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PLUMPTON CORRESPONDENCE.
A SERIES OF LETTERS,
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WRITTEN IN THE REIGNS OF
EDWARD IV. RICHARD III. HENRY VII. AND HENRY VIII.
EDITED BY THOMAS STAPLETON, ESQ. F.S.A.
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SIR EDWARD PLUMPTON'S BOOK OF LETTERS:
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THE RIGHT HON. LORD FRANCIS EGERTON.
THOMAS AMYOT, ESQ. F.R.S. Treas. S.A.
· JOHN BRUCE, ESQ. F.S.A. Treasurer.
JOHN PAYNE COLLIER, ESQ. F.S.A.
C. PURTON COOPER, ESQ. Q.C., D.C.L., F.R.S., F.S.A.
T. CROFTON CROKER, ESQ. F.S.A. M.R.I.A.
REV. JOSEPH HUNTER, F.S.A.
SIR FREDERICK MADDEN, K.H., F.R.S., F.S.A.
SIR THOMAS PHILLIPPS, BART., F.R S., F.S.A.
THOMAS STAPLETON, ESQ. F.S.A.
EDGAR TAYLOR, ESQ. F.S.A.
WILLIAM JOHN THOMS, ESQ. F.S.A. Acting Sec.
THOMAS WRIGHT, ESQ. M.A., F.S.A.
INTRODUCTION.
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AMONG the Collections of Dodsworth, deposited in the
Bodleian Library, is a volume (CXLVIII.) containing Tran-
scripts from writings of the family of Plumpton of Plump-
ton in Yorkshire. “ This volume consists of two parts :-
1. Copies of Evidences, many of which are very curious
and important, being illustrative of ancient usages or con-
nected with publicaffairs.--2. Copies of the Correspondence
of the family, from the reign of King Henry VII. Some of
these are on public affairs, others relating to the private
concerns of the family.”* The originals from which
Dodsworth made these copies are referred to by him as Sir
Edward Plumpton's Coucher-book, and his Book of Let-
ters, both which manuscripts have been of late discovered
to be remaining in the library of Peregrine Edward
Towneley, esq., the representative of a family, whose
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* Three Catalogues, &c. by the Rev. Joseph Hunter, F.S.A. Lond.
Pickering, 1838, p. 237.
CAMD. SOC. 4.
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members in former days were distinguished by their
labours for the preservation of our gentilitious antiquities,
and a gentleman, whose constant urbanity has on more
than one occasion allowed a liberal use to be made of the
manuscripts in his possession, in order to their being
made a source of general gratification through the
medium of the press. Availing themselves of this cour-
tesy, for which they beg to express their thanks, the
Council of the Camden Society have selected Sir Edward
Plumpton's Book of Letters for their fourth publica-
tion, with the view to preserve and make known such
remains as may be conceived to throw light upon the
domestic habits and social manners of our forefathers.
The tenor of their occupations in everyday life is a sub-
ject, upon which our information has been at all times
scant and deficient.
The Manuscript is a small folio volume on paper, and
has suffered considerably in the lapse of two centuries
from neglect or ill-usage, several pages, besides the cover
of thin leather at the back, being at the present time torn
away at the beginning of the volume, and at the end.
When entire it contained three distinct series of Letters,
formed of the several Correspondence of Sir William
Plumpton, who died 20 Edw. IV. 1480; of his son Sir
Robert, who died 15 Hen. VIII. 1523; and of other members
INTRODUCTION. .
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of the family down to the reign of King Edward VI. The
Letters of the time of Sir William Plumpton have been
first transcribed into the volume, though not at the be-
ginning; the copy of this portion was made conti-
nuously between 8 Dec. 1612, and 1 Feb. following, as
appears from the marginal notes : it extends from page
151 to page 179 of the manuscript. Of the Correspon-
dence of Sir Robert Plumpton, with which the volume
had commenced, the first remaining letter now stands at
page 27, and was originally the thirty-eighth of the series;
this letter was copied 22 Feb. 1612-3, and those which
follow were transcribed in succession down to 12 May
following. This last date is at page 149 of the MS.,
but the blank space between the two series has been filled
up with a letter to “Sir Richard Plompton, chapleyn, at
Idell,” copied 25 Dec. 1613. The later Correspondence,
at the end of the volume, was begun to be copied 2 Jan.
1626, and extended over forty-six or forty-eight pages, as
may be collected from the fragments of leaves yet remain-
ing; the last date of transcript now left is of the 19th of
the same month. Below may be read part of a letter,
having the name “ William Hungate” written opposite in
the margin; this had been next transcribed, and stood
as the thirty-eighth of the series.*
* William Hungate of Saxton, com. Ebor. esq. ancestor to the
TO
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· The order observed by the copyist was to transcribe;
first, the letters of the personage whose correspondence
formed the series, next the letters from Sovereigns, then
those from Earls, &c. the rank of the writers being the
sole classification adopted. Owing to this arrangement,
the letters from the King, the Correspondence with the
Bishop of Carlisle* relating to Perkin Warbeck (printed
by Sir Henry Ellis, Orig. Lett. vol. I. 1st ser. p. 34), the
letters of the Earls of Surrey and Shrewsbury to Sir Robert
Plumpton, together with two letters from himself, of which
we find transcripts in Dodsworth and elsewhere, would ne-
cessarily have to be sought for in that portion of the Cor-
respondence with which the volume commenced, and are
now consequently missing in its present mutilated condi-
tion. Dodsworth was at Plumpton in 1633; it is, therefore,
probable that he saw the original letters : but he does not
appear to have made his transcripts directly from them in
Baronets of that name. The letter has the direction To his worshipfull
Master William Plompton this be delivered, and what remains reads as
follows:
« Right worshipfull Sir, In my most lowly manner I recommend me
unto you for all kindness shewed to me and all myne, and for the
good chear that you, and my Mistres your wife, maid me at my last being
with you. And the cause of my wryting to you at this time ....
yt will please you to call to your remembrance ...........”
* William Sever, or Siveyer, Abbot of St. Mary, York. These
four Letters are transcribed in vol, L. of Dodsworth’s Collections.
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any one instance, as he heads his copy, “ In Sir Edward
Plumpton's Booke of Letters,” and cites the letters as
they stood numbered in Sir Edward Plumpton's Book,* nor
does he notice any seals. The letters in Dodsworth (vol.
CXLVIII.) are twenty-four in number and are all yet con-
tained in the Towneley manuscript,save three; one from the
Earl of Shrewsbury (on the same subject as Letter XXXI. p.
65) printed in the Addenda, and two others from Sir Robert
Plumpton to his wife on matters relating to his suit and
household affairs, which will be found introduced into the
Historical Notices of the Family of Plumpton prefixed to
the Correspondence. In many instances, the copyist of the
Letters notes on the page that “this letter hath a seal,” but
he unfortunately gives no description of the impress. On
a blank space at page 192 this memorandum has been in-
serted : “ Mrs. Ann Scrope, daughter to Sir Edw. Plomp-
ton, did die in December the 16, 1650. Lord Jesus rest her
sowle in Heaven. EDWARD CHOLMLEY;" and on themargin
of another page is scribbled, “ Thomas Cholmley desiers
Mister William Fairfax to sufer all he can posible for the
good of the comonwelth, and long lookt for will come at
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* The Letter from the Earl of Shrewsbury to Sir Robert Plompton,
kt. is quoted by Dodsworth as Letter 31. The mistake in writing
Knaresborough, 25th Sept. for Woodstock, 23rd (see Hunter's Catal.
p. 103), is another proof that Dodsworth copied at second-hand ; the
error was not his own.
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last.”. The Cholmley family resided at Braham, Breame,
or Braim Hall, in the immediate vicinity of Plumpton;
the year 1650 was the second of the Commonwealth, and
the last writing contains an evident allusion to the hoped for
restoration of Charles II. At this period the Towneley
family were connected by marriage with the Plumptons,
and the Manuscript would seem to have been confided to
the care of Mr. Christopher Towneley of Carr, the indefa-
tigable transcriber; for in the year 1662 he made copious
extracts from the Plumpton Coucher Book, and other
books and papers belonging to Sir Edward Plumpton :
it has probably ever since continued in the possession of
his representatives.
• The Cartulary or Coucher Book of Sir Edward Plumpton,
which has likewise remained in the same custody, is a very
broad folio volume on vellum, containing the deeds and
evidences of the family, arranged in chronological order,
down to the time of Henry VII. and which were begun to
be copied from the originals 15 Mar. 1614, and so con-
tinuously to 26 July 1616, 148 pages. At p. 149 et seq.
are inserted copies of deeds relating to the Plumptons
from an old Coucher-book of Fountains Abbey and from
another of the Priory of Helagh, as also of such originals
as were in the hands of a Mr. Bankes and other individuals:
these were transcribed in the years 1616 and 1620. Next
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follow other evidences of the family, to the reign of King
Henry VIII., copied between 15 Jan. 1626-7 and 2 Feb.
1627-8, and written in part upon paper interleaved. At
p. 259 are two deeds relating to property at Kirkby-
super-Wharfe, “copied 29 Sept. 1628, by me, Edward
Arthington,” who likewise states himself to be the copyist
in other places ; and at the bottom of the next page is,
5 Memorandum. Notes for Sir Edward Plompton, deli-
vered by Mr. Dodsworth, 18 of March 1633.” Pages 285
et seq. contained an Index, now deficient in the latter por-
tion ; and the volume has been bound up with some anci-
ent Court-rolls of the manor of Plumpton, with which it
terminates.
From this Manuscript, and other sources, have been
compiled the Historical and Biographical Notices of the
family of Plumpton which precede the Correspondence;
where such of the evidences as served to illustrate the
social position of the successive generations, and to lay
bare the economy of their private life, will be found ab-
stracted at length, and in the words of the original. The
Letters themselves have also been arranged, as far as pos-
sible, in chronological order, so that the preliminary Bio-
graphical Notice may serve the reader as a running
commentary upon the text. Notes are, moreover, sub-
joined in more immediate explanation of the matters al-
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INTRODUCTION.
luded to, and in identification of the persons named in
each Letter; without which, it was felt by the Editor that
this domestic Correspondence of a family, however inter-
esting from its antiquity, would be in great measure unin-
telligible, and of value only to illustrate local history. But
with these aids, it is hoped that the Plumpton Letters will
be found to contain much that is of interest to the gene-
ral reader, as leading him to an exact knowledge of the
social condition of the English gentry during the half
century which preceded the dissolution of monasteries,
and the eventful era of the Reformation.
To the Rev. Joseph Hunter, one of the Council of the
Camden Society, and the compiler of a late Catalogue of
the Dodsworth MSS., I am indebted for information re-
specting the transcripts made from the Plumpton Papers
by that judicious Antiquary, as also for the continuation
of the Pedigree of the family from Sir Edward Plumpton
to the time of its final extinction in the last century,
and for a few valuable remarks introduced among the
Addenda. To him, as also to Dr. Philip Bliss, and C. G.
Young, esq. York. Herald, I beg leave to express my
thanks for their friendly communications.
T. S.
13, Wilton Place, Feb.6, 1839.
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PEDIGREE OF PLUMPTOIN, OF PLUMPTON, com. EBOR.
ARMs. Azure, five fusils in fess Or, each charged with an escallop Gules.
Sir ROBERT PLUMPTON, of Plumpton, com. Ebor. kt.; aged 24 8 | Henry IV. FALICE, daughter and heir of Sir Godfrey Foljambe, of
1407 (Esc. 8 H. IV. n. 15.): died on the feast of the Conception of our Lady, 1 Hassop, com. Derb. kt.; one year old % Dec. 1388;
8 Dec. 9 Hen. V. 1421 (Esc. 11 Hen. VI. n. 5.); buried in Plumbton Quire, 1 marr. cov. 14 Jan. 16 Ric. II. 1392-3; died before
in Spofforth Church.
3 Hen. V. 1416.

Joan, dau. and coh. of Thomas Sir WILLIAM PLUMPTON, kt. bo. 7 Oct. 6 Hen. IV. 1404, son and=ELIZABETH., lau. of Sir Bryan GODFREY PLUMPTON, diedALICE, dau. and coh. of Thomas ROBERT JOAN, wife of William
Wintringham, of Wintringham | heir ; in ward to Henry Earl of Northumberland; died 15 Oct. 20 | Stapilton, of Carlton, com. before 1 Hen. VII. 1486. Wintringham, sister of Joan. PLUMP- Slingsby, of Scriven,
Hall, in Knaresborough ; mar- | Edw. IV. 1480 (Esc. 20 Edw. IV. n. 88), aged 70.-
Ebor. kt.; m arr. cov. 20 Jan.
TON, com. Ebor. esq.
ried privately between Easter and
3 Hen. V. 14 15-6 ; died .... RICHARD PLUMP- GEORGE. ALICE. John.
s. p. ALICE [wife of John
Pentecost in 1451 ; died in 1497. || (Bastard issue : 1. William Plumpton, 2. Robert Plumpton.)
TON, chaplain.
Grene, gent.]
AGNES, dau. of Sir Sir ROBERT PLUMP-=ISABEL, or ELIZA-=LAWRENCE ROBERT PLUMP-=ELIZABETH, dal 1. of Thomas WILLIAM PLUMPTON, JOAN, wife of Thomas MARGARET, wife of Sir George Darell, of Sessay,
William Gascoigne, | TON, kt. son and heir BETH, dau. of Ralph KIGHLEY, TON, bo. 8 Mar. 9 Lord Clifford ar id of West- l esq. bo. 28 Feb.14 Hen. Midleton, gent.
com. Ebor. kt. ; 2. of John Nevill, of Womers-
of Gawkthorp, com. male, had Plumpton, Lord Nevill, son and of NewHall, Hen. VI. 1430-1; moreland : ma. U ov. 10 Aug. | VI. 1435-6 ; eldest sur ELIZABETH, wife of ley, com. Ebor. esq.
Ebor. kt.; marr. &c. virtute doni; will heir app. of Ralph near Otley, died 20 July 28 24 Hen. VI. 14 46; remarr. viving son and heir ap Sir William Beck ALICE, wife of Richard Goldsbrough, of Golds-
cov. 13 July 17 | dated 10 April 14 Earl of Westmore- esq. ; 2d h. Hen. VI. 1450, in 1453 to William Plump-parent; slain at the with, of Clint, com. brough, com. Ebor, esq.
Edw. IV. 1477 ; | Hen. VIII. 1523 ; land; marr. before 10 Mar. 20 before consum- ton; and 2dly, in 1461, to l battle of Towton, 29 Ebor. kt.
ISABELL, wife of Sir Stephen Hamerton, of Ha-
solemnized in Jan. 1 died in the same year, 18 Sept. 21 Hen. Hen. VIII.
mating marriage, Sir Richard Hi imerton, of | Mar. 1 Edw. IV. 1461, AGNES, w. of Sir Rich. merton, com. Ebor. kt.
following; died in aged 70.
VII. 1505 ; died.. 1528-9.
Hamerton, com. Ebor, kt. in the lifetime of his Aldburgh, of Ald CATHARINE, wife of William Lord Zouch and
1504.
.... S. p.
father.
burgh, com. Ebor. kt. St. Maur ; 2 h. Sir Gilbert Debenham, kt.
s. p.
WILLIAM PLUMPTON, esq. son TISABEL or ELIZABETH, dau. of ROBERT MARMADUKE NIGELL
and heir, of Sacombe, com. | Robert Babthorpe, gent. cousin PLUMP- PLUMPTON. PLUMP..
Herts, and Waterton, com. Linc. and heir of Dame Isabel Has- TON, of EDMUND
TON.
jure uxoris ; will dated 1 July | tings, dau. and heir of Sir Ralph Knares PLUMPTON.
1 Edw. VI. 1547 ; died 11 July | Bapthorpe, kt.; mar. cov. 11 borough.
1547, aged 62; bur. at Spof- | May 11 Hen. VII. 1496; died
JOHN PLUMP- ROBERT
forth.
30 June 6 Edw. VI. 1552.
TON. PLUMPTON.
Joan wife of Sir Richard Mauleverer, DOROTHY (wife of Henry MARGARET, bo. in 1459; ELIZABETH, b. in 1460-1 ;
of A llerton, com. Ebor. kt.
Arthington, of Arthing- cousin and coheir of Sir cousin and coh. of Sir Wil.
MARC JARET, wife of Arthur Eyre, of ton, com. Ebor. esq.] William Plumpton, her liam Plumpton, her grand-
Padley, com. Derb. esq.
ELIZABETH (wife of Rich grandfather; wife of Sir father; wife of Sir John
ANNE , wife of German Pole, of Rad- ard Yorke, gent.] John Rocliffe, of Cow. Sotehill, of Stockfaston,
burn e, com. Derb. esq.
CLARE.
thorpe, com. Ebor. kt. com. Leic. kt.
ELEA Non [w. of Hen. Arderne, gent.] MAGDALEN.
-
ROBERT PLUMPTON, son and heir app. bo. at Waterton, TANNE, dau. of John Nor-FROBERT MORETON,
17 Jan. 7 Hen. VIII. 1515-6; died in the lifetime of his ton, of Norton Conyers, of Bawtry, co. Ebor.
father, aged 31, 38 Hen. VIII. 1546 ; bur. at Ludding- esq. ; ma. 2 Sep. 30 Hen. esq. 2nd husb.
ton, in the Isle of Axholm.
VIII. 1538.
DENN IS PLUMPTON, bo. at Waterton, FURSULA, dau. of Richard Aldburgh, of
9 Oct :11 Hen. VIII. 1519; died 4 Aldburgh, com. Ebor. esq.; ma. 4 July
Jun. & 18 Eliz. 1596.
di Edw. VI. 1547 ; died before 1550.
RICHARD PLUMPTON.
WILLIAM
PLUMP-
Ton,of Ad-
dlethorpe.
ROBERT PLUMPTON,
of Harrowgate, died
24 Dec. 1613, aged
60.7
1577.
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wy,
MARY, dau. of William FWILLIAM PLUMPTON, esq. bo. 17 Jan. 35 Hen. VIII. 1543; heirANNE, dau. of Edward Griffin, of ANNE, wife of Anthony Moreton, of Bawtry, com. Ebor. esq. ISABEL. THOMAS. ELLEN.
Vavasor, of Hazlewood, i to his grandfather and grandmother, and in ward to the King; will | Dingley, com. North", attorney [or Mary or ISABEL].
HENRY. DORO-
com. Ebor. esq. ; living dated 7 Jan. 44 Eliz. 1601-2, died 13th of the same month; | gen. to Q. Mary; m, co v. 29 Mar. MARY, wife of Edmund Thirland, of Gamston-on-Idle, com.
EDWARD. THY.
| bur. at Spofforth.
22 Eliz. 1580 ; surviving in 1633. Notts. esq. [or ANNE or ISABEL].
ROBERT =ELEONORA, dau. and heirELLEN, betrothed to FRANCES, dau. of Sir EDWARD PLUMPTON, k19:=FRANCES, d. THOMAS PLUMP WILLIAM PLUMP-FMARY PETER PLUMPTON, CLARE.
PLUMPTON, pres. of Sir Ingram Clif Griffin Markham, of William Arthing- , son and heir; bo. at Ding - of Richard TON, mar. Mary TON, of Dranefield, I Lo mar. ...; died in ELIZABETH, wife of
son and heir ford, knt. and Dame Anne Ollerton, co. Nott. ton,of Arthington, | ley, 22 Sept. 23 Eliz. 15811.; Chamney, Buskeld.
and of North Edge, VICK. the Isle of Axholm, John Ellis, of Rowell,
app. ; died Rocliffe his wife; mar. gent. 8 Jan. 19 Eliz. com. Ebor. esq. ; | will dated 26 Jan. 1654 ; die d esq. ; mar. JOHN PLUMP com. Derb. gent.
1621, s. p.
com. Ebor. esq.
young s.p. cov. 27 Nov. 10 Eliz. 1576-7, s. p.
mar. 13 Sept. 41 soon after in the time of th The 1644; died TON.
RICHARD Plump FRANCES.
1567.
MARY, living 1577. Eliz. 1599.
Commonwealth.
1663.
MARY.
TON.
Lucy.
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WILLIAM, CATHA- ANNE, bo. 21 Feb. 1603-4; HENRY, JOHN PLUMPTON, esq. eldest sur-ANNE, dau. of R ichard Mary, bo. 10 May WILLIAM, bo. ANTHONY, EDWARD, FANNE, FRANCES, FRANCIS, bo. 3 Oct.
bo. 1 Oct. RINE, b. wife of Henry Scroop, of b. 5 Feb. viving son and heir app. ; born 6 i Towneley, of Tov Inneley, 1606; wife 1. of 15 Aug. 1607; bo. 29 Sep. b. 13 Oct. | dau. of bo. 2 Jan. 1614; died the same
1600, died 20 Feb. Danby, com. Ebor. esq. ; 1604-5; Feb. 1604-5, twin with Henry; com. Lanc. esq.kl.; mar. Frances Scroop, of died i Feb. 1609; died 1610; 3d | Antho- 1615-6; a year.
the same 1602-3, died 16 Dec. 1650.7
died an captain in the royal army; morcov. 20 Dec. 3. Car. I. Spennithorn, next 1609-10. a prisoner surviving | ny Mor- nun, liv. CHARLES, b.15 Mar.
year. d. 1659,
infant. tally wounded at Marston-Moor, | 1627 ; died in cl iildbed brother to Henry; ROBERT, born in York s on; died | gan, be- ing 1661. 1612-3 ; died 16 Apr.
FRANCIS, S. p. MARY, only child ; wife
4 July, 20 Edw. I. 1644; will dat. ' at Thornto; - VVor ls, 2. of John Cotton, 29 Aug. 1608; Castle in
side
1614.
b. 23 Oct.
of Stephen Tempest, of
21st of the same month; died at near Ripleyi r . her father's butler; died 24 Mar. 1659, s. p.
Wales ;
WILLIAM, b. 6 Dec.
1601, died
Broughton, com. Ebor.
Knaresborough, and was there bu, 1 is E T h 14 thùüled 1661, s. p. 1613-4.
died
1611; died 23rd of
same day.
esq.
in the lifetime of his father.
| at Spofforth.
1657.
the same month.
TTT
EDWARD PLUMPTON, born at John and ROBERT PLUMPTON=ANNE, fourth dau, of William JANE. bo. in 16 H 30, :vife of Thomas Worthington, MARY, died in 1639. DOROTHY, mar. Aug. EDWARD, died s. p. MARY,
London in 1629 ; died at Noc. PETER, esq. surviv. son, and | Middleton, of Stockeld, com son and heir ot *, William Worthington, of Blen- CLARE.
1656 to Clement Pas. WILLIAM, liv. 1662. FRANCES,
ton-abbey, in Lincolnshire, died in- heir to his grandfa- | Ebor. esq. and Catharine his sco, esq.
AGNES.
ton, of Berningham, ANNE, 1662.
Lucy,
and bur. in the church there, fants. father; bo. 13 Mar. wife ; ma. 2 Dec. 17 Car. II. FRANCES, bo. a sort 1632 ; wife of Thomas Gage, All died infants. com. Norf. esq.; died GEORGE, 1662.
FRANCIS,
s. p.'
1643-4.
1665.
of Bentley, con 1. fuss. esq. died 1664.
1662.
BARBARA, 1662. d. young.
JOHN PLUMPTON, bo. 19 Nov. Ann, dau, and h. of Nathaniel and ElizabethROBERT PLUMP-=JULIANA, da of Thomas and Elizabeth Appleby, of=ISABEL, dau. of William Anderton, Anne, bo. 14 Dec. 1667 ; wife of
20 Car. II. 1668; died 2 Dec. West, son of Thomas, of the family of the Lords | Ton, esq. 2d son Lipton-upon se, esq. widow of Rowland White, esq.; of Euxton, com. Lanc. esq. living Thomas Cholmeley, of Brandsby,
28 Car. II. 1676, s. p.
De la Warr ; died 19 June 1705.
and heir.
died 11 June
1722
com. Ebor. esq.
John PLUMPTON,FELIZABETH, 2nd ROBERT PLUMP ELIZABETH, bo. 26 May 1692; wife ANY born 7 Aug. 1694 ; died 23 Aug. 1695. Cicely, bo. 5 Mar. 1699-1700. FRANCES, born 23 Dec. 1702 ;
esq. son and heir, | dau, of Sir John Ton, bo. 28 Apr. 1. of Marmaduke Anne, of Frickley, M y , bo. 30 Aug. 1696 ; d. 28 Jan. 1702-3. JANE, twin with Cicely; died wife of George Palmes, of Na-
bo. 27 Apr. 1693. Gascoigne,of Par 1693, twin with com. Ebor. esq.; 2. of William
, bo. 25 Apr. 1697 ; a Benedictine Nun 3 May 1726.
burne, com. Ebor. esq.
lington, Bart. N. S.
Knight. t
at Cambray.
......, died an infant.
...
John.
ROBERT PLUMPTON, son and heir, bo. 23 Apr. 1721 ; died at Cambray 8 Aug. 1749, s. p.
HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL
NOTICES
OF THE
FAMILY OF PLUMPTON OF PLUMPTON,
COM. EBOR.
The family whose domestic history, during portions of the fif-
teenth and sixteenth centuries, is brought into such prominent
notice through the preservation of the present correspondence,
derived its surname from the vill of Plumpton, situate within the
parish of Spofforth, in the upper division of Claro wapentake,
west riding of the county of York, three miles distant from the
town of Knaresborough.
At the time of the Great Survey of England in 1086, of which
Domesday Book is the record, the vill of Plontone a in Borge-
scire,b which had belonged entire to Gamelbar under the Anglo
a Plumbe is a woody place, and to this day a clump of trees is called a plump in the
north. (See Glossary to Reginaldi Monachi Dunelm. libellus de admirandis beati
Cuthberti virtutibus, published by the Surtees Society, 1835.)
The wapentake of Borge-scire was so called from Ald-burgh (Burc in Domesday),
the capital of this shire or district from the time of the Romans. It is also in one
place in Domesday, f. 379, a. 1, called the wapentake of Gereburg, this prefix being evi-
CAMD. soc. 4.
HISTORICAL NOTICES
Saxon dynasty, was, in as much as regarded the suzerainte of
the fief, divided between two Norman followers of the Conque-
ror, viz. William, from Percy in the Département de la Manche,
a seigneurie owned by the great Norman family of Paynell, of
whom he was probably the feudatory; and Gislebert, apparently
a member of the no less powerful house of Tesson, who ruled the
tract of country in the Département du Calvados, known as Le
Cinglais, of which Thury-Harcourt is the capital. In this man-
ner the territory of Plumpton came to be divided into two manors
respectively held of the honours of Perci and Vesci, the latter
being the local surname of another Norman family, on one of
whose members, named Ivo, the escheated fief of Gislebert was
eventually bestowed. We learn further, from the same in-
dently a remnant of the British name Caer, by which all walled burghs were designated.
The place of assembly was in a Berewick belonging to it, named Clare-tun, about
four miles distant from the burgh, where, as usual, an artificial mound or hoh was
raised, called from the tun, Clare-hoh : by a pleonasm, this spot has now the name of
Claro-hill. Claro grew eventually to be the name in common use, when the burgh
was no longer the capital of the shire.
c Vassy (Vaacie in Wace) is a commune of the Département du Calvados. In
Domesday the orthograghy is Veci, and there also in place of Tesson we read Tison.
Taisson, among the Normans, signified a badger; and that this was the sobriquet given
to the lords of Cinglais is proved by their deeds, in which the name is often latinized
Taxo. Much wider variations than these were, however, common in writing the
same proper name, the scribe having to trust solely to his ear for catching rightly
the sound of the name as pronounced to him, the subscription of the personage him-
self to the document being simply a cross mark. It is absurd to suppose, as later
genealogists have done, that the Great Standard Bearer of England under King Wil-
liam, by which title of office Gislebert names himself in his charters, was of Anglo-
Saxon parentage. The pretended marriage of Ivo de Vescy with the heiress of Tyson,
which has hitherto passed current with our Baronagians, is merely the traditional his-
tory resorted to in the time of Edw. II. to explain the descent of the baronies of Mal-
ton and Alnwick ; such late genealogies, unless confirmed by contemporary evidence,
must ever be received with extreme caution. It is certain, moreover, that Gislebert
Tison left a son and heir named Adam, who in 31 Hen. I. rendered account to the
Exchequer of the debts of his father, and of a fine not to plead for his lands until the
OF THE FAMILY OF PLUMPTON.
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valuable record, that the manor in the Percy fee alone retained its
value undiminished from the time of Edward the Confessor, the
fee of Gislebert Tison in these parts having been laid waste, for
the purpose, no doubt, of forming the royal chace, which acquired
the name of “ Knaresborough Forest.”d A portion of the land
son of Nigel de Albini (i. e. Roger de Mowbray) was a knight. The grand-daughters.
and heirs of Adam married into the families of Constable of Flamborough and Beau-
voir ; and from the heads of these families, as well as from Mowbray and Vescy, the
monks of Selby deemed it requisite to obtain charters of confirmation to secure to
them the possession of the tithes and advowson of the church of Elveley (Kirk-ella),
which they had of the gift of Gislebert Tison. Malton was crown land at the time of
the survey ; but it is not improbable that the defence of the castle of Alnwick, in the
turbulent district north of the Tyne, was undertaken by this great military officer, and
that he made it the caput of his barony. The influence of Robert de Mowbray, the
first Norman Earl of Northumberland, may have in that case drawn him in to share in
his rebellion, which ended in the expulsion from their seigniories of many Norman
barons, whom the Chroniclers omit to name. Under Henry I. he was restored to
grace, and re-instated in the possession of Holme-upon-Spaldingmore and of some
portion of his lands in Yorkshire, which he transmitted to his heirs ; but the suzerainté
of the escheated honour was retained by Nigel de Albini and Ivo de Vescy, between
whom it had been already divided by William Rufus. Even this result appears not
to have been obtained without contracting heavy debts in the maintenance of a pro-
tracted suit.
a Sir Henry Ellis observes, in his notes to the Index of Tenants in capite in Domes-
day, that the lands of Gislebert Tison, consisting of twenty-nine manors, were evi-
dently forfeited upon the ravaging of Yorkshire : ten had belonged to Gamelbar, and
one to Gamel. Of six which had belonged to Gamelbar, it is said, “ Has terras habet
Gislebertus Tison, sed wastæ sunt omnes : tantummodo Biletone redd. iii, sol. redd."
Of several manors in Craven no estimated value is given. These six manors are,
however, all parcel of the forest of Knaresborough, and in a mountainous and barren
tract of country. If they were ravaged by the Conqueror's army in vengeance to a
rebellious people, then his forbearance seems most extraordinary, sparing the fertile
country nearer to his line of march, and turning aside to spend his fury on these
wilds. The love of the Norman princes for the chace need not be dwelt upon; and
Domesday furnishes ample proof that entire wapentakes or hundreds were converted
from arable into wood and pasture, in order to give "scope and verge enough."
The ancient sectional division of the north riding of Yorkshire, called wapentake
of Girlestre, gave name to the forest of Galtres, which included within its vast circum-
ference great part of that wapentake, and of the adjoining ones of Bolesford and
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was, however, permitted to be afterwards cultivated, upon pay-
ment of a rent of five shillings; but before the devastation, this
manor, equally with the other, had been worth twenty shillings.
The mesne-tenant in the vill of Plumpton in 1086, is named
Eldred in Domesday; but this Anglo-Saxon occupant cannot, from
existing evidence, be presumed to have been the ancestor of the
family who had afterwards the local surname.'
Before the first Sunday in Lent, in the year 1168, William de
Percy made a return of the knights enfeoffed of his honour, both
of ancient feoffment of the time of Henry I. that is, up to the
year of his death, and of new feoffment since his death, with
their nomenclature, in order that those who had not yet done
liege homage, and whose names were not written in the roll of the
King, might come in and do it before that Sunday. Of the
knights newly enfeoffed, he names, “ Nigellus de Pluntona de I.
milite."e The earliest deed, among the ancient evidences of the
family existing in 1612, was, it may be presumed, the one en-
rolled in the pedigree of Plumpton, as entered in the book of
Richard St. George, Norroy, in his Visitation of Yorkshire ; it
contained a grant of a tenement and two acres of land in Plump-
ton from Nigellus de Plumton to Gamel, son of Elewin, his
marshal, and had a seal attached to it with the impression of a
knight on horseback holding a drawn sword, the name being cir-
cumscribed. Of another deed of this first progenitor, containing
Annesti, till its outskirts were in later times gradually lessened by successive disaffo-
restments. At the time of its formation, the places of assembly for the men of the
wapentakes were necessarily removed without its limits, Girlestre to Birdforth, and
Bolesford, where was a ford across the river Fosse, to Bulmer ; from these latter places
the wapentakes now take their names.
e Liber Niger Scaccarii. Hearne, 1774, edit. altera, vol. i. p. 317.
* The copy of this deed was numbered 20 in the Plumpton Cartulary, but the page
containing it has been almost entirely eaten away by mice. A marginal note, how-
ever, remains, indicating its context: “Nigellus de Plumton Gamelo filio Elewini
i domum, i acram in Lafrinwic, i acram in Sabberchdale in Plumton."' The names
OF THE FAMILY OF PLUMPTON.
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a much more extensive grant to his seneschal, and to which a seal
with the same impression was remaining in 1620, I insert a copy
from the transcript in Sir Edward Plumpton's Cartulary.
Omnibus sanctæ ecclesiæ filiis præsentibus et futuris, Nigellus
de Plumton, salutem. Sciatis me dedisse et concessisse et hac
mea carta confirmasse Roberto filio Huckemani pro homagio et
servitio suo quinque bovatas terræ cum omnibus libertatibus et
liberis pertinentibus suis infra villas et extra, scilicet, in introiti-
bus et exitibus, in viis et semitis, in bosco et plano, in aquis et
ripis, in moris et mariscis, in pratis et pasturis, in turbariis et in
omnibus liberis aismentis, scilicet, duas bovatas terræ in Plum-
ton quas pater suis tenuit, cum tofto et crofto et sartis et cum
omnibus liberis pertinentibus suis, et præterea duas acras terræ in
incrementum versus aquilonem ad Barthestortes, et duas bovatas
terræ in Scotton quæ fuerunt Willielmi Coci, et unam bovatam
terræ in Ribstain, quam Ricardus le Butiller tenuit cum duobus
toftis, quorum ipse Ricardus tenuit unum et Ailine tenuit alterum
toftum. Et præterea concessi et confirmavi præfato Roberto in
incrementum suæ bovatæ in Ribstain unum toftum cum pomario
in Ribstain, scilicet, toftum quod Robertus filius Hulkilli tenuit, et
sex acras terræ et dimidiam in campis de Ribstain cum liberis
pertinentiis suis et omnibus aismentis suis in omnibus locis et
rebus sine retinemento mei vel heredum meorum infra villas et
extra ad ea pertinentibus, excepta bovata terræ ad quam præ-
dictum toftum et una prædictarum acrarum pertinebant; scili-
cet, unam acram quam Willielmus Straungald tenuit, quæ est
“ Nigellus de Plomptona” and “Gamelo filio Elewini'' are also legible on the fragments.
The Towneley MSS. contain abbreviated copies of the same deed, from which the
names of the witnesses may be set down with tolerable accuracy, viz. Robert Vavasor,
Hugh de Lelay, Gilbert de Plompton, Richard de Chagge, Richard de Goldesburgh,
Matthew de Braham, Robert de Linton, Robert son of Huckman de Plompton,
Robert son of Henry de Sicklinghall, Robert son of Jordan de Staneton, William
son of Ralph, Richard de Stokeld, Baldwin his brother, Thomas de Dicton his bro-
ther, and many others.
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inter viam quæ jacet de Ribstain ad Spofford et aquam quæ
vocatur Crempel, et unam acram quam Robertus filius Hul-
kil tenuit, quæ est ultra viam quæ se extendit de Ribstan
ad Spofford propinquior viæ de Bram apud austrum, et duas
acras et dimidiam quam Ricardus filius Bencelini tenuit, quæ
jacent juxta Frodisberi apud orientem, et duas acras in God-
winnesridding, quæ se extendunt super prædictas acras. Quæ
scilicet toftum cum pomario et sex acras et dimidiam præ-
fatus Robertus filius Huckeman ante tenuit de dono Walteri
filii Nigelli de Stockeld. Omnes autem prædictas terras, tam
quinque bovatas quam alias, cum omnibus liberis pertinentiis
suis prædictis, concessi et hac carta confirmavi præfato Roberto,
habendas et tenendas illi et heredibus ejus de me et heredibus
meis sine impedimento et retinemento mei et heredum meorum in
perpetuum, in feodo et hereditate libere et pacifice et quiete ab
omni servitio et omni terrena exactione, faciendo forinsecum servi-
tium, scilicet, pro duabus bovatis terræ et duabus acris in Plum-
ton quantum ad illas pertinet, ubi duodecim carucatæ et dimidia
faciunt servitium unius militis; pro duabus bovatis terræ in Scot-
ton, quantum ad illas pertinet, ubi viginti carucatæ terræ faciunt
servitium unius militis; pro una bovata terræ in Ribstain et
pro sex acris et dimidia cum tofto et pomario quantum ad illa per-
tinet, ubi decem carucatæ terræ faciunt servitium unius militis.
Insuper relaxavi et quietum clamavi de me et heredibus meis in
perpetuum præfato Roberto et hæredibus suis quatuor solidos
firmæ et duo calcaria deaurata et duas sagittas barbatas, quæ per-
tinebant ad me per annum de redditu de prædictis terris, ita quod
prænominatus Robertus vel heredes ejus nullum omnino aliud ser-
vitium facient mihi vel hæredibus meis de præfatis . .... nisi
solum forinsecum servitium, sicut in ista carta sepius dictum est.
Ego vero Nigellus et hæredes mei warantizabimus quinque bovatas
prædictas et omnia alia prædicta cum omnibus liberis pertinentiis
suis infra villam et extra præfato Roberto et hæredibus suis contra
omnes homines per prædictum forinsecum servitium sine retine-
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XV
mento vel impedimento. Hiis testibus, Roberto le Vavasur,
Hugone de Lelaia, Willielmo de Corneburg, Willielmo de Withe-
ton, Alexandro fratre ejus, Roberto de Wiuelstrop, Waltero de Rib-
stan, Ricardo de Riplea, Thoma de Walkingham, Matheo de Bram,
Alexandro de Scotton, Nicolao de Carton, Roberto de Dicthenbi,
Waltero de Folifait, Henrico de Brakentwait, Adam de eadem
villa, Henrico filio Bauldiwini, Willielmo filio Serlonis, Gilberto le
Larden, Thoma de Langewat, Willielmo Mansel, Simone dispen-
satore et aliis. .
To the time of the accession of Henry II. the ancient laws and
fiscal system of the Anglo-Saxons had been allowed to remain by
the conquerors, and the Norman occupants of the manors and
vills of their expulsed predecessors were at first subject to the
same burdens. Thus in the venerable roll of the Exchequer Re-
ceipts in 1130, we find payments for ferms and Danegeld, but no
mention of knights' fees or scutage. The Normans had, however,
introduced the continental mode of making grants of land by sub-
infeudation, of which an early instance is the grant made to
Robert de Bruis out of the Terra Regis, immediately subsequent
to the General Survey of the country in 1086, and which is ap-
pended to the record under the title “ Hic est Feudum Rotberti
de Bruis quod fuit datum postquam Liber de Wintonia scriptus
fuit.h” The universality of this practice naturally paved the way
to the abrogation of the Anglo-Saxon constitutions, and the esta-
blishment of a system of feudal tenure similar to what was the law
on the continent of Europe. As a necessary consequence of this
change, Danegeld and the former system of local taxation fell to
the ground, and in lieu thereof scutage, or the payment of a certain
composition in money for the personal service of the feudatory was
introduced. Yet here again the old usage was so far adhered to,
that a return was required to be made of the number of carucates
in each vill; whereupon the composition for each knight's fee was
8 Cartul. No. 640.
Lib. Domesd. 332 b.
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variously apportioned to a fixed number of carucates according to
the capacity of each vill, and according to the greater or less num-
ber of feofments made by the tenant in capite, and the quantity of
service he himself owed to the crown. In proof of this being
the mode adopted, I may cite the return made of the carucates in
the honour of Richmond and of the tenmantales or tythings in
Gillingshire in the thirtieth year of the reign of Henry II., and of
the knights' fees of the same honour of old and new feofment,
secundum quod Scutagium debet solvi ;i the above charter gives
twelve carucates and a half to a knight's fee in Plumpton.
In this reign, in the year 1184, the name of Plumpton acquired
a melancholy notoriety from an event, which I relate in the
words of the earliest contemporary authority. “ While the king
was sojourning at Worcester with his army, with intent to make
war upon Rhys-ap-Griffin, as is mentioned above, a certain youth
was brought there in fetters, sprung of noble lineage, and whose
name was Gilbert de Plumton, whom Ranulf de Glanvil, the
king's justiciary, had in odium, and sought to put to death; lay-
ing to his charge that he had ravished a certain maiden in the
king's gift, the daughter of Roger de Guilevast, and kept her to
him as his wife; and that in the night-time he broke through six
doors in the abode of the girl's father, and took from him a hunt-
ing horn and a head-stall, &c. along with the said maiden. He
added, moreover, that all these things he carried off by theft and
robbery; but the said youth in every point denied what was
alleged concerning any violence, theft, and robbery; and upon the
issue, he offered to abide the law. But Ranulf de Glanvile wish-
ing to make away with him, because he designed to give the
same maiden (whom the said Gilbert had already known after their
espousals) in marriage to Reiner, sheriff of Yorkshire, with her
father's inheritance, further exhorted those who were to try Gil-
bert to adjudge him to death ; and so it was done, for they sen-
i Registrum Honoris de Richmond, p. 24 et seq.
OF THE FAMILY OF PLUMPTON.
tenced him to be hung; and whilst he was being led to the gibbet,
intelligence was brought of the proceedings in his case to Baldwin,
bishop of the same city of Worcester. The which bishop, though
in great grief for the condemnation of the youth, was, however,
exhorted by his attendants to rescue him from death. They said,
that he could legally do this, because it was a Sunday that same
day, and upon it the Feast of Blessed Mary Magdalen. The
bishop (who was a meek and good man) acquiesced in their argu-
ments, and having mounted on horseback, quickly rode after the ex-
ecutioners, who were leading the youth to the gibbet, and had now
arrived at the place. Already was the youth with his hands bound
behind his back, and with a green band covering his eyes, and an
iron-chain round his neck; the executioners being on the point of
hoisting the youth up, as the bishop arrived with a multitude of
people. Having alighted from his horse, and running up, he sta-
tioned himself by the side of the prisoner, thus exclaiming and
saying, “I forbid you, on the part of God and Blessed Mary Mag-
dalen, and under sentence of excommunication, to hang this man
on this day, because to-day is the day of our Lord and the feast of
Blessed Mary Magdalen; wherefore, it is not lawful for you to
contaminate the day.” The executioners replied, “Who are you?”
and “ what madness prompts you, that you have the audacity to
impede the execution of the King's justice ?” But the bishop
with no less firmness of heart than of speech, rejoins, “Not mad-
ness, but the clemency of heavenly pity urges me; nor do I desire
to impede the King's justice, but to warn you against an unwary
act, lest by the contamination of a solemn day, you and the King
incur the wrath of the eternal God.” After some altercation, divine
authority at length prevailed; and at the entreaty of the bishop
he who was bound is unloosed; nevertheless, he was delivered
over to the keeper of the King's castle to safe custody, and in the
morning to be led again to execution. But the Lord Almighty,
who never deserts those who hope in him, through the merits of
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HISTORICAL NOTICES
the said bishop, granted a longer span of life to the said Gilbert.
For when all these matters were reported to King Henry, who, be-
fore judgment was pronounced, had withdrawn from the city,
from that time forward he cherished the said bishop with a greater
love and reverence. Whereupon, immediately, on the same day,
in the greatest haste, he sent his messengers to the keeper of his
castle, with orders that the youth should not be hung, but kept in
prison until he should learn his further will in his respect. Be
God blessed in every thing, who saves those who cry unto him,
and delivered Gilbert out of the hands of those who bore him ma-
lice, and rescued him from the snare of the wicked.” k
Roger de Hoveden has abridged this narrative, and at the same
time somewhat exaggerated the circumstances, making the pri-
soner to have been already hauled up by the rope when the bishop
interposed; in dread of whose anathema the executioners slack-
ened it, and again let him down to the ground. He also remarks
that the knight was kept in prison by Ranulph de Glanvill till
after the death of the king. Of the reality of this scene which
casts such a stigma upon a great name, for to the instigator of this
outrage we are indebted for the first treatise upon the forms of
Anglo-Norman jurisprudence, those irrefragable documents, the
Annales of the Exchequer, furnish corroborative proofs. There, in
the return made by Ranulph de Glanvill, as Sheriff, for the ferm of
the county of York in this same year, the sum of xiiiis. is entered
in abatement for the expence of conveying Gilbert de Plumpton and
his accomplices from York to Worcester;l and in the next year
he renders an account as Sheriff de xxixs. iiiid. de exitu terræ Gil-
berti de Plumton de dimidio anno.m The same county was admi-
nistered by Ranulph de Glanvill down to the second year of
Richard I. when John the Marshal replaced him; in the roll of
k Benedictus abbas de vita Hen. II. p. 408. Hearne.
| Rot. Pip. 30 Hen. II. Extracts penes me. m Rot. Pip. 31 Hen. II.
OF THE FAMILY OF PLUMPTON.
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that year, under the heading De Oblatis Curiæ, “ Nigellus de Plum-
ton reddit compotum de c. marcis pro liberatione Gilberti fratris
sui et pro rehabenda uxore sua cum terra. In thesauro liiili, et
vis. et viiid. Et debet xx marcas.” At the same time Reinerus,
Dapifer Ranulfi de Glanvilla, improperly called Sheriff of York-
shire by the biographer of Henry II. reddit compotum de M. mar-
cis pro fine suo et benevolentia Regis habenda et terris suis haben-
dis. Justice had, therefore, reassumed her sway, and the person
in whose favour she had been tampered with was compelled to
purchase forgiveness by a heavy fine. In the seventh of Richard I.
the same Gilbert de Plumpton was a debtor in ten marks for
novel disseisin and recognition of title at Doncaster.
In the 16th Hen. II. for some transgression in his afforested
lands, Nigel de Plumpton was amerced at the assize, and the ghe-
riff of Yorkshire for that year, in his account at the Exchequer,
66 pro wastis et assartis et forisfactis forestæ de Evervicscira,” had
acquittance for 6li. 138. 4d. paid to Henry de Lacy, by precept from
the King, de misericordia Nigelli de Plunton. The formation of
Knaresborough Forest, and its extension over part of the vill of
Plumpton, has been already adverted to, and it may be as well
shortly to trace the early history of the Honour to which the forest
was appurtenant, especially as the heads of the family of Plump-
ton at a later period exercised the offices of Master Forester and
Constable of the Castle of Knaresborough for successive generations.
Under Edward the Confessor, Burc, with three berewicks and an
extensive soke,constituted a royal manorworth ten pounds: in 1086
the whole of the soke had been afforested, and the value of the
manor thereby reduced to fifty-five shillings. King Edward had,
also, Chenaresburg in demesne with eleven berewicks, when it was
worth six pounds. At the time of the Survey the whole had been
» Rot. Pip. 2 Ric. I.
p Rot. Pip. 16 Hen, II.
o Rot. Pip. 7 Ric. I.
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afforested, and subjected to an assised rent, as was usual in regard
to forest lands, of twenty shillings. In the reign of Henry I.
twenty-two pounds (by tale) was the quota of these royal manors
to the ferm of the county, which sum was abated to the Sheriff,
as they had been given in ferm by that monarch to Eustace Fitz-
John, who accounts for them separately in the Exchequer Roll of the
31st Hen. I. which alone has come down to us. Eustachius filius
Johannis reddit compotum de xxiż li numero de firma de Burg et
de Chenardesburg. In thesauro äili. Et in operibus Regis de
Chenardesbury, xili per breve Regis. Et quietus est. It is thus
certain that the Honour of Knaresborough did not descend to
Eustace Fitz-John, as nephew and next heir of Serlo de Burg, the
pretended founder of the castle; but that he occupied it simply
as custos, and that the works were carried on for the King. This
story, which has hitherto past current, rests solely npon the tra-
ditional “Stemma Fundatorum,” inserted in the Cartulary of their
house by the monks of Malton, which, like all genealogical legends
of that date, will not bear the test of criticism. During the early
part of the reign of Henry II. the ferm of “Burc et Cnardesbure”
continued in like manner to be annually accounted for by the Sheriff
of York. In the 2d Hen. II. the assised value was lxli;9 in the 6th
Hen. II. it had risen to lxiiiili: but xixli of this sum was abated at the
Exchequer by reason of the King's grant of lands and soke to Hugh
de Morvill,q who doubtless had at this date the custody of Knares-
borough, for he fled hither with his associates in crime after the
murder of St. Thomas à Becket. In 1177, according to Roger de
Hoveden, Henry II. gave the wardship of the castle of Naresburc
to William de Stutevill, who had served with his father, the Sheriff
of Yorkshire, as one of the principal leaders of the royal forces, at
the time of the civil war enkindled by the partisans of the young
King with the assistance of the Scots; and it is certain, that either
9 Rot. Pip. de eisdem annis. Extracts penes me.
OF THE FAMILY OF PLUMPTON.
in this year, or soon after, his services were rewarded with a grant
of Knaresborough and Burgh, with the appurtenances, to him and
his heirs, to be held of the king for the slender service of three
knights' fees. The more favourable site of Knaresborough for de-
fence, and the building of a castle there by Henry I., had, it seems,
given a supremacy to Knaresborough over the old capital of the
shire, so as to cause it to be named first in the grant to Stutevill ; at
the same time the diversion from the line of the Watling-street, owing
to the construction of a bridge over the Ure higher up the river than
the Burgh, where the passage had anciently been, probably helped
forward its decay. Before the close of the reign of Henry II. ano-
ther town had sprung up in the vicinity of the new place of traverse,
as appears from that monarch having granted franchises, which
the Homines de Pont-de-Burc fined in ten marks to Richard I. in
the sixth year of his reign to confirm. By Richard a fine of
two thousand pounds was exacted of William de Stutevill, for
permission to retain unmolested possession of “Cnarreburc cum
pertinentiis."$ From King John William de Stutevill also sought a
confirmation of his title, and he readily obtained from that pliant
monarch a ratification of his father's charter. From this great
baron Nigel de Plumpton obtained the charter, which will be
found alluded to as “ the graunt of Stutvell” in Letter XXVII.
r Rot. Pip. 6 Ric. I.
s Rot. Pip. 2 Ric. I.
i Johannes, Dei gratia, &c. Sciatis nos concessisse et carta nostra confirmasse Wil-
lelmo de Stutevill pro servicio suo Knaresbur et Burgum cum omnibus pertinentibus
suis tenenda sibi et heredibus suis de nobis et heredibus nostris per servicium trium
militum. Quare volumus et firmiter præcipimus quod prædictus Willelmus de Stutevill
et beredes sui post eum, habeant et teneant predictas villas, &c. sicut carta Regis
Henrici patris nostri rationabiliter testatur. Testibus. W. Marescallo, comite de Pen-
broc; G. filio Petri, comite Essex ; Roberto de Turneham, &c. Datum per manus S.
Wellensis Archidiaconi, et J. de Gray, Archidiaconi Glocestriæ, apud Gildeford, xxii
die Aprilis, anno regni nostri primo. (Rot. Chartarum, vol. I. pars. 1, fol. 1837, p.54 b.)
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HISTORICAL NOTICES
of the Correspondence of Sir William Plumpton, and which I
here insert from a copy in the Cartulary.
“ Sciant omnes presentes et futuri quod ego Willelmus de Stute-
vill dedi, concessi, quietum clamavi et hac presenti carta mea con-
firmavi Nigello de Plumton et heredibus suis pro servicio suo et
pro uno equo precio centum solidorum totum vastum forestæ meæ
infra divisas suas de Plumton et Roudferlington, scilicet, de Crem-
pell versus occidentem usque ad Osberne-stahe-bec, et de Osberne-
stahe-bec usque ad Pudding-stain-cros, et de Pudding-stain-cros
usque ad Harelaw, et de Harelaw per magnam viam usque ad
Biltonam, et de Biltona per eandem viam usque ad Stokke-brigge,
et de Stokke-brigge usque ad Holebec, et de Hole-bec usque in
Nidd, et iterum usque ad Crempell. Et si prefatus Nigellus vel
heredes sui infra prenominatas divisas sartare vel colere voluerint,
libere poterunt non requisita voluntate vel licencia mea vel here-
dum meorum. Preterea dedi etiam et concessi et hac eadem carta
mea confirmavi eidem Nigello et heredibus suis latum cursum per
totam forestam meam de Cnaresburgh ad vulpem et leporem, salva
venatione mea, scilicet, cervo, bissa, et capreolo. Et si contigerit
quod averia sua extra divisas prenominatas exçant, sine visu facti
non causabuntur. Hæc omnia supradicta warrantizabimus ego
W. et heredes mei prefato Nigello et heredibus suis imperpetuum
contra omnes homines libere et quiete et solute ab omni servicio
seculari et exaccione. Hiis testibus, Willelmo le Vavasur, Ro-
berto de Mels, Roberto le Vavasur et Malgero fratre ejus,
Ricardo de Tanghe, Thoma Lardenario, Adam filio Normanni,
Nigello de Stockeld, Ricardo de Brertona, Ricardo de Alneio, Ro-
gero de Creswell, Hugone Lardenario, Ricardo filio Widonis,
Ernaldo Bridy, Hugone Pollard.”
1
u This deed is numbered 72 in the Cartulary, and has this note appended by the
copyist :-" This deed is truly copied the 30 of March 1615, and has ..........
having a grene silk string through it, whereby it is fixed to the deed, and is a man
upon horseback .......... circumference the name of William Stutevill, as may
OF THE FAMILY OF PLUMPTON.
Xy-*
ted to as to n. op of
William de Stutevill died before the feast of the Nativity of St.
John the Baptist, 5 John, 1203, and his body was interred in the
abbey of Fountains, his gift to that monastery of his fief in the
vill of Kirkby Ouseburn having attached to it the condition of
sepulture. Robert de Stutevill, his son and heir, had not, at the
time of his father's death, quite attained his majority; therefore,
on the 11th of July, Hubert Archbishop of Canterbury fined in
the sum of four thousand marks to have the wardship and mar-
riage, when Robert assented to his keeping the inheritance in his
hands for four years, until he had got back his money, or until
he was indemnified for his reasonable expenses. Neither the
· Archbishop nor his ward, however, lived over the term; and in
the 7th of King John, 5 Aug. 1205, Nicholas de Stutevill fined
in the enormous sum of ten thousand marks to have livery of his
inheritance, viz, of the land his brother William had died seised
as of his inheritance, exceptis castello de Knareburg et Ponte Burgi,
which were to be retained in the King's hands till the whole sum
was paid; and of all the lands in pledge that the Archbishop of
Canterbury had had in his custody on the day he died. In this
interval of time the King had issued a precept (21 Dec. 6 Joh.
1204), to the Sheriff of York to cause the forest of 6 Cnarre-
burgh” to be restored to the state it was in when King Henry
granted it to William de Stutevill, and to deliver it thus entire to
the Archbishop.2 Among the sufferers by this royal command was
Nigel de Plumton, who, in February 1205-6, had to give a pal-
frey for leave to hold his land of Rothferlinton and Ribbeston
and the appurtenances, with the chattels in the same vill, until
the King should come to York, they having been seized into
partely be descerned, but there is a piece ......." This page, and several others
at the commencement of the volume, have been partially eaten away by mice; but the
Towneley MSS. contain a transcript of most of the early deeds.
v Rot. Chartarum, p. 163.
x Ibid. p. 108.
y Ibid. p. 166.
2 Rot. Litt. Claus. p. 16.
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HISTORICAL NOTICES
the King's hands pro wasto foresta,a There the matter was inves-
tigated, and the result was a fine of twenty marks for restitution
of the land, which was paid into the King's privy purse at Not-
tingham, 9 March 1205-6, by Brian de l’Isle, the constable of the
castle of Knaresborough, and the other officers in charge of the
Honour.b In the 13th Hen. III. 1229, Hubert de Burgh, Earl of
Kent, and Margaret his wife, had a grant to them and their heirs
of the “ maneria Veteris Burgi et Ponteburgi et Knaresburg,"
with the castle and honour, knights' fees, soke, and forest, and
all appurtenances, as also an assignment of the debt of ten thou-
sand marks which the heirs of Stutevill owed to redeem the same;
but in 1233 this great favourite fell into disgrace, and was stripped
of his vast possessions. In the next year the Honour of Knares-
borough was conferred upon Richard, Earl of Poitou and Corn-
wall, brother of Henry III. elected King of the Romans;c after
whose death, in 1272, it descended to his son, Edmund Earl of
Cornwall.d
The Nigel de Plumpton spoken of above had died in the reign
of King John, leaving Juliana de Warewick, his wife, surviving,
between whom and Peter de Plumpton, son and heir of Nigel by
his first wife, Maria, a fine was passed (14 et 15 Johannis) of the
third parts of the vills of Plumpton, Gersington, Idell, and Rib-
stainė, which she claimed as her dower.e Peter de Plumpton was
of the party of the barons against King John, and had his lands
seized; but, after the death of that monarch, he did fealty and
homage to his son, and was restored. To him succeeded Robert,
a Rot. de Oblat. et Finibus, p. 317. Hardy, 1835.
b Rot. Litt. Claus. p. 66.
c Rot. Chart. 13 Hen. III. m. 3.
a Ibid. 19 Hen. III. m. 17.
e Fin. de eod. anno. Dodsw. notes from G. f. 85, inserted in the Plumpton Cartu-
lary. Juliana appears to have been a daughter of Richard de Warewic, and mother of
Robert Luvet, who had lands at Gretham, com. Rutland. Her sister, Sarra, married
Gilbert de Beningworth. (Vide Rot. Oblat, et Fin.)
f Rot. Litt. Claus. p. 245 b. and 338 b.
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xyii
his brother, whose son Nigel de Plumton died in the reign of
Henry III. A jury sworn to take the inquisition concerning his
lands and heirship, found that he held in Plumton, of the fee of
William de Vescy, in demesnes, rents, villenages, and other issues
from land, without the three dowers of three Domine, the value
of ten marks two shillings and three pence; of the fee of William
de Percy, ten marks three shillings; and in the vill of Nessefeild, of
Peter de Percy, cviiis viiid, rendering for his land there xliis per
annum. They also found him to have held Gersington of Wil-
liam de Percy, rendering one mark of silver per annum, and that
it was worth ten marks four shillings and one penny, without the
dowers above-mentioned; and they say, that Robert is his son
and next heir, and of the age of four years and a half, and that
the custody of the heir and his marriage of right belongs to Do-
minus William de Percy. Further they say, that he held Idell of
the Earl of Lincoln, worth five marks by the year, without the
three dowers of three Domina. The custody of the land in Idle,
as not being of the Percy fee, was given by the King to Richard
Earl of Cornwall, his brother, to hold till the heir was of age;
the writ to notify which matter to the custos of the Honour of
Pontefract bears teste at Westminster, 10 Nov. 29 H. III. 1244.
Of the other lands William de Ireby was custos, and as such fined
in twenty shillings 40 Hen. III. 1256,8 for an assize to be taken
before John de Lessintone, touching the church of Cowthorpe, of
which the advowson had been given by Peter de Plumpton, in the
reign of King John, to the priory of St. John the Evangelist in
& Vide Excerpta e rotulis Finium, Hen. III. rege, vol. I, p. 426 ; and vol. II.
p. 240. The inquisition, of which the substance is given above, is taken from the
bundle of escheats de anno lv. r. r. Hen. III.; but there is no date specified in the
instrument itself, which must obviously be carried much further back, probably to the
time of the minority of the heir of John de Lacy, created Earl of Lincoln 23 Nov.
1232, deceased in 1940 : in any case, it is of a date anterior to the grant to Earl Richard
of Cornwall of the custody of the land of the heir.
CAMD. soc. 4.
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HISTORICAL NOTICES
the park of Helagh. It resulted from their title being now ques-
tioned by his heir, that all right and claim in ecclesia de Colthorp
were released to Sir Robert de Plompton by brother Henry the
prior, and the convent of the same, under a charter dated at the
Park in the month of February, 1274-5. The same Sir Robert :
de Plumpton, by the style of Robertus de Plomton, filius et heres
Nigelli de Plomton, confirmed to the noble and religious men, the
abbot and convent of Fountains, a right of way through his land
at Grassington (Garsington), pursuant to the tenor of the grant of
one of his predecessors, the first Nigel de Plomton. This charter
bears date at Fountains, A. D. 1275.
In the fourteenth year of the reign of King Edward, son of
King Henry, on Saturday next after the Annunciation of Blessed
Mary, it was agreed at Knaresburgh, between Edmond Earl of
Cornwall and Sir Robert de Plumpton, that the latter and his
heirs should have by way of fee (de certo) half the amercements
from attachments for transgressions committed de viridi et sicco
in the demesne woods of the said Sir Robert and his heirs within
the forest of Knaresburgh, whether the acts of strangers or their
own tenants, leviable in the court of the said Earl and his heirs
at Knaresburgh, to be received at the hands of the seneschal or
bailiff for the time being; but not those from attachments for
transgressions in cutting down timber or for waste. Sir Robert
and his heirs were also to have the pannage of the swine agisted
in their own woods, and to be allowed to assart the demesne
woods of Bircom, Loxley, and Halaugh, near Grimbald-brigg,
and the hays growing in the cultures of Plompton on the east side
of the ditch and hedge extending from Plompton to the bankside
D
h Cartul. No. 90.-" H. T. Joh'e le Vavasur, Stephano Walense, militibus, Wil-
lelmo de Katherton, Roberto de Ribbestain, Nigello Pincerna de Dighton et aliis. Dat.
apud Parcum mense Februarii anno gratiæ mºCCºLXXIIII°."
i Cartul, No. 91.- H. T. D'no Will’o de Ros, Henrico de Perpoint, tunc senes-
callo de Knaresburgh,”' &c.
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of Nidd, opposite the gateway of the house of St. Robert of
Knaresburgh, called Braistergarth, with the exception of the woods
and covers of Grimbald-staines and Hybank; so, nevertheless,
that the assarts and cultures remained within the bounds of the
chace and forest of Knaresburgh. Hayboot and housboot were to
be allowed of all other woods; and they and their tenants were to
to be quit of Castell-boone and of drink-money for the foresters,
upon payment of a rent of four shillings a year. The agreement
concludes with a saving of the right of common in all places
without the inclosures of the parks of the said Earl in their then
state, and is attested by Sir Richard de Cornwall, Richard de
Goldeshurgh, Peter Becard, William de Hertlington, and Richard
de Stokyld, knights, and other witnessess of less note.k
This Sir Robert de Plumpton closed his career about the 23rd
Edw. I. 1295, and was the first of his family to lay aside the quaint
device figured on the seals of his immediate predecessors, viz. a
man riding on a lion crowned, for the armorial insignia of his lord
paramount, “the Sire de Percy," d'azur a la fesse engrele dor;
which he differenced by having each fusil of the engrailed fess
charged with an escalop gules. The eldest son of Sir Robert
k Cartul. No. 94.
1 In the roll of arms printed by Nicolas from a MS. of a date intermediate between
2nd and 7th Edw. II, (1308-1314), those of " Sire Robert de Plomtone” are embla.
zoned, de azure, a une fesse endente de or, en la fesse v molez de goules, but in the
roll of arms of the time of Edw. III. which belonged to Hugh Fitzwilliams of Sprot-
borough in 1562, and which has been identified with the roll of arms anciently pre-
served at Croxton abbey, “ Monsire de Plompton” is rightly said to bear, d'asur sur
fes engrele d'or de v points, v cokils gules. Another later roll of the reign of Richard II.
in the possession of the late Rev. J. Newling, B. D. Canon of Litchfield, gives for
Plompton this emblazonment, " azure, five fusils in fess or, each charged with an esca-
lop gules.” To the transcript of a deed without date (Cartul. No. 129), containing
a lease of a toft and two oxgangs of land in Garsington to one William Spay from
Robertus de Plompton miles, the following marginal note is appended by the copyist :
" This deed hath the 20 April 1615 a fair seale of grene wax, being the five fusalls and
the scallops in the mids of them, and having written in the circumference S. Rob’tus
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HISTORICAL NOTICES
Plumpton bore the same name as his father: to Robert “filio meo.
primogenito," and to Lucy, daughter of Sir William de Ros, and
to the heirs of their bodies, he gave in frank marriage land to the
value of os. rent in Midleton and Langber, with common of tur-
bary and right of stray in the pasture and wood of Nessfield, under
a quit-rent of a root of ginger to Sir Patrick de Westwick, in lieu
of all suit and secular service, save that the tenants were to grind at
mill of Nessfield “ ad vicesimum vas.”m. Of the marriage with
Ros there was issue Robert de Plumpton, who married Joan,
daughter of Sir John Mauleverer, kt. but died before consumma-
tion in his father's lifetime; and Sir William de Plumpton, who
had succeeded to the property before Monday next after the feast
of St. Martin in Winter, 18 Edw. II. 1324. He had to wife
Alice, daughter and heiress of Sir Henry Byaufiz, to whom he was
married before 14 April, 15 Edw. II. 1322, at which date the
manor of Nesfield was settled by Sir Robert Plumpton, his father,
upon him and Alice his wife, and the heirs of their bodies. This
Sir Henry Byaufiz died in 1325;P whereupon the manor of Bra-
kenthwaite, together with lands in Plumpton, Follyfoot, Braham,
Kirby, and Little Ribston, which he had held by the curtesy of
England, of the inheritance of his wife Cecilia, daughter of Wil-
liam de Plumpton, (descended from Robert, son of Huckman,
seneschal of the manor of Plumpton,) was settled by fine, levied
7
de Plompton—the fusalls and scallops are upon a tryangle whose bottome is upper-
most."
m Cartul. No. 1002. “ Robertus de Plumpton-Roberto filio suo et Luciæ Ros.
H. T. d'no Rob’to de Ros, d'no Petro de Ros, d'no Alexandro de Ros, d'no Patricio de
Westwick, d'no Patricio de Uluesby, Will’o Graindorge, Nicholao de Melton, Will’o
de Hartlington et aliis."
Cartul. No. 170. " Robertus de Flasby, capellanus, &c. recepi de Willelmo de
Plompton filio et herede quondam d'ni Roberti de Plompton militis defuncti quatuor
libras argenti --Apud Ebor.”
• Cartul. No. 166. " Robertus de Plompton miles.--Apud Plompton.”
p Esch. 19 Edw. II. n. 64.
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in Hilary term, 19 Edw. II.,1325-6, upon Sir William de Plump-
ton and Alice his wife, and the heirs of their bodies, remainder to
Thomas son of Peter de Midleton, and the heirs of his body,
remainder to Marmaduke de Plumpton, and the heirs of his body,
remainder to Adam son of Peter de Midleton, and his heirs for
ever.9 Sir William de Plumpton had to his second wife Christiana,
widow of Richard de Emildon, mayor of Newcastle in the reigns
of Edw. I. Edw. II. and Edw. III. in the seventh year of which last
reigni he died.s She had re-married before 18 May, 12 Edw. III.
1338, being the Monday next before the feast of the Ascension
of our Lord, for a settlement was then made of the manor of
Grassington in Craven to hold to Sir William de Plumpton and
Christiana his wife, and the heirs of Sir William, by Henry de
Spofford, chaplain, as feoffee in trust. The same Sir William
de Plumpton was the founder of a chantry, at the altar of the
Holy Trinity, behind the high altar of the collegiate church of
Ripon. The act of endowment is dated at Ripon, on Wednesday
the feast of the Conversion of St. Paul, 20 Edw. III. 1345, and
was sealed with the seals of Henry de Plumpton, the chaplain
first appointed thereto, and of Sir William de Plumpton; which
latter bore the impression of a shield, and on it five fusils, with
the name written in the circumference. He died 36 Edw. III.
1362, towards the close of the year, as appears by the account of
the feodary of the honour of Pontefract of that date, wherein is
set down xxvs, as the relief of Robert de Plumpton, knight, for
the fourth part of one knight's fee in Idell, after the decease of
William de Plumpton, knight, his father.
Sir Robert de Plumpton was a deponent in the Scrope and
Grosvenor controversy on the 17th day of September 1385, being
9 Cartul. No. 173. "Finalis concordia, apud Westm. in octabis sc'i Hillarii.
r Called de Mowbray in pedigree in Harl. MSS. 1487.
s Esch. 7 Edw. III. No. 38.
• Cartul. No. 182.
u Cartul. Nos. 215 and 216.
* Brooke MSS. Collections for Yorkshire in Coll. Armorum.
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HISTORICAL NOTICES
then of the age of forty-five years, which places his birth in the
year 1341, and consequently posterior to his father's second mar-
riage. He appears from this deposition to have repeatedly served
in the wars of his time. In 1372 he had gone on board the
King's fleet, but falling suddenly and dangerously ill, and being
unable to continue this sea voyage, he was compelled to go ashore
at the town of Rye; whereupon, the circumstances of his case
having first been returned into the Chancery under the seal of
y See Controversy between Sir Richard Scrope and Sir Robert Grosvenor in the
Court of Chivalry, royal 8vo, 1832. By Sir N. Harris Nicolas, K. H. vol. I. p. 270.
- In the biographical notice, it is said that Sir Robert Plumpton was appointed lieu-
tenant of the forest of Knaresborough in May 1387 ; the original authority for which
assertion was doubtless the following charter, numbered 363 in the Cartulary:
Johan de la Pole, cheif senescall de mon tres redoute Sire, le Roy de Castell et de
Leon, duc de Lancastre, de North Trent, a Monst Robert de Plumpton, lieutenant del
Meistre Forestier de la forest de Knaresburgh, salutz. Vous mande et charge de par
mon dit Sire que vous faciez delivrer a Johan Brown de Knaresburgh un Stubb pur
merasme, apprendre deinz la foreste illoegez, pur edifier une meeson sur la terre de
mon dit Sire, quil tient par terme des ans a volunte, en la ville de Knaresburgh. Et
auxint facez delivrer a William Clerc de Knaresbrough un Stubb pur merisme, appren-
dre deinz la forest suisdite, pur reparacion des mesons affaire sur la terre de mon dit
Sire en la dite ville. Et ceste ma lettre vous ent sera garrant. Escrit a Knares-
burgh, le viij jour de Maij, lan du Regne le roy Richard secound puis la conqueste,
disme. (8 May, 10 Ric. II. 1387.) Number 291 in the same Cartulary is a copy of a
bailbond from John son of Robert de Knaresburgh, and John de Makelay of Scotton,
to Sir Robert de Plumpton, Constable of the castle of Knaresburgh, dated at Knares-
burgh, 26th of October, 11th Ric. II. (1387); but the exact date of his appoint-
ment to these lieutenancies is not apparent from either document. In the same me-
moir he is likewise stated to have had a large family by his wife, Isabella Scrope,
whereas Sir William Plumpton was the only son, and there is no evidence as to female
issue. Again, the writer of the same notice thinks it most probable that Sir Robert
was the issue of his father's first marriage with Alice Byaufiz ; but, letting alone the
proof to be derived from his age at the time of the controversy, it is also certain that
the manor of Brakenthwaite, with the lands which were of the inheritance of Alice,
reverted, agreeably to the limitation in the fine noticed in the text, to the posterity of
Thomas, son of Peter de Midleton, which could only be in case of failure of issue of
Alice. (Plumpton Evidences.) It was in right of this descent that the Midletons
of Stockeld quartered the coat of Plumpton, that is, of the seneschals of Plumpton.
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Simon Burgh, Constable of Rochester Castle, a writ was sent to
the mayor and bailiffs of the town to exonerate him from blame,
and instructing them to allow him, with John Heton, his esquire,
and his two valets, to return home with all his equipage unmo-
lested.
In the reign of Henry the Fourth, Sir William Plumpton, the
eldest son of Sir Robert Plumpton, suffered death upon a scaffold
for the part he took in the insurrection stirred up by his uncle
Richard, Archbishop of York, whose sister, Isabella Scrope, his
father had married. In the history of this commotion in Poly-
dore Vergil, he is represented as the chief actor, a statement
which subsequent historians have not thought deserving of credit;
I, however, venture to introduce his account into these Memoirs,
because that writer's value as an historian appears to me to be
sowewhat underrated, many of his details being evidently founded
upon authentic documents, which have not survived the lapse of
time, or which he may have wilfully destroyed, a practice imputed
to this foreigner.
2 Rex Majori et Ballivis villæ de Rye, ac universis et singulis vicecomitibus, majoribus,
ballivis, ministris, et aliis fidelibus suis ad quos presentes litteræ pervenerint, salutem.
Sciatis quod cum dilectus et fidelis noster Robertus de Plumpton Chivaler, postquam
in obsequium nostrum cum flota nostra mare fuisset ingressus, in gravem infirmitatem
subito inciderit, sic quod ulterius in viagium nostrum supra mare laborare minime
sufficiebat, per quod idem Robertus apud dictam villam de la Rye occasione sanitatis
recuperandæ applicuit, prout ipsum ex necessario oportebat, sicut per litteras Simonis
Burgh constabularii Castri Roffensis coram nobis in cancellaria nostra ostensas plenius
poterit apparere : Nos volentes pro securitate ipsius Roberti, cum culpa in ipsa occa-
sione recessûs sui ab obsequio nostro reputetur, providere, vobis mandamus quod ipse
Robertus, cum Johanne Heton, armigero suo, et duobus valectis suis, a dicta villa de la
Rye ad partes suas proprias infra regnum nostrum Angliæ redire et armaturas, har-
nesia et res sua secum ducere libere permittatis, non inferentes eis seu eorum alicui in
personis, armaturis, harnesiis, seu rebus suis ex causa predicta injuriam, molestiam,
dampnum, violentiam, impedimentum aliquid seu gravemen. Et si quid eis forisfac-
tum fuerit, id eis sine dilatione debite corrigi et emendari faciatis. In cujus, &c.
Teste Custode Angliæ, xxii die Septembris anno 46 Edw. III. [1372]. (Plumpton
Cartul. No. 270, from an ancient copy in paper.)
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HISTORICAL NOTICES
6 While Henry is thus attentive to his domestic concerns, Wil-
liam Plumpton, a brave and daring knight, formerly of the house-
hold of King Richard, along with some of the family of Thomas
Mowbray, marshal, whom we have shown above to have died in
exile at Venice, first excites the commons of Yorkshire and Dur-
ham to revolt, and then collects together a great number of armed
men; and he conducts his proceedings with less circumspection
than the nature of such an enterprise required, because his soul
is mainly bent upon revenge. With him the Northumbrians
also take part; and, last of all, the Scots; but these, as will be
mentioned below, were not present at the outbreak. The King,
meanwhile, informed of the design of the conspirators, for the
sake of avoiding instant peril, took up arms, and, without a mo-
ment's delay, marched directly to York; and such was his dispatch,
that he had arrived there before the movers of the revolt had any
certain intelligence of his coming. William Plumpton is instantly
taken, and with him some of his associates; among whom was
Richard Scrupp, Archbishop of York, who, although his name
was in the highest repute for sanctity and virtue, nevertheless, ac-
cusers were not wanting to make it suspected that treason attached
to him likewise, inasmuch as he sought thus to avenge the death
of William, his brother, treasurer of Richard, whom Henry had
put to death at Bristol, as I have shown in a former book.
Whereupon Henry, having summoned a council of his nobles at
York, he ordained an inquiry to be had concerning the conspi-
racy. At this meeting all unanimously pronounce sentence of
death against Plumpton; but as to the others, their judgment was
more lenient. However, he having undergone capital punish-
ment in the manner customary of old, the rest likewise are put
to death, either by the axe or the gibbet.” a
The historian here falls into the common error of making Arch-
M
A Polydori Vergilii Anglica Historia. Lugd. Batavorum 1649, 8vo, liber xxi. p. 554.
OF THE FAMILY OF PLUMPTON.
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bishop Scrope brother of the Earl of Wiltshire and thus betrays
the aim of his narrative, as meant to extenuate the rebellion of the
Archbishop as much as possible. This he does by imputing
to him a motive of natural affection which could not exist, and by
supposing him to play quite a secondary part, while he shifts the
chief blame upon Sir William Plumpton; whom also, as far as
existing evidence goes, he falsely represents to have been of the
household of King Richard. The verses formerly on the tomb of
this unfortunate knight in Spofforth church tell a simpler tale:
Miles eram dudum, Plompton Will’mus vocitatus,
Præsulis atque nepos le Scropplis, hic tumulatus.
Mortis causa sui, michi causa fuit moriendi,
Mors capitis quippe nostrum male pressit utrumque..
Anno milleno quater et C. sic quoque quinto,
Penticostes me lux crastina sumpsit ab orbe.b
In the year 1405 the morrow of Pentecost fell on the eighth of
June, the feast of St. William of York, which is the day mentioned
by Hall as that of their decollation, “ on the Monday in Whitson
weke." This chronicler erroneously puts - Sir Robart” for Sir
William Plumpton, and is exceeding angry with the writers and
story-tellers who spread abroad that miracles were wrought at the
time of the execution of Archbishop Scrope, as to the King's being
striken with leprosy, and the like. He doubtless here alludes
to the History of the Martyrdom of Richard Scrope, Arch-
bishop of York, by Clement Maidstone, where it is related, upon
the authority of George Plumpton, an ecclesiastic of whom we shall
speak largely in the sequel, who was an eye-witness, that on the
day of the said decollation, 8th of June, great leprous pustules
broke out over the said King's face and hands, and were as promi-
nent as the nipples of the breasts. The vision of the son may,
. Anglia Sacra, vol. II. p. 369.
Cartul. No. 364.
CAMD. soc. 4.
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HISTORICAL NOTICES
YA
however, be believed to have been distorted by the recollection of
his father's execution, and by the wish, so natural to mortals, of
seeing Heaven avenge our wrongs: the legendary should, at all
events, have taken the precaution to look out for a more disin-
terested witness, before he gave publicity to the tale.
No act of attainder followed upon the execution of the rebels, and
Sir Robert Plumpton, the father, obtained for himself a general
pardon for all treasons and felonies; to which effect I find letters
patent from the King, bearing date at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 21
June, 6 Hen. IV. 1405. He died 19 April, 8 Hen. IV. 1407,
having by his will, dated 26th of February preceding, directed his
feoffees, Sir William Gascoigne and Sir Nicholas de Middelton,
knights, Richard de Kendale and William de Authorp, parsons of
the churches of Ripley and Dighton, to grant the manor of Plomp-
ton to Isabel “ma trescher compaigne” for her life, with remainder
to Robert son of William de Plompton, son neveue, in fee, so as to
secure to his relict a yearly jointure of fifty marks. This lady was
his second wife, and was of Kirkoswald in Westmoreland, she
being styled in the deed securing to her a future settlement, bearing
date 12 July, 23 Ric. II. 1399, “ Isabella quondam vocata de
Kirkoswald.” Of Isabella Scrope, daughter of Henry first Lord
Scrope of Masham, the first wife of Sir Robert Plumpton, mention
has been made.
Robert de Plumpton, nephew and heir, was twenty-four years
old at the time of his grandfather's death, and yet an esquire. By
intermarrying with the heiress of Sir Godfrey Foljambe, knight,
whose marriage had been contracted for in his father's lifetime,
he added greatly to the wealth and importance of his family, by
the acquisition of large estates in the counties of Nottingham and
d Cartul. No. 319. e Esch. 8 Hen. IV. No. 15.
Cartul. 331.
& Cartul. No. 308 and 309. She remarried before 18 Jan, 1 Hen. V. 1413-4, Sir
Nicholas Middleton of Stockeld, and was living his wife 24 May, 4 Hen. V, 1416.
(Ibid. No.367 et 377.) She is again named 24 Sept. 8 Hen. V. 1420. Vide postea.
OF THE FAMILY OF PLUMPTON.
xxvii
Derby. His mother was Alice, daughter of John Gisburn,
citizen and merchant of York, and coheiress with Isabel, wife of
Sir William Frost, kt. to their father. After the death of her un-
fortunate husband, she made the following agreement with her son
Robert.
“ Ceste endenture faicte par entre dame Alice de Plumpton dune
part, et Robert de Plompton, son filts, dautre part, tesmoigne, que
le dit Robert ad graunte et fraunkement donee au dite dame
Alice son miere, sa table sufficaunt et convenable a son degre, et
pur Elizabeth et Isabele, feiles au dite dame Alice, & pur Richard
son filtz, et pur une noryse, durant une ane pleynement, le primer
jour du dit ane commensant en la feste de St. Martyn en yvere
h Sir Godfrey Foljambe died on Wednesday next after the Nativity of our Lady 12
Ric. II. (Sept. 9, 1388); and on the 18th November following dower was assigned to his
widow Margaret (afterwards the wife of Sir Thomas Rempston, K.G.) in the presence
of Sir John Leeke, kt. whose sister she was, and to whom the king had committed the
lands of the said Sir Godfrey to farm, Alice his daughter and heir being at the time of
his decease little more than a year old. By a subsequent writ, tested at Westminster
16 Feb. 13th of his reign, King Richard granted to the said Sir John Leek the mar-
riage of the heiress for fifty marks, which wardship and marriage he by indenture,
dated at Downham-upon-Trent, on the morrow of St. Hilary, 16 Ric. II. 1392-3,
transferred to Sir William Plompton, kt. to the intent that she should be matched with
his son and heir-apparent, whomsoever he might be, in consideration of c marks,
and upon condition of payment of other annual sums till she reached the age of fifteen
years. The marriage took place, and after the completion of her fourteenth year Robert
Wycard, the king's escheator for the county of Derby, delivered seisin to William de
Hardalsey, attorney of Robert de Plompton and Alice his wife, daughter and heir of
Godfrey Foliamb, Ch'r, of all lands of which the said Godfrey was seised in demesne
as of fee on the day he died, and attested the fact by his deed dated at Chaddesden,
on Sunday next before the feast of St. Nicholas bishop, 3d of Hen. IV. (4 Dec. 1401).
Vide inq. post mortem 12 Ric. II. (No. 21.) pro terris quas Avena relicta Godfredi
Foliamb, militis, et nuper uxor Ricardi Grene, militis, tenuit in dotem, et Assignatio-
nem dotis Margarete que fuit uxor Godfredi Foljambe, Ch'r, fil. Godfredi, fil. Godfredi
Foljambe, militis, in Wolley's Collect. MS. Addit. 6675, f. 381, printed in Collectanea
Topograph. et Geneal. vol. I. p. 337, Lond. 1834, and vide Cartul. No. 292, 294, et 313.
i John Gisburn was mayor of York in 1371, 1372, and 1380. (Drake's Eboracum,
p. 361.)
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.. HISTORICAL NOTICES
prochein avenere aupres la date du cestes. Et auxi le dit Robert
ad fraunkement graunte a dite dame Alice une chambre, appelle le
closetts, ou une petit chambre faite enhaut deincs le dit closett, au
son propre use, et sufficaunts luminere et fououk.k Et si ense seit
que la dite dame Alice desire ou voet au fyne du dit ane plus longe-
k This lodging must have been in the manor-house of Kinalton in Nottingham-
shire, which Robert de Plumpton had in right of his wife, and which he made his
principal residence. It had come into the possession of the family of Foljambe either
by descent or purchase, before Trinity term 40 Edw. III. 1366, when it was settled by
fine upon Godfrey, son of Sir Godfrey Foljamb, kt. and Margaret his wife, and the
heirs of their bodies; remainder on the right heirs of Godfrey, (Thoroton's Notts,
vol. 1. p. 155.) This Margaret was the grandmother of Lady Plumpton, and of the
blood of the Vilers, lords of Kinalton, Cotgrave, Owthorp, and Newbold, in the
county of Nottingham, and owners of lands in the parishes of Eccleston and Croston,
in the county of Lancaster, as mesne tenants under the Butlers of Warrington. In
the early Visitation of Yorkshire by Tong in 1534, the coat of Vilers, six lyoncels, 3,
%, 1, is borne on an escutcheon of pretence in the middle of a shield, quarterly
Plumpton and Foljambe; but on the tombs of the Drurys in Hawsted church the
quartering used for Vilers was a fess between six lions rampant. (See History of
Suffolk, Thingoe Hundred, p. 456, Bentley, Lond.)
PEDIGREE OF FOLJAMBE, of Hassop, com. Derby.
Arms : Sable, a bend between six escallops Or.
Sir Godfrey Foljambe, kt. Second Baron of Avena, dau. of Adam de Ire-=Sir Rich-
the Exchequer 18 Edw. III. Seneschal | land by Avena de Holand, ard
of the lands of the Duchy of Lancaster; lord of Hale, in com. Lanc.; Green,
died 29 May, 50 Edw. III. 1376; bur. ob. 13 Dec. 6 Ric. II. 1382. kat. 2d
at Bakewell, com. Derby.
husb.
Godfrey Foljambe, son and heirMargaret Thomas Fol- Alvered, Richard
apparent, of Kinalton, com. I de Vilers, jambe, of ob. 20 Foljambe.
Notts; died after 45 Edw. / mar. 40 Walton, in June, 5 Robert
III. 1371, in his father's life Edw. III. com. Derby. Ric. II. Foljambe.
time.
1366.
+
1382.

Sir Godfrey Foljambe, kt. æt. 9=Margaret, dau. of Sir Thomas Remp Margaret,
ann. 29 May, 1376, grand-Sir Simon Leeke, i ston, K.G. drowned wife of Sir
son and heir; died 2 Dec. kt.; ob. 21 April, 31 Oct. 8 Hen. IV Nicholas
12 Ric. II. 1388, æt. 21 / 32 Hen. VI. 1406.
Montgo-
annorum.
1454.
mery, kt.
Alicia, dan. and heir, æt. 1 ann. 2 Dec. 1388, Sir Thomas Rempston, kt.; ob.
wife of Sir Robert Plumpton, kt.
15 Oct. 37 Hen. VI. 1458.
OF THE FAMILY OF PLUMPTON.
xxix
ment demurer ou le dit Robert, qu'adoures la dite dame Alice
doneray pur son table en la semaygne xiid; et pur Elizabeth sa
feile viiid; & pur Richard son filz vid; & pur Ysabele sa feile vid;
& pur une gentile feme viiid; et per une chambrerere, vid. Et la
dite dame Alice eyaunte tute le eesemente & toutz chosez devaunt
nomez durantz le temps que la dite dame Alice fait sa demaunce
ou le dit Robert. Et au toutz cez & chescuz condicions tener et
pleinement performer ambedeux parties au presentez endenturez
eyount myse loure seals. Cestez tesmoignez, John de Mureton,
Henri de Mureton, Robert de Skelton, chaplayne, Roger de Spof-
forth & Nicholas Thornby, chaplaines. Done au Everwyk la
neefisme iour du moyse de Octobre, lan du Roy Henri enpres le
Conquest sept.”]
Alice Plumpton was the mother of a numerous progeny, having
had, besides her eldest son already named, four other sons, and as
many daughters. Some of these are named in the will of their
grandmother Ellen de Gisburn, who, after the death of her hus-
band, founded a chantry for the repose of his soul, at the altar of
St. Nicholas, in the church of St. Martin in Micklegate, in York,
and endowed it with a messuage lying between the street of
Nether-Ousegate and the cemetery of the church of St. Michael
near the bridge of Ouse in York, near Cayllomhall and the river
Ouse on either side, the advowson of which she entailed on her
daughters Isabel and Alice in turn.m
“ Ceste endenture tesmoigne que Alice de Plumpton aid resceu
de William Frost, John de Moreton, Robert Skelton, chappleyn, ex-
ecutours du testament de Elyn de Gisburn, du legat de testament
du dit Elyn, cest assavoir, as iiij fitz du dit Alice, viijli Item, a
Johan sa file, i pece covere et iijli vis viijd. Item, a Richard, fitz le dit
I Cartul. No. 325.
m Ibid. No. 300. Willelmus Sparrow, capellanus-d'no Thomæ Pynchebek, capel-
lano. Dat. apud Ebor. xxvüliº die Maii, Aº D'ni millio ccco nonagesimo sexto, Ric.
II. vicesimo.
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HISTORICAL NOTICES
.
Alice, i pece covere et vili xiijs iiijd. Item, a dite Johan sa file une
burse de perrell. Item, a Isabele, la file du dit Alice, 1 bedes argent
et iijli vis viijd. Item, a George, le fitz du dit Alice, i pare getebedes
bien gaudez dargent. En tesmoignance de quel choyse les parties
devauntditz a les partiez de ceste endenture changeablement ount
mys lour seals. Done a Everwyke, la xxvime iour dapril, lan du
regne notre tres redoute Sire, le Roy Henry quart puise le conquest
dengleterre, ixmen
In the partition of her parents' property, Alice Plumpton had
allotted to her share a messuage in Skeldergate in York, another
upon Byshophill, “ et toutz les martisounz, apelles en Knyles deles
of the Kuyes, que furount Johan de Gysburne en les preetz de
Bushopthorp, pres de Everwyk," and a rent of five marks out of
lands and tenements in the town of Ripon, together with all the
tenements belonging to her said father in North-street, in the city of
York.° Of this property she made a settlement, 26 Oct. 4 Hen V.
1416, whereby she directed Richard Kendale, parson of the church
of Ripley, and other co-feoffees, to make an estate of the lands
and tenements in Ripon to her son Thomas and the heirs of his
body; remainder, in like form, to her sons Brian and Richard ;
and the tenements in North-street were similarly settled on her
son Richard in the first instance, with like remainders to Brian and
Thomas. The premises in Skeldergate were directed to be sold
to raise marriage portions for her daughters Isabelle and Katha-
rine, reserving a rent of iiis vid, parcel thereof lately recovered, to
augment the chantry in the church of St. Martin, and for prayers
for the souls of Sir William de Plompton, Ch'r, and of her the said
Alice, of Dame Isabell the mother of the said Sir William, and
for the soul of Joan de Chauncefeild.P-
Cartul. No. 341.
• Ibid. No. 293. Done a Everwyke, xiii jours de Januare, lan du reigne le Roy
· Richard Secound apres la conquest denglelterre quindesyme.
p Ibid. No. 381.
OF THE FAMILY OF PLUMPTON.
xxxi
Brian Plompton, one of the sons above named, had a legacy of
xli and a silver dish with cover, having upon it the arms of Ivo le
Zouche, under the will of Stephen le Scrope, archdeacon of Rich-
mond, his cousin, dated 24 Aug. 1418, and proved the 7th of Sep-
tember following, being at the same time one of the executors, in
which capacity he had a further legacy of ten marks.9 Brian was
party to a bond dated 31 Dec. 1418, but he, as well as his brother
Thomas, who died 18 July 1420, was deceased without issue, in the
lifetime of his mother; for by a fresh settlement, bearing date 12
Sept. 2 Hen. VI. 1423, she gave all her lands and tenements, both
in North-street York, and at Ripon, to her son Richard de Plump-
ton and the heirs of his body, paying thereout for the space of
four years, to her daughters Isabella and Katharine, xxx a-piece,
unless they died or were married within the term ; remainder to
George de Plompton her son for life, to dispose of hereafter for the
good of her soul and the soul of Sir William de Plompton her
husband, and for those of parents, benefactors, and all the faith-
ful departed. This disposition was carried into effect by the
feoffees, Richard de Kendale, rector of the church of Ripley, Adam
de Wygan, rector of the church of St. Saviour in York, George de
Plompton, and Nicholas de Thornby, chaplain, on the 5th of De-
cember following, she being then lately deceased.t By her will, of
which her sons George and Richard were executors, she be-
queathed, among other legacies, to her daughter Isabella, “ unum
par precalium auri cum una fibula de perill, unum tabiletum auri
cum imagine Sc'æ Trinitatis et aliorum sanctorum, unam crucem
de petris et perillis, unum cofir pruciæ, unum cofir ornatum cum
auriculo, coopertum cum velvet, unum lectum et tapetum cum bollis
9 Testamenta Eboracensia, Part I. p. 385, printed for the Surtees' Society, 1836.
I Cartul. No. 400.
8 Ibid. No. 408 ; and see Monumental Inscription of Thomas Plumpton in Spofforth
church, copied in Dugdale's Yorkshire Arms in Coll. Armorum.
t Ibid. No. 420.
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HISTORICAL NOTICES
et liliis , unam matras, duas codices, dua paria linthiaminum de
optimis, unum de minoribus, quatuor ulnas panni lanei nigri, tres
curtinas de albo et nigro paled, unam zonam optimam deauratam,
unam par optimum de trussing cofrise, unum primarium cooper-
tum cum panno rubeo-aureo, et omnes perillos, unum tissehew
nigri serici, unum annulum auri cum uno pecudode, sex cocliaria
argenti, unam nappam mensalem cum uno tuallo, unam furruram
de Bice et medietatem flamineolorum; u to her daughter Katha-
rine, “ unum primarum coopertum cum panno de worsted velvet,
unum minorem cofer pruciæ, unum coopertorium cum tapeto cum
chapellets texto, unum lectum plumale, duo blanketts, duo paria
lintheaminum de optimis, unum de minoribus, unum par preca-
lium auri more follium formosorum, unum tabuletum auri cum Sa-
lutacione Beatæ Mariæ cum tribus perlis circumpositis, et unam
crucem cum xii perlis, et unam togam furruratam cum croppes, &
medietatem flameolorum ; x and to her granddaughter Alice, daugh-
ter of Sir Robert de Plompton, knight, “sexaginta precalia de cor-
rall cum sex ganeriis auri.”y. The place of burial of Dame Alice
Plumpton was in Spofforth church, where she was laid by the side
of her husband, as is told us by the Latin verses, which were for-
merly inscribed upon the tomb.
Longo langore dirisque doloribus arte,
Hic Plumpton Domina clauditur Alicia.
Mille, quater centum, bis et x, tria jungeque sexto,
Ad proprium sponsum traditur in tumulum.z.
u Cartul. No. 409.
* Ibid. No. 422.
3 Ibid. No. 411.
2 Ibid. No. 396. The line expressive of the date in this inscription may require
explanation. The six first words denote plainly enough the sum MCCCCXX; and to the
sixth word, which is x, you are to add three, making 1423 the total, which was the
year of the death of Dame Alice Plumpton, as appears from other evidence. On the
same tomb were two other inscriptions in similar style ; one of which, in memory of
Sir William Plumpton, knight, her husband, in hexameter verse, has been introduced
OF THE FAMILY OF PLUMPTON.
xxxiii
· Richard de Plumpton had a pair of orisons of gold left him in
the will of the Archdeacon of Richmond, Stephen le Scrope; and
was an esquire in the service of Maud, widow of Peter de Mauley
the eighth, daughter of Ralph Earl of Westmorland, who,
after the decease of her husband in 1415, held the extensive ba-
rony which had belonged to him for her life. In her will, made
Ist Oct. 1438, and proved on the 4th of that month, Richard
Plumpton has a legacy of xli,a His own will bears date in 1443,
and proves him to have had a grateful recollection of his mistress.
Its tenour is as follows :-“ My soul I commend to Almighty
God, my body to be buried in the church of the house of St.
Robert. All my lands and tenements in North-street, York, and
in Ripon, I give and bequeath to George Plompton, my brother, bro-
ther John Craven, minister of the house of St. Robert, Sir William
Normanvill, knight, Ranulph Pygott and Robert Crosse, esquires,
in order that they may arrange with the minister and house of St.
Robert for a priest to say mass daily and for ever for the souls of
my father and mother, my grandfather John Gisburgh, and my
into the text. The other recorded the interment of Dame Isabella Plumpton, his mo.
ther, and the day and year of her birth (24 Aug. 1337), in these lines :
Hic cineres Dominæ Plumpton remanent Isabellae,
Quae fuit Henrici filia Scroop Domini.
Mille semel, ter c, ter x, semel v, duo junge,
Bartholomee, tua lux dedit astra sua.
This and the foregoing inscription are transcribed into Sir Edward Plumpton's Car-
tulary, Nos. 364 and 365, along with this note:-" These are two severall inscriptions
both upon one tombe in Plompton quiere in Spofforth church, seene and examined the
xviith day of October, 1613, per Fra. Burgoin, rector ibidem. Milo Nicolson, curat
ib’m, Job'es Parke, clericus." In the History of the Family of Scrope of Masham,
accompanying the publication of the Scrope and Grosvenor Roll, these two ipscrip-
tions are correctly given from Vincent's Yorkshire, No. III. fo. 30, save that in the
second line of the hexameter inscription Scropp licet is put for Scropplis, the true
reading, an augmentative syllable being added to the name for the sake of the metre.
? Testamenta Vetusta, 8vo. 1826, Nichols, vol. I. p. 234; from Dugdale's Abstract,
vol. I. p. 736.
CAMD. Soc. 4.
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1
.
grandmother Elen Gisburne, for my own soul, and for the soul of
my brother George, and the souls of all the faithful departed; but
if this cannot be done, then to dispose of them, as they best may,
for the good of the souls above mentioned. I give and bequeath
to Master George Plompton my brother, unam pixidem argen-
team et deauratam, unum psaltorium meum parvum, unum par cul-
tellorum vocať karving knyves, et unum par forpicum argenteo-
rum. I also will and ordain, that my black cloak furred with
with martýns, and a coverlet of red saten, and a canopy of white
silk, be sold, and the price distributed pro salute venerabilis d’na,
ď na Matildis de Malolacu. I give to Elen Crosse my best gold
ring with a sapphire, and a primer covered with red satin, and ten
beads, five of gold in the form of baskets, and five of agate. To
Robert Crosse a silvered girdle. To dame Elizabeth Plompton,
my niece, (nepotissæ meæ,) a gold crucifix. To Elizabeth Hothom
a gold ring with an emerald. To Dame Isabella de Bukton a
capital gold ring with two images. To Katherine, my sister, a
gold cross. To the minister of the house of St. Robert a psalter
covered with red velvet, and vis viiid. To brother Richard Fawkes,
iijs iiijd and 10 beads of amber. To John Smith, chaplain, vis virid
and ten beads of maser. To Thomas Whyttall, chaplain, vis viiid
and a pair of long knives. To dame Elizabeth Hothom, recluse,
xijd. The residue to be distributed for the behoof of my soul, of
the soul of my mother, and of the soul of Dame Maud de Maulay.
Executors, Master George Plompton my brother, Elen Crosse,
and Thomas Whittall, chaplain.” b
George de Plumpton was, as I have already had occasion to
mention, in the service of the church. To give him a title, Thomas,
prior, and the convent of Landa, of the order of St. Augustin, in the
county of Leicester and diocese of Lincoln, assigned him an annual
pension of xlì for term of life, 4 Jan. 2 Hen. IV. 1400-1 ;c and 3 Oct.
4 Hen.V. 1416, being then a Bachelor at Law, he had a licence from
Cartul. No. 527.
• Ibid. No. 312. Dat. apud Landa in domo nostro capitulari.
OF THE FAMILY OF PLUMPTON.
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Henry, Archbishop of York and Legate of the Holy See, to receive
holy orders.d Whereupon, George Plumpton, acolyte, was
ordained subdeacon by John bishop of Ely, in the chapel of his
manor of Dounham, in the diocese of Ely, 27 Mar. 1417; e deacon
by the same prelate in the chapel of his manor of Somersham, in
the diocese of Lincoln, by licence of Philip the diocesan, 18 Sept.
1417; f and priest 19 Feb. 1417-8, in the same chapel of Doun-
ham, by the same Bishop of Ely.. In 1438-9 he became rector of
the parish church or free chapel of Grismere, otherwise Grassmere,
in Cumberland, vacant by the resignation of Master Peter Icford,
to which benefice he had been presented by the King as nominee
of the abbot and convent of St. Mary's, York, the right patrons.
On the 13th Feb. in that year, he was inducted thereto by Walter
Capros, chaplain, commissary of Henry Bowett, archdeacon of
Richmond, in whose jurisdiction the living was situate. In the
next year (10 Feb. 1439-40), he had a faculty from Richard Arnall,
sub-dean of the cathedral church of York, and vicar-general of
John, Archbishop of York and Legate, to hear reserved cases in con-
fession, and to give absolution to all penitents, save violators of
the privileges of the cathedral church of York, and of the col-
legiates of Beverley, Ripon, and Suthwell, and breakers open of
the parks belonging to the Archiepiscopal see for the taking of
game therein.k In 1447 (12 Nov. 26 Hen. VI.), Master George
a Cartul. No. 380. Dat. apud Cawood.
e Ibid. No. 386.
f Ibid. No. 392.
& Ibid. No. 395.
h Cartul. No. 442. "Carta testificatoria Hen. Bowett, Archidiaconi Richm. Dat.
apud Markingfeild, 2 Mar. 1438."
* Ibid. ubi supra.
* " Ricardus Arnall ecclesiæ Cathedralis Ebor. subdecanus, Reverenmi in Christo
patris et d'ni,d'ni Joh'is Dei gratia Ebor. Archiep'i Angliæ primatis et Apostolicæ sedis
legati, vicarius in spiritualibus generalis, dilecto nobis in Christo Mag'ro Georgio
Plompton in utroque jure Baccalario, salutem in omnium Salvatore. Ad audiendas
confessiones quorumcunque subditorum dicti Reverenni patris tibi in foro X'iano con-
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Plompton, chaplain, had letters of institution to the rectory of the
church of Bingham, in the county of Nottingham, upon the pre-
sentation of Sir Thomas Chaworth, knight, from John, Cardinal
priest of the holy Roman Church, titular of St. Balbina, Arch-
bishop of York, and Legate of the Holy See,l and was inducted by
proxy 2nd December following, by the official of the Archdeacon
of Nottingham.m This benefice he probably owed to the good
offices of his kinsman, John Lord Scrope of Masham, Treasurer
of England (26 Feb. 10 Hen. VI. 1431-2), who had intermarried
with a daughter of Sir Thomas Chaworth, and whom the follow-
ing letter shows to have been the patron of George de Plompton:
To my right trusty and welbeloued Cousin, Sir William Plompton.
Trusty and welbeloued, I greet you wel ; praying you that you
wil have in tendernesse and favor my welbeloued cousin George of
Plompton, your nephew (rectè uncle), as towching his annuity,
in such wise as he may know this my writing may turn into avail ;
certifiing mee wherin that I may shew you as much kindnes or
ease, the which I wold do with all my hart, as God knowes, who
fiteri volencium, et eos a peccatis quæ tibi confessi fuerint absolvendos, ac eisdem pro
modo culparum suarum injungendas penitencias salutares, nec vota minus solempnia
commutanda et cum eisdem dispensanda, etiam in casibus prefato Reverenmo patri
seu nobis a jure specialiter reservatis (libertatum et immunitatum ecclesiæ Cath: Ebor:
predictæ ac Ecclesiarum collegiatarum Beverlaci, Riponiæ et Suthwelliæ violatoribus,
ac parcorum ad Archiep'atum Ebor: pertinentium fractoribus et in eis feram seu feras
capientibus duntaxat exceptis, quorum omnium absolucionem prefato Reveren mo patri
seu nobis specialiter reservamus) vobis, de cuius conscientiæ puritate et industria circum-
specta plenarie confidimus, tenore presencium committimus vices nostras et plenariam
in Domino potestatem, ad prefati Reverenmi patris beneplacitum duraturam. Dat.
Ebor: decimo die mensis Febr: Anno d'ni Mill’mo ccccmo XXXIXmo. (Cartul.
No. 449.)
Chartul. No. 514. “ Dat, in hospicio nostro prope Westm."
m Ibid. No. 515.
OF THE FAMILY OF PLUMPTON.
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have you in his keeping. Written at London the ninetenth
day of Feveryear.
The LORD SCROOP, tresorer of England.n
Within a year after his taking possession of the rectory of Bing-
ham (8 Jun. 1448), Master George Plompton had leave of absence
from the diocesan for three years from that date, by reason of his
increasing years and great infirmities,o during which term the rec-
tory was let by him to farm to Sir Thomas Rempston, knight, for
forty marks ; p but before 11 Feb. 1450-1 he had resigned the
living to Sir James Swaledale, retaining, however, a pension of yli
annually for his life.q About the same time (6 Nov. 29 Hen. VI.
1450), he conveyed to feoffees, viz. the worshipfull fader and lord,
Tho: Spofford, late byshop of Hereford, John Kexby, and Wil-
liam Middelton, clerks, and John Snaith, preist, all the lands and
tenements in York and Ripon which devolved upon him after the
death of his brother Richard Plumpton, to hold to the uses of his
last will,r which is dated 14th November following; he thereby
declared his intent to be, that they should grant the same premises
“ to the preist that by the grace of God shalbe made chauntery
prest att the alter of Mary Magdalen in the parish kirk of Spof-
ford in the county of York and to his successors, chauntery preists
of the same; Trusting in God that I, mine executors, or some of
* This letter is transcribed into the Book of Letters among the Correspondence of
Sir William Plumpton, but has been omitted in the series by reason of its diver-
sity of date from the rest.
o Cartul. No. 516. “Dat. apud Fulham."
p Ibid. No. 517. - Dat. 24 Jun. 26 Hen. VI. 1448.” In this charter the rectorial
manse is described as a building with thatched roof and mud walls, rectoria cum tec-
tura straminia et muris luteis.
9 Ibid. No. 521. " Dat. Ebor:”
r Ibid. No. 518. "H. T. Henrico Percie comite Northumbr: Henrico Percie d'no
de Ponyngs, Rogero Ward milite, Rogero Warde armigero, Ric. Lematon cive et
mercatore Ebor: Johanne Clark de Spofford parcario, et multis aliis."
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my said welle dispozed feoffez, shall purchase and gett a licence of
our soveraigne lord the King to stablish, found, create, and make
a perpetuall chauntre of a preist att the aforesaid alter to serve
God, and especially to pray to God for the soules of William
Plompton knight and Alice his wife, my father and moder, for the
soules of John Gisburgh and Ellen his wife, for my prosperity
whilles I live in this world, and for my saule after I have taken
the universall way, and for the saules of all them of whom said
fader and mother, John Gisburgh and Ellen his wife, or I the said
George, has had any goods of, and for the saules of all my fader
and moder childer, and of all christen saules. Also, I will and
grant, that after my decease and from the tyme that the morts-
ment be made of my forsaid lands and tenements to the Chaun-
try aforesaid, my nephew William Plompton, knight, and his heirs
be the very patrons and giffers therof. Also, I will that for ever-
more, induring the said Chantry, my worshipfull fader and lord
Tho: Spofford, late byshop of Hereford, be specially recom-
mended in all the masses and suffrages to be done by the preste
thereof, through whose good lordship and gracious favor, with
great costs, I trust in God it shall come to good purpose after
myne intent aforesaid.”s
This venerable ecclesiastic passed the remainder of his life in
the seclusion of Bolton Abbey in Craven; and the last memorial
of him that has been preserved is a licence from John Sendale,
Canon of York Cathedral, Vicar-general of William, Archbishop
of York and Legate of the Holy See, for Master George Plomp-
ton to have masses celebrated in his presence in any fitting oratory
within the monastery or priory of Bolton, for a year from the
date thereof, viz. 4th Dec. 1459, 38 Hen. VI. with leave for his
servants to hear the same.t. To him at this place the following
etter was addressed:
• Cartul. No. 520.
+ Ibid. No. 523. " Dat. Riponiæ."
OF THE FAMILY OF PLUMPTON.
xxxix
To Master George Plompton at Bolton abbey.
My best brother, I am sory by my troth that I shall nott see
you, and cum thus far as to York. God knoweth my intent was not
for no great gud that I thoght to desire, but I wott well now ye
trusted the contrary. But, brother, it is not unknowne that I am
right sickly, and my hart wold have bene gretly comforted to have
spoken with you ; but I trow, and so doth my daughter, that ye
be displeased, denyeing that my writing afore, because she desired
a booke of you. And as ever I be saved, she praied me write for
either salter or primmer; and my hosband said, halfe apley, prey
my brother to gett somwhat to my new chappell. God wot he
ment neither gold nor silver, but some other thing for said awter.
But I had knowne ye wold have bene displeased, I wold not have
writt, for as much as I have speuled my best brother. My sister
Dame Isabell liveth as heavy a life as any gentlewoman borne, the
which cause me I faired never well sence I saw her last month.
Hous such, hath nether woman nor maide with her, but herselfe
alone. And her hosband cometh all day to my hosband, and seyeth
the feyrest langwage that ever ye hard. But all is rong, he is ever
in trouble, and all the ioy on earth hath she whan my husband
cometh to her; she sweareth there is noe creature she loveth bet-
ter. Also, brother, I beseech you intirely, if there be any goodly
yong woman, that is a good woman of her body and pay, iiij and
xx or more, (and I would have one of my owne kin an theare were
any), for my selfe and deare brother, and ye or any for you can
espie, I beseech you to gitt her for me, as hastely as you may,
soune upon Easter, and it may be. I can no more for great hast
of my jorny, but I beseech the blessed Trinitie with all the saints
in heaven give me grace to se you, or I die, to Gods pleasure and
your bodyly heale. And, brother, I yede to the lord Scroope u to
v Sir John Scrope, fourth Baron Scrope of Masham, summoned to Parliament from
7 Jan. 4 Hen. VI. 1426, to 26 May, 33 Hen. VI. 1455. Died 15 Nov. following.
HISTORICAL NOTICES
have sene my lady ;x and be my trothe, I stood thear a large
houre, and yet I might neither se lord nor ladye; ad the strangest
cheare, that ever I had, of my Mistres Darse,y and yet I had 5
men in a suit: there is no such 5 men in his house, I dare say.
Be your sister,
KA: CHADYRTON.Z
The writer of this letter, Katharine Chadyrton, was the younger
of the two daughters of Sir William Plumpton, kt. by Alice Gis-
burne, who yet remained unmarried at the time of their mother's
death in 1423. Her husband, it may be presumed, was of the family
of Chadderton of Chadderton Hall, in the chapelry of Oldham in Lan-
cashire; but their pedigree is unknown to me, and the Plumpton
evidences are unfortunately here of no assistance. Dame Isabel,
her sister, whose domestic misery is so feelingly pourtrayed, was
the wife of Sir Stephen Thorp of Gowsell or Goxhill, in the
county of Lincoln, knight. Her marriage contract bears date 10
March, 3 Hen. VI. 1424-5, and was between Sir Robert de Hilton,
kt. and Robert Constable, esq. feoffees of Stephen de Thorp,
father of the said Stephen, on the one part, and George de
* Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Thomas Chaworth of Wiverton, co. Notts. kt. Died
6 Edw. IV. 1466.
9 Eleanor Scrope, daughter of Lord Scrope, married Richard Darcy, son and heir
apparent of Sir John Darcy, of Hyrst, com. Ebor, knight, who was dead in his father's
lifetime, before 1 Jun. 32 Hen. VI. 1454, when his heir, William, was four years old.
John le Scrope, who died 18 Sept. 1452, in his will of the preceding day makes a bequest
to“ Mistres”' his sister, Magistrici sorori meæ. There can be little doubt that Mrs. Darcy
is here meant, and that it is an error on the part of the compiler of the pedigree of Scrope
of Masham, illustrative of the Scrope and Grosvenor Controversy, to give Magistrix a
distinct place among the children of Lord Scrope. Her husband had died young ; and
it appears from this letter that she passed her widowhood in the paternal mansion till
the period of her second marriage with William Claxton, esq. circa 29 April, 38 Hen. VI.
1460.
2 This letter is also taken from the Book of Letters, where it is transcribed at the
end of the Correspondence of Sir William Plumpton.
OF THE FAMILY OF PLUMPTON.
Plompton, clerk, and Richard de Plompton, esq. brothers of
the said Isabella, on the other part; by it the marriage por-
tion was fixed at soli, and she was to be jointured to the
amount of 10li per annum out of premises in the counties of
York and Lincoln. Seisin was subsequently granted to Ste-
phen Thorp, esq. and Isabella his wife, of lands and tenements in
the vills of Frismersk and Attenwyk, in the county of York, in the
vill of Lednam, and in the vills and territories of Gowsell and
Barowe, by Ralph Smith, chaplain, constituted (10 Oct. 4 Hen. VI.
1425) attorney for the above feoffees, and for John Dysney and
John Ascyn.b He was yet an esquire, 19 Hen. VI. 1440-1;c but
we have a proof that he was knighted afterward in the title of
Dame given to his wife in the above letter, which presents a
somewhat curious picture of the social habits of the time. We
learn from it that an old infirm priest had with characteristic
selfishness, at a time when founding chantries for the good of souls
absorbed the wealth of the dying, refused to give even a psal-
ter or primmer to his niece, or to make any present to his brother-
in-law's chapel, and had even quarrelled with his sister for making
such request. We hear also of a knight's lady left without a single
female attendant, and of an inquiry for a pour kinswoman to be
hired, if she be strong and can work for her pay. And lastly, we
have a Dame with five servants in her train made to dance attend-
ance for an hour in the ante-chamber of a greater lady, and then
a Cartul. No. 424.
b Ibid. No. 412. Frishmarsh, now lost by the Humber, lay between Newsome (also
lost) and Patrington, to which last Thorp was a berewick at the General Survey. Lib.
Domesd. f. 302 a2.
c Ibid. No. 453. “ Jacobus Hoton et Will's Ryson ar: concedunt terras, &c. in
Thorp juxta Weldik, Wythornwyke, et Bilton in com. Ebor: quæ tenet Rob’tus de
Thorpe, jun. ad terminum vitæ suæ-post decessum dicti Roberti, Stephano de Thorpe
et Isabellæ uxori ejus et heredibus inter ipsos, &c. H. T. Joh'e Melton de Swyne,
Thoma Grimston, Rob’to Hakfeld, Rob’ti Hylierd, armigeris, et Joh'e Ascyn et aliis.
Dat. apud Thorpe juxta Weldyke, 12 Mar. 19 Hen. VI." This place is now called
Welwickthorpe, from the Wel-wic instead of the Wel-dic, and is a hamlet in the
township and parish of Welwick, Tor-uelestorp in Domesday.
CAMD, soc. 4.
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dismissed, after receiving but strange cheer from the daughter of
the house, though the parties were closely connected by ties of
kindred, in fact, cousins in the second degree.
To return to Sir Robert Plumpton. He was a knight before the
15th Jan. 1410-1, 12 Hen. IV. when he made a feoffment of his
estates in Yorkshire to Henry Lord Fitzhugh, Sir Richard Nor-
ton, William Ferman, rector of the church of Kirkby Oreblawer,
and Richard Sudberi, rector of the church of Croston;d and as such
was chosen to represent the shire of York in the Parliament
which met on the 3d November, 13 Hen. IV. 1411. In the same
reign (1 July, 13 Hen. IV:) I find a grant by Henry Beau-
fort, Bishop of Winchester, of an annual rent of xxli sterling out
of his manor of Whitteny, in the county of Oxford, pour le bon
et greable service que notre trescher et tres bien amé Monsire Ro-
bert Plumpton chevaler ad fait et ferra en temps avenir. In 2nd
Henry V. (14 Oct. 1414) Sir Robert Plumpton was Seneschal of
the Honour of Knaresborough, as also one of the Council of
the King of his Duchy of Lancaster, together with Sir Roger
Leche, knight, Chief Seneschal of the lands of the King of his
Duchy of Lancaster towards the north part and elsewhere.f In 3d
Hen. V. (15 Oct. 1415), he was retained to serve the Duke of
Bedford for life, in peace and in war, having xx marks as his fee in
time of peace, and the usual wages suitable to his degree in time of
war, together with bouche du courte for himself, an esquire, and his
two valets, when at the hostelry of the Prince, or in his company.&
Cartul. No. 354.
e Ibid. No. 359 and 360.
e Ibid. No. 359 and
f Ibid. No. 368.
8 " Ceste endenture fait dentre le haut et puissant prince, Johan fitz et frere des
Roys, duc de Bedford, Count de Richmond et Kendale, et Conble d'engleterre, dun
part, et Robert de Plompton, Chevaler, dautre part, tesmoigne que le dit Robert est
retenuez et demorrez pardevers le dit tres noble et puissant prince a terme de sa vie
pour lui servir, sibien en temps de pees come de guerre, au mielz qui resonablement il
pourra estre en son pouoir, preignant annuelment du dit haut et puissant prince pour
son fe a cause de sa dite demoere vingt marcs en temps de pees de les cofres de
mesme le baut et puissant prince. Et sera le dit Robert montéz, armés, et arraiés,
come a son degre et estat appartient, et prest de chivalcher oves le susdit tres noble et
puissant prince en sa compaignie, a quel temps que a ce fair il sera deper mesme le puis-
OF THE FAMILY OF PLUMPTON.
xliii
On the seventh of October, the feast of St. Marcus, Pope,
6 Hen. IV. 1404, Sir Robert Plumpton had born to him a son
and heir, afterward Sir William Plumpton, knt. and the same
with whose correspondence the series of letters commence. Of
this son, when in his twelfth year, the marriage was contracted
for on the part of Sir Bryan de Stapilton, of Carlton, com. Ebor.
knight, in behalf of his daughter Elizabeth, an infant of the same
tender years. The agreement bears date 20 Jan. 3 Hen. V.
1415-16; thereby Sir Bryan accords, that a sum of cccLx marks
be paid to Sir Robert Plumpton for the marriage, he agreeing to
settle an estate of xx marks yearly in the vill of Kinalton on his
son William and Elizabeth, and their issue. He was further to
engage to make a feoffment to Sir Richard Redmayn, knight,
John de Moute, esq. Robert Brame and Roger Spofford, chap-
lains, of the manor of Steton, to secure a rent-charge of XL
marks yearly, in case that if the said William and Elizabeth were
legally ousted of the estate in Kynalton by Sir Robert or his
sant prince garniz ou requiz, preignant en temps de guerre du dit tres noble et puissant
prince, quant traveillera ovec luy, pour luy mesmez, et ses gentz, lesquex il amesnera
oves luy par comaundement de le dit haut et puissant prince, tieulx gagez come autres
gentilx de lour degree prendront pour le temps, rebatant toutesvoies lafferant de son fe
en temps de pees pour lafferant de ses gagez en temps de guerre, en cas qil travaille ove
le dit tresnoble et puissant prince a aucuns journes que se tiendra pur un quarter del an
ou plus, et nemye pour nulle autre petit journes que se namontera al quarter dan. Et
aura le dit Robert quant il traveillera oves le dit tresnoble prince en sa compaigne en
temps de pees, ou veigne a son houstell per son comaundement, bouche du courte pour
luy mesmes, un escuier, et deux ses valetts, en tiele regarde come au dit tres noble
prince il plerra. Et de toutez maners de prisoners et autres profittz et gaignes de
guerre quelconques en aucune manere per le dit Robert prisez ou gaignes, le dit tres
noble et puissant prince aura la tierce ; et de tous autres ses ditz gentz les-
queulx il aura as gages, de mesme le tres noble prince la tierce de la tierce. Et si
aucun chevitaigne ou autre grand sera soit pris per le dit Robert ou aucun de ses ditz
gentz, le dit tres noble et puissant prince aura le chevitaigne ou seigneur avant dit,
fesant a celly que luy prist resonable regarde. En tesmoignance du quele chose sibien
le dit prince come le dit Robert a cestes endentures entrechangeablement ount mys
lour sealx. Donne a le manor de Bisshopthorp le xv jour d'octobre, lan du reigne
notre soverain sire le Roy Henri quint puis le conquest tierce." (Cartul. No. 373.)
