426 RIDLEYS OF WILLIMOTESWICK, NORTHUMBERLAND.
Thomasine Ridley (2), eldest daughter of John¹8 (7), was the wife
of Daniel Stoughton.
Margaret Ridley¹ (3), second daughter of John¹s (7), was the wife
of Ralph Thurlway.
Elizabeth Ridley (3), third daughter of John18 (7), was the wife of
William of the Morralea.
Mary Ridley
(1), fourth daughter of John's (7), was the wife of
Thomas Ridley, of Hardriding, son of Nicholas Ridley.
FIFTEENTH GENERATION.
William Ridley15 (6), son of William (4), was of Willimoteswick,
Northumberland, and owner of lands in Wark; married a daughter of Sir
Richard Musgrave, of Norton, and had issue, of whom hereafter.
Michael Ridley15 (1), second son of William (4).
Mabel Ridley 15 (2), eldest daughter of William14 (4).
Mary Ridley15 (2), second daughter of William (4), was the wife of
Charles Ripon, of Conside Park, in 1638.
Thomas Ridley15 (7), son of Lancellot¹ (2), was styled "Gentleman,"
of Bewling, in Salop; married Anne, daughter of William Day, of Wing-
field, in Salop, and had issue two children (and probably more), of whom
hereafter.
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John Ridley (9), eldest son of Thomas (6), died without issue.
Nicholas Ridley 15 (9), second son of Thomas (6), was of Hardriding,
in Northumberland; married, firstly, Anne, daughter of Hiron, of
Birtley, Northumberland; secondly, Barbara, daughter of - Errington,
of West Denton, and had issue, of whom hereafter. He stands the sec-
ond proprietor of Hardriding.
Rev. Cuthbert Ridley15 (2), D. D., third son of Thomas (6), was rec-
tor of the parish of Simonburn, in Northumberland, in 1630(?), and of
Tecket Tower. He was a clergyman of great learning, and able in his
pulpit services. At North Tindale, Northumberland, at the east end of
the south aisle of the church, are effigies of the Rev. Cuthbert Ridley, a
reclining figure of a woman (one authority says "of a youth "), and a child
cut in stone. The drawing now before me, forwarded by the historian of
Simonburn, represents a window, before which, reclining on a pillow, is
the figure of a woman, under which is an inscription in Latin, as follows:
"Sensus vionus recordor misericordiam
Dei eripientis ex hac vita in vitam eternam
Albanum Ridley filium Cuthberti Ridley,
miseri peccatoris Anno Dom. 1625."
On the left hand, in a standing position, is the figure of a child, under
which are the words "Defectus Memoriæ," and under them, " God be mer-
ciful to Ridley, a sinner." At the right hand stands the figure of a man
with long beard, in priestly costume, looking down upon the reclining
figure. Under these figures in panel-work is the tomb. I think the
date has not been correctly copied, as he was rector of Simonburn in 1630,
as stated in the family pedigree. The church in which the tomb and effi-
gies stood was restored in 1877.
George Ridley15 (1), fourth son of Thomas¹ (6), was probably of Gate-
house, Northumberland, and married a daughter of Ralph Pemberton, of
