People: Maynwaring, Robert

Surname

Maynwaring

Forename

Robert

Sex

Male

Marital Status

Unknown

Causes

EDC 5/13/4 – witness to the sentence

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People: Bradley, Randle

Surname

Bradley

Forename

Randle

Sex

Male

Marital Status

Unknown

Remarks

He may have been related to John Bradley, defendant in a suit brought by Robert Assheton (EDC 5/12/1). This was the same plaintiff as in EDC 5/13/3 in which Randle Bradley was a witness to the sentence.

Causes

EDC 5/13/3 – witness to the sentence
EDC 5/13/4 – witness to the sentence
EDC 5/13/5 – witness to the sentence

 

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People: Barnes, John

Surname

Barnes

Forename

John

Sex

Male

Marital Status

Unknown

Causes

EDC 5/13/3 – witness to the sentence

 

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People: Hardware, Nicholas (vicar of Weaverham)

Surname

Hardware(Harwarr)

Forename

Nicholas

Sex

Male

Parish

Weaverham

Marital Status

Unknown

Occupation Status

Clerk; vicar of Weaverham

Remarks

He held a post in the parish of Nantwich in 1534 when he was included in the clerical taxation list for that year (BL Harley MS 594, f. 153v); he was named as vicar of Weaverham by 1541 (W. F. Irvine (ed.), ‘List of the clergy in eleven deaneries of the diocese of Chester, 1541-2; together with a list of the tenths and subsidy payable in the deaneries of the Archdeaconry of Chester’, Miscellanies relating to Lancashire and Cheshire, vol. 3 (The Record Society of Lancashire and Cheshire, 33, 1896) p. 6). In 1552 he was plaintiff in a tithe suit as vicar of Weaverham.

 

Causes

EDC 5/13/3 – witness to the sentence
EDC 5/13/4 – plaintiff

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People: Johnson, Giles

Surname

Johnson

Forename

Giles

Sex

Male

Parish

Middleton

Marital Status

Unknown

Remarks

Giles Johnson came from the hamlet of Ainsworth in Middleton parish.

Causes

EDC 5/13/3 – defendant

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People: Andrewe, William

Surname

Andrewe

Forename

William

Sex

Male

Parish

Prestbury

Marital Status

Unknown

Causes

EDC 5/13/2 – defendant

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People: Egerton, Sir Richard

Surname

Egerton

Forename

Richard

Sex

Male

Marital Status

Married

Spouse Name

Mary

Occupation Status

Knight

Remarks

Richard Egerton of Ridley was the son of Sir Rafe Egerton of Ridley and his wife, Margaret. He married Mary, daughter of Richard Grosvenor of Eaton and widow of Thomas Leigh of Adlington. Lady Mary Egerton was a prominent recusant and continued to be presented to the authorities until 1598, the year before her death.

Richard Egerton was the father of an illegitimate son, Thomas Egerton, 1st Viscount Brackley, who was Lord Keeper and Lord Chancellor for more than two decades. He was perhaps able to use his position to protect his stepmother.

Sir Richard Egerton died in 1579, leaving extensive lands in several counties, and was buried at Bunbury.

Sources:

George Ormerod, The History of the County Palatine and City of Chester, (second edition, revised and enlarged by T. Helsby, 3 vols, London: George Routledge & Sons, 1882), vol ii, pp. 299, 301

J. Paul Rylands (ed.), The Visitation of Cheshire in the year 1580 (The Harleian Society, 18, 1882), p. 96

K. R. Wark, Elizabethan Recusancy in Cheshire (Chetham Society, 3rd series, 19, 1971), pp. 31, 49, 116, 148

Causes

EDC 5/13/2 – plaintiff

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People: Lever, Elizabeth

Surname

Lever (Leaver)

Forename

Elizabeth

Alternative Surname

Cheetham

Sex

Female

Marital Status

Married

Spouse Name

First husband, Alexander Lever; second husband, Thomas Cheetham

Remarks

Career: Elizabeth’s first husband, Alexander Lever, had held the prebend of Bolton-le-Moors under lease from 1499 until his death. Following his death the lease was the subject of a lawsuit between his executors and the archdeacon of Chester.

The executors of Alexander Lever were Elizabeth, William Bolton (his brother-in-law) and two sons. William Bolton was Elizabeth’s brother.

After his death Elizabeth re-married Thomas Cheetham and in 1542 William Bolton, as a trustee of Alexander Lever, sued Thomas and Elizabeth for the return of tithe corn and the goods and chattels of the deceased which had been left for the benefit of Alexander’s children and Elizabeth, but only for as long as she remained unmarried. There was a commission of enquiry which decided in favour of the trustees.

Elizabeth Lever was the mother of Roger Lever.

Sources:

James Christopher Scholes, History of Bolton: with Memorials of the old Parish Church, (ed. William Pimblett, Bolton, 1892), pp. 101-105

Causes

EDC 5/13/1 – mentioned in the libel

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People: Lever, Alexander

Surname

Lever (Leaver)

Forename

Alexander

Sex

Male

Marital Status

Married

Spouse Name

Elizabeth

Remarks

Career: Alexander Lever had held the prebend of Bolton-le-Moors under lease from 1499 until his death.

When he made his will in April 1539 he named two surviving daughters and two sons, one being his heir, Roger, who was a minor at the time. He appointed his wife, Elizabeth, as an executrix with his brother-in-law, William Bolton, and two sons as executors.

After his death his widow re-married Thomas Cheetham.

Sources:

James Christopher Scholes, History of Bolton: with Memorials of the old Parish Church, (ed. William Pimblett, Bolton, 1892), pp. 101-105

Causes

EDC 5/13/1 – mentioned in the libel

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People: Lever, Roger

Surname

Lever (Leaver)

Forename

Roger

Sex

Male

Approx Year of Birth

after 1518

Marital Status

Unknown

Occupation Status

Gentleman

Remarks

Career: Roger Lever (Leaver) was the son of Alexander Lever and his wife, Elizabeth. When Alexander made his will in April 1539 his son and heir, Roger, was a minor so he must have been born after 1518.

Sources:

James Christopher Scholes, History of Bolton: with Memorials of the old Parish Church, (ed. William Pimblett, Bolton, 1892), p. 103

Causes

EDC 5/13/1 – plaintiff

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