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152 THE HERALDRY OF YORK MINSTER.
and when she saw him fall in battle, rushed herself into the heat of the
fight, and was killed after slaying several of the English. The old people
point out her monument, broken and defaced. The inscription is said to
have been legible within this century, and to have run thus :
" Fair maiden Lillyard lies under this stane,
Little was her stature, but great was her fame ;
Upon the English loons she laid many thumps,
And when her legs were cutted off she fought upon her stumps."
That it was a sanguinary battle Scott has indicated in his poem
on the
" Eve of St. John," where he says
:
" He came not from where Ancram Moor
Ran red with English blood ;
Where the Douglas true, and the bold Buccleugh,
'Gainst keen Lord Evers stood."
Four years after, Lord Eure died, and was succeeded by Sir Ralph's
eldest son, William, whose mother was Margaret, daughter of Ralph Bowes,
of Streatlam Castle, Durham. His first marriage, with Mary, daughter of
Lord Darcy, celebrated at Eynsham, Oxon, when he was eleven and she
only four years old, was dissolved thirteen years afterwards, 1554, by decree
at Durham. He seems to have succeeded to the office held by his father
and grandfather, as, 6th Edward VI., he was appointed Warden of the
Middle Marches towards Scotland ; and, 4th and 5th of Philip and Mary,
and ist of Elizabeth, Captain of Berwick-on-Tweed. His second wife was
Margaret, daughter of Sir Edward Dymoke, of Scrivelsby, Champion of
England. He left a sum of money to his son to build a house at Jarrow,
but it seems never to have been carried out.
In 1544 the cell of Jarrow had been granted to William, Lord Eure,
by the Crown, and the property remained in the family until 1627, when
William, Lord Eure, conveyed
it to Henry Gibb, of Falkland, Gentleman
of His Majesty's Chamber.*
Lord Eure's two sons were both distinguished men. The eldest, we are
told, was born at Berwick Castle, 28th Sept., 1558, at eight
o'clock in the
morning, and christened the following Monday in the parish church,
Mr. Christopher Nevill acting deputy for his brother Henry, Earl of Westmoreland,
and Thomas, Earl of Northumberland.! He was made Warden
of the Middle Marches 1586, when 28 years of age;
and Sheriff of Yorkshire
1594; and I conclude that he conducted the difficult duty of maintaining
order on the Borders with satisfaction to Queen Elizabeth of England and
James of Scotland, for the former continued him in that office until her
death, seventeen years after.
* Surtecs' History of Durham, vol. ii.
p. 73. t MS. Lord Harlech.