although he inherited and acquired land in
Westmorland, he seems to have settled at Halton in Lancashire, and was a
justice of the peace for Lancashire
m. Katherine Preston (? – ?, sixth d. of Sir
Thomas Preston, of Preston Patrick, Westmorland, and Holker Park,
Lancashire, and his wife Anne, née Thornburgh)
Children:
Thomas (? – after 1569), Christopher (? – after
1569), William (? –
after 1593), Richard (? – ?), Mary (? – ?), Grisilde (? – after 1569), and
another daughter
TNA:
PROB 11/53: Holney, PCC Wills;
Oxford DNB;
Herbert Carus-Wilson and Harold I. Talboys (1890) Genealogical
Memoirs of the Carus-Wilson Family. Privately printed
1547
became MP for Wigan, an vice-chancellor of the
county palatine of Lancaster
reader at the Middle Temple; read on dower; this
and the 1548 reading are preserved at Harvard
1557
granted the manor of Kirkby Lonsdale, together
with lands in Hegholme Kirthwaite, and the neighbourhood, to hold of the
Crown in capite by the service of one-fortieth part of a Knight's fee
Carus-Wilson and Talboys
(1890)
1558
probably built the Kings Arms, near the church in
Kirkby Lonsdale, when he acquired the manor
appointed a puisne justice of the queen's bench,
and served until his death
1569
with Sir James Dyer, Chief Justice of Common
Pleas, and two other Justices, heard and determined a controversy
between the President and Council in Wales and the Chamberlain of
Chester as to the jurisdiction of the County Palatine of Chester
Carus-Wilson and Talboys
(1890)
1569-06-01
one of the queen's justices of the pleas; made
his will; appointed his wife Kathryn and his son Thomas to be his
executors; left to his wife, for the duration of her life, a moiety "of
all such Messuages Lands tenements [fishings?] Milles Rents and
[pasture?] herbage [parmages?] comodities and proffits wt
thappurtenances wch I have by severall Indentures
to be thereof made for dyvers and sondry severall termes of yeres yett
to come Excepte the office of the kepership of the parke of quernemore
in the countie of Lancaster and the fees and comodities thereto
apperteyning", or to Thomas if she predeceases him; the other moiety to
Thomas; £200 to his daughter Grisilde; £10 to his "cosyn Crocket [?]
Thorneburghe"; £10 to Katheryn Ellys; £20 yearly to be paid by Thomas to
his son Christopher also names Thomas's wife Anne
bur. St Dunstan-in-the-West, London; his arms as
displayed there were sketched by Nicholas Charles early in the next
century
"The burial register and inquisition post mortem
both name him as 'esquire'
; he was never knighted. The judge himself had
ostensibly fallen in with the Elizabethan church settlement, but he
bequeathed his soul to the Trinity, the Virgin Mary, and the saints, and
his sons and their descendants were Roman Catholics until the eighteenth
century."
1571-07-14
will proved in the Prerogative Court of
Canterbury