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 HISTORY OF THE GOODRICKE FAMH.Y. 
 
HISTORY 
 
 OF THE 
 
 GOODRICKE FAMILY. 
 
 EDITED BY 
 
 CHARLES ALFRED GOODRICKE. 
 
 PRINTED FOR THE EDITOR BY HAZELL, WATSON, AND VINEY, LIMITEa 
 
 1885. 
 
CONTENTS, 
 
 L GooDRicK OF Counties Lincoln and Suffolk . 
 11. GooDRiCK of Counties Cambridge and Norfolk 
 III. Goodricke of Yorkshire . . . . . 
 
 ILLUSTRATIONS. 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Brass of Thomas Goodryke, Bishop of Ely . . Frontispiece. 
 
 Portrait of Bishop Goodryke , . . . . . .2 
 
 Armorial Bearings .17 
 
 Portrait of the Right Honourable Sir Henry Goodricke, 
 
 Knt. and Bart, 25 
 
 View of Great Ribston, circa 1674 , . . . . .32 
 
 PAGE 
 I 
 
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 . 12 
 
PREFACE 
 
 O history or genealogy of the Goodricke family, excepting 
 the partial and imperfect accounts in the various old 
 Baronetages, has, to my knowledge, been written. 
 
 The family, however, was a rich and influential one, 
 and produced several men whose careers were closely 
 connected with the political history of their country ; and 
 it is to arrange in continuity the many interesting facts connected with the 
 family history, gathered together at intervals during the past fifteen years, 
 that I have attempted this little memorial. 
 
 I do not claim for it any merit beyond that of being a simple 
 narrative of the family annals, gleaned from those records which are the most 
 accessible to the public, but by no means as comprehensive as it might 
 have been made in abler hands than mine. 
 
 Regarding the different modes of spelling the name which are found 
 in all records of the family, I have, for the sake of uniformity, used the 
 terminal *'e" only with the line issuing from Henry Goodricke of Ribston 
 (died 1556), as it appears from reliable evidence to have been finally adopted 
 by this branch alone. Its use in the seventeenth century was very erratic 
 The mistake so often repeated of confusing the families of Goodrick 
 and Goodrich has given me occasion for some fruitless inquiry ; but I 
 may state that I have never found any incorrectness in this respect in 
 authentic documents, and I know of no connection between the two 
 families subsequent to the year 1500. 
 
 . The materials for this history have been collected from the following 
 sources : — 
 
 The Heralds' Visitations of the Counties of Lincoln, Cambridge, 
 and York, at the College of Arms, have formed the basis of my work. 
 
viii 
 
 Preface. 
 
 A very large amount of information has been derived from Wills and 
 Parish Registers, a large majority of the dates of domestic events having 
 been verified from the latter source or from the family Bible. The Close 
 Rolls, Fine Rolls, and Chancery proceedings have revealed many interesting 
 facts, though there is still a large field in these records alone for further 
 investigation. The Royalists' Composition Papers, besides bringing out 
 facts regarding other members of the family, contain the original documents, 
 of which I have given copies, relating to the sequestration of Sir John 
 Goodricke's estate in 1642, while the Reports of the Royal Commission 
 on Historical MSS. and 'the Bodleian Library MSS. have furnished much 
 relating to Sir Henry Goodricke's mission in Spain. . 
 
 The Heralds' Visitations of Lincoln, Cambridge, and York, among the 
 Harleian MSS., and many other papers in this collection and amongst the 
 Additional MSS. in the British Museum, have been consulted. The State 
 Papers, Signet Rolls, Home Office Military Entry Books, and Inquisitiones 
 post mortem, have brought to light much that is interesting ; and the New 
 England Historical and Genealogical Register has the quaint letters to 
 Governor Bellingham from his nieces, the daughters of Colonel William 
 Goodricke. A number of works of an historical nature have been consulted. 
 
 I am indebted to several gentlemen for much valuable information, 
 and I beg to tender them my best thanks, and especially to John Dent- 
 Dent, Esquire, for affording me the information at his disposal regarding 
 the family, and to those clergymen who have so readily sent me copious 
 extracts from the registers in their custody. 
 
 It is my intention to present to the Library of the British Museum a 
 copy of this history fully annotated, so as to preserve on record my 
 memoranda of the sources from whence the data have been derived. 
 
 Trusting that my aims at accuracy have been successful, and that 
 some items of interest will be found by each of my readers, I commend 
 my little work to their indulgent perusal. 
 
 C. A. GOODRICKE. 
 
 London, July 1885. 
 
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 6^ootjrulfe> of Co* Lincoln. 
 
 HAVE not attempted to investigate the very early history and origin of the 
 Goodrick family, as it would have involved an expenditure of time which I 
 have not had at my disposal. I feel very confident, however, that a diligent 
 research would result successfully, and that it would be quite possible, by 
 means of our national records, to trace the family back to very remote times ; 
 but for my present purpose I have contented myself with commencing 
 my work with John Goodryke, of Bolingbroke, co. Lincoln (died 1493), 
 as its earliest ancestor. 
 
 In' the several old baronetages to which I referred in my preface, it is stated that the family 
 *' flourished for several generations at Nortingley or Nortonlee, co. Somerset," and removed into 
 Lincolnshire at the marriage of Henry Goodrick, third son of Robert Goodrick, of Nortingley, 
 with an heiress, the daughter of Thomas Stickford, Esq., of co. Lincoln ; and that John Goodryke 
 of Bolingbroke was fifth in descent from this Henry. Whether this account is merely tradition, or 
 rests upon authentic evidence, I have not been able to discover ; but it is quite certain that a 
 Goodrick family was seated in Lincolnshire at a much earlier date than can be assigned to the 
 migration of Henry just mentioned, for one " Goodrick of Cunningsby, who had been grave 
 of Wildmore for forty years," acted as an arbitrator for the Soke of Horncastle and Scrivelsby 
 in a dispute among the Barons of Bolingbroke, Horncastle, and Scrivelsby, soon after the 
 Norman Conquest. 
 
 From the Subsidy Rolls, temp. Edward III. (1333), it appears that a Goodrick family was 
 settled at Bennington, co. Lincoln. This would be about the time of the traditional advent of 
 Henry into Lincolnshire from Somerset. 
 
 The family had undoubtedly begun to spread prior to the generation of John Goodryke 
 of Bolingbroke, for I find several families of the name settled at Easingwold, Clifton, and 
 other places in Yorkshire, and in the county of Lincoln, whose descendants were numerous, 
 and who were, most probably, offshoots from the original Lincolnshire family prior to the 
 year 1450. 
 
 3lOf)n ©OODrgfee, of Bolingbroke, CO. Lincoln, is the first of the family from whom 
 an unbroken descent is recorded in authentic documents. He lived in the reign of Henry VI., 
 and died in 1493, being succeeded in his landed estate at Bolingbroke by his second son, 
 Richard. This Richard Goodryke was a merchant of the Staple," and ancestor of the 
 Goodricks of Suffolk, whose genealogy, so far as I have been able to trace it, will be found 
 further on. . 
 
 John Goodryke died in 1493. His will, which is among the earliest of the wills preserved 
 at Somerset House, bears date 8th October, 149 1, and was proved in the Prerogative Court of 
 Canterbury, 8th July, 1493. He names his wife Agnes, his sons William and Richard Goodryke, 
 
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 History of the Goodricke Family, 
 
 his daughters Johanne, Margaret, Elizabeth and Alice, and his natural son Edward ; and he 
 constitutes Andrew Dymoke the elder, and his eldest son, William, his executors. His son — 
 
 9j33lIIiam (SOOtirp&e, of East Klrkby, was a merchant of the Staple, and a Justice of 
 the Peace for co. Lincoln. He had lands at Kirkby and Bennington, co. Lincoln, and property 
 at Calais, in France. He was twice married, but I do not find any record of issue by his first 
 wife. His second wife was Jane, daughter and heiress of William Williamson, of Boston, co. 
 Lincoln, Esquire, by whom he had three sons and four daughters^ His sons were ; — 
 
 1. John, who succeeded him in 15 17, of whom presently. 
 
 2. Henry, who purchased estates in Yorkshire, and was ancestor of the family seated at 
 
 Ribston, co. York. The history of this branch of the family will form the third chapter 
 of this work. 
 
 3. Thomas, born at East Kirkby, became Bishop of Ely and Lord Chancellor of 
 
 England. 
 
 TBi0f)Op ©OOtirgfeC* — Thomas Goodryke, third son of William Goodryke, of East 
 Kirkby, co. Lincoln, Esquire, by his wife Jane, daughter and heiress of William Williamson, Esq., 
 was born at East Kirkby about the year 1490. He very soon distinguished himself in his 
 studies, and was entered at Bene't College, Cambridge, at the then usual age of ten (1500). He 
 took his B.A^ degree in 15 10, the same year with Cranmer and Latimer, and M.A. in 15 14. 
 
 He was a Fellow of Jesus College, and appointed Proctor in 15 14. 
 
 His first living was at Hogely, co. Lincoln. In 1529 he was presented to the rectory of 
 St. Peter's, Cheap, by Cardinal Wolsey, and was appointed a Canon of Westminster, and 
 soon afterwards made chaplain to King Henry VIH., by whom he was frequently employed 
 in embassies to foreign courts. 
 
 On 17th March, 1534, he was chosen by the Prior and Convent of Ely as Bishop of 
 that diocese, under a license from the King, and he was consecrated by Archbishop Cranmer 
 and the Bishop of Lincoln, in the Archiepiscopal Chapel at Croydon, on the 19th April 
 following. 
 
 Soon after his elevation to the See of Ely, he repaired and beautified the palace there 
 entirely at his own expense, and built the long gallery on the north side of it. His arms are 
 still to be seen beneath the central window of this gallery, as also his version of man's duty 
 towards God and his neighbour ; but these are fast decaying, and will, it is feared, soon be 
 quite obliterated. 
 
 Bishop Goodryke was a zealous favourer of the Reformation, and lost no time after entering 
 upon his bishopric in issuing a mandate (27 June, 1535) to the clergy in his diocese instructing 
 them to erase the name of the Pope from all their books, and declare in their churches that 
 the papal authority had ceased throughout the kingdom; and this he followed up in 1541 with 
 an injunction "to see that all images, relics, table-monuments of miracles, shrines, etc., be so 
 totally demolished and obliterated with all speed and diligence that no remains or memory of 
 them might be found for the future." 
 
 He was one of the Commissioners appointed to reform the Canon Laws, and in 1540 
 one of the revisers of the translation of the New Testament, having St. John's Gospel allotted to 
 him for his own share. He was also one of the compilers of the first liturgy of the Church of 
 England, which it was enacted in 1549 should come into general use. 
 
 Upon Lord Rich's resignation. Bishop Goodryke was made Lord Chancellor, the great seal 
 being delivered to him by the young King, 19th January, 1552. He had previously had a seat 
 
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 in the Privy Council. At the King's request, he put the great seal to the instrument for the 
 succession of the Lady Jane Grey; and the part he took in this attempt to change the 
 succession, together with his zealous promotion of the Reformed religion, naturally caused him 
 to be regarded with ill favour by Queen Mary. He resigned his office, and delivering up the 
 great seal to Lords Arundel and Paget, July 1553, retired to his diocese, retaining the bishopric 
 till his death, which took place at his palace at Somersham on the loth of May, 1554. 
 
 Bishop Goodryke's character and actions are much abused by Dr. Burnet, and especially 
 his acceptance of the office of Chancellor; but the Rev. — Downes, in his "Lives of the 
 Compilers of the English Liturgy," says of him : — 
 
 " He was a sincere promoter of pure religion and a patron to all learned men who he 
 thought might be of service towards the abolition of the papal tyranny and superstitions, 
 and the restitution of true primitive Christianity. While Chancellor, he was admired by all 
 for his impartial distribution of justice ; he had the blessings and prayers of the poor and 
 the favour and esteem of the rich. His greatest enemies could not but acknowledge him 
 gentle, just, and gracious ; and his most intimate friends, when they brought a bad cause 
 before him, found him inflexible, severe, and unprejudiced." 
 
 Robert Steward, Dean of Ely, says of him : — 
 
 " Vir erat justus, mansuetiis, hospitalis, misericors, amans omnes, et amatus ab omnibus." 
 
 He was buried in the south aisle of the choir of Ely Cathedral, between the graves 
 of Bishop Walter de Luda and Bishop Heton; and the handsome monumental brass to his 
 memory — much mutilated, however — is the oldest remaining in that beautiful edifice. The 
 illustration of the effigy which forms the frontispiece is from a rubbing kindly taken expressly 
 for this work by Mrs. Eyre-Thompson, to whom my thanks are due. It represents the Bishop 
 in full robes, the Bible and great seal in his right hand and the pastoral staff in his left. 
 The canopy, a large portion of the legend, the arms, and the small scrolls, excepting two, 
 are lost. The legend was as follows: — 
 
 "Thomas Goodricus annos plus minus viginti Ecclesise hujus Episcopus, hoc loco 
 sepultus est. Duobus Angliae illustrissimis regibus variis et religionibus et reipublicae muneri- 
 bus pergratus fuit : foris enim apud alios principes ssepe legatus, domi autem cum Regi 
 Edwardo ejus nominis sexto aliquamdiu Consiliarius extitisset, magnus tandem Anglise factus 
 Cancellarius, chariorne Principi propter singularem prudentiam, an amabilior populo propter 
 integritatem et abstinentiam fuerit, ad judicandum est perquam difficile. Obiit IV. die Maii, 
 anno a Christo nato millesimo [quingentesimo] quinquagesimo quarto." 
 
 In vol. xii.. Coles MSS., at page 121, there is a drawing of this brass, showing the 
 arms, which are — Quarterly, first and fourth argent on a fess gules between two lions passant 
 guardant sable, a fleur-de-lis argent between two crescents or, for Goodrick ; second and third 
 argent on a chevron engrailed between three trefoils slipped sable, three crescents or, for 
 }Villiamson. 
 
 The six small scrolls contained the Bishop's motto, " Si Deus nobiscum quis contra 
 nos?" and his name Goodryke. The two containing ''Contra" and "Goodryke" now only 
 remain. 
 
 Bishop Goodryke's will, dated 24th April, ist Queen Mary, was proved in the Prerogative 
 Court of Canterbury, 7th October, 1554. Among many other relatives and friends, he 
 mentions his nephews Richard and John, sons of his brother Henry Goodrick, of Ribston, 
 
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 CO. York, and his nephews Lionel, Thomas, and Nicholas, sons of his brother John Goodrick, 
 of East Kirkby. 
 
 As before stated, William Goodryke, of East Kirkby, had four daughters. They were— 
 
 1. Catherine, wife of Sir Thomas Massenden, of Healey, co. Lincoln, Knight. 
 
 2. Margaret. 
 
 3. Elizabeth, wife of Jeffery Fulnetby, by whom she had, with other issue, a daughter, 
 
 Catherine, who was first wife of Matthew Hutton, Archbishop of York in 1594. 
 
