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CAMDEN, Sir William Dugdale, and other of our antiquaries have observed, that this family is denominated from Lumley castle, situate on the bank of the river Weare (near Chester-on-theStreet) in the bishoprick of Durham, and is descended from LIULPH (a nobleman of great figure in the time of King Edward the Confessor) who married Algitha, daughter to Aldred, Earl of Northumberland, son of Uctred, Earl of Northumberland, by Elgyne, youngest daughter of King Etheldred.

This Liulph, being stripped of his great possessions by the Normans, who ruled in all places with a severe hand, quietly withdrew into the bishoprick of Durham, a where he was dearly beloved by the people, not only in respect of his high parentage, but of his many eminent qualities; whereby he grew into such familiarity and credit with Walcher, Bishop of Durham, and Earl of Northumberland, that he would do nothing in temporal affairs without his advice: but this credit that he had with the Bishop was the cause of his death; which is thus related in Anglia Sacra, and by another author, b from Simeon Dunelmensis, who was a monk of Durham, and precentor of that church, A. D. 1164.

Leofwin, the Bishop's chaplain, and archdeacon, finding himself not so often called to council as he was before his Lord's acquaintance with Liulph, conceived such envy, as that he proprocured one Gilbert (who had been made sheriff by his cousin the Bishop) to murder the said Liulph by night, in his manor.

a Wharton's Anglia Sacra, vol. i. p. 703.
Hollinshed's Chron. vol. ii. p. 12, 13.

place, not far from Durham; which the Bishop having notice of, and knowing it would be grievously taken of the people, he, as soon as he heard of the murder, sent letters and messengers into the country, offering to purge himself of being concerned in it, according to the order of the canon laws; and gave out, that he had banished Gilbert, and others out of Northumberland, who had committed the murder. But the people finding this to be a story, and that he had not banished the murderers, but received them into his house, and favoured them as before, they stomached the matter highly; and a day being appointed by the kindred of Liulph, for a conference with the Bishop, at Gateshead, concerning the murder, and the prelate, instead of giving them satisfaction, taking refuge in the church, they threatened to set fire to the place, if the archdeacon and sheriff, who had also taken the same sanctuary, were not delivered up. At length, by the persuasion of the Bishop, Gilbert went out, and, with his associates who ventured out with him, was instantly killed by the enraged multitude. The archdeacon refusing to come out, Walcher himself stept forth, casting the skirts of his gown over his face, and, whilst he was addressing the populace in the mildest manner, was dispatched with lances. Leofwin still continued in the church, till it was in flames, and then coming out, almost scorched to death, was hacked in pieces. This happened on May 14th, 1080, the fourteenth year of the reign of William the Conqueror.

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The said Liulph had issue four sons, Uctred, Osbert (whose ₫ daughter and heir Ormonda was married to Robert de Peshale, of Peshale, in the parish of Eccleshall, com. Staff. who was a younger son of Richard, Earl of Corbeil, from which match the families and baronets of the name of Peshall descended), Adam, who had, e by gift of William the Conqueror, Uldel and Gilcruce; and Odo, who being styled son of Liulph, had also, by the gift of the said King, Talentire, and Castlerigge, with the forests between Galtre, and Græca.

But from UCTRED, is this family descended, he having issue, Sir William de Lumley, and Matthew.

Which Sir WILLIAM, by Judith, his wife, daughter to Hesilden, of Hesilden, had issue another

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d Stemm. Peshall. Barti.
f Ibid.

e Dugd. Monast. vol. i. p. 400.

Segar's Baron. MS.

Sir WILLIAM de Lumley, who had two sons,

First, William; h and,

Second, Marmaduke, i who was father of John Fitz-Marmaduke, Baron of Horden, in the bishoprick of Durham, who, on February 12th, 1300-1, 29 Edw. I. was among those Barons that subscribed a memorable letter to Pope Boniface VIII. (in answer to one he sent to the King," commanding him to forbear further proceedings against the Scots, claiming withal the Sovereign authority over them, as belonging to the church)" wherein they owned and claimed the dominion of Scotland, and peremptorily conclude, "That the King, their Lord, should in no wise undergo his holiness's judgment therein, nor send his procurators (as was required) as though their King's title were dubious, to the prejudice of the crown, the royal dignity, liberties, customs, and laws of England, which by their oath and duty they were bound to observe, and would defend with their lives; nor could they permit, if the King would, any such unlawful proceedings; and therefore besought his holiness not to concern himself farther in that matter." An exemplar of his memorable instrument, with their several seals, is preserved in Corpus Christi college library in Oxford; and the seal, of this John Fitz-Marmaduke, is a Fess between three Parrots, circumscribed, Johannes Filius Marmaduci; which arms the family still retain.

I now return to Sir WILLIAM, eldest grandson of Sir William de Lumley, and Judith, his wife. Which Sir William' married the daughter and coheir of Walter de Audre, of Molton-Audre, in the bishoprick of Durham, and by her was father of

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Sir ROGER de Lumley, Knight, who wedded Sibil, daughter and coheir of Hugh de Morewic, an ancient Baron in Northumberland, who, dying in 45 Hen. III. left the said Sibil, Theophania, and Beatrix, his coheirs, and then in minority," whose wardship and marriages, without disparagement to them, were obtained of the King, by William de Latimer, for мcc marks.

