Richard Salter
Richard was of Wrockwardine, Shropshire. He bought property in Littlehales, Egdmond, which passed to his sons John, William, and Robert.
Events
Date of Birth: unknown.
Place of Birth: unknown.
Date of Death: about 1551.
Place of Death: probably Wrockwardine, Shropshire.
Administration of Richard’s estate was granted 6 March 1551/2.
Relationships
Father: John (or Thomas) Salter.
Mother: Anne (or Rosa) Cludde.
See the Commentary section.
Cousin: William Charlton of Apley.
See the Commentary section.
Spouse: Ann Pigott.
See the Commentary section.
Children:
(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project.)
Thomas Salter married Alice Lawley.
Richard Salter married Jane Samuels.
John Salter (born in Wrockwardine - probably died about 1557). John appears to have had an illegitimate son, David, with Katherine Fenimore. John was of Littlehales, Shropshire.
Rosa Salter
Robert Salter (died 1612) married Katherine. Robert was of Littlehales.
William Salter (buried 12 July 1582 in Edgmond, Shropshire).
Margaret Salter married George Childer 10 October 1586 in Albrighton (near Shifnal), Shrop[shire.
Ann Salter married (1) William Dudley 30 August 1584 in Albrighton; married (2) Edward Grove
Evidence
from the 1523-4 Lay Subsidy (Wrockwardine):
Richard Salter in goods 7l. ... 3s. 4d.
from the Shropshire Archives catalogue:
(I am not sure if all of these concern the Richard Salter of this page.)
972/1/2/11
20 April 1519
Parties: 1 John Audley, knight, lord of Lye Gomerey (Leegomery), 2 Richard Salter, gentleman, and John Forster of Watlyngstrete (Watlingstreet)
Consideration: £8 13s 4d
Description: All oaks growing within the bounds and meres of a certain hay ('hagge', i.e. an enclosure) within his wood of Ketley to be taken during the next 10 years within these boundaries: from a cockshut or glade called Merell's Shut at the north-east end of the said hay along a cart track (waynway) leading from the said glade to Lawley, and on the the south-west end of the coppice now held by John Esthope and Richard Esthope, which boundaries which were determined by 1 and his tenants there when he sold 18 score oaks within the same hay to 2, reserving all the oaks growing in the hay there adjoining the said hay as far as 1's ground extends. 2 to be at liberty to carry timber on the property at all times during the term of 10 years.
972/1/1/168
26 June 1525
Dated: Lilleshull, in the chapterhouse, Monday after the Nativity of St John the Baptist 17 Hen VIII
Parties: 1 Robert, abbot of Lilleshull, and the convent, and 2 Richard Salter, gentleman
Description: 1 appoints 2 to receive seizin of the property granted in 972/1/1/169
Seal: One tag and oval red seal, depicting seated Virgin and child.
972/1/1/332
Grant
10 April 1526
Richard Salter gentleman was a witness
972/1/1/333
Quitclaim
13 April 1526
Richard Salter was a witness.
327/1/A/1/5
View of Frankpledge with court of Thomas Earl of Rutland
6 May 1527
Before Richard Salter, steward, and John Dodde de Cloreley, esq.
2028/1/2/18
Dodyngton, View of Frankpledge and great court of George Earl of Shrewsbury
1529
held 19 March 20 Henry VIII (1529) before John Salter esq. steward
6000/18634
Court of the Abbot of Lilleshall
3 October 1530
Manor of Hatton and Longdon. View of Frankpledge and Court of the Abbot of Lilleshall held at Hatton, held before Richard Salter, deputy for George, Earl of Shrewsbury, seneschall of the Abbey.
103/1/4/79
20 January 1537
Small Court before Thomas Maynwarying and Richard Salter, deputy steward, others (named).
103/1/4/3
2 October 1540
View of frankpledge of William Dacre, Lord Dacre, Graystok and Weme, before Richard Salter and Roger Bromley, deputies, Thomas Bromley, esq., steward.
327/1/D/1/3
1540-1544
View of frankpledge with court baron , Richard Salter esq, steward
6000/9485
1540
Manor of Pontesbury ("Ponsbiri"):- Court of Edward Grey, Knight, Lord Powys, held 8 Mar 31 Hen.VIII before Richard Salter & William Rent... Apparently a Steward's draft & perhaps a fragment. Paper.
from the National Archives catalogue:
C 1/678/3
1529-1532
Plaintiffs: Humphrey Somerford, son and heir of Wenefryde Somerford, sister of William Glover.
Defendants: Rauff Tylston, Margery, his wife, daughter of the said William, and Richard Salter, who interpleads.
Subject: Messuages, land and rent in Newport, Shersall and Little Hales, and a third of a messuage and land in Pymley, devised for life to Anne, wife of the said William, with remainder to the said Margery, who is without issue.