 4. Anne, prioress of Greenford. 
 
 His will, dated 20th March, 15 17, was proved 7th May, 1518, by his sons John and 
 Henry. The following is an interesting extract: — 
 
 " Item. I will that John my sonne haue all my lande in Inglande and half my 
 housinge at Caleis to him and to his heires of his body lawfully begoten in taile 
 and for lak of heires of his body to remayn to Henry Goodryk in like maner in 
 tayle and in case they decease both w*out heires of their bodies that then there be 
 taken owte of my purchased lande X mrcs a yere to a preest to synge for me my 
 wyfe and childern fader and moder and all xpen soules and the rest of my lande 
 to go to my Sonne Thomas duringe his life and after to remayn to my daughter in 
 taile forer. Item. I will that my sonne Thomas be founde at scole till he be xxx*^ 
 yere olde so that he will be preest by that tyme and to have such necessarie chargs 
 as shall nede at any degrees takyng and if he be a preest by that tyme or afore he 
 to haue X. li. a yere till he be benefiesd to the value of XVI li. a yere clere and I 
 will that he haue XX li. of my goodes when he is preest." 
 
 He then leaves legacies to his daughters Anne, Margaret, and Elizabeth, and appoints 
 his sons John and Henry Goodryke executors and Sir Robert Dymoke supervisor. 
 
 3fOf)n (SOODriCfe, of East Kirkby, succeeded his father in 151 7, and was High Sheriff 
 of Lincolnshire in 1535. He married the youngest daughter and one of the co-heiresses of 
 Sir Lionel Dymoke, of Maring, co. Lincoln, Knight, second son of Sir Thomas Dymoke, of 
 Scrivelsby, King's Champion in the reign of Edward IV., by his wife Margaret, second daughter 
 and eventually co-heiress of Lionel, Lord Welles. The issue of this union was : — 
 
 1. Lionel, his successor. 
 
 2. Thomas, who married Alice, daughter of . . . Hutton, Esq., of Bristol, and was ancestor 
 
 of the Goodricks of Ely, co. Cambridge, and Norfolk, whose genealogy will be 
 found in the next chapter. 
 
 3. William, who possessed the manor of Nether Toynton, co. Lincoln. He married Alice 
 
 Sapcottes, widow, by whom he had an only child, Anne, born 1557, who was wife 
 of . . . Rolston, of Yorkshire. William Goodrick's will is dated 5th January, 1559-60, 
 and an Inquisition post mortem was taken 4th Elizabeth (No. 211). 
 
 4. Jane, wife of William Bryan, of Bolingbroke. 
 
 5. Katherine, wife of Thomas Palfreyman, of Lonsbie. 
 
 The eldest son 
 
 ILiOnCi (SOOOriCfe, of East Kirkby, possessed the manor of Stickney and considerable 
 landed property in Lincolnshire. A relic of him still exists at East Kirkby. It is a carved 
 
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 stone placed over the door of a house close to the church, which is believed to occupy the 
 site of the ancient residence of the Goodrick family. It is of a quasi Late Perpendicular 
 character, and within a central circular cusped panel is a shield charged with a cross fitch ee 
 rising from another recumbent cross, combined with a circle between the initials " L. G." The 
 date 1544 is above. 
 
 Lionel Goodrick was three times married. His first wife was Bridget, daughter of Sir 
 Thomas Jermyn, of Rushbrook, co. Suffolk, Knight, but by her he had no issue. His second 
 wife was Winifred, daughter of Henry Sapcottes, of co. Lincoln, Esquire, and widow of 
 . . . Borton, Esq., and by her he had a son and successor, Edward, and a daughter, Anna. 
 He married, thirdly, . . . daughter of Nicholas Robinson, Esq., of Boston, co. Lincoln, but 
 no issue by this wife is recorded. 
 
 Lionel Goodrick died 29th August, 1561, and an Inquisition post mortem was taken, 
 3rd Elizabeth (No. 134). His will bears date i6th December, 1560. His two children, 
 Edward and Anna, were but infants at the time of his death, and their kinsman Richard 
 Goodrick, of London, who was attorney of the Augmentation, was appointed their guardian. 
 
 the son and heir, was born in 1556, and on attaining his majority 
 petitioned for possession to be given him of his paternal inheritance of the Manor of Stickney 
 and other lands in co. Lincoln. He married EHzabeth, daughter of Richard Goodrick, his 
 guardian, by whom he had three sons and eight daughters. His sons were: — 
 
 1. Lionel, who succeeded him in 16 15. 
 
 2. Nathaniel. 
 
 3. Robert, baptized at Little Welnetham 6th March, 1585. 
 
 His daughters were : — 
 
 1. Dorothy. 
 
 2. Elizabeth, wife of Robert Beavot, of Kirkby, co. York, married at East Kirkby, 6th 
 
 January, 1603. She had issue — Edward, born 1604, and Robert. 
 
 3. Ann, or Agnes, wife of Paul Seman, married at East Kirkby 3rd September, 1598. 
 
 4. Wynifred, baptized at East Kirkby loth September, 1583. 
 
 5. Susan, baptized at Little Welnetham 21st December, 1586. 
 
 6. Judith. 
 
 7. Hester, baptized at East Kirkby 6th January, 1589. 
 
 8. Frances, baptized at East Kirkby 6th January, 1591. 
 
 Edward Goodrick died 20th August, and was buried at East Kirkby 22nd August, 1615. 
 His will, dated i6th of the same month, was proved in London, 9th March, 16^ J. He 
 bequeathed his manor of Stickney to his grandson, John Goodrick, then an infant, and mentions 
 his son Lionel, his daughters Elizabeth, Wynifred, Hester, and Frances, and his brother-in-law 
 Richard Goodrick, of Suffolk. 
 
 His son — 
 
 of East Kirkby, was of full age at the time of his father's death, 
 and proved his will 9th March, 1618. He was admitted to Gray's Inn 9th February, i59f. He 
 married at East Kirkby, 25th September, 1601, Audria, daughter of Bartholomew Calthorpe, 
 of CO. Norfolk, Esq. She was sister of Margaret Calthorpe, second wife of his maternal uncle 
 Richard Goodrick, of Bradfield St. Clare, Suffolk. Lionel Goodrick died the last day of 
 February, 1625, and an Inquisition post mortem was taken ist Charles I. (No. 18). He left 
 issue — 
 
6 
 
 History of the Goodricke Family, 
 
 1. John, born November 1610, inherited the manor of Stickney. 
 
 2. Thomas, of Stickney, and in 1674 of Boston, co. Lincoln, proved the wills of his brothers 
 
 John, 1654, and Peregrine, 1675. He was married, and had issue— (i, 2) John and 
 Elizabeth, legatees of their cousin William Goodrick, of Stickney, 14th March, 
 1676, and of their uncle, Peregrine Goodrick, nth February, 1675; (Sj 4> 5)> 
 Peregrine, and two daughters, legatees of their uncle Peregrine, 1675. 
 
 3. Peregrine, baptized at East Kirkby 29th October, 161 5, was a citizen of London. His 
 
 will, dated nth February, 1674, was proved in London, 3rd January, 1675. 
 
 1. Margaret, baptized at East Kirkby 8th February, 1603. 
 
 2, 3. Two other daughters. 
 
 The eldest son — 
 
 3l06n (SOODriCfe, of stickney, born 16 10, inherited the manor of Stickney in 161 5, 
 under the will of his grandfather Edward Goodrick, of East Kirkby, as before stated. He 
 petitioned in 1637 for possession of this property. He married Martha, daughter of William 
 Palmer, Esq., of Fleet, by whom he had a son, William ; also a daughter, Elizabeth, who was 
 living at the time of his death, 1653. His will, dated 9th February, 1653, was proved 8th 
 March, 165I. 
 
 His only son — 
 
 221illiant ©OODtlCfe, of stickney, was under age at the time of his father's death. 
 His will, dated 14th March, i67f, was proved i6th May, 1676. He left an only daughter, 
 Elizabeth, who was under age in 1676, and who is the last of the Lincolnshire family descended 
 from John Goodryke of Bolingbroke whom I have been able to trace. 
 
 There are, at the present time, several Goodricks in Lincolnshire who claim descent from 
 this line, but they have not furnished me with particulars of their family, to enable me to connect 
 them with the old stock. 
 
 The following pedigree, compiled from entries in the Stickney Registers, may at some future 
 time be of service in investigating this genealogy : — 
 
 Jane, =^ William Goodrick, =p Eliza Makey, widow, 
 
 first wife. 1 of Stickney. | married 176 1. 
 
 I 1 1 r—^ \ 1 
 
 John, Mary, Sarah, A son, Robert, Christopher, Rachel, 
 
 b. I Sept. b. 23 Aug. b. 28 Feb., b. 22 Feb. b. 11 Jan. b. 9 May, 1763. bur. 14 Mar. 
 
 1751, bur. 1752. 1754, bur. 1762. 1767. 
 
 20 Oct. 1 75 1. II Mar. 1755. 
 
 GOODRICK OF BOLINGBROKE AND SUFFOLK. 
 
 I must now refer the reader to the commencement of this chapter, where I stated that John 
 Goodryke of Bolingbroke was succeeded in his estate at that place by his second son, Richard. 
 This— 
 
 was a "merchant of the Staple," and died in 1508. His will, 
 dated September 1508, was proved in London, 17th November following, by his widow, Alice, 
 who was. daughter of John Etton, of Firsby, co. Lincoln. By her he had issue— 
 
History of the Goodricke Family, 
 
 7 
 
 1. Richard, of London, his successor. 
 
 2. John, a merchant of the Staple at Calais, who died unmarried. His will, dated nth 
 
 May, 1540, was proved in London 5th June in the same year. He names his 
 brother Richard ; " my Lord of Ely," his cousin ; and Edward Goodrick of Bolingbroke. 
 
 The elder son — 
 
 of London, was attorney of the Augmentation. As previously 
 stated, on the death of his kinsman, Lionel Goodrick of East Kirkby, Richard was appointed 
 guardian of his two infant children, Edward and Anna. The following account of him is given 
 by Gerard Legh in his "Accedens of Armory," published in 1562, p. 153: — 
 
 " He beareth argent, on a fesse geules one flower-de-luce and two cressants or, 
 betwene two lyons passauntes, gardauntes sable. The tymber, a dimy lyon rampande, 
 gardant sable, sette on a wrethe, or, and azure, manteled geules, doubled argent, all above 
 his owne devise, as ye may see. These apperteyned to maister Richarde Goodricke, of 
 Stanmare, a gentleman of the auncient house of Grayes Inne, whilest he lived : A worthy 
 counsellour to y® queenes highnes y^ now is. A worthy man, wel seene in all the 
 liberall artes, whose fame dyd ryse by sound counsell and upryght dealynge in the 
 lawes. Such a frende he was, to those that neded hym, that by his actes he putte in 
 execucion the rare poyntes of friendshippe hyghly commended by Socrates, and sildome 
 practised of others, whose goodnes as I confesse my selfe to have tasted : so with griefe 
 I bewaile hys lacke, beeinge no lesse bemoned of hys neighbors, then his goodnes towarde 
 them justly deserved the same. 
 
 " But fare he well in heaven, and all his frendes on earth, that hope, tyll then, to 
 mete with hym." 
 
 Richard Goodrick married Dorothy, daughter of William Badbye of Essex, and widow of Sir 
 George Blagge, by whom he had an only son, Richard, and a daughter, Elizabeth. He died in 
 London, and was buried in the choir of St. Andrew's Church, Holborn, 25th May, 1562. The 
 following description of his funeral is taken from " Machyn's Diary," in 1562 : — 
 
 The XXV. day of May was bered master Godderyke sqwyer, the wyche he ded at ys 
 place with-in Whyt-freres, and cared unto Sant Andrew's in Holborne to be bered ; and 
 ther was the compene of the Clarkes syngyng pryke-song, and then cam a morner careng 
 ys pennon of armes, and then cam master Yorke beyryng ys cote armur, and after master 
 Clarenshus ; and then cam the corse with a ryche palle of tynsell and ryche cloth of sylver 
 with armes of bokeram ; and then the morners, and after the byshope of Canturbere and 
 the byshope of Ely and the byshope of London, and next my lord keper and my lord 
 cheyffe justus of England and mony worshephull men, and after ijc. of the ines of the cowrt 
 folowd j and the dene of Powlles dyd pryche for hym." 
 
 His will, dated 20th November, 1556, was proved in London 17th January, i56f. His 
 .widow, Dorothy, was married for a third time to Sir Ambrose Jermyn, of Rushbrooke, co. Suffolk, 
 Knight, by whom she had a daughter, Dorothy, who was wife of Edward Duke, Esq., of Benhall, 
 CO. Suffolk. Dorothy, Lady Jermyn, matched her son Henry Blagge and her daughter Judith 
 Blagge, children by her first husband, with Hester and Robert Jermyn, issue of her third husband 
 by his first wife, and her son Richard Goodrick she married with Dorothy, another daughter of Sir 
 Ambrose Jermyn, her third husband. Her daughter Elizabeth Goodrick became wife of her 
 kinsman Edward Goodrick, of East Kirkby, co. Lincoln. 
 
8 
 
 History of the Goodricke Family, 
 
 IRlC})atD ®OODriCfe, son and heir, married, as just stated, for his first wife Dorothy, 
 daughter of Sir Ambrose Jermyn, of Rushbrooke, co. Suffolk, by whom he had :— 
 
 1. Robert, born 8th January, 1579, died 12th July. 
 
 2. Samuel, born March 1582. 
 
 1. Sarah, born December 1578. 
 
 2. Mary, born i8th June, 1580, married at Alford, 3rd September, 1599, to Robert Rush- 
 
 worth, Esq. 
 
 3. Dorothy, born 24th July, 1584, baptized at Little Welnetham. 
 
 4. Susan, born December 1589. 
 
 His second wife was Margaret, daughter of Bartholomew Calthorpe, of co. Norfolk, Esq., 
 and sister of Audria Calthorpe, who was wife of his nephew Lionel Goodrick, of East Kirkby. 
 The issue of this marriage was : — 
 
 1. Nathaniel, born at Toft Grange, Firsby, co. Lincoln, February 1596; died 14th May, 
 
 1 610; buried at St. Clare, Bradfield, co. Suffolk, 20th May, 16 10. 
 
 2. Eleazar, born at Alford, co. Lincoln, 23rd February, 1598 ; baptized there 26th same 
 
 month. 
 
 3. Richard, born at Alford 9th November, 1600; baptized there i6th same month. 
 
 4. Robert, born at Bradfield 2nd July, 1602. 
 
 5. Thomas, born at Bradfield 15th March, 1606 ; baptized there 22nd March. 
 
 6. Henry, born at Bradfield 29th August, 1608; baptized there 30th April, 1610. 
 
 7. John, born 15th November (?). 
 
 1. Margaret, born at Alford 23rd June, 1599; baptized there 28th same month; buried at 
 
 Bradfield 4th March, 16 10. 
 
 2. Elizabeth, born at Bradfield 31st May, 1604; baptized there 3rd June, 1604. 
 
 Richard Goodrick died at Bradfield St. Clare, and was buried there ist March, 1624. 
 
 Of the descendants of his large family I have been able to find only the following 
 fragmentary information : — 
 
 Robert, son of Samuel Goodrick, Gent., baptized 4th June, 16 13, at Rushbrook, co. Suffolk. 
 Dorothy, daughter of the same, baptized 4th November, 1614. 
 Elizabeth, daughter of the same, baptized 23rd July, 16 19. 
 
