People: Beetham, Margaret


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Beetham (Betham)

Forename

Margaret

Sex

Female

Marital Status

At Issue

Spouse Name

Sir Robert Worsley

Remarks

Career: Her husband, Sir Robert Worsley, considered that his marriage to his first wife, Alice Tyldesley, had been dissolved on the grounds of her alleged adultery. The church authorities did not agree, and his second marriage to Margaret was considered bigamous. This probably explains the following reference to her the 1547 will of Alice’s father ‘notwithstanding yt my sone in law Sir Robert Worsley knight is married to Margerit Bethum his wif yet levyng yet I remyt and pardon to him vijli xs apon condicion yt he geve yerly unto my doughter Alis his wif vli or mor for hir exhibicion duryng her absens from him or apon condcion yt he take his said wif into his company and intreat hir as he ought to do’ (Piccope, Wills, pp. 100-101).

Sources:

Rev. G. J. Piccope (ed.), Lancashire and Cheshire Wills and Inventories from the Ecclesiastical Court, Chester (Chetham Society, old series, 33, 1857 (First Portion), pp. 97-114

F. R. Raines (ed.), The visitation of the county palatine of Lancaster, made in the year 1664-5, by Sir William Dugdale, Knight, part III (Chetham Society, old series, 88, 1873), pp. 339-340

 

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People: Tyldesley, Alice


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Tyldesley (Tildesley, Tyldisley)

Forename

Alice

Sex

Female

Marital Status

At Issue

Spouse Name

Sir Robert Worsley

Remarks

Career: She was the daughter of Thurstan Tyldesley of Wardley.

Her husband, Sir Robert Worsley, considered that his marriage to her had been dissolved on the grounds of her alleged adultery. The church authorities did not agree, and his second marriage was considered bigamous. This probably explains the following reference to her the 1547 will of her father ‘notwithstanding yt my sone in law Sir Robert Worsley knight is married to Margerit Bethum his wif yet levyng yet I remyt and pardon to him vijli xs apon condicion yt he geve yerly unto my doughter Alis his wif vli or mor for hir exhibicion duryng her absens from him or apon condcion yt he take his said wif into his company and intreat hir as he ought to do’ (Piccope, Wills, pp. 100-101).

Sources:

Rev. G. J. Piccope (ed.), Lancashire and Cheshire Wills and Inventories from the Ecclesiastical Court, Chester (Chetham Society, old series, 33, 1857 (First Portion), pp. 97-114

F. R. Raines (ed.), The visitation of the county palatine of Lancaster, made in the year 1664-5, by Sir William Dugdale, Knight, part III (Chetham Society, old series, 88, 1873), pp. 339-340

 

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EDC 5/11/2 – Sir Robert Worsley

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Worsley (Worseley)

Forename

Robert

Sex

Male

Approx Year of Birth

1512

Marital Status

At Issue

Spouse Name

First wife, Alice Tyldesley; second wife, Margaret Beetham

Occupation Status

Gentleman

Remarks

Career: Robert Worsley was born about 1512. He inherited extensive estates in Lancashire and Yorkshire on the death of his grandfather although he seems to have been in some financial difficulty as he sold off parts of his estate.

He was knighted at Leith in 1544 and elected to the first Marian parliament of 1553, although did not serve the full term, and was elected again in 1558. He served as sheriff of Lancashire twice in 1548-9, 1559-60 and was a J.P. for the county from about 1540. He was a commissioner for ecclesiastical causes for the diocese of Chester from 1562.

He married firstly Alice, the daughter of Thurstan Tyldesley of Wardley, and secondly Margaret Beetham. However, as papers at EDC 5/11/2 indicate that although he considered that his marriage to Alice had been dissolved on the grounds of her alleged adultery the church authorities did not agree, and his second marriage was considered bigamous. This may explain the following reference in the 1547 will of Thurstan Tyldesley ‘notwithstanding yt my sone in law Sir Robert Worsley knight is married to Margerit Bethum his wif yet levyng yet I remyt and pardon to him vijli xs apon condicion yt he geve yerly unto my doughter Alis his wif vli or mor for hir exhibicion duryng her absens from him or apon condcion yt he take his said wif into his company and intreat hir as he ought to do’ (Piccope, Wills, pp. 100-101).

Sir Robert Worsley died in December 1585 and was buried at Eccles.

