Family and Education
3rd s. of Richard Radcliffe† (d.c.1375) of Astley and Radcliffe Tower by Isabel, da. and coh. of John Harcla. m. (1) 1s.; (2) c.1386, Joan (fl. 1417), wid. of Gilbert Southworth (d. by 1355) of Samlesbury and William Farington (fl. 1375).VCH Lancs. vi. 305, 514; Chetham Soc. n.s. xcii. 81; DKR, xxxiii. 15. According to C.P. Hampson (Bk. of Radclyffes, 19), Richard Radcliffe’s wife was the da. and h. of Sir Robert Pleasington and coh. to Michael Harcla, but Pleasington left a son, Sir Robert*, to succeed him. In many instances, Hampson confuses this Member with his kinsman and namesake, who was sheriff of Lancashire and master forester of Blackburnshire. It is also hard to believe his suggestion that Thomas’s first wife was Ellen, da. and coh. of Hugh Tyldesley, largely on the implausibility of the chronological evidence.
Offices Held
Steward of the wapentake of Blackburnshire in the duchy of Lancaster, Lancs. 7 Apr. 1383-c.1393, Feb. 1402 – d.; master forester of Pendle, Lancs. 6 June 1401–d.
Commr. of array, Lancs. Feb. 1384, Mar. 1400; inquiry Sept. 1385 (distraints at Chadderton),
J.p. Lancs. Mar. 1385, July 1394, Mar. 1400, Feb. 1402.
Constable of Lancaster castle by 1394.
Main residences: Winmarleigh; Astley, Lancs.
Volume
Commons 1386-1421
Web Title
RADCLIFFE, Thomas (-d.1403)
Will
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Oxford 1644
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