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 THE PARISH OF 
 
 HEMINGBEOUGH 
 
 IN THE COUNTY OF YORK
 
 PaiXTED BY 
 
 SI'O'ITISWOODE AND CO., XEW-STUKET SQl'ARK 
 
 LONDON
 
 J Akermm Photo Utn Lor don.
 
 THE 
 
 HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES 
 
 OF THE PAEISH OF 
 
 HEMINaBROUGH 
 
 IN THE COUNTY OF YORK 
 
 By THOMAS BUETON, Esq. 
 
 OF TURNHAM HALL 
 
 EDITED AND ENLARGED BY 
 
 JAMES EAINE, M.A., D.C.L. 
 
 CANON RESIDENTIARY OF YORK 
 
 ^ublisljcb bn 
 
 SAMPSON BEOTHEES 
 YOEK 
 
 1888
 
 PEEFACE. 
 
 It has fallen to my lot on several occasions to be the 
 introducer to the world of the hterary efforts of friends 
 who have been taken away from their work before it was 
 completed. Some are too diffident about the merit of their 
 labours to bring them into the daylight. Others begin too 
 late in life, and lack the special training and educational 
 gifts which make research easy and composition fluent. 
 The world is full of incomplete work. The task of editing 
 the book of a friend is a somewhat melancholy one, but 
 there can be little doubt as to the way in which it ought to 
 be discharged. It seems to me to be the duty of an editor 
 to endeiivour to grasp the mind and the aspirations of his 
 predecessor, and to try to make what has been left as full 
 and as complete as its beginner desired. Perfect accuracy 
 is, of course, an impossibihty ; but no effort should be 
 spared in endeavouring to reach it. This should be the 
 ideal of the editor of such a work as the present, and a 
 true friend will always, I conceive, keep such an ideal 
 before him. Let him never have cause to reproach himself 
 for not seeking to lessen the number of the defects which 
 meet him, by his own earnest and unselfish exertions. 
 
 Thomas Burton, the author of this book, was born at 
 Turnbam Hall, and was baptized in Hemingbrough 
 church on August 31, 1801. He died in the house in 
 which he was born on May 30, 1883. The Burtons had 
 been resident in Hemingbrough for at least two centuries. 
 Mr. Burton's father was engaged in trade in Hull, and, 
 
 22021 BO
 
 VI THE HISTORY OF HEMINGBROUGH. 
 
 thronp^h his marriage with Elizabeth, only child of James 
 Keighley, Esq., became in early life the owner of Turnham 
 Hal], a nice estate, of about 800 acres, on the bank of the 
 Ouse. The house took its name from Robert de Turnham, 
 the famous baron, and, after him, it passed into the hands 
 of such noble families as Mauley, Ros, Scrope, and Man- 
 ners. The genius loci soon exerted its influence upon 
 Thomas Burton, whilst the stately church of the neigh- 
 bouring village of Hemingbrough touched his sympathies 
 in another way. It had a grand history of its own, but 
 the neglect of centuries had brought it to decay. In its 
 ruin, the crumbling fabric seemed to appeal from the 
 present to the past, and to call upon some one to show 
 how it had fared in those better days from which 
 it seemed to be sundered for ever. Thomas Burton 
 answered to the appeal. There are notes and drawings of 
 his, noade soon after he was^ of age, showing in what direc- 
 tion his mind was tending. But opportunities were 
 wanting. He was one, although the eldest son, of a very 
 large family, and he had to make his way in the world for 
 himself. He adopted the profession of a portrait and 
 landscape painter, and much of his work remains to show 
 to what excellence he attained. But, in the pauses of his 
 professional work, Mr. Burton never forgot his antiquarian 
 aspirations. The history of Hemingbrough, like that of 
 every other place, was, of course, to be found in reposi- 
 tories of MSS. With these Mr. Burton made himself 
 acquainted, and, to peruse them with effect, he acquired, 
 with much labour, the power of reading old handwriting, 
 at which so many stumble. He was one of the most pains- 
 taking students that I have ever known. He thought 
 nothing of going to London, or Oxford, where he used to 
 spend every hour of the working day, week after week, in 
 reading through long ranges of muniments, on the mere 
 chance of finding something connected with his own parish 
 in the North.
 
 PREFACE. Vll 
 
 The principal evidences of the history of Heming- 
 brough lie, as is well known, in the muniment room of the 
 Dean and Chapter of Durham, who have inherited the 
 greater part of the documentary treasures of the Prior 
 and Convent of that ancient church. Thither Mr. Burton, 
 of course, went, about the year 1849 or 1850 (if my 
 memory serves me), and there, in the cloistered solitudes 
 of the sacred precinct, he spent several months at a desk, 
 transcribing document after document with eager delight. 
 It was at Durham that he made the acquaintance of the 
 late Dr. Eaine, who loved every honest searcher into the 
 history of the past, and who assisted him in his work, and 
 gave him, unreservedly, the help of his wise and cordial 
 advice. Crook Hall, where Dr. liaine resided, is on the 
 bank of the Wear, among orchards and gardens, in full 
 view of the stately towers of the cathedral and castle, and 
 also of the river, whose waters come streaming down, as if 
 making for the very house, from under the long-drawn 
 arches of what has been erroneously called Eanulph Flam- 
 bard's bridge. Crook Hall is an ancient manor-house of 
 the time of Edward III., upon which a more modern man- 
 sion has been grafted. A fit home for a student it was, 
 quiet and engaging. There was no scholar, passing North 
 and South, who did not find his w^ay thither. In Dr. 
 Raine there was the most charming companionship, and a 
 sympathetic, intelligent appreciation of almost every 
 branch of literary research. He worked hard, and j^nb- 
 lished much himself, but he did even more, if that were 
 possible, by the influence which he exerted over others, 
 and by the school of history of which he was undoubtedly 
 the founder. One after another, those who were brought 
 within the circle of his attraction bowed to his genial 
 influence, and followed his leading. There are many still 
 living who will read these words with thankfulness and 
 pleasure. But how great should be the gratitude of one 
 who had the filial privilege of sitting at his feet, and who
 
 viii THE HISTORY OF HEMINGBROUCH. 
 
 offers as a tribute to the memory of his sire every Uitle 
 success which he himself has been able to achieve. 
 
 Mr. Burton, after gathering together what he could find 
 at Durham and elsewhere, began to put his accumulations 
 into form. It was his intention to publish them, and to 
 dedicate the volume to the Surtees Society, which had 
 done so much for Northern history. This dedication con- 
 stitutes the preface to one of his MS. volumes, but it was 
 abandoned, and the author yielded to the temptation of 
 waiting for fresh matter. He was, in addition, very diffident 
 as to his own powers, and was always making alterations 
 in his MSS. as new facts presented themselves to his notice. 
 
 About the year 1866 a topographical scheme was started 
 which had a considerable influence on Mr. Burton's design. 
 It was resolved, if possible, to make a combined effort to 
 complete the history of Yorkshire. The volumes were to 
 range with Mr. Joseph Hunter's great work on the 
 Deanery of Doncaster, and it was thought desirable that 
 a guarantee fund of not less than 2,000^. should be pro- 
 vided for each Wapentake, to insure the carrying out of 
 the scheme in a satisfactory way, and to protect the 
 writers from any pecuniary loss. Three gentlemen pro- 
 mised the editor of this volume the funds requisite for 
 four Wapentakes, and more, no doubt, would have come 
 forward if the project had been more widely known ; but 
 the scheme came to an end, through the want of writers 
 and collectors of sufficient calibre and experience. The 
 materials for such a general history are much larger and 
 more accessible now than they were then ; but there is 
 still a great need of further inquiry and research, before 
 any History of Yorkshire can be written in a satisfactory 
 manner. 
 
 In the scheme which has just been mentioned, the 
 writer was too greatly interested not to take an active 
 part himself ; and he made himself responsible for tlie 
 gathering together of materials for the history of the small
 
 PREFACE. IX 
 
 Wapentake which takes its name from the rivers Ouse 
 and Derwent, by which it is chiefly bounded, and at the 
 south-eastern extremity of which the parish of Heming- 
 brough Hes. Mr. Burton, I need not say, regarded this 
 undertaking with great favour, and was most willing that 
 the materials which he had already collected should be 
 used and included in the larger work. For this under- 
 taking a large body of information has been collected by 
 the writer, which, except for the purposes of the present 
 volume, is as yet unused. 
 
 The later years of Mr. Burton's life were spent at Turn- 
 ham Hall, of which he became the owner at his father's 
 death. He amused himself with rural pursuits, and en- 
 joyed the rest of which his advanced age stood in need. 
 But his care for the History of Hemingbrough never de- 
 serted him. Not many years before his death, he had a 
 scheme for coming to reside in York, that he might be 
 able to complete it, and he specially asked me to allow 
 him the use of what I had collected myself. His request, 
 I need not say, met with a glad assent ; indeed, I had 
 given him already many things that had occurred to me, 
 in which he took the most lively interest. In the sprino- 
 of 1883 he paid me two visits in York. The chief object 
 of his coming was the publication of the History of Hem- 
 ingbrough, and to prevail upon me to bring it out after 
 his decease, in combination with my own collections about 
 the parish. I did not see my way at the time to assent to 
 his request. I w^ell remember the conversation of that last 
 evening, and how my old friend opened his mind to me. 
 We parted, neither of us imagining that we should never 
 meet again in this world.' Within a fortnight I heard of 
 his decease. He had passed away in his own home, carried 
 off by one of those comparatively slight ailments which 
 are formidable only to the aged ; and he rests not far 
 from the fine tower of the old parish church to which he 
 was so deeply attached.
 
 X THE HISTORY OF HEMIXGBROUGH. 
 
 The request which Mr. Burton made to me, over and 
 over ao-ain, in his life-time was renewed in his Will ; and 
 the present volume indicates my compliance with it. The 
 reader will, therefore, understand what this book is. It 
 is the combination of two different collections of materials, 
 and the plan adopted is that which Mr. Burton and myself 
 regarded as the best. Mr. Burton's MSS. were prepared 
 in the most neat and methodical way, but they required 
 considerable alteration and abridgment. This has been 
 done in accordance wdth his request. Some portions have 
 been almost entirely re- written ; to others large additions 
 have been made, especially to the ecclesiastical part of the 
 work ; and also to the pedigrees, a branch of archaeological 
 research of the most fascinating kind. The history of the 
 land is the best representation of Mr. Burton's own work, 
 and very much of it is in his own words, with additions 
 and illustrations. For the architectural description of the 
 church Mr. Burton was mainly indebted to Mr. Coad, a 
 pupil of the late Sir Gilbert Scott. The account of Barlby 
 and one or two other places was left unfinished and re- 
 quired much attention. 
 
 The parish of Hemingbrough had the honor of being 
 singled out by John Burton, M.D., the author of the 
 " Monasticon Eboracense," to serve as a pattern of the way 
 in which he proposed to treat a General History of the 
 county. He chose it because he was at that time, in 
 right of his wife, the owner of the estate of Woodhall in 
 the parish. His " History of Yorkshire" began and 
 ended there ; indeed, if it could have been carried out, 
 as its designer wished, it would have been thoroughly 
 inadequate. 
 
 At the time that John Burton was making his pre23ara- 
 tions, William Potter, the Vicar of Hemmgbrough, was 
 quietly putting together in a volume a number of notices 
 of his parish and people, which have been of much use, 
 and for the loan of which the writer has to thank Mr.
 
 PREFACE. XI 
 
 E. T. Clark of Cowick. The effort of Thomas Burton 
 far surpasses all the labours of his predecessors, although 
 there are deficiencies and weak places in it which I have 
 been unable to fill up or amend. If the early Register of 
 Howdenshire Wills, which James Torre saw about the 
 year 1680, had been now in existence, it would have sup- 
 plied a wealth of illustration for the history of the whole 
 district. 
 
 This book is humbly offered as a sample of the way in 
 which the history of a country parish may be written. If 
 it had formed a part of the annals of a whole Wapentake, 
 considerable curtailment would have been necessary ; as 
 it is, much has been omitted which appeared to be of 
 minor importance. My readers must judge for themselves 
 whether too much has been retained. But, putting this 
 aside, I do most earnestly plead, in behalf of our parishes 
 and towns, that they who essay to write their history will 
 at least take the pams to make original researches, instead 
 of contenting themselves with extracts from printed books 
 and newspapers, many of which are of no authority what- 
 ever. There are materials for the history of a great 
 number of the Yorkshire parishes quite as abundant as 
 those which have been unearthed for Hemingbrough. Has 
 the natale solum lost its sweetness ? There are writers 
 enough, but of what kind ? One untrained person after 
 another springs up, and writes, and, of course, prints 
 almost immediately, the history of a place, as he calls it 
 upon the title-page of his book. What a misnomer ! I 
 am not blaming the enterprise of the writer, or his long- 
 ing to do honour to what is, probably, his birthplace. 
 Instead of that, I honour the feeling by which he is, no 
 doubt, animated. All I say is, that if the place is worthy 
 of the affection he bestows on it, as it probably is, it" is 
 worthy of a greater effort than he has cared to make in 
 its behalf. If he is untrained, let him prepare himself. 
 Let me urge him not to be in a hurry, but to wait and
 
 Xll THE HISTORY OF HEMIXGBROUGH. 
 
 acquire. So many records and evidences are being printed 
 every year, that history, whether local or general, will 
 soon have some chance of being written with precision 
 and exactness. And yet this progress is too slow for 
 some who wish to be in advance of it. " The more haste, 
 the worse speed." 
 
 Had this volmne been printed by Mr. Burton himself, 
 he would, no doubt, have thanked some for their help, 
 whose very names, perhaps, are unknown to the writer. 
 When they turn over the pages of this book, may it be a 
 pleasure to them to think that they have had a hand in it. 
 Unknown as they are to myself, I thank them heartily for 
 the kind service which they rendered to my friend. On 
 my own part, I have received help from many, wherever, 
 indeed, it was sought, and especially from tlie Rev. C. B. 
 Norcliffe and John Sykes, M.D., upon whose unvarying 
 kindness and willing aid I can always rely. 
 
 J. R. 
 
 York : Dec. 1888.
 
 ERKATA ET ADDENDA. 
 
 p. 2, note, line 31, right hand, for espectamento read espeltamento. 
 
 P. 21, line 5 from end, /or Miss Burton, read Miss Beatrice Burton. So also 
 on p. 45, line 16. 
 
 P. 74. On Dec. 1, 1576, the administration of the effects of Wm. Whytehead, 
 vicar of Heighington, was granted at Durham to his brother, Thos. W. of Monk- 
 wearmouth, gen. 
 
 Thos. W. made his will 20th Jan., 1579-80, proved at Durham Jan. 3, 1590-1, 
 in which he mentions his wife Barbara, and his children, Hugh, Eobert, George, 
 and Henry, Catherine and Mary W. 
 
 P. 103. A small but kind attempt to remedy this state of things was made in 
 Oct. 1880, when the York Diocesan Church Extension Society made a grant of 
 300Z. towards the improvement of the endowment of the living. 
 
 P. 135, line 9, John Morfit. He was admitted to serve the cure of Horsforth 
 Chapel at the nomination of Henry Wickham, rector of Guiseley, on Oct. 26, 1744. 
 On Dec. 20, 1750, he was instituted to the vicarage of Scarborough at the presen- 
 tation of Wm. Thompson, Esq. of Humbleton. Mr. Morfit died in 1782. 
 
 P. 154, line 24, for Morris read Francis Morice. 
 
 P. 219, line 4. William Maunsell was one of Cromwell's creatures, and on that 
 account was especially disliked. Writing to Sir Arthur Darcy after Aske's Eebellion, 
 he says that a proclamation had been issued in Eichmondshire that he should be be- 
 headed, if caught. In the State Papers for 1536, p. 555, there is a deeply interest- 
 ing confession of Thos. Maunsell, vicar of Brayton, William's brother, who was on 
 the side of the rebels. If it be true, Wm. Maunsell was anxious to be with the 
 winning party. 
 
 P. 269, line 4. This is scarcely correct. A fishpond, 120 yards long, in front of 
 the house, is a remnant of one of the ancient moats, although much altered. In 
 the cellar and staircase of the house are some ancient beams, probably of the 14th 
 century. 
 
 P. 273, line 21, for Gallicia read Galicia. 
 
 P. 283, line 21, for south-west read south-east. 
 
 P. 284, line 1, read Arthur Frederick Burton, Esq.
 
 INTRODUCTION. 
 
 The Wapentake of Ouse and Derwent, in which the parish 
 of Hemingbrongh is situated, is bounded by the two rivers 
 which give to the district their names. The Ouse runs 
 along the west and south sides, and the Derwent on the 
 east, to their confluence about a mile distant from the village 
 of Hemingbrongh. The greatest length of the Wapentake 
 from north to south is about seventeen miles ; its greatest 
 breadth, from Cawood towards Ellerton, is nearly ten. 
 The Wapentake may be said to run almost from York to 
 Selby. The parish of Hemingbrough with its seven town- 
 ships — viz. Hemingbrough, Brackenholme cum Woodhall, 
 South Duffield, Menthorpe cum Bowthorpe, ClifFe cum 
 Lund, Osgodby, and Barlby — occupies its southern ex- 
 tremity, and has a larger share than any other parish in 
 the two rivers and their winding-s. 
 
 The whole Wapentake is an almost continuous plane, 
 without a stream or hill to break its surface. The highest 
 ground is the ridge which runs from Stillingfleet on the 
 Ouse to the east of Escrick (which means the Esk or Ash 
 Ridge) . A similar eminence may be traced from Heslington 
 towards Stamford Bridge. But although hills are absent, 
 there is beauty to be found in the windmgs of the rivers 
 and in many a house and village in this richly-wooded 
 country. 
 
 The greater part of the district, like Holderness and 
 most of Howdenshire, consists of alluvial deposits. 
 In early times a very considerable portion of the 
 Wapentake was covered with timber. It was called the 
 Forest between the Ouse and Derwent, and was part of 
 the king's demesne, regulated and superintended by his 
 officers. This forest occupied the centre of the Wapen- 
 take, the villages and hamlets being generally on its 
 outskirts. The end of the forest southward was called 
 Bab thorpe- bushes or Woodhead ; to the north it termi-
 
 THE HISTORY OF HEMINGBROUGH. 
 
 nated with the Hay of Langwith, which belonged to the 
 Dean and Cliapter of York. The centre was about Escrick 
 and Thorganby, and tliere the timber was most thick. 
 There is no ancient perambulation of the forest in existence. 
 It was regulated by a seneschal, taken from the family of 
 Neville. The office of Head- Forester, or Serjeant, was 
 hereditary in the family of C a wood, from which it came 
 by the marriage of Alice, or Isabel, daughter of Adam 
 Cawood, to Thomas Aunger^ and his descendants. There 
 were also three Verderers in the 4th of Henry III., which 
 office was hereditary in the families of Helmsley, Skipwith, 
 and Babthorpe. This forest or royal chase was disafforested 
 on July 14th, 1234.- But it must not be supposed that 
 
 ' In the Inq. p. m. of Thos. son and 
 heir of Eoger Aunger dec'', dated 8 Nov. 
 3rd Edw. IV., it is said that he died a 
 minor, and the king's ward, on 21 Jan. 
 2nd Edw. IV. He was seized of a fee 
 of five messuages, 3 tofts, 66 acres of 
 arable land, and 4 of meadow in Ca- 
 wood, held of the king in grand ser- 
 jeantry, for keeping the king's deer in 
 the forest between Ouse and Derwent — 
 worth 40s. per ann. Alex"' Aunger is 
 found to be his son and heir, ast. 5 years 
 and more. The Probatio ^Etatis of the 
 said Alex'' is preserved showing that he 
 was born at Cawood on the feast of 
 S. Vincentius, 36th Hen. VI., and that 
 he was bapt. in Cawood church on 
 the same day by John Jonson, the 
 vicar. 
 
 * Henricus Dei gratia rex Anglife, 
 dominus Hyberniff, dux Normannise 
 et Aquitaniffi et comes Andegavensis, 
 archiepiscopis, episcopis, abbatibus, 
 prioribus, etc., etc., et fidelibus suis 
 salutem. Sciatis nos concessisse et hac 
 jjrffisenti carta nostra contirmasse, pro 
 nobis et heredibus nostris, venerabilibus 
 jjatribus W. archiepiscopo Eboracensi 
 et E. episcopo Dunelmensi, et dilectis 
 et fidelibus nostris Eoberto abbati 
 SanctiB Mariffi Eboracensis, et comiti- 
 bus, baronibus, militibus, et liberis ho- 
 minibus, et omnibus aliis tarn clericis 
 quamlaicisterrashabentibus inter Usam 
 et Derewent in comitatu Eboracensi, 
 quod tota foresta nostra inter Usam et 
 Derewent sit deaforestata imperpetuum 
 pro nobis et heredibus nostris : itaquod 
 omnes terrfe et tenementa inter Usam 
 et Derewent sint quieta de vasto, et re- 
 gardo, et visu forestariorum et virida- 
 riorum et omnium ministrorum suorum, 
 et placitis forestae et forestariorum tam 
 
 de venatione quam de viridi, et de om- 
 nibus quffi ad forestam vel forestarios 
 aut viridarios pertinent, et quod omnes 
 terras tenentes inter Usam et Derewent, 
 et eorum successores et heredes, possint 
 claudere boscos suos et parcos inde 
 facere, si voluerint, vel assartare quan- 
 tum, quando, vel ubi voluerint cum per- 
 tinentiis suis et pro voluntate sua de 
 boscis suis facere, dare, vendere, capere, 
 et capi facere, et venationem capere sine 
 visu et omni contradictione forestari- 
 orum, viridariorum, et regardatorum, et 
 omnium ministrorum suorum, et quic- 
 quid inde ceperint vel capi fecerint, 
 dederint, vel vendiderint, attrahere 
 possint et attrahi facere libera et 
 pacifice cum libertate chimini absque 
 contradictione et reclamatione et im- 
 pedimento forestariorum quacunque oc- 
 casion e, et quod omnes bosci inter Usam 
 et Derewent cam pertinentiis suis, et 
 assarta inde facta et facienda sint quieta 
 de vasto et regardo et visu foi-esta- 
 riorum, viridariorum, et regardatorum, 
 et quod omnes homines infra Usam et 
 Derewent, et assarta inde facta et 
 facienda et pertinentia eorum, manentes, 
 sint quieti de sectis suainmotorum et 
 omni placito forestariorum foresta;, et 
 espectamento canum, et de omnibus 
 summonitionibus, placitis, querelis, et 
 occasionibus ad forestam vel forestarios 
 pertinentibus, sal vis tamen prsdicto 
 E. episcopo et ecclesiis Dunelmensi et 
 suecessoribus suis libertatibus et liberis 
 consuetudinibus eis ante hanc conces- 
 sionem nostram concessis per prfede- 
 cessores nostros reges Anglic, ita 
 videlicet quod per hanc libertatem nos- 
 tram prffdictis archiepiseoijo et abbati 
 Eboracensibus, comitibus, baronibus, 
 militibus, et liberis hominibus, et om-
 
 INTRODUCTION. 6 
 
 the timber was immediately cut down. The king's charter 
 merely sanctioned the removal of the wood by those to 
 whom the lands had at that time been granted, and the 
 demolition would be slow, if it was ever completed at all. 
 It is impossible to traverse the district Avithout seeing how 
 it still retains somewhat of its ancient character, not only 
 in the hedo-erows, but in the woods as well. In the be- 
 ginnmg of the present century there were several thousands 
 of acres of unenclosed ground in the district, and much of 
 the land is still of such a character that, if assisted by the 
 neglect of a comparatively small number of years, it would 
 easily relapse into its primitive condition. The preva- 
 lence of such names as "hursts," "reins," " hayes," 
 " haggs," " thwaites," and "riddings," shows what in- 
 roads have been made upon the ancient woodlands of the 
 district. The former vesture of the ground has been kept 
 under without being killed. With the slightest encourage- 
 ment it wouhl quickly reapj)ear and make another ridding 
 indispensable. 
 
 As the whole Wapentake is so flat and low, and so 
 easily overflowed, the maintenance of the drainage and the 
 banks of the rivers has always been a matter of consider- 
 able importance, especially in the southern part of the 
 district. Courts of Sewers were appointed at a very early 
 period. A commission to look to the sewers within the 
 liberties of the Bishop of Durham was appointed in the 
 26th of Edward III. The chief Acts of Parliament re- 
 lating to the subject are 6th Henry VI. cap. 5 ; 23rd 
 Henry VIII. cap. 2 ; loth Elizabeth, cap. 9. A private 
 Act for the better drainage of Ouse and Derwent was 
 obtained in the year 1854. From the operation of this 
 Act the greater part of the parish of Hemingbrough is 
 exempt. This was due to a petition praying to be ex- 
 
 nibus aliis tarn clericis quam laicis patre N. Karliolensi episcopo, G. Mares- 
 
 terias habentibus inter Usam et Dere- callo comite Penbr', H. de Boun comite 
 
 went concessam, nullum fiat vel fieri Hereford, Godefrido de Craucunib, 
 
 possit praejudicium dicto Episcopo et Johanne filio Galfridi, Johanne filio 
 
 eeclesise Dunelmensi de libertatibus suis Philippi, GalMdo Dispensatore, Gai- 
 
 eis prius concessis inter Usam et Dere- frido de Cawz, Her' de Capella, et aliis. 
 
 went a prasdecessoribus nostris regibus Datum per manum venerabilis Magistri 
 
 Anglise, sicut prsdictum est ; quare Radulfi Cycestrensis episcopi Cancel- 
 
 volumus et firmiter praecipimus pro larii nostri, apud Westmonasterium, 
 
 nobis et h^redibus nostris quod tota quarto decimo die Julii, anno regni 
 
 foresta, etc., sicut pradictum est nostri decimo octavo. 
 [Repetition^ Hiis testibus venerabili 
 
 B 2
 
 4 THE HISTORY OF HEMINGBEOUGri. 
 
 eluded from the provisions of the Act, as it would not 
 benefit the present drainage, and would add materially to 
 the charges on the petitioners. 
 
 The district between Ouse and Derwent is an agricul- 
 tural one, and thinly populated. Formerly more trades 
 were followed in the country villages than at present, and 
 weaving was comparatively common. The neighbourhood 
 of increasing towns has dried up these sources of industry 
 by drawing away the workers. The agricultural labourer 
 also is more and more desertino- his native villaQ:e for the 
 town, where he has more companions, and can earn a 
 higher wage. The fishing interest has also gone greatly 
 down in the district. The destruction of the fish, the 
 impediments in the shape of locks and weirs, with other 
 causes as well, have minimised the gains of the fishermen. 
 There used to be many fisheries for salmon in the parish 
 of Hemingbrough, bat these are now few and poor. 
 
 Another reason for the deterioration and impoverish- 
 ment of the district has undoubtedly been the disappear- 
 ance of the ecclesiastical proprietary. The Bishop and 
 Prior and Convent of Durham ; St. Mary's Abbey, York ; 
 the Abbeys or Priories of Selby, Drax, Ellerton, Thicket 
 and Fountains, had formerly great interests in the Wapen- 
 take which they duly attended to, but it was otherwise 
 with the aliens to whom their estates passed, and who 
 were not in touch with the inhabitants of the district. 
 The people of the Wapentake must have been proud to 
 have the Bishop of Durham residing so often at Welehall 
 or Howden, and the Archbishop of York at Cawood or 
 Bisho]^tliorpe. On no part of the country did the in- 
 equalities and hardships inflicted by the Reformation fall 
 with more cruel force. The residences at Welehall, How- 
 den and Cawood are dismantled or gone ; Selby, Howden, 
 Hemingbrough, were plundered of their endowments and 
 left witli no decent substitute whatever. These ecclesias- 
 tical changes aroused many angry passions. The rising 
 called the " Pilgrimage of Grace " had its origin on the 
 banks of the Derwent, spreading into Howdenshire and 
 Holderness, and Robert Aske, one of its chief leaders, lived 
 in the home of his ancestry at Aughton. The punishment 
 which was meted out to the insurgrents was lono; remem- 
 bered. In no part of Yorkshire were there so many persons
 
 INTRODUCTION. 
 
 who clung to their old faith and practice. The sahsequent 
 history of the Babthorpes will give a graphic picture of 
 this. Tlie parish churches were served by men who were 
 either Roman CathoKcs in disguise, or very inadequate 
 representatives of the new system, to which they professed 
 their obedience, and the consequent lowering of the moral 
 and religious tone of the people followed as a matter of 
 course. This declension had no little bearing, probably, 
 npon the increasing non-residence of the landowners in 
 the district. lieslington and Escrick have indeed been 
 continuously tenanted, and the Palmes's have clung^ to 
 Naburn in unbroken succession from the time of King 
 John, but the larger resident landowners have become 
 fewer and fewer. They lived where they had a fairer 
 country and more congenial companions. The estates- 
 men, indeed, held for many a generation to their ancestral 
 holdings. One great feature in the parish of Hemingbrough, 
 as in other places, has been the large number of yeomen 
 who have been occupants or owners of the same lands for 
 several centuries. Prior to the Reformation the utmost 
 consideration was shown to their tenantry by the ecclesi- 
 astical landlords ; rents were low-ered in hard times, 
 arrears were often excused, and every young lad of 
 promise could easily find his way to be educated and then 
 sent to a university, through the assistance of the 
 religious establishment with which his father was con- 
 nected. The Reformation dissolved much of this friendly 
 relationship, but it made little difference in the tenancies. 
 In one point, indeed, the yeomen had an advantage, as, 
 through the breaking up of the monastic estates, more 
 land came into the market, and the tenant was able to 
 accumulate it as far as his means allowed, where no chance 
 had been open to him before. Once acquired, it was clung 
 to with the utmost pertinacity. Small although it might 
 be in quantity, it sufficed for the needs of those whose 
 requirements were few. A very aged lady, who, if she 
 had been alive now, would have been 130 years old, told 
 an informant of mine that in her youth there was only 
 one yeoman in Barlby who did not live upon his own 
 land. The same was the case, more or less, in the other 
 townships of the parish of Hemingbrough. There are 
 twenty or thirty families of the rank of yeomen whose
 
 6 
 
 THE HISTORY OF HEMIXGBROUGH. 
 
 pedigrees can be traced back Avith little difficulty for 300 
 years and more, some livino^ continuously on the same 
 property, the rest never residing very far away from the 
 acres which had once been theirs. The general depression 
 and decay of the agricultural interest has brought much 
 of that to an end. With unremunerative prices, the few 
 acres, so long treasured, cannot maintain the owner and 
 his family, however industrious they may be. They are 
 first mortgaged, and then parted with, albeit with many 
 a bitter pang ; and then the new men come in, with little 
 or no care for anything that is old. 
 
 The following tabulated chart will show the variations 
 in the population of the parish during the present 
 century. 
 
 Population Returns. 
 
 Hemingbrough 
 
 Brackenholme ctim Woodhall 
 
 South Duffield 
 
 Menthorpe cum Bowthorpe . 
 
 Cliffe cum Lund 
 
 Osgodby 
 
 Barlby cum Holme .... 
 
 1801 
 
 387 
 65 
 160 
 61 
 424 
 146 
 241 
 
 1,484 
 
 1811 
 
 1821 
 
 1831 
 
 1841 
 
 475 
 
 77 
 
 224 
 
 82 
 540 
 
 168 
 387 
 
 1851 
 
 1861 
 
 1871 
 
 1881 
 
 429 
 79 
 177 
 53 
 459 
 158 
 263 
 
 1,618 
 
 500 
 90 
 181 
 49 
 501 
 185 
 349 
 
 466 
 69 
 202 
 59 
 490 
 170 
 348 
 
 528 
 74 
 187 
 78 
 574 
 185 
 433 
 
 579 
 102 
 236 
 69 
 615 
 225 
 471 
 
 580 
 113 
 221 
 69 
 614 
 223 
 524 
 
 550 
 100 
 193 
 49 
 641 
 225 
 513 
 
 1,855 
 
 1,804 
 
 1,953 
 
 2,059 
 
 2,297 
 
 2,3442,271 
 
 We are fortunately able to compare with these returns 
 the evidence as to the population in 1379, which is dis- 
 closed by a portion of the Poll Tax for Howdenshire, 
 taken in that year. From this ecclesiastics and children 
 were excluded. We have the returns for Heminorbrouo;h, 
 Cliffe, South Duffield, Barlby, Bowthorpe, and Bracken- 
 holme, and they afford some very valuable statistics. 
 
 At Hemingbrough 159 persons are mentioned. There 
 were 45 married couples. If we allow to each family four 
 children, and suppose that there were eight ecclesiastics in 
 the village, we have a population of about 350. 
 
 There were in the village a merchant and a mercer, a 
 smith or blacksmith, a wright or carpenter, two websters 
 or weavers, seven maltsters, and eleven men and women to 
 whom the title of braciatrix or brewer is given. Then we 
 have Richard Cobler and Emma Sowter, both shoemakers 
 or menders, Robert Kempster, a labourer, together with
 
 INTRODUCTION". 7 
 
 Tom the SwiDelierd and Thomas Tliresher, names clearly 
 mdicating their professions. Seven persons are called 
 husbands, or husbandmen, corresponding to the modern 
 formers, whilst seventeen men and women were called 
 labourers, and forty-two servants. We have thus a 
 picture of the village. Two fairly sized shops where 
 cloth and groceries would be sold by the merchant and 
 mercer, who would drive a rare trade ; a smithy, a 
 carpenter's shop ; several hostelries also for public enter- 
 tainment. Ale and beer would be what they would offer 
 for sale, and these seem to have been brewed in many 
 places in the village. 
 
 At Cliffe there are 160 persons mentioned, and there 
 were 48 married couples ; allowing each couple four 
 children, we have a population of 352, about the same as 
 Hemingbrough. There were living in the village WiUiam 
 Pulter, who is styled a franklin, John Pulter, a merchant, 
 a brewster, four maltsters, a ]Dulter or poulterer, a sowter or 
 shoemaker, four tailors, a miller, and a wright or carpenter. 
 There was a swineherd to lead his flock among the acorns, 
 and Margaret Semester, whose mission must have been to 
 adorn the ladies of the villao-e with the newest fashions 
 
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 from York. There were twenty-one husbands or farmers 
 in the village, with twenty-four labourers and twenty-four 
 servants. The village, therefore, depended upon agricul- 
 ture even more than Hemingbrough. 
 
 At Barlby there were 96 persons, and 39 married 
 couples, so that we have a probable population of 252. 
 There were in the village a merchant with his shop, a 
 shoemaker, two websters, two maltsters, and a fisherman. 
 The farming population was considerable, as there were as 
 many as thirty-two husbandmen, with the small number 
 of six labourers and seven servants, showing that the 
 farmers had but small holdings, and did most of their own 
 work. The fisherman would throw his net for salmon at 
 Turnhead. 
 
 At Bowthorpe there are 33 persons mentioned, but by 
 assigning four children to each of the 10 married couples 
 who were there we have a population of 73. There were 
 eight husbands or farmers, seven servants and a labourer. 
 There were residing in the hamlet Edmund Metham, 
 Esq., Elizabeth his wife, and two servants ; also Richard
 
 8 THE HISTORY OF HEMINGBROUGH. 
 
 Garten, a franklin, and Thomas de Northeby, merchant, 
 and Magota, his wife. She is called a brewster, and 
 brewed the ale, probably, of the village. Her husband 
 was a York tradesman, and had a country house, and 
 probably some country trade as well. 
 
 At South Duffield 76 persons are mentioned, and 29 
 married couples, showing a probable population of 192. 
 Robert son of Thomas de Haddlesay was a franklin, and 
 there were in the village fifteen farmers, fifteen labourers, 
 seven servants, a carpenter, two websters, and two tailors. 
 
 At Brackenholrae there were 67 persons, and 20 
 married couples, making up the number of 147. There 
 were nine farmers, fourteen labourers, sixteen servants, a 
 tailor, a smith, and a kempster. There were also two 
 franklins in the hamlet, i.e. Richard Middleton and 
 Robert Babthorpe. With the latter, Agnes, his mother, 
 was living as a servant ; Richard, his son, was a farmer, 
 and John, his son, a labourer. 
 
 It is evident, therefore, that in the smallest villages 
 the population was much the same as it is at the present 
 day. There were fewer persons in 1379 than there are 
 now in Hemingbrough, Cliffe, and Barlby. 
 
 I have drawn up from these curious returns a list of 
 the christian names which are there recorded, and the 
 number of times they occur. There are some of them 
 which might very properly be restored. The name of 
 Mary is absent — nay, it occurs but thrice on the Poll Tax 
 returns for the whole of the West Riding. The name 
 was deemed to be too sacred for family use. Joan has 
 given place to Jane, and Agnes to Anne. The most 
 popular name was Alice, which is comparatively rare now. 
 
 Among the men, as at the present day, John, William, 
 Robert, and Thomas have the decided pre-eminence. 
 
 Did space permit, a few remarks might be made on 
 the composition and origin of surnames. 
 
 Christian Names op Men. 
 
 Adam, 11 
 
 Hugh, 4 
 
 Robert, 30 
 
 Alan, 1 
 
 James, 1 
 
 Roger, 3 
 
 David, 1 
 
 John, 80 
 
 Simon, 2 
 
 Edmund, 1 
 
 Nicholas, 1 
 
 Stephen, 1 
 
 Elias, 2 
 
 Peter, 2 
 
 Thomas, 24 
 
 Galfrid, 2 
 
 Ralph, 1 
 
 Walter, 6 
 
 Henry, 10 
 
 Richard, 13 
 
 William, 5Q
 
 INTRODUCTION, 
 
 Christian Names of Women. 
 
 Agatha, 1 
 Agnes, 42 
 Alice, 66 
 
 Ainicia and Amy, 3 
 Avicia, 4 
 Cecilia, 17 
 Christiana, 7 
 Custancia, 3 
 Dyonisia, 2 
 Dyota, 1 
 
 Elizabeth, 4 
 Ellen, 23 
 Emma, 23 
 Eva, 1 
 Idonea, 1 
 Isabella, 25 
 Isolda, Isot, 2 
 Joan, 37 
 Juliana, 13 
 
 Katherine, 5 
 Magota, 3 
 Margaret, 11 
 Marion, 1 
 Marjory, Mar', 4 
 Matilda, 12 
 Sara, 1 
 Sibilla, 1 
 Sissota, 3 
 
 THE VILLAGE OF HEMINGBROUGH. 
 
 The parish of Hemingbrough fills up, as we have 
 said before, the southern extremity of the Wapentake of 
 the Ouse and Derwent, and the village lies not far from the 
 Ouse, about two miles below Selby. The name signifies, 
 probably, the birig or burg of Hemma or Hemming, some 
 very ancient landowner or chieftain. Hemming is a com- 
 mon Norse name in old times, and Hemma occurs in the 
 Liber Yiise of the monastery of Durham. The place is 
 called Hamiburg in the Domesday Survey. 
 
 What was the birig or burg ? Some have thought 
 that there was an ancient tower or fort near or on the 
 site of the present church, of wliich some remnants may 
 exist in the rude grit-stones which may be observed in the 
 west wall of that building. The tradition runs that the 
 Romans had a series of forts on the banks of the river, two 
 miles or so apart, to keep the navigation open, and that 
 there was one here. Of this there is no proof, however 
 probable it may be. A single copper coin of Victorinus, 
 found in the village, is the only token of the presence of a 
 Roman on the spot. It must be remarked, however, that 
 the church stood originally on the bank of the river, in a 
 position which commanded a clear view for a considerable 
 distance up and down the stream. It is easy to suppose 
 that the Danes found an old watchtower on the river bank, 
 of which one of them named Hemming took possession 
 and called after his name. The picturesqueness, as well 
 as the usefulness of the village, has been considerably 
 lessened by the withdrawal of the Ouse to a fresh channel.
 
 10 THE HISTORY OF HEMINGBEOUGH. 
 
 The village of Hemingbrongli is long and straggling, 
 with very few good houses in it, and all built of brick. It 
 lies contiguous to Cliffe. Not very man)?- years ago in the 
 middle of the street there was a building called the toll- 
 booth, the capital of the village government. That has 
 disappeared, together with the administration of which it 
 was the centre. The villagers are almost entirely devoted 
 to agricultural pursuits, all the little local trades having 
 disappeared. There are no litsters or websters or glovers 
 in Hemingbrough and the district now. The larger towns 
 have drawn them in, and the population of the country 
 districts generally is growing less and less. Selby lies 
 only at a short distance, and access to York itself is now 
 comparatively easy. The village is not Avhat it once was. 
 A decaying and neglected church is by for the most con- 
 spicuous building in the parish and district. Heming- 
 brough broach, as it is called, is one of the landmarks of 
 the country, and can be seen for many miles in almost 
 every direction. 
 
 Hemingbrough has been regarded as a part of Howden- 
 shire. The early history of the two districts is different. 
 
 How^denshire, by some early and unknown grant, 
 belonged to the rich monastery of Peterborough, but was 
 taken from it by Edward the Confessor for some reason 
 with wdiich we are not acquainted. At the time of the 
 Domesday Survey, Howdenshire was the property of Wil- 
 liam of St. Calais, Bishop of Durham, and his successors, 
 by the gift of William the Conqueror. (Liber Vitse, 176.) 
 
 Hemingbrough, when the great Survey was taken, was 
 in the king's hand, having been previously in that of 
 Tosti, or, as the charter of William to Durham asserts, in 
 those of the Earls Tosti and Siward, showing that it was 
 an appanage of the earldom. It is extremely ]:>robable 
 that the men of Hemingbrough joined their feudal lord in 
 his insurrection against Harold, and fought and fell by 
 his side at the battle of Stamford Bridge. The rebellion 
 of Tosti would bring Hemingbrough by forfeiture to the 
 king. William gave it, shortly before his death, to God 
 and St. Cuthbert, and the Prior and Monks serving God 
 at Durham. The entry in Domesday is — 
 
 In Hamiburg sunt ad geld' iii carucatte quas possunt arare ii 
 carucse. Hoc tenuit Tosti pro uno manerio, modo liabet rex ibi v
 
 THE VILLAGE. 11 
 
 villanos et iii bordarios cum ii carucis. Presbiter et fecclesia ibi est. 
 Prati acr?e vii. Silvje pasc' dim. leucfe long' et tantum lat'. Intra 
 totum j leuca long, et dim. lat. T. R. E. val. xl s. modo xvi sol. 
 
 The grant of the Conqueror runs as follows : — 
 
 In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti Amen. Ego Willel- 
 mus rex Anglorum hereditario jure factus, do et concede, et pr?esenti 
 carta confirmo Deo et Sancto Cuthberto et Priori et monachis ibidem 
 Peo servituris, in perpetuam et puram elemosinam, hoc regium mane- 
 rium meum, videlicet villam de Hemmyngburgh, cum omni terra de 
 P>rachenholm, et cum omnibus terris adjacentibus, cum ecclesia villa? 
 prsedictae, et cunctis rebus eidem pertinentibus, in bosco et piano, 
 moris ac prato, silvis et paludibus, aquis, molendinis, ac stagnis, cum 
 mere et mere, et sac et socne, et tol et team, et infangenthef, et 
 omnibus rectis divisis ejus, ita bene et quiete et libere cum rectitudinibus 
 et oi inibus consuetudinibus, sicut unquam Sanctus Cuthbertus alias 
 terras suas melius et quietius habuit, cum omnibus consuetudinibus 
 regiis et libertatibus quas ego habui in ipso dum illud post victoriam 
 Anglise in manu propria tenui, per easdem divisas quas ego ipse, seu 
 ante me comites Tostius vel Siwardus, ipsum manerium tenuimus. 
 Quod si quis in posterum banc donacionem meam irritare pra;sump- 
 serit, a Domini consorcio separetur, et condempnacione extremi 
 judicii cum diabolo et angelis ejus in perpetuum feriatur. Amen. Et 
 ut hfec donacio mea tirma sit in perpetuum, manu propria pra?sentem 
 cartam signo sanctae crucis + impressi, et confirmavi. ^ Signum 
 Willelmi + Regis Anglife. Signum + Thomae Eboracensis Archi- 
 episcopi. Signum Willelmi + Dunelmensis Episcopi. Signum 
 Johannis + Bathoniensis Episcopi. Signum + Osmundi Salesberiensis 
 Episcopi. Sig + num Baldewini Abbatis Sancti Eadmundi. Signum 
 Widonis + Abbatis. Signum + Willelmi filii regis. Signum Roberti 
 Co + mitis Northymbria?. Signum Hugonis + Comitis de Cestre. 
 Signum Rogerii + Comitis Scrobesberiensis. Signum Arnoldi + de 
 Perceio. Signum Ricardi de + Curceio. Signum + Philippi filii 
 Comitis de Cestre. Signum + Morealis Vicecomitis. Signum Philippi 
 + filii Rogerii Comitis. Signum Rodberti + dispensatoris. Signum + 
 Rodberti de Redveris [repeated]. Signum + Rodberti Bloet. Signum 
 Alani de + Licoma. Signum + Ricardi Abundvilla. Signum + 
 Rodberti de Hulmets. Signum + Rodberti capellani. Signum Ran- 
 nulfi + clerici regis. Signum Mauricii + capellani.'* 
 
 There seems to be no just reason for doubting the 
 substantial authenticity of this grant. The greater part 
 of it is quoted in the twelfth century by Roger de Hove- 
 den in his Chronicle, and he, as rector of Howden, must 
 have seen it. He introduces it to show the frio-ht which 
 
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 ^ There is only a transcript of this says, was lent to him by the Dean and 
 important document preserved at Dur- Chapter of Durham. Was it ever re- 
 ham in one of the Charter Books. turned ? 
 
 George Hickes, the great scholar, in his ■* The witnesses are given from a 
 
 Dissertatio Epistolaris (pp. 70, 71), facsimile. It is not easy to place them 
 
 attached to his grand work, gives a in their proper order, 
 facsimile of the original, which, as he
 
 12 THE HISTORY OF HEMINGBROUGH. 
 
 William received at Durham in 1072, and how he en- 
 deavoured to make some amends, although not imme- 
 diately, for the injury which he and his men had done to 
 St. Cuthbert. The lists of witnesses appended to this, as 
 well as to other early grants at Darham, must not be too 
 closely examined. In transcribing charters the monastic 
 scribes were not as particular as they ought to have been 
 in giving the names of the witnesses. This grant of Wil- 
 liam I. was confirmed to the Priory of Durham by many 
 of his successors, but, with the exception of Henry II., 
 they content themselves with general terms, and do not 
 recapitulate the various estates of the monastery. To add 
 to the security of the monks in their title, Hemingbrough 
 was also confirmed to them by Popes Eugenius III., 
 Adrian IV., Alexander III., Urban III., and Celestine III., 
 in deeds which are still preserved at Durham. The early 
 Bishops of Durham also gave their concurrent testimony, in 
 which they were joined by Lanfranc and Thomas, the two 
 primates after the Conquest, who assure to the Priory the 
 exercise of their ecclesiastical privileges and rights ; but 
 the authenticity of the documents ascribed to these two 
 potent prelates has been very properly doubted. Thurstan, 
 Archbishop of York, soon afterwards confirms these privi- 
 leges, mentioning every church in the diocese of York over 
 which the House of Durham exercised spiritual supervision. 
 The church was a rectory, the whole income of which 
 belonged to the Rector, subject, however, to an annual 
 pension to the House of Durham. This, in 1226, was 
 three marks, but in 1287 it had been raised to five. 
 
 THE CHURCH. 
 
 We are told in Domesday that there were in Heming- 
 brough presbyter et ecclesia, and the Conqueror's subse- 
 quent grant to Durham has in it the words " cum ecclesia 
 vilke prcedictce.'''' 
 
 The present church, which is dedicated to St. Mary,^ 
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 THE CHURCH. 13 
 
 road At some remote period the ground below the 
 churchyard wall, to the west, must have been the channel 
 of the Ouse, and, long after it was diverted, there must 
 have been water, and reeds, and brushwood, which would 
 o-ive to the church, as it was situated on the high ground 
 above it, a commanding situation. The spire of the pre- 
 sent church is for many miles on every side the most con- 
 spicuous landmark in the neighbourhood. 
 
 The church is built of the fine limestone (which used 
 to be worked more largely than it is at present) of Huddle- 
 stone and Tadcaster, and of which York Minster is con- 
 structed. In the west wall, however, a number ot stones 
 of o-rit may be observed, the relics of an earlier church. 
 The«p probably, came from Bramley Fall, near Leeds, or 
 from Plumpton Rocks, in the vicinity of Knaresbrough. 
 
 The church is cruciform, having a central tower and 
 spire at the intersection. It consists of nave and side 
 aisles with a south porch, of north and south transepts 
 (the north transept having a western aisle), and of chancel 
 with a south cliapel. On the north side of the chancel is 
 a vestry, between the west side of which and the east 
 side of the north transept is inserted a chantry chapel. ^ 
 
 The total length of the church is 148 feet, and its 
 breadth at the transepts 86 feet outside measure. The 
 tower and spire are 180 feet high. The former is low, 
 square, and embattled ; the latter octagonal, and the spire 
 has the reputation of being the loftiest m the ^orth ot 
 England : 60 feet of the 180 are taken up by the tower. 
 
 Of the church which existed here at the time of Domes- 
 day not a trace remains. Of Noruian work there is very 
 little and that of the transitional period between Norman 
 and Early English, 1180-1200. This consists of the two 
 eastern bays of the nave on the north and south sides, and 
 is indicated by a dark tint upon the ground plan. The 
 font also is of the same period. 
 
 The arches of these two bays are semicircular, con- 
 sisting of two rims, the inner (lower) rim being splayed 
 on both edges, and the outer (upper) rim, towards the 
 nave, having a roll moulding with a plain, splayed label 
 or hood mould, the outer rim towards the aisles being left 
 square The eastern responds have their abaci returned 
 square to each fall of the arch mould, the central rim being
 
 14 THE HISTORY OF -HEMINGBROUGH. 
 
 supported by a cap which appears to have had formerly a 
 shaft, as it is at present incomplete. The western responds 
 receiving the semicircular arches have octagonal corbels 
 supporting the inner rim of the arch, the corbel on the 
 north-west pier terminating in a head, and the south-west 
 in a point. The intermediate piers are circular and have 
 octagonal caps and irregular bases with square pedestals. 
 
 The piers, in which are inserted the western responds, 
 are of rough, square masonry, in lieu of being circular, 
 and the north and south walls of the nave are here cut 
 perpendicularly down, as if the original church terminated 
 with these piers. The nave, however, extends westward 
 two bays farther, and these are of a later date, being 
 middle pointed arches of the Decorated period. The inter- 
 mediate piers are, again, circular, with octagonal caps and 
 circular bases upon square pedestals, resembling those 
 previously described, leading to the inference that they 
 may originally have sustained semicircular arches. 
 
 Remains of the third church in the Decorated period 
 are m existence and can easily be traced. To the period 
 between 1280 and 1300 may be ascribed the two western- 
 most bays of the nave, the west wall, the south aisle and 
 the porch, over the inner end of which there is a niche 
 with a handsomely- carved ogee canopy, but without its 
 image ; the piers of the tow^er ; the north and south tran- 
 septs ; the north and east walls of the chancel and the 
 lower part of the vestry. There was at that time no south 
 aisle to the chancel, and the eastern w\all of the south 
 transept would be continuous up to the tower. There was 
 also no, so called, Babthorpe chantry on the north side of 
 the chancel. The lines of the roofs of this church are 
 clearly marked on the tower, and show that there was no 
 clerestory, but that the nave, chancel, and transepts had 
 roofs of the same high pitch stretching over the aisles of 
 the nave and that of the northern transept. The present 
 spire was, of course, then absent. 
 
 And now let us examme more minutely some of the 
 portions of this third church as they at present exist. 
 
 The east window of the Chancel is a pointed window 
 of five lights, the central three having trefoiled heads, 
 Avhilst the side lights are sept-foiled. On the north side 
 of the Chancel were originally three two-light windows,
 
 THE CIIUIICH ARCPIITECTURE. 15 
 
 pointed, perfectly plain. Of these the eastern windoAv 
 alone remains in its orio;inal state, the middle one beinii: 
 blocked up by an upper room subsequently built over the 
 vestry, and the western window is but slightly indicated 
 above an arch which has been substituted in order to ob- 
 tain an entrance to the chantry which fills the space be- 
 tween the vestry and the east wall of the north transept. 
 The vestry still retains its lancet windows and pointed 
 doorway. 
 
 In the South Transept there are traces of a chantry. 
 There is a piscina in the east wall, much mutilated, but 
 ornamented with some beautiful foliage, with an aumbry 
 near. In the south gable, instead of the original Decorated 
 window, is a Perpendicular one of five lights, the original sill 
 and part of the jambs of the Decorated window remaining, 
 underneath the centre of which is asmall Decorated buttress. 
 On the west side of this transept is a two-light lancet, very 
 long, with cusps which make a pointed trefoil in the head. 
 On the east side was a similar two-light window, placed 
 farther north, for light, and now cut away for the opening 
 into the south aisle of the chancel. On the rio'ht or south 
 side of this window is a row of four brackets resting upon 
 heads, intended to support figures. A fifth bracket re- 
 mains in the wall on the left, or north, side of the same 
 window, and was evidently one of a series, mutilated by 
 the construction of the arch into the aisle beyond. There 
 may possibly have been originally a second altar against 
 the eastern wall of this transept which may have been re- 
 moved into the southern aisle of the chancel. It is ob- 
 servable that the piscina now inserted in the eastern wall 
 of the south aisle of the chancel is of Early English work- 
 manship. 
 
 The North Transept is similar in character to that on 
 the south side, and against its eastern wall there was at 
 least one altar, as the remains of a piscina and an aumbry 
 may still be seen. In the north gable wall is a five-light 
 Perpendicular window, the sill of the original Decorated 
 window and part of the jambs remaining. In the east 
 wall were originally two windows of the Decorated period. 
 Within the jambs and beneath the arch of one is inserted 
 a small three-light Perpendicular window ; the other was 
 rendered useless when the Babthorpe chantry was erected
 
 16 THE HISTORY OF HEMIXGBROUGH. 
 
 and an entrance was made tlirongh it into the same chantry 
 This became necessary when the erection of the wooden 
 screen closed up the access to that building from the 
 chancel. In the west wall of tlie transept are two pointed 
 arches supported on a circidar column havmg an octagonal 
 cap and circular base. The northern arch consists of two 
 rims with splayed edges ; the southern arch is moulded on 
 both rims, the cap of the circular column receiving half a 
 moulded and half a splayed arch, the opposite springings 
 of which abut respectively against the north wall of the 
 tower pier and the north wall of transept, having no caps 
 to receive them. 
 
 The w^est aisle of the North Transept appears to have 
 been erected at the same period as the transept, or a little 
 later, and whether the two bays of arches were oi-iginally 
 intended to give admission to a double aisle or to separate 
 chantries, is a matter of conjecture. It is evident that 
 there is some deviation here from the original design 
 of the church. The aisle is narrow and only liglited on 
 the west side by a small three-light Perpendicular win- 
 dow, having no end window. In connection with these 
 changes in this part of the church it is mentioned in 
 the foundation deed of the Cliffe chantries, drawn up in 
 the year 1345, that a part at least of the north side of 
 the church was built by Adam de Osgoclby, Master of 
 the Rolls, who died in 1316. In this the Cliffe chantries 
 were located. 
 
 The lower part of the west end wall of the Nave is 
 co£Bval with the chancel and transepts. It retains the 
 buttresses of the Decorated period, and has an equilateral 
 arched doorway (without label), the outer rim of the 
 moulding of the doorway being similar in character to the 
 moulding of the southern arch between the north transept 
 and its aisle. 
 
 The south aisle of the Nave appears to have been built 
 later in the Decorated period than the chancel and tran- 
 septs, as it has segmental circular heads to the windows 
 with flowing tracery ; the cusping instead of being on the 
 soffit is on the splay of the mullion, and the plinths also 
 show evidence of a later date and are moulded. The 
 mouldings of the jamb of the south doorway would lead us 
 to infer that the doorway was earlier than the windows of
 
 THE CHURCH AKCHITECTURE. 17 
 
 tlie aisle, the jamb and label coinciding in detail with 
 tliose of the south transept, but if the doorway is taken in 
 connection with the ogee-headed niche immediately above 
 it, which coincides with the ogival tracery of the side 
 wmdows of the aisle, it may be concluded that the door- 
 way itself is of the same period. 
 
 In the earlier portion of the fifteenth century very 
 considerable chano-es were made. The north aisle of the 
 nave was entirely rebuilt, bemg considerably widened, 
 and it is possible that at the same time the west aisle of 
 the north transept was abridged or altered ; a range of 
 clerestory windows was added to the nave on the north 
 and south sides and also to the transepts ; the high- 
 pitched roofs were removed and low-pitched tie-beam 
 roofs substituted, so as not to intrude upon the windows 
 of the belfry stage of the tower. By this low roof the 
 upper portion of the east window was cut off and con- 
 cealed. Within the last few years Mr. Christian has 
 restored the chancel at the cost of the Ecclesiastical Com- 
 missioners. He has made a new roof and raised it slightly 
 so as to leave the east window clear. Perpendicular 
 windows were substituted also in the fifteenth century in 
 the gable ends of the north and south transepts, as also in 
 the gable end of the nave and in the west end of the south 
 aisle. 
 
 Considerable additions were made to the tower, a 
 cornice havmg been added supporting battlements, and 
 termmating at the angles in panelled pinnacles. The 
 tower was also surmounted with a very lofty octagonal 
 spire, having the angles of the spire finished with a 
 pointed roll moulding, which tapers upwards and termi- 
 nates with a projecting octagonal copestone. The spire 
 is indeed a crown of beauty. Each course of stones is 
 about two feet in depth by eight inches thick, and has 
 been cleverly dowelled with molten lead upwards to the 
 top, for the reception of which every stone has been care- 
 fully perforated with brace and bit. 
 
 How was all this costly work done and paid for ? In 14 10 
 the will of William de Hemingbrough was proved, in which 
 he bequeathed to the church the sum of 10/. if the parishioners 
 would rebuild within six j'-ears the whole north part of the 
 church. This may perhaps account for the north aisle of
 
 18 THE HISTORY OF HEMINGBROUGH. 
 
 the nave.^ But the great portion of the work, the clere- 
 stories, spire, and interior fittings are no doubt due to the 
 conversion of the parish church into a collegiate estab- 
 lishment, and were effected by the Prior and Convent of 
 Durham, with the help, more or less, of the parishioners. 
 Among the good deeds of John de Wessington, Prior of 
 Durham between 1416 and 1446, is mentioned the expen- 
 diture of 171^. 95. bd. in making the church collegiate, in 
 which sum, no doubt, is included a great part of the cost 
 of the alteration of the church to make it worthy of its 
 new dignity. On a hollow moulding on the outside of 
 tlie tower is a succession of tuns, great and small. AYe 
 have here, probably, a play upon Prior Wessington' s 
 name. The tuns are washing tuns or tul)s. In certain 
 districts of the counties of Durham and York you still 
 "hear the word icesh more frequently used than wash. 
 
 About the middle of the fifteenth century a chantry 
 chapel Avas erected on the north side of the chancel, filling 
 up the vacant space between the vestry and the eastern 
 wall of the north transept. This is called the Babthorpe 
 chantry, and many members of that family are supposed 
 to be interred here, with others who resided at Babthorpe 
 after their day, and that property was free from church 
 rates on condition of the owner keeping this chapel in 
 proper repair. The altar once in it is supposed to have 
 been dedicated to the Holy Trinity, and it was at this 
 altar that Dr. Thomas Babthorpe, who died in 1478-9, 
 desired that Masses should be said for the souls of his 
 father and brother, who fell on one day at the fatal fight 
 at St. Albans in 1455. It is probable that the chapel 
 was erected in their memory. 
 
 The chantry has two pointed arches, one opening into 
 the chancel, the other into the north transept, and is 
 lighted on the north side by two small three-light windows. 
 It retains the stone base formerly supporting the altar, 
 the table of which has been removed. 
 
 There are two interesting objects in this chantry. 
 
 « On February 13, 1429-30, John factors, &c.— Eeg. Test. Ebor. ii. 619. 
 Northeby, citizen and merchant of York, On December 14,1482, Isabella Lewlyn, 
 
 leaves 20s. to the fabric of the nave of of Bootham, York, leaves 10s. to the fabric 
 
 the parish church of Hemingbrough, for of the church of Hemingbrough, for the 
 
 his own soul and those of Emma, late souls of her father and mother, 
 ■wife of Wm. Vcscy, his parents, bene-
 
 
 \\\\ . i 
 
 i!»?ii!,i'!i%.fy' 

 
 THE CHURCH — BABTHORPE CHANTRY. 19 
 
 The first is what is called a credence table, of stone, but it 
 is, more probably, the stand for the Easter Sepulchre. A 
 pictorial representation will show best Avhat it is. This is 
 given on the plate on which the font is depicted. It is 
 richly panelled and buttressed with a carved, foliated 
 cresting on the cornice, pointing to the middle of the 
 fourteenth century instead of the fifteenth. It must there- 
 fore have been removed to this chapel from some other 
 position in the church. 
 
 The second object is an example of a corpse in its wind- 
 ing-sheet, very rudely carved, and similar to others which 
 maybe seen in various churches in the country. They were 
 not monumental, but intended for the payment of money 
 and to give solemnity and security to oaths and promissory 
 engagements. Originally there was a slab over these 
 figures upon which money was paid. " As I am, so shall 
 you be " was the message of the figure to the oath- taker — 
 a solemn warning against false swearing and fraud. 
 Haxey's tomb in York Minster served the same purpose, 
 and was a famous place for payments. In the nave of 
 Ripon Minster there is a stone table, at the end of which 
 is sculptured the lion and the disobedient prophet — an 
 equally solemn warning, expressed in a different way. 
 There is a similar stone at Howden, and in many other 
 places. Vicar Potter, in 1750, says that there was in 
 this chapel in his day the effigy of a Knight Templar in 
 stone, laid flat upon the ground. This has disappeared. 
 The figure was, no doubt, one of the Babthorpes. To 
 call him a Templar was an absurdity. 
 
 To the eastward of the Babthorpe chantry chapel is a 
 small place or room called the Old Vestry. Vicar Potter, 
 speaking of it in 1750, says : " It had iron grates in the 
 windows. It was chambered over at my first coming 
 with stairs or steps to it, but the roof falling in, they were 
 all taken away when it was repair'd. I caused it to be 
 clear'd of rubbish or stones, and so appropriated it for a 
 place of burial for my family, calling it Potter's Vault." 
 The wall bears one or two incised inscriptions for mem- 
 bers of the vicar's family. 
 
 Over the vestry, which is contiguous to the Babthorpe 
 chantry, is a small chamber, which is reached externally 
 by a flight of steps. It is not known for what purpose it 
 
 c 2
 
 20 THE HISTORY OF HEMINGBROUGH. 
 
 "was used. It has been sugi^ested that it was a Chapter- 
 house, or a muniment room, but it is more probable that 
 a chantry priest, or attendant, resided here, whose presence 
 would be a continuous security to the church and its orna- 
 ments, many of which were probably in that room under 
 his charge. 
 
 In the north wall of the north aisle, opposite the south 
 doorway, is inserted a low, segmental, circular-headed 
 doorway, under one of the windows of the aisle. This 
 has sometimes been called the baptismal doorway. The 
 jamb and arch of this doorway are moulded similarly to 
 the inner moulding of the jamb and arch of the chantry 
 chapel. The windows of this aisle merit no detailed 
 description, with the exception of the second from the 
 western end — a small pointed window of three lights, 
 with cusping, and of an earlier date — which may have 
 been introduced at the reconstruction of the north aisle. 
 
 The last important alteration that took place prior to 
 the Reformation was the erection of the South Chapel, 
 and for this purpose the south wall of the chancel was 
 taken down. The chapel extends the whole length of 
 the chancel, and has been designed in a more ornate style 
 than any other portion of the cliurch, having moulded 
 columns with foliated caps and richly-moulded bases and a 
 double plinth externally, the upper plinth being moulded, 
 as are also the weatherings of the buttresses. At the 
 east end the parapet is battlementcd and panelled with 
 pierced tracery, having angular pinnacles supported on 
 boldly- carved gurgoyles which rest on the weatherings of 
 the buttresses. The chapel is divided into four bays, the 
 three detached columns having foliated caps, and the caps 
 of the responds on attached shafts at the east and west 
 ends are moulded. The foliated cusps appear to have been 
 carved from an Early English type, although greatly in- 
 ferior to the sculpture of that period. The arches of the 
 arcade between the chancel and chapel are low, four- 
 centred, having two rims each, with a hollow moulding 
 at the edges. There is also a four-centred arch at the west 
 end of the chapel opening into the south transept, and at 
 the same period another corresponding four-centred arch 
 was opened into the south aisle of the nave from the west 
 wall of the south transept. The roof of this chapel ia
 
 THE CHURCH THE SOUTH CHAPEL. 21 
 
 superior to those of otlier portions of the cliurch, having 
 cambered beams moulded on the under side, supporting 
 moulded portions which carry the rafters. The wmdows 
 of the chapel are all four-centred, that in the east end 
 having four lights and those at the side three. None 
 of the windows are cusped, although the open tracery 
 work forming the parapet at the east end of the chapel is 
 ornamented in that way. Under the window of the third 
 bay from the east is a graceful priest's- doorway, having a 
 four-centred arch with a label returned square over it, 
 each point of the label terminating with a dwarf figure in 
 a crouching attitude. In the spandril formed between the 
 arch and label, the central figure represents the Blessed 
 Yirgm in glory, alluding to the dedication of the church 
 to her Assumption. In the angles are angels holding a 
 scroll which bears the following inscription : " Ave grd 
 plena Dns tecum. Ecce ancilla Domini.'''' 
 
 This chapel must have been erected early in the six- 
 teenth century. Two bays of it are cut off by screens which 
 enclose a space belonging to the owners of Turnham Hall. 
 They were buried here, and were exempt from church 
 rates on condition of their keeping their portion in repair. 
 In 1750, Vicar Potter speaks of it as the school-house 
 and vestry, and says that on the ceiling between the 
 chantry and the altar was cut in wood the following 
 inscrijDtion, which is now gone : " Thys part of carvying hays 
 bene mayd of the stoke of the blessed mayd . . ." We 
 may fairly ascribe, therefore, the iDuilding of a great part 
 of this aisle to the owner of Turnham Hall between 1515 
 and 1525. The owner at that time was Lady Anne 
 Manners, widow of Sir George Manners, who died in 1513. 
 It is supposed also that this is the place in which John 
 West located in 1529 the last chantry (that of St. Mary) 
 that was founded in this church. He might look upon 
 his act as a sure way of keeping a part at least of the 
 newly-built aisle in proper order. The roof covering 
 the Turnham Hall chantry has been recently renewed at the 
 cost of Mrs. and Miss Burton of Turnham Hall, whilst the 
 remainder, extending as far as the tower, has been restored 
 by the parish with the money which was collected some 
 years ago by Mr. Y/right, the Yicar at that time. 
 
 The Font, which stands near the west end, is coeval
 
 22 THE HISTORY OF HEMINGBROUGH. 
 
 with the circular arches of the nave and was made circa 
 1190. It has a circidar bowl, 25 inches in diameter by 
 21 ill depth, and has been lined with lead, of which only a 
 portion remains. The bowl is ornamented with shafts 
 supporting circular arches carved around the outside. 
 The work is coarsely and roughly done, although the 
 effect from a distance is fairly good. A representation of 
 it is given. 
 
 The Bells, originally four in number, were re-cast by 
 Mr. E. Sellers of York, in 1730, into five. They bear 
 the following inscriptions. 1. Invoco Deum. 2. In cdtis- 
 simis Deo. 3. Soli Deo gloria. 4. Te Deum laudamus. 
 5. Cum. sonem memento mori. 
 
 Altars. — Prior to the Reformation there were six 
 altars in the church, but the position of most of them is 
 altogether conjectural. An account of their foundation, 
 with a list of the chantry priests, as far as is known, will 
 be given afterwards. 
 
 1. The High Altar. — This was dedicated to the 
 Blessed Virgin, the village feast being on the festival of 
 the Assumption. 
 
 By will dated in 1409, Master Thomas Walworth, the 
 rector, bequeathed to the high altar his best IMissal, and a 
 vestment of blue damask with all its suite, which he had 
 bought of the executors of AY alter Skirlaw, Bishop of 
 Durham. (Test. Ebor. i. 353.) 
 
 By will dated in 1410, William de Hemingbrough be- 
 queathed to the high altar ?>s. Ad. and a white cope of the 
 value of ten marks to serve in the church in the honour of 
 the Blessed A^irgin. To a priest, to celebrate in the church 
 for two years for his soul, he left 10/., and 20/. more to 
 chaplains who should perform the same duty. He directs 
 also that his executors should provide for twelve years a 
 torch and taper of the weight of two pounds to burn before 
 the image of the Blessed Mary of Pity. (Reg. Bowett.) 
 
 By will dated 1414, Beatrix Lady Roos bequeathed to 
 the church a vestment, complete, worth ten marks. 
 (Test. Ebor. i. 375.) 
 
 By will dated 14()3, John Bed all, citizen and pulterer 
 of York, left 3/. Qs. 8c/. towards the purchasing of a pair 
 of candlesticks for the collegiate church of the Blessed 
 Mary at Hemingbrough. (Reg. Test. Ebor. ii. 592.)
 
 THE CHURCH THE ALTARS. 23 
 
 By will dated 1478, Thomas Babthorpe, canon of York, 
 left to the collegiate church at Hemingbrough two cushions 
 covered with a silk called baudkin. (i^eg. Test. Dec. 
 et Capit. Ebor. i. 341.) 
 
 By will dated 1506-7, Dame Catherine Hastings left " to 
 our Lady of Hymmyngburgh a pece of cremell, and a 
 lace of gold of Venys sett w^ perle. To Hymmyng- 
 burgh church a kirtell of blak damask and a corjDrax 
 case." (Test. Ebor. iv. 257.) 
 
 2. The Second Altar of the Blessed Virgin. — 
 This chantry was founded by Henry de Cliffe in 1333, 
 and was on the north side of the church. It was most 
 probably placed against the east wall of the north transept. 
 The history of the endowments and the list of incumbents 
 will be given afterwards. 
 
 3. The Altar of St. Catherine. — This is what was 
 called the Wasse chantry, and was founded by Robert de 
 Marisco, rector of Hemingbrough, early in the thirteenth 
 century. It is sujDposed to have stood in the south 
 transept. 
 
 4. The Altar of St. John Baptist. — This altar is 
 mentioned in the year 1453. It may have been placed 
 also in the south transept. In 1453 Archbishop William. 
 Booth granted an indulgence of forty days to those who 
 visited the image of St. Cedda at the end of the altar of 
 St. John Baptist. (Reg. Wm. Booth, f. 154.) 
 
 5. The Altar of the Holy Trinity. — This is, no 
 doubt, the Babthorpe chantry on the north side of the 
 chancel. 
 
 By will dated September 21, 1478, Thomas Babthorpe, 
 canon of York, left to the altar of S. Trinity in the colle- 
 giate church of Hemingbrough a vestment complete for 
 the sole use of the chaplain who shall there celebrate. He 
 desired also that his exequies should be commemorated 
 twice each year in the church, viz. on his mother's death- 
 day, for her soul and that of his father, and on his grand- 
 father's death-day, for his soul and that of the testator. 
 
 6. The Altar of St. Margaret ( ?). — This is mentioned 
 in 1529, the fifth vicar-choral officiating at it. Perhaps 
 this is an error for St. Mary, the chantry founded by John 
 West being dedicated to her. John West's chantry occu- 
 pied a portion of the south aisle of the choir.
 
 24 THE HISTORY OF HEMINGBROUGH. 
 
 Surveys of Church Plate, etc. — There was a survey 
 made in 1536, Mr. Babtliorpe, of Csgodby, l:)emg the chief 
 agent in the search on behalf of the Crown. I have not 
 seen his Report, but on the following day the rebellion of 
 Robert Aske broke out in the neighbourhood, aroused, no 
 doubt, by the thought that the churches were about to be 
 stripped and plundered. 
 
 On August 16, 1552, the Royal Commissioners made 
 an inventory of the church goods at Hemingbrough. Un- 
 fortunately it is much injured by damp. 
 
 Item one .... same .... velvet .... Item one .... with 
 ij . . . . & one .... albes. Item one whyt vestment of damaske 
 .... or with one albe to the same. Item one old vestment of 
 blake sike [silk] for br . . . . Item one vestment of read fustian 
 .... albes. Item one vestment of read sairsnet. One altar-cloth of 
 cloth of gold. One altar-cloth of charbuncles & 3 altar-cloths of 
 lining. Four corporaxes with .... and 2 cross cloths. Two pair 
 of crewetts, two candlesticks, two sacring bells, & four bells in the 
 stepill. 
 
 The vestments recorded above, or some of them at 
 least, were bought by Wm. Salvin of Acaster Selby, gen., 
 who, in his will, made in Queen Mary's days, left to 
 Hemingbrough church all the vestments that he brought 
 there. He had secured them in Edward VI. 's days ; but 
 before his will was proved Elizabeth came to the throne, 
 and the bequest was either forfeited or void. There is 
 nothing in the inventory given above that points to any 
 gorgeous ritual at Hemingbrough. 
 
 Images of Saints. — There were, of course, various 
 images of saints in the church. Three, however, are par- 
 ticularly referred to. 
 
 In 1348 some lands were granted to William de He- 
 mingbrough, on condition that he finds every year a wax 
 taper, one pound in weight, to burn before the image of 
 St. Cuthbert at Hemingbrough. 
 
 In 1410 William of Hemingbrough desired to be buried 
 before the image of St. Mary of Pity. 
 
 On August 31, 1453, letters of indulgence for forty 
 days were granted at York to all those who should visit, 
 for the sake of devotion, the image of St. Cedda, bishop 
 and confessor, which stood at the end of the altar of St. 
 John the Baptist, and say there the Lord's Prayer, the 
 Salutatio Angelica, and the Creed.
 
 THE CHURCH — WOODWORK. 25 
 
 Over each altar there would be a figure of its patron 
 saint. 
 
 Woodwork. — The church is rich in remains of its 
 ancient screens and woodwork, which, although much 
 mutilated, are fine and interesting. 
 
 During the Perpendicular period a rood-screen was 
 erected between the north-east and south-east piers of the 
 tower. It formerly had a rood-loft which was approached 
 from the staircase in the north-east tower-pier, a doorway 
 having been cut through the pier at the height required, 
 on a level with the top of the rood-loft. It is supposed 
 that the entrance to the winding stairs in this pier was at 
 the same time removed from the north-west side of the 
 pier, where a low square doorway is still visible, to the 
 present south-east side. 
 
 In the central passage and aisles of the nave are con- 
 siderable remains of seats, constructed no doubt when the 
 church was made collegiate, consisting chiefly of massive 
 stall ends carved with window tracery, and in some in- 
 stances with grotesque heads and monsters. There is 
 sufficient to make a restoration possible, and this is much 
 to be desired. One stall end, formerly appropriated to 
 the Robinson family, has the arms of Babthorpe upon it 
 in relief, surmounted by a rose. On another there was 
 the well-known shield of Bishop Skirlaw, dear in the 
 place and neighbourhood for his wonderful generosity. 
 
 In the chancel there are portions of early stalls ; but 
 the greater number are of the Perpendicular period, and 
 the canopies, if such originally existed, have been de- 
 stroyed. The wood screen whicli separates the chancel 
 from the south chapel is of very late Perpendicular work, 
 the lower part being panelled and the upper part pierced, 
 with great irregularity of design. It is also considerably 
 patched and pieced. Along the upper part of this screen, 
 says Vicar Potter in 175U, there was an inscription, Orate 
 fro anima Johannis [West ?] henefactoris hujus ecclesiw, of 
 which the last three words only can be read. 
 
 The stall work in nave and chancel has been much 
 mutilated and cut away, chiefly through converting the 
 open seats into pews. The present pulpit was set up in 
 1717, and at the same time many of the seats around it 
 were constructed of various materials and with no resfard
 
 26 THE HISTORY OF HEMINGBROUGH. 
 
 whatever to regularity and taste. Indeed, the seats and 
 the floors of the nave present a piteous example of neg- 
 lect and disorder. One pew is dated 1717, another 1738, 
 another 1755, and the owners seem to have repaired them, 
 when they needed reparation, with any wood that was at 
 hand. Panels with combats of dragons and uncouth 
 beasts may be observed, taken probably out of some chest 
 or screen at home, where they had been for many a gene- 
 ration the wonder or the terror of the children of the 
 family. 
 
 Texts of Scripture. — In the seventeenth century a 
 number of texts of Scripture were painted upon the walls, 
 chiefly between the windows, and in rude letters of yellow 
 ochre and within borders of black, as may be seen in many 
 other churches. Some of these have been disclosed by 
 recent removals of the whitewash : e.g. — 
 
 Keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of God, and be more 
 ready to heare then to give the saci'ifice of fooles, for they consider not 
 that they doe evill. — Eccles. c. v. v. 1. 
 
 The glory of this latter house shall be greater than of the former, 
 saith the Lord of hosts. — Haggai c. ii. v. 9. 
 
 '"C30'' 
 
 It was by such inscriptions glorifying a new coat of 
 whitewash that, to use the language of an old parochial 
 vestry, a church Avas said to be " beautified." 
 
 Organs. — What became of the pair of organs which 
 were in use here prior to the Keformation we do not know. 
 Tradition, however, says that during the civil wars the 
 Parliamentary soldiers tore an organ in pieces at Heming- 
 brough, ridmg through the village brandishing the pipes, 
 and attempting to blow them in derision. Several hooks 
 in the church are pointed out to which their horses are 
 said to have been haltered. The oro:an at Howden, ac- 
 cording to Gent, met with the same treatment. 
 
 In 1757 William Potter, the vicar, assisted by Joseph 
 Butler, junior, of Bowthorpe, begged money, where they 
 could get it, for a new organ. It was built by Samuel 
 Braime, of Barwick-in-Elmet, who had 42/. 13.§. for his 
 work. It " was publickly opened on Wednesday the 28th 
 day of September, 1757, at two o'clock in the afternoon, 
 when there was a full concert of musick performed by the 
 York Waites, the Organist of Leeds, and the famous Mr. 
 Perkins. The number present was found by the tickets to
 
 THE CHURCH — ORGANS : STAINED GLASS. 27 
 
 be 750. The Kev. Mr. Potter engaged and promised that 
 his sons, William and Thomas, and Frances his daughter, 
 or himself, should play the Organ gratis during his life, or 
 so long as he continued vicar ; and, not only so, but, 
 moreover, that he would be willing to instruct any of 
 the parishioners that was desirous to play the Organ, for 
 nothing. Accordingly the Organ was played by Wm. 
 Potter 1;he younger, 1757-1768 ; and Mr. John Faulkner 
 of Bowthorpe, Mr. Joseph Butler, Robert Clark, and 
 William Kirlew of Woodhall, Wm. Volans and John 
 Bradley of Hemingbrough are already able to play the 
 Psalm Tunes." 
 
 So says Vicar Potter, and over and over again does he 
 fill the vacant corners of his Register books with notices, 
 short or long, of his achievement in the matter of the 
 organ. This " divine box of sounds," as Edward Miller of 
 Doncaster apostrophised his instrument, still remains, 
 voiceless and disused, at the west end of the church, and a 
 harmonium takes its place. 
 
 Stained Glass. — The coat-armour remaining in the 
 windows of the church long after the Reformation was of 
 remarkable beauty, and it is grievous to think of the 
 ruthless way in which it has been destroyed. The 
 heraldry of the Babthorpes was particularly fine, and the 
 gleaming escutcheons and kneeling figures of knights 
 and ladies had a tale of their own which could scarcely be 
 told in a more effective way. I have endeavoured to 
 arranire the coats which Glover the herald found in the 
 church m 1584. 
 
 A knight kneeling, with his two wives, and these shields : 
 
 1. Sable, a chevron or between 3 crescents erm. (Babthorpe) impaling 
 Barry of 6 argent and gules, over all 3 crescents sable (Waterton). 
 
 2. Babthorpe, as before, impaling argent, a cross patonce, voided 
 gules (Pilkington). 
 
 [These are the bearings of Sir Roljert Babthorpe, who d. in 1436, and 
 his two wives, Eleanor Waterton and Bridget Pilkington.] 
 
 3. A man kneeling with his two wives and the arms of Babthorpe 
 within a wreath, bearing the inscription, Raus^ Per Ceve : Raus Per 
 Ceve: Raus Per Ceve. [This is Ralph Babthorpe, Esq., who was killed 
 at St. Albans, with his two wives, Catherine Astley and Catherine 
 Hagthorpe.] 
 
 4. Hie jacet Domina Katerina Babthorpe, quondam uxor Radulphi 
 Babthorpe Armigeri, qicce obiit xxvij die mensis Augiisti, Anno Domini 
 MCCCCLXi. Cujus animce propicietur Deus. Amen.
 
 28 THE HISTORY OF HEMINGBROUGH. 
 
 With shield : Quarterly, Baljthorpe and Waterton, impaling sable 
 a chevron engrailed argent (Hagthorpe). [She was the second wife of 
 Ralph Babthorpe above-mentioned.] 
 
 5. Magister Thomas Bahtliorpe. A plain shield, the arms being 
 broken. [He died in 1478-9.] 
 
 6. The figures of a knight with his four sons and two daughters. 
 Arms : Babthorpe impaling Ryther, azure three crescents or. [This 
 commemorated Sir Robert Babthorpe, who died in 14G6, and his wife 
 Elizabeth Ryther.] 
 
 7. The figures of a knight and two daughters. On a shield, Bab- 
 thorpe impaling argent fretty sable a canton of the last (Middle- 
 ton). 
 
 [This is the coat of Sir Ralph Babthorpe, who died in 1490, and 
 Margaret Middleton his wife.] 
 
 8. A shield with Babthorpe in chief and Waterton in base, impaling 
 gules a chevron or between three fleurs-de-lis argent, a crescent for 
 difference (Pickering). [This is probably the coat of Robert Babthorpe, 
 Esq., who died in 1496.] 
 
 9. ' A knight kneeling in amies, with his wife.' Babthorpe impaling 
 quartei'ly 1 and 4 gules an eagle displayed argent ; with a crescent 
 on the breast (Sothill) ; 2 and 4 gules a fesse or between 3 saltires 
 couped argent (Boyville) ; over all an inescocheon bendy of 6 gules and 
 argent (? ). [This is the coat of Wm. Babthorpe of Osgodby, Esq., 
 who died in 1504, and his wife, Christiana dau. of John Sothill of 
 Stockfaston, co. Rutland.] 
 
 10. Argent a chevron sable between three laurel leaves vert, charged 
 with a crescent argent (Haslerigg). On the other side is the impalement 
 last mentioned (Sothill). [The arms of Bertram Haslerigg and Ann 
 Sothill, sister of Christiana Babthorpe.] 
 
 11. Dr. Babthorpe, sub-dean of the church of York. Arms of Bab- 
 thorpe. 
 
 12. Babthorpe impaling, gules 3 fleurs-de-lis argent, a chief vaire 
 (Palmes). [The arms of Sir William Babthorpe of Osgodby, who died 
 in 1556, and Agnes Palmes his wife.] 
 
 13. Babthorpe plain. ' In the 1st and 2nd windows, in the north 
 isle, in 1750, within a circle.' — Vicar Potter. 
 
 14. Argent on a chief sable 3 mullets of the first, pierced argent 
 C? Dymoke), impaling Babthorpe. [This was in existence in Dr. Burton's 
 time.] 
 
 15. On a standard for Sir William Babthorpe. 
 
 Crest. On a torce, or and sable, a cockatrice's head erased argent, 
 combed and wattled or. 
 
 16. The escutcheon of Philippa Shuckborough : Quarterly of 6. 
 
 1. Sable, a chevron between 3 mullets pierced argent (Shuckborough) ; 
 
 2. Sable, 3 swords in pale, the centre one erect sable, hilted or (Raw- 
 lins) ; 3. Or, on a fesse azure 3 escallops argent (Napton) ; 4. Argent, 
 a fesse chequy or and azure (Sidenhall) ; 5. Gules, 3 dexter hands open 
 argent (Dygourt) ; 6. Azure, a fesse argent between 3 crescents or 
 (Lunell). [This is the escutcheon of Philippa Shuckborough, the first 
 wife of John Basset of South Duffield.] 
 
 17. Another shield for Margaret Cave of Stamford. Quarterly : 
 1. Azure, fretty argent (Cave) ; 2. Gules, a chevron between 3 owls 
 argent (Clitt") ; 3. Barry of 6, or and azure, on a bend engrailed sable,
 
 THE CHURCH — COATS OF ARMS. 29 
 
 between 2 cottises gules, 3 escallops argent (Saxby) ; 4. Argent, on a 
 chevron sable 3 roses of the first argent (Gilbert). 
 
 On an inescocheon, azure, fretty argent on a fesse or a greyhound 
 courant sable within a bordure or entoure of pellets sable (Sir Thos. Cave 
 of Stamford). [The escutcheon of the second wife of John Basset.] 
 
 In addition to the above-mentioned memorials of the Babthorpes 
 and Bassets the following arms and inscriptions were also in the 
 windows. 
 
 18. Gules, 3 water bougets argent (Roos) impaling or a chevron 
 gules (StatFord). [The arms of Thomas Lord Roos and Beatrix his wife 
 who died in 1415.] 
 
 19. In the north window of the choir. Gules a saltire argent (Neville). 
 The impalement broken away. [This is recorded liy Dr. Burton as then 
 in existence in an alehouse in the village, but taken out of the church.] 
 
 20. Quarterly Neville 1 and 4 and gules a cross patonce or (Latimer). 
 [Probably the coat of John Lord Latimer, who married the Countess of 
 Cambi-idge. This was in existence in Dr. Burton's time.] 
 
 21. Argent on a chief sable 2 mullets pierced or (Salvin). 
 
 22. Gules, a bend argent between 6 pick-axes of the first (Hamerton). 
 
 23. Gules, a chevron or between 3 fleurs-de-lis argent (Pickering). 
 
 24. Gules, a cross patonce argent (Pilkington). 
 
 25. Quarterly: 1 and 4 sable three spades or handled argent (?); 
 2 and 3 sable 3 pick-axes argent handled or (Pigot). 
 
 26. A figure of a man kneeling with his wife and this inscription : 
 Orate pro anima Leonardi Knight et Isahelloi, consortis succ, ac pro 
 animabus Margaretoi et Katherhue, filiarutn stiartcm, et pro bono statu 
 Edwardi Knight, Thomce, Johannis, NicJiolai, et Isabelloi Ne-wark, 
 
 filiorum prmdictoruui Leonardi et Isabelloi qxd hanc fenestram fieri 
 fecerunt, etc., with the following coat : 
 
 Gules, 2 bars argent, and in chief 3 wolves' heads of the 2nd (Knight) 
 
 impaling, argent, on a fesse between 6 conies' heads erased sable four 
 
 besants (Langholme). 
 
 27. Gules, 2 bars argent, and in chief 3 wolves' heads of the 2nd 
 (Knight). 
 
 28. Orate pro Magistro Thoma Ormeston et pro animnbics Willelmi 
 et Alicia', j^nrentuin snoruni, &cJ With coat of arms, sable, a chevron 
 between 3 spear- heads argent. 
 
 29. Orate p>ro anima Ricardi Astlay et Jacohi et Roherti Astlay 
 filiortiAii Ricardi.^ 
 
 30. Argent, in chief a mascle sable, in base a falcon of the first 
 (Fawkes), impaling, argent, on a pale sable, a luce's head couped erect 
 or, a crescent for difference (Gascoigne). [The coat of Marmaduke 
 Fawkes of South Duffield and his wife, who was a Gascoigne.] 
 
 31. Ermine, in chief a mascle sable, and in base a falcon argent 
 (Fawkes), impaling, sable, 3 hawks raisant (Hawksworth). [The bearing 
 of Nicholas Fawkes.] 
 
 32. Dr. Burton mentions the following coat as existing in the second 
 window in the north aisle : 
 
 Gules, two bars argent, 3 wolves' heads erased in chief argent 
 
 ' Wm Ormeston was a juryman at ** Richard Astley was living during 
 
 Cliffe, 10th Hen. VI. Dr. Babthoqie the reign of Henry VI. 
 left him a legacy in 1478.
 
 30 THE HISTORY OF IIEMINGBROUGH. 
 
 (Knight), impaling sable on a fesse or between 3 asses' heads erased of 
 the first 4: .... (1 Ayscough). 
 
 33. He mentions also in the south transept a coat showing gules a 
 bend between six sables ar. (?). 
 
 There were also in the windows figures of saints and 
 the usual embellishments of this delightful branch of 
 mediaeval art. It is lamentable to think that of these 
 " storied windows richly dight," a few fragments, chiefly 
 in two window heads, alone remain. " Etiam periere ruina3." 
 That person must have a cold heart who cannot recognise 
 the historical value of these memorials of bygone genera- 
 tions, showing how they honoured the church which they 
 helped to rear and decorate, and in which they are resting. 
 No record exists of the period at which this stained glass 
 was destroyed. 
 
 The west window was filled with stained glass a few 
 years ago to commemorate the Banks family. It is by a 
 Leeds artist, and the inscription will be given among the 
 monuments. 
 
 The Churchyard. — The church is surrounded by a 
 large cemetery or churchyard filled with the memorials of 
 the dead. An addition to the old burial-ground was con- 
 secrated by the Archbishop of York on February 23, 
 1872. It contains two roods of land purchased from Mr. 
 John Banks of the Hall, Howden, timber-merchant, for 
 the sum of 117/. Interments in the new ground, previous 
 to its consecration, were licensed on June 6, 1871. 
 
 The churchyard to the east is separated from the high 
 road by an iron palisading erected in 1854. Originally 
 there was a stile as well as a roadway, Robert at the 
 Kirk-stile being mentioned as far back as the year 1334. 
 In front of the entrance gate is what remains of a fine 
 sycamore which shelters a horse-block for the use of many 
 a parishioner who has ridden to church from the out- 
 lying hamlets. It might serve also as a mort-stone, or 
 resting-place for a coffin. When the coffin was carried by 
 hand from the hamlets, such resting-places were necessary, 
 and the writer has a vivid recollection of seeing them in a 
 rural parish in the county of Durham in his younger 
 days, and hearing the hymn- singing of the bearers and 
 attendants. A^icar Potter thus bears witness to the exis- 
 tence of these mort-stoncs at Hemingbrough a little before
 
 THE CHURCHyARD. 31 
 
 his time: " Will°^ Gibson of Cliff, aged 93, told me, 
 Dec' 21, 1750, that the stone at Hemino-bm-gh North- 
 field gate, or entrance of Cliff chantry field, on the rio-ht, 
 from Hemingburgh, was used for resting corps upon, 
 within 30 years ago, and I have been inform'd by others 
 that he requested this for himself. The same in Cliff Cad- 
 croft field." 
 
 There used to be a well near the church, called the Kirk 
 well, which, according to Mr. Potter, was filled up in 
 1750-51. 
 
 Mr. Potter in his Parochial Annals, drawn up about the 
 year 1750, among other curious notices, mentions the 
 places in the church and churchyard in which various 
 families were interred, lying in clusters together until the 
 resurrection from the dead. 
 
 The soutli end of the Cross Isle belongs to Haddlesey Hall and Tonham 
 Hall. ^ 
 
 The Butlers of Bowthorpe are buried under the bells. 
 
 In the Middle Isle, in the service place, is the burial place of the 
 Lodges of Barlby. 
 
 In the Middle Isle, almost opposite the Reading desk, are buried the 
 Barrets' family, but have no inscriptions. 
 
 On the soutli side of the church, in churchyard, is an old raised 
 gravestone, but has no inscription on it, nor can I find any who can tell 
 me to whom it belongs. [It is there still.] On this side of the church 
 are buried the Whittles, Chaplains, Morfits. 
 
 Near the south-west corner of the church are buried the Leightons, 
 a tall, gigantic race, anno 1695 and 1693. One of these stones Is half 
 a foot under ground. 
 
 At the west end are buried the Pocklingtons. 
 
 On east end of church the Smiths. 
 
 We give now all the monumental inscriptions within 
 the church, and a great number of those in the church- 
 yard. Many of these were copied in the year 1825, and 
 some of them are either missing or defaced now. 
 
 Monuments in the Church. — There are no ancient 
 brasses preserved in the church, but some were there 
 originally. 
 
 1. Under the altar-rails upon a large blue-marble stone, 
 10ft. by 5ft. Sin., has been a figure in brass of an eccle- 
 siastic, probably a provost, about six feet long. Above 
 the head was a plate for an inscription, and to the left.
 
 32 THE HISTORY OF HEMINGBROUGir. 
 
 level with the shoulder, some object which cannot be made 
 out. It is possible that this commemorated Thomas 
 Babthorpe, provost, who died in 1517. 
 
 2. Near it is another marble stone 7ft. long, by 3ft. 
 wide, showing the figure of a provost. The inscrip- 
 tion has been on a thin four- sided fillet. This is supposed 
 to be John Radburn, who died in 1428. 
 
 3. Near the last is a marble stone 7ft. long by 2ft. 9in., 
 which has borne a brass cross in the centre with an in- 
 scription in a fillet, as No. 2. 
 
 4. Another blue-marble stone, with the matrices of an 
 inscription and a shield of arms. 
 
 Around the edges of a broken coffin-shaped stone is the 
 following inscription to Provost Marshall. We give it in 
 its uncontracted form. 
 
 Hicjacet Boherias Marschdl, Artiiim Magisfer, 'prcepositus 
 sive custos ecdesice coUegiatce de Heminghurght^ et fimdator 
 cantarice Omnium Sanctorum, in ecclesia collegiata de Derling- 
 ton et lihercE scoIcg grammatica;., qui ohiit xiiij die mensis Mail 
 anno Domini mcccccxxxi. Cujus aninue projntietm^ Dcus. 
 Amen (two or three words obliterated). 
 
 In various parts of the church are coffin-shaped slabs, 
 here and there cut up into paving-stones, sometimes in- 
 verted, and occasionally with a modern inscription over 
 the old and worn-out cross, of the nature of a palimpsest. 
 In the centre of the nave, not far from the puljjit, is a long 
 marble stone bearing a cross and a sword by the side, the 
 emblem of a male. On another stone, near the west door, 
 is a fragment of a stone with a richer cross upon it. 
 There are at least eighteen or twenty coffin- shaped slabs 
 inside tlie church. 
 
 Inscriptions in the Church and Churchyard. 
 
 Here lies the Body of M'" Robert Allen of Menthorp, who departed 
 this life, (June) the IT'^'^, 1732 .... {In clmrcliyard ; noiv gone.) 
 
 Here lies interred Eleanor, the Wife of M'' W'" Andrew of Cliffe, 
 Apothecary, who died Aug^' 11*^ 1773, aged 58 years. Also Elizabeth, 
 Daughter of the said M'" W™ Andrew, who died Sep* 16*^^ 1776, aged 
 22 years. Also the aliove M'" W'" Andrew, who died Nov"' 3'"'^ 1784, 
 aged 82 years. Likewise, Mary, Daughter of the said M'' W'" Andrew, 
 who died July 30'^* 1789, aged 44 years. {Cliurcliyard.) 
 
 To the gloiy of God, and in loving memory of John Banks, late of 
 Howden Hall, who died March 5*^^ 1877, aged 82 ; and of Sarah, his 
 wife, who died February 11*^ 1877, aged 73 ; also of John Banks, son
 
 INSCRIPTIONS IN CHURCH AND CHURCHYARD. 33 
 
 of the above, who died May 14'-^ 1878, aged 40. The above window 
 was erected by Francis and Sarah Colley, Edwin and Jane Shaw, 
 Walter and Eliza Cooper, and Annie and William Banks, Christmas, 
 1880. {On a brass plate tender 'west vmidow in the church.) 
 
 In Memory of Joseph Banks, formerly of Chapel Allerton, near 
 Leeds, brother to the late James Banks of Selby, who departed this 
 life, the 8**^ day of August 1865, aged 93 years. {Churchyard.) 
 
 In loving remembrance of James Banks of Wressle Castle, who died 
 December 1^^ 1876, aged 51 years. In affectionate remembrance of 
 John Banks of Brackenholme, only son of James Banks of Wressle 
 Castle, who died 28*^ ^.^^y of February, 1879, aged 25 years. {Church- 
 yard.) 
 
 Here lieth y^ body of Jonathan Barlow of Osgodljy in this parish 
 who departed this life Sep* 11"^ in 1777, aged 74 years. 
 
 Remember, Man, as thou stands by 
 As thou art now so once was I ; 
 As I am now so must thou be. 
 Therefore prepare to follow me. 
 
 Also near this tomb lieth interred Ann, late the wife of M'' Joseph 
 Atkinson of Knottingley, formerly the wife of the abovesaid Jonathan 
 Barlow, who died November the 5*** 1787, aged 64 years. Also near 
 this place lieth interred the body of Ann, the daughter of W™ and 
 Sarah Barlow of Osgodby, who departed this life the 1^* day of May, 
 1798, aged 13. Also near this place lieth interred the body of William 
 Barlow of Osgodby, who died September 22"*!, 1819, aged 66 years, 
 {Cli/nrcliyard.) 
 
 This Stone perpetuates the Memory of Joseph Baxter late of Cliffe 
 gent., who departed this life the ll*'^ day of March a.d. 1795, aged 94, 
 and was here interred. {In nave, near t) he font.) 
 
 Near this place lieth interred the Body of Thomas Baxter, Apothecary, 
 from London, Son of Thomas and Rebecca Baxter of Cliff, who de- 
 parted this life March the 10'^ 1767, aged 33 years. Also the above 
 Rebecca Baxter, Daughter of George Jewitt of Cleek, who departed 
 this life July 7*^'^ 1773, aged 63 years. Also Thomas Baxter of Cliff, 
 consort to the above Rebecca Baxter, who departed this life the 24"^ 
 day of February 1792, aged 86 years. Also John Baxter of Cliff, 
 who died the 18ti» of November 1813, aged 72 years. {Churchyard.) 
 
 In Memory of Thomas Baxter of Cliffe, who departed this life on 
 the 25'*^ day of May 1845, aged 62 years. Also of Jonathan Baxter, 
 brother of the above, who departed this life on the 1?>^^ day of February, 
 1864, aged 83 years. {Clturchyard.) 
 
 Beneath this Sacred Stone is deposited the Remains of Elizabeth, the 
 Wife of William Burton of Turnham Hall, who departed this life at 
 Stamford Hill, near London, November 6*'^ 1811, aged 43 years. She 
 was the affectionate Mother of fourteen Children, nine of whom sur- 
 vived her ; four of her Infants lie buried near her. She was a Correct, 
 a Sensible, and a Virtuous Woman, no higher eulogy can be wi-itten, or, 
 if it could, it were due to her memory. She will be long remembered 
 by those who knew her as a matchless pattern of female excellence. 
 Therefore to her revered memory is inscribed this Holy Tablet by her 
 admiring husband. {In south chapel in chancel.)
 
 34 THE HISTORY OF HEMINGBROUGH. 
 
 Sacred to the Memory of Matilda, youngest daughter of William and 
 Elizabeth Burton of Turnham Hall, who departed this life May the 
 6*^ 1830, aged 21 years, Beloved, Admired and Lamented by all who 
 knew her. {In south cliapel of chancel.) 
 
 Sacred to the Memory of Keighley Burton of Cliffe, who died 29*^ 
 June 1879, aged 71 years. Also of Ann, wife of the above, who died 
 26th '^Qyv 1855, aged 35 years. {On a marble tomb in the church- 
 yard.) 
 
 In loving memory of Thomas Burton of Turnham Hall, who died 
 May 30*** 1883, aged 82 years. Rest in peace. {On a granite tomb in 
 the churchyard.) 
 
 Sacred to the memory of Joseph Butler Esq'®, formerly of Bowthorp 
 in this parish, who died in London, Nov'' 6 1785, aged 51 ; and 
 was buried at Cheam, in Surry. And of Elizabeth Butler, his widow, 
 who died at York, Jany 6 1821, aged 82, whose remains lie in the vault 
 below. Mary, daughter of the above, died March 22"^ 1838, aged 77. 
 Her remains are interred in the same vault. 
 
 Arms.— Az. a chevron between 3 covered cups or, impaling arg. a 
 chevron gules on a chief of the second, 3 martlets of the first. {On a 
 marble tablet on the ivall of the north transept.) 
 
 Sacred to the Memory of Dorothy, wife of the Rev. W'" Caile, Vicar 
 of this Place, who departed this Life April 2"'* 1814, Aged 68 years. 
 Also the Rev. W"" Caile, the above named, who departed this Life 
 August b^^ 1824, Aged 88 years. 
 
 Stop, Mortal, stop ; remove not from this Stone, 
 But stand & ponder well where we are gone. 
 Pi'epare, thou wand'i'ing Guest, take home this line. 
 The Grave that opens next, may chance be thine. 
 
 ( Within the altar rails, next the east toall. ) 
 
 In Memory of John Francis Carr, of Carr Lodge and Hemingbrough 
 Villa, Esq'', a Magistrate and Deputy Lieutenant for the County of 
 York, who departed this life 25*'' December 1862, aged 76 years. Also 
 of Mary, widow of the above, who departed this life 28"' of October 
 1871, aged 81 years. 
 
 Arms of Robinson. — A chevron between 3 bucks trippant. Crest. — 
 A stag's head erased. Motto. — Mens conscia recti. {On a marble tablet 
 on the north tvall, centre of nai^e.) 
 
 Sacred to the memory of William Dalby Esq'' of Barlby in this 
 parish, who departed this life the SO*^'' day of September, 1800, aged 
 75 years, Arms defaced. {On a marble tablet, in south aisle of choir, 
 on the loall.) 
 
 In Memory of John Faulkner of Barlby in this parish, who departed 
 this life the 2'^'^ day of November, 1757, aged 73 years. Also of Sarah, 
 the wife of John Faulkner of Bowthorpe in this parish, son of the 
 above said John Faulkner, who departed this life the 26"' day of 
 January, 1768, aged 44 years. {In churchyard.) 
 
 Richard Garrett, M.R.C.S., late of this parish, and formerly of 
 Eydon, Northants, born April 22''d 1798, died April 23'''i 1871. 
 Deeply regretted. Also Richard Eydon Garrett, only son of the above, 
 accidentally drowned at Pietermaritzburg, Natal, the 16"' of August, 
 1882, aged 42 years. (In churchyard.)
 
 INSCRIPTIONS IN CHUECII AND CHURCIIYAKD. 35 
 
 Here are deposited the Remains of M*" John Gibson, who departed 
 this life the 2""^ day of December, in the year of our Lord 1793, aged 
 20 years. 
 
 A pale Consumption gave the fatal blow, 
 The stroke was certain but th' effect was slow ; 
 Death found me with relentless Pain oppi'ess'd, 
 Pitied my Sighs and kindly gave me rest ; 
 Pi'epared for Heaven my Soul ascending flew, 
 And early bid this sinful world adieu. 
 
 Short was ray time, eternal is my rest 
 In the exalted mansions of the blest. 
 
 (/w chiirchyard.) 
 
 Here Lieth Interred the Body of M»'^ Anne Haddlesey of South 
 Duffield, who Departed this Life November the 12*^, An" Dom. 1744, 
 Aged 58 years. Also of William Haddlesey of South Duflield, who 
 departed this Life April 14*'! 1824, aged 74. {In church, in south 
 transept) 
 
 Sacred to the memory of William Haddlesey Esq'^' of South Duffield, 
 who departed this life April 14**^ 1824, aged 74 years. His widow, as 
 a token of her affectionate regard, has caused this memorial to be 
 erected. {In cMirch, on wall of south transept, on a marhJe tablet.) 
 
 Sacred to the memory of Anne Haddlesey, daughter of W™ and 
 Charlotte Haddlesey of South Duffield, who departed this life May 
 14*'> 1855, aged 34 years. Also Charlotte Haddlesey, another daughter, 
 who died young. Also Charlotte Anderson, daughter of the above, 
 who died July 26'*» 1862, aged 27 years. Sacred to the memory of 
 William Haddlesey of South Duffield, who departed this life on the 
 13"'' day of August, 1857, aged 61 years. Also of Charlotte, wife of 
 tlie above William Haddlesey, who died June 13*^'^ 1866, aged 72 years. 
 {In churchyard.) 
 
 In Memory of William Haddlesey of South Duffield, who died 
 September 16'^^ 1872, aged 45 yeai's. Also Hannah, his wife, who died 
 September 27*^'^ 1872, aged 43 years. {In churchyard.) 
 
 Here lieth interr'd the body of Jane, the wife of John Harrison of 
 Babthorp Gent., who departed this life April the 13"\ 1794, aged 64 
 yeai-s. Also, at the west end of this stone, lieth the body of John, tlie 
 son of John &, Eliz. Harrison of Babthorp. He was born August 9*^* 
 1807, died July 5*"^, 1808. Sacred to the Memory of John Harrison 
 Gent of this place Avho died July 27*^^ 1814 aged 80 years. {In church- 
 yard.) 
 
 In memory of Joseph Harrison of Hemingbrough Grange, who de- 
 parted this life, 13'^ of July 1853, aged 37 years. {In churchyard.) 
 
 Sacred to the memory of John Harrison of Hemingbrough Grange, 
 who departed this life on the 28**" of December, 1829, aged 65 years. 
 Also Ann Harrison, daughter of the above, who departed this life 
 Jan. 8*1^ 1849, aged 56 years. Also Elizabeth, Relict of the above- 
 nam'd John Harrison, who departed this life 28"^ June 1851, aged 73 
 years. Also Jane, eldest daughter of the aforesaid John and Elizabeth 
 Harrison, born February 10t»> 1809, died March 18"^ 1873. In 
 affectionate remembrance of John Harrison of Hemingbrough Grange, 
 who died on the 7*^^ day of February 1881, aged 66 years. {In church- 
 yard.)
 
 36 THE HISTORY OF HEMIXGBROUGH. 
 
 Sacred to the memory of the 'Rev^ Jolm Ion M. A., Rector of 
 Halsham, and thirty-five years Vicar of this Parish, who died the 
 9*h day of October 1860, aged 71 years. Also Ann, daughter of the 
 above Reverend John Ion, who died the 2"^^ day of August, 1847, aged 
 12 years. 
 
 Sacred to the memory of John Collins Ion, undergraduate of Trinity 
 College Cambridge, and son of the Rev<i John Ion, Vicar of this Parish, 
 who died June 5**^ 1862, aged 22 years. JEven so, Father, for so it 
 seemed good in thy sight, Mathew xi. 25*'^. Also in memory of Jane 
 Tate, wife of Charles Grey Tate, the last surviving child of the late 
 Rev"^ John Ion, who died March 12"^ 1864, aged 26 years. Thy will 
 be done, Matt. vi. 10. {On two stones in the chancel, before the altar 
 rails. ) 
 
 Here lieth the Body of Mr. George Jewitt of Cleek-hall, who was 
 the happy Father of ten Children. He departed this life y^ f>^^ of May 
 A. D. 1761,^. 89. Veritas in Cinerihus reviviscit. {In ch^irchyard ; 
 now gone.) 
 
 Sacred to the Memory of Thomas Keighley of Cliff, who died the 
 10"^ of December 1802, aged 74 years. And Ann, his wife, who died 
 the 12**^ of September 1795, aged 64 years. They lived respected and 
 died lamented. Likewise two of their Daughters, Sarah, who died the 
 20'^ of October, 1768, aged 8 years ; and Elizabeth, who died the 16'^ 
 of December 1769, aged 6 months. Also George, one of their Sons, 
 who died the 9"^ of May 1803, aged 40 years. {In churchyard ; 
 noto gone.) 
 
 Here Lieth interred the Body of John Kerlew of South Duffield, who 
 depai'ted this Life August the 4^'^ a.d. 1801, aged 77 years. Likewise 
 Elizabeth, the Wife of the aforesaid John Kerlew, who departed this 
 life January the 22"^*, a.d. 1796, aged 66 years. 
 
 Mild, liberal, religious, and sincere 
 They knew no guile, and did tlieir God revere : 
 Blest with kind manners, with a chearful mind 
 They liv'd respected, and they dy'd resign'd. 
 
 Also of Joseph Kirlew, Farmer, of South Duffield, son of the above 
 John & Elizabeth Kirlew, who departed this life October 6*i\ a.d. 1818, 
 aged 56 years. Also Sacred to the Memory of Edward, son of the 
 above named John and Elizabeth Kirlew, who was born on the 12'^ of 
 May 1769, and died at Brixton in the County of Surrey on the 6*^ of 
 September 1839. His remains are interred in Norwood Cemetery, 
 Surrey. {In churchyard.) 
 
 In memory of William Kirlew.^ Died December 24*'', 1816^ aged 
 83 years. Also Hannah his wife, died September 29'^'^, 1823, aged 83 
 years. {In churchyard.) 
 
 Sacred to the Memory of John Lolley of Bank House, who departed 
 this life, July . . 1826, aged 70 years. Also Ann, wife of the above 
 named John Lolley, who departed this life on the 1** day of April, 1846, 
 aged 77 years. 
 
 "Parish Clerk. A son of Wm. 20 Nov. 1760, bur. 21 Mar. 1764 ; Mary, 
 
 Kirlew of Woodliall, Farmer, bp. 11 bp. 30 Dec. 1762 ; Frances, bp. 5 Dec. 
 
 Aug. 1733. He marr. Hannah Richard- 1764 ; Wm., bp. 18 Nov. 1766 ; Hannah, 
 
 son of Hemingbrough 20"' June, 1758, bp. 21 Feb. 1769. 
 and had Anne, bp. 30 Jan. 1759; Wm., bp.
 
 INSCRIPTIONS IN CHURCH AND CHURCHYARD. 37 
 
 Sacred to the Memory of James Lolley, who departed this life on the 
 S'"*^ of December, 1829, aged 33 years. He was the son of John and 
 Ann Lolley of Bank House. [On tii'o stories in sotUh aisle of chancel.) 
 
 Here lyeth Interred Elizabeth, the Daughter & Heiress of Thomas 
 Robinson of this town, late Wife of Hugh Massey of y® City of York 
 gentleman, son and heir of Hugh Massey of Broxton in y® County of 
 Chester, Esq'"., by whom she had 3 sons & 3 Daughters, whereof John 
 and Henry dyed before her, Robinson, Elizabeth, Sarah &, Jane were 
 Liveing at the time of her death. She dyed the 23^^ of July 1709, 
 iEtat. suae 33. {In churchyard.) 
 
 In Memory of Robert Menzies Esq. (of Woodhall) who departed this 
 life on the 4*^** day of May 1839, aged 79 years. Also of Harriette, his 
 widow, who died June P* 1864, aged 75 years, (/n north aisle of 
 nave.) 
 
 William Phillips 1696. {In churchyard, against east wall.) 
 
 Sacred to the Memory of William Phillips, of Newhay in the parish 
 of Drax, who departed this life the 10*^ of April 1823, aged 62. {In 
 churchyard.) 
 
 In the south aisle of the choir a hatchment hangs upon the wall for 
 Lady Pilkington, bearing the following arms : — Harrison with a crescent 
 for difference impal [sic] Smith, 2, Pilkington. Underneath is this 
 inscription : 
 
 Dame Lenox Pilkington sole Daughter & Heiress of Cuthbert Harrison 
 of Acaster Selby, Esq., dyed the 17"' day of July Au° Dofh. 1706. {On 
 south icall of cha7icel.) 
 
 To the Memory of Mrs. Sarah Rawson, wife of Thomas Rawson, who 
 departed this life March the 31»*, a.d. 1809, aged 59. An Aftectionate 
 wife, and a sincere Friend. 
 
 In Memory of Robert Rawson who departed this life the 21^' of June 
 A.D. 1808, aged 50 years. Also Mary Rawson, the wife of the above, 
 who departed this life the 28*^^ of June 1808, aged 54 years. An in- 
 dulgent Father and a tender Mother. {On two stones in churchyard.) 
 
 Sacred to the Memory of John Reeves Esquire of Woodhall, who 
 died December 3"^ 1811, aged 36. A man distinguished by his Learn- 
 ing, Integrity and Universal Benevolence. {In chancel.) 
 
 Sacred to the Memory of James Reeves, son of Charles and Dinah 
 Reeves of Woodhall, who died at Bubwith, 24*^ April 1818, aged 26 
 years. Also John, son of the above James Reeves «fe Harriet his wife, 
 who died in his infancy April 11**\ 1817. {In churchyard.) 
 
 Here resteth the body of Thomas Revell, late viccar of this Church, 
 who departed the 14*^^ of November, anno Dom. 1677, ^tatis suse 34. 
 {In the church, on a brass jjlate upon a coffin-shaped stone formerly 
 withi^i the cdtar-rails.) 
 
 Near this Place lies Interred the Body of W"" Richardson, Gent, born 
 at Cliff in this Parish, Lived near Fifty Years at Wressle Castle, where 
 he Departed this Life April y^ 6*^, 1771, si. 74. Also the body of Ann, 
 wife of the above W'" Richardson, who Departed this Life June y*^ 30*^^ 
 1754, se. 73. Likewise Elizabeth, wife of W™ Richardson, son of y** 
 aforesaid W*" & Ann Richardson, who Departed this Life Dec^'' y^ 14*'^ 
 1790, se. 35. Also of W"i Richardson, son of the aforesaid W™ and 
 Ann Richardson, and Husband of the abovesaid Elizabeth, Daughter 
 of Rob* Wilberfoss, Gent, who Departed this Life October the 17th 
 1775, 86. 52.
 
 38 THE HISTORY OF HEMINGBROUGH. 
 
 Who left issue two Sons William and Robert. Robert died at 
 Dantzick in Poland August the 2P^ 1781, ae. 20. {In the north tran- 
 sept, on a marble tablet.) 
 
 Beneath this tomb is deposited what was mortal of William 
 Rimmington, Farmer, of Brackenholme in this parish, who died on the 
 20*'^ day of Septeml^er, 1813, aged 49. Here also lie the bodies of 
 Anne Rimmington, who died on the 15"^ of May 1802, aged 2 years & 
 10 months ; Philip Rimmington, who died on the P* of December 1810, 
 aged 10 weeks, and Sarah Rimmington, who died on the 16"^ of Sep- 
 tember, 1813, aged 17 weeks. {In cMirchyard.) 
 
 In the nave, on a wooden pillar or monument at the end of a pew is 
 the following singular inscription. The reader might well imagine that 
 he was being introduced to a Pope. 
 
 Greg'ry the lO*'^ 
 Of the antient Race 
 Of Robinson's 
 Lies near this Place, 
 In ninety six. 
 The fifth of May, 
 Ag'd twice 18, 
 Was call'd away 
 From Hemingburgh, 
 His earthly seat, 
 To his celestial 
 Retreat: 1696. 
 
 Immediately opposite, on a similar wooden board, is this : 
 
 Gregory 
 
 Robinson, 
 Son of Tho^ Robinson, 
 And grand -son to 
 Gregory the Tenth. 
 In the fear of God 
 His Time he spent ; 
 He left this World in y^ 
 Fiftieth Year ofs Age 
 And lies interr'd 'mongst 
 His ancient Parentage. 
 June ye 7**^ 1758. 
 
 To the memory of Mary Robinson, late of Barlby in this parish, 
 spinster, who died the seventh day of July, 1839, aged 72 years. 
 
 She was a woman of sterling worth throughout a long life. She was 
 so unostentatiously secret in the distribution of her charity that it may 
 with truth be said of her that her left hand never knew what her right 
 hand gave away. By her will she left one hundred pounds to the York 
 County Hospital, one hundred pounds to the York Lunatic Asylum, 
 one hundred pounds to the poor of Barlby, one hundred pounds to the 
 poor of South Duffield, one hundred pounds to James Audus Esq. to be 
 given away in chai'ity. This monument was erected in compliance 
 with her desire by her executors, Thomas Clarke of Knedlington 
 Esquire, and John Wightman of Cawood Esq''. Arms. — Vert between
 
 INSCEIPTIONS IN CHURCH AND CHURCHYARD. 39 
 
 a chevron or charged with 3 cinquefoils, three bucks trippant or. 
 Motto. — Virtute, non Verbis. [On a marble tablet in nave, on north 
 ivall oj" central alley.) 
 
 Near this place are deposited the remains of Josepli Robinson Esq. 
 of South Duffield in this parish, who departed this life 29'^ May 1823, 
 aged 69 years. Also Elizabeth Robinson, sister of the above, who died 
 29*^^ May 1819, aged 59 years. John Robinson Esq., brother to the 
 above, died October the 30"\ 1832, aged 69 years. Arms. — A chevron 
 between 3 bucks trippant. (On a large marble monument near the 
 last.) 
 
 Sacred to the memory of William Robinson Esq. of Hemingbrough, 
 who departed this Life on the 2"^! day of January, 1827, aged 70 years. 
 His widow and daughter, Mary the wife of John Francis Carr 
 Esq., his only child, as a token of their affectionate regard have caused 
 this memorial to be erected. 
 
 Mary Robinson, widow of the above, died January the 10*^^ 1842, 
 aged 73 years. Arms. — As before. Crest, a buck trippant. Motto. — 
 Virtute, non Verbis. {Near the last momiment.) 
 
 Here lieth the body of Mr. Thomas Salmon,'" the younger, who de- 
 parted this life the fifth day of January, Anno Domini 1711, aged 66 
 years. {On north side of church near the ivest end.) 
 
 Here lieth the body of Mrs. Jane Smith who departed this life, April 
 21**, 1674. {In the chancel on a small brass 2jlate on a coffi^i-shajied 
 stone formerly tvithin the altar rails.) 
 
 On the wall of the south aisle of the chancel hangs a helmet which 
 is said, and no doubt truly, to commemorate Sir Jeremy Smith, who 
 died in 1675. In Vicar Potter's time spear and gauntlets remained at 
 the same place. And Di'. Burton mentions his coat of arms as he saw- 
 it there, no doubt on a hatchment — Ermine three bezants (2 and 1) or. 
 {On south wall of chancel.) 
 
 Here lieth the body of Thomas Smith, who departed this life, July 
 the 19"\ in 1705, aged 53 years. Here also lieth the body of Sarah, 
 the wife of the abovesaid Thomas Smith, who departed this life 
 January the ... in 1745 aged 103 years. She bore to the abovesaid 
 Thomas Smith 8 children ..... {In churchyard; nov} gone.) 
 
 Sacred to the memory of Jane Snowden, wife of Richard Snowden of 
 S'h Duffield, who died the 8"^ of Novb"- 1793^ aged 48 years. Also of 
 the aforesaid Richard Snowden,'' who died the 23'"<i of Sep^'", 1823, aged 
 78 years. {In churchyard.) 
 
 Sacred to the Memory of Mark Stables of Newhay Grange, who 
 died October 15"^ 1867, aged 43 years. Also of Elizabeth, wife of the 
 above, and daughter of John Banks of Howden Hall, who died the 
 H*'^ day of June, 1865, aged 36 yeai-s. {On a marble tablet in the 
 Babthorpe chantry.) 
 
 Near this Monument was interred the Remains of M'"^ Eliz. Steele, 
 wife of M"- ChrisPi^er Steele of Whitemoor Farm, June the \^\ 1711, 
 aged 28 years. Likewise the Remains of M'" ChrisP^"" Steele,'"^ Farmer, 
 of Whitemoor Farm near Osgodby Township, May the 16*'>, 1716, aged 
 
 '« 1702-3 Jan. 31, Thos. Salmon, '- May 11, 1716. Will of Chr. Steele 
 
 chandler, bur. at Hembrough. S. of Osgodby, husbandman. Wife Jane 
 
 Michael -le-B elf r ey , York. ex''. Three children, minors, Wm., 
 
 " Father of Eev. Wm. Snowden, rector Thos., and Elizabeth, 
 of Swillington, who d. 1847.
 
 40 THE HISTORY OF HEMIjSGBROUGH. 
 
 32 years. Likewise the Remains of William Steele, son of the above- 
 said Chrisi^'i"' and Eliz^^h gteel, May the 31^*, 1716, aged 6 years. 
 
 Hark from the tomb a doleful sound ! 
 
 O come, attend the cry : 
 Ye living men, come, view the ground, 
 
 Where you must shortly lie. 
 
 Below lieth entombed the Remains of Thomas Steele Esq., late of 
 London, who died January 5**^ 1788 aged 78. He was the son of the 
 abovesaid Mr. Christ^''^'=''' and Eliz*^^ Steele & erected this Monument. 
 (On a marble tablet in the south aisle of chancel.) 
 
 Here lieth interred the Body of Thomas Steele Esq'", late of London, 
 who departed this Life Jan^'-v 5"% 1788. Aged 78. He was the Son of 
 Mr. Christopher Steele, of Whitemoor in this Parish. 
 
 God and Religion did his hours employ, 
 Goodness his choice, and Charity his Joy. 
 Reader wlio'eer thou ai^t be warn'd by me 
 Make Christ thy friend, by living piously. 
 
 {On the floor of south aisle of chancel.) 
 
 In affectionate remembrance of Elizabeth, the beloved wife of Michael 
 Steele, who departed this life October 26"', 1873, aged 61 years. (In 
 cliurchyard.) 
 
 Sacred to the memory of Jane, the wife of Robert Steele, who died 
 lOf' Dec'- 1816, aged 21 years. 
 
 When thy lov'd Husband was beyond the sea, 
 
 Far separated on a foreign shore. 
 With sudden death God then did visit thee, 
 
 You parted, ah ! on earth to meet no more. 
 
 (In churchyard.) 
 
 Here lieth interred the Body of the Revd. M"' Marmaduke Teasdale, 
 who was thirty five years Vicar of this Church and departed this life 
 Nov:b'" the first 1741 Aged 61. (Under the tower, and nou) partly 
 defaced.) 
 
 Sacred to the Memory of Lionel Tomlinson who died January 9"', 
 1872, aged 47 years. (In churcliyard.) 
 
 Here lyeth interred the body of Matthew Topham, of South Duffeild, 
 Gent, wlio, having been the happy Father of nineteen Children pre- 
 sented at the Font, departed this life the thirteenth day of October, in 
 the fifty second year of his age. Anno Domini 1694. 
 
 A num'rous ofspring Heav'n proclaims 
 
 His blessings great to be : 
 Who Nineteen Children by one wife. 
 
 Surely much blest was hee. 
 
 Adjoining on the right lieth the interred Body of Jane the wife of 
 Matthew Topham Gent, who departed this life the 2*^ day of September, 
 Anno Domini 1696, jetatis sufe 48. (On floor of south transept.) 
 
 Near this Place lie the Remains of Mary Waterworth (Daughter of 
 Rich"^ Waterworth of Brackenholme) who departed this Life March \1^^ 
 1787, Aged 4 years. Sarah the Wife of I. S. Bower M.D, of Don-
 
 INSCRIPTIONS IN CHURCH AND CHURCHYARD. 41 
 
 caster and Sister of the above died the 17^'^ of Feb''y 1801 Aged 22 
 Yeai-s. Who is interred in Doncaster Church. [Marble tablet on wall 
 of south transept.) 
 
 Sacred to the memory of Richard Waterwortli, late of Brackenhohne, 
 gent., who departed this life June 2'"' 1810, aged 66 years. Also of 
 Ann, the wife of Ricliard Waterworth of Wressell Castle and daughter 
 of William Nadin Esquire of Church Greasley, Derbyshire, who died 
 June 5*^'i 1810, aged 26 years. And of Stephen Maram & Sarah, 
 their children who died infants. {Marble tablet on wall of south 
 transejit.) 
 
 In Memory of Thomas Waterworth & Rebecca his wife. He died 
 May 2 1755 aged 54. She died Sep'" 25, 1760, aged 48. Also Mary 
 Waterworth (Daughter of Rich^^ Waterworth of Brackenhohne) who 
 departed this Life March 17, 1787, aged 4 years. {On floor of south 
 transept.) 
 
 Near this place lies the Body of John Watson, son of John Watson, 
 born at North Duftield Hall in the parish of Skij^with, livd near fifty 
 years at Hagthorpe in this parish, died at Howclen 2"'^ Feb'^y, 1808, 
 aged 83 years. Also of Mary, his wife, died 9*^^ Octo"" 1800, aged 72 
 years. Likewise Anne, the ^vife of John Watson, son of the above 
 named John and Mary Watson, of Howden, gent., who died Feby 28 
 1832, aged 74 years. Also the remains of the above-named John 
 Watson, who died July 11*'' 1835, aged 73 years. {Marble tablet in 
 north transept.) 
 
 Hei^e lieth intered William, son of John and Mary Watson of Hag- 
 thorpe in this Parish. He died the 11**^ day of May, 1786, aged 
 18 years. Likewise near the Gates of this Church lies buried Ann, 
 sister to the above William. She died the 22"*^' of June 1766, aged 
 2 years. 
 
 J. W. 1808 
 M. W. 1800. 
 
 {On floor of north transejit.) 
 
 Here lieth interred the remains of Thomas Watson, late of Newland, 
 and son of John and Mary Watson late of Brackenhohne, who died the 
 16*'' day of December 1843, aged 72 yeai's. (/w north transept.) 
 
 Here was Interred y^ body of M'" William Watson of Brackenholm, 
 who departed this life March 15*'', a.d. 1761, m. 58. Also Rosamond, 
 the Wife of the above William Watson, who died Sep^"' 30*'', 1788, 
 aged 74. {Now gone.) 
 
 Hie Jacet Maria Waud, Filia Thomse Waud de Long Cliff, quae ex- 
 tremum suum diem clausit 24*'' die Junii, Anno Dom. 1708^°, et setat. 
 suse 49° 
 
 Pauperis auxilium Claudi Viduseque benignum, 
 
 Cognatis charum dulce Patrisque decus, 
 Asper quam Morbus longo post tempore stravit. 
 Hie Natam Tumulus, Candide Lector, habet. 
 
 {On a7i altar tomb in the chancel.) 
 
 Here lieth the Body of Benjamin Whittall Gent, who departed this 
 life the 3P* day of Octo. 1791, in the 60*'' year of his age, justly re- 
 gretted for his Abilities & benevolent Disposition by his friends in 
 general, and for his kindness & affection sincerely lamented by his 
 nearer Relatives to whom he was deservedly very dear. {Now gone.)
 
 42 THE HISTORY OF HEMINGBROUGH. 
 
 Churchwaedens and their Accounts. — There are 
 annually appointed eight Churchwardens, viz. two each 
 for Hemingbroiigh and ClifFe, and one each for Osgodby, 
 Barlby, South Dufiield, and Brackenholme cum membris. 
 Two only act, and the rest may be regarded as sides- 
 men. 
 
 Church-rates have passed away, but, when they w^re 
 gathered, they were assessed by ancient precedent after the 
 following scale. Supposing that ten marks, or 61. 135. Ad., 
 were required, Hemingbrough contributed 1/. 85. Ad. ; 
 ClifFe cum Lund 1/. 7s. Ad. ; Osgodby 16s. 8d. ; Barlby, 
 South Duffield, and Brackenholme cum membris, each 
 1/. Os. Ad. This assessment used to be doubled, trebled, 
 or quadrupled as need required. 
 
 The Churchwardens' Books begin in 1716, but there are 
 several earlier notices of expenditure on the fly-leaves of 
 the parish register. 
 
 1618, Sept. 22. A Sessment made by us, Gregorie Robinson, etc., 
 for the repaire of the bodie of the parish church, after this rate ; everye 
 messuage ij d. ; every cottage j d. ; and every acre of land a farthing. 
 
 1634, Dec. 8. Mrs Lyndley did pay unto Robert Thorp, for making 
 of a litle stall or seat for her in the Church, hard by the great piller, 
 xij^. 
 
 1716-17, Jan. 17. The Churchwardens are ordered to remove the 
 pulpit to the south pillar next the south door, and to make good the 
 defect. 
 
 1717, April 24. A double assessment of 13^. 6s. 8d., particularly for 
 the repairs of the lower south isle. 
 
 1717, Dec. 11. The church greatly in debt. An assessment of 
 26/. 13s. id. The loft or gallery built. 
 
 1718, May 30. An assessment of 13/. 6s. 8d. to repair the spire. 
 Twice repeated, viz. on July 23''i, 1718, and on Mar. 4'^, 1718-19. 
 
 1719, Sept. 4. For the Altar Table and Churchwardens' pew, 31. 7s. 6d. 
 
 1720, Jo. Jackson to repair the south aisle for 6/. lis. On June 
 15*^^ an assessment of 40/. for it. 
 
 1723, Apr. 17. It was agreed that the Clerke shall toll a bell at the 
 death of every person in the parish, for which he shall not take aboon 
 four pence, unless the person deceased be the head of a family, dying 
 worth forty pounds, for which tolling of the bell shall be paid twelve 
 pence, and no more. 
 
 Paid for table of Mr. Allison's donation, 17s. 6d. 
 
 1725. W™ Chaplain repairs the church- wall for 71. ; and Thos. 
 Baines the gates for 21., which he must maintain for three years. 
 
 172.5, Aug. 5. The Churchwardens shall provide a load of coals for 
 the vicarage and shall be allowed 12s. 
 
 1730, June 30. Assessment of 40/. for casting the bells, and the bell- 
 frames. 
 
 1732, Apr. 4. Assessment of 40/. for the same purpose.
 
 CHURCHWARDENS BOOKS. 4o 
 
 1732-3, Mar. 21. Assessment of 20?. for repairing the windows, etc. 
 
 1735-6' Mar. 3. For the new clock, iOl. W"i Sympson's discount 
 for the old clock, 4s. 6d. 
 
 1737-8, Feb. 21. Assessment of 33/. Qs. Sd. for the church porch. 
 
 1742-3' Jan 21. Assessment of 40/. for the repairs of the roof of the 
 north side of the church. 
 
 1744, March 28. Agreement with John Breasley to mend and brush 
 the church-windows for 11. bs. ; and, with Edward Hall, to whitewash 
 the Service-place, and point the windows, 4/. lis. 
 
 June 6. Agreement with John Breasley for leading the old 
 
 north vestry, 7/. ; and with David Pocklington for sundry wood- work in 
 the vestry, church, and churchyard, 10/. 
 
 Sept. 24. Agreement with Jos. Barrett and A. Gledson tor 
 
 writing the Commandments, painting, gilding, etc., 4/. 15s. 
 
 Oct. 6. Agreement with David Pocklington to make frames 
 
 for the same and reparation of the Ptoyal Arms, 3/. 18s. 
 
 1745, May 24. Agreement with David Pocklington for closing up 
 the east arch of the steeple, for the better supporting of the Command- 
 ments, 1/. 7s. . 1 K 
 
 1747, June 19. A new Prayer Book to be bought, price 15s. 
 
 17.54'_5. Flagging the churchyard to the choir door, 3/. 14s. 5^d. 
 
 1757. A new organ bought (see in account of the Church). The 
 builder engages for 10s. yearly to keep it in order during his life. 
 
 Memorandum, the residue of the Sacrament wine is always 
 
 presented to the Vicar for the time being : also a bottle of white wine 
 to his lady (if married) as hath been accustomed time out of mind. 
 Sacrament four times a year, and two gallons of wine allowed each 
 time. 
 
 1762, Aug. 18. Agreed that the spire should be pointed and cramped 
 (being judged much out of repair), or in case the spire, after scatfolding, 
 should be found incapable of being secured, then to be taken down as far 
 as was necessary and rebuilt. Estimate for pointing and cramping, 40/. ; 
 for taking down & rebuilding, 90/. John Champney of Selby under- 
 took the above, and was bound to find proper masons and work- 
 men. 
 
 The former method was complied with, notwithstanding the said 
 spire was found to be greatly shrunk & out of course for ten feet quite 
 round (being five course of stone, each two feet). This bad part begins 
 at eleven yards & a half & half a foot from the cope stone at the top. 
 Accordingly the scaffolding was begun ye 16"^ Sept. being Tuesday. 
 Sep. ye 30, the workmen gained the top, notwithstanding they did not 
 work constantly at it, having erected 16 scaffolds, all railed on the out- 
 side. On the following days most of the people in the parish, both 
 young & old, went up & stood upon the cope stone. Oct. 7, 1762, the 
 new weathercock was put up, music played at the top, and ale was 
 drawn up from the windows of public houses by a rope, turba multa 
 spectante. The scaffold was struck (taken down) on the 22"^ (jcf, 
 1762, the work being tiuished. 
 
 The spire had evidently been struck by lightning, as, previous to 
 these repairs, it was out of the perpendicular and daylight was visible 
 between the courses at about twenty feet from the summit. 
 
 N.B. At this time was made a conveniency of pointing the said spire 
 in the inside by an iron bar being put through it, near the top of the
 
 41 THE HISTORY OF HEMINGBROL'GH. 
 
 hollow part with two large rings & a pulley, in order to draw a strong 
 rope when wanted.'^ 
 
 An assessment of 40Z. 
 
 1766. The lead over the singing loft recast and repaired.''' 
 
 1776, Apr. 10. Wm Kirlew, the clerk, agrees to wash the surplice and 
 tahle-cloth, clean the flagons, wind up the clock, mow the churchyard, 
 clean the church and leads, and ring the bell at six o'clock all the year 
 for 21. yearly. 
 
 1786, Apr. 19. The parsonage house let to Matthew Lowther for the 
 yearly rent of 21. 10s., he finding a sufficient fire on Sundays for the use 
 of the minister. 
 
 1788, Jan. 31. It was unanimously agreed to oppose Mr. James 
 Keighley in the building of his loft, as it will incumber the church so 
 as that the minister can neither be seen nor properly heard by many in 
 the congregation.'^ 
 
 1794, Oct. A part of the vicarage house rebuilt by the contribution of 
 the inhabitants. Contributions, 321. lis. 6d. 
 
 1816. A vestry meeting called to consider the state of the spire. 
 
 1818. The organ rejjaired. 
 
 1825. Roof of chancel repaired. 
 
 1851. Large windows of south transept restored and reglazed. 
 
 1853. Iron rails substituted for the stone wall at the east end of the 
 church. 
 
 1854-5. Windows repaired on the north and south sides and at the 
 west end. 
 
 1856. Clerestory windows of the south transept were restored. 
 
 , May 27. The spire was struck by lightning and was greatly 
 
 damaged. Messrs. Wightman, Hadfield, and G oldie of Sheffield, 
 architects, were called in, who recommended the taking down of half the 
 spire. This was done by Messrs. Samuel and Roger Brown, at the cost 
 of about 250^. In the opinion of professional men the fall of the spire 
 had been prevented by a strong iron spindle, about 18 feet long, which 
 was found inserted in the upper part of the spire, and which was bolted 
 at the top and bottom. The spire had evidently been struck by light- 
 ning on several occasions, as some of the iron fastenings were found 
 to be torn from their sockets. A lightning-conductor was erected to 
 prevent future accidents. 
 
 " Vicar Potter drew np a long account the pillar on the south side thereof, 
 
 of this work, which, in his opinion, was fourteen feet or thereabouts, and in 
 
 poorly done. The MS. is in the posses- breadth from east to west seven feet or 
 
 sion of the family of Sherburn, which thereabouts, to front the singing loft on 
 
 was long connected with Snaith. the west ; to be in height from the 
 
 '^ In 1750 Vicar Potter says that the ground to the under side of the floor of 
 
 gallery was built on condition that the the front nine feet or thereabouts, and 
 
 churchwardens should let seats in it to the back part thereof ten feet or 
 
 for a term of years. As this term is ex- thereabouts ; to be supported with posts 
 
 pired, the gallery is now the property of or pillars, with stairs to ascend thereto 
 
 the singers by order of Court. from the north end thereof — to the said 
 
 '^ By Faculty, dated April 15th, 1776, James Keighley for the use of himself 
 
 Mr. Keighley of Turnham Hall obtained and his family and tenants to sit, kneel, 
 
 leave to erect a gallery or loft " across pray, and hear divine service and ser- 
 
 the middle aisle of the parish church, mons in." This hideous erection would 
 
 betwixt the chancel and quire, to con- have blocked up the great arch between 
 
 tain in length from the pillar on the the chancel and nave. It was never 
 
 north side of the said middle aisle to carried out.
 
 RECTORS. 45 
 
 1856. The large east window was reglazed by the impropriators of 
 the tithes. The sum of 251. was laid out upon the clerestory windows 
 in the south transept. 
 
 • 1857. The large window in the north transept was reglazed at the 
 cost of i5l., and the sum of 251. was laid out on the repairs of the 
 clerestory windows in the north transept. 
 
 1858. The whitewash was scraped off the walls of the nave and the 
 piers of the towei', and the large west window was restored. 
 
 1868-70. The churchyard was enlarged. 
 
 1880. The large west window was filled with stained glass by a Leeds 
 artist in memory of Mr. John Banks. 
 
 1882-3. The chancel was renovated by the Ecclesiastical Commis- 
 sioners under the care of Mr. Christian. A new roof was made, the 
 stalls were mended, and the pavement improved. 
 
 1884. The roof of the Turnham Hall chantry was restored by Mrs. 
 Burton and her daughter. Miss Burton, the continuation of it, as far as 
 the tower, being done by the parish. 
 
 RECTORS. 
 
 I now proceed to give a list of the rectors as far as they 
 are known. Many of them were persons of distinc- 
 tion. The living was one of the ecclesiastical prizes of 
 the north, and in 1290 was estimated to be worth 250 
 marks per annum. But it too often fell into the hands of 
 those who were altogether non-resident and made use of 
 the income for secular influence or personal aggrandise- 
 ment. 
 
 Magister Robertus de Marisco, the first known 
 rector/*" was instituted by Archbishop Gray in the third 
 year of his pontificate (1217-18).^'^ He was a brother of 
 Adam de Marisco, the celebrated scholar, and was per- 
 haps a nephew of Richard de Marisco, Bishop of Durham 
 1217-26. This is the more probable from the fact that 
 whilst Robert was rector of Hemingborough, Adam held 
 for three years the rich living of Bishop Wearmouth, 
 which is in the gift of the Bishops of Durham. ^^ 
 
 '^ It is probable that Master Richard brough, gives evidence in the enquiry 
 
 de Coldingham, a monk of Durham, who which preceeded the Convenit. 
 
 is mentioned under Woodhall, was a '" Gray's Register, ed. Surtees Soc, 
 
 rector of Hemingbrough. He died in p. 150. Adam de Marisco is said by 
 
 the time of Phihp, Bishop of Durham Leland to have been a native of Somer- 
 
 (1197-1217). Walter, Roger and Absa- setshire. 
 
 lorn were chaplains in the jjarish in his '* Who can speak adequately in a 
 
 time. Thomas, chaplain of Heming- Note of this renowned scholar, the doctor
 
 46 THE HISTORY OF HEMIXGBROUGH. 
 
 Robert de Marisco is jnore than once mentioned in the 
 correspondence of his brother. Adam writes to his friend 
 Grostete, Bishop of Lincoln, about 1241, to express his 
 brother's keen regret at being unable to come to Lincoln 
 at the ensiling Christmas to be admitted to the priesthood. 
 The reason of his absence was that it was necessary for 
 him to be at Oxford to take his degree, which was prob- 
 ably one in divinity, as he was already M.A.^^ Through 
 the influence of his brother, Robert was advanced to high 
 office at Lincoln, not without a charge of undue favouritism 
 beino" brought against Bishop Grostete, who was his patron 
 and friend.'-^" He became prebendary of Ailesbury and 
 Archdeacon of Oxford, which he vacated in 1258 on being 
 raised to the deanery of Lincoln. This he held until his 
 death, which seems to have occurred in the year 1263.''^^ It 
 will be seen, therefore, that he was rector of Heming- 
 brough for more than forty years, vacating it only when 
 he became dean. For more than half of that time he was 
 only in deacon's Orders, or under, and during the chief 
 portion of that long period he was most probably non- 
 resident at Hemingbrough. In Adam de Marisco's corre- 
 spondence there is a letter addressed by him to an 
 ecclesiastic of the name of W. de Hemingberga '-^^ which 
 carries us at once to his brother's living on the banks of 
 the Ouse. The two brothers were at the forefront of all 
 the enterprise and learning of their age, the one abounding 
 in this world's goods, the other rejoicing in his voluntary 
 poverty and his Franciscan cowl. 
 
 Magister Henricus de Dunelmo, inst, by Archbishop 
 Ludham, as appears by an undated document preserved at 
 Durham. Ludham became Archbishop in 1258, and the 
 
 ilhisfris of Oxford, who marie that uni- maledicta ecclesia, quani per triennium 
 
 versity famous by his lectm'es in the tenui,fereme dedisset condempnationi" 
 
 Franciscan school which was the nur- (Chron. Lanercost, 58). To the poor 
 
 sery of some of the greatest schoohiien Franciscan the possession of one rich 
 
 in Europe ? The friend and guide of piece of preferment for three short years 
 
 Grostete in his reforms, the adviser of was the sin and peril of his life. 
 
 Simon de Montfort so full of noble and I scarcely think that any of his succes- 
 
 ill-regulated impulses, is a person to be sors at Bishop Wearmouth would have 
 
 remembered. It is strange to turn from called his living maledicta ! 
 the story of such a career to a tale of '" Mon. Franciscana, i. 132, l.S.5. 
 
 his appearing after his decease to the ^o Matt. Paris, Chron. Majora, iv. 
 
 precentor of St. Paul's. When the 425. 
 
 usual enquiry into his spiritual condi- -' Le Neve, ed. Hardy, ii. 31, 64, 95. 
 
 tion was put, Adam is said to have re- '^^ Mon. Franciscana, i. 255. 
 
 plied : " Bene, quia judicium evasi, sed
 
 RECTORS. 47 
 
 vacancy was probably caused by the elevation of De 
 Marisco to the deanery of Lincoln in that year. 
 
 DoMiNUS Rtcardus de MiDDLETOiSr. At the time of his 
 death his goods at Heraingbrongh were under sequestra- 
 tion by order of Archbishop G-ifFard. This was taken off 
 in November, 1273. In the Hundred Roll for Yorkshire 
 in the 4th of Edward I. (1275-6), the jury say that 
 Henry de Normanton, under-sheriff, maliciously troubled 
 the executors of Dan Richard de Middleton, and extorted 
 from them wheat to the amount of 100^. and imprisoned 
 Gilbert de Middleton, the minister or agent of the execu- 
 tors, and Walter de Hemingbrough, chaplain, extorting 
 money, etc., from them. 
 
 Magister Hugo de Evesham, presented by the Prior 
 and Convent of Durham, on the death of Middleton, on 
 18th August, 1272.^^ This distinguished person is claimed 
 as a native of Evesham in Worcestershire.^^ The first 
 benefice which he is known to have held is the rectory of 
 AVelton, in the gift of the Prior and Convent of Durham, 
 which he ceded when advanced to Hemingbrough in 1272. 
 On 12th November, 1279, he was collated by Archbishop 
 Wickwaine to the prebend of Bugthorpe at York, resigning 
 for it some other unknown stall in the same church. On 
 17th December following, the same primate made Evesham 
 and the Chancellor of York his examining chaplains, and 
 on 13th December in the following year, Evesham was insti- 
 tuted to the rich living of SpofForth on the presentation of 
 Queen Eleanor, who exercised that right as guardian of the 
 heir of Sir Henry de Percy. ''^^ He also held for some time 
 the living of Goxhill in Lincolnshire.^^ 
 
 Evesham was a scholar of renown. Trained by close 
 study in many of the universities, he was a theologian and 
 logician of fame. But his acquaintance with medicine was 
 so great that it won for him throughout Europe the title 
 of the Phoenix of his age. This induced Pope Martin IV. 
 to invite him to Rome, and so pleased was the chief 
 pontiff with his skill and learning that, on 23rd March, 
 1280-1, he made him a member of the Sacred College, with 
 the title of St. Lawrence in Lucina. Evesham enjoyed 
 
 23 Eeg. Giffard, 27. 
 
 ^* Fuller's Worthies, ii. 468. Nash's Worcestershire. 
 
 25 Eeg. Giffard, var. loc. "■« MS. Harl. 6950, 114.
 
 48 THE HISTORY OF HEMINGBROUGH. 
 
 the honour for a few years, and died at Rome of the phague 
 in 1287r^ 
 
 BoGO DE Clare. Pres. 7th September, and instituted 
 28th September, 1287, by Archbishop Romanus. 
 
 This extraordinary personage was a younger son of 
 Richard de Clare, Earl of Gloucester. The sketch of his 
 career which I am able to give will be read with no little 
 amazement. 
 
 About the year 1265, Henry III. gave him a presenta- 
 tion to the rectory of Howden, but it came to naught, as 
 the living was full and not in the king's gift. In 1267 and 
 1268 he obtained presentations from his mother, Matilda 
 Countess of Gloucester, and his brother, Gilbert, the Earl, 
 to the rectory of Adlingfleet, to which the Archbishop of 
 York refused to institute him, as it had been already be- 
 stowed upon John de Francigena. This refusal produced 
 a litigation which extended over many years, and cannot 
 be said to have been concluded until 1286, when Bogo's 
 mother revoked her presentation. He obtained some sup- 
 port in his claim from Martin IV., who had been induced 
 to make him one of his chaplains. 
 
 To give some idea of the character and greed of De Clare 
 I give two lists of his preferments. One of them appears 
 on the Lincoln Register ^^ and shows what he held in 1280, 
 when he was presented by his brother to the living of 
 Wyston, Northants. His proctor then produced a papal 
 dispensation allowing De Clare to hold the following livings 
 in plurality : viz. those of Calham in Ireland, Leverington 
 in the diocese of Ely, Cheveley and Simonburne : and the 
 sum of four hundred marks in annual rent, to make up 
 which are reckoned the livings of Thegham, dioc. Salisbury, 
 worth 30 marks per annum ; St. Peter's, Oxford, worth the 
 same sum ; Kilkhampton, dioc. Exeter, worth 10 marks ; 
 Eynesford, co. Cambridge, worth 20 marks ; Swanscombe, 
 dioc. Rochester, worth 20 marks ; a moiety of the church 
 of Dorking, dioc. Winchester, worth 20 marks ; Dunmow, 
 dioc. London, worth 40 marks ; Polstead, dioc. Norwich, 
 worth 30 marks ; Saharn, in the same diocese, worth 20 
 marks ; Rotherfield, dioc. Chichester, worth 30 marks ; a 
 moiety of the church of Doncaster, co. York, worth 25 
 marks; Landeron, dioc, Llandaff, worth 10 marks ; Ford- 
 
 2' Ciacoiiius de Vitis Cardinalium. -« MS.Harl. 6951, 44.
 
 EECTORS. 49 
 
 ingbridge, dioc. Winchester, worth 40 marks ; and Acaster, 
 dioc. York, worth 10 marks. To make up the four hundred 
 marks, the annual proceeds of fourteen livings are reckoned 
 up. It is plainly evident that their value is most shame- 
 fully underestimated. Among the fourteen are some of 
 the richest livings in England. Those, for instance, of 
 Saham and Rotherfield are worth at the present day, 
 together, about 2,500/. per annum. 
 
 Ten years after this, in 1290-91, Archbishop Romanus 
 makes the following return to his brother-primate. Arch- 
 bishop Peckham, of the preferment which De Clare then 
 held in the northern province. It consisted of the treasurer- 
 ship at York, worth 600 marks per annum ; the prebend of 
 Masham in the same church, worth 300 marks ; the church 
 of Hemingbrough, worth 250 marks ; the church of Settring- 
 ton, worth 100/. ; a moiety of the church of Doncaster, 
 worth 80 marks ; the church of Acaster, worth 40 marks ; 
 the church of Pickhill, in Richmondshire, worth 60 marks, 
 and that of Simonburne, in Northumberland, valued at 
 the immense sum of 500 marks. The archbishop says 
 that De Clare professes to hold these under a dispensation, 
 which he has never seen, that he has never resided on any 
 of these preferments, and that he scarcely ever comes into 
 the north at all. 
 
 But this was not all. In 1283 De Clare was holding^ 
 the deanery of Stafford ^^ and was in receipt of an annual 
 pension of 50 marks from the Prior and Convent of Durham. 
 He held also in 1294 the rectory of St. Andrew, Walpole, 
 Norfolk,^^ which is now valued at 1,541/. per annum; and 
 who can tell what he had not besides ? 
 
 One consequence of this mass of preferment was that 
 De Clare was always in litigation. He was never out of 
 the king's and the bishop's courts, and he seems to have 
 defied them all alike. He had a little army of bailiffs and 
 receivers, whom he often did not j)ay. The bishops were 
 continually attacking him for non-residence and plurality, 
 but he had his papal dispensations to flourish in their faces. 
 The strength of the house of Clare was a potent help to him, 
 so great, indeed, that in sheer wantonness of security he 
 seems to have broken through all bounds. In 1290 a poor 
 
 ^' Misc. Documents in the Treasury, Durham, No. 4744. His seal, as Dean of 
 Stafford, is appended. 3" Blomefield's Norfolk, ix. 119.
 
 50 THE HISTORY OF HEMINGBROUGH. 
 
 wretched officer of the law went into De Clare's house in 
 London to serve a writ. The servants, after making the 
 poor wretch eat the document, seals and all, beat and im- 
 prisoned him. In this case l)e Clare was obliged to answer 
 in person, but he threw the blame upon his servants, who 
 took care to be out of the way when searched for.^^ 
 
 It seems incredible that such a state of things could be 
 possible even in that age of corruption and violence. Here 
 we have a man, receivins; an income from his ecclesiastical 
 preferments of not less than 50,000/. a year in our money, 
 neglecting every duty, and yet strong enough in his influence 
 with the Court and at Rome to defy everyone who strove 
 to call him to account. What could a Church be worth in 
 which such things were possible ? The officers at York 
 jMinster told with horror how De Clare's creatures allowed 
 the sacred vestments in the treasury to be taken out and 
 used by women in childbed, and the Lanercost Chronicler 
 narrates how the only reredos at the church at Simon - 
 burne, in Northumberland, was one made of wattles 
 besmeared with cows' dung. As an instance of his ex- 
 travagance, a wonderful jewel-case is described which he 
 gave to the Queen of France. It was in the shape of a 
 car on wheels, and was made of ivory, silver and gold. 
 De Clare died in London on 1st November, 1294, leaving an 
 evil name behind. '^'^ It is pleasing to find one flash of 
 generosity among his evil deeds — his liberal gifts, I mean, 
 to Merton College, Oxford. ^"^ 
 
 John de Drokenesford probably succeeded De Clare, 
 although there is no record of his appointment either at 
 Durham or York.^^ We find him, however, presenting, as 
 rector, a clerk to the Wasse chantry in 1297. Drokenes- 
 ford was one of the clerks of Edwards I. and II., and it is 
 impossible to look through the records of the country 
 without seeing what continuous and useful services he 
 rendered to his sovereign. Still, it must be remembered 
 that his occupation bound him closely to the Court, and 
 
 3' Rot. Pari. i. 245. 34 Qn die Merc. p. f. S. Martin in the 
 
 3- Chron. Lanercost, 158. The Chroni- Winter, 1291, Robert de Pesspool.execu- 
 
 cle of Dunstable says of him "Dives tor of the will of Master Roger de Hart- 
 
 multum in beneficiis ecclesiasticis, sed burn, gives an acquittance for all the 
 
 moribus pauper. Subito obiit, quia goods of the deceased clerk at Hem- 
 
 parum boni fecerat in aperto." ingbrough. (Reg. at Durham, 3814.) 
 
 " Hist. Univ. Oxf. iv. 36. Could he have been an unrecorded 
 
 rector ?
 
 EECTORS. 51 
 
 that liis ecclesiastical preferment in early life was sought 
 and retained merely to establish his secular position. 
 
 In addition to Hemingbrough, he was installed, on 
 23rd May, 1292, to the living of Dalston, in Cumber- 
 land, at the king's presentation, and he was also rector 
 of Childwall, in the diocese of Lichfield, of Balsham, in 
 Kent, and, on 25tli December, 1301, the Archbishop of 
 York allowed him to choose a confessor for himself. In 
 addition to his parochial preferment, Drokenesford held 
 prebends at Southwell, Lichfield, Lincoln, and Wells. ^^ 
 
 In the Court, Drokenesford was for some years Keeper 
 of the King's Wardrobe. He was also Chancellor of the 
 Exchequer between 1307 and 1316, and, on more than one 
 occasion, he was Lieutenant to the Treasurer.^'' Holding 
 such positions, he discharged with ability and faithfulness 
 many delicate and important offices and duties. He was 
 destiued to ascend the episcopal bench, hi 1306 the King 
 wrote a commendatory letter for him to the Pope, extolling 
 his prudence, discretion, and integrity.^'' In 1309, Edward 
 II. wrote a similar letter, in which he speaks of the long 
 and arduous service which Drokenesford had rendered, 
 and the expenses he had incurred in his numerous missions 
 and undertakino:s on behalf of the Crown.^^ Drokenesford 
 carried the letter with him to the Pope, as he had then 
 been elected to the bishopric of Bath and Wells. He 
 held this see for nearly twenty years, and, dying on 9th 
 May, 1329, was interred in St. Catherine's chapel in his 
 cathedral. A noble monument still commemorates him.^^ 
 
 Stephen de Mauley was a younger son of Peter de 
 Mauley the First and Isabel the heiress of Robert de 
 Turnham. He was instituted to Hemingbrough on 
 1st October, 1309, the living being vacant by the 
 elevation of Drokenesford to the episcopal bench. He 
 must have been an old man when he was appointed to 
 the livinof. 
 
 On 26th April, 1271, he was instituted, on the presenta- 
 tion of Sir Peter de Mauley, to the living of Bainton-on- 
 
 ^^ Reg. Archiep. Ebor. Le Neve, i. ^^ Id. ii. 84. In 1323 the same king 
 
 137, 595 ; ii. 191 ; iii. 441. Reg. Lang- asked the Pope to remove Drokenesford 
 
 ton at Lichfield. from England as he was a rebel (Feed. 
 
