had also the honour of knighthood conferred on him, and both he and his wife were dead before the 4th year of Henry IV. for in the same year it was found, by h inquisition, taken April 26th, 1403, at Newcastle upon Tyne, that Alice, who was wife of Sir John Manners, Knight, held at her death two parts of 16s. rent, issuing out of a tenement belonging to the prior of Tynmouth, in the said town of Newcastle; and that Richard de Goldesborough, Knight, and Joan his wife, held the other third part as her dower, with remainder to the said Alice, who died on St. Stephen's day last, and that William de Whytchestre was her son and heir, and above thirty years old. And by another inquisition taken at Newcastle, on the feast of the purification of the Virgin Mary, in 4 Henry IV. the jury found, that Alice, who was the wife of Sir John Manners, Knight, died seised of two parts of the manors of Seton de-la-Vale, Chollerton, and North Dissington, and two parts of a fourth of the manor of Hertlaw, and also of a fourth part of the said manor, likewise of the reversion of a third part of the said manors of Seton de-la-Vale, Chollerton, and North Dissington, and of a third of a fourth part of Stertlawe manor, with divers other lands, which Joan, the wife of Sir Henry de-la-Vale, Knight, held in dower, the remainder whereof was in William de Whytchestre of Whytchestre, son and heir of the said Alice.. Whereby it appears, that she was the widow of William Whytchestre, and afterwards wife to Sir John de Manners, who had issue by her John his son and heir, Robert de Manners of Barrington, John de Manners, and Gilbert de Manners. Which JOHN was constituted sheriff of the county of Northumberland in 1413, and in the reign of Henry VI. he, and John his son, were accused of the death of William Heron, Esq. and Robert Atkinson, and prosecuted for the same by Sir Robert Umphreville, Knight, and Isabel, then the widow of William Heron; so that an award was made, bearing date September 28th, 1430, by John, then prior of Durham, and Thomas, prior of Tinmouth, to whom it was referred (by the persons in each part concerned) that the said John de Manners, and John his second son, should cause 500 masses to be sung for the health of the soul of the same William Heron, within one year then next ensuing, and pay unto Sir Robert Umphreville and Isabel, to the use of her the said Isabel, and her children by the said William Heron, 200 marks. This Sir John Manners received the honour of knighthood before the 12th year of Henry VI. when on a complaint of the commons in parliament of the violation of the laws of the kingdom,' he was among the principal knights of the county of Northumberland, who swore to maintain the King's laws for themselves and retainers, and were returned into Chancery. And with him was also returned Robert de Manners, Esq. his son and heir. He departed this life on September 6th, 1438, the aforesaid Robert de Manners, his son and heir, being at that time thirty years old and more, as the m inquisition shews, taken after his death at Whityncham in the county of Northumberland, when the jury found that Sir John Manners, Knight, died seised of the manor and town of Ethale in the said county, wherein there was a capital messuage demolished, and nothing worth, and the lands much impoverished by the invasions of the Scots. This Sir John Manners" was buried in the church of the Augustine friers in London. He married Anne, daughter of Sir John Middleton, Knight, and had issue by her, beside the said Robert, John de Manners, Esq. second son, before mentioned, who was buried in the P body of the collegiate church of St. Mary at Warwick, under a stone inlaid with brass, representing him standing in armour on a lion procumbent, and round the verge of the said stone and at his feet, are these inscriptions cut in brass, in characters of the time. Hic Jacet Johannes Maners, Armiger, quondam Serviens Nobilissimi Comitis Warwici, & Salusberie, Domini Ricardi Nevylle, & Anne de Bello campo uxoris ejusdem comitis predicti, qui obiit, die mensis Junij Anno Domini MCCCC LXXXXII. cujus animę propitietur Deus. Amen. .... At his feet. For the love of God and in the Day of Charitie Pray for the Soule of John Maners now endid this lyff, 1 Fuller's Worthies, p 42, 510. m Esc. A. 17 Hen. VI. n. 28. Edit. An. 1683, p. 186. P Dug. Antiq. of Warw. p. 348. Sir ROBERT, the eldest son and heir, was sheriff of Northumberland; and, in consideration of his special services performed in the marches towards Scotland, had, in 27 Henry VI. a joint grant with Sir Henry de Percie, Knight, of all the goods and chattels of Sir Robert Ogle, Knight, who was then outlawed. And the year following, he was, with Humphry Stafford, Duke of Bucks, John Mowbray, Duke of Norfolk, and others, conservators of the truce then made with the Scots; ass also in 29 Henry VI. for that truce, agreed on between the Kings of England and Scotland, to last from August 15th, 1451, to August 15th, 1454. This Sir Robert married Joane daughter of Sir Robert Ogle, t and by her was father of another Sir ROBERT Manners, who, in 31 Henry VI." was also one of the conservators for a new truce, agreed on to commence from May 21st, 1453, to the same day in the year 1457. In 33 Henry VI. he was sheriff of the county of Northumberland, and in 38 Henry VI. one of the knights of the shire returned for the said county, to the parliament then held. In the same year he was one of the conservators of the truce, concluded with the Scots, to continue for three years from July 6th, 1460. In 1461, the first year of Edward IV. in consideration of his true and faithful service done to the King himself, as well as to his father, he had a grant for life of twenty