Family and Education
b. by 1507, s. of William Kitchen by da. of Richard Preston of Bailrigg Lancs. m. (1) Agnes, da. of William Clerke of Hatfield, 2s. 2da.; (2) Jane, illegit. da. of Sir John Towneley of Towneley, Lancs., wid. of Roger Dalton of Bispham, Lancs.Date of birth estimated from first reference. J. B. Watson, ‘Lancs. gentry 1529-58’ (London Univ. M.A. thesis, 1959), 385. Watson identifies Jane Kitchen’s father as Sir John Towneley, but according to Vis. Lancs. (Chetham Soc. lxxxviii), 305-6 she was the daughter of Richard Towneley and granddaughter of Sir John.
Offices Held
Feodary, Herts. and Mdx. in 1534; receiver, abbeys of Cockersand and Whalley, Lancs. 1538, j.p. St. Alban’s liberty, Herts. 1540, Herts. 1543, Lancs. c. 1545 – d.; commr. chantries Cheshire and Lancs. 1546, 1548, subsidy, Lancs. 1549, relief, Herts., Lancs. 1550; other commissions, Lancs. and Westmld. 1548 – 51; surveyor, ct. augmentations, Lancs. by 1552 – 54, Exchequer 1554–d.
Main residences: Hatfield, Herts.; Pilling, Lancs.
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Commons 1509-1558
Web Title
KITCHEN, John (by 1507-62)
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Oxford 1644
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