272 SINNINGTOH, 



, Notwithstanding the important victory gained by 

 Edward on this occasion, he was not long after cal- 

 led upon again to suppress the various insurrections 

 that continually broke out in Scotland on the with- 

 drawing of the English troops. On all these occa- 

 sions he appears to have been attended by the lord 

 Latimer, whose eminent services he further re- 

 warded by various honourable trusts ; granting to 

 him at the same time the manor of Danby, in the 

 county of York. 



A singular instance of the estimation in which 

 this lord was held by his sovereign, occured on his 

 expedition to Scotland, in 1304. During his abode 

 with the king in Scotland, Lucie, his wife, residing 

 at his manor house of Brunne, in the county of York, 

 was taken away, (with divers goods there,) by cer- 

 tain unknown persons Whereupon the king sent 

 his precept to the sheriff of Yorkshire, to make strict 

 search for her, throughout all that county ; com- 

 manding him, that in case he did find her out, he 

 should, if need were, raise the power of the country, 

 and carry her back to Brunne.* 



This noble lord died 33 of Edward I., and was 

 succeeded by his son William ; who, as before sta- 

 ted, obtained that king's license for a market every 

 week at Sinnington. He, as well as his father, 

 attended Edward on various expeditions into Scot- 

 and ; in which wars he merited so well, that upon 

 the disposal of the lands of Christopher Seton, who 

 was guilty of the murder of John Comyn, he obtain- 



* Dugdale's Baronetage, yol. II. p. 30. 



