Editing Ralph Cudworth (section)

==== Children ====
[[File:St Andrews Church, Aller (geograph 5188498).jpg|thumb|right|[[Church of St Andrew, Aller|Parish Church of St Andrew]], [[Aller, Somerset|Aller]], [[Somerset]]: where [[John Stoughton (priest)|John Stoughton]] succeeded [[Ralph Cudworth (died 1624)|Ralph Cudworth]] Snr (1624)]]'''The children of Ralph Cudworth Snr and Mary (née Machell) Cudworth (''c''.1582–1634) were:'''

*[[General]] [[James Cudworth (colonist)|James Cudworth]] (1612–82) was Assistant Governor (1756–1758, 1674–1680) and Deputy Governor (1681–82) of [[Plymouth Colony]], [[Massachusetts]], and four-times Commissioner of the United Colonies (1657–1681),<ref>Samuel Deane, 'Gen. James Cudworth' in ''History of Scituate, Massachusetts, from its first settlement to 1831'' (James Loring: Boston, 1831), pp. 245–51; also ''[http://www.scituatehistoricalsociety.org/families/CudworthJames.htm Scituate Historical Society] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080524190252/http://www.scituatehistoricalsociety.org/families/CudworthJames.htm |date=24 May 2008 }}''</ref> whose descendants form an extensive family of American Cudworths.
* Elizabeth Cudworth (1615–1654) married (1636) Josias Beacham of [[Broughton, Northamptonshire]] (Rector of [[Seaton, Rutland]] (1627–1676)), by whom she had several children. Beacham was ejected from his living by the Puritans (1653), but reinstated (by 1662).<ref>Josias Beacham’s first wife was Maria Sheffield (died 1634): S.H.C., 'Extracts from the Parish register of Seton, Co. Rutland, relative to the family of Sheffield', ''Collectanea Topographica et Genealogica'' I (J.B. Nichols & Son: London, 1834), [https://books.google.com/books?id=HCcAAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA171 pp. 171–73.]; Will of Josias Beacham, Rector of Seaton (Rutland) (P.C.C. 1675/76). ''London Marriage Allegations'', 28 April 1636 (St Mary Aldermanbury). Foster, ''Index Ecclesiasticus''. Beacham was a graduate of [[Brasenose College|Brasenose College, Oxford]]</ref>
* '''Ralph Cudworth (Jnr)'''
* Mary Cudworth
* John Cudworth (1622–1675) of [[London]] and [[Bentley, Suffolk]], Alderman of London, and Master of the [[Worshipful Company of Girdlers]] (1667–68).<ref>W. Dumville Smythe, ''An Historical Account of the Worshipful Company of Girdlers, London'' (Chiswick Press: London, 1905), [https://archive.org/stream/historicalaccoun00smyt#page/108/mode/2up pp. 109–10.]; Will of John Cudworth, Girdler of London (P.C.C. 1675).</ref> On his death, John left four orphans of whom both Thomas Cudworth (1661–1726)<ref>J. Peile, ''Biographical Register of Christ's College, 1505–1905: II: 1666–1905'' (Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, 1913), [https://archive.org/details/biographicalregi02peil/page/64 p. 64] (Internet Archive).</ref> and Benjamin Cudworth (1670–15 Sept. 1725) attended Christ's College, Cambridge.<ref>J. Peile, ''Biographical Register'', ii, [https://archive.org/details/biographicalregi02peil/page/110 p. 111].</ref> Benjamin Cudworth's black memorial slab is in St. Margaret's parish church, Southolt, Suffolk.
* Jane/Joan(?) Cudworth (born ''c''.1624; [[floruit|fl.]] unmarried, 1647) may have been Ralph's sister.<ref>D. Richardson, ''Jewels of the Crown'', 4 (2009), citing references to Jane Cudworth in the Will of John Machell of Wonersh (P.C.C. 1647).</ref>