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RADCLIFFE, Sir Thomas (c.1391-1440), of Astley and Winmarleigh, Lancs.

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b. c.1391, s. and h. of Sir Richard Radcliffe (d.1431) of Astley and Winmarleigh by his w. Margaret (fl.1442), prob. bro. of Sir Nicholas*. m. (1) Isabel, da. of Sir John Boteler (d.1404) of Rawcliffe; (2) June 1411, Katherine (fl.1466), PL15/30, rot. 4. yr. da. of John Booth† of Barton in Eccles, Lancs.; at least 5s. (1 d.v.p.) 2da. Kntd. by Apr. 1419.
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Attestor, parlty. election, Lancs. 1425.

Commr. Lancs. Mar. 1430 – Feb. 1438.

J.p. Lancs. Dec. 1435, Mar., Aug. 1440.

Dep. steward of the wapentake of Clitheroe in the duchy of Lancaster, Lancs. 1440 – d.

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RADCLIFFE, Sir Thomas (c.1391-1440), of Astley and Winmarleigh, Lancs.
Main residences: Astley; Winmarleigh, Lancs.
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RADCLIFFE, Richard (c.1379-c.1442), of Radcliffe, Lancs.

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b. c.1379, s. and h. of James Radcliffe (d.1409) of Radcliffe by Joan, da. of Sir John Tempest of Bracewell, Yorks.; er. bro. of Sir John Radcliffe*. m. His w. is traditionally given as Cecily, da. of Sir John Assheton (d.1428) of Ashton-under-Lyme: C.P. Hampson, Bk. of Radclyffes, 28; Lancs. Knights of the Shire (Chetham Soc. xcvi), 159. On chronological grounds, it is much more likely that she was Sir John’s sister, but no contemporary evidence has been found to support either match. If his w. was a Cecily, it is a curious coincidence that his younger brother, Sir John, also married a Cecily. Further, a deed of 1447 refers to Alice as the wid. of Richard Radcliffe, although it is not certain that she was our MP’s wid.: John Rylands Univ.Lib., Manchester, Rylands Chs. RYCH/206. at least 1s.
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Attestor, parlty. elections, Lancs. 1413 (May), 1414 (Nov.).

J.p. Lancs. 2 Mar. 1418–?, 15 Dec. 1435–21 Mar. 1436. Lancs. Knights of the Shire, 160; DKR, xl. 533.

Commr. of array, wapentake of Salford, Lancs. Apr. 1418; of inquiry, Lancs. May 1440 (title to manor of Whittleswick). Lancs. Knights of the Shire, 160; DKR, xl. 535–6.

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RADCLIFFE, Richard (c.1379-c.1442), of Radcliffe, Lancs.
Main residence: Radcliffe, Lancs.
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RADCLIFFE, Ralph (d.1432), of Blackburn and Smithills, Lancs.

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s. and h. of Sir Ralph Radcliffe† (d.1406) of Blackburn and Smithills by his 1st w. m. (1) bef. 1400, 1s.; (2) by Dec. 1416, Cecily (fl.1435), wid. of Hugh Venables (d.1415) of Kinderton, Cheshire, at least 2s. 2da. Kntd. 19 May 1426.
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Attestor, parlty. elections, Lancs. 1413 (May), 1414 (Nov.), 1421 (May), 1425.

Receiver, Lancs. and Cheshire estates of the duchy of Lancaster 10 Apr. 1413 – 24 Nov. 1417.

J.p. Lancs. July 1413 – d.

Commr. Lancs. Aug. 1413 – Apr. 1431.

Justice at the Lancaster assizes to 12 Aug. 1415.

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RADCLIFFE, Ralph (d.1432), of Blackburn and Smithills, Lancs.
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RADCLIFFE, Sir Nicholas (c.1396-c.1454), of Castlerigg, Cumb.

