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(XIV)SIR HENRY BOYNTON, KT. [1497-1501], the eldest son[1] of Henry (XIII), was knighted in Scotland by Thomas, Earl of Surrey, the King's Lieutenant in 1497.[2] He died in 1501.
(XV)THOMAS BOYNTON [1501-1523], of Roxby, brother of Sir Henry Boynton, Kt. (XIV), and second son of Henry Boynton (XIII), was in 1514 party to a dispute with Ralph Claxton over a rent of ten shillings from a house in Marton-in-Cleveland.[3] In 1519 he petitioned the Cardinal of York, Legate to Pope Leo X, to have the Chapel and Chapelyard of Roxby consecrated de novo and sacraments administered there; Roxby paying all dues to the Church of Hinderwell.[4]
Thomas Boynton married Cecily, daughter of Sir James Strangeways of Sneaton,[5] and had issue.
- Matthew (XVI).
- William.[6]
- Jenet or Jane, married to Thomas Goldsbrough, dispensation for marriage dated 23rd November, 1519.[7]
- Anne, married to Robert Haldenby.
Thomas Boynton was buried at Roxby, and on a slab to his memory are a brass effigy, an inscription plate and four shields bearing the arms of Boynton.[8]
By his will dated 14th May, 12 Henry VIII (1520), and proved 23rd April, 1523, he left to Hinderwell Church 10s., to- ↑ Foster's Yorkshire Pedigrees.
- ↑ Metcalf's Book of Knights, p. 31.
- ↑ Papers at Burton Agnes.
- ↑ MS. Acc. at Burton Agnes. The petition and deed of consecration were at Burton Agnes in 1769, when Sir G. Boynton bought the perpetual advowson of Hinderwell, but I have not found these documents there.—C.V.C.
- ↑ Test. Ebor. V. 110n.
- ↑ Letters and Papers. For. and Dom. XII, pt. II. p. 72.
- ↑ Dugdale's Visitation of Yorks. (Clay).
- ↑ Yorks. Archœo. Soc. Journal, XVII, 307-308.
