Events
Date of Baptism: 24 October 1596.
Place of Baptism: Cathedral, Manchester, Lancashire.
The baptism is recorded in the register.
Date of Death: between 7 January 1660/1 and 1664.
Place of Death: unknown.
The dates are when Richard’s will was made and when it was proved.
Relationships
Father: Thomas Heape.
Thomas mentions his son Richard in his will.
Mother: Elinor Walworke.
Spouse: Jane.
Richard names Jane in his will. Jane was buried 14 January 1683/4 in Ringley chapel.
Children:
(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project.)
Thomas Heape (baptized 30 July 1620 in Prestwich, Lancashire) married Margaret Rowe about 9 May 1640.
John Heap (baptized 23 June 1622 in Prestwich - buried 14 January 1622/3 in Prestwich).
Mary Heap (baptized 7 December 1623 in Prestwich) married (1) John Wroe in May 1640; married (2) Robert Sidebothom 20 April 1642.
Alice Heap (baptized 1 January 1625/6 in Prestwich - buried 12 January 1630/1 in Prestwich).
Richard Heap (baptized 4 January 1628/9 in Prestwich - buried 6 February 1630/1 in Prestwich).
Alice Heap (baptized 15 January 1631/2 in Prestwich - buried 12 June 1657 in Eccleston) married Rev. Thomas Jolly 8 July 1656 in Prestwich.
Richard Heap (baptized 27 August 1634 in Radcliffe, Lancashire)
Elizabeth Heap (baptized 28 May 1637 in Radcliffe, Lancashire) married Richard Hilton 3 July 1656 in Prestwich.
Evidence
Recognizance roll (Lancashire Archives QSB/1/39/10):
1628 – Pilkington– George Walker, husbandman, to keep the peace to Richard Heape, husbandman.
from a 1634 list of contributors to Ringley chapel:
The names of the Contributors , who gave their 5 li and have a right to Pews in Ringley Chapel.
Rich. Heap 5
A 1635 indenture raising money for Nathan Walworth to hire a preacher named Richard Heape as a trustee.
The 1638 will of John Heap of Broadroad, Bury names his cousin Richard Heape of Outwood and Jane his wife. He makes Richard his executor and trustee for his son.
Richard Heape was an enfeoffee in the 1640 will of Nathan Walworth.
In the 1642 Protestation Returns for Prestwich cum Oldham, Richard Heape and Thomas Heape are listed under Outwood in Pilkington, Prestwich.
from the Royalist Composition Papers v. 1:
1645
James Lonte, of Prestwich, yeoman, sworn, said he being in Mr. Allen's house with James Lewis, one of Mr. Allen's servants, the morning after that a man was slain in the tumult at Manchester, when the Earl of Derby was there and was then [at] Ordsall, there came one Richard Heape, of Pilkington, then bailiff to the said Earl, to the said James Lewis, and told him that his master, Mr. Allen, had bidden him to call for the said Lewis and take him with him; and thereupon some of those persons that were then there gave the said Lewis a halberd, which he took, and, shaking it, said he would kill all the Roundheads, and so went into the house and left the halberd and fetched a musket and went along with the said Heap; and witness further said that he being then a listed soldier in service for the Parliament, and having had some conference with Mr. Allen concerning the then present war, he, Mr. Allen, said that, the King being the father and the Parliament the mother, it was not lawful to assist Parliament against the King in this cause of war. And witness asking Mr. Allen why he had furnished men with arms for the service of the Parliament, he replied, a man would hazard or expend a part of his estate to preserve the rest.
The 1646 will of Richard Heap of Broadroad, Bury names his “relation” Richard Heape late of Outwood in Prestwich, who had the keeping of a lease for land in Pilkington.
From a 1652-3 list of contributors to Mr Holland (then minister at Ringley):
Richard Heape…04 00 [s. d.]
