Richard Gascoigne

[2] Gascoigne attended Jesus College, Cambridge as a pensioner, admitted on 21 October 1594 and graduating in the Lent term of 1599.

[1] Gascoigne resided, for most of his life, in Bramham Biggan, Yorkshire; near the end, he moved to Little Turnstile, Lincoln's Inn Fields in London.

This will made no mention of Elizabeth, suggesting she had predeceased him at that point, but disparaged his ward, John at length for apparently causing his financial troubles.

He charged high fees for this work, apparently not always to great success; in his will, he complains of an outstanding debt from Sir Thomas Darby over one £100 pedigree.

Fifty-seven titles still remain at that College, alongside a personal memorandum from Gascoigne, giving instructions to future conservators.

This destruction, eyewitness Norroy King of Arms William Oldys recorded in his diary, was encouraged by Watson-Wentworth's attorney, who feared the pedigrees could harm his client's claim to the Wentworth-Woodhouse estate.