military services, he returned into England. On his journey, he found a dragon fighting with a lion in a valley called Saranel, when he slew the dragon, and the lion followed him into England, and to his castle at Hood." He lived fifteen years afterward, died in a good old age, and was buried in Bellalanda, in quadam fornace in muro Capituli, ex parte australi, juxta matrem suam Gundredam, et supra sepulchrum ejus depictus est gladius lapide insignitus, ubi nemo positus est in presentem diem."" Another history of the Mowbrays, formerly among the monastic papers in St. Mary's tower, York, and brought thither, I fancy, from Byland, at the dissolution of the abbey, contradicts this statement about his burial-place, and says Hie cruce signatus ivit in terram sanctam, et captus a Saracenis, redemptus est per militiam Templi, et mortuus in terrâ sanctâ, sepultus est apud Sures." meaning thereby, I presume, in Syria. As many passages, and even whole sentences in this latter document are found in the former, this discrepancy is the more remarkable. The document that was in St. Mary's tower may also have been of higher antiquity than the other, as the narrative is continued only to the end of the thirteenth century, I have not yet exactly discovered when Roger de Mowbray died, but it is certain that he was taken prisoner at the battle of Hillin.

But let the chronicles be received as they may, it has been universally believed in Yorkshire, for the last forty-six years, that Roger de Mowbray was not only buried in Byland, but that in the year 1818 his remains were exhumed here by the late Mr. Martin Stapylton--guided to the place by "ancient MSS." -and removed to Myton, where they were re-interred in the churchyard. I do not know the value of his MS. evidences, but at all events, it is evident that the skeleton which was accidentally found by his workmen, under the floor of the north-west part of the chapter house-after several futile searches outside the walls of that apartment-could not have been that of the man who, according to the only known chronicler who gives his sepulchre at Byland, was buried within its south wall.

But time urges; and as the rest of the conventual offices are better explained in the plan that I exhibit than by any narrative I could adopt, I must forbear to trespass longer on your attention.

XI. A GENEALOGICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR OF THE LORDS OF STUDLEY, IN YORKSHIRE.' BY JOHN RICHARD WALBRAN,

HONORARY MEMBER OF THE OXFORD UNIVERSITY GENEALOGICAL AND HERALDIC SOCIETY.

Harrison, 1841.

Ripon Printed by William,

Quamvis obstet mihi tarda vetustas,

Multaque me fugiant primis spectata sub annis,

Plura tamen memini.

Ovid, Metam., XII, 152.

In the year 1180, RICHARD LE ALEMAN was lord of Studley, and also of a moiety of the manor of Linton, in Craven. He was succeeded by his son,

WALTER LE ALEMAN, who gave to the Monks of Fountains, and all that belonged to them, free passage over his lands there, and also his lands in Swanley.2 William his brother, also gave them two carucates of land in Horton. He had also another brother, John. Walter was succeeded by his son.

SIR JOHN LE ALEMAN, knight, who was living in 1229, and, in that year presented Walter de Hedon to his mediety of the rectory of Linton, in Craven.3 He gave his mill at Malham to Fountains, for elemosynary purposes, and was otherwise a considerable benefactor to the monastery. In October, 1233, Archbishop Gray gave the land and heir of John le Aleman to his brother, Sir Robert Gray. (Kirkby's Inquest, ed. Surtees Soc. 422.) By his wife, Alice, who after his death married William de Hebbeden, he had issue a son, of whom nothing further is known than that his only daughter and heiress, ISABEL LE ALEMAN, married,

JOHN LE GRAS-Le Crassus, or Le Gardus, who became, in her right, lord of Studley. He was living in 1251, and in that year presented John le Gras, probably his nephew, to his moiety of Linton rectory. He had issue, by the heiress of Aleman,

SIR JOHN LE GRAS, knight, lord of Studley, &c. jure matris, who in 1310 presented Simon le Gras, then an acolyte, to his mediety before mentioned: and, in 1316, William le Gras to the same benefice. In the Will of Sir William Vavasour of Hazlewood, dated "die Jovis prox' post festum Sancti Gregorii

(1) The following pages are the substance of information collected by the Author from MS., and other authentic sources, and forming part of the materials for a History of the Wapentake of Claro, and Liberty of Ripon, on which he is engaged. Some imperfet notie of the Tempests inve been a ready published; and an outline, or abstract of the whole Genealogy was inserted in th· Studley Guide, in 1837.