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b. c. 1396, prob. yr. s. of Sir Richard Radcliffe (d.1431) of Astley and Winmarleigh, Lancs. by his w. Margaret (fl.1442), and bro. of Sir Thomas*. m. c.1417, Elizabeth (fl.1464), da. and h. of Sir John Derwentwater (d. by 1422), of Ormside, Westmld. and Castlerigg, 5s. at least 2da. One of these das. almost certainly married John Pennington*: J. Foster, Ped. of Sir Josslyn Pennington, 32, 37. Kntd. Agincourt 25 Oct. 1415.
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Attestor, parlty. elections, Cumb. 1421 (Dec.), 1427, 1429, 1442, 1449 (Feb.), 1449 (Nov.), Westmld. 1429, 1432, 1433, 1437.

Commr. Cumb., Westmld. Apr. 1418 – Aug. 1450.

Sheriff, Cumb. 1 May 1422 – 14 Feb. 1423, 15 Jan. 1426 – 12 Jan. 1427.

J.p. Cumb. 7 July 1423 – d.

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RADCLIFFE, Sir Nicholas (c.1396-c.1454), of Castlerigg, Cumb.
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RADCLIFFE, Sir John (d.1441), of Attleborough, Norf.

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yr. s. of James Radcliffe of Radcliffe, Lancs. and bro. of Richard*. m. (1) ? in 1405, Cecily (d.1423), da. and coh. of Sir Thomas Mortimer (d. bef. 1387), of Newnham, Cambs. and Attleborough, by Mary, da. of Nicholas Park, wid. of Sir John Herling (d. bef. 1403), 1s.; (2) bef. June 1426, Katherine (c.1407-13 Oct. 1452), da. and coh. of Sir Edward Burnell (o.s. of Hugh, Lord Burnell) of Thurning and Billingford, Norf., 1s. Kntd. Aug. 1415; KG 22 Apr. 1429.
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?Secretary to Thomas of Lancaster, lt. of Ire. by 20 Mar. – aft.Dec. 1403.

Second baron of the Exchequer, Ire. 14 May 1404 – 22 Dec. 1406.

Commr. Ire., Calais, Cambs., Hants, Hunts., Ipswich, Kent, Norf., Salop, Suff. Aug. 1404 – June 1440; to take an assize of novel disseisin, Norf. July 1437, Sept. 1438, June 1440. C66/440, m. 9d; 443, m. 39d; 447, m. 15d.

Jt. chief butler, Ire. 1 Jan. 1406-c. Aug. 1411.

Envoy to treat for the ransom of French prisoners 18 Sept. 1413, to the Congress of Arras 23 June – 15 Sept. 1435, to treat with ambassadors of Prussia and the Hanse towns Mar. 1436.

Bailli of Evreux 2 June 1418 – 12 Mar. 1419; capt. by Nov. 1429-bef. Apr. 1430. A.E. Curry, ‘Military Organization in Lancastrian Normandy’ (Council for National Academic Awards Ph.D. thesis, 1985), p. lxxiv.

Constable of Bordeaux 16 May 1419 – 2 Oct. 1423.

Capt. of Fronsac 16 May 1419 – 6 Nov. 1436.

Seneschal, Aquitaine 1 May 1423 – 6 Nov. 1436.

Chamberlain, North Wales 10 Feb. 1434 – 2 Apr. 1437.

Dep. lt. of Calais by 15 Mar. – aft.Oct. 1436.

?Treasurer of the household of Thomas Langley, bp. of Durham, by 1436. Hist. Dunelmensis Scriptores Tres (Surtees Soc. ix), pp. ccxli-ccxlv.

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RADCLIFFE, Sir John (d.1441), of Attleborough, Norf.
Main residence: Attleborough, Norf.
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RADCLIFFE, Alexander (d.1476), of Ordsall, Lancs.