 "^ Madox, ii. 53 ; Pari. Writs, i. 105, i. 537). For " rebel " read "patriot." 
 
 378, etc. ; Cal. Rot. Pat. 56, 65, 68 ; ^9 Cassan's Lives of the Bishops of 
 
 Pell Records, 116 ; Dugdale's Chron. 34. Bath and Wells, 156-160. 
 
 '' Foedera. 
 
 e2
 
 52 THE HISTOllY OF HEMIXGBROUGII. 
 
 the- Wolds. On 17tli July, 1289, he was collated to the 
 archdeaconry of Cleveland, and, on 23rd November, 1298, 
 to the prebend of Bugthorpe, at York.'*^ In 1296 he 
 became rector of Ovvston in Lincolnshire.^^ In 1312 he 
 was for a short time Dean of Wimborne Minster.'*^ 
 
 Mauley was a kinsman of Anthony Bek, Bishop of 
 Durham, and we find him richly beneficed in that diocese. 
 He held at various times the deanery of Auckland and 
 the two rich rectories of Houghton and Haughton. He 
 was also Seneschal of Durham Castle in 1298, and vicar- 
 general of the diocese in 1307-8.''''^ It was through Mauley's 
 agency and that of Bishop Bek that the translation of 
 St. William's remains took place at York.^* 
 
 On 28th September, 1294, Mauley had letters of pro- 
 tection from the king. On 12th June, 1314, he, with 
 others, was appointed by Edward II. to represent him in 
 the Convocation at York, when the king required a sub- 
 sidy for the expedition to Scotland, and in 1314-15, the 
 king's commissioners for Scotland have letters of credence 
 addressed to hiin.^^ 
 
 Mauley died on Friday next after the feast of St. 
 Lawrence, 1317, and his living of Hemingbrough was then 
 valued at 160 marks.^^ He was buried in York Minster, 
 where, in one of the gorgeous windows on the south side 
 of the nave, there are some fragments of an inscription 
 which point to him as its donor. 
 
 Henry de Stamford, or Stanford. He was a monk 
 of Durham, with a somewhat striking history. In 1303, 
 with two comrades, he had deserted his monastery, and 
 had, perhaps, taken up his quarters in the neighbouring 
 priory of Tynemouth, which was of the same Order. A 
 letter from Boniface VIII. is preserved, addressed to the 
 I'rior of Tynemouth, ordering him to compel the three 
 truants to return. He wrote at the instigation of the 
 Prior and Convent of Durham. Stamford came back, and 
 in 1312 we find him Prior of Finchale, one of the cells of 
 Durham.'*^ In 1316 Richard de Kellawe, the monk-bishop 
 
 *" Reg. Archiep. Ebor. var. loc. *^ Kellawe's Reg. var. loc. Surtees' 
 
 *' MS. Had. (5951, 82. MSS. 
 
 " Hutchins' Dorset, ii. 534. In early " Drake's York, 419. 
 
 life Mauley was rector of Locking- '^ Le Neve, iii. 145 : Foedera, ii. 249 ; 
 
 ton, near Beverley. As such. Queen Rot. Scotias, i. 140. 
 Eleanor sought letters of protection for ■"' Reg. Archiep. Melton, 
 
 him. ■" Priory of Finchale, Pref. xxvi.
 
 EECTORS. od 
 
 of Darham, dies, and Stamford, with Wm. de Cowton, 
 obtains the king's leave to elect a successor. The election 
 took place at Durham under peculiar circumstances. There 
 was much competition and intrigue. The king and queen 
 had written to canvass every monk for his vote, and the 
 church was filled with noblemen and others to see what 
 would be done. Some even went so far as to say that 
 if another monk should be chosen they would cut off his 
 head. In spite of this intimidation, the choice of the con- 
 vent fell upon Stamford, who was, according to the monk- 
 ish historian, " moribus sincerus, tetate maturus, vultu 
 placidus, sufhcienterque literatus." The king was at 
 York, and Stamford sought his presence ; but, through the 
 appeals of the queen, who was anxious for the election 
 of Louis de Beaumont, he could not gain admission. 
 Thereupon Stamford went to the papal court, to learn 
 there that Beaumont had been chosen. The Pope spoke 
 very kindly to him, and conferred upon him the next 
 vacant benefice in the gift of the j)rior and convent. This 
 was cold comfort, but it was modestly accepted, and Stam- 
 ford came back to Eno^land. He never returned to Durham. 
 He paused at Stamford in Lincolnshire, w^here he was, no 
 doubt, born, and took up his abode in the little cell there, 
 which was subject to his old home at Durham. He died 
 there on St. Gregory's Day, 1320, and was buried in the 
 choir of the church of Stamford before the hio;h- altar. 
 The monkish chronicler '^^ records wdiat he regarded as a 
 miraculous appearance over the grave, and observes that 
 Stamford was peculiarly under St. Leonard's charge. He 
 had been born and elected bishop on that saint's day ; he 
 was buried in St. Leonard's church ; " et, adjutorio Sancti 
 Leonardi, in ctelestibus, ut verisimiliter creditur, corona- 
 tus." 
 
 The appointment of Stamford to Hemingbrough was 
 probably regarded by the convent as a kind of solatium 
 to him for his misfortunes, and in obedience to the Pope's 
 expressed desire, the rectory was accepted in his behalf 
 on 18th August, 1317, by his proctor, Richard, vicar of 
 Eastrington (son of Henry de Ganye), a notary-public. 
 But the Durham historian says that nothing came of it. 
 
 ■•' Cf. Hist. Dunelm. Scriptt. Tres, write with fellow-feeling on Stamford's 
 98-9. Graystanes, the historian, could mishap.
 
 54 THE HISTORY OF HEMINGBROUGH. 
 
 The appointment seems to have been never completed, and 
 the ricli living fell into the hands of a person who wouhl 
 lose nothing throngh refraining to ask for it. Possibly 
 Stamford gave it np. Edward II. did something to atone 
 for the loss he had brought npon Stamford, by writing 
 very kindly to the Pope in his behalf.'^^ 
 
 Gaucelinus Joannis de Ossa (Joscelin d'Ossat) was 
 the next rector. He was a Frenchman by birth, and was 
 the sister's son of Jacobus de Ossa, who became Pope 
 John XXII. His uncle made him Chancellor of the 
 Apostolic See, and Cardinal-Priest of SS. Marcellinus 
 and Peter, and subsequently he was raised to the dignity 
 of Cardinal- Bishop of Alba.^^ 
 
 We now come to a strange incident in his life.°^ In 
 May, 1317, Gaucelinus and Lucas de Flisco, Cardinal- 
 Deacon of S. Maria in Via Lata, left Avignon on an embassy 
 to England, to negotiate a truce or peace between that 
 country and Scotland. On 17th June the king ordered 
 the Constable of Dover, &c., to receive them honourably 
 on their arrival, and to send them with an escort to 
 London.^"^ It was not until the autumn that they set out 
 northwards. They carried with them in their train Louis 
 de Beaumont, the bishop-elect of Durham, who was 
 minded to be consecrated at Durliam on St. Cuthbert's 
 day, in the presence of the cardinals. On 1st Septem- 
 ber they had reached a place called Rushj^ford, within 
 six miles of Durham, just under the hill from the sum- 
 mit of which the cavalcade would get its first view of 
 St. Cuthbert's towers, where the party was pounced upon 
 by a gang of freebooters, headed by a Xorthumbrian 
 knight of the name of Gilbert de Middleton. Their 
 object was plunder, and, very probably, to cause some 
 annoyance to the new bishop, whose election had been by 
 no means a popular one. The robbers had not intended 
 to touch the cardinals, but so many in the party claimed 
 to be associated with them that an indiscriminate plunder- 
 ing took place ; the bishop and his brother were carried 
 off to Mitford, in Northumberland ; two horses only were 
 left for the cardinals, and they and their train reached 
 
 '" Eeg. Kellawe, iv. 157-8. (Steven- and Appendix, 98, 101-2. Foedera, ii. 
 
 son's Index at Durham, 5701.) 3-11, 341. Papers from Northern Regis - 
 
 ^" Ciaconius de Vitis Cardinalium. ters. 
 
 5' Hist. Dunehn. Scrr. Tres, 100-1, ^- Fcedera, ii. 331, 337 -8.
 
 RECTORS. 55 
 
 Durham bringiDg nothing with them but what they 
 carried on their backs. When they reached the monastery 
 the prior did what he could to supply their wants ; but 
 the cardinals were in a furious passion, and threatened to 
 leave no stone of the church upon another, and in the very 
 shrine of Cuthbert said that he should be answerable to 
 them for what they had lost. In fear and trembling 
 the monks were constrained to grant to Lucas de Flisco 
 a life-pension of one hundred florins per annum, and I 
 think it will be found that at this very time Gaucelinus 
 was made rector of Hemingbrough. The monks would 
 not dare to pension one of the cardinals and pass over 
 the other. Henry de Stamford was neglected and for- 
 gotten, and John XXII. would not care to press upon the 
 convent the fulfilment of his own promise when Gaucelinus, 
 his nephew, was so signally benefited by the change. 
 
 Wealth in various forms was now showered upon 
 Gaucelinus, for which, no doubt, he was considerably 
 indebted to the incident at Rushyford. The king gave 
 him an annual pension of fifty marks, ^^ and I find that he 
 held the following benefices in England : viz. the prebends 
 of Drififield and Wistow at York, the treasury and the 
 prebend of Sallowe at Lichfield, the prebend of Louth at 
 Lincoln, and the rectories of Ilemino^brouo-h, Paofham, 
 Hackney, Limming, Northflete, and HoUingbourne.^^ 
 And not only did he hold them, but he was also specially 
 exempted from the Act which excluded aliens from the 
 English benefices ; nay more, he was excused from 
 clerical taxes w^hich he was far better qualified to pay 
 than his poor, oppressed brethren in England.^^ This 
 was one of the typical cases which in a very short time 
 prevented foreigners from being preferred in England. 
 As to Gaucelinus, w^e are distinctly told that he never 
 came to Hemingbrough or England again, ^^ but resided 
 in the Court of Rome, of which he was a strong and 
 useful pillar. He died at Avignon on 3rd August, 1348,^' 
 having been rector of Hemingbrough for about thirty years. 
 
 5^ Foedera, ii. 348 and 492-5. " ciaconius. MS. in Eccl. Court, 
 
 ^* Le Neve, i. 582 ; ii. 180. Foedera, York. During the time of Gaucelinus, 
 
 iii. 29. Newcourt, i. 618. Hasted's the following clergy are mentioned as 
 
 Kent, ii. 470 ; iii. 334. connected with Hemingbrough : viz., 
 
 " Foedera, ii. 845, 1037 ; iii. 29, 578, Dan Richard de Cliffe, Dan John Polain, 
 
 699. Dan Wm. de Cliffe, Dan Adam the 
 
 " MS. in Eccl. Court of York. chaplain.
 
 56 THE HISTORY OF HEMINGBROUGH. 
 
 Alan de Shutlington, ok Shotlington, succeeded 
 Gaucelinus, taking corporal possession of the rectory in 
 January, 1348-9, after the great plague had spread 
 devastation far and wide.^^ There is little known about 
 him save the fact of his resistance to an attempted visita- 
 tion at Hemingbrough by the Prior and Convent of Dur- 
 ham, which will be mentioned elsewhere. In the 26th of 
 Edward III. he was made a commissioner to view and 
 repair the banks of the Ouse within the liberties of the 
 Bishop of Durham. ^^ It is probable, therefore, that he 
 was a resident incumbent. 
 
 Thomas de Walworth, Scholar of Civil Law, was 
 presented by the prior and convent on the death of Shot- 
 lington, on 20th April, 1375, and, on the 26th, he was 
 instituted by the Archbishop of York. He seems to have 
 been a native of the little village of Walworth, in the 
 parish of Heighington, in the county of Durham. He 
 must have been very young when he obtained Heming- 
 brough, and the archbishop, when he instituted him, gave 
 him a licence of non-residence for three years to enable 
 him to study at the university and to obtain the Minor 
 Orders. On 19th April, 1389, he was made vicar-general 
 for the diocese of York. 
 
 Walworth was chaplain to Archbishop Scrope, and was 
 high in his favour. He held in succession the prebends 
 of Stillington, Bugthorpe, and Langtoft, in York cathedral. 
 In the 22nd of Richard II. he was also Master of St. 
 Nicholas's Hospital at York.*^° 
 
 In the Liber Vita? of Durham, among the benefactors 
 to that great house are enrolled the names of " Ricardus 
 de Walworthe, Emma uxor ejus, dominus Johannes et 
 Petrus filii eorum. Dominus Willelmus Walworthe miles, 
 Magister Thomas Walworthe, Magister Willelmus ^^ Wal- 
 
 58 MS. in Eccl. Court, York. In the Subsidy Roll for the 4th of 
 
 *^ Dugdale's History of Embanking, Richard II., the clergy officiating at 
 
 118. Hemingbrough are mentioned as Dan 
 
 «" Dugdale, Mon., vi. 710. John Rowclyff cap. (afterwards 5th 
 
 ^' He was rector of Haughton-le- vicar-prebendal), Dan John Blakewell, 
 
 Skerne. His will is dated at York on who was living 1409-10, and Richard 
 
 17th May, 1401, and he desires in it to be fil. Willelmi. 
 
 buried before the altar of St. Nicholas, By an undated Subsidy Roll in the 
 
 in York Minster. To Master Thos. early part of the fifteenth century, the 
 
 Walworth, his cousin, he leaves a basin following clerics were ministering in 
 
 and ewer of silver, and his best silk the parish : Dan Wm. Bosewell de H., 
 
 bed. (Test. Ebor. i. 278.) Dan John Kynstaar, Dan John Ellerton,
 
 RECTORS. 57 
 
 worth " — evidently a family pnrty/'^ The Sir William 
 Walworth who is thus mentioned is the Lord Mayor of 
 London so famous for his prompt courag-e in the rebellion 
 of Wat Tyler. Sir William died in 1385, and in his will 
 bequeathed to Master Thomas W^alworth, his brother, 
 100 marks, and all the money he owes him, also twelve 
 dishes, twelve saucers, two chargers and two basins with 
 a ewer, six pieces of plate with two covers, and twelve 
 spoons, all of silver. He leaves to him also several law 
 books, desiring him to give them to any kinsman who 
 may take up the study of the law.^^ 
 
 The rector's own will is dated on 1st August, 1409, 
 and was proved at York on 3rd September. It is a model 
 of devotion and kind feeling, and a few extracts from 
 it, in a translated form, will be read with interest. ^"^ 
 " In the name of the Most High and Indivisible Trinity, 
 Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, I, Thomas Walworth, 
 canon-residentiary of the cathedral church of St. Peter of 
 York, and prebendary of the prebend of Langtoft therein, 
 and rector of the parish church of Hemingbrough, in the 
 diocese of York, sound in my mind, knowing and under- 
 standing that I am dust and about to return to dust, but 
 when or how, God alone knows ; and, therefore, that my 
 transitory goods may go for the future to the increase of 
 the worship of God, and the good of my own soul, and 
 those of others alive or dead, to whom I am bound, and 
 the poor and needy, make and ordain my Will as follows. 
 In the first place I bequeath and commend my soul to the 
 great mercy of God, to the glorious Virgin Mary, the 
 mother of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to all the Saints in 
 the heavenly court, and my body to be buried within the 
 new fabric of the church of York aforesaid, to wit within 
 the enclosure of the altar of the Blessed Virgin Mary, near 
 and beside the tomb of Mr. Richard le Scrope, of blessed 
 memory. And I will that my funeral expenses be made 
 according to the good and wise judgment of my executors, 
 with no excessive worldly pomp, but still honourably and 
 suitably, to avoid the hasty opinions of critics. To the 
 
 Dan Thos. le Wayce, Dan John Polayn, garth, chaplain. 
 
 Dan Wm. Rykall, Dan Wm. Donyng- "- Liber Vitaj, 115. 
 
 ton, Dan Tlaos. Ingylson, Dan John '^^ Excerpta Historica, 140. 
 
 chaplain of Wm. Kettering (of Osgodby), «* Test. Ebor. i. 353. 
 
 Dan John Mirfekl ; also Thos. Apple-
 
 5& THE HISTORY OF HEMINGBEOUGH. 
 
 fabric of the said clmrcli of York 20/., and to the same 
 church, in the name of my cope and palfrey, 20/. ^^ ; and 
 a Bible in two volumes, and Archidiaconus in Rosario, to 
 remain for ever in the library. To Agnes, my sister, a 
 gilt piece which formerly belonged to my deceased brother, 
 Sir Wm. Walworth, Knight. To Wm. Walworth and 
 Thomas Barde, my cousins, 40/. each. To Richard Blak- 
 burn, John de Crome, and John de Munkgate, chaplains, 
 to distribute among the poor for my soul, 100 marks. To 
 Agnes de Acclom, my cousin, forty marks, for her marriage, 
 or to enable her to enter a relio^ious house. To the hio;h- 
 altar of my church at Hemingbrough my best Missal, and 
 a vestment with all its appurtenance of red damask, which 
 I bought of the executors of Master Walter Skirlaugh, 
 late Bishop of Durham, of blessed memory. To Dan John 
 de Langtoft, my chaplain, for his daily and good service, 
 10/., and my little Portus [i.e. Breviary] with which 
 I made a j^ilgrimage to the Sepulchre of our Lord Jesus 
 Christ." After a few more bequests the testator leaves all 
 the residue of his goods to his poor parishioners, wherever 
 they are, and to the poor of York and its neighbourhood. 
 
 There is no record of his monument in York Minster. 
 It was something in those days to have made a pil- 
 grimage to Jerusalem. 
 
 On the death of Walworth, on 7th September, 1409, 
 Robert de Hemingbrough, vicar of Skipwith, Thos. de 
 Rickall, clerk, and John Hawksworth, were made seques- 
 trators of the living. 
 
 Dan Richard Pickering, chaplain, pres., on the death 
 of Walworth, 8th September, 1409. He was at the expense 
 of glazing the great rose- window at the east end of 
 Durham cathedral, which cost him 14/.^^ His name and 
 his good deed are recorded in the Liber Vita3 of Darham, 
 His coat of arms — gules a chevron or between three fleurs- 
 de-lis argent — was in one of the windows of Heming- 
 brough church. He may have been a member of the 
 family of Pickering at Oswaldkirk, or Ellerton. 
 
 Mr. John Rickinghall, Archdeacon of Northumber- 
 land, pres. 30th September, 1412, on the death of Pickering, 
 and inst. 25th October, 1413. 
 
 "^ Every canon at his death owed a cope and a palfrey to the Minster, or 
 sum of money in lieu of them. •*" Liber Yitw, 115.
 
 EECTOES. 
 
 59 
 
 He was a Doctor of Laws, and was born, probably, at 
 Rickinohall, in Norfolk. In 1376 he was ordained acolyte 
 by the^Bishop of Ely, and was rector of Shelford Parva, 
 CO. Cambridge.*^^ In 1381 he became rector of Thorp 
 Abbots, in Norfolk, which he exchanged in 1399 for a 
 mediety of Fresingfield. In 139G the Earl of Arundel 
 presented him to the rectory of Brunstead. He was also 
 Dean of the Chapel in the Fields, Norwich, 1405-26.^8 
 lUckinghall was of use to Archbishop Arundel ni his per- 
 secution of the Lollards.*^^ 
 
 In the North, Rickinghall was Archdeacon of Northum- 
 berland between 1408 and 1410. In October, 1411, he 
 was collated to it again, and held it nntil 1422. '^^ On 
 12th September, 1409, he was collated by Archbishop 
 Bowett to the prebend of Fridaythorpe, and to the Chan- 
 cellorship at York on 15th September, 1410. ^ In 1413 he 
 became rector of Hemingbrongh, at the special request of 
 John, Duke of Bedford, whose confessor he was. In 1416 
 Rickinghall was Chancellor of the University of Cambridge, 
 and, between 1423 and 1426, Master of Gonville Hall 
 (now Caius Coll. ).^i 
 
 In 1426 Rickinghall, through the influence, no doubt, 
 of the Duke of Bedford, whose confessor he still was, was 
 made Bishop of Chichester, a post which he only held for 
 three years. He died in 1429, and was buried in his 
 cathedral under a fine monument. The following inscrip- 
 tion npon it excited the admiration of Camden : 
 
 Tu moclo qualis eris 1 quid mundi quferis lionores ? 
 Crimina deplores, in me nunc te speculeris. 
 En mors ante fores, qute clamitat omnibus ' Adsum ' — 
 In poenis passus, pro me, Te deprecor, ores. 
 
 The Various Attempts to Appropriate the Rectory 
 TO Durham. — Upon the cession of Rickinghall the church 
 of Hemingbrongh was made collegiate. Before we de- 
 scribe at length what then took place, it will be well to 
 go over the various steps which preceded and led to that 
 arrangement. It has been seen that for more than two 
 centuries the rectory was held by some remarkable men, 
 
 " Lei. Coll. V. 220.'' '" Reg. Langley at Durham, 30, 51, 
 
 ^i- Blomfield's Norfolk, ii. 171 ; v. 326 ; 112. 
 
 ix. 290. " Le Neve, iii. 549, 677. 
 •i' Foxe, ii. 673.
 
 60 THE HISTORY OF HEMINGBEOUGII. 
 
 but few of them resided on their benefice, the tithes were 
 let to the highest bidder, and the spiritual wants of the 
 place must have been considerably neglected. During all 
 this time the Monastery of Durham, through various 
 causes, was considerably impoverished. The Scottish 
 wars in the reign of Edward I., with the forays and 
 plunderings which were of everyday occurrence, and the 
 enormous taxation which was enforced, were destructive 
 of the resources of such a religious house as Durham, which 
 was in the very forefront of danger. The losses which 
 the priory had sustained were represented to Edward I., 
 who, in 1296, after a very cruel incursion of the Scots, 
 made over to it an annual payment of 40/. out of the 
 treasury at Berwick, for the honour of the glorious con- 
 fessor St. Cuthbert, and in pity for the poor. The gift 
 was burdened with the following conditions. On two of 
 the great festivals of the Church — viz. the day dedicated 
 to St. Cuthbert (20th March), and on that of the Transla- 
 tion of the same Saint (4th September) a dole of a penny 
 was to be given to 3,000 (probably this should be 1,000) 
 of the poor of Durham, and a priest was to celebrate Mass 
 daily in the chapel called the Galilee, at the west end of 
 the cathedral. 
 
 Between 1312 and 1315 the losses through Scottish 
 inroads became rapidly greater, and ruin seemed to be 
 very near to the house of Durham. Whether the gift of 
 Edward I. was regularly paid or not we have no oppor- 
 tunity of knowing, but, even if it was, the sum, if clogged 
 by no conditions, would have been a very inadequate com- 
 pensation for the enormous injuries which Durham had 
 received. Representations would be made to the king, 
 and there is evidence to show that he directed the pension 
 of 40/. to be paid out of the rich living of Simonburne, 
 which had been in the presentation of the royal family of 
 Scotland. But that was not enough when Coldingham 
 had been lost. Holy Island ravaged, and church after 
 church and farmstead after farmstead plundered and burnt. 
 It was natural, therefore, that Durham should begin to 
 long for the annexation of some living, the revenues of 
 which could be better secured to them than their pre- 
 carious possessions in the north, or the equally uncertain 
 annuity out of the rectory of Simonburne. Such an
 
 ATTEMPTS TO ArrROPRIATE THE RECTORY. 61 
 
 annexing was called an appropriation, and it enabled the 
 party benefited by it to receive the rectorial tithes, making 
 due provision for the support of a vicar to take charge of 
 the parish which was dealt with. For this purpose none 
 of the Durham benefices seemed to promise so certain and 
 so competent an income as that of Hemingbrough, and 
 therefore it was considered to be desirable, on the first 
 vacancy, to endeavour to secure the annexation. This 
 avoidance occurred on the death of Stephen de Mauley, in 
 1317, whereupon the Prior and Convent sent special 
 messengers to confer with Thomas de Wake, Lord of 
 Lydel, on the subject. The instructions which they re- 
 ceived are curious and characteristic. The messengers 
 had to arrange, if possible, that Wake shall procure from 
 the Pope and the King their consent to the appropriation, 
 and, when this is fully completed and a vicarage taxed 
 and founded, then Wake is to have his reward ; and this 
 is to be the transference of the patronage of the church 
 of Brantingham to him. At the same time the Convent 
 induced Henry de Percy to write to the Pope recommend- 
 ing the appropriation of Hemingbrough, to help to make 
 up their losses during a forty years' war. It is stated 
 that the value of the living had fallen to 106^. 13.s. 4<i., 
 out of which QQl. IS.s. 4<:/. was paid to the ministering 
 clergy, etc.^"'^ 
 
 This negotiation came to naught, and Cardinal Gauce- 
 linus obtamed the living and held it for thirty years. He 
 never saw the place, and the living during his time was 
 fiu'med by Henry de Cliff, and afterwards, for twelve 
 years, by John de Hemingbrough, a tenant of the Prior, 
 William de Haddlesey and Benedict de Hagham. As 
 Gaucelinus died at the papal court, the right to provide to 
 the living would be claimed by the Pope. After the death 
 of Gaucelinus the Prior and Convent make an appeal to 
 Innocent VI., and revive the question of the appropriation. 
 Their petition speaks in eloquent terms of their continued 
 losses by fire and sword, and the diminution of their 
 resources by upwards of 1,000 marks per annum, for which 
 they pray for a remedy, and ask for Hemingbrough to 
 rescue them from their difficulties. The value is then 
 
 " MS. Cotton, Faustina A. vi.
 
 62 THE HISTORY OF HEMINGBROUGH. 
 
 estimated at 250 marks per annum. About the same time 
 the Prior and Convent make the same request and com- 
 plaint to John Thoresby, one of the king's favourite 
 ministers, as they did, no doubt, to many other courtiers. 
 They were fortunate enough after a time to obtain the 
 consent of the king. His letters patent are dated on 
 6th March, 1356-7. Theyrecapitulate the losses the monas- 
 tery had suffered from the Scots and the diminution of its 
 income. They mention the charter of Edward I. and the 
 annuity which had been for some time unpaid and which 
 the monastery had given up, and assent to the remedy 
 prayed for, i.e. the annexation of the church of Heming- 
 brough, in satisfaction of whatever claim they might have 
 to the annuity and its arrears. The Prior and Convent, 
 on the other hand, stipulate to celebrate Mass daily on 
 behalf of Edward I. and his ancestors in the Galilee at 
 Durham ; and, farther, that two monks, or secular chap- 
 lains, one at the altar of St. Cuthbert in Durham, the 
 other in the church of Hemino-broui>h, should be found to 
 do service daily for the king and queen, living or dead. 
 Provision is made for wax lights at St. Cuthbert's altar 
 and elsewhere ; and, lastly, i\\^y stipulate to observe in 
 solemn state the obit of the king after his death, in the 
 choir at Durham, and to give a penny dole to 1,000 poor 
 people. The prior and monks bind themselves to the 
 performance of all this, and also quitclaim all title to the 
 annuity of 40/., and to the advowson of Simonburne. 
 The consent of the king may be regarded as a new way 
 of paying old debts. 
 
 The consent of Archbishop Thoresby follows, dealing 
 practically with the necessary rearrangement of the 
 church. He states that he has made due enquiry into the 
 case and consulted with his Chapter of York about it, 
 and they both agree that the appropriation should take 
 place. Whenever the present rector vacates his living, 
 either by death or by resignation, the emoluments shall 
 pass to the Prior and Convent, who shall then ask leave 
 from the Archbishop, or Archdeacon, to endow a vicarage, 
 to which the Prior and Convent shall present, and the see 
 of York institute. An annual pension of lOO.s. is reserved, 
 two thirds of which shall go to the Archbishop, and the 
 other third to the Chapter of York. This consent is dated
 
 ATTEMPTS TO ArrROTEIATE THE RECTORY. Go 
 
 19th July 1357, and confirmed by the Chapter on 2nd 
 Auo;ust. 
 
 When matters had gone so far as this, we might 
 reasonably expect a successful conclusion. The answer 
 of Innocent VI. has not been preserved, but it was 
 evidently unfavourable, and nothing farther was done 
 until 1372, when, in reply to an appeal to him made 
 by Edward III., Gregory XI. makes the following reply. 
 After mentioning the king's renewed request for the 
 appropriation, he gives some statistics of the monastery 
 of Durham to show how unreasonable, in his opinion, 
 the request was. The church of Durham had originally 
 consisted of 150 secular canons and others, and all their 
 estate passed to the Prior and Convent. Besides, there 
 ivere united to them four abbeys, each with twenty-four 
 monks, whereas they have not more than fifteen now, and 
 two monasteries also, each of which had fifteen persons in 
 it — now there are not ten in both. Moreover, this monas- 
 tery of Durham has thirteen parish churches already ap- 
 propriated to it, and has received many gifts as well. The 
 Pope then says that in this monastery there are fifty-six 
 monks living, and if any go into the country they take 
 three or four horses with them, and in dress and food 
 bear themselves anything but like poverty-stricken men, 
 or disciples of Benedict. The Pope asks the king to give 
 credence to Simon, Cardinal- Priest of St. Sixtus, his 
 nuncio. Should the king be bent upon the appropriation, 
 his request shall be granted, but, if the union is carried 
 out, the Pope is resolved that such a number of ecclesias- 
 tics shall be maintained at Hemino;brouo-h as the revenues 
 of the living can support. 
 
 This is a remarkably sensible letter, and one very 
 difiicult to answer. There was, of course, another side to 
 the picture, which is not alluded to — the swallowing up of 
 the income of the living by absentee rectors with the 
 sanction of the papal court. The result of the letter was 
 the suspension of the question of appropriation until a 
 strict enquiry was made into the resources and obligations 
 of the monastery of Durham. Certain depositions were 
 taken in May, 1373,'^ in which it was stated that, in addi- 
 
 '^ Informatio negotii ecclesias de H. secundum Johannem de Walleworth, 
 canonicum ecclesise de Hextildesham, 3, 2, Ebor. 23.
 
 6i THE HISTOKY OF HEMINGBROUGII. 
 
 tion to the devastations caused by the Scots, there had 
 been in the course of twenty-four years three pestilences, 
 so that in some places the monastery of Durham scarcely 
 received one half, and in others not one third of their 
 rents. As their debts amounted to 500 marks, it was 
 thought by the witnesses that the appropriation of Hem- 
 ingbrough would be a means of extricating the monastery 
 from its liabilities. The Pope was still obdurate and un- 
 persuaded, and, in 1375, the Prior and Convent, seeing 
 the hopelessness of their application, made Thomas de 
 Walworth rector. On 10th November in that year they 
 procured an exemplification of the charter of Edward III., 
 which recites the substance of the grant, but acquits them 
 from the obligation to fulfil the stipulated conditions, as 
 the appropriation had fallen to the ground. On 15th No- 
 vember Archbishop Neville confirms to the Prior and 
 Convent the pensions which they had received from time 
 immemorial from their churches in the diocese of York, 
 and, notably, that of five marks per annum from the 
 church of Hemingbrough.'^'^ 
 
 We now pass on to the year 1426, when the rector, John 
 Rickinghall, became Bishop of Chichester, and consequently 
 vacated his cure. It had been sought for some time 
 before by two persons of the very highest rank. Henry V. 
 asked the Prior and Convent to bestow it, when vacant, 
 on John de Brokholes, his servant and clerk, and John 
 Duke of Bedford, in the same way, put in a plea in behalf 
 of his cousin, Stephen le Scrope, Archdeacon of Richmond.^'' 
 Scrope died eight years before the living became vacant, 
 and then the duke presses upon the convent his clerk and 
 secretary, Thomas Bradshaw, when Rickinghall was about 
 to vacate the living. In reply to the duke's request, the 
 Prior and Convent tell him of the change which they had 
 long contemplated and wished to make at Hemingbrough, 
 and how they desire to raise it into a collegiate church 
 like Howden, with a provost and prebendaries at its head. 
 They speak also of the provisions made by the Popes, by 
 which they had long been debarred from the right of 
 appropriation granted to them by Edward III., but now, 
 in consequence of the Statute against Provisors, they 
 
 " 3, 7, Archiep. 34, at Durham. 
 
 " These letters will be printed, with others, in the Appendix.
 
 EEMARKS ON THE COLLEGIATE SYSTEM. 65 
 
 wished to take up the project as soon as the rectory be- 
 came vacant ; they have heard of the intended resignation 
 of Rickinghall, and have actually presented Robert Neville, 
 the duke's cousin, whom they wish to be the provost, 
 as soon as the necessary changes can be made. They 
 state also that Neville's ])rebend at Auckland should, at 
 their instance, be conferred upon the duke's immediate 
 jJi'otege, Thomas Bradshaw. 
 
 The statute alluded to in the prior's letter was passed 
 in the 16th of Richard II. , and effectually curbed the 
 objectionable practice in vogue among the Popes of nom- 
 inatino- clerks to various benefices in Enoiand and else- 
 where who resided or had influence in the papal court. 
 One of the pretexts for thus acting was that the wellbeing 
 of the whole Church necessitated such appointments. 
 
 It is evident that the Prior and Convent intended to 
 shelter themselves under the Statute of Provisors, as they 
 sent neither petition nor letter to the Pope of the day. 
 Martin V., however, was aware of what was going on, as 
 he wrote, on 9th April, 1426, to the Prior and Convent, 
 saying that as the living is vacant, and is specially reserved 
 for the disposal of the see of Rome, he has provided to it 
 Thomas Chapman, bachelor of laws, a resident at the 
 papal court, and secretary of Richard, Bishop of Lincoln. 
 The Pope bids them set aside all hindrances and delays 
 and assist Chapman to get possession of the living.'^^ This 
 request seems to have been quietly set aside, and the con- 
 version of the living into a collegiate church was effected. 
 
 The Advantages and Disadvantages of Colle- 
 giate Churches. — It would have been much more to the 
 liking of the Prior and Convent if they could have carried 
 out their old scheme of appropriation. In that case, after 
 making provision for the cure of souls and endowing a 
 vicarage, they would have been allowed to put into their 
 own pockets all the rectorial tithes. But, failing this, the 
 establishment of a collegiate church conduced to their 
 interests as well as to those of the parish. It was under 
 all circumstances a very great advantage to get rid of non- 
 resident rectors, who starved their church and maintained 
 the most meagre staff' of clerical representatives on the 
 spot. Under the collegiate system the Prior and Convent 
 
 "* See Appendix.
 
 6Q THE HISTORY OF HEMINGBROUGH. 
 
 had the patronage of the provostry, prebends, and vicar- 
 ships, and the residue of the income of the hving after the 
 fixed stipends and other charges had been met. The provost 
 was supposed to reside, and generally did so, and a special 
 fee was offered to the prebendaries to tempt them to do 
 the like. But it was certainly a boon to the spiritual 
 wants of the place to have six vicars residing together at 
 one centre and managing the parish from thence. 
 
 The parish of Hemingbrough was the last in the north 
 to which the collegiate system was applied. It had been 
 long in existence in the great Minsters of Southwell, 
 Beverley, and Ripon, but we can scarcely compare them 
 with an ordinary parish church. We must, rather, look 
 to the collegiate church of Howden, and those of Chester- 
 le- Street, Lanchester, Auckland, Darlington and Norton 
 in the county of Durham. In all these the vicars had the 
 greater part of the parochial duty to themselves, living 
 under one roof, and under the control of a provost or dean. 
 The prebendaries, as a working body, were a failure, as they 
 were generally non-resident, but the patron regarded their 
 offices as rewards for those who had served him. It would 
 have been the best plan, perhaps, if the rectory could have 
 been subdivided, each portion taking with it its own tithes ; 
 but in that case the old mother church would have been 
 injured, and there would have been no provision for 
 pensions and compensation which interested patrons 
 always managed to carry away at any appropriation or re- 
 endowment. But, to judge from results, these changes 
 have been a ruinous mistake. There are no poorer eccle- 
 ciastical districts now than Hemingbrough, Howden, 
 Chester-le- Street, Lanchester, and Darlington. The col- 
 legiate cliurches were suppressed, there were no adequate 
 endowments to fall back upon, the income remaining to 
 the clergy has been shamefully insufficient, and large 
 cliurches have been suffered to fall into ruin or decay. 
 In the destruction of the once glorious choir of Howden 
 we have lost one of the finest specimens of mediteval art 
 in Europe. 
 
 Hemingbrough is made a Collegiate Church. — 
 The conversion of the rectory of Hemingbrough into a 
 collegiate church took place in the year 1426. A petition 
 requesting it was made to the king in council. The
 
 HEMINGBROUGH A COLLEGIATE CHURCH. 67 
 
 royal licence or patent bears date 26th October, 1426. 
 It is a lengthy document and recapitulates much of the 
 charters of Edwards I. and III., the exemplification of 
 1375, and the prayer of the petition itself The title of 
 the provost, prebendaries and vicars was to be the " College 
 of the Blessed Mary of Hemingbrough," and they were to 
 have a common seal for the transaction of business. 
 Special prayers were to be offered for the health of the 
 reigning king, Henry VI., whilst living, and for his soul 
 after his decease, for his ancestors and descendants, for the 
 soul of his father, Henry V. The anniversaries of the 
 Edwards were also to be observed, and a distribution to 
 the poor was to be made on the day after the festival of 
 All Souls. It is stated in the document itself that the 
 large sum of 80/. had been paid into the king's hanaper, 
 to defray the legal expense of the appropriation. The 
 ordination, or drawing up the rules for the government of 
 the new college, devolved upon the Archbishop of York. 
 The Prior and Convent submitted themselves to this 
 ordination on 10th November, 1426, and the Chapter 
 of y ork gave their formal approval to it on lOtli January 
 in the following year. 
 
 The ordination appointed that there should be a provost 
 or warden, who must have previously been a prebendary 
 of the church ; also three prebendaries, designated as first, 
 second, and third, who should have stalls assigned to them 
 after the provost on both sides of the choir. There should 
 also be six vicars, of whom the chaplain of the Wasse 
 chantry should be the senior ; and, lastly, six clerks of the 
 second table, of whom two should be aquce bajuli, as there 
 were aforetime. 
 
 The provost shall bear rule in the church and have the 
 principal cure of the souls of the parishioners, and the 
 sole governance of the rents and profits. He shall person- 
 ally reside for the greatest part of the year, receiving 40/. 
 per annum for his portion. But out of this he shall pay 
 all charges, ordinary and extraordinary, except suits of 
 law, inning of the crops, or payment of the king's tenths, 
 when granted, and except, also, the stipend of ten marks 
 yearly to each of the canons or prebendaries, which shall 
 be paid four times a year. If these three, or any of them, 
 resided thirteen weeks continuously, or at intervals, they 
 
 1-2
 
 68 THE HISTORY OF HEMINGBROUGH. 
 
 were to have, in addition, another sum of ten marks 
 each. 
 
 Within eight days of 1st August every year, the 
 provost shall give a strict account of the profits and ex- 
 penses to the Prior of Durham, or his deputy, and the 
 balance, if any, shall be deposited in a chest in the college, 
 under three keys, and be spent according to the discretion 
 of the prior or provost. 
 
 There shall be six vicars, one being chaplain of the 
 Wasse chantry, with five others, who shall all minister in 
 regfular habit after the use of the church of York, and be 
 ebdomadaries, in turn. At the direction or bidding of the 
 provost, they shall have the cure of souls in the parish. 
 The first vicar, or chaplain of the Wasse chantry, shall 
 pray for the founders, and, in addition to his income from 
 land, shall receive four marks per annum. Each of the 
 other five vicars shall receive ten marks per annum, paid 
 quarterly. 
 
 The four clerks of the second table (besides the two 
 aquce bajuli) shall be nominated by the provost and be 
 removed at his pleasure. They shall receive 40^. per 
 annum ; and the aquae bajuli, who shall be maintained as 
 formerly by the parish, to make them more diligent in 
 their daily services, shall have a mark yearly in augmenta- 
 tion of their stipends. 
 
 The provost, prebendaries, vicars, etc., shall pray for the 
 souls of Edwards I. and III., Henry Y,, their ancestors 
 and descendants, whose anniversary shall be holden on 
 3rd November, on which day a mark shall be distributed 
 among the poor of the parish. They shall also pray for 
 the health of Henry YI., John Duke of Bedford, and 
 Humphrey Duke of Gloucester ; also for the archbishop 
 of the province. 
 
 On Sundays and festivals, the Mass of the day and 
 canonical hours, and, on other days, Mass, Matins and 
 Yespers shall be sung with note after the use of the cathe- 
 dral church of York. The vicars and clerks shall be 
 present in person, and, in reading or chaunting, shall be 
 obedient to the provost when there, or to his deputy, when 
 absent. 
 
 The jurisdiction of the Prior and Convent and their 
 annual pension of five marks are retained and reserved.
 
 HEMINGBROUGH A COLLEGIATE CHUKCII. 
 
 69 
 
 And as the Prior and Convent have hitherto had the ens- 
 tody of the church during any vacancy, an additional 
 pension of four marks per annum is given to them as a 
 compensation, if the profits of the church will allow it. 
 The fruits and profits of avoidances shall still be due to 
 the church of Durham. 
 
 The advowson and patronage shall belong to the Prior 
 and Convent, who shall present within the statutory time, 
 and the archbishop, or the dean and chapter of York, 
 in the vacancy of the see, shall' institute. Presentations 
 shall be made within two months of the decease ; failing 
 that, the archbishop shall present, etc. To the archbishop 
 and his successors is reserved the authority to assign, with 
 the consent of the Prior and Convent, proper houses for the 
 provost, canons, vicars, and other ministers,''^ and the 
 power to interpret, correct, or amend this ordination ; 
 which the provosts, canons, vicars, and clerks, on their 
 admission, shall swear to keep and obey. This ordination 
 is dated at the archiepiscopal residence at Westminster 
 on 1st March, 1426-7, and was confirmed on the 16th of 
 the same month by the Prior and Convent at Durham. 
 
 The legal and other expenses of making the church 
 collegiate were very considerable. It is mentioned among 
 the good deeds of Prior Wessington of Durham that he 
 brouoht this about at a cost of 561. 16s. Id. over and 
 above the sum of 116^. 12.s. 10<:/. which the house of 
 Durham received from the church 
 during the vacancy of the rectory.''^ 
 It is probable that a large portion 
 of this sum was laid out upon the 
 fabric. 
 
 The Seal of the new Chapter of 
 Hemingbrough is by no means a work 
 of art. It represents either a master, 
 rod in hand, hearing the lesson of a 
 scholar, or, a penancer administering 
 disciplme to a penitent, and is emble- 
 matical, no doubt, of a strict rule over 
 the prebendaries and vicars on the part of the provost. 
 There is no evidence to show that such was ever unneces- 
 
 On 25th September, 1430, a commission to this effect was issue 
 Hist. Dunelm. Scr. Tres, Appendix, cclxxvi.
 
 70 THE HISTORY OF HEMINGBROUGH. 
 
 sarily the case. The matrix, an old impression of which 
 I have never seen, was given to the Yorkshire Philo- 
 sophical Society by Mr. Joseph Hunter, the historian, and 
 is now preserved in their mnseum. 
 
 We now come to the tilling up of the Provostry and 
 the new offices created by the change. And here we have 
 a sample of what I had almost called the persecution to 
 which ecclesiastical patrons w^ere then subjected. Perhaps 
 they do not fare better now. Preparatory to the resigna- 
 tion of Rickinghall, the last rector, the Duke of Bedford 
 pressed upon the Prior and Convent the claims of his 
 secretary, Thomas Bradshaw, and then those of Stephen 
 le Scrope, to succeed him. Death removed Scrope out of 
 the j&eld. Joan Lady Westmerland also wrote to the 
 Convent in behalf of Bradshaw, subordinating his claims, 
 however, to those of her son, Robert Neville. The Convent 
 endeavoured to please both of their patrons by presenting 
 Bradshaw to the second prebend, and designing the Provos- 
 try for Robert Neville, who chanced also to be the Duke of 
 Bedford's cousin. Neville, however, never came to Hem- 
 ingbrough, as he was raised to the bishopric of Salisbury 
 in 1427, and it will be seen from the subjoined list who 
 obtained the Provostry. It was not Bradshaw. This 
 person was grievously disappointed with the income of 
 his prebend, and induced the Duke of Bedford to write to 
 the Prior, reminding him that he had promised that 
 Bradshaw^' s income should be 20/. per annum, whereas it 
 was now only twenty marks. The Archbishop of York 
 was subsequently asked to allow this addition to be made 
 to Bradshaw's prebend. His reply is not preserved, but 
 there is no reason to believe that the primate would break 
 through the rules which his predecessor had laid down, 
 simply to please a grumbling prebendary. It is more 
 probable that the dilFerence was made up by Bradshaw 
 being allowed to hold with his stall at Hemingbrough the 
 prebend of Thorpe at Howden, which he was occupjdng 
 at the time of his death in 1456. 
 
 The catalogue of the Provosts and Prebendaries of 
 Hemingbrough presents a few eminent names, but, as a 
 whole, they are insignilicant w^hen compared with the 
 Rectors. And it is a remarkable fact that in the very 
 large correspondence of the Prior and Convent of Dur-
 
 PROVOSTS. 71 
 
 ham there is not a single letter addressed to them by a 
 Provost. Does this silence indicate an unwillingness to 
 seek advice even when advice was needed ? 
 
 LIST OF PROVOSTS. 
 
 Dan John Radbuen, chaplain, pres. 25th April, and 
 inst. 25th June, 1427, in the person of John RadclifFe, 
 his proctor. 
 
 Mr. John Harpour, priest, pres. on the death of Rad- 
 burn, 1st August, 1428, and res. 3rd March secj. in St. 
 Andrew's chapel withm the infirmary of the monastery of 
 Durham. 
 
 Dan John Wyther, or Withers, priest, pres. 4th March, 
 and inst. by John Selow, vicar-general, on the resignation 
 of Harper, 10th March, 1428-9. He was deprived for 
 misconduct, as will be seen afterwards. 
 
 Mr. Thomas Caudell, pres. 10th April, and inst. on the 
 deprivation of Wyther, 28th May, 1440, by Richard 
 Arnall, vicar-general. 
 
 Thomas Portington, priest, inst. 15th May, 1458, 
 exchanging for it with Caudell the free chapel of Charing 
 in the diocese of London, the rectory of Blyborough, 
 CO. Lmcoln, and his prebend of Osmotherley. On 17th 
 February, 1457-8, Portington formally bound himself to 
 observe any new Ordination of his office that might be 
 made, and also to resign the third prebend as soon as he 
 should be admitted provost. (Reg. Magn. iv. 109.) It 
 will be seen in the Appendix that Portington obtained 
 the provostry through his father's influence. 
 
 He was a son of Sir John Portington of Portington in 
 Howdenshire, a Justice of the King's Bench. On 5th 
 August, 1443, he was instituted to a prebend at Os- 
 motherley, and, on 29th August, 1447, to the third 
 prebend at Hemingbrough. An enquiry was made into 
 this appointment and it was discovered that Portington 
 was of full age and was then studying at Cambridge. 
 On 11th February, 1453-4, being A.M., he had leave to 
 be ordained. On 15th June, 1454, being rector of 
 Blyborough (to which the Prior and Convent of Durham
 
 72 THE HISTORY OF HFMIXGBROUGH. 
 
 presented him on 28tli September, 1453), he was ordained 
 deacon, and priest on 21st December. On 29th July, 
 1470, he was installed prebendary of Apesthorpe at York, 
 w^hich he gave up in 1477 when he became treasurer of 
 that church. In 1471, he became prebendary of Nassing- 
 ton at Lincoln, which he held till his death. On 19th 
 July, 1472, he was instituted to the rectory of Good- 
 manham, which he resigned in 1473. On 14th February, 
 1476-7, he was collated to the provostry of Beverley. 
 Upon 29th October, 1481, he obtained the Archbishop of 
 York's leave to have divine service in the private chapel 
 of Portington, during pleasure, for the benefit of himself, 
 Richard Portington and Julian his wife. He is men- 
 tioned also in the will of his mother, 
 
 Portington made his will by word of mouth on 10th 
 June, 1485 (pr. 30th January seq.). By it he leaves 
 all his lands in Malton in Ryedale and Mansfield in Cleve- 
 land to Thomas Haldenby, Esq., for his life, with re- 
 mainder to his right heirs. The residue is left to the 
 same person to dispose for his soul. Thomas and Gerard 
 Haldenby '^^ are appointed his executors. The testator 
 was buried in the church of Shitlington, co. Bedford 
 (where he was rector), under a stone which bears his 
 image in brass (represented in a cope and canon's tippet) 
 and an inscription. 
 
 Lionel Woodville, inst. 4th September, 1471, on the 
 resignation of Portington, by William Poteman, vicar- 
 general of the archbishop. He resigned on 25th Feb- 
 ruary 1474-5, in the hall of the Friars Minors, Oxford. 
 He was a younger son of Richard Earl Rivers and nephew 
 of Elizabeth Woodville, queen of Edward IV. His kins- 
 man. Sir John Pilkington, was at this time seneschal of 
 Hemingbrough, and owner of Turnham Hall and may 
 have had some influence in bringing about this appoint- 
 
 '3 These were the Haldenbies of " In the quire, under the first win- 
 
 Haldenby in Marshland. This Gerard dow, on a Wue stone about two yards 
 
 Haldenby made his nunc, will on 31st long, whereon has been an escocheon 
 
 January, 1485-6 (pr. 11th May seq.), of order, and a brass plate with this 
 
 desiring to be buried in York Minster inscription, + Orate pro anima Gcrardi 
 
 before the image B.M.V. To Thomas Haldynby, quo7idam cognati Magistri 
 
 Haldenby, his brother, he leaves 100 Thonue Portington, quondam Thesau- 
 
 sheep. To Mr. John Haldenby 20s. rarii istius ecclesice, qui obiit primo die 
 
 To Richard Haldenby, a chain of gold. mensis Februarii, anno Domini m.cccc. 
 
 The rest to Alice his wife and Thomas Ixxxv, cujus animce propicictur Deus." 
 
 Haldenby his brother. (MS. Torre.)
 
 PEOVOSTS. io 
 
 ment, Woodville was, as might be expected, a wealthy 
 phiralist. After being prebendary of Lincoln and London, 
 Archdeacon of Norwich and Oxford, Chancellor of the 
 University of Oxford, and Dean of Exeter, he became, in 
 1482, Bishop of Salisbury, which see he held only for 
 two years, dying, apparently, in disgrace, and witnessing 
 before his death the ruin of his family. He is said to 
 have been the father of Stephen Gardiner, afterwards 
 Bishop of Winchester.^*^ 
 
 Mr. James Preston, S.T.P.,pres. 21st and inst., on the 
 resignation of Woodville, 23rd March, 1474-5. He re- 
 signed on 5th April, 1480, in the vestibule of Beverley 
 Minster. 
 
 Thomas Babthoepe, A.M., pres. 12th, and instituted on 
 the resignation of Preston, 18th April, 1480. He was a 
 son of Sir Robert Babthorpe of Babthorpe and was ordained 
 priest at York 21st September, 1476, Selby Abbey giving 
 him a title. On 1st September, 1484, he was instituted 
 to the rectory of Bulmer on the presentation of the king. 
 He died in 1515, and was buried at Hemingbrough. 
 
 Mr. Robert Marshall, A.M., inst. 20th April, 1515, 
 by Brian Higden, vicar-general of Archbishop Wolsey, 
 in the person of Mr. Robert Cheston, notary public, his 
 proctor, upon the death of Babthorpe. 'Great interest 
 was made to obtain for Marshall this appohitment. In 
 1511, Henry VIII. wrote to the Prior and Convent in his 
 behalf, at the instance of Marshall's particular friend, Sir 
 Chr. Willoughby. The Prior, thereupon, in a letter 
 to Willoughby, begs to be excused, as Babthorpe, the 
 provost, was still living. Some months after this he writes 
 also to the king, promising the aj)pointment when vacant. 
 Some years subsequently, Richard Wilson, Prior of Drax, 
 hearing that Babthorpe wished to resign, made interest at 
 Court, and the king, forgetting what he had already done 
 for another, wrote to the Prior in favour of Wilson. In 
 reply, the Prior humbly reminds the king of the promise 
 previously made to Marshall ; and as Babthorpe died soon 
 after this, the correspondence was renewed, as well by 
 Willoughby as by the king, and Marshall was accordingly 
 presented. Marshall died on 14th May, 1531, and was 
 
 «» Le Neve, ed. Hardy, i. 386 ; ii. 66, 221, 480, 604 ; iii. 468. Newcourt, i. 
 180, etc.
 
 74 THE HISTORY OF HEMINGBROUGH. 
 
 interred at Hemingbrongh, where bis mutib^tecl tomb still 
 remains. An inscription upon tbis states tbat be was tbe 
 founder of a cbantry dedicated to All Saints in tbe colle- 
 giate cliurcb of Darlington and of a Free Grammar Scbool 
 in tbat town.^^ These soon passed into other bands, and 
 (^ueen Elizabeth has tbe credit of founding, or, rather, re- 
 foimding, tbe Grammar Scbool. " Sicvos non vobis," etc. 
 Marshall seems to have been a native of Darlington, and 
 was j^robably a brother of Cuthbert Marshall, tbe last 
 dean there. Is he the person who was recalled from 
 Finchale to Durham on 31st July, 1509, being a monk 
 of that priory ? (Reg. Magn. iv. 178.) 
 
 Mr. William Whitehead, A.M., pres. 16tb May and 
 inst., on the death of Marshall, 1 9tli May, 1531. He was 
 probably a kinsman of Hugh Whitehead, the last Prior and 
 first Dean of Durham. On 26tli September, 1528, tbe 
 Prior and Convent of Durham presented him to tbe vicarage 
 of Pittinofton, near Durham. He resio:ned tbis on 17th 
 June, 1530. On 23rd February, 1529-30, he was pre- 
 sented to the vicarage of Heighington. 
 
 The Residence of the Provosts. — The Provosts 
 resided in the old Rectory house, of which there is a 
 mention in tbe year 1324. This is supposed to have stood 
 in tbe field now called the Hallgarth, on the south side of 
 the church, and obtained the name of Prior House. It was 
 granted, together with 30 acres of glebe land, to Dame 
 Joan Constable, widow of Sir John Constable of Burton 
 Constable, Knt., by letters patent dated 18th June, 1st Mary 
 Pt. 5 (29-30). It is stated in the letters patent that 
 the bouse had been lately in the possession of Sir Wm. 
 Babthorpe, Knt. The next notice of its possessors after 
 this date which we have met with is a sale of the house 
 on 30th May, 1634, by J, Walker of Hunmanby to 
 George Small wood of Hemingbrough, draper, and Elizabeth 
 his wife and Elizabeth their dauo-bter. It was ao;ain sold 
 on 22nd October, 1650, by Elizabeth Small wood of York, 
 widow, John Smallwood of Hemingbrough, yeo., and John 
 Watkinson of Hemingbrough, yeo., and Elizabeth his wife, 
 to John Hill of the city of York, gent, and Sarah his wife, 
 for 182/, and by them, in 1662, to Jeremiah Smith, Esq., 
 afterwards Sir Jeremiah Smith, Knight and Admiral. In 
 
 8' Longstaffe's Darlington, 197, 256.
 
 PREBENDARIES. 75 
 
 tliis family it continued until 1697, when Jeremiah Smith, 
 his grandson, pulled the house down, and used the 
 materials in rebuilding Osgodby Hall.^- He sold the 
 garth to Hugh Massey, attorney-at-law, who married one 
 of the Robinsons of Hemingbrough. Mr. Massey died in 
 1719, and was interred in the churchyard. The garth 
 went subsequently to a lady called Whitehead and after- 
 wards to Mrs. Vicars, who sold it to Mr. John Wade of 
 Selby circa 1837-8. Mr. Wade sold it and the rest of his 
 property in 1856. The garth, containing 3a. 2r. 25p., 
 realised 180/. A pedigree of Mr. Massey and his descen- 
 dants is given on the next page. 
 
 PREBENDARIES OF THE FIRST PREBEND. 
 
 Marmaduke Lumley, LL.B, pres. 25th April, 1427. 
 He was a younger son of Sir Ralph Lumley of Lumley, 
 CO. Durhain, by Eleanor, daughter of John Lord Neville of 
 Raby. He was subsequently bishop of Carlisle and 
 Lincoln. A long list of his preferments will be found in 
 Test. Ebor. iv. 3-4. He died in 1450. 
 
 Mr. John Bonour, Decretorum Doctor, pres., on the 
 consecration of Lumley, 14th June and inst. 19th June, 
 1430, in the person of Richard Oorston, rector of Hard- 
 ingham, diocese Norwich, his proctor. 
 
 John Gisburgh, or Gisburne, pres., on the death of 
 Bonour, 2nd March, 1450-1, and inst. 23rd June seq., 
 being then domestic chaplain to Archbishop Kempe. On 
 25th October, 1452, he was collated to the rectory of 
 Nun-Burnholme, which he resigned in 1475. On 4th 
 October, 1453, he was instituted to the rectory of Eykering, 
 Notts, which he resigned next year. On 7th October 
 seq. he was collated to a prebend in St. Sepulchre's chapel, 
 York, and to the sacristry in the same in July 1459. 
 On 25th November, 1454, he was collated to the stall of 
 Rampton at Southw^ell which he resigned in 1459. On 
 15th March, 1456-7, he was collated to the precentorship 
 at York, which he exchanged in November 1460 with 
 Wm. Eure for the rectory of Brompton. On 20tli July, 
 1459, he was collated to the prebend of Bugthorpe at 
 
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 the authority of " John Newham, who inhabited the old hall, before this separ- 
 
 was Mr. Smith's servant at the time, ation. Bowling green, yet apparent." 
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 PREBENDARIES. 77 
 
 York, being then receiver of the exchequer of the arch- 
 bishop and his private chaplain. On 2ord November, 
 1474, he was instituted to the rectory of SpofForth. 
 
 Gisburgh's will is dated at York, where he was canon- 
 residentiary, on 21st April, 1479 (pr. 7th December, 
 1481). He desires to be buried in the north aisle of the 
 minster before the image B. M. V., and orders that twelve 
 torches be burnt around his body at his burial, and twelve 
 more on the eighth day around his herse, which shall be 
 held by twelve poor men. He requests that the old 
 custom of the church in the giving away of spice and 
 psalter-candles shall be observed. His executors are to 
 make an obit for him at St. Mary's Abbey. To Richard 
 Talbot, gentleman, his servant, five marks. To Thos. 
 Holtby, Seth Snawsell, John Levening, and John St. 
 Paul, gentlemen, his servants, legacies. For the poor, on 
 the day of his death, 26/. IS-s. 4d. To John Hert, an 
 executor, a covered standing piece of silver, gilt. Gisburgh 
 was buried in the minster under a marble stone richly 
 ornamented with brass. His effigy was of a large size, 
 and there were scrolls around it with the words Jesu, 
 mercy ! Lady^ helpe ! He gave to the minster a green 
 cope of tissue with an eagle standing upon a book on the 
 moyce.^^ 
 
 Mr. John Send ale, pres. 14th, inst. 19th July, 1452, 
 on the resignation of Gisburgh. For a long account of 
 him see the Ripon Chapter Acts, pp. 229-37. 
 
 Mr. John Norton, Deer. Doctor, pres. 25th November, 
 inst. 6th December, 1457, exchanging with Sendale his 
 prebend of Thorpe at Howden. 
 
 Adam Haymond, chaplain, inst. 23rd December, 1457, 
 on the resignation of Norton, in the person of John Hamer, 
 his proctor. 
 
 Oliver Bland, chaplain, pres. on 24th February, and 
 inst. 3rd March, 1467-8, on the resignation of Haymond. 
 
 Mr. William Laybron, LL.B., pres. 26th and inst. 
 30th January, 1473-4, on the death of Bland. He was a 
 lawyer and did good service to the Prior and Convent of 
 Durham. 
 
 Mr. John Herte, pres. 18th September, 1476, on the 
 
 S3 Torre's MS., York Minster, 223 ; Fabric Rolls, 231. Gisburgh's will is in the 
 Registry of the Dean and Chapter of York.
 
 78 THE HISTORY OF HEMINGBROUGH. 
 
 resignation of Laybron. For an account of Mm cf. Test. 
 Ebor. iv. 113-14. 
 
 Lawrence Strangeways, chaplain, pres. 23rd and 
 inst. 30tli June, 1487, on the resignation of Herte. 
 
 Thomas Popeley, inst., on the death of Strangeways, 
 8 th September, 1494. 
 
 Mr. Reginald Cholmley, LL.B., pres. 11th and inst. 
 21st January, 1500-1, on the death of Popeley. He was 
 collated to the prebend of Grindale at York on 3rd 
 December, 1503, and held it until his death. 
 
 Mr. Thomas Westray, LL.B., pres. 4th and inst. 
 11th December, 1506, on the death of Cholmley. He was 
 living in 1553. He is sometimes called Westby, or 
 Westaby, and had a pension of 53.§. 46?. He is probably 
 the person wlio was appointed in 1530 to the prebend of 
 Barmby at Howden. 
 
 prebendaries of the second prebend. 
 
 Thomas Bradshaw, pres. 25th April, 1427. There is 
 a notice of him at p. 70. 
 
 Mr. John Laxe, LL.D., pres. 13th August and 
 inst. 7th September, 1456, on the death of Bradshaw. 
 He was a lawyer, and of great use to the Prior and Con- 
 vent of Durham at the Court of Rome, where he was 
 secretary to Calixtus III. His master gave him the pre- 
 bend of Laughton at York in 1457, on the resignation of 
 Prosper de Colonna, but Pius II. obliged him to resign it 
 in 1459, stating that he had brought about Colonna's resig- 
 nation by misrepresentation. When Colonna died in 1463, 
 Laxe was reappointed to Laughton by Archbishop Booth, 
 at the pope's request. He was obliged, however, to pay an 
 annual ]oension of thirty gold florins to Lawrence de 
 Colonna, the pope's nephew. 
 
 Mr. William Poteman, LL.D., pres. 30th and inst. 
 27th December, 1466, on the death of Laxe. For a long 
 account of him cf. Test. Ebor. iv. 78-83. He was a most 
 important personage in the diocese of York and else- 
 where. 
 
 Richard Bigod, clerk, pres. 21st August and inst. 
 4th October, 1467, on the res. of Poteman. He was 
 a younger son of Sir Ralph Bigod, Knt., of Settrington,
 
 PKEBENDAEIES. 79 
 
 to which living he was instituted on 19th May, 1475. 
 He died in 1495-6. Cf. Test. Ebor. iv. 226. 
 
 Mr. Robert Quyntyn, A.M., pres. 3rd, inst. 15th 
 November, 1473, on the res. of Bigod. 
 
 Robert Wode, chaplain, inst. 14th December, 1479, 
 on the res. of Quyntyn. He resigned 5th April, 1480. 
 
 James Preston, S.T.P., pres. 12th and inst. 28th 
 April, 1480, on the res. of Wode. 
 
 William Clayburgh, clerk, pres. 14th and inst. 16th 
 May, 1507, on the death of Preston, in the person of John 
 Chapman, notary, his proctor. A wealthy ecclesiastic. 
 On 14th May, 1516, he was collated to a prebend in the 
 chapel at York, and, on 21st December, 1521, he was 
 instituted to the rectory of Kelham, Notts. On 2nd 
 September, 1523, he was instituted to the rectory of 
 Easington, which he resigned in 1526 with a pension of 8/. 
 per annum from it. On 3rd March, 1523-4, he was insti- 
 tuted to the prebend of Howden at Howden. He held 
 also the prebend of Rampton at Southwell, three stalls in 
 succession at Lincoln, and the archdeaconry of Worcester, 
 and, dying in 1534, was buried in the Charterhouse, 
 London. 
 
 Edward Stevenson, clerk, inst. 3rd January, 1521-2, 
 on the res. of Clayburgh. 
 
 William Starthwaite, presb., inst. 8th May, 1528, on 
 the res. of Stevenson. 
 
 Roger Wright, priest, inst. 7tli May, 1540, on the 
 res. of Starthwaite. The patron, for this turn, was 
 Anthony Rackett of Durham, gent,, to whom, with Geo. 
 Battes, it had been given by the Prior and Convent. 
 
 John Brereton, living in 1543, and receiving a pension 
 of 535. Ad. per annum. 
 
 prebendaries of the third prebend. 
 
 Robert Peacock, LL.D., pres. 25th April, 1427. 
 
 Thomas Portington, clerk, pres. 17th, inst. 29th 
 August, 1447, on the death of Peacock. Afterwards 
 provost, q. V. Resigned 17th February, 1457-8. 
 
 William Langton, LL.B., coll. by Archbishop W. 
 Booth, by lapse, 14th September, 1458. He was collated 
 on 27th March, 145 4, to a prebend in St. Sepulchre Chapel
 
 80 THE HISTORY OF IIEMINGBROUGH. 
 
 at York, and. in 1458-9, tie was vicar-general for the Arch- 
 deacon of Kichmond. He died in 1466, being then rector 
 of the church of St. Michael- Onsebridge end, York, where 
 is an inscription on brass to commemorate him, with a 
 beantiful chalice in the same metal. Cf. Test. Ebor. ii. 90. 
 
 Mr. Robert Wilson, LL.B., pres. 21st and inst. 25th 
 August, 1466, on the death of Langton. 
 
 George Routh, priest, inst. 16th November, 1496, on 
 the death of Wilson. 
 
 Mr. William Burgh, LL.D., pres. 10th and inst. 
 23rd December, 1504, on the res. of Routh. He resigned 
 17th October, 1512. 
 
 On 22nd February, 1482-3, Wm. Burgh of York was 
 ordained acolyte, sub-deacon 13th March, 1483-4, deacon 
 3rd April, 1484. On 24th May, 1494, Wm. Burgh was 
 ordained priest, Easby Abbey givmg him a title. If this 
 be the same person, this fact seems to connect him with 
 the family of Burgh of Burgh, near Richmond. On 5th 
 October, 1511, he was instituted to the vicarage of Don- 
 caster, and, on 5th September, 1515, to the rectory of 
 Thorpe in Glebis, Notts, which two livings he exchanged 
 in January, 1522-3, with Simon Robinson for the rectory 
 of Moormonkton, near York. On 6th April, 1514, he 
 was collated to the prebend of Apesthorpe at York. 
 
 Robert Stokesley, inst. 19th January, 1512-13, on 
 the res. of Burgh. 
 
 AYilliam Burgh, LL.D., re-instituted on the death 
 of Stokesley, 11th May, 1513. 
 
 Robert Strey, priest, inst. on the death of Burgh, 17th 
 April, 1525. 
 
 He was, I believe, a native of Doncaster, and the person 
 who not long before the Reformation founded a chantry 
 dedicated to St. John the Evangelist in the parish church 
 of Doncaster. The family of Strey was an influential 
 one in Doncaster and was respectably connected.^^ His 
 will, dated 5th May, 1545, is in Test. Ebor. v. 295. 
 
 Ralph Todd, LL.B., was prebendary in 1545, and 
 was living in 1553 with a pension of 53.s. 46?. per annum. 
 
 On the 1st September, 1549, pensions of four marks 
 each per annum were granted to Thos. Westabie, John 
 Brereton, and Ralph Todd, the three surviving canons. 
 
 8* Cf. Jackson's Account of St. George's Churcli, Doncaster, pp. 2i-5, 87.
 
 VICARS. 81 
 
 Prebendal Houses. — There is no record whatever of 
 the existence of any prebendal house or houses in which 
 these canons kept residence, unless the following note of 
 Vicar Potter (1750) applies to it : — 
 
 " In a yard (on the west side of the street between that 
 and the old course of the river called ' Old Ways,' the 
 house of Zaccheus Burton, south ; and that of Thos. 
 Dalby, formerly Barret, on the north) in a yard or garth 
 (I say) thus situated, formerly belonging the Bacons, 
 have been large buildings, all of freestone, and several of 
 them were standing in the memory of men yet alive, and 
 then converted into malt-kilns. This garth of later years 
 came into the possession of one Mr. Clarke ; and is now 
 the property of Geo. Hawksworth, who, about the year 
 1747, took up the foundations, which run all the breadth 
 of the garth." 
 
 THE YICARS, 
 
 We now come to the Vicars- Prebendal, upon whom the 
 charge of the services in the church and parish practically 
 devolved. 
 
 FIRST VICAR-PREBENDAL. 
 
 John Polayn, chaplain of the Wasse Chantry, pres. 
 25th April, 1427, and inst. 1430. 
 
 William Rotsey, pres. 6th and inst. 10th March, 
 1434-5, on the death of Polayn. 
 
 William Greenwell, pres. 16th and inst. 20th Sep- 
 tember, 1435, on the res. of Rotsey, who became third 
 vicar. 
 
 W^illiam Soulby, pres. 29th December, 1455, inst. 9th 
 January seq., on the death of Greenwell. 
 
 Thomas Baker, pres. 11th, inst. 21st March, 1490-1, 
 on the death of Soulby. On 27th November, 1493, he 
 and the rector of Kirk Smeaton had licence to marry in the 
 chapel within the manor-house of Fenwick or-Babthorpe, 
 George, son of Sir Hugh Hastings of Fenwick, to Joan 
 Brabazon, parish of Hemingbrough (Test. Ebor. iii. 358). 
 ^JoHN Harrison, inst., on the death of Baker, 5th July, 
 1514. He was living 1534-5.
 
 82 THE HISTORY OF HEMINGBROUGH. 
 
 SECOND VICAE-PREBENDAL. 
 
 Richard Cliff, pres. 25tli April andinst. 29th October, 
 1427. 
 
 John Sayles, pres. 1st and inst. 5th September, 1460, 
 on the death of Cliff. 
 
 John Warenell, inst. 26th October, 1479, on the 
 death of Sayles. 
 
 Robert West, inst. 14th March, 1508-9, on the death 
 of Warenell. He was livino; m 1534-5. 
 
 third VICAR-PREBENDAL. 
 
 John Preston, pres. 25th April and inst. 20th Novem- 
 ber, 1427. 
 
 William Rotsey, pres. 20th June and inst. 24th 
 August, 1435, on the res. of Preston. 
 
 John Herte, pres. 6th and inst. 18th October, 1438, 
 on the death of Rotsey. 
 
 William Mason, pres. 2nd and inst. 4th January, 
 1440-1, on the deprivation of Herte. 
 
 John Hamilton,^^ pres. 2nd and inst. 7th September, 
 1447, on the death of Mason. In 1487-8 he became vicar 
 of Eastrin2;ton. 
 
 John West, pres. 24th March and inst. 15th April, 
 1488, on the res. of Hamilton. 
 
 Henry Jackson, inst. 25th April, 1497, on the res. of 
 West. 
 
 John Johnson, inst. 26th July, 1527, on the death of 
 Jackson. He was living in 1553. 
 
 FOURTH VICAR-PREBENDAL. 
 
 William Collingham, pres. 25th April, 1427. 
 
 Robert Beleby, pres. 18th and inst. 28th November, 
 1430, on the res. of Collino-ham. 
 
 Robert Crokelyn, pres. 1st and inst. 3rd February, 
 1433-4, on the res. of Beleby. 
 
 Richard Amy, pres. 22nd and inst. 25th July, 1437, 
 on the res. of Crokelyn, who res. on 19th. 
 
 *5 There is a presentation at Durham to Glir. Gauiyll, on 12th August, 14i7, but 
 it came to naught.
 
 VICARS. b6 
 
 Robert MxVWSON, pres. 2fitli March and inst. Oth 
 April, 1462, on the death of Amy. 
 
 John James, pres. 30th July and inst. 4th August, 
 1462, on the death of Mawson. 
 
 William Boys, pres. 30th December and inst. 9th 
 February, 1466-7, on the res. of James. 
 
 William Andrew, inst. 8th November, 1496, on the 
 death of Boys. 
 
 Thomas Baynes, inst. 24th May, 1521, on the death of 
 Andrew. 
 
 William Swynden, inst. 4th July, 1536, on the death 
 of Baynes. 
 
 fifth vicar-prebendal. 
 
 John Rowcliff, pres. 25th April and inst. 20th 
 November, 1427. 
 
 William Watkinson, pres. 27th November and inst. 
 13th December, 1432. 
 
 John Watkinson, pres. 1st and inst. 3rd February, 
 1454-5, on the death of Wm. Watkinson. 
 
 John Skipton, pres. 11th and inst. 18th August, 1462, 
 on the res. of Watkinson, who was made vicar of the stall 
 of Skelton, at Howden. 
 
 John Athwyck, pres. 12th May, 1481, on the res. of 
 Skipton. 
 
 Richard Thompson, pres. 20th June, 1481, on the res. 
 of Athwyck. 
 
 William Radclyff, pres. 19tli and inst. 25th April, 
 1484, on the res. of Thompson. 
 
 John Andrew, pres. 22nd January and inst. 4th Fe- 
 bruary 1504-5, on the res. of Radclyff. 
 
 James Blanchard, pres, 2nd November, 1529, on the 
 res. of Andrew. 
 
 Thomas Sharrow, inst. at the pres. of Hen. VIII. 
 31st July, 1546, on the death of the last incumbent. He 
 was living in 1553. 
 
 sixth vicar-prebendal. 
 
 John Forest, pres. 25th April, and inst. 20th Novem- 
 ber, 1427. 
 
 John Semer, pres. 16th July, 1439. 
 
 g2
 
 84 THE HISTORY OF IIliMINGBIlOUGH. 
 
 Robert Dawtre, inst. 12tli February, 1448-9, on the 
 death of Seiner. 
 
 John Glover, pres. 1st and inst. 28th June, 1476, on 
 the death of Dawtre. He resigned on 5th December, 1481. 
 
 Richard Hall, pres. 13th and inst. 22nd December, 
 1481, on the res. of Grlover. 
 
 Henry Pulleyn, inst. 4th March, 1505-6, on the death 
 of Hall. 
 
 Gabriel Morland, inst. 1st March, 1536-7, on the 
 death of Pulleyn. 
 
 In 1549 a pension of 61. per annum was granted to 
 three vicars, viz. Thomas Sharrow, Richard Mercer, and 
 John Johnson. These three were living in 1553. There are 
 still three to account for. One or two of these must have 
 died before 1549, and another, Gabriel Morland, was one of 
 the curates appointed under the new system. He would, 
 therefore, receive a special stipend, and it was unnecessary 
 to place him as a pensioner among his old colleagues. 
 
 The Bedern of the Vicars. — For some years after 
 the foundation of the collegiate church the vicars had no 
 fixed place of residence. Such a house was soon assigned 
 to them, and, like the home of the vicars-choral at York, 
 was called the Bedern. 
 
 Upon 6th October, 1435, the prebendal-vicars drew up 
 for the management of their Bedern, or residence, a set of 
 rules, which are of great interest, as evidence of the life 
 which was led, or intended to be led, by a commiuiity of 
 secular clergy. 
 
 On 1st August in each year the vicars shall appoint 
 two of their own body to take charge of the building and 
 its repairs, providing fuel for the hall and kitchen, and 
 rendering an account of their outlay and receipts. 
 
 Another vicar shall be appointed seneschal, to act for a 
 quarter, to whom, at the beginning and in the middle of 
 each quarter, every vicar shall pay Gs. Hd. for his commons, 
 and, at the end of the quarter, money enough to balance 
 receipts and expenditure. He shall look after the servants 
 and provisions, and render an account. 
 
 The vicars shall dine every day immediately after 
 High Mass and the Ninth Hour, and shall sup, also in the 
 hall, from Michaelmas to Easter, at six o'clock, and, from 
 Easter to Michaelmas, at tive o'clock. If any vicar is ill,
 
 THE BEDERN. 85 
 
 or lawfully prevented attending at meals for a week, Hd. 
 shall be allowed to liim ; if for four days, 4(7. , and the 
 seneschal shall send him his victuals, but the cost is not 
 to exceed that of the others in the hall. 
 
 The next rule is one to which many would now object, 
 but there w^as no United Alliance at that time to forbid it. 
 Every vicar may drink (his beer) once when Benedicite or 
 Grace is said, and once again while the first bell is ringing 
 for Vespers. After supper they may drink once after the 
 Benedicite, and twice afterwards at such intervals as the 
 seneschal shall appoint. In Lent and on fast days they 
 shall meet in the hall to drink after supper, but, from 
 Michaelmas to Easter, every one shall go to his chamber 
 at eight o'clock, and, from Easter to Michaelmas, at nine 
 o'clock. If any vicar brings a friend into the hall to drink, 
 he shall have a farthing's worth such as the vicars use, 
 and no charge shall be made, out of courtesy ; but for 
 anything beyond that the host shall pay the shot at the 
 end of the week. Everyone who brings a guest in to 
 breakfast, dinner, or supper, shall pay l^cl, and forewarn 
 the seneschal of his coming. No one shall stay in the 
 Bedern without leave of the body, and every one who 
 shall stay in his chamber with guests during a meal shall 
 forfeit Ad. No one shall get food or drink, except at 
 meal-times, without leave ; if he does, he shall pay Sd. for 
 the first offence, 12d. for the second, and, after that, a 
 shillins!; more for each breach of rule. 
 
 Anyone who draws his knife to strike a brother shall 
 forfeit 3.s\ Ad. to the body ; if he strikes him, 6.§. Sd. No 
 one shall ""rumble as^ainst the seneschal on account of his 
 fare, but, if the courses are insufficient, the body shall set 
 the matter right. Anyone who comes late to dinner shall 
 be satisfied with what is left, be it hot or cold, and the 
 servants shall not wait for him more than one hour. No 
 one shall bring in a guest who is an enemy of a vicar, 
 under pain of Ad. Should anyone be noisy at dinner or 
 supper, or before, the seneschal or his deputy shall enjoin 
 silence, and, in case of refusal, shall fine the culprit Gd. 
 No one shall raise any idle or contentious subject on pain 
 of 6d., and for any foul or dishonest speech a fine of 4c/. 
 is laid down. 
 
 No one shall listen at a brother's chamber door on pain
 
 S6 THE HISTORY OF HEMINGBROUGH. 
 
 of l'2d. ; no one shall have a ke}^ to a brother's door on 
 pain of 3.S, 4d. No one shall listen to any abuse of his 
 bretlu^en ; and ever3'tliing said or done within the g'ates of 
 the Bedern, which mighit be injurious to the community 
 or any member of it, shall be kept secret on pain of 12d. 
 Anyone who gives his brother the lie shall forfeit 6d. 
 No woman of ill-fame shall be brouo;ht into the Bedern 
 on pain of 12 d. 
 
 Every vicar, on his first admission, shall give to the 
 conununity lO.s., to keep up the furniture, and a silver 
 spoon weighing 3.5. 4f/. 
 
 Several other statutes follow, as may be seen in the 
 Appendix ; but these are the chief The whole of them 
 relate simply to the management of the house and the 
 comforts of the vicars. There is not one word about 
 religious order and discipline among themselves. 
 
 The Bedern, or residence of the prebendal-vicars, was 
 in a place which, in 1339, was called tlie Stackgarth, being 
 then assigned as a home for the priests of the Clitfe 
 Chantry, by whom, however, it was not used. It is 
 described in that j^ear as lying between the toft, late 
 belonging to John, son of Kobert at the Kirk -stile in 
 Hemingbrough, on the one side, and the high road leading 
 from the church to the way to Brackenholme on the other. 
 P)y letters patent, 1st May, the Bedern was sold to Dame 
 Joanna Constable, widow, and Sir John Constable, of 
 Burton Constable, Knt. 
 
 It afterwards passed into the hands of the Eobinsons, 
 continuing to be part of the manor of Hemingbrough. On 
 1st August, 1707, it was enfranchised by Arthpr Ingram, 
 Esq., and during the same month was purchased of 
 Mr. Thomas Kobinson for the sum of 30/., by public sub- 
 scription, and, by his deed dated 29th August, 1707, was 
 conveyed to six trustees, or feoffees, for the benefit of the 
 incumbent. The first trustees were : \Vm. Bosville of 
 Osgodby, gent., Wm. TJichardson of Cliffe, Ilobert Hard- 
 castle of South Duffield, Kobert Butler of Bowthorpe, 
 John Barrett the elder of Heminobrouoh and Thos. 
 Dalby of Barlby, gent. 
 
 In 1750, Vicar Potter states that the trustees were 
 " Joseph Butler of Bowthorpe (who keeps tlie writings), 
 Richard Whittle of Brackenholme, John Faulkener, senr.,
 
 THE BEDERN. O / 
 
 of JJarlby, Tlios. liobinson of South Diiffield, ffolm Ilaigli 
 of Osgoclby, and Joshua Barret of Hemingbrough." 
 
 " The two ne\v^ rooms (brick and tile) at the east end 
 of this house were built by the vicar, William Potter, at 
 his own proper charges. Expense thereof, 37/. ; charge 
 of removing barn from the street into a line with the 
 house, 41. ; which, together with other additional build- 
 ings, regulating garden, and parting the large closes, 
 cost 50/. 
 
 " Sic vos non vobis nidificatis aves." 
 
 On 19th April, 1786, the trustees let the house and 
 premises to Matthew Lowther, the schoolmaster, on con- 
 dition that he found " a sufficient fire on Sundays for the 
 use of the Qiinister," who was then non-resident. In 1826, 
 on the death of Mr. Caile, the house was repaired, 
 20/. 14s. 6t/. being collected by subscription, and 41/. 76'. 
 laid out by Mr. Ion, the new vicar. 
 
 In 1851 new trustees were appointed, to whom the 
 vicarao-e house was made over, to":ether with an allotment 
 of land in the Chapel Field, lately inclosed, comprising 
 three roods and eight perches. This they sold on 15th 
 November, 1854, to Mr. Ion, the vicar, for 60/., to increase 
 the living through Queen Anne's Bounty. 
 
 These trustees, or feoffees, fill up vacancies in their 
 own number. In the Church Books there are various 
 notices of such elections. In 1773, Mr. Joseph Butler 
 was cliosen trustee for Bowthorpe, Mr. James Keighley 
 for Cliffe, Mr. Joseph Robinson for South Duffield, and 
 Mr. Robert Dalby for Osgodby, showing that each town- 
 ship was intended to have a share in the administration 
 of the property. 
 
 In the year 1861, Mr. Grear, the vicar, with the church- 
 wardens, issued a printed circular soliciting subscriptions 
 for the erection of a new vicarage-house. The plea was 
 the poverty of the living and the absolute necessit}'' of 
 having a resident incumbent to attend to the wants of 
 a large parish and a widelj^-scattered population. The 
 following subscriptions were obtained : — Lord Wenlock, 
 50/. ; Mrs. Carr, 50/. ; Thos. Burton, Esq., 25/. ; James 
 AValker, Esq., 30/. ; Mrs. Ion and family, 25/. ; Mr. 
 Barstow, 20/. ; Mr. Carr, 20/. ; Mr. Jos. Tennant, 20/. ; 
 Mr. Menzies and family, 20/. ; Mr. Banks, 10/. ; Mr.
 
 88 THE HISTORY OF HEMINGBROUGH. 
 
 Jubb, 10/. ; ]\Ir. Toinlinson, 10/. ; Mr. Tliompson, 10/. ; 
 Mr. Wilson, 7/. 10.5. ; Mr. Stables, 5/. ; Mr. Tennant, 5/. ; 
 Mrs. and Miss Bnrton, 5/. ; Mr. Tock, 5/. ; Mr. Chaplin, 
 5/. ; Mr. Gilliam, 5/. ; Mr. Harrison, 5/. ; in all, with 
 smaller sums, o42/. 10s. ; the Diocesan Society, 120/. 
 
 The new vicarage was commenced at the latter end of 
 1862, and was finished in the spring of 1868. It is a 
 handsome and convenient house, on the road to Babthorpe, 
 opposite to a residence built for himself in 1854 by Mr. 
 Ion, then vicar. 
 
 CHANTRIES. 
 
 I. The Wasse Chantry. — The Wasse Chantry, dedi- 
 cated to St. Catherine, was founded by Robert de Marisco, 
 dean of Lincoln, wdio was rector of Hemingbrough, 
 1217-58, It was called the Wasse or Waise Chantry, 
 because one of the messuages with which it was endowed 
 stood near the Waise, or old course of the river Ouse, 
 which has the name of " The Old Ways " at the present 
 day,^*" and, perhaps, this messuage was the residence of the 
 officiating priest. The will of Dean de Marisco is not in 
 existence, but there is preserved at Durham the deed of 
 endowment, &c. By it William de Hemingbrough, canon 
 of Lincoln, with the assent of Robert de S. Agatha, and 
 the other executors of De Marisco, grant to God, the 
 Church of Hemingbrough, and the priest who from time 
 to time shall celebrate there, for the soul of the said Robert, 
 his predecessors and successors, and all the faithful de- 
 parted, all the land which the Prior and Convent of 
 Durham have given him in Hemingbrough : viz. a toft 
 near the church, thirteen acres of land in the field of 
 Hemingbrough, and forty acres of the waste of the said 
 
 ^^ Vicar Potter speaks of this old Dunnington, two chief proprietors of 
 channel of the Ouse, but could learn farms in the town, ordei'ed such en- 
 nothing of its history. He says, in closures to be thrown down, anno 1748. 
 1750 : " This channel, through suffer- But the encroachers apjieased them by 
 ance, and not of right, begins to be some means or other, so still keep them 
 enclosed here and there, especially at up ; but they were thrown down at the 
 Cliffe, and so added to the south end of i^erambulatiou." 
 their garths. Mr. Richardson and Mr.
 
 THE WASSE CHANTRY. 89 
 
 Prior and Convent,^' also tliirteen acres and one rood of 
 land in Newhay, and a meadow called Mekelcroft. Wm. 
 de Hemino-broiigli is to present for his life, and then the 
 rector of Sie church, and, in his default, the Prior and 
 Convent, and, failing them, the Archbishop or Chapter of 
 York. Various other arrangements are then made which 
 wdll be seen in the Appendix. In 1274 the Archbishop 
 confirms the deed of foundation and endowment. 
 
 The following is the list of chantry-priests : — 
 
 Walter de Hemingbrough. 
 
 Dan Richard de la Newhagh, pres. 15th August, 
 1297, by John de Drokenesford, rector, on the death 
 of Hemingbrough.^^ He is called also Richard del 
 
 Wayse. 
 
 James Watervyle, pres. 28th March, 1313, by Stephen 
 
 de Mauley, rector. 
 
 Dan Adam, the chaplain, mentioned as such m the 
 
 Rental of 1330. 
 
 Dan Thomas Marshall, chaplain, pres. 22nd February, 
 1375-6, by Thomas de Walworth, rector.^^ There is in 
 existence an undated document ^^ in which the Prior and 
 Convent of Durham, in consequence of the decay of the 
 income of the chantry, allow Marshall, at their pleasure, 
 to act as an annuellar, i.e. to do service for the soul of 
 some other person from year to year. 
 
 Dan John Polayn, chaplain, of Hemingbrough, pres. 
 12th June, 1415, by John Rickinghall, rector, on the 
 death of Dan Thomas Wase (probably identical with 
 Marshall ).'-^^ When the church was made collegiate, 
 Polayn, as chantry- priest of Wasse, became, in virtue of 
 the ordination, the first vicar-prebendal, and his successors 
 after him. 
 
 At the Dissolution this chantry was valued at 4/. per 
 annum, John Harrison being then incumbent. ^^ By 
 patent dated 2nd May, 1553, the ten acres of land in 
 Newhay, which had belonged to St. Catherine's Chantry, 
 
 8' On 23rcl May, 1266, the Prior and Camerarium Dunelmensem ad prasdic- 
 
 Convent of Durham grant the three last tarn villam declinare." 
 
 parcels to Wm. de Hemingbrough for "« MSS. at Durham, 3, 2 Ebor. No. 11. 
 
 a chantry, paying 32s. l^d. yearly rent «' Reg. i. Pr. and Conv. Dunelm. 121. 
 
 for them, " salva nobis et nostris com- «» MS. Faustina, A. vi. 74. 
 
 moditate hospitiorum sive domorum ad ^' Reg. v. 3, fol. 43. 
 
 usum hospitandi sumptibus nostris '- Valor Eccl. v. p. 139, sub anno 1534. 
 quotienscuni^ue contigerit Priorem vel
 
 9 1) THE HISTORY OF HEMINGBROUGH. 
 
 were STanted to Jolin Widdnni>ton of \Viddri1if2ton, 
 Knt., and Ciithbert Miisgrave of Harbottle, Esq. 
 
 11. The Cliffe Chantry. — This was founded by the 
 executors of Ilemy de Cliffe, prebendary of York, in the 
 time of Edward III. Cliffe was a native of the parish, 
 and a further account of him will be found nnder the 
 Township of Cliffe, where he was born. By his will (see 
 Appendix) he left the residue of his estate to found a 
 chantry in the Priory of Drax, where he desired to be 
 interred. His executors were John de St. Paul, John de 
 Tyddeswell, Nicholas de Fontibus, and Wm. de Braunce- 
 well, clerks. For some reason or other they placed the 
 chantry, not at Drax, but at Hemingbrough, in which 
 village, by indentures dated on the 4th and 7th August, 
 1339, respectively, the Prior and Convent of Durham 
 conve37ed to them a piece of land entitled " Le Stack- 
 garth." The situation is thus described : " Jacens 
 juxta toftum quondam Johannis filii Roberti atte Kyrke 
 Steyll in Hemmingburg ex parte una, et communem 
 viam qua3 ducit ab ecclesia de H. usque passagium de 
 Brakenholme ex altera — et extendit se in lono-itudine 
 versus Orientem sicut gardinum cjuondam Johannis filii 
 Roberti atte Kyrke steyll se extendit, et versus Occidenteni 
 usque regiam viam qua3 ducit per mediam villam." This 
 is, no doubt, the old Vicarage-house. The ordination of 
 the chantry did not take place for some years, inasmuch 
 as some of the lands appropriated to its maintenance were 
 held of the king in cap'tte, and therefore an inquest ad quod 
 damnum was called in 1344 to protect the rights of the 
 Crown. The result was satisfactory, and the roj'al licence 
 immediately followed. From this it appears that the 
 chantry was endowed with two messuages, a mill, and 
 fifty acres of land in Newhay, and Rusholme, in the 
 ])ari.sli of Drax, and with seven cottages, three-and-a-half 
 bovates, and more than twenty-two acres of land in 
 various yjarts of the parish of Hemingbrough. 
 
 The Ordination of Archbishop Zouclie is dated on lOtli 
 August, 1345, and is expressed in that elegant Latinity 
 with which the register of that prelate abounds. It begins 
 by stating tliat although Henry de Cliffe is interred at 
 Drax, his executors have found it difficult to carry out liis 
 wishes in that place, and therefore thej^ have selected the
 
 THE CLIFFE CHANTRY. 91 
 
 church of Hemingbrough, in whicli he M^as baptised. They 
 found two chantries there for the soul of their friend, and 
 the good estate of the present king, and the weal of his 
 soul after his decease, and the souls of those who succeed 
 him, also for the prosperous estate of the present arch- 
 bishop. Two secular chaplains are appointed to the 
 chantries, John de Ingleby and Richard de Cliffe being 
 desigfuated as the first. The first of the two is to be the 
 custos of the chantries, the second is to be under him, and 
 receive from him his rations, stipend, etc. The Ordination 
 provides for the nomination and induction of the chaplains, 
 for the rights of the Prior of Durham and the prerogatives 
 of the See of York ; and, finally, for the superintendence 
 of the rector of the parish, whose powers to enquire into 
 abuses, inspect accounts, and even to sequester the re- 
 venues, if wasted or diminished, are strictly defined. 
 
 The chantries were to be on the north side of the church 
 whicli Adam de Osgodbyhad lately built, and at the altar 
 of St. Mary. On every Sunday and the greater Festivals 
 the chaplains are to be present at the parochial Mass, but on 
 all other days they are to say Placebo and Dirige with the 
 Oommendatio for the soul of Henry de Cliffe and those of 
 his parents and benefactors, and others mentioned before. 
 A provision is made for other services, and the chaplains 
 are directed, after every Compline, Matins, and Mass, and 
 after every Grace at meat, to utter the prayer, " Anima 
 Maglsfri Henrici de Clyff\ fundatoris iiostri, animoeque jmren- 
 tum et henefactorum suontni, omniumque Jideliuin defimctorum 
 requiescant in pace. Amen.^'' 
 
 The chantry-priests were to live in a suitable house 
 which was to be built for them in the village of Clifi'e. It 
 subsequently bore the name of the Chantry-house, and 
 stood in the last or farthest enclosure at the east end of 
 the village. Hence tlie garth and the contiguous field 
 have been called the Chantry garth and field. 
 
 In tlie Account Roll of Thomas Bellamy in 1548 the 
 Cliffe Chantry was valued at 8^. 4.§. 5(/. In the Valor 
 Ecclesiasticus the value fixed is. 6/. 10.9., John Andrew 
 being the incumbent. In the 7th of Edward VI., when 
 the lands were sold, they were thus described : Two cot- 
 tages, a barn, and sixteen acres of land in Newhay. Nine 
 acres of land in Osgodby. Seven acres and two roods of
 
 92 THE HISTORY OF HEMINGBROUGH. 
 
 land in Woodliall (the Lalf bovate). A close there con- 
 taining five acres. A messnage and thirty acres of land 
 (two bovates) in South Diiffield. Three closes there con- 
 taining six acres and a cottage and garden. A messuage 
 and twenty-nine acres in ClifFe, and la. 3r. 20p. in Hag- 
 thorpe, making a total of 104a. Ir. 20p. This property 
 was granted by Edward VI., 2nd May, 1553, to Sir John 
 Widdrington of Widdrington, Knt., and Cuthbert Mus- 
 grave of Harbottle, Esq. 
 
 The following is a list of the Chaplains, primary or 
 secondary : — 
 
 John de Ingleby Hnst. by Archbishop Zouche 21st 
 
 Richard de Cliffe) September, 1315. 
 
 Adam de Went, chaplain, inst. 3rd December, 1349. 
 He is a witness in the suit between Alan de Shotlington 
 and the Prior and Convent of Durham, and states that he 
 had officiated in the parish for twenty years. 
 
 Hugh Tebald of Bedale, inst. 16th April, 1371. 
 
 William W^anton of Masham, inst. 30th July, 1375. 
 
 Peter de Sherman of Driffield, pres. 27th September 
 and inst. 16th December, 1378, on the death of Tebald. 
 
 Richard de Bergh, pres. 11th October, 1385, in ex- 
 change with Wm. de Wanton. 
 
 William de Hayton, vicar of North Otterington, was 
 pres. 29th April, 1386, in exchange with Sherman. 
 
 Robert, son of Richard de Hemingburgh, chaplain, 
 pres. 12th and inst. 15th December, 1389, on the death of 
 Hayton. 
 
 John de Wage, priest, inst. 1st August, 1391, ex- 
 chano'ino; for it with Hemin2:buro:h the vicarag-e of Bub- 
 with. 
 
 Robert de Hawkesworth, pres. lltli September, 
 1391, on the resignation of Wace. 
 
 William Blake, pres. 6th and inst. 11th September, 
 1393, exchanging for it the vicarage of the prebend of 
 Saltmarsh at Howden. 
 
 John de Ellerton, pres. 13th July, 1394, exchanging 
 for it his vicarage of the prebend of Barnby at How- 
 den. 
 
 Thomas Nicholl, pres. on the death of Ellerton, 12tli 
 November, 1420, inst. 20th December. 
 
 TnOiMAs Richardson.
 
 THE WEST CHANTRY. 93 
 
 William Bayxton, pres. on the death of Richardson, 
 14th December and inst. 29th December. 
 
 John Glover, pres. on the death of Baynton, 5th 
 February and hist. 9th February, 1464-5. 
 
 Henry Jackson, pres. on the res. of Glover, 14th 
 July, 1487. 
 
 John West, mst. on the res. of Jackson, 9th May, 1497. 
 
 William Wilkinson, pres. on the death of West, 15th 
 May, 1529. 
 
 John Andrew, pres. on the death of Wilkmson, 2nd 
 November, 1529. It is evident, therefore, that on the 
 death of West two chantry-priests were appointed, and the 
 original Ordination observed. In 1549 Andrew had a pen- 
 sion of 1005. granted to him in lieu of the rental arisino; 
 from the landed property of the chantry, which was 
 valued at 8/. 4.^. 5c/. per annum. He is not on the list of 
 pensioners in 1553, so that, probably, he was then dead. 
 
 III. The West Chantry. — This was founded so late 
 as 30th October, 1529, by Thomas Salvin and Thomas 
 Andrewe, feoffees and executors of the will of John 
 West of Hemino'brouofh, clerk, who had held the Cliffe 
 Chantry. The first priest was " Sir Thomas Haliwell, 
 named and appointed by the said Sir John West in his 
 lyfe ; " and it is ordained — • 
 
 " that the said Sir Thomas shall sing & celebrate yerely, as long as he is 
 of good demeanour, at the awlter secondary of our Ladie within the said 
 collegiat church some morowe masse in the said churche of Hemyng- 
 hurgh whan he is disposed, duryng the tyme he is incumbent thereof, 
 for the sowle of the said Sir John West, his father and mother sowles, 
 and suche as hath bene his good benefactours, and for the good estate 
 of the right reverend fatlier in God Hugh Priour of Duresme and the 
 Convent of the same during theii'e ly ves, and, after theire deceas, for the 
 sowles of the said Hugh Priour of Durisme, the Convent of the same, 
 and theire successours, & the said Sir Thomas and other incumbents of 
 the same chauntry, his successours, to be called and bere the name of 
 the IMorowe Masse preste, — & shall singe Masse of Jhesu on the Fryday, 
 & Masse of our Ladie on the Seterday every weke, as ofte and as maney 
 tymes as the parochianers of the same paroche shal be ayding & assist- 
 ing to the fynding of the same." 
 
 The patrons are to be the Prior and Convent of Durham. 
 The endowment consisted of houses and lands held for 
 the most part of the Prior or the Bishop of Darham. In 
 the original schedule appended to the Ordination this pro- 
 perty was split up into numberless small lands, but in the
 
 04 THE HISTORY OF IIEMINGBrvOUGII. 
 
 particulars of sale in the 7tli of Edward YI. tliey are 
 grouped more together, and are described as a cottage, a 
 close called Pulland Syke, containing eight acres ; an acre 
 of arable land, and two of meadow inter le Dykes ; two 
 roods of plough land in Newhay ; a messuage, barn, and 
 twenty-two acres of land in Brackenliolme ; and a messuage, 
 etc., and twenty-four acres in Hemmgbrough ; three cot- 
 tages there, one of which had two roods of land wath it ; 
 a cottage and an acre of land in Newhay ; another cottage 
 and three acres and three roods in Hemingbrough ; one 
 acre andtwo roods m theCarrthere ; three acres in Gran take ; 
 three acres in Hawwood, with rents of 12.9. per annum in 
 Woodhall and Camblesforth ; and a close at Haglane 
 House. The total amounts to 70a. Ir. 20p. But in 
 another valuation durino; the same reio;n the amount of 
 land is stated as 54a. Or. 20p., which^ accordmg to the 
 Valor Ecclesiasticus, were worth ll. <os. 8d. per annum. 
 These were sold on 2nd May. 1553, wdth the other 
 Chantry lands in the parish, to Sir John Widdrington, 
 Knt., and Cuthbert Musgrave, Esq. Thomas Halliwell, the 
 first and only chantry-priest, received at the Dissolution a 
 pension of 5/. per annum, which he was holding in 1553. 
 
 JuKiSDiCTiON AND VISITATIONS. — The jurisdiction of 
 the Prior of Durham at Hemingbrough expired in 1540. 
 This had its origin in the charter of Thomas, the first 
 Norman Archbishop of York, in which it was arranged 
 that the jurisdiction of the Prior and Convent in their 
 Yorkshire churches should be the same that the arch- 
 bishop exercised in his own. This was confirmed by 
 Archbishop Thurstan, and was sanctioned, in general 
 terms, by several popes. 
 
 In the Ordination of the Wasse Chantry in 1269, the 
 right of holding visitations is distinctly acknowledged, and 
 there can be no doubt but that the Prior and Convent 
 were intended to exercise that right. 
 
 In 1324 the rector of Heminc-brousfh, Cardinal Gauce- 
 linus, denied the right of the Prior to visit his church, and 
 his officers shut the doors in the face of the clerks and com- 
 missioners of the authorities at Durham. Gaucelinus
 
 JURISDICTION AXD VISITATIONS. 95 
 
 pleaded that, as he was the Papal Nuncio, his chnrch of 
 Plemmgbrough, being immediately subject to the Apo- 
 stolic see, was therefore exempt from all jurisdiction, visi- 
 tation, or correction, and that such had been the case time 
 out of mind.^^ 
 
 In some papers preserved in the Court at York, 
 Adam de Weng, chaplain in the parish for more than 
 twenty years, and more than sixty years of age, says that 
 when Gaucelinus Johannes was rector, his servants closed 
 the doors of the church against the commissioners of the 
 Prior when they came to visit the church, and that the 
 rectors have alwnys been free from visitation. He says 
 also that durino; the time of Gaucelinus the church was 
 farmed by John de Hemingbrough, a tenant of the Prior, 
 Wm. de Hathelesay, and Benedict de Hagham for twelve 
 years, previous to which it was farmed by Henry de ClifFe, 
 It is said also that Gaucelinus, whilst he was rector, lived 
 at the Roman Court, and never came to Hemingbrough or 
 England at all. llobert de Babthorpe, and William, son of 
 Walter de ClifFe, both depose that they twice saw the 
 Prior's officers repulsed from the church when they came 
 to visit it. 
 
 In 1332 Archbishop Melton claimed to visit at Heming- 
 brough and Brantingham, both livings being then held by 
 cardinals and aliens. This was probably only a part of 
 his claim to jurisdiction over the Yorkshire churches of 
 the Prior and Convent which was so vehemently resisted. 
 
 In 1351 the officers of the Prior and Convent were again 
 driven away from Hemingbrough when attempting to 
 visit whilst Alan de Shotlington was rector. The rector 
 and his parishioners refer to a composition on the subject 
 between Archbishop Melton and the Convent at Durham, 
 and says that he himself is the most proper person to 
 enquire into and punish the shortcomings of his own 
 people. After a litigation extending over several years, an 
 arrangement was effi^cted, by which the legal proceedings 
 were withdrawn and the right of visitation by the Prior 
 and Convent was acquiesced in. 
 
 In 1410 Archbishop Bowett held a great visitation of 
 his diocese, and, among other things, the authority of the 
 Prior and Convent to receive pensions from their Yorkshire 
 
 "■■' Stevenson's Index at Durham, No. 5701.
 
 9G THE HISTOIIY OF HEMINGBROUGH. 
 
 churches and to visit them was called in question. It was 
 stated, also, that, in addition to the receipt of pensions and 
 the exercise of spiritual jurisdiction, the Prior and Con- 
 vent, within their limits, possessed all the privileges of the 
 Ecclesiastical Court of York. John de Stanton, the 
 proctor of the Prior and Convent, proved the payment of 
 the pensions time out of memory, and showed that their 
 diiferent privileges had been exercised in conformity with 
 a composition made between Archbishop Melton and the 
 House of Durham. The Archbishop was satisfied with 
 this, but the Prior and Convent, to strengthen their 
 position for the future, obtained from Pope John XXII. a 
 confirmation of their privileges on 7th December, 1414, 
 which, however, did not permanently secure to them the 
 unquestioned use of their alleged rights. 
 
 The archives of Durham disclose the fact that between 
 1405 and 1554 there were twenty-two visitations of 
 Hemingbrough by the officials of the Prior and Convent, 
 in conjunction with their other Yorkshire possessions, but 
 the results of these enquiries have, unhappily, not been 
 j)reserved. The parish is now within the archdeaconry of 
 Cleveland, in the diocese of York. 
 
 THE VALUE OF THE BENEFICE. 
 
 In 1290-1 Archbishop Romanus, in a retiu'n which he 
 makes of the value of the livings held by Bogo de Clare, 
 states that the rectory of Hemingbrough was worth 250 
 marks per annum, that is 166/. los. 4c/. In the taxation 
 of Pope Nicholas IV., taken in 1291-2, the spiritualities of 
 the church were valued at 106/. 13.5. 4r/. per annum. 
 
 In 1341 a return is made by a jury appointed to assess 
 the Ninth which had been granted as a subsidy to the 
 kino-. The jurors were all of them parishioners, viz. 
 John D'Eyvill of Whitmoor, Robert de Hathelsay, Ralph 
 de Babbethorp, Benedict de Hagham, John de Osgodeby, 
 John de Surflet, John de Sadyngton, John de Hemyng- 
 buro-h, Wm. de Hathelsay, John Warde of Osgodeby, Wm. 
 deDuffeld, and Thos. Pertrik of Wodehall. The living is 
 taxed at 165 marks (110/.), from which is to be deducted
 
 VALUE OF THE BEXEFICE. 97 
 
 the pension of five marks to tlie Prior and Convent of 
 Durham. To make up the remainder — viz, 106/. 135. 4:d., 
 we vahie the Easter offerings at 25/. 1 7s. ; and the 
 tithe of hay and corn at 80/. 16.§. -id. In addition to this 
 sum there is one of 70 marks from the laity, and the small 
 sum of 16s. 4c/. payable for property in the parish by the 
 Abbot of Selby, the Prior of Drax, the Prior of Worksop, 
 and the Prioress of Thicket. The jurors say that the 
 whole population of the parish maintain themselves by 
 ao:riculture. 
 
 About the year 1356, in an undated paper at Dur- 
 ham, the value of the living is again set at 250 marks, or 
 166/. 13.5?. 4c/. per annum. 
 
 There exists at Durham the Roll of Robert Tyas, the 
 rector's proctor or receiver, for the year 1418, which puts 
 the value of the living at 137/. 19s. 8c/. per annum. This 
 valuation is supposed to have been made to ascertain the 
 sum which could be afforded for the expense of a collegiate 
 establishment ; and on it a schedule was prepared appro- 
 priating to that purpose 131/. 6v. 8c/. per annum. There 
 is also at Durham another receiver's roll for the year 1430, 
 showing that the corn and hay tithe had gone down in 
 value. The sum accounted for is about 122/. At this 
 time John Withers was the provost, but in January 1439- 
 40 he was deprived of his office.^* The reason for his 
 removal is not quite clear. He was charged with perjury 
 as if there had been some falsification of accounts. The 
 matter ended in an appeal to the Court of Rome by which 
 Withers was adjudged to be in the wrong, and was con- 
 demned in the sum of fourteen florins, as costs of the 
 suit. 
 
 Thomas Caudell took Withers' place as provost in 1440 
 and experienced the same difficulty of having to pay a 
 prescribed sum out of a diminishing income. By Arch- 
 bishop Kempe's Ordmation he was obliged to meet pay- 
 ments to the amount of 111/. 6s. 8c/. per annum, and more 
 in case the prebendaries resided. It is quite possible, there- 
 
 ^* 1st August, 1430. Commission to Sir on 11th September. 
 Eobert Babthorpe, Knt., Mr. John Selow, On 2nd September, 1438, the Prior 
 
 John Fishburn, a monk of Durham, Mr. and Convent make Mr. Eichard Chestre, 
 
 Wm. Doncaster, and Eichard Burton of S.T.P., vicar of Lancaster, their Proctor 
 
 Howden, clerk, to audit the accounts of in the matter of Withers (Eeg. Magn. 
 
 Withers, who was summoned to Durham viii. 226).
 
 98 THE HISTORY OF HEMINGBROUGII. 
 
 fore, that their residence may have been dispensed with 
 for the sake of economy ; and at the same time the Prior 
 waived his claim to the annnal sum of four marks which 
 had been secured to him by the Ordination, retaining, how- 
 ever, his okl pension of five marks. But this was not the 
 only difficulty. The tithes of certain townships were re- 
 ceived in kind, although the major part was sold or leased, 
 and to a certain extent the provost became a fiirmer for 
 the benefit of the establishment and himself, as the loss 
 fell upon him and he seldom received his own stipend to 
 the full. He had also that most onerous and invidious 
 task for any clergyman to discharge, the gathering a num- 
 ber of small suras, paid at many times, and frequently not 
 paid at all without an appeal to the law. It was difficult 
 therefore for him to render an exact account and to make 
 the payments required from him, for which he was liable 
 to censure, and punishment, at the hands of the authori- 
 ties of Durham, who received nothing from Hemingbrough 
 themselves, and would rcLcard with vexation the failure of 
 their wishes and hopes. These were hard times for the 
 provost. Caudell was ordered in harsh terms to render an 
 account. He gave great offence also by opposing the 
 jurisdiction of the Prior's official, and his cause was es- 
 poused by several of his parishioners. The Prior ordered 
 his lawyers, Wm. Langton and Richard AYetAvang, to pro- 
 ceed against bim. He wa-ote a sharp letter also to Ralph 
 Babthorpe complaining that his son had taken the side of 
 the provost. Caudell appealed to the Archbishop of York, 
 who counselled obedience on the part of the provost to his 
 ecclesiastical superiors, but issued a commission to enquire 
 whether any new ordination of the income of the church 
 was desirable. Before the matter was ended Caudell got 
 out of the difficulty by effecting an exchange with Thomas 
 Portington, a person of considerable local influence, who 
 was now put in the post of danger. At his admission in 
 1458 a special oath was drawn up for him, that he would 
 obey the ordination of the church, and accept any amend- 
 ment of it that should be carried into effect. Portington's 
 Compotus in 1459 shows great arrears of tithes. The 
 vicars also had been irregularly paid, and made a com- 
 plaint to the Prior and Convent. According to the Com- 
 potus, the tithe of hay and corn had diminished from 80/.
 
 VALUE OF THE BENEFICE. 99 
 
 per annum to 53/., and the whole revenue of the church, 
 including Easter dues, oblations and mortuaries, only 
 amounted to 90/. 12.s\ 5c/. 
 
 James Preston became provost in 1475, on the resigna- 
 tion of Portington, and found a large balance against him 
 in the accounts. The case was represented to Archbishop 
 Lawrence Booth, who made a re- ordination of the Church 
 in 1480.^^ This was the wisest step that could be taken. 
 The changes made are numerous and important. The 
 provost shall reside thirteen weeks, at least, in the year, 
 and receive the rents and profits as before. He shall have 
 the manse of the rector and all the ground outside the 
 Bedern, and shall pay to the vicars and inferior officers 
 their accustomed stipends. To every canon he shall pay, 
 on account of the corpus of his prebend, 2/. IS-y. 4r/. and 
 no more, the i^revious stipend having been 6/. IS.s. 4c/. 
 If the chaplain of the Cliffe Chantry chooses to attend 
 service on Festivals and days of Xine Lections, he shall 
 have 10.S-. per annum, and the vicars shall have half of the 
 tithe of fagots or kidds in the parish. The provost shall 
 undertake and bear all charges, ordinary and extraordinary, 
 as before. In case he shall die between 29th September 
 and 25th April, his executors shall have the fruits of the 
 preceding autumn, and the great and small tithes up 
 to 25th April, and bear all burdens until the next 
 Michaelmas. If he shall die after St. Mark's Day, his 
 executors shall, with the fruits of the last autumn, bear 
 all the burdens up to Michaelmas, and the succeeding 
 provost shall not, on any pretext, hinder or disturb the 
 payments made before or after the aforesaid term of St. 
 Mark. In other respects the former Ordination shall be 
 complied with. 
 
 On 17th February, 1479-80, Provost Preston, with the 
 assent of the Prior and Convent of Durham, demises to 
 AVm. Poteman, clerk, Leonard Knight, and Wm. Beck with 
 the tithe of corn, hay, line and hemp in the village and 
 townsliip of Cliffe for sixty years at a yearly rent of 20.'?. 
 The rent is so inadequate that some beneficial consideration 
 must have been paid to purchase the lease, and the Prior 
 
 "* 3rd September, 1477, Commission and Mr. Wm, Langton to represent them 
 from the Prior and Convent of Durham in the re-ordination (Reg. Magn. iii. 
 to Mr. Wm. Poteman, Mr. Thos. Pearson, 176). 
 
 H ■>,
 
 100 THE HISTORY OF IIEMINGBUOUGII. 
 
 and Convent must have been concerned in it. This is 
 one of the many questionable bargains which in all parts 
 of the country preceded the Reformation, and showed the 
 necessity for it. Soon after this Preston resigned, and 
 Thomas Babthorpe succeeded him in the provostry. On 
 the 25th April, 1480, the first day of his entrance into 
 his office, Babthorpe emulates his predecessor and gives a 
 lease of the tithe of corn, hay, line and hemp at South 
 Duffield to Robert Wood, clerk, and Wm. Beckwith. This, 
 also, is for sixty years, and the yearly rent is only four- 
 pence ! although the tithe was reported to be worth, and 
 was afterwards demised by Provost Whitehead, for 4/. 3^. 4<:/. 
 per annum. 
 
 The shadows were beginning to fall, and the coming 
 troubles w^ere foreseen throughout the length and breadth 
 of the land. On the 20th August, 15o4, in their wish to 
 avert mischief, the Prior and Convent gave a rent-charge 
 of 5/. per annum upon their manor of Hemingbrough to 
 Thomas Cromwell, the Kmg's chief secretary, for his life. 
 In the following year, on the 13th May, Bishop Tun- 
 stall, animated by the same desire, gave Cromwell the first 
 presentation to the Hospital of St. James at Northallerton, 
 and, in 1537, the office of Seneschal of Howden and 
 liowdenshire. The same thing was being done every- 
 where, and done to no purpose. 
 
 In 1535 the great Valor Ecclesiasticus was taken, in 
 which the ecclesiastical revenues of Heminobrouo'h Avere 
 
 o o 
 
 only estimated at 84/. ll.v. per annum, so that in the 
 course of a century there had been a decline of about 30/. 
 per cent. It was thus made up : farm of the glebe lands, 
 11. 13-s'. 8(i. ; fee farm rents, 13.s'. 6c/. ; tithes of corn, 
 57/. 8s. 4zd. ; tithe of hemp and line, 2/. 14.§. 8c/. ; tithe 
 of lamb and wool, 10/. ; Easter Book, 12/. ; total, 84/. ll.v. , 
 In the 2nd of Edward VI., when })ensions were assigned 
 to incumbents, the sum of 13/. 14.s. Qd. was granted to 
 the provost, instead of the 40/. to which he was entitled 
 by the Ordination of the church. He would probably 
 have had more if it had not been shown that this was the 
 net sum w^hich he hal been annually receiving. In the 
 days of the old rectors, who were non-resident for the 
 most part, their proctors exacted all their dues to the utter- 
 most farthing. The provosts had a more kindly feeling
 
 VALUE OF THE BENEFICE. 101 
 
 towards their parisbioDers, and suffered tlirounli their 
 kindness. But there was also a general fall in rents 
 throughout the country, which helps to account for the 
 decline. 
 
 The Foundation Charter of the cathedral church of 
 Durham is dated on the 1st of January, 1541, and by this 
 the ecclesiastical jurisdiction in the manors of Howden and 
 Hemingbrough was granted to the Dean and Chapter in as 
 large a manner as the Prior and Convent had them before 
 the Dissolution. All this, however, was speedily changed. 
 Two Acts which deal with collegiate establishments and 
 religious fraternities were passed in 1545 and 1547. By 
 the former of these the churches of Howden and Heming- 
 brough becam^e the property of the Crown, and presentations 
 were accordingly made to them shortly afterwards by the 
 King, but their temporalities were not disturbed in this 
 King's reign. The Act of 1547 begins by deprecating the 
 superstitions of the Church, as evidenced by chantries, and 
 recommends that grammar schools should be substituted for 
 them, " for the education of youth in virtue and godliness." 
 Commissioners are to be appointed " to assign lands and 
 tenements of every such chantry to remain and continue 
 in succession to a schoolmaster or preacher for ever, and 
 to make and ordain a vicar to have perpetuity for ever in 
 every parish church, being a college, and to endow every 
 such vicar sufficiently, having respect to his cure and 
 charge ; the same endowment to be to every such vicar 
 and his successors for ever, without any other licence or 
 grant of the king, the bishop, or other officers of the 
 diocese." 
 
 The Act then gives power to take and dispose of lands, 
 etc., etc., without appeal, and the authority of the bishop 
 to institute and licence is practically set at naught. And 
 no sfood whatever came of the arrano:ements made in the 
 earlier part of the Act. The same Parliament postponed 
 the foundation of grammar schools and lectureships on 
 the score of inconvenience, and they were altogether 
 abandoned except in populous districts. The chantry 
 property at Hemingbrough was sold instead of being 
 aj)propriated to schoolmasters and preachers ; the rectory- 
 house, glebe, etc., which had belonged to the church from 
 the remotest times, were sold to the family of Constable,
 
 102 THE HISTORY OF HEMINGBROUGH. 
 
 and even the l^edern, or residence of the vicars, sliared the 
 same fate. There is no document in existence to show 
 that the dissolved college was ever converted into a vicar- 
 age, and no record exists of any appointment to such 
 vicarage. It is possible that the last provost became the 
 first vicar, but on this point we cannot speak with cer- 
 tainty. 
 
 On 31st October, 1558, the King and Queen granted 
 the advowson of Hemingbrough, Howden, and many other 
 places, with other ecclesiastical property, to Nicholas 
 Heath, Archbishop of York. In their letters patent they 
 say that it had been enacted in the recent Parliament that 
 much Church property should be made over to Cardinal Pole 
 for the o;ood of the Church. The reason for this gift was 
 tlie paucity and the poverty of incumbents, resulting in 
 the neglect of the people, and the dishonour of Almighty 
 God, not omitting a subsidy of 7,000/. which Pole had 
 prevailed upon the bishops to make over to the King and 
 Queen. The intention of the grant was undoubtedly to 
 benefit the Church, which at this time was badly served, 
 and grievously neglected. But the intention came to 
 nauirht. All for g-reed, little or nothing for the neglected 
 parishioners ! 
 
 In the particulars for a lease of the tithes, drawn up in 
 1583, there is, indeed, an annual charge of Gl. los. 4:d. 
 for the stipend of a vicar, and of two similar sums for the 
 salaries of two assistants. This obtained also in 1613, 
 when a grant of the tithes was made to Phillips and 
 Morris, By what authority have the assistants been dis- 
 pensed with ? 
 
 It may be that the income assigned was found to be 
 insuflicient, and the three stipends, such as they were, 
 were concentrated m one, and at last were found to be so 
 inadequate even for one, that some of the vicars ceased to 
 reside, and others tried to obtain a precarious subsistence 
 by undertaking other duties incompatible with their 
 ministerial office. Few parishes in the North of England 
 are more to be pitied than Hemingbrough. It had a 
 goodly income of its own at one time, but this was carried 
 off" by non-resident rectors, and coveted all the time by a 
 wealthy patron. When at last the collegiate system was 
 introduced, there was the hope of a better regime for the
 
 ENDOWMENTS OF TFIE VICARAGE. lOo 
 
 advantage of tlie parish, bnt it was poverty-stricken still, 
 and it may be questioned whether it fared any the better 
 nnder provosts who were unaljle to make all ends meet, 
 and a body of vicars who suffered with their master. 
 AVhen the Reformation came, there was no endowment 
 lett to go on with, and there was a large church to keep 
 up, and an extensive parish to attend to. Endowments, 
 indeed, were promised, but the promise was forgotten, and 
 the result has been disastrous. I shall say something 
 more about this subject in the account of the Manor, 
 under which the more recent leases of the tithes more 
 appropriately fall. The following extracts from the 
 modern terriers of the church reveal the poverty, or 
 rather the destitution, of the vicars, in a most startling 
 manner, and it is greatly to the discredit of the organisa- 
 tion of the Church of England that no adequate means of 
 increasing the stipend of the clergyman and maintaining 
 the fabric and the services have hitherto been found. 
 
 Terriers and Endowments of the Vicarage, etc. — 
 There are terriers for Hemingbrough deposited in the 
 Court of York for the years 1716,' 1727, 1743, 1749, 
 1760, 1764, 1770, 1777, 1781, 1786, 1809, 1817, 1825, 
 1853, 1861, and 1865. We learn from them the history 
 of the endowments of the vicarage. 
 
 In 1716 the vicar's income was 20^. per annum, paid by 
 the impropriator of the great tithes, together with occa- 
 sional offerings, averaging 61. per annum. He also re- 
 ceived 10.9. per annum for an " Anniversary Lecture," 
 given by Mr. Baxter, late of Cliffe. (This is, probably, 
 Joseph Baxter, of Long Cliffe, who died intestate in 
 1704-5.) The vicar had also " a dwelling-house, stable, 
 and hay-house, an orchard (containmg a rood and a half) 
 and one garden fourteen yards in length and twelve yards 
 in breadth," The surplice fees were 2s. 6d. for a marriage ; 
 lOd. for a churching ; 2s. for a burial, but only Is. if 
 there was no coffin. The uncoffined dead would be the 
 poor, who were borne to the church on the parish bier, 
 and buried at a reduced rate. 
 
 In 1727 the occasional offerings are not mentioned, and 
 the vicar's stipend was only the sum of 20/. 
 
 In 1743 there is no change except in fees : — For a 
 burial, 26'. ; an ordinary wedding, 2s. 6d. ; by licence,
 
 104 
 
 THE HISTORY OF HEMINGBROUGH. 
 
 13.S'. 4c/. ; cliiu'cliing or cliristeDing, l.s\ The vicar says 
 that the 20/. for endowment is 40/. in the original 
 deed.^" 
 
 In 1749 Vicar Potter returns the endowments of Barlby 
 chapel as part of those of the vicarage of Hemingbrough. 
 For the general good of the parish it might liave been 
 well that this should be the case, but the endowments 
 were clearly distinct. He says also that he is entitled to 
 the sum of 10.§. for each of these anniversary sermons, 
 viz. : 1. The bequest of Mr. Robert Allen of Mentliorpe, 
 payable by Mr. Corney of York. 2. The gift of Wm. 
 (otherwise Richard) Baxter, late of ClifFe, now paid by 
 Mr. Dunnington of Thorganby. 
 
 '" This is an error. Mr. Teasdale, be- 
 lieving that he was entitled to 40Z. 
 instead of 201., went to Durham to 
 search for evidence. On his return he 
 had a stroke, and died. His widow, as 
 Vicar Potter says, " made some little 
 advances further in it, in hopes of re- 
 covering the arrears, and received a 
 letter by the hands of her friend, Mr. 
 Lamjilugh, from Dr. Sharp, Archdeacon 
 of Durham." 
 
 " A copy of Dr. Sharp's letter to Mr. 
 Lamplugh concerning the endowment 
 of Hemingburgh " : — 
 
 "Durham, Nov. 19,1741. 
 
 " Dear Sir, 
 
 " I would not defer one post in 
 answering that part of your letter which 
 relates to poor Mrs. Teasdale, that I 
 might not hold the widow in suspence. 
 When her husband was here, he came 
 to me to talk his business over (I think 
 he said by direction of Mr. Pye), and I 
 heard all he had to say, and read over 
 all his papers, and told him I would 
 confer with Mr. Pye about his matter, 
 and that if I could be of any service to 
 him in getting it a little cleared up (for 
 I had great doubts he was upon an 
 unpromising scent), I readily would do 
 it. I talked with Mr. Pye, etc., and all 
 that comes out clear is this : That the 
 Dean and Chapter have no concern 
 with Mr. Ingi-am, nor with the tythes 
 of Hemingbrough, which at the Dis- 
 solution were granted by K. Hen. 8, 
 not to them, but to those from whom 
 Mr. Ingram claims ; and it is that grant 
 from the Crown which is to deter- 
 mine the vicar's pension. Had Mr. 
 Ingram been our lessee, it is incredible 
 that the vicar should be wronged 201. 
 
 a year ; or, if he had, the remedy 
 would have been short and easy. But, 
 as the case stands, we have no concern 
 in it, but in the custody of the old 
 recoi'd, by which it appears that the 
 vicarage was originally endowed, when 
 the approjDriation of Hemingbrough 
 tythes was made to the Prior and Con- 
 vent, with 40Z. per annum. I do pre- 
 sume the Dean and Chapter, ujDon a 
 proper caution given for the safe return 
 of it, would lend the Third Cartulary 
 (in which the above endowment is regis- 
 tered), to be evidence in a court of law ; 
 but I mightily fear it would be of no 
 service, unless it could be made appear 
 that the grant under which Mr. Ingram 
 claims had been made by the Prior and 
 Convent, or by the Dean and Chapter. 
 But as it is a grant from the Crown, 
 and lopt off from this church, during 
 the Dissolution, I must leave you to 
 judge whether any encouragement can 
 be given to the widow upon the footing 
 of our record. I think I have given you 
 all the light I am able into this busi- 
 ness, and remain your affec. br., 
 
 " Tho. Sharp." 
 
 Vicar Potter also gives a case and 
 opinion of Dr. Braithwaite of York on 
 the same subject, put to him by Mr. 
 Teasdale. 
 
 To satisfy himself, Mr. Potter got a 
 copy of the grant temp. Jac. I., which 
 he mournfully says cost him 21. 12s. Gd., 
 and all for nothing. His conclusion is : 
 " I have transcribed all the papers I have 
 seen concerning this affair, which may 
 prevent any more wild-goose-chases 
 about it, for as the Crown only allowed 
 20/. per annum, it is not to be expected 
 the lessees would."
 
 ENDOWMENTS OF THE VICARAGE. 105 
 
 Wand, formerly of Barlby, paid by Join. Hi% innliolder 
 He estimates the surplice fees of the parish at about 10/. 
 
 ^''irim' there are changes iu the fees. Burial in the 
 churchyar.1, vicar 2.., clerk 10^., sexton 1. Burial m 
 church vicLr 7.. 4.7., clerk 2.., sexton 2.. Wedding by 
 banns, vicar 2.. 6./., clerk 1.. Wedding by licence, vicar 
 13, id clerk 3... 4./. Churching, vicar L. clerk Q>d. 
 \t*Bariby double fees are charged, all payable to the 
 vicar Utensils :-A silver cup, weight 9^ oz. ; an organ, 
 consi^tmg of five stops and two half stops ; one pewter 
 basi^ and plate; a lablecloth and napkin ; two pewt.r 
 flao-ons, marked Ex D. Johanms Allanson cULimd, 1/1 J , 
 five tuneable bells ; the church is repaired by the parish ; 
 the chancel by th^ impropriator ; St Nicholas' choir on 
 the north side of the church, by the heirs of the late 
 J Twisleton, Esq. There is a sum of 40.s-. a year left by 
 Jdm Allanson to be distributed in bread to the poor and 
 payable out of a house and land at Lund, by will dated 
 8th October, 1722. i r +• ^f 
 
 In 1770 it is said that Is. is charged for publication ot 
 banns ; for a certificate of banns, 2.. Ck/. to the vicar and 
 1. to the clerk. To the vicar for writing over the register 
 (tiie duplicate sent into Court), Q>s. ; and for searching it, 
 L Utensils, inter alia .—One pewter plate and one pewter 
 basin-the one marked +E + D+ Johanms A lanson de 
 Lund* 171!), the other T + C for Hembrough Church, 
 1712 ' one carpet for the communion-table of green cloth ; 
 one fine linen cloth and one napkin ; one pulpit- cushion ; 
 surplice ; two Common Prayer Books and one large bible ; 
 an eight-davs clock. The churchyard fence on the south 
 is reiSiired by Mr. Gibson of York ; on the west and north 
 bv Mr Overend of Babthorpe ; on the east by the 
 TDarishioners. The clerk and sexton were appointed by 
 the late vicar, Rev. Wm. Potter. There is due to the 
 clerk from the parishioners every Easter, for every mes- 
 suage M., for every cottage U. The gifts to the poor 
 are^then enumerated, five in number. Of these Proud- 
 foot's Close is called Poor Eolks' Close; the gifts out of 
 Hao-o- Lane Close, North Field Close, and Barmby-Seive- 
 CarTare given, together with Mr. Allanson s bequest for 
 bread. There is also " A close called Appletree Close,
 
 lOG THE HISTORY OF HEMINGBROUGH. 
 
 against the river Ouse, near Selby," rented at oOs. per 
 annum, which appears for the first time. 
 
 In 1777 the only novelty in the Terrier is a mention 
 of the Cliffe school, with its endowment of a parcel of land 
 near Booth. 
 
 In 1781 there is nothing of moment. In 1786 it is 
 said : " There is a due to the parish for the parishioners 
 annually at Easter for every messuage 8d., and for every 
 cottage 4J." This had been taken from the clerk. It is 
 also said that Wm. Kirlew, the clerk, repairs the west and 
 north walls of the churchyard. 
 
 In the Terrier of 1809 it is said that a part of the 
 church to the south is repaired by Wm. Burton of Turn- 
 ham Hall, Esq., instead of paying church rates for Turn- 
 ham Hall Lordship. A small part north of the choir is 
 repaired by Josiah Cockshutt Twisleton, Esq., in lieu of 
 church rates for Babthorpe Hall Fann. The church- 
 wardens are elected on the Wednesday in Easter week, 
 wdien the vicar chooses one for Hemingbrough ; the others 
 are chosen by the parishioners, each division of the parish 
 choosing its own. 
 
 In the Terrier for 1817 it is said that a Parliamentary 
 grant of 200/. has been made for the living, bearing in- 
 terest at two per cent, per annum, in 1809, and another of 
 1,600/., bearing interest at four per cent., in 1815. These 
 are in the hands of the Governors of Queen Anne's Bounty, 
 and for them an eligible purchase of land has not yet been 
 met with. The churchyard has a wall on the east and 
 south sides repaired by the parish ; and a quick fence on 
 the north and west sides repaired by Hannah Kirlew, 
 widow, proprietor of the lands adjoining. There are two 
 pewter flagons, one marked as before, as Mr. Allan- 
 son's gift, and a paten with the same inscription. There 
 is a basin inscribed " T. C. for Hembrough Church 
 1712." 
 
 In 1853 it is stated that the Parliamentary grants 
 have been laid out in the purchase of 37a. Ir. 17p. of 
 copyhold land in the open fields of the township of 
 Hemingbrough in 1827, and that in the years 1843 and 
 1841 an inclosure of these open fields took place under an 
 Act of Parliament passed in the 6th and 7th Wm. IV. The 
 following parcels were assigned to the vicar by the award
 
 CURATES AXD VICARS. 107 
 
 signed by Joseph Whittle, Esq., the commissioner, dated 
 28th February, 1844. 
 
 A certain close of land in the chapel field, by ad- 
 measurement 6a. or. 23p. Another allotment or close of 
 land in the chapel field containing 4a. 2r. 21p. An allot- 
 ment or close in the north field containing 4a. 19p. An 
 allotment or close in the far field containing 9a. Ir. 25p. 
 An allotment or close in the little water-field containing 
 3a. Ir. 8p. An allotment or close in the between dykes 
 field containing oa. 2r. 23p. An allotment or close in the 
 hause or liaust field containing la, Ir. 3p. A close of 
 land belono-ino' to the old inclosure and not mentioned 
 in the award, called Water-field Close, containmg 3a. 35p. 
 
 In 1865 it is said that the churchyard has no timber 
 upon it. It was formerly fenced in on the east from the 
 Town Street by a brick wall. In the year 1854 the old 
 wall was taken down and in its stead was constructed an 
 excellent iron palisading forty-nine yards eighteen inches 
 long, and five feet four inches high, set in blocks of stone, 
 having two folding-gates supported by Gothic pillars, and 
 one hand-gate wrought on metal brackets, wdth two 
 Gothic pillars ornamenting the south and north ends of 
 the fence. A glebe-house and offices appertaining built 
 in 1862 by subscriptions, and a grant from the Ecclesias- 
 tical Commissioners, upon a close of ground called Chapel 
 Field. 
 
 CURATES AND YICARS. 
 
 Gabriel Morland was one of the curates under the 
 new system. He was collated to the 6th vicarage-pre- 
 bendal, prior to the Reformation, on 1st March, 1536-7, 
 and, afterwards, when some of his brother- vicars were pen- 
 sioned off, he continued at Hemingbrough. In April, 1564, 
 he witnessed a will at Newhay. On 28th January, 1567-8, 
 he and Isabel Watkinson, of the parish of Hemingbrough, 
 were proceeded against at Archbishop Young's Visitation. 
 " He," it is said, " useth to celebrate the Communion for 
 the deade ; and they ar suspected to lyve incontinentlie 
 together, and so have bene long tyme." At the Arch- 
 bishop's Visitation in 1575 the following presentment was
 
 108 THE HISTOrvY OF IIEMINGBROUGH. 
 
 made from Hemingbroiigli : " They have liad no sermons 
 these iij yeres, and they can not tell who ought to procure 
 the same." Gabriel Morland, one of the curates, was sent 
 for to explain the deficiency. It is easy to see that the 
 Established Church was very badly represented in the 
 parish. Gabriel Morland made his will in 1574, desiring 
 to be buried in Hemingbrough Church, near his stall, but 
 the document is now lost. 
 
 1579, John Brooke signs the articles at York as 
 curate of Hemingbrough. It seems probable that this is 
 the person who became vicar of Wressle on 28th April, 
 1585. He died holding that appointment in 1616-17. 
 
 1586, Thomas Knighton signs the articles at York 
 as curate of Hemingbrough. This is the person who is 
 mentioned in a curious case of Recusancy connected with 
 the Knio-hts of South Duffield, as will be seen in the 
 history of that township. 
 
 At the Archbishop's Visitation in 1594 there is the 
 following presentment against Mr. Knighton, which I do 
 not fully understand : " He hath served as curate, and 
 done all functions as minister of long time, being made 
 minister within thre monetlies last past." I cannot find 
 the record of his ordination where it ought to be. 
 
 1602, 20th May, William Lindley, A.M., admitted 
 to serve the cure by Henry Swinburne. 
 
 He was ordained Deacon and Priest by Archbishop 
 Piers on 30th August, 1594, and exhibited his letters of 
 Orders and Admission at the Visitation of 1632. It is a 
 matter of doubt who Mr. Lindley was. The family of 
 Lindley was a good one, and there were several ecclesi- 
 astics in it, but we cannot connect the vicar of Heming- 
 brough with any of them. On 1 7th January, 1624-5, " Jane 
 Lyndley, ye wife of William Lyndley, minister of Heming- 
 brough," was buried there, but Mr. Lindley had soon a 
 successor, as his son Edmund was bapt. on 23rd May, 
 1626. The first liegister Book records the fact "that 
 upon Munday, the 5th day of December, 1634, Mrs. 
 Lyndley did pay unto Robert Thorp, for making of a litle 
 stall or seat for her in the church, hard by the great piller, 
 xijd." 
 
 This is probably the Beatrix Lindley of Heming- 
 brough who was buried there on 30th September, 1657.
 
 CURATES A^'D VICARS. 
 
 109 
 
 If SO she survived her husband some years. On 4th 
 November, 1648, " Mr. Wm. Lyndley, mmister of Hem- 
 brou(yh," was buried in his own church. 
 
 IgIs 1st June, William Jackson, clerk, mst. at 
 the pre's. of the King, on the death of the Last incum- 
 bent He was probably the successor to John Brooke, as 
 Lindley must have been to Knighton. There is nothing 
 known about him. It is evident that up to the Common- 
 wealth there must have been at least two curates officiat- 
 ing at one and the same time at Hemingbrough. 
 
 "^Ihe Commonwealth.— Mr. Lindley died m November, 
 1648 and from that period to the Restoration the ecclesi- 
 astical history of the parish is involved in considerable ob- 
 scurity. It seems probable that no regular incumbent was 
 appointed, but that the parishioners were obliged to avail 
 themselves, more or less, of the services of any migratory 
 cleric whom they could find. A " Mr. William Cornwall, 
 minister," was buried on the 1st April, 1653. In 1656 
 there is the record of the baptism of a chdd at Newhay by 
 Mr Calvert of Selby. This is Richard Calvert, who died 
 in the following year. In 1664, William Philhps, the 
 recristrar, retrieves, as far as he can, the baptisms which 
 had taken place between 1658 and 1664. He says they 
 had been " baptized out of this parish when we had noe 
 minister." In the Riccall Register, and at other places, 
 parishioners of Hemingbrough had their children baptised 
 at this time. Calamy preserves the name of one Non- 
 conforming minister who, as he says, was ejected from 
 Hemingbrough in 1662. This was a Mr. Anthony Fido. 
 
 " He was of Trinity Colleclge, Cambridge, and younger brother of Mr. 
 John Fido, born Aug. 20, 1640. At his tirst admission at Cambridge, 
 he was examined by Mr. Ray, then steward of the Colledge. Mr. Valen- 
 tine was his tutor. He was thrown out at the Restoration, when he 
 was underc^raduate, but ready to take his degrees. His tombstone says 
 he resigned a fellowship in Trin. Coll. and a considerable living in 
 Cambrid^^eshire. Upon his ejectment from Hemmgbro' m 1G62, he 
 became chaplain and steward in a gentleman's family, and afterwards 
 preached in several parts of England. He at length went to London 
 about 168ri, where he had a small congregation. He contmued there, a 
 bachelor, till his death, which was in Jan. 1715, aged 'f> having been 
 sometime disabled by weakness. He was buried m Bunhill l^ields. 
 
 This account by Calamy bears some traces of inaccuracy. 
 I find, however, that Mr. Fido was a resident in the house-
 
 110 
 
 THE HISTORY OF HEMINGBROUGH. 
 
 hold of Sir George Twisleton of Kent, and a devisee under 
 his will. Throuo;li the Twisletons of Barlow he was thus 
 brought into close proximity to Hemingbrough, and it is 
 by no means improbable that he officiated there for a 
 while, although his name never appears in the parish books. 
 Arthur Squire is mentioned in the parish register 
 as actino; as the full minister at Hemino'broao;h in 166-1. 
 On 2nd September, 1668, he signs the articles on being 
 formally licensed to the cure. Mr. Squire was a member of 
 a clerical family, as the following genealogical sketch will 
 show : — 
 
 Thomas Squire, A.M., 
 inst. rector of Es- 
 crick 31 Dec, 1613, 
 bur. there 19 March, 
 1662-3. Aclm. toEliz. 
 his will. 26 May. 
 
 Elizabeth, d. John 
 Scott, Dean of York. 
 
 Wilham Squire, A.M., 
 inst. vie. of Skipwith 
 26 March, 1618. Bur, 
 at Escrick 5 April, 
 1619. 
 
 Arthur Squire, 
 A.M., inst. rect. of 
 Elvington 8 June, 
 1669-1682. Vicar 
 of Selby 1674. 
 
 Elizabeth, d. 
 Sutton Ogle- 
 thorpe of Es- 
 crick, Esq., m. 
 22 Feb. 1654-5, 
 at Thicket. 
 
 John, bp. at Es- 
 crick 13 Aug., 
 1635.^ 
 
 Philip, bp. 24 
 Nov., 1642. 
 
 Elizabeth, bp. 9 
 Jan., 1630-1. 
 
 Lucy, bp. 17 April, 
 1638. 
 
 Mary, bp. 8 Oct., 
 1648. 
 
 Sutton Squire, A.M., Magd. Coll., 
 Cambr., 1679. Bp. at Heighington 
 7 Dec, 1658. Inst. rect. of El- 
 vington 9 Oct., 1682. Bur. there 
 10 April, 1728. Ordained Deacon 
 7 March, 1679-80, and Priest 29 
 May, 1681. 
 
 Faith, d. . . New- 
 comb, m. at El- 
 vington 25 Oct., 
 1683, and bur. 
 there 8 Sept., 
 1703. 
 
 Thomas, bp. 5 May, 
 1663, living 1717.Jj^ 
 
 Alissimon, bp. at 
 Heighington 5 June, 
 1660. 
 
 Tobias, bp. at El- Martha, bp. 11 Sept., 1684, m. at York Minster, 19 Aug., 
 vington, 27 Oct., 1710, John Preston of South Duffield, gen. 
 
 1687, and bur. 9 Elizabeth, bp. 3 June, 1686, m. 20 Oct., 1710, Edward Carter 
 March, 1696-7. Mary, bp. 7 Jan., 1689-90, m. at Ripon, 18 Aug., 1712,' 
 
 Thos. Gell of High Catton, who was bur. there 24 May, 
 
 1780, aged 96. 
 
 Arthur Sq:iire had taken Presbyterian Orders, and, when 
 
 the Restoration came, was regarded as an intruder at 
 
 Heighington, in the county of Durham, where he had been 
 officiating for some time. The Bartholomew Act made no 
 difference to him, as he was a Conformist. He was officiat- 
 insf, we see, at Hemino-brou^h soon after the Restoration. 
 From 1669 to 1682 he was rector of El vinoton. Between
 
 CURATES AND VICARS. 
 
 Ill 
 
 167-4 and 1697 he was incumbent of Selby, where he was 
 buried with the following inscription : — 
 
 ArtJmrus Squire A.M. hie situs est, hujits Sanch Germain 
 curio et concionator, qui primo Jan. 1697 occubuit, prwuiuu 
 Deo, qui Christo, et Ecdesia^, Eegi, Popidoque Jidelis, Hmc 
 est quod qestiit coelestes intrare doraus. 
 
 The stone bearins; the inscription lies withni the altar- 
 
 1**11 1 K 
 
 ' 1667, 10th December, Michael Doughty, licensed to the 
 cure of'Hcmingbrough. He was probably a son or rela- 
 tive of Thomas Doughty of Osgodby Park House, and a 
 brother of Edward Douo-hty, curate of Howden.^^ He was 
 a scholar and B.A. of Trin. Coll., Dublin, in 1660, and 
 was ordained Deacon by the Archbishop of York on 14th 
 June, 1663, and Priest on 21st May, 1665. Among tlie 
 Briefs entered on the fly-leaves of the parish registers at 
 Howden we find that in 1664 Michael Doughty collected 
 there the sum of 116-. Qd. "for Mrs. Jackson, widdow of 
 an ao-ed minister, who sustained great losse by fire neare 
 to Doncaster." And, on 10th February, 1666-7, Edward 
 Doughty collected 8.v. for John PhilUpps of Hemingbrough. 
 Michael Doughty preached occasionally at Howden, and 
 was duly entertained by the churchwardens with " cakes 
 and ale," or something more. On 9th May, 1667, Michael 
 Dou^dity was marr. at Hemingbrough to Anne, d. Edward 
 Kirlew of Hagthorpe, gent., and, on 22nd April, 1668, his 
 son, Thomas, was baptised. Here we lose him. 
 
 1670, 23rd April, John Wetherall was licensed to 
 the cure, of whom nothing is known. He was evidently 
 a bird of passage. 
 
 1670, 23rd July, Thomas Revell, inst. A Thomas 
 Revell of Exeter Coll. was made M.A. at Oxford on 14th 
 June, 1661. On 11th January, 1676-7, he was licensed 
 to the curacy of Eastrington. Mr. Revell died on 14th 
 November, 1677, at the early age of 34, and was buried 
 within the altar-rails of his church, where a monument 
 commemorates him.^^ He was married at Hemingbrough 
 
 9' Inst to cure 25th August, IGfjo. grammar school there. He was ordained 
 
 Ordained Priest by Henry " Miden' Deacon by the Archbishop 23rd Septem- 
 
 Ep." (Meath) 19th October, 1G62. ber, 1(577, being A.B. of Emmanuel Coll. 
 
 •'« On 4th December, 1G77, Richard Cambridge. Mr. Pettie was otticiatmg 
 
 Pettie was licensed to serve the curacy at Hemingbrough m 1704. . ,„^^ 
 
 of Hemingbrough. On 8rd April, ir.73. Vicar Potter, speakmg of him in 17.jO, 
 
 he, being A.B., was Ucensed to teach a calls him an impostor, "formerly curate
 
 112 THE HISTORY OF HEMINGBROUGH. 
 
 on 2nd March, 1669-70, to Mary Bever of Penistone. 
 The parish register contains some kindly and pleasing 
 entries that he made. 
 
 1677-8, 19th March, Thomas Waterhouse, A.B. (of 
 Christ's Coll. Cambridge), inst. on the death of Revell. 
 He was ordained Deacon by the Archbishop on 19tli 
 September, 1675. There is no record of his death at 
 Heraincrbrousfh. I am inclined to think that he was a 
 native of the parish of Howden, where there was a family 
 of Waterhouse at Asselby. 
 
 1680, oOth September, John Rayner ( ?A.B. Christ's 
 Coll. Cambridge, 1678), inst. on the death of the last 
 incumbent. Of him, also, we have little to say. lie was 
 buried at Hemingbrough in 1682. 
 
 1682, 11th July, Charles Maslin, inst. on the death 
 of the preceding incumbent. He was inducted on the 
 12th by Marm. Fothergill, vicar of Skipwith. 
 
 Mr. Maslin was a son of John and Anne Maslin of 
 Skipwith. His father died in 1669, and his mother soon 
 after,^^ and Charles was made a ward of Thomas Maslin, 
 of Hemingbrough. On 12th March, 1681-2, he was 
 ordained Deacon by the Archbishop of York, and Priest 
 on 11th June, 1682, being then A.B. of Emmanuel Coll. 
 Cambridge, taking that degree in 1681. Mr. Maslin lived 
 at Howden, where he was probably curate, or master of 
 the school. He was buried there on 18th June. 1705, his 
 widow administering to his eifects on 27th July. Gent 
 mentions a monument to him, which has disappeared. 
 Mr. Maslin was married at Howden on 2nd April, 1684, 
 
 in this church, but was never in Orders, the freehold land in Skipwith which I 
 
 which being found out by Mr. Elcock, bought of John Eoades of S. Wife ex^ 
 
 vicar of Rical, and sequestrator of this and guardian of my three younger chil- 
 
 church, after the death of Mr. Maslin, dren, Matthew, Charles, and Grace M. 
 he fled to Ulverstone in Furness, Lan- 1st October, 1670 (pr. 11th Novem- 
 
 cashire, his native place." This must ber), Anne Maslin of Skipwith, widow, 
 
 surely be unjust after what has been To be bur. in churchyard of Skipwith. 
 
 stated about Mr. Pettie's ordination. Dau. GraceM., myland inS., anda house 
 
 His removal from Hemingbrough must bought of John Roades. Son Thos. M. 
 
 have been for a different reason. Grandchild John M. Rem. to sons 
 
 ^■' 4th October, 1668 (pr. 25th Nov. Matthew and Charles M., they ex". 
 
 1669), John Maslin of Skipwith, yeoman. Their tuition to my bro'. Charles Tru- 
 
 Son Thos. M., my interest in my fai'm man. Bro''. Richard Truman, 
 held of Mrs. Honorah Skipwith and Mr. Thos. M., brother of the vicar, marr. 
 
 JohnS.,herson,payingforrent32Z.6.s-.8fZ. a dau. of Michael Frank of South Duf- 
 
 perann. Eldest dau. Eliz. Mackman and field. On 22nd August, 1699, the vicar 
 
 2nd dau. Anne Elliott 50Z. each. Eldest obtained a marr. lie. for Thos. M. and 
 
 son Thos. M. To my now wife, Anne, Esther Long, sp'.
 
 CURATES AND VICARS. 113 
 
 to Helen, widow of . . . Wighton, and daughter of 
 
 Matthew Haward of Howden, by Avhom he had a large 
 family.ioo 
 
 Matthew^ his eldest son, baptised at Howden 27th 
 January, 1684-5, went to St. John's, Cambridge, where 
 he became A.B. in 1705. He was ordained Deacon by 
 the Archbishop 21st September, 1707, and Priest on 25th 
 September, 1709. His first charge seems to have been 
 the curacy of Fishlake, which he was holding in 1719. 
 He was admitted to the curacy of Drax on 25th Sep- 
 tember, 1709, and held it in 1716. On 5th December, 
 1721, he was instituted to the vicarage of Wistow and 
 the curacy of Cawood. He was buried at Wistow 23rd 
 March, 1754, aged 69, and his widow, Elizabeth, on 23rd 
 May, 1777. 
 
 There remain at Wistow the following memorials of 
 Mr. Maslin, for a knowledge of which I am indebted to 
 my kind friend Mr. Greeves, the present vicar : — 
 
 Sacred to the memory of Matthew Maslin, M. A., vicar of this church, 
 and Elizabeth, his second wife, daughter of Paul Perkins of Moreby, 
 gentleman. He departed this life March 20th, 1754, aged 69 years. 
 She died May 18th, 1777, aged 83 years.' They had issue two sons 
 and a daughter, the Rev. Paul Maslin, B.L., and Matthew Maslin, a 
 surgeon in the navy. Hannah Maslin, their daughter and only sur- 
 viving child, pays this last tribute of duty and affection to liei- beloved 
 father, mother, and brothers, 1782. {On a marble tablet in the north 
 aisle at Wistoto.) 
 
 In memory of Hannah Maslin, who died December 3rd, 1819, aged 
 84. (0)1 the floor oj' the 7iorth aisle.) 
 
 Wistow, 1777. The gift of Mrs. Eliz. Maslin, reHct of the Rev^. 
 Matt^^. Maslin, M.A., late vicar of this church. (Ore the under edge of 
 a silver jiciten.) 
 
 ""> Charles, bf). at Howden, 17th tracts, and for much other kindness, to 
 
 August, 1G8G, marr. at Fulford 11th Mr. Hutchinson, the vicar of Howden. 
 April, 1716, to Anne Thorpe. Bur. at ' Marr. lie. 31st Dec. 1729, Matthew 
 
 Howden 12th May, 1721, and admini- Maslin of Wistow, clerk, and Eliz. Per- 
 
 stration granted on 15th August to Anne kins. 
 
 his widow. They had Charles, bp. at Their son, Paul, was of Trin. Hall, 
 Howden 25th August, 1718 ; Matthew, Cambridge, and was ordained Deacon 
 bp. 17th May, 1720 ; and John, bp. 10th June Oth, 1754, with the curacy of Rill- 
 October, 1721. ington for his title. 
 
 Eobert, son of the vicar, bp. at How- The following children occur in the 
 
 den, 4th June, 1(389 ; John, bp. 16th Drax Eegister : Ann, bp. G Sept., 1716. 
 
 March. 1696-7 ; Ann, bp. 14th July, Eliz., bp. 29 April, 1718. Sarah, bur. 
 
 1687 ; Mary, bp. 1.3th January, 1690-1 ; 9 Feb., 1717-18. Sarah, bp. 1 March, 
 
 Helen, bp. 27th October, 1692 ; Jane, 1719-20. I owe these dates and other 
 
 bp. 19th November, 1695. I am indebted kind assistance to Mr. Hooper, vicar of 
 
 for the permission to make these ex- Drax.
 
 11 J: THE HISTORY OF HEMINGBROUGn. 
 
 1707-8, 15th January, Marmaduke Teasdale, inst, 
 by Henry Watkinson, commissioner, and inducted by 
 John Wilkinson, clerk, on 14th February. 
 
 He was a son of Marmaduke Teasdale of Pocklington, 
 schoolmaster, and Dorothy Darnton, his wife (marr. lie. 
 7th December, 1674). He was educated at Pocklington 
 Grammar School. Vicar Potter, very unnecessarily, calls 
 him "a charity boy," the fact being that Pocklington 
 School was advantageously connected with St. John's, 
 Cambridge, and of these advantages young Teasdale was 
 fortunate enouoli to have a share. He was entered as a 
 sizar at St. John's on 13th June, 1701, being then twenty- 
 one. He took the degree of A.B. in 1706. 
 
 On 2nd June, 1706, he was ordained Deacon by the 
 Archbishop, and Priest on 23rd September. On 2nd 
 September he was admitted to the curacy of Heming- 
 brough, being at that time usher in Howden Grammar 
 School. On 2nd September, 1706, he was admitted to 
 the cure of St. Helen's Chapel at Barmby, and, in 1722, 
 we find him curate of Drax, thus holding three contiguous 
 parishes, where, as far as work was concerned, one was 
 enough. But Mr. Teasdale was a schoolmaster as well, 
 to eke out his scanty income and educate his children. 
 On 2nd May, 1733, he was licensed to teach a free gram- 
 mar school at Long-ClifFe, the charity school, that is, of 
 Mary VVaud. Mr. Teasdale had a paralytic seizure, and 
 died at Hemingbrough 1st November, 1741, a3t. 63, and 
 was buried in the church on the 3rd, On 13th May, 
 1742, Frances, his widow, administered to his effects. 
 
 Frances Teasdale (nee Bacchus),-^ his widow, made her 
 will at Hemingbrough, where she resided, on 18th May, 
 1743 (pr. 28th April, 1748). She left her freehold estate 
 at Hemingbrough and the rest of her estate to her daughters, 
 Dorothy and Mary, " their brothers haveing had an expen- 
 sive education given them by their father." She was 
 buried on the south side of her husband on 31st January, 
 1747-8, fet. 66. Her son John states in the par. reg. of 
 Drax, " they were thirty-six years husband and wife, and 
 had eleven children together." ^ 
 
 - Vicar Potter writes of her : " Her ■* Bapt. at H. 2, Marmaduke, bp. 5 
 
 brother taught a school at H., and Mr. Dec. 1710, bur. 8th Feb. seq. .S, Thomas, 
 Walker of Eawclil'l'e marr. her sister." bp. 15 Mar. 1712-13; marr. Eliz. Clarke
 
 CURATES AND VICARS. 115 
 
 John Teasclale, the eldest son, baptised at Heming- 
 brough, 10th December, 1706, was A.B. of St. John's, 
 Cambridge, in 1728, and was ordained Deacon by the 
 Bishop of Norwich 22nd February, 1729-30, being licensed 
 to the curacy of Hemingbrough, with 25/. per annum for a 
 stipend. He was ordained i'riest by the Archbishop 18th 
 July, 1731, and on 2nd August was instituted to the curacy 
 of Thorganby, which he held until 1737. On 1st March, 
 1742-3, he was licensed to the curacy of Drax, and to the 
 headmastership of the grammar school there on 28th July, 
 1742. There he lived and worked, and, dying on 13th 
 December, 1764, "was buried in the quire of Drax Church 
 15th December." 
 
