328 TIlOtlNTON. 



possessions in the neighbourhood, (see account of 

 Sinnington,) from the time of Edward 1 ,to20 Eliz- 

 abeth 1577, when it is supposed they passed to the 

 family of Danvers, earl of Dan by, and thence to the 

 lady Elizabeth, viscountess Lumley,* who directed 

 these estates to be sold, to create funds to meet her 

 various charitable bequests. The manor of Thorn- 

 ton, came into the possession of the ancestors of 

 the present proprietor, during the last century. 



In the adjoining parish of Ellerburne, and about 

 a quarter of a mile west of the village of Thornton, 

 is Roxby Hill, (from Ros, a proper name, or ruska 

 a rush, and bi a dwelling ; a dwelling place by rush- 



* In the life of dean Comber, p. 126, it is stated that 

 the lady viscountess Lumley, was daughter and co-heir- 

 ess of Danvers earl of Danby ; which if correct would at 

 once account for the transmission of the estates to the 

 Lumleys ; but as Dugdale in his Baronage, vol. ii p. 417, 

 and Bankes in his Extinct and Dormant Peerage, vol. iii, 

 both assent that he died in 1643, unmarried, we must 

 conclude this statement incorrect; unless we suppose her 

 to have been a natural daughter. In her deed poll an 

 allusion is made to an indenture entered into, on the 29 

 of April, 1631, between the right Hon. Henry earl of 

 Danby and herself ; but she is not stated to have been, 

 liis daughter ; though probably some relative and his 

 heiress. From the same document it appears that she was 

 twice married ; first to Sir William Sauge, Knt. of Mottis- 

 fonr, in the county of Southampton ; and secondly to 

 the Rt, Hon. viscount Lumley. The latter nobleman was 

 an Irish peer, and of illustrious descent both on the male 

 and female side, being descended from Liulph, lord of 

 Lumley castle, in the county of Durham : who in the 

 reign of Edward the confessor, married Algitha, daugh- 

 ter of Aldred, earl of Northumberland, by Edgiria daugh- 

 ter of king Ethelred II. : from -whom also descended the 

 Lumleys, earls of Scarborough. 



Edmonson and Bankes' Peerage, ii, 328. 



