heirs; remainder as to Newton to the heirs of the body of Katherine, with remainder to the heirs of the body of Thomas, with remainder to the right heirs of Katherine.
In 1366 Sir Thomas had free warren in Acklam, Airesome, Roxby, Newton, Stainton and Boynton.[1]
Sir Thomas married Katherine, daughter and co—heir of Sir Geoffrey Rosels, of Newton-under-Roseberry[2], and had issue.
- Thomas (VIII), died before his father.
- Henry, who used a trefoil on his seal.[3]
- Elizabeth, mentioned in her brother’s will.
- Alice, mentioned in her brother’s will.
Sir Thomas’s will is dated 26th July, and proved 6th September, 1402. He desires to be buried in the Church of Acklam.
(VIII)SIR THOMAS BOYNTON, KT. [1381—1386], eldest son of Sir Thomas Boynton ((VII), was Lieutenant and Constable of Carlisle under Henry Percy, son of the Earl of Northumberland in 1383.[4]
He is probably the Thomas Boynton, Kt., who held one acre of land at Smithpole, in Little Burdon, in the parish of Bishopwearmouth in the time of Bishop Hatfie1d.[5]
Sir Thomas probably married twice.
- (1) A daughter of the house of Conyers, by whom he had no issue.
- (2) Margaret, daughter of John Speeton, of Sawcock.[6] She died in 1409. By her Sir Thomas had issue, two sons, Henry (IX), and Christopher.[7]
Sir Thomas died in the lifetime of his father.
- ↑ MS. Acc. at B.A.
- ↑ MS. Acc. at B.A. MS. Vol. of Pedigrees in Hull Par. Ch. Guisbro' Chart. II p. 178n.
- ↑ At Durham. Misc. Charts. 4425.
- ↑ MS. Acc. at B.A.
- ↑ Surtee’s Hist. of Durham, ed. 1908, p. 51. Hatfield was Bishop of Durham, 1345 to 1382.
- ↑ Inq. p. m. of her father-in-law, 1402.
- ↑ Dugdale's “Visitation of Yorkshire,” (Clay).
