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Hasler, 1981<br />Available from <a href="https://boydellandbrewer.com/the-history-of-parliament-the-house-of-commons-1558-1603-3-vols-hb.html" target="_blank">Boydell and Brewer</a></div> </div>  <div id="sidebar-right"> <div id="member-picture" class="block"> <div class="content"> <img src="http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/files/imagecache/frontpage/silhouette.jpg" alt=""/><div class="member-title"></div> </div> </div> <div class="view_full_wrapper"> <span class="view_full_img"> </span> </div> <div> <div id="block-hop-5" class="block "> <div class="content"> <div id="biography" class="block"> <h2 class="title">Biography Detail</h2> <div class="content"> <ul class="cufon"> <li><a href="#constituency">Constituency</a></li> <li><a href="#family-relations">Family & Education</a></li> <li><a href="#offices-held">Offices Held</a></li> <li><a href="#biography">Biography</a></li> <li><a href="#end-notes">End Notes</a></li> </ul> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div id="block-hop-7" class="block "> <div class="content"> <div id="resources" class="block"> <h2 class="title">Related Resources</h2> <div class="content"> <ul class="cufon"> <li><a href="/research/members/members-1558-1603">1558-1603 Members</a></li> <li><a href="/research/constituencies/constituencies-1558-1603">1558-1603 Constituencies</a></li> <li><a href="/research/parliaments/parliaments-1558-1603">1558-1603 Parliaments</a></li> <li><a href="/research/surveys/surveys-1558-1603">1558-1603 Surveys</a></li> </ul> </div></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div id="member-content-left"> <div> <div id="block-hop-6" class="block "> <div class="content"> <ul class="custom-pager custom-pager-block"><li class="previous"><a href="/volume/1558-1603/member/gerard-thomas-i-1564-1618" title="GERARD, Thomas I (c.1564-1618), of Gerrard's Bromley, Staffs., Astley, Lancs. and Charing Cross, London.">Previous<br/>Biography</a></li><li class="key"></li><li class="next"><a href="/volume/1558-1603/member/gerard-william-i-1581" title="GERARD, William I (d.1581), of Chester Ireland.">Next<br/>Biography</a></li></ul> </div> </div> </div><div class="hop_short_description"></div><div class="hop_member_node"><div id="member-constituency"><div class="table_row"><h3 id="constituency" class="title header-cons">Constituency</h3><h3 class="title header-dates">Dates</h3></div><div class="table_row"><div class="cons_name"><div class="country-"><a href="/volume/1558-1603/constituencies/liverpool">LIVERPOOL</a></div></div><div class="cons_date">1597</div></div><div class="table_row"><div class="cons_name"><div class="country-"><a href="/volume/1558-1603/constituencies/lancashire">LANCASHIRE</a></div></div><div class="cons_date">1614</div></div><div class="table_row"><div class="cons_name"><div class="country-"><a href="/volume/1558-1603/constituencies/wigan">WIGAN</a></div></div><div class="cons_date">1621</div></div></div><h3 id="family-relations" class="title">Family and Education</h3><p><em>b.</em> 1560, 1st s. of <a class="ref" title="Sir Thomas Gerard " href="/volume/1558-1603/member/gerard-sir-thomas-1601">Sir Thomas Gerard</a> of Bryn by Elizabeth, da. and coh. of <a href="/volume/1509-1558/member/porte-john-1514-57" target="_blank">Sir John Port</a><sup>†</sup> of Etwall, Derbys. <em>educ.</em> Brasenose, Oxf. 1576; I. Temple 1579. <em>m.</em> (1) c.1580, Cecily, da. of Sir Walter Maney of Staplehurst, 1s.; (2) aft. c.1608, Mary, da. of Sir James Hawes, ld. mayor of London, wid. of Sir John Smyth and Sir Robert Lee, ld. mayor; (3) Mary, da. of Sir William Dormer, wid. of Anthony Brown and <a class="ref" title="Sir Edmund Uvedale " href="/volume/1558-1603/member/uvedale-sir-edmund-1606">Sir Edmund Uvedale</a>. <em>suc.</em> fa. 1601. Kntd. 1603; <em>cr.</em> Bt. 1611.<a class="see-footnote" id="footnoteref1_1oqgz6n" title="Burke, Peerage, 924; GEC Baronetage, i. 21-2; CSP Dom. 1603-10, p. 326." href="#footnote1_1oqgz6n">1</a></p><h3 id="offices-held" class="title">Offices Held</h3><p></p><p>Gent. pens. 1599.<a class="see-footnote" id="footnoteref2_hki15c1" title="E407, box 1/29." href="#footnote2_hki15c1">2</a></p><h3 id="biography" class="title">Biography</h3><p>Gerard’s father, mother and brother John were Catholics. Himself tutored by a Catholic, he married a recusant wife (his first), employed a ‘notorious recusant’ as schoolmaster to his child, and was reported to be ‘of evil affection in religion’ in 1590. His return to Parliament for Liverpool is somewhat surprising, implying as it must a degree of conformity. He resided near the borough and presumably family necessity overruled other considerations. He evidently found favour in the new reign. James I at York, on his way to London in 1603, told him: ‘I am particularly bound to love your blood on account of the persecution you have borne for me’, and gave him an interest in the tobacco pipe monopoly as well as a free baronetcy ‘in consideration of his father’s sufferings in the cause of Mary Queen of Scots’. He died 16 Feb. 1601.