Chester Jackson

RE:  Jackson – (Chester Herald, temp Henry VIII). Vert on a fess ar. three magpies ppr.

Chester Herald of Arms in Ordinary - an officer of arms at the College of Arms in London under Henry VIII. Randolph [Ralph] Jackson, Esq. held office as Chester Herald 1533-1540  [replaced by Wm. Flowers] He was likely son of Ralph Jackson, Mountargull herald (Mount Argyle) in 1516, for life (Henry VIII); still living in 1527.

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Two documents use dif. names for him

re: The nunnery at Broadholme, on the east side of Nottinghamshire, in the parish of Broadholme - In 1537 the site and buildings were alienated by the Crown to Randolf JACKSON, Chester Herald, on terms unknown, and nothing now remains of the priory except some worked stones in a neighbouring farmhouse, traces of the fishpond, and a few indications that the priory once stood there. SOURCE: A Short History of the Religious Houses of Nottinghamshire to the time of Dissolution. J. Bramley, 1948

http://www.nottshistory.org.uk/bramley1948/abbeys11.htm

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The Priory of Broadholme  ... The site was granted by the Crown in 1537 to Ralph JACKSON.

SOURCE : 'House of Premonstratensian canonesses: The priory of Broadholme', A History of the County of Nottingham: Volume 2 (1910), pp. 138-140. http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=40095

background - Henry VIII's dissolution of Catholic monasteries led to leasing these lands to King's favorites.