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He left issue a daughter Elizabeth, who Avas first married to 

 John Lord D'Arcy. 



Tlie D'Arey family held the Manor for several generations, 

 " till Philip, Lord D'Arcy and JNIeinill, who married Eleanor, 

 daughter of Henry Fitz-Hugh, died without male issue (6 Hen. Y), 

 leaving two infant daughters his co-heirs, viz., Elizabeth and 

 Margaret — Elizabeth married James Strangways Knight, and had 

 Whorlton and other lands for her share, upon the division." 

 Leland says " Whorlton in Cleveland was the principal house of 

 the Lord Menell ; which sense came to Master Strangwayes in 

 particion." 



It is uncertain on whom the Manor devolved after the Strang- 

 ways in the reign of Henry VIIL, but it was found that Henry, 

 Earl of Northumberland, was in possession [Inquisition at Topcliffe, 

 27 Eliz.] of the Castle and Manor, etc , which had been granted to 

 Matthew, Earl of Lennox, Avho married the King's niece. It then 

 in some way reverted to the Percy family ; then once more to the 

 Crown, and finally to Edward Bruce, of Kinlos, descended from the 

 Norman Brus, wlrose son, Thomas, was advanced liy Charles I. to be 

 Lord Bruce (jf Whorlton. His son, Robert, was created Earl of 

 Aylesbury l)y King Charles II., and it continued in that family until 

 it was purchased by the late James Emerson, Esquire, of Easby 

 Hall. Most of this information I have taken from Graves as the 

 chief quarry from which we extract the history of Cleveland. 

 There are other sources from which I have made notes, but space 

 does not permit me to print them. However, it is worth noting 

 that the above Earl of Lennox married Margaret, daughter of Archi- 

 bald, the 6th Earl of Angus, by Margaret, daughter of King Henry 

 VII. (Sister of Henry VIII.)' and Mother to James V., King of 

 Scotland. 



Camden says, " the issue of this happy match were Henry and 

 Charles ; the former of whom by INIary, Queen of Scots, had James 

 VI., Mouarcli of Great Britain, etc." To have Mary Queen of Scots 

 associated with the Manor is indeed to be linked witli a great 

 and never dying romance, and there is no wonder that there 

 should be a tradition that " the fateful lines that l)0und her 

 to Darnley, were signed at Whorlton." With reference to 

 this, I have a most interesting letter from IMajor Martin Hume, 

 who has just published " the love aftairs of Mary, Queen of Scots," 

 from a study of State papers in the Record Office. He says, " it is 

 quite certain that the local tradition to which you refer is unfounded. 

 Queen Mary never entered England until after Darnley's death. 



