o.5. Thomas WORTLEY, Esq. geb. c. 1503

o.5.  Thomas, Esq. geb. c. 1503, Wortley, Yorkshire, Engeland, oorl. 11/04/1545 x 07/06/1522 (13 Hen 8) met Margaret SAVILLE, geb. c. 1504, Thornhill Hall, Dewsbury, Yorkshire, Engeland, oorl. 1541, begr. Moreton-Corbet, Shropshire, Engeland, d.v. Sir John Savile van Tankersley en Thornhill en Elizabeth Paston.  (Margaret xx  Okt 1546 met Sir Richard Corbet.)

Thomas was die seun van Thomas Wortley en Elizabeth Fitzwilliam.

(Foster, Joseph:  Pedigrees of the County Families of Yorkshire, Vol. 2, West Riding. London. 1874)

Thomas Wortley het gedurende die regeringstyd van koning Henry VIII (r.1509-1546) geleef.  Die English Reformation het gedurende Koning Henry VIII se regeringstyd plaasgevind.  Koning Henry VIII is bekend vir sy rol in die skeiding van die Church of England en die Pous/Rooms Katolieke Kerk.  Hy wou van sy vrou skei, maar die Pous wou dit nie toelaat nie.  Henry beveel toe die Archbishop of Canterbury in 1533 om vir hom ‘n egskeiding teen die wense van die Pous te gee.  Hierdie gebeurtenis het gelei tot die skeuring tussen Engeland en die Rooms Katolieke kerk van Rome.  Henry's struggles with Rome led to the separation of the Church of England from papal authority, the Dissolution of the Monasteries, and his own establishment (1534) as the Supreme Head of the Church of England.  (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_VIII_of_England)  Die Tankersley Saviles en die Wortleys kan aan die Royal line geskakel word d.m.v. ‘n huwelik wat in die vyftiende eeu plaasgevind het.  Dit stam uit Edward III se seun, John of Gaunt, wie se derde huwelik met Katerine Swynford gelei het tot die Beaufort lyn.  Sir Edmund Beaufort, was die seun van Sir John de Beaufort, 1st Earl of Somerset en Lady Margaret de Holand.  Anne Beaufort was die dogter van Sir Edmund Beaufort (1406-1455), 1st Duke of Somerset and Lady Eleanor Beauchamp.  Anne Beaufort geb. voor 1453, oorl. voor 28 Nov 1496 trou met William Paston en het ‘n dogter, Elizabeth, geb. 1480 wat met Savile trou.  Lady Joan Beaufort, d.v. Edmund Beaufort, Earl of Somerset, kleinseun van John of Gaunt, was die vrou van James I van Scotland en die tante van Lady Paston, a lady, who had four husbands, lived to a great age, was of royal lineage, and is a link in a genalogical chain which unites the Saviles and the Wortleys with the Plantagenet Kings of England, die moeder van Lady Savile of Tankersley.  (Habershon, Matthew Henry:  Chapeltown researches, archaeological and historical; including old-time memories of Thorncliff, its ironworks and collieries and their antecedents. Sheffield. 1893)  The Countess of Richmond, (Margaret Beaufort) the mother of Henry Vll. (r. 1485-1509), and therefore ultimately the mother-in-law of Elizabeth, the daughter of Edward IV, had a first cousin, Lady Paston, whose daughter became wife of a gentleman of this neighbourhood, Sir John Saville, of Tankersley. A daughter of this Sir John and Lady Saville married the head of the house of Wortley. (Habershon, Matthew Henry:  Chapeltown researches, archaeological and historical; including old-time memories of Thorncliff, its ironworks and collieries and their antecedents. Sheffield. 1893)  Taking for granted that the families at Wortley, Tankersley and Cowley were neighbourly, it is natural that these persons should be thought of, and their intimacy with the Queen accounts for the position, at her court, of the lady Joan as attendant upon, and instructress of, the Princess.  (Habershon, Matthew Henry:  Chapeltown researches, archaeological and historical; including old-time memories of Thorncliff, its ironworks and collieries and their antecedents. Sheffield. 1893)

Thomas Wortley=U.S. President's First Cousin 13 x removed, Male.  (Jamie Allen's Family Tree & Ancient Genealogical Allegations Version 55)  Margaret Saville=Lady Diana's 12-Great Aunt.  (Jamie Allen's Family Tree & Ancient Genealogical Allegations Version 55)

