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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 December 2009
page 319 note 1 Sir William's will made 29 June 1614 left his daughters £1500 each; if either married before she was seventeen, she was to have £500 at seventeen, £500 at eighteen and £500 at nineteen; if either married at eighteen to have £500 then and £1000 at nineteen; if either married before nineteen to have £1500 at nineteen. These payments were in addition to £500 each assured by deed 9 December 1611. Each was to have £40 a year while under fifteen and £50 a year from fifteen till nineteen, if unmarried till then; in addition they were to have diet and lodging. The poor round Wentworth and Harewood were to have £20 in lieu of all such ‘doule as is used to be giuen at the Church’. His five younger sons received £3–6–8 each. The governing and bringing up of his younger sons was left to Wentworth and his wife, ‘… charging them both for the loue that I beare unto them and the trust that I repose in them upon my blessing and befor God (to whose judgement I referre the punishment of thire abuse of my trust, if they shall be faulty in performence thereof) that they will be carefull for all my said children's good bringinge upp in God's feare and seruice and in good maners and learninge to the best of their power and iustly and truely account for and pay unto them all such somes of money and other dueties, as of right, equitie, or of good conscience they ought to account for and pay …’ Proved 25 October 1614. Borthwick Institute, York Probate Registry, vol. 33, fo. 330.
page 320 note 2 Compare Knowler, ii, pp. 430, 433, 434, 435.
page 321 note 1 P.R.O., St. Ch. 8/261/9, 31. Sir George's complaint is dated 22 June 1618. Depositions were still being taken two years later.
page 321 note 2 Ibid., 26 and 5. Sir George Savile and his wife were in the Fleet between 2 December 1617 and 1 January 1618. Their petition to Parliament shows they were committed to the Fleet 24 May 1617; Foxcroft, H. C., Life and Letters of Sir George Savile, First Marquess of Halifax (London, 1898), i, pp. 15–16.Google Scholar
page 322 note 1 Wentworth exhibited his information in the Court of Wards in Michaelmas term 1615. Eight orders were made in January and February 1622; P.R.O., Wards 9/538/703, 707, 721, 727, 750, 783, 789, 841. The order book for March 1622 to March 1623 is missing. Old Sir George died 12 November 1622, according to his inquisition post mortem, as cited in Wards 9/95/53.
page 322 note 2 P.R.O., St. Ch. 8/261/9, 26. In his answer Wentworth said Sir George ‘on his death bedd did earnestly entreat this defendant to have a faithfull and louinge care’ of his wife and sons ‘and of their educacon, maintenance and rightes …’
page 322 note 3 His father (Nicholas Radcliffe)'s sister, Cecilia, was Greenwood's mother; Whitaker, T. D., The Life and Original Correspondence of Sir George Radcliffe (London, 1810), p. 7.Google Scholar
page 323 note 1 For other evidence showing that the portion must have been over £20,000, see Economic History Review, 2nd series, xi (1958), p. 230, n. 1.Google Scholar
page 323 note 2 This was in 1619, see above, p. 120.
page 324 note 1 Lady Anne Clifford was born in 1590; Dorset died on 28 March 1624.