 From a deed in my possession, dated ist March, 1624, it appears that Edmond Goodrick, 
 who was then living in co. Suffolk, was son of Samuel Goodrick of Bury St. Edmonds. 
 
 Richard Goodrick, son of Richard Goodrick by his second wife, appears to have married 
 young, for I find an entry in the Bradfield St. Clare registers of the burial of his wife, Elizabeth, 
 on ist April, 1631. 
 
II 
 
 ^^ootjricli, of Co* Cambritiije* 
 
 GenealogYo 
 
 !)Onia0 (SOODriCft, ancestor of the branch of the family seated at 
 Ely, was second son of John Goodrick of East Kirkby, and nephew of 
 Thomas, Bishop of Ely. He married Alice, daughter of . . . Hutton, Esq., 
 of Bristol, by whom he had issue four sons and six daughters. He was 
 buried in Holy Trinity Church, Ely, loth January, 15 7 J. His will, dated 
 27th December, 15 7.1, was proved in London, 8th February, 157 J, by his 
 widow, Alice. He names his sons Daniel, John, Thomas, and Lionel, his 
 wife Alice Goodrick, his eldest daughter Anne, and his five other daughters. His widow was 
 married secondly, in 1572, to Richard Braken, who was then a widower. 
 
 Thomas Goodrick's sons were : — 
 
 I. ©^ni0l, of Ely, buried at Ely 23rd August, 1624, will dated 15th August, 1624, proved 
 in London. He married firstly, at Ely, 13th January, 1578, Elizabeth, daughter of 
 . . . Wren, Esq., and by her, who was buried at Ely, 22nd July, 1586, he 
 had issue : — 
 
 1. John, baptized at Ely 17th February, 157!; buried there. 
 
 2. C^{)01ttQS, of Ely, baptized at Ely rst December, 1580. Admitted Gray's Inn 
 7th May, 1604. Died s.p. Will dated 23rd October, 1624, proved in London 
 by his brother John, 163 1. 
 
 3. Daniel, baptized at Ely 29th September, 1582 ; buried there 22nd February, 
 
 4. 3[0f)n, of Ely, baptized at Ely 23rd December, 1583 ; buried there 17th April, 
 1640. His will, dated 27th March, 1640, proved in London in the same year. 
 He was twice married. By his first wife he had two daughters — viz. (i) Catherine, 
 wife of Captain Wm. Balam, of Ely, by whom she had issue ; and (2) Anne. His 
 second wife was Mary, daughter of . . . March, Esq., and by her he had an only 
 son, Daniel, who died at the age of sixteen, and was buried at Ely, 20th July, 
 1647. Admon., London, 1647. 
 
 5= EHzabeth, baptized at Ely 2nd May, 1585, was wife of Thomas Webb, of Bossom, 
 living 1646. 
 
 Daniel Goodrick married secondly, at Ely, 21st January, 160^, Frances March; but 
 by her, who died there in February 1647, he had no issue. 
 
lO 
 
 History of the Goodricke Family. 
 
 II. 3[0l)n, of Ely, baptized at Ely 4th September, 1560 ; buried there 14th December, 1630. 
 
 He married at Ely, 15th January, 1581, Margaret, daughter of . . . Adams, Esq., 
 sometime cupbearer to Queen Elizabeth, and by her, who was buried at Ely 24th 
 August, 1624, he had : — 
 
 1. J^Cntp, of Ely, baptized at Ely 23rd October, 1582, buried there 20th 
 June, 1643. He was three times married. By his first wife, Sarah, daughter 
 of Sir W. Bodinham, of Ryol, co. Rutland, who died in London, and was 
 buried in St. Giles' Church, Cripplegate, 6th June, 161 6, he had a son, Francis, 
 baptized at Ely 23rd October, 1609, and a daughter, Sarah, both of whom 
 died young. He married secondly, Dorothy, daughter of Sir W. Leighton, 
 of Plash, CO. Salop ; and by her he had a son and successor, Henry, and four 
 daughters, Ann, Margaret, Dorothy, and Jane. Kis third wife was Bridget, 
 daughter of Sir Richard Conye, of co. Lincoln. The issue of this marriage 
 was a son, Richard, and a daughter, Mary. Richard was of St. Andrew's, 
 Holborn, London. He married Dorothy, daughter of Richard Cole, Esq., 
 of Salesbury, co. Hertford, and widow of Francis Aussiter, Esq., of Southall, 
 CO. Middlesex, but died without issue. His will, dated 5th July, 1703, was 
 proved in London, April 1704. 
 
 ^entp (SOODriCfe, of Ely, son of Henry Goodrick by his second wifeV 
 Dorothy Leighton, succeeded his father. He married Mary, daughter 
 and heiress of Sir Michael Ernley, of Whetham, co. Wilts, and had issue : — 
 
 (1) lJ)arcourt, bom 1659, was a barrister-at-law of the Inner Temple. 
 
 He was godfather to Thomas, son of Sir Henry Goodricke of 
 Ribston, 4th Baronet, who calls him "cousin." He proved his 
 brothers' wills. His will, dated 10th September, proved in London, 
 9th March, 1721. He was unmarried. 
 
 (2) Henry, of New Inn, barrister-at-law, died unmarried. Will dated 
 29th September, 1704, proved in London 5th July, 1705. 
 
 (3) Richard, of Richmond, co. Surrey, and of the Middle Temple, 
 barrister-at-law. Died unmarried in 17 19. 
 
 2. William, buried at Ely 5th July, 1587. 
 
 3. Lionel, baptized at Ely nth October, 1590. Believed to have been Incum- 
 
 bent of St. Mary's, Little Houghton, Brayfield, co. Northampton, in 1638, 
 and of Overston in 1649. 
 
 4. Daniel, baptized at Ely 4th April, 1593 ; buried there 4th August, 1597. 
 
 5. Elizabeth, baptized at Ely 17 th March, 1585. 
 
 III. Thomas, third son of Thomas Goodrick, of Ely, and his wife Alice, was baptized at 
 Ely 28th May, 1565, buried there 14th June, 1579. 
 
 IV. Lionel, the fourth son, was baptized at Ely 15th June, 1567. I will speak of him presently. 
 
 Thomas Goodrick's daughters were : — 
 
 1. Anne, married at Ely, 24th January, 157^, to Benjamine Pryme, Esq. 
 
 2. Rebecca, baptized at Ely 8th February, 1561, was wife of William Walden, of Buckworth, 
 
 CO. Hunt, Esq., by whom she had with other issue a son, Lionel, aged 18 in 16 13. 
 
 3. Mary, baptized at Ely 9th October, 1563, was, wife of Thomas Jenison, of Irchester, co. 
 
 North., Esq., by whom she had issue. 
 
History of the Goodricke Family. 
 
 4. Barbara, wife of Francis Braken, Esq., Recorder of Cambridge, son of Richard Braken, 
 
 her step-father, by whom she had issue. 
 
 5, 6. Two daughters, whose names I have not discovered. 
 
 iliOnCl ©OODriCfe, fourth son of Thomas Goodrick of Ely, was baptized at Ely 15th 
 June, 1567. In 1597 he was living at Ely, and raised a suit in chancery (13th June, 1597) against 
 his step-father, Richard Braken, and his mother, Alice Braken, who was then of great age and 
 very infirm, for recovery of property in Holborn, London, which he claimed under the will of his 
 father proved in 1572. His wife was Elizabeth, by whom he had issue : — 
 
 1. Daniel, baptized at Ely 30th October, 1597. 
 
 2. Lionel, baptized at North Creake, co. Norfolk, 27th August, 1607, 
 
 3. Thomas, baptized at North Creake 13th June, 16 13. 
 
 4. John, baptized at North Creake 28th April, i6i6, was in Holy Orders, and Rector of 
 
 Whissingset, co. Norfolk, in 1642. 
 
 1. Elizabeth, baptized at Ely loth October, 1599. 
 
 2. Mary, baptized at North Creake 1608. 
 
 3. Ann. 
 
 Lionel Goodrick appears to have acquired property at North Creake about 1607. 
 His eldest son — 
 
 Daniel ©ootiricfe, bom 1597, was of North Creake, and died there, unmarried, 29th 
 
 January, 165I. Administration to his estate was granted in London, 13th March, 165!, to his 
 brother Thomas, who succeeded him, so that Lionel, his next brother, probably died without issue. 
 
 CfiOmaS ©OODriCfl, of North Creake, the third son, born 1613, died at that place, 
 where he was buried 30th May, 1664. He married at Whissingset, 13th March, 1645, Susan, 
 daughter of Hamon Bozoun, of Whissingset, Esq., and by her, who was buried at North Creake 
 3rd July, 1683, he had issue : — 
 
 Bazoun, whose will, dated 1672, was proved at Norwich. 
 
 Thomas, who was probably the Thomas Goodricke of Swafifam, co. Norfolk, mentioned below. 
 Susan, living in 1672. 
 
 Thomas, son of Thomas Goodrick, was buried at North Creake 20th October, 1668. 
 
 I have been unable to trace this branch of the family further, as the registers at North Creake 
 contain no entries of Goodricks later than 1683; but it is my belief that the Goodricks (Thomas 
 and Abraham) who appeared at Swaffam just at this period, and who are still represented, were 
 sons of Thomas, the third son of Lionel Goodrick, of North Creake. The Parish Registers at 
 Swaffam contain entries of Goodricks from i66y to a recent date. 
 
III. 
 
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 |enrp (SOODriClte, of Wlsbeach, Isle of Ely, ancestor of the Yorkshire 
 branch of the Goodrick family, was second son of William Goodryke of 
 East Kirkby, and brother of Thomas Goodryke, Bishop of Ely and Lord 
 Chancellor of England in the reign of Edward VI. In 1 542 he purchased 
 the Manor of Ribston and other lands in co. York of Charles Brandon, 
 Duke of Suffolk; and by letters patent, dated 28th August, 1545, King 
 Henry VIII., granted to him the Manor and Rectory Church of Hunsingore, 
 CO. York, with the rights, etc., in the late Priory or Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem, the 
 advowson and right of patronage of the Church of Hunsingore, together with sundry lands 
 in Hunsingore, Walshford, etc. 
 
 Henry Goodricke also bought Kippax Hall and Park, co. York, of Basse Gascoigne, who 
 was a kinsman of his late wife and in his service. He also possessed landed property at 
 Doddington and Wisbeach, in the Isle of Ely, at Newport in Essex, and in Aldermanbury 
 in the City of London. 
 
 He was twice married. His first wife was a daughter of . . . Addy^ Esq., a merchant of 
 the Staple, by whom he had an only son. 
 
 1. William, who married Maude, daughter of Thomas Middleton, of Stockeld, co. York, 
 
 Esquire, but pre-deceased his father, leaving issue, a daughter, Dorothy. Maude 
 Goodrick married secondly, Ralph Swould, of Kirkby, Esquire. 
 His second wife was Margaret, daughter of Sir Christopher Rawson, of London, Knight; 
 and by her he had : — 
 
 2. Richard, his successor. 
 
 3. Christopher, who died without issue, and was dead in 1564. 
 
 4. John, of Doddington in the Isle of Ely. He married Margaret, daughter of Thomas 
 
 Eston, Esq. 
 
 I. Aldburgh, who was wife of Christopher Langholm, of Coningsholm, co. Lincoln, Esquire, 
 by whom she had issue, Henry, Katherine, and Lucie. 
 
 Henry Goodricke died 12th October, 1556, and was buried at St. Dunstan's-in-the-West, 
 London, where, prior to the demolition of the old church, there was a monument to his 
 memory. It bore his arms quartered with those of Williamson, together with the following 
 inscription : — 
 
 ** Henry Goodrick, of Great Ribston, in Yorkshire, brother to Thom^ Goodrick, Bishop 
 of Ely and Lord Chancellor of England: he died 12 of October A^dni 1556." 
 
 His will, bearing date ist March, 1553, was proved in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury 
 ist June, 1557, by his eldest surviving son, Richard. It is a very long document, and deals 
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History of the Goodricke Family, 
 
 13 
 
 importance and specially interesting as commencing the history of the Ribston property in 
 
 connection with the Goodricke family: — 
 
 " Item, I will that Willyam Gooderick my sonne shalhaue and enioye my raannor howse called Ribston 
 Hall Hunsingc Cattail Colthorpe and Walche Ford w^** suche interest as I haue in the closes late belonging 
 to the Duke of Suff grace w*** all the ten" meadowes woodes pastures mylnes waters tithes and errable lands 
 belonging to the said Mano"^ of Ribston Hunsingore Cattail Colthorpp and Walche Ford during the tyme of h.s 
 
 naturall lief And after the decease of my said sonne Willyam I will that my foresaid Manor called 
 
 Ribston with Hunsingo*^ Cattail and other before rehersed doo remayne to theires males of his bodie lawfully 
 
 begotten And if my said sonne William do departe this present worlde w*houte any heires males 
 
 of his body lawfully begotten then I will that after his decease all the foresaid landes and tents with all 
 
 their appurtenncs shall remayne unto Richarde my sonne for the terme of his lief &c And for 
 
 lacke of suche issue male of the bodye of my said sonne Richard lawfully begotten Then I will that all my 
 saide mano*^ landes tents and other the premisses before to hym bequeathed shall remayn unto Chrofer my 
 
 sonne &c And for default of such yssue male to remayne unto John my sonne and after to Alborowe 
 
 my daughter successively, that is to saye First to John my sonne and to his heires male, and for defaulte thereof 
 
 to Alborowe my daughter and her heire male 
 
 " Item. I give and bequethe unto Richarde my sonne yf William Gooderick my sonne and his heires 
 males do enioye as before written Ribston Hunsingo'' Cattail Colethorpe and other. Then I will that the 
 said Richard my sonne shall haue and enioye all my lande and tents sett lyeing and beinge in Newport 
 pounde in the Countie of Essex with all the lands and tenements lyeing in Aldermanbury w^^'m the Citie of 
 
 London Also I give and bequethe unto hym my howse w*'' all other my landes and tents set 
 
 lyeing and beinge at Kypaxe w^^'in the Countie of Yorke called Kypaxe Hall And also I 
 
 give unto my said sonne Richarde all my landes and tents w*** their apurtennc set lying and being in 
 
 Wisbeche and Dodington within the Isle of Ely in the Countie of Cambridge in fee symple 
 
 Provided alwayes and my will is that if William Gooderick my sonne departe this pnte worlde wt'^oute 
 heires males of his bodie lawfully begotten and that Richard my sonne haue and enjoie Ribston Cattail 
 Colthroppe and Walche Ford and other before rehersed Then all such legacie or bequest as I have given 
 unto my said sonne Richard of Kypaxe Hall Newport London Wisbiche and Dodington I will the same in lyke 
 maner and jForme shall remayne to Christopher my sonne. And if Xpofer for lacke of heires males of William 
 and Richard my sonnes do enioy Rybston Hunsingor Cattail Colthroppe and Walche Ford and other as is 
 before rehersed Then I will that John my sonne have Kypaxe Newport London Wisbiche and Dodington in lyke 
 maner and forme as Richard and Chrofer sholde haue had the same. For my mynde and will is that alwayes 
 my two eldest sonnes and their heires males thone to enioye Ribston Hunsingor Cattail Colthroppe Walche 
 Ford and other before rehersed w*'^ the closes late the duke of Suff grace whiche they shall haue after my 
 decease for the terme of Lxxxxix yeres And thother to haue Kypaxe Newport punde London Wysbiche 
 and Dodington For I will not that myn eldest sonne or his heires males shal haue thole but to be deuyded 
 as is before written And alwayes the eldest to make a release unto the younger And so all my said landes 
 and tents to remayne as is before declared from one of my sonnes to another in taile And so to Alberowe my 
 daughter and after to Lyon Gooderick my nephew as is before declared." 
 