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s. and h. of Sir John Radcliffe (d.1442) of Ordsall by his 1st w. Clemency, da. of Hugh Standish of Duxbury, Lancs. C.P. Hampson, Bk. of Radclyffes, 143. m. by Sept. 1431, Agnes, da. of Sir William Haryngton (d.1440) of Hornby, Lancs., sis. of Thomas Haryngton I*, ?5s. 3da. Ibid. 145-6. Dist. 1457.
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Attestor, parlty. elections, Lancs. 1433, 1437, 1442.

Commr. of gaol delivery, Lancs. Nov. 1443; to assign archers Dec. 1457.

J.p. Lancs. by 20 Apr. 1465 – d.

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RADCLIFFE, Alexander (d.1476), of Ordsall, Lancs.
Main residence: Ordsall, Lancs.
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RACY, Adam (d.c.1454), of Leicester.

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m. by Nov. 1427, Elizabeth (fl.1464).
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Attestor, parlty. elections, Leicester 1432, 1435, 1437, 1442.

Bailiff, Leicester Mich. 1427–8; mayor 1435 – 36, 1440 – 41; steward of the fair 1449–50. Leicester Bor. Recs. ed. Bateson, ii. 448, 450, 453.

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RACY, Adam (d.c.1454), of Leicester.
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QUATERMAYNS, Richard (c.1392-1477), of Rycote in Great Haseley, Oxon and London.

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b. c.1392, Aged ‘22 and more’ in the inq. post mortem held for his late brother Guy in 1414: CIPM, xx. 205. J.T. Driver, ‘Richard Quatremains’, Oxoniensia, li. 88, who suggests that he was born c.1395, does not refer to this inquisition. 3rd s. but event. h. of Thomas Quatermayns (d.1398), CIPM, xvii. 1248. of Ascot and North Weston, Oxon. by Joan (fl.1434), F.N. Macnamara, Mems. Danvers Fam. 204. da. of John Russell of Bradenstoke, Wilts. m. bef. 1422, CP25(1)/191/26/47. Sibyl (c.1400-1483), da. and coh. of Nicholas Englefield (d.1415) of Rycote by Joan, da. and coh. of Nicholas Clerk alias Rycote of Rycote and Katherine his w., CIPM, xx. 329. It is on the basis of unreliable visitation evidence that Driver, 89n, mistakenly states that Sibyl was the daughter of Sir John Englefield. 1s. d.v.p. Magdalen Coll. Oxf., Corton mss, 94, f. 2v. Dist. 1430, 1439, 1458, 1465.
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Attestor, parlty. elections, Bucks. 1427, Oxon. 1450.

Commr. of inquiry, Essex, Kent Apr. 1421 (shipwreck), Berks., Oxon. June 1435 (escapes of prisoners), Cornw. July 1441 (seizure of Breton ship), Oxon. June 1451 (lands of late Sir John Drayton†), Sept. 1452 (escapes of prisoners), Mar. 1454 (lands of Elizabeth Strange), Mar. 1463 (breaches of statutes regarding sale of wool), Cambs., Herts., Lincs., Norf., Oxon., Suff. July 1463 (lands of William, Viscount Beaumont), Oxon. Aug. 1473 (unpaid farms); to assess tax Apr. 1431, Jan. 1436, Aug. 1450, July 1463; distribute tax allowance Dec. 1433; administer oath to keep the peace May 1434; of array Jan. 1436, Sept. 1457, Dec. 1459, May 1471, Mar. 1472; arrest ships, London Mar. 1436; determine an appeal from the ct. of admiralty Mar. 1442; treat for loans, Oxon. Aug. 1442, Berks., Oxon. June 1446; of gaol delivery, Oxford castle Mar. 1448, Jan. 1451, Dec. 1461, Feb. 1466 (q.), Apr. 1473 (q.), Wallingford castle Nov. 1450, Nov. 1456, Apr. 1466, May 1474, May 1475; C66/465, m. 7d; 472, mm. 18d, 20d; 482, m. 16d; 494, m. 11d; 512, m. 8d; 513, m. 12d; 515, m. 3d; 531, m. 9d; 533, m. 22d; 535, m. 9d. oyer and terminer, Oxon. May 1450, Berks., Oxon. Apr. 1464, Berks. Dec. 1464; to assess subsidy, Oxon. Aug. 1450, July 1463; assign archers Dec. 1457; of sewers, Bucks., Oxon. July 1468; to take an assize of novel disseisin,, Bucks. July 1469; C66/524, m. 16d. of arrest, ?Oxon. June 1471. A letter from Quatermayns to Thomas Stonor II and Humphrey Forster indicates that he also served on a tax comm. for Oxon. – perhaps in the later 1460s – of which there is no trace in the Chancery rolls: Stonor Letters, i. (Cam. Soc. ser. 3, xxix), 99–100; C. Carpenter, ‘Stonor Circle’, in Rulers and Ruled ed. Archer and Walker, 192n.

