John was of Prestall and of London.
Events
Date of Birth: unknown.
Place of Birth: unknown.
Date of Death: unknown.
Place of Death: unknown.
Relationships
Father: John Crompton.
Mother: Catherine Hulton.
These parents are given by Ormerod (p. 27). I am not very confident that this is correct.
Spouse: Anne Assheton.
This relationship is given in Middlesex Pedigrees (p. 164), citing MS. Harl. 1551, fo. 123, and in the 1567 Visitation of Lancashire (sub Ashton of Great Lever, p. 28).
Children:
(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project.)
John Crompton (died about 1604)
Thomas Crompton (died October 1601) married Mary Hodgson 9 January 1575 in Essex.
Richard Crompton (died about 1598)
Evidence
from the Lancashire Subsidy Roll of 1541, Salford Hundred:
Barton.
John Crompton of p[re]stall for xxli in goods --- xs
Bury.
Richard Crompton for xxvli in goods --- xiis vid
from the 1543 Lay Subsidy:
1543
Keresley:
John Crompton…for xiijl in goods viijs viijd
John Crompton … for iiijl in goods xxd
I am not certain whether the 1541 entry and the fine below refer to the John of this page or to his father:
3 & 4 Philip and Mary
m. 134 [17 August, 1556].
Between Ralph Browne, gent., and Adam Levor, plaintiffs, and Richard Crumpton, of Bury, deforciant of 4 messuages, 2 tofts, 4 barns, 4 gardens, a water-mill, 20 a. of land, 10 a. of meadow, 20 a. of pasture, one a. of wood, and 100 a. of moss in Tybchester [Ribchester in the writ] and Huddersall.
Richard acknowledged the said tenements to be the right of Ralph, for which Ralph and Adam granted them to Richard, to have to him and to the heirs begotten of his body; in default to remain to George Harpur, of Radclyff, son of John Harpur, deceased, and to the heirs males of the body of the said George; in default to remain to Richard Crompton, son of John Crompton, late of Prestall, deceased, and to the heirs males of the body of the said Richard, son of John; in default to remain to the right heirs of the said Richard Crompton, of Bury.
(Richard Crompton of Bury was a clothier, who was using this fine to settle his estate.)
Here are some earlier related fines:
m. 199. Monday next after the Assumption, 37 Henry VIII. [17 August, 1545].
Between Richard Crompton, plaintiff, and Nicholas Halgh deforciant of 4 messuages, 2 tofts, 4 barns, 4 gardens, a water-mill, 20 a. of land, 10 a. of meadow, 20 a. of pasture, 1 a. of wood, and 100 a. of moor and moss in Rybchester and Huddersall [Hothersall].
m. 211. [17 August, 1545].
Between Richard Crompton, plaintiff, and George Halgh and William Bolton deforciants of 4 messuages, 2 tofts, 4 barns, 4 gardens, a water-mill, 30 a. of land, 10 a. of meadow, 20 a. of pasture, 1 a. of wood, 100 a. of moor and turbary in Ribchester and Huddersall [Hothersall].
George and William remitted all right to Richard and his heirs, for which Richard gave them £60.
A pleading from 1 Edw. 6 (1547):
Plaintiff: Richard Crompton, Accountant
Defendants: James Bordman and Margaret Trafford, Widow of William Trafford deceased, Assignee of John Bourne, Farmer of the Subsidy and Ulnage of Cloths in the County Palatine of Lancaster.
Premises and Matters in Dispute: Disputed Right to Forfeiture of Cloths and Cottons, for Subsidy and Ulnage in selling Cloths unsealed, with Interrogatories and Depositions thereon.
Places. Bury. Manchester. Lancaster County Palatine. Westchester. Streetford.
Counties. Lancashire. (For details, see here).
Pleadings from Ducatus Lancastriae p. 235:
no. 5
3 Edw. 6. [1549/50] John Crompton. v Hugh Forster. Claim of Marriage Portion. place not specified.
no. 6
4 Edw. 6. [1550/51] Richard Crompton v. Thomas Grenehalghe. Disputed Claim to Messuages, Lands, and Appurtenances, Title Deeds, Money, and Effects. Ribchester, Hoetherfall, Burye. Lancashire
from Smith and Short (p. 53):
In the following year (1550-1) Richard Crompton, clothier, of Burye, being lawfully seised of lands and tenements in Ribchester and Hoethersall, complained that deeds and papers, as well as debts, ''amounting to a hundrythe poundes at the least," had been unlawfully seized by Thomas Greenhalghe, of Burye, gent. Amongst the goods seized were " dyvers sommes of money in golde and sylver, whereof the most part thereof was in gold angelles, duckettes, Ryalls, crownes, and other golde," amounting to £320. This money had been delivered to Greenhalghe " upon especiall trust and confydens," inasmuch as the said Greenhalghe had married the plaintiff's bastard dowghter." When required to re-deliver the moneys and papers the defendant refused, and so the plaintiff, not desiring to lose "his hole substance that he should have to lyve upon," and having no remedy at common law, prayed for " letters of pryvey seale." In his answer to the Bill of Complaint, Greenhalghe declared that " about five years ago the plaintiff delivered unto him one box containing evidence and deeds relating to lands in Ribchester and Hothersall, saying, 'Thomas have and take this boxe and writinges for these woll I gyve to thee and thye chyldern.' Accordingly he had since received the rents due for the said lands."
from the Lancashire VCH v. 7, sub Ribchester:
It appears that Richard Crompton of Bury in 1545 purchased four messuages and a watermill in Ribchester and Hothersall from Nicholas and George Halgh; Pal. of Lanc. Feet of F. bdle. 12, m. 199, 211. The purchaser made a settlement of his estate in 1556, the remainders being to George (son of John) Harper of Radcliffe, and to Richard (son of John) Crompton of Prestall; ibid. bdle. 17, m. 134. The estate is very soon afterwards (1565) found in possession of Thomas Greenhalgh, Jane his wife and Richard his son; ibid. bdle. 27, m. 42. See T. C. Smith, Ribchester, 53.