By the late 1400's  Elizabeth Paston of Paston, Norfolk, married Sir John Savile of Thornhill, Yorkshire. "The most splendid marriage of any of the earlier Saviles, as the son (Henry) was thus a partaker of royal blood". Elizabeth Paston's marriage to John Savile, sheriff of Yorkshire, thus brought royal blood to the Saviles. (Alice De Laci, heiress of the honours of Pontefract and Clitheroe)  At Tankersley Hall she resided in the latter part of her long life, not ended before 1542 and to Tankersley she would be taken as a bride, for her first husband was Sir John Savile, Sheriff of Yorkshire, Captain of the Isle of Wight, the owner of the estates at Tankersley, Thornhill &c., by inheritance from several generations of knightly ancestors.  At Tankersley Hall would probably be born her daughter and co-heir of Sir William Paston and Lady Beaufort, daughter and co-heiress of Edmund Beaufort, Earl of Somerset, grandson of John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster; and to the Countess of Richmond, mother of Henry VII.  The widow of Sir John Savile became the wife of Sir Richard Hastings, a younger son of Lord Hastings, who was beheaded by Richard III, and who was brother to the Countess of Shrewsbury of Sheffield Castle.  When next a widow, she was courted by Sir Edward Poynings, and became his wife, and her fourth husband was Thomas Gargrave of Tankersley. 

(https://archive.org/stream/cu31924028079618#page/n81/mode/2up/search/tankersley+hall P. 64)

(Foster, Joseph, Hon. M.A. Oxon:  Some feudal coats of arms, London, 1902)

(Foster, Joseph:  Pedigrees of the County Families of Yorkshire, Vol. 2, West Riding. London. 1874)

(Habershon, Matthew Henry:  Chapeltown researches, archaeological and historical; including old-time memories of Thorncliff, its ironworks and collieries and their antecedents. Sheffield. 1893)

(The visitations of Hertfordshire made by Robert Cooke, Esq, in 1572 and Sir Richard St. George, Kt., Clarencleux, in 1634 with Hertfordshire pedigrees from Harleian MSS. 1647 and 1546 edited by Walter C. Metcalfe, F.S.A. London. 1886.)

Na Sir Thomas Wortley se dood het George Talbot as voog vir sy seun Thomas Wortley opgetree.  1516.  Obligations for wards, 7 Hen. VIII.:—Sir Wm. Hilton, ward of Eliz. Clervaux; Sir Maurice Barkeley, ward of John Barkeley; Gregory Morgan and Wm. Paver, ward of John Dadcomme; Sir John Gefforde, ward of Dorothy Mountgomere; Geo. Earl of Shrewsbury, ward of Th. Worteley; Sir Wm. Brereton, ward of Edw. Fulshurst; Hen. Parker, ward of Ric. Carson; John Warde, ward of Thomlynson; John Byron, ward of Holande; Sir Edw. Crofte, ward of Blyke; Sir Edw. Ferrours, ward of the daughters of John Stanley; Dame Lucy Browne, Sir Wm. Fitzwilliam and Sir Th. à Parr, ward of Fitzwilliam; John Ricroft; Sir John Daunce, for the arrears of 1,000l. for the East Marches, for the expences of ambassadors, and for the Kings works, 24 Hen. VII.; John Carlyon, prior, and the Convent of Lanston, in exchange of three obls. of 300 mks. released by the King's commissioners; John Clerk of Portsmouth and Anth. Cavelero, for the hire of The John Baptist; Wm. Counson, for hire of The Mary Jamys; Ric. Gresham and Wm. Copeland, merchants, for freight of the King's ship The Anne of Fowey, for two voyages, one to Estland and one to the river Jerounde (Garonne) before Burdux, 300l.; Rob. Ratclif Lord Fitzwalter; Wm. Roche, draper; John Cavelcant, for importation, within five years, saltpetre to the value of 2,400l., at the rate of 6d. a pound; Anth. Cavelero, for importation of same to the value of 1,222l.—Mary the French Queen and Charles Duke of Suffolk have indented with the King, that, for the release of 5,000l. of the Duke's debts, the King or his assigns shall receive 1,000l. in crowns of gold at Calais on 1 Nov., and 1,000l. on 1 May every year, till 24,000l. be paid: and the French Queen also gives the King 200 crowns, the moiety of her dowry.  (Brewer, J.S. ed.:  'Recognizances for the Repayment of Loans', in Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII, Volume 2, 1515-1518, (London, 1864), pp. 1481-1490)

