WOLSELEY, Ralph (d.1504), of Wolseley, Staffs.

Family and Education

s. and h. of Thomas Wolseley (d.1478) of Wolseley by his w. Margery Broughton (fl.1478) of Longdon, Staffs. S. Erdeswyk, Staffs. 205. educ. M. Temple. m. (1) Agnes, da. of Sir Thomas Blount† (d.1456) of Barton Blount, Derbys., by his 1st w. Margaret, da. of Sir Thomas Gresley† of Drakelow, Derbys., at least 1s. 1da.; (2) by Mich. 1474, Margaret, prob. da. of Sir Robert Aston of Tixall, Staffs., wid. of John Kynnersley (d.1472) of Loxley, Staffs.

Offices Held

Commr. of inquiry, Salop, Staffs., Worcs. June 1458 (crime and concealments), Staffs. Aug. 1473 (unpaid farms), Nov. 1486 (manor of Shenstone), July 1498, June 1502 (lands late of Humphrey Peshale), Feb. 1502 (crimes); arrest, ?Staffs. Dec. 1460, July 1461 (Edmund Basset), Staffs. July 1472 (Sir Thomas Fyton); gaol delivery, Burton-upon-Trent Sept. 1473, Stafford castle Sept. 1475, Oct. 1476, Sept. 1484, C66/531, m. 5d; 536, m. 2d; 539, m. 24d; 557, m. 17d. Oct. 1486, Stafford May 1486, July 1487, Oct. 1502; to assess alien subsidy, Staffs. Apr., Aug. 1483, of array May, Dec. 1484, Apr. 1496.

Receiver, duchy of Lancaster honour of Tutbury, Staffs. 18 Nov. 1460-c. Mich. 1461; dep. Mich. 1461–?; R. Somerville, Duchy, i. 543; DL37/29/27; CPR, 1461–7, pp. 43–44. jt. receiver, lands late of John, Lord Lovell, in Cambs., Essex, Salop 8 Aug. 1461 – ?

Rider, chase of John Hales, bp. of Coventry, Cannock, Staffs. ?Mar. 1461–? Staffs. RO, Wolseley mss, D(W)1781/6/2/8.

Jt. alnager, Notts. July 1461–19 May 1462. CFR, xx. 24, 74.

Constable, duchy of Lancaster borough of Newcastle-under-Lyme 5 Aug. 1461–2 Apr. 1474. DL37/30/209; Somerville, i. 550.

Collector, tunnage and poundage, London 29 Sept. 1462–4 Dec. 1464. E122/194/142; E403/829, m. 7; CFR, xx. 98, 131; E356/21, rots. 12d, 13.

J.p.q. Staffs. 11 Dec. 1463–Dec. 1470, He was omitted from the comm. of 29 Mar. 1469 according to CPR, 1467–77, p. 630, but the originalia roll suggests he was appointed: E371/234, rot. 51. 8 July 1471 – Sept. 1485, 11 Nov. 1486 – Jan. 1496, 7 May 1501 – d.

Victualler of Calais 4 July 1465–13 Dec. 1466. C76/149, m. 13; PROME, xiii. 347–8.

Fourth baron of the Exchequer Mich. 1467 – ?Apr. 1471, 8 Mar. 1478 – 24 Sept. 1484.

Rent collector for the bp. of Coventry and Lichfield at Rugeley, Staffs. Mich. 1473–4 (for John Hales), 1497–8 (for John Arundel). I. Rowney, ‘Staffs. Political Community’ (Keele Univ. Ph.D. thesis, 1981), ii. 441.

Parlimentarian

WOLSELEY, Ralph (d.1504), of Wolseley, Staffs.

Main residence: Wolseley, Staffs.

Wolceley, Worseley, Worssley

Author

S.J.P.

Volume

Commons 1422-1461

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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