ANCIENT HISTORT OF KIRKBY-MOORSIDE. 85 



and is known by the appellation of Mary Rendray's 

 Garden ; from the name of a woman, who in the 

 the latter part of the eighteenth century cultivated 

 it as such. 



The first of the Estoteville, or Stuteville family 

 in this country, was Robert de Stuteville, who 

 came over with William the Conqueror, and was a 

 great favourite of his; and the family remained fa- 

 vourites of succeeding Princes ; for such was King 

 John's dependence on William, one of them, that 

 he gave him the command of Northumberland, 

 Cumberland, and Westmoreland ; with the supreme 

 command of all their castles.* 



In the reign of the same Prince, and in some 

 preceding reigns, the manor of Kirkby- Moors ide 

 was the subject of great dispute between the fami- 

 lies of Mowbray and Stuteville ;t which was at 

 length confirmed to the Stutevilles, passed to the 

 Nevilles, and afterwards to Villiers, duke of Buck- 

 ingham, in the reign of James I., and then to the 

 Duncombe family, the present possessors. 



From what I can collect, the fact of the above 

 statement is this : when William the Conqueror 

 came to England, Mowbray and Estoteville accom- 

 panied him ; but Roger Mowbray, and Roger de 

 Estoteville, being deprived of all their possessions 

 by Henry I,, on account of their rebellion, that mo- 

 narch bestowed the greater part of them on Nigel 

 de Albani, a young Norman nobleman ; who mar- 



* Hutchinson's History of Cumberland, vol.2 p. 528. 

 t IIoTeden, Annal. ad 1200. Lei. col. 1. p. 294. 



