RIGBY, Alexander II (1620-94), of Middleton Hall in Goosnargh, Kirkham, Lancs.

Family and Education

bap. 20 Aug. 1620, 1st s. of Alexander Rigby* and 1st w. Lucy.Prestbury Reg. Bk. ed. J. Croston (Lancs. and Cheshire Rec. Soc. v), 226. educ. Wigan (William Rathband) 1630; Macclesfield g.s. 1631;HMC Kenyon, 40-1, 47. Emmanuel, Camb. Mich. 1637;Al. Cant. (G. Inn by 1640).HMC Kenyon, 58. m. (1) 9 Dec. 1642, Elizabeth, da. of Sir William Herrys of Shenfield, Essex, 1s. da. d.v.p.; (2) Margaret, da. of Thomas Legh of Adlington, Lancs. 1s. d.v.p. ; (3) Margaret, da. of Sir Gibert Hoghton* of Hoghton Tower, Lancs. 2s. 4da. (1 ).Belchamp Walter, Essex par. reg.; Vis. Lancs. 1664-5 ed. F.R. Raines (Chetham Soc. o.s. lxxxviii), 245-6. suc. fa. 18 Aug. 1650.Desiderata Curiosa ed. F. Peck (1735), ii. lib. xiv, p. 23. bur. 4 Mar. 1694 4 Mar. 1694.Preston par. reg.

Offices Held

Civic: freeman, Preston 29 Aug. 1642–d.Preston Guild Rolls ed. W.A. Abram (Lancs. and Cheshire Rec. Soc. ix), 102, 135, 174.

Military: lt.-col. of ft. (parlian.) 1643-aft. Jan. 1647;Warr in Lancs. 42–3; Palatine Note-Bk. iii. 281; J.M. Gratton, ‘The Parliamentarian and Royalist War Effort in Lancs. 1642–51’ (Manchester Univ. PhD thesis, 1998), 553. horse, May 1648-bef. Mar. 1650.Lancs. Civil War Tracts, 252; Whitelocke, Mems. ii. 317; CSP Dom. 1650, p. 34; Gratton, ‘War Effort in Lancs.’, 553. Col. militia ft. Lancs. Aug. 1659–?Bodl. Rawl. C.179, p. 287; CJ vii. 772a.

Local: commr. defence of Lancs. 29 Aug. 1645; northern cos. militia, 23 May 1648. 16 Apr. 1650 – 2 Aug. 1652A. and O. J.p. Lancs., Mar. 1660-bef. Aug. 1664.Lancs. RO, QSC/52, 62; A Perfect List (1660). Commr. militia, 26 July 1659, 12 Mar. 1660;A. and O. assessment, 26 Jan., 1 June 1660, 1661, 1664, 1672, 1677, 1679, 1690–d.;A. and O.; An Ordinance...for an Assessment (1660, E.1075.6); SR. poll tax, 1660.SR. Dep. lt. c.May 1689–d.SP44/165, p. 286; ‘Alexander Rigby’, HP Commons, 1660–90.

: of Middleton Hall in Goosnargh, Lancs., Kirkham.

Volume

Commons 1640-1660

Web Title

RIGBY, Alexander II (1620-94), of Middleton Hall in Goosnargh, Kirkham, Lancs.

Will

not found.

Estates

family estate worth c.£500-£600 p.a. by 1640.Long, ‘Lancs.’, 155. By 1663, Rigby owned house of 15 hearths in Preston.H. Fishwick, Hist. of Preston (Rochdale, 1900), 433. In 1666, he mortgaged property in Eccleston and Euxton, Lancs. for £2,289.Lancs. RO, DDX 900/8.

Oxford 1644

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