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Rishton Family Histories Rishton Family Histories
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Roger Rishton’s Conflicts: Church Kirk, 1536 Roger Rishton’s Conflicts: Church Kirk, 1536
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Roger Rishton’s Conflicts: Blackburn and Church Kirk, 1542–3 Roger Rishton’s Conflicts: Blackburn and Church Kirk, 1542–3
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Roger Rishton’s Conflicts: Duckworth Moor and Church Kirk, 1555 Roger Rishton’s Conflicts: Duckworth Moor and Church Kirk, 1555
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More Conflicts More Conflicts
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Resolutions Resolutions
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2 ‘His Own Father Was the Cause of His Trouble’
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Published:July 2022
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Abstract
Roger Rishton (c.1505–c.1563), Ralph’s father, was a remarkably litigious and confrontational character: throughout his adult life he was involved in at least one major lawsuit every year. He was also prone to violence. This chapter begins by tracing the histories of the main branches of the extended Rishton family. It then introduces places that feature throughout the book and many themes regarding the ways people used law in this time, by reconstructing three major cycles of aggression by Roger, all centred upon Church Kirk, the local chapelry church near his ancestral home. In these confrontations he took the pews and seats of his antagonists out of the church and burnt them (shooting one of his rivals with an arrow), brawled over his stockpiling of weaponry and armour in the church’s tower, and violently mishandled a woman in the church in the course of a prolonged conflict over mutual defamation alleging sexual misbehaviour. Each confrontation wove its way through multiple court systems: close reconstruction demonstrates how what superficially appear to be isolated cases in reality add up to concerted dispute resolution. The cases also reveal that the Court of the Duchy of Lancaster, an equity jurisdiction sitting in Westminster, was a court of first and very rapid resort for Lancashire gentry over a wide range of matters. Much of Roger Rishton’s violence was performative and assertive of status, and workable social relations between antagonists were usually restored quickly.
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