^{page ix note a} Plumie is a woody place, and to this day a clump of trees is called a plump in the north. (See Glossary to Reginaldi Monachi Dunelm. libellus de admirandis beatiCuthberti virtuiibut, published by the Surteei Society, 1835.)

^{page ix note b} The wapentake of Borge-scire was so called from Ald-burgh (Burc in Domesday), the capital of this shire or district from the time of the Romans. It is also in one place in Domesday, f. 379, a. 1, called the wapentake of Gereburg, this prefix being eviindently a remnant of the British name Caer, by which all walled burghs were designated. The place of assembly was in a Berewick belonging to it, named Clare-tun, about four miles distant from the burgh, where, as usual, an artificial mound or hoh was raised, called from the tun, Clare-hoh: by a pleonasm, this spot has now the name of Claro-hill. Claro grew eventually to be the name in common use, when the burgh was no longer the capital of the shire.

^{page x note c} c Vassy (Vaacie in Wacej is a commune of the Departement du Calvados. In Domesday the orthograghy is Veci, and there also in place of Tesson we read Tison. Taitson, among the Normans, signified a badger; and that this was the sobriquet given to the lords of Cinglais is proved by their deeds, in which the name is often lathiized Taoco. Much wider variations than these were, however, common in writing the Bame proper name, the scribe having to trust solely to his ear for catching rigbtly the sound of the name as pronounced to him, the subscription of the personage himself to the document being simply a cross mark. It is absurd to suppose, as later genealogists have done, that the Great Standard Bearer of England under King William, by which title of office Gislebert names himself in his charters, was of Anglo-Saxon parentage. The pretended marriage of Ivo de Vescy with the heiress of Tyson, which has hitherto passed current with our Baronagiaas, is merely the traditional history resorted to in the time of Edw. II. to explain the descent of the baronies of Malton and Alnwick; such late genealogies, unless confirmed by contemporary evidence, must ever be received with extreme caution. It is certain, moreover, that Gislebert Tison left a son and heir named Adam, who in 31 Hen. L. rendered account to the Exchequer of the debts of his father, and of a fine not to plead for his lands until the son of Nigel de Albini (i. e. Roger de Mowbray) was a knight. The grand-daughters and heirs of Adam married into the families of Constable of Flamborough and Beauvoir; and from the heads of these families, as well as from Mowbray and Vescy, the monks of Selby deemed it requisite to obtain charters of confirmation to secure to them the possession of the tithes and advowson of the church of Elveley (Kirk-ella), which they had of the gift of Gislebert Tison. Malton was crown land at the time of the survey; but it is not improbable that the defence of the castle of Alnwick, in the turbulent district north of the Tyne, was undertaken by this great military officer, and that he made it the caput of his barony. The influence of Robert de Mowbray, the first Norman Earl of Northumberland, may have in that case drawn him in to share in his rebellion, which ended in the expulsion from their seigniories of many Norman barons, whom the Chroniclers omit to name. Under Henry I. he was restored to grace, and re-instated in the possession of Holme-upon-Spaldingmore and of some portion of his lands in Yorkshire, which he transmitted to his heirs; but the suzerainty of the escheated honour was retained by Nigel de Albini and Ivo de Vesey, between whom it had been already divided by William Rufus. Even this result appears not to have been obtained without contracting heavy debts in the maintenance of a protracted suit.

^{page xi note d} Sir Henry Ellis observes, in his notes to the Index of Tenants in capite in Domesday, that the lands of Gislebert Tison, consisting of twenty-nine manors, were evidently forfeited upon the ravaging of Yorkshire: ten had belonged to Gamelbar, and one to Gamel. Of tax which had belonged to Gamelbar, it is said, “Has terras habet Gislebertus Tison, sed wastae sunt omnes: tantummodo Biletone redd. iii. sol. redd.” Of several manors in Craven no estimated value is given. These six manors are, however, all parcel of the forest of Knaresborough, and in a mountainous and barren tract of country. If they were ravaged by the Conqueror's army in vengeance to a rebellious people, then his forbearance seems most extraordinary, sparing the fertile country nearer to his line of march, and turning aside to spend his fury on these wilds. The love of the Norman princes for the chacepieed not be dwelt upon; and Domesday furnishes ample proof that entire wapentakes or hundreds were converted from arable into wood and pasture, in order to give “scope and verge enough.” The ancient sectional division of the north riding of Yorkshire, called wapentake of Girlestre, gave name to the forest of Galtres, which included within its vast circumference great part of that wapentake, and of the adjoining ones of Bolesford and Annesti, till its outskirts were in later times gradually lessened by successive disafforestments. At the time of its formation, the places of assembly for the men of the wapentakes were necessarily removed without its limits, Girlestre to Birdforth, and Bolesford, where was a ford across the river Fosse, to Buhner; from these latter places the wapentakes now take their names.

^{page xii note e} Liber Niger Scaccarii. Hearne, 1774, edit, altera, vol. i. p. 317.

^{page xii note f} The copy of this deed was numbered 20 in the Plumpton Cartulary, but the page containing it has been almost entirely eaten away by mice. A marginal note, however, remains, indicating its context: “Nigellus de Plumton Gamelo filio Elewini—i domum, i acram in Lafrinwic, i acram in Sabberchdale in Plumton,” The names “Nigellus de Plomptona” and “Gamelo filio Elewini” are also legible on the fragments. The Towneley MSS. contain abbreviated copies of the same deed, from which the names of the witnesses may be set down with tolerable accuracy, viz. Robert Vavasor, Hugh de Lelay, Gilbert de Plompton, Richard de Chagge, Richard de Goldesburgh, Matthew de Braham, Robert de Linton, Robert son of Huckman de Plompton, Robert son of Henry de Sicklinghall, Robert son of Jordan de Staneton, William son of Ralph, Richard de Stokeld, Baldwin his brother, Thomas de Dicton his brother, and many others.

^{page xv note g} Cartul. No. 640.

^{page xv note h} Lib. Domesd. 332 b.

^{page xvi note i} Registrum Honoris de Richmond, p. 24 et seq.

^{page x note k} Benedictus abbas de vita Hen. II. p. 408. Hearne.

^{page x note l} Rot. Pip. 30 Hen. II. Extracts penes me.

^{page x note m} Rot. Pip. 31 Hen. II.

^{page xi note n} Rot. Pip. 2 Ric. I.

^{page xi note o} Rot. Pip. 7 Ric.

^{page xi note p} Rot. Pip. 16 Hen. II.

^{page xii note i} Rot. Pip. de eisdem aunis. Extracts penes me.

^{page xiii note a} Rot. Pip. 6 Ric. I.

^{page xiii note b} Rot. Pip. 2 Ric. I.

^{page xiii note c} Johannes, Dei gratia, & Sciatis nos concessisse et carta nostra confirmasse Willelmo de Stutevill pro servicio suo Knaresbur' et Burgum cum omnibus pertinentibus suis tenenda sibi et heredibus suis de nobis et heredibus nostris per servicium trium militum. Quare volumus et firmiter prsecipimus quod prsedictus Willelmus de Stutevill et beredes sui post eum, habeant et teneant predictas villas, &. sicut carta Regis Henrici patris nostri rationabiliter testatur. Testibus. W. Marescallo, comite de Penbroc; G. filio Petri, comite Essex; Roberto de Turneham, &. Datum per manus S. Wellensis Archidiaconi, et J. de Gray, Archidiaconi Glocestriæ, apud Gildeford, xxii die Aprilis, anno regni nostri primo. (Rot. Chartarum, vol. I. pars. 1 fol. 1837, p. 54 b.)

^{page xiv note a} This deed is numbered 72 in the Cartulary, and has this note appended by the copyist:—“This deed is truly copied the 30 of March 1615, and has .......... having a grene silk string through it, whereby it is fixed to the deed, and is a man upon horseback .......... circumference the name of William Stutevill, as may partely be descerned, but there is a piece ....... ” This page, and several others at the commencement of the volume, have been partially eaten away by mice; but the Towneley MSS. contain a transcript of most of the early deeds.

^{page xv note v} Rot. Chartarum, p. 163.

^{page xv note x} Ibid. p. 108.

^{page xv note y} Ibid. p. 166.

^{page xv note z} Rot. Litt. Claus. p. 16.

^{page xvi note a} Rot. de Oblat. et Finibus, p. 317. Hardy, 1835.

^{page xvi note b} Rot. Litt. Claus. p. 66.

^{page xvi note c} Rot. Chart. 13 Hen. III. m. 3.

^{page xvi note d} Ibid. 19 Hen. III. m. 17.

^{page xvi note e} Fin. deeod. anno. Dodsw. notes from G.f. 85, inserted in the Plumpton Cartulary. Juliana appears to have been a daughter of Richard de Warewic, and mother of Robert Luvet, who had lands at Gretham, com. Rutland. Her sister, Sarra, married Gilbert de Beningworth. (Vide Rot. Oblat. et Fin.)

^{page xvi note f} Rot. Litt. Claus. p. 245 b. and 338 b.

^{page xvii note g} Vide Excerpta e rotulis Finium, Hen. III. rege, vol. I, p. 426; and vol. II. p. 340. The inquisition, of which the substance is given above, is taken from the bundle of escheats de anno LV. r. r. Hen. III.; but there is no date specified in the instrument itself, which must obviously be carried much further back, probably to the time of the minority of the heir of John de Lacy, created Earl of Lincoln 23 Nov. 1232, deceased in 1240: in any case, it is of a date anterior to the grant to Earl Richard of Cornwall of the custody of the land of the heir.

^{page xviii note h} Cartul. No. 90.—“H. T. Joh'e le Vavasur, Stephano Walense, militibus, Willelmo de Katherton, Roberto de Ribbestain, Nigello Pincerna de Dighton et aliis. Datapud Parcum mense Februarii anno gratis M^occ^oLXXIIII^o.”

^{page xviii note l} Cartul. No. 91.—“H. T. D'no Will'o de Ros, Henrico de Perpoint, tune senescallo de Knaresburgh,” &.

^{page xix note h} Cartul No. 94.

