Before 1527 Richard Weston was born.
In 1538 Anthony Cave [aged 21] and [his future wife] Elizabeth Lovett [aged 17] were married.
In November 1544 Richard Weston [aged 17] was elected MP Lancaster.
Before 1552 Richard Weston [aged 25] and Wilburga Catesby [aged 23] were married.
Around 1552 [his daughter] Amphillis Weston Lady Tichborne was born to Richard Weston [aged 25] and [his wife] Wilburga Catesby [aged 24]. She married in or before 1578 Benjamin Tichborne 1st Baronet and had issue.
In March 1553 Richard Weston [aged 26] was elected MP Lostwithiel.
In October 1553 Richard Weston [aged 26] was elected MP Saltash.
In 1555 Richard Weston [aged 28] was elected MP Maldon.
In 1556 [his son] Jerome Weston was born to Richard Weston [aged 29]. He married 25th November 1572 Mary Cave and had issue.
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In 1558 [his wife] Wilburga Catesby [aged 30] died.
On 19th November 1559 John Newdigate [aged 45] and [his future wife] Elizabeth Lovett [aged 38] were married.
On 11th May 1560 Thomas Wendy [aged 60] died. He was buried at All Saints Church, Haslingfield [Map].
In his will he left his Thomas Percy [aged 32], nephew of his former employer, in his will a silver ewer and basin "in remembrance of such benefits which I have received at the hands of my very good lord and late master the late earl of Northumberland his uncle".
He left Anne Preston Baroness Geneville Beaudasert and Parr Kendal his lands at Coton and Whitwell, Cambridgeshire 'as a poor token of the good will which I have ever borne to her ladyship and in remembrance that in that place she had her first acquaintance with my lord her husband [aged 54]'.
He also remembered Anthony Browne [aged 51], Henry Percy 8th Earl of Northumberland [aged 28], Humphrey Radclyffe [aged 51] and Richard Weston [aged 33].
On 7th July 1566 Richard Weston [aged 39] and Elizabeth Lovett [aged 45] were married.
On 6th July 1572 Richard Weston [aged 45] died.
On 20th August 1577 [his former wife] Elizabeth Lovett [aged 56] died.