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Of Serlby, Blyth, Nottinghamshire.
His great-grandson, Rev Richard Taylor, recorded that "The Spencer family had lands at Barnby Dun, Sheffield, Rotherham, and also at Selby near Tickhill, and are most probably the same stock as the Spencers of Bramley Grange and Attercliffe Hall, near Sheffield, as they had lands in the same parts and were allied to several branches of the Taylor family as well as the Spencers of Hodsock. My great-grandfather Spencer was twice related to the Duke of Marlborough, but how I know not."
He married twice and had three sons and six daughters.
Nicholas Spencer married Elizabeth Smith in 1601 in Harworth [1].
Nicholas Spencer married Dorothy Tias in 1620 in Harworth [1].
He died after 1636.
"A property known as ROWLANDS MANOR appears in the parish [of Cople, Bedfordshire] in the 16th century, and was then held of Sir Thomas Snagge as of the barony of Bedford. (fn. 35) Its origin is uncertain, but a family of Rodland or Rowland is associated with this parish from the 13th to the 15th century. (fn. 36) The first mention of it as a manor is found in 1531, when John Spencer made a settlement of it. (fn. 37) His father Robert's name occurs a few years earlier as holding land in Cople. (fn. 38) Thomas son of John Spencer died seised in 1547. (fn. 39) He was succeeded by his son Robert, who was followed by his son Nicholas, who died about 1625. (fn. 40) His son, another Nicholas, married Mary daughter of Sir Edward Gostwick of Willington, and died in 1643. (fn. 41) William Spencer, son and heir of Nicholas, was living and in possession of Rowlands in 1691. (fn. 42) The Spencer estates in Cople were bought by Francis Brace for the Dowager Duchess of Marlborough, (fn. 43) probably about the same time that the other Cople property was purchased of Sir William Gostwick. It still bore its distinctive name as part of the Duke of Bedford's estate in this parish at the beginning of the 19th century."[1]
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