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- State papers concerning lack of support to John's son, John Rhodes, son by his first wife Dorothy Saville:
James I Oct 14, 1623 51. Sir John Denham to Council, has failed in endevoring Sir John Rhodes to settle an allowance and some property on John Rhodes, his eldest son by his first marriage, Sir John alleging that he has already given land, coal mines &c. of value, in trust to him and others, and received no satisfactory account of them.
James I vol 158- Jan 1624 "Petition of John Rhodes to the Council that Sir John Denham, who reported on his former petition complaining of his father's unkindness, may prescribe a competent maintenance to be allowed him with reference theron to Baron Denham, and his report that on account of the large fortune which thepetitioner's mother brought in marriage, 30/. a year is the lowes maintenance that his father should assign him."
vol163 Apr 18-30 1624 "86. Petition of John Rhodes to the Council that for hearing of his petition referred to them by the King, they would summon Sir John Rhodes and his son Francis to answer his objections against them; with order thereon. 87. Petition of John Rhodes to Lord Pres. Mandeville. On the certificate made by Baron Denham of the allowance which his father should give him, went down to Yorkshire in hopes of his father'sconformity, but was utterly rejected. Begs that some other mode may be taken for his relief, being in extreme suffering, and in danger of arrest for debt, from having no allowance for eleven years."
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The Back Rhodes of Our Genealogy
1562 - 1639 (77 years)
