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Over the years, the Gargrave family earned what one observer called a reputation for romantic entanglements "remarkable for crime and misfortune." His wife became embroiled in lawsuits after his death. Thanks to ongoing lawsuits and ill-considered liaisons, "the whole family sunk into obscurity." His
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by his second wife inherited an enormous patrimony from the Gargrave estates in Yorkshire, but dissipated it by drinking, gambling and extravagance and was eventually reduced to riding with the pack horses and died with his head on a pack saddle in an old inn. Among his daughters; Elizabeth, married
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from 1584 to 1588. In his later years, he was forced to mortgage many of the extensive properties left him by his wealthy father.
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The Visitations of Yorkshire in the Years 1563 and 1564: Made by William Flower, Esquire, Norroy King of Arms
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Pedigree of the Family of Gargrave, Miscellanea Genealogica Et Heraldica, Joseph Jackson Howard, 1868
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The Lives of the Speakers of the House of Commons, from the Time of King Edward III to Queen Victoria
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Wragby Church, Nostell Priory, Burial place of Sir Cotton Gargrave and father Sir Thomas Gargrave
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son Thomas by his first wife was executed for the murder of a servant boy. His son
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Gargrave married firstly Bridget Fairfax, daughter of Sir William Fairfax of
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Members of the Parliament of England for constituencies in Yorkshire
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Queen Elizabeth and Her Times: A Series of Original Letters
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Will and Inventories from the Registry at Durham, Vol II
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Illustrations of British History, Biography, and Manners
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He was a friend of Elizabeth's ambassador to Scotland,
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Walks in Yorkshire: Wakefield and its Neighbourhood
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House of Commons
Thomas Gargrave
High Sheriff of Yorkshire
Nostell Priory
northern rebellion of 1569
West Riding of Yorkshire
Member of Parliament
Boroughbridge
High Sheriff of Yorkshire
Custos Rotulorum of the West Riding of Yorkshire
Steeton, West Yorkshire
Sandal, Yorkshire
Thomas Randolph
Richard
Stanton, Northumberland
Peter Venables, MP
Mary
Anne of Denmark
Miscellanea Genealogica Et Heraldica
Walks in Yorkshire: Wakefield and its Neighbourhood
William Stott Banks
"History of Parliament"
The Visitations of Yorkshire in the Years 1563 and 1564: Made by William Flower, Esquire, Norroy King of Arms
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The Lives of the Speakers of the House of Commons, from the Time of King Edward III to Queen Victoria
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Thomas Wright
Illustrations of British History, Biography, and Manners
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