166 SOME ACCOUNT OF THE FAMILY OF LOWE. 
Alverdus, or Avery Lowe, the eldest son, having taken holy 
orders, and the second son dying in infancy, the estate devolved 
upon Anthony Lowe, Esq., the third son, who (according to the 
old pedigree which has frequently been quoted) was born at one 
o’clock in the afternoon, on the feast of St. Michael the Arch- 
angel, 1482. He became gentleman of the bed-chamber and 
standard-bearer to King Henry VIL, King Henry VIII., King 
Edward VI., and Queen Mary; and having received a severe 
wound in the head in the royal service, was granted the special 
privilege of remaining covered in the presence of the sovereign. - 
In 1527, he had a grant from the Crown of the manor of Alder- 
wasley and Ashleyhay to be held by him and his heirs by the 
yearly, rent of £26 ros. od., and fealty only for all services. 
Out of this grant arose a noted cause which was argued in 
the Court of Wards, in Trinity term, 7 Jac. I., and which is 
reported by Sir Edward Coke, under the title of ‘‘ Anthony- 
Lowe’s case,” but which need not be further referred to here. 
By his will, dated September the 27th, 1555, and proved in 
the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, November the 6th, 1557, 
he desires to ‘be buryed in the parrish churche of Wyrkes- 
worthe,”’ and devises his manor of Alderwasley and Ashleyhay, 
together with all his other lands to his wife for her life, and 
after her death, to his only son, Edward Lowe and his heirs 
male, or in default of such heirs, to his three daughters, Anne, 
Susan, and Barbara. He gives to his son all “ the rayment that 
belongith to my bodye,” together with ‘‘the horse and sadell 
that I doe ride upon,” and his sword and buckler. Amongst 
other bequests, including that of twelve pence to “the high 
aulter of Wyrkisworth,”’ he gives to each of his three daughters, 
Anne, Susan, and Barbara, “one hundred marcks a peece if 
they wilbe ordered by my wyfe in their mariage, but if they 
will not be ordered then I will they shall have but xx a 
piece.” Anthony Lowe is buried in the chancel at Wirksworth, — 
where there is an altar-tomb bearing his recumbent effigy, in 
plate armour, with his helmet on his head, a double chain 
