Roger Nowell

Personal and Family Information

Roger was born about 1486, the son of UNKNOWN Nowell and Dulcia Alice Hesketh. The place is not known.

Pedigree Chart (3 generations)

Events

Notes

Note 1

!Source: Visitation of Lancashire by Richard St. George, 1613, page 127. https://johnhoughton.me.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/1613_visitation.pdf

Hesketh.

Latin [mix]:

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[Harl. MS. 1437, fo. 122.]

Inq: post Mortem Thome Hesketh 16 die Septemb. A 15 H. 8 ,qui ob. seisitus de manerio de

Rufford ac de divers is aliis terris in Comit. Lancast. et dictus Thomas Hesketh voluit per

ultimam voluntatem suam quod feoffati sui feoffabunt Robertum filium suum bastardum sibi et

heredibus masculis de Corpore suo legitime procreatum in manerio de Rufford et diversis aliis

terris in Comito predicto, citra terrce similiter datre Carolo Hesketh filio bastardo altero suo, et

Juratores dicunt quod Thomas Hesketh obiit apud Rufford 14 die Augusti Ao I5 regis nunc

et ulteriis Juratores dicunt quod Henricus Kighley, ar', Ricardus Aghton ar' Rowlandus

Kighley clericus et Rogerus Nowell filius Johannis Nowell de Rede sunt consanguinei et

proxima heredes predicti Thome Hesketh, videlicet predictus Henricus Kighley, filius Ricardi

filii Margerice unius sororum dicti Thome Hesketh, et predictus Ricardus Aghton filius Matildre

alice sororis dictce Thome Hesketh, et predictus Roulandus Kighley filius Margaretre alire

sororis predicti Thome Hesketh, et predictus Rogerus Nowell filius Dulcire alice sororis ejus-

dem Thome Hesketh, &c.

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Translation:

[Harl. MS. 1437, fo. 122.] Inq: after the Death of Thomas Hesketh 16 September A 15 H. 8 ,who was seized of the manor of <<<< 1523/4

Rufford and of various other lands in the County of Lancaster. and the said Thomas Hesketh desired by his

last will that his feoffees should feoff Robert his bastard son to himself and

to the heirs male of his body lawfully begotten in the manor of Rufford and various other

lands in the aforesaid Earldom, and likewise give this land to Charles Hesketh his other bastard son, and

the Jurors say that Thomas Hesketh died at Rufford on the 14th day of August, A.D. 15 [16 sep 1523] of the present King,

and further the Jurors say that Henry Kighley, ar', Richard Aghton ar' Rowland

Kighley clerk and Roger Nowell son of John Nowell of Rede are the blood relatives and

next heirs of the aforesaid Thomas Hesketh, namely the aforesaid Henry Kighley, son of Richard

son of Margaret, one of the sisters of the aforesaid Thomas Hesketh, and the aforesaid Richard Aghton son of Matilda

Alice sister of the aforesaid Thomas Hesketh, and the aforesaid Rowland Kighley son of Margaret, the other

sister of the aforesaid Thomas Hesketh, and the aforesaid Roger Nowell, son of Dulcire Alice, his sister that

Thomas Hesketh, &c.

!Source: Full text of "The Victoria history of the county of Lancaster;"

The Victoria history of the Counties of England, EDITED BY WILLIAM PAGE, F.S.A., A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE, VOLUME VI, THE VICTORIA HISTORY

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* Henry Kighley and the other heirs

named in the inquisition put forward

their claim in 1525. They alleged that

Thomas was brother and heir of Richard

Hesketh, who is not named in the inqui-

sition after the death of Robert Hesketh

[1491], but is said to have been an

official of the Crown; L. and P. Hen.

FIL, i, 1781 5 Dods. loc. cit. Richard is

called a younger brother in 1511;

Kuerden MSS. iii, H 84. Thomas is

again descrited as brother and heir of

Richard Hesketh, deceased, in a grant of

his in 1523; Towneley MS. DD, no.

392. The defendants in 1525 were the <<<< In other words, the Executors of the will won and the supposed heirs lost.

feoffees and executors of the will of

Thomas Hesketh, and showed that they

had due authority for their action ; Duchy

of Lane. Dep. Hen. VIII, xv, K 2.