 Marmaduke, the third son, baptised at Hemingbrough 
 4th May, 1714, was A.B., St. John's, Cambridge, in 1737, 
 and was ordained Deacon by the Bishop of Lincoln on 18th 
 March, 1738-9, and Priest by the same prelate 24th May, 
 1740. On 9th July, 1748, he was instituted to the 
 vicarage of Bray ton, and died holding it in 1773. From 
 1748 to 1773 he was also vicar of Selby. Anne Teasdale, 
 one of his daughters, died at Selby 5th March, 1808. M.I. 
 Another daughter, Elizabeth, widow of Morley Wharrey 
 of Selby, died there 31st December, 1842, at the patriar- 
 chal age of 97. 
 
 1742, 6th August, William Potter, M.A., inst. on 
 the death of Teasdale, and was inducted by his brother, 
 Robert Potter, vicar of Stillingfleet, on 9th August. 
 
 He was a son of Thomas Potter of Lazenby in Cumber- 
 land, by Grace, daughter of Robert and Isabel Story, and 
 was baptised at Lazenby on 27th September, 1711. He 
 went to Lincoln College, Oxford, where he was M.A. in 
 1734. On 6th March, 1736-37, he was ordained Deacon 
 by the Bishop of St. Asaph, and Priest on 31st December, 
 1738, by the Bishop of Carlisle, by letters dimissory from 
 the Archbishop of York, he being at that time assistant 
 curate at Howden, as he was till 1742. On 11th April, 
 1740, he was licensed to teach a grammar school at 
 
 of Hull, spinster, 23 Oct., 1733. 5, Wm., 1 Jan. 1711-12 ; bur. 22 Apr. seq. Frances, 
 bp. 13 March 1715-16. 6, Chr., bp. bp. 13 March, 1715-16 ; bur. llJuly scg. 
 11 Jan. 1719-20, bur. at Drax, 5 June, Frances, bp. 9 May, 1718. Mary, bp. 
 1722. Dorothy, bp. 5 Oct. 1708, and 18 Jan. 1721-2. 
 marr. Robert Ellis, butcher. Mary, bp. 
 
 I 2
 
 IIG 
 
 THE HISTORY OF HEMINGBROUGH, 
 
 Howden. He and 
 natives of Lazenby. 
 
 Mr. Threlkeld, the vicar, were both 
 
 Thomas Potter of Lazenby, Cumber- = Grace, dau. and h. of Robert and Isabel 
 
 land, s. of John, s. of Chr., s. of Lance- 
 lot P. of the same place, who was b]D. 
 there 24 May, 1549. 
 
 Story ; marr. 10 November, 1G95 ; bur. 
 7 January, 1732-3, at Lazenby. 
 
 William Potter, 
 M.A., Vicar of 
 Hemingbrough, 
 bp. at Lazenby 
 27 September, 
 1711 ; bur. at 
 Hemingbrough 
 25 October, 
 1768. 
 
 Frances, d. 
 Ralph North - 
 end of Kilpin, 
 bp. at Howden 
 22 November, 
 1715 ; marr. 
 there 21 April, 
 1743. 
 
 Dorothy, bp. 
 10 Septem- 
 ber, 1702 ; 
 marr. Robert 
 Abbot of La- 
 zenby, 20 
 April,1732.4. 
 
 Robert Potter, 
 born at Lazenby 6 
 November, 1696; 
 Deacon by Archb. 
 of York, 19 Sep- 
 tember, 1725; 
 Priest by Bp. of 
 Durham, 17 Sep- 
 t ember, 1727. 
 Coll. vie. of Stil- 
 lingfleet 25 July, 
 1730; bur. there 
 18 February, 
 1768. Admon.gr. 
 25 May, 1768, to 
 Grace and Alice 
 P., his daurs. 
 
 Esther, dau. 
 Ralph Nixon 
 of Howden, 
 merchant ; m. 
 there 4 No- 
 vember, 1730 ; 
 bur. at How- 
 den, Julyl746. 
 
 William Potter, 
 A.M., Vicar of 
 Hemingbrough, b. 
 2nd, bp. at H. 31 
 May, 1744 ; died 
 at Bray ton, where 
 he was vicar, 26 
 August, 1796, sat. 
 52. 
 
 Thomas, born 16 June, bp. 
 
 15 July and d. 20 July, 1747 ; 
 
 bur. in the old vestry on the 
 
 north of the choir. 
 Thomas, born 27 June, bp. 
 
 2 August, 1748; bur. 20 
 
 January, 1773. 
 Frances, born 19 April, bp. 
 
 25 May, 1745; m. 21 August, 
 
 1770, Rev. Wm. Gill of Sher- 
 
 burn; d. 10 March, 1782. 
 Isabel, born 23 February, biJ. 
 
 2 April, 1746 ; d. 19 August, 
 
 and bur. " in the old vestry 
 
 called Potter's Vault." 
 Isabel, born 22 January, bp. 
 
 21 February, 1749. Died 
 
 young. 
 
 Robert, bp. 
 at S. 8 
 June, 1742. 
 
 Elizabeth, bp. at 
 Stillingfleet, 8 
 April, 1734; bur. 
 25 February, 
 1740-1. 
 
 Grace, bp. 19 
 March, 1738-9 : of 
 Howden, spinster, 
 Will d. 27 March, 
 1791; pr. Novem- 
 ber, 1795. 
 
 Alice, bp. at S. 25 
 January, 1743-4 ; 
 m. John Candler. 
 Both living 1791. 
 
 Since this volume was prepared for the press there has 
 been placed in my hands, by the great kindness of Mr. 
 E. T. Clark of Cowick, a MS. of Mr. Potter's, devoted to 
 the history of his parish, and showing him to have been 
 an intelligent and an industrious chronicler. The book is 
 in 12mo, containing 230 pages, and is, perhaps, more a 
 parochial commonplace book than anything else. The 
 title runs, " Some Records relative to ye History and An- 
 ticjuity of the Village and Parish of Hemingburgh, nigh 
 Selby and HoAvden in Yorkshire, collected and methodized
 
 CURATES AND VICARS, 117 
 
 by William Potter, Vicar (a Lasenbia, agro Ciimbriensi, 
 juxta Kirkoswald & Petrianam, oriundo), a.d. 1750." 
 
 Mr. Potter was not acquainted, when he wrote, with tlie 
 evidence relating to Hemingbrough afterwards published in 
 a supplement to the Monasticon Eboracense, vol. i., by his 
 friend and neighbour, John Burton, M.D. It is evident, 
 however, that the doctor had made use of Mr. Potter's 
 brains without giving anything, or at least very little, out 
 of his own stores in return. 
 
 Mr. Potter makes the church out to be a Roman fort, 
 and takes from Dugdale's Monasticon the documents show- 
 ing the connection of the place Avitli Durham. Many, 
 notes about the church are given, with a description of 
 monuments, inside and outside, made after the fashion of 
 James Torre. There is no account of the hamlets, merely 
 extracts from the parish register about some of their old 
 inhabitants. Mr. Potter was acquainted with the MSS. 
 of Torre and Hopkinson and quotes them. He also refers 
 to a connnonplace book, in which he had made extracts 
 from Drake's Eboracum, Thoresby's Leeds, and Bingham's 
 Antiquities. I also find references in his MS. to Nelson's 
 Glossary, Eachard's Roman History, Ecton's Valor, 
 Shaw's Parish Law, Jortin's Remarks on Ecclesiastical 
 History, Borlase's Antiquities, Littleton's Dictionary, 
 Bohun's Geograpliical Dictionary, Browne Willis on 
 Abbeys, Leland's Itinerary, Speed's Chronicle, Camden's 
 Britannia, Horsley's Britannia Romana, Gent's York, 
 Calamy's Lives, Verstegan's Antiquities, Thurloe's State 
 Papers, Lloyd's Memoirs, Rapin, Wanley's Catalogue of 
 MSS., the Gentleman's Magazine, and Stillingfleet's 
 Origines — a very fair sample of reading for the time in 
 which the vicar lived. 
 
 The grains of salt are not many when so much better 
 sources of information have been made available and have 
 been used ; but some of the vicar's notes are interesting. 
 If the clergy in his day had taken the same trouble, we 
 should know far more than we do about the history of 
 our churches and land. 
 
 I transcribe a portion of the preface to Mr. Potter's 
 MS., which begins thus : — 
 
 Some perhaps may ask the question why I shoukl employ my time 
 upon so trifling a subject as the description of a country village. To
 
 .118 THE HISTORY OF HEMINGBROUGH. 
 
 such I answer that it was agreeable to my inclinations ; and every man 
 has a right to amuse hinisolf innocently. And if he looks abroad into 
 the world he will very likely find my spare time as well employ'd as 
 that of many others. Besides, I undertook tliis task with a view 
 neither to praise nor profit, but merely to satisfy a desire I have had 
 of late years to researches of this kind. When I find places or persons 
 that once have been famous in history, buried in oblivion and darkness, 
 it throws me into a languishing train of thought ; ' it pities me to see 
 them in the dust,' and not only so, but the reflection j^uts me upon re- 
 trieving them, if possible, from silence, ' that land where all things are 
 forgotten.' . . . 
 
 Thus much I tliought necessary to advertise that person of, into 
 whose hands this collection may happen to come : vita enim mea brevis 
 est — sed — ' littera scripta manet.' " 
 
 Mr. Potter was a person of observation and ability. 
 Dr. Burton calls him his " worthy friend and fellow- 
 labourer in antiquities." He discoursed on Roman anti- 
 quities in the Gentleman's Magazine under the title of 
 Lazenbiensis, and opened some British barrows in Skip- 
 with Common. But he had a cacoethes scribcncli, and the 
 waste leaves and corners in the parish register of Heming- 
 brough are filled with his notes, generally repetitions, 
 describing something he had taken a special interest in or 
 done himself. 
 
 He records, for instance, no less than thirteen times an 
 account of the opening of a new organ in Hemingbrough 
 Church in 1757. 
 
 But retribution found him out even there. He had 
 written for the ei2:hth or tenth time the followinof sen- 
 tence : " Willelmus Potter M.A. de Lasenby juxta Pen- 
 rith in agro Cumbrensi oriundus, vicarius de Heming- 
 burgh, et frater Roberti Potter vicarii de Stillingfleet ; " 
 and his successor, Isaac Tyson, placed above it the follow- 
 ing" caustic lines : — 
 
 "O 
 
 You know the proverb, William Potter, 
 Self-praise it stinketh like an otter ; 
 I liope the man at Stillingfleet 
 Is both more modest and more sweet. 
 
 On the first page of a new register for marriages which 
 he bought he wrote a pompous title, ending with the 
 inapt quotation — 
 
 Wliere to be born and die. 
 Of rich and poor make all the history. — W. P.
 
 CURATES AND VICARS. 119 
 
 under wliich the daiigliter of another successor in the 
 living, Miss Malhson, has amusingly written— 
 
 Pray is wedding nothing ?— Elizabeth M . 
 
 Mr. Potter was guilty of the same vagaries in the pansli 
 register at Lazenby ; but a touch of feeling marks what 
 he'wrotein it in 1751-" Lazenby-Forte mihi posthac 
 non adeunde, vale ! " From the pathetic we come to the 
 rkUculous. There is a tricking by him m the same book, 
 .s he^^^^^^ in that of Hemingbrough, of the Potters' arms, 
 as borne by Christopher Potter, D.D., Provost of Queen s 
 Colleo-e' Oxford, and Dean of Worcester, who died ord 
 March,' 1645-" Argent on a pa e ^^-^^J^^l^^J 
 wino-s conjoined and elevated of the first. At Hemmg- 
 brough Mr. Tyson makes them out to be the wmgs and 
 tlip bparina" of a o-oose. , , 
 
 Mr Potter was evidently a kind, good-natured man 
 who was ready with his speech and with his pen, and 
 fond of laying' down the law among the country farmers 
 who would he his every-day companions. He mi^ht be 
 pleased with their homage, naturally enough.^ Although 
 he must have been somewhat vam and loquacious, he was 
 an active incumbent, doing much for his church, and ac- 
 quainted apparently with everyone m his P^^i'^^^- /j,^^ 
 burial registers during his tenure of office are exceedingly 
 
 "' MrPotter died at Hemingbrough and wiis buried there 
 25th October, 1768. Through his wife, Frances North- 
 end,^ he became the owner of a small estate at bcarth, 
 near Whorlton in Cleveland, which had belonged to the 
 Waterhouses of Burnby, near Pocklington. So saith J ohn 
 Burton, M.D., Mr. Potter's friend. , p • , ^,, 
 
 1769 23rd October, William Potter, A^B., mst. on 
 the death of his father. Inducted on 5th December by 
 John Malhson, curate of Barmby. 
 
 He was baptised at Hemmgbrough on 2nd May, 1^44, 
 and went to St. John's, Cambridge, where he was A.M. 
 in 1773 On 10th April, 1768, he was ordained Deacon 
 by the' Bishop of Exeter by letters dimissory, and 
 
 4 r> -11 -qntprl SUt Mav 1716 (pr. payment of his debts, with power to 
 
 5th7anra"yAmJ :Lui''NL4^ lel\it The sale seems to have been 
 
 of Kilpin left to Isabel, his wife his avoided. 
 farm at Scarth Lees in Cleveland, tor
 
 120 THE HISTORY OF HEMINGBROUGH. 
 
 Priest by the Archbishop on 22nd October, 17G9. On 
 8th June, 17G8, he was hcensed to the curacy of Barlby, 
 on the nomination of his father. He resigned it in 1770, 
 but was as^ain licensed to it in 1780, and held it till his 
 death in 1796. On 3rd May, 1773, Mr. Potter was in- 
 stituted to the vicarage of llrayton, vacant by the death 
 of Marmaduke Teasdale ; this he held during his life. He 
 was also licensed, on 11th April, 1783, to the more im- 
 portant charge of the perpetual curacy of Selby, which he 
 filled till he died. Mr. Potter died on 26th August, 1796, 
 aged fifty-two, and was buried in the chancel at Brayton. 
 On 13tli September, 1796, administration of his effects 
 was granted to Wm. Champney of York, surgeon, in be- 
 half of Frances, his wife, cousin and next-of-kin to the 
 deceased, Alice Candler (heretofore Alice Potter, spinster), 
 and Isabel Martin (heretofore Isabel Bacon, spinster), his 
 cousins and next-of-kin, renouncing. 
 
 1779, 8th February, John Mallison, inst., on the resig- 
 nation of Potter, by John Fountain, Dean of York. 
 
 He was ordained Deacon b}^ the Ijishop of Carlisle on 
 23rd June, 1751, and Priest by the Archbishop of York 
 on 29th November, 1761. On 8th May, 1754, he was 
 licensed to the curacy of Howden, and to that of East- 
 rington on 12th March, 1760; to the curacy of Laxton on 
 24th March, 1763 ; and to that of Barmby-on-the-Marsh 
 on 30th August, 1768. He held the two last with the 
 vicaras^e of Heminii'brouMi until he died. On 20th Au^ist, 
 1771, he was licensed to the curacy of Barlby. 
 
 The late Sir Tatton Sykes used to tell many stories of 
 these Yorkshire pluralists in that century, how eagerly 
 they grasped at small livings and curacies, and of their 
 manifold devices to get as many services as they could 
 into a Sunday. The nag or galloway on which they 
 hurried from one village to anotlier used to be called 
 a Jerusalem pony, and a hard time it had, poor beast. 
 And yet it was, after its fashion, a bringer of good tidings 
 — at least it brought the parson. 
 
 Mr. Mallison lived and died at Howden, working his 
 numerous cures from that centre, where he gave great 
 assistance in the parish church. Mr. Mallison dropped 
 down dead in a butcher's shop in Howden on 20th April, 
 1793, aa'ed 68, and was buried at Howden on the 24th.
 
 CUKATES AND VICAKS. 121 
 
 He was twice married— 1. At Eastrington in 1757 to 
 Margaret, daughter of John Threlkeld, vicar of Howden, 
 who'^died of consumption, and was buried at Howdeu 
 31st August, 1778, aged 43. 2. At Hemingbrough, on 
 6th June, 178-4, to Mrs. Sarah Blythe of Cotness. The 
 following inscription commemorates him at Howden : — 
 
 H. S. E. quod mortale fuit Joliannis Threlkeld ^ de Lazenbia in agro 
 Cumbrensi oriundi, et liujus ecclesise vicarii, vicesimo quinto die Junii 
 A.D. 1746, fet. 52. ^ , , . 
 
 Also Elizabeth, his wife, who departed this life the 23rd day ot 
 February, 1762, aged 62 years.'' 
 
 Also Margaret, their daughter, and wife to the Rev''. John Malhson, 
 Vicar of Hemingbrough, wlio departed this life the 28th day of August, 
 1778, aged 43 years. 
 
 Also the above-named John Mallison, who departed this life the 
 20th day of April, 1793, aged 68 years. 
 
 Here also lieth the remains of Hugh Danser, gentleman, who married 
 Anne, the .second daughter of the above-named John and Margaret 
 Mallison, and died the 15th day of Deer. 1818, aged 59 years. 
 
 Also Anne, relict of the above-named Hugh Danser, who died on the 
 16th day of Deer. 1858, aged 91 years.^ 
 
 Mr. Mallison had another daughter, Margaret, who was 
 married at Hemingbrough on 21st December, 1783, to the 
 Rev. John Fretwell of Horncastle, co. Lincoln, where she 
 is buried. By will, dated 18th November, 1791, Mr. Mal- 
 lison bequeathed to his two daughters all his property. 
 
 4793, 12th December, Isaac Tyson, inst. on the death of 
 Mallison, by Andrew Cheap, prebendary of Knaresbrough. 
 He was son of Jacob and Jane Tyson of Wath in Cum- 
 berland, and was baptised at Cleator on 29th May, 1766. 
 
 Mr. Tyson was ordained Deacon by the Archbishop, 
 and was licensed to the assistant curacy of Flockton, with 
 a stipend of 20/. He was made Priest on 7th October, 
 1792, and on 14th October was licensed to the curacy of 
 Harewood, with a stipend of 40/. Whilst he was there 
 Lord Harewood took a fancy to him and made him his 
 
 * Mr, Threlkeld was ordained Deacon ment, York, on 26th Jan., 1727-8. 
 by the Archbp. of York on 23rd Sept., His dau. Annabella was bur. there 26th 
 1722; and Priest by the Bishop of Nov., 1726; and another daughter, 
 Carhsle on 31st May, 1724. He was Margaret, on 1st Feb., 1727-8. 
 inst. by the Archbp. to Howden on 6th <" On 13th May, 1762, adinon. to the 
 Sept. 1726. On the 21th Dec. 1725, he, effects of EUzabeth Threlkeld of How- 
 being of the par. of St. John's, York, den, widow, was granted at York to 
 clerk, set. 29, had a licence to marry Margaret, wife of John Mallison, clerk, 
 Mrs. Annabella Summers, spr., of the her daughter. 
 
 parish of St. Peter the Little, fet. 26. ' Anne, d. Eev. John Mallison, was 
 
 The lady was bur. at All Saints' Pave- bp. at Howden 12th April, 1767.
 
 122 THE HISTORY OF HEMINGBEOUGH. 
 
 chaplain. On llth April, 1794, Mr. Tyson was inst. to 
 the vicarage of Adlingfieet, at the presentation of the 
 king, ceding Hemingbrough at the same time. Mr. Tyson 
 died in 1821. 
 
 Mr. Tyson married on loth January, 1794, Mary 
 Bethia, eldest daughter of John Mihies, Esq., of Flockton 
 Hall. She survived him and lived at Bridlington Quay. 
 She died at Wakefield, 9th May, 1837, aged 71, where her 
 son, the Rev. Edwin Coleman Tyson, A.M., sometime fellow 
 of Cath. Hall, Cambridge, resided.^ 
 
 Mr. Tyson published " A Short Tract on the General Nature of the 
 Gospel ; the Scripture Doctrine of Remission of Sins by Faith ; the 
 immutable Nature of the Moral Law, or Will of God ; and on Free 
 AVill : concluding with a Persuasive against the Folly of Unbelief. 
 By I. Tyson, Vicar of Adlingfieet ; formerly Vicar of Hemingbrough ; 
 and Chaplain to the late Right Honorable Lord Harewood. Addressed 
 to his Parishioners. Brigg : Printed by T. Ball, 1808." 12mo, pp. 12. 
 
 Mr. Tyson, a little man himself, rebuilt the vicarage- 
 house at Adlingfieet, and made it of Lilliputian dimensions, 
 the rooms being eight feet by seven, or thereabouts. He 
 has also recorded in the parish register the admiration 
 with which the Archdeacon regarded it. 
 
 1794, 19th August, William Caile, inst. on the cession 
 of Tyson. 
 
 He was ordained Deacon by the Bishop of Chester 21st 
 October, 1759, and Priest by the same prelate, 19th June, 
 1763. In 1779 he was acting as curate of Ryther without 
 being licensed. On 5th September, 1796, he was licensed 
 to the lectureship of Selby, which he held for a short time ; 
 and, on 22nd November, 1818, to the assistant curacy of 
 Barlby, the curate being his own son-in-law, Thomas 
 Braim. 
 
 Mr. Caile took up his residence in the vicarage-house 
 in Finkle Street, which had been untenanted since Vicar 
 Potter's death. It was put in order for him by public 
 subscription. It was here that he lived for the remainder 
 of his life, supporting himself with difficulty at times on 
 
 « Henry Lascelles, Mr. Tyson's last on which is a shield charged with three 
 
 surviving son, died at Clough House, hons rampant, the arms of the ancient 
 
 Bridlington Quay, 20th Feb. 1883, family of Tison. What audacious folly ! 
 
 aged 82. Elizabeth, Mr. Tyson's On 12th March, 1827, Mary Bethia, his 
 
 youngest dau., died at Bridlington Quay second dau., was marr. at Whitgift to 
 
 20th Aug. 1829, aged 19. There is a George Parrott of Reedness. 
 monument to her in Bridlington Church
 
 CURATES AND VICARS. 123 
 
 an income which was shamefully inadequate. He who is 
 content with little does not sigh after much, and Mr. 
 Caile was a person of patriarchal simplicity and gentleness 
 of disposition. He died at Hemingbrough on 5th August, 
 1824, at the great age of 88. The Gentleman s Magazine 
 says of him : " To the day of his death he performed m^the 
 most astonishing manner all the duties of his situation. 
 
 His wife, Dorothy, predeceased him on 2nd April, lb 14, 
 at the age of 68. His daughter, Jane, married on lOtli 
 January, 1805, the Rev. Roger Steele, curate of Doncaster ; 
 and, secondly, the Rev. Thos. Braim, curate of Barlby. 
 By his will, dated 24th January, 1824, he desires his 
 trustees, John and Joseph Harrison, to see that iis 
 daughter, her husband and children, "be totally excluded 
 from having any concern with any property whatsoever ; 
 but the trustees are desired to convert everythmg into 
 money and to invest it, paying the interest to the testator s 
 dauo-hter for her life, then to her husband, if he survives 
 her,''and afterwards the principal is to be divided among 
 the children. Mr. Caile leaves his housekeeper, Mary 
 Berry, 5/., and two of his wife's black gowns— that is all 
 in the way of legacy. He says besides : " My will is to 
 have a good tombstone laid over me, with the enclosea 
 epitaph.'" The stone lies in the chancel touching the 
 eastern wall, and the inscription may be read elsewhere. 
 The good old vicar's estate was sworn under 800/. 
 
 1825, 26th May, John Ion, A.M., on the death of 
 
 William Caile. . r r. i vi 9 
 
 He was the son of George Ion, vicar ol bubwith, 
 
 « George Ion, a literate (and a native Sept., 1783, Mr. Ion was licensed to the 
 
 of Cumberland), was ordained Deacon perpetual curacy of E lerton ; and on Jth 
 
 by the Bp. of Chester, 8th August, Oct., 1787, he was mst. to the vicarage of 
 
 1773, and Priest by the Archbishop on Wressle. Mr. Ion died Ibth I eb 1814 
 
 June nth, 1775, taking as his title the and was bur. at Bubwith. Mr ion 
 
 curacy of Bubwith with a stipend of 35L printed a sermon which he preached at 
 
 per ann. On Cth July, 1782, he was Bubwith '; A Sermon preached at Bub^ 
 
 allowed to serve the cure of Wressle with on Friday, February 4, 1780, being 
 
 with a salary of 20L per ann. On 24th the day appointed by His Ma esty s 
 
 Dec, 1782, he was collated by the Dean Proclamation for a ^(^eneral 1^ ast. ay 
 
 and Chapter of York to the vicarage of George Ion, curate of Bubwitli, in )Lo\&- 
 
 fhe first mediety of the church of Bub- shire." York : Printed by W. Blanchard 
 
 with. The existence of these medieties & Co. mdcclxxx. Price sixpence. 8vo. 
 
 was anything but pleasant, as there was pp. 30. ,^ ■, ■..^ a .^„.o n;„; 
 
 sometimes a struggle for pre-eminence The clergy at Bub^ylth had some Dm- 
 
 between the two incumbents. In old nity at their service m the paiocjiial 
 
 times the two have been known to library m the vestry of the chuch. Itih 
 
 preach at one and the same time in now almost entirely destroyed or clis- 
 
 different parts of the church 1 On 10th persed, and is known only by a catalogue
 
 124 THE niSTOEY OF IIEMINGBROUGH. 
 
 Avlierc lie was baptised on lOtli July, 1789, and was edu- 
 cated at Pembroke College, Cambridge, where he was 
 A.B. in 1820 and A.M. in 1825. 
 
 On 2nd July, 1820, Mr. Ion was ordained Deacon by 
 the Archbishop, and was licensed to the assistant curacy 
 of Aughton, with a stipend of 50/. and the surplice fees. 
 On 21st June, 1821, he was made Priest. On 2ord March, 
 1825, he was instituted to the rectory of Halsham in 
 Holderness, a living worth 700/. a year, and, soon after, 
 on 26th May in the same year, he was instituted to 
 Hemingbrough, the parishioners having been the means of 
 his obtaining the living. He was made chaplain about 
 the same time to Elizabeth, Viscountess Sydney. 
 
 Mr. Ion qualified as a J. P. for the East Riding on 
 29th June, 1840, and was the first resident magistrate in 
 the parish since the time of Mr. Fenwick of Babthorpe, 
 who died in 1659. His acceptance of office was a great 
 convenience to suitors in his parish and neighbourhood. 
 
 In 1842 Mr. Ion erected, from the design of Messrs. 
 Weightman & Hatfield of Sheffield, a handsome brick 
 house on the right hand side of the lane leading out of 
 the village towards Babthorpe, immediately opposite the 
 present vicarage-house. Here Mr. Ion lived and died, 
 but the house is not attached to the living : it belongs to 
 the builder's descendants. Mr. Ion died on 9th October, 
 1860, and was buried in Hemingbrough Church. He 
 married Anne, daughter of Thomas Marshall, Esq., of 
 
 deposited with the Dean and Chapter of in Bubwith cliurchyard. I summarise 
 
 York. Mr. Ion, in his sermon, says much the informatioir upon it. George, son of 
 
 against swearing and drunkenness. He the Eev. Geo. Ion, Vicar, d. 27 Feb., 
 
 says : " What city, what town or village 1782 (bp. 10 July, 1778). John, s. do. 
 
 is there — what market, meeting, or fair, d. 2.5 Dec, 1788. Frances, dau. do. d. 
 
 that is not defiled with drunkenness ? " 1,5 Feb., 1796. Jane, dau. do. d. 22 Oct., 
 
 Of this the village feasts were a great 1810, aged 29 (bp. 1 March, 1781). Rev. 
 
 cause. Mr. Ion's neighbour, Joseph George Ion, late Vicar, d. 16 Feb., 1814, 
 
 Fisher, doctor of medicine. Divine, and aged 6.3. Ann, his relict, d. 19 Dec, 
 
 controversialist, on the Sunday before 1820, aged 71. 
 
 the Drax feast, always preached the There are two copies of verse on the 
 
 same sermon, 2 Kings iv. 38, " Set on stone, the fruits, as it is said, of Mr. 
 
 the great Pot." But there were smaller Ion's muse. It would be cruel to pre- 
 
 pots used at Drax at that time, and not serve them. 
 
 filled with "pottage"! Mr. Ion was at I must give one entry in Mr. Ion's 
 
 one time a member of the Evangelical handwriting from the Bubwith Register : 
 
 party as represented in York by the — " 1800, May 3. William Tate, of 
 
 Rev. Wm. Richardson, but he showed Spaldington Outsides, bur. aged 100. 
 
 himself to be unworthy of such friends. Had seven wives and died a widower, 
 
 and fell under a cloud. Published the eighth time last year " ! 
 There is an altar-tomb to the family
 
 CURATES AND VICARS. 125 
 
 Kingston-upon-Hull. Tliey had two children, who sur- 
 vived them, a son and a daughter. The son, John Collins 
 Ion, died an undergraduate at Trinity College, Cambridge, 
 5th June, 18(32, aged 22. The daughter, Jane, married 
 Charles Grey Tate, Esq., of Richmond, a younger son of 
 the Rev. James Tate, and died on 12th March, 186^1:, 
 a3t. 26, leaving an only daughter. 
 
 1861, 12th August, William Theophilus Grear, inst. 
 on the death of Ion. He was baptised at Diss in Norfolk 
 on 29th October, 1820, being the son of William Grear of 
 Diss, schoolmaster, and Sarah, his wife. Mr. Grear was 
 ordained Deacon and Priest by the Bishop of Ripon in 
 1852 and 1853. From 1852 to 1855 he was curate at 
 Daisy Hill, Bradford ; at Bramley, near Leeds, 1855-9 ; 
 and at St. Mark's, Woodhouse, Leeds, 1859-61. In 1863 
 he was curate of St. John's, Portland, Dorset. Lie re- 
 signed Hemingbrbugh, and, on 10th August, 1865, his 
 resignation was accepted. He exchanged with Mr. Wright 
 for the living of Godolphin, Cornwall, and died there on 
 23rd April, 1873, from an attack of small-pox, which he 
 caught from a sick parishioner. 
 
 1865, 7th November, William Henry Wright, A.B., 
 inst. on the resignation of Grear. 
 
 Mr. Wright was born on 26th October, 1820, and was the 
 youngest son of John Wright, A.B. Jesus Coll. Cambridge, 
 Rector of St. Matthew's, Nassau, New Providence, Bahamas, 
 West Indies. His grandfather, John Wright, A.M. of 
 Jesus Coll., Cambridge, was chaplain to tlie 14th Regi- 
 ment of Foot, and became a great pluralist, being vicar of 
 Colston Basset and Kinoulton, and perpetual curate of 
 Mansfield Woodhouse and Skegby, all in Notts. 
 
 Mr. Wright was also of Jesus College, Cambridge, A.B. 
 in 1815. In that year and in 1846 he was ordamed 
 Deacon and Priest by the Bishop of Lichfield. Between 
 1847 and 1855 he was incumbent of St. Luke's, Welling- 
 ton, Hanley, Staffordshire ; from 1855 to 1865 he was 
 perpetual curate of Godolphin, Cornwall. 
 
 Mr. Wright, during the time he was at Hemingbrouo-h, 
 interested himself greatly in the restoration of the church. 
 By the means of a bazaar he collected about 200/., which, 
 after lying in the bank for some years, was expended in 
 1885 on the restoration of the roof of the soutn aisle of
 
 126 THE HISTOEY OF IIEMINGBROUGH. 
 
 the choir. To help on the work, he drew up and published 
 a short Historical Sketch of the Church in which Mr. 
 Pearson's Report on the Fabric is printed entire. 
 
 Mr. Wright died at Hemingbrough in August 1880, 
 £et. 59, and was interred, according to his earnest request, 
 on 15th August, in the churchyard of the neighbouring 
 parish of Barmby-on- the- Marsh, on the other side of the 
 Ouse. Mr. Wrio-ht's widow and their two sons are now 
 residing at Barlby. 
 
 1880, ord November, James Paton, inst. on the death 
 of Wright. 
 
 Mr. Paton was formerly second master of the High 
 School, Appleby, co. Warwick ; also second master of 
 the Grammar School at Basingstoke, and master of the 
 Grammar School at Howden. He was ordained Deacon 
 in 1866 by the Bishop of Man, and Priest in 1870 by 
 the Bishop of London. He was curate of St. George's, 
 Chorley, 1866-8 ; of St. Michael's and All Angels, Brom- 
 ley, 1868-72 ; chaplain to the Oxf. Incorp. 1872-4 ; 
 curate of Market-Lavington, 1874-5 ; incumbent of St. 
 Michael's, Glasgow, 1875-7 ; and curate in charge of 
 North Ferriby, 1877-80. Mr. Paton is the present vicar. 
 
 THE PARISH REGISTERS. 
 
 The Register Books begin in 1605, there being no trace 
 of any of an earlier date. Those during the 17th century 
 have been carelessly and irregularly kept, the notes of the 
 registrars and the fair copies of many of the notes being 
 preserved in different parts of the same volumes. The 
 fly-leaves, as is often the case, are filled with private re- 
 marks and bills of registrars, clerical or lay, and the 
 vacant spaces have been occupied by the observations, wise 
 and foolish, of personages who thought that they were 
 thereby handing themselves down to fame as well as to 
 posterity. Poetry is not wanting, or, at least, attempts 
 at it. In the 17th century Thomas Robinson calls the 
 first Register his book, and gibbets himself by putting as 
 a motto under his name Me mentum mory. Towards the 
 close of the last century a vicar writes at the foot of a page
 
 THE PARISH REGISTERS. 
 
 127 
 
 " Tempus cdax rerum — wliicli means Time's a queer 'un." 
 Another vicar strikes a nobler vein and says : 
 
 Go search it there where to be born and die 
 Makes up the sum of all the history 
 Of rich and poor, makes all, etc. 
 
 The eccentricities of William Potter, clurino- his vicariate, 
 are noticed elsewhere. The object of the extracts whicli 
 we shall now give is to place together various notes which 
 are not elsewhere distributed over the area of the parish. 
 
 1605, April 2. Mr. Guy Metham of York and Mary Metcalf of 
 South Duffield.'o 
 
 1606, March 25. John Dodding, alias Salvin, ye sonne of Francis 
 Salvin of Hemingbrough. 
 
 1607-8, Feb. 26. Mrs. Elizabeth Levit, wife of Percivall Levit, of 
 Hemingbrough, bur. ' ^ 
 
 1608, Aug. 28. Mr. Constable of Osgodby.'^ 
 
 1608, Oct. 13. James, sonne of Thomas Pasie, a straunger, dwelling 
 at a town called Painchae,'^ in the Bishoprick of Durham. 
 
 1609, Aug. 21. Mr. Wm. Menell of Osgodby, and Mr. Wm. Novell 
 of Osgodby. 
 
 1609, Nov. 19. Ann, dau. Wm. Wheelhouse, dwelling in Osgodbee 
 Park, bp. 
 
 1610, Oct. 25. John .Jackson of Barlebee, bur. He came out of 
 Leeds parish. 
 
 1610, Dec. 4. .John Yoole, the sonne of one Thomas Yoole, a poor 
 traveller, bur. 
 
 '" An innholcler in Coney Street, 
 York, bur. in St. Martin's Church 7th 
 June, 1G28. 
 
 1636, April 4. Mary Metham of 
 York. To be bur. in the church of St. 
 Martin in Coney Street. To Metham 
 Marsh my bason and ure, a httle gilded 
 salt with a cover, etc. Grandchild Eliz. 
 Marsh, a gilt bowl, etc. Son-in-law 
 Robert Marsh. Thos. Metham, 20 marks 
 given him by my late husband, Mr. Guy 
 Metham. Dau. Anne Marsh, ex'^. Pr. 
 9th May. She was bur. at St. Martin's, 
 Coney Street, Apr. 18, 1636. Anne, her 
 dau. was h^. there 2nd June, 1G09. 
 Robert Marsh and Anne Metham were 
 m. at Selby, loth Feb. 1624-5. 
 
 " This Elizabeth was dau. of Alex"' 
 Rudderforth and niece and heiress of 
 Robert R. yeo. and was 36 years old 
 and more in the 82nd of Elizabeth, when 
 she inherited from her uncle seven 
 acres of meadow in Newhay, worth 3s. 
 per ann. ; eight acres of meadow or 
 pasture in the same place worth 4s. 8fZ. 
 per ann. ; and a little close in South 
 Duffield called Hayremore Springe, 
 
 cont. two acres, worth 12fZ. per ann. 
 Mr. Levett was an innkeeper in York 
 who had purchased some land at 
 Hemingbrough. He was free of the 
 city 1581-2 ; chamberlain 1584 ; and 
 sheriff 1597-8. He was bur. at St. 
 Martin's, Micklegate, York, on 13th Feb. 
 1625-6. Mr. Levett had two sons, 
 Percival and Christopher, the latter of 
 whom emigrated to America and rose to 
 great eminence in the new colony. 
 
 By will d. 26th Nov. 1636, William 
 Todd of York, apothecary, bequeathed 
 to Grace, his wife, his lands, etc. in 
 Hemingbrough, which he bought of 
 Percival Levett of York, merchant, and 
 Mary, his \vife. (This Percival was a 
 son of Percival and Eliz. L.) 
 
 '-'This gentleman must have been 
 a friend or a retainer in the house of 
 the Babthorpes at Osgodby. The same 
 thing may be said of two neighbouring 
 entries. 
 
 '=* Painshaw is in the old parish of 
 Houghton-le-Spring, co. Durliam, and 
 is now an independent chapelry.
 
 128 
 
 THE HISTORY OF HEMINGBROUGH. 
 
 1610-11, Feb. 5. Abigail, dau. Patrick Weenies'* of Hemingbrough, 
 bp. 
 
 1614, Nov. 20. Alice, d. Thos. Aunby of Osgodby, bp.'-^ 
 
 1615-16, Feb. 8. Ellen Atkinson, a traveller, bur. She came out of 
 Cumberland and dyed at Clyif. 
 
 1617-18, Jan. 7. John Skipwith and Ellen, dau. Thos. Ashley of the 
 Goul house, marr."* 
 
 1619-20, Jan. 20, Ellenar, ye dau. of William Hatton of Barton in 
 Northamptonshire, was baptized. The sayd Ellenar was borne at the 
 Hall holme near Woodhall. 
 
 1621, April 13. Richard, sonne of Hugh Coulburn of Osgodbee. 
 He was drowned about Barmbie Ferry. '^ 
 
 May 17. Catherine, dau. of Hugh Taylor '^ of Newhay, bp. 
 
 May 26. Thomas, son of Edward Haddlesay, late of Bracken- 
 holme, deceased, bur. He came from York and dyed at Hemingbrough. 
 
 Sept. 10. William, sonne of Francis Constable of Evering- 
 
 ham, gent., died at Lund, bur. 
 
 1623, Dec. 23. Anne, dau. George Anbie of Babthorp, gentleman, 
 bur. 19 
 
 1624-5, Jan. 17. Jane Lyndley, ye wife of William Lyndley, 
 minister of Hemingbrough, bui*. 
 
 1626, Sept. 28. Jane Beacham, a jDoore woman of Colne in Lan- 
 kishire, dyed at Osgodbie, bur. 
 
 1626, Nov. 19. Annabella, d. Theophilus Braithwaite 20 of Barlby, bp. 
 
 '^ Patrick Weemes was vicar of 
 Acombe, near York. Was he at this 
 time one of the curates at Heming- 
 brough ? 
 
 '^ The Aunbies came out of Marsh- 
 land, and some of them settled at Selby 
 and in this neighbourhood. 1616-17, 
 Jan. 19, Frances d. Thos. A. of Os- 
 godby bp. 1619, April 19, Faith, d. do. 
 bp. 1621-2, Jan. 25, Robert s. do. 
 bp. at Selby. 
 
 There were several other families of 
 the name in the parish. 
 
 '« 1619, 16th Dec. Mary d. John S. 
 of Hemingbrough bp., bur. 14th March, 
 1626-7. 1620-1, 19th March, Ellenor 
 dau. do. bp., bur. 3rd July, 1623, dau. 
 of John S. late of Bowthorpe. 1624-5, 
 10th March, Richard s. John S. of 
 Cliff e, bur. 
 
 By win d. 9th Jan. 1610-11 and pr. 
 15th March, Hellen Skipwith of Hedon 
 bequeathed her land to her sons John 
 and George, leaving the tuition of John 
 to Mr. Salvin of Ottringham ; and of 
 George to her nephew Edward Skip- 
 with. To her dau. Eliz. her gold chain 
 and lOZ. per ami. for ten years. Toiler 
 daughters Temperance and Anne lOZ. 
 per ann. till 21. The residue to her 
 three daughters. [Reg. Test. Ebor. 
 xxxi. 553.] See under Bowthorpe. 
 
 " 1652, 8 Sept. Jane d. John C. gen. 
 
 of Osgodby in Hemingbrough par. bp. 
 at Wressle. 
 
 '^ Hugh Taylor of Hemingbrough 
 (marr. at Howden 5th Aug. 1567 to 
 Alice Harrison) is said in Dugdale's 
 Visitation of Yorkshire to have been the 
 father of a Hugh Taylor of Coates, 
 near Carlton. 
 
 1621, 17 May, Cath. d. Hugh T. of 
 Newhay, bp. 
 
 1623-1, 8 Feb. Cath. d. Hugh Taylor 
 of Newhay hp. (H.) She marr. Edward 
 Kirlew of Woodhall. Mary, another 
 dau., mar. Gervase Ashley of Goole 
 Hall. 
 
 Hugh Taylor of Coates marr. Eliz. 
 d. George Lodge of Barlby. Their 
 eldest dau., Jane, was born at Barlby 
 Dec. 3rd, 1654. Mr. Taylor was bp. at 
 Carlton, in the parish of Snaitli, on Feb. 
 lltli, 1628-9, and was bur. there on 
 July 1st, 1676. 
 
 '" George Anby of Sherwood Hall 
 marr. Frances dau. of Richard Bowea 
 of Babtliorpe. 
 
 -" Among Dr. Hunter's MSS., pre- 
 served in the Library of the Dean and 
 Chapter of Durham (No. 45) is a Com- 
 mon Place Book of his containing 
 numerous historical and genealogical 
 notes, connected especially with York- 
 shire and Durham, but not of much 
 value. There is in it a pedigree of
 
 THE PARISH REGISTERS. 129 
 
 1628, Oct. 4. Joanna, the wife of Mr. Bishoppe of South Duffield, 
 
 bur. 
 
 1631-2, Feb. 12. Thomas, the sonne of Robert Cobcroft of Osgod- 
 bie, bp. The sayd Robert was in ye warres when his childe was 
 baptised. 
 
 1633, Oct. 20. Anne, the doughter of Elizabeth Barnard of South 
 Duffeld, and the supposed doughter of Mr. Henry Redhead ^i of 
 London, bp. 
 
 1635-6, Feb. 9. Mary, dou. of Antony Baynes of the Chappell at 
 the Chappell field, ^^ bp. 
 
 1636-7, Jan. 16. Thomas, sonne of Thomas Vavasour of Braken- 
 holme, bp. 
 
 1637-8, Jan. 6. Mary, dau. Matthew Topliam, gen., of Babthorpe, bp.^^ 
 
 1638, Sept. 18. Mary, dau. Henry Marshall 2-' of Babthorpe, gent. bp. 
 
 1639, April 23. Wm. Fendall, a souldier, whose dwelin was at 
 Ipswitch, bur. 
 
 July 16. Robert Sampson, an Essex man, and a souldier, bur. 
 
 Sept, 30. Charitie, the wife of Mr. Rauf Cottam of Drax, bur. 
 
 IQ32, . Wm. Widdows of Hemingbrough, bur. 2'' 
 
 1640, Nov. 26. John Morrice of South Duffeild, trouper, gentle- 
 man, bur. 
 
 1643, Upon the 26 of September the King's armye came to Hem- 
 brough.'-*^ 
 
 164.5-6, Jan. 15. A trooper, which died at Geo. Barley's, bur. A 
 man which came beyond Dufteild. 
 
 1647, Sept. 5. Barbara, dau. William Phillipps " of Hemingbrough, 
 bp. at Barnby chappell by Mr. Lecke. 
 
 Eadclill'e of Thieshfiekl, entered by 14, 1636, adm. to the effects of Robert s 
 
 Theophilus Braithwaite in 1655, in of Robert R. of H. was granted to her. 
 
 which he says that " Annabella Rad- -- i.e. at Babthorpe, q.v. 
 
 cliffe, eldest daughter of Edward Rad- '■'^ This is Matthew Topham of Hull, 
 
 cliffe of Threshfield, was borne 15 Nov. not South Duffield, who married 
 
 1603, and married 11 Oct., 1624, to Susanna, dau. of Richard Bowes of 
 
 Theophilus Braithwaite of the city of Babthorpe. 1643, April 13, Thos. s. 
 
 Yorke, Esq., one of the gentlemen Mr. Matthew Tophanr, a merchant, bp. 
 
 sewers to his late Majesty, and they at H. Trinity, Goodramgate, York, 
 
 had issue three daughters." Mr. Braith- "' One of the York Marshalls who 
 
 waite says of himself that he was born marr. Anne dau. of Richard Bowes of 
 
 at Nunburnholnie Jan. 10th, 1595-6, Babthorpe. 
 
 and bp. on the 18th. He speaks of -^ He gave Proudfoot close to the 
 
 certain books which he had left at poor of the parish in 1624. He was a 
 
 Malton, and it is probable that he was glover by trade. 
 
 living at Barlby as a steward for Lord -" The Parliamentary News Letters 
 Eure. record the cajjtureof 120 Royalist horse 
 Another dau., Catherine, was bp. at by Lord Fairfax at " Hembrow." If so, 
 H. on Feb. 28, 1627-8. the king's army was soon in trouble. 
 Theophilus Braithwaite was a son of In 1647 Francis Leake had a complaint 
 Wm. B., incumbent of Nunburnholnie. against Benjamin Norcliffe, gen., be- 
 -' On May 12th, 1630, the tuition of cause he, " with a party of horse, en- 
 Arthur and Henry Redhead, sons of tered his house in Hembrough and took 
 Robert Redhead, Esq., of Howden, out goods amounting to a great sum of 
 and their legacies under the Will money." 
 
 of Henry Dilborr, Esq., of Temple '^' Wm. Phillips, who used the parish 
 Bar, London, was granted to their register as his accompt-book, has en- 
 mother, Elizabeth Redhead of Howden, tered in it his payment of the sesses 
 widow, in the Howden Registry. On Dec. for military purposes by the Parlia-
 
 130 
 
 THE IIISTOKY OF HEMINGBROUGH. 
 
 1651, April 29. A child of Mr. Goodrick's, in queare.^^ 
 
 July 14. Tho. Robinson, alias Cooper, of Hembro', Avliich was 
 
 drowned in Ouze, bur. 
 
 1652, Oct. 30. A trooper, which died at Jo. Widhouses of Clife, 
 bur. in the church. 
 
 1653, April 1. Wm. Cornwall, minister, bur. 
 
 1653, Dec. 30. John Calvert, a schole master at South Duffeld, bur. 
 
 1654, April 30. A woman ciyple who was dumbe, soe we knew not 
 her name, died at ClifFe and was bur. 
 
 1655-6, Jan. 6. Marriage intended betwixt Mr. Arthur Saltmarsh 
 of South Duffeild, and Mrs. Alice Lyncolne of Hull, widow. First 
 publication.^^ 
 
 1656. Martha Crawforth was born Aprill the 27, and was bap- 
 tized at Neway by Mr. Calvert of Sailby, and set in this booke by me, 
 her father, in 1668, he keeping the register at that time. 
 
 1657. Oct. 1. Eliz. wife of John Watkinson of Hemingbrough, 
 and her still borne child with her, both in one grave. 
 
 1658. Robert Swailes of Hemingbrough tlire children, borne of his 
 wife att one birth, the sixt of December, William, Ann, and Thomazen, 
 and buried, all of them, the 9th of December. 
 
 1661, April 13. William Bosvile 3« of Osgodby bur. 
 
 mentary Committees. They were very 
 heavy. In 1648 Colonel Betliell seems 
 to have had some soldiers in the village. 
 June 24, 1G48. For setting out of 
 soldiers, to put in their purses, 4s. 'Id. 
 .July 1. For buying of cloathes for ye 
 soldiers, 4s. 2d. July 28. To Troopers, 
 4 meals, 4s. In ale, 2s. 2d. A peck of 
 beans. Is. GtL In grass at Isabel 
 Smith's, 2s. Much money is paid on 
 acct. of Wressle Castle. 
 
 -s 1G51-2, Feb. 11. A child of Mr. 
 Goodrick's of Barlby bp. 1652, Nov. 
 19. A child of Mr. Goodricke's in 
 queare. 
 
 ■*» Brother of Eichard, Henry and 
 Charles Saltmarsh, who are mentioned 
 afterwards. WiU d. 19th Oct., 1678, 
 pr. 18th Nov. Arthur Saltmarsh of 
 Hull, gent. Eldest brother Henry S., 
 his wife, and his sons John and Arthur 
 S. Bro' Charles S. and his wife. 
 Brother John Beverley of Wistow, my 
 sister his wife, and John B. his eldest 
 son. My nephew Edward Topham's 
 son that was clerk to lawyer Ethering- 
 ton. Nephew Matthew Topham and his 
 wife. Brother Mr. Thos. Grene and 
 his wife my sister. Wife Alice the res. 
 She ex\ I desire her at her death and 
 in her life to be kinde and charitable 
 to my relations and kindred. [Reg. 
 Test. Ebor. Iviii. 295.] 
 
 1668, April 14, John Beverley of 
 Wistow, gen., and Douglas Saltmarsh. 
 Marr. lie. York.— 1663, 12th Dec, Pr. 
 t. Richard Saltmarsh of Barton co. 
 
 Lincoln, temp, mortis of South Duffield, 
 and ad. to Douglas S. his sister and 
 sole ex^— 1665, 26 May, Wm. Salt- 
 marsh of Hull, son of Thos. S., gent., 
 adm. pensioner at St. John's Coll. 
 Cambridge, tet. past 16. 
 
 3" On July 21, 1627, admon. of Roger 
 Bosvile, gen., of Osgodby, was granted to 
 Wm. B. his son. 
 
 In 1642 Wm. B. jun. par. Skipwith 
 and Cath. Barrett wid. of cap. Barlby 
 had a lie. to be m. at Skipwith. 
 
 Will d. 14th Aug. 1657. Wm. Bos- 
 vile of Osgodby. To be bur. in the 
 church of Bubwith with my ancestors. 
 Wife Catherine my lands in Holme for 
 her life, with rem"' to John B. my 
 brother. Brother Charles B. my lands 
 in Bubwith on the death of Eliz"' my 
 mother, and my messuage and lands in 
 South Duffield. Son in law Chr. 
 Bacon and his children, and dau. in 
 law Eliz. Bacon. Brothers, Marma- 
 duke, John, and Charles. [Reg. Test. 
 Ebor. xlui. -348.] 
 
 The testator's mother, Mrs. Eliz. B. 
 of Osgodby, was bur. at H. on March 
 24tli, 1660-1, and his wife, Catharine, 
 on 19th April, 1661. Marmaduke B. of 
 Osgodby was bur. on Dec. 4, 1666. 1666, 
 Oct. 2, Eliz. d. Marm. B. of Osgodby, 
 bp. and John B., of the same place, on 
 . . . Aug. 1665. 
 
 1660, 20 Nov., Marr. lie. John B. of 
 Holme in Spaldingmore, yeo., and 
 Martha Millington of Everingham, wid. 
 
 1680, 29 Dec. Charles Bosvile of
 
 THE PARISH EEGISTERS. 
 
 131 
 
 1661-2. John Tliompson and Margrett being marryed with- 
 out either publication or lycence, Robert Swailes witnes, and married 
 with Mr. Pomroy,"*' January 20, at Barn by, as they confesse themselves. 
 
 • Feb. 2. 61 scholars came, except Jo. Atkinson and Elling 
 
 Richardson. They came upon the third of March. 
 
 Feb. 11. Upon Fastens eaven last came with their cocks to 
 
 the church and fought them in the chui'ch, namly, Tho. Midleton of 
 Clife, John Coates, Ed. Widhous, and John Batley. 
 
 1663, Nov. 15. Dorothy, dau. Thos. Grene, gent.^"-^ of Duffeild, bp. 
 
 1664, Aug. 10. Marie, the daughter of William Crawforth of Neway 
 was born and baptized at my own house by Mr. Arthur Squier, he 
 being the man that officiated at Hemingbrough at that time as our full 
 minister. The reason why I have thus incerted his name soe at large is, 
 because I found his name wrong regestered in another place in this 
 booke by William Phillips, whoe was the parish clarke at that time. 
 
 1667, Nov. 15. George Smallwood^'' of Hemingbrough, bur. 
 Selby, merchant. Youngest son Charles his absence" Thomas Eeynokls, vicar 
 
 B. my houses and lands in Bubwith. 
 Eldest son, Wm. B., the res. of my 
 lands, etc., and 1001. Eldest dau. Eliz. 
 B. 2001. Second dau. Anne B. 2001. 
 Third dau. Mary, 200Z. Youngest dau. 
 Susanna, 200Z. Niece Anne B. Bro'' in 
 law Thomas Eenton. Cozens Thos. 
 Thomlinson and Herbert Millington. 
 Wife Deborah ex. [Reg. Test. Ebor. 
 Iviii. 273.] 
 
 1664, 4 May, John s. Chas. B. bp. 
 1666, 1 Aug., Ann. d. do. bp., of Newhay. 
 1666, 26 Aug., Wm. s. Mr. Charles B. 
 of Goole hall, bp. 1692, Wm. Boswell 
 and Margaret Jubson md. Susanna d. 
 Chas. B. gen. bp. at Selby 20 March, 
 1672 -3. Chas. B. gen. bur. 1680. Mr. 
 John Hitching and Mary B. m. 1G90. 
 Chas. B. grocer, bur. 1699, all at 
 Selby. Roger, s. Mr. Wm. Bosvile of 
 Seaton, bur. at Bubwith June 15th, 
 1645. For my notes from the Bub- 
 with Par. Reg. I am indebted to the 
 kindness of Mr. Wilkinson, the vicar. 
 
 Sept. 4, 1716, Wm. Bossevile of 
 Brantingham, gen. (pr. 13 June 1717). 
 Bro'' Chr. Bayles of Hull, merchant, 
 my lands, etc., at Barlby, Hembrough, 
 and my copyhold lands within the 
 manors of Monkfryston, Clitfe, and 
 Turnham Hall. To Mary my wife lOZ. 
 per ann. 
 
 ^' Mr. Pomroy, according to the au- 
 thorities at Hemingbrough, had married 
 a couple clandestinely. 
 
 Mr. Pomroy made his will at Barmby 
 on June 16, 1683, leaving to Mildred, 
 his " beloved wife," a close at Beverley 
 called St. Ebbitt's, and a house in Lase- 
 gate there (pr. 20th Dec). Mildred 
 Pomroy made her will on Dec. 26, 
 1683. She gives what her husband left 
 her to her son Samuel Pomroy. ".During 
 
 of Howden, is to enjoy it, and if the son 
 " never returne," he is to have it in fee. 
 Hereby hangs a tale. 
 
 ^- The wife of Mr. Green was Anne, 
 dau. of . . . Saltmarsh of Thorganby, gen. 
 and widow of John Topham, to whom 
 she was marr. at, Thorganby in 1638, 
 ffit. 19. She was the sister of Arthur, 
 Henry, and Charles Saltmarsh, who 
 are mentioned elsewhere in this sum- 
 mary. 
 
 Mrs. Green made her will at South 
 Duffield on Aug. 16th, 1692, desiring to 
 be " buried in Thorganby church, to witt, 
 in the quire, and alsoe to be wraj^t in 
 linnen. To my dau. in lawe, Jane 
 Topham, my still and ye bottles, and 
 20s. to buy her a mourning ring with all. 
 To my grandchild, Geo. Topham, 51., 
 if he be living; if not, to my grand- 
 child Charles Topham. Grandchild 
 Joshua Topham 51. Dau. in law EHz. 
 Topham 20s. to buy her a mourning 
 ring. Grandchild Saltmarsh Topham, 
 my clothes, hoods, skarfes, gloves 
 and rings, a silver tumbler, my silver 
 spoones, my peuter, my glasses and 
 white, or Cheny plate, soe-called, etc. 
 Bro'' Charles Saltmarsh and grand- 
 child Frances Topham each 10s. to buy 
 rings. Nephew John Saltmarsh 40s. 
 Neece Eliz. Saltmarsh 20s. Res. to 
 Sonne Matthew Topham— he exr." 
 
 1693, Dec. 30. Mrs. Anne Greene of 
 South Duffield bur. at Thorganby. 
 
 ^^ This is, I believe, the same person 
 who with Francis Lister had a lease of 
 the old Vicarage at Hemingbrough, 
 and who is identical with George S. of 
 York and Riccall, who was a member of 
 the Visitation family of Smallwood of 
 Upleatham. 
 
 1667, Sept. 15 (pr. Dec. 3). Geo. S. 
 K 2
 
 132 
 
 THE HISTORY OF HEMINGBROUGH. 
 
 1668-9, Jan. 22. Mr. John Bacon of Hemingbrougli bui-.^^ 
 1668-9, Mar. 21. A beger died at Clife and was bur. with us at 
 
 Hemingbrougli. 
 
 1672-3, Feb. 23. Died my worthy friend, Mr. Joseph Robinson of 
 
 Hemingbrough, and was bur. the 25th. ^' 
 
 1673. Memorandum, yt. Joseph, son of Joseph Robinson late of 
 Hemingbrough gent, and Anne his dear wife, was borne July ye 5th 
 and baptized July ye 8th, on which day his mother died, and on that 
 day 19 weekes before his pious father was buried. 
 
 1674. Mrs, Jane Smyth of Hemingbrough died Aprill ye 21st 
 betwixt four and five of the clock in the morning, and was buried Aprill 
 ye 22nd about 2 of ye clock. 
 
 May 22. John, son of John Rummans senior, of Cliffe, was 
 
 bur., he being drowned in a well ye day before. 
 
 Aug. — . Jane, dau. of John Rummans of ClifFe, commonly 
 
 called Hector John, bp. 
 
 of H. yeoman. Wife Margaret my 
 house for her life, with rem"' to Geo. 
 bon of Geo. S. of H. deceased my kins- 
 man and his heirs, paying to John, Mary, 
 EHz., and Sarah, children of John S. 
 50s. each, and to George, John, Hugh, 
 and Eliz. Watkinson 50s. each. Wife 
 
 1634, Sept. 17, Ellenor d. Geo. S. of 
 H. gen. bp., bm-. 20th. 1636, Aug. 2, 
 Anna d. do. bp., bur. oOth Nov. 1636, 
 30th Nov. Alice d. do. bur. 1638-9, 12th 
 March, Geo. s. do. bp. 1638, 20th June, 
 John Watkinson of Lund and Eliz. S. 
 of H. marr. 
 
 1639, Dec. 10. Admon. Anne S. of 
 Newland to Martha S. of Reedness, spr. 
 
 1641, Nov. 5. Mary the wife of Mr. 
 Richard S. the elder of H. bur. Vicar 
 Potter (1750) says that he " liv'd in 
 Marg'. Phillips's house, ow'd Sally 
 Lasenby's." 
 
 1653, Oct. 13. Mrs. Eliza S. of New- 
 hay, wid. bur. 1646, June 18, Richard 
 S. of H. bur. 1653, Apr. 19, Mary d. 
 John S. bp. 1661, May 26, Jonathan 
 s. John S. of Newhay, bur. 1665, Sept. 
 12, John s. John S. bp. 1688, July 1, 
 Eliz. wife of John S. bur. 1691, Oct. 
 12, Wm. s. John S. of H. bp. 
 
 ^' The Bacons were a Selby family 
 and were merchants. An heiress of one 
 member of it married Robert Morritt 
 of Selby, ancestors of the Morritts of 
 Rokeby, who long bore the name of 
 Bacon as a Christian name. 
 
 On 6th March, 1668-9, admon. to the 
 effects of John Bacon of H. was granted 
 to Michael Bacon, gen., his brother, to 
 the use of Mary, John, Anne, Michael, 
 Chr. and Cath''. Bacon, children of 
 the dec'. 
 
 Of those Michael is recorded in the 
 
 H. Register as born on Sept. 8, 1658 ; 
 Catherine as bp. on July 24, 1662 ; and 
 Chr. as bp. Aug. 9, 1664. 
 
 1675, May 4. Cath. d. Francis B. 
 gen. bp. bur. Oct. 12, 1679. 1678, June 
 25, Francis s. do. bp. 1680, Sept. — , 
 Hannah d. do. bp. bur. Dec. 13, 1680. 
 1683, July 21, John s. do. bp. 1684, 
 Oct. 9, Matthew s. do. bp. 1688, Apr. 
 25, John s. do. was bp. and Grace, the 
 child's mother, was bur. 
 
 On Aug. 20, 1694, the tuition of 
 Charles s. of Francis Bacon of H. de- 
 ceased was gr. to John Winder. 
 
 On Oct. 17, 1688, Francis Bacon of 
 H. and Eliz. Addy of Howden were 
 marr. at Howden not six months after 
 his first wife's death. 
 
 ^^ A son of Thomas Robinson of Hem- 
 ingbrough, bp. there April 24, 1636. 
 He was of S. Catherine Hall, Cam- 
 bridge, and was a clergyman. 
 
 " Mr. Joseph Robinson of Heming- 
 brough and Mrs. Anne Cassan of Ard- 
 sley were marr"* at Holbeck chapel 
 near Leeds by Mr. Michael Poole, 
 minister ibidem, Apr. 20, 1670." 
 
 Nathaniel s. do. bp. April 12, 1671. 
 Feb. 22, 1672-3. Joseph R. of H. clerk. 
 To be bur. in the churchyard of H. near 
 my father. Wife Anne three acres of 
 land in Hemingbrough Wood, etc. 
 Child unborn, when 21, 1001. out of my 
 lands in Eastrington. I give all my 
 bookes that are not English unto my 
 loving friend Thomas Rcvell, curat of 
 Hemingbrough. The res. to my wife 
 and unborn child. She and my son 
 Nath'. R. ex'". Pr. April 18, 1673. 
 
 The story is a pathetic one, and the 
 telling of it does credit to Vicar Revell's 
 heart.
 
 THE PARISH REGISTERS. 133 
 
 Memorandum yt George Smyth, Esquire, and Madam Lenox 
 
 Harrison were maried October ye 22nd, at Mr. Tomlinson house in 
 Petergate in York, per me T. Revell. 
 
 1675, May 9. Wm., sonne of Wm. Symson, but supposed to be the 
 son of one Joseph Hartley, a shoomaker, tabled in the house, bur. 
 
 June 20. Margret, daughter of John Ruminans, senior, of 
 
 Cliff, commonly called Ruffles, bp. 
 
 1675. Sarah Robinson, daughter of Mr. Tho. Robinson, died July 
 ye 5th in ye citty of York, and was brought in a horse litter to be 
 buried at Hemingbrougli, July ye 6th. 
 
 Jonathan Robinson, her brother, died in the citty of Yorke 
 
 July ye 7th, and was brought to Hemingbrougli to be buried July 
 ye 8th.3G 
 
 1675, Oct. 26. Henry Saltmarsh of Hemingbrough, gent.,^^ and 
 Madam Frances Hadlesay of South Duffeild, both my very choice 
 freinds, w^ maried at Howden per me Tho. Revell, vie. Hemb. 
 
 16/5, Nov. 3. Then died the Honourable Sir Jeremiah Smyth at 
 Clapham near London, and was buried at Hemingbrough November 
 the 20th. 
 
 1675-6, Feb. 24. Memorandum that Harrison, son of George Smith 
 of Osgodliy, Esquire, and the Lady Lennox his wife, sole d'. of 
 Guthbert Harrison of Acaster, Esq*'., was borne February ye sixteenth, 
 being Leape yeare, at 7 of the clock in the morning, being Wedensday. 
 He was borne at a house in Blacke Street in Yorke belonging to Mr. 
 Hubank, and baptized in the font at the Minster in York, Feb. 24th, 
 1675, per me Tho. Revell, vie. de Hemingbrough. 
 
 1676, April 1. Thomas Daltry "^^ of Bowthorpe, gent. 
 
 ^^ These are children of Thomas Eo- dau. do. bp. bur. 6th June seq. He then 
 
 binsonot'H. yeo., Jonathan bp. Oct. 17, lived at Hemingbro'. 
 
 1654, and Sarah bp. April 19, 1657. 1677, Sept. 20. Arthur s. Hen. S. of 
 
 1671-2, Jan. S (pr. March 11, 1672-3), South Duffield, gen. bp., bur. Feb. 6th, 
 
 Thomas R. of H. yeo. To John R., my 1679-80. 1679, July 24, Eliz. d. do. bp. 
 
 2nd son, my freehold lands in lordship 1689, May 22. Frances Saltmarsh of 
 
 of Cliffe. Eldest dau. Isabel R., one South Duffeild, widow. To be bur. in 
 
 three rood land within my Parrack close the ch. of Hemingbro'. Son Pellham 
 
 next the Raw. To Ann, Eliz., and Hadlesey 20s. To Mr. Maslin 20s. for 
 
 Sarah R., my daughters, a close called preaching my funerall sermon. The 
 
 the Rawriddings, cont. 50 acres, unless res. to Eliz. S. my dau. She ex^. I 
 
 Thos. R., my eldest son, pays each 50Z. nominate my sonn Pellham H. feofee in 
 
 when 21, and after the rate of Is. in the trust for Eliz. my daughter, and give 
 
 pound for their maintenance in the in- him ye tuition of her. Mr. Michaell 
 
 terim. To Jonathan R., my 3rd son, a Barstow of York, supervisor. — She was 
 
 close in the lordship of Newhay cont. bur. at H. under the name of her first 
 
 4 acres. To Joseph R. a close called husband. 1689, June 10, Mrs. Frances 
 
 Broomeriddings cont. 4 acres. Dau. Haddlesey, gentlewoman. 
 
 Ann R. 30Z. Son John R. 101. ^^ There were numerous families of 
 
 Youngest son Joseph R. lOL Third this name in the wapentake of Harthill 
 
 dau. Eliz. R. 10/. Res. to daurs. Isabel, across the Derwent. Will d. 27th 
 
 Eliz., and Sarah, they ex". Son in law March, 1676. Thomas Dealtry of Bow- 
 
 Wm. Atkinson. thorp, yeoman. Son and heir John D. 
 
 ^'Brother of Arthur and Charles Second son Thos. D. Third and youngest 
 
 Saltmarsh and son of — S. of Thor- son James D. (minors). Daughters Ann 
 
 He was twice married. and Mary D. 60Z. each when 21. Res. 
 
 1663, June 23, John s. Henry S. bp. to wife Grace (dau. John West, gen.) 
 
 1664, 13th Sept. Jane dau. do. bp. bur. she ex. [Pr. 25 April, 1676.] 
 
 15th Oct. 1665-6, 15th Sept. Anne 1671-2, March 5. James s. Thos. D.
 
 134 
 
 THE HISTOEY OF IIEMINGBROUGTL 
 
 1676, May 29. Mem" that Markham ITaddelsay of South Duf 
 feild, gent., my dear freind, died May ye 28th and was bur. May 
 ye 29t'h. 
 
 J"ly 23. Mary, wife of John Beckwit of Soutli DufTeild, and 
 
 William her son, about 6 weeks ould, the same day. 
 
 1677, July 22. Thos., son of Mr. John Marsden, minister of Stan- 
 ington, bp. 
 
 1678, April 7. Mr. John Smyth, clerk, of Asselby in the parish of 
 Howden, was bur. Monday the 7th of April!. ^'^ 
 
 1669, Aug. 27. Amor, s. Mr. Seaton of the Holmes house, born. 
 
 1680-1, Feb. 10. Mr. John West of Bowthorpe, bur.^o 
 
 1681, April 15. Richard Woodburne, son of Richard Woodburne, 
 of the High in the parish of Ulverstone in Furneisse in Lancashire, 
 was educated at Hemingbrough by his unckle, Richard Pettie, schoole 
 master, and dyed at Bai'neby upon the Marsh, and was buried at 
 Hemingbrougli in the twenty -first yeare of his age, but not full twenty- 
 one. He was buried betwixt two pillers at the passadge or entrance into 
 the quire adjoyneing upon the threshould of the said inermor quire 
 dore, and a grave stone laid upon him, liut noe inscription as yet, for 
 some reasons given by his said uncle (afterwards minister). Buried by 
 John Rayner, then vicker of Hemingbrough. 
 
 1692, July 5. Paul, s. Paul Perk'in, gent., bp."' 
 
 of Bowthorp, gent. bp. at H. On 5th 
 Dec. 1687, he was apprenticed for 7 
 years to Thos. Agar of York, draper. 
 (Merchant Tailors' Book, York.) 
 
 On Nov. 27th, 1682, Grace Daltry 
 reniarr. Wm. Freeman of Meathnrpe. 
 
 167G-7, Jan. — . Eliz. d. Richard 
 Daltry of Barlby, gen. bp. . . bur. Feb. 
 7th. 1678, April 10. Thos. s. do. bp. H. 
 
 "" On Jan. 23rd, 1633-4, Margaret 
 Smith proved the will of her father 
 Thos. Smith of Asselby, to the use of 
 Barbara, Isabel, and Sarah, his daugh- 
 ters, her mother Isabel having died. 
 On the same day she adm. to the effects 
 of her mother to the use of Barbara, 
 John, Isaac, Isabel, Martha, Sarah, Jo- 
 seph, and Benjamin S. her children, 
 and she is made their guardian. John 
 Smith was then at the Univ. of Cam- 
 bridge. 
 
 On Aug. 19, 1634, Admon. to the 
 effects of Benjamin S., late son of 
 Thos. S. of A., was gr. to Mary w. of 
 Thos. Arhish of Asselby, his sister, and 
 to the use of Barbara, w. Robert 
 Athorpe of Knedlington, and his brothers 
 and sisters. 
 
 On May 27th, 1635, John Smith 
 chooses as his guardian his sister 
 Mary w. Thos. Arlush. 
 
 On July 29th, 1651, Mr. John Smith 
 and Eliz. Robinson were marr. at H. 
 
 '" Will d. 18th Oct. 1676. Son Wm. 
 West of Harton lOOZ. Dau. Grace 
 
 Deal try and John, Thos., James, Anne, 
 and Mary D. her children 20Z. each. 
 Grandchildren Mary and Frances Clarke. 
 Brother Wm. West of Conestrop and 
 Dorothy his dau. Sister Harrison. 
 Res. to Grace Dealtry (the widow of 
 Thomas D. of Bowthorpe who d. in 
 1676). 
 
 1678, Dec. 23, John s. Mr. Wm. 
 West of Harton bp. 1680-1, Jan. 30, 
 Mary d. do. bp. 1680-1, 1st March, Eliz. 
 d. do. bur. 1695, 22nd Dec. Mr. Wm. 
 West of Harton huw— all at Bossall. 
 
 ^' 1694, June 4. EKz. dau. do. bp. 
 1696, May 5. Hellen d. do. bp. He then 
 lived at Hemingbro'. 
 
 Mr. Perkins was a son of Thomas 
 Perkins of Fishlake, and was bp. there 
 7th May, 1647. Three of his children 
 were also bp. there — viz., Daniel on 
 20 Dec, 1681; Elizabeth on 2 June, 
 1680, and Margaret on 15 Feb., 1682. 
 
 In the Riccall Register several other 
 children occur — viz., Anne bp. 14 
 May, 1685 ; Thos. bp. 19 May, 1687 ; 
 Henry bp. 14 Aug. 1688 ; Francis bp. 
 12 Nov. 1689 ; and Mary bp. 7 April, 
 1690. 
 
 Mr. Paul Pea-kins afterwards lived at 
 Riccall and Moreby, and was bur. at 
 Stillingfleet on 19th Dec, 1718, and 
 Hannah, his widow, on 28th Sept. 1724. 
 His sons Henry and Paul were his next 
 heirs. Tlie children of Henry Perkins 
 are registered at Stillingfleet.
 
 THE PARISH REGISTERS. 
 
 135 
 
 1G92, Nov. 11. Charles Saltmarsh,'*- gen., bur. 
 
 1696, April 22. John Rol)inson of Hemingbrough, gent., bur.''^ 
 
 1G98, Sept. 18. Ann Daniel of Osgodby, bur.^^ 
 
 1705, May 18. Mr. Charles Maslen, clerk, was buried at Howden. 
 Mr. Matthew Maslen, his son, vicar of Wistow and Cawood, was buried 
 thei-e March 1, 1754, a;t. 70 (in the hand of W. Potter, vicar). 
 
 1706, July 22. Lenox, ye Lady Pilkinton, bur.^-^' 
 
 1712-13, March 23. John, son of John Morfitt of Osgodby, bp.^^ 
 (now a clei"gyman, 1747). 
 
 1715, Oct. 10. Mr. Richard Fennel of Barnljy, bur.^^ 
 1716-17, March 13. John Robinson of York, gent., bur.^s 
 
 ■*'- Brother of Arthur and Henry Salt- 
 marsh, who are mentioned before. Will 
 d. 14 Oct. pr. 13 Dec. 1692. Charles S. 
 of Hemingbrough, gen. Nephew John 
 S. lOOZ. Sister Greene 10s. Nephew 
 Matt. Topham 10s. Niece Jane T. 10s. 
 Nephew T.'s children 5s. each. The res. 
 and my house at Hull to Frances Topham 
 my neece — she sole ex. 
 
 13th Dec, 1680, Philip Saltmarsh of 
 Thorganby. Son Edward S. 40s. 
 Bro' Richard S. and his three children. 
 Wife Margery and son Charles the res. 
 —they ex-. 'Pr. 25 Jan. 1680-1. [Reg. 
 Test. Ebor. Iviii. 196.] 
 
 The following notices of Chas. Salt- 
 marsh occur in the Register of S. 
 M. Casilegate, York. 1663-4, Anne 
 d. Mr. Chas. S. bur. 1664, Aug. 12, 
 Jane d. do. bur. 1665, Nov. 5, Anbie s. 
 do. bp. 1669, July 29, Frances d. do. bp. 
 bur. Sept. 2. 1688-9, Jan. 12, Ann 
 ■wife of do. bur. 1692, Nov. 7, Mr. 
 Chas. S. bur. 
 
 Vicar Potter says that Charles S. 
 ■was " an officer in the army and lived 
 in Mrs. Barnard's house. Is. Baines 
 authore." 
 
 ^3 Probably bp. 1628, son of Thos. 
 R. and brother of Joseph R., clerk, who 
 d. in 1672-3. 
 
 April 20, 1696. John R. of H. gent. 
 Dau. Mary two acres of land etc., and 
 a I acre in the Chapel field. Dau. 
 Eliz. R. a great house at Riccall and a 
 close called Bigge Rudding. Res. daurs. 
 Eliz. and Mary. Pr. 12 May, 1696. 
 Adm. to Eliz. R., who m. Sept. i4, 1697, 
 Arthur Topham of South Duffield, gen. 
 
 Michael s. Mr. R. bur. 18 Feb. 
 1683-4. Thos. s. John R. of H. gent. 
 bur. July 31, 1692. 
 
 ** Will d. Jan. 18, 1694-5, pr. 24 Sept. 
 1698. Anne Danyell of Osgodby, widow. 
 To be bur. at Hembrough. I have 
 settled my housing and lands in Osgodby 
 unto my nephew John Aske of Bram- 
 ham. Nephew John Jackson of Barley 
 lOZ. Niece Anne Waud 101. Poor of 
 
 Osgodby 20Z. to be paid into the hands 
 of John Aske, Robert Williamson of 
 Osgodby, gent., and George Ayslabie of 
 the same, yeo., to put it forth to usury, 
 and the yearely consideracion of the saide 
 moneyes to be payde to the poore of 
 Osgodby yearely. To the poore of the 
 parish of Hembrough 31. 10s. on the 
 day of my buriall, as a dole for me. To 
 my friend Thomas Watkinson a guinney 
 of gold, and another to John Winder 
 who writt this will. The res. to Richard 
 Aske, Sonne of the saide John Aske — he 
 ex'. Pr. at Howden. 
 
 ^^ She seems to have died in York in 
 the parish of St. Martin, Coney Street, 
 where there is the following entry in the 
 Register : " 1706, July 22nd. The Lady 
 Pilkington bur. at Hembrough." 
 
 ^^ John Morfit of Osgodby marr. Faith, 
 eldest dau. of George Aislabie of 
 Osgodby, first cousin of John Aislabie 
 of Studley, chancellor of the Exchequer. 
 Will pr. 21 Jan., 1722-3. Son Robert 
 8 acres of land in O. Son Wm. Dau. 
 Sarah 1001. If the land at Foggarthop, 
 which was my father's, come to John 
 my son, he to pay Thos., Wm., Robert, 
 and Sarah M. my children, GOl. each. 
 Wife Faith ex^. Inv. His library 51. 
 
 Sarah Morfit marr. Joseph Robinson 
 of South Duffield, gen., in 1747. 
 
 7 May, 1771, Pr. t. Thomas Morfit of 
 Lund and adm. to Ann his wid. and 
 sole ex'=. 
 
 16 March, 1776. Pr. t. Thos. M. of 
 Lund and adm. to Wm. M. Esq. his son 
 and sole ex"'. 
 
 *' Vicar Potter (1750) says that he 
 was a relation of Mr. Petty, the curate, 
 and was bur. under a large stone near 
 the choir door. 
 
 ^** Second son of Thos. R. of H. 
 yeo. who died in 1671 2. Dec. 7, 
 1684, John R. of York and Mary WilHam - 
 son were marr. at Howden. The burials 
 of his brother and sister Jonathan and 
 Sarah have been given under the year 
 1675. He settled, it is believed, in
 
 136 
 
 THE HISTORY OF HEMINGBROUGH. 
 
 1722-3, March 16. Mr. Jo. Allison of Lund, dancing-master, left 
 clock to Vicar's house, bur.'*'* 
 
 1727-8, Jan. 27. John Vicars of Barll)y, ye first buried in Barlby 
 chappel. 
 
 1729, May 10. Robert, son of Freeman HerVtert of Whitemoor, bp.'^*^ 
 
 1738, Dec. 13. Samuel, son of Mr. Samuel Storr''' of Osgodby, bp. 
 and Elizabeth his wife, bur. 
 
 1738-9, Feb. 2. Wm. son of Mr. John Haigh of Osgodby, bp. 
 
 1742-3, Jan. 13. Elizabeth, wife to Wm. Gibson of Cliff, bur. 
 Drowned. 
 
 1743-4, Jan. 16. Sarah Smith of Howden, an 100 years old, bur. 
 
 1744, April 16. Mr. John Bacon of Selby and Miss Isabel Northend 
 of Hemingbrough, marr.'^ 
 
 1746, Oct. 19. Robert Martin, kill'd with Cliff Mill, bur. 
 
 1749, April 20. Mrs. Elizabeth, wife to Mr. Edward Lacy of 
 Barlby, a pious, good woman, and the last of the Lodges in a direct 
 line, bur.-^^ 
 
 1749, July 29. John, son of Edward Corner of Osgodby, bur. 
 Drowned. 
 
 York, where his sister Isabel marr. Mr. 
 Thos. Salmon. 1710-11, Jan. 7, Mr. 
 Thos. Salmon of York bm-. 1715, Sept. 
 15, Mrs. Isabel S. of York bur. On 
 Feb. 16th, 1710-11, adm. of Thos. S. of 
 York was granted to Thos. Harrison for 
 the use of his creditors. May 9th, 1715, 
 Will of Isabel S. of York, widow (pr. 
 24 Sept.). My copyhold lands at H. to 
 Thos. Robinson of South Duffield, gen. 
 and Joseph Richardson of York, tanner, 
 on trust, to pay 40s. each, yearly for 
 life, to my nephew Thos. s. Wm. 
 Conway, Josei^h s. Jos. Richardson of 
 York, tanner, John s. Thos. Robinson 
 of South Duffield, gen., Isab. d. John 
 Allanson of H. yeo., and Joseph s. 
 Sarah Andrews of Cliffe, with the res. 
 and remainder to the right heirs of my 
 late father Thos. R. of H. deed. Mrs. 
 Eliz. Bell, wife of Richard Bell of York, 
 gen., ex'. 
 
 '•'■' Mr. Allanson did more than this, 
 he gave Communion plate to the church 
 and 40s. per annum to the poor. In his 
 will, d. 8 Oct., 1722, he leaves a cottage 
 in North Newbald to his cousin Mary 
 Sissons, she paying 20Z. each to Wm. 
 Wiseman of Hull, carpenter, and Sarah 
 Templeman of London, widow. To 
 John Sissons, her son, he leaves a silver 
 tumbler marked K. J. H. and to Chr. 
 Hobman of Welton two silver spoons 
 marked T. H. The residue is left to 
 Robert Allen of Menthorpe, and Edw. 
 Bray of Brackenholme. The value of 
 Mr. Allanson's household property was 
 only 24L 9s. 6^. His purse and 
 apparrel came to 51. Two silver cups 
 
 and two spoons was the amount of his 
 plate. He had no books. But in his 
 garden he had eight hives of bees valued 
 at 30s. 
 
 ^^ A son of Gilbert Herbert of Skip- 
 with, gen., and bp. there Jan. 7, 1690-1. 
 Several of his children were baptised at 
 Skipwith. 
 
 ^' A younger son of Wm. Storr of 
 Scalm Park, born July 19th, 1703. 
 (Yorkshire Arch, and Topogr. Journal, 
 Pt. XXV. p. 46.) 
 
 On Feb. 22nd, 1737-8, a marr. lie. 
 was granted at Howden for a marr. 
 between Samuel Storr of Wistow, gen. 
 and Eliz. Spofforth, spr. The burial of 
 the mother (when she dies in childbed) 
 on the same day that the child who 
 has taken away her life is baptised was 
 a touching custom in the North of 
 England. 
 
 On Oct. 27, 1738, Richard Burdett of 
 Sleights, Esq. leased to Sam Storr of 
 Osgodby, gent., for 21 years a house and 
 farm of 35 acres and one dale. Rent 
 17Z. iDer annum. 
 
 ^■- The lady was sister to the wife of 
 Wm. Potter, the Vicar of Hemingbrough. 
 Mr. Bacon was a son of John Bacon of 
 Selby, timber merchant. He died 18th 
 March, 1762, and his widow, 28th May, 
 1778, M. I. Selby. Mr. Bacon's younger 
 brother, Francis, was alderman and 
 lord mayor of York and died in 1798, 
 set. 76. 
 
 ^' See Pedigree of Lodge under 
 Barlby. She left two daurs., 1. m. 
 Mr. Pickering, an attorney. 2. m. Mr. 
 Parker, both of Wetherby ( Vicar Pji,; 7
 
 THE PARISH REGISTERS. 137 
 
 1749-50, March 6. Mrs. Faith, wife to Will. Chaplain of Osgodby, 
 bur. She was an Aislaby, of ye same family with those now at Studley 
 Park (marr. 1st J. Morfit, erased). 
 
 1752, March 24. Captain James Bi-adley of Barlby, bur. in ye 
 chappel at ye altar.'''' 
 
 1752, July 7. Mem. Robert Ellis, butcher, of Hemingburgh, and 
 Mary Kirlew of Woodhall, were married in York Minster by me 
 William Potter, vicar of Hemingburgh.-'*'' 
 
 July 23. Mr. Edward T^acy of Turnhead, of a cancer in his 
 
 under lip. 
 
 1753, Jan. 11. Elizabeth Hoof, widow, of South Duffield (felo de 
 se), a relation of the Aislabies of Studley. 
 
 May 19. Robert Wynn of ClitF, bur., suspected to have died 
 
 of poison. 
 
 May 24. Thomas, son of Thomas Acomb of Hemingburgh, 
 
 who died suddenly by his going hot into the river. 
 
 Sept. 19. John Fairland of Newhay in Drax parish, a quiet, 
 
 honest man. 
 
 1754, June 25. Mary Maskel, a young woman of Menthorpe, sup- 
 posed to be poisoned. 
 
 Dec. 31. Joshua Brown of Osgodby, batchelor, by the burst- 
 ing of a gunn. 
 
 1755, Jan. 11. Wm., s. Mr. Andrew of ClifF, apothecary, drowned.-^'' 
 
 1756, Oct. 29. Mrs. Elizabeth," wife to Richard Whittle of Bracken- 
 holme, a good neighbour and faithful wife. 
 
 Dec. 10. John Viccars of Osgodby, formerly a soldier in 
 
 Gibraltar, bur. 
 
 1757, Sept. 1. Issabel Terconel of Osgotby, Caledoniensis, ajtatis 
 92, bur. 
 
 Nov. 3. John Faulkner of Barlby, formerly servant to Archbp. 
 
 Sharp and Archbp. Dawes, bur. 
 
 1760, Sept. 30. John, son of John Sympson of Hemingbui-gh, bur. 
 Drowned in the river Ouse the beginning of sunnner, and thrown up at 
 this time. 
 
 1762, Dec. 9. Mrs.- Elizabeth Overend of Babthorpe, widow, a 
 charitable, good woman. 
 
 1764, May 6. Wm. Reed of South Duffield, drowned in Derwent, bur. 
 
 Dec. 21. George Hawksworth of Hemingburgh, husbandman, 
 
 bur. Drowned. 
 
 1766, Aug. 17 George, son of John Mellard of Barlby, under 
 transportation, bp. 
 
 '* One of the first interments at Marm. Teasdale, the vicar ; she died in 
 
 Barlby, 12th April, 17.52, Thomas child-bed, and was bm-. under the tower 
 
 George, son to the late Captain Bradley in H. church. W. P. 
 
 of Barlby, bur. H. 5« On 22nd December, 1742, Mr. 
 
 " A son of Michael E. of Skipwith, Andrew had a licence in the court of 
 
 by Anne d. Wm. Tomhnson of Skip- Howden to be marr. to Eleanor Dalby, 
 
 with, and brother of Michael E. of spinster. Mr. Andrew's property in 
 
 North Duffield, and Wm. Ellis. The Cliffe was sold in 1801 for 308?. Mr. 
 
 grandson of Wm. E., another Wm., was Burton bought the house. The Brock 
 
 Lord Mayor of York in 1799 and 1807, close, which also belonged to him, was 
 
 and was the father of the Rev. Robert sold to H. Carr for 19CZ. 
 
 Ellis, rector of North Grimston. Robert ^' She was a daughter of Mr. Allen of 
 
 E.'s first wife was Dorothy, dau. of Menthorpe.
 
 138 THE HISTORY OF HEMINGBROUGH, 
 
 17G7, March 19. Thomas Baxter of London, apothecary, a worthy, 
 regular, and honest young man ; and son to Thomas Baxter of Cliff, 
 carpenter, wlio is intitled to the same character — bur. 
 
 Aug. 1. Wra., son of Wm. Briggs of Barlby, drowned in Ouse, 
 
 bur. 
 
 1768, Jan. 28. Mrs. Sarali, wife of Mr. Faulkner of Bowthorpe, 
 bur. N.B. Her death was occasioned by the bite of a mad dog.''^ 
 
 May 30. James Volans, tifty-six years parish-clerk, bur. 
 
 1770, May 13. Wm. Coates of South Duffield, drowned in the river 
 Derwent, bur. 
 
 Parish Clerks and Registrars. — These two offices 
 were sometimes held together, sometimes distinct. 
 
 Henry Whitskail of Hemingbrongh, parish-clerk, bur. 
 21st September, 1625. He seems to have been succeeded 
 by William Phillipps, wdio was presented at the Arch- 
 bishop's Visitation in 1633, that he, being parish-clerk, 
 readeth the First and Second Lessons, and burieth the 
 dead in the absence of the priest. He confesses the offence, 
 and was, no doubt, duly admonished. Gregory Robinson 
 occurs as registrar in 1654. Wm. Phillipps was parish- 
 clerk in 1633, and registrar in 1664. Wm. Crawforth 
 was licensed parish-clerk 20th May, 1667, and held the 
 office for some time afterwards. James Yollans was 
 licensed to the office of parish-clerk 6th December, 1712, 
 and was bur. 30th May, 1768, having been parish-clerk 
 fifty-six years. He was succeeded by William Kirlew, who 
 was bur. 24th December, 1816, "having been parish-clerk 
 near forty-nine years," set. 83. William Newham suc- 
 ceeded, and d. in 1847, set. 87. His son, another William 
 Newham, came next, and d. 12th May, 1883, a3t. 85. 
 His son, Emerson Newham, is the present parish-clerk. 
 It would be scarcely necessary for any insurance company 
 to hesitate in "accepting the life" of a member of this 
 family, or a holder of this office. It would be difficult to 
 equal anywhere such a succession of cases of extraordinary 
 longevity. There were only four parish -clerks at Heraing- 
 broudifrom 1712 to 1883! 
 
 o 
 
 ^^ Mr. Faulkner soon filled up the marr. to Ann Overend of Babthorpe, 
 void. On 23rd May, 1768, he had a spinster. He was a farmer, and forty 
 licence from the court of Howden to be years of age.
 
 CHARITIES AND GILTS. 139 
 
 CHARITIES AND GIFTS.ss 
 
 I. WiDDOWEs' Gift op Proudfoot Close. 1624, 14th March. Wm. 
 Wicklowes of Hemingbrough, glover, grants to John Lodge, son of 
 Ealph Lodge of Barlby, gen., Geo. Smith of Hemingbrough, yeo., 
 Wm. Robinson, son of Gregory R. of Hemingbrough, tanner, and 
 Edward Kii'lew, son of Thos. Kirlew of Woodhall, yeo., a close called 
 Proudfoot, cont. four acres and more, to distribute the yearly rent for 
 the most advantage, upon the poor people of Hemingbrough, on the 
 Wednesday in the Rogation week, and upon the feast day of St. Thomas 
 the Apostle. {Par. It<'g.) In the Terrier of 1770 this close is called 
 Poor Folks' Close. 
 
 II. The Doxor unknown. — Twenty shillings per annum out of a 
 close at Hemingbrough called Hagworm Close. William Kirlew of 
 Hemingbrough the present owner. (Hoard in Church.) In 1770 this 
 is called Hag Lane Close. 
 
 III. The Donor unknown. — Ten shillings per annum out of a close 
 at Hemingbrough called North Field Close. Morley Wharrey, Esq., of 
 Selby, the present owner. (Board in Church.) 
 
 IV. Sharrow's Gift. — Mr. Sharrow left seven shillings per annum 
 to be paid out of Bai'm by- Sieve- Carr. Mr, John Harrison of Babthorpe 
 the present owner. (Board in Church.) 
 
 The afore-mentioned donations are distributed to the poor of Hem- 
 ingbrough at the discretion of their Churchwardens and Overseers. 
 
 V. The Gift of John Allanson of Lund, Gen. by Will d. 8 Oct. 
 1722. — "Item whereas I have surrendered into the hands of the Lady 
 of the Manner of Cliffe cum Lund one Cottage or Tenement with the 
 appurtenances in Lund aforesaid, and also two acres of arrable land 
 lying in the feilds of ClifFe and Lund afoi-esaid, to such uses as shall be 
 limitted and declared in and by my last Will, now my will and mind 
 is, and I do hereby give and devise the same unto Ellen Allen of Men- 
 throp widdow and Ann Richardson (wife of William Richardson of 
 Bracknam) and to their heirs for ever, severally, as tenants in common 
 and not as joint tenants, they permitting Jane Stead to dwell in my 
 brewhouse dui'eing her naturall life, provided always and upon condi- 
 cion nevertheless, and I do hereby charge the said copyhold lands and 
 premisses in the Manner of Cliffe cum Lund with the yearly payment 
 of forty shillings for ever at Lady Day and Michaelmas in every year 
 by equall porcions unto the Vicar and Overseers for the poor of the 
 town of Hembrough for the time being for ever, to be by them yearly 
 distributed in bread to the Poor of Hembrough parish ; and for non- 
 payment of the said yearly sume of foi^ty shillings, so charged as afore- 
 said, I do hereby order the said Vicar and Overseers to enter upon the 
 premisses and the same to detain and keep for the use of the said poor 
 for ever.' 
 
 To make the 40s. up to 1 s. per week was the object of 
 
 VI. Joseph Underwood's Gift. — On April 19, 1781, Joseph Under- 
 
 *" This list is made up from the wills preserved in the church. The boards 
 and grants of the donors, when they were made about a century ago. 
 can be found ; if not, from the boards
 
 140 THE HISTORY OF HEMINGBROUGH, 
 
 wood of Hemingbi'o' at a Court Leet liekl there surrenders two acres 
 of land, viz. tliree half roods in a field called Hall Buddings held ; two 
 half roods in a place called Goose Pits ; H rood in the Best Platts ; 
 2 roods in the Tween Dikes ; II, rood in Kringel ; li rood in the 
 Hose, to the use of Joseph Lakeland, charged with the payment of 1 2s. 
 yearly, to be laid out in bread. 
 
 VII. Allen's Gift. — Bobert Allen of Menthorpe left to the Vicar 
 of Hemingbrough by will, dated May 30th, 1733, ten shillings per 
 annum, payable out of his house and lands at Menthorpe aforesaid, now 
 in the possession of Mr. William Chaplain of Bubwith, for preaching an 
 anniversary sermon on every 29th of May. (Board in Church.) 
 
 VIII. Baxter's Gift. — Mr. Baxter of Cliffe gave ten sliillings per 
 annum to the Vicar of Hemingbrough for ever, for preaching a sermon 
 on the Ascension Day, jDayable out of his estate at Cliffe aforesaid, now 
 in the possession of John Dunnington, Esq., of Thorganby. {Board in 
 CJiurch.) The board says Wm. Baxter in 1743, but this must be 
 wrong, as the gift is mentioned in the Terrier of 1716. 
 
 IX. Steele's Gifts. — Extract from will of Mr. Thos. Steele of Park 
 Street, Grosvenor Scjuare, London, dated Aug. 1, 1777 : " I do give 
 and bequeath to twelve poor women of the parish of Hemingbro' in the 
 county of York, where the remains of my family lie (and where I de- 
 sire that my poor remains may be laid) I say unto the aforesaid twelve 
 poor women I do give to each of them a 'id. loaf every Sunday, and to 
 be given at the aforesaid parish church of Hemingbro' after divine 
 service is over on each Sunday for ever ; and the appointment of the 
 afoi^esaid poor women to rest for ever in the minister and the church- 
 wardens at the time being of the aforesaid parish of Hemingbro', but 
 not to any that is kejDt by the parish or that receiveth any alms from 
 the parish. And I do give and bequeath for ever unto the ministers of 
 the aforesaid parish church of Hemingbro' one guinea a year for to 
 preach a sermon at the aforesaid parish church of Hemingbro' on the 
 fifth of April (or Old Lady day) or on the first Sunday after the afore- 
 said day (April 5) and that the subject matter of their discourses may 
 always tend to alarm the congregation to prepare for death. And I do 
 now order and desire for the payment for ever of the aforesaid dona- 
 tions to the twelve poor women, and to the minister etc. of the parish 
 of Hemingbro' aforesaid, that my heirs, executors, and administrators 
 do make a proper purchase in the aforesaid parish of Hemingbro' of 
 freehold land for the payment of the aforesaid donations for ever ; and 
 that so soon after my decease as the nature of the thing will with pro- 
 priety admit of, to make the purchase. But if at any time hereafter, 
 the minister or ministers, or any of the churchwardens of the aforesaid 
 parish of Hemingbrough, should ever hereafter act contrary to the 
 aforesaid donation, I do then, both in I'egard to the twelve poor women, 
 and likewise to the aforesaid minister of Hemingbrough (jointly and 
 severally) I do make every part of it to be void and of no effect, and 
 then I do give it all — the aforesaid donation — for the benefit of the 
 poor of St. Geoi-ge's Hospital near Hyde Park Corner, and to the trust 
 of the treasurers and the governors of the aforesaid Hospital for ever. 
 I do likewise give to the Bevd. Mr. Potter, or whoever may be Bector 
 of the parish of Hemingbro' at the time of my decease, two guineas 
 for a ring ; and half a guinea for the clerk of the aforesaid parish 
 church. And I likewise desire that there may be 20 dozen of three-
 
 CHARITIES AND GIFTS. 141 
 
 penny loaves may be given away to the poor of the aforesaid church 
 of Hemingbro' on the 5th day of April, or old Lady Day after my 
 decease. 
 
 " Codicil, 4th Dec. 1 787. —Whereas I have by my said Will bequeathed 
 to twelve poor women of the parish of Hemingbro' in the county of York 
 a threepenny loaf each every Sunday to be given in manner and under 
 the appointment therein mentioned, and I have also thereby given for 
 ever unto the minister of the aforesaid parish of Hemingbro' one guinea 
 a year to preach a Sermon at the church of the said parish at the time 
 and in manner therein mentioned, and have directed that my heirs, 
 executors, and administrators should make a proper purchase in the 
 said parish of Hemingbrough of freehold land for the payment of the 
 aforesaid donations for ever, subject to the conditions therein mentioned, 
 now, I do by this my codicil ratify and confirm the said bequests to or 
 for the benefit of the said twelve poor women and for the minister of 
 the said parish of Hemingbro', subject to the condition for the benefit 
 of the poor of St. George's Hospital, as in my Will is mentioned, but I 
 hereby revoke that part of my said Will which directs a purchase to be 
 made of freehold land for the payment of the said donations or be- 
 quests, and in the place and stead thereof I give and bequeath unto 
 the rector, vicar, and churchwardens for the time being of the parish of 
 Hemingbrough aforesaid, and their respective successors for ever, three 
 hundred pounds Bank 4 per cent, annuities, part of my Bank 4 per 
 cent, annuities standing in my name in the books of the Governor and 
 Company of tlie Bank of England, upon trust from time to time to 
 receive the interest and dividends thereof as the same shall become due 
 and payable, and to apply the same in the first place to answer and 
 satisfy the said respective donations to the said twelve poor women, 
 and the minister of the said church of Hemingbrough for the time 
 being in manner in my said Will mentioned, and in the next place to 
 pay thereout the sum of two shillings and sixpence yearly to the clerk 
 for the time being at the parish of Hemingbro' aforesaid on the day 
 the said annual Sermon shall be preached, and to pay the surplus of 
 the said dividends or interest of the said sum of three hundred pounds 
 Bank annuities, yearly and every year, to the organist for the time 
 being of the same parish church for his own use." 
 
 [Mr. Steele's bequest of 300^. 4 per cents, was converted into 315^. 
 3 per cents. This produced 9/. 9s. instead of 12/. interest. On the per 
 contra we have 11. l<6s. for bread, IL \s. for the minister, 2s. 6d. for the 
 clerk, and 9s. 6d. for income tax or expenses, leaving a paltry shilling- 
 for tlie organist, who has been the sufferer by the change.] 
 
 X. Lodge's Gift. — By will dated June 13th, 1654, pr. 22 Feb. 
 1660-1, Ralph Lodge of Hemingbrough, husbandman, devised to his 
 kinsman, Leonard Pottage, " a close, within the Lordshipp of Barleby, 
 called the Little Outfeild close, to him and his heires and assignes, con- 
 dicionally that he or they shall yearly and every yeare for ever here- 
 after pay unto the churchwardens or overseers for ye poore of the 
 townes of Hemingbrough and Barleby, for the time being, the yearly 
 rent of iOs. at Michaelmas and Ladyday, to be disposed by them to the 
 poore of the said townes for ever, that is to say, two third partes for 
 the education and teaching at schoole of soe many of the poorest 
 children of Hemingbrough above six yeares olde, to learne them to read 
 the Scriptures, as can be gotten taught for the same, and soe from time
 
 142 THE HISTORY OF HEMINGBROUGH. 
 
 to time to be imployed iu like manner for the poore children of Barleby 
 for ever." with power of entry. 
 
 XI. Mary Waud's Gift.— Mary Waud left in the year 1708 200?. 
 to build and endow a school in Clifte, etc. See lender Cliife. 
 
 XII. DoxoR UNKNOWN. — The annual rent of a cottage and garth at 
 Cliffe for the benefit of the poor of Cliife-with-Lund, distributed at the 
 discretion of their chui'chwardens and overseers. {Board in Church.) 
 
 XIII. Donor unknown. — The annual rent of a piece of land in the 
 said Township, by estimation 4 acres, called Dales, distributed to the 
 poor of Cliffe- with-Lund in manner above mentioned. {Board in 
 Church.) 
 
 XIV. Donor unknown. — The annual rent of three closes in the 
 Township of Hemingbrough called Cowlam Closes, by estimation 7 acres, 
 distributed to the poor of South Duffield and Osgodby by Mr. William 
 Haddlesey, the present trustee. {Board in Church.) 
 
 XV. In the Terrier of 1770 " A close called Appletree Close, against 
 the river Ouse, near Selby, rented at 306-. per ann.," is mentioned. 
 
 SCHOOLS. 
 
 There seems to have been a private adventure scliool at 
 Hemingbrough from early times. In 1600 Robert Nelson 
 was proceeded against at the Archbishop's Visitation. 
 " He teacheth privatelie, but whether by lycens or no not 
 knowne." On 3rd April, 1673, Richard Pettie, B.A., was 
 licensed to teach a Grammar School at Hemmgbrough. 
 He was a pedagogue of a more ambitious kind, and was 
 ordained. 
 
 On 26th March, 1794, Matthew Lowther was licensed to 
 teach the English or petit school. He resided in the 
 Yicarage-house, 
 
 In 1847 Mrs. Carr (daughter of Wm. Robinson, Esq.) 
 conferred a most signal benefit upon Hemingbrough by 
 erecting a school, " establishing a charitable institution in 
 her native place." On 16tli July, 1847, John Francis Carr, 
 Esq., of Carr Lodge, Horbury, the good lady's husband, 
 conveyed the building and premises to Rev. John Ion, the 
 vicar, Keighley Burton of Cliffe-cum-Lund, gentleman, 
 John Harrison of the Grange in Hemingbrough, gentleman, 
 and Lionel Tomlinson of Hemingbrough, gentleman, on 
 trust, to be used as a day and Sunday school. Certain 
 scholars are to be educated free of charge, and the master 
 is to be a member of the Church of Eni-iand. The trustees
 
 SCHOOLS. 143 
 
 are to be managers, with power to add to their number 
 when they are reduced to two ; the Vicar of Heming- 
 brough to be one, and a descendant of the aforesaid Wm. 
 Robinson or John Francis Carr, if one can be found, 
 another. 
 
 To help the school to fulfil the conditions of the Educa- 
 tion Act a further plot of ground adjoining to the school 
 was purchased and added by Mr. Lionel Tomlinson. The 
 school-house and master's residence constitute a handsome 
 group of buildings, and are not far from the old Vicarage- 
 house on the right-hand side of the road to Babthorpe. 
 
 THE MANOR, &c., OF HEMINGBROUGH. 
 
 It has been already stated that William I. gave the 
 manor and church of Hemingbrough to the Prior and 
 Convent of Durham. By this gift the Prior and Convent 
 became possessed not only of one of the most valuable 
 advowsons in Yorkshire, but also of a manor, which, 
 altliough of small extent, enjoyed all the privileges which 
 the sovereign could confer upon it — namely, an independ- 
 ent court, and exemption from every tax and impost 
 which other lands and manors were subject to, when 
 separate from the Crown. 
 
 Woods, Manorial Rights, &c. — Close to the village 
 of Hemingbrough, towards the north, commenced the 
 forest of Ouse and Derwent. It will be necessary, as we 
 go along, to trace the extent of woodland which belonged 
 at different periods of time to each separate township, as 
 every village and hamlet possessed in those days its 
 portion of woodland. As agriculture and civilization 
 advanced, this woodland gradually gave way to the 
 pasture and the furrow. 
 
 At Hemingbrough the woodland is described in Domes- 
 day to be " dim. leuc. long, et tant. lat.," an extent which 
 cannot have existed within the boundaries of the manor 
 without counting in the open fields. We suppose, there- 
 fore, that it included a portion of the wood belonging to 
 Brackenholme and Woodhall, and this conjecture is con-
 
 144 THE HISTORY OF IIEMINGBllOUGII. 
 
 firmed by the depositions of certain ^^'itnesses who were 
 examined in 1228, prior to the adoption of the Convenit, 
 or agreement, between the Prior and Convent and Bishop 
 of Durham as to certam lands and privileges which were 
 in dispute between them. The witnesses state that the 
 wood extended from a division called Tuersyk eastward, 
 to the west, half a league in length and one quarter in 
 breadth. Tuersyk we consider to be the Inner Moor 
 Lane which divided the two woods, and, eastward of this, 
 was the wood of Brackenholme, probably to the east of 
 Renendsyk. 
 
 The followins: is the evidence of the leadino^ mtness in 
 122(S, which we o^ive in the oriiifinal lano-uaoe. 
 
 Jordanus de Hemminghui'c, laicus, juratus, et requisitus de Hem- 
 mingburc, Brakenholm, et Wdehalle, dicit quod totus boscus a Tuersike 
 versus occidentem est Piioris et monachoruui, pertinens ad villam de 
 Hemmingbui'c, et Tuei'sike est divisa inter boscum de Brakenholm et 
 boscum de Emmingburc. Incipit autem divisa ab aquilone, et currit 
 versus austrum, habens in longitudine medietatem unius leucas in bosco, 
 et unam quarentinam in latitudine. Boscus autem qui est a Tuersike 
 versus orientem est boscus pertinens ad Brakenhohn, et est commvmis 
 tam hominibus Episcopi quam Prioris, et etiam hominibus Eustachii 
 de Vescy de eadem villa, qui omnes capiunt estoveria sua in eodem 
 bosco, petita licentia ab hominibus Prioris, a Priore, vel ejus ballivis ; 
 similiter petita licentia ab hominibus Episcopi, ab Episcopo, vel ejus 
 ballivis. Requisitus a quo petant licentiam homines Eustachii de Yescy ; 
 dicit, quod a ballivis Episcopi, quia ipsi sunt de medietate Episcopi. 
 Dicit etiam quod ipse incidit aliquando quercum de licentia ballivorum 
 Prioris in dicto bosco. Requisitus an petierit licentiam a ballivis Epi- 
 scopi ; dicit quod non. Requisitus an forestarii Episcopi aliquando 
 ceperint vadia hominum Prions in bosco prpedicto, dicit quod sic ; et, 
 quia ceperunt injuste. Prior et ballivi sui replegiaverunt juste. Re- 
 quisitus an ballivi Episcopi aliquando ceperint meremium in bosco de 
 Brakenholm ; dicit quod sic, semel, tempore Hugonis Episcopi, et, 
 iterum, tempore Philippi Episcopi, ceperunt planchias ad pontem de 
 Bai'neby. Requisitus ubi Episcopus Philippus ceperit planchias ad 
 parcum suum de Houedene claudendum ; dicit quod in bosco de Blacwde, 
 nee alias planchias cepit ad claudendum parcum in bosco de Braken- 
 holm, vel in bosco qui est inter Rennendesike et Tuersike, quod ipse 
 sciat. Requisitus qui forestarii custodiaut boscum qui est inter Ren- 
 nendesike et Tuersike ; dicit quod forestarii Prioris, de Hemmingburc, 
 nee unquam consueverunt ballivi Episcoporum, vel forestarii, vel re- 
 galium vadia capere in bosco illo, vel in aliquo se intromittere de eodem, 
 nisi post motam controversiam, Requisitus an Wdehalle habet boscum ; 
 dicit quod sic, circiter xij acras, et est ille boscus conjviuctus bosco de 
 Brakenholm versus aquilonem. Requisitus qui forestarii habuerint 
 custodiam illius bosci de Wdehalle ; dicit quod forestarii Prioris, nee 
 unquam se intromiserunt forestarii Episcopi, nisi post motam contro- 
 versiam. Requisitus an boscus, qui est inter Rennendesike et Tuersike,.
 
 THE MANOR — WOODS, ETC. 145 
 
 sit adeo bene custoditus, sine destructione et vasto, sicut boscus ex 
 occidentali parte versus Hemmingburc ; dicit quod sic. Dicit etiam 
 quod forestarii Episcopi consueverunt capere vadia forisfacientium in 
 bosco de Brakenliolm, similiter et Prioris, cum aliquos invenerint 
 forisfacientes in eodem. 
 
 With this witness, Henry, Elias and Osbert de Heming- 
 brough, laymen, Thomas and Wm. de Brackenhohne, 
 laymen, Gregory and Richard de Woodhall, laymen, and 
 Thomas and Nicholas, chaplains of Hemingbrongh, agree. 
 
 The result of this controversy was that the Bishop 
 retained his woods at Brackenhohne and Woodhall, and 
 the Prior and Convent of Durham theirs at Hemino-brouorh. 
 The Bishop, likewise, kept his forest, and the Prior and 
 Convent were not to take bushes or timber from it with- 
 out his leave. 
 
 In a rental for the year 1330, it is stated that the wood 
 then consisted of about 90 acres, in the occupation of 
 more than thirty tenants, who rented it at the rate of Qd. 
 per acre. This Roll gives a most circumstantial account 
 of every tenure in the township, the number of acres held 
 by each copyholder, and the rent per acre. It appears 
 that there were twenty-four prmcipal tenants, holding 10 
 acres and upwards, and about double the number who 
 held lesser quantities. There were also many tenants 
 Avho were merely cottagers. The value of the manor is 
 said to be 34/. 12.s\ 9f(i., and the opera, or days' works, 
 were assessed at 19/. 8.s. 0J(/. 
 
 There is among the valuable muniments of the Dean 
 and Chapter of Durham a document drawn up in 1430 by 
 John Fishburn, Chancellor of the Priory, in which he 
 describes the wood as consisting of 83 acres, the last 
 notice we have of it. He also speaks of 53 acres of waste, 
 and 264 acres of new tillage, showing that there had been 
 a clearance, and an improvement of the land. Fishburn 
 gives, what is of great importance, a history of the manor 
 and its cultivation. He says that, in the year 1086, 
 William the Conqueror gave, by charter, to the Prior and 
 monks of Durham, his manor — viz. the town of Heming- 
 brongh, with the church, and all the land of Brackenholme, 
 and their appurtenances, which manor then contamed but 
 three carucates of arable land — viz. eighteen score acres, 
 besides the land of the church and of the priest ; of which
 
 116 THE HISTORY OF HEMINGBROUGH. 
 
 eighteen score acres, twelve score and five were and still 
 are bovates of ancient bondage land of the said manor, 
 which the bondagers of Tosti and Si ward, and after w^ards 
 those of the Kini!', held in bondacre at tlie rent of 2d. an 
 acre yearly, with a merchet. These bondagers tilled five 
 score and fifteen acres of the demesne lands throuirhont 
 the year, in every respect like the old bovates. But when 
 the manor and town came into the hands of the Prior and 
 monks, all the opera of the bondagers ceased, and they 
 took to farm the said twelve score and five acres, to hold 
 them in bondage (as copyhold), subject to fines at the 
 will of the lord, paying (Sc/. or 12(1. an acre per annum, 
 and Id. per acre in lieu oi \he, opera. Moreover, they took 
 to farm at the same time in the Halmot Courts the said 
 five score and fifteen acres of demesne land, to hold them 
 in ancient demesne p)er virgam. and copy of Court Roll, 
 according to the custom of the manor, paying 9<i. or lid. 
 an acre per annum ; and, after the death of their prede- 
 cessors, paying their relief — that is, by payment of a double 
 rent ; and, whenever it should happen that a tenant died 
 without heir of his own blood, then the said land was 
 finable at the will of the lord in the next Halmot Court. 
 But afterwards, in process of time, the said Prior and 
 monks cleared 400 acres of land of the lord's waste, which 
 the said bondagers took at a money- rent, holding them as 
 in ancient demesne, per virgam and copy of Court Roll, 
 according to the custom of the manor, and paying Sd. or 
 9*:/. per acre yearly, including 83 acres in the wood of 
 Hemingbrough, charged at Qd. an acre per annum, and 
 includino; also 53 acres of land beloni>ino: to the Wasse 
 chantry.''^ But the residue of the said -100 acres of new 
 tillage lie scattered in places described as follows, viz. : — 
 In le Kerr, 51a. Ir. ; in le Hawe, 40a. 2r. ; Ryddyng, 
 25a. Ir. ; Parrock, 23a. 3r. ; Brend, 21a. 3r. ; Synder- 
 landes, 18a. 2r. ; Syke, 17a. ; Bestflatt, 14a. ; Groucan 
 Ividding, 12a. ; Agnom, 11a. ; Nova Assarta, l-^a. ; Short 
 Brend, Ga. 3r. ; Lang Brend, la. Ir. ; Grant Acre, la. 3r. ; 
 Cringle, la. 2r. ; Hugh Land, la. ; Westmestflatt, 2r. ; 
 Wyrethorp, 2r. ; Morkel Croft, 2r. ; Calne Croft, 2r. 
 — 264a. Ir. 
 
 '"' Item Capella de Waiso. Unum moss, jiixta le Waise. Duo messuagia apud 
 Bieuinontc, et 53 acr. de vasto.
 
 THE MANOK — TENANT RIGHT. 147 
 
 From this document, as well as from Domesday, it 
 appears that the ancient arable demesne of Hemingbrough 
 consisted of three carucates, of which two, i.e. 240 acres, 
 are designated hovata2 antiqiice, the other (115 acres) 
 bovatce dominicce. The demesne lands were thus about 
 one-third of the whole, and it was probably an ancient 
 arrangement that the bondagers should hold two-thirds 
 on the condition of cultivating the remaining third for the 
 lord. This tenure was discontinued by the authorities of 
 Durham some time after the manor came into their posses- 
 sion. The days' works, or opera., were commuted for a 
 money-payment, and all the land was subsequently held 
 for an annual quit rent, with fines on death or alienation. 
 There would be no object now in retaming the old 
 demesne lands, as the priory would receive a higher 
 rental by changing the tenure. We find, therefore, in 
 loSO, that the ancient bovates were estimated at about 
 280 acres, and the demesne lands at 92. But this was 
 far short of the entire arable demesne or manor of Hem- 
 ino^brouo-h, as Fishburn enumerates 264 acres as novce 
 frissurce^ i.e. lands which had been reclaimed by drainage 
 and the plough. 
 
 In the 20th of Edward I. an action was brought by 
 six copyholders of the township — viz. Thomas de Men- 
 thorpe, Thomas son of Thomas son of Eudo, John 
 Ruddekut, Walter Hurlepeny, Edusa daughter of Thomas 
 son of Matilda, and Eudo le Petit and Agella his wife, 
 against the Prior of Durham, who had required from 
 them, as they allege, customs and services different from 
 what they had been accustomed to render. They say 
 that, according to the ancient usage, everyone who held 
 a bovate of land paid 2.§. Qd. per annum, and, after the 
 death of his father, obtained his relief by paying double 
 rent, and domg homage at the Court of Hemingbrough. 
 Those who held more, paid more, and less, paid less. 
 They say also that a certain Bertram, some time Prior of 
 Durham, distrained ujion them for the performance of 
 difi'erent customs and duties — namely, that everyone hold- 
 ing a bovate of land should pay 10.'^., and should, at the 
 lord's pleasure, be elected reeve or foreman, imposing on 
 them also tallages or taxes, and taking from them a 
 merchet for the marriage of their daughters. The six 
 
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 148 THE HISTORY OF HEMINGBROUGH. 
 
 copyholders consider that they and their fellows have 
 sustained loss to the amount of 500/., and pray redress. 
 
 The Prior replies that the copyholders are not in a posi- 
 tion to reply or object, seeing that they are his villeins, 
 and belong to him. 
 
 The six copyholders contend that in the Domesday 
 record the manor is said to be a demesne of the King, and 
 that the bondagfers hold their lands on the same terms as 
 their ancestors, and subject to the same services. They 
 pray judgment against the Prior, as in an undefended case, 
 since his whole defence rests upon this, that they are his 
 villeins. 
 
 Both parties then appeal to a jury of their country, 
 which the sheriff is desired to summon. Thomas de 
 Menthorpe was present, but his five companions with- 
 drew their plea. We have no account of the result, but 
 there is every reason to believe that the Prior was 
 successful. 
 
 The Prior's rights of demesne were also called in ques- 
 tion in the same year by the sheriff of Yorkshire. The 
 sheriff held that the inhabitants of Heminijbrouii-h were 
 bound to attend his turns at York, like the other free 
 tenants of the same wapentake who held of the King. 
 On the other hand the Prior, relying upon the royal grant 
 of an independent court, refused attendance and was 
 fined ten marks. The question at issue was not an easy 
 one. It became a point to consider whether, according 
 to his grant, the Prior was exempt from certain services ; 
 and as some changes had been made in the tenures of the 
 copyholders, whether the Prior's court was still to be 
 considered a court of ancient demesne and independent of 
 the authority of the sheriff, or merely a frank-fee, possess- 
 ing the semblance of a Lete without the authority. The 
 defence set up was that it was a demesne of the Crown, 
 by virtue of which exemption was claimed, and the matter 
 was pending for some years, as it is mentioned in the 25th 
 of Edward I. From the Placita we are unable to say 
 what the decision was, or whether the fine was remitted ; 
 but according to certain papers at Durham, called the 
 Quatuor Rotidi Evidenharum, it is clear that attendance at 
 the courts could not be excused, and we may conclude, 
 therefore, that the Prior lost his suit.
 
 THE MANOR FAIRS, ETC. 141) 
 
 Richard Hoton, the Prior, and the defendant in this 
 suit, showed his interest in Hemin_:^brongh by obtaining 
 from Edward L, on the 22nd April, 1295, a charter for 
 a market and also for a fair, the former to be held every 
 Thursday, the latter on the vigil and day of the Assump- 
 tion of the Blessed Virmn and on the six davs following:, 
 viz. from the 15th to the 21st August inclusive. The 
 fair, after the dissolution of the College, and the conse- 
 quent decay of the village, fell into disuse, but was yearly 
 held about the same time in August as a country feast until 
 about 1780, when it was arranged that it should begin on 
 the last Sunday in June to avoid any interference with 
 the harvest work. But before that change was made, the 
 feast had been held for some time on the Sunday and two 
 following days succeeding the race- week at York. 
 
 To Prior Hoton Hemingbrough was also indebted for 
 the erection of a toll-booth. The rent derived from this 
 building and the cost of repairing it are frequently men- 
 tioned in the Rolls of the Chamberlain of Durham. A 
 shop in Hemingbrough, which is supposed to be the toll- 
 booth, was granted by James I. in the 11th year of his 
 reign to John Cooke and another. This building (if the 
 same) stood in the centre of the town street and was 
 eventually turned into a smithy. It continued to be so 
 used until 1780, when, by the vote at a vestry meeting, it 
 was ordered to be removed, as it was inconvenient as well 
 as unsightly. 
 
 The rights of demesne — that is, the peculiar privileges 
 which the manor had acquired from having been in posses- 
 sion of the Crown, and which had been disturbed by the 
 issue of the sheriff's writ — were nevertheless continued ; 
 such at least was the view held by the copyholders, who 
 considered that they would not be sued out of their own 
 court. In the year 1345 certain persons called William 
 Paterlage, Thomas le Milner and Ada his wife, Robert 
 Arthur, Robert Adam of Bowthorpe and Thomas his 
 brother, contest with Prior John Forcer the tenure of a 
 messuage and some lands at an assize at York. The 
 Prior, as plaintiff, states that he was disseised of a 
 messuage and lands, portion of the manor of Heming- 
 brough, which had been anciently granted to his pre- 
 decessors, and confirmed by Edward III., on 31st
 
 150 THE HISTORY OF HEMINGBROUGH. 
 
 January, 1334, that tliey are a frank-fee and sueable at 
 common law. The parishioners, on the other hand, 
 contend that the manor was the King's demesne, and, 
 consequently, that they were not sueahle out of their own 
 court, that the messuage and lands in dispute were in the 
 tenure of the sokemen time out of memory, and yet are 
 so, not a parcel of the demesne lands, but yet that the 
 manor was a demesne of the Crown. 
 
 A jury was called, who say that, as to the messuage, it 
 was demised as parcel of the manor, per virgam et fines, 
 to tenants who held it, like other tenures, aS a frank-fee ; 
 and, as to the land after it had been brought into cultiva- 
 tion, that it was demised to tenants in like manner as other 
 lands at the will of the lord ; and, therefore, that the 
 Prior was unjustly disseised of the said messuage and 
 lands, to his loss and hurt. The Prior, therefore, won. 
 From the Poll of the Chamberlain of Durham in 1348 it 
 appears that the cost of this trial was 15/. 195. llcZ., and 
 that Paterlage paid 40.9. for his fine. 
 
 We have now to contrast the obligation of the copy- 
 holders of Hemino'brouo^h to do homao;e at the Courts 
 Leete at York, with another proceeding which took place 
 in 1430 in the Bishop's Court at Howden, whither they 
 had been summoned contrary to their privileges and rights. 
 The practice of summoning the copyholders to Howden 
 commenced about a century after the sheriff's summons to 
 York, and continued for about forty years before it was 
 disputed. Some fines, it appears, were imposed for non- 
 attendance, or other transgressions. The Prior (John 
 Wessington) says that his steward had called the Heming- 
 brough people to Howden merely to save himself trouble, 
 as he held the same office for Bishop and Prior. Wessing- 
 ton appeals to his charter, and says that the house of 
 Durham holds of the King and not of the Bishop, doing 
 duty at the sheriff's court at York, and that from time 
 immemorial they have had a court of their own, which 
 they claim to continue. In the following year (1431) a 
 Court of Frankpledge was called at Hemingbrough, and 
 the steward, on behalf of the Prior (as lord of the manor), 
 claimed the goods of a felon who had committed murder 
 and fled the country. 
 
 Tlie old Court Rolls of the manor seem, with some
 
 THE MANOll SENESCHALS AND STEWARDS. 151 
 
 scanty exceptions, to be lost. The Vc^rious customs and 
 tenures would give some interesting illustrations of the 
 history of village communities. These may be seen in 
 some of the documents which are printed in the appendix. 
 
 In 1367 an inquest was held in the manor- court before 
 Richard de Bubthorpe, the bailiff, and a jury of twenty- 
 four copyholders, to try the validity of a surrender which 
 had been made by William in the Willows to his son 
 John. The surrender was found to be valueless because 
 William had not been seen going upon the land by his 
 neighbours, either then or afterwards. He ought, we 
 suppose, to have gone with witnesses, and to have turned 
 a sod, or something of the kind, to give possession. 
 
 In a curious document of the fifteenth century preserved 
 at Durham, and written in English, it is stated that, to 
 make a gift, a copyholder should come into the court, or, 
 else, into the King's street, or highway, to make proclama- 
 tion of his gift. This custom was afterwards deviated 
 from so far as to sanction a gift made by a sick person 
 " lyo^and on his bede," i.e. when bedridden. 
 
 The practice of fining in the court, or, rather, of obtain- 
 ing a demise of copyhold lands, aj)pears to have been for a 
 term of three or six years, but, in the fifteenth century, 
 an attempt was made to extend this period for life. There 
 is, however, a letter written, circa 1455, by the Prior of 
 Durham to his steward, in which he utterly forbids the 
 practice on pain of rendering void any surrenders beyond 
 the old periods, and directs his steward, under-steward, 
 and bailiff to carry out his directions. 
 
 Abraham de la Pryme, the antiquary, has preserved in 
 his autobiograjjhy a curious paper on this subject, i.e. the 
 verdict of a jury appointed to enquire into the customs 
 of the manor of Hemingbrough. This is printed in the 
 appendix. 
 
 Seneschals and Stewards. — The appointment of 
 seneschals or stewards to conduct the business of the 
 court, &c., is traceable here, as elsewhere, to an early 
 period, and is, no doubt, as old as the manor itself The 
 following is a list of the names that we have been able to 
 recover : 
 
 Thomas de Lethom, 1355 ; Sir Eoger de Fulthorpe, 
 1365 ; John de Brackenholme, 1368-75 ; John Aske,
 
 152 THE HISTORY OF HEMINGBEOUGH. 
 
 circa 1380 ; John Aske, his son, until 1429 ; Sir Eobert 
 Babthorpe, app. 14th August, 1429 ; Sir Ralph Babthorpe, 
 app, 25th August, 1436 ; Sir John Neville, app, 25th 
 September, 1455 ; Sir John Pilkington, occ. 1479 ; Henry- 
 Earl of Northumberland, app. 21st March, 1477-8, d, 
 1489 ; Sir John Hastings, d. 28th June, 1504 ; William 
 Percy, app. 18th July, 1504, living 1535. 
 
 Nathaniel Pothan, occ. 1625; Nicholas Hautene, occ. 
 1638 ; John Burgon, occ. 1658-70. Nicholas, or Richard 
 Riccard, occ. 1673-8 ; George Gibson, occ. 1682 ; Thomas 
 Canby, occ. 1700 ; John Lumley, occ. 1736; James Hird, 
 occ. 1752 ; John Robinson, occ. 1756-8 ; Richard Shillito, 
 occ. 1761-7 ; J. Matthews, occ. 1781-7 ; Edward Wolley, 
 occ. 1797-1801. 
 
 It will be seen that whilst in the later period the 
 stewards were merely lawyers or attorneys, before the 
 Reformation the seneschals were persons of distinction, 
 who sought the office as an honour. They might attend 
 on certain public occasions, but the courts were held 
 for them by a deputy, or under- steward, or bailiff, who, in 
 his own opinion, would be a greater person than his 
 masters. Several letters referring to the appointment of 
 stewards will be found in the appendix. Their office de- 
 pended on their good conduct and was at the pleasure of 
 the grantors. In 1477-8 the Earl of Northumberland 
 asked to have a patent of his post for his life, but the 
 Prior of Durham told him in reply that the monks were 
 unwilling to make any deviation from their usual custom. 
 In 1370 the annual fee of the seneschal was 205., with 15.s. 
 for a robe ; in 1448 this had been increased to 40.?., with 
 20.9. for a robe, and a fee of 6.s. ^d. for a sub-seneschal, 
 or bailiff. The robe was commuted into a money pay- 
 ment. A Yorkshire knight would not care to appear 
 wearing the livery coat and badge of the Prior and 
 Convent of Durham. 
 
 Changes after the Reformation. — There is little 
 about the manor of Heminsfbrouefh amonof the records 
 at Durham for some time previous to the Reformation. 
 When that great change took place, the house of Durham 
 lost some of its estates, and amons; these were Hemino;- 
 brough and Brackenholme, together with Drewton and 
 Hunsley, a portion of the manor of Hemingbrough.
 
 THE MANOR TITHES, ETC. 153 
 
 These were severed from Durliam and annexed to the 
 Crown. In the Valor Ecclesiasticus, which was drawn 
 up m 1534, we find the rental of the demesne of Heming- 
 brough, with the mill and appurtenances, given as 
 38/. 155. 8d. per annum. The formal cession to the King 
 was made in 1540, and, thenceforward, Hemingbrough was 
 considered to be parcel of the manor of East Greenwich, 
 in Kent, and continued to be so until the year 1613-14. 
 
 A rental of the manor for the fourth year of Edward VI. 
 has been preserved, showing that the receipts were 
 38Z. 175. 2fd, which are thus made up : Customary 
 tenants in Hemingbrough, 211. Os. ll^d. ; ditto in 
 Brackenholme, 21. 7s. l\d. ; ditto in Woodhall, U. l.s. ; 
 ditto in South Duffield, II. I85. 2d. ; ditto in Cliffe, 
 175. 9d Foreign receipts, 6/. 95. lid. Rents in How- 
 den, 1/. Rents in Hunsley, &c., 4/. I5. lOd. Total, 
 38/. 175. 2fd 
 
 Tithes. — The greater part of the income of the manor 
 was derived from tithes. On 24th August, 1548, Pro- 
 tector Somerset granted a lease of tithes, &c., to Chr. 
 Salmon, one of the grooms of the King's chamber. The 
 tithes, with the Easter Book, were valued at 48/. 45. 6(i. 
 Fee-farm rents, II5. 9^. ; premises of the Wasse chantry, 
 6/. 25. 2d. ; part of the ChfFe chantry, 1/. I5. M. ; part 
 of West's chantry, 8/. I65. St/. ; amounting in all to 
 64/. 55. It must be understood that various leases of 
 tithes m the parish were then running, and were not, 
 therefore, included in the rent-roll. The corn-tithe of 
 South Duffield, for instance, valued at 4/. 35. Qd. per 
 annum, had been leased to John Snowden on 3rd June, 
 1542. In the same way the tithes of ClifFe, Lund, and 
 Bowthorpe, to the value of 16/. IO5., seem to have been 
 then held by Chr. Whitehead and Francis Hampton ; 
 whilst other portions of the tithe-estate — viz. Osgodby 
 and Barlby, &c. — were in the tenure of the Babthorpes. 
 In 1571, Sir Wm. Babthorpe, in addition to what he had 
 before, became lessee of the tithes held previously by 
 Chr. Salmon. The tithes are minutely set out. The 
 lease was to run for twenty-one years, at a yearly rent of 
 34/. 135. 4c?., besides the payment of 6/. 135. M. for the 
 stipend of a vicar, and 13/. 65. 8t7. for that of two 
 assistants for him.
 
 154 THE HISTORY OF HEMINGBROCGH. 
 
 The tithes of Brackenholme and Hagtliorpe, worth ol. 
 per annum, were in a separate lease. They were sold by 
 the Crown in 1587. 
 
 The tithes of Woodhall, corn and hay, amounting to 
 1/. 8s. per annum, were held in the earlier part of the 
 sixteenth century by Matthew Gilborne. In 1568 George 
 Howdell became the lessee, and Thomas Howdell in 1596. 
 In 1597 Hiimphrey Birletson had the lease. The Had- 
 dleseys afterwards bought the tithes, and sold them in 13th 
 Charles I. to Edward Kirlew. 
 
 In 1596 Ralph Babthorpe, Esq., retook the tithes, 
 which he had taken in 1584, for the lives of himself and 
 William and Robert, his sons, and included the tithes 
 held formerly by Chr. Salmon, valued at 34/. 13^. ; those 
 held by Ralph Babthorpe and his father, valued at 
 16/. 135. 4c/. ; those held by John Snowden, valued at 
 4/. 35. 4c?. ; and those once held by Chr. Whitehead and 
 Fr. Hampton, and, more recently, by Thos. Baker, valued 
 at 16/. 106'. ; amounting altogether to 71/. 19.s. Sd. 
 
 This was the last lease granted by the Crown, and the 
 property soon reverted to it in consequence, no doubt, of 
 the disasters of the Babthorpes. 
 
 On 8th July, 1611, the tithes and the manor were sold 
 
 by the Crown to Francis Phillips and Morris, but 
 
 from some mformality the bargain was cancelled, and, on 
 12th March, 1613-14, James I. made a grant of the 
 manor to Arthur Ingram and Martin Freeman, Esqs., 
 the pecuniary consideration not being stated, Mr. Ingram 
 being the real purchaser. In this grant the value of the 
 parcels is thus stated : Rents of customary tenants in 
 Hemingbrough, 24/. 4.s'. lO^d. Perquisites of Court of the 
 manor of Hemingbrough, 5^. ; of Brewing, 3,?. 6d. Foreign 
 rents and farms belonging to the manor, 8/. lO-s'. 9t/. 
 Lands and rents in Brackenholme, 2/. 3s. 2d. Messuages, 
 lands and tenements in Woodhall, 1/. Is. The passage 
 of the rivers of Derwent and Onse, 1/. 4.5?. Parcel of the 
 manor of Hemingbrough near the churchyard of Howden, 
 1/. Parcel of the manor in Drewton, 21. 2s. 8d. Total, 
 40/. 14.9. U^d. Reprises, 3/. 135. 8d. 
 
 Two reservations are made — viz. a yearly rent or tithe 
 from lands at Hunsley, 1/. 4s. 6d. ; the rental of the 
 mill at Hemingbrough, 1/. 13.s. Ad. — 21. 17s. lOd.
 
 THE MANOR — THE INGRAMS. 155 
 
 Hemingbrongli was thus reduced in dignity from being 
 a royal nianor to the tenure of common socage, and the 
 copyholders, in alarm for their privileges, were influen- 
 tial enough to procure from Charles I., on loth July, 
 1626, a charter of privilege (still preserved with the 
 parish registers), by which they were still allowed 
 to plead exemption from the expenses of knights of 
 the shire, from attendance upon juries, and from tolls, 
 and pontage in every part of the kingdom. The trad- 
 ition in the village is that the inhabitants obtained 
 this charter to prevent their being burdened with the 
 maintenance of soldiers. If it were so, the following 
 entry in the parish register is a speedy breach of the ex- 
 emption : "Upon the 26 of September, 1643, the King's 
 armye came to Hembrough." But necessity knows no 
 law. 
 
 Arthur (afterwards Sir Arthur) Ingram was the son of 
 a London merchant, whose occupation he followed with 
 rare success. He accumulated a large fortune and pur- 
 chased large estates, among which was the rich domain 
 of Temple Newsom, near Leeds, where he built himself a 
 noble house which still bears witness to his enterprise and 
 taste. The manor of Hemmgbrough descended to the 
 heads of the family of Ingram by entail. In 1688 it was 
 in the possession of Edward Viscount Irwin, the great- 
 grandson of the original purchaser, who by his will, 
 proved 19th November in that year, bequeathed the 
 manor, rectory and tithes of Hemingbrough to Elizabeth 
 his wife for the term of seven years next after his decease, 
 with remainder to his infant daughter Catherine and her 
 heirs, and failing them, to his uncle, Arthur Ingram, of 
 Barrowby. As his daughter survived him only two 
 months, Hemingbrough, at the expiration of the seven 
 years, would come into the uncle's possession. Mr. 
 Ingram died in 1713, and Hemingbrough went to William 
 Ingram (son of Thos. Ingram), his grandson, on whose 
 decease his uncle, Arthur Ingram, his father's brother, 
 became the owner. Mr. Arthur Ingram died in 1742, 
 leaving an only daughter, Isabella, who became the wife 
 of George Cary, a son of Lucius Henry Gary, Viscount 
 Falkland. Mr. Cary was colonel of the 43rd Light 
 Infantry Regiment, and was created general in 1782. He
 
 156 THE HISTORY OF HEMINGBROUGH. 
 
 died 11th April, 1792, a3t. 81, ""^ his wido-w surviving him 
 until 12th April, 1799. They resided at Leven Grove, 
 near Stokesley, and were buried m the church of Hutton 
 Rudby. They left two daughters and heiresses, Elizabeth, 
 who married Jeffrey Lord Amherst, and died s. p. ; and 
 Catherine, who became the wife of Sir John Russell of 
 Checkers, co. Bucks, Bart. In 1801 Lady Amherst, then 
 a widow, and her two nephews. Sir John Russell, of 
 Checkers, and George Russell, Esq., sold the manor, &c., 
 to Messrs. Wilson and Tweedy, of York, bankers. 
 
 The property, which was stated officially to produce a 
 rental of more than 900/. per annum, was valued at 
 41,500/., which was made up in the following way : — The 
 Turnhead farm in Barlby, consisting of 97 acres, with the 
 timber growing upon it (worth 1,000/.), the fishery, &c., 
 5,700/. Probable share of the tithe owner in the commons 
 and wastes, 100 acres, at 15/. per acre, 1,500/. Tithes of 
 Barlby, 950 acres at 5/. 10.§. per acre, 4,945/. Tithes of 
 Osgodby, 1,400 acres at 4/. 10s. per acre, 5,900/. Tithes 
 of Cliffe-cum-Lund, 1,300 acres at 5/. 10s. per acre, 6,800/. 
 Tithes of Turnham Hall, 600 acres at 61. per acre, 3,430/. 
 Tithes of Hemingbrough, 930 acres at 5/. 10s. per acre, 
 4,815/. Tithes of South Duffield, 900 acres at 4/. 10.9. 
 per acre, 3,850/. Tithes of Bowthorpe, 560 acres at 5/. 
 per acre, 2,660. Half of the tithes of Menthorpe, 285 
 acres at 5/. 10.5?. per acre, 1,500/. Fishery, manors, &c., 
 400/.— In all, 41,500/. 
 
 The manor of Hemin2:brou2;h was worth 26/. 13.?. 4<i. 
 in annual Lord's rent, and about 5/. per annum in fines. 
 There was also the fishery at Hemingbrough Landing, the 
 ferry and house called Barm by Ferry ; a small close upon 
 Wallingfen, or Bishopsoil, containing about 4 acres. These, 
 with Turnhead farm, were chargeable with a quit rent of 
 about lis. Gd. per annum, and with 20/. as a stipend 
 annually payable to the vicar of Hemingbrough. 
 
 From 1780 to 1790 Mr. Wm. Hubie paid for the Turn- 
 head farm and the tithes, &c., of the j^arish a yearly rent 
 of 700/. 
 
 ^' By will d. 2nd July, 1790, pr. May, with 400Z. per ann. for maintenance 
 
 1792, the Hon. George Gary, General of of his grandsons Sir John and George 
 
 His Majesty's Forces, left to Isabella, Russell. " Then, after my wife's death, 
 
 his wife, for her life, his lands at Leven to the use of my dau. Eliz. Lady Am- 
 
 Grove, Seamer in Cleveland, Turnhead herst and my grandson Sir John Rus- 
 
 in township of Barlby, &c., charged sell."
 
 DESCENT OF THE MANOR, ETC. 157 
 
 Messrs. Wilson and Tweedy, the purchasers, represented 
 a York bankmg company under that title. In 1803 Thomas 
 Hartley, Thomas Wilson, Richard Hobson, Thomas Smith 
 and John Tweedy were the lords of the manor. In 1822 
 the manor tithes, &c,, were in undivided twentieths, of 
 which six were in trust for Thos. Wilson, five for John 
 Tweedy, five for Jane Hartley, Thos. Wilson, and John 
 Tweedy, as devisees in trust of Thomas Hartley, deceased ; 
 and the remaining four for Wm. and Thos. Smith, as 
 devisees in trust of Thos. Smith (alderman of York), 
 deceased. 
 
 By will dated 29th June, 1807 (proved 10th July, 
 1810), Thomas Smith devised his fifth share of the tithes to 
 trustees, to be sold, leaving all his real and personal estate 
 to Ann his wife. Ann Smith made her will 4th July, 1818 
 (proved 5th October, 1818), appointing the Rev. John Forth 
 of Ganthorpe, and her two sons, Wm. and Thos., trustees 
 for the disposal of the premises. Wm. Smith died without 
 issue, in August, 1823, leaving his brother Thomas his 
 heir-at-law. This Thomas made his will 20th June, 1840 
 (proved 23rd July, 1841), bequeathing his estates, including 
 that at Riccall and the advowson of the rectory of Hinder- 
 well, to Wm. Gray the younger, and Joseph Kirlew of 
 York, gentlemen, and John Singleton of Gi vend ale, on 
 trust. 
 
 The Tweedy share, 15/40ths, as it was called in 1843, 
 descended to Sophia Elizabeth Tweedy, only child and 
 heiress-at-law of John Tweedy, who in that year married 
 James Graham, of the Inner Temple, Esq. 
 
 Mr. Wilson's share, 17/40ths, was devised by him in his 
 will dated 25th June, 1827 (proved 18th September, 1832), 
 to Geo. Suttell Wilson, John Brooke, and John Robert 
 Mills, in trust. Mr. Wilson did not mention in his will 
 the 23/40ths for which he was a trustee ; accordingly that 
 descended to his eldest son and heir-at-law, Joseph Bilton 
 Siddal Sinclair Wilson, who died intestate 15th September, 
 1842, leaving his brother Thos. Wood Wilson his heir-at- 
 law. 
 
 On the death of Geo. Suttell Wilson in 1847, the same 
 Thos. Wood Wilson came into the possession of the 
 17/40ths. 
 
 Thomas Wood Wilson died 15th April, 1858, havino-
 
 158 THE HISTORY OF HEMINGBROUGH. 
 
 devised by will, dated 26th December, 1856, 32/40ths of 
 the premises to his son George Wilson, of Gate Helmsley, 
 Joseph Oldfield, and Joseph Miinby, on trust to sell. 
 
 In the year 1862, the preceding parcels, with the ex- 
 ception of the manor and tithes of Hemingbroiigh, were 
 sold by auction ; the chief purchaser of the tithes being 
 the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, who laid out at the sale 
 certain sums of money in behalf of livings in the South 
 of England. A cruel mockery. The parish of Heming- 
 brougli itself was still left to starve, whilst the fruits of 
 its own soil were taken far away and placed in alien hands. 
 
 Principal Landowners, &c. — The township of Heming- 
 brough, according to the tithe survey, contains 1,090 acres 
 2 roods 18 poles, with a gross value of 1,763/. O.s. 4:^d., 
 and a rateable value of 1,512/. 5s. 4f<:/. 
 
 The land, at the time of the tithe survey, w^as in a 
 number of hands, Mr. John Thomlinson holding the 
 property which belonged to the Harrisons of Heming- 
 brough Grange ; Mrs. Carr, the old estate of the Robin- 
 sons ; Mr. John Wade, that of Mrs. Vicars ; Mr. 
 Kimington, that of the Precious family ; and Lady Moore, 
 that of the Wharreys. Since that time much of this has 
 changed hands, and the Banks family have acquired pro- 
 perty here as w^ell as in other parts of the parish. 
 
 The estate of the Robinsons has alw^ays been the 
 largest, and the descent of the family may be best set out 
 by a genealogical sketch (p. 159). I have not been able, 
 however, to show in it the ten Gregories, the existence of 
 whom is claimed in an inscription in the church. 
 
 The Guild of St. Christopher and St. George in York 
 had some land in Hemingbrough, wdiicli, wdth the rest of 
 their estate, was sold on the 4th August, 3rd Edw. VI. 
 (1549), for 212/. 4s. 8<:/. to the mayor and citizens of York 
 by the Crown. 
 
 The Friars Minors of York had a house in Heming- 
 brough which came into the possession of the Crown. It 
 was of the yearly rent of 24.9. On 7tli September, 1564, 
 it was leased for twenty-one years to Thos. Appleyard and 
 Wm. Clopton. On 26th June, 1595, it was leased to 
 Wm. Waite for twenty-one years at the same rent. 
 
 The Mill. — A mill w^as the usual accompaniment of a 
 manor, lucrative to the lord, and a boon to the tenant.
 
 PEDIGREE OF THE ROBINSONS. 
 
 159 
 
 Gregory Robinson of Hemingbrough, the elder, occurs in the : 
 Subsidy Rolls, 1590-1600. Bur. 29 July, 1615. 
 
 ; Mary, wife of Greg. R. of H. ; bur. 15 
 Feb. 1611-12. 
 
 Gregory Robinson of H., tanner = 
 Bur. 11 March, 1620-1. I 
 
 I I I . 
 
 William Robinson, son of Gregory Gregory Robinson = Mary, d. . . .bur. Lydia, bp. 22 Aug. 1613. 
 
 R., tanner ; marr. 25 Oct. 1635, 
 Anne Cowper. Will d. 10 Dec. 
 1658 ; pr. at London, 30 May, 
 1659.^ 
 
 2^ Peb. 1656-7. 
 
 Elizabeth, marr. Roger 
 Wright, of H. Will.d. 
 30 Sept. 1647; pr. at 
 Loudon, 6 May, 1658. 
 She makes her brother 
 Gregory's tliree sons, 
 Gregory, Thomas, and 
 John, her exi-s. 
 
 I II I I I I 
 
 1. Susan n ah = Gregory Robinson = 2. Mary, occurs Thomas Robinson, Marv, bp. 5 Feb 1633-4 
 
 d. . . . Bur. 21 ofH.,yeo.,bp.25Apr. '" i-^"' *-" "o *•■" i""! •■•■•'"-■ -' '^-'-- "-'^ 
 Aug. 1657. 1629. Bur. 13 July, 
 
 1661. Will d. 24 
 June, pr. 21 Nov. 
 1661. 
 
 in 1661. 
 
 bp. 28 Aug. 1631. wife of" John Atkinson', 
 Jolm Robinson of 1668-9. 
 
 H., bp. 24 Nov. Elizabeth, bp. 7 Dec. 
 1636. Bur. 3 Mar. 1639, wife of Sam. 
 1668-9. Will.d. 2 Brocklebank, 1668-9. 
 
 Feb. 1668-9. Aune, bp. 2 Apr. 1642. 
 Isabel, unmarr. 1668-9. 
 
 I 
 Gregory Robinson of JI., yeo., born 9 Aug. = Ellen, dau. of Thos. Riccall of 
 
 Marr. 10 
 
 1660. "Gregory the Tenth." Bur. 7 May, 
 1696. Will. d. 30 April; pr. 7 Nov. 1696. 
 M.I. in church made by his sou Thos. 
 
 South Duffield, yeo. 
 AprU, 1684. 
 
 William Robinson, 
 bp. 3 Nov. 1661. 
 
 Thomas Robinson of South Duffield, gen., = Elizabeth, dau. of Thos. Cliffe John Robinson, bp 
 
 bp. 7 Sept. 1685. He rebuilt tlie house at | of North Duffield. Marr. 25 13 June 1695 Marr' 
 
 South Duffield. Will pr. 31 Dec. 1776. Ad- 1 Feb. 1706-7. Bur. 12 Dec. 1761. Catherine Valence.' 
 men. to Joseph R., his son and sole exr. 
 
 I I I I I 
 
 Gregory,bp. 15 Jan.l708-9;bur.l3.Tune,1758. M.I. 
 Thomas, bp. 1 Dec. 1709 ; bur. 31 Oct. 1726. 
 John, bp. 11 Oct. 1711 ; bm-. 30 Apr. 1725. 
 William, bp. 22 Oct. 1715. 
 
 Joseph Robmson of Holme = Sarah,dau. ofThos. 
 
 House and South Duffield, 
 
 gen., bp. 11 Jan. 1719-20. 
 
 " Died through an accident." 
 
 Elizabeth, bp. 19 May, 1715. Marr. at York Bm-. 5 Nov. 1790. Will pr. 5 
 
 Minster, in 1740, Thos. BarfE of Birkin. 
 
 Aug. 1791 ; admon. to Joseph 
 R., his son and sole esr. 
 
 I I I I I 
 Thomas, bp. 24 Jau. ; bur. 13 
 
 Feb. 1749-50. 
 Gregory, bp. 23 Jan. 1750-1 ; bur. 
 
 25 Feb. 1775. Drowned. 
 Joseph, bp. 19 Aug. 1752 ; Fellow 
 
 of Cath. Hall, Cambridge : of 
 South Duffield, gen. Bur. 29 
 May, 1823. 
 Thomas, bp. 12 July, 1754 ; bur. 
 
 26 Aug. 1770. 
 
 John, bp. 6 July, 1763; d. 30 
 Oct. 1832. M.I. 
 
 Morfit of Limd. 
 Marr. lie. ; d. 18 
 Aug. 1747. 
 
 I i I 
 
 Elizabeth bp. 21 Sept. 
 
 1758. Bur. 1 June, 1819. 
 
 M.I. 
 Sarah, bp. 1 Dec. 1768. 
 Mary, of Barlby, d. 7 July, 
 
 1839, set. 72. M.I. 
 
 I 
 William Robinson of 
 H., Esq., bp. 6 July, 
 1756. Bur. 10 Jan. 
 1827. M.I. 
 
 Mai-y, dau. of 
 Richard Fair- 
 land of Newhay. 
 D. 16 Jan. 1842, 
 a3t. 73. M.I. 
 
 Mary, only child, marr. = John Francis Carr, Esq , 
 1824 ; d. 28 Oct. 1871, ; of Carr Lodge, Horbury, 
 a3t. 81. The last person j andHemingbroughViUa. 
 bur.inthechui-ch. M.I. ! Died 25 Dec. 1862, ast 76 
 1 M.L 
 
 Thos. Goulburne Parker, = 1. Mary Anne, marr. 
 Esq. of Browsholme. I 28 Nov. 1845. 
 
 T,, I I I 
 
 Edward Parker of Browsholme, born 
 
 10 Sept. 1846. 
 
 John William Robinson Parker, born 
 6 Oct. 1857 ; Captain 19th Regiment. 
 
 Margaret Anne Parker, marr. her first 
 cousin, Reginald Barcroft Parker, 
 now of Hemingbrough Villa, who 
 has taken an active part in the 
 restoration of the church 1^ 
 
 2. Marian, marr. Rev. J. M. Burn-Murdoch, 
 Vicar of Eiverhead, Seveuoaks, Kent. 
 
 Other issue. 
 
 I I 
 
 JohnFrancis,bornl859; 
 Captain 1st Royal 
 Dragoons. 
 
 Other issue.
 
 160 THE HISTOllY OF HEMINGBROUGH. 
 
 In 1330 and 1345 the mill, with an acre of land, was 
 rented by Thomas the miller, for 62s. per annum. In 
 1370, the rent paid for the mill, together with a right of 
 fishino' in the Derwent, was 51s. Id. Nicholas Miller is 
 mentioned in a subsidy roll of the 15th of Henry VIII., 
 and, according to a valuation of the manor made thirty- 
 three years after, Nicholas Howdell paid 53s. 4(i. Until 
 this period the repairs of the mill had been made at the 
 expense of the Priory, but, when it fell into the hands of 
 the Crown, it soon became out of order. On 14tli October, 
 1568, Robert Barmston, who had been appomted to look 
 into the matter, made the following report: — "By 
 authoritie of warrante from Sir Walter Myldmay knight 
 I surveied the saide myll, and at the same survey caused 
 twelve of the Queue's Majestic' s freholders and tenauntes 
 there of best experience to vewe the presente decay therof, 
 who estemed and valewed the reparacion of the same by a 
 bill of presentemente to vijli. xiiij s. iiij d. It is necessarie 
 the tenaunte from hencefurthe be bounde to all maner of 
 reparacions, as well tymbre, stones, as yron, for the 
 Queue's Majestic hath no tymbre ther, otherwise the same 
 woll eftsones fall in ruyne to the decay of the yearelye 
 rent." In 1568 the rent of the mill is said to be 335. 45., 
 a sum which has ever since been paid as a quit-rent 
 annually. The Crown retained this quit- rent for some 
 years, and subsequently made a grant of it to New 
 Colle<''e, Oxford, which still retains it. But the mill, with 
 many other mills in various parts of the country, was sold 
 by patent in the 7th of James I. to Edward Ferrers of 
 London, mercer, and Francis Phillips, gent., who sold it 
 ao-ain to Mr. Bosvile of Osgodby m 1629. 
 
 In 1715, William Clarkson of Cawood, and Susan his 
 wife, sell the mill for 60/. to Richard Pottage of Sutton- 
 upon- Derwent, who, in 1718, disposes of it to Edward 
 Bray of Woodhall. In 1722 Bray sells to Benjamin 
 Butterfield of Thornton, in Bradford-dale. In 1730 John 
 Butterfield, son and heir of Benjamin, sells the mill to 
 Thomas Howdell of Brayton, whose descendants have 
 only just ceased to occupy it. 
 
 The mill was leased on 18th May, 1568, to George 
 Howdell for twenty -one years, and on 17th October, 1584, 
 to MariJjaret Howdell, widow of Thomas Howdell. On
 
 FISHERIES. 161 
 
 22nd June, 1596, there was another lease to Thomas 
 Howdell, the tenant, Agnes his wife, and John Howdell 
 his brother. In 1598 it was leased for twenty-one years to 
 Humphrey Burletson, gent. The mill was, until lately, held 
 by the family of Howdell, which has contmued to work at, 
 or lease, it, with rare mtervals, from the reign of Henry 
 VIIL, if not earlier. This is another instance of the 
 tenacity with which the yeomen in this parish have clung 
 to their ancestral holdings. 
 
 Fisheries. — These fisheries w^ere fertile sources of en- 
 croachment and complaint. The owners of the soil on 
 the banks were continually making abutments, and hsh- 
 garths, as they were called, in the stream for the capture 
 of salmon, which were imj)ediments to the ascent of fish, 
 and great hindrances to navigation. The Mayor and 
 Corporation of York were frequently waging war 
 against these encroachments, and pulling them down, as 
 they interfered with the passage of shipping. In the o6th 
 of Edward III., the impediments in the waters of Ouse 
 and Derwent were the subject of an assize trial which will 
 be alluded to in the account of Newhay. These enquiries, 
 probably, were of a general character, and were preliminary 
 to the Acts of Parliament in 13th and 17th of Richard II. 
 by which fisheries were placed under proper regulations. 
 In the 16th of Richard II., the Prior of Durham was pre- 
 sented for having at the north side of the river at Drax- 
 lendyng a place called a fish-garth, with various rooms in 
 it, which had been in existence since the 9tli year of 
 Edward III. This would probably be removed. From 
 a letter of Prior Ebchester, circa 1453, we learn that the 
 rental of the fishings was assigned to the office of Chamber- 
 lain of the House of Durham to lay out for the use of the 
 monks. There is another letter from the Prior, of about 
 the same date, in which he says that he has taken the 
 advice of Sir James Pickering as to the fisheries belong- 
 ing to the Priory in the waters of Ouse and Derwent. In 
 1478 the citizens of York made a great raid upon the 
 obstructions in the Ouse, in which the Bishop of Durham 
 — and perhaps the Priory — was a great sufferer. These 
 struggles went on time after time. It was not the right 
 of iishing that was objected to, but the erection of fish- 
 traps and barriers by which the navigation was impeded.
 
 162 THE HISTORY OE IIEMINGBROUGH. 
 
 The Ferry. — The road south and by east, leading from 
 Hemingbrough to the ferry over the Derwent, crosses, at 
 about three-quarters of a mile from the village, a tract of 
 low land which was frequently inundated in the winter. 
 To make, therefore, the ferry accessible at all times, seeing 
 that by this route there was the shortest means of approach 
 to Howden, an embankment or paved way was anciently 
 constructed, and may still be traced, although it is being 
 injured by encroachment. The ferry, as parcel of the 
 manor, was the property of the Priory, which provided 
 the boat. The rent of this was originally lO.s. per annum. 
 This was raised to 20s. and ultimately to 24.5. 
 
