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.

Main residences: Gray's Inn, London; Wardley Hall, Lancs.
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Commons 1604-1629
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DOWNES, Roger (c.1570-1638)

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Oxford 1644
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