Sex

Male

Parish

Prestbury

Marital Status

Unknown

Causes

EDC 5/13/2 – defendant

Sex

Male

Parish

Middleton

Marital Status

Unknown

Remarks

He lived in the township of Ainsworth in the parish of Middleton.

Causes

EDC 5/12/1 – defendant

Sex

Male

Parish

Middleton

Marital Status

Unknown

Remarks

He lived in the township of Ainsworth in the parish of Middleton.

Causes

EDC 5/12/1 – defendant

Sex

Male

Marital Status

Unknown

Occupation Status

Clerk; rector of Middleton and Radcliffe

Remarks

CCEd person ID 19153

Career: Robert Assheton was presented to the parish of Middleton in Lancashire on 23 February 1541.  The right of presentation to the parish belonged to the manor of Middleton, owned by the Assheton family since the fifteenth century, although Robert Assheton was presented by Edmund Hopwood who had been granted the right of next presentation. He was also rector of Radcliffe from 1537 and is thought to have died in 1563.

Haigh considered that he was possibly a conservative in religion as he is understood to have resigned both rectories in 1559 following the Elizabethan Religious Settlement.

Sources:

Christopher Haigh, Reformation and Resistance in Tudor Lancashire (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press) 1975, p. 334.

‘The parish of Middleton’, in A History of the County of Lancaster: Volume 5, ed. William Farrer, J Brownbill( London, 1911), British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/lancs/vol5/pp151-161

Causes

EDC 5/12/1 – plaintiff
EDC 5/13/3 – plaintiff

Sex

Male

Marital Status

Unknown

Remarks

There were a number of families by the name of Aldersey living in and around Chester at this time. It is possible that this was William Aldersey (by 1513-1577) who was mayor of Chester and MP for the city three times. He was reportedly not favourable to the Elizabethan religious settlement. A biography of this man is available at the History of Parliament online.

Causes

EDC 5/10/1 – plaintiff

Sex

Male

Parish

Bangor

Marital Status

Unknown

Causes

EDC 5/1566/15 – defendant
EDC 5/1575/15 – defendant

Sex

Male

Parish

Bangor

Marital Status

Unknown

Causes

EDC 5/1566/15 – defendant
EDC 5/1575/15 – owner of the land on which the tithes were claimed

Sex

Female

Parish

Astbury

Marital Status

Unknown

Remarks

She was probably the stepdaughter of ‘Mr Rode’.

Causes

EDC 5/1580/9 – plaintiff

Sex

Male

Parish

Chester, St John

Marital Status

Unknown

Occupation Status

Tanner

Remarks

He is described as ‘senior’ so presumably had a son of the same name.

Causes

EDC 5/1591/2 – defendant

Sex

Male

Parish

Wistaston

Marital Status

Married

Spouse Name

Katherine

Occupation Status

Clerk; rector of Wistaston

Literacy

Yes - his will mentions that he owned a number of books

Remarks

Presented to the parish of Wistaston in 1572; CCEd person ID 22753; died 1606

Causes

EDC 5/1582/32 – husband of plaintiff