4 MACKWORTH : ITS CASTLE AND ITS OWNERS. 



1 6th day of February, in the year of the reign of our very noble 

 Lord King Henry IV. after the conquest the seventh." (1406.) 



Thomas Mackworth, younger brother of the aforesaid John, 

 was the ancestor of the subsequent generations. He was of 

 Mackworth, and was living in 1433. ^V his marriage with Alice, 

 daughter of John de Basinges and sister and heiress of Sir John 

 de Basinges, he acquired the estates of Empingham, &c. She 

 survived her husband, and was reported to be sixty years old in 

 the year 1446. In 1432 Thomas Mackworth held the manor of 

 Ashe in the Fee of Tutbury, for three parts of a knight's Fee, and 

 40 shill. soc. in Mackworth. 



This Thomas was succeeded by his son Henry, of Mackworth 

 and Empingham, who in 1432 held with John Francis, of 

 Sandiacre, gent., the seventh of a knight's Fee in Stanton-by- 

 Dale. He also possessed a rental of ;^4 6s. 8d. in Bradeston, 

 Sandiacre, and Risley, besides a rental of 20s. in Spondon. 



This Henry left issue John, Thomas, Richard, and Walter. 



John, the eldest of these, of Mackworth and Empingham, by 

 his wife Beatrix, left issue (inter alia) : — 



George M., of Mackworth, who married Ann, daughter of 

 Geoffry Sherrard, of Stapleford, whose marriage settlement is dated 

 1489. He was living in 1535, and was buried at Empingham. 



Their son, Francis Mackworth, of Mackworth, married Elene, 

 sister and coheir of John Hercy, of Grove, Notts., who was buried 

 also at Empingham in 1557. Francis made his will on the i6th 

 of September the same year, and died on the 25th of September, 

 1558. They left issue : — 



George Mackworth, of Mackworth and Empingham. Born 

 1541. Living 1580. By his first wife Grace Rokeby (daughter 

 of Ralph Rokeby, serjeant-at-law), who died 1569, he left: — 



Sir Thomas Mackworth, of Normanton,* in Co. Rutland, 

 created Bart. 4th June, 1619, who in 1595 married Elizabeth, 



* Blore (History of Rutland) makes Sir Thomas the son of his father's 

 second wife. 