<a class="see-footnote" id="footnoteref3_njr2tbz" title="J. A. Twemlow, Liverpool Town Bks. ii. 1077, 1213; Misc. (Cath. Rec. Soc.), iv. 206-7 et passim; Recusant Rolls 1592-3 (Cath. Rec. Soc.), 31, 175, 182; VCH Lancs. iv. 144; John Gerard, Autobiog. ed. Caraman, 263; Lancs. Eliz. Recusants (Chetham Soc. n.s. cx), 86, 103, 115; Lancs. Inquisitions (Lancs. and Cheshire Rec. Soc. xvii), 297-301; PCC 40 Dale; GEC Baronetage, i. 21-2; VCH Lancs. iv. 143-6; v. passim; Gerard, 213." href="#footnote3_njr2tbz">3</a></p><h3 id="volumes" class="title blue">Ref Volumes: 1558-1603</h3><h3 id="authors" class="title blue">Author: W.J.J.</h3><p></p><h3 id="end-notes" class="title blue">Notes</h3><ul class="footnotes"><li class="footnote" id="footnote1_1oqgz6n"><a class="footnote-label" href="#footnoteref1_1oqgz6n">1.</a> Burke, <em>Peerage</em>, 924; <em>GEC Baronetage</em>, i. 21-2; <em>CSP Dom.</em> 1603-10, p. 326.</li> <li class="footnote" id="footnote2_hki15c1"><a class="footnote-label" href="#footnoteref2_hki15c1">2.</a> E407, box 1/29.</li> <li class="footnote" id="footnote3_njr2tbz"><a class="footnote-label" href="#footnoteref3_njr2tbz">3.</a> J. A. Twemlow, <em>Liverpool Town Bks.</em> ii. 1077, 1213; <em>Misc.</em> (Cath. Rec. Soc.), iv. 206-7 et <em>passim</em>; <em>Recusant Rolls 1592-3</em> (Cath. Rec. Soc.), 31, 175, 182; <em>VCH Lancs.</em> iv. 144; John Gerard, <em>Autobiog.</em> ed. Caraman, 263; <em>Lancs. Eliz. Recusants</em> (Chetham Soc. n.s. cx), 86, 103, 115; <em>Lancs. Inquisitions</em> (Lancs. and Cheshire Rec. Soc. xvii), 297-301; PCC 40 Dale; <em>GEC Baronetage</em>, i. 21-2; <em>VCH Lancs.</em> iv. 143-6; v. <em>passim</em>; Gerard, 213.</li> </ul> </div></div>  <div id="content-bottom"> <div id="block-hop-1" class="block "> <h2 class="title">Go To Section</h2> <div class="content"> <ul class="top"> <li class="ss-one"><a href="/research/members/members-1386-1421">1386-1421</a></li> <li class="ss-two"><a href="/research/members/members-1422-1504">1422-1504</a></li> <li class="ss-three"><a href="/research/members/members-1509-1558">1509-1558</a></li> <li class="ss-four"><a href="/research/members/members-1558-1603" class="active">1558-1603</a></li> <li class="ss-five"><a href="/research/members/members-1604-1629">1604-1629</a></li> <li class="ss-six"><a href="/research/members/members-1640-1660">1640-1660</a></li> </ul> <ul class="bottom"> <li class="ss-one"><a href="/research/members/members-1660-1690">1660-1690</a></li> <li class="ss-two"><a href="/research/members/members-1690-1715">1690-1715</a></li> <li class="ss-three"><a href="/research/members/members-1715-1754">1715-1754</a></li> <li class="ss-four"><a href="/research/members/members-1754-1790">1754-1790</a></li> <li class="ss-five"><a href="/research/members/members-1790-1820">1790-1820</a></li> <li class="ss-six"><a href="/research/members/members-1820-1832">1820-1832</a></li> </ul> </div> </div> <div id="block-hop-0" class="block "> <h2 class="title">INDEX</h2> <div class="content"> <a href="/research/members/1558-1603/A">A</a><a href="/research/members/1558-1603/B">B</a><a href="/research/members/1558-1603/C">C</a><a href="/research/members/1558-1603/D">D</a><a href="/research/members/1558-1603/E">E</a><a href="/research/members/1558-1603/F">F</a><a href="/research/members/1558-1603/G" class="active">G</a><a href="/research/members/1558-1603/H">H</a><a href="/research/members/1558-1603/I">I</a><a href="/research/members/1558-1603/J">J</a><a href="/research/members/1558-1603/K">K</a><a href="/research/members/1558-1603/L">L</a><a href="/research/members/1558-1603/M">M</a><a href="/research/members/1558-1603/N">N</a><a href="/research/members/1558-1603/O">O</a><a href="/research/members/1558-1603/P">P</a><a href="/research/members/1558-1603/Q">Q</a><a href="/research/members/1558-1603/R">R</a><a href="/research/members/1558-1603/S">S</a><a href="/research/members/1558-1603/T">T</a><a href="/research/members/1558-1603/U">U</a><a href="/research/members/1558-1603/V">V</a><a href="/research/members/1558-1603/W">W</a><a href="/research/members/1558-1603/X">X</a><a href="/research/members/1558-1603/Y">Y</a><a href="/research/members/1558-1603/Z">Z</a> </div> </div> </div>  </div>  </div>  <div id="footer-gradient"> </div> <div id="footer"> <div id="copyright"> © Crown copyright and The History of Parliament Trust 1964-2020 </div> <div id="footer-links"> <ul> <li><a href="/about/terms-and-conditions" title="Terms & Conditions">Terms & Conditions</a></li> <li><a href="/help/privacy-and-cookies">Privacy & Cookies</a></li> <li><a href="/about/faqs">FAQs</a></li> <li><a href="/commonly-used-abbreviations" title="Abbreviations">Abbreviations</a></li> <li><a href="mailto:website@histparl.ac.uk">Contact Us</a></li> </ul> </div> </div> <div id="ihr-logo"><a href="http://www.history.ac.uk" target="_blank"><img src="/files/IHR-maintained-logo.png" alt="IHR Logo" /></a></div> </div>  </body> </html>