 The ferry was leased of the Crown by tenants, like the 
 rest of their property. The boat at last became unfit for 
 use, and no rent, therefore, was paid for some years. But 
 in 1584 there was a fresh lease for twenty-one years to 
 Wm. Wiles, who was bound to keep the boat and the 
 ferry in repair. 
 
 There is a tradition in Hemino^brouo-h that each house- 
 holder paid 4d. yearly for the privilege of being ferried 
 over the Derwent, as often as he chose, and this, supposing 
 there were seventy-two householders, would make up the 
 exact amount of the rent, viz. 24.s. 
 
 Nonconformists. — On 20th March, 1757, Thomas 
 Harrison, Elizabeth Cressey, John Butcher, John Chap- 
 man, and John Whittell drew up a petition for leave to 
 use the home of Elizabeth Cressey in Hemingbrough as 
 a place of worship for Protestant Dissenters, 
 
 In 1812, there is a certificate of the house of Chr. 
 Nicholson of Hemingbrough being used for the same pur- 
 pose, signed by Chr. Nicholson, Thomas Harrison, Mark 
 Abbey, Alexander Raby, and Thomas Brown. 
 
 A Primitive Methodist Chapel was erected in 1857. 
 
 DISTINGUISHED NATIVES. 
 
 The chief worthies of the village all bear its name. 
 There was a family called Hemingbrough connected with 
 the place in early times, but 1 know too little about it to 
 be able to Aveave any connected pedigree.
 
 DISTINGUISHED NATIVES. 163 
 
 William de Hemingbrough has already been men- 
 tioned as a prebendary of Lincoln in the middle of the 
 thirteenth century. 
 
 AValter Hemingbrough is a person who may be fairly 
 appropriated as a native of the village. He is the author 
 and compiler of a Chronicle of England, beginning with 
 the Norman Conquest and running to the close, or nearly 
 the close, of the reign of Edward I. In Archbishop Cor- 
 brido;e's Reerister at York there is a letter to him from the 
 convent of Gisbrough, dated 1st November, 1302, in 
 which they state they have sent their sub-prior, Walter de 
 Hemingbrough, and four others, to make him acquainted 
 with the condition of their house. And among the King'& 
 MSS. in the British Museum, in 3 a xiii., — a volume of 
 sermons — is an inscription to the following effect : " Liber 
 Sanctas Marise de Giseburn assignatus armariolo claustri, ex 
 dono Fratris Walteri de Hemyngburch, quondam canonici 
 ejusdem domus, anno scilicet Domini m°ccc°. septimo.' 
 There is no further notice of the historian. For the earlier 
 part of the Chronicle Hemmgbrough is largely indebted to 
 Roger Howden and William of Newburgh ; for the reign of 
 Edward I. he relies very much upon his own researches 
 and knowledo;e. I do not think that the continuation, 
 extending over the reigns of Edward IL and III., is by 
 Heminobroufrh at all. 
 
 The following person may have been a relative of the 
 chronicler. In 1301 Thomas Petit, of Gisbrough, grants 
 lands at Gisbrouo-h to Peter de Hemin2;brou"h, clerk, 
 which he in turn conveys, in 1323, " dominis meis Priori 
 et Conventui de Gisburne." 
 
 Another Walter de Hemingbrough was Chantry Priest 
 of the Wasse Chantry at Hemingbrough, and died in 
 1297. He is, perhaps, the chaplain whom Henry de 
 Normanton, under-sheriff of Yorkshire, imprisoned and 
 defrauded in 1275-76, as is stated m a complaint on the 
 Hundred Rolls. 
 
 In the 1 1th Edward III. Robert de Hemingbrough 
 was Keeper of the Rolls and of the Chancery of Ireland. 
 
 John de Hemingbrough, Prior of Durham (1391- 
 1416), was a native of the place to which he did honor. 
 According to his mortuary roll he was a professed monk 
 nearly sixty-six years, dating probably from 1350. He 
 
 M 2
 
 164 THE HISTORY OF HEMINGBROUGH. 
 
 must have been born about the year 1327 or 1328, and 
 was probably educated in the monastery of which he was 
 afterwards the president. He was elected Prior in the 
 chapter-house at Purham on 13th September, 1391, and 
 his election was confirmed by the Bishop on the 26th. 
 In November 1392, Pope Boniface IX. allowed him to 
 choose his own private confessor. There is little known 
 about his conduct in his office. It was the custom in the 
 monastery of Durham, when a prior died, to obtain for 
 his soul the suffrages of as many religious houses as they 
 could procure. Such a roll is still preserved at Durham 
 to commemorate Prior Hemingbrough. 
 
 The roll itself, to which the names of the consenting 
 houses are appended, has a short prefatory notice of the 
 deceased and his merits. After some mention of Heming- 
 brough's humility, kindliness, and discretion, the writer 
 goes on to state that, in the sixtieth year of liis profession 
 and the eighty- seventh of his age, he fell into his last 
 sickness, which carried him off in the beginning of the 
 night of 15th September, 1416. That invaluable work, 
 entitled The Rites of Darhara, describes what took place 
 at his decease and funeral. Ele " iieth buried in the south 
 plage (alley of the Lantren), on the right hand, as you 
 goe to the Revestrie, under a faire marble stone, with his 
 picture curiouslie ingraven upon it, having the xij 
 Apostles pictured, of either syde of him vj , in brasse, with 
 other immao'erie woorke above his head, before the alter 
 of our Ladye, alias Howghell's alter" (p. 26). 
 
 The inscription upon the stone is preserved by William 
 de Chambre (p. 145) : — 
 
 Eace marraoreus lapis hie tegit ossa Johannis, 
 Quern residere Deus coelis cunctis det in annis. 
 Hemmingbroughe natus £uit, hie et hoiiorificatus 
 Sede Prioratus, virtute probus monaehatus. 
 Qui legis ha'.e pro me Pater unuui, supplico, proine, 
 Adjuiigas et Ave, Deus ut me liberet a vse. 
 
 Prior Hemingbrough had two brotliers, Tlionias and 
 Robert. Thomas lived at Wistow, and made a will which 
 was proved on 10th August, 1372, in which John de 
 Hemingbrough, Dan John de Hemingbrougli, monk of 
 Durham, and Richard, vicar of Wistow, are executors.
 
 BRACKENHOLME. 165 
 
 He speaks of Margaret his wife and his five children, 
 His brother Robert proves the wilL 
 
 After leaving Hemingbrongh I take my reader with me 
 towards the east, and we arrive at the following town- 
 ship : — 
 
 BRACKENHOLME- CUM -WOODHALL, COMPRISING THE 
 LORDSHIPS OF BABTHORPE AND HAGTHORPE. 
 
 Brackeniiolme means the lowland near the water, or con- 
 fluence of two streams, overgrown with bracken. Near to 
 the place where the Derwent runs into the Ouse there is a 
 long screed or tongue of land called Bishop's-Meadows, 116 
 acres in extent. Although it adjoins Brackeniiolme, it be- 
 longs to the township of Barmby, on the opposite side of the 
 stream. The river at some early period has changed its 
 course. But the name is applicable to the adjacent land 
 as well, fenny ground, traversed by sykes and ditches. 
 On the seal of John de Brackeniiolme, in the fourteenth 
 century, is admirably represented the bracken, from which 
 he and the township took their names. The plant is still 
 native to the soil, with broom, whin, ling, foxglove, and 
 sand below, pointing to waste lands at an early period. It is 
 highly probable that in old times the whole tract was an 
 appurtenance to the township of Hemingbrough. 
 
 The township measures about 1,275 acres, of which 
 there are nearly 1,000 in Brackenholme, including the 
 lordships of Babthorpe and Hagthorpe, and the remainder 
 is in Woodhall. The soil varies much in quality, being 
 in some parts a dark rich sand, in others poor and white. 
 Elsewhere there is clay ; but by long and diligent cultiva- 
 tion, and an intermixture of soils, the whole has been 
 rendered productive and profitable. 
 
 From various circumstances it seems probable that the 
 wood was situated on the western side of the township 
 adjoming Inner-moor Lane. It occupied the site of nine 
 or ten different enclosures, most of which bear the name of 
 Hagg- closes, and included between forty and fifty acres, 
 having at the southern end a smaller wood known by the
 
 166 THE HISTORY OF HEMINGBROUGH. 
 
 name of Babtliorpe Bush, consisting of seven acres, and, 
 at the northern end, a tract of land called Raw Ridding. 
 This latter was also woodland until it was ridded, and 
 covered about forty acres, to which may be added the 
 adjoining copse of Woodhall (the lands being still called 
 Lady Wood), consisting of about twelve acres, more or 
 less ; so that the woods in this township in the thirteenth 
 century may have been of the same size as those in 
 Hemingbrough. But there was probably more forest 
 land in Woodhall than twelve acres, and it may be safely 
 assumed that the woodland in "Brackenholme at the time 
 of the Conquest considerably exceeded a carucate. 
 
 The arable demesne, according to various statements, 
 consisted of four carucates, or 480 acres, which were at 
 the time of the Domesday Survey in the possession of 
 different proprietors. The Bishop of Durham's fee is 
 described as one carucate and six oxg-ano-s : that of Gilbert 
 Tyson five oxgangs, and that of Ernuin two oxgangs, i.e. 
 315 acres, ""^ and the King held the remainder, viz. 165 
 acres, too-ether with the manor of Hemino-brouo;h. This 
 royal estate, which had j)reviously belonged to Siward 
 and Tostig and had been forfeited, was given by William 
 to the Prior and Convent of Durham. But a difficulty 
 meets us. The Prior and Convent are always represented 
 as having two carucates in Brackenholme instead of 165 
 acres, and this statement occurs as early as 1145, when 
 Eugenius III. granted a confirmatory charter. The difii- 
 culty may be solved by the following theory. It appears 
 that the Bishop, who is said in the Clamores to have 14 
 bovates, is afterwards found to have only 11, whilst 
 Gilbert Tyson, reported to have 5 bovates, is subse- 
 quently represented as having only 3. If we suppose that 
 Tyson, and the Bishop, gave or sold the difference to the 
 Prior and Convent, the two carucates are made up : 165 
 acres + 45 + 30 = 240 acres, i.e. 2 carucates. 
 
 The Prior's possession of two carucates is likewise 
 attested by other documents in the twelfth century, and, 
 afterwards, in Kirkby's Inquest, where the township is thus 
 noticed : — 
 
 Item clicunt quod villa tie Brakenholm continet in se qnatuor caru- 
 catas terra} ; unde Prior Dunelmensis tenet ij car. terras de Eege in 
 
 '^'- Clamores de Euerwicscire, under the Hundred of Howden.
 
 BKACKENHOLME. 167 
 
 capite in puram et perpetuam elemosinam : et Radulphus de Babthorp 
 tenet xj bovatas terra? de Episcopo Dunelniensi per feodum militare, et 
 Episcopus de Rege in capite. Et Robertus de Menthorp tenet tres 
 bovatas terra? in eadem villa per feodum militare. Et idem Robertus 
 tenet de Johanne de Vescy, et ille de Rege in capite. Et Hugo de 
 Collum tenet ij bovatas terra? in eadem, et facit sectas ad primum 
 comitatum, et ad primum wappentagium, et ad Tnquisitionem Vice- 
 comitis, et ille dat pro fine Wappentagii [blank].'^-'' 
 
 Soon after the date of this inquest (128-1) a dispute 
 arose between the Prior and the copyholders of Bracken- 
 hobne of the same nature as that already mentioned in the 
 account of Hemmgbrough, and in the same year (20th 
 Edward I). Here eight personSj'^Miolding seven messuages 
 and ten and a half bovates of land, were summoned to show 
 cause why they should not render certain suits and ser- 
 vices. The copyholders were evidently claiming some- 
 thino- approaching to the ownership of their land. The 
 case°was settled by a jury, which decided in favour of the 
 Prior. The messuages held by these eight copyholders 
 cannot now be traced. It is probable, however, that they 
 were bovates in separate enclosures, and not open field 
 lands. There were, however, certain waste grounds which 
 the Prior and Convent regarded as manorial ])roperty and 
 claimed accordingly, as appears from the following draft 
 of a letter, written in the fifteenth century, and addressed 
 to some steward or bailiff : — 
 
 ■\Vorsliipfull Sire, and dere frende, we grete yowe wele oft tymes with 
 all our hert. And for als mekill yat we ere enfourmed yat certeyn of 
 our tenant z of Brakenholme within fewe yeres has accroched and ap- 
 prowed yaim of our waste yare to nombre of 2 acres of land or mare, 
 of yair awne wrang, with outen lefe or any thyng giffyng yarefor, in 
 playne disheryson of us, and of our kirke of Duresme, in als mekill als in 
 yaim is in yat partie ; and yare upon the officers of our and full reverend 
 fader in God and Lord of Duresme haues certyn knawlage howe the 
 sayd tenantz occupies the sayd land frely and noght pay ; and yarfore 
 till us ere in purpose to seise the forsayd land so approwed in the 
 handes of our sayd Lord of Duresme allege, and, Syr, the sayd tenantz 
 paies noght yai-fore till us ym suld pay yarfore to hym, whare in sothe 
 
 "' Ed. Surtees Soc. p G7. Schetebat, 1 mess, and 2 bov.— making 
 
 ^' John, s. of Adam deBrackenho]me, 10| bovates, or 1.57| acres. Possibly 
 
 holding 1 mess, and 1 bovate ; Hugh, s. the other tenants (who -would make the 
 
 of Agnes de B., 1 mess, and 1 bov. ; acreage up to 165) did not join in the 
 
 John, s. of Hugh de B., 1 mess, and 2^ suit. 
 
 bov. ; Eobert, s. of Thos. Lubias and At the same date there -was another 
 
 Agnes, his mother, 1 mess. 2 bov. ; action in which John, s. of Hugh de B., 
 
 John, s. of EHas, 1 mess. 1 bov. ; was plaintiff, which had the same result 
 
 Hugh Eaulot, 1 mess, and 2 bov. ; John as the other.
 
 168 THE HISTORY OF HEMINGBROUGH. 
 
 the forsayd town of Brakeuholme, with all the appurteiiantz, is ours 
 and halden of us be the use and the custume of our manoir of Hem- 
 yngbirgh, als ye wate well ; wharfore with all our hert, als our 
 synguler trest is in yowe specially, we pray yowe yat 36 will efter 3our 
 wyse discrecion inquere, serch, and examyn what ym ere yat has 
 emprowed yaim of owr waste, and of howe mekill and of howe lang 
 tyme ; and yare upon certifie us be 30ur lettres of 30ur spede and of 
 30ur best counsell in this matter abousayd. Worshipfull Sire, ut supra. 
 Written at Duresme. 
 
 In the rental of 1330 tliere is no reference to the 
 lands at Brackenholme, and there is no separate rent roll 
 of this township among the documents at Durham, so 
 that the amount of the fee farm rents cannot be exactly 
 ascertained ; but, according to the rental dated 4th 
 Edward VL, they are said to be 21. Is. 7^d. and in the 
 10th of James I. they were 21. 3.§. 2d. The Prior's lands 
 at Brackenholme were seized by the Crown at the Dis- 
 solution together with the manor of Hemingbrough. 
 They were re-granted by patent dated 10th James L, and 
 have since continued parcel of the same property. 
 
 The Land of Gilbert Tyson. — The three oxgangs 
 of Gilbert Tyson, lord of Alnwick, were long transmitted 
 as hereditary property. From the Tysons they came to 
 the Vescies. We find Eustace de Vesci the owner in 
 1228, and John de Vesci in 1284, with Robert de Men- 
 thorpe under him. The famil}^ of Percy succeeded to the 
 Vesci inheritance, and in a feodary's book, containing a 
 rental of their estates, in 1586 or thereabouts, there is the 
 following account of their lands at Brackenholme : — 
 
 Ralph Babthorpe, Esq., son and heir of Wm. Babthorpe, knt., holds 
 a ten. and — bov. of land formerly held by Wm. Birkin, then by 
 Thos. Pettye. than by Agnes Fairfax, and lately by Wm. Babthorpe, 
 father of the said Ralph, by military service on the 24th part of a 
 knight's fee, by homage, foreign service, and suit of Court at Wressle, 
 and paying 4s. yearly. 
 
 The Heirs of John Hastings hold a cotage worth 6s. 8d. per ann. 
 
 formerly held by , then by Thos. Birkin, and afterwards by the 
 
 said John Hastings, paying 3d. rent per ann. 
 
 Matthew Hutton, the Dean, and the Chapter of York, hold half a mess, 
 and — of a bovate of land, formerly held by Thomas Cotnes, then by 
 Jervase Cotnes, and lately by — Barker and — Nelson,'''' in right of 
 
 <=■ Fines. 2 & 3 Ph. and Mary. John etc. 29th EUz. Timothy Hutton, que- 
 
 Cotnesse,querent,andJohn Style, clef or- rent, and John Woudfitt and another, 
 
 ciant. Land in Br. and Woodhall. def. a ten. etc. IG James. Francis Po- 
 
 lG-17 EHz. Wm. Babthori^e, knt., que- than, gen., quer., and Wm. Babthorpe, 
 
 rent, and John Nelson, def. a ten. knt., def. a ten. etc.
 
 BRACKENIIOLME. 169 
 
 their wives, daughters and heirs of the said Gervase, paying no rent. 
 [This afterwards came to Richard Bowes.] 
 
 The said Matthew Hutton hokls the other half of the same mess, 
 and land formerly held by Thos. Cotnes, then by Jervase Cotnes, after- 
 wards by John Wilfeld, bastard son of the said Jervase, and lately by 
 Wm. Babthoi^oe, knt., paying nothing. 
 
 Win. Wawde, son and heir of Wm. Wawde, holds certain lands and 
 rents there of the yearly value of lOL, formerly belonging to Cuthbert 
 Wawde, and paying no rent. 
 
 The tenants in this Rental must be regarded as owners. 
 
 Ernutn's Land. — The two oxgangs held by Erniiin 
 continued in like manner to be transmitted in separate 
 tenure and became afterwards the fee of a family named 
 Collum, and were settled with other properties on Chris- 
 tiana, wife of Hugh Lelay, according to fines in the 10th 
 of John.^" In 1284 Hugh de Collum was in possession. 
 The tenant of this prop'erty did homage at the Sheriff's 
 Court at York thrice in the year aud paid some rent, the 
 amount of which is unknown, at York Castle, a remnant 
 probably of its old feudal tenure before this district became 
 parcel of Howdenshire. We have no account of the 
 alienation of this land, but there is reason to believe that 
 it was a portion of the possessions of a chantry at Heming- 
 brough, seized by the Crown, and re-granted in 7th Edward 
 VI. The Priory of Drax had some land here by the gift 
 of Ralph Babthorpe, which is mentioned imder Babthorpe. 
 
 BiSHOPiiOLD Land. — The Bishop of Durham's land in 
 Brackenholme consisted of the eleven oxgangs before spe- 
 cified, and the carucate farms of Babthorpe and Hagthorpe. 
 To these may be added a small ridding of two oxgangs, or 
 more, which, from its situation at the southern end of the 
 forest inter Ouse et Derwent, was called Woodhead ; but 
 whetlier this was part of Brackenholme or within the 
 boundary of Hemingbrough cannot be exactly decided. 
 It may, perhaps, be the small farm, now called Heming- 
 brough Grange, which was lately held by the family of 
 Harrison. The Babthorpes at one time held thirty acres 
 of land there. 
 
 The eleven oxgangs were properly the manorial lands, 
 or arable demesne, of Brackenholme, and, in conjunction 
 
 66 Fine. 10th John. Between Hugh 5 (?) bovates of land, etc., in Bracken- 
 
 de Lelay and Christiana his wife, claim- holme. To belong to Hugh and Chris- 
 
 ing, and Alan de Collum, def. Three tiana and their heirs as right of said 
 
 carucates of land, etc., in Lofthum and Christiana. (MS. Dodsworth, v. 98.)
 
 170 THE HISTOKY OF HEMINGBROUGH. 
 
 with the Prior's bovates and tlie lands of Ernuin and 
 Tyson, constituted the four carucates previously sj)oken 
 of. The Methams held this property for some time. In 
 the inquisition after the death of Sir Thomas Metham, 
 dated 14th January, 14th Henry VII., it was found that 
 he held it under the Bishop of Durham, and that he died 
 on 12th September previous, leaving Thomas, his son and 
 heir, a3t. thirty and more. This (Sir) Thomas died hold- 
 ing it on 26th May, 6th Henry VIII., leaving Thomas 
 Metham, his son and heir, a)t. thirty-two. These eleven 
 oxgangs (in lieu of fourteen) were at some unknown 
 period demised to the family of Babthorpe, which held 
 them until the 18tli James L, when they were purchased 
 by George Wentworth, gentleman. In 1629 and 1642^'' 
 Michael Wentworth of Woolley was the owner. To 
 him succeeded another Michael, his eldest surviving son, 
 who died unmarried, and afterwards George, his third son. 
 This George was colonel of a regiment of foot, and was 
 knio'hted for his services to Charles I. Sir Georo-e died 
 
 o o 
 
 in 1660, leaving no issue male, whereupon the hereditary 
 estate of Woolley descended to his younger brother, John 
 Wentworth ; but other estates, not comprised in the en- 
 tail, were divided among his three daughters, of whom 
 Anne, the youngest, received Brackenholme, and conveyed 
 it by marriage to the family of her husband, Wm. Osbal- 
 deston, Esq., of Hunmanby, whose descendants held it 
 until tlie year 1770, when, on the death of Fountaine 
 Wentworth Osbaldeston without issue, the property re- 
 verted to the female line (heirs general) ; and Gabriel 
 Brooke, Esq., who married Anne, daughter of Theodosia 
 Osbaldeston, would have succeeded jure uxoris, but, in 
 consequence of the decease of his wife, the property de- 
 scended further, to Humphrey Brooke, his son and heir. 
 This gentleman, by virtue of the will of his great-uncle, 
 Fountaine Wentworth Osbaldeston, succeeded, and as- 
 sumed the name and arms of Osbaldeston. He married 
 Catherine, daughter of Sir J. Pennington, Bart., and died 
 at a great age in 1835, leaving only daughters, whereupon 
 this entail, being limited to the nearest male issue, reverted, 
 
 •^^ Inq. p.m. dated 9 September, 1642. grange of Owston, alias Wolston, and 
 
 It was found that he died seized of the half the corn tithe in Notton and Chevet. 
 
 manors of Woolley, Notton, Kirshell, Michael was his son and heir, then set. 
 
 Pool, and Brackenholme, the manor or 45.
 
 BRACKENHOLME. 171 
 
 for the second time, to the descendants of Mary, a younger 
 sister of the above-mentioned Foimtaine Wentworth Os- 
 baldeston, who had married into the ancient house of 
 Mitford of J\Iitford, in Northumberland. The line of the 
 Mitfords was continued without faihire of male issue, and 
 consequently the estates of Hunmanby and Brackenholme 
 became the property of Bertram Mitford, Esq., great-grand- 
 son of Mary Osbaldeston aforesaid. Bertram Mitford died 
 without issue in 1841, and was succeeded by his brother 
 Robert, who was created Admiral in 1846. By the au- 
 thority of the Mitford Estate Act, which was passed in 
 1854, the land at Brackenholme was sold, on 7th Novem- 
 ber, 1855, for the sum of 11,000/., to Mr. John Banks of 
 Howden. On Mr. John Banks's death the property came 
 to Mr. Wm. Banks, who sold it in May 1881, for 10,700/. 
 to Mr. Brierley of Batley, the owner of the neighbouring 
 estate of Portington Grange, which he had recently pur- 
 chased. In the particulars of sale the property is said to 
 consist of " a farm-house, with a compact set of farm- 
 buildings, four cottages, blacksmith's shop, gardens, or- 
 chards, and several closes of grass and arable land, con- 
 taining in the whole 362 acres of land, or thereabouts." 
 
 On 30th November, 1842, an award of rent-charge in 
 lieu of tithes in the township of Brackenholme-with- 
 Woodhall was made by Charles Howard, Esq., of York, 
 assistant tithe commissioner. The tithes of Babthorpe 
 and Brackenholme belonged to Mr. John Francis Carr, 
 and most of those at Woodhall to Mr. Robert Menzies. 
 
 Various persons occur of the name of Brackenholme. 
 In 1228 Thomas and William de Brackenholme, laymen, 
 were witnesses in the enquiry which preceded the famous 
 Convenit. John, son of Adam de Brackenholme, and 
 John, son of Hugh de Brackenholme, occur in the plea of 
 Assize in the 20th Edw. I. ; William de Brackenholme 
 and Alice his wife are mentioned in a fine in the 11th 
 Edward II. Liolphus do Brackenholme occurs in the 
 Hemingbrough Rental in 1330. In 1332 Robert de 
 Brackenholme is mentioned in the will of Henry de Cliffe. 
 John de Brackenholme, seneschal of Hemingbrough, 
 occurs in various deeds, 1370-1375 ; and Thomas de 
 Brackenholme, clerk, is mentioned in an inquest in the 
 reign of Henry IV.
 
 172 
 
 THE HISTORY OF HEMINGBKOUGII. 
 
 The family of Bray was long resident here. Some 
 account of them will be found under South Duffield, where 
 they had some land. 
 
 BABTHORPE. 
 
 The lordship of Bab thorjDe consisted only of one carucate, 
 and its present measurement is 304 acres. But to these 
 must be added the Hagg-closes, which must anciently 
 have constituted the woodland appurtenant to the caru- 
 cate. 
 
 This little estate gave its name to a family of distinction 
 and martial fame which occupied it for several centuries. 
 The novus homo of the family w^as a certam Ralph de 
 Hunsley, who appears as a witness to one of the Wood- 
 hall charters in the reign of Ste- 
 phen, and to a grant of Bishop 
 Ranulph Flambard at a still ear- 
 lier date. Hunsley is a hamlet 
 in the parish of Rowley. We 
 are fortunately able to ascertain 
 the time at which the surname 
 of Babthorpe took the place of 
 that of Hunsley. During the 
 reign of Richard I., Ralph de 
 Babthorpe quit-claims to Bertram 
 the Prior, the Convent of Dur- 
 ham, and their Cell at Finchale,^^ 
 all Ms mterest in the village of 
 Yokefleet. The inscription on 
 the grantor's seal is, Sigillum Radulji de Hundesle, showing 
 that he had changed his name without assuming as yet a 
 fresh seal. Among the witnesses are Babthorpe's neigh- 
 bours Robert de Hagthorpe and John de Cliffe. 
 
 Soon after this, Ralph, son of Ralph de Babthorpe, on 
 the occasion of his brother Martin becoming a canon of 
 Drax, gives to that religious house an annual rent of 
 85. 4^., and another of lO.s'. per annum out of his lands 
 
 Priory of Finchale, Surtees Soc. pp. 48-9.
 
 o 
 
 PEDIGREE OF BABTHORPE OF BABTilORPE. 
 
 EadalphuB He Hundesley 
 Ratlulphue de Babbetorpquit-clainw his 
 
 charter of Ranalph, Bishop of Durham, 1109-1128; and a Woodhall charter, 1133-40. 
 
 Btia Yokeflete to the Priory of Finchale, circa 1190. On the eeal he is called Badulf us de Hundele. 
 
 I 1200. A verderer Martin, a Canon of Dras. 
 
 Balph de Babthorpe.= 
 
 Henry de Bablhorpe and Nicholas, his brother, ' 
 
 e a grant to Newburgh circa 52 Henry III. 
 
 Robert, bod and heir of Ralph de Babthorpe, confirms his ancestor's grant to Drax in 1313.= 
 
 Robert de Babthorpe, son and heir of Robert de B. = 
 
 Dionysia, wife of Alexander de CUffe, mentioned 1320.^ 
 
 Ralph de Babthorpe, son and heir of Robert, son of Robert, son of Ralph de B.= 
 
 Robert de Babthori)e, son and heir of Ralph, 8. of Robert, s. of Robert, son of Ralph de B. The 
 
 John de Babthorpe, son of Ri 
 e five generations are recited i. 
 
 i fine in 1565. = Margaret. 
 
 1. Eleanor.dau.&hoirof Johnde =Sir Robert Babthorpe, 
 Waterton of Waterton, co. Lin- 
 coln, by Eleanor, dau. ot John 
 
 ! Robert, = 2. Bridget, dau. of Elizabeth Babthorpe, Prioress of Nunburn- William Babthorpe, Attorney- ^Margaret, dau. & 
 
 Comptroller of the Household of Chas. PUkington, holme, occurs 1442. General, 1419-1428, and Baron I heirof John Willy- 
 Henry V. and exor. of his will. Inq. Esq. Alice Babthorpe, a nun at Clerkenwell 1442. of the Exchequer. Will. d. 21 mote of Borough- 
 dated Wednesday after St. Luke's ^ Oct. 1442; pr. at London 7 Nov. bridge, mentioned 
 
 -' ■ — ■ - ' ' ' ' 1443. TobeburiedatClerken- 1442. 
 
 well Church. 
 
 the Body to Henry VI.; killed at the August, 1461 ; bur. 
 battle of St. Albans on Thursday, 22 ingbroagh. M.L 
 May, 1455. Inq. p. m. dated 24 June, 
 
 Elizabeth, mei 
 tioned in he 
 mother's will, 
 
 1. Ralph Babthorpe, Esq., = Margaret, d. Thos. 
 sewer to Henry VI.. killed Mitford and Isabel 
 with his father at St. his wife. FeofTrnt. 
 Albans, 22 May. 1456. onmarr.; d.20July, 
 Buried there. M.I. Mil. 
 
 2. Sir Roborl Babthorpe, son and hei 
 
 ThoB. Babthorpe, elerk, and Wm. Swillingtoi 
 Esq. He was knighted by Lord Boos at th 
 battle of Wakefield in 14C0. Inq. p. m. ( 
 23 Apr. 14b6, ob. 26 March last. 
 
 2 = Elizabeth, daughter Sir Thomas Babthorpe. ST.B., prebendary of York Anne, 
 
 Wm. Ryther of Ryther 
 knt. Had lands in Ho- 
 toft, CO. Lincoln, and 
 Kirkby Wharfe.givenby 
 her father on her marr. 
 
 & Howden. Will. d. 21 Sept. 1478 ; pr. 29 Oct. 
 
 Buried at Howden, 13 Oct. M.I. 
 Henry Babthorpe, d. 18 Jan. 1477-8. Buried at 
 
 Howden. M.I. 
 ?John Babthorpe. who marr. JoonLely— kj/whca 
 
 the BahUiorpes of Drax. 
 
 tioned i 
 brother's 
 1478. 
 
 1. Sir Ralph Babthorpe. Ent.. son and heir. a>t. 
 22 and more at his father's death. Knighted 
 on the field in Scotland in 1481 by the Earl of 
 Northumberland. Inq. p.m. dated 30 Sept. 
 14y0; ob. 7 March last. ' 
 
 1. Isabella, dan. andh.,tnt. 15 and = Bir John Hastings of Fenwick, = 2. Catherine, dau. Sir John Aske ot 
 more, 1490. Covts. before man. I a>t. 32, 1489. Buried at Norton I Aughton, Knt. Will i. 25 Feb. 1500-7. 
 SO Jooe, 1464. Died 1496. Priory, 1504. To be buried at Aughton. 
 
 B.WiUiamBabthorpe.Esq., Thomas Babthorpe, M.A. 
 
 of Osgodby ; d. 10 Feb. 1504. Provost ot Hemingbrough, 
 
 Marr. Christiana Sotchill. 1480^1517. Buried at 
 
 — See Pedigree of Bab- Hemingbrough. 
 thorpc of Osgodby. 
 
 Isabella, cousin and heir of Dame = WilUara Plumpton of Plumpton, Esq., 
 Isabella Hastings. Marr. covts. d. 11 ] Will d. 1 July, 1547 ; ob. 11 July. ret. 62. 
 May, 1496. Died 30 June, 1552. Bur. at Spofforth. Inq. p.m. 26 Sept. 1547. 
 
 Eobert Plumpton, son and heir. Bom 17 Jan. = Anne, daughter John Norton of Norton 
 1516-16 ; died in the lifetime of his father, 1548. i Conyers, Esq., marr. 2 Sept., 1538. Re- 
 Bur, at Luddington in the Isle of Axholme. marr. Eobert Morton, Esq., of Bawtry. 
 
 WilUani Plumpton, heir ot his grandfather and grandmother. Born 17 Jan. 1543 ; d. 13 Jan. 1601-2.
 
 BABTHORPE. 173 
 
 at Risby ; lie likewise makes a present to it of a toft in 
 Brackenholme in behalf of the souls of his father and 
 mother, his ancestors, and descendants.^^ 
 
 The pedigree of the Babthorpes, as far as the earlier 
 portion of it is concerned, must be entirely reconstructed, 
 as there is no evidence whatever to bear out the genealogy 
 of that house which appears in Burton's Monasticon. This 
 has been reproduced, wdthin the last few years, in the 
 appendix to Mr. Foster's edition of Glover's Visitation of 
 Yorkshire. 
 
 There is much of interest in this genealogical sketch to 
 those who look beyond the dry enumeration of dates and 
 names. We lose, indeed, part of the evidence which wills 
 would give us, as these would be registered in the peculiar 
 court of Howden, and of these there are no remnants prior 
 to the 17th century. The earlier Babthorpes were ver- 
 derers of the forest between Ouse and Derwent, and had, 
 tlierefore, the charge of the king's deer. They were con- 
 nected with, and were, probably, interred in, the monastery 
 of Drax, but, subsequently, they were associated with the 
 Prior and Convent of Durham and their church of Heming- 
 brough. The piior found in the head of the house a 
 person able and willing to look after his interests as 
 seneschal of the manor, and was constantly able to ac- 
 knowledge his services by befriend mg a younger son who 
 thought fit to take Holy Orders. When we are able to 
 ascertain the names of the ladies with whom the Bab- 
 thorpes allied themselves, we find that they were daughters 
 of some of the oldest families in Yorkshire. The beautiful 
 coat-armour of the husbands and wives was a great orna- 
 
 •*' Omnibus . . . Radulfus filius Ra- multis aliis. (MS. Dodsworth, Ixxxviii. 
 
 dulfi de Babbetorp . . . Noverit uni- 61.) 
 
 versitas vestra me, pietatis intuitu et Sciant . . . quod ego Radulfus filius 
 
 favore religionis, dedisse . . . Deo et Radulfi Babbethorpe concessi . . . Deo 
 
 Eccl. S. Nicholai de Drax . . . simul et Eccl. B. Nicholai de Drax . . . unum 
 
 cum fratre meo Martino, qui ibidem croftum in Brakenholme quod fuit 
 
 habitum religionis suscepit . . . iij s. Eidolfi . . . pro anima patris et matris 
 
 iiij d. annuos . . de terra quam Willel- mefe, etc. Testes Joseph parsona de 
 
 mus de Sancta Barbara hereditarie Hattusa [?], Jord' de Hameklon, Ric. de 
 
 tenet de me et heredibus meis in Hameldun, Ric. de Averenches, Will, de 
 
 Ricebeia . . Hiis testibus Will, de . . . Rednes, Will, de Galewaidhe, Will. Kel- 
 
 ham, Will, de Widintona, Godfrido de kecliera, Walt, le Bent, Will. fil. Ac- 
 
 Ricebeia, Mathco de eadem villa, Hu- hardi, Will. fil. Alani de Nova Haia, 
 
 gone de Riplingham, Ricardo de . . ., Hugone de Chering, W.ll. Russell. This 
 
 Stephano de Riplingham, Roberto de was purchased in 155% after the dissolu- 
 
 Hadretona, Waltero de Beverlaco pres- tion of Drax, by Wm. Babthorpe of Os- 
 
 bitero, Waltero persona de Gartop, et godby, so that it returned to the family.
 
 174 THE HISTORY OF HEMINGBROUGII. 
 
 ment of the chiircli of Hemingbrough in which they were 
 interred. 
 
 The two most important personages in the pedigree are 
 Sir Piobert Babthorpe, who died m 1436, and his brother 
 Wilham, who became, first, attorney-general, and after- 
 wards a Baron of the Exchequer. 
 
 Sir Robert Babthorpe. — In the 10th of Henry IV. 
 Robert Babthorpe, Esq., had a free grant from the King of 
 lands in Loftsome, worth seven marks per annum, which 
 belonged to Thomas AVorcester, who had been recently 
 attainted. When Henry V. ascended the throne, Bab- 
 thorpe was made comptroller of his household, and, on 1st 
 July, 1415, general letters on his behalf are entered on the 
 French Rolls. He was present at the battle of Agincourt 
 on the 25th October, having taken with him abroad five 
 men-at-arms and fifteen foot archers, probably out of the 
 parish of Hemingbrough. He had a conspicuous share in 
 the fight and its results, and, in his official capacity, drew 
 up a roll which contained the name of every Englishman 
 who was present at the battle. He took a Frenchman 
 prisoner on that memorable day who was afterwards ran- 
 somed at Calais, and, besides, he laid a claim to a share 
 in the sum of 356/. 16^. 4(:/., the amount fixed for the 
 ransom of the Seigneur de Corpe, in which Wm. Callowe 
 and Wm. Kempston, of the suite of Sir Wm. Phelip, were 
 also interested. About this time, also, Babthorpe seems 
 to have been knighted, as a reward, no doubt, for his ad- 
 ministrative cajDacity as well as for his valour in the field. 
 He went through the French campaign, and the King gave 
 him a house at Caen in 1417, and another at Rouen two 
 years afterwards. The latter gift was no doubt as a 
 reward for Babthorpe's services during the siege of that 
 town, as he had been especially active in drawing up en- 
 trenchments, &c,, to protect the English assailants against 
 a sally. In the poem on the siege we learn : 
 
 Syre Roljert Babtlioi-pe in that space 
 Counteroller untyll owre kynge he was : 
 Bothe hegge and dyke he oi'deyned that, 
 And mekyl worschepe thereat he gat. 
 
 After the capture of the town Babthorpe came home, but 
 soon had Letters of Protection to enable him to go abroad 
 again, which were renewed in the following year. In 1417
 
 BABTHORPE. 175 
 
 Henry Y. showed his esteem for Sir Robert by appointing 
 him one of the executors of his will, and he was acting 
 under that trust so late as the year 1432.^° In 1429, 
 when he was safely located at Babtliorpe, the Prior and 
 Convent of Durham appointed him their Seneschal at 
 Hemingbrough, and, on 8th April, 1434:, he had Letters 
 of Confraternity from that ancient house. What stories 
 Sir Robert would have to tell of his adventures by land 
 and sea ! 
 
 William Babtiiorfe, the lawyer. Sir Robert's brother, 
 arose to eminence, probably with his kinsman's help. On 
 16th November, 1419, he was appointed Attorney- General 
 of Henry V., and he held the same post daring the first 
 six years of the reign of Henry VI. He married the 
 daughter and heiress of John Willimote of Boroughbridge, 
 through whom he acquired a considerable estate. His 
 own Will, preserved at London,'^^ is of remarkable interest, 
 and is an admirable specimen of the English of the day. 
 But it contains scarcely a word about his old home and 
 his kinsmen in Yorkshire. His landed estate in that 
 county descended eventually to the representatives of his 
 brother. 
 
 Testamentum Willelmi Babthorp, Baronis Scaccarii Regis. — In 
 the name of the Fader, and Son, and Holy Gost, so be hit. Tlie 
 Monnday next after the fest of Seynt Luke the Ewangelist, yt is to 
 wytt the xxj day of the moneth of Octobere, ye ^ere of oure Lord 
 m' cccc xlij, I William Babthorp, of hole myende, ordens & settes 
 my testament and my last wille in the fourme that folowes. First 
 I devyse my sowle till Almightty God, and till his blessid moder oure 
 Lady Seynt Mary, and till all the Seyntes of hevyn, and my body to 
 be beryd in the parish chirch of Clerkenwell, or els where that God 
 •will dispose. Also I devyse unto the Priorese and the Nunnes of 
 Clerkenwell x mark for to be distribute in the fourme that folows ; 
 that is to witt, the Priorese to have of the saide somme xxs, and Dame 
 Alys Babthorp xls, so that the said Dame Alys pray hertly and tenderly 
 for the sowles of Jehan ''^ Willimote and Avyse his wyf, and for all thoo 
 that they were holden to have prayed fore ; and till every nunne of the 
 
 '» Cf. Eot. Pari. iv. 32, 172, 207, 209, elmo de Babthorp omnia terras et 
 
 213, 242, 281, 324, 393, 399, 403. ten. qu£e nuper habui et dono et legato 
 
 " Eeg.Luffenham at Somerset House, Johannis de Middilham in Burghbrig, 
 
 258. to him & his lawful heirs ; faiKng 
 
 " June 3rd, 1402. John Wyllymote. them to Eobert B., his brother, and 
 
 Sep. in eccl. B. V. M. in Castelgate. his lawful heirs. Avicia my wife, dau. 
 
 Cantariae The. Gervaux in eccl. S. Nic. of Thos. Gervaux, Exrs Wm. de Bab- 
 
 in Beverlaco fundatae, ad emendum thorpe, etc. Pr. 14th June, 1402. [Eeg. 
 
 vestim., calicem, etc., 8 marks. Will- Test. Ebor. iii. 78 b.]
 
 176 THE HISTORY OF HEMINGBROUGH. 
 
 same house vjs viijcl, to that entent that they sliall relese unto nie al- 
 maner accions, as well spirituels and temporals, and make me be 
 asouled in als mekyll as in theem ys ; the residue of the saide summe 
 of X marke, I will tliat the sexteyn have hit for to spend hit on the kirke 
 nedis. Also I devyse to the Priour and Chanons, reseant^ and abydyng 
 in the hows of Greseley, x marks, for to be distribute in this fourme ; 
 yat is to say, to ye Priore xiij s iiij d, and till every other of the Chanons 
 xiij s iiij d ; and the residue of the saide summe I will yat it l)e spendid 
 on ye nedis and proiite3 of the same house in playne asseth makyng 
 of all maner of accions, as well spirituels as temporels, to them by me 
 dew, so that they amytt hit to the same extent. Also I devyse to the 
 Abbot & Covent of the house of Seynt James beside Northampton 
 x marks, to be distribute in this manere ; that is to witte, yat ye Abbot 
 to have of ye said summe xxs; and ilkone of the Chanons of ye saide 
 place vj s viij d ; the residue, yf any, to be spendyd on ye hous nedys yn the 
 fourme above rehersied. Also I wille yt Thomas, my brotlier, have my 
 best gowne yat he will chese, except my scarlet gowne, & my best 
 sangweyne cloke yerwith ; and xx s ^erely for terme of his life, to be 
 payed hym at ye fest of Seynt Martyne in Wynter : and, ouer that, I 
 will that he have xxs be way of almes for to pray for my sowle and the 
 sowle; of all thoo yat I am bownd to pray fore. And, also, I will that 
 Sir Watier, my prest, have xxs, and oon of my furred cloke^, and my 
 best sangweyn whode, for to pray for my sowle, and thoo that I am 
 holden to pray fore. Also I wille that Symkyn Harestoft, my clerk, 
 have my better gowne of the colour of murrey, and the furre yerwith, 
 and oon of my sengill clokes, yt is to witte, myne elder sangueyne 
 cloke. Also I wyll that Johan Hewett have my better violet gown 
 w^ the furre, and my murrey hode. Also I wille that Richard Cowdlow 
 have my elder murrey gown with the blak furr, and a mark of money. 
 Also I wille that Thomas Crosse have myne elder violet gown with the 
 furr yeryn. And the residue of all my clothyng I will hit be disposed 
 by the discrecion of myne executours for to reward my servant^ with, yf 
 any be left onrewarded. Also I wille that all my catell that been atte 
 Greseley and at Bothorp be sellyd, except oo cowe, whilke I will that 
 Robert Milner have, and, yf he die, his wyf, for sustenans of theire 
 children, and the money that cometh of theem to be delyvered to myne 
 executours, for to execute my last wille with. Also I will that the 
 saide Robert have alowans of his clothyng that is be hynde. 1 will 
 also that .John Franceys of Tyknale, my wyfi's cosyn, have ye meriage 
 of John Weston, my ward, yf so be that he will maiy hym till oon of 
 his doubters : and, yf he will nott mary hym to one of his dow^ters, I 
 wille that he l)e sewid by myne executours, and the mony that may be 
 getyn for hym be spendid for my sowle. Also I wille and devyse that 
 Dame Elsabeth Babthorp, Priorese of Burnom, have ^erely, for terme of 
 here lif, xiij s iiij d for here owne spense, of the issues and profit^ comyng 
 of all my londes, tenement^ and burgage that I have in the townes of 
 Burghbrigg, Aldeburgh, and Menskipp yn the counte of York, for to 
 pray for the sowles of Johan Willimote and Avyse his wyf, and the 
 sowles of all thoo that yey were bownd to pray fore, the sowles of my 
 fader and my moder, and other. And also I will that ye seide 
 Priorese and here successours have :5erely of the issue3 and profettes of 
 the same londes, tenemente; and Imrghgage before saide, xls for sus- 
 tenans of a prest singyng at Burnom for the sowles afore rehersyd and
 
 BABTHORPE. 177 
 
 for my sowle durant the terme of xx 3ere fully complete next after my 
 cliscese, with the reversion of the mark after here discese duryng the 
 terme aforesaide, under the condicion yf they have a prest continually 
 ■ duryng ye terme aforesaid that then thei till have hit. And yf hit 
 happyn that they lake a prest at eny tyme withyn the said terme, I 
 will that hit seis for yat tyme yat they so want a prest. Allso T will, 
 devyse and graunt, for me and for myn heyres, xij d of rent to oure Lady 
 service, and to ye prest yt syngis and shall syng at oure Lady auter 
 in Burghbrigg, to be taken and reised of the tenement; new bigged on 
 the cornere of est part of Truttbrigg, joynyng uppon Mikelgate, sum- 
 tyme Johan Willimot'^, whilke John Swett now holdes of me, for to 
 pray for the sowles of John Willimote, his fader and moder, and for 
 my sowle, and all thos that we were holden to pray fore. Also I wille 
 that an acre of lond lyyng under the walle in Aldeburgh feld, copy 
 lond, whilke was Johan Willimote's, be sellyd, and the mony that 
 comyth therof be spent on the chapell warkes of Burghbrigg. Also I 
 wille that ye Abbott of Selby have xx s for to pray for me, and every 
 Monk of ye plase iijs iiijd for to pray for my sowle, and the sowle; that 
 I am bound to pray fore ; and, over that, I woll that they be pardond 
 of all the dette that they awe me, as well borowed mony as other, 
 under condicon that they relese all maner accions, as well spirituels as 
 temporels, and assoyle me in als mekyll as yn theem ys. Also T wille 
 that vli be distribute among pore men and bedrid at the tyme of my 
 beryall by the avyce of myne executours. Also I will that ye Frere 
 Menours in London, ye Frere Prechours, the White Freris, and the 
 Frere3 Austyns have, every hous, xs, for to pray for me, so that they 
 sey then^ Derige; and Masse at whom, and come noth oute. Also I 
 V}}^ }h^^ ^^^^ kirke-reyvs of the parish chirch of Clerkenwell have 
 xnj s nij d, for to spend on the onourment; of the same kirke. Also I 
 wille that xxli be spent abowt my beryall after the avyce of myne 
 executours. I will allso that ilkone of myne executours have xls to 
 reward for to labour and execute my wylle. The residue of all my 
 godes and catell with all my dettes that be due and leveable with good 
 consciens, after my legates and my will fulfilled, my dett payed my 
 body beried and entered, I will that Mergett my wyf have them in 
 sustenans of here and of here charge, and to pay William," my sone 
 c mark, that is dew till hym, and to spend in dedis of almus ; and in 
 especiall, to fynd a prest while she lyveth, to syng continually for here 
 and me, and for the sowles of oure faders and moders, John Willimote, 
 
 " 10th Dec, 1465. Wm. Babthorp. etc. Eadulpho Babthorp j ciphnm 
 
 Sep. coram ymagme B.M V. m can- deauratum. Fabrica3 aurationis S 
 
 celohospitalisfe.JohannisdeCoventre. Osburg^ in Prioratu Coventriensi i 
 
 All to Joan his wife She and John cathenam auream. Margarets Wardeii 
 
 Smith exrs Pr.Sth Feb. 1465-6. [Keg. j cathenam breviorcm "de auro et 
 
 & q^^; T.r. T 13 w, colar de argento pro aimigero. Priori 
 
 20th Sept 1465. Joan Babthorp, de Greseley, pro anima Margarets Bab- 
 
 relicta Wm. B. arm. Sep. in cancello thorp, v marcas. Ricardo Pudsey j boll 
 
 eccl. hosp. S. Job. Coventre. Eidem pece. Cognata, mea., servient! domini 
 
 Hospitali J paxbrede de argento deau- do Hastynges, iij crateres argenti 
 
 rato & J tabulet de auro cum ymagine Fratr. Nic. Mounteney & Joh Smith 
 
 Gabriel mtus signata. EHzabetha3, exrs. Pr. 8th Feb. 1465-6 flbid ] 
 
 bhte mea3, ij ciphos de auro, ij ciplios Leland says that Wm. Estsax of 
 
 argenti et deaurati etc. Fratri meo, Barkshiro mar. the dau. and hers of 
 
 JNic. Mountney, ij crateres deauratos, Babthorpe of Warwickshire
 
 178 THE HISTORY OF HEMINGBROUGH. 
 
 Thomas Overton, and the sowle? of all thos that we have had eny 
 goode of in oure ly ve, for ye whilke we have noth due asseth made. 
 And, for execucion and fulfillyng of this my last wille, I orden and 
 putte my saide wyf , Johan Chirch, and John Hewett myne executours, 
 and Robert Frampton to be surveyour. In witnes of this I set my 
 sele. Writtyn the 5ere and day abovesaide. Pr. 7 Nov. 1443, adm. 
 to ex""^. 
 
 Ralph Babthorpe, the son of Sir Robert, was an 
 Esquire of the Body to Henry VI., and had Letters of Pro- 
 tection to go to France on 2-ith February, 1429-30. On 
 14th July, 1438, he was apjoointed seneschal and bailiff of 
 Howden and Howdenshire for life, with a yearly fee of 
 seven marks. He was also appointed seneschal and master 
 forester of the forest of Galtres by patent, dated 31st 
 December, 1439. At the time of his death he was keeper 
 of Scarbro' Castle. His eldest son, another Ralph, was 
 connected also with the Court as sewer to the King. 
 One fatal day, the 22nd May, 1455, saw father and son 
 lifeless. They fell at the sanguinary fight at St. Albans, 
 on the side of the Lancastrian king, who had befriended 
 them and their family. They were interred together in 
 the Abbey-church under a stone inscribed with the fol- 
 lowing inscription, which Weever has preserved : — 
 
 Cum patre Radulpho Babthorp jacet, ecce ! Radulphus 
 
 Filius, hoc duro marniore pressus humo : 
 Henrici Sexti dapifer, pater Armiger ejus, 
 
 Mors satis id docuit ; fidus uterque fuit. 
 
 C. Domini quater M. semel L. semel V. semel anno, 
 
 Hos necat haud solos mors truculenta duos. 
 Lux hiis postrema Maii vicena secunda ; 
 
 Det Deus hiis lucem, det sine fine diem ! 
 
 Of this somewhat striking epitaph, Weever gives the 
 following translation, which is worthy of being noted : — 
 
 Behold where two Raulph Babthorpes, bothe the sonne & father, lie. 
 Under a stone of marble hard, interr'd in this mould dire : 
 
 To Henry Sixth the Father Squire, the Sonne he Sewer was. 
 
 Both true to Prince, and for his sake they both their life did passe. 
 
 The year one thousand and four hundred fifty five. 
 
 Grim death, yet not alone, did them of breath deprive. 
 
 The last day of their light was the twentieth two of May ; 
 God grant them light in hcav'n, and without end a day ! 
 
 The light took place in the streets of the little town, 
 and, although fiercely waged, was soon over. Tlie heads
 
 BABTIIOEPE. 179 
 
 of the houses of Percy unci Clifford fell there at the same 
 time. To the former of these two the Babthorpes owed 
 feudal service, but they were probably there in attendance 
 upon the King, who was token prisoner. We can well 
 imagine what stories there would be about the fight in 
 the parish of Hemingbrough, how their two esquires at 
 Babthorpe had died with the Earl and Lord Clifford, 
 caught unawares perhaps in the street of St. Albans, when 
 they were scarcely armed. There would be woe and 
 wailing when the news reached Hemingbrough and 
 Wressle, 
 
 De. Thomas Babthorpe. — Another Babthorpe, in the 
 same generation, was Thomas, who was educated at Cam- 
 bridge, where he was A.M. On 30th December, 1448, 
 Archbishop Kempe gave him the prebend of Givendale at 
 York, and, on 11th June, 1449, he was collated to that 
 of Barmby at Howden. There is very little known of his 
 career. In June, 1451, he was in some trouble with John 
 Kirkby, a servant at St. Mary's Abbey, on some question 
 of violation of jurisdiction ; possibly lie had infringed the 
 right of sanctuary which the royal abbey possessed. On 
 5th September, 1453, he had permission to have an oratory 
 for two years. His will is preserved in the Registry of 
 the Dean and Chapter of York, and shows that he was a 
 person of taste and wealth, of which he makes a just dis- 
 position. He does not forget the fatal day at St. Albans. 
 
 Sept. 21, 1478, Thomas Babthorp, clericus. Sep. in choro eccl. coll. 
 de Hoveden ad caput tumb?e S. Johannis Confessoris.^^ Lego eidem 
 ecclesiie j crucem arg. et deaur. reliqui(i)s S. Petri inclusis, ij carpettes 
 et ij qwussyns cooperta cum serico vocato. baudkyn. Altari S. Trinitatis 
 in eadem eccl. j vestimentum integrum pro solo capellano in eadem 
 celebraturo. Volo quod singulis annis celebrentur exsequise in eadem 
 eccl., scilicet in die obitus mei, pro anima mea, et pro anima Henrici 
 fratris mei, prout moris est pro animabus defunctorum. Eccl. coll. de 
 Hemmyngburgh ij qwussyns cooperta cum serico vocato baudkyn. 
 Altari S. Trinitatis in eadem eccl. j vestimentum integrum pro solo 
 capellano in eadem celebraturo. Item volo quod singulis annis bis 
 celebrentur exsequite mese in eadem ecclesia^ prout moris est pro 
 animabus defunctorum, scilicet, in die obitus matris mese, pro anima 
 patris mei et matris mete una vice, alia vice in die obitus avi mei pro 
 anima ejusdem avi mei et anima mea. Item volo quod apud Sanctum 
 Albanum in eccl. S. Petri celebrentur exsequife, prout moris est pro 
 animabus defunctoi'um, singulis annis xxij"^ die Mali, pro anima patris 
 mei et fratris mei Radulplii, ibidem sepultorum. Soi'ori mea^, dominte 
 
 '^ I do not understand this at Howden. It would have been correct at Beverley. 
 
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 180 THE HISTORY OF HEMINGBEOUGH. 
 
 Annte Pershay, iij li. argeuti, infra ti'es menses post oljitiim meum, et 
 unum an(n)ulum aureum. Sorori mefe, Elisabeth, omnia bona mea 
 quse habet in sua custodia, et xl s. Roberto Babthorp, consanguineo 
 meo, illud plumale cum le testur, etc., in superiori camera mea apud 
 Cantibrigiam, ac coster magnre camerse mete apud Hoveden, et xl s. 
 Willelmo Babthorp, fratri suo, illud plumale quod est in magna camera 
 mea apud Hoveden, cum le testure, etc., in superiori camera mea apud 
 Cantibrigiam, et optima linthiamina mea. Item volo quod omnes 
 feoflati in aliquibus terris per me acquisitis sint feofi'ati ad usum dicti 
 Willelmi Babthorp. Item assigno ipsum Willelmum ad percipiendum 
 exitus et proficua manerii de Osgodby ad debita mea persolvendum, et 
 aliter pro salute animaj mese disponendum, secundum tenorem cujusdam 
 cartre inde confectge. Magistro Thoma? Babthorp meum Portus 
 secundum usum eccl. cath. Ebor., illudque plumale quod est in camera 
 ad occidentalem finem aulse meje apud Hoveden, cum tota araya 
 inferioris camerse meiu apud Cantibrigiam. Leoni Pershay j testur de 
 fustian napyls, cum iij pannis pictis cum ymaginibus. Annse WharfF 
 x s. Thom?e Holl unam Bil)liam optimam cum duobus aliis libris sibi 
 assignandis per meos executores, si ipse voluerit celebrare pro anima 
 mea per j annum proximo futurum. Et si ipse noluerit, tunc executores 
 disponant et faciaiit alium celebi'are. Smeton, clerico, ad sustentationem 
 suam in Cantibrigia, quolibet anno pro iiij annis proximo futuris, xl s., 
 et unam de togis meis, si sit bene dispositus. Johanni Barbour, alias 
 Haryson, similiter, ad sust. suam in Cantibrigia, pro iiij annis, et aliam 
 de togis meis. Domino Johanni Todhow meum habitum cum le surples, 
 ac etiam togam in qua equitavi. Domino Johanni James j togam 
 talai'em blodii coloris. Domino Johanni Skipton j togam talarem 
 colons violett. Willelmo Starky j equum et xx s. Willelmo Orraeston 
 XX s. Thoma3 5odall x s. et quoddam Jornale. Tliompe Marton x s. 
 Ab(b)athi;v de Selby Beda^ Ecclesiastical Historian Gentis Anglorum, 
 cum alio libro. Dominiie Margaretse Egmonton j librum in lingua 
 Anglicana ad terminum vita3 sufe, et volo quod post ejus mortem 
 remaneat conventui de Clemyngthorp. Jacobo Salvayn, Willelmo 
 Jakson, Radulpho Rowden, Thom* Serff, et Thoma3 Robynson, secun- 
 dum moderamen executorum meorum. Residuum Willelmo Babthorp, 
 Johanni James, et Johanni Skipton, quos constituo executores meos, ad 
 disponendum pro salute anim?e meee ; et constituo dominum Johannem 
 Todhow supervisorem. Hiis testibus Willelmo Ormeston, Willelmo 
 Starke, et aliis. Pr. 29th Oct. 1478. [Test. Capit. Ebor. i. 341.] 
 
 Babthorpe Chapkl ANr3 Manor- House. — In connec- 
 tion with the old 11 all there was a private chapel, the 
 usual appendage of many a country house. It was there 
 in 14o6 when the inquest was taken on tlie death of 
 Sir Robert Babthorpe, and, a little before that time, he 
 asked the Prior and Convent of Durham to present his 
 priest, or chaplain, Bichard Whitelofe, to the vacant living 
 of Eastrington. It was usual to seek the permission of 
 the diocesan to build and use such places of worship, and 
 the various ecclesiastical registers abound with licences,
 
 BABTHOETE. 181 
 
 some granting the nse during pleasure, the majority for a 
 short number of years. One of the licences granted for 
 the chapel at Babthorpe is in Archbishop William Booth's 
 register, and is dated 15th October, 1455. It gives Robert 
 Babthorpe, Esq., and Elizabeth his wife, permission to 
 have service performed by a befitting chaplain or chap- 
 lains within their manors of Babthorpe, Waterton, &c., 
 but, as usual, the mass is to be said in a low tone, to 
 distinguish it from the parochial service, and the hearers 
 would be consequently few, as was intended, i.e. the 
 squire and his lady, with their children and household. 
 The permission is to last for two years. Care was also 
 generally taken that there should be no diminution in 
 the offerings which on particular days were to be made 
 in the parish church. 
 
 This privilege was confirmed for three years to Balph 
 Babthorpe, Esq., and Margaret his wife on 26th January, 
 1468-9, and renewed for the same period on 19th August 
 1475 {Vvegg. W. Booth, 181 ; G. Neville, 52, 109). 
 
 The chapel, which was at some distance from the hall, 
 was used as a dwelling-house after the Babthorpes sold 
 the estate. On 9th February, 1635-6, a daughter of 
 Anthony Baynes of the Chapel, in the Chapel Field, was 
 baptised at Hemingbrough, and on 12th November, 1643, 
 William Widhouse of Chapel was buried. 
 
 Vicar Potter (in 1750) says that "the chapel was situated 
 on the north of the road between Hemingbrough and 
 Brackenholme, and on the right hand as you turn out of 
 the said road, down the Common Baulk, towards Barmby ; 
 near which place are some ponds, or deep pools of water ; 
 and on some shortlands belonging to Babthorpe Hall' 
 which can scarce yet be easily plowed by reason of the 
 foundation stones." 
 
 The owner of Babthorpe was exempt from church 
 rates, but was obliged to keep in repair the Babthorpe 
 chapel on the north side of Hemingbrough Church. 
 
 A modern farm-house, partly constructed out of old 
 materials, occupies the site of the old manorial residence 
 of the Babthorpes. It was in the centre of a moat, mea- 
 suring about 80 yards by 130 outside measurement, and 
 from 12 to 15 wide. The area was bisected by another 
 moat. There were in this way two islands, each about 50
 
 182 THE HISTORY OF HEMINGBROUGH. 
 
 yards square. The house would stand on one, and the 
 barns, stables, and offices on the other. The use of a 
 moat for purposes of defence was quite unnecessary in this 
 part of Yorkshire. The idea was, no doubt, taken from 
 the county of Durham. 
 
 In the inquest on the death of Sir Robert Babthorpe, 
 taken in the 15th of Henry VI., the house is described as 
 consisting of a hall, chapel, and thirteen chambers, with 
 buttery^ pantry, kitchen, &c., and the out-offices consisted 
 of two barns, two stables, cowbyres and pigsties, &c. 
 There were also two gardens. 
 
 Some foundations are all that remain of the old house. 
 A few venerable trees, walnut and chesnut, which over- 
 shadowed it were recently standing, but all have dis- 
 appeared but one. 
 
 The Descent of the Babthorpe Estates. — Prior to 
 the year 1412, the estates of the family, by old arrange- 
 ment, were transmitted by hereditary descent in the male 
 line. In that year, however, during the feoffeeship of 
 Roger Airmme, for some reason or other a change was 
 made which allowed a female to inherit. Such a contin- 
 gency did not occur until the end of the century, but it 
 was then the cause of much litigation and strife. 
 
 Shortly before 1500 the main line ended in Isabel, 
 daughter of Ralph Babthorpe, Esq. She became the wife 
 of Sir John Hastings, who paid relief for the manor and the 
 adjoining lands in 1492. Hastings died without surviving 
 issue, and the estate then devolved upon his wife's first 
 cousin, another Isabel, who was the wife of William Pluraj^- 
 ton, Esq., of Plumpton, a gentleman of very ancient lineage. 
 In 1496, in the marriage articles of young Plumpton, it 
 was agreed that his wife and her heirs should have the 
 manors of Sacomb, co. Hertford, and Waterton, co. Lincoln, 
 with the other lands in Hertfordshire, and those at Hotoft, 
 Amcotes, and Waterton, in Lincolnshire, and at Eastoft, 
 Selby (with some exceptions), and Kirkby Wharfe in York- 
 shire, and that the male heir of the Babthorpes, William 
 Babthorpe of Osgodby, should have the lands in the parish 
 of Hemingbrough, and those at Middleton-on-the-Wold, 
 North Cave, Hunsley, Loftsome, and Wistow, in Y^ork- 
 shire, with the closes called the Flats in Selby, and other 
 lands at Colby, in Lincolnshire, " in satisfaction of all those
 
 BABTHOEPE. 183 
 
 lands, &c., that were or be entailed to any of the name of 
 Babthorpe, his ancestors, or to the heir male of any of 
 their bodies." To this arrangement the Pliimptons did 
 not adhere, and much trouble ensued. In 1504 William 
 Babthorpe of Osgodby, as well as the second wife of Sir 
 John Hastings, died, and the guardians of young William 
 Babthorpe of Osgodby took up his cause with vigour. His 
 mother, Christiana, who had already remarried Wm. Bedell, 
 had obtained the wardship of her son, together with the 
 manor and lands at Brackenholme, from the Bishop of 
 Durham. On loth July, 1504, Thomas Babthorpe, pro- 
 vost of Hemingbrough, the uncle of William, with the 
 assistance of two yeomen, took forcible possession of Bab- 
 thorpe, and held it for his nephew. He had himself at the 
 time a life interest in the property at Hunsley, Middleton, 
 and Wistow, which was valued at 71. per annum, and 
 Margaret, the widow of Ralph Babthorpe (the mother of 
 Isabella Plumpton), had for her dower the manor of 
 Waterton, and rents at Hotoft, Colby, Crosshouse, and 
 Kirkby Wharfe, worth 24/. 13.s. 4:d. yearly. A considerable 
 part, therefore, of the Babthorpe estate was at present 
 beyond the reach of the contending parties. 
 
 We may probably ascribe to this period a letter in the 
 Plumpton Correspondence : — 
 
 To my sister, Isabel Plompton, be thes delivered. 
 
 Sister, I hartelie commend me to you. 
 
 Edmond, your servant, shewed me that ye are aferred that the agre- 
 ment that my lord of Durram hath made with Bedell shold hurt your 
 title in Babthorp. Sister, be ye nothing afeard 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 nonage shall not hurt you. If any 
 presept com from the Sherrif to take your cattell, obey ye it not, for no 
 cattell should be taken therby but your husband cattell, and he hath 
 none ; and so may ye make the bayly answer. And take good hede 
 of your cattell and of keping your place, 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. 
 
 A copy of the proceedings which took place at this 
 period is to be found among Dodsworth's MSS. at Oxford. 
 The Plumptons claimed all the hereditary estates of the 
 Babthorpes, and a general enquiry was instituted to see 
 how they came to the family, and which were lands of 
 inheritance. We are indebted to this enquiry for a setting 
 out of the pedigree of the family for seven or eight genera-
 
 184 THE HISTORY OF HEMINGBROUGU. 
 
 tions. To succeed in a suit at law in those days required 
 a long purse and much influence, and no one can look into 
 the letters of Sir Robert Plumpton without seeing how 
 keen he was in endeavouring to sway unduly the course 
 of justice. He was successful in behalf of his son. 
 On 20th July, 1505, William Plumpton obtained livery 
 of the estates in dispute, and, soon after, licence to enter, 
 and, in April, 1506, seizin was given to him. The lands 
 which he thus acquired were, the manor of Sacombe,''' co. 
 Hertford, worth 201. per annum ; the manor of Babthorpe 
 worth Ql. los. 4d. ; lands in Brackenholme worth 51. 6s. Sd. ; 
 in Hemingbro' worth 1/. los. 4cd. ; in Selby worth 1/. ; 
 and in Eastoffc worth 1/. 135. Ad., amounting in all to 
 36/. 6s. 8d. of annual rent. 
 
 The dispute was revived in 1510, probably on the death 
 of Margaret, relict of Ralph Babthorpe, and was submitted 
 to arbitration. On 29th April, 1510, Thomas Babthorpe, 
 the provost, binds himself in 100/. to abide by the award 
 of Thomas Lord Darcy and Sir Marmaduke Constable. 
 We do not know what the award was. 
 
 Iq 1519 the quarrel was again opened, as William 
 Babthorpe (then of age) and Agnes his wife bind them- 
 selves in 1,000 marks to abide by the award of Robert 
 Brudenell and Humphry Coningsby, Knights, two of the 
 King's justices, with Cardinal Wolsey as umpire. 
 
 Yet again, on 2nd May, 1524, the contending parties 
 agree to refer their disputes to the arbitration of Sir Lewis 
 Pollard and Sir Richard Broke, Knts., two of the King's 
 justices of the Common Pleas, Sir Wm. Gascoigne, Knt., 
 treasurer to Cardinal Wolsey, and Ralph Swillington, the 
 King's attorney. There is an undated letter in the 
 Plumpton Correspondence which may reasonably be 
 ascribed to this period : — 
 
 To my right worshipful and my especial good father, Sir Robert 
 Plumpton, knt. 
 
 Right worshipful Sir. After dew recomeudations had, I liomly re- 
 
 " Sacombe had been a manor be- life, with remr. in tail to Ralph Bab- 
 longing to the family of Holt. By deed thorpe his son, and Katherine his wife, 
 dated llth September, 8th Henry V. and the heirs of their bodies, and, in 
 (1420), Richard Holt, clerk, brother and default, to the right heirs of Sir Robert, 
 heir of Hugh Holt of Northants, Esq., John Hastings, jme ux., had a life in- 
 gave the said manor and advowson to terest in this, and, on the death of Isabel 
 Sir Robert Babthorpe, Knt., together Hastings, s.p., the reversion of the in- 
 with certain lands in Staunton and heritance descended to Isabel Plumpton. 
 Epcomb in the same county, to hold for (Plumpton Corr. No. 791.)
 
 BABTIIORPE. 185 
 
 commend me uuto you and to my lady & mother-in-law, beseeching you 
 for your dayly blessing. Sir, I have bene dyverse tymes before the 
 Judges for my matters, but I can have none end as yet except my 
 cousin Babthorpe might have all the lands in Hemyngbrough, and I to 
 have Waterton, North CayfFe, Midelton, Wistow, and lands in Beverley 
 to the valow of xls. and Forest land in Selby to the valow of xxs., and 
 iij li land more, or Ix li in money ; and to give answer the first day of the 
 next tearme. Wherefore, Sir, I besech you of your best counsell therin 
 by this bearer * *. 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. Will. Plompton. 
 
 It appears that the lands at Babthorpe and Bracken- 
 hohne came at last to Wm. Babthorpe. They are said to 
 belong to him by John Leland in his Itmerary, and in the 
 inquisition after his death the property is described as 
 part of his fee. 
 
 The Plumptons, however, did not relinquish their claim 
 to the i3roperty at Hemingbroiigh. In January, 1564-5, 
 William Plumpton, the grandson, was of full age and had 
 a writ of Ouster le mayn, dated the 1st February seq., 
 from Sir Wm. Cecil, Knt., master of the Court of Wards, 
 and Robert Keilway, the surveyor. He had also livery 
 on 31st May of all the lands of his grandmother, and he 
 also, in the same year, revived the claim to the manors of 
 Babthorpe and Osgodby, and such parcels of the old 
 estates as had been retained by the male branch of the 
 Babthorpes. Plumpton claimed as heir-general of the 
 family. 
 
 The result before Sir James Dyer was another reference 
 to arbitrators, who were Sir Richard Weston and Sir John 
 Walsli, two judges. Their award is dated 20th October, 
 1^565, and assigns to Sir Wm. Babthorpe the lands at 
 Brackenholme, Hemingbrough, Osgodby, North Cave, and 
 Middleton, and all the rest to Plumpton, including the 
 manors of Sacomb and Waterton. He was also to receive 
 from Babthorpe the sum of 66/. 135. M?^ 
 
 In Easter Term, 8th Eliz., Sir Wm. Babthorpe con- 
 veyed the manor of Babthorpe to trustees — viz., Marma- 
 duke Constable, Wm. Hussey, Martin Anne, and 
 George Mallory, to secure it as tlie jointure of Dame 
 Frances, second wife of the said Sir WiUiam. In the 8th 
 of James I. new trustees were appointed — viz. Wm. 
 
 '« From the Osgodby Deeds.
 
 186 THE HISTORY OF HEMINGBROUGH. 
 
 Ingleby, Philip Constable, and Francis Trapps Birnand, 
 Esquires, to secure the manor to Wm. Babthorpe, the last 
 owner of that name. On the death of Ralph Babthorpe in 
 1618, this William, being his son and heir, neglected seeking 
 livery of his land, no doubt in consequence of the family 
 troubles which will be detailed more appropriately in the 
 account of Osgodby. Accordingly the inquest on his father 
 was transmitted to the Court of Wards, and the " mean 
 rates " due from Babthorpe were allowed to accumulate. 
 In the 19 til of James I. Babthorpe assigned his interest in 
 the manor to John Bowyer and Gilbert Jones, gentlemen, 
 most probably on trust. By deed dated 27th June, 1621, 
 and by fine and recovery. Sir Wm. Babthorpe and Dame 
 Ursula his w^ife conveyed to Richard Bowes of Hagthorpe, 
 Esq., the manors or lordships of Babthorpe and Barlby, 
 with a close called Poor Folks Close iii Brackenholme, and 
 all tithes of hay in the said manor of Babthorpe. It was 
 also arranged by a recognisance by way of Statute Staple, 
 dated 26th October, 1621, before Sir Henry Hobart, Chief 
 Justice of the Common Pleas, that the said Sir William 
 should be bound to the said Richard Bowes in the sum of 
 1,500/. to keep him harmless from all forfeitures, penalties, 
 &c., incurred by reason of the "popish recusancy of the 
 said Sir Wm. and Dame Ursula his wife, and of Sir Ralph, 
 father of the said Sir William." 
 
 An account of this family of Bowes will be found under 
 Hagthorpe. 
 
 But the " mean rates " for Babthorpe had not been paid 
 to the Crown, and a person of the name of Thomas 
 Ricliardson became answerable for them and the livery, 
 and appears also as a claimant for moneys which he had 
 advanced. The rates alone had accumulated to the 
 amount of 311/. 12.s. lid., and Richardson was put in 
 possession of the property to ensure the payment. This 
 debt was paid off by 26th May, 1628, but the Richardsons 
 were living in the house from 1634 until 1638,^'' probably 
 to repay themselves for money which they had advanced. 
 In 1 647 Mr. Bowes makes a settlement of the estate on 
 himself for his life, and then on his son Charles and 
 
 " IfiSi, 23 Nov., Edw. s. Thos. son, late of Babthorpe, gent., & Mrs. 
 Richardson of Babthorpe, gent., bapt. Cath. his wife, bp. ; bur. 10 July. 
 1638, 7 Oct., Ann d. Mr. Wm. Richard-
 
 BABTHORPE. 187 
 
 Susanna his wife. In 1648 Thomas Robinson and Isabel 
 his wife acquire of Richard Bowes, Esq., and Mary his 
 wife 50 acres of pasture and their appurtenances in Bab- 
 thorpe and Hemingbrough. This was probably a mortgage. 
 Charles Bowes died in 1658, and his father in 1655, on 
 whose death Babthorpe came to Susanna, formerly wife of 
 Charles Bowes, who had remarried Charles Fenwick, Esq. 
 Mr. Fenwick, a Northumbrian by birth, was on the side 
 of the Parliament in politics, and had been instructed to 
 superintend the destruction of Wressle Castle. He was a 
 magistrate for the East Riding and died at Babthorpe, 
 where he resided, in 1658-9 (buried 5 January ).^*^ About 
 the year 1665 the family of Bowes sold Babthorpe to James 
 Strangeways, gentleman, of York, a member of the family 
 of that name seated at South House, near Pickering. Mr. 
 Strangeways, like many of the young gentlemen of his 
 day, was too fond of a drunken frolic, and suffered for his 
 indiscretion. In August, 1661, he was present at a house 
 in New Malton, when Captain John Smith of Old Malton 
 received his death-wound in an affray. This warning was 
 of no use, as, in March, 1670, Mr. Strangeways was him- 
 self the victim in a house at Methley. He was intoxicated, 
 and when Mr. Bland, a son of Sir Thomas Bland of Kip- 
 pax, sat down beside him, as Mr. Bland tells the tale, 
 Strangeways leapt up and, drawing his sword, wished to 
 fiofht, swearing; " hee would kill the ex* if hee would not 
 fight him, and with that made a passe at this ex*, which 
 hee avoyded by leaping backe till he came with his backe 
 against a livery cupboard, beeing agamst the wall at the 
 farthest side of the roome ; and then the sayd Mr. Strange- 
 wayes made a second passe whicli the ex* put by, and got 
 a prick in the knee with Mr. Strangewayes' sword, and 
 then the sayd Mr. Strangewayes made a third violent 
 passe at the ex*, which this ex* put by with his left hand ; 
 
 " Will, d. 2 Jan., 1G58-9 (pr. in they exrs. Witn. Chas. and Thos. 
 
 London, 8 Feb.), Charles Fenwicke of Bowes and Dor. Lawne. 
 
 Babthorpe, Esq. To my sonne (meane- The order for the dismantling of 
 
 iug Charles Bowes, Esq.) one white Wressle Castle was issued 17 April, 
 
 gelding, one gray mare, togeither with 1650. The south side only was to be 
 
 all my bookes. To my other sonne left, and in it the windows were to be 
 
 (meaneing Thos. Bowes) 40Z. To my made eight feet square. The order was 
 
 brother (meaneing Mr. John Fenwicke) signed by Philip Saltmarsh, Edward 
 
 51. to buy him a mourneing-sute. To Kirlew, Chas. Fenwick, and Thos. A- 
 
 Mris Lawen 20s. Ees. to my wiefe thorpe. The battlements were also 
 
 Susanna and her daughter Mary Bowes ; thrown down.
 
 188 THE HISTORY OF HEMINGBROUGH. 
 
 and haveing his sword (for his defence) j^oynted against 
 Mr. Strangewayes, hee runn himselfe uppon it, by which 
 this ex* conceives hee received his wound." Mr. Bland 
 pledged himself at the assizes to procure the King's pardon/^ 
 and so, with the payment of fees, the trouble would come 
 to an end. From James Strangeways Babthorpe passed 
 to his niece Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Strange- 
 ways, of Pickering, gentleman, who was married on 25th 
 July, 1699, to Boynton, son of Thomas Appleyard of 
 Ulceby, co. Lincoln, who took the surname of Boynton, 
 in April, 1701, in compliance with the will of Matthew 
 Boynton, Esq.,^° his maternal uncle. Mr. Boynton died 
 in 1725, leaving two daughters and co-heiresses, the elder 
 of whom, Judith, married John Twisleton, Esq., the 
 younger, Elizabeth, Bichard Hutchinson, Esq., afterwards 
 Langley, of Wykeham Abbey. Mr. Twisleton was a 
 grandson of Philip Twisleton, Esq., of Drax. By will, 
 dated 26th May, 1748, he left to his wife, for her hfe, in 
 addition to her dower, the farm in Babthorpe in the tenure of 
 John Overend. After her decease he entailed this, with 
 all his real estate, on his nephew Thomas Cockshott for 
 life, with remamder to his heirs. On the death of Mr. 
 Twisleton his nephew assumed his name, and, dying 
 
 " Depositions from York Castle, real estate to my nephew Thos. Cock- 
 
 Surtees Soc, pp. 90-1, 178. shott, for his life, remr. to his sons in 
 
 «» Will d. 11 Nov., 1724 (pr. 19 June, tail. Wife and Thos. King exrs. 
 
 1725). Boynton Boynton of Eawclifl'e, 16 Oct. 1772 (pr. Aug., 1779). Judith 
 
 Esq. To my wife my coach, chariot Twisleton of Eawclitfe, par. Snaith, 
 
 and coach mares, and my household widow. To be bur. in the church of 
 
 goods, for life. Dau. Judith my lands Drax near my late dear husband. Niece 
 
 in Goule and Hooke. Sister Lady Eliz., wife of Dr. Dealtry of York, 3001. 
 
 Blackham, 201. Niece, Jane wife of Nieces Ann and Frances Langley, each 
 
 Mr. Jos. Smith, 201. Bro^ Wm. Apple- 3001. Niece Jane, wife of Mr. Ealph 
 
 yard. Bro^ Mr. John A.'s widow. Creyke of Marton, 300Z. Niece Cath. 
 
 2G May, 1748 (pv. 21 June, 1757). Langley, 300L Nephew Wm. Langley, 
 
 John Twisleton of Eawcliffe, Esq. To 300Z. Nephew Matthew Boynton. Stew- 
 
 my wife my Jewells, coach and four ard,PhineasFaram, 50Z. Nephew Josias 
 
 coach-horses, and the use of all my Cockshott, the enamel picture which 
 
 plate, furniture, &e., at Eawcliffe and was drawn for my late dear husband, 
 
 York for life, and 500Z. To Rev. Thos. and which used to hang to my watch. 
 
 King of Stanford, co. Worcester, clerk, lOOZ. to be invested for the Boynton 
 
 301. Nephew John Cockshott, 2nd son of Almshouse at Eawcliffe. To Eliz., dau. 
 
 Rev. Josias C. of Kegworth, co. Leicester, of Dr. Dealtry, my best diamond ear- 
 
 l.OOOZ. ; nephew Josias C. 1,000Z., each rings. Niece Anne Langley my three 
 
 when 21. My three sisters, Ann, wife diamond stay-buckles. Niece Frances 
 
 of Eev. Thos. King, Mary, wife of Josias Langley my diamond night cloathes ear- 
 
 Cockshott, clerk, and Sarah, wife of rings. Niece Jane Creyke my diamond 
 
 Samuel York of Kegworth, each lOOZ. hoop-ring. Niece Cath. Creyke my silver 
 
 per ann. for life. To my wife, for her teapot and silver inkstand. The rest 
 
 life, the farm at Babthorpe in possn. of to nieces Anne, Frances, and Cath, 
 
 John Overend, above her jointure. My Langley — they exrs.
 
 PEDIGREE OF STRANGEWAYS, TWISLETON, COCKSHUTT. AND HEATHCOTE. 
 
 Pftly of Bix argent and gulos a canton of llie f 
 JaiucB Strangeways of Sneaton, gen. Will d. 16th Aug. pr. 4th Nov. 1647 = Alice, daa. . . . Key of OHstead. 
 
 2. Henry Strangeways of Sneaton, m. Mai'gai-et, 
 d. Wm. Mitford of Kirkby Miflperton. 
 
 3. James Strangeways of York, bays Babthorpe, 
 &c.; killed March 2«. 1G70. 
 
 1. Thomas Strangeways of =Jane,d. Lulce Bobinson, Esq., of Tboi-nton 
 South House, tot. 45 in 16G3. i fiiseborough,bp. 37 March, 1634; marr. It 
 Bur. at Pickering. 20 Sept., March, 1654-5; bur. 16 Mar.. 16G2-3, at 
 1669. WiUd.l2thSept., 1669. Pickering. 
 
 111,1 
 Four daughters 
 See Dugdale. 
 
 1. Penelope, d. . . 
 
 = Thomas Strangeways, = James, bp. 18 Nov. 1660. 2. Elizabeth,m.atYork=BoyntonBoynton.Es(].,of Tli,., 1^1, 
 
 "n r. , iorof = .\nnp. d. Chr 
 
 Etherington ; mar. 
 
 gen., of South House. , bur. 12 Jan. 1661-2. Minater,25July.l699; j Bawcliffe. Will d. 11 WiilMii,, 
 
 Hi !■: ■■'■-. a ' Glasscock. 
 
 28Nov..l67C;bur.a 
 
 Born 17th .Ian., 1656-7. 1. Jane, born 23rd Jan. ob. 29 Jan., 1729-30. ' Nov..l724. Bur.alSnaith j. im, .. 
 
 Ml liiilip T. 
 
 Pickering80ct.l681 
 
 Bur. at Pickei-ing 20, 1665-6, m.Thos. Potter M.I. 
 Nov., 1702. ffit. 55. ' of Leeds.-|v 
 
 3. Frances, bora 11th 
 
 Snaith. 13 Apr.. 1725. .>( Huix, Es 
 
 ^" 
 
 
 Mar.. 1657-8, d. young. 
 
 
 
 1 1 1 
 Bichard, bp. at P., 
 
 1 1 
 1. Thomas Strange- = Elizabeth, d. Elizabeth, bp. at P. 
 
 Matthew, born 22, ob. 24 Judith, born = John Twisle- 
 
 ■ 1 
 Mary, m. Eev. Josias Coek- 
 
 28 Apr., 1679. 
 
 ways Bobinson, Esq. 
 
 & h. ol .lames 2S Aug., 1685. Marr 
 
 February. 1705-6. M.I.. 7. bp. 20 June, ton, Esq., of 
 
 shutt. M.A., rector of Keg- 
 
 James, bp. 27 Apr., 
 
 Took the name of 
 
 (iibson.Esq.of at Bulmer, 8 April 
 
 Snaith. 1701 ; marr. 5 Bawcliffe, ob. 
 
 worth. CO. Leicester, d. 1 
 
 1680. bur. 26 Mav, 
 
 Bobinson. Bp. at P. 
 
 Welbume. m. 1703, Anthy. Hunter. 
 
 Elizabeth, bp. at Snaith, May, 1726. at U Apr.. 1757. 
 
 Aug.. 1760, bur. at Keg- 
 
 at P. 
 
 22 Doc. 1677. "WoU 
 
 at Kirkdale, d. Bemarr. John Boyu- 
 
 26Aug.,1704;m.lONov., Snaith. Bur. set. 61. 
 
 worth. He was son of Geo 
 
 Henry, bp. 20 May, 
 
 versed in the antiqui- 
 
 37 Dec, 1751. tonAdama,Esq. Bur. 
 
 1724, Eich. Hutchinson at Drax, 15 
 
 C. of Great Harwood. co 
 
 1681, bur. 9 Apr., 
 
 ties of the country." 
 
 «t. 63. at Drax 8. p. 1755. 
 
 (Langley),EBq..ofWyke- July.1779, s.p. 
 
 Lancaster, and was baptiset 
 
 1682, at P. 
 
 Bur. 3rd July, 1751. 
 
 With her bvo'. Thos. 
 
 ham Abbey.-js 
 
 there 18 Nov., 1G88, d. 28 
 
 
 aged 73. Sells Barlby 
 
 E. sells Hagthon>e. 
 
 
 Dec. 1760, bur. at Kegivorth. 
 
 
 in 1707. ^ 
 
 
 
 II, 
 
 Anne, m. Eev. Thomas Thomas Cockshutt, M^., = Dorothy, d. John Davys John Cockshutt, 1. Maiy, d. Thos. = JosiasCock.'ihutt,Ksi!.,of Osbaston, = 2. Saiah, 2d dau. 
 
 King, clerk, of Stan- ofQuordon,< 
 ford. CO. Worcester. Took the 
 Sarah, m. Samuel York Twisleton. ] 
 of Kegworth. July, 1764, a 
 
 Keg worth. 
 
 . Leicester, of Loughborough. Be- d. mt. 6 months. Cockshutt, preby. 
 rae of man-. . . . Dinadale of John Cockshutt, of Southwell, m. 
 p. 24 Middlehara, co. York. d. in Manchea- at East Betford, 
 
 1759, ob. 31 Jan., 1826. M.I. i 
 
 Mary, born 2 Dtic, 1799, bp. at Little Over. 
 Caroh'ne, born 9 Nov., 1794, bp. ibid. 
 Catherine, bom 20 Aug., 1796, bp. ibid. 
 
 '">
 
 HAGTIIORFE. 189 
 
 without issue, his property came to his brother Josias, 
 and then to another Josias, his son, who died in 1823. 
 Babthorpe then descended to a nephew of the last owner, 
 Bache Heathcote, Esq., of the Pastures, near Derby, whose 
 son sold the estate in 1840 to Mr. John Banks, of How- 
 den. A short pedigree will show the owners of the estate 
 for the last two centuries, and illustrate, besides, the his- 
 tory of Hagthorpe and Barlby. 
 
 HAGTHORPE. 
 
 " In Achetorp' the Bishop of Durham has one caru- 
 cate," are the words of Domesday. In Kirkby's Inquest it 
 is said : 
 
 Villa de Hakethorp contlnet in se j car. terrse, unde Robertus de 
 Hakethorp tenet vj bov. terra;, et Robertus Hardyng tenet ij bov. 
 terrte ; et illi tenent prjedictam terram de Episcopo Dunelm., et ille de 
 Rege in capite per feodum militare ; unde xij car. terrie faciunt feodum 
 railitis. 
 
 The meaning of the word is, probably, the village in 
 the wood, hag signifying a plantation or wood of young 
 timber. Like the neighbouring hamlet of Babthorpe, 
 Hagthorpe was granted at very early times to a family 
 "which took its name from the place, but there is little 
 known about the Hagthorpes. The Bishop's baililF in 
 the time of Edward L, Robert de Hagthorpe, is spoken 
 of in the Hundred Rolls as guilty of much harshness and 
 extortion in the execution of his office.^^ A namesake of 
 his, another Robert, saw service in the French wars. In 
 the fourteenth century a younger son of the house, John 
 de Hagthorpe, became the owner of the estate of Nettles- 
 worth, near Durham. He is probably identical with 
 John, son of Thomas de Hagthorpe, a public notary, 
 who occurs at Durham iii 1348, and founded in ISGZ a 
 chantry above the abbey gate at Durham dedicated to St. 
 
 •*' " Dicunt quod Johannes de Halton Roberto de Haketorp ad firmam,quipei- 
 tiadidit wapp' inter Use et Derewent extorsiones gravissimas illam levavit."
 
 190 
 
 THE HISTORY OF HEMINGBROUGH. 
 
 PEDIGREE OF HAGTHORPE OF HAGTHORPE. 
 
 Arms of Hagtliorpe. 
 
 Robert de Haketorp witn. a grant of Ralph de Babthorpe 
 circa 1190. 
 
 Robert de Haketorp mentioned in a plea of Assize, 
 15tli Hen. III. 
 
 Robert de Hakethorpe occurs in an Assize plea, 52nd 
 Hen. III. Bailiff of the Bp. about that time. Witnesses 
 deeds in 1271 and 1282, and a plea of Assize in 1293. 
 
 Robert de Hagthorpe witn. inquests 10th Edw. II. and 
 13th Edw. III. 
 
 Sir Robert de Hakthorpe, Kt., legatee in the Thomas de Hagthorpe, = Isabel de 
 will of Henry de Cliffe in 1333. Occ. in the temp. Edw. HI. Osgodby. 
 
 Gascon Rolls 29th Edw. III. 
 
 John, s. of Thomas de H., 
 notary public. From whom, 
 probably, the Hagthorpes of 
 Nettlesworth. 
 
 Thomas de Hagthorpe,... 
 Fine Rolls 39th Edw. Ill 
 Witn. an inquest 7th Ric 
 II. and a charter 10th. 
 
 Thomas de Hagthorpe, 5th Hen. V. Witn. an inquest 9th 
 Hen. VI., and a deed of release 17th Hen. VI. 
 
 Elizabeth, m. Ralph 
 do Beaufewe, occ. 39th 
 Edw. III. 
 
 William Hagthorpe, 
 M.I. at Selby. 
 
 Thomas Hagthorpe, 
 occ. in the Receivers 
 Rolls in 1417 and 1460. 
 
 Richard Hagthorpe, Esq. Witn. 
 an inq. 6th Edw. IV. At She- 
 riff's turn 19th Edw. IV. 
 
 Catherine, m. Sir 
 Ralph Babthorpe, 
 and d. 1461. 
 
 Thomas Hagthorpe, Esq., pays 52s. 
 for his relief, 8th Hen. VII. 
 
 2d. = Christiana, 
 I dau. . . . 
 
 Robert Hagthori^e, witn. 
 an inq. 6th Hen. VII. 
 
 Robert Proctor, = Joan, eldest dau. and coh. = Thomas Newark, 
 
 gen. par. Burnsall, 
 marr. lie. d. 23rd 
 Jan. 1503-4. 
 
 Geoffrey Proctor, 
 owner of lands in 
 Hagthorpe, 22nd, 
 23rd Hen. VIII. 
 
 Inq. p.m. d. 15th June, 
 1535, ob. 9th Aug. last. 
 In 1506 the heirs of 
 Thos. H. paid 100s. for 
 their relief. 
 
 Esq., of South 
 Dal ton, near 
 Beverley. Will d. 
 14th Nov. 1512. 
 
 John Wen- 
 celagh, of 
 Brandsbur- 
 
 ton, Esq. 
 
 I 
 Henry Newark, of 
 South Dalton, Esq., 
 s. and h. to his mo- 
 ther, ffit. 23. Will d. 
 2nd Sept. 1546. Inq. 
 p.m. 24th Sept. 1547. 
 
 John Newark, son and 
 heir, 1546, a)t. 18. 
 
 Isabel, d.Wm. 
 ThwaitesEsq., 
 of Marston,M. 
 Lied. 13 Nov. 
 1512. 
 
 I I 
 
 Catherine, m. 
 Thos. Holme, 
 of Huntington. 
 
 Christiana = William 
 I Wencelag 
 4- Esq. 
 
 Anne 
 
 Susan 
 
 Catherine.
 
 HAGTHORPE. - 191 
 
 Ellen.^^ His descendants were the owners of Nettles- 
 worth until the close of the sixteenth century. One of 
 the last of them was John Hagthorpe,^^ who won for 
 himself a place in the world of letters by two little 
 volumes of poetry to .which his name is attached. The 
 Hagthorpes of Nettlesworth fared better in this world's 
 goods than their kinsmen at Hagthorpe, who stirred but 
 little from home, and made few additions, so far as we 
 know, to their narrow domain. 
 
 The old manor-house of Hagthorpe, Avhich was very 
 spacious, was pulled down, as vicar Potter says, inter 
 1741-50, by the Langleys of Wykeham Abbey, and 
 gave place to the substantial brick house which is still 
 there. It occupies only a portion of the site of its pre- 
 decessor, which was originally surrounded by a moat, 
 about 80 yards by 130, and more than 12 in width. This, 
 however, has been filled up, and can only be traced on 
 two sides. On the inner edges of what was once the 
 moat are some fine elm and forest trees, descendants of 
 an earlier generation, which sheltered for many a century 
 die old hall of the Hagthorpes. There was also a private 
 chapel attached to it, of which every trace has perished. 
 In it, as at Babthorpe, the owner of the estate, with his 
 family and servants, had service performed by a private 
 chaplain of his own. 
 
 The sketch of the pedigree of the Hagthorpes (p. 190) 
 is all that we are at present able to give. 
 
 Nov. 14, 1512. Thomas Newarke of Dalton besydes Beverley in 
 the countie of Yorke, Esquyer, heyng of hoile mynde and of good 
 memore, feryng the howre of deth, beyng uncertayne : To be buried in 
 the north yle, affore Saynt Thomas alter, in the parishe church of South 
 Dalton, and to the kirkwark, for my buriall, xs. To two Ordors of 
 Frers in the towne of Beverley v s., distribuendos jequaliter inter eosdem 
 pro uno trentale of mess to be song for my saule, my fader and my 
 moder saulls, and all my good doers' saulls. To Mr. Robert Cheston 
 my best stagg, to be chosyn emonges all my horse. I bequeth my vice 
 of gold, havyng xxiij boUions with a trayffuU dependyng, unto Cris- 
 tiane, my doughter, and my wyfFe have the kepyng and usse therof 
 
 **- Eeg. Magn. Pr. et Conv. Dunehii. Nettlesworth. The following entries re- 
 
 ii., part ii. 79 ; Eeg. v. 3, f. 26. Cf. Bj). lating to him occur in the Whixley Ee- 
 
 Hatfield's Survey ; Surtees' Durham, ii. gister : 1604, 27 Dec, Clare, dau. Mr. 
 
 204. John de Hagthorpe, the lawyer, John Hagthorpe, bp. (named after his 
 
 occurs several times in the documents mother Clare, dau. Sir Ealph Hed- 
 
 at Durham. There was also a Eobert worth, of Harraton) ; Catherine, bp. 
 
 de Hagthorpe, a notary, in 1364. 26 Apr. 1607 ; William, bp. 26 Sept. 
 
 ^^ Of Whixley, in 1607, when he sold 1607 ; Elizabeth, bp. 24 June, 1610.
 
 192 THE HTSTOKY OF HEMINGBROUGH. 
 
 duryng hir liffe ; and if so forton, as God forbid, yt Cristiane my 
 doughter deceasse afFore my wilie, then I will the said vice goo unto 
 my son' Hai^y and hys heris. I bequeth my sygnet of gold w* a bull 
 gravyn in it, oon chalace with vestment, and all other gere belongyng 
 unto the chappell at Hagthorp, nowe ther beyng, a standing peisse with 
 cover pounsed and dymy gylt havyng a rosse in beames in the fronnce, 
 and a sylver salt parcell gilt of the gyfte of my Lord of Northumbre- 
 land, to my sonne Herry when he shall come to full aige. To my son, 
 Thomas Holme, a pair of gold beedes of fyftie which [sic] Seth Snawe- 
 sell Esquyer, and oon corsse of gold, beyng in the handes of Thomas 
 Herrison of Yorke, &. al such howshold as remanys in haull of 
 Huntington next ajoynyng unto the parish church of Huntington, ut 
 clarius patet in scedula exinde confecta, that he shall be good and 
 favorabill broder unto Katerine Holme his sister, and to kepe and 
 fulfill his moder mynd, and to agree w* Katerine Holme for hir childe's 
 portion according to his promyse at sealing of his last acquetaunce unto 
 me. I bequeth oon silver harnest girdill called a demysent unto the 
 fertur in Barton church upon Humber next the marketsted. To the 
 house of "Wilberfosse xs., to be praid for by my Laidy Prioresse and hir 
 sisters. I will yt receat of al my landes in Middilton and South Dalton 
 be applied for the marige of Cristiane, my doughter, during the non 
 aige of Herry, my son and heir apparent, & ... if she mai-y not with 
 consent of my wiffe and other my frendes : and if she wilnot be rewlid 
 and avisid by my said wifF and other my frendes, or elles be takyn by 
 force away, then I will yt the summe so levied be disposed for the well 
 of my saull. I bequeth vij marc to a preist to sing for my saule in 
 South Dalton where I shal be buried. The residew to my wyfFe Jayne, 
 whome I make myn executrix. Biian Palmes serjannt of lawe, Roger 
 Newarke, my brother Thomas Holme, Esquyre, and Mr. Robert Ches- 
 ton supervisors. To Harry, my son and heir, tow meses and gardyns in 
 Beverley in Est gate, which I have, by reason of birth, of the shryne of 
 Saynt John of Beverley. (Reg. Test. Ebor. viii. 94.) 
 
 Sept. 2, 1546. Henry Newarke, of South Dalton, Esquyer. To be 
 buried within the parishe churche of South Dalton, in the north iel 
 there whereas others myn ancetoures lyethe beried. To my wif my 
 lordship of Hagthrope, for terme of hir lifF. Daughters Anne, Susan, 
 and Kateryn, 40 marks each. Son and heir. Res. to my wife Isabell, 
 she ex''. Witn. Geo. Twyng, Esq., Walter Grimston, John Fowberie, 
 gent., Sir Wm. Laicoke, preste. (From a Register of Beverley Wills, 28.) 
 
 It will be seen that tlie line of Hagthorpe ended in co- 
 heiresses, probably two in number. In 1532 John 
 Wencelagh was residmg at Babthorpe, but in 1535 Joan 
 Newark, who was twice married, was found at her decease 
 to be owner of the manor, 80 acres of arable land and 
 80 of pasture ; also of 18 acres of meadow, 20 of pasture, 
 and 2() of wood in Brack enholme. In 1536 Geoffrey Proctor 
 enfeoffed Wm. Babthorpe, Esq., Marm. Fawkes, and Wm. 
 Salvin, in a messuage, windmill, and land in Hagthorpe, 
 a ferry over the Derwent, called the Hagthorpe ferry,
 
 PEDIGREE OF BOWES OF HAGTHORPE AND BABTHORPE. 
 
 The arms ascribed to Sir Martin Bowes < 
 these: " Eniiine, three bows in chief azure 
 swan argent between two leopards' heads or.' 
 
 St. Male's, Battersea. 
 
 Minster, Ist Nov. 1619. 
 
 Martin Bowes, Cordelia.ni. 28Feb.158fi-7.atS.Micb.- Richard Bowes. Esq., bap. at S. - Maiy.d.Kobt. Brooke, aldn. 1.., 
 
 of Essex. le-Belfrev. York, John May.s. of the Mary's, Battevsca, 2'J Oct. 1570, 
 
 William Bowes. Bp. of Carlisle. heir to his mo', in llil9, rot. JS and 
 
 Emniote and Bridget Bowes, of York. more. Owner of Hagthorpe. Coni- 
 
 AdmoD. gr. Jan. 17, 1593-4, to Tbos. miss', of Sewers. Bur. at H., Aug. 
 
 Bowes, clerk, their brother. 27, 1655. 
 Other daughters. 
 
 Mary's, Battersi 
 
 1672. Will d. 17 Mar. lGll-12, 
 
 pr. 29 Apr. scq. 
 
 I I M i I 
 
 . bp. at A. S., York, Jan. 13, Matthew B., 
 
 Md. at H., Aug. 8, 1620, Will d. 24 S- 
 
 tiby. gen., of Sherwood Hall.-f- 1625 : 
 
 Esq. Bur. at H., July (i 
 1688. 16 Jan. 1691-3 
 admoQ. to her grand 
 Bon, John Bowes. 
 
 Elizabeth. M. Lie. 1033, with Thos. 
 
 Bichardeon, of Hull, niercht.>f.. 
 Susanna, bp. at H., July 12. 1614, m. 
 
 '- Sept. 1635. Matt. Topham, of Hull, 
 
 S.CiLi>.,Yoik. Aju.';, n;i-.'. rc-lha; 
 
 and a son, Wm., bp. 25 Catherine, bp. A. S., 25 Nov. Ifill, 
 
 Aug. 1646. "" ■ ■ "■ " ■ ■ ~ 
 
 Balph, bp. and bur. Jan. 8, 
 
 1625-6, at H. 
 John, of Babthorpe, gen. 
 Will d. 5 Apr, lfi55, pr. mercht, 
 
 ~ " Anne, bp. at H.. Jan. 9. 1015-16, m. 
 
 1. Henry Marshall, in 1638 ; 2. Peter 
 Bryan, of Fulford. 
 
 Charity, bp. at H., Apr. 2, 1618. M. Lie. 
 with Wm.Bamsbottom, 1636. Curate 
 
 Faith, bp. Aug. 3. 1G23. M. Mr. John 
 
 Wilshire.^ 
 
 Richard 11. , 
 
 the armes of his ancestni ^.' ■ 
 Bur. S. Mich.-le-Belfrey, 
 
 Dorcas, m. a' 
 Beale, aldn. 
 
 S. M.-le-Bel- 
 4, 1630, Paul 
 of York.4. 
 
 I I J I I 
 
 Charles Bowes, bp. at H., July 13, Bichatd Bones, bp. at H., 5th Sarah Bowes, bp. at Thomas Bowes, of Hagthorpe and = Jane, d. Thos. Biecard, of Cowick, by Jane, 
 
 1636. Apr. 1638. Adm. of Rich. B., of St. Cuthbert's, York, Babthorpe, gen. Bp. at H., Nov. 3, I d. Hugh Taylor, of Coates. Bp. at Snaith. 
 
 Richard, bp. 5 Apr. 1637, bur. HagtboiT)o, to Eobt. Herbert, 28 May, 1641. 1039. Living at Coates, par. Snaith, 28 Nov. 1039. Mar. L. Apr. 16, 1662. Bur. 
 
 Mar. 8, 1639-40. H. 
 
 gen.. Oct. 19, 1704. 
 
 1 16G8. Dead before 1695. 
 
 at Carlton, May 4, 1671. 
 
 John Bowes, of Covnck, gen., in 1702. After- = Frances, d. Matt, and Jane Topham, of Thomas Bowes, Bp. at H. 
 wards of Droitwich, co. Worcester. 1 South Duffield, niair. at S. Olave's, York. 4 Apr. 1605, bur. at Carlton, 
 
 11 Oct. 1694. Marr. Lie, d. Sept. 14. 22 Feb. 1668-9. 
 
 Mil 
 
 Susanna, bp. at H.. 12 Feb. 1662-3. 
 Mary. bp. at H,. Oct. 25, 1666. 
 Faith, bp. 19, bur. 22 Feb. 1668-9, at Carlton. 
 Jane, tmn with Faith, bp. 22 Feb. 1668-9, bur. 
 22 Sept. 1669, at Carlton. 
 
 John Bowes, bp. at Saaith, Dec. 22, 1098.
 
 HAGTHOEPE. 193 
 
 and a moiety of lands in Brackenliolme, Hagthorpe, 
 and ClifFe. In the 4th of Edward VI., 1550, Sir William 
 Baljthorpe acquired the interest of Geoffrey Proctor and 
 Winifred his wife in Hagthorpe, which in 1581 is described 
 as amounting to 40 acres. The sLare of the Wencelaghs 
 seems to have passed to the Newarks. The successors of 
 John Newark were Thos. Savile,^^ Esq., and Catherine his 
 wife, and TLos. Hard wick, gent., and Catherine his wife, 
 who, m 1584, sell the manor of Hagthorpe, or Hake- 
 thorpe, to Matthew Hutton, S.T.P., then Dean of York. 
 He became, subsequently. Bishop of Durham, and Arch- 
 bishop of York, and in his will, dated 20th November, 
 1605, bequeathed to Frances his wife, for the mcrease of 
 her jomture, the sum of 50/. per annum out of the manor 
 of Hagthorpe, and the tithes of that place and B]-acken- 
 holme.*^ The manor itself and the tithes descended to the 
 Archbishop's eldest son. Sir Timothy Hutton. 
 
 Frances Hutton was the Archbishop's third wife. She 
 was the widow of Martin Bowes, a younger son of Sir 
 Martin Bowes, the well-known goldsmith and Lord Mayor 
 of London. By her first husband she had a son, Ricliard 
 Bowes, Esq., to whom, m the 10th of James I., Sir 
 Timothy Hutton, Knt., and Elizabeth his wife sold the 
 manor of Hagthorpe, with other lands and tithes in Hag- 
 thorpe, Brackenholme, and Hemingbrough. There was 
 probably some family arrangement about the sale and also 
 about Mrs. Hutton's dower. In her last will, dated 1st 
 January, 1G15-1G, when mentioning her son Richard, 
 she says that her "motherly care towards him hath 
 beene very greate in many wayes, soe I hold him 
 sufficiently provided for." She also says that she had lent 
 him 800/. 
 
 The genealogical chart opposite will best show the 
 history of the family. 
 
 There is little known about Richard Bowes, save that 
 he was the progenitor of a very large family of children, 
 the provision for whom would impoverish his estate, and 
 leave comparatively little for his eldest son. 
 
 _*' There is a tithe suit at York in Meadow or Ing, and the Great Ted- 
 
 1578 in which Thos. Savile, gen., who deringes. 
 
 is called the farmer of the messuage of ^^ Dr. Hutton acquired these tithes in 
 
 Hagthorpe, seeks to recover from Eobert the 29th of Elizabeth. 
 Clarke the tithe of hay from the Great
 
 194 THE HISTORY OF HEMINGBROUGH. 
 
 His son John was a person of means, a dandy also, 
 npon whose coat with silver-plate buttons and demi- 
 caster hat the villagers at Hemmgbrough must have gazed 
 with admiration. His will, made in the Interregnum, is 
 preserved at Somerset House, and may be of interest. 
 
 5 Apr. 1655. John Bowes of Babtliorpe, gen. Bro. in-law, Mr. 
 Mathew Topham of Hull, merchant, & my sister, Faith Wilshire, ex>"s. 
 To my father, Richai'd Bowes, Esq., my silver taster uppon which is 
 my name, & my red bayes gowne. Sister Coulborne 5^. Sister Richard- 
 son a gould ringe inamelled, with an amethist sett in it. Sister Topham 
 my diamond ringe, my gimmer gould ringe, & a tapistry carpett. 
 Sister Wilshire a shell cupp, &. a long blacke mourninge cloacke. I 
 release unto my nephew, John Pelham, sonne to Mr. Peregrine Pelham 
 deceased, what he owes me, he paying 6001. to my ex'"^. Neece Eliz. 
 Pelham 30^. Neece Susanna Pelham 12^. Bro^' Richard Bowes his 
 dau. Mary Bowes 51. Brother Maisters '20s. for a ring. Nece Mary 
 Richardson. Nephews, Thos. & Rich'^ Maisters. Nephews Nathaniel 
 & John Ramsbottom. Neeces Mary & Susanna Wilshire. Bro''-in- 
 law, Mr. John Wilshire, my blacke suite, the cloake of cloath lyned 
 with tabby, the suite and cloake laced with a bone lace, and my syna- 
 mond colour cloth suite and cloake, my coate with silver plate buttons, 
 a black demicaster hatt, & a paire of pearle colour silke stockings. To 
 my brother Topham my seale ringe with a shipp in it, & to his sonne 
 Joseph Topham my silver hatt band, and my silver standish, with a 
 case of silver counters. To Susanna Topham nyne wrought coverings 
 of needle worke with greene fringe for chaires. Cosen Robert Bi'ooke 
 one black silke suite & cloake of grogorme with a lace, a paire of red 
 silke stockings, a paire of great bootes & a paire of pistoUs. Cosen 
 Benjamin Brooke my old araie coate & 206'. The rest, to my ex''^. 
 (Pr. 25 Feb. 1655-6, & adm. to the ex'-^) 
 
 The testator, for some reason or other, never mentions 
 his brother Charles Bowes, the heir of the house of Hag- 
 thorpe. 
 
 In August 16o5, on the occasion of a marriage between 
 Charles Bowes, his son and heir, and Susanna, daughter 
 of Thomas Anlaby, Esq., of Etton, Richard Bowes made a 
 settlement of the manor of Hagthorpe and the tithes of 
 Brackenholme, then valued at 150/. per annum. They 
 were to go to the said Charles and Susan for their lives, 
 and then to their heirs male. In 1615 Mr. Charles Bowes 
 was in need of money, and borrowed the sum of 150/. of 
 Mr. Edward Kirlew, binding himself in 300/. to pay in- 
 terest at the rate of 8/. per cent, yearly. Mr. Bowes died 
 in 1648, leaving arrears which quickly accumulated, 
 Kirlew pressing for payment, and Mrs. Bowes and her 
 second husband, Mr. Fenwick, resisting the claim on the
 
 HAGTHORPE. 195 
 
 score of the priority of her marriage settlement. At last, 
 failmg to obtain any redress, Mr. Kirlew filed a bill in 
 Chancery, and, by a decree made 28th January, 1664-65, 
 payment was directed to be made. Upon this Charles 
 Bowes the younger, by indenture dated the 3rd 'Tuly, 1665, 
 disposed of the property for 640/. to James Strangeways 
 of York, gent. This obliged Kirlew to appeal to Chan- 
 cery again ; the decree was then made absolute, and, in 
 February 1667-8, Kirlew entered upon the receipts and 
 profits of Hagthorpe, and enjoyed them until his death in 
 1681. By his will, dated 2nd July in that year, he be- 
 c[ueathed the same to his son-in-law, John Fenton, who 
 held them when Mrs. Fenwick died, in 1688. As it was 
 then considered that all arrears had been fully satisfied, 
 Thomas Strangeways, Esq., the brother and heir of James, 
 filed a bill against Mr. Fenton, and regained possession in 
 1692. The proceedings still continued for some years, as 
 Mr. John Bowes, in 1697, brought in a bill of revisor 
 against the widow and son of John Fenton, to recover 
 certain surplus profits, which he obtained in 1699, by 
 decree of Dr. Newton. Soon after this, Thomas Strano-e- 
 ways died, leaving Hagthorpe to his son Thomas, with 
 remainder to his daughter Elizabeth. In the 10th of 
 Queen Anne, these two, then called Thomas Robinson, 
 and Elizabeth the wife of John Boynton Adams, Esq., 
 conveyed the estate, like that of Babthorpe, to Bojaiton 
 Boynton, Esq., and it descended at his death to his younger 
 daughter and co-heiress, Elizabeth, who married Richard 
 Hutchinson, Esq., afterwards Langiey, of Wykeham 
 Abbey, who sold it to a tenant of the farm of the name of 
 John Watson.^*^ In 1803 Mr. Watson disposed of the 
 estate to Mr. Jonathan Briggs of Thorpe Hall, or Thorpe 
 Willoughby, near Selby. In 1835 it was again sold to 
 
 *" John Watson of Hagthorpe, bur. field Hall, and had John Watson of 
 
 Feb. 14, 1703-4. Hagthorpe Hall, and afterwards of 
 
 William, s. do., bp. 22 Aug. 1703, bur. Howden, who was bur. 5th Feb. 1808. 
 
 15 March, 1761, of Braekenholme. He marr. Mary Waterwortli of Bracken- 
 
 Marr. 1. Sarah Barrett of Heming- holme 4th Apr. 1765, and d. Oct. 9, 
 
 brough, 9th Apr. 1730 ; bur. Nov. 22nd, 1800, fet. 72. M.I. 
 
 1736. 2. Eosamond Allen, d. Mr. A. of They had these children. John, bp. 
 
 Menthorpe (her sister Eliz. m. Kichd. 15 May, 1765. Wm., bp. 28 July, 1768, 
 
 Whittle of Braekenholme), who d. at d. 13th May, 1786. M.I. Thos., bp. 23 
 
 York, and was bur. 3 Nov. 1788, aet. 74, May, 1771. Anne, bp. 17th Apr. 1764, 
 
 s. p. M.I. bur. 24 May, 1766. M.I. Anne, bp. 17th 
 
 Anne, dau. of John Watson of Hag- Dec. 1766. Mary. 
 thorpe, m. John Watson of North Duf- 
 
 o2
 
 196 THE HISTORY OF HEMINGBROUGH, 
 
 Miss Robinson of Barlby, who died in 1839. She be- 
 queathed it in her will, with other estates, in trust for the 
 benefit of her grand-nieces, then minors. A question, 
 however, was raised as to the legality of this bequest, and 
 the matter having been referred to counsel, it was decided 
 that the property ought to descend to the heir-at-law. Miss 
 Robinson's niece, Mary, the claimant, wife of John Francis 
 Carr, Esq. 
 
 The estate of Hagthorpe consists of 166 acres, together 
 with the great and small tithes of Brackenholme and Bab- 
 thorpe, but there are about 240 acres which only pay 
 tithe for corn and rape. 
 
 The Bishop's Meadows. — The Bishop's Meadows or 
 River-island, before alluded to, consist of 116a. 3r. 9p. 
 They were formerly estimated at sixty acres, of which 
 twenty, called the Old Dales, were arable, and the remain- 
 ing forty were pasture ground. It is possible that the 
 other fifty- six acres were only marsh, and were not in- 
 cluded on that account in the ancient rentals. In January 
 1311-12, Robert Babthorpe is said to hold of the Bisho]) 
 of Durham lands and tenements in Barmby, Brackenholme, 
 and Babthorpe, and he and his heirs are bound to make 
 and repair a drain which carries off the water near the 
 Bishop's land into the river Derwent. By indenture dated 
 3rd August, 1319, Louis, Bishop of Durham, leased to 
 the same Robert the Bishop's Meadows, paying 100'?. 
 therefore of yearly rent. On the death of this prelate the 
 land, for some cause or other, was taken into the Lords' 
 possession, and was afterwards demised to the tenants at 
 Barmby, but, subsequently, at the request of the tenants 
 themselves, the Bishop's Meadows were exchanged for 
 other lands called the New Field. On 1st October, 1431, 
 another lease of this land was granted to Sir Robert Bab- 
 thorpe at the same rent and services and for a term of 
 ninety years. ^^ In consequence of this and earlier leases 
 the Meadows acquired the name of Babthorpe Ings, and 
 are thus called in the time of Henry VII. in the roll of the 
 Receiver It appears from these rolls that the rent had 
 been paid irregularly, and, according to the roll of the 
 21-2 Henry YII., the arrears amounted to 364/^. and more. 
 
 s' Eeg. Magn. iii. 144.
 
 bishop's meadows. 
 
 197 
 
 The land was then m the tenure of John Waud and 
 Thomas Babthorpe at the yearly rent of 60-5., " as no one 
 dared to give more on account of the overflowmg of the 
 
 Derwent." , (-,. 
 
 On 8th July, 1550, the Meadows were leased to feir 
 Wm Babthorpe for twenty-one years at an annual rent of 
 4/88 On 27th January, 1605-6, there was a smiilar lease 
 to John Barker of Newcastle-on-Tyne, and another ni 1612 
 to Mr lurlew. In 1666 Mr. John Place of "t ork had a 
 lease for three lives, and in 1706 Elizabeth Green and 
 others a similar lease also for three lives. 
 
 The Bishop's Ferry and Fishery.— The communica- 
 tion between Hemingbrough and Howden was either by 
 the Prior's ferry, near the mouth of the Derwent, or by the 
 l]ishop's ferry at Brackenholme. The former has been 
 alluded to in the notice of the Prior's possessions which 
 fell into the hands of the King. The latter was situated 
 near the present bridge, opposite to Loftsome and close to 
 Hagthorpe House. The depositions taken m 1228 prior 
 to the drawing up of the agreement between the bishop 
 and Prior and Convent of Durham to settle their respective 
 rio-hts, state that there was a bridge of timber over the 
 Derwent, built by Bishop Philip (de Pictavia), which must 
 have occupied this site. This bridge was probably soon 
 carried away by a flood, and, as we have the passagium 
 over the Derwent spoken of in 1339, we may reasonably 
 infer that communication was insured by a ferry-boat. 
 
 On 24th May, 1612, Bishop James of Durham granted 
 a lease to Sir Timothy Hutton of certain fishings and 
 ferry-boats on the rivers of Ouse and Derwent for the lives 
 of Matthew, Timothy, and John his sons, paying a yearty 
 rent of 6/. This was renewed in 1667 to Mr. Place of 
 York, and, in 1706, to Elizabeth Green for three lives._ 
 
 In 1803 an Act of Parliament was obtained for building 
 a bridge at this spot, George O'Brien, Earl of Egreinont 
 and Humphrey Osbaldeston, Esq., being therein described 
 as joint owners of the ferry, and it was enacted that they 
 should receive compensation out of the tolls, the rent being 
 then 10/. per annum. The company was empow^ered to 
 raise 2,400/., and to get 1,000/. on mortgage. It was also 
 
 8« Reg. Magn.
 
 198 THE HISTORY OF HEMINGBROUGH. 
 
 enacted that the mhabitants of Wressle and Hemingbrough 
 should only pay toll once in a day. In 1815 the Loft- 
 some bridge (for so it was called) was let for 119/. per 
 annum. In 1840 the receipts had increased to 360/., but 
 after the railway to Hull was opened they fell off very 
 considerably. In 1853 the receipts were about 160/. 
 
 WOODHALL, OR GRIMESTHORPE. 
 
 The latter name is the earlier, and points to a house 
 built by a person of the name of Grim, to which, from its 
 beinof embosomed in woods, the name of Wood-hall was 
 afterwards oiven. It is one of the carucate farms of this 
 township, but there is no mention of it in Domesday. In 
 the earliest grant of Hemingbrough, after the word Brack - 
 enholme occur the words " cum omnibus terris adjacen- 
 tibus," under which Grimesthorpe may be well included. 
 
 Between 1133 and 1140 Bishop Geoffrey Rufus gave to 
 the Priory of Durham three bovates of land in Grimes- 
 thorpe by the following charter : — 
 
 G. Dei gratia Dunelmensis episcopus, omnibus hominibus Sancti 
 Cuthberti, et suis de Haliwerefolc, et de Euerwicscire, Francis et 
 Anglis, salutem. Sciatis me dedisse et concessisse Sancto Cutbberto et 
 monachis ejus tres bovatas de Grimestorp, liberas et quietas ab omni 
 servicio. Et volo et concede et firmiter pra^cipio ut Sanctus Cuthbertus 
 et monachi ejus banc meam donacionem, quam eis dedi in elemosinam, 
 in terris et aquis, et nemore et piano, et omnibus rebus ei adjacentibus, 
 libere et quiete et bonoritice in perpetuum teneant et possideant. 
 T[estibus] Roberto Archidiacono, Osb' nepote Episcopi, Osb' de Wiric', 
 Roberto fiHo Letold, Radulfo de Hundesle, Ricardo filio Eudonis, Gau- 
 frido Train, Grai, Thoma filio Osberni, Gileberto filio Ailrici, Cliberno 
 nepote Ciiberni, et multis aliis, Francis et Anglis. ^^ 
 
 The Prior and Convent, however, claimed a carucate in 
 Grimesthorpe, and the words " cum omnibus terris adjacen- 
 tibus " caused a dispute between them and the Bishop. 
 But their claim was recognised by competent authority. 
 Among the confirmations of property and privileges made 
 to the house of Durham by the Popes is one by Eugenius 
 III. in 1145 mentioning a carucate of land at Grinies- 
 
 89 4ta Imae Poj-^t jy.
 
 WOODHALL. 
 
 199 
 
 thor[)e. Adrian IV. confirms it likewise, and so does 
 Henry II., King of England.^" 
 
 It is evident, therefore, that the Prior and Convent of 
 Durham were held to possess a carucate here, or manorial 
 rights extending over it, and this is further established by 
 a charter wherein Prior Bertram and the Convent (1189- 
 1194) demise in fee to Robert, nephew of Mr. Richard de 
 Coldingham, at a rent of 10s. per annum, " unam caruca- 
 tam terr£e super Derewente, qua3 Wudehalle, sive Grimes- 
 thorp, appellatur, cum omnibus quae ad eandem terram 
 pertinent, scilicet in silvis, et aquis, in pratis et pascuis, et 
 in omnibus aliis pertinentiis et libertatibns." This grant 
 was confirmed shortly afterwards by Bishop Hugh de 
 Puiset nearly in the same terms.^^ 
 
 The person whom the authorities at Durham wished to 
 honour in this unusual and, to our ideas, improper way, 
 was Master Richard de Coldingham, a Scot no doubt by 
 birth, and reared on their estate in Scotland, who must 
 have rendered to the Prior and Convent of Durham some 
 signal services with which we are unacquainted. Possibly 
 he may have been rector of Hemingbrough or Howden. 
 He died in 1198, vacating by death the hving of St. 
 Oswald in Durham, which was ui the patronage of the 
 monks. The Bishop, Philip de Pictavia, claimed the pre- 
 sentation, alleging that he was abbot of the monastery, 
 and the Prior resisted the claim by placing some of his 
 monks in possession of the church. They locked them- 
 selves in and set the great man at defiance. Aimeric, the 
 Archdeacon, undertook their expulsion, and stopped the 
 ingress of provisions. He then made a fire at the church 
 door to smoke the defenders out, but the door was burnt 
 down, and so the Bishop's men broke in and the terrified 
 monks were expelled. This strange story reached the 
 ears of Roger Howden, the chronicler, who has narrated 
 it in his annals. ^^ 
 
 About the same time there w^as strife between the 
 Bishop and the Convent about the woods at Brackenholme 
 and Hemingbrough, but especially at Woodhall. The 
 Priory seems to have claimed the manor, or reputed manor, 
 
 ^0 Feodarium Dunelm. Ixxxiii.-vi. "- Annales, iv. 69-70. Feodarium 
 
 Confirmed by John (Id. 94-7). Dunelm. 
 
 " Feodarium Dunelm. 205-6.
 
 200 THE HISTOIIY OF HEMINGBROUGII. 
 
 with the woodland and waste, while the Bishop maintained 
 that he was entitled to certain manorial riijhts in Woodhall 
 and Brackenholme. Perhaps the grant of three bovates by 
 Geoffrey Rufus had been an attempt to settle a long- 
 standing difference. The contention was set at rest at 
 last in 1228, when a deed of agreement, called the Convenit, 
 was drawn up, after due enquiry. This has been already 
 mentioned. Witnesses from the parish of Hemingbrough 
 were examined, more especially in regard to the woodlands, 
 and, as it was shown that the tenants and foresters of 
 each township had exercised distinct rights in the woods, 
 it was settled that the woods of Brackenholme and Wood- 
 hall should belong to the Bishop, and that of Heming- 
 brough to the Priory. The Bishop retained his forest, in 
 which the Prior and monks were not to cut brushwood or 
 timber without leave.^^ 
 
 We have seen that Robert, nephew of Mr. Richard de 
 Coldingham, had a grant of a carucate of land at Woodhall 
 from the Prior and Convent of Durham about the year 
 1190. In the next generation w^e find another Robert de 
 Coldingham, and Christiana his wife, residing at Wood- 
 hall. From them it passed to their son Thomas, who, in 
 1261, assigned the property for ten years to William de 
 Hemingbrough, canon of Lincohi, who had lent him 
 money. '^^ In 1271 the estate was agam assigned to Luke 
 de Hemingbrough, clerk, for a term of fourteen years, to 
 secure a loan of money. ^^ Luke de Hemingbrough, soon 
 after this, makes over his unexpired term to the Prior and 
 Canons of Drax.^'' In 1281 Coldingham again conveys 
 his lands for fourteen years to the Prior and Convent of 
 
 -■' Printed in the Feodarium Dunelm., thorp, Richard de Clif, John, s. Nicholas 
 
 ed. Surtees Soc, p. 216 : "Remanebunt de Osgodby, Tlios. Page de eadem, and 
 
 autem integre nobis et successoribus others. 
 
 nostris in perpetuum bosci de Braken- "^ On the feast of St. Martin in the 
 
 hohn et de Wdehalle, salvo Priori et Winter, 1271. Hemingbrough is called 
 
 monachis Dnnelmensibus in perpetuum " Hanburgh." The deed is witnessed 
 
 bosco suo de Hemmingburc per rectas by Robert de Hacthorp, Robert de Men- 
 
 divisas suas. Reservavimus vero nobis thorp, Ralph de Babthorp, Richard de 
 
 et successoribus nostris in perpetuum Clif, John, s. of Nicholas de Osgodby, 
 
 forestam nostram, ita quod dicti Prior Robert de Newsom, Richard de Lincoln, 
 
 et monachi Dunelmenses non poterunt clerk, and others. 4'" 2'i*'= Ebor. 7. 
 
 in ea capere buscam vel meremium, nisi ^" Witnessed by Robert de Menethorp, 
 
 ex gratia et licencia nostra et succes- Wm. de Myddilton, Robert de Hake- 
 
 sorum nostrorum, vel ballivorum nos- thorp, Hugh, s. of Adam de Nova Haya, 
 
 trorum." John, s. of Nicholas de Osgoteby, Dom. 
 
 "' Witnessed by Robert de Hacthorp, Joh. de Roderham, Joh. de Casteley, &c. 
 
 Robert de Menthorp, Ralph de Babe- 4t« 2'1« Ebor. 3.
 
 WOODHALL. 201 
 
 Durham, to cover another loaii,^" and the house of Drax 
 quit clamis to them its interest. ^^ In Kirkby's Inquest, 
 in 1284, Thomas cle Coldingham is mentioned as holding 
 the carucate. Soon after this the line of the Coklinghams 
 ended in an heiress, Margery, who married Walter de 
 Paxton, who had seizin of Woodhall in 1313. The seizui 
 only covers thirty acres, which may be accounted for by 
 the fact that about the same time a tenant of tlie manor, 
 John Becke, committed a felony and escaped from the 
 kingdom, for which his lands were forfeited, and they 
 were presently re-granted by the Prior and Convent to 
 William de Cliffe, clerk, with remainder in fee, notwith- 
 standing Paxton was the mesne lord. An inquest was 
 held touching the property, upon which is endorsed a 
 claim which Walter de Paxton had made for the lands. 
 He probably regained them. Soon after, the manorial 
 rights descended, or were sold, to Richard Brown, of 
 whom certain lands in Woodhall are said to be held in 
 1339. This is the last notice that we have of the manorial 
 rights, and they were probably of small amount, and were 
 gradually discontinued. 
 
 There are still the three bovates given by Bishop Rufus 
 to account for. It is probable that one of these, perhaps 
 by some such grant as that made to the Coklinghams, 
 came to a family of the name of Woodhall. Gregory and 
 Richard de Woodhall witness a document in 1228, and, 
 in 1282, Robert, son of this Richard, leases to the Prior 
 and Convent for fourteen years a bovate of arable land 
 (16 acres) with its meadow and a toft in Woodhall, 
 probably to repay some borrowed money.^^ The loan 
 cannot have been repaid, or only partially so, as the same 
 person makes a gift of the premises to the monastery.^"" 
 The name continued in the place for some time. Henry 
 del Woodhall, who occurs in 1282, had a son Robert, a 
 
 »' 4ta 2'1'c Ebor. 3. "" Witnessed by " Dominus Thomas 
 
 "* Release from Thomas, Prior of de Gunneby miles, Dominus Alanus 
 
 Drax and his Convent. Witnesses, perpetuus vicarius de Estringtone, Ro- 
 
 " Domino Johanne de Kayvil milite, gerus Russel decanus, Eobertus de 
 
 Thoma de Metham ballivo Domini Dun- Haketorp, Eicardus de la Wudehalle, 
 
 elm. in Houedenschyre, Willelmo de Johannes fihus Julianre de eadem, Hen- 
 
 Midelton, Roberto de Hakethorp, Ro- ricus de la Wudehal, Willelmus de Neu- 
 
 berto domino de Osgoteby, Johanne bald clericus." 4"^ 2'^^ Ebor. 9. 
 
 fiho Nicholai de eadem, Johanne de ""> Printed in FeodariumDunelm. 206. 
 Castro et aliis." 4ta 2'^i=« Ebor. 3.
 
 ^02 THE HISTORY OF HEMINGBROUGH. 
 
 grandson Walter in 1337, and a great-grandson William 
 in 1377. 
 
 In 1328 the Prior and Convent demised a messuage 
 and a bovate at Woodhall to Wm. Nichol of Bowthorpe 
 for twenty-four years, at a yearly rent of 205.^ Two 
 bovates are regularly mentioned in the rentals of the 
 Priory, and the fee -farm rents paid on account of them 
 were 21s. per annum. Such were they when the Priory 
 was dispossessed of them in 1540, and they continued to 
 be thus held until the 10th of James I., when they were 
 sold with the manor of Hemingbrough. 
 
 The number of messuages at Woodhall consisted, 
 according to the old rentals, of eight, six of which were 
 occupied by tenants of the Bishop and two only by those 
 of the Prior. The earliest notice extant of the Bishop's 
 tenants is the Subsidy Roll of the 6th of Edward III., in 
 which six names are given. The same number occur as 
 holding lands of the Bishop in a Rental of 1440-1. His 
 fee-farm rents then amounted to 21.s\ 4d. The names of 
 the six tenants were John Lobyas, Alice Pertryk, Thomas 
 Pertryk,'^ H. del Wold, Wm. Robynson, and Richard 
 Midilton. The two Pertryks sent their rent by Lobyas. 
 
 The grange, or manor-house, at Woodhall, if such it 
 may be termed, does not appear to have been surrounded 
 with a moat. The charter of the Coldinghams speaks of a 
 capitale mansum, but such a word may be applied to an 
 ordinary residence and not a manor-house. There is 
 nothing to show that any one lived in the place who held 
 more than a few bovates of land. 
 
 ' Keg. Magn. Pr. & Conv. Dunelm. v. Partrick of W. occurs, and Thos. Par- 
 
 1, fol. 60. tryke, gen., is on one of the Babthorpe 
 
 ^ The Pertricks, or Patricks, were a Inqs. in 20th Hen. VH. Rauffe Patrie, 
 
 very ancient family in Woodhall. gen., is mentioned between the 21st of 
 
 Robert Pertrick de Woodhall occ. in Hen. VIII. and the 2nd of Edw. VI. 
 
 Plac. Edw. I. 129J; ; and Isabella qute Thos. Patrie, gen., makes his Will in 
 
 fuit uxor Robt. P. de W. in 1299. Robt. 1594, and in 1595 Miles Patrie, gen., 
 
 Perterick is mentd. in the Inq. of J. sells land at W. to Thos. Barneby and 
 
 Becke 5th Edw. II., Thos. Pertrick in another. 
 
 the Subsidy Roll 6th Edw. III. and Inq. Ann, d. John Patterick of Woodhall, 
 
 loth Nov. Edw. III. Wm. Pertrik de bp. 28th June, 1608 ; bur. 9th Nov. 
 
 W. occ. 1370-7. Thos. Partryk in the 1630. John, s. do., bur. 21st August, 
 
 Rentals of 1426 and 1440-1. 1608. John Partricke of W., bur. 21st 
 
 On 28th August, 1456, Richard Per- Dec. 1636. Edward Mason of par. Hun- 
 
 trik of Woodhall, scholar, has Letters tington, and Alice P. of W., marr. 7th 
 
 Dimissory from Archbp. Wm. Booth, August, 1614. 
 
 and, on 7th April, 1463, Thos. Pertrike The will of John P. of W. was proved 
 
 had similar letters from the same pre- 23rd Feb. 1636-7, and adm. granted to 
 
 late. In the 18th of Hen. VII. Gregory Michael P., his son, an exr.
 
 WOODIIALL. 203 
 
 In the 22nd of Henry VIII. the Babthorpes had some 
 property here (late belonging to Ralph Pertricke) which 
 they passed over to Marmaduke Constable and another in 
 8th Elizabeth. Between the 29th and 3 1st of Elizabeth 
 Thomas and Edward Proiidefote acquire property here 
 from William Lambert, gent., and Robert Whit worth ; 
 and there are other transfers of land, probably very small 
 in quantity.^ In the seventeenth century the family of 
 Fawkes of South Duffield, and the Burletsons * had land and 
 residences here. Michael Fawkes passed over what he 
 had here in 1617 to John Starton and another ; and in 
 1637-8 Humphrey Burletson, and Margaret his wife, sold 
 their land here to William St. Quintm, Esq. (afterwards 
 made a baronet) and Thomas, his son. The St. Quintins 
 were connected with this part of the county through two 
 marriages with the Babthorpes of Osgodby. Sir William 
 St. Quintin's interest in Woodhall descended to Thomas, of 
 Flambrough, his fourth son, who by will, dated 22nd 
 August, 1667, leaves to his wife and her heirs the Ten 
 Acre Close, the Middle Field Closes, the Hither Field 
 Close, and five acres and a half of meadow in Woodhall 
 Ings, and she is to pay his debts. The rest of his houses 
 and lands in the parish of Hemingbrough he leaves to 
 Anne St. Quintin, his only daughter and her heirs ; but his 
 son William is to have them when twenty- one, provided 
 he pays her 200/. for them.^ 
 
 In the seventeenth century the chief owners in Woodhall 
 were the Kirlews, a family of long standing in the parish. 
 Thos. Kirlew (of Barlby) and his wife are mentioned 
 
 ^ 42 Eliz. John ChaiDman, quer., and Mary, dau. Humphr. B. ofW. (jun. ?), 
 
 Anth. Knight, and another, def., land, was bp. 28th May, 1620 ; Wm., bp. 7th 
 
 &c., in W. Oct. 1621. Catherine, bp. 14th Dec. 
 
 14 James. Jo. Sturton and Henry 1623. Dorothy, bp. 24th Oct. 1626. 
 
 Newarke, gen., quer., and Michael Fawkes Frances, bp. 2nd Feb. 1627-8. George, 
 
 and Kath. ux. def., land, &c. in W. bp. 20th April, 1633. Ann, bp. 2nd 
 
 * Mr. Humphrey Burletson of Wood- June, 1636. 
 
 hall was bur. at Hemingbrough on 3rd Geo. B. of W., and Ann Dunning of 
 
 April, 1634. On 20th May, 1024, the W., m. 18th June, 1633. Jane d. do., 
 
 will of Humphrey B., sen., of W., was bp. 3rd April, 1634. 
 
 proved at Howden, and adm. was gr. to 17th Nov. 1658, Eliz. d. Geo. B. of 
 
 George B., " nepoti," sole exr. Barlby, bj^. Geo. B. of Barlby, bur. 10th 
 
 Eliz., wife of Mr. H. B., was bur. 5th Oct. 1660. 
 
 Jan. 1606-7. (She appears on the list = Keg. Test. Ebor. xUx. 133. Mr. 
 
 of Recusants in 1604.) He marr. on St. Quintin desires to be bur. in the 
 
 28th June, 1608, Jane Cunningworth of church of Flambrough, where he re- 
 
 Woodhall, who was bur. 20th April sided. 
 1633.
 
 204 
 
 THE HISTORY OF HEMINGBEOUGH. 
 
 in the 18th of Edward IV. In 1624 Thomas Kirlew 
 was rated at 3/. per annum for his lands in Woodhall ; 
 
 irxor ThomfE Kirlow de Barlby, occ. 18 Edw. IV. 
 
 Thos. K. occ. 1567. 
 
 Peter K. has land in Cliffe 1589-90. 
 
 Thomas Kirlew of Woodhall = Anne 
 
 bur. 19 Apr., 1611, 
 
 I I I 
 
 Thomas Kirlew, bp. Dor thy, bur, 11 
 
 II Jan. 1610-11. Mr. Nov*.16U5. 
 
 Thos. K. bur. iu the Elizabeth, marr. 
 
 chancel 26 July, 1682. Thos. Parkin, 
 
 Castlegate, York. 17 July, 1614. 
 
 1. Prances, d. Ralph 
 Lodge of Barlby, 
 gen., marr. 25 Nov. 
 1634. Bm-. at All 
 Sts', PaTemeut, York, 
 29 March, 1644. 
 
 ; Edward Kirlew = 2. Catherine, d. 
 
 ofWoodhalland 
 Hagthorpe, geu. 
 Bur. 6 July, 
 1681. 
 
 Hugh Taylor of 
 Coates, gen., by 
 Eliz., dau. Row- 
 laud Revell of 
 Rothei-ham. 
 
 Joseph Kirlew of Sel- 
 by, son of Thomas K., 
 gen., adm. pensioner 
 at St. John's Coll., 
 Cambridge, 14 Oct. 
 1660, ast. 17. At Sed- 
 bergh School. 
 Ordained Deacon at 
 York 25 Sept. 1664. 
 
 I I I 
 
 Elizabeth, ' bp. 27 1. Jane, d . . . = Thomas Kir- = 2. Frances, 
 
 Sept. 1635, m. . . . 
 
 Topham. 
 Mary, bp. 18 July, 
 
 1638. 
 Anne, bp. 7 Oct. 
 
 1640, marr. Michael 
 
 Doughty, curate of 
 
 H., 9 May, 1667. 
 
 Robinson of 
 Lund. m. 17 
 June, 1675 ; 
 bur. 4 June, 
 1695. 
 
 lew, 
 
 bp. 30 
 
 Sept 
 
 1646. 
 
 Of 
 
 CliflCe, 
 
 bur. 
 
 14 Mar. 
 
 1722- 
 
 -3. 
 
 d. . . . Paw- 
 dingtou. M. 
 5 Apr. 1697; 
 bur. 5 May, 
 1722. 
 
 I 
 
 Edward, 
 bp.l9,bur. 
 20 July, 
 1646. 
 
 Mary, bp. 10 Mar., 1697-8. 
 
 Anne, bp. 3 Sept. 1676 ; 
 
 bur. 22 Oct. 1678. 
 Mary, bp. 5 Oct. 1679 ; bur. 
 
 3 Oct. 1689. 
 
 Thomas, bp. 21 Jan. 
 1689-90. 
 
 Joseph, bp. 8 Jan. 
 1681-2. 
 
 The n.ame was a very common one in the parish during the last century. 
 
 and Edward Kirlew, gent., was rated, in the 16th of 
 Charles I., at the same sum. In 1637-8 he bought of 
 Wm. Haddlesey, sen., gent., and Anne his wife, the 
 tithes of Woodhall, and added afterwards to his estate by 
 various purchases. On 2nd July, 1681, Edward Kirlew 
 of Hagthorpe, gent., made his will, but in it there is no 
 mention of Woodhall. He leaves, however, to his son, 
 " Mr. Thomas Kirlew, 200/., when he shall bring in to 
 my ex'' the bonds wherein I am bound with and for him." 
 He had given Woodhall to his son Thomas, who sold it 
 circa 1674 to Joshua Colston, Esq., as the manor, or re- 
 puted manor, of Woodhall, with certain lands attached to 
 it, and the tithes. Mr. Colston married Anne, daughter 
 of Sir Thomas Dickinson of Kirk by Hall, and left three 
 daughters and coheiresses, who sold Woodhall in 1 700 to 
 William Mason of York, clerk, who had resigned, a little 
 before, the rich living of Wensley, and had come to spend 
 the remainder of his days in Castlegate with his daughter, 
 the wife of Thomas Barker, Esq. He was the great-great- 
 uncle of William Mason the poet. From the Masons, Wood- 
 hall passed to the Hensons. Samuel Henson of Wistow,
 
 WOODHALL. 
 
 205 
 
 gent., died in 1717,^ leaving a considerable estate, much of 
 wliich he bequeathed to his widow, charged with a portion 
 of 600/. to Mary, his only child. On 2nd' January, 173-1-5, 
 Miss Henson was married at York Minster to John Bur- 
 ton, M.D., the distinguished antiquary, on which occasion 
 her mother charged her estate at Woodhall with the sum 
 of 1,000/. for her daughter's benefit. In 1736-7 Mrs. 
 Henson purchased Pickering Closes m Woodhall, and she 
 was also the owner of lands in South Duffield. Mrs. Henson 
 made her will at York on 26th August, 1742 (pr. 7th 
 January, 1743), by which slie left her lands and tenements 
 at Woodhall and South Duffield to Bacon Morritt and 
 Samuel Clark, Esquires, of York, as trustees, to the use of 
 Mary Burton, her daughter, for her life, then to her issue, 
 and, fiiiling them, to the sister of the testatrix, Margaret 
 Cock, and her children, and her nephew. Field Dunn, clerk. 
 After his mother-in-law's death Dr. Burton seems to have 
 bought the lands mentioned in her will, and it is to the 
 fact of his becoming a landowner in the parish that we owe 
 the sketch of Hemingbrough appended to the first volume 
 of his " Monasticon "Eboracense," which was intended to 
 lead the way to what is still a desideratum— a general 
 history of Yorkshire. But these wishes were not realised, 
 and Burton fell upon evil times. Being a vehement poli- 
 tician and a Jacobite, he excited so many enemies that he 
 was arrested on an unfounded charge of rendering help to 
 the Pretender's army, and spent sixteen months in gaol. 
 
 « 22nd Nov. 1715. Samuel Henson departed this life the 23id of November, 
 
 of Wistow. " To my dear and loving 1715, having left behind him one only 
 
 wife all my land at Sikehouse, to her daughter and a mournful widow."— 
 
 and her heirs, and all my personal estate, Wistow. 
 
 paying to my dear child, Mary Henson, 26th August, 1742. Mary Henson, of 
 
 6001. when 21. To my kinswoman, the city of York, widow. " To be bur. 
 
 Mary Cousins, 20Z." And now comes at as little expense as may be with 
 
 an extraordinary bequest : " The rest of decency, in the church of Wistow, in 
 
 my real estate at Bonwith, Cotingworth, my late dear husband's grave near the 
 
 Storwood Park, and Darbyshire, to my altar table, and, if it can be conveniently, 
 
 wife for her life ; but if my dau. Mary I wo'd have his coffin taken up and the 
 
 happen to marry before she be 21, then grave brickt about, and both our coflnis 
 
 I give her all my rcall estate, and her lye and remain in the same grave. My 
 
 disposall, if fourteen yeares (of age), lands at Sykehouse to be sold. My dear 
 
 shall be good in law as though she was dau., Mary Burton, and my trustees, 
 
 at full age; but if she dye before she exrs." Pr. 7th January, 1713. 
 
 marry, all my reall estate to Samuel Her maiden name was Dunn, and she 
 
 Hood, Will. Byard, and Byard Rawson. was married to Mr. Henson on 21st May, 
 
 My wife ex\" 1713. Her daughter Mary was baptised 
 
 "Here lies interred the body of Mr. 4th September, 1714. 
 S. Henson, late of this parish, who
 
 206 THE HISTORY OF HEMINGBROUGH. 
 
 But this was not all. Burton had not only been put to 
 great expense, in addition to incurring a total loss of pro- 
 fessional income, bat he had unhappily become security for 
 a large sum of money which he was obliged to pay. He 
 was practically a ruined man, and for the rest of his life 
 had an uphill road to traverse, which was made more irk- 
 some by the angry passions which he seems always to have 
 had the fatal facility of arousing. 
 
 To relieve Dr. Burton's pecuniary difficulties, his wife 
 sold Woodhall and South Duffield, &c.,'^ which were passed 
 over in 1747-8 to a o;entleman whom Dr. Burton calls 
 "a particular friend of" his, Mr. John Graham, The 
 story in the country goes that Mr. Graham obtained the 
 property by unfair means, but this is effectually disposed 
 of by Dr. Burton's own words. The Grahams are said 
 to have come from Bewcastle in Cumberland, where they 
 formed a clan which it would be next to impossible to 
 distinguish by genealogical lines. Mr. Graham, like Dr. 
 Burton, was a vehement Jacobite, and treasured, as the 
 most precious heirloom of his house, a withered arm said 
 to have belonged to James Grahame, the famous Marquis 
 of Montrose who was executed at Edinburgh in 1650, and 
 whose arms were hung over the gates of Perth or Stirling. 
 It is quite possible that one of them may have been stolen, 
 {?s was often the case, and kept as a memorial by one of his 
 name and blood. This curious relic is now in the posses- 
 sion of Miss Reeves of Burton Salmon. The heart of 
 Montrose deserved and obtained a still wider fame. It was 
 embalmed and treasured by Lady Napier in a case of gold. 
 It found its way afterwards to India, and as the care with 
 which it was watched led the natives to think that no one 
 who possessed it could be wounded in battle or captured, 
 it was stolen, and purchased by a native chieftain, who 
 regarded it as a talisman. It was recovered, to be carried 
 to France, and finally lost during the great Revolution at 
 the close of the last century. There is still in the grounds 
 at Woodhall a stone figure of a lady said by popular tra- 
 dition to represent Flora Macdonald, the chivalrous atten- 
 dant of Charles Edward, The dress is that of an English 
 lady of the middle of the last century, and the sculptor 
 
 " In the Fine, property at Pool Bridge and Wistow is also mentioned, with the 
 tithes of Woodhall.
 
 WOODHALL. 207 
 
 would have no other model to go by. A French sword 
 belonging to the same period may point to Cidloden or 
 Sheriffmuir. 
 
 Mr. Graham made his will on 22nd July, 1772 (buried 
 14th January seq.)^ leaving to his wife his estate at 
 Woodhall, and the furniture, &c., for her life, with re- 
 mainder to Maria Elizabeth Graham, his only child,^ who 
 resided there for a great number of years. Miss Graham 
 was the Lady Bountiful of the parish in her day, and 
 not only improved her estate, but was charitable and 
 generous to all. By her will, dated 6th March, 1798, 
 and proved October, 1801,^ she left her estates to the son 
 of a favourite domestic, Charles Reeves, whom she had 
 brought up and educated that he might be fit for the 
 position which she intended him to assume. The estates 
 were entailed on John Reeves, the heir, and, failing him and 
 his issue, on the eldest son of John Graham of Carlisle, 
 attorney-at-law, and kinsman of her father. Mr. Reeves 
 was carefully educated by a resident tutor, a Mr. Lorenzo 
 Grainger, and showed his appreciation of learning by 
 collecting a fair library, of which a catalogue was after- 
 wards printed by his brother Charles. He also built a 
 
 •* " To my dear and only child, Maria, lOZ. To the children of the late Mrs. 
 
 my lease of the demesne of Bell Castle, Barbara Parker, of Dalton, 200Z. To 
 
 and my estate at Sigson and atWistow, John Burton, Esq., of Eipon, lOOZ. To 
 
 Wife and dau. ex". To Mrs. Smith, Miss Mary Flemyng of York, lOZ. per 
 
 now with us, ten guineas, to buy some- ann. for life. To Alderman Bacon of 
 
 thing in remembrance of me." York, 10 guineas as a small acknow- 
 
 The following bequest to the Vicar of ledgment of the esteem I entertain for 
 
 Hemingbrough is a peculiar one. " The hirm To Mr. Josei^h Kirlew of Bow- 
 
 Eeverend Mr. William Potter's good thorpe, 5 guineas. To Mr. Wm. Kirlew 
 
 qualities, and his apparent virtues, of Hemingbrough, 5 guineas. To Eev. 
 
 though it has so far gain'd my good Mr. Lorenzo Grainger, now at Hull, 
 
 opinion, yet has only left him the small ''OZ. To Charles Beeves, now in my 
 
 legacy of ten pounds, to buy what he family, 300Z. To Diana, his wife, 10 
 
 thinks proper in remembrance of me." ,1,'uineas. To the York County Hospital, 
 
 Pr. Dec. 1773. 201., to be given as a benefaction from 
 
 There were portraits of Mr. and Mrs. John Beeves, that he may have a power 
 
 Graham and their dau., painted by to recommend patients. To the two 
 
 Philip Mercier, in the possession of Mr. charity schools, lOZ. each. To Mr. 
 
 Charles Reeves of Barlby. Lupton's fund for the lunatic asylum, 
 
 ^ I give some extracts from her will. lOZ. To the poor and parish of Heming- 
 
 Maria Elizabeth Graham, of Wood- brough, lOL To Mary Kirlew, now at 
 
 hall, si^inster. " To Mrs. Graham of Woodhall, 51. per ann., and to Eichard 
 
 Carlisle, widow of the late Mr. Stuart Morley Kirlew, her son, 400Z. The rest 
 
 James G., lOOZ. To Mr. John G., his to John Eeeves, now with me, and, if 
 
 eldest son, lOOZ., and to his younger he dies without issue, to the eldest son 
 
 children lOOZ. To Mr. David Beaty of the above Mr. John Graham, of 
 
 Graham, now in the excise at Leeds, Carlisle. John Reeves, ex^" She was 
 
 200Z. To Mr. Prowd, of Hovingham, bur. at H., 2.3rd Oct. 1801, a?t. 68. 
 lOOZ. To Miss Maria Prowd, his dau.,
 
 208 THE HISTORY OF HEMINGBEOUGH. 
 
 house adjacent to the old residence at Woodhall, in wliich 
 he resided. Mr. Reeves was only short-lived, and died, 
 somewhat unexpectedly, in 1811, in the thirty-sixth year 
 of his a2;e, and without issue. He made his will on 11th 
 January, 1811 (proved 20th March, 1812), by which he 
 left his manor of Woodhall to his worthy cousins, John 
 Smith of Gate Fulford and Jasper Smith of Water Fulford, 
 and his intimate friend. Rev. William Jenkinson of St. 
 Saviour Gate, York, on trust, first for the use of his own 
 children, if he should have any, and then for his brother, 
 Charles Reeves ; ^^ and " as the hereditary claims of the 
 children of the late Mr. John Graham of Carlisle are 
 barred by the will of my late friend, Maria Elizabeth 
 Graham," Mr. Reeves tries to soften the disappointment 
 by a legacy. It is evident, therefore, that the eldest son 
 of Mr. John Graham of Carlisle, to whom Miss Graham 
 had left Woodhall under certain contingencies, had died 
 before Mr. Reeves. The testator desired "to be buried 
 in the middle choir of St. Mary's Church, in Heming- 
 brough, as near as may be to the remains of my liberal 
 friend and benefactress, Maria Elizabeth Graham," and 
 there he was laid. 
 
 Mr. Charles Reeves sold the estate for 9,000/., and sub- 
 
 '" I give some further notes from Mr. Reeves was marr. at Heming- 
 
 Mr. Reeves's will. " To my wife, lOOZ. boro' to Jane Wilson on 14th Aug. 
 
 per ann., and 1,OOOZ., and she to con- 1809. 
 
 tinue, if she chuses, in the house which The children of Charles Reeves and 
 
 I built, and which we now occupy. To Dinah Broadbent of Woodhall were as 
 
 my valued friend, Rev. Lorenzo Grain- follows : — 1, John ; 2, Charles, bj^. 11th 
 
 ger of Winteringham (late my tutor), May, 1787; 3, James, bp. 30th Sept. 
 
 50Z. To my old friend Mr. Richard 1791, and d. at Bubwith 24th April, 
 
 Morley, of or near London, formerly of 1818. He was a timber-merchant, and 
 
 Woodhall, 10 guineas. If I have no had two children bp. at Barlby — viz. 
 
 child, my real and personal property to Eliz., bp. 12th June, 1815, and John 
 
 my dear brother Charles Reeves, pay- Snowball, bp. 27th Oct. 1816, d. 11th 
 
 ing 1,000Z. to my dear brother James April, 1817. 
 
 Reeves, and 500Z. to my sister Mary Sarah, bp. 20th Nov. 1778; Dinah, 
 
 Reeves (my young favourite). Sister bp. 5th Jan. 1781, bur. 27th Aug. ; 
 
 Sarah, wife of Timothy Stephenson, of Mary, bp. 20th July, 1795. 
 
 Hull, cabinet maker, lOZ. per ann. To Charles Reeves, jun., lived for a long 
 
 my good and beloved parents, as a mark while at Barlby. He m. Elizabeth Tom- 
 
 of dutiful! affection, my best two- linson on 21st Feb. ISll. He was bur. 
 
 handled silver cup and 10 guineas each at Barlby, dying on 29th July, 1805, at. 
 
 for mourning. To the children of the 78. Frances, his wife, died 20th August, 
 
 late Mr. John Graham of Carlisle, 1861, set. 78. M. I. at Barlby. 
 
 attorney-at-law, 400Z., and to Robert Two of Mr. Reeves's daughters are 
 
 Graham, his brother, and Margaret, his living at Burton Salmon ; one of them 
 
 sister, married about the year 1804 to is married to Mr. Davies, brewer, of 
 
 Mr. Wm. Eawson of Carlisle, each 50/. that place. 
 Brother Charles and trustees ex"^'."
 
