160 SOME ACCOUNT OF THE FAMILY OF LOWE. 
Thomas del Lowe, the elder, from whom the Derbyshire 
families of Lowe derived their descent,* and whom we have 
conjectured to have been the younger brother of William del 
Lowe, occurs as a witness to a charter in 1407, and was the 
father of that Geoffrey del Lowe referred to in the proceedings 
of the Manorial Court of Macclesfield in 1426, already quoted. 
According to an old pedigree, a copy of which is to be found 
amongst the Wolley MSS. in the British Museum,t this Thomas 
del Lowe died at Macclesfield at eleven o’clock at night, on 
the roth of February, 1415. Geoffrey del Lowe, his son and 
heir, is stated on the same authority to have married Margaret, 
daughter of [Sir Peter?] Legh, of Lyme, in the County of 
Chester. This marriage is not given in any of the various 
pedigrees of that family, but there is no particular reason for 
doubting the accuracy of the statement.{ By a charter, dated 
at Macclesfield the Saturday next after the feast of St. Kenelm, 
King and Martyr, in the seventeenth year of the reign of 
King Henry VI. (this would be in July, 1439), John Rossyndale, 
the elder, and John Rossyndale the younger, his son and 
heir, remitted and quit-claimed for ever to Geoffrey del Lowe, 
of Macclesfield, and his heirs, all their claims and title to 
certain lands and tenements of the said Geoffrey del Lowe, 
situated in “le Dedestrete’”’ in the town of Macclesfield. The 
witnesses to this charter were Thomas del Lowe, then Mayor 
of Macclesfield, Stephen del Rowe, Alderman, Roger de 
Falybrome, Thomas Davy, Provost of the said town, Lawrence 
Blagg, and many others. Geoffrey del Lowe is stated to have 
died at Macclesfield on the Monday in the third week of 
Lent, 1451, between the hours of six and seven in the morn- 
ing. His widow survived him for about three years, dying on 
* A pedigree of the Lowes of Alderwasley and Denby, compiled by the 
writer, may be found in “The Reliquary,” vol. 12, plate 34. One or two 
corrections are requisite in the first three generations. 
+ Add. MSS. 6666, p. 137. 
+ She may not improbably have been the daughter of that Sir Peter Legh, 
of Lyme, who fought at Agincourt, where he was created a Knight-Banneret, 
and whose arms are carved upon the tower of Macclesfield Church. If so she 
had been previously married to Nicholas Blundell. 