” Cartul. No. 361.
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heirs, or the heirs of Dame Alice his late wife, then the feoffees
to convey the same to William and Elizabeth. Within a month
after the death of his mother, Dame Alice de Plumpton, Sir Ro-
bert was to add x marks to the yearly rent out of Kynalton, ex-
cept in case Dame Margaret Rempston or Thomas Foljambe i
pre-deceased his mother, or that she herself happened to die dur-
ing the minority of her grandson William. There were beside
covenants for re-payment of the principal, in case of either of the
parties dying without issue, or of divorce before consummation,
as well as of a further sum of l marks for the costs of their
maintenance. It was also stipulated that Sir Robert de Plomp-
ton should not make any feoffment or estate to the disinherison of
the said William, his son, of the land which he held, either by
descent, or curtesy after the death of Dame Alice his late wife;
save only he might give rent-charges of xx marks each to his two
younger sons Godfrey and Robert, with right of mutual accretion
in case of either of them being promoted to a benefice, or advan-
taged by marriage, and of survivo ship in case of death. Also,
he might jointure any future wife he might take to himself,
so as the jointure did not exceed c marks. Sir Bryan de
Stapilton and Dame Agnes his wife were to have the governance
of the said William and Elizabeth during their minority, re-
ceiving for their sustenance the rent of xx marks out of Kynalton ;
but in case Sir Bryan should happen to die, and his widow
take a second husband, then Sir Robert was to have the govern-
ance of the betrothed parties.k
In 1416, 4 Hen. V. Sir Robert de Plompton was Steward of the
Forest of Knaresborough, as well as Seneschal of the Honour.
i Thomas Foljambe was great-uncle of Dame Alice, the relict of Sir Robert de
Plompton, and at the time of her birth was, with his brother Robert, her nearest heir
and next of kin. From him descended the knightly family settled at Walton in
com. Derb.
k Cartul. No. 374. Sir Bryan Stapleton died abroad in 1417, leaving Agnes,
daughter of Sir John Godard, kt. his widow, who survived him many years and never
remarried,
OF THE FAMILY OF PLUMPTON.
xlv
“Unto the worshipfull and reverent Sir, Monsire Robert de
Plompton, steward of the forest of Knaresburgh, or to his depu-
ties, William Bedale, mercer, Richard Bellingham, mercer, John
Unthank, spicer, William Garnet, bower, Tho: Constable, fletcher,
and Tho: Lincolne, Citizens of York, send honor and reverence;
for als mekill als an John of Lawe, chapman, sold unto Richard
Clerk of Burebrig a pak with divers mercery therein and a horse
for xxie nobles of the Kings coyn, on thursday next after St. Elen
day last past, in the towne of Burebrig, als wee are fully by true men
enformed: and for als mekill als it is needfull and necessary thing
to all christen men to record and beare witness o' the soth, we do
ye to witt that the gude quilk the foresaid John sold att Bure-
brig was his awen proper gude, and lelely and truly bought and
sold, and a gude man of name and fame evere zhit was and is
halden amang us, and for na nother nevere zhit was halden ne
reccond. And this witnesse we by this our present letter, written
and seald att Yorke, the xxiiij day of May in the yeare of King
Henry fift after the conquest of England, fourth.” 1
Sir Robert de Plompton made a further feoffment of all his
manors and reversions in Yorkshire to Henry Fitzhugh, lord of
Ravenswath and Treasurer of England, Dame Margaret de Remp-
ston, Dame Alice de Plumpton his mother, John Grene de Nuby,
William Ferman, parson of the church of Kirkby Orblawers, and
John Brennand of Knaresburgh, on the 6th November 1416;m
the purport of which feoffment, by an instrument dated at Plump-
ton, 1 April, 6 Hen. V. 1418, was declared to be for securing to
Godfrey and Robert de Plumpton their annuities of xx marks each;
and if it should so fall out that he the said Sir Robert de Plump-
1 Cartul. No. 378. St. Elen day was the feast of the Invention of the Holy Cross,
3 May.
m Ibid. 384. « Dat. apud Plumpton in festo Sci Leonardi Abbatis, anno r. r.
Henr, filii Regis Henr. quarto."
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ton, knight, should die before his coming into England, the residue
was to be applied according to the directions in his last will. The
said feoffees were also to marry his daughters Joan and Alice suit-
ably, and to give xl marks to his sisters Isabella and Katharine
for their marriage, and xls yearly to his brother Richard out of the
manor of Nesfield near Addingham. On the 11th day of the
same month of April, I find Sir Robert de Plumpton was to be
at the muster at Southampton pour le viage notre Sire le Roy de-
vers son Roialme de France, in the retinue of the Lord Fitzhugh; º
n Cartul. No. 399.
O" Ceste endenture fait par entre Monst Robert de Plompton Ch'r dun part, et
John de Pancesbery deverwyke dautre part, tesmoigne que le dit John est demoures une
home darmes devers le dit Mons* Robert ovec deux archers pur luy servir pur un an
entier en un viage notre Sire le Roy devers son Roialme de France, ou autrement en
autre lieu, ou luy plerra, lan comenceant le jour del an que le dit John et sex deux archers
seront a la mear, prestz pur y fair lour monstres selounque lordenaunce ent fait, et le
dit John prendra pur luymesme dousze deniers le jour et chescun de ses archers syse
deniers le iour, ovet eskippesson et reskippesson pur cink chevaulx pur luy dit John et
sa retenue. Et lavaunt dit John serra tenuz destre bien armes et arraies de novell
manere, et il et ses deux archers seront ensy bien et cuvenablement montes et arraiez
solounque lours estatz, et tout pretz au port de Southampton le unszisme iour daprill
prochein venaunt a y fair touts monstres devaunt les comissioners notre Sire le Roy a
ces assignes, a taunt des foitchez, de la mear ou autrement, come ils seront resonable-
ment garniz depart le dit Mons Robert. Et le dit John prendra gages pur luy et ses
deux archers es mayns pur un quart entier del an avauntdit. Preignaunt suertees pur
luy et ses deux archers pur ses autres trois quartres del an avauntdit per mesme la
forme ou semblable come le dit Mons Robert prendera de le Sire Fitzhughe. Cest
assavoir, le dit John prendera douze deniers le jour, & cescun de les deux archers
prendera sise deniers le jour. Et avera le dit Monst Robert la tierce de toutz prisez
& gaignez de guerre, des presoners come des autres choises, per le dit John prises ou
gaignez, et le tierce de la tierce de ses deux archers en ascune manere gaignez, en sem-
blable condicion al effect & purport des endentures a mon dit Sr Robert de Plompton
faitz de sa retenu devers le Sire Fitzheugh, des queux gaignez, prises, & tierces partes
le dit John & ses deux archers ferront a mon dit Sr Robert pleyne conusaunce &
notice, si bien prisoners & autres gaignez de guerre, come de lour value, saunce con-
celement en ascune partie, deinz septz iours apres tiels prises ou gaignez faitz, sur
payne de forfair au dit Mons Robert la value de ycelle concelement. En tesmoig-
naunce de quele choses les parties suisditz a ycestes indentures entrechangeablement
ount mys lour seals. Done a Knaresburgh, la douszisme iour de Marce, lan de reigne
notre Si le Roy Henri Quint puis le Conquest quint." (Cartul. N° 397.)
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and as about to go abroad, he had the usual letters of protection
from the Duke of Bedford, Guardian of England, tested at South-
ampton 29th of the same month. On the 21st of June, 7 Hen.
V. 1419, while yet abroad, he contracted for the marriage of Joan his
daughter to William Slingsby of Scriven, in com. Ebor. esq., Sir
Thomas Rempston, kt. his brother-in-law (son of Dame Margaret
Foljambe, mother of Alice, Sir Robert's deceased wife, by her se-
cond husband, Sir Thomas Rempston, K. G.) being also a covenant-
ing party on her behalf.q
Sir Robert Plumpton was again in England before 27th Aug.
following;and on the 24th Sept. 8 Hen. V. 1420, he enfeoffed
Dame Alice de Plompton his mother, Richard de Norton, Chief Jus-
tice of the Common Bench, Thomas de Rempston,ch'r, John Butler,
esq. and John Grene, in his manors of Plompton, Idill, Steton in
Aierdale, and Nesfeld, with the advowson of his chantry of the
P Carte, Catalogue des Rolles Gascons. fol. Lond. 1743, vol. 2. p. 235.
9 Cartul. Nº. 402. By the contract William Slengsby, esquier, undertook, within
six weeks after his coming into the realms of England, to enfeoffe, or cause to be en-
feoffed, Sir Thomas Rempston and Sir Robert Plumpton, knights, in lands of his
heritage in the townes of Scriven, Knaresburgh, Farnham, and Wiclif, to the value of
xl marks; to hold to the use and profitt of Jenett, one of the daughters of the said Sir
Robert, getten of the body of Alison, sometyme his wife, and sister of the said Sir
Thomas, during her life, unless the marriage betwixt the said William and hir as here
by theis foresaid parties it is spoken and accorded, be not maked. Witnesses, Robert
Swillingdon, Giles Dawbeny, Tho. Saint Quintyn, William Hudelston, kts. and Wil-
liam Wakefield, Nicholas Ward, and John Thorp, esquires.
r Cartul. No. 403. The deed of this date contains a covenant between Sir R. Plump-
ton, kt. and Dame Alice Chelray, prioress of Esshold and the convent of the same,
whereby the latter, in exchange for a licence to hold in severalty and inclose two assarts,
called Over-holme, Nether-holme, Stragilford, Lang-holme, and Alridrode, which
they held of the gift of Neil de Plompton, and other ancestors of the said Sir Robert,
in the vill of Idill, agreed to quitclaim to the former all their rights of pasture and
pannage in the wood of Idill ; provided always, that a chaplain should continue to sing
perpetually for the soul of Dominus Robertus filius Roberti de Plompton, according to
the tenor of a charter made by the same to God and St. Leonard of Eshold. The chart-
ers containing these endowments will be found in the Monasticon, new edit. vol. V.
p. 472 ; but the name of Alice Chelray is omitted in the list of Prioresses of Esholt.
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HISTORICAL NOTICES
Holy Trinity in the church of Ripon, in com. Ebor., and in the
reversions of a rent-charge of four marks, issuing out of the manor
of Plompton, which Dame Isabell, late wife of Sir Robert Plump-
ton, kt. his grandfather, had of his grant for term of life in lieu of
dower, and of the manors of Gersington in Craven, and Little
Studley, after the decease of Alice his mother. S But the following
indenture shows him to have been at Portsmouth, with archers in
his retinue, on the 12th Oct. next ensuing, on his route to cross
the sea on an expedition into France.
66 This indenture, made the yeare of our soveraigne Lord King
Henry the Vth after the Conquest the viiith, betwixt Robert of
Plompton, knight, of the to party; John Fleetham, Tho. Clerke,
William Chamberlaine, Robert Barden, Henry of Ripley, Robert
Morton, William Cowper, Hugh Coke, of the tother party; beares
witnesse that the foresaid John, Tho. Will’m Chamberlaine, Rob't
Barden, Henry, Rob’t of Morton, be left with the foresaid Robert
as archers, for to serve the foresaid Robert for a twelve moneth,
and to take for their service for the foresaid twelvemoneth for
their fee, ilkane of them, xls, and bouch of Court, clething, &
horsing; that is for to say, the foresaid Rob’t shall deliver unto
ilkane of them a horse, and the foresaid John, Thomas, Will’m
Chamberlain, Rob’t Barden, Henry & Rob’t of Morton grants
truly to keepe watch and ward as langes to souldiers for to do;
and they that are att horsing of the foresaid Robert truly to pay
unto him halfe the gude that they win by war; and they that are
at their own horsing, truly to pay him the third parte at they win
be were. And the foresaid Will’m Cowper to take for his fee ii
marcs, clething, bouch of court, and a horse, and for to fullfill and
pay truly, and kepe watch and ward as it is said before. And the
8 Cartul. No. 405. Dat. apud Plumpton, cxiiijto die mensis Septembris, anno
r.r. Hen. V. post conq. Angliæ octavo. The witnesses were, Sir Thomas de Markin-
feld, Sir Roger Ward, Sir Richard de Goldsbrough, Sir Halnath Malleverer, knights,
William de Beckwith, William Pensax, William de Hopton, Henry de Chambre, John
Pulane and others.
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foresaid Hugh to take of the foresaid Robert xxs, and to serve
him for the twelvemoneth like as Will’m beforesaid is beun, and
truly to pay and to do all manner of covenands as it is said before.
And also the foresaid John, Thomas, Will’m Chamberlaine, Rob't
Barden, Henry, Rob’t of Morton, William Cowper, and Hugh
Coke sall serve him, as it is beforesaid, in what were he goes, to the
twelvemoneth fully be ended. In to the witnes of this, the parties
beforesaid have setto their sealls. Written att Porchmouth, the
xiiith day of October, the yeare of our soveraigne Lord the King
beforesaid.”+
In the following year, as we learn from an Inquisitio post mor-
tem u and from the epitaph on his monument in the church of
Spofforth, Sir Robert Plumpton died. It was a tradition in the
family that he was slain in France, his death occurring abroad at
the time of the siege of Meaux; but the epitaph reads simply,
“ Hic jacet Robertus Plompton, mil. nuper Senescallus de Knares-
borough, et Alicia uxor ejus, filia & heres Godfridi Foljambe, mil.
qui Robertus obiit 8 Decembris 1421, quorum animabus propitietur
Deus.”
The issue of Sir Robert Plumpton and Alice Foljambe were
three sons: 1. William, in his eighteenth year at the time of his
father's death ; 2. Godfrey, married to Alice, daughter and coheir
of Thomas Wintringham of Knaresborough, by Alice daughter of
John Dobson, before 37 Hen. VI. 1459; y 3. Robert, known only
by his father's deeds of settlement; and two daughters, 1. Joan,
contracted, as is abovesaid, to marry William Slingsby, of Scriven,
t Cartul. No. 407.
u Esc. 11 Hen. VI. No. 5.
* This inscription, which wants literal exactness, is taken from a copy in the no-
tices of the family of Foljambe, by N. Johnston, M. D. 1701. printed in the Coll.
Top. et Gen. vol. I. p. 91. (Vide No. 107, p. 341.)
y Curia tenta apud Knaresburgh die mercurii p'x' ante festu' Sc'i Laurenci, aº r. r.
Hen. Sexti xxxvii. Alicia nuper ux. Tho. Wintringham-ad opus Johannæ et Aliciæ
ux. Godfrid' Plompton, filiarum dictorum Thomæ et Aliciæ. (Cartul. No. 494 & 495.)
CAMD, soc. 4.
HISTORICAL NOTICES
21 June, 1419; 2. Alice, whose alliance is doubtful: but either she
or her sister became the wife of John Grene of Newby, com. Ebor.
esq. previous to the 1st Jan. 5 Hen. VI. 1426-7.2
The wardship of William de Plumpton, till he attained his age,
devolved of right upon the Earl of Northumberland as lord of the
Percy fee, of which the chief manor in Plumpton was held.
• To all men that heares and sees thes present letteres, Henry
Percy, Earle of Northumberland, sends greeting. Knaw ye us have
ordayned and assigned our welbeloved William Whitehill, bailif of
our best beloved sister of Clifford, as well for to distreyne as to
receive the farme of our tenants of Steton in Ayerdale, quilk to us
perteyns because of nonage of the heire of Sir Robert Plompton,
and the money thereof receyved to deliver to Richard Fairfax,
squier, att our costage. And witt ye, that we have charged our Stew-
ard Sir John Langton, John Aske, and our officers of Spofforth, to
be furthering and helping to you in this matter, if need be, for to
distreyne; and this lettere sall be your warrant. Written att our
mannor of Toplif, xiii day of September, in the yeare of King
Henry sext, after the conquest second.”a
Having now attained his majority, “Willelmus Plumpton, de co-
mitatu Ebor. armiger," procured letters of general attorney, tested at
Westminster 27 Jan. 5 Hen. VI. 1426-7, and shortly after set out
2 A toutz yceux, &c. Will’m de Plompton, saluz en dieu. Sachez moy avoir done &
graunte a mon chier & bien amie frere John Grene un anuel rent de quatre marcz dez
issuz et p'fitz de mon manoir de Garsington en Craven, &c. et vesture de son lyverey a
son degre, &c. Et le dit John serra seneschall au dit Will’m de toutz ses terres et
ten'tz en le counte d'Everwyke au volloir du dit Will’m. En tesmoignaunce, &c.
Done apud Plompton le primer jour de Janyver, lan du reigne le Roy Henri sisime
puis le conquest quint. (Chartul. No. 418.) Alice is put down as the wife of Richard
Marley in a pedigree of Plumpton, in Harl. MSS. 1487. A John Marley was a feoffee
for the family 12 Jan. 17 Edw. IV. 1478, and William and Isabel Marley are named
in Sir William Plumpton's Correspondence; but no proof of consanguinity is to be ob-
tained from existing evidences, and the match is too early for a Herald's Visitation to
be relied upon as an authority.
. Cartul. No. 419.
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for the wars in France ; b from which service he had returned but
just before 28 Sept. 9 Hen. VI. 1430, being then a knight. I next
find him involved in a dispute concerning land with Ralph, Earl of
Westmorland, which was agreed to be referred to arbitrators, viz.
William Lumley and William Garth, esquires, and William
Hoton, chosen on the part of the Earl, and John Leek, Thomas
Foliambe, esquires, and Richard Byngham, on his part, with Henry
Earl of Northumberland for umpire. The bond, conditional
upon the performance of this award, is dated 14 Mar. 10 Hen. VI.
1431-2; d but no final decision appears to have been come to at
that time, and recourse was had to a second agreement of similar
import.
“This bill indented bears witness that the right worshipfull Lord
the Earl of Westmerland, Sir John Nevill, knight, and William
Nicholson, balife of Ashford, by the advise of Sir Richard Vernon,
knight, and other of the counsell of the said Earle and Sir John
Nevill, upon that one party, and William Plompton, knight, upon
that other party, have compromitted them either party, to stand to
the award and arbitrament of a squier and a man of counsell learned
in the law chosen upon that one party, and a squier and a man
of counsell learned in the law chosen upon that other party, of all
manner accions reall and personall, quarrells and demaunds had
betwixt them, or any of them, before the makeing of this inden-
ture, so that this award and arbitrament be made before the feast
of Allhalowes next comeing. And if so be that the said arbitrators
may not accord before the said feast of Allhalowes, then the said
parties be the advise abovesaid are agreed to abide the award and
ordinance in the matter abovesaid of an Noumper to be chosen be
the said arbitrators, so that the said award and ordinance of the
b Carte. Catalogue des Rolles Gascons, Normans et François. Londres, fol. 1743,
vol. II. p. 257.
Cartul. No. 425. Will's Repington, ar.-Will’mo Plompton, militi. Dat. apud
Amynton in vigilia S’ti Mich'is, anno r. r. Hen. VI. nono.
d Ibid. No. 427.
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HISTORICAL NOTICES
said Nowmper be made be the feast of the Nativity of our Lord
then next comeing. And sufficient suerty in a cli for to be
bounden for either of the said parties for to abide the said award
and arbitrament of the said arbitrators, and the said award and
ordinance of the said noumper. And the day (of) treaty of the said
arbitrators to be holden upon the ground that is in debate betwixt
the said parties, if (it) like the said. Earle, before the utas of St.
Michaell next comeing after the makeinge of this indenture. And
furthermore the said parties are agreed that either of them shall
have a man att York, in the feast of the exaltacion of the Holy
Crosse next comeing, in the Chapiter-house of the Cathedrall
kirk of Yorke, betwixt the sonrysing and the son setting, for to
appointe the said arbitrators, the day of the treaty abovesaid, and
persons that shall be bounden in the cli abovesaid; and either of
the said parties shall give their man sufficient power thereto.
Written att Derby, the xxiiith day of July, in the yeare of the reigne
of King Henri the Sext efter the Conquest of Yngland, xiiith en
In 14 Hen. VI. 1435-6, Sir William Plompton, knt. was a Com-
missioner with Sir William Gascoigne, Sir Robert Waterton, knts.
William Ingelby, Thomas Clarell, Guy Fairfax, John Thwaites, John
Gascoigne, and Robert Malleverer, to array men-at-arms, hoblers,
and archers, in the Westrithing of Yorkshire, and to send them to
the sea coast to repel the threatened invasion; also to make muster
of the said troops, and to place signals called Bekyns in accustomed
and convenient places, to warn the people of the approach of the
enemy. To a deed of this Sir William Plompton, dated at Kenal-
ton, 10 April, 17 Hen. VI. 1439, conveying to feoffees, viz. Sir
Thomas Rempston, kt. Dame Agnes Stapilton, Sir Brian Stapilton,
kt. Ranulph Pygot, esq. William Rempston, rector of the church of
Byngham, Robert Rempston, Richard Redman, senior, esq. Rich-
ard Askham, and William Wood, chaplain, his estates in the
e Cartul. No. 434.
Cartul. No. 436. Teste me ipso apud Westm’, 18 Jan. anno regni n'ri 14.
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counties of Nottingham, Derby, and Stafford, together with the
reversion of what Dame Margaret Rempston held for term of life,
a very fair seal remained attached, 27 Apr. 1616, of which the
copyist makes note “ that it hath the Plompton armes quartered
with the Foliamb's arms, and the Roebuck, and was supported by
a woman, and hath Willm's Plompton de Plompton written in
the circumference, and it is the first deed that is found to be
sealled with the same seale.”g
Sir William Plumpton was Senescal and Master Forester of the
Honour and Forest,h and Constable of the Castle,i of Knaresborough
from about the 17th year of Henry VI. 1439, to the close of that
reign, Piers Ardern being deputy the while of William de la Poole,
Earl of Suffolk, the Chief Seneschal of the King of his Duchy of
Lancaster in the North parts;k in which jurisdiction the Honour of
& Cartul. No. 443. These estates, which had been the property of the Foljambes,
comprised the manors of Kenalton, Hassop, Wormehill, Pillesley, Stantonhall, Chel-
merton and Combrigge, together with land and tenements in Bakewell, Tiddeswall, Ques-
ton, Flagfeld, Martinside, Cumbes, Wardlow, Hurdlow, Spoundon, Lokhaw, Twy-
ford, Turndike, Broughton, Crakemarsh, Monyashe, Chesterfeld, and Chaddesden,
with the advowsons of chantries in the churches of Bakewell and Mansfeld Woodhous.
b Cartul. No.469. 17 Hen. VI. Md q'd Tho. de Thorp & Tho. Brig parcarii parci
de Hawray üijto Octob. ult. p'terito deliberaverunt Will'o Plompton, militi, Senescallo
ac Magistro Forestario Honoris de Knaresburgh, infra parcum predictum viijxx, ferarum,
per visum Tho. Beckwith, Rad'i Beckwith, Joh'is Beckwith, ac aliorum, &c. Haverah
park (extra-parochial), containing upwards of 2,000 acres, is now divided into farms,
the property of Sir William A. Ingilby, bart. ; in 1439 we learn from this document
that it contained 160 head of game. In the Cartulary are copies of the returns of the
game, and of the distribution of the same during several years of Sir William Plump-
ton's occupancy of the office of chief forester in the reign of Henry VI.
i Cartul. No. 452. Littera attorn. ad deliberandam seisipam D'no Will’o Plomp-
ton, militi, Constabulario castri de Knaresb: Dat. apud Knaresburgh, 3 Jun. 18
Hen. VI.
k Cartul. No. 448. Indentura inter Petrum Ardern, deputatum Will’mi de la Poole,
Comitis Suff: capitalis senescalli d'ni Regis Ducatus sui Lancastriæ in partibus
boreal: ex parte una & Johannam nuper uxorem Will’mi Ingilby, militis, defuncti ex
parte altera, de firma herbagii & agistamenti parci de Bilton infra dominium de Knaresb:
in com. Ebor. Dat. 16 Dec. 18 Hen. VI.
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HISTORICAL NOTICES
· Knaresborough had been included from the time of its being grant-
ed in 1371 by Edward III. to John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster.
During his tenure of office, a dispute as to the right of the tenants
of the forest of Knaresborough to pay toll at fairs, was made the
preliminary to a serious affray with the officers, tenants, and ser-
vants of John Kemp, Cardinal and Archbishop of York, on the
5th of May, 19 Hen. VI, 1441, in which lives were lost. The par-
ticulars of this affair may be collected from the following declara-
tion, which, as it serves to illustrate the manners of the times, I
set forth entire.
- Please the King of his grace to be remembred how that his
tenants of the forest of Knaresbrough have sewed continually
unto his highnes since Michaelmas terme was thre years, and all
for his right, desyring by all the bills given to his highnes, that the
matter of the right of toll might take such end as his law would;
the whilk unto this day could not be had, but ever hath bene ad-
iourned and delayed from tearme to tearme. And the said Arch-
bishop hath, all the said tyme of suite of the said Kings tenants,
hath kept his towne of Ripon at fair tymes by night, like a towne
of warr, with souldiers hired for their wages like as it had bene in
the land of warr, so that none of the Kings said tenants might, ne
durst, come att the towne of Ripon, all the said tearme of thre
yeares, to utter their caffer, wherewith to pay his farme att tearmes
accustomed, for dread of death. Now late this last fair tyme, the
Archbishop officers by his commaundement kept the said towne
of Ripon like a towne of warr, with souldiers waged thither out of
Tindale and Hexhamshire and of other partes nigh unto Scotland,
into the number of cc men of armes, rideing and comeing fro the
said parts unto Ripon like men of were, with brest plate, vambracs
and rerebrace, greves and quischers, gorgett and salett, long spears
and lancegayes; and the simplest arrayed of all the said persons
had either a gestiment, or a hawburgon, or a thick jack, upon him,
and either a pricknighate or a sallett upon their heads; and there
OF THE FAMILY OF PLUMPTON.
came out of Beverley, Cawood, and Yorke into the number of an
c persons in likewise arraied, save only speares, lancegaies and breast
plate. And the said people, with many other persons of Ripon and
Otlay, kept the said towne of Ripon like a towne of warr, takeing some
vid a day, and xijd a day, and bouch of court, thus waged by Hugh
Pakham. And they went robling up the said towne and downe;
they said openly (it was the most continuall language that they
had during the said faire), 'Would God there knaves and lads of
the forest would come hider that we might have a faire day upon
them,' and other words of great scorne, rebuke, and provokeing.
And this said fellowship, when the faire was done, saw that none
of the said forest came thither, so that they might have nothing a
doe with them, abode all a day after the faire in the said towne of
Ripon, that is to say, on thursday the iiijth day of Maie, to take
purpose what they would do, or they went out of the country; for
the marchmen were ashamed to come so farr, and not to be noysed
with none affray, or they went out of the Country. And so that
day the marchmen, by the advice of their persons, took to pur-
pose that they would ride to Yorke with the other persons of York,
Cawood, and Beverley, that was xxx miles and more out of their
way, and that they would ride throughout Burghbrigg, a towne of
the Lordship of Knaresburgh. And certaine persons of Ripon that
were well willing unto the aforesaid tenants of Knaresburgh send
word unto the said towne of Burghbrigg of their purpose, and the
aforesaid tenants of Burghbrigg send word unto Sir William Plomp-
ton, that is Justice of and Steward of the said Lordship, of their
purpose ; and he sent word againe to Burghbrigg, on the said
thursday at even, that the balif with the tenants of the said
towne should keep the said towne all that night unto the morne
after, that was Friday the yth day of Maie, unto he came himself
to se the peace kept, and the good rule and the demeyning of the
1 Hugh Pakenham or Pagnam was brother of the Treasurer of York Cathedral. A
letter from him to Sir William Plumpton will be found among the Correspondence.
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said towne. And that said nighte certaine persons, into the num-
ber of forty persons, went out of the said Lordship by nightertale
that none of the officers wiste of, over the water of Yure, and
went unto Thornton brigg, the whilk is two-miles and more fro
Burghbrigg, to the intent to have arreasted certaine persons that
had spoyled and fairen foule with one of the aforesaid tenants wife
of the said forest, att the said towne of Ripon, on a market day late
afore this last faire. And on the friday the said yth of Maie, Sir
William Plompton with other officers came to Burghbrig or the
sun rose, and with him into xxiiij persons, for the keping of the
peace; and spirred of the said tenants of the aforesaid towne of
the governance and rule that night, and they lett him witt of their
persons that were gone out on the said night; and he sent a man
to them in all that he might ride, and charged them on the Kings
behalf to come againe to the said towne of Burghbrig. And, or
the messenger was ridden half a mile without the said towne of
Burghbrig, he was perceived of all the said souldiers of the march-
men, and of Yorke, Beverley, Cawood, Otlay, and all of Ripon
that they might gett, how they went riding to the said Thornton-
brig, where the said forty persons lay; for the souldiers were
warned by a spie of the said small fellowship that were so gone
out att night, and so changed their purpose fro Burghbrig, and
thought to have overridden and slayne this said forty persons that
lay at Thorntonbrig. And this said messenger seing this great
sight of arrayed people, and how they rode the high way unto
Thorntonbrigge, rode againe in all that he might unto the said Sir
Wm Plompton and told him all the case. And he, with officers of
the said forest, rode to them ward in all that they might pricke, to
thintent to have mett and treate with them of Ripon in saving and
keeping of the peace, or they had met with these forty persons,
that lay at the said brigg, that knew not of them, nor of their
great strengthe, till they sodainly mett and affrayed togeather.
And so the said Sir William Plompton, with the aforesaid other
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officers, rode to them, and peaced all that they might, so that
wer ne he had bene there, had mickle mischief fallen ; and the said
Sir William, with other officers, saved and kept all that were over-
comen like to have bene mischeived, and brought them into such
ward as they desired : and this shalbe soothed in all that truthe
requires.”
The Cardinal Archbishop of York had some time previous to
this affray made complaint to the King in writing at his manor
of Kenington, of the riotous behaviour of those dwelling within
the verge of the forest, and had obtained letters under the royal
signet addressed to Sir William Plompton and others his officers in
the lordship of Knaresborough; by which the King straitly charged
him, and by him as well all his tenants and the inhabitants of the
said lordship, to keep the peace toward the said Cardinal and Arch-
bishop and his officers and tenants, mainly, of his lordship of
Ripon. He now exhibited a fresh bill of complaint, headed, “ Thes
bene the artikles of the Cardinall of Yorke of the offences and
occasion done by Sir William of Plompton, Thomas Beckwith,
and other misdoers and rioters of the forest of Knaresbroughe.”
By the first of these articles it is set forth, “ That Thomas of
Beckwith, John Hawks, William Wakefeild, John Beckwith of
Killinghall, and many others of the said forest of Knaresborough,
and with as they had assocyed to the number of doc persons or
thereabouts, be the covyne and assent of Sir William Plompton,
knight, arrayed in manner of war, and in ryotous wise assembled
and gadred the xxiith day of July, the xviii yeare of the reigne of
our Lord the King, against his peace and laws, went the same day to
Ottlay, the faire the said towne that tyme being, (the which towne
and faire are the said Cardinall and Archbishop as in right of his
church of Yorke,) not to buy nor make frut of marchandize their,
but rather disposed to bete, as it is semed, wholen and be manassys
pretying; and their said forcible comeing put Robert Malleverer,
steward, John Thoresby, balif, and other of the said Cardinall and
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Archbishop officers their, which were few in number and had not
supposing of any such assembly, namely, considering the Kings
said letters, in great feare and doubt of their persons, saying to
them that they should not take, aske, nor receive their any toll of
any men of the said forest. And so letted the said steward, balif,
and other officers beforesaid, that they might not frely nor surely
occupy, nor use the rule and governaile of the said faire, nor gader
in the name and right of the said Cardinall and Archbishop the
toll due and accustomed. And caused much people, that coming
to the said faire to have bought, and sold to departe fro the said
faire without their buying and selling; and also letted other to
come thither, to the great prejudice, hurt, and harme of the said
Cardinall and Archbishop, and great affray of the Kings people."
The second and following articles count divers outrages com-
mitted on the person and property of John Walworth, balye of
the Cardinal of his lordship of Ripon, dwelling in Thornton wood
within the franchise of the said Ripon, in the month of August
following, by Thomas Beckwith, John Fawks, Raphe Pnllaine and
others, by the assent and covine of the said Sir William, and set
forth the refusal of Sir William Plumpton, Tho: Beckwith and
others to treat with Master John Marshall, an officer of the said
Cardinal, and Richard Redmayne, esq. for the recognition of the
King's peace.
The seventh article contains as follows: “ Item. The said
Raphe Pulleyn, with other of the said misdoers and rioters, in
great and notable numbers, by permision, ordinance, and assent of
the said Sir William Plompton, Tho. Beckwith, John Fawks, and
of the remnant of the said misdoers, arrayed in manner of war
and in riotouswise, the Thursday the iiijth day of May last past,
att Skitbrigg, lay in waite to beat and to sley the officers, ser-
vants, and tenants of the said Cardinall, that had bene att his fair
of Ripon, entending upon the good rule and governance thereof,
if they had come that way. And semblably the same day was
laid att Burghbrig another great and notable fellowship, by thas-
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sent as before, to the intent to have beaten and slaine the said
officers, servants, and tenants next before rehearsed, if they had
come that way. And to thintent that they would not be letted of
their said malicious purpose, by any warninge that might have
bene given of their said lying there in wait to the said officers, ser-
vants, and tenants, wher so was that one William, servant of the
said Cardinall of his Citty of York, was past the said towne of
Burghbrig toward Ripon nere hand the space of halfe a myle, they
doubting least that any warning should have bene given to the
said officers, servants, and tenants by the said William, sent
fower of their company after him to take him ; and so took him,
and, magre him, brought him againe to their said fellowship att
Burghbrig, and there held him in prison att the house of one
John Fery unto the morne about ix of the bell. And when so was
that the said misdoers were learned by their especialls, or such as
were favorable of their said malicious purpose, that the said
officers, servants, and tenants of the said Cardinall, had knowledge
of their said lying in waite for them, and were disposed therefore
to eschew that way, and to take the way to York-ward by Thorn-
ton brig, they dressed them to the said Thornton brig, part of
them the said night, and parte on Friday on the morne, by the
spring of the day; of the which, parte went into the towne of
Helperby, a letle fro the said Thornton brig, on the way
toward York, by the which Helperby the said officers, servants,
and tenants must passe, and their festned a lidyate in the highway
at the towne end of Helperby toward Yorke, with stoks, thorns,
and otherwise, to thintent that when the said officers, tenants
and servants came thither, they should be stopped their and in-
cumbred. And when so was that the said officers, servants, and
tenants of the said Cardinall, the Friday in the morning, the fift
day of May, full early in the morning, were neighing the said
Thornton brig, comeing fro Ripon, the said Sir Wm. Plompton
with a great and notable fellowship of the said forest and other
HISTORICAL NOTICES
of their said affinity, the which assembled and gadered the same
Friday in the morning att the said Burgh brig, came pricking in a
route togader with all the diligence that they could, makeing a
great and horrible shoute upon the said officers, servants, and
tenants, to thintent to take the said Thornton before then, as
they so did; the which the said officers, servants, and tenants of
the said Cardinall seing, they, in eschewing of bloodshedding and
bruses of the Kings peace, left their passage by the said brigg and
took them to a forth, half a mile thence, called Braferton forth, to
thintent to pass over their, as they so did; the which the said Sir
William Plompton seing, sewed with his said fellowship upon
them and followed them unto the said towne of Helperby, where
the said Tho. Beckwith, Rauf, and others of their affinity, in
great and notable number, assembled, also with the said Sir Wil-
liam and his fellowship following, upon the said officers, servants,
and tenants of the said Cardinall. And when so was that the said
officers, servants, and tenants came to the said yate, finding their
passage stopped there, they were compelled by the pursuite and
the shote of the said misdoers upon them to seek other waies to
passe, as they so did; and passed, some by a long straite lane, and
some hy breaking of an hedge into a feild, upon whom the said
misdoers followed, and drove them into a mire more, neere-
hand the space of half a mile fro the said Helperby, noising and
crying, “Sley the Archbishop' Carles,” and “Would God that we had
the Archbishop here.” In the which pursuite, assaute, and shote,
there was slaine by the said misdoers one Tho. Hunter, gentle-
man, and Tho. Rooper, yeoman, servants to the said Cardinall,
after the tyme that they were yelden to such as called upon them,
and bad them yolde them.
“ Item, in this same great and riotous assault one Xpofer Bee,
servant of the said Cardinall, was maymed, that is to say, smitten
in the mouth and so through the mouth into the throat, by the
which he hath lost his cheeke bone and three of his fore teeth, and
OF THE FAMILY OF PLUMPTON.
lxi
his speech blemished and hurt, that it is not easy to understand
what he speaks or saies, and may not use therefore the remnant
of his teeth and jawes to th’use of eating, as he might before.
Item, in the said assaute and pursuit there was taken by the
said misdoers one William Humberstone, also servant to the said
Cardinall, whom after that he was yolden, they smote and wounded
in such wise that the calf of his legg was neer hand departed from
his shin bone, and other many great strokes and wounds gave him,
so that he was long tyme afterward in dispare of his life, and
shall now never resort to the bodyly strength and heale of his
person that he was in before.
Item, in the said assaute and pursuite, one John Creven, servant
to the said Cardinall, was greivously beaten and wounded on
divers parts of his body by the said misdoers, in especiall in his
right legg, the which was neerhand hewen in two, with many
other wounds, so that the said John Creven was left as for dead;
and so left, lay there after tyme that all other folkes was departed,
till was about iiij after noone the same day, at the which tyme
happened of the dwellers of the said town of Helperby to come to
the place where as he lay; the which finding not fully dead, of
compassion and pittie brought him to the said towne of Hel-
perby, and there refreshed him and releived him in such wise
that he was turned to life. How it be, that he is perpetually
letted of occupying of his crafte of Tayler that he used before, in
so much that he may not indure to lay his legg under him in such
wise as his crafte would aske.
“ Item, in the said assaut and pursuit were greivously bett,
wounded, and hurte by the said misdoers John Burton, Henrie
Fox, and William Playne, and other, of the number of xvi persons,
servants of the said Cardinall, and the remnant of his said ser-
vants greatly affraied and doubted of their lives; and no marvaile
that they so were, considering that by the said misdoers were
shott to the said servants and tenants of the said Cardinall a
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M. arrowes and moe, by the which also many of the said Cardi-
nalls officers', servants’, and tenants' horses were slayne and greiv-
ously wounded.
Item, on the said assaute and pursuite were taken, yolden, and
holden as prisoners by the said misdoers Peres of Cawood, and
Tho. Mayne, squires, Henry Fox, yeoman, and of the said Cardi-
nalls servants; and some of them labored and treated by them to
make them fynance, as they had bene the Kings enemies, and
many and divers of them dispoyled of their horses, harnesse, and
also gold and silver.
To these several counts Sir William Plumpton made answer in
denial or explanation ; but, as no further proceedings appear to
have been taken in the matter, it may be presumed that a compro-
mise was effected, and that the right of the Archbishop to the
“ denier of toll” was sealed with the blood of his tenants and ser-
vants.
Dame Elizabeth, wife of Sir William Plumpton, is named
with her husband in a certificate of admission to the fraternity
of the guild of St. Christopher at York, signed by John Skin-
ner, master and guardian, and dated 31 Aug. 17 Hen. VI,
1439;a but she was dead before the marriage of her eldest son
Robert, (born Thursday, 8 Mar. 9 Hen. VI. 1430-1, b) to
a daughter of Thomas, Lord de Clifford and Westmorland, was
contracted for; on which occasion, on the part of Sir William
Plumpton, a feoffment was made, 10 Aug, 24 Hen. VI. 1446,
to John Harrington, William Gargrave, Thomas Garth, John Garth,
and John Elys, clerk, of his manors of Derley, Stanton, Pillesley,
Wormhill, Chaddesden, and Sponden, with their appurtenances, in
the county of Derby, together with all lands and hereditaments in
the same vills, and in Edinsor, Wardlow, Baukewell, Martinside,
Queston, Tiddeswall, Hurdlow, Chelmerton, Flagfeild and Cas-
telton, in the same county, save the nomination of a chantry in
i Cartul. No. 455, et seq.
a Ibid. No. 446. b Ibid. No. 437.
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the church of Baukewell, and two closes called Bussenhay, other-
wise Coombes and Betfeld, upon condition that they should en-
feoff within five years Robert Plumpton, son and heir apparent of
the said Sir William, and Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Lord de
Clifford and Westmorland, knight, in the same, to hold to them and
to the heirs of their bodies, remainder to the right heirs of Sir
William in default of issue being had between them. Within the
term, 31 Aug. 27 Hen. VII. 1449, Sir William Plumpton made
a second feoffment to John Harrington, son and heir of Sir
Thomas Harrington, knight, Sir John Tempest, knight, Thomas
Thwaites, Richard Banks of Neuton, Thomas Garth, William
Gargrave, Sir Brian Stapilton, knight, Sir John Conyers, knight,
Geoffry Pygot, John Vavasor of Neuton, Guy Fairfax and John
Fawks, of all his manors and estates in the counties of York,
Derby, Nottingham and Stafford, under the same limitations; but
with a proviso for re-entry, if either Robert or Elizabeth died
without issue had between them in his (Sir William Plumpton's)
lifetime. The event thereby contemplated occurred : Robert
Plumpton, esq. died on Monday, the feast of St. Margaret the Vir-
gin, 20 July 1450,e in the nineteenth year of his age, without
having consummated his marriage with Elizabeth Clifford, who
three years later was married to William, brother of Robert, and
only surviving son of Sir William Plumpton by his wife Elizabeth
Stapilton. All evidence relating to this marriage having been
subsequently suppressed for reasons which will appear in the
sequel, the Plumpton coucher-book here presents a blank; where-
fore, for the better understanding of the history of the great suit
which forms the leading topic of much of the Correspondence in
this volume, I transcribe the following testimony of its solemniza-
c Cartul. No. 531. Dat. apud Derley. Witnesses, Sir Richard Vernon, Sir Henry
Parpoint, knights, John Curson, Tho: Foliamb, Robert Ayre, and others.
& Cartul. No. 535. The witnesses were Sir Robert Roos, Sir Roger Ward, Sir
Richard Vernon, Sir Henry Parpoint, Sir Thomas Chaworth, Sir Gervase Clifton,
knights, Richard Hamerton, John Curson, William Babington, and others.
e Cartul. No. 437.
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tion from the Clifford papers at Skipton castle, as printed by
Whitaker in his History of Craven.
“ Be it knowne to all men, thatt for as much as itt is meretorie
and medeful for every true Cryten men to testify and bare true
wytnes in every true matter or cause; therefore we William Rat-
cliffe, being the age of yxx yeres, Nicholas Whitfeild iiixx xviii yeres,
and John Thorn of iiiixx yeres, will record and testify for verrey
trawthe, That the lord, Sir Thomas Clifford, marryed Elizabeth, his
doghter, unto Roberte Plumpton, the eldest son and heyre of Sir
William Plumpton, when she was bot of six yeres of age, and
they were wedded at the chappell within the castell at Skypton,
and the same day one John Garthe bare her in his armes to the
said chappell. And also itt was agreed at the same tyme, that if
the forseide Roberte dyed within age, that then the said Lord
Clifford should have the second son of the said Sir William
Plumpton unto his seid doghter. And they were bot iii yeres
marryed, when the said Roberte dyed; and when she came to the
age of xii yeres, she was marryed to William Plumpton, second
son to the foreseid Sir William, and the seid Sir William pro-
mised the seid Lord Clifford that they shuld not ligg togedder
till she came to the age of xyi yeres. And when she came to
xviii yeres, she had Margarete, now lady Roucliffe. And how as
ev.ydenc' hath bene imbeseled, or what as hath bene doon syns,
we cannot tell, butt all that ys afore rehersed in thys bill we wyll
make yt gode, and, yf nede be, depely depose afore the Kynge
and hys counsell, that yt is matter of trawth, in anye place wher
we shal be comanded, as farr as is posible for any such olde crea-
tures to be carryed to. In witness whereof we the said William,
Nicholas and Jhon hath sett our seales, the xxvith of October, in
the xix yere of the reane of Kynge Henrie the viith f»
At the time of the marriage of his son, Sir William Plumpton
was himself clandestinely married to Joan Wintringham, sister to
TYYTY
f History of Craven, page 247, 2nd edition.
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lxv
the wife of his brother Godfrey, and who had given birth to a son;
from which cause he was now seeking to effect a settlement of his
lands on his heirs male, so as to give a preference to this son by
the second venter over any female issue of his eldest son, should
he die leaving only such surviving. To try his right to do this, an
attempt to alienate parcel of the estate previously settled was
made, which his brother by affinity, Lord Clifford, laboured of
course to prevent.
“For so much as I, Thomas Lord Clifford and of Westmerland,
am enformed at a nisi prius is like to pas betwixt my brother Sir
William Plompton, knight, and one Thomas Kempe and Alice
his wife, for a rent out of certaine lands and tenements in Spon-
don and Chaddesden, I make knowledge to those trew men att sall
pas thereupon, and all other Christen men att this writing sall
here or see, att all the lands and tenements att were my said bro-
ther Sir William in the said Spondon and Chaddesden, are parcell
of the feoffement of the said Sir William' son and heire and my
daughter. In witnesse hereof to this my present writing I sett
my seale. Written att Hert, tenthe day of July:"g
Sir William Plumpton was not however to be diverted from his
purpose : for upon his demand, by two several deeds of the same
date, viz. 23 Aug. 31 Hen. VI. 1453, Sir Thomas Rempston,
knight, (his uncle in half-blood, and sole surviving feoffee under
the deed made by his father 24 Sept. 8 Hen. V. 1420, and under
his own feoffment of the 18th April 17 Hen. VI. 1439,) entailed all
the estate of which he stood enfeoffed in the counties of York,
Derby, Nottingham, and Stafford, together with the reversion of
what was held by Dame Margaret Rempston for her life, upon Sir
William Plumpton and his heirs male, with remainder to Godfrey
Plumpton, his brother, and his heirs male.b
But to return to Sir William Plumpton's public career. By
8 Cartul. No. 526. Lord Clifford died in 1454.
CAMD. soc. 4.
h Ibid. No. 537 et 538.
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HISTORICAL NOTICES
deed of the 20th Feb. 19 Hen. VI. 1441-2, Henry Earl of Nor-
thumberland and Lord of the Honour of Cockermouth, appointed
Sir William Plompton, knight, to be Seneschall of all his manors
and lordships in the county of York for the term of his life, with
an annual fee of 10li ,i to which, 1 Nov. 26 Hen. VI. 1447, was
added for his good services a second 10li per annum, issuing out
of the manor of Lethelay in com. Ebor.k In 1448 he was Sheriff
of the county of York, and in 1452 of the counties of Nottingham
and Derby. In 1456 Sir William Plumpton rode northward with
the forces mustered by the Earl of Northumberland, for the pur-
pose of making an incursion upon the Scottish borders;' and upon
the breaking out of the wars of the Roses, he, as a matter of course,
sided with his suzerain and master, the said Earl of Northumber-
land, and with him fought in support of the House of Lancaster.
He is named among the commissioners, the others being John Lord
de Clifford, kt. Sir John Melton, ch’r, Sir John Tempest, ch'r,
John Hastings, esq. William Gascoigne, esq. Henry Vavasor, esq.
John Thwaites, Guy Fairfax, and William Bradford, who, 1 May,
38 Hen. VI. 1460, were, with the Sheriff and Escheator, appointed
to inquire concerning the lands, &c. of Richard Duke of York, and
others attainted in the preceding Parliament, within the West
Riding of Yorkshire.m About the same time, 2 Jan. 39 Hen. VI.
1460-1, Katharine Duchess of Norfolk granted to Sir William
Plompton, kt. the office of the chief wardship and mastership of
her chace and warren within her honour and demesne of Kirkby
Malserd and Niderdale, in com. Ebor. for life, with a fee of vli
After Edward had assumed the title of King, and during the
time he was on his march into the North, to enter into conflict
with the partisans of the dethroned monarch, these two mandates
addressed by Henry VI. to Sir William Plompton, kt. followed in
i Cartul. No. 524.
k Ibid. No. 533.
1 Vide postea, p. xxiv. m Cartul. No. 545. n Ibid. No. 546. Dat. apud Epworth.
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rapid succession. The first, “ tested at York, 12 March, 39th of
our reign,” contains an order for Sir Richard Tunstall, kt. Sir
Thomas Tresham, kt. and Sir William Plompton, kt. to summon
all liege men of the forest or demesne of Knaresburgh, to set out
with them to meet the enemy;o the second, “ geven under our
signet, at our cyty of York, the thirteenth day of March,” straitly
charges “our trusty and welbeloved knight, Sir William Plomp-
ton," to repair to the royal presence with his array in all haste
possible. On the 29th of the same month, being Palm Sunday,
Sir William Plumpton was present at the decisive battle of Tow-
ton, otherwise Saxton field; where William, his son and heir appa-
rent, it seems, was slain,4 and he himself either made prisoner by
the enemy on that day, or driven by the adverse fortune of his
party shortly afterwards to throw himself on the mercy of Edward.
On the 13th of May he came before Robert Danby, Chief Justice,
in the city of York, and gave bond for the payment of £2000
before the feast of Pentecost next ensuing, whereupon the follow-
ing writ was issued in his behalf.
“ Edward, by the grace of God, King of England and of France
o Cartul. No. 548.
P See Correspondence of Sir William Plumpton, kt. Letter 1.
q" Will'o Plompton ar. filio meo," is underwritten as witness to a grant of Sir Wil-
liam Plumpton, of the chantry of blessed Nicholas, in the church of St. Martin in Mikel-
gate, in the city of York, vacant by the death of Henry Cattall, chaplain, the Custos, made
to Sir William Shorthwait, chaplain, which bears date 19 Feb. 39 Hen. VI. 1460-1. This
is the last memorial of his being alive ; and he is expressly stated in a contemporary me.
morandum, containing the births and obits of himself and his elder brother Robert, to
have died in the first year of the reign of Edw. IV. 1460-1. (Chartul. No. 547.) Thus
at a court held at Knaresborough, Wednesday the feast of St. Mathias the Apostle,
1 Edw. IV. Margaret and Elizabeth, daughters and heirs of William Plompton, esq.
son of Sir William Plompton, kt, were admitted as copyhold tenants of lands lying in
the hamlets of Fellesclif, Bresteyth, and Hamesthwaite, within the vill of Clint, in
Harrigat and elsewhere within the vill of Killinghall, and in Knaresburgh, Screven,
Ferensby, and Erkendell Lofthouse, saving the right of Elizabeth, late wife of the said
William Plompton, for the term of her life. (Ibid. Nos. 500 and 501.)
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and Lord of Ireland, we will and straitly charge all our true liege-
men and subgitts, that none of them upon paine of death, under
any colour or occasion whatsoever it be, robbe nor spoile William
Plompton of Plompton, in our County of York, knight, nor none
of his servants, ne tenants, nor none of them; nor contrary to
our lawes hurt, trouble, or vex them, or any of them, in anywise,
in body or goods. Geven under our privy seale at our Citty of
York, the xiiith day of Maie, the first yeare of our reigne."r
The term for redeeming of this bond having elapsed, on the
12th of July, 1461, Sir William Plumpton surrendered himself a
prisoner at the Tower of London; and, having been sworn accord-
ing to custom, was admitted by Sir William Bowischer (Bour-
chier,] kt. lieutenant of the Tower, to all the liberties and privi-
leges of the place. He obtained letters of general pardon, 5 Feb.
i Edw. IV. 1461-2,t and was subsequently, 10 Sept. 2 Edw. IV.
1462, released from all claim by reason of his bond.u But not-
r Cartul. No. 549.
• Will'm's Plompton miles admissus est ad et in omnia libertates et privilegia Turris
London p' Will'mu' Bowischer militem locum tenentem Turris p'd'cæ et juratus est
secundum consuetudinem eiusdem Turris. In cuius rei testimonium p'sentibus ego
p'dc'us Will’m's locumtenens sigillum meum apposui. Dat xiiº die mensis Julii anno
regni Regis Edw: quarti post conquestum primo. (Cartul. No. 550.)
Edwardus, &c. Omnibus ballivis et fidelibus suis, &c. Sciatis quod de gratia
nostro speciali et ex certa scientia et mero motu nostris perdonavimus, remisimus, et
relaxavimus Will'o Plompton militi, alias dicto Will’o Plumpton militi, alias d'co Will'o
Plumton militi, alias d'co Will’o Plompton de Plompton in Com. Ebor. militi, alias
d'co Will'o Plumpton de Plumpton in com. Ebor. militi, alias d'co Will’o Plompton
nuper de Kenalton in com. Nottingham, alias d'co Will'o Plompton nuper de Knares-
burgh in com Ebor. militi, alias d'co Will'o Plompton nuper Vicecomiti Com. Ebor.
militi, alias d'co Will'o Plompton nuper Vicecomiti Com. Nottingham et Derb. Chi-
valer, seu quocu’que alio nomine censeatur, omnimodas transgressiones, offensas, &c.
(Cartul. No. 551.)
a Edwardus &c. Omnibus &c. salutem. Sciatis q'd cum tercio decimo die Maii,
Anno regni n'ri primo, Will's Plumpton de Plumpton in com. Ebor. miles venerit coram
dilecto et fideli n'ro Roberti Danby Capitali Justiciario n'ro de banco apud Civitatem
Ebor, et recognoverit se debere nobis duo millia librarum sterlingorum, solvend' nobis
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withstanding Sir William Plumpton had afresh letters of pardon
dated 30 Aug. 3 Edw. IV. 1463,4 he was, it seems, restricted from
returning home into the North; and was at one time in jeopardy
of his life, by reason of the denunciation of one David Routh, son
of late Thomas Routh, of Westminster, who laid these overt acts
of treason to his charge:
“ First, Sir William Plompton, with other persons, within the
place of Honslough, the second and third years of the reigne of
our soveraigne and liege lord, had receyved, red, and understaud
false, damnable, diffamatory, and slaunderous writing, traiterously
by pen and other forged and ymagined against the honor and wel-
fare of our said soveraigne, and the same sent to other suspicious
persons to corage and comfort them by the same. .
.“ Also he hath received in the said place divers persons coming
out of Scotland fro the Kings adversaries, and secretly cherished
them, succored, forbored, and their secrets concealed.
“ Also he hath sent messengers into his countrey, which there
receyved tidings of his brother men there out of Scotland, fro the
Kings adversaries, by his brother assent and his.
66 Item. When any turble or enterprise was leke to fall hurt or
scaythe to the Kings people, the said Sir William Plumpton, with
oder suspected, rejoyced, and were glad in chere and countenance."
Upon these charges Sir William Plumpton was tried before the
Earl of Worcester, Lord Tiptoft and of Powis, Great Constable of
England, and a jury of twenty-four, at Hounslow, shortly before
Christmas. Having been acquitted, he obtained a warrant from
in festo Pentecost' ex tunc proximo futuro, sub certa condico'e super eadem recog-
nico'e tunc et ibidem specificat’, prout &c. Quibusdam tamen certis consideraco'ibus
nos moventibus, &c. remisimus &c. p'fato Will'o omnes et omnimodas acc'ones &c.
r'one sive occ'one recognico'is vel condico'is supradictarum &c. In cuius rei &c.
Testo meipso apud Westm’ x° die Septembr' anno regni n'ri secundo. Bagott. Per
breve de privato sigillo et de data predicto, aucthoritate parliamenti. (L.S.)
(Cartul. No. 552.)
» Cartul. No. 557.
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the Constable to be rid of all further molestation on that behalf,
dated 20 Jan. 3 Edw. IV. 1463-4,y as also the following brief from
the King.
“Edward, by the grace of God, King of England and of France
and lord of Ireland, To all maiors, sherifs, eschetors, baliffs, consta-
bles, and other our ministers whatsoever they be, and to all other
our true liege people, greeting. We lett you witt, that our welbeloved
William Plompton Kt. hath truly, sufficiently, and clearly declared
himself of all manner matters that have been said and surmised
against him, and so we hold him thereof for fully excused and de-
clared by these our present letters. And we take him, hold, and
repute him as our true and faithfull leigman. Wherefore we will
and charge you, all and every one of you as much as to him be-
longeth, that from henceforth ye, nor any of you, neither vex,
moleste, greive, trouble, nor him nor any of his, in body nor in
goods, otherwise then our lawes will; nor that ye give or shew
unto him, or any of his, any ungodly language or countenance,
but that ye take him and suffer him to abide and go att his plea-
sure and ease, there as him shall best like, as other our true leiges
do; not breaking this our comaundement, as ye will eschew our
great displeasure, and upon payne of punishment by our laws.
Yeven under our signett att, &c.”Z
Being now reputed loyal, Sir William Plumpton was restored to
his offices of Constable of the Castle, and Master Forester of
the Forest of Knaresborough, and to the Stewardship of the Lord-
ship of Spofford, of which he had had grants for life in the pre-
vious reign. He also about this time directed his attention to a
lucrative disposal of the infant daughters of his deceased son, his own
heirs apparent, in marriage ; for I find that.by virtue of an inden-
ture dated 26th Nov. 3 Edw. IV. 1463, the governance and mar-
riage of Margaret, then about four years old, “ cousin and one of
the heirs apparent of the said Sir William Plompton, that is to
ị Cartul. No. 560.
2 Cartul. No. 561.
OF THE FAMILY OF PLUMPTON.
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say, one of the daughters of William Plompton, esq. son of the
said Sir William,” was granted to Brian Roucliffe of Colthorp,
com. Ebor. gent. third baron of the King's Exchequer, to the
intent “that John, son and heire apparant of the said Brian, shall
by the grace of God take into wife the said Margret, the marriage
of them to be done att convenient and most spedy time att the
costs of the said Brian.” On the part of Sir William Plumpton,
it was covenanted to make to them, and the lawful heirs of their
two bodies, an estate out of the manor of Nesfield before the en-
suing feast of Pasche; nevertheless, so as he might retain the
whole profits for the first five years, and a rent of x marks by year
for the five years' next following. For this marriage Brian Rou-
cliffe agreed to give, over what was already paid, cccc marks; under
a proviso, however, for the repayment of lli, in case the said John
deceased within the next ten years.a
The governance and marriage of Elizabeth, the younger coheir,
was in like manner granted to Henry Sotehill, esq. by indenture
of the 11th of February, 3 Edw. IV. 1463-4, to the intent “ that
John theldest son and heire apparant of the said Henry, shall
with the grace of God take to wife the said Elizabeth, which Eli-
zabeth the said Sir William hath delivered to the said Henry."
For the marriage Mr. Sotehill paid a cli down, and gave bond to
Sir William Plumpton, Brian Roucliffe, and Sir Richard Hamer-
ton, kt. to pay other ccxxxiiili by instalments. On the part of
Sir William Plumpton it was covenanted to make an estate to
feoffees, viz. Brian Roucliffe, third baron of the King's Exchequer,
Richard Hamerton, kt. George Darell, kt. Richard Aldburgh, kt.
John Gresley, kt. Walter Wortesley, kt. Richard Fitzwilliams, kt.
John Sotehill of Sotehill, esq. and Guy Fairfax, of manors and lands
to the yearly value of xl marks, in order to secure the repayment of
the money advanced by Mr. Sotehill, in case the said Elizabeth
should happen to die under xiv years of age. It was likewise agreed
* Cartul. No. 558.
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that if hereafter the said Sir William Plumpton should take a wife
and have issue male by her, which ought to be his heir male apparent,
that the said Henry should have the wardship and marriage of the
same issue male, to be married to one of his daughters, upon pay-
ment of cc marks, the day of the delivery of the said issue male.
Other covenants were added, securing to John and Elizabeth, as
her jointure, a yearly estate of cli value, after the decease of the
said Henry Sotehill and of Anne his wife, and of John Boyvile
and of Alianor his wife, out of lands of which the said Henry
was then and there seised, and binding Sir William Plumpton not to
alien nor charge any lands or tenements, whereof he, or any to
his use, stood seised, save in favour of any son by his said future
wife, that shall be unto him, the said Sir William Plumpton, heir
male apparent; and so as he might jointure any wife he should
happen to wed in time to come to the amount of cli for life, and
also continue the charge upon the estates of xlli a year to Eliza-
beth, relict of William Plumpton, esq. his son, during the term of
her natural life. This last-mentioned lady, the daughter of
Thomas Lord de Clifford and Westmorland, and sister of John, the
bloody Lord Clifford, slain at Towtonfield, appears to have re-
o Cartul. No. 562. The feoffment to Brian Rouclif, third Baron of the King's Ex-
chequer, Sir Richard Hamerton,kt. Sir George Darell, kt. Guy Fairfax, serjeant-at-law,
Richard Pygot, serjeant-at-law, Henry Sotehill, esq. Tho. Beckwith, esq. Stephen
Hamerton, esq. Lawrence Kighley, and Godfrey Grene, of the manors of Plumpton,
Garsington, Steton, Idill, and Stodelay Roger, with the appurtenances, &c. in the
county of York, trustees for the purposes of this settlement, bears date 1 June, 4 Edw.
IV. 1464. Witnesses, Peter Ardern, one of the King's Justices of the Bench, Brian
Stapilton, Richard Aldburghe, kts. Robert Roos of Ingmanthorp, and Ranulph Pigott,
esq. (Ibid. No. 565.) For the manors, &c. in the counties of Nottingham, Derby,
and Stafford, the feoffees in a deed of the same date are Sir Walter Blount, kt. Brian
Roucliffe, third Baron of the Exchequer, Sir Richard Hamerton, kt. Sir George
Darell, kt. Guy Fairfax, and Richard Pygott, serjeants-at-law, Henry Sotehill, esq.
Thomas Beckwith, esq. Stephen Hamerton, esq. Lawrence Kyghley, and Godfrey
Grene, and Edward Goldsburgh, John Byrd, John Askham, Richard Fawbergh, and
Thomas Allestre. (Add. MSS. in Brit. Mus. No. 6698.)
OF THE FAMILY OF PLUMPTON.
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LC
1
married, the same year her husband died, Sir Richard Hamerton
of Hamerton in Craven, kt. then a widower;c she was yet living
his wife 1 Feb. 19 Edw. IV. 1479-80.d
The private life of Sir William Plumpton from the time of his
wife's death appears to have caused no small scandal in his neigh-
bourhood. Besides being avowedly the parent of two bastard
sons, named William and Robert, his offspring by his second wife,
Joan Wintringham, by reason of the concealment of their marriage,
was long looked upon by the publick in the same light. His in-
tentions in favour of this son by the second venter have been al-
ready adverted to ; and the covenants cited from the contract
made with Mr. Sotehill, show him to have been then preparing
the way for his production, at some future period, as the legitimate
heir and acknowledged successor to his fortunes. This last act
was apparently precipitated by the censures of the Church; for it
having reached the ears of the Official of the Civil Court at York,
by clamorous report of both sexes, that Sir William Plumpton
kept one Joan Wintringham in his house at Plumpton, and had
begot on her divers offspring in amplexibus fornicariis, to the great
peril of his soul and grievous scandal of all the faithful, that officer
issued a summons for his appearance before him. Whereupon
c Eleonora (lege Elizabetha) relicta W. Plumpton fil. et her. D'ni W. Plumpton
voluntarie recognovit in capella Sci Laurentii infra precinctum manerii honorifici viri
D'ni Ric. Hamerton, quod nunquam remisit juncturam suam vel dotem d'no Wº.
Plompton, juo Oct. 1461. (Dodsworth MSS. in Bib. Bodl. vol. lxxxiii. fol. 79.
containing transcripts of deeds remaining in Skipton Castle, Con. Elor. 1646. See
Whitaker's Craven.)
d Omnibus, &c. Elizabeth Hamerton, nuper uxor Willielmi Plompton armigeri, salu-
tem. Noveritis me præfatam Elizabetham remisisse, &c. Willielmo Plompton militi et
Roberto filio et heredi ejusdem Willielmi omnimodas actiones, &c. Dat 1° die Feb. 2°
r. 1. Edw. IVti post. conq. Angliæ decimo nono. (Cartul. No. 696.) Sir Richard Ha-
merton, kt. made his will, 3 Oct. 1480, and died the same year. (Descent in Whitaker's
Craven.)
CAMD. SOC. 4.
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Sir William Plumpton attended in the chapel or oratory of St.
Thomas the Martyr, in the Cathedral Church of York, on Tues-
day the 26th day of January 1467-8; and the question being then
and there put to him, he publickly declared that he had kept the
said Joan in his house, not as his concubine, but as his true and
lawful wife, for many years past; and that they had issue between
them an only child, begotten of her body after marriage had and
solemnized in the parish church of Knaresburgh; but in as much
as no banns had been published, and the marriage was a clandes-
tine one, he expressed himself ready on that acconnt now to sub-
mit himself to the censure of the Church, and to make satisfaction.
Being required to produce witnesses of the truth of what he al-
leged, evidence was given as below, on Saturday the 13th of Fe-
bruary following.
“Sir Robert Littester, chaplain, of the age of forty years,
domestic servant to Sir William Plumpton, kt. deposed, that
about eleven years ago there was a great muster of Englishmen
to oppose the Scots, to which muster the said deponent hap-
pened to ride, together with the said Sir William Plumpton, his
master, as far as Skipton-upon-Swale; and between the vills of
Balderby-in-les-Broome and Skipton, the said Sir William called
the said deponent to him, saying, Robert, do you now return
home : and I beg of you to listen well to all I am going to say, and,
above all, to what concerns my weal and honour in my household.
And because the event of war is dubious, and the solempnization of
marriage between me and Joan Wintringham, my wife, has not
yet been openly and publickly notified, I hereby make known to you
that the said Joan is my true married wife and I her true married
husband. And thus I wish and desire you, as you love me, if I
happen to die in battle, to testify for the future, wherever it may be
necessary.”
• Cartul. Nº. 631. In 1456, Henry Percy, earl of Northumberland, warden of the East
OF THE FAMILY OF PLUMPTON.
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During the years following the date of this confession, England
was the scene of fierce commotion; rebellion, fomented by the Earl
of Warwick, spread on every side, till it drove the Yorkist monarch
from his throne, and once more fixed the crown on the brows of
Henry. The change was, however, transient; on the fourteenth day of
March 1471 Edward landed at Ravenspurn, the fields of Barnet and
Tewkesbury were fought in succession, and in May Henry VI.
died, leaving his rival in undisputed possession of the Kingdom.
During this interval of time, the conduct of the Earl of Northum-
berland must be our index to that of Sir William Plumpton;
“ for grete partye of the noble men and comons in thos (North)
parties were towards th’Erle of Northumbarland, and would not
stir with any lorde or noble man other than with the sayd Earle,
or at leaste by his commandement.” £ But, after intelligence had
arrived of the landing of Queen Margaret, the gentry of the north
parts began to make commotions, which were, however, speedily
put down by the tidings of Edward's victory at Tewkesbury; "and
dyvors of them made menes to th’erle of Northumberland, be-
seching hym to be good meane to the Kyng for his grace and
pardon.”g Among others, Sir William Plumpton had letters of
general pardon for all offences committed before the last day of
September, 11 Edw. IV. 1471 ;. but the King having rewarded
the services of the Earl by a grant of the offices of Constable,
Marches, made an inroad into Scotland in company with the revolted Earl Douglas.
Baldersby-in-les-Broome and Skipton-upon-Swale are townships in the parish of Top-
cliffe, but in different wapentakes, being on opposite sides of the river, the boundary.
The bridge over the Swale at Skipton would cause this line of road to be frequented
by those whose route from Knaresborough was directed towards the East Marches of
Scotland, through North-Allerton and Darlington.
f"Restoration of King Edward IV.” Printed for the Camden Society, 1838, p. 7.
6 Ibid. p. 32.
• Edwardus, &c. O'ibus, &c. salutem. Sciatis de gratia, &c. perdonavimus, &c. Will'o
Plompton de Plompton, in com. Ebor. militi, alias dicto Will'o Plompton nuper de Ke-
nalton in com. Nott: militi, &c. omnimodas transgressiones &c. per ipsum Willielmum
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HISTORICAL NOTICES
Steward, and Master Forester of the castle, lordship, and forest of
Knaresborough, and the latter having appointed his brother-in-
law, William Gascoigne, of Gokethorp, esq. his deputy, he was
compelled to submit to an encroachment upon the rights of his
patent office. Of a violent quarrel with the last-named party on
this score, some particulars will be found in the Correspondence.
In the meanwhile, the proceedings of the Ecclesiastical Courts
for the canonical recognition of Sir William Plumpton's second
marriage were continued, and this further evidence adduced in
that behalf on the sixth of July, 1472.
- Richard Clerk, parish clerk of Knaresburgh, Yorkshire, of
the age of fifty years and more, deposed, that he had known Sir
William Plompton for fifty years and more, and Joan Wintring-
ham from the time of her birth-that on a certain friday, which
exactly he does not remember, between the feasts of Easter and
Pentecost, about twenty-one years ago, in the parish church of
Knaresburgh, was solempnized a marriage between the said Sir
William and Joan-that at that time he was, as now, parish
clerk of Knaresburgh, and was present on this occasion, that the
preceding night John Brown, then perpetual vicar of Knares-
burgh, sent word to the deponent that Sir William Plumpton in-
tended to marry Joan Wintringham on the morrow, she then so-
journing with Alice Wintringham her mother in Knaresburgh, and
therefore he bade him wait on him very early the next morning and
open the doors of the church for him, and so he did—and very
early in the morning of the said Friday came the said Sir William
and Joan to the parish church of Knaresburgh-and, they
standing at the door of the chancel of the said church within the
said church, the aforesaid John Brown came from the high altar
ante ultim' diem Septembris, anno regni n'ri undecimo, contra formam statutorum
&c. Irrot. Blakwall.
Per ipsum Regem.
(Cartul. No. 578. Date in margin, 2 Dec. 11 Edw. IV. 1471.)
OF THE FAMILY OF PLUMPTON.
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in his vestments and solempnized marriage between them in the
presence of the deponent, the said Sir William taking the said
Joan with his right hand and repeating after the vicar, Here I take
the Jhennett to my wedded wife to hold and to have, att bed and att
bord, for farer or lather, for better for warse, in sicknesse and in
hele, to dede us depart, and thereto I plight the my trouth, and the
said Joan making like response incessantly to the said Sir Wil-
liam—that the vicar, having concluded the ceremony in the usual
form, said the mass of the Holy Trinity in a low voice in the
hearing of the deponent—that there were present at the marriage
the said vicar, the contracting parties, Alice Wintringham mother
of the bride, Thomas Knaresburgh of Knaresburgh, Richard Ask-
ham of Kirkdighton, Richard Exilby of Knaresburgh, and John
Croft, his fellow witness, and no more—and immediately after the
marriage the said Sir William earnestly entreated those present to
keep the matter secret, untill he chose to have it made known-
and further, that Sir William was clad in a garment of green
checkery, and Joan in one of a red colour."
“ John Croft of the age of forty years, domestic servant of Sir
William Plumpton in his chamber, deposed to the same effect as
his fellow-witness, adding that Joan Wintringham had on a grey
hood--that the marriage was celebrated before sun-rise-and
that he had kept silence untill within the last five or six
years.” i
Upon the hearing of this evidence, Doctor William Poteman,
the official of the court of York, on the 13th of the same month,
certified that Sir William Plumpton, kt. and Joan Wintringham,
were legally married ;j and from that time Robert Plumpton, the
son by this marriage, was taught to consider himself as the heir
apparent of his father's house, and the future owner of his pro-
perty. Legal obstacles were, however, likely to interpose to
i Cartul. Nos. 582 and 631.
j Ibid. No. 583.
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IHISTORICAL NOTICES
prevent the intended eviction of the heirs general, and it
became advisable to take fresh steps to effectuate the now
avowed purpose of the interested parties. Conveyances were
accordingly executed of the several estates of Sir William
Plumpton to feoffees, viz. Richard Andrewes, dean of York,
William Eure, clerk, Sir John Norton, kt., Ranulph Pygot, John
Arthington of Arthington, Godfrey Grene, and Richard Knares-
burgh ; of the manor of Plumpton, together with the advowson
of the chantry of the Holy Trinity in the cathedral church of
Ripon, 12 Oct. ;k of Garsington in Craven 13 Oct.; l of Idill, with
the advowson of a chantry at the altar of St. Nicholas in the
church of St. Martin in Mekilgate, 14 Oct.;m of Steton, same
day;n of Kynalton 30 Oct.;º of the manors of Chaddesden,
Derley, Stainton, Edinsor, Pillesley, Hassop, Wormehill, Chel-
merton, with the advowson of a chantry at the altar of St. Cross
in the church of Baukewell, and of another in the chapel of St.
Margaret of Elton, and of all hereditaments in the same places,
and in Hurdlow, Flagfeld, Queston, Cumbes, Martinside Betfeld,
Tidswall, Castleton, Wardlow, Rowland, Baukewell, Calton Lees,
Beley, Broughton, Twyford, Spounden, Newbold, and Lokhaw in
the county of Derby, Crakemarsh and Combrig in the county of
Stafford, Mansfeld Woodhouse, Hykling, Owthrop, and Colston
in the county of Nottingham, with the advowson of a chantry at
the altar of St. Mary in the church of Mansfeld Woodhous, 2nd
Nov. and of Okbrook, with the hereditaments there and in Bur-
rosasshe, 6th Nov.15 Edw. IV.1475. The said feoffees resettled the
same upon Sir William Plumpton for term of his life, with remain-
der in tail to Robert Plumpton, junior, son of Sir William and Joan
his wife, and the heirs of his body, remainder over to Sir William's
right heirs; save that as to the manor of Plumpton, of a close with
k In Cartul. No. 586.
a1 Ibid. No. 593.
1 Ibid. No. 589.
o Ibid. No. 596.
m Ibid. No. 591.
p Ibid. No. 598.
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buildings on it called Roughferlington, and of the manors of Gar-
sington and Steton, Com. Ebor., and of Kynalton, Com. Notts.,
the first limitation was to Sir William Plumpton and Joan his
wife for their lives, and in the manor of Okbrook, after the life
estate of Sir William Plumpton, certain parcels were to be enjoy-
ed by his bastard sons, William Plumpton, junior, and Robert
Plumpton, senior, for the term of their natural lives. 9 Not long
after these settlements, Robert Plumpton, junior, was married in
the domestic chapel of the manor house of Gokethorp, in the
parish of Harwood, to Agnes, sister of William Gascoigne, esq. of
that place, daughter of Sir William Gascoigne, kt. late deceased.
The contract of marriage bears date 13 July, 17 Edw. IV. 1477,"
but the licence to the vicar of Harwood for its celebration was
I The deeds of settlement bear date as follow : of Plumpton and Roughferlington
23 Oct., of Idell 24 Oct., of Steton 25 Oct., of Garsington 26 Oct., of Kynalton 1
Nov., of Chaddesden, &c. 4 Nov., and of Okbrook 9 Nov. 15 Edw. IV. 1475.
(Cartul. No. 587, 588, 590, 592, 594, 597, 600 et 603.)
This indenture made the xiiith day of July, the xviith yeare of the reigne of King
Edward the iiijth, betwixt Will’m Plompton, knight, in that one partye, and Will'm
Gascoigne, squier, on that other partye, witnesseth that the said Will'm Plompton,
knight, grants unto the said Will’m Gascoigne that Rob't Plompton, son and heire
apparant to the said Will’m Plompton, knight, shall by the grace of God, take and
wed unto his wife Agnes, the sister of the said Will'm Gascoigne, betwixt this day and
the feast of St. Andrew thappostle next comyng. And the said Wil'm Plompton,
knight, shall make or cause to be made unto the said Rob’t and Agnes a sufficient
and lawfull estate of lands and tenements, to the yearly value of xxli over all manner
of charges and reprises, within the lordshipp of Kenalton in the county of Nottingham,
within a moneth next after the said marriage had, To have and to hold unto the said
Robert and Agnes, and to theires of their two bodyes lawfully begotten, the remainder
theirof to the right heires of the said Will’m Plompton, knight. And also the said
Wm. Plompton, kt., grants unto the said Will’m Gascoigne that he, nor any other
feoffee to his use, shall not make any feoffem' or lease of any maners, lands, or tenemts
that he hath, or that any other person or persons hath, for the agreement betwixt him
and Henry Sothill and Brian Roclif, or either of them, but of such maners, lands, and
tents as the said Will'm Gascoigne shall be privy to. And also if such evydence and
estats as the said Will’m Plompton, knight, hath made of all his maners, lands, and
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HISTORICAL NOTICES
delayed till the 13th Jan. 1477-8. In the mean time, the suspi-
cions of those who were interested for the heirs general were
roused, and proceedings at law were taken ; which resulted in
Brian Rouclif, third baron of the King's Exchequer, John Rouclif,
tents be not thought sufficient to the behoof of the said Rob't and his heirs by the coun-
cell of the said Will’m Gascoigne, that then the said Will’m Plompton, knight, shall
make or cause to be made all such sufficient estates as the councell of the said Wm. Gas-
coigne will then avise to be made, fynes and recoveryes onely except; for the which
mariage and covenants to be had and performed the said Will'm Gascoigne shall pay
or make to be paid unto the said Will’m Plompton, knight, a cli of lawful money of
England in the manner and forme that followeth, that is to say, xxli att the day of the
said marriage, or within a moneth then next after, and xl marke at that day twel-
moneth at the marriage is att: and so yearly at that day xl marks to the hole some of
the cli be trewly paid and satisfied. And for the payment of the said cli, the said Wm.
Gascoigne, with two sufficient persons with him, shalbe bounden unto the said Wm.
Plompton, knight, by their several obligacions, according to the dayes of paymt afore-
said. And the said Wm Gascoigne graunts that be shall of his owne costs and ex-
pence pay for the cost of the dynner of the said mariage, and also for the arayment of
the said Agnes his sister ; for the which covenants well and truly to be performed of
the party of the said Wm. Plompton, knight, the said Wm. Plompton, knight, grants
that he shall be bounden unto the said Will’m Gascoigne by his obligacions in the
some of iüic mark. In witness wherof the parties abovesaid to this indenture inter-
changeabull have put to their seale the yeare and day abovesaid. (Cartul. No. 604.)
r Henricus Gillow in decretis baccalarius ac canonicus residenciarius ecclesiæ metro-
politic' Ebor. et reverendissimi in Xp'o patris & d'ni, domini Laurentii p'missione
divina Ebor. Archiepiscopi, Angliæ primat' et Apostolicae sedis legati, vicarius in
spiritualibus gen'alis, dilecto nobis in Xp'o vicario ecclesiæ p'ochial de Harwood, sal't'm.
Quia Rob'tus Plompton p'ochiæ de Spofford et Agnes Gascoigne p'ochiæ de Harwood
matrimonium, ut dicitur, contraxerunt, illudq' in facie ecclesiæ solempnizať habere in-
tendunt: quodque matrimonium sic, ut prefertur, contract', bannis in utriusq' p'tis
p'dict ecclesiis p'ochialibus per tres dies solempnes inter se distantes, ut moris est, pub-
lice editis, licite et libere in capella infra manerium Will’mi Gascoigne p'och' de Har- .
wood p'd' situat solempnizare seu solempnizari facere valeas, dum tamen alicui eccle-
siæ nullum ex hoc p'judicium generetur, et aliquod canonicum non obsistat, licentiam
tibi concedimus specialem per p'sentes. Dat. Ebor. xiiiº die mensis Januarii, anno
D'ni Mill'imo accomo lxxviimo.
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disp. Even omas
in a thousand marks to Sir William Plumpton, kt. and Robert
Plumpton, junior, his son, that they, the said Brian and John,
and Margaret the wife of the said John Rouclif, should abide the
award of Thomas Burgh, William Gascoigne, Robert Constable,
and Hugh Hastings, knights, Robert Sheffeld, William Eland,
Thomas Fitzwilliams, Thomas Middleton, Edward Saltmarsh,
Miles Metcalf, John Everingham and John Dawney, concerning
all matters in dispute between them. The recognizance bears
date 29 May, 20 Edw. IV. 1480;s and it was conditioned that
judgment should be given before the feast of the Purification of
the Blessed Virgin Mary next following. But before that day
came, viz. on Sunday the 15th Oct. 1480, Sir William Plumpton
died,t leaving issue by his second wife, Joan Wintringham,
Robert, their only child. The sons by the first marriage have
been already mentioned; the daughters were,-1. Joan, con-
tracted in childhood to marry Thomas, the infant son and heir
of Robert Rosse, of Ingmanthorp, com. Ebor. esq. before the
Joh'es Gisburn, Canonicus residenciarius eccl'iæ Cath. Ebor. ac Rector eccli’æ p'och'
de Spofford, discreto viro vicario p’petuæ eccl'iæ pochial' de Harwood vestrove locum
tenenti aut vicem gerenti meumque, salutem in D'no. Noveritis me p'fatu' Joh'em
Gisburgh, dc'æ ecclesiæ de Spofforde rectorem, publice in facie ecclesie meæ p'ochialis
de Spofford anted'cæ banna per tres dies solemnes inter se distantes per capellanum
affuerat populi multitudo in eadem, inter honorabilem virum Robertum Plompton, ar-
migerum, filiu' d'ni Will'mi Plompton, militis, dc'æ ecclesiæ meæ de Spofford p'ochia-
num ex parte una, et honorabilem mulierem, Agnetem Gascoigne, p'ochianam vestram,
nuper filiam d'ni Will’mi Gascoigne, militis, nuper defuncti, ex altera parte,
legittime edi fecisse, et nullum impedimentu' ex parte dc'i Rob'ti invenisse, quin idem
Rob'tus cum eadem Agnete matrimonialiter valeat copulari. ln cujus rei testimonium
sigillu' meum p'sentibus apposui. Dat. Ebor. xiiº die mensis Januarii Anno d’ni
Mill’imo ccccmo LXXVIImo. (Cartul. No. 607 and 608.)
s Cartul. No. 610.
+ Esch. 20 Edw. IV. No. 88.
CAMD. soc. 4.
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feast of Allhallows in the year 1454: u but these espousals were
not consummated, and, 24 Aug. 8 Edw. IV. 1468, it was agreed
between William Middelton of Stokeld in the parish of Spofforth,
esq. and Sir William Plompton, kt., that Thomas Middelton, gent.
son of the said William, should take to wife Jane Plompton,
daughter of the said Sir William, before the feast of St. Michael ;
and that the said William Middelton should settle an estate in
jointure of lands and tenements in Brakenthwaite and Little
Ribstan in com. Ebor. at the costs of the said Thomas, Sir
William Plumpton defraying the charges of the marriage and
array of the said Jane conveniently, and giving with her a portion.
of cli• X—2. Elizabeth, wife of Sir William Beckwith, of Clint, in
the parish of Ripley and liberty of Knaresborough, Com. Ebor. kt.
Her contract of marriage is dated 12 Oct. 34 Hen. VI. 1455,
Sir William Plumpton and Thomas Beckwith, esq: being the
parties thereto. Their agreement was, that William, the eldest son
of the said Thomas, should take to wife Elizabeth, the daughter of
the said Sir William ; the said Thomas to give jointure to the
yearly value of xli. xiiis. iiiid, and to bind himself that all lands,
tenements, &c. of which he stood sole seized betwixt the water
u " It is accorded between Sir William Plompton, kt. and Robert Rosse, esq. that
Thomas Rosse, son and heir apparent to the sd Rob’t, shall wed and take to wife Johan,
daughter of the sd Sir Will’m Plompton, kt. before the feast of Allhallowes in the yeare
1454. And that the sd Robert shall give jointure to the sd Thomas and Johan of lands
and tentts to the yearly value of xx marks in Thirleby. It'm that the sd Robert shall
suffer after his decease to descend to the sd Thomas and his heirs, all the manors and
lands that he hath by his father, except landes to the yearly value of xx marks for the
tearme of the life of Margaret, wife of the sil Robert. Item. Sir William Plompton, kt.
to pay for the sd marriage and jointure cc marks." (Towneley MSS. G. 24. and see
Dodsworth's MISS. vol. L. f. 98 6.) Robert Roos inherited Thirleby, com. Ebor.
from Thomas Roos his father, who had it by virtue of a feoffment made by William de
Cantilupe, to him and to the heirs of his body.--/Rot. Parl. v. III. p. 79, 80.)
& Cartul. No. 570. Thomas Middelton was of the profession of the Law.
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of Nid and Thornton-bek, and in the towns of Muston, Fyley,
Halneby, Litle Aton, and South Ethrington, within the county of
York, should descend to his son William and his heirs : and also all
other lands, &c. of which Elizabeth, the wife of the said Thomas,
was jointly enfeoffed with the said Thomas, in like manner: and
the lands held by feoffees to his use to go to William and his next
heirs male. The marriage portion was fixed at cxxiiili, vis, viiid.
to be paid by instalments; and if the said Elizabeth should die
without issue male had of the said William Beckwith, then Sir
William Plumpton to be discharged of the surplus, if any,
remaining unpaid. Y~3. Katharine, wife first of William le
Zouche, Lord Zouche of Haryngworth and Baron St. Maur jure
matris, summoned to Parliament 28 Feb. 6 Edw. IV. 1466. He
died 14 Jan. 1467-8, his son and heir John being then of the age
of eight years, when his widow had Weston com. Warwick and
Canworth com. Herts. assigned in dower, and of which she died
seized in October, 10 Edw. IV. 1470, being then the wife of Sir
Gilbert Debenham, knight.2-4. Agnes, wife of Sir Richard Ald-
burgh, knight, who 20 Apr. 3 Edw. IV. 1463, contracted with
Sir William Plumpton to take to wife the said Agnes, his
daughter, the father agreeing to give ccxxx marks for a marriage
portion by instalments, and to find clothing and array according to
her honesty, and the husband to jointure to the yearly value of
xx marks afore the feast of St. John next ensuing; the day of
“ espousayles” to be upon Thursday next after St. Mark day
(28 April, 1463.)a_5. Alice, wife of Richard Goldsburgh of
Goldsborough, com. Ebor. esq. She had jointure of a messuage in
y Cartul. No. 541. Dat. in festo s'c'i Wilfridi Archiep'i anno r. r. Hen. VIti. post
conq. Angl. tricesimo quarto.
2 Esc. 8 Edw. IV. No. 53, et 11 Edw. No.40.
# Cartul. No. 555. Sir Richard Aldburgh died 16 Edw. IV.-Esc. de eod. anno.
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Goldsborough in the tenure of Robert Picard, and of lands and
tenements in Newton near Flaxbie, and in Creskeld and Poule, 15
Dec. 1471, by feoffment of Edward Goldsburgh; b the contract
for her marriage was then of some years standing, the bond being
of the date 1 Oct. 5 Edw. IV. 1465, but the espousals were de-
layed.—6. Isabel, wife of Sir Stephen Hamerton of Hamerton,
com. Ebor. kt. whose father had covenanted that he should marry
a daughter of Sir William Plumpton, 24 Mar. 25 Hen. VI. 1446-7.d
b Cartul. No. 579. Carta feoffamenti Edwardi Goldsburgh facti Ric'o Goldesburgh
et Aliciæ uxori suæ. H. T. Will’o Plompton, Ric'o Aldburgh, Joh’e Malliverere, et
Will’mo Stapulton, militibus, Rob'to Roos de Ingmanthorp et Willo Middleton de
Stokeld, armigeris, et Thoma Middleton, generos'.—Dat apud Goldsburgh xymo die
Dec. aº r. r. Edw. IV. post conq. Angliæ undecimo.
e Cartul. No. 586. Carta obligatoria Thomæ Goldsburgh de Goldsburgh, com.
Ebor. et Johannis Norton de Norton, com. Ebor. militis, Willelmo Plumpton militi in
ccc marcis solvendis in festo Natalis D'ni prox. futur. Dat. įmo. die Oct. aº r. r. Edw.
IV. post. conq. quinto. (See Correspondence of Sir William Plumpton, Letter VI.)
d This iudenture made the xxiiiith day of March, in the yeare of the reign of King
Henry the sixt xxyth, betwene Sir Will’m Plompton, knight, on thone party, and Richard
Hamerton, squier, on thother party, witnes, that where the said Richard is bounden
to the said Sir Will'm in an obligation of ac marcs made the first day of March in the
yeare aforesaid, payable at the feast of St. Michael tharchangell next sewing, tbe
said Sir Will'm wills and grants to the said Richard by thes presents, that if all the
lands and tenements, rents, revercions and services, with thappurtenances, whereof
Laurence Hamerton, fader to the said Richard, and the said Richard, are ioyntly or
severally seazed, and whereof they, or either of them, or any other to their use, or to
the use of either of them, att this tyme takes the profitt, discend, revert, remayne, or
fall in fee simple or in fee taile, discharged of every rent fra hence forward by the said
Lawrence and Richard, or either of them, to be granted, to theirs male of the said
Richard solely, immediately after the decease of the said Lawrence and Richard,
dower of the said lands and tenements to the wives of the said Laurence and Richard
and either of them except, (And except that it be lawfull to the same Richard to make
or do make a state of the said lands to Elizabeth, his wife, to the yearly value of xxiiij
marcs over all charges and reprises for tearme of her lyfe withoutyn impechment of
wast, and also except that it be lawfull to the same Richard to make or do make estate for
terme of lives of ii or thre persons att most, ioyntly or severally, of and in the said lands
and tenements to the yearly vallue of xlli over all charges and reprises and no more,)
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–7. Margaret, wife of Sir George Darell of Sessay, com. Ebor.
kt. He died in April, 6 Edw. IV. 1466, when his widow re-mar-
ried John Nevill of Womersley, com. Ebor. esq. to whom she
was second wife. She died in May, 1487, having survived her
last husband five years.e
The Correspondence of Sir William Plumpton, any more than
the facts elicited in the preceding memoir, presents his character
in no very favourable light; fond of litigation, we find him ever
letting matters proceed to extremities before taking up his obliga-
tions, and to gain time, availing himself of practices “not worship-
ful”—an adept in deceit, paying court to one mistress, though
secretly married to another—fraudulent in his dealings, obtaining
money for the marriage of his grand-daughters, when it must
have been his fixed resolve to strip them of their inheritance--
abusive of his authority, “suing every true man in the Forest,”
and fearing not to shed blood in the assertion of pretended rights-
immoral in his conduct, suffering an innocent wife to labour under
slanderous report during years of silence—and time-serving in his
loyalty, amassing wealth and coveting offices of trust under Princes
that then the said obligacion be voyd and of none vallue. And also alway forseene,
that if it happen no son and heire of the same Richard to have issue with none of the
daughters of the said Sir William that then the said obligacion to be voyd and of no
value. In witnes of which things the said parties to thes indentures interchangeably
have sett their seales, the day and yeare abovesaid.”—(Cartul. No. 534.) The arms
of Hamerton impaling Plumpton were in painted glass in the chapel at Plumpton Hall,
at the time of the Visitation of Richard St. George Norroy.-(MSS. Coll. Arm. C. 13);
and in Long Preston Church under an arch opening the Hamerton quire to the chancel,
on the founder's stone, is carved a shield, quarterly, Plumpton and Foljamb. This
chantry was founded in 1445, but this carving is of later date than the above indenture,
for in the inscription Richard Hamerton, then a squier, is called Miles. The above
contract will therefore have been the reason for giving this unimpaled shield a place
here, though no actual marriage had yet taken place between the children.
e MSS. Add. 5530. f. clx. apud Coll. Top. et Gen. vol. i. p. 707. inter addenda.
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of either House. Of the degree of eminence he raised himself to by
these unworthy means, a strong proof may be found in the licence
which he obtained from King Edward IV. to embattle his manor-
place at Plumpton, and to enclose a park there, with liberty of war-
ren and chase. The edifice thus built is noticed by the antiquary
Leland in his Itinerary, in these words : “From Gnarresborow over
Nid river almost al by wood a mile to Pluntone, wher is a park and
a fair house of stone with 2 toures longging to the same.”g At the
visitation of St. George Norroy, in 1612, there was remaining in
the Hall at Sir Edward Plumpton's this shield, “ quarterly, Plump-
ton and Foljambe, impaling Stapleton with the mullet,” the armo-
rial bearings of this Sir William Plumpton and his first wife Eliza-
beth Stapleton. In the chapel were the coats, Plumpton impaling
Clifford-Darell impaling Plumpton-Hamerton impaling Plump-
ton--and “ Argent, a fess between three wolves' heads erased
Gules ;" perhaps, the arms of office of the Master Forester of
Knaresborough Forest.h
Some time before his death, 1 May, 18 Edw. IV. 1478, Sir
William Plumpton had made an absolute disposition of all his
personal effects, moveable and immoveable, in favour of his son,i
so as to preclude the necessity for any will; consequently, the
only memorial respecting him remaining in the ecclesiastical
court at York is a commission from the official, dated 10 Jan.
20 Edw. IV. 1480-1, for John Quixley, chaplain, and Richard
Plumpton, to collect the debts and make the inventory of the
effects of the intestate, which they were to retain in their custody.k
In regard to the landed estate, it was matter of urgent necessity
f Cartul. No. 585. Teste meipso apud Westm: decimo-septimo die Febr. anno
regni nostri tertio decimo. (7 Feb. 13 Edw. IV. 1467-8).
8 Leland's Itinerary, vol. i. f. 104. p. 99.
h Vis. Ric. St. George Norroy, in Coll. Arm. C. 13.
i Cartul. No. 685.
k Ibid. No. 628.
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that the title of Robert Plumpton, the son, should be admitted
before the Escheator, and that the office found upon the inquisitio
post mortem of his father should be returned in that sense to the
Court of Chancery. The mode of ensuring this result we learn
from the following document:
66 This indenture, made the last day of November, the yeare of
the reigne of King Edward iiiith the xxth, Betwene William Gas-
coigne, knight, on that one party, and Edmund Parpoint Exchetor
for our Lord King in the shyres of Nottingham and Derby on
that other party, Witnesseth, that the said William Gascoigne,
knight, and the said Exchetor be agreed in manner and forme
that followeth; that is to say, that the said Exchetor shall indevor
him to do that belongeth him in his said office, as well in the
shire of Nottingham as in the shire of Darby aforesaid, to find an
office after the decease of William Plompton, knight, now dead,
and to make his precept to the Sherife of the said shires, and to
write to the saide Sherife to have such men impannelled as above-
said William Gascoigne shall name. And that the said Exchetor
shall cause to his power both the offices, as well in the one shire
as in the other, to be found betwixt this and the feast of Nativity
of our lord God next comeinge, according to such evidence as
shal be shewed there by the counsell of the said William Gas-
coigne, knight, of all such mannors, lands, tenementes, rents,
revercions, and services, with other appurtenances, of which the
said William Plompton, knight, now dead, was seised of in fe, or
otherwise, in the said shires, in his life, or any other to his use.
For which the said William Gascoigne, knight, shall pay or cause
to be paid to the said Edmund Parpoint iiiili for his office so
found, retorned and put into the Chauncery of our said sovereigne
Lord the King, according to the right and title of evidence above
rehersed, and xxs for his reward; which putting in shalbe att the
charge & cost of the said William Gascoigne, knight. And also
the said William Gascoigne, knt, shall save the saide Edmund
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Parpoint, Exchetor, harmles for the said office so found and re-
torned. In witnes whereof either party interchangeably to this
Indenture hath setto their sealls. Written the yeare and day
abovesaid.” 1
Inquisitions were taken according to this agreement before the
said Escheator at Derby on the 18th of December, and at Lenton
in Nottinghamshire on the 20th of the same month; and in both
the feoffment to Master Richard Andrews, Dean of the cathedral
church of York and his co-trustees, with the subsequent limitation
to Sir William Plumpton for life, remainder to Robert Plumpton,
jun. his son, and the heirs of his body, and then to his right heirs,
is set forth. In the one, the finding is that de tali statu inde obiit
seisitus, remanere inde in forma predicta ; m but the estate in
Nottinghamshire having been reconveyed to Sir William Plump-
ton and Joan his wife conjointly, the finding is that she survived
him et se tenuit intus per jus accrescendi. n. The jury upon the
inquest in Yorkshire made a like return according to the tenor of
the feoffment produced before them, the same I have adverted
to above. This office was taken by William Netilton, Escheator,
at Wedirby, on Friday before the feast of St. Martin in winter,
10th Nov. 20 Edw. IV. 1480 ;º and in it, as also in the others,
are the usual findings of the day of the death of the deceased, and
the names and ages of the heirs-at-law, the daughters of William
Plompton, esq. son and heir of the said Sir William Plompton,
knight, viz. Margret, wife of John Roucliffe, of the age of twenty
years and more, and, Elizabeth, wife of John Sothill, of the age of
nineteen years and more: save that in the later inquisitions,
Margret is returned of the age of twenty-one years and more.
i Cartul. No. 625. m Ibid. No. 620.
n Ibid. No. 710.
• Ibid. No. 624. The jurors were Percivall Lyndley, esq. John Arthington, esq.
Thomas Hawkesworth, esq. William Exilby, gent. Henry Arthington, gent. John
Chambre, gent. William Lyndley, gent. Richard Saxton, John Baildon, William
Angrow, William Stead; George Swaile, John Herryson.
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The first act of Robert Plumpton, upon succeeding to the pro-
perty, was to increase the life-estate of his mother, Joan, giving
her in Yorkshire the manor of Idle, in addition to Grassington
and Steeton which she had by the settlements made in the life-
time of her father ;i and to her he appears to have borne at
all times a singular affection. This is strongly evidenced by the
draft of a will, made 13 July, 1482; in it he gives his whole es-
tate to Joan his mother, and Agnes his wife, for their joint lives,
before leaving it to Jane, then his only child, and who in the
meanwhile was merely to have 400 marks towards her proper dis-
posal in marriage. The claims of the heirs-general continued,
however, to be pressed notwithstanding the finding upon the inquest;
and 21 May, 22 Edw. IV. 1482, John Roclif, esq. and John Sothill,
esq. became bound in a penal sum of £2000 to Joan Plumpton,
widow,and Robert Plumpton jun., the condition of which bond was,
that they, and all others having right or title through the said Mar-
gret and Elizabeth their wives, should abide the award of the pre-
potent Prince and Lord, the Lord Richard, Duke of Gloucester, the
Lord Henry, Earl of Northumberland, Sir William Parr, kt. Sir
James Harrington, kt. Sir Hugh Hastings, kt. John Vavasor, ser-
jeant-at-law, Robert Sheffeld, William Eland, Miles Metcalf, and
John Dawney, arbitrators chosen by both parties. Subsequently,
14 Feb. 1482-3, the condition of the bond was altered, and the
agreement was to abide the award of the King's Majesty, to be
given in writing before the feast of the Translation of St. Thomas
17 July) next ensuing;m but King Edward IV. dying during the
i Cartul. n. 701, et seq. The trustees for the purposes of this settlement were Sir
Christopher Ward, kt. John Gascoign, esq. Richard Knasburg, gent. John Quixley,
chaplain, and Henry Fox, valet, and the dates respectively 25, 26, and 27 Oct. 20
k Cartul. 718. The feoffees to the uses of this will were Dame Joan Plompton,
widow, John Wyntringham, chaplain, and Robert Sykerwham. (Ibid. No.716.)
Cartul. No. 629.
m Ibid. 720.
CAMD, soc. 4.
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III. 1483,n and on the sixteenth of that month this judgment was
given :
“ Richard, by the grace of God, King of England, and of Fraunce,
and Lord of Irland, To all christen people, to whome this our pre-
sent writing of awarde shall come, greating. Whereas divers vari-
ences and discords have bee e movid betwyxt dame Johanne late
wife of William Plompton knight, and Robert Plompton knight,
on that one party, and John Roucliff esquire, and Margaret
his wife, John Sotehill esquire, and Elizabeth his wife, cossines
and heires of the same Sir William Plompton, that is to say,
doghters of William Plompton esquire, sone to the same Sir Wil-
liam on that other partie, for, in, and upon the right, title, clame
and intresst of all the lordships, mannors, lands, tenements, and
heredaments, with thappertenances, that sumtime were the same
Sir William Plompton knight, or any other to his use were or be
seasid of, or whearof any of the said parties, or anie other to their
use, or any of them, ar or weare seased, and of all other causes,
quarels, matters, debates, accions, and demands moved amongst
the said parties, whearuppon the said parties by their escripts oh-
ligatories, bering date the xii day of September, the first yeare of
our reigne, be baunden either partie to other severally in tow
thousand pownde to obey, performe, and kepe our award, ordi-
nance, and doume in and of the premises; and we intending reast,
pease, and quiet amongst all our leige people and subiects, have
taken uppon us the buisenes and laboure in that behalfe, and
repely by goode delibracion have herd and examined the intresst
and title of the said parties in the primeses, by the advise of our
Lords of our Councill, and of our Judges thearunto called.
Thearuppon by the assent, consent, and agrement of all the said
parties we awarde, ordeine, and deme in the premises in forme fol-
lowing; that is to say, that the same Margret wife to the same
n Cartul. No.721.
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John Roucliffe, and Elizabeth wife to the same John Sotehill,
shall have a suficent, and lawfull estate of all lordships, mannors,
lands, and tennements following; that is to say, the mannors of
Gársington and Steeton, in our shire of Yorke, with all other
lands, tennements, rents, services, and reversions within the
townes of Garsington and Steton, and alsoe all other lands, tenne-
ments, rents, services, reversions, and herediments, with the
appurtenances, within the mannors and townes of Chaddesden,
Sponden, Okebroke, Broughton, Wormhill, Whestone, Tidswall,
Martineside, Combes, Betfeild, Hurdlowe, Chelmerton, Werdlow,
Castleton, Burgh, Neubold, Pillsley, Edinsore, Calton, and
Leghes, in our shire of Derby; all which mannors, lands, &c. we
exstend to be the yearly rent of ccxxiiij markes over all charges
and reprises. And ower that, we awarde the same Sir Robert
Plompton, and dame Johne Plompton his mother, and all others
having title, &c. to the use of the same Sir Robert and Dame
Johanne, or either of them, afore the feast of St. John Baptist
next coming, shall make or cause to be made a suficent and law-
full estate of and in all the same mannors, &c. to the same John
Roucliffe and Margret, John Sotehill and Elizabeth, and to the
heires of the bodies of the same Margret and Elizabeth lawfully
gotten; and for defaut of such issue, the remeynder thereof to the
right heires of the said Sir William Plompton; in full satisfaction
of ccxxiiii marke by yeare over all charges and reprises, be re-
cover, fine, or feoffement, or otherwise, as the councill of the same
Margret and Elizabeth shall advise, and be thought reasonable by
Sir William Husse, knight, our Cheife Justice, and Sir Guy Fairfax,
one of our Justisers of our bench, at proper costs of J.R. and M.,J.S.
and E. discharged of all grants and statuts maide by the same Robert
or dame Johanna, feffe or feffies to the use of them or either of
them, or by anie feffments maide by the same Sir William Plomp-
ton, whereunto the saide Sir Robert or Dame Johanna were privy.
Also we award that if the said Sir William, or any feofie to his use
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or the use of his heires, have maide any grant of rent or statute,
wherby any of the same grownds, lands, tennements, now as-
signed by this our awarde to the same Margret and Elizabeth, be
charged, that then the same Sir Robert and his heires shall make
or cause to be maide a suficient and lawful estate to the same
M. and E. and to the heirs of their bodies lawfully gotten, the re-
mainder hereof in forme aforesaid, of lands and tennements to
the yearly value of such charge, as hade, extendeth unto, within
halfe a yeare after the same grant of rent or statute truly knowne
and understoode. And likewise we award that the said Sir Robert
Plompton afore the said feast of St. John Babtist shall have a su-
ficient and lawfull estate of the resedew of all the lordships, man-
nors, lands, &c. which weare the same Sir William Plompton, or
any other to his use, or to the use of his heires. And over that
we awarde that the same J. R. and M., J. S. and E. and all other
having title, &c. shall make, or cause to be maide, a suficient and
lawfull estate in and of all the aforesaide resedew of the foresaid
mannors, &c. to the same Sir Robert, and to the heirs of his body
lawfully gotten, and for defaute of such issue, the remainder therof
to the right heirs of the same Sir William Plompton, by recorde,
fine, feofment, release, or otherwise, as the counsill of the same Sir
Robert shall advise, and be thought reasonable by the same Sir
William Huse and Guy, at proper costs and expences of the same
Sir Robert Plompton, discharged of all grants or statutes maide by
the same J. R. and M., J. S. and E. or any of them, feffe or feofes
to the use of them or any of them, whereunto the same J. R. and
M., J. S. and E. wear prive or of knowledge. The mannor of
Nesfelde with thappurtinances, which the same John Rouclife
and Margret have of the gift and feofment of the same Sir Wil-
liam Plompton, to be to the same John Roclife and Margret
and the heires of their bodyes lawfully gotten, according to the
same gift thereof to the same J. R. and M. made by the same Sir
W. Plompton, knight; and if thear be ony lands of Nesfeild or
OF THE FAMILY OF PLUMPTON.
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Langbergh, that d and understoodeni Cheife Judge
Langbergh, that be no parcill of the mannor of Nesfeild, and that
evidently shewed and understoode by the fest of Purification of
our Lady next coming affore our said Cheife Judge and Sir Guy,
then all such lands and tenements so shewed and understoode as
noe parcill of the same mannor of Nesfeild, be to the same Robert
and to the heires of his body lawfully gotten, and for defaut of
such issue, the remainder thereof to the right heires of the same
Sir W. Plompton, and to have a sufficient and lawfull estatte
made thereof, as is rehearsed afore, att costs and expenses of the
same Sir Robert. And ower this, we award that the same J. R.
and M., J. S. and E. shall make or cause to be maide by ther
deede sufficient in law, a sufficient and lawfull grant unto the same
Sir Robert Plompton of 40li of rent-charge, with a clause of dis-
tresse, yearly goeing out of certain lands and tenements, persil of
of the same manners, lands, and tenements, yearly to be paid att
feasts of Martinmas and Whittsunday by even portions, for
tearme of the life of Elizabeth late wife of the same William
Plompton, son of the said Sir W. Plompton, kt. and the grant to
be had and maide afore the feast of St. Martin in Winter by the
advice of the said Mistresse, att proper costs and expences of the
said Sir Robert Plumpton. And moreover, we awarde that if the
said Rob., J. R. and M., J. S. and E. his wife, or anie of them or
theire heires, by lawfull entre or recovere haud, have and attaine
the possession of the mannor of Elton and Stainton, with the ap-
purtenance, in our countie of Derby, or the 5th part of the mannor
of Newton besides Blithfeild in our countie of Stafford with thap-
purtenances, that then he or those that so shall happen to have
or recover the same manners, lands, and tennements or ani percill
thereof, shall have occopy and enjoy the same manners, &c. with
the issues and proffits of the same, unto such time as the partie
which so recovereth be fuly satisfied of the moyte of such costs,
as he or thaye have done abowte the recovery or attaining of the
same, the said costs to be assessed by the othe of him or them
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HISTORICAL NOTICES
that so maketh or beareth the same. And if thear be any agree-
ment maid, whearuppon any recoveres shall be had for the right
and title of every of the said lands and tennements by the said
parties or any of them, that then the same recompence shalbe
equalie devided betwene the same parties, that is to say, the one
moyte therof to the same Sir Rob. Plompton, and that other to the
same J. R. and M., J. S. and E. their wifes. And moreover, if the
same Johanne Plompton, or Sir Robert Plompton, or either of them,
or any other in their name or for them, any time sith the feast of
Pentecost, xxi yeare of the reigne of King Edward the iiii, our
Brother, have received, taken, or levied any rents, services, issues,
profits or revenewes of anie of the forsaid mannors, lands and ten-
nements above awarded to the same J.R.and M.,J.S. and E., which
weare dewe or paable at any tearme or day after the said feast of
Whitsonday, we award that the same Dame Johanne and Robert
shall content and pay unto the said J. and M., J. and E. all such
rents and revenues affore the said feast of Pasch next coming
after making of this our award; and in likewise if the same J. R.
and M., J. S. and E. or any of them &c. And as for all such
evidences, escripts, and munyments as concerneth all the said
• The manor of Elton had been the property of Sir Edward Foljambe of Tideswall,
com. Derby, kt. whose issue having failed before 4 Edw. IV. 1464, the inheritance
was claimed by Sir William Plumpton as heir-general, and by Thomas Foljambe of
Walton, com. Derby, esq. under a special entail. In that year the latter gave to
Richard, Earl of Warwick, and William, Lord Hastings, Chamberlain of the King, the
manor of Tideswell com. Derby, and lands in Tideswell, Hucklow, Wormhill, Abney,
Longsden and Button (Coll. Top. et Gen. vol. i. p. 347); and 8 Apr. 19 Edw. IV.
1479, Dame Cecilia Fuljambe, relict of Sir Edward Fuljambe, knight, in her widowhood,
granted to Sir William Plompton, kt. her manor of Elton, com. Derby, with the ap-
purtenances in Elton aud Stainton, and a fifth part of the manor of Newton, near
Blithfeild in the county of Stafford, and released absolutely to him all right and title
therein. (Cartul. No. 593.) What was the result of this suit does not appear ; save
that no proceedings were taken by Sir Robert Plumpton after this adverse award in
favour of the heirs-general, which necessarily cast a slur upon his title virtute doni,
and rendered it of little avail in any claim as against them.
OF THE FAMILY OF PLUMPTON.
хсү
mannors, &c. or any parcell of them, we awarde that the same
Sir Robert Plompton shall deliver all such evidences, &c. which
the same Sir Robert haith, or any other to his use, &c. which by
this our award be assigned to the same Margret and Elizabeth, as
is above specefied, to the same M. and E. by the feast of Pasch
next coming. Also we award that the same J., M., J. S. and E.
shall deliver all such evidences &c. which by this our award be as-
signed to the same Sir Robert; and therein we award that all such
evidences, escripts, or muniments be delivered by the advice and
discretion of the said Cheife Juge and Sir Guy afore the feast of
St. John Babtist next coming. Over this we award that if the
aforesaid manner of Elton and Stainton or the 5th part of the
same mannor of Newton be recovered, or the possession therof
attained, as is rehearsed above, that within the space of half a
year after the same paiment, he or those that shall happen to re-
cover or ateine the lawfull possession in and of the same, shall
make or cause to be made unto him soe paying the same halsen-
dale, a suficient and lawfull estate of the moyte of the same man-
nors, lands, and tennements so recovered and attained, to have to
him and the heires of his body gotten in manner and forme as is
above rehearsed. And if ther be any article, clause, or matter
comprehended in this our award, which by reason of consions of
right oweth or should be reformed, it so be interpritted and re-
formed afore the true interprition, effect, and intent of this our
award by us and our Juggies, or counsill for reformation of the
same. In witnesse whereof we have sined this our present award
with our owne hand, and the same with our privie signit, the
16 day of the month of September, the first yeare of our reine.”p
Substantial justice appears to have been done by this award,
and its conditions were peaceably acquiesced in by both parties
for a lengthened series of years. But it was the misfortune of Sir
p Cartul. No. 722.
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HISTORICAL NOTICES
Robert Plumpton to have lived in the days of a monarch who,
under the pretence of a rigid enforcement of the law, sought only
the means to gratify his avarice. By the greedy and rapacious
lawyers, his tools, every defect of title or breach of statute, which
might furnish the pretext for a suit or fine, was eagerly caught at
in order to swell the revenue, while they themselves reaped the
reward of their bare-faced maintenance, whichever side they ad-
vocated. In this manner was the claim of the heirs-general
revived by the notorious Empson; but before I detail the pro-
ceedings consequent thereupon, which ended in reducing Sir
Robert Plumpton to beggary, it will be proper to give some
account of his public career.
Within two years after his father's death, Sir Robert Plumpton,
when serving with the Earl of Northumberland, was knighted by
the Duke of Gloucester in Hoton-feild beside Berwick, 22 Aug.
22 Edw. IV. 1482; and, in company of the same Earl, he rode to
meet King Henry VII. in his progress towards York, in the first
year of his reign.
“ By the way in Barnesdale a litill beyonde Robyn Haddeston
(lege Robyn Hudde ston) thErle of Northumberland with right a
great and noble Company mete and gave his attendaunce upon
the King; that is for to say, with 38 Knyghts of his feedmen,
beside Esquiers and Yeomen. Part of those Knyghts names are
ensuen. Sir.... Multon, Sir Tyme, Lorde of Seint Johns (lege
Sir Robert Multon, sometyme Lord of Seint John's), Sir William
Geiston (lege Gascon), Sir Robert Counstable, Sir Hugh Hastings,
Sir William Evers, Sir John Pikering, Sir Robert Plompton, Sir
Pers of Medilton, Sir Christofer Warde, Sir William Malary,
Sir Thomas Malyver (lege Malyvera), Sir William Englishby (lege
Engleby), Sir James Strangways, Sir Rauf Rabthorp, Sir Thomas
Normanvile, Sir Martyn of the See, Sir Robert Hilliart, Sir Rauf
Crathorn, Sir William Bekwith, Sir Robert Utreyte, Sir Thomas
Metham, Sir Richard Counyers, Sir William Darcy, Sir Stephen
OF THE FAMILY OF PLUMPTON.
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Hamton (leye Hamerton), and Sir William A. Stapleston (lege
Stapleton); and so proceded that same Mondaye to Pomfret,
wher his Grace remaynede unto the Thursday next following.9"?
Sir Robert Plumpton likewise attended, in the retinue probably
of the Earl of Northumberland, at the coronation of Queen Eliza-
beth, wife of Henry VII., in the third year of that reign, 25 Nov.
1487; on which occasion his youthful nephew, William Gascoigne,
was created a Knight of the Bath. Among his Correspondence
will be found a pressing letter from the same Earl, dated 24 April,
4 Hen. VII. 1489, charging him to come, with his nephew, Sir
William Gascoigne, and with such armed followers as he could
trust, to the town of Thirsk, on the Monday following the date
thereof. That Sir Robert obeyed this summons, and was thence-
forth actively engaged in suppressing the insurrection of the Com-
mons of Yorkshire, which commenced with the massacre of the Earl
of Northumberland “ besides Thurske, near Blackmor Egge, on
Saint Vitalis day, the 28th day of April” (Tuesday), and was fol-
lowed by a successful assault upon the city of York, this letter
of thanks sent from the Court is a sufficient token:
“ Trusty and wellbeloved wee greet you well. And whereas
wee understand by our squire Nicholas Kinston (lege Knifton),
9 Lel. Coll. vol. iv. p. 185, from a MS, in the Cotton library. Sir Robert Multon
was Prior of St. John's, Clerkenwell, in 1474; in which year (14 June) he was made
Warden of the East and Middle-Marches jointly with the Earl of Northumberland.
(Claus. 15 Edw. IV. m. 26.) In 1477 he resigned his office of Prior and was
succeeded by Sir John Weston.
* Lel. Coll. vol. iv. p. 219, where the name is misprinted Gasixyne, and afterwards
in the list subjoined of knights present at the ceremony, Gaston. Dame Gascoigne, his
mother, sister of the Earl of Northumberland, likewise heads the list of “ Ladyes” of
the court given by the Herald on this occasion, as “ Dame Gaston ;” but in reading
printed copies of ancient manuscripts, the t and c should be always made mutually
convertible, as from its being impossible to distinguish these letters from one another
as written, their right appropriation can only be determined by extraneous knowledge.
s The name of this Esquire of the Body to King Henry VIII. is printed Kinston in
CAMD. SOC. 4.
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HISTORICAL NOTICES
one of the Ushers of our Chamber, your true mind and faithful
liegiance towards us, with your diligent acquitall for the reduce-
ing of our people there to our subjection and obedience, to our
singuler pleasure and your great deserts ; wee hartily thanke you
for the same, praying for your persevering continuance therein.
Assureing you, that by this your demeaneing you have ministered
unto us cause, as gaged to remember you in time to come in any
thing that may bee to your preferment and advancement, as ever
did any our progenitors to our nobles in those parties. And as
any office of our gift there falls voyd, wee shall reserve them unto
such time as wee may bee informed of such men, as in the said
parties may bee meet and able for the same, praying you that if
there shall happen anie indisposition of our said people, ye will,
as ye have begun, endeavour you from time to time for the speedy
repressing thereof. And, furthermore, to give credence to oure
Squire aforesaid on such things as wee have commanded him at
this time to shew unto you on our behalfe. Given under our
signet at our mannor of Sheene, the thirteenth day of October."st
The lord Percy, at the time of his father's death, was only in
his twelfth year, having been born 12 Jan. 17 Edw. IV. 1477-8,
and consequently unable to take upon him the rule of the North,
now grown hereditary in his family; the King, therefore, esta-
blished in the government the Earl of Surrey, Sir Richard Tunstall,
and Sir Henry Wentworth. In the second year of the Earl of
Surrey's being there, the men of Yorkshire once more rose in
Rot. Parl. VI. 345. a. but in Leland's Collectanea, where his name twice occurs in the
Herald's Ceremonial which has been quoted from above, the reading is Kuyston and
Ruyston, with an interlineation over it Kyffton. I apprehend, therefore, that the real
orthography was Knyfton, and that he was identical with Nicholas Kniveton of Mer-
caston, com. Derby, esq. living at this period.-(Wolley's MSS.)
? From a copy in the Towneley MSS. Whitaker has printed this letter in an
abbreviated form, probably from Dodsworth's transcript, in his History of Craven, with
the date of the thirtieth of October instead of the thirteenth ; and this same date is
also in the Towneley MS. G. 24.
OF THE FAMILY OF PLUMPTON.
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rebellion in the West part of the country, and in May 1492, the re-
bels were defeated by the forces under his leading at Ackworth be-
sides Pomfrett. At this field, Sir Robert Plumpton was present, u
and demeaned himself so well, as again to merit the special thanks
of the Sovereign “ for his good and agreeable service in this last
commotion.” The royal letter bears date 28 May, 7 Hen. VII.
1492, and the precautions recommended by it for the time to
come, in order to secure the service of “ assured men,” show
strongly the feelings of disaffection towards Henry, which at that
time pervaded the North.
