AMOUNDERNESS HUNDRED 



Margaret his wife claimed from William de Scargill 

 and Rose hit wife the custody of the land and heir 

 of John de Balderston in respect of a plough-land, 

 &c., in Upper Rawcliffe held of Thomas de South- 

 worth, the father of Margaret." Robert de Urswick 

 the younger and Margaret his wife made a feoffment 

 of the manor of Upper Rawcliffe in the same year. 2 ' 

 Robert de Urswick of Tatham in 1376 obtained a 

 grant of free warren for Badsworth, Tatham, Cants- 

 field and Upper Rawcliffe." 



Sir Robert Urswick died in 1402 holding jointly 

 with Joan his wife a rent from Langbargh Wapentake 

 in Yorkshire. His son and heir, Sir Robert, was 

 thirty years of age. 27 Robert son of Robert de 

 Urswick and Margaret his wife had acquired land in 

 Yorkshire in ^gi-z.* 7 * Sir Robert was Sheriff of 

 Lancashire in 1415-16 and I4i8. 28 As lord of the 

 manor or vill of Upper Rawcliffe he in 1420 made 

 an agreement with the free tenants, viz. the Abbot 



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of Cockersand, Nicholas Boteler, and othen." In 

 the same year he made a feoffment of his lands in 

 Claughton, Rawcliffe, Eccles- 

 ton, Goosnargh and Bilsbor- 

 row.* He died about the 

 same time, and Thomas his 

 brother was found to be his 

 heir. 31 Thomas Urswick suc- 

 ceeded to Badsworth, 3 * and 

 apparently the same Thomas 

 occurs in Lancashire, 33 but the 

 manor of Upper Rawcliffe 

 went to daughters and heirs 

 of Sir Robert. These appear 

 to have been Ellen, who mar- 

 ried Roger Kirkby, and Joan. 84 

 The latter or more probably 

 a daughter and co-heir Joan 

 was wife of William Clifton in 1443-4.** Another 



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 m a bad a tit thru 

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 charged tfl'M a taltire 



of Adam de Urswick made a grant to her 

 on Robert ; Dods. MSS. cxlix, fol. 91*. 



It it possible that Margaret died about 

 1370 and that Robert married again. 

 Thu Robert de Unwick and Ellen hit 

 wife, executrix of the will of Sir John de 

 Dalton, gaTe a receipt for money at Upper 

 Rawcliffe in 1 372 and are named in I 379 ; 

 ibid. fol. 97*, 92*. Again Robert de 

 Unwick of Upper Rawcliffe, Ellen hit 

 wife and a daughter Ellen occur in 1382 ; 

 Final Cone, iii, 12, 13. 



The tame or another Robert, not 

 described at a knight, was eacheator for 

 Lancashire in 1384-91 ; Lanes. Inf. p.m. 

 (Chet. Soc.), i, 12, 45. One Robert de 

 Unwick wn an esquire of John Duke of 

 Lancitter in 139; ; Cat. Pat. 1396-9, 

 p. $47. Robert de Unwick, one of the 

 king't eicjuiret, received an annuity in 

 1373, which wat confirmed in 1378 and 

 \ 399 j Cat. Pat. 1 377-8 I, p. 240 ; 1 399- 

 1401, pp. 29, 35. 



14 De Banco R. 433, m. 451. It it 

 noteworthy that the Baldentont alto 

 occur at Badtworth in Yorkshire, where 

 the Urtwickt obtained an estate ; Hunter, 

 Deanrrjf of Doneatttr, ii, 438 ; Torki. 

 Arch. Jour*, x, 349. 



In connexion with the Baldentont 

 may here be cited a complaint by William 

 ton of William de Balderston, in con- 

 junction with John and Nicholat toni of 

 Thomat Banattre, in 1334, respecting 

 4 acret of moor in Upper Rawcliffe. It wat 

 alleged in defence that the tame William 

 ton of William and a certain Adam 

 Veriout were lordt of the Till ; but the 

 jury, while finding for the defendant!, 

 laid that Adam Veriout never had any- 

 thing there ; Coram Rege R. 297, m. 

 103 d. An Adam de Aspinwall and 

 Elizabeth hit wife had tome claim in the 

 townihip in 1318; De Banco R. 223, 

 m. 105. ' Final Cone, ii, 177. 



"Chart. R. i6a (47-51 Edw. Ill), 

 m. 6, no. 13. 



" Chan. Inq. p.m. 4 Hen. IV, no. 15; 

 Dtp. Ketptr'i Rrp. xxxiii, App. 4. In an 

 inquisition taken in 1418 Sir Robert ton 

 of Robert ton of Adam de Unwick it 

 ttated to have been thirty-four yeart old 

 and upwardt ; Lanes. In j. p.m. (Chet. Soc.), 

 i, 136. 



Sir Robert de Unwick it mentioned 

 in varioui wiyt from 1386 to 1402; 

 ibid. 1385-9, pp. 233, 4715 1401-5, 

 p. 130. In 1398 he had a wife named 

 Joan; ibid. 1391-6, p. 375 I 1396-9, 

 p. 402. 



John de Urswick, who married Con- 

 ttance Banastre, but died without issue, 

 it taid to have been a ton of Sir Robert ; 

 Lama. Inj. p.m. (Chet. Soc.), i, 16. 



n > Dodt. MSS. cxlix, fol. 91. In 1412 

 it wat ttated that Margaret wife of Sir 

 Robert de Urswick wat divorced from 

 him and married to Gilbert de Kighley ; 

 Towneley MS. HH, no. 936. 



