q.7. Sir William, geb. 23/05/1568, Wortley, Yorkshire, Engeland x 18/09/1591, North Luffenham, Rutland, Engeland met Isabel LAWE, geb. 1570, Rutland, d.v.
Thomas Lawe.
William was die seun van Francis Wortley en Mary Swift.
The register of admissions to Gray’s Inn, 1521-1889, together with the register of marriages in Gray’s inn chapel, 1695 – 1754
1589. folio 168
Jan. 28. William Wortley, of Wortley, co. York.
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As early as the days of Henry VI , we are reminded by Sir John Fortescue " that knights, barons, and the greatest nobility of the Kingdom often " place their children in these Inns of Court, not so much to make the laws " their study, much less to live by their profession, having large patrimonies " of their own, but to form their manners." In the Registers of these Inns we consequently find information which elsewhere we seek in vain, relating to families and individuals in every portion of the realm; the fact, moreover, that this information is contained in a legal register, invests it with an authority superior to that of the treasured Heralds' Visitations, while it enjoys with them the advantage of dealing with the aristocratic classes. For, to quote from Feme's Glory of Generosity (London, 1586): — "Nobleness of blood, joyned with virtue, compteth the person as "most meet to the enterprizing of any publick service ; and for that cause it was, not " for nought, that our antient Governors in this land, did with a special foresight and "Wisdom, provide, that none should be admitted into the Houses of Court, being "Seminaries, sending forth men apt to the Government of Justice, except he were a "gentleman of blood." (https://archive.org/stream/registerofadmiss00gray/registerofadmiss00gray_djvu.txt)
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As early as the days of Henry VI , we are reminded by Sir John Fortescue " that knights, barons, and the greatest nobility of the Kingdom often " place their children in these Inns of Court, not so much to make the laws " their study, much less to live by their profession, having large patrimonies " of their own, but to form their manners." In the Registers of these Inns we consequently find information which elsewhere we seek in vain, relating to families and individuals in every portion of the realm; the fact, moreover, that this information is contained in a legal register, invests it with an authority superior to that of the treasured Heralds' Visitations, while it enjoys with them the advantage of dealing with the aristocratic classes. For, to quote from Feme's Glory of Generosity (London, 1586): — "Nobleness of blood, joyned with virtue, compteth the person as "most meet to the enterprizing of any publick service ; and for that cause it was, not " for nought, that our antient Governors in this land, did with a special foresight and "Wisdom, provide, that none should be admitted into the Houses of Court, being "Seminaries, sending forth men apt to the Government of Justice, except he were a "gentleman of blood." (https://archive.org/stream/registerofadmiss00gray/registerofadmiss00gray_djvu.txt)
Knighted by King James at York on April 13th 1605 on his entrance into the Kingdom.