 After bequeathing several legacies and annuities to his servants and relatives — of whom 
 I will, however, only mention, in addition to his sons William, Richard, Christopher, and 
 John — his sister Fulnetby, his daughter Alborough and her husband Christopher Langholme, 
 and his nephews Lionel and Thomas Goodrick — Henry Goodricke appoints his brother 
 Thomas (Bishop of Ely) supervisor of his will in the following words : — 
 
 " I will that at my buryall blacke cootes and gownes be geven to all my olde 
 sarvaunts before rehersed and to other my wayting sarvaunts as myne Executours shall 
 thinke mete and convenient with thadvice of my lorde of Ely whome I ordeyne and 
 make the supervisor of this my testament and last will charging and comaunding all my 
 childeren to be ruled and ordered by his advice and councell And I beseche his 
 Lordshipp as one brother may do for an other to be goode lorde unto theym." 
 
 Bishop Goodryke, as already shown, however, pre-deceased him. As before stated, William, 
 the eldest son, died in his father's lifetime, and Richard Goodricke, the second son, therefore 
 proved this will, and succeeded to the Ribston estate (1556). Christopher, the third son, 
 who should have succeeded to his father's lands at Kippax and Wisbeach, died without issue, and 
 was dead in 1563-4, so that this property fell to John, the fourth son, who resided at Dodington, 
 and married Margaret Eston. I have been unable, however, to find any records of John 
 Goodricke of Dodington ; but it would appear that he left issue, as otherwise the Kippax and 
 
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 History of the Goodricke Family, 
 
 other estates bequeathed to him and his heirs would have reverted to the elder branch of 
 the family. 
 
 According to " Flower's Visitation," 1564, Richard Goodricke was " heir by order of Law, 
 by a Covenant made by his father to the said Rychard his son," which indicates the probability 
 of a separate deed having been made confirmatory of the testamentary settlement of his estate 
 made by Henry Goodricke. 
 
 was High Sheriff of Yorkshire in 1579. He married Clare, 
 daughter of Richard Norton, of Norton Conyers, Esquire, by whom he had : — 
 
 1. Richard, who succeeded him in 1582. 
 
 ESeth}^^^^ ^^^^ y^^^g-^^^^ ^564. 
 
 2. Margaret, wife of Sir Francis Baildon, of Kippax, Knt. 
 
 3. Elizabeth, married at St. Olave's, York, 28th May, 1588, to Thomas Wentworth, of 
 
 North Elmsal, Esq., ancestor of John Wentworth, Esq., who was created a baronet 
 in 1692* 
 
 He died 8th January, 158 1-2, and was buried at Ribston. His arms, impaling those of 
 his wife, with the supporters — two naked boys — and the motto " Reien * sen • Deiu," which 
 are still on the interior south wall of the chapel at Ribston, most probably belonged to the 
 monument to his memory, which is mentioned in a letter written in 1728 by Sir Henry Goodricke, 
 4th Baronet, to Mr. Wotton, which I give further on. 
 
 In the Inquisition post mortem taken at Wetherby, co. York, loth April, 1582, after the 
 death of Richard Goodricke, Esq., it is stated that he was seised of the manors of Hunsingore 
 and Great Ribston, Walshford, Cattail, Grewelthorpe, Little Ribston, lands in Colthorpe, 
 Plompton, Kippax, and Thorescrosse, etc., and the rectory of Hunsingore and advowson of the 
 church there. Also, that he died 8th January, 158 J, and that Richard Goodricke, gentleman, is 
 his son and next heir, and aged, at the time of his father's death, 22 years and more. This son — 
 
 JRlCftattl ®OOtlriCfeC, born about 1560, was High Sheriff of Yorkshire in 1591. He 
 married, at Ingleby, 4th November, 1578, Muriel, daughter of the Right Honourable William, 
 second Lord Eure. This lady's ancestry was unquestionably an illustrious one. Paternally 
 she was descended from Baldwin, Earl of Flanders, by his wife Alfuth, one of the daughters 
 of Alfred the Great, and through her ancestors, Katherine de Aton, Eleanor Greystock, Muriel 
 Hastings, and Margery Bowes, she could claim descent from WilHam I., Henry HI., Edward I. 
 and Edward IIL, kings of England. Through her mother, who was Margaret, daughter of 
 Sir Edward Dymoke, of Scrivelsby, co. Lincoln, Champion to Edward VL and Queens Mary 
 and Elizabeth, she was descended from the ancient families of Marmyun, Ludlowe, Conyers, 
 Welles, Waterton and Talboys, whose genealogy and history are well known. The issue of this 
 marriage was seven sons and two daughters. 
 
 The sons were — 
 
 1. Henry, who succeeded his father in 1601. 
 
 2. WiUiam, of Skidby and Walton Head, co. York, a colonel in the army, whose history 
 
 and descendants will be recorded later on in this work. 
 
 3. Robert, of Malton, co. York. He possessed an annuity of ;^3o, payable out of lands at 
 
 Brawbye, co. York, under an indenture by William, 4th Lord Eure, his cousin, dated 
 24th October, 161 7. This he sold to his nephew, Major William Goodricke, for 
 ;^620, 27th May, 1647. 
 
 4. Ralph, 5. John, 6. Richard, 7. Francis. 
 
History of the Goodricke Family. ^ 
 
 15 
 
 The daughters were — 
 
 1. Margaret, wife of Walter Strickland, of Boynton, co. York, Esquire. 
 
 2. Catherine. 
 
 According to the Inquisition post mortem^ taken at York Castle 23rd July, 1602, after the 
 death of Richard Goodricke, Esq., he appears to have sold some- small portions of the lands 
 in Little Ribston and Grewelthorpe to divers persons. The lands at Kippax and Thorescrosse 
 which his father held are omitted in the account, to which, however, is added the manor ot 
 Walton Head, which had been acquired by him. He died at Ribston 21st September, 1601 
 and Henry Goodricke, Esq., is declared to be his son and next heir, and aged at the time of his 
 father's death ** 21 years and 2 months and more." 
 
 ©it ^CUrp ®OODtiCfeC, eldest son of Richard Goodricke, born 1580, was knighted by 
 James I. at the Charterhouse, London, during his progress from the north, nth May, 1603. 
 He was a Deputy-Lieutenant, Vice-President of the Northern Council, a Justice of the Peace for 
 the West Riding, and Treasurer for Land Soldiers in 19 James I. He married Jane, daughter 
 of Sir John Savile, of Methley, co. York, Knight, one of the Barons of Exchequer, and had 
 a numerous issue. 
 
 Their eldest son, Richard, born in 1605, died young and unmarried. Henry, the second 
 son, also died unmarried, administration to his estate being granted in London, 31st December, 
 1636. Four other sons, viz., Toby, Edward, Thomas and Rowland, all died in infancy. 
 
 The seventh son, John, born 20th April, 1617, succeeded his father 22nd July, 1641, and 
 was created a Baronet on the 14th of the following month. Of him I will speak fully 
 presently. 
 
 The eighth son, Savile, of the Middle Temple, born 16 19, was educated at Aberdeen, and 
 died at Vienna, where he was buried, 1651. 
 The ninth and youngest son was 
 
 ©it J?t^nClS ®OODnCfe0, of Manby, CO. Lincoln, and Lincoln's Inn, barrister-at-law. 
 He was knighted at Whitehall 3rd March, 1661, was M.P. for Aldburgh in 1660-I; appointed 
 Chancellor of Durham 24th May, 1664, Surveyor-General of His Majesty's Woods beyond 
 Trent, May 1667, and Keeper of the Great Seal of Durham 9th March, 1672. He was also 
 Attorney-general to James, Duke of York, and Reader of the Society of Lincoln's Inn in 167 1, 
 at the time of the reception and entertainment there of King Charles II. The following 
 interesting account of this reception I copy from Thomas Lane's " Student's Guide through 
 Lincoln's Inn," p. 34. 
 
 "The Admittance Booke of Lincolnes Inne" 
 "Whearin his most excellent Majestic, his Royall Highnesse the Duke of Yorke his Highnesse Prince Rupert 
 And many Lords and honorable Persons have entred theire Names with theire owne Hands the nine and 
 twentieth Day of February Anno Dom. 1671. 
 
 "A Narrative of the Kings Majesties recepcon and Enterteynment att Lincolnes Inne the Nyne and Twentieth Day 
 of February One Thousand Six hundred Seaventy one. 
 ' ' Sir Francis Goodericke Knt one of his Maties learned Councell att Law and Sollicitor Generall to his Royall 
 Highnesse the Duke of Yorke being Reader of this Society of Lincolnes Inne for the Lent Reading in the yeare 
 One Thousand Six hundred Seaventy one haveing invited the King his Royall Highnesse and Prince Rupert and 
 diverse of the Nobilitie to Dine in Lincolnes Inne Hall on such Day of his Reading as his Matie should make 
 choice off, His Majestic was pleased to appoint Thursday the Nyne and Twentieth of February one Thousand Six 
 Hundred Seaventy one. And accordingly that Day his Matie together with his said Royall Highnesse and his 
 Highnesse Prince Rupert being also attended by the Duke of Monmouth the Duke of Richmond the Earles of 
 Manchester Bath and Anglesey the Lord Viscount Halifax Lord Bishop of Ely Lord Newport Lord Henry 
 Howard and diverse others of great Qualitie came to Lincolnes Inne his Matie made his Entrance through the 
 Garden att the greate Gate opening into Chancery Lane next Holborne where Mr Reader and the rest of the 
 
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 History of the Goodricke Family. 
 
 Benchers and Associates waited his comeing and attended his Majestie up to the Tarras Walke next the field and 
 soe through the Garden the Trumpetts and Kettle Drums from the Leads over the Highest Bay Window in the 
 Middle of the Garden Building sounding all the while. And from the Garden his Matie went to the new Councell 
 Chamber the Barristers and Students in their Gownes standing in a Rowe on each side betweene the Garden and 
 the Councell Chamber after a little rest his Matie viewed the Chappell returning agayne to the Councell Chamber 
 from thence as soone as his Table (being placed upon the assent att the upper end of the Hall and railed in) was 
 furnished his Majestie was brought into the Hall where his Majestie sate under his canopy of state being served by 
 the Reader as Sewer upon his Knee with the Towell before he did eate his Royall Highnesse sitting att the end of 
 the Table on his right hand and Prince Rupert att the other end The Dukes and Lords and other his Maties 
 Attendants of Qualitie after some short tyme of waiting had leave from his Matie to sitt downe to Dinnar att 
 Tables prepared for them on each side of the Hall The Reader and some of the Benchers to witt Sir Thomas 
 Beverley Master of Requests to his Matie Sir Robert Atkins Knt of the Bath all the tyme of his Maties Dining 
 waiteing neere his Ma*'^^ Chaire and foure other of the Benchers M*^ Day M"^ Pedley M"^ Stote and M"" Manby with 
 White Staffes waited as Controlers of the Hall to keepe good order and above fifty of the Barristers and Students 
 the most parte of them attending as Waiters and carrieing up his Ma*'^^ Meate which was served upon the Knee. 
 The rest of the Barristers and Students waiting upon the Lords att theire Table The three Courses wherein were 
 exceeding great Plenty and variety of Dishes and after them a most liberall Banquett was served up by the said 
 Barristers and Students and delivered by them upon theire knees att the Kings Table The Musick consisting of 
 his Ma*^'^^ Violins playing all the tyme of Dinnar in the Gallery att the lower end of the Hall Towards the end of 
 Dinnar his Ma*'® to doe a Transcendant honor and Grace to this Society and to expresse his most gracious 
 Acceptance of theire humble Duty and atfeccon towards him was pleased to Command the Booke of Admittances 
 to be brought to him and with his owne hand entred his Royall Name therein most gratiously condiscending to 
 make himselfe a Member thereof which high and extraordinary favour was Instantly acknowledged by all the 
 Members of this Society then attending on his Ma*^'® with all possible Joy and received with the greatest and most 
 humble Expressions of Gratitude Itt being an Example not psidented by any former King of this Realme his 
 Royall Highnesse and Prince Rupert followed this great and highest Example as also the Dukes and other Lords 
 who before his Majesties riseing from Dinnar borrowed Gownes of the Students and put them on and in those 
 Gownes waited on his Ma"^ with wh'^'* his Ma"® was much delighted. And his Ma«^ through his owne most 
 obligeing favour vouchsafed to it (haveing made himselfe more nearely and Intimately concerned for the good of 
 this Society) was pleased himselfe to begin a health to the welfare thereof and to cause itt to be pledg'd in his owne 
 presence. Immediately gave the Reader leave to drinke his Ma*'®* Health and to begin to his Royall Highnesse. 
 Then riseing from dinnar he was agayne attended to the new Councell Chamber where he conferrd the Honor of 
 Knighthood on M'' Nicholas Pedley, and M^ Richard Stote two of the Benchers who had in theire Turns beene 
 Readers of this house as also upon M"^ James Buttler one of the Barristers and M"" Francis Dayrell one of the 
 Students That soe each Degree and order of the Society might have a Signall Testimony of his Ma"«^ high favour 
 His Ma"e upon his Departure made large Expressions of his most gracious Acceptance of the Enterteynment and 
 return'd his Thanks to the Reader and was pleased to Signifie the great Respect and Esteeme he should ever have 
 for the Society. 
 
 ' ' The Gentlemen of the Horse Guards, Yeomen of the Guards and other Inferior Attendants were bountifully 
 enterteyned att the Costs and Charges also of the Reader. The Gentlemen of the Horse Guards dined in the Old 
 Councell Chamber the yeomen of the Guards in M"" Days Chamber And the Coachmen and Lacqy^ in the Gardiners 
 house to all theire Contentment. 
 
 ' ' On Saturday following M'' Reader, Sir Robert Attkins, Sir Nicholas Pedley and Sir Richard Stote Benchers 
 and Readers of Lincolns Inne waited on his Matie att Whitehall being conducted to his Ma*'®^ Presence by the 
 Earle of Bath and gave most humble thanks for that high and Transcendant Honor he had beene pleased to 
 vouchsafe to this Society which was gratiously received by his Majestie. And he did the said Benchers the Honor 
 to Kisse his Hand." 
 
 Sir Francis Goodricke married Hester, daughter of Peter Warburton, Esq., of the Grange, 
 CO. Chester, but died without issue at Durham, i8th August, 1673, and was buried with his 
 ancestors at Ribston. His will, dated 30th July, 167 1, with codicil i8th August, 1673, was 
 proved in London 15th February, 167I. He possessed the manor of Walton Head, co. York, 
 which, with other landed property in Yorkshire and Lincolnshire, he bequeathed to his widow, 
 his sole executrix. Dame Hester Goodricke's will, dated 25th August, 1678, was proved in 
 London 1679. 
 
