. The Victoria history of the county of Lancaster;. Natural history. \ HIS'lORV OF LANCASHIRE loai, who Sir Richard Jc Grccnacres.' Tiic '.tcr pair in I 364 their right in the moiety of Read to the Xo\cll;.in return for Great Mcarlcy and an annuity ui £10.'' The Nowells, who were thenceforward as ' of Read,' though they had lands near Wakefield in Yorkshire also,'" acquired a;l but one of the other tenements in the township. Lawrence No'.vell was dead in ; His son John Nowell of Read died in 1433 holding 'the manor' of the king as Duke of Lancaste
. The Victoria history of the county of Lancaster;. Natural history. \ HIS'lORV OF LANCASHIRE loai, who Sir Richard Jc Grccnacres.' Tiic '.tcr pair in I 364 their right in the moiety of Read to the Xo\cll;.in return for Great Mcarlcy and an annuity ui £10.'' The Nowells, who were thenceforward as ' of Read,' though they had lands near Wakefield in Yorkshire also,'" acquired a;l but one of the other tenements in the township. Lawrence No'.vell was dead in ; His son John Nowell of Read died in 1433 holding 'the manor' of the king as Duke of Lancaster by a rent of 9/. 9/ ; his heir was a grand- son Alexander (son ofNicholas) Nowell, aged ; Roger X o w e 11 son and heir of Alexander was in 146S to marry Grace daughter of John To'.', ; Described as of ArUc'.-, he died in i486"; his son John, who obtained a royal charter for imparking land in Read," died in 1525 holding the manor \'. ith various messu- age;, &, of the king as duke by the old rent of 9;. ta:e, and leaving a son Thomas, aged fort;, to succeed ; \ pedigree \\a; rLcurdcd in 1567.'^. X )WtLL of Read. Argent three coi'ereJ cuf)s iable. Roger's half-brother was tlie Dr. .\Iex- andcr Nowell, Dean of St. Paul's. Educated at Middleton School and Brascnose College, Oxford (\. 1540), he became a strenuous Protectant. He appointed prebendary of Westminster in i;;i, and was head master of the school from 1543 ; he was al-o in October 1553 member of Parliament for Looe in Cornwall. Soon after the accession of Mary he went into exile at Strasburg and Frankfort, return- ing to London immediately after the accession of Elizabeth and being at once employed by her in the re-establishment of Protestantism. He was of note as a preacher, and was sent into Lancashire in 1568 and 1580 to reduce the recusants of the county into some degree of conformity to the established religion. He was appointed to the deanery of
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