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MATTHEW MACHELL, Gent., of London and Shacklewell (in Hackney), Middlesex, Citizen and Haberdasher of London younger son of John Machell, Citizen and Haberdasher of London, Sheriff of London, 1555–6, Alderman of London, 1556–8, by Joan (or Jane), daughter of Henry Luddington, Gent. He was born after 1545. They had one son, John, Gent., and four daughters, Dorothy, Jane, Elizabeth, and Mary. In 1570 Queen Elizabeth I sued Matthew Machell regarding money lent by the said Matthew to Thomas, Lord Wentworth for the supposed sale of sugar to Lord Wentworth agreed upon by the defendant and Robert Savadge to escape the penalties of the statute of usury. MATTHEW MACHELL, Gent., died 23 Aug. 1593.

John Cudworth, who according to the pedigrees was great-grandson of the John of 1401, died 22 June 1555, holding a mansion-house called Werneth, eight messuages, &c., in Oldham, 4s. 7d. free rent, viz. 20½d. from lands late of John Hopwood in Nether Horsedge, 21d. from land called Hazelshaw belonging to John Aspenhalgh, and 2d. from Robert Butterworth's land next Cowhill (Coohill); all held of the Duchy of Lancaster by knight's service and a rent of 6s. 8d. He had granted certain lands to Agnes daughter of Alexander Lees (who married his son Ralph), and the rest of his estate—as 'the manor of Werneth,' &c.—to his son and heir Ralph, who at the taking of the inquest in 1556 was fifty years of age; Duchy of Lanc. Inq. p.m. x, 36.


From: 'The parish of Prestwich with Oldham: Oldham', A History of the County of Lancaster: Volume 5 (1911), pp. 92-108. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=53007 Date accessed: 08 January 2011.

Order of children uncertain.