Roger BECKWITH and Family

Roger BECKWITH and Family Roger BECKWITH and Family

Masham Church, Yorkshire – Brass Plaques –

In memory of Roger BECKWITH of Aldborough Esqur. who died on Monday, 19^th Jan in the year 1634 and was buried near this place. He married Susanna the daughter of Mr BRAKENBURY of Sellaby in the Co. Palatine of Durham, by whom he had Arthur his successor and seven other children, four sons and three daughters. She departed this life 28^th October AD 1670 and lyes buried in the parish church of Skelborough. He was the son of Marmaduke Beckwith of Acton by Ann, daughter of Mr DYNLEY of Bramhope, which Marmaduke was next in descent to Huntington Beckwith of Clint, where the family had continued from the 10^th year of King Henry lll AD 1226, untill the year 1597, when the aforesaid Roger Beckwith sold his lands in Clint, and purchased Aldborough.

To the memory of Arthur BECKWITH of Aldborough Esq., who died in the service of his country Anno 1642. He married Mary eldest daughter of Sir Marmaduke WYVILL Kt. And Bt. By whom he left two sons and three daughters; she died in the year 1646 and was buried in the church of St Clement Danes, London.

Roger, his successor, married two wives, first Elizabeth daughter of Sr Christopher CLAPHAM of Beamsley, Kt. , who departed this life 1 day of December in the year 1673; secondly, Elizabeth daughter of Sir Edmund JENINGS Kt, with whom he lyes buried in the Collegiate Church at Ripon.

Star Chamber Proceedings:-
A.D. 1599, Thomas Langstaff of Therntoft, co. York, yeoman, with Roger Beckwith of Scruton, co. York., gentleman, and George Jackson of Gatenby, co. York. Esquire, were defendants in a plea of debt, at the suit of Maria Smithson, widow, late called Maria Belt, executrix to the will of Alicia Beckwith, widow, by Lancelot Belt, her attorney.

Paver’s Marriage Licences –

1595 – John ROBINSON and Ann BECKWITH, S’n [Scruton, Yorkshire]
Footnote: ‘The marriage apparently took place, for a deed of 1610 refers to John ROBINSON’s wife as Ann (NYCRO: ZCI/445).

Extract from: William Page, ed. (1923) The Victoria History of the County of York: North Riding, Volume Two, The St. Catherine Press, p. 296.

Cold Ingleby: In February 1440-1 William Holgill surrendered to Christopher Boynton and his heirs all right in the manor of Ingleby, which descended with Castle Leavington (q.v.) until 1608, and in 1634 was held by Roger Beckwith of Aldbrough, purchaser of part of the manor of Castle Leavington.

Royalist Composition Papers –

Thomas BECKWITH of Cold Ingleby.

10 Dec 1650 – Petition of John ROBINSON of Bolton upon Swaile, that one Thomas BECKWITH of Cold Ingleby, being indebted to him in large sums, gave him a lease for 40 years which has been sequestered for Beckwith’s delinquincy, that the late Committee allowd the same and he hath received 264 ^li towards the discharge of the debt in two and a half years, but now the new committee not having the authority to give allowance of charges your petitioner is likely to lose the benefit of his lease. He prays that an order be given to the County Committee to examine the truth so that he may be relieved and that the rents may stay in the tenants hands until further order.

20 Dec 1653. Philip Brace having bought from the Treason Trustees the Lordship of Cold Ingleby formerly belonging to Thomas BECKWITH, he is to receive the rents &c.

[NB. The above is a reference to Thomas BECKWITH being indebted to John ROBINSON - his brother-in-law. Both Thomas BECKWITH and his sister Ann (married to John ROBINSON), were children of Roger BECKWITH of Aldborough, by his first marriage to Dorothy CURRER – not mentioned on the Masham memorial quoted above.]