Hamon (Mascy) of Rixton (aft. 1439 - abt. 1504)

Born after 1439 in Rixton with Glazebrook, Lancashire, England

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Died about 1504 before about age 65 in Rixton with Glazebrook, Lancashire, England

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Biography

Hamon Mascy alias Hamo le Massy of Rixton alias Hamelett Massy of Ryxton^[1]

Hamlet was born in or after 1439 (the year of his parents' indenture of marriage^[1]).

Hamon was the son of Hamon or Hamnet Mascy of Rixton and his wife, Johanna, daughter of Sir Robert Booth of Dunham, Knight.^[2]

He was the brother of:

1. John Mascy of Rixton, heir to his brother Hamon, married Anne, daughter of Sir John Booth of Barton; her father and his father died at Flodden field (1513); after her husband, John, died in 10 Henry VIII, 1518-19, she was married to Thomas Starkie of Stretton.^[2]

Hamon and Elizabeth had children:

1. Margery, who was married to Henry, son and heir of Richard Risley;^[2]
2. Margaret, who was married to John (or Thomas) Holcroft of Holcroft, to whom she brought Horton, Holland and Preston;^[2]
3. Katherine, who was married to William Hyde of Hyde;^[2] and
4. Alice, who was married to Robert Worsley of Booths.^[2]

In 1466, on the Translation of St Thomas the Martyr, in 6 Edward IV, Johanna, the widow of Hamon Mascy of Rixton assigned to her son, Hamon Mascy, the son and heir of Hamon Mascy of Rixton, deceased, the lease left her by her husband Hamon, held of the Priory of Birkenheued, of Tithes etc in Bowdon.^[1]

Thomas Raynford, prior of Birhenheued, at Byrkenheued on Saturday after the Assumption of the Blessed Virgrin Mary, in 7 Edward IV, that is 1467, leased to Hamo le Massy of Rixton, Oliver Smult, clerk, Henry Lervet, and Nicholas Page, the lands etc belonging to the Convent in Bowdon parish, for 39 years to be held on the same terms as his father's lease.^[1]

His father died in 14 Edward IV, 1474, and Hamon succeeded him.^[2]

On 2 October, 12 Henry VII, 1497, a memorandum was sent from Halton, "towchyng a relef demanded of 'Hamelett Massy of Ryxton for his lands yn Couges-'hull" etc.

Hamlet Mascy made his will in 20 Henry VII, 1504-5, and because he had no sons, was succeeded by his brother, John.^[2]

John Massey, brother and nearest heir of Hamon Massy of Rixton, was issued a receipt on 25 September, 23 Henry VII, 1507, by Sir John Bothe, Knt, Receiver for the King in the County Palatine of Lancaster in the Halton fee, for 31s paid for his relief for lands in Coggeshull within the manor of Whitley in co Chester.^[3]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3} Mrs Arthur Cecil Tempest, "Schedule of Deeds, chiefly relating to Warrington, late the property of the Mascys of Rixton, now preserved in the Muniment Room at Broughton Hall, in Craven", Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire, New Series Vol IV, 1888—XL:165-170, (https://archive.org/stream/transactionsofhi440hist#page/164/mode/2up : accessed 29 July 2018.
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7} William Langton, ed., The Visitation of Lancashire, and a Part of Cheshire, Made in the Twenty-Fourth Year of the Reign of King Henry the Eighth, AD 1533, by Special Commission of Thomas Benalt, Clarencieux, Part II (The Chetham Society for Remains Historical & Literary Connected with the Palatine Counties of Lancaster and Chester, CX, 1882), 222-3, e-Book Internet Archive (https://archive.org/details/remainshistoric112socigoog/page/n148/mode/1up : accessed 31 July, 2022). [Pedigree: William Massye of Rigiston (Rixton)].
3. ↑ Mrs Arthur Cecil Tempest, "Schedule of Deeds, chiefly relating to Warrington, late the property of the Mascys of Rixton, now preserved in the Muniment Room at Broughton Hall, in Craven", Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire, New Series Vol IV, 1888—XL, (Liverpool: Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire, 1890), accessed 24 November, 2014, https://archive.org/stream/transactionsofhi440hist#page/172/mode/2up pp.172.

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