ASSHETON, Ralph (c.1606-1680), of Whalley and Downham, Lancs.

Family and Education

b. c. 1606, 1st s. of Sir Ralph Assheton, 1st bt., of Great Lever and Whalley, Lancs., and Dorothy, da. of Sir James Bellingham, of Westmorland.J. Foster, Lancs. Peds. educ. Univ. Coll. Oxf. 1623, aged 17; G. Inn 1624. Al. Ox., GI Admiss. m. (1) lic. 17 Apr. 1630, Cent. Kent. Stud. U1644; CB, i. 150. Dorothy (d. 28 Jan. 1635), T.D. Whitaker, Hist. Whalley (4th edn.), ii. 145. da. of Sir Nicholas Tufton*, 2nd bt. and 1st earl of Thanet, s.p.; (2) 1644, Elizabeth (d. 8 June 1686), Ibid. ii. 145. da. of Sir Sapcot Harington of Royde, Lincs., 1s. d.v.p. Foster, Lancs. Peds. suc. fa. as 2nd bt. 1644, CB, i. 150. and cos. Richard Assheton in Downham estate 1657. VCH Lancs. vi. 554, n. 44. d. 30 Jan. 1680. Whitaker, ii. 145; Soc. Gen. Downham par. reg. transcript, 125.

Offices Held

Freeman, Preston, Lancs. by 1622; Preston Guild Rolls ed. W.A. Abram (Lancs. and Cheshire Rec. Soc. ix), 76. commr. subsidy, Lancs. 1641, Poll Tax, 1642, SR, v. 86, 153. sequestration 1643, assessment 1644 – 48, 1660 – 69, Northern Assoc. 1645, defence, Lancs. 1645, militia 1648, 1660; A. and O. i. 114, 546, 642, 707, 758, 968, 1085, 1238; ii. 1371, 1433. recvr. for duchy of Lancaster, Lancs. 1644–d.; Duchy of Lancaster Office-Holders ed. R. Somerville, 133. j.p. Lancs. 1647 – 49, 1660–6; Lancs. RO, QSC44–63. elder, Blackburn classis, 1646; CJ, iv. 669. out-bailiff, Clitheroe, Lancs. 1660–2. W.S. Weeks, Clitheroe in Seventeenth Cent. 228, 300.

Parlimentarian

ASSHETON, Ralph (c.1606-1680), of Whalley and Downham, Lancs.

Main residence: Whalley and Downham, Lancs.

Author

R.C.L.S.

Volume

Commons 1604-1629

Web Title

ASSHETON, Ralph (c.1606-1680)

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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