Family and Education
b. 1515 /16, 1st s. of Thomas Rigmayden of Wedacre by Jane, ?da. of Sir Richard Langton of Newton. ?; ?unm. suc. fa. 10 Oct. 1521.Aged five at father’s death, VCH Lancs. vii. 317. Chetham Soc. cv. 215; DKR, xxxix. 559; Vis. Lancs. (Chetham Soc. lxxxi), 55; Ducatus Lanc. i. 25; J. B. Watson, ‘Lancs. gentry 1529-58’ (London, Univ. M.A. thesis, 1959), 465.
Offices Held
J.p. Lancs. 1538 – d.; commr. subsidy 1542, 1545, relief 1550, chantries, Lancs. and Bowland forest 1552, Lancs. and Yorks. 1553; dep. forester, Quernmore and Wyresdale 1540 – 41, master forester 1545.
Parlimentarian
Main residence: Wedacre in Garstang, Lancs.
Volume
Commons 1509-1558
Web Title
RIGMAYDEN, John (1515/16-57)
Will
Estates
Oxford 1644
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