Elizabeth

  General Notes:

"tTe relect of John Tempest de le Rayne" was fined at Barnoldswick manorial Court for cutting vert etc: (Duc: of Lanc: Court Ro:, Bdle 13, No. 2016).
The 4 February 1547-8 the Crown demised the messuage of the Rayne in Barnoldswick etc: for 21 years to William Lister, who surrendered it to the use of the relict of John Tempest, she having a fresh lease of the same 22 December 1548 (Duc: of Lanc: Leases, Class xi, No. 32, fol. 66d).
The 22 June 1558, Elizabeth the relict of John Tempest surrendered her lease of 22 December 1548 and on payment of £240 obtained a fresh one for 99 years of the Rayne and Baronshawe closes, with right of pasturage on Barnoldswick moor, and the 28 November 1561, Elizabeth Tempest settled the Rayne on her third son, James Tempest, charged with payments for her eldest and second sons Christopher and Richard Tempest and daughters Anne, Margaret, and Elizabeth Tempest Browsholme MSS, Bdle A,

Elizabeth married John Tempest, son of Roger Tempest Esq. of Broughton and Anne Carre, on 23 Jan 1543. (John Tempest was born circa 1505 and died on 23 Jan 1543.)