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THE HERALDRY OF YORK MINSTER.
the i8th of May, 1841, he was summoned to Parliament by writ as Baron
Hastings, in his right as a co-heir of Sir Henry Hastings, summoned to
Parliament in the 49th year of Henry III. ;
thus reversing the two previous
decisions, and confirming the claim for which Sir Edward had contended
so stoutly and suffered so much.*
Is any one disposed to regard with pity and contempt so much
endured for a mere empty title On the ? contrary, let us rather reverence
the memory of one who was willing to submit to so much rather than
give place to what, in his conscience, he felt to be wrong, or to forego, from
any motives of personal advantage, what he honestly believed to be the
lawful right and inheritance of his children. Such resolute, undaunted
suffering for conscience sake should never be depreciated or lost sight of.
Truly " there were giants on the earth in those days."
But there are other sleeves which specially belong to Yorkshire,
though not actually in the Minster. The family of Wharton, famous at
least in two members, viz., the sixth baron, a pious man and a Puritan,
who bequeathed the legacy of Bibles annually distributed both here and
in Bucks ;
and his son, the madcap duke, who, having attained the highest
honours which Queen Anne could give, went over to the Pretender, and
was attainted, his estates being sold by the Crown, and purchased by the
rising favourite, John, Duke of Marlborough. The Whartons carry the
sleeve white on a field black or sable.
The family of Norton, also, of Rylston in Craven, immortalized in
Wordsworth's
sleeve
White Doe of Rylslone and The Rising in the North, carry a
ermine on an azure field, debruised by a bend gules.
THE EURES.
In the third window on the north side of the Nave is
another variety
of the Bend, viz., quarterly or and gules, on a bend sable three escallops
argent. These are the arms of the family of Eure;f and as they are of
historical as well as heraldic interest, reminding us of many who took
prominent and active part in the events of days gone by, as well as
supplying good illustrations of "differencing by the bend," I purpose to
give some account of their ancient lineage.
Dugdale says " that the name was first assumed from the lordship of
" Evre, in county Bucks, where Hugh, a younger son to one of the Barons
" of Werkworth, in county Northumberland (which barons were afterwards
"known by the name of Clavering), did seat himself in
" Henry III., is out of doubt."
the time of King
* Grey and Hastings Controversy, by Sir Charles Young, 1841. tSee coloured illustration.