Controller of tunnage and poundage, London 6 Feb. 1422–?Mar. 1426; CPR, 1416–22, p. 410; 1422–9, pp. 58, 323. collector 16 Aug. 1433–?Mich. 1448; CFR, xvi. 163, 179, 329; xvii. 237; xviii. 55; E403/773, mm. 8, 11. controller of the petty custom 6 Dec. 1448–30 Sept. 1449. CPR, 1446–52, pp. 221, 304.

Steward of the household of Richard Beauchamp, earl of Warwick, bef. Mich. 1429, of Beauchamp manors of Quarrendon, Bucks., Flamstead, Herts. and Cosgrove, Northants. Mich. 1429–41, Spelsbury, Oxon. Mich. 1438–40. Oxon. RO, Dillon mss, X/d/36, 37; II/b/2, 3; A.F.J. Sinclair, ‘Beauchamp Earls of Warwick’ (London Univ. Ph.D. thesis, 1988), 331.

J.p. Oxon. 10 Nov. 1432–6, 23 Nov. 1437 – July 1461, 17 July 1461 (q.)-Nov. 1470, 12 June 1471 (q.)-d., Berks. 24 June 1449 – Mar. 1452, Oxford 30 Nov. 1472 (q.)-d., Oxford University 5 Apr. 1475 (q.)-d.

Escheator, Oxon. and Berks. 3 Nov. 1434 – 7 Nov. 1435.

Sheriff, Oxon. and Berks. 8 Nov. 1436 – 6 Nov. 1437, 4 Nov. 1454 – 3 Nov. 1455.

Verderer, forests of Stowood and Shotover, Oxon. by Nov. 1437. CCR, 1435–41, p. 143.

Surveyor of pontage, Oxon. Apr. 1444–9 (Chiselhampton), Feb. 1451–3 (Hareford Bridge). CPR, 1441–6, p. 267; 1446–52, p. 413.

Jt. provost of Bayonne (with Ralph Butler, Lord Sudeley) 13 Apr. 1448–? CCR, 1447–54, p. 73.

Surveyor, estates of Cecily, duchess of York, 29 June 1461–?d. SC6/764/10; 850/29, m. 2.

Jt. steward (with Richard Fowler†) of manor of Woodstock and hundred of Wootton, Oxon. by 1467, Woodstock, Hanborough, Stonesfield and Wootton 16 Feb. 1474–?d. PROME, xiii. 290; CPR, 1467–77, pp. 422–3.

Member of Edw. IV’s Council by 1467.

Surveyor, Windsor castle, Woodstock and other royal lordships, Berks., Herts., Oxon. 22 Dec. 1475–?d., Windsor castle, Woodstock and other royal lordships, Berks., Oxon. 24 Feb. 1476–?d. CPR, 1467–77, pp. 573–4.

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QUATERMAYNS, Richard (c.1392-1477), of Rycote in Great Haseley, Oxon and London.
Main residences: Rycote in Great Haseley, Oxon; London.
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