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SOME ACCOUNT OF THE FAMILY OF LOWE. 159 
of St. Chad the Bishop, Thomas del Lowe came into the full 
Court, and there before the said Mayor, John de Dutton, 
Reginald del Downes, Stephen del Rowe, Stephen Blagge, 
John del Lowe, Richard Phelipp, William de Clayton, servant 
of the said Mayor, Vivian Starkey, clerk, and many others who 
were present; and the said Thomas del Lowe, .being duly 
sworn upon the Holy Evangelists, declared that he stood in 
full possession of all the lands, tenements, rents, and services 
in Macclesfield and elsewhere, which had ‘descended to him 
upon the death of William del Lowe, his father, without any 
alienation whatever, excepting the annual rent of two shillings 
from the half burgage lying between the tenement of John de 
Rossyndale on the one side and that of Geoffrey del Lowe on 
the other, which rent the said Thomas del Lowe and Matilda 
his wife had granted to the said Geoffrey del Lowe, as by 
their charter more fully appeared. In 1436, Thomas del Lowe, 
who is obviously identical with the one in question, was 
examined at Macclesfield in the “proof of age’’ of Peter de 
Legh, of Lyme, and is then described as being sixty years of 
age. This would give 1376 as the date of his birth. This 
same Thomas del Lowe occurs as Mayor of Macclesfield, 
1430-1, 1438-9, 1439-40, 1443-4, (?), and 1448-9. Whether 
he left issue is doubtful. William del Lowe, his father, had 
another son, John del Lowe, whose name occurs as a witness 
to several charters, and who has already been referred to as 
one of those persons present at the Manorial Court of the 
Mayor of Macclesfield, in 1426. It appears from the Chester 
Ministers’ Accounts that John del Lowe, the son of William 
del Lowe, was Chamberlain of Middlewich in the first and 
second years of the reign of King Henry IV., and again in 
the two following years. John del Lowe was likewise deputy 
clerk and approver of mills on the river Dee, in 1406, as 
appears from the Cheshire Recognizance Rolls.* 
™ He is perhaps likewise identical with John de Lowe, who was com- 
missioned by Henry, Prince of Wales, as one of the justices of gaol delivery 
for the castle of Chester, on the rst of August, 1406, and again on the 28th 
of September that same year. 
