. James Standish of Duxbury; Isabel, who married Thomas Radcliffe of Winmarleigh, and left a dau. Anne, afterwards wife of Sir Gilbert Gerard; whose sponsor as M.P. for Steyning, Sussex, was the earl of Arundel, lord of Almodington, Sussex, who had m. the relict of Robert Radcliffe, earl of Sussex (whose connection to the Rishtons has been explained herein), Eleanor, who m. Henry Rishton of Rishton (‘Townships: Out Rawcliffe’, A History of the County of Lancaster, v. 7 (1912), pp. 273-276). Henry Rishton’s br. was ‘William Rishton of Barnardes Inn’, beforementioned, whose son was almost certainly William Rishton of Almodington. 1.2.5. Maud Bold, m. Sir Richard Sherborne, of Stoneyhurst.

xxi. The Inquisition Post-Mortem of William Rishton: Died; 25 April 1583. Son and Heir; [ ] Rysheton otherwise Russon; age, 4 years 9 months at the time of this inquisition. Inq: at Chichester. 2 September 25th Elizabeth. Before, Thomas Lewkenor esq. and Edward Myddleton gent. feudary. Jurors; Richard Hobson gent. Thomas Murford gent. John Sckardevile John Compton John Newman John Gonwyn John Bennet William Davye John Call . . . John Newe Robert Cobden John Clarke John Saunder Thomas Easte Thomas Stampe Simon Undershyll John Page. William Rysheton otherwise Russon was seised of 2 barns 60 acres of land 20 acres of pasture 40 acres of wood called the demeasnes or farme of Almodyngeton in Almodinton otherwise Almodyton; and of [ ] messuages 14 acres of land 4 acres of wood called Mallardes Tomharrys Parkers Carters and the Parke in Almoditon; and of 20 acre of land in Eartham.The said tenements in Almodyton are held of the Queen as of her manor of Sydlesham formerly part of the possessions of the Bishop of Chichester by fealty and service of the eighth part of a knight’s fee; and are worth £5. The 20 acres in Eartham are held of John Lumleye, knight, Lord Lumleye as of his manor of Eartham by rent of (blank) but by what other services they do not know; and are worth 20. Before the said William Rysheton had any interest in the premisses of Almodingeton the most noble Henry late Earl of Arundell was seised thereof, and being so seised, by indenture of 15 June 4th and 5th Philip and Mary [1558] he demised the premisses called the demeasnes or farme of Almodington to Robert Tyll father of Emma late the wife of the said William for a term of 50 years from Michaelmas then next following, and Robert Tyll being so seised by his will bequeathed the said lease to the said Emma and afterwards died and Emma being so seised married the said William and William Rysheton, being thus in possession, by deed of 28 November 24th Elizabeth [1582] granted all his state interest and term of years then still to come to Randoll Barlowe (Ralph) to hold from the date of the said deed for the whole term of years; and afterwards the most noble Philip Earl of Arondell and William Dyxe esq. being siesed of all the premises of Almoddington otherwise Almoditon and the other premisses there to the said William Rysheton; and aftewards William died after whose death Randoll Barlowe demised all the premisses to the said Emma to hold during the remainder of the term of 50 years aforesaid, by virtue of which grant the said Emma has received all the issues thereof from the time of the said William’s death to the time of this inquisition and also Emma has occupied all the other premisses in Almodyngeton by virtue of a certain copy granted by the said Henry Earl of Arondell to the said William and Emma as appears by copy of the court rolls made 10 August 18th Elizabeth (A Calendar of Post Mortem Inquisitions relating to the county of Sussex. Sussex Record Society, v. 3. pp. 157-158). With acknowledgement to B. T. Shannon in making the immediate lineage of Ralph Barlow widely known.

xxii. Rishton of Dunkenhalgh pedigree (see Hist.of Whalley, 4th. ed., v. ii, 298) shows a younger br. of Richard Rishton, Henry, and that Richard had sons, Henry and William. Significantly, Richard is shown to have a sister, Agnes, m. to a ‘Mr. Holdcroft/Holcroft’. The Holcrofts were of Holcroft Hall, Culcheth, and may have descended from the Culceths. (To Elizabeth, the second dau. of Gilbert de Culcheth, was assigned Peasfurlong. By her husband, Adam de Peasfurlong, she had two daus., Margery and Beatrice, the former of whom carried this quarter of Culcheth to her husband, William son of Richard de Radcliffe of Radcliffe. It descended regularly in this family until the time of Henry VIII, when on a failure of male issue it passed to a junior branch represented by Robert Radcliffe, Lord FitzWalter,created Earl of Sussex). To repeat: Richard Rishton’s son, Henry, m. Ellen Butler, dau. of John Butler and Anne, dau. of Sir Richard Sherburne. Ellen’s sister, Isabel, m. Thomas Radcliffe of Winmarleigh, another sister, Grace, m. Hugh Anderton, Esq. Thomas Radcliffe and Isabel Butler had issue: Ann Radcliffe (who m. Sir Gilbert Gerard), ward of Sir Thomas Holcroft, Gerard’s uncle, who was of Holcroft Hall, and almost certainly a nephew of the ‘Mr Holcroft’ who m. Agnes Rishton.

xxiii. The Ardernes had long been associated with this kinship group: ‘John Arderne of Roxton, co. Bedford, died in 1392; the heirs in 1445-6 were John Bradshaw of Bradshaw, Edward Charnock, Hugh Bradshaw, and Joan, relict of Nicholas Ainsworth, each of whom held a twelfth part of the manor’ (Blackburnshire Future Roll). William son of Robert de Ainsworth, about the end of the reign of Henry III, granted an oxgang of land here to Roger de Barlow; and added another oxgang, as well as a toft, with houses and meadows belonging thereto; Harl. MS. 2112, fol. 171/208. Maud, the sister of William de Ainsworth, released her claim in the 2 oxgangs to the same Roger de Barlow; ibid. … John son of John de Ainsworth and Robert de Pilkington (who had m. the younger John’s dau. Katherine) in 1383 became bound to James de Radcliffe (‘Townships: Ainsworth’, A History of the County of Lancaster: vol. 5 (1911), pp. 180-182).

Sir John de Blackburn, son of Adam de Blackburn (It is probable that this was the Adam son of Henry de Blackburn noticed in the accounts of Clayton-le-Dale and Wiswell), had three co-heirs. Agnes the second dau. in her widowhood passed her third part of the manor of Nether Darwen by fine in 1339 to Thomas de Arderne, son of Robert de Arderne, who had m. Joan the youngest of the three co-heirs. One-third of the manor descended for a few years in the heirs of Alice the eldest of the three co-heirs, who had m. Robert de Shireburne of Aighton, and was living a widow in 1342. Robert de Arderne appears to have been connected with the Ardernes of Rothley, co. Leic., and not with the Cheshire family. He was father of Thomas de Arderne, kt (who) was probably the Thomas de Arderne, kt., of Roxton and Barford (who) died before 1362, and six years later his dau. Joan de Arderne released to her uncle John de Arderne her right in estates in Roxton, co. Beds, and Nether Darwen'(Townships: Lower Darwen’, A History of the County of Lancaster: Volume 6 (1911), pp. 275-278).

xxiv. In 30 Henry III. (1245) Gilbert, son of Henry de Blackburn, had the manor of Ryssheton-juxta-Harwode bestowed upon him by Robert de Praers in free marriage with Margery, sister of the said Robert, when he assumed the name of his estate, and in the “Liber Feodorum” is returned as holding the tenth part of a Knight’s fee in Ruston. His son and heir, Henry, m., in the reign of Edward III., Margaret, a dau. and coheir of the house of Clayton, of Clayton-le-Mores, by whom he had a son, Gilbert, who died 18 Edward I. (1290). The estate descended in direct lineal succession from father to son until the death, without issue, in 1425, of Richard de Rishton, the fifth in descent from Gilbert, who died in 1290, when his younger brother, Roger, was found to be the next heir. This Roger was father of the Richard who inherited the Rishton property.

xxv. In 1349, it was recorded that William de Radcliffe held of the Duke of Lancaster one plough-land in Blackburn for the tenth part of a knight’s fee, the Abbot of Whalley holding the other plough-land in alms. Sir Ralph Radcliffe died in 1406 holding a moiety of the vill of Blackburn of the king. … In 1445–6 his son Sir Ralph Radcliffe held the tenth part of a knight’s fee in Blackburn, and in 1483 Katherine widow of the next Sir Ralph was tenant (‘Townships: Blackburn’, A History of the County of Lancaster: Volume 6 (1911), pp. 244-249).