^{page xix note l} In the roll of arms printed by Nicolas from a MS. of a date intermediate between 2nd and 7th Edw. II. (1308–1314), those of “Sire Robert de Plomtone” are emblazoned, de azure, a une feese endente de or, en lafesse v molez de goules, but in the roll of arms of the time of Edw. III. which belonged to Hugh Fitzwilliams of Sprotborough in 1562, and which has been identified with the roll of arms anciently preserved at Croxton abbey, “Monsire de Plompton” is rightly said to bear, d'asur sur fes engrele d'or de u points, u cokils gules. Another later roll of the reign of Richard II. in the possession of the late Rev. J. Newling, B. D. Canon of Litchfield, gives for Plompton this emblazonment, “azure, five fusils in fess or, each charged with an escalop gules.” To the transcript of a deed without date (Cartul. No. 129), containing a lease of a toft and two oxgangs of land in Garsington to one William Spay from Robertus de Plompton miles, the following marginal note is appended by the copyist: “This deed hath the 20 April 1615 a fair seale of grene wax, being the five fusalls and the scallops in the mids of them, and having written in the circumference S. Rob'tus de Plompton—the fusalls and scallops are upon a tryangle whose bottome is uppermost.”

^{page xx note m} Cartul. No. 1002. “Robertas de Plumpton—Roberto filio suo et Lucia; Ros. H. T. d'no Rob'to de Ros, d'no Fetro de Ros, d'no Alexandra de Ros, d'no Patricio de Westwick, d'no Patricio de Uluesby, Will'o Graindorge, Nicholao de Melton, Will'o de Hartlington et aliis.”

^{page xx note n} Cartul. No. 170. “Robertas de Flasby, capellanus, &. recepi de Willelmo de Plompton filio et herede quondam d'ni Roberti de Plompton militis defuncti quatuor libras argenti —Apud Ebor.”

^{page xx note o} Cartul. No. 166. “Robertas de Plompton miles.—Apud Plompton.”

^{page xx note p} Esch. 19 Edw. II. n. 64.

^{page xxi note q} Cartul. No. 173. “Finalis concordia, apud Westm. in octabis sc'i Hillarii.

^{page xxi note r} Called de Mowbray in pedigree in Harl. MSS. 1487.

^{page xxi note t} Esch. 7 Edw. III. No. 38.

^{page xxi note u} Cartul. No. 182.

^{page xxi note w} Cartul. Nos. 215 and 216.

^{page xxi note x} Brooke MSS. Collections for Yorkshire in Coll. Armorum.

^{page xxii note y} See Controversy between Sir Richard Scrope and Sir Robert Grosvenor in the Court of Chivalry, royal 8vo, 1832. By Sir N. Harris Nicolas, K. H. vol. I. p. 270. —In the biographical notice, it is said that Sir Robert Plumpton was appointed lieutenant of the forest of Knaresborough in May 1387; the original authority for which assertion was doubtless the following charter, numbered 363 in the Cartulary:

Johan de la Pole, cheif senescall de mon tres redoute Sire, Ie Roy de Castell et de Leon, duo de Lancastre, de North Trent, a Mons^r Robert de Plumpton, lieutenant del Meistre Forestier de la forest de Knaresburgh, salutz. Vous mande et charge de par mon dit Sire que vous faciez delivrer a Johan Brown de Knaresburgh un Stnbb pur roerasme, apprendre deinz la fereste illoeqez, pur edifler une meeson gar la. terre de mon dit Sire, quil tient par terme des ans a volunte, en la ville de Knaresburgh. Et auxint facez delivrer a William Clerc de Knaresbrough un Stubb pur merisme, apprendre deinz la forest suisdite, pur reparation des mesons affaire sur la terre de mon dit Sire en la dite ville. Et ceste ma lettre vous ent sera garrant. Escrit a Knaresburgb, le viij lour de Maij, Ian du Regne le roy Richard secound puis la eonquaste, disme. (8 May, 10 Rio. II, 1387.) Number 291 in the same Cartulary is a copy of a bailbond from John son of Robert de Knaresburgh, and John de Makelay of Scotton, to Sir Robert de Plumpton, Constable of the castle of Knaresburgh, dated at Knaresburgh, 26th of October, 11th Ric. II. (1387); but the exact date of bit appointment to these lieutenancies is not apparent from either document. In the same memoir he is likewise stated to have had a large family by his wife, Isabella Scrope, whereas Sir William Plumpton was the only son, and there is no evidence as to female issue. Again, the writer of the same notice thinks it most probable that Sir Robert was the issue of his father's first marriage with Alice Byaufiz; but, letting alone the proof to be derived from his age at the time of the controversy, it is also certain that the manor of Brakentbwaite, with the lands which were of the inheritance of Alice reverted, agreeably to the limitation in the fine noticed in the text, to the posterity of Thomas, son of Peter de Midleton, which could only be in case of failure of issue of Alice. (Plumpton Evidences.) It was in right of this descent that the Midletons of Stockeld quartered the coat of Plumpton, that is, of the seneschals of Plumpton.

^{page xxiii note x} Rex Majori et Ballivis villa; de Rye, ac universis et singulis vicecomitibus, majoribus, ballivis, ministris, et aliis fidelibus suis ad quos presentes litterse pervenerint, salutem. Sciatis quod cum dilectus et fidelis noster Robertas de Plumpton Chivaler, postquam in obsequium nostrum cum flota nostra mare fuisset ingreasus, in gravem infirmitatem subito incident, sic quod ulterius in viagium nostrum supra mare laborare minime sufficiebat, per quod idem Robertas apud dictam villam de la Rye occasione sanitatis recnperandte applicuit, prout ipsum ex necessario oportebat, sicut per litteras Simohis Burgh constabularii Castri Roffensis coram nobis in cancellaria nostra ostensas plenius potent apparere: Nos volentes pro securitate ipsius Roberti, cum culpa in ipsa occasione recessus sui ab obsequio nostro reputetur, providere, vobis mandamus quod ipse Robertus, cum Johanne Heton, armigero suo, et duobus valectis suis, a dicta villa de la Rye ad partes suas proprias infra regnum nostrum Angliee redire et armataras, harnesia et res sua secum ducere libere permittatis, non inferentes eis seu eorum alicui in personis, armaturis, harnesiis, seu rebus suis ex causa predicta injuriam, molestiam, dampnum, violentiam, impedimentum aliquid seu gravemen. Et si quid eis forisfactum fuerit, id eis sine dilatione debite corrigi et emendari faciatis. In cujus, &. Teste Custode Anglise, xxii die Septembris anno 46 Edw. III. [1372]. (Plumpton Cartul. No. 270, from an ancient copy in paper.)

^{page xxiv note a} Polydori Vergilii Anglica Historia. Lugd. Batavorum 1649,8vo, liber xxi p. 554.

^{page xxv note b} CArtul. No. 364.

^{page xxv note c} Anglia Sacra, vol. II. p. 369.

^{page xxvi note d} Cartul. No. 319.

^{page xxvi note e} Esch. 8 Hen, IV. No. 15.

^{page xxvi note f} Cartul. 331.

^{page xxvi note g} Cartul. No. 308 and 309. She remarried before 18 Jan. 1 Hen. V. 1413–4, Sir Nicholas Middleton of Stockeld and was living his wife 24 May, 4 Hen. V. 1416. (Ibid. No. 367 et 377) She is again named 24 Sept. 8 Hen. V. 1420. Vide postea.

^{page xxvii note h} Sir Godfrey Foljambe died on Wednesday next after the Nativity of our Lady 12 Eic. II. (Sept. 9, 1388); and on the 18th November following dower was assigned to his widow Margaret (afterwards the wife of Sir Thomas Rempston, K. G.) in the presence of Sir John Leeke, kt. whose sister she was, and to whom the king had committed the lands of the said Sir Godfrey to farm, Alice his daughter and heir being at the time of his decease little more than a year old. By a subsequent writ, tested at Westminster 16 Feb. 13th of his reign, King Richard granted to the said Sir John Leek the marriage of the heiress for fifty marks, which wardship and marriage he by indenture, dated at Downham-upon-Trent, on the morrow of St. Hilary, 16 Ric. II. 1392–3, transferred to Sir William Plompton, kt. to the intent that she should be matched with his son and heir-apparent, whomsoever he might be, in consideration of c marks, and upon condition of payment of other annual sums till she reached the age of fifteen years. The marriage took place, and after the completion of her fourteenth year Robert Wycard, the king's escheator for the county of Derby, delivered seisin to William de Hardalsey, attorney of Robert de Plompton and Alice his wife, daughter and heir of Godfrey Foliamb, Ch'r, of all lands of which the said Godfrey was seised in demesne as of fee on the day he died, and attested the fact by his deed dated at Chaddesden, on Sunday next before the feast of St. Nicholas bishop, 3d of Hen. IV. (4 Dec. 1401). Vide inq. post mortem 12 Ric. II. (No. 21.) pro terris quas Avena relicta Godfredi Foliamb, militis, et nuper uxor Ricardi Grene, militis, tenuit in dotem, et Assignationem dotis Margarete que fuit uxor Godfredi Foljambe, Ch'r, fil. Godfredi, fil. Godfredi Foljambe, militis, in Wolley's Collect. MS. Addit. 6675, f. 381, printed in Collectanea Topograph. et Geneal. vol. I. p. 337, Lond. 1834, and vide Cartul. No. 292,294, et 313.

^{page xxvii note l} John Gisburn was mayor of York in 1371, 1372, and 1380. (Drake't Ebaracum, p. 361.)

^{page xxviii note k} This lodging must have been in the manor-house of Kinalton in Nottingham-shire, which Robert de Plumpton had in right of his wife, and which he made his principal residence. It had come into the possession of the family of Foljambe either by descent, or purchase, before Trinity term 40 Edw. III. 1366, when it was settled by fine upon Godfrey, son of Sir Godfrey Foljamb, kt. and Margaret his wife, and the heirs of their bodies; remainder on the right heirs of Godfrey. (Thoroton't Notts, vol. I. p. 155.) This Margaret was the grandmother of Lady Plumpton, and of the blood of the Vilers, lords of Kinalton, Cotgrave, Owthorp, and Newbold, in the county of Nottingham, and owners of lands in the parishes of Eccleston and Croston, in the county of Lancaster, as mesne tenants under the Butlers of Warrington. In the early Visitation of Yorkshire by Tong in 1534, the coat of Vilers, six lyoncela, 3, 2, 1, is borne on an escutcheon of pretence in the middle of a shield, quarterly Plumpton and Foljambe; but on the tombs of the Drurys in Hawsted church the quartering used for Vilers was a fess between six lions rampant. (See History qf Suffolk, Thingoe Hundred, p. 456, Bentley, Lond.)

^{page xxix note l} Cartul. No. 325.

^{page xxix note m} Ibid. No. 300. Willelmus Sparrow, capellatras—d'no Thomae Pynchebek, capellano. Dat. apud Ebor. xxvii^o die Mali, A^o D'ni millio ccc^o nonagesimo sexto, Ric II. vicesimo.

^{page xxx note n} Cartul. No. 341.

