Elizabeth Ridgeway

RIDGEWAY, John (by 1517-60), of the Middle Temple, London, and Newton Abbot, Abbotskerswell and Tor Mohun, Devon.
Family and Education
b. by 1517, s. of Michael Ridgeway of Newton Abbot. educ. M. Temple. m. by 1542, Elizabeth, da. of John Wendford of Newton Abbot, 1s. Thomas† 2da.2
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It was during and shortly after his first Parliament that Ridgeway made his first purchases of ex-monastic land, including Abbotskerswell which he bought in December 1540 and which he made his home. He was called upon to furnish men for the French campaign of 1544 and victuals for the Scottish one three years later. Nothing has come to light about his part during the western rebellion in 1549 but when five years later the Carews joined Wyatt’s conspiracy he kept the sheriff Sir Thomas Denys and the Council informed about unease in the county. He reappeared in Parliament twice under Mary, sitting on both occasions for Exeter with his friend Richard Hart. He had advised the city and many of its leading merchants, but he probably owed his adoption there to the support of Secretary Petre whom he assisted in land transactions and whose estate accounts for the south-west he audited; in compliance with the civic ordinance governing Membership he was admitted to the freedom four days after his first election. Of his role in these two Parliaments all that is known is that he did not oppose the restoration of Catholicism, but he presumably supported the bill introduced in the first of them to bring the terms of apprenticeship in Bristol and Exeter into agreement with those in London. He was doubtless excluded from re-election in the autumn of 1554 by the Queen’s request for the return of residents and he was not to sit again before his death at Tor Mohun on 24 Apr. 1560. Under his will, which is known only from extracts quoted in his inquisition post mortem, he provided for his widow, children and servants, remembered the poor and named among his executors Richard Hart and Thomas Southcote. He was buried at Tor Mohun where a monument was later erected to his memory.6
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This profile I think was originally for Elizabeth Wentworth daughter and heir of John Went(worth) of Pomfret in com. Ebor. who married Roger Wentworth of South Kirby, in com. Ebor., and Handthwaite, she was disconnected from husband Roger Wentworth and child Thomas Wentworth, Sr. as seen in the Revisions. A new Profile for Elizabeth Wentworth is Elizabeth (Wentworth) Wentworth .

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