Alice wife of John Hornyhold gent. Margaret wife of William Rigby gent. Mary wife of Thomas Sheldon gent. Dorothy wife of Thomas Rauckford gent. Ann wife of William Fox gent. Joan, wife of Thomas Barber gent. Prudence wife of Thomas Oldnall gent. Frances wife of John Jeffreys gent. Elizabeth wife of Thomas Randall gent. Mary wife of William Woolmer gent. Elizabeth Ferreys widow. Jane Sheldon widow. Katherine Sparks of Hinlipp. Dorothy Woolmer. Jane Mary Eleanor daughters of Anthony Woolmer gent.
Of the meaner sort: —
Fourscore and ten several households where the man or wife or both are recusants, besides children and servants.
Supplementum III.
Thomas Ward.
It is probable that diligent search among the Cecil and Walsingham papers will shed more light on Thomas Ward (or Warde) than I have been able hitherto to gain.
The probabilities are, as has been already indicated, that Thomas Ward was a younger son of Marmaduke Ward, of Newby, and Susannay, his wife. That Marmaduke Ward’s elder son was Marmaduke Ward (who married Ursula Wright, and afterwards, in all likelihood, Elizabeth Sympson), the father of that extraordinary woman, Mary Ward.
I opine that Thomas Ward attached himself to the Court party of Queen Elizabeth, through the Council of the North, established by Henry VIII. after the defeat of the first Pilgrimage of Grace (1536).