Family and Education
b. c.1587, 1st of Thomas Shuttleworth (bur. 14 Dec. 1593) of Smithills, Bolton, Lancs. and Anne (d. 12 May 1637), da. of Richard Lever of Little Lever, Bolton.Whitaker, Whalley, ii. 184; Shuttleworth Accts. ed. J. Harland (Chetham Soc. o.s. xli), 297. educ. Brasenose, Oxf. 14 June 1605, aged 18;Al. Ox. G. Inn 7 June 1605.G. Inn Admiss. 109. m. 24 Apr. 1612, Fleetwood (d. 1664), da. of Richard Barton of Barton, Preston, Lancs., 2s. (1 d.v.p.); (illeg.) Judith, da. of Jeremiah Thorpe of Bradford, Yorks. 6s. (2 d.v.p.) 4da. (1 d.v.p.).Regs. of Woodplumpton ed. H. Brierley (Lancs. Par. Reg. Soc. xxii), ii. 92; Regs. of Padiham ed. J.A. Laycock (Lancs. Par. Reg. Soc. xiv), 80; Whitaker, Whalley, ii. 184; Vis. Lancs. 1664-5 ed. F.R. Raines (Chetham Soc. o.s. lxxxviii), 271-2. suc. uncle 18 Feb. 1608.Lancs. IPM ed. J.P. Rylands (Lancs. and Cheshire Rec. Soc. iii), 109. bur. 30 June 1669.Padiham, Lancs. par. reg.
Offices Held

Local: j.p. Lancs. c. 1615 – 11 July 1642, by Apr. 1646 – 16 Apr. 1650, by Apr. 1651–1 Sept. 1666.Lancs. RO, QSC/42–51, 53–65; QSO/2/19, 24; Manchester Sessions ed. E. Axon (Lancs. and Cheshire Rec. Soc. xlii), vi; D.J. Wilkinson, ‘The commission of peace in Lancs. 1603–42’, in Seventeenth-Century Lancs. ed. J.I. Kermode, C.B. Phillips, Trans. Historic Soc. Lancs. and Cheshire, cxxxii. 66. Sheriff, 1620–1, 1636–7.List of Sheriffs (L. and I.), 73. Gov. Clitheroe g.s. Mar. 1620–30 Apr. 1632.Shuttleworth Accts. ed. Harland, 240; Queen Mary’s Grammar Sch. Clitheroe ed. C.W. Stokes (Chetham Soc. n.s. xcii), 65, 74. Commr. subsidy, Lancs. 1621, 1622, 1624, 1641;C212/22/20–3; SR. Forced Loan, 1627;Rymer, Foedera, viii. pt. 2, p. 145; C193/12/2, f. 30. Greenwax revenues, duchy of Lancaster 1 Dec. 1628;Lancs. RO, DDKE/5/111. to investigate lead mines, 23 May 1629.Lancs. RO, DDKE/5/183. Capt. militia horse, Lancs. by Nov. 1636–?SP16/337/81i, f. 168. Commr. further subsidy, 1641; poll tax, 1641, 1660; contribs. towards relief of Ireland, 1642;SR. assessment, 1642, 26 Jan. 1643, 24 Feb. 1643, 18 Oct. 1644, 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648, 10 Dec. 1652, 24 Nov. 1653, 9 June 1657, 26 Jan., 1 June 1660.SR; LJ v. 573b; A. and O.; An Act for an Assessment (1653, E.1062.28); An Ordinance...for an Assessment (1660, E.1075.6). Dep. lt. by June 1642–?CJ ii. 615a. Commr. sequestration, Lancs. 27 Mar. 1643;A. and O. Westmld. 8 July 1648;LJ x. 371b. levying of money, Lancs. 7 May, 3 Aug. 1643; Northern Assoc. 20 June 1645; defence of Lancs. 29 Aug. 1645; militia, 2 Dec. 1648, 14 Mar. 1655, 26 July 1659, 12 Mar. 1660;A. and O.; SP25/76A, f. 16v. maintenance of ministers, 29 Mar. 1650.Lancs. and Cheshire Church Surveys ed. H. Fishwick (Lancs. and Cheshire Rec. Soc. i), i. 1–3. Judge, relief of poor prisoners, 5 Oct. 1653.A. and O. Custos. rot. by Mar. 1660–?A Perfect List (1660), 25.

Civic: freeman, Clitheroe by 1616–?d.; out-bailiff, 1616 – 17, 1619 – 20, 1625 – 26, 1626 – 27, 1630 – 31, 1639 – 40, 1655–6.W.S. Weeks, Clitheroe in the 17th Century (Clitheroe, 1927), 135. Freeman, Preston by 1622–?d.;Preston Guild Rolls ed. W.A. Abram (Lancs. and Cheshire Rec. Soc. ix), 77, 117, 151. Liverpool 3 Oct. 1637–?d.;Chandler, Liverpool, 224, 329; Liverpool Town Bks. 1649–71 ed. M. Power (Lancs. and Cheshire Rec. Soc. cxxxvi), 2, 51. Wigan by Oct. 1640–?d.Sinclair, Wigan, ii. 6, 53.

Military: col. of ft. (parlian.) Oct. 1642-c.Apr. 1645.Warr in Lancs. 9; Brereton Lttr. Bks. i. 487.

Central: commr. exclusion from sacrament, 5 June 1646, 29 Aug. 1648.A. and O.

Religious: elder, third Lancs. classis, 1646.LJ viii. 509.

: of Gawthorpe Hall, Lancs., Whalley.
Volume
Commons 1640-1660
Web Title

SHUTTLEWORTHE, Richard I (c.1587-1669), of Gawthorpe Hall, Whalley, Lancs.

Will
11 June 1668, pr. 24 Mar. 1670.Borthwick, Prob. Reg. 51, f. 39.
Estates
in 1600, the Shuttleworths’ estates were worth at least £650 p.a. and inc. lands in Lancs. Yorks. Westmld. and Flint.Long, ‘Lancs.’, 138. In 1608, Shuttleworthe’s inheritance inc. manors of Forcett, Yorks. and Gawthorpe, Lancs.; Gawthorpe Hall; property in Cornfield (nr. Preston), Eccleshill and Padiham; and lease of Ightenhall Park, Lancs.Lancs. RO, DDKS/13/35; DDKS/32/6; VCH N. Riding, i. 66; VCH Lancs. vi. 280, 463-4, 489, 494. In 1612, he acquired by marriage manors of Barton and Bilsborrow, and Barton Hall, Lancs.VCH Lancs. vii. 128, 331. In 1631, estate inc. messuages and lands in Bilsborrow, Goosnargh, Warton and Whittingham, Lancs.Lancs. RO, DDKS/2/12; DDKS/12/13. In 1632, purchased a messuage (half a burgage) in Clitheroe, Lancs.Lancs. RO, DDFR 1/20. In 1634, purchased lands in Burnley, Habergham Eaves, Little Ightenhill and Padiham, Lancs. for £995.Lancs. RO, QDD/42/F12d; DDKS/32/10. In 1649-50, received £6,205 in sequestered rents in Lancs.SP28/161, unfol.; Craven, ‘Lancs.’, 145. In 1663, his residence of Barton Hall was assessed at 22 hearths.H. Fishwick, Hist. of the Par. of Preston (Rochdale, 1900), 434.
Oxford 1644
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Addresses
Fig Tree Court, the Inner Temple, London (1646).Bodl. Tanner 59, f. 229v.
Religion
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