GASCOIGNE, George (by 1537-77), of Cardington, Beds. and Walthamstow, Essex.

b. by 1537, 1st. s. of Sir John Gascoigne by Margaret, da. and h. of Sir Robert Scargill of Thorpe Hall, Richmond, Yorks.C142/151/3; DNB; Vis. Beds. (Harl. Soc. xix), 72, 173. educ. ?Trinity Coll. Camb.;Al. Cant. i(2), p. 199; Hemetes the Hermit, f. 6. No evidence of Gascoigne’s attendance has been found. G. Inn 1555, ancient 1565. m. bigamously, Nov. 1561, Elizabeth, da. of John Bacon, wid. of William Breton of London, and w. of Edward Boys of Nonington, Kent, 1s. suc. fa. 1568.C. T. Prouty, George Gascoigne, 293-304; cf. PCC 16 Chaynay; Vis. Beds. 72; PCC 12 Babington.