marks per annum, issuing out of the manors of Locre, Newcham, Newslede, Shenhow, and Elyngham, in the county of Northumberland; which manors came to the King by the forfeitures of Henry, late Earl of Northumberland. In the a 3d and 4th years of Edward IV. he was sheriff of the county of Northumberland, (before which time he had received the honour of knighthood.) Which office, until the reign of Edward VI. was of great power and trust, the sheriffs never accounting to the King in his exchequer, but received the issues and profits to their own use, with all debts, fines, and amerciaments, within the said county, and all emoluments accruing from alienations, intrusions, wards, marriages, reliefs, 9 Rot Pat. A. 27 Hen VI. p 1 m 20 r Rymer's Foed. tom xi. p. 253. t Mr. Edmondson's Baronagium præd. R. Fin. 33 Hen. VI m. 22. R. Claus. A. 1 Ed. IV m. 12. Fuller's Worthies, P 312 • Ibid p. 293. y Prynn's Brev. Parl. vol. i. p. 66. ': R. Fin A. 3 Ed. IV. m. 2. Ibid. p. 314 &c. which was chiefly to encourage them to be on their guard against the Scots. In the said 4th year of Edward IV. he was in such favour with Richard Nevile, Earl of Warwick and Salisbury (the greatest Peer in England, and surnamed the King Maker) that ind consideration of his services done, and to be done, he granted him an annuity of twenty marks out of the revenues of his lordship of Barnard Castle, during his life; and the next year was constituted deputy toe Richard, Duke of Gloucester (then admiral of England, Ireland, and Aquitain) for all the sea coasts in the bishoprick of Durham, from the mouth of Tese, to that of Twede: and was again sheriff of the county of Northumberland, in the 3d year of Richard III. He married Eleanor, eldest sister and coheir of Edmund, Lord Roos, who died October 13th, 1508, at Enfield in Middlesex, and daughter of Thomas, Lord Roos, by Philippa his wife, eldest daughter of John Lord Tiptoft, and Lord Powys, sister to John Tiptoft, Earl of Worcester, and Knight of the Garter, and coheir to her nephew Edward Earl of Worcester; whereby he greatly increased his estate, and, among other possessions, had the antient seat of BELVOIR CASTLE, in Lincolnshire, built by Robert de Todenei, a noble Norman, on a stately ascent, overlooking the beautiful valley adjacent (thence by him called Belvoir, from the fair view of the country thereabouts) and became the chief seat of that great barony, bestowed on him by William the Conqueror. Which seat and barony, in the reign of Henry III. devolved on Robert de Roos, a great Baron, by marriage with Isabel, daughter and heir of William de Albini, the fourth of that name; descended from the said Robert de Todenei: and from the Lord Roos it came to Sir Robert Manners, by his marriage with the eldest daughter and heir of that noble family, as is before related. And he was also possessed of Helmesley (alias Hamlake) castle in Yorkshire, and Orston castle in the county of Nottingham, with divers other manors and lands belonging to the said Lord Roos, who was lineally descended from William, Lord Roos, of Hamlake, who died in 10 Edward II. h In the Percy article, it is said, upon the authority of the Sion evidences, that in 1480 he had the office of Master Forester to the Earl of Northumberland, "an office," there stated to have been "of great dignity." Leland's Itin voli fol 114. and was one of the competitors for the kingdom of Scotland, being great grandson of Robert, Lord Roos, and Isabel his wife, natural daughter of William, King of Scotland: but a more particular account of the great families of Albini and Roos, is reserved for the article of BARONESS Roos. h i The said Sir Robert Manners had issue two sons, George, and Edward Manners; and three daughters, Elizabeth, married to Sir William Fairfax, of Steeton Castle in com. Ebor. Knight, a justice of the Common Pleas, son to Sir Guy Fairfax, a justice of the Court of King's Bench, from whom the Lord Fairfax of Cameron in Scotland is descended; Dorothy, married to Thomas Fairfax, son of Sir William; and Cecily, wedded to Thomas Fairfax, Esq. a serjeant at law, brother of the said Sir William. Which GEORGE Manners had the title of LORD Roos, in 1487, after the decease of his mother, who was also lineal heir to the baronies of Vaux, Trusbut, and Belvoir. In 1497,m he was in that expedition into Scotland, when Aiton, between Berwick and Dunbar, was taken; and, for his conduct and bravery, knighted by the Earl of Surry, general of the army. n In 14 Henry VII, the King having called together the three states of the kingdom for their assent to the peace made with France, at Estaples near Boulogne, November 3d, 1492, this SirGeorge Manners, with Thomas Lumley, Esq. were the two specially deputed by the lords and commons of the diocese of Durham, to meet the King on that arduous affair, and they gave their assent thereto. In 5 Henry VIII, on that expedition made by the King himself into France, he was, in consideration of his loyalty, care, and industry, commissioned with Thomas, Marquis of Dorset, Thomas, Earl of Arundel, and others, to review the forces that were going under the command of the said Marquis of Dorset. Before the end of which year, being with King Henry VIII. at the siege of Therouene and Tournay, he there fell sick and died. His last testament bears date three days before his See also Dr. Thoroton's Nottinghamshire, folio 115, and Wright's Antiquities of Rutlandshire, folio 8, and Nichols's Leicestershire, vol. i p 22. i Mon. Ang. vol i. p. 719, * Leland's Collect. vol. i. p 911. 1 By what right could this be, as his uncle Edmund Roos, Lord Roos, did not die till 1508? m E. MS in Bibl. Cotton Claudius, c. 2. • Ibid. tom. xiii. p. 364 P Weever's Funeral Monum. p. 428. |