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Manx Genealogy Archive 1

Re: Radcliffe of Knockaloe
In Response To: Radcliffe of Knockaloe ()

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www.manxnotebook.com//fulltext/rc1857/ch03.htm - last abbot
Brown Willis, in his History of Monasteries, says that, in 1553, there remained in charge the following pensions, viz., to Henry Jackson the Abbot, £10; James More, John Allowe, and Richard Nowell, £2 13s. 4d. each.

By letters patent dated 18th March, 7 Elizabeth (1565), the possessions were granted to Richard Ashton, Esq., for twenty-one years, commencing from Michaelmas preceding, under the rent of £101 15s. 11d.

On the surrender of the said patent, 12th February, 24 Elizabeth (1582), the possession was granted to Henry, Earl of Derby, for thirty years, under the rent of £101 15s. 11d. The same grant was afterwards assigned to Alice, countess-dowager of the then late Ferdinand, Earl of Derby.

On 17th March, 3 James I. (1605), on surrender of this grant, (or rather on seizure being made of it by the crown,) letters patent issued to Sir Thomas Leigh, and Thomas Spencer, for forty years from the date thereof under the said rent of £101 15s. 11d., and the increased rent of £4 4s.

There was a Radcliffe abbot (? of Friary not abbey) as there is the old carving now in Arbory Church.