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garet, daughter and heiress of Sir John St. John, 

 Knt., to Thomas de Bromflete ; whose grand-daugh- 

 ter and heiress marrying lord Clifford, brought the 

 same part into his family ; so that in the reign of 

 Henry VIIL, Clifford, Eure, and Coniers, had New 

 Malton in partition ; Eure having the entire lord- 

 ship of Old Malton to himself.* 



Ralph lord Eure, a descendant of this illustrious 

 family, built a noble mansion at Malton, at the con- 

 clusion of the 16 century ; but his two cousins, 

 heiresses, disagreeing respecting the property here, 

 this mansion was pulled down, and the materials 

 divided between them, by Henry Marwood, Esq., 

 then high sheriff for the county of York, 1674 ; 

 excepting the lodge in the front of the house, which 

 is now standing, having three original arch-gateways 

 on the street side, the centre arch bearing the family 

 arms. This perhaps was spared in consequence of 

 some compromise which took place before it came 

 to its turn to be demolished. 



Mary, the youngest of the above mentioned heir- 

 esses, was married to William Palmer, Esq., of 

 Linley, in this county ; who in right of his wife had 

 the manors of Old and New Malton ; which from 

 him descended to Sir Thomas Wentworth. The Hon. 

 Sir Thomas Wentworth, Knt. of the Bath, obtained 

 the dignity of a peer of the realm, by the title of 

 lord Malton, May 20, 1728; and six years after- 

 wards was created marquis of Rockingham. He 

 dying in 1760, was succeeded in his title and estates 

 by his only son, Charles Watson Wentworth, mar- 



* History of Scarborough. 