 WOODHALL. 209 
 
 ject to tlie annuity of 100/. to Mrs, John Reeves, in 1834, 
 to Robert Menzies, Esq. Mr. Menzies enlarged the house 
 and augmented the estate. He died 4th May, 1839, aged 
 79, and was buried in Hemingbrough Church. His son, 
 Robert William Menzies, of Woodhall, was married at 
 Escrick on 2nd November, 1847, to Juliametta Emma 
 Wilkes, daughter of the Rev. Alexander Origan, rector of 
 Escrick, and died 22nd December, 1887. The present 
 owner of Woodhall is his only son, Stuart Alexander 
 Menzies, captain in the 92nd Gordon Highlanders, who 
 was married at Stainton, in Cleveland, on 4th May, 1876, 
 to Charlotte Amy Bewicke, eldest daughter of Robert 
 Calverley Bewicke-Bewicke, Esq., of Coulby Manor. 
 The house stands, as of old, with a dark wood behind it, 
 facing the south, and on the bank of the Derwent. The white 
 walls contrast well with the tall -forest trees to the rear. 
 On the opposite bank of the river are the remains of 
 Wressle, the ruined castle of the Percies, and in front 
 is Hagthorpe, with its manor-house and moat. The 
 gardens at Woodhall are laid out in the Dutch style. To 
 the taste of Mr. Graham is due a fine terraced walk which 
 runs along the bank of the Derwent. 
 
 The trustees of the Unitarian chapel in York have an 
 estate of 83a. 13p. in Woodhall, the rent of which was 
 89/. in 1805. It belonged originally, I believe, to the 
 family of Bray, and, about the beginning of the last century, 
 came into the possession of Thomas Colton, M.D., who, 
 from 1692 to 1731, was the minister of the Presbyterian 
 chapel in York, Dr. Colton's property was left by him 
 to the Presbyterian body for pious uses, and is now 
 applied, as far as the Unitarians are concerned, for the 
 promulgation of principles to which its learned and ^^ious 
 donor was diametrically opposed. 
 
 The Family of Wandrick. — A family with this 
 peculiar name, probably Irish or Dutch, was resident at 
 Woodhall for a short time.^^ By will dated 26th 
 
 " Man-. Lie. at York in 1630. Andrew Woodhall, bp. ; 1097, 18th April, Sarah, 
 
 Wandrick and Dorothy Eoper, wid., par. d. do., bp. ; 1700, 28th April, John, s. do., 
 
 St. Martin's, Micklegate, York, at H. bp. ; 1703, 19th Aug., Ralph Bray and 
 
 Trinity Church, Hull. Dorothy Wandrick, marr. ; 1712-13, 
 
 The following notices are from the 2nd Feb., Mr. Richard W. of Woodhall, 
 
 par. reg. of Hemingbrough :^" 1693, bur. ; 1722, 27th March, Mr. John 
 
 7th June, Nathaniel, s. Andrew W. of W. of Woodhall, bur. ; 1724-5, 5th
 
 210 THE HISTORY OF HEMINGBROUGH. 
 
 October, 1704, and proved 15tli March, 1711-12, Richard 
 Wandrick, of Woodhall, gent., desires to be buried in 
 Hemingbrough Church. He leaves his lands, &c., to 
 " Richard Petty, of Hemingbrough, gent., William 
 Battle, the younger, of Howden, gent., his grand- 
 son, Ralph Bray, of Woodhall, gent., and Robert 
 Bentley, of Hemingbrough, yeoman, on trust, for the use 
 of Andrew Wandrick, his son, for his life. Then, in 
 succession, to Nathaniel and John, sons of the said 
 Andrew ; then to his own son John, in Ireland ; paying 
 18/. per annum to his said son Andrew during his life ; 
 lOl. per annum to his wife, if she survives him ; and 
 5/. per annum to granddaughter Sarah W. ; grand- 
 daughter Sarah W., 40/., to be paid by Nathaniel W. ; 
 son John the land which I farme in Ireland ; 
 grandson Ralph Bray, 70/. ; grandson Nathaniel W., my 
 silver tankard and seal ring ; granddaughter Dorothy 
 Bray, my best mourning ring ; nephew Griffin Blacks- 
 ford, 5/. ; poor of Hemingbrough and of Ardmore, in 
 Ireland, 20.§. each." (Howden Registry.) 
 
 Ralph Bray, the grandson by marriage of the testator, 
 predeceased him. On 20th August, 1707, he made his 
 will as Ralph Bray, of Woodhall, yeo., leaving 5/. to 
 his son Ralph, 50/. to his daughter Catherine, when 
 18, or at her marriage. He says also that Dorothy, his 
 wife, was enceinte, and leaves to the child, if a son, the 
 Hall-holme Close, containing 20 acres, and 50/. The 
 residue is left to his wife, who is made executrix. Ad- 
 ministration to her 27th September, 1707.^^ On 20th 
 July, 1708, Nuttle Clark of Rawcliffe, gent., ast. 23, had 
 
 Jan., Catherine, wife of Mr. Andrew W. rick, alias Harwood, dau. And. W., and 
 
 of Woodhall, gent., bur." relict of John H. of Howden, a minor, 
 
 1712, IGth April. John Wandrick of to Samuel Short, gent. 
 Ardmore, co. Waterford, gent. " To be 1720-1, 23rd Jan. Adm. Sarah 
 bur. in the chancel of Ardmore, where Wandrick, alias Foster, late wife of 
 my mother was buried. To my only Solomon Foster, to her husband. Be- 
 dau., Mary W., 60Z. To her mother, quests in will of Richard W. of Wood- 
 Joan Merceign, 20Z. To my beloved hall. (Howden Registry.) 
 friend, John Mercyn, 3Z. 5Z. to be spent 1722, 20th Oct. Admon. of John W. 
 on my funeral. The lOOZ. left me in of Woodhall, to Andrew W., his father. 
 England, now in the custody of my 1726, 31st May. Mr. Andrew W., 
 father, Richard W., or my brother, bur. at Pickering. 
 
 Andrew W., to be applied to the above '-' Ralph s. lialph B. of Woodhall, 
 
 uses. Mr. Francis Radcliffe, sole ex^" bp. 18th Oct. 1704. Catherine, hp. 20th 
 
 (Reg. Test. Ebor. Ixxii. 184.) May, 170G. Edward, bp. 12th Feb., 
 
 1716, 17th July. Tuit. Sarah Wand- 1707-8.
 
 WOODHALL. 
 
 211 
 
 licence at York to marry Dorothy Bray of Woodliall, 
 widow, a3t. 22. 
 
 Several ^generations of the family of Bray were resident 
 at Woodhall, and were probably farmers. ^^ 
 
 '^ I give a few notices of them. They 
 were, of course, connected with the 
 Brays of Brackenholme and South 
 Duffield. 
 
 Edward Bray of Woodhall. John, s. 
 do., bp. 20 Jan. 1631-2. Ealph, s. do., 
 bp. 23 April, 1633. Edward, s. do., bp. 
 21 June, 1635. Wm., s. do., bp. Nov. 
 30, 1636. Frances, d. do., bp. 20 Oct. 
 1638. Margaret, bp. 29 Mar. 1640, 
 marr. 11 Sept. 1660, John Templer of 
 Osgodby. 
 
 John Bray of Woodhall, and Barbara 
 Atkinson of Osbaldwick, m. 16 Sept. 
 1656. A dau. do., born April 17, 1657, 
 Frances, d. do., born 15 Nov. 1661, and 
 probably others, unregistered. 
 
 1683, Sept. 15. Will of Ealph Bray, 
 of Woodhall, yeo. (bp. 1633). "To be 
 bur. in eh. yard of Hemingbrough. To 
 
 Wm. B., son of Anne B., my freehold 
 estate at Selby. Edward, s. of John B., 
 501. Niece Anne Templer, 501. Bro"' 
 John B., the goodwill of my farm at 
 Woodhall. Sister Anne B., eldest sister 
 Anne Lambert and her children, second 
 sister Frances Eaynes, niece Mary 
 Browne. Brc" John and sister Anne B., 
 ex'\" (Howden Eegistry.) 
 
 1664, 5th April. Pr. t. Wm. Bray of 
 Woodhall, and adm. to Ealph B., his 
 bro'' and sole ex^ (Ibid.) 
 
 1679, May 20. Pr. t. Dorothy B. of 
 Woodhall, and adm. to Ealph B. and 
 John Eaynes, ex". Probably widow of 
 Edward B. 
 
 Edward Bray of Woodhall. Edw., s. 
 do., bp. 8 Nov. 1715. Ann., d. do., bp. 
 Oct. 9, 1718. 
 
 V 2
 
 212 THE HISTORY of hemingbrougii. 
 
 THE TOWNSHIP OF SOUTH DUFFIELD, cum 
 MENTHORPE AND BOWTHORPE. 
 
 There are two contio^iious hamlets bearins; the name of 
 Dullield, that to the north^"* being in the parish of Skip- 
 with, whilst South Diiffielcl, with Menthorpe and Bow- 
 thorpe, is a township in the parish of Heming'brough. In 
 each of the two hamlets the Bishops of Durham had 
 demesne lands. There is a paucity of original evidence 
 about South Duffield, which makes it exceedingly difficult 
 to give its history with exactness. With a limited area, 
 amounting to about 1,400 acres only,^^ the township is 
 said in Domesday to have had a larger extent of woodland, 
 or wood -pasture, than any otlier part of the parish, and, at 
 the same time, a larger arable demesne. The notice is as 
 follows : — 
 
 In Sudduft fuere ij maneria v firmfe de vij carucatis et v bovatis ad 
 geld, et iiij carucaj possuiit esse. Nunc habet Nigel de Comite in 
 doniinio j car. et silv. vast, ij leug. long. & dim. lat. Temp, regis Edw. 
 valebat iiij libras, modo xi (1 xl) solidos. In eadem villa in Hoveden 
 j car. et dim. ad geld. 
 
 The southern portion of South Duffield, adjoining to 
 Woodhall, was chiefly woodland, and, even at the present 
 day, its character may be traced by the profusion of oaks 
 which are growing in the hedgerows. Here the enclosures 
 are called West Flaye moors. Wood closes, and other names 
 implying their former state, and are separated from the 
 pasture lands and crofts of the township by a lane well 
 shaded with oak, ash, and other timber. These, with 
 Pickering Closes, cover an area of between 80 and 100 
 acres. The sylvan character, however, of the place is not 
 confined to this tract ; it may be traced on the opposite 
 
 '< The Camerarius, or Chamberlain, the Scholficlcls of Sandhall, &c. 
 
 is the earliest owner of North Duffield '^ Arable and pasture lands, 1,283 
 
 that is mentioned. From him it came acres. Far field, unenclosed, 39a. 2r.6p. ; 
 
 to the Salvins, and from them through Mill field, ditto, 41)a. Or. lip.; Worm 
 
 an heiress to the Husscys. From them field, ditto, 27a. 3r. lOp. ; Town end 
 
 it went to the Midletons of Stokeld, field, ditto, 23a. Ir. 2p.— 1,422a. 2r. 
 
 from whom the manor was bought by Commons and wastes, 220a.
 
 SOUTH DUFFIELD. 213 
 
 side of the lane, as if the lane had originally run through 
 the wood. 
 
 According to modern survey, the arable demesne chiefly 
 consisted of one field to the north of the village, of ir- 
 regular form, which is now distinguished by four separate 
 names or divisions. These four fields are most probably 
 the principal portion of the town fields, and comprise no 
 more by estimate than one carucate, and would probably 
 be the same that was held by Nigel of the Earl. But this 
 was not the entire demesne, as by the Clamores de Euer- 
 wicscire, Nigel is said to hold two carucates at South 
 Duffield, part of the Kmg's demesne of Pocklington, and 
 William Malet had the remaining six carucates as long as 
 he held the castle of York, and the vassals yielded him 
 service. This statement, connected with another of a 
 later date, is conclusive as to the estimated number of 
 carucates being eight, but the arable land would not 
 amount to more than four carucates, if so much, the re- 
 mainder being bovates in pasturage. 
 
 Among the charters preserved in the Bodleian Library 
 there is a grant (a lease) from Alan Wastehose to Peter, 
 son of Godefrid de Roxtun, of a bovate of land in Duffield, 
 with toft and croft, &c., which Adam, son of Elvina, had 
 previously held, paying therefor a pound of pepper.^^ 
 Wastehose also gave an oxgang of land at Folkerby, a 
 toft, the men wdio dwelt upon it, with their families, and 
 free passage over the river Dun, to the Priory of Drax, 
 which was confirmed by Emma his daughter and Ralph 
 her husband, a servant of King John.^'^ 
 
 This Emma Wastehose, who seems to have been heir to 
 her father, married another husband, Henry de Ormesby, 
 with whom she gave half a carucate of land in Filey 
 to Whitby Abbey.^^ In another deed, preserved in the 
 York Museum, the same Emma, in her widowhood, gives 
 Ralph de Filey and Sunniva his wife their freedom. This 
 deed is witnessed by Robert de Marisco, rector of Hem- 
 ingbrough, Jordan de Menthorp, Robert de Hagthorpe, 
 Robert de Babthorpe, and other people of rank in the 
 neighbourhood. 
 
 '" The witnesses are " Willelmo fil. Eein', Jurdan fil., Bed. fil. Hermeri, 
 Galfrid Cardinal Walter de Legett," etc. Wastehose uses the same seal. 
 '• Burton's Monasticon, p. IOC. '» Whitby Chartulary, i. 125-6.
 
 214 
 
 THE HISTORY OF HEMINGBROUGH. 
 
 At the close of the twelfth century, Wm. EswilKchen 
 confirmed the gift of two bovates of land m Duffield, which 
 Roger de Wandestree, his grandfather, and Mabilia, his 
 mother, Roger's heir, gave to the church of Heming- 
 brough,^^ and confirmed also the gift of a third bovate, 
 formerly belonging to Ranulph Furime, which Alan 
 Wastehose, who holds of him (Eswillichen) a moiety of 
 the said vill, gave to the aforesaid church. The name of 
 Wastehose is a peculiar one, and may be explained by Alan's 
 
 Seal of Win. de Eswilliclien. 
 
 Seal of Alan Wastehose. 
 
 seal. It is a high-laced boot, with some ornamentation on 
 it. Alan evidently had found it necessary to invent it to 
 protect his hose, which had been wasted away and worn 
 before by the muddy roads of the country. Eswillichen 
 has on his seal a hound running. 
 
 It is evident that South Duffield was divided into 
 moieties, of which Wastehose and his daughter had one. 
 This division is confirmed by the statement in Kirkby's 
 
 '=' The charters of Eoger de Wan- gifts the rectors of Hemingbrough held 
 
 destree and his daughter are lost ; those a potty court here. The land was 
 
 of Eswillichen and Wastehose are in the seized by the Crown at the Eeformation 
 
 Appendix. In consequence of these and sold.
 
 SOUTH DUFFIELD. 215 
 
 Inquest in 1284, in which it is said that there are eight 
 carucates in South Duffield, all held of the Bishop of 
 Durham by military service ; of these Richard de Amcotes 
 held four and Nicholas de Stapleton the rest. 
 
 The Amcotes Family. — The family of Amcotes springs 
 from Amcotes in Lincolnshire. They show a pedigree in 
 the Visitation of that county for 1564, at the head of which 
 it is stated that Richard, son of Richard Amcotes, married 
 Alice, daughter and heir of Alan Kinthorp, by Emma, 
 daughter and heir of — Wastehouse. We see, therefore, that 
 the presence of the family of Amcotes in the parish of 
 Hemino^brouoh is due to the fact that a member of it 
 married the heiress of Wastehose, a daughter of the same 
 Emma who has just been mentioned ; and, in the next 
 generation, another member of it, a third Richard, is said 
 to have married Joan, the daughter and sole heir of Jeffrey 
 Hambrough.2^ Between 1270 and 1300, Richard de Am- 
 cotes and Alice his wife were resident at South Duffield, 
 succeeded by a William and a Richard, who were probably 
 his son and grandson. Their descendants continued in 
 possession of the property until it was sold by Alexander 
 Amcotes, Esq., in the 16th of Elizabeth. In 1573-4, 
 Alexander Amcotes, Esq., and Susanna his wife sell the 
 East Wood, containing 40 acres, to Anthony Knight ; 
 14 acres of pasture land to Robert Haddlesey and Thos. 
 Laton ; a messuage, two cottages, three gardens, three 
 orchards, 20 acres of arable land, and 31 perches of meadow 
 and 40 acres of pasture to Marmaduke Fawkes ; and a 
 messuage, a garden, an orchard, 24 acres of arable land, one 
 of meadow, 12 of pasture and common of pasture to John 
 Atkinson and Alexander Lusbie. But as early as the 
 middle of the fourteenth century the estate was sub- 
 infeuded to the Bassets of Hilmorton, co. Warwick. In 
 the 14th of Edward HI. Sir Wm. Basset had a g-rant of 
 free warden at South Duffield, and, seven years after- 
 
 '"* Cf. the Visitation of Lincolnshire, mot Book of 18th Hen. VII. as well as 
 
 1562-4. in the Bishop's Eental of 23rd Hen. 
 
 In 1277, Richard de A. and Alice VIII. Alexander de A. and Susanna 
 
 his wife witness charters at Eiccall and his wife occur in the Eental of 1567, 
 
 Whitemoor. Wm. de A. occ. in 1330 and in Fines d. 1573, in which year 
 
 and 1388, and Eichard de A. in 1341 various fines pass between them and 
 
 and 1344. Eobert de A. is mentioned Anthony Knight, Eobert Haddlesey, 
 
 in the Bishop's Eental in 1440 and Harm. Fawkes, and John Atkinson, 
 
 in the Halmot Books 32nd & 33rd about property in South Duffield. 
 Hen. VI. Wm. de A. occ. in the Hal-
 
 216 THE HISTORY OF HEMINGBEOUGH. 
 
 wards, he conveyed the manor to trustees, i.e. John de 
 Stocton and Adam Mirfiekl, and settled it in tail male 
 npon his three sons, John, William, and Thomas. There 
 were formerly in glass in Hemingbrough Church the 
 escutcheons of the two wives of John Basset, circa 1500. 
 One of them represented Phihppa Shuckborough, and 
 was a shield of eight quarteraigs, viz. Shuckborough, 
 Kawlins, Napton, Sidenhall, Dygourt, and Lunell ; the 
 other shield was that of Margaret Cave of Stamford, and 
 had four quarterings, and an inescutcheon granted to John 
 Cave of Leicestershire in the time of Henry YII. It is 
 |)robable, therefore, that the Bassets were then the owners 
 of land in South Duffield. The title-deeds were unhappily 
 burnt in January 1835, in a fire which consumed the 
 house of Thomas Barstow, Esq., in Blossom Street, York, 
 the owner of the estate. Everything then perished in the 
 Wciy of title except the grant of free-warren to Sir Wm. 
 Basset, which Mr. Barstow had happily given to the 
 Museum of the Yorkshire ]'*hilosophical Society, where it 
 is still preserved. 
 
 Holme House. — The chief portion of these lands is a 
 farmstead now called Holme House, situated near the 
 confluence of the Dyon beck and the Derwent. The older 
 name was Hagham, or Hagholme. Like other country 
 granges, Holtu House was surrounded by a small moat, 
 the outer measure of which was 50 yards square and 
 the width 9 or 10 yards ; the inner area (a quadrangle 
 of about 30 yards) was originally occupied with buildmgs 
 which have now entirely disappeared, the site having been 
 converted into an orchard. 
 
 Here there resided a family of the same name. A Roger 
 de Hagham is mentioned in the Hundred Rolls, and 
 Benedict de Has^ham and Isabel his wife were lecratees in 
 the will of Henry de Cliff in 1332, and the same Benedict 
 is also mentioned in an Inquisition in 1341. At the 
 Sheriff's Turn in 18th Edw. lY., Peter Hirste was a tenant 
 at Holme House. ^^ In 1663 the property had passed into 
 
 '^' In 1614 Stephen Cave was tenant ; Holme House, born. ; in 1747, Joseph 
 
 in 1023, Humphrey Burletson ; in 1G28, Eobinson. 
 
 John Coulburne ; in 1635, Thos. Dobb ; Near Holme House there is a small 
 
 in 1656, John Wilshire, gent.; 1656, farmstead called Dyon House, which is 
 
 17 Aug., Eliz., d. John Wilshire of the parcel of the manor and pays an annual 
 
 Holme House, gent. bp. ; in 1660, Mr. quit-rent of 3s. 9fZ. John Skipwith re- 
 
 Eawson ; in 1669, Mr. Seaton. 1669, sided here in the reign of Charles II. 
 27 Aug., Amor s. to Mr. Seaton of the
 
 f 
 
 m 
 
 PEDIGREE OF BAKSTOW OF HOLME HOUSE, ETC. 
 
 Michael Barstow of York, gen,, eon of Thomas Barstow of North Allertoo. = Alice, dau. . . . Ex", to her husband, IG98-9. Founded Barstow's Hospital 
 Free of the City 1648-9. His portrait is in the Merchants' Hall, Fossgate. | in 1702. Will d. 12 Aug., pr. 10 Nov., 1702. Bur. at A. S- North Street, 
 Will d. 2 June. 1694, pr. 21 March, 1698-9. Bur. at AQ Saints', North 3 Nov. 
 Street, 1 March, 1698-9. 
 
 . 18 Mar. seq. Bar. at 
 
 and bur. there 5 Feb., 1741-2. Re- 
 marr. at York MinBter, 21 Aug., 1716, 
 Jas. Barstow, fonnerl; of Hall. 
 
 ;. Michael's, 21 Jan. 1659-60. Will d. 27 Feb., 1707-8. 
 
 '8, Coney Street, 4 Mar., 1710-11. 
 
 3. Benjamin Barstow, gen. 
 
 Governor of the Merchants' Compy., 
 1736-8. WUl d. 31 Mar., pr. 22 
 Nov., 1742. Bur. at St. Michael's, 
 July. 
 
 Michael, hp. 14 April, 1713. and bur. H. Trin. Goodramgate, 22 Oct., 1714. 
 Mary, w, of Mr. John Atkinson, of Newc.-on-Tyne, in 1751. M. al York 
 Minster, 1734.^ 
 
 Anne, m. . . . Clapham. 
 Elizabeth, m. . . . Clapham. bp. H 
 Trin., Goodramgate, 20 Nov,, 1726. 
 
 Michael Bar- = 
 
 = Anne. d. Edward Bar- 
 
 1 
 Thos. Barstow, Jun. Bur. St. Martin's 
 
 stow, Esq.. bp. 
 
 nard of North Dalton. 
 
 11 Feb.. 1708-9. 
 
 St.M. loAug., 
 
 M. lie. 5 Jan.. 1713- 
 
 Alice, bp. 28, bur. St. Martin's, 31 
 
 1686. Bur. St. 
 
 14. WiUd.240ct.,pr. 
 
 Aug., 1685. 
 
 Martin's, 17 
 
 27 Nov., 1760. Bur. 
 
 Elizabeth, bp. St, Mich., 4 Dec, 1087, 
 
 July, 1743. 
 
 St. Martin's, 25 Nov. 
 
 bur. St. Martin's, 8 Oct., 1712. 
 
 1, Everilda, d. Riohd. Hcwan, bp.=; Thomas Barstow, gen, 
 
 Judith, d. Rev. Wm. Stainfortb, rector of Simonburne. M. at 
 1 June, 1712. Sheriff of York. 17C2-3. York Minster, 30 Jan., 1752, d. 21 July. 1772, tet. 64. 
 EiectedAldennan, 31 July 1777. Lord = 3. Grace, d. . . . Dickons, and widow of Alderman Blanohard of 
 Mayor. 1778. J.P. Died at Fulford, Beverley. M. at S. M., Beverley, 10 Nov., 1777. Bur. at York 
 
 6 and bur. there, 9 Mar. 1780, i 
 
 Minster, 11 Oct., 1792, i 
 
 Michael Barstow, gcn. = Mana, dau. of Archibald Bev. Thomf 
 
 Bp. at St. M.,23 June, I Maclean, of Mcmel in FellowofCb 
 
 1740. Died at Dantzic Prussia. Be-marr. Cor- 1770. Marr. 
 
 in 1794. nelius of Almonde. Pickard of Colchester, 
 
 Barstow, bp. 2G Sep., 11 
 Hall. Camb. B.A. 1767, &J 
 July, 1778. Mary, dau. of . 
 
 Alice, bp. 8 Apr., 1739, bur. 9 July, 1745. St. M. 
 Anne, bp. 23 July, 1741, bur. 27 Jan. seq. 
 Mary, bp. 23 Aug. 1742. "' " ' 
 
 Nathaniel, bp. 17 July, bur. 
 
 St. Michael's. 
 Benjamin, bp. 26 Sept., 
 
 WiU pr. 31 Aug., 1765. 
 Michael, bp. 3 Nov., 1718, bui 
 
 St. M. 
 James, bp. and bur. at St. M. 
 
 I I I I 
 8 Nov., 1706. at Ellen, hp. 13 Mar.. 1703-4, at St. M. Marr. Joseph Hewan. 
 
 Mary, bp. 11 Mar., 1707-8. Bur. 31 Mar.. 1757, at St. Michael's. 
 1716. Of York. Jane, bp. 5 June, 1709. Marr. Francis Proctor of York, gen. M. lie. 
 
 1732-3.4. 
 r. 8 Mar.. 1748-9. Elizabeth, bp. 10 July, 1713. Of York, spinster. Will d. 21 No' 
 
 29 Feb. acq. 
 
 Marr. Dr. Judson 
 
 Thomas Barstow of Fulford Park and Garrov 
 
 Dantzic, 16 June, 1788. Trin. Coll.. Cambr. B.A. 1810, 
 
 1813. J.P., D.L. Died at Garrow Hill, IG Jan., 1808. Bur. 
 
 Hill, Esq. Bp. at = Anne Susannah, d. Colonel Robert Jones of Fortland, co. Sligo, 
 " ■ "' ' by Eliz., d. Lewis Francis Irwin, Esq. Born 13 Jan., 1798, died 
 
 8 Dec, 1878. Bur, in the York cemetery. 
 
 Magistrate at Clerk. 
 
 Marr. at Acton, Cheshire, 
 
 .5March. 1861. Mary Eliza- Magistrate. 
 
 beth, dau. Henry Leader, 
 
 \ 
 2. Robert Clapham Bar- = Jane Mary, d. 
 stow, born 10 Nov., 1820. i Colonel Hulme. 
 Scholar of Jesus Coll., I Commander of 
 Camb. Now of Stone- } Forcesat Anck- 
 orott. Auckland, New land. New Zea- 
 Zealand. Stipendiary land. Marr. 
 
 Mill 
 Maria, bp. at Dantzic, 22 June, 1786. Marr. (1) V. Reichenbach, (2) 
 
 Ailolphe Guenther. 
 Everilda, bp. at Dantzic, 10 March, 1787. Marr. Dr. Beiehter Neumann. 
 Frances, bp. 19 July, 1789, at Dantzic. Marr. Wm. Farmer of Nonauch 
 
 Park, CO. Surrey. 
 Emilie, born 1790, died 29 Sept.. 1861. 
 Mathilda, bom June, 1792, died Dec. 1862. 
 
 3. Michael William Bar- 
 stow, born 8 Feb., 1824. 
 Christ Cb.. Oitford., B.A., 
 Perpetual 
 
 1846. 
 
 Esq.,and widow 
 of . . . Henry. 
 Marr. at Eaw- 
 cliffe. 
 
 1885. at Bemnera, New Shipberd 
 
 1. Mary Ann. 
 
 2. Elizabeth. 
 
 1. Thomas William. 
 3. Montagu Maclean. 
 
 4. George Barstow, born 4 Jan., 
 1826. Gazetted to R.A., 1840. In 
 the Crimean War ; at the taking of 
 Canton and in the New Zealand 
 campaign. B.-major, 1854; colonel. 
 
 1863, Annie, d. Wm. Strahan, Esq. 
 
 25 AprU, 1857, Mary Anne, d. of 
 John Agar, Esq , of Brockfield. 
 
 0. Charles Duflin, born 22 Mar., 
 1834. 
 
 7. John Arthur Barstow, bom 23 
 Sept., 1836. Gazetted to 89th 
 Begt. Aug.. 1854. Served in the 
 Crimean War and through the 
 Captain, 1858 ; 
 
 8. Henry Clemeot= Cecilia Clementina, 
 Barstow. bom 8 d. Hon. and Rev. 
 John Baillie, Canon 
 of York. M. at S. 
 Mich.-le-Belfrey, 26 
 
 II I I I 
 Mary Aon, b. 22 June, 1822, d. 8 June, 
 
 1882. Bar. at the York cemetery. 
 Elizabeth. 
 Frances Amv. 
 Matilda Emily, m. 22 Sept., 1869, Thos. 
 
 Wingfield Webber, Esq., of Kellyville, 
 
 B. Nelson, b. 16 Jan., 1687. 
 
 1
 
 SOUTH DUFFIELD. 217 
 
 the possession of Michael Barstow, a merchant in York, 
 and his hneal descendants still have it. In that year 
 Mr. Barstow paid the same Bishop's rent as was paid by 
 Alexr. Amcotes in 1567, and Robert Amcotes in 
 1440. The pedigree opposite will show the descent of the 
 Barstows. 
 
 The Stapletons' Lands. — The other moiety of the 
 manor of South Dufheld was held of the Bishops of 
 Durham by the Stapletons of Middle Haddlesey and Carl- 
 ton, near Selby. On the Pleas of Assize for the 55th of 
 Henry IIL, Richard le Venour sues Nicholas de Stapleton 
 and Margery his wife for dispossessing him of his free 
 tenement in South Duffield with the lands attached to it, 
 viz. eight acres of land and wood. It is, however, alleged 
 that this had been done at the instance of the Bishop, who 
 wished to make some disposal of the waste lands of the 
 township and could not do so without the leave of his 
 free tenants. This the jury confirmed ; accordingly forty 
 acres of land and wood (probably in Nortoft) were assigned 
 to Stapleton, and eight to Venour. On June 21st, 1304, 
 Miles de Stapleton, son of Nicholas, had a grant of free- 
 warren in his lands at South Duffield, West Haddlesey, 
 &c. In the reign of Edward 11. he bought some lands and 
 messuages and 40 acres of woodland in South Duffield. 
 
 The history and descent of this illustrious family can 
 be obtained elsewhere, and it would be waste of space 
 to repeat it. Until the middle of the sixteenth century 
 the estate at South Duffield was transmitted with the 
 manor of Carlton, the Stapletons receiving from it an 
 annual fee-farm rent. But like the family of Amcotes, 
 they subinfeuded their moiety of South Duffield to the 
 Knights. 
 
 The Family of Knight, &c. — As early as the year 
 1430 the Knights obtained of the Provost of Heming- 
 brough a lease of the tithes of the township, and, in the 
 Bishop's Rental of 1440, we find that Richard Knight paid 
 IZ. Il5. lOd., one half of the whole amount. In the 15th 
 and 16th of Henry VI. Richard Knight acquires from John 
 Latymer, Esq. and Margaret his wife, and Thos. 
 Greneham, Esq. and Joan his wife two messuages, 100 
 acres of arable land and 6 of meadow in South Duffield 
 and Menthorpe. These two ladies may have been sisters
 
 218 THE HISTORY OF HEMINGBROUGH. 
 
 and coheiresses, perhaps, of one of the Bassets. Leonard 
 Knight, in the next generation, is often mentioned in the 
 Kolls, &c. relating to the parish, and appeared with his 
 children in a window in the church. In 1525 John 
 Knight, gent., and Matilda his wife demised 42 acres of 
 arahle land, 2 of meadow, 64 of pasture, and 3 of wood to 
 John Norman, alderman and merchant of York, the 
 ancestor of the Normans of Gateforth ; and his hereditary- 
 estate, in 1528, to William Maunsell, also of York, the 
 keeper of the Castle there (together with lands in Men- 
 thorpe, Woodhall, Hotham and Cave). The rent paid 
 for this to the Bishop was the old sum of 125. But this sum 
 for Bishop's rent never occurs afterwards, as, according 
 to the Rental of 22nd and 23rd Hen. Vlll., Mr. John 
 Gascoigne ^^ held one portion, and Wm. Westhy some other 
 part which had belonged to Edward Knight. By Fine 
 dated 25th Hen. VIII. Wm. Maunsell and Anne his wife 
 made assignment of trust to Wm. Storthwaite, clerk, 
 Eichard Best, clerk, and Robert Howson. 
 
 This William Maunsell was keeper of York Castle, and 
 a collector for the King in Yorkshire. On 23rd November, 
 1541, he made a long and very curious will (proved 14th 
 January seq.)^ from which it appears that he had accumu- 
 lated a considerable fortune in addition to his lands ; but, if 
 we judge him by his own words, he had not been free from 
 angry criticism. A few extracts from his will must 
 suffice : — 
 
 Whereas I am possessed of certayne worldlie substance, and that I 
 have occupied severall offices in this my naturall countrie, and specially 
 th' office of the Clerkshipe of the Castell, wherin I have not bene ex- 
 treme, ne rigorus, not meanynge, but I have offended sometyme the 
 common people ; I crie God mercie, and desyreth theme of fre pardone, 
 not doubtinge ther is no man in the worlde will complean doinge me 
 right ; yet, for the principall, I am fully determyned to make one per- 
 fyte and ti'ewe declaracion : first, for the Sheriffes, I have substancially 
 and trewlie dischardged theyme, and by many of theme, of myne honeste, 
 I have susteaned greate losse, and, most specially, by Sr John Con- 
 stable, Sr George Dercie, and Sr William Fairfax, and I not owe any 
 penny or some of money unto any man that ever was shyref, wliich I 
 will take of my trewthe and consciencie afore God. I do owe unto liis 
 Maiestie for myne office of Collection of Sancte Marie's 1 60^. 
 
 -- John Gascoigne pays the Bishop's another portion of Knight's Bishophold 
 rent for lands late Edw. Knight, 6s. (kZ. lands, rent 10s. 10|d. 
 (22 & 23 Hen. VIII.). Wm. Westby had
 
 PKDIGREE OF THE F.UIILIES OF GASCOIGNE, KNIGHT, AND FAWKES, 
 OF SOUTH DUFFIELD. 
 
 Roberi Gftscoigne, eon of = Alice, 3. and heir of Bobert Bichard Knight, of South = . . . 3ril ilai 
 Sir Wm. G. Admon. gr. I MaDStoti, of ManstOQ, Esq. Be- Duffield, occ. 14'10 and of ThoB. di 
 21 May.l474,to Wm.Utas, I man-. Arthur Pilkington, Esq. 1454. Spaldingtoi 
 
 cap. and Boger Dyaeley. j and Soger Dyneley, gen. Will 
 
 d. Feb. 6. 1526-7. pr. 14 March. 
 
 Bur. at Whitkirk. 
 
 m^ 
 
 Ml 
 
 ooo 
 
 ^ 
 
 ^ 
 
 I I 'I 
 
 George Qascoigne, = Oatherine, d. Nic. Leven- Humphrey Gascoipne, Muster of John Gascoigne, i 
 
 Bonandheir. Mentd. | thorpe. Marr. 10th Hen. Gretham HoEpital. and Bector — Knight. 
 
 1526-7. VII. Be-marr. Thos. of Bambro'. Will d. 21 Jan. Wm. Gascoigne, i 
 
 Wodell or Odell, co. Bed- 1540-1. To be bur. at Bambro'. ... and had a 
 
 ford. Mentd. by his mother. Alice. Mentd. 15: 
 
 . . . m. Thos. Pigotl.^ Leonard Knight, of South = Isabella, d. John 
 
 Jane, sub -prioress of Duffield. Inscr. in Hem- ' Langholme, of Con- 
 
 Bampole. Mentd. ingbro'Cburchtohim,his ingsbolme, co. Lin- 
 
 1526-7 and 1540-1. wife, and children. cola. 
 
 John Gascoigne, 
 gen., of South Duf 
 field. Sells Manaton, 
 10th Hen. VIH. 
 
 id Mary. She was, I be- Elizabeth, 
 lieve, a daughter and coh. of Wm, 
 Elleson, of Selby. 
 
 . dau. = Edward Knight, of South Thomas. 
 Duffield. Died circa 1520. Nicholas. 
 Isabella, ii 
 
 Adda. = Msrmaduke Fawkes, of John Knight, ot=Matilda, dau. 
 
 I So. DuQleld, a younger South Duffield. I 
 sonof JohnF.,orFame- | 
 
 j ley, gen. Edward Knight. 
 
 i j n 
 
 Marmadoke Favkes, of South = Joan, dau. and heiress of Nicholas Fawkes, of Jane, m. Itobt. 
 
 Duffield, gen., 1584. Mr. | James Blanshard, of Bow- Hemingbro'. Northby. 
 
 Marm. F., of Woodhall. bur. tliorpe. "Mrs. F., of 8o. .loan, ra. Eiehd. 
 
 atHemingbro',Feb.7,1007-8. ' Duffield.bur.l2MBy,H>20," Sheffield. 
 
 Wm. Knight. Leonard Knight, of South Duffield. 
 
 John Knight, gen., late of So. Anne, m. . . . William Knight, executed 
 Duffield. Will d. 4 Jan. 1598-9. Pahnes. 1698-9. at ^"^^ forreligion, 29 Nov. 
 To be bur. in Otley Church. 1590. 
 
 1. Catherine, d, Peter Newark, of Acomb Grange, = Michael Fawkes, of Woodhall, So. Duffield and Fame- = 3. Mary, eldest dau. of Sir 
 
 7 May, 1574, Admon. of Thos. K.. of Solby, to Wni. K. 
 Mrs. Grace Knight, of Hemingbro', bur. 30 Nov. 1000. 
 John, son of Nic. K., of So. Dd., bur. 11 Nov. 1632. 
 
 ' Michael Faux, gent., a I John Molyn 
 at Otley, st'rainger who died at the house of Mrs. Smithies, all, Notts, 
 bur.' at S.-M., Castlegate, York. ^U7S, bur. a 
 
 Francifi Fawkes, of Barley Lane House, and Ellen Waudbie, of Clifle, 
 nmrr. Aug. 27, 1615. Martin, 9. Francis F., of Cliffe, bp. 1 Nov. 1615. 
 Wm. Gascoigne, of South Duffield, bur. 17 May, 162B. 
 
 of Tevers- 
 Died 10 Doc. 
 Otley. 
 
 . K.. bur. 1583, 8 Aug., Wm., s.do., bp. 1587, 9 Apr., Bobert, s.do., bp. 1607, 30 .July, Thos. K. and Kath. Weddell,mi 
 , 4 July, Ann, d. do., bp. 1013-14. 9 Mar., Eliz.. d. do., bp. 1610. 10 Sept., Wm. K., bur. 1020, 27 Dec, Geo. Nelson a 
 R'ni. K., bur. 1032, 11 Dec, Thos. K. jun.. and Margaret Marshall nmrr.— ^K at Sclbij. 
 
 rr. 1608, 3 Deo., 
 id Kath E. marr. 
 
 [Tofacep.n9. 
 
 D
 
 SOUTH DUFFIELD. 219 
 
 The testator enumerates his goods, &c., to the value of 
 928/. 18.5?. lid., and leaves his money, &c., chiefly to his 
 brothers and their children. He is a person about whom 
 more will some day be known. There must have been 
 some reason for the dislike of the common people about 
 which he speaks. 
 
 The Maunsel estate, or the greater part of it, in Duflield, 
 came into the possession of the Latons. On 17th July, 
 1559, an inquest was held on the death of Edward Laton 
 (or Lawton), by which it was shown that he died on the 
 26th May last, leavmg Thomas his son and heir, then 
 aged sixteen. He was possessed of four messuages, three 
 cottages, a windmill, 200 acres of land, and 10 acres 
 of wood in South and North Duffield. This Thomas 
 Laton occurs on the Fine Rolls in 1580, and was succeeded 
 by Henry Laton. ^^ 
 
 In the beginning of the same century the family of 
 Fawkes made a settlement in Duffield through its connec- 
 tion with the Gascoignes and the Knights, and accumulated 
 a respectable estate. A pedigree (as here given) will best 
 show the descent of the chief part of South Duffield in 
 the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, and the connection 
 of the chief landowners ; but, in this case, it is of a 
 very tentative character, and must not be considered as 
 exact. 
 
 The following extracts from wills illustrate the pedi- 
 gree : — 
 
 Feb. 6, 1526-7. Alicie Dyneley, voies. To be beried within the 
 churche of our Laclie at Whitkirke. To the kirke warkes xiij s. iiij d., 
 and a blake vestyment with on albe, and other stuf therto belongyng 
 and perteynyng. To the chauntre altar in Whitkirke ij s. To the 
 kirke of Garford vj s. viij d. I will that ther be disposed at the daye 
 of my beriall, after the discrecion of my executours, vij 1. sterling. I 
 bequeath vij marc to one preist, to reide and syng within parishe kirke 
 of Whitkirke, the space of on yere next . . . after my decesse and 
 bodely departyng frome this transitory worlde, for me and my prede- 
 cessours. To the Gray Freres in Doncastre vj s. viij d. To the Freres 
 in Pontefracte vj s. viij d. I will that my executours content and pays 
 all my dettes that er expressed and wrytyn in my dett buke, and that 
 is unpaid at my departyng to the gilde of oure Ladie of Bostone for my 
 susterhed. To Peter Dyneley, clerke, the parsone of Hirnam, my 
 
 23 Fines. 14 & 15 Eliz. Jo. More, ten. in S. D. 18th Eliz. Thos. Laton, 
 
 gen., qu., and Wm. Wylson, clef., ten. gen., qu., and T. Trowghton, gen., del, 
 
 in S. D. 15th Eliz. Roger Norton, ten., &c. 
 gen., qu., and Thos. Laton, gen., def.,
 
 220 THE HISTORY OF HEMINGBROUGH. 
 
 sone, my best fether bed ... on sperver of Dornyx, on salt of silver 
 covered, . . . with a colt fole ambling. To John Dyneley, cap"., my 
 sone, for a full contentacion of his bequest of his fader's will, on fedder- 
 bed. . ; . To my sonnes, William Gascoigne, Roger Dyneley, and 
 Frances Dyneley, if they be good and favorable to my executours, every 
 on of them, singularly by hym self, iiij marc sterling ; and they be 
 the contrarye, than I will that they have no penyworth of my goodes. 
 To my doughtour, Dame Jane Gascoigne, xx s. To my doughtour, Mar- 
 garete Malett, on cowe with a calf, on grete arke, ... on fedderbed 
 that I bought of Malevery bedman, ... on velvett girdle with penall 
 and bukill gilte, and the half of my undight lyne. To my doughtour, 
 Elisabeth Hall, on yoke of stottes and the other half of my undight 
 lyne. To (my) doughtour, Anne Wentworth, a grete spruce chist. To 
 Jane Gascoigne, doughtour to my sone William Gascoigne, v marc 
 sterling towardes hir mariage. ... To Alicie Gibson, my god doughtour, 
 on cowe for a felie that I had with hir of hir fader goodes that seld 
 for vj s. To John Gascoigne, sone of George Gascoigne my eldest sone 
 and heire, thes herelomes : m primis, on chales, on olde vestimente, a 
 masse buke, on Portes, on leid in the bruhouse, on maskefatt, ij gile 
 cars, on foldyng borde, on yrne chymnay w' ij side hordes in the hall, 
 ij candilstikes of yrne, and ij olde cruetes in the chapell. I order 
 Maister Umfrey Gascoigne, my sone, Peter Dyneley, clerke, my sone, 
 William Dyneley, my son, and William Dyneley, my broder in lawe, 
 to be my executours ...&,! give to Maister Umfray on silver 
 pece gilted covered ; to my sone Peter Dyneley xx s. To my sone 
 William Dyneley xx s. and on yrne bound chiste in the stodie, and to 
 William Dyneley, my broder in lawe, xx s. And for a true perform- 
 ance herof to be had, I humbly require and beseche Thomas Darcy, 
 knyght, Lorde Darcy, whome I order and make supervisour . . . 
 unto whome I gyve . . . my best amblyng meire. Thies beyng 
 wittenes, Sir Roger Killingbek, the parishe preist of Whitkirke, 
 Hemy Joye, clerke, the maister of 'thospitall nye Whitkirke, 
 William Evers, Roberte Totty, capellanis. Pr. 4 Mar. 1526-7. (Reg. 
 Test. Ebor. ix. 364.) 
 
 1540-1. 21 Jan. Umfray Gascoigne, clerke, master of Grettham 
 and parson of Barnburghe. To be bur. w*in the churche of Barnes- 
 brughe, in the quere, one the sowthe syde, betwixt my stall and the 
 revestrye dore. To everye scoler havinge suplesse, accustomlye usinge 
 the quere. Id. I will that mye ex''^ take downe the storye of white 
 glasse one the sowthe syde next unto mye stall, and set it upe agayne, 
 puttynge in the mydes therofF a picture lyke to my image, and set, 
 one the right syde, my father's armes, and, one the other syde, my 
 mother's. Item : I will that my exequutors cause to be maid a proper 
 thinge of wodde, wherein the moste Blessed Sacrament shall remayne 
 above the hye alter, and to take example as is w*in the churche of 
 Wathe, thouge it be not so costly, and to make a proper tabernacle for 
 the image of our Ladye, and a lectoron to stand in the mydes of the 
 quere of the churche of Barnbrughe. My bro"". Sir Peter Dynlinge. 
 To Sir Robert Parkin, my servant, one Messe Booke in paper of a 
 large volume, beinge of Yorke's use. To Sir Wm. Watson, curet of 
 Melton-on-the-Hill, one boke of Latten of a large volume, named 
 Sermones Discipuli. My bro'-in-lawe, John Norton, squier, of 
 Clotheram, & Riclid. Flecher, gen., ex'"^, and there costiges to be
 
 SOUTH DUFFIELD. 221 
 
 borne of my goodes. Sir Wm. Gascon supervisor. Sister Jane, late 
 sub-prioresse of Hanipull, 6^. 13s. 4d., and one of my velvet typpetes 
 furred with cony, and my velvet girdle garnished with silver and gilt. 
 
 We are unacquainted with the fate of the Knights. 
 They did not altogether disappear from the neighbour- 
 hood when they parted with their estates. Some scanty 
 property seetns to have remained to them, and they 
 Hngered, in the position ahnost of yeomen, until the close 
 of the sixteenth century, when one of them made the 
 following querulous will, whicli has happily been registered 
 at York. It is impossible to trace the accuracy of his 
 statements : — 
 
 In the name of God, Amen. The 4th dale of Januarie, in the 
 xxxxjth yeare of the reigne of our soveraigne lady Elizabethe, in the 
 yeare of our Lord God 1598, I John Knighte, late of South DulFeilde, 
 in the covmtie of Yorke, gent., of good and perfecte remembrance, 
 thankes be to God Almightie, make and ordeine this my last Will and 
 Testament in mannor and forme followinge. First I give and bequeath 
 my soule to Almightie God, and my bodye to be buried in Otley church 
 at the discretion of my friendes. Also I take it uppon my charge and 
 salvacion that the Indentures made uppon trust of and uppon my 
 landes, tenementes, and heridatamentes in South Duffeild and North 
 DufFeild, betwixte myselfe on th' one partie, and Robai-t Constable and 
 Raiphe Babthorpe, esquiers, on th' other partie, bearinge date the lirst 
 day of Februarie, in the xxxviijth yeare of the Quene's Majestie's 
 reigne, is falslye, fraudulentlie, and unjustlie made and written, con- 
 trarie to my meaninge, mynde, intent, or purpose, in diverse pointes, 
 (that is to sale) that the said landes, tenementes, and hereditamentes 
 should not have beene lymitted to the use of Ann Constable and hir 
 heires for ever after the death of Margarett Lyndley, as is expressed in 
 the said Indentures, but that the said landes, tenementes, and heri- 
 datamentes should have been limitted to these uses (that is to sale) to 
 the use of myselfe duringe my life, and to the heires of my bodye law- 
 fullie begotten ; and, for defalte of such issue, to the use of my sister 
 Anne Palmes duringe hir life, and, after her death, to the uses of 
 Nicholas Lyndley and Margarett his wief, and to the heires lawfullie 
 begotten betwixt tlie said Nicholas and Margaret for ever ; and, for 
 defalte of such issue, to the use of Ann Constable and the right heires 
 of the said Ann Constable for ever, and to no other use or uses : and 
 I acknowledge and take it uppon my death before all those who are 
 wittnesses of this my last Will and Testament, that I delivered the one 
 partie of the said Indentures unto Mr. Raiphe Babthorpe, to be kept 
 uppon trust, to alter when I would, payinge him xij d., which I autho- 
 rised the said Nicholas Lindley to pay unto him, although I never had 
 so much consideracion (nor any at all) of and uppon the said Robart 
 Constable or Raiphe Babthorpe, neither was it my knowledge and 
 deede that suclie fraudulent and deceitfull covenantes, articles, and 
 provises should have been conteined and sett downe in the said inden- 
 tures as are now contained therein : Wherefore (as well by this my
 
 222 THE HISTORY OF HEMINGBROUGH. 
 
 last Will and Testament) as also by my writinge indented and deed of 
 feoffment heretofore made, sealled and delivered unto Francis Clifton 
 and Thomas Pawson, I have altered, abolished, and made frustrate the 
 said indenture and everie article, covenant, sealled, and provises therein 
 conteined. And my will ys that the said Nicholas Lindley shall 
 demand and receive the same at the handes of Mr. Babthorpe afore- 
 said to be cancelled. And also my will and whole mynde is that all 
 such deedes, grauntes, assurance, and conveiances which I have made 
 unto the said Frances Clifton and Thomas Pawson, of and uppon the 
 said landes, tenementes, and hereditamentes, shal be at all tymes in full 
 strength and force for ever, to have and holde the aforesaid landes, 
 tenementes, and heredatamentes, to the onelie uses and behoufes of the 
 said Nicholas Lindley and Margarett his wief, and to theire heires for 
 ever, uppon condicion they shall kepe my said sister Ann with meat, 
 drincke, cloathinge, and all other thinges necessarie duringe her life : 
 And I make the said Nicholas Lindley executor of this my last Will 
 and Testament. In witnesse whereof I, the said John Knighte, unto 
 this my last Will and Testament have sett to my seale, the dale and 
 yeare first abovewritten. These beinge wittnesses, John Bradley, 
 William Bradley, William Roodes, Annes Gelles, John Lindley, Thomas 
 Pawson, John Tomlinson, with others. Pr. 22 Apr. 1600. Admon. 
 to ex»\ (Reg. Test. Ebor. xxviii. 114.) 
 
 The religions controversies of the sixteenth century in- 
 vest the history of Duffield with a pecuUar interest. The 
 famihes of Knight and Fawkes were Roman CathoHc in 
 their views, and the relationship which existed between 
 the latter and the notorious Guy Fawkes would be sure to 
 make the goings out and comings in of every one in South 
 Duflield observed with the greatest strictness. Marma- 
 duke Fawkes was presented as a Recusant in 160-1,^* and 
 on 29th November, 1596, William, son of Leonard Knight 
 of South Duffield (who is called a wealthy yeoman), was 
 executed at York on account of his religion. Bishop 
 Chaloner gives the following account of the occurrence in 
 his Memoirs of Missionary Priests '-^^ (i. 355-6) : — 
 
 The manuscript from which I have the greatest part of these par- 
 ticulars adds a very remarkable history with relation to William 
 Knight, uncle to the William Knight who suffer'd, and a great enemy 
 of his nephew and of all Catholics, which I shall here set down in the 
 writer's own words. " There happen 'd in Hemmingbrough parish a thing 
 worth memory, wliich was this. There was a Catliolic man that had 
 been long confined in York Castle for his conscience, and having pro- 
 cured liberty to return home, after many years imprisonment, he went 
 
 2' 9th June, IGOl. Office v. Marm. structecl. 
 
 Fawkes of Woodhall, gen., for not re- " In 1G04, Jennet Dilcocke of South 
 
 ceiving the Holy Communion for years. Duffield appears upon the list of Ke- 
 
 To repair to the Archbishop, to be in- cusants. (Peacock's List, p. liO.)
 
 SOUTH DUFFIELD. 223 
 
 one time to visit an old man of his acquaintance, and perceiving him 
 not likely to live long, enter'd into some good talk with him concerning 
 his soul, and used some persuasions to move him to provide for death, 
 and the salvation of his soul, by making himself a Catholic. This came 
 to the knowledge of one William Knight [who was uncle to the other 
 of that name, whom I have mention'd before, that was a martyr, and 
 was the first cause of his nephew's imprisonment, and that upon this 
 occasion : The good youth coming to man's estate, went to his uncle 
 about some land which was due to him : whether his uncle had the land 
 in his possession, or the writings, I remember not ; but knowing his 
 nephew to be a Catholic, he took him and sent him to prison, where he 
 remained till he got the crown of martyrdom. If he would have gone 
 to the Church, his uncle would liave given him his land]. This bad 
 William Knight, hearing of the good counsel this prisoner had given his 
 neighbour, determin'd to bring him within the danger of the Statute of 
 Persuasion, which is treason ; and, for that end, took the minister of the 
 parish with him, whose name was Knighton, and some others to be 
 %vitnesses, determining to take the old man's oath, that the other had 
 persuaded him, As they were going. Knight was forced to stay to un- 
 truss, and was in such manner handled, that he was obliged to turn 
 back ; so the minister and the rest, entertaining no such malice, 
 return'd without proceeding any farther. Knight's disease left him not 
 till he died, which was within a short time ; how few days I am not 
 certain. I had this from the minister himself, who acknowledg'd it to 
 be God's just judgment upon him." 
 
 It is about this time that we find the Fawkes' disposing 
 of their estate, like tlie Babtliorpes, in small portions, pro- 
 bably to meet fines, and to ensure the possession of at least 
 something when everything seemed to be in peril.-*' 
 
 In the midst of all this turmoil and confusion a wealthy 
 lawyer steps in and becomes the owner of the greater part 
 of South Duflfield. In those times many estates were 
 changing hands and there were many opportunities of 
 making cheap bargains. In 1590 William Hildyard, Esq., 
 Recorder of York, a younger son of Martin Hildyard of 
 Winestead, bought the estate of Henry Lawton, or Laton, 
 in North and South Duffield.^' The Recorder was buried 
 at St. Michael-le-Belfrey, York, on 20th August, 1608, 
 and his estate at Dufheld descended to his eldest son, 
 another William, who was knighted at Windsor on 9th 
 July, 1603. His widow, Anne Howe, did not long sur- 
 vive the Recorder, but made her will at York on 4th 
 
 "« Fines. 39th Eliz. Tlios. Lamb- find James Simpson of South DufBelcl 
 
 ton, and another, querent, and Marm. F. mentioned as a son of Kicliard S. of 
 
 and another def. Egton. His wife was Isabella, d. of 
 
 2' In 44th Eliz. he bought a ten. in Henry Wytham of Ledston, and he had 
 
 S. D. of Nicholas Northeby. his eldest son Eichard, £ct. 3, and 
 
 In the Yorkshire Visitation of 1584 I Kobert.
 
 224 THE HISTORY OF HEMINGBROUGII. 
 
 February, 1G19-20 (proved 5tli March, 1621-2), which is 
 curious and valuable : — 
 
 " If it please God," she says, " that I sliall dye at Yorke or South 
 Duffeild, my bodie shal be buried in Yorke Minster, &, if I dye at 
 Bishopp Wilton, to be buried in the church there, & some monument 
 to be made there for me, upon, or neare my grave ; and my will is that 
 some learned divine shal be procured to make a sermon for mee at my 
 buriall. There shal be eighteen pooer weomen at my bringing forth, 
 twelve of the cittie of Yorke, and six of Bishopp Wilton, to everie of 
 which I give a black gowne and 1 "2d. ; also six pooer men, to carrie 
 my dead bodie on their shoulders, who shall have a blacke gowne, 
 each. I confirm my guiftes alreadie made of one salt of silver gilt and 
 inamelled in forme of a shipp, one border of gold, one great cheine of 
 gold, one flaggon cheine of gould, etc. To the Maior & Comontie of 
 Yorke 20 markes, for the increase of their stocke, to be lent out yearely 
 to two young marchantes or mercers. To the churchwardens of the 
 parish church of South Duffield, and their successors for ever, 5^., to be 
 lent out & disposed of yearely for tlie yearely helpe and profitt of the 
 pooer of the same parish, at the sight and discretion of two of the most 
 substantiall parishoners & the chui'chwardens, &, the profitt to be 
 distributed to the pooer on St. Thomas' Day.'^^ To Mrs. Katherin 
 Fawxe 30s. in gold, etc. Son Sir Wm. ex'"." 
 
 Sir William Hildyard resided for some time at South 
 Duffield, and increased his estate by buying lands in 1611 
 from Micliael Fawkes, gent., and another, with the j)roperty 
 of the Westbies. He married Isabel, one of the co- 
 heiresses of Ralph Hansby, Esq., through whom he 
 acquired the estate of Bishop Wilton, where he went to 
 reside after his father-in-law's decease. He died there on 
 6th October, 1632, leaving three daughters co-heiresses, a 
 son, Christopher, having been drowned in Holland. ''^^ Sir 
 William is commemorated by a stately moniunent in the 
 fine old church of Bishop Wilton. In his will, dated 1st 
 October, 1632, he says: "If I dye within the comity of 
 York, my body to be buried in the quire of Wilton, and 
 some decent pavement of stone sett upp ther for me." He 
 charges his estate there with 6/. per annum for a monthly 
 sermon in the church, and 21. 135. -It/, for a monthly dole 
 of 3.S. -It/, in bread to the poor. " To my deare frend Wm. 
 Belt, Esq., of York, whose exceedinge right faithfull, and 
 true frendly kindness ever showne unto me I desire may 
 
 2« This has long been lost. of South DuffieW, bp. ; lOOS-O, Mar. 18, 
 
 -" The following children are men- Mary, d. do., bp. ; IGIO, Dec. 2G, Jillian, 
 
 tioned in the Hemingb rough liegister:— d. do., bp., bur. Jan. — , 1610-11; IbUD, 
 
 l(i07, July y, John, s. of Sir Wm. H. Nov. 20, Wm., s. do., bur.
 
 n 
 
 PEDIGREE OF T0PHA3I OF YORK AND SOUTH DUFFTELD. 
 
 = Ratlmel. sistpr of Phin. 
 1. D.D.. dau. of Wn 
 
 wcastle-on-Tvnc, ami v-Ul. of Cli 
 
 iiiTPacet.Di-anofMitldklunii, H; 
 
 11 d. l"3tb Mar. I'r. 9th Oct. pv. 
 
 15. Bur.atSutioaoiiDeiwenl. Mi 
 
 2u(l June. p. 
 
 Cliristopher Topbani 
 
 Jane, d. \Vm. Maskewe, of 
 i'oik, md. St. Martin's, 16 Mav. 
 ]>•■]-; bur. ib., 21 July, 1620, 
 
 John Topliam, son and 
 
 lieir, bp. at St. Martin's 
 
 Dec. Slst, 1612. 1657, 1G38. To be marr. at Thor- 
 
 May 19, Mr. John T.. ganby. She 19, and he of 
 
 ehancel of St. Martin's, d. at South DufHeld, Aug. Jane, bp. 30 Mar. 160S. 
 
 I 16th, 1693. Ellen, bp. Kov. 16. 1615. 
 
 Hamuel Brearey, merchant- 
 
 1621, bur. 16th Aur. 
 
 bm-. 20 Oct. 1636. St. Martin's. 
 
 TheireonMattiiewwasthe famous Samuel, bp. 14th July, 1620. 
 
 Commentator and Divine. Eesid'. legatee of his brother. 
 
 Bui". St. Mai-tin'B, Mar. 17, 
 1640-1. Will d.28 Mav. 1610, 
 pr. 23 Dec. 1641. 
 
 IJ Oct. 1622. 
 3. Anne, d. Perciv&l Levet, of 
 York, md. BeUreys, 12 Nov. 
 1623. Re-md. at yt. Martin's. 
 27 Mar. 1627, Joseph Mickle- 
 thwaite. M.D. 
 
 Uoddey Topham, 
 mentd. with his sons 
 Wm. and Chi'., and his 
 daurs,, in 1635. 
 
 William Topham, 
 mentd. with his chil- 
 dren, in 1625. 
 
 Edward Topham, 
 mentd. with his chil- 
 dren, in 1625. 
 
 Thomas Topham, 
 
 Matthew Toi»ham, of South Duffield, gen. Will d. 12th = Jane, dau. 
 Deo. 1693, pr. 23rd Oct. 1694. Bur. at H., Oct. 14, 1694, I 1664. Ex-. 
 
 26th Aug. 1696. Bur. Sept. 3, 1696, ret. 48. 
 
 Had 19 children. 
 
 ICirlew, of Woodhall, gen. 
 
 George, bp. at H., 
 
 4 July, 1665. 
 Matthew, bp. 23 Feb. 
 
 1668-9, bur. 6 Apr. mson, 
 
 1670. 1697. 
 
 Joshua, mentd. by Bur. 1 
 
 Anne Greene, 1692. 1727. 
 
 Topham.of South Duf- Charles Topham, bp. Dec. 27, John. bp. July 2 
 
 field, gen., bp. Mar. 25, 1675, 
 
 mentd. 1694 and 
 1695, of South Duffield, gen. Th. 
 
 and bur. 3 Aug. gen., of Cowick. 
 
 '. 1694, m. John Bowei 
 
 16a0, a sailor. Will d. 
 
 Wapping. Jan. 27, 1701-2, 1688. Aiine, bp. Sept. 13, 1666. 
 
 "being outward bound for John. bur. May 12, Elizabeth, bp.l« Feb.. 1671-2,r 
 
 " '■ '' i.Tbo.Scowthoi-pe.of S 
 
 Guinea in the sbipnamed the 
 JoyfuU, Capt. Jones, com- 
 mander." Pr, 31 July, 1710. 
 
 Parthenia. bp. and I] 
 Sattmarsh, bp. 25 No' 
 Charles Eanley, of Gre 
 
 Anne, bp. Sept. 6, 1681, md. Turnei 
 
 Jenkinson. . 
 Sarah, bp. June 8, 1683, d. before 1634. 
 Marj-, bp. 1 Apr. 1683. Living 1694. 
 
 Tuit. gr. Jlay 14, 1701, to Geo. 
 
 Escrick, of York. 
 Dorothy, bp. May 22. bur. Jul. 16, 1687.
 
 SOUTH DUPFIELD. 225 
 
 be acknowledged in the loves and affections of my children, 
 the best horse I have, the best peece of 2:»late, and the best 
 bookes at his choyce. To his wife, Mrs. Martha Belt, my 
 ringe with fower diamondes therein." Upon such final 
 tokens of love and affection it is pleasant to dwell. 
 
 On 21st July, 1626, Sir William Hildyard sold his 
 estate at South Duffield to Matthew Topham, alderman of 
 York. The deed of conveyance ^*^ specifies four messuages 
 and three cottages, as in the Inquest on Edward Laton, 
 but the acreage is not computed. Alderman Topham, by 
 his will dated 26th February, 1634-5, left the property to 
 Chr. Topham and Thos. Rudd of York, merchants, and 
 Matthew Hill, gent., on trust, for John Topham, his son 
 and heir-apparent, for his life, and to his heirs after him, 
 Rachael, the testator's wife, having her thirds out of it 
 during her life. Mr. Topliam was the grandfather of, and 
 gave his name to, Matthew Poole, the well-known author 
 of the Synopsis Criticorum ; and Kachael, his wife, was 
 sister of Phineas Hodson, a famous royalist and one of the 
 King's chaplains, who founded the Lecture for the poor 
 prisoners at York Castle. A sketch of the pedigree of the 
 Tophams is the best way of showing the history of the 
 family, and, as there are better materials to draw upon, it 
 is fuller than most of the others. It soon came to an 
 end. The grandson of the alderman, another Matthew^ 
 had nineteen children, and destroyed his estate to provide 
 for them by his will, the remnant going to his son Arthur, 
 who died childless in 1699. By articles on marr. with 
 Eliz. dau. of John Eobinson, late of York, deceased (whose 
 fortune was 600/.), Arthur Topham settled upon her his 
 capital messuage at South Duffield, and two closes called 
 Hall Garths and Far East Field, containing 16 acres. 
 This the lady, then a widow, sells, on 29th July, 1700, to 
 John Preston of Bowthorpe, who conveyed it in 1701 to 
 Richard Sawrey of York, M.B. Through the Sawreys 
 the property passed to Bacon Morritt of Cawood and 
 York, gen., in right of his wife Anne, only chikl and 
 heiress of Wm. Sawrey of Plumpton, co. Lancaster, 
 
 ^" The conveyance mentions a capital close called East field ; Stoned-horse 
 
 messuage in South Dullield, a garden, close, sometime divided into two closes 
 
 orchard, and the yards about the house, called the Crowking, one formerly parcel 
 
 called Cony garth and Lusby garth, of the lands of one Amcotes, the other 
 
 sometime the lauds of Henry Layton, a one Westbye's, &c.
 
 226 THE HISTORY OF HEMINGBROUGH. 
 
 Esq. Mr. Morritt accjuired other lands in South Duffield. 
 On 5th May, 1752, he bought a house, lands, and 
 four closes here from Robert and Thos. Wharrey, which 
 Robert Wharrey of Selby, mercer, had acquired from 
 Eleanor Dunninoton m 1746. The estate of the Morritts 
 in Duffield consisted of 288 acres in two or more parcels, 
 and paid to the Bishop the same rent with which Alder- 
 man Topham was charged in 1629, viz. 8s. 6d. On the 
 death of Mr. Morritt in 1775, the estate was sold by Mr. 
 John Sawrey Morritt of Rokeby for the benefit of his 
 five sisters, as will be seen under Bowthorpe, and was 
 purchased in 1777 by the Rev. Sir William Lowther, 
 l>art., of Swillington. Sir William died in 1788, be- 
 queathing South Duffield and other estates to John, his 
 younger son and his assigns, and afterwards, on trust to 
 secure contingent remainders, in behalf of his eldest son. 
 Sir John Lowther, marrying in 1790, obtained at the same 
 time a portion of the trust moneys, and, on Sir William's 
 accession to the family honours and estates, a private Act 
 of Parliament was obtained in 1803 for facilitating ex- 
 changes of land, in accordance with which South Duffield 
 was sold on the 5th and 6th April, 1805, for 3,390/., to 
 Joseph Kirlew of South Duffield, the tenant. The Kirlews 
 were an old family which had long been connected with the 
 parish, although 1 have not been able to tie them together 
 in a pedigree.^^ Joseph Kirlew died in 1813, and the estate 
 then came to George and Edward Kirlew of London, his 
 executors. On 2nd and 3rd April, 1819, Edward Kirlew 
 and Frances his wife sell their moiety to George Kirlew 
 for 2,300/. By will dated 20th May, 1819, and proved 
 29th April, 1820, George Kirlew bequeathed the property 
 to trustees for the use of Mary his wife during her life, and 
 then to Henry his son, and his heirs and assigns. Mary 
 Kirlew died on 6th March, 1820. On 31st March, 1829, 
 Henry Kirlew, late of Broad Street, Ratclifi^e, London, and 
 then of Phoenix Park, parish of Westmoreland in Jamaica, 
 made his will, leaving to Geo. Kirlew, Esq., and Ann 
 Bruce, spinster, his house and estate at South Duffield, 
 known by the name of South Duffield Hall, for their lives, 
 
 " Will d. 4th Jan., pr. 22nd Oct. Blythe of Nortoft, oOOZ. each. To his 
 1818. To his sisters Eliz., wife of John sister Martha, wife of Thomas Brown, 
 Wiiud of York, and Mary, wife of James lOZ. per annum.
 
 SOUTH DUFFIELD. 227 
 
 with remainder to his uncle Edward Kirlew of Essex 
 Wharf, London, coal merchant, and his heirs. Henry 
 Kirlew died 2nd December, 1829, and, by decree of the 
 Court of Chancery, dated 4th February, 1831, it was 
 ordered that the property should be sold to defray the 
 various claims upon it. Accordmgly, by indenture dated 
 9th February, 1836, the estate was sold by Geo. Kirlew, of 
 the parish of Westmoreland, co. Cornwall, in Jamaica, and 
 Ann Bruce to Isaac Crowther, Esq. of Morley, near Leeds. 
 Mr. Crowther died in 1850, and his widow, a Miss Chaplin 
 of Bub with, in 1866. After her decease, in October 1866, 
 the property was sold to Mr. Wm. Haddlesey of South 
 Duffield for 5,690/. It changed hands again in 1872, and 
 was bought by Mr. Jonathan Dunn of Kelfield, the present 
 owner. 
 
 The messuage purchased by the Kirlews is called in the 
 deed of conveyance the hall, or manor-house. It appears 
 to have been surrounded by a moat, the outer area of 
 which was about 60 yards by 65 or upwards, but the 
 levelling of the ground has left the traces somewhat 
 obscure. The house was probably built by the Hildyards, 
 and was originally lined with wainscot and ornamented 
 with a fine oak staircase, but recent alterations have 
 obliterated nearly all the traces of its antiquity. 
 
 NoRTOFT. — The farm called Nortoft was purchased of 
 the Lowthers in 1805 by Mr. James Blythe. It adjoins 
 a tract of land called Blackwood, formerly an extensive 
 coppice or wood belonging to the Bishops of Durham. 
 Part of the farm, called, from the name of its enclosure, the 
 Great and Little Birks, seems to have been woodland, and 
 might have formed a portion of the large wood or forest 
 of Blackwood ; it is not known, however, when it was 
 cleared and obtained the name of Nortoft. It continued 
 until a recent period without any farmstead, as the con- 
 veyance from Sir Wm. Hildyard to Matthew Topham in 
 1626 contains no mention of a house. On the death of 
 Matthew Topham, in 1694, the farm was conveyed to 
 trustees, by whom it was passed, in the 10th of Queen 
 Anne, to Daniel Copley of York, attorney- at-law, who 
 built a house. Copley died in York in 1715, and then 
 Mary, his widow, transferred the property to Lewis West, 
 Esq., counsellor-at-law, son of Lewis West, Archdeacon of 
 
 q2
 
 228 THE HISTORY OF IIEMINGBKOUGII. 
 
 Carlisle. Mr. West, by his will dated 16tli June, 1718 
 (proved 31st January, 1725—6), bequeathed his estate at 
 [South Duffield to his grandson, Lewis West, and his 
 heirs. Elizabeth, the daughter of this Lewis AVest (who 
 died in 1718), married Peter Johnson, Esq., of York. By 
 a settlement or mortgage dated 16th February, 1739, 
 Nortoft was transferred first to Peter Johnson, and 
 secondly to Samuel Seddon. At length, in 1747, it was 
 sold by Mr. West to Mr. Baron Morritt of Cawood and 
 York, and the property went with the rest of his estate 
 hereabouts to the Lowthers. Nortoft was sold by them to 
 Mr. James Blythe, who about 1841 sold it to Mr. Brooke 
 Greeves, who was the owner in 1877. 
 
 The estate, as alleged in 1803, consisted of 165a. Or. 
 2 Op. ; and, after the enclosure in 1823, it was said to be 
 147a. Or. 39p., the remainder, in lieu of tithe (?), being 
 17a. 3r. 21p. 
 
 The windmill at South Duffield was given in the 13th 
 century to the Priory of Drax by Luke de Hemingbrough. 
 It lay towards the bridge of Bowthorpe and had been given 
 to Hemingbrough by Robert, son of Adam de Newsam in 
 Osgodby. Robert le Yenour of South Duffield confirmed 
 the gift. 
 
 The Haddlesey's Farms. — For nearly 600 years a 
 family of this name has been resident at South Duffield, 
 rising up for some generations into the ranks of the gentry 
 and then sinking among the yeomen. They have always 
 had more or less land of their own, but the quantity has 
 never been considerable. It is probable that they were 
 first sent from Haddlesey, or Hathelsey, upon the Aire, 
 whence their name is derived, as tenants or feudatories of 
 the Stapletons. A certain William is said to be " positus 
 loco Milonis de Stapleton," representing him as a deputy 
 or agent. His descendants have from time to time been 
 in possession of a fair estate.^-^ 
 
 3- 12 Ric. 11. Wm. Hathelsay pur- Rickaid, gen., and another q., and Wm. 
 
 chases of Robert Surflete of South Duf- H., def., ten. in S. D. 44 cfe 45 Eliz. Wm. 
 
 field 5 messuages, six bovates, 40 acres H., q., and Tho. Pearson, and another 
 
 of arable land, and six of meadow with def., ten. in S. 1). 2nd James. Wm. H., 
 
 appurt. in South Duffield and Menthorp q., and Marm. Fawkes, gen., def., ten. in 
 
 — 100 marks of silver. S. D. 12 Jac. 1. Wm. H., gen., q., and 
 
 Fines. 19 Eliz. Robt. H., q., and Tho. Westby, Esq., def., ten. in S. D. 
 
 Richd. Hewton, def., a ten. in S. D. 21 1G59. Thos. Greene, q., and Markham 
 
 Eliz. Robt. H., q., and Lawr. Cowper, H., def., ten. in S. D. 
 def., ten. in S. D. i}8th Eliz. Chas.
 
 SOUTH DUFFIELD. 
 
 229 
 
 HADDLESEY OF SOUTH DUFFIELD. 
 
 Peter de Hathilsey occ. in Inq. de Buiidis, 8th Edw. I. 
 
 Willelnms de Hathelsaye, po.situs loco Milonis de Stapelton, 3rd Edw. II. Witness to a demise at 
 Woodliall in 1328. 
 
 Robertus et Willelmus de Hathelsaye occ. 15th and 18th Edw. III. 
 
 Willelmus de H., fil. Willehiii, de South Dufifield, and Alicia esor. occ. 2nd Ric. II. Robert, sou of 
 Thos. de H. occ. in Subsidy Roll in same year. Wm. de H. occ. iu Rental of 1426. John H. of Duffie! il 
 occ. in Prior's Rental in 1426, and JohnH., jun., in Bisliop's Rental in 1440. Wm. H. occ. 6th and 
 19th Edw. IV. 
 
 William Haddlesay occ. 6th-23rd Hen. VIII. Will d. 5th Nov. 1540, pr. = Margaret, d. . . . ment*. 
 13th Jan. seq. To be bur. in Hemmyugburghe Church. I 1540. 
 
 Edward Hadillesay nient<i. 1540. Rated at il. in Subsidy Roll, = 
 34th Hen. VIII. Has lease of Abbey lauds, 2nd Mary. Has land j 
 in C'liffe under the Bishop in 1567. j 
 
 I I I 
 Nicholas 
 John 
 Jenuet 
 
 I 
 Robert Haddlesey. 
 Buys land in South 
 Duffield, 19th and 
 21st Eliz. Will d. 
 1595. Occurs in 
 Bishop's Rental, 
 1599. 
 
 Marmaduke Haddlesey, mercht. = Anne, 
 and aldn. of Hull. Will d. 20 
 Nov. 1606, pr. 28 May, 1607. 
 Owner of Marfleet. 
 
 Richard Haddlesey has 
 lands in Cliffe 1589. 
 There was a line of 
 Haddleseys at Cliffe. 
 
 M I I M I I I I I 
 
 Wm., Samuel, Michael, Thos. and Robert, Geo. H., of Cliffe, bur. 
 
 Daughters, . . . Kay, . . . Hompton, 19 Jan. 1G2C-7. 
 
 Abigail, Esther and Anne H. I 
 
 William Haddlesey, = Anne, Anne H., of 
 
 of South Dufifleld, 
 gen. Will pr. 13th 
 Nov. 1641. Adm. to 
 Wm. H., his sou and 
 solo oxr. Bur. 11th 
 Oct. 1641. 
 
 d. . . . South Duffield, 
 
 Bur. 1 an old gentle- 
 
 A u g . woman, bur. 4 
 
 1609. Jan. 1641-2. 
 
 Edward Haddlesey. of =. Dorothy, 
 Brackenholme. Bur. Id. ... 
 Oct. 13, 1620. Pawkes. 
 
 I 
 Willi.im Haddlesey, 
 of South Duffield, 
 gen., bp. 12th Nov. 
 1605. Bur. 7th May, 
 1663. 
 
 : M.iry, 
 I'au. . . 
 M.irk- 
 bam. 
 
 I I I 
 Catherine, bp. 
 20 April, 1607. 
 ? Dorothy m. 29 
 Oct. 1633, Thos. 
 Laund, of York. 
 Robert, bur. at 
 Selbv 18th Jan., 
 1603U. 
 
 M I M I I 
 
 Marmaduke, bp. 4 Apr. ICOG. 
 Philip, bp. 8 Mav, 1608. 
 Robert, bp. 10 June, 1610. 
 Michael, bp. 16 Aug. 1612. 
 Thos. bur. 26 May, 1621. 
 Joan, bp. 18 Dec. 1614. 
 Mary, bp. 7 Sept. 1617. 
 
 Wm. H., bp. 4 
 M.ar. 1607-8, marr. 
 Eliz. Haxbie, 22 
 Nov. 1637. and, on 
 29 Nov. 1640, 
 Mabel Kirlew, of 
 Cliffe. 
 
 George Haddlesey, bp. MarkhamHaddlesey,of South = Prances, d 
 IGth March, 1632-3, Duffield, gen., bp. 15th Nov. ■""----- "- 
 bur. Aug. 1st, 1639. 1635. Will d. 27th May, 1676, 
 
 Philip, bp. 9 May, 1641. pr. 1st May, 1677. D. 28th, 
 and bur. 29th May, 1676. 
 
 MM 
 
 Susanna, bp. 30 Oct. 
 Pelham. Re-marr. 1634. 
 Henry Saltmarsh, Anne, bp. 16 July, 1637. 
 gen. Will d. 22 Elizabeth, bp. 25 July, 
 May, 1689. Bur. 1638. 
 June 10th, 1689. Marj^ bp. 21 Sept. 1643. 
 
 William Haddlesey, 
 bp. 31 May, 1664. 
 
 Pelham Haddlesey, of 
 South Duffield, gen., 
 bp. Nov. 6, 1666. Will 
 d. 31 July, pr. 29 Sept. 
 1702. Bur. 14th Aug. 
 1702. 
 
 : Henrietta-Maria, dau. Mar- 
 maduke Norcliffe, gen., m. 
 1st Aug. 1G91. Remarr. at St. 
 Crux, York, 30 Dec. 1704, 
 Robert Hardcastle. He res. 
 at S. Duffield, and was bur. 
 Nov. 19, 1708. 
 
 I I 
 Anne, bur. 27 Dec. 16C0. 
 Mary, bp. 5th Feb. 
 
 1661-2. 
 Frances, bp. July 8,1673, 
 
 bur. 26 Jan. 1679-80. 
 
 Ml M 
 
 MarkhamHaddlesey,of = Anne, d. . . . BIythe, William, bp. 20 May, Henrietta-Maria, bp. 24 
 
 South Duffield, gen., bp. 
 31 July, 1692. Will d. 
 11th Mav, 1729, pr. 3rd 
 Apr. 1730. Bur. 15th 
 May, 1729. 
 
 m. at York Minster, 
 Oct. 16, 1712. Bur. 
 
 Nov. 14, 1744. M.I. 
 
 1694-5. Bur. 2 July, 
 
 1746. 
 Pelham, bp. May 12, 
 
 1696. 
 N.athaniel, bp. 10 Aug. 
 
 1702. 
 
 May, 1698, m. at St. 
 Michael's, Ousebridge, 
 York, 31st Oct. 1725, 
 John Smith, of South 
 Duffield. 
 Alice, bp. 21 May, 1700. 
 
 William Haddlesey, 
 bi). 14 Jan. 1713-14, 
 bur. 31 Dec. 1715. 
 
 Thomas, bp. 
 30 July, 1722. 
 
 John Haddlesey, of South Duffield, = Mary, dau. 
 
 gen., bp. 20 June, 1724, bur. Apr. 14. 
 17fi.5. Will pr. Apr. 27, 1765. Adm. 
 to Mary, his widow. 
 
 Hobson, 
 
 of Copmanthorpe. Bur. 
 11 Oct. 1788, aged 59. 
 
 Conlinned on p. 230.
 
 230 
 
 THE HISTORY OF HEMINGBllOUGH. 
 
 C'orilinucd from j^. 229. 
 
 Ill I 
 
 ■William Haddlesey, bp. Jan. 1. Mary, = John Hadrllesey, : 
 
 3U, 1749-50, of South Duffield, 
 
 gen., d. Apr. 14, 1824, a;t. 74. 
 
 M.I. Marr. Jane, dau. . . . 
 
 Snowball, of Malton, who 
 
 re-marr. . . . Tomlinson. 
 Markham, bp. Feb. 29, 1764, 
 
 bur. 31 May, 1787. 
 Joshua, posthumous son, bp. 
 
 2 Jan. 1766. Died unmarr. 
 
 in 1846. 
 
 gen., bp. Feb. 21, 
 1758. Died at 
 Thorne in 1820, 
 and bur. there. 
 
 Mary, marr. 
 Richard Denby. 
 
 I I I I I 
 2. Anne, Mary, bp. 4 Mar. 1751-2, marr. 
 d. . . . 2 Dec. 1777, Thos. Hornby, 
 Philip- of Snaith. 
 son. Anne, bp. Jan. 29, 1754, marr. 
 
 Thos. Jewitt, 18th Feb.1772. 
 Frances, bp. Apr. 6, 1756, 
 marr. Eobt. Clark, par. H. 
 Trin., Hull, 22 May, 1781. 
 Elizabeth, bp. Jan. 9, 1760. 
 Maria, bp. 31 Mar. 1762, bur. 
 17 Apr. 1765. 
 
 ■William Haddlesley, of South = Charlotte, d. ... Ashforth, marr. Mary marr. .. . 
 Duffield. Died 13th Aug. 1857, I 1816. Died June 13, 1865, aged Stephenson. D. 
 aged 61. M.I. 72. M.I. 1865. 
 
 William, born 1817, William Haddlesey, = Hannah, dan 
 
 ob. infant. of South Duffield, bp. 
 
 John, bp. 1825, of 1827. D. Sept. 16, 1872, 
 
 Lara Bridge. aged 45. M.I. 
 Joseph, bp. 1828. 
 
 I I I I I I 
 of Jane, bp. 1819. 
 
 1850. D. Sept. 27, 
 1872, aged 43. M.I. 
 
 John WiUiam Haddlesey, bp. 1856 
 
 Thomas Cawkill of Anne, bp. 1821, d. May 14, 1855, 
 
 Cliffe. Marr. July, aged 34. M.I. 
 
 ' ' " ' Mary, bp. 1823. 
 
 Charlotte, bp. 1830, ob. infant. 
 M.I. 
 Elizabeth, bp. 1833. 
 Charlotte Anderson, bp. 1834, d. 
 July 24, 1862, aged 27. M.I. 
 Susanna, bp. 1837. 
 
 Marmaduke Haddlesey, of Hull, who died in 1607, was, I believe, the father of Thos. H., who was 
 iust. to the vicarage of Kirkby Grindalji,he on 23rd Dec. 1618, and to the rectory of Thorp Basset on 
 7th M.irch, 1625-6. He was "also, probably, the father of Robert H., M.A., who was inst. to the 
 rectory of Catwick, 8th Feb. 1602-3. He was bur. there 10th Aug. 1621. He was marr. there 24th 
 Oct. 1604, to Eliz. Hompton, and they had the following children bp. at Catwick, viz. Ann, bp. 
 13 Nov. 1605 ; Eliz. bp. 12 July, 1607 ; Dorothy, bp. 30 Jan. 1612-13 ; Margaret, bp. 5 May, 1614 ; 
 Susanna, bp. 29th June, 1615 ; Abigail, bp. SOth July, bur. 8 Aug. 1617 ; Marm.iduke, bp. 21 Sept. 
 1618 ; Michael, bp. 5 Nov. 1620. 
 
 The house of the Haddleseys is said, like that of the 
 Hildyards, to have been panelled with oak and to have 
 been of considerable antiquity. Near the entrance is a 
 rudely sculptured stone representing what seems to be a 
 lion upon the back of a tortoise, symbolising probably the 
 old motto Festina le?ite, which is applicable enough to the 
 career of the Haddleseys. Upon the death of Mr. Wm. 
 Haddlesey and his wife in 1872, their land, consisting of 
 125 acres and acorn-mill, was sold. They had previously, 
 viz. in 1857, sold the Lara Bridge Farm to Mr. Ralph 
 Newham. It con.sisted of 77a. Ir. 17p. 
 
 The Robinson (Carr) estate has about 200 acres of laud in 
 South Duffield, with a profusion of fine oak timber upon 
 it. The principal purchases were made by Mr. Thomas 
 Robinson in the 9th of Anne and the 31st of George II. 
 
 Wm. Fyppes of South Duffield, yeoman, was one of the 
 persons who murdered (as it was said) the Duke of 
 York at Wakefield on SOth December, 1461. He was 
 specially attainted on that account."^"^ 
 
 ''^ Cf. Pickering's Statute.? at Large, Camb. 1706, xxiii. 320, 335.
 
 SOUTH DUFFIELD. 
 
 231 
 
 The Family or Bkay.— This family of yeomen was 
 located at Brackenholme in the seventeenth century, and 
 had some land in South Duffield which had belonged to the 
 Fawkes's.^* By will dated 28th December, 1G77, Edward 
 Bray of Brackenholme, yeoman, desired to be buried at 
 Hemingbrough, and bequeathed to John, his eldest son, 
 his house and freehold lands within the lordship of South 
 Duffield. This John, by will dated 4th February, 1693-4, 
 left to his eldest son " Ralph the farme which was bought 
 of Mr. Fawkes." To Edward, his son, he leases the land 
 in the occupation of Thos. Bennison, &c., and to John, Ins 
 youngest son, "a house in Selby, all that land late 
 Mettam's, and a close called the Parke." 
 
 The Lusbys and Snowdens— The family of Lusby or 
 Luceby was connected with Duffield for several centuries. 
 They were tenants or feeholders under the Bishops of 
 Durham and occur in their rentals from very early times. 
 Alexander Lusby, the last of them, died about the year 
 1600. The Snowdens also were an old family here. In 
 
 3^ 1615, 30th Oct., Wm. Bray of 
 Brackenholme, bur. ; 1617, 25 Nov., John 
 Gelstrop and Frances B. of Br., md. ; 
 1633, June 18, Thos. Easingwold of 
 Escrick and Ehz. B. of Br., md. 
 
 Ealph Bray of Br. and Mary Nesh, 
 md. 25 Nov. 1G28. Edwd., s. do., bp. 25 
 Oct. 1629. 
 
 Ealph Bray, bur. 21 June, 1667. 
 
 Edward Bray of Br., yeo., bp. 1629. 
 Marr. 1 July, 1662, Anne Bickall. John, 
 s. do., bp. 21 Apr. 1663. Edward, s. do., 
 bp. 1 Aug. 1669, bur. Nov. 16, 1727. 
 Wm., s. do., bp. June 10, 1674. Anne, 
 d. do., bp. 31 May, 1665. Mary, d.do., bp. 
 Dec. 8th, 1667, and bur. Mar. 19 scq. 
 Dorothy, d. do., bp. 30 Jan. 1671-2. 
 EUzabeth, bp. 24 Nov. 1676. 
 
 1677, Dec. 28, Edw. B. of Br., yeo., bur. 
 churchyard of Hemingbrough. Eldest 
 son John. Wife Anne. Son Wm. B. 
 Eldest dau. Anne B. 60L when 21. Dau. 
 Dorothy B. 50L when 21. Res. to wife 
 and dau. Eliz. B., they exrs. (Pr. 1 Nov. 
 1681, Howden Registry.) Bur. 10th 
 March, 1680-1. 
 
 John Bray of Br., yeo. Edward, s. do., 
 bp. 26 Sep. 1689. John, s. do bp. 26 
 Mar. 1692. Paul, bp. 30 Jan. 1695-6. 
 Margaret, bp. 23 Oct. 1693, marr. 22 
 Apr. 1712, Wm. Blyth. Thos., s. do., 
 bur. Jan. 2nd. 1687-8. 
 
 Feb. 4, 1693-4, John Bray of Br. 
 cum Woodhall, yeo. Sons Ralph, Ed- 
 
 ward, and John. Dau. Margt. B. Wife 
 Anne and Wm. Lathom, my son-in-law, 
 to be exrs. of what I have in Howden, 
 my three sons exrs. of what I have in 
 Brackenholme. Bur. 20 Nov. 1695. 
 
 Ann Bray of Whitemoor, wid., was bur. 
 28 Apr. 1723. 
 
 Wm. Bray of Br., yeo., bp. 1674. 
 Will d. July 1, 1712, pr. 13 Apr. 1716. 
 " To Ann my wife my freehold estate at 
 Latham and Auton for life, and then to 
 Ann and Rosamond B., my daughters, 
 and then to Edw. B., my son. Son 
 Edwd. 1001. when 21. Daurs. 50Z. each. 
 Wifeexr." Bur.4 Mar. 1715-16. (He was 
 marr. at Bubwith Sept. 17, 1700, to 
 Ann Home.) 
 
 Thos., s. Wm. B. of Br., bur. 21 Mar. 
 1701-2 ; 1717, Aug. 6, Mr. Wm. Richard- 
 son and Anne B. of Br. marr., 1720, 
 Nov. 3, Joseph Butler of Bowthorpe and 
 Anne Bray of Br. marr. 
 
 1740, Apr. 11, Admon. of Edward 
 Bray of Br. to Ann, wife of Wm. Richard- 
 son, his mother. He was bp. 25th Mar. 
 1707, and was bur. 5th July, 1739. 
 
 Ralph Bray of Br., bur. 20 Nov. 1693. 
 1695-6, Feb. 3. Will of Margaret Bray 
 of Br., wid. " Two daughters Anne and 
 Margaret B. exrs., and my mother-in- 
 law Anne B., widow, to have the tuition 
 of them." Late husband John B. Pr. 
 1695-6.
 
 232 THE HISTORY OP HEMINGBROUGH. 
 
 the 24th of Henry VIII. they were leaseholders of the 
 tithes under the Provost of Hemingbrough and maintained 
 their position as respectable yeomen until the present cen- 
 tury, when the line terminated in William Snowden, the 
 only child of his parents, who was for some time Incumbent 
 of Horbury and afterwards Rector of Swillington, near 
 Leeds, where he died, and was buried in 1847, aged 63. 
 He published two volumes of sermons. 
 
 Enclosure. — An Act was obtained for the enclosure of 
 the open fields and commons of South Duffield in 1820, 
 with further provisions in the following year, and the 
 Commission remained open for many years in consequence 
 of litigation respecting the allotments. The Commissioners 
 were William Pilkino-ton of Thorne and John Bower of 
 Smethalls. Their award was signed in 1834, according 
 to which the Bishop of Durham, as lord of the manor, 
 obtained an allotment of 14a. 2r. 25p. in lieu of his rights, 
 and the tithe owners, Messrs. Wilson and Tweedy, a con- 
 siderable estate, amounting to 294a. Or. 32p., part of which 
 was also in lieu of tithes in kmd. This was sold, at the 
 dispersion of the tithe estate, to Mr. John Banks. 
 
 On 1st February, 1808, the house of John Cook of 
 South Duffield was licensed as a place of meeting for Pro- 
 testant Dissenters. The petition was signed by John 
 Buckle, Benjamin Halley, Wm. Fisher, and John Butler. 
 
 THE TOWNSHIP OF MENTHORPE cum BOWTHORPE. 
 
 At the time of the Domesday Survey this township, 
 which consists of 1,070 acres, twenty of which are un- 
 enclosed, was in the possession of Hugh Fitz Baldric, a 
 Saxon of note and wealth, whose daughter Erneburga 
 became the wife of Robert de Estnteville, or Stuteville, 
 and these lands, with Skipwith, and many other places, 
 became the fee of the Stutevilles. 
 
 There were four carucates of land in Menthorpe. Of 
 these two became the property of the Bishops of Durham 
 early in the twelfth century, prol^ably by purchase or 
 exchano-e. In the scuta2:e of 11 66 Gilbert de Bardulbi is 
 represented as holding half a knight's fee in Yorkshire of 
 the Bishop of Durham. His descendant, Wm. de A ton,
 
 MENTIIOKrE. 2o3 
 
 is represented by Kirk by, in 12S4, to be howling two 
 carucates at Mentliorpe, a portion of the said half-fee, 
 which, according to the record, comprised six carucates. 
 We learn from a subsidy roll in the 6th of Henry VI. 
 that this half-knight's fee was made up of three carucates 
 in Barlby, two in Menthorpe, and one in Newton, and 
 that it was held by military service. 
 
 The descent of the Aton property will be seen under 
 Barlby. In the 33rd of Hen. VI. Henry Bromflete, Lord 
 Vescy, and Sir Wm. Eure, Knt. (the successors to the 
 Atons in their fee) were fined 3.9. 4r/. each for default of 
 suit and service at the Bishop's Court Lete for Menthorpe ; 
 and, again, Henry, Lord Clifford, and Sir William Eure 
 were find l^d. each for a similar default in the 18th of 
 Henry VI L Their interest in Menthorpe was at this time, 
 probably, of a merely nommal character. Subinfeuda- 
 tories were really the owners of the land. 
 
 The other two carucates at Menthorpe were retained by 
 the Stutevilles. The elder branch of this family ended in 
 an heiress, who married Hugh de Wake, and her estates, 
 after another change, descended to Joan, the fair maid of 
 Kent, of good repute as well for her beauty as for her 
 broad acres. Through her the rich possessions of the 
 Stutevilles and Wakes came to the Hollands. In one of 
 their inquisitions, in the 10th of Henry IV., the two caru- 
 cates at Menthorpe are mentioned as part of their fee, and 
 the fee-farm rent therefrom is said to be four marks per 
 annum. 
 
 These two carucates, however, were subinfeuded to a 
 younger son of the first Robert de Stuteville, the great 
 Norman baron. From his estate at Skipwith he took the 
 name of Patrick de Skipwith, and was the direct ancestor 
 of John de Thorpe of Skipwith, who is represented by 
 John de Kirkby as holding two carucates of land in 
 Menthorpe of the heirs of Baldwin Wake. 
 
 The surname of Thorpe connects him with a place of 
 that name in Lincolnshire, of which he was the owner. 
 
 From the survey called the Nomina Villarum, drawn up 
 in 1316, Menthorpe is described as held in thirds. The 
 Bishop's land, however, is not mentioned, unless Gerard 
 Salvin, who held one portion, may have been the tenant 
 under the Bishop ; but the quantity would be erroneously
 
 234 THE HISTORY OF HEMINGBROUGH. 
 
 termed a tliird ; and John de Thorpe is said to hold the 
 remainder, together with part of Skipwith. The fee-farm 
 rents at Menthorpe, amounting to 42.9., were nevertheless 
 afterwards divided into thirds, as, according to Fines in 
 the 49th of Edward III., Sir William Skipwith and Sir 
 John de AVraweby, Knt., compounded with Wm. Jakelyn 
 and Joanna his wife for one third of the same sum, and 
 with Wm. de Ulram and Alice his wife for another third. 
 It seems probable, therefore, that the interest of the Skip- 
 withs in Menthorpe had been broken up for a time and 
 reduced before Sir Wm. Skipwith retrieved it. It appears, 
 also, that, by Fines, dated 19th Ptichard II., another member 
 of the house of Skipwith, Robert de Thorpe and Elizabeth 
 his wife, disposed of their share of the patrimony at Men- 
 thorpe, consisting of a messuage, two bovates of land with 
 the appurtenances, and 6.S'. of annual rent ])roceeding from 
 the ferry, to Wm. Weket of Hemingbrough. 
 
 The main line of the Skipwith s of Skipwith ended in an 
 heiress, Elizabeth, who married George Lord Monboucher. 
 He died, s.p., on 15th June, 10th Henry IV., and was 
 buried at Gamston, Notts, leavmg Ralph Monboucher his 
 brother and heir, aged 26 years and more. Menthorpe is 
 said in the Inquisition to be worth four marks per amium. 
 
 There have been from time immemorial four messuages 
 at Menthorpe, to each of which a farm of 100 acres or 
 upwards has been attached. The unenclosed or common- 
 able land called the Gale, with an ancient road proceeding 
 from the ferry in the direction of South Duffield, divides 
 the lordship into two parts, each containing about two 
 carucates. 
 
 In the 4th of Edward I. there is a notice on the 
 Hundred Rolls of an encroachment on this highway. The 
 land to the north of the Gale was probably Bishop-hold. 
 In the 15th of Edward I., among the Pleas of Assize at 
 York, there is a suit between some tenants on the south 
 of the Gale. The Bishop's baihfF said that this land was 
 not in his bailiwick. It is said, moreover, by tradition, 
 to belong to the township of Skipwith, to which it pays 
 certain tithes. 
 
 If we take the descent of each of these farms in succes- 
 sion, we shall know most readily what can be made out 
 about the history of the manor. We shall begin with
 
 MENTIIORPE. 235 
 
 those to the north of the Gale, which are believed to be 
 Bishop-hold. 
 
 The First Farm, consisting of 120 acres. In the 11th 
 of James I. Ralph Yaxley passes over on trust a mes- 
 suage and farm in Menthorpe to John Godbold, gen. The 
 Yaxleys came from Yaxley in Suffolk, and were first 
 connected with Yorkshire through Dame Bridget Ga^s- 
 coigne in the time of Phihp and Mary. In June 1676 
 the'^assigns of Henry Yaxley, Esq.,^^ sold the property to 
 Henry Maddison of Gribthorpe, yeoman, who left it at his 
 death to his two sons, Henry and John, who retained it 
 jointly for some years. In 1705 Henry Maddison dis- 
 posed of his moiety to his brother John, a mercer in Hull, 
 whereupon John Maddison and Ann his wife sold the 
 property to Fvobert Allen of Barlby, gent., by deed dated 
 June 1706. Mr. Allen left a daughter, Mary, by his 
 second wife, Mary, daughter of Mr. Fawcett of Wressle, 
 and, dying in 1733, was buried at Hemingbrough. He 
 bequeathed the sum of lO-s-. to be paid annually out of his 
 estate to the Vicar of Hemingbrough for preaching a 
 sermon on 29th May. Mary Allen married Cornelius 
 Corney, a tradesman in York, who made over the property 
 in 1751 to James Blanshard. In the following year 
 Blanshard transferred his interest in the land to Mr. 
 Robert Chaplin of Bubwith, the ancestor of the present 
 proprietor. 
 
 The Second Farm consists of 150 acres, and is that 
 which was held from the time of Edward I. to the 
 beginning of the eighteenth century by a family of the 
 name of Freeman. They were yeomen, and clung to their 
 few paternal acres with a pertinacity which persons in that 
 rank of life most fully appreciate. ^*^ The only occasion on 
 
 35 The Yaxleys also lived at Bow- wherein he showeth how he was a 
 
 thorpe, CO. Norfolk. They were Eecu- Papist, and how by God's grace he is 
 
 sants, and converted the parish church now lately converted." Published by 
 
 of that village into a barn, and the authoritie, 4to, London, 1630, pp. 41. 
 
 steeple into a dovecote. There is a copy in the Minster Library, 
 
 This Henry Yaxley m. Frances, dan. York, 
 
 of Charles Waldegrave of Staninghall, ^^ In 1284 John F. held two bovates 
 
 Esq. He returned to the Church of of land at North Duffield. 
 
 England, and published a book giving Robert F. of Bowthorpe, occ. 6th Edw. 
 
 the reasons of his conversion. It is III., and Wm. F. and Margt. his w., of 
 
 intituled, " Morbus et Antidotus ; the the same place, in 2nd Ric. II. 
 
 Disease with the Antidote, or, a De- 1519-20. Lie. to the curate of He- 
 
 claration of Henry Yaxlee of Bowthorpe mingbroughtom. J.Bateson.par.Catton, 
 
 in the countie of Norfolke, Esquire, and Alice Freeman, par. H.
 
 236 
 
 THE HISTORY OF HEMINGBKOUGH. 
 
 which they seem to have added to their property was in 
 the 24th of Elizabeth, when William Freeman purchased 
 a tenement and some premises from Robert Northby. Of 
 this family, no doubt, was that Mr. William Freeman, who 
 in 1439-40 acted as an agent of the Prior and Convent of 
 Durham in a dispute with the Provost of Hemingbrough. 
 The line expired in 1717, when Robert Freeman died, 
 leaving two daughters, Margaret, who afterwards married 
 Mr. Thomas Champney of Selby, and Ann, the wife of 
 Mr. William Wilberfoss of Foggathorpe.^^ The Champ- 
 neys mortgaged their interest to the Wilberfosses, and in 
 
 John F., sen. and jun., occ. 3ith Hen. 
 VIII., and the latter in 1555. 
 
 Wm. F. of Menthorpe, occ. 1582. 
 
 Thos. F. of M., in Subsidy Roll, 4th 
 Charles I. ; bur. at H., Apr. 21, 1642. 
 
 Wm. F. of M., bur. 17 Apr. 1653. 
 
 Robert F. of M., bur. Apr. 1659. 
 Will d. 24 Mar. 1658-9 pr. 20th Apr. 
 at London. Of M., yeoman. Bur. ch. 
 of H. : "I give my sonne Wm. unto my 
 wife, to be educated and brought up 
 with learninge and writinge according 
 to her best endeavour. Son Rob', all 
 my lands till Wm. be 14, paying him 
 201. per ann. Then all to Wm. and his 
 lawful heirs. Son Rob'. 50^. Res. to 
 wife Margaret, she ex'." 
 
 Robert F. of M. Will. d. Nov. 18, 
 1680 pr. 5 Dec. 1681. Bur. Nov. 28, 
 1680. Wife Margaret. 
 
 Wm., s. Robert, bp. 4 Mar. 1671-2. 
 Thos. bp. 28 May, 1673. Robert, bp. 
 Mar. 17, 1674-5. Frances, bp. 18 May, 
 1673. Margaret, bp. Nov. 5, 1676. 
 Anne, bp. Sept. 4, 1678. Dorothy, m. 
 John Laverack of Skipwith, 22 Nov. 
 1705. Robt. F. and Grace Dawtry, m. 
 27 Nov. 1682. Thos. s. do., bp. Oct. 2, 
 1683. Robert, s. do., bp. 2 Mar. 1684-5. 
 
 William Freeman of Menthorpe m. 
 Frances Wells, 12 Sep. 1695 ; bur. 30 
 Mar. 1705. John and Thos., sons do., 
 bp. Dec. 18, 1702 (John, bur. 5 Mar. seq.). 
 Thos., bp. 28 May, 1704. Marmaduke, 
 bp. 25 June, 1696. Frances, bp. Oct. 
 11, 1699. Margaret, bp. 30 Mar. 1705. 
 
 Thos. F. of Hemingbro', farmer, and 
 Elinor Jackson of Barlby m. at Brayton, 
 11 May, 1699. 
 
 Wm. F. of M. and Eliz. Oldfield, m. 
 Dec. 21, 1712. 1723, 30 Nov. : Vr. Nunc, 
 T. Wm. F. of M., and adm. to Wm. 
 Woodburn, sole ex''. 
 
 Robert F. of Breighton and M., bur. 
 Feb. 18, 1717-18, at H. Margaret, d. 
 do., bp. Feb. 12, 1716-17. Robert F. 
 
 and Emma Marshall, m. Jan. 14, 
 1696-7. 
 
 1735, Dec. 14 : Wm. Wilberfoss and 
 Ann F. of M. m. at H. 1793, Dec. 
 16 : Thos. Champney of Selby and 
 Margaret F. of M. m. at H. 
 
 John Freeman of Menthorpe, a Recu- 
 sant, was arrested in 1591, and put in 
 Yoi'k Castle, for not coming to church. 
 In Sei^t. 1594 he was removed from 
 the South Block-house at Hull to his 
 brother's house at Berlay (Barlow), and 
 so got home. (Records of the English 
 Province, S.J.) 
 
 ^' Probably a son of Robert Wilberfoss 
 of Wilberfoss, yeo., and bp. there April 
 8, 1716. He was marr. to Anne Free- 
 man at Hemingbrough Dec. 14, 1735. 
 
 Robert, their son, was twice mar. : 
 in 1757, to Sarah, dau. Nathaniel Smith 
 of Asselby, by whom he had Nathaniel 
 Smith, bp. at H., Apr. 1, 1761 ; and 
 Robert, bp. 20 Apr., and bur. 22 May, 
 1763. 
 
 On 19th Nov. 1766, Robert W. of 
 Menthorpe and Jane Wharram of Wet- 
 wang, were marr. at H. 1767, Nov. 3, 
 Deborah, d. do., bp. 1769, Oct. 24, Ro- 
 bert, s. do., bp. 1771, July 16, Thos., s. 
 do., bp. 1775, May 2, Ann, d. do., bp. 
 1779, Apr. 13, John, s. do., bp. 
 
 After the sale of his property at Men- 
 thorpe, Mr. Thos. Wilberfoss went to 
 live at Wetwang, where he married and 
 left issue. 
 
 Freeman, s. of Mr. Wilberfoss of 
 Foggathorpe, was bp. at Bubwith, Oct. 
 17,' 1744. 1765, Nov. 4, Wm., s. Free- 
 man W., bp. at B. 1768, 20 Mar., Benj., 
 s. do., bp. 1771, Oct. 21, Mary, dau. 
 do., bp. 1772, 17 Dec, EUz., d. do., bp. ; 
 bur. 12 Mar. 1773. 1774, 20 Jan., Ro- 
 bert, s. do., bp. 1776, 16 Mar., Thos. s. 
 do. 1768, July 5, Ann, wife of Freeman 
 W., bur. 1768, Apr. 16, Robert W. of 
 Foggathorpe, bur., all at Bubwith.
 
 MENTHORrE, 237 
 
 1763 tbey and William and Anne Wilberfoss pass over 
 the farm to Robert Wilberfoss, the son. Mr. Robert 
 Wilberfoss died in 1800, and was buried at Bubwith, 
 bequeathing his land to his son Thomas. But it was 
 charged with, heavy legacies, and the new owner, unable 
 to retain it, sold it in 1804 to Mr. John Chaplin, father of 
 the present possessor. 
 
 By the union of these two farms Mr. Chaplin became 
 the owner of the two carucates which constituted the fee 
 of the Atons, or the greater part of them. He married 
 Frances, daughter of William Shulcroft, Esq., of Hovingham, 
 and, dying in 1843, bequeathed the estate to Robert, his 
 eldest son.^^ 
 
 We now come to the two carucates of the Stutevilles 
 (Skipwiths), which lay chiefly to the south of the Gale, 
 and form the third and fourth farmholds. 
 
 The Third Farm is the messuage and fiirni of tlie 
 Watkinsons, commonly called the Dawney lands, com- 
 puted at 144 acres. These lands, from early accounts, 
 were estimated in bovates, and thus demised or sub-let to 
 fee-holders. The earliest recorded owners of this third 
 farm were the d'Eyvilles, about whom more will be found 
 under the account of Whitmoor. 
 
 In the loth, of Edward I. Emericus d'Eyville and 
 Emma his wife complained at the assizes at York of being 
 unjustly dispossessed by Walter de Bubwith and Mabel 
 his wife, William, son of Geoffrey de Menthorp, and others, 
 of his free-tenement in Menthorpe, a messuage and half the 
 ferry at Bubwith, and gained their suit. In the 2nd of 
 Richard II. Thomas Dawney, Esq., of Escrick, acquired 
 from John d'Eyville of Whitmoor and Joan his wife 
 
 ^'^ The Chaplins come from the neigh- aged 66, and he Feb. 18, 1836, aged 86. 
 
 bouring parish of Bubwith. Robert C. BI.I. Bubwith. 
 
 of Spaldington, m. in York Minster 21 John C. of Menthorpe, son of the 
 
 May, 1747, Margaret, d. John Dunn of above-named Wm. and Mary, d. Nov. 26, 
 
 Hovvden. He d. Jan. 7, 1774, £et. 57, 1842, aged 67. M.I. Bubwith. He m. 
 
 and she, June 8, 1815, aged 94, and were Frances, youngest dau. of Wm. Schul- 
 
 bur. at Bubwith. M.I. croft, Esq., of Hovingham, who d. Jan. 
 
 John, s. Robt. C. of Spaldington, bp. 7, 1874, aged 94. M.I. Bubwith. 
 at Bubwith, Apr. 16, 1748. Wm., s. do.. They had issue Robert Wm. of Bub- 
 
 bp. Nov. 2, 1750. Robt., s. do., bp. with, Mary Anne, and Frances, who m. 
 
 June 29, 1754 ; d. May 19, 1768. M.I. Mr. Pick of Selby. 
 All at Bubwith. Robert C. marr. Miss He]3ton, and has 
 
 William Chaplin of Bubwith (son of a son Robert, who m. Miss Pratt of Bub- 
 Robert), m. Mary, d. Michael Clarkson with, 
 of Foggathorpe. She d. Feb. 20, 1826,
 
 238 THE HISTORY OF HEMINGBROUGH. 
 
 two messuages, a toft, four bovates of arable land, and six 
 acres of meadow, with the passage or ferry over the 
 Derwent at Menthorpe. This, in the eleventh year of the 
 same king, he settled upon his son John, on his marriage 
 with Helen, one of the three daughters and co -heiresses of 
 John Barden, a wealthy York merchant. The lands at 
 Menthorpe continued with the Dawneys until the 14th of 
 Elizabeth, when they were sold by Sir John Dawney to 
 Thomas Watkinson, who was probably the tenant or 
 occupier. In the following year Watkinson purchased 
 more land in Menthorpe from Marmaduke Fawkes, which 
 is described as Fawkes's piece. The Watkinsons were 
 Roman Catholics ; and Thomas Watkinson, who is de- 
 scribed as " a yeoman and widower, well able to live of his 
 own living, a Catholic, yet timorous," got into trouble in 
 spite of his timidity. On the eve of Palm Sunday, 28th 
 March, 1591, Sir Robert Thorpe, a seminary priest, came 
 to his house at Menthorpe to pass the night there and 
 have a service on the morrow. A neighbour, however, 
 had seen some members of the household gathering palms 
 for the ceremonial on the next day, and, guessing that a 
 priest might be there, went off to Mr. Gates of Howden, 
 a justice of the peace, who broke into the house in the 
 night and caught Thorpe, Watkinson, and his son, wdth 
 John Hugh, William Parker, and Jane Adam, whom they 
 carried off to York. They made a search also in the 
 house of John Freeman, a neighbour. All of those who 
 had been carried off from Watkinson's house conformed 
 wdth the exception of Watkinson and the priest. They 
 were executed on the 31st of May. 
 
 Then went Thomas Watkinson up, a grave and fatherly old man, 
 having left his children freely and commended them to God. They 
 willed him to ask the Queen's Majesty forgiveness for receiving that 
 ti'aitor, Thorp, into his house. " I have not offended her Majesty 
 therein. I knew him not, nor received him for no such man, but as a 
 priest sent to do good to his country. If I were to live longer, I 
 would receive moi-e and oftener than I have. I forgive all those that 
 have here in any way procured my death." And so, having commended 
 his soul and body to God, died sweetly. He was buried by his son-in- 
 law in the Churchyard of St. John in Micklegate, as I think. ^^^ 
 
 It must have been a son of his, Robert Watkinson, a 
 priest, who was executed at Tyburn on 20th April, 1602, 
 
 ^" Eecords of the English Province S.J., and Challoner's Missionary Priests.
 
 MENTHORPE. 239 
 
 in deference to the cruel laws which condemned to death 
 the too zealous missionaries whom Douay was continually 
 sending forth to win back England to the faith. He stated 
 at his examination in London that he had been born in 
 the parish of Hemingbrough in 1550. The estate of 
 Thomas Watkinson descended to Marmaduke Watkmson, 
 gent., who, in the 17th of James, acquired a tenement in 
 Menthorpe from William Babthorpe and others. Five 
 years after this he passed over half a tenement, and other 
 property in Menthorpe, to Humphrey Burletson, sen., and 
 others as trustees, upon his second marriage. Marmaduke 
 was buried at Hemingbrough 16th August, 1644,^^^ and 
 seems to have been succeeded by Thomas, his son. 
 
 There were Watkinsons at this time in other parts of 
 the parish of Hemingbrough. John Watkinson is men- 
 tioned in the Subsidy Roll, 34th Henry VIII., and others 
 of the name occur at an earlier period. 
 
 In 1668 Christopher Adams of Camblesforth, gent., 
 purchased the property of the Watkinsons, and in 1678 it 
 was settled as the marriage portion of his grandson Chris- 
 topher with Elizabeth, daughter of Edward Crofts of Hull, 
 merchant. In 1696 this Mr. Adams demised the farm 
 with other lands to John Hillary, gent., upon trust to 
 preserve contingent remainders, and died in 1703. He 
 was succeeded by his eldest son, John Boynton Adams, 
 who died s.p. in 1748, when the estate descended to John, 
 his nephew (son of Captain Christopher Adams), who died 
 unmarried in 1791. Before this event, however, it was 
 covenanted that the estates should descend to the heir- 
 general by fines dated 1788, in consequence of the death 
 of the heir-at-law, Nicholas, nephew of the last John 
 
 *" 1619, 28 Nov., Thos., s. Marm. W. Humphrey Burletson, Mary Nuttall, 
 
 (of Menthorpe, bp. at H. 1621-2), Jan. Wm. Parker, Rowland Freeman and 
 
 27, Marm., s. d., bp. ; bur. 15 Jan. Agnes his wife, John Freeman, Agnes 
 
 1632-3. Nelson, Margery Blackburn, and Agnes 
 
 1624, 29 June, Marm. W. and Ann Babthorpe. 
 Freeman of Menthorj)e, marr. 1627,28 Agnes Wilcock, Arthur Standish, 
 Mar., Mary, d. Marm. W. of M., bp. Marmaduke Faukes, Wm. Babthorpe, 
 1629, 3rd May, Wm., s. do., bp.; bur. 3rd and Eliz. Parker were non-communi- 
 Sept. 1630, 16 Oct., Sue, d.do.,bp. 1635-6, cants. (Peacock's List, p. 140.) 
 3rd Feb., Barbara, d. do., bp. ; bur. 13 In 1619 a marr. lie. for Francis Con- 
 Dec. 1636. 1637, 7 Dec, Dorothy, d. stable, gen., par. Escrick, to be marr. 
 do., bp. at Escrick to Mary Watkinson, widow, 
 
 Among the Recusants in 1604 under par. H. 1619, Aug. 18, marr. lie. John 
 
 Woodhall, Brackenholme, Bowthorpe, Christalson of Leckonfield and Frances 
 
 and Menthorpe, appear Eliz. w. of Watkinson of Menthorpe.
 
 240 THE HISTOKY OF HEMINGBKOUGH. 
 
 Adams. The estates then devolved upon Frances Mary, 
 sister of John, the wife of Jocelyn Price, Esq., and, on 
 lier decease in 1816, on her two surviving children, Lucy 
 and Clara. The former (born in 1767, and died in 1857) 
 married Captain Willye of the 4th Dragoon Guards, by 
 whom he had a son, Jocelyne, Vicar of Drax ; the younger 
 daughter, Clara, married Sir Charles Blois, and died in 
 1847, leaving a large family, several members of which 
 are honourably distinguished in the army and navy. Mr. 
 Willye, the Vicar of Drax, died in 1863, an only son 
 having predeceased him ; and a lifeanterest in the pro- 
 ])erty came to his second wife, Frances, daughter of Rev. 
 William Carus Wilson, who remarried Sir Trevor Wheeler, 
 and died in 1872. After the decease of his widow in 
 1873 this estate was sold to Mr. Martin Willans, for 
 5,000/. In the articles of sale it is described as a farm, 
 with excellent house and buildings, two cottages, and 145 
 acres of arable, meadow, and pasture land ; a commuted 
 tithe rent- charge of 661. per annum, issuing out of the 
 township of Menthorpe, and a moiety of the ferry over 
 the river Derwent at the same place. 
 
 The Fourth Farm comjirises 180 acres, and to it the 
 messuage called Menthorpe Hall is attached. Here, pro- 
 bably, was the old manor-house, but there are no remains 
 of antiquity in the buildings or their surroundings. It is 
 supposed that this small estate continued for a long time 
 in the possession of a junior branch of the Skipwiths, 
 ^vhich took the name of the place. There is in existence 
 a quit claim to lands in Hemingbrough between 1233 and 
 ] 244 from Jordan de Menthorpe, with a rude seal show- 
 ing that he was a knight.^^ Several persons also occur 
 afterwards in the parish bearing the name of Menthorj)e, 
 who may have been his descendants. We find also that 
 in the seventeenth century the farm was in the possession 
 of the Skipwiths, all this evidence tending to show that 
 it had never left the family. In 1608 Rowland Herbert 
 of Skipwith, the elder, gent., made his will, which shows 
 that he had a deep interest in the old property of the 
 Skipwiths. He leaves to Rowland, his second son, the 
 lease of the demesnes of Skipwith Avhich he has of the 
 
 " Jordan de M., and Adam his of Woodhall occ. 1261-71. Reginald 
 brother, occ. circa 12i0. Robert de M. de M. circa 1275.
 
 MENTHOEPE. 
 
 241 
 
 f^rant of Sir Richard Skipmth, or of Richard Warner. 
 To Gilbert, his third son, his lease of the parsonage of 
 Skipwith from the late Queen, and parts of another lease 
 from Sir Richard Skipwith. The rest of his lands in 
 Skip with he gives to John, his eldest son. In the 15th 
 of James I. Gilbert Herbert and others conveyed this 
 form at Menthorpe to John Herbert (his brother), pro- 
 bably for the remainder of the lease. On the expiring 
 of the lease the farm came to John Skipwith, Esq., the 
 owner. He was the third son of Willoughby Skip^vith, 
 Esq., of South Ormesby, in the county of Lincoln, and 
 Honorah his wife, and, as his family was then in decay, 
 was apprenticed to William Richardson of York, draper, 
 on ord November, 1659. His heart, however, was not m 
 trade, but with the home of his ancestry, and he preferred 
 living near to it, even in a humble position, to the search 
 after the resuscitation of his fortunes by commerce. 
 
 The following brief sketch of his family, &c., will 
 suffice. It is chiefly drawn from the Skipwith and Heming- 
 brouo^h registers, and from Mr. Parker Toulson's evi- 
 dences. The name occurs often in the Bubwith registers, 
 but in a humble position : — 
 
 Willougliby Skipwith of Skipwith, = Houora, dau. 
 
 of York, 
 
 Esq. Of South Ormesby, in 1636. 
 Admon. granted at London, in 
 1658, to Honora, his widow. 
 
 widow, 15th Car. II. Admon. 
 gr. 18 Sept., 1680, to John S., 
 gent. 
 
 John Skipwith, gent., son and heir, 15th Car. II., = 
 of Dion's head par. Hemingbro', 1671-2. Nunc. 
 Will d. 21 Oct., 1680, pr. 18 March seq. Buried 
 at Skipwith. 
 
 Willoughby, bp. at 
 Hemingbro' 14 Dec, 
 1671. Of London, 
 gen. Will d. 25 
 Dec, 1703 ; men- 
 tions Mary his wife. 
 
 John Skipwith, a 
 minor, 1680. M. 
 at Christchurch, 
 York, 20 Nov., 
 1697, Ehz. Fox. 
 Of Westminster, 
 1709. I 
 
 Charles, bp. at 
 Skipwith 2-4 
 Oct., 1676. 
 
 Francis, bp. 
 ibid. 29 March, 
 1675; bur. 1 
 April. 
 
 Willoughby, bp. Christchurch 4 Sept., 1698. 
 Wm. and Honor bp. ibid. 24 March, 1702-3. 
 
 Anne, bp. at Hem- 
 ingbro' 9 Dec, 1672. 
 Mentioned 1680. In 
 1713-14, Anne Fox, 
 d. of John S., mer- 
 chant, was fi'ee of 
 the city of York by 
 patrimony. 
 
 Mr. John Skipwith died in 1680, and was buried at 
 Skipwith ; but before his decease (in 1670) he sold his 
 land at Menthorpe. On 18th February, 1673-4. Faith,
 
 242 THE HISTORY OF HEMINGBROUGH. 
 
 widow of Robert Woodburne, Vicar of Skipwith,"^^ left by- 
 will to her grandchild, James Woodburne, "the mannor 
 and lordshippe of Menthorpe which I lately bought of 
 Mr. John Skipwith and Mrs. Honorah Skipwith, his 
 mother." Mr. Woodburne married at Hemmgbrough on 
 Shrove Tuesday, 1689, Rebecca, daughter of Mr. John 
 Lodge of Barlby, and resided at Menthorpe. He removed 
 to Selby in 1714 on the death of his wife, where he died 
 in 1717. His assigns sold the property, about 1726, to 
 
 Robinson. It was afterwards in the possession of 
 
 Richard Robinson, gent., of Fell Foot, near Cartmell, 
 who married Anne, sister of Miles Sandys, Esq., of 
 Graythwaite Hall, by whom he had five daughters, to 
 whom he bequeathed the estate as an undivided property. 
 These ladies resided chiefly at Kendal, and, with one 
 exception, died unmarried, bequeathing their interests in 
 Menthorpe to various persons and in different projDortions. 
 It was necessary, therefore, to come to an arrangment by 
 which one of the interested persons should, as we say, 
 buy the others out. This was done by Edwin Sandys 
 Bain, a son of the married sister, who purchased the estate 
 in 1838. Mr. Bain was educated at Trinity College, 
 Cambridge, and, having been called to the bar in 1829, 
 was made Serjeant-at-law in 1845. He went the northern 
 circuit, and died at Easter Livelands, near Stirling, on 
 30tli December, 1874. Serjeant Bain was succeeded by 
 Major Sandys ^^ of Fulford, near York, who is the present 
 owner of the farm at Menthorpe. 
 
 Amongst the particulars for leases, dated 12th Eliz., 
 a cottage in Menthorpe is mentioned as in the occupation 
 of John Taskar, which had been given at an early period 
 for the performance of Masses in the church of Bilton. It 
 is said to be in ruins, and was leased in 1572, for twenty- 
 
 '■- Nunc, will Wednesday, 13 April, was the wife of Mr. Richard Her- 
 
 1659, Robert Woodburn, Vicar of Skip- bert. 
 
 with. All to Faith, his wife. She ex''. 160.3-4, Mar. 3. Marr. lie. James 
 
 Pr. in London 30 May, 1659. Woodburn of Skipwith, gent., and 
 
 Mrs. Woodburne in her will mentions Mary Leeds. Marr. lie. York, 
 
 her brothers George and Richard 1713-14, Mar. 10. Mrs. Rebecca W. 
 
 Blackaller, and her nephews Mr. w. Mr. James W. of Menthorpe ; bur. 
 
 Richard Shawe, Thos. Swarland, and at H. 
 
 Robert Wasse. " Out of my deare atfec- '^ A notice of this family will be 
 
 tion I give my daughter Elizabeth found under Cliffe, in the pedigree of 
 
 Herbert all my goods and cattle." She Richardson.
 
 MENTHORPE. 243 
 
 one years, to Thomas Cowper, at the rent of 10.§. j^er 
 annum. 
 
 Simon Tasker of Menthorpe was buried at Heming- 
 brough in January 1680-1. 
 
 BOWTHORPE. 
 
 The ancient name of this hamlet is always written 
 Bolthorpe or Bolethorpe, from which the transition to 
 Bowthorpe is easy enough. Colthorpe has been changed 
 to Cowthorpe in exactly the same way, and Golthorpe, a 
 street in Selby, to Gowthorpe. 
 
 Domesday states that there are four carucates in the 
 place belonging to the Bishop of Durham. In the 1st of 
 John these were granted, together with two carucates in 
 Skipwith, and one in North Burton, by Bishop Philip of 
 Poictou, to Richard de Averenches (Avranches), he and 
 his successors rendering therefore to the see of Durham 
 the service of half a knight's fee.'*^ The name is differently 
 spelt, and occurs as Averayns, Averoyns, or Averinges. 
 The family continued to hold Bowthorpe until the time of 
 Henry IV. 
 
 An attempted sketch of the pedigree will show the 
 descent of the estate. 
 
 Richard de Averenches or Averings had grant of Bowthorpe 1st John. 
 
 William de Averinges, owner of Bowthorpe. = 
 I 
 
 John de Averinges, son and heir of Wm. de A. Plac. 32nd = 
 Hen. III. Owner of Bowthorpe, 1284. I 
 
 Richard de Averinges, son of John de = Cecily. On 19th Jan., 1312-1,3, Bp 
 
 A., occurs in a Skipwith charter in 
 1308. Had grant of free-warren 32nd 
 Edw. I. 
 
 Kellawe grants an Indulgence of 40 days 
 for the soul of Cecily, late wife of Richard 
 deA. 
 
 Richard de Averinges, returned Knight William de Averinges, owner of Bow- 
 of the Shire for Yorkshire by writ d. thorpe, and the 3rd of Skipwith, in 
 17th Edw. II. 1314. 
 
 Edmund de Averinges, Knt., occ. 1348. 
 
 Katherine de Averinges (? marr. 1 to Sir Thos. = William de Skipwith. 
 Bosville of Cavill). ^ 
 
 " MSS. Dodsworth at Oxford, v. 73. 
 
 b2
 
 244 THE HISTORY OF HEMINGBROUGH. 
 
 Richard de Averenclies was a tenant of Bowtlioqie, 
 before the grant to hun was made, as in the Exchequer 
 Roll of 1197 he is said to owe one mark for the same in 
 the court at Howden. To Richard succeeded William, 
 who, on his death, left his son John a minor, whereupon 
 the Bishop's bailiffs took possession of his lands, and the 
 Bishop gave the custody of them and the heir to Robert 
 de Kirkham. When Kirkhara died the charge devolved 
 upon his widow by Kirkham's gift, and she had it until, 
 in 12 65, a person called Walter de Grendale took forcible 
 possession. The matter was the sul)ject of an assize 
 trial in the 52nd of Hen. III., when the heir, who was 
 then of agfe, recovered his inheritance. The same John 
 is mentioned in Kirkby s Inquest in 1284 as holding the 
 lands at Bolthorpe and Skipwith, and he was still living 
 in the 20th of Edward I., when he defended an action 
 brought against him by Hugh, son of Matilda de Bub with 
 (son of Adam, son of Adam) for the recovery of a 
 messuage and a bovate of land at Bolthorpe. The 
 plaintiff states that his grandfather was seized of the 
 premises in the reign of Henry III., and that they de- 
 scended to him as heir-at-law. Averinges replied that the 
 lease was only for the reign of the late King, and that 
 Bubwith's grandfather was not seized of the property 
 afterwards. The plaintiff lost his suit.^^ After this the 
 pedigree of the d' Averinges is obscure. It ended, how- 
 ever, in an heiress, Katherine, who married William de 
 Skipwith. There is some reason to believe that she had 
 been previously married, as in the 11th of Richard II. 
 Thomas Bosville of Cavill, knight, and Katherine his 
 wife, demise to William Freeman of Bolthorpe, a toft, 
 1<S acres of arable land, six of meadow, and 22-5. 8d. rent 
 in the place. In the 2nd of Henry IV. William de Skip- 
 with and Katherine Averinges, his wife, confirm a grant 
 of land in Skipwith wliich had been made to the Priory 
 
 *^ Circa 1260-70, John Averinges de Henrico de Babethorp, Nicholao fratre 
 
 Skipwith confirms to Newburgh Priory suo, Andrea de Belgrave, Reginaldo de 
 
 " omnes terras in Skipwitli . . . qnas Menthorp, etc. (MSS. Dodsworth, xciv. 
 
 Eadulphus de Tliorp dictis canonicis 83.) 
 
 donavit, illas, viz., terras quas Radul- In 15th Edw. I. Adam Ingoldson 
 
 phus de Thorp, filius Galfridi de Skip- cites John de Averinges, Mr. John, 
 
 with, emit de Ada clerico de Skipwith, vicar of the church of Skipwith, and 
 
 with rent to me and my lieirs of 12, UZ." others, for disseising him of his com- 
 
 " & unum wyndell siliginis (within mon of pasture at Skipwith. 
 the year). Testibus Hugone camerario,
 
 BOWTHOEPE. 245 
 
 of Newbiirgh by John de Averinges in the time of 
 Henry III. (MSS. Dodsworth xciv. 84.) 
 
 I think it is possible that Richard Haverings, a well- 
 known ecclesiastic in the early part of the fourteenth 
 century, was a member of this family. He was one of 
 the King's clerks, and was much employed in State 
 matters. He was treasurer of Llandaflf", prebendary of 
 Ailesbury at Lincoln, and Archdeacon of Chester, and 
 held in succession the stalls of Weighton and Langtoft 
 at York. In 1306 he was appointed Archbishop of 
 Dublin, and held it by papal dispensation for several 
 years without being consecrated. At last, as his nephew, 
 John de Haverings, Archdeacon of Dublin, told the story, 
 he had a terrible dream. A monster, heavier than the whole 
 world, seemed to stand upon his breast, as he slept, and to 
 get rid of it he renounced everything he had in the world. 
 When Haverings awoke, he determined within himself 
 that this must be a judgment for his retaining the revenues 
 of Dublin for several years without doing anything for 
 them, and so he resigned the archbishopric. He came 
 back to York, and, by his will proved in February 
 1340-1, desired, if he should die within forty leagues of 
 York, to be buried in the Minster, with his feet touching 
 the first column on the south side of the nave, next to 
 the west door. Anyone, from this description, may go to 
 his grave. 
 
 From the Skipwiths, at the very beginning of the 
 fifteenth century, the manor of Bowthorpe seems to have 
 passed to the Methams of Metham.**^ In the 6th of Henry 
 VI. it is said that the heirs of Thomas de Metham and 
 John Holdhall hold seven carucates in the vills of Skip- 
 with, Bolthorpe, and Burton, which Richard d'Averenge 
 formerly held. It is probable that Holdhall held the 
 carucate at North Burton. To the Methams succeeded 
 the Portingtons, but the genealogy of these two ancient 
 houses belongs to Howdenshire, where they lived. In the 
 
 ■"* In the Subsidy EoU for the 2nd of and Isold his wife, late wife of Eichard 
 
 Eic. II. the princiiDal families were de Metham, convey a mess. 120 acres 
 
 Eichard Garton,"frankelyn," and Isabel of arable land, 40 of meadow, 20 of 
 
 his wife, at 3s. id. Thos. Northeby, pasture, and 20s. of yearly rent in Bowe- 
 
 merchant, and Margaret his wife, at 2s., thorpe to John and Eobert Portington, 
 
 and Edmund Metham and Elizabeth Edw. Hoperton, Wm. Bailies, Eobert 
 
 his wife, at 6s. 8d. Ledes, Wm. Brigge, John Lyndesay, and 
 
 In the 21st of Hen. VI. John Grendon John Smyth, probably on trust.
 
 246 THE HISTORY OF HEMINGBROUGH. 
 
 18tli of Elizabeth Roger Portington, Esq., sells to Sir 
 Wm. Babthorpe of Osgodby, Knt., the manor of Bow- 
 tborpe, as it is then called, which is said to comprise 1 00 
 acres of arable land, 40 of meadow, 200 of pasture, 3 of 
 wood, and 40 of moor, and a fee-farm rent of 175. But 
 the quantities given in fines are not to be relied upon, and 
 it is to be observed that in the Inq. on the death of Wm. 
 IJabthorpe, Esq. (the father of Sir Wm.), on the 18th 
 May, 1 and 2 Philip and Mary, it is there said that he was 
 seized of the manor of Bowthorpe. Soon after the pur- 
 chase Sir Wm. Babthorpe settled this estate upon his son 
 Ralph and Grace his wife, daughter of Wm. Birnand, 
 conveying it to eight feoffees, viz. Wm. Ingleby, Philip 
 Constable, Leonard Babthorpe, Ralph Creyke, Matthew 
 St. Quintin, and Erancis Birnand, Esqrs., Wm. Birnand, 
 gent., and Ralph Bussey, gent. ; nevertheless, in the 1st 
 of James I., the entail was cut off by mutual consent, and 
 the manor and lordship were sold for 1,900/. to Thomas 
 Walmesley, Esq., of Colthorpe or Cowthorpe.'^'^ Mr. 
 AValmesley was knighted about the same time, and was 
 one of the Justices of the Court of Common Pleas. He 
 amassed a large fortune by the law, and purchased the 
 manor of Selby of the Earl of Shrewsbury. His family 
 residence was at Dunkenhalgh in Lancashire. A shrewd 
 old carle he must have been. 
 
 Who never did for favour or for use 
 
 Of great men's frowns quit or forsake the law. 
 
 ^' The Ind. of sale is dated 20th of 2nd and 15th Hen. VI. Eiehard A. 
 
 March, 1st James I. The purchase in- had three sons — Richard, James, and 
 
 chided the manor and lordship of Bow- Robert. Henry and Richard A., gentle- 
 
 thoi-jDC, a yearly rent of 16s. 9d. going men, occ. in the reign of Hen. VIII. and 
 
 forth of the lands and tenements (some- Thos. A. in 1 and 2 of Philip and Mary, 
 time) of Thos. Astley, gent., in Bow- Fines. — 5 Eliz. Gregory Haddlesey, 
 
 thorpe, and all the messuages, cottages, qu., and Wm. Hussey, Esq., def., lands 
 
 orchards, gardens, etc., that last were in BowthorjDe, etc. 6th Eliz. Wm. Bab- 
 
 the inheritance of Sir Wm. Babthoi-pe, thorpe, Kt., qu., and Wm. Knight, and 
 
 Kt., father of Sir Ralph, and the mes- Kath. ux.def.,a ten. inB. 15 & 16 Eliz. 
 
 suages, lands, etc., of the said Sir Ralph, Wm. Wilson, qu., and Wm. Babthorpe, 
 
 or Sir Wm. in Bowthoipe, South Duf- Knt., def., a ten. in B. Same year. Wm. 
 
 field and Menthorpe, which late were Babthorpe, Kt., qu., and Marm. Fawkes, 
 
 the inheritance of Wm. Hotham, Esq., gen. def., a ten. in B. 16 and 17 Eliz. 
 
 deed., Wm. Knight, Marmaduke Fawkes Wm. Babthorpe, Knt., qu., and Wm. 
 
 and Joan his wife, Wm. Wilson and Wilson, def., a ten. in B. 1 Car. I. Hen. 
 
 Anne his wife, Chr. Twysleton and Roger Aikeroyde, gen., and al. qu., and Jas. 
 
 Portington. Blacklocks, gen., and al. def., land in 
 
 The following notes are taken from the B., etc. 
 Fines : — Thos. Astley occ. in Fine Rolls
 
 BOWTiioiirE. 247 
 
 He remained a Roman Catholic at a time when it was 
 dangerous to be one, and "dyed November 26, 1612, hav- 
 ing lived Ixxv yeares complete under v several princes." 
 Eleanor Walmesley, one of the judge's great-grand- 
 daughters, married Sir Godfrey Copley of Sprotburgb, and to 
 the Copleys, by inheritance or purchase, the estate came 
 from the Walmesley s. The pedigree of the Copleys will 
 be found in Mr. Hunter's great work on South Yorkshire. 
 In April 1738 Godfrey and Lionel Copley, Esqrs., and 
 their three sisters sell Bowthorpe to Bacon Morritt, Esq., 
 of Cawood, whose ancestors for many generations were 
 connected with this part of the country. Mr. Morritt had 
 previously bought some lands at South Duffield, and 
 these, with Bowthorpe, he settled, in February 1749, on 
 three of his daughters, Anne Eliza, Mary, and Bridget. 
 Mr. Morritt was then residing in York, where he had a 
 house in High Ousegate, opposite to All Saints' Pavement 
 Church, and another in the Minster Yard. Mr. Morritt, 
 by his will in 1775, devised to his five daughters — Anne 
 Eliza, Mary, Bridget, Catherine, and Frances — 5,000/. 
 each out of the estates. The sisters lived in the Minster 
 Yard, York, and were famous for their skill in needle- 
 work and their quaint dress and manners. For Anne 
 Eliza, who was buried at Selby in 1797, the poet Mason 
 wrote a poetical epitaph, in which he praises the skill . of 
 her pencil. It was their nephew, John Bacon Sawrey 
 Morritt, whose intimacy with Walter Scott made Rokeby 
 classic ground.'*^ When Mr. Bacon Morritt died in 1775 
 the five sisters, by Ind. d. 1st December, 1775, made over 
 their interest to their brother, John Sawrey Morritt, who 
 had purchased Rokeby of the Robinsons, and he entered mto 
 securities to pay their legacies under their father's will. 
 To do this the estates at South Duffield and Bowthorpe 
 were sold to Sir William Lowther by Ind. d. 4th April, 
 1777. Sir William died in 1788, and by his will be- 
 queathed these lands to John, his younger son, and his 
 assigns, and then to the Rev. Henry Zouch and John 
 Blayds, Esq., to secure remainders in behalf of William, 
 
 ^8 During one of Scott's visits to good likeness. " How long has it been 
 
 Rokeby Mr. Morritt pcinted out to him there?" asked Scott. "Two or three 
 
 a head of Burns, the poet, hanging as a years," was the reply. Scott answered, 
 
 sign outside a pubhc-house, and said " It's nae like Rabbie Burns to be two 
 
 that it was generally thought to be a or three years 02(<s«^t' a public -house."
 
 248 THE HISTORY OF HEMINGBEOUGH. 
 
 the testator's eldest son. This trust continued until 1<S03, 
 when the Lowthers obtained a Private Act enabling them 
 to sell or make exchanges of lands. In accordance with 
 this, Bowthorpe was sold by Ind. d. January 1807 to 
 Edward Weddell, Esq., who had advanced a considerable 
 sum upon security of the property. But a final settlement 
 could not be obtained from the Lowthers, and the manor, 
 or reputed manor, was withheld. Mr. Weddell, having in 
 vain tried to have his money returned or the purchase 
 completed, filed a bill in Chancery in May 1809. This 
 led to a series of annoying proceedings. In 1810 the 
 Lowthers sold the manor for a nominal sum to Mr. Charles 
 Fothergill of York, who transferred his interest in it to 
 Mr. Georo-e Edward Dinsdale of Middleham, who asserted 
 his rights by appointing a gamekeeper on the estate. 
 
 About this time Mr. Edward Weddell died, bequeath- 
 ing his interest in Bowthorpe to his nephew, George Lyon 
 Weddell of Selby, and arrangements were made shortly 
 afterwards for the sale or transference of the different 
 claims by decree of the Court of Chancery. Sir Thomas 
 Plumer became the purchaser by deeds of lease and release 
 dated March 1812, but a final discharge was not made 
 until 1815, when Sir John Henry Lowther attained his 
 majorit}^ Sir Thomas Plumer, when he purchased 
 Bowthorpe, was Attorney -General, and when he died, in 
 1824, was Master of the Rolls. In 1820 he sold the estate 
 and manor to Mr. Richard Waterworth of W^ressle Castle, 
 a tenant of the Earl of Egremont. The Waterworths may 
 be traced to Sutton-upon-Derwent and came to reside at 
 Woodhall about the year 1740.^^ 
 
 "" Thos. Waterworth of Sutton-on- He m., 2, Sarah Maram of Wressle, 
 Derwent, m. Rebecca Whittall of Wood- 6 Nov., 1777 (d. 1830), and had Richard, 
 hall (m. lie. d. 8 Nov., 1740). He was bp. 30 July, 1781 ; Sarah, bp. 26 Nov., 
 bur. at H. 4th May, 1756, a;t. 54, and his 1778 : m. John Seddon Bower of Don- 
 widow Sept. 25, 1761, sit. 48. M.I. caster, surgeon, 4 June, 1790, and d. 17 
 
 Their children were Anne, bp. 13 Feb., 1801, and was bur. at Doncaster. 
 
 Aug. and bur. Sep. 9, 1741. Richard, His son (by a second wife), Edward 
 
 bp. Jan. 17, 1743-4. Benjamin, bp. ChiversBower,J.P., is now living. Mary, 
 
 Jan. 6, 1748-9. Thos., bur. June 1, bp. 26 June, 1783, bur. 11 Mar. 1787. 
 
 1749. Thos. bp. 13 Mar. 1753. Mr. Richard W. of Wressle (bp. 1781), 
 
 John Watson of Methley and Mrs. Mary m., 1, Anne d. Wro. Nadin of Church 
 
 Waterworth, m. 4 Apr. 1763. Greasley, bur. 7 June, 1810, fct. 26. 
 
 Richard (bp. 1743-4), of Woodhall, They had Stephen Maram, bp. 31 Aug., 
 
 farmer, m., 1, Mary Barret of Heming- 1809, and d. inf., and Sarah, bur. 23 
 
 brough, 4 Nov., 1705 (bur. 2 Oct. 1768), June, 1810. 
 
 and had Joshua bur. 24 Nov., 1766, and He m., 2, Miss Sowden of Thwaite 
 
 Richard bur. 1 Oct., 1767. Mills, and had Stephen, who d. in
 
 BOWTHORPE. 249 
 
 Up to this time (1820) there had from time immemorial 
 been two farmsteads, etc., at Bowthorpe, the smaller 
 having the name of Little Bowthorpe. Mr. Waterworth, 
 shortly after his purchase, pnlled down both houses and 
 built, instead of them, near the old site, a substantial 
 country residence. These expenses, added to the high 
 price he gave for the estate, and the depreciation which 
 took place in the value of agricultural produce, involved 
 him in difficulties, from which he was unable to extricate 
 himself. He died in 1832, leaving Bowthorpe to Thomas 
 Musgrave, Esq., and the Rev. John Ion, Vicar of Heming- 
 brough, on trust for the benefit of his family. The estate, 
 said then to consist of 444 acres, was advertised for sale in 
 September 1832, but, as no purchaser could be found, it 
 was transferred, with the consent of the trustees, to the 
 mortgagee, James Walker, Esq. (afterwards Sir James 
 Walker, Bart.) of Sandhutton. Sir James Walker died in 
 1883, and the property is in the possession of his family. 
 
 In the eleventh of Richard II. Wm, Freeman acquired 
 from Thos. Bosville of Cavill, Knt., and Catherine his wife, 
 a toft, 18 acres of arable land, 6 of meadow, and 22s. Hd. 
 of yearly rent in Bowthorpe. They held property here for 
 some time, as did the Nelsons, a Roman Catholic family, 
 in the seventeenth century. 
 
 THE TOWNSHIP OF CLIFFE cum LUND AND NEWHAY. 
 
 The word " Cliffe " is probably the Danish Kleif, terra 
 accUvis, as the village stands on the verge of an easy 
 declivity, extending to a low tract of ground called the 
 
 China in 1843 ; John, who m. and had Toulouse on Oct. 2nd, 1822). Alder- 
 issue in Canada ; Cottam, of York in man Waterworth had a son, Thos. 
 1845 ; Sarah, m. Mr. Sparks of Monte Whittal Waterworth of Doncaster, soli- 
 Video ; Eliza, m. Mr. Fortune ; Matilda, citor, who m. a dau. of Samuel Moxon 
 who d. at Halifax in 1845 ; and Eosa- of Doncaster, s.p. ; and a dau. Mary 
 mond, who d. at Hull in 1846. Ann, who on 1 Nov., 1813, m. Kobert 
 
 Thomas, bp. in 1758, became Alder- Mitton of Badsworth. 
 
 man of Doncaster, and marr. Harriet The parish registers at Wressle used 
 
 d. of Chr. Eichardson, sculptor, who to be kept in the chapel of the Castle, 
 
 d. Jan. 19th, 1808, set. 61 (she was and were destroyed there by fire in 
 
 wid. of . . . Theakstone, and had a son, February 1796. 
 Henry T., Lieut. E.N., who died at
 
 250 THE HISTORY OF HEMINGBROUGH. 
 
 Old Ways, which has been already described in the account 
 of Hemino^brouo'h. When the Ouse flowed in this old 
 channel, the southern end of Clifl'e would be pleasantly 
 situated on the bank of the river. The village would be 
 originally almost surrounded by the forest. The fields called 
 Chantry Field, Old Mill Field, Cadcroft, and Carr Field 
 form an almost regular semicircle adjoining the village, 
 and probably constitute its most ancient tilled land. 
 Beyond this — to the north — a portion of the village has 
 occasionally been called North Clifl'e, commencing from 
 the north-east angle of Cadcroft Field and stretching to 
 the south corner of the Common. The length of the village 
 occasionally obtained for it the name of Long Cliffe. The 
 enclosures, east and west of the road or street, are irregular 
 in size and shape, and, until within comparatively recent 
 times, were thickly studded with oaks, ashes, and alders ; 
 but there is nothing to show that these enclosures were 
 appropriated as open field or half-year land. To the south 
 of Lund the adjoining woodland has been similarly dealt 
 with, the first lands cleared for tillage and pasture bearing 
 the names of the Pastures, the Furlongs, and the Laires. 
 These, up to a recent period, were broken by reins and 
 belts of oak and other trees, but have been from the 
 remotest period open field or half-year land. The wood- 
 land at the northern end of Land is called Hazelhurst in 
 an ancient Fine. The Ings and Brocks constitute the 
 remainder of the open field lands. 
 
 The arable demesne of Clifi'e, according to Domesday, 
 was estimated at three carucates — i.e. reckoning, as before, 
 120 acres to a carucate, about 360 acres.^*^ The actual 
 acreage is above this, being reckoned at 412^ on the death 
 of Thomas, Lord Boos, in 9th Henry VL, and at 400 
 in 1838 ; but in early times, when w^e take into con- 
 sideration various wastes either unclaimed or retained in 
 meadow, there would not have been more than 360 acres 
 of ploughed land. 
 
 The three carucates, with other lands at Osgodby, are 
 
 ^^ The following fields may perhaps street hedge, 58a. Lund Pastures, with 
 
 have made up the three carucates : — the Furlongs, &c., 52a. Ings and Brocks, 
 
 Chantry Field, 48a. Old Mill Field with portion of Goule Farm, 70a. Total, 
 
 and Westland Flat, 58a. Upper and 400. Deduct 40 for Woodland Demesne, 
 
 Lower Cadcroft, 50a. Longland Field and there remain 360 acres— i.e. three 
 
 and Becks, 68a. Carr Field up to the carucates.
 
 CLIFFE. 251 
 
 entered in Domesday under the title Terra Comitis Mor- 
 toniensis : — 
 
 In Clive iij carucate ad geld, et ij carucaj possunt esse. 
 
 In Ausgotesbi ij caruc?e et dim. bovata et dim. ad geld., et ij carucfe 
 possunt esse. 
 
 Harum terrarum soca pertinet ad Houeden, manerium Episcopi 
 Dunelm. 
 
 Nunc habet Nigel in dominio j carucatam & ix vill' cum ij car' et vj 
 soch' ; et iiij vill' & ij bord. cum ij carucis. T. R. E. valebat xl sol., 
 modo XX s. 
 
 According to Domesday, therefore, the soke of the L-inds 
 in ClifFe and Osgodby belonged to the Bishop of Durham's 
 manor of Howden ; but, as the territory is described to be 
 parcel of the possessions of the Earl of Moreton, it may 
 be concluded that Nigel (otherwise called Fossard) was 
 a tenant of the Earl, holding, as was usual, by knight's 
 service or some other homage or payment. This is shown 
 by the following entries in the " Clamores de Euerwic- 
 scire " : — 
 
 Duas carucatas terras in Clive quce fuerunt Basin idem Nigellus 
 reliquit. 
 
 Tres carucatfe terras in Clive et tres carucatse in Ausgotebi. Nigel 
 eas tenet sed dicunt qui juraver' quod Willelmus Malet habuit hanc 
 terram in dominio quamdiu in Euerwic scire terram tenuit. 
 
 As only one manor — viz. that of Cliffe — is enumerated, 
 and the adjoining lordship of Turnham Hall left out, it is 
 not easy to say what manor was relinquished unless it be 
 two- thirds of the arable demesne which had been in the 
 tenure of Basin. We have reason to conclude that Nio^el 
 retained and demised the remaining; third, thus orio-inatino; 
 a separate manor or moiety of Cliffe, which has continued 
 so to the present time. W. Malet was sheriff of Yorkshire 
 until the fort of York was destroyed in 1069 ; but, at the 
 date of the Domesday Survey, Nigel was in possession. 
 The " Clamores " seem to be subsequent in date to the 
 Survey. 
 
 The pedigree of Fossard is well known. It ended in an 
 heiress, Joan, daughter of Wm. Fossard, jun. She was 
 the King's ward, and was given in marriage circa 1197 to 
 Kobert de Turnham. Her father was also the ward of 
 Henry II. in 1165, and in the Scutage in that year he is 
 said to hold a knight's fee of the Bishop of Durham in
 
 252 THE HISTORY OF HEMINGBROUGH. 
 
 Yorkshire, of whicli the manor of Cliffe (together with the 
 lands in Osgodby) made up six carucates — i.e. one half 
 knight's fee. 
 
 It would appear that during the preceding minorities, 
 if not earlier, the Bishops of Durham, or their agents, 
 considering the manor of ClifFe to be parcel of their soke 
 or barony of Howden, thought it their right to exact the 
 same rental from all the lands and territories in ClifFe that 
 they received from other manors in the barony, and for 
 some time towards the close of the twelfth century had 
 exacted such rents and services. Turnham, however, re- 
 garded the manor as the inheritance of the Fossards, and 
 soon after his marriage asserted his rights. A suit was 
 commenced in 1198 to ascertain whether Turnham or the 
 Bishop had the greater right {majus jus) in the manor — 
 that is, whether Turnham held of the Bishop and was his 
 homager or man, or the Bishop held it in demesne. A jury 
 of twelve men of the village of Cliife was struck, who de- 
 cided in favour of Turnham, alleg-ino; that the ancestors of 
 his wife had long quietly enjoyed the manor. The justices 
 of assize before whom the case was heard at York were 
 Hugh Bardolf, Mr. Roger Arundel, and Geoifrey Haget.^^ 
 The Bishojo did not accept this decision, but, on the 4th of 
 March, 1200, got a charter from King John confirming 
 to him and his church and their successors the manor of 
 Sadberge, and the vills of Crayke and Cliffe, with their 
 woods, free from forest laws, and with power to clear and 
 enclose ground at their pleasure. For this charter, and 
 for the privilege of exemption from the aid payable to the 
 King on his arrival in England, the Bishop paid to John 
 the enormous sum, or bribe, it may be called, of 1,200 
 marks of silver. 
 
 Upon this Turnham again appealed to the law, and, in 
 connection with his claim, there is a perambulation entered 
 on the Rotuli Curia3 Regis which was made in the 2nd of 
 John. We find, however, that in a charter granted by 
 the same king in 1203-4 to the Prior and Convent of 
 Durham, he confirms to them the possession of two caru- 
 cates of land in ClifFe. In the same year Turnham made 
 a grant of the three carucates in Osgodby, as will be seen 
 in the account of that township, and there is reason to 
 
 ** This information is derived from Roger Hoveden's Chronicle.
 
 CLIFFE. 253 
 
 believe that he granted to the same family the lands 
 called Nesse, out of which he is said to have had 4:0s. of 
 rent in the perambulation of the 2nd of John. That his 
 grant was then made may be inferred from the existence 
 of a fine in the 8th of Henry III. showing an exchange of 
 lands for those at Nesse, which were then in possession of 
 the family of Osgodb}?". 
 
 The Turnhams derived their name from the castle near 
 Maidstone in Kent, of which they were long the owners. 
 Robert de Turnham the elder and Robert his son were 
 with Richard I. in Palestine, the former being Admiral-of- 
 the-Fleet, the latter the King's Armour-bearer. The elder 
 Turnham died at Jaffa, and the son was commissioned to 
 bring the King's harness back to England, and for his 
 labour therein he was specially acquitted of the scutage in 
 the 6th of Richard I. 
 
 Robert de Turnham, jun., is said to have died about 
 the year 1213, leaving an only child, Isabel, a minor, and 
 a ward of the Crown. She became the wife of Peter de 
 Malo Lacu, or Mauley, who bought the marriage of Henry 
 III. in 1221 for the large sum of 7,000 marks. 
 
 The following genealogical sketch shows the descent of 
 the main line : — 
 
 William Fossard, junior, son of Wm., grandson of Eobert, = 
 and great-grandson of Nigel F., who occurs in Domesday. 
 A ward of Wm., Earl of Albemarle. 
 
 Joanna, a ward of the King ; = Eobert de Turnham ; 
 marr. 1196-7. I died 13th of John. 
 
 Isabel, dau., a minor, and a ward of the = 1. Peter de Malo Lacu, or Mauley. 
 
 King. Betrothed 1214 ; obit at Meaux, 
 where she was bur. in the Chapter House. 
 
 Paid 7,000 marks for the marriage 
 in 1221 ; died 1242. 
 
 2. Peter de Malo Lacu, a minor, 1242-3. Of age = Joanna, d. Peter 
 1247 ; ob. 7th Edw. I. ; set. circa 54. Inq. p.m. I de Brus. 
 
 3. Peter de Malo Lacu, = Nicholas, d. Gilbert de Stephen de Mauley, Arch- 
 aet. 30 and more at his 
 
 father's death ; died 1310, 
 ffit. 60 and more. Inq. 
 p.m. 
 
 Gant ; obitus dnfe Ni- deacon of Cleveland and 
 cholaB de Malo Lacu ux. Eector of Hcmingbro'. 
 dni Petri de M. L. Tercii, Has 101. yearly from land 
 A.D. 1284. of the gift of his brother 
 
 Peter. 
 
 4. Peter de Malo Lacu. Prob. a3t. 1302. ^t. = Alienor, dau. Thos., Lord Fur- 
 28 at his father's death. One of the heirs of | nival. Enfeoffment in her be- 
 Gilbert de Gant, 26th Edw. I., then at. 18. /j^half, 1322.
 
