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THE EURES. 139
She speaks of herself therein as a widow, and desires to be buried
in the abbey of Malton, by the side of her husband. To her daughter
Margery, wife of Sir Christopher Conyers of Sockburn, she leaves " one
" standyng piece gilted." To Catherine, wife of Sir Robert Ughtred of
Kexby (who was her second cousin, their grandmothers being
co-heiresses of the Atons a dispensation being obtained for the purpose
from Pope Eugenius IV., 1432, which was ratified by Langley, bishop of
sisters and
Durham), " one pece of silver coverde." To her daughter Johan, wife of
Sir John Ogle of Bothal, she leaves " one piece of silver coverde and xx il
"zows" (ewes). "Also," the will goes on to say, "I will to Herre my son all
" my husbandry at Malton, that is to say, vj. oxen with the ploght and wayne
" and all oder gere thereto belonging, with two staggs that are at Wotton."
This same Henry married Catherine Danby, widow of Robert Lascelles
of Sowerby, and his will also is extant, dated October, 1476. He is there
described as " of Olde Malton, esquire," and desires his " body to be beryd
" in the monastery of Our Lady in Olde Malton, before the medys of the
" alter of Seynt John the Baptist, where the prest useth to say confiteor."
He bequeaths
" to my said wiff all my housald as it stands within my manor
"of Olde Malton, with ij. wanes, ij. pleughes, et xvj. oxyn, a pece of silver
" di-gilt covered, with ij.
law cuppes of silver, called le beyl cuppes, the
" which are at Sowerby, whereof on of thame is covered."
" Also I will that my said wiff have the use of ij.
saltis of silver
" during her liffe, and after her dissese, I bequeathe thame to my daughter
" Marjory." Also to his said daughter he bequeaths " a pece gilt called
"le fate; also a pece of silver with a rose in the mydes covered; also j.
" basyn of silver, with iij.
saltes of silver and gilte." He also states that
he has " delivered to my said wife xx. nobilis of olde gold to make xx.
" rings, the price of every ring vjs. viijaf., of the which ringes I will that
" ichon of my brether and susters have on."
Both Matilda Eure and Henry Eure appoint William Eure, one of
the younger sons of the former, to be an executor. He was S.T.B., in holy
orders, and had the following preferment: On Jan. 31, 1447-8, he was
instituted to the rectory of Brompton, in Pickering-lithe, and received license
of non-residence for a year. Dec. ist, 1453, he was instituted, on the presentation
of Sir William Eure, Knight, to the Mastership of the Hospital
of the Blessed Virgin, in Bootham, York ;
and in 1460 he exchanged his
rectory of Brompton with John Gisburgh for the precentorship of York
Minster, to which he was collated Nov. i4th, 1460. On July 2jth following
had ordered him
he had leave to be non-resident in that office, as the King
not to leave the city of London. On the gth March, 1462-3, he exchanged
with Lawrence Roche the rectory of Wem, in
Shropshire, for the rectory of
Workington. He gave up the latter in 1470; and in November, 1471, he
was collated to the archdeaconry of Salisbury, which he held for six years.