(Chantry Surveys) at Burnsall the Lands of the Chantry of Our Lady in the Chapel of Bilstone

Deeds relating to Yorkshire (West Riding) including Arncliffe, Buckden, Chapel, Deepdale and Hubberholme FILE-Lease for 99 years by Francis Earl of Cumberland and Sir William Ingilbie, to Christopher Tennant, of a farm at Chappell in Langstrothdale, for £280 fine. Yorkshire. - ref.Ga 10,509 - date: 26 July 1608

1540s(Chantry surveys) at Burnsall the lands of the Chantry of Our Lady in the Chapel of Rylstone had been sold by Jeffrey Proctor to the Earl of Cumberland

In 1535 John Proctor, whose offence against the Earl is not known, was carried off and imprisoned in Skipton Castle, while " his goods were spoyled destroyed and lost by brute beasts, and also not so contentyd but they drove away his cattle and beasts." 1 In this case the Earl seems to have sent inferior servants; only a really serious piece of lawlessness, such as stealing the court rolls, called for the presence of gentlemen. Thomas Blackborne, who was the chief defendant against Proctor, must have been some relation to William Blackborne, the vicar of Skipton, to whom Christopher Aske left in his will a horse rejoicing in the name of Grey Hodgeson 2 . Dodds sistersKirkby Malham

45.297RUGHECLOSS Item, a Tenement in the holding of Jeffray Proctor with lands medoos etc. thereunto belonging ; by yere xxs. 92 Memorials of Fountains I, 307, 310, 311, 366. (Surtecs, 42).

195.302' of Newfelde. To his daughters Isabele and Mabele, £6 135. 4d. each, ' to be att the rewll and guydyng of Stephen Proctor of Frerhede.' ' Towards the makyng of the north ylle in Gargrave Churche he gives 20/-,' and ' to a prest to syng fore my soull at

202.064period we find : Baptisms—'19 March 1603—Tho : son of Elyas Procter de Warsell.' This Elyas was presumably the younger brother of Stephen. The entry of his baptism at Gargrave on 12 March 1564, reads ' Elyas Proctor, son of Thos. Proctor of Frearhead.'

245.958last past one Geoffrey Proctor, of Hanlith, in the county of York, Robert Wylkynson,

248.029Proctor and others, commanding them to appear in the High Court of the Star

248.770incident cannot be definitely fixed, though the fact that Geoffrey Proctor was

248.987Hugh Dicenson the Assize Roll records no details of Proctor's crime, but the

292.673Free John ffaldshay, present; William Proctor, present; the heirs of

311.109(1) " All that yearly rent of I2d. and the service which Geoffrey Proctor and his

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272.025Item, a Tenement in the holding of Jeffray Proctor with lands medoos etc.

280.798grandfather, Josias Lambert, in 1609, to Thomas Proctor, eldest son of William

280.831Proctor, sometime of Cowgill House, alias Hawthornledyeate, gentleman,

323.044WINIFRED M. (1) GEOFFREY PROCTOR

685.66012 March 1564, reads ' Elyas Proctor, son of Thos. Proctor of Frearhead.'

765.577incident cannot be definitely fixed, though the fact that Geoffrey Proctor was

765.797Hugh Dicenson the Assize Roll records no details of Proctor's crime, but the

905.298William Preston Robert Proctor

950.627Free John ffaldshay, present; William Proctor, present; the heirs of

976.733(1) " All that yearly rent of I2d. and the service which Geoffrey Proctor and his

CSP Feb. 15. 85. Petition of Robt. Swinglehurst, John Proctor, and other tenants of Slaidburn, co. York, to Salisbury, to be allowed to make composition for their tenures, which are called in question as not belonging to the Duchy [of Lancaster]. With order thereon.

STRYPE

UNDER QUEEN MARY I. 566

Anno 1556.