Sir Robert Plumpton had probably been confirmed in the offices
of Constable of the Castle of Knaresborough and of Master
Forester under the Earl of Northumberland, as well as in the
Stewardship of the Lordship of Spofford, immediately after the
death of his father; for it will be seen from the Correspondence
that he exercised the powers they conferred for a lengthened
period during this reign. Such being his credit and authority, he
was enabled to contract for an advantageous alliance on behalf of his
eldest son, William, when he had reached his twelfth year. By an
indenture, dated 11 May, 11 Hen. VII. 1496, between Sir Robert
Plompton, knt. and William Babthorp, gentleman, it was cove-
nanted and agreed, “ that William Plompton, son and heire ap-
parant to the said Sir Robert, shall with the grace of God marry
u See the letter of the Earl of Surrey to Sir Robert Plumpton in a note at page
96 of the Correspondence, where mention is made of Robert Beck (see Letter XX), a
servant of the latter, having found a gelding belonging to the Earl, which had been lost
upon the field of battle.
w See this letter also at page 96, note a. Through erroneous calculation of the
regnal year, the battle of Ackworth is there represented to have been fought in the
spring of the year 1491, instead of 1492, which the date, 28 May, 7 Hen. VII., re-
fers us to. That this last was the right year, also appears from the inscription on the
tomb of the Earl of Surrey at Thetford ; in which the suppression of the insurrection,
and the execution of the chief leaders, are referred to the same year as the King's ex-
pedition to the Continent and the siege of Boulogne.
HISTORICAL NOTICES
and take to wife Isabell Babthorp, cossin and heire to Dame
Isabell Hastings late deceased, late wife to Sir John Hastings, kt.
and neace to the said Will. Bapthorpe, before the feast of St.
Michell tharcangill next coming ..... Also it is agreed that the
said Sir Robert shall beare the costs of tharray of the said
William his son .... and the costs of the meate and drink to be
expended at the marriage .... and that the said Will. shall beare
the cost and charges of tharray of the said Isabell the day of her
first marrage. Also it is covenanted and agreed between the said
parties that the said Isabell shall have to hir heire the maner of Sa-
compt in the county of Hertford, and Watterton in the county of
Lincolne, and all other lands &c. in the said countie of Hertford,
and in Hotoft, Amcotes, and Watterton, in the countie of Lincoln,
and in Estoft, Selby, and Kerkby-upon-Wharfe, in the county of
York, except certain closes in Selby called the Flates, whereof
Sir Robert Babthorp, kt. or Dame Elizabeth his wife, grauntseder
and grauntmoder to the said Elizabeth,x or Sir Raufe Babthorp, kt.
unkell to the said Isabell, or any of them, were seased of ani
estaite of enhirretance, without let of the said Will. Babthorp or
his heirs for ever ..... And over this it is agread that the said
Will. Babthorp shall have, him and his heire, all those lands,
tennements, and herediments with their apurtenances in the parish
of Hemyngburgh, Midleton-upon-the-Would, Northcave, Hunds-
ley, Lofthouse, and Wistow, in the county of York, and in Colby
in the county of Lincolne, whereof the said Sir Robert Babthorpe,
Sir Raufe Babthorpe, knights, or Mr. Thomas Babthorp, clark,
or any of them, weare seased of any estaite of any enhiritance,
and also the said closes in Selby before except, in satisfaction of
all those lands &c. that wear or be entailed to any of the name of
Bapthorpe, his anchestors, or to the heir male of any of their
* Elizabeth and Isabell were used indiscriminately at this period in England, as
well as abroad, to denote the same proper name.
OF THE FAMILY OF PLUMPTON.
bodies, without let &c. And shall have all the evidence &c.
tuching the said lands &c. and t'ofice of the Steward and Master
Forester of the Forest of Galtres. . . . . . And that the said Sir
Robert Plompton, kt. shall have all the evidence &c. conserning
the residew of the mannors &c. that any time weare the said Sir
Robert Babthorpe, Rauffe Babthorpe, or anie ancestors of the said
Isabell .... Also the said Sir Robert Plompton granteth by theas
presents that he shall make, cause, asure, suffice a lawful estate,
to be maid before the said feast of St. Michell to Nicholas Mydle-
ton, Richard Grene, Robert Haldynby, esquires, and Richard
Plompton, clerk, of lands and tenements to the clearly value of
xx mark over all charges, to the use and intent that the said feofes
shall make estate of the said lands and tenements with their ap-
pertinances to the said Will: Plompton and Isabell, &c. within six
weakes next after the said Isabell cometh to the age of xvii yeare.
.... In witnes &c.” y The feoffment required by the last cove-
nant was made on the 14 Sept. 12 Hen. VII. 1496, and comprised
the manor of Hassop, with the appurtenances in Hassop and
Rouland, in the county of Derby; from which date it may be
presumed that the marriage was solemnized on the appointed
day.
Cartul. 781.
2 Ibid. 783.
PEDIGREE OF BABTHORPE, OF BABTHORPE COM. EBOR.

Arms : Sable, a chevron Or between three crescents Ermine.
Sir Robert Babthorpe, kt. Elianora, dau, and heir of=Bridget, dau.
of Babthorpe, com. Ebor. | John de Waterton, of Wa- of .... Pil-
and Sacomb, com. Herts. terton, com. Linc. esq. kyngton, of..
Executor to King Henry Feoffment before marriage com. Lanc.
V. Died 22 Aug. 14 Hen. | dated 12 Sept. Il Hen. (Impalement in
VI. 1436. Bur. at Hem. IV. 1410. (Impalement ch. of Hem-
ingbrough.
in ch. of Hemingbrough.) ingbrough.)
Ralph Babthorpe, son and heir, of Bab-Katharine, dau. of...... Ashley of ....
thorpe, com. Ebor. and Waterton, com. | Had Sacomb, settled in jointure 11 Sept.
Linc. esq. Slain at the battle of St. 8 Hen. V. 1420. Died 27 Aug. 1 Edw.
Alban's, 22 May, 33 Hen. VI. 1455. | IV. 1461. Buried at Hemingbrough.
Esquire of the King's Body.
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HISTORICAL NOTICES
It was shortly after the marriage of his son, that Sir Robert
Plumpton received intimation, in a letter from Edward Plumpton,
that the lawyer Empson intended “ to attempt matters against
Ralph Babthorpe,=Margaret, dau. of Sir Robert Bab- Elizabeth, dau. of Sir Wil- Thomas Bab-
esq. eldest son. Thomas Mitford thorpe, kt. son | liam Ryther, of Ryther, thorpe, Clerk,
Sewer to King and Isabella his and heir, æt. 32 com. Ebor, kt. Had lands Prebend of
Hen. VI. Slain wife. Feoffmt. on ad mort. patris. in Hotoft com. Linc. and Howden.
22 May, 33 Hen. marriage 20 July, Died..... Edw. Kirkly - super - Wharfe, Died 13 Oct.
VI.; buried with 19 Hen. VI. 1441. IV. 1466. com. Ebor. ex dono patris 18 Edw. IV.
his father at St.
in matrim. 23 June, 19 1478; bur. at
Alban's. s. p.
Hen. VI. 1441. Died.... Howden.
Sir Ralph=Margaret, d. Robert Katharine, William Bab-Christiana,=William Thomas
Bab- of William Bab (dau. of thorpe, of j dau. of Bedell, Babthorpe,
thorpe, Middelton, thorpe, Thomas Osgodby, | Henry esq.Liv- clerk. Pro-
kt. son & 1 of Stockeld, next Hag com. Ebor. Sotebill of ing 29 vost of the
heir, æt. com. Ebor. bro.
thorpe,
esq. ; in the | Stokfaston, Apr. 2 Collegiate
22 ad | esq. Living ther. of Brack- entail of Bab i com. Leic. Hen.
mort. pa- | 12 Nov. 21 Died enholm, thorpe, by esq. Died VIII. Heming-
tris. Died | Hen. VII. before com. Ebor. covenant ll 18 Apr.1540, 1510. brough.
7 March, 1505 ; had 11 May | esq.& wid. May, 11 Hen. buried in 2d bus. Died 8 Hen.
6 Hen. Waterton, 11 Hen. I of.. Eleson, VII. 1496. l Grey

be
band. VIII. 1517.
VII.
&c. in
VII. of Selby, Died 20 Hen. Friars,
1490. dower. 1490. com.Ebor.) VII. 1504. London.
Isabella, dau. andSir John Hastings,
heir, æt. 15 ad of Fenwick, com.
mort. patris. Mar- | Ebor, kt. æt. 22 ad
riage covenant be- mort. patris. 7
fore 20 June, 1 Jun. 4 Hen. VII.
Ric. III. 1484; | 1489. Tenant of
enfeoffed of lands | Babthorpe, & Sa-
in Babthorpe, He- | combe, per legem
myngburgh, Bra- | Angliæ. 2d wife,
kenholme, Selby, | Katharine, dau.
Thorpe & Estoft, of .... Aske of
com. Ebor. 20 Aughton, com.
July, 8 Hen. VII. | Ebor. Died.. 20
1493. Died.. 11 Hen. VII. 1504.
Hen. VII. 1496. Buried at Norton-
Priory, s.p.
Isabella, dau. of
Robert Bab-
thorpe, & cousin
& heir of Dame
Isabella Hast-
ings. Marriage
covenant 11 May,
11 Hen.VII.1496,
being then a minor
and in ward to
William Bab-
thorpe, her uncle;
solemnized 29
Sept. in the same
year. WIFE OF
WILLIAM PLUMP-
TON, ESQUI
(William
Eleson ;
a dau. w.
of ....
Girling-
ton, a
quo Ro.
bert and
a dau. w.
of Ralph
Ald-
borough;
a dau. W.
of ....
Comp-
ton, a
quo Tho.
mas.)
Sir William=Agnes, dau.
Babthorpe, 1 of Brian
kt. son and Palmes, of
heir, inf.æt. | Naburn,
ad mort. com. Ebor.
patris, et 29 | esq.
Apr. 2 Hen.
VIII. 1510;
in, ward to
his mother
and uncle.
One of the
Council of
the North.
Died 1 and
2 Ph, and
M. 1555.
Issue died young.
SIR WILLIAM BABTHORPE, to whom the manor of Babthorpe was awarded
20 Oct. 7 Eliz. 1565.6
OF THE FAMILY OF PLUMPTON.
ciji
him in the title of the heire of John Suttell.”a Accordingly, in
the course of the three years next following, this too celebrated
personage procured the legal estate of the surviving feoffees under
the deeds of settlement on the marriages of the heirs-general,
though not without exposing them to be persecuted by Sir Robert
Plumpton and his servants,b to be conveyed to certain clerks,
Robert Bubwith and Richard Burgh, in whose name a suit was
commenced, as feoffees to the use of Sir John Rocliff and Mar-
garet his wife, and of Elizabeth Sotehill, widow. In May, 1501,
Mr. Pullan writes word, “ that the great man Empson," as far as
he could know for certain, intended to have assises against Sir
Robert Plumpton ; and warns the latter, that, availing himself of
the favour it was in his power to show, as one of the King's
Council sitting for assessing fines upon such as had not taken up
their knighthood, he was secretly labouring to ensure a verdict,
by having the persons thus made friendly placed upon the panel
for the trial of the assize, in the counties where the lands lay.c
The ground of action alleged will be best understood by trans-
cribing a memorandum of the original declaration in the cause :
“ Sir William Plompton, ch'er, seisi de divers maners in les
Contes de Everwick, Nott. Derb. et Stafford, avoit issue per un
feme, Robert et William ; et puis le dit Sir William fyt covenaunt
ove Thomas, Signieur de Clifford, que le dit Robert espouse Eliza-
beth, file de dit Sigr de Clifford. Et le dit Sir William graunta
quil ferra feoffment a les dits Robert et Elizabeth des maners,
terres ove tenements, a le valure de x]livs, a aver a eux et a les
heires le dit Robert et le dit Elizabeth ingenderount, le remainder
al droit heires le dit Sir William. Et que touts auters maners et
hereditaments que li dit Sir William ou autre a son use adonques
avoit, deveoit apres le mort le dit Sir William remainer descender et
* Vide Letter XCIV. p. 120.
* Letter XCIX. p. 150.
b Letter XCV. p. 122.
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HISTORICAL NOTICES
reverter a le dit Robert et a ses heires sauns disinheritance ou
incumbrance de ceo ent a fair per le dit Sir William et ses feoffees.
Et puis le dit Sir William de touts ses maners, terres et tene-
ments in les Contes de Everwike, Nottingham, Derb. et Stafford
enfeffet Jehan Tempest Ch’er et autres in fee, sur condition que
les dits Feoffes, quant ils serount per le dit Sir William requises,
enfeofferount le dit Sir William et un tiel en fee quil espousa,
de certein de dits maners a la valure c. marcs, a aver a eux pur
terme de lour vies, le remainder al dit Robert et a ses heires, et
quil ferroit autre estate des tenements a le valure xx marcs a un
fitz le dit Sir William qui le nomera pur terme de vie, le remayn-
der a le dit Robert et a ses heires in fee. Et de touts les resideu
des tenements avant dits, que les dits feoffes apres le mort le dit
Sir William enfeffe le dit Robert et ses heires en fee, pourveu
touts foits, que si le dit Robert morust, vivant le dit Sir William,
que ben lirra a le dit Sir William in touts les tenements avant
dits, ultre les tenements a le dit Sir William, ses femes et ses
fits en le furme avant dit &c. donés et lessés, a rentrer. Puis
le dit Robert deins xiiii aunz &c. Et puis le dit Sir William
relzeroit (resserroit) les premers covenaunts de marriage cove-
nantés ove Seigneur de Clifford, que le dit William, adonque son
fitz et heire apparaunt, espouseroit le dit Elizabeth ; et le dit Sir
William graunta quil ferra feoffment a les dits William et Eliza-
beth des certens maners et tenements a le valure de xlli, a aver a
eux et a les heyres de le dit William del corps le dit Elizabeth
engendrés, le remaynder pur default tiel issue al heyrés de le dit
Sir William. Et outre graunta quil ferra anuel estate de auters
terres et tenementes a les ditz William et Elizabeth a le valure xli,
a aver a eux et apprendre les profitz apres la mort Margaret de
... aylesse (ayeule)d a le dit Sir William. Et auxi le dit Sir
William graunta quil ferra escripts indentés de les premises in
& Margaret de Rempston, who died very aged on the 21st April, 1454.
OF THE FAMILY OF PLUMPTON.
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due et loiall maner, accordant a les dits escripts endentés faits
sur le dit premer ..... marriage ; per force de quele le dit Wil-
liam espousa le dit Elizabeth, et avoit issue inter eux deux files,
silz, Margaret et Elizabeth. Et le dit William devia. Puis le dit
Sir William fit covenant ove Briane Rocliffe pur certen summes
dergent a lui paiés, que le dit Margaret, un de ses heyres appa-
raunts, espousera Johan fitz et heyre apparaunt a le dit Brian, et
outre graunta quil ne autre de ses feffes ferroit alyenacion ne dis-
continuance dacun de ces manors et hereditaments, mes quils
entierment apres son mort descenderont et returneront a les
heyres le dit William, per force dequel le dit John espousa le dit
Margaret, heyre le dit Sir William. Et apres le dit Sir William
graunta a un Henry Sotell pur certens summes dergent a lui
payés, que Elizabeth, son cosin et auter de ses heyres, espousera
un John fitz et heyre apparaunt a le dit Henry. Et outre graunta
quil ne nul de ses feffes ferrount acun feoffment ne discontinuance,
sil ne soit a seluy qui serra son fitz et heyre male apparaunt,
excepts terres et tenements a le valure de cli quil poit doner a
terme de vie ou des vies. Come appeart en un Indenture fait lan
le tierce le Roy Edward le iiijte e le dit Sir William infeffa un
Richard Fawbergh et autres persons de touts ses terres et tene-
mentes en les Countés de Notingham, Derby, et Stafford, per
force de quel ils fueront ent seisis tanque per le dit Sir William
disseisés. Et le dit Sir William issint eut seisie et enfeffa le dean
de Everwik et auters en fee, qui prist estates a luy pur terme de
vie, le remaynder a un Robert Plumpton Ch’er et a ses heyres de
son corps engendrés. Et apres le dit Sir William murroit. Apres
que mort le dit Sir Robert entra, sur que le dit Richard Fawbergh
et les feffees entraient, devant le statute de Richard le tierce. Et
e This deed of feoffment is suppressed in the Cartulary, but a copy has been pre-
served in the same MS. from which this declaration has been taken, and from which
it appears that the true date was 1 Jan. 4 Edw. IV. (see p. lxxii.)
CAMD. soc. 4.
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ụn Richard Fawbergh, un des enfeffés qui surveyquist son con-
feffes, reentra et enfeffaf ceux qui port le ......
Item le dit Syr William Plumpton enfeffa un Richard Redman
et autres de touts ses terres et tenements en le Counte de Ever-
wyk en fee per force de quel ils fueront seises tanque per le dit
William disseiez ; et le dit Syr William re-eyaunt seisin enfeoffa
auters persons en fee; sur que bien le dit Richard, qui fuit en le
graunte, entra et enfeffe auters persons al use Margaret et Eliza-
beth.” g
For the lands lying in the counties of Nottingham, Derby, and
Stafford, of which Sir Robert Plumpton had retained posses-
sion by force of the award of Richard III. viz. the manor and
vills of Kinalton and Mansfield-Woodhouse, the manors of Der-
ley, Stanton, Hassop with Rouland, Combridge, and Crakemersh,
trials were had at the Lammas Assizes in the autumn of the year
1501, when, owing, perhaps, to Empson having taken “ much
lodging” and the way “he undermyneth,” h verdicts were recorded
in favour of the above-named feoffees. This result obtained for
the prime mover in the cause a grant of the manor of Kinalton,
habendum et tenendum eidem Ricardo Empson et assignatis suis
pro termino vite ejusdem Ricardi ;i and about the same time, by
his procurement, the son and heir of Dame Elizabeth Sotehill,
Henry Sotehill, then a minor, was married to his daughter Joan,
or Jane Empson.
The proceedings on the trial, by which it was sought to eject
Sir Robert Plumpton from the patrimonial inheritance in York-
shire, are made known to us in the following memorial.
“ For as much as it is meritorius to every Christian man to
This feoffment was made before 2 July, 15 Hen. VII. 1500. Vide Letter CXXIV. n. a.
g Add. MSS. in Brit. Mus. 6698. Wolley's Collections. Ex MS. Joh’is Sudbury,
olim de Alfreton, com. Derb. Attornat.
YTYS
* Letter CXXVII. and Letter CXIX.
i Cited in Inq. post mortem Elizabethæ Sotehill. At the date of this grant Sir
Richard Empson had not been knighted.
OF THE FAMILY OF PLUMPTON.
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certyfie the trewth in such cawses as they shalbe required for the
declaration of trewth to be had in the said causes, and that Sir
Robert Plompton, knight, hath required us to certifie the de-
mesner of Sir Richard Emson, knight, at the assise that Robert
Bubwith and Richard Burgh, prestes,ks arained against the said
Sir Robert at York of the maners of Plompton and Idell to the
use of Sir John Rouclife and Margret his wife, and Dame Eliza-
beth Sotehill and the sircumstance thereof. Therfore it is that
we whose names hearafter ensueth upon our trewth testyfie that
the foresaid Sir Richard Empson, acompened with Edward Stan-
hopp, Gervis Clifton,m Robert Dimmoke n and William Per-
poynt,o knights, and other gentlemen and yeomen to the number
of 200 persons and moe, and divers of the garde of our Soveraigne
Lord the King arayed in the most honnorable liverie of his said
garde, came to Yorke to maintaine the foresaid Robert and Richard
in the said assise, and theare abode with the said companie at
their costs and charges to the time that the said assise passed
against the foresaid Sir Robert. Also we testifie that John Vava-
sor Justice then associat to Umfray Conysby Justice to the said
assise then shewed in open courte a fine exemplified under the
greate seale of England saing that therin wear comprised the
foresaid manors taled to the heires generall of Sir William Plomp-
ton, and the Counsell of the foresaid Sir Robert desired hearing
therof and might not have it by no meanes. And then the frinds
of the said Sir Robert trusting it to be trew upon the credence
that they gave to the foresaid Sir John Vavasor labored for a
k The declaration above transcribed gives Richard Redman as the name of the
feoffee who conveyed to Bubwith and Burgh, but in the Cartulary is a copy of a
grant to the same parties from John Ingilby, esq. of the manors of Plompton, Idell,
Steveton, Garsington in Craven, and Little Studley near Rippon, in com. Ebor.
dated 7 May, 17 Hen. VII. 1501. (Cartul. n. 818.)
Sir Edward Stanhope, of Rampton, com. Nott. kt.
m Sir Gervase Clifton, of Clifton, com. Nott. kt.
n Sir Robert Dymoke, of Scrivelsby, com. Linc. kt.
o Sir William Pierpoint, of Holme, com. Nott. kt.
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treaty; whearupon Sir Marmaduke Constable knight P and Brian
Palmes 9 wear chossen arbitrators for the foresaid Robert Bub- -
with and Richard Burgh, and Sir William Gascoigne knight and
William Eleson " for the foresaid Sir Robert. Which iiij arbi-
trators met at the chapel of Yorke Brige for the said matter, and
then and theare the said Sir William Gascoigne and William
Eleson desired to have hearing of the foresaid fine and might not
have it. And then the said Sir William Gascoigne and William
Eleson went to Sir Robert Plompton and shewed him the ofer of
the said Sir Marmaduke and Bryan which he refuse and said
that he would not departe with noo party of his land, for he said
that he had very knowledge that the fine that was sheweth belonged
to Wylliam Mydleton, and that the foresaid manors wear not
comprised therin. Whearupon the said Sir William Gascoigne
and William Eleson went to the foresaid Chappell, and thear
shewed to the foresaid Sir Marmaduke and Brian that they had
knowledge that the foresaid manors wear not tailed to the heires
generall of Sir William Plompton, and said that they weare tayled
to the heires male of Sir William Plompton, and the said Sir
William Gascoigne opened a box and said to the foresaid Sir
Marmaduke and Bryan, “ hear ar the dedes whearby the foresaid
mannors ar tayled to the heires male of Sir William Plompton,"
and saide he would no further treate in the matter and so brake
the treaty. In witnes and trew testimonie of which premises We
William Gascoygne, Christofer Warde knights, Henry Vavosor,
Thomas Pigot, Henry Ughtred, Thomas Fairfax, Richard Mau-
levery, Richard Kyghley, Nicholas Gascoigne, Robert Chylton,
Thomas Ratcliffe, Walter Baylton, Thomas Nawdon, Walter --
Woode, Esquires, William Lindley, Richard Wod, Lancelot Wod,
p Sir Marmaduke Constable, of Flamborough, com. Ebor, kt.
9 Brian Palmes, of Leathley, com. Ebor. called Serjeant 18 Nov. 1511.
r William Eleson, of Selby, gent. ; half-brother to Mrs. Isabel Plumpton, wife of
William Plumpton, esq. eldest son of Sir Robert.
Sir Christopher Ward, of Givendale, com. Ebor. kt.
OF THE FAMILY OF PLUMPTON.
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Percivell Lindley, George Oglestrope, Edmund Richworth, Ro-
bert Oglestrop, Thomas Knarsbrough, William Aldbrough, Ro-
bert Knarsbrough, William Scargill, Raufe Moure, John Douning,
William Scargill yonger, gentlemen, William Dickinson, Thomas
Saxton, Thomas Wood, John Graver, Tho: Dickinson, John Har-
distie, Will. Paver, Will: Beshe, Rob’t Dickinson, Nickolas Ather-
ton, Tho: Dickinson, Roger Dickinson, John Beckwith, Rob't
Gelsthorpe, Will: Beaston, John Graver yonger, Stephen Har-
distie, Raufe Stanfeild, Stephen Gyll, Rob't Richardson, Myles
Gill, Myles Wood, Rob’t Dickinson, John Gefray, John Pullaine,
Thomas Kendell, Stephen Beaston, John Fairborne, James Wod,
Percivill Whytehead, Tho: Bradebelt, Will: Robinson, John
Bradbelt, John Scaife, Tho: Bayldon, Edmond Mydlebroke, Tho:
Exelby, Rob’t Wayde, James Holynaghe, James Helme, Richard
Barker, Henry Readshaw, Will: Shutley, John Swayle, Rob't
Folyfote, Thomas Kyghly and Richard Coundall, yeomen, with
others, we have put our seales. Given the 18 day of January
the yeare of the reigne of our most dread liege King Henry the
VII after the conquest of England the xxth.”' t
Among the transcripts of evidence in the Towneley MSS. re-
lating to the family of Plumpton, is also this Memorandum of the
challenges made by the defendant: “Upon a pannell for the
Assizes 18 Hen. VII. there are exceptions against the Jury by
reason the persons were either relations or had dependance on the
parties interrested, by which it may appeare who wer the princi-
pall sticklers in that great Contraversy for the Complenant-Sr
William Conyers u ........ Rad’us Ryther ch'r, Nicholas
Skyres Esq. serviens Vicecomitis,w Joh’es Dodsworth ar. serviens
Will’i Conyers, Jacobus Cure (Eure ?) serviens d'ni Henrici Clif-
ford, Will's Nesfield ar. consang. querent. D’nus Ric’us Aldburgh
N
+ Cartul. No. 824. “Copied the 12th of November (1627), having 69 seals besides
them that is broken off."
u Sir William Conyers, of Hornby, com. Ebor, kt. first Baron Conyers.
w Sir Thomas Wortley, of Wortley, com, Ebor. kt, was Sheriff of Yorkshire in 1502.
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miles consang: Henry Wakefeild gen: serviens Ric'i Aldburgh,
Johʼnes Chamber serviens Ric'i Aldburgh, Sr Rich: Hamerton,
Ralph Nevill, John Nevill, Brian Stapleton, John Tempest, .....
Pudsey."
Notwithstanding the verdict thus given against him, Sir
Robert Plumpton was determined not to surrender possession to
the claimants without a forcible resistance. The following letter
was dispatched by him with this view to his wife from York on
Friday after the trial, 9 Sept. 18 Hen. VII. 1502.
To my entyrely and right hartily beloved wife, Dame Agnes
Plumpton, be this Letter delivered.
My deare hart, in my most hartily wyse, I recommend mee
unto you, hartily prayinge you, all things laid apart, that you see
that the manor and the place of Plumpton bee surely and sted-
fastly kept; and alsoe that I have this Tuesday at even 6 muttons
slene, to bee ordained for the supper the said Tuesday at night:
and alsoe that yee cause this said Tuesday a beast to be killed,
that if neede bee, that I may have it right shortly. As for my
nephew Gascoigne, my couzen Pygot, my brother Ward,y Ralph
Nevill,Ninne Markinfeld, a Thomas Fairfax,b Nicholas Girling-
ton,c with many other frends and lovers were with mee at supper
this night. And thus I betake you to the keepinge of the Holy
Trinity, who preserve you evermore to his pleasure. From Yorke
* Sir Randolph Pygot, of Clotherholme, com. Ebor. kt. Obt 1503, buried in Ripon
minster.
y Sir Christopher Ward, brother-in-law to Sir Robert Plumpton.
2 Ralph Nevill, of Thornton, com. Ebor. esq. son-in-law of Sir Christopher Ward.
a Sir Ninian Markenfield, of Markenfield, com. Ebor. kt. Will dated 1 Oct. 1527,
proved 5 July 1528. Buried before the high altar of St. Andrew, in the collegiate
church of Ripon.
Sir Thomas Fairfax, of Walton, com. Ebor. kt. married Anne Gascoigne, niece of
Dame Agnes Plumpton.
c Nicholas Girlington, of Hackforth, com. Ebor. esq. jure uxoris, who was Margaret
dau. and coh. of Thomas Montfort.
OF THE FAMILY OF PLUMPTON.
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this Tuesday (lege Friday), the morrowe next after the nativity of
our Lady.
By your owne lover Robert Plompton Kt.d
In the reasonable hope that the King would have a grateful
recollection of his former services, Sir Robert Plumpton had also
in this emergency direct recourse to the Crown for protection.
6 In most lamentable and piteous wise sheweth and complaineth
unto your most gratious highnes your daylye Orator and .....
Robert Plumpton Knt, how that Sir John Rocliffe, dame Marga-
ret his wife, and Elizabeth Sothill, through the great ..... main-
tenance and supportation of Richard Empson, &c. have recovered
by assize lands of the value of 500li, whereof your orator and an-
cestors have beene seased above 300 yeares &c. And the said Sir
John and Richard, not regarding the displeasure of God nor of
your Grace, intend to attach and cast in prison the body of your
beseecher &c. Wherefore the said Orator hath and ever shall
bee best content to put his said whole lands to the judgement and
award of your most noble Grace and councell, or upon any two
Judges. And wherefore, most gracious Soveraigne Lord, your
said poore Orator, at the reverence of Almighty God, humbly be-
seecheth your grace that hee may have protection ........
for a whole yeare &c. and shew the same how craftily and by
maintenance hee is disherited of all his said lands, which without
onely the helpe of your Grace he can never recover.”
To this Sir John Rowcliffe answered, “ that all was done by
processe of the Kings Laws, and that Judgment cannot bee ex-
amined but by writ of ....or attainder, yet they submit to make
good the said Judgment &c. recovered by the said Assize. And
d Dodsworth MSS. in Bib. Bodl. Oxon. vol. CXLVIII. f. 62. In 18 Hen. VII. 1502,
the feast of the Nativity of our Lady, 8 Sept. fell upon a Thursday, and this letter
being written on the morrow of the feast, the date would be Friday. That Tuesday is a
mistake of the writer through inadvertence is also obvious from the contents of the
letter, which refer to that day as remote. There is a transcript of this letter in the
Towneley MSS.
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........... hath fortifyed the same &c. with guns, bowes,
crossebowes, bills, speares and other weapons &c. as if it were in
..... of warr, soe that ne the Sheriffe ne other officers of the
Kings &c. cannot and may not serve the Kings processe without
jeopardy, and perill of mans lives, manslaughter, and murder, to
the worst and most perillous example that in this land hath been
seene sith the Kings reigne &c.” e
The appeal of Sir Robert Plumpton was, however, favour-
ably listened to by King Henry VII., who forthwith made him
a Knight of his Body, thus screening his person from arrest; and
sent “ To our trusty and welbeloved Sir William Conyers, Sheriffe
of our County of Yorke, &c. that hee serve noe writs, precepts, or
other writings, upon Sir Robert Plumpton, Knight of our Body,
or his servants,” &c.
This was followed by another precept, to Sir Christofer Ward
and Sir William Calverley, knts. “that William Plompton, son and
e During Sir Robert Plumpton's visit to the Court, the manor-place of Plumpton
had been left in charge of his wife and his eldest son William, with directions to dis-
train upon all tenants who, by reason of the warning on the part of Sir John Roclife
and Dame Elizabeth Sotehill, should refuse to pay the rents due at Martinmas. This
was done ; and they, not being able to recover their cattle and household stuff, thus
seized, by replevy in the usual manner, made complaint to the Archbishop of York,
who in vain interfered on their behalf. Whereupon he caused William Plumpton
and sixteen of his servants to be indicted, and when the jury would not return a true
bill, he made them to do so by a threat of punishing him who made refusal. William
Plumpton, however, still set the Archbishop at defiance, and under a promise of assist-
ance in case of need from Sir William Gascoigne, determined to resist all attempts on
the part of Sir John Rocliff to plough the land, by force of arms, and to treat the tenants
who did not acknowledge him as their landlord, as trespassers. (See Correspondence of
Sir Robert Plumpton, Letter CXXXIV. et seq.) Into the Cartulary is copied a writ
of capias, directed from William Conyers, kt. Sheriff of Yorkshire, to Thomas Spinke,
bailiff of the wapentake of Clarro, against Richard Coates, and divers other husbands,
laborors, yeomen, shermen, a webster, and a smith, at the suit of William Plompton,
esq. of a plea of trespass, returnable on Thursday next after quindena Pasch. to bring
their bodies to the castle at York. « Dat. in castro Ebor', sub sigillo officii mei xx
die Apr. anno r. r. Hen. 7. XVIII.” (Cartul No. 820.)
OF THE FAMILY OF PLUMPTON.
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heir of Sir Robert Plompton, peacably enjoy the Lordships of
Plumpton, and Idle, and the rents, &c. Dated Collyweston 16
July."f
The further steps taken by Sir Robert Plumpton in his matters,
will best appear from the following letter, written by him to his
Lady, upon occasion of her second journey to London, and dated
Tuesday 13 Feb. 19 Hen. VII. 1503-4.
To my right hartily and mine entyrely beloved wife, Dame Agnes
Plompton, bee this delivered.
Best beloved, in my most harty wyse I recommend mee unto
you. Soe it is, I mervaile greatly, that yee send mee not the
money that yee promised mee to send with John Waukar within
8 dayes after you and I departed, for I am put to a great lacke for
it. Therefore, I hartily pray you, as my especiall trust is in you,
to send me the said money in all hast possible, and alsoe to send
me money, for my cost is very sore and chargeable at this tyme :
for I have spent of the money that I brought from you more then
vli. For very certaine, Sir Roger Hastings & is at the point of un-
doinge, because hee hath not money to pay where he ought to pay.
Therefore, deare hart, I pray you to remember mee. And as for
my matter, there is noe mooveinge of it as yet, but the Kings
grace is the same man hee was at my last departinge from his
grace; and my lord of Winchester, h and Mr. Lovell,i Mr. Gyl-
forth,k. Mr. Weston, with all our good friends, are to mee as they
were at my last departinge. And as shortly as I can have any
way certaine of my matters, I shall send you word. Neverthe-
les, my adversaries had laboured to have had a privy seale against
mee; but my lord of Winchester and Mr. Deane of the Kings
f Towneley MSS. The King was at Collyweston in July 1503. (Lel. Coll. IV. p. 265.)
& Sir Roger Hastings of Roxby, com. Ebor. kt.
h Richard Fox, Bishop of Winchester, Lord Privy Seal, ob. 14 Sept. 1528.
i Sir Thomas Lovell, K. G. Treasurer of the Household and President of the Council.
k Sir Richard Guildford, K. G.
Sir Richard Weston, kt.
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Chappell would let them have none to tyme were that they un-
derstood . . . . . whether I was in sicknes or nay. And for
diverse consideracions and greate hurts might falle to you and mee
and our children hereafter, I heartily pray you to remember to
hast the money unto mee, as my especiall trust and love is in you,
as knowes the holy Trinity, who preserve you evermore to his
pleasure. From London in hast, the Tuesday next afore St. Va-
lentines day, by your lovinge husband, Robert Plompton, kt.
Postscript by Richard Plompton, Priest. Madam, your bede-
man servant, Sir Richard Plompton, hartely prayes you to remem-
ber all the matters above written, for my Masters adversaries and
yours purveys them to bee still with the Kings grace, and entends
to impoverish my Master, and all those that will take his part and
doe for him.m
The reply of Dame Agnes Plumpton to this letter will be found
in the Correspondence of Sir Robert Plumpton, Letter CXLIX. and
in the Letters which there follow may be seen the course of con-
duct pursued by “the adversaries." In this same year, and pro-
bably in the month of August, Dame Agnes Plumpton died ; after
whose death her husband, Sir Robert, remained a widower for
about a year, when he was again united to Isabella, daughter
of Ralph Lord Nevill, eldest son and heir apparent of Ralph Earl
of Westmorland, by his second n wife, Edith, daughter of Sir Wil-
liam Sands, of the Vine, com. Hants. kt. and sister of the accom-
m Dodsworth MSS. in Bib. Bodl. Oxon. vol. CXLVIII. f. 62. “ In Sir Edward
Plumpton's Booke of Letters." See Introduction.
Lord Nevill married first, in presence of King Henry VII. and his Queen, the
daughter of William Paston, esq. Of the death of this Lady, the Herald, whose valu-
able memorials have been printed by Hearne, in the Collectanea Lelandi, has this
notice: “ The King, the Quen, and my Ladie the Kings moder, beganne Crysmas at
Westmynster, and at that season ther wer the Meazelles soo strong, and in especiall
amongis Ladies and Gentilwemen, that sum died of that sikeness, as the Ladie Nevill,
doughter of William Paston.” This was in the fifth year of Henry VII. 1489, and
she must have died issueless, as her sisters, the wives of Sir Gilbert Talbot and Sir
John Savill, knts. were the heirs of William Paston. Lord Nevill's second marriage
OF THE FAMILY OF PLUMPTON.
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plished courtier Sir William Sands, K. G. advanced to the degree of
a Baron of the Realm, by the title of Lord Sands, 27 April, 15
Hen. VIII. 1523, and introduced by Shakespeare under that title
in his historic play of Henry the Eighth. The covenants for the
settlement of her jointure bear date 18 and 20 Sept. 21 Hen. VII.
1505; and the same was charged upon such lands as Sir Robert
Plumpton had purchased in the vills and fields of Knaresborough,
Mathe or Matge Lofthouse near Knaresborough, Huby, Helth-
wait-hill near Harwood, Aketon, Spofforth, and Arkendale, under
a feoffment to Sir William Sands, kt. Sir John Rainsford, kt. Sir
John Norton, kt. Edward Rainesford, esq. and others. Her father,
the Lord Nevill, had been deado since 13 Hen. VII. 1498, and the
Lady Nevill, her mother, was probably at this time the wife of Sir
Thomas Darcy, K.G. created a Baron before the close of the reign
of Henry VII.; and whom King Henry VIII. in the first year of his
was likewise solemnized in the royal presence, as appears by an authentic list of Mar-
riages in the King and the Quenes presence, where summe officers of arms have ben pre-
sent. Among these entries we have, “ Item. The Lord Nevill furst to the doughter of Wil-
liam Paston ; after to the suster of Sir William Sands." (Coll. Top. et Gen. vol. 1. p.
22, from a MS. of the time of Hen. VIII. penès D'n'm Tho. Phillipps, Baronettum.)
h Edward Strangwyshe and William Pollard were presented to the living of Brance-
peth and the Mastership of Steindrop College, by Richard Fox, Bishop of Durham, re-
spectively on the 12th and 20th July, 13 Hen. VII. 1498, ratione custodiæ terrarum et
tenementorum quce nuper fuerunt Radulfi nuper comitis Westmorland et minoris ætatis
Radulfi heredis ejusdem et nunc comitis Westmorland in manibus dicti Episcopi existentis.
Both the Earl of Westmorland and his son, Lord Nevill, were with the army under the
Earl of Surrey, which entered Scotland in July 1497; and the latter was one of the conser-
vators on the English side of the truce concluded at Aytoun, 30 Sept. 13 Hen. VII.
1497. When this truce was renewed, 12 July, 1499, the name of Lord Nevill, as being
then dead, was omitted, but all the other conservators are the same on both sides.
The precise date of his father's death is unascertained; but we know from the report
of Leland, an excellent authority, as almost contemporary, that the Earl died for grief
at the loss of his son, at Hornby Castle in Richmondshire, and lay buried in the parish
church there. (Lel. Itin. vol. i. f. 60.) The infant heir was brought up at Court;
and among the privy purse expences of Henry VII. are payments in 1499, “ for a
horse, bridell, and sadell for young Nevill, lls. 8d. For a Kendall cote for litell Nevil,
38. 4d." (Excerpta Historica. Benlley, 1831, p. 122.)
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reign, made steward and surveyor of all the lands beyond Trent then
in the Crown, during the minority of his step-son, Ralph Earl of
Westmorland, brother of Dame Isabell, otherwise Elizabeth, Plump-
ton.P By her, who survived him, and remarried Lawrence Kighley
of New-Hall near Otley, com. Ebor. esq.9 Sir Robert Plumpton
left no issue.
In the following year Dame Elizabeth Sotehill died, upon whose
death an inquisition was taken, 16 Jan. 22 Hen. VII. 1506-7, of
the lands of her inheritance which she had recovered by assize in
the county of Nottingham against Sir Robert Plumpton; and some
time after, another writ, ad melius inquirendum post mortem Eliza-
beth Sotehill vidue, was sent to William Crouche, the Escheator of
the county of York. In pursuance thereof, an inquest was taken at
p In 1503, the Lady Nevill was one of the Ladies who accompanied the princess
Margaret, the affianced Queen of Scotland, to the Court of that Realm ; at which date
the first wife of Sir Thomas Darcy, Dowsabella, daughter of Sir Richard Tempest, of
Giggleswick in Ribblesdale, com. Ebor. kt, was yet living; for after her husband had
met the royal train at the entrance of the town of Berwick, of which he was captain,
and received the Queen into the place," she was conveyed and brought to the Castell,
wher she was receyved by the Lady D'Arcy honestly accompayned.” (Vide De rebus
Anglicanis opuscula varia, apud Lel. Coll. vol. iv. p. 279.) Lady Nevill, for she re-
tained that more ancient distinction of title after her union with Lord D'Arcy, died at
Stepney, 22 Aug. 1529, and was buried at the Friars Minors in Greenwich, in Kent,
leaving issue by her second husband an only daughter, Elizabeth, married to Sir Mar-
maduke Constable of Flamborough, in com. Ebor. kt.
? By indenture magle 10 March, 10 Hen. VIII. 1528-9, betwixt William Plompton, of
Plompton, esq. of the one partie, and Lawrence Kighley, of Newaly neare Otley, esq.
of the other partie, the lands, &c. lying in Roughfarlington, in the countie of York,
except the new house and the orchard, together with other premises in Plumpton and
Knaresborough assigned to Dame Isabell Plompton, late wife of Sir Robert Plompton,
knight, and now wife to the said Lawrence, in the name of her feofment, were ex-
changed for a rent-charge of xx marks annually during the joint lives of the said Law-
rence and Isabel ; and if the said Lawrence fortune to die living the said Isabell, she
to enter upon and have the same during her natural life. (Cartul. No. 856.) Dame
Isabel Plumpton was second wife to Lawrence Kighley, esq. ; his first wife was Ann,
daughter of Thomas Lyndley, of Scutterskelf, com. Ebor. esq. to whom her issue by
him were coheirs. (Vide Pedigree of Lyndley, in Graves' History of Cleveland.)
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Pontefret, 20 Nov. 23 Hen. VII. 1507, by the oath of Thomas Ellis,
esq. George Moore, gent, and others, of which the finding was, that
Robert Bubwith and Richard Burghs, clerks, by virtue of a reco-
very specified in the same writ, were seised (inter alia) in their
demesne as of fee of the manor of Plumpton with its appurte-
nances to the use of Margaret, wife of Sir John Rowcliffe, kt. and
of Elizabeth Sotehill, and of their heirs,—that they had been so
seised until they were disseised by Sir Robert Plumpton, kt.-
that the said Robert Bubwith had died, and that the said Richard
Burgh was yet surviving,—that on the day the said Elizabeth
Sotehill died, viz. 21 Sept. 22 Hen. VII. the fee and right of the
said manor with its appurtenances belonged to the said Richard
Burgh and his heirs, by right of survivorship, to the use abovesaid.
This and the previous Inquisition were returned into the Chan-
cery per manus Ricardi Emson militis, who still continued intent
on asserting the legal claims of the heirs-general, now doubly dear
to him, as centering in part in his own blood; for Henry Sotehill
had died in his mother's lifetime in 1505, leaving by Joan Empson
twin daughters, Joan and Elizabeth, who had only completed the
first year of their age on the feast of the Ascension of our Lord next
before the death of their grandmother, i. e. on the 21st May, 1506.r
Meanwhile, the continuance of the dispute brought along with it
a heavy expence, and the straits to which it gradually reduced the
family of the subject of these Memoirs, will be found strongly de-
picted in a letter from Dame Isabel Plumpton to her husband, in-
serted in the Correspondence. After the accession of Henry VIII.
these difficulties so increased upon Sir Robert Plumpton, now no
longer protected as an Officer of the Court, that he was arrested
for debt, and committed prisoner to the Counter. Of his sojourn
there I find this memorial in the Cartulary:
r Henry Sotebill, of Stockfaston, com. Leic. esq. who died thus young, was buried
in the Grey Friars, London. (Coll. Top. et. Gen. vol. v. p. 289.) Both Inquisitions
are copied at length among Plumpton Evidences in the Towneley MSS.
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HISTORICAL NOTICEŠ
Item, that I Sir Robert Plompton, knight, and Oliver Dickinson,
my servant, hath paid unto Hew Reding, the Keaper of the Coun-
drinke, and fire, since the 12th day of May, the second yeare of
our soveraigne Lord King Henry the eight, unto Mydsomer eve,
the same yeare-44s. 10d. And the foresaid Sir Robert Plomton
cam untill the foresaid counter first the xxiiij day of Aprill, and
paid for every maile of meate unto the foresaid xii day of May,
iiijd for himselfe, and iid for his servant. Item, the foresaid Sir
Robert Plompton paid by the hands of Oliver Dickinson to the
wife of the said Hew Reding, the Thursday next after Mydsomer
day, the same yeare, for his bed and his chamber-xxs.
Item. The foresaid Sir Robert Plompton was discharged by
Hew Reding for meat and drinke, the xiiii day of July, the yeare
abovesaid.
Item. The foresaid Sir Robert Plompton come into comens
with Oliver Dickinson his servant the 25 July unto super againe.
Item. Edward Soole paid unto Hewgh Reding, the xxx day July,
for the board of Sir Robert Plompton and his servant—XXS.
Memor. That Sir Robert Plompton and dame Ezabell, his wife,
hath paid unto Mrs. Reding, the 5 day of August, the yeare above-
said, for al manner of meate, drink, and bedding, and al other
things for himselfe, his wife, and servant-iiili, and is even for
every thing to this present day of August.
Plumpton, a more dreadful doom awaited his arch-enemy, Sir
Richard Empson, whose maintenance and barratry in the preced-
ing reign now brought down upon his devoted head the vengeful
clamours of the victims of his oppressions. On the seventeenth
day of August, in this same second year of King Henry VIII. he
was led forth to execution, and, with his accomplice Dudley, be-
headed on Tower Hill, upon a false pretext of treason to the
s Cartul. No. 836.
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Y
State. His death appears to have opened the doors to a compro-
mise of this protracted suit; although that course, perhaps, was
now become a matter of necessity on the part of Sir Robert
Plumpton. In the first year of Henry VIII. (22 Aug. 1509,) the
custody of Joan and Elizabeth Sotehill above-mentioned, with
their marriage, had been granted by the King to Sir William Per-
point of Holme, com. Notts, kt. who had married their mother,
the daughter of Sir Richard Empson, and widow of Henry Sote-
hill, esq. Of him the marriage of the eldest of these coheirs had
been purchased by Sir Marmaduke Constable of Flamborough,
com. Ebor. kt. as a match for his fourth son, John Constable, esq.
who from that time had her wardship. With the last-named
knight, who was nearly allied to all parties, a meeting was ap-
pointed to be held at York, for the Tuesday after the feast of the
Translation of St. William, 10 Jan. 6 Hen. VIII. 1514-5, by Sir
William Gascoigne, on the behalf of his uncle and cousin, Sir Ro-
bert and William Plumpton, to treat of the matter in traverse be-
tween them, and Sir John Rocliffe and his coparceners; whereat
it was agreed that the said parties should abide the award of the
Bishop of Winchester, the Lord Treasurer, the Earl of Surrey,
and other arbitrators indifferently chosen. A bond, under pe-
nalty of a thousand marks, was entered into by Sir Marmaduke
and John Constable, Sir John Roclife, and Sir William Perpoynte,
to Sir Robert Plompton and William Plompton, 20 March follow-
ing, to have effect, “so that the same awarde, ordinance, and
jugement be maid and given afore the feast of Easter next ensu-
ing;”u and on the 27th of the same month the following judge-
ment was pronounced in pursuance thereof :
6 To all christian people, to whome this present writing in-
dented shall come, heare, or se, we Richard, by the sufrance of God
Bishop of Winchester, Sir Thomas Lovill, knight, Tresurrer of
The most honorable houshold of our Soveraigne Lord the King,
See Letter CLXX. et. seq. p. 207.
u Cartul. No. 840.
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HISTORICAL NOTICES
Robert Brudnell, one of the Justices of our Soveraigne Lord, and
John Earnley, generall attorney of the said Kinge, send greting in
our Lord. Whearas thear hath bene divers variences and debaites
late moved and had betwene Sir John Rouclife, knight, and
dame Margret his wife, one of the cossines and heires of Sir Wil-
liam Plompton, somtime of Plompton in the county of Yorke,
knight, Sir William Perpoynte, knight, gardien of Elizabeth Sote-
hill, another of the cossines and heires of Sir William Plompton,
Sir Marmaduke Constable thelder, knight, and John Constable,
esquire, gardine of Jane Sotehill, another of the cossines and heires
of Sir William Plompton, on thone partie, and Sir Robert Plomp-
ton of Plompton aforesaid, knight, and William Plompton, son
and heire aparent of the said Sir Robert, on thother partie, of and
upon the right, &c. we the foresaid arbytrators, calling afore us the
Councils of the foresaid parties, hearing and seing their titles, &c. at
the special request and by the consent of the foresaid parties,
award, ordeyne, and deame of and upon the same, manner and
forme following.
6 First, we award, ordeyne, and deame that the foresaid Sir Ro-
bert Plompton and Will. Plompton his son, shall have and injoy
from henceforth the foresaid mannor of Plompton, and all the messu-
ages, lands, &c. within Plompton, or within the parish of Spofford
aforesaid, within the said county of York, to have and to hold all the
same mannors, &c. to the same Sir Robert and Will: his son during
their lives, and after their disease to the heir male of the body of
the said Sir Robert Plompton lawfully begotten, and to the heirs
males of their bodyes lawfully begotten, and for defaut of such
heires males, the said mannors, &c. to remaine and come to the
foresaid Dame Margret Rouclife, Elizabeth Sottehill, and Jane
Sottehill, and to their heires, as cossines and heires to the foresaid
Sir William Plompton, knight.
“ Also we award, ordeine, and deame that the foresaid Sir John
Rouclife, and Dame Margret his wife, the foresaid Sir Will: Per-
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poynte, and Dame Jane his wife, mother of the foresaid Elizabeth
and Jane, when they shall be therto required, and the foresaid Sir
Marmaduke and John Constable, and the foresaid Élizabeth and
Jane, at the full age of the said Elizabeth and Jane, by fine, deade
with warrantry against thabbut of Westminster and his succes-
sors, and otherwise, shall do, sufer, and cause to be done all such
things reasonable, as the foresaid Sir Robert, &c. shall devise for
the making sure the foresaid mannor of Plompton, &c.
“Also we award, ordeine, and deame, that the foresaid Sir John
Rouclife, &c. shall have and enjoy the resedeu of all the foresaid
mannors, &c. to them and their heires, according to their inhere-
tance to them from the aforesaid Sir Will: Plompton, knight, de-
scended, &c.
“Also we award, ordeine, and deame that Sir Anthonie Seale,
clarke, shall have and enjoy. his Chauntre in Ripon, which he
now hath, according to the statutes and ordinaries of the same
Chauntre; the Chantry to be hereafter in the gift of such as be
lords of the manor of Plumpton, if it may be so proved of right to
belong; all other benefices to remain, to the heirs general.
“ Also we award, ordeine, and deame, if it can be proved afore
us the said arbytrators, or any of us, within a yeare next after the
date of theise presents, that the foresaid Sir Robert Plompton
hath purchased any lands, tenements, and hereditaments within
the foresaid mannors, &c. or at his cost and charges. hath re-
deemed or brought home by reason of any title auncestrell any
lands, &c. and the same lands, &c. be of like yearly value over all
charges, as the foresaid lands, &c. in Studley Rogers aforesaide be
yearly worth over all charges or debittes, that then the foresaid Sir
John Rouclife, &c. shall have to them and their heires of the for-
said Dame Margret, Elizabeth and Jane Sotehill, according to
their forsaid olde inheritance, all the foresaid lands, &c. and the fore-
said Sir Robert Plompton shall then have to him and his heires
all the foresaid lands, &c. in Studley Rogers aforesaid, any over-
CAMD. Soc. 4.
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HISTORICAL NOTICES
plus to be made good in money, after the rate of xvi years pur-
chase." v
By way of collateral security for the performance of the award
by Elizabeth and Jane Sotehill when they came of full age, or by
their husbands, if married, an estate of 40li per annum out of lands
of the proper inheritance of Sir William Perpoynt and Sir Marma-
duke Constable was, by covenants of the same date as the award,
agreed to be limited to feoffees, to be conveyed to Sir Robert Plump-
ton and William his son, in case of any refusal on their part; the
legal cost of which feoffment was either to be borne by Sir Robert
and his son, or they to pay 53s. 4d. to Sir William Perpoynt and
to Sir Marmaduke and John Constable. And as a further as-
surance, in Hillary Term, 7 Hen. VIII. 1515-6, Sir John Nor-
ton, kt. Sir Richard Maulevery, kt. Sir Thomas Fairfax, kt. and
Sir William Maulevery, kt. recovered against Sir Robert Plumpton,
kt. and William, his son and heir apparent, the manor of Plump-
ton with all appurtenances in the parish of Spofford, they having
called to warranty Sir John Rouclife, kt. and Margaret his
wife; and to the same four knights Richard Burgh, clerk, the sur-
vivor of the party in whose name the assize had been brought,
made a release in full, 10 July, 8 Hen. VIII. 1516. Subsequently,
at the special request of Sir Robert Plumpton and his son, and in
pursuance of articles of agreement dated 6 March, 10 Hen. VIII.
1518-9, the four knights named in the recovery conveyed to
William Ingleby and Guy Wilstrop, esqrs. Robert Plumpton,
junior, esq. son of the said Sir Robert Plumpton, and Thomas
Angrom, clerk, a messuage called Rough Farlington, and all other
the lands in Rough Farlington, (save two closes held by
vCartul. No. 841.
w Cartul. No. 840. In Michaelmas Term, 7 Hen. VIII. Sir Bryan Stapleton, kt.
Sir Richard Sacheverell, kt. Sir Thomas Fairfax, kt. and Sir William Mauleverer, kt.
recovered against Sir William Perpoynt, kt. the manor of Woodhouse, with appurte-
nances in Cukney, com. Nott. of the inheritance of Sir William, in fulfilment of this
covenant. (Ibid. No. 863.)
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Richard Plumpton, chaplain,* for term of his life, and of those the
reversion,) another messuage called Morhouse, also lying within
the demesne and manor of Plumpton, and three burgages in
Knaresborough, to the use of Sir Robert Plumpton, and Isabell, or
Elizabeth, his wife, and to the longer liver of them, to secure thereout
a jointure of 20 marks; and a further estate of the yearly value of
ten pounds was to be made to the same feoffees, for raising an-
nuities for the three younger sons of Sir Robert Plumpton, to com-
mence after his decease, viz. the said Robert Plumpton the younger,
Marmaduke Plumpton, and Nele Plumpton, the remainders being
to the heirs male as specified by the award. At the same time
the manor of Plumpton, and all the other lands and tenements so
recovered, were conveyed to Thomas Linley, Robert Lampton,
John Birnand, esquires, to hold to the use of Sir Robert Plump-
ton for term of his life without impeachment of waste, and after
his decease to the use of William Plumpton and of the heires
male of his body coming, and for default to the heirs male of Sir
Robert Plumpton.y
The domestic economy of the family, after they had obtained
this final confirmation of their title to the ancient residence of
their knightly race, is somewhat curiously exhibited in the follow-
ing document, which I transcribe entire from the Cartulary.
“This indenture made the 2 of May, in the 7 yeare of King
Henry the 8, betwixt Sir Robert Plompton of Plompton, knight,
* Richard Plumpton, chaplain, was son and heir of Godfrey Plumpton, next brother
of Sir William Plumpton, named in the entail to the heirs male made by his brother in
his lifetime. After the settlement in performance of the award, Sir Richard released
all right and title in the estates of Sir William Plumpton, to William son and heir ap-
parent of Sir Robert Plumpton, kt. by deed dated 20 Aug. 11 Hen. VIII. 1519, and
witnessed by Sir William Gascoigne, senior, kt. Sir Richard Mawlevery, kt. Sir Thomas
Farfax, kt. Robert Teske, Minister of the house of St. Robert near Knarsborough,
Richard Chirdin and others (Cartul. No. 851.); which release he renewed 20 Dec.
15 Hen. VIII. 1523. (Ibid. No. 854.)
5 Cartul. No. 867, 869, et 870.
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HISTORICAL NOTICES
on the one partie, and William Plompton, son and heire to Sir
Robert, esquire, on the other partie, witnesseth that it is agreade
betwixt the said parties, in manner and forme following: First, it
is. agread that the said Will: Plompton shal have ordering and
charge of all the houshold and goods therto longing, and his
said father, and my Lady his wife, to take their ease and reast, and
to be at board with the said William at the proper costs and
charges of the said Will: Also the said Sir Robert hath granted
to the said Will: al the revenewes and profitts of all the lands and
tenements with the Lordship of Plompton, to the intent that the
said Will: shall stand and be charged with all manner costage be-
longing to the said house and houshold, that is to say, meate,
drinke, and wages. Also it is agreed that the said Will: shall
stand to and be charged with his brothers and sisters in all things
neccessary, except Clare, his sister, which his said mother hath
promised to beare the charge of hir close. Also it is agread that
the said Will: shal have delivered al such quick goods and deade,
as is belonging unto the said house, be bill indented, and to deli-
ver as many agayne in like forme, except reasonable cause to the
contrarie. Also it is agred that the said Will: shall at his owne
libertie take al such servants as he thinks neccessary and profit-
able for the wele of the said house, except that the said Sir Robert
his fader shal have thre at his owne pleasure, such as he will
apointe. Also it is agread that the said Will: shall pay or cause to
pay to the said Sir Robert his father 10li yearly, to be paid at 2
several times, that is to say, at Whitsonday 5li, and Martinmas
5li, or within xii dàyes next folowing. Also it is agread that the
said Will: shall pay yearly xxli of such debts as the said Sir
Robert standeth bound for, after making and deliveri of this in-
denture, so that he may peasobly occupie the said rents, reve-
newes, and profits from the day abovésaid to the said debts be
fuly content and paidë; and every yeare to accounte to his said
father of all his receite and exspences, that his said father may
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know suerly what overplus may be saved towards the contencion
of the said debts. Also it is agread that the said Will: shal have
the letting of al such farmeš as shal bė voyd by the advice and
councill of his said father; also woodseling by the advise of his
father, unto the said debts be paide. Provided always, that if
theare be any break or varience of or in the premises, that then
both parties to call for the Minister of St. Roberts, and Sir John
Alan, parson of Burghwalles, and then he order the cause. In
witnes of all the premises either partie' to theise indentures hath
set their seales; the day and yeare abovesaid.???
Sir Robert Plumpton, being now upwards of seventy years of
age, and feeling his end approach, made the following testamen-
tary disposition, 10 April, 14 Hen. VIII. 1523. He gives J.Oli to
be distributed on the day of his sepulture unto priests, clerks, and
poor personis. To the House of St. Robert 8d. per annum for
ever out of Blaky farme in Knaresburgh. To the church of Spof-
forth 6s. 8d. To the House of St. Robert all the right he had
in Thorp-Garthś in Scotton. To Robert Plumpton his son, for
term of his life, six marks in money, to Marmaduke his son 5
marks, to Nigell his son 5 marks, which sums William Plompton
hisi son and heir was' to pay at two térms of the year. To Clare
Plompton his daughter 20li. To Magdalene his daughter 20
marks, to be paid by the said William out of his lands and tene-
ments. To Isabella Plompton, his wife, all the goods in his
chamber after his death, and the half of all his other goods. He
makes Marmaduke Plompton his executor, and William Plompton
his son and heir, and Isabella his wife, supervisors. How soon
after signing this instrument he expired, or on what day his
remains were interred in the family vault in the church of Spof-
forth, have not been recorded ; but the first act in which his son's
2 Cartul. No. 843.
a copy of the will in Towneley MS. G. 24. Witnesses, Sir Richard Plompton,
chaplain, William Garthing, chaplain, Oliver Diconson, Ralph Knowle, and others.
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HISTORICAL NOTICES
name appears, as being then in possession of the estates, bears
date 20 Dec. 15 Hen. VIII. 1523, and contains a release in full
made to him by Richard Plompton of Plompton, clerk, son and
heir of Godfrey Plompton,.esq. of all right and interest in the
manors of Grassington, Steton, Plompton, Westhall, Langbar,
and Idle, in the county of York, and in the former property of
the family in the counties of Nottingham and Derby.b
Some account of the dispute between William Plumpton, son
and heir of Sir Robert Plumpton, and William Babthorpe and
the male branch of that family, founded upon his claim to the entire
inheritance in right of his wife, the heir general, will be found in
the notes to the Correspondence; and I shall here only add the
following extract from the Itinerary of Leland the Antiquary, who
visited Yorkshire in the reign of Henry VIII. “Plomton of
Plomton, a mile from Gnaresburghe. This Plomton hath by the
heire generall a good parte of the Babthorps lands : but Babthorp
the Lawyer kepith Babthorpe self, that is, as I remember, in Hol-
dernesse.”c And in another place: “From Gnarresborow over Nid
ryver, almost al by wood, mile to Plunton, wher is a parke, and a
fair house of stone, with 2 toures longging to the same. Plunton
is now owner of it; a man of fair lands, and lately augmented by
wedding the daughter and heir general of Babthorpes.”d It would
seem also that the old quarrel was partially revived between Wil-
liam Plumpton and Sir John Roclife of Colthorp, kt. by reason
that the latter, upon the chantry of the Holy Trinity in the colle-
giate church of Ripon becoming vacant, had deputed William
Cooke of Ripon, chaplain, and Henry Bell, to present Stephen
Clarkson, chaplain, to the same; who was admitted on their pre-
6 Cartul. No. 854.
c Lel. Itin. vol. VIII. pt. 2nd. f. 68 b. Sir William Babthorpe, kt. son of Wil-
liam Babthorpe of Osgodby, gent. possessor of Babthorpe at the date of this journey,
was a lawyer and one of the King's council in the north. (See State Papers, part iv.)
Babthorpe is not, however, in Holderness, but in the liberty of Howdenshire.
d Lel. Itin. vol. 1. f. 104, p. 99.
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sentation. Whereupon, William Plumpton brought his action
against Christopher Cragley, clerk, and the abovenamed persons ;
and a jury was summoned 30 May, 22 Hen. VIII. 1530, to make
recognition in the octaves of Pentecost, whether Sir Robert Plump-
ton, kt. was legitimate or a bastard, and as to the right of the said
William Plumpton to present a fit person to the said chantry.e
William Plumpton, esq. made his will í July, 1 Edw. VI. 1547 :
among the bequests were 40li to his sister Clare Plompton, and to
Denis Plompton his son two parts of all his lands, until he have
received the sum of £200; out of which sum he was to give 20li to
Anne Plompton, one of the daughters of Robert Plompton, his
son and heire, late departed, when of the age of 21 years, and 20li
a-piece to each of her sisters, Mary and Isabell, in like manner,
with right of survivorship, as also 10li to William Plompton, son
and heire of Robert Plompton, deceased, when of age, and 40s to
Robert Plumpton his (the testator's) nephew and servant. By it
he confirms an annual rent-charge of 40li to Dennis Plompton,
and small annuities to John Poule, Marmaduke Bellingham, Thos.
Garden, and Richard Darcy, out of the manor of Plumpton; as
also certain other annuities to Anne Plompton, widow, late wife of
Robert Plompton, deceased, and to Robert and Neyle Plompton,
his (the testator's) brothers; “ and if any of them dye within 17
yeares next, that then the said Dennys to have the proffits of two
parts devided into three parts, towards the helping of my poor
kinsfolks. And I give to Robert Sethill my servant, for writing
of this my last will, 68. 8d. To the poor folks 40s. Isabell Plomp-
ton, my wife, and Dennis my son, to be my executors, and my
nephew Richard Arthington, and my brother Richard Yorke, su-
pervisors of this my last will, and to either of them 20s.»f Wil-
YTS
e Cartul. No. 857.
f Towneley MS. G. 24, p. 302, taken of an old manuscript. Witnesses, Tho. Gas-
coigne, esq. Thomas Plompton, Richard Ampleforth, Tho. Hawks, Chr'ofer Mauson,
Wm. Stevenson, Rob. Settill, Roger Hall, Rob. Haukes, and others.
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HISTORICAL NOTICES
liam Plumpton died on the 11th of the same month, being then
aged 62, and was buried at-Spofforth.
Robert Plumpton, his eldest son, born at Waterton, 17 Jan.
7 Hen. VIII. 1515-6, married 2 Sept. 30 Hen. VIII. 1538, Anne
daughter of John Norton, of Norton Conyers, com. Ebor. esq.
but died in ' his father's lifetime, aged thirty-one, and lies buried
at Luddington, in the isle of Axholme, the parish church to Wa-
terton, where he resided. His widow - subsequently remarried
Robert Moreton of Bawtry, com. Ebor. esq. to whom she was
second wife.
William Plumpton, son of Robert, and heir - to his grandfather,
was born on the feast of St. Anthony, 17 Jan. 35 Hen. VIII.
1543-4, and being a minor when the succession devolved upon
him, fell in ward to the King. By indenture, 16 Nov. 1 Edw. VI.
1547, made between . King Edward VI. of the one partie, and
Thomas Bill, esq. one of his Highness' physicians, of the other par-
tie, by the advice of the Councill of his Grace's Court of Wards,
the manor of Plumpton and tenements in Ripon, late the property
of William Plompton, esq. were demised to the said party, he pay-
ing to the feodary of the Westriding of the county of York, 87.
155. 814. over and above the annuities to the uncles of the ward,
Robert and Neyle, and 13li. 135. for the dower of Isabell, late wife
of the said William Plompton; provided always, that all things
granted to Anne, mother of the ward, and to Dennys Plompton
and Ursula . his wife, were excepted and reserved. And 9 Feb.
2 Edw. VI. 1547-8, the same Thomas Bill, esq. granted to Isabel
Plompton, widow, the custody and marriage of William Plompton,
cosin and heire of William Plompton, esq. deceased, and all other
the premises made from the King's grace unto the said Thomas.g
Dame Isabel Plumpton died 30 June, 6 Edw. VI. 1552, leaving
g Towneley MS. G. 24, containing transcripts from a book of Plumpton Evidences
called the Red Book, is the authority for the statements in this latter portion of the
Historical Notices of the family.
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her grandson yet à minor; and who, by an inquisition taken 8
Nov. 6 Eliz. 1564, was found to be of the age of 20 years and 9
months. Having completed his full age 18 Jan. 7 Eliz. 1564-5,
William Plumpton had a writ of Ouster-le-mayn, first of February
following, from Sir William Cecil, kt. Master of his Majesty's
Court of Wards, and Robert Keilway, Surveyor of the same. He
had also livery, 31 May, 7 Eliz. 1565, of all the lands which de-
scended to him as cousin and heir of Dame Isabel Plumpton
above-named, his grandmother; and in this same year he revived
the claim to the manors of Babthorpe and Osgodby, and such parcel
of the ancient inheritance of the Babthorpes as had been retained
by the male branch of the family. The latter were, however, con-
firmed in possession by the award of Richard Weston and John
Walshe, two of the Queens Majesties Justices of the Common
Pleas, made 20 Oct. 7 Eliz. 1565; and William Plumpton had,
moreover, to give 160li. that a fine might pass between him and
Sir William Babthorpe, kt. in the ensuing Hillary Term, (29 Jan.
8 Eliz, 1565-6,1") of the manor of Watterton, with the appurte-
nances in Watterton, Amcotes, Colby, Hotoft, and Luddington,
and of the free piscary in the water of Trent, called Maredyke-
garth, in order to assure these premises against all subsequent
claim.
William Plumpton married to his first wife Mary, daughter of
Sir William Vavasour of Hazelwood, kt. and by her had issue a
son, Robert, and two daughters. By indenture, 27 Nov. 10 Eliz.
1567, between Sir Ingram Clifford of Colthorpe, com. Ebor, kt.
and Dame Anne his wife, and William Plumpton of Plumpton,
com. Ebor. esq. it was agreed, that“ in consideration of a marriage
to bee had and solemnised betwixt Ellen Clifford, daughter and
h Fin. Term. Hill. 8 Eliz. coram Jacobo Dyer, Anthonio Browne, Rich. Weston, et
Joh. Walshe.
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sole heire of the said Sir Ingram and dame Anne, and Robert
Plumpton, son and heir of William Plumpton, before Easter
next,” that Sir Ingram and dame Anne should settle all their
lands upon feoffees, viz. Robert Morton of Bawtry, esq. and
William Wydmerpoole of Wydmerpoole, esq. that is to say, the
manour of Cowlthorp, and Brerton, Steton, Idle, Nesfeld, Studley,
Eastburne, Glusburne, Thorpe, Wray and Longbargh, com. Ebor.
Kinalton, Mansfeild and Woodhouse, com. Nott. Edinsor, Has-
sup, Darley, Pillisley, Wormehill and Chelmerdon, Cowmes,
Martinside, Baukewell, Rollesley, Tydswall, Weston, Worderp-
low, and Hurdlow, Flagg, Twyford, Moxdale, Betfield, Stanston,
Harberch meddow, Turnedikes, Spondon, Bargshosham and Lowh,
com. Derby, to hold the said lands to the use of Sir Ingram
and dame Anne, and the longer liver of them, and after to their
sons in order of primogeniture to be begotten on the bodies of
Sir Ingram and Dame Anne, and then to Robert Plumpton and
Ellenor, now their daughter and sole heir, and the heirs of their
two bodies. Dame Anne Clifford had inherited the estates of the
family of Roucliff; and it is deserving remark, that if this mar-
riage had taken place, the long disputed lands that went away
with Dame Margaret Roucliff, would have returned and again
been united with the ownership of Plumpton. Providence ruled
otherwise; both infants died, and 3 December following, Sir
Ingram Clifford released William Plumpton from his bond obli-
gatory in 2000li for the fulfilment of the articles contained in this
covenanti
The death of Robert left Ellen and Mary, his sisters, the heirs
apparent of William Plumpton, during his first wife's lifetime ;
and between Thomas Markham of Ollerton, com. Notts. esq. on
the first part, the said William Plompton of Plompton, their
In the Towneley MSS. this note accompanies the transcript of the covenant :
" Robertus Plumpton filius et heres Will’i Plumpton ar, obiit sine prole."
OF THE FAMILY OF PLUMPTON.
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father, on the second part, and Edmund Thurland, esq.k and An-
thony Lathom, gent. on the third part, it was covenanted, 8th Jan.
19 Eliz. 1576-7, that Griffin Markham, son and heir apparent of
the said Thomas, before he accomplished the age of fifteen years,
and if he die before that time, then Robert Markham, gent.
second son of the said Thomas, shall marry Ellen Plumpton,
eldest daughter of the said William, before she be of the age of
fifteen years, or if she die before that time, then Mary, his second
daughter, before she be of the like age. In consideration of
which marriage the said William Plumpton agreed to suffer a
recovery of his manors of Plumpton and Rudfarlington, and all
others the messuages, &c. in the hamlets of Plumpton and Rud-
farlington, Spofford, Knaresborow, Aketon, Folyfet, Kirkeby-
Wharfe, and Adlingfleet, in the county of York, of the manor of
Sacomb, and all messuages &c. in the hamlets of Sacomb, Ston-
den, Wadsmill, Watton, and Stapleford, in the county of Hert-
ford, and of the manor of Watterton, and all lands, tenements,
&c. in the county of Lincoln, so as the feoffees, Frances Waferer
and William Mason, gent. should stand seised thereof to his use
for life, remainder in tail male to his sons, and in default to the
heirs of the bodies of his said daughters as should marry the
said Griffin or Robert, with other remainders over, and provided
that the marriage so limited for such daughter do not break hy
her default; the said William to have a power of jointuring
such wife or wives as he shall marry to the amount of 50li a year,
and if he fortune to have any issue male by any other wife than by
Mary, now his wife living, after the time of any such marriage,
that then, within three years after such issue had, he shall pay
unto the said Griffin or Robert, as shall marry the said Ellen or
\ Edmund Thurland of Gamston on Idle, com. Notts. esq. brother-in-law of Wil-
liam Plumpton.
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Mary, the sum of 1000 marks : and the said Thomas Markham
was to suffer lands of the yearly value of 200li to descend to his
son and heir, and to give dower in 100 marks yearly. The
daughters here named never reached maturity; and, their mother
having died, William Plumpton covenanted, 29 March, 22 Eliz.
1580, to take to wife Anne Griffin, sister of Edward Griffin of
Dingley, com. Northa, esq. on whom the jointure of 50li per
annum was settled, and for whose portion her brother was to
pay, the day after marriage, 500li, the gift and legacy of Edward
Griffin her father, and 300li at Pentecost, 1581: but the uses
of the previous settlement were not to be disturbed, save only as
far as the admission of the daughters of the second marriage
to take in coparcenary with those of the first, in default of male
issue.!
William Plumpton had been educated in the doctrines of the
ancient faith, and the alliances of the family were made with such
only as shared in the same conviction of its truth. In Yorkshire,
and the other Northern counties, the Catholics in the reign of
Elizabeth continued for a while to be formidable both by their
numbers and property ; but their power was broken by the ill-
success of the attempted rebellion of their chiefs, the Earls of
Northumberland and Westmorland. Few escaped exile, impri-
sonment, or forfeiture; and one after another their estates passed
into the hands of strangers, or were extended by the crown for the
payment of the fines for recusancy. Among the Burghley
Papers in the Lansdowne collection is one indorsed “A trybe of
wicked people," and containing a genealogy of the Catholic families
of Norton, Moreton, Thurland, and Plumpton; where, after shewing
that “ Plumton of Plumton, esq. had issue by his wife, the daughter.
of Norton, Plumtone now of Plumton," this note follows: “he was
S
| Towneley MSS. ubi supra.
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..
in the lait rebellion and asewered his lands and now gone over"
(seas,) i. e. to Flanders.m
William Plumpton made his will 7 Jan. 44 Eliz. 1601-2, by which
he enjoined his body to be buried in Plumpton Quire in Spof-
forth church, and gave to Ann his wife 100li and a third of all his
goods—to Peter his son for life, and to his wife, his executors and
assigns, for twenty-one years after his decease, all the lands he
bought of John Acclome, esq. in Kirkhy-super-Wharfe, and the
Ings there, called Horrington Ings, he paying no rent during life,
and they gli during the term-to Thomas his son, such part of
the said manor of Kirkeby-super-Wharfe as he bought of William
Fairfax, esq. and Francis his brother, in like form-to John, his
son, all that part of the said Lordship which did descend unto
him, in like form, save that the rent for the term was to be but 6li,
and if this were controlled, then to have all those lands which he
(the testator) bought of Robert Morton, esq. and Robert his son,
in Watterton in the county of Lincoln to Richard his son one
burgage in Knarisburgh called Wintringham Hall, and an annuity
of 12li out of Waterton, after the death of his wife—“ to my son
William one annual rent of 20li out of Waterton after the death
of Anne Plumpton, my wife.” To his daughter Clare he bequeath-
ed 200 marks; and if she depart not from his son and heir, then to
have meat, drink, &c. and 5li for apparell. To his daughters, Eli-
zabeth, Frances, and Luce, gli yearly till they married or accom-
plished the age of twenty-four years, and then portions of 400li
each, or 200li if their marriage was without the consent of their
mother. The real estate (except the manor of Sacomb in the
county of Hertford, afterwards sold to Sir Philip Boteler of
Woodhall, kt. and the lands in Kirkeby-super-Wharfe above-
named,) to remain settled to the uses declared by the deed of 8
m. Lands. MSS. 27. Plut. 73 f. (Burghley Papers.) Surtees has printed this paper
in the Appendix to his Lives of the Bishops of Durham, prefixed to his first volume of
the History of Durham, P. clx, but with some misreadings, as of Antony for Plum-
tone.
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C
Jan. 1576-7, viz. first to his issue males, and in default to his issue
females, “ so as the said issues females pay to Clare Plompton my
daughter 200li,” with remainders as to the manors of Plumpton and
Rudfarlington to Richard Plumpton, son of Dynnis Plumpton, to
William Plumpton, late of Adlethorpe,n to Robert Plumpton bro-
ther of William, to John Plumpton son of Nigell Plumpton, and
to Robert Plumpton brother of John, successively, in strict tail
male, and, in default, to the right heirs of Edward Plumpton his
son for ever. To Anne his wife, he gave his manor of Usfleto
for her life; and after her decease, and after the death of Frances
wife of his son Edward Plumpton, (whose jointure of the capital
messuage of Rudfarlington and 40li per annum was to surcease at
the death of Aune, the same manor, together with the reversion of
the lands in Kirkeby-super-Wharfe, was to remain to his son Ed-
ward and his heirs male, &c. His armour, his best horse, and all
his goods and chattels at Plumpton, he gave to his eldest son,
and appointed his brother Edvard Griffin supravisor, with a
legacy of Loli, and a gelding of 10li price. Lastly, he made Anne
Plumpton his wife sole executrix, and if she intermarried or re-
fused probate, then Francis Smith of Ashby Folvile and Francis
Smith his grandchild, William Midleton of Stockeld, esq. Thomas
Ingleby, and William Metcalfe of the Inner Temple, to be exe-
cutors, and to every of them he gave 5 marks. “Item. 20
nobles to bee dealt to the poore on the day of my funerall.” Six
days after executing this testament, viz. on the 13th of January,
William Plumpton died, being the Wednesday next before the
feast of St. Anthony, his birth-day, when he would have com-
pleted his fifty-eighth year, and was buried at Spofforth.p
Addlethorpe is a farm-house in the township and parish of Spofforth.
• Ousefleet, in the parish of Whitgift, com. Ebor.
p In the church of Spofforth is yet remaining in a niche an uninscribed monument,
having on it the recumbent effigy of a knight in armour cross-legged, on his shield the
coat of Plumpton. (See Archeolog, vol. VI. pl. xlvii. p. 338.)
OF THE TTT
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FAMILY OF PLUMPTON.
Sir Edward Plumpton, kt. the transcriber of the family Evidences
out of which these Notices have been compiled, the eldest son of
his father's second marriage, was born at Dingley, in the county of
Northampton, at the house of Edward Griffin, Attorney-general
to Queen Mary, father to Anne Griffin his mother, 22 Sept.
23 Eliz. 1581.9 He married Frances, daughter of William Ar-
thington of Arthington in the county of York, esq. 13 Sept. 41 Eliz.
1599, when in his eighteenth year. The covenant for the mar-
riage is dated 18 July preceding, and is an indenture tripartite be-
tween William Plompton of Plompton, com. Ebor. esq. and Anne
his wife of the first partie, and William Ingleby of Ripley in com.
Ebor. esq. and Sampson Ingleby of Spofforth in the foresaid
county of York, gentleman, of the second partie, and Edward
Plompton, son and heire apparent of the said William Plompton
and Anne, and Frances Arthington, one of the daughters of Wil-
liam Arthington of Arthington, com. Ebor. esq. deceased, of the
third partie. It witnesseth that “whereas a marriage is agreed
upon between the said Edward Plompton and the said Frances
Arthington, neice to the said William Ingleby and Sampson
Ingleby", on this side and before Christmas, now for the making
of a jointure to the said Franceis, the said William Plompton and
Anne agree to suffer a fine of the manor or lordship of Urslit
alias Uslet, known by the name of Willough Parke alias Wilfe
Parke, sometime parcell of the possession and inheritance of Sir
Richard Bozome, knight, with all appurtenances, as also of all
that sometime the land of Robert Haldenby of Haldenby in the
county of York, esq. and of Francis Haldenby his son, lying in
.
9 Ex libro per manum propriam Edwardi Plompton. (Towneley MSS.)
r William Arthington married Catharine daughter of Sir William Ingleby of Ripley,
kt. Treasurer of Berwick, and High Sheriff of Yorkshire 7 Eliz. 1574.
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the parish of Whitgife, in the county of York, to the said William
and Sampson, and to their heirs, to hold to the use of the said
Anne for life, and after her death then to the use of the said
Edward and Frances, and the longer liver of them, remainder to
the said William Plompton and his heirs ; and till the estate so
appointed came into possession, they to have the manor, farm, or
capital messuage called Roughfarlington or Rudfarlington, in the
township of Plompton, and an annual rent-charge of 40li a year
out of the manor of Plompton, during the life of the said Anne.”
By her Sir Edward Plumpton had a numerous offspring, of whom
John, the eldest surviving son who came to years of manhood,
married Anne, daughter of Richard Towneley of Towneley in the
county of Lancaster. esq. The covenants for this marriage were
made 20 Dec. 3 Car. I. 1627, between Sir Edward Plompton of
Plompton kt. Dame Frances his wife, and Ann Plompton, widdow,
his mother, upon the first part, Richard Towneley of Towneley in
the county of Lancaster esq. upon the second partie, and Sir Raphe
Ashton of Great Leaver, in the said county, Bart. Sir Peter
Midleton of Stockhill in the county of Yorke, kt. Savile Radclife
of Todmerden in the said county of Lancaster, esq. and William
Norton, son and heir of William Norton of Sawley, com. Ebor.
upon the third partie, the same to take place before Pentecost
next ensuing. The portion of the lady was £2,000; in consider-
ation of which large sum, and for the better advancement of the
said Dame Frances, Anne Plompton, and Anne Towneley with
convenient jointures, it was agreed to make estate to the feoffees
last named of all the manor of Plompton and Roughfarlington, all
the mannor of Watterton and Amcotts and Burton Stather, and
all the manor of Urslett alias Willough or Wilfe Parke, with the
mansion-house, (formerly reputed as part of the inheritance of
Edward King and Mary his wife, or of Sir William Cordall, kt.
OF THE FAMILY OF PLUMPTON.
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and Dame Mary his wife, deceased], who were to resettle the same
upon their several issue in strict tail male.
But the Civil Wars, in which with zealous loyalty so many
Catholic families embarked life and fortune, greatly impove-
rished Sir Edward Plumpton and his son, who held the rank of
Captain in the Royal army, and to whom 15 Apr. 14 Car. İ.
1638, the father had yielded up the complete control of the
property, reserving only to himself the building called “Lower
Tower in Plompton," in consideration of an annual rent of 2001,
he being then indebted in the sum of 11391. 7s. 8d. as appears by
a schedule annexed to the deed. The will of John Plompton of
Plompton, in the county of York, esq. is dated 21 July, 20 Car. I.
1644, and contains this recital : “ First in regard I am in great
debt, I doe give unto Sir William Ingleby of Ripley, kt. and bart.
William Midleton of Stockehill, esq. Henry Arthington of Arthing-
ton, esq. and Christopher Towneley of the Carr, gent. and to their
heirs for ever, all those my two several mannors and mannor houses
of Watterton and Uslet alias Wilfe alias Willough Parke, to sell
the same towards the payment of the several sums in the schedule,
hereunto annexed :" these sums reach to a total of 63931. 16s. 10d.
The testator at the time of making this will had been hurt in the
wars, 6 at Hessamoore, during the siege of York," i. e. 2 July,
1644, the day that Prince Rupert was defeated by the Parliamen-
tary forces, on the moor between Hessay and Marston : from which
last-named village this field has been likewise called the Battle
of Marston-moor. After languishing for several days at Knares-
borough, whither he had been removed, he died and was interred
in the church of that town.
Sir Edward Plumpton married, the same year his son died, a
second wife, Frances, daughter of Richard Chamney, esq.; to whom
in his will, dated 26 Jan. 1654-5, “as having been partaker with
him and a comfortable yokefellow in these times of his sufferings
and as having had and received with her a convenient portion," he
CAMD, soc. 4.
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1
bequeaths all his estate real and personal, “ and all his right in one
lease granted by the late Committee at York, and confirmed by
the Committee at Haberdashers' Hall, to Mr. Richard Rodes of
Knaresburgh:” which lease was no doubt held under a secret trust
in behalf of the testator, his property having been sequestrated by
the Parliament.
The year in which probate of this will was taken out is not
annexed, nor do I find any Plumpton Memoranda extending
beyond the year 1663 among the transcripts in the Towneley
MSS.; but the inserted Pedigree of the family has been supplied
with the later descents from one communicated by Richard
Wilson, esq. Recorder of Leeds, in 1755, to Thomas Wilson, and
entered by him in his Book of West Riding Genealogies, now in
the Public Library at Leeds. Robert Plumpton, esq. the last of
his line, conformed to Protestantism, but returned again to the
faith of his ancestors. He died at Cambray in France, unmar-
ried, 8th Aug. 1749, to which place he had gone to confer
with his aunt Anne, a Benedictine Nun, who recovered him
to the Catholic Church. After his death, the estate of Plumpton,
then reckoned worth about 700l. a-year, was sold by Mrs. Anne
Plumpton and her coparceners to Daniel Lascelles, esq. who,
designing to make it his seat, pulled down Plumpton Hall, (or
Plumpton Tower, as it was frequently called,) and formed about
its site extensive pleasure-grounds; but, after having begun the
erection of a new building, he desisted and went to live at Golds-
borough Hall, another of his purchases, on the opposite side of the
river Nidd, and which, like Plumpton, had once been the residence
of a knightly family. From this gentleman descends Edward
Lascelles, Earl of Harewood, Lord Lieutenant of the West
Riding of Yorkshire, the present owner of the lordship and domain
of Plumpton.
PLUMPTON CORRESPONDENCE
FROM
SIR EDWARD PLUMPTON'S
BOOK OF LETTERS.
LETTERS
WRITTEN TO SIR WILLIAM PLOMPTON,
WHO DIED 20. YEAR OF K. EDWARD THE FOWRTH.
LETTER I.
To our trusty and welbeloved knight, Sir William Ploinpton.
By the King. R. H.a Trusty and welbeloved, we greete you well,
and for as much as we have very knowledg that our great trator,
the late Earle of March,b hath made great assemblies of riotouse
and mischeously disposed people, and to stirr and provoke them
to draw unto him, he hath cried in his proclamations havok upon
all our trew liege people and subjects, thaire wives, children, and
goods, and is now coming towards us, we therfore pray you and
also straitely charge you that anon upon the sight herof, ye, with
all such people as ye may make defensible arraied, come unto us
in all hast possible, wheresoever we shall bee within this our
Realme, for to resist the malitious entent and purpose of our said
trator, and faile not herof as ye love the seurty of our person, the
weale of yourselfe, and of all our trew and faithfull subjects.
Geven under our signet at our Cyty of York, the thirtenth day of
March.c
• (13 March 1460-1.)
Henry VI.
Edward Earl of March took the title of Edward IV. 4 March 1460-1.
c The battle of Towton field or Saxton field was fought on the twenty-ninth of
March following, being Palm Sunday, whence it was sometimes called Palm Sunday
field. Sir William Plumpton's eldest son was among the slain. (See Memoirs.)
CAMD. soc. 4.
B
PLUMPTON CORRESPONDENCE
LETTER II.
Unto my right reverent and worshipfull maister, Maister Sir Wil-
liam Plompton, knight.
My right reverent and honorable maister, All humble recomen-
dation praemised, please you that I receaved of your servant John
Smith xl marks, and your letter to the Tresorer and Barons of the
exchequer for respitt of your day to xyna Hillary,a which would not
be graunted but soe I have gotten that one shall appeare for you att
the day of account and soe to be appeared for in the pipe,b and
then for to be prepared in the next tearme; and soe I have labored
a felaw of mine to be your Atturney in the Court, for I may
nought be but of Counsell, and he and I shall shew you such ser-
vice all that time and afterward that shall be pleasing unto you.
And soe shall ye have day or respitt to the xy of hillary next
coming, then to be opposed of your greenewax; att which time ye
may nott faile to send hider all your bookes and some readie man
for to answer unto him, for I nor my said felaw may nott attend
thereupon, and also to be here yourselfe than or before to pursue
for your pardon,c and to gree all your demaundes att once. And
I trust to god for to gett you downe your greenewax d if that I
may, thof it cost you mony; soe ye wrote unto me, beseeching our
a 27 Jan.
b See Madox's Exchequer for the mode of passing an account at the Exchequer,
and as to a Sheriff being apposed by the Barons upon the summonce of the Pipe. Sir
William Plumpton had been Sheriff of the county of York in 1448, and of Nottingham
and Derby in 1452.
- Sir William Plumpton obtained his letters of general pardon and release, 5 Feb.
1461-2; wherein, among other designations, he is styled “ nuper vicecom. com,
Ebor. mil. alias nuper vicecom. com. Nottingham et Derb. chivaler.” (Vide Chartul.
continent. evidentias familiæ de Plumpton, No. 551.)
I The estreats out of the Exchequer, sent to the Sheriffs to be levied, were sealed
'with green wax.
IN THE REIGN OF EDWARD IV.
lord to gif you good speed against all your enemies and in all
your matters. Written in hast at Westminster the fift day of
November.
(5 Nov. 1461.)
Your servant, BRYAN ROCLIFF.e
e Bryan Rocliff of Cowthorpe, com. Ebor. (See Memoirs.) He was made third
Baron of the Exchequer, 8 May, 1 Edw. IV. and therefore in condition to show ser-
vice to his client at the time of writing.
LETTER III.
To my right honnorable and reverant Coussin Sir William Plomp-
ton, knight.a
Right worshipfull and reverent Coussin, after dew and hartyly
recommendations-Be the advise of my master, Sir John Markam,
* The nature of the variance spoken of in this letter may be collected from the evi-
dences in the Plumpton coucher book. A writ of appeal had, it seems, been brought
by “ Thomasyn, late the wife of Henry Perpoint, sometyme of Holme, esquire,”
(whose són this Henry was) against “ Robert Grene, late of Plompton beside Knares-
burgh, in the county of York, gent." of the death of the " said Henry Perpoint, some-
tyme her husband, in the shire of Nottingham ;” and, on the other hand, a counter-
writ had been sued by « Richard Grene, of Plompton, nevewe and heir of John
Grene, late of Plompton," (which John was brother-in-law to Sir William Plump-
ton, and serving as his steward) against “ John Perpoint, late of Rodmathwaite,
in the county of Nottingham, gent, and others," of the death of his “said uncle
John Grene, in the shire of York." These homicides had been committed in an
affray on Papplewick-moor in Nottinghamshire 35 Hen. VI. ; and 10 Feb. 37 Hen.
VI, 1458-9, the same parties had agreed to abide by the award of Sir John Mel-
ton, knight, John Stanop, esq. and Richard Elingworth, counsellor, arbitrators
chosen on the side of Perpoint, and of Sir William Vernon, knight, William Babing-
ton, esq. and Richard Neel, counsellor, on the side of Plumpton, with John Viscount
Beaumont for umpire. The civil dissensions probably prevented the final settlement
of the variance at that time. Then came the proposal contained in this letter of Sir
Richard Bingham, but which was not acceded to, as the final award was subsequently
made pursuant to a bond dated 24 May, 2 Edw. IV. It is in the sole name of
Richard Bingham, “one of the King's Justices of the bench," and bears date son
Friday on the morne after the ascension of our lord,”! 28 May, 1462. (Chartul.
No. 552.)
PLUMPTON CORRESPONDENCE
Chiefe Justice,b I comonde with Henry Pearpointe Esquire c for
the variance that is betwixt you and him, and he is agred, if it
please you, to put all thing that is in variance betwixt you and him
in the said Sir John and me; and if ye will doe the same, we for
the ease of you both and the rest of the contry will take the mat-
ter upon us, and we will apoynt you both; and apoynte you to be
at Notinggam upon the Mondey next after Law Sunday next
coming at even, you to be lodgd theare, upon the long Raw in the
satterday market, at your pleasure, and the said Henry against St.
Mary. kirke; and every of you not to excede xij persons, and ye
and every of your persons to be single arrayd, and in noe other
forme, and the place of metting for you and us to be at St. Petter
kirke; and if this please you, I trust to God the matter in vari-
ance betwixt you and him shall take good conclusion: and ther-
fore how ye will agre in this matter I pray you send word in wri-
ting to my son Richard Bingham, that he may let my master Sir
John Markam, Henry Perpoint, and mee have knowledg of your
dispotition in the said matter. The day of your trety shal bee at
Notingham upon the tewsday next after Low Sunday betimes,
and my said master and I shal so behave us betwix you, that yf
you both wil bee reuled by reason, ye shal both bee wel eased,
with the grace of God, which keep you ever. Written at Midlton,
the eight day of January.
Your poor Cosin,
(8 Jan. 1461-2.)
Rich. BINGHAM, knight.d
o Sir John Markham, made chief justice of the King's Bench, 1 Edw. IV. removed
8 Edw. IV.
c Henry Pierpont of Holme Pierrepont, esq. son of Henry Pierpont, esq. and Tho-
masyn, daughter of Sir John Melton, knight.
& Sir Richard Bingham, knight, a justice of the King's Bench and the writer of this
letter, was of Middleton, com. Derb. and agreeably to the custom of the time, calls
Sir William Plumpton his cousin, inasmuch as his son Richard Bingham, junior,
who is named in the letter, had married Margaret, daughter of Sir Thomas Rempston,
knight, uncle by the half-blood to Sir William Plumpton.
IN THE REIGN OF EDWARD IV.
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LETTER IV.
Unto his right reverend and honorable master Sir William
Plompton, knight, in hast.
Right reverend and honorable Sir, and mine especiall good
maister, after all humble recomandations, with dew regraces and
hartly thankings of your kind mastership unto me undeserved,
effectualy my trust is desiring continuance. Please you that I
have communed with Beford in your mater as ye wrote to me,
and I cannot find him disposed that he will eyther grant you any
yeares of payment, or els to be content by any soum yearly to be
paid, and he will agre to no treate but if he have some money in
hand, and so he haith taken his exigi facias de novo and is with
us called in the hustings ;a marveling me that after writing by
letter and comunication by mouth, ye tender not hartyly that
matter, considring the other obligation which might be executed
against Plumtre of Nottinggam,b if ye wold doe your devor, be-
seching you to remember your honestie and wellfare. And Sir,
I have tretid with Wigmore and at few words, I find him right
hard and strange and soe ye bene iijc called in Midlesex; wherfore
ye must purvay hastely remmedy, for he will noe more trust faire
wordes as he saith; thus remiting matters to your discrett wisdom,
whom the holiest enspire to your profit and pleasure, my advis
being allwaies redy. Written in hast at London, the 19th of May.
Your servant, BRIAN ROCLIFE,
(19 May, anno circiter 1462.)
& Hustings, the court for causes in the City of London.
John Plumtre of Nottingham died April 1471.-See Thoroton for an account of
this family.
© A defendant was to be called in court five times before judgment of outlawry could
be given.
PLUMPTON CORRESPONDENCE
LETTER V.
Unto his reverent maister Sir William Plompton, knight, in hast.
In speciall my verray good maister, after due recomendations;
my maister the Chief Barona comuned to my lord Treasorer b of
certaine matters, and soe my lord opened that Thomas Beckwith
was his Awnte son, and he would make him eschetour; saying;
that he loved you right well and would fayne an end were taken
betwixt you and Beckwith, willing my said maister to take upon
him the rewle, and would undertake Beckwith to be ruled by him,
if he would take it upon him, who disclosed this unto me, nott
certaine that ye would agree. And I answered that I supposed ye
would agree to all reason, enforming him of the trewthe of the
matter to my cuning after your information; soe that if such
writing be had unto you by the advice of your trewe in reason, in
reason it is to be agreed with reason, as my simplesse seemeth,
saveing your better advise. And Sir, Beford hath spoken with me,
sayeing that the matter is broken up in the default of Sir Harry,
Richard Illingworth, made Chief Baron of the Exchequer 10 Sept. 2 Edw. IV. 1462.
b John Earl of Worcester, Lord Tiptoft and Powis, was Lord Treasurer at this
period. He is stated to have married Elizabeth, daughter of Robert Greyndour, of
which name of Greindour, or Graindorge, there was a family of some consequence in
Craven, whose heir-general was Nesfield of Flasby, a manor acquired by this match.
The intermarriage with the family of Beckwith may therefore have been on the part of
the wife's relatives ; any how a near affinity seems to be indicated by this letter.
c The Eschetour of the county of York, 2 Edw. IV. was Thomas Beckwith of Clint
in com. Ebor. esq. whose eldest son and heir apparent William had married Elizabeth
daughter of Sir William Plumpton before 26 Jan. 34 Hen. VI. 1455-6. At that date
Elizabeth, the wife of Thomas Beckwith, who is stated in the pedigree of the family to
have been a coheir of Heslarton, was living, and lands in Hawnby, Filey and Muston
are named in the settlement upon the marriage of their son William Beckwith. By
the same deed Sir William Plumpton was bound to pay a certain sum by annual instal-
ments for his daughter's portion, and from a subsequent letter it would seem that xli,
parcel of this sum, had been kept back, probably on the ground of his daughter not
having issue male, it being one of the conditions of the bond that all payments should
thenceforth cease, upon her dying without having any such alive. (Chartul. No. 541.)
IN THE REIGN OF EDWARD IV.
that kept no tyme, and soe he purposes to continue and take out
his suite, whom with soberness I entreate, affirming that ye will
be here this tearme, and as long as I may, but I have noe grant
of him. And Colt hath spoken to me for the remainder of the
money, which he should send with the Bill of issues and for costes.
And Beford hath spoken with Plomptree for the other obligation
under sewertee, and soe in manner of a certante of payment, but
now it is deatt the lyeing at large. Thus matters remitted to your
said discretion whom our lord govern and haf in his keeping.
Written in hast in the temple the fourtenth day of October.
(14 Oct. anno circiter 1462.) Your servant, BRYAN ROCLIF.
LETTER VI.
Unto his singuler good maister Sir William Plompton, knight.
Right worshippfull my singuler good mastre, as my dewtie is,
with intier regraces I recomend me unto you, whose honor ioy and
prosperitie I beseech the blessed trinitie to encrease dayly as I
would haf of my simple person. Sir, I thank you among inumer-
able other, of your comfortable letter that you now take your
disport att your libertee.a And as touching my lord,b I shall ride to
M- to him within these 4 daies and doe my part, and as I
shall find him, so shall I certifie you. Sir, as anenst Scatergood
I hafe yett taken a longer continuance unto new yeare day, and I
would fayne that it were att an end, thof it cost you mony for
countermaunding and noysing; that would be had by privy seales,
for they go light cheape, and send me your will therein. Sir, it is
necessary that T, Beckwith be content at this time of xli, for losse
# Sir William Plumpton had about this time been confined on a false charge of car-
rying on a treasonable correspondence with the fugitive Lancastrians. (See Memoirs.)
b John Nevill, Earl of Northumberland and Lord Mountague, between whom and the
Earl of Warwick the estates of the House of Percy were divided, after the accession of
Edward IV.
e Thomas Beckwith. (See note to Letter V.)
PLUMPTON CORRESPONDENCE :
of money by suites makes more payments. Sir, if it like you that
Richard F- aftre this yoole might entend upon me toward
London, seing your presence now here, and ye might forgo him,
I would have of you knowledge, for other have labored me, whome
I respite therefore. Butt dissease or displease would nott I you
in any wise. As for Gouldesburgh yett mett we nott, but now I
trust that ye shall confirme all that first was named, and for Gods
sake performe it (quia mora trahitt periculum) or his brother
Edwardd goe to London att twentie day of yoole, and ellis will it
straunge and delay. And think how ye lost Robart Ros son.e
Your daughter and myn, with humble recomendations, desireth
your blessing, and speaketh prattely and french and hath near
hand learned her sawter. Sir, Henry Suthill hath knowledge of
her feofment,f as a man tould me secretly, but for all that I trust
all shalbe well, with the grace of the blessed trinitie, who quyte
you and send you all your desires. Writen in hast at Colthrop on
fryday.8
(Dec. 1463.) Your serviseable brother, BRYAN ROUCLIFFE.
a Edward Goldesburgh, third Baron of the Exchequer in 1484. The writer of the
letter apparently alludes to the then projected match between Richard, eldest son and
heir apparent of Thomas Goldesburgh of Goldesburgh, com. Ebor. esq. brother of Ed.
ward Goldesburgh above named, and Alice, one of the daughters of Sir William Plump-
ton. The father's bond for the marriage bears date in 1465. (See Memoirs.)
e - Robert Ros' son," with whom and another daughter of Sir William Plumpton a
match had previously miscarried, was Thomas, eldest son of Robert Ross, of Ingman-
thorp, com. Ebor. esq.
Margaret Rocliffe, the wife of John Rocliffe, eldest son of the writer, was grand-
daughter of Sir William Plumpton. Her feofment on marriage (dated 26 Nov. 3 Edw.
IV. 1463) had, it seems, been kept secret from Henry Suthill, esq. who in Feb.
1463-4 contracted for the marriage of the other co-heir.
& The date of this letter was probably the Friday next preceding Christmas (Yule)
day, which in 1463 fell on a Sunday. The manor seat of the Roucliffes was at Col.
throp, otherwise Cowthorpe, a parish-town in the upper division of Claro, com. Ebor.
The church there was built by this Brian Roucliffe, and in the choir on a flat stone
are the effigies in brass of him and his wife, bearing betwixt them the model. It was
consecrated in 1458 ; and he died 24 March 1494.
li From the time of the marriage of his son with the grand-daughter of Sir William
IN THE REIGN OF EDWARD IV.
Plumpton, Brian Rocliff contracted that degree of affinity with the latter which it was
usual to distinguish by the name of brother in social intercourse, and this change in
his mode of signature denotes the priority of date which attaches to the preceding
letters.
LETTER VII.
To my right worshipfull maistre Sir William Plompton, kt.
Right worshipfull maistre, I recomend me unto you. Please it
you to witt the minister of St. Roberts has taken 2 suits, one of
trespas for delving his ground att St. Robert, another of debt and
detinue both in a writt, debt 12 marks, which as I understand by
Horberey should be lent to you. Be the place (plea) of the detinue
for a chalise shold be lent to you; also the writts were out, but
I caused Horberey per album breve, so the sheriff shall have none
paid for the writts, by the avise of Mr. Rocliff.a I pray you send
answerre against the next tearme; also had I understood for
certain what goods Folbaron and Walker had of yours, I shold
have bene answerd this terme by Horberey not guilty, which is
the best issue you can have : I pray you send word against the
next terme. Also Whele had sent out exigi facias de novo
against Holden, Hanworth b and West, or I came here, and said
they were returned quarto exactus; he had given them to short a
day. Whearfore he said he wold write unto you for an excuse, and
pray the exigi against West may be withdrawen: I promissed he
should take no hurt by the proces. Also Whele sends you a
capias utlegat. against Harldre by Rauf Annias, but he delivered
it to the Sheriff. I shall send you another with the Copie of your
a The phrase per album breve ought perhaps to be understood of a bribe given to
Horberey, acting as attorney on behalf of the minister of the house of St. Robert at
Knaresborough (at this date Robert Boulton), for the staying of these writs.
b Thomas Holden and William Hanworth were with William Husworth, William
Rute, Christopher Craven, Richard Dryver, Richard Warter and John Ripley, freres
and brethren of the house of St. Robert, Jobn Cock and William Barker, indicted and
outlawed during these suits by Sir William Plumpton. (Chartul. No. 573.)
CAMD, soc.4.
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OS
new suites and a venire facias against the ministre. Mr. Rocliff
hath labored effectually this tearme for your matter of Stamford,
and for my lady Inglestropd for your sake, and to Pakee also; and
also he dined with my lady and thanked her hertely for your sake.
I trust by his labour your matter of Stamford shall take a good
end with the grace of God, who have you evermore in his keeping.
Written att London 14 february.
(14 Feb. 1463-4.)
Your servant GODFREY GRENE,
e Chapman of Stamford. (Vide postea, Lettors VIII. and IX.)
a Joan Lady Ingaldesthorp. (Vide postea, Letter X. note b.)
e Pake, quære if intended for Hugh Pakenam or Pagnam, whose letter is among
the correspondence, No. X.
LETTER VIII.
Unto my reverend and worshipfull master, Sir William Plompton, kt.
· Reverend and worshipfull master, after all due recomendations
had; Sir, as for your suites against the ministera and others, they
shalbe called upon as effectually as I can, and with the grace of
God shall take as good speed as the law will suffer, howbeit that
Horbury sais that ye and the minister stand in comprimise to
abide the award of Sir John Malivera b and others, and that he
hath in comaund to continue the suite of the minister by reason
of the same; notwithstanding, your suit shall proceed untill the
time ye send otherwise in comaund. And as for the byeing of
the velvett, the mony upon the obligacion of Mr. Suthillc is nott
a Robert Boulton, minister of the house of St. Robert near Knaresborough. See
Letter VII.
b Sir John Mauleverer of Allerton, com. Ebor, kt.
c Henry Suthill esq. was bound to pay for the marriage of the grand-daughter and
heir apparent of Sir Williain Plumpton a certain sum by instalments, the first of
which became due 24 June, 1464. Suthill was married to the only daughter of John
Boyvile of Stockfaston, or Stockerston, com. Leic. which property was inherited by
his issue; he was himself a younger son of Gerard Suthill of Redburne, com. Linc.
(a shoot from the ancient stock of Soothill in the parish of Dewsbury, com. Ebor.)
IN TILE REIGN OF EDWARD IV.
11
paid; he said Baruby wilbe here with it this tearme. God send
grace it be so, for Mr. Byngham,d Tho. Eyr, and Chapman of
Stamford, everichone of them attends after his part this tearme.
And as for the suits I shall borow untill the time the other come.
There is a yong man, a mercer in the Chepe, the which a
Michaelmas purpose to sett up a shop of his owne, the which
mercer makes great labor to my lady and to Jeffrey Dawne for
my sister Isabell to marry with her ;e lyvelode he hase none,
a Norfolk man and of birth no gent. as I can understand; what
he is worth in goods I cannott wytt. Mercers deals nott all
together with their owne proper goods. How be it my lady P.
hath proferred him faire, that is to say, xlli in mony of my lady
and her freinds and my lady to find her thre yeare if he will, and
Jeffrey hath proferred to lend him for iiij yeare a hundreth merce,
the which mony is ready in a bag if they agre. I moved unto my
lady and Jeffrey, as far as I durst for displease, that the mony
was muche without she had some twentie of other of lyvelods or
of goods, to the which my sister, as fare forth as she durst, abode
upon; by the which they brake and nott concluded. And my
lady and Jeffrey agreed well to the same, notwithstanding my
sister ne I cannot think it is for her to refuse my ladies labour
nor agreement, but wholie to put her to my ladies rule and ordi-
nance, and so she did att all times. How be it my lady said to
her it shold come of herselfe, and she answerred that of her selfe
she could nott ne wold nothing do without the advise of you and
her freinds, but whatsoever my lady thought she shold do, she
wold do it unwitting you or any of her freinds. Whearfore I
and was at this time following the profession of the law, from which he appears to have
derived considerable wealth, so as to enable him to contract for the heiress of
Plumpton.
d Richard Bingham the younger.--See Letter 111.
e Geoffrey Dawne was probably of the family of Dawney of Cowick, com. Ebor. but
the connexion with the writer and the lady P. in whose service Isabel Grene was at
this time, has not been ascertained.
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PLUMPTON CORRESPONDENCE
beseech you as hastely as it please you, to send me word of your
intent, for she and I wold faine do that at might be most to your
pleasure and her profitt. Also Mr. Byngham hath spoken to
Mr. Rocliff and me to witt what day ye wold be in Nottingham-
shire, and I could not answere thereto; ye may send him word as
it please you. Also I am not very certaine of the day and yeare
that your milne dam was broken; I pray you send the certaintie
this terme and ye may, that it may be amended if it be wrong.
And all your other matters shalbe called upon with the grace of
God, who have you evermore in proteccion. Written at London
the xiiiith day of June.
Also as for the mercer, I understand he profers now to find
surety that if he die, she to have a Cli besides her part of his goods
after the custome of the Cittie.
(14 June 1464.)
Your servant GODFREY GRENE.
LETTER IX.
Unto the reverend and right worshipful Sir William Plompton,
knight, my singular good master, be this delivered.
Right reverend worshipful Sir, intirly beloved brother, and
singularly my good master, after al faithful and due recommen-
dations præmised and special regraces and thankings, as I have
mo causes than I can write, which our Lord acquit, where I by
non power am restrained, desiring him dayly for your honor
prosperity, ioy, and longanimity, to bee encreased to your pleasur;
Sir, like you to remember, the conclusions of the matter taken
betwixt you and Chapman of Stamford by Huseea and mee, that
yee for to have his releas general should pay 100s., wherof I paid
4 marks in hand which you paid mee again; and now this term by
a William Husee was at this time a counsel learned in the law; made serjeant
9 June 1479, Chief Justice of the King's Bench 7 May 1482.
IN THE REIGN OF EDWARD IV.
13
the advise of Huzze, thorowh importune clamor of Chapman, and
you to bee in quiet delivering your acquittance, I paid 33s. 4d.
afore Husze to Chapman, so that now you bee utterly out of his
dammage. And, Sir, I conceived, by the remembrance of my cosin
Mr. Midleton,b that yee willed mee to buy to you, black velvet for
a gown. But, Sir, I pray you herin blame my non power but not
my will, for in faith I might not doo it, but gif I should run in
papers of London, which I did never yet, so I have lived poorly
therafter; for and I might els haue doon it, I shold not have
spared. But the wis man saith to us, Impedit omne forum
carentia Denariorum. And that prooves here now: I dare not
write al my complaint. Sir, Thomas Eyrc clamoreth upon mee
importunly for money, so that gif I had any of my own, I wold
have stopped him, and so as I might have promised him this next
term, which like you for to send hither than: for and hee begin
his suit now, he wil not bee so easily entreated. And also, Sir,
I pray you specially for to send mee money fro Nesfield,d ac-
cording to your appointment and saing at our last departing, for
and ye knew how it stands with mee here, I trust verily yee wold
tender mee the more. And, Sir, the rather I pray you, for I
purpose to have your son John Roclif to court at beginning of
this next terme, where my charge of him in array and other
exspences, shal encreas to the double, as God knowes, whom I
beseech entirly, for to have you in his keeping, and graunt you all
your desires. Written in hast in the midle temple, tertio die
b Thomas Middelton, son-in-law of Sir William Plumpton.
Thomas Eyr, citizen and draper of London, and Elizabeth his wife, late wife of
Nicholas Yeo, late citizen and alderman of London, acknowledge to have received of
Sir William Plumpton, knight, by the hands of Brian Rouclif, ten marks in part pay-
ment of a larger sum, 10 May, 5 Edw. IV. 1465. (Chartul. No. 567.)
The manor of Nesfield, com. Ebor. had been settled in jointure upon Margaret
Plumpton at the time of her marriage with John Roclif, the son of the writer, but Sir
William Plumpton bargained to retain the issues for five years from 26 Nov. 1463,
the date of the contract.
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decembris. Sir, Sir Henry Vavasore was gone hence or I wist,
so that I might not speak to him for the wapp: my Thomas may
go to him and speed I trow.
(3 Dec. 1464.) Your servisable brother, BRIAN Rocliff.
e Sir Henry Vavasour of Hazelwood, in com. Ebor. knt. high sheriff in 1470.
LETTER X.
To my right especiall and singuler good mastre Sir William
Plompton, kt.
Myne owne speciall and singuler master, with all my hole heart
and service I recomend me unto your best beloved good master-
ship, humblie thanking it for all that I am bound to thank itt for.
Please it the same to knowne that from my departure out of
London after Christenmes into good fryday last was kam, I not to
my lodging were ye saw me last, ne never since that time herd I
word nor wryting from you; nor over that, I understand not by
any wryting that my brother the tresurer a hath sent me sith
that time, that he receaved the letter which I sent him by your
Mastership: whearfore I send John Hawkins bearer hereof now to
se your gretliest desired welfare, trusting that by him againward I
shall hastely be ascertained thereof, with all your commaundements
and desires, which I shall ever be desireous to observe as fer as
my simple power may to atteine, with the mercy of our lord, whom
I beseech to have your singuler and best be trusted mastership in
his most safe gard and goverment, graunting it as much prospe-
ritie, hertes comfort, and welfare as your gentl heart with his plea-
sure best shall like to desire. Scribled in hast with mine owne
hand in default of other helpe att London the 21 of June, which
day your dayly Bedewoman my huswif desired that by this rude
sedule, she may humblie be recommended to your most loving
mastership, and to signifie how God bred her to be delivered of
a John Pakengham, treasurer of the cathedral church of York from 1459 to 1477,
in which year he died. See his monumental inscription, Drake's Ebor. p. 499.
IN THE REIGN OF EDWARD IV.
15
her son Nicholas on Tewsday the 4 of this month, and how that
on Saturday last was my daughter Agnes accepted into the habitt
of St. Dominike ordre att Dertford, like as the said bearer kan
enforme your mastership; which wold also lyke to knowe how
that now of late I was with my lady Ingolshorp,b whose ladyship
is well recovered of the great sicknes that she hath endured many
day past, at which time my mistris Isabell Marley was in good
hele, thankid be God, and lett me witt how she likes right wele and
greatly is bounden to my lady. My master Rauf Haukins and
mistresse his wife, now being lodged at the lions, my mistres F. S.
now being att Wulwich with her brother and sister kin and others
your well willers, servants, and bed folkes in this country were in
hele aţt the makeing hereof, thanked be God. I conceive there is
displesure hanging that ye saw not my lord Chamberlainec upon
his being in the north, as well for that ye comfort not my said
maistresse S. ne none of her frends in the matter ye know of, for
the which I have bene often called upon sith Paske : it were to be
done as me seemeth to make writing from you to my maistres S.
thạnking her of her trew and loving heart, excuseing the non
accomplishment of her desire in such wis as yee can well enough,
and soe to put her out of dispaire, for as I understand she hath
offers great by right worshipfull. In the matter touching the
£48 13s. 4d. I have opened the specialties thereof unto John
Hawkins, to whom in that behalfe please your maistershipp to
give faith and credence.
(21 June, anno circiter 1465.)
Hugh PAGNAM.d
Joan Lady Ingaldesthorp, relict of Sir Edmund de Ingaldesthorp, who died 2 Sept.
1456, and sister of John Earl of Worcester. Her daughter was married to John Nevill,
Earl of Northumberland, and after 1469 Marquis Montague.
c William Lord Hastings, Lord Chamberlain to King Edward IV.
Hugh Pagnam was probably an ancestor of the family connected with the county
of Kent in the reign of Edw. VI., when a Hugh Pakenham owned jure Ux. the
Moat in Ightham. His correspondence with Sir William Plumpton apparently
had for its motive the urging on a declaration of marriage to the lady named
PLUMPTON CORRESPONDENCE
Mistress F. S. on hom Sir William Plumpton had made a favourable impression.
This letter will therefore have been written before the secret marriage of Sir William
had been divulged in 1468. Mr. Rocliffe's labour to “ Lady Inglestrop," spoken of in
Letter vii. was, it may be conjectured, simply with a view to the obtaining a place in
the household of that great lady for Mrs. Isabel Marley, a niece of Sir William Plump-
ton, as we find her residing with the “ Lady Ingolshorp," and greatly bounden to her
at the date of this letter.
LETTER XI.
To my right trustie and welbeloved Sir William Plompton, knight.
Right trustie and welbeloved, I grete you wele, and whereas I
am enformed that ye pretend clayme and title to a closse called
Spencer close, belonging to my welbeloved Thomas Scarbroughe,a
whearin with others I stand enfeoffed, I therefore desire and pray
you that ye will suffer the said Thomas the said closse in peaceable
wise to have and occupie without vexation or trouble, unto time
that by such persons as thereupon by your both assent being elect
and chosen, the matter be thoroughly determined whether of you
the same oweth to have of right. And our Lord have you in his
keepeing. Written att Toplife the ninetenth day of September.
Therle of Warwick and Salisbury grete chamberlaine of England
and Captaine of Calais.
R. WARWICK.L
i Thomas Scarborough was of Glusburne in Craven.
Richard Nevill, Earl of Warwick and Salisbury, held Topcliffe with the other
manors and lordships of the Percies in Yorkshire, from 1461 to 1469, when Henry
Percy was restored.
LETTER XII.
To my worshipful Maister Sir William Plompton, knight, bee this
bil delivered.
Right worshipfull Sir, I recommend me to your good master-
ship, letting you wit, as touching the matter betwixt my coussin
IN THE REIGN OF EDWARD IV.
17
Golfray Greenea and Nyccoll Gotman, that my Lord Chauncler
has given in commaundment unto Master Patman to make prossis
against my Coussin Godfrey, to bring the issues and profits that
he hath received of a Chauntre, for which the varience shold
begin, and else to cours him from day to day: and therfore provide
by your wisdome such remmede in his behalfe, as you semes best.
Also if ye speake with my Lady Stapleton,b if it please ye to com-
mend me unto hir gud Ladyship, and let hir understand that I
delivered hir letters that she sent me, and that Mr. Borough
desired hir in any wise that she shold kepe it secret and let no
person have knowledg; but that he shold kepe still the ward of
my master hir son, notwithstanding he is and wil be redy to kepe
all appoyntements that ar made in every article. The King, my
Lord Chauncler,d and the Earle of Warwick ar at London; he came
to the towne with 300 horse and more, as it is said. My Lord of
Clarence is riden to Tutbery, and the Earle of Woster to Walles, to
Denbe as it is said. I sopose Sir James Haringtone shall be
Sherife of Yorkeshire; Sir John Conyersf and Sir Henry Vaveser
is in the bill. Sir Robart Constable & is Sherif in Linconshire,
As for tidings I can none wryte, but I have sold both my horse,
good morrel and his felow; and as for my bay horse, at your
neighborhad fro Harwod park by his commaundment, I purpose to
take no such as yet. No more at this tyme, but the holy Trinytee
a Godfrey Greene was probably of the family of Grene of Newby, com. Ebor.
which was allied to the Middeltons of Stockeld, and of which place was John Grene,
who married Joan, sister of Sir William Plumpton.- (See Memoirs.)
b Lady Stapleton was Isabella, daughter and coheir of Sir Thomas Rempston of
Rempston, com. Nott. kt. and relict of Sir Bryan Stapleton of Carlton, com. Ebor, kt.
who died 3 Edw. IV. leaving Bryan his son and heir a minor.
c Sir Thomas Burgh or Borough of Gainesborough, com. Linc, kt. ancestor of the
Lords Borough.
d George Nevill, Archbishop of York.
e Sir James Harrington of Brierley, com. Ebor. kt. Sheriff of Yorkshire in 1467.
Sir John Conyers of Hornby, com. Ebor, kt.
& Sir Robert Constable of Flamborough, com. Ebor. kt. Sheriff of Lincolnshire in 1467.
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have you in his blessed keeping. Written at London the Thursday
after alhalow day.
Your servant
(6 Nov. 1466.)
THOMAS MIDLETON. .
LETTER XIII.