^{page xxx note o} Ibid. No. 293. Done a Everwyke, xiii jours de Januare, Ian du reigne le Roy Richard Secound apres la conquest denglelterre quindesyme.

^{page xxx note P} Ibid. No. 381.

^{page xxxi note q} Testamenta Eboracensia, Part I. p. 385, printed for the Surtees' Society, 1836.

^{page xxxi note r} Cartul. No. 400.

^{page xxxi note s} Ibid. No. 408; and see Monumental Inscription of Thomas Plumpton in Spofforth church, copied in Dugdale's Yorkshire Arms in Coll. Armorum.

^{page xxxi note t} Ibid. No. 430.

^{page xxxii note u} Cartul. No. 409.

^{page xxxii note x} Ibid. No. 422.

^{page xxxii note y} Ibid. No. 411.

^{page xxxii note z} Ibid. No. 396. The line expressive of the date in this inscription may require explanation. The six first words denote plainly enough the sum MCCCCXX; and to the sixth word, which is x, you are to add three, making 1423 the total, which was the year of the death of Dame Alice Plumpton, as appears from other evidence. On the same tomb were two other inscriptions in similar style; one of which, in memory of Sir William Plumpton, knight, her husband, in hexameter verse, has been introduced into the text. The other recorded the interment of Dame Isabella Plumpton, his mother, and the day and year of her birth (24 Aug. 1337), in these lines:

Hie cineres Dominse Plumpton remanent Isabellae,

Quae fait Henrici filia Scroop Domini.

Mille semel, ter c, ter x, semel v, duo junge,

Bartholomee, tua lux dedit astra sua.

This and the foregoing inscription are transcribed into Sir Edward Plumpton's Cartulary, Nos. 364 and 365, along with this note:— “These are two severall inscriptions both upon one tombe in Plompton quiere in Spofforth church, seene and examined the xvii^th day of October, 1613, per Fra. Burgoin, rector' ibidem. Milo Nicolson, curat' ib'm, Joh'es Parke, clericus.” In the History of the Family of Scrope of Masham, accompanying the publication of the Scrope and Grosvenor Roll, these two inscriptions are correctly given from Vincent's Yorkshire, No. III. fo. 30, save that in the second line of the hexameter inscription Scropp licet is put for Scropplis, the true reading, an augmentative syllable being added to the name for the sake of the metre.

^{page xxxiii note a} Testamenta Vetusta, 8vo. 1826, Nichols, vol. I. p. 234; from Dugdale's Abstract, vol. I. p. 736.

^{page xxxiv note b} Cartul. No. 527.

^{page xxxiv note c} Ibid. No. 312. Dat. apud Landa in domo nostro capitulari.

^{page xxxv note d} Cartul. No. 380. Dat. apud Cawood.

^{page xxxv note e} Ibid. No. 386.

^{page xxxv note f} Ibid. No. 392.

^{page xxxv note g} Ibid. No. 395.

^{page xxxv note h} Cartul. No. 442. “Carta testificatoria Hen. Bowett, Archidiaconi Richm. Dat. apud Markingfeild, 2 Mar. 1438.”

^{page xxxv note i} Ibid, ubi supra.

^{page xxxv note k} “Ricardus Arnall ecclesise Cathedralis Ebor. subdecanus, Reveren^m1 in Christo patris et d'ni, d'ni Joh'is Dei gratia Ebor. Archiep'i Anglice primatis et Apostolicse sedis legati, vicarius in spiritualibus generalis, dilecto nobis in Christo Mag'ro Georgio Plompton in utroque jure Baccalario, salutem in omnium Salvatore. Ad audiendas confessiones quorumcunque subditorum dicti Reveren11^mi patris tibi in foro X'iano con literi volencium, et eos a peccatis quse tibi confessi fuerint absolvendos, ac eisdem promodo culparum suarum injungeudas penitencias salutares, nee vota minus solempnia commutanda et cum eisdem dispensanda, etiam in casibus prefato Reveren^mo patriseu nobis a jure specialiter reservatis (libertatum et immunitatum ecclesise Cath: Ebor: predicts ac Ecclesiarum collegiatarum Beverlaci, Riponiae et Suthwellioe violatoribus, ac parcorutn ad Archiep'atum Ebor: pertinentium fractoribus et in eis feram seu feras capientibus duntaxat exceptis, quorum omnium absolucionem prefato Reveren^mo patri seu nobis specialiter reservamus) vobis, de cuius conscientiae puritate et industria circumspecta plenarie confidimus, tenore presencium committimus vices nostraset plenariam in Domino potestatem, ad prefati Reveren^mo patris beneplacitum duraturam. Dat. Ebor: decimo die mensis Febr: Anno d'ni Mill'mo ccccmo xxxix^mo. (Cartul. No. 449.)

^{page xxxvi note l} Chartul. No. 514. “Dat. in hospicio nostro prope Westm.”

^{page xxxvi note m} Ibid. No. 515.

^{page xxxvii note n} This letter is transcribed into the Book of Letters among the Correspondence of Sir William Plumpton, but has been omitted in the series by reason of its diversity of date from the rest.

^{page xxxvii note o} Cartul. No. 516. “Dat. apud Fulham.”

^{page xxxvii note p} Ibid. No. 517. “Dat. 24 Jun. 26 Hen. VI. 1448.” In this charter the rectorial manse is described as a building with thatched roof and mud walls, rectoria cum tectura straminia et muris luteis.

^{page xxxvii note q} Ibid. No. 521. “Dat. Ebor:”

^{page xxxvii note r} Ibid. No. 518. “H. T. Henrico Percie comite Northumbr: Henrico Percie d'no de Ponyngs, Rogero Ward milite, Rogero Warde armigero, Ric. Lematon cive et mercatore Ebor: Johanne Clark de Spofford parcario, et multis aliis.”

^{page xxxviii note s} Cartul. No. 520.

^{page xxxviii note t} Ibid. No. 533. “Dat. Ripomne.”

^{page xxxix note u} Sir John Scrope, fourth Baron Scrope of Mashsm, summoned to Parliament from 7 Jan. 4 Hen. VI. 1426, to 26 May, 33 Hen. VI. 1455. Died 15 Nov. following.

^{page xl note x} Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Thomas Chaworth of Wiverton, co. Notts, kt. Died 6 Edw. IV. 1466.

^{page xl note y} Eleanor Scrope, daughter of Lord Scrope, married Richard Darcy, son and heir apparent of Sir John Darcy, of Hyrst, com. Ebor, knight, who was dead in his father's lifetime, before 1 Jun. 32 Hen. VI. 1454, when his heir, William, was four years old. John le Scrope, who died 18 Sept. 1452, in his will of the preceding day makes a bequest to “Mistres” his sister, Magistriciiororimea. There can be little doubt that Mrs. Darcy is here meant, and that it is an error on the part of the compiler of the pedigree of Scrope of Masham, illustrative of the Scrope and Grosvenor Controversy, to give Magittrix a distinct place among the children of Lord Scrope. Her husband had died young; and it appears from this letter that she passed her widowhood in the paternal mansion till the period of her second marriage with William Claxton, esq. circa 29 April, 38 Hen. VI. 1460.

^{page xl note z} This letter is also taken from the Book of Letters, where it is transcribed at the end of the Correspondence of Sir William Flumpton.

^{page xli note a} Cartul. No. 424.

^{page xli note b} Ibid. No. 412. Frishmarsh, now lost by the Humber, lay between Newsome (also lost) and Patrington, to which last Thorp was a berewick at the General Survey. Lib. Domesd. f. 302 a2.

^{page xli note c} Ibid. No. 453. “Jacobus Hoton et Will's Ryson ar: concedunt terras, &. in Thorp juxta Weldik, Wythornwyke, et Bilton in com. Ebor: quse tenet Rob'tus de Thorpe, jun. ad terminum vitae suae—post decessum dicti Eoberti, Stephano de Thorpe et Isabellas uxori ejus et heredibus inter ipsos, &. H. T. Joh'e Melton de Swyne, Thoma Grimston, Rob'to Hakfeld, Rob'ti Hylierd, armigeris, et Joh'e Ascyn et aliis. Dat. apud Thorpe juxta Weldyke, 12 Mar. 19 Hen. VI.” This place is now called Welwickthorpe, from the Wel-wic instead of the Wel-dic, and is a hamlet in the township and parish of Welwick, Tor-uelestorp in Domesday.

^{page xlii note d} Cartul. No. 354.

^{page xlii notd e} Ibid. No. 359 and 360.

^{page xlii note f} Ibid. No. 368.

^{page xlii note g} “Ceste endenture fait dentre le haut et puissant prince, Johan fitz et frere des Roys, due de Bedford, Count de Richmond et Kendale, et Con^ble d'engleterre, dun part, et Robert de Flompton, Chevaler, dautre part, tesmoigne que le dit Robert est retenuez et demorrez pardevera le dit tres noble et puissant prince a terme de sa vie pour lui servir, sibien en temps de pees come de guerre, au mielz qui resonablement ilpourra estre eñ son pouoir, preignant annuelment du dit haut et puissant prince pour son fe a cause de sa dite demoere vingt marcs en temps de pees de les cofres de mesme le haut et puissant prince. Et sera le dit Robert montéz, armés, et arraiès, come a son degre et estat appartient, et prest de chivalcher oves le susdit tres noble et puissant prince en sa compaignie, a quel temps que a ce fair il sera deper mesme le puissant prince garniz ou requiz, preignant en temps de guerre du dit tres noble et puissant prince, quant traveillera ovec luy, pour luy mesmez, et ses gentz, lesquex il amesnera oves luy par comaundement de le dit haut et puissant prince, tieulx gagez come autres gentilx de lour degree prendront pour le temps, rebatant toutesvoies lafferant de son fe en temps de pees pour lafferant de ses gagez en temps de guerre, en cas qil travaille ove Ie dit tresnoble et puissant prince a aucuns journes que se tiendra pur un quarter del an ou plus, et nemye pour nvdle autre petit journes que se namontera al quarter dan. Et aura le dit Robert quant il traveillera ores le dit tresnoble prince en sa compaigne en temps de pees, ou veigne a son houstellper son comaundement, boucbe du courte pour luy mesmes, un escuier, et deux ses yaletts, en tiele regarde come au dit tres noble prince il plerra. Et de toutez maners de prisoners et autres profittz et gaignes de guerre quelconques en aucune manere per le dit Robert prisez ou gaignes, le dit tres noble et puissant prince aura la tierce; et de tous autres ses ditz gentz lesqueulx il aura as gages, de mesme le tres noble prince la tierce de la tierce. Et si aucun chevitaigne ou autre grand sera soit pris per le dit Robert ou aueun de ses ditz gentz, le dit tres noble et puissant prince aura le chevitaigne ou seigneur avant dit, fesant a celly que luy prist resonable regarde. En tesmoignance du quele chose sibien le dit prince come le dit Robert a cestes endentures entrechangeablement ount mys lour sealx. Donne a le manor de Bisshopthorp le xv jour d'octobre, Ian du reigne notre soverain sire le Roy Henri quint puis le conquest tierce.” (Cartel. No. 373.)