Twenty copies have been printed, and those only for private distribution.

(2)

Burton's Mon. Ebor.

(3) Torre's Catalogue in Hist. Craven, 461.

(4) Torre, ut supra.

Papæ, 1311," is the bequest of a gold ring to his wife Paulina le Gras. He was concerned in the murder of Peter de Gaveston, and had a pardon for his share in it dated October 16th, 1313, (Rymer's Fœdera). On December 18th, 1317, he did homage to the Archbishop of York for his lands at Ripon. (Kirkby's Inquest, 411.) His only daughter and heiress, Isabel le Gras, married, according to the usually received account,

SIR RICHARD TEMPEST, knight, second son of Richard Tempest, of Bracewell, in Craven, who thus became lord of Studley and other possessions, jure uxoris; but there appears some confusion, or perhaps deficiency in this statement. It has been said, though we have seen no proofs of the assertion, that this Isabel was the daughter and heiress of Sir Hugh Clitheroe, by Elizabeth his wife, daughter and heiress of Sir John le Gras.

From a passage extracted by Dr. Whitaker from Dodsworth's MSS., it would not only seem that she had a sister, who, though married, died without issue; but that she herself had a former husband, who had (by her) died childless also. "Seventeenth Edward III, between Sir Thomas Burn, knt., and Isabel his wife, plaintiffs; and Sir William de la Pole, knt., and Katherine his wife, defendants; of the manors of Stodelay and Linton, in Craven, &c., and the advowson of a moiety of the church of the said manor of Linton, whereby the said Sir William and Katherine remitted whatever right they had in the said manors, &c., for the lives of the said Sir William and Katherine to the said Sir Thomas and Isabel, and to the heirs of the said Isabel for ever.

Between this time and 1382 she must have been married to and become the widow of Tempest, for in that year, according to the Catalogue of Institutions to the two moieties of Linton rectory, extracted by the indefatigable and accurate Mr. Torre from the Archiepiscopal Registers at York, she presented to her mediety thereof, by the name of D'na Isabella, quondam ux' Ric'i Tempest, mil’.

There is some discrepance in the pedigrees of Tempest, of Bracewell, touching this Isabel, which requires no explanations or comment here, for it is quite certain that the estates were inherited through her, and that is all that is necessary to be proved.3

In the year 1379 this Lady Isabel Tempest was enfeoffed of the manor of Trefford hill, in the county of Durham, of which she died seised, in 1421, when it descended to her son. Inq. p. m., 23rd Oct., 1422.

(1) Reg. Kellawe, Ep. Dunelm.-Surtees Soc. Wills. i. 16. (2) Vol. i., p. 23: Final Concords 4-51 Edward III.

(3) It must be confessed that neither the genealogy of the Tempests, nor the earlier part of that of Mallory is satisfactory,

SIR WILLIAM TEMPEST, of Studley, knight, jure matris, was upwards of thirty years of age at his mother's death. He had been knighted before the year 1409, and married Elenor, only daughter and heiress of Sir William Washington, of Washington, in the county of Durham, by Margaret, his wife, daughter and coheiress of John Morvill.' They were cousins, being related to each other in the 3rd and 4th degrees, but their marriage was legalized by dispensation from the Archbishop of York, Oct. 20th, 1409, long after they had been married, and children born to them. (Test. Ebor., iii., 319). She died Jan. 2nd, 1451, and was then found seised of half of the manor of Washington. They had issue William and

2

Rowland Tempest, of Holmside, in the county of Durham. He had certain lands given to him by his brother William, 18th Henry VI., 1440; and, by Isabel his wife, daughter and coheiress of Elizabeth wife of William Elmden, had issue Robert, from whom descended the Tempests of Holmside, afterwards of Whaddon, in Cambridgeshire, and Cranbrook, in Kent, who were represented about twenty years ago by John Tempest, esq., of the latter place, and the Tempests of Stella, in the county of Durham, Baronets, now extinct in the male line.3

In 1436 Sir William held lands in Hartforth, near Richmond, of John, duke of Bedford, by the fourth part of a knight's fee." They were probably brought into the family by the marriage of his grandfather, Richard Tempest, with Johanna, daughter and heiress of Thomas Hartforth, of Hartforth, who was owner of the Stainton property."