William, who in 1516, on the division of the estates of his elder brother, Cuthbert Clifton, who died without male issue, by the award of Justice Brudenell and Serjeant Palmes, had the manor of Wortley, and its dependencies, allotted (toegeken) to him.  (Burke, John, Esq.:  History of the British landed gentry, embellished with the armorial bearings of each family)

Daar was voorheen 'n kapelaan op Wortley en hy was gehuur en betaal deur die plaaslike lord, t.w. Sir  Thomas Wortley.  Dit lyk of een van die kapelane ook opgetree het as sy stewart.  Na Sir Thomas se dood in 1514 en tydens die minderjarigheid van sy erfgenaam Thomas Wortley, is die betaling gedoen deur sy voog, George Talbot, die earl of Shrewsbury.  Dit wil voorkom asof die gemeentelede saamgespan het om die salaris van die kapelaan te voorsien in die periode na die dood van die eerste Sir Thomas.  A rather different attempt to transform the character of a chapel(ry) occurred in Tankersley parish (Yorks) in 1524, this time at Wortley.  Die gemeentelede het probeer om die rector te oorreed om vir die eerste keer vir ‘n permanente kapelaan te betaal. (Lewychy, Nadine, dr. & Morton, Adam, dr. eds.:  Getting Along?: Religious Identities and Confessional Relations in Early Modern England – Essays in Honour of Professor W.J. Sheils. Surrey 1988. Bl. 85)

Thomas Wortley, Esq. trou in 1522 (13 Hen 8) met Margaret Saville, die dogter van Sir John Savile van Tankersley en Thornhill en Elizabeth Paston.

At the i.p.m. of Thomas Wortley in December 1514 one of the manors held was Sitlington, 'alias New-Hall'.  This indicates that New Hall Farm is the site of the original manor house for the manor of Sitlington. (Midgley near Wakefield.  http://www.midgleywebpages.com/midgleyeast.html)  27 January 1521/2.  Deed of enfeoffment by Thomas Wortley, son and heir of Sir Thomas Wortley, kt., deceased, to Sir Robert Nevill, kt., Sir Thoms Wentworth, kt., Robert Gargrave and Richard Whetlay, of the manors of Mesinghill and Newhall with appurtenances [co. York], to the use of himself, his wife Margaret, daughter of Sir John Sayvell, kt., deceased, and his heirs and assigns, South Kirkby, [co. York].  (http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/rd/cd4c2589-009a-45b4-ba25-41488d8adc50)

18 April 1523 – 14H8.  Robert Nevell, Kt., Robert Gargrave and Richard Wheteley at the special request of Thomas Wortley, Esq.  son and heir of Thomas Wortley, Kt. Deceased, quit claymed to Thomas Wentworth, Kt., al the right which he had in the mannors of Masingill, Hulandswayne, Hemesworth, Waldershelfe, Shitlington, otherwise called Newhall, Overton, Middleton, Netherton, and also all the lands, &c. in Shelley, Kirkby, Nether Elmesall, Ryle, Cold Henley, or elsewhere in the county of York.  (Collins, Frances Anne ed.:  The Parish Registers of Kirburton, Co York, with appendix of Family Histories. Volume II. Printed by William Pollard & Co. North Street, Exeter, 1902)

Nether Shitlington als Netherton  (The Yorkshire Archaeological Journalhttp://www.mocavo.com/The-Yorkshire-Archaeological-Journal-Volume-8/953026/38#39)

The Yorkshire Archaeological Journal.  http://www.mocavo.com/The-Yorkshire-Archaeological-Journal-Volume-8/953026/38#33

Yorkshire Fines – 1526

Robert Ratclyff, kt., Ld. Fitzwater, Henry Ratclyff his son and heir apparent, Richard Sacheuerell, kt., Richard Walden, kt., Henry Sacheuerell, kt., Thomas Wentworth, kt., Thomas Woderoff, kt., Thomas Wentworth, Richard Wentworth, and Arthur Key

Thomas Wortley, esq., and Margaret his wife

Manor of Wortley and lands in Wortley.