Sources:

Rev. G. J. Piccope (ed.), Lancashire and Cheshire Wills and Inventories from the Ecclesiastical Court, Chester (Chetham Society, old series, 33, 1857 (First Portion), pp. 97-114

F. R. Raines (ed.), The visitation of the county palatine of Lancaster, made in the year 1664-5, by Sir William Dugdale, Knight, part III (Chetham Society, old series, 88, 1873), pp. 339-340

‘Townships: Worsley’, in A History of the County of Lancaster: Volume 4, ed. William Farrer, J Brownbill( London, 1911), British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/lancs/vol4/pp376-392 [accessed 6 January 2025]

https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1558-1603/member/worsley-sir-robert-1512-85

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People: Banastre, Lawrence


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Banastre (Banester, Bannister, Banister)

Forename

Lawrence

Sex

Male

Marital Status

Married

Spouse Name

Jane

Occupation Status

Gentleman

Remarks

Career: Lawrence Banastre lived at Banister Hall, also called Darwen Hall, in the northern part of the township of Walton-le-Dale. His family had occupied the hall for several generations. He was married to Jane, daughter of Sir Richard Hoghton, and he died in 1558.

He was named as one of the out-burgesses at Preston gild in 1542.

Sources:

F. R. Raines (ed.), The visitation of the county palatine of Lancaster, made in the year 1567 by William Flower, Esq (Chetham Society, old series, 81, 1870), p. 35

‘Townships: Walton-le-Dale’, in A History of the County of Lancaster: Volume 6, ed. William Farrer, J Brownbill( London, 1911), British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/lancs/vol6/pp289-300 [accessed 5 January 2025]

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EDC 5/11/1 – defendant

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People: Langton, Sir Thomas


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Langton (Longton)

Forename

Thomas

Sex

Male

Approx Year of Birth

1496/97

Marital Status

Married

Spouse Name

First wife, Elizabeth; second wife, Anne

Occupation Status

Gentleman

Remarks

Career:  Thomas Langton was born in 1496/97, the second son of Ralph Langton of Newton and Walton-le-Dale. His father and older brother had died by 1511, and he was made a ward of a younger son of the first earl of Derby, Sir Edward Stanley, whose daughter, Elizabeth, became Langton’s first wife.

He was knighted in 1533 at the coronation of Anne Boleyn and later assisted the earl of Derby in the suppression of the Pilgrimage of Grace and fought in the border wars against the Scots. He was elected to the second Marian parliament of 1554 and served as sheriff of Lancashire three times in the 1560s and 1570s.

His will indicates that he held extensive lands and also held the advowson of the parish of Wigan. He is named as baron of Newton and baron of Walton.

He has been described as an ‘ardent litigant’ (Alan Davidson, History of Parliament Online).

Sir Thomas Langton died in 1569 and asked to be buried ‘in the parisshe churche of Lawe’ (Piccope, p. 250).

Sources:

Rev. G. J. Piccope (ed.), Lancashire and Cheshire Wills and Inventories from the Ecclesiastical Court, Chester (Chetham Society, old series, 51, 1860), pp. 246-255

F. R. Raines (ed.), The visitation of the county palatine of Lancaster, made in the year 1567 by William Flower, Esq (Chetham Society, old series, 81, 1870), p. 24

https://historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1509-1558/member/langton-sir-thomas-149697-1569

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People: Hurmefroy, John


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Hurmefroy

Forename

John

Sex

Male

Marital Status

Unknown

Literacy

yes - literatus

Causes

EDC 5/10/2 – witness to sentence

 

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People: Gillam, Peter


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Gillam

Forename

Peter

Sex

Male

Marital Status

Unknown

Literacy

yes - literatus

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EDC 5/10/2 – witness to sentence

 

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People: Hartley, Roland


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Hartley

Forename

Roland

Sex

Male

Parish

Irton

Marital Status

Unknown

Causes

EDC 5/10/2 – defendant

 

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People: Sherween, Nicholas


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Sherween (Sherwen)

Forename

Nicholas

Sex

Male

Parish

Irton

Marital Status

Unknown

Remarks

The Sherwen family were long established in the area of Irton, although belonging to Gosforth and Wasdale rather than Irton according to Rev. C. Moor, ‘The Old Statesman Families of Irton, Cumberland’, Transactions of the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian & Archaeological Society, series 2, vol. 10 (1910), p. 187.

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Sherween (Sherwen)

Forename

John

Sex

Male

Parish

Irton

Marital Status

Unknown

Remarks

The Sherwen family were long established in the area of Irton, although belonging to Gosforth and Wasdale rather than Irton according to Rev. C. Moor, ‘The Old Statesman Families of Irton, Cumberland’, Transactions of the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian & Archaeological Society, series 2, vol. 10 (1910), p. 187.

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EDC 5/10/2 – defendant

 

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