 254 THE HISTOKY OF HEMINGBROUGII. 
 
 Mauley revived in the 15th of Henry III. the old litiga- 
 tion about the manor of Cliffe by refusing to pay the rent 
 of 100.9. due to the Bishop and the church of Durham. 
 The pleadings have been preserved, and are interesting. 
 The Bishop (Richard Poor) makes his complaint, and, in 
 reply, Mauley says that the assize in 1198 decided the 
 matter in the favour of Robert de Turnham and his wife, 
 who paid the required homage to the Bishops, and that he 
 ought not to reply. The Bishop, in answer, says that his 
 predecessor was never impleaded, nor attended the assize ; 
 moreover, that the Bishop was then on a pilgrimage to 
 St. James (Compostella in Spain). Turnham, during the 
 Bishop's absence, showed to the King, who was then in 
 Normandy, that the manor was the right of Joan his wife, 
 and the King ordered his chief justiciar, Geoffrey Fitz 
 Peter, to make enquiry, and Turnham, an intimate friend 
 of the King, recovered seizin. But the Bishop was never 
 summoned to the inquest, nor appointed his attorney. 
 Moreover, Mauley and his wdfe say that they did not pay 
 homage for the manor of Cliffe but for other tenements 
 which they held of the Bishop. To this the Mauleys 
 reply that the said Robert came to the King in Normandy 
 in presence of the Bishop himself, and showed the right of 
 the said Joan to the manor ; that the Bishop of his own 
 free will and without a plea became a party to the great 
 assize ; that G. FitzPeter was chief justiciar, and that 
 four persons, viz. Hugh Bardolf, Wm. de Stuteville, 
 sen., Roger de Arundel, and Geoffrey Haget, were 
 attorned, before whom the assize was held ; that the 
 Bishop joined in the assize and appointed Emeric the 
 Archdeacon his attorney ; that the said Joan was likewise 
 present, and had for her attorney Walderic de Curcell, or 
 Robert de Bassville, before which attorneys the assize 
 was taken. The said Robert then referred to the Rolls, 
 and in default of them to an impartial jury, and such was 
 the order given by the King's writ. 
 
 The Bishop replied that in the said writ Robert was 
 mentioned and not Joan ; that without such special men- 
 tion the said Robert could neither gain nor lose ; and there- 
 fore the assize ought not to be the Bishop's prejudice. 
 He also denies that Bishop Philip was impleaded, or made 
 Emeric his attorney, or agreed to refer to the Rolls or a jury.
 
 CLIFFE. 255 
 
 The result was that the Court would not be satisfied 
 that an assize had been held, and a search was ordered to 
 be made into the Rolls during the reigns of Richard and 
 John to see if such had been the case. Nothing, however, 
 was found, and the decision was that the suit should go 
 on. For some years after this the Pleas of the Crown are 
 missing, so that we are unable to state how the dispute 
 terminated. 
 
 Let us return to the arable or demesne lands of Cliffe, 
 which consisted, according to Domesday, of three caru- 
 cates. These were granted in very early times to some 
 feudatory or lord, and constituted a quarter of a knight's 
 fee. There is reason to believe that these carucates, like 
 the arable lands in the adjoining township of Heming- 
 brough, were held by bondagers in similar tenure, one-third 
 being the demesne of the lord (bovata3 dominict^) and 
 two-thirds (bovata3 antiqua3) in the tenure of the said 
 bondagers or copyholders, on condition of their working 
 the demesne lands. The one-third, or other projDortion, 
 which constituted the lord's lands, most probably consti- 
 tutes at the present time what is called the manor of 
 Malvis, a name pointmg to the very ancient family of 
 Malebys, which must at very early times have had a 
 demise of the manor. In the reign of Edward III. this 
 fee or manor of Malebys is usually described as a "medietas 
 manerii de Cliff," and the homage paid was a pair of spurs 
 at Christmas, which was afterwards commuted for a pay- 
 ment of 8d. The earliest existino^ court-roll for this 
 manor is that for the 1st of Henry VIII., and the property 
 seems to have been in several hands. In the 11th of 
 Henry YIII. Thomas Beverley, Esq., by tine, settles his 
 interest in Cliffe. In the 20th of Henry VIII. he died, 
 leaving John his son and heir, sst. fourteen. He was 
 found to be seized of a third part of the Malebys or Malvis 
 fee. In 1 & 2 Eliz. this John ^^ purchased of James 
 Chaice and Elizabeth his wife another third, and the re- 
 maining portion, 6th Eliz., from Anthony Mark and 
 Eleanor his wife. In 1595 we find Edward Coppinger, 
 Esq., holding the manor. In the 43rd Eliz. there were 
 
 *^ The Beverleys belong either to Wis- in the Selby Kegister, and a pedigree 
 tow or to Great Smeaton in Richmond- can easily be constructed. 
 shire. There are many notices of them
 
 256 THE HISTORY OF HEMINGBROUGII. 
 
 only two freeholders in it, Humphrey Swailes, clerk, and 
 Thos. Rogers, yeoman. To these succeeded Thos. Ashley, 
 gent., who died in 1629. In 1640 Malvis appears to have 
 been held like the manor of Turnham Hall, and the time 
 of holding the courts was uniform, and so it has continued 
 to the present time. Of the remaining two-thirds the 
 Bishop claimed two-thirds, or some considerable portion 
 of them, and this fee has been retamed to the present day, 
 two hundred and eighty acres by measurement having 
 been allotted in the open fields of Cliffe in behalf of this 
 claim at the late enclosure. 
 
 In Domesday the Bishop is said to have in ClifFe four 
 carucates — that is to say, of ploughed land ; but, to make 
 this up, it is necessary to include Osgodby. And this is 
 shown by the fact that when Turnham granted out this 
 last-mentioned manor in the 5th of John, the Bishop pre- 
 ferred his claim to it. Osgodby is not mentioned in the 
 charter of the 1st of John, and Turnham would therefore 
 deal with it by grant or otherwise. Was any compensa- 
 tion given to the Bishop for Osgodby ? The Inquest 
 held in 1438 implies that all the Bishop-hold land, with 
 the exception of the Nesse Carrs, was in Newlands farm, 
 but I cannot say that this had any connection with 
 Osgodby. In all statements subsequent to the reign of 
 John the Mauleys and their successors are said to hold in 
 ClifFe half a knight's fee, omitting all mention of Osgodby, 
 although that manor was originally accounted a moiety of 
 the half-knight's fee. 
 
 The uncertainty of previous agreements, at whatever 
 period they may have taken place, seems to have led to 
 the proceedings in the 15th of Henry III., when the 
 Bishop ]3referred a claim for a hundred shillings, the rent, 
 viz., of 2^ carucates, or 300 acres, at id. per acre, the 
 usual copyhold rent in the manor of Howden ; but the 
 result of the claim is unknown. Although the BishojDs 
 might or did sustain their right of suzerainty, there is no 
 evidence of any subsequent payment of the hundred 
 shillinos. 
 
 As well as two-thirds of the arable demesne, an equal 
 proportion of the messuages and cottages in ClifFe, 
 amounting to sixty, was copyhold of the manor of 
 Howden, with rights of common and of turbary, and
 
 CLIFFE. 257 
 
 there were numerous other enclosures estimated at about 
 220 acres. The Bishop's tenants, or chevigers, as they 
 are called, were required, according to the tenor of early 
 leases, to give attendance at the Howden Court thrice a 
 year, viz. at Michaelmas, Christmas, and Easter, when 
 the principal courts were held ; but the general practice 
 in this and other townships within the manor of Howden 
 was to summon a jury of five, viz. the propositus, or 
 foreman, and four others, the attendance of the rest being 
 commuted for a money payment. Of these five the fore- 
 man usually collected the Bishop's rents, and, in his year, 
 was said to stand greve (hodgrave), and had, as his fee, a 
 plot of ground under the Bishop, called greve- acre, rent 
 free. 
 
 The Bishop's windmill at Cliffe is mentioned in the 
 Fines and the Originalia in the time of Edward III., and 
 Avas totally destroyed in the reign of Henry VI. After 
 this another site was chosen, and, as it paid the old rent of 
 1/. los. 4d., and was built upon the copyhold land of the 
 Howden manor, it must have been built, like its pre- 
 decessor, at the Bishop's cost. 
 
 The Bishop had also a fishery at ClifFe. 
 
 Families connected with Cliffe. — Among the 
 families connected with the hamlet that of Cliffe is the 
 most conspicuous. Many persons bore this surname 
 prior to the Reformation, but there are other places in 
 Yorkshire from which they could derive it. A slight 
 tentative ffenealoijical sketch will link some of these 
 persons together. 
 
 John de Cliffe, an agent or deputy of = Alexander de Cliffe = 
 
 Peter de Mauley. Occ. 1226 and 1240. I | 
 
 I William de Walter de Cliffe, 
 
 Richard, son of John de Cliffe, occ. 1261. Died in Cliffe = & Wm. his son. 
 
 1269, bequeathing lands in Cliffe to Drax Priory. | 
 
 I I I I I Alexander de Cliffe. Will d. 
 
 Isabella Henry de Cliffe, Mas- John de Cliffe, 1320. Mentions hia elder dau. 
 
 Amicia ter of the Eolls, d. and Emma his Alice, and his younger dau. 
 
 Cecily 1332. Bur. at Drax. wife. I Alice, by Dionisia de Bab- 
 
 thorpe ; also a dau. Joan. 
 
 William Nicholas Isabella 
 
 Richard Walter 
 
 John James 
 Robert
 
 258 THE HISTORY OF HEMIXGBROUGH. 
 
 John de Cliffe, the first person on record of the name, 
 was an agent of the Mauleys, and was able to establish 
 himself and his family. 
 
 In 1312 Richard Kellawe, Bishop of Durham, grants to 
 William de Cliffe, clerk, five acres of land in Woodhall, 
 which had been forfeited by John Beche of Woodhall, 
 who had been guilty of felony and had left the country, 
 with remainder, after his death, to Alexander, son of 
 William, son of Alexander de Cliffe, and his lawful heir, 
 with remainders to Walter, son of the first Alexander, and 
 Alice and Isabella his sisters .^^ 
 
 This Alexander de Cliffe made his will on the Wednesday 
 after the Feast of the Assumption, 1320, the first docu- 
 ment of the kind that we have in connection with the 
 parish. He desires to be buried in the churchyard of the 
 Blessed Virgin Mary of Hemingburgh. For his mortuary 
 he leaves his best beast, and 13.s. 4c?. for wax to burn 
 about his body, and for the entertainment of his neigh- 
 bours. Bread, to the value of 20.5., is to be given to the 
 poor. To Alice, his younger daughter, he leaves a robe 
 of a cloth called " appelblome," a blue tunic of Ipres, a 
 wardcorps, and other articles of dress. To Joan, his 
 daughter, he leaves other things ; while the residue goes 
 to Alice, his daughter by Dionisia de Babthorpe. 
 
 We now come to Henry de Cliffe, a native of the 
 village, who rose to great eminence. He became the 
 Attorney-General of Bishop Anthony Bek in 1308. He 
 was also a clerk in the King's Chancery, and had letters of 
 protection to go abroad in the royal service on 3rd May, 
 1313. On several occasions he was the Deputy Keeper of 
 the Great Seal, and, between 1325 and 1332, he was Master 
 of the Rolls. On 5th July, 1319, Cliffe exchanged the 
 deanery of Tam worth with Isambert de Longavilla for the 
 prebend of Apesthorpe at York. In 1328 he Avas acting 
 for the King in the Court of Rome. He held also, between 
 1327 and 1330, the living of Tredington, m the diocese of 
 AYorcester. He was also for some time prebendary of 
 Bleburgh, at Salisbury, and rector of Welton. His will 
 is preserved in the registry of the Dean and Chapter of 
 
 ^^ On Sept. 25, 1319, the same pre- he had been previously occupying at 
 laie grants to CKffe for his life a mes- pleasure, paying therefor 6s. 8d. per 
 Bimge and a bovate of land in Clitfe which ann.
 
 CLIFFE. 259 
 
 York, and a few extracts from it will be read with interest. 
 Cliffe desires to be buried within the priory of Drax, if he 
 should die in Yorkshire, and leaves 40/. for the expenses 
 of his funeral. To his brother, John de ClitFe, he leaves 
 twenty marks, a cup and bowl of silver ; a similar gift is 
 made to Emma, his sister-in-law. Their daughter Isabella 
 receives a legacy of 20/. for her marriage, and each of their 
 seven sons ten marks. Handsome gifts are made to each 
 of his executors and others. To Henry, son of John de 
 Cliffe, he has made over his manor of Foxgrove and his 
 lands, &c., at Beckenham. He also desires that the lOO-s., 
 which his old friend and compatriot, Adam de Osgodby, of 
 whose will he had been executor, had bequeathed towards 
 the deliverance of the Holy Land, should be duly paid. 
 In conclusion, the testator desires that a chantry should 
 be founded out of the residue of his estate. It has been 
 already stated, in the history of the parish church, where 
 this chantry was located, and how it came to be established 
 at Hemingbrough. Henry de Cliffe died in 1332, and 
 Richard de Cliffe, who soon afterwards became one of the 
 Cliffe chantry chaplains, was probably his nephew. 
 
 In 1427 Richard de Cliffe was appointed second Vicar- 
 prebendal and Registrar for the Prior and Convent in the 
 parish. Among the muniments at Durham there is a letter 
 from him recommending for a vicar's place at Heming- 
 brough a parishioner, who was then an inmate of a religious 
 house at Leicester. Richard de Cliffe had been at Durham 
 College in Oxford, and came back into the north in 1424, 
 shortly before he went to Hemingbrough. 
 
 Another very ancient family in the village was that of 
 Ellison. In the reigns of Henry III. and Edward I. 
 Helias de Hemingbrough occurs, and John, his son, i.e. 
 John Eli- son. William Ellison, the last of this name in 
 Cliffe, died without issue in 1858. 
 
 Family of Dobbs. — The family of Dobbs was long 
 connected with Cliffe.^"^ I have no authority for connecting 
 with it Robert Dobbs, who was Dean of the Court of 
 
 ■'*' 2 July, 1662. Thos. Dobbs, of Barlby, Barlby.to Anne his wid.,and, on 27 Sept. 
 
 yeo. To Alice, my wife, three closes 1718, tuit. of Thos. his sou to Wm. 
 
 called Newlands, lyeing within the Petty. 
 
 lordshipp of Turnam Hall, cont. 8 acres. 30 June, 1731. Pr. test. Thos. Dobbs, 
 
 other lands. Commons close which he of Barlby, and adm, to Ann Carkrick, 
 
 had in exchange with Mr. Lodge. sole ex''. 
 
 23 Mar. 1716-17. Adm. Tfeos. D. of
 
 260 THE HISTORY OF HEMINGBROUGH. 
 
 Arches, and Precentor of York Cathedral, in the fifteenth 
 century ; but Sir Richard Dobbs, Lord Mayor of London, 
 and one of the founders of Christ's Hospital, was, by his 
 own statement in his will, a native of Cliffe. The hamlet 
 must have looked upon his career with just pride. The 
 following extracts from his will are full of interest : — 
 
 11th May, 1556 (pr. 15th June), I, Sir Richard Dobbys, knyght, 
 citizen and alderman of London, sicke in bodie. To be buried within 
 the parishe churche of 8aynt Margaret Moyses, in Frydaie Strete, in 
 London. Dame Alice my wief, and Margaret Stokmeade and Elizabeth 
 Eglysfelde, my doughters. To my brother Andrew Dobbis, dwelling 
 in Cliffe in the parishe of Hemyngbrough, in the countie of Yorke, 
 whear I was borne, ten poundes. To my wife's brother, William Glosse, 
 10^. To William Dobbys, now beinge at lernynge at Rodderhith, 40s. 
 To my god sonne, Richard Stockmeade, Godde's blessing and myne, and, 
 in monye, 31. 6s. 8c?. To John Dobbys, my brother's sonne, 5^., and I 
 will that the saide John shal have tli' use and occupieng of all that my 
 greate house called the Keare and the Winde myll in Fridaye strete 
 during the space of fiftie yeres next after my decease, paying yerely to 
 my wief 13/. 6s. 8d. quarterlye during her lief. To the Company of 
 Corpus Christi of Skynners in London, for a dynner to be hadd amongest 
 them, to th' entent they shall praye for my soule and say Be Profitndis 
 after dynner, ten poundes. To the Company of the Skynners, some 
 tyme called our Lady's Company, for a brekefast or dynner to be had 
 amongest them, and to have my soule in remembraunce with their de- 
 vocion after dynner, 6/. 13s. Ad. To the Trustees, Tutors, and Gover- 
 nors of the newly erected hospitall of Christe's churche in London, and 
 to their successours, to the use and relief of the poore people there, my 
 two leases and terme of yeres of a house called Seynt Andrew's Crosse 
 in Holborne, and of one other tenement in DistafFe Lane, and I release 
 them 20?. My greate mansion house called Somer's Key ... to come 
 to it. To my kynnesmen, William Dobbes, joyner, and Richard Dobbes, 
 dyer, 3/. each. Wife and doughters ex'"*. My trustie frendes Richard 
 Grafton, grocer, and Sir Stephyn Hopkyn, prest, my chapleyne, 
 overseers. 
 
 What a change from busy London to the quiet, strag- 
 gling little village of Cliffe ! Richard Grafton, the overseer 
 of the rich alderman's will, is the well-known chronicler. 
 
 Family of Andrew. — The family of Andrew was 
 located at Cliife from the reign of Henry VIIL until 1840 
 or thereabouts. For a long time they farmed the rectorial 
 tithes. Nathaniel Andrew died in 1742-3, leaving 
 William, his son, who was an apothecary or surgeon in 
 the village. He died in 1784, his only son, another 
 William, having been drowned in the Ouse in 1755. The 
 property of the family at Cliffe was sold in 1801.
 
 CLIFFE. 261 
 
 Family of Waud. — The Wands were another old 
 family in ClifFe and the parish. The name connects them 
 with the Yorkshire Wolds. In 1378 John del Wold, and 
 Hugh and Emma his wife were living at Brackenholme, 
 where their descendants resided for many generations. 
 Henry del Wold was a tenant at Woodhall in 1440, and 
 in the 31st of Henry VIII. Thomas Wald surrenders to 
 the use of Catherine his wife a cottage at ClifFe. In the 
 parish register the name is of frequent occurrence. In 
 1661 Jane Waud of Cliffe bequeathed to the poor of 
 Hemingbrough the sum of 31. 6s. Sd. Mary Waud,^'* 
 daughter of Thomas Waud of Cliffe, founded in 1 708 the 
 free-school in that village. 
 
 Family of Richardson, — The Richardsons have also 
 had a long connection with the township as tenants and land- 
 owners, as will be shown by the following pedigree (p. 262). 
 They go much farther back than the pedigree represents. 
 
 The School at Cliffe. — This school jjrobably owes 
 its origin to the charitable zeal of Mary, daughter of 
 Thomas Waud ^^ of Cliffe, spinster, who by her will dated 
 17th June, 1708, bequeathed to Hugh Massey of York 
 and Wm. Richardson of Cliffe, on trust, the sum of 200/,, 
 the interest arisino; therefrom to establish a school at Lons; 
 Cliffe for the benefit and education of poor children in the 
 said township, upon such footing and foundation as the 
 aforesaid trustees shall think proper and convenient. The 
 testatrix also grave the sum of 20/. towards the buildingf of 
 a schoolhouse, to be erected upon her two land-ends op- 
 posite the ancient pool called the Dinin Pool. 
 
 This good woman, the Lady Bountiful of the village 
 in her day, was born on 4th March, 1659-60, and was of 
 no great age, therefore, when she died. The greater part 
 of her money, which was little enough, she leaves to the 
 Richardsons. To two daughters of each of her trustees 
 
 " Thomas Waud of Cliffe and Anne was bp. 20th Nov., 1630, and marr. on 
 
 Toniison, marr. 18th July, 1620. In Dec. 4th, 1655, Mary Eobinson, of 
 
 1631 John Waud was found to be his Hemingbrough. The Wauds appear in 
 
 heir (Court EoU). various parts of the parish, the name 
 
 A son born 28 Dec, 1657. John, born being originally Wald, or Wold. 
 23rd Aug., 1656. John, bp. 21 Jan., By will d. 18 Dec, 1661, Jane Waud 
 
 1661 -2. John, bur. 6 March, 1675-6. of Cliffe, spinster, bequeathed SI. 6s. 8d. 
 
 Mary, d. Thos. W. of Cliffe (the to the poor of the parish, to be divided 
 
 benefactress), was born 4th March, among them by Thomas Robinson, the 
 
 1659-60, and was bur. June 26th, 1708. younger, of Hemingbrough, and Wm. 
 
 '' Thos., son of Thos. Waud of Cliffe, Dalby of Barlby.
 
 262 
 
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 she bequeathes her linen, to be safely locked away until 
 they were of age. Her funeral attire, after the fashion of 
 those simple times, had been ]3rovided, and is specially 
 reserved. What Miss Waud's " best flowered gown and 
 petticoat " were like, which she left to Mary Preston, her 
 kinswoman, we can only guess. Her greatest luxuries, 
 however, in the way of dress seem to have been a " silk 
 night gown and petticoat thereunto belonging, a blue 
 silk petticoat, and her best riding coat and hood," which 
 were to be carefully put by till young Mary Kichardson 
 should be able to wear them. Miss Waud w^as buried at 
 Hemingbrough on the 26th June, 1708. Each poor 
 family in Cliffe and Lund received a sixpenny dole within 
 a month of her interment. 
 
 The school at Cliffe was duly built, and the capital sum 
 of 180/. was invested in 14a. 3r. of land for its benefit at 
 Knedlington, near Howden, the remaining 20/. being put 
 out at interest. 
 
 In 1791 the school received a legacy of 100/. under 
 the will of Mr. Benjamin Whittall, and the like sum 
 by the bequest of John Robinson, Esq., of Barlby, 
 in 1832. In 1878 Miss Elizabeth Burton of Stamford 
 Hill, near London, gave by her will the sum of 200/. 
 
 The schoolhouse was enlarged in 1835, and, with the 
 residence of the master, was pulled down in 1871, and 
 new buildings were erected at an expense of nearly 800/., 
 of which the late Mr. Thomas Burton of Turnham Hall 
 was the chief contributor. The school is an exceedmgly 
 commodious one, and accommodates 130 children, of whom 
 thirty receive a free education. It is under Government 
 inspection and receives a pecuniary grant. 
 
 Schoolmasters. — In 1619 Robert Browne of Cliffe 
 was presented at York for teaching a school without 
 licence. Robert Westobie, ?1708; Robert Pickard, 
 licensed 7th March, 1727 ; Rev. Marmaduke Teasdale, 
 2nd May, 1733-41 ; James Keighley, 24th July, 1742, 
 res. 1752-3; Matthew Hill, occ. 1764-74; — Cottam, 
 1774, res. 1779 ; Thomas Burkill, 1779, res. 1797 ;Joseph 
 Turton, 1797, res. 1836 ; Joseph Turton, jun., 1836, d. 
 1840 ; Joseph Turton, sen., reappointed 1840, res. 1848 ; 
 William Reader, 1848, d. 1849 ; John Horsfield, 1849, 
 res. 1856 ; Thomas Bedford, 1856, res. 24th July, 1860 ;
 
 264 THE HISTORY OF HEMINGBROUGH. 
 
 Jlobert Welburn Arnott, 1860, res. 31st Dec. 1876 ; 
 Francis Thorley, 1877-80 ; Joseph Walker, 9th August, 
 1880. 
 
 The Amicable Society. — An Amicable or Friendly 
 Society was established in ClifFe in the year 1754 for the 
 relief of blind, lame, sick, or indigent members of the 
 township or parish. They were incorporated in a society 
 under the management of two stewards and a clerk, and 
 their meetings were regularly held, at the sign of the 
 " Mermaid," on the first Tuesday in every month, from 
 Lady Day to Michaelmas, from seven to nine in the 
 evening, and from Michaelmas to Lady Day, from five to 
 seven in the evening. A series of forty-three rules or 
 resolutions were drawn up at these meetings for the 
 government of the society, and were published in 1782 in 
 the form of a thin pamphlet. The last subscription to the 
 society was paid in June 1821, and, within two years, or 
 thereabouts, the society was dissolved, the funds having 
 been exhausted. Thenceforward the poor of the parish 
 were obliged to have recourse to the more ignominious 
 remedy of parochial relief. 
 
 Societies of the same nature were, I believe, frequent in 
 the last century, and were of considerable service in their 
 day — nay, their usefulness has not yet exjoired. The York 
 Amicable Society is a thing of the past, but the Amicable 
 Society at Selby (established in 1748) has identified itself 
 with the Bluecoat School, and a similar institution was 
 founded at Howden in 1750, and is still, we believe, 
 in existence. 
 
 A branch of the Victoria Lodo^e of Odd Fellows was 
 commenced at Hemingbrough prior to 1840. 
 
 Dissenters. — On 20th March, 1787, there was a petition 
 for the house of John Lolley, in Langcliff, to be licensed 
 as a Dissenting meeting-house. The petitioners are John 
 Fairland, John Wheakes, John Jackson, and John Lolley. 
 
 The Mill.— The Lord of the Manor, as usual, had his 
 mill for the compulsory use of his tenants. It is mentioned 
 in a fine in the 39th of Edward III. John Campe, miller, 
 occurs in the Subsidy Roll, 2nd Ric. II., and John Robyn- 
 son, miller, in the reign of Henry VI. In the Receiver's 
 Roll for 18th Edward IV. the mill is said to be altogether 
 waste. Richard Spencer of ClifFe, miller, died in 1581.
 
 CLIFFE. 265 
 
 Sir Wm. Babtliorpe was seized of a mill at Cliffe in the 
 9tli of James I. On 30th April, 1753, William Andrews 
 of South Kirkby, gent., and Ellen his wife, surrender the 
 mill and the hill in the Carr Field of Cliffe belonging to 
 it to the use of John Jackson of Badsworth, miller. On 
 13th April, 1801, John Jackson was admitted as heir of 
 his father. 30th April 1810, and 18th April, 1814, John 
 Jackson passed it to Mr. W. A. Walker (who married 
 Jackson's dau.). 1831, Walker assigns it to Samuel 
 Varley. 1835, mill purchased by Mr. Jonathan Wilson 
 of Sherburn. 
 
 TURNHAM HALL. 
 
 This lordship, which derives its name from Robert de 
 Turnham, who was possessed of it in the reign of Richard 
 I., adjoins the Ouse, and is chiefly alluvial land — i.e. formed 
 by deposits brought down by the current of the river. 
 These deposits are an intermixture of clay and sand, 
 commonly called warp, varying in quality as they are 
 removed from the course of the stream, the land adjoining 
 it being more sandy, whilst that more distant (generally 
 called carrs) are chiefly clay. The substratum consists of 
 roots, trunks, and branches of trees, imbedded in a mass 
 of vegetable matter resembling peat, and of earthy deposits 
 in which the trees and brushwood seem to have grown. 
 The trees bear only a small proportion to the vegetable 
 matter, and must have originally been the straggling- 
 native timber of the spot. 
 
 The banks of the river are warp, and self-formed ; we 
 say self-formed, because the river, by making larger de- 
 posits near its course, furnished the materials for its own 
 embankment, and consequently the fringe or border of 
 land adjoining the river became the first portion enclosed 
 and cultivated, whilst the carrs remained, probably for a 
 long time, as reedy and sedgy pools of water. But the 
 drainage of these carrs must necessarily have engaged the 
 attention of the inhabitants or owners at an early period, 
 inasmuch as the watersheds of Barlby, Osgodby, and Lund 
 issued upon this tract of land, and made it profitless.
 
 266 THE HISTORY OF HEMINGBROUGH. 
 
 The Danes are known to have done much draining work 
 on the East coasts of England, and it is to them, perhaps, 
 that we may assign the construction of the various gotes 
 or sewers which remain to this day in their original posi- 
 tion, although enlarged and improved. 
 
 The mamtenance of the river-banks has always necessi- 
 tated great care and a considerable outlay. The water has 
 not made any formidable incursion uj^on the Turnham 
 Hall estate since the year 1795. 
 
 As to the setting out of the boundaries of the lordship, 
 we may safely conclude that they are the same now as 
 they were at their first setting out. One straight line in a 
 northerly direction, commencing at the bank of the river 
 on the western side of the Newlands farm, and intersecting 
 these carrs, marks the boundary between Turnham Hall 
 and Barlby, and an ancient drain separates it from Osgodby 
 on the north. The Carr Lane continues the division 
 between Turnham and the open fields of Cliffe and Lund, 
 as far as the old course of the river Ouse, and, from thence, 
 the river (up stream) forms the eastern and southern 
 boundary of the estate to the enclosures of Barlby. 
 
 The whole lordship of Turnham Hall (except the Ings 
 and Brocks, which were open field land) was estimated at 
 four carucates, or 480 acres, of which one carucate and 
 a half were held by the Bishop of Durham of the King, 
 and the residue, two and a half carucates, was held, accord- 
 ing to some authorities by the Mauleys of the Bishop by 
 military service, according to others of the King in 
 capite. 
 
 The principal portion of the lands held by the Bishop 
 is said to be in the Newlands farm, comprehended between 
 the enclosures of Barlby to the west, and an ancient cause- 
 way called the Bikdyke, now known as the Blackbank, on 
 the east. This causeway commenced at the river-bank 
 and extended to the western end of the Carr Lane, or to 
 the enclosures of Osgodby. The remainder of the Bishop- 
 hold lands, to the extent of 40 acres, is stated to be in the 
 Ness Carrs. This summary, however, seems not to have 
 been arrived at until the o6th of Henry IIL, as in a fine 
 of that date the Bishop of Durham is said to purchase 40 
 acres of arable land in ClifFe from Thomas de Neville. 
 Whether this was a purchase of the disputed land called
 
 TURNIIAM HALL. 267 
 
 Ness, and yielding 40s. to Robert de Turnham, or a pur- 
 chase of Neville's interest in it, is not certain. Be this 
 as it may, the Bishop's territory of 1-| carucate is stated 
 to have comprised what was known as the West Nesse 
 Carr. 
 
 In the first Inq. p.m. (in 1279) the Bishop's rent is 
 stated to be at the rate of 126?. per acre upon eight score 
 and twelve acres, but, subsequently, the rent is invariably 
 given as 8/. IGs., viz. upon 176 acres. It is always said 
 to be a fee-farm rent (not copyhold), and held by military 
 service or the payment of scutage. 
 
 This payment of 81. 16s. did not comprehend all the 
 land claimed by the Bishops within the lordship, as 
 appears from a charter granted in 1308 by Bishop Bek to 
 Stephen de Mauley, archdeacon of Cleveland, his cousin. 
 From this it is shown that the Court of Howden had 
 retained in their hands a belt of meadow or pasture on the 
 west side of the Rikdike, and some lands in the Ness 
 Carr. The land adjoining the Rikdike was and is clearly 
 traceable, and extended from the river-bank to the en- 
 closures of Osgodby, about 950 yards, by an average width 
 of 100 yards, but the land in the Ness Carr is not so 
 clearly definable. The rent, 24s., made up the Bishop's 
 rental in Cliife from 8/. 16-s. to 10/. per annum. 
 
 The remaining 2^ carucates, according to the Inq. p.m. 
 on Peter de Mauley II. in 1279, and Kirkby's Inquest in 
 1284, are said to be held of the Bishop by military service, 
 but, according to other Inquests which mention the 
 tenure, to be held of the King in chief. This variation 
 occurs after the confiscation of the estate, and the grant of 
 it in the 1st of Edward III. 
 
 The manor of Turnham Hall, in conjunction with 
 Malvis, comprised about one-third of the messuages and 
 cottages in ClifFe, and about one-third of the arable land 
 in the open fields held in copyhold tenure. The lands in 
 these properties claimed at the late enclosure were, by 
 measurement, about 63 acres in Turnham Hall, and 100 
 in Malvis, or, otherwise, by estimation, about 140 acres. 
 Now, as the Inquest p.m. 10th Henry Y. gives 412^ acres 
 as the estimate of all the open field-land, one-third of this 
 would amount to 137^ acres. It is highly probable, 
 therefore, that the copyholds of Turnham Hall manor in
 
 268 THE HISTORY OF HEMINGBROUGH. 
 
 Cliffe were originally parcel of the fee of Malvis, but at 
 what period the separation took place there is no evidence 
 to show. 
 
 The Courts of this manor were held twice a year, and 
 were continued by adjournment from three weeks to three 
 weeks. According to the Bailiffs' Rolls they took cog- 
 nisance of all the banks, drains, causeways, &c., within 
 the bounds of the lordship, but not in Cliffe, as the town- 
 ship came under the jurisdiction of the Howden Court, 
 the former being a view of frank-pledge, the latter a Court- 
 lete. Afterwards, when the Court of Sewers was esta- 
 blished at Howden for this district, it superintended both 
 the township of Cliffe and the lordship of Turnham Hall. 
 This is supposed to have taken place after the Act of 
 Henry VIII. 
 
 The Hall. — The Bishop had no manor-house at Cliffe, 
 and there has never been any manor-stead or court-house 
 for Malvis ; but the hall at Turnham dates, no doubt, 
 from Robert de Turnham, whose name it bears, in the 
 reign of King Richard I. The accounts of the bailiffs show 
 that it was a timber-house covered with tiles, and, in an 
 Inquest in the 9th of Henry Y. it is said to consist of a 
 hall with two chambers attached to it, a kitchen, a brew- 
 house, and various rooms, and, within the moats, there 
 was an area of la. 3r. 14p. These moats could be traced 
 at the close of the last century. There was also attached 
 to the hall a domestic chapel, in which Beatrix Lady Roos 
 had leave to have service performed in 1396 ; and in it 
 the suffragan of the Archbishop of York held a small or- 
 dination in 1399. It is probable that Stephen Lord Scrope 
 of Masham died here in 1406, and the Countess of Cam- 
 bridge and Thomas Lord Clifford were living here in the 
 winter of 1439-40. It is evident, therefore, that the house 
 was of no mean character. It seems to have been rebuilt 
 at the end of the 16th or the beginning of the 1 7th century, 
 and was subsequently pulled down and rebuilt by Mr. 
 Wm. Burton between 1796 and 1802. The present house, 
 an unpretending brick structure, stands somewhat low in 
 situation, sheltered under the river-bank, with an outlook, 
 across the water, upon Stainer Wood, whilst, in the oppo- 
 site direction, it looks towards the cottages of Cliffe and 
 the long spire of Hemingbrough. Although Selby lies at
 
 TUENIIAM HALL. 269 
 
 but a sliort distance, there is very little seen of its stately 
 monastery. 
 
 All traces of the moats by which the house was pro- 
 tected have disappeared since the last rebuilding. Up to 
 that time one or two portions of them remained, fringed 
 with willows. Some hedges of box or yew added to the 
 gloom of the house, whilst overhead hung the boughs of 
 some stately elms of considerable beauty and antiquity. 
 For a long time they had been the roosting- place of a 
 colony of peacocks, but in the last hours of the year 1778 
 a furious tempest raged, and the elms were destroyed and 
 the peacocks with them. The hall, probably, had never 
 been without its peacocks since the time when the families 
 of Ros and Manners were its owners. That bird was 
 their favourite badge. Who can forget the peacock in its 
 pride which stands above the helm and coronet over the 
 arms of those two illustrious houses ? 
 
 Owners of the Estate. — And now let us give an 
 account of the families which have lived here. This must 
 necessarily be a long one. We have already shown, in 
 the account of CliiFe, the descent of the manor throuo-h 
 the Fossards, Turnhams, and Mauleys. We now come to 
 the equally noble house of Ros. 
 
 The history of the place is one of great interest. In 
 1322 Peter de Mauley, the fourth, conveyed the lordship 
 to John de Mauley, rector of Sainton on the Wolds, on 
 trust for Alianora his wife and her better sustenance. 
 Accordingly the feoffee, at the end of a twelvemonth, made 
 over the lordship to the lady to hold at her pleasure. No 
 sooner, however, was she in possession than she conveyed 
 the estate, probably to cover some pecuniary loan, to 
 Hugh Despenser, junior, the notorious favourite of Edward 
 II. Despenser, "cupiditate ductus," took possession, and 
 held it for three years and more. In 1326 the Despensers, 
 father and son, were put to death in a popular rising, and 
 their estates were confiscated, and Turnham Hall among 
 them. The Despensers asked for its restoration, but this 
 was opposed by John de Mauley, the trustee, who said 
 that the Despensers had wrongfully obtained possession, 
 A writ of scire facias was thereupon issued on 13th Feb- 
 ruary, 1327. The result is uncertain ; but, if the manor 
 had been pledged, the Mauleys, probably, were unable to
 
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 TUKNHAM HALL. 271 
 
 redeem it, and the Crown, adjudging that it had been law- 
 fully forfeited, granted the same by patent, dated 8th 
 October, 1327, to John de Ros, seneschal of the royal 
 household, in consideration of the great services that he 
 had rendered, with much expense, to the King and Isabella 
 his mother. The grant covers the manor of Turnham 
 Hall and half the manor of Cliffe, with the lands, &c., in 
 that village which Hugh Despenser, junior, had held. 
 
 The wife of John de Ros was the widow of a Despenser, 
 so that the real losers by the change were the Mauleys. 
 Ros took possession of his new estate. He found it under 
 the charge of Robert de Moreby, the bailiff of the De- 
 spensers, who had laid out money in tilling and sowing 
 the ground, on which account he made a petition to Par- 
 liament asking for compensation, and assessing his outlay 
 at 100 marks. The matter was referred to the officers of 
 the Treasury, who contented the bailiff by allowing him to 
 occupy the manor and lands for a twelvemonth, giving in 
 an account at its expiration. Sir John de Ros then con- 
 veyed the manor to Sir George de Ros, Kt., and Peter de 
 Ryther, rector of Kirkby Misperton, on trust, for the use of 
 himself and Margaret his mfe and his heirs for ever. Sir 
 John, who was admiral of the North Fleet, died s.p. in 
 1338, and is said to have been buried at Stoke Albini 
 under a monument, upon which he was described as 
 " Le bon Compagnon" — a very pleasant designation. 
 The lady survived her husband, and her Inq. p.m. is dated 
 in 1349. It gives an interesting account of the manor 
 and the state in which it was left. In the driest legal 
 document some touch of pathos may be found. We are 
 told that in ordinary years the pasture lands had been 
 worth 12(i. per acre, but that m this year they were of 
 smaller value, because they had been trampled down by 
 the cattle in consequence of the mortality among the men. 
 It was the great plague year. The herdsmen were lying 
 in the churchyard of Hemingbrough, and the untended 
 cattle were breaking down the hedges and destroying the 
 meadows. ^^ 
 
 *' Another testimony to the fatal exoneracione ij navium de turbis apud 
 
 effects of this fearful pestilence. From Selby, ideo tantum causa mortalitatis. 
 
 the Eoll of the Granator of the Abbey De ij s. pro exon' foeni cariati apud Selby 
 
 of Selby for the year 1348-9 I derive per aquam causa mort' in festate prje- 
 
 the following additional evidence : " Pro cedente. De xxviij s. pro cariagio xvj
 
 272 THE HISTORY OF HEMINGBROUGH. 
 
 The lieir of Sir John de Ros'^^ was found to be William 
 de Ros, son and heir of William de Ros of Hamlake, or 
 Helmsley, his brother, then under age, and a ward of the 
 King. The new lord of Turnham was a man of war, and 
 fought at Crecy and Neville's Cross, and died in 1352 in 
 Prussia, having promised to join the Duke of Lancaster's 
 expedition to Palestine. He had been contracted to marry 
 Margaret, daughter of Ralph Lord Neville of Raby> who at 
 the time of her husband's death was only eleven years old ; 
 and, notwithstanding his early death, the terms of the 
 marriage contract were enforced by the Nevilles, who never 
 lost a chance ; and the child-widow, although she married 
 again, held during her life several lordships in Notts, Lin- 
 colnshire, and Yorkshire, including the manor of Turnham 
 Llall. In the inquest on Lord Ros's death it is stated that 
 a carucate of land at Turnham was worth not more than 
 40.S'. per annum on account of the frequent inundations of 
 the river. The banks, it is evident, cannot have been kept 
 up. Lord Ros's heir was his brother Thomas, who married 
 a great lady, Beatrix, daughter of Ralph, Earl of Stafford, 
 and widow of Maurice Fitz- Maurice, Earl of Desmond. 
 The new Lord Ros came into possession of Turnham Hall 
 in 1372, and enfeoffed Henry de Codyngton, rector of 
 Bottesford, Mr. Robert Tynton, rector of Uffington, Nicholas 
 de Steyngrave, rector of Thorn ton-in-Craven, and Laurence 
 Hauberk of Claxton in it, to the use of himself, his wife, 
 and his heirs. Sir Thomas, like his brother, was a soldier, 
 and fought in France under the Black Prince, and in 
 Palestine, and died in 1383-4 whilst making preparation 
 for a journey to Jerusalem. He made his will at Turn- 
 ham Hall on 1st February, 1383-4, which was proved at 
 Lincoln on 19th August. It is very brief and bears 
 upon it the traces of haste. The testator desires to be 
 interred in the church of " his " abbey of Rievaulx, 
 
 quercuum usque Selby per caractam mortui fuerunt, et terra in manu domini. 
 
 propriam, et ideo tantum quia caria- De v s. vj d. pro ollis et cii^his pro vino 
 
 gium totum factum fuit post S. Micha- et cerevisia ad Natale Domini et ideo 
 
 elem causa mortalitatis in festate i^raece- tantum causa mortalitatis." 
 
 dente. De xij s. pro xxxiij ulnis cilicii What a picture of confusion and 
 
 causa mortalitatis. De ij s. diversis disaster 1 All the bondagers of the abbey 
 
 operariis in bracinagio per vices causa in Selby itself had died. The carters 
 
 infirmitatis diversorum servientium per were also dead, and it was necessary to 
 
 vices. De ij s. Willelmo Bonde de Hamel- carry turves and hay by water. 
 
 ton pro cariagio molarum de Hamelton '-** Written Ros but pronounced Roos. 
 
 usque Selby, causa quod bondi de Selby
 
 TURNHAM HALL. 273 
 
 leaving 20/. among liis poor tenants, and the sum of 
 100/. to five chaplains, to sing for five years in the church 
 of Helmsley for the souls of h-imself and his ancestors. 
 The residue of his estate is bequeathed to his two sons, 
 William and Thomas, appointing as his executors, John 
 de Neville, Lord of Raby, Sir Robert de Tynton, par- 
 son of Ufiington, and Sir William de Benyngliolme, par- 
 son of Kirkby Misperton. In 1386 the Lady Beatrix 
 became, for the third time, a widow. She had re-married 
 Sir Richard Burley, K.G., field-marshal of the army of 
 the Duke of Lancaster in his expedition into Spain, and 
 " one of the most renowned of all his host." Sir Richard 
 died at Arpent m Gallicia in 1386, and his widow, Lady Ros, 
 for she retained that name, resided chiefly at Helmsley, 
 but occasionally at Turnham Hall. Some of the yearly 
 account rolls for her household at Helmsley are preserved 
 at Belvoir, and show that she kept up a very large esta- 
 blishment. On 21st January, 1396-7, she obtained the 
 leave of the Dean and Chapter of York, during the vacancy 
 of the see, to have service performed by chaplains of her 
 own in a private chapel or oratory at Turnham Hall. 
 Her will, dated the 26th June, 1414, was proved at York, 
 and is filled with splendid gifts. The only allusion to 
 our neighbourhood is a bequest of a complete vestment, of 
 the value of ten marks, to the church of Hemingbrough. 
 There is reason to believe that Lady Beatrix settled 
 Turnham Hall upon her eldest son. Sir John Ros, at his 
 marriage. Sir John was smitten with the crusading fever, 
 like others of his family, and died at Paphos, in the Isle of 
 Cyprus, on his way to Jerusalem, on 6th August, 1393. 
 On the 24th January previous he made his will, desiring 
 to be buried in the choir of the Blessed Virgin in the 
 monastery of Rievaulx, opposite the tomb of St. Aelred. 
 To his mother, Lady Beatrix, he left the cup called " Le 
 Roos," no doubt a time-honoured heirloom of the family. 
 To each of the four esquires who were going with him on 
 his expedition he bequeathed ten marks ; five marks to 
 each of the four valets, and 405. to each groom. His wife, 
 Mary, was a daughter of Henry Lord Percy by the only 
 child of John Baron d'Oreby. Her style and title during 
 her widowhood was "Mary Lady de Ros et d'Oreby." 
 She survived her husband barely a year, and making her
 
 274 THE HISTORY OF HEMINGBROUGH. 
 
 will in York on lOtli July (pr. 29tli August), 1394, 
 desired to be interred near her late husband in the choir 
 of Rievaulx, showing that his remains had been brought 
 home out of the Eastern seas. She was only twenty- seven, 
 and died childless. The heir of her husband was his 
 brother William, and by him Turnham Hall seems to 
 have been leased to Stephen Lord Scrope of Masham, 
 brother of the ill-fated archbishop of that name. The 
 jmvate chapel at Turnham, on 11th July, 1398, 
 witnessed an interesting scene. Sir Henry Scrope, who 
 afterwards succeeded his father in the barony, had married 
 Philippa, daughter of Sir Guy Bryan and widow of Sir 
 John Devereux,^^ not knowing that the alliance was 
 within the prohibited degrees. On the day just mentioned, 
 Archbishop Scrope, in the presence of the father and the 
 uncle of the bridegroom, Sir Stephen and Sir John Scrope, 
 solemnly recited and confirmed the papal dispensation 
 which made the marriage legitimate. The lady died with- 
 out issue on 19th November, 1406, and the widower, a few 
 years later, took to himself a second consort in Joan, 
 widow of Edmund Duke of York, an alliance which soon 
 cost him his life. Sir Henry's father, Stephen Lord Scrope 
 of Masham, seems to have died at Turnham Hall in 1406. 
 In his will he directs his body to be carried by water to 
 York, resting the first night at Selby, and, on the next 
 day, to be interred in the chapel of his own patron, St. 
 Stephen, at the east end of York Minster, near his 
 murdered brother. Whilst all these startling changes 
 were taking place, Beatrix Lady Ros was living at Helms- 
 ley. She survived three husbands and both her sons, and 
 at last, in 1414, was laid in her grave, according to her 
 request, in the little priory of Warter, 
 
 The heir of Lady Beatrix was her grandson, another 
 John, his father having predeceased him. He fell with 
 his brother William, and many more of the English 
 cavalry, at the fight at Bauge in France in 1421, and was 
 succeeded by his brother Thomas, who died in 1430, not 
 exceeding his 24th year, a year very fatal to his illustrious 
 house. Turnham Hall is mentioned in the Inquest on his 
 death, so that it had come back again to the family. 
 
 *" In Test. Ebor. iii. 312, 1 have made an error in making Philippa the widow 
 of Sir John de Eos. The name is written Dewros, and should be Devereux.
 
 TURNHAM HALL. 275 
 
 Thomas, his son and heh', by Eleanor, daughter of 
 Richard Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick, was but three 
 years of age when his father died, and, as a special favour 
 from Henry VI., was allowed to have the livery of his 
 lands when he was only 18. To the house of Lancaster 
 he was a faithful adherent, and fled with the royal family 
 northwards after the fatal fight at Towton. He was pre- 
 sent at the battle near Hexham, on 15 th May, 1464, and 
 was taken prisoner, and executed two days afterwards on 
 the Sandhill at Newcastle-on-Tyne. He had ceased to be 
 lord of Turnliam Hall before his decease. An Act of 
 Attainder had been passed upon him on 4th November, 
 1461. About the same time Edward IV. rewarded John 
 Pilkington, one of the esquires of his body, with the 
 manors of Turnham Hall and Thornton in Craven, and 
 an estate at Yolton, which Lord Ros had forfeited. This 
 grant was twice confirmed. In 1465, Pilkington, who 
 had been knighted, founded a chantry in the tine church 
 of All Saints, Wakefield, in which he was afterwards 
 interred. By his will, dated in 1478, he asks "my lorde 
 of Gloucestre and my lorde Chambrelane " to be his 
 executors, and leaves to the former " an emeraunt sett in 
 gold, for which my said lorde woulde have geven me c. 
 marcs, and my lorde Ch^^mbrelan shall have a bedd of 
 arrasse with angels of golde." There is notliing said 
 about Turnham Hall, although the testator leaves five 
 marks to Thomas Hagthorpe, his servant, and mentions 
 his grant of Kelfield during the minority of John Fitz- 
 Henry. Turnham Hall, however, had been settled on 
 Sir John's wife, Joan, widow of Thomas Langton. This 
 was confirmed to her on 4th June, 1479, and again, on 
 8th July, 1484, when she had become the wife of Sir 
 Thomas Wortley, dear to the archer and the hunter. A 
 change, however, which w^as common enough in those 
 times, came over the fortunes of the estate, which was 
 neither more nor less than the reversal of the attainder of 
 its previous owners. Thomas Lord Ros, the captive at 
 Hexham, had married Philippa, sister and co-heir of John 
 Lord Tiptoft, and had left three children : Edmund ; Eleanor, 
 who married Sir Robert Manners of Etal ; and Isabel, who 
 married 1, Sir Thomas Grey of Wark, and 2, Sir Thomas 
 LoveL The house of Lancaster had at last its day, and, 
 
 I 2
 
 276 THE HISTORY of hemingbrough. 
 
 with the accession of Henry VII., justice was done to 
 many a suffering partisan. A petition was made on be- 
 half of Edmund Lord Ros for the reversal of the attainder, 
 which was acceded to on 7th October, 1485. The new 
 lord had been in retirement abroad, and, on his return, was 
 proved to be of weak intellect, and so an Act was passed 
 in 1491 vesting the control of him and his estates in his 
 brother-in-law, Sir Thomas Lovel. He lived henceforward, 
 no doubt under restraint, at Elsinges in Enfield, and, 
 dying in October, 1508, w^as buried in the church there, 
 near Joyce Lady Tiptoft, his maternal grandmother. 
 
 Family of Manners. — So early as 13th June, 1469, 
 when the fortunes of the Ros's were at their lowest ebb, 
 Sir Robert Manners of Etal, in Northumberland, had 
 obtained a licence at York to be married in the chapel of 
 the Fercies, within their castle at Wressle, to Eleanor Ros, 
 who is described as a domicella, or lady in the household, 
 of John Earl of Westmerland. The two great baronial 
 houses in the North still clung to their kinswoman. Her 
 brother Edmund and her sister Isabel were childless, and 
 to her descendants, therefore, belonged the estates, and 
 the representation of her brave and noble ancestry. Sir 
 Thomas Lovel, during his life, enjoyed the estates in the 
 South of England. Before his decease he contracted one 
 of the daughters of his own brother. Sir Robert Lovel, to 
 his wife's great-nephew, Thomas Manners, afterwards the 
 first Earl of Rutland. 
 
 Sir Robert Manners died in 1485, and his wife two 
 years after. George, their son and heir, became Lord Ros 
 on the death of his imbecile uncle in 1508, and enjoyed 
 the title for five years. He died at the siege of Tournay. 
 Turnham Hall was in his possession, a bailiff or farmer 
 residing there. In 1498, Robert Calvard was living 
 there, and was, according to the Subsidy Roll of the 15th 
 of Henry VIII. , "decayed by leches or as by syknes." 
 The expression is strange. He must indeed " have suffered 
 many things of many physicians " when the doctor was 
 as bad as the disease, if not worse. 
 
 Sir Thomas Manners, eldest son of George Lord Ros, 
 inherited Turnham Hall, and was created Earl of Rutland, 
 vastly increasing the estates and influence of his family. 
 In the 16th of Henry VI [I. , Turnham Hall was let to
 
 TURNIIAM HALL. 277 
 
 Thomas Fairfax, and Robert Wroth and George Poulet 
 are mentioned as the stewards of the property in the parish 
 of Hemingbrough. Fairfax died in the 35th of Henry 
 VIIL, holding the remainder of an unexpired lease for 
 thirty years, for which he paid an annual rent of 39/. 6s. 8d. 
 Cecily Fairfax, his widow, was his executrix, and John 
 Swinhowe and others were associated with her. Fairfax 
 was succeeded, as bailiff and farmer, by Robert Snydall, 
 gent. 
 
 On 30th October, 1538, the Earl of Rutland con- 
 veyed Turnham Hall to Sir Guy Fairfax, Knt., Brian 
 Bradford, and Hugh Saville, Esqrs.,for the use of Thomas 
 Manners, his son, during his life. The Earl confirmed 
 this grant by his will, which was made in 1543, but the 
 manor does not seem to have been formally transferred to 
 the son until the year 1549. In the possession of Thomas, 
 or his widow, the estate continued until 1605, when it re 
 verted to the right heirs of Thomas, first Earl of Rut- 
 land, as parcel of the Barony of Ros, which barony had 
 for some years been separated from the earldom. The 
 property during this time had been let to various tenants. 
 By will, dated 3rd May, 1588, Catherine Metcalfe of Bedale 
 bequeathed to John, Anthony, and Richard, her sons, the 
 remainder of her lease of Turnham Hall. A person of the 
 name of Cowlam was the tenant at the beginnino; of the 
 seventeenth century, and was succeeded by John Dun- 
 nington. Dunnington was a Recusant, and, after having 
 been fined, his property was at last estreated in the 9th of 
 James I. Lady Theodosia Manners, the landlady, was 
 also a Roman Catholic. 
 
 We mentioned the separation of the Barony of Ros 
 from the Earldom of Rutland. It came about in this way. 
 Edward Lord Ros and third Earl of Rutland left an only 
 daughter, Elizabeth, who was, shortly after his decease, 
 declared Baroness Ros, whilst the Earldom of Rutland 
 descended to his younger brother, John, as the next heir 
 male. Lady Elizabeth was one of the richest heiresses in 
 England, and was bestowed in marriage in 1588, at the 
 early age of 13, upon William Cecil, grandson of the 
 great Lord Burleigh, who was very well able to look after 
 the interests of his family. In the spring of 1591 she 
 gave birth to a son at Newark Castle, and, journeying to
 
 278 THE HISTORY OF HEMINGBUOUGH. 
 
 London too soon after this event, died on the 12th May at 
 the house of her grandfather, Sir Thomas Holcroft. She 
 was interred in Westminster Abbey, and by the side of her 
 grave the heralds proclaimed her infant son, all-nncon- 
 scious of his greatness, Baron Ros of Hamlake, Trusbut, 
 and Bel voir. 
 
 Xo question was raised by the Rutlands about the title 
 of Lord Ros until 1615, when Francis, the 6th Earl, on 
 his accession to the title, made a petition to the King, 
 which was heard on the 1st February, 1616, and the 
 27th April following, before the Commissioners for the 
 Earl Marshall's offi.ce. The Earl's claim was founded 
 upon the plea that the barony had merged in the earl- 
 dom ; that the estates enjoyed by the Lords Ros had de- 
 scended with the Earl's title, inasmuch as he was pos- 
 sessed of the land and barony of Hamlake, transmitted to 
 him as heir-male of the family of Manners ; and that the 
 severance of the title from the estate was contrary to the 
 rights of succession, and prejudicial to the dignity and 
 honor of his family. 
 
 The defendant. Lord Burleigh, replied that Robert 
 Lord Ros was summoned to Parliament as Baron under 
 the title of Lord Ros, without any addition, in the 49th of 
 Henry TIL, but that in the time of Edward I. he was 
 styled of Hamlake, in right of his wife ; that the title had 
 descended through Lady Eleanor Ros, and thus it was 
 not the prescriptive right of heirs-male ; that Lady Eliza- 
 beth, as daughter of the third Earl, had been declared 
 Baroness Ros without opposition to her claim, and had 
 enjoyed the title during her life ; that her son, who had 
 already attained his majority, had likewise been proclaimed 
 Lord Ros ; it was therefore sought that the title should 
 be confirmed. 
 
 The result was that the Earl lost his petition, but was 
 recompensed by the creation, or renewal, of the title of 
 Baron Ros of Hamlake, bearing date 26th July, 1616, 
 whilst at the same time William Cecil was acknowledged 
 Lord Ros of Holderness, the little villao;e whence the sur- 
 name is derived. 
 
 The career of young Cecil was anything but what 
 might be expected from the wisdom and prudence of his 
 ancestry. In February, 1610-11, when he was 21, he
 
 TURNHAM HALL. 279 
 
 married a daughter of Sir Thomas Lake of Whitchurch, 
 and shortly afterwards went as Ambassador to Spain 
 with a more than royal equipage. The dress of six foot- 
 men cost him 300/. ; that of eight pages 80/. each ; twenty 
 ordinary servants and twelve sumpter cloths required the 
 vast expenditure of 1,500/. ; whilst to his twelve gentle- 
 men he gave 100/. each to provide for themselves. One 
 of the royal ships, the " Dreadnought," was a fit means of 
 conveyance for these reckless gallants. They were absent 
 for five years, during which young Cecil's title was im- 
 pugned and a most unhappy contention arose between him 
 and his wife. The old Countess of Exeter, instead of 
 healing the wound, seems rather to have kept it open, and 
 calumnious charges were made against Cecil by the Lakes, 
 which resulted in a Star Chamber trial, and ended in the 
 ruin of the Lakes and the dissolution of Lord Ros's 
 marriage. Full of impetuous wrath the young Lord 
 challenged his brother-in-law, Arthur Lake, to mortal 
 combat, and retired from England. He went to Italy 
 and died at Naples in June, 1618, not without some sus- 
 picion of poison. 
 
 Before he died he had joarted with Turnham Hall. On 
 2nd October, 1616, he mortgaged it for 1,800/. to Peter 
 Chapman, Esq., of London ; and, on 4th April after- 
 wards, he had another loan of 2,133/. 6s. 8c/. upon 
 it from Thomas Allen of London, gent. Redemption 
 seems to have been impossible, as, on 22nd July, 1617, 
 the parties concerned transferred their interests to 
 Wm. Ward, Esq., citizen and goldsmith of London. 
 Chapman made a conveyance by feoffment on 9th De- 
 cember, and, on 19th December, 1621, there was a final 
 release to Ward from Sir Richard Cecil of Wakerley, 
 Northants, Knight, Lord Ros's uncle. The estate com- 
 prised 700 acres of land, with four messuages m Heming- 
 brough, Cliffe, and Osgodby. It was leased for a term of 
 21 years at 200/. per annum, and the estimated value of 
 the whole w^as 3,933/. 6s. 8c/. 
 
 William Ward, the purchaser, was a Norfolk man, a 
 younger son of Edward Ward, Esq., of Bexley. He 
 settled in London, and was a goldsmith and jeweller in 
 West Cheape, where he amassed a great fortune, which 
 has descended to the Earl of Dudley, and has become
 
 280 THE HISTORY OF HEMINGBROUGH. 
 
 greater than ever. Ward had but a sliort tenure of 
 Turnham Hall, where William Bosvile was his tenant. 
 He seems to have borrowed some money upon the estate 
 from Charles Cocka3me (afterwards Yiscount Cullen), son 
 and heir of Sir William Cockayne, lord mayor of London, 
 or, possibly, to have sold him a part of it. On 30th 
 January, 1637-8, the two covenant to sell the property 
 for 5,160/. to Francis Williamson, Esq., of Walkeringham, 
 Notts. This gentleman died before the completion of the 
 purchase^ and having bequeathed the residue of his estates 
 to Thomas Williamson, Esq., his nephew, the co-partners 
 made him a special release of their interest on 2nd De- 
 cember, 1639. The new owner threw himself enthusias- 
 tically into the cause of royalty in the Civil War and 
 suffered great loss. In June, 1642, the King made him a 
 Baronet. Sir Thomas made Turnham Hall the jointure 
 estate of his second wife, Dionisia, daughter of Wm. Hales, 
 Esq., of Hales Hall, in Norfolk, who survived her husband 
 nearly thirty years, and died on the 24th January, 1684-5. 
 The property then came to another Sir Thomas William- 
 son, her stepson (who had acquired a very considerable 
 estate in the county of Durham, for which the Williamsons 
 deserted Notts), together with Robert Williamson, his 
 brother. The family, however, had been greatly im- 
 poverished by their losses in the Civil Wars, and, on 21st 
 July, 1684, Sir Thomas had borrowed 500/. of Sir Robert 
 Shaftoe on the security of Turnham Hall, whilst his step- 
 mother was living, and, on 19th and 20th April, 1688, 
 he burdened it with an additional sum of 2,000/. On 
 18th and 19th October, 1689, Sir Thomas Williamson 
 and the mortgagees convey the estate to Cuthbert Harrison, 
 Esq., of Acaster Selby, for the sum of 4,000/. Mr. Harrison 
 was the grandson of an alderman of York, and had been 
 a captain in the Royal army under Sir Henry Slingsby, 
 and had come home with a severe wound, to be harassed 
 and plundered by sequestrations and fines. To no one but 
 a Roj^alist of the first water would that dashing cavalry 
 officer, Marmaduke Lord Langdale, have given his 
 dauo-hter Lennox in marria2;e. 
 
 Mr. Harrison built a house at Acaster Selby, where he 
 resided, and was buried in his parish church of Stilling- 
 fleet on 24th April, 1699. He left an only child and
 
 TURNHAM HALL. 281 
 
 heiress, Lennox, born in 1658-9, who was married in 
 1674 to George, son of Sir Jeremiah Smith, of whom an 
 account will be found under Osgodby. By George Smith 
 she had two sons — Harrison, who predeceased her, and 
 Jeremiah, who, on her death, inherited Tnrnham Hall. 
 
 After Mr. Smith's death, his widow re-married Sir 
 Lionel Pilkington, of Stanley. Lady Lennox Pilkington 
 died on 17th July, 1706, and was buried in the south- 
 east chantry at Hemingbrough, where her hatchment, 
 with the arms marshalled in a singular manner, still 
 hangs over her grave. Her second husband lies in his own 
 chapel in Wakefield church, where he was buried in 1714, 
 under a stately monument, apparently of Italian design. 
 He had thought of it before he died. He desires his execu- 
 tors in his will " to lay out all the old pieces of gold and 
 silver, or the value thereof, that I shall have by me, and 
 erect a handsome monument in Wakefield church." 
 
 Upon her second marriage, Mrs. Smith made a foolish 
 and unjust covenant, by which, with the exception of 
 Turnham Hall, the lands of her father passed away from 
 her own child, Jeremiah Smith, to Sir Lionel Pilkington, 
 and his children, who were not her own. " Tradition yet 
 says that she was ill-used by both her husbands, and for 
 quietness' sake gave up all her estate to them from her 
 own relations." — (Vicar Potter, in 1750.) This conduct 
 occasioned some litiofation when Sir Lionel's life interest 
 in the property expired in 1714, but the lands continued 
 with the Pilkingtons. It may be that the mother was 
 afraid of the wild and reckless habits of her only child, 
 but she took a harsh step. Young Jeremiah Smith came 
 of age in 1698, and married Mary, eldest daughter of 
 William Skinner, of Hull, merchant. Her dower was 
 charged upon the manor of Osgodby. Mr. Smith was in 
 the navy, and attained the rank of captain. When Turn- 
 ham Hall came to Captain Smith after his mother's decease 
 in 1706, Mr. Skinner, his father-in-law, mindful of the 
 young man's extravagance, and seeing that the estates of 
 the Harrisons had gone almost entirely to the Pilking- 
 tons, induced him to make a better provision for his wife. 
 Accordingly, in August, 1706, he granted his wife a rent- 
 charge of 100/. per annum upon his estates, and assented 
 in another deed, under the trusteeship of Jolm Skinner,
 
 282 THE HISTORY OF HEMINGBROUGH. 
 
 Esq., of Leeds, and AYm. Crowle, of Hull, Esq., to an 
 entail general, barring any other claims that might exist, 
 and conferring npon the lady the power of disposal of the 
 estate after her husband's death. Vicar Potter speaks of 
 this as done in " one of his mad humours," and says, also, 
 that he sold a large farm to Mr. Massey, " who covenanted 
 to pay him 20^. every Wednesday during his life." 
 Captain Smith died in 1714, bequeathing to his wife, by 
 will, dated 26th October, in that year, his "mannors of 
 Turnhara Hall, Malvis, with the copyhold courts, fines, 
 copyhold or customary rents, and the lordship, the houses, 
 Eaperiding, etc., together with his houses, etc., in CliiF 
 alias Lund, his lands in the lordshipp of Newhay par. 
 Drax, his mannors, howses, lands, etc., at Acaster Saleby, 
 or elsewhere, which may or can be recovered as my right 
 as heir-att-law unto Mr. Cuthbert Harrison, my grand- 
 flither, or Dame Lenox Pilkington, my mother, de- 
 ceased." 
 
 The latter part of this legacy was futile, but Turnham 
 Hall, &c., came to Madam Smith, as she was called, and 
 she was the owner until her death, 22nd March, 1742-3. 
 She was buried in the same vault with her husband in the 
 north aisle of the chancel of the church of the Holy Trinity, 
 Hull. By her will, dated IGth August, 1738, she be- 
 queathed all her estate, real and personal, to her three 
 sisters, Jane, Elizabeth, and Anne Skinner.*^^ One of the 
 three only was married, and that was Anne, who became 
 the wife of her first cousin, John, son of Jolin Skinner, of 
 Leeds, but he died m 1728, a fortnight after his wedding- 
 day. Upon the 13th and 14th January, 1750, Jane Skinner 
 and her sister Anne convey the estate to George Crowle, 
 Esq., and Andrew Perrott, on trust for the use of the said 
 Jane and Anne, during their lives, and, after their decease, 
 to the use of Elizabeth Bachelor,*^^ spinster, their half 
 
 ^'^ Jane, bp. at Hull 10th Jan., Bristol. She died in Bowlalley Lane, 
 
 1G82-3. Died 22nd Feb., 1753, unmd. Hull, 11th Sept., 1759. 
 
 Will d. 14th Jan., 1750. Pr. at York Mary, her sister, d. 10th May, 1777, 
 
 lyth April, 1753. ffit. 70. By her will d. 17th June, 1776, 
 
 Elizabeth, bp. 26th Dec, 1683. Died she left to her cousin, Mary Waud, all 
 
 unmd. 25th Jan., 1749, aged 66. the pictures of the Skinners. " To 
 
 Anne, bp. 4th Aug., 1695. Died 23rd Dorothy, wife of the late John Uppleby, 
 
 Jan., 1750, aged 56. Will d. 14th Jan., Esq., the picture of her grandfather, 
 
 1750. Pr. at York 19th April, 1753. and my brilliant diamond ring. To 
 
 ^^ A daughter of Giles Batchelor, and Eleanor, wife of John Lambert, of Hull, 
 
 granddaughter of John B., Mayor of the china usually set upon one of my
 
 TURNHAM HALL. 283 
 
 cousiii, subject, however, to various legacies or annuities to 
 members of the famiUes of Bachelor, and Bower. Elizabeth 
 ]^)achelor died in 1759, leaving all her estate to her sister 
 Mary. The payment of the annuities under the will of 
 Jane Smith, dated 1750, was now found to be a grievous 
 burden, and this, added to the repairs of the embankments, 
 losses consequent upon bad seasons, and non-payment of 
 rents, necessitated the sale of the estate. It was sold in 
 the spring of 1769 for 12,000/. to Mr. James Keighley, of 
 Cliffe. Mr. Keighley was a native of Cawood, and began 
 life at the age of eighteen as the master of the Grammar 
 School at Cliffe. By his general shrewdness and acquaint- 
 ance with the law he was able to be of great use in the 
 district, and by trafficking in corn, and various other 
 things, pushed his fortunes, and gradually acquired in- 
 fluence and means which enabled him to purchase Turn- 
 ham Hall, as well as other property m the neighbourhood. 
 Mr. Keighley married Agnes, youngest daughter of Mr. 
 Samuel Volans of Cliffe, by whom he had an only daughter, 
 Elizabeth, and, dying in October, 1790, was buried in the 
 south-west chantry in the church of Hemingbrough. By 
 his will, dated 1st February in the same year, he left all 
 his estate, real and personal, to Elizabeth, his only child, 
 who had already become the wife of Mr. William Burton, 
 of Kingston-upon-Hull. Mr. Burton was a native of 
 Hemingbrough, and the descendant of a family which had 
 long been connected with the parish. 
 
 Mr. Burton rebuilt the house between 1795 and 1800. 
 On his decease the estate came into the possession of Mr. 
 Thomas Burton, his eldest son. Mr. Burton, of whom 
 ^qere will be a longer account in the preface, had a great 
 taste for antiquities and the history of his native parish, 
 and the present work is a sample of his industry and 
 skill. He died in the month of May, 1883, leaving an 
 
 chimney pieces as a remembrance of dying 23rd May, 1812, was bur. at 
 me. Nephew Wm. Jose^Dh Coltman, Eowley. He marr., 22nd Dec, 1770, 
 2,000 1. Nephew John Coltman, my Isabella Wakefield, who was bur. at 
 house in Bowlalley, the new Sugar Eowley in May, 1815. Mrs. Coltman 
 House in Sculcoates," &c. destroyed all the pictures of the Skin- 
 Catherine, sister of the testatrix, m. ners circa 1810. She was the mother, 
 Joseph Coltman, of Cannon Street and among other children, of Joseph Colt- 
 Hatton Garden, who died in December, man. Curate of Beverley minster, and 
 1790, and was bur. at Hayes, in Kent. Thomas Coltman, one of the Judges of 
 Their son, John, lived at Sculcoates. the Queen's Bench, who died in 1819. 
 He was born 21st Feb., 1744-5, and.
 
 284 THE HISTORY OF HEMINGBROUGII. 
 
 only son, Arthur Burton, Esq., barrister- at-law, who is 
 the present owner of Turnham Hall. 
 
 Cleek. — The name of a farmstead nearest to Turnham 
 Hall as you follow the course of the river. The place is 
 mentioned from the latter part of the seventeenth century 
 downwards. Cleek, with the next properties, are part of 
 the Turnham Hall estate. There is a salmon fishery at 
 Cleek belonging to the estate, and another at Newlands. 
 
 MiCKLEHURST is the name given to some enclosures 
 and the site of an old farmstead about half a mile distant 
 from Cleek. It is frequently mentioned in the Registers 
 of Hemingbrough in the seventeenth century. The house 
 was standing in 1769, when Mr. Keighley purchased the 
 Turnham Hall estate, and was probably removed by him. 
 
 Barley (Barlow) Lane End is another contiguous 
 farmstead, deriving its name from a lane on the opposite 
 side of the river. The house was tenanted in 1605 by a 
 family called Widdowes. The present house was built 
 about the year 1780. It is quite possible that the houses 
 at Cleek, Micklehurst, and Barley Lane End were in the 
 first instance fishermen's cabins or lodges, which were 
 subsequently enlarged for the accommodation of small 
 farmers on the estate. 
 
 GouLE Hall is a farmstead in the township of Cliffe, 
 on the river Ouse, and adjoining to the Turnham Hall 
 estate. The house seems to have been built in the time 
 of James or Charles I. It stands at a turn in the stream 
 where there is a stronger current than usual, with whirl- 
 pools and back-water. This peculiarity in the current 
 originates the name. When the wind passes through a 
 narrow place, whirling and eddying as it goes, it is said 
 by the people of the district to goal, or goul. 
 
 In the time of Elizabeth Goule Hall belonged to the 
 Babthorpes of Osgodby, and was sold by Ralph Bab- 
 thorpe, in 1595, to Thomas Ashley, who has been pre- 
 viously mentioned as a lessee of the manor of Malvis. 
 Erom Mr. Ashley and his descendants the place has been 
 occasionally called Astley or Ashley Hall.^'-^ Mr. Ashley's 
 
 "■- Richard Astley and Joan his wife Thos. A. is on the Call Roll 34th 
 
 surrender land at Cliffe in 2nd Hen. VI. Hen. VI. 
 
 Thos. A. occurs on the Fine Rolls 2nd Henry A. occ. at S. Duffield 15th 
 
 and 15th Hen. VI. Hen. VII.
 
 GOULE HALL. 285 
 
 will was proved on 2nd April, 1630, administration being 
 granted to Mary, his widow, with the tuition of Mary and 
 Gervase, his children. James Ashley succeeded, and then 
 Gervase, who sold the farm in 1657 to Peter Millington, 
 gent., of Howden. The Millingtons retained it until the 
 latter part of the seventeenth century, when it passed to 
 William Sotheran of Hooke, gent., their kinsman. Mr. 
 Sotheran died in 1723, bequeathing Goule Hall to William, 
 his eldest son, who, in 1752, settled it, with the estate at 
 Hooke, &c., in reversion, upon his son William, on his 
 marriage with Sarah, only daughter and heiress of Samuel 
 Saville, Esq., of Thribergh. The farm subsequently 
 descended with the entailed property of the Sotherans 
 until it was sold in 1850 by the late T. H. Sotheran 
 Estcourt, Esq., to Mr. James Keighley Burton of 
 Cliffe. 
 
 This farm pays lO.s. per annum for Bishop's rent, and 
 205. per annum to the manor of Hemmgbrough. 
 
 Commons and Enclosures. — Northward of the village 
 of Cliffe was a tract of land, consisting of about 355 
 acres, which lay waste until the late enclosure. This was 
 the property of the copyholders of Cliffe and Lund, who 
 
 Richard A. temp. Hen. VH. was father Ripon, and had lie. to be marr. to Thos. 
 
 of James A. Ashley of Barlby, gen., in 1605.) 
 
 Jas. A. and Susanna his wife surrender 1629-30, loth Mar., Thos. A. of 
 
 land 35th Hen. VIII. Goole Hall, bur. 
 
 Rich"andRobert A. were his brothers. 1637, 15th Oct., Edward Haddlesay, 
 
 Richard A. and Isabella his w. sur- of Cliffe, and Mary A. of Goole Hall, 
 
 render land 33rd Hen. VIII. 1619-20, Feb. 14, Wm. A. of Cliffe, 
 
 8 Mar., 1557-8. Pr. test. Joan A. of bur. 
 
 Barlow, and adm. to Rich'' A., her son 1625-6, Jan. 13, the wife of James 
 
 and sole ex'. A. of Cliffe, bur., and his dau. Cath* 
 
 11 Nov. 1558. Caveat ne prob. test. bp. 1627, 5th July, James A. of 
 
 Ric. A. of Barlow nisi vocentur Thos. A. Cliffe, and Marg' Foreman of Selby, 
 
 and John A. his bro". marr. 
 
 Wm. A. is mentioned in the rentals 1637, 3rd Dec, James A. of Cliffe, 
 
 1589-99. In 1598 he had a lie. to bur. On 30th March, 1638, his will 
 
 marry Eliz. Crosland of Helmsley, was pr. at Howden, and adm. was gr. 
 
 widow. to Joseph Inchbald of Skurch Hall, 
 
 On 30 June, 1608, James s. Wm. par. Drax, gen., to the use of Katherine 
 
 Ashley of Barlby, yeo., was appren- A., dau. and sole ex"^ of the deceased, 
 
 ticed for eight years to John Sharpe, 1649, June 14, Rebecca, d. Jervas 
 
 merchant tailor, of York. A., bur. 1649, Sept. 2, Judith, dau. do., 
 
 1617-18, 7 Jan., John Skipwith and bp. 1653, June 18, Mrs. Mary A. of 
 
 Ellen, dau. Thos. Ashley of the Goul Goole Hall, bur. 1658, July 5, Mary, 
 
 House, marr. 1618, 15th July Mary, w. of Jervase A. of Goole Hall, bur. 
 
 dau. Thos. Ashley of the Goules, bp. She was a dau. of Hugh Taylor, of 
 
 1608, 15th July, Mrs. Ashley, wife of Coates (Dugdale's Visitn., p. 314). Her 
 
 Thos. A. of Barlby, bur. (She was husband was afterwards of Eston-on- 
 
 Frances Middleton of Whitcliffe, par. the-Wolds.
 
 286 THE HISTORY OF HEMINGBROUGH. 
 
 depastured it. It was commonable as well to the copy- 
 holdei's of the manor of Howden as to those of Malvis 
 and Turnham Hall. The common originally included 
 an old enclosure of an oxgang of land on the east side, 
 on which stands a tenement called Bowlin or Bowland 
 Hill, which was known by that name in the reign of 
 Edward IV. It is in the manor of Turnham Hall 
 and Malvis. Neville Thorns, an adjoinmg messuage, 
 is a recent building, having been erected about sixty 
 years. 
 
 There is also another encroachment, or enclosure, con- 
 sisting of about sixty acres, at the north-west angle of 
 Cliife Common, where the boundary is mterrupted as it 
 is at Bowlin Hill. Half of this tract is arable land, the 
 remainder is woodland. The arable lands bear the name 
 of Stowrey Field, and are often mentioned in the Howden 
 Court Rolls. The woodland was also for some time under 
 the plough, as it is marked out in lands, and, being in 
 several enclosures, has different names. One part, called 
 Langair, or Langar, Spring (or young wood), must take 
 its name from a family resident at Cliffe from the four- 
 teenth to the seventeenth century. Another portion, ad- 
 joining to Langar Spring, called Rape Rudding, was 
 originally estimated at eighteen acres, and, being the largest 
 enclosure, eventually gave its name to the whole wood. 
 The first notice which occurs of this woodland under the 
 name of Rape Rudding is in 1430, when it is said to be 
 in the hands of the lord, and yielding no rent. About 
 the year 1446 it was in the tenure of Roger Morley, a 
 valet or chamberlain of the Bishop, and, in the eighteenth 
 of Edward IV., it was held by Leonard Knight at the 
 rent of 10.s\ per annum. In the seventh of Henry VIII. 
 it was demised to Richard Ashley, his heirs and assigns, 
 at the same rent, and was in his possession in the thirty- 
 third of Henry VIII. , when he surrendered it to the use 
 of Isabel his wife. In the thirty-fifth of Henry VIII. 
 William Babthorpe and Thomas Salvin (feoffees) sur- 
 render it to the use of James Ashley. The heirs of 
 James Ashley pay rent for it in 1567. On 21st April, 
 1585, Wm. Ashley and Jennet his wife surrender Rape 
 Rudding, containing sixteen acres, and Arker's Close, con- 
 taining four acres, to the use of Wm. Watkinson. In
 
 COMMONS. 
 
 287 
 
 the rental of 1629 William Ward, Esq., the owner of 
 Turnham Hall, pays 10s., the same amount which the 
 Ashleys always paid, for Rape Eudding, and, since that 
 time, the wood has always been transmitted with the same 
 property, paymg for it a yearly fee-farm rent. 
 
 The High Common of Gliffe, usually called the Oxgangs, 
 was in all probability, with the moor of South Duffield, a 
 portion of the wood called Blackwood. This forest, ex- 
 tending over several hundreds of acres, was cleared in the 
 reio-n of Henry III. The Cliffe portion was used for pur- 
 poses of turbary, and paid 20.§. per annum by way of rent 
 at the Howden Receipt, but this payment was gradually 
 reducer], and finally discontinued. The turve-grass was 
 demised, like Bishop-hold land, for a term of years, but 
 eventually, through custom, became reputed as the copy- 
 hold of the last lessees, as was the case at South Duffield. 
 At Cliffe, however, it appears to have been usually held 
 by some of the Bishop's chevigers, who took it in turns, 
 and hence arose the tradition in Cliffe that certain mes- 
 suages, called Oxgang places, were alone entitled to tur- 
 bary. 
 
 The Act for enclosing the commons and open field lands 
 of Cliffe was obtained in 1843, and the lands were after- 
 wards surveyed and apportioned by Messrs. Paver & 
 Durham, the commissioners appointed. A long course of 
 litigation retarded the appearance of the final award, which 
 was not made until the year 1863. 
 
 The open fields are crossed by the Hull and Selby Rail- 
 road, and the commons by the Market Weighton and 
 Selby Railroad. Each company has erected a station with 
 appurtenant buildings, a great convenience and advantage 
 to the parish and district. 
 
 Whitemoor. — North of Stowrey Eield and Rape Rud- 
 ding is another fiirm, called Whitemoor, part of the town- 
 ship of Cliffe, and distant from it about two miles. It 
 was enclosed from the waste about the beginning of the 
 reign of Edward I., and is a portion of the Bishop's manor, 
 to which it anciently paid a quit-rent of 205. per annum. 
 Bishop de Insula gave it, in 1277, to Emeric d'Eyville and 
 his heirs and assigns, subject to a yearly payment of 205. 
 The gi-ant comprises 120 acres of land of the Bishop's 
 waste on Blackwood moor. They are said to run along
 
 288 THE HISTORY OF HEMINGBROUGH. 
 
 the dyke or drain called Haver-aker dyke.*^^ This, now 
 called the Clay Drain, is the natural watercourse of the 
 commons of ClifFe, Osgodby, and Whitemoor. D'Eyville 
 was empowered to sow and enclose the ground at his 
 pleasure. The farm, by actual measurement, contains 166 
 acres instead of 120. 
 
 Here the d'Eyvilles built a house of which the moat 
 may be traced, showing that the inner quadrangle was 
 sixty yards square. They were people of consequence, 
 and were connected in various ways with the Bishops of 
 Durham. 
 
 Dods worth records the earlier descents of the d'Eyvilles, 
 which we give as a genealogical curiosity. The pedigree 
 may save some enquirers a great deal of trouble. 
 
 Robert d'Eyville, antiquus = 
 
 Johannes, fil. et liter., vocatus Senior = 
 
 Robertus, fil. Johannis, Robertas, fil, et haer. ejusdem = 
 nominatus Senior, Johannis, cognominatus Junior. 
 
 Johannes, fil. et ha3r. ejusdem Roberti, 44 Hen. III. 
 
 Johannes d'Eyville, fil. Johannis. Carta Confirm. Bell£e-landae, 3 Edw. I. = 
 
 Adam, a guardian of Ralph Goscellinus, Emericus d'Eyville = Emma, occ. 
 Babthorpe, 3rd Edw. I. I 15th Edw. I. 
 
 John, s, of Emeric d'Eyville, 10th Edw. II. Occ. 6th-15th Edw. III. = 
 
 i ^^ 
 
 John de Whitemoor, occ. 23rd Edw. II. Probably identical with 
 John d'Eyvill de Whitemoor, who sold his land to the Dawn^ys. 
 
 John d'Eyville (the third of that name in the pedigree) 
 was a very great person indeed. He was one of the Barons 
 who joined Simon de Montfort in his rebellion. In 1265 
 he was working in the Isle of Axholme. In 12o6 he was 
 in the fight at Chesterfield. In the following year he 
 
 " The Confirmation of the Prior of Stockton Sept. 20, 1280, reciting the 
 
 Durham is dated pridie id. Septembris, grant and the Confirmation. The In- 
 
 1280, and three days afterwards there speximus is preserved in the Museum 
 
 is an Inspeximus of Edw. I., dated at at York.
 
 WHITEMOOK. 289 
 
 joined the Earl of Gloucester with a large force on the 
 side of the disinherited barons, and made an attempt upon 
 London, endeavouring also to take the King prisoner. 
 This attempt failed, and d'Eyville returned northwards to 
 lead the remnant of the insurgents in the Isle of Axholme. 
 He was, however, driven from Lincohi by Prince Edward 
 into the Isle of Ely, that sanctuary for the oppressed, 
 where he at last surrendered. He was allowed to resume 
 his lands on the payment of a considerable fine, which was 
 raised with difficulty. 
 
 In 1322 Goscellinus d'Eyville, Kt., one of the partisans 
 of Thomas Earl of Lancaster, was executed at York. 
 
 In the 2nd of Richard II. John d'Eyvill of Men- 
 tliorpe sold his lands there, with others at Redness 
 and Swinefleet. Whitemoor passed to the Salvins. A 
 James Salvin ^^ is mentioned on the call roll in the 18th 
 of Henry VIL, and in the rental of the 23rd of Henry 
 A^III. A person of the same names was also in possession 
 in 1567, and then Gerard Salvin, who succeeded him. 
 He and Joan, his wife, sold the property to Marmaduke 
 Fawkes, gent., in 1580. Mr. Fawkes appears in the 
 rental of 1599, and probably retained the farm until his 
 death in 1606. 
 
 Mr. Oswald Grisedale paid the Bishop's rent in 1629, 
 but died soon after. His widow survived until January, 
 1636-7.^^^ It seems probable that their daughter Mary 
 was an heiress. She married Mr. John Anby of Burne. 
 By will, dated 21st May, 1638, and proved in London 
 during the Commonwealth, 20tli March, 1654-5, she 
 desired to be buried at Brayton. She bequeathed to her 
 husband the woods, &c., on her lands, &c., called White 
 Moors, and to her son Thomas the north part of White 
 Moors on her husband's death, giving her daughter 
 Dorothy, wife of Wm. Braysbridge, 10/. To her daughter, 
 Dorothy Anby, she bequeathed the rest of her lands at 
 Whitemoor after her husband's decease. Mr. John Anby 
 married again, and Joan, his widow, who died in 1665, 
 lived at Whitemoor for some time. 
 
 One portion of Whitemoor, or, rather, one farm, came 
 
 "' Of these Salvins a further account of Whitmoore bur. 25th Feb., 1636-7, 
 
 will be given under Newhay. at H. Mrs. Mary Grisdell was bur. at 
 
 " Oswell Grisedall of Whitemoore Bubwith 9 Jan., 1682-3. 
 bur. 25th Jan., 1629-30. Mrs. Grisdell
 
 290 THE HISTORY OF HEMIJSGBROUGII. 
 
 into the possession of Robert Prickett of Wressle Castle, 
 gent., who married a daughter of Marmaduke Lord Lang- 
 dale, and was, through that connection, a brother-in-law 
 of Cuthbert Harrison of Acaster-Selby. By indenture 
 dated 1st and 2nd August, 1678, Mr. Prickett sold his 
 farm, consisting of a messuage and eighty-eight acres of 
 land, for 200Z., to Richard Seaton of North Duffield, yeo. 
 By will, dated 6th February, 1694-5, Seaton bequeathed 
 it to Amor, his third son. On 8th and 9th April, 1700, 
 Amor Seaton and Frances, his wife, then of Luddington, 
 CO. Lincoln, joined by his brother, Richard Seaton of 
 Garthorp, co. Lincoln, son and heir of Richard Seaton, 
 sell the property for 2701. to John Owram of York, cook, 
 who, on 3rd and 4th April, 1718, settles it on his son 
 Bryt Owram of London, cornfactor, on the occasion of his 
 marriage with Margaret, daughter and heiress of Henry 
 Sherwood, citizen and glazier of London. They had no 
 issue, and, on 2nd and 3rd July, 1744, Bryt Owram con- 
 veys to Matthew Owram of York, gent., who, on 18th 
 December, 1761, devises the estate to trustees to the use 
 of John Owram, his son, and his heirs. From John Owram 
 it came to Stephen Owram, who sold it, on 4th April, 1792, 
 to Richard Willbor of Y^ork, gent. Richard Willbor left 
 two daughters and heiresses, who administered to his estate 
 under his will, on 4th July, 1795, i.e. Anne, wife of 
 Thomas Tireman, and Mary, wife of George Ellen. The 
 land is now the property of the Rev. Frederick Stainton 
 Tireman of Kirk Sandall, near Doncaster, second son of 
 George W. Tireman of Lofthouse Hall, Esq., and grandson 
 of the above-mentioned Thomas Tireman. 
 
 An attempt was made about the year 1818 to enclose a 
 portion of the waste near Whitemoor, which was sown with 
 mustard by the occupant. As this was done without an 
 Act of Parliament, or common consent, some of the pro- 
 prietors of Cliffe went on horseback, and broke down the 
 hedges. 
 
 LUND. 
 
 Lund, which is, practically, part of CliiFe, goes with it in 
 making up a township in the parish of Hemingbrough. 
 It lies to the north of Cliffe, between that village and
 
 LUND. 
 
 291 
 
 Barlby and Osgodby. There are only three or four houses 
 in the place. 
 
 Lund is not mentioned, eo nomine, in Domesday, or 
 Kirkby's Inquest, and the whole place, or nearly all of it, 
 came in very early times into the possession of Selby 
 Abbey. 
 
 Dr. Burton, in his Monasticon Eboracense, states that 
 Gilbert Tyson gave to Selby one carucate of land in Lund 
 in the field Writtelou ; Humphrey, son of Hubert de 
 Ruhal, gave his lands here, with a toft ) Gilbert, son of 
 Nicholas de Lund, gave a toft and land in Lund ; Wido 
 de Lund, son of Henry de Kelesay, and Alice his wife, 
 daughter of Nicholas de Lund, gave all their lands in 
 Lund, &c., and the service of Michael de Lund, of 7-s. lOd. 
 per annum. Amice, niece of Ralph the physician, and 
 Em her sister, gave up the land which their uncle held in 
 Lund ; Margaret, sister and heir of the said Ralph, wife 
 of Walter beyond the Ouse (ultra Usam), gave possession 
 of the premises in 1259 ; Peter de Hamelton, clerk, in 
 1291, quit-claimed 85. of annual rent. 
 
 In the Court Roll of the Abbot of Selby for 1381, we 
 find John, son of John Bate of Lund, doing homage for a 
 toft and two bovates of land in Lund and Gateforth, which 
 he held of the Abbot in capite, paying 8s. for relief. From 
 one of the Bursar's Rolls of the Abbey, in the fifteenth 
 century, we gather that the free rent of Lund was ap- 
 propriated to the conventual kitchen. It was usual in 
 monastic establishments to apportion certain estates to 
 certain departments for their support, that each might 
 know what annual income it possessed, and might not 
 exceed it. 
 
 In an Account Roll of Sir Thomas Walmesley, lord of 
 the manor of Selby, in 1604-5, we find him in the posses- 
 sion of Lund, a fact which seems to show that it was 
 regarded as an appurtenance of the manor, and had 
 descended with it. It would be regarded as a kind of 
 home farm, and is called Le Lund. A laund is an enclosed 
 space in a wood, connected, more or less, with game, with 
 a park-like appearance. The Abbot of Selby, like many 
 other abbots, would be fond of hawks and hounds. In 
 one of the Bursar's Rolls circa 1100, there is entered 
 a gift of 18<r/. to John Gye for bringing to the Lord 
 
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 292 THE HISTORY OF HEMINGBROUGH. 
 
 Abbot two dogs for hunting, sent by Lady Beatrix Ros 
 — no doubt from Turnhara Hall. 
 
 A further examination of the ancient documents appur- 
 tenant to the Selby estate Avill show, probably, when Lund 
 was sold by the lord of the manor of Selby. Between 
 1620 and 1630 Francis Constable, gent., of Evermgham,''^ 
 seems to have been resident there, whether as owner or 
 tenant I cannot tell. With the subsequent history of the 
 place, for a long period, I am entirely unacquainted. 
 Towards the close of the last century the greater part of 
 the place came into the possession of Mr. Mark Hubie of 
 Barlby, through his marriage with a Miss Ann Grassby 
 of Brentford, near London. Mr. Hnbie left this estate to 
 Mary Hubie, his sister, who bequeathed it to Mr. James 
 William Butler of Bowthorpe, a kinsman. Mr. Butler, 
 about the year 1837, built a house called Oakwood, which 
 is the principal residence in the place. Mr. Butler's estate 
 was sold in 1877 by pubhc auction, in eight lots, com- 
 prising the following freehold or copyhold lands : — 
 
 In the township of Clijfe- cum- Lund. — Homestead, garden, 
 &c., la. 35p. ; Lund Field, 6a. 3r. 32p. ; Four Lands 
 Close, and School Field, 8a. Ir. lOp ; Lund Lane Field, 
 14a. 3r. 16p. ; Furlongs and the Pastures, 30a. Ir. 21p. ; 
 the Ings and the Brocks, 11a. Ir. 24p. ; the Common, 
 wdth Great Stowries, Stowries, and Allotments, 35a.2r. 24p. 
 
 Township of Osgodby. — The Crofts and the Sand Close, 
 lOa. 2r. Ip. ; Moor Riddings Close, 3a. 3r. 21p. 
 
 The Butlers of Bowthorpe were long connected with the 
 parish, as will be seen from a short genealogical sketch. 
 
 In addition to the Oakwood farm there was Bussey's 
 farm. This consisted of the mill, a field called Maw 
 Ridding, and other land, which were leased by ... . 
 Osbaldeston of Gateforth, for 999 years, to John Pockley of 
 Thorp Willoughby, gent. This was passed over by Mr. 
 Pockley on 8th June, 1668, to Lawrence Champney of 
 Clayton. By deed, dated 16th February, 1693, Catherine 
 Champney, widow, and Philip Champney of WyclifFe, sell 
 the property to Thomas Morfitt the younger of Lund, 
 
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 dying at Lund, was bur. at H. ; and on m. Mary Watkinson, widow, of par. 
 
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 whose daughter Sarah married Joseph Robinson of South 
 Duffield, throuo;h whom it descended to the Carrs of Carr 
 Lodge. 
 
 Another farm in Lund was called Allen's farm, of which 
 I know next to nothing. 
 
 NEWHAY. 
 
 This is the name of a tract of land which lies between 
 ClifFe and Heming-brouo-h and the Ouse. It consists of 
 about 386 acres of land, 383 of which were in the parish of 
 Drax, and three in that of Bray ton. The reason of this i;5 
 that Newliay was originally on the other side of the river, 
 and in the West Ridino-. But the river havino; chano;ed 
 its course, as has already been mentioned, Newhay was 
 left topographically in the East Riding and in the parisli 
 of Hemingbrough. To this parish it has now been con- 
 nected as far as civil purposes are concerned, and it has 
 been made a part of the township of Cliffe. For eccle- 
 siastical purposes it has been practically for several cen- 
 turies on this side of the Ouse, the inhabitants coming to 
 the church of Hemino-brouo-h. Before the Ouse took its 
 present channel, Newhay would be for some time an 
 island, or something like it, and covered, for the most part, 
 with rushes, willows, and marsh. The clearing of these 
 away, and the draining and cultivation of the ground 
 would give the place its name, Nova Haia, the New Hay 
 or Haugh. 
 
 The lord of Drax at the time of Domesday was Ralph 
 Paganel, from whom it went in hereditary descent to the 
 Stanegraves and the Pateshulls. The estate of the Stane- 
 graves in Newhay came into the possession of Henry de 
 Stanegrave, brother of Simon, who married a daughter of 
 Jordan Foliot. This Henry had a daughter, called Alice 
 de Newhay, who for the souls of Henry and Tlieta, her 
 father and mother, and William and Bernard, her brothers, 
 gave some land and services at Newhay to Drax Priory 
 which the Paganels had founded. This gift was confirmed 
 by Henry de Newhay, her son, who is also called Henry 
 Hoppegate, an allusion probably to a limp in his walk
 
 NEWHAY. 295 
 
 Henry cle Stanegrave, the father of Alice, gave 28 acres in 
 Newhay to Drax, and confirmed all that his freeholders 
 had given to it in the same territory. Among these free- 
 holders were families of the name of Riissel, Newhay, and 
 del Well, or at the Well. These donations to Drax are 
 enumerated in Burton's Monasticon, and are taken from the 
 Chartulary of Drax which is in the possession of Lord 
 Herries at Everingham Park. In addition to these gifts, 
 the Priory had acquired from the Prior and Convent of 
 Worksop 30 acres in Newhay, which had come to them 
 chiefly from Richard de Apesthorpe. In consequence of 
 this munificence, the Prior and Convent of Drax, by the 
 beginning of the reign of Edward I., were the owners of 
 two carucates of land (240 acres) in Newhay of the Stane- 
 grave fee. They had also a grant of free-warren at New- 
 hay and Camblesforth.^'^ 
 
 The Stanegraves still retained some property in New- 
 hay. This descended to Isabel, daughter and heiress of 
 John de Stanegrave, who married Simon de Pateshull. 
 On 26th April, 1314, their son and heir, Johnde Pateshull, 
 granted to Adam de Osgodby all his lands, &c., in New- 
 hay, in which Osgodby had already a life-interest by the 
 grant of Isabel, daughter of John de Stanegrave, the donor's 
 mother, with a reserved rent of 20.§. per annum. An 
 inquisition on the death of Adam de Osgodby was held on 
 
 ^' Among the Charters in the Bod- Testibus Waltero clerieo de Augotebi, 
 
 leian Library are the following deeds Will' filio Alani, Walkelino fratre ejus, 
 
 connected with Newhay. Gervasio de Nova Haia, Johanne fratre 
 
 1. Henr' de Staingr . ., consensu ejus, Ingeram de Nova Haia, etc. 
 Simonis de S., fratris mei et domini, 3. Henry de Steingreve grants to 
 dedisse . . . Johanni filio Waldeggi Robert Authendel one acre of land in 
 capellani et haer. xj acras de meo Newhay. 
 
 dominio in marisco de Nova Haya, et 4. Alice de Nova Haia, dau. of Henry 
 
 vii acras super Fultac, et redditum ann. de Steingreve, sells to Richard Happles- 
 
 j libr. piperis et j libr. cumini. Testi- thoi-p 2^ acres of land in Newhay. 
 
 bus Simone de Staingr', Marmaduc 5. Henry son of Alice de Novahaia, 
 
 Darel, Jurd' de Hameld', Willelmo f dau. of Henry de Stainegrive, quit 
 
 Rein', Jurd' fil' ejus, Alano Wastehose, claims to Richard de Happlesthorpe his 
 
 Rogero de Berlei, Thoma de Kavill, land in Newhay. 
 
 Willelmo filio ejus, Thoma et Rofar de 6. Soiant . . . Martinus fil. In- 
 
 Houeden, Waltero clerieo de Aug', et gerami de Novahaia, consilio Agnetis 
 
 Petro filio ejus, etc. uxoris meaa et Ricardi hieredis mei . . . 
 
 2. Sciant quod . . . Henr. de Stain- eccl. B. Nicholai de Drax tres acras 
 greve facio me plegium et testem ilia- terrse in territorio de Nova Haia, qu£e 
 rum iiij acrarum terne quas Radulfus tangunt terr' Ricardi Herl versus or. et 
 filius Ricardi ad Wei, homo mens, dimi- terr. Alieiaa de Stainegrave et Ermen- 
 sit Priori et Conventui de Drax a festo gard, sororis, versus occid. Test. Hen. 
 S. Martini prox. post electionem Magis- capellano de Drax Galfrido clerieo de 
 tri Philippi in episcopum Dunelmensem Drax, etc. 
 
 (1197), usque ad octo anuos, pro viij s.
 
 296 THE HISTORY OF HEMINGBROUGH. 
 
 8th October, 1316, by which it appeared that Adam had 
 conveyed to Walter de Osgodby, his brother, a messuage, 
 50 acres of land, a wmdmill, and lOs. of annual rent in 
 " Newhagh in Drax," producing 66s. 8d. per annum, and 
 that John, son of John de Osgodby, was his next heir. 
 In 1319, Walter de Osgodby sold this property to William 
 de Cliffe, clerk, through whom it came to Henry de Cliffe, 
 who settled it upon his chantry of Cliffe at Hemingbrough. 
 
 It will be seen, therefore, that nearly 300 out of 386 
 acres in Newhay belonged to ecclesiastical persons, and 
 that the freeholds were of small extent although probably 
 numerous. 
 
 Newhay Grange, or manor house, comprises 186 acres, 
 and is the chief property. In the 33rd of Henry VIII. it 
 was granted by the King, as part of the possessions of 
 Drax Priory, to William Babthorpe, Esq., of Osgodby, who 
 had licence to alienate it two years afterwards. The estate 
 passed from the Babthorpes to the Salvins, These Salvins 
 were cadets of the great Yorkshire family so long settled 
 upon the Derwent, and picked up various parcels of church 
 property after the Dissolution. 
 
 The Inq. p.m. of Thomas Salvin, taken in the 8th of 
 Elizabeth, shows that he was not only the owner of New- 
 hay Grange, but of various lands in the same place, some 
 of which he acquired in the 33rd of Henry VIII. from 
 Henry Storke for the sum of 401. He had also a cottage 
 and six acres of land at Hemino:brouo:li. 
 
 William Salvin, who was probably the eldest son of 
 Thomas, lived at Acaster-Selby, and, by will, proved 7th 
 May, 1559, leaves "to be bestowed upon the bodie of the 
 churche of Stillingflete, vj s. viij d. To the said churche a 
 vestment with all that pertenes unto yt. To the churche 
 of Hemyngburgh all the vestmentes that I bought thare, 
 and iijs. iiijd., to bestowe upon the said churche. To 
 Esabell, my wyf, my land in the lordship of Newhay, for 
 her lyf, to remayn to Thomas Salven, my father, & his 
 haires. To Robert Salven 61. 13s. 6d. for lyf out of my 
 landes at Newhay, after the decease of my wyf. To Sir 
 John Levett my bay amblinge stag, and a ringe with a 
 turkuis in yt. To the poore of the towne of Hemyng- 
 burghe 13.9. 6c?." 
 
 The will is a sad scrawl and the testator says of it,
 
 NEWHAY. 
 
 297 
 
 " Thoughe this my will be interlyned, yet it is all of my 
 owne hand, wherefore I wold no man shuld thinke no 
 other but that it is of my owne interlynynge and my last 
 will." 
 
 Thomas Salvin, his brother, died soon after his second 
 marriage, and was buried at All Saints' Pavement, York, 
 21st May, 1571. In his will, dated the day previous, he 
 calls himself of Newhay, gentleman. He leaves 5s. to 
 Hemingbro' church and 3.s. 6d. to the poor there, together 
 with 55. " towardes the reparinge of Hembrughe churche 
 layne ; & 4<i. to every one of the bead bowses in Hem- 
 bruke." To his father-in-law, Mr. North, he leaves 40.s\ 
 per annum out of his lands at Newhay. 
 
 Thomas Salvin of Heniingbrough, gen. Inq. p.m. = Agnes, d. . . . 
 Oct. 21, 8th Ehz. Died March 2, 1562-3. I 
 
 Thomas Salvin,: 
 aet. 30 at his 
 father's death. 
 Of Newhay, gen. 
 Will d. May 20, 
 1571. Bur. at 
 All Saints' Pave- 
 ment, May 21. 
 
 Robert \ 1571 
 Anne J 
 
 2. Eliz., d. William S. of Acaster, 
 Eichard gen. Will pr. May 7, 
 
 North of 1559. M. Isabel . . . , 
 York, mer- whose will is d. June 
 chant. M. 18, 18th Eliz, 
 at All Michael Salvin of New- 
 
 Saints, hay. Admon. June 8, 
 
 Feb. 6, 1586, to Wm. and 
 
 1570-1. Kath., his children. 
 
 .... Salvin, m. Jas. 
 Ashley. 
 
 Jane, m. . . . Powle of 
 Cliffe.4. 
 
 John Salvin, m. 
 Eleanor . . .= 
 
 Thomas Salvin 
 of Newhay, gen., 
 11th and 12th 
 Jac. I. = 
 
 Thomas Salvin of 
 Newhay, gen., m. 
 in 1613 Eliz., d. 
 . . . Skipwith = 
 
 William, bp. at H., Dec. 29, 1613. 
 
 Thomas, bp. Oct. 6, 1616. 
 
 On 21st December, 1564, Mr. Salvin, then of Heming- 
 brough, was proceeded against by the Royal Commission 
 for Ecclesiastical Causes at York for " procuringe & 
 helpinge to ringe superstitiously [the church bells] upon 
 Allhallowe day at night." He was fined 40.s., and was 
 ordered to make a declaration of his sorrow in the church. 
 Four other ringers were brought up on the same charge. 
 One was fined 13^. Gd. ; the other three were ordered to 
 be put in the stocks on St. Stephen's day " from the latter 
 end of the Communion before noon, to the beginning of 
 the Evening Prayer." This practice of ringing upon All- 
 hallows' day and eve was one far too common for the 
 liking of the Queen's Commissioners.
 
 298 THE HISTOKY OF HEMINGBROUGII. 
 
 By fine dated 3rd December, 14tli Eliz., John Salvin, 
 another brother, passed over to Robert Rotherforth, yeo., 
 servant to the Earl of Shrewsbury, the Oxe Pasture in 
 Newhay, and two closes there called Brewer Closes, con- 
 taining together seven acres, more or less. 
 
 The original will of this Robert has come under my 
 notice, and is a very interesting document. He was a 
 retainer in the noble house of Talbot. His legacy of 5.<?. 
 per ann. to the poor of Hemingbrough would lapse because 
 the rental of the ground from which it was to be drawn 
 was less than the prescribed sum. A notice of the Levetts 
 will be found in the extracts from the parish register. 
 
 In tlie name of God, Amen. I, Robert Rotherfurth, beinge in 
 perfect memorye, this second of Maye, in the xxxijth yeare of the 
 quene's ina'-''^, Elizabeth, by the grace of God quene of England, France, 
 and Ireland, doe here mayke my last will and testament. Fyrst, I do 
 bequeth all the dett my lord Gilbert Talbott doth owe unto me, Robert 
 Rotherfurth, ever since his byrth, unto hym, as doth appeare by his bill, 
 and dely ver his bill unto hym agane, desyringe his honor, as my trust is 
 he will, to be good unto my supposed childrean he knoweth of. More, 
 I bequeth unto his lordshipp my pistall and fraxes, and my Bookes of 
 Huntynge, and of Hawkinge, and the Warres. And to my Ladye my 
 Testament, and Lattymer Sermons resolucion. Unto my M''^ one mille 
 raise of gold. To M^'^ Elisabeth one angell. To M^'^ Alatha one angell. 
 I do bequeth unto my brother, William Rotherfurth, my three closes 
 called by the name of the Oxe Pasture, and the Bruer Closes, and x li. in 
 monye, my mayre, my black cloke and grogeran dublet and hoose, and 
 sattan hose. And x li. in monye to my cosyn Percyvall Levett and his 
 children. My howse and coppye-hold land, and my rynge to my nese 
 Levett. And fyve markes unto my sister Knyght. More, I bequeth 
 unto Kathyren Baxter two peces of grounde called the Hare More 
 Sprynge, bowght of William Knyghte and Roberte Hadlesay, con- 
 teyninge two acres, be it more or lesse, unto this use, destrybutinge 
 fyve shillinges every yeare to the poore for ever upon the daye called 
 Allhallowes, and if at any tyme at this daye the fyve shillinges be 
 unpaide to the poore owte of my pewe in Hembrughe churche, then the 
 land to be forfett unto my next heires. More, I bequethe x li. to be 
 gyven unto my sister Baxter and her children at such tymes as my 
 executores thynke fit and nede be, Thomas Baxter to have nothinge to 
 do with it. And to my sister Angnes children x li. To my sister Jane 
 and her children x li. I bequeth unto my supposed sonne, John Allan, 
 otherwaes John Rotherfurth, my sword and dagger and gunne, and 
 twentye nobles, and my carsay sute, and my cloke with golde twyst. 
 All the furnyture of my howse unto my nese Levett children. I be- 
 queth my buff hose and dublett to my cosyn Wayt ; and forrest bill 
 and a sute of fuschon to my cosyn Knyght. Another to my cosyn 
 Percyvall. More, I gyve unto my godsons fyve shillinges a pece. And 
 all thinge else I have I do gyve unto my executores in monye, bill, and 
 bonde, as to my cosyn Knyght, my c.syn Wayte, and Percyvall Levett,
 
 NEWHAY. 299 
 
 to the discharge of my legases gyven in my will, who I mayke my 
 executores and distrubitores of this my will, the morgaige of the Hawe 
 Close and the obligacons, and S'" George Savil'sxxv li., with the bylls of 
 dettes to me, all to my executores to performe my legases gyven by my 
 will. My gowen to Lawrence Stille. And my bowe and quy ver to my 
 cosyn Knyght. In wytnesse of truth I wryte this with my owne hand. 
 Lett me have musycke to my grave, and remember the poore. One 
 sute hose and dublett to M'" Francys Kellame. And to every one of my 
 cosyns a payre of worsyde stockens, and one payre to JohnRotherfurth 
 as William Wayte, William Knyght, Percy vail. The rest to whom they 
 will. These be witnesses yt this is my last Will — Fraunces Kellomme, 
 William Wayte, & Thomas Howe. 
 
 My desyre is that the right honorable Lord Talbott wyl be the 
 supervisor of this my last Wyll. 
 
 [Pr. at Hemingbrough before Richard Percy, official or keeper of the 
 jurisdiction of Howden, Howdenshire & Hemingbro', 21 July, 1590, 
 & adm. to the ex*"*.] 
 
 Elizabeth, daughter of Alexr. Rudderforth, and niece and 
 heir of Robert R., married Percival Levett of York, inn- 
 holder, and to them, on 14th August, 1590, Wm. Rotherfurth 
 of Brixham, co. Devon, clerk (brother of Robert), released 
 for the sum of 201. his interest in the Ox Pasture. Their 
 son, Chr. Levett, born in 1582, was a well-known man in 
 the English settlement in America. This land was, in 1636, 
 bequeathed by Wm. Todd of York, apothecary, to Grace 
 his wife, daughter of Percival Levett. He had bought 
 it from his wife's brother, another Percival. In the 15th 
 of Eliz. more land passed from Salvin to John Babthorpe. 
 In the 7th and 12th of James I., Thos. Salvin acquired 
 property in Newhay from Wm. Salvin, gen., and John 
 Nuttall. 
 
 The Ox Pasture and Brewer Closes were purchased about 
 1730 as part of the endowment of the curacy of Barlby. 
 
 In the 12th of George II. (1739-40) John Middleton, 
 D.D,, bu3^s the manor, &c. from Richard Crowle, Esq., and 
 Elizabeth his wife, and George Crowle, Esq., for 400/. 
 The property was again sold in 1806, and was purchased 
 by Mr. William Phillips, a tenant. It consisted of 186 
 acres. About the year 1820 it was bought by the Rev. 
 Thomas Preston of Moreby, in the possession of whose 
 family it still remains. 
 
 In 1632, at the inquisition upon the death of Sir Henry 
 Savile, it was found that he was the owner of a messuage 
 and 50 acres of land in Newhay, and that Sir John Jackson, 
 Knt,, his nephew, and Jane, wife of Sir Henry Goodrick,
 
 300 THE HISTORY OF HEMINGBROUGH. 
 
 then aged 49, were his next heirs. Tliis was probably the 
 ClifFe chantry estate. 
 
 In the 20th of Edw. III. John Cerf of Steeton, and 
 Cecily his wife, acquire from Thos. de Newehagh a mess. 
 18 acres of arable land, two of meadow, and os. of yearly 
 rent, in Newhagh and Osgodby, to the use of John and 
 Cecily and their heirs, with rem'', to Thos. de Drax and his 
 heirs. In the 11th of Henry VI. John Cerf and Alice his 
 wife (a daughter of Adam Cawood) acquire a messuage — 
 42 acres of arable, 4 of meadow, and 4 of moor — in Newhay 
 and Osgodby, from Roger Aunger and Isabel his wife. 
 AVilliam Serf (or Cerf) occurs as a witness, temp. Henry 
 IV. and V. Thomas CerfF is a legatee in the will of 
 Thomas Babthorpe in 1478. In the 33rd of Henry VIII. 
 Alice Serf, widow, was a tenant in Newhay, and John 
 Serffe held lands there in the 4th Edward VI. 
 
 The Nuttalls were also among the small freeholders in 
 Newhay. William Nuttall of Newhay, gen., by his will dated 
 20th April, 1564, desires to be buried at Hemingbro', in 
 the churchyard, at the west end. To Margaret, his wife, 
 he leaves his messuage at Newhay and his lands, &c., 
 until his children are of age. To son Ralph, when of age, 
 his lands at Newhay, Camblesforth, and Gowdail. Son 
 John and daughters Eliz. and Margaret N. " To my wife 
 half of a keile wliiche I boght," paying 6/. Brother Peter 
 N. supervisor. Sisters Alice and Joan N. Bro' Peter's 
 children. Witn. Gabriel Morland, clerk, &c. Pr. 9 Oct., 
 1565. 
 
 5th June, 1589. Pr. test. Peter N. of Newhay, and 
 adm. to Janet his widow, with res", to Alice, Anne, Wm., 
 John, Rich'^., and Peter N., his ch". exrs. 
 
 Ralph Nuttall was the father of Ashton Nuttall of Raw- 
 cliffe, par. Snaith, gen., who died in 1611. In 1599 Ralph 
 N. and Mary Aske, par. Hemingbro', had a marr. lie. 
 
 It is probable that John Nuttall (who sold land in New- 
 hay to Thos. Salvin in the 12th Jac. I.) was the father of 
 William ^^ and Peter Nuttall of Newhay. 
 
 ^^ Hemingbro^ P. R. — Catherine, d. d. do.,bp. 1626. Margaret, wife of Peter 
 
 Wm. Nuttall, bp. May 17, 1607. Ann, N., par. Brayton, bur. Oct. 2, 1636. 
 
 d. do., bp. Dec. 19, 1608. Wm., s. do., Richard N. of Newhay and Mary 
 
 bp. May 13, 1612. Wm. N., bur. Dec. 19, Riccall of Menthorpe marr. Nov. 3, 1616. 
 
 1614. JeannettN., bur. March 17,1620-1. Richard N. of Hemingbro' bur. July 24, 
 
 Joseph, s. of Peter N. of Newhay, bp. 1641. 
 1620 ; Ann, dau. do., bp. 1623 ; Jane,
 
 NEWHAY. 301 
 
 The Woodroofes also held a small property in Newhay. 
 In the 14tli James I. George Woodroofe sold land there 
 to Roger Wright, and more to the same person in 
 2nd Charles I. Katherine Woodroofe, widow, sold more 
 land in the 15th Car. I. to John Alured, Esq. In the 11th 
 Jac. I. George W. and Katherine his wife sold 52 acres of 
 land at Ottringham to Thomas Salvin. Several notices of 
 the Woodroofes occur in the Parish Register.*"^ 
 
 The family of Fairland (Bella Landa) has been resident 
 at Newhay for more than two centuries. John Fairland, 
 alias Brewer, acquired lands there in 1652. 
 
 The name of Newhay itself was common in early times 
 before patronymics became usual. Some of the Newhays, 
 probably, were descendants of Alice, daughter of Henry de 
 Stanegrave, who took the name of Newhay with her son 
 Henry. One of her descendants, perhaps, was Thomas de 
 Nova Haia, who, in 1314, was a prebendary in the Collegiate 
 Church of Auckland, and in receipt of a yearly pension 
 of ten marks from the Prior and Convent of Durham. 
 
 Fisheries. — In the 36th of Edward III. there was a 
 trial at York about the fisheries at Newhay. It was too 
 common then to interfere with the navigation of the river 
 and the rights of neighbouring landowners by having fish- 
 dams, and portions of the river enclosed, or nearly en- 
 closed, with stakes, to capture salmon. The Prior of 
 Drax was charged before the King at York with having 
 ' diversse estachite,' and ' duae gurgites multum nocivte,' at 
 Newhay-ness. The Prior says, in reply, that he is the 
 Lord of Newhay, holding the land on both sides of the 
 river. He says also tliat what are called ' gurgites ' are 
 only ' estachire et pala^ fixa3 in aqua, in uno loco pro 
 retibus ponendis et piscibus capiendis.' These ' estachia? 
 et pala3 ' he and his predecessors have always had on one 
 side of the Ouse or the other, and they do not impede 
 navigation. The jurors find that the Prior has two 'gur- 
 gites ' at Newhay, put there by himself, of the value of 
 Ix s. per annum, which are an impediment to ships. It is 
 ordered, therefore, that they be removed. 
 
 «3 Fulk, s. of Mr. Geo. W. of Newhay, W., dau. of do., bur. 1620. Geo. W. of 
 
 bp. March 9, 1605. Catherine, d. do., Newhay, sen., bur. at Howden Dec. 10, 
 
 bp. Dec. 22, 1611. Vincent, s. do., bp. 1627. 
 July 13, died Oct. 19, 1611. Mrs. Eleanor
 
 >02 THE HISTORY OF HEMINGBROUGII. 
 
 THE TOWNSHIP OF OSGODBY. 
 
 This small and pleasant hamlet lies to the east of Barlby, 
 of which it is almost a continuation. It is the only town- 
 ship in the parish in which the owner has usually been 
 personally resident, a circumstance to which the condition 
 of the village bears pleasing testimony. 
 
 Osgodby signifies the by, or habitation, of Osgod, a 
 Danish surname, and is common to several hamlets in 
 Yorkshire and elsewhere. The place is thus described 
 in Domesday : — 
 
 In Ausgotesbi ii car' & dimid', & dimid' bov' ad geld, & ii carucse 
 possunt esse. Harum terrarum soca pertinet ad Houeden maner' 
 episcopi Dunelm'. Nunc habet Nigel in dominio i car' & ix vill' cum 
 II car' & VI soch' <k nil vill' & ii bord' cum ii car'. T. R. E. valebat 
 XL sol. modo XX sol. 
 
 In Ausgotesbi hab' Norman & Tochi ii m' de ill bov' ad geld. Nigel 
 habet ibi I car' in dominio. Prati acr' xx. Silva past' dimid' leulg' & 
 dimid' lat'. Tot. i leulg' & i lat'. T. R. E. valebat xii sol. modo 
 v sol. 
 
 The northern part of the township is a cold, clay soil, 
 to the extent of several hundred acres, and was covered 
 with forest or copse-wood long after the southern portion 
 had been cleared. The woodland, or wood-pasture, a 
 very expressive description, consisted, probably, of about 
 three carucates. The words in Domesday ' dimid' leulg ' 
 can scarcely be translated half a league. They are, pro- 
 bably, merely an estimate of quantity, allowing for various 
 riddings or clearances ; the probable area of the wood, or 
 wood-pasture, was not more than 360 acres. 
 
 The arable demesne is chiefly, if not entirely, a sandy 
 soil of good quality and of easy culture, and is situated 
 near the village. It consisted, according to Domesday, of 
 two carucates and a half, aiid half an oxgang, to be taxed, 
 in addition to which was land, manorial or otherwise, of 
 Norman and Tochi, estimated at three bovates, or forty- 
 five acres. We will dispose in the first place of these 
 three bovates. They were given at a very early period to
 
 OSGODBY. 303 
 
 the Knights Templars, and were united to their manor of 
 Temj)lehurst. The Templars were suppressed in 1315, 
 and the subsequent history of this land has not been made 
 out. There is, however, a notice of it in the inventory of 
 Thomas Lord Darcy, made in the 20th of Henry VIII., 
 where it appears that he had a fee-farm rent of 40^. 3d. 
 per annum arising out of lands m Osgodby, in the parish 
 of HemingbroLigh. In the 1st of Mary, a rent of lO.y., goino- 
 out of lands in Osgodby, held of the heirs of the Templars, 
 was granted by the Crown to Dame Joan Constable. The 
 land is still held by the executors of Mr. Ness, as of the 
 manor of Templehurst, of Lord Sheffield, and by the 
 Enclosure of 1813 it amounts to 44a. orJ^ It is worthy 
 of remark that a ftunily of the name of Templar was long 
 connected with Osgodby. They may have been copy- 
 holders of these lands, and in this way have acquired the 
 name. 
 
 In the Clamores de Euerwicsire, Nigel is said to possess 
 three carucates. At a subsequent time the property is 
 described as held as the fourth part of a knight's fee, and 
 in Kirkby's Inquest it is again estimated at three caru- 
 cates. We conclude, therefore, that, whatever demises or 
 grants may have occurred (as in the case of the forty-five 
 acres), the manor had origmally been of the same ex- 
 tent as those of Cliffe and Hemmgbrough, and had been 
 held by like tenure : one-third being the lord's demesne, 
 the remainder held by copyholders at low rents, on condi- 
 tion of working the lord's third. Indeed, Nigel is said in 
 Domesday to have one carucate in demesne, which he held 
 of the Earl of Moreton (see account of CUfFe). The in- 
 ference then is, that the two remaining carucates were held 
 by his bondmen or copyholders. 
 
 Before the late enclosure, Osgodby had four arable fields 
 of half-year land, containing, on the whole, 260 acres.^^ 
 This we conclude to have been the two carucates chiefly 
 held by the copyholders, as the measurement exceeds the 
 estimate by only twenty acres. The lord's demesne, i.e. 
 
 '0 In the Mill Field and Ings, 25a. 55a. Total, 260 acres. 
 
 Ir. 34p. In the Far Field, 4a. 3r. 38p. Ings land in addition— Bank Syke, 
 
 On the Common, 5a. Or. 27p. On do., 51a. 2r. Mace Ings, 43a. 3r. 
 
 4a. 3r. 25p. = 44a. 2r. 38p. Land on Osgodby Common, about 
 
 " Tute hill Field, 75 acres. Mill 150 acres. 
 Field, 70a. West Field, 60a. Far Field,
 
 '604: THE HISTORY OF HEMINGBROUGH. 
 
 the remaining carucate, must have been separated and 
 enclosed at a very early period, and as the Open Fields had 
 from time immemorial been broken by various old en- 
 closures, the probability is that these were the demesne 
 lands, or were accepted in lieu of them, and they may have 
 been thus separated when the opera {^cestiva et autiimnalia) 
 were commuted. 
 
 The Earl of Moreton's interest, or rather jurisdiction, in 
 Osgodby was transferred (together with his interest in ClifFe, 
 as before specified), to the Bishop of Durham, and, con- 
 sequently, Nigel and his successors afterwards held the 
 manor of the Bishops by military service, as of the soke of 
 Howden, subject to the Courts Lete, but exempt from the 
 })ayment of any quit rent. The Fossards continued to 
 hold Osgodby with ClifFe until the family ended in an 
 heiress, but they demised the manor to certain feudatories, 
 or lessees, in whose descendants it afterwards became 
 hereditary. 
 
 By the scutage of 1166, it appears that a certain Jordan 
 de Hameldon^^ held of the Bishop of Durham in Yorkshire 
 the fourth part of a knight's fee. The same person occurs 
 as a witness to various deeds in the parish about this time. 
 In the fifth year of John, Robert de Turnham and Joan 
 his wife (the heiress of the Fossards) grant to Jordan de 
 Augoteby and his heirs the thi-ee carucates at Osgodby, 
 rendering therefore the service of the fourth part of a 
 knight's fee, the Bishop of Durham putting in his claim. 
 This claim was merely the jurisdiction (as of the Sheriff's 
 Court) previously described, or a certain interest arising 
 from the fines paid at his Court Lete (there is no evidence 
 of any yearly payment being made to him), as of his manor 
 of Howden. 
 
 Jordan de Hamelton and Jordan de Osgodby are iden- 
 tical, Hamelton taking his name, as was common enough, 
 from his residence and estate. The Drax Chartulary 
 proves this very satisfactorily. Jordan left an only daugh- 
 ter, Dionisia, who, in 1206, was the wife of Sampson de 
 Pumerai, or Pomeroi, when the two made gifts to the 
 Priory of Drax.^^ In the 8th of Henry III., the same 
 
 " Jordan Hamelton confirms to St. consent of Dionisia his wife, dau. of 
 
 German, of Selby, two oxgangs of land Jordan de Hameldun, gave an oxgang 
 
 in North Duffield (Reg. Selby, 12Sb). of land here to Drax. The same person 
 
 ■'■' Samson de la Pumerai, with the and his wife gave a toft, ten acres of
 
 OSGODBY. 
 
 305 
 
 couple, and Peter de Mauley and his wife, exchange certain 
 land, adjoining to Haveracres in Osgodby, for the carucate 
 at Ness, the consideration given being one year's rent of 
 the carucate, viz. -iOs. The fine repeats that the manor of 
 Osgodby continued to be held by Sampson and Dionisia 
 of the said Peter and Isabel, and her heirs (she was the 
 heiress of the Turnhams) on the old tenure. To SamjDson 
 succeeded John de Pomeroi, his son. 
 
 His name first appears in the Pleas of Assize at York 
 in the 2Sth of Henry III., and, in the 30th of the same king, 
 he is the plaintiff in a fine with John, son of Hugh de 
 Selby, respecting a croft and a bovate of land in Osgodby, 
 which Waldegus, son of Alketin, once held of his father, 
 {Sampson de Pomeroi, in villeinage. In the 5 th of 
 Edward I. the same John de Pomeroi released his interest 
 in certain waste land in Riccall, which seems to have been 
 in dispute between the Bishop of Durham and the Dean 
 and Chapter of York. In the same year his son, Jordan 
 de Pomeroi, confirms his father's quit- claim. '^^ To the 
 Pomeroys succeeded Eobert, son of Adam de Osgodby, 
 
 land, a turbary, pannage for ten hogs, 
 and stours for burning, building, or 
 hedging. The same Dionisia, dau. of 
 Sir Jordan de Ausgotebi, Kut., in her 
 wido-whood, gave half an oxgang of 
 land with a toft here, to Walding. son 
 of Ralph de Ausgotby, the said Walding 
 paying yearly to God and St. Nicholas 
 del Houni, and the canons there, 2s., for 
 the good of the soul of Samson, her late 
 husband. She also gave, in her widow- 
 hood, sixteen acres of land in the field 
 of Haveracres, on the east side, near 
 Lamb-crofts, extending towards the 
 wood on the south, and upon Middle- 
 dike towards the north ; with one acre 
 of land, and pasture for 200 sheep ; as 
 also the homage and service of Martin, 
 son of Ingeram de Newhay, for one ox- 
 gang of land and six acres in Gille- 
 croft ; and likewise gave four other 
 acres and a croft ; with the service of 
 William, son of William le Norais, for 
 nine acres and a rood of meadow with a 
 toft in Osgodby ; and, with her body, she 
 gave a toft. John, son of Samson de 
 Pomerio, with the consent of Dionisia 
 his wife, confirmed all that his father 
 and Dionisia his mother had given. 
 Eobert, son of Adam de Osgoteby, con- 
 firmed the above grants. 
 
 In 1200, Mr. Thomas de Sickethona 
 
 gave all his land with a toft here to 
 Drax. 
 
 Walter, son of Robert de Barnelby, 
 living in Osgodeby, gave half an acre in 
 O. in a place called Scort-ing, and in 
 Swyne-hall. 
 
 Burton's Monasticon, p. 109. In 
 1252 an agreement was made between 
 Robert, Prior of Drax, and Walter, Prior 
 of Worksop, by which the former should 
 have a messuage and twenty-o'^e acres 
 of land in Newhay ; and the latter a 
 messuage and fifteen acres in Osgodeby, 
 which were held by Richard deHajjples- 
 thorp. 
 
 "^ The following charter is preserved 
 in the Bodleian Library : — 
 
 " Jordanus de la Pomeray, filius Jo- 
 hannis de la P., Johanni filio Nicholai 
 de Osgoteby quoddam assartum in terri- 
 torio de O. quod vocatur Brenbrand- 
 ridding, quod pater ejusdem quondam 
 tenuit de Johanne, patre meo. . . . red- 
 dendo inde unam rosam Priori et Conv. 
 de Drax ad magnum altare B. Nich. de 
 Drax. Testibus Rob. de Menthorp, Rob. 
 de Hagethorp, Rad. de Babethorpe, Tho. 
 de Lusceby in Dufeld, Waltero fil. 
 Hugonis de Osgoteby, Petro fil. Evk de 
 0., etc.— Seal a fleur-de-hs, S. lORDANI 
 PVMERAI."
 
 306 
 
 THE HISTORY OF HEMIXGBROUGH. 
 
 who confirmed to Drax all the grants made by his prede- 
 cessors. Adam de Osgodby may, therefore, have either 
 married an heiress of Pomeroi, or have been a younger son 
 who took the name of the place. 
 
 Adam de Osgodby = 
 
 Eobert de Osgodby, lord of Osgodby in 1284 = 
 
 Matthew de Osgodby, 
 slain 10th Edw. II. 
 Adam de 0., Master 
 of the Rolls. 
 Walter. In the Scot- 
 tish war, 1310. 
 
 2. Eobert deO., 
 m. Agnes, d. 
 of Edmund de 
 Muleford. = 
 
 Richard, prebendary 
 of York and vicar of 
 Bubwith in 1316. 
 
 Isabel, m. Thos. Hag- 
 thorpe. 
 
 5. John, father 
 of John de O., 
 who was an 
 owner of New- 
 hay in 1342. 
 
 Emma, m. John Rabace. 
 Cecily, m. Hugh Turnyll. 
 
 Robert de Osgodby is mentioned by Kirkby in his 
 Inquest in 1284 as holding of the Bishop of Durham three 
 carucates of land in Osgodby, the fourth part of a knight's 
 fee, by military service. About the same time he is styled, 
 in an undated charter, " dominus de Osgodby," and his 
 name, with that of his son, another Robert, is attached to 
 various other documents relating to the parish for the 
 space of fifty years and more. 
 
 On 30th January, 1301-2, Edward I. granted to Robert 
 de Osgodby, in return for the good service of Matthew his 
 son, the privilege of a market and fair at his uianor of 
 Osgodby, the market to be held every Wednesday, the fair 
 once a year for three consecutive days, viz. on the vigil, 
 the day, and the morrow after the Feast of the Nativity of 
 the Blessed Virgin (8th September). The feast at Osgodby 
 is now held a week before that of Barlby, which begins 
 on the last Sunday in September. The privilege of free 
 warren was granted to him at the same time. 
 
 The chief person in the pedigree of Osgodby is, un- 
 doubtedly, Adam de Osgodby, a younger son of Robert, 
 who rose to a high position in Church and State. He was 
 a successful clerk in the chancery of Edwards I. and 11. 
 From 7th November, 1307, until his death, he was Master 
 of the Rolls ; and, on two occasions, in 1311 and 1313, he 
 liad the charge of the Great Seal, during a vacancy in the 
 office of Chancellor. In 1306 he was present at the Par- 
 liament at Carlisle as the proctor of the Dean and Chapter
 
 OSGODBY. 307 
 
 of York. In 1298 Osgodby became Rector of Warrendoii, 
 Bucks (Cole's MSS. xxvi. 29), and, in 1300, of Gargrave in 
 Craven. He held also, from 1289, the prebend of Ulles- 
 kelf at York, and was, besides, at the time of his death 
 prebendary of Lanchester, co. Durham, a vicar of Bub with, 
 and rector of Hawkswell, in Richmondshire. Osgodby was 
 the owner also of property m Newhay, as has been men- 
 tioned in the account of that place. He was a benefactor 
 to the church of Hemingbrough, as has been seen already. 
 Osgodby was interred in Lincoln Cathedral, under a marble 
 stone, bearing a cross and numerous escutcheons, and the 
 following inscription: — ''Sire Adam de Osgodby, jadys 
 derke de la chancery e, ght icy, par Dieu \_priez']pur la alme 
 de lye'' (Peck's Desid. Curiosa, 313). His will was 
 proved at Lincoln, Henry de ClifFe, a compatriot, being one 
 of his executors. He left 100 marks to prosecute a crusade. 
 An inquest was held on the death of Osgodby on 8th 
 October, 1316, in which it is said that he enfeoffed his 
 brother, AValter de Osgodby, in his lifetime, in a messuage, 
 fifty acres of land, a windmill, and 10.s\ of annual rent in 
 Newhagh in Drax, worth 66.s'. %d. per annum. John, 
 son of John de Osgodby, is his next heir, of the age of 
 fifteen years at the last Lent. 
 
 The family of Robert de Osgodby, the younger, consisted 
 of two daughters, Emma and Cecily ; and these made 
 partition of the inheritance. The elder, Emma, married 
 John Rabace, and died without issue. Cecily became the 
 wife of Hugh Turnyll, and the mother of Ralph Turnyll, 
 who alienated the property. We learn this from an award 
 made in the last year of the reign of Henry VI. From 
 the same authority we learn that the Hagthorpes claimed 
 a moiety of the manor. They stated that Isabel, sister and 
 co-heiress of Robert de Osgodby the younger, was married 
 to Thomas Hagthorpe, and had a son Thomas. Thomas 
 Hagthorpe, being in possession of a moiety of the manor, 
 as representative of Isabel de Osgodby, conveyed it, by deed 
 of feolFinent, dated 8th September, 1386, to Thomas 
 Fairfax of Walton, Thomas de Barley of Woodsome, John 
 de Langforth of Hathersage, and Ralph Leche of Baslawe.'^ 
 On 2nd February, 1386-7, these feoffees authorise Thomas 
 
 '^ Dated at Walton, and witnessed by and Edmund de Mctliam. (Osgodby 
 Thos. de Metham, Knt., John Fairfax, Deeds.) 
 clerk, Thos. de Etton, Thos. Dayvell, 
 
 X 2
 
 308 THE HISTORY OF IIEMIXGBEOUGII. 
 
 cle Hagthorpe, Richard Piper, draper, and Robert de 
 Midelton, to give seisin of the moiety to Sir Henry Percy, 
 the son, John de Kirkby of Cotness, and Robert the chap- 
 lain, receiver of Sir Thomas de Percy, knightJ^ Nothing 
 seems to have come of this, as, on 22nd February, 1387-8, 
 Thomas de Hagthorpe conveys all his lands, &c., in 
 Osgodby to Sir John de Ros, lord of Helmsley, Robert de 
 Thornburgh, John de Kirkeby, Thomas Walworth, rector 
 of Hemingbrough, Thomas Longley, rector of Castleford, 
 William Borgoyne of Bahie, Nicholas de Bernhille, Robert 
 Mauleverer, and Thomas Thorner of Parsley/^ On 3rd 
 March, 1466-7, Walworth, Mauleverer, and Thorner assign 
 tlieir trust to William de Waltham, Richard de Holme, 
 Alan de Newark, William de Ingilby, and Thomas Thorp, 
 clerks, and John StrechJ^ In 1409 Henry Randolf and 
 J^hzabeth his wife, in consideration of 100 marks of silver, 
 convey the manor to Holme, Newarke, and Strech. 
 Ehzabeth Randolf was probably a Kettering, and seems to 
 have disposed of her interest in Osgodby. On 1st April, 
 1 113, John Strech, Esq., assigns his trust to Mr. William 
 Waltham, and Mr. Richard Holme, canons of York, Mr. 
 John Carleton, rector of Escrick, and Robert Huton, late 
 servant of Mr. Thomas Walworth.''^ On 17th March, 
 1424-5, Carlton and Huton transfer their trust to Sir 
 Robert Babthorpe, Knt., William Babthorpe, Esq., Richard 
 Elvett, clerk, John Bingham, Esq., of co. Leicester, Thomas 
 Plolden, Esq., co. Durham, and Stephen Drewell, Esq., co. 
 Northants,^^ and William de Haddlesey, on trust, to 
 settle the same upon the said Thomas and his heirs. These 
 deeds indicate much restless activity on the part of the 
 
 "''Dated at Osgodby. (Osgodby Mauleverer seals, with a dog with R.M. 
 
 Deeds.) above and below. (Osgodby Deeds.) 
 
 ■" Dated at Leicester. Witn. by Ge- On 20 Aug. 1407 Richard de Alde- 
 
 rard Salvin, Gerard Usfleet, and Thos. burgh, cousin and heir of Humphrey de 
 
 FitzHenry, Knts., Wm. Skipwith, John Aldeburgh, clerk, releases to Waltham, 
 
 de Ask, Edmund and John de Metham, Holme, and Streche, his right in Osgodby. 
 
 Thos. de Hagthorpe, Robert de Bab- Witn. Guy Rocliffe, Wm. de Heming- 
 
 thorpe, and others. burgh, Wm. Freman, Richd. Piper and 
 
 Seal : Sigillum Thomae Maundevilc. W^m. Clone. (Osgodby Deeds.) 
 Within a bordure engrailed a scallop " Dated at Osgodby, and witn. by Peter 
 
 shell (?) over two wings. (Osgodby Deeds.) del Hay of Spaldington, John Brynne 
 
 '* Dated at Osgodby and witn. by Alex. of Selby, John Wymond of Osgodby, 
 
 de Metham, and Gerard Salvin, Knts., Richard Pyper and Wm. Peresson of the 
 
 John Aske, John de Langton, Thos. de same. (Osgodby Deeds.) 
 Miton, John de Metham, Wm. de Hem- '*" Dated at Osgodby, and witn. by John 
 
 ingburgh, Wm. Freeman, and other ten- de Ask, Peter del Hay, John Newsom, 
 
 ants of Osgodby, Richd. Piper, John Thos. Hagthorpe, and Robt. Babthorpe of 
 
 Wjmond, and Wm. Barley. Heniingbro, esquires. (Osgodby Deeds.)
 
 OSGODBY. 309 
 
 Hagtliorpes to substantiate, or make, a title. I now give 
 the award : — 
 
 An Aivarde concerning the mannor of Osgodby. 
 
 To all Cristen peple to whome this present writyng endented shall 
 com, John Yavasour tt John Shirwood, sondes gretyng in God. And 
 for als my die as diverses variances, controversies, debates, & demaundez 
 have bene, als wele upon the right, title, clayme &l possession of y** 
 manere of Osgodby beside Selby in ye counte of York, and other landes 
 & tenementes with yair appurtenaunces in Osgodby aforesaid, as for 
 othir demaundes, dettes, querrels, trespasses, & offences, hfcd & moved 
 betwix Maistre Thomas Babthorpe, prebendare of ye prebend of Gy ven- 
 dale in ye Cathederatt chirche of York, on yat one paitie, and Thomas 
 Hagthorp of Hagthorpe & Richard Hagthorp, his brothir, on yat othir 
 partie ; And, at ye laste, by means & mediation of diverse frendes of 
 bothe ye said parties, after diverse tretes & communicacions had, in &. 
 of ye premisses, it liked bothe ye said parties to bynde yaime, either to 
 othir, in c ti of lawfully mone of England, by thair obligacions k othir 
 suretes with yaime, to be payed at ye feste of ye Ascension of our Lord 
 God next commyng, as it appereth more playnely by ye saide obligacions, 
 to obeie & to fultill siche arbitrement, ordenaunce, t judgement, as We, ye 
 saide John t John, arbitrours indifferently chosyn, wolde make, ordeyne, 
 't deme in t of all ye premisses ; And at ye instance, prayer, t requeste 
 of bothe ye said parties, We have takyn upon us ye charge of ye said 
 arbitrement, ordenaunce, % jugement, of & in all ye premisses ; and yere 
 upon have had afore us at diverse tymes t places both ye said parties, 
 with all yair evydences, concernyng yair claymez, querells, possessions, 
 't demandes ; and yereupon herd all yeir answeres t replicacions, 
 whiche either of ye parties aforesaid wold or coutlie say or shewe in ye 
 probacion of yair right, title, querell, clayme, or possession ; And for as 
 myche as ye said Thomas Hagthorp t Richard made yeir clayme of ye 
 said manere, landes, % tenementes with yeir appurtenaunces, concevyng 
 yaime to com of one Isabell, sustir to Robert ye son of Robert Osgodby, 
 affermyng yat the said Robert, ye son, had issue one Emme t no moo ; 
 Whiche Emme, yai said, decessed withoute issue, and so ye right t 
 title of ye same manere, landes, % tenementes, with yeir appurtenaunces, 
 discended unto ye said Thomas Hagthorp, as cosyn & heire unto ye 
 said Robei't ye son, yat is to say, comyn of Isabell sustir to ye same 
 Robert ye son ; unto ye whiche ye said Thomas Babthorp answered % 
 shewed, in interrupcion % excludyng of ye said pretence 't clayme, yat 
 ye said Robert, ye son, had issue the said Emme, &l one Cicile, whiche 
 Cicile wase maried to Hugh Turnyll, and had issue of hir body lawefully 
 becommyng Rauff Turnyll, ye whiche Rauff aliened ye said manere, 
 landes, "t tenementez with yeir appurtenauncez to one William Keteryng, 
 be whome ye said Thomas Babthorp intitled & conveyed him sufficiently 
 by his dedes & evidences to laweful title and possession of ye same 
 manere, landes, t tenementez with yeir appurtenauncez, and, in prefe 
 yere of, emonge othir substanciall profes in probacion yat ye said 
 Robert, ye son, had issue als Avele ye said Cicile as ye said Emme, he 
 shewed afore us ane endenture of mariage betwix ye said Hugh & 
 Cicile, doghter of ye said Robert Osgodby ye son, under seall of Armes, 
 and also a dede endented betwix ye said Emme & Cicile which recited
 
 dW THE HISTORY OF HEMINGBrvOUGH, 
 
 a particion made betwix ye saidez Emme t Cicile, doghters % heires 
 unto ye said Robert* ye son. And, overeyat, ye said Thomas Babthorp 
 shewed afore us goode t laweful evydence of ye purchace of ye said 
 manere, landes, t tenementez with yeir appurtenauncez, with diverse 
 feofmentez % releses made by ye auncestor of ye said Thomas Hagthorp 
 & Hichard of ye same, whose heire ye said Thomas is, yat is to say by 
 Thomas Hagthorp, grauntesyre unto Thomas Hagthorp t Richard 
 abovesaid, als wele unto John lorde Roos of Hamelak, as unto ye said 
 William Keteryng ; And in als myche as ye said Thomas Hagthorp ife 
 Richard shewed none evydence in writyng undir seal!, nor othirwise 
 substaunceally, in disprefyng of the answere 'i replicacion of ye said 
 Thomas Babthorp, We, ye said John 1 John, by consideracion of ye 
 premises, and by assent of both ye said parties, ordayne, awarde, t deme 
 in the fourme folowyng, yat is to say, yat ye saidez Thomas Hagthorp 
 & Richard his brothir shall, afore ye feste of ye Ascension of our Lorde 
 beforesaid, make, seal, % delivere to ye said Thomas Babthorp, his heires 
 't assignes, a sure 't sufficient relese of all ye right, title, t clayme whiche 
 ye same Thomas Hagthoi'p & Richard, or either of yaime, or yeir heires, 
 or ye heires of outhir of yaime, hathe, or in eny manere of wyse may 
 have, in al ye said manere, landes, t tenementez with yeir appur- 
 tenauncez, or in eny parcell of yaime, with clause of Avarante ayeinste ye 
 Abbote of ye Monasterie of Saynt German's of Selby ; And also yat ye 
 saidez Thomas Hagthorp t Richard delyvere, or make to be delyvered, 
 unto ye said Thomas Babthorp, afore ye said feste, ane obligacion, 
 to be cancelled t adnulled, in ye whiche Thomas Batell, tenaunte 
 to ye said Thomas Babthorp in Osgodby aforesaid, standes bounden 
 to ye said Thomas Hagthorp in xxxiij* iiij'', ye whiche somme 
 ye said Thomas Hagthorp clayrned to have of ye said tenaunte as 
 percell of ye ferme of ye manour of Osgodby aforesaid ; And, overe 
 that, we, ye said John & John, ordaynes, awardes, & denies yat ye 
 said Thomas Babthorp shall, afore ye feste beforesaid, make, seall, 
 «fe delivere unto ye said Thomas Hagthorp & Richard severall sure, 
 & sufficient releses of all manere of accions, reales & personeles, whicli 
 ye said Thomas Babthorp hathe or in eny manere of wyse may have 
 fro ye begynnyng of ye worlde unto ye day of ye makyng hereof : And 
 also yat ye saide Thomas Babthorp, nor none othir for him nor in his 
 name, shall at eny tyme hereafter vex, truble, or sue eny persone or 
 persones to ye saidez Thomas Hagthorp & Richard belongyng for eny 
 manere causes, querell, trespas, & ofFencez, as in or fore ye entre or 
 occupacion of ye said manere, landes, % tenementez, or eny parcell of 
 yaime done afore ye day of ye makyng hereof. In witness of yis our 
 awarde, ordenaunce & deme endented, to either partie of ye same we 
 have sett our sealx. And for als myche as our sealx to mony men er 
 unknawen, we have procured ye Mair of ye Cite of York to sett his seal 
 to ye parties of yis same endenture. And we, Thomas Beverlay, mair of 
 ye Cite aforesaid, our seal of office of mairalte of ye same Cite, at ye 
 prayer & requeste of ye said John % John, to ye parties of yise endentures 
 hath sett, in witnesse of ye premises made at York ye viij day of May, 
 in ye xxxviij yere of ye reigne of Kyng Henry ye Sext, after ye conqueste 
 of England. 
 
 Ralph Turnyll, according to the award, alienated the 
 manor to William Kettering, secretary of the Duke of
 
 w 
 
 PEDIGREE OF THE BABTHORPES OF OSGODBY. 
 
 William Babtliorpe, Esq., of Osgodby. 3rtl son of = Christina, dau. John SothiU, Esq., of Stockfaston, co. Leicester, by Eliz,, 
 Sir Robert Babthorpe of Babtborpe. Inq. p.m. i\. and coh. of Wm. Plumptoo of Plumpton, Esq. Re-m. Wm. Bedell, 
 dated 17 Nov.. 1504. Died 10 Feb., 1500-1. Died 8 Apr.. 1540, and bur. in the Grey Friars, London. 
 
 Sir William Babthorpe of Osgodby, = Agnes, dau. of Brian Palmes, 
 
 __n and heir, !> 
 was made Knt. of the Bath at the 
 coronation of Edward VI. Inq. I 
 p.m. dated 18 May, 1.55.5. Died 27 
 Feb. before. Created Seneschal of | 
 Howden and Howdenshire by the I 
 Bp. of Durham 30 Nov., 1547. with | 
 pension of 11 marks per ann. 
 
 Naburn, Sergeant- 
 
 Italph Babthorpe = Anne, d. . , Deane. Re-mar 
 cock, Aldn. of York. Will.d.i 
 27 Apr., 1591. 
 
 1 Barbara, ilau Sir = Sir William Babthorpe of Osgodby, = 2. Prances, dan. Sir Thomas 2. Leonard Babthoi-pi 
 
 Robert Constable of i son and heir. it-l. 2V, and more in | Dawoay of Seasay. by Edith. "'~ °-' '-" ' 
 
 Everingham. by Ca- ' 1555. Knighted by Q. Eliz. in 1560. ; dau. George. Lord^ Darcy of 
 therine, dau. George I Inq. p.m. dated 23 May, 1581. Died Aston 
 Manners, Lord Bos. \ 1 May. Adm.granted 8 June,1581, 
 
 , Snaith, 17 
 
 1 H(05. 
 
 lawyer, m. Frances, d. 
 Wm. Redman, and had two daurs., Edith and 
 Christiana. His father settled lands in Naburn 
 and Sutton on him for life, 19 Oct., 1(»02. A liiion. 
 of Leonard B. of Byram to Edith, wife of Wm. 
 RobinsoQ. gen., of B. Edith B. and Wm. ~ 
 
 Agnes, m. (1) Sii- Wm. 
 
 Hussey of North Duf- 
 
 field : (2) Matthew St. 
 
 Qiiintin of Harpham, 
 
 Esq. 
 Frances, m. Wm. Creyke 
 
 of Cottingham. Esq. 
 Mary, to whom her 
 
 father leaves 400/. 
 
 Richard Babthorpe = , . . sister 
 of Skipwith.mentd, ' of Rowland 
 1591 of Osgodby. ; Herbert of 
 Bur. at Hemingbro' ' Skipwith. 
 11 Apr., 1610. I 
 
 William Babthorpe. = . . . d. Edward Robert. 
 His uncle, Sir Wm., 
 gives him 3/. 63. 8d. 
 per annum till of 
 
 Sir Ralph Babthorpe of Osgodby, s 
 
 heir, et. 20 years and 5 months i 
 
 Knight#d by James I. at York, 17 Apr., Wm. Ingleby of Ripley ; c 
 
 1G03. loq. p.m dated 22 Sept., 1618. Jan.. 1578-9, fet. 15. Died i 
 
 Died 2 May before, rot. 57, in 1635. 
 
 I I 
 
 Margaret, m. Sir Henry Cholmley of Ruxby, 
 Knt., to whom her father leaves 400/. 
 
 Catherine, m. (1) George Vavasour of Spalding- 
 ton ; (2) John Ingleby of Ripley. Her father 
 leaves her 8/. per ana. for ten years. 
 
 Mary. Her father left her 
 
 July, 1636, Adra. of 
 Ralph B. of Osgodby, 
 Esq., to Ralph B. of 
 Flotmanby. Ralph 
 Babthorpe interfectus 
 per infortunium, 1666. 
 
 .ToLJ. i ' ' 
 Cuthbert. 
 Frances, 1591. 
 
 Jane, bur. at 
 Selby 14 Aug., 
 1602. 
 
 William of Menthorpe in 
 1619 m. Ann, d. John 
 Haye, and had issue Ca- 
 therine, Frances, Anne. 
 7 June. 1622 ; m. lie. at 
 London .August! ueGood- 
 
 Sir William Babtborpe of Osgodby, 
 son and heir. let. 35 in 1618. Adm. 
 at Gray's Inn, 1599- Sells Osgodby, 
 &o. A captain in foreign service ; 
 killed near Ardres in 1635. 
 
 Ursula, d. Wm. Tyrwhitt of 
 Kettleby, co. Lincoln. Died 
 of the plague at Bruges in 
 1634. 
 
 1 I 
 
 Robert Babthorpe, a Benedictme monk. 
 
 Ralph Babthorpe, S.J. ; born 1594. En- 
 tered English College at Home as Ralph 
 Smith, 7 Nov., 1611. Went to Madrid, 1615. 
 Living 1621. 
 
 Ursula, professed at Bruge32l No' 
 1631, and d. 20 Nov., 1679, a;t. 7 
 having been sub-prioress 7 years. 
 
 Barbara, bom 1592. Was 
 Superioress-General of In- 
 stitution B.V.M. Died at 
 Rome 23 Apr., 1654,1 
 
 Ralph Babthorpe = . . d. . , Hamilton. 
 
 Ralph, d. I 
 William, s 
 Robert. 
 John, s.p. 
 
 1 infant. Bur. at Gainsbro" 5 Sept., 1G09. Thomas {alias Tyrwhitt). S.J., born 1613-14. Entered English Coll., Rome, 10 
 I. Oct., 1634- Died at St. Oraer'a Coll. 4 Oct., 1655. 
 
 Richard, S.J.. born 1618. Entered English Coll. 
 Rome 1648. Entered S.J. 7 Sept., 1051. Died a 
 
 Frances, bom 1604. Professed at Louvain 1621, and d. Ifi56. 
 
 Grace, d, unmarr. 
 
 Elizabeth. 
 
 Ursula, born 1612. Professed 1642. Died at Bruges 3 Oct., 1652, > 
 
 William.- 
 Francis. 
 
 All d. before 1720. 
 
 Ursula, born 1652. Entered the Convent of Bruges 1660, and d. there 1 Nov., 1719. 
 
 Mary Anne Barbara, born 1647. Was Superioress-General of the Institute of B.V.M. D. at Munich 10 March, 1711. 
 
 Mary Agnes, bom 1654. Was Superioress-General of the Institute of B.V,M. D. at Munioh 20 Feb. 1720. 
 
 lTofacep.ni. 
 
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 OSGODBY 
 
 311 
 
 Lancaster,^^ a Northamptonshire gentleman. In 1392 
 Ketterino; enfeoffs Thomas Hervy, Thomas JMaiuKleville, 
 John Mitton of Hawksworth, and Robert Neuval of Otley, 
 chaplam, in his manor and lordship of Osgodby,^^^ ^nd 
 directs them by a kind of testamentary disposition, in case 
 he dies in England or abroad, to convey it to Isabel his 
 wife for her life, with reversion to AVilham his son and 
 his heirs and assigns. The said Isabel shall give to William 
 Kettering, the son, ten marks of silver yearly, and if the 
 said William shall die without lawful heir, then his sister 
 Agnes shall inherit. By deed dated at Leicester 1st January, 
 1398-9, Thomas Maundeville of Rotheley, co. Leicester, 
 assigned in trust to Mr. Thomas Holden. 
 
 On 25th November, 1430, Holden releases his interest 
 to his co-trustees, Drewell excepted.^^ The property about 
 this time passes into the hands of the Babthorpes, and, in 
 the 22nd of Henry YL, William Babthorpe, the attorney- 
 general, entails it on Thomas, a younger son of Ralph 
 Babthorpe, and his heirs male, with remainder to Ralph 
 his brother, then to Robert his brother. The descent of 
 the estate in this distinguished fixmily will be best shown 
 by a pedigree, which must be compared with that of the 
 Babthorpes of Babthorpe, from which it is an offshoot. 
 
 Thomas Babthorpe, who inherited from the attorney- 
 general, was a canon of York, and has been already spoken 
 of in the account of Babthorpe. He was the owner of 
 Osgodby in 145G, and in his will, dated in 1478, he says 
 that he had conveyed it to feoffees in trust for his nephew 
 Wm. Babthorpe, son of his brother Robert. On 10th May, 
 1499, this William Babthorpe conveys Osgodby to trustees 
 — viz. Sir Richard Clifford, Sir Richard Cholmley, Knts., 
 Wm. Fairftix, John Leghe, John Haryngton, Robert and 
 Henry Sotehill, and Wm. Starkey — to secure to Christina 
 his wife a life-interest in the estate, with reversion to 
 William, his eldest son. Mr. Babthorpe died in 1501, and 
 
 8' As such he had a grant of certain other inhabitants of Osgodby. Ket- 
 
 houses in the town of Bordeaux, on Jan. tering's seal is appended, showing ar- 
 
 15, 1389-90. (Gascon Rolls.) In the morial bearings which cannot easily be 
 
 1st of Hen. IV. Wm. Gascoigne quit- made out. (Osgodby Deeds.) 
 
 claims to Wm. Kettering all his right in ^^ Dated at Howden, and witnessed by 
 
 Kirkby Hall. (MS. Harl. 805.) John Portington, Esq., Wm. Malton, 
 
 82 Witnessed by Thos.de Hawksworth, Esq., and Wm. Wetwong. (Osgodby 
 
 Stephen del Fall, Eechard Hudson, Deeds.) 
 Adam del Caslell, Richard Pipere, and
 
 312 THE IITSTOEY OF HEMINGBROUGII. 
 
 a part of his will is entered on the inquest after his death, 
 but it contains little of interest. 
 
 I will that my feoffees of other my lands then of the manor of 
 Osgodby, and of other lands and rents in Osgodby, whereof I have 
 enfeoffed divers personys to the use of my wyff for term of her lyff, 
 shall suffre my said wyf and other myne executors to take the proffets 
 of them, above the charges, ten yeres, to the contentacion of my detts, 
 the fynding of ray chylder, and perfourmyng of this my will. Item 
 I will that Sir Alexander Wyman have yerely, to do my wyff service, 
 and to pray for me, as my trust is, to have his mete, leverey, and lodgyng, 
 as he hathe nowe, and xlvj s. viij d. by yere, for vij yeres, yf my wyf kepe 
 house, or, elles, vj mark vj s. viij d. a yere during that tyme, to synge at 
 Osgodby, yf he will, except he can be otherwise imployed the meane 
 season. 
 