(Collins, Francis, ed.:  Feet of Fines of the Tudor Period [Yorks]: Part 1, 1486-1571,  (Leeds, 1887), pp. 45-58)

Januarie 1526.  Servants of the King, with their yearly wages.  Valets of the Crown.—Wm. Stondon, John God, John David, Wm. Dycheborne, Thos. Sperte, Robt. Wythes, John Worteley, John Clogge, John Boden, John Suthwall, Wm. à Lye, Wm. Gisnam, Jas. ap Jenkyn, John Evan, Thos. ap Guilliams, Geo. Node, John Brereton, Robt. Layton, Hugh Parker, Simon Burton, John Jackson, Wm. Pole, Thos. Huntwade, John Standford, Edm. Levesley, Hugh Dye, John Rote, Thos. Totheby, and Robt. Bradwell, 9l. 2s. 6d. each. Total, 264l. 12s. 6d.  (Brewer, J.S. ed.:  'Henry VIII: January 1526, 26-31', in Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII, Volume 4, 1524-1530, (London, 1875), pp. 852-878)

10 Nov 1526. John Worteley, the Kynge's servaunte. To be bur. in the churche of Thornehill. To oure Lady in the northewhere, cremysyn velvett to make her a mantill, " clothe of goldeof my garded cote to gard it with.  My broder, MT Richarde Worteley, parson of Hemmysworth, 20s. My suster, Mrs JaneWorteley, " my broder Hugh W. 20s. each. Percyvall W. 20s. To Sir Thos. Wentworth Knt, to be good to my ex*, 20s. The res. to wife Isabell " she exx. Supervisors Sir Thos. Wentworth knt, " James Longley gen. [Pr.20 Nov.] (Reg. Test. ix. 356.) forgottenbooks.com/readbook_text/Testamenta_Eboracensia_v5

Die Old Park, wat vandag as Wortley Park bekend staan, was omring deur ‘n heining wat van pale en relings gemaak was.  Die omheining van die Park het wrywing veroorsaak tussen die Wortleys en die Saviles van die naburige Manor van Tankersley.  Die oostelike deel van die Ou Park het ‘n deel van Pilley ingesluit, wat die Saviles as deel van die heerskappy van Tankersley beskou het, soos vervat in die free warren van Tankersley.  ‘n Deer house is gebou aan die dorp Pilley se kant van die park en visdamme is gemaak op Howbrooke, wat hierdie park ‘n soortgelyke voorkoms en grootte as die van Tankersley gegee het. Die hardkoppige geaardhede en twis tussen die twee Lords (Wortley en Savile) het gelei tot stropery, geweld en regsbedingen. (Newton, Richard: Wortley through the ages.  The History of the Long Term Development of the Landscape Surrounding Wortley Hall from the End of the Ice Age to the Modern Period.)

Crossing Wortley Park Straight on `The Flats' crosses Wortley Park in the direction of Pilley. To the left the driveway leads back to Wortley Hall. (http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Crossing_Wortley_Park_-_geograph.org.uk_-_897995.jpg)

Mense het gereeld tussen Wortley en Rotherham gereis. Robert Wilson and John Chamber had occasion to make the journey in 1527, for reasons which speak volumes about the society they lived in and, in particular, about the problem of lawlessness. The owner of the deer park at Tankersley was Sir Henry Savile, while Wortley Park was 'in the hands' of George Talbot, 4th Earl of Shrewsbury, though it was owned by the Wortley family. The day to day supervision of the Park was entrusted to one William Partryche, who was described as its keeper or 'parker'. (Cooper, Stephen:  Those was good lads - a history of tudor Rotherham http://www.chivalryandwar.co.uk/Resource/TUDOR.pdf)