xxvi. 1. Richard de Radcliffe, held eighth part of a fee in Radcliffe of the Earl of Lancaster Lancs. Inq. and Extents, i, 314. 1.1. William de Radcliffe, m. Margaret, dau. of Adam de Hindley, whose dower was Peasfurlong. De Banco R. 148, m. 71. Gift, Sept 26, 1350. John de Barton, lord of Fryton (2a) William, (1)’s son (2b) Isabel, daughter of William, son of Robert de Radcliffe and wife of (2a). Premises: All his lands in Meadowcroft, Ainsworth, Birtle, Ashworth and Lynales to (2) and their heirs of the body, saving their service and rents to (1). Remainders: To Thomas and John, brothers of (2a) and their male heirs, reversion to the right heirs of (1). Witnesses: Henry de Trafford, kt, Richard de Radcliffe, Richard de Redich, Adam de Hopwood, John de Holt, Thomas de Strangeways, Robert de Hulme. 1.1.1. Richard de Radcliffe, obit. 1409, Add. MS. 32103, fol. 146. In 1344 it appears that Richard de Radcliffe was the husband of Isabel daughter and co-heir of John son of Michael de Harcla; De Banco R. 340, m. 400. 1.1.1.1. Richard de Radcliffe, Lancs., obit. 1442, Inq. p.m. (Chet. Soc), i, 94. 1.1.1.1.1. James Radcliffe, Lancs. Inq. p.m. (Chet. Soc), ii, 120–2. He died in 1409, holding the manor of Radcliffe, the fourth part of Culcheth, and other lands; Richard his son and heir was thirty years of age. 1.1.1.1.1. Richard Radcliffe. He died in or before 1442. 1.1.1.1.1.1. John Radcliffe, obit. 1485. Held Peasfurlong. 1.1.1.1.1.1.1. Richard Radcliffe obit. 1502 Lancs. Inq. p.m. (Chet. Soc), ii, 120–2. 1.1.1.1.1.1.2. John Radcliffe, Duchy of Lanc., obit. 1513, Inq. p.m. iii, 98. 1.1.1.1.1.1.3. Roger Radcliffe. 1.1.1.1.1.1.3.1. John Radcliffe. 1.1.1.1.1.1.4. Margaret Radcliffe, m. Nicholas Rishton, first cousin of Richard Townley, whose sister m. Richard Barlow, esq., great-grandfather of John Barlow, who m. Anne Langford, hereinafter noted. 1.1.1.1.1.1.4.1. Richard Rishton, m. Anne, dau. of Sir John Talbot. 1.1.1.1.1.1.4.1.1. Henry Rishton. 1.1.1.1.1.1.4.1.2. William Rishton. 1.1.1.1.1.1.4.1.2.1. William Rishton, m. Emma Tyll, whose family were tenants in Almodington, Sussex, of Henry FitzAlan, 19th Earl of Arundel, whose second wife was Mary, dau. of Sir John Arundell, and widow of Robert Radcliffe, 1st Earl of Sussex. William died April 25, 1583, after which Emma m. Jasper Gunter of Chichester.

xxvii. 1.2. John Radcliffe, rector of Bury in 1346. 1.3. Ralph Radcliffe, m. Margery Ince, widow of Sir Henry Trafford, mother of another Sir Henry Trafford, who m. Ralph Radcliffe’s dau., Elizabeth. Their son was Sir Edmund Trafford. Assignment, 1457. By Edmund de Trafford Knt., William Honford son of William Honford, and John Mason parson of the church of Normanton to Thomas Knottesford of all the messuages, lands &c. which they had by the enfeoffment of William de Honford of Chorleghe the elder, John Knottesford of Poulyng County Sussex, Benedict Brown, Thomas Barlowe and Henry Hulme in Twemlowe, Newhall and Knottesford County Chester. To have and hold to said Thomas and his heirs for ever. Witnesses:- Robert Grosvenor, John Leghe of Bothes, Esquires, (and others, named). Sir Edmund married Alice daughter and co-heir of Sir William Venables of Bollin, and thus acquired a considerable estate in Cheshire. The Thomas Barlow of this deed was the son of Thomas Barlow, as directly follows. 1.3.1. John Radcliffe of Chaderton. The manor of Chaderton passed with Margaret, daughter of William, and eventually sole heiress of her brothers Richard and Geoffrey de Chaderton, to John Radcliffe of Chaderton, jure uxoris. He witnessed deeds of the Barlow family of Chorlton-cum-Hardy, having married (2) a sister of Robert and Thomas Barlow of that place. 1.1.2. Thomas Radcliffe. Joan widow of Thomas Radcliffe of Winmarleigh occurs in 1410 and 1417; Final Conc, iii, 69, 85. 1.1.2.1. Richard Radcliffe, b. 1379, Wymersley, Lancashire, obit. 1442. His grandson, Thomas Radcliffe of Wymersley, m. Ellena Balderstone, sister of William Balderstone, 1443-1462, as inq. p.m. The Balderstones were intermarried with the Talbots. Richard Radcliffe was the father of his namesake, as follows, and Thomas Radcliffe, father of Thomas, beforementioned, and Joan Radcliffe, who m. Richard Sherburne, of Stonyhurst; Lancs. Inq. p.m. (Chet. Soc), ii. Richard Sherburne’s sister, Isabel, m. John Townley, Henry Rishton’s br.-in-law. Quitclaim, Jan. 14, 1432: (1) John de Pilkington, kt. (2) Richard de Barton of Middleton. Of any ny right in the messuages and lands in Meadowcroft in the Tenure of John del Strete in the vill of Midelton. Witnesses: Richard de Radcliffe, James de Radcliffe, Robert De Langley. 1.1.2.1.1. Margaret Radciffe, m. Sir Ralph Langford b, Oct. 27, 1400, Calwich. Staffs, obit. Feb. 26, 1432. 1.1.2.1.1.1. Anne Langford, m. John Barlow esq. She was the grandau. of Richard Radcliffe, whose br., John, was the great-grandfather of Robert Radcliffe, earl of Sussex, whose widow m. Henry Fitzalan, who held Almodington in Sussex, whose tenants were the Tylls; one of whom m. William Rishton. 1.1.2.1.1.1.1. John Barlow esq. 1.1.2.1.1.1.1. Thomas Barlow. Lease of mills at Overton, co. Hants. Grant: From Richard Foxe, Bishop of Winchester, to Thomas Barlowe of Overton, husb., to hold for 10 yrs., 1515.

xxviii. 1.1.3. James Radcliffe. 1.1.3.1. John Radclyffe, yr. s. of James Radcliffe of Radcliffe, Lancs. and bro. of Richard m. (1) in 1405, Cecily (d. 1423), da. and coh. of Sir Thomas Mortimer (d. bef. 1387), of Newnham, Cambs. and Attleborough, by Mary, da. of Nicholas Park, wid. of Sir John Herling (d. bef. 1403), 1s.; (2) bef. June 1426, Katherine (c.1407-13 Oct. 1452), da. and coh. of Sir Edward Burnell (o.s. of Hugh, Lord Burnell) of Thurning and Billingford, Norf., 1s. Kntd. Aug. 1415; KG 22 Apr. 1429. Radcliffe died on 26 Feb. or 4 Mar. 1441 and was buried in the choir of Attleborough church. Most of his first wife’s estates then passed to her grand daughter Anne, the only child of Sir Robert Herling and already wife of Sir William Chamberlain. His own heir was the son of his second marriage, John (c.1430-1461), who adopted the title of Lord Fitzwalter in right of his wife, but never received a summons to Parliament. From him were descended the Lords Fitzwalter and earls of Sussex. Our MP’s widow married John Ferrers, and survived until 1452 (Hist. Parl. Trust). 1.1.3.1.1. John Radcliffe, married Elizabeth FitzWalter, Baroness FitzWalter, daughter of Walter FitzWalter, 7th Lord FitzWalter and Elizabeth Chidiok, on 27 October 1444. He died on 28 March 1461 at Ferrybridge, killed in action fighting for the Yorkists. He lived at Attleborough, Norfolk. 1.1.3.1.1.1. John Radcliffe, 9th Lord FitzWalter. 1.1.3.1.1.1.1. Robert Radcliffe, 1st Earl of Sussex, b. 1483, d. 27 Nov 1542. Inherited Peasfurlong. A salient point is that Robert Radcliffe, 1st Earl of Sussex, was heir to a line of Radcliffe cousins which he would have assumed responsibility for; this responsibility ‘legitimising’ his inheritance.

