Carus Vale Collier

“ Mary's Church, Beverley, but the memorial slab is now lying behind the altar screen.
Sir Francis died at Burton Agnes after a short illness, 16th September, 1739, in his 62nd year, and was buried there the 19th September. "He was an affectionate husband, a tender parent, a kind master, and amiable neighbour. The easiness and frankness of his temper led many into his acquaintance, and the more he was known the more he was esteemed. He judged a general civility a debt to mankind, was a stranger to those little arts which a great soul despises, and a good one detests. ”

“ The Coat-of-Arms of this family is Gold, a fess between three crescents gules. The earliest example of this coat is to be found on the seal of Ingeram de Bouintune, attached to a deed at Durham, where the shield is differenced by a label of three points. [1] The deed is undated, but as it concerns a gift of Ingeram and Joan his wife, it may be referred to about the middle of the 13th century. This coat (without the label) is to be found in the Roll of Arms of the time of Richard II, [2] where it is assigned to Thomas de Boynton. ”

“ Roger de Stuteville, a younger son of the Roger de Stuteville who fought in the battle of the Standard, was probably the builder of the earliest work at the Hall, in the basement of the building to the west of the present mansion. According to a document [3] still preserved at Burton Agnes, this Roger had a son Ancelm, who died without issue, and five daughters, Alice, Agnes, Isabell, Gundreda and one who was a nun. Alice became the wife of Roger de Merlay the I, [4] son of the Founder of Newminster Abbey in the County of Northumberland (1137) . ”

“ It is stated that Ingelram de Muncels by deed, gave with Alice, his daughter, in marriage to a certain William de Boynton who did marry her, and to the heirs of their bodies, two messuages, three cottages and sixteen bovates of land in Boynton, in the County of York, by the name of three carucates of land in Boynton, the whole being in demesne except two bovates which Henry, son of Peter held, which two bovates are part of the said three carucates together with a capital messuage in the said town. ”

“ William Boynton was M.P. for Hedon 1680 to 1685, and when King James II proposed the repeal of the Penal Laws and Test Act in 1688, William Boynton was considered to be a suitable person to be employed as a Justice of the Peace for the East Riding of Yorkshire. [120]
William Boynton's wife Elizabeth, daughter and co-heir of Edward Barnard, survived her husband many years, built a hospital at Burton Agnes for four widows of tenants, and resided latterly with her son-in-law at Ripley, where she died, Easter Day, 4th April, 1708, and was buried at Burton Agnes, 29th April, 1708. ”

“ Sir Henry Griffith died in 1620, and was succeeded by the second Sir Henry, the last of the Griffiths. He was created a baronet in 1627, and was Sheriff of Staffordshire in 1634, and Deputy Lieutenant of Yorkshire in 1638–9. He sided with the King in the first Civil War, surrendered to Fairfax three weeks after Marston Moor, took the National Covenant, and was very heavily fined by Parliament. At his death in 1654, Burton Agnes passed to the son of his sister Frances and Sir Matthew Boynton, from whom it has descended to the present owner. ”

“ In 1366 Sir Thomas had free warren in Acklam, Airesome, Roxby, Newton, Stainton and Boynton. [38]
Sir Thomas married Katherine, daughter and co—heir of Sir Geoffrey Rosels, of Newton-under-Roseberry [39] , and had issue.
Thomas (VIII) , died before his father. Henry, who used a trefoil on his seal. [40] Elizabeth, mentioned in her brother’s will. Alice, mentioned in her brother’s will. Sir Thomas’s will is dated 26th July, and proved 6th September, 1402. He desires to be buried in the Church of Acklam. ”

“ In 1330 licence was granted for alienation in mortmain by Roger, brother and heir of John, son of Robert de Bovington, who had a licence for a chaplain to celebrate divine service in Boynton Church, as his brother John intended for a fine of 20s. ”

“ CHRISTOPHER BOYNTON [1451-1475] , son and heir of Christopher Boynton (I) and Elizabeth his wife; married
(1) ⁠ daughter of ⁠ Wandesford and ⁠ (2) Joan, daughter of James Strangeways, of Skelton, Esq. Her first husband was Conan Barton, Esq., of Whenby (d. 1436) . [13] To her John Rudston, clerk, being seized of the manor of Castle Levington, in fee, gave it, by the King's licence to her and the heirs of her body by Christopher Boynton [13] She died 10th January, 1489. Her Inquisition p. m., is dated 23rd July, 1489, and her heir is her son Henry. ”