The controversy between the Earl of Cumberland and Gabriel Proctor, esq. the occasion may appear from a supplication made to the said Lord Chancellor by the said Proctor. Theimport whereof was, that whereas there had lately and of long time depended matter in controversy, in the court of the duchy of Lancaster between these two, touching the farm of the manors of Winterborn, Hetton, Ashton, Flasby, and Ayreton, in the county of York, whereof Proctor was the farmer, bailiff, and receiver : so it was, that notwithstanding a decree, and divers injunctions and writs, awarded against the said Earl, his servants, and tenants, in Proctor s behalf; the Earl and they did not only from time to time disturb, vex, and trouble him, his wife, servants, and tenants, in the quiet occupation of the premises ; but also divers malefactors had been, and still were, maintained and aided by the said Earl against the said Proctor, his wife, servants, and tenants : whereby they were daily put in danger and fear of their lives ; that is to say, one Lancelot Knowells and Rafe Harrison, his servants, for murdering Proctor s servant at his foot, and leaving him for dead. The Earl gave the former a tan-house, and keepership of one of his games, and appointed the latter to be a yeoman usher in his hall. And did so remain at that present, to the ill example of others, and manifest contempt of the King s and Queen s laws, with divers others of the said Earl s servants, who were aiders and abettors of the said murder. Since which time, his wife, his eldest son, and servants, had been sore beaten, hurt, and wounded, by certain of the servants and tenants of the said Earl and others hereafter named. And by them divers and many great routs and unlawful acts had been done.

For the reformation of which misdemeanours, it pleased the Queen, by her bill signed, to grant her letters of com mandment to the sheriff and justices of peace of the county of York, and all other her ministers there, to aid and assist Proctor, in the quiet occupation and enjoying of the said premises, according to the said decree, and a lease granted to him by the late King Edward VI. under the seal of the said duchy.

In consideration of the premises, and that for fear of the lluTto malice of the said Earl, his servants, tenants, and others by the Lord his procurement, and for fear of the loss of his life, Proctor >r repaired home to his mansion-house and country. Where he dared not to go about to put the Queen s letters in execu tion, and attend about his necessary business ; therefore he petitioned the Lord Chancellor for remedy thereof: and in way of charity, (for that the Earl was in that country a man of great power, and still maintained his servants, tenants, and others against Proctor,) to grant him their Majesties writ of special supplicavit, to be delivered to the right honourable the Earl of Shrewsbury, lord president of the north, and the rest of the Council there, and to the sheriffs and justices of the peace of the said county, and of all Lanca shire, authorizing them thereby, not only to call before them the said Earl of Cumberland, Lancelot Knowells, and Rafe Harrison, Lancelot Neffield, Christopher Muncton, Thomas Clifford, bastard brother to the said Earl, Thomas Clifford Aspertyne, and thirteen more, who were principal offenders herein, (the three last not being servants unto the Earl, had wounded Proctor s wife, whereupon afterward she died,) but also Christopher Martin, John Green, and five more : and to bind them all with sufficient sureties to keep the King and Queen s peace, and to be of good behaviour towards this orator, his present wife, children, servants, and tenants, and especially for the safeguard of the body of this orator. Who had, in the last Lord Chancellor s time, divers writs of special supplicavit, and of like effect directed to the sheriffs and justices of peace ; who either durst not or would not put any of them in execution, for fear of displea sure of the Earl. The lack of which execution had been the chief occasion of most of the misdemeanours, and was like to breed greater mischiefs and inconveniences, to the utter undoing of the said gentleman, his wife, children, and the rest that belonged to him.

This Earl of Cumberland had but this year obtained a licence from the- Queen to retain an hundred men: and thisdomineering over honest men, and oppressing whom he pleased, in affront of good laws and the Queen s peace, was ^tai^an some of the good fruits of it. hundred

The Lord Chancellor, taking the reasonableness of Proc tor s petition into his consideration, March 14, sent it to the Lord President and Council, and, according to his request, appointed them to see justice done, and the person and fa mily of Proctor secured and defended from danger, in case 3 5 jr they should find matters according to the complaint. For thus did the Chancellor write :

