BYLAND ABBEY. 389 



bells, 100 fodders of lead, 516 ounces of plate, 

 and the yearly revenue according to Dugdale; 

 amounted to <238. 9s. 4d., and according to Speed 

 295. 5s. 4d. 



In the 15 and 16 of Henry VI. it appears that 

 the duke of Norfolk had the advowson of this abbey. 



The site and most of the demesne lands were 

 granted in the 32 Henry VIII. 1546 to Sir William 

 Pickering, Kt. In 17 Elizabeth, Sir William Pick- 

 ering, son of the former, possessed those lands, and 

 Ann the wife of Dela Rivers was his sister and 

 heiress, the site in 1770, belonged to Sir Bryan 

 Stapylton, Bart., and is now in the possession of 

 the family of the Stapyltons. 



Roger de Mowbray the founder, son of Nigel de 

 Albini by his wife Guiidreda, was buried in an arch 

 on the south side of the chapter house near his 

 mother ; and on his tomb was the figure of a sword. 

 After the year 1326, Sir Thomas deColevillc, lord 

 of Cukewald, Joan wife of Joan de Mowbray, Wil- 

 liam son of Hugh de Mallibisse, Guido de Hale- 

 beck, Henry de Montfort, William de Playdure, 

 and Roger de Maltby, were all interred here. Peter 

 de Rickhal chaplain, by will proved 1359, was bur- 

 ied before the altar of St. Mary. William Tiplady, 

 by will proved 1426, was buried in St. Mary's ab- 

 bey at Byland. William Skupton, of Skupton, Esq. 

 by his will proved 1437, was buried here. 



The great Roger de Mowbray after returning 

 from the crusade, in which he had been harrassed 

 and dissappointed, and having been deprived of the 

 greater part of his property by his soverign, retired 



