The Minor Family of Somerset

Name Suffix:<NSFX> Knight
Name Prefix:<NPFX> Sir
"Pedigrees of Halifax Families" from Hopkinson's MSS Vol I "York
shire Pedigrees" Vol G_S by J. W. Walker,p 275 "of Cromwellbott
om and Leventhorpe" "Yorkshire Deeds, Vol V "York Arch. Soc 192
6 p 15, footnote. "copy of Wakefield Court Roll, 24 Aug 1582....
were transferred by John Lacye of Leventhorpp, esq. to John Lacy
e, gent., sonand heir apparent of Richard Lacye, gent. and th
e hiers male of his body, with remainder to John Lacye the elde
r and the heirs male of his body..." "Yorkshire Deeds. Vol L "Yo
rk Arch. Soc. 1913 p 22. "Sir Richard was steward of the import
ant manor of Wakefield, and as such appointed his son-in-law Lac
y to act as his bailiff of Halifax in the latter part of his lif
e he appears tohave resided at Leventhorpe Hall in the parish o
f Thornton in Bradfordale, which he had inherited from his mothe
r. "Land and Politics in the England of Henry VIII - The West R
iding of Yorkshire: 1530-46" p. 189, "It was said laterthat th
e Halifax district had risen long before other parts of Wakefiel
d lordship, under the leadership of John Lacy, son-in-law of Si
r Richard Tempestand bailiff of Halifax." YAS, Record Series
. Vol II, Part 1 "Fleet of Finesof the Tudor Period". Printe
d 1887. p 120. 1546. Pltf John Waterhowse, George Waterhowse, a
nd George Waterhowse, son of Robert Waterhowse de Halyfaxe.Def
orc. John Lacy de LeuenthorpHall in the parish of Bradforth, es
q. andAnn his wife. 2 watermills, a fulling mill, 3 Ponds belon
ging to the same mills, 2 streams of water, called Shybdenbrok
e and Halyfaxbroke, and 16 acres ofland covered with water in S
outhourome, Halyffaxe, and Skircote, and certainsuirts, &c., i
n Southourome. "His will was dated Sept 2, 1582; proved Nov 101
582. Executors his sons-in-law James Stansfeld, Thomas Leigh, T
homas Wood, and children John Lacy, Nicholas Lacy, William Lac
y and Dorothy Waterhouse, widow"