MUSGRAVE, Sir Richard (d.1464), of Hartley, Westmld.

Family and Education

s. and h. of Sir Thomas Musgrave† (d.1409) of Hartley by his ?2nd w. Alice (d. by 1436); It is certain that he was not the child of Sir Thomas’s 1st w. Mary Strother: The Commons 1386-1421, iii. 811. Sir Thomas was survived by Alice, a 2nd or later w.: Cumbria RO, Carlisle, Musgrave of Edenhall mss, D/Mus/2/10/42. bro. of John*. m. The peds. identify his w. as Elizabeth, da. of Thomas Bethom: CP, ix. 437. But there are difficulties in accepting the identification. Not only was our MP much older than Elizabeth Bethom, but in the dispute between Thomas Bethom and Bethom’s second wife’s stepson, William Stapleton, our MP sided with the latter, to whose daughter his eldest son was married. On the other hand, shortly before his death in c.1450, Bethom named our MP among his feoffees: C140/40/20. On this evidence the matter is beyond resolution. Another potential father-in-law for our MP is Sir Thomas Tunstall (d.1415) of Thurland, Lancs., who, in Apr. 1411, took joint estate with him in the Musgrave patrimony: Musgrave of Edenhall mss, D/Mus/2/10/78. at least 3s. 6da. Dist. 1411; Kntd. by Apr. 1418. E372/256, Westmld.; CPR, 1416-22, p. 196.

Offices Held

Attestor, parlty. elections, Westmld. 1411, 1413 (May), 1415, 1421 (May), 1421 (Dec.), 1422, 1431, 1432, 1435, 1437, 1442, 1449 (Nov.), 1450, 1453.

J.p. Westmld. 24 Apr. 1410 – Mar. 1411, 12 Feb. 1422 – July 1424, 28 Nov. 1439 – d.

Commr. of array, Westmld. May 1415, Apr. 1418, Mar. 1419, July 1434, Nov. 1448, Cumb. May 1461, Westmld. Nov. 1461, June 1463; gaol delivery, Appleby Oct. 1415, Feb. 1419; C66/398, m. 34d; 401, m. 12d. inquiry, Westmld. Feb., Aug. 1419 (concealments), Feb. 1422 (counterfeiters), Cumb., Westmld. ?Jan. 1424 (lands of Sir William Threlkeld†), E159/200, commissiones Hil. Cumb. May 1434 (lands of William Stapleton†), Northumb. Nov. 1447 (murder of Henry Hall); to take assizes of novel disseisin, Cumb. May 1428, Westmld. July 1435, ?Northumb. July 1449; C66/423, m. 19d; 437, m. 6d; 468, m. 14d. list persons to take the oath against maintenance, Westmld. Jan. 1434; assign archers Dec. 1457; of arrest, Cumb., Westmld. Nov. 1460, Cumb., Westmld., Northumb. Feb. 1462.

Dep. sheriff, Westmld. c. Oct. 1423-c. Nov. 1428.

Conservator of the truce with Scotland Nov. 1449, Aug. 1451, May 1455, June 1457, July 1458, Sept. 1459. Rot. Scot. ed. Macpherson etc., ii. 340, 353, 366, 383, 387, 397.

Parlimentarian

MUSGRAVE, Sir Richard (d.1464), of Hartley, Westmld.

Main residence: Hartley, Westmld.

Author

S.J.P.

Volume

Commons 1422-1461

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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