Jane married Richard Clive on 17 May, 1553, at Brereton-cum-Smethwick, Cheshire.[2]
In the chancel of Chester Holy Trinity Church was a brass monument inscribed:[3]
"Here lieth the body of Richard Clyve of Huxley, esq, who deceased the 27 April, 1572, having married Jane the sister of Sir William Brereton, knight, by whom he had issue George Clyve, his only son; and daughters Rachael, Sarah, Rebecca, Judith, and Hester."
Sources
↑ 1.01.1 George Ormerod, "Containing the Hundreds of Northwich, Nantwich, and Macclesfield", 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from Original Evidences in Public Offices, the Harleian and Cottonian MSS, Parochial Registers, Private Muniments, Unpublished Ms Collections of Successive Cheshire Antiquaries, and a Personal Survey of Every Township in the County; Incorporated with a Republication of King's Vale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, 2nd Edition, ed. Thomas Helsby, 3 volumes, (London: George Routledge and Sons, 1882), III:89, e-book, HathiTrust (https://hdl.handle.net/2027/coo.31924088434059?urlappend=%3Bseq=113%3Bownerid=13510798902313265-135 : accessed 26 October, 2022).
↑ "England, Cheshire Parish Registers, 1538-2000," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/F7C1-1XB : accessed 20 Apr 2014), Richard Cline and Jane Brereton, 17 May 1553, Marriage; citing p 6, Brereton-cum-Smethwick, Cheshire, England, Record Office, Chester; FHL microfilm 2103922.
↑ George Ormerod, "Containing the Introduction and Prolegomena, the County of the City of Chester and Bucklow Hundred", 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from Original Evidences in Public Offices, the Harleian and Cottonian MSS, Parochial Registers, Private Muniments, Unpublished Ms Collections of Successive Cheshire Antiquaries, and a Personal Survey of Every Township in the County; Incorporated with a Republication of King's Vale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, 2nd Edition, ed. Thomas Helsby, 3 volumes, (London: George Routledge and Sons, 1882), I:197, e-book HathiTrust (https://hdl.handle.net/2027/coo.31924088434034?urlappend=%3Bseq=295%3Bownerid=13510798902306474-333 : accessed 26 October, 2022).
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