According to Savile, he and his men were hunting in his park of Tankersley when the hounds broke out of that park, and pursued a deer into Wortley Park. Savile said that he did not follow them himself, but sent two messengers to William Partryche, to ask him to send the hounds back. He made it clear to his men that they should not stray from the public highway which ran from Tankersley to Wortley village. On their way, the two messengers fell in with two other men, so that they were four when they reached their destination; but Partryche was unwilling to receive any messages from Savile.  Instead, he assembled and raysed upp a large body of men - about forty in all, of whom sixteen were armed with bows and arrows, and the rest with clubs and glavis (spears) and called on every man wyche was no traytor to the Earl of Shrewsbery to strike them down. Savile’s men were set upon and wounded, and one of them was dragged off and imprisoned in Sheffield Castle, a fortress which belonged to Shrewsbury.  Such was Savile's account of the affair; but William Partryche had a completely different tale to tell. He claimed that the men who had entered Wortley Park were not innocent messengers, but trespassers, who had been deliberately poaching his master's deer. Partryche had been making merry at a marriage dinner at a house in Wortley village at the time, but his wife had alerted him to the presence of the intruders, and he and a number of others had left the festivities, and entered the Park to repel them. When he got there, he had been shot at, wounded and left for dead! Furthermore, this was only the latest incident in a long history of law-breaking by Savile or his men: throughout 1525 and 1526 they had frequently hunted in Wortley Park, killing deer, damaging property, threatening Partryche and his wife when he had reported their activities to his master, and even shooting arrows at him. On one occasion, Savile's men had entered Wortley village, broken open the door of a public house, taken out a barrel, set it up in the High Street, and shouted Come, knavez and laddes of Wortley, as many as wyll, and drynke.  (Cooper, Stephen:  Those was good lads - a history of tudor Rotherham http://www.chivalryandwar.co.uk/Resource/TUDOR.pdf)

Patryche, het in 1530 beskryf dat hy bewyse van stropery (poaching) gekry het.  Die Wortley’s het die saak rondom 1530 in die hof gewen.  Dit het nie die vyandigheid tussen die Saviles en die Wortleys beeindig nie, soos gesien uit ‘n brief van Joseph Mede, gedateer 2 September 1626:  “It hath been reported here that Sir Thomas Savile and Sir Francis Wortley, Knights of Yorkshire, have slain one another in single combat.”   Hulle is hierna gedwing om mekaar om verskoning te vra.  (Newton, Richard: Wortley through the ages.  The History of the Long Term Development of the Landscape Surrounding Wortley Hall from the End of the Ice Age to the Modern Period.)

Teen 1533 was die volgende eiendomme in besit van die Wortley familie:  Manors of Hemsworth, Wortley (in Tankersley), Newhall (in Wath-upon-Dearne), Masyngehall, HoylandSwain, [South] Kirkby, North Elmsall, Badsworth, Ryhill.

Dodworth's Yorkshire Notes - The Wapentake of Agbrigg (1884)

1534.  Die rykste Katolieke in Engeland was kloosters, waar die monnike gewoon het.  Hulle was ook die mees getroue ondersteuners van die Pous, wat ‘n bedreiging vir Henry VIII was.  Omdat hierdie baie ryk monnike nie lojaal teenoor hom was nie, het Henry VIII besluit om die kloosters te sluit.  Sommige kloostergeboue is afgebreek tot murasies, aangesien die plaaslike gemeenskap toegelaat is, om alles wat hulle wou hê, (behalwe vir  die goud en silwer van die kloosters, wat na die koning toe moes gaan) te neem. This meant that expensive building bricks etc. could be acquired for free.  (History learning site – the reformation)  Die hervorming van die kerk en kloosters en die beslaglegging van hul grond deur Koning Henry VIII het groot stukke prima grond vrygemaak wat nou, deur ryk mense wat grondeienaars wou word, by die kroon gekoop kon word.  Dit was ‘n baie gewaagde aankope, aangesien 'n toekomstige koning die hervorming kon keer en die verkope onwettig kon verklaar.  Die kopers sou dan hul geld verloor het.  Hierdie nuwe burgery het die invloed van die bestaande grondeienaars verminder.  Hul posisie is verder geknou deur inflasie en die ineenstorting van feodalisme.  (Newton, Richard: Wortley through the ages.  The History of the Long Term Development of the Landscape Surrounding Wortley Hall from the End of the Ice Age to the Modern Period

In 1537 was Thomas Wortley reeds baie siek soos blyk uit 'n brief van sy vrou Margaret aan Cromwell.  Her husband, Thos. Wortley, is too ill to receive and answer his letter, sent by John Chapman, the bearer, bidding him appear personally. Asks him to spare him until he is better. Hardwyke, 1 Feb. Signed.  ('Henry VIII: February 1537, 1-5', in Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII, Volume 12 Part 1, January-May 1537, ed. James Gairdner (London, 1890), pp. 144-154)