" P.R.O. Liit, 72. He it not de- 

 tcribed as knight in thit place, but cite- 

 where is designated chiraler ; Lanci. Iny. 

 f.m. (Chet. Sot), i, 134. 



In 1406 Sir Robert dc Urswick gave 

 to Thomat hit brother all his lands ; 

 Dods. MSS. cxlix, fol. 92 b. He made a 

 feoffment in 1410 ; ibid. fol. 936. 



" Ibid. fol. 91. 



*> Ibid. fol. 95*. 



" Dtp. Keeper' i Rep. xxxiii, App. 19 ; 

 Pal. of Lane. Chan. Misc. bdle. t, no. 14. 



** Hunter, op. cit. ii, 436 ; Sir Thomat 

 Unwick held Badtworth in 1424-5 ; it had 

 in 1402 been held in moietiet by Robert 

 and Thomat Urswick. Sir Thomas had 

 a ton Robert who married (Catherine 

 Harrington of Hornby, and their daughter 

 and heir Isabel (d. 1471) married William 

 Vavasour ; ibid. 437, 441. 



The feoffeet of Sir Robert gave landt 

 to Thomas Urswick in 1424 ; Dodt. MSS. 

 cxlix, fol. 95*. Thomas Unwick, eijuire, 

 and Dame {Catherine Unwick are named 

 together in 1443 and 1455 ; ibid. fol. 

 94. See also Torh. Arch. hum. xvii, 

 119. 



Thomas Unwick, receiver to the king't 

 father and the king for twenty-four yean, 

 wat in 1442 rewarded with an annuity 

 of jio secured on the herbage of 

 Myencough, Fulwood and Wyretdale ; 

 Towneley MS. RR, no. 1664. See also 

 Cal. Papal Lettert, vii, 330 ; Cat. Pat. 

 1422-9, p. 405 i Anct. D. (P.R.O.), 

 C 2978. In 1452 he wat made tcrjcant- 

 at-law and attorney in all the king't 

 courtt of Lancashire ; Pal. of Lane. 

 Chan. Mite, file I, bdle. i, no. 60. He 

 wat dead in 1456, when hit tuccettor 

 wat appointed; ibid. bdle. i, file 1 1, 

 no. 4. He it named in various pleading!, 

 e.g. Pal. of Lane. Plea R. 7, m. 21. 



Another Thomat occurs in the Raw- 

 cliffe deedt at holding landt in Caton, 

 Great and Little Eccleston, Eltwick and 

 Upper Rawcliffe in 1473 ; Dodt. MSS. 

 cxlix, fol. 94*. He wat recorder of 

 London in 1455 and chief baron of the 

 Exchequer from 1471 till hit death in 

 1479. He held manors, Ac., in Essex ; 



Post, Jujget ; Diet. Nat. Biog. (called son 

 of Thomat Urswick). 



H Roger ton of Sir Richard Kirkby in 

 1420-1, i.e. shortly after Sir Robert's 

 death, demised to Thomas Urswick the 

 moiety of the manor of Upper Rawcliffe 

 which he (Roger) held by reason of the 

 minority of (blank in the deed) the 

 daughter! and hein of Ellen his wife lately 

 deceased, viz. it father of the heirs, Roger 

 being the nearest relative, to whom their 

 estates held in socage could not descend ; 

 Dods. MSS. cxlix, fol. 91. This deed it 

 is difficult to explain in view of others. 

 It is usually stated (e.g. in the recorded 

 pedigree) that it was John, a younger ton 

 of Sir Richard Kirkl y of Kirkby Ireleth, 

 who married Ellen Urswick. Roger was 

 the ton and heir of Sir Richard ; West, 

 Furnea (cd. 1 774), 240. 



A fragment of pedigree in Towneley 

 MS. HH, no. 936, gives Sir Robert de 

 Urswick and Margaret hit wife two 

 daughter!, Joan wife of Richard de 

 Kirkby and Ellen wife of Roger de 

 Kirkby. 



In a pleading at to the manor of Bads- 

 worth in 1424 Thomat Unwick called 

 the heirs of Sir Robert to warrant him, 

 viz. John Worsley and Joan hit wife, 

 Margaret Kirkby and Joan Kirkby, of 

 whom the last wat under age ; De Banco 

 R. East. 2 Hen. VI, m. 3291). (quoted 

 in Gen. [new ter.J, xvii, 22). The two 

 Kirkbyt may have been daughten of 

 Richard, and may have married I.atut 

 and Clifton respectively ; Joan wat perhaps 

 their mother, formerly wife of Richard. 



In 1437-8 John ion of Roger Kirkby 

 by Ellen his wife, daughter of Sir Robert 

 Unwick by Margaret hit wife, made a 

 settlement of hit purparty of the manor 

 of Upper Rawcliffe and lands, &c., in 

 Thittleton and Tatham ; also the revenion 

 of othen held for life by hit brother 

 Roger ; Kuerden fol. MS. 213. 



A John ton of Richard Kirkby had the 

 manor and advowton of Waberthwaite in 

 1427-8 ; Dodt. MSS. cxlix, fol. 986. 

 In the tame collection of charter! are 

 tome relating to the town of Kendal, 

 where the Kirkbyt of Rawcliffe later 

 held land. 



"' William and Joan received lands, 

 &c., from Thomat Urtwick about that 

 time ; Kuerden fol. MS. 410, 87. 

 From abstracts preserved by Towneley it 

 appean that some at least had been 

 acquired from Robert Jenkinson of 

 Bitpham ; HH, no. 453. 



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