BARLOW

xxix. The Sherburne family had owned land in Stonyhurst in Lancashire since at least 1246, when Robert de Sherburne is recorded as living there. Richard de Sherburne (1381-1441), that is, Richard de Bayley of Stonyhurst, son of his namesake, who m. a descendant of Robert de Sherburne; this Richard m. Agnes Stanley, dau. of William Stanley of Hooton, sat in the 1420s parliaments of Henry V. Their only son, Richard Sherburne, who m. Alice Hammerton, dau. of Lawrence Hammerton of Wicklesworth, predeceased his father, but left a son, Robert de Sherburne (1431-1492), who m. Joan Radcliffe (dau. of Sir Thomas Radclffe of Winnersley, Lancs).* Their eldest son, Richard Sherburne ( b. circ. 1455, obit. 1513) built the choir at Mitton church (he m. Joanna Langton, dau. of Henry Langton of Walton) and their son, Hugh Sherburne (obit. 1528; the first to drop the prefix of the surname), made additions to the fourteenth century mansion at Stonyhouse and built the chantry of the church. He m. Anne Talbot dau. of Thomas Talbot of Bashall in 1511. Their eldest son, Thomas (c. 1505-1536), was high sheriff of Lancashire and m. Joan Townley (see Sherborn, A history of the family of Sherborn, pp.1-28). *

xxx. 1. John Townley, 1349-1419. 1.1. Richard Townley. 1.1.1. John Townley, m. Isabel Sherburne, dau. of Richard Sherburne of Stonyhurst and Matilda Hamerton, on April 16, 1445. Isabel was born in 1424 in Stonyhurst. Thus, John Townley and Henry Rishton were brothers-in-law. 1.1.1.1. Richard Townley (first-cousin of Nicholas Rishton, b. post 1454, obit. May 3, 1508, who m. Margaret, dau. of John Radcliffe) m. (Sept. 21, 1472) Joanna Southworth, dau. of Richard Southworth. 1.1.1.1.1. John Towneley. 1.1.1.1.1.1. Nicholas Townley, m. Lettice Talbot, dau. of William Talbot. John son of Edmund Talbot sold his right to Gilbert de la Legh. Gilbert’s son John m. one of the co-heirs of Towneley, and had two sons Gilbert (without issue) and Richard. The latter and his issue succeeded to the whole inheritance of Hapton and Towneley, and having adopted Towneley as his surname, the story of his family is more properly related under that manor (‘Townships: Hapton’, A History of the County of Lancaster: vol. 6 (1911), pp. 507-5120. There were disputes as to the estate between William Talbot and Alice his wife on the one side and Nicholas son of Thomas Legh on the other, and in 1464 they were settled by arbitration, the whole inheritance of Isabel formerly wife of John Legh being assigned to Alice (Raines D. – Chet. Lib.). There was a recovery of the manor in 1482 against William and Alice Talbot (Final Conc. iii, 139). In Sept. 1484, the capital messuage called the Hall of Shuttleworth, a close called Birtwisle, and other lands, &c., were settled on Alice wife of William Talbot, with remainders to Lettice wife of Nicholas Townley, and in default to Isabel wife of Robert Shakerley, Lettice and Isabel being the daus. and co-heirs of Alice (Towneley MS. GG, no. 3126; C 8, 13, L 182; ‘Townships: Hapton’, A History of the County of Lancaster: Volume 6 (1911), pp. 507-512).

xxxi. 1.2. … Townley, m. Richard Barlow, esq., son of Robert Barlow of Chorlton-cum-Hardy, whose elder son, Thomas, by a certificate from Lichfield, bearing date 1397, was sole and exclusive lord of Barlow, and that his father’s name was Robert de Barlow*; that the said Thomas had two sons, of whom the elder was named Roger and the younger Thomas; that the said Roger became in turn sole lord of Barlow after the decease of his father; and that he had a son by name Roger, who succeeded his father as lord of Barlow.* Richard and Thomas Barlow were cousins of John Barlow: In the 14 Richard II. (1390) Robert Collayn gave to John, son of Roger de Barlow, for the term of his life all his messuages, lands, &c., in Barlow. This deed is witnessed by John de Radeliffe de Chaderton. The nephew of the Townley heiress who m. Richard Barlow being John Townley, br.-in-law of Henry Rishton; her great-nephew being Nicholas Rishton, who m. Margaret Radcliffe. *Probably grandson of this Robert de Barlow: Quitclaim, c. 1290: (1) Henry, son of (2) Hugh de Gooden. Premises: All (1)’s right to land in Meadowcroft on Haystishil, which he had by feoffment and charter from (2), his lord. Witnesses: Lord John le Buron, Lord Geoffrey de Bracebrike, Geoffrey de Chadderton, William de Hopwood, Robert de Barlowe, Robert Wutonin. The property afterwards passed to John, son of Roger de Barlow, and subsequently to John the younger. In 1466, Nicholas Barlow conveyed to his son Alexander all his lands, &c., in Withington and elsewhere in Lancashire, formerly belonging to John de Barlow, father of the aforesaid Nicholas, Alexander Barlow was succeeded by his son Roger, who lived in the reign of Henry VI1. He m. a dau. of Ellis Prestwich, Esq., of Hulme, and dying, seized the Barlow estate, transmitted it to his son, Ellis Barlow, so named after his maternal grandfather. Ellis Barlow m. Anne, dau. of Otes Reddish, Esq., of Reddish, and had issue a son, Alexander, his successor, and a dau., Margaret, wife of Edward Stanley, third Earl of Derby. Bond, Feb. 22, 1503: Alexander Barlow, gentleman, Roger Barlowe, his son and heir, Ralph Prestwich, son of Elias Prestwich, esq., and Richard Scotte, to Oto Redych, esq., for the performance of covenants. Bond, Aug. 22, 1525: Katherine Barlow, widow, to John Rediche of Rediche, co. Lanc., esq., to keep an award of Alexander Radcliff, Edmund Trafford, Richard Sneyde and Robert Challoner respecting her claims of dowry after the death of Roger Barlow, her late husband. Of this Barlow family: Lease, April 20, 1576: For 3 lives, by Edmunde Trafford of Trafford (Co. Lanc.), Esq., to John Barlow of Helesbie, husbandman — his messuage or tenement and all houses, barns, stables, lands etc: pertaining in Helesbye now/late in the holding of the said John Barlow; for lives of the said John Barlow, Margaret his wife and Randall Barlow their eldest son, at annual rent of 17/-. Cons. £18. This Edmund Trafford was a close friend of Lawrence Ardren, likewise friend of Thomas Carpenter, whose family were probably intermarried with that of Parker, as beforementioned.