To my right reverend and most especiall good maistre Sir William
Plompton, knight.a
Right reverend and my moste speciall gude maistre, I recomend
me unto your good mastership, and as touching your nisi prius
* The news communicated by Godfrey Grene in this letter furnishes some additional
historical information to fill up the meagre outline of the events of the time, as
given in the chronicles. To begin with the "remarkable fragment" printed by
Hearne in the same volume with “ Sprotti chronica,” p. 296; it is there narrated,
" this viith (lege viüith) yere Margarete sustir unto King E. bifore saide departid
frome the King, and rode thurgh oute London behynde the Erle of Warwicke, and rode
that nigt to Stratforde Abbay, and from thens to the se syde, and went into Flaundres
to Brugis, where she was maryid with grete solempnite. And within short space
aftir, thois astates, as the duchess of Northfolke with othir, retournid in to Englond,
in whois Company were ii. yong gentilmen, that one namid John Poyntz, and that
othir William Alsford, the which were arestid bicause in the tyme of the forsaide ma-
. riage they hadde familiar communication with the duke of Somersett and his com-
plicis there, in the which they were bothe detectid of treason: whereuppon one Richard
Steris skinnar of London with thois ii. were behedid att the toure-hill the xxi. day
of Novembre.” This extract is from a contemporary and well-informed writer,
and accords with the news in the letter, save that the day of execution is spoken of
in the latter as being Monday before St. Andrew day, i. e. 28 November (instead of
Monday se'nnight, 21 November) and the name Steris (or Staires. Rot. Parl. vi. 292 6)
is written " Si peirs,'' an error no doubt of our copyist in 1612. In Fabyan is this
notice of the events of the year 1468, 8th Edward IV. “This yere, and xxi. day of
Novembre, a servaunte of the Duks of Exceter, named Richard Sterys, after his juge.
ment, was drawen thorughe the cytie unto the Tower Hylle, and there parted in ii.
pesys, that is, the hede frome the body. And upon the daye followynge, two persones
beyng named (the one) Poynys and that other Alforde, were drawen westwarde to
Tyborne, and there whan they shulde have been hanged, there chartours were shewyd,
and so preservyd.
" And about this season or soon after, was the Erle of Oxenforde, which before
tyme was taken by a surmyse in ielosy of treason, awaytyd for and arrestid, and after
delyvered." (Fab. Chron. London, 1811, 4to. p. 657.)
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against Fulbaron, it were well doon that ye appointed with Mr.
Danbyb at what place and what day in his comeing home after
the next tearme ye would have it served; soe that I might have
word the begining of the next tearme, to take out the writt, ac-
cording to your appointment. Also as for the writt against Gef-
fray Malivera, John Cockle, Rich. Croft, Hanson and other, I
stand in doubt whether Mr. Midleton and Mr. Ros greed you and
Sir John Maliverac thereof, or no, because they are his men; not-
withstanding if they agreed you nott, and ye send me word, I trust
to have an exigent the next tearme. My Lord of Oxford is comitt
to the tower, and it is said kept in irons, and that he has con-
fessed myche thinge; and on Munday afore St. Andrew day one
Alford and Poiner, gentlemen to my Lord of Northfolk, and one
Sr peirs, Skinner of London, were beheaded; and on the morne
The surmise of treason against the Earl of Oxford was not without cause ; for, on
the 18th July, vine days after the marriage of Margaret to the Duke of Burgundy,
we find him writing to Sir John Paston, Knight, from Canterbury, to order him three
horse harness, as though it were for himself, together with two standard-staves, and
concluding his letter in these words, “ I trust to God we shalle do right well.” But
the Earl's fortitude appears to have failed him upon being committed to the Tower;
" it is said he has confessed myche thinge," writes Sir William Plumpton's corre-
spondent. Of his accomplices, Hungerford and Courtenay were executed ; " and this
yere,'' to use the words of a contemporary writer, * " was Syr Thomas Hungreford,
Knight, sunne to the Lorde Hungreforde, and Henry Curteney of right Erle of Deven.
shere, behedid at Salisbyre;' the others here named were, with the Earl, restored ta.
grace.
b Robert Danby, Chief Justice C. P. in 8 Edward IV. 1468, a Knight in 1471.
c Sir John Mauleverer of Allerton-Mauleverer, com. Ebor. kt.
* Chron. ap. Lel. Coll, vol. i. part 2, p. 500. It is stated by Dugdale that Sir
Thomas Hungerford was seized and tried for his life at Salisbury on Monday pre-
ceding the feast of St. Hilary, & Edward IV. when he had judgment as a traitor, and
suffered next day. But according to the record he was arraigned with Courtenay on
Monday next after the feast of St. Hilary, i. e. 16 January 1468-9, for treason charged
to have been committed on the 21 May, 8 Edw. IV.; and it was on the next day that,
after a trial and conviction by jury, both were sentenced to execution. (Vide Rot.
Parl. vi. 306 6.) Henry Sotehill was attorney for the King on the occasion.
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after was Sir Thomas Treshamd arest and is comitt to the tower:
and it is said he was arested upon the confession of my Lo. of
Oxford, and they say his livelhood, and Sir John Marneyse live-
lhood, and divers other livelhuds is given away by the king. Also
there is arest Mr. Hungerford, the heir unto the Lord Hungerford,
and one Courtney, heir unto the Earle of Devonshire, and many
other, whose names I know nott; and it is said that Sir Edmund
Hungerfordf is send for. And also the yeomen of the Crowne
bene riden into diverse countries to arrest men that he apeched.
Also it was told me that Sir Robt. Ughtrede was send for, but
I trust to God it is not so, who have you evermore in his blessed
proteccion. Written at London, 9 of December.
Your servant GODFREY GREENE.
( 9 Dec. 8 Edw. IV. 1468.)
d Sir Thomas Tresham, of Rushton, com. North», kt. a zealous Lancastrian, be-
headed at Tewkesbury in 1471.
• Sir John Marney, of Layer Marney, com. Essex, kt. ancestor of the Lords Marney.
Sir Edmund Hungerford, kt. was great-uncle to Sir Thomas Hungerford, Knight.
& Sir Robert Ughtred of Kexby, com. Ebor. kt.
LETTER XIV.
Unto my worshipfull master Sir William Plompton, knight.
Right worshipfull maister, I recommend me unto you, praying
you that you will cause the clothe that the wooll was packed in
for to come againe with the shipp, for I borrow it wheare that ye
saw that I borrow it; of that of your servants aforetime have bor-
rowed two packcholthes and other geare, which they had never
againe : letting you understand that I have given the shipman of
his hier xs, and he for to have his whole payment, when he deliver
the goods which he receaved, which is xxxiijs iiijd. Whearfore I
pray you that ye see that he be content of the said some, for I
am nott in store att this time of money for to gett your harvest
7
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with, withoutyn I might gett it of your tenaunts, or ells for to take
of your shepe silver, and that I ware right lothe for to do-letting
you witt alsoe that I have bene in the Peake and there I cannott
gett no money of Harry Fulgiam, nor of John of Tor, nor no other
that owes you, but if I shold take of your cattell, and soe I think
for to do; for I have no oxen to gett your corne with, nor none I
cannott gett carryed, for every man is soe busie with their owne:
for whether is so latesum in this cuntrey, that men can neither
well gett corne nor hay-letting you witt that your tenant Nichole
Bristow hath not gotten but xii foder of hay, and it is nought
good, and the corneland is overflotin with water-letting you witt
that I have gotten the hay in Hesththornemeen that was left after
lammas day, as ye comaunded me for to do— letting you witt that
I have a counterpais wheith of the wheight stone that the wooll
was weyed with, and that ye se that the stone be kept that the
shipman brings. Also letting you witt that I delivered the ship-
man viij paire of blanketts, that is not in the bill indented, and a
hanging of old linen cloth that the coverletts are trussed in-letting
you witt that I was on St. Lawrence day att Melton with iiijx of
your shepe to sell, and could sell none of them, but if I wold have
selled xx of the best of them for xiijd a peece, and therefore I seld
none-letting you witt that I sent unto you with William Plomp-
tona and with William Marleyb vli, and also xxvs which was bor-
rowed of Bryan Smith, which I must pay againe, and therefore I
am not perveyed of money for to gett your harvest with—also that
you gar the malt be windowd, or it be laid in any garners, for ells
there will brede wyvolls in it, for I could nott gett it windowd
before it went to the ship, because that I could not gett no helpe,
and therefore I upheaped with a quarter, xxi quarters for xx quar-
ters; and also six of your cheeses hase two markes that I know
? William Plumpton, bastard son of Sir William Plumpton, Kt. (See Memoirs.)
b William Marley, it is presumed, was nephew to Sir William Plumpton, son of
Richard Marley and Alice Plumpton. Isabel Marley was their daughter. (See Letter X.)
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be the best of them. Noe more I write to you at this time but
that the holy Trinity have you ever in his keeping. Written in
hast by your servant Thomas BILLOP att Kinalton, the munday
afore St. Bartholomew day, 9o Edw. 4.
(21st Aug. 1469.)
c Kinalton in com. Nott. a seat of Sir William Plumpton, kt. which came to him
from the Foljambes.
T
LETTER XV.
To my right worshipfull maistre Sir William Plompton, knight, this
letter be delivered.
Right worshipfull master, I recomend me unto your good mas-
tership; Sir, I have sent to you by the bringer of this letter, a
venire facias against the minister of St. Robert's, for he hath
pleaded not guiltie for fishing your ponds att Plompton; if so be
your writt be well served and the issue tried for you, the punish-
ment will be grevieous to them, for it is gyffin by a statute. Also
I have sent you a venire facias against Dromonby, parson of
Kynalton; he hath pleaded-he withholds you nothing, in accion
of detynu of the goods, delivered him by Heynes. Also the
copie of the pleadings betwixt you and the minister for your
a The writ of venire facias against Robert Bolton, the minister of the house of St.
Robert near Knaresborough, and his fellow canons Richard Dryver, William Rute,
John Malle, and William Usworth, for fishing in the ponds of Sir William Plompton,
Knight, at Plompton, on the 20th day of February, 3 Edward IV. 1463-4, and taking
breams, pike (dentrices), tench, and roches, sent by Godfrey Grene with this letter,
was returned unexecuted by the sheriff in the following Hilary Term, by reason of
the time being too short; and another was issued, returnable in Easter Term.---
Teste R. Danby apud Westm. 12 Feb. 9 Edw. IV. 1469-70. The parties ulti-
mately bound themselves (10 May 1471) to refer all matters in dispute to arbi.
tration; for which purpose Robert Roos, of Ingmanthorp, and Lawrence Kighley were
chosen on the part of Sir William Plumpton, and Robert Gascoigne and Thomas Clape-
ham on the part of the minister, who made their award on Saturday after the Ascension
day, 11th Edward IV. 23 May, 1471. (Chartul. No. 571 and 573.)
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milne att Plompton; it were well done that ye had a speech with
Mr. Midleton of the forme of the pleadings, and of the matter
both of the title of his milne, and your milne, and of the fre-
holdes of both sides the water, for that your counsell may have
instruccion thereof: it hath cost you money this terme, and yett
no conclusion but to change the pleadings the next terme at the
pleasure of the parties. Mr. Midleton had great labour there-
with, I profferd him no rewards because ye may reward him your-
selfe as it please you. Maister Fairfaxb had xs for that matter
all on. Mr. Suttill labored effectually; I tould him he shold
be rewarded of the mony in his hands, and said lightly he would
have none;- so I wot whether he will take or no: he hath nott all
paid yett. I pray you, against the next terme, send me word how
I shall be demened in rewards giveing, for and it go to matter in
law, it will cost mony largely. Also I have sent you a Capias ut-
legat. against Hargreve of Fuston; Sir John Malevera gave me
a chalenge for him, and said he was outlawd under my trety: I
told him I treted never; I bare your message to him, and that was
a continuance for the matter against Fulburn, but nott for Har-
greve. And he said ye had sued all the trew men to the king, to
my lord, and to him in the forest, sith that ye come home; and
that he shold complaine to the king and to the lords thereof; and
I said, I trust to God ye shold come to your answere. · And he
said that shold not lyg in my power to bring you to do, for 'he wold
deele with you and yours, both be the law and besides the law;
and said he wold cutt the clothes notwithstanding. He was full
angrie and hastie what time he said soe, and I was with Mr.
Roclif the same time he gave me this chalenge, and Myles Wil-
lesthorpc was with him, and said no word. And Maister Roclif
asked him what the matter was, if he might any ease; and he
Serjeant Guy Fairfax, called in 1464, was made King's Serjeant 28 April 1468.
© Miles Willesthorp, of Wilsthorp, com. Ebor. esq.
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answered him, that ye desseyved him and all that ye dellyd with-
all: and Mr. Rocliff said he trust to God, who have you evermore
in his proteccion. Written at London, the oth day of December.
Your servant
(5 Dec. 1469.)
GODFREY GRENE.
LETTER XVI.
U
To the right worshipfull and right reverend Sir William Plompton,
knight, Custos of the Castle of Knareseburgh.a
Worshipfull and reverend Sir and our right good mastre, we
recomend us unto you; and please you to have knowlech that our
trustie freind, Thomas of the Logge, hath of late time bene greve-
ously vexed and troubled for certain matters that ye have knowlich
of; so that yett, without that he trusteth specially above all things
unto you, he dare not come at his owne house, unto his right great
hurt and hindring: and as we have knowledge, the matters are in
your will and throughe your good lordshipp . . . . . . .
Wheafore we beseech you in the lowliest wise we can or may, that
ye vouchsafe to shew unto him your good lordshipp and master-
shipp; for, if the matter shold be tryed by his neighbours, we deem
the countrey should be found of his appeale; soe, that because of
this our simple writing and request, he may under your protection
have his goods unto his proper use under sufficient baile, and that
he be not put into the wrongs that may cause his undoing, wherein
ye shall deserve thanks of God, and your good lords at your coming
to the kings house, with our dayly service att all times. Written
att Windsor, the 14 of September. And it please to deliver unto
* The suits against the dwellers in the forest, spoken of in Letter XV. denote that Sir
William Plumpton held at this time the appointment of Chief Forester of the forest
with that of Custos of the castle of Knaresborough, which same offices he had also held
in the reign of Hen. VI. and from whom he had had a grant of the latter for the term
of his life.
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Robert of Tymble b a Stube, the which Mr. Controller granted
unto his ward for him and his wife.
By your servants JOHN FELTON groom of the Chamber,
and JOHN WARD d groom of the Eurey.
(14 Sept. 146.. )
b Great Timble, in the parish of Fewston and liberty of Knaresborough, was one of
the vills of the forest.
c Stub, a timber-tree.
John Warde is named with others in Letters Patent bearing date at Westminster,
29 Apr. 6 Edw. IV. (Rot. Parl. v. 596 6.)
LETTER XVII.
To my right trusty and hartely welbeloved Sir John Mauliverer,
knight.
Right trusty and hartily welbeloved, I greet you oft tymes wel.
Letting you wete that Sir William Plompton, knight, hath sent
unto me, and complayneth him that Thomas Wade a and Richard
Croft dayly threats to beat or slay his servants, and seeketh them
about his place; wheafore I desire and pray you to cause the said
Thomas and Richard to surcease and leave theire said threatnings;
and if they have any matters against his said servants, lett them
complaine unto me therof, and I shall see that they shall have
such a remedy, as shall accord with reason; and that ye faile nott
hereof, as my speciall trust is in you. And God keepe you. Written
att my Castle att Warkworth, the seaventh day of December,
The Earle of Northumberland and Lord Mountague, wardin.b
( 7 Dec. 1464-9.)
NORTHUMBERLAND,
å Thomas Wade of Knarysburgh, yeoman, a zealous Yorkist, convicted of treason,
as an adherent of the Earl of Lincoln on the fourth of June, 2 Hen. VII. 1487, and
attainted 19 Hen. VII. 1503. (Rot. Parl. vi. 545.)
bo John Nevill, Earl of Northumberland (from 27 May 1464 to 25 Mar. 1470),
Lord Montagu, and Warden of the East Marches. He was likewise President of
Yorkshire.
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LI
LETTER XVIII.
To our right trustie and welbeloved Sir William Plompton, knight,
Stuard of the lordshipp of Spofford, and to the balife of the same,
and to ether of them, The duc of Glocestr, Constabl and
Admirall of England.
R. GLOCESTRE. Right trustie and welbeloved, we grete you
well. And whearas att the freshe pursuit of our welbeloved
Christopher Stansfield, one Richard of the Burgh, that had take
and led away feloniously certaine ky and other cattell belonging
to him, was take and arested with [in] the said manor att Spofford,
whearat they yett remaine; whearfore we desire and pray you that
upon sufficient suerty to be found by the said Christopher to sue
against the said felon, as the law will, for that offence, ye will
make delivery unto him of the said cattell, as is according with
right: shewing him your good aide, favour, and benevolence, the
rather att the instance of this our letters. And our Lord preserve
you. From Pontfrett, under our signett, the thirtenth of October.
(13 Oct. anno circiter 1472.)
a Richard Duke of Gloucester, made High Constable of England 29 Feb. 1472,
resided at Pontefract as chief Seneschal of the King's Duchy of Lancaster in the North
Parts, and by virtue of his office leased to his beloved Sir William Plompton, knight,
the ferm of the corn mills of Knaresborough and the new mill of Bilton, together with
the office of bailiff of the burgh of Knaresborough, for the space of twelve years, ren-
dering for the first xx marks, for the second xlvis. viii d., for the said office of bailiff
xlvis. viii d. ; which deed bears date 29th September, 12 Edw. IV. 1472 (Chartul.
No. 584). The lordship of Spofford, in which parish Plumpton lay, belonged to the
Earl of Northumberland, who had there a manor-place with a park.
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LETTER XIX.
To my right trusty and welbeloved Coussin, Sir Williain Plompton,
knight.
Right trusty and with all myn hart my welbeloved Cossine, I
grete you hartily wealle, and desire and pray you that my wel-
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beloved servant Edmund Cape may have and occopie the office of
the baliship of Sesey,a as his father did tofore in time past. My
trust is in you, that the rather for this mine instance and contem-
plation, ye will fulfill this my desire, and I will be as wellwilled to
doe things for your pleasure. That knoweth our Lord, who have
you in his blessed keping. Written in my manner of Topclife,
the sevententh day of August.
Your Cossin, H. NORTHUMBERLAND.b
a Sessay, a parish town in the wapentake of Allertonshire, was the residence of
the family of Darell, of whom Sir George Darell, knight, died 8 Edw. IV. 1466, having
married Margaret, daughter of Sir William Plumpton. The application of the Earl of
Northumberland, on behalf of his servant, for the office of bailiff, makes it probable that
Sir William Plumpton had then the wardship of the heir of Sir George Darell.
Henry Percy, restored to the earldom of Northumberland in 1470, and to the
· estates of the family in Yorkshire, was the fourth Earl of the name.
.
UI
LETTER XX.
To my trusty and welbeloved Cossin, Sir William Plompton, knight.
Right trusty and withal my hart my right welbeloved cosin, I
gret you wel, and desire and pray you to labor Sir Richard
Aldborough,a to caus him to deliver unto my cosin, dame Isabel
Ilderton,b such beasts and cattel as he retayneth and withholdeth
from her: for she hath no other mean to help herself with, unto
that a determination be had betwixt Thomas Ilderton and her, of
the livelyhed that standeth in travers betwixt them. Cosin, as ye
love mee, that ye wil endevor yourselfe for the performance of the
præmisses, wherin you shal deserve great thank of God, and to
mee right great pleasure. That knoweth our Lord, who have you,
cousin, in his blessed keeping. Written in my manor of Leking-
field, the twenty-five day of September,
(25 Sept. 1471-6.)
Your Cousin, H. NORTHUMBERLAND.
:n Sir Richard Aldborough, kt. married Agnes, daughter of Sir William Plumpton,
and was dead 16 Edw. IV. 1476. (Esc. de eod. ann.)
b. The family of Ilderton were 6 of that ilk” in Northumberland, near Wooller.
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LETTER XXI.
To my right trusty and welbeloved Coussin, Sir William Plompton,
knight.
Right trusty and welbeloved Cossine, I grete you wele; and
whearas varience dependeth betwixt you and my right welbeloved
servant, Robart Birnand, a I therfore right hartyly desire and
pray you therin nothing to doe, unto that I come into the con-
try. As my trust is in you, conforme you to the performing of
this my desire, as ye intend to doe me pleasure: and our blessed
Lord have you, kussin, in his blessed kepping. Wryten in my
maner of Lekingfeild, the sixt day of June.
(6 June 1471-9.) Your Cossine, H. NORTHUMBERLAND.
* Robert Birnand, of Nidd near Knaresborough, esq.
LETTER XXII.
To my right worshipfull and reverent maister, Sir William Plomp-
ton, kt.
Right worshippfull and reverent Sir and maister, I recomende
me unto you. And please your good maistershipp to witte, there
is a Clerke att York, the whilke purposes to say his first mes the
sunday next after the feast of the nativitie of our Lady the Vir-
gin a; and if ye wold vouchsafe that he might have a morsel of
venison aganst the said sunday for Robart Manfeld sake, and
trewly I shall lett him wytte both how ye did to his kinswoman
against her wedding, and now for this said preist; for he is full
brother to the said woman, and they are both right neare of his
kin. I am siker he will thank you full hartely, fro I lett him witt,
and that shalbe in all the gudly hast at I may, with the grace of
a 8 Sept.
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God, who encrease your good estate to his pleasure. Written in
hast att York, the friday next before the said feast.
Your owne servant and Bedeman, JOHN JOHNSON of Yorke.
LETTER XXIII.
To my reverent and worshipfull maister, Sir William Plompton,
knight.
Right reverent and my full worshipfull maister, I recommend
me unto you in the hertelyest wise I kan. And for as much as a
poore widdow, called Ellen Helme, is my son-in-law Will. Nes-
fields a tenant, is greeveously vexed in her sons; whearfore I pray
you hartely to be their tender and especiall maister, as I and my
said son may have cause to doe you service, the which we shal-
be ready to doe, with Gods grace, who have you in his blessed
keeping. Written at Newton on St. Cudberts day
(20 March 14..)
By your awne, Rich. BANKS.b
a William Nesfield, esq. was of Flasby in the parish of Gargrave in Craven.
Richard Banks, of Cold Newton or Bank Newton, in the same parish, esq. This
match with Nesfield is omitted in the pedigree of the family of Banks inserted in
Whitaker's History of Craven.
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LETTER XXIV.
To my right reverend and worshipfull Maistre, Sir William
Plompton, knight.
Right worshippfull Sir, I recomend me unto your good master-
shipp; Sir, as for a supersediasa for yourselfe, there will not be
gotten, without I shold put in sufficient men to be suerties; for
there is a new rule made in the Chancery now late, that no sure-
a There were two kinds of appearances before the quinto exactus to avoid an out-
lawry, viz. an appearance in deed, that is, to render oneself, &c. and an appearance
in law, that is, by purchasing a supersedeas out of the court where the record was.
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ties shalbe accepted, but such as be sufficient, and twenty of
the old common sureties dischardged: so it is hard to gett
suerties for a yoman. And as for the supliants, I have dayly
labored, sith your man come, to gett a man to aske the suertie ;
and so I fand one which hath bene of old a supersedias mounger,
and was agreed with him that he shold gett me a man to aske
it, and he and the man shold have had vs. for their labor;
and so he said unto me and Thom, on Saturday last that it
was done, and desired mony for the mans labor and for the
sealing, and we shold have them forth withall: and so he hath
driven us from morne to even, and in conclusion deceyved us,
and hath receved viis. vid. And I may nott arreast him nor
strive with him for the mony, nor for the decept, because the
matter is not worshipfull; and so there is none odere meane, but
dayly to labor him to gett the writts, and so I shall, and send
them to you asoune as they may be gotten: the labor is great and
perillous, and the anger is more, because of the decept. As for
the suit of Tulis executor, it is delaid for this terme, but the
next terme it cannot be delaid ; therefore it were well done ye
sought up your writtings, and all the sircumstances of making the
obligacion, and whear it was made ; for there is none will make a
plea, without he have some matter to make it of: and also the
court will nott admitt a forreine plea, without the matter be some-
what likely to be true. As for all your oder suits, they have
the speed the law will give them, as Horbury will enforme you,
when he comes home. As for the supena, the writt is nott
retorned in; it seemes it will take a delay. I have sent you a
copie of the letter, and a supersedias for Ward of Breeton; and as
for your awne, if so be ye will that I put in sufficient suerties for
you, ye may have one; but saveing your better advise, me think
it nott necessary so to do, without oder cause shold require : for as
strong in the law is a supersedias of a Justice of the peace, as in
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the Chancery. And as for your bottles, there came no samon
men here of all this sumor, but I understood they will come now
hastely; by the next at comes they shalbe sent, with Gods grace,
who have you evermore in his blessed proteccion. Written att
London, the xth day of July. Thomas can enforme you of novelties
in this countrie better then I can writte.
(10 July, anno circiter 1475.) Your servant GODFREY GREENE.
LETTER XXV.
To his right worshipfull maistre, Sir William Plompton, kt.
Right worshipfull Sir, I recomend me unto your good maister-
shipp; Sir, as for the suit against you by the executors of parson
Tuly, had not it fortuned that there was a default founden in the
writt, it had bene so that ye had bene condemned, or els an exigi
awarded against you; for as for the matter of your plea, there
would noe man plead it, ne it would not have bene except, if it
had bene pleaded. Sir, there is an indenture upon the same
oblige, the which wold serve much of your intents, and it might be
found. Also, Sir, now of late I have receaved from you diverse
letters, of the which the tenure and effect is this; one, that I
shold labour to Sir John Pilkinton,a to labor to my lord of Glo-
cester or to the king; they to move my lord of Northumberland b
that ye might occupie still at Knaresborou. Sir, as to that, it is
thought here by such as loves you, 'at that labour should rather
a Sir John Pilkington, one of the knights of the king's body. (2da pars Pat. 13
Edw. IV.)
b Henry Percy, Earl of Northumberland, had obtained Letters Patent from the
King, granting him the offices of Constable, Steward, and Master Forester of the
castle, lordship, and forest of Knaresborough, within the County of York. (Rot.
Parl. vi. 344 6.)
c Sir William Plumpton had had a grant of the keeping of the castle of Knares-
borough for the term of his life in the reign of Hen. VI. (Rot. Parl. vol. v. 347 a.)
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hurt in that behalve then availe ; for certaine it is, as long as my
lord of Northumberlands patent thereof stands good, as long will
he have no deputie but such as shall please him, and kan him
thank for the gift thereof, and no man els, and also doe him ser-
vise next the king : so the labour shalbe fair answered, and turne
to none effect, but hurt. And as to another point comprised in
your writing, that is, to enforme the lords and their counsell of
the misgovernances of Gascoind and his affinitie. Sir, ye under-
stand that in every law the saying of a mans enemies is chalenge-
able, and rather taken a saying of malice then of treuthe, where, by
the correction of the same defaulte, the complainer hath no availe;
and so certainly by your counsell is thought here, that it wold be
soe taken, and in no other wise, how be it that it be trew: and
also a disworship to my lord of Northumberland, that hath the
cheif rule there under the king. And as for the matter, to informe
my lord of Northum: counsell how ye were entreated at Knas-
boro-Sir, we enformed my lords counsell according to your
comaundement, and they enformed my lord, and my lord said he
wold speak with us himselfe, and so did, and this was the answerr:
that the cause why he wrote that no court of Sheriff turne shold
be holden, was for to shew debate betwixt you and Gascoins affi-
nitie, unto time he might come into the country and se a derection
betwixt you—and that he wold ’at the 3 weeks court were holden
for discontinuance of mens actions—and that he entended not to
dischardge you of your office,e ne will not as long as ye he towards
him—and that as soune as he comes into cuntry, he shall see such
1
d The quarrel between Plumpton and Gascoigne probably had its origin in the
latter having been appointed to have the custody of the castle of Knaresborough by
the Earl of Northumberland, to the exclusion of the former, and regardless of his right
in virtue of the grant of King Henry the sixth. In the Chartulary is a bond
from William Gascoigne of Gokethorpe, esq. to keep the peace towards Sir William
Plumpton and to refer all matters to the arbitration of the Earl of Northumberland.
The instrument is dated 27 Oct. 11 Edw. IV. 1471. (Chartul. No. 576.)
e Office of Bailiff of the Burgh of Knareshorough. See note to Letter XVIII.)
IN THE REIGN OF EDWARD IV.
IN THE REIGN OF EDWARD IV.
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a derection betwixt his brother Gascoine and you, as shalbe to
your harts ease and worship. And that I understand by his
counsell, that it shalbe assigned unto you by my lo: and his
counsell, what as longes to your office, and Gascoin nott meddle
therewithall; and in like wise to. Gascoyne. And as for the
labour for the bailiships and farmes, Sir, your worship under-
stands what labour is to sue therefore ; first, to have a bill
enclosed of the King, then to certein lords of the Counsell, (for
there is an act made that nothing shall passe fro the King unto
time they have sene it,) and so to the privie seale and Chaun-
cellor: so the labour is so importune, that I cannot attend it
without I shold do nothing ells, and scarcely in a month speed
one matter. Your maistership may remember how long it was,
or we might speed your bill of Justice of the peace; and had not
my Lo. of Northumberland been, had not been sped for all the
fair promisses of my Lo. Chamberlaine.f And as for the message
to my Lo. Chamberlain, what time I labored to him that ye
might be Justice of the peace, he answered thus; that it seemed
by your labor and mine, that we wold make a jelosie betwixt my
Lo. of Northumberland and him, in that he shold labor for any
of his men, he being present. Sir, I took that for a watche word
for medling betwixt Lords. ' As för any matter ye have to do in
the law, how be it that it be to me losse of time and costly to
labor or medl, as yett I am and alwayes shalbe readie to doe you
service and pleasure therein, with the grace of God, who have
you evermore in his blessed protection. Written att London, the
eight day of November.
Your servant,
(8 Nov. anno circiter 1475.) GODFREY GREENE.
e William Gascoigne, esq. was brother-in-law to the Earl of Northumberland, hay-
ing married Margaret the Earl's sister.
f William Lord Hastings, Lord Chamberlain.
CAMD. Soc. 4.
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LETTER XXVI.
To my right trusty and hartely beloved brother, William
Gascoygne.
Right trusty and right hartily beloved brother, I greet you
well. And forasmuch as I understand that ye have put under
arrest in the Castell of Knarsbrough one Thomas Ward, for suerty
of peace; he finding sufficient suertie to answere to the King our
soveraigne Lord, I will that ye suffer him to be at his larg without
longer enpresonment. Not failling hereof, as my trust is in you,
and our Lord have you in his kepping. Written in my mannor of
Lekinfeild, the xix day of June.a
Your Broder,
(Ante 19 June 1479.)
RTHUMBERLAND.
* The date of this letter is prior to 20 Edw. IV. 1480 ; at which time William
Gascoygne of Gawkthorpe, com. Ebor. esq. the brother-in-law of the writer, Henry
fourth Earl of Northumberland, was already a knight. Sir William Gascoigne died
4 Mar. 2 Hen. VII. 1486 (Inq. virtut. officii, 11 Jun. 4 Hen. VII. Ebor.), leaving his
son William under age. To Dame Joan Grastock, the executrix of his will,
William Ryther acknowledges to have received (8 April, 9 Hen. VII.) ten marks, six
from Sir William Ryther his father, and four from herself. Sir William Gascoigne,
the son, was in his twentieth year, 4 Hen. VII. 1489, and then a knight. (Chartul.
No. 750.) One of the daughters is named in the will of her maternal uncle, the Earl
of Northumberland, dated 17 July, 1485: “ Also I will that my neice Elizabeth
Gascoigne have to her marriage c markes." (See abstract of the will, Coll. Top. et
Gen. vol. ii. p. 65.) She married (in 1494) George Talboys, son and heir of Sir Robert
Talboys, Lord of Kyme and Redisdale ; the same who is spoken of as Mr. Talbose in
a subsequent letter. John Gascoigne and Ralph Gascoigne, esqrs. were brothers to
the Sir William Gascoigne who died in 1486; Dame Agnes Plumpton, and Dame
Margaret Ward, his sisters. Of these we find mention in the present correspondence;
a pedigree (MS. Add. 5530, f.clx.) adds Elizabeth and Joan, said to have died un-
married, and Humphrey who died young.
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LETTER XXVII.
To the right reverend and worshipfull Sir Willium Plompton,
Right reverent and worshipfull Sir, I recomend me unto your
good mastership. Please you to witt that I labored to Mr. Pil-
kinton and to the Chauncelera diverse times for your letter fro
the King, and promissed me to move my lord to speak to the
King therefore; neverthelesse it was not doon, but when the King
comes to London, I shall labour therefore againe. Your writts and
certiorare are labored for, and shalbe had, how be the judges will
graunt no certiorare but for a cause. Ailmer wife was like to
have bene non suit in her appeale, for her day was octabis mar-
tini ;b but Whele and I certified the judges that she wold come
if she were in hele, and out of prison. The judges gifnes her no
· favour, for they say they understand by credible informations,
that these men be not guiltie, and is but onely your maintenance;
and so one of them said to me out of the Court. And Guy Fair-
faxe said openly att the barre, that he knew so, verily they were
not guilty,--that he wold labor their deliverance for almes, not
takeing a penny; and I seing this, took Mr. Pygottd and Mr.
Collow.e
. (Anno circiter 1476-7.)
GODFREY GRENE.
a Thomas Rotheram, Bishop of Lincoln, made Lord Chancellor, 1475.
b 18 November.
c Guy Fairfax, King's Serjeant. (See note to Letter XV.)
d Richard Pigot, called serjeant 7 Nov. 1464.
e William Colow, called serjeant 9 June 1479.
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LETTER XXVIII.
To my most reverent and worshippfull maister Sir William
Plompton, knight, be this delivered.
.
After all lowly and dew recomendations, I lowly recommend me
unto your good maistershipp; certifieing your maistership I sent
you by one Wil. Atkinson a letter and the copie of the answerre
of the privie seale, and a box with 6 peeces, 5 sealed and one un-
sealed; and, Sir, the box sealed for your maistershipp took me no
more. First, they tooke me 7, and 2 filed together that were
of one, the graunt of Stutvella and the peticion thereon; and they
tooke away the petition, and soe I had but 6, whilk I send your
mastershipp by the said William in the said box sealed ; and if it
were so, and the letter delivered to you with the copie, I desire
you send word. As for your say, I have sent you a peice of 2
yards and a halfe broad by Grethum of York, the first of Lent.
As for the other peice, there is none of lesse bredth then 2 yards;
for if I could have any, I should have sent it with the other. And
as for the cloth of my ladies, Hen. Cloughe putt it to a shereman
to dight, and he sold the cloth and ran away; and yett after Hen:
mett with him, and gart him be sett in the Countre, till he founde
séwerte to answer at the Gildehall for the cloth. And soe he hath
sewed him till he had judgment to recover, which cost him large
money; and when he shold deliver it, he delivered another peice,
butt that Henry hapned to understand after the recovery wheare
he had sould it; and soe it is had againe and it is put to dyeing,
and as soune as it is readie, I shall send it by the carrier, for it
was fryday in the second week of Lent or it was gettin again. And
as for suites in the Kings bench again them in Brereton, and in
the Common place again Will. Pulleyne and his suertes, are in
proces; and fro they be in exigent, ye shall have the exigent sent
a For the grant of Stuteville, see Memoirs.
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you, as soun as it will be sped. And for the day of appearaunce of
Ailmer wyfe, is mense Paske ; b so that she be here the morrow after
mense Paske. I shold have sent you word or that, but that I had
nott the habeas Corpus against John Esomock, and Robart Galaway,
and for to see that we were not beguiled by the day of returne and
day of appearance; be it my day. And soe I send you now
the habeas corpora and a coppie thereof, and you must desier
the sheriffe to serve it, yf so be that ye agre not. And also,
Sir, that ye will send word as soon as ye can, if the prin-
cipalls were delivered not att York, and what way is had
betwixt you and them, and if there be any towne or hamlett
in Craven that is called Medilton, and that ye send word. And as
for your cope, I have cheaped diverse, and under a hundred
shillings I can by non, that is ether of damaske or sattin, with
flowers of gold; and I send you a peice of baudkin, and another of
impereal, to se whether ye will hafe of, and the price. And the
bredth of it is elme broade; 3 yards, besides the orffrey, will
make a cope: to have of whilk it please you, ether to be made ...
or there. And if ye will have it to be made here, it will stand ye
to 6 marks or more, with the orfrey and makeing, and that is the
least that I can drive it to. The orffrey 32s., the lining and
making 8s., and as for a broderer, I can find none that will come
soe farre, but any work that ye would have, to send hither and
they will do it; and in no other wise they will as yett grant me,
but I shall that I may to gett one. Alsoe, Sir, I send your mas-
tership the bill of the expences and costs that I have made since I
came hither, and please you to see it and send money the next
terme. All other thinges, whilk ye will I do, and I shall doe
therein that I ether may or can. I beseech your mastership
10 Mensa Pasche, the month or quinzaine of Easter, i. e. the eight days preceding
and the eight days following Easter day. It commenced 7 April in 1476, the year
this letter was written.
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to recomend me lowly to my lady; and if I durst, Sir, the matter
betwixt my brother Robart and Mr. Gascoines sister, me
think, is to long in makeing up, for in long tarriing comes mekell
letting. And I beseech the blessed Trinitie have you in his con-
tinual keeping. From London, the first day of Aprill.
Your servant in all,
(1 April 1476.)
ROBENETT P.1
· The contract for the marriage of Robert Plumpton, only surviving legitimate son
of Sir William Plumpton, with Agnes, sister of William Gascoign of Gokethorp, esq.
was signed 13 July 17 Edw. IV. 1477, and serves to fix the date of this letter to the
month of April in the preceding year.
d Robenett or Robert Plumpton was a bastard son of Sir William Plumpton, and
was usually distinguished from his legitimate younger brother by the epithet of senior.
LETTER XXIX.
Complaynts of your servants of Hidell,a John Rycroft and Wil.
Rycroft.
To our maister and lord, Sir William Plompton, knight.
Beseketh your good maistershipp all your tenants and servants
of your lordshipp of Idell, Wil. Rycroft yelder, Wil. Rycroft
yonger, John Rycroft, Henry Bycroft, and John Chalner except.
And at it please your good mastershipp to heare and consider the
great rumor, slaunder, and full noyse of your tenants of your
said lordshipp, att they shold be untrew peopell of their hands,
taking goods by mean of untrewth; and for as much as the said
Wil. Rycroft yelder, Wil. Rycroft yonger, John Rycroft, Henry
Bycroft, and John Chalner are dwelling within your said lordship,
they all not having any kow or kalves, or any other guds whearby
they might live, nor any other occupise, and fair they are beseen,
a Idle in the parish of Calverley, liberty of Pontefract, a lordship belonging to Sir
William Plumpton.
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and wel they fair, and att all sports and gamies they are in our
country for the most part, and silver to spend and to gameing,
which they have more readie then any other within your said
lordship; and to the welfare of our soveraigne lord the King and
you, nothing they will pay, without your said tenants will fray with
them, whearfore they are in regage to divers of your graves; and
by what meanes they in this wise, with 5 persons being in hous-
hold, are found, God or some evill angel hase notice hereof. And
as for geese, grise, hennys, and copons, your said tenants may none
keepe, but they are bribed and stolen away by night to great
hurt to your tenants. And for as much as these persons afore
rehersed are not laboring in due time, as all other of your tenants
are, but as vagabonds live, your said tenants suppose more
strangely by them. Whearfore att reverence of God and in way
of charitie, your said tenants beseketh you to call all them before
you, and to sett such remedy in these premisses as may be to
your worshipp, and great proffitt to your tenants, and in shewing
of mikle unthriftiness, which without you is likely to grow hear-
after, and your said tenants shall pray to Almighty God for your
welfare and estate.
LETTERS
WRITTEN TO SIR ROBERT PLUMPTON, KT.
WHO DIED THE 15TH YEAR OF K. HENRY THE EIGHTH,
LETTER I.
To my Right welbeloved Robart Plompton, esquier.a
Right welbeloved frinde, I greet you well. And wheras the
Scotts in great number are entred into Northumberland, whose
malice with Gods helpe I entend to resist; therfore on the King,
our soveraigne Lords behalfe, I charg you, and also on myne as
wardeyn,b that ye with all such personnes as ye may make in there
most defensible arrey, be with me at Topliffe uppon Munday
by viij a clocke, as my trust is in you. Written in Wresill, the
vij day of September.
Your Cousin,
(7 Sept. 1480.)
HEN. NORTHUMBERLAND.
a Robert Plumpton, esq. eldest surviving son of Sir William Plumpton, kt, was
knighted in Hoton-field beside Berwick, 22 Aug. 1482.
b Henry Percy, Earl of Northumberland, was Wardens of the East and Middle
Marches in 1480 ; in which year, upon its being signified that, notwithstanding the ces-
sation of arms, the King of Scots had invaded the English Marches, he was commis-
sioned by the King to muster all able-bodied men, &c. (See Collins's Peerage, tit.
Percy Earl of Northumberland.)
c Wressle-castle, near Howden in the east riding of Yorkshire, was built by Tho-
mas Earl of Worcester, and was a favourite residence of the Percies.
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LETTER II.
To my old Lady Plompton a be this bil delivered.
Right worshipful and my especial good Lady, I recommend me
unto your good Ladiship, evermore desiring to wit of your wel-
fare. And, madam, I pray you to call to your Ladiship how gude
precher I have been to my master, at gon is, and to you. And,
madam, there is one duty awing unto me, part wherof was taken
or my master deceased, whose soul God have mercy, and most part
taken to your selfe since he died; taken by Henry Fox and by
Henry of Selay, your servants, of whilk I send you one bill with
Henry Fox. The sum is 19li. 28. 9d. wherof I have received by
Henry Fox in money 3li. and in 2 fat oxen, price 368. Sum at I
have received is 4li. 168. so remaines there behind 14li. 6s. 9d.
Madam, if case be that ye will have sende word for Sir John Wix-
ley,C that drawes 6li. 6s. viiid. ; so is ther owyng to me gli. ld.
And I besech you, madam, that I myght have my money; I have
forborne it long. Ye know well, madam, the great troble that I
was in, and the great cost and charggs that I had this last yere
past; and, madam, ye know well I have no lyfing, but my bying
and selling : and, madam, I pray you sende me my money, as ye
will I doe you service, or els to send me word when I shall have
it, for it cost me much money sending for. And Henry Fox bad
me send my rakning at Ripon, and I should be answered to my
money, for Herry received most part of stufe of me; and if ye
will not answere me therfore, Henry must answer therfore. Ma-
r
11
a Joan, daughter of Thomas Wintringham, of Knaresborough, gent. second wife of
Sir William Plumpton, kt. survived her husband, and was living 19 Oct. 12 Hen. VII.
1496. (Chartul. No.785).
b Sir William Plumpton, kt. died 15 Oct. 20 Edw. IV. 1480.
c Sir John Quixlay, chaplain, was with Richard Plumpton appointed by the official
of York, 10 Jan. 1480-1, to take the inventory of the effects of Sir William Plump-
ton, kt. who had died intestate. (Chartul, No. 628.)
CAMD, soc. 4.
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dam, thar is one Casson in taking, of that towne to; considring of
gud service (a line omitted) at Sir John Dedyser, my master, and
you in your great troble. For sute, madam, I lost all that I payd
for him, and that was long of your Ladyship ; for when I wold
have followed him, ye dyside me nay, for ye sayd ye had rather
lose the towne. And therfore I besech you to loke if ther be any
thing I may dow for your Ladiship, or for my master your son;d
I shall be redy with grace of God, who preserve your Ladyship.
Written at York, on friday after St. Peter day.
Be your owne,
(July, anno circiter 1481.) WILLIAM JODDOPKAN.
d Robert Plumpton, esq.
LETTER III.
To my welbeloved Robart Plompton.
Right welbeloved, I gret you well, willing and charging you to
be with me in all hast possible after the sight of this my writting ;
not failing herof, as ye will answere to the Kings highnes and to me
at your perill. Written at Lekinfeild, a the last day of December.
(31 Dec. 1481.)
HENRY NORTHUMBERLAND.
a Leckonfield, near Beverley, where the Earls of Northumberland had a manor-
place.
LETTER IV.
To my right trusty and welbeloved freind, Sir Robart Plompton, Kt.
Right trusty and welbeloved, I greet you well, and will and
charg you on the King our soveraigne Lords behalfe, and also on
myne, that ye, with all such persones as ye may make defensibly
arrayed, be redy to attend uppon the Kings highnes and me, upon
our warnyng, as ye love me and will answere to the King at your
perill. Written at Lekingfeld, the ixth day of October.
Your Cousin,
NRY
RTHUMBERLAND,
IN THE REIGN OF RICHARD III.
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LETTEᎡ v. .
To the right honorable my especyall good master, Sir Robart Plomp-
ton, knyght.
After all due recomendations premysed, pleaseth your master-
ship to wyt that I have received my fee xxvis. viiid. for Pentycost
last past, sent to me by my fader servant, William Coltman, in
my most humbly wyse thanking your mastership therfore; never-
thelesse I marvell greatly that your mastership wrote not to me,
comaunding me to doe you some service at London. Sir, you
know my mynd and service, and I am right sory and any synister
wayes of my adversaryes be shewed unto you, and not of my
deserving; if yt be so, your wryting had bene to me more com-
fortable then much goods, considryng althings done aforetyme.
Such as be your adversaryes in your old matters a hath bene with
me at London, Master Bryan Roclife, Palmes and Topclyffe, co-
myning and desyring further to proced in our matters; and saying,
ye clame suyt, service and seute, of ther maner of Colthorpe, and for
the same merce him in your court at Plompton: if yt be so, in my
mynd yt is necessary to aske, distreyne, and levie the sayd amer-
ciments. Pleaseth it your mastership in my most humble wyse to
recomend me unto my good ladyes, and to my power service, as I
have bene and ever wylbe to my lyfes end, as more at the larg the
brynger of this shall shew unto you by mouth, to whom I pray
you give credence. In short space ye shall know more for the
a From the time of the death of Sir William Plumpton, the succession of Sir Robert
Plumpton to the estates of his father had been disputed on behalf of the heirs general, one
of whom was married to the son of Master Bryan Roclife. A reference to the crown for
arbitration had been agreed upon in the reigu of Edw. IV., which was rendered inef-
fectual by the death of that monarch. There was now a desire to proceed further, and
the matter was for the present settled by an award of Richard III. dated 16 Sept. in the
first year of his reign. (See Memoirs.)
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best, with the grace of Jesu, who your mastership preserve. At
London, the last day of June.
Your humble servant,
(30 June 1483.)
EDWARD PLOMPTON.b
b Edward Plumpton, gentilman, had letters to act as general attorney for Sir Robert
Plumpton, kt, dated 4 Jan. 1 Ric. III. 1483-4. (Chartul. No. 729.) Prior to which
date he had a rent out of Nether Studley, given to him and Agnes his wife by Sir
Robert Plumpton, which he entered into a bond to release, 10 Dec. 1483. (Ibid. No.
728.) He was a younger son of Godfrey Plumpton, (brother of Sir William Plumpton,
kt. Sir Robert's father) who was living 26 Sept. 1483. (Ibid. No. 723). His father
married Alice Wintringham, sister of Dame Joan Plumpton, by whom he had Sir Rich-
ard Plumpton, chaplain, his heir, also a correspondent of Sir Robert Plumpton. Alice,
the wife of Godfrey Plumpton, had become a widow before 20 July, 1 Hen. VII. 1486.
(Ibid. No. 737.)
LETTER VI.
To the right honorable and worshipfull my singuler good master,
Sir Robart Plompton, knyght, these be delivered. a
The most humble and due recomendations premysed, pleaseth
your mastership to recomend me unto my singuler good lady your
moder, and my lady your wyfe; humble praying your good mas-
tership to take no displeasure with me that I sent not to you afore
this, as my duety was. People in this country be so trobled, in
such comandment as they have in the Kyngs name and otherwyse,
marvellously, that they know not what to doe. My lord Strayng b
a This letter was written on the very day on which the Duke of Buckingham first
openly appeared in arms at Brecknock against King Richard III., and gives us some
interesting information respecting his proceedings, as to his seeking to make partisans in
the county of Lancaster, in aid of his attempt. But the King at this time was secure
in the allegiance of the powerful Earl of Derby, and of his son George Stanley, Lord
Strange, to whom the writer was secretary; the approach of the latter, with ten thou-
sand men, doubtless mainly contributed to the dispersion of the Duke's forces, and the
crushing of his rebellion.
b George Stanley, Baron Strange of Knockyn, died 15 Dec. 13 Hen. VII. 1497.
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4.5
goeth forth from Lathum upon munday next with x ml. men,
whether we cannot say. The Duke of Buck: has so mony men, as
yt is sayd here, that he is able to goe where he wyll; but I trust
he shalbe right withstanded and all his mallice: and els were great
pytty. Messengers commyth dayly, both from the Kings grace
and the Duke, into this country. In short space I trust to se
your mastership; such men as I have to do with, be as yet occu-
pied with my sayd lord. Sir, I find my kinsmen all well dysposed
to me; if your mastership wyll comand me any service, I am redy
and ever wylbe to my lifes end, with the grace of Jesu, who ever
preserve you. Wrytten at Aldclife, uppon St. Luke day.
Your most humble servant,
(18 Oct. 1483.)
ED. PLOMPTON.
LETTER VII.
To my right hartely beloved cousin, Sir Robart Plompton, kt.
Right hartely beloved cousin, I commend me unto you. And
wheras I conceive, that wheras award was ordred in the matter of
variance depending betwixt John Polleyn a on the one partie, and
Georg Tankard b with other taking his parte on the other party, I
am enformed that the said parties bene now at traverse in that
behalfe, contrary to such derections as were taken. I, willing the
pacefying and reformation herof by the advyse of you and other
of my counsell, desire and pray you, Cousin, at your comyng to
me at Yorke uppon thursday next comyng, to cause the sayd
Georg and the other persones to com with you; and that ye shew
your good will for the performance herof, as my very trust is in
12 John Polleyn of Knaresborough, esq. son of John Polleyn the elder, gentleman.
George Tankard, gentleman, was brother of William Tankard, ancestor of the
Tancreds, Baronets, of Boroughbridge, com. Ebor. He was a witness to a deed,
15 Dec. 20 Edw. IV. 1480. (Chartul. No. 708.)
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you, whom God kepe. Written in my Castell of Wresell, the xiiij
day of Februarie.
Your Cosin,
RTHUMBERLAND.
LETTER VIII.
To the right worshipfull Sirs, Sir Robart Plompton, Myles Wylstrop,
and to John Pullan, Robart Barnand, be this letter delivered.
Worshipfull Sires, I recomend me to you. My nephew Hal-
nath a hath bene with me, and shewed to me a wyll made upon a
feftment, at my brother Sir John goyng over see, on whose soule
Jesu have mercy; by the which I understond that my nephew
Halnath and Robart shold have, ether of them, iiijli, by the yere,
terme of ther lyfes. If they can shew the wyll under seale according
to the copie, the must neds have ther iiijli. Also they shew that
Myles Wylstropp, John Pullan, Robart Barnand, and Nycholas
Ward b was with my brother at his death; to whom my sayd bro-
ther sayd, that he wold that this will were fulfilled and performed.
If this be trew, it is a great evydence. As for my sister entrest, I
a The writer of this letter was, it appears, a brother of the House of St. John of
Jerusalem at Clerkenwell, and of the family settled at Allerton Mauleverer, in the
county of York. Sir John Mauleverer, his brother, is said in the pedigrees of the
family to have married a daughter of Banks of Newton in Craven, by whom he had a son
named Thomas, whose wife was a De la River of Brandsby, com. Ebor.; and a daugh-
ter Grace, married to John Pullan, of Knaresborough, esq. ; but this and the following
letter add considerably to the genealogies of the family, hitherto in print, in furnishing
us with the names of the writer himself, and those of his nephews Halnath and Robert,
sons of his brother William. Sir Thomas Mauleverer, knt. was a feed-man of the Earl
of Northumberland in 1486, and contracted for the marriage of his son Richard to
Joan, daughter of Sir Robert Plumpton, knt. 20 May, Hen. VII. 1492. He died
before 2 Sept. 11 Hen. VII. 1495, leaving Elizabeth his wife surviving. (Chartul.
No.763 and 779.)
Nicholas Ward was a younger brother of Sir Christopher Ward, of Gevendale,
com. Ebor. knt.
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shall comyn with wyse lerned men, and shew to them how the
matter stands betwene my sayd sister and my nese, as nere as I can.
I shall shew them of the exchang, and of the closser bysyde Sober
Hell, and also what the law will, if my sayd sister was agreed afore
wytnesse that my nephew shold have my sister joynter and dower
for terme of hir lyfe, if yt be by endenter. I remitt yt to your wys-
domes, besechyng you all to se that ther be no troble among them,
to I send the certayne of all the premisses. Gylbard shalbe with you
by Trenete Sunday, or sone after, and bryng you the certaynte of
every thing, by the grace of Jesu, who preserve you. Wrytten at
Clerkinwell, the xiii of May.
HALNATH MALIVEREY.
c Sober Hill is the name of two farm-houses in the township of Newby-Wiske, near
Northallerton.
LETTER IX.
To the right worshipfull Sir Robert Plompton, John Pullan, and
to Robert Byrnand, and to every of you be thes delivered.
Right worshipfull Sirs, I recomend me unto you, letting you
wytte that I have comond with lerned men to understand wher
my syster in law may enter into her joynter and dower, or no.
They say, for as much as the erytance and right of the same was
in my nevew after the death of his father, on whose soule Jesu
have mercy; at whose death my sayd sister let to ferme her
joynter and dower to my sayd nephew, hir son, afore wittnese,
terme of hir lyfe, the which is thought by them that be learned, is
a surrender in the law: wherfore she must byd by such comonds
as was betwyxt hir son and hir. As for my brother William, if it
may be shewed under his seale or synmanuell, or if the sayd wyll
be lost, if ther be iiij worshipfull men that will swere upon a
booke, that they saw the wyll, and that my sayd brother at his
death desired them that the same wyll myght be performed, my
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nephewes must needs have their porcion, and every person to
have after thayr porcion. Also yt is thought by the forsayd
lernedmen, that if my sayd nevew had a cli, of his father goods, yf
it were spended afore his death, his father seckturs may have no
accion agaynst his seckturs. Ye have right wyse and descret
learned men in Yorkshire; ye may enquere of them, if it please
you. Jesu preserve you. Written at Clerkynwell, the xx day of May.
Yor owne, HALNATH MALLYVERER.
LETTER X.
To his especiall gud master, Sir Robart Plompton, Kt. deliver
these letter.
Sir, if it please your mastership, on the satterday after our Lady
day,a the Parlament was prolonged unto the xxvii day of January,
and then it begineth againe. Sir, my lord Schanchler publyshed in
the Parlament house the same day, that the Kings gud grace shall
weede my lady Elizabeth (and so she is taken as quene); and that
at the marage ther shalbe great justyng.b Also, Sir, ther be divers
lords and gentlemen attended by the Parlament, which be these ;
and first, Richard late Duke of Glouceter, John Duke of Norfolk,
Thomas Erle of Surrey, Francis Lord Lovell, Walter Lord Ferres,
John Lord Such; knyghts, Sir James Heryngton, Sir Robert He-
ryngton, Sir Richard Charleton, Sir Richard Ritliff, Sir William
Barkley, Sir Robart Brakenbery, Sir Thomas Pilkynton, Sir
Robart Mydleton; esqueres, Walter Hopton, William Catisby,
le marage therawbeth (and so she is the Kings gud on
& 10 Dec. 1 Hen. VII. 1485.
The roll of parliament for 1 Hen. VII. it is presumed, is defective, as no memoran-
dum of the prorogation, spoken of in this letter, is to be found in the printed copy ;
but a petition of Margaret Agard, daughter and heir of Geffrey St. Germayn, refers
incidentally to its reassembling on the xxiii of January, which numerals we should
perhaps here read instead of xxvii. The Chancellor's notification of the King's mar-
riage is therefore unrecorded, and the date obtained from this letter becomes a valuable
acquisition to the historian,
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Roger Wake, William Sapcott, Homfray Stafford, Wylliam
Clarke, Galfryd Seyngermen, Watter Watkyn, herold of hermes,
Richard Revell of Darbyshire, Thomas Pulter of Surrey, John
Walste, John Kendall secretory, John Buke, John Ratte, William
Brampton: the are attended for certayne. Howbeit, ther was
many gentlemen agaynst it, but it wold not be, for yt was the
Kings pleasure. Sir, here is much spech that we shall have aschip
agayne, and no man can say of whom; but they dem of Northern-
men and Walchmen. And much spech is in the Kyngs house and
of his householdmen. Sir, other tydings is none here as yett.
Ther is much runyng amongst the lords, but no man wott what it
is; it is sayd yt is not well amongst them. Sir, I send your mas-
tership a letter by Roger, Mr. Mydleton' man. Sir, if ther be
any newer things, your mastership shall have word, if I can gett
it caryed from London. In die Sent Lucie Virgin.
Your bedman, Sir Tho. BETANSON.
(13 Dec. 1485.)
LETTER XI.
To his singuler gud master, Sir Robart Plompton, Kt. deliver these.
Sir, if it please your mastership, I have made a letter unto you
afore Christenmas of such tydings as I know; but I was deceyved,
for I weut your mastership had had it to within this ij dayes : and
so ye shall have one other with it both. Sir, if yt please you,
these beut the tydings that I know. The Kyng hat resumyde by
the Parlamentt into his hands all maner patayns, zeftys, offyzs,
that he dyd ziffe from the ij day of August unto the jij day of
January, and ther be many of his houshold in yt plesyde with yt.
Also he hath resumyde all maner gyfts, patayns, offezs, that was
geven from the xxiij (lege xxxiii) yere of King Herre the vith, by
King Edward the iiijth, or by King Edward his son the vth, or by
CAMD. soc. 4.
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King Richard the iijth, into his hands.a Also it is in actte in the
Parlament, that all maner huntyng in parkes, chases, forest be-
longing to the Kyng, is made felony.b Also, Sir, the Kyng pro-
posyth northward hastyly after the Parlament, and it is sayd he
purposses to doe execution quickly ther on such as have offended
agaynst him. Sir, other tydings. I know none as yet. Sir, I be-
sech you recomend me unto both my gud Ladis, and I send them
a pauper of the Rosery of our Lady of Coleyn, and I have reges-
tered your name with both my Ladis names, as the pauper ex-
presses, and ye be acopled as brether and sisters. Also, Sir, these
lords and gentlemen that was attaynted, they gytt no grace, as yt
is sayd. No more, but I besech your mastership to be gud mas-
ter unto my father, and I shalbe your bedman, with Gods grace,
who keepe you evermore in great joy and felycyte. From Lon-
don, in crastino St. Valentin. Also, Sir, the King will come with
great company; as it is sayd, with x hundred men in harnesse,
and with him mo then v or six schore lords and knights. Also
the Duke of Bedford c goes into Wales to se that country. Also
it is in actt, that all maner of profycyes is mayd felony.d Sir,
oder tydings I know none as yet, that be certayne.
Your servant and bedman, Sir Tho. BETANSON,
(15 Feb. 1485-6.)
a The act of resumption of all patents, &c. from the xxxiiird year of Hen. VI. to
the ind of August i Hen. VII. is on the printed copy of the Rolls of Parliament; but its
extension to the ijid of January is not recorded.
6 This act is on the Statute Roll.
c Jasper Tudor, created Duke of Bedford, 27 Oct. 1485.
d In its present defective state this act is not found on the Parliamentary Roll.
LETTER XII.
To my singuler good master, Sir Robart Plompton, kt.
After most due recomendacions had, pleaseth your mastership
in my most lowly wyse to recommend me unto my singuler good
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lady. Sir, this day com Wylliam Plompton a to labor for Haveray
Parke,b and brought to me nether byll, wrytteng, nor commande-
ment by words, nor token, fro your mastership; and therof I
marvell, considering that at your instaunce I suffered him to oc-
cupie the same parke and office for this tyme: and for that cause I
am not in certente, whether ye be his good master or noo. Wher-
fore he hath not spedd as he myght have done if your wrytting
had com; notwithstanding, yt is well. Sir, my lord c kept his Eas-
ter with my lord of Oxford at Laveham,d and come to the King
uppon fryday last,e and comes with the King to Yorke; and my
lord of Darby departeth from Notingham into Lancashire. Sir,
therle of Oxford, my lord Chamberleyn,f with diverse other estates,
cometh to the King to Notingham, and so forth to Yorke, as more
at large the brynger shall shew to you by mouth. Sir, the first
gift that my lady of Syon gave to me, was a par of Jeneper beads
pardonet, the which I have sent to you by the bringer; and if I
had a better thinge, I wold have sent it with as good a will and
Harte: and any service that ye wyll comand me, I am redy, as
knoweth our Lord, who preserve you. At Lyncolne, the iij day
of Apryll.
(3 April 1486.) Your servant, EDWARD PLOMPTON.
a William Plumpton, bastard son of Sir William Plumpton, kt.
Haverah Park was a royal chase in the liberty of Knaresborough, and parcel of
the duchy of Lancaster, of which the Earl of Derby was at this time seneschal in the
North parts.
c The Lord Strange. (See Letter LXII.)
& John, Earl of Oxford, had a capital manor at Lavenham, com. Suff.
e In the year 1486, Easter day fell on the 26th of March, at which time the King
was sojourning at Lincoln, being then on a progress towards the north parts of the
kingdom; but he had reached Nottingham before the end of the week, and was yet there
when this letter was written. (See an account of this progress in Lelandi Collectanea,
vol. IV. editio altera, p. 185.)
Sir William Stanley, Lord Chamberlain.
PLUMPTON CORRESPONDENCE
LETTER XIII.
To my right worshipfull master, Sir Robart Plompton, Kt.
TU
Reverend and my right trusty good master, due reverence done,
know ye I am at your comaundment, with prayer for you, my
gode lady your wyfe, and mother, and your children. My lord a
faryth well, and recomends him unto you, with harty thanks of
your good and fast love, which he entendeth to content your mynd
for. Sir, yt is so that Sir Alexander b hath a dedimus potestatem
dyrect to thabot of St. Mary in York, Sir Richard Tunstall c and
Sir John Hart;d for the which matter my lord hath wrytten to
thabot and Sir John Hart in recomendation of Sir Alexander.
Wherfore, when expedient tyme shalbe apoynted, my lord wilbe
glad and well content that ye se the deling, and as ye understand
that yt will lest you, certyfie me by your wryting derected to me;
and thus almighty God preserve you. From Greenwich, the xviii
day of November.
By your loving and due beadman,
(18 Nov. anno circiter 1486.) Master HENRY HUDSON.
a The Earl of Northumberland is doubtless the lord to whom the writer alludes, he
being then with Court at Greenwich.
Sir Alexander Lee, rector of Spofforth, is the person here spoken of. (See Let-
ter LXXVII.) Plumpton was in this parish.
c Sir Richard Tunstall, kt. Steward of the honour of Pontefract.
Sir John Hart, rector of the church of St. Martin in Micklegate, York, from
1476 to 1519.--(Drake's Eboracum, p. 472.)
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LETTER XIV.
To my right hartely beloved Cousins and frinds,a Sir William In-
glebie, Sir Robart Plompton, Sir William Beckwith, Kts, and
John Gascougne, Esquier.d
Sir Randall Pygot,e Sir William Stapleton,f Sir Piers Middle-
ton,& Sir Christofer Ward,b Sir Thomas Malliverer,i John Has-
tings, k John Rocliffe I were comaunded to be redy upon an ower
warning.
Your Cousin, HEN: NORTHUMBERLAND.
# The knights to whom this brief notification was made by the Earl of Northum-
berland were bis feed-men, receiving his wages. When King Henry VII. made his
progress into the north parts in the first year of his reign, the Earl met him by the
way in Barnsdale, a little beyond Robin Hood's stone, with thirty-three knights of
his feed-men, besides esquires and yeomen.-(Lel. Coll. vol. IV. p. 185.)
Sir William Ingleby, of Ripley, com. Ebor, kt.
c Sir William Beckwith, of Clint, com. Ebor, kt.
d John Gascoigne, esq. uncle to Sir William Gascoigne, of Gawkthorp, com.
Ebor. kt.
e Sir Randall Pigot, of Clotherholm, com. Ebor. kt.
f Sir William Stapleton, of Wighill, com. Ebor. kt. He died 16 Dec. 1503.
& Sir Piers Middleton, of Middelton, com. Ebor. kt.
1 Sir Christopher Ward, of Givendale, com. Ebor. kt.
i Sir Thomas Malliverer, of Allerton, com. Ebor. kt.
k John Hastings, of Fenwick, com. Ebor. esq. afterwards Sir John Hastings, kt.
| John Rocliffe, of Cowthorpe, com. Ebor. esq. afterwards Sir John Rocliffe, kt.
LETTER XV.
To his worshipfull master, Sir Robart Plompton, Kt. this delyver.
Right worshipfull and my singuler gud master, I recomend me
unto your mastershipe, and unto both my gud Ladys, and unto all
gud masters and frynds, your servants. If it please your mas-
tership to here of me, and where I abyde, I serve in the Sepulcre
church without Newgaytt. Ther is a woman was borne in Selby.
I have x marke and no charg, and the terme tymes I have meat
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and drynke of my lord Bryan, cheife judg of the common place; a
and this christenmas I goe with him into the country to his place,
and comes agayn the next terme. Wherfore, if it wold please
your mastership to send me a letter how ye, and my Ladys, with
all your houshold, doth, for yt were to me great comforth ; and if
ther be any thing here that I can or may do, send me word, and I
shall indever me to do yt, as is my dewty. Sir, as for tydings,
here is but few. The King and the Quene lyes at Grenwych;
the Lord Perce b is at Wynchester: the earle of Oxford is in
Essex: the erle of Darby and his son be with the King. Also
here is but litle spech of the erle of Warwyko now, but after chris-
tenmas, they say ther wylbe more spech of. Also ther be many
enimies on the see and dyvers schippes take, and ther be many
take of the kyngs house for theves. Other tydings I know non.
Also they begyn to dye in London; there is but few pariches fre:
at summer they die faster. Then I purpose to come into York-
shire, with Gods grace, who kepe you and your lovers evermore.
At London in vigil. St. Andrew appostle.
(29 Nov. 1486.) Your dayly bedman, Tho. BETANSON.
* Sir Thomas Brian, kt. Chief Justice C. P. Writ tested at Westminster, 20
Sept. 1486.
Lord Percy, eldest son of the Earl of Northumberland, to which title he suc-
ceeded 28 Apr. 1489.
c Edward Plantagenet, Earl of Warwick, then a prisoner in the Tower,
LETTER XVI.
To my right trusty and welbeloved cousin Sir Robart Plompton, kt.
Cousin Sir Robart, I commend me unto you; and wher it is so
that diverse gentlemen and other commoners, being within your
office at this tyme, hath rebelled against the king, as well in ther
being at this last felde, as in releving of them that were against
the Kings highnes, I therfore on the kings behalfe strictly charg
you, and on myne hartely pray you, for your owne discharg and
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myne, that ye incontinently after the sight hereof, take all such
persones as be within your office, which this tyme hath offended
agaynst the king, and in especiall John Pullen and Richard
Knaresborough: and that ye keepe them in the castell of Knars-
brough,a in suer keepeing, to the tyme be ye know the kings plea-
sure in that behalfe. And that this be not failed, as ye love me;
and to give credence unto this bearer, and God keep you. Written
at Richmound, the xxiii day of Juyn.b Se that ye faile not, as ye
love me, within the time, and as ever ye thinke to have me your
good lord, and as ever I may trust you.
Your Cousin,
(23 June 1487.)
RTHUMBERLAND.
* This letter shews Sir Robert Plumpton to have succeeded his father in the offices
of bailiff of the burgh, and Custos of the castle, of Knaresborough under the Earl of
Northumberland.
b The field of Stoke had been fought upon the 16th of June immediately preceding
the date of this letter.
LETTER XVII.
To my right worshipfull cousin, Sir Robart Plompton, knyght.
Right Worshipfull Cousin, I recomend me unto you; and for-
asmuch as it is shewed to me, that ye doe make a pretence and
clame to a man, called William Wroes, dwelling within thoner
of Pomfret, wher I am officer, premyssing that he should be your
bondman; wherin I have sent his evydence of his manumission,
given by one of your ancestors, called Sir Robart Plompton, with
dyverse other wryttings, that bynds the said Sir Robart and his
heires under a certain payne, which is expressed in ther sayd
wrytings, that ther shall never no pretence, nor clame, be made
by them, nor none of ther heires, for the said bonde, but evermore
perpetually to be at lyberty. Wherfore, Cousin, insomuch as the
sayd William is dwelling within the honour, wher I am officer, I
nether can, nor may, see that he be wronged, if it may lye in me to
amend it; therfor I will and pray you, that if ye intend to make
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any such pretence and clame, then that ye wold send to me some
of your counsell, so that I may understand wherby ye pretend
your tytle, and if your tytle be good, ye shall have such answere,
as of reason ye shalbe content with. I pray that I may have an
answere in wrytting from you of these premysses.
Your Cousin, RICHARD TUNSTALL.
I
YI
LETTER XVIII.
To my right worshipfull cousin Sir Robert Plumpton.
Right worshipfull Cousin, after due recomendations, I comend
me unto you, letting you wytt I am enformed ye are good master
unto my cousin John Baylton, praying you of your good con-
tynuance therin for my sake. Sir, I understand my cousin Sir
Christofer Ward hath put him ther to an occupation of the Kyngs.
Sir, if ther be any man that wold wrong him therin, I desire you
therin that you will be his good master for my sake, as I may doe
you any pleasure hereafter, which I shalbe redy, with grace of God,
at altymes, who have you in his keeping.
Be your owne WILLIAM CALLVERLEY the older.a
& William Calverley, esq. of Calverley and Esholt, com. Ebor. Agnes, daughter of
Sir John Tempest, knt. was living his widow in 1489 ; their eldest son was of the
same name as his father. It appears from the pedigree in Thoresby, that Amice, sister
of William Calverley, esq. was the wife of a Mr. Robert Baildon, 24 Hen. VI. The
John Baylton here mentioned was doubtless their descendant.
LETTER XIX.
To my right hartely beloved Cousin, Sir Robart Plompton, knight.
Right trusty and welbeloved Cousin, I gret you hartyly well.
And wheras I conceive that ye prepared yourselfe to have
ridden with me to this day of trewe,a and now remembring, that
^ The days of truce for the meetings of the great commissioners of the East and
Middle Marches were fixed, by the treaty of 1483, to be held on the first of December
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it were not only to your great labor, but also to your cost and
great charg, therfore I také me oonly to your good wyll and
thankfull disposition, for the which I hartely thanke you, and am
right well content and pleased that ye remaine still at home.
Written at Derham, the six day of November.
Your Cousin,
(19 Nov. 1486-7.)
HEN. NORTHUMBERLAND.
at Reading-burn; and as warden of the West and Middle Marches, Henry, Earl of
Northumberland, was the first of the Conservators of the truce agreed to at London, to
commence from 3 July 1486, and to continue for three years.
LETTER XX.
To the right worshipfull Sir Robart Plompton, Kt. be thes delivered.
Right worshipfull Sir, I recommend me unto you, and wher ye
have shewed by your curtace letter, of late to me derect by one
Robart Becke your servant, beryng date at Plompton, the vi day
of September, that your servants and lovers, John Person and his
brother, should be greatly vexed and trobled by Wylliam Whita
and his servants; Sir, as touching the same William, in the
beginyng of the troble and variance betwyxt the servants of his
and John Persons, his bretheren, and other, he was innocent, as
fare as I, my brethren aldermen, and other the common counsell
of the Cyttie of York, by any wayes and meanes can understand ;
and the same Wylliam hath shewed unto us, that he at no tyme
have given cause to the said Person so to deale with his servants,
as they tofore have doun. And further, Sir, the sayd John Person
and his brother bene fraunchesid and sworne to the Kyng and
maior of the citie of Yorke for tyme being, to be and deale accord-
ing to the effect of there othes. And if any variance or troble,
tofore this, have bene betwixt my cocitisins, that they, according
to ther duties, have shewed them in the same to the maior for
tyme being, and to none other; and he to se an end betwyxt them
a William White was mayor of York in 1491.
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and right wold, so that no more inconvenient should fall by
reason of the same. Sir, I am the man, and take God to record,
without favor or parcialite, to adoon the same in the premyses
to the sayd John Person, and other in the premyses, and they
had shewed them in the same varience unto me, as ther dutyes
had bene. Wherfore, Sir, if it like you, and by your advice,
the sayd John Person and his brother to come home, both
my brethren and I shall endevor us, in the sayd varyance and
ţroble, to make a good and a loving end, and the better for your
pleasure. And further, Sir, of my brethren behalfe and myne, we
pray you to give credence to this bearer, and Jesu preserve you.
In hast from Yorke, the ix day of September.
By your aune ROBERT HAVOCK b
Maior of Yorke and his brethren Aldermen.
(9 Sept. 1488.)
Sic, sed lege Robert Hancock. He was mayor of York in 1488.
LETTER XXI.
To my right worshipfull master, Sir Robart Plompton, kt. be these
delivered.
Reverent and worshipfull Sir and master, I recomend me unto
your mastership, beseching Allmyghty Jesu to preserve your wor-
ship and welfare to his pleasure and your harts comforth. Sir,
plese yt you to understand, my servant Thomas Coke, now late
being with your mastership, hath shewed unto me parte of your
mynde and entent, by the which I conceyve ye wold I dyd your
mastership a pleasure, and if I so myght or may, it wold be to me
comforth. Howbeyt my sayd servant shewed unto me none of
your mynd, how or what tyme I shold be content therof againe, if
I might so do. Wherfore, Sir, if yt wold either be pleasure or
ease to you that I shold doe you such a pleasure, as I wylbe
right glad to doe, if I shold therfore screane myself, and my
frynds also, and not put me therfore to hurt; so that yt will like
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your mastership to send me wrytting, by the bringer herof, what
tyme yt will please you to have yt, and how and what tyme I
shalbe content therof againe, and I shall put me in dever to fullfill
your intent, and doe your pleasure in that behalfe, or any other
thing to your comandment, be the grace of Jesu, who ever preserve
your worship. At Hassopp, the tuesday next afore St. Thomas
day the apostle.
Be your tenant and servant,
(December 1482—8.) STEPHEN EYRE of Hassopp.a
a The manor of Hassopp, com. Derb. had been let by Sir William Plumpton kt.
and Robert Plumpton, esq. his son, to Stephen Eyre, esq. for the term of twelve years
from Michaelmas 1479, and indentures were sealed between the parties 1 Feb. 19
Edw. IV.-(Chartul. No. 695.) The date of the letter is prior to 9 Jan. 4 Hen. VII.
1488-9, when the lease was renewed by Dame Joan Plumpton, and Sir Robert Plumpton
kt. to Katharine Eyre, late the wife of the said Stephen Eyre.-(Ibid. No. 751.)
LETTER XXII.
To my master, Sir Robart Plompton, kt.
In my most humble and faythfull wyse I recommend me unto
your mastership, and to my singuler good lady. This day in the
mornyng I spake with my master Gascoyne at Poymfrett, and he
comended him to you and to my lady; and then I spake with Sir
Rich. Tunstall, and had great commyning with him of per et con-
tra. Sir, I wold advise your mastership cause William Scargell
to take good regard to himselfe and not to use his old walkes; for
and he doe, he wylbe taken, and brought to fynd such surety for
peace and otherwise, as shalbe to him inconvenient: notwithstand-
ing, the said Master Tunstall gave to me right curteouse words at
my departing; but therto is no great trust. For the tyme it is
good to dreed the worst, insomuch as the land lyeth in his rule,
in the honor of Poymfret. Sir, as for such matters I had with
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Robert Lenthorpe,a he will give me no perfitt answere unto the
begining of the terme ; in the meantyme he will speak with a
doctor, and send to me a letter to London by one Watkinson of
Poymfrett, atturney of the common place, and then your master-
ship shaibe answered of the premises, with Gods grace, who ever
the same preserve in prosperouse felicitie long tyme to endure.
From Poymfrett, the xi day of January.
Your humble servant,
(9 Jan. 1488-9.)
EDWARD PLOMPTON.
* Robert Leventhorpe, of Leventhorpe, in the parish of Swillington, com. Ebor. esq.
LETTER XXIII.
To my right worshipfull Cousin, Sir Robart Plompton, kt.
Right Worshipfull Cousin, I recomend me unto you, and
whereas I late wrote to you for one Skaggell a to have come to
me, for a matter of causes betwixt him and certayn other, with
myne officer, Thomas of Pomfret; wherin I understand by such
an answer as I had from you since, that he will not be advertysed
by you therin. Cousin, I eftesones will desire and pray to advise
him to come, for and he will not, I intend to shew his obstynance
to the King and his counsell, which if I so doe, I thinke it will not
be for his ease. And also I intend, when I can finde a conve-
nient tyme and place, to attach him, if he thus contynew in his
sayd obstynance.
Your Cousin,
Rich. TUNSTALL.
u William Scargill, of Thorpe-Stapleton, com. Ebor. esq. (See preceding letter and
postea.)
LETTER XXIV.
To the right worshipfull knyyht, Sir Robart Plompton.
Right worshipfull sir, I commend me to you, and am full sory
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that ye should be displeased agaynst the writting, which came last
to you in my name. I comaunded the officer to writ to you in
my name, but I saw not the same after. Sir, ye have alway bene
good master to our house and I pray you so to contynew, and in
any thing which ye are myscontent with, it shall be amended by
the sight of yourselfe. And I besech you be good master to this
bearer, for he is giltles in this matter. And as for our land, we
pay our dymes therfore, and trust in you that ye will not ses none X
thereof, wherby we should have cause to make further labor; for
it is not the Kyngs mynd to ses no dymeable land, and we have
no suit land, but it is dymable, as God knoweth, who preserve
you ever.
Your lovyng freind,
the PRIOR OF NEWBROUGH.a
a Newbrough, or Newburgh, a township in the parish of Coxwold, com. Ebor. was
the site of a priory for Canons regular of the order of St. Augustin, which was en-
dowed with lands in the parish of Spofforth, of the fee of Mowbray, their founder.
LETTER XXV.
To my right hartely beloved Cousin, Sir Robart Plompton, Kt.
Right hartely beloved Cosin, I comannd me unto you, and for
right weighty consideration me moving concerning the pleasure of
the Kings highnes, on the behalve of his grace, charg you, and on
my desire pray you, that ye with such a company, and as many as
ye may bring with your ease, such as ye trust, having bowes and
arrowes, and pryvy harnest, com with my nepvew, Sir William
Gascougne, so that ye be with me upon munday next comeing at
nyght, in the towne of Thirske; not failing herof, as my speciall
trust is in you, and as ye love me. Written in my mannor of
Semar, the xxiiii day of Aprill.
Your Cousin,
(24 April 1489.)
HEN. NORTHUMBERLAND.a
* This summons was sent on the Saturday immediately preceding the day of the riot
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at Cocklodge, in which the Earl of Northumberland was slain, being Wednesday, the
feast of St. Vitalis, 28th of April, 1489. For his services in suppressing this com-
motion, Sir Robert Plumpton was in this same year (30 Oct.) thanked by King
Henry. (See the letter of Hen. VII. in the Memoirs.)
LETTER XXVI.
oys
To right worshipfull Sir in God, Sir Robert Plompton, kt. be this
byll delivered in hast.
Right worshipfull Sir, after dew recomendations, pleaseth you to
know, that after as I am enformed, one John Bailton of Knars-
brough, of layt bought and received of my kinsman, the brynger,
a ton of wyne, for the which he hath nought content; and now
for his offence all his goods standeth under arrest and in your will.
I wold and hartely pray you, that my sayd kynsman myght for my
sake, either have his wyne againe, or els contentation therefore,
after there comaunds; and ye therfore shall have my good hart in
any thing I may doe for you. So knoweth our Lord, who have
you in his protection. From Fountayne, this same tewsday.
Your owne, JOHN ABBUT OF FOUNTAYNE.
1478 to 1494. (And see note to Let-
a John Darneton, abbot of Fountains from
ter XVIII.)
LETTER XXVII.
To my right worshipfull and enterly beloved gossep, Sir Robart
Plompton, knyght,
Right worshipfull and my full trusty enterly beloved gossep,
after all harty recomendations as I can thinke, I pray you hartely
to be good and tender master and lord to Thomas Hirst, my full
speciall freind, in such matter as he hath to labor unto you; and
the more tender at this my poore prayer and instaunce, and for
the love of my godson, to whom I besech Almyghty God to
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give good grace to encrease in vertue, and you, with my lades, your
mother and your wyfe, my comered, to preserve in worship and
favour, unto his pleasure and harts ease. From Kyrkestall in hast,
upon munday next before St. Luke Evangelist.
Your poore gossep and true lover,
Tho: ABBOT OF KIRKESTALL.a
* Thomas Wymbersley, Abbot of Kirkstal from 6 April 1468 to 1498.-William
was the name of the eldest son of Sir Robert Plumpton, and it was to him that the
abbot had probably stood godfather.
1915 hana pre ba
LETTER XXVIII.
To my right worshipfull brother, Sir Robart of Plompton, deliver
these.
Right worshipfull Brother and Sister, I hartely recommend me
unto you. Where ye have made a search, they for me thanke you
hartely therfore, and I shall do service to you, and I may, therfore.
I besech to make a thorow search for my matter, as my trust is to
you, and I will be ruled according to right, as my frynds, and ye in
specyall, thinke that I should be. No more at this tyme, but the
holy Trenetie have you in keeping. I pray you give credence to
the bringer of this byll.
Your loving brother, Sir STEPHEN HAMERTON.
* Sir Stephen Hamerton, of Hamerton and Wigglesworth, com. Ebor. kt. suc-
ceeded his father Sir Richard in 1480, and married Isabel, half-sister of Sir Robert
Plumpton. (See Memoirs.) He died 16 Hen. VII. 1500-1.
LETTER XXIX.
To the worshipfull in God Master Plompton, knight, these letters
be delivered in hast.
Right worshipfull Sir, I comand me to you, beyng glad to here
of your welfaire. Sir, I hartely thank you for my tennaunts of
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Arkenden,a praying you of good contynuance, and also for your
wryting, the which ye send unto me towching to the lands of
myne in Arkenden. Sir, I have sent to you by my servant, Tho-
mas Morton, the copie of my evydents of the ix acres of land,
the which they clame intrest for the King. And I trust that I
have sent to you such wrytting as shall discharg that matter. Sir,
I pray you that ye will shew my matters according to right; and
after your good mynd, for I remytt all unto your good wysdome.
Sir, yt is so that I am a yong beginner of the world in my office;
and Sir, for your good will and counsell I will that my officer re-
ward to you yerly vis. viiid, as was rewarded to other men afor
tyme, praying you of your good contynuance, and any thing as I
can, I will, as knoweth God, who have you in his blessed keeping.
Amen. Written at Lilleshull, the xxvi day of May.
Your loving frind, THE ABBOT OF LILLISHULL.
a Arkendale, in the parish of Knaresborough, had been given to the abbey of Lil-
leshull, com. Salop, by Hilaria Trusbut in the reign of Hen. II. with housebote and
haybote in the woods of Kirkdighton and Ingmanthorp. (Mon. Ang. vol. I. p. 1466.)
She was the wife of Everard de Ros. Sir Robert Plumpton, as was usual with men of
worship at the time of writing, acted as steward for the abbey.
LETTER XXX.
To the right worshipfull Sir Robart Plompton, kt. be this letter
delivered.
Right worshipfull Sir, I recomend me unto you, thanking you,
as hartely as I can, for your great kyndnes and gentlenes shewed
to me, and to my poore tennaunts in Arkenden. And wheras ye
have written to me that one Robart Walkinham a is injuried and
wronged of his tennor in Arkenden, contrarie to right and con-
cience; wherfore I purposse, sonne after Whitsontide next comyng,
to send a brother of myne and other officers to Arkenden, and
ther to have a court to be houlden, and right to be had according
a Robert Walkingham, of Plumpton, was living 1 Dec. 1483. (Chartul. No. 724.)
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to reason and good concience, with the grace of God, who have
you in his governance. Written in hast on Tewsday in the ijd
weeke of lent.
Your good lover, THE ABBOT OF LILLESHIĻL.
WO
LETTER XXXI.
To Sir Robart Plompton, kt. in Yorkshire, be this letter delivered in
- good speede.
Right worshipfull Sir, we recomennd us unto you. And so it is
that dame Joyes Percy hath shewed unto the Earle of Schrewes-
burie,a which is our very good lord, and tender lord in all our
rightfull causes, how ye enwrong her of certayne lands lying with-
in our lordship of Erkenden, were ye be our steward; wherein
the said lord hath made labor unto us for the sayd Dame Joyes,
and desired us that we wold she be not wronged in hir right: and
considering how good lord he hath bene, and yet alwayes unto us
ys, and remembryng allso, that we, being men of the holy church,
owe not to suffer any wrong to be done to any maner of persones
within our Lordship, may no lesse doo but effectually tender the
sayd lords desire in that behalfe. Wherfore we desire you, that
ye will see the sayd Dame Joyes to have all that which she of
right ought to have within our Lordship of Erkenden foresayd,
so as she find hir not greved, nor have cause to make any more
labor to the sayd lord for hir remedy therin. For and she doe,
The Earl of Shrewsbury (George) wrote himself to Sir Robert Plumpton from
Ashby on the 8th of July, in behalf of Dame Joyce Percy, who was then attending on
his wife, in respect to certain lands purchased by Sir Robert Percy, her late husband,
to which Sir Robert Plumpton laid claim.--This letter was one of the twenty-six, of
which the transcripts formed that portion of the Towneley MS. which has been torn
off (see Introduction); but it is one of the few letters of this correspondence which were
copied by Dodsworth from the MS. in 1633. (Vol. CXLVIII. Bibl. Bodl.) Sir
Robert Percy was probably of Scotton, near Knaresborough, where a family of the
name was at this time settled.
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we must sett some other person in your rome, that will not wrong
hir ; for we may in no wyse abyd the displeasur of the sayd lord.
Tendering therfore this our desire, as we trust you; and our Lord
have you in his governance. From Lillishull, the xxviii day of
May.
Your good loving ABBOT OF LILLESHULL.
LETTER XXXII.
To my most trusty good master, Sir Robart Plompton, knight.
Right honorable and my most trusty good master, in as hum-
ble wyse as I can thinke or say, I comennd me to your sayd master-
shipp. And, Sir, according to my dutie I thank you of all gentle
mastership unto me shewed, and to my frinds, beseching you of
contynuance. Morover, Sir, pleaseth you to understand the
affect of my desire at this tyme. It is so here by us at Cukes-
wald, a the clarkship therof standeth avoyd, saffe it is observed be
the meanes of 2 children, sones to the clarke lait deseased; wher-
in, good master, I besech you tenderly, that it wold please you to
writ to Sir Robart Owtreth,b that he wold at request of your mas-
tership send wrytting to his tennants of the sayd towne, first to
his keper Georg Dayvell, Robert Cropwell, and John Barton,
then all other in generall, that my brother, your trew servant,
myght have that service of the clarkship, trustyng to God he
should please the parishioners according to his dutie, and I ever-
more your trew and faythfull prest and bedman. That knoweth
Almyghty Jesu, who you, my most trusty good master, preserve to
his pleasure. At Newburgh in hast, in festo Seti Georgii Mar-
tiris.c
Your owne prest and bedman,
Sir WILLIAM CATTON, Chanon of Newburgh.
& Coxwold, a parish-town in the immediate vicinity of the priory of Newburgh or
Néwbrough.
” Sir Robert Oughtred, of Kexby, com. Ebor. kt.
© 23 April.
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LETTER XXXIII.
To the right worshipfull and my specyall good master, Sir Robart
Plompton, knyght, deliver these in hast.
Right worshipfull master, I recomend me unto you, thanking
you of your benyngne mastership shewed unto me, for the which,
Sir, without feyning I am, and shalbe, your trew and faythfull
beadman. Beseching your mastership after the contemplation of
this byll, that it wyll please you to stand good master unto the
brynger herof in such matters as he shall shew unto you. Sir,
he hath bene with us, and spoken with Sir Thomas Morwyn, and
with Sir William his brother, and with other dyvers of our bre-
thren, the which recomend tham unto your mastership; and he
hath shewed unto them his intent and desire, the which we intend,
with Gods grace, to endever us to fullfill, if our power may so
extend, in the which we besech you to take no dyspleasure; wherin
ye shall bynd me, with all afore rehersed, to impend unto your
sayd mastership our prayer and service, according unto our duety,
by the grace of Jesu, who preserve you ever more to his pleasure.
At Newburght in great hast.
Your chaplayn and bedman,
Sir Thomas THORP, Chanan.
LETTER XXXIV.
To Sir Robart Plompton, knight, be these delivered.
Right worshipfull Sir, and my especiall good master, I comend
me to you, thanking you much for my veneson, for it did me great
stead. I beseach God to encrease your veneson. Sir, ther is cer-
taine money owing to me in Follifait,a the which I besech you that
it wold please you to comannd them to pay it to the bringer of this
.a. Follyfoot, in the parish of Spofforth, was in the lordship of Plumpton.
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byll, my servant; he shall shew you which they be that owe the
Wilson to the behalfe of another man, and the sayd John was his
suretie the farm should be content; and I caused my servant to
aske farme of this Wylson, and he sayd that they had discharged
him, that he should not occupie, for they wold put in a tennant at
your pleasure. Sir, if it so be that they discharged him, suppose
it will please you that I be content the farm, or els remyt it
to the sayd Wylson; it is run two yeares, to the sume of 2iiijs.
As touching the matters he hard at the syse, I caused some to be
thyn at this tyme, as God knowes, who preserve you evermore to
his pleasure.
Your owne beadman, CELLERER OF NEWBURGH.
b Pannall, now a parish-town, was in the forest of Knaresborough.
JELLERER
VBURGH.
LETTER XXXV.
To Sir Robart Plompton, knyght, be thes delivered.
Right worshipfull Sir, I recommend me to you. I thank you, Sir,
of your labor and good will. Sir, it is so that I have no more of the
brought with him a byll of alowaince for Aykton Kilne, and I
have answered him, that he shall have as much as is our charge to
do; therfore it was sene by our tenants, and set to a valow what
should be our charge to do, and that shall he have: I understand
it was either 25% or 275. Also, Sir, as for as touching William Paver
ferme, I am not content; I put it in respate till I come over, for
he sayth that he hath payd for suyt of court at Spofforth ij yeare,
and also fee ferme for one yeare, and he thinks to have the farm-
hould for 2vijs, viiid, in one yeare ; but he shall not, and so I send
him. The brynger herof shall shew you more credence herein.
Sir, if it please you, upon tewsday come a sennyt, I would have
your court at Follyfait, that I might make levy of our fermes that
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are behind. Sir, I say no more, but Jesu, have you in his keping.
Written at Newbrough, this day, by your owne beadman,
CELLERER OF NEWBURGH.
LETTER XXXVI.
To my right worshipfull master, Sir Robart Plompton, kt. this bill
be delivered.
Right worshipfull Sir, I recomend me unto your mastership;
please it you witt, that I understand that my cousin, Ralfe
Hawgh,a sendeth to your mastership for such dues as was granted
to his mother and to him, by my master your father, and you,
under your seales; the which writting and your seales, to come be-
fore men of worship and discretion, I am certayne, when ye se
him, will not be denyed: for your seals be well knowne, and to
show in money other matters in this contry, the which are of great
charge. Wherwith, it please your mastership, that after my poore
advice, take a direction with him at this tyme; for it will els be
proces turne to more cost, and that wold I be right sory fore.
From Padley, on Sunday next before St. Mary day in Lent.
From yours, ROBART EIRE.b
(anno circiter 1488.)
* Ralph Haugh, of Derley, com, Derb. gent.
Robert Eyre, of Padley, com. Derb. esq.
.
.
LETTER XXXVII.
To the right honorable and my especiall good master, Sir Robart
Plompton, knight, be this letter delivered.
After all due recomendations had, please it youre mastership to
witt that Ralfe Haugh, according to the agrement and award a
betwixt you and him made, hath delivered into my hands all such
a The award bears date 1 June, 4 Hen. VII. 1489. (Chartul. No. 756.)
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evydence as he hath concernyng your mastership, endefferently to
be kept unto such tyme as a sufficyent and lawfull estate be made
unto the sayd Ralfe of a yerly rent of v mark, for terme of life of
the sayd Ralfe ;b that is to say, a feoffament of trust indented
made by your mastership unto me and other of the maner of
Darley with the appurtenances, and a letter of atturney according
to the same; also ii obligations, one of ccc marke and another
of xli. Wherfore I besech you to be good master, and to make
him a lawfull estate acording to the award, at which tyme all the
sayd evydence shalbe delivered unto your hands, or to your assigne,
and if ther be any service or pleasure that I may doe, it shalbe
done at my power, by Gods grace, who ever preserve you body and
soule. Written at Padley, the iiijth day of August last past.
Your owne,
(4 Aug. 1489.)
ROBART EYRE, squire.
b In the Plumpton coucher book (No. 757) is a copy of a grant from Sir Robert
Plumpton, Kt. to Ralph Hauh, gent. of an annuity of five marks out of the manor of
Hassop, dated 12 July, 5 Hen. VII. 1490, witnesses, Robert Eyre, John Roklay, and
Thomas Meverell, esqs.
LETTER XXXVIII.
To my lady, Dame Jane Plompton, at Plompton.
Madame, in my most humble wyse I recomend me unto your
good Ladyship, and let you wyte that I have spoken with Master
Receyvor;a iiij houres space he tarryed me, and he is right loving-
ly disposed in every thing toward my master and all his, if he have,
or may have cause therto: and thus I have left with him to be at
. In the Plumpton coucher book (No. 755) is a copy of a receipt from Richard
Harpur, receiver-general of the King's rents of his Duchy of Lancaster, for £9. 38. 2d.
had of Sir Robert Plumpton, kt. for the farm of the mills of Knarsbrough, parcel of
the said Duchy, by the hands of Edward Plumpton, dated 8 March, 5 Hen. VII.
1489-90.
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711
(
Knarsbrough, the wednesday next after saynt Eline day.b And
ther, or afore that tyme, if they mete, to do his dutie to my master
curtesly, and after that, to be as favorable, and to shew his good
wyll to my sayd master in every thing he may doe, as we wyll
desire ; and then I purpose with Gods grace to be there. And
afore the langage that Alan shold say, it is not so; he sayd none
such langage. The mylner told Alan that his farme was redy,
and if yt so be, I pray you cause the mylner to deliver it to
Benson, and if not, to make yt redy agaynst the Receyver come
thither; for this I have promysed, and unto that tyme we mete,
I besech you speake to my master, that no uncurtes dealing be
thad with none of his servants. Also ther is a ax c that my master
clameth the keeping of; I pray you let them have and occupie the
same unto the same tyme, and then we shall take a dereccion in
every thing, as well in the premyses, as otherwyse, to my masters
pleasure and entent, with Gods grace, who preserve you and him
both, and all yours.
Fro Habberforth, this present Thursday.
Your most humble servant,
(anno circiter 1489-90.)
Ed. PLOMPTON.
3 May, the feast of the Invention of the Holy Cross, called St. Elline day. (Vide
postea, Letter CXXI. noted). This name for the feast has escaped the observation of Sir
Harris Nicolas, in his admirable Chronology of History. (Lardner's Cabinet Cyclo-
pedia. New Edit. 1838.)
c Ax, quære if the mill-dam. See Blount's Law Dictionary, sub voce Hatches or
Hacches.
LETTER XXXIX.
To Sir Robart Plompton of Plompton Kt. be these delivered.
Sir, after my dowte of comendations remembering, in my
most harty maner I recomend me unto you. Sir, I desire you to
beare in remembrance mony the which you caused to be borowed
upon my husband and me; the which money I dyverse tymes
sent for, and ye have dyverse tymes appoynted me to send for it;
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and when I send for it at your poyntment, you brak day ever
with me, whereby I canot get my money. Therfore I desire
you to send me word how I shalbe answered of yt, by this bearer,
for if I may have it, I were loth to troble you. If you will not
send me word how I shall have yt, I wyll take my next remedy ;
that you shall well know, yt shalbe to your paine and they that
borowed yt. No more at this tyme, but Jesu preserve you to his
pleasure. Written at Killinghall, by your loving and frind,
MAWD Rose.
LETTER XL.
To my worshipfull Lady Plompton thelder.
Right reverend lady, with due recomendacions. I have wounder
that ye doe so unkindly to me, but of great nede I wold not have
sent. I lent to my kynsman c. marke, I have yt not; they have
forfit cc. marke. And for the lake of yt, I send more besily to
you, praying you to send me iijli by this messinger without delay,
and than it is but xls owing, of the which I shall suffer to Pasch;
and Jesu preserve you. Wrytten at Cristalla in hast,
by your B. Roos.
a Kirkstall.
LETTER XLI.
To my right hartely beloved Cousin Sir Roburt Plompton, kt.
Right hartely beloved Cousin, I commennd me unto you;
and wheras I conceive that ther is a grudge depending betwixt
you and Sir William Beckwith, knight,a I, entending the peacifiyng
thereof, desire and pray you to forbere and contynue to do any
a Sir William Beckwith, kt. one of the feed-men of the Earl of Northumberland, (see
Letter XIV.) was dead before 19 Aug. 11 Hen. VII. 1496, when Elizabeth, his relict,
released to Sir Robert Plumpton, kt. and his heirs, all right and title in the lands of
which their father, Sir William Plumpton, kt. died seised. (Chartul. No. 782.) See
also Letter V, note c at page 6.
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thing in that behalfe against the sayd Sir William unto my next
commyng into Yorkshire. And then, I shall shew me in such
wyse for the reformacion therof, as I trust shall agre with right
law and conscience. Wherefore I pray you to conforme you
to the accomplishment herof, as my very trust is in you. I have
wrytten in like wise unto the sayd Sir William. That now God
conserve you. Wrytten in my castell of Warkworth, the xvi day
of July. Over this, Cousin, ye shall understand, that the sayd
Sir William Beckwith will committ him unto my rule in all
behalves, and therfore I pray you to se the premysses per-
formed.
Your Cousin
HEN. NORTHUMBERLAND.B
o As it is impossible to distinguish with certainty between the undated letters of
Henry the fourth Earl, and those of his son the fifth Earl of Northumberland, in
every instance, I have inserted several consecutively in this place, though there can be
no doubt that this letter is to be attributed to the father. The son was born 13 Jan.
1477-8, and had a special livery of his lands in the thirteenth year of Hen. VII. before
he had fully attained his majority; his letters will therefore date from after the year
1497-8.
LETTER XLII.
To my Right hartely beloved Cousin, Sir Robart Plompton, Kt.
Right hartely beloved freind, I commend me unto you,
and pray you to apply your comyng unto me, according unto
such order as was taken of late tofore your departure from me;
and that ye faile not hereof, as my very trust is in you. Written
in my Castell of Wresull, the xx day of Januarie.
Yore Cousin,
HEN. NORTHUMBERLAND.
LETTER XLIII.
To my Right hartely beloved Cousin, Sir Robart Plompton, Kt.
Right hartely beloved Cosin, I commend me unto you, and
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for certaine considerations me movyng, I will and desire you that
ye incontynent after the sight hereof, cum hether unto me, all
excuses and delayes laid a part, that it be in nowise failed, as ye
intend the pleasure of the Kings highnes, and as ye love me.
Written in my mannor of Lekingfield, the vi day of Aprill.
Your Cousin,
HEN. NORTHUMBERLAND.
LETTER XLIV.
To my Right hartely beloved Cousin, Sir Robart Plompton, Kt.
Right trusty and welbeloved cousin, I commennd me unto you,
and desire and pray you that in such things as my right intierly
beloved Cosin, Mary Gascougne, a hath to doe with you, as
touching hir right of herytaunce, that ye will give unto hir ayde
and supportance, as right law and conscience will, as my speciall
trust is in you, whom God keep. Written in my mannor of Se-
mar, the first day of Aprill.
Your loving Cousin,
THUMBERLAND.
a This Mary Gascoigne may have been the daughter of Ralph Gascoigne, esq, who
had, it seems, been possessed of a house in Plumpton, the fine of which was parcel of
the evidence of William Middelton in 1502. (Vide Letter of Sir William Gascoigne,
kt. postea.)
LETTER XLV.
: To my Right hartely beloved Cousin, Sir Robart Plompton,
knight.
Right hartely beloved Cousin, I commennd me unto you, and
desire and pray you to cause suer search to be made, what horse
and cattaille ther be, that goes in my spring within my parke at
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Spofford ; a and such as can be found their, I pray you to se them
dryven and voyded out therof: and also henceforth, that ye will
se neither horse nor cattell goe within my said spring, as my
speciall trust is in you, whom God preserve. Written in my
mannor of Semar, the ij day of Aprill. Over this, Cousin, I har-
tely pray you to se my said parke vewed, and that the dere within
the same may be easily delt withall, and what remaines within
the same I pray you to certefie me, after the said vew be taken.
Yor loving Cousin,
HEN. NORTHUMBERLAND.
a It appears from this and the following letters, that Sir Robert Plumpton was
steward of the manor of Spofford under the Earls of Northumberland, as his father
had been before him.
LETTER XLVI.
To my Right hartely beloved Cousin, Sir Robart Plompton, Kt.
Right hartely beloved Cousin, I commennd me unto you. And
wheras I of late hath had in ward two servaunts of Thomas Myd-
dleton,a for hunting within my parke of Spofford, which I send
unto you by my servant, Richard Saxston, praying you therfore,
1
a Thomas Middelton, married to a sister of Sir Robert Plumpton, has a brass to
his memory in the church of Spofforth, with this quaint epitaph:
With humble prayer I beseech thee
That this scripture shall here or see
To say De profundis if you letterd be
For the soules of Jone my wife and me
Thomas Middleton sometyme man of law
Under this stone am laid full lawe;
If thou be unlearned and cannot reed
For our soules and all christen soules med
Say a Pater Noster and Ave and a Creed.
Above was the shield of Middleton of Stokeld impaling Plumpton. (Dugdale's York-
shire Arms, MS. in Coll. Arm. And see Letter XII.)
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to take an obligation of them, and two sufficient men bounden
with them in the sume of xxli, to be of good bearing and in law
themselfes uppon viii dayes warning, whensoever I send for them;
not failing herof as my singuler trust is in you, whom God
keepe. Written in my mannor of Semar, the xxvii day of March.
Over this, Cosin, I hartely thanke you in executing my com-
maundement.
Your Cousin,
RTHUMBERLAND.
LETTER XLVII.
To my Right hartely beloved Cousin, Sir Robart Plompton, knight.
Right hartely beloved Cousin, I commennd me unto you.
And wheras variance and discord is dependyng betwixt my servant,
Thomas Saxston, and Richard Ampleford, of my Lordshipe of Spof-
ford, the cause wherof, as I am enformed, hath bene, or this,
shewed unto you; and if it hath not, I desire and pray you reply to
exammæn it, and therupon to shew your lovyng diligence, not onely
to se the peace kept in this behalfe, but also to sett the sayd parties
at agrement, so that this matter may be pacefied. And for asmuch
as ye have the rule ther under me, I pray you to shew you of
semblable disposicion, if any matter of varience hereafter happen
within your sayd rule ; so that the parties sue not to me, if ye
by your discret wysdome can reforme it, as my very trust is in you:
and in your thus doyng, ye shall shew unto me thankfull pleasure.
That knoweth God, who preserve you. Written in my castell of
Warkworth, the xy day of June. Cousin, I pray you to se this
matter pacefied, that there be no more calling upon me therfore,
as my very trust is in you.
Yore Cousin,
HEN. NORTHUMBERLAND.
IN THE REIGN OF HENRY VII.
LETTER XLVIII.
1
To my most speciall good master, Sir Robart Plompton, knyght,
be this delivered in hast.
Right worshipfull and my especiall good master, I recomend
me unto your mastership, thanking your mastership hartyly of
your kindly and hartely mastership shewed unto me, undeserved
of my partie as yet. I besech Almyghty Jesu that I myght doe
that thing, that myght be pleasure to your mastership ; ye shall
have my service. I have many things to thank your mastership
for, and especially for Richard Ampleforth, the which I besech
your mastership to be his good master, to helpe, ayd, and assist
him in his necessitie; and wher he thinks that he offendeth to
your mastership in any behalfe, he shall amend it at your pleasure.
Your mastership shall understand his wyffs confescion, as she
hath shewed it unto me. She besecheth your mastership to be
hir good master, and to helpe hir and sucker hir in hir great
necessity, and to set hir in rest and peace anente Thomas Saxton;
for without your mastership wilbe good master to hir husband
and to hir, she shall never be in rest and peace. And if she wilhe
a good woman, it is a good and gracious dede to your mastership
to help hir; and if I knew that she wold be a myskidyd woman,
I shold never speake word to your mastership for hir, nor to no
other. Also I besech your mastership to be good master to John
Myming, your owne servant; I trust veryly that you have a trew
servant of him to his power, to whome I pray your mastership to
give credence. I besech God thank your mastership of the great
reward that you gave the sayd John Myming, whom you sent
into Bishopprike a' to me. No more at this tyme, but I am your
a The County of Durham was in common parlance called the Bishoprick.
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servant, as God knowes, who your mastership preserve to his
pleasure. At Knaresbrough in hast.
Your servant,
John MORRE.
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LETTER XLIX.
Unto my master, Sir Robart Plompton, knight.
Right worshipfull master, I recomend me unto you evermore,
desiring to here of your prosperity and welfare, the which I besech
almyghty Jesu to mercy to his pleasure, and to your most hartiest
ease ; and also praying you to comend me unto my lady your
moder, and to my lady your wyfe. And also praying you to be
my good master, (for I understand a man of Spofforth, which I
had his wyfe in cure, will arest me,) for I can not goe fourth of place
of master John Fous,a nor without his lordship, but your baylaies
will arest me, as I understand by them that loves me. Wherfore
I pray you take this matter into your hands, Sir; and also praying
your mastership that I may have a letter, by this man, of you, that I
may goe where I shall. Ye understand that I have receved xs.
and xxd., and of that silver I have spent xs. of medcins; and also,
Sir, as you and this man agres of this silver, what he shold have
againe, he shall content him. Whatsoever of his concience he
will have againe, he shalbe contented. As fast as I have silver,
I will come to you and pay you, with grace of God, who have you
in his keping. Wrytten at the place of master St[eward.] Aleffant
day of moneth of March.
By your well loved servant,
Maister ANTHONY.
THONY.
a John Fawkes of Farnley, com. Ebor. esq. Steward of the Forest of Knaresborough,
living 10 Hen. VII. 1494-5. (See Pedigree of Fawkes in Thoresby.) In a north
window of Knaresborough Church was the coat, Ar. a [mascle] sa. and a woman
kneeling by it. Underneath, Dame Mary Faukes. (Dods. MSS. vol. CLX. fol. 186.)
IN THE REIGN OF HENRY VII.
LETTER L.
Unto his right worshipful master, Sir Robert Plompton, Kt. in
hast.
My ful especial maister, I recomende me to you. Pleas it you
to wyte, that this same day I have delivered mee a letter from my
lord of Northumberlond, wherby his lordship hath streitly charged
Mr. Nevil a and al his servants, and me, as tomorow, to be at
Toplif, both there to see his woods, parke, and game, and furth-
with by his servant to be ascertayned in every behalfe, according
to his said writing. For so it is, Sir, that ther are complaynts
mad of the keepers of the game, wherein my lord is sore dis-
pleased withall, as I shall shew to you hereafter. Wherfore, Sir,
I pray you to take noe displeasure for that I am not with them at
Knarsbrough, as tomorow. Sir, I pray you to send me word by
this bearer, how my sayd lord and Mr. Gascoygne departed in all
matters;b and also what day Mr. Gascoygne ridds up towards Lon-
don from his place at Gaukthorp. And, Sir, I trust that my ser-
vant, this bearer, shal find you his good master, as wel in the reports
made to you of him, as in other matters for which he is bounde to
you. And thus, Sir, it is not for you to forgeet the matter that I
wrote to you in, concernyng Sir John Wixeley ;c so you her many
a Ralph Nevill, of Thornton-bridge, in the parish of Brafferton, near Topcliffe, esq.
. b Sir William Gascoigne, kt. father of Master Gascoigne here named, and to whom
Letter XXVI. p. 34, is addressed, had had in his life time the custody of the castle
of Knaresborough under the Earl of Northumberland. At his death, the son was
under age, when his wardship may have devolved upon the Earl, his uncle ; but from
this time, 4 Mar. 2 Hen. VII. 1486, Sir Robert Plumpton acted as deputy for the
Earl, and had the custody of the castle of Knaresborough : at least, the contents of
the letters next following imply that such was the fact.
© Sir John Whixley, chaplain. (See note to Letter II.)
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askers of guds, and thus Jesu keepe you. Written in hast at Rip-
pon, the thursday next after Candlemas.
Your servant, Rich. GREENE.d
Richard Greene, esq. was with Nicholas Middilton and Robert Haldynby, esqrs.
and Richard Plumpton, clerk, a co-feoffee of the manor of Sir Robert Plumpton, kt.
lying in Hassop and Rouland, com. Derb. 15 Sept. 12 Hen. VII. 1496.
LETTER LI.
Unto the right worshipful Sir Robart Plumpton, Kt. deliver these.
Right worshipfull Sir, I commend me to your mastership, certi-
fying you that I have shewed William Tankard & your comand-
ment, that he shold have warned the tenaunts to pay no farme to
William Aldburgh ; and he letting them pay farme to his mother,
and wold not warne the tenaunts to pay none. And as for taking of
William Aldburgh, he sayd he wold not take him, for ye let him
alone and ye myght have taken him, and ye wold; and may take
him when ye wyll. I besech you be so good master unto me, and
sett me and my husband tenaunts in rest of him. To God send my
husband home, so that I compleane no further for noe remedy, as
my trust is in your mastership, as God knowes, who preserve you
to his pleasure. From Newby,b on Munday after Salmesday.c
Your Beadwoman ELIZABETH GREENE.d
a William Tankard, otherwise Tancred, was, it seems, at the date of this letter,
bailiff of Boroughbridge, parcel of the liberty of Knaresborough, in which Sir Robert
Plumpton had jurisdiction, and where the disputed lands lay.
b Newby, in the parish of Topcliffe.
c Soul-mass-day, Nov. 2.
d She was, it seems, the wife of Richard Greene above named ; and from the con-
tents of the letter, appears to have claimed as of her inheritance the land of William
Aldborough, by reason of the son's illegitimacy.
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LETTER LII.
T
To my right hartely beloved Cousin, Sir Robart Plompton, Kt.
Right hartely beloved Cousin, I commennd me unto you, thank-
ing you for my servant Rich. Greene; and desire and pray you,
that if Bastard Aldborgh, Richard Leds, or such other as of late,
as I am enformed, have made revery and withdrawen goods, con-
trayrie to the Kings lawes, within the lordship of Knarsbrough,
where at ye have rule, can be come by, ye committ them to ward
within the castell of Knarsbrough, therin still to remayne unto
that ye have further knowledg of my pleasure in this behalfe. Over
this, Cousin, where as I have assigneed my servant William Bul-
locke to levy and receive such rents and fermes, and also arrerages,
as are due and growen of the lands that late were William Ald-
burgh', wherin ye and I, with other, stand infeoffed, and to be
reserved to that my pleasure therin be understanden. I therfore
desire and pray you, if any person would interupt him in thexecu-
tion herof, ye will shew your good will in the lawfull defending
therof, and also in the geting of all such hay as is upon the sayd
ground; not fayling herof as my speciall trust is in you, whom God
kepe. Written in my Castell of Werkworth, the xxxi day of July.
Your Cousin,
LI
RTHUMBERLAND.
LETTER LIII.
To my right worshipfull master, Sir Robart Plompton, knight, be
thes delivered.
Right reverent and worshipfull master, I recomend me to your
mastership, certyfiing you that John Pullan and I meett this day
at Castley, which John brought with him Herry Dickinson and
John Tomlinson to support him, and to testyfie his talke. Sir,
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the dayes men cannot agre us, so Mr. Mydleton a to make the
end. Wherfore I wold besech your sayd mastership, that yt wold
please you to cause some of your servants to goe to the sayd Mr.
Midleton, and the bringer herof to goe with him (to whome I besech
you give credence] that ye and the sayd Master Midleton wold
assigne a day and a place, that I may know the same and attend
upon him. Beseching your sayd mastership, that yt wold please
you, if ye so may, to be at the end-making, or els 1 fere me we shall
have no end for myn avantage, and all by the meanes of the sayd
me from yt, as I am enformed, both to the said Nicholas Midle-
ton, and also to my lord of Fountance. Sir, I shold have comen
to your mastership, but I must ned ride to Connesburgh for mat-
ters of my moders in law; wherfore I besech your mastership to
pardon me. No more at this tyme, but the blessed Trinetie pre-
serve you in worship to his pleasure. Writtin at Arthington
hall, the iiijth day of Apryll.
By your owne servant,
WILLIAM ARTHINGTON.b
* Nicholas Middelton, of Stokeld, com. Ebor. esq. living 12 Hen. VII. 1496.
(See Letter L. note d.)
o William Arthington, of Arthington, in the parish of Addle, com. Ebor. esq.
LETTER LIV.
To the right reverent and worshipfull and my especiall good sin-
Right reverent and worshipfull and my specyall good master, I
hartely comend me unto you, thanking your mastership of your
tender and loving favour shewed to my poore kynsman, John Wyn-
penne, now late brynging a letter from my lord to your mastership,
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and me, and other moe. Beseching you to be his good master
touching his right according to conscyence, this holy tyme, upon
Wedensday at your court. And wher your mastership wold that I
shold wayt upon you ther that tyme, I wold have bene right glad
so to doe, but because that I understand that Richard Danby, to
whom my lord hath wrýtten, lyke as to other, cannot be ther as
than. Wherfore I besech your mastership, at the reverence of
God, and be way of almes and charytie, to assigne a tyme and
place, wher the sayd Mr. Danby, Richard Grene, and I myght
awayte upon you for the sayd matter, and I shalbe redy both for
that, and to your service, by the grace of God, who evermore pre-
serve and kepe your worship and good health. Wrytten the iiij
day of Aprill, at Qatton.a
By your loving servaunt,
WILLIAM ROWKSHAW, preist.
& Watton, in the east riding of Yorkshire, where was a priory of Gilbertines.
LETTER LV.
To his right worshipfull master, Sir Robart Plompton, kt. deliver
these.
Right worshipfull Sir, in the most hartyest wyse I recommend
me to you, thanking you of your tender mastership shewed me in
all causes. Please yt your mastership to wyt that I am somewhat
in hevynes, for such sicknes my wyfe hath, once or twice at the
least every day, puts her in joperty of hir life with a swonnyng;
that the morow next after the assise I passe not from hir. Wher-
fore, Sir, I besech you to take no displeasure, that I se not you and
my lady at Plompton no rather. And wherfor ..........
that your mastership hath Robart Ward, clarke, in your ward at
Knarsbrough; Sir, I purpasse to persew the law against him in
ther names, whomes cattell he heretofore helped to stele, now
eftsones : entending the same to have done forth of the lordship, if
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so be that the awenners of the same cattell will mayntayne ther
sute in ther name at my cost. And in the meane tyme I pray
your mastership that this pure woman, the bearer hereof, bead-
woman to your mastership, may have suerty of peace of the same
Robart, which I trust she will desire of your mastershipe of him.
Written at Newby, the Wedensday next after our lady day in Len-
ten. And as for William Bulloke, I shall shortly send him to
your mastership to know your gud advice and counsell, and all
causes concernyng me.
Your servant, ROBART GREENE.
a Robert Grene, groom of the pantry to King Edw. IV. had a grant of the office of
Bailiff of Burghbrigge, in the county of York, for terme of his life, 8 Sep. 2 Edw. IV.
1462 (Rot. Parl. V. 5936.); and was probably the same person as was concerned in
the affray upon Papplewick Moor 35 Hen. VI. and described of Plumpton, near Knares-
borough. (See note to Letter III. 2. 3.)-Robert Greene, who married Isabel, sister of
William Tankard, of Boroughbridge, and was of Newby, I presume to have been his
grandson, son of Richard and Elizabeth Green, and the writer of this letter.
LETTER LVI.
To my uncle, Sir Robart Plompton, kt. deliver these in hast.
Worshipfull uncle, I recomend me to you as hartely as I can
thinke; and wher yt is that my servant, John Tomlynson, hath
taken a farmehold of the abut of Fountayns, after the desseyse of
the tenant that dwelleth theron, which the abott wyll record the tak-
ing: and it is so that the sone of him, the forsayd tenaunt, clameth
the farmehold after his father dysseys, and he never toylke the
sayd farmehold of the abott, nor of none other man, but my sayd
servant, John Tomlinson. Wher it is so, uncle, at the matter be-
twyxt my servant and John Forest is put to iiij men, and the
owmpreght of you; ýt is so, uncle, that I shold have bene with
you the same day, butt that I had letting and busynes. But I be-
sech you be gud master to my servant, as my speciall trust is in
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you; and at such a way may be taken to right, and well to my ser-
vant. And I besech you give credence to the berer.
Your cousin and servant, RICHARD ALDBURGH.
# Son of Sir Richard Aldburgh, of Aldburgh, com. Ebor. kt. and Agnes Plumpton,
bis wife.
LETTER LVII.
To his hartly beloved good master, Sir Robart Plompton, kt. be
these delivered.
Right worshipfull and my especyall good master, I recommend
me unto you, l. C. shewyng you, that at the last end of this terme,
Sir Richard Aldburgh sold take of me awort, as it is made me to
know; praying your mastership to speake to your attornay, and
poynt yt, if yt so be, and what charge or cost ye be at, I shall con-
tent. No more at this tyme, but Jesu preserve you in all causes.
Your bedman and servant, Joan TOMLYNSON.
LETTER LVIII,
To the right worshipfull Sir Robart Plompton, knyght.
Master Plompton, I recomennd me unto you, and thanke you
for your letter; and it happyn(ed Miles went with me a) that day,
with whom I have broken the matter. I felt him well disposed,
and even forthwith I have sent my mynd to Sir Thomas Male-
verer,b that he wilbe appliable to reason and doe wel. I shall in
hast have word againe from him. I pray you labor herin, and soe
# The words between brackets are in paler ink, their place having been at first left
blank. We should probably read, Miles Willesthorp was with me, for the words at-
tempted to be decyphered which had puzzled the copyist.
b Sir Thomas Mauleverer, of Allerton, knight-banneret, died before 2 Sept. 11 Hen.
VII. 1495, leaving Elizabeth his wife executrix, and a son and heir Richard, married
to Joan, daughter of Sir Robert Plumpton. (Chartul. No. 799.)
