Alchemy
Permission was granted by Henry VI to Sir Thomas to transmute the precious metals, and on 7 April 1446 a special order was issued,Rot. Pat. 2, No. 14 encouraging two Lancashire knights, Ashton and Sir Edmund de Trafford, to pursue their experiments in alchemy, and forbidding any subject of the king to molest them.Descendants
Sir Thomas, born in Kingsley, Lancashire, England, married Elizabeth, daughter of Sir John Byron, by whom he had eleven children. The eldest son, John, was knighted before the battle of Northampton, 10 July 1460, was MP for Lancashire in 1472 and died in 1508. ;Children Elizabeth, b. 1431, married John Trafford Knight, d. 1488; Douce, b. 1435, married Thomas (Sir) Gerard Knight, born 15 July 1431 in Kingsley, Lancs, England, died 27 March 1490 in Kingsley, Lancs., EnglandNote
Thomas de Ashton (alchemist) is ''not'', Sir Thomas de Ashton Lord of Croston d. 17 Oct 1407 and, is ''not'' the medieval Thomas de Aston, a 13th-century monk d. 7 June 1401: these two men are in Lincoln Cathedral. ;Source information Heritage Consulting. Millennium File atabase on-line Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2003. Original data: Heritage Consulting. The Millennium File. Salt Lake City, UT, USA: Heritage Consulting.References
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