People: Assheton, Robert (rector of Middleton and Radcliffe)
Surname
Assheton
Forename
Robert
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