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with his wife, in a chapel, now a school room, on 

 the south side of the choir, having a garland about 

 his helmet : another in the chapel, under an arch 

 on the north side of the body of the church ; where 

 is a chantry bearing his name.* The castle stands 

 on the brow of a hill at an end of the town, 'not far 

 from the parish church ; and has for ages, with the 

 town and lordship, belonged to the Lancaster fami- 

 ly. Richard HI. lay some time at this, and some 

 time at Scarborough castle. In the other part of 

 the town, passing over a brook by a stone bridge of 



right of his mother, to the lordship of Annandale in 

 Scotland. lie was succeeded by his son Robert. 



Robert de Brus, was ancestor to that Robert Bruce, 

 who was competitor with Baliol for the crown of Scot- 

 land ; which being decided against him, by the direction 

 of Edward I. of England, he became so dissatisfied, that 

 he could never be prevailed upon, either to give up his 

 title, acknowledge Edward superior, or Baliol king : 

 which Robcrtdying about 1259, was succeeded by Robert 

 his eldest son, who it is well known, became afterwards 

 king of Scotland, and was succeeded by his son David, 

 who dying without issue, the crown of that kingdom 

 fell to Robert, son of Walter Stewart, lord high steward 

 of Scotland, by Margery sister to the said king David 

 Bruce ; from which line the house of Stewart and the 

 present royal family of England are derived. Other 

 collateral branches of this family were Sir Bernard 

 Bruce, who got the lands of Conuington in Huntingdon- 

 shire, and Exton in Rutlandshire, which about the reign 

 of Edward III. went in marriage with Anne, the sole 

 heiress of this branch to Sir Hugh Wesenham; and from 

 his family in like manner by an heiress to William Cot- 

 ton, Esq. 



Also John de Bruce, ancestor to the earls of Elgin in 

 Scotland, and Aylsbury in England. 



Arms; Or, a saltier and chief, gules. 



Banke's Extinct Baronetage, voL I. p. 44. 



* In this chapel, now the north aisle, is the monument 

 of Sir William Bruce, the founder in the thirteenth cen 

 tury. 