^{page xliii note h} Cartul. No. 361.

^{page xliv note l} Thomas Foljambe was great-uncle of Dame Alice, the relict of Sir Robert de Plompton, and at the time of her birth was, with his brother Robert, her nearest heir and next of kin. From him descended the knightly family settled at Walton in com. Derb.

^{page xliv note k} Cartul. No. 374. Sir Bryan Stapleton died abroad in 1417, leaving Agnes, daughter of Sir John Godard, kt. his widow, who survived him many years and never remarried.

^{page xlv note l} Cartul. No. 378. St. Elen day was the feast of the Invention of the Holy Cross, 3 May.

^{page xlv note m} Ibid. 384. “Dat. apud Plumpton in festo S^cl Leonardi Abbatis, anno r. r. Henr. filii Regis Henr. quarto.”

^{page xlvi note n} Cartul. No. 399.

^{page xlvi note o} “Ceste endenture fait par entre Mons^r Robert de Plompton Ch'r dun part, et John de Pancesbery deverwyke dautre part, tesmoigne que le dit John est demoures une home darmes devers le dit Mons^r Robert ovec deux archers pur luy servir pur un an entier en un viage notre Sire le Roy devers son Roialme de France, ou autrement en autre lieu, ou luy plerra, Ian comenceant le jour del an que le dit John et sex deux archers seront a la mear, prestz pur y fair lour monstres selounque lordenaunce ent fait, et le dit John prendra pur luymesme dousze deniers le jour et chescun de ses archers syse denjers le iour, ovet eskippesson et reskippesson pur cink chevaulx pur luy dit John etsa retenue. Et lavaunt dit John serra tenuz destre bien armes et arraies de novell manere, et il et ses deux archers seront ensy bien et cuvenablement montes et arraiez solounque lours estatz, et tout pretz au port de Southampton le unszisme iour daprill prochein venaunt a y fair touts monstres devaunt les comissioners notre Sire le Roy a ces assignee, a taunt des foitchez, de la mear ou autrement, come ils seront resonablement garniz depart le dit Mons' Robert. Et le dit John prendra gages pur luy et ses deux archers es mayns pur un quart entier del an avauntdit. Preignaunt suertees purluy et ses deux archers pur ses autres trois quartres del an avauntdit per mesme la forme ou semblable come le dit Monsr Robert prendera de le Sire Fitzhughe. Cest assavoir, le dit John prendera douze deniers le jour, & cescun de les deux archers prendera sise deniers le jour. Et avera le dit Monsr Robert la tierce de toutz prisez & gaignez de guerre, des presoners come des autres choises, per le dit John prises ou gaignez, et le tierce de la tierce de ses deux archers en ascune manere gaignez, en semblable condicion al effect & purport des endentures a mon dit Sr Robert de Plompton faitz de sa retenu devers le Sire Fitzheugh, des queux gaignez, prises, & tierces partes le dit John & ses deux archers ferront a mon dit Sr Robert pleyne conusaunce & notice, si bien prisoners & autres gaignez de guerre, come de lour value, saunce concelementen ascune partie, deinz septz iours apres tielx prises ou gaignez faitz, sur payiie de forfair au dit Monsr Robert la value de ycelle concelement. En tesmoignaunce de quele choses les parties suisditz a ycestes indentures entrechangeablement ount mys lour seals. Done a Knaresburgh, la douszisme iour de Marce, Ian de reigne notre Sr le Roy Henri Quint puis le Conquest quint.” (Cartul. NJ 397.)

^{page xlvii note p} Carte, Catalogue des Rolles Gascons, fol. Lond. 1743, vol. 2. p. 235.

^{page xlvii note q} Cartul. N^o. 402. By the contract William Slengsby, esquier, undertook, within six weeks after his coming into the realms of England, to enfeoffe, or cause to be enfeoffed, Sir Thomas Rempston and Sir Robert Plumpton, knights, in lands of his heritage in the townes of Scriven, Knaresburgh, Farnham, and Wiclif, to the value of xl marks; to hold to the use and profitt of Jenett, one of the daughters of the said Sir Robert, getten of the body of Alison, sometyme his wife, and sister of the said Sir Thomas, during her life, unless the marriage betwixt the said William and hir as here by theis foresaid parties it is spoken and accorded, be notmaked. Witnesses, Robert Swillingdon, Giles Dawbeny, Tho. Saint Quintyn, William Hudelston, kts. and William Wakefield, Nicholas Ward, and John Thorp, esquires.

^{page xlvii note r} Cartul. No. 403. The deed of this date contains a covenant between Sir R. Plumpton, kt. and Dame Alice Chelray, prioress of Esshold and the convent of the same, whereby the latter, in exchange for a licence to hold in severalty and inclose two assarts, called Over-holme, Nether-holme, Stragilford, Lang-holme, and Alridrode, which they held of the gift of Neil de Plompton, and other ancestors of the said Sir Robert, in the vill of Idill, agreed to quitclaim to the former all their rights of pasture and pannage in the wood of Idill; provided always, that a chaplain should continue to sing perpetually for the soul of Dominua Rohertus films Roberti de Plompton, according to the tenor of a charter made by the same to God and St. Leonard of Eshold. The charters containing these endowments will be found in the Monasticon, new edit. vol. V. p. 472; but the name of Alice Chelray is omitted in the list of Prioresses of Esholt.

^{page xlviii note s} Cartul. No. 405. Dat. apud Plumpton, xxiiii^to die mensis Septembris, anno r. r. Hen. V. post conq. Anglics octavo. The witnesses were, Sir Thomas de Markinfeld, Sir Roger Ward, Sir Richard de Goldsbrough, Sir Halnath Malleverer, knights, William deBeckwith, William Pensax, William de Hopton, Henry de Chambre, John Pulaneand others.

^{page xlix note t} Cartul. No. 407.

^{page xlix note u} Esc. 11 Hen. VI. No. 5.

^{page xlix note x} This inscription, which wants literal exactness, is taken from a copy in the notices of the family of Foljambe, by N. Johnston, M. D. 1701. printed in the Coll. Top. et Gen. vol. I. p. 91. (Vide No. 107, p. 341.)

^{page xlix note y} Curia tenta apud Knaresburgh die mercurii p‘x’ ante festu ‘Sc’i Laurenci, a^o r. r. Hen. Sexti xxxvii. Alicia nuper ux. Tho. Wintringham—ad opus Johanna: et Alicisa ux. Godfrid' Plompton, filiarum dictorum Thomae et Alicise, (Cartul. No. 494 & 495,)

^{page l note x} A toutz yceux, &. Will'm de Plompton, saluz en dieu. Sachez moyavoir done & graunte a mon chier & bien amie frere John Grene un anuel rent de quatre marcz dez issuz et p'fitz de mon manoir de Garsington en Craven, &. et vesture de son lyverey a son degre, &. Et le dit John serra seneschall au dit Will'm de toutz ses terres et ten'tz en le counte d'Everwyke au rolloir du dit Will'm. En tesmoignaunce, & Done apud Plompton le primer jour de Janyver, Ian du reigne le Roy Henri sisime puis le conquest quint. (Chartnl. No. 418.) Alice is put down as the wife of Richard Marley in a pedigree of Plumpton, in Harl. MSS. 1487. A JohnMarley was a feoffee for the family 12 Jan. 17 Edw. IV. 1478, and William and Isabel Marley are named in Sir William Plumpton's Correspondence; but no proof of consanguinity is to be obtained from existing evidences, and the match is too early for a Herald's Visitation to be relied upon as an authority.

^{page l note a} Cartul. No. 419.

^{page li note b} Carte. Catalogue des Rolles Gascons, Normans et Françis. Londres, fol. 1743, vol. II. p. 257.

^{page li note c} Cartul. No. 425. Will's Repington, ar.—Will'mo Plompton, militi. Dat. apud Amynton in vigilia S'ti Mich'is, anno r. r. Hen. VI. nono.

^{page li note d} Ibid. No. 427.

^{page lii note e} Cartul. No. 434.

^{page lii note f} Cartul. No. 436. Teste me ipso apud Westm', 18 Jan. anno regni n'ri 14.

^{page liii note g} Cartul. No. 443. These estates, which had been the property of the Foljambes, comprised the manors of Kenalton, Hassop, Wormehill, Pillesley, Stantonhall, Chelmerton and Combrigge, together with land and tenements in Bakewell, Tiddeswall, Queston, Flagfeld, Martinside, Cumbes, Wardlow, Hurdlow, Spoundon, Lokhaw, Twyford, Turndike, Broughton, Crakemarsh, Monyashe, Chesterfeld, and Chaddesden, with the advowsons of chantries in the churches of Bakewell and Mansfeld Woodhous.

^{page liii note h} Cartul. No. 469. 17 Hen. VI. M^d q'd Tho. de Thorp & Tho. Brig parcarii parcide Hawray iiij^to Octob. ult. p'terito deliberaverunt Will'o Plompton, militi, Senescallo ac Magistro Forestario Honoris de Knaresburgh, infra parcum predictum viij^xx. ferarum, per visum Tho. Beckwith, Rad'i Beckwith, Joh'is Beckwith, ac aliorum, &. Haverah park (extra-parochial), containing upwards of 2,000 acres, is now divided into farms, the property of Sir William A. Ingilby, bart.; in 1439 we learn from this document that it contained 160 head of game. In the Cartulary are copies of the returns of the game, and of the distribution of the same during several years of Sir William Plumpton's occupancy of the office of chief forester in the reign of Henry VI.

^{page liii note i} Cartul. No. 452. Littera attorn, ad deliberandam seisinam D'no Will'o Plompton, militi, Constabulario castri de Knaresb: Dat. apud Knaresburgh, 3 Jun. 18 Hen. VI.

^{page liii note k} Cartul. No. 448. Indentura inter Petrum Ardern, deputatum Will'mi de la Poole, Comitis Suff: capitalis senescalli d'ni Regis Ducatus sui Lancastrise in partibus boreal: ex parte una & Johannam nuper uxorem Will'mi Ingilby, militis, defuncti ex parte altera, de firma herbagii & agistamenti parci de Bilton infra dominium de Knaresb: in com. Ebor. Dat. 16 Dec. 18 Hen. VI.

