joined Henry Percy, and for all offences committed by them whilst in rebellion with him.

Sir John's name occurs in a recognizance relating to the marriage of his daughter, Joan, with John Hokes, dated 1412; and he is referred to in a recognizance in 1415. touching the marriage of Robert, son and heir of Sir Thomas le Grosvenor, with Joan, daughter of Sir Lawrence Fytton.

Some genealogists consider there were two knights named John de Pulle; if so, Robert's son John died between 1381 and 1391, as there is no "kt." after the name of John de Puile, one of those commissioned in 1391 to levy a subsidy of 3000 marks to the King.

More than 150 recognizances will be found among the Chester Recognizance Rolls, to many of which, commencing in 1428, THOMAS DE PULLE, son of Sir John de Pulle, and his descendants were parties. This Thomas married Elizabeth, daughter of Sir William Stanley, of Hooton, knt.

In 1435-6, Thomas de Pulle was one of the Council at Chester, which granted a subsidy of 1000 marks to the King; afterwards he was one of the collectors of it; and later of other subsidies.

In 1451, Thomas Pulle and Nicholas More were granted the custody of the town and lordship of Eulowe, with the sea coal-mines there; later they are called farmers of it.

In 1460, William Stanley, Thomas de Pulle the elder, and his son Thomas de Pulle, were among those who arrested Thomas and John Glegge and others, charged with stealing from the King, at Gayton, money and jewels to the value of 20,000 marks. Thomas de Pulle, senior, must have died

2 Many of the facts narrated in the earlier part of this paper have been obtained from the Calendar of Recognizance Rolis of the Palatinate of Chester, printed in the 36th and 37th Reports of the Deputy Keeper of the

Public Records.

before 1467, as, in a lease of that date to Sir Peter Legh of tolls of fairs and markets, Thomas de Pulle, therein mentioned, is styled armiger only.

In 1478, Thomas the younger is styled THOMAS POLE of Pull, when, with William Stanley of Hooton, and others, he was commissioned to enquire touching regrators, engrossers, and hoarders of grain, and to seize the grain and cause it to be sold at the markets. His wife, according to Ormerod, was Matilda Mainwaring; but an old pedigree in Harl. MS. 2142, fo. 84b, states that the compiler of the pedigree thought that Thomas Poole married Mary, daughter and heir of Sir Thomas Dedwood, of Chester, who entailed land on her, 2 Hen. VII [1495-6].3 If this was so, it accounts for John Poole the son quartering the Dedwood Arms. A deed of Thomas Dedwood in 1495, and his will in 1497, imply that his daughter had been the wife of Sir Thomas Poole. This deed, after mentioning houses, &c., in Bradwall and elsewhere, says, "remainder to John to Rafe and to Will. Pole," sons of the aforesaid Thomas Pole, kt. "Radulf 'Pole" was a witness. The will says, "I wyll yt "Thomas Polle ye yunger have seche londes after my dessees as I have gyffvyn hym by wrytyng." One of his overseers was Thomas Polle, knight, and he left to him "and to his eyrrys my best stond"ing coppe.' A dower of 10 marks to Margaret, daughter of Thomas Polle, kt. To Ellyn of Polle XX. To Rauffe of Polle (elsewhere Raffe Pull of Chester) my best gown (togam) and 1 "flaske koppe "of silver."

3 In Wotton's Baronetage, 1741, Sir Thomas Poole is said to have had to wife, 2 Henry VII [1495-6], Mary, daughter of Sir Thomas Mainwaring, o Peover, and to have been the father of Thomas Poole, living temp. Henry VII, who married a daughter and heir of Thomas Dedwood, of Chester, and was father of Sir Thomas Poole, who married Maud, daughter of Randle Mainwaring, of Peover, and had issue Sir William Poole, Sheriff of Chester, 16 Henry VII [1524-5].

On the 20th June, 1480, John Massy, senior, Peter Dutton of Hatton, senior, Thomas Pole, senior, armiger, and John Southeworth, armiger, were "Stewards of the Court of Histrionics at Chester."

Thomas Pole was knighted at the battle of Stoke by Newark, in 1487; and in 1496 Richard Cotton granted to Sir Thomas Pole, his son Thomas Pole, Wm. Troutbeck, and others, lands in Tervyn and in Hanley.

Sir Thomas Pole died on the 24th August, 1500, leaving to each of his three male children, viz.: John, Randolph, and William, 40s. per annum for life. And to each of his female children, viz.: Katherine and Margery, 4 marks and 20d. per annum for life.

THOMAS POLE of Pole, his eldest son and heir, was aged 40 years at the time of his father's death. He died on the 19th February, 1510. His widow. Matilda (who was a daughter of Thomas Fytton of Gawsworth, co. Chester), claimed from his brother and heir, John, a third of 4,000 acres as her dower, in respect of the manors of Nether Poole and Burton, and lands elsewhere in the Hundred of Wirral. Later on, when she was the wife of Peter Newton, she claimed a further part of her dower from the Abbot of the Monastery of Whalley, in respect of lands in the Nether Poole. She probably married a third time, and so would be the " Matilda, widow of Sir Thomas Hanmer," whose dower is referred to in 1546.

JOHN POOLE was heir to his brother Thomas; he married Joan, daughter of Sir John Warburton, and the particulars of her dower, in 1510, occupy the greater part of the Inquisition post mortem of his brother and heir, Randolph Pole, in 1538. At that time she was married to Sir William Turville. In 1547 she was living in Chester.