TOWNSHEND, Hayward (c.1577-c.1603), of Lincoln’s Inn, London.

b. c. 1577, 1st s. of Henry Townshend of Cound, Salop by his 1st w. Susan, da. of Sir Rowland Hayward. educ. St. Mary Hall, Oxf. BA 1595; L. Inn 1594, called 1601. m. Francasina, illegit. da. of Edmund Neville (claimant to earldom of Westmorland) by Francasina or Francelliana, prob. da. of John Townshend of Dereham Abbey, Norf., s.p.Vis. Salop (Harl. Soc. xxix), 463-5; Vis. Norf. ed. Dashwood (Norf. and Norwich Arch. Soc. 1878), i. 307, 311; Shrewsbury Burgess Roll, ed. Forrest, 287; CSP Dom. 1629-31, p. 520; J. A. C. Durham, Townshends of Raynham, 26.