The said Roger de Lumley, with her the said Sibil, in 4 Edw. I. make partition with the rest of the coheirs, of those Knights fees of her inheritance, and left issue,

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Sir Robert de Lumley, and

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h Segar's Baron. MS.

i Ibid.

* Hist. of Engl. vol. i. p. 199.

Ex Stemmate penes præhon. Ric. Nup com. Scarbrough.

in Ibid.

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Rot. Pip 45 Hen. 111. Ebor.

• Ex Stemmate.

Sir Roger de Lumley, second son, ancestor to the Lumleys, of Harleston and Clipston, in com. Northampt.

Which Sir ROBERT de Lumley, in 26 Edw. I. on the death of his mother (then the P widow of Laurence de St. Maur) succeeded to the lands of her inheritance, viz. the manors of West Chivington, Morewicke, and Bamburgh castle, in the county of Northumberland; as also to divers lands, &c. within the liberty of Redisdale, and in Hodispethe and Feling, in the same county; at which time it was certified, that he was her son and heir, and of the age of twenty-six years. In 27 Edw. I. he had livery of the said lands, on the payment of five marks for his relief. He married Lucia, eldest daughter of Marmaduke de Thweng, a great Baron, Lord of Kilton castle, and Thweng, with divers other manors in Yorkshire, Lancashire, and Westmoreland, Which Lucia was at length coheir to her brothers, William, Robert, and Thomas de Thweng, who successively succeeded to the barony of Kilton castle, &c.

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Their son and heir, Sir MARMADUKE Lumley, first assumed the arms of Thweng, which have ever since been retained by his descendants. He took to wife" Margaret, daughter and heir of Holland, by whom he had issue four sons, Robert, Ralph, Thomas, and William; as also a daughter, Isabel, married to Sir William Fulthorp, Knight.

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Which ROBERT, being under age at the death of his father, * was in ward to William Latimer, Lord Latimer, in 1374, when (on the partition of the lands of Thomas de Thweng, Baron of Kilton castle) being styled son of Marmaduke de Lumley, son of Lucia, sister to Thomas de Thweng, he had 87. 10s. 6d. yearly, out of those lands that were assigned to Catherine, youngest sister of the said Thomas de Thweng; as also the manors of Moressome Magna, Moressome Parva, Ocketon, Lythum, Merske, Brotton, Hylderwell, Skynner-Green, Lyvertoun, North-Cave, Rotese-on-the-Wolds, Lound, Langtofe, Swaythorpe, Thorp juxta Kilton, Foxholes, Thweng, with the advowson of the church, Kilton-castle, Stotevil-fee, and Bulme-fee, all in com. Ebor. and died possessed of them on the Sunday before the nativity of our Lord the same year, as is evident froin the inquisition taken

p Rot. Fin 26 Edw. I. m. 2.
Esc. 26 Edw. I. n. 23.
r Rot. Pip. 27 Edw. I. Northumb

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after his death, at Gisburgh, in 49 Edw. III. before John Savile, the King's escheator for the said county; when it was also proved, that Ralph de Lumley was his brother and heir, and of the age of thirteen years. And by another inquisition, taken in 7 Richard III. being wrote son and heir of Sir Marmaduke de Lumley, it appears, that he also died seized (besides his lands in the bishoprick of Durham) of the manors of East and West-Chivington, and Rovely, as also 40l. rent in Morewicke, with nineteen tenements and a water-mill in Husband, in the county of Northumberland; and that Ralph de Lumley was his brother and heir, and at that time of the age of twenty-one years.

Which RALPH de Lumley, LORD LUMLEY, was a knight in 9 Rich. II. and in the retinue of Henry de Percy, Earl of Northumberland, in that expedition then made into Scotland, wherein he so well behaved, that he was made governor of Berwick upon Tweed, in 10 Rich. II. and continued there in 11 Rich. II. but ind 12 Rich. II. was taken prisoner by the Scots. After which, in 15 Rich. II. he was deputy-governor of Berwick, under Henry de Percy, Earl of Northumberland; and the year after, 16 Rich. II. f obtained licence to make a castle of his manor-house at Lumley.

He was summoned to parliament, & among the BARONS of the realm, from the 8th year of Richard II. till 1 Henry IV. inclusive, when he was attainted, and had his lands seized, for being concerned with Thomas de Holland, Earl of Kent, and other lords, who not assenting to the deposal of Richard II. joined in a confederacy against Henry IV. binding themselves by indenture sextipartite, to be diligent and faithful to each other in their undertaking, and were sworn to keep their design secret, and to attend carefully upon the execution of it. But appearing in arms, and the lords taking their lodgings in the town of Cirencester, whilst their forces encamped without the town, were overpowered by the inhabitants, and carried prisoners to the abbey, notwithstanding all means were used, by their servants and retainers, to further

2 Esc. 7 Rich. II. n. 51.
b Ibid. ro Rich. II. m. 3.
d Ibid. 12 Rich. II. m. 3.

f Pat. 16 Rich. II. m. 22.

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a Rot. Scac. 9 Rich. II. m. 6
c Ibid. 11 Rich. II. m. 4.

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e Ibid. 15 Rich. II. m. 7.

g Claus. de iisd. ann. Esc. 5 Hen. IV. n. 3.

i Hist. of Engl. vol. i. p. 277.

* Ibid. p. 279. Hist. of Oxford. vol.i. p. 201.

1 Rymer, vol viii. p. 529.

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