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  1. supported by six urns of alabaster. The black marble now (1913) lies embedded in the floor, across the south east corner of the aisle of Barmston Church, the alabaster urns support a rail under the Chancel arch.

Lady Boynton after the death of Sir Matthew, took for her third husband Sir Arthur Ingram, of Temple Newsam, Co. York, Kt., and for her fourth husband (12th July, 1657), William Wickham, of Roxby, Co. York (son of the Ven. Henry Wickham, Archdeacon of York and Prebendary of the Cathedral there, Rector of Bedale and Bolton Percy, died 1647, and his wife Annabella, daughter of Sir Hugh Cholmley, Kt., of Thornton, Co. York, buried in York Minster, 1625). She died on a visit to Roxby, 23rd February, 1666, and was buried on the north side of the chancel of Roxby Chapel, under a black marble slab.


(XX)SIR FRANCIS BOYNTON, KT. AND 2nd BART., son and heir of Sir Matthew, was born 31st August, 1618, and was baptized at Croft, 29th July, 1619,[1] and is styled of Burton Agnes in 1656. He resided chiefly at Barmston, where he lived in great hospitality.[2]

He held the Halnaby property with other lands, etc., and leased a portion of the Halnaby property to Samuel Pearte in 1649. A messuage in Halnaby called “Harbottle Farm,” he granted to his daughter Alethea “for her good preferment to God’s pleasure.”[3] He granted part of the Staffordshire property to John Fowns, of Dodford, in the parish of Bromesgrove, Co. Warwick, for £800. In agreement with William,
  1. Dugdale’s Visitation of Yorkshire (Clay.).
  2. Deeds, documents, etc., at Burton Agnes.
  3. Deed at Burton Agnes.