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- From VCH Lancaster (citation details below):
The marriage arranged for him in infancy [to Margaret de Atherton, sister of Henry de Atherton] did not prove altogether satisfactory; and his wife Margaret afterwards sought maintenance before the bishop of Lichfield, her husband having unlawfully allied himself with Katherine de Cowdray. Katherine was the name of his wife in 1354.
[From footnote 30:] He seems to have been violent and lawless in other respects also. His brother Gilbert, who agreed with him as to land in Halsall in 1346, had previously (in 1343) accused him of taking his goods, and though Otes was acquitted of this charge, he was convicted of assault and sent to gaol [...] He was charged with other offences, including that of putting Adam de Barton and his wife in, the stocks at Ormskirk [...] Afterwards, however, he appears to have reformed. He might have pleaded that his neighbours were violent also; he charged John de Cunscough and Adam his son with having set fire to his houses in Halsall. In 1359 he received from Henry duke of Lancaster a grant of free warren in all his demesne lands of Halsall and Renacres, unless they were within the metes of the duke's forest. In 1361 he had from the bishop licence for two years for an oratory. He was a knight of the shire in 1351, and was still living in 1377.
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Nielsen Hayden genealogy
- Aft 1376
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