Musters in Northumberland February 1558

Hi, I see this great source link you posted. Does a Muster Register Similar to this exist for Cheshire, Lancashire or any City in those areas as well as just West of Chester in Wales. Gloucestershire, Staffordshire and London are other places of interest. Did someone muster the merchants and tradesman there. I guess it would be their Guild Master? The reason I ask is because I am researching the John, Charles & William (among others) Families of Davenham Parish, Cheshire which has musters conducted by their nobility. Sir John Savage had became the preeminent Lord there in the 1500's, over Bostick, Kyme, Vernon, Venable and others. A local researcher there descended from Bostick's all the way back to Domesday, has made notice of various Hiltons in 16th Century Muster and Hearth Lists as well as several other families. He may have passed away as I cannot contact him. I am descended from Edward Hilton of Exeter, New Hampshire whom is connected somehow to these Davenham Families via William and Charles Hilton. I am excluding the Biddick-Durham Hiltons and am aware our Y-Dna points to supposedly Viking Haplotype I in Wales just West of Chester City. I am unaware of any Lancashire or elsewhere Y DNA Testing. I am unconvinced that Edward was brother to William Hilton, 1621 at Plymouth (as Wm Hubbard stated in his 1660 History) but believe they are Connected. There are just too many similar named Hiltons in these Families and we must find other helpful.sources. I do strongly believe they are at least cousins and that they both spent some in greater London. It my opinion that William's Famous Letter to his "Cousin" which he sent back to England with John Smith, was intended to the Fishmonger Edward Hilton whom is there, connected to a Charles Hilton whom is documented directly to the Fishmongers Market Road, by the Wharves there near where John Smith likely was quite familiar with and by those there. Smith could have hand delivered the letter to Edward Hilton there. I need to look into any sources on Smith's visits to London in 1621-1624 or so.

Regarding the Musters, it seems smart to investigate which Nobilty was in charge of the Musters there which Hiltons were recorded in. I have years for some (From Bostick) but do not know whom oversaw these Musters. If we identify them, we may be able to locate other sources connected to those families and the locations they were Lords at. Oftentimes, A Noble would reward a Supporter with Lands or Home or almost anything for what they did or for what they then agreed to do. Thus, our Hilton's may have been induced to relocate into Shipbrook or Davenham or Wilton by the Lord (of the Mustered Land) from their original seat of residence, which was also under control of that same Landlord. John Savage up on the Mersey, thus closer to Chester, Wales and Lancashire is such a documented Lord. The other families in the area surrounding Shipbrook are fairly well known. Our Hilton's are so called middle class at this time, not directly connected to any major Hilton Nobilty! I see a few Ellen's in the Shipbrook Region connected Hilton Families and an Eme (Amy), among others but no evidence of any kind that they were Manwaring's, a very noble and large family in Cheshire. Every Ellen appears to be documented as married to some other landed gentry. I disagree 100% that William Hilton of Wilton married an Ellen Mainwaring but an Ellen of Unknown Surname. It is my opinion that Manwaring only entered into the Family of William of Plymouth and York thru the children of his 2nd wife, Frances (later White) whom I suspect may be the Illegitimate Daughter of a Sea Captain Phillip Mainwaring, whom was Captain of a Colonial Coastal Trader prior to 1640-45 whom stopped at Kittery and Strawberry Banks during this time. I believe he may have been one of the several Phillip Mainwaring's connected to Cheshire and Possibly Capt Henry Mainwaring whom was active along the Maine Coast all the way up to Acadia where the English and French fought it out with Pirates in their very early settlements. That is a long comment for another profile. I include it here only because of the Hilton confusion with Mainwaring's in both Cheshire and New England. I am certainly quite interested in any Documentation of Muster Rolls. Thank you for your valuable time. Jay Myers