Shropshire.
C 1/679/19
1529-1532
Plaintiffs: Humphrey, son and heir of Winifred Somerford.
Defendants: Rauffe Tylston (Tillesdon) and Margery, his wife, daughter of William Glover.
Subject: Messuages and land in Newport, Shersall [Sheriff Hales ?], Little Hales [in Edgmond] and Pynley, devised by the said William to Anne, his wife, with successive remainders to Elizabeth and the said Margery, his daughters, and the said Winifred, his sister, and afterwards bought by Richard Salter, who is called in to interplead.
Shropshire.
C 1/887/35-39
1533-1538
Plaintiffs: Humphrey Somerford, gentleman, nephew and heir of William Glover.
Defendants: Ralph Tylston, late the husband of Margery, daughter of the said Glover, William Betenson, and Richard Salter.
Subject: Detention of deeds relating to messuages and lands in Newport, Shersall, Little Hales (in Edgmond), and Pimley (in Uffington), in contempt of an award of John Talbott, knight. Shropshire
The will of Richard’s brother John Salter:
In the name of god amen The xxiiijti day of October In the yere of our Lorde god a thousande fyve hundred xxxij. And in the xxiiijti yere of the Reigne of our sou[er]aign lorde king henry the viijth I John Salter Esquier being sike in my body and hole in mynde and of good remembraunce geving lawde praise to god make and declare this my testament and last wille in maner and fourme folowing that is to say. aswell concernyng the dispoisicon of my londs and tenements as of my moueable goodes and Catalls, First I bequeth my soule to almighty god my maker and Redemer and my body to be buried in the p[ar]ishe churche of Newporte at the foot of the marbill stone whiche lyeth uppon the body of my father. as nere to thende of the awter of Saint Thomas as conueniently may be And I bequeth to my Curat. therein in recompense for my tithes offeryngs and other dueties forgotten by me my best beest whether it be Oxe or Kowe, Also I bequeth to eu[er]y of the Convents of the monasteries of Lylleshull Byldwas hamonde and Saint Thomas the martir beside Stafforde vjs viijd and to Wombridge iijs iiijd Also I bequeth to the Cathedrall Churche of Lichfeld xijd and to Couentre xijd Item I woll that myn executours doo paye to the Cathedrall church of Lichefelde foure marcs in money the which was bequethed by oon Doctour Dogett sum tyme Canon Resident in Sars and prebendary in the said Churche of Lichefelde./ And where as I lately by my dede sealed and singed with my name and hande haue enfeoffed my brother Sir Roger Salter Clerk, and other my kynnesmen that is to sey John Corbett of Lye, Thomas Otteley Esquier Thomas Asteley and Raufe Leighton gentilmen; of and in my chief mees place in Newporte in the whiche I nowe dwell of and in all my londes and tenements with thappurtenances in Newporte, or elsls where in the Countie of Salop. To haue to them and their heires to the use and behove of me and my wife. for terme of our lyves and the lenger of us lyving without impechement of wast/ and after our decesses to the use of the heires males of the bodye of me the said John Salter begotten, and for defawte of suche yssue then my said feoffees and their heires to stande and be seased after the death of me and my said wife in the oon half of my said londs and tenements whereof my said chief meese place with all londes pastures medowes fishepoles belonging to the same, that is to sey, twoo lesures or pastures called the hawill crofts with medowes adioynyng and belonging to the same, a p[ar]cell of medowe which I purchased of William Rowton two pastures oon of them called the Spryng and another pasture adioynyng to the same lyinge bitwene the said Sprynge and the said pasture called the hawill crofte a pasture lying before the gats of my said chief mees place/ and of all the burgages lying in Lewithe from thende of the lane called Beaumaires lane unto the mills of the towne of Newport I will to be parcell to thuse of Thomas Chetwyn and Jane his wife my doughter and of the heires of the body of the said Jane by the said Thomas begotten. and for defawte of suche issue to thuse of the right heires of me the said John Item I bequethe to Margaret my doughter oon hundred marcs of laufull money of England And I geve to the same Margaret my best standing Cupp gilte/ Item I wille that my said doughter Margaret hauve to hir parte, asmoche londes in Valure pounde and pounde like as my doughter Jane hath. as well pastures as other that be not appoynted to Thomas Chetwyn my sonne in lawe./ Item I will that Elizabeth my wife haue Lyndore; and if it fortune the same Elizabeth to departe this worlde or the yeres be expyred that then the residue therof to remayn unto Margaret my doughter. Item I geve to Thomas Chetwyn and Jane his wife: a playn standing Cupp of siluer and gilte moreouer I bequethe to my brother Richard Salter my twney gown furred with Fox. Item to Roger Mayfelde a blak gowne furred with blak Lambe. Item to the same Roger a kowe with blak Chamlet and my Jyrkyn of blak velwet/ The residue of my goodes moueable and unmoueable not bequethen. I geve and bequethe to Elizabeth my wife/ and to Sir Edward Leyghton Clerk whom I make myn executours of this my testament and last will they to dispoase them for the helth of my soule and all xpen soules by their wisdoms and