xxxii. Thomas de Barlow Jr. , as shown, was enfeoffed in Cheshire by Sir Edmund de Trafford. He is also mentioned in an earlier enfeoffment in that county: Grant, 1433: By John de Knottesford to William de Honford of Chorlegh the elder, County Chester, John de Knottesford of Poulyng County Sussex, Benedict Brown of Bowdon County Derby, Thomas de Barlowe of Barlowe County Lancaster and Henry de Hulme of Dirram, of all messuages lands &c which I have in the townships of Twemlowe & le Newhall juxta Shibbroke with the reversion of all lands and tenements which Avilla late the wife of Hugh de Knottesford held for the term of her life in Knottesford. Witnesses:- Robert le Grosvenor, John de Davenport of Davenport (& others). His son was James Barlow: Quitclaim, May 10, 1487. Ranulph Davenport, Parson of the Church of Wilmslow, Halfrid Davy, Parson of the Church of Swettenham, Thomas Fiton of Carthyn, Richard Newton of Newton next Mottram [St.] Andrew (all Cheshire), and his sons Humfrid and Robert, feoffees of Laurence Lowe; quitclaim George Lowe, Thomas Lowe, Olyver Blakwall, Rector of the Church of Barton-in-the-Beans (Leics.), Nicholas Blakwall, Vicar of the Church of Beeston (Beston), Richard Newton of Newton next Widford (Ches.), Otiwelle Lowe, William Oldom, Thomas Townesend and Thomas Adenbro’, of all the right and title to lands and tenements lately had of the gift of the said Lawrence, in Ashbourne, Compton, Clifton, Bradley, Fenton and Sturston, (Derbys.). Richard Newton, 1441-1497, was collector of subsidies for Macclesfield, along with Hugh Davenport of Henbury; his son was Humphrey Newton, b. Oct, 4, 1466, a sister of whom m. James Barlow, c. 1485 (Bodl. MS Lat. Misc. 66, fol. 27av). The sister’s name being Margery, Elizabeth, or Joan (BL, Harley MS 1535, fol. 223r). James Barlow thus acquired land in Mottram St. Andrew as his wife’s dower. He later acquired land in Acton, Timperley, Baguley, Northenden, and Kenworthy (Irvine (ed.) A Collection of Lancashire and Cheshire Wills, p. 61; Tatton MS 96, 98, 1185. Timperley, 1510: Release and quitclaim by John Ardron of Timperley and Hamon Ardron, his son, to James Barlow of Northenden and Roger Rile of Sharston. Humphrey Newton postulated that an ancestor might have married a Davenport heiress. His grandfather, Oliver, 1395-1452, had married Jane Lowe, obit 1498, heiress of the Lowe family of Denby, Derbys. If the Sussex Visitation record is correct, then a younger son of James Barlow was Henry Barlow; older sons would appear to have been Thomas Barlow and Edmund Barlow: Northenden, 1539: A testimonial of Thomas Barlow of Siddisbury, Laurence Hardey of Baguley and Richard Kempe of Northenden concerning a piece of land known as the Swallow howle. Didsbury, 1539: Power of attorney of Robert Tatton of Withenshaw, gent., for Richard Legh of Baguley, Esq., and Hugh Haryson of Northenden, chaplain, to receive possession from Edmund Barlow and John Janny. According to the Visitations, Henry Barlow was the father of another Henry Barlow, herein mentioned: Indenture, May 19, 1545: Parties: 1. Roger Downes of Shrigley com. Cestr. Esq. 2. Master Geoffrey Downes, DD, chancellor of the Cathedral of York; John Arderen of Harden com. Cestr. Esq, Lawrence Downes of Ryddyngker Gent, Christopher Downes clerk in Com. Cantibrigie, Richard Downes Gent. Witnesses: John Davenport of Henburie Esq. … Feoffment de capitalibus dominis with Warranty contra omnes gentes … witnesses Hugh Byron, Lawrence Holey, Thomas Davenport, Henry Barlow. Deed (with attached Letter of Attorney, October 20, 1548),18 March 1552 … Warrant for Entry and Possession to effect livery of seisin in a water mill called Potshriley Mylne lately had from Thomas Denton Esq by Edmund Sutton and to be conveyed to Roger Downes of Shrigley or his attorney. Endorsed; certificate of livery of seisin to Roger Downes February 27, 1549 witnesses – Lawrence Downes of Ryddyngker Gent, Richard T…. wynd chaplain, Ralph Ranshaw chaplain, Robert Smale of Pott Shrygley, Nicholas Andrew, miller, Richard Jepson, Henry Barlow of Mottram Andrew. Deed, Oct. 4, 1550. Parties: 1. John Davenport of Henbury co Cestrie Esq, and Thomas Stapleton. 2. Roger Downes Esq. Release of an estate created by Fine levied by the sd Roger Downes to the sd John Davenport and Thomas Stapleton in the County Court of Chester … witnesses – Richard Thrylwynd, Ralph Renshaw of Pott chaplain, John Blacshaw, Hugh Wodd, Henry Barlow. Indenture, March 30, 1551. Parties: 1. Roger Downes of Potshrigley co. Cestr’ Esq, Robert Downes his son and heir. 2. William Davenport Kt, John Ardron Esq., John Ward of Capestorne Gent, and John Davenport Gent. Signed and sealed; Wyllyam Davenporte K. John Davenport and two crosses.Witnesses of sealing and delivery (endorsed). Sir Richard Thrilwynd and Sir Rauf Renshaw chaplains, Humphrey Blacshaw, John Blacshaw, Henry Barlow. In that there is no record of an earlier Henry Barlow, it may be suspected that the latter’s father was the beforementioned Thomas or Edmund. His son was Ralph Barlow,* father of Edward Barlow, who m. Joan Rishton. Ralph ‘Mr. Barlow’ ….. In a State paper, dated November 4, 1585, occurs the following: ‘Note of certain words uttered by one Mr. Barlowe, of Chichester, to Roger Androwe, at Racton, in Sussex, making a jest of Her Majesty’s commission for impressing carts and timber for the works at Portsmouth’; and a statement is added, that Mr. Gounter had illegally tried to cause Androwe to take up the timber elsewhere. The Gunter family were almost certainly kin of the Parker family of Odiham. To repeat – North Chapell: Quitclaim, Oct. 28, 1419. By John, son of Thomas Parker to his father Thomas of all right in land in Petworthe and Ludgareshale which John recently acquired from Edith Breyche, and which formerly belonged to Roger Webbe of Fynyng. Witnesses: Roger Gunter, John Turgys, William Apsley. *According to the Harleian MSS. an inquisition was taken in 1559 in regard to the extent of the Borough of East Grinstead … it was a Liberty of itself, without any intermeddling of ye hundred, or vice versa ; is within ye parish of East Grinstead, within ye Dutchy of Lancaster and ye liberty of ye same. This boro’… boundeth to ye lands of John Duffield, called Browning’s Cross, and to ye glebe land of ye Parsonage of north part ; to Love Lane of ye east part ; to ye lands of John Duffield the elder, and lands late John Leedes of ye south; of ye Queen’s highway leading from said boro’ …… and it is to be remembered that there is on ye common or heath one little piece of ground called the Windmill Place, wch Henry Duffield purchased to him and his heirs of King Henry VII., with one tenement and a piece of ground lying west of ye said common and called Ye New House, wch Edw. Duffield now hath and holdeth. The Duffields were long resident in East Grinstead and one of them named Thomas, a yeoman, became M.P. in 1554; his Will (1579) was witnessed by John Duffield, the ironmaster, probably his brother. The steward of the duchys lands in Sussex was the 19th Earl Arundel, lord of Almodington. (I will not labour the Rishton connection). Ralph Barlow’s wife, Juliana Duffield, was almost certainly of this family of Duffield. June 4, 1577: ‘Randall Barlow’ married ‘Julia Duffel’ in Edburton, Sussex, near Earnley. On October 3, 1596, Matthew Vaux of London, gent. married Juliana Barlow of Chichester, widow. He was very likely of the Vaux family described herein.

xxxiii. 1.2.1. John Barlow, esq. m. Marianne, dau. of Thomas Sherburne, who may have been a br. of Richard Sherburne alias Bayley. 1.2.1.1. John Barlow esq. , m. Anne, dau. of Sir Ralph Langford b, Oct. 27, 1400, Calwich. Staffs, obit 26 Feb, 1432. and Margaret Radcliffe, dau. of Sir Richard Radcliffe of Wymersley, Lancs, obit. Sept 4, 1431. He was the son of Richard Radcliffe, beforementioned, obit. 1442. 1.2.1.2. John Barlow esq. 1.2.1.2.1. Thomas Barlow. Lease of mills at Overton, co. Hants., 1515. From Richard Foxe, Bishop of Winchester, to Thomas Barlowe of Overton, husb., to hold for 10 yrs (Somerset Archive and Record Service). The manor of Overton belonged to the bishopric of Winchester from an early date, and was confirmed to Frithstan, Bishop of Winchester, by King Edward the Elder in 909. The Domesday Survey states that ‘the bishop himself holds Overton in demesne; it always belonged to the bishopric,’ assessing it at 41 hides with a rateable value of £50. The Bishops of Winchester continued to hold the manor among the other possessions of the see until 1649. Four mills of the annual value of £3 2s. 6d. belonged to the manor of Overton at the time of the Domesday Survey. In 1446 the mills of the vill and La Lynch with a fishery were let to Walter Milleward and William Egerton for a rent of £9 6s. 8d. There was also an empty plot called New Mill, but the mill itself had not yet been built. This had been done at the beginning of the 16th century, the fulling mill called New Mill with a fishery being let at 8s. a year. By the reign of Henry VIII £10 a year was paid for the farm of three mills, of which two were under one roof called Lynch Mills, £1 for the New Mill, while the fishery was let separately for 6s. 8d. a year and the payment of a dish of fishes, value 8d., to the bishop’s officer at every tourn held at Overton. The manor of Polhampton in Overton: In 1553 William Somer died seised of a portion of the manor, leaving as his heirs Alice wife of Anthony More … see para iv.

