RADCLIFFE, Ralph (d.1432), of Blackburn and Smithills, Lancs.

Family and Education

s. and h. of Sir Ralph Radcliffe. m. (1) bef. 1400, 1s.; (2) by Dec. 1416, Cecily (fl. 1435), wid. of Hugh Venables (d.1415), of Kinderton, Cheshire, at least 2s. 2da. Kntd. 19 May 1426.Chetham Soc. xcix. 34-36; DKR, xxxiii. 35; xxxvii (2), 604; G. Ormerod, Palatine and City of Chester ed. Helsby, iii (1), 199; CPR, 1413-16, p. 337; CPL, v. 406; Knights of Eng. ed. Shaw, i. 132.

Offices Held

Receiver of the Lancs. and Cheshire estates of the duchy of Lancaster 10 Apr. 1413–24 Nov. 1417.Somerville, Duchy, i. 493; DL42/17 (2), f. 57.

J.p. Lancs. July 1413, July 1416, Mar. 1418, Aug. 1426.Chetham Soc. n.s. xcvi. 129; Somerville, i. 494.

Commr. of inquiry, Lancs. Aug. 1413 (disorder at Pennington), Aug. 1417 (ownership of the manor of Rishton); array Apr. 1418;Chetham Soc. n.s. xcvi. 129. to raise a royal loan Nov. 1419; assess persons liable for taxation Apr. 1431.

Justice at the Lancaster assizes to 12 Aug. 1415.DKR, xxxiii. 12.

Parlimentarian

RADCLIFFE, Ralph

Main residences: Blackburn; Smithills, Lancs.

Author

C.R.

Volume

Commons 1386-1421

Web Title

RADCLIFFE, Ralph (-d.1432)

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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