Deposition of Sir Stephen Hammerton
Sir Stephen Hamerton, knight, sworn and examined, said that the first he knew of the insurrection in Yorkshire was by a bill which was set in the church Door of Giggleswick before the first commotion in Craven, to this effect,
that every man, on pain of death, should meet on the morning after by 9 of the clock in a place above Neals Ing,
Assoon as he heard word thereof upon the next morninghe went to have seen the said bill and when he came to the church he heard tell, that all the people were gone, and the bill with them, and the priests of the Church, to the place appointed.
And then he turned homeward and in the way hunted a while, And in the mean time came to him certain witnesses which bad him save himself, for there was many men coming toward him in harness, to deal with him they knew not how,
And anon after he came upon three hundred persons and environed about him, amongst whom were one Fawcett and one Jakes who said they were glad they had taken him, for before he had ruled them and now they would rule him.
Letter to Master Deyn
TNA ref SP1/107
Master Deyn[e] we reco[m]end us unto you desyrynge you that ye byde beydes and reherse the poyntes of Cursyng in yo[ur] p[ar]ish Church as hath bene accustumed afor tyme after the true Lawes of God as p[ra]y for the pope of Rome the hed of o[ur] mother holy church[e] and hath as hath bene g[ra]unt by holy popes
And thus in this cause of almyghty God faile not to do and we shall dye and Lyve w[i]t[h] you as ye intende to have the favo[ur] of God and ours and intendeth to have eny dewty <of> w[i]t[h] us and if ye will not send us ward the contrary
By the hole assent of all the hole
p[ar]ishen[er]s and ten[au]ntes of my Lordes
of Northumberland
TNA Tempests statement (get ref fro Bush)
On the 21st October 1536 John Caterall, Anthony Talbot, Richard Hamerton and John …man and 1000 men of the commons went to Nicholas Tempest’s house in Bashall
John Stackhouse the elder, “he did stryke Thomas Bankes upon the face with his fiste in the church yard upon the Sabbothe day the xij [12th] of Julie in the presence of Roger Carr one of the Sworne men”, Stackhouse appeared and confessed and submitted himself “and forasmuch as his neybours do well report of him, therefore he is dismissed”
Absolved.
V1590/1 CBI f.289v, 1590-91
William Paler, Robert Carr, Gregory Twistelton and John Houghton, old churchwardens [?], “They want a ….. of ……., a Chest for the poore, the roofe and leades of ther Church is in decay, many goe to Grindleton and neglect ther owne parish Church, and none of these defects by them presented”
V1619 CB f.57v-58v, 1619
Vol29/342
Henry Tennant
I give to the former several footes (fourths) of the parish of Giggleswick that is to say to the foote of Giggleswick, to the foote of Settle, to the foote of the two Stainforths, to the foote of Rathmell and Langcliffe and to entry of the two former footes or parts one bull and one stoned horse to be kept and maintained by good order to and for the common the benefit and good of all the inhabitants of the same several parts that […..one word] will continue the same order still amongst them in remembrance of this my free gift.
Dispersed and receipted and witnessed p113 and 114 of registers
1512 Percy
The force included 380 of his own tenants from Wressill, Leckonfield, Semer, Hundemanby, Craven, Pocklington, Nafferton, and Catton.
To serve under his banner came Sir John Hotham from Scarborough, Sir Ralph Salvyn from Newbiggin, William Thwaytes of Londe-of-the-Wolde, and Stephen Hamilton of Gigleswicke, whose united retinues amounted to 143 fighting men.