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THE DE MAULEYS. 107
(this sum, according to the price of wheat, equalled 820) ; one black,
price 40 marks ;
another black with two white feet, estimated at 30 marks ;
one dun, worth 20 marks; one bay, 18 marks; one iron-grey, 40 marks;
one sorrell, 18 marks; one lyard (mottled-grey), 18 marks; one grey, 14
marks; and one colt, value 100 shillings. Such as died in the service to
be paid for according to this valuation.
John de Mauley seems to have acquired the estates of Hotham,
according to the manuscript pedigree of that family at Dalton. If the
position of these shields in the window indicates that they are brothers, it
would certainly demonstrate that the Archdeacon Stephen was one of them.
It is equally certain that there was a Stephen de Mauley, who was
the son of Peter, the first Baron de Mauley,
for in Roberts' Calendarium
Genealogicum, p. 278, we find under date of 7th Edward I., i.e. 1279, the
mention of Stephen de Malolacu, brother of the said Peter, deceased, who
(i.e. the said Peter) gives to his son and heir, and Nicholaa his wife,
certain moneys. Now Peter, third baron, married Nicholaa, daughter of
Gilbert de Gant ;
and Stephen, therefore, would be the brother of the second
baron, and son of the first, who was betrothed to Isabel de Turnham, 1214,
and paid 7,000 marks, for her marriage, to King John in 1221. The archdeacon
died in 1317 and supposing that he was this Stephen, and was born
;
about 1230, he would have been eighty-seven at the time of his death, a
great, but still a possible age. Or there may have been two Stephens de
Mauley one the younger son of the first baron, born circa 1230, the other
the son of the third baron, and eventually archdeacon.
Another interesting question
is
suggested by the arms immediately
above the row which I have been describing. The centre shield, now
destroyed, Torre tells us was gules a cross moline argent, which he names
as Bek.
Now Browne tells us that Archbishop William Fitzherbert (St. William)
died June, 1154, and was canonised by Pope Honorius, 1226. In 1284,
his bones were translated from the place where they were first laid to the
shrine prepared for them behind the high altar, on the day of the consecration
of Anthony Bek, who paid all the expenses. It is said that the
translation took place at the urgent request of Stephen de Mauley, archdeacon
of Cleveland. Edward I., who assisted to carry the feretory, his
Queen, eleven other bishops, Archbishop Wickwane, and the whole court
attending. Stephen was a cousin, and is reputed to have been a great friend
of Bek's, which may account for the appearance of this coat in the window.
But there is another possible, and to my mind very probable, solution.
Burke mentions this coat as carried also by the family of Gaunt or Gant.
Now Peter the third married Nicholaa, daughter of Gilbert de Gant, and
Peter the fourth and his brothers Edmund, Robert, John, and (perhaps)