Elizabeth (Grosvenor) Dutton (1431 - abt. 1503)

Born 1431 in Hulme, Cheshire, England [uncertain]

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Died about 1503 at about age 72 in Cheshire, England

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Elizabeth Grosvenor was married to Peter Dutton of Hatton.^[1]

On 7 March, 1464/5, Peter de Dutton and Elizabeth his wife, Emma wife of John de Legh, Agnes le Grosvenor, Margery le Grosvenor, Katharine wife of Richard Wynyngton, and Margaret wife of Thomas Laycester, had a writ of livery setting forth an inquisition, finding that Robert Grosvenor, armiger, died seized in his demesne, as of fee, of the manor of Hulme, held of Thomas Holford, in socage; a moiety of one messuage and thirty acres of land in Bancroft, held also of Thomas, in socage; of three messuages and one carucate of land in Dunham-Mascy, held of the Earl of Chester by knight's service; land with two messuages in Ketilshulme within the forest of Macclesfield held of the Earl of Chester, according to the custom of the forest; of the manor of Pulford, and eighty acres of land in Claverton, with the advowson of the church of Pulford, held of the Earl of Chester, by knight's service; of the manor of Buyrton, held of John Stanley, Kt, as of his manor of Aldeford, by fealty and doing suit at his court of Aldeford; of a third of the manor of Waverton, held of the Abbot of Chester, in socage; of a 4th part of the manor of Cholley, held of John Sutton, Kt, in socage; of an eighth part of the manor of Broxon, held of John Sutton, Kt, in socage; of two messuages and ten acres of land in Aldresay, held of the said John, in socage; of 4d annual rent in Elton, held of John Stanley, Kt, as of his manor of Aldeford, in socage; of a garden in the city of Chester, held of the Earl of Chester, in socage; of a plot of land and moor called “ Sondelemosse" in the town of Netherpevere, containing 100 acres, held of the Earl of Chester, as of the lordship of Halton, by knight's service; of a moiety of the site of a water-mill in Netherpevere containing one acre, held of the Earl of Chester, as of the lordship of Halton, by knight's service; of two burgages and one acre of land in Knottesford, held of Thomas Holes, in socage; of one messuage and sixteen acres of land in Allostok, held of the Abbot of Vale-Royal, in socage; of one salt pit, one messuage, and four acres of land in Northwich, held of William Stanley, Kt, as feoffee of Henry Duke of Exeter, in socage; and of 3s. annual rent in Middlewich, held of the Earl of Chester in socage; that the said Robert died on the Wednesday next after the feast of the Epiphany “last” past, and Robert's daughters and heirs were Elizabeth aged thirty-four, Emma thirty-two, Agnes twenty-nine, Margery twenty-seven, Katharine twenty-four, and Margaret twenty-two.^[2]

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1. ↑ George Ormerod, The history of Chester, etc, Vol. III, (London: Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor and Jones, 1819), [1] pp.87-88.
2. ↑ Peter Turner, comp, "Appendix II: No 1. Welsh Records: Calendar of Recognizance Rolls of the Palatinate of Chester, from the beginning of the reign of Henry V to the end of the reign of Henry VII," The Thirty-Seventh Annual Report of the Deputy Keeper of the Public Records [9 March 1876] (London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1876), 238-9. e-book HathiTrust (https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015011704189?urlappend=%3Bseq=462%3Bownerid=13510798900606340-500 : accessed 3 January, 2022). [4 & 5 Edw. 4. m. 4 d. (1).]