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DA
will I doé; and in conclusion, if other of them be obstýnat, and
will not be counselled by frinds, the Kings grace will be myscon-
tent with him, whatsover he be, and I, and you. Written in hast
at my poore mannor of Overton.
Your owne, WILLIAM, ABBAT OF YORKÉ.d.
c At Overton the abbots of York had their chief country residence. Over this
word is written in the pale ink Wreton.
d William Sever, alias Seveyr, elected Bishop of Carlisle, 11 Dec. 1495.
LETTER LIX.
To my right trusty and welbeloved Cousin Sir Robart Plompton, kt.
Right trusty and welbeloved Cousin, I grete you hartely well.
And if you have suffered any person, that was under your ward,
within the Castell of Knarsbrough, to be delivered at the desire
of Sir Thomas Wortley, Kt.a, I lett you witte that I am not there-
with contented. Wherfore, Cousin, see that this be reformed, and
not to suffer any person within the said Castell to depart thence,
unto that ye have knowledg of the pleasure of the Kings high-
nes, or from me; as my speciall trust is in you, whom God kepe.
Written in thabbey of Funtayns, the xxvi day of Juyn.
Your Cousin, . HEN. NORTHUMBERLAND.
# Sir Thomas Wortley, of Wortley, com. Ebor. was a knight of the King's body
to Edw. IV. Rich. III. Hen. VII. and VIII. and traditionally reported to have been
a man of principal power and consequence in his neighbourhood. (See Hunter's
Hallamshire and South Yorkshire.) This letter is a corroborative proof of the in-
fluence attached to his requests.
LETTER LX.
To my right hartely beloved Cosin, Sir Robart Plompton, kt.
Right hartely beloved Cousin, I commennd me unto you, and
desire and pray you to caus a bucke of season to be taken, within the
-
IN THE REIGN OF HENRY VII.
87
forest of Knarsbrough under your rule, to be delivered unto this
bearer, to the behaufe of the mawer of the Cyte of Yorke and his
bredren, and this my writting shalbe your warrant. Wherfore I
pray you that this be thankfully served, as my speciall trust is
in you, whom God keepe. Written in my manor of Lekinfeild,
the xxviii day of Juyn.
Yor Cousin,. HEN: NORTHUMBERLAND.
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RTHUMBERLAND.
LETTER LXI.
To my master, Sir Robart Plompton, knight.
Pleaseth your mastership, after all due recomandacion, to wyte
that this day was hanged at the tower hill iiij servants of the
Kings; wherfore, the brynger herof can shew to you by mouth.a
Other newes, as yet, here is none. Sir, afore your indentures of X
Mr. Chaunceler, he maketh none unto Candlemesse next, and then
he will have a generall awdite, where ye, and all other, shall have
your lesses out; and in the meane tyme, every man to ocupie ther
ownefarmes, notwithstanding the premysses: putye no doubttherin,
.
* These four were Edward Frank, Henry Davy, John Mayne, and Christopher Swan,
who about the first day of December, yth yere of the reigne of King Henry VII. at
London, had communication with one Thomas Rothwell, otherwise called Thomas
Even, late of London, priest, how they might take out of the King's ward Edward
the Earl of Warwick, John abbot of Abingdon supplying money for the purpose; and
afterwards, viz. on the xxth day of Decembre, in the said yth yere, conspired to com-
pass their design at Abingdon, for which acts they were attainted of high treason.-
(See Rolls of Parliament, vol. VI. p. 436 b, where the printed text, besides having in one
place vith yere for yth yere of the King's reign, is also wrong in the day of the month
of December, which should be the xth, calculating by the date of their execution, as
ascertained by this letter.) The herald, whose valuable memorial of the ceremonies at
Court in the early years of the reign of Hen. VII. has been printed by Hearne in the
Collectanea Lelandi (vol. IV.) notes that, “the Abbott of Abyndon and Harry Swan,
and oder, wer attaynt of Treson in that Parlement, and Edward Franke, Harry Davy,
Taileur of London, and ............ were beheded at Tourhill."
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· for ye shalbe sure therof, assone as any man of his.b I have
spoken with Nicholas Lenthorpe, and fele him well dispossed
toward you. Sir, if ye send therfore at Candlemasse, send to
Mr. Hemsond, by the token, I gat him a warrant for a doo of my
lord e in his parke of Hals yerely. If it please you to assigne me,
send me word what increse and approment ye wyll give, and I
wyll applie my mynd and service to your pleasure and wele. Sir,
I purpose to se your mastership, or to send this Cristinmase, if I
may goe home. This day my lord knoweth not whether he goeth
home afore this tyme, or noo. If we goe home, I wyll send ; if not,
I pray you send to me afore Candlemasse. Remember Clement
Simpson. Pleaseth your mastership to recomend me to my sin-
guler good lady. And your owne faythfull servant, as knoweth
our Lord, who preserve youl. Wrytten at London, the xvij day
of December.
Your humble servant,
(17 Dec. 1189.)
EDWARD PLOMPTON.
This information has doubtless reference to the renewal solicited of the leases
granted to Sir Robert Plumpton by the deceased Earl of Northumberland, whose
office of Constable, Steward, and Master Forester of the castle, lordship, and forest of
Knaresborough, had only been a grant for life, though afterwards reconferred upon his
successor, when he was out of ward..
c Nicholas Leventhorp, esq. was Receyvour of the Honours of Pountfrett and
Knaresburgh, an office held by patent. (Rot. Parl. 1 Hen. VII. vol. VI. p. 341 6.)
Master Hemson, otherwise Empson, afterwards Sir Richard Empson, kt. the well-
known tool of Henry VII.'s legal extortions, had it seems, even at this period, attained
to considerable eminence in the practice of the law, a knowledge which he afterwards
perverted to such unworthy purpose. Of this celebrated individual much interesting
matter will be found in the subsequent letters, and in the Memoirs of the family of
Plumpton, prefixed to this volume of correspondence. .
e George Stanley, Lord Strange. Hale was a manor of the Earl of Derby, in the
county of Chester,
IN THE REIGN OF HENRY VII.
89
LETTER LXII.
To the right honorable my especy all good master, Sir Robart
Plompton, kt.
After the most humble and due recomendation had, please yt
your mastership, that in the most humble lowly wyse I may be
recomended unto my singuler good ladies ; praying you to have
me excused in that I send no wyld fole to you afore this tyme, for
in all Lancashire cold none be had for none money. The snaw *
and frost was so great, none was in the country, but fled away to
see; and that caused me that I sent not, as I promysed. Sir,
Robart, my servant, is a true servant to me, neverthelesse he is
large to ryde afore my male, and over weyghty for my horse;
wherfore he hartely desireth me to wryte to your mastership for
him. He is a true man of tongue and hands, and a kind and a
good man. If yt please your mastership to take him to your
service, I besech you to be his good master, and the better at the
instaunce of my especyall prayer. Sir, I have given to him the
blacke horse that bar him from the feild ; a and if ther be any
service that ye will comand me, I am redy, and wilbe to my lives
end at your comandement, all other lordship and mastership layd
aparte. My lord kepeth a great Cristinmas, as ever was in this
country, and is my especyall good lord, as I trust in a short tyme
your mastership shall know. My simple bedfelow, your bede-
woman and servant, in the most humble wyse recomendeth hir
unto your mastership, and to my ladys good ladyship, and your
servants; as knoweth Jesu, who preserve you. Wrytten at La-
thum,b the iij. day of January
Your most humble servant, Ed. PLOMPTON,
(3 Jan. 1489-90.)
sectory to my lord Straung.
a 66 Lord Strange brought with him to the field of Stoke a great Host, enough to
have beaten all the King's enemies, only of my lord his father's, the Earle of Derby's
folks, and his,'! writes a contemporary annalist. (Lel. Coll. edit. ult. vol. IV. p. 213.)
-Edward Plumpton had, it seems, with his servant, ridden in this company.
b Latham Hall in Lancashire, the well-known seat of the Earls of Derby.
CAMD. Soc. 1.
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LETTER LXIII.
To my master, Sir Robart Plompton, Kt.
In my most humble and faythfull wyse I recomend me to your
good mastership, and to my especyall good ladyes. Sir, at my de-
parting I rode according to your comandement by my lady Del-
phes, a a full trobleous way in that great snaw; notwithstanding,
I cold not speed of your matters at that tyme. But now she is at
London, and promyses me well; the which I trust, as yet, shall
speed, afore your atturney come to London, within this vi dayes.
He cometh ever at the last Retorne, in the end of the terme ; that
causeth me to have more busines than nedeth. Your matter in
the Excheker is grevous; there is iij wryttes agaynst you.
a Lady Delphes. The family of Delves were owners of the manor of Crakemarsh,
com. Stafford, in which place the Plumptons had inherited lands by descent from the
Foljambes. Sir John Delves, kt. was slain at the battle of Tewkesbury, 4 May 1471,
and lies buried in the church of Wibbenbury, com. Cest. under an alabaster tomb,
having effigies of a man and his two wives, with the epitaph, Hic jacet Johannes Delves
miles et Elena uxor ejus, necnon Johannes Delves armiger, filius et heres predicti Joh'is,
&c. The son here named had been beheaded after the battle of Tewkesbury, and was
one of the few attainted in the following Parliament for being present at that field, by
the name of John Delves, late of Uttockeshater, in the county of Stafford, esq. By
his wife, eventually the heiress of Babington, of Chilwell, com. Nott. he had left only
daughters; so that when the attainder was reversed, 22 Edw. IV. 1482, the heirs
males, as well as the heirs generals, of the said John Delves, and every person feoffee
to the use of them, or any of them, were expressly declared to be restored by the act
to their original status, save only that the manor of Apedale, which had been granted
by letters patent to James Blounte, esq. (15 Edw. IV. 1475), was to remain to him and
to his heirs male. This same gentleman, afterwards Sir James Blount, kt. married
one of the daughters of John Delves, esq. in whose right, as coheir with Ellen, wife of
Robert Sheffield, of Butterwicke, in com. Linc. esq. he had possession of Crake-
marsh, but of which some part was at this time yet held in dower by Lady Delves, the
second wife and relict of Sir John Delves, kt. the grandfather. The manor of Dod-
dington in Cheshire passed to the heirs male, and is the seat of the present repre-
sentative of this branch of the family.
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91
Whereof, I have a dedimus potestatem out of the Escheker, and
another out of the Chauncre, both derected to Sir Guy Fayrfax,
to resayve your hothes and my ladyes. The serch and the copy
of the wrytts, out of one cort to another, costeth much money, and
the fees of them, and great soliciting. If I had them now redy,
I wold have sent them to you; when they be, I pray God send to
me a good messinger, or els I must neds send my servant. Afore
the iijth wrytte, for the entre into Wolfhountlands, all the counsell
that I can gett, can shew no way, as yet, necessary for you; save
onely I have labored the wrytt proceding agaynst you to be re-
teyned unto the next terme, and in the meane tyme to purvey our
remedy. Fech your pardon and my ladyes, and send them both;
for without they will helpe us, I wote not well what to doe in the
matter. Incontinent upon the comyng home of master Farfax, ye
and my lady ride to his place b with your wrytts, for so I am
agreed with him; and as hastely as ye can gett down, send up the
sayd wrytts with his sertyfycat, for then we must have a non mo-
lestando out of the Chauncery to discharges. The premysses
maketh my purse light; to wryte partyclarly the charges, I have
no tyme now. Bylby taketh to me no money; neverthelesse when
I have, or may make any, your matters shall not slake, nor abate,
unto such tyme as your mastership send, as is above sayd. All
other matters concerning you to the Kyngs grace and his counsell,
I can send to you no word therof as yet. I trust in short space
to doe, with Gods grace, who preserve you. Wrytten in great
hast, the x day of Feb,
Your most humble servant,
(10 Feb. 1489-90.)c
Ed. PLOMPTON.
6 Sir Guy Fairfax, kt. one of the Justices of the King's Bench, had his place at
Steeton in the Ainsty, com. Ebor.
© This and the following dates are ascertained from a letter of the 6 Nov. 1500, (vide
postea) in which the suit respecting Wolf-hunt-land in Mansfield Woodhouse, com. Nott.
is spoken of as having been pleaded ten years ago, which reference carries us back to 1490;
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and the renewed mention of the " great snow” warrants the conjecture, that the
severe winter, when the wild fowl fled away from the frozen meres of Lancashire to the
sea, was the one which is marked by the date of this letter.
LETTER LXIV.
To my singuler good master, Sir Robart Plompton, kt.
In my most humble and faythfull mynd I recomend me unto
your good mastership, and to my especyall good ladyes; certyfiing
your mastership, that I delivered to Sir Richard Thornton, prest,
upon Sunday last, to bryng to you, a box sealed, and ther in ij
wrytts, one dedimus potestatem out of the Chauncere, and another
out of the Excheker, both derected to Sir Guy Fairfax, and my
poore wrytting therwith, the which was right simple, but I besech
you have me excused. Though I wryte not at all tymes, as my
dutie is to do, Sir, I had never so great busines as I have now for
your matters. I know not the causes, but much payne I had to
avoyd your appearance in your proper person, as ye shall more at
large know by mouth, when I shall speake with you; that shalbe at
your comandement. Hall demanded of me grene. wax, that I
knew not of, and I desired of hym a byll, what he asked of you,
and his bokes wanted, he cold give me none; but I trust he wyll
not be hasty upon you therfore, and if he be, let Henry Fox speake
with him in my name, and pray him to suffer unto my comyng
home. I made to him such chere as I cold at London. I have
found meanes to convey the wryt, shold goe to the Schereffe of
Notinghamshire agaynst you, unto the next terme; then Gode send
us good speede therwith. Afore Easter, send upp your pardons,
wrytes of dedimus, and escaptes of instruccion what plee we shall
make for you in the Excheker, of, and how, and wherby ye enter
your lands and maketh clame; a the matter is litle, and ioyus, with
* This relates to the suit concerning Wolf-hunt-land in Mansfield Woodhouse,
IN THE REIGN OF HENRY VII.
93
Gods grace, I purpose to be ever all this vacacion, and unto the
next terme. I send to you a letter by Robert Beckwith, and more
of every thing concerning you and your servants your atturney
can shew. I wold, if I myght by wyshe, speak with you one
houre, and yt pleased Jesu, who preserve your mastership in
prosperous long to endure. Wrytten at London, the xx day of
Febr. My lord Straunge came to the Kings grace uppon Mun-
day last; my lord of Northumberland b is in good health, blessed
be Jesu. Please yt your mastership to commend me to my master
Gascoyn, if I cold doe to his mastership any service in thes partes,
I wold be glad. Robert Blackwall c hath sent to you a pattent to
seale, as appereth by the same, shewing to him your pleasure of
vis viiid by yere; and that he toke to no regard : the world is so
covettus, I wott not what to say, nor nought I wyll, parum sa-
pienti sufficyt.
Your servant,
(20 Feb. 1489-90.)
ED: PLOMPTON.
adverted to in the preceding letter. It was parcel of the lands of the Foljambes, and
so called from its being held by the service of winding a horn, and chasing the wolve
in the forest of Shirwood.
• The Earl of Northumberland was then in his thirteenth year.
c Robert Blackwall was son of Richard Blackwall, of Blackwall, com. Derb. who by
a lease dated 28 Aug. 1489, held Flagg House in the same county, for a term of twelve
years from 25 Mar. 1490, under Sir Robert Plumpton. This lease was renewed to
Robert Blackwall, gent. [to hold for another term of twelve years after the ending of
the former in 1502,] by Sir Robert Plumpton, kt. 19 Sept. 1499, with a clause that he
should retain ten shillings out of the rent for his fee previously granted. (Chartul.
No. 798.)
LETTER LXV.
To the right honorable and my especyall good master, Sir Robart
Plompton, kt.
In my most humble and faythfull wyse I recomend me unto
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your good mastership, and to my especyall good ladys. Sir, the
iij day of May I received your wrytting, and incontinent I
labored to David, and spake with him according to your desire ;
and ther is great labour made to him for to put you from Ha-
veray parke,a and offered to him xli by yere, and a reward of cs. Not-
withstanding, I have made such labor; and caused him to be
agreable to let yt to you for vi yeare, virili by yeare, and ye to send
vi marke to him at Whytsonday next to London, and then and
ther ye to have your indentures sealed and delivered, and ye to
enter and begine the vi yeare to you and your assignes. Sir, Da-
vid wrytteth to you in favor of Wylliam Plompton bastard,b and
for his excuse; and all is but a collor, for doubtles, and I had not
layd yt to David discretely dyverse wayes, yt had bene gone from
you, for I mad many meanes, or he wold make to me any grant:
and because your mastership wrote that ye wold not for xxli but
ye had yt, according to my dutye, I diligently applyed it to accom-
plish your pleasure therin. Sir, afor the arbage, dout yt not ; for
sir Henry Wentforth, nor yet none other, can have it, nor no-
thinge that belongeth to David. Sir, yt is well done ye remember
to send this money, and have your indenturs in all hast possible,
and if ther be anything that I know not, that ye wold have com-
prised within the same indenture, send to me word. Sir, I marvell
much of William Plompton, that he sayth that I am not true. I
never did him harme, but at your comandement I have done
YA
0
. a David Griffith, one of the council of Thomas Earl of Derby, and executor of his
will (dated 26 July and proved 9 Nov. 1504), held Haveray Park, in the honour of
Knaresborough, by virtue of a patent at this date. The Earl of Derby had held the
office of chief steward of the duchy of Lancaster, north of Trent, of which the honour
of Knaresborough was parcel, from 1 Hen. VII.
b Bastard son of Sir William Plumpton, kt.
c Sir Henry Wentworth, of Woodhouse, com. Ebor. kt. was at the date of this
letter High Sheriff of Yorkshire, and then stationed at Knaresborough to keep the
peace of the disturbed districts. (See the following Letter.)
IN THE REIGN OF HENRY YII.
95
much for him. Yt is no marvell he that is not naturall, that he
cannot love and owe his service to you, though he love not me,
I trow, he love all ill that is faythfull and true to you. Sir, what
soever any man say, I am, and wilbe, to you and yours true and
faythfull while I live, with Gods grace, who preserve you. From
Furnyswall, vi die May.
Your humble servant,
(6 May 1490.)
EDWARD PLOMPTON.
1
LETTER LXVI.
To the right honorable my singuler good master, Sir Robart Plomp-
ton, Knight.
In my most humble wyse I recommend me unto your master-
ship, and to my singuler good ladys. Late ye wrote to me a letter,
the which I received upon Whitsonday at nyght, touching the
departing of Sir Henry Wentworth; and incontinent upon yt, I
toke a bote, and went to Grenewich, and shewed the matters to
my lord of Derby; and he appoynted me to attend uppon him
unto he spake with the King, and so I did; and the Kings grace
will in no wyse that Sir Henry Wentworth departe from your
country, a as more at larg I shall send you word in hast, when
I have more sure messinger. Sir, I pray you shew to my ladys
a The King, before returning to keep the feast of Whitsuntide, (7 June 1489,) at
Nottingham, from the progress on which he had set out to quell the Yorkshire insur-
gents, “ established in the northe parties the Erle of Surrey, Sir Richard Tunstall, and
Sir Henry Wentworthe.” (Lel. Coll. vol. IV. p. 247.)-The absence of the latter from
his post at Knaresborough at the date of this letter was, it seems, justly to be feared, not-
withstanding a year had passed since the dispersion of the malcontents; and in fact, in the
second year of the Earl of Surrey's government, ther was an insurrexion in the west part
of the countrey, with whom the said Erle with the helpe of the Kynges true subgetts
fought in the feld at Akeworth besides Pomfrett. (See monumental inscription of the
Earl of Surrey at Thetford, Weaver's Funerall Monuments, p. 386.)—At this field
Sir Robert Plumpton was present, as we learn from the following letter, another of
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that Byrd of Knasbrough spake to me for certaine things to send
them; and he cold cary none, for he went to Hales and many
other pilgramages. Wryte in á byll such things as they wold
have, and send to me. Sir, ye have a faythfull frynd and servant
of Davy ap-i-Kriffith, but I marvell that ye sent not the mony at
Pentycost. I am douted that he vary from his grant, ther is so
great labor made to him for Havarey. Notwithstanding his letter
send to you in the favor of Wm. Plompton, I am through with
him affor my lord of Derby, that ye shall occupie, and put and de-
pute under you whosoever ye wyll, at your pleasure ; and so shall
your indentures be made, ye observing all covenauntes. And ever
your owne to my pore power, as knoweth our Lord, who your
good mastership, and my good ladys, with all yours, preserve.
From London, crastino Corporis.
Your most humble servant,
(11 June 1490.)
ED. PLOMPTON.
the torn off series, but of which a second copy has been preserved in Dugdale's York-
shire Arms, (MS. in Coll. Arm. p. 105 6.)
To my worshipfull Cousin, Sir Robert Plumpton, knight.
Right worshipfull Cousin, right hartelie I comend me unto you; and whearas I am
enformed that a servant of yours had a gelding of myne, which I lost on the feild, I de-
syre and pray you that my servant, this bearer, may have a sighte of him, and yf the
said geldyng be myne, that then ye will cause him to be delivered unto my said servant,
as my singular trust is in you, whome our Lord have in his blessed safeguard. Written
in the castle of Sheriff-button, the 6th day of Maye. Cosen, I have some proofe that
your servant Robert Beck hath my gelding ; one knoweth him well, told it me. I pray
you, Cosen, fail not to send me the geldinge with the hand.
Your loving cozen,
THOMAS SURREY.
The date of this letter is 6 May, 7 Hen. VII. 1491, and on the 28th of that month
Sir Robert Plumpton was honoured with the following gracious letter from his sove-
reign.
To our trusty and welbeloved knight, Sir Robert Plumpton.
Trusty, &c. For the good and agreeable service you did unto us in this last commo-
tion of our subiects in our county of Yorke, wee can (give ?) you our full speciall thanks,
ST
IN THE REIGN OF HENRY VII,
1
LETTER LXVII.
To my master, Sir Robart Plompton, knight.
:. In my most humble wyse I recomend me unto your mastership,
and to my especyall good lades. Sir, I marvell much that your
mastership sendeth not the iiijli for David; he made to you a
grant conditionally that ye, shold content and pay to him at Lon-
don iiijli at Pentycost last past, wheruppon ye sent to me a byll
that he shold be payd at Mydsommer, and to content his mynd
I shewed to him your letter; what I shall say to him, or what exé
cuse to make, I cannot tell. Sir, remember ye may have his
parke, xls yerly under the price, by my labor; and if he change and
let yt to another, blame not me: I have done my duty. Williami
Plompton hath bene at London with David, and made much labor
agaynst you for his fee; and otherwyse, shewed to me a copy of a
state and feftment, mad by my master your father to certaine
feofes, to his beofe, of lands and tenementes to the value of x mark
yerly, for terme of his lyfe, the remaynderie to the ryght heire of
William Plompton knight: wherupon he intended to labor a prive
and shall not forget the disposition you have beene of in that behalfe, &c. Wee
therefore, intending to provide for the time to come, desire you that forthwith, and by
as wise wages as yee can, yee put yourself in a surety of your meniall servants and
tennants, and to know assuredly how many of them will take your part in serving us
according to your and their duties foresaid. When yee have demeaned the matter in
this wise, which wee would that you did as above with all diligence, then we pray you to
certifie our cozen, the Earl of Surrey, of the number of such assured men, &c. Dat.
Shene 28 Maii 7 H. 7. (From a transcript in Ch. Towneley's MSS. taken from Sir
Edward Plumpton's MS. when entire.)
The well-read historian of Hallamshire hasremarked, that the Earl of Surrey's inscrip-
tion is perhaps the only memorial of the second Yorkshire insurrection; the proof
from these letters of its historical exactness may therefore be strongly urged to shew
the value of the correspondence now given to the public by the Camden Society. The
battle of Ackworth is, moreover, further ascertained to have been fought in the spring
of the year 1491.
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seale to bring you before my lord Chaunceler and the Kings coun-
sell, the which I have stoped as yet.a Sir, I pray you send me
word in all hast possible of your mynd in this matter, and in espe-
cyall the money for David; and our Lord preserve you. Wrytten
in hele in great hast uppon St. Peter even. Sir, they begine to
die in London, and then I must departe for the tyme and other men
do. I wold make you sure of Awerrey, or I departe, fro David.
Your servant,
(28 June 1490.)
ED. PLOMPTON.
1495.b
a William Plumpton, of Kirkby Overblars, com. Ebor. gent. afterwards, by deed
obligatory dated 1 Oct. 6 Hen. VII. 1490, submitted himself to the award of Sir
Robert Plumpton, kt. with the advice of his council, Thomas Middleton and others,
in regard to all matters in dispute between him and Sir Robert. (Chartul. No.759.)
LETTER LXVIII.
To my Cousin Sir Robart Ploinpton, Kt.
Cousin, after dew recomendations I comend me; certifyng you
one my honesty, I payd my palesses of Avarey parke,a duryng
the tyme I occupied, xxxs, dischargeng one of the palas to the
Kings grace. Wrytten on our Lady Day, Assumption.
Your Cousin,
(15 Aug. 1490)
RANDALL PIGGUTT.b
According to the award of Sir Robert Plumpton, given at Plumpton 22 Nov. 1490,
and made in pursuance of the bond of William Plumpton, late of Kerkeby Orblaes,
bastard, the latter was to pay 308 sterling, received for the herbage of Haweray in
the yeare 6th Hen. VII. and 20% owing to the palessers of Haweray for the same term.
(Chartul. No.761.)
b Sir Randolph Pigot, of Clotherholme, com. Ebor. kt.

MATEMALLIT
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IN THE REIGN OF HENRY VII.
LETTER LXIX.
To the right worshipfull and my good master, Sir Robart Plomp-
ton, kt.
Right worshipfull Sir, I comend me to you, and yt is so that I
am through with my brother, Edward Plompton,a touching Haveray
parke, and hath made a pare of indentures betwixt you and me
touching the same;b and now, at our lady day in lent next comyng,
ther is to be payd due to me viiili, which, I trust your mastership,
wilbe redy at that day: and any service yt list you, comannd me;
I am yours, as knowes God, who keepe you. At Waryngton,
the last day of August.
(31 Aug. 1490.)
Your, Davy HERVY.C
David Griffith was, it appears from this letter, brother of Agnes, the first wife
of Edward Plumpton, and through this connexion the latter probably got placed
in his situation of secretary to Lord Strange.—See also Letter VI. as to his recep-
tion by his kinsmen in Lancashire.
This lease is transcribed in the Plumpton Coucher-book, No. 758, and purports
to be between David app Griffith of the one party and Sir Robert Plompton, knight,
of the other, whereby the office of the keeping of Haverey Parke, with the herbage and
pannage, &c. was granted for the term of six years to the latter, at a rent of viüll to
commence from lady day next coming ; Sir Richard Langton and Sir John Langton,
clerk, being sureties in 20li for the performance of the covenants on the part of Sir
Robert; the date, 26 Aug. 6 Hen. VII. 1490.
c Sic, sed lege Griffith.
LETTER LXX.
IN1
To my master Sir Robart Plompton, knyght.
In my most humble wyse I recomend me unto your good mas-
tership, and to my especyall good Lades. This day I have spoken
with master Schereffe, and ther I send Master Blakwall, Master
of the Chancery,a as the berer can shew to you more hy mouth,
a In the windows of the choir of the church at Mansfield Woodhouse, com. Nott.
was this painting and scroll; “a man with a shaven crowne kneeling, a booke open
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and they both comend them to you. "Master Schereff hath and
wyll doe as much in your matter as I can of reason desire him
At Nothingham, uppon Munday come a senit, must we fynd a
office for you. I have bene with Thomas Horton, by the advice of
Mr. Schereffe, and pennyt ij inquisicions of dyverse wayes; if one
will not serve us, the other shall. Sir, ye have a simple tenant in
Maunsfeld Woodhouse. I wold have sent him to Rich: Saxton,
for to mete with me at Mr. Schereffs, and he absent him. Any ser-
vice ye wyll comand me, send me word, and I am yours, as
knoweth our Lord, who preserve you. Wrytten at Southwell, the
xxiij of September. .
(23 Sept. 1490.) Your servant, ED. PLOMPTON. :
before him.”—-Blakewall unus Magistrorum. (MS. of Gervase Hollis, Bibl. Harl. N.
6829.)
LETTER LXXI.
To my master Sir Robart Plompton, knyght.
In my most humble and lowly wyse I recomend me unto your
mastership, and to my singuler good lady. Sir, I sent to you late
wryttings of all matters by Sir Edward Bethom, prest. I thinke
long unto I here word from you, whether they come to you in
tyme, or noo, and of your welfare. Sir, I had no word seth I
parted from Plompton, as many as hath comyn to London. I
cannot gyt myne entent of my lady Delphes, wherfore I have
comyned with Masters Blunt and Shefeld a in this forme; the say
they will take yt in ferme, or els make yt exchaunce with you of
lands lyeing in Yorkshire, or els pay to you redy money therfore;
which of thes iij wayes ye wyll take, I pray you take good ad-
vise, and send to me word as hastyly as ye can, for they will not
tary here; and I will have no further comunycation therin, tyll
I know your pleasure and mynd, for they wyll take hold at a letle
a See note at to Letter LXIII.
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thing. All such newes as I here, John Bell can shew ye by
mouth, for he made so great hast, I had no leasure to writt more
at larg of al things at this tyme. I thinke long till I here from
your mastership, the which Jesu preserve. At London, thé iiij
day of November.
Your most humble servant,
(4 Nov. 1490.)
ED. PLOMPTON.
LETTER LXXII.
To my master Sir Robart Plompton, knyght.
“ The replycacion of Margret Scargill to the answere of Wil-
liam Scargill.a The same Margrett sayth, that the byll put by
her agaynst the sayd William is good and true in every poynt, and
that the same John Scargill, named in the sayd byll, made such
wyll of the same maner, landes, tenements and other premyses, and
every of them, as is surmytted by the same byll; and over that,
sayth althings as in the saydbyll is surmytted: all which matter
she is redy to prove, as this cort will award, and prayeth as in hir
byll is desired.”
Sir, in my right humble and tender wyse I recomend me unto
your good mastership, and to my singuler good ladyes. Sir, I
sent to you the copie of the replycacion of Margaret Scargill,
wherupon my lord Chaunceler hath, at our speciall desire, comand
a Dedimus potestatem to Sir Guy Fayrfax, to heare and examyn
ther proves and ours both, in Yorkshire; wherfore I wold
advise your mastership to shew your copies of ther byll, our
answere, and there replicacion to Mr. William Fayrfax, that he
may be perfitt by them, and your instruccion in the matter, and
to be for William Scargyll afore Master Sir Guy, at that day of
· William Scargill, of Thorp Stapleton, esq. was father of Sir Robert Scargill, kt.
who lies buried under a splendid tomb in the church of Whitkirk.-(Whitaker's
Loidis et Elmete.)
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his sýtting, with all other proves most necessary for him ; and in
any wyse se that William Scargill agre with Watson, and bryng
him up with him to London to release his suerty for the peace,
or else he must fynd other suertyes, and that is costly: and if he
fayle, he must go to ward, or els loose c marke, and every one of
hus iij 1 marke, the which God forbyd shold be. Sir, afore your
lands in Crakenmarsh, I can not deale with my lady Delfs ; I find
hir varyable in hir promyse; wherfore I have, according to your
comandment, letten them in your name to Mr. Blunt by inden-
ture, as more at larg appereth by the same, the which I sent to
you within this box inclosed under my seale; and ye to subscrybe
your hand, and to send a servant of yours with the same box and
indentures to thabbay of Dale, and ther to se thabbot and con-
vent seale the obligation for suerty of your rent, as in them is
specified, and to wryt his name down to deliver one parte to Mr.
Blount, and retine another parte for you with the obligation. All
such matters as ye wrote for by Georg Croft, dout not for them;
I have and shall remember them to thaccomplishment of your
mynd, with grace of Jesu, who you and yours long preserve in
prosperous felicite to endure. From London, the xxvij day of
November.
Your humble servant,
(27 Nov. 1490.)
ED. PLOMPTON.
6 Dale Abbey, in the county of Derby.
LETTER LXXIII.
To my worshipfull master, Sir Robart Plompton, kt.
Right worshipfull Sir, I recomend me to your mastership, and
yt is so that the Kings grace hath appoynted my lord to wayt upon
his grace, now at this his noble vage into France; wherfore I
must take homely upon your mastership, and desire you to helpe
me with my fee for this yere, for I am distytute of money; and
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this my wrytting shalbe your discharg and warrant to delyver yt to
the berer herof.a And if yt may be done now at this tyme, I
am bounden to you to doe you any pleasure that lyes in my power,
with Gods mercy, who preserve you, my gud master, and I pray
you to take credence to Rich: Shaw, this berer, in my behalfe.
The jij day of February.
Your owne servant,
(3 Feb: 1491-2.)
DAVID GRIFFITH.
a It was not till the month of October in the year 1492, that Henry VII. sat down
before Boulogne, and on the 20th of that month, 8 Hen. VII. Geffrey Townley, ser-
vant to Sir Robert Plumpton, paid gli to William, abbot of Whalley, to be delivered
to Dame Fr. Gryfin. (Chartul. No. 766.)
LETTER LÅXIV.
To my right worshipfull master, Sir Robart Plompton, kt. this bill be
delyvered.
Right worshipfull Sir, I comend me unto your mastership; it is
so I received of your chaplain in the New Castle under Lyne 8
pounds. And also I send to you my brother Midleton,a and pray
you that ye wold content him of this yeare farme. And Christ
keepe you. At Preston, the 8 day of October.
From your servant, DAVID GRIFFITH.
* Brother-in-law, quære if the Lancashire family of that name.
LETTER LXXV.
To my Cousin, Sir Robart Plompton, be thes delivered.
Right worshipfull Cousin, I'commend me unto you, letting you
wyt that ther is a neighbour of myne, this bearer, William Medley,
naler, which geysted with two of your servants in Haywrasa x bests,
Thomas Ward, and Wylliam Thorp; and when this poore man
* Hayrah or Haverah Park, where cattle were agisted.
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come at Michellmes for his cattell, ther lacked one of the best,
which was worth xiis and better: and your servants wold have
delyvered him other cattell for his, both that was fare fro the
value of his. Wherfore, Cousin, I hartely pray you to be his
good master to this man, and that ye wold call your sayd servants
afore you, and that he myght be payd for his best that he lacks,
as I may doe for you in like cause, which I shalbe glad to doe, as
God knows, who ever preserve you to his pleasure."
By your Cousin, WILLIAM MERKINFEILD.b
: o William Markinfield, esq. brother of Sir Thomas Markenfield, of Markenfield-hall,
near Ripon, com. Ebor. kt. who died in 1497. He is named in the will of his nephew
Sir Ninian Markynfield, kt. dated 1 Oct. 1527, proved 5 July 1528.
LETTER LXXVI.
To my worshipfull unkl, Sir Robart Plompton, kt.
Right worshipful uncle, I recomend mee unto you. Sir, it is
so that my lord of Surrey hath written to mee, by the labor of
Rich: Cholmley,a to be with him on Thursday next folowing in the
matter depending betwixt mee and John Thorneton; wherfore,
uncle, as my most especial trust is in you, praing you to be with
mee at the day appointed, as I may deserve it to you in tyme to
come, with grace of Jesu, who preserve you. From Sessay, 4 day
of January.
Your loving Cosin, THOMAS DARREL.L
See note b Letter LXXVII.
B Thomas Darrel of Sessay, com. Ebor. esq. son of Sir George Darrell, kt. and
Margaret Plumpton.
LETTER LXXVII.
To the right worshipfull Sir Robart Plompton, kt. at Plompton.
Right worshipfull Sir, after all due recomendations, please it
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you to know, I have latly bene in the bishopryk of Durham, by
the Kings comandement, for leveing of such arrerages and other
dutyes, as were due to the late byshop decessed, whose soule God
pardon; and ther it was shewed unto me by certayn frinds of Mr.
Alex. Lees,a and also by his old servant, Lawrance Canwike, who
ye know, that ye without your duty belonging to the sayd Mr. Lee,
wherwith all the Kings comyssioners and I marvelled that ye
wold so doe. Wherupon the sayd Lorance, with other his master
frynds, wer in mynd and fully determyned to have made complaynt
of you unto the Kings grace in that behalfe; and then, Sir, in
avoyding of such inconvenients as myght have ensued to you by
reason of the same, and also for such speciall favour as I owe
unto you, I caused them to surcease ther purposse unto the tyme
I had wrytten to you, and known your mynd in that partie. Wher-
fore, Sir, I pray you, according to the Kings comandement, which
I have sene, and also for your singuler wele, that ye will see the
said Larance content of parte of the sayd duty at this tyme, and so
to finde him a suffycyent suerty for the residue, as ye and he can
agre. And, Sir, if ye endever not yourselfe for the accomplesh-
ment of the premysses, I have promysed them to wryte to the Kings
grace for the contentation of the same, which I wold be loth to
doe. Sir, I doubt not, so ye will deale herin, that it shall not mis-
# The fragment in Hearne, to which reference is made in note º, Letter X., after
mention of the warning given to Edward IV, by the serjeant of his minstrels of the
project of his enemies to seize upon his person, when he was in the North in the
month of September, A.D. 1470, breaks off with this unfinished sentence; “ And so-
deinly upon that came one Maister Alexander Lee a priest ---" This personage was,
it seems, rector of Spofford in 1493, in which year, 12 Jan. 1492-3, died John Sher-
wood, Bishop of Durham. In the Coucher book is copied a receipt from Thomas Tay-
lor, chaplain, one of the factors of Master Alexander Lee, rector of the parish
church of Spoford, acknowledging payment by Sir Robert Plumpton, kt. of 268. 84.,
the whole sum of the tithes of Plumpton, and dated 1 Feb. 1493-4. (Chartul.
No. 770.) It is therefore probable that he had some preferment in the diocese of Dur-
ham, which was the occasion of his non-residence.
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care; and, Sir, of your toward mynd herin I pray you that I may
be answered by my servant, this bearer, to whom I pray you give
credence. And I am yours. At Cotingham, the xvi day of June.
(16 June 1493.). Your owne, RICHARD COVERLEY.
0 I suspect that Coverley should be read Cholmley, and that the name is a mistake
of the copyist in 1613. Richard Cholmley was in fact one of the guardians of the
bishoprick of Durham after the demise of Bishop Shirwood, his appointment bearing
date 11 April, 8 Hen. VII. 1493. (See Surtees' Durham.)
LETTER LXXVIII.
To my right hartely beloved Cousin, Sir Robart Plompton, kt.
Right hartely beloved Cosin, I comaund me unto you. And for
as much as I am distetute of runyng hounds, I desire and pray
you to send me a copple with my servant, this bringer. And of
thing like I have fore your pleasure, it shalbe redy. Written in
my lodging at Spetell of the street,a the xxix day of October.
Over this, Cousin, I pray you to send me your tame haert, for
myne dere ar dead.
Your Cousin, HEN: NORTHUMBERLAND.
a Spittle in the Street, com. Lincoln.
LETTER LXXIX.
To my cousin, Sir Robart Plompton, knyght, be these byll.
Right worshipfull Cousin, I recomend me unto you, desiring to
here of your wellfare; praying you to give me ij cople of conyes
to stocking of a litle ground that I make at Ryther, and I shall doe
you as great a pleassure. I pray you that I may be recommend to
my lady your wyfe. We have rest; and past this summer, I wyll
pray you to come and kill a bucke with me. I pray you, Cousin,
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that the bringer hereof, my servant, may have the conyes, and Jesu
keepe you. At Rither, a this fryday.
By your Cousin,
(1490— 1520.)
RALFE RYTHER.
a “ We have rest,” that is to say, no bucks were to be killed out of the stock in the
park at Ryther in that year.
: 6 Ralph Ryther of Ryther, com. Ebor. esq. ætatis 40, 6 Hen. VII. 1490, when he
succeeded to the family estates. He died 2 April 1520, being then a knight.
LETTER LXXX.
To his worshipful Cosin, Sir Robart Plompton, kt.
Right reverend and worshipful Cosin, I commend me unto you
as hertyly as I can, evermore desiring to heare of your welfare,
the which I besech Jesu to continew to his pleasure, and your
herts desire. Cosin, please you witt that I am enformed, that a
poor man somtyme belonging to mee, called Umfrey Bell, hath
trespased to a servant of youres, which I am sory for. Wherfore,
Cosin, I desire and hartily pray you to take upp the matter into
your own hands for my sake, and rewle him as it please you; and
therin you wil do, as I may do that may be plesur to you, and
my contry, the which I shalbe redy too, by the grace of God, who
preserve you.
By your own kynsman,
ROBART WARCOPP, of Warcoppe.a
# Warcop, in the county of Westmerland.
LETTER LXXXI.
Unto my right worshipfull master, Sir Robart Plompton, kt. be this
delivered in hast.
Right worshipfull Sir, after my duty I recomend me unto your
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mastership, beseching you to be good master to Henry Gulles
concerning one farmhold in Follifit, which John Gulles now
holdeth ; that if ye can git John Gullese good wyll, that ye wilbe
so good master unto Henry Gullese that he may have yt, and the
better master for my sake. No more at this tyme, but Jesu pre-
serve you.
Your own to his power,
JOHN SWALE of Staynley.a
a John Swale of South Stainley, com. Ebor, esq. ancestor to the Baronets of that
name. Follyfoot is a hamlet in the parish of Spofforth.
LETTER LXXXII.
NL
To my right worshipfull master, Sir Robart Plompton, kt. delyver
these.
Right worshipfull Sir, I oftymes comend me unto your master-
ship, and for so much as ther is a matter betwixt John Marshall
and his mother, I understand, Sir, that his mother hath put hir
matter to your mastership. Sir, and it be so, he shall byd your
mastership in likewise. Wherfore, Sir, I pray you hartely, and as
ever I may do you service, for to be good master to John Marshall,
and the better for this my prayer; for, Sir, I have spoken of that
matter herbefore, and they sayd at they wold have bydene my
rule. Sir, I am well pleased that ye have a rule in that matter, or
any other matter in this country; it pleases me well, for, Sir, I
will take your part in any matter ye have here, or in any other
place. Sir, I pray you hartely that ye wold, for my sake, to let
the matter rest to that I may speake with your mastership, for
this my prayer. Sir, I am to you as I was to my master, your
father, and so shall I be while I live, with grace of God, who
kepe you. Morover, Sir, it is letten me wytt that they have en-
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formed your mastership, that John Marshall labors to a gentleman
in this country; Sir, it is not so, and that shall ye well know when
I speake with you, and Jesu keepe you.
By your trew cousin and man,
THOMAS HAKSWORTH.a
Thomas Hawkesworth, of Hawkesworth, com. Ebor. esq. vixit 8 Hen. VII.
(See pedigree in Thoresby's Ducatus Leodiensis, 2nd edit. 1816, p. 173.)
LETTER LXXXIII.
NON
To Sir Robart Plompton, or els to Master William his son.
Right worshipfull master Plompton, as hartely as I can I reco-
mend me unto you, desyring you to be good master unto this
poore woman, the bearer hereof. Sir, it is so that a servant of
yours hath gotten a child with hir, the which is lost for lacke of
keeping, as God knowes. She hath kept it as long as she may,
whils she hath not a cloth to her backe but which I have given
hir, since she came to my service. And if it wold please you to
heare this poore woman speake, I trust to God ye wilbe good mas-
ter to hir, and rather the better for my sake. And if I had not
bene, she wold have rune hir way; and all this wile I keep the
child of my own proper cost, and will doe, till I here some word
from you, as knowes God, who preserve you.
By your owne to his powr,
WILLIAM WITTCARS.
LETTER LXXXIV;
To Sir Robart Plompton, kt. this be delivered.
Right worshipfull master, I recomend me unto your mastership
as hartely as I can, in my most lowliest maner. Sir, the cause of my
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wrytting to you at this tyme, is this; that it may please your sayd
good mastership to helpe my moder in hir right, as to get hir by your
good meanes such small dutyes, as is owne hir by such a person as
she shall shew you the name of: if that your mastership, after that
you have sent for him to your sayd mastership, comon the matter
ripely with him. And if than that ye can bring him to no rea-
sonable end, then I besech your mastership to send me word by
wrytting how he wilbe demeaned, and therafter I shall entreat
him according; for if he will take none end with hir at your de-
sire, I shall sharply sue him by the comon law, as shortly after as
may conveniently. No more to you at this tyme, but Jesu pre-
serve you. At London, the xxvii day of May.
By your servant, John WALKER.
LETTER LXXXV.
To his worshipfull master, Sir Robart Plompt on, knight, be thes
letter delivered in hast.
Most reverent and worshipfull Sir, I recomend me unto your
mastership in the most lowly wyse, ever me glad to here of your
prosperytie and welfare, which I besech almyghty God to en-
crease to his pleasure, and your harts desire; letting your master-
ship understand, the lowest price of the male, which your master-
ship spake of, is 2iiijs viiid, as the maker therof sayeth. And if yt
please you to send for yt shortly, he shall kepe yt; or els, he
shall make one other, when yt please your mastership to send him
word iij dayes before the tyme that it please you to have it. No
more to your mastership at this tyme, but the Holy Trenite have
you in his keeping.
By your owne bedman, Sir EDWARD BIRTBY.
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LETTER LXXXVI.
To my right worshipfull master, Sir Robart Plompton, kt. be this
delivered.
Most honorable and worshipfull master, of whom myne intelly-
gence and service lyes unto, with all due recomendations in the most
humylitywise that I can thinke, or may, I recomend me unto your
worthy estate, beseching you of this simple wryting and matter to
give audience and intelleccyon, under what forme the wrytting is
made to you in preve. Please you to understand, the cause of my
writting is this; your lordship of Stanton,a where that I dwell, is
made lesser of rent, and halfe your valow, [and yt may contynew so
and be suffered of you and yours,] be the gressing of xx oxen be
yere. For ther be such men dwelling in Stanton that thus deale,
that will no other way but so; they will have yt, hy ther seying, be yt
right or wrong. And yt please yow to send your counsell over to
hold a court, he shall have such informacion be us that be your
tenaunts, that your lifflod shall be saved and kept unto you
and yours, with the grace of God, who have you in his blessed
keeping. And uppon this conclusion, and it please you so to do,
that you seek up your evydence of a place is called Renald Riding,
under what forme you have yt, for except your evidence specyfie,
you be lyke to goe without yt. And if yt please you that these
things here wrytten shalbe performed, I besech you that I may
have answere, for to make your tenaunts perfect under what forme
ye wold have them demeaned, and they, and I, to be redy to do you
a pleasure with our body and our goods, with the grace of God,
who defend you and yours. Amen.
* Stanton Hall, a manor belonging to Sir Robert Plumpton, in the county of Derby,
of the lands of the Foljambes.
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LETTER LXXXVII.
To my master, Sir Robart Plompton, knight.
In my right humble wyse I recomend me unto your good mas-
tership. I have receyved your wrytting and the credaunce of your
servant. And in stopping and letting of your prevy seale, at the in-
stance and especyall labour of my Master Gascoygne,a my lord
Prevey Seale b hath done that he myght with reason, insomuch
that he lettyt yt, and comaunded Mr. Bele, clark therof, that none -
shold passe, unto such tyme as all the lords of the Kings counsell
commanded yt to passe, upon his surmyse and complaynt, wherof
I sent to you a copye. And when we sought no remedy, we found
the meanes that Ch. Kilborne, and sufficient suertyes with him,
shold be bonden in a reconusance of xli to content and pay the
cost and charg, if his surmyse and byll of complaint be founden
insufficyent and not true. My sayd Mr. Gascoygne hath dyligently
applyed your matter, as much as is possible for to doe, as your
servant Geffray can shew unto you more at large every thing by
mouth; and as yet he can get no surtyes. Wherfore my lord ab-
bot of St. Mary Abbayc shewed to me this day, that his servant
Kilborne wold have a writ, subpena. Sir, for that I have lade
good watch. Also my lord abott told me this day, that Edmound
Thwaites hath sene his evedence, and sath that your mylne
standeth uppon his ground and more, and that he is not your
ward. Wherby I perceive well, he haught a favor and good lord-
ship to his servant Kilborne. He desired the matter to be put
a Sir William Gascoigne, kt. nephew to Dame Agnes, wife of Sir Robert Plumpton,
appears to have enjoyed considerable influence at court by reason of his near relation-
ship to the Earl of Northumberland.
bo Richard Fox, Bishop of Durham, Lord Privy Seal in 1495,
c William Siver or Siveyer. See a letter from him ante No. LVIII.
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upon my lord of Surrey and him. And I answered, that the mat-
ter concerned your inherytance, and a matter of land, the which
cold in no wyse be rightfully determyned without learned coun-
sell. Sir, I trust we shall so provide for him here, that he shal
not have all his intent, with Gods grace, who preserve your good
mastership, and my singuler good ladys, and all yours, long tyme to
endure with encrease of grace and honor. From Furnywalls
Inne, the xxvi of October 1495.
Your humble servant,
(26 Oct. 1495.)
VE
LOMPTON.
LETTER LXXXVIII.
To my singular good master Sir Robart Plompton, knyght.
In my right humble wyse I recomend me unto your good mas-
tership, and to my singuler good lady. Afore, my lord of Carlel a
hath passed so by the way, at his lodging at Pouifret and Scroby, b
that as yet I spake not with his lordship. I spake with his ser-
vants, and they shewed to me Ch. Kilborn rideth not up with him.
Yt was shewed me that uppon Thursday lastc ther was a great Justice
sat at Wentbrig ; I wold fayne know what was done ther, and afore
that, in such matters as concerned you. Master Tailbose d was at
Colliweston e uppon tuesday, wedensday, and thursday last, as the
a William Siver or Siveyer, Abbot of St. Mary, York, had been elected bishop of
Carlisle, 11 Dec. 1495.
Scrooby in Nottinghamshire.
c Thursday, 7 Jan. 1495-6.
d Sir George Tailbois of Kyme, com. Linc. kt. married to Elizabeth Gascoigne,
niece of Dame Agnes Plumpton.
e Collyweston was the residence of Margaret, the King's mother, countess of Rich-
mond and Derby. Edward Plumpton was in the service of Lord Strange, son of the
Earl her husband.
CAMD. soc. 4.
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bringer can shew; els I wold have written much more. My lord
of Darby departith towards London upon munday come á senit.
Davyf recomend him to your mastership, and when we come to
London, ye shall have a strayt restreynt for Haveray. Our lord
preserve you and all yours. At Stampforth,& crastino Hallarii.
Your humble servant,
(14 Jan. 1495-6.)
ED. PLOMPTON.
f David Griffith.
8 Stamford is in the immediate vicinity of Colly-weston.
LETTER LXXXIX.
Unto my singuler good master, Sir Robart Plompton, Kt. be thes
letter delivered in goodly hast.
Right reverent and my singuler good master, I recomend me
to your good mastership, to my gode lady your mother, and my
lady your wyffe. Please yt your mastership to know, that I have
received your letter sent to me by Robart Benson, and hath hard
his commyng from you. And I have bene and labored to the
Clarkes of the previe signit dyvers tymes afore the making herof,
and to my lord presedent, after thentent of your wrytting; and
the day of the delyverie of this wrytting by the sayd Robart
Benson, Percyvall Lanton and I went to the Tower to speake with
my lord Pryvey seale,a as the clark of the Kings signit advised us,
thynking that to be our next way, if so were that we wold not
advise you to com not up by the pryvie seale. For ther was a
byll put into the Parliament, a litle before Christynmas, that no
privie seal shold goe against no man, but if the suer therof wold
find suerty to yeld the parties defendants ther damages, and after
that intent yt is sayd, that the lords of the counsell behave them-
selfe. And the most dylygent labor and way that the sayd Percy-
vall and I can doe our good master in his behalfe, we shall ende-
* Richard Fox, Bishop of Durham, Lord Privy Seal.
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vor ourselfs, for to the sayd Percyvall, for both his labour at the
last terme and this terme, ye be much beholden unto; and the
sayd Lanton is generall atturney to my said Lord Privey seale.
And as for Edward Plompton, he is not commyn to London at
the making of this simple wrytting. Also, Sir Robert Blawall,
your atturney in the Kings Escheker,b hath shewed me, that Ed-
ward Plompton hath not payed the money for respityng of your
homage in the sayd Escheker, as he promysed me and your me-
nyall servant Geffray Tounley the last terme; and by great labour
of the sayd Blakwall, he hath saved your issues to this terme, and
he will lay down no penny. And it is so that I have promysed
payment or I come home, and with the grace of God so shall I
make pacement; and at my comyng home, I shall shew to your
mastership al things more clerely, praying your sayd mastership be
not displeased with my homely wrytting. Written in the even
and in great hast. For parte of your matters I have spede, and
parte of my ladies matters also, and as touching the remnent of
your matters, I shall indevor me for you as farre as I can, with the
grace of God, who preserve you and all yours to his pleasure.
Wrytten the thursday next after the puryfication of our lady the
Virgin last past. Anno xi. h. vii. Yor servant,
(4 Feb. 1495-6.)
Edw: BARLOW.
b Sir Robert Blackwall, clerk, Master in Chancery. (See note & Letter LXX.)
LETTER XC.
To my good master Sir Robart Plompton, knyght, at Plompton, in
hast.
Plese yt your good mastership to understand, your servant and
atturney, Mr. Owen Barley, desired mee to labor to my lord of
Duresm,a that sum meanes might be found to excuse your appear-
a Richard Fox, Bishop of Durham.
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ance, if the privy seale were delivered unto you, which one Kil-
burn labored against you this last term ; and according to his de-
sire, I have labored at diverse times. My lord shewed me
dyverse things, which was shewed him in that matter, as I shall
shew your mastership at laser. And in conclusion this is his
mynd ; if the privie seale be delivered you afore his comyng
home into that country, which, I trust, wilbe about the irijth weeke
of lent, thin he wold ye shold set stale yourselfe, and send a
servant to me, as shortly as ye can, and he and I shall purvey a
remedy, that ye shall take no hurt therby. And if the privie
seale be not delivered afore my lords comyng home, than he
sayeth, that he will send for the partie, and cause the matter be
examyned endefferently; and thus he was content, that I shold
wryt unto your mastership. And therfore dowt not in this
matter, but take your ease, and in no wyse charg yourself with
comyng upp for this matter, thoffe the prive seale be delivered
unto you. Herein, I assure you, I shall give as great delygence,
as the matter were myne owne. And thus our lord God preserve
your mastership to your most comforth. At Lyncolnes Inne,
the ixth day of February, by the hand of
Your servant
(9 Feb. 1495-6.)
PERCIVALL LAMBTON.
LETTER XCI.
To my master Sir Robart Plompton, knight, at Plompton.
In my right humble and harty wyse I recomend me unto your
good mastership, and to my singuler good lady. The ix day of
February I received your wrytting, the which was to me great
comforth. The contents therof was moved to my lord Prive seal
afore that, by Percyvall Lambeton, as he shewed to me, and as he
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hath wrytten to you the scanty in every thing of my lords mynd
in that behalfe; the which, me semeth, right good and necessary
for you. And yt pleaseth you, when my lord cometh into your
country, to se him, and ride a myle or ij with him, and wellcome
him to the country; yt will doe good many wayes. Sir, afore
credaunce of Ewene Barle, he gave none to me but for these pre-
myses, and that, I thinke, nedeth no more lahor nor cost; for when
my sayd lord had answered reasonable therin, yt sufficeth for the
same. Also I send herin a byll of discharg for your fine, and I
wold I myght have content the same fyne at the last terme, [but I
spared for the more advauntage,] for ye payd none syth Trenetie
terme unto now. And your owne, and ever wylbe, to my power,
as knoweth our Lord, who ever preserve you and yours in pros-
perous long tyme to endure. From Furnywalls Inn, the xiij of
February
Your humble servant, ED. PLOMPTON.
(13 Feb. 1495-6.)
1495.
LETTER XCII.
To the right worshipfull and my right hartely beloved frind Sir
Robart Plompton, knight.
Right worshipful Sir, I comend me unto you, with all my hart
thanking you of the great love and favor, that ye have shewed
unto my nephew, the comander of Rybston; a and not only unto
him, but as well unto his servants and tenaunts in these partyes,
as well in his absence as in his presence : praying you so to con-
tynew, and ye may be assured, if ther be any thing that I may
doe for you or for any of yours, ye shall alway find me redy to
a Sir John Tong. (See Letter XCIII.)
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my power. John Trongton, the brynger hereof, shall shew unto
you in what case the matter standeth in, that is betwixt my
nephew and John of Rocliffe ; b and I pray you give credence to
the sayd brynger hereof, and Jesu keep you. Wrytten at St.
Johns, the iij day of September.
Your owne,
Sir JOHN KENDAL, prior of St. John.c
b John Rocliffe of Cowthorpe, esq. afterwards Sir John Rocliffe, Kt.
c Brother John Kendal, Turcopolier of Rhodes, was the commissary and deputy of
Pope Sixtus IV. throughout the globe, in aid of the expedition against the Turks
A.D. 1480, tenth of his pontificate. To those who should contribute to this object, he
had authority from the Holy See to grant faculties to their confessors in reserved cases,
together with plenary indulgences; and for that purpose had with him printed forms
on parchment, to which he affixed his seal. One of these to Dame Joan Plumpton
has been copied into the Cartulary (No. 699), and as attention has been drawn to this
personage from his having been the subject of the earliest contemporary English
medal in existence, its perusal will probably gratify the curiosity of the reader, and I
have given a transcript of it below. See also the remarks of Sir Frederic Madden con-
cerning these forms. (Archæolog. vol. XXVII. p. 172, note 8.) The medal is en-
graved in Pinkerton's Medallic History of England, 4to, 1790. Sir John Kendal suc-
ceeded Sir John Weston as Prior of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem, Clerken.
well, but the exact date is not ascertained; the earliest discovered is the year 1491.
He occurs ten years after, and is stated to have died in November, 1501.
Frater Johannes Kendal Turcipelerius * Rhodi, ac commissarius a sanctissimo in
Christo patri et domino nostro, domino Sixto, divina providentia, Papa quarto, et vigore
* The military dignity of Turcopolier, or General of the Forces of the Order,
which at first was inseparable from the post of Grand Prior of England, [and the latter
might be held by a foreigner,] was subsequently attached absolutely to the English
nation, or Langue d'Angleterre, in the Order. (Vertot, Hist. de l'Ordre de Malte, vol.
1. p. 206, 4to. 1726.) In 1480 Brother John Kendal, and in 1522 Brother John
Boucq, were Turcopoliers of the Order, in which same years John de Weston and Wil-
liam de Weston were Grand Priors of England. I observe the name of Brother Tho-
mas Ploneton among the brethren of the Order present at the siege of Rhodes in 1480,
who I presume was of the Yorkshire family, and probably nephew to Dame Joan
Plompton.
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119
literarum suarum, pro expeditione contra perfidos Turcas, Christiani nominis hostes, in
defensione Insulæ Rhodi, et fidei Catholicæ, facta et facienda, concessarum, ad infra.
scripta per universum orbem deputatus. Delectæ nobis in Christo, Dominæ Johannæ
Plompton, salutem in domino sempiternam. Provenit ex tuæ devotionis affectu, quo
Romanam ecclesiam revereris, ac te buic expeditioni sanctæ et necessariæ gratum reddis
et liberalem, ut petitiones tuas, illas præsertia quæ conscientiæ pacem et animæ tuæ
salutem respiciunt, ad exauditionis gratiam admittamus. Hinc est quod nos, tuis devotis
supplicationibus inclinati, tibi ut aliquem idoneum et discretum præsbiterum secularem,
vel cuiusvis ordinis regularem, in tuum possis eligere confessorem : qui confessione
tua diligenter audita, pro commissis per te quibusvis criminibus, excessibus et delictis,
quantumcunque gravibus et enormibus, etiamsi talia fuerint propter quæ sedes aposto-
tolica sit quovismodo merito consulenda, iniectionis manuum in episcopum vel superi-
orem, ac libertatis ecclesiasticæ offense, seu conspirationis in personam aut statum
Romanæ Pontificis, vel cuiusvis offense inobedientiæ aut rebellionis sedis ejusdem, ac
præsbitericidii casibus duntaxat exceptis, in reservatis semel tantum, in aliis vero
non reservatis totiens quotiens fuerit opportunum, debitam absolutionem impendere, et
pænitentiam salutarem iniungere, ac omnium peccatorum tuorum de quibus corde
contritus et ore confessus fueris, semel in vita, et semel in mortis articulo, plenariam
remissionem et indulgentiam, auctoritate apostolica tibi concedere possit, dicta aucto-
ritate, qua per ipsius sedis literas, sufficienti facultate muniti, fungimur, in hac parte
indulgemus. In quorum fidem has literas nostras, sigilli nostri appensione munitas, fieri
iussimus atque mandavimus. Dat visesimo secundo die mensis Aprilis, anno Domini
MCCCCLXXX ac pontificatus præfati sanctissimi domini nostri, domini Sixti Papæ
quarti, anno decimo.
(699. Deed. Copied on tuesday the 13 of februarii, 1626, having then a seal.)
LETTER XCIII.
To my right worshipfull, and my right hartely welbeloved neghbor
and fadyr, Sir Robart Plompton, knight.
Right worshipfull and my right entirely beloved Sir and father,
I recomend me unto you, and thank the same for your loving deal-
ing in my absence shewed to my tenaunts and servants, and espe-
cially to my servant Tromton, this bringer, for the good mastership
shewed to him at Yorke to your cost and charge. My sayd ser-
vant shall shew you my further mynd, to whom it will please you
to give credence, and also that I may be recommended to my good
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lady and mother, your wyfe. Jesu preserve you. At London,
the with day of March.
Your owne son, Sir John Tong,
commander of Rybston and Mownt S. Johns.a
a At Great Ribstone, in the parish of Hunsingore, near Knaresborough, and at Mount
St John, in the parish of Feliskirk, north riding of Yorkshire, the Knights Hospitallers
of St. John had commanderies. A John Tong was mayor of York in 1477, so that the
writer of this letter was probably his son, to whom at his birth Sir Robert and Lady
Plumpton had stood sponsors. We learn, from the preceding letter and elsewhere,
that he was nephew to Sir John Kendal, prior of St. John's, Clerkenwell, the chief
house of the Order in England, and in the list of burials in the Priory Church are the
names of William Tong, Margaret Tong, and Isabel Tong, the first being also a brother
of the Order. In the volume of the Archæologia referred to in the proceding note,
Sir Frederic Madden has printed a curious document, which purports to be the con-
fession of one Bernard de Vignolles, dated at Rouen, 14 Mar. 1495-6, and wherein he
accuses “Sire Jehan Quendal, grant prieur de l'ordre de Saint Jehan de Roddes, Sire
Jehan Thonge, son nepveu, pareillment chevallier du dit ordre," and others, of treason-
able designs to compass the death of the King by necromancy, and of entertaining a
correspondence with Perkin Warbeck, and wishing for his establishment on the throne.
(Vol. XXVII. p. 205.)
LETTER XCIV.
To my singuler good master, Sir Robart Plompton, kt.a
In my right humble wyse I recomend me unto your good mas-
tership, and to my singuler good lady; acertaynyng you that ther
is in thes partes a great talking, of those that belong and medle
a We have in this letter the first intimation of the scheme hatching by the too celebrated
lawyer, Empson, the infamous tool of Henry's rapacity, to oust Sir Robert Plumpton
from the lands, which should have been made secure to him by the award of King Richard
III. The progress of the suit will be traced with interest in the series of letters which
follow, and which step by step reduced the unfortunate knight to such straits, that at
the commencement of the next reign we find him a prisoner in the Counter, and
depending on his son's bounty for subsistence. He had, however, the satisfaction to
live to witness the tragic end of his once all-powerful adversary.
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with Mr. Hemson,b that he intendeth to attempt matters agaynst
you in the title of the heire of John Suttell. Wherin he moved
and brake the same unto Mr. Gascoyne,d of whom he had a dis-
cret and good answere, as thus. He desired my sayd Mr. Gas-
coyne to be favorable to him in the premysses; and he answered
to him, and sayd thus : “ if your matter were against any man in
“ England except my uncle, I wold take your parte; but in this ye
“must have me excused,” with dyvers words more concerning your
honour and wele. Sir, the sayd Mr. Hemson moved this matter
greatly, and maketh his frinds; and divers that he hath broken
his hart and mynd too, hath told me the same, and his saying afore,
© Richard Empson, esq. was chosen speaker of the House of Commons in the Parlia-
ment that met on 17 Oct. 7 Hen. VII. 1491 (Rot. Parl. VI. 440); and was one of
the serjeants-at-law, chosen by act of Parliament to be feoffees for the King of his
Duchy of Lancaster, 19 Hen. VII. 1503, in which year he was knighted. (Ibid, 522
and 537 6.)
c Sir John Suttell, or Sotehill, of Stoke Faston, or Stockerston, com. Leic. kt. who
had married Elizabeth, grand-daughter and one of the heirs at law of Sir William
Plumpton, kt. was then lately deceased, he having made his will in July 1493, and it
having been proved 7 Oct. 1494. His eldest son was named Henry, and at his death
a minor, as he was in ward to his mother 11 Hen. VII. 1495-6, (History of Suffolk,
p. 436, note • fol. 1838,) the same year as the date of this Letter. Dame Elizabeth
Sotehill survived to 21 September, 22 Hen. VII. 1506, when she died, leaving her
twin granddaughters, her infant heirs. She and her husband were buried at Stocker-
ston, in the south aisle of the church, the chapel of the Lords of Stockerston. “On
the floor of the south aisle,” says Mr. Smith, writing in the year 1747, “ close by the
last (monument) towards the south wall, inlaid in brass, were the figures of two per-
sons, the man in armour, and both in a posture of prayer ; at his feet the figures of
eight sons, at hers of two daughters; inscription round the edge quite gone. Over his
head, O pater in celis, me tecum pascere velis. D'ne miserere, &c. From her mouth a
label, Nos precibus matris salvet sapiencia patris. Over their heads, their arms;
quarterly, 1 and 4, Sotehill ; 2 and 3, quarterly, Boyvile and Murdac, impaling, quar-
terly, her coat, 1 and 4, Plompton of Plompton, Ebor. ; 2 and 3, Foljambe of Kenalton,
co Nott. This impalement identifies the parties; and moreover, another manuscript
recites an invocation for prayer for the soul of John Sotehill who died in 1493, which
was then in glass in the same church. (See Nichols's Leicestershire, Vol. II. p. 823.),
d Sir William Gascoigne of Gokethorp, kt.
CAMD. Soc. 4.
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as they knew. If yt plese your mastership, to cause your loving
frinds and servants to have knowledg therof. Sir, I shewed to a
gentleman, that is of counsell and fee with Master Hemson, and
a companyon of myne, how that Kyng Richard, in his most
best tyme, and the first yere of his reigne,e having you not in the
favor of his grace, but utterly against you, caused them to have
a parte of your lands by his award and ryall power, contrary to
your agrement and all right conscience; the which I trust to God
wylbe called againe. Sir, ye have many good frinds and servants,
and moe, with Gods grace, shall have ; this is the matter I thinke
no dout yn. Ye have a great treasour of Mr. Gascoyne. If ther
be any service your mastership wyll comand me, yt shalbe done
to the uttermost of my power, as knoweth our Lord, who pre-
serve you. Written in Furnyvalls Inne, the iij day of Feb. 14:96.
Your humble servant,
(3 Feb. 1496-7.)
ED: PLOMPTON.
e 16 Sept. 1 Ric. III. 1483. For the particulars of this award, see Memoirs.
LETTER XCV.
To the right worshipfull Sir William Gascoygne, Kt, deliver these.
Master Gascoygne, after most harty comenndations, pleaseth
you to wyt that Richard Falbarne, late clarke to Bryan Rowclife,
according to the trust put in him, hath made astate of dyvers
maners, lands, and tenements, late Sir William Plompton, in the
county of Yorkea; wherwith, as it is sayd, Sir Robart Plompton
taketh dyspleasure, and his servants speake such words and so
The feofment of Sir William Plompton, of Plompton, com. Ebor, kt. of his manors
and lands in the counties of Nottingham, Derby, and Stafford, under which Richard
Fawberg had the legal estate as surviving feoffee, was dated 1 Jun. 4 Edw. IV. 1464.
The conveyance by the latter here spoken of, was made before 2 July, 15 Hen. VII,
1500, of which date is the letter of attorney to William Saucheverell and William San-
derson from Robert Bubwith, clerk, and Richard Burrow, chaplain, who claimed
under it, to take seisin in their names. (MS. Add. 6698.)
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123
demene them selfes, that the poor man for dread dare not apply
his busines. Sir, I heare that you be frend to the sayd Sir Ro-
bart, I pray you move him that the pore man may passe his
busines in Gods pease and the Kyngs, the rather at this my mo-
tion; ore that ye wyll please to send me word of his disposition,
to thentent I may further doe and provide, that best may be, fore
the poore mans suerty in this partie, and that I may know the
sayd Sir Robart is disposition by you herein; wherby ye shall
bynd me to do you good pleasures, iffe that be in me. So know-
eth our Lord God, who preserve you. Fro Gascoyn,b the vii day
of September.
By yours verely,
Rich. EMPSON.
(7 Sept. 149–.)
Sic, sed lege Easton, the name of the seat of Sir Richard Empson in the county
of Northampton. (See Baker's Northamptonshire, Easton-Neston.)
LETTER XCVI.
To my master, Sir Robart Plompton, kt.
In my humble and most hartyest wyse I recomend me unto
your good mastership, and to my singuler good lady. Sir, yt is
so that certaine lovers and frinds of myne in London hath
brought me unto the sight of a gentlewoman, a wedow of the age
of xl yeres and more, and of good substance; first, she is goodly
and beautyfull, womanly and wyse, as ever I knew any, none other
dispraysed: of a good stocke and worshipful. Hir name is Agnes.
She hath in charg but one gentlewoman to hir daughter, of xii yer
age. She hath xx marc of good land within iij myle of London,
and a ryall maner buylded therupon, to give or sell at hir pleasure.
She hath in coyne in old nobles, cli_in ryalls, cli_-in debts, xlli-
in plate, cxli, with other goods of great valour; she is called worth
mli beside hir land. Sir, I am bold upon yor good mastership, as
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I have ever bene; and if yt please God and you that this matter
take effect, I shalbe able to deserve althings done and past. She
and I are agreed in our mynd and all one; but hir friends that
she is ruled by, desireth of me xx marke jointor more then my
my lands come too; and thus I answered them, saying, “ that
your mastership is so good master to me, that ye gave to my other
wyfe xii marke for hir joyntor in Stodley Roger, and now, that it
wyll please your sayd mastership to indue this woman in some
lordship of yours of xx marke duryng hir lyfe, such as they shalbe
pleased with: and for this my sayd frinds offer to be bounden in
mli.” Sir, uppon this they intend to know your pleasure and
mynd prevely, I not knowing; wherfore, I humbly besech your
good mastership, as my especyall trust is and ever hath bene
above all earthly creatures, now for my great promotion and harts
desire, to answer to your pleasure, and my wele and poore honesty;
and I trust, or yt come to pase, to put you suertie to be dis-
charged without any charg : for now, your good and discret an-
swere may be my making. For, and she and I fortune by God and
your meanes togyther, our too goods and substance wyll make me
able to doe you good service, the which good service and I, now
and at all tymes, is and shalbe yours, to joperde my life and them
both. Sir, I besech your good mastership to wryte to me an an-
swere in all hast possible, and after that ye shall here more, with
Gods grace, who preserve you and yours in prosperous felicyte
longtyme to endure. Wrytten in Furnywall Inne in Olborn, the
ij day of March 1496.
Your humble servant,
(2 March 1496-7.)
ED. PLOMPTON.
LETTER XCVII.
To my singuler good master, Sir Robart Plompton, Kt.
In my right humble wyse I recomende me unto your good mas-
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tership, and to my singuler good lady, your wyfe; and wher it hath
pleased Almighty Jesu of his grace, by meanes of my lovers and
frinds, to bryng me to the sight and acquantance of a gentlewoman
in London, whose name is Agnes, late wife of Robert Drayate, gen-
tilman, who is a woman that God hath indued with great grace and
vertue. She is wyse and goodly, and of great substance, and able
for a better man then I am. Notwithstanding it pleaseth, so that
I myght content her frinds mynds for her joyntor of xx marke by
yere that they demand of me. My answare is to them, that I
have no lands but in revercion; and that yt pleaseth your good
mastership to give my last wyfe xii marke by yeare out of your
lands, and my especyall trust is, "that it will please your master-
ship, for my promotion, and in especyall for my harts desir and
wele, that faythfull is set upon this sayd gentlewoman, to grant
and make sure to hir a jointer of xx marke yerely over all reprises,
during her life. And I besech you so to do, and that the berer
herof may be certayne of your mynd in the premysses, and also
answere to them by your wrytting of the same. This don, inconti-
nent after Easter I trust in Jesu to fynish this matter; for they
demaund of me certayne lands and goods, as more at large apper-
eth within a byll here inclosed, the which I observed in every
poynt to thaccomplishment of ther pleasures. Sir, you know I
have no lands, nor lyving in substaunce, but onely of you; and this
hapen, I shall be more able to do your mastership service. From
London, in my sayd master lodging, the x of March, 1496.
John Chasser of Lyncolnes. Your humble servant,
Sir William Chamber, Chaplaine.
ED. PLOMPTON.
Edward Chesseman.a
(10 March 1496-7.)
• The names endorsed were apparently the friends of the lady, who intended to
communicate with Sir Robert Plumpton upon the proposed settlement. A plan for
their mystification is curiously developed in the next epistle of Edward Plumpton.
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LETTER XCVIII.
To my singuler good master, Sir Robart Plompton, Kt.
In my most humble wise I recomend me unto your good mas-
tership, and to my especyall good lady. Sir, I sent a letter this last
weke to you by James Colton, servant to Master Gascoyne, to
shew to your mastership my fortune at this tyme. If your master-
ship be, (as I doubt no other in my mynd, nor with my words to
noble men of worship, but that ye be,) my good master, the which
hath, and ever shalbe, to your honour and profitt, though I have
afore this bene chargable to you, now, I trust in God, as true and
profitable to be, as ever I was, and much more, and able to restore
and amends make of all cost done to me afore tyme. Sir, I
besech you after your most discret mynd and wysdome to answere
this messenger, that shall com to you for this jointor of xx marke,
both in words and in your wrytting, so that yt be to your honour,
my poor honestie, and truth, and making in this world; for uppon
that answere lyeth my great wele, and if yt were otherwyse, my
utter undoing for ever, the which God forbyde. Yt shall cost
your mastership no peny more, nor charge to you; for if your
mastership say to him that ye are content, and will grant and
make to him this joyntor incontinent after our marriage, when we
two shall come to you, and so shew yt lovingly to the sayd mes-
senger, and in your wrytting to them agayne, then all is done : for
when I am maryed to her, thes men that now are counsellers
shall bere but litle rome. And therfore, this is a matter of no
charg, and to me great promotion all maner of wayes. She is
amyable and good, with great wysdome and womanhead, and worth
in land yerly xx marke and more, to you at hir wyll, the which, I
trust in God, shalbe loving for you and yours in tyme to come for
ever. Also in gold and silver, coyned and uncoyned, dli, I thinke
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veryly, as I perceyve by hir. Beside hir lands, in all she is worth
mli marke and more. She hath refused for my sake many wor-
shipfull men and of great lands; some of them hath offered to
hir xlli joyntor within London: notwithstanding, she is to me sin-
guler good mystres, as after this your mastership shall know. This
same day she gave to me a chayne of gold, with a crosse set with a
ruby and pearles, worth xxli and more. And because that ther
messinger shall bryng my letter with him that they se, for I
clossed yt afore, to show your mastership my mynd, I besech your
mastership to cause him that shall come with these lettres from
my mystres and hir counsellors, to have good chere, [and that I
trust to deserve,] and to send to me a bill by the same, as yt shall
please you. Sir, I have sent to you iij yerds of whit dameske for
a cowrenet, as good as I cold bye any, and I wold have sent much
more things, save only my businesse is great. Also I have payd
your fyne in the Excheker, but I take not out a discharge unto the
next terme, because I purpose to get a grant more. Also I besech
your mastership to shew that sayd messinger, that ye had no word
from me this vi weke, and no man in your place to know from
whence this berer come, lest that ther messinger shold understand
of my sending. Please yt your mastership to give credence unto
this berer, and let him departe or the other man come with the
letters; and all such service as yt pleseth you to comand me, yt
shalbe done, with Gods grace, who evermore preserve you and
yours in health and honor. Wrytten in Furnywalls Inne, the 19
day of March, 1496. I humbly pray your mastership to cause the
messinger to speake with my Lady, and if hir ladyship wold
send by him a token to my master, yt shall avale hir another of
xx tymes the valor. Now, and my good lady wold of hir great
gentlenes and noble mynd send a token, as is within wrytten, I
cold never deserve yt to hir, for yt shold be to me great honesty,
and the greatest that ever I had; for by your mastership and hir,
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I am put to more worship than ever I shold have comyn to. Sir,
as I wrote in, I was purposed to have sent a fellow of myne to
your mastership, but now I send this my wrytting by Preston,
servant with my master Gascoyne. Pleaseth your mastership to
kepe this byll, and whatsoever you doe for me in word, cost, and
wrytting, yt shalbe mine, when we be maryed, to relesse and un-
bynd; and so I will. Sir, I besech you, pray my lady to make the
messinger that shall come from my mystres good chere. I know
not as yet what shall come, but as I am infirmed, a gentilman of
Clementts Inne. I besech your mastership, and my good lady both,
to take no displeasure with my simple wrytting this tyme, for my
mynd is set so much otherwyse, that I cannot perfictly do my
duty. Our Lord preserve you.
Your servant,
(19 March 1496-7.)
Edw. PLOMPTON.
LETTER XCIX.
To my singuler good master, Sir Robart Plompton, Kt. deliver these.
In my right humble wyse I recoinend me unto your good mas-
tership, and to my singuler good lady. Sir, I have bene at Sa-
combe,a and had theder with me from Ware William Barloe,
a Sacomb, com. Herts, had been a manor belonging to the family of Holt. By
deed bearing date 11 Sept. 8 Hen. V. 1420, and sealed in red wax, with a seal of arms,
comprising in the scochen of the same a chevron and three squerells scehine (seiant),
Richard Holt, clerk, brother and heir of Hugh Holt, of the county of Northampton,
Esq. gave the said manor, with the advowson, to Sir Robert Babthorp, Kt. together
with certain lands in Staunton and Epcomp, in the same county :* to hold for life,
* Standon-wood, in the parish of Sacomb, is marked on the Ordnance Map, but
Epcomp is a name that nowhere appears; though I find in the invaluable record of
Domesday Seuechampe, Stuochampa, and Thepecampe, all there noticed. The change of
the second name to Staunton or Standon is a curious instance of the corruption of
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goodman of Christofer and William Waman, now for the tyme
baly; and of thos I have bylls, of the which I sent to your master
the copies, of such woods as is sold late. The maner goeth downe
and decayeth, and all the houses about yt; the woods are clene
destroyed and ligly to be in hast. I have given and done, as fare
as I myght, in comandment and charge for further felling, and cary-
ing such as are felled and remane ther. Necessary it were, me
seames, that ye made a bargan with Master Hastyngs, and it wold
be. It is a fayre lordship, and yt were well gidded; it is ix myle to
compasse about. Sir, I have done good ther, and avantaged
much wood and tymber, both as well felled as not felled, and my
doings wyll stand. I have put the byers in great fere. I pray
you, master, in all hast possible send to me word of your mynd in
the premysses and all other, and a byll of such lands as ye are con-
with remainder in tail to Ralph Babthorpe his son and Katherine his wife, and the
heirs of their bodies, and in default, to the right heirs of Sir Robert. Witnesses
Thomas Bishop of Durham, Robert Tirwhit, John Leventhorp, John Hotoft, John
Fray, and others. (Chartul. No. 791.)
b Sir John Hastings, of Roxby, com. Ebor. kt. had married Elizabeth, or Isabel,
daughter and heir of Sir Ralph Babthorp, of Babthorp, com. Ebor. kt., and in her
right had possession of the manor of Sacombe, com. Hert. She dying with-
out surviving issue, between the years 1489 and 1496, the reversion of this inhe-
ritance of the Babthorpes came to Isabel, daughter and heir of the next brother of
Sir Ralph Babthorpe, called Robert in the pedigree, after the death of Sir John Hastings,
who was tenant by the curtesy of England. This lady was contracted to marry Wil-
liam, eldest son of Sir Robert Plumpton, 11 May, 11 Hen. VII. 1496, before the ensu-
ing feast of St. Michael, she being then under seventeen years of age and in ward to her
uncle, William Babthorp of Osgodby, com. Ebor. esq. (Chartul. No. 781.) The
object of the visit of Edward Plumpton was therefore to prevent waste on the part of
orthography. To the historians of Hertfordshire, Standon, Epcomp, and even the
armorial bearings of the family of Holt, appear to have been alike unknown. Holt of
Aston, near Birmingham, had the squirrel for a crest.
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tent to departe with to Kilbornec in exchange, andif ye wyll have the
surcrortr. Our Lord Jesu preserve you and all yours. From
London, the xvi of February.
Your humble servant,
(16 Feb. 1496-7.)
- EDWARD PLOMPTON.
Sir John Hastings, which would be prejudicial to his young master, the expectant heir
in right of his wife.
Thomas Kylborne, yeoman, sold some property in Plumpton to Sir Robert
Plumpton and William Plumpton his son 28 Jan. 17 Hen. VII. 1501-2. (Chartul. No.
806.)
LETTER C.
To Sir Richard Plompton, Chapleyn, att Idell.
Sir, as hartylie as I can, I commaund me unto you; and within
a box to my Lady, to whom I pray you I may be recommended as
hir servant, is the fest of Nomen Jesu with Utas, and also the fest
of the Transfiguration,a that ye desired me to send to you. As
for the price of them, ye and I shall agree at our next cominge to-
gither. I doubt not ye know that the venire facias againe Ellis
of York b com not according to our comunicacion; I wold it
com up servid any wyse this terme. Sir, with Bryan Pullen of
Gawkthorp I send a letter to my master and yours of all the
...... about the matter here at London againe Babthorpe,
as that none other way wold be in any wise; but the venire facias
com in served by one Thomas Rokeby, servant to Mr. Constable
a The feast of the Holy Name of Jesus was kept on the seventh of August, and that
of the Transfiguration on the sixth, the former being solemnized with an octave or
Utas. Manuscripts containing the office of the Church appointed for each feast were
doubtless what were sent to the chaplain by the writer of the Letter.
b John Ellis of York. (See Letter CII.)
c Notwithstanding the terms of the agreement made between Sir Robert Plumpton
and William Babthorpe of Osgodby, when the marriage of Isabel Babthorpe was
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the Servant.d The copie of the retorne and panell I send to you
inclosed herin for more surtie, as tother letter is delivered. Sir,
to speake of the labor I maide to the contrary, I have written
the circumstance therof in my master letter, and surelye it was to
the uttermost of all my power. It is so now, I understond, they
will have a habeas corpora againe the Jurrours retornable octabis
Trinitatis, so that they may have a distres with a nisi prius againe
Lammas Assise. Therfore, Sir, betwen you and my lady ye
must cause speciall labor to be made, so it be downe prevely, to
such of the Jurrours, as ye trust wilhe made frindly in the cause.
Sir, in the box is a bonet of velvet for ...... Mawlevery f
according to my Ladies infirmacion ; the price therof is x8. viiid.
so that I layd dowen xxd more then my Lady toke to me for beyng
therof. Also, trussed to the same box is a dagger to Mr. Pole,
contracted for, whereby provision was made for assuring to the latter and his heirs,
"all those lands, tenements, and hereditaments with their appurtenances in the parish
of Hemingburgh, Midleton-upon-the-Would, North Cave, Hundsley, Loftsome, and
Wistow in the county of York, and in Colby in the county of Lincoln, with their
appurtenances, as also certain closes in Selby called the Flates, in satisfaction of all
those lands, tenements, and hereditaments with their appurtenances which wear or
be intailed to any of the name of Babthorp, his anchestors, or to the heire male of
any of their bodies, without let or interruption of the said William Plompton and
Isabell, or any other son of the said Sir Robert, husband to the said Isabell, and
theire of the said Isabell, for ever ;” it appears that now William Plumpton and his
wife sought to dispossess Babthorpe of these lands in right of her claim as heir gene-
ral. The father and son were thus singularly circumstanced; the right to the estates
of the one depending upon his making good his title as heir special, and to his wife's
inheritance of the other, upon his proving that there was no bar to the descent to heirs
general.
d Robert Constable, Serjeant-at-law. Joan, his daughter and heir, married Thomas
Rokeby, of Mortham, com. Ebor. esq.
e Lammas Assize was the assize held in the months of August and September.
Mrs. Mauleverer was the eldest daughter of Sir Robert and Dame Agnes Plump-
ton.
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according to his mynd; I pray you show to him it cost viiij more
then his money. As for the subpena, with all other matters that
longeth to my master and yours, they shalbe send with the next
trusty messenger that cometh home. And thus Jesu be your pre-
server. From Lyncolns Inne, at London, this munday next afore
Candlemas day.
(28 Jan. 1498-9.)
& John Pullan was the writer of this letter; the subscription has been accidentally
omitted in the MS. (See next Letter.)
LETTER CI.
To his especyall good master Sir Robart Plompton, knight, at
Idell, in hast.
Sir, please yt your mastership to understand that I sent a letter
to you with Bryan Pullan of Gawkthorp of all the cyrcumstance
of the matter betwene my master and your son and his wyfe, and
William Babthorp; and as that none ther wold be. But the
venyre facias com in servid. Sir, so yt is now that suerly they
intend to have a habeas corpora agayn the Jurrours with a nisi
prius this next assise in Lent, at Yorke. Therfore, Sir, ye must
make speciall frynds to the Jurrours, that they may be labored
specially, to such as ye trust wylbe made frindly in the cause.
Sir, I have letten Mr. Kyngesmell a see the dede of gift of the
chaunchry of Elton,b and shewed to him as your mastership pre-
sented in after the deith of the last Incumbent, which presentee was
a Master John Kingsmill, Serjeant, called 10 Sept. 1496.
b Chantry in the chapel of St. Margaret at Elton, com. Derb.
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in by the space of iiii orv dayes at the least, and desired of hym to have
his best counsell. And he answered to me thus ; that subpena lay
not properly in the case: but the best remedy for your Incumbent
was to have assise at the common law, if any land belonged to the
sayd Chaunchre. And if he had no land, then to have a spolia-
cion in the spirituall court agaynst the preyst that now occupyeth,
because he is one disturber, or els to suy a quare Impedit at the
comon law. And so is to take no subpena. And for these causes
I rest to I know your pleasure . . . . wryting. Sir, as for the
subpena agaynst Sir John Hastyngs, I shall remember it. The
accion of wast agaynst Sir John Hastings goeth forward, as fast
as the law wyll serve. And if ther be any other service to doe,
it shalbe done to all my power, with Gods grace, who be your
preservor. From Lyncolns Inn at London, this tuesday next Can-
dlemas day.
Your servant and bedman,
(29 Jan. 1498-9.)
JOHN PULLAN.
LETTER CII.
To my worshipfull master, Sir Robart Plompton, kt.
After due recomendations, please yt your mastership to under-
stand that of late I was at Yorke, wher I understand ye have an
accion hanging against myne host, John Ellis of Yorke, wherof I
am right sory, for the good hart I bere to him, that he shold mys-
content your mastership and give you cause of accion. Neverthe-
lesse, Sir, I have broken my mynd, and he is not that man that
wold displease your mastership in no wyse, nor troble you in any
matter; and for any fault, whatsoever yt be, abyde your owne
judgment and award in every poynt, and be corrected in all causes
after your owne mynd, if yt please your mastership so to take him.
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And over this, he shall come to your mastership and submyt him-
self according to his duety, as yt is abovesayd. And, Sir, if your
mastership be thus content, I trust ye will se him have fre lyberty in
comyng and goyng, and if yt please your mastership to be thus
content, and that I come with him to you, I trust to God he shall
so deserve at his departure, ye shall have cause to be his good
master. And so as I may, I besech you to be, upon this humble
submyssion, for I have advysed him so to doe, the which he is
right glad and aplyable, and thus our blessed Lord ever preserve
you. Wrytten at Harwood, the Sunday after Candlemasse day;
and by this bringer I besech your mastership I may know your
good mynd.
Your loving servant,
(3 Feb. 1498-9.)
THOMAS LYSTER.
LETTER CIII.
To his Right worshipful master, Sir Robert Plompton, kt. be this
delivered.
Right worshipful Sir, I recomend me to you. By your letter I
understand William Babthorp will have a nisi prius at this next
assizes. Sir, it is necessary for you to get a copy of the panel,
and then to enquire if any of them or of their wyfes be sybb or
allied to Wil. Babthorp, and yf any cause in them bee wherby
they may be chalenged. And also to make labor to them that
they appeare not, or els to be favorable to you according to right,
and enform them of the matter as wel as ye can for their con-
sciences. Sir, for Mr. Kingsmel, it were wel doon that he were
with you, for his auctority and worship; for he may speke more
plainly in the matter than any counsel in this country will, for he
knowes the crafty labor that hath been made in this matter, and
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also he will not let for no maugre. And yf the enquest passe
against you, he may shew you summ comfortable remedy, for I sup-
pose with good counsell you may have remedy; but, Sir, his coming
wilbe costly to you. Sir, I purpose with the grace of God to be
at Knaresburg upon tewsday next coming, and if ye be there or
any for you, I shall shew you more of my mind, No more, but
God preserve you and further treweth. Written the 12 day of
february
By your servant at litle power,
(12 Feb. 1498-9.)
WILLIAM ELESON.
a William Eleson of Selby, com. Ebor. esq. son of John Elson who died 14 , ,-]509,
and has a monumental inscription in the abbey.—(Burton. Mon. Ebor. p. 410.)
He afterwards married a daughter of Sir Robert Plumpton.
LETTER CIV.
To his right worshipfull master, Sir Robart Plompton, kt.
Right worshipfull Sir, I comend me to you. Sir, this day I
receyved your letter, by the which ye desyred me to be at Helagh a
upon Myghellmas even. Sir, that day I may not keepe, for I
must then be at Malton for my lord Clifford, for keeping of his
court; but if it please you to send to Mr. Babthorppe, which is
yet at Dighton,c to appoynt fryday or satterday before Myghellmas
day, or fryday or satterday next after Myghellmas, I shall then
attend of you, with the grace of God. And of the day that ye
appoynt, I pray ye send me word by my servant. Sir, I pray you
& Healaugh, a parish town in the Ainsty, com. Ebor.
b Henry Lord Clifford and Westmoreland, inherited Malton, com. Ebor. from his
mother Margaret, daughter and coheir of Henry Bromflete, Baron Vescy.
< Kirk-Dighton, near Plumpton.
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hold me excused of the breaking of my promyse, for I was vii
nyghts from home more then I weut I shold have bene when I
rodde forth. And thus God preserve you. Wrytten at Selby the
Wedensday.
By your servant,
WILLIAM ELESON.
LETTER CV.
To my right worshipfull Master, Sir Robart Plompton, kt.
Right honorable Sir, I humbly recomend me unto your master-
ship. Please yt your mastership, I wold be right glad that ye
wold have a comynyng with my master in such matters as in
parte I have shewed you, Sir. Sir, I have so spoken to my mas-
ter, if ye please to be at Poumfrett on Munday, ther and then my
master will meet you, and ther your mastership to know in
those ye wilbe content; and or els your mastership will par-
don me the reversion of Kirkbe,a and I wyll abyde with my
master, Sir John Hastyngs.b Sir, I thinke, if yt please your mas-
tership, I have desarved a dobellett in laboring him to showe your
mastership pleasure. No more to you at this tyme, but Jesu have
you in his proteccion. Wrytten at Watterton, on Wedensday
after St. Edward day.
By your servant,
(20 Mar. 1499.)
JOHN TAYLOR.
a Kirkby-Wharfe, a parish town in the liberties of St. Peter and of Pontefract. Sir Ralph
Babthorp, father of Dame Isabel Hastings, died seised inter alia of two messuages and
forty acres of land in Kirkby, held of the King as of his duchy of Lancaster. (Esc.
5 Hen. VII.) With Waterton it was at this date held in dower by Margaret, widow of
Sir Ralph Babthorp.
b Sir John Hastings, kt. was deceased before 16 Nov. 20 Hen. VII. 1504, when by
their deed of that date William Plompton, esq. and Isabel his wife bestowed the office
of bailiff of their manor of Savacum, com. Hert. on Edward Oglethorp. (Chartul. No.
823.)
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LETTER CVI.
To the right worshipfull Sir Robart Plompton, kt. delyver these.
Right worshipfull Sir, in my best maner I lowly recomend me
to you, hartely desiring your welfare, thanking you of the patience
that ye sufferred at my poore place, I being from home. God give
me grace once to see you ther againe, that I may make you better
chere and doe you sume pleasure. Moreover, Sir, it pleased you
to write to me of a gentlewoman for my son ; a Sir, God give me
grace to deserve it, and I thank you hartely that it pleased you
so lovingly to remember both him and me. Sir, her frinds bene
worshipfull, and I am a poore gentleman. Well I wotte they will
learne, whosoever they medle withall, what landes and substance
he is of. I am willing to depart with him in lands and in goods,
as he may lyve, so that I may have, according to reason, money;
or els lands, and to give money. And, Sir, I am moved in a
place of worship and have made promyse to see a gentlewoman.
Howbeit, lyke as I doe, ye shall have knowledg, and shalbe glad to
be moved and counseld by you, trystyng ye will be good master
and lover to me. And thus Jesu preserve you. At Gotham in
hast, scribbled with the hand of your owne at my litle powre
JOHN SAINT ANDREW.a
a John Saint Andrew of Gotham, com. Nott. esq. the writer of this letter, was suc-
ceeded by a son of the name of William, who married Margaret, daughter of John
Aston of Haywood, com. Stafford, esq. by his wife Elizabeth Delves, on or before 16
Hen. VII. 1500-). (Thoroton's Notts. 4to. 1797, vol. i. p. 40, and Clifford's Tixall,
p. 147.) This letter of the father for his son's disposal in marriage, shows how abso-
lutely a matter of bargain all such contracts were. Here, there is a question between
two gentlewomen, and the father has no objection to two strings to bis bow; so that
the friends of tbe one are to be made acquainted with the offers of the friends of the
other gentlewoman, and then I presume the highest bidder would be sure to speed best.
CAMD. soc. 4.
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LETTER CVII.
To my right worshipfull master, Sir Robart Plompton, kt.
After due recomendations to your good mastership and hartely
desire of your welfare, for which of duty I am ever bound to pray
for, and sithe I hard say that a servant of yours was decesed of
the sicknes, which hath bene to your disease, I am right sory
therfore. Wherfore I wold advise your mastership, my lady,
and all your houshold many,b from hencforth to make promyse,
and keepe yt, to fast the even of St. Oswald, kyng and marter,
yerely; and that promise truly entended to be performed, I trust
verely ye shalbe no more vexed with that sicknes. And thus the
Most Mighty preserve yow and yours, this fest of Exaltacion of the
holy ghost (sic, sed lege Cross).
(14 Sept. 1499.) Your servant ROBART LEVENTHORPE.
* This and the following letter were apparently written in the year of the great plague
in England, 15 Hen. VII. 1499.
b Many, meny, or meiny, a family. (See Hallamshire Glossary, by Rev. J. Hunter,
App. p. 155.)
c The feast of St. Oswald was kept on the fourth of August.
d Robert Leventhorpe of Leventhorpe-Hall, in the parish of Swillington, com.
Ebor. esq.
LETTER CVIII.
AL
To his right worshipfull father, Sir Robart Plompton, kt, be these
delivered in most godly hast.
Right honorable and worshipfull father and mother,a in the most
a German Pole, the writer of this letter, married Anne, daughter of Sir Robert
Plumpton, in the lifetime of his grandmother Elizabeth Pole, who was a party to a
pair of indentures between her and Sir Robert Litton, kt. bearing date 28 Nov. 10
Hen. VII. 1495; for the fulfilment of the articles of which contract, she gave bond to
Sir Robert Plumpton, kt. 28 Aug. 15 Hen. VII. 1499. (Chartul. No. 797.) A sub-
sequent letter, written by her to Sir Robert Plumpton, indicates that these indentures
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lowliest wyse that I can, I mekely recomend me unto you, desiring
to here of your welfaire and prosperitie, the which I pray almyghty
Jesu long to continue to his pleasure, and to your most joy, and
comforth, and harts ease. Also, father, my brother William b har-
tely and mekely recomendeth him unto you, and unto my lady my
mother, desiring you of your dayly blessing. And I allso lowly pray
you of your dayly blessing, the which is as glad unto me, as unto
any child that you have, for I have no other father c but you, nor
no other mother but my lady; for my speciall trust is in you.
Therefore I pray you take me as your poore son ; a beadman for
my prayer you shall wyt I life. Sir, if it pleaseth you to know
that a munday my brother was at Thornton brygge,d and I were;
all, blessed be almyghty Jesu, be in gud health. And my sister
Margaret,e and my wife, and my sister Elinor f lowly recomend
them unto you and unto my lady, praying you of your daly bless-
ing, the which is better unto them then any worldly goods.
Veryly, Sir, Master Nevell nor Mrs. Nevell,s neither of them was
at home; but his brother was at home, and he made us very great
chere as myght be. Also, Sir, I am very sory that the death
seaseth not at Plompton, but I trust to almyghty Jesu that his
had reference to an assignment of lands in jointure to her grandson, German Pole,
and his wife, Anne Plumpton. (Vide postea, Letter CXXVIII.) The bond was pro-
bably signed about the time of the consummation of her son's marriage, and I ascribe
this letter to the same year, 1499, from the mention made of the pestilence at Plumpton.
o William Plumpton, eldest son of Sir Robert Plumpton.
c John Pole of Redburn, com. Derb. was the father of German Pole; he, as well
as his wife Jane, daughter of John Fitzherbert of Etwall, com. Derb. esq. died in the
lifetime of Ralph Pole, the grandfather of the writer, before 7 Hen. VII. Their mar-
riage covenant bore date 14 Aug. 13 Edw. IV. 1473, and German Pole their son was
aged nine years 25 July, 8 Hen. VII. 1492. (Esc. 8 Hen. VII. 1. 23.)
a Thornton-bridge, in the parish of Topcliffe.
e Margaret Plumpton, married in the following year to Arthur Eyre, esq.
f Eleanor Plumpton. (See the letters concerning her marriage, postea.)
6 Ralph Nevill of Thornton-bridge, esq. and Ann his wife, daughter of Sir Christo-
pher Ward of Givendale, com. Ebor. kt. John Nevill was his brother.
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great mercy and grace (some words are here omitted) send to my
lady hir joy and comforth, and to all your frinds, as my daly
prayer shalbe therfore. Sir, the cause of my wryting is but to
heare of your gud welfare, the which is to me great joy and com-
forth. And, Sir, I lowly pray you and my lady, my mother, to
take this letter in good parte, for it is wrytten hastyly with my
own hand, and without the ’vise of any other body; for I trow
you had rather have it of my owne hand, then of another bodyes.
Also, Sir, John Tynderley h recomendeth him unto you and unto
my lady, my mother, gladly willing to heare of your welfare. No
more unto you, good father, nor mother, at this tyme, but pray the
holy Trenytie to have you in his blessed keepinge.
Your good son and beadchild,
(anno circiter 1499.)
GERMAN POLE.
" He was probably owner of the house at Ripon, under whose roof the younger
branches of the family of Plumpton had sought a shelter from the plague, then raging
in the vicinity of their own home.
LETTER CIX.
To my right worshipfull brother, Sir Robart Plompton, kt. this
byll be delivered.
Right worshipfull brother, I recomend me unto you, and to my
lady, and also to my daughter and yours,a with all my other yong
cousins, desiring hartely to here of your welfaire and theres both,
which I besech Jesu preserve unto his pleasure and your harts
comforth, ever thanking you, and my lady both, of the great wor-
shipe and gud chere, that I and my frinds had at my last beyng
with you. Brother, yt is so that your farward, Christofer Law, is
departed of this word and hath left behind him a wyfe and vii
a Margaret Plumpton, who was at this date contracted to marry the eldest son of
the writer. (See Letter-CXI. postea.)
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smale children, wherfor I hartely pray you to be gud master unto
hir, so that she might have hir farme, and the rather for my
prayer. And if it please you, when your servants come over into
this contry, that they will have my mynd in the letting of the
sayd house; and I trust to take such wayes therin, as shalbe for
your worship and profit both, as Jesu knoweth, who ever preserve
you. At Padley the tewsday next afore St. Luke day b in hast.
Your loving brother,
(15 Oct. 1499.)
ROBART EYRE.
b 18 Oct.
LETTER CX.
To his especyall good master, Sir Robart Plompton, knight, be
these delivered.
Right worshipfull Sir, I recomend me unto your mastership.
Sir, laytly I sent wryting to my father to convey to you, which I
trust be comes to your hands afore this tyme ; in which wrytinge
is conteyned how the Justices of the Common Place awarded a
new venire facias betwyxt my master, your son, and Wylliam
Babthorpp; and also in a lytle byll therin, is contayned the
names of such persones as the sayd Wylliam Babthorpp entended
to have had reconnyd in the first venire facias. I wold your mas-
tership made specyall labor to have one indefferent pannell of the
Coroners; they must be labored by sum frynd of yours. Sir, the
proces in thaccion of West goeth forward, as fast as the law wyll
serve. Sir, I receved two letters from you with xxvis viijd, and
all such copies, as was conteyned in your wryting. Sir, so yt was
that Parkin Warbek and other iij were arreyned, on satterday
next before the making herof, in the Whithall at Westmynster for
ther offences, afore Sir John Sygly, knight marshall, and Sir John
Trobilfeild ; and ther they all were attended, and judgment given
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that they shold be drawn on hirdills from the Tower, throwout
London, to the Tyburne, and ther to be hanged, and cutt down
quicke, and ther bowells to be taken out and burned: ther heads
to be stricke of, and quartered, ther heads and quarters to be dis-
posed at the Kyngs pleasure. And on munday next after, at the
Gildhalle in London wher the Judges, and many other knyghts,
commysioners to inquer and determayn all offences and trespasses;
and theder from the Tower was brought viij presoners, which were
indited, and parte of theme confessed themselfe gyltie, and other
parte were arreyned : and as yet they be not juged. I thinke the
shall have Judgement this next fryday. Sir, this present day
was new barresses made in Westmynster hall, and thether was
brought Therle of Warwek, and arrened afore Therle of Oxford,
being the Kyngs grace comyssioner, and afore other Lords, (by-
cause he is a pere of the Realme) whos names followeth ;d the
Duke of Bokingham, Therle of Northumberland, Therle of Kent,
Therle of Surrey, Therle of Essex, the lord Burgenny, lord Or-
a " Anno Domini M.iiücxcix. In thys yere, the xvi day of November, was areyned
in the Whyte Hall at Westmynster the forenamed Parkyn and iii other," is the simple
advertisement of Fabyan. Hall has," and so he, beyng repulsed and put backe from
all hope and good lucke with all hys complice and confederates, and Jhon Awater,
sometyme Mayor of Corffe in Ireland, one of hys founders and hys sonne, were the six-
ten day of Novembre arreyned and condempned at Westminster." Hall here uses the
word founders apparently in the sense of fautors, i. e. partisans, but the names of the
father and son conjointly arraigned with Perkyn Warbeck are unrecorded. As the
trial was before Sir John Sely, Knight Marshal, and Sir John Turbervile, Marshal of
the Marshalsea (Rot. Parl. vi. 367), the offences charged must have been the attempt
to break out of the King's ward, and treasonable practises committed out of the
Realm.
These were Astwood, Bluet, and others, who had assisted Perkyn Warbeck in
making his escape. The day of their trial was Monday Nov. 18.
:c Thursday 21 Nov. 1499.
d In the MS. this list of the Peers who sat in judgment upon the Earl of Warwick
is very incorrectly copied : thus, in the names Deyngham, Daubeney, and Dacre, the
initial letter is changed into a B, and for Zowch we read Rowch.
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mond, lord Deyngham, lord Broke, lord of Saynt Johns,e lord La-
tymer, lord De la Warre, lord Mountioy, lord Daubeney, lord
Hastings, lord Barns, lord Zowch, lord Sentmound, lord Wil-
lughby, lord Grey of Wylton, and lord Dacre. And ther Therle
of Warweke confessed thenditments that were layd to his charge,
and like Judgment was given of him, as is afore rehersed. When
thes persones shalbe put in execution I intend to shew to your
mastership right shortly; and give credence unto this berrer.
From Lyncolns Inne at London, this xxi day of November. By
your servant and bedman,
(21 Nov. 1499.)
John PULLAN.
e This title of Lord of Saynt Johns must be intended to designate the Prior of St.
John's, as there was no other Lord of Parliament bearing the title at this period. As a
military order, the knights of St. John were not, it seems, affected by the usual re-
striction upon ecclesiastics against deciding upon matters of blood.
f Richard Beauchamp, Lord St. Amand, corruptly written Sentmound. (Vide Rot.
Parl. vi. 245 6, 273 6.)
LETTER CXI.
-
.
.
To my right worshipfull brother, Sir Robart Plompton, kt.
these be delivered.
Right worshipfull Brother, I recomend me unto you, and to my
lady your wyfe, and to my daughter and to yours, with all my
other cousins your childred, desiring to heare of your welfaire and
thers both, which I besech Jesu preserve unto your most harts
comforth; evermore thanking you and my gud lady, your wyfe,
of the great and worshipful chere I and my kynsmen had with
you. Brother, ye be remembred how the writings of the cov-
naunte of marage of my son and your daughter, as it be not made
upp by the 'vise of learned counsell; wherfore, if it please you to
apoynt any day, and please about the beginyng of Lenten, when
that I myght wayt uppon you, I wilbe glad to wayt upon you, and
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a learned man with me: and all such promyse as I have made on
my party shalbe well and trewly performed, with the grace of
Jesu, for ye shall find me ever one man. Also, brother, I pray
you that ye wold send me by my servant, William Bewott, this
bringer, the payment which I shold have of you att Candlemas
last past, for I have put myselfe unto more charge, since I was
with you, then I had before.a For I have maryed another of my
daughters, and I have begon to make a wall about my parke that
I shewed you I was mynded to do, which, I trust, when ye see it,
ye will like it well. Praying you not to fale herin, as my trust is
in you, and to give credence to this bringer. No more but Jesu
preserve you. Written at Padley on St. Valentyne day with the
hand of your brother,
(14 Feb. anno 1499-1500.)
ROBART EYR.
Robert Eyre of Padley, com. Derb. esq. had covenanted to grant the marriage of
his eldest son, Arthur Eyre, to Sir Robert Plumpton, kt. for 250 marks; he to be
matched with Sir Robert's daughter, Margaret, for whose keep fifty shillings were to
be henceforth allowed out of each instalment. A receipt for twenty marks, parcel of
this sum, bears date 4 Aug. 15 Hen. VII. 1500. (Chartul. No. 800.)
LETTER CXII.
To my right worshipfull Cousin, Sir Robart Plompton, Knyght.
Right worshipfull Cousin, I hartyly recomend me unto you,
desiring you to send me my letter John Talloyr delyvered you.
Please yt you to do soe much for me in this terme, to leyn me
and send unto me by this berrer, James Potsay, v marke. I by
this wrytting, faythfully I promise you to content and pay you the
sayd y markes by the date of this my bill at Mighellmas the next;
and for that defalt, I clearly dyscharg me, and ye to have all my lands
and rents at Kyrby uppon Wharfe for ever. And also I desire
you to take credence unto this berer which knowes my mynd;
in
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and also this letter may recomend me unto my lady your wyfe.
And evermore fare ye well, the xxxt day of August.
Your kinsman,
ROBART HASTINGS.a
a Robert Hastings, esq. and William Dalyson of Laghton in Lindsay, com. Linc,
gent. submitted their differences to the arbitration of Sir Robert Plumpton, Sir John
Hastings, knights, and Nicholas Mydleton, esq. 23 Sept. 13 Hen. VII. 1497. (Chartul.
No. 790.) He was probably a younger brother of Sir John Hastings, who under
Dame Margaret Babthorpe had acquired lands and rents at Kirby-Wharf.
LETTER CXIII.
To the right wyrshypful Sir Robert Plompton, kt. in hast.
Right wyrshipful Sir, and my special good mastre, after dew
recomendations had, 1 hartily thank your good mastership that it
wold please you to cause mee to bee praied for. I beseeche
Almighty God that I may live to do you such service therfore, as
may contente your mastership. I received your letter by Mr.
Sygskyke, clerk, and 2 ryals closed therin; and acording to your
commandement I have retained in the Exchequer, by the advice of
Mr. Blakewall, Mr. Denny ; a in the Chauncry, Porter, and given
unto them ther fees. I have delivered all your letters, and from
Mr. Blakwall, I trust, ye have answer by one of Mr. Gascoygne
servants. And also for all things compresed in your first letter
that I received by John Wadd, as touching any accion to be
taken aganst you, or any diem clausit extremum for any office to
be founde, I shall doe therin as much as lyeth in my power, that
your mastership may have knowledg therof. If ther be any such
wryt made, yt must be in Porters office, and he hath promysed
me that ther shall none passe, but he shall give me knowledg
therof; and if ther come any Inquisicio virtute officii, it must come
into the office, wherat Mr. Deene is dayly : wherfore, I trust to
* Edmund Denny, made fourth Baron of the Exchequer 6 May 1514.
CAMD. Soc. 4.
U
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God that your mastership shall have knowledg, if any such things
fortune. They have made search in the Escheker for the perdon
that was pledet, suppose the title had bene made therin as here to
Sir William, and when they saw that it was by feffment, they were
not well content. The names that are in the byll for to be sche-
reff ; Not: and Derb: Sir Ralfe Langford, Ormound, and Such ;d
Yorkshire, Sir William Bulmer, e Sir William Engelby,f and Sir
W. Griffith.& Sir Humfrey Stanleyh labors to be Schereffe in Staf-
fordshire: herof I shall acertan you, as sonne as the byll cometh
from the King. I have receyved from your mastership xls; at the
end of this terme, I shall send you a byll of all the matters of
this terme; and as for the accion which procedeth against Sir
John Hastyngs, I shall contynue yt to the next terme, by the
grace of God, who ever kepe you and yours. From London, with
the hand of your servant, the x day of November.
GEORG EMERSON.
Sir, also yt was shewed unto me by one Master Newdigate,
that thes names for Not: and Derb: were put in the byll by the
labor of the sayd Master Newdigate,i at the request and desire of
Sir William Meryngs heire. And yt please your mastership, me
semes that yt were well done to send unto Mr Meryng, to
know wheder he wilde frindly in thes matters or no; and if he
may doe any thing with the above named personnes.
(10 Nov. 1500.)
b Sir Ralph Langford, of Longford, com. Derb. kt.
e John Ormond, of Alfreton, com. Derb. esq. obiit 1507.
d William Zouche, of Morley, com. Derb. esq.
e Sir William Bulmer, of Wilton, com. Ebor, kt.
f Sir William Ingilby, of Ripley, com. Ebor. kt.
& Sir Walter Griffith, of Burton Agnes, com. Ebor. kt.
Sir Humphrey Stanley, of Pipe, com. Staff. kt.
i John Newdigate, called Serjeant, 18 Nov. 1511.
k Sir William Mering, of Mering, com. Nott. kt.
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LETTER CXIV.
To his right worshipfull and especyall good master, Sir Robart
Plompton, knight, be these delivered in hast.
Right worshipfull Sir and my especial good master, with due
recomendation, please yt your mastership to understand that Mas-
ter Gryffith is Schereffe of Yorkshir,a Sir Ralfe Longford of Not.
and Derby,b and John caston (lege Aston) of Staufordshire; and
as for the Eshetours, in Staffordshire as yet, as fare as I know, is
non. Ralfe Sauchevereth of Hopwelld is Eschetour of Noting-
hamshire and Derby, and as farre as I understand, Wm Crowch,
that was Custymer of Hull, is Eschetor of Yorkshire. My lord
of Carlele e hath authorytie to make Eschetor ther; and as fare as I
know, or can learne, the sayd Crowch occupieth still ther. And
as yet, as fare as I can understand, ther is noe office found, nor as
yet reconed, nether into the Chaunchry, nor yet into the Esche-
quer, after the death of my master your father. I shall lye in
awayte, as much as I can, therfore. I pled for your mastership x
yere agoo a Perdon for Wolfe-hunt lands about Maunsefeild in
Shirwood; f by which plee ye clamed the land by fefement of
my master, yore father. A gentilman, that is of counsell with
Master Empson, enquered for the same plee and saw yt; and was
sory that ye had not clamed the saide land as son and heire. Other
tydings ther be none, but that make you redy; for suerly, as farre
as I know, Master Empson will in hand with you this yere, and
as farre as I can know, by assise. And I besech you, that I may
a Sir Walter Griffith, High Sheriff of Yorkshire in 1501.
o Sir Ralph Longford, High Sheriff of Nott. and Derb. in 1501.
c John Aston, esq. High Sheriff of Staffordshire in 1501, afterwards Sir John
Aston, kt.
d Ralph Saucheverell, of Hopwell, com. Derb. esq.
e William Sewer, Bishop of Carlisle and Abbot of St. Mary, York.
f Perdon, i. e. per donum, by which plea the land was claimed under a gift special.
(See Letters LXIII. and LXIV.)
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be recomended to my good lady, my lady your wyfe, with Mas-
ter Pole & and my mystres his wyfe. My master le recomendeth
him to you and prayeth you to remember his l marc now, for he
sath that he hath nede therof. And Jesu preserve you. From
London, in great hast, as apeareth, the xvi day November.
Your servant, ROBERT BLAKWALL.
(16 Nov. 1500.)
& German Pole, son-in-law of Sir Robert Plumpton.
h Robert Lytton, esq. Under Treasurer of England in 1493, afterwards Sir Robert
Lytton, kt. is probably here indicated by “my master :" the debt was owing for the
marriage of the daughter of Sir Robert Plumpton to German Pole in 1495, in which
contract Sir Robert Lytton had an interest. (See Letter CVIII. note a.)
i The name of Sir Robert Blackwall, clerk, is found among those appointed to be
receivers of petitions in the Parliaments 1 Richard III. 7, 11, 12, and 19 Henry VII.
LETTER CXV.
To my hartyly beloved Brother, Sir Robart Plompton, knyght.
Brother, I recomend me unto you. This Sunday my nephew
Sir William Gascoygne is ryden from home towards Colyweston, a
and whether further or nay I know not; howbeit, I trow better, he
had not. Brother, he desired me to wrytt unto you, praying that
iiij mark and xxd. now dew unto him at this Martymasse last,
which is right gredy therupon, and gladly my nephew wold he
were content. If ye wold any thing to London, send me word;
that I can, for I thinke I send one right shortly after my nephew.
Thus farewell. At Gaukthorp, this Sunday.
Your owne at his power,
JOHN GASCON.b
a Coly-Weston, com. Northampton, where the King's mother resided.
b John Gascoigne, esq. brother to Dame Agnes Plumpton, wife of Sir Robert Plump-
ton, kt. and uncle to Sir William Gascoigne, of Gokethorp, com. Ebor. kt. from
whom see next Letter.
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LETTER CXVI.
To my Uncle Plompton, be thes delivered.
Uncle Plompton, I comennd me unto you. And where I
should have bene with you to morow at Selbie, in good fayth it is
so that I was yesterday so crased and sicke that I kept my bedd
all day, and this day I am not of power to goe, nor ride as yet.
And also there is with me my uncle Ward, a Thomas Lawrance,
Ralfe Nevell, and others; but that notwithstanding, if I had my
health, I should be with you. And if ye cannot conclud tomor-
row, appoynt a new day, and I shalbe glad to be with you with
grace of Jesu, who ever keepe you. Scribbled at Gaukthorp,
this fryday in hast.
Your nepho,
WILLIAM GASCOYGNE.
& Sir Christopher Ward, kt. of Givendale, com. Ebor. He married Margaret
daughter of Sir William Gascoigne, kt. sister to Dame Agnes Plumpton, and aunt to
the writer of this Letter. He died 14 Hen. VIII. (Esc. 14 H: 8. n. 68.)
b Thomas Lawrence, son-in-law of Sir Christopher Ward. By his wife Margaret he
had no issue.
c Ralph Nevill of Thornton-bridge, com. Ebor. esq. married Anne, another daughter
of Sir Christopher Ward, kt.; both were deceased before 14 Hen. VIII. (Esc. ubi
supra.)
LETTER CXVII.
To his worshipfull Uncle, Sir Robart Plompton, kt. deliver these.
Right worshipful Uncle, I comennd me unto you, praying you
to send me all such evidence, as ye have concernyng any lands or
tenements in Tokwith ; & so that I may have them at Tadcaster
this nyght, for the matter is in communication there: and the
sayd evidence shalbe safly kept for you, as knoweth Almyghtie
à Tockwith (Ainsty). parish of Bilton, com. Ebor.
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Jesu, who evermore preserve you. Written at Tadcaster this
fryday.
Your nepho,
WILLIAM GASCOYGNE.
LETTER CXVIII.
To the worshipfull Sir Robart Plompton, kt. deliver these.
Right worshipfull Sir, and my especiall good master, after due
recomendations had, I hartyly thanke your mastership for many
great things done for me afore this, beseching Almighty God that
I may doe your mastership some service therfore. I receyved
your letter by George Crose, and as for all your great matters, as
yet nothings sayd; yet yt is shewed me that they purpose suerly
to have an assise this somer. Wherfore I trust your mastership
doth provide for the best remedy, which after my mynd is to
make many frinds and of the best. I send unto your mastership
closed in this box the sawar à for the Inditement, according to
your comandement, which is retornabile xv Trinitatis. And thus
Almyghty Jesu preserve your mastership and all yours to his
pleasure. From London, the first day of May, with ond of your
servant to his power.
(1 May 1500.)
GEORG EMERSON.
a Sawar, quære whether the writ to the sheriff was so called, because of the clause
si fecerit te securum ?
LETTER CXIX.
To the right worshipfull and his speciall good master, Sir Robart
Plompton, kt. deliver these.
Right worshipfull Sir, I recomend me unto your mastership,
letting you understand that laytly I wrott to you a letter of your
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matters; where was, that the great man E.a, as far as undoubted as
I can know, intendeth to have assyses agaynst you. Wherfore
tyme is to labor as well the Schereffes, as all your frynds, and
every country where your land lyeth. It is for that the said great
man E. with other of the Kyngs counsell, sitting for assessyng of
fynes for knyghts, ........ which may doe hym pleasure,
he is intreated scecretly to owe his good will; ye may have trial
by lyklyhed what ther answere shalbe: thus he under myneth.