discrecions/ as my trust is in them/ And I make overseer of this my last wille and testament Sir William Branthwayte Clerk and I geve to the same for William my Jaket of Velvet Item I wille and bequethe to the Church of Newporte xs yerely to be paide owt of a certeyn mees place being and lying in Sambrocke in the tenor and holding of William Howill in the whiche mease stande enfeoffed Roger Salter Clerk John Corbett of Lye Thomas Otteley Esquiers Thomas Asteley and Rauf Leyghton gentilmen. to be made sure to teh same chruche as can be deuised by lerned councell and the same tenne shillings to be forto maynteyn a Lampe brennyng over me nyght and day in the honour of the blissed and holy sacrame[n]t of the aulter foreu[er] Item I wille that certeyn erable londe and medowe in the holding of Gerveys Troman of the yerely value of vjs viijd In the whiche stande feoffed Roger. John. Thomas. Thomas and Raufe aforsaid be made as sure as can be devised by lerned councell to haue an obite kept foreuer in the Churche of Newporte for my soule Elizabeth my wife soule and all xpen soules These witnesse Gabriell Asteley Roger Mayfelde gentilmen and other./
[Proved 12 December 1532]
Calendar of wills and adminstrations:
1551/2 Mch 6 Salter Rich’d gent Wrockwardine 35b ad
Evidence related to Richard’s children:
from the National Archives catalogue:
1544-1551
Plaintiffs: John SALTER of Littlehales (in Edgmond), gentleman.
Defendants: John HALL of Newport.
Subject: Refusal to complete a purchase of calves promised `in Marche was tolmonyth.'. Shropshire
The 1544 will of Sir Edward Gray, Lord Powis left £6 13s 4d.to his friend Richard Salter. The money was transferred in a 1559 codicil to Thomas Salter.
1557 will of Richard’s son John:
In dei Noie amen the Nynthe day of June Ao dni 1557, and in the third & fowrthe yeres of the Raignes of our souerainge lord & lady Phillipp & Mary by gods grace Kyng & Queene of England France bothe Cycells Irelm & Ireland defenders of the faithe &c I John Salter of littellhales within the p[ar]ishe of Edgemonden within the Countie of Sallopp gent. being of wholl mynde and of good & p[er]fett Remembraunce lawde & prayse be to Allmightie god the father of heaven my onely maker & Redemer make & ordeyne this my p[re]sent Testament concerning therein my last will & Testament in man[er] & forme following that is to say First I comend my soulle unto Almightie god my very maker & redemer & my body to be buryed within the Church or Chappell of Aston in such place there as shalbe moste Convenient, Item firste I geve & bequeathe towards the rep[ar]acions of the said Churche & for making of lights to be burne before the blessed Sacrament of the Alter at the tyme of devyne Srves doyng xxs, Itm I geve & bequethe to the p[ar]ishe Churches of Newport Edgmonden Lylshull & Rockewarden being the p[ar]ishe wherein I was borne to every of the said Churches vjs viijd, and like some of vjs viijd to Woodcott to be likewise used to the maynteynance of gods Srves in like man[er] as the same which is geven to Aston, Itm I geve to the Vicares & Curats srving in every of the same placs to pray for my solle & all Christen solles which god wold shold be prayd for vjs viijd apece Item I will & geve to a prist to syng or say masse for my soulle & all Christen Soulles for the space of one wholle yere next after my decease and to have a hearst of blacke clothe & twoe lights borninge uppon it every tyme convenient during masse while uppon the said hearste during the wholle yere after my deathe. and for the mayntenance & p[er]forming of all which guifts & bequests afore specified & suche as shalbe hereafter named I will leave sufficient goods in my executors hands as shall appere by an Inventory or bill of goods or detts here unto annexed, Itm I requyre & charge my executors to paye all suche detts as be specified in a certayne bill of detts hereunto fixed, or any ells which shalbe dewe p[ro]ved of which I will leave out now to my remembrance, Itm I will that the pryste which shall synge for me and all other Christen solles whall have viij li and tabell himself or ells fowre pounds & to table him att littellhales, I geve to my brother Thomas Salter and to my goddawghter Elizabeth his dawghter the taking which I have in the howse or ferme in Edgmondon which is taken for xxj yeres to me & my assignes and thereof is come uppe of the said yere to the Nomber of three yeres which said tenyment is of the yerelie vallewe of iij li iiij d a yere as appearethe by the lease which the tennant holdeth by, whereof I will forgeve him yerelie from henceforthe xxs iiijd and doe he shall pay butt yel[...] xls, and yon the said Thomas Salter my brother & his assignes shall discharge the tenement of the chefe rent to the lorde whiche is xvs by yere, soe that the said Thomas Salter my brother shall Receve yerelie to him & his assignes during the yeres on expired clerelye xxvs by the yere, and my said brother to make the lease him self, and Mr Reade & Mr Clyntton will seale the same whom have Receaved my fyne/ I did slacke the makinge of the said lease my self, for att the first they wold have bounden me to have paid a wholle [...]ryott, and now they be att a poynt to pay butt halfe a hurryett which hurryett is to be taken of suche as be uppon the ground