xxxiv. 1.2.1.2.2. William Barlow, Bishop of Chichester. 1.2.1..2.2.1. William Barlow. Depositum Gulielmi Barlowe, Arcdiaconi Sarisburiensis, Prebendarii Ecclesia’ Cath. Winton. & Rectoris Ecclesise Easton; qui cum sedulam per ann. 52 fediticationi corporis Christi navasset operum, ad iucliorein vitam migravit, Muii 25, anno doinini 1025. — Biographical Dictionary. 1.2.1.2.2.2. Elizabeth Barlow, m. William Day, Bishop of Winchester. What is known of Barlow, before his promotion to a Bishopric, is briefly this — that he was born in 1499 (being 60 years old in 1559 – Tab. of Consecr. in De Antiq. Br. Eccl. William Barlow, supposed by Tanner, Newcourt, and others, to be the same with the Bp. of St. David’s, was Prior of the Aug. Canons at Blackmore, Essex, May 25, 1509 – Reg. Fitzjames ap. Dugd., p. 552 — at Tiptree in the same county from July 18, 1509, until 1515 – Reg. Tunstall ap. Dugd. ibid. p. 554, Tanner, and Wood,— at Lighes or Lees Parva in same county from July 18, 1515 until his resign. Sept. 14, 1524 — Reg. Tunst. ap. Dugd. ibid. p. 552, Newcourt, ii. 386, and Wood,— at Bromehill or Bromewell, in Norfolk, and Rector of Cressingham in the same county, in 1525 and 1527, the Convent being suppressed for Wolsey’s Coll. at Ipswich, May 14, 1528 – Dugd. ibid. p. 569, naming him ‘Barlow alias Finch’, and Tanner. The dates seem to prove these entries to relate to one person; and the earliest date compared with Bishop Barlow’s age, and history as above given, that he is not that person. Bishop Barlow had no ties to Essex or Oxford. His wife, Agatha Wellesbourne, died in 1595. There is a memorial to her in Easton Church, Hampshire.

CAPTAIN WILLIAM PARKER

xxxv. Captain William Parker was of the Parker family of Odiham, Southampton. They came to hold land of the Petworth estate (probably by intermarriage with such families as the Gunters and Apsleys – established tennants there), owned by the Percy family. It was the marriage of their overlords with the FitAlans that shaped future alliances. Henry FitzAlan, the owner of Almodington, where the Rishtons were tennants, was the only son of William FitzAlan, earl of Arundel, by his second wife, Lady Anne Percy, dau. of Henry Percy, fourth earl of Northumberland. The said Henry FitzAlan’s second wife was the relict of Robert Radcliffe, 1st. Earl Sussex, hence the patronage of the Rishton family, as explained. The lady in question was Mary, the dau. of John Arundel of Lanherne and Catherine, dau. of Sir Thomas Granville, whose sisters were Philippa, m. to Francis Harris of Hayne, and Mary, who m. (2) Thomas St. Aubyn. The salient point is that the Parkers were acquainted with a lordship grouping of prominent families of Devon and Cornwall, which included that of the Kempes of Lavethan, who intermarried with the Pomeroys.

xxxvi. 1. Sir Thomas Browne of Beechworth Castle, Sheriff of Kent (fl. 1450), m. Eleanor FitzAlan , dau. of Sir Thomas FitzAlan of Beechwood. 1.1. Sir Robert Browne (it is alleged) m. Mary Mallet, dau. of Sir William Mallet. However, this open to some doubt as Robert Browne left a Will dated December 9, 1509 in which he names his wife, Anne, and dau., Eleanor, and requests burial in Faversham Abbey, Kent, ‘before the rood of pity’; it may be the case that he married twice. 1.1.1. Eleanor Browne, m. Sir William Kempe of Olantye, son of Sir Thomas Kempe of Olantye,* as follows. 1.2. Sir Anthony Browne, Governor of Queenborough Castle, m. Lucy Neville, dau. of Sir John Nevill, Earl of Northumberland. 1.2.1. Sir Anthony Browne, obit.1548, m. (1) Alice Gage, dau of Sir John Gage. 1.2.1.1. Sir Anthony Browne of Battle Abbey and Cowdray Park, Sheriff of Surrey and Sussex, obit. 1592, m. (1) Jane Ratcliffe (obit. 1552, dau of Robert Ratcliffe, 1st Earl of Sussex … William Rishton, m. Emma Tyll, whose family were tenants in Almodington, Sussex, of Henry FitzAlan, 19th Earl of Arundel, whose second wife was Mary, dau. of Sir John Arundell, and widow of Robert Radcliffe, 1st Earl of Sussex. William died April 25, 1583, after which Emma m. Jasper Gunter of Chichester.

xxxvii. 1. Richard Kempe of Lavethan, Cornwall (35 mls. from Plymouth), grandson of Edmund Kempe, citizen of London, third son of *Sir Thomas Kempe of Olanteigh, aforesaid, m. Grace, fifth dau. of John Boscawen, esq. of Tregothnan. 1.1. William Kempe esq., m. (n.b) a dau. of Thomas St. Aubyn, esq. of Clowance,* by Zenobia, his wife, dau. of John Mallet, esq. of Volley, Devon.*Grandson of Thomas St. Aubyn and Mary Granville. 1.1.1. Thomas Kempe esq., m. Catherine, dau. of Laurence Courtenay esq., of Lostwithiel, grandson of Sir Edmund Courtenay of Deviock, fourth son of Sir Philip Courtenay, of Powderham Castle, who m. Elizabeth, dau. of Walter, Lord Hungerford. Catherine, a sister of Laurence Courtenay, m. 2. Sir St. Clare Pomeroy, son of Henry Pomeroy, 1413-1481, who settled the mannor Stockleigh Pomeroy (Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, pp. 595, 696). Sir Henry de la Pomeray, aged 30 and more at his father’s death, and 40 and more at his mother’s death, m. Alice, dau. of John Raleigh of Fardell, Devon, and by her had six children; m. (2) Anna Cammel, dau. of Robert Cammel of Tittleford, Dorset, who died s. p. by him, although she had a dau. Johanna Barrett, by a previous marriage, who m. William Kelloway of Dorset. Children of Sir Henry de la Pomeray and Alice Raleigh: Sir St. Clare, son and heir, d. s. p., John, Agnes, Elizabeth, Sir Richard, second son, and heir to his brother, Sir St. Clare, and Thomas. Sir St. Clare, son and heir, d. v. p. s. p. May 31, 1471. Inquest p. m. 12 Edward IV.; m. Katharine, dau of Sir Philip Courtenay of Powderham; n.b. relict of Thomas Rogers. She afterward m. Sir William Huddesfield, vide Courtenay; obit. Jan. 12, 1515, at Spillingford. Inquest p. m. 7 Henry VIII. George Rogers, her son and heir, aged thirty years and more. The descent noted in these generations is recited in the inquest taken on the death of Katherine Huddesfield, who was widow of Sir St. Clare Pomeroy, 7 Henry VIII. 1.1.1.1. Humphrey Kempe, who m. Anne, only dau. of Thomas Peyton, esq. of St. Edmundsbury, customer of Plymouth, by Cecilia, his wife, dau. of John Bourchier, earl of Bath.; Cecilia’s brother, Henry, m. a dau. of Edward Seymour, Duke of Somerset. 1.1.1.1.1. William Kempe, obit. 1629. 1.1.1.1.1.1. William Kempe. 1.1.1.2. John Kempe, m. Winifred Penkivil, Sept. 29, 1572. Humphrey Kempe had numerous descendants.

