soner, and sent loaded with irons into Spain. The enemy set fire to all the English ships, and carried off a booty of 20,000 marks in money. Having remained four years in captivity, he was at length redeemed by the payment of a large ransom; but, as if his earthly liberty had been purchased only to augment the triumph of a sterner and less exorable authority, he died, shortly after, on the 16th of April, 1375, the forty-ninth of Edward the Third, on the road from Paris to Calais, returning home, some suppose of the effects of a slow poison administered to him while in Spain. He had sepulture first at Hereford, but his remains were subsequently removed thence to the Grey Friars Church, in London. His Lordship was the first English subject who imitated Edward the Third in the quartering of arms, as may be seen in his escutcheon, on the north side of that monarch's tomb, at Westminster Abbey, upon which he bears, quarterly, Or, a Maunch, Gules, for Hastings; and Barry of twelve pieces, Argent and Azure, an Orle of eight Martlets, Gules, for Valence. By his first wife, Margaret, fourth daughter of King Edward the Third, he had no issue; but by his second marriage to Anne, daughter and heir of the renowned Sir Walter Manney, Knt. by his wife Margaret Brotherton, then Countess, and afterwards Duchess, of Norfolk, he had one only son, John, born during his father's imprisonment in Spain, and successor to all his dignities.

John, the second of that name, and third and last Earl of Pembroke, of the Hastings line, was a long time ward of the King, and at a proper age succeeded to the honours and possessions of the family. He married Philippa, daughter of Edmond Mortimer, Earl of March, but by her (who after his decease became successively the wife of Richard Fitzallan, Earl of Arundel, and of Thomas Poynings, Lord St. John of Basing, and, dying, was buried at the Priory of Boxgrave) had no issue. The manner of his Lordship's death,

which occurred in 1390, in the prime of manhood, was singularly melancholy, having, during a tournament at Woodstock, running tilt with Sir John St. John, received an accidental wound in the body, which unfortunately proved mortal. His untimely fate was deeply lamented, and a fine monument to his memory was erected in the church of the Grey Friars. Thus, in default of issue, the Earldom became extinct; but the titles of Lord Hastings, Bergavenny, and Weishford, together with the estates annexed thereto, devolved on Reginald Lord Grey, of Ruthen, in right of his grandmother, Elizabeth, who was second daughter of John de Hastings, Lord Bergavenny and Weishford, by Isabel, sister and co-heir of Aymer de Valence, Earl of Pembroke, and wife of Roger Lord Grey, of Ruthen, as before mentioned. This Reginald, it appears, afterwards sold the barony of Bergavenny to William Beauchamp. "It is reported," says one of the old chronicles, in the superstitious spirit of that period, "that from Aymer de Valence, Earle of Pembroke, (who was one of the Peers that condemned Thomas, Earle of Lancaster,) unto this John, none of these Earles of Pembroke did live to see their sonnes, nor the sonnes their father, so untimely did they die."*

The male line of William, the eldest surviving son of William de Hastings, Steward to the First and Second Henries, by Maud his first wife, being thus traced to its extinction in the person of John Earl of Pembroke, it now becomes necessary to return to Thomas, who was the said William's eldest son, by his second marriage with Ida daughter of Henry, Earl of Eu, and direct ancestor of Francis, the tenth and late Earl of Huntingdon. This Thomas, by his wife daughter of had issue an only son

named Hugh.

Thomas de Walsingham.

Hugh de Hastings, only son and heir of Thomas, married Helena daughter of Allan, and sister and heir of Torphine, or Theorphine, Alveston, of Alveston, commonly called Allerston, in the wapentake of Pickering in the North Riding of Yorkshire, and widow of Alan de Valoines. This Hugh, "for the health of his own soul and that of his wife," as it is simply and piously expressed in the phrase of those times, when beneficence did not blush to avow its faith of an eternal reward, confirmed the grant of forty acres of land at Crosby Ravensworth, in Westmoreland, which the said Allan and Theorphine had made to the hospital of St. Leonard's, in York, and which was again confirmed by Alexander de Wilton, second husband of Helena after Hugh's decease, which occurred in 1208, he leaving issue an only son, Thomas, his heir and successor.

