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in London, &c., appointing Lady Jane Shelley his executrix, and desiring
to be buried in St. Paul's Cathedral. After twenty years of litigation a
which the estates
compromise was effected, by were restored on condition
of the payment of the legacies; but the property had been plundered and
wasted during the civil war, by the armies of Newcastle and Lesley, and
the family were sadly impoverished when at last the inheritance became
their own again, and retreated, without degradation of blood or honours,
into the quiet ranks of private gentry.
In 1723, Anne, daughter and heiress of Baron John Hilton, married
Sir Richard Musgrave, to whom John Hilton devised his property, on
About 1750 he sold
condition that he assumed the name of Hilton only.
the whole of the estates under an Act of Parliament. His granddaughter
and heiress, Eleanor, married, 1769, William Jolliffe, of Petersfield, and
his descendants are the Hylton-Jolliffes of the present day.
FITZALAN AND POYNTZ.
When the shield is divided into an equal number of bars it is called
barry ; and the first which I shall notice is barry of eight or and gules,
in the south-west window of the vestibule, and in the chapter-house* Whose
arms are these ?
Well, they may be the coat of Brian Fitzalan or Hugh
Poyntz.
Brian Fitzalan was descended from Alan Rufus, one of the younger
sons of Eudo Earl of Brittany. He (Alan) was one of the chief and
principal advisers of William to undertake the conquest of England.
He commanded the rear-guard at the battle of Hastings. Three years
afterwards he was employed at the siege of York, which Edwin Earl of
Mercia and his brother Morcar, with Waltheof, the governor, bravely
defended. After six months' siege
it was subdued, and William, by the
advice of Matilda, rewarded him with the possessions of Edwin, and created
him an earl. He died unmarried, and was interred at Bury St. Edmunds,
1089. He was succeeded by his brother,f Alan Niger, from whom Stephen
the monk, driven out of Whitby and Lastingham by William de Percy,
obtained a grant of St. Olave's minster and four acres in York, and
converted it into a monastery. William Rufus afterwards built another
monastery further south, and dedicated it to St. Mary. Alan Niger died 1093,
and was succeeded by his brother Stephen, who died 1137, aged 90, and
directed that his heart should be buried at St. Mary's, York. He left two
sons Alan, who married Bertha, daughter and heiress of Conan Duke of Bretagne,
their son Conan, in consequence, succeeding to both titles and
; Brian,
who married Agnes, granddaughter and heiress of Scolland, lord of Bedale.
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* See coloured illustration. t Clarkson's History of Richmondshirc.