^{page lv note i} Hugh Pakenham or Pagnam was brother of the Treasurer of York Cathedral. A letter from him to Sir William Plumpton will be found among the Correspondence.

^{page lxii note *} Cartnl. No. 455, et seq.

^{page lxii note a} Ibid. No. 446.

^{page lxii note b} Ibid. No. 437.

^{page lxiii note c} Cartul. No. 531. Dat. apud Derley. Witnesses, Sir Richard Vernon, Sir Henry Parpoint, knights, John Curson, Tho: Foliamb, Robert Ayre, and others.

^{page lxiii note d} Cartul. No. 535. The witnesses were Sir Robert Roos, Sir Roger Ward, Sir Richard Vernon, Sir Henry Parpoint, Sir Thomas Chaworth, Sir Gervase Clifton, knights, Richard Hamerton, John Curson, William Babington, and others.

^{page lxiii note e} Cartul. No. 437.

^{page lxiv note f} History of Craven, page 247, 2nd edition.

^{page lxv note g} Cartul. No. 526. Lord Clifford died in 1454.

^{page lxv note h} Ibid. No. 537 et 538.

^{page lxvi note i} Cartul. No. 524.

^{page lxvi note k} Ibid. No. 533.

^{page lxvi note l} Vide posted, p. xxiv.

^{page lxvi note m} Cartul. No. 545.

^{page lxvi note n} Ibid. No. 546. Dat. apud Epworth.

^{page lxvii note n} Cartul. No. 548.

^{page lxvii note o} See Correspondence of Sir William Plumpton, kt. Letter 1.

^{page lxvii note p} “Will'o Plompton ar filo meo,” is underwritten as witness to a grant of Sir William Plumpton, of the chantry of blessed Nicholas, in the church of St. Martin in Mikelgate, in the city of York, vacant by the death of Henry Cattall, chaplain, the Custos, made to Sir William Shorthwait, chaplain, which bears date 19 Feb. 39 Hen. VI. 1460–1. This is the last memorial of his being alive; and he is expressly stated in a contemporary memorandum, containing the births and obits of himself and his elder brother Robert, to have died in the first year of the reign of Edw. IV. 1460–1. (Chartul. No. 547.) Thus at a court held at Knaresborough, Wednesday the feast of St. Mathias the Apostle, 1 Edw. IV. Margaret and Elizabeth, daughters and heirs of William Plompton, esq. son of Sir William Plompton, kt. were admitted as copyhold tenants of lands lying in the hamlets of Fellesclif, Bresteyth, and Hamesthwaite, within the vill of Clint, in Harrigat and elsewhere within the vill of Killinghall, and in Knaresburgh, Screven, Ferensby, and Erkendell Lofthouse, saving the right of Elizabeth, late wife of the said William Plompton, for the term of her life. (Ibid. Nos. 500 and 501.)

^{page lxviii note r} Cartul. No. 549.

^{page lxviii note s} Will'm's Plompton miles admissus est ad et in omnia libertates et privilegia Turns London p' Will'mu' Bowischer militem locum tenentem Turris p'd'cse et juratus est secundum consuetudinem eiusdem Turris. In cuius rei testimonium p'sentibus ego p'dc'us Will'm's locumtenens sigillum meum apposui. Dat xii^o die mensis Julii anno regni Regis Edw: quarti post conquestum primo. (Cartul. No. 550.)

^{page lxviii note t} Edwardus, &. Omnibus ballivis et fidelibus suis, &. Sciatis quod de gratia nostro speciali et ex certa scientia et mero motu nostris perdonavimus, remisimus, et relaxavimus Will'o Plompton militi, alias dicto Will'o Plumpton militi, alias d'co Will'o Plumton militi, alias d'co Will'o Plompton de Plompton in Com. Ebor. militi, alias d'co Will'o Plumpton de Plumpton in com. Ebor. militi, alias d'co Will'o Plompton nuper de Kenalton in com. Nottingham, alias d'co Will'o Plompton nuper de Knaresburgh in com Ebor. militi, alias d'co Will'o Plompton nuper Vicecomiti Com. Ebor. militi, alias d'co Will'o Plompton nuper Vicecomiti Com. Nottingham et Derb. Chivaler, seu quocu'que alio nomine censeatur, omnimodas transgressiones, offensas, &. (Cartul. No. 551.)

^{page lxviii note u} Edwardus &. Omnibus &. salutem. Sciatis q'd cum tercio decimo die Maii, Anno regni n'ri primo, Will's Plumpton de Plumpton in com. Ebor. miles venerit coranx dilecto et fideli n'ro Roberti Danby Capitali Justiciario n'ro de banco apud Civitatem Ebor. et recognoverit se debere nobis duo millia librarum sterlingorum, solvend' nobis in festo Pentecost' ex tune proximo futuro, sub certa condieo'e super eadem recognico'e tune et ibidem specificat', prout &. Quibusdam tamen certis consideraco'ibus nos moventibus, &. remisimus &. p'fato Will'o omnes et omnimodas acc'ones &. r'one sive occ'one recognico'is vel condico' is supradictarum &. In cuius rei &. Testo meipso apud Westm' x^o die Septembr' anno regni n'ri secundo. Bagott. Per breve de private sigillo et de data predicto, aucthoritate parliamenti. (L.S.) (Cartul. No. 552.)

^{page lxviii note x} Cartul. No. 557.

^{page lxx note y} Cartul. No. 560.

^{page lxx note z} Cartul. No. 561.

^{page lxxi note a} Cartul. No. 558.

^{page lxxii note b} Cartul. No. 562. The feoffment to Brian Rouclif, third Baron of the King's Exchequer, Sir Richard Hamerton, kt. Sir George Darell, kt. Guy Fairfax, serjeant-at-law, Richard Pygot, serjeant-at-law, Henry Sotehill, esq. Tho. Beckwith, esq. Stephen Hamerton, esq. Lawrence Kighley, and Godfrey Grene, of the manors of Plumpton, Garsington, Steton, Idill, and Stodelay Roger, with the appurtenances, &. in the county of York, trustees for the purposes of this settlement, bears date 1 June, 4 Edw. IV. 1464. Witnesses, Peter Ardern, one of the King's Justices of the Bench, Brian Stapilton, Richard Aldburghe, kts. Robert Roos of Ingmanthorp, and Ranulph Pigott, esq. (Ibid. No. 565) For the manors, &. in the counties of Nottingham, Derby, and Stafford, the feoffees in a deed of the same date are Sir Walter Blount, kt. Brian Roucliffe, third Baron of the Exchequer, Sir Richard Hamerton, kt. Sir George Darell, kt. Guy Fairfax, and Richard Pygott, serjeants-at law, Henry Sotehill, esq. Thomas Beckwith, esq. Stephen Hamerton, esq. Lawrence Kyghley, and Godfrey Grene, and Edward Goldsburgh, John Byrd, John Askham, Richard Fawbergh, and Thomas Allestre. (Add. MSS. in Brit. Mus. No. 6698.)

^{page lxxiii note c} Eleonora (lege Elizabeths) relicta W. Plumpton fil. et her. D'ni W. Plumpton voluntarie recognovit in capella Sc'i Laurentii infra precinctum manerii honorifici viri D'ni Ric. Hamerton, quod nunquam remisit juncturam suam vel dotem d'no Wo Plompton, l^mo Oct. 1461. (Dodsworth MSS. in Bib. Bodl. vol. Ixxxiii. fol. 79. containing transcripts of deeds remaining in Skipton Castle, Corn. Ebor. 1646. See Whitaker's Craven.)

^{page lxxiii note d} Omnibus, &. Elizabeth Hamerton, nuper uxor Willielmi Plompton armigeri, salutem. Noveritis me præfatam Elizabetham remisisse, &. Willielmo Plompton militi et Roberto filio et heredi ejusdem Willielmi omnimodas actiones, &. Dat 1^o die Feb. a^o r. r. Edw. IV” post. conq. Anglise decimo nono. (Cartul. No. 696.) Sir Richard Hamerton, kt. made his will, 3 Oct. 1480, and died the same year. (Descent in Whitaker's Craven.)

^{page lxxiv note e} Cartul. N^o. 631. In 1456, Henry Percy, earl of Northumberland, warden of the East Marches, made an inroad into Scotland in company with the revolted Earl Douglas. Baldersby-in-les-Broomeand Skipton-upon-Swale are townships in the parish of Topcliffe, but in different wapentakes, being on opposite sides of the river, the boundary. The bridge over the Swale at Skipton would cause this line of road to be frequented by those whose route from Knaresborough was directed towards the East Marches of Scotland, through North-Allerton and Darlington.

^{page lxxiv note f} “Restoration of King Edward IV.” Printed for the Camden Society, 1838, p. 7.

^{page lxxiv note g} Ibid. p. 32.

^{page lxxiv note h} Edwardus, &. O'ibus, &. salutem. Sciatis de gratia, &. perdonavimus, &. Will'o Plompton de Plompton, in com. Ebor. militi, alias dicto Will'o Plompton nuper de Kenalton in com. Nott: militi, &. omnimodas transgressiones &. per ipsum Willielmum ante ultim' diem Septembris, anno regni n'ri undecimo, contra formam statutorum &. Irrot. Blakwall. Per ipsum Regem. (Cartul. No. 578. Date in margin, 2 Dee. 11 Edw. IV. 1471.)

^{page lxxvii note i} Cartul. Nos. 582 and 631.

^{page lxxviii note j} Ibid. No. 583.

^{page lxxviii note k} In Cartul. No. 586.

^{page lxxviii note l} Ibid. No. 589.

^{page lxxviii note m} Ibid. No. 591.

^{page lxxviii note n} Ibid. No. 593.

^{page lxxviii note o} Ibid. No. 596.

^{page lxxviii note p} Ibid. No. 598.

^{page lxxix note q} The deeds of settlement bear date as follow: of Plumpton and Roughferlington 23 Oct., of Idell 24 Oct., of Steton 25 Oct., of Garsington 26 Oct., of Kynalton I Nov., of Chaddesden, &. 4 Nov., and of Okbrook 7 Nov. 15 Edw. IV. 1475.(Cartul. No. 587, 588, 590, 592, 594, 597, 600 et 603.)

