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Personal data Robert Gale 

• He was born in the year 1603 in Acomb Grange Estate (Akeham Grage), Yorkshire.
• A child of Francis Gale and Barbara Dutton

Household of Robert Gale

Notes about Robert Gale

ROBERT GALE (Ca. 1603- LIVING 1665) OF ACOMB GRANGE, RUFFORTH, eldest son of Francis and Barbara Dutton Gale, was born about 1590. In 1624-25 he married ELIZABETH LANGDALE (Bapt. 7/12/1601 - ??), daughter of William Langdale of Easthorpe and Lanthorpe (Ca. 1578 - ??) and his wife Elizabeth Constable (?? - 8/1624), daughter of Sir Philip Constable, whose marriage was recorded on 1/17/1591-92 in the Everingham Parish Register. Her grandparents were Richard and Joyce Thirkeld Langdale and her great-grandparents were Anthony Langdale of Houghton (?? - 1577) and Jane Vavasour, daughter of Thomas Vavasour of Copmanthorpe. 

The marriage settlement between Robert and Elizabeth Langdale Gale named Francis Gale of Acomb Grange, Esq. and his son Robert, and Philip Langdale, Esq., son and heir of William Langdale, Esq. of Lanthrop, Esq. It is contained in records of the Chichester-Constable family in the East Riding of Yorkshire Archives and Records Service. The document also mentioned Mathew and George Gale, second and third sons of Francis Gale.

INDENTURE �between Francis Gale of Acome grange in the County of York Esqr. And Robert Gale Esqr�sone & heir apparent of the said Francis Gale�and Philip Langdale, Esqr. Sone & heir apparent of Wm Langdale, William Langdale of Lantrorp in the said County of York Esqr. Of the other party witnesseth that they the said Fra Gale & Robt Gale, for & in consideration of a marriage hereafter shortly by God's permission to be had & solemnized between the said Robt Gale of the other partie, & Eliz Langdale, one of the daughters of the said William Langdale, the father & sister to the said Philip Langdale the sone, of the otyher partie; and for & in consideration of the sume of DCCCii paid &c. to the said Francis Gale & Robt Gale &c. in the marriage & porcon with the sd. Elizabeth his daugr &c.; they the sd. Francis & Robert Gale shall &c. at all & every time & times hereafter for evermore stand &c. and be seized of & in all that �and either of their manor, lordship and grange of Acome aforesaid &c., & for the only use of the said Francis Gale during his life &c. & after for iij years to the use &c. of his last will & testament, if the said Francis Happen to dye within iij years after the date of these presents, &c. and after &c. then to the only use &c. of the said Robt. Gale (for his life - remainder to the heires male of the said Robt Gale of the body of the said Elizabeth his intended wife, lawfully begotten &c. with divers & sundry remainders over, namely to Mattw Gale second sone of the said Francis, & George Gale third sone of the said Francis) &c.
Dated 3/20/1624 
Signed Fra Gale
Robert Gale 

In 1637 and 1640 Robert Gale, gent. and Robert Gaile (sic), gent., and his wife, of Acomb Grange in the parish of Rufforth, respectively, were named on Catholic recusant lists. Named as papists were Matthew and Anna Gale, Mary Thwaits, Barbara Gale, Robert Gale and his wife, John Gale and his mother Elizabeth, Mary Gale and Jane Gale. [These were most likely Matthew and Anne Thwenge Gale, Barbara Dutton Gale, and John, Jane and Mary Gale, children of Robert and Elizabeth Langdale Gale.] In 1648 Robert Gale [referred to as a "papist in arms"] fought in the civil war but was unable to pay his fees for compounding and all the family property in Rufforth, including Acomb Grange, was sold by the Treason Committee of the Commonwealth in 1652 to Thomas Raper and Joseph Micklethwaite of York�At the time there were seven Rufforth tenants holding messuages, arable strips, meadow and parts of Smalwith. (Kaner) Afterwards Acomb Grange came under ownership by London merchant John Lawrence, who sold his interest to Thomas Creswick in 1659. Creswick immediately transferred the property to Edward Gaile (sic), clock-maker of York, who then leased it back to Robert Gale for 99 years. Attempts to hold the property failed and it was sold in 1663-64 to the Marwood family of Little Busby for £3,800. The Gales were slow to leave the property so a legal agreement was drawn up requiring them to vacate Acomb Grange by Lady Day in 1666. The family was recorded in the Hearth Tax in 1665 with one house of five hearths and one of four and continued to live in Rufforth since they appear there with four hearths in 1670. Their names also appear on lists of recusants for Rufforth until 1682. 

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