DOWNES, Roger (c.1570-1638), of Gray’s Inn, London and Wardley Hall, Lancs.

Family and Education

b. c. 1570, s. of Roger Downes (d.1590), of Redacre, Cheshire, and Elizabeth, da. of Alexander Worsley of Pemberton, Lancs.Vis. Lancs. (Chetham Soc. lxxxii), 133; Wills at Chester (Lancs. and Cheshire Rec. Soc. ii), 56. educ. Staple Inn, G. Inn 1590, called ?1598. GI Admiss.; W. Prest, Rise of the Barristers, 357. m. (1) 23 Apr. 1601, Wigan Par. Regs. 1580-1625 (Lancs. Par. Reg. Soc. iv), 264. Elizabeth (bur. 17 Sept. 1602), Ibid. 188. da. of Miles Gerrard of Ince, Lancs., 1s. d.v.p. ; Ibid. 53. (2) 11 Sept. 1605, Cockerham Par. Regs. (Lancs. Par. Reg. Soc. xxi), 98. Anne, da. of John Calvert of Cockerham, Lancs., 3s. 1da.; (3) c.1620, Mary (d. aft. 1643), da. of Richard Holland† of Heaton, Lancs., wid. of Adam Eccleston, of Eccleston, Lancs., s.p. DL1/284; PROB 11/213, ff. 227-9v. bur. 6 July 1638. Wigan Par. Regs. 1626-75 (Lancs. Par. Reg. Soc. clii), 227.

Offices Held

Feodary, Ct. of Wards, Lancs. 1601–5; WARD 9/275, unfol.; HMC Hatfield, xxii. 116. freeman, Preston, Lancs. by 1602, Preston Guild Rolls ed. W.A. Abram (Lancs. and Cheshire Rec. Soc. ix), 55, 78. Wigan, Lancs. by 1628; D. Sinclair, Hist. Wigan, i. 197. j.p. Lancs. by 1604-at least 1633; Lancs. RO, QSC 3–20. commr. sewers, Lancs. 1608, 1633, C181/2, f. 59v, 181/4, f. 130v. subsidy, 1621 – 22, 1624; C212/22/20, 21, 23. v.-chamberlain of Chester, 1625–d.; Ormerod, Cheshire, i. 60. commr. Forced Loan, Lancs. 1627; C193/12/2, f. 30. collector, knighthood fines, Lancs. 1631–2, HEHL, EL12021; E178/7154, f. 239. St. Paul’s Cathedral repair, 1635; C.W. Sutton, Life of Humphrey Chetham (Chetham Soc. n.s. lxix), 91. commr. charitable uses, Chester 1637. C192/1, unfol.

Bencher, G. Inn 1615 – d., reader 1615, dean of the chapel 1624, treas. 1628. PBG Inn i. 218, 265, 283.

Parlimentarian

DOWNES, Roger (c.1570-1638), of Gray’s Inn, London and Wardley Hall, Lancs.

Main residences: Gray's Inn, London; Wardley Hall, Lancs.

Author

R.C.L.S.

Volume

Commons 1604-1629

Web Title

DOWNES, Roger (c.1570-1638)

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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