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THE EURES. 137
In Old Yorkshire, vol. iv. p. 199, Richard de Eure is mentioned as
Vicar of Bradford, who died 1309, and was probably also a son.
Sir Hugh de Eure appears to have been executor to John de Baliol,
and in that capacity his seal is attached to a deed ;
on that the bend has
no escallops, but he may have adopted them later.
Perhaps it is of him that Stowe, in his Annals (p. 210) says:
" I have seen under the broad-seale of the said King Edward I. a manor
" called Ketness, in the county of Forfar, in Scotland, and neere the
" furthest part of the same nation northward, given to John Ure and his
" heires, ancestor to the Lord Ure that now is, for his service done in
" these partes, with market, dated Lanercost, 2oth day of Oct., regis 34."
At any rate his son John (by a daughter of Bertram, Baron Mitford)
used the escallops, for they are on his seal still attached to a deed at
Durham. He was engaged with Edward I. and Edward II. in the Scotch
wars, and died, leaving another Sir John as his eldest son. His wife
Margaret is supposed to have been a Lumley or Heron. Her will, dated
1378, is published in the Durham Wills, vol. i.,
and contains many quaint
provisions peculiar to that time. To her son Ranulph she leaves " aulam
"
meam novo paratam," i.e.
"My newly made hangings (or hallings) for
" the hall ;
" but she adds this very practical condition : " Si voluerit solvere
"protectura" "If he is willing to pay for putting them up." To her
grandson Ralph she leaves a cup of silver gilt, and to his sister Margaret
a cup of silver. To Margaret Lumley she leaves " ij pecias argenti, cum xij
" coclearibus argenti ;" and Robert Heron is her executor.
Her eldest son, John (one of the principal warriors of his time), died
Constable of Dover Castle and Lord Steward of the King's House. His
name appears as a witness in the famous Scrope and Grosvenor controversy.
He made a great alliance by marrying Isabella, daughter of Robert, Lord
Clifford ;
and his son, Sir Ralph, having married, first, Isabel, daughter of
Sir Adomar de Athol, married, second, Catherine, daughter of Sir William
de Aton, to whom I have already alluded. By her he obtained the estate
at Malton. He was sheriff of Yorkshire, constable of Newcastle-upon-
Tyne,
and constable of York Castle. The castle at Malton had been
destroyed by Henry II., and he did not rebuild it.
He seems to have been a person of some consideration, for he served
in the campaigns in Scotland under the Duke of Lancaster in 1383, and
under King Richard II. in 1385, when the canny Scots allowed the
English army to march unopposed into their country, but soon to become
embarrassed and distressed for want of provisions finding little to destroy
and nothing to subsist on, for the people had driven the cattle to the
woods and hills, and their houses were mere huts while the Douglas,
with a numerous body of light cavalry, burst into the western counties of