Thomas het ‘n harassing life of litigation and losses as gevolg van die hofsake met die Talbots gehad.   Vyf en twintig jaar van regsgedinge het na Sir Thomas se dood gevolg, aangesien sy dogter (Isabel) die landgoedere geeis het, wat met haar moeder se huwelik settled was.  Sy het ook die geldigheid van haar half-broer se geboorte betwis, aangesien sy moeder getroud was tydens die leeftyd van Lady Pilkington van wie Sir Thomas geskei het.  Na groot onkostes deur beide kante aangegaan is, is beslegting van die geskil verkry deur arbitrasie; waarvolgens ongeveer een-derde van die Wortley eiendomme aan die dogter gegee is, en so vervreemd is van die familie-eiendom, whilst the lawyers had appropriated the cash. (Hunter, Joseph:  The History and Topography of the Parish of Sheffield : with Historical and Descriptive Notices of the Parishes of Ecclesfield, Hansworth, Treeton and Whiston, and of the Chapelry of Bradfield. London. 1819)  

Thomas Lord Audley Lord Chancelour of England & Thomas Lord Cromwell by Indenture of Award dated xxj of November in xxxj yeare of H. 8. (1539) made between Tho: Wortley, Esq. sonne and heire of Tho: Wortley, Kt., and Nicholas Talbot, son and heire of Isabel Talbot, widow, daughter of the said Sir Thomas Wortley and Katherin his wife for and concerning the right and title of the mannors of Wortley, Hymsworth and Shitlington with their members and appurtenances and for the right and title of divers other Lands and Tenements expressed in the said Deed then in controversie did ordaine that Nicholas Talbot should have to him and his heires and assignes for ever the said mannor of Himsworth, with the members and appurtenances to the same. And all other Lands lieing and being in Himsworth, Kirkby, Helmsall, Baddisworth, Cold Henley and Ryle in the county of Yorke, which were to the said Sir Thomas Wortley, Kt., in possession or use together with the advowson or patronage of the church of Hymsworth without lett or interuption and with a further Award that the said Thomas Worthy and Margaret his wife dureing the space of 2 years following should make such conveyances at the said Nicholas Talbot's costs, as shall be required by his counsell with a proviso that the said Thomas Wortley should occupie the mann'" house and demeasnes of Hymsworth, which were then in his possession for a certaine space following. And that the grants made by the said Thomas Wortley should be good. And further that the said Thomas Wortley should have and enjoy all the residew of the said Mann'' Lands and Tenements, except the said Mann of Hymsworth with the appurtenances with other the pmises to him and his heires and assigns for ever with the like clause of further assurance to be made by the said Nicholas to the said Thomas for the better pfecting of the estate, &c., with a covenant generally between the said Nich : and Thomas that they and other of them and their heires and assigns shall obserue and performe the said award."   (Collins, Frances Anne ed.:  The Parish Registers of Kirburton, Co York, with appendix of Family Histories. Printed by William Pollard & Co. North Street, Exeter, 1902 Volume II)

Yorkshire Fines – 1542

Thomas Wortley and Margaret his wife

Thomas Wentworth, kt.

Manor of Newhall and 40 messuages with lands in Overshitlyngton, Myddylshitlyngton, Nethershitlyngton, and Middylscom.

(Collins, Francis, ed.:  'Yorkshire Fines: 1541-45', in Feet of Fines of the Tudor Period [Yorks]: Part 1, 1486-1571,  (Leeds, 1887), pp. 91-119)

Yorkshire Fines – 1542

John Snell

Nicholas Wortley and John Wortley

Messuage with lands in Hardwyke and Aston.

(Collins, Francis, ed.:  'Yorkshire Fines: 1541-45', in Feet of Fines of the Tudor Period [Yorks]: Part 1, 1486-1571,  (Leeds, 1887), pp. 91-119)

Yorkshire Fines – 1543

John Snell

John Wortley, gent.

Messuage with lands in Hardwyk and Aston.