" After our right hearty commendations to your good The Lord " Lordship ; We send unto you here enclosed a bill of complaint exhibited to us by one Gabriel Proctor : wherein he in Proctor s " doth as well complain and shew, how that through divers Ex " the misdemeanours and assaults made upon him by certain D. Comit. " of the Earl of Cumberland s servants, whose names are " contained in the said bill of complaint, he hath and doth " stand in much danger and fear of his life : as also requireth " for his safeguard special writs of supplicavit, to be directed " to your Lordship in this behalf. And because we are " loath, without some further understanding of the special- " ties and truth of this matter, to grant the said writs of " suppUcavit, and yet mind not to leave the party destitute " of all remedy, where the same in any case should be re-, " quisite ; we have therefore thought good to refer this " whole matter, and the ordering thereof, to your Lordship : " praying you, upon the receipt of these our letters, together " with the said supplication, to call the parties, or so many " of them as ye shall think convenient, before you ; and to " proceed, either to the binding of them to the peace, or in " some greater and straiter bond, as the behaviour of the " parties and the cause shall to your Lordship s discre-- " tion seem to require. Whereby the party complainant " may be relieved of this fear, which he seemeth now to o o 3 566 MEMORIALS ECCLESIASTICAL stand in. And so we bid your Lordship right heartily XLIII. we ]j to f are> Anno 1556. " Your good Lordship s From the Court the " assured loving friend, 14th of March, 1556. " Nico. Ebor. Cane."

KIRKBY MALHAM

270.529Item, a Tenement in the holding of Jeffray Proctor with lands medoos etc.

279.615grandfather, Josias Lambert, in 1609, to Thomas Proctor, eldest son of William

279.647Proctor, sometime of Cowgill House, alias Hawthornledyeate, gentleman,

321.318WINIFRED M. (1) GEOFFREY PROCTOR

666.480or thei be of habilitie and power soo to doo.' To his grandson, Geoffrey Proctor,

667.382each to Eustace and Cuthbert Proctor, the latter's having a ' septer uppon it.'

671.895each, ' to be att the rewll and guydyng of Stephen Proctor of Frerhede.'

678.80312 March 1564, reads ' Elyas Proctor, son of Thos. Proctor of Frearhead.'

678.82512 March 1564, reads ' Elyas Proctor, son of Thos. Proctor of Frearhead.'

685.302N.B.—The surname is variously spelt—Proctour, Procter and Proctor. ifjth century

754.248last past one Geoffrey Proctor, of Hanlith, in the county of York, Robert Wylkynson,

756.350Proctor and others, commanding them to appear in the High Court of the Star

757.091incident cannot be definitely fixed, though the fact that Geoffrey Proctor was

757.308Hugh Dicenson the Assize Roll records no details of Proctor's crime, but the

894.481William Preston Robert Proctor

938.289Free John ffaldshay, present; William Proctor, present; the heirs of

963.276(1) " All that yearly rent of I2d. and the service which Geoffrey Proctor and his

1.007.294Proctor (Procter), Elyas, 217

1.007.336Proctor, Thomas, 87

(Chantry surveys) at Burnsall the lands of the Chantry of Our Lady in the Chapel of Bilstone had been sold by Jeffrey Proctor to the Earl of Cumberland

Kirkby Malham

45.297RUGHECLOSS Item, a Tenement in the holding of Jeffray Proctor with lands medoos etc. thereunto belonging ; by yere xxs. 92 Memorials of Fountains I, 307, 310,

311, 366. (Surtecs, 42).

190.027at Bordley aforesade for the tyme beyng, if he or thei be of habilitie and power soo to doo.' To his grandson, Geoffrey Proctor, testator gives his ' signeth of gold that

haith an hynde gravyn in the printe of it,' and desires that he may ' be putto

190.886each to Eustace and Cuthbert Proctor, the latter's having a ' septer uppon it.'

195.302' of Newfelde. To his daughters Isabele and Mabele, £6 135. 4d. each, ' to be att the rewll and guydyng of Stephen Proctor of Frerhede.' ' Towards the makyng of the

north ylle in Gargrave Churche he gives 20/-,' and ' to a prest to syng fore my soull at

202.064period we find : Baptisms—'19 March 1603—Tho : son of Elyas Procter de Warsell.' This Elyas was presumably the younger brother of Stephen. The entry of his

baptism at Gargrave on 12 March 1564, reads ' Elyas Proctor, son of Thos. Proctor of Frearhead.'

202.086period we find : Baptisms—'19 March 1603—Tho : son of Elyas Procter de Warsell.' This Elyas was presumably the younger brother of Stephen. The entry of his