^{page lxxix note r} This indenture made the xiii^th day of July, the xvii^th yeare of the reigne of King Edward the iiijth, betwixt Will'm Plompton, knight, in that one partye, and Will'm Gascoigne, squier, on that other partye, witnesseth that the said Will'm Plompton, knight, grants unto the said Will'm Gascoigne that Rob't Plompton, son and heire apparant to the said Will'm Plompton, knight, shall by the grace of God, take and wed unto his wife Agnes, the sister of the said Will'm Gascoigne, betwixt this day and the feast of St. Andrew thappostle next comyng. And the said Will'm Flompton, knight, shall make or cause to be made unto the said Rob't and Agnes a sufficient and lawfull estate of lands and tenements, to the yearly value of xx^th over all manner of charges and reprises, within the lordshipp of Kenalton in the county of Nottingham, within a moneth next after the said marriage had, To have and to hold unto the said Robert and Agnes, and to theires of their two bodyes lawfully begotten, the remainder theirof to the right heires of the said Will'm Plompton, knight. And also the said W^m. Plompton, kt., grants unto the said Will'm Gascoigne that he, nor any other feoffee to his use, shall not make any feoffem^t or lease of any maners, lands, or tenemt^a that he hath, or that any other person or persons hath, for the agreement betwixt him and Henry Sothill and Brian Roclif, or either of them, but of such maners, lands, and tent1 as the said Will'm Gascoigne shall be privy to. And also if such evydence and estats as the said Will'm Plompton, knight, hath made of all his maners, lands, and ten^ts be not thought sufficient to the behoof of the said Rob't and his heirs by the councell of the said Will'm Gascoigne, that then the said Will'm Plompton, knight, shall make or cause to be made all such sufficient estates as the councell of the said Will'm. Gascoigne will then avise to be made, fynes and recoveryes onely except; for the which mariage and covenants to be had and performed the said Will'm Gascoigne shall pay or make to be paid unto the said Will'm Plompton, knight, a c^li of lawful money of England in the manner and forme that followeth, that is to say, xxh att the day of the said marriage, or within a moneth then next after, and xl marke at that day twelmoneth at the marriage is att: and so yearly at that day xl marks to the hole some of the c^li be trewly paid and satisfied. And for the payment of the said c^li, the said Wm. Gascoigne, with two sufficient persons with him, shalbe bounden unto the said Will'm Plompton, knight, by their several obligacions, according to the dayes of paym' aforesaid. And the said W^m. Gascoigne graunts that he shall of his owne costs and expence pay for the cost of the dynner of the said mariage, and also for the arayment of the said Agnes his sister; for the which covenants well and truly to be performed of the party of the said W^m. Plompton, knight, the said W^m. Plompton, knight, grants that he shall be bounden unto the said Will'm Gascoigne by his obligacions in the some of iiiic mark. In witness wherof the parties abovesaid to this indenture interchangeabull have put to their seale the yeare and day abovesaid. (Cartul. No. 604.)

^{page lxxx note s} Henricus Gillow in decretis baccalarius ac canonicus residenciarius ecclesise metropolitic' Ebor. et reverendissimi in Xp'o patris & d'ni, domini Laurentii p'missione divina Ebor. Archiepiscopi, Anglise primat' et Apostolicse sedis legati, vicarius in spiritualibus gen'alis, dilecto nobis in Xp'o vicario ecclesise p'ochial' de Harwood, sal't'm. Quia Rob'tus Plompton p'ochise de Spofford et Agnes Gascoigne p'ochiae de Harwood matrimonium, ut dicitur, contraxerunt, illudq' in facie ecclesise solempnizat' habere intendunt: quodque matrimonium sic, ut prefertur, contract', bannis in utriusq' p'tis p'dict' ecclesiis p'ochialibus per tres dies solempnes inter se distantes, ut morisest, publice editis, licite et libere in capella infra manerium Will'mi Gascoigne p'och' de Harwood p'd' situat' solempnizare seu solempnizari facere valeas, dum tamen alicui ecclesise nullum ex hoc p'judicium generetur, et aliquod canonicum non obsistat, licentiam tibi concedimus specialem per p'sentes. Dat. Ebor. xiii^o die mensis Januarii, anno D'ni Mill'imo cccc^mo lxxvii^mo.

Joh'es Gisburn, Canonicus residenciarius eccl'ise Cath. Ebor. ac Rector eccli'ae p'och' de Spofford, discrete viro vicario p'petuse eccPise p'ochial' de Harwood vestrove locum tenenti aut vicem gerenti meumque, salutem in D'no. Noveritis me p'fatu' Joh'em Giaburgh, de'se ecclesije de Spofforde rectorem, publice in facie ecelesie mese p'ochialis de Spofford anted'cse banna per tres dies solemnes inter se distantes per capellanum p'ochialem ejusdem ecclesise, menm deputatum, intra missarum solemnia cum maior affuerat populi multitudo in eadem, inter honorabilem virum Robertum Plompton, armigerum filiu' d'ni Will'mi Plompton, militis, dc'æ ecclesise mes de Spofford p'ochianum ex parte una, et honorabilem mulierem, Agnetem Gascoigne, p'ochianam vestram, nuper filiam d'ni Will'mi Gascoigne, militis, nuper defuncti, ex altera parte, legittime edi fecisse, et nullum impedimenta' ex parte dc'i Rob'ti invenisse, quin idem Rob'tuscum eadem Agnete matrimonialiter valeat copulari. In cujus rei testimonium sigillu' meum p'sentibus apposui. Dat. Ebor. xii^o die mensis Januarii Anno d'ni Mill'imo cccc^mo LXXVII^mo. (^{Cartul. No}. 607 and 608.)

^{page lxxxi note s} Cartul. No. 610.

^{page lxxxi note t} Esch. 20 Edw. IV. No. 88.

^{page lxxxii note u} “It is accorded between Sir William Plompton, kt. and Robert Rosse, esq. that Thomas Rosse, son and heir apparent to the sd Rob't, shall wed and take to wife Johan, daughter of the sd Sir Will'm Plompton, kt. before the feast of Allhallowes in the yeare 1454. And that the s^d Robert shall give jointure to the s^d Thomas and Johan of lands and tentts to the yearly value of xx marks in Thirleby. ^It'm that the sd Robert shall suffer after his decease to descend to the s^d Thomas and his heirs, all the manors and lands that he hath by his father, except landes to the yearly value of xx marks for the tearme of the life of Margaret, wife of the s'1 Robert. ^Item. Sir William Plompton, kt. to pay for the s^d marriage and jointure cc marks.”—(Towneley MSS. G. 24. and tee Dodsworth's MSS. vol. L. f. 98 b.) Robert Roos inherited Thirleby, com. Ebor. from Thomas Roos his father, who had it by virtue of a feoffment made by William de Cantilupe, to him and to the heirs of his body.—(Rot. Parl. v. III. p. 79, 80.)

^{page lxxxii note v} Cartul. No. 570. Thomas Middelton was of the profession of the Law.

^{page lxxxiii note y} Cartul. No. 541. Dat. in festo s'c'i Wilfridi Archiep'i anno r. r. Hen. VIⁱⁱ. post conq. Angl. tricesimo quarto.

^{page lxxxiii note z} Esc. 8 Edw. IV. No. 53, et 11 Edw. No. 40.

^{page lxxxiii note a} Cartul. No. 555. Sir Richard Aldburgh died 16 Edw. IV.—Esc. de eod. anno.

^{page lxxxiv note b} Cartul. No. 579. Carta feoffamenti Edwardi Goldsburgh facti Ric'o Goldesburgh et Alicise uxori susæ. H. T. Will'o Plompton, Ric'o Aldburgh, Joh'e Malliverere, et Will'mo Stapulton, militibus, Rob'to Roos de Ingmanthorp et Will'o Middleton de Stokeld, armigeris, et Thoma Middleton, generos'.—Dat apud Goldsburgh xv^mo die Dec. a^o r. r. Edw. IV. post conq. Anglise undecimo.

^{page lxxxiv note c} Cartul. No. 586. Carta obligatoria Thomse Goldsburgh de Goldsburgh, com. Ebor. et Johannis Norton de Norton, com. Ebor. militis, Willelmo Plumpton militi in ccc marcis solvendis in festo Natalis D'ni prox. futur. Dat. l^mo. die Oct. a^o r. r. Edw. IV. post. conq. quinto.—(See Correspondence of Sir William Plumpton, Letter VI.)

^{page lxxxiv note d} This indenture made the xxiiii^th day of March, in the yeare of the reign of King Henry the sixt xxvth, betwene Sir Will'm Plompton, knight, on thone party, and Richard Hamerton, squier, on thother party, witnes, that where the said Richard is bounden to the said Sir Will'm in an obligation of a c marcs made the first day of March in the yeare aforesaid, payable at the feast of St. Michael tharchangell next sewing, the said Sir Will'm wills and grants to the said Richard by thes presents, that if all the lands and tenements, rents, revercions and services, with thappurtenances, whereof Laurence Hamerton, fader to the said Richard, and the said Richard, are ioyntly or severally seazed, and whereof they, or either of them, or any other to their use, or to the use of either of them, att this tyme takes the profitt, discend, revert, remayne, or fall in fee simple or in fee taile, discharged of every rent fra hence forward by the said Lawrence and Richard, or either of them, to be granted, to theirs male of the said Richard solely, immediately after the decease of the said Lawrence and Richard, dower of the said lands and tenements to the wives of the said Laurence and Richard and either of them except, (And except that it be lawfull to the same Richard to make or do make a state of the said lands to Elizabeth, his wife, to the yearly value of xxiiij mares over all charges and reprises for tearme of her lyfe withoutyn impechment of wast, and also except that it be lawfull to the same Richard to make or do make estate for terme of lives of ii or thre persons att most, ioyntly or severally, of and in the said lands and tenements to the yearly vallue of xl^li over all charges and reprises and no more,) that then the said obligacion be voyd and of none vallue. And also alway forseene, that if it happen no son and heire of the same Richard to have issue with none of the daughters of the said Sir William that then the said obligacion to be voyd and of no value. In witnes of which things the said parties to thes indentures interchangeably have sett their seales, the day and yeare abovesaid.”—(Cartul. No. 534.) The arms of Hamerton impaling Plumpton were in painted glass in the chapel at Plumpton Hall, at the time of the Visitation of Richard St. George Norroy.—(MSS. Coll. Arm. c. 13); and in Long Preston Church under an arch opening the Hamerton quire to the chancel, on the founder's stone, is carved a shield, quarterly, Plumpton and Foljamb. This chantry was founded in 1445, but this carving is of later date than the above indenture, for in the inscription Richard Hamerton, then a sguier, is called Miles. The above contract will therefore have been the reason for giving this unimpaled shield a place here, though no actual marriage had yet taken place between the children.

^{page lxxxiv note e} MSS. Add. 5530. f. clx. apud Coll. Top. et Gen. vol. i. p. 707. inter addenda.

