30 PICKERING. 



land-serjeant of Westmoreland, and warden of the 

 west marshes toward Castle-town, and captain of 

 Cowy castle. 



<{ At the field of Solway-moss were Sir Thomas 

 Wharton, warden of the middle marshes, and Sir 

 Ralph Wrye, warden of the west marshes ; and Sir 

 George Fothergill won the field that day, and took 

 prisoners that day Sir William Wood, Sir Charles 

 Ramsden, Sir Giles Hampton, Sir William and Sir 

 Thomas Warpinfield, or Winfield, and Sir David 

 Temple, with many others. The king, in cosidera- 

 tion of the service done to the crown, created 

 Thomas Wharton lord Wharton and baron of Hea- 

 ley ; also he created Sir Ralph Wrye lord Wrye 

 and baron of Wetton ; and he created Sir George 

 Fothergill baron of Brough under Stainmore, in the 

 county of Westmoreland, and gave him the nunnery 

 of Minkillery, to him and his heirs for ever; and 

 also the lordships of Bulmer and Penistow, in the 

 county of York. The said Sir George Fothergill 

 married the daughter of Henry Brand, of Newcas- 

 tle-upon-Tyne, and had issue by her four sons and 

 one daughter : and the king gave also all the ran- 

 som f the prisoners to my lord Wharton, lord 

 Wrye, and Sir George Fothergill, knight and lands- 

 grave of Westmoreland. 



" At the same battle of Sol way moss, William 

 Fothergill of Ravenstonedale, standard-bearer to 

 king Henry VIII., took Ferdinando Dent, lord of 

 Largoss, prisoner, and brought him into England, 

 which lord's ancestors were English before, and 

 lords of the manors of Dent and Sedbury. King 



