2 MACKWORTH : ITS CASTLE AND ITS OWNERS. 



Kirk Langley close by. The authentic pedigree of the Mack- 

 worths commences with two brothers, John and Thomas. John 

 was Prebendary of Empingham and Dean of Lincoln in 1422. 

 In an inquest of Knights' Fees, taken in 1432, he is described as 

 of Nassington Dean, and possessed of an income of 5 marks 

 from property in Derby. In the Harl. MS. 11 04, Brit. Mus. 

 (according to the Builder oi April 21, 1888), it is stated that in 

 the 31st of Hen. VI. the celebrated Barnard's Inn, Holborn, was 

 a messuage belonging to Dr. John Mackworth, Dean of Lincoln, 

 and at that time in the holding of one Lyonel Bernard, from 

 whom (on its conversion into an Inn of Chancery) it has since 

 retained the name of " Barnard's Inn." Dean Mackworth died 

 in the year 145 1, devising his town house at Holborn to the Dean 

 and Chapter of Lincoln. His executors, whereof Thomas Atkins, 

 citizen, was one, completed the conveyance. In an Inquisition 

 at the Guildhall, before John Norman (Lord Mayor 1453-4) the 

 King's Escheator, a jury agreed that " It was not hurtful for the 

 king to licence Thomas Atkins, one of the executors of John 

 Mackworth, Dean of Lincoln, to give one messuage in Holborn 

 called Mackworth's Inn, but then commonly called by the 

 name of Barnard's Inn, to the Dean and Chapter of Lincoln, to 

 find one sufficient chaplain to celebrate divine service in the 

 chapel of St. George in the Cathedral Church of Lincoln, where 

 the body of the said John is buried." 



The arms of the Mackworth family, granted in 1404, are still 

 the arms of Barnard's Inn. These arms are a compound of the 

 arms of Touchet and Audeley, formed by placing Audeley's frette 

 on Touchet's chevron, and varying the field from that of Touchet 

 by giving "party per pale sable and ermine," instead of the 

 simple field of ermine of the Touchets. The original grant runs 

 as follows: "To all to whom the present writing may come, 

 John Touchet, Lord of Audley, saluting. Know ye, that we, 

 on account of our consideration for our very dear and beloved 

 John Mackworth, and Thomas Mackworth his brother, born of 

 good and brave people, and for the good service which their 

 ancestors have done, and because we wish to honour them and 