like as other Tennants doe pay and my tenant like[?] allowed thereof and where I have coven[an]tid to have harryotts bothe of my Tennant & his wife I will that my said brother or his assignes shall have butt one for them bothe, and put[?] att the later decesser for they be bothe aged, and after them as the lease dothe specifye, Item I geve & bequeathe To my Brother William Salter and Robert Salter the Towneshepe or Capital messuage of Lyttellhales and all the lands to the same belonginge to them theire heires & assignes for evermore, which I of late purchased to me my heires & assignes for ever of one Thomas Lodge alderman of london as by the Coven[an]ts thereof doth more playnely appere. which I doe in like man[er] geve unto them with all woods comodits & p[ro]fitts thereunto belonginge in as large & ample man[er] as I the said John Salter have the same or owght to have the same by meanes of my purches, and further I will that where there is a medowe lately taken from the said ferme by Sir Richard Laweson knight and therefore in discharge of his conscience I wold he did throwghelie examyne the matter and if it be of right owght to come to the said ferme agayn for it is supposed to be taken by wronge, Itm I geve the rent of the messuage of lyttellholes to my mother which is Fower m[ar]ks by yere during her naturall life, Itm I will that my brother Willm Salter & Robte Salter shall geve theire two systers & myne nott yett bestowed that is to say Margarett & Anne Salter either of them Fortye [...] which they shall pay in lewe of theire purches and if they or either of them doe chance to dye before they be bestowed then the same to remayn to my executors, Itm there be two books or writings of my Cossyn Humfrestons the which I charge my executors to deliv[er] him and a gret many of Speciallyes of old John Harp[er]s of Newport, Item I geve the rent of one howse in Donington nere Albrighton in the county of Sallop now in the occupacon of one Hewe Pytt which is of the yerelie rent of xs by the yere for the space of Sixe yeres next ensewinge the dute hereof which I [...]yed to me & my heires & assignes for ever to the p[er]forming of my will for that I wold rather my executors shold spare them lacke, and after those vj yeres endid I do geve the same rent of xs by yere to the pore F[...] now remayning in the almes howse in Newport and all that S[...ede] them hereafter for ever within the said almes howses and allso I will that the day[?] of the purchace may be ynrolled to the uses & yntent aforesaid in the records of & in the Sheire[?] under the hands of the Custos Rotulor’ according unto the Statute, Itm I geve & bequethe to Mary Hunte my lady Bassetts kynswoman nowe remayning att Woodcott ij li vjs viij d to be paid by my executors the day of her marriag or within half a yere after, Itm I doe geve to Isabell Aspeley my Cossen xxs to be paid to her the day of her mariage or within one half yere after, and if they or either of them doe dy being nott bestowed then the same to remayn to my executors, Itm I geve to my Cossyns John Cotts & Robert Pygott esquiers whom I shull desyre to see this my p[re]sent testament & last will p[er]formed either of them xs a pece to be paid by my executors within one yere next after my decesse. Itm I geve to Anne Hatton & Malde Taseye & to Roger the boye that drives the plowghe to every of them vjs viiijd a pece to be paid within one moneth next after my dethe to goe forward with them, Itm I geve to every pore howse in Newport vjd a pece as as for as xls goethe & to every howseholder in bothe the Astons xijd a pece and that to be paid att my buriall, or after if they [...] absent. Item I geve to Willm Tydder of Newport & Jone his wife xls to be be paid by my executors within one yere next after my decesse, Itm I geve to Willm Fenymer of Muche Wenlocke & to Katheryn his brothers dawghter [...] to be equally devided betwene them & the same to be paid within two yeres after my decesse by my executors, Item I Geve to Davyd Fenymer sonne of the said Katheryne Fennymer the the Sm’ of vj li siijs iijd [?] the same to be paid by my executors to be trewlye discharged & to be bestowed with the said David to some occupacion. And the said David to be putt prentyce to suche one as shalbe bounde to my executors to pay the said money att the tyme of his prentyceshepe comynge uppe to his use and if he doe Chaunce to dye before the tyme the said money be paid by my executors or ells be Come uppe then the same to be paid to my executors agayne, and that I will he be sett for warde soe shortlye as tyme of yere maye Requyere and the gyfte with him; and of this my Testament and last will I ordeyne Constytute & make my before named Brother William Salter and Robert Salter my full executors whom I putt in trust to see this my p[re]sent Testament and last will p[er]formed in all poynts. and therein Willing Requyringe & charginge them to accomplishe the same, In witnes whereof to this p[re]sent Testament & last will I have putt my hand yeven the day and yere abovesaid, These bearing witnes. Robert Allen whom hathe subscribed his name him self, Humfidy Sheppard with others/
[The will was proved 1 April 1597 by Robert Salter, one of the executors, the other executor William Salter having died in the meantime.]
