Francis# Gale

  Notes:

Of Acomb Grange.

Originally had wedding date as 1589, but that seems wrong. Have arbitarily changed to 1599 as being more likely.

Acomb Grange website; the late Jennifer Kaner and others;

From 1611 onwards the Gayles were certainly presented for recusancy in a number of Ainsty parishes including Rufforth and Acomb. They also appear in Nether Poppleton, Bilton and Marston.In 1603/4 Barbara Gayle appears in Marston; Barbara, wife of Francis Gayle of Acomb Grange,appears in 1611 and Francis Gayle Esq in 1633/37. Catholics were presented for not attending church or not going to communion or for being recusant.

The Gayles (or Gales) were in the last category so almost certainly would have had their estates sequestered and would have had to pay two thirds of the rents to the Crown. They compounded for their estates in 1629 when they agreed to pay an annual rent charge of £20 on all their estates in return for not being molested.

Francis# married Barbara# Dutton, daughter of Richard# Dutton and Katherine# Cholmeley, in 1599. (Barbara# Dutton was born ~1583 in Cloughton, Yorkshire.)