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ancient and noble family. William,* the son of 

 William de Latimer, was in the 38 of Henry III., 

 made high sheriff of Yorkshire, and governor of the 

 eastle at York ; and in the following year gover- 

 nor of the castle of Pickering. In the 50 of Henry 

 III., he was again appointed high sheriff of York- 

 shire, and also governor of the castles of York and 

 Scarbro' ; and for the very essential services he 

 rendered that monarch during his war with the ba- 

 rons, he had, besides the important trusts already 

 conferred upon him, a hundred marks allowed for 

 the expenses he had incurred. In the 10 of Edward 

 I., he accompanied that king on his expedition into 

 Wales, and in the 22 of the same monarch, altend- 

 ed him on his great expedition into Gascony. Four 

 years after, he went with the king into Scotland, 

 where he was present at the celebrated battle of 

 Falkirk, so fatal to the interests of Scotland. " The 

 " whole Scottish army," observes Hume, " was bro- 

 " ken, and chased offthe field with great slaughter J 

 " which the historians, attending more to the exag- 

 " gerated relations of the populace than to the 

 " probability of things, make amount to 50 or 60,000 

 " men. It is certain howe\er that the Scots never 



* This William, and his brother John, married two 

 sisters, daughters and co-heiresses of Walter Ledet. 

 From John descended the celebrated Sir Thomas 

 Latimer, who distinguished himself in the reign of 

 Richard II., as an eminent leader of the Lollarus, or 

 Wickliffites, the precursors of the glorious reformation, 

 Duguale seems to think he died repenting of those here- 

 tical opinions ! ! and introduces a very curious extract 

 from his will in confirmation thereof. 



Vide Baronetage, II. p. 33. 