 Christina Babthorpe re-married Wm. Bedell, Esq., who 
 paid 40/. for the wardship of young Wm. Babthorpe in 
 1504-5, he being then eleven years old. Mr. Babthorpe 
 became a successful lawyer, and increased his estate by 
 various purchases.*^^ With Henry VIII. he changed his 
 religious ^^ opinions, and, in the 2 7th of that King's reign, 
 was appointed a commissioner to survey the chantries in 
 the East Riding. Whilst the King's commissioners were at 
 Hemingbrough making inventories of the Church goods and 
 chantry property, Christopher Aske of Aughton, and John 
 Aske, his eldest brother, were looking on. When they 
 were there the religious insurrection known as (Robert) 
 Aske's RebelHon broke out at Howden and the villages 
 near. The two Askes and Mr. Babthorpe of Osgodby were 
 
 s* On 25th Jan., 1524-5, he exchanges theme, one olde ryall. To my nece Agnes 
 
 his lands at Beverley with Thos. Port- Craike 101. to liir mariage. Also for as 
 
 •ngton, Esq., for his lands at Osgodby. myche I do miderstand that John B. 
 
 On 25th Jan., 16 Hen. VIII., he buys is alive and lyke to be an honest man, 
 
 land at 0. from Thos. Portington, Esq., althoughe he haithe bene evill, yet I will 
 
 and from John Beverley in 1532 ; from that he have 51. of my godes ; & be- 
 
 Thomas Snawsell, Esq., 23 and 24 Hen. cause William Dalbie haith bene my 
 
 VIII. ; and from Conand Baret in 1534. servant frome his youthe upp, whome 
 
 *■' His brother Robert, as will be seen alway I founde at al tymes faithfull & 
 
 in the pedigree, held high preferment in diligent, & haith a great charge, and 
 
 the Church of England. meane farmehold, I give him 101. Item 
 
 Will d. 7th March, 1569-70 ; pr. Brd I will that thay that be at my findinge 
 
 March, 1570-1: "Eobert Babthorpe, and receive no wagies, to be parilled and 
 
 doctor of Divinitie. To Richard B. cladd honestly for there decree. To 
 
 of Skipwith 101., and to Wm. B. his Wm. B., toward the mariage of his 
 
 brother 201. And because Roberte B., dowghter, all the monye he owitli me. 
 
 ther brother, is unthriftie, & cannot The rest to my nephewe, Leonard B., 
 
 use monye when he haith it, I will that & Wm. B. They ex", & Sir Wm. B. 
 
 my executors shall releve frome tyme to supervisour, to whom I give my silver 
 
 tyme, as he shall stand neede of apparell gobelit with coveringe parcell gilt. 
 
 or other thinges, to the soome of 51. To Manu propria, by me Robert Babthorpe, 
 
 my Ladie B., my nesse Hussye, & my clerke." 
 nesBe Frances Crake, to everie one of
 
 OSGODBY. 313 
 
 on the side of the King, and kept the neighbouring hamlets 
 on the Derwent quiet, and quiet they continued until the 
 people of Beverley and Holderness pushed them into 
 rebellion. The prime mover was Robert Aske, another 
 brother, who was endeavourmg to raise the country. He 
 made his way to Wressle Castle, where the Earl of North- 
 umberland was lying sick, crying out at the gates, which 
 seem to have been closed against him, " Thousands for 
 a Percy." The rebels wanted a leader, and they well knew 
 the charm of that potent name. The attempt, as it is well 
 known, was a failure, and Chr. and John Aske did much 
 to counteract the evil influence of their misguided brother. 
 When Sir Francis Bigod of Settrington arose against the 
 King, Chr. Aske tells us that he was staying with Mr. 
 Babthorpe at Osgodby, from which place he issued his 
 instructions to the officers and retainers of the Earl of 
 Cumberland in the west country, bidding them be on the 
 watch and be loyal to their master and the King. 
 
 In the 31st of Henry VIII. Mr. Babthorpe had a com- 
 mission from the Crown to value the lands, &c. belonofinor 
 to Selby Abbey. He was of great service to the Crown, 
 and was made a Knight of the Bath at the coronation of 
 Edward VI. In 1549 he was made a member of the 
 Council of the North, with a yearly fee of 50/. The in- 
 quest on his death, which took place in 1555, gives some 
 extracts from his will. In addition to his estates in the 
 parish of Hemingbrough, it shows that he was the owner 
 of property in Selby, North Cave, Middleton, Flotmanby,^^ 
 Naburne, and Campe Sutton in Elmet. His lands in the 
 two last-mentioned places he bequeathed to his younger 
 son, Leonard, for his life. To Alan Watkinson and his 
 wife, and Ralph Wymonde and his wife, he left the tene- 
 ments, in which they lived respectively, rent-free for their 
 lives. The same privilege was accorded to Thos. Salvin 
 and his wife in respect to a tenement at Hemingbrough in 
 which they dwelt, and the Bush Close. He directed, also, 
 that Richard Barlow should have for his life the bailiffwick 
 of his manors and lands in the parish of Hemingbrough, 
 
 ^'^ In the 35th Hen. VIII. the King and Fenton lately belonging to Selby 
 
 granted to Wm. Babthorpe the manor Abbey ; also the manor of Newhay ; with 
 
 of Flotmanby, with lands in North messuages, &c. in Saxton and Scarthing- 
 
 Eston, and Lady Flat in Kirk Deighton, well lately belonging to the Nunnery of 
 
 with tenements and lands in Wistow Clementhorpe.
 
 314 THE HISTORY OF HEMINGBKOUGH. 
 
 and at Selby and Nab urn, with a fee of 266'. (Sc/. per ann., 
 and that he and his wife should have for their lives tlie 
 tenement or farm on which they resided. To his nephew, 
 William Babthorpe, son of his brother Ralph, he left an 
 annuity of 3/. 6s. 8d. until he should be twenty-one. Sir 
 William, unlike most of bis family, had prospered in the 
 world, but cbiefly by traffickiug in monastic property, and 
 it is pleasing to see how he remembered his old friends and 
 retainers. 
 
 His eldest son, another Sir William, died in 1581, leaving 
 a will, which does not now exist, in which he desired to 
 be buried in his chapel at Hemingbrough, near the body 
 of Barbara his wife. In the inquest held after his death 
 it is stated that Babthorpe was conveyed to trustees as the 
 jointure of Frances, his second wife ; Bowthorpe to another 
 set of trustees, as a marriage portion for Ralph, his son and 
 heir. He bequeathed the manor of Osgodby for ten years 
 to Philip Constable, Esq., John Dawney, Knt, Robert 
 Aske, Esq., Marm. Constable, Leonard Babthorpe, Paul 
 Dawney, and Matthew St. Quintin, gentlemen, to pay his 
 debts and legacies, and to raise 400/. as a portion for Mary 
 Babthorpe, one of his daughters. 
 
 This Sir William seems to have slipped back into the 
 religious opinions of his grandfather. On 4th September, 
 1565, he and Dame Frances his wife were convened before 
 the Royal Commissioners at York. Sir Wm. was ordered 
 to submit himself on the morrow, and his wife to attend 
 the (proselytising) serujon in the Minster on the same day. 
 Sir Wm. submitted as desired, and, on 7th September, he 
 and his wife were ordered to receive the Holy CommunioD 
 in the parish church of Hemingbro' within a fortnight. 
 On 24th September the husband and wife state that on 
 St. Matthew's day they, with four members of their house- 
 hold, received the Holy Comnumion at Ilemingbrough at 
 the hands of Gabriel Morland, one of the curates. There- 
 upon they Avere dismissed with an admonition. In spite 
 of this apparent retrogression, I find Lord Burghley men- 
 tioning Sir Wm. as one of the favourers of Edmund 
 Campion, the Jesuit, when he was in Yorkshire in 1581.^'' 
 Probably Campion was bent on winning Babthorpe back 
 to his faith, and succeeded in his attempt. 
 
 *" Simpson's Campion, 187.
 
 OSGODBY. OiO 
 
 Sir Ralph Babtliorpe was his son and heir, and married 
 Grace, daughter and heiress of William Birnand, through 
 whose influence he was brought back to the Roman Catholic 
 religion. The change brought trouble with it. Sir Ralph 
 and his lady were harassed with fines and surveillance. 
 The Jesuits have recently been giving to the world an 
 account of their beginnings in England, and in tlie 
 " Recollections of Father Sharpe," who was on the York- 
 shire Mission, we have the following graphic account of 
 the household at Osgodby^*^ : — 
 
 111 the house where I lived were continually two priests, one to serve 
 and order the house at home, the other to help those that were abroad, 
 who, especially in any sickness or fear of death, would continually send to 
 us for help, that they might die in the estate of God's Church. Our house 
 I might count rather as a religious house than otherwise, for, though there 
 lived together in it three knights and their ladies with their families, yet 
 we had all our servants Catholic. On the Sundays we locked up the doors, 
 and all came to Mass, had our sermons, catechisms, and spiritual lessons 
 every Sunday and holiday. On the work days we had for the most 
 part two Masses, and, of them, the one for the servants at six o'clock 
 ill the morning, at which the gentlemen, every one of them without 
 fail, and the ladies, if they were not sick, would, even in the midst of 
 winter, of their own accord, be present ; and the other we had at eight 
 o'clock for those who were absent from the first. In the afternoon, at 
 four o'clock, we had Evensong, and, after that, Matins, at which all the 
 knights and their ladies, except extraordinary occasions did hinder them, 
 would be present, and stay at their prayers all the time the priests were 
 at Evensong and Matins. The most of them used daily some medita- 
 tion and mental prayer, and all, at the least every fourteen days and 
 great feasts, did. confess and communicate ; and, after supper, every 
 night, at nine o'clock, we had all together litanies, and so immediately 
 to bed. 
 
 This was the ordinary practice of the house where I remained, the 
 chief lady of which house hath ever been a woman of that courage and 
 resolution in religion, and of that holiness of life ; and that though in 
 Queen Elizabeth's days, and in the time of the President Huntingdon, 
 both she and her husband (who yet as then was not Catholic) were both 
 laid in prison, she among the rest of the gentlewomen, and he with 
 other gentlemen for the Queen of Scots ; and though he himself upon 
 his release was bound in 4,000/. bond to bring all his family, both chil- 
 dren and servants, to the church, except only his wife, whom they 
 knew would not come ; yet she not only kept her cliildren, every one 
 of them, of which she had eight, from going to the churcli, but all of 
 them except one she caused to be christened at home by a priest ; and 
 that not only her husband she thus won to God's Church, to the great 
 encouragement and comfort of many, but all her children she so in- 
 structed in piety and devotion, being never without two or three priests 
 
 '^ These curious particulars about the fathers, first and third series ; and from 
 Babthorpes are derived from Father Father Foley's Records of the English 
 Morris' Memorials of our Catliolic Fore- Province of the S.J., series v.-viii.
 
 316 THE IIISTOIIY OF HEMINGBROUGH. 
 
 in the house, even in the most cruel times, when she and lier liusband 
 lay in prison, that all of them, seven being as yet living, remain con- 
 stant and religious Catholics, whereof three are Catholicly and well 
 married, and four others in religion, or in the ^^ay, at St. Omer's, for 
 it. She hath been the chief pillar of religion in that country, and as 
 yet so remains. 
 
 In the family of Osgodby there was resident at this 
 time a young cousin of the name of Mary Ward, famous 
 in after years as the founder of various institutes or reli- 
 gious societies abroad for the reception of Enghsh ladies 
 who wished to place themselves under vows and lead a 
 devotional life. Whilst she was at Osgodby she was 
 sought in marriage more than once, and it was the wish 
 of her relatives and friends that she should enter into the 
 estate of matrimony ; but the atmosphere of Osgodby was 
 prohibitory, and there, among the religious exercises of 
 the place, and a frequent intercourse with priests, she 
 formed the resolution to devote herself specially to God, 
 which she afterwards carried into effect. She assigned 
 the several rooms at Osgodby to the charge of particular 
 saints, connecting with each various religious exercises, 
 until, as she says, the whole house appeared to her a very 
 Paradise. One of her confessors at Osgodby seems to have 
 been Father John Mush, who took a vigorous part in the 
 struggle with Parsons and the Jesuits, in the so-called 
 Wisbeach controversy, on the side of the secular priests. 
 Mary Ward was at Osgodby for several yejjrs, beginning 
 with 1600, when she was fifteen years of age. After she 
 settled abroad she had the happiness of being able to wel- 
 come to her home some of her kind friends at Osgodby in 
 their altered fortunes. 
 
 Sir Ralph Babthorpe, in early life, spent some years as 
 a student at the Inns of Court, but he did not pursue the 
 study of the law. He came home and lived at Osgodby, 
 " a gentleman so well beloved in his country for bountiful 
 and good dispo.sition that he had not so much as one 
 enemy to oppose against him." In 1581 Ralph Babthorpe, 
 Esq., granted an annuity of 3/. 6s. 8d. to Robert Pickering 
 of Osgodby, his servant, and Isabel Barret of Barlby, widow 
 of Wm. B., and the longer liver of the two. On 24th 
 March, 1591-2, his lady was committed to the charge of 
 Mr. Thos. Buskell for refusing to conform and hear the 
 Church Service, and, on the following day, her husband
 
 OSGODBY. 
 
 317 
 
 was bound in 500 marks to procure the reading, morning 
 and evening, of the prayers of the Church of England m 
 their home, and to keep no servants or children in his 
 house who did not conform. Three weeks after this, Mrs. 
 Babthorpe, with a number of other ladies of her creed, was 
 placed in confinement at SherifFhutton Castle. And there 
 she remained for some time, keeping up the spirits of her 
 fellow-prisoners, and contriving to procure for them, in spite 
 of the peril, the ministrations of a priest. At length she 
 Avas released, and, on 24th November, 1593, her husband 
 was bound for her in the sum of 500 marks that she 
 should appear, when required, ' and that neither should be 
 disobedient in religion, neither reteyne or suffer in his 
 house any popish bookes or furniture for masse.' 
 
 During this interval Lady Babthorpe won over her 
 husband1:o her foith. Then his troubles began. His wife 
 tells us that — 
 
 after he was known to be Catliolic, although he paid the statute, yet he 
 would not be permitted to live at home ; but every fortnight, or month 
 at the farthest, he was sent for to appear before the Bishop and Com- 
 missioners at York, which if he did, he was sure to be committed to 
 prison, and if he did not, he was to be fined by the Court fiOZ. every 
 time ; f^r the avoiding of which he was obliged to fly from home upon 
 the hearing of the warrants coming forth against him. For, being well- 
 beloved, as he was, with his neighbours, he always got intelligence, and 
 then, to avoid the penalty, he must needs be forth of the country. So 
 he would not live a week at home, and of necessity he must have one 
 to go and appear for him, and take their oath that he was not in the 
 country when the wai-rant came for him. Then they took a coarse to 
 send to the minister of the parish a warrant to be read openly in the 
 church against him, and, after it was read, it was put upon the church 
 door, there to be seen for his more disgrace, and withal command and 
 warrant to all men to attach him, with promise of a good sum for their 
 part. 
 
 Sir Ralph sometimes got away to Kettleby, in Lincoln- 
 shire, where his eldest son was married, for protection, 
 and, on one occasion, nearly lost his life in crossing the 
 Humber. The result of this was that Sir Ralph and 
 his wife went to London to reside ; but here he was still 
 unsafe, and, at last, taking as his excuse a severe illness, 
 he obtained licence to go to Spa for his health. He found 
 his way, with his wife, to St. Omer's, and there he died, 
 suddenly, in 1618. Forty servants waited upon him in 
 his prosperity ; at the last he had only a single attendant. 
 
 Lady Babthorpe was then in England, and the tidings
 
 318 
 
 THE HISTORY OF HEMINGBEOUGH. 
 
 of her husband's death phiced her in a position of much 
 difficulty. Everything at her old home would in her 
 opinion be going wrong. Hear what she says : ^^ — 
 
 *' I give some notes from Present- 
 ments in the York Court, illustrating 
 this statement. 
 
 1582. Office against Dame Frances 
 Babthorpe, Robert Dalby, Robert Nelson, 
 Henry Blackburn & Ann his wife, 
 Richard Garrock, Anne & Margaret 
 Garrock, Eliz. \v. of John Ellyson, John 
 Stable & Margaret his w., Janet w. of 
 Wm. Esheley, Isab. Smythe alias 
 Newthe, Alison w. of Nic. Ellyson, Eliz. 
 w. of Wm. Freeman, Edw. Thomson & 
 Ann his w., Thos. Watkinson, Marm. 
 Fawkes & Jane his w., Margaret \v. 
 Robert Hadlesay, John Whitgal, Eliz. 
 Robinson, Ann Watkinson, Eliz. w. 
 Peter Thomson, Wm. Craven & Agnes 
 his w., Matilda \v. John Tasker, Eliz. 
 Cfaven, Dor. Knight, Tho. Howdell, 
 Agnes Watkinson w. of Martin W. They 
 come not to Church nor Communion. 
 
 Robert Nelson was absolved ; & Janet 
 Eshley & Alison Ellyson were absolved, 
 9 Mar. 1583-4. 
 
 5 July, 1582. JohnWhitgayle, absolved. 
 He confesses that he was then, & yet, 
 by reason of great injuries susteyned, 
 out of charytie with Wm. Babthorjie & 
 one Salven, & so durst not presume to 
 communicate. 
 
 12 July, 1582. Marm. Fawkes, Mar- 
 garet Hadelsey & Dor. Knight absolved. 
 Ordered to receive the Communion at 
 the hands of the curate, Mr. Broke. 
 
 As Dor. Knight was aged, impotent, 
 feeble, & not able to go to church, the 
 curate was ordered to go to her home & 
 say the service to her. 
 
 31 July, 1582. Eliz. Freeman ab- 
 solved. 9 Aug. Dame Frances Bab- 
 thorpe absolved. 
 
 1586. Office against Ralph Babthorpe 
 & Grace his w., Wm. Greenwell, Ann 
 Watkinson widow & Dorothy W., Mar- 
 garet Strumbee, Agnes Craven, Janet 
 Hudson, Isab. Holden, Thos. Watkin- 
 son, Matilda Tasker, Ann Watkinson, 
 Kath. Stable, Isab. Newell, Ellen Clark, 
 •James, Cecilia, & Anne Garrett, Matilda 
 
 Tragale, Ric. Clark, Rob. Snowden, 
 
 Blackburn widow, Agnes Carlin, Marm. 
 Fawkes & his w., all recusants. 
 
 Office against the Churchwardens of 
 Hemingbrough for not levying their 
 forfeitures. Office against Thos. Baxter : 
 a drunkard, & disturbed the congrega- 
 tion at Communion time. Office v. 
 Nic. Fawkes, an usurer. 
 
 1590. Office against Ric. Hamond 
 gen., John Hughe, Edm. Vender, Wm. 
 Craven & Agnes his w., Jane Dylcock 
 his dau., Grace w. Ralj^h Babthorpe 
 Esq., Matilda Tasker w. of John T., 
 Ann w. John Watkinson, Janet w. Wm. 
 Asheley, Alison w. Nic. Ellison, Janet 
 w. Ric. Garrocke, Anne w. Ric. Durham, 
 Alison Dawbie wid., Margaret Black- 
 burn wid., Ann Garrocke, Ann Wating, 
 Thos. Watkinson, Miles Eskerycke, 
 Thos. Newyll & Dor. his w., Thos. War- 
 ing & his w. They come not to church. 
 
 Also against Ralph Babthorpe Esq., 
 Marm. Fawxe gen., Wm. Dalbie, Mar- 
 garet Allan, Robert Nelson, Dor. w. of 
 Wm. Watkinson. They come to church 
 but do not communicate. 
 
 (These lists might be continued.) 
 
 1588. This year, about 23 June, Peter 
 Tomson was apisrehended at his house 
 at Hambrougb, Elizabeth Ellison the 
 wife of John Ellison, and Ellen Clarke 
 a maid, and brought to York by the 
 cozening fellows that went up and down 
 the country under pretence of a great 
 commission, robbing and spoiling, yet 
 for bribes they let many pass. The 
 man was committed to the Kidcott, 
 ' because his wife was at the Castle, for 
 money,' where the sergeants abused 
 him, laying double irons on him, and 
 putting him down among the felons, 
 without bed or straw. The women were 
 sent to the Castle. After, for money, 
 Peter got removed from thence to the 
 Castle, where his wife was prisoner for 
 the same cause ; and, long after, Eliza- 
 beth Ellison got home for ' money.' 
 
 (Father Morris' Work.) 
 
 Articles of information before John 
 Archbishop of York, etc., against Tho- 
 mas Houldgate of Hemyngbrocke. — He 
 does not come to church. — He hath, as 
 well at Christenmas & upon Candlemas 
 dale last paste, as at diverse and sundrie 
 other tymes, haith hard Masse said or 
 songe within the parishe of Hemyng- 
 brocke, or in some other parishe by one 
 (blk) Thorpe and (blk) Parker, & others 
 Jessuytes and seminarie preistes ; & 
 haith receyved the saci'ament of Christe's 
 bodie in Popishe sorte at their hands, 
 knowinge theim to be Jessuytes or se- 
 minarie preistes, or, at the least, to be 
 suche persons as have gone about to 
 perswade & withdrawe her majestie's 
 subjectes from their due obedience, &
 
 OSGODBY. 319 
 
 For the poor Catholics in our parish of Hemingborough the persecu- 
 tion has been greater than I can relate, for no Catholic could keep any 
 goods, no, not the poor folks keep a cow to give their children milk, 
 but it was taken from them ; and of late years they forced them to pay 
 l-2d. every Sunday. And of such as had not great goods, they took 
 such things as they found in their houses, as their vessels ; of some 
 their porridge pots, and, of others, clothes off their beds ; and, if they 
 had more clothes than that on their backs, they took them ; and of one 
 that had with her work that summer got a piece of cloth to clothe her 
 cliildren with, they took it from her, and those they could get nothing 
 of they sent to prison.'''' 
 
 Lady Babthorpe soon made up her mind. She gathered 
 together some money, and, after setting her affairs in 
 England in order, crossed the seas with her little grand- 
 daughter, Grace Constable, to take the vows and end her 
 days in a convent. In 1625, the two professed together, 
 Kalph Babthorpe, son of one and uncle of the other, and 
 himself a member of the Society of Jesus, adding to the 
 interest of the ceremony by preaching the sermon. Lady 
 Babthorpe died in 1635 in a peculiar manner. 
 
 By reason of her age she grew contracted in her chest, so as she 
 stooped always with her head in her bosom, which brought her at length 
 to her end. For having been some time in the sick house, and finding 
 herself very ill, she was removed to a room apart, where they tended 
 her, although we knew not of any danger of death she was in. It 
 happened that being cold weather one morning, as she came from the 
 fire, upon a sudden, going toward her bed, her breath was stopped, and 
 she died outright, though they came to her, and used all means to bring 
 her to herself. 
 
 to the dislike of the religion nowe in the comn. at the hands of Mr. Knighton, 
 this realme estabUshed.— That he doth curate of Hemmingburgh. 
 at this present knows or haith knowne ^^ On 2 June, 1607, the Eoyal Corn- 
 where & to what places & companie the missioners for Ecclesiastical Causes at 
 said Thorpe & Parker & others, Jes- York fined Ealph Babthorpe and his wife 
 suytes & seminarie preistes, have fre- 101. each, and Peter Thomson and his 
 quented & resorted. wife, Elizabeth Pearson widow, Anne 
 Articles m'misterecl against him. — 1. and Alice Woodhouse, Ann Watson, Chr. 
 Whether you know of any massing Drabbs, Jane Dilcock of South Duffield, 
 priestes, seminaries or Jesuytes, wandr- Barbara Greenwell, Ann Nelson of Bow- 
 ing about Hemmingburgh or Howden- thorpe, Frances w. of John Dunnington, 
 shire ? — Newit, a midwife of Cliffe, recusant, 
 
 2. Item who they are, what be their were fined 3Z. 6s. 9,cl. each. 
 
 names, & who are their harborers ? On 1 July, 1607, Sir Ealph Bab- 
 
 3. Item whether you do know one thorpe of Folkton was fined 40Z. He 
 Parker, Thorp, Clowdesley, Hemsworth, was not in Yorkshire, but went to 
 seminaries, massing or popish priestes? London in May last. 
 
 In answer — "he saith he hath hard On 15 June, 1590, Eichard Hamond 
 
 of one Parker who dwelt sometimes at of Babthorpe, gen., was proceeded 
 
 Barton in Lincolnshire, & had a wief, against at York. His reply was, " If he 
 
 & fied frome thence for religion." should say No, he shold offend, & to 
 
 He, generally, denies the rest. On promise to do & not to performe he 
 
 Easter was a twelvemonth he received wold not." He was sent to Hull Castle.
 
 320 THE HISTORY OF HEMINGBROUGII. 
 
 One maid, or attendant, went with Lady Babthorpe 
 from Enofland. Her name was Ursula Whitseal, whose 
 father was Sir Ralph's bailiff and godson. The maid, in 
 the contagious air of Louvain, longed to follow the ex- 
 ample of her mistress and to enter the cloister. Many 
 strove to prevent her, but the hindrances so affected her 
 health, that it was necessary to give way. She professed 
 in St. Monica's Convent on 1st August, 1622, at the age 
 of twenty -three, and died there on 1st September, 1640. 
 
 When Sir Ralph Babthorpe died in 1618, his son, Sir 
 William, succeeded to the family estates, two-thirds of the 
 rental having been already lost by fines and punishments. 
 Bad soon became worse. 
 
 He came at length into great trouble for his zeal in defence of re- 
 ligion, by reason of having two priests found in his house. ^' He would 
 have agreed with the pursuivants for money to let them go, but when 
 he saw by no fair means they would do it, he determined by force to 
 rescue them out of their hands. Wherefore, being a tall, strong man, 
 he made no more ado, but drew out his sword, and made the priests to 
 depart away, keeping the pursuivants the while in such fear with his 
 naked sword, that none of them durst resist him. But afterwards they 
 complained to the justice, and it was esteemed a great contempt so to 
 resist those vile officers ; wherefore he was fined to pay such a sum of 
 money (400^. or 500/.) as brought him to great poverty, besides im- 
 prisonment almost a whole year. 
 
 The result was that Sir William sold what remained of 
 his estates, and, crossing the seas, fought for some time on 
 the side of Spain as a common soldier. At last, having 
 been made a Captain, he was slain, in 1635, in a combat 
 with the French near Ardres, the same year in which his 
 mother died. 
 
 Not one acre of his ancestral estates remained to Sir 
 William when he died. Mortgaged, statute-stapled, 
 charged with fines for recusancy, they had passed away to 
 one person or another, leaving little indeed for the seller, 
 and difficulties and perils for the purchasers. 
 
 3' In the Book of the Eoyal Commis- and the said Babthorpe would not suffer 
 
 sioners at York, on 2oth Oct., 1581, is a Knight to exequute the warrante, but 
 
 note of the Office against Win. Bab- letted him till Laiton escaped away, 
 
 thorpe, par. Hemingbrough. " A war- Bapthorpe confesses that he said that 
 
 rante was lately sent furth for the Knight came like a rebell." This is very 
 
 apprehension of Cutberte Laiton, sup- like the story here ascribed to Sir Wil- 
 
 posed a notorious papiste, by vertue liam, but he was then only three or four 
 
 whereof Wm. Knight repaired to the years old. Sir WiUiam, his grandfather, 
 
 hous of John Howdell of Heniing- died in 1581, but he was a Protestant (?). 
 brough, wherin the said Laiton was,
 
 OSGODBY. 321 
 
 Upon the 20tli October, 1620, Sir William Babtliorpe 
 sold the manor of Osgodby for 3,000/. to Sir Guy Palmes 
 of Lindley, in Yorkshire, subject to the current leases ; 
 two statutes of 600/. each, to Henry Smith, Esq., and 
 Thomas Stiche, respectively, for the payment of smaller 
 sums ; and to three annuities — viz. two of 30/. to Kalph 
 Babthorpe, gent., and Thomas Babtliorpe, gent., and one 
 of 20/. to Robert Babthorpe, gent., brothers of the said Sir 
 AVilham.^^ 
 
 The purchaser was a kinsman and a friend of the seller, 
 of the same religious opinions, and just the person to 
 whom, if to anyone, the Babthorpes would be content to 
 hand over their ancestral property. Sir Guy Palmes lived 
 at Ashwell, co. Rutland, and was the son and heir of 
 Sir Francis Palmes of Lindley, near Huddersfield, a cadet 
 of the ancient house of Palmes of Naburn. He was born 
 in 1580, and was brought up to the law. On 11th May, 
 1603, he was knighted ; in 1615, 1617, and 1625 he was 
 High Sheriff of Rutlandshire, and also of Yorkshire in 
 1622. In the second, third, and fourth Parliaments of 
 Charles I. he was knight of the shire for Rutland. Sir 
 Guy was twice married — first, to Anne, only daughter and 
 heir of Sir Edward Stafford of East Greenwich, and, 
 secondly, to Elizabeth, widow of Sir Robert Browne of 
 Walcot, Northants. He died in 1655. 
 
 On 16th June, 1635, Sir Guy Palmes, then of Walcot, 
 Northants, settled Osgodby on Francis, his son, subject to 
 his OAvn life interest therein. 
 
 Brian, Sir Guy's eldest son, married Mary d. Gervase 
 Tevery of Stapleford, Notts, and had a family of six 
 sons and four daughters. The estates eventually vested 
 in William Palmes, the youngest son of Brian ; and, by 
 deed, dated 12th February, 1654, Osgodby, together with 
 Leathley, Farnley, &c., was conveyed to Sir John Mallory 
 Conyers Griffin and Thomas Redshawe, on trust, to secure 
 the portions of William Palmes's four sisters. On 11th 
 June, 1660, Mr. Palmes mortgaged these estates for a 
 small sum to George Aislabie of York, gent., a native of 
 Osgodby, who had risen into importance by his energy 
 
 '2 In 1633, Sir Wm. and Dame to Sir John Buck, of Filey, Knt. (Os- 
 Tlrsula Babthorpe, and Ealph Bab- godby Deeds.) 
 thorpe, Esq., sold Flotmanby for 2,000Z.
 
 322 THE IIISTOllY OF HEMINGBROUGH. 
 
 and ability. William Palmes was slieriif of Rutlandshire 
 in 1663. He made a great match in Mary, one of the 
 three dauschters and co-heirs of Sir William Eure, who died 
 upon the bed of honor at Marston Moor. Mr. Palmes 
 obtained in 1667-8 a Private Act of Parliament, enabling 
 him to exchange his family estates for other lands which 
 had been settled upon himself and his issue by Mary his 
 wife. In virtue of this he sold Osgodby for 3,300^. on 
 3rd March, 1668, to Sir Jeremiah Smith, of Heming- 
 brough, Knt., a sea-captain of fame and renown. 
 
 In leaving the ancient houses of Babthorpe and Palmes, 
 Osgodby experienced a great change. The reign of the 
 families of old knights and gentry was over ; still, the 
 new lord of Osgodby was a man of note and mark, and has 
 left his name in the naval history of his country. Sir 
 Jeremiah Smith was the third son of Jeremiah Smith of 
 Canterbury. In 1653 he was a captain in the fleet, and, on 
 the 2nd and 3rd June in that year, he commanded the 
 " Advice " frisrate in the memorable fio-ht with the Dutch. 
 After this fight he had another frigate given to him. He 
 was knighted on the 22nd June, 1665, and, in the following 
 year, was with Prince Rupert and the Duke of Albemarle 
 in the great engagement fought on the 25th July against 
 De Ruyter and Van Tromp. Captain Smith was in com- 
 mand of the " Mary," and was second under the Duke. He 
 behaved with great gallantry in the fight, losing ninety- 
 nine men, and all his officers save two, but he captured the 
 ship which fought him, and had, in reality, the chief 
 honors of the battle. Pepys, the Secretary of the Ad- 
 miralty, with whom he was well acquainted, does him full 
 justice. Sir Jeremiah became Admiral of the Blue, and 
 was sent with a small squadron northwards to harass the 
 Dutch commerce with the Baltic, which he efiectually did, 
 capturing many prizes from the enemy, o.it of his own 
 share in which he would be able to purchase Osgodby. 
 After this expedition, Sir Jeremiah seems to have been 
 but little longer afioat. 
 
 He was twice married. His first wife was buried at 
 Birkin in 1656.^'^ He afterwards married Anne, daughter 
 
 '^ In Birkin church, on a large monu- charissimas conjugis Jeremiae Smith 
 ment erected on the north wall side : armigeri, quae e vita decessit 3° die 
 " In beatam memoriam dfiaB Francises, Sept. 1656.
 
 OSGODBY. 323 
 
 of Jolm Pockley of Thorp Willoughby, near Selby. His 
 first purchase was a messuage and premises at Hemino-- 
 brough, in 1662, called Prior House. He next bought 
 various plots of land in Hemingbrough and Newhay, and, 
 lastly, the manor of Osgodby in 1668. These, together 
 with the manor and bailywick of Hawkshead, co. 
 Lancaster, and lands at Waltham, co. Lincoln, he en- 
 tailed by indenture, dated 11th June, 1673, upon his 
 sons George, Francis, and John, and their heirs in succes- 
 sion, reserving to Anne his wife, if she should survive 
 hitn, an annuity of 150/., making John Vavasor of Spald- 
 ington, gent., Andrew Marvell, M.P. for Hull, the poet 
 John Pockley of Thorpe, and Ellis Cooper of York' 
 gentlemen, his trustees to carry these arrangements out. Sir 
 Jeremiah's will is dated on the 13th October, 1675 (proved 
 at Canterbury, 8th November), in which he made his eldest 
 son his executor and residuary legatee. To his youno-er 
 sons he leaves 2,000/. Sir Jeremiah died shortly after this 
 at Clapham, near London, and his remains were brought 
 down to Hemingbrough for interment, and were laid in the 
 south-east chantry in the chancel, where a helmet and 
 gauntlets, with a ducal coronet and plume of feathers, still 
 commemorate him. He is supposed to have lived, while 
 m the parish, at the Prior house close to the church, and 
 we can well imagine what an object of wonder and admira- 
 tion the gallant sailor would be to the villao-ers and his 
 neighbours. ° 
 
 George Smith, heir of Sir Jeremiah, died in 1681, 
 leaving two sons, Harrison and Jeremiah. Harrison, the 
 elder, was called " mad, lame Smith," an unpleasant re- 
 ference to bodily and mental infirmities, and died in 
 1691,^^ unmarried, when his brother succeeded on reach- 
 
 Hocce infossa jacet tumulo Francisca Deposuit placide, et sidera seandit 
 
 beata, 
 
 ovans. 
 
 Ornant quam virtus, gloria, fama, Vixit annos 39, menses x, dies xxiii " 
 
 M , ''"•■. ,• "' Will d. 9th Oct. 1695. Hanison 
 
 Maternse pietatis apex, candoris ho- Smyth of Osgodby, Esq. To be de- 
 
 p, ^'fjl',. . , . cently interred in the buriall place in 
 
 Et bonitatis amans, sic chantate the parish church of Hemingbrough, 
 
 vigens. amongst my ancestors. To my love- 
 
 Mens conjuncta Deo, probitas, patientia, ing brother, .Jeromy Smyth, 201. to buy 
 
 <^o,. Ji f' ^A . • ■ , ^^^ mourneing. To Mr. Joseph Lam- 
 
 bancta et rara fides sunt miitanda l^ert, schoolemaster of Beverley, 10^., to 
 
 bonis l3U^ jjijjj mourneing. The residue to mv 
 
 Hanc placide assumpsit vitam, placi- moste deare and kinde mother, Levnox 
 
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 ing bis majority. Jeremiali has been already mentioned 
 in tbe account of Tnrnbam HalL^^ Suffice it to say bere 
 that be scattered in a short time everything that it was in 
 bis power to disperse, borrowing money on all sides, and 
 paying no interest on the mortgages. This necessitated 
 an appeal to the Court of Chancery, which, on 13tb March, 
 1704, ordered tbe sale of the estates. 
 
 Ten days after the master's award, on 23rd March, 1704, 
 articles of agreement were entered into for a sale of 
 Osgodby to John Burdett of Furnivall's Inn, Esq., 
 barrister- at-law. He was son of William Burdett of 
 Whitby, master-mariner, and practised some years as a 
 Chancery barrister in London. Afterwards he retired to 
 bis country residence at Sleights, near Whitby, where he 
 qualified as a magistrate for the North Riding, and, dying 
 on 4tb April, 1737, was buried in the church of Egton, 
 where a large and handsome monument was erected to 
 commemorate bim.^*' On 9th and 10th August, 1736, 
 Mr. Burdett conveyed the estate of Osgodby to Robert 
 Linskill and John Farside of Whitby, gentlemen, on trust, 
 for the use of his brother Richard and bis sons, in suc- 
 cession, and, failing issue male, on Elizabeth, bis brother's 
 eldest dauohter. His will bears tbe same date and con- 
 
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 ^^ Will d. 26th Oct. 1714. Jeremiah tials of life ever conducted himself 
 Smith of Kingston-upon-Hull, Esq. i^nth strict Honour and Integrity. To 
 My manors of Turnham Hall, Malvis, the Publick he acted as a most worthy 
 with the copyhold courts, fines, copy- Magistrate, a sincere Friend, and a 
 hold or customary rents, and the lord- benevolent Neighbour. In private life 
 ship of Turnham Hall, the houses, he was a tender Husband to his widowed 
 Eaperudding, etc., to Mary Smith, my mother, and as a Kind Father to his 
 loving wife, and her heirs. My houses, Brothers and Sisters, to whom in his 
 etc., in Cliff, alias Lund, my lands in Life Time he gave very considerable 
 lordship of Neway, par. Drax, my Fortunes, and, dying unmarried, be- 
 mannours, howses, lands, etc., at queathed to them a handsome estate 
 Acaster Sallby, or elsewhere, which which he had acquired by Industry 
 may or can be recovered as my right and Good Management, and ever sup- 
 as heir-at-law unto Mr. Cuthbert Har- ported with Credit and Reputation, 
 rison, my grandfather, or Dame Lenox He died the 4th April 1737 aged sixty 
 Pilkington, my mother, deceased, to three years." — If the inscription is gor- 
 my said wife and her heirs— with the geous, the monument which it adorns is 
 residue. [R. T. E., Ixix. 1341] . more gorgeous still, rich with urns and 
 
 16th Aug. 1731, pr. 20 Apr. 1743. cherubs and variegated marbles. 
 Will of Mary Smyth of Kingston-upon- On 3rd Nov. 1725, John Pickering 
 
 Hull, widow. To my three sisters of Bramham Biggin, gent., sells to John 
 
 Jane, Elizabeth, and Anne, my man- Burdett, Esq., of Osgodby, four acres 
 
 nors, lands, etc., co. York and Hull. and two doles of meadow. Consideration 
 
 ^® " Sacred to the Memory of John 501. 
 Burdett Esq. one of his Majesty's On Dec. 10 and 11, 1705, Thos. 
 
 Justices of the Peace for the North Tailery, yeo., and Magdalen his wife 
 
 Riding of this County. He was a sold to Mr. Burdett for 80Z. a mes- 
 
 gentleman who in the two great essen- suage and land in Osgodby.
 
 326 THE IIISTOI^Y OF IIEMIXGBnOUGH. 
 
 firms the settlement. Ricliard Burdett of Sleights married 
 Idonea Cecil, second daughter of Fiennes Twisleton, Esq., 
 by whom he had three daughters, Elizabeth, Tal)itha, and 
 Gertrude, and was buried, 13th May, 1744, near his brother, 
 in the family vault at Egton. By virtue of the entail of 
 1736, the manor of Osgodby descended to Elizabeth, 
 the eldest daughter, the others inheriting property at 
 Sleights. Elizabeth married George Ridley, Esq., of 
 York, by whom she had an only daughter, Elizabeth, 
 who became the wife of a foreigner called Charles Quist, 
 who was naturalised to enjoy the advantage of the entail. 
 Mr. Quist changed his opinion on this point, as, on 30th 
 January, 1776, a deed to cut off the entail was executed 
 l^y all the interested parties, and Mrs. Ridley, the mother, 
 became the owner of the estate. On 8th October, 1778, 
 Mrs. Ridley took a second husband, Thomas Francis 
 Pritchard, Esq., of King's County, Ireland, and by fine, 
 dated Michaelmas, 1778, Mr. and Mrs. Pritchard formally 
 confirmed what had been done about the entail, &c. 
 
 Mr. Pritchard was admitted a Bencher of the Inner 
 Temple soon after his marriage, and was called to the Bar 
 in January, 1784. In the meantime he assumed the name 
 of Burdett by royal licence, and, being a person of dissi- 
 pated and extravagant habits, soon contracted debts, for 
 the payment of which he obtained various sums of money 
 on promissory notes, mortgages, and post-obit bonds, until 
 his affairs were irremediably involved. Application was 
 made by the principal creditors to the Court of Chancery 
 in May, 1783, and the trustees, Michael Hodgson, Esq., 
 and Thomas Lord Saye and Sele (Thomas Twisleton, 
 Esq.), were empowered to sell the estate to pay the 
 debts. 
 
 Upon 2nd and 3rd August, 1785, Osgodby was sold to 
 George Dawson, Esq. 
 
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 Heworth, near York, Farlington, and North Ferriby. 
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 was killed at the siege of Carthagena), and was born at 
 Ferriby in 1733. tJpon the death of his mother, his 
 guardians sent him out in the naval service to India, but, 
 on his arrival at Madras, Mr. Dawson abandoned his mari-
 
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 328 THE HISTORY OF HEMINGBEOUGII. 
 
 time vocation, and entered as a writer at Fort Georo'e, 
 where his name appears in a catalogue of officials in 1751. 
 Here he continued for many years, and gradnally arose to 
 notice and distinction, acquiring a considerable fortune. 
 In 1771 he is mentioned as first Cuddalore, and was 
 actively engaged in all the affairs of the Presidency, being 
 second on the Council. He was also governor of Masuli- 
 patam. Mr. Dawson returned to England in 1775, to 
 attend to the education of his sons, whom he had already 
 sent over ; and purchased Osgodby after his arrival. 
 On 13th and 14th December, 1808, he settled Osgodby 
 on his son Georofe and his issue, Sir Francis Wood being* 
 appointed the trustee. Mr. Dawson died in York in 1812, 
 and was interred in the church of St. Mary Bishophill the 
 Elder.97 
 
 George, his eldest son, was for some time a Lieutenant 
 in the First Royals, and was quartered for some years at 
 Gibraltar. On his retirement from the army, he accepted 
 the appointment of Colonel of the East Riding Militia. 
 On his death in 1832, he was succeeded by his only son, 
 George Pelsant Dawson, barrister-at-law, and a bencher 
 of Lincoln's Inn. Mr. Dawson sold the estate of Osgodby 
 andBarlby on the 9th August, 1860, for 95,000/. The 
 property comprised 1,150 acres, producing an annual 
 rental of 2,400/. There was also attached to the Hall at 
 that time " a feature of somewhat unusual interest, and no 
 inconsiderable emolument, an excellently constructed and 
 thoroughly established duck-decoy, the haunt of innumer- 
 able wild-fowl, several thousands of which may be taken 
 
 ^'' In the church of St. Mary, Bishop- Henry Wood D.D., died 1,5th June a.d. 
 
 hill Senior, York. " Beneath the altar 1799, aged 71. And Philadelphia Gore, 
 
 in this church are deposited the re- who died at an advanced age, unmarried, 
 
 mains of George Dawson, late of the July 12, 1808. 
 
 Minster Yard, Esquire. He departed " This tablet is inscribed in respect- 
 
 this life 23 August, a.d. 1812, in the ful remembrance of the above deceased, 
 
 78th year of his age. He was a man and as a grateful tribute of filial affec- 
 
 who feared God and walked uprightly tion and respect for the long tried 
 
 in the integrity of his heart and es- virtues of a deceased father by his sur- 
 
 chewed evil. He served 27 years and viving son George Dawson a.d. 1813." 
 held offices of high honor and trust in In Arborfield Church, Berkshire. 
 
 the East Indies, and returned to his "In the vault beneath rest the mortal 
 
 country with unsullied reputation. remains of George Dawson of York- 
 
 " In the same vault are entombed the shire. He married Elmira, the only 
 
 remains of Catharine, 2nd wife of surviving child of John Beeves of 
 
 the above-named George Dawson, who Arbortield. He died 1 May, 1832. 
 
 departed this life 15th day of May His son inscribes this tablet to the 
 
 A.D. 1807, aged 63. And of her two memory of an affectionate father." 
 sisters, Elizabeth wife of the Rev.
 
 OSGODBY. 320 
 
 in a season." The purchaser of the property was Mr. 
 Emanuel Briggs, an opulent flax-dresser at Leeds, who 
 bought the estate on behalf of his son, Mr. Riley Briggs, 
 the present owner. Mr. Briggs died on the 4th January, 
 1868, and was buried in the Leeds cemetery. His son, 
 Mr. Riley Briggs, frequently resides at Osgodby, and has 
 done much to improve the house and estate. 
 
 The Hall, or Manor-house at Osgodby, was sometimes 
 called the Park House, and must at all times, from its 
 situation on rising ground, have been a conspicuous build- 
 ing. The earliest house, of which any traces remain, must 
 have been erected in the fifteentb or sixteenth century. 
 Some stones have been found recently having the initials 
 W. B. in quatrefoils, and the crescent, below, in a similar 
 niche, in one instance erminois. These point plainly to 
 William Babthorpe, probably the first of that name, who 
 died in 1504. There are also near the present house and 
 in the village remains of windows in stone of the same 
 era, relics of a mansion of considerable size and import- 
 ance. There is a tradition that the house of the Babthorpes 
 was either wholly or partially destroyed by fire at the very 
 end of the seventeenth century, and that it was restored 
 out of the materials of an old building at Hemingbrough, 
 which stood in the Hall Garth, and had been the residence 
 of the members of the College. The owner and the re- 
 builder of Osgodby at the time was Jeremiah Smith, Esq., 
 and this was the only instance in which he appeared as a 
 restorer of waste places. Some of the square-headed 
 windows, &c. at the Hall may have belonged to the old 
 ecclesiastical establishment. There was in the house a 
 large room, which is said to have borne the name of the 
 Council Chamber ; an allusion, probably, to the connec- 
 tion of the Babthorpes with the Council of the North, 
 which may have made use of this very room. When the 
 late Mr. G. P. Dawson came to reside at Osgodby in 
 1844, he made additions to the house under the advice of 
 Mr. Edmund Sharpe, then of York, and, in 1854, he 
 added a large embattled square tower, which gives height 
 and dignity to the mansion. The present owner has done 
 much for the house in various ways, and under his care all 
 the adjacent buildings are models of good repair and order. 
 No one can look upon the site without thinking that it
 
 o30 THE IIISTOllY OF IIEMINGBROUGlt. 
 
 deserves a history, if it does not possess one. Let 
 the preceding pages say whether it has a history or 
 not. 
 
 In dio-o-ino; near the house a number of antlers of deer 
 have been discovered. There was probably a deer-park 
 here in old days, a shadow of which still remains. 
 
 The Chapel. — The lords of Osgodby in very earl}'- 
 times had a private chapel, or oratory, in which service 
 was performed, as at Babthorpe, for the use of themselves 
 and the members of their household. Prior to the year 
 1200, Walter " clericus de Ausgoteby " appears as witness 
 to several undated charters. In one case he has a fellow- 
 Avitness in Peter, his son, showing that he was married, 
 and one of those whom the authorities of the church were 
 beoinnino; to reduce to ecclesiastical order. In 1480, 
 AVilliam Kettering had permission from the Arclibishop of 
 York to have service in his chapel, or oratory, at Osgodby, 
 and in a Subsidy Roll of the period " Johannes capellanus 
 Willelmi Kettering " is mentioned. In another similar 
 Poll for the second year of that king, " Johannes del 
 Chapel, Wright," is mentioned, who resided perhaps near 
 the building, or had been employed in its construction. 
 William Babthorpe, Esq., in his will, in 1501, mentions Sir 
 Alexander Wyman, who was his chaplain at Osgodby. 
 In the fifteenth-century rentals of Hemingbrough there 
 is an annual payment of 12d. to the rector of Heming- 
 brough set down. It may be that some parochial rights 
 Avere assigned to this chapel ; at all events, something like 
 a regular endowment seems to have belonged to it, as this 
 is stated at the Dissolution to be 5/. lis. ^d. per annum. 
 It was probably suppressed because the chapel of Barlby 
 was so near. A grass close in the village bears the name 
 of Chapel-garth. 
 
 Church Land and Charity.- — The vicar of Stillins;- 
 fleet is the owner of certain land in Osgodby, which was 
 purchased for the living with the help of Queen Anne's 
 Bounty, in 1735. It consisted of three roods and three 
 half-acres in the East Eield ; two three-rood lands in the 
 Mill Field ; two roods and two three-rood lands in the 
 Gutill Field ; three half-acres, three lands, four doles, one 
 acre and a third of an acre in West Field. At the same 
 time the vicar acquired in ClifFe one rood land upon the
 
 OSGODBY. ool 
 
 lieiglit of tlie Chantry Field, and another in the Slack ; 
 together with one half-acre in the Old Mill Field. 
 
 By will, dated 18th January, lG'94-5, pr. 24th Sep- 
 tember, 1698, Anne Danyell of Osgodby, widow, leaves 
 " to the poore of Osgodby 20/., to be paid into the hands 
 of John Aske, Robert Williamson of Osgodby, gents., and 
 George Ayslabie, of the same, yeoman, to put it forth to 
 usury, and the yearely consideracion of the saide moneyes 
 to be payde to the poore of Osgodby yearely." 
 
 The Aislabies. — The family of Aislabie occupied land 
 on the Osgodby estate for several generations. One mem- 
 ber of it, George Aislabie, carved out for himself a position 
 in the world, and secured a fortune. He became prmcipal 
 registrar of the Court of York, and married for his second 
 wife a daughter of Sir John Mallory, the Royalist, in right 
 of whom his children became the owners of the magnificent 
 domain of Studley, near Ripon, and the ancestors of the 
 present Marquess of Ripon. Mr. Aislabie came to his end 
 in a very unfortunate manner. Miss Mallory, his wife's 
 sister, had been to a party at the Duke of Buckingham's 
 house on Bishophill, at the close of which she was escorted 
 home to her brother-in-law, Aislabie's house, by Mr. 
 Jonathan Jenings, brother of Sir Edward Jenings, of 
 Ripon. ^ By some mischance they could not get in, and so 
 Mr. Jenings was obliged to take the lady to the residence 
 of his brother-in-law, Dr. Watkinson. On the following 
 day Jenings told Aislabie that it was hard Sir John Maf 
 lory's daughter must wait at George Aislabie's gates, and 
 not be admitted. This produced a quarrel and a challenge, 
 and the two met at Penley Croft, close to the city, the 
 signal for the meeting being the ringing of the Minster bell 
 to prayers on Sunday afternoon. Mr. Aislabie was severely 
 wounded, and bled to death before any help could be 
 secured. The event made a great stir in Yorkshire.^^ 
 Mr. Aislabie had for several years a mortgage on the Os- 
 godby estate, which Sir Jeremiah Smith paid off when he 
 became the purchaser in 1668. It may have entered within 
 the scope of his ambition to become the owner of the town- 
 ship in which his father had occupied a farm. In his 
 
 98 For an account of this duel, see edited for the Surtees Society; also 
 Depositions from York Castle, and Me- Oliver Heywood's Diary, 
 morials of Fountains Abbey, vol. ii..
 
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 THE HISTORY OF HExMINGBROUGH. 
 
 
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 eagerness to rank among the Yorkshire gentry, he took 
 out, on 25th October, 1663, a grant of arms, in which he 
 is described as " an adherent faithful to the King's interest." 
 The coat is blazoned, gnles, a chevron between three lions' 
 heads erased, or. George Aislabie's son became Chancellor 
 of the Exchequer, and fell into disgrace for his conduct 
 during the 'continuance of the South Sea Bubble. What 
 would the humble farmers who remained at home at 
 Osgodby ^^ think of their fine relations at Studley ? Were 
 they happier in exchanging fustian for broadcloth ? 
 
 George Aislaby, according to Vicar Potter, " began to 
 build a house or hall at Osgodby for his brother Ralph, 
 who was but in low ch'cumstances ; but, dying before it 
 was finish'd in the inside, it remain'd so still. And now, 
 [1750] it is falling fast into decay ; half of it being with- 
 out a roof, by the carelessness and poverty of William 
 Chaplain, a bricklayer, who married Widdow Mortit, 
 daughter of George Aislaby." 
 
 The Barlows, — This family has been connected with 
 Osgodby for more than four centuries. The little village 
 of Barlow in the parish of Brayton supplies the name. 
 William Barley occurs in 1407 and another William in 
 1466 ; John Barley occurs in the Subsidy Roll 34th and 
 35th Henry VI II., and Richard Barlow in 1555. Thomas 
 Barley of Barlby made his will in 1579, and John Barley 
 of Osgodby in 1589. James Barlow occurs in 1613, and 
 John Barley in the Subsidy Roll in 1617. A pedigree 
 of the family might be constructed. ^°*^ 
 
 ^ Mai'ch 13, 1704-5. George Aislaby three acres and two doles of meadow, to 
 
 of Osgodby, yeoman. To eldest dau. Wm. Pickering, Esq., Alderman of York. 
 
 Faith A., a close called Great Beany '»» 1606, 15 Nov. Eobert B. of Osgodby 
 
 Moores, and three acres of field land and Jane Bruar of Osgodby marr. 
 
 purchased of Richard Brewer, and three 1607, Francis, s. do., bur. 
 
 doles of meadow. To 2nd dau. Eliz. A., 1609, 18 Apr. Mary, d. John B., bp. 
 
 Nanny Close, etc. Wife with child— —bur. 22nd May. 1610, 2 Dec, Eliz., d. 
 
 if a son, my messuage, lands, etc., in do,,bp. 1614-15, 24 Jan., Jane, d. do., bp. 
 
 Osgodby to him, paying 50Z. each to my 1617, 27 July, Robert, s. do., bp. 1620, 
 
 three youngest daughters, Rebecca, 18 Sept., Frances, d. do., bp. 
 
 Martha, and Mary A. Brother Thos. 1635, 4 June, Joseph, s. Geo. B. of 
 
 Dalby and his son Thos., cousin John 0., bp. 1636-7, 24 Feb., Aaron, s. do., 
 
 Winder and John his son, cousin John bp. 1647, 13 Dec, — s. do., bur. 
 
 Vicars and Eliz. his wife, trustees. 1639, 12 July, Wm. B. of O., bur. 
 
 Wife and three youngest daughters exrs. Adm. granted on 3rd Oct. to Anne his 
 
 On Feb. 3rd, 23d. Car. II. Ralph A. wid. and sole exr. 
 
 of 0. sells three acres of land to Wm. 1665, 2 June, Geo., s. John B. of 0., 
 
 Harrison of Selby. bp. 1667, 14 Apr., Joshua, s. do., bp. 
 
 Apr. 1723. Faith Chaplain (an 1658, 9 Sep., Priscilla, w. do., bur. 
 
 Aislabie) sells Whinn Close, in 0,, cont. 1668, 26 Oct., will of John Barlow of
 
 334 THE IIISTOKY OF HEMINGBROUGII. 
 
 The following will of a steward of the Husseys of 
 North Duffield, who resided at Osgodby, is an interesting 
 document : — 
 
 In the name of God, amen. The xxj day of June, in the yere of 
 oure Lorde God a mV*^xlj, I John Stable of Osgodbie in the parish of 
 Hemynburghe, malfithe my testament in manner and fourme followinge. 
 First I bequest and give my saull to the mercie of God, .by merites of 
 His blissed passion, prayers of His gloriouse mother and virgine oure 
 Ladie Sancte Marie, and all the holie company of heven, and my bodie 
 to be buried in the churche of Sancte Helin in Skipwithe. Also I give 
 to the hie altare at Hemyngburghe, for forgotten tithes, ijs. Also I 
 give to Skipwithe church warkes, to pray for me and my elders, 
 vjs. viijd., and, if I be buried ther, I give iijs. iiijd. for my buriall. 
 Also I give to Duffelde chapelP iijs. iiijd. Also I give to Hemyng- 
 burghe church warkes xs. Also I give to Margaret Hadlesay v marc, 
 Also to Agnes Stable iiij marc, to be levied of my landes when tyme is 
 that they shalbe maried and occupie it by the counsal of ther frendes ; 
 and if it please God that Margaret lyve not to that day, then the saide 
 V marc to be devyded betwixte her breder and her susters ; and if the 
 saide Agnes departe or the tyme come, then her parte to be devyded to 
 Annie Waide childei'. Also I give to Margaret Amler, if she come to 
 feche it, to her mariadge, xxs. Also I give to my suster Margaret 
 iij s. iii d. Also I give to Kobert Hoge, that was my servaunte, to pray 
 for me, one quye stirke, or els iij s. iiij d. Also I give to evere one of 
 my servauntes that is with me the day of my departinge, xijd. a pece, 
 besides ther wadges. Also I have provyded for a lampe to hynge befor 
 the roide in Skipwith churche perpetually, to pray for me, my wif and 
 our elders for evermore, xx s. Also I give to M^' Babthorpe my best 
 horse or mayre, to se my will be fultilled and my dettes paide, and to 
 here my wife in right, and my executours. Also I give Alison Hadlesay, 
 my doughter, one cowe : and to Anne Waide, my dougliter, one cowe. 
 Also I give to John Hadlesay one sored stage, to make hyme one horse 
 of. To John Stable one masser, and to evere one of my childer barnes 
 one yewe and a lambe, and to my v childer v silver spones ; and the 
 sext to John Stable of Hatefelde Wodhouse. To every god barne that 
 I christinned iiij d. a pece. Also I give to James Dobbe wif one yewe 
 and one lambe. Also to Alicie Persone one yewe and one lambe. Also 
 I give to evere power mane in the towne that hathe no ploughe iiijd. 
 Also I give to my curate and gostlie fay ther, to pray for me, iij s. iiijd. 
 Also I give to Robert, my base begotten sonne, to sawe his crope with, 
 
 O. Alice my now wife. Sons John, Jonathan B. of 0., d. 11 Sept. 1777, 
 
 Jonathan, Geo. and Joshua B. 1673, at. 74. Ann, late wife of Mr. Jos. 
 
 10 Dec, will of Aylse B. of 0. Three Atkinson, of Knottingley, and widow of 
 
 sons, John, Jonathan and Joshua. of Jon". Barlow, d. 5 Nov. 1787, aged 64. 
 
 Exors., Nicholas and John Burton. 1695, 20 Nov., John, s. Joshua B. of 
 
 1680, 5 June, Jos. B. and Ann Alii- Chffe, bp. 1715-16, 31 Jan., Jos. B. 
 
 son m. and Alice Butler of Cliff e m. 
 
 Jonathan B. and Eliz. Waud m. Wm. B. of Osgodby d. 22 Sept. 1819, 
 
 29 Nov. 1695. John, s. do., bp. 10 Feb. at. 66. Sarah his wife. Adm. of Wm. 
 
 1696-7. 1698-9, 16 Feb., EUz., d. do., B. to Jonathan and Thos. Baxter— 
 
 bp. 1706, 1 May, Jonathan, s. do., bp. effects under 1..500?. 
 
 Adm. of .John B. (d. 1668) gr. in 1746 ' i.e. North Dutfield, where there was 
 
 to Jonathan B. his grandson. a free chapel dedicated to St. James.
 
 OSGODBY. 335 
 
 ij quarters of rie and whet, one quarter barlie, and one quarter benes. 
 Also I give to Isabell Morre, my servaunte, one quye, or els iij s. iiij d. 
 To Margaret Thompsone xij d. Also I give to Robert, my base begotten 
 Sonne, ij howses and iij rodes of medewe, wliiclie William Woode of 
 Ricall wedset to me for x*'' yeres, wherof there is ij yeres paide, and to 
 pay at the fest of Sancte Michaell th'archangell, or within too dais next 
 after, xxviij s. viij d. evere yere, whilst that Robert, my said base begotten 
 Sonne, shall eyther have the money or the lande. Also I give to William 
 Smythe and his wif xij d. To John Mellesone and his wif xij d. To 
 Alisone Hoge xijd. To John Taliour wif one yewe and a lambe. 
 Also to Alison Haddlesay one troughe. To Anne Waide, my doughter, 
 one skrene. To James Dobbe wif vs. Also I will have Dirige and 
 Messe with the holl quere at Hemyngburghe the vij*^*^ day after my 
 buriall, and evere man to have his dutie for his labour. Also I give to 
 mendinge the hie way at Barlebie towne ende iijs. iiijd., and the saide 
 townshipe will mende it. And I will that my too doughters, Alison 
 and Anne, shall have to theme and ther childer, after the deathe of my 
 wif, her bedes, with all other thinges that longes to theme, and her 
 girdle. Also I will that men that beres me to the churche shall have 
 xij d. for ther labour. To John Heslewode xij d. Also I will have one 
 trentall of Messis done at Skipwithe for me and my frendes' saules at 
 the discrecione of my executours. Also I give to Thomas, my sone, 
 and his heres male of his body lawfully begotten, and, in defalte of 
 heres male of his bodie lawfully begotten, to remayne to the next of 
 his blode of the same name called Stable, for ever, vij roides of freholde 
 lande of the yerlie valour of vs., lyenge within the towne folds and tez'ri- 
 tories of Ricall in the countie abovesaide, to the entent the saide 
 Thomas, and his hei'es for evermore, shall yerlie cause one Messe and the 
 Dirige to be songe at the hie altare within the parishe churche of Skip- 
 withe, yerlie, of suche day and monthe as it shall fortone me, the said 
 John Stable, to be buried on ; and the prest and the clerke to have xij d., 
 and iiij scolers iiij d. ; and vj power people vj d. and ij churche wardons 
 of Skipwithe to have ijd. to se that this be trewlie done. And one 
 Messe and one Dirige to be saide at North Duffelde chapell within the 
 parishe of Skipwith for his m'', S'' William Hussey saull, and this to 
 contynewe for evermore, which S'' William Hussey was lorde of the 
 saide towne that tyme that I, the saide John Stable, was his baley, and 
 the prest to have ixd. and the ringer ijd., and to be delte to power 
 people for my said m"" saull and myne, xiij d., and the churche wardens 
 of the same towne, to se that this be done, to have ijd,, and the over- 
 plus of the saide vs., the out firme dischardged, to be delte in almes to 
 power people at the discrescion of the said churche wardons of Skipwith 
 and North Duffelde. Also I make Thomas Stable, my eldest sone, and 
 William Stable, my secunde sonne, bothe to be my executours, and to 
 fulfill my Will in every condicion, as far forthe as God will give tlieme 
 leve, and be goode to ther moither and ther brother and ther susters, 
 and helpe theme at their most nede, and se them not fawte where they 
 may mende them ; and they shall have my dailie blessinges, whike and 
 dede. And the residue of my goodes and landes for their trewe dedes, 
 to helpe theme to lyve in honestie. Witnes and recordes herof, Robert 
 Wayde, James Dobbe, John Taliour, and John Person junior, and evere 
 one of them shall have ther costes borne and xij d. a pece for ther labor ; 
 and Sir Richard Marsar, curate. — Pr. 14th August, seq., and ad. toexrs. 
 (Reg. Test. Ebor. xi. bb^:)
 
 336 THE HISTORY OF HEMINGBROUGH. 
 
 THE TOWNSHIP AND CHAPELRY OP BARLEY. 
 
 This is a prettily situated village and township, lying 
 in the north-west corner of the parish, between Osgodby 
 and the Ouse. The ground on which the village stands 
 is slightly elevated, and the hamlet itself is full of small 
 homesteads, each with its orchard, bright in the spring 
 with apple and plum blossom. The name signifies the by 
 of Bard or Bardulf, some early settler who chose a home 
 contifi'uous to the Ouse, which he would reg-ard as his 
 highway. 
 
 The place is thus noticed in Domesday: — 
 
 M. In Bardulbi habebat Mferlesuen i car. terrae ad geld. Terras c' 
 ad dim. car. Radulfus habet et wast' est. Ibi v acrae prati. Silva 
 pasturte nil q'^r. long' et n lat. 
 
 In the same survey, among the members of the great 
 manor of Howden, the Bishop of Durham is said to have 
 one carucate in Barlby. 
 
 In Kirkby's Inquest the manorial, or open field, lands 
 of Barlby made up three carucates. No carucate or 
 demesne is mentioned in Domesday. Supposing the 
 tenure of the lands to have been of the same nature as 
 those previously described, the inference would be that 
 the demesne had been separated and enclosed ; but in this 
 case Kirkby would probably have stated that there were two 
 carucates only. The omission was probably accidental. 
 
 The open field lands, according to a recent survey, 
 amounted to 224 acres, or somewhat less than two caru- 
 cates. They are contained in nine or ten fields, great and 
 small, wdiich are widely dispersed over the township, and 
 are so much interrupted with enclosures that we may be 
 sure that the acreage, if rightly ascertained, would amount 
 to the required number, comprising as well the demesne 
 as the lands in villeinage. 
 
 The wood-pasture is described as four quarentens long
 
 BAELBY. 337 
 
 and two broad — that is (reckoning the qnarenten at 40 
 perches), about 80 acres, which chiefly adjoined the 
 commons of Barlby and Osgodby. In the reign of 
 Henry III. this, if it was the same woodLand, was con- 
 siderably reduced, as the Abbot of Selby, who claimed 
 a certain territory in Barlby, states at an assize trial held 
 21st Edward I., that he was entitled to 40 acres of wood 
 and alnet ; and the proceedings show that this wood had 
 been demised to a tenant who had devastated it some time 
 previously. In 1447 a wood called Barlby Shawe is men- 
 tioned in the Bishop's Account Roll. At present the 
 woodlands consist of little more than a few reins or head- 
 lands, estimated at about twenty acres. 
 
 The Lordship of Barlby is of moderate extent, being 
 hemmed in by a sudden turn of the Ouse. It consists of 
 about 350 acres, two-thirds of which, being lands adjoining 
 to the river, and more elevated, were first enclosed and 
 cultivated. The remainder was ancient marsh or carr- 
 land, and was agisted with cattle. 
 
 The Open Fields in the township of Barlby have been 
 enclosed, Mr, Geo. Alderson of York being the surveyor. 
 The first meeting was held 20th October, 1842, and the 
 award was signed on 17th December, 1846. 
 
 Barlby Common, containing 80 acres, was enclosed in 
 1857 under the same commissioner, Mr. Alderson. 
 
 There are three railway lines through the township, all 
 belonging to the North Eastern Railway Company. The 
 Hull and Selby line ; the York and Doncaster ; and the 
 Market Weighton line. 
 
 Before w^e go minutely into the history of the land 
 and its owners, the chapel and its appurtenances must be 
 described. 
 
 The Chapel. — A chapel has existed here for a very 
 considerable period. This is stated in a document m 
 Archbishop Rotheram's Register at York, by Avhich, on 
 6th February, 1481-2, his vicar-general, William Poteman, 
 gave permission to the inhabitants of Barlby to have mass, 
 canonical hours, and other offices, performed by a chap- 
 lain or chaplains, with the leave of the Archbishops of 
 York, or their vicars-general, as had been allowed by them 
 from ancient times, in the chapel of Barlby "«& cmfiquo, 
 lit asserihir, fimdata et erectar The alleged reason for this
 
 338 THE HISTOKY OF HEMINGBROUGH. 
 
 grant is the distance of Barlby from Hemingbrougb, which 
 renders it impossible for the sick, feeble and aged to go 
 so far. The privilege was to last for three years. It must 
 have been granted previously and subsequently, but such 
 a fact is not recorded in the York Registers. The chapel 
 in those days had no regular endowment, and, in the 
 absence of a chaplain temporarily hired, the attending to 
 the services would devolve on the vicars at Hemingbrougb. 
 
 On 31st October, 1558, the advowson of Hemingbrougb 
 was granted by the Crown to Archbishop Heath, and 
 Barlby is mentioned in the grant. But this concession 
 was either never ratified or was soon rescinded. It was 
 probably the paucity of the endowment of Barlby which 
 induced the Crown to allow the vicars of Hemingbrougb 
 to present to it, or to serve it themselves. 
 
 Dr. Burton, in his Sketch of the parish of Hemingbrougb, 
 supposes that the chapel of Barlby had been built by the 
 family of Lodge, probably in the seventeenth century. In 
 confirmation of this tradition it may be mentioned that 
 Ralph Lodge left 40-s. in 1632 towards the tiling of the 
 chapel. In the present chapel there are several seats which 
 bear the date 1634. I believe that the Lodges may have 
 mended the chapel and refurnished it ; but, if they had 
 rebuilt it, it would not have needed demolition in 1770. 
 The words of the petition of the inhabitants asking for 
 a Faculty to rebuild, seem to show decisively that the 
 original building was then in existence. The petitioners 
 speak of it as an antient chapel of ease which is by length 
 of time become so very ruinous that it cannot be repaired, 
 but must be entirely taken down and rebuilt. The in- 
 habitants cannot assemble therein without manifest danger 
 of their lives. They have collected on a brief 86/. 16s. lid., 
 and ask to be allowed to rebuild the chapel on the same 
 site, to erect seats, and lofts, or galleries, and to dispose of 
 them, to complete the chapel. 
 
 The Faculty issued on 6th June, 1778, in the Arch- 
 bishop's primary Visitation, addressed to Rev. Wm. 
 Potter, clerk, Banastre Walton, Esq., Robert and Ann 
 Dalby, and Greorge Brewer, gentlemen, and the work was 
 done. 
 
 On 18th April, 1780, a Commission issued from Joseph 
 Banks, LL.B., vicar-general and official -principal, to John
 
 BARLEY. 
 
 339 
 
 Mallison of Barmby Marsh, clerk, Win. Potter of Hem- 
 ingbroiigh, clerk, Joseph Nelson of Riccall, clerk, Wni. 
 Cale of Ryther, clerk, James Keighley of Cliffe, Esq., 
 John Dunnington of Thorganby Hall, Esq., Nicholas 
 Smith of Selby, Esq., and 'John Watson of Bracken- 
 holme, gent., empowering them to allot the seats in the 
 newly-erected chapel. The result of their work is em- 
 bodied in a plan of the interior of the chapel deposited in 
 the Registry at York, in which each pew is shown, with 
 the name of the person and house to which it was assigned. 
 
 The Chapel, as it stands at present, is much the same 
 as it was in 1780. I give a representation of it to show 
 the ecclesiastical taste of the parish a century ago— I may 
 say, rather, the taste of the period. It is a plain building 
 of brick, with a tiled roof, and a little bellcote at the west 
 end. The chancel terminates in an apse, and is fitted up 
 with stalls for the choir, but the nave retains its old pews. 
 On the south side are three round-headed sash windows, of 
 which there is another at the east end, and a fourth in the 
 nortli wall. On the north side are two small appendages 
 of brick, somewhat painfully prominent, each communicat- 
 ing with the church through an arched opening. These 
 are of the nature of chapels. For one of these a Faculty 
 was granted to the late George Pelsant Dawson, Esq., of 
 Osgodby Hall, empowering him and his family to use it 
 
 z 2
 
 340 THE HISTORY OF HEMINGBROUGH. 
 
 for public worship so long as they resided at Osgodby. 
 The other chapel was built, with the consent of the incum- 
 bent, by Mr. Robert Hubie, for the use of himself and his 
 family. The vestry was built in 1866, and is on the same 
 side of the church, contiguous to the chancel. Its prede- 
 cessor, as Vicar Potter says (1750), " was mostly built at 
 my expence." 
 
 Across the west end of the chapel runs a gallery or loft, 
 bearing the following inscription: " A.D. 1811. This 
 gallery was erected by Philip, Thos., and Mary Hubie, 
 for the use of themselves and their h^irs for ever. And 
 also for the use of the Singers." For this a Faculty was 
 issued from the Court of the Peculiar of Howden. At 
 the west end, in a small hexagonal turret, is a single bell, 
 inscribed Venite exultemus Domino. Ebor. 1705. 
 
 The first person buried in the chapel and ground was 
 the benefactor, Mr. John Yickers, who died in 17:27. In 
 1780 burials and baptisms began for the first time to be 
 entered in a Register at Barlby. Up to that time they 
 were recorded at the mother-church of Hemingbrough. 
 The chapel was licensed for the solemnisation of marriages 
 from Barlby and Osgodby on 26th February, 1853 ; but 
 this concession was unnecessary as far as Barlby was 
 concerned, as marriages had, or might have been, per- 
 formed there all along, provided that double fees we^e 
 charged and paid to the vicar of Hemingbrough. There 
 is nothing in the Registers that deserves notice. 
 
 On 24th February, 1872, an addition to the Burial- 
 ground was consecrated by Archbishop Thomson, Mrs. 
 Mary Carr giving the land. Space was also gained at the 
 east end with a view to the buildino; of a new chancel at 
 some future time, and the whole cemetery was enclosed 
 with a new brick wall at the cost of 100/. 
 
 A few monuments in the chapel and chapel-yard may 
 be recorded. 
 
 Here are interred the mortal relics of Joseph Blairshard, of Barlby, 
 who died January 15*'^ 1807, aged 69 years. Sarah, wife of the above 
 Joseph Blanshard, was interred in Aughton Churchyard, June IS^^^, 
 1791, aged 46 years. Also, near this stone, is interred John, son of 
 the above Joseph and Sarah Blanshard, who died June 29*'\ 1799, 
 aged 14 years. Also in memory of Joseph Stringer, formerly of Barlby 
 Hall, who died the 8*^*^ day of August, 1835, aged 44 years. Also 
 Susannah, widow of the above-named Joseph Stringer, who died at
 
 BAKLBY. 341 
 
 Barlby Hall, the P* day of March, 1872, aged 83 years. Also Charles 
 and John, sons of the above-named Joseph and Susannah Stringer, who 
 died in their infancy. {In chapel-yard.) 
 
 Sacred to the memory of George and Susanna Brewer and their 
 children. Susanna Brewer died February — , 1766, aged 45 years, and 
 was interred in Skipwith churchyard. Rev. George Brewer, M.A., 
 second son, died April 14^^^ (1786), aged 33. George Brewer died June 
 4'^'^ (1786), aged 65 years. John Brewer, their eldest son, died January 
 lO*'^, 1807, aged 57 years. (Thomas) Brewer, their third son, died July 
 4'^*', 1818, aged 62 years, and lies beneath this stone, near to his father 
 and two brothers. Near to this stone lieth the body of Elizabeth 
 Brewer, daughter of the above-mentioned George and Susanna Brewer, 
 who died July 19'^^, 1819, aged 60 years. {Inside, on floor.) 
 
 In affectionate remembi-ance of Amelia Alice, wife of Riley Briggs, 
 Esq., J. P., of Osgodby Hall, who died July 15*^, 1873, aged 37 years. 
 {In chapel-yard.) 
 
 Beneath this stone i-est the mortal remains of Pelsant, the beloved 
 son of George and Susaia Dawson of Osgodby. After a life of much 
 hardship and endurance in foreign lands, he died at home on the 6*^^ of 
 July, 1858, in the 25**^ year of his age. {In chapel-yard.) 
 
 Within this stone are deposited the remains of Jane, the beloved 
 wife of William Hubie, of the city of York, who died May b^^, 1832, 
 aged 51. Ajid also the remains of the above-named William Hubie, 
 who had resided in this village for the last 20 years. He departed this 
 life 3P* October, 1854, aged 82 years. And also Mary Ann, eldest 
 daughter of the above, who died on the 19*^ Avigust, a.d. 1850, aged 
 43 years. {In chapel-yard.) 
 
 In memory of Mary Jane, wife of Thomas Hubie of Barlby, who 
 died July 5"\ 1764, aged 47 years. 
 
 Here lies interr'd in hopes to rise. 
 Amongst the just, and good, and wise, 
 
 A faithful Avife, a tender mother ; 
 A friend sincere to rich and poor. 
 An honest Christian, what needs more 1 
 
 Let gloomy death find such another. 
 
 Also here lieth interr'd the body of the said Thomas Hubie, who 
 departed this life the 28*^ day of March, 1775, and in the %Q^^ year of 
 his age. Also in memory of Mr. Mark Hubie, late of London, son of 
 the above-said Thomas and Mary Hubie ; he died Feb^. 17*^^, a.d. 1801, 
 set. 59, and was buried at Bi'entford, in Middlesex. {In chapel-yard, 
 at west end.) 
 
 In memory of Ann, the wife of Mark Hubie of Brentford, Middlesex, 
 who departed this life the 29*^ of Dec''., 1782, aged 38 years. Also 
 Ann, daughter of the above, who departed this life the 14:^^ of Dec"*., 
 1782, aged 2 years and 10 months. Also the said Mark Hubie, who 
 departed this hfe Feb'-y. the 17*i\ 1801, in the 59*'^ year of his age. 
 Also Thomas Hubie of Baiiby, who departed this life on the 17'*^ of 
 July, 1833, aged 85 years. Also Mary Hubie of Barlby, who departed 
 this life 25"^*^ of June, 1836, aged 82 years. {In chapel-yard.) 
 
 Inscribed to the memory of W™. and Philip Hubie, both of this 
 Village, who died Bachelors, the former 21^^ April, 1822, aged 76
 
 342 THE HISTORY OF HEMINGBROUGH. 
 
 years, and the latter, 19*1* December, 1815, aged 66 years, and are both 
 buried at the west end of this Chapel. Also to the memory of Robert 
 Hubie, their brother, who died in London (where he had resided about 
 40 years), 10*^ March, 1808, aged 66 years. And of Mary his wife, 
 who died 3'"'^ October, 1798, aged 50 yeai-s. They were buried in Christ 
 Church Yard, Spitalfields, leaving a numerous family, by the eldest of 
 whom, William, this inscription was caused to be made. {On a 'marble 
 tablet, inside.) 
 
 Sacred to the memory of Tho^. Hubie of Barlby, Esq^"^., who was 
 exemplary in every relative duty. This Tablet is placed here by his 
 only sister, Mary Hubie, as a memorial of his worth and her affection. 
 He died 17*"^ July, 1833, aged 85 years. Also to the memory of the 
 above-named Mary Hubie, who died 25*^ June, 1836, aged 82 years. 
 {On a marble tablet, inside.) 
 
 Robert Hubie, died 22"'^ January, 1881, aged 68 years. Jennie, 
 daughter of Henry and Jane Toovey, born and died December 23'"'^, 
 1869. Maude Mary Elizabeth Hubie, daughter of Robert and Jane 
 Hubie, died 13*^ April, 1866, aged 13 years. {In chapel-yard.) 
 
 In memory of Charles Reeves of Barlby, who died July 29*^^^, 1865, 
 aged 78 years. Also Frances Reeves, wife of the above, who died 
 August 20"\ 1861, aged 78 years. Saved by Faith. {In chapel-yard.) 
 Here lyeth interred the Body of John Vickers of this Town, who 
 Departed this Life the 10**^ of January, Anno Domini 1727. {Inside, 
 on floor.) 
 
 Here are interred the mortal relics of George Lyon Weddall, Esq., 
 of Gowthorpe House, Selby, who died 12*^^ of June, 1820, aged 40 
 years. The dignity of his person was only surpassed by the elegance of 
 his manners and the philanthropy of his heart. The affection of a 
 revered uncle put him in possession, at the age of 30, of an ample 
 fortune, but a want of caution in his transactions with the world, and 
 an unqualified confidence in those who solicited his assistance, involved 
 him in difficulties which envenomed the dart by which Society was 
 deprived of a valued member, and a family of six children, born to 
 cheering expectations, left dependent upon their own exertions and the 
 sympathy of their friends. {On the floor, on a blue marble stone.) 
 
 Sacred to the Memory of John Weddall, who died 4*'^ October, 1821, 
 aged 80 years. Also of Mary his wife, who died P* Feb'y., 1829, aged 
 79 year.=!. This Tablet is erected to record the esteem and affection in 
 which they were held by their son, Robert Plummer Weddall, who 
 died 2"*^ Nov''., 1840, and whose remains are also interred in a vault in 
 this Chapel. {On a marble tablet, inside.) 
 
 CURATES OR INCUMBENTS. 
 
 1552. Robert Leeds. By his will, dated 14th Sep- 
 tember, 1552, Thomas Lodge of the parish of Alhallows, 
 York, leaves to Sir Robert Leides of Barlby his wood- 
 knife.
 
 BARLBY— CURATES OR INCUMBENTS. 04o 
 
 1647. Lecke occurs. 
 
 1657. Hanby occurs as Minister. 
 
 1716. Thomas Froggott occurs as officiating minister 
 in the Terrier sent in to the Court that year by the inhabi- 
 tants. Mr. Froggott was a son of George Froggott, alder- 
 man of Hull, and was educated at St. John's College, 
 Cambridge. He was ordained Deacon by the Bishop of 
 Peterborough, 20th March, 1702-3, and Priest by the 
 Archbishop of York on 22nd September, 1706. On 26th 
 September, 1706, he was instituted to the vicarage of 
 Riccall, and was licensed to the curacy of Caw^ood on 
 20th March, 1717-18. On a tombstone within the altar- 
 rails at Cawood church is the folio vsring inscription : — 
 " Here lieth the body of the Rev. Thomas Froggott, Master of 
 Arts, Vicar of Riccall and Curate of Cawood, son of Alder- 
 man George Froggott, merchant in Hidl, educated in St. 
 John's College, Cambridge. lie died 17th October, 1721, 
 aged 39 years.''^ 
 
 On 10th October, 1711, Mr. Froggot had a licence 
 to marry Martha Robinson of Cawood, spinster, set. 23. 
 She re-married, I believe, James Smith of Cawood, 
 
 gent. 
 
 1733, 21st April. Marmaduke Teasdale licensed. 
 See among the Vicars of Hemingbrough. 
 
 1761, 11th May. Robert Potter licensed, on the 
 nomination of his brother. 
 
 He was a son of Thomas Potter of Lazenby in Cum- 
 berland, and a brother of Wm. Potter, vicar of Heming- 
 brough. He was baptised at Lazenby 6th November, 
 1696. On 3rd January, 1723-4, he was licensed to teach 
 a grammar school in the parish of Howden. On 19th 
 September, 1725, he was ordained Deacon by the Arch- 
 bishop, and Priest by the Bishop of Durham on 17th 
 September, 1727. On 25th July, 1730, he was collated 
 by the Dean and Chapter of York to the vicarage of 
 Stillingfleet, which he held till his death. Mr. Potter was 
 buried at Stillingfleet on 18th February, 1768. A notice 
 of his family will be found in the account of his brother 
 among the Vicars of Hemingbrough. 
 
 1768, 8th June. William Potter, Jun., B.A., on the 
 nomination of Wm. Potter, his father. See among the 
 Vicars of Hemingbrough.
 
 344 THE HISTORY OF HEMINGBROUGH. 
 
 1779, 5tli May. William Gill licensed, on the nomina- 
 tion of Wm. Potter. Ordained Deacon by the Bishop of 
 Chester 21st December, 1755, and Priest by the Bishop 
 of Peterborough, 25th September, 1757. On 21st 
 August, 1770, the Rev. Mr. Wm. Gill of par. Sherburn, 
 and Frances Potter, daughter of the Vicar of Heming- 
 brough, were married at Hemingbrough. He was pro- 
 bably a son of Wm. Gill, vicar of Fenton and Sherburn, 
 who died in 1756. 
 
 1771, 2()th August. John Mallison licensed. He 
 held it till he became Vicar of Hemingbrough. 
 
 1780, 8th April. William Potter, M. A., licensed the 
 second time. He held it, with the vicarages of Brayton 
 and Selby, till he died. 
 
 1796, 23rd September. William Wood, A.M., licensed 
 on the death of Potter, on the nomination of William 
 Caile. He was of Trinity College, Cambridge, A.B. 1784, 
 A.M. 1792. On 7th xMarch, 1784, he was ordained 
 Deacon by the Bishop of Gloucester, and Priest by the 
 Archbishop, 16th October, 1785. On 19th June, 1786, 
 he was licensed to the curacy of Felkirk, with a stipend of 
 40/. On 8th December, 1791, he was licensed to the 
 curacy of Wakefield, receiving as a stipend the donations 
 of the parishioners and other profits. On 9th November, 
 1805, he was licensed to the perpetual curacy of St. John's, 
 Wakefield, which he held till he died, in 1825. Mr. Wood 
 is said in the ' Gentleman's Magazine ' to have been " a very 
 active Magistrate and Deputy- Lieutenant for the West 
 Riding." 
 
 At the west end of St. John's Church, Wakefield, is a 
 marble monument, bearing the following inscription : — 
 
 This Tablet is erected to the memory of the Rev. Wm. Wood of 
 Woodthorp ; who during nineteen years was minister of this church. 
 He died in the 66"^ year of his age ; and his i^emains were interred in 
 Sandal Church on the 23rd day of June a.d. 1825. 
 
 E'en fond remembrance, ere it's day be gone, 
 Leaves its last tribute on the letter'd stone : 
 But while remembrance lingers still on earth, 
 Can sculptor's art pourtray the pious worth 
 That toil'd in secret 1 How the good man trod 
 The path that brought him nearer to his God, 
 Learn from some living source : Go, ask the tear 
 How meek the Pastor, and the friend how dear.
 
 BARLBY — CURATES OR INCUMBENTS. o40 
 
 1805, 16tli October. Roger Steele licensed on the 
 cession of Wood, on the nomination of Wm. Caile. On 
 10th November, 1777, Roger, son of Roger and Sarah 
 Steele, was baptised at St. Lawrence's, Appleby. On 
 5th July, 1801, he was ordained Deacon as a literate by 
 the Archbishop, and licensed to the curacy of Bub with, 
 with a stipend of 50/. On 18th July, 1802, he was or- 
 dained Priest. On 22nd Xovember, 1803, he was licensed 
 to the curacy of Doncaster. In a letter to the Archbishop, 
 requesting leave to resign Bubwith, he says that from the 
 curacy of Doncaster and the post of usher in Mr. Falconer's 
 academy there he would receive 120/. per annum. Mr. 
 Steele was married at Hemingbrough. on lOth Januar37-j 
 1805, to Jane Caile, daughter of the vicar of the parish. 
 
 1810, 10th January. William Jenkinson licensed, on 
 the nomination of Wm. Caile. 
 
 He was a son of Wm. Jenkinson of York, and was 
 A.B. of St. Catherine's Hall, Cambridge, 1798, A.M. 1801, 
 and a Fellow of his College. 
 
 He was ordained Deacon by the Bishop of Peterborough 
 on 2nd December, 1799, and Priest by the Archbishop 
 on 17th July, 1803. On 20th September, 1802, he was 
 licensed to the Mastership of Haughton's Grammar School, 
 York. On 24:th May, 1807, he was licensed to the curacy 
 of H. Trinity, King's Court, York, and to the assistant 
 curacy of Fulford at the nomination of Edward Willan, 
 with a stipend of 35/. On 1st January, 1808, he was 
 licensed to the curacy of Fulford on Mr. Willan's death. 
 He died on the 25th, and was buried at Fulford 29th 
 April, 1812, aged 35. M.I. 
 
 1812, 17th July. Thomas Braim licensed on the 
 death of Jenkinson, on the nomination of Wm. Caile. 
 
 Mr. Braim held with Barlby the donative of Barlow, 
 and, about 1820 or 1821, was presented to the vicarage 
 of West Wittering, near Chichester. 
 
 Mr. Braim died at Barlby on 25th August, 1825, aged 
 38. He left, according to the ' Gentleman's Magazine,' a 
 widow and nine children. His wife was Jane, daughter 
 of Wm. Caile, vicar of Hemingbrough, and widow of 
 Roger Steele, one of his predecessors at Barlby. 
 
 Mr. Braim had, in succession, three assistant curates at 
 Barlby.
 
 346 THE HISTORY OF HEMINGBROUGH. 
 
 1. Mr. Caile, who was licensed on 22nd November, 1813. 
 
 2. Thomas Bowman, licensed 13th Marcli, 1818. He 
 was ordained Deacon on 2Gth May, 1782, and Priest on 
 29th June, 1783, by the Bishop of Chester. On 22nd 
 November, 1813, he was licensed to the curacy of Skip- 
 with, and was holding it at the time of the Visitation in 
 1817. He was probably a son of Thomas Bowman, 
 rector of Crayke, who died in 1799. 
 
 3. John Hobart Gaunter of Peterhouse, Cambridge, was 
 ordained Deacon by the Archbishop on 18th July, 
 1824, and was licensed to the assistant curacy of Barlby 
 on the nomination of Thos. Braim, with a stipend of 50/. 
 and the surplice fees. He was son of George and Harriet 
 Georgina Gaunter, and was baptised at Dittisham, Devon, 
 2Gth July, 1793. In 1828 he took the degree of S.T.P. 
 at Cambridge. 
 
 182G, January 6th. John Earle licensed on the 
 death of Braim, on the nomination of John Ion, vicar. 
 
 He was son of John Earle, clerk, and Hannah his wife, 
 and was baptised at St. Lawrence's, Appleby, 20th August, 
 1780. We first hear of him as schoolmaster at Morland, 
 in Westmoreland. 
 
 On 17th July, 1803, he was ordained Deacon by the 
 Archbishop as a literate, and licensed to the curacy of 
 Bubwith, on the nomination of Mr. George Ion, whom he 
 was also to help in his school, at a stipend of 40/. On 7th 
 October, 1804, he was ordained Priest. On 21st Feb- 
 ruary, 1815, he was licensed to the curacy of Foston-on- 
 the-Wolds, with a stipend of 21/. and the surplice fees, 
 and he was to live at Driffield. 
 
 On 3rd October, 1823, Mr. Earle was licensed to the 
 perpetual curacy of Watton on the presentation of Richard 
 Bethell, Esq. of Rise, and died, holding it, on 9tli May, 
 1839. 
 
 On 13th August, 1837, Mr. Earle's son, John Earle, of 
 Clare Hall, Cambridge, was ordained Deacon by the 
 Archbishop, and was licensed to the curacy of Watton on 
 his father's nomination, with a stipend of 50/. On 7tli 
 June, 1838, he had letters dimissory for Priest's orders to 
 the Archbishop of Canterbury. 
 
 1839, 1st November. John Hill licensed on the 
 death of Earle, on the nomination of John Ion, vicar.
 
 BARLBY CUKATES OR INCUMBENTS, 347 
 
 He was son of Robert Hill of Bcilby, publican (son of 
 Wra. and Eliz. Hill) and Mary his wife (daughter of 
 Richard and Ann Walker of I^eilby, farmer) and was 
 baptised at Hay ton on 2nd January, 1799. He was or- 
 dained Deacon as a literate on lOth July, 1825, and 
 licensed to the curacy of Halsham, with a stipend ot 100/., 
 the surplice fees, and the use of the rectory house and 
 garden, the rector being Mr. Ion, the vicar of Hemmg- 
 brough. Mr. Hill died in the rectory-house, Halsham, 
 20th''Septeraber, 1841, in his 42nd year. 
 
 1842, 7th October. Robert Onebye Walker, on the 
 nomination of Mr. Ion. He was a private tutor in the family 
 of Mr. Menzies at Woodhall. He resigned the curacy on 
 26th May, 1843. He was son of Robert Onebye Walker, 
 gent., and Mary Spencer his wife, of Compton Street, St. 
 Georo-e's, Bloomsbury, London, where he was baptised 
 on 6th January, 1819. He was at St. John's College, 
 Oxford, B.A. 1840, M.A. 1842. On 19th December, 
 1841, he was ordained Deacon by the Archbishop, and 
 had letters dimissory to the Bishop of Lincoln for 
 Priest's orders on 19th September, 1842. His title as 
 Deacon was to the curacy of Hemingbrough under Mr. 
 Ion, for which he received a stipend of 62/. Mr. Walker 
 became an Assistant Chaplain in the H.E.T.C.S., and was 
 married on 1st December, 1853, to Anne Emmeline, eldest 
 daughter of the Rev. S. T. Gully, rector of Berrynarbor, 
 
 Devon. » i.t • • i 
 
 1844, 15th July. Miles Mackereth, A.M., instituted 
 by R. H. Kitchingman, rector of Patrington, on the pre- 
 sentation of the Archbishop, by lapse, on the resignation 
 of Walker. 
 
 He was the son of John Mackereth, clerk, and was 
 baptised at Halsham on 26th December, 1803, On 18tli 
 October, 1811, his fiither became perpetual curate of 
 Ottringham, in which charge he was succeeded by his son. 
 Miles Mackereth was of St. Catherine's Hall, Cam- 
 bridge, and was A.B. in 1831, and A.M. in 1837. He 
 was ordained Deacon on 31st July, 1831, by the Arch- 
 bishop, and hcensed as curate to his father at Ottringham, 
 with a stipend of 60/. On 18th June, 1842, he was 
 licensed to the curacy of Halsham, with a stipend of 80/. 
 from Mr. John Ion, the rector, with the use of the house,
 
 348 THE PIISTORY OF HEMINGBJtiOUGH, 
 
 &c. In 1844 he was ordained Priest by the Bishojj of 
 Norwich. On 25th July, 1848, he was instituted to the 
 perpetual curacy of Ottringham, which his father had held 
 before him. 
 
 1849, 17th January. Edward Dean, A.B., per cess. 
 Mackereth, on the nomination of John Ion. 
 
 Mr. Dean is of St. John's, Cambridge, a scholar of his 
 college, and 6th Junior Optime, and A.B. in 1840. He was 
 ordained Deacon in 1840 and Priest on 20l.h February, 
 1842, by the Bishop of Chester. From 1840 to 1843 he 
 was curate of Blackley, Lancashire ; of Roade, Northants, 
 1843-7 ; and of Potterspury, in the same county, 1847-9. 
 On 16th December, 1852, Mr. Dean was also licensed to 
 the curacy of Hemingbrough, receiving from Mr. Ion, the 
 vicar, the whole income of the living. Mr. Dean is the 
 present incumbent of Barlby, and the writer gratefully 
 acknowledges the assistance that he has received from his 
 old and much valued friend. 
 
 There is at present no glebe house, but there is a sum 
 of 600/. in the hands of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners 
 towards procuring one, for which sum the Commissioners 
 pay 18/. per annum to the incumbent on account of in- 
 terest. Through the kind intervention of the Hon. and Rev. 
 Stephen W. Lawley, late rector of Escrick, a good site for a 
 glebe house for this benefice has been purchased, and con- 
 veyed to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for that purpose. 
 
 The chapel at Barlby w^as originally a public chapel in 
 the parish of Hemingbrough, but, after its augmentation 
 by Queen Anne's Bounty, it must be regarded as a Per- 
 petual Curacy. 
 
 It was recommended in the Parliamentary Survey that 
 Barlby should be made a parish, with Osgodby united to it. 
 
 INCOME OF CURATE, TERRIERS, ETC. 
 
 In Ecton the income of the curate of Barlby is said to 
 be the paltry sum of lO-s. per annum. The inhabitants, 
 however, seem to have made a collection for him. This is 
 stated, but without the amount, in a Terrier for the year 
 1716 which is in the registry at York.
 
 BARLBY — INCOME OF CURATE, TERRIERS, ETC. 349 
 
 Soon after this a better state of things began. On 
 18th May, 1720, Mr. John Yickers and Mr. Thos. Dalby, 
 two inhabitants of Barlby, make over to Queen Anne's 
 Bounty 200/., to be met by a similar sum, the whole to be 
 laid out in land to serve "as a perpetual augmentation for 
 the curacy of Barlby." By deed, dated 28th September, 
 1736, John Overend of Babthorpe, gent., and Eliz. his 
 wife, with the concurrence of the Bounty Board, sell to 
 Marmaduke Teasdale, curate of Barlby, and his succes- 
 sors, four closes in the lordship of Babthorpe, called 
 the Great Raw Ruddings, containing forty-four acres. 
 Through the same gift, and about the same time, the 
 curate acquired fifteen acres of land in Newhay, divided 
 into three closes — viz. the Ox Pasture, and Brewer Closes. 
 
 In the Terrier of 1743, Barlby is said to be a chapel of 
 ease to Hemingbrough. The glebe land in Babthorpe 
 and Newhay is mentioned. The fees are said to be — for 
 burials, 45. ; wedding by banns, bs. ; wedding by licence, 
 11. 6s. Sd ; churching or christening, 2s. These were 
 double of what they were at Hemingbrough ; and were 
 meant to send the people of Barlby to their parish church. 
 
 In the Terrier of 1 749, the endowments of Barlby 
 appear as belonging to Hemingbrough. It is also said 
 that there is a payment of 10.9. yearly for a sermon by the 
 direction of Mr. John Waud,^ formerly of Barlby, paid by 
 John Huby, innholder. This is probably the 10,9. endow- 
 ment which Ecton mentions. 
 
 In the Terrier of 1760, it is said that the fees are un- 
 certain, but that the vicar receives 4^. for burials and 2s. 
 for churchings, and that the puMication of banns is always 
 made in the mother-church. The glebe lands are men- 
 tioned in both the Barlby and Hemingbrough Terriers. 
 
 In 1764, it is said that the chapel-yard is let for 8.9. per 
 annum, and that it contains two ash-trees and some elms. 
 The 10.9; left by John Waud for a sermon is said to be 
 payable to the vicar of Hemingbrough. The rent of Raw 
 Ruddings, divided into nine closes, is said to be 8/. ; that 
 of the land at Newhay, 8/. In addition, there is a sum of 
 4:1. per annum, the interest of 200/., procured to the chapel 
 
 - Vicar Potter, in 17.50, says that the close towards Osgoclby. He thinks that 
 
 sermon is to be preached on Easter the donor died in 1674, and that he 
 
 Tuesday. Mr. Thos. Huby told him was the father of Mary Waud, the bene- 
 
 that the money was payable out of a factress.
 
 350 THE IIISTOliY OF HEMINGBROUGH. 
 
 by Hev. Wm. Potter, vicar of Hemingb rough, from Queen 
 Anne's Bounty in 1761, a proper purchase in land not 
 being as yet to be met with. The fees go to the vicar. 
 There is one small bell. Books and surplice. The in- 
 habitants repair the chapel and pay their quota to the 
 parish church. 
 
 The clerk and sexton are appointed by the vicar of Hem- 
 ingbrough. Wages paid partly by custom, and partly by 
 cottagfe or messuao;e. 
 
 In the Terrier of 1770, an addition to the income of the 
 incumbent appears in the shape of six acres of freehold 
 land near Barlby, called Turpin Closes, and half an acre 
 of freehold land in four lands in the High North Croft at 
 Barlby, let for 61. per annum. This was purchased 
 through Queen Anne's Bounty, procured by Kev. Wm. 
 Potter in 1761. 
 
 One cup of French plate, one pewter flagon, and a 
 bason are among the property of the chapel. 
 
 The writings of the land at Newhay are in the custody 
 of Messrs. Robert Dal by, the younger, and Geo. Brewer of 
 Barlby ; those of Raw Ruddings are with the Rev. Wm. 
 Potter, vicar. 
 
 The land belonging to the poor is enumerated — i.e. a 
 rood and half in Chapel Field, and a rood and half in 
 High Field ; a furlong called Scrambling Carr, rented at 
 106'. 6d. a year ; a garth in South Duffield, rent 9.s\ 2d. 
 per annum ; an acre in the Outtield, 156'. per annum ; 
 ten shillings paid out of an acre of land in a place called 
 Nearlands, in the Ings (said in 1781 to be in the Angram) ; 
 3-s. 6c/. paid yearly by Mrs. Faulkner out of land in the 
 Little Park. 
 
 In 1781, after the new chapel had been built, it is said 
 that the clerk and sexton are appointed by the curate. 
 The fees are double of what they are at Hemingbrough, 
 but, if the service is performed at Hemingbrough, single 
 fees are charged, which go to the vicar, and not to the 
 curate of Barlby. 
 
 In 1809, the following fees are charged. For a burial 
 in the chapel-yard — minister, 46'., clerk, Is. 6d., sexton. Is. 
 Double fees for an inside interment. Churchings — 
 minister, 26., clerk. Is. Marriage by banns — minister, 
 06'., clerk, 2s. ; by license, minister, 11. 6s. Sd., clerk.
 
 BARLBY — INCOME OF CURATE, TERRIERS, ETC. 351 
 
 6s. Sd. One-half of the sufplice fees is payable to the 
 vicar of Hemingbrough. 
 
 There is also in the hands of the Governors of Queen 
 Anne's Bounty the sum of 400/., 200/. of which was ob- 
 tained very lately. The interest is 8/. per annum. 
 
 In 1817, it is said that the Raw Ruddings were let for 
 33/. per annum ; the land at Newhay for 20/. ; and the 
 land in Barlby for 9/. 
 
 There are also 5a. Ir. 20p. of freehold land, tithe free, 
 purchased with the help of Queen Anne's Bounty, in the 
 township of East Cottingwith, in 1810, now rented at 
 9/. 8.S. 
 
 In 1853, it is said that there belongs to the incumbent a 
 rent- charge of 61. per annum from the Hull and Selby 
 Railway Company, for the use of three acres of land for 
 railway purposes, being part of Raw Ruddings. 
 
 In 1865, it is stated that half of the fees go to the vicar 
 of Hemingbrough. There is no subsequent Terrier. 
 
 CHARITIES. 
 
 1. Parrott's^ Dole. — One land lying in a field called Chapelwood, 
 which was exchanged with Thomas Jackson and his wife for one acre 
 of land, more or less, in the High Field. The land to be let for a year, 
 or on a term of years, not exceeding five, to the best bidder, the rent to 
 be paid every half year, and divided amongst the poor of Barlby, at 
 the discretion of the Chapelwarden and Overseers of the township of 
 Barlby. 
 
 The above acre of land, more or less, was sold to the North Eastern 
 Railway Company for 275/., when the York and Doncaster Railway 
 was made in 1870-1. This sum was afterwards invested in the purchase 
 of five acres of land, more or less, situated on the Oxgangs of Cliffe-cum- 
 Lund, and fronting the Selby and Market Weighton highway. It is 
 now let on lease to William Gledall of Cliff Common, at the yearly rent 
 of 10/. 
 
 2. Walker's Dole. — The sum of ten shillings to be paid out of one 
 acre of land lying in the Angram, called Nearlands, belonging to Thomas 
 Jackson of Barlby. The rent to be paid on the 12th day of January 
 yearly, for the relief of the poor of Barlby, and to be distributed at the 
 discretion of the Chapelwarden and Overseers of the poor. 
 
 * I find in tlie Register of Aichbp. relief of Robert Perot of Barlby, a poor 
 
 Booth at York the following notice of, man, to enable him to maintain his 
 
 perhaps, an ancestor of this benefactor : wife & children." 
 " 7 Oct. 1455. An Indulgence for the
 
 352 THE HISTORY OF HEMINGBROUGH. 
 
 3. Caulem's (? Cowlam's) Dole. — A garth and croft, where a house 
 formerly stood, containing by estimation one rood and thirty-two 
 perches, more or less, lying in the township of South Duffield, with right 
 of common Avithin the said township. To be let to the best bidder for the 
 relief of the poor of Barlby. The rent to be paid on the fifth day of 
 April yearly, and every year to be distributed at the discretion of the 
 Chapel-warden and Overseers of the Poor of Barlby. 
 
 4. Nelson's Gift. — By will dated 10th December, 1633, Thomas 
 Nelson of Barlby, yeoman, made the following bequest : " Item, I 
 give and bequeath and devise iij s. iiij d. yearelie, and everie yeare for 
 ever, to be paid forth of one half acre of meadow lying in Bearefleete 
 within the Lordshippe of Barlebie afForesaide to the poorest sort of 
 people dwelling in Barlebie, at the discression of the Churchwarden & 
 Constable thereof for the time being, unto whome by this my Will I 
 give power & authoritie to receive the same on the occupiers thei'eof, 
 &, upon deniall of the same, to distreine, and take any distresses thereof 
 that may be found upon the premisses at any time of the yeare, for to 
 satisfie the payment of the saide iij s. iiij d. for ever, as is abovesaide, at 
 Easter onelie." (This legacy seems to he lost.) 
 
 5. Ralph Lodge's Bequest. — By will dated 13th June, 1654, one acre 
 of land, containing six lands and one balk, in a certain field in Barlby 
 called the Out-field, to be let to the best bidder, and the rent to be 
 paid to the Chapel-warden and Overseers of the poor of Barlby, on the 
 fifth day of April yearly, and every year, for the education of poor 
 children within the said township of Barlby. (For the history of this 
 bequest, see under the Charities of Heini7ighrough, pp. 141-2.) 
 
 6. John Lodge's Gift. — By will dated 11th May, 1662, proved 31st 
 January seq., John Lodge of Barlby, webster, says : " I give and 
 liequeath unto the poore of the tovvne of Barlby for ever all that my 
 half acre of meadow lyeing in the Broad Ing in Angram, be the same 
 more or less, with appurtenances, betwixt the meadowes of John 
 Durham & Peter Barstowe, on the east and west, within the lordshipp 
 of Barlebie aforesaide." {This bequest seems to be lost, unless it can be 
 connected with Walker's dole.) 
 
 7. Daley's Gift.— By will dated 28th July, 1719, Thomas Dalby of 
 Barlby, the elder, leaves to the poore of Barleby ten shillings a year, so 
 long as the world emlures, at Christmas, to be distributed at ye discre- 
 tion of ye Overseers of ye poor & one or more substantial neighbours 
 .... charged upon my land in Barlby. [Tltis bequest seems to be 
 lost.) 
 
 8. Miss Mary Robinson's Bequest and Gift. — Miss Mary 
 Robinson left by her will, dated 3rd October, 1833, the sum of 
 100^., the income thereof to be applied by her trustees and executors 
 for the benefit of the poor of Barlby, in such manner as they in their 
 discretion should think most advantageous. They resolved that the 
 income sliould be paid to the schoolmaster of Barlby school for the 
 education of the chikh^en of poor parents belonging to Barlby. In the 
 year 1877, Thomas Clarke, Esq., of Knedlington Hall, was the sole 
 surviving trustee, and was desirous of being discharged from the trust. 
 He therefore placed tlie cliarity in the hands of the Charity Commis- 
 soners as ofticial trustees, and appointed the Incumbent and Cliurch- 
 warden of Barlby as acting trustees. The Charity Commissioners 
 invested tlie money in the purchase of 104^. lis. M. Reduced 3/. per
 
 BARLEY CHARITIES. 353 
 
 Cent. Annuities, and the dividends are paid yearly through the Yorkshire 
 Bank at Selby. 
 
 On 21st December, 1867, the Minister and Chapel-warden of Barlby 
 gave to the trustees and executors of the late James Audus, Esq., a 
 receipt for 100^., being a sum deposited in his hands by the late Miss 
 Mary Robinson of Barlby, to be placed out at interest, and the interest 
 thereof to be laid out weekly in bread, to be distributed amongst the 
 poor widows and widowers belonging to Barlby, and attending the 
 service at the Barlby Protestant Chapel on Sundays. The said sum 
 was invested on 19th March, 1868, in the purchase of 106^. 13s. 8d. 
 Consolidated Three per Cent. Annuities, in the names of the Minister, 
 Church or Chapel Warden, and Overseers of the chapelry and township 
 of Barlby for the time being. The stock was placed in the names of 
 Rev. Edward Dean, and Messrs. Robert Hubie and Gilliam Taylor, 
 being respectively the Minister, Church or Chapel Warden, and Overseer. 
 The dividends are payable through Messrs. Beckett's bank at York. 
 
 9. Mary Hubie's Charity. — By will made in 1836, Miss Mary 
 Hubie says : " I give and bequeath the sum of two hundred and thirty- 
 three pounds, six shillings and eightpence stock in the Three per Cent. 
 Annuities, which I purchased in or about the month of April 1834, to 
 the Minister, Church or Chapel Warden & Overseers of the Poor for 
 the time being of the Township of Barlby, and their successors for ever, 
 upon Trust to receive the Dividends thereof, and pay and apply the 
 same in the first place in repairing and upholding my family's tomb or 
 vault in the Burial ground of the Church or Chapel at Barlby afore- 
 said, and painting the railing enclosing the same once every two years ; 
 and, in the next place, in the purcliase and distribution of two shillings 
 and tenpence worth of bread immediately after Divine Service at the 
 Chapel of Barlby aforesaid, every Sunday, amongst the poor widows of 
 Barlby aforesaid, including Mary Robinson of Barlby aforesaid spinster, 
 attending the service at the said Chapel, and such oidy as do so attend, 
 except hindered by sickness, or other bodily or mental infirmity. 
 
 " I also giv^e and bequeath unto the said Minister, Church and Chapel 
 Warden and Overseers, and their successors for ever, the sum of one 
 hundred pounds stock in the Five per Cent Long Annuities now standing 
 in my name, upon Trust to receive the dividends and profits thereof, 
 and pay and apply the same unto the School-dame or Mistress for the 
 time being of Barlby aforesaid, she being a Member of the Church of 
 England, towards educating the children of poor people at Barlby afore- 
 said : and when there shall be no such School-dame, and none can be 
 had for the said Dividends, then upon Trust to pay the same Dividends 
 unto the Schoolmaster for the time being of Barlby aforesaid for the 
 like purpose until such a School-dame can be found or provided." 
 
 The Five per Cent. Long Annuities were terminable, and expired at 
 the end of 1859, so that the benefit of this particular bequest has come 
 to an end. The principal sum left for bread yields an annual dividend 
 of 71. This is payable through Messrs. Beckett's bank at York. 
 
 Mr. Weddall's Charity.— By will dated 27th October, 1840, 
 Robert Plummer Weddall of Goole, gentleman, appointed Christopher 
 Paver of Peckfield House in the county of York, gentleman, Capel 
 Ady of Warwick Park in the county of Warwick, gentleman, and the 
 Rev. Richard Bond of Cookley Rectory in the county of Suffolk,
 
 354 THE HISTORY OF HEMINGBROUGH. 
 
 clei'k, his executors and trustees, and directed that they should pay 
 the yearly sum of 10?. to the minister of Barlby Chapel, to he by him 
 paid to ten poor and deserving people of Barlby on Easter Day in every 
 year. 
 
 Mr. Weddall's affairs were thrown into Chancery, and that part of 
 the testator's personalty out of which this benefaction was payable 
 proving to be insufficient, the Court of Chancery set apart the sum of 
 258?. 2s. 2c?., which has been invested in the name of the Accountant- 
 Genera] in Three per Cent. Consolidated Annuities, the dividends on 
 which are payable to the minister of Barlby Chapel for the time being 
 for the purposes of the will. 
 
 Mrs. Mary Care's CnARiTY.^By will dated 10th April, 1866, Mary 
 Carr of Carr Lodge in Horbury, and of Hemingbrough Villa, makes 
 this bequest : " I bequeath the sum of three hundred pounds unto the 
 Incumbent and Churchwardens for the time being of the Chapelry of 
 Barlby in the Parish of Hemingbrough, upon Trust to invest the same 
 in their names in or upon Government Securities at Interest, with power 
 to change the Investment as often as it may be deemed expedient. 
 And upon further Trust to apply the annual proceeds of the said Trust 
 Money and Securities in the purchase of Coals or other Fuel, and to 
 distribute the same upon every Saint Thomas' day amongst such poor 
 persons of the said Chapelry of Barlby and the Township of South 
 Duffield in the Parish of Hemingbrough aforesaid in such shares and 
 proportions, and in such manner as the Incumbent and Churchwardens 
 for the time being of the said Chapelry of Barlby shall in their discretion 
 think proper. And I direct that the said sum of three hundred pounds 
 and the Legacy Duty payable thereon shall be paid out of such part of 
 my personal estate as the law permits to be appropriated by will to 
 charitable purposes." 
 
 The above-named sum was on 23rd July, 1872, invested in the pur- 
 chase of 322?. 12s. 10c?. Reduced Three per Cent. Annuities in the 
 names of the Rev. Edward Dean, incumbent, and Messrs. Robert Hubie 
 and Daniel Jackson, churchwardens for the time being ; and the 
 dividends are paid half-yearly by the Bank of England to the trustees. 
 Three-fifths of the dividends are expended for the poor of Barlby, the 
 I'est for the poor of South Duffield — in accordance with the population 
 of the two townships.
 
 BARLEY SCHOOLS. 
 
 355 
 
 SCHOOLS. 
 
 A PRIVATE adventure school seems to have existed at 
 Barlby from early times. On 3rd November, 1673, John 
 Brewer,^ jun., A.B., was licensed to teach what is called a 
 grammar school within the chapelry of Barlby. As he 
 was ordained in the following year, and became soon after- 
 wards curate of Drax, it is probable that he also supplied 
 the clerical duty in the chapel of Barlby. Towards the 
 maintenance of a school a small gift had been made by 
 Mr. Ralph Lodge, as will be seen among the Charitable 
 Gifts and Bequests. 
 
 The first regular school in Barlby owes its origin to 
 Messrs. Thos. Taylor and Wm. Banks, with the assistance 
 of the Rev. John Ion, vicar of Hemingbrough. The 
 Rev. Canon J. Dunnington Jefferson of Thickett Priory 
 
 * The Brewers were a very respectable family. I give a slight sketch of their 
 descent. 
 
 John Brewer, jun., A.B., ordained Deacon at York = Rebecca, dau. of Wm. Dalbyof 
 14 June, 1674, and Priest 20 Feb., 1675-6. Curate Barlby ; died at Drax, and was 
 
 of Drax and master of Drax School. 
 
 bur. there 28 Apr. 1722. 
 
 Richard Brewer, = 
 bp. at Drax 11 
 July, 1684. Dead 
 before 1^35. 
 
 Wm. Brewer, twin 
 with Richard, bp. at 
 Drax. Died young. 
 
 John, bp. at Drax 28 Mar., 1670. 
 Rebecca, bp. at Drax 18 Apr., 1677 ; 
 
 bur. 28 Apr., 1678. 
 Eliz., bp. at Drax 3 Feb., 1680-1. 
 
 George Brewer of Barlby, gen., to whom, = Susanna, d. 
 and his sister, his aunt Eliz. Vicars, " "' ' 
 leaves her property. Died June, 1786 ; 
 bur. at Barlby. 
 
 Bowman Elizabeth 
 of Skipwith. Died Feb., Brewer. 
 1764 ; bur. at Skipwith ; 
 marr. lie. 10 Jan., 1746-7. 
 
 1. John Brewer, died 19 Jan., 1807, 
 
 a3t. 57. 
 8. Thos. Brewer of Barlby, d. 4 July, 
 
 1818, set. 62, unmarr. 
 Elizabeth, died unmarr. July, 1819, 
 
 ffit. 60. 
 
 George Brewer, A.B., Cath. Hall, Cambridge. 
 Lrs. Dim>'.for Deacon's Orders 23 May, 1777; 
 Priest, at York, 27 July, 1777 ; licensed to 
 assistant curacy of Danby and Rosedale 25 
 May, 1777. Bur. at Barlby 18 Apr., 1786. 
 
 The land in Barlby formerly occupied 
 by the Brewers is now in the possession 
 of Mr. Reaston. On it grew a magni- 
 ficent oak, long the glory of Barlby, 
 which has recently been cut down. The 
 Brewers, I believe, inherited the pro- 
 perty of the Vickers family. On 21st 
 
 April, 1735, administration of Eliz. 
 Vickers of Barlby was granted to Edward 
 Lacy and others for the use of Geo. and 
 Eliz. Brewer, children of Richard B. 
 deceased. She was the sister of Rebecca 
 Dalby, their grandmother. 
 
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 356 THE HISTORY OF HEMINGBKOUGH. 
 
 gave a piece of land for a site, and the building was 
 erected by public subscription in 1845. 
 
 As this school proved insufficient to meet the require- 
 ments of the Education Act, another was erected by pub- 
 lic subscrijDtion on land given by Mrs. Mary Carr and the 
 Kev. Canon Jefferson, which is now in use. The cost 
 was more than 500/., towards which Mr. Riley Briggs, 
 the owner of the estate, contributed 100/. The school is 
 well managed and prosperous, and is under Government 
 inspection. 
 
 Cottages for Poor. — Up to the year 1865 there were 
 two Town's Cottaofes for ag-ed widows. There were orig^in- 
 ally five of them, but the number was reduced. They 
 were, apparently, built on waste ground, and were in the 
 central part of the main street of the village, by the side of 
 the highway. Each cottage possessed a single room, with 
 an earthen floor, a tiled roof, not underdrawn, and not a 
 foot of ground beyond what the walls stood on. At last 
 they fell into disfavour among the poor, and there was only 
 one occupant. In 1865 these houses were sold through 
 the board of guardians by an Act which rendered it lawful 
 to do so, and the money received for them, which was very 
 small, was devoted to the use of the poor in the township. 
 
 Between 1871 and 1881 the village was properly drained 
 for the first time. The township is under the operation 
 of the Ouse and Derwent District Drainage Act, which 
 Avill be of great service to the village and land. 
 
 THE MANOR AND THE LAND. 
 
 In the Domesday Survey it is stated that Ma^rlesuen 
 recently held a carucate at Barlby. 
 
 This Ma3rlesuen, the Saxon lor J, was a man of wealth 
 and note. He held the office of sheriff of Lincolnshire, 
 and in the insurrection of Tostig, the lord of Heming- 
 brough, in 1066, he took the national side against the 
 Normans. He was equally active on other occasions, and 
 died in exile, deprived of all his broad lands, which Wil- 
 liam gave to the Paganels. The carucate at Barlby was 
 given by Ralph Paganel to the Priory of the Holy Trinity
 
 BAELBY — THE MAKOR AND THE LAND. 357 
 
 in York. This gift was confirmed to the monks of that 
 house by Henry I., and afterwards, circa 1180, by Pope 
 Alexander III. Not long after this, the carucate seems to 
 have passed away, probably by purchase, to the ancestor 
 of the A tons, and Eures. 
 
 According to Kirkby and the Inquests, the manor, like 
 that of Osgodby, was held of the Bishop by military ser- 
 vice as part of Howdenshire, subject to the j urisdiction of 
 the Court Lete at Howden, and to the payment of certain 
 perquisites and fines of court, but to no fee-farm rents. 
 
 The first notice of the tenure of the manor is in the 
 Scutage for 1166, in which Gilebertus de Bardulbi is de- 
 scribed as holding of the Bishop half a knight's fee in 
 Yorkshire. Of this, three carucates in Barlby would make 
 one quarter, and two in Menthorp (with another probably 
 at Newton) the remainder. This Gilbert is supposed to 
 be identical with the Gilbert, son of Lagi, mentioned in 
 Dugdale, who was the ancestor of the family of Aton. 
 From assuming the name of de Bardulbi, it is probable 
 that he resided here. He was succeeded by a son, 
 William, who is entituled de Aton. 
 
 Another Gilbert comes next, who is succeeded by Wm. 
 de Aton. He made an agreement in 1260 with the abbots 
 of Selby for the free passage over the Ouse of himself, his 
 family, and descendants. In 1265 he witnesses a grant 
 of the Bishop -of Durham of land at Riccall. According 
 to Dugdale, Gilbert was the eldest son of this William de 
 Aton. It is he, probably, who made a grant to Selby 
 Abbey of two carucates and three ox -gangs of land in 
 Thorpe, which Gilbert, his grandfather, had formerly of 
 the abbey ui exchange for lands at Hambleton. This 
 Gilbert witnesses a quit-claim of common land at Osgodby, 
 made in 1277, but, dying without issue, William, his 
 brother, succeeded, and is said by Kirkby to be in posses- 
 sion of Barlby in 1284. He was very energetic in his 
 attempts to check any encroachments on his estate. On 
 25th March, 1291, he went with a party of his tenants and 
 broke down an enclosure which William de Aslakby, 
 abbot of Selby, had made in the Marsh, and carried off 
 his cattle, for interfering with what Aton and his ancestors 
 had always regarded as a common pasture. He had 
 another trial in reference to a certain As^oodland of the
 
 358 THE HISTORY OF HEMINGBROUGH. 
 
 extent of forty acres which would come hito prominence 
 through the permission of Henry III. to disafforest the 
 woods between Ouse and Derwent. It was shown that 
 William de Aton, predecessor of the present defendant, 
 had enfeoff'ed a certain Robert, son of Alan, in the said 
 woodlands, which Robert had cut down the timber, sold 
 it at his pleasure, demised the assarted ground to certain 
 tenants, and granted house-bote and hey-bote in the wood. 
 To this Robert succeeded his son, Hugh, who granted the 
 same to Thomas, abbot of Selby, with the homage and 
 services of the tenants. This abbot, who in other respects 
 was a very unscrupulous person, acted as lord and owner 
 of the wood, and put in one of his own servants, who took 
 out of it, in the name of the abbot, what he required for 
 some time, until William de Aton, the defendant, removed 
 him in 1284, and took the profit of the wood to himself. 
 On 21st June, 1293, the King directed the justices itiner- 
 ant to decide the case by a jury, and it appears that Aton 
 was practically successful. He quit-claimed the yearly 
 rent of 255., and the abbot of Selby was allowed to have 
 twelve acres and alnet of the marsh of Barlby, but Aton 
 was to have the remainder of the forty acres to enclose 
 the same. The abbot was also to have pasture for twelve 
 grown cattle in the residue of the said marsh, when laid 
 open as a common. 
 
 Gilbert de Aton, the son of this William, obtained, on 
 the 7th August, 1308, a grant of free-warren in his manor 
 and lands of Bardelby, Holm, Wellom, and Knapton, and 
 is mentioned as the owner of Barlby in the Nomina 
 Villarum of 1316. He was an active person in public 
 aff'airs, and made his will in 1350, desiring to be interred 
 at Watton, William, his son and heir, was in possession 
 of Barlby in 1349, when he concluded an agreement with 
 Geoff'rey, abbot of Selby, about crossing the Ouse at Selby 
 Water Houses, which had been the subject of an earlier 
 arrangement in 1260. 
 
 This William de Aton had four children, a son, another 
 Sir William, who died in the lifetime of his father, and 
 three daughters, Anastasia, Catherine, and Elizabeth. 
 Anastasia, the eldest, married Edward St. John, by whom 
 she had an only daughter ; Catherine, who married Ralph 
 Eure ; and Elizabeth, the youngest, who married — first,
 
 BARLBY— THE MANOR AND THE LAND. 359 
 
 Wm. Place, and secondly, Sir John Conyers of Sockburn. 
 By Fine dated 1363, Wm. de Aton, sen., conveyed 
 Barlby to Gilbert de Aton, Robert Bruys, and John 
 Codelyng, priest, on trust, as a settlement of the manor : 
 and again, in the 5th of Richard II., on the death of his 
 only son, a life-interest in the manor was conceded to 
 Margaret, his widow, by Ralph Eiire and Catherine his 
 wife, and John Conyers and Elizabeth his wife, with re- 
 mainder to Wm. de Aton, sen., and his heirs. Margaret 
 de Aton was in possession of Barlby m 1385, in which 
 year she seems to have given up her interest in it to her 
 father-in-law, who, on Michaelmas day in the same year, 
 grants the manor of Bardelby-cum- Holme to Ralph de 
 Eure,» John de Conyers, and Wm. de Place, knights, for 
 their lives, with remainder to the heirs of Ralph de Eure 
 and Catherine his wife, and the heirs of Elizabeth, late 
 wife of Wm. de Place, father of Wm. de Place that now 
 is, and now wife of John Conyers. This deed seems to 
 have been drawn up to secure the right to purparty in the 
 manor to Wm. Place, junior, and it is remarkable that the 
 names of the eldest daughter, Anastasia, and her husband, 
 are again absent. 
 
 Sir William de Aton, the elder, died in 1389, at the 
 great age of 90, a term of years very rarely reached in 
 those days, and was buried at Old-Malton abbey. When 
 he appeared as a witness in the great Scrope and Gros- 
 venor controversy, he said that he had borne arms for 
 66 years. He had himself a dispute about his own heraldic 
 bearing with Sir Robert Boynton, as each claimed the 
 right to bear the same coat of arms. The matter was 
 submitted to the arbitration of Sir Henry Percy, who 
 assigned to Aton or, on a cross sable 5 bulls' heads argent, 
 and to Boynton or, on a cross sable 5 escallops. These 
 things appear trifles now, but in those days they con- 
 verted friendly houses into the most bitter foes. 
 
 Sir William de Place, to whom a purparty in the 
 manor of Barlby had been secured, died in the 11th of 
 Richard II., leaving a son, Thomas, who is not mentioned 
 afterwards. The mother of this Sir Wilham, as has been 
 stated before, re-married Sir John Conyers of Sockburn, 
 and they had a son, Robert. The third, to which the 
 children of Elizabeth Place and Conyers were entitled,
 
 360 THE HISTORY OF HEMINGBTiOUGII. 
 
 cannot be traced lons^ after the bef'^innino; of tlie reio^n of 
 Henry VI. It must, therefore, have been absorbed by 
 some sale, or arrangement, m the propert};" of the other 
 two sisters and then* descendants. 
 
 We have now to trace the descent of the other two 
 co-heh'esses. Of these, Anastasia, the elder, succeeded to 
 the title of Baroness Vesci, an honor which belonged, by 
 reason of an heiress, to several generations of the Atons. 
 Anastasia married Edward St. John, and had an only 
 child, Margaret, who at her grandfather's death, in 1389, 
 was 1 7 years of age, and the wife of Sir Thomas Bromflete. 
 Bromflete was present at Agincourt, and was a person of 
 distinction m many ways. He died on 31st December, 
 1430, and was succeeded by his son Henry, who inlierited 
 from his mother the barony of Vescy. This Henry left 
 an only daughter, Margaret, who married John, Lord 
 Clifford. The share, of Barlby continued in the possession 
 of the Cliffords until 1553, when Henry, Earl of Cumber- 
 land, sold it to Sir Wm. Babthorpe of Osgodby. In the 
 Fine the property is thus described : " the manor, 24 
 messuages, 20 cottages, with lands, and free fishing in the 
 Ouse, a third part of a windmill in Barlby, excepting 40 
 acres of pasture called le Holmes." 
 
 Catherine Aton, the second co-heiress of Sir Wm. de 
 Aton, married Sir Ralph Eure, of Witton Castle, in the 
 county of Durham, the head of an ancient and gallant 
 house, well known to the genealogist. In 1601 Ralph 
 Lord Eure sold his share of Barlby to Ralph Babthorpe 
 of Osgodby, Esq., the lineal descendant of the purchaser 
 of the other portion in 1553. Two years after this last 
 purchase, assignment of trust was made to William 
 Ingleby, Philip Constable, and Francis Trappes, Esquires, 
 by the said Ralph Babthorpe, and William his son, and, 
 as the Fine wdiich recites this nomination of trustees 
 mentions also the manor of Osgodb}'", we may infer that 
 this was a settlement of the family estates for the benefit 
 of William, the eldest son. The history of the Babthorpes 
 has been already given. In the 19th of James I. Sir 
 AVilliam Babthorpe made over his interest in Babthorpe 
 and Barlby to John Bowyer and Gilbert Jones, gentle- 
 men, who were probably London money-lenders, and on 
 the 27th June, 1621, Sir Wm. and his lady sold both
 
 BARLEY THE MANOR AND THE LAND. 361 
 
 manors to Richard Bowes of Hagtliorpe, Esq. On Mr, 
 Bowes' death m 1655, Barlby came to his grandson 
 Charles, who held it about ten years. It passed, with other 
 properties of the family of Bowes, to James Strangeways, 
 gen. By indentures, dated 13th and 14th October, 1707, 
 Thomas Strangeways Robinson, Esq., the antiquary, sold 
 Barlby to John Burdett of Sleights, Esq., who had already 
 purchased Osgodby. Henceforward the descent of the two 
 places is identical. 
 
 Stewards of the Manor of Barlby. — Ralph 
 Brumpton. Robert Constable of Sherburne, gen., son of 
 Wm. C. of the same place, gen., 20th June, 20th 
 Hen. VIII. Chr. Payn, clerk, 30th Hen. VIII. Richard 
 Barlow, 2nd Mary. Charles or Thos. Barnby, 40th Eliz.- 
 3rd James I. Wm. Pothan, 1655-8. William Grey, 34th 
 Charles II. George Watson, 1696-1705. John Colton, 
 1716. Edward Wordsworth, 1727. Luke Pickering, 
 1737-47. William Thompson, 1762. John Stagg, 1770-1. 
 Thomas Plummer, 18th October, 1771. George Townend, 
 1779. Thomas Eadon, 1785. William Shearburn, 1832-44. 
 Messrs. Parker & Weddall, 1846. 
 
 The Hall. — On the left hand, as you enter the village 
 from Selby, is a plain brick house, enveloped in trees, to 
 which the name of Barlby Hall is assigned. It may be 
 regarded as the representative of the old manorial re- 
 sidence of the A tons and their descendants, but that 
 occupied a different site, in a lower position, where it could 
 be more easily surrounded with water. 
 
 Within one hundred yards of the house, nearer the 
 river, there is a plot of ground, about 80 yards square, 
 called the Island. On three sides of this ground-plot were 
 moats, resembling in this respect the other moated 
 granges in the parish, which have been nearly filled up 
 for a long time. Tradition says that here was the ancient 
 manor-house of Barlby. In a house, formerly on this site, 
 the family of Lodge resided, as far back as the reign of 
 Henry VIII. This was pulled down soon after the begin- 
 ning of the 18th century, and a new house was erected, 
 the Island, with its box hedges and other marks of anti- 
 quity, becoming a garden. The Lodges, although a 
 wealthy and frugal family, never had any considerable 
 landed estate. It may be questioned whether they ever
 
 362 THE HISTORY OF HEMINGBROUGH. 
 
 had more than 100 acres of land in Barlby itself. They 
 had, perhaps, a larger property in the parish of Riccall. 
 
 The most conspicuous member of the family was Ralph 
 Lodge, who died in 1632, and yet all that we know of 
 him is derived from his will, of which we shall give a large 
 portion. 
 
 1632, 5th May. Raph Lodge, of Barleby, yeoman. To bee buried in 
 the parrishe church of Hemingbrough, as neare to my wife as may bee. 
 To the poore people in Hemingbrough parishe five markes, to bee dis- 
 tributed amongst the severall townes there at the discretion of my 
 executor. Towardes the amendinge of the cawseyes betwixt Barle Crofte 
 yate and the Lydyate, 20s., and, yf there remayneanyofthesaidsomme, 
 the same to bee bestowed upon the cawses along the towne towardes 
 Mabb poole, and soe forwardes as farr as the same will goe. Towardes 
 the tyleinge of Barleby chappell, 40s., yf the neighbours in the towne 
 will contribute to doe the rest. To the poore people in Rickall, 20^. 
 To my Sonne, George Lodge,'^ and his lawfull heires, the messuage 
 wherein I now dwell, etc., in Barleby, and my lands within the lord- 
 shipp of Barleby, which latelie were holden of Sir Raphe Babthorpe 
 Knt., as of his mannor of Barleby, by coppy of Courte Roule, and now 
 made freeholde, excepte two aci'es and one roode of arrable land in the 
 High Feild, and one acre of land in a Close called Lownd-riddinge ; 
 also one Close called Wheat-riddinge, and Rokchekers, cont. 12 acres ; 
 another Close in the High Feild, latelie inclosed, beeing a parcell of a 
 peece of ground called the Hall flatt ; three dayles of meaddowe in the 
 South Inges — with remainder to John Lodge, my eldest sonne, and his 
 heirs. To my said sonne, George, H acre of arrable land in the Out- 
 feild Ings, sometyme the land of Mr. Portington, and of him purchased ; 
 one of my whole draughts of sixe oxen, and one bay nagg, as they go 
 together ; one halfe of my waynes, etc., the stooles in the Hall-house, 
 etc., a bedstead in the fellowes' chamber, etc., a fourth pai'te of my 
 pewther, one gray filley newly ridden, one mare called Throsle, and the 
 fole which was on her the last yeare ; one gray colt, which was John 
 Dobs, not yett ridden ; the one halfe of my sheepe ; the 3rd parte of my 
 linnen & cloth ; my steepe fatt & kilne haires ; two silver spoones of 
 the lesser sort, but not old ones, & lOOl. To my dau., Fraunces Lodge, 
 for her life, a cottage called Culmer house, one orchard, one acre of 
 land in Northcrofte late the land of Wm. Pari'ate ; one roode in the 
 High Feild called the Prior garthe land ; and, if she dwell at the said 
 cottage, she shall have three kyne gaytes in the pasture of my sonne 
 John Lodge*" — with rem'', after her decease, to John Lodge, my sonne, 
 
 5 4th Dec. 1639. George Lodge of « 1st Jan. 1665-6. John Lodge of 
 
 Barlby, yeo. Dau. Eliz. L. 20Z. & the Barleby. Son Ralph L. closes in Eiccal 
 
 glase, vvindowe-shutts cfe inner doores in lordship called Thomas Haggs & Fog- 
 
 my house. Bro'' John Lodge, 20s. gle-carrs. Sons John & Joseph L. my 
 
 Brothers-in-law Thos. Styring, Geo. other lands, etc., in Riccall, when 21. 
 
 Smith, & Edward Kirlew. Sisters Daughters Ellen, Mary, Margaret, and 
 
 Frances Kirlewcfe Eliz. Clough. Brother Rebecca L. 300L each & all my gold, 
 
 Bryan, & uncle Geo. Lodge. Poor of old & new, & my dau. Ellen to make 
 
 Barlby, 10s. The tuition of my dau. to first choice of ten of the best pieces 
 
 my father-in-law, Wm. Clough. Res. to thereof. Sons John & Joseph 601. per 
 
 wife Jenett — she ex". ann. for life out of my lands at Barlby.
 
 PEDIGREE OF LODUE OF BARLBY. 
 
 . Lodge - Catherine. Living 1552. 
 
 Balph Lodge of Barlby, junior. = Elizabeth, dau. 
 WiU dated 5 May (pr. 27 July), . . . Bur. at H. 
 1632. Bur. at H. 25 June. 22 July, 1617. 
 
 John Lodge of Barlby. = Elizabeth, adm. to her husband. 1634 M. William, bo 
 
 WiU pr. 30 Apr., 1641. i He. John L,, par. H. and Eliz. Lowde, par. heir, 1015. 
 
 Mitton, spr. To be m. at Mitton. 
 
 ThomaB. 
 
 FranciB, bp. 1 June, 1619. 
 William and John, bp. 17 Nov., 
 Nathan, bp. 29 Aug.. 1624. 
 
 Mary, bp. 26 Feb., 1613-14. 
 
 Alice, bp. 1 Oct.. 1615. 
 
 Anne, bp. 1 May, bur. 11 July, 1616. 
 
 Elizabeth, bp. 6 Sept., 1618. Bur. 11 Mar., 1636. 
 
 John Lodge, i 
 
 Eldest s< 
 1665-6. 
 1666-7. 
 
 Selby, widow. Will d. 
 2 May. I(i71. Bur. 24 
 Sept.. 1671. (Second 
 
 George Lodge of Barlby, yeo. Menf. by his father. Will = Jennet, dau. Wm. Clough 
 d. i Dec, 1639, pr. 30 Apr., 1640. Bur. 28 Jan., 1639-40. i (of Methley, yeo. ?) ; marr. 
 
 ^1 lie. 1634. 
 
 I I I 
 Ealpb, bp. and bur. 26 Sept., 1637. 
 John, bur. 5 Feb., 1638-9. 
 Elizabeth, bp. 30 June, 1635. Ment*. by her father. 
 
 Brian Lodge, bp. 7 Apr., 1616. Menf . 1632 and 1639. 
 
 . . . m. Thomas Styring.^v 
 
 . . . m. George Smith.-f, 
 
 Mary, m. John Tomlinson of Dunnington, 8 Feb., 1613-14.^ 
 
 Frances, bp. 23 Dec, 1610; marr. Edward Kirlew of Woodball, 
 
 25 Nov., 1634. Bur. at AU Saints Pavement, York, 29 March, 
 
 1644.xiv 
 
 Ralph Lodge of = Jane, dau. John Firth of John, bp. 24 Nov., 1639. 
 
 Barlby, gent. ] Selby. Bur. 31 May. IGBl. Joseph. 
 
 Bur. 15 Oct., Adm. gr. 12 May, 1684,10 Infant of John Lodge of ] 
 
 1691. her husband. gen. Bur. 27 July, 1659. 
 
 Bebecca, bp. 2 June, 1665 ; i 
 
 1 Shrove Tuesday, 1689, Mr. James Woodburne of Menthorpe. Bur. 10 March, 1713-14. 
 
 Balpb, bp. 10 June, 161 
 and the tutor of the children of his sister Eleanor. He 
 Bichard, bp. 30 June. Bur. 1 Deo., 1674. 
 George, bp. 28 Dec, 1675. Bur. 5 May, 1679. 
 
 Adm. gr. 14 May to his e 
 
 Jane, bp. 7 Mar., 1677-8. Eleanor, bp. at Selby, = Bobert Spofforth Elizabeth. Bur. = Edward Lacy 
 
 Bur. 27 Sept.. 1680. 1670. Dead in 1717 ; I of Selby. Dead 20 April, 1749. of Turnbead, 
 
 marr. at Brayton 8 in 1717. ' The last of the 
 
 Sept., 1702. Lodges, inadireot 
 
 Robert Spofforth. 
 Eliza Spofforth. 
 
 Tuition gi-. 6 May, 1717, 
 
 to Bobt. Storr. 
 
 Edward Pickering, bp. 11 Mar., 1738-9. 
 
 3
 
 BAKLBY THE MANOR AND THE LAND. 363 
 
 and liis heirs — also 250^. Sonne Bryan Lodge and his heires my free- 
 hold land, etc., in Rickall, etc., & lOOl. My ex'' to receive the rentes 
 thereof dureinge his niinoritie & shall therewith maintaine my sonne 
 Bryan at the Universitie withall. Son-in-law Tlios. Styringe. De- 
 ceased grandchild John Tomlinson. Dau. Styringe 20s. and to everie 
 one of her children 3/. 6s. 8d. Sonne-in-law, George Smith, 20s. 
 Sister Marie Hodgson & Mawde Shepheard 10s. each. Brother George 
 Lodge 10s. Kinsman, Nicholas Ellison, and John his brother. God- 
 sonne John Watkinson. Servant Katherine Lodge, 20s. John Ellison, 
 my servant and kinsman, 5s. I will that John & George, my sonnes, 
 & Fraunces, my daughter, keepe house together in the house wherein I 
 now dwell, att the costes of my ex'' untill harvest bee gotten, yf none of 
 them marrie in the meane tyme, and I give them the cropp of corne & 
 grayne growinge this years. My brother, Robert Knowesley, of North 
 Burton gen., supervisor. The rest to John, my sonne ; he ex'". (Pr. 
 27 July, 1632, & adm. to ex»-.) ^ 
 
 Ralph Lodge, this testator's grandson, made his will in 
 1688, in which he leaves his capital messuage to his son, 
 another Ralph. This is the house, or hall, in which, 
 according to the popular account, there was a private 
 chapel, dark and solemn with stained glass. The last 
 Ralph Lodge died unmarried in 1717, and made his two 
 sisters, Ellen and Elizabeth, and their children, his heirs. 
 The former married Mr. Robert Spofforth. Elizabeth 
 Lodge married Mr. Edward Lacy of Turnhead. In 1727 
 Mr. Lacy and Mr. Spofforth sell the property, described 
 as a new' house and an orchard or garden {i.e. the Island), 
 to Mr. John Denton of Wakefield, afterwards of Broad- 
 royd Head, who made a settlement of the estate on his 
 marriage with Joanna, daughter of Wilham Vernon of 
 Warmingham Eorge, co. Chester. By his will, dated 13th 
 February, 1755, Mr. Denton left his estate at Barlby to 
 William, his only son and heir, who, in 1760, barring all 
 estate tail and remainders, levied a tine (sur connoissance 
 de droit) upon the premises, and afterwards, encumbering 
 the property with mortgages, made conveyance of it in 
 1765 to Robert Denison, Esq., of Leeds, a mortgagee. 
 
 Brother Kirlew & his cos. Thos. K. of 18 years. Youngest sons John & 
 
 Selby, supervisors. Res. to wife Ellen Joseph 11. per ann. each & a close in 
 
 — she'ex^ (Reg. Test. Ebor. xlviii. 181). Rickall lordship, lately purchased of 
 
 2nd May, 1671. Ellen Lodge of Chr. Browne of Rickall. To son Ralph 
 
 Selby, widow. My late husband, John my gold ring which I doe usually weare 
 
 L., made me his ex% & left to my four on my thumb. His dau. Ellen L. & 
 
 da'urs. 300Z. each, and his gold— it to be Jane L. his wife. Bro-- Wm. Booth of 
 
 carried out. To six of my youngest Lanom, Notts. Res. to four daughters, 
 
 children 11. per ann. each, and to my They exrs. (R. T. E. liii. 491.) 
 
 eldest son Ralph L. 8Z. per ann. for ' Reg. Test. Ebor. xh. 781,
 
 3f)4 THE HISTOKY OF HEMINGBEOUGH. 
 
 Mr. Denison was tlirice mayor of Leeds, and died in 1767, 
 at tlie age of 78. At last, Messrs. John and Joseph 
 Blanshard, two brothers, purchased the estate in 1785. 
 John died soon afterwards, leaving his share to his brother, 
 to whose only daughter, Susanna, wife of Mr. Joseph 
 Stringer, the estate came. Mrs. Stringer rebuilt the house 
 about the year 1820. The old house is said to have con- 
 tained a room separated by folding doors from the dwelling- 
 rooms, and dark .with stained glass. It is said to have 
 been a chapel. At Mrs. Stringer's death the property was 
 divided, a part being sold to free it from encumbrances. 
 The Hall came to Mrs. Stringer's two daughters. The 
 quantity of land which goes with the Hall is about ninety 
 acres. 
 
 Freeholds. — The Baklby Bank farm consists of 205a. 
 2r. 32p. It was a part of the great Selby estate, and was 
 sold by Mrs. Petre in 1851 to Mr. Thomas Ash worth, a 
 Lancashire cotton-spinner, whose two daughters are the 
 present owners, Mr. John Bright having been one of their 
 trustees. The Abbey of Selby had several parcels of land 
 given to it in Barlby, but, added together, they do not by 
 any means make up the acreage of the Barlby Bank farm. 
 They are enumerated by Dr. Burton in his Monasticon 
 Eboracense, p. 390. On the 19th Jiily, 1557, Oswald Scys- 
 son purchased of the Crown, for the sum of 75/. 195. 9^d., 
 being at the rate of twenty-five years' purchase, the follow- 
 ing property in Barlby, viz. : A free rent of 5-9. 2^d. from 
 Lord Clifford, for certain lands ; a free rent of 10^. 5^/. 
 from Wm. Eure, Knight, for certain lands ; a free rent of 
 10-9, from Wm. Babthorpe, Esq., for certain lands ; the 
 rent of 29-9. for certain lands in the tenure of Robert 
 Walde. All these belonged formerly to Selby Abbey. 
 With these were sold a rent of 5-9. for eight acres of land 
 in Barlby in the tenure of John Pereson of Selby, and the 
 rent (14d.) of certain orchards there in the same tenure. 
 
 On 28th June, 1558, Wm. Babthorpe, Esq., of Osgodby, 
 bought of the Crown, for twenty-four years' piirchase, a 
 free rent of 2.9. 9d. from John Barrat for certain lands in 
 Barlby. A free rent of S^d. from Robert Walde for two acres 
 of arable land there. A free rent of 2d. from Wm. Watson 
 for two acres of arable land there. A free rent of lOd. 
 from Tristram Walde for certain lands there. A free rent
 
 BARLBY — THE MANOR AND THE LAND. 365 
 
 of 12(1. from Ralph Lodge for certain lands there. The 
 rent of 265. did. for twelve acres of pasture in the tenure 
 of John Pereson. A rent of 26s. for a barn and twenty-six 
 acres of land there in the same tenure. The rent of a 
 parcel of land in Brackenholme amounting to 12d. Total, 
 68s. S^d. 
 
 For all this, which belonged to Selby Abbey, Mr. Bab- 
 thorpe paid at the rate of twenty -four years' purchase, i.e. 
 701. ds. 
 
 It is stated " that the lead, bells, and advowson shall be 
 excepted." This alludes, no doubt, to the chapel of Barlby. 
 
 Cherry Orchard is the name of a farm of 83a. 3r. 2p., 
 lying at the southern extremit}^ of the lordship, which was 
 formerly known as Shaw's Farm. Of this Miss Mary 
 Robinson bought 47a. 2r. 12p., and Mr. Thos. Richardson 
 the remainder. Other properties in Barlby came mto the 
 possession of Miss Robinson and her executors, amounting 
 to 268 acres. 
 
 TuRNHEAD is another farmstead at the northern ex- 
 tremity of the township, distant from the village about 
 three-quarters of a mile. The name is derived from the 
 rapid turn in the river at this point, where there is a well- 
 known fishery for salmon. The farm consists of 71a. 3r. 14p,, 
 and was part of the tithe estate. When this was broken 
 up in 1861, this property was purchased by Mrs. Mary 
 Carr, who left it to her daughter, Mrs. Parker. 
 
 Mr. Banks is the owner of about 100 acres of land in 
 Barlby, including part of Cherry Orchard, which he 
 bought of Mr. Richardson. Mr. Wm. Reaston has ninety- 
 eight acres, formerly belonging to the Brewers, and a small 
 estate of 88a. 3r. 33p. has belonged to the family of Hubie ^ 
 for a considerable period of time. There is a good house 
 attached to it. 
 
 Selby Water Houses. — On a site somewhat more 
 elevated than the rest, in the bend of the river and oppo- 
 site to Selby, stands a group of houses and cottages 
 
 ^ Guy Hubie of Barlby, cl. 1633, was Kirlew, is now living at Barlby in the 
 
 the father of Robert, who d. in 1658. He old family residence. She has six chil- 
 
 was the father of John, d. 1716, dren, one of whom, Mr. Ernest Hubie, 
 
 'Thomas, s. of John, d. 1721. John, now lives at Barlby. Jane, his sister, 
 
 son of Thomas, was the father of married Rev. H. Toovey of York, the In- 
 
 Robert, who d. in 1808. His son spector of Religious Education in the 
 
 William resided at Barlby and York, and diocese of York, 
 had a son Robert, whose widov/, a Miss
 
 366 THE HISTORY OF HEMINGBROUGH. 
 
 anciently known by the name of Selby AVater Houses. 
 These are mentioned at a very early period, and were given, 
 altogether or in part, together with the ferry over the river, 
 by Hugh Ward of Thorpe, son of Robert de Thorpe, to the 
 Abbey of Selby. He also gave the landing tolls and barge 
 tolls going to or from Selby. The same person also gave 
 the escheats, wards, reliefs, &c. in this place, all of which 
 Hugh, son of Sir William de Langthwaite, confirmed. 
 
 According to the Valor Ecclesiasticus, the Abbot of 
 Selby dei'ived 10/. per ann. from the ferry, or, as it is 
 written, " passagimn de Selby," and 28-5. from the "redditus 
 tenentinm ultra Usam." The ferry over the Ouse (" pas- 
 sagium de Selby") was valued at 10/. per ami. After the 
 Dissolution it descended with the Selby estate, and con- 
 tinued so until the year 1792. A substantial bridge of wood 
 was then erected, and compensation was awarded by Par- 
 liament to the Petre family for the loss of the ferry, which 
 was then worth 25/. per ann. The new bridge necessitated 
 a new turnpike road to Market Weighton, for the making 
 of which an Act of Parlianaent was passed in 1793. In 
 1840 the bridge yielded 1,150/. ; but since that time it was 
 injured by the Hull and Selby Railway, and the proprietors 
 of the bridge received a considerable sum from the railway 
 company as a compensation for their loss of tolls. 
 
 The Holmes is another part of the lordship of Barlby. 
 It consists of about 100 acres, and lies across the river. 
 It is traceable by the course of a ditch, which separates it 
 from Selby on the one side and from Wistow on the other. 
 In the Inq. Nonarum it is said that Selby pays to 
 Hemingbrough a ninth, amounting to IOO5., for Holm- 
 syke, probably for making the ditch. Afterwards we find 
 in the rolls of Hemingbrough mention of the tithe of corn 
 and hay on this tract " Selby bankes cum les Holmes." 
 In ancient charters Holme is spoken of as " Bardelby cum 
 Holme." 
 
 In the year 1883, after an enquiry by the Local Govern- 
 ment Board, the Holmes were transferred from Barlby to 
 Selby for parochial purposes, and for rating from the East 
 to the West Riding. 
 
 Family of Dalby. — This family was for several centuries 
 located at Barlby. One of its earliest members that has 
 occurred to me is Robert Dalby, a Jesuit Father, who was
 
 BARLBY THE MANOR AND THE LAND. 367 
 
 executed at York in 1589. There is the following account 
 of him in Father Grene's MS. ^ : — 
 
 1588-9. Sir Robert Dalbie [priest] born in Hemborough parish; 
 after lie became a Catholic, he served in the South ; the place through 
 the malice of heretics broken up, he went to Rome to the seminary 
 there, where much he profited, so that he took Holy Orders, and then 
 was very desirous to come into his country, and so, obtaining leave, 
 came in a1)0ut Scarborough, and was soon after taken at his host's house, 
 and so brought to York before the Council, who sent him to the Castle, 
 where merrily he conversed, for to suffer for Christ's sake was all his 
 joy. He was taken before, or soon after, Mr. Burdon, but when Mr. 
 Burdon was called and condemned, and not he, he fell into great sorrow 
 and wept bitterly, and imputing it unto his own unworthiness. The 
 Lent following Mr. Jo. Amias, a gentleman born about Wakefield, was 
 called to the bar, and Mr. Dalbie with him, whereat he rejoiced greatly, 
 and went with great fortitude and stout courage. The judge began to 
 say they were simple, ignorant men, and that what they did, it was for 
 to please some that so they might be well esteemed. They proceeded 
 against them and condemned them both. I omit to speak of that which 
 was seen at their arraignment by one of the prisoners there standing 
 behind them. The next morning they both served God in the best 
 manner. Being brought forth they desired to be both of one hurdle, 
 and so they lay sweetly together, with their hands joined and hearts 
 lifted up to heaven were thus brought to the place of torture. Yet not 
 one whit dismayed with it or the fear of death, told the people boldly 
 that they were free from all treason, and died for the defence of the 
 Catholic religion ; and then they were executed, the 16th of March, 1589. 
 
 The Dalbies can be traced in connection with Barlby 
 and Hemingbrough to a very recent period. ^^ The last 
 
 » Records of the English Province Barlby, and adm. to Michael Barstow, 
 
 S J S^^- 
 
 '" The following notices of them occur 1694-5, 14 Mar. Adm. John D. of 
 
 in the Howdenshire Act Books :— Barlby, a minor, to Margaret, w. John 
 
 1624, 18 Aug. Adm. Alice D. of Barrot, his mother. 
 
 Hemingbrough to Isab. Mason, widow. 1698, 21 May. Pr. t. Thos. D. of 
 
 1625 8 April. Pr. t. Leonard D. of Barlby, and adm. to Thos. D. his son 
 
 Hemingbro, and adm. to Wm. D. of and sole exr. He mentions Thos. and 
 
 Barlby gen., sole exr. Robert, Anne and Eliz. D., children of 
 
 By will d. 10 Dec, 163.3, Thos. Nelson his son Thomas; dau. Ahce, now wife 
 
 of B yeo., mentions Wm. and Ann of Edward Swaine ; dau. Anne, now wife 
 
 Dalbie, children of his dau. Barbara. of David Ledsem, and their children ; 
 
 1660-1, 12 Feb. Adm. Wm. D. of and Rebecca, w. of his son-in-law Thos. 
 
 Barlby to John D. his son (who was bp. Hubie. , ^ „ 
 
 24 Aug 1608). 1718, 30 Nov. Robert D. of Barlby, 
 
 1679-80, 11 Feb. Pr. t. JoanD., sen., and Cath. Clayton of Brayton, marr. at 
 
 of Barlby,'and adm. to Priscilla D., her Brayton. ^, t^ , 
 
 dau an exr. 1720, 17 May. Pr. t. Thos. D. of 
 
 1680 22 Sept. Will of Wm. D. of Barlby, and adm. to Robt. D. his exr. 
 
 Barlby.' Geo. D. his son. Daurs. Hannah, 1721, 20 July. Pr. t. Mary D. of 
 
 w John Winder of Skipwith ; Rebecca, Barlby, and adm. to Hannah Winder ex^ 
 
 w Mr John Brewer, minister of Drax ; 1766, 7 Oct. Thos. Dalby of Barlby, 
 
 and Eliz. and Mary D. gen. My lands in B. to Mary my wife 
 
 1690 11 Dec. Pr. t. Brian D. of for her life— then to my son-in-law,
 
 368 
 
 THE HISTORY OF HEMINGBROUGH. 
 
 members of the family left their land in Barlby to Miss 
 Mary Robinson. 
 
 Other Families. — The family of Barrett was located at 
 Barlby and at other places in the j^arish of Hemingbrough 
 for many centnries. I give some notes from wills and Act 
 Books respecting it, and leave the further investigation of 
 this and several families to others. ^^ 
 
 The Pickerings had a small estate in Barlby, and settled 
 afterwards at Selby and York.^'^ 
 
 The Staggs had also land at Barlby for several genera- 
 tions. By will dated 23rd November, 1748, and proved 
 
 Wm. Andrews of Cliffe, apothecary, and 
 Geo. Brewer of Barlby, yeo., on trust to 
 use of my son Thos. D. of London, gen., 
 for life — rem. to his sons, Thos. and 
 John— rem. to son Wm. D. Daughters 
 Eleanor, w. of Wm. Andrews, and Eliz. 
 w. Andrew Tomlinson of Cliffe. Pr. 
 10 Apr. 1770. 
 
