Easter onelye, £1 18s. 2d.; money due to be paid to the prisoners in Yorke Castle at evry assizes 6s. 7d.; to Captain ——— for his pension, 16s.; these are to be collected yearly; for the Pourehous about Christmas £8 1s. 3d.; lame souldiers money evry Sessions out of the Parishes as followeth £3 7s."
The following apportionment of an Assessment of £80 made on the West Riding in 1638 for Wakefield House of Correction shows the relative wealth of the different Divisions: Agbrig and Morley, Claro, and Staincliffe and Ewcrosse £15 8s. each; Skireacke (Shireoak), Barkeston Ash, and Osgoldcrosse and Staincrosse, £7 14s. each (whereof Staincross one third part only); Strafford and Tickhill, £10 16s.
In 1642, the Parish of Cawthorne is one of the nine neighbouring Parishes which support Sir Francis Wortley in the Royal cause against the Parliament. They are appointed to pay to the "said Sir Francis Wortley for the maintenance of his said garrison (which is to consist of one hundred and fiftie dragoons besides officers) the some of eighty-five pounds, fifteene shillings, fivepence farthing, by the weeke." In consideration of this payment, there is a Royal warrant "to the chief constables of the Wapentake of Staynecross and the pettye constables of these Parishes," giving them notice "to forbeare to demande or collecte of any of the inhabitants of the said severall Parishes any part of the assessment of thirtie thousand pounds lately granted of this country towards the maintenance of His Majestie's army."
This warrant is given in Hunter, Vol. II, p. 317, as signed by Edward Osborne, Wm. Wentworth, Francis Monckton, Edward Stanhope, and Robert Rockley.
This garrison of Sir Francis Wortley was established at Tankersley.
The landowners of Cawthorne were not unanimous, however, in the support of the Royal cause. Mr. Godfrey Bosvile of Gunthwaite, the grandfather of that Godfrey whose initials "G. B. 1690" are still to be seen with the Bosvile arms on one of the buildings of Gunthwaite, was an active adherent of the Parliament, holding a commission as colonel of an infantry regiment, being himself a member of
