Family and Education
b. c. 1523, 1st s. of John Prince, master of St. Giles’s hospital, Shrewsbury, by Alice, da. of John Bradley of Wenlock. educ. I. Temple Nov. 1553. m. (1) Margaret (d.1584), da. of Geoffrey Manchester of Manchester; (2) Dorothy, da. of William Leighton of Plaish, 4s. 5da. 1da. illegit. suc. fa. 20 July 1557.Vis. Salop (Harl. Soc. xxix), 410; H. Owen and J. B. Blakeway, Shrewsbury, ii. 140; Trans. Salop Arch. Soc. (ser. 4), v. 47; viii. 122.
Offices Held
Burgess, Shrewsbury 1551; feodary, Salop by 1562 – 73, commr. musters 1577.
Parlimentarian
Main residence: Whitehall, Abbey Foregate, Shrewsbury, Salop.
Volume
Commons 1558-1603
Web Title
PRINCE, Richard (c.1523-98)
Will
Estates
Oxford 1644
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