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Roxby Chapel 40s., to Acklam Church 6s. 8d., to the Observant Friars of Newcastle a fat ox, to the brothers of Grosmont 6s. 8d., to Mount Grace 6s. 8d., to the four Orders of Friars 20s., to the Friar Baker 6s. 8d., to the Prior of Gisburne 6s. 8d., and other legacies, to each of his little nephews a marc, to his brother Sir John Bulmer a gelding, to his sister Tunstall his ring with a blue stone. He leaves £20 and a feather bed to Thomas Goldsbrough and his wife Jenet (daughter of the testator), to his other daughter Anne, who married Robert Haldenby £6 13s. 4d. and a feather bed. To his son Matthew he leaves his chain "if it may be sparide, and my dettes paide," his harness, books, and feather bed, also he leaves to him as heirlooms eight of the best silver spoons, a standing salt, a covered piece, the chalice and Agnes of gold.[1]

(XVI)MATTHEW BOYNTON, Esq. [1523-1540], son and heir of Thomas Boynton (XV), of Roxby, was aged 19 when his father's Inquisition was taken.[2] He was appointed to be chief steward of the possessions in the Counties of Yorkshire and Lincolnshire in the King's hands, by the attainder of William Woode, late Prior of Bridlington, with £6 a year out of the issues and the appointment of an under steward. This grant is dated 5th May, 1539.[3] Though Matthew Boynton seems to have been intimately connected with some of the leading spirits of Bigod's Rebellion, he seems at the same time to have remained loyal to his sovereign.

He married Anne, daughter of Sir John Bulmer, of Wilton[4] and had issue.

  1. Thomas (XVII).
  2. Anne, wife of William Norton, Esq.
  1. Test. Ebor. V, pp. 110-112.
  2. Test. Ebor. VI. 99n.
  3. Letters and Papers, For. and Dom., Vol. XIII, pt. I, p. 409.
  4. Letters and Papers, For. and Dom., Vol. XII, pt. I, p. 137.