(Collins, Francis, ed.:  'Yorkshire Fines: 1541-45', in Feet of Fines of the Tudor Period [Yorks]: Part 1, 1486-1571, (Leeds, 1887), pp. 91-119)

Yorkshire Fines – 1544

Robert Holgate, Bp. of Landaff, and Richard Wortley, clerk

Richard Sekker and Elizabeth his wife

Lands in Hymsworth

(Collins, Francis, ed.:  'Yorkshire Fines: 1541-45', in Feet of Fines of the Tudor Period [Yorks]: Part 1, 1486-1571, (Leeds, 1887), pp. 91-119)

(The Yorkshire Archaeological Journal.  http://www.mocavo.com/The-Yorkshire-Archaeological-Journal-Volume-8/953026/38#33)

‘n Herehuis vir Wortley was na aan die einde van die regeringstyd van Henry VIII (1509 – 1546) op die perseel van die huidige herehuis gebou.  Hierdie Tudor styl huis was omring deur die Old Park. The Old Park achieved its final form in 1589 and was used as a deer park until 1649 .  (Newton, Richard: Wortley through the ages.  The History of the Long Term Development of the Landscape Surrounding Wortley Hall from the End of the Ice Age to the Modern Period.)

Thomas Wortley Esq, is in 1545 dood.  Sy vrou, Margaret Saville, het na sy dood in Okt 1546 met Richard Corbet, Esq. of Shropshire getrou.  From 1544 until the end of Henry's reign in 1547, Corbet was an important functionary in the household of the Prince of Wales, the future Edward VI, occupying the post of Carver. It was during this period that he married Margaret, daughter of Sir John Savile of Thornhill, Yorkshire. She was the widow of Thomas Wortley of Wortley, who died in 1545, and whose house at Wortley now became one of Corbet's homes.  (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Corbet_(died_1566)

Richard Corbet het die landgoede ter wille van sy vrou se kinders uit haar Wortley-huwelik versorg, aangesien daar geen kinders uit hulle eie huwelik oorleef het nie.  Hy het ook tot die eiendom bygedra, deur die manors van Carlton en Swinton, sowel as ander gronde in die omgewing, te koop.

Uit die testament van Richard Corbet:  Item, I do give and bequeath unto Francis Wortley all my lands in Carleton and Swinton with all members pertaining to the either of them, to him, the said Francis, and to the heirs males of his body lawfully begotten, and for lack of such heirs, to the right heirs of me, Richard Corbet, according to certain covenants and writings made betwixt me and Francis Rollston [=Rolleston?] of Mafelde [=Mayfield?], esquire, Richard Clyve of Huxley, and Ralph Clyve of Walford, esquire, more at large appeareth;  In witness hereof that this is my last will and testament I have written this wholly with mine own hand and have put to my seal and subscribed three times the day and year above-written et sexto Elizabethe Regine. Richard Corbet. Richard Corbet. Richard Corbet. Hijs testibus ad hanc meam voluntatem. Andrew Corbet, Walter Corbet, Francis Wortley, John Barker, Richard Corbet. (The National archives Prob 11/48, f.408)

Effigies of Richard Corbet and Margaret Wortley, née Savile, his wife, in St Bartholomew's church, Moreton Corbet.  (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Moreton_Corbet_church_Richard_Corbet.JPG)

The tomb of Richard Corbet d.1566/7 (the son of Sir Robert Corbett and Elizabeth Vernon)

and his wife Margaret (Wortley nee Savile) - the 3rd daughter of Sir John Savell of Thornhill, Yorkshire.  Note the chrisom babe on the panel. This depicts Edward their only child.

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Moreton_Corbet_church_Corbet_Savile_tomb_01.JPG)

(Long, Charles Edward:  Royal Descents: A Genealogical List of the Several Persons Entitled to quarter the arms of the Royal houses of England, London, MDCCCXLV)

Kinders:

p.1.  Francis, Esq. geb. c. 1534, Wortley, Yorkshire, Engeland, oorl. 25/03/1583 x 24/01/1558, Hatfield, Yorkshire, met Mary SWIFT (Swyft), geb. 1538, Rotterdam, Yorkshire, oorl. 1581 begr. Tankersley, d.v. Robert Swyft van Rotherham en Broomhall en Eleanor Wickersley xx 1582 met Francis BURDET, geb. 1560, d.v. Thomas Burdet van Burthwaite en Isabella Wentworth. (Francis Burdet hertrou met Francis Foljambe, of Aldwark, Esq na haar man se dood en weer daarna met Thomas Savile Esqrs.) 

p.2.   Joan  x  William DODWORTH of Shelley, s.v. Randolph Dodworth en Elizabeth Bosvile.