 Sir Henry Goodricke had three daughters — viz., Mary, Jane, and Elizabeth ; the last two 
 named were unmarried. Mary, the eldest daughter, was second wife of Sir Richard Hawkes- 
 worth, of Hawkesworth, Knight, whose grandson, Walter Hawkesworth, was created a Baronet 
 6th December, 1678. Sir Henry Goodricke died 22nd July, 1641. His will, dated 21st 
 March, 1639, was proved at York, 17th December, 1641, by his widow, Dame Jane, and an 
 
GOODBICKE OF EIBSTON. BOOKPLATE. 
 
History of the Goodricke Family, 
 
 17 
 
 inqiiisiiion post mortem was taken at Knaresborough, 20th October, 1641. This document 
 deals fully with all his estate, and shows that Robert Goodricke, his brother, Sarah Goodricke, 
 wife of his brother William, and Savile and Francis, his sons, enjoyed annuities payable out of 
 different portions of the estate, also that Henry Goodricke, his eldest son, died vita patris wiihout 
 issue, and that Sir John Goodricke, Baronet, was next heir, and aged 22 years and more 
 at the time of Sir Henry's death. The will of Dame Jane Goodricke, widow, dated 2 6ih August, 
 1 64 1, with a codicil 5th October, 1647, was proved at York in June 1648, by her sons, Savile 
 and Francis Goodricke. In it she names her brother-in-law, William Goodricke, of Skidby, 
 CO. York, and his son, William Goodricke, junior. 
 
 Monument in Ribston Chapel. 
 M. S. 
 
 IN HAC ECCLESIA SEPULTA 
 JACENT CORPORA RICH GOODRICKE ARMIG : FILIJ 
 HEN: GOODRICKE AR. ET DN^ CLAR^ NORTON UXORIS 
 EIUSDEM RICHARDI FILIJO EORUM VNICI RICH GOOD 
 RICKE ARMIG : QUI UXORE HABUIT DNAM MERIOLAM 
 EURE FILIAM GUILMI BARONIS DE EURE, EX QUA 
 NUMEROSAM SUSCEPIT VTRISSQ SEXUS PROLEM EORN 
 PRIMOGENITUS D HEN. GOODRICKE MILES, VARIJS 
 REIPUB MUNERIBUS SUMA CUM EQUITATE ET MO- 
 DESTIA FUNCTUS POST VITAM PIE EXACT AM DEBI- 
 TUM NATURE ANNO /ETAT SU^ 61° SOLVIT ET IN 
 CHORO HUJUS ECCLES: SEPULTUS EST. HIC UXOREM 
 DUXIT JANAM SAVILE FILIAM JOAN SAVILE MIL: 
 UNIUS BARON SCACCARIJ FCEMINAM SELECTISSIMAM 
 PIAM PRUDENTIQ REI PAMILIARIS ADMINISTRATIONE 
 INSIGNEM QU^ PARITER HIC SEPULTA JACET FILIJ 
 EX HOC CONIVGIO FILIJO 12m NUMERANTUR E QUI- 
 BUS MARIA PRIMOGENITA NUPTA RICH. HAWKESWORTH 
 MIL. HENRICUS ET ELIZABETH A TENA HUJUS ECCLE- 
 SIA TEGUNTUR, SAVILIUS VERO POST PERAGRATAM 
 MAGNA EUROPE ET ORIENTIS PARTEM VIENNA 
 AUSTRIA OCCUBVIT & SEPULTUS EST. JOANNES 
 ET FRANCISCUS FRATRES SUPERSTITES PRO- 
 AVIS AVIS PARENTIBUS FRATRIBUS ET SORORIBUS 
 BENE MERENTIBUS. P. P. P. ANNO DNI 1652. 
 
 IDEM JOANNES MEMORIA UXORIS CHARISS 
 DNA KATHARINA NORCLIFFE PIE DEFUNCTA 
 ATQ HIC SEPULTA CONSULENS EJUS NOMEN 
 HUIQ MARMORI INSCRIBENDUM CURAVIT. 
 
 This monument, which is of white marble, handsomely carved, is in perfect preservation. 
 It is surmounted by an oval quartered shield with these arms : first, Goodricke ; second, 
 Williamson ; third (on a chevron, three falcons' heads erased) ; fourth, Rawson. On the left 
 hand of the inscription is a shield, Goodricke impaling Norton; on the right, Goodricke 
 impaling Eure, and beneath the inscription Goodricke impaHng Savile. 
 
 I have been unable to ascertain with any degree of certainty to whom the arms in the third 
 quarter of the oval shield belong, and I may here remark that the shield on the south wall, 
 presumed to be a portion of the monument to Richard Goodricke, Esq., who died 8th January, 
 1582, contains the same arms, with the positions of Nos. 3 and 4 reversed — i.e., Rawson being 
 in the third quarter. 
 
 ^It 3|0f)n ©OODtlCfeC, seventh, but eldest surviving son of Sir Henry Goodricke 
 
 3 
 
i8 
 
 History of the Goodricke Family. 
 
 by his wife Jane, daughter of Sir John Savile, Knight, succeeded his father 22nd July, 1641. 
 He was born 20th April, 1G17, and was created a Baronet 14th August, 1641. He was educated 
 at Aberdeen, as was also his brother Savile, their father considering the discipline there stricter 
 than in the English colleges. At the age of nineteen he was sent to France, where he remained 
 a year and a half, returning home in 1638, when' he received a commission as captain of a foot 
 company in Lord Fairfax's regiment. He evinced at an early age his devotion to the royal 
 cause, for I find a letter from him to Mr. Thomas Livingstone, in London, written in January 
 1639, ordering a buff suit and other necessaries, and inquiring the price of a complete suit of 
 armour, as he " intends to attend his Majesty this summer in arms as a private gentleman, if not 
 as \ captain." He says : — 
 
 " I am not ignorant that you make profession of arms, as well as of other arts ; 
 which moves me, being likewise myself entered into the same list, to desire your opinion 
 in the choice and price of a compleat armour for a captain of a foot company. This 
 is my request to you as you are a soldier, and for the fitting them to my body, none 
 can do it better than yourself As for the other things which my mother mentioned in 
 her letter to you, I leave the ordering of them to your own discretion, which cannot 
 err in making them handsome and fashionable. Yet thus far let me advise you, that 
 as you tender the honour of your military profession, you send them down against the 
 12th February next, and together with them the price of the arms." 
 
 This letter bears date 12th January, 1639. On 7th October, 1641, he married, at Trinity 
 Church, Micklegate, York, Catherine, daughter and co-heiress of Stephen Norcliffe, of York, 
 Esquire, counsellor-at-law, who had just attained her majority, and on 24th October in the 
 following year his son and heir, Henry, was born. 
 
 The civil war had now broken out, and Sir John immediately took up arms in the cause 
 of the King. He commanded a troop of horse under the Earl of Newcastle, which he 
 led at the attack of Bradford, then in the hands of the Parliamentarians, i8th December, 1642. 
 In this siege he was seriously wounded, and his horse killed under him by a scythe. The 
 following extract from a very quaint account of the siege of Bradford, written by Joseph 
 Lister, an eye-witness, will be read with interest : — 
 
 Accordingly, on the i8th of December, being the sabbath-day, the Earl of Newcastle sent the van of 
 his army again from Leeds, consisting of five troops of horse, six troops of dragoons, and two hundred foot, 
 commanded by Colonel Goring, Colonel Evans, Sir William. Savile, and Sir John Goodricke, intending with 
 these troops to surprise the town while the inhabitants were engaged in Divine service ; but our scouts 
 returned and alarmed the town and country of their approach ; and now, what hurry and confusion immediately 
 ensued : the whole congregation betook themselves to flight, and sought for refuge where they thought most 
 safe. Every man was now ordered to his post armed with such weapons as he was beforehand provided 
 withall : the church and steeple were secured in the best manner we possibly could, being determined (relying 
 upon Divine assistance) to defend it to the last extremity. Again they approached us with the sound of warlike 
 music, and their streamers flying in the air ; tremendous sight ! enough to make the stoutest heart to tremble ! 
 — to shake the nerves, and loose the joints of every beholder ! Amazing, to see the different effects it had 
 upon others, who were fired with rage, even to madness ; and filled with revenge, almost to enthusiasm. 
 They then advanced nearer, and set down in Barker-end, not above three hundred paces above the church, 
 where they raised a battery against it, but chiefly against the steeple, intending, if possible, to erase it to the 
 ground ; perhaps because they feared to suffer the greatest harm by those who were placed therein ; ten or 
 twelve of the best marksmen being in that part of the steeple judged most proper to annoy the enemy ; 
 others were in and about the church, and every pass leading thereto, and those into the town were 
 guarded in the best manner our little army of men would admit of, which were very small in comparison to 
 the number of our enemies, which we thought upwards of two thousand, with a train of artillery suitable 
 thereto, 
 
 " Each party being in this position, the enemy began to fire with the greatest fury upon us, and 
 especially against the steeple ; and, in a small space of time, discharged their great guns seventeen times ; 
 at length one of our men, with a fowling-piece, from off" the steeple, killed one of their cannoniers; and 
 instantly we all, with the greatest courage, resolution, and intrepidity, issued out of the town upon the enemy, 
 
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 who expected rather a speedy surrender than resistance. This so much daunted and surprised them, that 
 they were at a loss what course to take ; but, perceiving how advantageous the steeple was to our men, 
 and how they were incommoded by the fire from thence, they presently possessed themselves of some houses 
 and a barn nearer the church, very convenient for the shelter of their men, and brought their cannon also 
 nearer the church. From hence, they sent out Sir John Goodricke's troop of horse, who encompassed the 
 town, and some little villages on the side of it ; they robbed a woman most basely, and cowardly slew two 
 naked (or unarmed) men as they passed by. And, so coming within sight of the town's sentinel, at the 
 west end, the sentinel fired upon them, and wounded two or three of their horses ; one of which, being 
 but slightly hurt, was brought into the town. And in a little time, partly by the shot from the town, and 
 partly by the approach of some club-men from Bingley, they were forced to return to their party. 
 
 In the mean time, their cannon was removed to such a place as they could conveniently play upon 
 the town, and especially upon that part called Kirkgate, by which the townsmen must of necessity march 
 in order to relieve their party, and best resist the enemy. Those upon the steeple, made great havoc 
 and confusion among the enemy ; for when any buff or scarlet coat appeared within their reach, they had 
 two or three guns pointed in one- hole, and discharged at once upon them, and generally witli success, 
 which thereby greatly deterred the rest from relieving their men, which were in the houses ; and thus they 
 continued until high noon ; about which time there came to our assistance some fire-men and club-men from 
 Halifax, who immediately were put to service, some in the church, others in the lanes near the houses 
 where the enemy lodged ; those in the church and lanes kept the houses in play, and those on the steeple 
 hindered the enemy from relieving those in the houses ; but seeing this was not the way to repel the 
 enemy, for the largeness of the church windows, and the smallness of their houses, made their assault more 
 secure, and our defence more dangerous ; which the townsmen perceivmg, and, that this way did but 
 waste themselves and their ammunition, they therefore resolved to win or lose all at once, by a general 
 assault ; therefore, watching an opportunity betwixt the discharge and. charging again of the cannon of the 
 enemy, our men sallied out of the church, and being seconded by those in the lanes, rushed up to the 
 houses, burst open the doors, slew them that resisted, and took those that yielded ; the rest fled into the 
 field adjoining, where some of the townsmen followed, (the greatest part of them being employed in conveying 
 the men and ammunition, which the enemy had left behind them) and in the field the skirmish grew hotter 
 than ever ; the townsmen were too eager to keep rank and file, though they had before been taught so to 
 do. But this disorder proved very advantageous to our men ; for, mixing themselves with the enemy, they 
 thereby fought securely, even in the mouth of the enemy's cannon, and in the eye of one body of their 
 forces, both placed in the field above them ; they not daring to discharge their cannon upon us, lest in so 
 doing they should destroy their own men together with us ; otherwise, they had ten firemen for one, and 
 might have cut us all off in an instant ; nor could our men use their muskets but as clubs. To speak 
 ingenuously, their commanders being exasperated at the cowardice of their common soldiers, manifested 
 greater courage themselves ; but they were well paid for it, for our scythes and clubs now and then reached 
 them sorely, and few else did the townsmen aim at ; one among the rest, in a scarlet coat, (said to be 
 Colonel Goring himself,) our club-men had got hold of, and were spoiling of him ; but, a party of their 
 horse, fearing the loss of such a man, became more courageous than they intended, so, leaping over a hedge, 
 came full galop upon our men, and forced them to give a little ground, but they quickly recovered themselves 
 though they lost their man ; and redoubling their courage, would neither give nor take quarter, (not through 
 cruelty, but ignorance, as the enemy themselves afterwards confessed) ; and, in the end, forced both man 
 and horse out of the field. — Yet ours could not keep it ; for, now being separated from the enemy, their 
 musketeers were at liberty to play upon our men ; and now, indeed, they rained such a shower of lead 
 among them, as forced them to retreat to the next hedge for shelter, and so hindered them from pursuing 
 their men — their ordnance also, all this time, playing upon the town and steeple ; nevertheless, that which 
 was planted against the steeple did it no harm — that intended to scour Kirkgate, though planted in the most 
 advantageous place, though the streets were continually crowded with people, and though the bullets did hit some 
 of the houses, and some whistled through the streets, yet was not any man hurt therewith : which was 
 nothing short of the wonderful goodness of the Almighty, in protecting the lives of the inhabitants in such 
 a surprising and miraculous manner. 
 
 " One circumstance somewhat remarkable cannot be omitted. During the heat of this action, a stout 
 young officer (said to be the Earl of Newport's son) headed a company of foot, came down the field on the 
 left side of the high-road, under cover of a thick hedge, intending to force a passage through a house and 
 so surprise the church. He (the officer) being too sanguine, pushed on a little too fast before his men, fell 
 into an ambuscade ; being cut off from his men, and seeing no way to escape, begged for quarter, but was 
 answered by one Ralph Atkinson, saying — he would give him Bradford quarter ! and immediately slew him. 
 His men, understanding what had happened, and struck with astonishment at the loss of their leader, fled 
 with the greatest precipitation ; and were pursued by a party of our men, who slew some of them ; then 
 the whole body of the enemy begun to retreat, for they had sent off their baggage before ; and thus, the 
 terror of the Lord, and our men falling upon them, away they went, using their feet better than tlieir hands, and 
 about fifty of our musketeers and club-men after them, which courage of ours, did most of all astonish the 
 enemy, who said afterwards, no fifty men in the world, except they were mad or drunk, would have pursued a 
 thousand. Our men, indeed, shot and fought, as if they had been mad ; and, the enemy truly fell as if they 
 had been drunk : some discharged ten, some twelve times in the pursuit ; and having the whole body of the 
 enemy for their butt, it may easily be imagined what good execution was done, in a mile and a" half pursuit^ 
 
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 for they followed them up to the moor ; but, fearing to be environed by the horse, they retreated, so weary 
 after eight hours' fight, (for so long it lasted) that they could scarce return to the town. 
 
