Escheator of Cheshire
Events
Date of Birth: unknown.
Place of Birth: unknown.
Date of Death: about 1427.
The writ diem clausit extremum is dated 2 April 1427 (see below).
Place of Death: unknown.
Relationships
(possible) Father: William de Ravenscroft.
This relationship is suggested in Ormerod (3:207-8).
(possible) Mother: Margery.
This relationship is suggested in Ormerod (3:207-8).
Spouse: Agnes de Cotton.
Agnes is recorded as the mother of Hugh in the Recognizance Rolls of Chester (DKPR 1876, Appendix II, page 168).
Children:
(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project.)
Hugh de Ravenscroft married Isabel Holland.
Evidence
From the Thirty-Sixth Annual Report of the Deputy Keeper of the Public Records Appendix II (Recognizance Rolls of Chester):
(page 398):
1380, Oct. 12. Henry de [Ravenscroft], appointment of, by Joan Princess of Wales, as steward of Middlewich, during pleasure. [4 & 5 Ric. 2 m. 1 (12).]
1383, Sept. 29. Henry de [Ravenscroft], lease to, by Joan Princess of Wales, of the town of Middlewich for 4 years, at 62l. yearly. [5, 6, & 7 Ric. 2 m. 3 d. (10).ç
1386, Aug. 9. Henry de [Ravenscroft], appointment of, by the King, during pleasure, as approver and receiver of the town of Middlewich and steward of the courts. [9 & 10 Ric. 2. m. 6 d. (2).]
1387, Dec. 24. Henry de [Ravenscroft], a like appointment. [11 & 12 Ric. 2. m. 3 (3).]
1386-7, March 9. Henry de [Ravenscroft], warrant of the King to the bailiffs of the manor of Drakelowe, for delivery to, of dead wood sold by the King to the said Henry. [10 & 11 Ric. 2. m. 2 d. (1).]
(page 329):
1389, April 28. John de [Massey], of Tatton, Kt., late sheriff of Chester, to the King, recognizance for 51l. 19s. the arrears of his account, in exoneration of Henry de Ravenscroft, late under-sheriff of the said county. [12 & 13 Ric. 2. m. 2 (9).]
(page 399):
1395, Sept. 19. Henry de [Ravenscroft], Adam de Bostok, Hugh de Coton, and John and Randal de Maynwaring, mainprise to answer for the issues of the manor of Wermyncham, should they be adjudged to the King. [19 & 20 Ric. 2. m. 8 (5).]
1396, Oct. 11. Henry de [Ravenscroft], appointment of, by the King, as sheriff of the county of Chester, during pleasure. [20 & 21 Ric. 2. m. 1 (9).]
1395, Dec. 4. Henry de [Ravenscroft], appointment of, by the King, as sheriff of Chester till the “quinzime” of Hilary next following. [20 & 21 Ric. 2. m. 4 d. (4).]
1400, June 3. Henry de [Ravenscroft], appointment of, by Henry Prince of Wales, as steward of Middlewich, during pleasure. [1 & 2 Hen. 4. m. 7 d. (8).]
1402, Oct. 21. Henry de [Ravenscroft], to Richard de Manley, recognizance for 14 marks paid to John Walram, valet of John Merbury. [3 & 4 Hen. 4. m. 1 (8).]
1403-4, Jan. 14. Joan, who was the wife of Thomas de [Fouleshurst], of Crewe, Kt., petition of dower of, by Henry de Ravenscroft, her attorney. [4 & 5 Hen. 4. m. 5 (10).]
(page 399):
1406, Sept. 29. Henry de [Ravenscroft], commission of, by Henry Prince of Wales, as steward of the town and lordship of Northwich, during pleasure. [6 & 7 Hen. 4. m. 6 (9).]
(page 46):
1409, Nov. 18. Adam de [Bostok], Henry de Ravenscroft, and John Bovell, license to, to act as the attorney of John de Kyngesley during his absence from the county of Chester. [10 & 11 Hen. 4. m. 1 d. (2).]
(page 399):
1412, April 8. Henry de [Ravenscroft], appointment of, by Henry Prince of Wales, as escheator of the county of Chester, during pleasure. [12 & 13 Hen. 4. m. 2 (8).]
April 11. Writ to Richard de Manley, late escheator, for livery of the office to the said Henry. [12 & 13 Hen. 4. m. 2 (9).]
From the Thirty-Seventh Annual Report of the Deputy Keeper of the Public Records Appendix II (Recognizance Rolls of Chester):
(p. 610):
1413, Oct. 10. Henry de [Ravenscroft], appointment of, as steward of the town and lordship of Northwich, during pleasure. [1 & 2 Hen. 5.m. 1 (7).]
1427, April 2.. Henry de, late escheator of the county of Chester, writ “diem clausit extremum” on the death of. [5 & 6 Hen. 6 .m. 4 (1).]
References
Ormerod, George; Peter Leycester; William Smith; William Webb; and Thomas Helsby. The history of the county palatine and city of Chester: compiled from original evidences in public offices, the Harleian and Cottonian mss., parochial registers, private muniments, unpublished ms. collections of successive Cheshire antiquaries, and a personal survey of every township in the county, incorporated with a republication of King's Vale royal and Leycester's Cheshire antiquities. (London: G. Routledge, 1882).
Ravenscroft, William, and Raymond Bathurst Ravenscroft. The Family of Ravenscroft. (London: Mitchell, Hughes and Clarke, 1915).
The Thirty-Sixth Annual Report of the Deputy Keeper of the Public Records. (London: 1875).
The Thirty-Seventh Annual Report of the Deputy Keeper of the Public Records. (London: 1876).