WILLIAM TEMPEST, of Studley, esq., eldest son and heir, enjoyed his inheritance but a short time. He died January 4th, 1444,6 and the inquisition taken after his death will enable us to form some idea of the extent of the property of the family at that time. It appears he had possessions-if not the manorial rights-in Hetton, Stainton, and Appleton Parva; the manors of Studley, Hartforth, and Linton in Craven; two messuages, two tofts, and a close containing two acres, in Richmond, a messuage and twenty acres of land in Hartforth and Walkbourne, which, together with two cottages and three acres of

(1) Dodsworth's MSS., vol. lix. fol. 244, in Bibl. Bodl., Oxon.

(2) Inq. p. m., 24th January, xiv. Neville. 1451.

(3) St. George's Visitation, Co. Durham, 1615, and Surtees.

(4) Inq. p. m. Johannis Ducis Bedford, 1446. ir 36-Cal. 4. p. 169.

(5) Dodsworth's MSS., lix., fol. 244.

(6) Inq. p. m., in Co. Durham, 10 October, vii. Neville.

land in Gilling, were held of the Honor of Richmond; ten messuages in Ripon, and two messuages and sixty acres of land in Studley-All in the county of York. He was also seised of the manor of Trefford, in the county of Durham, which was held by the fourth part of a knight's service, suit at the manor court of Coatham Mundeville once in three weeks, and a pair of gloves, or 12d. in lieu of them, at the feast of St. Mary Magdalen.2 The name of his wife is not recorded. He left issue one son, John, then two years old, but who died soon after; and two daughters who then became his coheirs.

Isabel, the eldest daughter, married Richard Norton, of Norton Conyers, esq., and died before the year 1451,3 leaving her son, Sir John, then twenty-six years of age, her heir.

Dionisia, the younger daughter, married William Mallory, of Hutton Conyers, esq., and was thirty-six years of age, 24th of October, 1451.

The following document shews what was her share of her paternal estates.

On September 4th, 1452, John Lound, clerk, Robert Danby, Ranulph Pygot, William Heron, Robert Ingleton, and Richard Weltden (the feoffees of Sir Wm. Tempest) make over to Dionisia the wife of Wm. Mallore, esq., sister and heir of Wm. Tempest, esq., the son and heir of Wm. Tempest, knight, the manors of Studley and Linton, co. York, and that of Trafford in the Bishopric of Durham, with divers lands, etc., in the same places and at Brompton near Northallerton, Coppedhewyk, Aldfeld, Winkesley Wodhous and Grantley, the mill of Grantley, five messuages in Westgate in Ripon, and three acres of land adjoining them, és, of annual rent out of the tenements of John Whixley, jun., in Ripon, 8d. of rent out of the tent of Thomas Clotherholme, 16d. of rent out of the tent of John Croyser there, and 4d. of rent out of the tent of Wm. Roche there, to her and the lawful heirs of her body-failing them to John son and heir of Richard Norton and Isabella the sister and coheir of the said Wm. Tempest, esq., and his lawful heirs-failing them to Roland Tempest, and his 1. h.-failing them to Sir John Tempest, kt., and his lawful heirs male-then to right heirs of said Wm. Tempest, esq.

WILLIAM MALLORY, ESQ., who thus became Lord of Studley, jure uxoris, was the representative of an ancient and well-allied family. It cannot now be ascertained whence they originally sprung, though probably, from some of the southern

(1) Ing. p. m. W. Tempest, in Co. Ebor, 22 Hen. VI., n. 29--Cal. v. 4, n. 219.

(2) Surtees' Durham, vol. ii., p. 327.

(5) Ing. p. m. Elenor ux' d'n'i W. Tempest.

(4) Vide Harl. MSS in Bibl. Brit. Mus. 1233. fol. 130b,-1241, fol. 67b.-1420 fol. 35, 248b. 349b.-4630, foi. 577-6070, f. 210b. -Lansdown MS. 900 f. 361b.

Peter Malore (18th Edward I., 1290) married Matilda, d. and coh. of Stephen de Bayhus, and widow of Elias de Rabavu. He was a knight 33 E. I., 1805,-Rotul. Parl., v. i., p. 44, 179.

Joh'es Mallyore had a grant of free warren at Walton, co. Leicest. and Takebrooke and Botley, co. War. Rot. Cart. 9th Edw. III., p. 1., u. 10.

Sir Anketin Mallory held lands in Rutlandshire.-Ing. p. m. 6th R. 2. n. 152. Another Anketin was sheriff of Lincolnshire, 15th R. 2.