Here lyeth the bodye of Humphrey, sonne and Heyre to Thomas Kempe of Lavethan, Esquire, who departed this life the tenth daye of November Anno Domini 1624 and married Jane, the daughter of Thomas Peytonne, Esquire, Customer of Plymouth and Cornwall. No sweeter comfort dothe betide mankinde Then to depart this life with a quiet minde, F’irme confidence, pure conscience unmolested By Guiltiness of sinne or vice detested; Such hap I hope, such Grace had I the rather Because I dyde a husband and a father. Dyde, no vent hence, for they that leave posterite Live in their offspringes, dye not properly’. Will was proved in 1630 (P.C, 61 Pile). It commences with: ‘1 Humphrey Kempe intending God Willing some long Voyage wherefore have thought it expedient to leave for lynds {? lines) to be executed by my mother Mrs. Jane Kempe and Cecilie my sister,’ and proceeds to bequeath £10 in the hands of his brother to the sister Cecilie, and £20 to his sister Grace, £2 each to his brother’s ‘four children’, and the residue of his effects to his mother, with whom, he adds, he was then living. He was probably a sailor. His mother was the dau. of Thomas Peyton, he being son of Christopher Peyton, of Bury St. Edmunds. Frances, sister to Thomas Peyton, m. John Hart, of Highgate, Middlesex, and left a son. Sir Eustace Harte, whose half brother, Henry Harte, is frequently mentioned as a relative connected with the sale of Lavethan.

xxxviii. WILLIAM LOVE, 9 October 1493, of the parish of Goutherst [Goudhurst]. To be buried in the church under the herse (sub hersie) and for my burial 6s. 8d. To the light of the Herse there 12d. To the high cross 4d. To the Light of the Blessed Mary 4d. To painting the new work there 10 marcs. To the Light of St. Christopher 4d. To Dom. Walter Zeynden, priest, to celebrate in the church for the health of my soul and of my parents 10 marcs.To Thomas Leede 6s. 8d. To Thomesin my sister 6s. 8d. To Richard Leede my godson 6s. 8d. To each of the doughters of the said Thomas Leede 6s. 8d. To James Rolf my godson 6s. 8d. To William Paintor my confilio 6s. 8d. To John son of Thomas Roberth my confilio 6s. 8d. To William son of Thomas Love my confilio 3s. 4d. To Eomund son of John Roberth 6s. 8d. To William Jenkyn of Haukeherst 6s. 8d. To his wife 6s. 8d. To his son 6s. 8d. To William Baytop 6s. 8d. To his son my confilio 3s. 4d. To John Fowzenden 6s. 8d. Executrix Elizabeth my wife and Nicholas Smyth and I ordain John Roberth my supervisor. Residue to John my son … My feoffers shall suffer Elizabeth my wif to have the profitts of my messuage that I duell yn forthewith the shop at the churche gate vnto John my son come to the age of 20 yeres. My wife to have the profitt of my messuage called Brewton all the term of her lif. Also my shoppe of mercery she paying £10 to Thomas Astyn of Merden.To the mariage of Elizabeth and Johan my doughters £20, and my wife to have the keping of my children and have 40s. for euery child yerely.To John my son my lands &e not assigned when 20 and at 24 to have a lawfull estate in all my said lands. After decease of my wife 50 marks to a sute (i.e. of vestments) for the churche of Goutherst [Goudhurst] as goodly as can be had by the advise of John Roberth and other my feoffees and 20 marks to a wele disposed prest to syng yn the church of Goutherst [Goudhurst] for my soule my fadre and modre and all my frends soules by the space of two yeres and to be at the divine service songyng and seid in the seid churche. Also I ordeyn 10 marks to the sufficient makyng of the way in the nether strete and that wel doon the residue to be bestowed at barke and beneth Thomas Lovys gate. To my brother Thomas of the sale of my seid lands 20 marks.To Thomas Leede 13s. 4d., to his wife 40s., to Richard his son 10 marks and to euery of his doughters 40s. To the mariage of 10 pouer maydens within the parish of Goutherst [Goudhurst] 6s. 8d. To Thomas Love 40s. To John Love 40s. To Mergary Smeth 40s. and to William Baytop 40s. Residue in deds of charite. A yerely obit for me in the church of Goutherst 20 yeres, bestowing euery yere 3s. 4d. To my seruaunt Alice Spryngat 40s. if she fulfill her covenaunt. To Stephen Page my godson if he dwell with my wif till he be of the age of 18 yeres, 40s. To Harry Lymden and his wife 20s. in forme abouesaid as vnto my other kynnesmen. Proved at Maydeston (Maidstone). December 31, 1493(P.C.C. 18 Vox).

xxxix. Feoffment. July 1, 1484. John Rode of Goudhurst & William Comden of the same to William Love of Goudhurst, & John at Hale of Halden, Thos. Robard of Brenchly, & John at Stone of Goudhurst; Feoffment of land called Homefield aforesd. Grant. Apr. 11, 1493. Alexander Culpeper, esq, to Robert Bysshoppynden of Goudhurst in Kent 6a of wood in a place [lately] called Payselwode on the den of Paysell in Goudhurst (E: highway from Goudhurst to Rysden; S: highway from Goudhurst to Hopemell; W: John Mugge’s land; N: William Love’s land). W: John Haddis, gent, Edward Horden, Richard Basden, John Love, Thomas Love; at Goudhurst. Feoffment. March 20, 1501. Henry atte Welle, Richd. Mugge & Nicholas Smyth, to James Rolf & Thomas Love Senr.; Feoffment of land called Paysell & Hothfield aforesd. Feoffment. March 22, 1501. James Rolf, & Thos. Love Senr., to Nicholas Smyth & John Burgeys; Feoffment of last mentioned lands. Release. August 2, 1510. John Love, Son & heir of Willm. Love of Goudhurst deced.; Release of right in 4 pieces of land on the dens of Paysell & Rysebrigge, called Hothfield, Colbemcroft & Paysell. Sale. June 9, 1512. Thomas Bexisbeche of Goudhurst, to William Roger, William Love & John Love, son of John Love Senr.; Sale of Lands in Goudhurst had from John B. his bror. as by charter of Dec 22 H.7 Feoffment. May 2, 1514. William Mugge of Horsemonden to Thomas Love, Alexr. Sabbe, John Love, son of Thomas Love & John Wylmyshurst, Son of Thomas Wylmyshurst, of Goudhurst; Feoffment of a piece of land called Tropendenfield in Goudhurst Grant. Feb. 1, 1534. By Robert Mede of Battle, yoman, to John Love senr., by way of Mortgage, – for £25 – of a messuage with garden adjoining, in which the said John (sic) was dwelling, situate in Battle in the Middle Borough there to the messuage and lands of William Dowell and Margaret his wife, late of William Parker, S., to the messuage and lands of the said Robert in which he was dwelling, N. and extending from the king’s street there, W. as far as the Little Park of the lord abbot there … Witnesses to deed and livery of seisin – Henry Bennet, Christopher Pye, John Wyllyamson, John Parys. (See Parker ped. no. 9 – William Parker. Quit-claim, Mar. 30, 1509. By Joan Tovy, widow, late the wife of John Tovy of Battle, dau. and heir of Agnes, dau. and heir of Thomas Hokestepe, sometime of Battle, to Edmond Gunter, gent., Nicholas Morant and Henry Mylle of and in a messuage with garden adjoining in Battle in the Middle Borough between the tenement of William Parker, E. and the tenement of the said Henry Mylle….. the high street there). Release. July 7, 1571. James Love of Brenchley, Clothier, to John Horsemanden of Goudhurst, Scythesmith; Release of right in the said last mentioned lands.Release. Oct. 19, 1572. Thomas Love, son of John Love of Goudhurst, deced., to John Horsemanden of Goudhurst; Release of right in two pieces of land called Tromborne & Homefield in Goudhurst. Release. Jan. 19, 1573. Agnes Love, widow of James Love of Brenchley deced. to John Love of Winchelsey, Co. Sussex, Merchant; Release of right in two pieces of land, called Paysell & Hothefield. Release. Apr. 1, 1610. Nicholas St. John, Gent., Son of Oliver St. John Esq., & Margaret his wife, da. of John Love of Winchelsey, Co. Sussex, Merchant deced., to Thomas Risbye of Brenchley, Scythesmith; Release of right in lands in Goudhurst. Settlement, c 1615. By Richd. Besbeech concerning the descent of the lands last mentioned.

