Notes for: William Wycliffe
This family comes from An History of Richmondshire, in the North Riding of the County of York; together with those parts of the Everwicschire of Domesday which form The Wapentakes of Lonsdale, Ewecross, and Amunderness, in the Counties of York, Lancaster, and Westmoreland, by Thomas Dunham WHITAKER. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees (and others), 1823. 2 volumes. Here is the info given there on this family:
William Wycliffe, of Wycliffe, Esquire, eldest surviving son, and heir, died Aug. 5, 1584, buried at Wycliffe.
I'm not sure about the order of William's children. It is not clear in Whitaker.
The name of this Wycliffe also comes from a Wycliffe pedigree in The History of Yorkshire; Wapentake of Gilling West, by Marshall General Plantagenet Harrison (1885). I don't know where Harrison got this information. I can only assume it is guesswork on his part from looking at old records. Harrison's pedigree seems to be the only one that goes back this far; so I will go with it for now.
About him the pedigree says "William Wycliffe, Esq., Lord of Wycliffe and Ulvington. Succeeded as heir male to his uncle. Paid the subsidy 34 and 35 Henry VIII [1542 and 1543]. Purchased the manor of Bolton-upon-Swale 1561. Died Aug. 5, 1584." He was married to Dorothy Place (1st wife) and Muriel Eure (2nd wife).
The genealogy in the book on the Pearsons seems to list all these children under William and Dorothy and none for Muriell. That book also has added a son James and another Ralph and it has one less John. And it does not have a Jane or a Muriel. It has Dorothy as William's first wife. The Genealogist agrees.
This is the William Wycliffe, mentioned in the book on the Pearson family, who was lord of Wycliffe, Ovington and Thorpe. William inherited this from his uncle Ralph Wycliffe since his uncle did not have any sons. In 1561, William added to this by purchasing the Manor of Bolton-on-Swale. In 1580, William ceded the Manor at Thorpe by Charter to his brother John.. It then remained in John's possession until "John and Mary Wycliffe sold it by a deed dated 15th January 1648, to Lancelot Lake and Solomon Swale of Stainley." The manor at Thorpe later passed on to John and Mary Ingleby and later sold to James Wilkinson. His son Christopher left it to his daughter who later married into the Craddock family.
William is supposed to have died in a London prison on August 5, 1584, but in 1611 she is described as the wife of William Wycliffe, but in 1614 she is described as his widow. This would imply that William died between 1611-1614.
And here is additional information from The Genealogist (New Series), H. W. Forsyth Harwood, v. xxi. George Bell & Sons: London, 1905, pp. 95-99:
William Wycliffe, Esquire, of Wycliffe, succeeded his uncle Ralph, d. August 5, 1584, buried at Wycliffe, M. I. Married Dorothy, daughter of John Place, Esquire, of Halnaby.