^{page lxxxvi note f} Cartul. No. 585. Teste meipso apud Westm: decimo-septimo die Febr. anno regni nostri tertio decimo. (7 Feb. 13 Edw. IV. 1467–8).

^{page lxxxvi note g} Leland's Itinerary, vol. i. f. 104. p. 99.

^{page lxxxvi note h} Vis. Ric. St. George Norroy, in Coll. Arm. C. 13.

^{page lxxxvi note i} Cartul. No. 685.

^{page lxxxvi note k} Ibid. No. 628.

^{page lxxxviii note l} Cartul. No. 625.

^{page lxxxviii note m} Ibid. No. 620.

^{page lxxxviii note n} Ibid. No. 710.

^{page lxxxviii note o} Ibid. No. 624. The jurors were Percivall Lyndley, esq. John Arthington, esq. Thomas Hawkesworth, esq. William Exilby, gent. Henry Arthington, gent. John Chambre, gent. William Lyndley, gent. Richard Saxton, John Baildon, William. Angrow, William Stead, George Swaile, John Herryson.

^{page lxxxix note l} Cartul. n. 701, et seq. The trustees for the purposes of this settlement were Sir Christopher Ward, kt. John Gascoign, esq. Richard Knasburg, gent. John Quixley, chaplain, and Henry Fox, valet, and the dates respectively 25, 26, and 27 Oct. 20 Edw. IV. 1480.

^{page lxxxix note k} Cartul. 718. The feoffees to the uses of this will were Dame Joan Plompton, widow, John Wyntringham, chaplain, and Robert Sykerwham. (Ibid. No. 716.)Cartul. No. 629.

^{page lxxxix note m} Ibid. 720.

^{page xc note n} Cartul. No. 721.

^{page xciv note o} The manor of Elton had bees the property of Sir Edward Foljambe of Tideswall, com. Derby, kt. whose issue having failed before 4 Edw. IV. 1464, the inheritance was claimed by Sir William Plumpton as heir-general, and by Thomas Foljambe of Walton, com. Derby, esq. under a special entail. In that year the latter gave to Richard, Earl of Warwick, and William, Lord Hastings, Chamberlain of the King, the manor of Tideswell com. Derby, and lands in Tideswell, Hucklow, Wormhill, Ahney, Longsden and Button (Coll. Top. et Gen. vol. i. p. 347); and 8 Apr. 19 Edw. IV. 1479, Dame Cecilia Fuljambe, relict of Sir Edward Fuljambe, knight, in her widowhood, granted to Sir William Plompton, kt. her manor of Elton, com. Derby, with the appurtenances in Elton aud Stainton, and a fifth part of the manor of Newton, near Blithfeild in the county of Stafford, and released absolutely to him all right and title therein. (Cartul. No. 593.) What was the result of this suit does not appear; save that no proceedings were taken by Sir Robert Plumpton after this adverse award in favour of the heirs-general, which necessarily cast a slur upon his title virtute doni, and rendered it of little avail in any claim as against them.

^{page xcv note p} Cartul, No. 722.

^{page xcvii note q} Lei. Coll. vol. iv. p. 185, from a MS. in the Cotton library. Sir Robert Mutton was Prior of St. John's, Clerfcenwell, in 1414; in which year (14 June) he was made Warden of the East and Middle-Marches jointly with the Earl of Northumberland. (Claw. 15 Edw. IV. m. 26.) In 1477 he resigned his office of Prior and was succeeded by Sir John Weston.

^{page xcvii note r} Lei. Coll. vol. iv. p. 219, where the name is misprinted Gasixyne, and afterwards in the list subjoined of knights present at the ceremony, Gaston. Dame Gascoigne, his mother, sister of the Earl of Northumberland, likewise heads the list of “Ladyes” of the court given by the Herald on this occasion, as “Dame Gaston;” but in reading printed copies of ancient manuscripts, the t and c should be always made mutually convertible, as from its being impossible to distinguish these letters from one another as written, their right appropriation can only be determined by extraneous knowledge.

^{page xvvii note s} The name of this Esquire of the Body to King Henry VIII. is printed Kinston in Rot. Parl. VI. 345. a. but in Leland's Collectanea, where his name twice occurs in the Herald's Ceremonial which has been quoted from above, the reading is Kuyston and Ruyston, with an interlineation over it Kyffton. I apprehend, therefore, that the real orthography was Knyfton, and that he was identical with Nicholas Kniveton of Mercaston, com. Derby, esq. living at this period.—(Wolley's MSS.)

^{page xvvii note t} From a copy in the Towneley MSS. Whitaker has printed this letter in an abbreviated form, probably from Dodsworth's transcript, in his History of Craven, with the date of the thirtieth of October instead of the thirteenth; and this same date is also in the Towneley MS. G. 24.

^{page xcix note u} See the letter of the Earl of Surrey to Sir Robert Plumpton in a note at page 96 of the Correspondence, where mention is made of Robert Beck (see Letter XX), a servant of the latter, having found a gelding belonging to the Earl, which had been lost upon the field of battle.

^{page xcix note w} See this letter also at page 96, note a. Through erroneous calculation of the regnal year, the battle of Ackworth is there represented to have been fought in the spring of the year 1491, instead of 1492, which the date, 28 May, 7 Hen. VII., refers us to. That this last was the right year, also appears from the inscription on the tomb of the Earl of Surrey at Thetford; in which the suppression of the insurrection, and the execution of the chief leaders, are referred to the same year as the King's expedition to the Continent and the siege of Boulogne.

^{page c note x} Elizabeth and Isabell were used indiscriminately at this period in England, as well as abroad, to denote the same proper name.

^{page ci note y} Cartul. 781.

^{page ci note z} Ibid. 783.

^{page cii ntoe a} Vide Letter XCIV. p. 120.

^{page cii note b} Letter XCV. p. 122.

^{page cii note c} Letter XCIX. p. 150.

^{page civ note d} Margaret de Rempston, who died very aged on the 21st April, 1454.

^{page cv note e} This deed of feoffment is suppressed in the Cartulary, but a copy has been preserved in the same MS. from which this declaration has been taken, and from which it appears that the true date was 1 Jan. 4 Edw. IV. (see p. lxxii.)

^{page cvi note f} This feoffment was made before 2 July.lS Hen. VII. 1500. Vide Letter CXXIV. n. a.

^{page cvi note g} Add. MSS. in Brit. Mus. 6698. Wolley's Collections. Ex MS. Joh'is Sudbury, Dlim de Alfreton, com. Derb. Attornat.

^{page cvi note h} Letter CXXVII. and Letter CXIX.

^{page cvi note l} Cited in Inq. post mortem Elizabeths Sotehill. At the date of this grant Sir Richard Empson had not been knighted.

^{page cvii note k} The declaration above transcribed gives Richard Redman as the name of the feoffee who conveyed to Bubwith and Burgh, but in the Cartulary is a copy of a grant to the same parties from John Ingilby, esq. of the manors of Plompton, Idell, Steveton, Garsington in Craven, and Little Studley near Rippon, in com. Ebor. dated 7 May, 17 Hen. VII. 1501. (Cartul. n. 818.)

^{page cvii note l} Sir Edward Stanhope, of Rampton, com. Nott. kt.

^{page cvii note m} Sir Gervase Clifton, of Clifton, com. Nott. kt.

^{page cvii note n} Sir Robert Dymoke, of Scrivelsby, com. Line. kt.

^{page cvii note o} Sir William Pierpoint, of Holme, com. Nott. kt.

^{page cviii note p} Sir Marmaduke Constable, of Flamborough, com. Ebor. kt.

^{page cviii note q} Brian Palmes, of Leathley, com. Ebor. called Serjeant 18 Nov. 1511.

^{page cviii note r} William Eleson, of Selby, gent.; half-brother to Mrs. Isabel Plumpton, wife of William Plumpton, esq. eldest son of Sir Robert.

^{page cviii note s} Sir Christopher Ward, of Givendale, com. Ebor. kt.

^{page cix note t} Cartul. No. 824. “Copied the 12th of November (1627), having 69 seals besides them that is broken off.”

^{page cix note u} Sir Williain Conyers, of Hornby, com. Ebor. kt. first Baron Conyers.

^{page cix note w} Sir Thomas Wortley, of Wortley, com. Ebor. kt. was Sheriff of Yorkshire in 1502.

^{page cx note x} Sir Randolph Pygot, of Clotherholme, com. Ebor. kt. Ob^t 1503, buried in Ripon minster.

^{page cx note y} Sir Christopher Ward, brother-in-law to Sir Robert Plumpton.

^{page cx note z} Ralph Nevill, of Thornton, com. Ebor. esq. son-in-law of Sir Christopher Ward.

^{page cx note a} Sir Ninian Markenfield, of Markenfield, com. Ebor. kt. Will dated 1 Oct. 1527, proved 5 July 1528. Buried before the high altar of St. Andrew, in the collegiate church of Ripon.

^{page cx note b} Sir Thomas Fairfax, of Walton, com. Ebor. kt. married Anne Gascoigne, niece of Dame Agnes Plumpton.

^{page cx note c} Nicholas Girlington, of Hackforth, com. Ebor. esq. jure uxoris, who was Margaret dau. and coh. of Thomas Montfort.

^{page cxi note d} Dodsworth MSS. in Bib. Bodl. Oxon. vol. CXLVIII. f. 62. In 18 Hen. VII. 1502, the feast of the Nativity of our Lady, 8 Sept. fell upon a Thursday, and this letter being written on the morrow of the feast, the date would be Friday. That Tuesday is a mistake of the writer through inadvertence is also obvious from the contents of the letter, which refer to that day as remote. There is a transcript of this letter in the Towneley MSS.

^{page cxii note e} During Sir Robert Plumpton's visit to the Court, the manor-place of Plumpton had been left in charge of his wife and his eldest son William, with directions to distrain upon all tenants who, by reason of the warning on the part of Sir John Roclife and Dame Elizabeth Sotehill, should refuse to pay the rents due at Martinmas. This was done; and they, not being able to recover their cattle and household stuff, thus seized, by replevy in the usual manner, made complaint to the Archbishop of York, who in vain interfered on their behalf. Whereupon he caused William Plumpton and sixteen of his servants to be indicted, and when the jury would not return a true bill, he made them to do so by a threat of punishing him who made refusal. William Plumpton, however, still set the Archbishop at defiance, and under a promise of assistance in case of need from Sir William Gascoigne, determined to resist all attempts on the part of Sir John Rocliff to plough the land, by force of arms, and to treat the tenants who did not acknowledge him as their landlord, as trespassers. (See Correspondence of Sir Robert Plumpton, Letter CXXXIV. et seq.) Into the Cartulary is copied a writ of capias, directed from William Conyers, kt. Sheriff of Yorkshire, to Thomas Spinke, bailiff of the wapentake of Clarro, against Richard Coates, and divers other husbands, laborers, yeomen, shermen, a Webster, and a smith, at the suit of William Plompton, esq. of a plea of trespass, returnable on Thursday next after quindena Patch, to bring their bodies to the castle at York. “Dat. in castro Ebor'. sub sigillo officii mei xx die Apr. anno r. r. Hen. 7. xviii.” (Cartul No. 820)

^{page cxiii note f} Towneley MSS. The King was at Collyweston in July 1503. (Lei. Coll. IV. p. 265.)

