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THE EURES. 157
By her he had one son. Compton Eure, who died 1666, sine prole, but the
property passed to her son by her first husband, Sir John Owen, Governor
of Conway Castle for Charles I., and through his descendants to the
Ormesbys, and thence to the Gores, and is now possessed by William
Ormesby-Gore, Lord Harlech. The old house has been pulled down, but
in the modern mansion of Brogyntyn there is an old oak mantelpiece on
which are carved the arms of Eure.
Sir Ralph Eure probably built the great house at
Malton, which was
erected in the reign of James I. ; but if it be so, he probably overbuilt
himself, as in 1609 he sold his property at Ingleby to Sir D. Foulis.
His son William, fourth Lord Eure, made a Knight of the Bath on the
coronation of James I., further depreciated the property by selling Witton
to Sir Richard Forster, and Jarrow to Henry Gibbs, and got into serious
trouble with regard to his property at Malton, for Gardiner tells us, in his
History of England (vol. vii. p. 232), that "Lord Eure had fallen into debt,
" and had executed a deed surrendering his estates to feoffees, in order that
" they might be sold for the benefit of his creditors. When the feoffees,
" fortified by an order from the Court of Chancery, attempted to take pds-
" session of the family mansion at Malton, he peremptorily refused them
" admission, garrisoned the house, and stood a siege. Layton, the sheriff,
" finding himself helpless, appealed to Wentworth, who at once ordered
" cannon from Scarborough to be brought up. But it was not till a breach
" had been made by these guns
that the stout old lord submitted." This
happened in July, 1632. An order in the Commons journals, 1645, on
Lord Eure's petition, allows him 405. a week out of his own estate.*
He died in 1
646 ; his eldest son, Ralph, who had married Katherine,
daughter of Thomas, Lord Arundel Wardour, being killed in a duel, 1635,
leaving one son, William, who only survived his grandfather six years,
dying as fifth Lord Eure, 1652. When, therefore, the great rebellion broke
out we cannot expect to find the names of the heads of the family taking
prominent part therein, but, as usual, the name of Eure is not wanting in a
great national movement, and the younger branches of the family seem to
have participated actively therein, though (as
is
commonly the case) on
different
sides.
William Eure (younger brother of the Ralph killed in the duel) seems
to have held an honourable position in the Royalist army, for he was
knighted, and was colonel of a regiment of horse at the battle of Marston
Moor, July 2nd, 1644, where he was killed. We know nothing of the part
which he took therein, but his body was buried in York Minster on the jth.
There is
something touching and significant in the simple entries of the
register of burials of himself and his brave companions in arms ;
MS.
Canon Jackson.