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Not to be confused with the unrelated Sir Robert I Assheton of Pitney , Somerset, husband of Elizabeth de Gorges, father of Sir Robert Asshe ton II (d.1384), Justiciar of Ireland, Treasurer of the Exchequer, etc . '''Burke. A genealogical and heraldic dictionary (A-K), 1838, p. 2 0:''' He was vice chamberlain to King Edward III [1327-1377] and a co mmissioner to treat for Peace with France. He was afterwards Governo r of Guynes, governor of the cinque ports, and admiral of the ''Narro w Seas''. In the 43rd of the same reign [1370] he was made justice o f Ireland; four years afterwards constituted treasurer of England; an d lastly, appointed constable of Dover Castle. Sir Robert was one of t he executors of the last will of his royal master, and he appears to h ave enjoyed the confidence of the succeeded monarch; for we find him i n the 4th of Richard II [1381] again warden of the cinque ports. '''J ames Butterworth. "History and Description of the Town and Parish of A shton-Under-Lyne in the County of Lancaster", 1823, p. 14''' Thomas , had two sons, Robert and Gilbertus. Sir Robert, the elder, married o ne Elizabeth, but whose daughter she was does not appear. He was Vic e Chamberlain to Edward the Third, and in commission to obtain a peac e from Charles, King of France. He was Admiral of the Narrow Seas, a s appears by fines in the Tower, 43d. Edwd. 3, and by 1 Pt.P., 43d. Ed wd. 3. m. 15. He was Justice of Ireland, 46th. Edwd. 3, and discharge d 47th. Edwd. 3d. About this time he was appointed, with John of Gaunt , Duke of Lancaster, King of Castile and Leon. Sir Robert Beauchamp, a nd others of the greatest quality, grantees in trust, of divers manor s rents and reversions, purchased in Kent by the King, to enfeoff ther ewith the Abbey of St Mary-le-Grace, near the tower of London. He wa s Treasurer of tbe Exchequer, 49th of Edward 3rd. He was in such estee m by this king as to be appointed one of the executors of his last wil l and testament. He continued in favour in the succeeding reign, for i n the 4th of Richard 2nd he was Constable of Dover, and Warden of th e Cinque Ports, and was ''Nuper Defunctus'', 4th Richard 2nd; he had i ssue Sir Thomas […] '''Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-190 0, Volume 02, by William Edward Armytage Axon:''' ASHTON, Sir ROBER T de (d. 1385), civil, military, and naval officer under Edward III, w as of the great northern family of Ashton or Assheton, of Ashton-under -Lyne, in the county of Lancaster. The house claims descent from Emma , the daughter of Albert de Gresley, the first baron of Manchester; sh e married Orm, the son of Ailward, and received from her father as a d owry a portion of the lands he had received from Roger of Poictou. Fro m this union, probably of Norman heiress and Saxon thane, descended Si r John Ashton, who was twice married. The date of the birth of his so n Robert is not known, nor are there records of his career until we fi nd him, in 1324, a member of the parliament of Westminster, and afterw ards occupying positions of great importance and trust. In 1359 he wa s governor of 'Guynes' near Calais; in 1362 he was lord treasurer of E ngland; in 1368 he had the custody of the castle of Sandgate near Cala is with the lands and revenue thereto belonging; in 1369 he was admira l of the Narrow Seas; in 1372 he was justiciary of Ireland; and in 137 3 again lord treasurer of England and king's chamberlain. In 1375 he b ecame chancellor of the exchequer, and held that office until the deat h of Edward III in 1377, when he was succeeded by Simon de Bureley. Th e new king did not discard his father's old servant, and in 1380 Ashto n was appointed constable of Dover and warden of the Cinque Ports. H e died at Dover Castle 9 Jan. 1384-5, and was buried in the church the re, to which he had previously presented a large bell. He was twice ma rried. By his first wife, Elizabeth, whose surname is not known, he le ft a son, Thomas, and a daughter, Eleanor. His second wife was the wid ow of Lord Matthew de Gomey, and after Ashton's death married Sir Joh n Tiptoft, knt., and died in 1417. Such are the scanty details of th e career of a man who, going from a then remote and little-known distr ict, achieved distinction alike in court and camp, by land and by sea . [Rymer's Fœdera, 3rd edit. 752, 820, 822, 824, 844, 845, 862, 924 , 930, 942, 977, 978, 979, 990, 1010, 1052, 1062, 1069, 1076, 1077; Ba ines's Hist. of Lancashire; Axon's Lancashire Gleanings.]