Thomas de Hastings ratified to the canons of Eglistone, in the bishopric of Durham, the patronage of the church of Stratford, bestowed on them by Helena his mother, and also a grant of the aforesaid Theorphine and Allan to the monks of Whitby. He moreover gave twelve bovates of land in Allerston to the Knights Templars, which donation was confirmed by King Henry the Third, in the nineteenth year of his reign; and, one moiety of the Rectory of Gissing, in Norfolk, having been given to Butley Abbey, in Suffolk, about the year 1217, he made over the other half to that monastery. He married Amicia, who, after his death, had for second husband, Sir Robert de Boys of Tersfield, (the heir general of whose family was, in the reign of Edward the Third, married to Sir John Howard, ancestor to the Dukes of Norfolk,) and dying left issue by her an only son Nicholas, who succeeded him.

Sir Nicholas de Hastings, in 1246, assigned to his mother, then wife to the said Sir Robert de Boys, the manor of Gissing in part

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of her dower; and in 1249, granted by fine to the priory of Pentney, in Norfolk, a messuage and two carucates of land in Gayton Thorpe and East Wynche in the said county, to be for ever held of his manor of Gissing by one Knight's fee, and a pair of gilt spurs, or seven pence a year payable at Easter. He married Emmeline, daughter of Walter de Heron, and by her, at the time of his death, in 1268, was father of six sons, viz. Sir Hugh, his heir and successor, Henry, Edmond, Nicholas, Richard, and William.

Sir Hugh de Hastings, in 1269, obtained free warren in his manor of Gissing, in the church of which he founded a chantry, which was endowed by him and Sir Adam de Gissing in 1280. He died in the year 1302, leaving, by Beatrix, his wife, daughter of Nicholas, his only son and heir.

Sir Nicholas de Hastings, by his wife

had two sons, Sir Ralph and William.

daughter of In 1307,

he had a grant from Ralph Fitzwilliam, Baron of Greystock, of the manor of Thorpe Basset, in Yorkshire, which he conveyed the same year to Sir Ralph, his heir and successor. William, the younger son, resided at Thornton, in Yorkshire, and by his wife had also two sons, Nicholas and Edward, which latter was seated at Rouleby, in the same county.

Sir Ralph de Hastings, in 1329, third of Edward the Third, had free warren of Allerston, in Yorkshire; and in 1337, was sheriff of the county, and governor of the castle, of York. William de Wyville released to him, in 1343, all his right in Slingsby, Yorkshire; and he had licence the following year to make a castle of his house at that place. At the battle of Nevil's Cross, near Durham, October 17, 1346, when David Bruce, King of Scotland, was taken prisoner, Sir Richard was present, and received a wound, of which he died in a few days, and was interred, pursuant to the directions in his will,

at Sulbey Abbey, Northamptonshire, of which he was patron. He married Margaret, daughter of Sir William de Herle, Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas, and sister and heir to Sir Robert de Herle, of Kirby, in Leicestershire, and by her was father of an only son and heir, another

Sir Ralph de Hastings, who, in 1358, sold his manor of Hastings; and, in 1365, became possessed of the manor of Kirby, the future seat of the family for some ages, and of Burton, afterwards called Burton Hastings, in Warwickshire, as heir, in right of his mother, of his uncle Robert Herle, who died the preceding year. He was retained by Henry Plantagenet, Duke of Lancaster, to serve him in peace and war, for forty marks per annum, to be paid quarterly out of his manor of Pickering, in Yorkshire; and in 1369, forty-third of Edward the Third, was joined in commission with others for defending the marches of Northumberland towards Scotland. He was Governor of the Castle, and Sheriff of the County, of York, in 1377, the fifty-first and concluding year of the reign of Edward the Third, and first of Richard the Second, and enjoyed the same offices again in 1381. He departed this life in the year 1398, and was buried at Sulby Abbey, with his father. Sir Ralph was twice married, first, to Isabel, daughter and heir of Sir Robert de Sadyngton, of Sadyngton, in Leicestershire, Knight, by his wife, Joyce, or Jocosa, daughter of Sir Anchitel de Martival, of Nosely, in the same county, Knight, and also heir to her brother Roger de Martival, who sat bishop of Salisbury from 1315 to 1329; and secondly, to Maud, daughter and co-heir of Sir Robert de Sutton, of Sutton, in Holderness, Yorkshire. Of the first marriage was born, Margaret, an only daughter, heir to her mother, and successively espoused to Sir Roger Heron, and Sir John Blacket, Knights, to the former of whom she bore co-heirs, whereof Isabel, the eldest, was wedded to