 "One thing I cannot omit. — A hearty Roundhead (for so the enemy called us) left by his comrades, and 
 surrounded by three of the enemy's horse, discharged his musket upon one, struck down another's horse with 
 the butt-end of it, broke a third's sword, beating it back to his throat, and put them all to flight, which 
 relation though strange as the rest, yet is most certainly true. There was slain in this notable and remarkable 
 skirmish, the Earl of Newport's son, by Atkinson, who took great store of gold out of his pockets, a gold 
 ring, etc., but, it is said upon a serious reflection, he greatly lamented so rash an action. Captain Binns was 
 carried away to Leeds, and died of his wounds three days after. — Their wounded were Sir John Goodricke, 
 whose horse was killed with a scythe, Colonel Goring, general of the horse, and about a hundred common 
 soldiers. Of ours, not above three at most fell by the enemy, and about twelve wounded, all curable except 
 two. — There were also taken prisoners of the enemy, Sergeant-Major Crew, twenty-six common soldiers, about 
 ten horses, one hundred and eighty pounds (weight) of powder, and about forty muskets. Thus, our wants 
 were supplied out of our enemy's store, leaving us a much better stock of arms and ammunition, than we had 
 at their first coming." 
 
 Soon after this event Sir John was made a prisoner, and his estate sequestered. The Hall at 
 Hunsingore, one of his seats, is said to have been entirely destroyed during the Civil War. Sir 
 John was confined first at Manchester, and a very interesting relic of him at this period still 
 exists at Ribston. It is a French Bible, printed in 1622, which his mother sent to him. It 
 contains a letter to him on the fly-leaf, as follows : — 
 
 " Sonn John, — 
 
 " I have sent you to Manchester your father's french Byble a jewell to which you 
 are no stranger. This book was the delightfuU study of his freedome and trust it may bee 
 the profitable delight of your confynment by the assistance of God's most Holly Spirit is 
 the Harty desyr and shall be the humble prayers off 
 
 " Your loveing mother 
 
 " Jane Goodrick." 
 
 " Post ps. — 
 
 " What you fynd writen of your worthy Father's Hand be carfuU to preserve, for 
 I part not willingly with any of his manuscripts. (The rest is illegible.) 
 
 Sir John has added the following : — 
 
 "This Bible I bought at Tours in France Anno Dni 1638, and brought it with mee 
 into England as a present to my Father j after whose death it was sent to mee by my 
 mother, being Prisener of Warre in Manchester, as the best companion in solitude. 
 
 " John Goodricke. ' 
 
 " I have found by experience that The Bible is most profitably read when a man reads 
 it in his mother Tongue, however he understands it in foreign languages and (as the food 
 we are accustomd to) is soonest digested into solid nourishment." 
 
 Sir John was afterwards removed to the Tower of London, where he was kept a prisoner for 
 three years, during which time his young wife died. It has been stated that he escaped from the 
 Tower and fled to France, where he remained until the Restoration ; but I have met with no 
 authentic evidence supporting this tradition. In the early part of November 1645 he addressed 
 the following petition to the House of Commons : — 
 
 " To the hon*'^*^ House of Commons in Parliament assembled. 
 
 " The humble Petition of S"" John Goodrick, Knt. and Baronett 
 " Humbly Sheweth, — 
 
 ''That yo'' pef" having beene a Prisoner of Warre these three yeares remaynes 
 Committed to y*' Tower of London by Order from this ho''^" house to y^ greate impairement 
 of his health, by soe long and tedious a Restrainte, his whole estate being Sequestred. 
 
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 " Yo'' Peticoner, therefore, humbly prayeth. That it will please this ho^^^ house to 
 admitt him to his Composition and Libertie to attend the same ; hee giving good security 
 never hereafter to Act or doe anything to the prejudice of the State. 
 
 " And yo*^ pef shall dayly pray, etc. 
 
 "Jo. Goodricke." 
 
 "December 30th, 1645. 
 
 " This is y^ Petition of S'' John Goodrick delivered into my hands about y^ 
 beginning of November last ; though it wayted for an opportunity to be presented to 
 y^ House untill y^ 22*^ of December instant. " Ph. Stapelton." 
 
 This Petition was duly presented to the House of Commons, and the following order was 
 made : — 
 
 "Die Lune, 22*' Decem^'*, 1645. 
 " Ordered (upon the Question) by the Comons Assembled in Parlyam^ that it be 
 referred to the Comittee at Goldsmythes Hall to compounde w'*^ S'^ John Goodrick, and 
 to consider of and examin the losses sustayned by Mr. Stockdale. And to report to the 
 Howse both the Composicon and Losses of the said Mr. Stockdale. 
 
 " H. Elsynge, Cler. Pari. D. Com." 
 
 Sir John took the National Covenant at Westminster on 29th December, 1645, 
 petitioned the Committee for Compounding with Delinquents as follows : — 
 
 " To the right Honor*^^*^ the Comittee for Compounding with Delinquents at Gould- 
 smithes Hall. 
 
 " The humble Peticon of S'^ John Goodrick, Knt. and Baronett. 
 " Sheweth, — 
 
 " Whereas yo"^ peticoner is sequestred by order from the Comittee att York, and 
 yo'^ peticonr being at this prsent prisoner in the Tower. And hath (by order from y® 
 Hon'"^!^ House of Parliamt) Liberty to Compound. Hee therefore humbly prayeth that 
 the Comittee att York may bee desired to certifie the value of his estate. And what 
 interest hee hath in the Land sequestred together w*^ what charge doe lye upon or are 
 issueing out of the same. 
 
 " And yo"" peticon*" shall pray, etc. 
 
 "Jo. Goodricke." 
 
 On 2nd February, 1645, the Committee for the West Riding of York certified to the Estate 
 of Sir John ; and as these papers are full of interest, I give copies of them here. They are 
 followed by a further certificate by Sir John himself: — 
 
 2° ffebr 1645. 
 
 "To the Hono"e the Comittee att Goldsmithes Hall, London, for Compoundinge w'^h Delinquents. 
 " The Certificate of the Comittee for the Weste Rydinge of the Countie of Yorke. 
 ' ' Accordinge to yo"" Order of the 6*^ of Januarie laste wherby wee are required to sende a iuste and true 
 pticuler of all the estate reall and psonall, and yearely Reuenewe of S"^ John Goodricke knight and Baronett : Wee 
 hauinge used our beste endeauors to informe o'^selues touchinge y'^ poynts in the said order, doe certifie to cache 
 pticuler as followeth. 
 
 "A perticuler of the estate of S"" John Goodrike in the westriding as it was in the Times before this 
 unnaturall warr, beinge upon Racke and in presente possesion^ 
 
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 The Manner of Hunsingor, in the parish of Himsingor w^i' the lands and Tythes 
 
 thereto belonginge of the yearely valu(i of 196 07 06 
 
 His Lands in Cattail Magna in pochia de Hunsinger, pMic p. Annu . . . 190 04 00 
 
 His Lands in Ribston Magna and Walshford in Parochia predict p Annu . . 150 11 00 
 
 His Lands in Ribston parua in Parochia de Spoforth p. Annu .... 045 00 00 
 
 Ribston Parke in parochia de Huasingor predict p. Annu 024 00 00 
 
 His Land in Widdington in parochia de Nunn Munketon p. Annu .... 045 00 00 
 
 ffree Rents in Grewellthorpe in pochia de Kirkebie Matzerd 000 17 02 ob. 
 
 ;^65i 19 08 ob. 
 
 The lands above menconed as they are nowe of p^'sente valewe yearely and soe lett . 532 i6 04 
 Lands in Revcon and to descende to S"" John Goodrick, viz. : — 
 
 "The Capitall Messuage of Ribston magna and pte of the demesnes, together w^i^- the Tythes of those 
 demesne grounds and a water corne milne in Hunsingor, w'^ the appurtennces beeing the La. Goodricke his 
 mother's ioynture before this unnaturall u^arr, of value 220^^ oo^ oo*^. 
 
 ' ' The pticulers above menconed are certified unto us by Richard Roundell, Edmund Birte, Thomas Wescoe, 
 George Nayler, Richard Pickerd, Thomas Lewis and Willm Burton, sequestrators for the weapentake of Claroe 
 who doe allso certifie that they doe not knowe y' the said S'' John Goodricke hath any lands in prsente possession, 
 revercon, or expectancie w'hin the said weapentake, other then these allreadie menconed, nor any other psonall 
 estate then what is allreadie accounted for and paid into this Coinittee amountinge to 22ii 17^ 4«i, after a 5*^ pte 
 taken out and allowed to S"^ John Goddrick's childe. Edw. Rodes, Ro. Barwicke, Jo. ffarrer, Tho. St. Nichlas, 
 Jo, Bright. 
 
 " S*" John Goodricke, knight and Barronett, of Hunsingo, in York. 
 
 ' ' His Delinquency that he was in Armes against the ParliamS and lies now restrained in the Towerj and hath 
 bin a Prisoner neere foure yeeres in all places ; and his cause especially referred to this Com'^^ by the Order of the 
 Howse of Corhons dated 22° Decembris 1645. 
 
 "He hath taken the Naconall Couenant before Sam" Gibson minister of Margaretts Westm., 29*^ of 
 December 1645, and is ready to take the negative oath if he may have Libertye to come heere to take itt. 
 
 "He compounds upon a perticuler returned out of the County and upon another under his owne hand by 
 which he hath submitted to such ffine &c and in which it doth appeare, 
 
 ' ' That he is seized in fFee to him and his heires in Reuersion from and after the decease of the Lady Jane 
 Goodricke his mother of and in the Capitall Messuage of Ribston Magna and parte of the Demeasne of the Mannor 
 of Ribston Magna, and of a certaine Messuage and howse in the Citty of Yorke of the cleere yeerely value before 
 theis troubles, 23011 for which his ffine is 230'i. 
 
 "That he is seized in ffee tQ him and his heires in possession of and in certaine Messuages, Lands, and 
 Tenem'^ lyinge and beinge in Ribston parua in the parish of Spoforth and Widdrington in (blank), Manckton, 
 in the County of Yorke, of the cleere yeerely value before theis troubles 90!' for which his ffine is i8o''. 
 
 " That Sf John upon the marriadge of his Lady who is now deceased did settle by conveyance diners other 
 Messuages Lands and Tenemt^ lyinge and beinge in Ribston Magna in the said County of Yorke, and the Mannor 
 howse of Hunsingore in the said Countye, to certaine ffeoffees, viz* unto Sr Edward Osborne and others named in a 
 conveyance thereof made bearinge date the 4* of October Aho 17° Caroli Regis to the uses followeinge, viz* to 
 the use of S"^ John, and his Lady for fife and the Hues of the longer liuer of them without Impeachment of wast 
 duringe the life of S' John and after their deceases, then to the use of his first sonne of the body of the said John 
 on the body of his wife to be begotten, and to the heires males of the body of the said first sonne and soe to the 
 second 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10"' Sonnes with severall remainders ouer to his brothers and uncles in taile one 
 after another, and for want of such issue to the right heires of the said S'' John which Messuages Lands and 
 Tenem'^ were of the cleere yeerely value before theis troubles as is certifyed by the said Com'®^ 150" 11^. p annu. 
 S"" John hath a Sonne liueinge and if to value this Estate as a ffee simple his ffine is 301'' 2.^. if as an Estate for life 
 
 150" IIS. 
 
 " That the said S'' John Goodricke is likewise seized of an Estate taile to him and the heires males of his body 
 with seuerall remainders in taile ouer the reuersion in ffee in himselfe of and in the mannor of Hunsingore, and of 
 diners messuages Lands Tenem'^ Tithes and hereditaments to the same belongeinge and appertaineinge, and of 
 diners other Lands and Tenemt^ in Cattail magna in the said parish of Hunsingore and of Ribston Parke lyinge 
 within the said parish, and of certaine ffreehold rents lyinge in Greewell throppe in the parish of Kirkeby Malsard 
 in the County of Yorke all beinge of the cleere yeerly value before theis troubles 412" 8^ 8''. ob. qr. for which his 
 ffine is 284" 17S 5id. 
 
 " S"" John is likewise seized of a ffranckten*"" for life of and in an Annuitie of 20" p AnnQ paid to him duringe 
 his life issueinge out of certaine lands and Tenem'^ in Thorner beinge the Inheritance of Mr. John Sauill for which 
 his ffine is 20". 
 
 " Soe his whole ffine if to reckon his Lands setled upon him for fife the remainder to his eldest Sonne in Taile 
 &c as an estate taile in possession comes to 1555'' 19^ 5" ob. But if to value that parcell as an Estate for life in 
 John onely will amount unto 14051' 8^ 5'* ob. 
 "Of tke premisses aforesaid parte is a Rectory impropriate, viz' the Rectory of Hunsingore which is of the 
 value of 60'' p annii upon which there is noe viccar endowed, but S'' Jolin payes a Stipendary 20" p annu to serue 
 the Cure for which he craues to be allowed 40''. 
 
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 "Then there is 9" 18'' 11'' ob. paid yeerely for a ffee ffarme rent to the Crowne for euer as appeares by the 
 acquittances for which he is to be allowed 19'' 17^ 11''. 
 
 ' ' He craueth to be allowed an Annuitye; of 60'' p annu paid to Sauill Goodricke duringe his life as by the deed 
 thereof produced dated the 23 day of August 1641 doth appeare. 
 
 ' ' He craueth to be allowed another Annuity of 40" paid out of his said Lands unto ffrancis Goodricke 
 another brother duringe tearme of his life as by the deed thereof dated the 16"' day of March 12° Carol! produced 
 doth appeare. 
 
 He craueth to be allowed another Annuity of 20" p annu paid unto Robt, Goodricke his uncle, as by the 
 deed thereof made by his Grandfather Richard Goodricke, Esq' dated the second day of December in the foure 
 and fortith yeere of Queene Elizabeth doth appeare, 
 
 " He craueth an allowance of 40" p annu another Annuitye paid to Margarett Merely a seruant to the said 
 Richard Goodricke and made by him dated the io**> of January in the foure and fortith yeere of the Queene it doth 
 appeare. 
 
 "And craueth to be allowed another Annuitye of 6^ 81 paid to Emanuell Justice, and made by Henry 
 Goodricke the ffather as by affidauit appeereth. 
 
 " The whole allowances are 187" 4^ 7'', which to take out of 1405" 8* 5^* leaves it 1228" 3^ 10^ ob., but if to take 
 it out of the 1555'' 19^ then it rests 1368" 14* 10" ob. 
 
 " Fine 1808'' 14^ Z^. 
 
 " But if he will settle 40'' p ann on a Curate at Honsingoe the fine is agreed at 1200'' & 150'' of this state is 
 to be reported as it is settled in his conveyance. 
 
 " A pticuler of a futher pte of the state of S' John Goodrick w^h (he conceiueth) was not w*''in the survey of 
 the Comittee who made the Cert''^*® of the rest of his estate nor came to their knowledge. 
 
 " Impr. A howse w* thapportenances lying within the walls of the Citty of Yorke now 
 defaced & ruynated not worth any thing at prsent w'='' House is in the possession of 
 the Lady Goodrick his Mother for her life formerly worth p Anu . . . . 10 00 00 
 " Item. One rent charge or Anuity for his life yssueing out of the lands of Mr. John 
 
 Savile of Thornhill p Ann . . . 20 00 00 
 
 " In Expectancie after my Mothers decease to myselfe or children for houses in London & Micham 80'' p ann. 
 " This is a true and just pticuler of all my Estate reall and psonall for w''' I desire to Compound to ffree it 
 out of Sequestracon and doe submitt unto and undertake to my power to satisfy such fifine as by this Comitty for 
 Composicons with Dehnquents shalbe ymposed and sett to pay for the sgime in order to the ffreedome and discharge 
 of my person & Estate. "John Goodricke." 
 
