TOWNLEY FAMILY TREE

HUSBAND     Roger  NOWELL  of  Read
Born                  1438               in     Read;  Lancashire;  ENG   
Married             1468               in     ENG
Died                  17 Jul 1486     in     ENG
Burial           
Father               Alexander  NOWELL
Mother             Elizabeth  BANNASTRE (Banister)

WIFE                 Grace  TOWNLEY
Born                   1452                in     Townley Hall;  Lancashire;  ENG
Died                   1522                in      Whalley;  Lancashire;  ENG
Burial            
Father                 Sir  John  Richard  Henry  TOWNLEY
Mother                Isabel  SHERBURNE

CHILDREN
1  Male                 John  Nowell
Born                     1469               in     Lancashire;  ENG
Married                                        in     
Died                     1526                in     Lancashire;  ENG
Burial        
Spouse                Elizabeth  KAYE

2  Female             Maud  NOWELL
Born                      1471                   in     ENG
Married                                           in     
Died                                                in     ENG
Burial         
Spouse                   Edward  RADCLYFFE  Esq      

3 Female                Grace  NOWELL
Born                         1473                 in     ENG
Married                                             in     
Died                                                  in     ENG
Burial        
Spouse                      John  HOUGHTON

4  Female                  Anne  NOWELL
Born                           1475                  in     ENG
Married                                                in     
Died                            after 1486      in      ENG
Burial        
Spouse                       Ralph  RISHTON

5  Female                   Jane  NOWELL  
Born                            1478                   in     ENG
Married                                                   in     
Died                                                        in      ENG
Burial        
Spouse                        William  FLEMING

6  Female                   Elizabeth  NOWELL
Born                             1480                   in     ENG
Married                                                     in     
Died                                                          in     ENG
Burial        
Spouse                       Robert  CHALLONER

7  Female                    Eleanor  NOWELL
Born                              1486                    in     
Married                                                      in     
Died                               07 Mar 1549     in     Whalley;  Lancashire;  ENG
Burial        
Spouse                          John  HOPWOOD

NOTES
A grand child of Grace and Roger Nowell would be one of the attorneys in the witch trials of the early 1600's.  
This would be Roger Nowell of Read.  He was a fifth generation grand-child from the pair.  Roger was born about
1560 in ENG; and married Katherine Morton about 1604.  He died on 30 Jan 1624. 

A brief synopsis is; He was the Justice of the Peace for Lancashire who in 1612 started investigating complaints by the
family of a peddler called John Law who claimed that John had been injured by witchcraft.  Following a hearing on
12 April 1612, Roger committed four women (two of them blind and in their eighties) to Lancaster Gaol to await trial. 
On 27 April 1612 he and another magistrate committed eight other people, 6 women and 2 men, to Lancaster Gaol
on witchcraft charges following a gathering they had had on Good Friday; (10 April 1612).  Other alleged witches were
tried with them at Lancaster that summer and most were found guilty and hanged.  They are known as the 'Pendle
Witches'.  For information on his involvement in the witch trials refer to Henry Towneley (born 1541).  The Wikipedia
Article on Read Hall, Lancashire states that it was Roger's son, another Roger Nowell who was High Sheriff of Lancashire
in 1610 and who was responsible for committing the Pendle witches to trial.  The Wikipedia article relies on unsourced 
websites which have confused father and son.  The Victoria County History entry on Read has things right.