from the plea rolls in the Court of Common Pleas:
CP40/
Hilary Term, 1563
abstract (by Vance Mead):
London debt
Plaintiffs: Thomas Salter of Wrockewarden, Salop, gent; Robert Salter of Littlehales, Salop, gent; Thomas Poole, Julia his wife alias Julia Aspley, of Newporte, spinster
Defendants: Thomas Butturton of Bridgenorthe, Salop, draper; John Pulley, of Bridgenorth, draper
CP40/
Hilary Term, 1584
abstract (by Vance Mead):
Shropshire debt
Plaintiff: Robert Salter, gent
Defendants: John Pooler of Stockton, husbandman; Thomas Pydgyn of Newport or of Chetwin Ende, husbandman; John Penbury of Pickestoke, husbandman
The 1588 will of David Salter, draper of Shrewsbury mentions his mother Katherine Fenimore and his uncle Robert Salter.
from the Shropshire Archives catalogue:
6000/62
Deed Poll under the hand and seal of Francis Lawley of Lushecott gent., bastard son of Richard Lawley, late of Strensham, co. Worcester, gent. deceased, confirming to Robert Salter of Peoton gent. and to Katherine his wife and the heirs of the said Robert, of a messenage and farm &c. in the fields of Longveld alias Longfeld in the parish of Eaton alias Eeton, in fulfilment of an Agreement dated 2 November 12 Elizabeth. And the appointed Francis Lawley of Sponehall[?] esq. and Adam Lutley of Bromcroft gent. his attorneys to deliver seisin &c. Seal missing.
6000/1171
7 November 1570
Deed of Feoffment. Francis Lawley of Lusshecott, gent., bastard son of Richard Lawley, late of Strensham, Worcs - in fulfilment of an agreement specified in Indentures between himself, and Robert Salter of Peeton, gent. and Katherine his wife - sells to them a messuage in Longville or Longfiled in the parish of Eaton under Heywood, and the tithes arising, and a parcel of wood called Longfield Wood in Eaton which he bought off Ralph Corfield and Thomas Mynton,Attorneys Francis Lawley of Sponehall, esq., and Adam Lutley of Bromcroft, gent.
3614/5/28
Acknowledgement of bargain and sale of land in Longville
Copy acknowledgment of bargain and sale agreement 25 May 1584 between:
1. Robert Salter, Littlehales, Salop, gent
2. Edward Lutwyche, Lutwyche, Salop, gent
His messuage in Longville, parish Eaton, Salop
26 May 1584
6000/4752
17 May 1587
Great Aston:-Rough Copy of Court Roll at a Court held May 17th 29 Eliz. License given by the steward of William Chetwyn Esq. to Robert Salter of Littlehales to lease premises to Roger Adderley & Jane his wife (Paper)
6000/4753
1601
Great Aston:-Court Baron of Walter Chetwind Esq. held October 1st 43 Eliz. Jo. Iremonger being steward. Surrender by Robert Salter of Littlehales of premises in Gt. Aston to the use of Edward Grove of Westbromarich, who is admitted tenant etc.
6000/4754
1603
Great Aston - Court Baron of the same, held December 19th 1 Jas I Ric. Bolte being Seneschal. Relatiing to the conveyance of Salter to Groves of premises in Gt. Aston. Reciting Deed of Feoffment.
6000/5588
19 December 1603
19 Dec 1 Jas I. Richard Bolton, steward. Homage. Surrenders of Edward Groves and Thomas Salter to Thomas Bullock (admitted) and of Robert Salter of Littlehales, gent, to Edward Groves of West Bromwich (admitted).
1781/2/73
4 June 1607
Robert Salter snr. of Littlehales, gent.
William Pitt of the Crosse in Donington, yeoman
Consideration: 14 13s 4d
A tenement in Donington near Albrighton (William Pitt) with buildings and lands belonging. To hold to Pitt and his heirs forever.
1781/2/74
4 June 1607
Robert Salter of Littlehales, gent, is bound to William Pitt of the Crosse in Donington, yeoman, in 30, to fulfill covenants in the indenture of even date (1781/2/73)
Docketed: No. 6
Administration of the estate of Robert Salter senior of Edgmond: 17 June 1612.