 ' ' I humbly desire this hon*"^ Comittee to take into their consideracon that though I haue subscribed to the 
 perticuler of my estate as it is now scertified yet I neuer made more of it then 533" p ann the rent for w"^ it is now 
 let by the Comittee at Yorke a preportion that no wayes sorts w*'' the present condicon of myn Estate being a passe 
 for all Armyes and hath bin so & still is subject to such misseries as useually attend them w=h I hkewise humbly 
 desire may be considered. ' ' John Goodricke." 
 
 The final document of importance in connection with Sir John Goodricke's composition 
 is the order of the Houses of Parliament " for taking off the sequestration " of his estate, 
 which was read in the House of Lords on 25th August, 1646, and "Agreed to.'^ The following 
 was the order : — 
 
 Martis. 25. Aug. 1646. 
 
 " Whereas S'' John Goodericke of Hunsingo' in the County of Yorke, Knight and barronett hath by both 
 howses of Parliam* bin admitted to his fine of twelve hundred pounds, hee having bin in Armes against the 
 Parliament. The Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament doe hereby authorize and appoint his Mats 
 Sollicitor Generall to prepare- A pardon to the said S"^ John Goodericke for his said offence in such forme as is agreed 
 by both howses for like offenders, together with a graunt of and restitucon to him his heires and assignes of all 
 his Lands goods & Chattells and other estate for which the said Fine was accepted according to a pticuler 
 thereof made and entred with the Committee at Goldsmiths Hall, and of all meane pffitts thereof from the 
 xxith dale of March 1645, with an excepcon of the right or estate of the said John Goodericke in or to all 
 advowsons, presentacons, and right of patronage to any Church or Chappell which said pardon so prpared the 
 Comt-^ for the great Scale of England for time being are hereby likewise authorised to passe under the said great 
 Scale accordingly Provided & alwaies that this Ordinance or the said pardon thereon to be passed shall not extend 
 to free the said S"' John Goodericke from a further composicon for any other lands goods or chattells then what are 
 conteyned in the pticuler aforesaid And that in case the said Lands menconed in the said pticuler were of greater 
 yearely value then are therein expressed during three yeares before the yeare of our Lord 1640. Then the said 
 S"" John Gooderick ,shall paie such further fine by waie of composicon as both howses of Pari* : shall appoint 
 And it is further Ordered and Ordained by the said Lords and Comons with the consent of the said S^ John 
 Goodrick as pte of his composicon. That 401* p annu shall be from henceforth issueing and paid for ever out of his 
 impropriate parsonage and Rectorie of Hunsingor in the County of Yorke for and towards.the mainteynance of a 
 learned preaching Minister in the said Church or Chappell of Hunsingor to be yearely paid unto the said Minister 
 and his successors for ever upon the second dale of Februarie and the first daie of August by equall porcons. 
 
 "Agreed." 
 
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 History of the Goodricke Family. 
 
 Sir John appears at this time to have retired to his home, and was living there in November 
 1650. About 1653 he married his second wife, who was Elizabeth, widow of William, third 
 Viscount Fairfax, of Gilling, co. York, and daughter of Alexander Smith, of Sutton, co. Suffolk, 
 Esq. ; and by her had an only son, John, born i6th October, 1654, who eventually succeeded as 
 third Baronet. At the time of her marriage to Sir John Goodricke the Lady Fairfax had an only 
 daughter, Catherine, afterwards wife of Benjamin Mildmay, Lord Fitzwalter ; her two sons, Thomas, 
 who was the fourth Viscount Fairfax, and William, having died in infancy. At the Restoration 
 Sir John was elected one of the Knights of the Shire for co. York, and served as a Deputy- 
 Lieutenant. 
 
 It is a circumstance worthy of note here that during the Civil War Sir John's uncle, Colonel 
 William Goodricke, and his cousins. Major William and Captain Henry Goodricke, were all 
 officers in the Parliamentary army. As is well known, family divisions of this nature were by no 
 means uncommon in these troublous times, but happily in this case the bonds of union between 
 Sir John and his relatives were not broken or disturbed by the divergency in their political opinions. 
 Sir John died in 1670, his will bearing date 19th September, 1669, being proved at York 25th 
 November in the following year. His widow survived until 1692, and resided at Moulsham Hall, 
 CO. Essex. Her will, dated 4th June, 1692, signed "Elizabeth Fairfax," was proved in London 
 on 15th September in the same year. 
 
be JRi5f)t honourable ^ir !|)enrp (Soouricfte, second Baronet, 
 
 was only son of Sir John Goodricke, Bart., by his first wife Catherine 
 Norcliffe. He was born 24th October, 1642, and inherited in a high degree 
 his father's feelings of loyalty to the Crown. He was treated with great 
 attention at the Court of Charles II., being knighted by that Sovereign. 
 In 1 668 he married Mary, daughter of Colonel Sir William Legge, "the 
 faithful servant of Charles I.," and sister to George Legge, who was elevated 
 to the Peerage, 2nd December, 1682, as Baron Dartmouth. Sir Henry was M.P. for Borough- 
 bridge in 1678, and in all the Parliaments summoned from 1685 1702. A close friendship 
 existed between him and Sir John Reresby (Governor of York), who speaks of him in terms almost 
 of affection. He says : — " This Sir Henry Goodricke was a gentleman of fine parts naturally, and 
 those improved by great reading and travel, one that being fixed at his excellent seat at Ribstone, 
 near Knaresborough, pleased himself there, and had no thoughts (no more than myself) to be in 
 any public business that might call us out of the country, till these vacancies falling out tempted us 
 to do so. He was, after his being known in Parliament, sent by King Charles II., his ambas- 
 sador into Spain, and we always continued so kind friends that we called ourselves brothers." 
 
 Sir John Reresby, speaking of Lady Goodricke, says she was " the finest woman, one of them, 
 in that age." 
 
 On 2ist November, 1678, Sir Henry was unfortunately engaged in a duel with a brother 
 officer. Sir John Reresby's account of this event, though wanting in detail, is, however, the 
 only one that I can find, so I will give it just as written : — 
 
 My brother, Sir Henry Goodricke, having then a regiment of foot in the army, one of his 
 captains threw up his commission upon some disgust, and challenged his colonel. He accepted 
 the challenge, and came to seek me to be his second ; but not finding me at home, he took Sir 
 Thomas Mauleverer, who ran his adversary through the body ; and Sir Henry wounded and 
 disarmed his." 
 
 This event must have taken place in or near London, as both Sir John Reresby and Sir 
 Henry were up for the Session. A few days afterwards (28th November, 1678) Sir Henry was 
 appointed Ambassador to the Court of Spain in place of Sir William Godolphin, who had been 
 recalled. His credentials, however, were not drawn out until loth June following, and his letters 
 of instructions bear date 2nd and 10th of that month. The following are copies of the latter 
 documents : — 
 
 ' ' S*^ Henry Goodrick's Dispatch as Envoye Extr"^^ to Spaine, 1679. 
 
 " Instrucons for Our Trusty and welbeloved S"" Henry Goodrick, & Baronett, Our Envoye Extr'^'' toy 
 Catholique King. 
 
 I. " Having received these Instrucons & our Letters of Credence you shall repaire w'^h all convenient speed 
 and Expedition to Madrid, where being arrived you shall notify y^ same to y^ Introductor of Ambassad"^^, & 
 acquainting him with y^ Quality vnder w'^'' you are sent by vs to his Catholique Mat^, desire him to be assisting to 
 you in all y^ formall parts of y' admission to y"^ Audience, as hkewise to y*" Attendance upon his Highness Don Jvan 
 de Austria, and y* secretary of state in whose district y' business properly lyes ; As for y"" visits to any other of y^^ 
 ministers you will best direct y''self vpon y*-' place, & by y^ occasions y' shall oblige you to resort to y'". 
 
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 2. You shall at y' first publick Audience (leaving deliver'd y*^ Credentials) assure y^ Catholique King in 
 proper & fitting Termes of Our Affection & good will towards him, and y* as through y^ blessing of God y® 
 Friendship and good Correspondence between y"^ two Crowns, & Our respective people & Dominions hath bin 
 since Our happy restauration renewed & setled vpon Fomidations of Common interest more lasting y" ever, 
 Wee will not onely on Our part most inviolably keep «& observe w^ hath been already agree, but be ready to 
 cultivate y^ present Alliance to a farther en crease & strictness of Friendship & love, Not doubting of y^ like 
 good Inclinacons & disposicons in his Catholique "Ma*^ towards Vs. That having therefore thought fitt to 
 recall Our late Ambassador, S"" W"' Godolphin, Wee have forthwith dispatched you to be Our Minister in yt Court 
 for y^ better entertaining Our said mutuall Friendship, and emproving all occasions yt shall offer of strengthning 
 & confirming it, 
 
 3. "In hke manner you shall frame y"^ discourse to y^ ministers, letting y™ know with w' tenderness wee take 
 to heart y^ Interests of y*^ monarchy, and applying yself with more particular regard to such of y™ w"* you shall 
 observe to be of nearest trust with y^ Cathohque King (especially to Don Juan de Austria) delivering y"' from Vs 
 such expressions of Our esteeme and kindness as are fitt And you shall vpon occasions vse Our name to let 
 y™ know y*^ confidence wee haue in their affection to Vs. 
 
 4. ' ' You shall be very carefull to maintaine & see performed y^ severall Articles and condicons of Our two 
 last Treaties, concluded at Madrid, and y*^ nothing be acted there prejudiciall to the interest or trade of any of y^ 
 Kingdomes, Countries or People vnder Our obedience, & if any thing of yt nature happen you shall presently 
 endeavour to haue it remedyed, & vpon denyall of Justice and due satisfaction you shall represent y^ same vnto 
 Vs, & shall protect and countenance in all Occasions Our subjects trading to any of the dominions of yt Crowne, 
 or who may have any suits or pretentions depending there, procuring for y"* good and speedy Justice, and all y^ 
 favour & priviledges you are able. Yet for Our honoitr & y>" owne you must not engage y*^ self in every 
 Complaint w'^'i may raise clamour without justifiable cause, or any legall proofes, but onely such as may deserve 
 y'^ interposition of Our name for Our subjects Right. 
 
 5. ' ' Amongst other particulars agreed on in Our severall Treatyes you shall particularly insist vpon y^ 
 punctuall observance of such Articles as relate to y^ Immunities & priviledges of Consuls as are by mutuall 
 consent establish'd in their severall stations within y^ Cathohque King's dominions, & you shall particularly com- 
 plaine of y^ wrong done to Our Consul at Tenariff by y* Governor, who taketh vpon him y^ determining y^ disputes 
 betwixt y® Merchants & Mariners & Sea Officers being Our Lawfull subjects without any consent from Our 
 Consul, certainely contrary to y^ 19th Article of y^ Treaty concluded at Madrid 1667. And for this demand a 
 remedy by punishing y^ Governour, & giving such Order as may secure Our people from y^ like oppressions for ye 
 future. 
 
 6. " And whereas y^ trade of Logwood hath soe frequently given occasion of discontent, betweene y^ two 
 Crownes, you shall endeavour to procure y* Crowne to consent to a Treaty whereby Our Subjects may be allowed 
 ye same, & finding or obtaining a disposicon in y* Crowne towards it you shall strive to know their mind in generall 
 vpon w' Termes they will agree ye freedome of y* Trade for Our subjects to Campeche, remonstrating to y"* ye 
 inconvenience y* will arise to Vs both without it, divers of Our subjects there daily leaving Our service, & taking 
 Commissions from y® French onely vnder their protection to be maintained in y* Trade, whereby both Wee and y® 
 Catholique King receive great prejudice. 
 
 7. " If vpon y^ late Treaty betweene Spaine and Portugall, soe successfully concluded by Our Mediation there 
 happen to arise matters of dispute or doubt vpon diverse interpretations of any Article thereof, you shall in Our 
 name interpose all good offices in order to an Accommoda,tion, & preventing any differences y' may fall out, & 
 towards a strict maintenance of y* peace obstructing y^ machinations of any party y* may endeavour to raise 
 jealousies betweene y^ two Crownes, & remembring y° obligation w'^'* lyes vpon Vs by y« ratification & guarranty 
 Wee have given of y® Treaty. 
 
 8. "You shall diligently observe y® motions of y* state & endeavour to penetrate into all their Counsils & 
 designes which may haue an influence vpon any of Our concernments, or of Our Friends and Allies, & w' Treaties 
 may be entertained by y"" with any other Prince or People, & of all things W^'' you can discover of their actings there, 
 or any where else, all occurrencies w<=^ may be of consequence, & worthy of Our knowledge, or w*^ you may find 
 expedient to propose to Vs for the advancement of Our Trade, or anything y' may concern Our Interest at home or 
 abroad, & of your proceedings in y® Course of y Negotiation you shall giue frequent Account & advertisements to 
 Our self or one of Our Principall Secry^ of State. 
 
 9. ' ' You shall presse in Our name y® satisfaction of ye debt due from yt Crowne to Our Nephew ye Prince of 
 Orange by such waies & Instances as you shall find proper, & according as you shall either before y"^ departure, or 
 hereafter be instructed therein by advises from Our Nephew himself or any person employed by him, or by Concert 
 with ye Dutch Ambassador vpon y^ place. 
 
 10. "You shall correspond w*"" Our Ambassadors & Ministers employed abroad in other Courts for y* better 
 direction & InformaCon towards y'' owne Negotiation. 
 
 11. "You shall entertaine good Correspondence & Friendship with all ye Ambassadors Residents & Agents of 
 Princes & States in Amity w*** Vs, who shall happen to be in y* Court of Spaine at ye same time with you. And 
 particularly you shall giue all occasions of a Familiar Correspondence with any Minister or Ministers yt shall be 
 there employ 'd from y® Duke of Modena ; And you are w"* all earnestness & Address you can to support ye 
 Interests of y' Prince in ye Court of Spaine, to testify to y® world how much ye Alliance y' Prince hath lately 
 contracted w"' Our Dearest Brother y^ Duke of York renders him dear & valuable to vs. 
 
 12. " At your return Wee shall expect from you a perfect & ample Narrative or Relacon of y" Negotiation, & 
 of all y* happens in y*^ Court with a particular description of y® Abilities & affections of y" Ministers, their Interests 
 
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 with their Masters, their mutuall Correspondence & differences one wt^ another, their Inchnacons to Forraine 
 Princes & States togather w*'' all such Observacons as may contribute to Our own particular Informacon of y® state 
 of y' Monarchy. 
 
 13. " You shall from time to time observe & follow such further directions & Instructions as you shall receive 
 from Our self or one of Our Principall Secrys of State. 
 
 " Given at Our Court at Whitehall ye 2^ day of June a" 1679. C. R." 
 
 " Additionall Instructions for Our Trusty & Welbeloved S'' Henry Goodricke Kt Our Envoye Extr'-e to ye Catholique 
 King. 
 
