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In 1405 Archbishop Scrope rebelled against King Henry IV. 
Sir Wm. Plumpton would feel quite safe in joining the forces 
of his uncle the Archbishop, for the Church at that time was 
very powerful. The insurrection however failed, and both 
were executed. No king dealt such a blow at the power of 
the Church as Henry IV. did in beheading the Archbishop. 
Sir Wm. Plumpton was beheaded on the Whit Monday, and 
the execution was witnessed by his son George. The 1111*= 
fortunate son-in-law of the York merchant had a daughter 
Katherine, who in a letter to her brother George describes a 
visit to one of her aristocratic relations, Mistress Darcy, a 
daughter of Sir John Scrope : “ By my troth I stood there a 
large hour and yet I might neither see Lord nor Lady and had 
the strangest cheer that ever I had of my Mistress Darcv, and 
yet I had five men in a suit. There is no such five men in 
Sir John’s Scrope’s house, I dare say.” The family chantry 
in S. Martin’s was augmented to include prayers for Sir Wm. 
Plumpton. 
In 13S5 William de Tynington was elected Prior of Warter, 
but he was subsequently expelled by the Archbishop of York. 
The patronage of S. Martin's church ceases to belong to the 
Prior and Convent of Wartre, and is exercised by Henry, 
Lord Scrope of Mash am. 
Stephen, the second Baron Scrope of Masham, had a 
residence at Turnham Hall, Cliff, near Hemingborough ; he 
died in 1406 and was buried in the Minster near the remains 
of his brother, the Archbishop. His son Henry, third Lord 
Scrope of Masham, although a nephew of the Archbishop whom 
the king had beheaded, was in high favour with his sovereign 
Henry IV. In 1407 he was patron of this church, and the first 
rector he presented was Thomas Cliff, most likely a neighbour 
of the Scropes when living at Turnham Hall, and lriember of 
a family which became famous through Henry Cliffe, Master 
of the Rolls, who died in 1232. 
On Dec. 14th, 1409, William Moreby, a citizen, made his 
will, desiring to be buried in the churchyard of S. Martin, and 
bequeathed to a chapel newly to be built in this church several 
vestments, and gave land for a chaplain to celebrate for his 
soul and the souls of others. 