Commentary
On the marriage of Ann Pigott and Richard Salter.
I give this relationship based on this evidence:
The Pigott pedigree in the 1623 Shropshire Visitation gives “Anna ux. Rich. Salter” as a daughter of “Thomas Pigott of Chetwyn” and “Elizabeth da. to …Oneley” and as a sister to “Robert Pigott of Chetwynne”. The informant seems to have been Robert Pigott’s grandson Walter Pigott, who was sheriff of Shropshire in 1624. Walter was born in 1574 and his grandfather Robert died in 1584, so Walter was in a position to know about Ann Pigott and Richard Salter. The pedigree incorrectly gives Robert a second wife Jane Pontesbury, who was in reality the second wife of Robert’s grandfather, also named Robert, but otherwise seems accurate back to Walter’s grandparents, and at least contains some accurate information from before that, mixed with some errors.
The Salter pedigree in the 1623 Shropshire Visitation gives Richard Salter’s wife as “Anna filia Tho. Pigot de Chetwyn.” The informant seems to have been Richard and Ann’s grandson Thomas Salter.
Ann’s mother Isabel Pigott of Chetwynd, in her 1554 will, names her “cousins” John Salter and William Humfreston. (“Cousin” was used loosely in the period to refer to a relative.) John Salter was Ann’s son and Isabel’s grandson. William Humfreston was the husband of a granddaughter (a daughter of Ann’s brother Robert Pigott).
Richard and Ann’s son John Salter, in his 1557 will, makes his “cousins” Robert Pigott esquire and John Cotts esquire his overseers. Robert Pigott was in fact John’s uncle (Ann’s brother) and John Cotts (John Cotes of Woodcote) was probably Ann’s second cousin, a descendant of Ann’s great-grandfather Sir Humphey Blount.
A wrinkle is that Isabel Pigott, in the 1554 will mentioned above, names her daughter Anne Yonge. (Her husband in his 1546 will doesn’t mention her.) I assume this is a second marriage for Anne unmentioned in the visitations, but something else may be wrong.
On Richard Salter’s family
There is somewhat conflicting information in pedigrees, but other evidence provides confirmation for some of it.
Siblings
The Salter pedigree was recorded in Shropshire in 1584 and 1623, but there is not a distinct version of each, with the 1623 visitation “supplying” the 1584 visitation in manuscripts, although manuscripts and copies of the 1584 pedigrees also exist. The pedigree of Salter in the Harleian Society’s Visitation of Shropshire, 1623 is based on three manuscript copies of original College of Arms material: Harl. 1396, a copy of the 1623 material (incorporating earlier material); Harl. 1241, a copy of the 1584 material; and S, an independent copy of the 1623 material.
The main text, following Harl. 1396, gives Richard and his brothers thus:
Johannes Salter = Margareta fil. Thomae Otteley de Pichford
Richardus Salter 2 filius. = Anna filia Tho. Pigot de Chetwynd
Rogerus.
That these three were brothers is confirmed in John Salter’s 1532 will in which he mentioned “my brother Sir Roger Salter Clerk” and “my brother Richard Salter”. The visitation gets the first name of John’s wife wrong: he calls her “Elizabeth my wife” in his will, and in a Chancery pleading from before 1515 the plaintiffs were “John Salter and Elizabeth, his wife, daughter of Thomas Otteley, of Shrewsbury” (National Archives catalogue C 1/165/60).
Another pedigree is given by Jonathan Brown Bright (p. 92). He does not explain its origin, but it appears to be independent, incorporating material from the visitation of Suffolk, where the family of one of Richard’s sons ended up. This pedigree gives the siblings thus:
1. John Salter, Esq., of the same [‘Rokenden in Shropshire’]
2. Robert Salter, of Shropshire, Gent. = Anne, dau. of Robert Pigott of Chetwyne in Shropshire, Esq.
Jane Salter married John Leighton, of Cotes in Shropshire.
This pedigree has “Robert Salter” for Richard Salter, and omits Roger. It adds a sister Jane, married to John Leighton of Cotes. This relationship is confirmed in John Salter’s 1532 will, where he mentions that in a deed he has enfeoffed “kinsmen” including “Raufe Leighton”. Raufe was a son of Jane and John Leighton.
Mother
The Shropshire visitation gives:
Rosa filia Willimi Cludd.
The pedigree in Bright (p. 92) gives:
Anne, dau. of Clerde.
Other evidence supports that Richard’s mother was a Cludde. One line of evidence involves Richard’s residence at Wrockwardine, where I can’t find Salters recorded in the 1400s. The Cludds were based in Wrockwardine. Here is the beginning of the 1524 lay subsidy for “Wrockwardyn with its Members”:
Richard Cludde in lands – 10 marks .. .. .. 6s. 8d.
