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had engaged in the same conspiracy, were bestowed 

 on Nigel de Albini, whose son ftoger assumed the 

 name of Mowbray. Nigel de Albini was a Norman 

 of noble extraction, and by the mother's side a 

 Mowbray : he came into England with William the 

 Conqueror, was bow-bearer to William Rufu?, and 

 for the valour which he displayed in the famous bat- 

 tle of Tenchebray, being the last of those conflicts 

 which Flenry I. had with his brother Cur those, 

 where this Nigel slew his horse, and brought him 

 captive to king Henry, he had from that king all 

 the forfeited lands of Mowbray and Estoteville ; 

 so that he had no less than 120 knights' fees ia 

 Normandy and England. His son, Roger, who as- 

 sumed the name of Mowbray, was present at the 

 great battle of the Standard, fought near Northal- 

 lerton ; and became afterwards the pious and muni- 

 ficent founder of the priory of Nevburgh, and abbey 

 of By land : in which latter he was buried, within 

 an arch on the south side of the chapter, near to the 

 Lady Gundreda, his mother, with the figure of a 

 eword upon his tomb. 



From these Mowbrays descended the noble fami- 

 lies of the Howards, dukes of Norfolk, earls of 

 Nottingham, Carlisle, &c. 



How long the estate at Slingsby remained in the 

 hands of the Mowbrays, 1 have not been able to 

 ascertain, but conjecture it must have passed into 

 the hands of the Hastings's, earls of Huntingdon, 

 soon after the execution of John de Mowbray ; who 

 conspiring with Thomas Earl of Lancaster against 

 the Spencers, was taken prisoner at Boroughbridge 



