WORSLEY, Robert (d.1604/5), of Booths, Lancs.

Family and Education

1st s. of Sir Robert Worsley of Booths by his 1st w. Alice, da. of Thurstan Tyldesley (the Earl of Derby’s receiver) of Wardley. educ. St. John’s, Camb. 1562. m. Elizabeth, da. of Sir Thomas Gerard of Bryn, 3s. 8da. suc. fa. 1585.

Offices Held

Keeper of New Fleet prison at Salford c. 1579; commr. eccles. causes, diocese of Chester 1580.W. Dugdale, Vis. Lancs. iii (Chetham Soc. lxxxiii), 339–40; (xcviii), 83; VCH Lancs. iv. 383; CSP Dom. Add. 1580–1625, p. 25.

Parlimentarian

WORSLEY, Robert (d.1604/5), of Booths, Lancs.

Main residence: Booths, Lancs.

Author

I.C.

Volume

Commons 1558-1603

Web Title

WORSLEY, Robert (-d.1604/5)

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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