xxxx. Chamberlain calls him ‘Oliver St. John of Wiltshire’. He was therefore in all probability of the Lydiard stock, and, on turning to the pedigree of that branch of St. John, recorded in the Heralds’ College, we find that John St.John of Lydiard had two sons, John, the grandfather of Oliver who became Lord Grandison, and Oliver, who had a son of his own name, described as ‘son and heir’. The elder Oliver is stated by Edmonson, iv. 328, to have married Margaret, dau. and coheir of Love, of Winchelsea, and to have had three sons: Oliver, Nicholas, and John. This statement is confirmed by the following document among the title-deeds of an estate called Troppinden, in Sussex. ‘Sir Edward Randy and Dame Anne his wife, by Ind’re 10 May, 6 Jas. did sell unto Thomas Risly of Brenchley the moiety of all these lands and tenements. The preamble of the said Indenture is as follows: Between Sir Edward Randill, of Albury, co. Surry, Knt. and dame Anne his wife, sole dau’r and heir of Anne Morgan, decd, late wife of Sir John Morgan, Knt. and one of the dau’s and heirs of John Love, late of Winchelsey, co. Sussex, Gent. Olyver St. John, Esq. by Ind’re same date, did sell the other moiety to said Thomas Risley. The preamble of the said Indenture is as follows: Nicholas St.John, Gent, one of the sons of Olyver St.John, Esq. and of Margaret his wife, one of the dau’rs of John Love, decd, late of Winchelsey, Merchant.Thomas Risly, by Will, Feb. 6, 1612, gives all sd lands to Symon Bynyor, who sold the same to Stephen Ballard and Richard Besbeech, the latter’s son being a partner of John Harris, who was almost certainly closely related to Thomas Harris, who died in Virginia in 1688.

xxxxi. 1. Henry Morgan of Pencoid (Pencoyd), Monmouthshire m. Katherine Gunter, obit. 1526, dau/heir of John Gunter of Chilworth, Surrey, by his wife Elizabeth, the dau. and heiress of William Attworth. In 1511, Racton is referred to as a manor at the death of John Gunter of Chilworth, Surrey, held of Thomas, Earl of Arundel; n.b Henry FitzAlan’s grandfather. The Racton family and the Chilworth one were from the same root. She m. 2. Sir Edmund Walsingham, by whom he had four sons and four daughters, including his heir, Sir Thomas Walsingham (d. 15 January 1584), father of Christopher Marlowe’s patron, Sir Thomas Walsingham; a dau., Mary, who m. Sir Thomas Barnardison, and a dau., Alice, who m. Sir Thomas Saunders (obit.1565), third but eldest surviving son of Nicholas Saunders of Charlwood, Surrey, by Alice Hungate. Edmund Walsingham m., secondly, Anne Jerningham, the dau. of Sir Edward Jerningham of Somerleyton, Suffolk, by his first wife, Margaret Bedingfield.

xxxxii. See Parker ped. nos. 6 $ 7 – Petworth Estate Deeds, Lodesworthe, March 26, 1412: Grant by Richard Ryndhurst and Margery his wife to Nicholas Faryndone, John atte Felde and William Chyngeford, their heirs and assigns, of all land called Snapelond in Sulham parish. Witnesses: William Taillard, John Strode, William Apsley, Thomas Parker, Robert Rammesfold. Lodesworth, Dec. 20, 1413. Grant by Thomas Porter and Juliana his wife to William atte Felde, Robert Suge, Robert Howyk and William Porter, their heirs and assigns, of all land called Snapelond in Sulham parish. Witnesses: William Taylard, Roger Gunter, John Strode, Robert Rodom, Thomas Porter. North Chapell, Oct. 28, 1419: Quitclaim by John, son of Thomas Parker to his father Thomas of all right in land in Petworthe and Ludgareshale which John recently acquired from Edith Breyche, and which formerly belonged to Roger Webbe of Fynyng Witnesses: Roger Gunter, John Turgys, William Apsle, Thomas Lucas, John atte Grene. 8. Thomas Parker. Grant, June 18, 1477. ‘By (a) Robert Whyte, citizen of Chichester, to (b) Mr. John Waynflete, Dean, and the Chapter of Chichester … Witnesses: Robert More, mayor of Chichester, Thomas Cresweller, Thomas Parker. As suggested, there is a strong possibility that the families of Parker and Gunter were intermarried; it may also be of interest that: 1.Thomas Bowyer, of Knypersley, co. Stafford, came into Sussex, temp. Hen. IV. 1410. 1.1. Richard Bowyer, m. Jane, d. of Roger Gunter of Petworth. The family of Gunter held in Racton by 1327, when Roger Gunter contributed to the subsidy there; in 1428 Roger Gunter was a landowner there. At his death in 1437 he held (a) land in Racton in chief of the king by service of two white capons ‘when the king shall come into the district’ (‘Racton’, A History of the County of Sussex: Volume 4: The Rape of Chichester (1953), pp. 113-118). 1.1. Richard Morgan of Chelworth, Surrey m. Jone Wintersull, dau of Robert Wintersull of Wintersull. 1.1.1. William Morgan of Chelworth m 2. Elizabeth Thatcher (dau of John Thatcher of Priesthawes). 1.1.1.1. Sir John Morgan of Chelworth, obit. 1621, m. Anne Love, dau/coheir of John Love of Winchelsey. The Love family’s connection to the Thatchers is something held in common with the Sussex ancestors of Thomas Harris, who died in Virginia, 1688.

xxxxiii. William Parker, obit 1617, captain and Privateer, and also mayor of Plymouth. Captain Parker was of the same ‘circle’ as the family of Love, beforementioned; these families having both intermarried with the Gunters. March 25, 1612. Lease for 99 years. 1 William Parker of Plymouth, gent. 2 Thomas Love of Plymouth, merchant. Messuage in the Borough of Plymouth. Rent: 10s pa.

xxxxiv. Captain Parker’s grandson, Captain Nicholas Parker, m. (Sept. 8, 1657), Sarah Kempe, dau. of David Kempe and Alice Evans of St. Katherine by the Tower, London. They married in the London parish where either David Kempe or the Evans family conducted business. Pedigree showing descendants of Nicholas Hele of South Hele, Devon, 3rd son of William Hele of Hale in Copney Wood, Devon, down to Warwick Hele Tonkin, descended from Agnes wife of Richard Evans of Plymouth, married in 1638. Agnes was sister to Joan wife of Nicholas Bennett; both were daus. of William Hele (youngest son of Nicholas Hele by his second wife Margery Dunne) and Anne his wife, the dau. of Stephen Treville of Rame (Plymouth and West Devon Record Office, 369/1). Richard Evans was a prosperous merchant. Nicholas Hele of South-Hele, third son of William Hele of South-Hele, m., first a dau. of Walter Woodley of Tedburn St. Mary, and had issue William, John, and Joan m. to John Cholwich, of Rowden in Revelstock, and after to John Browning: secondly he m. Margery, dau. of Richard Dunne of Holsworthy, and had issue Thomas, Hugh, Walter, John, William, Thomasin, m. to John Luxton, and Elizabeth unmarried. Sir John Hele, of Wembury, knight, sergeant-at-law, fourth son of Nicholas by his second wife, m. Mary, dau. and coheir of Ellis Warwick of Batsborough, the other was m. to Chubb of Holbeton, and had issue Sir Warwick, John sans issue, Sir Francis, Nicholas, Walter, George, Ellis, Benjamin, Thomas sans issue, and Philippa m. to Sir Reginald Mohun, of Hall in Cornwall. Sir Warwick Hele, of Wembury, sheriff of Devon 1618 and 1619, m. Mary, dau. of Halse of Efford, the relict of William Hawkins, of Plymouth, esq., Mayor of Plymouth; secondly he m. Margaret, dau. of Sir William Courtenay,* of Powderham, sheriff of Devon (by Elizabeth Manners; he m.(2) the relict of Sir Francis Drake), and died sans issue January 16th, 1625. Sir Francis Hele, m. Jane, dau. of Rogers, of Canington in Somerset, esq., and had issue John and one dau., and died 1622. *He was the son of his namesake and Elizabeth Paulet, dau. of John Paulet, 2nd Marq. Winchester, son of another namesake, br. of Edmund Courtenay of Deviock, beforementioned; hence the link to the Kempes and Pomeroys.

