ASSHETON, Raphe I (c.1606-80), of Whalley and Downham, Lancs.

Family and Education

b. c.1606, 1st s. of Sir Raphe Assheton, 1st bt. of Great Lever and Whalley, Lancs. and 1st w. Dorothy, da. of Sir James Bellingham of Over Levens, Heversham, Westmld.Whitaker, Whalley, ii. 145; Foster, Lancs. Peds. educ. Univ. Coll. Oxf. 21 Fe 1623, aged 17;Al. Cant. G. Inn 7 May 1624.G. Inn Admiss. 173. m. (1) lic. 17 Apr. 1630, Dorothy (d. 28 Jan. 1635), da. of Sir Nicholas Tufton†, 2nd bt. and 1st earl of Thanet, s.p.; (2) 3 Fe 1644, Elizabeth (d. 8 June 1686), da. of Sir Sapcote Harrington of Rand, Lincs. 1s. d.v.p.CB; Whitaker, Whalley, ii. 2, 145; Foster, Lancs. Peds. suc. fa. as 2nd bt. 18 Oct. 1644;CB. cos. Richard Assheton in Downham estate c.Oct. 1657.St Mary Magdalene, Clitheroe par. reg.; VCH Lancs. vi. 554-5. d. 30 Jan. 1680.CB; Whitaker, Whalley, ii. 2, 145.

Offices Held

Civic: freeman, Preston by 1622-bef. 1662;Preston Guild Rolls ed. W.A. Abram (Lancs. and Cheshire Rec. Soc. ix), 76, 105, 139. Clitheroe by 1625 – d.; out-bailiff, 1660–2.W.S. Weeks, Clitheroe in the Seventeenth Century (Clitheroe, 1927), 228, 300.

Local: recvr. duchy of Lancaster, Lancs. 13 Mar. 1630-c.1649, c.1660–?d.Duchy of Lancaster Office-Holders ed. R. Somerville, 133. Commr. subsidy, 1641; further subsidy, 1641; poll tax, 1641, 1660; contribs. towards relief of Ireland, 1642;SR. assessment, 1642, 18 Oct. 1644, 21 Feb. 1645, 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648, 26 Jan., 1 June 1660, 1661, 1664, 1672, 1679.SR; A. and O.; An Ordinance...for an Assessment (1660, E.1075.6). Dep. lt. 4 July 1642–?CJ ii. 649a; LJ v. 178b. Commr. sequestration, Lancs. 27 Mar. 1643; Northern Assoc. 20 June 1645; defence of Lancs. 29 Aug. 1645. by Aug. 1646 – 1 Sept. 1649A. and O. J.p., Mar. 1660–1 Sept. 1666.Lancs. RO, QSC/42–9, 62–5; A Perfect List (1660). Commr. militia, 2 Dec. 1648, 12 Mar. 1660.A. and O.

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

Parlimentarian

ASSHETON (ASHTON), Sir Ralph I, 2nd Bt. (c.1605-80), of Whalley Abbey and Downham, Lancs.

: of Whalley and Lancs., Downham.

Likenesses

Likenesses: oil on canvas, double portrait with wife, P. Lely, c.1670.Parham Park, W. Suss.

Volume

Commons 1640-1660

Web Title

ASSHETON, Raphe I (c.1606-80), of Whalley and Downham, Lancs.

Will

Aug. 1679,CB. pr. 4 May 1680.PROB11/362, f. 423.

Estates

in 1630, fa. settled on him most of family estate (worth at least £1,000 p.a.), inc. manor of Downham, Lancs., and site of Salley Abbey, Yorks.Greater Manchester Co. RO, E7/27/1/8, 11, 12; B.G. Blackwood, ‘The economic state of the Lancs. gentry on the eve of the civil war’, NH xii. 80. Estate bef. civil war inc. rectory of Whalley, reckoned to be worth £1,200 or £1,300 p.a.Works of Laud, iv. 148; HMC Lords n.s. xi. 397. From the mid-1640s until at least 1650, he was leasing a house or lodgings in Dean’s Yard, St Margaret, Westminster.WCA, SMW/E/47/1580-9. In 1666, his house at Whalley was assessed at 18 hearths.VCH Lancs. vi. 387. In 1676, estate valued at a little over £1,000 p.a.Whitaker, Whalley, ii. 2. At d. estate inc. rectory of Whalley, Whalley Abbey, a mansion house at Downham and copyhold lands in manor of Blackburn, Lancs.PROB11/362, ff. 423, 423v.

Oxford 1644

Addresses

his brother’s chamber in Lincoln’s Inn, Mdx. (1648).Chetham’s Lib. A.3.90, f. 20.

Religion

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