Kt. Sir Nicholas Rushton

• Son of Henry Rushton and Agnes Sherburne

Kt. Sir Nicholas Rishton Knight, by Our Royal Titled and Commoner Ancestors

Nicholas Rishton, Esq

• b. b. after 1454, d. 3 May 1508
• Father: Henry Rishton b. c 1430, d. bt 1471 - 1488
• Mother: Agnes Sherburne b. c 1433, d. a 1471

Nicholas Rishton, Esq. was born after 1454 at of Dunkenhalgh, Lancashire, England.1,2,3 He married Margaret Radcliffe, daughter of John Radcliffe, Esq. and Isabel Tyldesley, on 20 June 1471; They had 3 sons (Richard; Henry; & Nicholas) and 3 daughters (Agnes, wife of (Mr.) Holcroft, of Richard Worthington, & of Robert Bolton; Isabel, wife of (Mr.) Hothersall; & Elizabeth, wife of Roger Nowell).2,3 Nicholas Rishton, Esq. died on 3 May 1508.1,2

Married

• Married: Margaret Radcliffe, b. c 1457, d. 6 Jul 1528

Children

• Richard Rishton
• Henry Rishton
• Nicholas Rishton
• Agnes Rishton+1,2,3 b. c 1480, d. a 1526. Wife of (Mr.) Holcroft, of Richard Worthington
• Isabel Rishton, wife of (Mr.) Hothersall.
• Elizabeth Rishton, wife of Roger Nowell).

Examynatyons towcheynge Cokeye More, temp. Hen. VIII., in a dispute between the lords of the manors of Middleton and Radclyffe : with introduction and notes, by Assheton, Richard, Sir, 1482?-1549; Radclyffe, John, -1518; Raines, F. R. (Francis Robert), 1805-1878, editor; Lancaster (England : Duchy). Court

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Ibid. ^'‘Syr John Barton.”^ Sir John Barton, Rector of Middleton, has escaped the notice of all the local historians, and finds no place in any of the visitations or other genealogical collections. Dodsworth has a meagre outline of the family, from which it appears that Roger de Middleton (who presented his son John de Middleton, clerk, to the Rectory in 1297 —Lane. MSS. vol. xiv. p. 57—and whose son Robert granted all his lands in Middle- ton to Roger his father, by deed dated 24 Edward I.—Ih. p. 59,) was fined for settlement of his estate 10 Edward II. (1316), and died before 16 Edward II. (1322), leaving by his wife Agnes six daughters, his coheiresses, of whom Matilda, or Maud, the eldest, married John Barton of Fry ton in Rydale (the John de Kydale of Baines and others) in the North Riding of the county of York, by whom she had probably Ralph Barton, who died seized of the manor of Middleton 8 Henry IV. (1406), and a son and successor, William Barton of Middleton, who married (ante 44 Edward III.) Isabella, daughter of William de Radclyffe (alive 6 Henry V.) whose son and heir Richard Barton (alive 6th September 9 Henry V.) had issue two sons, viz. Richard, who married Alicia, daughter of Sir John Byron of Clayton (alive 5 Edward IV. and then a widow), and John Barton, who married Margaret, daughter of Sir Nicholas Byron Knt. Margery, sole daughter of John, and heiress of Richard Barton, (whose son Thomas ob. v.p., and whose son Richard appears to have had no male descendants capable of succeeding to the inheritance) married (covenant dated 15 April 17 Henry VI.) Sir Ralph Asslieton, the owner of Middleton jure uxoris. He was the son of Sir John Assheton of Asslieton by his second w’ife, Margaret, daughter of Sir John Byron of Clayton Knt. — Lane. MSS. vol. xxxvii. p. 197, et vol. xiv. pp. 58—75. Sir John Barton became Rector of Middleton before 1478, and died about 1493. He probably is the same person who 25 Henry VI. (1446), along with James de Radcliffe Esq., Richard Barton of Middleton Esq., John de Radclyffe, Richard de Illingworth, (John de Barton, clerk,) and Richard, son of Richard de Barton, conveyed to Richard de Radclyffe del Rhodes the lands which they had received as trustees of Richard de Bamford in Middleton, Spotland, Bury, Withington, &c.—Lane. MSS. vol. xiv. p. 80. He also occurs 21 Edward IV. (1481), when Henry de Holt of Balderston grants to John de Barton, Rector of the Church of Middleton, Thomas le Wryght, Vicar of Eccles, Richard, son NOTES.

Links

• https://www.gdcooke.org/ss/org2-o/p7295.htm
• https://parkerrishtonandbarlow.webs.com/genealogical-tables
• https://cybergata.com/roots/4150.htm
• https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/lancs/vol6/pp417-423
• https://www.deanechurch.co.uk/library/BooksDigital/RemainsHistorica...
• https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/lancs/vol6/pp344-348

Citations

• 1. The agricultural returns for 1905 give arable land 2 acres, permanent grass 2,552 acres, woods and plantations 53 acres.
• 2. According to the new survey 2,985 acres, of which 67 are inland water; Census Rep. 1901.
• 3. Dict. Nat. Biog.
• 4. Robert gave the whole town of Rishton, viz. two plough-lands, according to findings in 1417 and 1425, based apparently on the charter (wrongly dated Edw. I); Dep. Keeper's Rep. xxxiii, App. 15, 26. The grant and pedigree will be found stated in earlier pleadings quoted below; the first descents were: Gilbert -s. Henry -s. Gilbert.
• 5. Lancs. Inq. and Extents (Rec. Soc. Lancs. and Ches.), i, 151. Adam de Rishton in 1246 accused Paulinus de Pouel of the death of Edith his wife, and Paulinus was outlawed. As the town of Rishton did not take him it was fined; Assize R. 404, m. 20.
• 6. Ibid. 438, m. 16 d.; but the statement was disputed. At the same time the gift by Robert de Praers was said to have been made in 1245–6, but Gilbert held the manor in 1242.
• 7. Lancs. Inq. and Extents, i, 215–16.
• 8. Adam de Rishton claimed 20 acres against Henry de Rishton and Richard de Rishton; De Banco R. 38, m. 10 d. Henry de Rishton complained of depasturing by Gilbert de Rishton his son and others; ibid. 41, m. 18.
• 9. Final Conc. (Rec. Soc. Lancs. and Ches.), i, 155; 80 acres in Cunliffe and Side Beet were excepted. The rent of a rose yearly was due. Adam was, according to later statements, the illegitimate son of Gilbert, so that this was virtually an endowment of Adam by his father. Gilbert must have had possession while his father Henry was living.
• 10. In 1281 Adam de Rishton complained that Gilbert, to whom he had demised the manor for life, was making waste, &c.; De Banco R. 41, m. 42 d. Ten years later there was a similar complaint, the destruction of a water-mill being alleged; ibid. 91, m. 198, 282; 101, m. 151; 109, m. 109. Adam de Rishton about the same time summoned Richard de Rishton to observe customs and do services as were due from the free tenement he held of Adam in Rishton; ibid. 87, m. 141; 91, m. 260 d
• [S15] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, p. 900.
• [S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. IV, p. 369.
• [S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. V, p. 395.
• Townships: Rishton', in A History of the County of Lancaster: Volume 6, ed. William Farrer and J Brownbill (London, 1911), pp. 344-348. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/lancs/vol6/pp344-348 [accessed 23 February 2023]