But let you for no labour. All such copies of your matters resteth
in my keeping. And this was your lawiers conclusion ; that your
mastership should take a sure frynd to se all your evydence (which
I thynke after my mynd must be Mr. Eleson),c to this intent:
that your sayd counsell may have all the estayts made by your
graynser and father,d as well uppon marrage lesses, as other wayes,
and in lykwyse, how all the sayd estats come home agayne, wrytten
verbatim in paper: and to have all your new esvedence by your
father to John Norton and others, and estats made to have to your
father for terme of lyfe: and to send copies of all matters proving
matrymony betwyxt my sayd master your father, and my lady
your mother: é and further prove which of the sayd feffees was
a Empson is here meant.
• The fines levied upon persons who had not taken up their knighthood, was one of
the extortions in which Empson was an active agent for the crown. By partially
favouring individuals, he secured their services when empannelled as jurors for the trial
of the assise against Sir Robert Plumpton.
c William Eleson, esq. (See Letter CIII, note a.)
Sir Robert Plumpton and Sir William Plumpton, knights.
e See Memoirs for what relates to the clandestine marriage of Sir William Plumpton
and Joan Wintringham, his second wife. This lady was living 19 Oct. 12 Henry VII.
1496, when she passed some copyhold lands in the court at Knaresborough to her son,
before Thomas Coghill, the bailiff of the liberty, (Chartul. No. 785,) but was dead
in the following year, 1497, when by reason that Sir Robert Plumpton had given for the
repose of her soul the twentieth part of a ducat to the re-building of the greater hos-
pital at St. Jago de Compostella, her name was to be associated with all those prayed
for by that community, with a share in all spiritual indulgences according to the tenor
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present at possession. Loke they be at London the begining of
this next terme, with alli ....... Sir Richard f and ij men, and
the sayd copies. If Mr. Eleson can fynd any of your lands talled
to the here male, send copies therof; I thinke none be. And thus
the holy Trenety send good speed to yours. From Lyncolns Inn,
at London, this tuesday in the crose dayes.8
Your servant, JOHN PULLAN.b :
I find no sure frends in all cause but George Emerson. Yaxley
and Frowick, serieants, and Brook and Edgar are your counselors.
(18 May 1501.)
of the bulls of Popes Innocent VIII. and Alexander VI. (Chartul. No. 788.) The
informalities attending her marriage required atonement, and in the Chartulary are
copied numerous certificates of the Indulgences which her husband and herself had
obtained in return for alms bestowed on different religious communities both at home
and abroad. Dodsworth, among his Church Notes, has the following memorandum :
" Knaresborowgh Church, 28 Sept. 1622. There is a quire in the south side called
Plumpton's quyer, which belonged to a house in the town called Wintringham Hall."
(Dodsw. MSS. in Bibl. Bodl. CLX.fol. 186.) The same antiquary has also preserved
to us this description of a painted north window then remaining in the same church.
- A man in ar. kneeling, on his breast b. 5 fusells in fesse or, (Plumpton) ; his wiefe
behind him, on her breast the former coat paled with ar. a (inescocheon) ent. an orle
of martletts, g. (Wintringham); under, Orate pro a'i'a...,.... Plumpton et etiam pro
a'i'a d'n'i Will' mi Plumpton qui istam ............ anno ............ Qu’rly. b.
5 fusells in fesse or, and sa. a [bend] ent. 6 (escalops] or, (Foljambe); paled with it,
án [inescocheon] ent. 9 martletts in orle, g." Dodsworth appears to have either over-
looked the escallops on the fusells, the distinguishing charge in the coat of Plumpton,
or they had become imperceptible from lapse of time.
f Sir Richard Plumpton, chaplain, is probably here intended.
& Cross week was Rogation week, and the cross days the three days, Monday, Tues-
day and Wednesday before the feast of Ascension, or Holy Thursday.
h This letter was in a tattered state when copied by Sir Edward Plumpton, 21 April
1613. The two sentences here printed as a postscript are written in the margin of the
page of the MS. and at the foot of the letter is added, “much is omitted becaus it is
riven."
i John Yaxley and Thomas Frowyk, serjeants, called 10 Sept. 1496. Richard Brook,
counsellor, called serjeant 10 Nov. 1511. The following is a copy of Serjeant Yaxley's
retainer, (Chartul. No. 802) “ This bill indented at London the 16 day of July, the
16 yeare of the reigne of King Henry the yth witnesseth that John Yaxley, Sergent at
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the Law, shall be at the next Assises to be holden at York, Nottin. and Derb. if they be
holden and kept, and their to be of council with Sir Robert Plompton, knight, such
assises and actions as the said Sir Robert shall require the said John Yaxley, for the
which premisses, as well for his costs and his labour, John Pulan, Gentlman, bindeth
him by thease presents to content and pay to the said John Yaxley 40 marks * sterling
at the feast of the Nativetie of our Lady next coming, or within eight days next folow-
ing, with 5li paid aforehand, parcell of paiment of the said 40 marcks. Provided alway
that if the said John Yaxley have knowledg and warning only to cum to Nott. and
Derby, then the said John Yaxley is agread by these presents to take onely xpli besides
the said 5li aforesaid. Provided alwaies that if the said John Yaxley have knowledg
and warning to take no labor in this matter, then he to reteine and hold the said 511
resaived for his good will and labor. In witnesse herof the said John Yaxley, seriant,
to the part of this indenture remaining with the said John Pulan have put his seale the
day and yeare abovewritten. Provided also that the said Sir Robert Plompton shall
beare the charges of the said John Yaxley, as well at York as Nottingham and Derby,
and also to content and pay the said money to the sayd John Yaxley comed to the said
Assises att Nott. Derb. and York.
"(Copied the 5 of October 1627, having a seal.)
JOHN YAXLEY."
* 2612. 13s. 4d.
LETTER CXX.
To the Right worshipfull, and his especiall good master, Sir Robart
Plompton, knight.
Right worshipfull Sir, I recomend me unto your mastership,
letting you understand, that latly I sent dyvers letters to you;
thaffect of which letters was, that your adversaries intendeth suerly
to attempt the law against you. Therfore I can wryt no other
thing to your mastership, but oftymes remember my wryting ;
it toucheth your worship and wele. Therfore make your frynds
to take your part, as frynds shold doe, as well in Nott. Derb.
as Yorkshire, and God, I trust, shall be steresman in every ryght-
wyse cause. Master Robert Constable, servant,a shalbe Justice
of assise in Cornewall, Devonshir, and other west countryes,
with Master Frowike; so that I trust, he shal not be at this
a See Letter C. noted.
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assise. Such pronunstications as a speciall freind lent to me, I
copied them, as your worship shall see, and receive herewithall
closed. As for all other causes, this bringer can shew to you by
mouth, as larg as I can wryte, as Jesu knoweth, who preserve you.
From Lyncolns Inne, at London, this Whitsonemunday.
Your servant and beadman,
(31 May, 1501.)
JOHN PULLAN.
LETTER CXXI.
To my right worshipfull master and brother, Sir Robart Plompton,
knyght.
After lowly and all due recomendations, I recomend me unto
your good mastership and good brotherhode, praying the same, that
yt will please you to send me by this berer the Martynmese
farme for such lands and tenements as ye have by lease made be-
twixt you and me. And, Sir, as I suppose, insomuch as ye
pleased not to content me at the untermost day limytted in the
sayd lease, ye wylbe agreable that I enter to the sayd lands and
tenements; wherfore, so I pray you to send me word in a byli by
this berer, whether ye will that I enter to the same lands and
tenements, or that ye will hold them still, and content according
to the same lease. And, Sir, in so much as this is the first day of
breach of your payments, I wyll nothing attempt therin, to I have
word from you by this bearer, if it may so please you. And Al-
myghty Jesu preserve you in prosperouse lyffe, long to endure.
From Yorke the xiìth day of January.
Your servant,
ROBART PLOMPTON, of Yorke.a
* Robert Plumpton of York, was another of the bastard sons of Sir William Plump-
ton, kt. and brother of William Plumpton of Kirkby-Overblow, gent. (See Letter
XXVIII. note 4.) The land and tenements lay at Ockbrook, com. Derby, and the
deed by which they were held has already been brought under notice in Letter LXVII.
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LETTER CXXII.
Unto Sir Robart Plompton, knight, be this letter delivered
in hast.
Right worshipfull Sir, I recomend me unto you, desiring to
here of your welfare ; certifiing you I have receyved your letter
and hath spoken with Sir Edmond Batmon, and he is right glad
of the mocion, and wyll abyde by yt for his dede, and by all
things that his attorney doth in his name, and so will shew
to all men that spurns a him any wher. But he is feard lest they
wyll not appeare without a suppena, and if ther be any thing, that
ether he, or I, can doe you service or plesure, we are yours. No
more at this tyme, but Jesu preserve you. Wrytten at Darley in
the Peke, the vi day of March.
By your lover and servant,
HERRIE CULLUMBELL.b
A To spur, to ask. See the Hallamshire Glossary, by the Rev. Joseph Hunter, F.S.A.
Lond. Pickering, 1829.
b Henry Collumbell of Derley, com. Derb. esq.
LETTER CXXIII.
To our right woshipful master, Sir Robart Plompton, kt. be this
letter delyvered in hast.
After most lowly and all due recomendations, we lowly reco-
mend us unto your good mastership; certyfying you, that as fare
as we can understand or know, John Rocliffe and John Sothella
& Sir John Sotehill, the husband of Dame Elizabeth Sotehill, was at this time de-
ceased, and his name is here improperly introduced through the inadvertence of the
writers. Master Anthony Clifford was, it seems, the attorney for Dame Elizabeth
Sotehill in these matters, but the legal estate and right of entry had vested in Robert
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ar come to Kynreston place, and ther purpose to tary and abyde,
to such tyme as they thinke tyme convenient for to enter into
your liflods in this country, and take distor (distress). And we
have bene at dyverse places of your liflods, and finds your tenants
well disposed toward you; and sithen, the most part of gentlemen
in this country, and especyally the Eyres, so that ye wold come
yourselfe and be sene amongst your tenants and frynds, the which
were to them a singler pleasure and comforth, and to yourselfe a
great strength. And to bring with you not over the number of
xx horse at the most, and such as may have your advise and coun-
sell to take derection, the which may be to the suerty of your
lyflod and tenants. And if ye can gett master Mydleton, bryng
him with you, or Richard Grene, or some other, and come to
Hassop, for we have desevered us, and some departed tham. And
with the grace of Jesu, and ye come betwixt this and tuesday,
that all things shalbe to your harts comforth in tyme to come.
But, Sir, they have bene here diverse tymes, doing for your wele
and pleasure, and thinkes ye will, or dar, not put you in jopartie
for your owne; for and ye come, they will put them in dever to
do any thing that may be to the wele of your liflod and tenants.
And, Sir, bryng with you money convenient for your expenses,
for as yet.... here be now (noe) rent teyned. Now (noe) over
to you at this tyme, who the holy Trenety have you in his keping.
By your servant,
(Anno 1501.)
ROBINIT PLOMPTON, with other moe.
Bubwith, clerk, and Richard Burrow, chaplain, by conveyance from Richard Fawberge
or Fulbarne, the surviving feoffee of the original settlement, alleged to have been made
by Sir William Plumpton, kt. in the fourth year of the reign of Edward IV. (See
Letter XCV. note a.)
b Kinston Place, anciently Cheniston, in the parish of Radcliff-upon-Soar, com.
Nott. was at this time a seat of the Babingtons ; " and a very fair house they had
there,” says Thoroton.
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LETTER CXXIV.
To my right worshipfull master, Sir Robart Plompton, knight.
After my duety, pleaseth your good mastership to wyt, that Sir
John Rocliffe and Master Anthony Clifford send for me to
Notingham; and when I came ther, they asked me whether I
had brought mony, and I shewed them ye had received it alredy,
and then they were very angree with many sore words. I was
never so werie and soferd of my life, since I was borne. And
they wrote every word I said and more; and I trow, but that they
were in troble before, I shold never have escaped them. And all
ther servant beated me one after another. I trust I shall hold me
at home, if they send for me. And ever they thratte me that I
shold goe to London, and if I wold come up unsent for, that shold
be the better for me; and if I taryed tyll I were sent for, I shold
be undone. Wherfore, Sir, I pray you let yt be loked to, if they
wold take out any accion against me. I bere me much of Master
Sacheverell, which is your stuard; but they had me in that case,
whatever they sayd I durst not say nay, nor I wist not what I
sayd, nor what I did.
Your bayley and servant,
(Anno 1501.)
WILLIAM SANDERSON.&
. By letters bearing date 2 July, 15 Hen. VII. 1500, Robert Bubwith and Richard
Burrow constituted William Saucheverell and William Sanderson their attornies, to take
possession of the manors of Edensor, Derley, Stanton, and Pillesley, com. Derb. and
of Combridge and Crakemarsh, com. Stafford, which they had by force of the feofment
made by Richard Fawberge to them and their heirs. (See Letter XCV.)
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LETTER CXXV.
To my right worshipfull brother, Sir Robart Plumpton, kt. these
be delivered,
Right worshipfull brother, I recomend me unto you. Brother,
I have received your letter, be the which I perceived ye be
mynded to be with my lord of Schrewsbury on munday next, be
noune of the day; and that ye wold have me to meet you by the
way. Brother, my lord is at Wynfeld, and my lady both, and I
wilbe glad to wayte upon you at Hegham, a myle from Wynfeld, a
or els at Chesterfeld, whether it please you. Brother, I am afrad
lese this labour be vayne, for in certayne I caused all the labour
to be made possible at this tyme, both to my lord and to my lady,
and he wold not be turned; for he myght not, and keepe his truth
and promyse made afore. Notwithstanding, sithe ye be comyng
on your way, I thinke it is well done, ye to speake with my lord
yourselfe, as prevely as ye can; and thus Jesu kepe you. At
Padley, the sunday next afore the feast of St. John Baptise.b
Your loving brother,
(20 June 1501.)
Robart Eyre, esquire.
a Wingfield, in Derbyshire, a capital manor of the Earl of Shrewsbury.
b 24 June.
LETTER CXXVI.
To my worshipfull master, Sir Robart Plompton, knyght, be
these delivered.
In my most humble wyse, Sir, I recomend me unto you and to
my lady. Also, Sir, it is so, according to your wrytting that ye
send me by Robart Smyth, I sent a letter in your name to Wil-
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liam Rossell,a and he sent me a copie of the Inpanell that Ro-
cliffe and Suttell intends shall passe agaynst you for your maner
of Kenalton and the towne also, which Inpanell the sayd Wil-
liam Rossell had of the underschereffe of Nottingham, and he gave
him therfore II$; which Inpanell is so favourable mayd, as I un-
derstand by dyvers of your frynds now of layt, wylbe great hurt
to your worship, except the great mercy of God, and great labor
and cost. Also, Sir, I have spoken with the baylay of Byngham
Vapentake, and he will owe you as mekell fovour, as is in him to
doo, for hes master Beronc servant, and his name is Edmund
Mylnes; and so I understand by him, his master wold doe also,
if he were labored. Sir, I have teryed at Kenalton this satterday,
for because I cannot have my money that I should have had of
him, and my horse wold bere me no further; and this satterday I
have bought another horse of Robart Towyll of Nottyngham, for
which I have payd him v nobles, of which sume Thomas Haym
of Kenalton hath lent me for your sake and my ladis xxs, which I
have promysed in your name shalbe payd unto him agayne, with
the grace of God. Sir, I send unto you a copie of the Inpanell
that William Rossell sent unto me, and all these that is at the
end of the names ar Hundrythars, as I understand by the baylife of
the waypentake of Byngham, and other of your frynds and lovers.
And also, Sir, Robart Smyth (xxs) and John Reger (xs) hath lent
a William Rossell, a younger brother of John Rossell of Ratcliff, com. Nott. esq.
b This suit had been brought in the names of Robert Bubwith and Richard Burgh,
clerks, against Sir Robert Plumpton, kt. for the recovery of the manor of Kinalton,
com. Nott. and was tried before John Vavasor, Justice of Common Pleas, and John
Fisher, Serjeant, Justices pro hoc vice, at Nottingham, at the Lammas Assizes, in the
year 1501, when the verdict passed for the Claimants. Whereupon Sir John Rocliff
and Margaret his wife, and Elizabeth Sotehill, widow, demised the said manor to Sir
Richard Empson, kt. for the term of his life, who, besides this reward for his mainte-
nance, further procured, about 20 Hen. VII. 1504, his daughter to be married to the
heir of Dame Elizabeth Sotehill.
c Sir Nicholas Byron of Colwick, com. Nott. kt. obiit 13 Jan. 19 Hen. VII. 1503-4.
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Il
me xxxs for your sake and my ladyes. As for John Willemett,d
hath payd me iiijli. As for William Tufell,e hath maryed Mr.
Beron sister; and as I understand, Mr. Berron may cause him
and other of the Inpanell. Therfore I thinke, by my simple ad-
vice, that ye caused Mr. Beron to be spoken withall, for if I myght
have had space, I shold have labored him in that matter. Sir
Thomas Babington,f and a lerned man, called William Wynes-
wold, is greatest labourers agaynst you in this matter, as is shewed
me by your lovers. And as for Richard Trumyll, he is houshold
servant unto Sir Henry Wyllowby; 8 and thus I betake you to
the keping of the holy Trenete. From Kenalton, the sunday next
after Natyvytie of St. John Baptest.
By your Beadman and servant,
(27 June 1501.)
SIR RICHAND PLOMPTON, Prest.
d By an indenture made 24 July, 10 Hen. VII. 1495. Sir Robert Plumpton leased
the manor of Kenalton, “ from the feast of the Invencion of Holy cros, called St.
Elline day, next coming unto the end of ix yeares," to John Willymot for 22li yearly
rent. The latter was to furnish to Sir Robert Plumpton meat and drink for his ser-
vants, and provender for twenty horses, for the space of four days, twice in the year,
and if he abode for a longer space, then to pay three farthings for horse litter and hay
for a day and night, and 1 d. for going at grass in the summer time for a week. Sir
Robert and his servants were also to occupy the hall, chambers, bakehouse, brew-
house, kitchen, and stable belonging to the said manor, at his coming there, and in his
absence the said John to occupy the hall and the chambers at the over-end of the hall,
with all other houses of office; the tenant was moreover to find meat and drink for the
stewards and receivers of Sir Robert Plumpton coming on business. (Chartul. No.
778.)
e William Turvile of West Leke, com. Nott. esq.
if Sir Thomas Babington of Kinston, com. Nott. kt.
8 Sir Henry Willoughby of Wollaton, com. Nott. knight banneret.
LETTER CXXVII.
To my right worshipfull brother, Sir Robart Plompton, kt.
deliver these.
Right worshipfull brother, I recomend me unto you and to my
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lady, your wyfe, and to my daughter Margret. 'Brother, I spake
with Frowick on Satterday next after St. Bartelmewday,a and I
enquired of him whether the assisse held at Nottingham and
Darby, or not; and he answered and sayd, that he cold not tell,
nor man els, unto munday next after, for that day the Kings
grace had comanded all - the Judges and Servants to be with him
at Richmond, and whether he wold comand them to kepe your
Servants, or to tary for other besines at that tyme, he west never.
Also, brother, as for your parte of your panell, I am promysed
suerly they will appere, whose names ar closed in a byll; but as
to the attachment of the proces for your sute,b is not yet, as fare
as I understand. But I send about it unto the Shereffe as sone
as Hare Harlad com from you, for sume remedy ther, if he myspede.
I have sent you part the names of the enpannell for Suttell and
Rocliffe, which be in the end of the Hye Peyke, of the which
divers have promysed me not to appere, and moe I trust for to
stoppe. Marveling ye sent nobody to Darby for to take you lodg-
ing, for Emson hath taken much lodging for him, as I am en-
firmed. Also I shall wate one you at Nottingham one sunday
a In the year 1501 the feast of St. Bartholomew (24 Aug.) fell on a Tuesday, the
Saturday next after would therefore be the twenty-eighth, and the Monday following
the thirtieth of August.
b Sir Robert Plumpton had brought a cross action in the name of his feoffees, Tho-
mas Lindley, John Swale the elder, Richard Kyghley, John Alleyn, clerk, and William
Lindley, against Sir John Rocliff, kt. and Margaret his wife, and Elizabeth Sotehill,
widow, for lands in Edinsour and Pillesley, which lands had been awarded to the heirs
general by King Rich. III. ; and by the King's writ, tested at Westminster 4 Aug. 16
Hen. VII. 1501, John Vavasor and John Fissher were appointed Justices for the trial
of the same, in the county of Derby. A similar suit was instituted for the recovery of
the manors of Garsington and Steeton in Yorkshire, which, by a writ of the same date,
Humphrey Conyngesby and James Hobert, serjeants, were appointed to try before
them as Justices at York. The attachment has, however, reference probably to pro-
ceedings in Chancery on the part of Sir Robert Plumpton, by reason of the parties not
appearing under the subpena. (See Letter CXXII.)
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next, except ye comand me contrary, praying you to send me
answere shortly.
Your loving brother, ROBART EYRE, esquire.c
(September 1501.)
© Robert Eyre of Padley, died 13 Nov. 19 Hen. VII. 1504, when Arthur his son and
heir was of the age of twenty-three years. (Esc. 28 Jan. H. 7, n. 253, pars 1.)
LETTER CXXVIII.
To the right worshipfull, my full singuler good master, Sir Robart
Plumpton, knight, this letter be delivered in hast.
Right reverent and worshipfull and my singler gud master, in
the most humble and lowly maner that I can, I recomend me
unto you, and unto my gud lady your wyfe, desiryng to have
knowledg of your prosperous helth, worship, and welfayre,
which I besech almyghty Jesus long to contynue to his pleasure,
and your most comforth. Hartely beseching the gud Lord that
redemed me and all mankind upon the holy crosse, that he will of
his benigne mercy vouchsafe to be your helper, and give you
power to resist and withstand the utter and malicious enmity, and
false craft of Mr. Empson, and such others your adversaries;
which, as all the great parte of England knoweth, hath done
to you and yours the most iniury and wrong, that ever was done,
or wrought, to any man of worship in this land of peace. And
non more sory therfore, then I myselfe is. If it were, or myght
be in my poore power to remedy the matter, or any parcell of
the matter, in any maner, condition, or dede, and whereas I
may doe no more, my dayly prayers shalbe, and have bene,
ever redy, with the grace of Jesu. And wher it is so that I am
bounden to pay to your mastership, or to your assignes, cer-
tayne money by yere, to the sume of xli, at ij tymes, for such
lands as be assigned in ioynter to my nephew, Germayne Pole,
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and my cousin, his wyfe and your daughter, I have delivered
and payd to his hands for this last past Martynmas rent vli,
trustyng that your mastership is contented therwith. What
parte, or how much thereof, my sayd neveu, Germayne, hath
sent to your mastership, I am ignorant, saving that he shewed
me that he sendeth you but yli towards the exibicions of my
nese, his wyfe. I required you as my singler trust is in you,
to send me acquitaunce for my discharg, for the payment of
this sayd vli; and moreover I besech you to send me word in
writting by the bringer hereof, how I shall pay my rent from
hence forward, and to whom I shall pay it; and as it pleaseth
you by yore owne writting to comand me, I shalbe redy to
performe it, by the grace of Jesu, who ever preserve your gud
mastership. Wrytten at Rodburne in hast, the morow next
after St. Kathren day.
Your true and faythfull beadwoman
(26 Nov. 1501.) to hir power, ELIZABETH DE POLE.
& The writer of this earnest letter was Elizabeth, daughter and coheir of Sir Reginald
Moton of Peckleton, com. Leic, kt. who died in 1445, and widow of Ralph Pole of
Radburne, co. Derb. esq. who died 31 May, 1492. (Vide Letter CVIII. note c.) Ger-
man Pole was her grandson, and in the letter mention is made of money paid to “ my
nephew;" which epithet (as in the Latin from which it is derived) equally designated a
nephew, the son of a brother or sister, and a grandson. His wife is in like manner
smy nese," or "my cousin ;” and the remittance for schooling shews her to have
been yet of such tender years as not to have left the paternal roof. German Pole
was, however, with his wife in Derbyshire in 1502, before he had fully attained his age.
(Vide Letter CXXXII.)
LETTER CXXIX.
To his worshipfull master, Sir Robart Plompton, kt.
Right worshipfull Sir, in my lowliest wyse I comend me to you.
Sir, I purpose with the grace of God to be with you or Martyn-
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mas,a if I may. This day I must ryde to Yorke, and how long I
shall tary ther, I can not shew you. And as for compleanyng to
my lord Archbishop of any ryott,b the tyme is not now. When I
speake with you, I shall shew you more of my mynd, with the
grace of Jesu, who, I besech, preserve you, &c.
Your servant
(November 1502.)
WILLIAM ELESON.
a 11 Nov.
To the attempt on the part of the lessors of the plaintiffs, Rocliffe and Sotehill, to
eject Sir Robert Plumpton from bis manor of Plumpton, a forcible resistance had been
made by him and his servants, and a riot had ensued in which his servant, Geffrey
Towneley, appears to have lost his life. See Memoirs.)
LETTER CXXX.
To my right worshipfull Cousin, Robart Plompton, Kt. be these
delivered.
Right worshipfull Cousin, I recomennd me unto you, desiryng
to here of your wellfayre. Cousin, I understand there there was
a servant of yours, and a kynsman of myne, was myschevously
made away with, which I am sory fore. Cousin, I desire and
pray you to be good master to Nycholas Lee, my lyaufe, as touch-
inge his goods, and the better at the instance of this my wrytting;
and if ther be any thinge that I may doe for you, yt shalhe redy
to you, as ever was any of my ansitors to yours, which, I ender-
stand, they wold have bene glad to do any pleasure to. Written.
at Townley, on Salmes day a last past.
(2 Nov. 1502.)
JOHN TOWNLEY, kt.b
a 2 Nov. All Souls-day, otherwise “Soulemas day."
Sir John Towneley of Towneley, com. Lancast. kt. born 1473, died 1539. The
kinsman here alluded to was doubtless Geffrey Towneley, whose name has occurred
more than once in the correspondence; and of whom the last memorandum in the
IN THE REIGN OF HENRY VII.
165
Cartulary is to the effect, that David Griffith had received of Gefferay Towneley, ser-
vant to Sir Robert Plompton, knight, ixli for his fee of Hawwarrey parke, at Leyrpole,
5 Oct, 14 Hen. VII. 1498. (Chartul. No. 795.) It is presumed that he lost his life
in the riot adverted to in the preceding letter.
LETTER CXXXI.
To the right worshipfull Sir Robart Plompton, kt.
Sir, after my duety remembred unto your mastership, please it
you the same to know, that by instant labour I have gott a copie
of the wryt of thassisse and playnt agaynst you, to the intent
therby to have a wryt of error; which wryt, by the advise of your
counsell, which I had togither, is put to making: and for the ex-
pedition therof, it shall want no dyligence, nor calling uppon.a
For the costs and expencs about thes busines wilbe great, therfore
I wold ye prepared money to send, uppon all goodly hast. And
your learned counsell thinketh veryly, if the law may be indef-
ferently hard, that the proceeding in the sayd assies is error. It
is so that master Frowyke is made Cheife Justice of the Common
place,b and therfore ye must myse his counsell; and that I for-
thinke. Sir, I have delivered your letters, as well to Mr. Under
a By deed bearing date 7 May, 17 Hen. VII. 1502, John Ingilby, esq. as the heir of, or
surviving feoffee in some settlement made by Sir William Plumpton in the reign of Edw. IV.
conveyed his estate in the manors of Plumpton, Idill, Steveton, Garsington in Craven,
and Little Studley, near Ripon, to Robert Bubwith, clerk, and Richard Burgh, chaplain,
to which Thomas Ros, Richard Goldsbrough, John Acclome, and James Ros, esqs.
subscribed as witnesses (Chartul. No. 818); and at the assizes held at York in the
month of September in that year, the parties thus enfeoffed had recovered the manor
of Plumpton against Sir Robert Plumpton. (See Memoirs.) It was now sought to
discover error in the proceedings, and at the same time application was made for Sir
Robert Plumpton to be appointed a Knight of the King's Body, in order that he might
have in the meanwhile the privilege of being protected against civil process and arrest.
b Thomas Frowyk, Chief Justice C. P. Writ tested 30 Sept. 18 Hen. VII. (15027.
Obiit 17 Oct. 1506, buried at Finchley. Dugdale in his Origines Judiciales has made
the year of his appointment 1503, by a mistaken calculation of the Annus Domini corres-
ponding with the regnal year of Hen. VII.
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tresorer, as to Blackwall; and Mr. Tresorer shewed me aparte
how your wryting was. I desired him, seeing your great troble
and cost, to spare the payment that ye owed him for a season; and
that he sayd he myght not doe in no wyse, because he had ap-
poynted such summes of money as ye owe him, to pay it to other
persons; and further sayd, that he could not do no other wayes
but attempt the law agaynst you and your suerty, if ye pay not
according to your wrytting. I intreated him as specially as I could,
to spare you for a season, but it wyll not be; therfore make
schift to pay him, or els you and your surty wilbe sued. Ever
after this, as I may have knowledg in all your matters to your
comforth, I shall wryt to your mastership, with the grace of Al-
myghty God, who send you and all yours ther healths also. From
Lyncolns Inne, this sunday next after All Saints day. Sir, for all
other matters this berer can shew you at large, for a proteccion,
and what your lerned counsell sayd therin.
Yor beadman John PULLAN.
Frynds the Bishop of Rochester d and Docter Warghhan.
(6 Nov. 1502.)
c Sir Robert Lytton, kt. Under Treasurer of England.
d Richard Fitz-James, Bishop of Rochester. Appointed 17 May, 1497.
e Edward Vaughan, Treasurer and Prebendary of St. Paul's. Appointed Bishop of
St. David's 13 June, 1509.
LETTER CXXXII.
To his right worshipfull father, Sir Robart Plompton, kt.
deliver thes.
Right worshipfull father, in the most humble and lowly wyse
that I can, or may, desiryng to here of your prosperous health,
worship, and welfaire, which I hartely besech Almighty Jesus en-
crease and contynew to his pleasure, and your most comforth.
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Father, I am very desirous to here from you, and to know how
you do in your matters. I can noe more doe therein, but hartely
pray to God to helpe you in your right, and send you gud speede.
And I pray you let my wyfe have some word from you by this
next carryer, how you doe in your sayd matters; and she and my
sister Ellynor humbly recomend them unto you, and pray you for
your dayly blessing. And both they, and I, pray you that we may
be recommended unto my brother William Plompton and all your
folkes. (And we rehersed them by name.) And thus the holy
Ghost guid you and all the matters that you labor about. Scrib-
bled in hast the viii day of November. Father, I can not yet tell
whether I come to London my selfe on this side Christenmas or
not; my servant, the bringer hereof, shall shew, as sone as he
hath the certenty, whether I shall come or be at home.
Your loving sone to his smale poore,
(8 Nov. 1502.)
GERMAYN POLE.
LETTER CXXXIII.
UN
To the worshipful Sir Robart Plompton, kt. be thes delivered
in hast.
Sir, in my most hartiest wyse I recommennd me unto you, de-
siring to heare of your prosperitie and welfaire, and of your good
spede in your matters ; certyfiing you that I, and my sone Wil-
liam, with all your children, are in good health (blessed be Jesu)
with all your servants. Sir, ye, and I, and my sone, was content
at your departing, that my sone should take the farmes at Mar-
tingmas of his tenaunts, or els cast them forth and prayse ther
goods; and so my sone hath done with some of them. And here
are the names of them that hath payd me; Robart Wood, Peter
Cott, John Gloster, Robart Taler, William Bentham. Sir, it ys
let us to understand that thers other tenaunts, that are cast forth,
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hath bene at Cothorpe,a and made one ragman b to compleane on
my sone and you, that ye take ther goods from them. And that
is not soe, for my sone hath sent for the neighbours of Knares-
brough, and Harrygate, and Spofforth, to set pryse on ther comon
and cattell after ther consience; and my sone hath set to streys
some in ther layes,c for ther is some that will not apply to his
mynd. And they purpose to get on discharg for my sone, that
they may be set in agayn, and he not to occupie ; therfore I pray
you to take good heed therupon. And they have set there names
in the ragman that hath payd my sone; that they know not of,
nor will not be conselled therto. Also, Sir Richard Goldsbrough
hath taken an ox of William Bentham, that was dryven over the
water d with ther cattell of the towne of Plompton that he caused
to be put over, for the sayfgard of ther cattell. And when he came
for his ox, he answered him and sayd ; Sir John Roclife had
wrytten for certayne tenaunts to be so taryed by him, and spirred
him, whose tenaunt he was, and he shewed him whos he was.
And he will not let him have them without a replevie, and I trow
he will dye in the fold; for I sent William Skirgell and William
Croft, and they cannot get him without a replevie. And therfore
if ye can find any remedie, I pray you for; and also I pray you to
send me some word, as sone as ye may, of your good speed. No
& Cowthorpe, the seat of Sir John Rocliffe.
b Ragman, a word derived from Rag, to rate or reproach, Isl. raega, to accuse, and
here applied to signify the paper to which the accusing or complaining parties had set
their names. This word may yet be traced in the cant expression, round-robin, which,
I apprehend, is simply a corruption of round-ragman. Bully-rook, in Shakspeare's
Merry Wives of Windsor, should be read Bully-rag. (See Brockett's Glossary of
North Country Words, voce Rag. Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 8vo. 1825.)
© That is to say, my son has levied a distress upon some of the cattle in their leas,
meaning thereby the pastures which were not common.
d Goldsborough lies on the opposite side of the river Nidd, facing Plumpton ; of
this place, Sir Richard Goldsborough, kt. was at this time owner.
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more at this tyme, but I betake you to the keping of the Trenetie.
From Plompton in hast, the xvi day Novembris.
By your wife, Dame
(16 Nov. 1502.)
AGNES PLOMPTON.
LETTER CXXXIV.
To my trustie and well-beloved William Plompton, Esquire, be thes
delivered.
Trustie and welbeloved I create you well, and let you wit that
on the behalfe of dame Elizabeth Sutell,a and other the inha-
batants dwelling in the lordship of Plompton, I am informed, that
whearas acording to the Kings lawes theare hath bene exhibite
a repleve for such cattell, as ye latle hav taken for a distres
within the said Lordship; yet not onely will not obey the same,
but continueth in maner contrary to the Kings laws, right, and
good consciences, as well in taking their cattell, as other houshold
stuf; if it so be, to their utter undowing, if ye that should be
sufred; as by their lamentable complaints mad at large, I am in-
formed. Wherfore, the premeses considred, I desire you, and in
the Kings name command you, imeadetly and furthwith, upon the
delevery of this replevie, that ye obay the precept of the same,
according to law; and els, upon the sight of this my writting, that
ye, or your councell learned in your name, dres you to appear
afore me, thear to shew me som reasonable cause, what so to doe
a Dame Elizabeth Sotehill or Sutell, widow, died 21 Sept. 22 Hen. VII. 1506, leay-
ing her twin grand-daughters, Joan and Elizabeth, daughters of Henry Sotehill, her
son, her cousins and next heirs, and then in infancy, having only completed their first
year on the feast of the Ascension of our Lord last past, 21 May, 1506, (Esc. 22
Hen. VII. n. 102.)
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NI
ye make refusall. And of this faill not, as ye will answer at your
perrill. At my castell of Cawood, the xxy day of November.
Yors, Th. EBORUM.
(25 Nov. 1502.)
b Thomas Savage, Archbishop of York. Translated from London 12 April 1501.
Ob. 2 Sept. 1507.
LETTER CXXXV.
To the worshipfull Sir Robart Plompton, kt. be the delivered
in hast.
Right worshipful Sir, in my most harty wise I recommend me
unto you, desiring to witt your prosperytie and wellfayre; letting
you understand that I and all your children is in good health
(blessed be Jesu) with all your servants. Lettyng you to under-
stand that my Lord Archbishop sent one servant of his unto my
son William, chardging him in the Kyngs name to sette in the
tenaunts agayne; and if he wold not, he wold send to the sche-
reffe, and cause him to poynt them in agayne. And so I sent one
servant to the schereffe, and the schereffe shewed my servant that
my Lord had wrytten unto him for to poynt them on agayne.
But my sone kepes them forth as yet, and therfor I trow my lord
Archbishop will compleane of my son and you; and sath, that he
will indyte them that was at castyng out of tham. And, Sir, I
pray you that you be not myscontent, that I sent not to you, for
indeed I make the labor that is possible for me to make, and as
yet I cannot speed; but as shortly as I can, I shall spede the
matter. No more at this tyme, but the Trenytie have you in his
keeping. Scribled in hast, at Plompton, this sunday next after St.
Kateryne day.
By your wiffe, dame
(27 Nov. 1502.)
AGNES PLUMPTON.
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171
171
LETTER CXXXVI.
To the worshipfull Robart Plompton, knight, be thes byll delivered
in hast.
Right worshipful Sir, in my most harte wyse I recommend me
unto you, desiring to here of your welfare and good speed in
your matters. I and all your children is in good health (blessed
be Jesu). And, Sir, so it is, as God knowes, that I have mayd as
great labor as was possible for me to make, to content your mynd
in all causes; and now I have mayd the usance of xxli, and sent
you with Thomas Bekerdike to content where ye know. And
I pray you to send some wrytting to Thomas Meryng a for the
repayment of the money and your discharg. Sir, it is so that
my lord Archbishop hath indytt my sone William and xvi of his
servants, on tewsday was a senit. But Anthony Cliforth gave
in the bill of dytement against my sone and his servants, but the
quest would not endyte them. But my lord Archbishop caused
them; or els he bad them tell who wold not, and he should
ponishe them, that all oder should take insample. And I cannot
get the copie of the indytement, for my Lord hath it in his
hands. No more at this tyme. The Lord preserve you. From
Plompton in hast, this St. Thomas day.
By your wife, dame
(21 Dec. 1502.)
AGNES PLOMPTON.
a Thomas Meryng was one of the Collectors of the tenth granted to Henry VIII.
in the fourth year of his reign ; his receipt for 21. from Robert Smith, constable of
the vill of Plumpton, bears date 18 Oct. 4 Hen. VIII. 1512. (Chartul. No. 857.)
In Dodsworth's MSS. in the Bodleian library is a transcript of a letter from Sir Ro.
bert Plumpton addressed to his wife about this time, soliciting money, and stating that
his suit was not yet gone into. (.Dodsw. vol. cxlviii. f. 62-63.)
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To master Thomas Everingam, be this bill delivered in hast.
Cousin Thomas Everyngham,a I recomennd me unto you, thanking
you of your good mynd and will at all tymes; praying you, that ye
will take the labor and payne upon you to come and speake with
me betwyxt this and tewsday next, as my speciall trust is in you;
and that ye faylle not therof, as I may dow for you as much in
tyme to come. No more at this tyme, but the Trenyte kepe you.
From Plompton in hast, this Sant Maury day.
By yours at my power
(15 Jan. 1502-3.)
Dame AGNES PLOMPTON.
• Thomas Everingham of Rockley, com. Ebor. esq.
TY
LETTER CXXXVIII.
To Sir Robart Plompton, knight, being lodged at the Angell behind
St. Clement Kirk, without the Temple burr, at London, be thes
delivered.
After most harty and due recomendations, I recomend me unto
your mastership and brotherhode, and to my lady your wyfe, be-
seching Allmyghty God evermore to preserve and prosper you.
Sir, on munday last come a servant of Sir John Roclyfs from Mr.
Emson to Brian Palmes, and caused him forthwith to take his
waye toward London; and as I am enfirmed, the sayd servant
shewed that at the comyng up of Bryan Palmes,a thei shold have
an end with you, and if ye had any land, that ye shold be charged
with my brother William and me. Therfore, Sir, if ye and thei
drawd to an end, as I besech allmyghty Jesu to send you a good
end after your pleasure and mynd, see how ye shall stand charged
anenst us, and whether ye shalbe charged with the one, or with
a Brian Palmes, junior, son of Guy Palmes, Serjeant-at-law, called 18 Nov. 1511.
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both. And, Sir, wher ye sent me word by Georg Barbor to search
for the call of the exigent in the castell of Yorke agayn you, my
cousin your son, or any other of your name, or servant; Sir, on
tewsday last was the court in the Castell, and then was ther none
exegent called agaynst you, none of your servants, nor of your
name. But ther are ix playnts by Replegiare by ix of your
tenaunts against you, my cousin your sonn, Sir Richard Plompton,
and dyverse of your servants. But how many playntts, and how
many defendants, as yet, I can not get any knowledg; for the
Schereffs clarck sayth, his master hath all the records and notes,
and the playntyffs that day was essoined. And thus almyghty
Jesu, our Lady, Saint Mary Virgin, Mary Magdalene, with all the
Saints in heven, as I shall dayly besech, prosper and spede you
in all your great besines. Scrybled in hast, the vith day of
February
Yours at prayer and power,
(6 Feb. 1502-3.)
ROBART PLOMPTON of Yorke.
(Indorsement. Sir Thomas Granger of Yorke delivered this
letter.)
LETTER CXXXIX.
To my right trusty and welbeloved William Plompton.
Right trusty and welbeloved, I commend me unto you, and
trust that such derrection, as was of late taken by me, and by your
assent, for matter in varrience betwene you and Sir John Rocclife,
be not owt of your remembrance; which was, it to rest unto the
first sonday in Cleane Lent.a I understand that notwithstanding,
ye use your selfe, as it is to me complayned, contrary to that agre-
a First Sunday in Clean Lent, or Quadragesima Sunday, fell on the fifth of March
in 1502-3.
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ment, as in felling down ashes and other woods in soundry maners ;
wherfore I will eftsones dessire you that ye withdraw yourselfe
from so doing, unto such time that we heare from your father,
which is now at London; and thus far you well. Written at
Ribston, the xvi day of February.
(16 Feb. 1502-3.)
Yours, Tho: EBORUM.
LETTER CXL.
To my trusty and welbeloved William Plompton.
Right trusty and welbeloved, I greet you well, and greatly mar-
vill that ye, notwithstanding my oft wryting unto you for reforma-
tion of dooing contrary to the apoyntement taken for the matter
in varience betwene you and Sir John Rotelif, to be determined by
the first Sonday in Lent, use yourselfe in senestor maner. As
wher it was agred, in the mean time, ye to have your fewell
hurtting the bodyes of the same; and as I understand, ye take
both bodyes and bowes, and fell them downe by the rowths, and
that contrary to your said apoyntment. But, Sir, I wold advise
you to doo otherwise. If ye will not be reformed, I acertaine
you that the said Sir John shall be for me at liberty to take his
most avantage. And wheras it hath pleased the Kings highnes to
grant unto your father his letter of protexion, which, used as ye
use them, shold be contrary to his lawes, and occation to the
breach of his paice; wherin I know his Highnes pleasure, by his
letters latley derected unto me, not intending to have his grant
derogatorie unto justice, wherunto I will and neds must have re-
xxiiij day of Febuary.
(24 Feb. 1502-3.)
THOMAS EBORUM.
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LETTER CXLI.
To my uncle Sir Robart Plompton, kt. be thes byll delivered in hast.
Uncle Plompton, I recomannd me unto you as hartely as I can,
shewing you that my lord Archbishop hath sent a letter to my
cousin William your son and a byll closed therin; which byll and
letter I wold ye gave good heed to, and understand whether it be
Kings comandement, or nay. And also John Vavasour of New-
ton is departed to mercy of God, sence ye departed from home,
and I have inquered of the age of his son and heire, which shalbe
at full age within a moneth, and then I am in a suerte to have the
release of him.a Also there is a maraige moved betwyxt the sone
of Sir John Roklife and Jane Ughtred, syster to Henry Ughtred,b
and great labour have they made to my lord of Northumberland
for the same, which I have stoped as yet. And thus the sayd Sir
John Rokclife, Henry Ughtred, and Anthony • drawth all one way;
and I understand they will make more labor to my sayd Lord
hastely, for which cause I will goe to Lekinfeld the next weke,
where I shall know further herein of my lords pleasure, which I know
is your especiall good Lord: and as I can know furthere, I shall
send you wrytting shortly. And also, as I understand, your ad-
versaries will lay a fine against you, which fine is parcell of Wil-
liam Midleton's evidence, and is the fine of the house in Plomp-
ton that was my uncle Ralfe Gascoygne.d I pray you to send me
a By deed, bearing date 6 Aug. 18 Hen. VII. 1503, John Vavasour of Newton, esq.
released to William Plompton, esq. all the right and title he had by reason of any feof-
ment made by Sir William Plompton, kt. grandfather of the said William, to his father
in Plompton, Folefote, Idill, Girsington, Braem, Stotheley, and Steton. (Chartul. No.
821.)
b Henry Ughtred of Kexby, com. Ebor. esq. afterwards Sir Henry Ughtred, kt.
© Anthony Ughtred, made Knight Banneret at the battle of Spurs.
See an account of the proceedings relating to this fine in the Memoirs.
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some good tydings, as sone as ye can, of your good speed in your
matters, which I besech Gude may be to his pleasure, and your
comforth and myne; and thus our Lord kepe you. At Gauk-
thorpe in hast, the second sunday in Lenten.
Yore nephew,
(19 Mar. 1502-3.)
WILLIAM GASCON.
LETTER CXLII.
To the worshipfull Sir Robart Plompton, knyght, be the delivered
in hast.
Right worshipfull father and mother,a I recomend me unto you,
praying you of your dayly blessing; and all my brethern and sisters
is in good health (blessed be Jesu) and prays you of your dayly
blessing, and my lady mother also. Sir, I marvell greatly that I
have no word from you (and my cousin Gascoyne also) under what
condition I shall behave me and my servants. Sir, it is sayd
that Sir John Roclife will ploue, but we are not certayne ; and if
that they come, my cousin Gascoyn saith well therin, for he will
se them on that mannor that they will not like: and bytts me and
my servants keep house, and he will send us x bowes, and us ned.
Sir, your frinds trowes ye beleve fayr words and fayr heightes, and
labors not your matters; for they trow that ys not the Kings
mynd, nor knowes not of ther dealing, that they indyte you, and
me, and your servants, as ye may se by the Judgment herof. Sir,
I have sent you ij letters, derected from my lord Archbishop; the
which I have answered him, that I will keepe the Kings peace.
And also I meane sent him word, whether the tenants should occupy
a It appears from this letter of their son, that Sir Robert and Lady Plumpton were
both at this time in London, soliciting the King's interference.
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or no. And it is my cousin Gascoyns mynd, that they shall occu-
py for the tyme; and therfor I besech you send me word, how I
shold do in every cause, and my servants also. Sir, your frinds
thinkes that thes indytements ar for you, and it be shewed to the
King or his Counsell. Both my cousin Gascon, and my brother
Elson,b as your counsell, gives you so to do. And also I besech
you send me word, as shortly as ye may possibly. No more at
this tyme, but the Trenietie kepe you. From Plompton, on saint
Benedic day.
By your son,
(21 Mar. 1502-3.)
WILLIAM PLOMPTON, Esquier.
See Letter CIII. note %.
LETTER CXLIII.
To his right worshipfull Sir Robart Plompton, knyght, this byl be
delivered.
Right worshipful Sir, after due recommendations had ecra, I
understand by my lady that your mastership hath spoken with
the Kyngs grace, wherof I am very glad. Sir, I wold avise your
mastership, that if the King command your mastership to nayme
any of his counsell, which ye wold shold have examination of
your matters, to refare that matter unto his grace, and that your
mastership name none; for if your mastership shold name any,
peradventure the King wold thinke parcialty in them, and also
your frinds shold be knowne. If yt like your mastership, yt were
best for to shew the Kyngs grace that ye wold refuse none of his
counsell, except Mr. Bray,a Mr. Mordaunt,b and such other as are
a Sir Reginald Bray, Knight Banneret and Knight of the Garter, one of the chief
counsellors of King Henry VII. made his will 4 Aug. 1503, whereby he appointed
Master Richard Empson, one of his executors; an intimacy which fully justifies the
advice here given to Sir Robert Plumpton to make an exception to his being chosen.
The will was proved 28 Nov. 1503. (Testamenta Vetusta, vol. ii. p. 446.)
b Sir John Mordaunt of Turvey, com. Bedf. kt. King's Serjeant. Will dated 5
Sept. and proved 6 Dec. 1504. (Ibid. p. 462.)
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belonging to Mr. Bray. Sir, at the reverence of God, keepe your
frynds secret to your selfe, for fere that ye leese them. I remit
all these matters to your wisdom, and thus I beseech Almighty
Jesu send your mastership good speed. At London, with the
hand of your servant,
(Anno 1502-3.)
GEORGE EMERSON.
LETTER CXLIV.
To his right worshipfull and most especiall gud father in law,
Sir Robart Plompton, kt. be thes delivered.
Right worshipfull and my most especiall gud father in law, in
my most umbele maner I recomend me most hartely unto you,
and unto my lady my mother in law, gladly desiringe to have
knowledg of your prousperyte, wellfayre, and harts ease, the which
I besech almyghty Jesu long to contynew and increase unto his
pleasure, and unto your most joyfull comforth and gladness. Sir,
if it please you to understand, that since my last coming into Dar-
byshire, it was infirmed me, that ther was in Staforthshire a par-
cell of land, the which should be ther at Combryge and Cra-
marsh,a that was not receined the recovery of the size at Notting-
ham and Derbye. Wherfore, Sir, I toke upon me in your name
to send unto the tenants for as much rent as thay were behind,
since the last payment that was made unto Sir Johnb or Preston ;c
and they desired my servants to com agane, as that day sennyt,
and they should either have the rent, or be suffered to streyne on
such guds as they fond on the ground. And so they did com
a Combridge, in the parish of Rowcester, com. Staff. and Crakemarsh, near Uttoxe-
ter, in the same county.
b Sir John Rocliffe.
c Preston, servant to Sir William Gascoigne, kt. (See Letter XCVIII.)
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againe as they had apoynted them, and in the meane season,
thorow the meanes of one Berdall of Assope, ther had bene iiij of
Suttell and Roclife servants, the which wold have had the rent;
and your tenaunts answered, that they knew not wherfore that
they should pay them, and so they went ther way. Howbeit,
they sayd they wold be ther shortly againe, and for that cause
they wold not pay my servant, as for at that tyme. Howbeit,
they promysed them upon ther fayth that they shall not pay one
penny unto the tyme that they have some word from you.
Furthermore, Sir, if it please you to understand of the great un-
kindnes that my grandam hath showed unto me now latly, as the
bringer herof can more planly shew you by muth, to whom I
besech you to take credence on. For be ye sure, Sir, that I was
never so unkindly delt with ; all is because that she well know it
that ye are asunder, therfore she thinketh that she may give and
sell all at her owne playsure. I will besech you for the reverence
of Jesu to be so gud father unto me and my wyfe as to mayn-
tayne it that is my ryght, and to se a remedy for it, as my speciall
trust is in you above all other creatures livinge. Furthermore, I
wold desire you that I may have knowledge how that you do in
your matters, for I here tell that you dyd well. That wold be the
most joyfull tydings unto me that ever was, or ever shalbe, as
knoweth the blessed Rode of Rodeborne, who save you in his
blessed keepinge. Amen. I will besech you, Sir, that this sim-
ple letter may recomend me unto my brother William, and my
brother Maliverey, with both my sisters, and my sister Eyre, with
all your houshold.
By your humble son and beadman,
(Anno 1503.)
G. DE LA POLE.
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LETTER CXLV.
To his right worshipfull father, Sir Robart Plompton, knyght,
thes letter be delivered.
Right worshipfull and my most singuler good father in law, in
my most humblest maner I recommend me right hartely unto you,
and unto my lady my mother in law, inwardly desiring to have
knowledg of your wellfare and harts ease, the which I besech
almyghty Jesu of his infinyt mercy and grace shortly to send
you, unto your most joyful comforth, and to the pleasure of your
harte. So it is, Sir, that I understand by the letter that I received
from you, that ye have the Kings protection ryall, the which is
the most joyfullest tydings that ever I hard, since the tyme that I
was borne of my mother. For now, I doubt not but with dew
labor mad unto the Kings grace, and with the gud counsell of
your lovers and frinds, all the vexation and troble that ye have
had now laytly for your matters, by the grace of the blessed Tre-
nity, shall turne unto your joyfull comforth and harts ease, con-
sidering how falsly, and how unrighteously, the size is past against
you, contrary to the law either of God, or man. Furthermore,
Sir, I have bene at Combrige for your rent at your tenaunte, Wil-
liam Smith, and I received of him for one yeares rent XLs. the
which I send you by the brynger hereof. Howbeit, I lay at out-
side ij dayes or I cold have it, he was so fearfull to pay it because
of Sir Robart Shefell a and Emson; and he desireth you to be his
gud master and beare him out, that a be not vexed nor trobled
therfore, for be ye sure he is stedfast unto you. And I wold have
had rent in Crakmarsh, but the tenaunts wold pay me none; and
I wold have streaned, but ther could no man shew me which was
a Sir Robert Sheffield of Butterwicke, com. Linc. kt. (See Letter LXIII, note a.)
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your ground. Wherfore, I supposed that it should have hurt your
matters to have streyned, not knowing your ground from his.
Also, Sir, I desired you in my last letter to be so gud father unto
me, as to com speake with my grandam for diverse matters, the
which longeth unto my profit. Howbeit, I have no gud answere
of you. But now I will desire you, for the reverence of Jesu, to
doe for me as I will do for you, if my power were unto my will,
and make it in your way to com speake with hir for the welfare
and profit of your daughter, my wyfe, and me. Many a gentle-
man in Darbyshire marvelleth, I being so nere my age, that ye will
not com and speake with hir for my right; and if ye come, it will
save me greatly, more then ye know, in dyvers matters that I
shall shew you of, by the grace of Jesu, who have you in his glo-
ryous keeping.
Your owne son and beadman,
(Anno 1503.)
GERMAN DE LA POLE.
LETTER CXLVI.
To the right worshipfull Sir Robart Plompton, knight, be this
delivered.
Right worshipfull Sir, I recomend me unto you. Sir, one John
Frobiser, one of the Coroners in the county of York, hath bene
with me and shewed me your wrytt of atteynt with a panell, a
whereupon ye were well agreed at Yorke afore him and all his fel-
* This was a writ of attaint to examine the judgment given by the jurors at the Assize,
in order to its being reversed ; but it was discontinued, and Sir Robert Plumpton had
a precept “To Our trusty and welbeloved Sir William Conyers, Sheriffe of our county
of Yorke, &c. that hee serve noe writs, precepte or other writeings upon Sir Robert
Plumpton Knight of our body or his servants,” and another to Sir Christopher Ward
and Sir William Calverley, Knts. “that William Plompton, son and heir of Sir Robert,
peacably inioy the Lordship of Plumpton and Idle and the rents," &c. Dat. Colly
Weston, 16 July. (Towneley MS.) Sir William Conyers was Sheriff of Yorkshire
in 1503.
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lowes, as he seeth ; and at they should send the writ to me to re-
turne in ther names, because they were not expart in making ther
returne, because it is somewhat diffuse, and because of this your
wryttyng: and that ye (omission) and the Impanall is not good and
indifferent for you, I have not medled, nor will not, at the desire of
the Croners, without your assent. And so they have determyned
enough themselves to send the sayd John Frobiser, in all ther
names, to put in the same writt; and therfore I will advise you,
if ye will labour the Kings grace herin, to make all the speed ye
can, and tery not for any other cause, for this matter towches you
nere. I cannot intreat the sayd Frobiser to keep the wryt in his
hands, but to put it in at the day, as he and all his fellows were
agred for his and ther honestyes and truth in this matter; for
they have warned the panell Jurie, and the other partie, to kepe
ther day at London, according to the wrytt. And therefore, with-
out ye be at London afore, and geit some comandement from the
Kings grace to the sayd Coroners to kepe the sayd wrytt in ther
hands, or els to amend the returne, and this must be done and
labored with affect; and therfore, I will advise you to make you
ready to ryde on Munday next at the furdest, for els ye will
come behind. And thus far ye well, and God give you as gud
speed in this matter, as I wold have my selfe. From Doncastre, b
this Sunday.
By yours,
(Anno 1503.)
T. STREY.
b John Frobiser resided at Doncaster. See an account of the family in Hunter's
South Yorkshire.
LETTER CXLVII.
To my right worshipfull master and brother, Sir Robart Plompton,
knyght for the King's body.
After most harty and due recomendations, I recomend me unto
your mastership and brotherhode; and wheras my brother Wil-
liam, like as I shewed you. a byll, hath in his name and myne put
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a byll unto the Kings grace agaynst Rocliffe and Suttell, which
hath made answere, as appearethe in the byll I sent you by Ball.
And the Kings counsell comaunded my brother Wylliam to goe
and enter into Ocbroke; and so, in his coming home, he went the-
ther, and wold have entred, and William Sawcheverell wold not
suffer him. And he shewed the copie of our deed, and he wold
not admyt it; but the tenaunts sayd, if he come againe afor alhal-
lowes, and bryng the deeds under seale, they shold endever them
to pay us. And I thinke to send Sir Robart North thither with
him, in the weke next afore alhallowmase. Wherfore I pray you
that ye will lett Sir Robart have the ijd deed with him in a box,
which is of feoffment, thider, to the intent abousayd; and ye
shall have them delivered againe unto you, or my lady, whether
ye shal please. And if you wyll my brother Wylliam bring them
up to you unto London, I shall bynd me that he shall trewly de-
liver you them. And of your gud mynd and pleasure in thes pre-
myses, I pray you that ye will vochsafe to send me knowledge in
wryting. And, Sir, I understand your adversaries reporteth, your
matter shalbe determyned by the Kyngs Judges and Sergiants,
and ther, I dout me, ye gitt but litle favor. Therfore the sonner
ye goe up, I trust yt be the better for you. And almyghty Jesu
preserve you, and send you gud speede in all your busines, and
that shalbe my daly prayer, as God knoweth. At York, this
Munday.
(Anno 1503.)
Your servant ROBART PLOMPTON.
LETTER CXLVIII.
To his right worshipfull and welbeloved frind, Sir Robart
Plompton, knight.
Sir, I recomend me unto you, and pray you take no displeasure
that I can not content your mynd, insomuch that I am not cer-
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tayne what day, or tyme, to be called up for certayne matters con-
cerning the weyll of my house. Many other causes reasonable to
be shewed, the which long to writt. I fere me greattly to be
overcharged, or I witt. And thus our Lord preserve you. From
Kyrkestall, the second day of December. I have good plegges
that will serve me of nothinge at my nede; the which I am full
like to sell and displese the owners, now at my need,
Your beadman, WILLIAM THE
(2 Dec. 15—.)
ABBOT OF KIRKESTALL.a
a William Stockdale was abbot of Kirkstall from 20 Dec. 1501, but died before
3 Dec. 1509, when William Marshal was elected his successor, the vacancy after whose
death was filled up 21 July 1528.
LETTER CXLIX.
To the worshipfull Robart Plompton, knight, be this byll delivered
in hast.
Right worshipfull Sir, in my most hartie wyse I recomend me
unto you, evermore desiring to here of your prosperytie and well-
faire, and good sped in your matters, shewyng you that I and all
your children is in good health (blessed be Jesu) and prays you for
your blessing. Sir, it is so now that I have made you thewsans
of the money, that ye sent to me for, and I have sent it you with
John Walker at this tyme; the which I shall shew you how I mayd
schift of, at your comminge. And I pray you that ye be not miscon-
tent that I sent it no sooner, for I have made the hast that I could
that was possible for me to do. And also, Sir, I will not lett Tho:
Croft wife plow nor occupie her fermeald, but saith she shall not
occupy without yer life. And also I pray you to send me word
how you speed in your matters againe, as soon as ye may; and
also to send me word where ye will your horses to come to you.
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No more at this time, but the Trinity keep you. From Plumpton
in hast, the xixth day of March.
By your wife,
(19 March 1503-4.)
Dame AGNES PLOMPTON.
LETTER CL.
To the right worshipful Lady, my lady Ploinpton, be this byll
delivered.
Madam, in my most harty maner I comend me unto your Lady-
ship, thanking you of your reward delivered unto me by Edmund,
your servant. Madam, here hath bene this day with Master
Schereffe,a Edmund, your owne servant, and also Edmond Ward,
your tenaunt which was arested at Knarsbrught by] dew of a
warant delyvered to the Balife. Master Shereffe is good master
unto him, as he can shew you, for this writt shalbe at none harme,
nor never ether named in the wrytt with him, at this terme. Ne-
vertheless, I wold advise you wryte to London to some of your
counsell, that the wryte may be answered to, or els, I thinke
veryly, ther shall another capias com against them the next terme;
which if ther doe, I doubt ther wilbe labor-made to Master
Schereffe for taking of them, which I wold be loth to doe, as
knoweth God, who keepe you. Att Ryther, this tewsday in
Ester weeke.
By your poore kinsman,
(9 April 1504.)
WILLIAM NORVANVILL.
Sir Ralph Ryther of Ryther, com. Ebor. High Sheriff of Yorkshire in 1504, 19-
20 Hen. VII. William Noryanvill, or Normanvill, was his Under Sheriff. See the
letter of Dame Agnes Plumpton, inclosing a copy of the above, to Sir Robert Plump-
ton in London, which follows.
CAMD. SOC. 4.
2
B
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LETTER CLI.
To the worshipfull Robart Plompton, knight, be these delivered in
hast.
Right worshipfull Sir, in my most hartiest wyse I recomend me
unto you, desiring to here of your prosperytie and welfare, and
good spede in your matters, the which I marvell greatly that
I have no word from you. Sir, I marvell greatly that ye let
the matter rest so long, and labors no better for your selfe, and
ye wold labor it deligently. But it is sayd that ye be lesse for-
ward, and they underworketh falsly; and it is sene and known
by them, for they thinke to drive it that they may take the Whit-
sonday ferme: and so it is sayd all the country about. Sir, I be-
sech you to remember your great cost and charges, and myne, and
labor the matter that it myght have an end, for they have taken
on capias and delivered for certayne of your tenants. And so they
have taken Edmund Ward at Knarsbrough and arrest him; the
which is a great nossen in the country, that they shall get such
prosses, and ye dow none to them, but lett them have there
mynd fullfilled in every case. And the other tenaunts cannot
pays ther housses, but they shalbe cagid; and also willing none
of your servants shall not pas the dowers, but they mon be tro-
bled. And also they have stopped the country, that ther will no
man deale with any of your servants, nether to bye wod, no nor
nothing els. Therfore, I pray you that ye will get some comand-
ment to the Scherefe that the prosses may be stoped. Also, Sir,
I send you the copy of the letter that came from the Undershe-
refe, and the copy of the causes, and the letter that come from
William Elison; the which I had mynd in for loyssing of Ed-
mund Ward, for I have gotten him forth by the wayes of William
Ellyson. And also, Sir, I am in good health, and all the children
(blessed be Jesu), and all your children prayes you for your daly
blessing. And all your servants is in good health, and prays dely-
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gently for your good speed in your matters. And also it is sayd,
that they have cagments for them that hath bought the wood, that
they dare not deale therwith. For without ye get some comaunde-
ment, I wott not how your house shalbe kept, for I know not
wherof to levy one penyworth. No more at this tyme, but the
Trenietie keepe you. From Plompton in hast, the xii day of
Aprill.
By your wyfe,
(12 April 1504.)
Dame AGNES PLOMPTON.
LETTER CLII.
To Sir Richard Plompton be thes byl delivered in hast.
Sir Richard Plompton, I recomend me unto you, dessiring and
prayng you that ye will se some remydy for thes prosses, that
they may be stopped; and that ye will goe to my lord Dayrsse,a
and make on letter for me in my name, and shew him how they
delt with my housband tenaunts and servants, and ye thinke it be
to dowe. And I pray you that ye will se that nether thes, nor
none other prosses, pas, but be stoppyd, as my speciall trust is in
you. For I have sent up the copy of the capias, with one letter
from William Elesson and one other from Under Sherife, that ye
may, after the scest of them, labor as ye thinke best by your mynd.
Also, Sir Richard, I pray you to remember my other [order] ;
for Thomas Stabill hath taken the west Rod and the est Rod, and
hath mayd the fenses, and so she hath no gresse to hir cattell; and
also they sow hir land, and will not let hir occupy nothing as yet,
and that discomfortheth them much. No more, but the Trinete
kepe you. From Plompton in hast, the xiii day of Aprill.
(13 April 1504.) By me Dame AGNES PLOMPTON.
Thomas Darcy de Darcy, Chl'r, was summoned to Parliament, 17 Oct. 1 Hen.
VIII. 1509, the same year in which William Lord Conyers had also his first summons
upon record. The latter, it is known, bore the title of Lord Conyers in 1506, and
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now the evidence of this letter, that Sir Thomas Darcy was a Baron in 1504, makes it
more than probable that both these noble personages sat in the Parliament which
assembled on Thursday, 25 Jan. 19 Hen. VII. 1503-4, and that the writs of summons
are lost. Moreover, the Herald whose diary of the ceremony of the interment of
King Henry VII. on the 8th, 9th, and 10th days of May 1509, is printed by Hearne,
(Lelandi Collectanea, vol. IV. p. 303,) likewise calls him “the lord Darcye, beinge
Captayn of the Garde;" so that it is certain he had the title before any summons for
the new Parliament in that year was issued.
LETTER CLIII.
To the worshipfull Robart Plompton, kt. be thes byll delivered
in hast.
Right worshipfull, I in most hartee wyse recomennd me unto
you, desiring to heare of your wellfaire and good speed in your
matters, letting you understand that I am in good helth, with all
your children (blessed be Jesu), and pray you of your daly bless-
inge; and all your servants is in good health and is right glad to
here of your welfare. Sir, one the eving after the making of this
letter, your servant Edmund Robyson come home, and so I un-
derstond by your letter, that you wold understand if Sir John Ro-
clife servants have received any ferme in Yorkshire, but therof I
can get no knowledg as yet. But they have sold oke wood at
Nesfeld, and lettes them stand to the tyme of the yere, one oke
that is worth xld for xijd; and also they have sold aches at the
same place : and the okes are sold to William Clapame and Rich-
ard Clapame, and the aches to the towards there about. And
also at Idell, they have sold holyn to James Formes and to Tho-
mas Quentin and William Aches, and herof I can geet no more
certaintie as yet. And also there is no mo of your tenaunts to get
as yet, nor your servants nether, at this tyme; but the Trenitie
have you in his blessed keepinge Scrybbled in hast, the fryday
next after St. Marke day.
By your wyffe,
(26 April 1504.)
Dame AGNES PLOMPTON.
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LETTER CLIV.
To his right reverent and worshipfull master, Sir Robart Plomp-
ton, knight, or my lady his wyfe, or ayre, William, or my mistres,
or Sir Richard, his chaplan, or any of them, deliver this byll.
Most honorable and worshipfull and my especiall good master,
after the most hartyest maner I can, or may, I recomend me unto
your mastership. Sir, I am a poore beadman of yours, and I
am alwayes right glad to here of your welfare, my lady your wyfe,
master William, your son, and my mystres his wiffe, and all your
childer, and all your good frinnds and lovers. Sir, the cause of
my wrytting to your mastership at this tyme; your mastership
remembers that John Toyllar left me with the keyes of your
schawittry,a to keepe for your behalfe in the defalt of a better.
Sir, I had the keyes levered me, when John Toyller came to your
mastership; and had a fellow lemett to keepe the said schawnter
with me, and he faylled me in my most neede. In the defalt of
him ther come another poore man, as my selfe, whose name is
called Ingland, and we two keeped yt well and trewly to the tyme
that your servant came and discharged us, whose name called
Broweke, your servant. I levered him the keyes, afore John
Tayller in Bondgate, to Sir Thomas Aykryg behalfe, by the
comanndement of Broweke, your servant. Touching .......
Akryg promysed to content all maner of dues. I beseech you,
Sir, the most enimies that I have within Rypon is Robart Squire
and his wyffe, touching the ryght that John Toyller knowes right
well. Desiring your mastership to send me word with this pure
a In the Collegiate Church or Minster at Ripon, an ancestor of Sir Robert Plumpton
had founded at the altar of the Holy Trinity beyond the high altar, a chantry, which
it appears from this letter was screened from the rest of the church and under lock
and key. At the foot of the page in the MS. is written, words are omytted by cause
they are ryven out.
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boy, how I shalbe demeaned and under what forme, and Jesu pre-
serve you. Sir, I am yours at all tymes.
Your servant and a poore beadman of yours,
JOHN EYRE.
LETTER CLV.
(No address.)
Right worshipfull and my singuler good master, in the most
humble and lowly maner that I can or may, I humbly recomend
me unto your good mastership, and unto my good lady your wyfe,
desiryng hartely to here of your welfaire, and also of your
good speed in your weighty and great matters, which I have
prayed for, and shall doe dayly. Sir, I receyved a letter from you,
which bare dayt the viſi day of June, and in that letter ye wrote
to me, that it was my sone Germyne mynd, and yours, with other
his frynds, that I should occupie still att Rudburne, as I have
done in tymes, as long as we can agre; upon condition that I
wold be as kynd to my sayd son Germyne, as he intendeth to he
to me. I pray Jesus that I may find him kynd to me, for it is my
full entent and purpose to be kynd and lovyng unto him and his,
whersoever I come. But thus the matter is now, that I have
taken another house within the Freres at Derby, which is but of a
smale charge, and ther I entend to dispose myselfe to serve God
dilygently, and kepe a narrow house and but few of meany; for I
have such discomforth of my son Thomas unfortunate matters,
that it is tyme for me to get me into a litle cornner, and so wyll I
doe. I will besech you and him to take no displeasure with me
for my departing, for it wilbe no otherwyse; my hart is so sett.
Moreover, as touching the custodie of all such evidence, as I have
now in my keeping, concernyng thenherytance of my sayd son
Germyne, a gentleman of your acquantance, Mr. Herry Arden,
hath bene in hand with me for them, and I have shewed him,
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whensoever and to whom it shalbe thought by you most conve-
nyent tyme of the delyverance of them, I wylbe redy to delyver
at this next Mighelmas, as I am full mynded, or sonner, with
Gods grace. I pray you contynew my gud master, and owe me
give over grett tuggs of husbandry which I had, and take me to
lesse charge. And with Gods grace I shalbe as kynd to him, and
to my daughter, his wyfe, as ever I was in my life, as well from
them, as with them. With the grace of Jesu, who ever preserve
you. Wrytten at Rodburne in hast, the xth day of July.
By your poore sister and trew beadwoman,
(10 July 1504.)
ELIZABETH POLE.
Dame Elizabeth Pole had numerous offspring by Ralph Pole or de la Pole, her
husband, who died 31 May, 7 Hen. VII. 1492. Her eldest son John married Jane
daughter of John Fitzherbert, of Etwall, com. Derb. esq. but both died in the lifetime of
Ralph Pole. (See Letter CVIII.) Their son German was heir to his grandfather, and
the custody of his lands during his minority had been granted to Elizabeth Pole, widow,
and Thomas Pole, which latter was a merchant of London. This letter will therefore
have been written after he attained his majority in 1504, when it became a question
whether his grandmother was to continue still to occupy the family mansion at Rad-
burn. Elizabeth Pole in this letter calls her grandson, son, and his wife, daughter,
instead of nephew and niece, or simply, cousin, as in her former letter ; but it is
evident from her subscribing herself “ sister," that she here writes in loco parentis,
and uses the expressions of affinity suitable in this regard.
A
LETTER CLVI.
To my right worshipfull father-in-law, Sir Robart Plompton, kt. be
this delivered.
Right worshipfull and my most singuler good father-in-law, in my
best maner I hartely recomend me unto you, right glad to here of
your welfare, the which our Lord contynew long unto his pleasure
and your most comforth. Father, the cause of this my wryting
unto you of myn own hand, is for a matter that no man know-
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eth of but onely my wyfe, and I, and the partyes. Father, this is
the matter; ther is a gentleman, the which had maryed one of my
naunts, whose name is Randolpe Manwring,a and he beareth great
love and favor unto my sister Ellynor, and she doth likewise un-
to him the same. And the gentleman hath desired me to wryte
unto you, to know if ye can be contented that he have hir in
marage to his wyfe; the which if that ye so be, he wilbe glad to
meat you in any plase, that it please you to apoynt, and to have
a communication in the matter. And I thinke in my mynd that
he wilbe contented to take lesse with hir than any man in Inglond
wold doe, being of his avyowre, because of the great love and
favour that is betwyxt them. And, father, this I will say by myn
uncle Manwryng; his land is a c marke, and also he is as godly
and as wyse a gentleman, as any is within a m. myle, of his hed.
And, Sir, all the whole matter lyeth in you and in noe man els;
but if that she were myne owne borne sister, I had lever that she
had him, knowing him as I doe, than a man of vi tymes his land.
Father, how that ye are disposed in this matter, I besech you
that I may have answere, as shortly as ye can; for my sister
Ellynor putteth herselfe utterly unto that thing, that is your
mynd. And my wyfe and I will doe the same, by the grace of
Jesu, who send you shortly a good end in your matters. Amen.
Your son,
(Anno 1504.)
GERMAYN POLE.
& Randal Mainwaring of Carincham, com. Cest. esq. married Margaret, daughter of
Ralph Pole of Radburn, com. Derb. esq. (See pedigree of the family in Ormerod's
Cheshire.)
LETTER CLVII.
To my right worshipfull father-in-law, Sir Robart Plompton, kt.
this letter be delivered in hast.
Right worshipfull and my most singuler good father-in-law, in
the best manner that I possibly can, I hartely recomend me unto
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you with effectuall desire to here of your welfare and gud speed in
your great matters. And likewise, Sir, doth your poore daughter
my wyfe, and my sister Ellynor, desiring to have your dayly
blessing. Father, I have word brought me, by one Duckmanton
of Moginton, from you, that you had a joyfull end in all your
matters, the which were unto me the joyfullest tydings that cold
be thought. Howbeit, Sir, I have had great marvell, that I have
not, since that tyme, hard some word from you. Father, pleaseth
yt you to understand, that I have comuned with my uncle May-
wheryng, according to the effect of your letter ; and veryly, Sir,
I can no other wyse perceive by my sayd uncle, but that he is
reasonable in all causes. For first, he wilde contented to make
hir xx marke joynter; and as for such essew as God sendeth them,
it is noe doubt but he wyll so provyd for them, that they shall
live like gentlemen or gentlewomen, whichsoever God suffereth.
And veryly, father, I am right sure that my sister Ellynor had
rather have hym, you beyng so content, then a man of far greater
lands. And also, father, I know wher that my sayd uncle myght
have great marraiges, both with great lands, and guds. Wher-
fore, Sir, yfe yt is your mynd that the matter goe forward, and the
preferment of my syster, your daughter, in this behalfe, I pray
you that I may have shortly knowledg in writting, what your
mind is in this matter, and what you be worthy to give for his
large proffers. And, you being any thing resanable, I am right
sure that ye shall like my sayd uncle, as well as ever you liked
any man, by the grace of Jesu, who preserve you. Written at
Rodburne in hast upon Martingmas even.
By your son-in-law,
(10 Nov. 1504.)
GERMAYN POLE.
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LETTER CLVIII.
Unto the worshipfull knight, Sir Robert Plumpton.
Right worshipfull father, in my most hartyest maner I recomend
me unto you, desiryng to here of your prosperous welfayre, the
which I besech Jesu to contynew and increase unto his pleaser.
Father, so yt is that I lent my lady your wyfe, of whose soule
God have mercy,a viii marke and a ryall, of which summe I have
received all save iiij marke, the which remayned still in my lady
your wyffe hands; for which matter I sent a letter unto my lady
your wyffe, on whose soule Jesu have mercy, by Olyver Dicken-
son, your servant, for the same money. For the which I besech
you for to be gud father unto me, that I may have yt at my need;
and if it, or I, did you any good, I am right glad, and shalbe glad
to be at your comandement after the old maner. Also, father, I
pray you that I may be recomended unto my brother, your sone,
with all your servants. Father, I pray you remember the suerty-
shipe that belongs unto, to my brother your sone. No more at
this tyme, but I besech you as dayly wellwiller, that I may have
knowledg by the bringer herof, how that ye do in your great mat-
ters, the which I pray Jesu give you good speed, who have you
in his gloryous keeping.
(Anno 1504-5.)
HENRY ARDARN.b
a Sir Robert Plumpton, kt, married his second wife, Isabel Neville, about 18 Sept.
21 Hen. VII. 1505, and we know that his first wife, Agnes Gascoigne, whose death is here
referred to, was living as late as 10 July, 1504 ; (See Letter CLIV.) so that this letter
will have been written in the intervening year.
• Henry Ardern was probably a younger son of the family of that name settled at
Park Hall, near Birmingham, com. Warwick; but I am unable further to identify him,
or to state which of the daughters of Sir Robert Plumpton he married. His con-
nection with the Poles would seem to indicate that the match with Randal Mainwaring
had been broken off, and that he married Eleanor Plumpton, then residing with her
sister Mrs. Pole.
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LETTER CLIX.
Hulme, Lynacr, Algrathorp. In teritoriis de Trubervi,
Bramenn Lyvacr et Chesterfeld Padenhale.a
Sir, wheras it is commoned by your adversaryes that if the
Kings grace, through the favor which his counsell beareth you,
grant you any lifflod now, they trust herafter to recover it againe
by the law, for they have ther recovers exemplified under the
Kings great seale to the same intent.
Item. They talke, that wher ye intitle you by reason of a dede
intayled by Sir Robert Plompton and dame Alice his wyffe,
daughter and heire of Sir Godfrays Foliambe, made unto sir Tho-
mas Rampeston and other; they say, if the sayd sir Robart in-
taled his owne inherytaunce, the intale of his wiffs inherytaunce
was to be avoided by Cui in vita,b by many and diverse dyscon-
tynuaunces, which are exemplified. And they have them redy to
be shewed herafter, when they see ther tyme for all such causes.
Sir, by the advice of your counsell learned, shalbe unto the Kings
grace that all former recovers and other tytles, which your adver-
saryes hath against you and your heires, may be voyded, and ad-
nuled, and revoked ; and that ye, by the advice of your learned
counsell, by autoryty of Parliament, recover, or otherwise, as your
a The heading to this legal opinion in the MS. appears to be wholly irrelevant to the
subject matter of it. The places there named I presume to be the hamlets of Holme,
Lynacre, Hackingthorp, Troway, and Bramley in Derbyshire ; and that under the name
of Chesterfield Padenhale is denoted the place of which there is this record in the
Domesday survey of the manor of Newbold, to which Chesterfield was only a bere-
wick. “ Soke. In Greherst and Padinc four oxgangs of land to be taxed; it is waste."
(Vide Domesd. 272 b. 1.)
b Cui in vita is a writ of entry which a widow hath against him to whom her hus-
band alienated her lands or tenements in his lifetime. For the grounds of the title
set forth by Sir Robert Plumpton, see Memoirs.
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counsell thinketh most expedient, herafter may be in suerty for all
manner recoverse, dyscontynuances, or any other clame that you
adversarys, or their heires, myght have against you and your
heires. And this for Gods sake ye se done and perfytly fynished,
and Jesu evermore preserve you.
(Anno 1504-5.)
c During the remainder of the reign of Henry VII. the influence of Sir Robert
Plumpton, now a Knight of the King's body, and of his friends at Court, was, it
seems, sufficient to counteract the measures of Empson, at least so far as to be per-
mitted to retain possession of Plumpton and the Yorkshire estates, notwithstanding
the verdict against him at the assize. (Vide Ing. post mortem Eliz. Suthell liberat.
Cur. 12 die Februarii anno 22 Hen. VII. per manus Richardi Emson militis pro
manerio de Kenalton et terris in com. Nott. et 11 die Decembris ........ per manus
Ric'i Bunney per .......... Emson pro manerio de Plumpton, com. Ebor.) The
estates in Derbyshire had been in possession of the feoffees to the use of the heirs
general since the eve of the feast of St. Michael 17 Hen. VII. the year of their recovery
by assise before the Justices. See a compotus of Edward Browne, bailiff and collector
of rents there for the use of Richard Burgh and Robert Bubwith, clerks, from the
feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, 19 Hen. VII. to the same feast in the
following year. (MS. Add. Brit. Mus. 6698.)
LETTER CLX.
To my Lady Plompton.
Myn own good Lady Plumpton, I recomende me unto you and
to your gud husband, and right sory I am of his and your
troubles. If I could remedy it, but God is where he was, and his
grace can and will poorvey every thing for the best, and help his
servant at their most needes, and so I trust his hynes, he wil do
you. My lord, my husband, recommends him unto you both, and
sends you yowr obblegasiyn; and has receyved but 4li and a
marke of the 20li and 2li : the remnant my lord gives your good
husband and you. And I pray Almighty Jesu send you both wel
to do, as your own herts can desire. Written in hast with the
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hand of your mother, the 28 day of April. Give credence to this
good bearer, for surely he love you full well.
EDITH NEVILL.a
* Edith, wife of Ralph Lord Nevill, eldest son and heir apparent of Ralph, Earl of
Westmoreland, was daughter of Sir William Sands, of the Vine, com. Hants, kt. by
Edith, daughter of John Cheney, of Shirland, com. Derb. kt. Her husband died in
the lifetime of his father, before 12 July 13 Hen. VII. 1498, at which time his father
was likewise dead; for the death of his son, says Leland, so affected the Earl his father,
that he quickly followed him to the grave, dying at the seat of his son-in-law William Lord
Conyers, at Hornby in Richmondshire, in the church of which parish he lies buried.
(See Lel. Itin. val. I. f. 80.) His widow, at the date of this writing, had become the
second wife of the ill-fated Lord Darcy of Templehurst, whom Henry VIII. in the first year
of his reign, probably by reason of this marriage, made steward and surveyor of all the
King's lands beyond Trent, during the minority of her son. (Orig. 1 Hen. VIII. rot. 62,
as cited by Dugdale.) That there was other issue of the marriage of Ralph Lord Nevill with
Edith Sands, beside Ralph, fourth Earl of Westmoreland, and an elder brother, buried
at Brancepeth, who died young, is evinced by this letter, though hitherto unnoticed by
genealogists. Dame Isabel Plumpton, their daughter, was married to Sir Robert
Plumpton, of Plumpton, com. Ebor. kt. about 18 Sep. 21 Hen. VII. 1505, for by deed
of that date, the latter conveyed to Sir William Sands, kt. (afterwards the first Lord
Sands), Sir John Rainsford, kt. Sir John Norton, kt. Edward Rainesford, esq. Tho-
mas Ratclife, gent. Thomas Pigot, esq. Richard Mauleverey, esq. and William Croft,
chaplain, all his lands and tenements lying in the vills and fields of Knarsbrough,
Matheloftus near Knarsbrough, Heuby, Elthwatehill near Harwode, Ripon, Acton,
Spopherd field, and Arkendon, in the county of York; which feoffees settled the same
premises the day but one following upon Sir Robert Plumpton, of Plumpton, kt. and
Isabella his wife, and either of them, the longer liver. (Chartul. No. 825-6-7.)
LETTER CLXI.
To the right worshipfull Sir Robart Plumpton, knyght, be these
delivered in hast.
Right worshipfull Sir, I recomend me unto you, being glad to
here of your welfare. Sir, according to the promyse that ye made
with this bearer, the last tyme that he was with you, I pray you
that I may have my money now at this tyme, for I must occupy
much money within thes iiij cayes, as this bearer can shew you.
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And if ye delyver it to this sayd berer, then he shall deliver to
you your exigent, and also an acquitance for the sayd money.
And if ye will not delyver it at this tyme, I will send no more
to you for it, but the berer shall goe to the Shereff with this
exigent, and have from him a warrant to leve the sayd money, or
els to take your body, the which I wold be as sory for, as
any man in Yorkshire, if I myght other wayes doe, as knowes
our Lord, who keepe you in worship. At Staynley, this St.
Martyn even.
Yours to his litle power,
ROBART CHALONER.
LETTER CLXII.
To Sir Robart Plompton, kt. be thes letter delivered.
Sir, in the most hartyest wyse that I can, I recomend me unto
you. Sir, I have sent to Wright of Idell for the money that he pro- -
myst you, and he saith he hath it not to len, and makes choses
(excuses) and so I can get none nowhere. And as for wood, ther
is none that will bey, for they know ye want money, and without
they myght have it halfe for nought, they will bey none; for your
son, William Plompton, and Thomas Bickerdyke hath bene every
day at wood sence ye went, and they can get no money for no-
thing,—for tha will bey none without they have tymmer tres, and
will give nothinge for them: and so shall your wood be distroyed
and get nought for it. Sir, I told you this or ye went, but ye
wold not beleve me. Sir, I have taken of your tymmer as
much as I can get of, or Whitsonday farme forehand; and
that is but litle to do you any good, for ther is but some that will
len so long afor the tyme. And your Lenten stoufe is to bey, and
I wote not what to do, God wote, for I am ever left of thes
fachion. Sir, ther is land in Rybston feild, that Christofer Cham-
bers wold bey, if ye will sel it; but I am not in a suerty what he
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will give for it. But if ye will sel it, send word to your son what
ye will doe, for I know nothing els wherwith to help you with.
Sir, for God sake take an end, for we are brought to begger staffe,
for ye have not to defend them withall. Sir, I send you my mare,
and iijs iiijd by the bearer herof, and I pray you send me word as
sone as ye may. No more at this tyme, but the Holy Trenyttie
send you good speed in all your matters, and send you sone home.
Sir, remember your chillder bookes.
Be your bedfellow,
ISABELL PLOMPTON.a
* This letter from the grand-daughter of a mighty Earl of Westmoreland feelingly
exhibits the straits to which she and her husband were now reduced. No lands of
the ancient inheritance of the Plumptons and Foljambes could be sold, where the title of
all was impeached, or if a purchaser presented himself, it was only upon obtaining a
collateral security fixing lands purchased by Sir Robert Plumpton in his own lifetime,
or which had come to him under another title, as through his mother ; unless indeed
some substantial person could be found to become bound for their peaceable enjoyment.
Thus John Slingsby the younger, esq. bought, 10 Oct. 20 Hen. VII. 1504, lands in
Studley Roger of Sir Robert Plumpton, kt. and William, his eldest son and heir appa-
rent, but with a condition annexed, that Richard Mauliverey, esq. and Walter Baildon
should be at the same time enfeoffed by the vendors in lands in Wetton and Huby
near Harwood, to be conveyed to the purchaser, “if the said lands in Studley Roger be
recovered from the possession of the said John Slingsby." (Chartul. No. 823.) Of
the annoyances to which Germayn Pole, who bought the lands at Combridge in Staf.
fordshire, was subject, his letters which follow bear testimony. To make head against
the expenses of this protracted struggle with the more legal claims of the heirs general,
the rents of such tenants as did not yet refuse to own Sir Robert Plumpton as their
landlord were forestalled, and the wood on the estate was felled. But this last re-
source failed him: the dealers held back in order to drive an usurious bargain with a ne-
cessitous man. The sum of 38. 4d. was, it seems, all that could be mustered on the
present occasion; meanwhile, the store-rooms at Plumpton were empty and the season
of Lent was approaching, when the usage of the time made it a sin to taste flesh, and
therefore needful to lay in stock-fish and other like provision. Well might Lady
Plumpton tell her husband " we are brought to begger-staffe ;" ere long she became
with him the inmate of a gaol. (See Memoirs.)
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LETTER CLXIII.
To the right worshipfull Sir Robart Plompton, knight.
Right worshipfull Sir, in my best maner I comend me unto
you; and understond that but layte ye have made clame and
pretence unto a certayne land in Rybstone,a of long tyme in the
tennor of one John Ampleforthe, the which, above the tyme
wherof is any memory, hath belonged unto the parson of Spof-
ford for the tyme beying, wher, though all unworthy, at this tyme
I occupie the rowme, and the same land without any let or inte-
ruption hath had at his disposicion, as is well knowne to all ancient
and aged persones within the Lordship of the same, and nygh in
the country therunto. Wherfore, Sir, I trust veryly of your
wyssdome ye will not in that matter, nor in noe other, anything
attempt against the right of me, and my sayd Church, more than
ye have heretofore done in the tyme of my predecessors, or of
ther deputs and fermors. And if ye nedely will, I must defend
me and my sayd right as I may, and so will; nevertheles, if I
may have the right of my church with your love and favor, I
wold be right glad, for right loth I wold be, not compelled, to be
in troble with you, or any worshipfull of my parishe. Therfore,
Sir, I requier you to let me have my right peasiably, as my pre-
decessors tofore hath had, and so doing, ye shall have my service,
and otherwise not, as this berer, my servant, to whom please yt
you to give credence, shall more largly shew you on my behalfe.
Wrytten at Pettewoorth, the xxvii of January, with the hand of
him that wold, having noo cause to the contrary, owe you his
service.
ROBART PICHARD,
parson of Spofforthe.
a Could this have been the land in Rybston field, of which Lady Plumpton speaks
in the preceding letter? If so, the attempt to sell it appears only to have added to
the Knight's misfortunes in drawing down upon him the wrath of the rector of his
parish, and the displeasure of the powerful Earl of Northumberland. (See next
Letter.)
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LETTER CLXIV.
To my right trusty and welbeloved Cousin, Sir Robart Plompton,
knight.
Cosin Sir Robart Plompton, I commennd me unto you, and am
informed that ye pretend a tytle and clame unto a litle land in
Rybstone, the which without tyme of mynde hath belonged unto
the parson of Spofford the tyme being, and hath alwayes bene at
his disposition to now lait that, as I perceive, ye be aboutward
against all right to imbarr and exclud my Chapleyn, now parsonn
ther, and ..... my service of the same; wherof I greatly mar-
vill, considring his predesessors alway hertofore hath quietly and
peasibly had it. And furthermore, well assured I am, Cousen,
that my chaplayn wold not covit to have it, but for the .....
aforsayd, and in the right of his Church; the which, for that I..
patron thereof, I must and will, in that I can, helpe to defend, as
myne owne inheritaince. Wherefore, I desire and pray you noe
further to intromete you with the sayd land and right of his
church, more then ye have in tyme past, in the dayes of other his
predesessours; and in case ye nedely will, wherof I wold be right
sory, know ye veryly ye cannot have my good will and favour.
And that, morover, it shalbe greatly against my will, that ye or any
other shall wrong me in the right of the same, whill I live. Writ-
ten in my mannor of Petworth, the last day of Januarie.
Your loving Cousin,
RTHUMBERLAND.
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LETTER CLXV.
To the right worshipfull and my most entyerly beloved, good, kind
father, Sir Robart Plomplon, knyght, lying at Plompton in York-
shire, be thes delivered in hast.
Ryght worshipfull father, in the most humble manner that I can
I recommend me to you, and to my lady my mother, and to all
my brethren and sistren, whom I besech almyghtie God to mayn-
tayne and preserve in prosperus health and encrese of worship,
entyerly requiering you of your daly blessing; letting you wyt
that I send to you mesuage, be Wryghame of Knarsbrugh, of my
mynd, and how that he should desire you in my name to send
for me to come home to you, and as yet I had no answere agane,
the which desire my lady hath gotten knowledg. Wherfore, she is
to me more better lady then ever she was before, insomuch that
she hath promysed me hir good ladyship as long as ever she
shall lyve; and if she or ye can fynd athing meyter for me in this
parties or any other, she will helpe to promoote me to the utter-
most of her puyssaunce. Wherfore, I humbly besech you to be
so good and kind father unto me as to let me know your pleasure,
how that ye will have me ordred, as shortly as it shall like you.
And wryt to my lady, thanking hir good ladyship of hir so loving
and tender kyndnesse shewed unto me, beseching hir ladyship of
good contynewance therof. And therfore, I besech you to send a
servant of yours to my lady and to me, and shew now by your
fatherly kyndnesse that I am your child; for I have sent you
dyverse messuages and wryttings, and I had never answere againe.
Wherfore, yt is thought in this parties, by those persones that list
better to say ill than good, that ye have litle favor unto me; the
which error ye may now quench, yf yt will like you to be so
good and kynd father unto me. Also I besech you to send me a
fine hatt and some good cloth to make me some kevercheffes.
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And thus I besech Jesu to have you in his blessed keeping to his
pleasure, and your harts desire and comforth. Wryten at the
Hirste,a the xviii day of Maye.
By your loving daughter,
DORYTHE PLOMPTON.b
a Temple Hirst in the parish of Birkin, com. Ebor, the seat of Lord Darcy.
b Dorothy Plumpton had, it may be presumed from the context of this letter, been
placed in some menial situation in the household of Lady Darcy, wbich the young lady
did not think meet for her rank. The Lady Darcy was mother of Sir Robert Plump-
ton's then wife, and hence perhaps the motive for her step-daughter being so bestowed.
(See Letter LIX. note a.) I may here remark that among the usual authorities for
the genealogies of the extinct Baronage of the kingdom great discrepancy is apparent
respecting this lady and her connexions. Dugdale writes the name Elizabeth, citing
as his authority MS. J. 3 in Offic. Arm. fol. 71 b, and affirms she died 22 Aug. 1529,
and was buried at the Friars Minors in Greenwich. Collins copies Dugdale, but
makes her the first wife, ex stemmate. It is, however, certain that both George Darcy
and Arthur Darcy, sons of her husband by a former wife, daughter of Sir Richard
Tempest, of Giggleswick, in Ribblesdale, com. Ebor. kt. had reached manhood be-
fore 6 Hen. VIII. 1514, when they were co-feoffees with others for the uses of the mar-
riage settlement of Sir Marmaduke Constable, the younger, and Elizabeth, the daugh-
ter of Thomas Lord Darcy; which marriage had been contracted for in the preceding
year by Sir Marmaduke Constable, the elder, of Flamborough, kt. and Sir Robert Con-
stable, his eldest son, father of the younger Sir Marmaduke, in consideration of the
sum of 800 marks, given with her by her father. (Petition of Sir Robert Constable,
5 Eliz. Archer's MS. p. 168, penes W. Constable Maxwell, de Everingham, com. Ebor.
Ar.) Banks and Edmondson recite the wives in their proper order, but, as well as
Dugdale, whom they follow, take no notice of her having been first married to the
Lord Nevill, and upon his authority adopt the name of Elizabeth. But in a MS,
Baronagium Angliæ by Wm. Smith, Rouge Dragon, anno 1597, now in the possession
of Lord Stourton, under the title of Sandes, she is rightly named Editha, and her two
husbands, Ralph Nevill and Thomas Lord Darcy of Templehurst, are both mentioned,
the only error being the addition of the title of Earl of Westmoreland to the name of
her first husband. It was, moreover, no doubt in compliment to her that one of the
daughters of George Lord Darcy was named Edith, afterwards the wife of Sir Thomas
Dawney of Cowick, com. Ebor, kt. The proof of this second marriage of Edith
Lady Nevill is otherwise interesting, as establishing the near degree of kindred which
existed between the last unfortunate Earl of Westmoreland and the infamous Sir Ro-
bert Constable, who sought to betray him to Queen Elizabeth. (See Sadler's State
Papers.) Her daughter, Dame Isabel Plumpton, survived her husband Sir Robert
Plumpton, and was 10 Mar. 20 Hen. VIII. 1528-9, the wife of Lawrence Kighley of
New Hall, near Otley, esq. (See Memoirs.)
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LETTER CLXVI.
To the right worshipfull Sir Robart Plompton, kt. in hast thes.
Right worshipfull Sir, my duty remembred, I recomend me to
your good mastership, praying you to be good master to me as
to send me iiijli, according to your appoyntment afore my master
Gascoygne, at Harwode ; the which appoyntment was, that I
should send for yt within viii day of Martynmas day. I thinke, by
the grace of God, to goe to London within thes 2 or iij dayes, and
therfore I send to your mastership more hastyly, for because I
wold have it with me to pay for the cost of the same suyte.
And therfore I besech you to bestowe no more labor in this be-
halfe, and this my letter, the which this berrer can delyver to your
mastership, shalbe a sufficient discharg of all debts and outlares
by reason of the sayd oblygacion, as knoweth Jesu, who keepe
you in worship. At Wakfeld, the xvi day of December.
Your owne to his power,
ROBART CHALONER.
LETTER CLXVII.
To the right worshipfull Sir Robart Plumpton, kt.
Right worshipfull Sir, in the best maner that I can I recom-
mend me to you, praying you to send me the money which my
father lent you at London, the which is iiijli; for your son Ed-
mund a promysed me at London, if I wold suffer the exigend,
which I had agaynst you, not to goe out agaynst you, that I should
have the money now at my comyng into the countre. And
therfore, if so be ye will deliver to this berer the aforesayd money,
he shall deliver to you the exigend, and an acquitance sealed with
my sygnett for the same; and if not, I will put the exigend into
a This is the only notice I have met with of Edmund Plumpton ; he probably died
unmarried in his father's life-time.
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the schereffe hands, and then ye shalbe outlawd shortly. For if
I had not kept it in my hands, ye had bene outlayed or now, as
knoweth Jesu, who preserve your mastership in worship. At
Standley, the xvi day of Aprill,
Yours to his power,
ROBART CHALONER.
YI
LETTER CLXVIII.
To our right worshipfull Sir Robart Plompton, kt.
Right worshipfull, after all due recomendations pleaseth you to
understand, that of late you made great instante labors unto our
singuler good lord, my lord Archbyshop of Yorke, for a chauntry
of the Trenite, within the church of Rippon, possessed by Sir An-
thony Sole; and also ye shewed to our lord Archbishop that the
foresayd Sir Anthony was intrused. Wherupon your informacion,
our sayd Lord Archbishop comaunded, by a letter to the foresayd
chapitor of Rippon derected, to admitte Sir Richard Plompton by
your presentacion, for because the foresayd Antony was presented
by Richard Emson, and also that he was his chapelaine, and not
after the true order of law admytted. Master Plompton, accord-
ing to our sayd Lord Archbishop, at his departing out of Eng-
land,a comaunded to me John Carvar, his Vicker generall, and
John Wythers, his Surveyor and generall Reasonner, to wryte unto
you that the foresayd Sir Anthony hath be possessed this iij quar-
ters of a yeare and more peassably; and also presented by the
Kinge, and nothing belonging to Rich. Emson: and no Quare
impedit of your parte suyd, and as now without remedie by that
wryte. Wherfore, we exhort you and hartyly desire you to pa-
tiently suffer this poore preist to occupie peassiablely his poore
a Christopher Bainbridge, Archbishop of York, appointed proctor for King Henry
VIII. at the Papal See, 24 Sept. 1509. He died in the Holy City. (See Drake's
Eboracum.)
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chawntory with all the profitte and commodity to the said chawn-
tory belonging (without any desire and commandement of your
parte to the tenaunts, fermors and occupiers of the same), without
any furder besines or trouble, and it nothinge preiudiciall to your
tytle of londis. And thus doing, ye shall please almyghty God,
and to cause our forsayd lord Archbishop to be more synguler
good lord in all your causes, busines, and trobles. And thus our
Lorde God have you in his keeping. From Yorke, the xxix day
of October, by your faithfull and loving frynds at ther litle pow-
ers, as God knoweth.
JOHN CARVER,
Vicar generall.
(29 Oct. 1509.)
JOAN WYTHERS.
LETTER CLXIX.
PCC
To the right worshipfull Sir Robart Plompton, Kt. be thes byll de-
livered, or to my lady his wyfe.
Master Plumpton, I comend me unto you; letting you under-
stand that the Scherefe of the shire of Lancaster sent a balife to
my house with a wrytt, and hath seysed into the Kings hands al
my lands and goods, unto such tyme that the marchant of Lon-
don be content of a cli, which Sir John Luth,a knyght, and I were
surty to for you, and the whole summe is layd to my charge; wherin
I marvell greatly that ye shewed that ye had goten longer day to
a Sic, sed lege Bothe. Sir Robert Plumpton, kt. and William, his son and heir appa-
rent, were bound in a statute merchant to Sir John Bothe, of Barton, in com. Lanc.
kt. and Hamelett Harington, of Hayton-bay, com. Lanc. esq. in a £100, to indemp-
nify them against Morgan Williams, citizen of London, who had advanced this sum upon
their security, which instrument bears date 1 Jan. 1 Hen. VIII. 1509-10. (Chartul.
No. 833.) This debt was not acquitted till 9 May, 8 Hen. VIII. 1516, when it was
agreed that costs should be awarded according to the judgment of Sir Robert Shef-
feild, knight, counseler to our Lord the King, and of Master John Veesy, clerk, Dean
of the King's chappell. (Ibid. No. 847.)
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pay it in at Whitsontide and Candelmas. Wherfore, I pray you to
se a way that I may be discharged, as shortly as ye can, so that I
may occupy my land and goods. If ye will not so doe, I must
sue my statute marchant on you and ayre William, your sone,
which I wold be loth, and ye had such dayes granted as ye shewed
me. Ye must, at the least, send to London to the marchant, and
get him to send downe to the Schereffe, that I may be discharged.
And if ye will not do soe, I will up to London, and sue out my
Statute marchant, as shortly as I can. Take credence to the
bearer therof. At Hyton, the eight day of May.
HAMNET HARYNGTON,
Esquire.
LETTER CLxx.
To my right worshipfull Cousin, Sir William Gascon, be these
delivered.
Right worshipfull Cousin, I recommend me unto you. And
where it was appoynted, for the matter in traverse betwyxt my
Cousin Plumpton, my cousin Roclife, and his cooparsoners, the
meetyng to be at Yorke, upon fryday next afore St. Wylliam day,a
supposing than it had bene the morning next after the twelt day.
Cousin, in that matter we toke the day wrong, for that same fry-
day is veryly the twelt day. Wherfore, that it will like you to
apoint some other day, for that day cannot keepe for causes afor-
sayd. And if it like you to appoynt the Munday or Tewsday next
after St. William day, or any day in that weke, I having know-
ledg from you, I shall not fale to keepe the same day that ye list
• to apoynt. And the cause why I am desirus to know the day
# The feast of the translation of St. William, Archbishop of York, was kept on the
Sunday next after the Epiphany. In the year 1515, 6 Hen. VIII. the Epiphany, or
Twelfth Day, fell on a Friday.
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now, is cheifly because I wold common with Sir Wylliam Par-
poynt, who is now comyng fro beyond the see, and know his mynd
thorowly in this matter afor our meting. And thus I besech Jesu
preserve you. Wrytten at Holme, the xi day of November.
Your loving Cousin,
MARMADUKE CONSTABLE, of Flaunborgh.b
(Md. to appoint the Tewsday next after twelt day.)
(11 Nov. 1514.)
b King Henry VIII. Aug. 22, in the first year of his reign, granted to Sir William
Perpoint, knight, of Holme, com. Nott. the custody of Joane and Elizabeth Southill, and
their marriage. (Rot. Pat. pars 1ma. I Hen. VIII.) He had also, July 24, 2 Hen.
VIII. the custody of the lands and tenements which were Henry Sothills and Elizabeth
Sothills, widow, as long as they remained in the King's hands. (Ibid. pars 2da. 2 Hen.
VIII.) At the same time Sir William Pierpoint married Joan, the widow of Henry Sote-
hill, and the mother of these twin sisters, his co-heirs ; she, it has been mentioned,
was the daughter of Sir Richard Empson, kt. who towards the close of the reign
of Henry VII, had been made Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. (See Thoro-
ton's Notts. edit. 1797, vol. i. p. 176.) The wardship and marriage of Joan, the
eldest co-beir, was subsequently purchased by Sir Marmaduke Constable of Flam-
borough, com. Ebor. kt. conjointly with his fourth son, John Constable, esq.
afterwards a knight, who eventually married the lady, and resided at Kinalton.
He died 13 Eliz. 1571, leaving issue by her three daughters : 1. Anne, the wife of George
Babington, esq. in her right of Kinalton, by whom she had no issue, and secondly, of
Sir Anthony Thorold, of Marston, com. Linc. kt. whose only daughter by her became the
wife of George, son and heir of Sir Gervase Clifton, of Clifton, com. Nott. kt. and carried
the representation of the ancient house of Plumpton, together with the estate at Kinalton,
to the family of that surname; 2. Cecilia, first wife of William Bevercotes, esq. and
secondly, of Clement Oglethorp, esq. She had issue by both husbands, and upon the
partition of the land which was the Lady Jane Constable's, late of Kinalton, com. Notts.
by virtue of an indenture bearing date 28 Mar. 19 Eliz. 1577, between Cuthbert Be-
vercotes, esq. of the one part, and William Oglethorp, esq. of the other part, the
moiety of the lordship of Clifton (Steton ?) was assigned to the former, and the moiety of
the lordship of Idel to the latter. (MSS. of J. C. B. in Coll. Arm.) 3. Catharine, without
issue. Elizabeth, the second of the daughters and co-heirs of Henry Sotehill, was
married to Sir William Drury, of Hawsted Place, com. Suff. kt. of whose descendants
a full and detailed account will be found in the History of Suffolk, “ Thingoe Hundred,"
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lately published by my esteemed friend, John Gage, esq. Director S. A. who since
the demise of his brother, the late Robert Joseph Gage Rookwood, of Coldham Hall,
in Stanningfield, com. Suff. esq. without surviving issue, has, upon succeeding to the
estate, assumed also the name of Rookwood. (Hist, and Antiquities of Suffolk, p.
428, London, 4to. Bentley, 1838.)
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LETTER CLXXI.
To my right worshipfull Coussin, Sir William Gascoine, be thes
dellivered.
Right worshipfull Coussin, I recomend me unto you; and this
Saterday, at thre of the clock at after nowne, I received your
letter, whearby I perceive that both ye and my coussin Plompton is
content to kepe the tewsday next after the twelt day at York.
And whether ye think to be theare that tewsday at viij clock,
and have communication in that matter upon wednsday by viii
or ix of the clock in the morning, or els to be theare the monday
at night, and have our comunication upon the tewsday, this I
had nede to know, before I send to my cossin Parpoint, because
he comes farre, and I wold not disapoint him. And furthermore,
Coussin, ye rehearse to me in your said letter that you have
spoken with my cossin William Plompton in the matter that ye
comond with me of, and that ye trust at our metting to give me
such answer in that matter, as I shall be content. Coussin, as
towching the matter betwixt Sir Robart Plompton, and Sir John
Rouclif and his cooparseners, if my sayd coussin be of any toward-
nes to take end, and to be ordred by frinds in that matter, I shall
well content both in that and other things .... frind apoynted
to kepe the day at York, such as ye have appoynted. And as for
any answer, or other communication with my Cossin William
Plompton, in any other matter, but onely this old matter betwixt
my coussin Sir Robart Plompton, his father, and Sir John
Rouclif and his cooparseners, I trust verrely that ye think,
that I of my honestie may neither common, nor take answer in
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that matter. And so if that be the princepall cause, or any part
of any meting, I wold neither ye, nor I, lost no labor, but rather
remit all matters to the Common Law. And, Coussin, for the
more perfit and suer knowledg of your mind, touching this day
of our metting, I shall send a servant of mine, who shall not
faill to be with you upon Thursday at viii clock next coming, and
to bring me suer writting from you in that behalfe. And thus our
Lord preserve you. Written at Holme, the sixth of November.
Your loving coussin,
MARMADUKE COUNSTABLE,
(19 Nov. 1514.)
of Flaynbrough, knight.
LETTER CLXXII.
Md. for the matter of varyance betwyx Sir John Rocliffe, Sir
Wiliam Perepoynt, John Constable, on the one party, and Sir
Robart Plumpton and William his son on the other party; it is
thus ordred by the assent of both the parties, the sayd partys shall
abyde thaward of my Lord Wynchester, my lord Tresourer,
my lord of Surrey, Robert Brudnell, William Fayrfax, Justices,
Bryan Palmes, John Newdygate, Sargaunts at the law, Sir John
Norton, knyght, Richard Sawcheverell, or Sir Andrew Wyndy-
sour, betwixt this and the next assise; and nether of the sayd
partyes shall vex other, nor ther partakers, servants, tenants for
ther sakes, by entre, dystresse, wrytt, prive seale, indytement, nor
other wyse betwixt this and the said assise.
WYLLIAM FARFAX.a
a Sir William Fairfax, Justice of the Common Pleas, eldest son of Sir Guy Fairfax,
of Steeton, com. Ebor. kt. Chief Justice of the King's Bench, died 6 Hen. VIII.
1515. Only three of the arbitrators here named signed the final award, John Earnly,
the King's Attorney-general, being the fourth. (See Memoirs.)
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LETTER CLXXIII.
To my right worshipfull father-in-law, Sir Robart Plompton, kt.
be these delivered.
Right worshipfull father, in the most loving maner that I can, I
hartely recomennd me unto you, and to my lady my mother-in-
law, your wyfe; and likwise my poore wyfe, your daughter, re-
comends hir unto you and my sayd lady, and prayeth you of
your daly blessing. And we desire hartely the knowledge of your
prosperous health, worship, and welfare, the which I besech Al-
myghty Jesus long to contynue to encrease to his pleasure, and
your comforth. And, father, if you be remembred, I wrote a let-
ter unto you laytly, and sent it unto you by my servant; in the
which letter I instaunced and desired you to shew your fatherly
kindnes unto my poore wife and me, and to be so gud father unto
us, as to make a sure meane that we myght peaseably enjoy and
occupie the land that I bought of you in Combryg in Staforth-
shire, (for I thought, that unles the sayd land in Combryge were
specified in this award, now made betwixt you and Roclife and the
heires of Suttele, or els of a liklyhod they wold enter upon me
and disposses me,)a and you send me word, that you thought they
wold not have it, nor medle with it. But thus it is, that now
within this fortnyth ther were servants of Sir William Parpoints
and Sir John Roclifes determined to take away the goods that they
* The award had been made 27 Mar. 6 Hen. VIII. 1515, and in it the lands at
Combridge in Staffordshire were not specified; bnt an agreement was subsequently
come to by the parties, 12 Nov. 17 Hen. VIII. 1515, to refer to arbitrators the proofs
concerning the lands called Comrig, in the county of Stafford, and the question whether
the advowson of the chantry of Ripon, in the county of York, was appurtenant to the
manor of Plumpton, in the county of York. (Chartul. No. 845.) The result was in
favour of Germayn Pole, and the lands purchased at Combridge continued to be the
property of his descendants, as appears by the escheats.
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could find upon the ground; and so had they donne, but that the
tenaunt fortuned to here tell of ther coming, and in all possible
hast came to give me warning. And so, by the helpe of gud mas-
ters and frinds, at the last, by fayre means, with very great payne,
entreated them to spare distreyning, till such tyme as I had sent
unto you to know what remedy you wold provide herin. Wher-
fore, at the reverence of God, and for the love that you owe unto
my poore wyfe and me and our children, remember how we stand
unto you, and be so gud and kind father unto us to find the
meane, that we may peasiably occupie that litle land, which I
bought of you and truly payd for; and it shalbe to a discharge of
your conscience and, with Gods grace, comforth in lykewyse, for
it shall ever succeed in your bloud. Father, I besech you thus to doe,
to take the payne upon you to make such labor unto Sir John Ro-
clife, that he will, at your instauncie and by the mediacion of
such of your frinds as it shall please you to cause to labor unto
him, make a release of that land in Combrig. Father, if it please
you to doe your best herin, I doubt not, with Gods grace, but you
shall well bring this matter to passe, considring the familiaritie
betwixt you and him now, and that is like to be. Thus doing,
you bynd me and all myne ever to do you that pleasure, that may
be in our smale power; and not doyng thus, all that know you
and me myght well speake upon it, that I should, considryng
how I stand unto you, pay such a sume of money to you, and
not to be made sure of my bargen. And beside, yt wold be to
me as great discomforth as lightly cold happen me, which wold
greve much more then the losse of my money, or of my land.
And, as you know right well, I have Slyngsby bonden as your
surty in an obligation of xli for the perfirmance of your bargan,
which I have redy in my keping. And the Lord preserve you.
From Redburne in hast, upon Trenetie Munday.
By your faythfull loving son,
(4 June 1515.)
GERMAYN POLE.
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LETTER CLXXIV.
To the right worshipfull and singuler gud father, Sir Robart
Plompton, Kt. be these delivered in hast.
for
Right worshipfull and my full singuler gud father, in the most
humble and lowly maner that I can, I hartely recomend me unto
you, and to my lady your wyfe, and in lykewise doth your daugh-
ter, my poore wyfe, and hartely prayeth you of your dayly bless-
ing, desiring the knowledg of your prosperous health and wel-
faire. Father, so it is that upon a truth, of thursday last, oon
Richard Bardall of Hessope came in the names of Roclife, Par-
poynte, and Counstable a to my tennant in Combryg, and also to
Crake[marsh] and in ther names commaunded my tennant that
he should from henceforth pay me no rent, but to make his rent
redy for them, shewing eich one of them wold send a servant
thither for the rent betwixt this and Martynmas ; and told him
playnly that they must have the sayd land, because it was nether
in ther wryting, nor in yours. Father, you sent me word laytly by
my servant, that you had made it sure to me without any daun-
ger. Yt pleaseth you to let him se your wrytings, and, as I un-
derstond, both by you and by him, it is nether expressed in the
wrytings that towch them, nor you. Yet, notwithstanding, upon
mine honestie, they make this sturryng therin, and so yt is to
thinke, that if they may find any hole or colur therin, they will
troble with me for the same; and yt were great pytie that I shold
have ony troble for that thing, that I have bought and truly payd
for. Wherfore, at the reverence of God, and for the love that
you owe to me and my wyfe, and our children, to make a sure
way for me now at this terme at London. And I pray you send
me word what tyme you will goe or send to London, and I will
send one of my servants to meet you or your deputie ther. And
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at his comming whom, bringing me word that you have made it
sure to me without daunger or jopartie, forthwith you shal have
payd you that, that myne uncle Sir Alban a promysed you, and
at all tymes the best that in me may be to you and all yours,
duryng my natural life, by the sufferance of Jesu, who have you
in his eternall keeping. From Rodburne in hast, the iij day of
October. Father, I besech you at such tyme as recoveres or
assurances shalbe made, that it will please you to let it be ex-
pressed by name, that they may be avoyded or expulsed from ther
clame therin.
Your loving son,
(3 Oct. 1515.)
GERMAYN POLE.
a Sir Alban Pole was a younger son of Ralph and Elizabeth Pole, probably in
Holy Orders.
LETTER CLXXV.
To my uncle Plumpton this letter be delivered in hast.
Uncle Plompton, I commend me unto you. It is so I am like to
have busines for the lordship of Harwood. The Kinge is my
good and gracias Lord, and hath granted it to me, with all the
revenos and profitts thereof, duryng the nowne age of the heire
of Heire Ridman. And as I am enformed, such folkes as be not
my lovers, wold bysie them in the cause; how be it, they have no
matter of law, nor right therin. Wherfore I desire you, if there
be any cause or matter of danger against me in that behalfe, that
ye will be with me, with such company as you can make, at such
tyme as I send to you; at which your comyng ye shall se a reason-
a Joanna, only child of Henry Redman, son and heir apparent of Edward Redman,
esq. lord of a moiety of Harewood, com. Ebor. was five years old in 6 Hen. VIII.
when her grandfather died. (See Pedigree in Whitaker's Loidis et Elmete.)
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215
able suerty to beare me in the cause. And what ye will doe
herin, I pray you send me word in writting be this bearer. And
thus our Lord keepe you. At Gaukthorpe, the xviii day of De-
cember.
Your nephew,
(18 Dec. anno circiter 1515.) WILLIAM GASCOYGNE.
LETTER CLXXVI.
• To my Uncle Plompton be these delivered.
Uncle Plompton, I recomend me unto you, desiring you to call
to your remembrance the byrth of my nephew William Farfax,a
which was borne with you at Plompton, and let me have the dayt
of his birth. Also I pray you let me have the dayt of the mar-
raige of my cosin Hair and your daughter, which ye have in wryt-
ting, as I am enformed; and ye thus doyng bynds me to doe you
as great a pleasure, which I shalbe glad to doe, with the grace of
God, who preserve you to his pleasure, and thus fare ye well.
From Gawkthrop, the third day of March.
Your
(3 March 154.)
WILLIAM GASCOYNE.
a William Fairfax, twin-brother with Sir Nicholas Fairfax, of Gilling, com. Ebor. kt.
sons of Sir Thomas Fairfax, of Walton, com. Ebor. kt. by Anne, daughter of Sir
William Gascoigne, of Gawkthorpe, com. Ebor, kt. and the Lady Margaret Percy,
and sister to the writer of this letter.
b Arthur Eyre, son and heir of Robert Eyre of Padley, com. Derb. esq. was con-
tracted to marry Margaret, daughter of Sir Robert Plumpton, kt. before 4 Aug. 15
Hen. VII. 1500.
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LETTER CLXXVII.
To my right worshipfull master, Sir Robart Plompton, kt. deliver
these in hast.
Right worshipfull Sir, after my loving maner I hartyly recomend
me unto your good mastership, desiryng evermore to here of your
good health and wellfare, the which Almyghty Jesu preserve and
contynew to his pleasure, and to your singuler comforth. Sir, the
speciall cause of my wrytting to your mastership at this tyme, is
this; my lady Ward, your sister,a hartely desires your mastership
that ye wold be so good brother unto hir, as for to let hir have
Mrs Clare, your daughter, to beare her ladyship companie this
tyme of Christynmas at Gauthorp : that done, she wer much
bound to your gud mastership. Letting your mastership to un-
derstand, that she is a hevy gentlewoman; wherfore, I cannot say.
Letting your mastership to know that Mr. Nevell is come home,
and master Watter Stryckland in like maner. As for other
newes, I here of none. Desiring your mastership to send hir
Ladyship your mynd by wrytting, or els by word of mouth be
the berer of this letter, after what maner she shalbe ordred touch-
ing the premysses of this byll. No more to your mastership at
this tyme, but almyghty Jesu have you in his keeping, and all
yors. Amen.
Your owne servant to his poer,
JAMES EMYSONN.
a Margaret, daughter of Sir William Gascoigne of Gawkthorp, com. Ebor. kt. by
his wife Joan, daughter and heiress of Sir John Nevill, of Althorp, com. Linc, kt. wife
of Sir Christopher Ward of Givendale, com. Ebor. kt. and sister of Dame Agnes, wife
of Sir Robert Plumpton, kt.
Sir Christopher Ward died 14 Hen. VIII. 1522. (Esc. 14 Hen. VIII. n. 68.) when
it was found that Margaret the wife of Lawrence, (then sine prole,) Joanna wife of
Sir Edward Musgrave, kt. ætatis 23 annorum, Catharine, wife of Walter Stirkland,
esq. æt. 22, Johanna, wife of John Constable, esq. twin with the last, and Anne, wife
of Ralph Nevill, (who with her husband were then both dead,) should have been his
daughters and heirs.
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LETTER CLXXVIII.