^{page cxiii note g} Sir Roger Hastings of Roxby, com. Ebor. kt.

^{page cxiii note h} Richard Fox, Bishop of Winchester, Lord Privy Seal, ob. 14 Sept. 1528.

^{page cxiii note i} Sir Thomas Lovell, K. G. Treasurer of the Household and President of the Council.

^{page cxiii note k} Sir Richard Guildford, K. G.

^{page cxiii note l} Sir Richard Weston, kt.

^{page cxiv note m} Dodsworth MSS. in Bib. Bodl. Oxon. vol. CXLVIII. f. 62. “In Sir Edward Plumpton's Booke of Letters.” See Introduction.

^{page cxiv note n} Lord Nerill married first, in presence of King Henry VII. and his Queen, the daughter of William Faston, esq. of the death of this Lady, the Herald, whose valuable memorials have been printed by Hearne, in the Collectanea Lelandi, has this notice: “The King, the Quen, and my Ladie the Kings moder, begpnne Crysmas at Westmynster, and at that season ther wer the Meazelles soo strong, and in especiall amongis Ladies and Gentilwemen, that sum died of that sikeness, as the Ladie Nevill, doughter of William Paston.” This was in the fifth year of Henry VII. 1489, and she must have died issueless, as her sisters, the wives of Sir Gilbert Talbot and Sir John Savill, knts. were the heirs of William Paston. Lord Nevill's second marriage was likewise solemnized in the royal presence, as appears by an authentic list of Marriages in the King and the Queues presence, where summe officers of arms have ben present. Among these entries we have, “Item. The Lord Nevill furst to the doughter of William Paston; after to the suster of Sir William Sands.” (Coll. Top. et Gen. vol. i.p. 22, from a MS. of the time of Hen. VIII. penes D'n'm Tho. Phillipps, Baronettum.)

^{page cxiv note h} Edward Strangwyshe and William Pollard were presented to the living of Brancepeth and the Mastership of Steindrop College, by Richard Fox, Bishop of Durham, respectively on the 12th and 20th July, 13 Hen. VII. 1498, ratione custodies terrarum et tenemmtorum qua nuperfuerunt Radulfi nuper comitis Westmorland et minoris atatig Radulfi heredis ejusdem et nunc comitis Westmorland in manibus dicti Episcopi existentis. Both the Earl of Westmorland and his son, Lord Nevill, were with the army under the Earl of Surrey, which entered Scotland in July 1497; and the latter was one of the conservators on the English side of the truce concluded at Aytoun, 30 Sept. 13 Hen. VII. 1497. When this truce was renewed, 12 July, 1499, the name of Lord Nevill, as being then dead, was omitted, but all the other conservators are the same on both sides. The precise date of his father's death is unascertained; but we know from the report of Leland, an excellent authority, as almost contemporary, that the Earl died for grief at the loss of his son, at Hornby Castle in Richmondshire, and lay buried in the parish church there. (Lei. Itin. vol. i. f. 60.) The infant heir was brought up at Court; and among the privy purse expences of Henry VII. are payments in 1499, “for a hone, bridell, and sadell for young Nevill, 11s. 8d. For a Kendall cote for litell Nevil, 3s. id,” (Excerpta Historica. lientley, 1831, p. 122.)

^{page cxvi note p} In 1503, the Lady Nevill was one of the Ladies who accompanied the princess Margaret, the affianced Queen of Scotland, to the Court of that Realm; at which date the first wife of Sir Thomas Darcy, Dowsabella, daughter of Sir Richard Tempest, of Giggleswick in Ribblesdale, com. Ebor. kt. was yet living; for after her husband had met the royal train at the entrance of the town of Berwick, of which he was captain, and received the Queen into the place, “she was conveyed and brought to the Castell, wher she was receyved by the Lady D'Arcy honestly accompayned.” (Vide De rebus Anglicanis opuscula varia, apud Lei. Coll. vol. iv. p. 279.) Lady Nevill, for she retained that more ancient distinction of title after her union with Lord D'Arcy, died at Stepney, 22 Aug. 1529, and was buried at the Friars Minors in Greenwich, in Kent, leaving issue by her second husband an only daughter, Elizabeth, married to Sir Marznaduke Constable of Flamborough, in com. Ebor. kt.

^{page cxvi note q} By indenture made 10 March, 10 Hen. VIII. 1528–9, betwixt William Plompton, of Plompton, esq. of the one partie, and Lawrence Kighley, of Newaly neare Otley, esq. of the other partie, the lands, &. lying in Roughfarlington, in the countie of York, except the new house and the orchard, together with other premises in Plumpton and Knaresborough assigned to Dame Isabell Plompton, late wife of Sir Robert Plompton, knight, and now wife to the said Lawrence, in the name of her feofment, were exchanged for a rent-charge of xx marks annually during the joint lives of the said Lawrence and Isabel; and if the said Lawrence fortune to die living the said Isabell, she to enter upon and have the same during her natural life. (Cartul. No. 856.) Dame Isabel Plumpton was second wife to Lawrence Kighley, esq.; his first wife was Ann, daughter of Thomas Lyndley, of Scutterskelf, com. Ebor. esq. to whom her issue by him were coheirs. (Vide Pedigree of Lyndley, in Graves1 History of Cleveland.)

^{page cxvii note r} Henry Sotehill, of Stockfaston, com. Leic. esq. who died thus young, was buried in the Grey Friars, London. (Coll. Top. et. Gen. vol. v. p. 289.) Both Inquisitions are copied at length among Plumpton Evidences in the Towneley MSS.

^{page cxviii note s} Cartul. No. 836.

^{page cxix note t} See Letter CLXX. et. seq. p. 207.

^{page cxix note u} Cartul. No. 840.

^{page cxxii note v} Cartul. No. 841.

^{page cxxii note w} Cartul. No. 840. In Michaelmas Term, 7 Hen. VIII. Sir Bryan Stapleton, kt. Sir Richard Sacheverell, kt. Sir Thomas Fairfax, kt. and Sir William Mauleverer, kt. recovered against Sir William Perpoynt, kt. the manor of Woodhouse, with appurtenances in Cukney, com. Nott. of the inheritance of Sir William, in fulfilment of this covenant. (Ibid. No. 863.)

^{page cxxiii note x} Richard Plumpton, chaplain, was son and heir of Godfrey Plumpton, next brother of Sir William Plumpton, named in the entail to the heirs male made by his brother in his lifetime. After the settlement in performance of the award, Sir Richard released all right and title in the estates of Sir William Plumpton, to William son and heir apparent of Sir Robert Plumpton, kt. by deed dated 30 Aug. 11 Hen. VIII. 1519, and witnessed by Sir William Gascoigne, senior, kt. Sir Richard Mawlevery, kt. Sir Thomas Farfax, kt. Robert Teske, Minister of the house of St. Robert near Knarsborough, Richard Chirdin and others (Cartul. No. 851.) j which release he renewed 20 Dec. I5 Hen. VIII. 1523. (Ibid. No. 854.)

^{page cxxiii note y} Cartul. No. 867, 869, et 870.

^{page cxxv note z} Cartul. No. 843.

^{page cxxv note a} Copy of the will in Towneley MS. G. 24. Witnesses, Sir Richard Plompton, chaplain, William Garthing, chaplain, Oliver Diconson, Ralph Knowle, and others.

^{page cxxvi note b} Cartul. No. 854.

^{page cxxvi note c} Lel. Itin. vol. VIII. pt. 2nd. f. 68 b. Sir William Babthorpe, kt. son of William Babthorpe of Osgodby, gent, possessor of Babthorpe at the date of this journey, was a lawyer and one of the King's council in the north. (See State Papert, part iv.) Babthorpe is not, however, in Holderness, but in the liberty of Howdenshire.

^{page cxxvi note d} Lel. Itin. vol. I. f. 104, p. 99.

^{page cxxvii note e} Cartul. No. 857.

^{page cxxvii note f} Towneley MS. G. 24, p. 302, taken of an old manuscript. Witnesses, Tho. Gascoigne, esq. Tbomas Plompton, Richard Ampleforth, Tho. Hawks, Chr'ofer Mauson, Wm, Stevenson, Rob. Settill, Roger Hall, Rob. Haukes, and others.

^{page cxxviii note g} Towneley MS. G. 24, containing transcripts from a book of Plumpton Evidences called the Red Book, is the authority for the statements in this latter portion of the Historical Notices of the family.

^{page cxxix note h} Fin. Term. Hill. 8 Eliz. coram Jacobo Dyer, Anthonio Browne, Rich. Weston, et jeh. Walshe.

^{page cxxx note i} In the Towneley MSS. this note accompanies the transcript of the covenant: “Robertus Plumpton filius et heres Will'i Plumpton ar. obiit sine prole.”

^{page cxxxi note k} Edmund Thurland of Gamston on Idle, com. Notts, esq. brother-in-law of William Plumpton.

^{page cxxxii note l} Towneley MSS. ubi supra.

^{page cxxxiii note m} Lands. MSS. 27. Plut. 73 f. (Burghley Papers.) Surtees has printed this paper in the Appendix to his Lives of the Bishops of Durham, prefixed to his first volume of the History of Durham, p. clx. but with some misreadings, as of Antony for Plumtone.

^{page cxxxiv note n} Addlethorpe is a farm-house in the township and parish of Spofforth.

^{page cxxxiv note o} Ousefleet, in the parish of Whitgift, com. Ebor.

^{page cxxxiv note p} In the church of Spofforth is yet remaining in a niche an uninscribed monument, having on it the recumbent effigy of a knight in armour cross-legged, on his shield the coat of Plumpton. (See Archæolog. vol. VI. pl. xlhii. p. 338.)

^{page cxxxv note q} Ex libro per manum propriam Edwardi Plompton. (Towneley MSS.)

^{page cxxxv note r} William Arthington married Catharine daughter of Sir William Ingleby of Ripley, kt. Treasurer of Berwick, and High Sheriff of Yorkshire 7 Eliz. 1574.