Eleanor Bowes

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Richard Musgrave’s daughter Eleanor married Robert Bowes of Aske, Yorkshire. Henry Curwen, Musgrave’s fellow-Member, had been pre-contracted to Agnes Wharton and in 1566 Simon Musgrave†, Richard’s uncle and heir male, claimed that Henry and Agnes had been lawfully married and that therefore she and Richard had lived in unlawful wedlock and their children were bastards. A commission headed by the archbishop of Canterbury was appointed in July 1566 to decide the matter with reference to the rights of the surviving child. Whatever the decision (apparently against Simon), there was no lasting quarrel between the families: Simon Musgrave’s son Christopher Musgrave† married a Curwen and his grandson Richard Musgrave† married a Wharton.5

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