Richard’s will:
In the name of god amen The Seventh daie of January in the year of our Lord god (after the computation of the Church of England) One Thousand six hundred sixtie I Richard Heape of Outwoods within Pilkington in the Countie of Lancaster Yeoman beinge somewhat Infirme and sicke in bodie but of p[er]fette and sound memory and understandinge (gods holy name have the praise) do make and ordaine and Constitute this to bee my Last will and Testament makeing null and voyde all other will and wills Testament and Testaments at any tyme or tymes by me heeretofore made in any wise And first and principally I commend my soule into the hands of god almightie my Creator stedfastly beliveinge in his mercy Through the onely meritts and mediating of Jesus Christ his onely son and my alone Saviour To have free pardon and Remission of all my sinns and Life everlastinge And my bodie to Christian and decent buriall at the discrecion of my Executors heereafter named And as Concerning my worldly estate of goods and Cattells And other my estate of messuage lands and tenements It is my mynde and will First That my Loveinge and welbeloved wife Jane have and hould the moietie of all my messuage and tenements with Thappurtenances Excepting That part thereof Called Kenyon[?] grounds in such sorte and manner as is heretofore agreed upon mencioned and expressed in certaine Indentures by mee formerly made Alsoe it is my will and mynd That out of the whole bodie of p[er]sonal estate my detts bee first paid And all my funerall Costs and Charges bee lykwyse deducted and discharged And especially that one dett or [blank] ten pounds to Mary Wroe my granddaughter bee unto her the said Mary duely paid Alsoe I will and devise give and bequeath unto my grandson Richard Heap the same of fyve pounds And it is my Further will and mynde That all the rest and remainder of my said p[er]sonall estate of goods Cattells debts and Creditts bee divided into twoe equall p[ar]ts the one part Thereof I Freely give and bequeath to my said welbeloved wyfe Jane And out of the other parte thereof I give to my welbeloved soninlaw Robert Sydebothom Twentie shillings And all the Rest and remainder of that parte of my said goods [last named?] It is my mynde and will the same bee devided int twoe equall partes The one parte thereof I give and I bequeath to my Loveing son Richard Heape And the moietie or other parte therof I give and bequeath to my son in law Richard Hilton and Elizabeth his wife And of this my last will and Testament I nominate make and appointe my said son in law Robert Sydebothom And my welbeloved wife Jane Executors hopeinge they will see the same executed in all things as my Trust is in them In Wytnesse whereof I have unto this my present Last will and Testament put my hand and Seale the daie and yeare first above wrytten
R Heap
[seal]
Sealed Signed and for his last will and Testament we being present and wytness of it
Joseph Berkie
Ellis Farnworth
A true and perfect Inventory of all the goods and Cattells of Richard Heape Late of Outwood within Pilkington in the Countie of Lancaster yeoman [...] apprised to the value the 16th daie of Januarie 1664
By us Hughe Parr
Robert Unsworth
Abraham Rothewell
Ellis Farneworth
Imprimis two horses and three marrs– 21-00-00
Item Fyve[?] kyne [...] [C…] – 18-00-00
Item [...] Heyfer – 22-00-00
Item eight Calues – 09-00-00
Item Fower sheepe – 00-18-00
Item twoe young Swine – 00-12-00
Item [...] –14-00-00
Item in [...] [...]
Item [...] barnes – 04-[...]
Item in [...] 01-06-08
Item [...] & other [...] 00-16-00
Item [...] – 2-00-00
Item [...] – 21-10-00
Item Cartes wheeles stekies[?] spokes Coap tymber cheese presse & other odd parts in the kilne – 05-00-00
Item one ston trough and Ladders – 00-04-00
Item in Corne Sacks pokes and Siues – 00-10-00
Item one Framed Tank[?] Ormes formes – 02-06-08
Item in Cheres stookes and queshions – 01-19-00
Item one Fyee Iron Rackentree and other Iron ware – 01-00-00
Item 4 boords – 00-04-00
Item one standinge bedstid – 03-06-08
Item one Truckle bed – 00-06-08
Item one square Table – 00-07-00
Item one Christ and one Trucke — 00-07-00
Item one Thr[...] Cheene — 00-02-00
Item bedinge fall for hit and one table Cloth in the parlour –04-06-08
Item one other standing bed sted & one truckle bed – 01-05-00
Item in bedinge Carlennis and valence – 05-00-00
Item one Table & buffitt stocks 1 tablecloth – 00-16-00
Item in white plate – 00-06-00
Item one greate Cupboard – 01-10-00
Item Cheeres & one little Cupboord – 00-15-00
Item one seeled Chiste and one Truncke – 00-16-00
Item one grate one boord and one forme –00-02-00
Item ij quishions – 00-03-00
Item one box one other little boord – 00-05-00
Item in lynnen of all sortes and Lynnen yarne – 05-10-00
Item one standinge bedstid and bedinge – 02-10-00
Item one Chiste and one Cupboord – 00-12-00
Item one Truckle bed and bedinge – 02-06-00
Item on Chiste and other odd things – 00-11-08
Item one breyyinge[?] –01-00-00
Item one nett for birds – 00-04-00
Item one meake Arke – 00-16-00
Item one Arke and Saltingtubb – 00-08-00
Item in Couperware – 01-10-00
Item one Dishboord and boord –00-06-00
Item one bread Iron and Halberds – 00-06-00
Item in other odd things – 00-10-00
Item in panbrasse and pott brasse – 02-18-08
Item one chest and other boords – 00-02-00
Item in pewter – 03-12-00
Item in Couperware trine[?] ware & other things – 01-00-00
Item boords glasse case & barrell frams – 00-10-00
Item in earthen potts – 00-10-00
Item 4 barrells and one Salting tubb –01-06-08
Item in beefe bacon meale and malte –06-08-00
Item pullen– 00-04-00
Item menuure –00-02-06
Item Staell of all sorts – 00-06-08
Item in bookes – 00-05-00
Item in Silver plate – 05-00-00
Item in his apparrell armour and [...] 15-06-08
Item in [...] – 00-03-04
[...] totall — 135-00-08
14:o Febr 1664
from the 1666 Hearth Tax:
Jane Heap, Outwood in Pilkington, 4 hearths.
References
The Correspondence of Nathan Walworth and Peter Seddon of Outwood and other documents relating to the building of Ringley chapel. (John Samuel Fletcher ed.) (Chetham Society v. 109, 1880).
Heape, Charles, and Richard Heape. Records of the family of Heape of Heape, Staley, Saddleworth, and Rochdale, from circa 1170 to 1905. (Rochdale, 1905).
Will of John Wroe of Unsworth 1653/1669. Proved in the Consistory Court of Chester.
Will of Richard Heap of Outwoods within Pilkington, yeoman. Proved 1664 in the Consistory Court of Chester.