92 ANCIENT HISTORY OF KIRKBY-MOORSIDE. 



drop church, under a stately tomb of alabaster, 

 whereon are the figures of himself and both his 

 wives, though the second was buried at Lincoln.* 

 Charles the sixth and last Earl of Westmoreland, 

 in the year 1570, 13th Eliz. forfeited an estate of 

 the yearly value of thirty thousand pounds; he 

 fled into Flanders, where he lived on a slender 

 pension allowed him by the King of Spain, and 

 died in penury in the year 1584, when the title be- 

 came extinct. 



Of the family of Neville there were six Earls of 

 Westmoreland, two Earls of Salisbury and War- 

 wick, an Earl of Kent, a Marquis of Montacute, a 

 Duke of Bedford, Baron Ferrars of Ously, Barons 

 ofLalimer, and Barons of Abergavenny ; one Queen, 

 five duchesses ; besides several baronesses and 

 countesses. George Neville, bishop of York, was of 

 this family; who at his installation about 1470. gave 

 a feast, in which were four thousand wood-cocks, 

 four thousand venison pasties, eight seals, and four 

 porpoise?, dainties of that time. Hugh Neville, 

 also one of this family, attended Richard I. in the 

 holy war ; where he slew a lion. On the inside of 

 the roof of the church of Kirkby-Moorside, are the 

 Neville arms ; a shield supported by an angel, field 

 gules, saltier argent. 



liutchinsori's Excursion to the Lakes. 



* Ralph Neville, and his first wife, were buried in the 

 church at Stainthorp, in the county of Durham Joan, 

 his second wife, was buried in the minster at Lincoln, 

 November 1440, at the feet of her mother Catherine 

 Swineford. Toplis's Genealogical History of English 

 Sovereigns. 



