ASSHETON (ASHTON), Richard (d.1579), of Whalley and Downham, Lancs.

Family and Education

3rd s. of Ralph Assheton of Great Lever in Middleton, Lancs. by Eleanor, da. of Adam Hulton of The Park, Lancs.; bro. of Ralph. m. Jane, da. of Ralph Harbottle of Northumb., s.p.Vis. Lancs. (Chetham Soc. lxxxi), 28.

Offices Held

Dep.-receiver, northern counties by 1552, receiver 1552 – ?72; j.p. Lancs. by 1561; commr. eccles. causes, diocese of Chester 1562, rebels’ lands 1570, Houghton lands 1572.APC, iv. 112, 122; CPR, 1560–3, pp. 280–1; 1569–72, p. 421; CSP Dom. Add. 1566–79, p. 260.

Parlimentarian

ASSHETON, Richard (by 1529-79), of Whalley and Downham, Lancs.

Main residences: Whalley; Downham, Lancs.

Author

N.M.F.

Volume

Commons 1558-1603

Web Title

ASSHETON (ASHTON), Richard (-d.1579)

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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