Sir Richard Redman III of Harewood

Sir Richard (III.) and the Pilgrimage of Grace.

The earliest evidence of Richard's ownership of the family estates is in 1530, when there was a confir- mation to Henry Ryther and Richard Redmayn of the charter of grant of warren, fair and market at Harewood; and in the two following years, and again in 1535, he was doing magisterial work in Westmorland. (Letters and Papers, F. & D., Hen. VIII., vols. iv. and v.)

In 1536 he appears in the list of names of " Knights, esquires and gentlemen, with the numbers of their house- hold servants, who promissd to serve the King, His Grace, in the company and at the leading of Thomas, Lord Darcy, or his deputy, as he appointed upon an hour's warning." Richard Redman's domestic retinue numbered twenty-four.

Lord Darcy's mission, it will be remembered, was to suppress the rising of the rural population in the North of England, known as the " Pilgrimage of Grace," at the head of which was Robert Aske, of Doncaster. Aske had 40,000 men at his back, and for a time carried all before him, capturing in succession Hull and York. Darcy and his followers sought refuge in Pontefract Castle with the Archbishop of York ; and when Aske appeared before the Pomfret walls, both prelate and baron not only yielded to him but actually joined the rebels. Whether or not Richard Redman followed the weak example of his leader and shared in the fiasco with which the " Pilgrimage of Grace" terminated, it is impossible to say. We know, however, that he did not, like Darcy, lose his head as the result of the adventure.

In the following year he was the hero of an unpleasant incident in Westmorland while hunting in the park of his neighbour, young Walter Strickland of Sizergh, who, although he was a youth still in his teens, had been one of Aske's followers and had been compelled to sue for pardon from the Duke of Norfolk for himself and the men of Kendal.

On the 17th March, 1537, Anthony Layton, a relative of Richard's wife, deposed that " Richard Redman shewed him that divers of the parish of Heysam (Hever- sham) came to his house, 14 Jany., to swear him to the custom of Kendall and he refused ; also that on the 15th, John Stanes, with some 200 persons, took Redman while hunting in Sizar Park and caused him to swear."

In this year, and again in 1539, 41 and 42, he appears as " Ric. Redmayn, knight," among the magistrates for the county in which he was the victim of such high- handed proceedings ; while in 1537 he was on the grand jury panel for York, and in the list of freeholders in the West Riding. Two years later he figures in the list of " all gentilmen within the schyer of Westmoreland " ; in the muster-roll for the West Riding of Yorkshire, we find the household of Ric. Redman, Esq., of Harewood Castle ; and, still in this year 1539, he was engaged with Sir Marmaduke Tunstall (son of Sir Brian, of Flodden, and father-in-law of William Redman, of Ireby) in the muster of the Wapentake of Yewcross taken by them on Bentham moor. (Letters and Papers, Hen. VIIL, F. & D., vols, xii to xvii.)

Richard was twice married, (i) as we have seen from his father's will, to Elizabeth, daughter of Sir William Gascoigne, of Gawthorpe, who was probably his playmate as a boy ; and (2) to Dorothy, daughter of William Lay- ton, Esq., of Dalmain, in Cumberland. Dorothy was not improbably a sister, certainly a near relative, of the Grace Layton, daughter of Sir William, of Dalmain, who at the same time was wife to Thomas Redman, of Ireby. The Laytons were an old knightly family who had been lords of Dalmain, in the Barony of Greystoke, since the day-s of Henry III.

This third Richard of Harewood died in 1544, and the following are copies of the inquisitions taken after his death : —

INQUISITION taken at Appleby, Co. Westmoreland, the 14 Augt., 36 Hen. VIII. (1545), p.m., Richard Redmayn— Jurors say that said Richard was seized of the Manor of Lewyns in said Co., and of 40 messuages, 1,000 acres of land, 50 acres of meadow, 300 acres of pasture, 100 acres of wood, 40s. rent, 50 acres of moor, 80 acres of moss or turf, 40 acres of furze in Lewyns (Levens), Malyn- ball, Hyndcastle, Brythwaith, Synderbarow, Brygster, ffostwayts, Lesgyll, Selside, and Kirliby-in-Kendal, and by indenture between him and Richard Layton, clerk, deceased, concerning a marriage between said Richard and Dorothy, daur. of Wm. Layton, Esqr., granted the aforesaid Manor and premises to said Richard Layton, John Tunstall, chaplain, and another to the use of aforesaid Dorothy. And Sir Richard Redmayn was also seized of 6 messuages, loo acres of land, etc., in Lupton and Hutton Ruff, and granted the same to Richard Fletcher and others to certain uses specified.

Richard Redmayn, of Harwood, grants to Sir Anthony Brown the wardship and marriage of his son, Matthew ; and being seized of a capital messuage and lands, etc., in Hutton Ruff, granted the same to Richard Layton and others, to the use of Francis Red- mayne, Cuthbert Redmayne and Richard Redmayne for terms of their lives. And Matthew Redmayne is son and heir of said Richard, and 17 years old at his father's death. (File 137, No. 3.)

INQUISITION taken at Snayth, Co. York, 14 Aug., 36 Hen. VIII., p.m. — Richard Redman, who died seized of a moiety of the Castle and Manor of Harwood and advowsons of the churches, chantries, etc., belonging to the said castle. {File 241, 29,)

Richard left behind him five sons and four daughters, probably all of them children of Dorothy Layton ; the eldest of them being born eighteen years after his grand- father's death, when we know Richard had for wife Eliza- beth Gascoigne. The five sons were —

(i) Matthew, of whom next.

(2) William, who is mentioned in conjunction with his elder brother as stated hereafter.

(3) Francis, whose life estate is mentioned in his father's Westmorland inquisition above.

(4) Cuthbert, whose life estate is mentioned in the same inquisition, and of whom more fully later.

(5) Richard, whose life estate is mentioned as above ; and the four daughters were : —

(i) Ann, who became the wife of John Lambert, Esq., of Calton in Craven, and whose grandson was John Lambert, the famous parliamentary general, Cromwell's supporter and later rival, and the leading spirit of the cabal which overthrew his son, Richard. Ann's daughter Aveline married William Redman, of Ireby, and thus united in her descendants the lines of Harewood and Thornton-in-Lonsdale.

(2) Grace, who married Richard Travers of Nateby (or Neatby), Lancashire.

(3) Maud, who married Christopher Irton, of Irton, Cumberland. One of her descendants, Thomas Irton, was knighted by the Earl of Surrey on the field of Flodden.

(4) Margaret, who married Thomas Gargrave of Bolton-in-Craven.

References

• The Preston genealogy : tracing the history of the family from about 1040, A.D. ... : to the present time page 14: Archive.Org He married second, Dorothy Layton, widow of Richard Redmayne.