. The Victoria history of the county of Lancaster;. Natural history. WoRSLiY of Worsley, Argent a chief gules. Massky of Tatton. Quarterly gules and ar- gent. ECCLES Sir John was the son of Hugh Massey of Tatton, who died about 1371, and by his elder brother's death succeeded to the paternal estates.** His mar- riage with Alice de Worsley took place in or before 1372.*® He was sheriff of Cheshire in 1389.*^ He sided with Richard II in 1399 and was imprisoned in Chester Castle ; *® four years later he joined in the Hotspur rising and was killed at the battle of Shrews- bury.** Thomas his eldest
. The Victoria history of the county of Lancaster;. Natural history. WoRSLiY of Worsley, Argent a chief gules. Massky of Tatton. Quarterly gules and ar- gent. ECCLES Sir John was the son of Hugh Massey of Tatton, who died about 1371, and by his elder brother's death succeeded to the paternal estates.** His mar- riage with Alice de Worsley took place in or before 1372.*® He was sheriff of Cheshire in 1389.*^ He sided with Richard II in 1399 and was imprisoned in Chester Castle ; *® four years later he joined in the Hotspur rising and was killed at the battle of Shrews- bury.** Thomas his eldest son incurred forfeiture on the like account,^** but was restored, and dying in 1420, was succeeded by his brother ; Their mother Alice died eight years later, Geoffrey being then forty years of ; On his death in 1457 without lawful issue" the Worsley manors went to tort with their appurtenances, as also his lands in Salford and Manchester; the feoffees were to settle the same upon him and his issue, with remainder to his sister Alice, wife of Sir John Massey of Tatton; ibid. no. 121. Two years later the feoffees regranted the manors to Sir Geoffrey and Mary his wife, daughter of Sir Thomas de Felton ; no. 167, also no. 122, and Final Cone, iii, 4. A further feoffment and fine were made in July and Aug. 13S1 ; Ellesmere D. no. 169, and Final Cone, iii, 12. The proceedings for divorce had already begun at Chester. It was stated that in 1374, in the chapel of Sir Thomas de Felton's mansion-house in Candlewick Street in London, his daughter had married Sir Thomas Breton, and that in 1376 in the parish church at Leamington she had married Sir Geoffrey dc Worsley, her former husband not dying till Not. or Dec. 13 So, in Aquitaine. On this account the second marriage was declared null; EUesmere D. no. 268. For the subsequent proceedings see Sir Peter Leycester's account in Ormerod's Ches, (ed. Helsby), i, 441. The above- cited record of 1401 merely state
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