People: Ball, John

Sex

Male

Marital Status

Unknown

Occupation Status

Clerk

Remarks

CCEd person ID 30246

Career: named as clerk at St Oswald’s in Chester in clergy lists from 1534 to 1554 and was presumably a curate there from at least 1527 until 1554.

Further notes: This is based in part on evidence that in 1527 and 1530 he witnessed wills of Chester men as their ‘gostly fader’ or confessor. He named in later clergy lists.

Sources:

W.F. Irvine, (ed.), A collection of Lancashire and Cheshire wills not now to be found in any probate registry. 1301-1752 (The Record Society of Lancashire and Cheshire, 30, 1896), pp. 168-169

Cheshire Sheaf, 3rd Series, xix, p. 96

British Museum Harley 594, f. 147
CALS EDV 1/1, f. 16

Causes

EDC 5/13/6 – witness to the sentence