“ A messuage in Halnaby called “Harbottle Farm,” he granted to his daughter Alethea “for her good preferment to God’s pleasure.” [108] He granted part of the Staffordshire property to John Fowns, of Dodford, in the parish of Bromesgrove, Co. Warwick, for £800. In agreement with William, his son and heir, he conveyed the manor of Wichnor, Co. Stafford, to Mary Offley, of Madeley, for the sum of £9,000. He was nominated by James, Duke of Monmouth, to be a deputy Lieutenant of the East Riding of Yorkshire, 14th February, 26 Charles II (1673-4) . ”

“ Alice is named in the will of her husband Christopher Place, 20th February, 1555-6, to which she was executrix. (See the Will in Vol. 36, Surtees Soc. p. 84) .
Alice married secondly Walter Strickland, of Sizergh, Esq. The 20th January, 1560-1, articles of agreement were signed between Walter Strickland, of Sizergh, Esq., and Thomas Tempest, of Lanchester Co. Durham, Esq., that on February 2nd following, Walter Strickland should marry "Alice Place, widow, sister to the said Thomas Tempest." ”

“ He was appointed to be chief steward of the possessions in the Counties of Yorkshire and Lincolnshire in the King's hands, by the attainder of William Woode, late Prior of Bridlington, with £6 a year out of the issues and the appointment of an under steward. This grant is dated 5th May, 1539. [70] Though Matthew Boynton seems to have been intimately connected with some of the leading spirits of Bigod's Rebellion, he seems at the same time to have remained loyal to his sovereign.
He married Anne, daughter of Sir John Bulmer, of Wilton [71] and had issue. ”

“ The furniture in the house at Great Ormond Street, with so much of his personal estate in that house as consists in plate, silver, jewels, rings, gold, precious stones, watches, chinaware and the like, and three cabinets, one black cabinet upon a black frame with painting on the inside of the folding doors and on the inside of the top and on the drawers, one cabinet japanned or painted, less than the first, on a japanned or painted frame, one cabinet or box, less than the last, being of stone inlaid with the figure of birds, etc., for her natural life, then to go to her executor. ”

“ Griffith Henry (XXXII) . Charles Ingram William, born at Kirk Hallam Hall, Co. Derby, 1853, graduated at Trinity College, Dublin; Clerk in Holy Orders. He became Rector of Barmston in 1898, married Mary, daughter of Samuel Cunliffe Lister (created Baron Masham in 1891) , by whom he has issue one daughter. Mary Constance, born at Carlton Vicarage, 5th November, 1890. Married at Bridlington 5th September, 1912, to Philip Lloyd Greame. Esq. Selina Charlotte, born at Burton Agnes, married to Alfred Newdigate in 1860. ”

“ The hall screen is adorned with representations of the Sibyls, the Virtues, the Twelve Tribes, the Four Evangelists, figures of Peace, Plenty, Geometry, etc. The handsome oak staircase, with its great newels, connected by a kind of cusping, is a fine feature.
The drawing-room is richly panelled, and over the chimney-piece is a large representation of the "Dance of Death" carved out of a single piece of oak; above is a bedroom of great interest, it is panelled in oak, and has a very good plaster ceiling with an all-over honey suckle design. ”

“ The pedigree itself probably drawn up towards the end of the reign of Elizabeth, or early in that of James I, is not suggestive of accuracy, and written on the back of it, in faded ink, are the words "This is false." ”

“ By her will dated 7th April, 1486, proved 7th February, 1488-9, she desired to be buried in the choir of the Friars of Yarm, and leaves to her daughter Dame Agnes Ratcliffe, a pair of "beades of gold," to Henry Boynton, of Sadbury, ten marks, to John Boynton, his brother, ten marks, and to her son Connand, the best twelve silver spoons, to her daughter Elizabeth Sayer, a salt seller of silver, and to her daughter, Alyson Eltan, twelve silver spoons. ”

“ The north and west sides have undergone little or no alteration. The material employed is red brick, stone being used only for the quoins, windows, cornices and other decorative features.
Internally, the hall has been considerably altered, but it contains two fine features in its chimney-piece and screen. The great chimney-piece contains representations of the five senses, and above a large relief of the wise and foolish virgins. ”

“ Sir Rees ap Grifftth was succeeded by a second Sir Rees, Thomas and John, none of whom appear in Yorkshire history, and as they were buried at Polesworth, in Warwickshire, Alrewas and Tatenhill in Staffordshire, we may conclude that they lived principally at Wichnor. ”

“ A waste toft and seven bovates of land, held under an entail to him and his heirs of his body of John de Waxand in chief, by service of one pound of pepper and of a pair of spurs or threepence yearly, and by knight's service. He died without heirs of his body. ”