Richard Salter in goods 7l. .. .. .. 3s 4d.
It makes sense that Wrockwardine came to Richard through his mother. Richard’s elder brother John was based in Newport, and mentions in his 1532 will that his father was buried there under a “marbill stone” in the parish church.
There is other evidence. The first of the “kinsmen” that John Salter stated in his 1532 will that he had enfeoffed in a deed was “John Corbett of Lye”. In the 1525 marriage covenant for John Salter’s daughter Jane, John Corbett of Lees was the first feoffee on Jane’s side (Chetwynd-Staplyton p. 141). This is confirmation that the mother of the Salter siblings was a Cludde because the Cludde mother would have been a daughter of Mary Corbet, daughter of Thomas Corbet of Lye.
The Cludd pedigree in the 1623 Shropshire visitation gives the father of Richard Cludd as Thomas Cludd and Thomas’s parents as “Willimus Cludd ao 5 H. 6.” and “Maria filia Tho’ae Corbet de Lee”. The 1614 Nottingham visitation also gives Richard’s father as Thomas, but Thomas’s parents as “Thomas Cludd of Orleton” and “...d of Peter vel Thomas Corbett of Lee in Com. Salop.” Herbert, who notes (p. 162) that the Nottinghamshire visitation is more accurate, gives:
“Thomas Cludde of Cludley and Orleton, living 6 Henry VI. (1427). He married Mary, daughter of Thomas Corbet of Lee (i.e. Leigh-juxta Caus), and had a son Thomas Cludde…He had issue a son Richard Cludde of Orleton…He paid 6s. 8d. to the Subsidy for his lands in Wrokardyn which were valued at ten marks.”
The Shropshire VCH (v. 11, sub Wrockwardine) follows Herbert.
In all, the evidence that Richard Salter’s mother was a Cludde is good.
Father
Here, the evidence is somewhat confusing.
The Salter pedigree in the 1623 Shropshire visitation, following Harl. 1396, gives:
Johan’es Salter de Newport in com. Salop 2 filius.
The 1889 editor inserts the suggestion: “Clerk of the Peace for co. Salop?” This is a reference to a monumental inscription in the parish church of Newport (Jones, p. 124):
Clericus en pacis custos pacisq: Johnes in cineres vtres Salter iacet his tumulatus. In festo Marci spiritū xro dedit iste: anno milleno quingenteno mīn octo huic sociat ppr sese coniux Isabella, hiis det solamen cunctor conditor Amen.
Jones’s translation: Lo, here lies entombed among ancient ashes John Salter clerk of the peace and guardian of the peace; he gave his soul to Christ on the feast of St. Mark in the year one thousand five hundred less eight. Near him in close company lies his wife Isabella herself. May the Creator of all things give them peace. Amen.
The suggestion that this is the monument to John and Richard’s father accords with John (the son’s) comment in his will that his father was buried beneath a marble stone at Newport.
In the Leighton pedigree in the 1623 Shropshire visitation, John and Richard’s sister Jane is given as “Jana fil. Joh’is Salter de Wrokemardin in com. Salop.”
In the pedigree given by Bright, the father is Thomas Salter, son of John Salter of “Rokenden in Shopshire, Gent.”
In the 1623 Shropshire visitation, it is noted that S. has the name as “Thomas” rather than John.
In the Macclesfield of Maer pedigree in the 1583 visitation of Staffordshire, we find that the wife of Richard Macclesfield of Newport, Shropshire is “Julian, filia Joh’is Salter de Newport in Com. Salop,” although it is not certain that Julian belongs in this family.
In sum, it is difficult to be sure whether the father’s name was John or Thomas, or whether his main estate was at Newport or Wrockwardine, although he was clearly buried at Newport. It is also less than clear that the 1492 burial was that of John and Richard’s father. A 1498 debt case in the Common Pleas (CP40/943 f 379) involved the executors of John Salter of Neuport: John Salter and Richard Salter, clerk, but it seems that the Richard was probably not the Richard of this page but rather the Doctor of Decrees appearing in these records, among others:
Jones p. 119
1496 Newport Deed
Mentions land of John Salter
Witnesses: Richard Salter, Doctor of Decrees, John Salter
Jones p. 121
1496 Gift of land in Newport, Aston Magna, Aston Parva to Richard Salter, Doctor of Decrees, Roger Salter, Warden of the Collegiate Church of Newport, John Salter, Richard Salter
Jones p. 121
1496 Indenture:
1st part: Thomas Reynolds, Clerk and Canon of the of the Cathedral Church of Lichfield, and John Reynolds, Clerk and Canon of the Cathedral Church of York.
2nd part: Mr Richard Salter, Clerk and Canon of the Cathedral Church of Lichfield, Roger Salter, Clerk and Warden of the College of Newport, John Salter, Richard Salter
Subject: concerning land in Newport, Much Aston, Little Aston, whereof the 2nd part had been seized as of the gift, grant, and feoffment of the 1st part.
