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140 THE HERALDRY OF YORK MINSTER.
In 1473 he was instituted to the vicarage of Leeds, where he founded the
chantry of St. Mary Magdalene, " the corner building on the west side of
"the great street." He seems to have died in 1483, and was buried in
York Minster. No memorial of him exists, but Torre records that " in the
" south quire, on the north side east, lyes a blue stone about three yards
" long, whereon has been a square plate at the head, about three inches
" broad, which I perceive bore this inscription : '
Orate pro
arii dni Will'mi
" '
" '
Evers, nuper unus personarum hujus alme Eccles, et Rectoris Eccle
omnium storum in
"
Marisco.'
Drake gives this inscription, and adds "
: Civit Ebor, qui obiit xxiij
"die mensis Maii, An. Dom. 1419." This seems, however, to point to
another William, who lived and died several generations before.
for in
Nevertheless
I cannot but fancy that Drake must have printed 1419 for 1490;
the roll of the Guild of Corpus Christi in York, we find, 1475, "Dom Will
" Evers, Rector Ecclesiae Omnium Sanctorum in Peseholme ;" and Drake
speaks of the parish church of All Saints, or All Hallows, having stood in
" " Peaseholme, Havergate, all in Marisco ; while in the same roll, under
date
" 1475, Magister Will :
Eure, eccl. Cath. Ebor Precentor," is mentioned.
So, evidently, there were two William Eures, ecclesiastics (probably kinsmen
or cousins) living about the same time.
John Eure (the precentor's younger brother) died 1492, and his will
has come down to us, in which he is described as armiger, and that he
was to be buried in the churchyard of Hoton-Bushell. It is a very brief
document, containing little more than two bequests one a gift of xl?. to the
fabric of the bridge over the Derwent, and remission of xxvjs. viiu which
he had spent from his own property at the time of the building of the said
bridge. He also gives vis. viijV. to the building of the chapel Blessed Virgin on the east side of the Denvent.
of the
Sir Ralph Eure, eldest son of Sir William Eure, married Eleanor,
daughter of Baron Greystock, and was killed at Towton field on Palm
Sunday, March gth, 1461. His eldest son, Sir William, was Sheriff of
Yorkshire (Richard III., 1483), and married twice first, Margaret, the
daughter of old Sir Ralph Constable, of Flamborough and second,
;
Constance, widow of Sir Henry Percy, of Bamboro'.
He is probably the Sir W. Eure mentioned in the following quaint
entry (quoted in Old Yorkshire, 2nd series, p. 105)
: On Feb. 2oth, 1489, the
King directs a writ to the Master Forester of Pykering, directing 300
"trees of oke" called " scobbs and stobbs," in the woods called Elysclore,
to be delivered to the bailiffs of the town of Scarborrow, for the repairing
of the " gayle and key" thereof, which are " in grete ruign, and without
"brieff remedy likely to be to thimportable charge of our said towne;" to be
used under the oversight of " thurle of Northumberland, Sir W. Euer,
" W. Tunstal, Esq., and Robert Wauton."