To my right worshipfull master Sir Robart Plompton, kt. deliver
thes in hast.
Right worshipfull Sir, in my most humble maner that I can, I
recomend me to your good mastership, and also to my good lady;
letting your mastership understand that Nicholas, the messenger,
hath delivered a byll into the Stare Chamber of all the prevey
seles that he delivered in the north country: and as many as
apereth not, the Counsell derecteth proses against them. How-
beyt, I made aledgment for your mastership, wherwith they are
content, and hath given day to All-hallow day. And they lay to
your charge lxxxiijli, that your mastership shold be debtable to the
King for the lordship of Plompton, for ij yeres, in King Herre the
VIIth dayes. This must be answered at the next terme. And,
Sir, ther is a suyt against your mastership in the Excheker for
introshon. And, Sir, as for my yong master, that hath none end
as yet.b Sir, the Kings grace and the queens lyeth at Wodfeld;
and yt is sayd of a certayne that ther comes a lyget from Rome
to my lord Cartdenall, and shall bring to my lord Cardenall the
paypis with full authoryty and power of all maner of things in
the Reame of England. No more to your mastership, but the
Holy Ghost have you in his keping. From London in hast, the
xxviii of June.
By your servant,
(28 June 1516.)
JOHN D.
* This suit must relate to the forcible possession retained of Plumpton in the reign
of Henry VII. after recovery by assise at the Common Law. Sir Robert Plumpton
was now, it seems, made a debtor to the King for the rents and profits received during
this intrusion, till he was again in by due course of law.
The dispute with Babthorpe. (See next Letter.)
c Cardinal Wolsey obtained these powers from Rome by bull dated Dec. 22, 1516.
Rymer's Federa, tom. XIII. p. 573.
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LETTER CLXXIX.
To his sister Isbell Plompton a be thes delivered.
Sister, I hartelie commend me to you. Edmond, your servant,
shewed me that ye are aferred that the agrement that my lord of
It has been asserted in a preceding note, but upon insufficient grounds, that William
Eleson or Elson, the writer of this letter, whom William Plumpton calls his brother in
Letter CXLII, and who here addresses Mrs. Isabel Plumpton as his sister, had
eventually married a daughter of Sir Robert Plumpton, the above modes of expression
being supposed to indicate that he was the brother-in-law of the parties. That there
was no such connection, when the Letters inserted at p. 134-5, and p. 163, were written,
is manifest from their address and subscription. Now of these letters, one is ascer-
tained to have been written 12 Feb. 1498-9; the next is of later date; while the third
cannot have been sent before the month of October or November in the year 1502 ;
subsequently to which date, and to the date of William Plumpton's Letter, viz. on the
12 Apr. 1504, he is named by Lady Plumpton, but not as “my son," a distinction to
which if he was entitled no mother-in-law would have omitted in a familiar letter of
the time, when affinity and relationship in a much more remote degree were so respect-
fully cherished. To explain the connection between the parties, we must therefore have
recourse to other evidence. In the Visitation of 1584 by Glover, Robert Bab-
thorpe, the father of Mrs. Isabel Plumpton, is represented to have married a wife
named Katharine, and from a tricking of a coat of arms, sa. a chevron engrailed
or, a line is drawn appropriating it to her. Archer, as cited by Burton from
Smales, p. 124, corroborates Glover, and adds that she was daughter of -
who died in 1461. (See Pedigree of Babthorpe in Burton's Mon. Eboracense, p.
437, note b.) The above coat Edmondson assigns to the family of Hagthorpe, a local
name derived from a vill in the same township as Babthorpe, viz. Brakenholme cum
Woodal, in the parish of Hemingbrough; and I find a Thomas Hagthorpe de Braken-
holme, a witness to a deed of release from Alice Keighleston to Ralph Babthorpe, esq.
dated 10 Jan. 17 Hen. VI. 1438-9. (Towneley MSS. G. 24.) Robert Babthorpe
must necessarily have died before 11 May, 1496, when the representation of the Bab-
thorpes had vested in his daughter Isabell or Elizabeth as heir general, then in her
seventeenth year; * (see Letter XCIX. note b.) and upon comparing the date of his
* By the contract of marriage, 11 May, 11 Hen VII. it was covenanted that Sir
Robert Plumpton should convey to feoffees, Nicholas Mydleton, Richard Grene,
Robert Haldynby, esq. and Richard Plumpton, clerk, lands to the value of 20 marks
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Durram b hath made with Bedellc shold hurt your title in Bap-
thorp. Sister, be ye nothing afеard therof, for ye shal have as
good remede now as ye might have had before, and as that if your
Cossin wear at full age; for his non age shall not hurt you. If
daughter's birth with the age of Ralph his elder brother, who was found to be 22 years
old when his father died, 6 Edw. IV. 1466, (Esc. de eod. anno.) it may be conjectured
that he was about thirty when he married. It is also certain from a comparison of dates
and circumstances, that William Eleson was many years the senior of Mrs. Isabel
Plumpton, for we find him in 1501 esteemed a lawyer of such approved counsel, as to
be considered the fittest person to investigate the complicated evidence supporting the
title of Sir Robert Plumpton to the estates claimed by the heirs general. (See Letter
CXIX.) From these inferences I draw the conclusion, that Katharine, wife of Robert
Babthorpe, daughter of Hagthorpe, had had a first husband, and that William
Eleson of Selby was the issue of such marriage, and brother in half blood to Mrs. Isabel
Plumpton. On a stone in the north aisle of the abbey church of Selby, near the font,
was inscribed, Hic jacet Joh. Elson, qui obiit 14. .. 1509, who, if the date be correct,
was probably another brother, and not father of William Elson, as heretofore assumed
in the note to Letter CIII. Of other issue, mention will be made in a subsequent note.
The manor of Babthorpe was held of the Bishop of Durham.
© Christiana, the widow of William Babthorpe of Osgodby, remarried William
Bedell, esq. and survived to 8 April, 31 Hen. VIII. 1540, as appears from the register
of Sepulchral Inscriptions existing temp. Hen. VIII. in the church of the Grey
Friars, London. « Christiana Bedell, uxor Willelmi Bedell, armigeri, et filia Henrici
Suttell de Stockfaston, de com. Leicestrie, armigeri. Ob. 8 Apr. 1540." (See Coll.
Top. et Geneal, vol. V. p. 289.)
a William Babthorpe, son of William Babthorpe of Osgodby and of Christian
Sotehill or Suttell, (erroneously described as a daughter of Mr. John Soothill in
the pedigree of Babthorpe in Burton,) was yet a minor, 29 Apr. 2 Hen. VIII.
1510, when Thomas Babthorpe, clerk, provost of the Collegiate Church of Heming-
brough, bound himself in the penal sum of £100 to William Plumpton, the
obligation to be void “ if the said Thomas Babthorp and William Bedell, during
the nonage of William Babthorp, should keep the award of Thomas Darcy,
Lord Darcy, and Sir Marmaduke Constable, knight, (late) Sherif of Yorkshire,
yearly, to the intent that the said feoffees should make estate thereof to William
Plumpton and Isabell his wife, within six weeks next after the said Isabell cometh
to the age of seventeen years. This covenant was carried into effect 14 Sept. 1496,
and the lands charged were the manor or vills of Hassop and Rouland, in the county
of Derby. (Chartul. No. 783.)
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any presept com from the Sherrif to take your cattell, obey ye it
not, for no cattell should be taken therby but your husband cat-
tell, and he hath none; and so may ye make the bayly answer.
And take good hede of your cattell, and of keping your place e
now, whiles your husband is at London. And I pray God send
you good spede in your matter. Written this Monday.
By yours,
WILL. ELSON.
arbitrators indifferently chosen by the parties, of and upon the right and title of the
manor of Babthorpe and the lands and tenements in Brackholme and Hemingbrough,
which the said William claimeth in the right of Isabel his wife, and of the lands in
Watterton, in the county of Lincoln, which the said Thomas claimeth in right of the
foresaid William Babthorpe, now being under age, the award to be given before the
feast of St. Michael the Archangel next ensuing." (Chartul. No. 835.)
e William Crouch, the Escheator in the county of York, testifies by deed that on
Friday, 3 Apr. 21 Hen, VII. 1506, he had given quiet seisin and possession of the
manor called Babthorp, with its appurtenances, in the county of York, and of the
manors or vills called Brakenhome, Estofte, Selby, and Hunigsley, in the same, to
William Plumpton, esq. in right of Isabella his wife, cousin and heir of Isabella Has-
tings, late wife of Sir John Hastings, kt. according to the precept in a writ dated 13
Feb. last past to him directed. (Chartul. No. 828.) But before the date of this
letter the opposite party had, it seems, regained possession, and the manor was now in
the occupation of William Bedell in right of his wife as her dower. The place,
therefore, here alluded to must have been Waterton, in the Isle of Axholme, to
which a counter claim had been set up in the title of the heir male,
LETTER CLXXX.
To my right worshipfull and my especiall good father Sir Robart
Plompton, kt. be thes delivered.
Right worshipfull Sir, after dew recomendations had, I homly
recomend me unto you and to my lady and mother-in-law, be-
seching you for your dayly blessing. Sir, I have bene dyverse
tymes before the judges for my matters, but I can have none end
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as yet, except my cousin Babthorp myght have all the lands in
Hemyngbrough .... and I to have Waton, Northcayffe, Medel-
ton, Wystou, and lands in Beverley to the valow of xls, and forest
land in Selby to the valow of xxs, and iijli land more, or lxli in
money; and to give answer the first day of the next tearme,a
Wherfore, Sir, I besech you of your best counsell therin by this
bearer. And as for your owne matter before Master Dance, Ole-
ver hath wrytten to you the scertayntie therof; and as for Mr.
Woyd, I had money so much to do as to stope the outlawery this
terme. Wherfore, Sir, I besech you to make some search ther-
fore, for yt is a great danger, as the world is at this day, as Jesu
knowes, who preserve you in health. Wrytten at Sacum, the x
day of June. Sir, I besech you give credence to this bearer.
By your owne son to his litle power,
WILLIAM PLOMPTON.
11
a The dispute between - William Plompton and Isabel his wife” of the one party, and
66 William Babthorp, gent, and Anas [Agnes] his wife, of the other party," concerning
the ancient estates of the family of Babthorpe in Yorkshire, was continued till after
the death of Sir Robert Plumpton, kt. his father, for by bond dated 2 May, 16 Hen.
VII. 1524, it was agreed to refer all matters to the arbitration of Sir Lewis Polard
and Sir Richard Broke, kts. two of the King's Justices of the Common Pleas, and
to Sir William Gascoigne, kt. Treasurer of the right reverend father in God, Thomas
Lord Cardinal, Legate of the See of Rome, Archbishop of York, Primate and Chancel.
lor of England, and to-Ralph Swillington, Attorney to our Sovereign Lord the King.
(Chartul. No. 855.)
LETTERS
WRITTEN TO MR. WILLIAM PLOMPTON, ESQUIRE.
WHO DYED PRIMO ED. 6.
TO MR. ROBART PLOMPTON, ESQUIRE.
WHO DYED 38: OF HEN: 8.
AND TO MRS. ISABELL PLOMPTON,
WHO DYED 6: ED, 6.
LETTER I.
To the right worshipfull Mr. William Plompton, esquire.
..................... your frinds of the sid of
........ Bapthorps,a that som of your Learned Councill
did conyay, and besid, clame evidence which neyther yourself, nor
any of your frinds, wold have done at any meting; therfore, it is
a In the Cartulary is the copy of a bond for a thousand marks from William Bab-
thorpe, esq. to William Plumpton, esq. dated 27 June, 11 Hen. VIII. 1519, to be void
upon condition “that the said William Babthorp and Agnes his wife, and all seised
to their use, or to the heirs of the said William Babthorp, should perform the award
of Robert Brudnell and Humphrey Coningsby, knights, two of the King's Justices,
arbitrators in differently chosen between the above bounden William Babthorp and
Agnes his wife, and the said William Plompton and Isabel his wife, upon the right and
title of the lands that were Sir Ralph Babthorpe, knight, or any of his ancestors ;
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thought that you meting with such Learned Councill shall take
litle efect. But if ye would take one substantiall frind or ij, and
he likewise take one or tow, and at my coming home, soe to
meate, I shall be glad to meate with you at such time and place
as shall be apoynted by you both; and take with me such as
is both of good experience and learning, trusting so to set a
finall end .......... you and them. I trust we shall com-
mun ..... ther of our matters; and of your mind in the pre-
mises, I pray you to acertaine me, and thus hertyly fare ye
well. From Aknig, b the xviii day of July.
Hertyly yours asured,
THOMAS BURGH.C
the award to be given before the feast of St. Luke next ensuing, and if no award given,
then the parties to abide the umpirage of Thomas Lord Cardinal, Legate of the See
of Rome, Archbishop of York, prymate and Chauncler of England, if given before
the feast of All Saints." (Chartul. No. 850.) This proposed settlement of the dif-
ference between the families must, however, have failed, for the bond was again renewed
2 May, 16 Hen. VIII. 1524, when Sir Lewis Polard and Sir Richard Broke were the
Justices chosen for arbitrators, with whom were joined Sir William Gascoigne, Trea-
surer to Cardinal Wolsey, and Raufe Swillington, the King's Attorney. (See note to
Letter CLXXX.) The award was to be given at the feast of Pentecost; but if ever made,
it was set aside. This letter implies a third attempt to adjust matters, which was also of
no avail, for the ancient claims were revived in the next generation, and not finally set
at rest until 20 Oct. 3 Eliz. 1561, when Richard Weston and John Walsh, two of the
Queen's Justices of the Common Pleas, awarded to Sir William Babthorpe, kt.
the manors of Babthorpe and Osgodby, and to William Plumpton, esq. the manor
of Watterton, and lands in Estoft and Hunesley, in com. Ebor. and in Hotoft and
Caldby Aymcotes, in com. Linc. (Towneley MS. of extracts from the evidences at
Plumpton.)
b Quære Hackney?
© Thomas Burgh of Gainsborough, com. Linc, kt. summoned to Parliament 3 Nov.
21 Hen. VIII. 1529.
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LETTER II.
To the right worshipful Mr. Plompton of Plompton this deliver.
Right worshipfull Sir, in my hartyest maner I commend me to
your mastership and to my mistres your wife, thanking you of the
good chear ye maid me at my being with you. Sir, the cause of
my wryting unto you at this time is to beg of your mastership to
....... to me for God ....... else ye utterly undo me.
Wherfore, I besich your mastership that I may know your mind
in wryting, for I trust, seing I am your tennant, ye will not put me
owt, except it wear for som great cause, that ye would ocupy it
yourselfe, as ye promised me at the begining. Sir, the gentleman
that you said should have it, sayes that the first motion came of
you and [not] of him. Sir, ye spoke with me that you wold have
had som good ling fish; wherfore, I send your mastership part to
se how you like them, and if ye do like them, send me word in
wryting what substance ye would have, and I shall helpe to
provide you therof, or salt fish in likewise, for I supose ye
shall have as good a penneworth now as ye shall have after-
ward. And thus our Lord have your mastership in his keping.
At Beverlay, the first day of December.
Your loving frind and tennant at your pleasure,
CHRISTOPHER HUDSON.a
a Christopher Hudson was at this time tenant of the Babthorpe lands in Beverley,
mentioned in Letter CLXXX., near which town is Hunsley, perhaps the most ancient
residence of that family; for round the early seal of a Ralph de Babbetorp, engraved
in the volume relating to the Priory of Finchale, published by the Surtees Society,
1837, is the inscription, Sigill. Radulphi de Hundesle. This vill, in the township
and parish of Rowley, five miles from Beverley, gives name to the division of the
wapentake of Hart-hill, called Hunsley-Beacon.
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LETTER III.
lytle power to
........ worshipfull Mr. Plompton of Plompton theis.
........ in my hartyest wise I recommend me unto you.
Sir, whear I was with you upon a time, and did ....e you to
be good and loving kinsman to me conserning a litle farmehold
lying in Kirk Stainley of vis viiid by yeare, and belonging to your
Chauntre preist in Ripon; even so I hartely require you by this
simple letter to be good kinsman to me in the same, as it may do
to lie in my lytle power to do you such like pleasure, that I may
have it for my farme paying. Cousin, if ye be good to me, I
trust your chauntre prist and I shall agre. Sir, I spoke with my
Cousin, your son, at York, at Lamas Sise, and desired him to be
meadiater to you for me in that behalfe; and he told me againe,
that he put no dought but that ye would be good and favorrable
to me. Sir, ye so being shall bind me, to my litle power, to do
you pleasure, as knoweth our Lord who preserve you at his plea-
sure. From Lytle Burton, the v day of October. By your loving
kinsman.
MARMADUKE WAVELL.&
Cousin, if ye. spoke with m
^ Marmaduke Wyvill, of Little Burton, com. Ebor. esq. ancestor to the Baronets of
that surname, resident at Constable Burton, in Richmondshire.
LETTER IV.
To my right trusty and welbeloved Wiliam Plompton, esquire.
Right trusty and welbeloved, I great you hartely well; and
whear there is done and traversed betwixt you and the tennants of
Folefeit Poole, of my lord and father Lordship of Spofforth, for
our Courte in this time within his said township of Folefout, and
as I understand, ye are contented to bide the order of me and
CAMD. soc. 4.
2 G
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others of the said Lord and my fathers cowncell of and upon the
premises, so that an end wear maid before months day next. And
so it is now at this time, that I have had and yet hath such buise-
nes, as I can not attend it this time; whearfore, I pray you be con-
tented to give sparing to the next head Cort at Spoforth, at which
time ye shall have an end, with my Lord and fathers favor and
mine. And if ye doe break and make iij or iiij gaps in Folefout
feild, as ye clame to doo of coustam yearly, thearwith I am con-
tent at this time, so that ye doe make noe more buisenes therin to
the time when the said matter be ordered or determined. And
herof at this time, I pray you, faile not, as my trust is in you.
Written at the castle of Wresill, the xviii day of September.
H. PEARCY.a
* Henry Percy, eldest son of Henry, fifth Earl of Northumberland, succeeded his
father in the 18th Hen. VIII. 1526, but the day his father died appears to be
unascertained.
LETTER V.
To my right welbeloved William Plompton, esquirè.
Right trusty and welbeloved, I recomend me unto you, signe-
fiing unto you I am informed on the behalfe of my right welbeloved
in God, the prior of the Monestry of St. John Evangelist, He-
lagh Park, of my foundation,a of certaine traverses depending
betewt him and owne Georg Fulbarne for the right and intrest
* Leland in his Itinerary says, “ From Helagh pryory, scant a mile to Helagh vil.
lage, I saw great ruins of an ancient manor of stone, with a fair wooded park thereby,
that belonged to the Earl of Northumberland. It was, as far as I can perceive, sun.
tymes the Hagets' land.” Geoffrey Haget was the founder of the monastery in
Helagh-park, for Regular Canons, of which Richard Roundale was at this date Prior;
but how or at what time the lands and representation of the Hagets were acquired by
the Percies, I have not seen any account.
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227
of one spring liing within the tewinship of Litle Ribston, within
my Lordship of Spoforth, which, as I perceive, you have bought
of the said Georg, and so entendeth to fell it to your los. I
desire and also chargeth you that ye sufer the saving of it, unto the
time the better we may know to whom the right of the same
belongeth. Written at Livingfeild, the xvii day of December in
the xix yeare of the reign of our sovraign Lord, King Henry viii.
(17 Dec. 1527.)
H. NORTHUMBERLAND.
b Henry Percy, sixth Earl of Northumberland, K. G. ob. 1537, s. p.
LETTER VI.
To my very good Lady Rokesby a deliver this.
Madam, in my best and hartest manner I recomend me unto
you, and I dout not but ye have hard of the uniust and crafty
dealing of Gervis Cawwood against me. Your late husband,
whose sowle God pardon, was clearely expulsed and put forth of
his ofic, which he had under the Chapter seale for tearme of
his life, by the said Cawood, and the said Cawod received your
* This letter was copied into the manuscript the 2 of June, 1626 ; and a note by the
copyist written in the margin informs us that “this Lady Rokesby lived and died at
Plompton." We learn from a subsequent letter that a Newport of Boynton, com.
Ebor. was her son, and that her husband Rokeby was buried at Resby Church. Risby
is in the township and parish of Rowley, and was the seat of the family of Ellerker in
the reign of Hen, VIII. There does not, however, appear to have been any chapel
erected there, with a right of sepulture; but as the name of Rowley is of modern growth,
the place being not named in Domesday, perhaps the parish church commonly went
under the name of Risby. We have in that case a clue to her identity; for in the curious
Memoir of the family of Rokeby, entitled, Oeconomia Rokebiorum, 'printed by Whita.
ker in his Richmondshire, and of which the date is 1565, mention is made of a Richard
Rokeby, third son of Ralph Rokeby, of Mortham, com. Ebor. esq. a soldier and servant
to the Lord Scrope of Bolton, whose standard he bore in Flodden-field, who had issue
by his wife - daughter of Ellerker of Risbye, esq.
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husbands fee, and what accounts and reckinings he maid unto your
late husband thereof, I know not. And that if I may know from
you how many yeares the said Cawod reseived your hosbonds fee,
if ye doe acertin me therof, and make me a letter of atturney unto
some of your frinds, aboufe to clame your arreareges, I will help
him forward for your helpe, the best I can. And I pray you to
accertaine me the truth by your writting by this bearrer. And.
thus our Lord send you good life and long to his pleasure. Writ-
ten att Holme in Spald. this 22th day of Aprill.
By your loving frind,
ROBART CONSTABLE, knight.b
Sir Robert Constable of Holme in Spaldingmore, and of Flamborough, com.
Ebor. kt. succeeded his aged father, Sir Marmaduke Constable, 29 Dec. 10 Hen. VIII.
1518; and having taken part in the insurrection kuown as the Pilgrimage of Grace,
he was executed for high treason, and his body hanged in chains over Beverley Gate,
at Hull, in the month of June, 28 Hen. VIII. 1536. (Memoirs of the Constable
family, penes me.)
LETTER VII.
To my good Lady Rokesby at Plompton.
Madam, in my harty wise I recommend me to you, and right so
doth my wife; and we are very glad that ye be in good health, and.
that I hear you like so well with Mr. Plompton. And I send you
your Indenture by this berrer, which hath stayd your son, New-
port; then I trust ye shall hear more of him, but good to-
ward you. And when your prest at Boynton had song out all
your ten pound, he kepes him still at his cost, and will kepe a
prest sining at Boynton, as long as he lives, which exsample ye be-
gan.a My coussin Portington,b as I doth sopose, hath brought
* On a stone in Boynton church was this inscription : Hic jacet Thomas Newport
et Elizab't uxor ejus, filia et heres Joh'is Boynton, filii et heredis Do'i Rob'ti Boyn-
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your through c to Resby Church, to be laid of your husband
Rokesby by this time. And our Lord preserve you long in your
health. At Everingham, this xvii of December.
Your own asured,
MARMADUKE COUNSTABLE, kt.d
ton militis, gi Tho's obiit xvo, die Novembr. Aº. D'. M°CCCCXXIII. quorum ani-
mabus propitietur Deus. Amen. On another, Hic jacet Will's Newport, armiger,
qui obiit decimo die mensis Novembris, Anno. Do'. M.CCCCLXXX° cuius aie propi.
tietur Deus. (Bointon church, 14th Nov. 1620. Dodsw. MSS. in Bib. Bodl. v.
CLX.)
In the 24th of Hen. VIII. 1532, Master Thomas Portington paid to the fabrick.
of the collegiate church of St. John of Beverley 3d. 6s. for the free rent of three cot-
tages and one oxgang of land in Bentley, then in his tenure. (Scaum's Beverlac, p.
24.) Bentley adjoins Risby in the parish of Rowley. Portington, from which this
family took their local surname, is at no great distance, in Howdenshire.
c Thruff-stone, a tomb-stone. Sax. thruh. (Brockett's Glossary.)
d Sir Marmaduke Constable, of Everingham, com. Ebor. kt. in right of his wife
Barbara, daughter and eventually sole heir of John Suthill of Everingham, esq. She
died 4 Oct. 32 Hen. VIII. 1543, and he 12 Sept. 1545.
LETTER VIII.
To my good Lady, Dame Anne Rokesby, be this delivered.
Maddam, after my most louely I recomend me to your lady-
ship, evermore desiring to wit of your good wellfare, which is my
dayly prayer to Jesus to inquete to your harts most comfort.
Maddam, I doe wryte to you praying not your ladyship to be
wroth with my husband for the money that he received of my Mrs
your daughter, that he send not to you by this bearrer. It was
my consent; for in good faith, madam, in a maner we weare eether
to have lost our farme, for Mr Trey is so trobled in the law, that
he may not forbeare his rent no whyle. Madam, I bad my hus-
band take your money, and I said, I trust your Ladyship will not
be discontent for your money for a season; the which shall be
befor Lamas, by the grace of God. For in good fayth, madam,
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O
we must have else sold iij of our key, the which had bene a great
hindrance to us. For in good faith we buy that we spend in our
house, and I am faine to eate browne bread and drink small alle
myselfe, and lives as hardly, as God knowes, and must do for this
yeare. I trust to God it shall be ammended the next yeare; for, I
thank God, we had not a better cropp toward this good whyle.
And God reward your Ladyship; we had lived most hardly, if
that your Ladyship had not bene. And I pray you, madam, let
not my Mrs. your daughter wit of it, for then she will never trust
my husband, nor me. God reward hir, which I am much bownd
unto. I can doe nothing for your Ladyship and hir, but for to
pray for your prosperete. I pray you, madam, let not my hus-
band know of this letter, and send me word trewly with this
bearrer in a little bill of your owne hand, ij or iij words, that he
know not of your mind. No more, but Jesus kepe your Lady-
ship in good health.
By your power beadwoman,
ANN ABOTT.
LETTER IX.
To the right worshipful and his welbeloved Cousin William Plomp-
ton, esquire.
Right worthy and welbeloved Cousin, in my full hertely maner
I recommend me to you. The cause of my writing to you at this
time is, that I wad be very glad to speake with you as touching
Cousin, Sir Robart Sheifeld, a whose soule Jesus have mercy; for
my frinds in Linconshire hath letten me have understanding that
ye have some knowledging in the thing touching that matter, the
a Sir Robert Sheffield of Butterwicke, com. Linc, kt. died 14 Nov. 24 Hen. VIII.
1532.
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231
which I would desire you that I may know. For surely if ye can
let me have knowledge of any thing concerning the same, ye do
us a great pleasure, and a great deade of charrety to bring to
knowledg, for I assure you I would take great paine to come to
perfit knowledge. Wherfor, Coussin, if it would please you that
I might know your mind secretly in wryting by this my servant,
or that it like you that I might speake with you myselfe, I will be
at Harrwood of Monday next, with grace of God, and that ye will
take a litle paines to come thider, that I might speak with you.
I shall take paines to labor twice as far, if ye call of me, with
grace of Jesus, who kepe you. From Liversay, this Saterday
after Martinmas day.
By your lover asured,
(16 Nov. 1532.)
ROBART NEvill, knight.b
b Sir Robert Nevill of Liversedge, com. Ebor. kt. son of Thomas Nevill, esq. and
Isabel, daughter of Sir Robert Sheffield, kt. Recorder of the City of London, named
in a former Letter. (See Letter CXIV.) He died 10 Aug. 1516, and had by Ellen,
daughter of John Delves, esq. Sir Robert, his successor, Isabel or Elizabeth above
named, and other children.
LETTER X
To his mother at Plompton be this letter delivered.
Right worshipful mother, I humbly recommend mee unto you,
desiring you of your dayly blessing, praing Jesu long to continew
your helth to his pleasur. Mother, I thanke you for the ..... you
send mee, for yf you were not, I were not able to live; for this
same Christmasse hath cost mee as much as you send mee. Wher-
fore, I am afraid I shal not have money to serve mee to Easter.
Also I wold desire you to send mee word of the letter that I wrote
to my father and you, for to moove my Lady Gascoin to write to
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my lord, her brother,a not to bee only his servant, but of his hous-
hold and attending unto him; for els he wold do as other lords do,
knowes not half their servants. Wherfor, I desire you that you
wil moove my lady Gascoin to write so to my lord, that I may bee
his houshold servant. Also, mother, I wold desire you to mark
wel my letter, that I sent you by Mr. Oughtred; b and here I send
you a godly New Testament by this bearer. And yf the prologue
bee so small that ye cannot wel reade them, ther is my fathers
book, and they are bothe one, and my fathers book hath the pro-
logue printed in bigger letters. Yf it wil please you to read the
introducement, ye shal see marvelous things hyd in it. And as
for the understanding of it, dout not; for God wil give knowledge
to whom he will give knowledg of the Scriptures, as soon to a
shepperd as to a priest, yf he ask knowledg of God faithfully.
Wherfor, pray to God, and desire Jesus Christ to pray for you
and with you. No more to you at this tyme, but God fill you
a Margaret, Lady Gascoyne, second wife of Sir William Gascoyne of Gawkthorpe,
com. Ebor. kt. was daughter of Richard Nevill, Lord Latimer, who died 22 Hen.
VIII. 1530, and sister of John Lord Latimer, among whose household servants
the writer of this letter, the eldest son of an esquire of no mean degree, seeks to be
admitted. This connection with Lord Latimer, who died in 1542, probably brought
about the marriage of Robert Plumpton with Ann Norton, 2 Sept. 1538, he having
attained his majority on the 17th of January preceding, and whose brother Richard
Norton was married to this Lord's sister. At the date of this letter, Robert Plump.
ton was a student of the Inner Temple, and, it would seem, deeply imbued with
the new doctrines, which the study of the Scriptures, now thrown open by the
discovery of the art of printing to the interpretation of each one's private judgment,
had lately introduced to the world. The zeal he here manifests for the conversion of
his father and mother to the novel investigation was, however, fruitless; the family
ever adhered to the ancient faith. He died at Waterton in the 38th of Hen. VIII.
1546, about Christmas, at the early age of thirty-one; but it is probable that his sen-
timents underwent a considerable modification after his connection by marriage with
the Nortons, who were among the most zealous sticklers for Papacy in the North
Country.
b Robert Ughtred, of Kexby, com. Ebor. esq.
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with al spiritual knowledge, to the glory of God, the helth of your
soule, and the profit of your poor nieghbor. Written at the Tem-
ple, the 12 day of ianuary.
By your sonn,
(Anno circa 1536.)
ROBERT PLOMPTON.
LETTER XI.
To his right worshipful mother bee this delivered with speed.
Right worshipfull mother, I humbly recomende me unto you,
desiringe Jesus longe to continewe your healthe to the pleasure of
God. Worshipfull mother, I am bounde to write to you, yea and
you were not my mother, because it hathe pleased God of his in-
estimable goodnes to sende me some understandinge in the Scrip-
tures; for everie man or woman that it shall please God to sende
knowledge in the Scriptures is bounde to instructe theire brethren
in the lovinge of the Gospell. Wherefore, it is my dutie to in-
structe you, most principalle of all other, which hathe shewed to
me so muche kindenes, besides all motherly kindenes. Wherefore,
I desire you, moste deare mother, that ye will take heede to the
teachinge of the Gospell, for it is the thinge that all wee muste
live by; for Christe lefte it that we shoulde altogether rule our
livinge thereby, or els we cannot be in favour with God. Where-
fore, I woulde desire you for the love of God, that you woulde
reade the Newe Testament, which is the trewe Gospell of God,
spoken by the Holy Ghoste. Wherefore, doubte not of it,
dearly beloved mother in the Lorde, I write not this to bringe you
into anie heresies, but to teache you the cleare light of Goddes
doctrine. Wherefore, I will never write nothinge to you, nor saye
nothinge to you, concerninge the Scriptures, but will dye in the
quarrell. Mother, you have muche to thanke God that it woulde
please him to geve you licence to live untill this time, for the
gospell of Christe was never so trewly preached as it is nowe.
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Wherfore, I praye to God that he will geve you grace to have
knowledge of his Scriptures. Ye shall heare perceive what the
profession of our Baptisme is, which profession we muste have
written in our hartes. Which profession standeth in twoe thinges;
the one is the knowledge of the lawe of God, understandinge it
spiritually as Christe expoundeth it, Math. v. vi. and vii. chap-
ters; so that the roote and life of all lawes is this, Love thy Lorde
God with all thy harte, all thy soule, all thy mighte, and all thy
power, and thy neighboure as thy selfe for Christes sake. And
love onely is the fullfillinge of the lawe, as saithe S. Paule, and
that whatsoever we doe and not of that love, that same fullfilleth
not the lawe in the sighte of God. And what the lawe doth
meane ye shall finde in the prologue to the Rom: in my fathers
booke, called the Newe Testament. I write unto you because that
I knowe you have a fervent ....... and his lawes.....
(Rest wanting.)
LETTER XII.
To my welbeloved son Robart Plompton at the Iner Temple in
London be this.
Son Robart Plompton, I hertely recommend me to you, and
sending you and your brother a God blesing and mine. The
cause of my writing to you now; that I wold you should helpe
this bearrer, yong Letham, in such buisenes as he hath in the
Court of Augmentation, for certaine power for yong children of
one Berkine, deceased, as conserning one farme hold, late belong-
ing to the hold of St. Robarts, which you know I did speake to
the Ansurerb for the use of the said children, and he permised not
to suit them. That notwithstanding, John Benson would have en-
& Denis Plumpton, seond son of the writer.
The person who answered to the Court of Augmentation for the rents and profits.
This Court was first erected in the 27th year of the reign of Hen. VIII.
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tred; and now made many great riots upon the said children,
and therfore he is indited with divers persons with him. And
now forther, he hath brought a preve seale against old Lea-
thom and yong Leathom, and also the eldest child ; and for
that divers and many of ther frinds hath moved me to wryte to
you to help them in the said matter. And if it be that you can
make any frinds, to shew Mr. Chaunceler the planer and through
in every thing (and this bearrer can instruct you), and then, I pray
you, do the best for them. And also I would have you to speak
with Mr. Latham, the goldsmith, Lanlord to Robart Oliver, and
shew him how that he will not make his diches and fences belong-
ing to his farme, but that my corne and gras is spoyled at Wat-
terton by that meaner. And if he will not seake remedy therof,
let Mr. Fox enter a action of trespas against the said Robart
Oliver for dispoyling my gras at Watterton to the valew of five
mark. And as far as I fele, Mr. Nortonº comith not up. I shall
make your rents to be gathered, and send it to you as shortly as
I can. And thus hartely far you well. From Plompton, this 14th
day of November.
By your loving father,
WILLIAM PLOMPTON.
b Ralph Latham, of Upminster Hall in Essex, citizen and goldsmith, had, with
other issue, a daughter Alice, married to John Twisleton, citizen and goldsmith, alder..
man of London.--Vide letter from their son Christopher, who was afterwards in pos-
session of this property at Waterton, postea.
c John Norton, of Norton Conyers, esq. whose daughter Robert Plumpton mar-
ried 2 Sept. 30 Hen. VIII. 1538. This letter is apparently subsequent to that match.
LETTER XIII.
To my loving frind William Plompton of Plompton, esquire.
Mr. Plompton, after my herty comendation, whereas some con-
treverse hath bene betwen Sir Wiliam Mydleton a and Sir Oswold
a Sir William Mydleton, of Stockeld, com. Ebor. kt.
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Wilesthorpe b for a tith, which the said Sir William Mydleton
hath certaine yeares had in his own hands; for as much as afore
me they be condescended and agred, that the said tith shall be
gathred and inned by some man indeferrent, and in place semblable,
and of all other hath thought you most convenient and indefrent
frind to chouse such men as shall se the ining, and ordering therof
as to the place: this is, first on my behalfe, and eftsones theirs, to
desire you hertely to take the paines betwene them, to apoynt
alwayes such men as place indeferent, so that it may remaine in
the said place and custode, to such a day as they have apoynted
that further order shall be taken for the same. And thus far you
hartyly well. From Cawood the ix day of August, 1539.
Your loving frind,
(9 Aug. 1539.)
Edw: EBORUM.C
b Sir Oswald Wilsthorp, of Wilsthorp, com. Ebor. kt.
© Edward Lee, Archbishop of York, ob. 10 Sept. 1544, æt. 62.
LETTER XIV.
To Mr. Robart Plompton the yonger be this delivered.
Right worshipfull Sir, my deuty donne unto your mastership,
and as letting you know that I have received your indenture and
delivered it to Robart Poclington; and he is content with that,
sauffing that he wold desire your mastership to set in the inden-
ture whear that he should pay his money at his rent dayes. For
the indenture specefies, his money unpaid xxi dayes, you or your
heires to recover of him all the hole, which wear a undowing to
him, to take that he should make his living on for the place un-
knowne whear that he shold pay his rents, or what place. And
I also letting you know that Mr. Leades flate with him verry fast
afar his neighbors, sinc he cam from you. As I say, he shall
not occupy it but has the lase, for he hath no right to it, nor
you neither. And he said, he had no lawfull warning that he will
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tak a discharge for, but that he will occopy alsoe. I bad Pocling-
ton plow and put him of over the lands, that he have no intrest;
and send me word what his deade is and his words, and I shall send
you word. For in your absence, I bad him send me word, and I
shold come over to him and se what he sayes and take his answer.
And also if it please you to send me money, I will do the best for
you I can at all times. As for barly, is now nuch redy and in
chambers; for wheat, that such that now ready, the substance is
gon. Yowr men also kiln dry. Beanes is at Gainsbrough a yili
score, and barley at 4li and xiii nobles a skore, and wheat is at
Hull at ijli a skore. I pray you send me word in a bill what ye will
have don as conserning his writing in all condittions, and thus
Jesus preserve you.
By yours to his litle power,
GEORGE JOHNSON, Clerk.
à Gainsborough in Lincolnshire, the nearest market-town to Waterton, the residence
of Robert Plumpton, called the younger during the life-time of his uncle Robert
Plumpton of Knaresborough. The writer of this letter, though in holy orders, ap-
pears to have acted as steward for Mr. Plumpton in his absence.
LETTER XV.
DI
Too the right worshipfull and his singuler good master, Mr. William
Plompton, esquire, at Plompton Hall, in the countie of York,
give theis.
Right worshipfull, my deuty to you premised, in my most hartyest
maner I recomend me unto you, and likewise to my good Mistres
your wife, trusting in Jesus that you with all your children be in
good health, the continuence wherof I pray Jesus increase. It
may please you to be advertised I have received your gentle let-
ters, datted at Plompton the ix of January, by the which you re-
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quired me to helpe Tho: Compton, your nephe,a to some honiest
ocopation at London, with him to be bownd prentis; which I wad
gladly to the uttermost of my power and the helpe of my frinds
have don, as I am bownd, in case he had come unto me, as he did
not. The bringer of your said letters informed me that your said
nephew was determend to kepe in his owne countrie, and not to
cum to London. And where your pleasure in your said letter is,
that I shold give you notise if theare wear any thing in varience
within your maner or lordship of Sacomp, to the intent you
might send your pleasure therin by your baly, at his next coming to
Sacomp. Sir, thear is one thing in varience for title of copehold
land ther, which one Edward Glidall, your late farmer, hath;
which land was somtimes one Flegs, unto the which one Flege
now maketh title and hath don long times past. And abowt Chris-
mas last past, the same Flegge delivered a supenea to Glidall for
the same, as I am informed, but what is don therin I know not;
of this matter, Settill, your servant, can informe you better then I.
Allso, ther is one Slepe dweling abowt St. Albones, who at your
last Court thear maid clame to a percill of grownd of your said
copehold in the tenner of Marston, of the which the same Mars-
ton hath a cope. Soever the le (nevertheless), said Slepe aledgeth
that his brother, of whom the said Marston bought the same
ground, never maid surrender therof, according to the custome of
your maner; albeit, it apereth plainely in a bill remaining with
the said Merston, that the brother of the said Slepe sold unto
Merston all his intreast in the said coppehold. The same Slepe
at your last court required your baly ther, with the asent of
the said Merston, to make search in your court rowls if
any such surrender wer maid, acording as it is mentioned in
the said copie remaining with the said Marston, (which cope, as
a Thomas Compton was perhaps of the family of that name at Willingham, com.
Lincoln, and nephew in half-blood to the wife of William Plumpton. (See note to Let-
ter CLXXX.)
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I remember, was maide in the fowerth or fifth yeare of the reign
of our Soveraigne Lord the king that now is,] where the said
rowle could not be found; howbeit, theare was all the rowles of
this King reigne but onely that of that yeare. Sir, as me thinks,
your rowls thear be not kept as they ought to be; the cofer
wherin your said court rowles lieth is nought and the lock therof
not worth a pene, and it standeth in the church at Sacomp, wheare
every man may come at his pleasure. Wherfore, in my simple
mind it should be nesary for you to provide sum other meane for
the safe custody of your said rowles. Also, Sir, sith the time I
have bene your farmer ther, I have paid, and must pay within tow
yeares next to come, vi fiftens for the farme of your maner of
Sacomp, the first payment xxiiijs, the second xxxs viiid, and either
of the other fower yeares xxiiijs, which amounteth in the hole
viili xs viiid. I marvill greatly that your said manor shold be so
highley charged, considering the hole fiftene of your towne of
Sacomp is but lixs. I could never se no writing of the sesment
therof, but only by the report maid of your tennants ther by word
of mouth. Sir, I wright this unto you, because in case you have
any sertinty therof in wryting, I might know it. I wold be sory
to charge your said maner with any more then ought of right to
be; and yet I have paid the same, bycause I am loth to stand
in contentions with my neighbors .... the truth therin be
known. Further, I have received the letter sent to you by Sir
Philip Butler, knight,b wherin he wrighteth that you have bene
insensed against him by the report of lewd and evill disposed
persons; by whome he meaneth the same, I may not judge:
howbeit, I think rather by me then any other. His sones ar dis-
contented with me, because I kepe grey hounds and hownds at your
said maner, saieng that it becometh not me to kepe grey hownds
and hownds so near theyr fathers nose, with many other things
Sir Philip Boteler, of Woodhall, in the parish of Watton-at-Stone, com. Herts. kt.
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which I remite for lake of time. And whear your pleasure is
in your said letter, that I shold shew Mr. Butler that in case
he wold give you such fine for your milne of Sacomp as your
baly did demaund for the same, you wear contented that
he shold be amited tennant therof; Sir, sith the receit of
your said letter I have not spoken with the said Mr. Butler,
because I have bene and yet am at London, as this bearrer can
informe you. Albeit, at this Hillarii tearme I spoke with one
Mr. Hide, who maried the said Mr. Butlers daughter c, and lieth
and continueth within the said Mr. Butlers, and is the greatest
doer about him ; to whome I shewed your pleasure therin,
requiring him to informe Mr. Butler therof, and of your said
pleasure. Whérupon the said Mr. Hide said, that you demaunded
an unreasonable fine for the same, and that his father did ofer
you double the fine that ever was paid by any man for the
same. And further he said, that in case ye wold not take
such fine, as shold stand with reason and good conscience, he
trusted that my lord Chauncler of England, upon the matter
hard before him, wold ses such fine for the same as shold stand
with right and good consience. And whear, also, the said Mr.
Butler, amongst other things, wryteth in his said letters that
your tennants thear be daly in his danger, and that he might
put them daly to trobles, if he wold; Sir, I trust ye have no
tennant thear, but that is the Kings trewe subiect, and obedient
to Gods law and his graces. And as long as the be so, I dought
not but that we, having so noble and gratious a King as we have,
power men shal live in rest, doing their deuty to his grace, as
they and all other ar most bownd to do. Sir, Mr. Butler of himself
is a good and gentle knight, in case he wear not otherwise
counciled, as knoweth Jesu, who ever preserve you and all
c Anne, daughter of Sir Philip Butler, kt. married Leonard Hide, esq. Pedigree in
Clutterbuck's Herts.
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yours in good and prosperus health with long continuance of the
same to his pleasure. From London the xxii day of Febuary.
Your fermar and servant,
JOHN DODINGTON.d
d In Sacombe Church, on the floor in the chancel, was a stone with this inscription,
“Here lieth buried the bodie of John Dodington, of Sacombe, gentleman, who de.
ceased a faithfull Christian the vith daie of Januarie, in the yeare of our Lord God
1544, and was husband to Eleanor Dodington, whose grave is joyned here to his on the
right side ; after whom he survived seven yeares and seaven weeks and left alive at his
departure by her his only wife three sons and six daughters.
Cygnea qui terris modulati carmina mortis,
Dulce polo vitâ nunc melos usque canunt.”
r
LETTER XVI.
To the right worshipfull Mrs. Isbell Plompton, this with speede.
Right worshipfull and my singler good Mistres, my duty to you
premised, in my most hertyest maner I recomend me unto you.
Pleaseth you to understand I have received your letter; by the
which I understand that your pleasure is, that I shuld lett Edward
Glydal have such parcels of ground of your maner of Sacomburs,
as which he think to be nessary for him, and which parcils I think
be minded to be let. Mistres, as yet I have let no persill of the
same your maner to no person. So ever the les, I have oferd Gli-
dall, that if I let any persill of the sam, that he shold have the
perfirment therof before any other person, and as farr as I can
prevaile, he hath in mind to have ney percill of the same land.
He hath taken a farme of my Lord of Essex, and that he intendeth
to inhabit and dwell; and his eldest son, which lately dweld in a
coppie hold of his father in Sacomb, hath taken and dwelleth in
a farme of Mr. Holts in Lankeshire abowt Wouden. And
the same copiehold the said Edward Glidall wold have me to
a Woolden Hall in Eccles parish was the seat of Thomas Holcroft, esq. in 1595.
He probably purchased from the Holts.
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take of him and put in acount therin my self, and that then I
shold and might tack land of the sam your said maner to the said
coppiehold I shuld think expedient; and I as yet am not minded
to take any copehold. Soevertheles, yf Glidall himselfe or
his son be minded to occopie any of the said land that I shall
be minded to let, he shall hav the preferment therof, and
your comaundment in that behalfe, or in any other thing that
in me lieth, to be observyd and kept to the best of my power
by the same, as Jesus (knoweth], who preserve you in good and
prosprus health with long continuance of the same. In hast from
London the xxiith of Febuary.
Your servant and to comaund,
JOHN DODINGTON.
LETTER XVII.
To the right worshipfull and his singuler good Master, Mr. William
Plompton, Esquire, this.
Right worshipfull, in my most hartyest maner I commend me:
to you and likewise to my good Mistres your wife, trusting to Jesus
that you and all your children and famila be in good health.
And wheare I perceive by Robart Settell, your servant, that the
perty who oweth the lease you sent unto me to be exemplefied,
thinketh long for the same and suposes the same lease to be lost;
Sir, truth it is, the same lease is and remaineth in the custody of
Mr. Henley of the Court of Augmentation of the King's Majesties
Crown, and is assigned with the hands of Mr. Chauncler and
Counsell of the Court aforsaid, and upon the iiij day of this pre-
sent month of June was delivered to Duke, clarke of the said
Councill, to ingross in parchment, and then to be sealed with the
seale of the same Court, which shall be done and finished within
fower or 6 dayes next coming. And shortley also, I shall send
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you the same with a bill of such somes of money, as I have and
shall disburse for the same ; so that I trust the said party
have no cause to mistrust the having therof. He may not have.
that leases in revertion be sold on Alowed Sent Leasur. And
frindship, as knoweth our Lord God, who ever preserve you.
Scribbled in hast at London the 6th day of June.
Yours to comaund,
John DODINGTON.
& Alured St. Leger, quære?
LETTER XVIII.
To the right worshipfull Mr. William Plompton, esquire.
Right worshipfull Sir, my deuty to you premised, in my hartyest
maner I commend me unto you and to my Mistres your wife;
pleaseth yt you to understand my Master hath wryten his letter
to Mr. Goldsbrough for a do for your mastership in Bilton park or
the park of Heay at your pleasur. I trust it will be signed, and
if it be not, my Master desires your mastership to send him word
therof. The same letter is herin closed ; and I pray your master-
ship, if ther be any service that I [may] doe your mastership, it will
please you to commaund me as your servant. And thus Almighty
God to preserve you. Scribled in hast, the viith day of October.
Your servant to comaund,
JOHN DODINGTON.
LETTER XIX.
To the right worshipfull William Plompton of Plompton, in the
county of York, Esquire, deliver with sped.
Right worshipfull, in my most hertyest maner I commend me
unto you, and likewise to my good Mistres your wife, and very glad
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wold be to heare of your good health and all your children.
Theas be to certifie you that it hat pleased God Almightie to take
into his mercy the late person of Sacomp, Mr. John Petty.a He
departed this transetory life upon Easterday. last at vii of the
clock before nowne, whose sowle I pray Jesus perdon; and let us
pray that he that shall succede him, be of no worse sorte than he
hath bene. I and all my neighbors hartyly desire your master-
ship, iv also he that shall have the same be minded to be resident
and abid upon the same personage, than that you will move him
that cumes (for] Sir Christopher Bird, person, who honestly did kepe
the cure under the forsaid late person, and the maintenment of
God service; and may be his depete, as he was to the other late
person, wherof I and all your other tennants wold be very glad.
Sir, I have sent you the Kings writ of dedimus potestatem by Mr.
Birnand with a letter, sealed in a box, which I trust is come to
your hands; and what your pleasure shal be to commaund me
in the premises, I pray you let me know, and I shall be glad to
accomplish the same. And I pray you have me hartyle com-
mended to Mr. Robart Plompton, your son, and to my Mistres his
wife, and to Mr. Dinis, your son, and to Mr. Birnand. And I pray
you informe Mr. Birnand his son is mery and in good health,
thanks be to Jesus, who ever preserve you and all yours. Scrib-
bled in hast at your maner of Sacomp, the Monday next after
Easter day.
By your to commaund,
(26 Mar. 1543.)
JOHN DODINGTON.
a Richard Sharp, clerk, was, upon the death of Mr. John Petty, priest, admitted to
the living of Sacombe 3 May 1543, upon the presentation of William Plumpton, in right
of Isabella his wife. Clutterbuck's Herts. ex reg. Longland—where the name Palfre-
man is manifestly an error for Plumpton.
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LETTER XX.
To the right worshipfull Mr. Plompton of Plompton, in Yorkshire,
this be delivered. .
Also, in my most hartiest manner, as unaquainted, I have me
hartile commended unto you. And whearas I am informed by
Oliver, my tennant, that the Kings Majesties oficeres requireth of
you and of me and divers other tennants of Watterton to be con-
tribetors to the charges and staving of the watters of Ancotes, and
that you have suficient writing for your discharg and mine in that
behalfe; therfore, this shall be to desire you, in voidin further
trobles and charges that might insue against us both, that you
will deliver unto my said tennant a trew coppe of the said writing,
if you have any such: whearby I and my frinds and counsill with
your frinds and councill at this next tearme may might togeather,
and may take som order and derection in that behalfe, as may be
for the safte of us and our heires, if your deed will maintaine the
same. And further, whear I am informed by my said tennant
that you have partley denied him his wey to his mor, which my
tennants have alwayes hertofore had; desiring you, therfore, that
he may gentle have the same, as one gentleman and gentlewoman
may use one another with favor, and in so doing, you shall receive
at my hands such pleasur as I and my frinds can do for you, as
knoweth our Lord God, who ever have you in his keping. From
Dertford, the xxviii day of December.
By your loving frind,
CHRISTOPHER TWISLETON.a
a Christopher Twisleton married Anne, daughter of John Beer of Dartford, com.
Kent, esq. The family afterwards settled in Yorkshire, and were of Barlow, otherwise
Barley, in the parish of Brayton, near Selby.
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LETTER XXI.
To my cosen Plompton of Plompton, this deliver with spede.
Cossin Plompton, in as harty manner as I can think I recomend
me to you. First, all your frinds ar in good health heare. I have
bene very sick since ye went, but I am well now, I thank God.
I have vewed Christall; the rent of it, as it is now letted, xs iiijd
score, xyli viiis; and Arthington is above xxli at the end of xvi
yeares : the will be iij score pownd above the rent. And the
woods, my man sayes, he dar give a thowsand marke for them,
but he thinks without dowt he will make a thowsand li. I have
written to my Cossin, Henry Savill of Lapset, to go thorowgh
with my Lord of Canterbury for it. Acording to the comunication,
and ye and my Cossen, John Gascoyne, shall have a part, if ye will
wryte to me that ye will stike to it; and Robart Savill and Henry
Savill of Lapsit will stand to tow parts. I think the woods will
give us our money and more; and the lease cleare to be gotten, for
laying out of the money till we can make it againe of the woods.
I have sent you a rental of it, what it is, every cloase. I pray
you let my Cossen, John Gascoyne, se this letter and the rentall.
Kepe it secret from all other. I pray God send us merry meting.
All written in my ship, at Timmoth.
Your asured kinsman,
HENRY SAVILL.a
Cussin Gascoyne, your children ar mery.
(Anno circa 1543.)
a Sir Henry Savill of Thornhill, Tankersley, and Elland, com. Ebor. K.B. The
monastery of Kirkstall and nunnery of Arthington had been part of the religious plun-
der acquired by Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury, in exchange for other lands,
34 Hen. VIII. 1543, in trust for whose younger son, Thomas Cranmer, it was held by
Peter Hammond and others in the 4th of Edw. VI. (Burton's Mon. Ebor.) The
bargain for the lease spoken of in this letter it may be presumed was adhered to on
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the part of the Savills only. Robart Savill of Howley, the illegitimate son of Sir
Henry Savill, must have afterwards also acquired the reversion in fee, as this estate
has descended with his other property to the Brudenells. Of the other parties
who were to be admitted to a share in the speculation, Henry Savill of Lupsett,
the surveyor, was ancestor to the legitimate branch of Savill, and William Plumpton
and John Gascoigne were related in equal degree to Sir Henry Savill, whose lineal
ancestor had married a Gascoigne. The dating of this letter from aboard ship at Tyne-
mouth furnishes a new biographical feature in the life of Sir Henry, whose letters
show him to have had all the heartiness of the sailor, unbounded in his hospitality,
and devoted to sporting.
LETTER XXII.
To my Cossin Plompton of Plompton, this be delivered.
Cossen Plompton, I recomend me to you, and as I perceive by
my son Robart servant, ye say ye will come over and hunt with
me; and it please you so to do, ye shal be as hertyly welcome as
any man that cam heare of a good space. Ye shall se your arrow
fly and your grayhound run, and all thos that comes with you,
winter and somer, when it please you to come, as long as I live.
As for the other matter, I pas not a litle of it; I have yet waide
it with my councill; and as ye shall know at our meting, as I am
informed, and as I take it, thear ar many dowts by yt. When I
speak with you, I will hide nothing from you in this then in no
other cause. When ye intend to come, let me know what time,
or els ye may hape neither to have me then nor my son at home;
but my wife ye shal be sur to find, and she will send som with
you that shall let you se both rid and fallow, if ye will take the
paine. I have killed a hind or tow of late, and they ar very fatt
this yeare, both in the woods at Tankersley and in my gardin at
Thornehill. I thinke ye weare never yet in no grownd of mine,
and I never say no man naye. Therfore, the faut is in you and
not in me; ye may amend the faut when it please you. The cause
of my sending of my servant at this time, is this; he informes
me that in your countrie thear is a man that can kill otters very
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well; wherfor, I have sent him to git him to me for a weke. I
asure you, they do me exceding much harme at divers places, and
especiall at Woodkirk and Thornhill, and lyes in small becks.
My folks se them daly, and I can not kill them; my hownds be
not used to them. From Sothill,a the 8 of November.
By your asured kinsman,
- HENRY SAVILL, knt.
After the making herof, or it was sealed, cam my son home from
London. Of Wedsday came my Lord of Norfock b to the Court.
The Spanish Duke is gon; the earle of Hertfort, the Bishop of
Winchester,d with the French Imbasodor, is gon to the Emporor;
the Duke of Sufolk e with other remaines at Calisse. The French-
men that wear of sea ar gon to Depe haven, and the Inglish men
ar of the sea, but the cold weather will sufer no man long to con-
tinue of the water. As conserning news of Scotland, give cre-
dence to this bearrer. This is my owne hand.
(8 Nov. 1544.)
a Sir Henry Savill was owner of Soothill in the parish of Dewsbury, com. Ebor. in
right of his wife Elizabeth, daughter and heir of Thomas Soothill of Soothill, esq. who
had died 29 Dec. 27 Hen. VIII. 1535.
b Thomas Howard, Duke of Norfolk, attainted in 1546.
o Edward Seymour, Earl of Hertford, created Duke of Somerset 16 Feb. 1547.
d Stephen Gardiner, Bishop of Winchester.
e Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk, ob. 1545.
LETTER XXIII.
To my right worshipfull Coussin, Mr. William Plompton of Plomp-
ton, ésquire, this deliver.
Cossin Plompton, I hartely recommend me unto you, thanking
you for all your goodnes at all times. I have received your letter
by Roger Brindell, and wheare that ye wryte thear is no dowghts
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if the matter had come to comunication ; ye ar the man that I
trust, and by you I wold have bene ordered: and if ye had so
thought, I wold have confeined myselfe to you. But I perceive
the parte is not minded to commone with him; his wife thinks
him to light. And I think, consider his qualeties, his living, his
posabilete, and confer al together, I think, as good chepe as this I
shall git a living for him, both as good and as fare. And I am
sur ther haith bene comredis won with other far wars then he, excep
one faute. And as for that, ther is and haith bene many good
men with that faut; it is the thing that he cannot amend. It lets
him not to eat, drink, slepe ; he can live as well of it I have
given him, as though it had desendit to him. And if his bro-
ther dy without isew, in all by gift he shall have v hundreth mark
land, (and if he wear but inhiretable by the law, he shold be heir
to him, but for defaut of heireship, I thinke he will not change his
estate in this case ;) and for defaute of heires of my body lawfuly be-
gotten, he shall inhirit all that I have. But in the meane onely, his
fault so shall not hirt him in no profets. Let this matter pas; I
hertyle thank you, as much as if it had come to pase. He is
much bownd to you, and, if ever he be able, to do you plea-
sure. I trust ye shull se him git a living, ere the yeare is past.
At York, if ye will come and kill a hind, ye shall be hertyly
welcom. Wryten at Sothill, the xxviii of November. Anno
1544, 36 H. 8.
Your asured frind, HENRY SAVILL, knt.a
(28 Nov. 1544.)
* The context of this letter has plainly reference to some hoped for settlement in
marriage of the writer's illegitimate son, Robert, to which matter an allusion is also
made in the preceding letter. The affair, however, seems never to have reached a
proposal, because it was perceived the mother of the intended thought a bastard " to
light” to wed with her daughter.
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LETTER XXIV.
To his right worshipful Coussin, William Plompton, esquire, this
deliver.
Cossin Plompton, after my hartie recommendations; your servant
sheweth me ye were and have bene very sick, wherof I am very
sory. And if your sicknes continue, wheare the commaundment
comes forth, send forth your servants and tennants, and send
forth your excuse to my Lord Lieutennant, with a letter of the
trough of your sicknes, and of the time of the continuance therof;
and being advertised of the truth, he will excep of your lawfull
and reasonable excuse. And thus hertely far you well. From
York, the xxviij of May, Anno 1545, 37 H. 8.
Your asurred kinsman,
(27 May 1545.)
HENRY SAVILL.
LETTER XXV.
To my Cossin Plompton this be delivered.
Cossin Plompton, I hartely recommend me unto you. The
cause of my wryting to you is, for that Roger Ramy said to me,
he thought ye would aboute Low sonday be at Thornhill. Ye
shall come to a old howse cleane downe, and as yet litle amended;
but ye shall be very welcome, as I can think. I wold be sory that
ye shoold take paine, and I not at home when ye come. To-
morrow begging thursday, I must of force ride to Tankerslay, viij
miles hence, and mete my Lord of Shrewsburry, who will be thear
tomorrow by ij of the clock, and se a showt at a stage, as my
keper hath sent me wourd. And of monday, tewsday, and weds-
day, theare is apoynted a great number of gentlemen to mette at
cocxs at Sheifeild, whear I intend, God willing, to be, and every
night will ly at Tankerxlay; soe it will be friday or I come to
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Thornhill, which is the xviij (xiiij) of May. Wherfore, I desire
you either put of your comming to that day, or take so much
paine to come the viij myles to Tankerxlay, whear I have no
lodging, but you shall have the best bed the keper haith ; and
ye shall se a polard or tow, both rid and falow, and se all our
good coxs fight, if it plese you, and se the maner of our
cocking. Ther will be Lanckeshire of one parte, and Derbeshire
of another parte, and Hallomshire of the third parte. I per-
ceive your cocking varieth from ours, for ye lay but the battell;
and if our battell be but yli to vli, thear wilbe gli to one laye, or the
battell be ended. And whensoever ye come, I require you take
time to hunt with me for one weke; bring bowes and gray hounds,
and at the time of the year, hownds. A polard is swet now, and I
love it best now at this season; and by Whytsonday this year I
shall have fatt bucks. And or any red deare be fatt, it will be
July, as far as my experience serves. Com when ye will, and such
as I have, ye shall se; and bring good stufe, for I warne you they
ar wild about Tankerxlay and ill to cach: and if all fale, I have
that ar tame enough. I make all these brages to cause you to
com, for I never yet did se you in thease parts; and ye shall come
no time wrong, fence-time then other. I have tame plenty lyeth
out; I can make you game at rid and falow, and stir no rascall. I
besich Jesus send us mery meting. Thus hertyly far ye well.
This Wendsday at Thornhill, the yth of May, Anno 1546: 38 H. 8.
Your asured frind
(5 May 1546.)
HENRY ŞAvill, knt.
LETTER XXVI.
(No address.)
Right worshipfull, after my most hartiest manner, I recommend
me to you. I received your letter of friday; I was buisie a hunt-
ing, but as for your suerty, ye shall never be bound to me, for I
will not sew you; I had rather louse it. I went immeaddetly to
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Mr. Gargraves a howse, and he was with my father, and so I mist
of him. I have drawn an obligation, to be sealed afore you and
your servant, Settill, for a knowledge, and my servant shall deliver
a hundred marke. And for because I am in no seurty wheare I
shall be, when ye or any frind of yours shall call, I shall let ano-
ther hundred marke with the bearrer herof, of an owre warning to
be redy, upon reasonable seurty to be repaid within one yeare
And to this bearrer I have declaired my mind to shew you in all
things. And thus I bid you hartely farwell. From Sotthill, the
xiiij of September.
Your asured to his power
ROBART SAVILL.
* Robert Gargrave, esq. was the fourth husband of Elizabeth Paston, the mother
of Sir Henry Savill, kt. The family had afterwards their residence at Nostell-priory,
com. Ebor.
Robert Savill, afterwards of Howley, the illegitimate son of Sir Henry Savill
before spoken of, ancestor of the Earls of Sussex.
LETTER XXVII.
To the right worshipfull Mr. Plompton, esquire, deliver theis.
After harty commendations premised, this shall be to advertise
you, that my Lord Presedent and other of the Kings honnorable
comishiners hath delivered to me a precept to cause to com be-
for them at the castle of York, the xvith day of this month of
August, a certane number of worshipfull men of Yorkshire,
wherof ye be one. Wherfore, I require you to accept this my
letter for a sufichent warning, for ye to be at the Castle the same
xvith day, at x of the clock before nowne, to inquire upon cer-
taine articles and matters which shall be then and thear by the
said Comishioners declared upon our sovarayne Lord the Kings
behalfe. Wherfore, I pray you, faile not, as ye will answer to the
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said Comishioners. Thus hartely far ye well. From York this
viith day of August.
By yours to comaund
RENOLD BESEY
clerk of the castle of York.
LETTER XXVIII.
To the right worshipfull Mrs. Plompton, at Plompton Hall.
With most harty commendations in Christ Jesus, good Mrs.
Plompton, this is to advertis you of the dispatch of such matters
as you did commit unto me at my last being with you, wheare
that I have traveled as I might of, partly by the ade and help of
Mr. Bill,a your very frind I think, who hath him most hartily re-
commended both to you and Mr. Dynes, and hath sent your
lozengs for a token. You shall allso receive with this bearrer a
letter to Mr. Haymond, feodarry, for your lease, procurred by Mr.
Bill, who shewed me that your charges in the Cheker is dis-
pacht, and your Cussin Girlingtonb hath brought your acquit-
ance. And order is taken for you at the Court of the Wards, and
all is well stayd, but yet not paid. Your request was moved to
Sir Arthur Darcy C first, who taketh the matter frindly, as ye shall
know. The other gentleman was then by chaunc from the Court,
which was the cause of the first talke with Sir Arthur. But in such
wise as we may, and shall with honesty take the way which shal
be thought the best to you and your frinds. Because you may se
* Thomas Bill, esq. one of the King's physicians, had granted to him, by indenture
dated 16 Nov. 1 Edw. VI. 1547, the wardship and marriage of William Plumpton, cousin
and heir of William Plumpton, esq. deceased, which he by indenture of the 9th Feb.
2 Edw. VI. 1547-8, transferred to Isabel Plumpton, widow, late wife of William Plump-
ton, esq. deceased. (Towneley MSS. G. 24.)
b Robert Girlington, see his letter postea.
. Sir Arthur Darcy, kt. next brother of George, Lord Darcy of Aston.
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the effect of my Lord Treasurrers letter for your lease, I have sent
it to you patent and open; and that knowing the effect therof,
then you may send it to the feodary yourselfe, which were good
that you did with spede convenient. Thus I comit you to the
permishion, to him that canne, to will justice, who all your lawful
dedes of honesty desires no dought, who I pray long to preserve
in health. From my lodge at Howell,d this Palme Sunday.
Yours to my litle power
WILLIAM WODRIF.e
· The cause that I came not now to you is a broken shin, which
hath much vexed me.
(Indorsed, From my lord at Howell.)
(25 Mar. 1548.)
d Howell, or Holywell Grange, was the grange on the lands that had belonged to
Nostell Priory, in the parish of Thurnscoe, com. Ebor.
e William Woodriff or Woodruffe, the writer of this letter, was apparently a
younger brother of the house of Wolley, and uncle of Francis Woodruff, of Wolley,
com. Ebor. esq. (See Pedigree in Hunter's South Yorkshire.)
. f Howell Grange was at this date the property of James Lord Montjoy, in right of
his wife Catharine, daughter and heir of Sir Thomas Leigh, kt. the original pur-
chaser of the possessions of Nostell Priory in the reign of Henry VIII. Mr. Wodriff
may have acted as his agent, and perhaps through him application had been made for
the interest of his master at Court by Mrs. Isabell Plumpton, to which this letter
was considered a reply; hence the endorsement.
LETTER XXIX.
To the right worshipfull Mrs. Plomton at Plompton hall, widow.
Right worshipfull Mistres, in my harty wise I commend me to
you, with thanks given to you for all your gentlenes; certyfying you
that as yet my wife hath not laid her belly, but remaineth at her
wits end. And sinc my being with you I have not had iij dayes
of health; I thank God albeit. I am better now, which aple, that
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I was thinking, by God's helpe, to se you after the holadayes. In
the mean time I have sent this knowen bearrer to you for to se
you, because I am not all well, praying you to advertis me of
your health and wellfare, which I will be glad to hear of, as I wold
be any frind I have, as God knoweth, who have you in his keping,
and so fare ye well. From Howell grang, this Palme sunday.
Yours to my litle power
withowt gile, · WILLIAM WODRIF.
I am sory of the hevines of the death of Mr. Dinis wife.a
(Anno 1549-50.)
a Ursula, daughter of Richard Aldburgh, and niece of " Ralph Audbrough," the
writer of a letter which follows, was married 4th July, 1 Edw. VI. 1547, to Denis or
Dyonisius Plumpton, born 9 Oct. 1519, the feast of St. Denis. She left one son, Richard
Plumpton, having, it seems, survived her marriage little more than a year.
LETTER XXX.
To his right worshipfull Aunt, Mrs. Isabell Plompton, at Plompton
Hall, deliver this.
Right worshipfull and my singuler good Aunt, my deuty to you
premised, I have me recommended unto you. This shall be to certyfy
you that according to your commaundment haith kept your cort
at Sacompte, and there Setlea, your servant, reseived of tow men that
was admited tennements at this your cort iiij li save 40d, and of
one power woman xiiis. 4d; which was admited tennements in re-
scion he did receive sis, which I have written to you, over and
above your rents and your estreats. And I desire, good Aunt, to let
me know how you will have your corts ordered, whether you will
have them kept one or tow times in the yeare, by your next letter;
a By charter dated 6th Jan. 5 Edw. VI. 1551-2, Isabella Plumpton granted to
Robert Sittills, for term of his life, an annuity of 261. 8s. 8d. issuing out of lands in
Kirkby-upon-Wharfe, or elsewhere within the county of York, (Towneley MSS.
G. 24).
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and I according to your commaundement therein I shold doe,
with the grace of Almighty Jesus, who have you, yours, and all
your houshold in his blessed keeping. Written the xth of
Februarii.
By yours to comaund
ROBART GIRLINGTON.b
b A Nicholas Girlington was one of the many friends and lovers who rode with Sir
Robert Plumpton to York, to maintain him in his suit with Suttell and Rocliffe, at the
Lammas Assize in the year 1502, and to William Girlington, gent. William Plumpton,
and Isabel or Elizabeth his wife, by their deed dated 3 Mar. 22 Hen. VII. 1506, con-
veyed their lands and tenements in Eastofts, in the county of York, for 331. 158.
(Chartul. No. 830.) Burton, in the Pedigree of Babthorpe, printed in his Specimen
History of the parish of Hemingborough, marries Robert Babthorpe, the father of Isabel
Plumpton, to Joan the daughter of Nicholas Girlington; but this statement is dis-
proved by the evidence that Glover had seen, which renders it more than probable
that she was by birth a Hagthorpe. I venture, therefore, to infer from the testimony
of this letter a marriage between the father of Robert Girlington, mistaken for
Robert Babthorpe, and Joan, half-sister of Isabel Plumpton, of the family of Elson of
Selby; for it is only upon this supposition that I can account for her being addressed
by him as “ my singuler good Aunt." (See the Note to Letter CLXXIX. p. 118.)
LETTER XXXI.
To the right worshipfull Mrs. Plompton, of Plompton Hall,
be this delivered.
Aunt, this is to certife you that my father-in-law sent one to
me ij letters that come from London from Robart Girdlington,
one to you which is in hast, as far as my father sent me word to
send them as shortly as I could send them to you. Furthermore,
I wold have you them sent with Langton; them I give and he
wold not carry them. And so I had spoken unto Mr. Egemeton
for barneckles, and so I shold have gon over to Lodington to
have bought them, and so I let them aloane. And so I desire you
have me remembred to my Mistres, and to let hir know that my Lady
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servants Hilyearda demaunds halfe a quarter of beanes for their fat
swine, and if it weare in condition or no; and if it be not, to alowe
the same in the xx quarters that she shold have, and harly in likę
case. And so to let you know that barly rises of pease, as they
say, and I have sold none as yet; and that they ar threshing in the
one lath beanes and barley both, for swine makes il work, and
so I make them labor as hard as they can for the same. And soe
by this bearrer I send you ij letters, and I gave him for his labour
xiid for coming. No more over to you, but Jesus have you in his
kepping. Written this Ladyday at night in hast. And to let you
know, whearas ye told me of 6 horses, the which they say the sorrell
nag is not of yours, and sayes that ye have but 5; and so I wold
answer it. For your hofer, it likes not; I shud a sold it, I truste,
for 48 or better, if ye will.
By me RAFH AUDBROUGH..
& Joan, daughter of Ralph Constable of Halsham, com. Ebor. esq. and widow of
Sir Christopher Hildyard of Winestead, com, Ebor. kt. who died 29 Hen. VIII. 1538,
Ralph Aldburgh was third son of Sir Richard Aldburgh, of Aldburgh, kt. by Jane,
daughter of Sir Thomas Fairfax, of Walton, kt. He had apparently married a sister
of Robert Girlington, niece of Mrs. Isabel Plompton, as he speaks of his father-in-law
sending on letters to him from the latter. This letter will have been written from Wa-
terton, which is in the parish of Luddington, the place where he meant to have pur.
chased the sea-fowl called barnacles. Waterton had been the residence of Robert
Plumpton, and the manor, in the 7th of Eliz. 1565, was yet charged with a rent of
221. 2s. 8d. to Ann Moreton, then surviving, late wife of Robert Plumpton, for term of
her life, by way of dower. At the same date, the manor of Sacombe, com. Herts, was
charged with 54s. 4d., descendible, after the death of Dame Isabella Plumpton, to
Aldburgh and Garlington, to each of them 26s. 8d. per annum. This letter appears
to have been written about the year 1548, after the death of William and Robert
Plumpton, during the minority of the son of the latter. Ralph Aldburgh was the
steward at Waterton, and his “ Mistres,” the above-pamed Mrs. Ann Plympton, after : ,
ward wife of Robert Moreton, of Bawtry, com. Ebor, esq.
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LETTER XXXII.
To her worshipful sister Mistres Plompton, at Plompton Hall,
deliver these.
Right worshipful sister, after most harty and loving commenda-
tions, with like desire of your good health and the long continu-
ance of the same; this shall bee to give you most harty thanks for
al your gentlnes unto mee shewid, and in especially for your good-
nes shewid unto John Pool my son : he hath you most hartily
commended, as your poor kinsman and bedesman, and he desires
you, and I both, to take no displeasur with him for his long tar-
riing here, for as yet he is at no point for his childs part of my
husbands goods. Therfore, I desire you, as my trust is, that you will
bee so good Aunt unto him. Also I desir to have me commended
to my sister Clare and to my son Dennis, sending him Gods bless-
ing and mine, and to al other my kin and frends. Also my son
Richard and John commends them unto you and their aunt Clare,
and to Master Dennis, and to al other their good frends. And so
Jhesu preserve you. From Rodburn the 6 of March.
By your sister to her power
(6 March 1551-2.)
ANN POOLE.
* German Pole, the husband of Ann Pole, the writer of this letter, died 4 Jan.
5 Edw. VI. 1551-2, when German Pole was found to be his cousin and heir, son of
Francis, son and heir of the said German, and of the age of seven years. (Esc. 2 July,
6 Edw. VI. No. 21.) Mrs. Isabel Plumpton, to whom these letters are addressed, died
on the 10th of June in this same year, leaving her second son, Dennis, her only sur-
viving child, to whom Mrs. Ann Pole, his aunt, had stood godmother; on which account
she here calls him her son, and sends him God's blessing.
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LETTERS WRITTEN TO SIR WILLIAM PLUMPTON.
Letter II. The assumed date of this letter is certainly erroneous.
From the phrase, “ I may nought be but of Counsell,” it is clear that
the writer was not in the exercise of judicial functions ; moreover, it
is well known that the Sheriffs were customarily chosen on the mor-
row of All Souls, so that it was always in Michaelmas Term that their
year of office expired, when they had to be apposed of their greenwax,
or in other words to pass their accounts before the Treasurer and
Barons of the Exchequer; nor was this process usually delayed
beyond the Term. This letter will, therefore, have been written the
same year that Sir William Plumpton served the office of Sheriff
for Yorkshire, or for the counties of Nottingham and Derby, and
prior to the appointment of Brian Roucliff to be third Baron of the
Exchequer, in the reign of Henry VI. The Letters Patent to this
effect are teste'd 2 Nov. 38 Hen. VI. 1459, and he was confirmed in
his judicial situation 8 May, 1 Edw. IV. 1461.
Letter III. The writer of this letter is erroneously described in the
note as of Middleton, com. Derb. Sir Richard Bingham, kt. Jus-
tice of the King's Bench, resided at Midleton, com. Warwick;
which manor he had in right of his wife Margaret, one of the sisters
and coheirs of Baldwin Frevill of Tamworth, to whom he was second
husband. He died 22 May, 16 Edw. IV. 1476, and has a monumen-
tal inscription to his memory, yet preserved in the church at Midleton.
(Dugdale's Warwickshire, vol. II. p. 1052.)
Letter IV. This letter should follow Letter V.; the correct date is
19 May, 1463.
Letter V. The conjecture in note bis inadmissible; there was a
family of Greyndour of considerable eminence in Herefordshire at
this period, and the lady of John Earl of Worcester, himself resident
on the borders of Wales, was undoubtedly sprung from this stock: on
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the other hand, the name of Graindorge had merged in Nesfield long
before the date of this letter. The near relationship of Thomas
Beckwith to the Lord Treasurer may be accounted for in another
manner. The mother of Thomas Beckwith is said in the Pedigree of
the family entered at the visitation in 1666, to have been a daughter
of Sir John Baskervile, the family of which name was seated in Here-
fordshire. This locality gives à likelihood to their being connected
with the Earl of Worcester, and from the designation “ Awnte son,”
here used, we may presume that the lady was half sister to the Earl's
father. The date of this letter is determined to the year 1462,
inasmuch as Johri Earl of Worcester, who had been made Lord
Treasurer 14 Apr. 2 Edw. IV. 1462, was superseded in his office
24 June, 3 Edw. IV. 1463, by Edmund Lord Grey de Ruthyn.
It should be added that no direct proof of Thomas Beckwith having
held the office of Escheator of the county of York has been seen by
the Editor,
Letter VI. The date of this letter should be 1465; Thomas Goldes-
burgh became bound with Sir John Norton, kt. to Sir William Plump-
ton, 1 Oct. 5 Edw. IV. 1465, for performance of covenants before
the feast of the Nativity of our Lord next following (Chartul. n. 568);
“ att twentie day of Yoole” will, therefore, have reference to Christ-
mas in that year, i. e. to the Tres septimance Nativitatis, or interval of
time within the third octave of Christmas. In like manner it had
been one of the articles of agreement between Robert Rosse, esq. and
Sir William Plumpton, 33 Hen. VI. 1454, that the former should find
Sir James Pickering, kt. and William Wakefeild, esq. or other two
men like them, to be bound to the said Sir William by statute merchant
in 400li, that he the said Robert shall suffer all the lands to descend upon
his son Thomas, who should wed Johan daughter of the said Sir Wil-
liam, that he the said Robert bath by his father or ancestors. By the
same covenant, it was agreed that if Johan die within the age of twelve
years, then 200', the money given by Sir William for the marriage, to
be repaid, and on the other hand Robert to have the governance of
the married couple, and the amount of her jointure, till Thomas, her
son, came of age. (Towneley MS.) It was, in fact, the usual custom in
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the feudal age for parents to contract for the preferment of their
daughters in marriage, or for an advantageous match for their eldest
son, when the parties were yet in infancy; and such marriage was so-
lemnized by the rites of the church, and followed by the removal of
the children to live under the same roof, though not yet arrived at the
age of puberty. In some instances, there was an express stipulation
in the covenant that the parties should not lie together till one or
other of them reached a certain age; for it was otherwise the interest
of the parents, on whichever side the alliance was most advantageous,
to hasten consummation, by reason of the axiom of Canon Law then
in force, Concubitus non consensus facit nuptias. It also may be collected
from the subscriptions to these letters, that the affinity between the
parents attached from the time of such solemnization; yet, if the
woman at the age of 12 and after, and the man at the age of 14 and
after, disagreed either of them to the marriage, they might marry
again to others without any divorce, and have the precontract reck-
oned as if it had never been ; on the other hand, if they agreed, then
there was need of no new marriage. Thus Margaret Roucliffe, who at
the time of her marriage in 1463 had but just completed her fourth
year, was residing at Cowthorpe with her father-in-law in 1465, and he
in this very letter speaks of her as his daughter, and subscribes him-
self when addressing her father, “ your serviseable brother.” These
precontracts are hardly reconcileable with the doctrine of the Roman
Church, which gives to matrimony the grace and efficacy of a Sacra-
ment, and it may be doubted whether it was so classed by the Ca-
nonists before the time of Pope Innocent the Third ; if so considered,
then the solemnization at so early an age, with the possibility of its
being a vain ceremony should the parties disagree, seems to be a
suspension of heavenly graces little suited to the nature of so sacred
a rite.
Letter VII. “ and to Pake also," lege Paske, i.e. Easter Term,
and dele note e.
Letter X. Hugh Pagnam or Pakenham was an officer of Archbi-
shop Kemp in 1441. (See Historical Notices, p. lv.) The arms on the
tomb of Sir John Pakenhanı in York minster appear to be Quarterly,
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1 and 4, Quarterly Gules and Or, in the first quarter a crescent
Argent; 2 and 3, Argent, three lilly pots Sable ; all within a bordure
engrailed Sable; and the same arms were in the head of the P,
where his name was woven on some drapery which hung in the
choir of the cathedral. (Harl. MSS. 1394.) The Suffolk family of
the name bear, Quarterly Or and Gules, in the first quarter an eagle
Vert.
Letter XVIII. For “with [in] the said manor,” lege with the said
manor, i. e. the thing stolen.
Letter XXVIII. The Mense Pasche was the day four weeks from
Easter, which Sunday was usually called Dominica mensis Paschæ, and
always fell in Easter Term; so that an appearance fixed for Mense
Pasche was, in fact, for Monday in the fourth week after Easter. In
1477, the year in which this letter was written, as may be collected
from the allusion to the match in contemplation between Robert
Plumpton and Mr. Gascoigne's sister, Easter-day was on the sixth
of April, and consequently the morrow of Mense Pasche would be
the fourth of May.
Letter XXIX. “Untrew peopell of their hands.” This was for-
merly an ordinary English phrase, now entirely lost. Thus Shak-
speare, “ Thou art a tall fellow of thy hands.” Winter's Tale, V. 2.
LETTERS WRITTEN TO SIR ROBERT PLUMPTON.
Letter I. note b. For “ Wardens,” lege Warden.
Letter V. n. b. The descent of Edward Plumpton assumed in this
note is not capable of proof; and his name is, therefore, omitted in
the pedigree among the children of Godfrey Plumpton.
Letter XI. Upon a more careful examination of the Rolls of Par-
liament, the observation in the note has been found to be unsupported.
The Commons prayed the King to resume from the 21st day of Au-
gust, i. e his accession, all gifts, &c. made by King Henry VI. and
the sovereigns of the House of York since the 2nd day of October,
34 Hen. VI. 1455, and they also prayed him to annul all gifts of
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Letters Patent made by his majesty before the xxth day of January,
in the first year of his reign; and the same was enacted. We should,
therefore, read in the Letter from the xxi day of August for the ii,
and the xx day of January for the iij; substituting also xxxiiij for
xxiii yere of King Herre the vith. “I weut” in this letter should
be Iwent, i.e. weaned, supposed.
Letter XII. In explanation of the gift of a pair of Jeneper beads
pardonet by my Lady of Syon, these entries among the Privy Purse
expences of Henry VII. may be cited. “For offring at Syon at the
pardon 13s. 4d. For two botes at pardon tyme at Syon, ls. 4d.”
The remark in the note, that the King was at Nottingham when this
letter was written, is incorrect, and at variance with the account of
the subsequent progress by the Herald in the place cited; for he ex-
pressly gives us to understand that the King removed from Notting-
ham to Doncaster on Saturday, the 15th of April, and that such
removal was in the week following his arrival there. This letter
bears date on Monday in that preceding week, and was certainly writ-
ten during the sojourn of the court in Lincoln, where Edward Plump-
ton, the writer, was in attendance upon his master the Lord Strange.
Letter XV. note a. Sir Thomas Bryan, kt. Chief Justice, made
his will 7 Feb. 1495-6, which was witnessed by Thomas Betonsar,
chaplain, the writer of this letter, and proved 11 Dec. 1500. (Testa-
menta Vetusta, vol. II. p. 450.)
Letter XVIII. There was a long race of Baildons of Baildon in
the parish of Otley, continuing to past the middle of the 17th cen-
tury, when the heiress married Bradwardine Tyndal of Brotherton.
Letter XXI. note a. Stephen Eyre, of Hassop, was the eleventh
son of Robert Eyre, and Joan de Padley, whose remarkable monu-
ment still remains in the church of Hathersedge in Derbyshire, on
the borders of the Moors.
Letter XXIII. William Scargill and William Scargill the
younger, gentlemen, were among those present on the part of Sir
Robert Plumpton at the trial at York, 18 Hen. VII. 1502; it is
probable, therefore, that there was a family of this name settled in the
vicinity of Plumpton, a junior branch of the Scargills of Thorpe Sta-
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pleton. It can hardly be supposed that Sir Richard Tunstall would
call the head of the house “ one Scaggell.” .
Letter XXV. note a. For “ Wednesday, the feast of St. Vitalis,” .
lege Tuesday.
Letter XXXI. note a. The following is the transcript of the letter
of the Earl of Shrewsbury adverted to in this note, contained in
Dodsworth’s MSS. vol. cxlviii. the date whereof may be referred to
the 7 Hen. VII. 1492, as mention is made in it of the field against
the King's grace. (See Letter LXVI. note a.) i
To my right welbeloved frend, Sir Robert Plompton, knight.
Right welbeloved frend, I recommend me unto you, ascertayninge
you that it is shewed unto mee by my right welbeloved Dame Joyce
Percy, now attendinge upon my wife, how yee, contrary to right and
conscience, have interrupted the said Dame Joyce of certain land
lyinge within the lordship of Arkinden, and within the county of
Yorke, which land was purchased of one Robert Walkingham a by
Sir Robert Pearcy, knight, her late husband, deceased, and by him
granted unto the said Dame Joyce, as parcell of her joynture, yee
now intendinge by meane of a sinistre grant made unto you of the
said land by the said Robert continually to keepe the same by extort
power contrary to the law, as shee saith. Wherefore, if it bee soe, I
greately marvell; willinge and desyreinge you, therefore, that unto
such tyme as this matter may be had in good and perfitt examination,
yee will in noe wise further intromete or deale with the said land, but
suffer the seid Dame Joyce and her assignes peaceably to occupy the
same, without any manner interruption to the contrary. And if yee,
when the said examination shall bee had, shall have any good evi-
dence for your pretence and title in that behalfe that yee of right are
a Robert Walkingham and Alice his wife, daughter and coheir of Gallway, sold, 30
Jan. 4 Henry VII. 1488-9, to Dame Joan Plompton, late wife of Sir William Plomp.
ton, kt. and to Sir Robert Plompton, kt. her son, in the vill of Plompton, a close
called Patrikgarth, and two closes called the Milne closes near Grimball Bridge. Wit-
nesses, William Ingleby, Piers Mydleton, kts. Richard Goldsbrough, Myles Wils-
thorpe, Robert Birnand, esquires, Richard Saxton then bailiff of Spofford, Thomas
Wood, chaplain, and many others. (Cartul. No. 752)
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to have the said land, yee shall thereof have possession and bee re-
compensed as right requireth. And over this, whereas I am en-
formed that one Richard Nicoll, late tenant to the said Dame Joyce,
was now in the field against the Kings good grace, for the which
cause yee have seazed his goods, as it accordeth, I will and desyre
you, consideringe the said Dame Joyce was innocent, and nothinge
knowinge of his misdemeaninge, yee will see that of his said goods
such duties may bee contented as hee oweth unto her by reason of
any tenures or holdings, and that yee will tender her in these pre-
misses the rather for my sake, soe as she have not cause to make fur-
ther suit for her remedy therein, as I trust you. From Ashby,* the
8th day of July.
Your frend,
G. SHREWSBURY. .
Letter LXV. note c. Sir Henry Wentworth is erroneously called
of Woodhouse, com. Ebor. after Fuller, in his List of Sheriffs. He
was of Nettlested com. Suff. and ancestor to the lords Wentworth.
Letter LXVI. note a: p. 96, and again p. 97. For 1491, lege 1492;
and before " disposition” add" good.” I subjoin a full extract from
the inscription on the monument of the Earl of Surrey at Thetford,
relating to his government in the North. " And wythin x wekes
after his coming out of the towre, ther was an insurrection in the
Northe by whom the Erle of Northombrelond was sleyne in the feld,
and also the citee of Yorke wonne with a sawte by force.t And for
the subduing of those rebells, the Kinge assembled a grete hoste of
his subgettis, and toke his iourney towards them from the castell of
Hertford; and the said Erle of Surrey made chief captayn of his
voward, and apoynted under him in the seid voward the Erle of
* Ashby-de-la-Zouch, the seat of Lord Hastings, brother of the Countess of Shrews-
bury.
+ The recollection of this assault was fresh in the time of Leland ; “Ther was," he
writes, “a Fundation of an Hospitale, hard without the very side of Michelgate, of the
erecting of Syr Richard of York, Mair of York, whom the Communes of Yorkshir
when they enterid into York by brenning of Fisscher-Gate, in the reign of Henry the
7, wold have behedid. But the fundation was never finished.” (Itin. fol. 61.) And
again, “To Waume-Gate 3 Toures, and thens to Fissher-Gate, stoppid up sins the
Communes burnid it yn the tyme of King Henry the 7.” (Ibid. f. 60.).
CAMD, SOC, 4.
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Shrewesbury, the Lord Hastyngs, Sir Will. Stanley, than being the
Kinges Chamberlayn, Sir Rice ap Thomas, Sir Thomas Bowser, Sir
John Savage, Sir John Ryseley, and divers other. And whan this
jorney was doon, the Capteynes of these Rebelles and many other of
them were put to execution. And for the singuler truste that the
Kinge had to the seid Erle, and the activite that he saw in him, he
lefte him in the North, and made him his Lieutenaunt generall from
Trent Northward, and Warden of the Est and Middle Marshes of
Englond ageinst Scotlond, and Justice of the Forests from Trent
Northward, and ther he continued x yeres; and kepte the countrey
in peace with policy and many paines taking, withoute whiche it wold
nat have been, for that the countrey had ben so lately ponished,
and nat withoute desert. And thus he dide the hoole tyme of x yere,
saving in the second yere of his being, ther was an insurrexion in the
West part of the countrey, with whome the seid Erle, with the helpe
of the Kinges true subgettis, fought in the feld, and subdued them at
Akworth besides Pomfrett. And besides divers of them that were
slaine in the feld, he toke the captaines and put them to execucion,
and the residue he sued to the Kinges Highness for ther pardones,
whiche he obteined, and wane therby the favour of the countrey.
And in the same yere the King went over the see, and laid siege to
Bolayn, the seid Erle than remaining ther, notwithstonding that he
was appointed to have gone with the King, and had gon, but for
the lightnes of the pepule ther, wherefor he was left bebind, both for
the savegard of the countrey and for defending of the realme, for the
singuler truste that he had unto him.”
Letter LXXII. Dele note a, and see what is said above, Letter
XXIII.
Letter LXXIV, note a. There does not appear to hare been any
Lancashire family of the name of Midleton holding station as gentle-
men at this period. In 16 Henry VII. 1501, Jane, widow of David
Griffin was wife of Nicholas Talbot, descended of the Lancashire
family, and she, it may be presumed, was mother of David, the writer
of this letter, and of the wives of .... Midleton and Edward
Plumpton. (Testamenta Vetusta, vol. II. p. 458.).
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Letter LXXVII, note b. Richard Cholmley was afterwards a
knight. He married Elizabeth daughter of Ralph Nevill of Thorn-
ton-Bridge, and died circa 1521, without legitimate issue.
Letter XCIX. note b. For Roxby, lege Fenwick. The knight of
Roxby was Sir Roger Hastings, mentioned in the Letter of Sir
Robert Plumpton in the Historical Notices, p. cxiii, as being near his
undoing; and he, it seems, ultimately sold his lands in Pickering-
Lythe to Sir Roger Cholmley, kt. (Lel. Itin. I. p. 63.)
· Letter CIII, note c. This note is a mis-statement; see note a,
p. 218.
· Letter CX. note e. The prior of St. John's ranked as premier
baron in the rolls of Parliament, and was usually styled Lord of
St. John's.
· Letter CXVI, note b. Thomas Lawrence was of Ashton near Lan-
caster, son of Sir James Lawrence, kt.
· Letter CXIX. note i. Add “ George Edgar or Edgore, called
Serjeant, 7 Nov. 21 Hen. VII. 1505.”
Letter CXXVI. Add this note. - William Wymondeswold of
Southwell com. Nott. gent. died in 1520, and lieth buried in the
church of St. Nicholas in Nottingham."
Letter CXXXVI. note at foot. The letter from Sir Robert Plump-
ton to his wife will be found in the Historical Notices of the family.
Letter CXLVI. John Strey of Doncaster, who married Alice,
daughter of Sir Roger Hopton of Swillington, com. Ebor. living be-
tween 8 and 21 Hen. VIII. was of the family of the writer of this
letter. See a description of his monument in the church at Don-
caster, in Hunter's South Yorkshire.
Letter CLVIII. note a. 1. 3. For letter CLIV. lege CLV.
Letter CLIX. For Bramenn Lyvacr, lege Bramtun Lynaor.
Lands in Brampton were given by Hugh de Lynacre to Adam de
Esseburn, and the manor seat of the ancient family of Lynacre was
in this parish. At the Conqueror's Survey Ascoit Musard had a
manor of ten oxgangs and a half in Holum, Wadesel and Brantune.
The first name subsists in the hamlet of Holy Moor side.
· Letter CLXV. n. a. For Lady Darcy, lege Lady Nevill. Edith,
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relict of Ralph Lord Nevill, retained the title of her first husband
after her second marriage, as appears from her signature to Letter
CLX. and from the order of her interment in the MS. I. 3. in Coll.
Arm. In quoting from this manuscript, Dugdale has made an error
in the christian name, writing Elizabeth for Edith ; the document
itself establishes beyond question the pedigree of this noble lady, and
I am induced to give it here entire.
: “On the xxii day of August, in the yere of our Lorde MVcXXIX,
the XXI yere of Kyng Henry the Eight, decessed at Stepneth near
London, the ladye Edithe Nevyll, and wiff to Thomas Lord Darcy,
suster to Will’m Lord Sandis, chamberlain to the King, for whos in-
terrement was ordeyned in maniere folowing :
“ Furst, assone as nyght be tyme convenient the body was cerred;
oon the Wensday then next folowinge was conveyed from the place
havyng the iiii ordres of fryres, the mynystres of the churche, certain
gentilmen, garter principall King of armes, Richemont herauld
weryng his cote of armes, then the body born by her servants and by
certain fryres of the Blacfryres, iiij gret banners at the iiij corners,
then folowed the lady Strikeland * and certain other gentilwomen
morners to the nombre of vii morners and other gentilwomen. And
after my Lord Darcy servants in blacke, xii pore men havyng gownes
and hods, went all along the oon syde before the body, bering staff
torches, and xii yemen of my said lord bare staff torches abowt the
body; and in this ordre keping the high way, went to Radcliff, wher
ther was two barges prepared covered with black clothe, garnyshed
with her armes. And in the oon barge was the body, the mynestres
of the churche, the torche berrers and servants; in the other barge
the morners, the gentilmen, and gentilwomen. By cause it was
thought that the said lady Nevill died of the gret sykenesse, or ells
ther wold have been there a farre gretter compaigne, wiche for dan-
gier of the sykenes my Lord Darcy cawsed them to exchew, for the
* Catharine, daughter and coheir of Ralph Nevill, of Thornton-Bridge, com. Ebor.,
esq. relict of Sir Walter Strickland of Sizergh, com. Westm. kt.; he died 9 Jan. 18
Hen. VIII. 1526-7, and she became successively the wife of Henry Brough, esq. and
William Knivet, esq.
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tokens of the gret sykenesse appered on her. And so was conveyed
by water to the Kings brigge at Grenewich, were the fryers obser-
vants and the paroche met the body, and conveyed it to the fryres;
wiche assone as it was entred the myddill part of the churche, the
body was set upon two trestills, and the fryres proceeded immediatly
to the service of the buryeng. Wiche doon, and the body buried, all
the morners with other retorned to the barges ageyn, some to London,
and some to Stepneth agein ; for that nyght ther was certain almes
geven bothe in the church-yerde at Stepneth, and alsoo at Grenywich
by certain of my Lord Darcy chapeleins.
“On the morne abowt viii of the clocke all the company assembled
at Saynt Magnus Churche, and appointed to take their barge, Botolff
wharff, and so rowed downe to Radcliff, and there toke in certain
gentilmen and gentilwomen, wiche there abode their comyng, and soo
rowed downe to Grenewich.” (f. 71 b.)
Letter CLXXVII. note b. This statement is incorrect. Sir Chris-
topher Ward died 30 Dec. 13 Hen. VIII. 1521, seized of the manors
of Guiseley, Givendale, &c. leaving one daughter and three grand-
daughters, namely, the daughters of his daughter. Anne Nevill de-
ceased, his co-heirs. Of these the daughter then surviving was
Joan, wife of Sir Edward Musgrave, of Musgrave and Harcla Castle,
com. Westmorland, then aged 34 years; and Catharine, Joan, and
Clara were the three daughters of Ralph Nevill, esq. by Anne Ward,
deceased, of whom Catharine, then aged 22 years, was wife of Walter
Strickland, esq. (afterwards knight), of Sizergh in Westmorland :
Joan, aged 21 years, was wife of John Constable, of Burton Consta-
ble, in Holderness, esq.; and Clara, aged 14, unmarried. (Whitaker's
Hist. of Leeds, vol. I. p. 211.) In the dining-room at Sizergh, over
the chimney-piece is a shield, quarterly, 1, Strickland; 2, Deincourt;
3, Nevill, with a mullet for difference; 4, Azure, a cross botony Or,
Ward; supporters, a stag collared and chained, and a bull with a
mullet on his breast: and in another apartment, quarterly Strickland
and Deincourt, impaling Nevill and Ward.
Letter CLXXX. note a, 1. 5. For Hen. VII, lege Henry VIII.
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LETTERS WRITTEN TO MR. WILLIAM PLUMPTON.
Letter I. note a. p. 223, 1. 12. For 20 Oct. 3 Eliz. 1561, lege 17
Eliz. 1565. . ..
Letter IX. note b. Sir Robert Sheffield the elder, kt. made his
will 8 Aug. 1518, and it was proved 28 Feb. 1518-9; the date 10
Aug. 1516, is, therefore, erroneous (See Testamenta Vetusta, vol. II.
p. 555.)
ERRATUM IN PEDIGREE.
Issue of Anne Plumpton and Henry Scroop. For Mary lege Anne,
and for Stephen lege Thomas, and dele Broughton. The daughter
and only child of Henry Scroop of Danby, esq. and Anne Plumpton
his wife was Anne, married to Thomas Tempest of Roundhay-Grange
near Leeds, esq. second son of Stephen Tempest of Broughton, com.
Ebor. esq. and brother and heir of sir Stephen Tempest, kt. who be-
queathed Broughton to his nephew Stephen, eldest son of Thomas
Tempest and Anne Scroop.
*** The curious incident of the attempted execution of Gilbert
de Plumpton for ravishing the daughter of Roger de Guilevast, nar-
rated in the Historical Notices of the family, receives additional illus-
tration from the Abstracts of Charters to Marrick Priory, printed in
the fifth volume of that valuable repertory of Ancient Evidences, The
Collectanea Topographica et Genealogica, page 117, sub tit. Hunton,
a vill of Richmondshire. From these we learn that Roger de
Gulewast was the husband of Helewis, daughter of Roger de Hunton,
of whose gift, by the name of Helewis Gulewast, the Priory had land
in that vill; and that, with her consent, her husband confirmed the
gifts in fee-farm and frankalmoign of one holding of his fief in Hun-
ton. From them the property came into the possession of Gilbert de
Plumpton with his wife, and by him five acres and a half of his de-
mesne in the fields of Hunton, were given to the nuns of Marrick.
In the course of another descent, (A.D. 1266) Hunton had passed into
the hands of Nicholas, son of Robert de Gerdiston, i. e. Garriston, a
neighbouring vill.
INDEX OF MATTERS.
Abbot, Anne, Letter from, to Dame Anne Roke Of Holt, 128 a. Of Middelton, 754, Of
by, to excuse keeping back money by rea Nevill, of Thornton-bridge, 269. Of Paker-
son of urgent necessity, her household fare o ham, 226. Of Percy, xix. Of Pilkington,
described, 229.
ci. Of Stapleton, lxxxvi. Of Ward, 269.
Ackworth near Pontefract, field of, xcix, 958, Of Waterton, ci. Of Strickland, 269. Of
266. The year of its being fought ascer Wintringham, 152 . Of the Master Forester
tained, xcix ".
of Knaresborough Forest, lxxxvi.
Aldborough (Burc, Burg), notices of the Arthington, William, Letter from, to Sir Ro-
early history of, ixb, xi*. Sir Richard, con bert Plumpton to assist at the end-making
tract of marriage of, with Agnes Plumpton, of a dispute referred to arbitration, 81.
lxxxiii. Letter from, to sir Robert Plump Augmentation, Court of, 234, 242.
ton, to bespeak his favourable judgment on Award, copy of the terms on, 41. Memorandum
behalf of his servant on an award, 84. of an agreement between parties to submit to,
Challenged together with his servants on the with the judge's hand at foot, 210.
trial of an assize as of kin to the parties, cix.
Ralph, Letter from, to Mrs. Isabell Plump Babthorpe, covenant for the marriage of Isabell,
ton, concerning the keeping of the Courts the heir general of, to William Plumpton, xcix.
of the manor of Sacomb, 256.
Pedigree of, ci. William, of Osgodby, his
Archers, copy of an agreement for service of, suit against Plumpton and ux. 130, et seq.
in the retinue of a knight, for a year, xlviii. Notices of the family of, and their suit with
· Ardern, Sir Piers, deputy of William De la the heirs general, 219, et seq. Sir William,
Pole, Earl of Suffolk, liji. Henry, Letter the Lawyer, one of the King's Council in
from, to Sir Robert Plumpton, his father, the North, cxxv. Final settlement of the
soliciting payment of money owing from his controversy, cxxvii.
deceased lady, 194.
Banks, Richard, Letter from, to Sir William
Arms, of Plumpton, when assumed, xix. An. | Plnmpton to recommend, 29.
cient emblazonment, ibid.'. Noticed xxi, Bans of Marriage, certificate from a rector of s
liii, lxxxv, Lxxxvi, 152 C. Of Babthorpe, ci. the publication of, lxxxi".
Of Clifford, lxxxvi. Of Darell, ib. Of Fol. | Barlow, Edwin, [Owen or Ewene,] Attorney of
jambe, xxviii k, liï, lxxxv, lxxxvi, 152 e. Sir Robert Plumpton, Letter from, to the same,
Of Hagthorpe, 218 a. Of Hamerton, lxxxvi. concerning the stopping of a Privy Seal, 114.
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Baudkin, 37.
to Mr. William Plumpton, for an accom-
Bedford, John Duke of, copy of the agreement modation of the dispute with Babthorpe, 222.
between, and Sir Robert Plumpton, for his / Byaufiz, sir Henry, Lands of, of the inherit-
services in peace and war, xlii 8.
ance of his wife Cecilia, daughter of William
Bekyns, lii.
de Plumpton, settled by fine, xx, xxiiy.
Besey, Renold, clerk of the castle of York,
Letter from, to Mr. Plumpton, to require his Calverley, William, the older, Letter from, to
attendance, 252.
Sir Robert Plumpton, to recommend,:56.
Betanson, sir Thomas, chaplain, Letters from, | Canterbury, Hubert Archbishop of, has the
to Sir Robert Plumpton, with news from Honour of Knaresborough in ward with
London, 48, 49. 53. Witness to the will Robert de Stutevill, xv.
of Sir Thomas Bryan, chief Justice C. P. 263. Carlisle, William Siveyer Bishop of, corres-
Billop, Thomas, Letter from, to Sir William pondence of, noticed, iv. His journey to
Plumpton concerning the farming of his Colyweston mentioned, 113. Has authority
manor of Kenalton, 20.
to appoint the Escheator for the county of
Bingham, Sir Richard, Justice of the King's York, 147. See under York, Abbot of.
Bench, Letter from, to Sir William Plump Carver, John, Vicar General of Christopher
ton, to appoint a meeting to settle by treaty Bainbridge, Archbishop of York, Letter from,
a variance between the latter and Henry Pier and from John Wyther, his Surveyor and
point, 3. Note concerning him, 259.
General-reasoner, to Sir Robert Plumpton,
Birtby, Sir Edward, priest, Letter from, to Sir concerning the presentation to a chantry, 205.
Robert Plumpton concerning the price of a Castle-Boone, xix.
mail, 110.
Catton, Sir William, Canon of Newburgh,
Blackwall, Sir Robert, Master in Chancery, Letter from, to Sir Robert Plumpton, solicit-
clerk of the Parliament, Counsel retained for ing his good offices for his brother in regard
Sir Robert Plumpton in his suits, 93, 99. His to the clerkship of Coxwold, 66.
attorney in the Exchequer, 115, 145. Letter Chadyrton, Katharine, Letter from, to George
from, to the same, concerning the appoint Plumpton her brother at Bolton abbey, xxxix.
ment of Sheriffs for the year 1501, and warn Her visit to the Lord Scrope of Bolton, and
ing him of Master Empson's purpose to his lady described, xl.
proceed by assize, 147.
Chaloner, Robert, three Letters from, to Sir
Bondman, claimed by Sir Robert Plumpton, 54. Robert Plumpton, for money lent, 197, 204.
Borge-scire, derivation of name, ixb.
Chamberlain, Lord, his visit to the North, 15.
Buckingham, Duke of, alarm created by his His saying about labouring on behalf of any
rebellion, 44. Sends messengers into the of the Earl of Northumberland's men, he
North, 45.
being present, 33.
Burgh (Borough), sir Thomas, has the son of Chancellor, Lord, (George Nevill,) his order in
Lady Stapleton in ward, 17. Letter from, a suit respecting a chantry, 16. At London
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with the King, 17. (Thomas Rotherham,) I Honour of Knaresborough, xvi. Edmund
applied to for a letter from the King, Earl of, his covenant with Sir Robert Plump-
35. (John Alcock,) publishes the King's ton, respecting forest-easements in Plump-
marriage in Parliament 48.
ton, xviii.
Chancery, new rule of, 29.
Coroners, panel on a writ of attaint returned
Chantry, Foundation of, in the church of by the, 181.
Ripon, xxi. In the church of St. Martin in Coverley, Richard, Letter from, to Sir Robert
Micklegate, York, xxix. In the church of Plumpton, concerning the dues of the Rector
Spofforth, xxxvii. Letter from John Eyre of Spofforth, 105. Mistake of name for
touching the custody of the keys of a, 189. Cholmley, 1065.
Claro, derivation of name, xb.
Country, usual term for Jury, 24.
Cocking at Sheffield, 251.
Court, John Rocliff to be placed at, expense of
Collumbell, Henry, Letter from, to Sir Robert array double, 13.
Plumpton, concerning Sir Edmund Batmon, Court-Baron, called the Three-weeks' court,32.
155.
Court-rolls, kept in a coffer in the church, 239.
Collyweston, notice of visitors at, 113. Sir Courtenay, heir to the Earl of Devonshire, ar-
William Gascoigne rides thither, 148.
rested, 20.
Cologne, confraternity of the Rosary of our Cowthorpe, church of, given to the Priory of
Lady of, 50.
Helagh by Peter de Plumpton, afterwards
Commission, of array, 14 Hen. VI. lii. Of en released, xviii. Manor of, owed suit and
quiry concerning lands of attainted persons, service to Plumpton, 43.
38 Hen. VI. lxvi.
Coxwold, clerkship of, 66.
Comrades, persons present togetherata christen Cross-days, 152.
ing, 63.
Crown, yeomen of the, 20.
Constable, Sir Marmaduke, of Flamborough,
one of the arbitrators chosen for the Plaintiffs | D. John, Letter from, to Sir Robert Plumpton,
to treat with Sir Robert Plumpton, cvii. about his suits, and with news, 217.
Two Letters from, to Sir William Gascoigne, Dale, abbot and convent of, security for pay-
to appoint a meeting, 207, 209. Purchases ment of rent, 102.
the marriage of Jane Sotehill, cxix, 208b. Dartford, nun professed at, of the order of St.
Party to award as her guardian,cxx. Sir John, 1 Dominick, 15.
notice of his marriage and descendants, 2086. | Darcy, Thomas Lord, of Templehirst, note of
Sir Robert, Letter from, to Lady Rokesby, his being first created a Baron, 1872. Of his
offering to assist her to claim arrears, 227. matrimonial alliances, 203, 267. •
Sir Marmaduke, of Everingham, Letter from, | Daysmen, 82.
to the same, on family affairs, 228.
Dedimus potestatem, writ of, costly and re-
Cope, price of material and cost of making, 37. quiring great soliciting, 91. Proceedings
Cornwall, Richard Earl of, has a grant of the upon, 101.
CAMD. Soc. 4.
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Derby, Freres at, Dame Elizabeth Pole lodged In warrant of the disproof of the charges
there, 190.
against, and declaratory of the loyalty of
Distress, writ of, proceedings under, described, same, and to give protection, lxx.' Of par-
167.
don for same in the eleventh year of his reign,
Dodington, John, Letter from, to Mr. William lxxv. His retinue on coming to London, 17.
Plumpton, upon matters relating to the manor Said to have given away the property of Sir
of Sacomb, 237. To Mrs. Isabell Plumpton, Thomas Tresham and Sir John Marney, 20.
for the same, 241. To Mr. William Plumpton, Eleson, William, of Selby, Letter from, to Sir
concerning a lease from the Court of Aug Robert Plumpton, giving legal counsel, 134.
mentation, 242. To the same, to inform him To the same, to appoint a day of meeting, 135.
of the obtaining of a warrant for a doe out Chosen to peruse the evidence of Sir Robert
of the Parks of Bilton or Hay, 243. To the Plumpton, 151. Arbitrator with Sir William
same, with news of the death of the parson Gascoigne, on behalf of same, cvii. Let-
of Sacomb, 243.
ter from, to his sister Mrs. Isabell Plumpton,
Drink-money, xix.
concerning her claim to the manor of Bab-
Drury, Sir William, notice of his marriage and thorpe, 218. Note explaining his consan.
descendants, 208 6.
guinity to same, ibid.a.
Durham, (John Shirwood) Bishop of, Richard Elton, manor of, claim to the, specified in the
Cholmley a royal commissioner for levying award of Richard III. xciii. Note concern-
the duties in arrear, owing to the late, 105. ing it, xcivº. Chantry of, 132.
(Richard Fox) Bishop of, has the custody of | Emerson, George, confidential friend and at-
the lands of Ralph late Earl of Westmor torney of Sir Robert Plumpton, Letters from,
land, during the minority of Ralph Earl of to the same, upon matters regarding his suit,
Westmorland, cxy. Lord Privy Seal, 112, and giving advice, 145, 150, 177.
115, 116. (Thomas Ruthall) Bishop of, makes | Empson, Sir Richard, has a warrant from Lord
an agreement with William Bedell, concern Strange for a doe in the park of Hals yearly,
ing the manor of Babthorpe, 218.
88. His purpose to revive the claim of the
Dymes, lands that paid, not assessed, 61.
heirs-general to the whole succession of Sir
William Plumpton made known to Sir Wil-
Edward III. Letter from, to the Mayor and liam Gascoigne and others, 120. Speaker of
Bailiffs of Rye, to allow Sir Robert de Plump the House of Commons, and Serjeant-at-law,
ton, who had landed there from the fleet, to 121 b. Letter from, to Sir William Gas-
quit his service and return home for the re coigne, to interfere to protect Richard Fal-
covery of his health, xxiii?.
barne against Sir Robert Plumpton and his
Edward IV. Letter from, with charge not to servants, 122. Spoken of as." the great man
rob or spoil Sir William Plumpton, lxviii. Empson," 151. His secret practices, ibid.
Of general pardon for same, ibid.t. Of ac His false craft and utter and malicious en-
quittance from debt by bond for same, ibid.u. mity, 162. His proceedings against Sir Ro-
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bert Plumpton detailed, cii. et seq. The | money, 58. Robert, Letter from, to the same,
manor of Kinalton given to him for life, in in recommendation of Ralph Haugh, 69. To
reward of his maintenance, cvi. His de the same, touching the agreement between
meanour at the Assize at York, cvii. Peti him and the said Ralph, ibid. To the same, in
tion of Sir Robert Plumpton to the King, recommendation of the widow of his farm-
setting forth his great maintenance and sup ward, deceased, 140. To the same, touching
portation, cxi. Inquisitions returned by him the marriage contract between their children, .
into the Chancery, cxvi. Executor of Sir 143. To the same, promising to accompany
Reginald Bray, 177 a. Chancellor of the him to the Earl of Shrewsbury at Wingfield,
Duchy of Lancaster, 2086. His execution, 152. To the same, upon matters concerning
cxvii. His daughter, Joan, married first to the trial by assize against Sir Robert Plump.
Henry Sotehill; secondly to Sir William ton at Derby, 160.
Pierpoint, cxix, cxxi, 208b.
Emyson, James, Letter from, to Sir Robert Faculty, copy of, by the Vicar General of the
Plumpton, on behalf of Lady Ward, desiring Archbishop of York, for George Plumpton
his daughter may bear her company at 1 to hear reserved cases in confession, xxxVk.
Christmas at Gauthorp, 216.
By the same, for the vicar of Harwood to
Error, writ of, put to the making, 165.
solemnize marriage in a private chapel in a
Escheator, Thomas Beckwith to be, for York manor-house, lxxx.
shire, by appointment of the Lord Trea.. | Fairfax, Serjeant Guy, saying of, at the Bar,
surer, 6. Livery of seizin by Robert Wy against maintenance, 35.
card, of the county of Derby, xxviih. Agree- | Fawbergh (Falbarne), Richard, clerk to Bryan
ment between Edmund Parpoint, of the Rocliff, one of the feoffees in a settlement,
counties of Nottingham and Derby, and Sir lxxiib. Entry by same and his co-feoffees,
William Gascoigne, to make return of the before statute 1 Ric. III. pleaded, cv. Re-
title of Sir Robert Plumpton to the inherit entry by same as survivor, and re-feoffment
ance of his father, lxxxvii. Office found be-
to other persons to the same uses, cvi. Does
fore William Netilton, of the county of York, not dare to apply his business through fear of
ibid. Ralph Sacheverell of Hopwell, of Not Sir Robert Plumpton and his servants by
tinghamshire and Derbyshire, 147. William reason thereof, 122.
Crouch, late customer of Hull, of Yorkshire, Fees to Counsel, 23, 93, 152 i.
ibid. Livery of seizin by same, 220°. Feodary, 253.
Esholt, Dame Alice Chelray, prioress of, her | Foder of hay, 21.
covenant with Sir Robert Plumpton, xlviir | Foljambe, notices of the family of, xxvii h. Pe-
Executors, opinion concerning, 48.
digree, xxviik.
Exigent, 198.
Fountains, grant to the abbot and convent of,
Eyre, Stephen, of Hassopp, Letter from, to xviii. Letter from John (Darneton), abbot
Sir Robert Plumpton, concerning a loan of 1 of, to Sir Robert Plumpton in recommen-
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dation of a kinsman, 62. Lord of, 82. I send bowmen to aid in the defence of Plump-
Farmhold taken of the abbot of, 84.
ton-Hall, 176. Counsel for Sir Robert
Frowick, Serjeant, Counsel for Sir Robert Plumpton, 177. Two letters from Sir Mar:
Plumpton, 152. Justice of Assize, 153. maduke Constable to the same, to appoint a
Chief Justice of the Common Pleas; 165. time of meeting, 207, 209. Letter from, to
Note concerning him, ibid:b.
his uncle Plumpton, concerning the King's
grant to him of the Lordship of Harwood
Galtres Forest, named from the wapentake of with the wardship of the heir, 214. To the
Girlestre, xid. Its extent, ibid. Office of same, to inquire of the date of the birth of
Steward and Master Forester of, belonging his nephew Fairfax, and of the marriage of
to the family of Babthorpe, ci. :
his cousin Eyre, 215. Treasurer of Cardi.
Gascoigne, William, brother-in-law of the Earl nal Wolsey, 221 4. John, esquier, letter
of Northumberland, in office at Knaresbo from the Earl of Northumberland to, to be
rough, 32. At variance with Sir William ready at an hour's warning, 53. Letter
Plumpton, ibid.d Letter to, from the Earl from, to Sir Robert Plumpton his brother-
of Northumberland, enjoining him to suffer in-law, with a message from his nephew to
à prisoner to be at large upon bail, 34. pay money to Robert Hastings, 148. Ralph,
Marriage of his sister to Robert Plumpton, uncle of Sir William Gascoigne, owner of a
38. Solemnized in the chapel at Goke house in Plumpton, 175. Mary, Letter
thorpe, lxxix. A fee'd knight of the Earl from the Earl of Northumberland to: Sir
of Northumberland, xcvi. Notices of his Robert Plumpton, touching her inheritance,
descendants, 344. Sir William, made a 74.
Knight of the Bath, xcvii. Summoned by Girlington, note concerning the alliances of
his uncle, the Earl of Northumberland, to the family of, 256 b.
Thirsk, on the eve of the insurrection, 61. Gisburn, Ellen, a receipt for legacies be-
His influence at Court, 112. His discourse queathed by, given to the executors of her
with Mr. Empson, 121. Letter to him from will, xxix.
the latter, 122. James Colton and Preston, Glanvile, Ranulph de, Justiciary under Henry
his servants, 126, 128. Rides to Colyweston, II., historical anecdote of, xvi. Proofs of
148. Letter from, to his uncle Plumpton, to its authenticity, x*, 270.
excuse his not meeting him through illness, | Gloucester, Richard Duke of, Constable and
149. To the same, respecting certain evi Admiral of England, Letter from, to Sir
dence in his custody, ibid. One of the William Plumpton, Steward of the Lordship
arbitrators chosen on behalf of Sir Ro of Spofford, directing him to restore certain
bert Plumpton to treat with the adversa stolen cattle to the owner, 26. Chief Se-
ries at York, cviii. Letter from, to his neschal of the King's Duchy of Lancaster
uncle Sir Robert. Plumpton, with various in the North Parts, ibid.: Chosen as one of
istidings relating to his suit, 175. Offers to the arbitrators in an award, lxxxix., .;
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Godson, son of Sir Robert Plumpton, of j Hastings, Sir John, Dame Isabell, late de-
the abbot of Kirkstall, 62.
ceased, late wife to, c. Holds the manor of
Gossip, the term used to denote the relation Sacombe as tenant by the curtesy of England,
. ship between a godfather and the parents,62. 129. Action of waste against him, 133, 146.