The John Salter who died in 1532 had a distinguished legal career, and it makes sense that he would come from the family of an attorney and clerk of the peace, and several secondary sources assume them, but I am inclined to follow the Shropshire VCH (v. 3, p. 64) in making the clerk of the peace John (and Richard)’s grandfather rather than father, both for chronological reasons, and another reason I will outline below.
First, the chronological reasons. The the elder John Salter first appears as clerk of the peace in 1459 (according to Burke) or 1462 (according to the Shropshire VCH p. 68) and continue in that role until at least 1490 and possibly until his death. He appears earlier as an attorney, in 1453 at the abbey of Lilleshall and from 1447 in the Court of the Common Pleas. He was probably born in the 1420s or later.
His eldest son John, the Justiciar of North Wales, was probably married about 1505. The Justiciar’s daughter Jane married a boy born in 1509.
His second son Richard married a woman whose father was born in 1485. Their children seem to have been born between the 1520s and 1540s.
His third son Roger was a clerk. It is usually assumed that he was the Roger Salter who is attested as the master of St Mary, Newport, from 1491 to 1543, but this seems wrong to me. In the 1496 gift and 1496 indenture cited above, Roger is listed before John and Richard, which would be odd if he were the youngest of the three. I think the Roger who was John and Richard’s brother must have been someone else.
In general, I think John, Richard, and Roger, the brothers, were somewhat young to have been children of the clerk of the peace.
The other reason that I think that John and Isabella Salter where the grandparents of the three brothers is because of this Chancery pleading from the National Archives catalogue:
C 1/48/371
Plaintiffs: John Salter and Isabel, his wife.
Defendants: Robert Chorleton, of Appeley, esquire, and Richard, his son.
Subject: Cottages and closes in Newport, purchased from John Halle.
Shropshire
Date: 1473-1475
Also in the National Archives catalogue is this synopsis of a letter written by the John Salter, who later became the justiciar:
Talbot papers
probably 1516
John Salter to the Earl of Shrewsbury, no place, 26 March, n.a. He has helped the Abbot of Shrewsbury before the Council of the Marches, as the Earl asked. He apologizes that the courts of the Honour of Tutbury have not been held for six months; he had asked a deputy to do it and promises to attend in person next Easter. His cousin, William Chorleton, will discuss other business with the Earl. 1p. Endorsed. 'To my good lord'.
Robert Chorleton/ Charlton of Apley and Richard Chorleton his son were the grandfather and father respectively of the William Chorleton in the record above. Richard Salter was also closely associated with William Chorleton and his son, William Charlton of Wombridge. In 1535, William Charlton was chief steward of Wombridge Priory and Richard Salter was steward of the courts (VCH v. 2).
In the Chancery pleading above, I assume Isabel was named as a plaintiff because she was directly involved in some way. I think she was probably Robert Chorleton’s sister or daughter, and this explains John Salter’s reference to his “cousin William Chorleton” in 1516. Since John (the Justiciar) and Richard’s mother was a Cludd, this means that Isabel was their grandmother.
Interestingly, in 1466, John Salter had acted as Robet Chorleton’s defense attorney in the Court of Common Pleas (CP 40/813, rot. 343):
In the case below, the defendant Robert Chorleton is listed as Robert Chorleton, esquire, of Apley, Shropshire, and the attorney for the defendants was John Salter.
Term: Michaelmas 1464
County: London
Writ type: Trespass (force and arms)
Damages claimed: £100
Case type: Assault; Housebreaking; Taking of goods
Pleading: Thomas Osborn states that on 3 July 1443 Robert Chorleton, William Mitton and Thomas Dawe, the defendants, together with Thomas Yarme, Robert Stokes, John Wolley, Thomas Barker and John Sandysshe, forcibly broke into his house in London, assaulted him, and took and carried away goods worth £40, namely 9 silver cups ('ciphos') called 'Paris pieces', one silver and gilt bowl called a 'standing piece', a silver bowl called a 'bolle pece', two pairs of silver and gilt salts, 3 dozen silver spoons, 21 gold rings, 7 silk girdles of various colours decorated with silver, a saddle, a bridle, a scarlet gown lined with marten fur, a blue gown lined with marten fur, a violet gown lined with polecat fur, and a bill called a Normany bill. This was against the peace, and to his damage of £100.
Pleading: Defendants granted licence to imparl to octave of Hilary.
Pleading: [Followed by mesne process entry of same TO against accessories, who did not come. Sheriff to take, not found, sicut pluries to octave of Hilary. Sheriff did not send writ (twice), to same quindene of Trinity 1465.
Postea text: 3 further licences to imparl, to quindene of Trinity 1465.
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