 " Robert B. occurs at Barlby in 1279, 
 and Henry B. in 2nd Henry IV. On 
 31st March, 25 Hen. VIIL, Conand, 
 s. and h. of Thos. B. of Barlby, releases 
 lands in Osgodby to Wm. Babthorpe. 
 
 30 March, 1540. Wm. B. of Osgodby. 
 To be bur. in the new yle in Hemyng- 
 burghe churche. To Sir Robert West, 
 my gostlie father, to pray for my saull, 
 viij d. To John B., my eldest Sonne, 
 towerde settinge upe his husbandrie, 
 my best mayre, etc. Pr. at York 24 Nov. 
 
 In the 28rd Eliz. Ralph Babthorpe of 
 Osgodby granted an annuity to Isabel, 
 relict of Wm. B. of Barlby. 
 
 On 16th April, 1585, John B. of 
 Osgodby desired by will to be bur. in 
 the north aisle of H. church, near his 
 wife's grave ; and, on 20th March, 
 1587-8, John B. of Barlby desired to be 
 bur. in the north aisle. 
 
 12 May, 1594. John B. of par. of H., 
 and Jane .... of Selby, m. at Selby. 
 
 24 Feb., 10th Jac. I. Richard B. of 
 B., yeo., granted a selion of land in trust 
 for Agnes, wife of Hugh Coulborne of B. 
 
 27 June, 1646. Will of Robert B. of 
 H., yeo. Son Wm. B. 301. Res. to Peter 
 B. He sole exr. Pr. 30 March, 1662. 
 
 19 June, 1670. Will of John B. of H., 
 tanner. Youngest son Joseph B., land 
 in H. 2nd dau. Deborah B. Dau. 
 Sarah, w. of John Walkington of 
 Newton-on-Ouse. Second son Joshua 
 B. Eldest son John B. exr. 
 
 28 Feb., 1729-30. Will of Wm. B. of 
 H., tanner. Nephews John, Wm., and 
 Joshua exrs. Nieces Sarah B. and 
 
 Hannah, w. of Jos. Harrison of Barmby. 
 Wife Mary (who re-marr. Wm. Crissey). 
 
 21 April, 1736. Prob. test. John B. 
 of H., and adm. to Sarah, his widow 
 and ex'^. 
 
 26 Aug., 1797. Prob. test. John B. 
 of Barlby, and admon. to Mary his wid. 
 and ex''. 
 
 2 March, 1801. Prob. test. John B. 
 of H., farmer, and admon. to Richard 
 Waterworth and Isabel Waterworth. 
 
 '- 6 Oct., 1635. Pr. test. Rob. Picker- 
 ing sen. of B., and adm. to Robert his 
 son and Eliz. Lund and Mary Templer, 
 his daughters, exrs. 
 
 18 Jan., 1639-40. Pr. test. Robt. P. 
 of B., and adm. to Isabel, his widow, 
 an ex", and tuit. of John, Geo., Kath., 
 Margt., Robt., and Wm. P. his children 
 to her. 
 
 2 Nov., 1641. Pr. test. Isabel P. of 
 B., and adm. to Mary and Eliz. Barratt, 
 exrs. 
 
 (From Howden Act Books.) 
 
 1 March, 1666-7. John P. of B. 
 Three daurs. Eliz., Mary, and Anne 40Z. 
 out of my lands, etc. in B., when 21. 
 Two younger sons Thos. and Geo. 20Z. 
 per ann. for life out of the same. Wife. 
 (Reg. Ebor. xlviii. 193.) 
 
 13 March, 1696-7. Adm. Jane P. of 
 B., wid., to Geo. P. her son. 
 
 29 June, 1731. Adm. Isab. P. of 
 Barlby bank, to John P. her bro''. 
 
 21 Oct., 1690. Mr. P. of Selby, and 
 Margaret Parratt of Owstrop, marr. at 
 Howden. 
 
 9 Sept., 1715. Thos. P. of Selby, 
 grocer. Mother Margaret, now wife of 
 Thomas Roote of Selby, gen., my lands 
 at Laxton. 
 
 8 Sept., 1719. Geo. P. of Selby, gen. 
 Only dau. Sarah marr. to Thos. Mosley 
 of Selby, gen. Wife Mary. Grandchild 
 Pickering Mosley. Pr. 12 March, 1721-2.
 
 BARLEY — THE MANOE AND THE LAND. 369 
 
 8th April, 1749, Bethel Staggs of Selby, currier, left his 
 house and land at Selby, a farm at Barlby, and his copy- 
 hold estate at Brackenholme, to his eldest son. Bethel 
 Staggs. To his second son, John Staggs, his lands at 
 South Duffield. To his daughter, Hannah S., 300/.^^ 
 
 Robert de Baedelby, who was probably born in this 
 village, was a clerk in the chancery of Edward I. and II. 
 His name appears very frequently on the Bolls of I'arlia- 
 ment and other State Records. 
 
 On 16th October, 1305, he was presented by the King 
 to the stall of Dunnington at York, which he held until 
 1321, when he exchanged it with Gilbert de la Bruera for 
 a prebend at Chichester. In the 12th of Edward U. he 
 got an exemplification of the grant of Free Warren in 
 Dunnington which had been made to the prebendary by 
 Henry III. (Cal. Rot. Pat. 86). In October, 1316, the 
 King granted his licence for the foundation of a chantry 
 at St. Michael's altar in the church of St. Dunstan in the 
 West for the soul of Robert de Bardelby, canon of York, 
 of which the Prior and Convent of St. Mary, Southwark, 
 were to be the patrons. In the month of March, 1319-20, 
 Archbishop Greenfield granted an indulgence of thirty days 
 to all who should hear the mass of Robert de Bardelby, 
 canon of York and the King's clerk, on Easter day next, 
 and pray for the good estate of the said Robert, his father 
 and mother, &c. 
 
 Bardelby held a prebend in St. Sepulchre's chapel at 
 York, which he gave up in 1311, in which year he became 
 rector of Moor Monkton, near York. 
 
 In 1323 Bardelby acted as one of the Justices in the 
 counties of Surrey and Sussex for the trial and punishment 
 of Commissioners of Array. He had on various occasions 
 the charge of the great seal, and was of constant use in the 
 service of the State. There is a notice of him in Foss' 
 Judges, iii. 226. 
 
 '3 2 Oct., 1627. Admon. Wm. Stagge widow. Eldest son Wm. S. Younger 
 
 of Barlby to Anne his widow. son Richard. Daughters Alice and Mary 
 
 11 Jan., 1640-1. Prob. test. Anne S. S. Pr. 17 Jan., 1663-4. 
 of B., widow, and admon. to Anne New- 27 March, 1682. Will of Wm. S. of B. 
 
 ton of Riccall, widow, her dau. Pr. 15 Nov. Admon. to John, Sarah, 
 
 13 Dec, 1662. Will of Alice S. of B., and Ehz. S., exrs.
 
 370 THE HISTORY OF HEMINGBROUGH. 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 I. Letter from Gregory XI. to Edward III. about the Appro- 
 priation OF the Church of Hemingbrough. [Fi-om a transcript 
 at Durham.^ 
 
 Gregorius' episcopus, servus servorum Dei, carissimo in Christo filio, 
 Edwardo regi Auglife illustri, salutem et apostolicam benedictionero. 
 Claraa devotionis titulis insignitus moi'e devotissimi filii Romanam 
 ecflesiam revereris ut matrem, ac personarum ecclesiasticarum profecti- 
 bus desideranter intendens, studio sollicitudinis operosae intente pro- 
 sequeris qusecunque pex'sonis ipsis profutura cognoscis, aut credis ; 
 propter quod apostolicse sedis et nostram gratiam et favorem multi- 
 pliciter promereris. 
 
 Sane nuper tua sinceritas nobis scripsit ut parochialem ecclesiam de 
 Hemyngburgh, Eboraceni dioeceseos, dilectis filiis, Priori et Capitulo 
 ecclesise Dunolmensis, ordinis Sancti Benedicti, propter necessitates eis 
 incumbentes, unire de benignitate apostolica dignareraur. Verum, fili 
 carissime, a multis fide dignis accepimus, quod in eadem Dunolmensi 
 ecclesia, quae dudum secularis erat dum ad religiosos translata fuit, 
 tarn seculares canonici quam alii beneficiati, usque ad numerum centum 
 quinquaginta erant, quorum proventus et emolumenta eisdem Priori et 
 Capitulo f uerunt applicata, et, ultra hoc, quatuor abbatise religiosorum 
 in quibus modo instituuntur Priores, et in quarum qualibet viginti 
 quatuor monachi, quamvis nunc in pra^dictis abbatiis ultra quindecim 
 non morantur, eisdem Priori et Capitulo unitse extiterunt ; et, insuper, 
 duo monasteria, in quorum quolibet quindecim personse morabantur, et 
 in ambobus decem in pra?senti non morantur ; et, ultra haec, tredecim 
 parrochiales ecclesise unitse, et multa alia collata eis fuerunt : propter 
 quod firmiter credimus quod, si ita est, unionem ipsam nullatenus fieri 
 eadem sinceritas tua vellet, cum etiam, prout fertur, in dicta ecclesia 
 duntaxat sint quinquaginta sex monachi residentes, qui cum extra pro- 
 ficiscuntur, cum tribus vel quatuor equitaturis, non sicut decet eorum 
 religionis modestiam, incedunt, et in expensis, tam in victu et vestitu, 
 quam in aliis, multum excedunt. Quocirca x'egalem excellentiam, nobis 
 oaram, rogamus, et hortamur attente, quatenus, etiam tuss salutis 
 intuitu, quam sincere diligimus, quae scribimus diligenter considerans, 
 super eis dilecto filio nostro, Simoni tituli Sancti Sixti presbytero- 
 cardinali, apostolicfe sedis nuncio, cui etiam de hoc scribimus, in hiis 
 quse tibi dixerit, credas indubie. Et si ita cordi tibi sit dicta unio, 
 
 ' See page 63. The extent to which would otherwise have been printed ; 
 this volume has run necessitates the among these are the foundation deeds of 
 omission of several documents which the Wasse and the Cliffe chantries, &c.
 
 APPENDIX. 371 
 
 sicut esedem tufe literse continebant, nobis, qui, quantum cum Deo 
 poterimus, votis tuis annuemus, super hoc rescribas. Nostrse tamen in- 
 tentionis existit, quod, si dicta unio per nos fiat, tot pei'sonse in eadem 
 ecclesia, ultra numerum ibidem statutum, ponantur, quot ex super- 
 excrescentibus fructibus poterunt sustentari. Data Avignione, xij 
 Kal. Januarii (21 Dec), pontificatus nostri anno secundo. 
 
 II. A Letter from John Duke of Bedford to the Prior op 
 
 Durham. [From the Original at Durham.^ 
 
 To oure right trusty and welbeloved in God the Priour of Duresme. 
 By the Regent of the reaume of France, Due of Bedford. 
 
 - Right trusty and welbeloved in God, we grete yow hertily wel. 
 And for as muche as oure right trusty and welbeloved clerk and con- 
 fesseur, Maister Jehan Rekynghale, parson of Hemyngboui'gh, the 
 whiche apperteneth to yo^' gift and presentacion, is in ful wil and 
 pourpos for to resyngne the saide chirche, to th'entent y* oure wel- 
 beloved clerc and secretaire, Thomas Bradeshawe, might bee promoted 
 and preferred yereunto, We pray yow as hertily and entierly, as we 
 best can or may, that, considering the good, longe, and notable service 
 whiche oure saide secretaire hath doon unto us alwayes sith oure childe- 
 hoode, and yit dooth daily, at the revei'ence of us, and thourgh con- 
 templacon of thees oure prayeres, yow like to have hym unto the saide 
 chirche of Hemyngbourgh, by waye of the saide resygnacion, right 
 specially and entierly recommended and preferred before alle oyer per- 
 sonnes, as oure right special trust is in yow, y* ye wol ; and as evere we 
 may doo thing for yow in tyme comyng; and notwithstanding alle oyer 
 menne's prayeres in this matere ; whereynne ye may doo us right greet 
 and singuler plaisir, and have us evei'e favourably inclyned to alle 
 youre ressonable desirs and plaisirs in tyme commyng, and in alle youre 
 doynges and besinesses have yow, youre hous and convent, right speci- 
 ally and teudi'eiy recommended ; certiffieng us moreovere clerely by the 
 berer of thees of al youre wil and plaisir in this matere, that we may 
 thereuppon pourvoye as us shall thinke expedient. And God have yow 
 evere in his blessed keping. Geven under oure signet, at Rouen, the 
 xix day of August (1425). 
 
 III. A Letter from Joan Countess of Westmeeland to the Prior 
 
 OF Durham. [Fro7n the Original at Durham.'\ 
 
 To ye reverent father in God the Pi'iour of Duresme. Johane Con- 
 tesse of Westmerland. 
 
 ^ Reverent father in God, we grete you oftymes wele. And we 
 suppose yat it wys nat unknowen unte you haw yat ye right hie and ex- 
 cellent prince, and my right worshipful lorde of Bedford wrote unto us 
 for to pray you for his clerc, Bradshawe, to be preferred te ye chirche of 
 Hemyngburgh, at whiche tyme by damp} Henry Helawe, beyng at 
 Raby present, we sent you worde yat aure desire were yat, next aure 
 son, Robert Neville, ye wold accept my lorde's clerc, Bradshawe, y'" to, 
 the contrarie of whiche we never wrote ne sent unto you at no tyme. 
 Wherfore, we pray you yat, next aure son Robert, ye wil have ye saide 
 Bradshaw recomended to ye same chirch of Hemyngburgh, at rever- 
 
 - See page 64. There are other letters, chiefly in French, relating to this 
 matter, of which we print the most interesting. 
 ' See page 64.
 
 372 THE IIISTOllY OF IIEMINGBROUGH. 
 
 ence of aure right excellent lorde of Bedford, and of us, merveillyng 
 gretely, sitli so is yat ye chirche stondeth voide, yat ye present nat y''to 
 as youre promys was : Of wliiche niatere, as ye doo, we wol certitie 
 unto aure saide right excellent lorde, for ye right hie and myghty prin- 
 cesse and oure right worshipful lady of Bedford hath writen to us 
 y''fore diverse tymes, and specially now o late. And what ye wil doo 
 in this matere certitie us. Writen by oure right welbeloved and trusted 
 squier, Robert Strangways, berar of this. And aure Lorde have you in 
 his kepyng. Writen at Midelham, ye seconde day of August (1425). 
 
 IV. LiTERA Martini Pap^ Quinti directa Priori et Conventui, ad 
 
 ASSISTENDUM CUIDAM ClERICO PRO ECCLESIA DE HeMYNGBURGII. 
 
 [Heg. Magn. v. 3, fol. 120.] 
 
 Dilecti'' filii, salutern et apo.stolicam benedictionem. Cum nuper 
 dilecto filio, Thom;e Chapman, in legibus bachallario, secretario vener- 
 aHilis fratris nostri Ricardi episcopi Lincoln, in curia residenti, ac viro 
 bonfe conversationis, vitaj laudabilis atque famee, de pai'ochiali ecclesia de 
 Hemyngburgh, Eboracensis dioecesis, tunc certo modo vacante, et dis- 
 positioni apostolicie sedis reservata, motu proprio duximus providendum, 
 devotionem vestram requirimus, et in Domino exhortamur, ut eundeni 
 Thomam habentes specialius recomniissum, velitis, ob nostram et sedis 
 apostolicje reverentiara, in assequenda pacifice possessione ipsius ec- 
 clesiiB, taliter eidem assistere et favere, ut ipse, remotis impedimentis 
 quibuscunque, possessionem ipsius ecclesia3 assequi valeat vestro opere 
 et auxilio median te, vosque exinde apud nos et sedem prasfatam possitis 
 de vestrte devotionis aff'ectu merito commendari. Data Romse, apud 
 Sanctum Petrum, sub annulo Piscatoris, die nono mensis Aprilis, poji- 
 tiiicatus nostri anno nono. 
 
 V. The Ordination ^ of the Collegiate Church of Heming- 
 brough by Archbishop Kempe. [Reg, Mag. v. 3, fol. 121, at 
 Durham.^ 
 
 Omnibus sanctse matris ecclesise filiis pr^esens scriptum visuris vel 
 audituris, Johannes permissione Divina Ebor. Archiepiscopus, Anglise 
 Primas, % Apostolicte Sedis Legatus, ad futuram rei memoriam. Plures 
 rivuli qui ab eodem fonte procedunt, aquse tumorem evacuant, fontis 
 tamen valorem non minuunt vel decorem ; immo ex se usum producere 
 tanto placidiorem fons ipse dinoscitur, quanto pluribus locis aridae sitis 
 molestia fatigatis, efFuso gurgite aqua3 copiam uberius subministrat. 
 Ilia quoque matrona despicabilis non habetur sed potius laude digna, 
 quam, etsi frequens conceptus extenuet, fsecunda honorificat procreatio 
 liberorum. Sic utique una ecclesia titulum non perdit honoris si ex sui 
 habundancia plures beneficiorum solatio consolentur, immo tanto nobilior 
 est censenda quanto ei deservit ministrorum amplior famulatus. Sane 
 per dilectos in Christo filios, Johannem Priorem 't Capitulum ecclesiie 
 Cathedralis Dunelmensis, nostne ecclesise Ebor. suffraganeas, nobis fuit 
 expositum, quod Celebris memoriae Edwardus Rex Angliie t Francite 
 Tertius, per literas suas patentes, concessit, et licentiam dedit pro se 't 
 heredibus suis, Priori T: Capitulo Dunelmensi, ut ipsi ecclesiam paro- 
 chialem de Hemmyngburgh, quje est de ipsorum Prioris "t Capituli 
 patronatu, sibi appropriare, % earn appropriatam in usus proprios tenere 
 
 ' See page 65. * See pages 67-8.
 
 ArPENDix. 373 
 
 possent sibi % successoribus suis imperpetuum, sub conditione quod ipsi 
 Prior % Capitulum certos capellanos, 1 quajdam alia onera in diet is 
 Uteris regiis specificata, pro ipso Rege, progenitoribus, et lieredibus 
 ejusdem, supportarent imperpetuum : qu;« quidem licentia regia, quoad 
 appropriationem liujusmodi, ex certis causis rationabilibus nobis exlii- 
 bitis 1 ostensis hucusque non fuerat executa, et ea ratione dicta onera 
 minime supportata ; dictique nunc Prior 1 Capitulum Dunelm., volentes 
 jam potius quod in dicta ecclesia de Hemmyngburgh per competentem 
 numerum ministrorum cultus Divini numinis augeatur, dictorumque 
 principum animabus alias salubriter provideatur, quam quod eisdem 
 approprietur, nobis instancius supplicarunt, quatinus dictam ecclesiam 
 de Hemmyngburgh, cujus redditus et proventus, ut asserunt, sunt adeo 
 abundantes quod ad plurium sustentationem sufficiunt ministrorum, in 
 ecclesiam coUegiatam erigere dignaremur, et ad hunc finem 1 efFectum 
 ipsam ecclesiam de Hemyngburgh dispositioni % ordinationi nostris 
 totaliter submiserunt per eorum literas pateutes sigillo eorum communi 
 sigillatas ; quarum tenor sequitur in hajc verba. 
 
 Universis sanctte matris ecclesise filiis,. prsesentes literas visui'is vel 
 audituris, Johannes Prior, % Capitulum ecclesia; Cathedi^alis Dunelm., 
 salutem in Auctore salutis. Licet ecclesia parochialis de Hemmyng- 
 burgh, Ebor. dioeceseos, in qua jus patronatus, jurisdictio,1 qusedam annua 
 pensio quinque marcarum ad nos pertinere dinoscuntur, per auctoritateni 
 bona; memorise venerabilis in Christo patris et domini, domini Johannis 
 quondam Archiepiscopi Ebor., nobis olim concessa fuerit in proprios 
 usus possidenda, cupientes tamen in eadem ecclesia, cujus facultates ad 
 sustentationem sufficiunt plurimorum, numerum ministrorum adaugeri, 
 ut sic saluti animarum salubrius valeat provideri, ecclesiam ipsam, cum 
 terris, fructibus 1 obventionibus universis ad eandem pertinentibus, 
 necnon et totum jus quod ex appropriatione prasdicta nobis competiit 
 aut competere poterit in eadem ordinatione reverendissimi in Christo 
 patris et domini domini Johannis Dei gratia Ebor. Archiepiscopi, Anglise 
 primatis, et Apostoliese Sedis Legati, de nostro unanimi consensu 't 
 voluntate communi, pure, sponte, et absolute, ac totaliter, submittimus 
 per prajsentes ; ita quod liceat eidem reverendissimo patri dictam 
 ecclesiam parochialem de Hemmyngbui'gh in ecclesiam collegiatam sive 
 prebendalem erigere, et de eadem ecclesia terris, fructibus 'L obvention 
 ibus universis sibi pertinentibus, liber'e ordinare, statuere % providere 
 per omnia, sicut ad honorem Dei, et ad utilitatem ipsius ecclesise viderit 
 expedire : Nos vero quicquid per eundem reverendissimum patrem 
 ordinatum, statutum, seu provisum fuerit in prasmissis, ratum et gratum 
 promittimus habere imperpetuum. In cujus rei testimonium, sigilluni 
 commune Capituli nostri prtesentibus duximus apponendum. Data 
 Dunelm., decimo die mensis Novembris, anno domini Millesimo cccc™° 
 vicesimo sexto. 
 
 Nos igitur, prsemissis omnibus exacta consideratione pensatis, prte- 
 habitaque licentia regia in hac parte requisita, ac inquisitione diligenti 
 per nos de ejusdem ecclesise suorumque fructuum et proventuum annuo 
 valore pra?missis, dictorum Prioris t Capituli piis T; devotis de^ideriis 
 inclinati, de dilectorum in Christo filiorum Decani et Capituli nostri 
 Ebor. expresso consensu, necnon parochianorum ipsius ecclesise de 
 Hemmyngburgh, omniumque aliorum et singulorum quorum in 
 ea parte vertitur interesse ; in nomine Domini nostri Jhesu Christi, 
 dictam ecclesiam de Hemmyuburgh in ecclesiam collegiatam, et in et de
 
 .j<4 THE niSTOEY OF HEMIXGBROUGH. 
 
 eadem ecclesia Collegium de uiio prseposito sive custode, qui eo ipso 
 quidem prsepositus sive custos fuerit, canonicus etiam ejusdem ecclesise 
 existat, ac ti'ibus aliis canonicis, prebendariis trium prebendarum, quas 
 sub nominibus primpe, secuudse/t tertias prfebendarum distingui volumus 
 \ decerni ; et, Secundum ordinem seu distinctionem hujusmodi, stallos 
 post prfepositum ex utraque parte cliori eisdem assignari ; et de sex 
 vicariis, quorum unus erit capellanus cantariae de Wasse in dicta 
 ecclesia jam existentis et in oi'diue primus ; necnon de sex clericis de 
 secunda forma, quorum duo erunt ejusdem ecclesise aqufebajuli, ut 
 ibidem prius fuerant, auctoritate nostra ordinaria erigimus, fundamus, 
 et stabilimus : pro eorum et ejusdem ecclesite sive Collegii dispositione 
 ac regimine ordinantes t constituentes, sub modo t forma qui se- 
 quuntur. 
 
 In primis ordinamus quod prsepositus hujusmodi, quem in ordine 
 sacerdotali ante adeptionem hujusmodi pra^positurse modis omnibus 
 volumus 1 ordinamus esse constitutum, regimen liabeat t gerat dictae 
 ecclesiee de Hemmyngburgh, et ministrorum ejusdem, ac principalem 
 curam animarum parochianorum ipsius parochite, totalemque guberna- 
 tionem fructuum, reddituum,T;proventuum quorumcumque eidem ecclesise 
 qualitercumque pei-tinentium ; qui quidem praepositus, pro majori parte 
 anni ad minus, erit in eadem ecclesia personaliter residens, habebitque 
 defructubus etproventubusdictaeecclesigede Hemmynburgh, pro portione 
 sua, quadraginta libras annuatim, de quibus onera qutecumque, tam 
 ordinaria quam extraordinaria, dictfe ecclesiie tenebitur supportare ; 
 exceptis impensis circa necessaria, lites, et placita pro juribus dictjB 
 ecclesiserecuperandis seu defendendis, necnon cii'ca collectionem fructuum 
 autumpnalium ejusdem ecclesiae, videlicet bladi t foeni fiendis, ac solu- 
 tione decimfe cum eam domino Regi vel altex-i cuicumque contigerit 
 fortasse concedi, t aliis etiam oneribus inferius specialiter expressimque 
 descriptis ac designatis, per ipsum preepositum de fructibus dict?e ecclesige, 
 prfeter portionem suam supradictam, prout sequitur, persolvendis ; 
 tenebitur namque et debet pra?positus ipse solvere annuatim cuilibet 
 canonicorum dicti Collegii decern marcas, nomine prebendfe, ad quatuor 
 festa subscripta, per sequales portiones, videlicet ad festum Natalis 
 Domini ti'iginta 1 tres solidos et quatuor denarios, t ad festum An- 
 nuntiationis Beatfe Mariis triginta 1 tres solidos et quatuor denarios ; 
 ad festum Nativitatis Sancti Johannis Baptistfe triginta t tres solidos 
 t quatuor denarios ; et ad festum Sancti Michaelis Archangeli ti'iginta 
 1 tres solidos t quatuor denarios ; ita tamen quod canonico decedenti, 
 aut prebendam suam resignanti, vel possessionem prebendte hujusmodi 
 no^^Lter adepto, solvatur in fine termini pro rata temporis dumtaxat, et 
 non amplius : Cuilibet insuper trium canonicorum prtedictorum in 
 dicta ecclesia per tresdecim septimanas in anno, a festo Sancti Michaelis 
 computando, continue vel Aacissim residenti, tenebitur idem propositus 
 solvere in fine anni, nomine residencife, decern marcas. Et si contigerit 
 duos ad eandem prebendam successive admitti, T; eorum utrumque infra 
 unum T; eundem annum per tresdecim septimanas, sicut prasmittitur, 
 in dicta ecclesia residere, volumus quod eo casu pecunia praetextu 
 residenciae debita, non secundo sed primo residenti integraliter per- 
 solvatur. Item ordinamus quod praepositus, sive custos, hujusmodi de 
 omnibus receptis de fructibus, redditibus, et proventibus dictae ecclesiae 
 singulis annis et resolutis, infra octo dies proximos post festum Sancti 
 Petri quod dicitur Ad Vincula coram Priore Dunelm., seu ejus deputato,
 
 AITEXDTX. ,375 
 
 et canoiiicis dicti Collegii, si qui tunc fuerint illic prsesentes, in manso 
 prsepositi supradicti reddere teneatur, T; reddat super sacramentum suuni 
 plenum et tidele ratiocinium sive compotum administrationis suce, quo 
 reddito, si quid superfuerit, supradictisT; infrascriptis oneribussupportatis, 
 id ipsum reponetur in cista ipsius Collegii, sub custodia trium clavium, 
 quai-um unam idem prsepositus, T; duas alias duo seniores canonici, vel, 
 in canonicorum absentia, duo antiquiores vicarii habebunt fideliter 
 eonservandas, et in usum dicti collegii, secundum discretionem Prioris 
 Dunelm. T; dicti prsepositi, dispensandas. Ordinamus insuper quod sint 
 in dicta ecclesia de Hemmyngburgh, prseter capellanum cantarise de 
 Wasse, quem, ut praefertur, primum Vicarium volumus intitulari, 
 quinque alii vicarii ministrantes in habitu regulari, secundum morem 
 ecclesipe Ebor. ; quorum sex vicariorum singuli sint ebdomadarii 
 secundum ordinem vicis suse. Qui quidem vicarii, et eorum quilibet, 
 secundum oi'dinationem, prteceptum ac jussum prsepositi antedicti, 
 laborem T: exercitium curse animarum parochianorum dictas parochise 
 de Hemmyngburgh sub dicto prseposito geret T: subibit, gerent ac subibunt, 
 sicque subire T: gerere tenebitur ac tenebuntur ; poteritque T; debebit 
 prsepositus ipse laborem sive exercitium curse antedictfe inter dictos 
 sex vicarios, secundum discretionem sibi a Deo datam, dividere, distri- 
 buere, atque partiri. Insuper ordinamus quod capellanus cantarise de 
 Wasse antedictse in privatis Missis pro fundatoribus dictse cantarise 
 specialiter, ut rationis est, exorabit, percipietque annuatim, in augmenta- 
 tionem portionis sute, et in recompensationem oneris sibi de novo in- 
 cumbentis, quatuor marcas solvendas per manus dicti prsepositi ad 
 terminos supradictos. Quilibet etiam dictorum quinque vicariorum 
 percipiet per manus dicti prajpositi, primo T; principaliter, annuatim de 
 fructubus dictse ecclesise decem mai'cas, per sequales portiones, ad 
 quatuor anni terminos supradictos sequaliter persolvendas, de quibus 
 quilibet eorum reputare se debet contentum, ita videlicet quod nullus 
 eorum publice, privatim, seu occulte, per se, vel interpositam personam, 
 quovis exquisite colore suggeret, suadebit, aut faciet a quocumque 
 parochianorum dictaj ecclesi^e sibi solvi, dai'i, vel applicari decimas 
 eidem ecclesife debitas, seu donationes aut legata qufecumque, in damp- 
 num, dispendium seu praejudicium ecclesise supradictte ; super quo 
 quilibet eorum in sua inductione tenebitur coram dicto praeposito, vel 
 ejus vices gerente, tactis per ipsum sacrosanctis Dei Evangeliis, cor- 
 porale prsestare juramentum. Ordinamus etiam quod quilibet quatuor 
 clericorum de secunda forma praedicta, praeter duos clericos aquaebajulos, 
 per ipsum prtepositum statuendorum T; removendorum pro ipsius 
 praepositi libito voluntatis, pro sustentatione sua recipiat annuatim per 
 manus dicti prgepositi quadraginta solidos per aequales portiones ad 
 terminos superius expressatos. Et quod utrique duorum clericorum 
 aquaebajulorum, per parochianos dictae parochiae de Hemmyngbui'gh sus- 
 tentandorum, sicut ab antique fuerat observatum, ut ipsi libentius T: 
 diligentius sub modo T; forma infrascriptis intersint Divinis officiis, 
 detur annuatim in suorum stipendiorum augmentationem una marca 
 argenti, per manus dicti pra;positi, in terminis praemissis, aequaliter per- 
 solvenda. Orabunt quoque specialiter dicti praepositus, canonici, vicarii, 
 ceterique ministri dictae ecclesiae pro animabus Regis Edwardi post 
 conquaestum Angliae Primi, T; Edwardi Regis Tertii, necnon Henrici 
 Quinti, ac dictorum Regum progenitorum, heredum T; liberorum eorun- 
 dem, ipsorumque Anniv^ersarium in crastiuo Animarum cum distribu-
 
 376 THE HISTORY OF HEMINGBROUGH. 
 
 tione tresdeciiii solidorum T; quatuor denariorum, in ipso Anniversarii 
 die pauperibus dictte parochise largienda solempniter celebrabuut 
 singulis annis in futurum. Orabunt etiam dicti prsepositus, canonici, 
 vicarii, ceterique ministri pro salubri statu serenissimi principis, Henrici, 
 nunc Regis, Sexti, nobiliumque principum doniinorum Johannis ducis 
 Bedford T; Humfridi ducis Clloucestre, et nostro, quamdiu ipsi T; nos 
 vitam gerunt T; gerimus diutius in humanis, et pro animabus dictorum 
 principum T; nostra cum ipsi T; nos subtracti fuerint '\ fuerimus ab liac 
 luce. Ordinamus insuper quod omnibus diebus Dominicis et festivis 
 Missa de die T; omnes Home canonic?e, ceteiis vero diebus Missa matu- 
 tinse T; vespere in dicta ecclesia collegiata dicantur cum nota, secundum 
 usum ecclesife nostrte Catliedralis Ebor., quibus quidem Horis T; Missis 
 hujusmodi omnibus T; singulis, sic, ut prjefertur, dicendis, vicarii T; 
 clerici supradicti quicumque ipsius collegii pro tempore existentes, si 
 justo T; legitime impedimento, per prtefatum prfepositum approbando, 
 nullatenus fuerint impediti, tenebuntur personaliter interesse ; necnon 
 ipsi prseposito, si prsesens fuerit, vel in ejus absentia alteri per eundem 
 ad chori regimen deputato, tam in legendo quam in cantando humiliter 
 obedire. Ad supradictas autem solutiones omnes et singulas sub forma 
 prsedicta canonicis, vicariis, T; aliis ministris ecclesise collegiatse de 
 Hemmyngburgh prjedictfe in terminis supradictis, vel ad minus infra 
 quindecim dies post quemlibet eorundem, bene T: fideliter observandas, 
 praepositum quemcumque pro suo tempore teneri volumus T; astringi, 
 sub poena quadraginta solidorum fabricaj ecclesiaj nostrse Ebor. de bonis 
 dicti ,pr9epositi, quotiens ipse prsepositus in solutione aliqua hujusmodi 
 in toto vel in parte defecerit, solvendorum, necnon sub poenis suspen- 
 sionis, excommunicationis et privationis, secundum quod qualitas delicti 
 in ea parte exposcet, juxta discretionem nostram, et successorum nos- 
 trorum inlligendis. Et vit prsemissa nostra ordinatio perpetuis futuris 
 temporibus in suis firmitate permaneat T; vigore, volumus quod quilibet 
 prsepositus, in primajva admissione sua, in seriptis renunciet cuicumque 
 prohibitioni, inhibitioni, privilegio fori, recusationi, appellation!, supplica- 
 tioni, in integrum restitutioni, excusationi, cavillationi, dilationi, excep- 
 tioni, impetratis T; impetrandis, omiiisque juris seu facti remedio canonici 
 vel civilis, per quod executio poeuarum pra?dictarum, vel alicujus earun- 
 dem impediri possit quomodolibet vel differri. Volumus insuper T; 
 ordinamus quod quotienscumque prseposituram, aut prasbendam aliquam, 
 vel vicainam praedicti Collegii vacare contigerit, fructus T; emolumenta 
 quajcumque, quae pro tempore vacationis prseposito, prasbendario, vel 
 vicai'io hujusmodi, pra^positui^a, canonicatu, T; prasbenda, seu vicaria 
 hujusmodi plenis fuissent debita, salvis tamen subscriptis, in communi 
 cista superius expressata ad commodum dicti Collegii integre reponantur. 
 Et ne vacante prsepositura praedicta pro defectu debitte administra- 
 tionis bonorum ipsius collegii eo tempore exercenda3 nostra oixlinatio prse- 
 scripta in aliqua parte suo frustretur etiectu, volumus T: ordinamus 
 quod Prior T; Capitulum Dunelm., per aliquem de canonicis aut vicariis 
 supradictis, vel alium ab eisdem eorum nomine et periculo deputandum, 
 onera officio praepositurae hujusmodi, ut prsefertur, incumbentia subirein 
 singulis '\ tideliter exequi teneantur. Insuper reservamus dictis Priori T; 
 Capitulo Dunelm. jurisdictionem in eadem ecclesia de Hemmyngburgh, 
 clero T: populo ejusdem, eis debitam seu consuetam, absque tamen con- 
 cessione vel approba tione novi tituli vel juris, aut usurpationis cujus- 
 cumque, ac pensionem annuam quinque marcarum a rectoribus dictse
 
 APPENDIX. 377 
 
 ecclesife eisdem Priori T; Capitulo ab antiquo debitam, et solvi consuetam, 
 necnon ultra hoc pro iiidempnitate ipsorum Prioris '1; Capituli, ad quos 
 hactenus spectabat custodia dictte ecclesiaj pro tempore vacationis 
 ejusdem, pensionem annuam quatuor marcarum, si et quatenus, ac 
 quamdiu fructus et proventus ipsius ecclesiaj ultra alia ouera supra- 
 dicta sufficere poterunt ad pensionem hujusmodi quatuor marcarum 
 annuatim supportandam per manus dicti prfepositi ad festa Pentecostes 
 et Sancti Martini in hyeme per jequales portiones lideliter persolvenda. 
 Et si, quod absit, et futurum non speramus, fructus T; proventus dictie 
 ecclesise Collegiatiie in eam devenerint exilitatein, quod ad pensionem 
 hujusmodi quatuor marcarum supportandam, ultra omnia alia onei-a 
 supradicta, annuatim sufficere non possint, eo casu, cessante onere solu- 
 tionis hujusmodi pensionis quatuor marcarum, a quo dictam ecclesiam 
 in eventum ilium exoneramus, extunc fructus T: emolumenta qusecumque 
 vacacionum pmepositurse, canonicatuum-prtebendarum, ac vicariarum 
 quarumcumque in dicta ecclesia ad Priorem T; Capitulum prsefatas ecclesise 
 Dunelm. decernimus T; declaranius integre pertinere, T; pertinere debere. 
 Reservamus etiam dictis Priori T; Capitulo advocationem, seu patrona- 
 tum prgepositurte, canonicatuum-praebendarum, T: vicariarum supra- 
 dictarum, ad quas, cum vacaverint, nobis T; successoribus nostris, aut, 
 sede vacante, Decano T; Capitulo ecclesite nostra? Ebor., personas idoneas, 
 videlicet ad hujusmodi pra;posituram T: canonicatus, infra tempus, seu 
 terminum a jui'e statutum, prsesentabunt, sub forma juris canonice 
 instituendas, etper ipsos Priorem T; Capitulum inducendas ; sed ne per 
 diutinam vacationem vicariarum ipsius Collegii Divinus cultus inibi in- 
 stitutus infuturum, quod absit, plus debito minuatur, volumus T; oi^di- 
 namus quod quotienscumque aliquam dictarum vicariarum vacare 
 contigerit, teneantur dicti Prior T: Capitulum, infra duos menses a 
 tempore vacationis continue computandos, habilem personam ad vicariam 
 hujusmodi prsesentare, sin autem collatio illius vicarise ad nos et suc- 
 cessores nostros, vel Decanum T; Capitulum ecclesiaj nostras pi'fedictse, 
 sede vacante, pertineat ilia vice. Reservamus etiam nobis T; successoribus 
 nostris auctoritatem assignandi, de avisamento T; assensu dictorum 
 Prioris T; Capituli, prseposito dicti Collegii, necnon canonicis, vicariis, T; 
 aliis ministris superius designatis, communiter vel divisim, tam in 
 manso seu solo rectoriae ecclesife pr^dictse, quam in aliis terris seu 
 tenementis eidem ecclesiae jam pertinentibus, domos seu loca competentia 
 pro habitationibus eorundem, necnon potestatem plenariam hanc ordina- 
 tionem nostram corrigendi, T: emendandi, interpretandi, seu declarandi, 
 necnon eidem addendi, et de eadem diminuendi, quotiens nobis T; suc- 
 cessoribus nostris, cum consilio T; assensu dictorum Prioris T: Capituli 
 Dunelm., necessarium visum fuerit seu opportunum. Et ut prsemissa 
 futuris temporibus a prseposito, canonicis, T: ceteris ministris dictfe 
 ecclesise eo tirmius observentur, statuimus T: ordinamus quod tam prse- 
 positus quam canonici, necnon vicarii, ac clerici quicumque dictse ecclesise 
 collegiatse de Hemmyngburgh in I'eceptione sua in dictam ecclesiam cor- 
 porale ad sancta Dei Evangelia, per eos seu procuratores suos eorum 
 nomine tangenda, prsestent juramentum quod omnia T: singula ordina- 
 tiones T; statuta supradicta, quatenus ad eorum quemlibet spectant seu 
 spectare poterunt, bene T; lideliter custodient T; observabunt, ac sic cus- 
 todiri facient T: observari. In prsemissorum omnium et singulorum fidem 
 T: testimonium, sigillum nostrum, una cum sigillo communi dictorum 
 Prioris T; Capituli Dunelm., fecimus hiis apponi. Data, quoad apposi-
 
 378 THE PIISTOKY OF HEMINGBROUGII. 
 
 tionem sigilli nostri, in hospitio nostro prope Westmonasterium, primo 
 die mensis Martii, Anno Domini Millesimo cccc»"° vicessimo sexto, et 
 nostrse translationis anno secundo. Et nos, Prior T: Capitulu»i Dunelm, 
 prsemissis omnibus T; singulis, quantum in nobis est, nostrum prsebentes 
 consensum pariter '^ assensum, sigillum nostrum commune preesentibus 
 apposuimus. Data, quoad sigilli nostri appositionem, in domo nostra 
 Capitulari Dunelm., sexto decimo die dicti mensis Martii, Anno Domini 
 supradicto. 
 
 VI. The New Ordination of the Collegiate Church op Heming- 
 BROUGH, BY Aechbishop Laurence Booth. [Fvoni the Original 
 at JJurham.^ 
 6 Omnibus sanctfe matris Ecclesise iiliis prsesens scriptum visuris vel 
 audituris, Laurentius, permissione Divina Ebor. Archiepiscopus, Anglije 
 Primas, et Apostolicaj sedis Legatus, salutem in Eo Qui est omnium vera 
 salus. Sane ex parte Magistri Jacobi Preston, prsepositi ecclesise Col- 
 legiatEe de Hemmyngburgh, nobis expositum fuit, quod licet recolendse 
 memorife Johannes Kempe, prtedecessor noster, ecclesiam pr^dictam de 
 Hemmyngburgh tunc parochialem, cujus fructus et proven tus multo 
 uberiores fuerunt quam nunc sunt, ut, ad laudem Dei, numerus minis- 
 trorum augeretur in eadem, erexit in Collegium, statuens et ordinans in 
 eadem unum pragpositum qui principalem curam haberet ministrorum et 
 parochianorum ejusdem, ac per se, seu ministros per ipsum deputandos, 
 omnes '\ singulos fructus, redditus et proventus ad dictam ecclesiam qua- 
 litercumque spectantes perciperet, et de eisdem aliis ministris per dictum 
 prjedecessorem nostrum ordinatis singulis annis certas summas per- 
 solveret, videlicet tribus canonicis viginti libras pro corporibus prje- 
 bendarum suarum et nomine residencise, si quis eorum resideret in 
 ecclesia praedicta, cuilibet eorundem decem marcas ; et quinque vicariis 
 cuilibet eorum decem marcas ; ac capellano canta,rije de Wasse, qui 
 primus vicarius propter ipsos quinque intitulabatur, quatuor marcas; 
 et quatuor clericis, cuilibet eorum quadraginta solidos, et duobus aliis, 
 viz. aquajbajulis, cuilibet eorum unam marcam ; statuitque T: ordinavit 
 quod coram Priore Dunelm. vel ejus deputato, T; canonicis, si qui fuerint 
 ibidem residentes, singulis annis infra octo dies post festum Sancti Petri 
 quod dicitur Ad Vincula dictus preepositus fidelem redderet compotum, 
 et ipse pro porcione sua singulis annis xl libras perciperet, et quod, si 
 residuum fuerit, in quadam cista reponeretur sub custodia trium 
 clavium penes dictum pra?positum, et duos canonicos, vel seniores 
 vicarios remanentium, aliaque onera eidem prseposito imposuit,-prout in 
 ordinacione prsedicta plenius continetur. Modernis tamen temporibus 
 facultates dictse ecclesise sic decreverunt quod ad onera pr«dicta non 
 suppetunt in tantum quod diniinuti sunt, quod pragposito pr£edicto ultra 
 summas praedictis canonicis 1 ministris persolvendas modicum quid pro 
 porcione sua remaneret, unde poterit suam residenciam ibidem per- 
 implere ; quare, ex parte prtepositi prsedicti nobis extitit humiliter sup- 
 plicatum, quod cum dictus pra?decessor noster in ordinacione sua potes- 
 tatem suis successoribus corrigendi et emendandi, addendi, T; diminuendi 
 reservavit, quatinus de solucionibus canonicis T; ministris in futurum 
 faciendis aliquid subtrahere, ac ita de onei'ibus supportandis disponere T; 
 oidinare quod eidem congrua porcio assignetur, ac alias ordinare, prout 
 
 • See page 99.
 
 APrEKDix. 379 
 
 nobis, eidem Collegio, T; ecclesite parochial! magis videretur opiDortunum, 
 Nos igitur, inspecta et diligeiiter ac mature intellecta pia oi'dinacione 
 prsedecessoris nostri prsedicti, perquisicione diligenter in dicta ecclesia 
 de Hemmyngburgh auctoritate nostra facta, ac per visum compotorum 
 nobis exhibitorum comperimus facultates dictae ecclesite ita decrevisse, 
 quod onera ejusdem per pra?fatum prasdecessorem nostrum supportando 
 imposita minime suppetunt in prseseiate, ad diminucionem dictorum 
 onerum, cum consensu Prioris et Capituli ecclesiaj Cath. Dunehn, ac 
 canonicorum, aliorumque ministrorum ejusdem ecclesife, omniumque 
 quorum interest in hac parte, ad requisicionem dicti pra?positi pro- 
 cedimus in hunc modum. In primis, volumus, statuimus, et ordinamus 
 quod prfepositus dictse ecclesife, qui curam principalem ibidem habet 
 spiritualium et tempoi-alium, sit residens per tresdecim ebdomadas in 
 anno ad minus, et percipiet omnes T; singulos fructus, redditus et pro- 
 ventus eidem ecclesije pertinentes, prout alias per dictum prtedecessorem 
 nostrum ordinatum est, habebitque mansum rectoriaj cum toto solo 
 quod superest extra mansum vicariorum. Item statuimus et ordinamus 
 quod dictus prajpositus persolvet singulis annis vicariis et aliis ministris 
 minoribus, prout antea consuevit, et eisdem terminis, prout per prajfatum 
 prsedecessorem nostrum extat ordinatum. Item dictus prsepositus solvet 
 annuatim cuilibet canonico pro corpore pr?ebendoe suse quinquaginta 
 tres solidos et quatuor denarios ad duos anni terminos, videlicet Martini 
 in yeme et Pentecostes, per eequales porciones, nee tenebitur pra^positus 
 aliquid ultra solvere sive dare alicui canonico non residenti, nisi pra3- 
 fatos liijs iiij'i. Item ordinatum est quod si capellanus cantarise de 
 ClyfF voluerit interesse Divinis officiis cum efFectu in diebus festivis T; 
 novem lectionum, volumvis et statuimus quod dictus prajpositus solvat 
 eidem decem solidos annuatim per sequales porciones ad festa prsedicta. 
 Statuimus etiam et ordinamus quod vicarii, qui nunc sunt et qui erunt, 
 habebunt ad usum suum perpetuis futuris temporibus mediam partem 
 focalium decimabilium vocatorum ffagottes alias kyddes, infra parochiam 
 prsedictam annuatim excisorum et prostratorum. Item statuimus, ordi- 
 namus, et volumus quod dictus prsepositus omnia alia onera, tam ordinaria 
 quam extraordinaria, sive supradictae ecclesife incumbentia, imposita 
 vel imponenda, sustinebit T; supportabit. Item statuimus, ordinamus, 
 et volumus quod quiscumque prfepositus decedens in futurum, quocumque 
 tempore anni decesserit post festum Sancti Michajlis, et ante festum 
 Sancti Marci, ejus executores habebunt fructus autumpnales 
 autumpni prfecedentis, T; omnes decimas, majores T; minores, integre 
 usque festum Sancti Marci tunc proximo futurum, et supportabunt 
 omnia onera usque festum Sancti Michaelis tunc proximo sequens in- 
 clusive. Et si contingat ipsum prsepositum decedere inter festum Sancti 
 Marci, T; festum Sancti Michaelis, tunc executores ejusdem cum fructibus 
 autumpni prsecedentis sustinebunt omnia onera pra?dicta usque festum 
 Sancti Michaelis, nee prjiepositus, quovismodo succedens ipsi, ad per- 
 cipiendum T; recipiendum omnes T; singulos fructus prasdictos ante festum 
 Sancti Marci praedictum, necnou omnia T; singula pro fructibus seu 
 proventibus vel proficuis ante festum praedictum percepta, debita, seu 
 debenda, vel post festum prtedictum solvenda pro eisdem, impediet, seu 
 perturbabit quovis colore exquisito ; hoc idem etiam si praepositum 
 aliquem dictam praeposituram resignare, sive ex aliqua causa ipsam 
 dimittere contigerit, volumus observari. In aliis autem quam in prae- 
 missis volumus ordinacionem pra?fati pra^decessoris nostri inviolabiliter
 
 380 THE HISTORY OF HEMINGBROUGH. 
 
 oLservari, tarn quoad tangentia prpepositum, quam etiam vicarios, et 
 alios ministros, ac onera dictre ecclesise quovismodo supportanda, 
 pneterquam in compote, ad quern volumus prajpositum in futurum quovis- 
 modo teneri, sed residuum ultra onera imposita per prsedecessorem 
 nostrum et per nos in parte reformata, cedit in usum dicti prtepositi, et 
 ad reparacionem aedificiorum, et pro hospitalitate et residentia sua per 
 tempus supradictum. Reservamus etiam nobis et successoribus nostris 
 potestatem plenariam banc ordinacionem nostram corrigendi, emendandi, 
 interpretandi, seu declarandi, necnon eidem addendi T; ab eadem detra- 
 hendi seu eandem mutandi, quotiens nobis, seu successoribus nostris, 
 cum consensu dictorum Prioris et Capituli, necessarium visum fuerit seu 
 opportunum. In quorum omnium et singulorum fidem T: testimonium, 
 has literas nostras fieri fecimus testimoniales, sigillo nostro com- 
 munitas. Data in manerio nostro de Suthwell, vicesimo die mensis 
 Martii, anno Domini Millesimo CCCCmo septuagesimo nono, et nostrse 
 translacionis anno quarto. 
 
 VII. A Letter from Henry VIII. to the Prior of Durham. 
 [Beg. IV. Pr. and Conv. Dunelm. 189. J 
 
 Trusty '^ and welbeloved in Grod, we grete you well. And where as 
 we be enfourmed that the gif te of the maister and provest of the College 
 of Hemyngburgh, within the diocise of Yorke, of our fundacion, to you 
 apperteyneth, the next advoydaunce wherof oure trustie and welbeloved 
 servaunte, Xpofer Willughby, Squier for our body, is desirous to have 
 for a frende of his, a right vertuous and wellerned man, as he hath to 
 us affermed ; we, considring the premisses, with the trew and faithfull 
 service, whiche the said Xpofer hath heretofore done and daly doth vnto 
 us, to oure full good pleasore, woll and right hertly desire you, at the 
 contemplacion of thes our lettres, to graunt unto our said servaunt, by 
 your sufficient writing under your Covent seall, the next advoidaunce 
 of the said maister or provest of the said College, with all rightis and 
 duties thereunto in any wyse due or belonging. Wherby ye shall 
 ministre unto us right singler and thankfull pleasore, to be remembred 
 by us, any youre resonable causes and pursutis to be made unto us 
 hereafter accordingly. Yeven under oure signet, at our manour of 
 Eltham, the xiiij"' day of June. [1511.] 
 
 VIII. A Letter from the Prior of Durham to Chr. Willoughby, 
 Esq. [Reg. IV. Parv. 189 — at Durham.'] 
 
 *Aftre right hertie recomendacion.^ Soe it is the Kingi's grace hath 
 writtne to me for the next advoidaunce of the provestship of Hem- 
 myngburgh for a frende of yours, right vertuous and wellerned, to be 
 had under oure common seall. S"", to make any suche graunte under 
 our common seall, th'encumbent being on lyve, as I know not the con- 
 trarie as yet, is not onely agaynst the law, but also agaynst the old 
 custume of our monasterie, that is to say, our common seal] twice furtli 
 concernyng one promocion : therfor, at suche tyme as I shall know that 
 the said provestship be really voide, other by deth or resignacion, ye 
 shall, at th'enstance and desire of oure said soverane lord the Kingi's 
 grace, have suche aunswer^ as I doubt not ye shalbe i^ight well con- 
 tented with. And, by cause this graunte to you shall not be forgottyn, 
 
 ' See page 73. ^ See page 73.
 
 APPENDIX. 381 
 
 I have caused the Kingi's graci's lettre, and also this my lettre and 
 promyse to you, be registred with us. And for forder suertie herin, 
 when soever ye shall fortune know of the veray vacacion of the said 
 provestship, send me this same my lettre agayne, And ye shall im- 
 medietiy after have your desire. And thus, S'", I beseche you be con- 
 tent for this season. And hertly I committ you to the Holy Trinities' 
 keping. At Duresme, the iiijth day of July, by yours [1511.] 
 
 Thomas, Prior of Duresme. 
 
 Superscrvpcio. — To the right worshipfull M. Xpofer Willughhy, he 
 
 this delivert. 
 
 IX. A Letter from Henry VIII. to the Prior of Durham. 
 
 \_Froin the Original at Diorham.'\ 
 
 By the King. Henry R. 
 
 Trusty '•' and welbeluved in God, we grete you wele. And where we 
 l)ee enformed that Thomas Babthorpe, maister iia arte, and provest of 
 Plemyngburgh, within oure countie of Yorke, being of your gifte and 
 disposicion, is fully mynded to resigne the same unto our trusty and 
 welbeloved chaplain. Sir Richard Wilson, priour of Drax, within our 
 said countie, we, considering the preferment of our said chaplain, wole 
 and desire you that, at this our speciall instaunce and contemplacion, 
 whiche we trust shalbe by you effectually regarded and considered, ye 
 wole graunt the same unto our saide chaplain immediatly upon the 
 resignacion of the said Thomas Babthorpe, wherby ye shall ministre 
 unto us right acceptable and thankfull pleasour, to bee remembred 
 herafter accordingly. And of your mynde herein ascertain us in writing 
 by this berer. Yeven under our signet, at our manoir of Grenewiche, 
 the ijd daye of Marche. [1514.] 
 
 Superscrijjcio. — I'o oure trusty and toelbeloved in God the Priour of 
 the Monasterie of Duresme. 
 
 X. A Letter from the Prior of Durham to Henry VIIL 
 
 [Reg. IV. Parv. 200.] 
 
 Mosteexcellent,'° mighty, and redoubted prince, pleasseth your good 
 grace, I have receyved your inoste honorable lettres concernyng the 
 preferment of the Priour of Drax, within your grace's countie of Yorke, 
 to the provestship of Hemmyngburgh, by resignacion of Maister Thomas 
 Babthorpe, maister in arte, and provest of the same ; pleassed your 
 good grace to calle unto your remembraunce, your heighnes wrote 
 hertofore for lyke preferment to one Maister Robert Marshall, maister 
 in arte, to the said provestship, and that he might have had a comon 
 seall upon the same, not withstanding any mocion, labour, or writing to 
 us maid by any other persone, according to the tenour of your grace's 
 said lettres ; wherin I and my bretherne, your grace's daily bedemen, 
 war full glad, and soe ar, to accompleshe your grace's mynde and desire 
 with this aunswere (as appeareth) in our Registre, to geve furth any 
 writing in suche behalves under our convent seall, to suche tyine as the 
 said provestship war vacaunt, either by death or laufull resignacion, 
 we besought your grace of pardon, for it was aganst the custume and 
 maner of our Monasterie hethertowardis usyd in suche behaltis, but als 
 farfurth as my bretherne and I might, according to the custume of our 
 
 " See page 73. '" See page 73.
 
 882 THE HISTORY OF HEMINGBROUGH. 
 
 said monasterie, at your grace's contemplacion, gave our full consent to 
 the said Maister Marshall, when the said provestship shuld fortune to be 
 vacaunt, whiche in maner was als sure as our sealled writing ; and 
 so shewed to the said partye. Wherfore we, your grace's dayle bede- 
 men, humble besecheth your heighnes to call the premisses to your good 
 and graciouse remembraunce ; And we doubt not but your grace wilbe 
 content with your former desire and plassour by us at that tyme ac- 
 complesshed ; as knoweth our blessed Lord God, Who ever preserve 
 your moste noble and royall estate long in prosperitye to endure. At 
 Duresme, the ij'^« daye of April. [1514.] 
 
 Thomas, Priour of Duresme. 
 
 Super scrij)cio. — To the Kingi's moste nohle and excellent good grace he 
 this delyverd. 
 
 XI. Letter from John Duke of Bedford to the Prior of 
 
 Durham. \_Fr07n the Original at Durham.'\ 
 
 To oure right trusty and welbeloved in God, the Priour of Duresme. 
 By the Regent of the Reaume of France, Due of Bedford. 
 
 Right trusty '^ and welbeloved in God, wegrete you wel. And for as 
 muche as that we been enfo'med, as wel by oure welbeloved squyer and 
 conseill'', William Massy, as by other, that, at the reverence of us, ye 
 have granted unto oure welbeloved. clerc and secretaire, Thomas Brad- 
 shaw, a prebende in your chirclie of Hemyngbourgh, and declared that 
 hit shuld bee at the least of the value of xx'i by yere, if y* ye right 
 worshipful fader in God, th' archebisshop of York, wold assent yer- 
 unto j and also ye first prebende that shuld voide in yo*' chirche of 
 Howden, after y*^ y* ye Lord de la Ware were avanced yere, to whom 
 ye had maad promesse before ; and hit is so that ye prebendes of yo"" 
 saide chirche of Hemyngbourgh bee not sette, as we have understande, 
 but unto XX marc by yere, so we pray you hertely y*, in continuyng 
 yo*" good wille and affeccon unto oure said clerc, ye wol ordenne y*^ he 
 may have a pension of x marc yerly duryng his lif, of yo^ saide chirche 
 of Hemyngbourgh, ovei'e his saide prebende of xx marc, wittyng for 
 certain y*^ ye said Archebisshop is fulliche assented and agreed yerunto, 
 as ye said Massy, and also oure welbeloved squyer, William Chanceller, 
 can enfo^'me you ; and in y* doyng ye shal doo us right singuler pleisir. 
 And oure Lord have you evere in His blessed keping. Yeven undir 
 oure signet, at Paris, the x day of May. 
 
 Seal quarterly, France and England, over all a label of Jive points. 
 
 XII. A Letter from the Prior of Durham to Sir John 
 
 PoRTiNGTON. [Reg. III. Parv. 2L] 
 
 Wirshipfull '- and right entierly welbeloyd S^', I recommende me to 
 yow with all my hertt, thankyng yow als hertly as I can or may for all 
 the goode gentilnesse and kyndnesse shewide to me of lang tyme, 
 beseking yow of your goode contynuance. And please it yow to wete 
 that my right wirshipfull Lorde Cardinall of Yorke, sen the tyme I 
 spake with yow, wrate to me full specially for a prebende in Hemmyng- 
 buro-h, now woide by the dede of Robert Pacocke, for a clerke of his 
 callide S'" Randalfe Birde, whilke lettre nottwythstandyng, and also 
 grett labour maide to me and my brether by right notabill persons for 
 
 " See p. 78. '" See p. 79.
 
 ArrENDix. 383 
 
 the same prebende, yhitt for aide affeccion that has been bitwix us, and 
 grete gentihiesse shewid to me by yow att all tymes, trustyng alway in 
 youre goode contynuance, I sende yow by my brother Thomas Holme, 
 the berer of this, a presentacion for your son to the saide prebende, be- 
 sekyng yow thatt yhe will excuse me to my Lorde Cardinall of Yorke, 
 that he be nott hevy lorde to me, because he has nott his desyre and 
 entent att this tyme, for I and my brether may full evell ber his hevy 
 lordshipp or indignacion. And Gode giffe yow my kill wirshipp, lang to 
 endour, and your son mykill joy of his benefice, for His mercy. 
 Wreten att Durham, xvij day of Auguste [1447]. 
 
 XIII. Letter prom Richard Cliff to the Prior op Durham 
 
 [F7'om the Original at Durham. Loc. 25, No. 18.] 
 
 To my sufferante lorde Prior of Durham. 
 
 Reverente '^ and wirschipfuU sufErane, I comaund me to your 
 suffiraunys als a preste of yours, making opyne to -^6^ hers y* a felay 
 of ouris, Sir John Rocliff, ye fifte vicare, has forsakyne his vicary, and 
 is institute and inducte in a perpetuall chauntery at Hull : and, if it like 
 SO"" gudnes to presente y^" to an abill mane of parsone and connyng, y' 
 is yar a tenande sonn of 50''s and a thirfty man's son of ye pariclie, 
 ye qwilk is of parson an abill mane to be in any college in Inglande, 
 and of lifyng a gude mane calide of yame yt he is coversande w* all, als 
 we her say, of connyng sufficiante in redyng and sigynge of plane 
 sange, and te synge a tribull til faburdun, als I have harde ye abi- 
 laste men of our kirke say and recorde of hyme ; and als yat late walde 
 be glade of hys commyng, if it suld be. And he is at Lichfelde, in ye 
 college, in abitte, dayly ministeryng ye servis of Gode, but hys frendis 
 and he alsso desiris fervenly to be nare te gedir for supportacione of 
 ilkane odir. And y' for, if my praar myght be plesyng to 50»" 
 worthy lordshipe, I wold beseike 50^' gudnes to prefair an abill mane of 
 ye pariche before any othir, for y* wald pies yame, and cause yame to 
 do well to ye kirke, supposyng yt persons suld, if yay war abill men, be 
 prefarde in tyme commyng. Wryttine at Hemmyngburgh, on ye 
 nexte day aftir Santa Edmundedy kyng last passide, 
 
 Be yo'" preste, Ric. Cliff. 
 
 Seal an R crowned. 
 
 XIV. Statuta concernentia Bbdernam Vicariorum in Ecclesia 
 Collegiata de Hemyngburch, Ebor. dicecesios.'^ \From the 
 Original at Durham?\^ 
 
 Omnibus Christi fidelibus ad quos prsesentes literse pervenerint, ISTos, 
 Johannes Pollan, Ricardus Clyf, Johannes Preston, Robertus Belby, 
 Johannes RoclyfF, et Johannes Foreste, perpetui vicarii in ecclesia 
 collegiata Beatse Mariaj de Hemingburgh, salutem in Domino sempiter- 
 nam. ^ Noverit universitas vestra quod cum nos omnes et singuli 
 voluerimus, consenserimus, ac bona fide promiserimus^ pro nobis et 
 successoribus nostris, quod nos omnes et singuli, et successores nostri, 
 in quodam manso competenti et honesto per bonte memorise dominum 
 Johannem Kempe, archiepiscopum Ebor., cum consensu et avisamento 
 domini Johannis Prioris et Capituli ecclesise cathedralis Dunelmensis, 
 pro nostra cohaljitatione mutua laudabiliter assignato, Bederna vulga- 
 
 •^ See p. S3. n See pp. 84-6,
 
 38 i THE HISTORY OF HEMINGBROUGH. 
 
 liter nuncupato, convei'sabimus, ac moram continuam inibi die. et nocte 
 tenebimur facere imperpetuum ; Nos, igitur, tarn pium et meritorium 
 propositum attendentes, dictorumque vicariorum voluntatem, permis- 
 sionem, et consensum tarn laudabiles acceptantes, eosdemque per domos 
 laicorum sparsim retroactis temporibus commorantes ad cohabitandum 
 et suas commuiias invicem deponendum infra dictam Bedernam indu- 
 cere satagentes, nostra auctoritate ordinaria, cum eorum omnium et 
 singulorum unanimi consensu et spontanea voluntate, infrascripta 
 statuta, per quae hujusmodi cohabitatio et conversatio debite valeant 
 sustineri, ordinamus, edimus, facimus, et creamus, quae sequuntur. 
 
 In primis statuimus et ordinamus quod de anno in annum dicti 
 vicarii, infra dictam Bedernam constituti, in ebdomada proxima ante 
 festum Sancti Petri, quod dicitur Ad Vincula, eligant et prseiiciant duas 
 honestas personas, sobrias et discretas, ex ipsis in iconomos, in quos 
 omnes aut major pars societatis in numero direxerint vota sua, qui 
 quidem iconomi per unum annum subsequentem habebunt regimen et 
 gubernationem, ac liberam dispositionem circa reparationem diet?© 
 Bederme, infra et extra, necnon focalia aulse et coquinse necessaria pro 
 dicto anno tenebuntur ordinare, communibus expensis omnium vicario- 
 rum, inter eosdem sequaliter dividendis ; et dicti iconomi coram socie- 
 tate in fine anni sui de receptis et expensis per ipsos factis teneantur 
 reddere rationem. 
 
 Item ordinamus et statuimus quod quilibet de societate prsedicta, 
 successive et singillatim, vice sua, sit senescallus per quarterium unius 
 anni, et, in principio cujuslibet quarterii, quilibet de comitiva prsedicta 
 solvat eidem senescallo pro communis suis vj s. viij d., et in medio 
 ejusdem vj s. viijd., legalis monetae Anglicse, et ad finem illius quarterii, 
 si ad plus, etc., quilibet solvat ; habebitque idem senescallus, durante 
 tempore officii sui, liberam dispositionem omnium victualium dictse 
 Bedernse, et de ministris ordinet et disponat, sicut sibi et dictse com- 
 munitati melius et utilius sestimaverit expedire, ac coram societate, in 
 tine termini sui, de statu utensilium ad officium hujusmodi pertinen- 
 tium, et de receptis et expensis per ipsum factis teneatur reddere 
 rationem. 
 
 Item statuimus et ordinamus quod dicti vicarii hora prandendi, 
 videlicet statim et immediate post Altam Missam de die, et Horam 
 Nonam in choro ecclesise prsedictse celebratam, ac hora csenandi statim 
 et immediate a festo Sancti Michaelis usque ad Pascha ad sex del clok, 
 a festo vero Paschse usque ad festum Sancti Michaelis ad quinque del 
 clok, conveniant in aulam dictse Bedernse, et ibidem se coUocent honeste 
 prout veniunt, et comedant sicut decet. 
 
 Item statuimus et ordinamus quod si aliquis dictorum vicariorum sit 
 infirmus, aut alio legitimo impedimento extiterit prsepeditus, quominus 
 in aula pnedicta horis prandendi et csenandi valeat convenire simul per 
 septimanam integram, allocentur ei pro hujusmodi septimana qua fuerit 
 absens \dij d. ; si vero per quatuor dies continuos in uno septimana 
 fuerit absens, allocentur ei quatuor denarii ; sed si quis infirmaverit 
 infra dictam Bedernam, et voluerit habere sei'vitium de communis, 
 senescallus pro eo ordinet alimenta de communis, ita tamen quod non 
 excedant aliorum expensas pro portione sua discumbentium infra 
 aulam. 
 
 Item statuimus et ordinamus quod omnes socii antedicti omni die 
 inter prandium et horam Vesperarum de communibus suis bibere
 
 APPENDIX. 385 
 
 valeant bina vice, scilicet primum semel quando dicitur Benedicite, et 
 secundum semel tempore pulsationis primse carapanse ad horam Vesper- 
 tinam. Insuper post csenam bibant, scilicet ad Benedicite, et bis postea ; 
 quse binse vices secundum sestimationem dicti senescalli per sequalia 
 intervalla debeant assignari. In Quadragesima vero et aliis diebus 
 jejunii conveniant omnes in aula hora csenandi ad potandum, et ibidem 
 sedeant qui voluerint et bibant ter, ita tamen quod a festo Sancti 
 Michaelis usque ad Pascham ad octo del clok, et a festo Paschse usque 
 ad festum Sancti Michaelis ad novem del clok omnes exeant de aula in 
 cameras suas. 
 
 Item statuimus et ordinamus quod si contingat in posterum aliquam 
 cameram dictae Bedernse vacare per mortem alicujus socii vel aliquo alio 
 modo, extunc liceat seniori vicario tempore eligere sibi cameram vacan- 
 tem, si voluerit, et sic descendendo a seniore usque ad juniorem tempore ; 
 et si quis socio vel sociis suis ex occasione brigas intulerit seu contu- 
 melias, solvat communitati vj s. viij d. ad sustentationem implementorum 
 dictse Bedernse convertendos. 
 
 Item ordinamus quod nullus socius inducat in dictam Bedernam ali- 
 quam mulierem infamem sub poena xij d. ad sustentationem implemen- 
 torum, etc. 
 
 Item statuimus quod si quis aliquem induxerit in aulam prsedictam 
 ad potandum, habeat minister eorum unura cyphum ex certa mensura, 
 scilicet quadrantis, quem cyphum habeat unusquisque socius qui voluerit 
 pro hospite suo semel in die ex urbanitate loci, et si quos amplius capiat 
 in die, computet minister super caput capientis quot et quantos de cyphis 
 prsedictis recepisset, de quibus lapsa septimana sic recipiens satisfaciat 
 senescallo sine mora. Insuper si quis quemcunque induxerit ad janta- 
 culum, prandium, sive csenam, solvat inducens pro eodem j d. ob. ; hoc 
 tamen minime fiat nisi inde senescallus debite moneatur : nullusque 
 moretur infra dictam Bedernam sojornando vel alio modo nisi cum con- 
 sensu omnium, et vixerit in communi, nee aliquis occupet cameram suam 
 cum hospitibus tempore prandendi sive csenandi ne hora debita per 
 ipsum tardius differatur, sub poena iiij d. 
 
 Item statuimus quod nullus sociorum prjedictorum amplius seu alias 
 quam superius est expressum cibum et potum exigat vel recipiat de 
 communis prtedictis pra>ter et contra voluntatem ministrorum et eorum 
 qui custodise ciborum et potuum fuerint deputati : verumtamen si quis 
 eorum cibum vel potum aliter ceperit vel extorserit, brigas vel contu- 
 melias dictis ministris occasione pr?emissa fecerit seu intulerit, pro 
 prima transgressione solvat transgressor prima vice communitati viij d. 
 ad sustentationem implementorum ; quod si secundo deliquerit in eodem, 
 ut prsefertur, solvat communitati xij d. ; porro, si tertio vel quarto con- 
 simili modo forisfecerit crescente culpa per xij d. gravetur poena. 
 
 Item statuimus quod si quis extraxerit cultellum suum ad aliquem 
 sociorum suorum, vel arripuerit aliquod instrumentum invasivum in 
 proposito ipsum feriendi, solvat communitati iij s. iiij d. ; quod si aliquem 
 socium percusserit graviter atque violenter, solvat communitati vj s. 
 viij d. ad sustentationem implementorum, prajter satisfactionem parti 
 Isesfe debite faciendam, nisi fuerit ipsum legitime defendendo. 
 
 Item statuimus quod omnes contenti sint cibariis suis, nee contra 
 senescallum per verba contraria murmurent expressata, verumtamen si 
 fercula non sint competentia, fiat inde locutio inter omnes socios, et cum 
 consensu omnium debite emendentur ; et si quis ad prandium vel ad 
 
 c c
 
 38() THE HISTORY OF IIEMINGBKOUGII. 
 
 cfenam tarde venerit, sit contentus cibis dimissis, sive calidis sive frigidis, 
 et non teneautur ministri hujusmodi absentes expectare ultra unam 
 horam postquam socii sui comederint et csenaverint, nisi hujusmodi 
 absentes in curse administratione f uerint occupati : insuper, quod nullus 
 inducat aliquem ad prandium sive csenam quern noverit alicujus socii 
 inimicum capitalem, sub poena iiij d. 
 
 Item statuimus quod nullus in aula prsedicta sit clamosus tempore 
 prandendi seu ca^nandi, nee ante prandium vel csenam, neque post finem 
 eorundem, sed mediocriter et honeste quicquid dixerit proloquatur ; 
 quod si aliquis huic statute contravenerit, senescallus vel ejus substitu- 
 tus imponat ei silentium, quod in hoc casu quisque renuens observare, 
 totiens quotiens sic deliquerit incurrat poenam vj d. ipso facto, ad susten- 
 tationem, etc., et quod nullus ibidem inducat inanem quaestionem et 
 litigiosam et eam teneat in pro vel contra per quam aliqua discordia 
 inter communitatem prtedictam oriri poterit seumoveri, sub poena vj d. ; 
 ac etiam quod nullus loquatur quod turpe est et inhonestum, et 
 maxime in prandio vel ctena, sub poena iiij d., ad sustentationem, etc. 
 
 Item statuimus quod nullus stet in occulto ad alterius cameram, ejus 
 secreta dicta sive facta prospiciens vel auscultans, sub poena xij d., ad 
 sustentationem, etc. : et quod nullus habeat scienter clavem ad ostium 
 camerse alicujus socii sui sub poena iij s. iiij d. ad sustentationem, etc. ; 
 nee aliquem libenter audiat sociis suis detrahentem : insuper quod 
 nullus secreta dicta sive facta infra portas dictye Bedernse in dampnum 
 communitatis vel alicujus pei'sonse ejusdem externis revelabit sub poena 
 xij d., ad sustentationem, etc. 
 
 Item statuimus quod si quis molestaverit socium suum contumeliose 
 sive litigiose ipsum deridendo, vel sic dicendo, ' Tu mentiris,' vel ' Tu 
 falsum dicis,' solvat communitati xij d., ad sustentationem, etc. 
 
 Item statuimus et ordinamus quod quotienscunque et quandocunque 
 aliquis vicarius receptus vel admissus fuerit ad prsedictam Bedernam, 
 solvat communitati in implementorum sustentationem x s. et unum 
 cocliar argenteum ponderans iij s. iiij d. : ad quam quidem solutionem 
 ipsum sic admissum infra anni termiuum ab ipsius admissione compu- 
 tandum, volumus astringi et compelli. 
 
 Item statuimus et ordinamus quod totiens quotiens senescallus 
 alicujus statuti poenalis prsedicti deprehenderit transgressoi'em, quam 
 eito commode poterit, cunctis sociis, vel saltem majore parte eorundem, 
 ad aliquem locum honestum infra dictam Bedernam convocatis, arti- 
 culum hujusmodi transgi'essionis taliter delinquenti objiciat et imponat ; 
 quem super eodem articulo convictum idem senescallus moneat primo, 
 secundo, et tertio, quatenus infra xxx dies proximos tunc sequentes 
 solvat poenam culpte suae in usum communitatis convertendam, et, si 
 renuerit infra dictos xxx dies communitati satisfacere, incurrat ipse 
 renuens poenam vj s. viij d. ultra poenam culpte suje, ad sustentationem, etc. 
 
 Item statuimus quod senescallus pnedictus pro tempore existens in 
 receptione cujuslibet ad dictam Bedernam de cetero admittendi, omni- 
 bus sociis suis convocatis, praesentibus statutis in pra^sentia eorundem 
 perlectis, de quolibet sic admisso corporale juramentum exigat et recipiat 
 sub hac forma : ' Tu jurabis quod statuta ista omnia et singula modo 
 coram te perlecta, in quantum ad te pertinebunt, bona fide fideliter ob- 
 servabis ' : ad quod sic admissus, manibus suis complicatis in manus dicti 
 senescalli, respondeat : ' Fide mea media observabo ' : sub poena vj s. 
 \iij d. ad sustentationem, etc.
 
 APPENDIX. 387 
 
 Item statuimus quod si senescallus dictpe Bederiife pro tempore exis- 
 tens in. aliquo statutorum priedictorum transgressor fuerit vel delin- 
 quens, aut in executione officii sui negligens extiterit vel remissus, ex- 
 tunc liceat iconomis ejusdem Bedernae pro tempore existentibus ipsum 
 sic delinquentem, ut prsefertur, secundum tenorem statutorum prjedic- 
 torum perjurum corrigere et emendare. Insuper reservamus nobis et 
 successoribus nostris potestatem plenariam lisec nostra statuta omnia et 
 singula corrigendi et emendandi, interpretandi, seu declarandi, necnon 
 eisdem addendi, et de eisdem diminuendi, quotiens nobis et successoribus 
 nostris necessarium visum fuerit seu opportunum. 
 
 In quorum omnium et singulorum testimonium atque fidem, ad in- 
 stantiam et requisitionem prsedictorum vicariorum, has prsesentes literas 
 nostras sigillo nostro fecimus communiri. Datse Dunelm., sexto die mensis 
 Octobris, anno Domini millesimo quadringentesimo tricesimo quinto. 
 
 XV. COMPOTUS ROBERTI TyAS, PROCURATORIS EcCLESIjE parochialis 
 DE HeMYNGBURGH, A XXVl*" DIE MENSIS OCTOBRIS ANNO DOMINI MlL- 
 LESIMO CCCC^o XVIIO, USQUE DIEM JoVIS PROXIMUM ANTE FESTUM APO- 
 STOLORUM SiMONIS ET JuDiE, ANNO DoMINI MiLLESIMO CCCC™° XVIII". 
 
 \_From the Original at Durham.^ 
 
 Arreragia.''^ De receptis arreragioi'um ante tempus compoti, 
 viijs. xd. 
 
 Vendicio Mortuariorum. De vendicione diversorum mortviari- 
 orum ad diversas vices diversis hominibus ibidem infra tempus 
 compoti, ut patet per nomina eorum in quodam rotulo papiri inde 
 facto, in toto (Blank). 
 
 Oblaciones Mortuorum. De oblacionibus mortuorum per tempus 
 compoti, ut patet in eodem rotulo prsedicto, ad diversas vices, xxxiij s. 
 ixd. 
 
 Oblaciones Purificacionum. De oblacionibus Purificacionum 
 infra tempus compoti, ad diversas vices, ut patet in rotulo prjedicto, 
 xix s. iiij d. 
 
 Oblaciones Obituum. De oblacionibus Obituum consimili modo per 
 tempus compoti, ut in eodem rotulo plenius continetur, xxvj s. ij d. ob. 
 
 Oblaciones Desponsalium. De oblacionibus Desponsalium infra 
 tempus compoti, ad diversas vices, prout in eodem rotulo continetur, 
 xxvj s. j d. 
 
 Oblaciones Dierum Festivalium. De oblacionibus Dierum Festi- 
 valium per tempus compoti, ad diversas vices, ut patet in quodam 
 rotulo papiri, c s. x d. ob. 
 
 Decima Agnorum. Decima agnorum provcnientium de decima 
 diversarum villarum et oppidorum, videlicet Hemyngburgh, Hagge- 
 thorp, Brakynholme, Wodhall, South Duffeld, Bardylby, Osgodby, 
 Lund, & Clyff, per tempus compoti, ut patet in quodam rotulo papiri 
 inde facto, prout in eodem plenius continetur, Iiij s. iiij d. 
 
 Decima Lan^e. De decima lanse collecta per totam parochiam 
 ecclesise pai'ochialis de Hemyngburgh, hoc anno prgesenti, xxij petrse 
 lanee, precii petrjB ij s. j d., infra tempus compoti, ut patet in eodem 
 rotulo papiri inde facto, xlvj s. 
 
 Decima Canabi et Lini. De decima canabi et lini per tempus com- 
 poti collecta infra parochiam de H., ut patet per compotum, hj s. ij d. 
 
 '^ See p. 97. 
 
 c c 2
 
 388 THE HISTORY OF IIEMINGBKOUGH. 
 
 Decima Focalium. De decima focalium, viz. kyddes, & astilewod 
 per tempus compoti hoc anno, vit patet in eodem papiro. Summa, xv s., 
 et remanet in manu domini . 
 
 Sparres. De xxvj sparres et xvj stours, precii . Et rem. in mani- 
 
 bus Domini Roberti Babthorpe militis . 
 
 Galling de Decima. De . . gallinis receptis de decima ecclesise de 
 H. hoc anno, centena pro vj'^^ computata. Gallina ad ij d. ob., ut patet 
 in papiro inde facto, xxiij s. ix d. ob. 
 
 Decima Aucarum et Annatarum. De decima aucarum et anna- 
 tarum collecta infra parochiam de H. per tempus compoti .... 
 expend' in prsesentia domini, iij s. vij d. 
 
 Porcelli de Decima. De decima porcellorum provenientium ibi- 
 dem infra tempus compoti, ut patet in eodem rotulo papiri, xviij s. 
 viij d. 
 
 Domus Columbarum. De proficuis provenientibus de ij columbari- 
 bus existentibus infra rectoriam de H. hoc anno, ix d. 
 
 Firma Columbarum. De proficuis firmse columbarum provenientis 
 per tempus compoti, ut patet per compotum. 
 
 Decima Columbellorum. De decima columbellorum proveniente 
 infra tempus compoti, vj d. 
 
 Firma RECTORiyE Collecta. De proficuis firmse rectorise collectre 
 ibidem infra praedictum tempus, ut patet. 
 
 Decima Apum. De decima apum proveniente hoc anno, ut patet 
 per parcellas, viij d. 
 
 Perquisita Capitulorum. De perquisitis capitulorum per tempus 
 hujus compoti, ut patet per Registrum, xvij s. iij d. 
 
 DECiMiE Quadragesimales. De decimis quadragesimalibus pro- 
 venientibus de diversis villis pertinentibus dictfe rectorise de eoruni 
 decimis, ut patet in quodam longo rotulo pergameni inde facto, provit 
 in eodem plenius continetur infra compotum, xiiij li. xvj s. ij d. ob. 
 
 Redditus et FiRMiE. De diversis redditibus et firmis pertinentibus 
 prsedictse rectorife de H. ad diversas vices receptis, ut patet per com- 
 potum in quodam rotulo papiri inde facto, in toto, xxvj s. v d. 
 
 Decima Clausur^ de Torn am Hall. Decima cujusdam clausurse, 
 infra tempus compoti, apud Tornam Hall, ij s. 
 
 Vendicio Garbarum Decimalium cum Fceno. De vendicione 
 garbarum decimalium cum fceno per tempus compoti diversis hominibus 
 ad diversas vices per obligaciones sufficientes inter partes prsedictas 
 factas, prout in eisdem plenius continetur, in toto, xlix li. xij s. viij d. 
 
 Et remanent in manibus domini decima garbarum de Hemyngburgh: 
 item decima garbarum de Clyff, et decima garbarum de South Duffeld, 
 cum garbis de propriis terris et fceno memoratis (?) ibidem. 
 
 Summa totalis (Blank). 
 
 XVI. ExTRACTUM DE Antiquis Monumentis et Rentalibus Ca- 
 
 MERARI^ EcCLESIiE CatHEDRALIS DuNELM., COMPILATUM PER 
 
 Joiiannem Fysshburn, Cancellarium ejusdem, anno Domini 
 millesimo ccc tricesimo. 
 
 {Chartularium III. Pr, & Conv. Dunelm., 33.) 
 Hemyngburgh. 
 
 In primis '^ est notandum quod anno Domini millesimo octogesinio 
 sexto, anno regni regis Willelmi Conqusestoris Anglise vicesimo, idem 
 
 '8 See p. 145.
 
 APrEXDix. 889 
 
 Willelmus rex dedit per cartam suam Priori et Monachis Dunelm. 
 rnanerium suum, videlicet villam de Hemyngburgh, cum ecclesia, et 
 cum omni terra de Brakenholme et eorum pertinentiis ; quod quidem 
 manerium, sive villam, quod tunc continebat de terra arabilinisi xviij'^-^ 
 acras terrae, exceptis terris ecclesise et presbiteri, de quibus xviij^^ acris 
 terrse xij'^^v acrse terne fuerunt et adhuc sunt antiqufe bovatse de 
 antique bondagio ejusdem manerii, quas bondi Tostii et Sywardi, et 
 postea bondi ipsius Regis tenuerunt in bondagio, et reddiderunt pro 
 qualibet acra per annum ij d., et dabant marclietum pro filiabus suis 
 maritandis, et manu-operabant v^-^ acras terrte de bovatis dominicis per 
 totum annum in omnibus et per omnia, sicut dictas bovatas antiquas. 
 Sed sciendum est quod postquam dictum manerium, si\e villa, devenit 
 ad manus dictorum Prioris et Monachorum, omnia opera bondorum 
 prsedictorum cessaverunt, et dicti bondi ceperunt dictas xij-^^v acras 
 ad firmam denariorum, habendum et tenendum eas in bondagio, et 
 fines inde faciendo, ad voluntatem domini, reddendo pro qualibet acra 
 per annum viij d. velxijd., et pro recognitione operum prgedictorum 
 per annum j d. Insuper ceperunt ad firmam eodem tempore in Curia 
 Halmotorum dictas v^'-'^xv acras terrse de bovatis dominicis, haben- 
 dum et tenendum eas in antiquo dominico per virgam et rotulum 
 secundum consuetudinem manerii, reddendo pro qualibet acra per 
 annum ix d. vel xij d., et post mortem antecessorum suorum 
 faciendo relevium, scilicet dupplicando firmam suam ; et quotiens 
 contigerit aliquem tenentem de dictis terris dominicis obire sine lierede 
 de sanguine suo procreato, tunc dicta terra erit similiter ad voluntatem 
 domini in proxima Curia Halmotorum. Postea vero, processu temporis, 
 dicti Prior et Monachi appruaverunt se de vicesies viginti acris terrte 
 de vasto dominicorum pra;dictorum, quas dicti bondi similiter ceperunt 
 ad firmam denariorum, habendum et tenendum eas in antiquo dominico 
 per virgam et rotulum secundum consuetudinem manerii, reddendo pro 
 qualibet acra per annum viij d. vel ixd., exceptis iiij'^'^iij acris in 
 bosco de Hemyngburgh, pretii cujuslibet acrae per annum vj d., et 
 exceptis liij acris terrse capellse de Waise infrascriptse. Residuum 
 vei^o dictarum quadringentarum acrarum de novis frissuris jacet sparsum 
 per loca quorum nomina inferius describuntur, videlicet, in le Karr Ij 
 acrse, j rod ; item in le Hawe xl acrae et di. ; item in le Ryddyng xxv 
 acrse j rod ; item in le Parrok xxiij acras iij rod ; item in le Brend 
 xxj acrse ij rod ; item de Synder landes xviij acrae et di. ; item in le 
 Syke xvij acrae ; item in le Bestflatt xiiij acrae ; item in le Groucan- 
 x'idding xij acrae ; item in le Agnom xj acrae ; item in Novis Assartis 
 XV acrae; item in Shortebrend vj acrae iij rod ; item in Langebrend 
 j acra j rod ; item in Grant-aker j acra iij rod ; item in le Cryno-ill 
 j acra et di. ; item in Hughland j acra; item in Westmast-flatt, Wyre- 
 thorp, Morckyl-crofte, et Calve-croft, in quolibet di. acra, ij acrae. Item 
 capellanus de Waise tenet libere unum messuagium juxta le Waise, et 
 duo messuagia apud Vicumontem, et liij acras terrae de vasto domini- 
 corum per cartam Prioris et Capituli Dunelm., et reddendo per annum 
 xxxij s. vij d. ob.
 
 390 THE HISTORY OF HEMINGBROUGH. 
 
 XVII. Customs of the Manor op Hemingbrough. [From the 
 Original at Durliam.^ 
 
 Syr,'^ my Lorde, os ye knawe well y^* is ye aid custom y* evere ilk a 
 man y* schall make ony gift sail com in to the kynge's strete, or els in 
 to ye courte, & evere ilk a woman y* is covend schall com in to courte 
 & be examynd be for y'^ steward on a bok and be for v sworn men. 
 
 Ric' of Babethorpe com in to ye kynge's strete, & gaf Alyson his 
 doghter viij akar of land. 
 
 Tliomlyn of Menthorpe com in to ye kynge's strete & gaf Jelot his 
 wyf lands &l tenementes. 
 
 Henre Rudekuther com in to ye kyng's strete & gaf Dyot his wif 
 landys and tenamentes. 
 
 John Alcoke com in to ye strete, and gaf his wif landys and tene- 
 mentes. 
 
 William Cowyn com in to ye kynge's strete & gaf Sissote his wyf 
 landes & tenamentes. 
 
 Thomlin Walkar com in to ye strete & gaf his sonnys landes. 
 
 John Rase com in to ye kynge's strete & gaf his doghter landes. 
 
 William Proudefote com in to ye kinge's strete & gaf Syssot, his 
 doghter, v akar of land. 
 
 Thomlyn Bonde com in to ye kynge's strete & gaf Isabell his doghter 
 land and tenement. 
 
 Pers Pz-oudefote com in to ye gate and gaf William Elison halfe an 
 akar of lande. 
 
 Sir Thomas of Newhaw com in to ye kynge's strete, and gaf John 
 Pultar and his wif landes. 
 
 Robyn of Menthoi'pe com in to ye kynge's strete & gaf Ric' his 
 brother land & tenamentes. 
 
 Thomlyn Pulleyn com in to kynge's strete and gaf his sonnys 
 landes. 
 
 Wilkyn in ye Willous & Anas his wif com in to ye court, and gaf 
 certan land to William Hudson and William Helyson, & scho ex- 
 amynd on a boke be for ye stewarde & v sworn men y* it was w* hir 
 will & noght agaynes hir will. And also ye sam Annot Blaunchard 
 com in to ye gate & gaf certane land to Syr John Powke & Annot 
 Dykon doghter, & in als mekill os scho com noght to court, &, was 
 noght examynde on a boke, ye gifte fonde vode, and yan com Adam 
 Blaunchard & wan ye landes. 
 
 Also Annot Watkynson & hir hosband com in to court, and gaf 
 to Syr John Watkynson a parcell of hir plase to set a doufecot on, & 
 scho examynde on a boke at it was hir wyll and noght agayn hir will. 
 
 Bot now, Syr, new costom es y*^ yat a man schall gif lygand on his 
 bede, als well a bastard os another man. William Wybet, ife Alis 
 Walkare, & John Chambyrlan, & Sir John Douson & William Esyng- 
 wald gaf up ye costom and y' tenemente be ye new custom agayen ye 
 aid custom. And John Bankester gaf up his landes & his tenamentes 
 agayen ye old custom, Richard of Menthorpe gaf up his land and tena- 
 ment agayen ye aid custom. 
 
 " See p. 151.
 
 ArrEXDix. 391 
 
 XVIII. Letter from the Prior of Durham to John Neville, 
 Esq. making him Bailiff of Hemingbrough. [Beg. III. Farv. 
 87, at Durham.^ 
 
 Right wirshipfull,''* and full entierly beloved Sire, I recommende me 
 to you in my right especiell wise, thankynge you hertely of your goode 
 and gentill hertt and favour yat yhe here to kirke of Seynt Ceuthbertt, 
 our fortherance and profett, and, in especiell, to myn awen person, 
 praynge you att all tyine3 of especiell contynuance. And for so 
 mykill as it hath likett Almyghty Gode to call to His mercy Rauf 
 Babtliropp Esquyer, and our Stewarde of our Lordshipp in Hemmyng- 
 burgh and ye appurtenaunce bilonginge therto, whos saule Gode assoill, 
 I and my brethre, considerynge ye grete wisedom and discrecion yat 
 restith in your person, and ye tendre atfeccion yat yhe have to us, we 
 have condescende to have you in ye said office, if it like you, and to re- 
 save therin fee and rewarde, as dide ye said Rauf Babthropp, and Sir 
 Robert, his fadre, afortyme}, praynge and desirynge you with all my 
 hertt yat yhe will effectually and besily attende to our rightes ^nd 
 liberte3, and all other thynge5 bilonginge us in yat office. And in 
 moor especiell we pray you yat yhe will nott excede, ne charge us in 
 moor cost and expense of your said office, bycause of nowmbre of men 
 with you, and for commynge to your courtis, bod yat yhe will be easy 
 therin, as othre men hath been afortymej, for all ye reveneuse of yat 
 lordshipp bilongeth oonly to my brethre and thair necessaryes in ye 
 Chaumbreleyn office, ye whilke may nott here no grete charge in cost 
 and expense, over ye dewty necessarye in yat behalve. And all thies it 
 please you to considre hertely and effectually, as my full trust and con- 
 fidence is in you. And our Lorde Jhu preserve you fro all adversitee, 
 and giffe you mykill wij'shipp and herti's ease, lange to endur. Writen 
 at Durham, xxv day of Septembre [1455]. 
 
 Suhscripcio. — Your awen trewe freunde, W. priour of Durham. 
 
 Superscripcio. — To ye right wirshipfull and full entierly beloved 
 sire, John Nevile esquyer. 
 
 XIX. A Letter op Fraternity from the Prior & Convent op 
 Durham to Sir Robert Babthorpe, Knt. iBeg. Magn. Dunelm. 
 V. ^,fol. 156.] 
 
 Johannes,!^ permissions Divina Prior ecclesise cathedralis Dunelm., et 
 ejusdem loci Capitulum, dilecto nobis in Christo Domino Roberto 
 Babbethorp militi^ salutem et gaudia consequi sempiterna. Atten- 
 dentes vestrse devotionis et sinceritatis affectionem, quas ad gloriosis- 
 simum Confessorem, Sanctum Cuthbertum, patronum nostrum, 
 et monasterium nostrum Dunelmense hactenus habuistis et habetis, 
 merito nos excitant et inducunt ut vobis gratitudinis vicissitudi- 
 nem spiritualiter rependamus. Yobis igitur, quantum in nobis est, 
 et Altissimo placuerit, omnium Missarum, Yigiliarum, jejuniorum, 
 orationum, prsedicationum, csetei^orumque Divinorum officiorum, ac 
 operum pietatis, quse per nos et successores nostros, tam in monasterio 
 nostro Dunelmensi, quam in cellis et locis ab eodem dependentibus fiunt 
 aut fient imperpetuum. Domino largiente, participationem concedimus 
 specialem. In cujus rei testimonium, sigillum commune capituli nostri 
 
 "* See p. 152. i^ ggg p. 175.
 
 392 THE HISTORY OF HEMINGBROUGII. 
 
 prsesentibus est appensum. Datura Dunelmise, in domo nostra capitulari, 
 octavo die mensis Aprilis, anno Domini millesimo quadringentesimo 
 tricesimo quarto. 
 
 XX. Letter from Sir Robert Babthorpe to the Prior of 
 
 Durham. \^From the Original at Durham.^ 
 
 Unto my ryght wirschipfull and reverent fadur in God, the Priour of 
 Durham. 
 
 Right ^^ wirschipfull Sir and Fader, I recomaunde me unto yow as 
 hertely as I can ; praying yow that 56 wole vouchesaf to remembre 
 50U how I stande 30ur officer and stywarde at Hemyngburgh and at 
 Hondeslowe ; and how that I have labored for yow in savyng of jour 
 ryght and Sent Cutbert franches ; and how that I have possessed 50U 
 of felones' goodes there wher as je had none to fore, and w* gret 
 labour and cost put awey the kyngge's officers ther fro, that they 
 myglit have no intrest yere, wilk wole be gret fortheryng uiito you, 
 and to your hous, and to Seint Cutbert franchise in tyme comyng, 
 with all oder profete"^ and service that I have don for yow at Hondes- 
 lowe, and in oder placej also, and jit wole do at my power ; that je 
 wole vouchesaf for my prayer at this tyme to graunt me at this tyme 
 the next avoidaunce of the kirke of Estrington for a preest of myn, 
 wilk I wole undertake, for he is an honeste priest, and an abull, and 
 that je wole vouchesaff to gif feith and credence un to my well be- 
 loved servaunt, William Laton, brynger of this lettre, of this matere, and 
 of all oder materes that he schall sey & enforme 50U of be mouthe ; and 
 that je wole sende me answere ageyn be the bryngere of this lettre, as I 
 trist uppon 50U, and as I may do 50U service in tyme comyng. No 
 more atte this tyme, but the Blessed Trinite have 50U in his kepyng. 
 Wreten at Babthorp, the xvij day ofJanuare 
 
 By S'" Robert Babthorp, Knyght. 
 
 XXI. Letter from Sir Robert Babthorpe to the Prior & Con- 
 vent OF Durham. [From the Original at Durham, Loc. 25, 
 No. 27.] 
 
 To my sufFerante lorde Prior off Durrame. 
 Most reverent '^^ and sufferende Syr, I comaunde me to 50W os a 
 servande till hys lord, lattyng 50W wit y* ya fyfte vicary in jo'' colleg 
 kyrke of Hemmyngburgh es wacone, and has bene sene Sante Edmunde 
 day Kyng last paste, for Syr John Roklyff, y* vas wycar of y*^ forsaid 
 wycary, is institute & inducte in a chantery in Hull : Qvvar for, I besek 
 JO*" worthy lordschype, y* 50 wald resave y* to a tenande sonn off 50'' 
 aune, ye brodyr of ye bryngger of yis letter, for, os I ame informyde 
 be ye vicars of yat plas, he is an abill man y''to in governans, and in 
 cunnyng, and specyally be Syr John Roclyff sayng to me yt he is a 
 fair voside man for a tribull, and kan syng suffisandly for any quer ; 
 and, y"" for, yf it lyke 50 w of 50'" lordschype to prefer 50'' tenand son, 
 and a gude mane of ye parys, it wold cause yam to be well wylly to 
 ye kyrke, for yat war greet my sty r. No more at this tym, bote Gode 
 hafe 50W in kepyng, body and saule. Wyrtyn at Hemmyngburgh, of ye 
 morne efter Sante Edmunde day for sayde. 
 
 Be JO"" servande, 
 
 Robard Babthorpe. 
 
 2° See pp. 174-5. "' See pp. 174-5.
 
 APPENDIX. 393 
 
 XXII. Letter from Sir Robert Babthorpe to the Prior op 
 Durham. [From the Original at Durham, Loc. 25, No. 28.] 
 To my reght worschipftull Ser, & Fader, Prior of Dorem. 
 
 Right Worschippfull Sir,'" & Fader, I recomaunde me to 50W alls 
 hertle as I kan : And for alls moche as Ser John Cone,^^ ye vicar of 
 Etrington, is dedde, and passyd unto Gode, of wos sowlle God hawe 
 mercy, I pray 50W remembre 30W y* for my serwice yt I hawe don 50W 
 and allwhay schall do, yt ye grauntitt me ye next avoidaunce of ye 
 same vicare ; wherffor I send to 30W Ser Richard Whitlaf, my preest, 
 ye brenger of this letter, praing 50U yt ye grauntes hym ye presentacion 
 of ye same vicare, for I wolle undertak for hym yt ye schall fynde 
 hym a honest preest and certenne and abuU. I writte no more to 50W 
 at this tyme, so I tak 50W to ye Holy Trinite. Wretin at Babthorp, 
 ye xxij day of Jun, Be 5o>- frende and servaunt, 
 
 S»" Robert Babthorp knyght. 
 
 (Seal — two intertwined crescents, and Babthorp over them.) 
 
 XXIII. LiTERA MissA Radulpho Babthropp,^^ Armigero. 
 [Beg. III. Farv. Fr. and Conv. Dunelm. 69. b.] 
 
 Right wirshipfull and entierly beloved Sire, I recommende me to you 
 full hertly, thankynge you of your goode hertt and affeccion, yat yhe bere 
 unto our Monastery and ye righte5 of Seynt Cuthbert in Houedenshir, 
 praynge you of your tendre and effectuell contynuance. And for- 
 somykill as I have certeyn knawledge yat our bailya of our lyveloode 
 in Hemmyngburgh, belongynge to our chaumbreleyn of Durham, is late 
 decessett and passed to Gode, and also be enfourmed yat oon fyssh- 
 garth, pertenynge to ye said officer, is at yis tyme void of take, without 
 fermour and covnande of any man, therfor I, with y'assent of my 
 brethre, purpose to ordeyn oon bailya in yat cuntre, and, also, to sett 
 to ferme ye said fysshegarth to gretter price than it was afor, for 
 yencresse and wele of our chaumbreleyn office, ye whilke in thies days 
 hath grete neadd of helpp and new releve : Wherin I pray you, as my 
 trust is in you, yat yhe tendre ye welfare of our monastery, and no 
 thynge doo in ye contrarye of yis our purpose and entennt above 
 rehersett, bod raither put your goode favour and support herine unto 
 ye tyme yat yhe and I sail have synguler communicacion in all thies 
 and othre matiers. And, as towchynge William Goldesburgh, our 
 resavour, I am enfourmed he is nott so necessary and profitable in his 
 office as nead wer to ye said officer, no more than was our laste bailya 
 in his office, therfor how he sail rewle hym therine, or ellis vtterly dis- 
 charge hym, I sail take deliberacion and advyce with my brethre and 
 my lerned counsell for ye ordynaunce and good direccion of yat officer, 
 and all officers in yat cuntre, as I sail truste moste profitable to us^ 
 with ye grace of our Lorde Jhu, Who have you in His gracieux kepynge 
 evermore, and gifie you mykill wirshipp with hertis' ease for His mercy. 
 Writen att Durham, ye laste day of August. [1454.] 
 
 William Priour of Durham. 
 
 SujJerscripcio.—To ye right wirshipfull and entierly beloved sire, 
 Rauf Babthropp, esquyer. 
 
 ^•^ See pp. 174-5. same year ; and on 17 Nov., 1436, Dom. 
 
 25 28 Jan., 1410, Dom. John Conne John Harington app. 
 app. to Eastrington ; d. 1436. 29 June, -* See p. 178. 
 
 1436, Dom. Eich. Whitelaff app. and res.
 
 sot THE HISTORY OF HEMINGBROUGH. 
 
 XXIV. LiTERA Radulpho Babthropp,^^ Armigero, directa. 
 [^Reg. III. Parv. Pr. and Conv. Dunelm. 70. b.] 
 
 Right wirshipfull and full entierly beloved Sire, I recommende me 
 to you. And forsomykill as your worshipfull fadre and yhe have been 
 afortyme5 especiell supportoui'es and tendre defendoures of our spirituell 
 jurisdiccion and privilegee5, and also of our fraunchesse5, in temporall 
 governaunce and lyvelood, within Hovedenshir, and hath been, and is, 
 towarde us in office of stewardshipp in yat cuntree, I pray you of your 
 goode and efFectuell contynuance. How be it I am credibly enfourmed 
 yat now late Robert, your son, Girarde Salvan, with othi'e personne5 
 of thair adherence, assemblett in grete nowmbre, lettid and resisted, 
 supportynge ye provost of ye kii-ke of Hemmyngburgh unlawfully and 
 ageyn ye iil3ertee3 of Seynt Cuthbert, my welbeloved freunde, maistre 
 John Marcliall, to doo execucion of our said libertee3 in ye said college 
 kirke of Hemmyngburgh, for whoos ereccion to ye said entennt your 
 wirshipfull fadre liadd synguler aflfeccion, and putt therto his effectuell 
 counsell and laboui*. Wherfor I pray you yat yhe see for a remedy 
 in this behalve, yat, like as I suppose yis offence was doon without your 
 will, commaundment, and knawlege, plese it you in goodly haste to 
 charge thaym yat belongeth you to oversytt, and raither to encrese 
 and support our said righte3, both spirituell and temporell, in your 
 absence, as I sail have cause to thanke you herafter. Of all thies 
 premisse3, and of myn entennt concernyng our temporall lyvelood in 
 Hovedenshir late sennt to you by writyng, I pray you certifye me by 
 writynge your will and purpose in this behalve in goodly haste. And 
 our Lorde Jhu pi^eserve you evere fro all adversitee3. Att Durham, 
 V day of Novembre. [1454.] 
 
 XXV. Grant by Alan Wastehose of Land in South Duffield. 
 \^From the Original at Durham.] 
 
 Alanus Wastehose ^^ omnibus videntibus et audientibus has literas 
 salutem. Sciatis me concessisse et hac mea karta confirmasse Deo, et 
 ecclesise Sanctse Mariee de Hemmigeb*", et illis qui ecclesiam illam in 
 perpetuum sint habituri, in puram et perpetuam elemosinam, tres 
 bovatas terrse in Duffeld, cum domibus et toftis et aliis quae ad easdera 
 bovatas pertinent, scilicet duas quas Rogerus de Wandestree, avus 
 Willelmi Esweillechen, et Mabilia filia ejusdem Rogeri, mater prtedicti 
 Willelmi, et ipse Willelmus eidem ecclesise dederunt et concesserunt, 
 pro salute animarum suarum et antecessorum suorum et successorum ; 
 et tertiam quse fuit Rannulfi Burime, quam ego ipse, postquam 
 medietatem prsedictne villje adeptus sum, prsefatte ecclesiie dedi et 
 concessi, et karta mea confirmavi, et eam super altare de Hemmigb"" 
 manibus propriis, videntibus parrochianis, obtuli. Quare volo quod 
 antedicta ecclesia, et illi qui eam imperpetuum sunt habituri, habeant 
 et possideant, in puram et perpetuam elemosinam, illas tres bovatas 
 terrsg, cum omnibus qufe ad eas pertinent, liberas et quietas ab omni 
 consuetudine, et opere, et servicio, tam forinseco quam alio, sicut aliqui 
 ecclesise vel ecclesiarum personje liberius et quietius aliquam elemosinam 
 tenent. Hiis testibus, Walderigo, et Rogero, et Absalone capellanis, 
 Jordano de Hameld', Willelmo filio Renn', Jordano et Rogero filiis 
 
 " See p. 178. -<' See p. 214.
 
 APPENDIX. 395 
 
 ejus, Willelino de Rednes, Rogero Pulein forestario, alio Rogero 
 forestario, Waltero clerico de Augotebi, Roberto nepote Magistri 
 Ricardi de Cold', Rogero et Huttingo, servientibus ejus, et aliis multis. 
 
 XXVI. Confirmation by Wm. Esuillechen of Grant of Land in 
 South Duffield. [From the Original at Durham.] 
 Willelmus Esueillechen-^ omnibus videntibus et audientibus has 
 literas salutem. Sciatis me concessisse et hac mea karta confirmas.se 
 Deo, et ecclesifB Sanctaj Marias de Hemingburc, et illis qui ecclesiam 
 illam in perpetuum sint habituri, in puram et perpetuam elemosynam, 
 tres bovatas terrse in Duffeld cum toftis et domibus, et aliis qua? ad 
 easdem bovatas pertinent, scilicet duas quas Rogerus de Wandestree 
 avus meus et Mabilia, mater mea, filia ejus, qute ei jure hereditario 
 successit, eidem ecclesiaj dederunt et concesserunt, pro salute animaruru 
 suarum et antecessorum suorum et successorum, et tertiam qufe fuit 
 Ranulfi Burime, quam Alanus Wastehose, qui medietatem prtedictie 
 villse de me tenet, prsedictas Ecclesije dedit et concessit. Quare volo 
 quod prasnominata ecclesia, et illi qui eam in perpetuum sunt habituri, 
 habeant et possideant, in puram et perpetuam elemosinam, illas tres 
 bovatas terrse, cum omnibus qu£e ad eas pertinent, liberas et quietas ab 
 omni consuetudine, et opere, et servicio, tam forinseco quam alio, sicut 
 aliqui ecclesise vel ecclesiarum personse liberius et quietius aliquam 
 elemosynam tenent. Hiis testibus, Magistro Ricardo de Coldingham, 
 Walderigo et Rogero et Absalone capellanis, Willelmo filii Renn', 
 Jordano et Rogero filiis ejus, Jordano de Hameld', Willelmo de 
 Rednesse, Rogero Forestario, Waltero clerico de Ausgotebi, Roberto 
 nepote Magistri Ricardi de Coldingham, Huttingo servients 4] us, et 
 multis aliis. 
 
 XXVII. The Will of Henry de Cliffe. []ieff. Test. Dec. et Capit. 
 
 Ehor. i. 13.] 
 In Dei nomine. Amen. Ego, Henricus de ClyfF,^^ clericus, sanus per 
 Dei gratiam mente et sensu, volens inevitabile conditionis humana? 
 debitum prsevenire, bonorum et rerum mearum condo testamentum in 
 hunc modum. In primis commendo animam meam misericordise Dei 
 et Salvatoris Jhesu Christi ; et volo quod corpus meum sepeliatur in 
 Prioratu de Drax, si infra diocesin Ebor. decedere me contingat. Item 
 lego pro expensis funeralibus xl li., et, si opus fuerit, volo quod per dis- 
 positionem executorum meorum dictise expense augeantur ; et, in dis- 
 tributione pauperum, xl marcas. Item lego Fratribus Priedicatoribus 
 de Ebor. xl s. Item Fratribus Minoribus ibidem xl s. Fratribus B. M. 
 de Monte Carmeli xl s. ; et Fratribus S. Augustini ibidem xl s. Item 
 Fratribus de eisdem ordinibus, London, commorantibus, videlicet cuilibet 
 ordini, xls. Item lego Johanni de Clyff, fratri meo, xx marcas, unam 
 cupam, et unum ciphum argenteos, et centum bidentes, et quatuor boves 
 de instauro apud Haplesthorp ; ita tamen quod si contingat nullum 
 hujusmodi instaurum ibidem esse tempore quo decessero, volo quod 
 idem Johannes nichil de hujusmodi instauro exigere possit virtute 
 legati pnedicti, nee executores mei quidquam ei pro eodem instauro 
 solvere teneantur. Item Emmse, uxori ejus, xl s., unum ciphum argen- 
 teum, et unam zonam. Item Isabella?, filiae praedictorum Johannis et 
 
 2' See p. 214. m gge pp. 257-9.
 
 o96 THE HISTORY OF HEMINGBROUGH. 
 
 Emmse, pro maritagio suo, xx li. Item Willelmo, Ricardo, Johanni, 
 Roberto, Nicholao, Waltero, et Jacobo, filiis prsedicti Johannis de Clytf, 
 Ixx marcas, videlicet cuilibet eorum x marcas ; et volo quod dicta 
 pecunia tradatur juxta dispositionem executorum meorum aliquibus 
 probis hominibus custodienda ad opus eorumdem puerorum, quousque 
 ad talem a^tatem pervenerint, quod seipsos regere sciant et gubernare. 
 Item lego Willelmo Fassard, et Amicise uxori ejus, xx marcas ; ita 
 quod restituant scriptum quod de me habent per quod eis concessi decern 
 libras ratione testamenti, seu ultimte voluntatis mese. Item lego 
 Isabellse, sorori mese, viginti marcas, ita quod restituat scriptum quod 
 de me habet per quod ei concessi decem libras, ratione testamenti, seu 
 ultimse voluntatis mese. Item lego Radulfo de Ha . . . ham et Isabellse, 
 uxori ejus, quinque marcas, et unam cupam argenteam, ultra illas decem 
 marcas quas aliter solvi eis (ratione) voluntatis mese. Item lego Julianre, 
 filise Amicise sororis meae, quinque marcas, et unum ciphum argenteum, 
 ultra illas decem marcas quas aliter solvi sibi nomine ultimse voluntatis 
 mese. Item lego Cecilise, sorori mese, decem marcas, et unam robam. 
 Item lego Matildas, filiee Henrici de Seslieford, in auxilium maritagii 
 sui, decem marcas. Item lego Priorissfe et monialibus de Brasted decem 
 marcas. Item lego Alicise de Clyff, moniali ejusdem domus, decem 
 marcas. Item Priorissse et monialibus de Halywell Ix s. Item 
 Priorissse et monialibus de Clerkynwell xl s. Item monialibus Minorissis 
 extra Algat xl s. Item lego Domino Johanni de Sancto Paulo unam 
 cupam et unum aquarium deaurat', unum equum, et unam zonam cum 
 uno pautenario. Item lego domino Johanni de Tyddeswell decem libras, 
 unam cupam deauratam, et Ixxx bidentes de instauro de Welton, et 
 unum equum. Item lego Roberto de Balen x li., unam cupam deaura- 
 tam, Ixxx bidentes, et unum equum. Item lego domino Nicholao de 
 Fontibus x marcas, unam cupam de argento, et equum quern equitat. 
 Item Johanni de Balen unam cupam deauratam, unum ciphum argen- 
 teum, unam zonam, et unam bursam. Item domino Willelmo de 
 Brauncewell unam cupam, et unum ciphum argenteos. Item lego 
 Edmundo de Bubv^^yth, clerico, quinque marcas. Item Thomee de Clyff, 
 clerico, quinque marcas. Item Johanni Waleys et Alici?e, uxoii ejus, 
 unam cupam deauratam, et unum ciphum argenteum. Item lego Roberto 
 de Hacktorp viginti marcas ; et volo quod liberentur dominis Johanni 
 de Sancto Paulo et Johanni de Tyddeswell, custodiendfe ad opus prse- 
 dicti Roberti. Item Henrico filio Johannis de Clyff, cui assignavi 
 manerium meum de Foxgrove, ac alia terras et tenementa mea in Bek- 
 enham, habenda post moi'tem meam, centum bidentes de instauro 
 ejusdem raanerii, decem et octo boves, sex vaccas, et sex affros, si ibidem 
 inveniantur tempore mortis mese, vel pretium eorundem si non in- 
 veniantur : item semen yemale quod seminatum est in terris ibidem, 
 et decem marcas pro necessariis suis ibidem providendis : item carectas, 
 carucas, et alia utensilia domus ibidem tempore mortis meae existentia. 
 Item Waltero de Kirkeby centum solidos. Item Petro de Clyff centum 
 solidos. Item Johanni de Lund centum solidos. Item Eustachio 
 Morton decem marcas. Item lego Ricardo Lellen de Hemyngburgh 
 decem libras, et unam de robis meis. Item Roberto le Baker quad- 
 raginta solidos. Item Willelmo Mortayne viginti solidos. Item Rogero 
 de Staflbrd triginta solidos. Item lego Willelmo de Clyff, garcioni, 
 quadraginta solidos. Item Nicholl le palefrayman quadraginta solidos. 
 Item Roberto de Brakenholme triginta solidos. Item Jacobo, garcioni.
 
 APPENDIX. 397 
 
 triginta solidos. Item Tliomfe de Bain trigiuta solidos. Item Johanni 
 de Hampton, garcioni, quadraginta solidos. Item Willelmo Swayne, 
 garcioni, viginti solidos. Item Peti'o de ClyfF, garcioni, viginti solidos. 
 Item Thomfe atte grene viginti solidos. Item Willelmo de Waltham 
 unam marcam. Item Johanni Heretes decern solidos. Item Nicholao 
 Pykard decern solidos. Item Johanni Coggeres decem solidos. Item 
 Willelmo Masch decem solidos. Item Thomaj pajetto de stabula dimi- 
 diam marcam. Item Radulpho pajetto de camera unam marcam. Item 
 lego ad distribuendum inter pauperes parochianos de Haplesthorp sexa- 
 ginta solidos. Item inter pauperes parochianos apud Wichton quad- 
 raginta solidos. Item inter pauperes pai-ochianos de Alebury centum 
 solidos. Item lego fabricse ecclesise Beatpe Marise Sarum decem marcas. 
 Item fabricse ecclesiae Beatte Marine Lincoln decem marcas. Item 
 fabricse ecclesife Sanctae Trinitatis Cicestr' decem marcas. Item volo 
 quod centum solidi, quos dominus Adam de Osgodby, cujus testamenti 
 sum executor, legavit in subsidium Terras Sanctse, in idem subsidium 
 solvantur. Item lego Adse de ClyfF quadraginta solidos. Item Lucse 
 de Hemyngburgh quadraginta solidos. Item Johanni de Haplesthorp, 
 clerico, quadraginta solidos. Item Adse Youn quadraginta solidos. 
 Item Nicholao Mitford quadraginta solidos. Item lego Priori et Con- 
 ventui de Drax, pro sepultura mea, decem solidos ; et volo quod una 
 perpetua cantaria de residuo bonorum meorum ibidem pro anima mea 
 ordinetur juxta dispositionem executorum meorum (nisi) per me dum 
 .... fuerit ordinata. Ad hujus autem testamenti mei executionem 
 faciendum ordino et constituo executores meos, conjunctim et divisim, 
 Dominum Johannem de Sancto Paulo, Dominum Johannem de Tyddes- 
 well, Dominum Nicholaum de Fontibus, et Dominum Willelmum de 
 Brauncewell, clericos. 
 
 XXVIII. An Ordination List, as held at Turnham Hall by 
 William, Bishop of Pharos. [Beg. Scrojye, adjinem.] 
 
 Ordines ^^ celebrati in Sabbato Sancto Paschse, viz. vicesimo nono die 
 mensis Martii, anno Domini millesimo ccc™° nonagesimo nono, in ca- 
 pella infra manerium de Turnam-hall, per venerabilem fratrem, Dominum 
 Willelmum Dei gratia Pharensem Episcopum, vice et auctoritate rever- 
 endissimi patris, Domini Ricardi Ebor. archiepiscopi, etc., et transla- 
 tionis dicti reverendissimi patris anno secundo. 
 
 Diaco7ii, 
 Thomas de Neuton, Dunolm. dioc, ad titulum hospitalis de Shirburn, 
 
 ejusdem dioc, per literas dimissorias. 
 Willelmus de Midelton, ad titulum hospitalis de Gretham. 
 Johannes de Bolton, ad titulum hospitalis Beatee Marise in Bouthom. 
 
 Fresbiteri. 
 Radulphus Qwhytfeld, Dunolm. dioc, ad titulum domus de Hextildes- 
 
 ham, per literas dimissorias. 
 Johannes Hawardyn, Lich' dioc, ad titulum domus Sancti Thomte 
 
 juxta Stafford, per literas dimissorias. 
 Johannes Stillyngdet, ad titulum domus monialium Sancti Clementis 
 
 juxta Ebor. 
 Willelmus de Thurstanton, ad titulum vicarife de Estryngton. 
 
 -" See p. 268.
 
 398 THE HISTORY OF HEMINGBROUGH. 
 
 XXIX. The Will of Thomas Lord Ros of Hamelake. [Beg. Buck- 
 
 ingham^ at Lincoln, 282.] 
 
 In Dei nomine Amen. Nous, Thomas de Roos ^^ de Hamelak, primer- 
 ment devysoms nostre alme a nostre S''*^ Dieu5, et al nostra Dame Seynte 
 Marie, et nostre corps pur estre enterre en I'esglisse de nostre aLbay de 
 Ryvalx. Et nous devisoms pur nostre principal com seynte esglise le 
 voet & salut5 nostre estate. Et auxint voilloms qe nostre corps eit 
 enterre pur resonable expenss, et cee par I'avys de nostre tres ame com- 
 panye no^ alte counseyls. Et auxint devisoms no5 biens pur estre paies 
 en playne gree, &l payment de toutj no** detj, & restitucion par resonable 
 discrecion. Et auxint devisoms quarant livers d'argent pur estre des- 
 tributj a le5 religiou5 dej Frerej, et auxint devisoms vint livers 
 d'argent pur estre destribut parentre no^ povre tenant5 de no5 vill5 que 
 sont les plu5 unsoymonses. Et assint nous devisoms cent livers d'argent 
 a cynq chapellayns pur estre chauntant en I'esglisse de Helmeslay pur 
 cynk ans pur nostre alme, & les almes de no' auncestres, & pur tanj y 
 ceux de queux novis avons con acunes biens torcevousement. Et le 
 residu de nous dit5 biens, si nulle y soit, nous volloms quel soit mys cy 
 ayde de Willyam & Thomas, nostre deux enfaunt5. Et pour ceste 
 nostre testament et volunte a perfourmer, nos enfaceons nos executour5 
 nostre tres ame compaygne Mons'" Johan de JS^evyll S'' de Raby, Sir 
 Robert de Tynton persone del esglisse de Uffington, & S'" William de 
 Benyngholm person de esglisse de Kyrkeby Misperton. En tesm' de 
 quele chose a cest lettre de testament nous avoms mys nostre sayl. 
 Don a nostre manour de Turnam Hall, le dymeny prochein devant la 
 fest de la Purificacion de nostre Dame, I'an du incarnacion nostre S"^" 
 Dieux, mille ccc septance trei3. 
 
 [Proved at Lincoln 19 Aug. 1384, & adm. granted to the relict of the 
 testator, & Wm. de Benyngholm, rector of Kirkby Misperton.] 
 
 XXX. The Will of John Lord Ros of Hamelak. [Reg. Bucking- 
 
 ham, at Lincoln, 407.] 
 
 ^' In Dei nomine. Amen. Vicesimo quarto die Januarii, anno Domini 
 millesimo 000"^° nonogesimo secundo, Ego Johannes de Roos, Dominus 
 de Hamelak, miles, sanus corpore, & compos mentis, condo testamentum 
 meum in hunc modum. In primis lego animam meam Deo, & Beatse 
 Marise Virgini, & Omnibus Sanctis ; & corpus meum ad sepeliendum in 
 choro ecclesife Beatje Maria? in Monasterio Rivallise, ex adverso sepulcri 
 Sancti Alredi. Item lego in distribucione facienda pauperibus die se- 
 pulturee mese xx''. Item lego ecclesise parochial! de Helmesley unum 
 A'iride vestimentum integrum, viz. unum casuale cum paruris, albis, 
 ainitis, stolis (fe phanonis de panno aureo rubio ornato cum capitibus 
 Sai-azenis. Item lego ecclesite de Estiryngton unum casuale cum 
 paruris, albys, amitis, stolis, phanonis, cum paruris de velwet nigro 
 bipertito cum panno rubio ad aurum. Item lego Domino Ricardo de 
 Carton Portiferium meum majus novum de usu Sarum. Item lego 
 vetus Portiferium meum Domino Johanni de Aymunderbury. Item 
 lego Domino Petro de Watford Missale meum vetus. Item lego mo- 
 nialibus de Keldholm unum frontell et subfrontell de blodio & albo, 
 raiatis cum vouse5 in extremitatibus, & unum vestimentum, pretii xl'^. 
 
 3» See pp. 273-4. ^i ggg p^gg 273.
 
 APPENDIX. 399 
 
 Item moiiialibus cle Basedale xl^. Item cuilibet domui alii monialium 
 infra bundas et metas de Blakehamore xl^. Item lego Mariae uxori 
 meie duas pelves argenteas cum pavonlbus in fundo, cum duabus aquariis 
 planis cum vivrons, duas amphoi'as argenteas potellers, ij chargeours, 
 xij discos argenteos, vj salsaria argentea, unum lectum de blodio serico 
 cum tapeto, & toto apparatu ad unam cameram. Item lego eidera 
 Marise, uxori mea3, unum lectum de serico rubeo cum eglis brawdatis in 
 medio coverlet, &, tapet' cum costerio &, test' dicto lecto pertinentibus, &, 
 omnes margaritas meas quoe in operibus aliquibus non infiguntur. Item 
 lego AVjbati Rivallise xx^, & cuilibet monacho suo, presbitero ejusdem 
 domus, vj^ viij"^, et cuilibet juveni monacho ibidem, non infra ordinem 
 presbiteralem, iij^ iiij'^- Item lego Dominie Elizabeth' Arondell, amitaa 
 mese, moniali de Haliwell, c^. Item Priorissse & omnibus aliis moniali- 
 bus ejusdem domus, inter se, v marcas. Item Dominse Beatrici, matri 
 me?e, ciphum meum vocatum le Roos. Item eidem Dominae matri mete 
 unum parvum ewer deauratum. Item lego Agneti anachoritse de Hel- 
 mesley xx*. Item anachoritae de Biland xx^. Item anachoritas de Bever- 
 laico, commoranti in domo Sanctee Julianse, xx^. Item Johanni heremitjie 
 de Harum x^. Item cuilibet iiij""" armigerorum euntium et commorantium 
 mecum in isto viagio, exceptis a me non licenciatis, redeundo, x marcas, 
 & cuilibet iiij"'' valettorum euntium & commorantium mecum in prsedicto 
 viagio, exceptis a me non licentiatis, redeundo, v marcas ; & cuilibet 
 gai'cioni eodem modo duorum garcionum, xl*. Item sorori mese, Do- 
 minae de Clifford, unum ciphum deauratum cum cooperculo ejusdem. 
 Item cuilibet executori meo, ministranti in testamento meo, x marcas. 
 Item Priori de Belvero xvj* viij*^. Item cuilibet monacho suo illius 
 domus x^. Item Priori de Newsted juxta Stamford xiij^ iiij*^. Item 
 cuilibet canonico suo illius domus vj* viij'^. Item lego Willelmo .de 
 Roudon, personse ecclesiaj de Warsop, Legendam meam maguam vete- 
 riorem apud Helmesley. Item lego Roberto de Thorneburgh x marcas. 
 Item Ricardo de Schropschire x marcas, et Willelmo Dymmok, came- 
 rario meo, x marcas. Item lego Willelmo Goldhird v marcas. Item 
 ad exhibicionem quinque presbiterorum celebrantium in ecclesia de 
 Uffyngton pro anima mea, ac pro omnibus Christianis, per spacium 
 duorum vel trium annorum post decessum meum, prout videretur exe- 
 cutoribus meis melius ordinare et expedire. Hujus testamenti mei 
 executores ordino &, constituo Ricardum de Schropschire, Dominum 
 Robertum de Tyneton personam ecclesiae de Uffyngton, Ricardum de 
 Garton personam ecclesise de Gouteby, et Willehnum de Roudon per- 
 sonam ecclesise de Warsop, et supervisores hujus testamenti, si placeret 
 venerabili & reverendissimo domino, Thomae Ebor. Archiepiscopo, 
 Domino Henrico de Percy comiti Northumbriae, Radulpho de Nevyll 
 domino de Raby, et Ricardo Lescrope militi. Et de residuis bonorum 
 meorum volo quod dicti executores mei ordinent et disponant pro 
 anima mea et pro animabus patris, matris, & uxoris, ac omnium pro- 
 genitorum meorum, & pro omnibus Christianis, vivis et defunctis, prout 
 eis melius videbitur ordinare, et prout inde coi"am Summo Judice re- 
 spondere voluerint. 
 
 [Proved before the Bp. of Lincoln at the Old Temple, London, 25 
 Feb., 1393, by Richard de Schropschire and Wm. de Roudon.]
 
 400 THE HISTORY OF HEMIXGBEOUGH. 
 
 XXXI. Licence for Service in the Chapel at Turnham Hall. 
 
 \Reg. Sede Vacante at York, 2036.] 
 
 Capitulum ecclesi^e Beati Petri Ebor., decano ejusdem in remotis 
 agente, ac sede archiepiscopali vacante, dilectse nobis in Christo Dominse 
 Beatrici Dominfe de Roos salutem in Domino sempiternam. Ut in 
 capella, sen oratorio honesto, in manerio vestro de le Tornom Hall 
 situata, Missas, et alia Divina officia per capellanum sen capellanos 
 ydoneum seu ydoneos celebrari facere licite valeatis ; et ut ipsi capellani 
 possint in dicta capella, seu oratorio, libere celebrare, dum tamen 
 ecclesise parochiali loci illius prtejudicium aliquod ea occasione nulla- 
 tenus generetur, in vestra absencia seu prajsencia, licenciam vobis et 
 capellanis hujusmodi tenore prjiesentium concedimus specialem, prsesen- 
 tibus per totura teixiporis vacationis supradictse tantummodo duraturis. 
 Data Ebor., xxj° die mensis Januarii, anno Domini millesimo ccc™^ 
 nonagesimo sexto.^^ 
 
 XXXII. Grant of a Market & Fair etc. at Osgodby from 
 
 Edward I. to Robert de Osgodby. 
 
 Rex 3^ archiepiscopis, etc., salutem. Sciatis nos, pro bono servicio quod 
 Mattheus de Osgodby nobis hactenus impendit, concessisse, et hac 
 carta mea confirmasse Roberto de Osgodby, patri pra;dicti Matthei, 
 quod ipse et heredes sui imperpetuum habeant unum mercatum singulis 
 septimanis per diem Mercurii apud manerium suum de Osgodby in 
 comitatu Ebor., et unam fei'iam ibidem singulis annis per tres dies 
 duraturam, videlicet in vigilia, et in die, et in crastino Nativitatis 
 Beatfe Marine Virginis, nisi mercatum illud et feria ilia sint ad nocu- 
 mentum vicinorum mercatorum et vicinarum feriarum ; et quod habeat 
 liberam warrennam in omnibus dominicis terris suis manerii pr^edicti, 
 dum tamen etc. ita etc. Quare volumus nunc quod pi^sedictus Robertus 
 et heredes sui imperpetuum habeant pmedicta mercatum et feriam apud 
 manerium suum prasdictum, cum omnibus libertatibus et liberis con- 
 suetudinibus ad hujusmodi mercatum et feriam pei'tinentibus, nisi 
 mercatum illud, etc. ; et quod habeant liberam warennam in omnibus 
 dominicis terris suis prfedictis, dum tamen etc., ita, etc., super forisfac- 
 turam nostram decern librarum, sicut prtedictum est. Hiis testibus 
 Johanne de Warenna comite Surr', Adomaro de Valencia, Johanne de 
 Britannia, Hugone le Despenser, Willelmo de Leyburn, Hugone de 
 Veer, "Willelmo le Latimer seniore, Willelmo Bellocampo senescallo hos- 
 pitii nostri, Johanne de Butteturte. Datum per manum nostram apud 
 Lynliscum, xxx die Januarii. Per Breve de Privato Sigillo. 
 
 XXXIII. Grant of an Oratory to the Inhabitants of Barlby. 
 
 {^Reg. Rotlierhmn 16a.] 
 
 Willelmus Poteman,^"* etc. Dilectis nobis in Christo incolis, villam, 
 sive hamelectam, de Barleby, parochise de Hemmyngburgh, Ebor. 
 dicecesios, inhabitantibus, salutem. Cum nobis nuper intiuiatum fuerit 
 pro parte vestra, quod dicta ecclesia vestra parochialis de Hemmyng- 
 burgh per non modicum spatium distet a dicta villa de Barleby, ita 
 
 '- On the same clay a similar licence was granted to Wm. Kettering, Lord 
 Osgodby. See p. 273. 
 
 =*=< See p. 306. =' See p. 307.
 
 APPENDIX. 401 
 
 quod incolfe ibidem senio confracti, et variis lang[u]oi'ibus detenti, 
 necnon mulieres pryegnantes, ac alii plerique, occasione longai distancise, 
 in Dominicis et aliis Festivitatibus celebrationi Missarum et Horis Cano- 
 nicis in dicta ecclesia parochiali de Hemmyngburgh rainime interesse 
 queant : nos, talibus personis subvenire cupientes, ac alios quoscumque in- 
 habitantes de Barleby prsedicto a magno et pr?egravi labore continue 
 visitandi dictam ecclesiam parochialem de Hemmyngburgh relevare 
 affectantes, ut copiosius et frequentius solito ad Divina convolent 
 servitia audiendum ; necnon de csetero liberius Divinis possint vacare 
 officiis, in capella de Barleby prjedicto, ab antiquo ut asseritur fundata 
 et erecta, ut ibidem Missas, Horas Canonicas, et alia Divina officia 
 voce submissa per quemcumque capellanum idoneum, seu capellanos 
 idoneos, sicuti antiquitus a dominis Eboracensis ecclesife archiepiscopis, 
 seu eorum vicariis generalibus, licentia indulta et obtenta, facere cele- 
 brari consuevistis, licite valeatis, valeatque quilibet vestrum facere 
 celebrari, dum tamen ecclesite vestrse parochiali nullum exinde gene- 
 retur prsejudicium, vobis, ac liberis et familiaribus vestris, audiendi, 
 et capellano seu capellanis prsedictis Missas et alia Divina officia sic, 
 ut praifertur, celebrandi, licentiam tenore pr?esentium concedimus 
 specialem, per triennium a data earumdem continue numerandum 
 tantummodo duraturam. Data apud Strensall, sexto die mensis Febru- 
 arii, anno Domini millesimo cccc"^" octogesimo primo. 
 
 XXXIV. Court Rolls of the Abbot of Selby for Waterhouses, 
 g^Q_35 ^]?rom the Originals penes Barl of Londesborough.] 
 
 Curia Domini Abbatis de Seleby tenta apud Seleby Waterhouses, 
 die Martis proximo post festum Sancti Andrew Apostoli, anno Domini 
 mcccxxvj, et regni regis E. fil. regis E. xxmo. 
 
 Johannes Spalding defendens versus Robertum Henr' querentem de 
 placito transgressionis, unde lex per Radulphum Potman ; plegium 
 Johannes de Seleby. Habent diem, die Mercurii a die isto in tres 
 septimanas. 
 
 Robertus, filius Henrici^-^ filii Radulphi, et Alicia, uxor ejus, 
 querentes, optinent se versus Hugonem Scute et Agnetem uxorem ejus 
 de placito transgressionis. Agnes venit et prsedictus Hugo non venit, 
 et disseisitus est per unum bovem, qui deliberatus est per plegia 
 Joliannis de Seleby et Walteri Dunning ad habendum prtedictum 
 Hugonem ad proximam Curiam.^'' 
 
 Idem Robertus querens optinet se versus Hugonem Scute et 
 Agnetem uxorem ejus de placito transgressionis, et Agnes venit, et 
 Hugo non venit, et disseisitus est per unum bovem, qui deliberatus 
 est per plegia Johannis de Seleby et Walteri Dunning ad habendum 
 ad proximam Curiam. 
 
 Idem Robertus queritur de prsedictis Hugone Scute et Agnete uxore 
 ejus de placito transgressionis. Plegium de pers', Gilbertus f rater ejus. 
 Ideo attachiatur quod fuerit ad proximam Curiam. 
 
 '* Among the documents in the pos- Court Roll is given entire, the rest only 
 
 'session of the Earl of Londesborough in extracts. 
 
 connected with Selby Abbey are some ^^ 19 Edw. II. Rob. fil. Hen. proc. 
 
 Court Rolls referring to the property of against for going to Selby and taking 
 
 the Abbey in the township of Barlby " per falsa signa duas skeppcs brasii 
 
 on the other side of the Ouse. The first ordei pretii xviij s. de Issabella uxore 
 
 ThomoB Stalleworth."'
 
 402 THE HISTORY OF HEMINGBROUGH. 
 
 Idem Robertus quei'eiis optinet se versus Johannem de Spalding de 
 placito transgressionis. Non venit, et habuit diem hie ad hunc diem 
 post apparenc'. Ideo disseisitus quod sit ad proximam Curiam, etc. 
 
 Robertus filius Henrici venit et fecit finem pro filia sua maritata pro 
 marcli' ex gratia domini xij d. Et sic ponit se ad voluntatem domini, 
 de eo quod secutus f uit placitum in Curia de Barthelby versus Johannem 
 de Spalding, tenentem domini Abbatis, in contemptu Curiae domini 
 Abbatis, etc. Ideo omnia bona et catalla, terras et tenementa ipsius 
 Roberti, quaj capta fuerunt in manu domini, eidem Roberto integre 
 liberantur, etc. Et fecit fidelitatem villenag'. 
 
 Court held die Martis prox. post festum S. Thoinre, anno xx. 
 
 Gilbertus, filius Henrici, et Alicia uxor ejus attachiati fuerunt ad 
 respondendum Isabella?, uxori Jacobi, de placito quia prjedicta Alicia 
 ipsam defamavit, de eo quod dixit quod asportare fecisset bona et 
 catalla sua sine licencia, et alia enormia etc., ad dampnum, etc. Et 
 Gilbertus et Alicia veneruut et totum dedicunt. Ideo ad legem. 
 Plegium de lege Robertus filius Henrici, etc. 
 
 Dictum est prfedictis Isabella? et Alicia? quod nulla materia inter 
 eos de cetero move[a]tur, sub poena duorum solidorum moventi 
 levandorum, etc. 
 
 Court die Mart. p. f. Annunc. Ind Edw. III. 
 
 Prjiesentatum est quod Ricardus forestarius de Bardelby, Willelmus 
 Perotes, Hugo Douce, Hugo Rose, et Alicia uxor ejus, Johannes Sponer, 
 et Robertus filius Johannis pr?epositi, die .... in festo Sancti Jacobi 
 Apostoli, anno regni regis nunc primo, faldam domini Abbatis apud 
 Seleby Waterhouse fregerunt, et quoddam jumentum pra?dicti Hugonis 
 Rose per Robertum filium Henrici fili Radulphi imparcatum ceper- 
 unt, et abduxerunt usque ad faldam de Bardelby, ad dampnum, etc. 
 Ideo loquendum cum domino. 
 
 Court, 1333. Henricus Running venit hie in Curia et fecit fidelitatem 
 domino pi'o uno messuagio quod elamat tenere de Abbate, et dat domino 
 ijs. viijd. pro relevio et non plus quia non dat redditum pro eodem 
 nisi xvjd., et habet ingressum. 
 
 Mr. John Baret a tenant of lands formerly held by Robert de 
 Barleby in 1329. 
 
 Court, 1347. The Abbot grants to Margaret, late the wife of William, 
 son of Gilbert and Walter, son and heir of the said William, two acres 
 of land in Bardelby, part of which was formerly the dower of Alice, 
 formerly the wife of Gilbert atte Bank,^'' until her death. 
 
 ^' Barlby Bank is still the name of is some of the richest in the county, 
 the farm which brings the township of and there is none better cultivated. 
 Barlby into touch with Selby. The land
 
 INDEX OF SUBJECTS. 
 
 AIS 
 
 AiSL.VBiE of Osgodby, pedigree, 331 
 
 — Geo. of York, 321, 331 
 Allhallows Eve, ringing bells on, 
 
 297 
 Amcotes of South Duffield, family 
 
 of, 215 
 Andrew of Cliffe, family of, 260 
 Ashley, Astley, family of, 284-5 
 Aton of Barlby, family of, 357-59, 
 
 361 
 Aunby, Anby, family of, 128 n, 289 
 Aunger, family of, 2 and n 
 Averenches, Averings, family and 
 
 pedigree, 243 
 
 Babthorpe, account of, 172-89 
 
 — of Babthorpe, family of, pedigree, 
 etc., 172-186 ; coat-armour in H. 
 church, 127, etc. 
 
 — Kalph, 178 79 ; letters to, 393-94 
 
 — Sir Eobert, 174-75 ; letter of 
 Fraternity to, 391-92; Letters 
 from to Prior and Convent of 
 Durham, 392-93 
 
 — Thos., 179-80 
 
 — Wm. and his will, 175-78 
 
 — of Osgodby, family of and pedi- 
 gree, 311-21 
 
 — Lady, 315-19; Sir Kalph, 315-18; 
 Eobert, will, 312n ; Sir William, 
 313-20 
 
 Bachelor, family of, 282 
 
 Bacon, family oi,l'd2n 
 
 Bardelby, Eob. de, 369 
 
 Barlby, township of, account of, 336- 
 69 ; chapel, with woodcut, 337-40 ; 
 charities, 351-54 ; Cherry orchard 
 in, 365 ; cottages for poor, 356 ; 
 curates or incumbents, 342-48 ; 
 freeholds in, 364-66 ; hall, 361- 
 62 ; income of curates and Ter- 
 riers, 348-51 ; licence for oratory 
 or chapel, 400-1 ; manor and land, 
 351, etc. ; monuments in chapel, 
 340-42; schools, 355-56; stewards 
 of manor, 361 
 
 Barlby Bank, 364, 402;i 
 
 Barlow of Osgodby, family of, 313 
 and ;;, 
 
 Barons' War, 288-89 
 Barrett, family of, 308 and n 
 Barstow of Holme House, pedigree 
 
 of, 217 
 Basset of S. Duffield, family of , 215-16 
 Bedford, John Duke of, letters from, 
 . 371, 382 
 
 Bishop's Meadows, etc., 196-97 
 Booth, Archbishop L., reordains 
 
 Coll. Church, 378-80 
 Bosvile of Osgodby, family of, 130-31 
 Bowes of Babthorpe and Hagthorpe, 
 
 family of and pedigree, 186-87, 
 
 193-94 
 
 — John, will of, 194 
 Bowthorpe, account of, 243-49 
 Brackenholme, account of, 165-72 
 Bradshaw, Thos., 371-72 
 Braithwaite, Theoph., 128-29 « 
 Bray of S. Duffield, family of, 231 ; 
 
 of Woodhall, 210-11 
 Brewer of Barlby, pedigree of family, 
 
 355 n 
 Burdett of Osgodby, family of, 325- 
 
 26 
 Burleigh, Lord, 278 
 Burletson of Woodhall, family of, 
 
 203 « 
 Burton of H. and Turnham Hall, 
 
 family of, 283-84 
 
 — John, M.D., 205-6 
 
 Butler of Bowthorpe and Lund, 
 pedigree of, 293 
 
 Caile, Eev. Wm. 122-23 
 Cerf, family, of Newhay, 300 
 Chaplin of Menthorpe, family of, 
 
 237 and n 
 Charity to be paid out of the donor's 
 
 pew in church, 298 
 Christian names in the parish in 
 
 1379, 8-9 
 Clare, Bogo de, 48-50 
 Cleek, 284 
 Cliffe, pedigree of family, 257-59 
 
 — Henry de, account of, 90-1, 258- 
 59; will of, 395-97; chantries, 
 90-2 
 
 — Eichard, letter from, 383
 
 404 
 
 THE HISTORY OF HEMINGBROUGH. 
 
 CLI 
 
 Cliffe, township of, account of, 249-- 
 301 ; Amicable Society at, 264 ; 
 commons, etc., 285-87 ; Dissen- 
 ters at, 264 ; families connected 
 with, 257-62; mill at, 264-65; 
 school and masters, 261-64 
 
 Coldiugham, Richard de, 45 w, 199, 
 200 
 
 Collegiate system, advantages and 
 disadvantages of, "65-6 
 
 Coltman, family of, 283 to 
 
 Colton, Thos., M.D., 209 
 
 Commonwealth, church and parish 
 in, 109-10, 129 TO 
 
 Copley of Bowthorpe, family of, 247 
 
 Dalby, family of, 366-68 
 
 Dawson of Osgodby, pedigree of, etc., 
 
 326-29 
 Dealtry of Bowthorpe, family of, 
 
 133-34 
 Despenser, family of, 269, etc. 
 D'Eyville, pedigree of, 288-89 
 
 — Go'scellinus de and John de, 288-89 
 Dobbs of Cliffe, family of, 259 ; Sir 
 
 Richard, Lord Mayor of London, 
 
 his will, 260 
 Drokenesford, John de, 50-1 
 Dunelmo, Durham, Hen. de, 47-8 
 Durham, monastery of, etc., 62-3, 
 
 101 
 
 — Prior of. Letters from, 380-82, 
 391, 393-94 
 
 Dyneley, Alice, will of, 219-20 
 
 Ellison of Cliffe, family of, 259 
 
 Ernuin, 169 
 
 Esueillechem, Wm. de, seal of, 214; 
 
 charter of, 395 
 Eure, family of, 360 
 Evesham, Hugh de, 47-8 
 
 Fawkes of South Duffield, pedigree 
 
 of, 219 
 Fighting cocks in H. church, 131 
 Fishburn, John, 388 
 Fossard of Cliffe, pedigree of, 251-53 
 Freeman of Menthorpe, family of, 
 
 236 and n 
 Fyppes, Wm., of South Duffield, 
 
 murders the Duke of York, 230 
 
 Gascoigne of S. Duffield, pedigree of, 
 219 
 
 — Humph., will of, 220-21 
 Gaucelinus Johannis de Ossa, rec- 
 tor, 54-56 
 
 Gisburgh, John, prebendary, 75-76 
 
 Goule Hall, 284-85 
 
 Graham of Woodhall, family of, 
 
 206-7 
 Grimesthorpe, or Woodhall, 198-211 
 
 HEM 
 
 Haddlesey of S. Duffield, ped. of, 
 
 228-30 
 Hagthorpe, account of, 189-196 
 
 — of Hagthorpe, pedigree, 190, 308- 
 10 
 
 Hameldon, Jordan de, 304 
 
 Harrison, Cuthbert, 280-81 
 
 Haverings, Rich., Archbishop of 
 Dublin, curious story about, 245 
 
 Haxey's tomb at York, 19 
 
 Heath, Archbishop, 102 
 
 Hemingbrough, village of : origin of 
 name, 9 ; account of place, 9-10 ; 
 village feast, 12 n 
 
 ■ — church : granted to Priory of Dur- 
 ham, 11 ; architectural description 
 of, 13-22; altars in, 22-24; images 
 of saints, 24-25 ; monuments in 
 church and churchyard, 30-41 ; 
 organs, 26-27 ; stained glass, 27- 
 30 ; surveys of church plate, etc., 
 24 ; texts of Scripture, 26 ; tower 
 struck by lightning, 44 ; wood- 
 work, 25-26 
 
 — church and rectory : list of rec- 
 tors, 45-59; attempts to appro- 
 priate the rectory, 59-65 ; account 
 roll of proctor for rectory, 387-88 
 
 — church or college, 66-71 ; ordi- 
 nations of, 372-380 ; seal of, 69 ; 
 provosts, 71-75 : their residence, 
 74-75 ; prebendaries and their 
 houses, 75-81 ; vicars and their 
 Bedern, 81-86 ; statutes of their 
 Bedern, 84-86, 383-87 ; chantries 
 and chantry-priests, 88-94 ; juris- 
 diction and visitations, 94-96 ; 
 value of rectorv and coll. church, 
 96-103 . 
 
 — church after the Reformation : 
 curates or vicars, 107-126; vicar- 
 age-house, 87-88 ; Terriers and 
 endowments of vicarage, 103-7 ; 
 charities and gifts, 139-142 ; 
 churchwardens and their accounts, 
 42-45 ; parish clerks and registrars, 
 138 ; parish registers, 126-138 : 
 schools, 142-43 
 
 — manor, 143-51 ; summary of evi- 
 dences about, 388-89 ; customs of 
 manor, 390 ; ferry, 162 ; fisheries, 
 161; landowners, 158-59; market 
 and fair, 149 ; mill, 158, 160-61 ; 
 seneschals and stewards, 151-52 ; 
 tithe-estate, 153-58 ; tollbooth, 
 149 ; woods, etc., 143-49 
 
 ■ — Miscellaneous : distinguished na- 
 tives, viz. Wm. de H., canon of 
 Lincoln, Walter de H. the his- 
 torian, and John de H., prior of 
 Durham, 162-65 ; Nonconformists, 
 162
 
 INDEX OF SUBJECTS. 
 
 405 
 
 HEN 
 Henry III., charter of, 2 and 3nn 
 
 — VIIL, letters to Prior of Durham, 
 380-81 
 
 Henson, family of, 205 
 
 Hildyard of South DufQeld, family 
 
 of, 223-25 
 Holme House, 216-17 
 Hohnes, The, 36(5 
 
 Howdenshire, ancient owners of, 10 
 Hundesle, Ralph de, seal, 172 
 Hutton, Archbishop, 193 
 
 Ingram, family of, 155-56 
 Ion, John, and family, 123 25 
 
 Keighley, James, 283 
 
 Kempe, Archbishop, ordains Coll. 
 
 Church, 65 69, 372-78 
 Kirlew of South Duliield, pedigree 
 
 of, 226 ; of Woodhall, 204 
 Knight of South Duffield, family and 
 
 pedigree, 217, 219, 221-23 
 
 — John, will of, 221-22 
 
 Laton, Lay ton, of South Duffield 
 family of, 219 
 
 Levett, family of, and Chr. the Pil- 
 grim father, 127 
 
 Lodge of Barlby, account and pedi - 
 gree, 361-63 
 
 Loftsome Bridge, 197 
 
 Lowther, family of, 247-48 
 
 Lumley, Marm., prebendary, 75 
 
 Lund, account of, 290-94 
 
 Lusby of South Duffield, family of, 
 231 
 
 Macdonald, Flora, 207 
 Malvis, Manor of, 255-56 
 Mallison, John, and family, 120-21 
 Manners, family of, 276-78 
 Marisco, Adam de, 45-46 ; Eobert 
 
 de, rector, 45-46 
 Marshall, Robert, 32, 73-74 
 Rfartin V., Pope, letter to Prior and 
 
 Convent of Durham, 372 
 Maslin, Charles, and family, 112-13 
 Massey of H., pedigree of, 76 
 Mauley, family of, 254, 267, 269 
 — Stephen de, rector, 51-52 
 Maunsell, Wm., 218-19 
 Menthorpe, township of, account of, 
 
 232-243 
 Menzies of Woodhall, family of, 209 
 Metham, family of, 170 
 Micklehurst, 284 
 Middleton, Richard de, 47 
 Montrose, James, Mai-quess of, his 
 
 arm, 206 
 Morfit of Lund, family of, 135 >i 
 Morritt, family of, 225-26, 247 
 Mort-stones at H., 30-31 
 
 EUD 
 
 Neville, John, letter to, 391 
 Newark of Hagthorpe, pedigree of, 
 • etc., 190-92 
 Newhay, account of, 294-301; fisher- 
 
 ies, 301 
 Nortoft, 227 
 
 Nova Haia, Newhay, Thos. de, 301 
 Nuttall of Newhay, family of, 300 
 
 Osbaldeston, family of, 70-71 
 Osgodby, account of, 302-35 
 
 — chapel at, 330 ; church -land and 
 ^ charities at, 330-31 ; grant of fair 
 'and market at, by Edw. I., 400; 
 
 half, 329-30; Roman Cathohcs 
 at, 315-19 
 
 — family of, with pedigree, 304-6 ; 
 Adam de, 16, 91, 306-7 ; Robert 
 de, 305-6 
 
 Ouse and Derwent, Wapentake of, 
 1-6; ancient, famihes in, 5; Courts 
 of Sewers, 3-4 ; ecclesiastical 
 status of, 4 ; forest of, 1-3 
 
 Palmes of Osgodby, family of, 321- 
 
 22 
 Peacocks at Turnham Hall, 269 
 Perkins, family of, 134 n 
 Pertrick of Woodhall, family of, 202 
 Pharos, Wm. Bishop of, 397 
 Pickering of Barlby, family of, 368 
 
 and 71 
 
 — Ric, 58 
 
 Pilgrimage of Grace, 4, 312-13 
 Pilkington, Sir John, 275 
 
 — Sh- Lionel and Lady, 281 
 Plague of 1349 in parish of H., 
 
 271-72 
 Plumpton, family of, 182 et seq. 
 Pluralists, 48-49, 52, 55 
 Pomeroi, family of, 304-5 
 Poole, Matthew, the Divine, 225 
 Portington, family of, 246 ; Sir John, 
 
 Letter to, 382 
 
 — Thos., provost, 71-72 
 
 Potter, Wm., vicar, account of and 
 pedigree, 115-120 
 
 Reeves of Woodhall, family of, 
 
 207-9 
 Richardson of Cliffe, pedigree of, 
 
 262 
 Rickinghall, John de, rector, 58-59 
 Robinson of H., family of, 135 «, 
 
 136 n, pedigree, 150 
 Roman coin found at H., 9 
 Ros of Hamlake, pedigree of, 270 ; 
 
 Lady Beatrix, 270 ; John and 
 
 Thos. Lords Ros, wills of, 398- 
 
 99 ; Wm. Lord, 27S-79 
 Eudderforth, Alex., will of, 298-99
 
 ■iUG 
 
 THE HISTOUY OF IIEMINGBROUGII. 
 
 SAL 
 
 Saltjursh, family of, 130 n, 131 ii, 
 
 133 7Z, 135^1 
 Salvin of Newhay, etc., family of, 
 
 289 ; pedigree, 296-97 
 Scott, Sir Walter, 247 and n 
 Scottish inroads, (30, 62 
 Scrope of Masham, family of, 274 
 Selby Waterhouses, account of, 365- 
 
 66 ; Court Rolls of, 401-2 
 Sheriffhutton Castle, a prison for 
 
 the Roman Catholics, 317 
 Shutlington, Alan de, 56 
 Siward, Earl, 10 
 Skinner, family of, 281-82 
 Skipwith, family of, 233-34; 
 
 pedigree, 241 
 Smallwood of H., family of, 131 and 
 
 132 n 
 Smith of Asselby, family of, 134 7i 
 
 — of Osgodby and Turnham Hall, 
 family of, 281 ; with pedigree, 
 322-25 ; Sir Jeremiah, 322-5 
 
 Sotheran, family of, 285 
 South Duffield, account of, 212-49 
 Squire, Arthur, and pedigree, 110 
 Stable, John, of Osgodby, will of, 
 
 334-35 
 Staggs, family of, 368-69 
 St. Albans, battle of, 178 
 Stamford, Stanford, Hen. de, 52-54 
 Stanegrave of Newhay, family of, 
 
 294-95 
 Stapleton, family of, 217 
 Strangeways, family of, 187-89 ; 
 
 pedigree, 195 
 
 — James, his strange death, 187-88 
 Stuteville, family of, 233 
 
 Tayloe of Coates, family of, 128 n 
 
 Teasdale, Marm., vicar of H., and 
 family, 104 n 
 
 Thoresby, Archbp., appropriates rec- 
 tory to Durham, 62 
 
 Threlkeld, John, vicar of Howden, 
 121 and ii 
 
 Tireman, family of, 290 
 
 Topham of South Duffield, pedigree 
 of, 225 
 
 Tosti, Tostig, Earl, 10, 356 
 
 Turnham, family of, 251-52, 265 
 
 YAX 
 
 Turnham Hall, account of, 265-284 ; 
 chapel and hall, 268-69 ; licence 
 for the chapel, 400 ; ordination at, 
 397 ; owners of the estate, 269-285 
 
 Turnhead, 365 
 
 Twisleton, family of, 188 
 
 Tyas, Robert, proctor for the rectory 
 of H., his account, 387-88 
 
 Tyson, Gilbert, 168 
 
 — Isaac, vicar, 121-22 
 
 Walmesley of Bowthorj)e, family of, 
 
 246 
 Walworth, Thos. de, rector, 56-58 
 
 — Sir Wm., Lord Mayor of London, 
 57 
 
 Wandrick of Woodhall, family of, 
 
 209-10 
 Ward, Mary, 316 
 
 — of Turnham Hall, family of, 9, 
 279-80 
 
 Wasse Chantry at H., 88-90 
 Wastehose, Alan and Emma, 213-14 ; 
 
 seal of Alan, 214 ; charter of, 
 
 394-95 
 Waterworth of Bowthorpe, family of, 
 
 248 
 Watkinson of Menthorj^e, family of, 
 
 237-39 
 Waud of Cliffe, etc., family of, 261-62 
 
 — Mary, the benefactress, 261-63 
 Weddell, family of, 248 
 Wentworth of WooUey, family of, 
 
 170 
 Wessington, Prior of Durham, 18 
 West, John, Chantry at H., 93-94 
 Westmerland, Joan Countess of, 
 
 letter from, 371-72 
 Whitemoor, 287-90 
 Williamson, family of, 280 
 Willoughby, Chr., letter to, 380-81 
 Willye, family of, 240 
 Woodburne, family of, 242 
 Woodhall, account of, 198-211 
 Woodroofe of Newhay, family of, 301 
 Woodville, Lionel, jirovost, 72-73 
 Wortley, Sir Thomas, 275 
 
 Yaxley of South Duffield, family of, 
 235 and n 
 
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