On the Border Family of Papedy, by James Hardy. 481 



of the half of Ancroft (Anacroft) heritably, on condition of half 

 a knight's military service being rendered at the Castle of Nor- 

 ham.* We find that either this personage, Papady, or a name- 

 sake, attached his signature as one of the witnesses to the 

 foundation charter granted by Eustace Eitz-John, Lord of Aln- 

 wick, to Alnwick Abbey, which was founded in 1147.t Again, 

 one of the name, a priest, — Eogero Presbitero Papadio — wit- 

 nesses the concession of a salt-pan to the canons of Alnwick, by 

 William de Vescy, from 1216 to 1252. j 



The acquisition of the moiety of Ancroft terminated in heirs 

 female before 1275. Wimarc or Wimart Papedi had married 

 Roger de Audrei, Co. Durham, and survived him. The seal of 

 Wimarc Papedi exhibits the well-known parrot or popinjay, the 

 badge of the family. § She bestowed tithes, rents of land, and of 

 a couple of houses on the Durham monks in lieu of soul masses 

 and for other devout purposes, accordant with the ideas of that 

 age. Her sister, Matilda de Leya, the co-heiress, concurs in one 

 of those donations, and affixes her seal. The seal represents a 

 bird and a hound, and is inscribed on one side S. Papedi — the 

 seal of Papedi ; and on the other Sigill . Lvm., and some unin- 

 telligible letters — perhaps her husband's appellation. One of 

 the documents is signed by a William de Lumleia ; and were it a 

 legitimate inference, which it scarcely is, we might say that we 

 have in his name the Lum of the inscription, and the Leya by 

 which the lady designates herself. This Lumley is a Bishopric 

 family of exaggerated antiquity. Of it King James VI., after 

 listening to its pedigree, declared that he never knew before 

 " that Adam's name was Lumley." The Lumleys (Earls of Scar- 

 borough), like the Papedies, carry in their arms the three green 

 popinjays, but these are said to have been adopted from the 

 Barons Thweng of Yorkshire, one of whose heiresses was married 

 to Sir Eobert de Lumley. || The De Audres held a moiety of the 

 vills of Anecroft, Eelkindon, and Alvereden, and of the land of 

 Emotehill, North Durham. In 1359, William de Dalden, who 

 inherited from D'Audre, granted the moiety of Allerden and 



* Kaine, ubi sup., p. 385. 



t Hartshorne's Feudal and Military Antiq. of Northd. i., p. 273. 



% Tate's Alnwick, Appendix, p. xi. 



§ Kaine, ubi sup. Appendix and Charters, p. 130. 



i Burke's Peerage and Baronetage. 



