ANCIENT HISTORY OF KIRKBY-MOORSIDE. 93 



Danby was the Nevilles, it was first given by the 

 Conqueror to Robert de Brus, who built the castle 

 in it, and dying in 1141, left this and his other es- 

 tates in Yorkshire, to Adam his son, who was de- 

 prived of it by Henry II. ; but Peter, his grandson, 

 earnestly desiring to repossess the lordship and 

 forests of Danby, his ancient inheritance, obtained 

 it of King John, in exchange for other possessions. 

 He died the 13 of John ; and his descendants con- 

 tinued Lords of Danby, till the 55 of Henry III. ; 

 when Peter, the fourth of that name, dying without 

 issue, left his four sisters his heirs; when this 

 and other estates fell to Lucy, the second wife of 

 Marmaduke de Thw eng, and afterwards passed by 

 marriage to William de Latimer, by a daughter 

 of whose descendant it went to John Neville, son 

 of Ralph Lord Neville, ofRaby, who in her right 

 became Lord Latimer ; but John, his son, dying 

 without issue, in the reign of Henry VI,, divers of 

 those lordships of which he died seized were entailed 

 on Ralph, Earl of Westmoreland, his elder brother, 

 who settled them by feoffement upon George, his 

 third son ; who was thereupon summoned to Parlia- 

 ment as Lord Latimer ; in whose posterity this 

 dignity and estate continued till John, Lord Latimer ; 

 who died without male issue in Queen Elizabeth's 

 time ; when his estates were divided amongst his 

 four daughters. 



Kirkby-Moorside belonged to the Earls of West- 

 moreland, and continued in that family till the IS 

 of Queen Elizabeth ; when Charles, Earl of West- 

 moreland, was attainted, and all his possessions 



