Edward
Tyldesley 1585-1618
Edward
Tyldesley was the son of Thomas
Tyldesley and Elizabeth
Anderton. He was born in 1585 and married Elizabeth
Preston of Holker Hall around 1611. Elizabeth Preston
brought with her a dowry of £1,200. The marriage does
not appear to have
been
a happy
one. Edward Tyldesley had a weak constitution and soon
felt under pressure from Elizabeth to provide a pension
for her
in the
event she became a widow. They
had two sons, Edward who died young, and Thomas,
born in 1612, the famous Cavalier.
Edward and
Elizabeth Tyldesley lived at Myerscough Lodge, entertaining
James I there
for two or three days in 1617 when the King was travelling
from Edinburgh to London. The visit is mentioned in the
diary of Nicholas Assheton:
Aug. 12. Coz. Townley came and broke his fast at Dunnoe,
and went away. To Mirescough. Sir Ric. gone to meet the
King; we aftr him to..........Ther the King slipt into
the forest another way, and we after and overtook him,
and went past to the Yate; then Sir Ric. light; and when
the king came in his coach, Sir Ric. stept to his side,
and tould him ther his Majs forrest began: and went some
ten roodes to the left, and then to the lodge. The King
hunted, and killed a buck.
Aug. 13. To Mirescough; the court. Cooz.
Assheton came wth his gentlemanlie servants as anie was
ther, and himself
excellently well appointed. The King killed five bucks.
The Kinges speeche abt libtie to pipeing and honest recreation.
We that were in Sir Rics livy had nothing to do but riding
upp and downe.
Edward died in 1618.
It had been his hope that his son Thomas would marry
Ann Breres. He referred both to this wish and the unsatisfactory
nature of his marriage in his will:
I do hereby
charge my said son that he do not suffer himself to be
withdrawn from the said marriage by his unkind
mother, who by herself and others hath drawn from me contrarie
to my meaning an estate of £200 per annum during
her widowhood, if I happen to dye without issue male, having
then none and not otherwise. Besides she hath so neglected
me and her children, myself being sicklie and they young,
therein manifesting her little regard for us; and my mind
and will is that she shall have nothing to do with either
of them by tuicon otherwise.
Elizabeth Tyldesley re-married twice: first to Thomas Lathom
of Parbold, and second to Thomas Westby of Bourne Hall.
References
The Journal of Nicholas Assheton 1617-1618, The Revd. F
R Raines (Editor), 1848