“ SIR GRIFFITH HENRY BOYNTON, 12th BART., eldest son of the Rev. Griffith Boynton, Rector of Barmston, was born in 1849, and was educated at Jesus College, Cambridge. He succeeded his cousin Sir Henry Somerville in 1899, married in 1885, Euphemia Violet, youngest daughter of John Inglis Chalmers, of Altbar Castle, Brechin, N.B., and has issue—
Griffith Wilfred Norman, born 1889. Gladys Mary. Constance.
↑ N.B.—The dates placed in square brackets merely give years when we know that the person was actually living, and do not always refer to the birth and death of the individual. ”

“ He leaves 20s. to the high altar in Barmston Church, besides money to Sir Thomas Raven, chaplain, to sing and pray for his soul and all Christian souls, within the same, one whole year next ensuing his death, and three broad yards of black cloth to make him a gown, and 13s. 4d. to an honest priest to sing and pray for his soul two more years; to his son and heir apparent Thomas Boynton, the carved bed in the high gatehouse, with the velvet covering, &c. ”

“ By Joan, his wife, Christopher Boynton had issue—
(1) Christopher (III) . (2) Henry (IV) . (3) John.
(III) CHRISTOPHER BOYNTON [1467-1474] , son of Christopher Boynton (II) and Joan his wife, was living certainly between 1467 and 1474, [15] but probably died before his father.
He married Agnes, daughter of Henry Scroope, of Bolton, [16] this lady marrying for her second husband Sir Richard Radcliffe.
Christopher Boynton does not appear to have had issue by Agnes his wife. ”

“ According to Kirkby's Inquest, p. 56, William de Bouyngton and ] ohn de Munceus held five carucates of land in Bouyngton. The same authority (p. 127) says that William de Bovington held three parts of a fee in Acklam, Linthorpe, Thometon near Stainton, Marton, Tollesby and Roxby, where ten carucates make a fee et redd. ballivo domini regis pro fine iijs (note ijs) . Sir William married Alice, daughter of Ingelram de Monceaux, who married for her second husband William de Percy. [23]
This lady in her widowhood gave two oxgangs of land in Boynton to Nunappleton Priory. ”

“ SIR GRIFFITH BOYNTON, 5th BART., eldest surviving son and heir to Sir Francis, 4th Baronet, was born 24th May, 1712, baptised at St. Mary's Church, Beverley, 5th June, 1712. [139] He was admitted at Gray's Inn, 23rd April, 1730. Was Sheriff of Yorkshire in 1751, [140] the Letters patent appointing him to this office is dated 6th December, 24 George II [141] (1750) .
He married (by licence) at St. George's Church, Hanover Square, London, 7th April, 1742, [142] Anne, daughter of Thomas White of Tuxford, in Co. ”

“ About 1601 he bought sundry property of Anthony Foster, "proctor" to the incumbent of Roxby, this property formed part of the glebe in Roxby belonging to the parish of Hinderwell.
He married Dorothy, daughter and heir of Christopher Place, and had issue—
Alice, christened at Barmston, 1st February, 1588, and buried there 4th June, 1590. [86] Thomas, buried at Barmston, 1st February, 1591. [86] Matthew (XIX) . Dorothy, wife of Sir Henry Bellingham, of Levens, Westmorland, Kt., one of the representatives of the County in Parliament which met 3rd November, 1640. [87] She had eight children. ”

“ Arms — Griffith, implaing Gules, on a chevron silver, three bars gemelles sable, for Throckmorton. Above are two esquires helmets with mantling. The dexter bears a grifiin passant, the sinister, a gold falcon, . ”

“ In 1419 he is called upon with others to treat about a loan to be paid to the King for the resistance of the malice of the King's enemies; [8] in 1422 with others he is "to inquire into the report that whereas divers progenitors of the King, Kings of England, in the first foundation of the Hospital of St. ”

“ Sir Ingelram de Boynton was seated at Acklam and amersed fifty marks in 1245–6, and in 1248 granted a lease of lands to the miller of Scaling. [16]
Ingelram and Joan his wife witness a deed of William, son of Roger de Acclum concerning land at Cleatham, and later confirm the same land to Durham Monastery. [17]
Ingelram appears to have married twice.
(1) Joan, widow of Peter de Amunderville and daughter of Roger de Acclum. By her he had issue.
1. William, [18] (IV) . 2. Michael. [18] 3. Joan. [18] 4. Margaret. [18] (2) a daughter of William St. ”