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174 THE HERALDRY OF YORK MINSTER.
Who will not ratify these eloquent words, or justify my humble
endeavour to associate his memory with the memories of the brave and
good who have lived and died amongst us, and whose achievements
adorn our Minster !
WALWORTH.
On the first west window on the north side of the Choir we find
another variety of the bend, viz., Gules a bend ragulee (i.e. embattled)
argent, between two garbs or,* which introduces us to a name not only
associated with the Minster, but illustrious in the history of England, viz.
Walworth.
Surtees, in his History of Durham, says "There was a family who
" bore the name, but they had no land here," i.e. Walworth, a village about
nine miles from Darlington, on the Stockton and Darlington line, where
there is a ruin of a castle, built temp. Queen Elizabeth by Thomas Jennison,
and where James I. rested April i4th, 1603. The Walworths, however, are
mentioned as owning land in Preston in Skerne, Great Burston, and
Darlington ; and there is another Walworth in the county of Surrey, one
of seventeen manors in the hundred of Brixistan (Brixton) given by
Edmund Ironsides to his jester, Hitard, who (temp. Edward the Confessor)
made a pilgrimage to the Holy Land, and, before starting, went to the
Church of Christ in Canterbury and presented it. At the dissolution (time
of Henry VIII.), the King placed a dean and twelve prebendaries there
in lieu of the prior and monks. f
In 1396 Margaret Walworth is mentioned in the Bishop
of Winchester's
registry as lady of the manor, probably lessee under the priory ;
and in i3th Edward IV., 1474, Sir George Walworth died "seized" of it.
Two members of the family of Walworth (probably belonging to the
northern race of that name) were canons of York, viz., John de Walworth,
who, in 1349, was prebendary of Salton, annexed to the priorate of Hexham;
and Thomas Walworth, who, in 1406, was collated to the prebend of
Langtoft, and was vicar-general and chaplain to Archbishop Scrope. He
was buried in the Minster. He had also been prebendary of Stillington
and Bugthorpe, and was rector of Hemingbrough.
His will is recorded in the Teslamenta Eboracensia, in which he
bequeaths "Parvum portiforium meum" (i.e. my pocket breviary) "cum
" quo sepulcrum Domini nostri Jesu Christi peregre visitavi," which shews
that he had performed a pilgrimage to the Holy Land almost the only
fact which we know of his
life.
* See coloured illustration. t Manning's History of Surrey, vol. iii. p. 265.