Greenwax, a term of the Exchequer, 2, 92. Treats with Sir Robert Plumpton, 136. Sir
Grene, Godfrey, Letter from, to Sir William Roger, at the point of ruin, cxiii. Robert,
Plumpton, on legal business, 9. To the Letter from, to Sir Robert Plumpton, for
- same, of his suits, and detailing the particu loan of money, 144..
lars of an offer by a mercer of the Cheap for Haverah (Hawray, Haw-warray, Awerry, Hay-
to marry with his sister, 10. To the same, I wra) Park, in Knaresborough Forest, livery
of his suits, and with news of the arrest of of the game in, by the keepers to Sir
divers lords and knights, 18. To the same,
William Plumpton, liiih. Held by David
ou legal business, 29. To the same, respect. Griffith, one of the Council of the Earl
ing an application to the King and the Earl of Derby, under a patent, and proposed
of Northumberland to be continued in his to be leased by him to Sir Robert Plumpton,
office at Knaresborough, 31. To the same, of 94, 96, 97. Letter from the same to Sir
his suits, 35. Richard, Letter from, to Sir Ro. Robert Plumpton, informing him of the lease
bert Plumpton, to excuse bis not coming to having been drawn up, 99. Letter from Sir
him, by reason of the commands of the Earl Randall Piggott to Sir Robert Plumpton, to
of Northumberland to view his park and certify the price of " palesses” during the
game at Topcliff, &c. 79. Elizabeth, Let time he occupied, 98. Two letters from
ter from, to the same, with notice of William David Griffith to the same, to solicit pay-
Tankard's disobeying his orders, 80. Ro ment of the rent, 102, 103. Letter from
bert, Letter from, to the same, to excuse his William Merkenfeild to Sir Robert Plump-
not coming to him by reason of his wife's ton, respecting the purloining of cattle
sickness, &c. 83.
agisted therein, ibid.
Griffith, David, Letters from. See Haverah Park. Hawkesworth, Thomas, Letter from, to Sir Ro-
bert Plumpton, to recommend, 109.
Hales, pilgrimage to, 96.
Hayboot, xix.
Hall, remarks upon his account of the insur Helperby, details of a serious affray with
... rection of Archbishop Scrope, xxiv.
bloodshed, near, between the men of the
Hamerton, Sir Stephen, Letter from, to Sir forest of Knaresborough and the men of the
· Robert Plumpton, his brother-in-law, to Archbishop of York, lix.
make search for evidence, 63.
Henry II, respites the execution of Gilbert de
Hands, men of their, 38, 89, 262.
Plumpton, x*. Grants Knaresborough and
Harrington, Hamlett, Letter from, to Sir Ro Burgh to William de Stuteville, xiii.
bert Plumpton, to inform him of his lands Henry IV. story of, told by Clement Maid.
being extended for debt, as his security, 206. istone, xxv. Grants letters of pardon to Sir
278
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Robert Plumpton, after the execution of his Hereford, (Thomas Spofford) late Bishop of,
son for treason, xxvi.
to be prayed for by the priest of the chantry
Henry VI. Letters from, to Sir William
founded in the church of Spofford, xxxviii.
Plumpton and others his officers, charging Homage, respite of, at the Exchequer, 115.
him and the men of the forest of Knaresbo Housboot, xix.
rough to keep the peace toward the tenantry Hudson, Master Henry, Letter from, to Sir
of the Archbishop of York, of his lordship, Robert Plumpton concerning the proceed-
of Ripon, lvii. To Sir Rich. Tunstall, Sir i ngs of the rector of Spofforth, 52. Christo-
Thos. Tresham, and Sir William Plumpton, pher, Letter from, to Mr. Plumpton, to be
to summon all liege men of the Liberty of allowed to continue to occupy at Beverley,
Knaresborough to set out to meet the ene 224.
my, Ixvii. To Sir William Plumpton, to Hungerford, Mr., son of Lord, arrested, 20.
come to him, wheresoever he shall be, with Hustings, court of, 5.
his array, l.
Idle, complaints to Sir William Plumpton
Henry VII. marriage of, and the Lady Eliza-
against certain of his servants of, by their
« beth, published by the Chancellor in Parlia fellow servants, 38.
ment, 48. Causes the act of attainder to Impereal, a stuff so called, 37.
pass against Richard III. and his adherents, | Indenture, between Sir Robert Plumpton and
49. Resolves on a journey northward, to do his mother for her board for a year, xxvii.
execution on his enemies, 50. At Lincoln, Of receipt of legacies from executors, xxix.
51. Met by the Earl of Northumberland Between the Duke of Bedford and Sir Ro-
with the knights bis fee'dmen, xcvi. Letter bert Plumpton, by way of retainer of services
from, to Sir Robert Plumpton, to thank him as a fee'dman, xlii s. Between Sir Robert
for his diligence in quelling the insurrection, Plumpton and John de Pancesbery, for same,
xcvii. Four servants of the King hanged at as a man at arms, xlviº Between the same
the Tower-hill, 87. Letter from, to Sir and John Fleetham and others, as archers,
Robert Plumpton, thanking him for his ser xlviii. Between the Earl of Westmorland,
vices in a new commotion, with instructions Sir John Nevill and another, and Sir Wil-
for his future demeanour, 96a. Notice of liam Plympton, to settle terms of an arbi-
bis expedition into France, 102, 265. Com tration, 41. Between the same and William
mands the attendance of the Judges and Gascoigne, esq. in contemplation of a mar-
Serjeants at Richmond, 161. Petition of riage, lxxix. Between the same and Richard
Sir Robert Plumpton to, cxi. Makes him! Hamerton, esq. for settlement of property
a knight of his body, and grants him letters in tail male in contemplation of the same,
of protection, cxii. Letters of, for William lxxxiv. Between Sir William Gascoigne and
Plumpton, son of the same, to enjoy the Edmund Pierpoint, Escheator, to find an
lordships of Plumpton and Idle, cxiii. Con office and impanel such jury as the former
tinues to favour Sir Robert Plumpton, cxiii. should specify, lxxxvii. Between Sir Ro.
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·bert Plumpton and William Babthorpe, in, Kinalton, descent of the manor, xxviiik. . A-
contemplation of a marriage, and for settle greement between Sir Robert Plumpton and
ment of property, xcix. Between the same his tenant at, for board and lodging for him-
and William Plumpton, his son and heir, for self and his servants, and provender for their
the ordering of their domestic economy, horses twice in the year, 1604.
cxxiii. Between the same, and Serjeant | Kingsmill, Serjeant, legal opinion of, 132.
Yaxley for his fee as Counsel, 1521.
His character as an advocate, 134. His
Indulgence, form of the, granted in aid of an coming down in a cause costly, 135.
expedition in defence of the Isle of Rhodes Kirkby Malserd, office of Chief Warden and
at the time of the famous siege, 118°
Master of the chace and warren of, and Nid-
Inquisitio post mortem, instance of the real | derdale, granted for life to Sir William
date of an, being at variance with the regnal Plumpton, lxvi.
year inscribed on the bundle, xvii.&
Kirkstall, Letter from Thomas (Wymbersley)
Insurrection, of Archbishop Scrope, xxii. Abbot of, to Sir Robert Plumpton, his gos-
Translation of the narrative of Polydore Ver sip, to recommend, 62. From William
gil, his partiality, xxiv. Of the commons Abbot of, to the same, refusing to lend
of Yorkshire in the reign of Henry VII. money, 183. Estimated value of, and Ar-
xcvii, 265. Of the same in the west part of thington nunnery, and of the woods, when
the country in the same reign, xcvüi, 95, in the hands of Archbishop Cranmer, 246.
265.
Knaresborough, formation of forest of, iii.
Intrusion, suit for, 217.
Early history of the Honour of, xi. Granted
Joddopkan, Letter from William, to old Lady to William Stuteville, xii. Charter of ease-
Plumpton, concerning his duty or debt, 41. ments in the forest of, granted by same to
Johnson, John, of York, Letter from, to Sir Sir William Plumpton, xiv. Honour of, in
William Plumpton for venison for a feast to the custody of Hubert Archbishop of Can-
celebrate the saying of his first mass by a terbury, xv. Baron de l'Isle, constable of
priest, 29. Letter from George, clerk, to the castle of, xvi. Honour of, granted by
Mr. Robert Plumpton, on business as his Henry III. to Hubert de Burgh and his
steward at Waterton, 237.
wife, xvi. Conferred by same upon the
Jointure and dower, may be surrendered by in Earl of Cornwall, ibid. Agreement between
denture, 47.
Edmund Earl of Cornwall and Sir Robert
Jurors, on an assize, to be solicited privately de Plumpton, concerning the easements to
for their verdict, 131, 132, 160. Or not to be enjoyed by the latter in the forest of,
appear, ibid. 134, 161. To be challenged if xviii. Honour of, given by Edward III. to
sybb, i. e. of kin to the parties, 134. Co John of Gaunt, and made parcel of the
roners to be laboured to return an indiffer Duchy of Lancaster, liv. Sir Robert Plump-
ent panel of, 141. Names. of, challenged on ton, Lieutenant of the Master Forester of,
a trial 18 Hen. VII. cix.
and Constable of the castle of, xxiiy. Se-
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neschal of the Honour of, xlii, xlix. Stew- | Lambton, Percival, Attorney-general of Rich-
ard of the Forest of, xlv. Sir William ard Fox, Bishop of Durham, Lord Privy
Plumpton, Seneschal and Master Forester Seal, Letter from, to Sir Robert Plumpton,
of the Honour and Forest of, Constable for concerning the measures taken to avoid his
life of the castle of, liii, 24, 31%. Tenants appearance by Privy Seal, 115.
of the forest of, make affray with the men | Lancaster, Duchy of, in the North Parts,
of the Archbishop of York of the Lordship Knaresborough parcel of, liv. Seneschals,
of Ripon, lv. With the men of Otley, lvii. Sir Godfrey Foljambe, xxviii. John de la
Marriage of Sir William Plumpton in the Pole, xxii & Sir Roger Leche, xlii. William
parish church of, lxxvi. Letter from John de la Pole, Earl of Suffolk, liiik. Richard
Felton, groom of the Chamber, and John Harpur receiver-general of the rents of,
Ward, groom of the Ewry, to Sir William 70 a.
Plumpton, Custos of the castle of, to re.. Lee, Sir Alexander, rector of Spofforth, at va-
commend, 24. Office of Bailiff of the riance for his dues with Sir Robert Plump-
Burgh of, with the farm of certain mills ton, 52, 105. Notice of his warning Edward
there, leased to Sir William Plumpton by the IV. of an enterprise against his person,
Duke of Gloucester, 26. The Earl of North ibid. 2.
umberland has the chief rule at, 31. Stew Leventhorpe, Nicholas, Receiver of the Ho-
ard, Constable, and Master Forester of, ib. b. nours of Pontefract and Knaresborough, 884.
William Gascoigne an officer at, 32, 34. Sir Robert, Letter from, to Sir Robert Plump-
Robert Plumpton an officer at, 55, 796, 81, ton, advising him of a devotional remedy
83, 86. John Fawkes, Steward of the forest against the plague, 138.
of, 78. Sir Henry Wentworth, the King's Lilleshull, Abbot of, Three Letters from the,
Lieutenant at Knaresborough, 94. His de to Sir Robert Plumpton, respecting the
parture forbidden by the King, 95. Nicho. Į manor of Arkendale, and his conduct as
las Leventhorp, receiver of the Honour of, Steward for his House, 63, 64, 65.
884, House of St. Robert of, xix. John | Lister, Sir Robert, chaplain to Sir William
Craven, Robert Boulton, Robert Teske, Mi Plumpton, his evidence, lxxiv. Thomas,
nisters of the same, xxxiii, 22 %, cxxii. Freres Letter from, to Sir Robert Plumpton, to de-
of the same indicted and outlawed at the precate the suit against his host at York,
suit of Sir William Plumpton, 9. Bequests
of Sir Robert Plumpton to the same, cxxv. London, papers of 13. Skinner of, beheaded,
Wintringham Hall in, 152e, cxxxiii. Plump 19. St. Sepulchre church without Newgate,
ton's quyer in the church of, 152, Arms 53. Furnyvalls Inn in Olborn, 124. Cle-
in painted glass in the same, ibid.
ments Inn, 128. Lincolns Inn, 132. The
Kuyes, deles of the, i. e. salted carcasses of Tyburne, 142. The Angell behind St. Cle-
Kyloes, Anglicè for martisouns en Kuyles, ment Kirk without the Temple barr, 172.
XXX.
Inner Temple, 234. Middle Temple, 13.
133.
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75%.
Maidstone, Clement, his recital of a miracle, John Nevill, Earl of Northumberland, 25.
: on the authority of George Plumpton, xxv. Two Letters from Sir Halnath, Knight of
Maintenance, charge of, against Sir William Rhodes, to Sir Robert Plumpton and others,
Plumpton, with the saying of Guy Fairfax respecting his brother's will and the affairs
thereupon, 35. Against Sir Richard Empson, of his family, 46, 47.
on the part of Sir Robert Plumpton, cxi. Mense Pasche, the term explained, 262.
Manor, taken with the, phrase explained, 262. Middelton, Thomas, Letter from, to Sir Wil-
Malton, William Eleson keeper of the courts ·liam Plumpton respecting an order of the
of the Lord Clifford at, 135.
Lord Chancellor, and with the names of the
Markenfield, William, Letter from, to Sir Ro new Sheriffs, &c. 17. His epitaph in rhyme,
bert Plumpton, to solicit on behalf of a
poor neighbour, wronged by his servants, Moore, John, Letter from, to Sir Robert
103.
Plumpton, in favour of a tenant of Spof-
Marriage, abstracts of covenants of, Robert ford, 77.
de Plumpton and Alice Foljambe, xxviih. | Morvill, Hugh de, the murderer of St. Thomas
Stephen de Thorp and Isabella Plumpton, 1 à Becket, custos of Knaresborough, xii*.
xlii. Sir William Plumpton and Elizabeth
Stapleton, xliii. William Slingsby and Joan Nevill, Edith Lady, Letter from, to her daugh-
Plumpton, xlvii. Robert Plumpton and Eli ter Lady Plumpton, condoling with her on
zabeth Clifford, lxii. John Rocliffe and her own and her husband's misfortunes, 196.
Margaret Plumpton, lxx. John Sotehill Note of her birth, alliances, and issue, 1979.
and Elizabeth Plumpton, Lxxi. Thomas Dorothy Plumpton in her service at Hyrst,
Rosse and Joan Plumpton, lxxxiii u. 260. 202. Note of the discrepancies of accre.
Thomas Middelton and same, lxxxiii. Wil.
dited genealogists respecting her, 203). Or-
liam Beckwith and Elizabeth Plumpton, der of her interment, 268. Sir Robert,
ibid. Sir Richard Aldburgh and Agnes Letter from, to William Plumpton, esq. on
Plumpton, lxxxiii. William Plumpton and affairs connected with the death of Sir Ro-
Isabell Babthorpe, xcix. Robert Plumpton bert Sheffield, 230.
and Ellen Clifford, cxxix. Griffin Markham Newburgh, Prior of, Letter from the, to Sir Ro-
and Ellen Plumpton, cxxxi. William Plump. bert Plumpton, to forego his displeasure, 60.
ton and Ann Griffin, cxxxii. Sir Edward Two Letters from the Cellerer of, to the
Plumpton and Frances Arthington, cxxxv. same, concerning lands belonging to the
John Plumpton and Anne Towneley, cxxxvi. House in his neighbourhood, 67, 68. Two
Evidence of witnesses to the solemnization Letters from Canons of, to the same. See
of, lxiii. Same, when clandestine, lxxvi. Catton, Thorp.
See Bans, Faculty, Indenture.
Newport, son of Dame Ann Rokeby, 228. Epi-
Mauleverer, Sir John, at variance with Sir taphs of the family of, in Boynton church, ib.
William Plumpton, 23. An officer under Nomen Jesu, feast of, with octave, 130.
CAMD, soc. 4.
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Norfolk, two gentlemen of the Duke of, be- ! at Tbirsk, with such array as he could mus-
headed, 10.
ter, 61. To the same, requiring him to for-
Normanvill, William, Under-sheriff to Sir bear the pursuit of his quarrel with Sir Wil-
Ralph Ryther, Letter from, to Lady Plump liam Beckwith, 72. To the same, to com-
ton, to notify the liberation of a tenant, 185. mand his attendance, 73 bis. To the same,
Northumberland, Henry Percy, Earl of, guar to aid Mary Gascoigne in her right of inhe-
dian of Sir Robert Plumpton, Letter from, ritance, 74. To the same, giving directions
to the bailiff of his sister Lady Clifford to dis respecting his park at Spofford, 74. To the
train, l. Notice of an inroad made by, into same, respecting persons hunting therein,
Scotland, lxxiv. John Nevill, Earl of, Lord 75. To the same, to reconcile differences be-
Montague, and Warden of the East Marches, tween two tenants of the same lordship, 76.
Letter from, to Sir John Mauleverer, to re To the same, concerning William Aldbo-
strain certain partisans from injuring Sir rough and others, for their committal to the
William Plumpton and his servants, 25. castle of Knaresborough, 81. To the same,
Henry Percy, Earl of, influence of, in the in reproof for releasing a prisoner under his
North, lxxv. Letters from, to Sir William ward in the castle of Knaresborough, at the
Plumpton, to solicit the office of bailiff of request of Sir Thomas Wortley, 86. To the
Sessay for his servant, 26. To the same, to same, to cause a buck of season to be taken
interpose on behalf of a kinswoman, 27. To in the Forest of Knaresborough, for the use
the same, to forbear a quarrel till he came of the Mayor of York and his brethren,
into the country, 28. To William Gascoigne, ibid. To the same, to send him running
esq. his brother-in-law, to deliver a prisoner hounds and a tame hart, 106. To the same,
in the castle of Knaresborough, 34. To to withdraw his claim to land belonging to
Robert Plumpton, esq. for a muster against the rector of Spofford, 201. To William
the Scots, 39. To the same, to command Plumpton, esq. concerning the right of the
his attendance, 42 bis. Meets the King with Prior of Helagh to a wood in the township of
38 knights, his fee'd men, xcvi. Letters Little Ribston, 226,
from, to Sir William Ingleby, Sir Robert
Plumpton, and others, to be ready upon an Opinion, copy of Counsel's, 195.
hour's warning, 53. To Sir Robert Plump Otley, riotous proceedings at the fair there, lvii.
ton, to cause certain parties at variance to Otters, numerous, in Yorkshire, 248.
come to him at York, 45. To the same, to | Oughtred, Jane, labour made to the Earl of
commit to ward in the castle of Knares Northumberland, for her marriage with a
borough persons within bis office who son of Sir John Rocliffe, 175.
were at the battle of Stoke, or harboured Oxford, Earl of, committed to the Tower, 19.
rebels, 54. To the same, to excuse him Makes confession, and denounces his accom-
from riding with him to a day of truce, 36. plices, 20. Keeps his Easter at Lavenham,
To the same, to summon him to rendezvous 51. In Essex, 54.
INDEX.
283
Pakenham (Pagnam, Pakham), Hugh, Letter
from, to Sir William Plumpton, to make offer
of his services, and to counsel him respecting
the excuse to be made to Mrs. F. S. touching
the proffer of her hand, 14.
Parliament (1 Hen. VII.), prorogation of, 48.
Act of, for resumption of grants, 49. To make
it felony to hunt in parks, or to make any
manner of prophecies, 50.
Percy, Norman origin of the family of, x. Ar-
morial bearings of, assumed by the family of
Plumpton, with difference, xix. Henry Lord,
Letter from, to William Plumpton, esq. re-
specting a claim of customary right in the
Lordship of Spofford, 225.
Physician, Letter from Master Anthony, a, to
Sir Robert Plumpton, to save him from
arrest, 78. Thomas Bill, one of the Physi-
cians of King Edward VI., has the ward-
ship of William Plumpton, cxxviii.
Pigot, Sir Randolph. See Haveray Park.
Plague at Plumpton, 138.
Pleadings, care requisite in drawing up, 23.
Foreign pleas inadmissible, 30. Copy of
replication, 101. Copy of declaration, ciii.
Pledges, in the hands of the abbot of Kirkstall,
like to be disposed of, 184.
Plumpton, modern topography, ix. Etymo.
logy, ib. Early history of, and its lords,
ix. et seq. Seneschal of, his feoffment, xiii.
Manor-place or Hall at, lxxxvi. Fortified as
in time of war, cxii. Lower Tower in, cxxxvi.
Sold to Daniel Lascelles, esq. and pulled
down, cxxxviii.
Plumpton Quire, in Spofforth church, tomb
in, xxxii. William Plumpton wills to be
buried there, cxxxiii. Monument remaining
there, cxxxivP. In Knaresborough church,
152 e. See Knaresborough.
Plumpton, Nigel de, a knight of the Honour of
Percy, his seal, xii. His grant to Robert,
son of Huckeman, xjii. Compounds for his
brother's release and restoration to his wife and
lands, xi*. A grant to him of easements and
right of chace in the forest of Knaresborough,
xvi*, Gilbert de, arrested and condemned
to execution by Ranulph de Glanvile, is res-
cued by the Bishop of Worcester, xvi. et seq.
Had property in Richmondshire in right of
his wife, and was a benefactor to Marrick
priory, 270. Peter de, one of the party of
the Barons against King John, xvi*. Nigel
de, Inquisitio post mortem of, xvii. Robert
de, his agreement with the Earl of Cornwall
for his easements in the forest, xviii. His
seal and arms, xix. Cecilia de, heiress of the
seneschals of Plumpton, descent of her in-
heritance, xx, xxiv. Sir William de, his seal
and arms, xxi. Sir Robert de, a deponent in
the Scrope and Grosvenor Controversy, xxii.
Obtains leave to return from the King's ser-
vice by reason of illness, xxiii. Sir William
de, notice of the part he had in Archbishop
Scrope's insurrection, xxiv. His epitaph,
xxv. Robert de, marries the heiress of Fol-
jambe, xxvi. Lodges and boards his mother
and her children, xxvii. Alice de, her will,
xxxi. Her epitaph, xxxii. Isabella de, her
epitaph, xxxii?. Richard de, his will, xxxii.
George de, in holy orders, has a faculty to
hear reserved cases in confession, XXXV. His
will, xxxvii. Retires to Bolton abbey, xxxviii.
Sir Robert, a fee'd-man of the Duke of Bed-
ford, xlii. In the expedition to France, xlvi.
Tradition that he was slain there, xlix. His
epitaph, ib. His issue, ib. Sir William, his
birth and marriage, xliii. Left a minor, 1.
Sets out for the wars of France, ib.
DO
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INDEX.
Commissioner of array, lii. Justice and
Steward of the Lordship of Knaresborough,
lv. Takes part in a bloody affray between
the men of the forest and the tenants of the
Archbishop of York, ibid. et seq. Marries a
second wife clandestinely, lxiv. His public
career, lxv. At the battle of Towton on the
Lancastrian side, lxvii. Obtains the protec-
tion of Edward IV. lxviii. A prisoner in
the Tower, ibid. Tried before the Great
Constable of England on a false charge of
treason, and acquitter, lxix. Restored to his
ofices and employments, lxx. Marries his
grand-daughters and heirs apparent to Ro-
cliff and Sotehill, ibid. Is brought before
the official of York for fornication, lxxiii.
Makes known his marriage, lxxiv. Adduces
legal proof of its solemnization, lxxvii. Set-
tles all his lands on his son by the second
venter, lxxviii. His death, lxxxi. His issue,
ibid. His character, lxxxy. His Corres-
pondence, 1 et seq. Robert, eldest son of
Sir William Plumpton, settlement on his
marriage, lxiii. Evidence of its solemniza-
tion, ibid. William, married to his brother's
widow, lxiv. Slain at the battle of Towton,
Ixvii. Sir Robert, found heir in tail to his
father, Sir William Plumpton, lxxxviii. His
disposition in favour of his mother and wife,
Ixxxix. Submits the matters in dispute with the
heirs general to award, ibid. His public career,
xcvi. Receives the thanks of King Henry
VII. for his service in suppressing the insur-
rection of the Commons of Yorkshire, xcvii.
Present at the battle of Ackworth, xcix. Has
a second letter of thanks from King Henry
for his good service, ibid. 96. Is threatened
with proceedings in law in the title of the
heirs-general by the notorious Empson, cii.
120. Verdict found against him on trial by
assize at Nottingham and York, cvi et seq.
Letter from, to Dame Agnes Plumpton, his
wife, to look to the safe keeping and stocking
of his place of Plumpton, cx. Petitions the
King to have protection for a year, cxi. Is
made a knight of the King's body, and ex-
empted froin process, cxii. Letter from, to
his wife, to send him money, and with news
of the disposition of the King and his cour-
tiers towards him, cxiii. Marries a second
wife, cxiv. Is reduced to poverty by his
suits, cxvii. Confined for debt in the Coun-
ter in the Poultry, cxviii. Submits to an
awarı, ibid. Is confirmed in the posses-
sion of Plumpton, cxxii. Resigns the ma-
nagement of his household to his son, cxxiii.
His will, cxxy. His Correspondence, 40, 264.
Edward, secretary to Lord Strange, Letters
from, to Sir Robert Plumpton, with offers of
service, and to inform him of the desire of
his adversaries to proceed in the settlement
of their claims, 43. To the same, to excuse
his not sending before, by reason of the
trouble in the country at the time of the
Duke of Buckingham's rising against Ri-
chard III. 44. To the same, respecting the
application of William Plumpton, a bastard
son of Sir William Plumpton, for Haveray
Park, and with news of the movements of
the court, 50. To the same, to inform him of
his having communicated with Sir Richard
Tunstall, 59. To the same, with news from
London, and touching the renewal of leases
in the honour of Knaresborough by the
Chancellor, 87. To the same, to recom-
mend a servant, 89. To the same, upon
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legal matters, 90. To the same, on legal
business, and with news of Lord Strange and
the Earl of Northumberland, 92. To the same,
respecting the lease of Haveray Park, and to
defend himself against the accusation of
William Plumpton, the bastard, 93. To
the same, with the King's commands not to
suffer Sir Henry Wentworth to depart from
his country, &c. 95. To the same, respect-
ing the grant of Haveray Park, and William
Plumpton's feoffment, 97. To the same,
touching an office to be found by the Sheriff
of Nottinghamshire, 99. To the same, con-
cerning an exchange of land, 100. To the
same, with copy of a replication in Chan-
cery, and notice of other legal process, 101.
To the same, concerning the letting of a
Privy Seal, &c. 112. To the same, that he
spoke not with the Bishop of Carlisle, &c.
113. To the same, of the matter of the
Privy Seal; counsels him to see and ride a
mile or two with “my Lord Privy Seal, when
he comes into his country," 116. To the same,
to assure him of the report being rife that
Mr. Empson intended to attempt matters
against him in the title of the heirs-general,
120. To the same, of a widow gentlewoman
he purposed to marry, with request to make a
settlement for her jointure, 123. To the
same, repeating his request, 124. To the
same, to make a grant so as to blind the
friends of the lady, promising to release after
marriage ; suggests that Lady Plumpton
should send a token by their messenger and
give bim honourable entertainment for the
same purpose, 126. To the same, of the
state of the manor of Sacomb, 128. From
the same, to. Dame Jane Plumpton, con-
cerning the farm of the mill at Knares-
borough, 70. Robert Plumpton, senior, bas-
tard son of Sir William Plumpton, Letter
from, to his father, on legal business, and
with particulars of purchases made for him
in London ; complains of the delay of the
match between his brother Robert and the
sister of Mr. Gascoigne, 36. From the
same, to Sir Robert Plumpton, respecting
rent in arrear, 154. To the same, shewing
him the disposition of his tenants in Derby-
shire, and urging his presence with twenty
horsemen and some sure friends, 156. To
the same, with intelligence of the proceedings
and designs of bis legal adversaries, &c. 172.
To Sir Robert Plumpton, Knight of the
King's body, to request deliverance of a deed
in his custody, 182. Sir Richard, chaplain,
Letter from, to Sir Robert Plumpton, with
an account of his labours to procure a
favourable panel on the assize, 158. Informs
Lady Plumpton of the purpose of the adver-
saries not to press their suit to the King, and
meanwhile to impoverish her husband, and
all that take his part, cxiv. Dame Agnes,
Letter from, to Sir Robert Plumpton, de-
tailing the proceedings against the refractory
tenants at Plumpton, 167. To the same,
informing him of the interference of the
Archbishop of York on behalf of the tenants,
170. To the same, with a remittance of
money, letting him know that his son and
sixteen of his servants were indicted at the
instance of the Archbishop of York, 171.
To the same, in answer to an application for
money, 184. To the same, of the proceed-
ings against the tenants and servants of
Plumpton by the adversaries, 186. To the
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same, to ascertain him of acts of ownership |
on the part of the heirs-general, 188. To
Sir Thomas Everingham, to come to her, 172.
To Sir Richard Plumpton, chaplain, to write
in her name to the Lord Darcy to stop legal
process, and on other matters, 187. Dame
Isabell, Letter from, to Sir Robert Plump-
ton, declaring her inability to procure money,
and pressing him to make an end; complains
of being left destitute, and avows that they
are reduced to beggary, 198. William, esq.
contracted to marry Isabell Babthorpe, xcix.
Has a law suit with William Babthorpe, 141.
Letter from, to his father, for instructions,
and touching the defence of Plumpton manor,
&c. 176. To the same, respecting his suit
with Babthorpe, 221. Has a Precept to en-
joy the Lordships of Plumpton and Idle,
cxiv. Joins in a bond with his father to
perform award of the Bishop of Winchester
and others, cxix. 210. The manor of Plump-
ton settled upon him in tail male, cxxiii.
His Correspondence, 222. Letter from, to
his son Robert, to help the bearer in some
legal business, and with other instructions,
234. His will, cxxvii. Robert, Letter from,
to his mother, to thank her for sending money,
and to beg her to move Lady Gascoigne to
write to her brother Lord Latimer to admit
him of his household; strongly urges her to
read the Scriptures, 231. To the same, with a
religious exhortation to read the Scriptures,
233. His Correspondence, 234. Dorothy,
Letter from, to her father Sir Robert Plump-
ton to send for her to come home from Hyrst,
202. Mrs. Isabell, has a grant of the ward-
ship of her grandson, cxxviii. Her Corres-
pondence, 218, 231, 233, 241, 252, et seq.
William, esq. one of the Catholic refugees in
Flanders after the Northern Rebellion,
cxxxii. His will, cxxxiii. Sir Edward,
transcriber of the family Evidences and Let-
ters, cxxxv. Amount of debts contracted
by himself and son in the Civil Wars, cxxxvii.
His estate sequestered, cxxxviii. John, captain
in the royal army, dies of wounds received
at the Battle of Marston-moor, cxxxvii.
Robert, the last heir male of the family, con-
forms to Protestantism, but dies in the profes-
sion of the Catholic faith at Cambray,
cxxxviii. Pedigree of, in face of page ix.
Pole, German, Letter from, to his father, Sir
Robert Plumpton, with an account of his
visit to Thornton-bridge; notice of the plague
being at Plumpton, 138. To the same, de-
siring to hear of his speed in his matters, 166.
To the same, respecting land not reckoned
in the verdict given at the Assizes at Notting-
ham and Derby lying in Staffordshire; in-
forms him of the unkindness of his grandam,
179. To the same, to congratulate him on
obtaining the King's protection royal, &c.
180. To the same, touching the proposals
of Ralph Mainwaring to marry Eleanor
Plumpton, 192. To the same, concerning
same parties, 193. To the same, to make sure
means for his peaceable enjoyment of lands
bought at Combridge, 211. To the same,
respecting same matter, 213. Elizabeth de,
Letter from, to Sir Robert Plumpton, with
an earnest prayer that he may withstand the
enmity of Mr. Empson, and respecting
family affairs, 162. To the same, de-
clining to reside with her son at Radburn,
&c. 190. Mrs. Ann, Letter from, to Mrs.
Isabell Plumpton, to thank her for kind-
ness to her son, 258.
· INDEX.
287
Pont de Burc, homines de, xiii.
· account as Sheriff at the Exchequer, 2. To
Prices, sheep, 21. Beans, barley, wheat, 237. the same, on legal business, 5. To the same,
Privy-seals, writs of, easy of procurement, 7. respecting the appointment of Thomas Beck-
Act concerning them, 112. Bill of all, to be with to be Escheator, &c. 6. Purchases the
delivered into the Star-chamber, 217.
marriage of one of the cousins and heirs ap-
Privy-Council, Act for, to inspect all the King's parent of Sir William Plumpton, lxx. Let-
grants, 35.
ter from, to the same, on legal business,
Protection Royal, grant of Letters of, not to be and in reply to a letter mentioning his being
derogatory to justice, 176.
freed from restraint; makes allusion to the
Pullan (Pulleyne), John, Letter from, to Sir matches with Ros and Goldsborough, &c. 7.
Robert Plumpton, on legal business, 132. To the same, on money matters ; observes
To the same, on similar matters, and with de on his own practice of not borrowing on
tails of the trials of Perkin Warbeck and papers of London, and on the double cost of
the Earl of Warwick, 141. To the same, having his son at court, 12. His tomb, 88.
concerning the underhand dealing of Emp Margaret, Lady, birth of, lxiv. Contracted
son, and with advice how to act, and the to marry the son of Bryan Rocliff, lxx. Her
names of his counsellors, 150. To the same, feoffment, lxxi. Brought up at Cowthorpe, 8,
to warn him that his adversaries intend surely 261. Sir John, notice of his dispute with the
to attempt the Law against him, &c. 153. heir-male of the family of Plumpton as claim-
To the same, respecting the making of a writ ant in right of his wife, the heir general, lxxx,
of error, &c. 165. To Sir Richard Plumpton, lxxxix et seq. ciii et seq. cxix et seq. 155
chaplain, with the office for two feasts, and et seq. His son designed to be married to
advising him of legal business, 130.
Jane Oughtred, 175. Presents to the Chan-
Pycard (Pichard), Robert, rector of Spofforth, try of the Holy Trinity at Ripon, cxxvi.
Letter from, to Sir Robert Plumpton, to de Dame Ann, wife of Sir Ingram Clifford, heiress
sist from a claim to land of his glebe, 200. of the family of, cxxix. Projected match be-
tween their daughter Ellen and Robert Plump-
Ragman, explanation of word, 1686.
ton prevented by the death of the parties,cxxx.
Richard III., copy of an award of, xc Rodeburne, blessed Rode of, 179.
et seq. Notice of same, 122. Attainted with Rokeby, Dame Ann, genealogical note respect-
his adherents in Parliament; their names, ing, 2279. Her Correspondence, ibid.
48.
Roos, B. Letter from, to Lady Plumpton, the
Ripon, kept like a town of war in fair-time, elder, for money lent, 72.
liv.
Rose, Maud, Letter from, to Sir Robert Plump-
Risby church, note concerning, 227.
ton, for money lent, 171.
Rocliff, Bryan, third Baron of the Exchequer, | Rowkshaw, William, priest at Watton, Letter
of counsel for Sir William Plumpton ; Letter from, to Sir Robert Plumpton, on behalf of a
from, to the same, touching the passing his kinsman owing suit of court, 83.
288
INDEX.
Ryther, Sir Ralph, Letter from, to Sir Robert 248. To the same, with his reasons for
Plumpton, to ask for rabbits to stock his breaking off the proposed match, 248. To
ground at Ryther, 106. Sheriff of Yorkshire, the same, to urge him to send his excuse to
185.
the Lord Lieutenant, should his sickness
continue, 250. To the same, to come and
Sacomb, note of the descent of the manor of, hunt with him at Tankersley, and of a meeting
128.
for cocking at Sheffield, 250. Robert, Letter
Sailors not able to continue at sea during cold from, to the same, sending him money, and
weather, 248.
refusing to take a bond, 251.
St. Andrew, John, Letter from, to Sir Robert Scrope, John, Lord, of Masham, Treasurer of
Plumpton, concerning the offers made for his
England, Letter from, to Sir William Plump-
son's marriage, 137.
ton on behalf of George Plumpton, touching
St. Elline day, feast of the Invention of the his annuity, xxxvi. Reception of Mrs. Chad-
Cross, so called, 71, 160 d.
derton at the house of same upon a visit to
St. Jago de Compostella, notice of an Indul see his lady, xxxix.
gence for rebuilding the Hospital of, 151 e.
Scrope and Grosvenor Controversy, Sir Robert
St. John, Clerkenwell, Sir Robert Multon, 1 Plumpton a deponent in the, xxi.
sometime Prior of, xcvi. Warden of the Scriptures. See Plumpton.
East and Middle Marches, xcvii”. Letter Scots, Northumberland invaded by the, 39.
from Sir John Kendal, prior of, to Sir Robert
Scutage, appointment of, according to the wain-
Plumpton, to thank him for the favour shewn age in Plumpton, xiv et seq.
to his nephew, 117. Details respecting him,
ails respecting him, | Shepe silver, 21.
118. Prior of, sits as one of the Peers upon Sheriffs, notice of the three names for, in the
the arraignment of the Earl of Warwick, 143. bill sent to the King from the Exchequer in
Premier Baron of Parliament, 267.
Michaelmas Term, 17, 146.
St. Oswald, an annual fast on the eve of, a | Sheriff's Tourn, court of, at Knaresborough,
cure for the plague, 138.
- 32.
Sanderson, William, bailiff, Letter from, to Sir Sherman to dight cloth, 36.
Robert Plumpton, how Sir John Rocliff and Shrewsbury, Letter from George, Earl of, to
Mr. Anthony Clifford treated him, to force Sir Robert Plumpton, to do right to Dame
him to pay them rent, 157.
Joyce Percy touching her jointure in Arken-
Savill, Sir Henry, Letter from, to William den, 263.
Plumpton, esq. with the valuation of Kirk Sotehill, Henry, Attorney-general, of counsel
stall and Arthington, and the rental, from for Sir William Plumpton, purchases the
aboard his ship at Tynemouth, 246. To the marriage of one of the cousins and heirs
same, to invite him to hunt with him, and of apparent of same, lxxi. Notice of, in the
another matter, viz. the marriage of his Correspondence, 8, 10°, 19 a*, 23. Elizabeth
bastard son, 247. Postscript of London news, Lady, delivered when an infant, to Henry
INDEX.
289
· Sotehill, to be married to his son and heir, 1 the King to certify to him the number of
lxxi. Sir John, notice of his dispute with retainers of assured faith, 97.
the heir-male, lxxxix et seq. Note of his Swale, John, of Staynley, Letter from, to Sir
death, his monument, 121°. Dame Elizabeth Robert Plumpton, to recommend, 107.
revives the claim to the estates of the Plump-
ton family in her widowhood, ciii et seq. Taylor, John, Letter from, servant to Sir John
121 et seq. Marries her son to a daughter Hastings, to. Sir Robert Plumpton, to ar-
of Sir Richard Empson, cvi. Her death, range for their meeting at Pontefract, 136.
inquisition thereupon, cxvi. Henry, note of Testimony of a rector to the publication of
his death and place of burial, his issue heirs to bans of marriage, lxxxi'. Of the citizens of
their grandmother, cxvii. His widow re York to the worth and honesty of a chap-
'marries Sir William Pierpoint, cxix. Joan man, xlv. Of certain aged persons to the
and Elizabeth, heirs general of Plumpton, solemnization of marriage, lxiv. Of Lord
agree to submit to an award through their Clifford to the contents of a deed of feoff-
guardians, ibid. Note of their marriages and ment, lxv.
· descendants, 208 b.
Thorp, Dame Isabel, her domestic misery,
Soule-mass-day, 80, 164.
xxxix. Sir Thomas, Canon of Newburgh,
Spofford, Steward of the Lordship of, 26.
Letter from, to Sir Robert Plumpton, to re-
Stanton, Letter to Sir Robert Plumpton con commend, 67.
cerning the Lordship of, 111.
Through (thruf], one brought for a tombstone,
Steward, Deed of Sir William Plumpton ap 229.
· pointing his brother-in-law John Grene his, Tison, Norman origin of the family of, x.
Lx.
Tomlinson, John, servant of Sir Richard Ald-
Strange, Lord, prepares to march against the borough, Letter from, to Sir Robert Plump-
Duke of Buckingham, 44. Keeps the feast ton, to appoint an award, 85.
of Easter at Lavenham and repairs from Tong, Sir John, Commander of Rybston and
thence to the King at Lincoln, 51, 263. and Mount St. John's, Letter from, to his
Keeps a great Christmas at Latham, 88.
father, Sir. Robert Plumpton, to thank him
Strey, T., Letter from, to Sir Robert Plump-
for his kind dealing in his absence, 119.
ton, respecting a panel returned by the co Note concerning him, 120.
roners on a writ of attaint, 181.
Towneley, Sir John, Letter from, to Sir Ro-
Stutevile, his grant, 36, see Knaresborough. bert Plumpton concerning the death of his
Surrey, Earl of, established in the North Parts, kinsmad, mischievously made away with,
xcviii, 958. Inscribed memorial of his acts 164. .
on his tomb at Thetford, extract there Treason, heads of charge made against Sir Wil.
from, 265. Letter from him, to Sir Robert liam Plumpton, lxix. .
Plumpton, respecting a gelding lost on the | Treasurer, and Barons of the Exchequer, 2.
field of Ackworth, 96. Instructions from Of York Cathedral, 14.
CAMD. Soc. 4.
290
INDEX.
Tresham, Sir Thomas, committed to the Tower, bury, Great Chamberlain of England and
on the confession of the Earl of Oxford, 20. Captain of Calais, to Sir William Plumpton,
Tunstall, Sir Richard, established by Henry to suffer occupancy of land claimed till time
VII, in the North Parts, xcviii. Steward of of an award, 16. With the King at London,
the Honour of Pontefract, 52 C. Letter from, 17. Earl of, notice of the trial of the, with
to Sir Robert Plumpton, respecting a bond the names of the Peers who sat in judgment,
man claimed by the latter, 55. To the same, 142.
respecting the non-attendance of William Went-brig, Session of Justices at, 113.
Scargill upon his summons, requiring obe Westmorland, Ralph Earl of, has a dispute
dience, 60.
with Sir William Plumpton concerning land,
Twisleton, Christopher, Letter from, to Mr. li. Ralph, Earl of, dies for grief at the loss
Plumpton, respecting rights in Waterton, of his son, in the reign of Henry VII. cxvh.
245.
Winter, severe, 89, 90.
Wittcars, William, Letter from, to Sir Robert
Venison, asked for, to celebrate the saying of Plumpton, or else to Master William his
his first mass by a priest, 28. Sent by. Sir son, on behalf of a poor woman got with
Robert Plumpton to the Cellarer of New child, 109.
burgh, 67.
Wolf-hunt-land in the forest of Shirwood, suit
Vesci, Ivo de, had the fee of Tison in Plump respecting it, 91, 92, 147.
ton, note concerning him, x,
Woodriff, William, Letter from, to Mr. Plump-
Virgil, Polydore, his value as an historian, ton, concerning leases under the Court of
xxii. Translation of his narrative of Arch Wards during the minority of the heir, 253.
bishop Scrope's insurrection, xxiv. Its fal To the same, to inform her of his wife being
sity, xxv.
near her time and of his own sickness, &c.
Visitation of Yorkshire, earliest Plumpton deed 254.
copied in the, xii.
Wool, packed, shipped, and weighed, 20.
Weight, stone, and counterpoise, 21.
Walker, John, Letter from, to Sir Robert Worcester, Baldwin Bishop of, instrumental
Plumpton, to assist his mother in her right, in saving Gilbert de Plumpton from execu-
109.
tion, ix. Earl of, Lord Tiptoft and of Powis,
Warbeck, Perkin, notice of the trial and judg Great Constable of England, Sir William
ment of, 141. Of the arraignment of his Plumpton tried before him at Hounslow and
confederates, 142.
acquitted ; his warrant in that behalf, lxix.
Warcop, Robert, of Warcop, Letter from, to Wyvill, Marmaduke, Letter from, to Mr.
Sir Robert Plumpton, in favour of one who Plumpton, concerning a farmhold in Kirk-
had trespassed, 107. :
stainley, 225..
Wards, Court of, 253.
Warwick, Earl of, Letter from the, and Salis- | York, St. Martin in Micklegate, xxix. Nether
INDEX.
291
Ousegate, ibid. St. Michael, ibid. Cayl. |
lom Hall, ibid. Skeldergate, xxx, Byshop-
hill, ibid. North-street, ibid. xxxi. St. Sa-
viour, Adam de Wygan, rector, ibid. Cha-
pel of St. Thomas the Martyr in the cathedral
church of, lxxiv. Chapel on the bridge at,
cviii. The city of, taken by assault, and by
burning of Fishergate, xcvii, 265. Siege of,
cxxxvii. Meadows of Bishopthorp, near,
xxx. Richard (Scrope), Archbishop of, no-
tice of the insurrection of, xxii. Allusion
to him in epitaph of Sir William Plumpton,
xxy. Henry (Bowet), Archbishop of, and
Legate of the Holy See, XXXV. John
(Kemp), Cardinal and Archbishop of, makes
a bill of his complaints against Sir Wil-
liam Plumpton and the men of the Forest
of Knaresborough, liv et seq. William
(Booth), Archbishop of, and Legate of
the Holy See, xxxvii. George (Nevill), Arch-
bishop of, Lord Chancellor, at London with
the King, 17. Thomas (Savage), Archbishop
of, Letter from, to William Plumpton, to
obey the precept of a replevy, or else to ap-
pear before him to show cause to the con-
trary, 169. Threatens to indict all that
aided in ejecting the tenants, 170. Causes
a jury to find a true bill, by holding out pu-
nishment to such as refused, 171. Letter
from, to William Plumpton, not to cut down
timber contrary to his agreement, 173. To
the same, repeating former command ; the
letter of King's protection not to be de-
rogatory to justice, 174. Christopher (Bain-
bridge), Archbishop of, notice of his letter
to the Chapter of Ripon before departure out
of England, 205. Thomas (Wolsey), Arch-
bishop of, Cardinal, a Legate to be sent from
Rome to him, with full powers, 217. Edward
(Lee), Archbishop of, Letter from, to Wil-
liam Plumpton, esq. to arbitrate in a dis-
pute concerning tithe, 235. Abbot of, Wil-
liam (Siveyer), Letter from, to Sir Robert
Plumpton to labour the settlement of a con-
troversy, 85. Wishes to arbitrate in a dispute
between Sir Robert Plumpton and Kilborne,
his servant, 112, see Carlisle. Richard,
Duke of, attainted, commission to in-
quire of his lands in Yorkshire, lxvi. Mayor
(Robert Hancock) and Aldermen of, Letter
from, to Sir Robert Plumpton, to desire that
his tenant in York submit his variances with
a fellow citizen to their arbitration, 58.
Have an order for a buck of season in
Knaresborough forest, 86. Sir Richard of,
Mayor of, began foundation of a Hospital
without Micklegate, design of the Commons
of Yorkshire to behead him, 265 note.
Guild of St. Christopher at, John Skinner,
master, Lxii. Sub-dean of the Cathedral
Church of, Richard Arnall, xxxv. Dean
of, Richard Andrews, . lxxvii. Official of,
Dr. William Poteman, lxxvii. Vicar-general
of Lawrence (Booth), Archbishop of, Henry
Gillow, lxxx". Vicar-general of Christopher
(Bainbridge), Archbishop of, see Carver.
INDEX OF NAMES OF PLACES AND PERSONS.
Abberford (Habberforth), 71.
Abergavenny (Burgenny), Lord, 142.
Abingdon, John abbot of, 87a.
Abney, scivº.
Acclome, John, cxxxiii, 165 b.
Aches, William, 188.
Adam, filius Normanni, xiv*.
Addingham, xlvi.
Addle, 82b.
Addle-thorpe, cxxxiv.
Adlingfleet, cxxxi.
Agard, Margaret, 48.
Aikton (Aketon), cxv, cxxxi, 68, 1974,
Ailire, xiii.
Ailmer, 35, 37.
Ainsty (Annesti), xii d.
Alan (Alleyn), 71. John, clerk, 1616. Sir
John, parson, cxxv.
Albini, Nigel de, xi C.
Aldborough (Vetus Burgus), xvi* Sir Rich-
ard, lxxi, lxxii ", Ixxxivb, 27, 2558. (Jane
Fairfax), 257 6. Ralph, 2558, 257 b. Wil-
liam, cix, 80, 81. See Index.
Aldclife, 45.
Allestre, Thomas, lxxii b.
Alneio, Ricardus de, xiv *.
Alnwick, xi.
Alsford, William, 184, 19.
Amcotes, c, cxxix, 2236, 245.
Ampleforth, Richard, cxxvii, 76, 77. John, 200.
Amynton, lic.
Andrewes, Richard, Dean, lxxviii, lxxxviii.
Angrow (Angrom), William, lxxxviiiº. Tho.
mas, clerk, cxxii.
Annias, Rauf, 9.
Anthony, Master, physician, '78. See Index.
Apedale, 90 a.
Ardern, Piers, J. K. B. lxxii b. Esquire, lxxxi.
Henry, 190. See Index.
Arkendale (Arkenden), lxvii 9, cxiv, 64, 65,
1972, 264.
Arnall, Richard, subdean, XXXV.
Arthington, Hall, 82. ' Priory, 246. John,
lxxxviiiº. Henry, ibid. Richard, cxxvii.
William, cxxxv. Henry, cxxxvii. See Index.
Ascyn, John, xli.
Ashby-de-la-Zouch, 265.
Ashford, li.
Ashton, Sir Ralph, of Great Leaver, bart.
cxxxvi.
Aske, John, I. Of Aughton, cii.
Askham, Richard, lii, lxxvii. John, lxxii b.
Aston, John, of Haywood, High Sheriff, 147.
(Elizabeth Delves) 1379.
Astwood, 142 6.
Atherton, Nicholas, cix. .
Atkinson, William, 35.
Aton, Little, lxxxiii.
Attenwyk, xli.
Authorp, William de, parson, xxvi.
Aykrig, Sir Thomas, chaplain, 189.
Aytoun, cxy".
INDEX O
293
PLACES AND PERSONS.
Babington, William, lxiii 4, 3a, Sir Thomas, of, Bedale, William, xlv.
Kinston, 160. George (Anne Constable), Bedell, William, 219, cii.
208^.
Bee, Christopher, Ix.
Babthorpe (Babbetorp), 219 et seq. Ralph de, Beer, John, 245 2.
224a. William, 132, 134, 141. See Index. Beford, 56, 57.
Baildon, John, lxxxviii ", 56, 62. Robert Bele, Mr. clerk of the Privy Seal, 112.
(Amice Calverley), 56a. Walter, cix, 1998. Beley, lxviii.
Thomas, ibid. Family of, 263.
Bekerdike, Thomas, 171, 198.
Bakewell, xxviii, et postea.
Bell, Henry, cxxvi. John, 101. Humphrey,
Balderby-en-les-Broome, lxxiv.
107.
Ball, 183.
Bencelini, Richardus filius, xiv.
Banks, Richard, of Newton, lxüü, 46 . Mr., vi. Benigworth, Sarra, wife of Gilbert de, xvie,
see Index.
Bellingham, Richard, xlv. Marmaduke, cxxvii.
Barbor, George, 173.
Benson, 71. Robert, 114. John, 234.
Barden, Robert, xlviii.
Bentham, William, 167, 168.
Barker, William, 9b. Robert, cix.
Bentley, 229 b.
Barlow, Edwin, (Owen, Ewene,) 117. William, Berkeley, sir William, 48.
128. See Index.
Berdall, Richard, 179, 213.
Barnby, 11.
Berners (Barns), Lord, 143.
Barnesdale, xcvi.
Berwick, xcvi.
Barowe, xli.
Beske, William, cix.
Barthestortes. See Plumpton.
Betfield, lxiii, et postea.
Barton, John, 66.
Bethom, Sir Edward, priest, 100.
Batmon, Sir Edmund, 155.
Bevercotes, William (Cecilia Constable), 2084.
Bauldiwini, Henricus filius, xv,
Cuthbert, ibid.
Beaston, William, cix. Stephen, ib.
Beverley, xxxv, lv, 42a, 221, 224.
Beaumont, John Viscount, 34.
Bewott, William, 144.
Beauvoir, family of, xi.
Bill, Thomas, physician, cxxviii, 253.
Becard, Sir Peter, xix.
Bilton, xid, xiv*, xli, liik, 26a, 149€. Park,
Becke, Robert, 57, 96,
243.
Beckwith, William de, xlviiis. Thomas, livih, Bingham, wapentake of, 159. Rector of, xxxv,
Ivii, lviii, lxxii b, lxxxii b. (Elizabeth) 6,7, xxxvii, lii. Sir Richard, li, 3* (Margaret
260. Ralph, lijih. John, of Killinghall, Frevill), 259. Richard, jun. (Margaret
liii ", lvii. Yeoman, cix. Sir William, of Rempston), 4, 11, 12. See Index.
Clint (Elizabeth Plumpton), lxxxii, xcvi, Bircom. See Plumpton.
64, 53, 72. Robert, 93.
Bird, 96. Sir Christopher, parson, 243. John
Bedford, John Duke of, xlvii. Jasper Duke Lxxiib,
of, 50. See Index.
Birdforth, xiid.
294
INDEX OF PLACES AND PERSONS.
Birkine, 234.
Birnand (Brennand), Richard, xlv. Robert,
28, 46, 264 note. John, cxxiii.
Bishopthorp, xxx, xliii.
Blackmor Edge, xcvii.
Blackwall, lxxvib, 166. Richard, 93°. Ro.
bert, ibid. See Index.
Blithfield, xciii.
Blount, Sir Walter, lxxiib. Sir James (Delves),
90a, 100, 102.
Bluet, 142.
Bolesford, xid.
Bolton Abbey, xxxviii.
Booth, Sir John, of Barton, 206.
Borough - bridge (Pont-de-Burc), xiv*, xvi*,
xlv, lv.
Boteler, Sir Philip, of Woodhall, cxxxii, 238.
Boulogne, xcix W, 103°, 266,
Bourchier (Bowischer, Bowser), Sir William,
Lxviii. Sir Thomas, 265.
Bowett, Henry, archdeacon, xxxv.
Boynton church, 228. John, 2288. Sir Ro.
bert, ibid.
Boyvile, John (Alianor), Ixxii, 10€.
Bozome, Sir Richard, cxxxv.
Brackenholme, cii, 218 a et seq.
Bradebelt, Thomas, cix. John, ibid.
Bradford, William, lxvi.
Braham (Braem, Braim, Bram), v, xiv, xx,
1754. Mattheus de, xiüif, xv. Robert,
xliii.
Braistergarth. See Plumpton.
· Brakenbury, Sir Robert, 48.
Brakenthwaite, lxxxii. Henricus.de, xv. Adam
de, ibid.
Brampton (Bramtun), 195, 267. William, 49.
Brancepeth, 1966
Bray, Sir Reginald, 177.
Brayton, near Selby, 245a. .
Brearton, cxxx, 30, 36. Ricardus de, xir*,
Brecknock, 44a.
Bresteyth (Birstwith), Ixviii b.
Bridy, Ernaldus, xiv*.
Brig, Thomas, lih.
Brindell, Roger, 248.
Bristowe, Nichole, 21.
Broke, Lord, 143. Richard, serjeant, 152,
J. C. P. 2212
Broughton, luis, et postea.
Broweke, 189.
Brown, Edward, 1968. John, vicar, lxxvii.
Anthonius, J. C. P., cxxix.
Brudnell, Robert, J. C: P. cxx, 210, 222a.
Brugis in Flanders, 18a.
Bruis, Rotbertus de, xv.
Bubwith, Robert, clerk, ciii, cvii, cxvii, 122,
155", 1579, 159", 1654, 1964.
Buck (Boucq), John, knight of Rhodes, 108*.
John, 49.
Buckingham, Duke of, 142. See Index.
Bukton, Dame Isabella de, xxxiv.
Bullock, William, 81, 85.
Bulmer, xiid. Sir William, 146.
Bunney, Richard, 1964.
Burgh (Burrow, Brough), xci. Serlo de, xii*.
Simon, constable of Rochester Castle, xxiii.
Sir Thomas, lxxxi. Richard of the, 26. Clerk,
ciii, cvii, cxvii, cxxii, 122", 156", 157",
1594, 165, 1964. Henry, 268 note.
Burgh-wallis, parson of, cxxv.
Burgundy, Duke of, 19a.
Burros-asshe (Bargshosham), lxxviii; CXXX.
Burton, Little, 225. Stather, cxxxvi. John,
Ixi.
INDEX OF PLACES AND PERSONS.
295
Bussenhay, lxii. - . .
Butiller (Butler), Ricardus le, xiii. John,
lxi. Family of, of Warrington, xxviiik.
Button, xcivo,
Bycroft, Henry, 38.
Bylby, 91.
Byron, Sir Nicholas, of Colwick, 159, 160.
Calton, lxxvji.
Calvados, département du, x.
Calverley, 384. Sir William, cxii, (Agnes
Tempest), 56a, 1819
Cambray, cxxxviii.
Canterbury, 199. Cranmer, archbishop of,
246.
Cantilupe, William de, lxxxii.
Canwick, Lawrence, 105.
Canworth, lxxxiii.
Cape, Edmund, 27.
Capros, Walter, chaplain, XXXV.
Carton, Nicolaus de, xv.
Casson, 42.
Castelton, lxii,
Castley, 81.
Catisby, William, 48.
Cattall, Henry, lxvii.
Cave (North), c, 131", 221.
Cawood, lv, 170, 236. Peres of, lxii. Ger-
vase, 227.
Cecil, Sir William, cxxix.
Chaddesden, xxvii, liiie.
Chagge, Ricardus de, xiï'.
Chalner, John, 38.
Chambers (Chambre), Henry de, xlviii. John,
Lxxxviii, cx. Sir William, chaplain, 125.
Christopher, 198.
Chamberlain, William, xlvii.
Chamney, Richard, cxxxvii.
Chapman of Stamford, 10, 11, 12. .
Charleton, Sir Richard, 48.
Chasser, John, 125.
Chauncefeild, Joan de, xxx.
Chaworth, Sir Thomas, of Wiverton, xxxvi,
xl x, lxiii.
Chelmerton, liüis, et postea.
Cheney, Sir John, of Shirland, 197*.
Chesseman, Edward, 125.
Chesterfield, liii 8, 195.
Chirdin, Richard, cxxiii*.
Chylton, Robert, cix.
Cholmley, Sir Richard, 104. (Elizabeth Ne-
vill), 267. Sir Roger, ibid. Thomas, v.
Edward, ib.
Cinglais, Le, x.
Clapeham, Thomas, 224. William, 188. Rich-
ard, ib.
Clarell, Thomas, lii.
Clarence, Duke of, 17.
Clarke, William, 49. Thomas, xlviï.
Clarkson, Stephen, chaplain, cxxvi.
Claro, ix. Bailiff of, cxiii. '
Claxton, William, xlv.
Clerk, Richard, parish clerk of Knaresborough,
lxxvi.
Clerkenwell, 47, 48.
Clifford, Thomas Lord de, and Westmorland,
Ixii et seq., ciii. John, Lord de, lxvi, lxxii.
Henry, cix, 135. Master Anthony, 155 %,
157, 171. Sir Ingram (Anne Rocliffe),
cxxix.
Clifton, Sir Gervase, lxiüi d, cvii, 208 4. George,
ibid.
Clint, lxvii 9.
Clough, Henry, 36. ..
Coates, Richard, cxjii.
Cock, John, 9b.
296
INDEX OF PLACES AND PERSONS.
Cockermouth, Honour of, lxvi.
| Cornwall, Earl of. See Index. Sir Richard de,
Cockle, John, 19.
xix.
Cocklodge, 62a.
Cotgrave, xxviii k.
Cocus (Cooke), Willelmus, xiï. William, of 1 Cotingham, 105.
Ripon, chaplain, cxxvi.
Coundall, Richard, cix.
Coke, Hugh, xlviii. Thomas, 58..
Cowper, William, xlviii.
Coghill, Thomas, bailiff of Knaresborough, Cowthorpe (Colthorp), xvii, passim.
151.
Coxwold (Cukeswald), 614, 66.
Colby (Caldby), c, cxxix, 131°, 223 *
Cragley, Christopher, clerk, cxxvii.
Collyweston, cx, 113, 148, 1818.
Crakemarsh, liii €, 90, 102, 1578, 178, 180,
Colow, William, Serjeant, 35.
213.
Colt, 7.
Cranmer, Thomas, 246 a.
Coltman, William, 43.
Crathorn, Sir Ralph, xcvi.
Colton, James, 126.
Craven, xid. John, xxxiii, lxi. Brother Chris-
Combes, lxii, et postea.
topher, 9 b.
Combrigge (Combridge), liii s, 157 , 178, 180, Crempel, aqua de, xiv, xiv*.
1994, 211, 213.
Creskeld, lxxxiv. . .
Compton, Thomas, 238.
Creswell, Rogerus de, xiv *.
Connesburgh, 82.
Croft, Richard, 19, 25. George, 102. William,
Constable, family of, of Flamborough, xi. Ro 168.
bert, esq. xl. Sir, lxxxi, xcvi, 17. Serjeant, Cropwell, Robert, 66. .
131, 153. Sir Marmaduke, the elder, 203 a. Crosse, Robert, xxxüi, xxxiv. Ellen, ib. George,
Sheriff, 219 d. John (Joan Sotehill), cxix, 150.
cxx, cxxi, 210, 213. Sir Robert, 203, Croston, xxviii k. Rector of, xlii.
228 6. Sir Marmaduke, the younger, (Eliza Croxton Abbey, xix b.
beth Darcy), 2034. Of Everingham (Bar Crouch, William, Escheator, cxvi. Customer
bara Suthill), 229 d. Ralph, of Halsham, of Hull, 147.
2578. John, of Burton Constable, (Joan Cukney, cxxii w
Nevill,) 2166, 269. Thomas, fletcher, xlv. Cure (Eure :) James, cx.
See Index.
Curson, John, lxiii,,
Conyers, Sir John, of Hornby, lxiii, 17. Sir
Richard, xcvi. Sir William, cix. Sheriff, Dacre, lord, 143.
cxii, 1814. Lord, 1879, 1964.
Dalyson, William, of Laghton in Lindsay,
Conyngesby, Humphrey, serjeant, 1616. J. 1458,
C. P. cvii, 222 a.
Danby, Sir Robert, Chief Justice, lxvii, lxviii ",
Cordall, Sir William (Mary), cxxxvi.
19, 22a, Richard, 83.
Corneburg, Willelmus de, xv.
Dance, Master, 221.
INDEX OF PLACES AND PERSONS.
297
Darcy, Sir John, of Hyrst, xly. Richard, ib, Doddington, John, (Eleanor), See Index.
William, ib. Sir, xcvi. Sir Thomas, Lord, | Doncaster, xi*, 182.
cxv, (Dowsabella Tempest), cxvip, 187, Dodsworth, John, cx.
(Edith Lady Nevill), 1964, 203b; 219d. Douning, John, cix.
George, Lord, of Aston, 203a, 253. Sir Downham (upon-Trent), xxvii h, xxxv.
Arthur, 203", 253. Richard, cxxvii. Drayate, Robert, (Agnes), 125.
Darell, Sir George, of Sessay, lxxi, lxxii", Dromonby, parson, 22.
(Margaret Plumpton), lxxxv, 27a, Thomas, Drury, Sir William, of Hawstead, (Elizabeth
See Index.
Sotehill), 208b.
Dawney, John, lxxxi, lxxxix. Geoffrey, 11. Dryver, brother Richard, 96.
Sir Thomas, of Cowick, (Edith Darcy), 203b. Duckmanton, 193.
Darlington, lxxv.
Dudley, cxviii.
Dayvell, George, 66.
Duke, clerk of the Council of the Court of
Debenham, Sir Gilbert, (Katharine Plumpton), Augmentations, 242.
Ixxxiii.
Durham, 57. Bishoprick of, 105. Bishop of,
Dedyser, Sir John, 42.
Thomas, 129 a. See Index.
De la Warr, Lord, 143.
Dyer, Jacobus, J. C. P., cxxix.
Delves, Sir John, (Lady), 90a. John, of Ut Dymoke, sir Robert, of Scrivelsby, cvii.
toxeter, ib. 102.
Dynham, Lord, 143.
Denbigh, 17.
Dysney, John, xli.
Denny, Edmund, Baron of the Exchequer, 145.
Derby, lii, 161, 190. Thomas Earl of, 44", Earnly, John, Attorney-general, cxx, 2104,
51, 54, 94. Margaret Countess of, 113, Eastburne, cxxx.
114.
Eastoft (Estoft), cii, 220, 223°, 256 a.
Derley (Darley), in the Peke, 69, 70, 155, 1572, Easton, 123.
lxii et postea.
Eccles, 241.
Dertford, 15, 245.
Eccleston, xxvii.
Dewsbury, 10.
Edensor, 1579, 161", lxii et postea.
Dicthenbi, Robertus de, xv.
Edward I. xviii.
Dickenson, William, cix. Thomas, ib. Ro. Egemeton, 256.
bert, ib. Roger, ib. Henry, 81. Oliver, Eland, William, lxxxi, lxxxix.
cxviii, 194.
Eldred, xii.
Dicton (Kirk-Deighton), lxxvii, 64, 135. Tho Eleson (Elison, Elson), William, cii, 152, 177,
mas de, xiii'. Nigellus Pincerna de, xviiih. 186, 187, 220. John, 135, 219 a. See Index.
Parson of, xxvi. See Butiller.
Elewini, Gamel filius, xii.
Dingley, cxxxii, cxxxv.
Ellerker, of Risby, 229 a.
Dispensator, Simon, xv.
Ellis (Elys), John, clerk, lxii. Thomas, cxvii.
Dobson, John, (Alice), xlix.
Joha, of York, 130, 133.
CAMD. soc. 4.
? Q
298
INDEX OF PLACES AND PERSONS.
Elton, lxxviii, xciii, 132.
Elveley (Kirk-Ella), xie.
Lly, Bishop of, xxxv.
Emerson, George, 152. See Index.
Emildon, Richard de, xxi.
Empson, sir Richard, See Index.
Epcomp (Thepecampe), 1284.
Epworth, lxvie,
Esomock, Robert, 37.
Essex, G. filius Petri, comes de, xiii*. Earl of,
142, 241.
Ethrington, South, lxxxiii.
Even, Thomas, See Rothwell.
Everingham, John, lxxxi. Thomas, of Rock-
ley, 172.
Eure (Evers), William, clerk, lxxviii. Sir Wil.
liam, xcvi.
Exeter, Duke of, 18 a.
Exilby, Richard, lxxvii. William, lxxxviii. |
Thomas, cix.
Eyre, Robert, of Padley, lxiiie, 162º. Arthur,
(Margaret Plumpton), 179, 215. Stephen,
(Katharine), 59a, 263. Robert, (Joan de
Padley), ibid. Thomas, draper of London,
(Elizabeth), 11, 13. See Index.
F. Richard, 8.
Fairburne, John, cix.
Fairfax, Richard, 1. Guy, lii, lxiii, lxvi, lxxi,
Sergeant, lxxiib, 23, Sir, 91, 101.J. K. B., xci,
Chief Justice, 213a. William, 101. J. C. P.
210. Thomas, of Walton, cviii, (Anne Gas-
coigne), cx, Sir, 215, 257a, cxxii. cxxiii s.
Sir Nicholas, of Gilling, 215. William, 215,
cxxxiii. Francis, ibid. See Index.
Farnham, xlvii.
Fawkes, John, of Faroley, lvii, lviii, lxiii, 78.
Dame Mary, 788,
Feliskirk, 120.
Fellesclif, lxviii.
Ferensby, lxvii 4.
Ferman, William, rector, xlii, xlv.
Ferrers, Walter Lord, 48.
Fery, John, lix.
Fewston (Fuston), 23, 25 h.
Filey, 6 a, lxxxiii.
Finchley, 165 b.
Fisher, John, Sergeant, 159, 161 b.
Fitzwilliams, Hugh, of Sprotborough, xix. Sir
Richard, lxxi. Thomas, lxxxi.
Flag-field, liii & et postea. House, 934.
Flasby, 66, 29. Robertus de, cap. xx",
Fleetham, John, xlviii.
Flegge, 238.
Folbaron (Fulburn, Falbarne, Fawberg), 9, 19,
23. Richard, clerk, 122. George, 226. See
Index.
Foljambe, Sir Godfrey, xxvi, 195. Sir Edward,
of Tideswall, (Cecilia), xciva. Thomas, of
Walton, xlivi, li, lxiii", xciva. See Index.
Follyfoot (Folifait), xx, cxxxi, 67, 1754. Poole,
225, 226. Walterus de, xv. Robert, cix.
Fountains, abbey of, xv*, 86. See Index.
Forest, John, 84.
Formes, James, 188.
Fosse, river, xii d.
Fox, Henry, lxi, lxii, lxxxix, 41, 92. Mr. 235.
Frank, Edward, 87n.
Fray, John, 129a.
Frevill, Baldwin, of Tamworth, 259.
Frishmarsh, xli.
Frobisher, John, 182.
Frodes-beri, xiv.
Frost, sir William, (Isabel Gisburn), xxvii, xxix.
Frowick, Thomas, Sergeant, 161. See Index.
Fulham, xxxvii.
INDEX OF PLACES AND PERSONS.
299
Gainsborough, 237.
Plumpton), lxxxiii, 84, 165, 168, 264 note.
Galaway, Robert, 37.
Mr., 243.
Gamel, filius Elewini, xii.
Godard, Sir John, xliv k.
Gamelbar (Gamel), ix, xia,
Gotham, 137.
Garden, Thomas, cxxvii.
Gotman, Nicholas, 17.
Gargrave, William, lxii, Ixiii. Robert, (Eliza Goxhill (Gowsell), xl, xli.
beth Paston), 252.
Graindorge, Willelmus, xx”. Family of, 66,
Garnet, William, xlv.
260.
Garth, William, li. Thomas, lxii, lxiii. John, Granger, Sir Thomas, of York, 173. .
lxii, lxiv.
Grassington (Gersington), passim.
Gascoigne, Sir William, of Gokethorp, xxvi, Graystock, Dame Joan, 34a.
lii, lxxix. (Joan Nevill), 216“. John, lii. Graver, John, cix. The younger, ib.
William, esq. lxvi, lxxvi, sir, lxxxi, lxxxvii. Grene, Sir Richard, xxvii". John, de Nuby,
Dame, (Margaret Percy), xcvii". Sir William, xlv, xlvii, 1, 34. Godfrey, lxxiib, 17.
cviii, cx, 59, 145, 204, senior, cxxiii < Robert, 34, 84a. Isabel, 11. Richard, ci,
Nicholas, cix. Robert, 22a. John, 34a, 3a, 81, 83, 156. Robert, of Newby, (Isabel
246, 247. Ralph, 344, 744. Sir William, Tankard), 84a. See Index.
(Margaret Nevill), 231, 232a. See Index. Grenewich, 52, 54, 95.
Gaukthorp (Gokethorp), lxxix, 79, 130, 132, Gresley, Sir John, lxxi.
· 148, 149, 176, 215, 216, 217.
Gretham, xvie. Of York, 36.
Gefray, John, cix.
Grey, Lord, of Wilton, 143.
Gelsthorpe, Robert, cix.
Greyndour, Robert, 66. Family of, 259.
Gildeford, xiii*& Sir Richard, cxiii.
Griffith (Griffin), David, 94, 96, 97,98a. (Hervy),
Gillingshire, xvi.
99, (Frances), 103*, 114, 1656. Sir Walter,
Gillow, Henricus, lxxx.
sheriff, 146, 147. Sir Edward, of Dingley,
Gisburn (Gisburgh), John, (Ellen), xxvii, xxx, attorney-general, cxxxii, cxxxiv.
xxxiii, xxxvii. John, rector, lxxxi. See In Grimbald-bridge, xviii, 264 note. Staines, xix.
dex.
Grimston, Thomas, xli.
Girlington, Nicholas, cx, 256a. William, 256a, Grismere (Grassmere), rector of, xxxy.
Robert, 253, 257,
Guiseley, 268.
Glanvile, Ranulph de, vi*. See Index.
Gyll, Stephen, cix. Myles, ibid.
Glidall, Edward, 238, 241, 242.
Gloucester (Glocestriæ), J. de Gray, Archid. | Hackingthorp (Algrathorpj, 185.
xiii* t. Duke of, 31. John, 167.
Hackney (Aknig), 223.
Glusburn in Craven, 160.
Haget, Geoffrey, 226 .
Goldsborough (Goldsburgh), lxxxiv b. Richard Hagthorpe, Thomas, de Brakenholme, 2188.
de, xiii?. Sir Richard de, xix, xlviii. Thomas, Hakfeld, Robertus, xli.
lxxxiv', 8, 260. Edward, Baron of the Ex Halaugh, see Plumpton.
chequer, lxxii b, lxxxiv d, 8. Richard, (Alice | Haldynby, Robert, ci, cxxxv. Francis, cxxxv,
300
INDEX OF PLACES AND PERSONS.
Hales, 88, 96.
Hawkesworth, Thomas, lxxxviii. See Index.
Hall, 142 a, 92. Roger, cxxvii. See Index. Hawks, Thomas, cxxviif. Robert, ibid.
Halneby (Hawnby), lxxxiii, 66. .
Hawkins, Jobn, 14, 15. Ralph, 15.
Hamerton, Lawrence, lxxxiv d, Richard, lxiii a, Hay (Heay) Park, 243.
(Elizabeth), Lxxiiid, 63°. Stephen, lxxiib. Sir, Haym, Thomas, 159.
(Isabel Plumpton), lxxxiv, xcvi. Sir Richard, Healaugh, 135. Park, priory of, xxii, 226.
cx. See Index.
Henry, prior, xviii. Richard Round, prior,
Hammond (Haymond), Peter, 246 4. Mr., 1 226a.
Feodary, 253.
Hegham, 158.'
Hampsthwaite (Hamesthwaite), lsvii.
Hilme, James, cxi. Ellen, 29.
Hanson, 19.
Helthwait-bill (Elthwate.hill), cxv, 197 a.
Hanworth, brother William, 9.
Hemingbrough, c, 131", 2189, 221.
Harberch (Arbour) meddow, cxxy.
Henley, Mr. 242.
Hardalsey, William de, xxvii.
Hereford, Thomas Spofforth, Bishop of, xxxvii,
Hardistie, John, cix.-Stephen, ibid.
xxxviii.
Harelaw, xir*.
Herryson, John, lxxxviii º.
Harewood (Harwood), lxxix, cxv, 134, 197", | Hert, lxv.
1994, 204, 231. Lordship of, 214. Park, Hertford, castle of, 265. Earl of, 248.
17. Earl of, cxxxviii.
Hertlington, Willelmus de, xix. Sir William
Hargreve, 23.
de, xm.
Harlad, Henry, 161.
Heslarton, family of, 6c.
Harldre, 9.
Hessay (Hessamoor), cxxxvi.
Harpur, Richard, 70 a.
Hesthornmeen, 21.
Harrigat (Harrowgate), lxvii?, 168.
Heton, John, xxiii.
Harrington, John, lxii, lxiii. Sir Thomas, Ixiii, Hexhamshire, liv.
Ixxxix, 17, 48. Sir Robert, 48. Hamlett Heynes, 21.
(Hamnet), of Hyton-bey, 206a. See In Hide, Leonard, (Anne Boteler), 240.
dex.
Hildyard (Hyliard, Hilliart), Robertus, xl. Sir
Hart, Sir John, rector, 52.
Robert, xcvi. Lady, 256. Sir Christopher,
Hassop, xxviii, liii, ci, 59, 709, 156, 179, 213, (Joan Constable), 257a.
218 a.
Hilton, Sir Robert de, xl.
Hastings, William Lord, 15°, 331. Lord, 143, 1 Hirst (Templehirst), 203.
265 note, 266. John, lxvi. Sir Hugh, lxxxi, Hobert, James, Sergeant, 1615.
1xxxix, xcvi. John, of Fenwick, 53, sir, (Isa Holcroft, Thomas, 241 n.
bel Babthorpe), 1454, 2204. Sir Roger, of Holden, brother Thomas, 9.
Roxby, 267. Robert, 148. See Index. Holebec, xiv.
Hathersedge, 283.
Holme-upon-Spaldingmore, xic, 208, 210,
Haugh, Ralph, 69, 70.
228.
Haverah Park, 51, 114, 1656. See Index. Holt, Richard, 128 . Hugh, ibid. Mr., 241,
o
INDEX OF PLACES AND PERSONS.
301
Illingworth (Elingworth), Richard, 39, sir,
Chief Baron, 6a.
Ingaldesthorp, Joan Lady, 10, 15. Sir Edmund,
de, 156.
Ingleby (Ingelby, Engelby), William, lii,
sir, of Ripley (Joan), liiik, xcvi, 535, 146,
264 note. John, cvii«, 165a. Thomas,
cxxxiy. William, CXXXV. Sampson, ib.
Sir William, bart. CXXXV, cxxxvii.
Ingmanthorp, 64a.
Ireby, William de, xvii.
Holy-moor-side (Holum, Hulme), 195, 267.
Holynagh, James, cix.
Hopton, William de, xlviii. Walter, 48. Sir
Roger, of Swillington, 267.
Hopwell, 147.
Horbury, 9, 10, 30.
Hornby in Richmondshire, cxv h, 197 a.
Horton, Thomas, 100.
Hothom, Elizabeth, xxxiv.
Hotoft, c, cxxix, 223a. John, 129 *.
Hoton, Jacobus, xli. William, li.
Hoton-field beside Berwick, xcvi, 40.
Howden (Hoveden), 40 . Roger de, x, xii.
Howell (Holywell) Grange, 254, 255.
Hounslow (Honslough), lxix.
Huby (Heuby), cxv, 197, 1998,
Hucklow, xcivº
Hudelston, Sir William, xlvii.
Huckman, Robert son of, xüi, xiv, XX.
Hulkil, Robert son of, xiii.
Hull, 228 a, 237.
Humberston, William, lxi.
Hundsley, c, 131 a, 220, 223, 2248.
Hungate, William, jii.
Hungerford, Sir Edmund, 19. See Index.
Hunsingore, 120 c.
Hunter, Thomas, lx.
Hurdlow, liü & et postea.
Hussey, Sir William, 12. Chief Justice, xci.
Husworth, brother William, 9 b, 22 a.
Hybank, see Plumpton.
Hykling, lxxvii.
Hyton (Huyton), 207.
Ketherton (Catterton), Willelmus de, xviii h.
Keilway, Robert, Surveyor of the Court of
Wards, cxxix.
Kempe, Thomas, (Alice), lxv.
Kendall (Kendell), Richard de, xxvi, XXX.
Thomas, cix.
Kenington, lvii.
Kent, Earl of, 142.
Kexby, John, xxxvii.
Kighley, Lawrence, Ixxii ", 22 . Richard, cix,
1616. Thomas, cix. Lawrence, of New
Hall near Otley (Anne Lindley), cxvi, ib.9,
203 b.
Kilborne, Christopher, 112, 113, 116, 130.
Thomas, 130.
Killinghall, lvii, lxvii 8, 72.
Kinalton, xxviii et postea, 22, 157, 160, 1964,
208a. Rector of, 22.
King, Edward, (Mary), cxxxvi.
Kingsmill, John, Sergeant, 132, 134.
Kinston (Cheniston, Kynreston) Place, 156.
Kirby (Kereby), xx.
Kirkby-Malzeard, lxvi.
Kirkby-Overblow (Overblars, Orblaes, Ore-
blawer, Orblawers), 98 a bis. Rector of,
xlii, xlv.
Icford, Master Peter de, xxxv.
Idel (Idell), xvi*, et postea, 38, 1654, 175,
181 ?, 188, 198, 208".
Ilderton, Dame Isabell, 27. Thomas, ib.
302
INDEX OF PLACES AND PERSONS.
Kirkby-Ouseburn, xv#.
Lednam, xli.
Kirkby-super-Wharfe, c, cxxxi, 136, 144, 255a, Lee, Sir Alexander, rector, 52, 105. Nicholas,
Horrington Ings in, c, xxxiii.
164.
Kirk-dighton, 64*. See Dicton.
Leeds (Leades), Richard, 81. Mr. 236.
Kirk-ella. See Elveley.
Lees (Leghes), lxxviii, xci.
Kirkstall (Cristall), 72. See Index.
Leigh, Sir Thomas, 254f.
Knaresborough (Cnardesburgh, Chenardes Lematon, Ricardus, civis Ebor., xxxvii.
burgh, Naresburc, Chenaresburg, Knare. Lenthorp (Leventhorpe), Robert, 60. John,
burg), ix et postea, 31, 79, passim. John 129a. See Index.
son of Robert de, xxiiy. Thomas, lxxvii, Lincoln, 51, 263. John de Lacy, Earl of,
cix. Richard, lxxxix i. Robert, cix. Blaky xviis. Philip, Bishop of, xxxv. Thomas,
farm in, cxxv. See Index.
Bishop of, 35. Thomas, xlv.
Knivet, William, 268 note.
Linton, Robert de, xiii'.
Kniveton (Knifton), Nicholas; of Mercaston, Litton, Sir Robert, Under-Treasurer, 138,
xcvii.
148, 166..
Knowle, Ralph, cxxv.
Liverpool (Leyrpool), 165 b.
Liversedge (Liversay), 231.
Lacy, Henry de, xi*.
Lockhaw, lüis.
Lambton (Lampton), cxxii. Percyval, 114. Lofthouse, lxvii ?, c, cxv.
See Index.
Loftsome, 131 4.
Langber (Langburgh), xx, xciii, cxxx.
Logge, Thomas of the, 24.
Landa, prior and convent of, xxxiv.
Longsden, xcixº
Langewat, Thomas de, xv.
Lovell, Francis Lord, 48. Sir Thomas, cxi.
Langton, 25 b. Sir John, l. Sir Richard, 99 b. Lowh (Low), cxxx.
Sir John, clerk, ib.
Loxley, see Plumpton.
Lardener, Gilbertus le, xv. Thomas, xiv*. Luddington, cxxix, 256.
Hugo, ib.
Lumley, William, 41.
Lascelles, Daniel, cxxxviï.
Luvet, Robert, xvi e.
Lathom, 45, 89. Anthony, cxxxi. Ralph, 235. Lynacre, 195. Hugh de, 267.
Latimer, Lord, 143. Richard, Lord, 232 a. Lyndley, Percivall, lxxxviiiº, cix. William,
John, Lord, ib.
lxxxviii', cviii, 161b. Thomas, of Scutters-
Lavenham, 51.
kelf, cxxiii, 161 b.
Lawe, John of, xlv. Christopher, 140.
Lawrence, Thomas, 149, (Margaret Ward), 1 Mainwaring (Manwring, Maywhering), Ran-
2166, of Ashton, 267, Sir James, ib.
dolph, of Carincham (Margaret Pole), 192,
Leatham, 234, 235.
193.
Leathley (Lelaia), lxv, cviii 9. Hugo de, xv. Makelay, John de, of Scotton, xxiiy,
Leckonfield, 27, 28, 34, 42, 73, 87, 175, 227. Malle, brother John, 22a.
INDEX OF PLACES AND PERSONS,
303
Mallory (Malary), Sir William, xcvi.
| Mering, Sir William, 146. Thomas, 171.
Malton, xi, xü*, 135.
Metcalf, Miles, lxxxi, lxxxix. William, of the
Manche, Département de la, X.
Inner Temple, cxxxiv.
Manfield, Robert, 28.
Metham, Sir Thomas, xcvi.
Mansel, Willelmus, xv.
Meverell, Thomas, 70b.
Mansfield-Woodhouse, lxxvii, 91, 92, 99 a. Midleton, xx, 37, upon-the-Wold, c, 131c,
In Shirwood, 147. Chantry at, lxxviii.
221, com. Warw. 4, 259. Peter de, xxi.
March, Edward Earl of, 1.
Thomas and Adam, his sons, ib. Sir Ni-
Markham, Sir John, Chief Justice, 3. Thomas, cholas de, xxvi. William, clerk, xxxvii. Of
of Ollerton, cxxx, cxxxi. Griffin, ib. Robert, Stokeld, lxxxii, cviii, 74, 175. Thomas,
26.
lxxxi, (Jane Plumpton), lxxxii, 13, 19, 23,
Markenfield, XXXV. Sir Thomas de, xlviiis, 49, 75, 98a. Sir Pers of, xcvi. Nicholas,
104 b. Sir Ninian, cx, 104b. See Index. of Stokeld, 80, 82, 145, 156, 218&. Sir
Marley, Richard, 42, 21b. John, 42. Wil. William, 235. William, cxxxiv. Sir Peter,
liam, 21. Isabell, 15.
cxxxvi. William, cxxxvii. Sir Robert, 48.
Marney, Sir John, of Layer-Marney, 20.
Family of, 103, 265.
Marshal (Marescallus), John, X. Master John, Midlebroke, Edmund, cix.
lviii. John, 108, 109.
Milner, Edmund, 159.
Marston-(moor), cxxxvii,238.
Moat in Ightham, 15).
Martinside, liii 8 et postea.
Moginton, 192.
Mason, William, cxxxi.
Monyash, lüi 8 et postea.
Mathe (Matge) Lofthouse, cxiv, 1976,
Mordaunt, Sir John, of Turvey, 177.
Mauleverer (Malyvera), Sir John, xx. Sir Moreton, John de, xxix. Henry de, ib. Ro-
Halnath, xlviis. Robert, lii, lvü. Sir John, bert, xlvii. Thomas, 64. Robert, of Baw-
lxxxiv b, 10, 19. Geoffrey, 19. Sir Hal try, cxxviii, cxxx, cxxxiii, 257a. Robert,
nath, Knight of Rhodes, 46. Halnath, and his son, cxxxii. Family of, cxxxii.
Robert, ibid. William, 47. Sir Thomas, Morvill, Hugh de, xii.
xcvi, (Elizabeth de la River), 464, 53, 85. Morwyn, Sir Thomas, Canon of Newburgh, 67.
Richard, cviii, Sir, cxxii, cxxiii*, Joan Sir William, Canon, ib.
Plumpton), 46 %, 856, 131, 179, 197, 199. Moton, Sir Reginald, of Peckleton, 163 %.
Sir William, cxxii.
Muubray, Roger de, xi. Robert de, ib. Tho-
Mauley, Dame Maud de, xxxiü, xxxiv. Peter mas, Marshal, xxiv.
de, xxxiii.
Mountjoy, Lord, 143. James Lord, (Catha-
Mayne, Thomas, lxii. John, 872,
rine Leigh), 254 b.
Medley, William, 103.
Moure (Moore), Ralph, cix. George, cxvii.
Mels, Robertus de, xiv*.
Moute (Mohaut), John de, xliii.
Melton, 21. Nicholaus de, xxm. John, de 1 Moxdale, cxxx.
Swyne, xli. Sir, lxvi, 30, 46. .
Musard, Ascoit, 267.
304
INDEX OF PLACES AND PERSONS.
Muston, lxxxii, 6c.
Myming, John, 77.
Norton, Sir Richard, xlii. Chief Justice, xlvii.
Sir John, lxxviii, lxxxiv b, 151, cxv, 1972,
210, 260, Esq. cxxviii, 235. Richard, 232a.
Family of, cxxxii. William, of Sawley,
cxxxvi. William, his son.
Nostell priory, 252 , 254 a.
Nottingham, 451, 95, 100, 161, 263.
Nawdon, Thomas, cix.
Neel, Richard, 3 a.
Nesfield, xvii et postea. William, cx, 29.
Nevill, Ralph Lord, (Edith Sands), cxiv, cxvn, º,
267. Sir John, li. Thomas, of Liver-
sedge (Isabel Sheffield), 231 b. John, of
Womersley and Althorp, lxxxv. Sir, 216 a.
Ralph, of Thornton-bridge (Anne Ward),
cx, 79, 139, 149, 197, 216, 268 note, 269.
John, cx, 139. See Index.
Newbold, xxvii, lxxviii, 195.
Newby, 80, 85. Wiske, 470.
Newcastle-under-line, 103.
Newdigate, Jobn, Sergeant, 146, 210.
Newhall (Newaly), cxvi.
Newsome, xli.
Newton, 175. Near Flaxby, lxxxiv. Near
Blithfield, xciii. Cold, or Bank, 29.
Nicholas, the Messenger, 217.
Nicholson, William, xli.
Nicoll, Richard, 265.
Nidd, xiv*, xix, lxxxiii, lxxxxvi, 28 a.
Nidderdale, lxvi.
Norfolk, Katharine duchess of, lxvi, 18 a.
Lord of, 19. John Duke of, 48. Thomas
Howard, Duke of, 248.
Normanni, Adam filius, xiv*.
Normanvill, Sir William, xxxii. Sir Thomas,
xcvi. See Index.
North, Sir Robert, 183.
Northallerton, lxxvc,
Northumberland, Earl of, (Robert de Mow-
bray), xi C. (John Nevill), 76, 156. (Henry
Percy), xxvii", 1, lxvi, lxxivº, lxxxix, xcvi,
xcvii, 93, 142, 175, 265. See Index.
Ockbrook, lxxviii, 154 a, 183.
Oglethorpe (Oglestrop), George, cix. Robert,
ib. Edward, 136. Clement, (Cecilia Con-
stable), 208 C. William, ib.
Oliver, Robert, 235, 245.
Ormond, Lord, 142. John, of Alfreton,
146.
Osberne-stahe-bec (Starbeck), xiv*.
Osgodby, 223a.
Otley, lv, 263. Steward, bailiff, lvii.
Overton, 86.
Oughtred (Owtreth, Ughtred, Utrayte), Sir
Robert, of Kexby, xcvi, 20, 66. Henry, cviii,
175. Anthony, 175. Robert, 232. See
Index.
Ousefleet (Usflet, Uslet, Urslet), cxxxiv.
Willough (Wilfe) Park in, cxxxv, cxxxvi,
cxxxvii.
Owthorp, xxviii k, lxxviii.
Oxford, Earl of, 18a, 142. See Index.
P. Lady, 11.
Padley, 69, 141, 144, 158.
Pakenham (Pakham, Pagnam), Hugh, lv, 261.
Sir John, 14, 261. Nicholas, 15. Agnes,
ib. See Index.
Palmes, Bryan, of Leathley, Sergeant, cviii,
43, 172, 210. Guy, Sergeant, 1724.
Pancesbury, William de, xlii.
Pannall, 68.
INDEX OF PLACES AND PERSONS.
• 305
Parr, Sir William, lxxxix.
Papplewick-moor, 3b.
Paston, William, cxiv. Sir John, 194
Patrington, xlib.
Paver, William, cix.
Paynell, family of, x,
Peake (Hye Peyke), 21, 161.
Penbroc, (W. Marescallus), comes de, xiii *t.
Pensax, William, xlvijis.
Percy, x. Honour of, ib. et postea. William
de, x, xii, xvii. Lord, xcviii, 54. Sir Ro-
bert, (Joyce), 65, 264. See Index.
Person, John, 57.
Petty, Mr. John, rector, 144.
Petworth, 200, 201.
Picard (Pycard), Robert, lxxxiv. Rector, 200.
See Index.
Pierpoint (Pearpointe, Perpoint, Parpoint),
Henricus de, senescallus, xviiii. Sir Henry,
lxiiie, d Henry, of Holme, Thomasyn
Melton), 34, 44. John, of Rodmathwaite,
34. Henry, 4. Sir William, cvii, cxix,
(Joan Empson), cxx, cxxii, 208, 209, 210,
211.
Pigott (Pygott), Ranulph (Randall), xxxiii, lii.
Geoffry, lxiii. Richard, Sergeant, lxxii 6, 35.
Ranulph, lxxii, Sir, cx, 53, 98. Thomas,
cviii, 197 a,
Pikering (Pickering), Sir James, 260. Sir
John, xcvi.
Pilkington, Sir John, 31, 35. Sir Thomas, 48.
Pillesley, liii s et postea, 157 a, 161b,
Playne, William, lxi.
Plumpton (Plompton, Plontone), ix, passim.
Lafrinwic in, xiif. Sabberchdale in, ib.
Barthestortes in, xiii. Boundary of, and
Roudferlington, xiv*. Bircom in, xviii.
Loxley in, ib. Halaugh in, ib. Braister-
CAMD. Soc. 4.
garth in, xix, Grimbaldstaines in, ib. Hy-
bank in, ib. Rough Farlington in, cxxii.
Morhouse in, cxxiii. Patrikgarth and Milne
closes in, 2648. Nigellus de, xi, (Maria, Ju-
liana de Warewick), xvi. Marescallus de, xii.
Senescallus de, xiii. Gilbert de, xiiif. Robert
son of Huckman de, ib. xx. Peter de, xvi.
Nigel de, xvii. Robert de, (Lucia de Ros),
xx. Robert de, (Joan Mauleverer), ib.
William de, (Alice Byaufiz), ib. William de,
ib. Marmaduke de, xxi. Sir William,
(Christiana), ib. Henry de, chap. ib. Sir
Robert, (Isabella Scrope), xxiii, (Isabella
de Kirkoswald), xxvi. Sir William de,
(Alice Gisburn), xxvii, xxx, xxxi. Joan de,
xxix. Elizabeth, xxvii. Isabell, xxvii, xxx,
xxxi, xl. Katharine, xxxi, xxxiv, xl. Ri-
chard de, xxvii, xxix, xxx, xxxi, xxxiii.
Briau de, xxx, xxxi. Thomas de, ib. George
de, xxv, xxx, xxxi, xxxiii, xxxiv et seq. Sir
Robert, Alice Foljambe), xxvi, 195. See
Index. Sir William, (Elizabeth Stapleton),
xliii, lxii, (Joan Wintringham), 41 , 44, 52,
53, 63, 70, 72, 89, 90, 92, 94, 95, 97, 99,
101, 113, 114, 151 e. See Index. William,
bastard, lxxiii, 21, 51, 94, 154 b. Robert,
bastard, lxxiii. See Index. Sir Richard,
priest, 80, 130, 152, 173, cxiv, 187, 205,
cxxiii, cxxv a. Edward, (Agnes Griffith),
cii, 44 a, 262, 263. See Index. Sir Robert,
(Agnes Gascoigne), 34*, et passim, (Isabell
Nevill), cxiv, cxvi, cxviii, cxxiii, cxxv, 1949,
196, 197°, 202, 203, 211, 213, 217, 220.
See Index. Thomas, Knight of Rhodes,
118a. William, esq. (Isabell Babthorp),
132, 1366, 139, 179, 224, 237, 241 et seg.
See Index. Eleanor', 139, 167, 192, 193.
Dorothy, See Index. Edmund, 204. Clare,
? R
306
INDEX OF PLACES AND PERSONS.
217, 258. Robert, (Aon Norton), 244. See I Quentin, Thomas, 188.
Index. Dennis (Dinis, Dynes), (Ursula Ald. Queston (Whestone, Weston), liii s, xci, xxx.
borough), 234, 244, 253, 255, 258. Tho-
mas, cxxviif. See Pedigree of Plumpton. Radcliffe (Ratcliffe, Ritliff), Sir Richard, 48.
Plumtree, John, of Nottingham, 5, 7.
• William, lxiv. Thomas, cix, 197a. Savile,
Poclington, Robert, 236, 237.
of Todmerden, cxxxvi.
Pole, Ralph, of Radburn (Elizabeth Moton)," | Rainsford, Sir John, cxv, 197*. Edward, ib.
138a, 1638, 179, 181, 1914, 2144. John, Ralph, William son of, xiii f.
(Jane Fitzherbert), 139, 191 a. Thomas, Ramy, Roger, 250.
ib. Sir Alban, 214. German, (Anne Ratte, John, 49.
Plumpton), 131, 148, 162, 258 a. John, 258. Ravenspurn, lxxv.
Richard, ib. See Index.
Reading-burn, 57 a.
Pollard, Hugo, xiv* Sir Lewis, J.C. P. 221 a, Readshaw, Henry, cix.
223 a. William, clerk, cxyh.
Redburn (Rodburne, Rodeburne, Rudburne),
Pontefract (Pontfrett, Poymfrett, Pomfrett, 163, 179, 190, 212, 214, 258.
Poumfrett), 26, 59, 60, 113, 136. Honour Reding, Hew, cxviii.
of, xvii, 55, 59. Steward of, 52, Feodary Redman (Redmayne, Ridman), Sir Richard,
of, xxi. Thomas of, 60.
xliii. Richard, senior, lii, lviii, cvi, cviik.
Porter, 145.
Henry, 214. Edward, 214a. Joanna, ib.
Portington, 228. Master Thomas, 229 b. Reger, John, 159.
Portsmouth, xlviii.
Reinerus. Dapifer Ranulphi de Glanvilla, xv,
Poteman (Patman), Dr. William, lxxviii, 17. xi*.
Potsay, James, 144.
Rempston, Sir Thomas, K. G. (Margaret
Poule, lxxxiv.
Leeke), xxvii ", xxxvii, xliv, xlv, liii, lxv, civ.
Poynings, Henricus Percy, D’nus de, xxxvii. Sir Thomas, xlvii, lii, lxv, 4", 176, 195. Wil-
Poyntz (Poiner), John, 184, 19.
liam, rector, lii. Robert, ib.
Preston, 103, 128. Sir John, 178. Long, Repington, Willelmus, lic
lxxxvb.
Revell, Richard, 49.
Pudding-stain-cros, xiv*.
Ribstone, Little, (Ribstain), xv*, xvi, xx, lxxxii,
Pulleyne (Pulane, Pullaine, Polleyn, Pullan, 198, 200, 201, 227. Frodisbere in, xiv. God-
Pullen), John, xlviii. Ralph, lviii. Wil winnesridding in, ib. Walterus de, xv. Ro-
liam, 36. John, the elder, 554. John, of bertus de, xviii h.
Knaresborough, (Grace Mauleverer), 45 a, 46, Ribstone, Great, 117, 120, 174.
47, 55, 81, 153 i. Bryan, of Gaukthorp, 130, Ricardus filius Widonis, xiv*.
132. John, cix. See Index.
Rice (Rhys), ap Griffin, xvi. Sir, ap Thomas,
Pulter, Thomas, of Surrey, 49.
266.
Pynchebek, Thomas, cap. xxix.
Richardson, Robert, cix.
INDEX OF PLACES AND PERSONS.
307
Richmond, 55. Honour of, xvi. Archdeacon Roudferlington (Roth-ferlington), xiv*, xv*.
of, xxxi, xxxv. Com. Surrey, 161.
See Plumpton.
Ripley, parson of, xxvi. Robertus de, xv. 1 Routh, Thomas, of Westminster, lxix. Da-
Henry of, xlviii, lxxxii. Brother Sohn, 9 h. vid, ib.
Ripon, xxi, xxx, xxxi, xxxiii, xxxv, liv et seq. Rowcester, 1782.
80, 140, 187, 197 a, 205, 2114, 225. Bond Rowley, 224 a, 227, 229b.
gate in, 189. Bailiff of, lviii, cx a,
Rowland, lxxviii et postea.
Risby (Resby), 227 a, 229.
Rute, brother William, 9 b.
Riskworth, Edmund, cix.
Rycroft, William, the elder, 38. Younger, ib.
Robinson, William, cix.
John, ib.
Robyn-Hudde-ston, xcvi.
Ryther, 107, 185. Sir William, 34a. William,
Robyson, Edmund, 188.
his son, ib. Sir Ralph, cix. See Index.
Rochester, constable of the castle of, xxiii.
Bishop of, 166.
S. Mrs. F. 15.
Rodes, Richard, of Knaresborough, cxxxviii. Sacheverell, Sir Richard, cxxii w, 210. Wil-
Roecliff (Rocliffe, Roucliffe), Bryan, of Cow liam, steward, 1229, 157 a, 183. Ralph, of
thorpe, lxxi, lxxii, lxxx, 86, 122, 259. Hopwell, 147.
Thomas, lxxxi. Sir John, (Margaret Plump Sacomb (Seauechamp, Saoacuum), 128, 136', 291,
ton), lxxxviii, 8, 13, 53, 118, 155, 157, 159, 238, 241, 244, 255, 257 b, c, cxxxi, cxxxiii.
161, 168, 172, 173, 174, 176, 179, 183, 188, St. Alban's, 238.
207, 209, 210, 211. See Index.
St. Amand (Sentmound), Lord, 143.
Rokeby, Thomas, of Mortham (Joan Consta St. Andrew, of Gotham, John, 137. William,
ble), 130, 131 d. Ralph, 227 a. Richard.
(Margaret Aston), 137 8.
ib. Dame Anne. See Index.
St. George, Richard, Norroy, xii, lxxxvd.
Roklay, John, 70a.
St. Leger (Sent Leasur), Alured, 243.
Rollesley, cxxx.
St. Germayn (Seyngermen), Geffrey, 486, 49.
Rookwood (Rokewode), John Gage, 209 2. St. Quintin, Sir Thomas, xlvii.
Robert Joseph, ib.
Saltmarsh, Edward, lxxxi.
Rooper, Thomas, lx.
Sands, Sir William, (Edith Cheney), cxiv, 196 a.
Ros (Roos, Rosse), Willelmus de, xviii?, xx. Lord, K. G. cxv, 1972, 203 6, 268.
Robertus de, xxm. Petrus de, ib. Alexan- | Sapcott, William, 49.
der de, ib. Sir Robert, lxiii d. Robert, of Savage, Sir Jobn, 266.
Ingmanthorp, lxxii b, lxxxi, lxxxii u, lxxxiv b;' Savill, Sir John, cxivn. Henry, of Lup-
8, 19, 22a, 260. Thomas, lxxxiių. Tho set, 246. Robert, of Howley, 246, 247 8,
mas, lxxxi, lxxxii 4, 8, 260, 165 & James, 249 8. Sir Henry; of Thornhill and Elland
ib. Everard de, (Hilaria Trusbut), 64 , (Elizabeth Soothill), 246, 2484. See Index.
See Index.
Saxton, Richard, lxxxviii°, 75, 100, 264 8.
Rossell, William, 158. John, of Ratcliff, 159 a. Thomas, cix, 76, 77.
Rothwell, Thomas. See Even.
Scaife, John, cix.
308
INDEX OF PLACES AND PERSONS,
Scarbrough, Thomas, of Glusburne in Craven, 16. | Shutley, William, cix.
Scargill (Scaggell, Skirgell), William, cix, 59, Shrewsbury, (George) Earl of, 65, 158, 250,
60, 101, 168, 263. John, 101. Margaret, 265. See Index.
ib. William, the younger, cix, 263. Sir Siclinghall, Robert son of Henry de, xiii f.
Robert, of Thorpe-Stapleton, 1014, Family Simpson, Clement, 88.
of, 263.
Skelton, Robert de, chap. 29.
Scatergood, 7.
Skinner, John, lxii.
Scotton, xiii, 65 a. Thorp-Garths in, cxxv. Skipton-upon-Swale, lxxiv.
Alexander de, xv.
Skyres (Skiers), Nicholas, cix.
Scriven, xlvii 9, lxvii 9.
Slepe, 238.
Scrooby, 113.
Slingsby, William, of Scriven, xlvii, (Joan
Scrope, Sir Richard, xxiiy. Richard, Arch Plumpton), xlix. John, the younger, 199*,
bishop, see York. Isabella, xxii, xxxiii. 212.
William, Lord Treasurer, Earl of Wiltshire, Smith, John, chap. xxxiv. Francis, of Ashby
xxiv. Henry Lord, of Masham, xxvi, xxxiii?. Folvile, cxxxiv. Francis, his grandson, ib.
Stephen, Archdeacon, xxxi, xxxiii. John| John, 2. Bryan, 21. Robert, 158, 171*.
Lord, of Masham, xxxvi, Treasurer of Eng William, 180.
land, xxxvii, xxxix, Elizabeth Chaworth), Snaith, John, priest, xxxvii.
xl. John le, xly, Lord, of Bolton, 227 . Sober Hill, 47.
Henry, of Danby, (Anne Plumpton), 270. Somerset, Duke of, 182,
Seale (Sole), Sir Anthony, clerk, cxxi, 205. Somersham, xxxv.
Sedgwick (Sygskyke), Mr. clerk, 145.
Soole, Edward, cxviii.
See, of the, (Attsee), Sir Martin, xcvi.
Soothill (Sothill, Sotehill, Suthill, Suttill, Sut-
Selay, Henry of, 41.
tell), 248, 249, 252. Gerard, of Redburne,
Selby, 53, 136, 149, 220, 221. Flates in, c, 10€. John, of, lxxi. Thomas, 2484. Henry,
131 c.
(Anne Boyvile), lxxi, lxxii, lxxix", cv, 8, 10€.
Sely (Syghly), Sir John, Knight Marshal, 141. John, (Elizabeth Plumpton), lxxxviii, Sir,
Semar (Seamer), 61, 74, 75, 76.
of Stokefaston, 155, 159, 1615, 169, 208b.
Serlonis, Willelmus filius, xv.
Henry, (Joan Empson), cvi, 169a, 208.
Sessay, 27.
See Index, Constable, Drury.
Settill, Robert, cxxvii, 238, 242, 255.
Southampton, xlvi.
Sharp, Richard, clerk, 244^.
Southwell, xxxv, 100.
Shaw, Richard, 103.
Spay, William, xix.
Sheen, xcviii, 97.
Sparow, Willelmus, cap. xxxim
Sheffield, Robert, of Butterwick, lxxxi, lxxx, ix, | Spinke, Thomas, bailiff, cxii ,
(Ellen Delves), 908, 100. Sir, 180, 206, Spittle-in-the-street, 106.
231b. The elder, 270. Sir Robert, 230. 1 Spofforth (Spofford), ix, xiv et postea, 26, 75,
Sheriff-Hutton, 96,
76, 78, 168, 1974, 225, 226, 227. Rector of,
Shorthwait, Sir William, chap. Ixvii.
lxxxi ", 520, 105, 200, 201. Henry de,
INDEX OF PLACES AND PERSONS.
309
chap. xxi. Roger de, chap. xxix, xliii. | Straungald, Willelmus, xiii. .
Thomas, see Hereford. Johannes Clark Strey, John, of Doncaster (Alice Hopton),
de, parcarius, xxxvii".
267. See Index.
Spounden (Spondon), liii s, lxv et posteaa Strickland, Sir Walter, of Sizergh (Catharine
Squire, Robert, 189.
Nevill), 217, 268, 269.
Stabill, Thomas, 187.
Studley, Nether or Little, (Studley Roger),
Stafford, Humphrey, 49.
xlviii, lxxiib, cxxi, 44", 124, 165, 175",
Stainley (Standley), 198, 205. Kirk, 225. 1992.
Stainton (Staneton), xciii. Robert son of Stutevill, William de, xii*, xiii*, xiv, xv*.
Jordan de, xiii f.
Robert de, ib. Nicholas de, ib. Heirs of,
Stanhope (Stanop), John, 3*, Sir Edward, of xvi* See Index.
Rampton, cvii.
Sudberi, Richard, rector, xlii.
Stanley, Sir Williau, Lord Chamberlain, 51, Suffolk, Duke of, (Charles Brandon), 248.
265. Sir Humphrey, of Pipe, 146.
Surrey, Earl of, (Thomas Howard), xcix u, w,
Stansfield, Christopher, 26. Ralph, cix.
48, 113, 142, 210, 265.
Stanton-hall, liji s et postea, 111, 157 4.
Swale, George, lxxxviiº. John, cix. See In-
Stapleford, cxxxi.
dex.
Stapleton (Stapilton, Stapulton), Sir Bryan, of Swaledale, Sir James, rector, xxxvii.
Carlton, xliii, (Agnes Godard), xliv, lii. Swan, Christopher, 87 a.
Sir Brian, lii, lxiii, lxxii b, (Isabella Remp Swillington, 602. Sir Robert, xlvii 9. Ralph,
ston), 17. Bryan, 176, cx, Şir, cxxii ». Attorney-gen. 221 a.
Sir William, of Wighill, lxxxivb, xcvii, 53. Sykerwham, Robert, lxxxix k.
Stead, William, lxxxviiiº.
Steeton (Steveton), xliii, in Airedale, xlvii, Tadcaster, 150.
Lxxii, lxxviii, lxxix 9, xci, 161 b, 1658, 175, Talbot, Sir Gilbert, cxivn. Nicholas, 266.
2089,
Talboys (Tailbose), George, (Elizabeth Gas-
Steris (Staires), Richard, 184, 19,
coigne), 34a, 113. Sir Robert, ibid.
Stevenson, William, cxxvii f.
Tanghe, Ricardus de, xiv*.
Stockeld (Stockhill), lxxxii, cxxxvi, cxxxvii. | Tankard (Tancred), George, 45. William, 45 a,
Richard de, xiiif. Baldwin de, ib. Nigel. 80, 85 a.
lus de, xiv*. Sir Richard de, xix.
Taylor (Toyller, Talloyr), Thomas, chap. 105 a.
Stockbridge (Stokke-brigge), xiv*.
John, 144, 189. Robert, 167. See Index.
Stonden (Stuo-champa, Staunton, Standon), Tempest, Sir John, lxiii, lxvi, ciii, 56 a. John,
cxxxi, 128 8.
cx. Sir Richard, of Giggleswick in Ribbles-
Strange, Lord, (George Stanley,) 44*, 88, 89, dale, cxvi P, 203 b. Thomas, of Roundhay-
93, 113. See Index.
grange, 270. Stephen, of Broughton, ib.
Strangways (Strangyshe), Sir James, xcvi. Ed Tewkesbury, lxxv, 20 d.
ward, clerk, cxy h.
Thetford, xcix ", 265.
Stratford abbey, 18 %.
Thirleby, lxxxiia.
310
INDEX OF PLACES AND PERSONS.
Thirsk, xcvii, 61.
Troway (Truberui), 195.
Thomas, Sir Rice ap, 266.
Trumyll, Richard, 160.
Thoresby, John, bailiff, lvii.
Trusbut, Hilaria, 64 a.
Thorn, John, lxiv.
Tuly, parson, 30, 31.
Thornby, Nicholas, chap. xxix, xxxi.
Tunstall, Sir Richard, lxvii, xcviii, 52, 95%,
Thornton, Sir Richard, priest, 92. John, 104. 264. See Index.
Thornton-bridge, lvi, lix, lx, 139. Wood, lviii. Turbervile (Trobilfeild), Sir John, 141.
Beck, lxxxiii.
Turndike, liiis et postea.
Thorp, xlib, º, cxxx. Sir Stephen, xf, of Gow Turnham, Robertus de, xiii* t.
sell, (Isabella Plumpton), xxxix, xl, xli. Ste- | Turvile (Tufell), William, of West Leke, 160.
phen de, xl. Robertus de, jun. xli. John, Tutbury, 17.
xlvii 9. Thomas de, lijih. William, 103. Twisleton, John, (Alice Latham), alderman of
See Index.
London, 235 6. Christopher, of Barlow or
Thorold, Sir Anthony, of Marston, 2086. Barley, (Anne Beer), 245 a. See Index.
Thurland, Edmund, of Gamston on Idle, cxxxi. Twyford, liii s et postea.
Family of, cxxxii.
Tyndal, Bradwardine, of Brotherton, 263.
Thurnscoe, 254d.
Tynderley, Sir John, 140.
Thury-Harcourt, X.
Thwaites, John, lại, lxvi. Thomas, lxji. Vavasor, Robertus le, xiii ‘, xv, xiv* Willel-
Tideswell (Tidswall), liii8 et postea.
mus le, xiv*. Malgerus le, xiv* Johannes
Timble (Tymble), Great, 25 h. Robert of, 25. le, xviii ". John, of Newton, Ixiii, 175, 175 a.
Tindale, liv.
John, Sergeant, lxxxix. J. C. P. cvii, 159 b,
Tirwhit, Robert, 129 a.
1616. Henry, Ixvi. Sir, of Hazelwood, 14,
Tison, Gislebert, x, xi. Adam, xc.
17. Henry, cviii. Sir William, cxxix.
Tockwith, 149.
Vaughan, Dr. Edward, (Bishop of St. David's,)
Tomlinson, John, 81, 82, 84. See Index. 166.
Tong, Sir John, 117. William, 1202. Mar- | Veesy, Master John, Dean of the King's cha-
garet, ib. Isabel, ib.
pel, cxiii, 206a.
Topcliffe (Toplif), 1, lxxv , 16, 27, 39, 79. Vernon, Sir Richard, li, lxiii c, d, Sir Wil-
Topclyff, 43.
liam, 34.
Tor, John of, 21.
Vesci (Vassy), X. Ivo de, ib. xi. William de,
Towneley, 164. (Geoffrey), 103 &, 111, 115, xvii. Henry (Bromflet) Lord, 1356.
164, 165 b. Richard, of Towneley, cxxxvi. Vignolles, Bernard de, 120 a.
Christopher, of the Carr, cxxxvii. See Index. Vilers, family of, xxviiik.
Towyll, Robert, 159.
Trent, piscary of Maredyke-garth in, cxxix. Ulvesby, Patricius de, xx m.
Tresham, Sir Thomas, of Rushton, lxvii, 20. Unthank, John, xlv.
Trey, Mr. 229.
Ure (Yure), xiii*, lvi.
Trongton, John, 118, 119.
· INDEX OF PLACES AND PERSONS.
311
Wade (Wayde, Wadd), Thomas, 25. Robert, | Watkinson, of Pontefract, 60.
cix. John, 145.
Watkyn, Walter, Herald, 49.
Wadesel (Wadshelf), 267.
Watling-street, xiï*.
Wadsmill, cxxxi.
Watson, 101.
Waferer, William, cxxxi.
Watton, cxxxi. (Quatton) 83, 221. At stone,
Wake, Roger, 49.
239 b.
Wakefield, 204. William, xlvii 9, lvii, 260. Weeton (Withetun, Wetton), 199 a. Willel-
Henry, cx.
mus de, xv. Alexander de, ib.
Walensis, Stephanus, xviii h.
Wellensis, S. archidiaconus, xiii *t.
Walker (Waukar), John, cxiii, 184. See Welwick-thorp, xli c.
Index.
Wentbridge, 113.
Walkingham, Thomas de, xv. Robert, 64, Wentworth, Sir Henry, of Nettlested, xcvii,
(Alice Gallway), 264.
94, 95, 265.
Walshe (Walste), John, 49. John, J. C. P Westhall, cxxvi.
cxxix, 223,
Westminster, Whitehall at, 141.
Walworth, John, lviii.
Westmorland, Ralph Earl of, xxxiii, cxiv,
Waman, Christopher, 129. William, ib.
cxvi, 1978, 199, 203 b. See Index.
Warbeck, Perkin, 120 a. See Index.
Weston, lxxxiii. Sir Richard, cxii. Richard,
Ward, Rogerus, miles, xxxvii". Armiger, ib. J. C. P. cxxix, 223a. See Index, St. John's.
Sir, xlviiis, lxiiid. Nicholas, xlvii 4, 46. Westwick, Patricius de, xxm.
Sir Christopher, of Givendale (Margaret Wetherby (Wederby), Lxxxviii.
Gascoigne), lxxxix, xcvi, cviii, cx,cxii, 34 %, Whalley, William abbot of, 103 a.
46b, 53, 56, 1396, 149, 1814, 216b, 269. Whele, 9, 35.
Robert, clerk, 83. Thomas, 103. Edmund, White, William, mayor of York, 57.
185, 186. Of Breeton, 30.
Whitehill, William, l.
Wardlow (Werdlow, Worderplow), liii & et Whitfield, Nicholas, lxiv.
postea.
Whitgift, cxxxiv, cxxxvi.
Ware, 128.
Whitteny (Witney), xlii.
Warkworth, 26, 73, 76, 81.
Whixley (Quixley), Sir John, chap. lxxxvi,
Warrington (Warynton), 99.
lxxxix i, 41, 79.
Warter, Richard, 9b.
Whytehead, Percival, cix.
Warwick, Earl of, (Richard Nevill), lxxv, xcivº, Wiclif, xlvii.
76,18%, (Edward Plantagenet), 54, 89 a. Ri. Widonis, Ricardus filius, xiv*.
chard de, xvi* e. See Index.
Wigmore, 5.
Water (Awater), John, Mayor of Cork, 142", Willelmus filius Serlonis, xv.
Waterton, c, Cxxviii, cxxix, cxxxi, cxxxiii, William son of Ralph, xiiif.
cxxxvii, 136, 220, 223, 232, 235, 237 &, William, Morgan, 206 a.
245, 257a. Sir Robert, lii.
Willingham, 2388
312
INDEX OF PLACES AND PERSONS.
Willough (Wilfe) Park, cxxxv, cxxxvi.
Wormhill, liii 8 et postea.
Willoughby, Lord, 143. Sir Henry, of Wolla Worsley (Wortesley), Sir Walter, lxxi.
ton, 160.
Wortley, Sir Thomas, cx ", 86.
Willymot (Willemett), John, 160.
Woyd, Mr. 221.
Wilson, John, 68. Richard, Recorder, cxxxviii.
Wray, cxxx.
Thomas, ib.
Wressle, 40, 46, 73, 226.
Wilsthorpe (Wivelstrop), Robertus de, xv. Wright, 198.
Miles, 23, 46, 854, 264a. Guy, cxxii. Sir Wroes, William, 55.
Oswald, 235.
Wryghame, of Knaresborough, 202.
Wiltshire, Earl of. See Scrope.
Wulwich, 15.
Winchester, 54. Bishop of, (Henry Beaufort), Wycard, Robert, xxviih.
xlii. Bishop of, (Richard Fox), cxi, 210. Wydmerpole, William, cxxx.
Bishop of, (Stephen Gardiner), 248.
Wygan, Adam de, rector, xxxi.
Windsor, 24. Sir Andrew, 210.
Wymeswold (Wymondeswold), William, 160,
Wingfield, 158."
267.
Wintringham, Thomas, (Alice Dobson), xlix, Wynpenne, John, 82.
Lxxvi, lxxvii, 41, Joan, lxiv, lxxiii, lxxiv, Wythers, John, 205.
lxxvi, lxxvii. John, chap. Ixxxix a.
Wythornwyke, xli c.
Wistow, c, 131 C, 221.
Wodfeld, 217.
Yaxley, John, Sergeant, 152, 153.
Woller, 27b.
Yeo, Nicholas, (Elizabeth), 13b.
Wood, William, chap. lii. Walter, cix. Ri York (Everwyke), xxiv, xxvii, xxxix, xlv, lii,
chard, ib. Lancelot, ib. James, ib.' Myles, ib. lv, lxvii, lxviii, lxxx *, xcvi, cvii, cx, 1, 37,
Thomas, ib. chap. 264 note. Robert, 167. 42, 45, 57, 58, 119, 133, 154, 164, 165 a,
Woodal (Woodhall), 218 a.
173, 181, 183, 206, 250, 253, 265. Sir Ri-
Woodhouse, cxxii ".
chard, 265 note. Richard, cxxvii. See Index.
Woodkirk, 248.
Woodruffe, Francis, of Wolley, 254, See In- | Zouche (Such), Ivo le, xxxi. William le, Lord,
dex.
of Haryngworth and Lord St. Maur (Katha-
Woolden (Wouden), 241.
rine Plumpton), lxxxiii. John Lord, ih. 48,
Worcester, viii, ix, x. Thomas Earl of, 40. 146. William, of Morley, 146.
John, Earl of, (Elizabeth Greyndour), 15b,
17. See Index.
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