xxxxv. The Love or Lovys family associated with land in Sussex that had been held by William Parker was almost certainly of Arlington in Devon, the old Raleigh manor. It can be noticed that william Love’s Will mentions ‘William Paintor’; a family of that name also being associated with Arlington. Most significantly, the link between Arlington and the Courtenays is clearly established. Arlington: Sept. 2, 1495. Feoffment and Grant of advowson. John Sapcote, Amias Paulet, knights, Robert Cary, John More, John Speccote, Fulk Prydeaux, Arthur Cokworthy, Lewis Pollard’, and John Pearde – to Richard Chechester, esq., and Elizabeth, his wife Manors of Alryngton’, and of Rokysford,with all their appurtenances, and also the advowson of the church of St. Peter of Alryngton. Witnesses: Richard Pollard, John Ackeland, and William Lovys, with many others. … Arlington. July 6, 1497. Lease. Richard Chechester, esq., and Elizabeth, his wife – to Nicholas Paynter, and Agnes, his wife. Lands and tenements in the manor of Alryngton. Rent 13s 4d. Witnesses: John Bury, of Alryngton, Richard Cutcliff, of Northcote, Thomas Cornewall. Sir John Chichester (obit. 1537) of Raleigh, the son and heir of Nicholas Chichester (d.pre-1496) and heir to his grandfather, m. firstly in about 1490, Margaret Beaumont (obit.1507), dau. and co-heiress of Hugh Beaumont of Shirwell by his wife Thomasine Wise, and the heir to Raleigh and the other principal family estates was Sir John Chichester (obit. 1569), (grandson), son of Edward Chichester, obit.1522, second and eldest surviving son of Sir John Chichester, obit. 1537. Sir John Chichester (obit. 1537) m. secondly to Joan Brett, sister of Robert Brett (obit.1540), lord of the manor of Pilland in the parish of Pilton, and the last steward of Pilton Priory before its dissolution and widow of John Courtenay (obit.1510) of Molland; she survived her husband and remarried Henry Fortescue. His will was witnessed by his brother-in-law Robert Brett. Sir Philip Courtenay who Elizabeth Hungerford,beforementioned, had issue Sir Philip I Courtenay, obit. 1489, of Molland, MP, Sheriff of Devon in 1470,father of John Courtenay (obit.1510) of Molland, beforementioned. Anne Courtenay, who m. Sir Thomas Grenville. Katherine Courtenay (obit. January 12, 1515), who married thrice: firstly St. Clare Pomeroy. … February 7, 1307. Pallyngeston, Thursday after S. Lawrence, 1 Edward II. Grant with warranty. Peter, Abbot of Bucfestr’ and Convent to Thomas Lov’ Land and appurtenances at Esse (Aish) which Richard le Schynn’ once held and 2 acres of demesne of Esse above the grange of Esse between the rocks by the way from Esse to Bolahorneston to hold to Thomas and his heirs by hereditary right for ever.Rent 3s. payable at 3 principal terms for all services except annual suit of court of Brent and (suit of) mill and 3 free boon works at at Esse, i.e. 3 reapings, Thomas to have common pasture in more and other easements as other free men of manor, 4s. for relief and for best beast of dead man. Witnesses, Henry de Noreys, William de Oulecombe, Henry son of Stephen, John de Marigg’, William de Corndon. 14th cent. Grant in tail with warranty. William, Abbot of Bucfestr’ and Convent to Richard Lov’ (A William Giffard was confirmed Abbot June 6, 1333). Land at Esse which Thomas Lov’ his father held, to hold to him and legitimate heirs of his body, with common of pasture in more and other easements.Rent 3s. of silver payable at terms usual in manor of Brenta, suit of court of Brent, suit of mill, 3 free boonworks at ‘pultura’ at Esse i.e. at reaping in autumn, 4s. for relief and best beast. Reversion to Abbot and convent on failure of heirs. Witnesses, John de Coteleforde, John de Pynatone, William Barlecombe, Robert de Dountestorre, John de Corndone

xxxxvi. 1608. Surrender by William Parker, gentlemen, of lease given to John Blythman, and re-grant of the plot in the old cawse, with 40 feet on north side of the cawse, for his sole use … Letter of John Blythman, merchant of Plymouth to Andrew Fursland, merchant at Reme [Rame, Cornwall], concerning pilchard fishing, c. 1589. Thomas Sherwill of Plymouth, b. c.1571,1st s. of Thomas Sheirwell (admon. July 3, 1582) of Plymouth, mariner and a dau. of John Blythman of Plymouth, merchant, m. Sept. 29, 1591, Elizabeth Ryland of Plymouth, 11s. (8 d.v.p.) 7da. (4 d.v.p.), bur. Aug. 16, 1631, sig. Thomas Sherwill. Freeman, Plymouth 1592, mayor 1608-9, 1617-18, 1626-7 … Agreement and counterpart between the Mayor and Commonalty of Plymouth and Mathias Nicholls. By indenture dated Aug. 28 in the 18th year of the present King’s reign, the said Mayor and Commonalty granted to George Chudleighe of Streshleighe, Sampson Hele of Gnaton, and Fraunces Drake of Buckland Monachorum, esquires, the presentation to the vicarage of Plymouth following on the death or retirement of the present vicar, Henry Wallis … Agreement to defray the expenses of an action to be brought against the Customs officials for demanding exorbitant fees:— Signed by all the leading Plymouth merchants of the day: John Blytheman, John Waddon, John Trelawny, Robert Trelawny, Thomas Sherwill, Thomas Fownes, Jo. Battersby, Jno Clement, John Fowell, Wm. Cary, Tho. Reynardson, Abraham Colmer, William Brevys, Leonard Pomerey, Jn. Madocke,Thomas Wolridge, Richard Breamton, Nicholas Sherwill, Robert Rawlyn, John Bound, William Hele, Phido Thomas, John Jope, Moyses Goodyeare, Rich. Raddon, Jerome Roch, Ric. Gayer, John Paige, Thomas Crampporne, Philip Andrew, Johis Harris, Water Carkett, Richard Morhowse. 4 Jan. 1613 … Sir John Hele, Recorder of Plymouth, to the Mayor and Aldermen; the writer yields the place of Recorder to his cousin John Hele, who is a resident of Plymouth.1 Sept. 1606. … The Mayor and Aldermen of Plymouth to Sir John Hele. They acknowledge Sir John’s goodness in offering to relinquish the recordership in his cousin’s interest; but insist that the election must be made in the usual way by a majority of voices, so that no precedent be afforded tending to deprive the burgesses of an important privilege,and cause future recorders to imagine they might appoint their successors. 5 Nov. 1606 … Letter from John Blytheman, Mayor of Plymouth and his brethren, introducing the bearer, Mathew Boys, to John Hele, esq, serjeant-at-law,* who is entreated to aid him in his mission to obtain adequate security for Plymouth in respect to the bequests made by the late Sir John Hawkyns to the poor of the town. 27 Jan., 1598. John Hele, b. c. 1582, 1st s. of Walter Hele of Gnaton and Elizabeth, da. of William Strode of Newnham, Devon.1 educ. Broadgates Hall, Oxf. May 1597, aged 15, m. by 1614, Joan, da. of John Glanville of Kilworthy, j.c.p. 1598-d., 8s. (2 d.v.p.) 5da. (2 d.v.p.). suc. fa. 1609, admon. Dec. 4, 1655. 4 sig. inc. Sampson Hele, John Hele’s br.. … 1620: Thomson’s 6,000 acre Piscataqua Plantation was underwritten, in part, by three Plymouth merchants: Abraham Colmer, Nicolas Sherwill and Leonard Pomeroy, who were each given 1/3rd an interest in 1/4th of the plantation as payment for their assistance. Leonard Pomeroy, a merchant of Plymouth, was the financial backer of Edward Hilton; Pomeroy owned the ship “Providence” in which the Hilton colonists came over. Leonard Pomeroy had no children, but named his four nephews in his will 1628; William, Abraham, John and Thomas. William, the eldest, also had four sons. Leonard Pomeroy was the son William Pommeroy. Will dated Aug. 13, 1580. Proved Jan. 21, 1580-1. To be buried in the Churchyard of St. Andrews Plymouth. To the mawdlyn of Plymouth xijd. To my son William Pomeroy a horse, and all thereunto belonging, and xxs.To my daughter Tamsin Pomeroy iiijl. and my best myddel penne of brasse. To my wife Jane to have the house which I do hold by lease of the deyme of Chapter (etc) and after her death to my sonnes William and Lynnard. To Elizabeth, wife of John Rowe sx. The rest to my wife Jone Pomeroy. sole exectrix. Nicholas Kanne and Thomas Pomeroy my dear friends to be my overseers. Wittnesses John Raw, Will Peryman, Robert Coyming.

xxxxvii. It would be perverse by the emphasis placed on ‘continuation of association’ at this time if David Kempe was not of the Kempes of Lavethan, intermarried with the Pomeroys (one such marrying Thomas Love of Plymouth), and Alice Evans, his wife, was not a sister of Richard Evans of Plymouth. People of the class of English society which I have described moved within an orbit determined by the twin forces of kinship and lordship. The former gave possibility to whom you married; the latter to how and where you made a living.

c. m stanhope 2014