It has been suggested that this will is that of John or his father (Prestall was in Farnworth in the parish of Deane; Prestolee was across the Irwin in the parish of Pilkington. Ormerod states that John Crompton was of Prestolee, but the visitation says Prestall):
In the name of god Amen The xxth daye of auguste in the yeare of oure lorde god 1554 I John Crompton of the p[ar]ish of deane beynge somethynge payned wth sycknes but in p[er]fyte mynde & reme[m]brance do make my last wyll & testament [...] maner & forme folowynge/ that ys to saye / fyrste I bequethe my soule unto almyghtye god my maker & rede[...] and beleuynge faythfully to be saued by the mercy of chrysts passion and desyringe all holye co[m]pany to praye for me and and my body to be buryed in the p[ar]yshe churche yearde of deane / Also I ordeyne & make executors trulye to execute my goodes accordynge to thys my Last wyll & testamente/ my sone rychard & my daughter Jenet crompton/ Also I ordeyne & make the overseyer of all my goodes these iij men thom[...] Lawrance grundye/ rychard halywell/ Also I gyue & bequethe unto my doughter elsabell & unto my doughter elyn/ and also [...] doughter Jenet to everye one of them xxs / Also I gyve & bequethe unto my sonne rycharde all the harnes that I haue [...] howse & also all plowes harowes carts axses pyckes & all thyngs belonging unto husbandrye also yt ys [...] my p[ar]te of goodes be devyded equallye amonge all my chyldren/ my quiddes gyven & my funerall expe[...] These beynge wyttnes tharof Lawrance rothwell/ James grundy Thomas morte,
dets owynge unto me wth covenants of the same
Imprimis I dyd leand unto robarte bordman xxix x iij d and rauffe heaton dyd make answere for hym to paye unto m[...] It’m I dyd delyuer unto Wyll’m bordman xs & I muste receyue the same moneye agayne at the feast of Saynte my[...] tharkeangell next comynge/ and in defaute of suche paymente my covenante ys to haue a p[as]ter close of grounde called the aker a yeare after the feast of saynte mychaell tharkangell / It’m I dyd bargayne & sell unto bryan walk[..] shepe for the sume of xxxjs. viijd/ & wyll’m mather dyd make me ansewere to be the soule payer therof It’m Lawrance grundye & I dyd gyue unto george alyns xls for the wynter pasture of xxx shepe the spa[...] of vj yeares euerye yeare to be wyntered betwene the feast of saynte mychaell tharkangell and a weake[...] candelmas / & one yeare therof ys spente
detts also owynge unto me
Imprimis the wyffe of John unsworthe – x li
It’m the wyffe of rauffe bordman - vj li
It’m John bordman — xxxs xd
It’m george alyns — xiij s
It’m John gryndhalghe — xijs iiij d
It’m wyll’m wyrral of manchester — xij s
The Innventorye of all the goodes & catalles of John Cromptonn Lately deceased pr[ai]sed to the value by these iiij men / owen worthyngtonn/ thomas seddonn/ John holme/ James grundye
Imprimis ij oxen the pee – xl s
It’m vij kye — ix li vj s viij d
It’m iiij styrks — xl s
It’m iiij horses & mares — iiij li
It’m xl shepe — iiij li
It’m ij hoggs — x s
It’m iiij akars of corne — xl s xiij s iiij d
It’m in haye — xxvj s viij d
It’m in pewter & brasse — xl s
It’m iiiij beddes — xl s
It’m a twylshete & sacks — iij s iiij d
It’m in arks cowsers & bords – xl s
It’m in trine ware & all hustelment of howshowld x s
It’m a chymnaye & all other Iron ware – xiij s iiij d
It’m in carts & all thyngs th’to belonging – x s
It’’m in gyse & pullen — iij s iiij d
It’m in money in his purse — xl s
some xxxiij li xvj s viij d
Detts owynge unto me the said John
Imprimis John Unsworthe — x li
Rauffe Bordman – vj li
John bordman xxx s x d
george alyns — xiij s
John Gryndhalghe – xij s iiij d
Wyll’m Wyrrall of manchester xij s
soma to talls lxx li
References
Ducatus Lancastriae, pars secunda: A Calendar to the Pleadings (1823).
Final Concords for Lancashire, Part 4, 1509-1558. (Record Society of Lancashire and Cheshire, 1910)
Hyde, Patricia. “Crompton, Thomas II (d. 1601), of Bennington, Herts., Hounslow, Mdx. and Farringdon, London” in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1558-1603 (1981).
Middlesex Pedigrees, as collected by Richard Mundy in Harleian ms. no. 1551. (London, 1914).
Ormerod, George. Parentalia: Genealogical Memoirs. (1851).
Three Lancashire Subsidy Rolls, viz., for the hundred of Salford, 1541, the hundred of Salford, 1622 and the hundred of Leyland, 1628, together with a recusant roll for the hundred of Leyland, in 1628. (John Parsons Earwaker, ed.) (Record Society of Lancashire and Cheshire, 1885).
Smith, Tom C. and Jonathan Shortt. The History of the Parish of Ribchester in the County of Lancaster (1890).
“Taxation in Salford Hundred 1524-1802” (James Tait ed.) in Remains Historical and Literary connected with the Palatine Counties of Lancaster and Chester v. 83 new series (Chetham Society, 1924).
The Visitation of Lancashire by William Flower, 1567. (Chetham Society vol. 81).
Will of John Crompton. Proved 1554 in the Diocese of Chester.