Christophor Lancaster Elionor, doughtre of Thomas Musgrave, son to Sir Richard. Mabell Mabell Lancaster, wyfe to Sir Hugh Lowther, knyght. Lancelot Lancaster, married first Anne, doughtre of Nicholas Harington. ter. ter. Lancas- Lancas- Lancaster. wife to Joan, James Thomas heire, married Richard John Haring- Dykes. Margaret, Seborne. Whar- Frances (3), ton. doughter of ton. and John Mydleton, Symon esq. Lancaster (4). Lancelot Lancaster, Richard Lancaster. Francis, wife Margaret Lancaster. son and heire. to The The whole of the heading, note and contents including the date and signature at the foot of the above pedigree are in a later handwriting resembling that of Ralph Brooke and fill two blank pages at the end of the manuscript. query as to Dakyns refers to William Dakyns the notorious dealer in arms and maker of false pedigrees. For his offences he had one ear cut off besides being imprisoned. He troubled the officers of the College of Arms for upwards of twenty years. Dallaway, Heraldry, p. 318, note. The same pedigree under the date of 1615 is given in Foster, Visitations of Cumberland and Westmorland, p. 75. At Socbred, 19 January, 1575. The personal seal with arms and crest of Lawrence Dalton, Norroy, attached to the grant of arms by him to John Bennett of Newcastle-upon-Tyne dated 6 Dec., 1560. Reproduced in exact size from a photograph of the original. The reasons for attributing this collection of pedigrees to Lawrence Dalton, Norroy, or his deputy, will be found more fully treated of in the introduction. Briefly, they are (1) that he was king of arms of the north parts of England at the time the collection was made and would have resented the encroachment of any other herald, (2) that the first pedigree after that of Musgrave, mayor of Newcastle (who had precedence there), is that of Sir Robert Brandling, with whom Dalton started his visitation in 1558, (3) that Dalton granted or confirmed arms, or a crest, to at least seven of the persons whose pedigrees are given in the collection, (4) that the handwriting of the British Museum manuscript of this collection is so closely similar to that of Dalton's visitation of 1558 in the manuscript Anstis C. 9, as to lead to the belief that the two handwritings are identical, (5) that in both manuscripts the style of the headings and the wording of the contents are similar and the interlineations in both are in one handwriting probably that of Flower, (6) that on one of the parchment fly-leaves next the cover of the British Museum manuscript of this collection of pedigrees are written the words "be me Lawrence Dalton.' The folios cited are those originally marked in ink in the British museum volume as at present bound up. That volume commences with a collection of Somersetshire pedigrees of contemporary date but different authorship. It is only at folio 95 that the manuscript begins which is here reproduced so far as relates to Northumberland, Durham and Yorkshire. The Lancashire and Cheshire pedigrees in it will be found noted at the end of this section. THE PEDEGRE OF CUDBERDE MUSGRAVE OF Folio 95. WILLIAM MUSGRAVE of Ryall maryed [blank] dowghter to [blank] and had issue Roberte, William, Roberte sanz issue. WILLIAM, the ijde son of William, maryed Annes, dowghter to Alexander Preste of Coopon in Northomberlande, and had issue John, Alexander, Cudberde, Edward and Thomas. JOHN, the furste son, maryed Elsabethe, dowghter to John a Fenwycke, and had issue William, Leonard Roberte and Thomas. ALEXANDER, the ijde son, maryed Elyzabethe, dowghter to Roberte Thowrlowe of Exam-shyre and had issue Myghell and Mathewe. CUDBERDE, iijde son and mayre of Newcastell, maryed Elyzabethe, dowghter to Gylberte Mydelton of Newcastell, and had issue by her. The sayd Cudberde maryed to his ijde wyff Grace, dowghter to Cudberde Shaftow of Northumberland, and had issue John and Marke sanz issue. EDWARD, iiijth son, maryed Gunes, dowghter to [blank] and had issue William, Alexander, Cudberd, Edward and Thomas. THOMAS, vth son, maryed Elyanor, dowghter to Gylberte Mydelton of Newcastell, and had issue Marke, Cudberte and Roberte. Cuthbert Musgrave, who furnished the pedigree, was mayor of Newcastle from Michaelmas, 1560, to Michaelmas, 1561, Welford, Newcastle and Gateshead, vol. ii. pp. 353, 366. He had been apprenticed as a merchant adventurer in 1525 to Gilbert Middleton, whose daughter he married. His grandfather, William Musgrave, who heads the pedigree, is described in 16 Harl. Soc. (followed by Foster in Northumberland Visitations) as of Musgrave Royal, but this is a mistake. The right place is the township and chapelry of Ryal in the parish of Stamfordham in the county of Northumberland. In the fourteenth century Ryal passed to John fitz Robert de Musgrave by his marriage with Margaret, daughter and heiress of Robert de Ryhill, Plantagenet Harrison, History of Yorkshire, p. 166. In 1426 John Musgrave died seized of the manors of Ryal and of Heaton near Newcastle. Inq. p.m. abstracted in Hodgson's Northumberland, part II, vol. ii. p. 268. On the death of Thomas Musgrave in 1482 both manors passed (subject to the life interests of Elizabeth Musgrave and Isabel Musgrave) to Thomas Musgrave's co-heiresses who married respectively William Fenwick and Robert Mitford, Cal. Inq. Henry VII, vol. i. p. 144. William Musgrave of Riall in Northumberland, gentleman, is named as a trustee in two deeds dated in 1489 and 1490, Arch. Aeliana, 2 ser. vol. xxv. pp. 79, 81, and Robert Musgrave was a justice of the peace for Northumberland in 1509, ibid. vol. iv. p. 122. For the family of Alexander Presten of Cowpen whose daughter married the second above-named William Musgrave, see Northumberland County History, vol. ix. p. 342. No arms are given in the manuscript. The Carr MS. printed by Longstaffe in 41 Surtees Society publ. appendix, p. lxvi. gives for Cuthbert Musgrave the arms, azure, six annulets and in fess a mullet or. |