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Hesketh, Thomas (1527 - 1588)

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Born / Died

Birth Date: 1527
Death Date: 1588-06-20

Notes

Ward of Thomas Holcroft Nov. 1541. Imprisoned for recusancy 1561

Parents

Marriages/Other Unions

  1. Holcroft, Alice ( - 1605)
    Type: marriage
    Union began: n.d.
    Union ended: n.d.

Siblings

Offspring

Primary Title

  • Knight

Titles

  • Knight
    Assumed: 1553-10-02
    Vacated: 1588-06-20

General Lands Note

Received livery of lands 2 Dec. 1547

Details of Offices

Began Ended
Sheriff, Lancashire 1562 -11 1563 -11 -14
Commissioner of Musters, Lancashire 1570
JP, Lancashire 1577 1578
Mayor, Lancashire 1577
JP, Lancashire 1583 1584

Details of Properties

Residence

Lands

  • Lancashire: Becconsall Manor
  • Lancashire: Croston Manor
  • Lancashire: Great Harwood Manor
  • Lancashire: Hesketh Manor
  • Lancashire: Holmes & Holmes Wood Manor
  • Lancashire: Mawdesley Manor
  • Lancashire: Tottlesworth Manor
  • Lancashire: Wrightington Manor

Event Naming Patron

Event Type Date Location Troupe
Bequest - Read Hall, near Whalley, Lancashire Sir Thomas Hesketh's Minstrel
Performance? - Knowsley Hall, near Prescot, Lancashire Sir Thomas Hesketh's Players

Patronized Troupes

Troupe Name Patron Troupe Type # of events
Sir Thomas Hesketh's Minstrel Hesketh, Thomas (1527 - 1588) Entertainers/Minstrels 1
Sir Thomas Hesketh's Players Hesketh, Thomas (1527 - 1588) Players 1

Owned Venues

Venue Name County Type
Martholme Lancashire Private Residence
Rufford Hall Lancashire Private Residence

Bibliographic Sources

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  • Baines, Edward. History of the County Palatine and Duchy of Lancaster. 1836 (4 vols). 5 vols. Manchester: John Heywood, 1883--93
  • Baines, Edward. History of the County Palatine and Duchy of Lancaster. 4 vols. London: Fisher, Son & Co., 1836
  • Coward, Barry. Stanleys, Lords Stanley, and Earls of Derby, 1385--1672. Manchester: Manchester UP, 1983
  • List of Sheriffs for England and Wales from the Earliest Times to AD 1831. London: HMSO, 1898
  • Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
  • Quintrell, B.W. Proceedings of the Lancashire Justices of the Peace at the Sherrifs Table During Assizes Week, 1578--1694. np: Printed for the Record Society of Lancashire & Cheshire, 1981
  • Rufford Old Hall, Lancashire. London: The National Trust, 1998
  • The Victoria History of the County of Lancaster. 8 vols. London: Archibald Constable, 1906--14