PICKERING] 



aid him in council, and to keep the city for him. 

 And the kin* did build two new castles, and double 

 moated them about ; for the strengthening of the 

 city ; and then he bid the magistrates ask what 

 they would and he would give it them ; and they 

 desired that they might have every St. Thomas day 

 a friar of the priory of St. Peter, to ride on a horse 

 up and down the streets in York, \v ith the tail in one 

 hand, and a shoulder of mutton in the other, with 

 his face painted like a fool, and a cake upon his back, 

 and another upon his breast ; and the boys of the 

 city crying youle ! youle ! and the officers of the 

 city to ride with him, and proclaim that the city 

 was as that day betrayed by the friars ; which cus- 

 tom continues unto this day. 



" This Sir George Fothergill was made land-ser- 

 jeant, who was one of the greatest commanders in 

 the land, and a great commander in those days. He 

 married Isabel, sole daughter and heiress of Willi- 

 am de Lucy, of Folton, and had by her in her right, 

 the manors following: Granton, Hovingham, Friton, 

 Slingsby castle, Pickering, Burniston, Sedbury, 

 Garscall, with other lands. He had issue by Isabel 

 his wife, five sons : his eldest son was lord marshal 

 of England ; his third son was chief justice of Eng- 

 land ; and his fourth son was bishop of Winchester, 

 dean of Windsor, provost of Eton college, chancel- 

 lor of York, and deviser of the English and Norman 

 laws ; and principal to king William Rufu^, and 

 chief man about him. He built the abbey of Roche, 

 and gave the abbey of St. Mary's in York two lord- 

 ships, Chadwell in Cumberland, and Middleton* 