 " Beside ye former Instructions given you, Wee haue thought fitt to add these following. That you endeavour 
 wth yr vtmost addrcsse to possess* y' Court of Our reall desires & endeavours for y® prosperity of y*^ Crowne, & 
 particularly y^ Spanish Netherlands, in whose preservation Wee take Our self equally concerned as in Our own 
 Territoryes. You shall putt y™ in mind with w* earnestness Wee prest y® French King to haue consented to more 
 advantageous conditions y" those it was at last concluded on, y* w" Wee saw y* could not be obtained with wt great 
 charge Wee levied an Army, & y''self being an Officer in it can lett y™ know how considerable a part of it was 
 transported over for ye preservacon of those Countries How they were vpon their march after ye Battail of Mons & 
 how probably within few dales been in open action had not y® news of ye peace concluded betwixt y' King & y ® 
 States putt a stop to all hostilities. 
 
 "That since his Catholique Maj*^ judged it his interest to make y^ Peace; Wee haue continually vsed Our 
 Interest w'^ ye most Christian King for his observing y'' Articles of it, & there is nothing Wee lay more to heart y» 
 how to secure w* is left of those Countries, And y* Wee shall take y^ best measures Wee can in conjunction wt 
 those yt are Our Joynt Friends how best to secure it, 
 
 ' ' Given att Our Court at Whitehall y^ 10 day of June, 1679, In ye 31*'' year of Our Reign. 
 
 " By his Maj"«« Command H. C." 
 
 A warrant to the Exchequer for Sir Henry's expenses had been issued in April 1679. The 
 amount allowed him for " ordinary Entertainement " was ^5 per day, to be paid quarterly, and he 
 was also to receive jQ^^o for his " Equipage " and " such further allowances for Intelligent 
 expenses &c As by Bills und"^ his hand and allowed by one of his Ma*^ principall secretaries 
 of State shall appeare to be due to him." 
 
 Sir Henry proceeded to Madrid in due course, but the first record of him is in his letter 
 dated Madrid, 5th December, 1679. He writes : — 
 
 " The Queen receives no addresses till after her public Entry, which is appointed on 
 Thursday next, S' Thomas's day. The preparations are magnificent, and questionless, 
 the solemnity will be very splendid. The Queen is admired by all, and behaves herself 
 to admiration." 
 
 On the 1 6th January, 1680, Sir Henry had an audience of the King and Queen, at which 
 he presented the letters he had carried from the English Court, and the following letter written 
 by him to Lord Clarendon, describing the ceremonial, is highly interesting. 
 
 Letter from Sir Henry Goodricke to Lord Clarendon. 
 
 "Madrid, Feb'-y 8t^ 1680. 
 
 <*My Lord, 
 
 "Upon the first return of the Post, after my receipt of Her Majesties letter, I gave M"^ 
 Secretary Coventry notice thereof, desiring him to acquaint y"^ Ld?? that it came safe to my hands, 
 hoping in a short time to show my obedience to Her Ma^y^ comands, the reception it had, and at 
 the same time to present y*" Lord?? those acknowledgements the honour of y*" letter, enclosing the 
 Queens, requires from mee ; which I now doe, beseeching y*" LdPP to represent to Her Majesty, 
 and to accept from mee, thus. 
 
 "January the 16^^ was appointed me for that service, when, after Audience from this King, I 
 was conducted to Her Ma^^ who had been acquainted that with the King's, I had a letter to Her 
 selfe from Her Ma^y She was observed to have ordered Her dresse with great care, set forth with 
 Her best sate of Jewells, being great Rubys and Diamonds, She was in a rich, coloured Brocade 
 Gown of the Spanish fashion, born out almost to the Compasse of a Fardingale, wide silk sleeves 
 
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 hanging below her fingers, and a Fann in Her hand, with Her hair combd at length ; Her Ma^y 
 stood upon a large Turky carpett, in a great room, Her back towards a corner of a Pillar 
 parting two Windows, six maids of honour, two Ladys of the Bedchamber and fower Grandees 
 atending. 
 
 "After my discourse of Congratulation from His Ma*^ and upon the delivery of His 
 Royall letter, I acquainted Her Ma^^ with the high esteeme the Queen my Soveraign had 
 for Her, and the part Her Ma*^' took in my Royall Masters satisfaction so lately by mee exprest, 
 and to demonstrate it more clearly had ordered mee in all humility to present that letter to 
 Her Royall hands assuring Her of the Queens most reall and afectionate wishes for Her 
 felicity. 
 
 " Her Majesty receaved the letter with as great civility and kindnesse, as I ever observed, 
 and imediately said She would prepare for the answer enclosed, commanding mee to return 
 Her Ma*^ thanks and to inform Her when the Post went, which I did not faile to doe, but 
 had not the letter till a whole day after its despatch, and it going but once a fortnight is the 
 reason the letter may appear of an old date to Her Ma*y. 
 
 " I have now, My Lord, to acknowledge the civility and kindnesse of your Ld^P^ expressions 
 in the letter You honoured mee with, and can make no returne save by giving y'^ Ld^P this 
 assurance — that I am with all true respects and perfect honour 
 
 " My Lord, 
 
 ** Your LordPP^ most obediend and most humble servant, 
 
 "H. Goodricke." 
 
 Affairs do not appear to have progressed quite to Sir Henry*s satisfaction, for within a 
 month of writing the preceding letter he found himself compelled to address Lord Clarendon 
 again, beseeching him to assign to him such allowances as were due to him, one thousand 
 pounds of his own money having been expended on account of the State and *'his utmost 
 credit worn out." The following is a copy of this letter: — 
 
 " Madrid, March 6*^ '80. 
 
 *' Right honor^^e. 
 
 " I'me sure I can apeal to no judge so competent, nor to any person more concerned 
 for His Ma*y^ honor or the reputation of a Gentleman, then y'^selfe. 
 
 " I doe therefore humbly beseech you to thinck me very unwilling to complain were 
 not those considerations preevalent over my nature, and to rest assured that t'will be absolutely 
 impossible for mee to subsist either as a servant to His Ma*^ or even in a private retired 
 condition unlesse those sums I have requested M"" Secretary to alow, be not through y'^ 
 favour and the L''^ Comissioners paid in, for these reasons, 
 
 First the obligation was upon mee to bring over a Protestant family, which I did, though 
 with great charge, from England. 
 
 " Secondly an extraordinary journey through Flanders and France to receave His R" 
 Highnesses Comands at Bruxelles. 
 
 " Thirdly, my delay of audience here, till when no franchigias were alowed in this 
 excessive deer place. 
 
 " Then great charges upon my Audience in fees, and fresh Equipage upon the congratulation 
 of the marriage. 
 
 "And lastly the fall of moneys here which at least trebles the universall charge not only 
 of maintaining a Family but in all other expences. 
 
 " To all this, setting aside 500'* advance money I know but off one quarters pay receaved 
 
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 from the King, so that 1000" of my own and almost my utmost creditt is worn out, my 
 way of living being as moderate as I can contrive it. 
 
 doe upon the whole humbly pray, that what is due to this service and alowed by 
 M'" Secretary Coventry may through y'^ favour be asigned mee, that I may be in a capacity 
 to follow His Ma*y« affairs with that diligence, as the thoughts how to subsist may not interupt 
 mee therein, and that I may have that reall obligation to a person for whom I have ever had 
 such respectful! inclination as will ever be acknowledged by 
 
 "Right honor^ie 
 **Your most obedient and most faithfull servant 
 
 "H. Goodricke." 
 
 The following note by Sir John Reresby is interesting :—" 168 1. Nov. 5*^ I told the 
 King the story of Sir Henry Goodricke, then ambassador in Spain, whom I called brother, 
 of whom I had received a late account, that going out to shoot some miles from Madrid, in 
 his return home he lighted upon some thieves that had set upon a coach full of ladies, with 
 an intent to rob them ; but before they could effect it, Sir Henry and his followers attacked 
 them, wounded some and dispersed the rest, and rescued the ladies." 
 
 The differences between the Courts of France and Spain which commenced about this 
 time are matters of history, and do not come within the lines of the present narrative ; but 
 the ill feeling which now sprang up at Madrid against the English Court, following upon 
 Charles II. 's offers of mediation between the French and Spanish Kings, was vented in a 
 conspicuous manner upon the English Ambassador. Sir Henry Goodricke was ordered to 
 take down the Royal Arms from above his gate, which order not being complied with, he 
 was seized and sent a prisoner to a convent out of the city. The letters and journal notes 
 of Lord Preston, Envoy at Paris at this period, throw much light on what was happening to 
 Sir Henry at Madrid, and I will therefore give copies and extracts from them in order of 
 date, commencing, however, with a note from a letter to Sir Henry Goodricke from Don 
 Pablo Spinola Doria, dated Madrid 25*^ June, 1682, — who says that "His King having seen 
 the papers which Goodricke wrote to him on the 10*^ instant on the King of England's offer 
 to mediate between Spain and France, answers Goodricke that he is pleased with the King 
 of England's good intentions for public peace." 
 
 1682. Dec 30th. Extract from a letter from Lord Preston, at Paris to Mr Secretary Jenkins. 
 ^' We are much surprised here at the proceedings against Sir Henry Goodricke at Madrid ; perhaps Sir 
 Henry's restraint may have put him out of the way of giving you an account of the particulars of it, I shall 
 therefore recount to you what we have of it here by letters of the 10* current from Madrid. Some days before an 
 order of Council was made by which Sir Henry was ordered to take down His Majestys arms from above his gate, 
 and to go out of the town ; the Introducteur des Ambassadeurs was ordered to signify this to him, who, going to 
 his house acquainted his secretary with it, and charged him to notify the order to Sir Henry ; he answered that he 
 would not be charged with any such commission, and that he had best speak to himself and deliver the message. 
 So that the order was no otherwise signified nor at all observed. The Introducteur having advised the Due de Medina 
 Cell how the affair had passed, it was remitted to the Councill.— It was then proposed to send the Marquis de Los 
 Balliards to him, but that advice was not followed, because by doing so they would acknowledge him to be a 
 minister, after having declared that they would not own him as such. It was then resolved that that very day the 
 Sieur Portocarrero, Alcade Mayor, with several other Alcades, should go and take him in his house, and conduct 
 him out of the city. That was executed upon the 10*. The Alcade Mayor, with several other of the Alcades, 
 and a great number of Alguazils, seized him in his lodgings, and made him immediately go into one of their 
 coaches, and with that train of Alguazils conducted him to a convent of the Hieronymites out of the town. My 
 Lady Goodricke was the same day conducted to the same place, with the difference that she was conveyed in the 
 Dutch ambassadeur's coach, and two letters which I have seen say that she was not escorted by those Alguazils." 
 
 1682. Letter from Lord Preston to Sir H. Goodricke, at Madrid. 
 " I had not so long been wanting to write to you if I could have believed that my letter would have come safe to 
 your hands. I was extremely glad to receive yours by Captain Nicholson, and was preparing to have answered 
 it when the account of your late barbarous treatment arrived here. All the world is amazed at it, and can look 
 
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 upon it as no other than an open breach of the law of nations, of which the privileges and rights of ambassadors 
 make a considerable part, and have always been esteemed sacred even amongst the most barbarous nations. 
 
 " I was apprehensive that after so great a violence they might not suffer you to write, or at least to convey to 
 his Majesty our master an account of it. I have, therefore, some time since, written the exact narrative of their 
 proceedings to Mr. Secretary Jenkins, which will not be much to their advantage. One thing ought to support 
 you much in this affair, which is that by all my letters I find the King and the ministers not at all dissatisfied with 
 your proceedings, and you may be assured that in this place, or wherever else I am, I will take care that justice 
 shall be done you in representing your proceedings and carriage in it 
 
 "1683. Jan. 13th, Paris. 
 
 " We hear that Sir Henry Goodricke is still at the Convent to which they conducted him, but that the arms of 
 his Majesty were still over the gate of his house, and that then they had not proceeded to the violence of pulling 
 them down." 
 
 " 1683. Jan. 23rd, Paris. 
 
 ' ' We hear from Madrid by letters of the 9th that Sir Henry Goodricke having complained that he was kept a? 
 a prisoner, the King had declared by a decret that he had his liberty to go where he pleased, provided that he did 
 not come to Madrid. I find now that the Spanish ministers here are very sensible that the proceedings against 
 Sir Henry Goodricke hath been ill-timed." 
 
 " 1683. Feb. loth, Paris. 
 
 " Our letters from Spain, of the 21st of January, say that the King had refused to Sir H. Goodricke the liberty 
 of returning to Madrid to take away his papers, and that that Court doth still persist in their resolutions of not 
 accepting of his Majesty's arbitrage, but to that conjointly with the Empire and their other allies, and that they 
 were extremely satisfied with the conduct of Don Pedro de Ronquillo in what relateth to that affair." 
 
 " 1683. Feb. 20th, Paris. 
 
 "A courier who arrived upon Wednesday night last from Madrid brings a confirmation of the report which 
 hath run here for some time, that they are resolved in Spain to forbid the use of the English manufactures, and the 
 letters from thence also say that Sir Henry Goodricke is departed in some haste and that he hath left my lady to 
 follow him some days after." 
 
 • ' 1683. January 27th, Madrid. 
 
 " Peter Levet to Lord [Preston]. 
 
 " Having the honour to be agent and secretary for the most part of these three years unto Sir Henry 
 Goodricke, I presume this title, together with the inscription of the enclosed, will merit your lordship's censure for 
 giving you the trouble of forwarding the same. Sir Henry is at a league's distance from this Court, and is 
 positively denied permission (as he requested) to come to his house for some few days privately to put his papers 
 and other affairs in some order towards his return ; a rigidness much blamed by all people. He intends home- 
 wards by that Court, and to begin his way by the midst of the next month, through Catalonia, this being the 
 pleasantest travelling, though not the shortest cut. This goeth by a French express lately come from Portugal. 
 Here are letters come from hence on the 25th by express also from St. Sebastian ; but we can learn nothing of their 
 purport. From Tanger they advise of a most considerable defeat given to the Morocco Emperor by his nephew, 
 with the slaughter of (they relate thus) of 24,000 men, and that they expect great advantages from this accident. 
 The country carried in lately thither above 50 heads of cattle.'' 
 
 It appears from the extract which follows that Sir Henry fled from his place of confinement 
 in some haste almost immediately after the above letter from Peter Levet had been written. 
 
 Letter from Lord Preston to his aunt Mrs. Graham. 
 
 ' ' 1683, March 6th, Paris. 
 
 " I received letters yesterday from Madrid, which tell me that the 28th of January last my Lady Goodricke 
 left Madrid and joined Sir Henry upon the road some ten leagues from thence, and continued their journey 
 together homewards. I expect them here in a few days, having yesterday received a packet of letters for Sir Henry 
 from Spain." 
 
 Letter from Lord Preston to Sir H. Goodricke. 
 
 " 1683, March 24th, Paris. 
 
 " I hope this will find you and my lady safely arrived at London ; the notice of which would be very accept- 
 able to me. I had the misfortune to be detained by some business a httle too long that morning which you left 
 Paris, so that I got to your lodging just a quarter of an hour after you had left it, which was a very great trouble 
 to me that I was deprived of the happiness of seeing yourself and my lady before you left this place." 
 
 Sir Henry was a great favourer of the Revolution of 1688, and one of its chief promoters in 
 the North. He with Lord Danby and the Duke of Devonshire had frequent meetings at 
 Ribston Hall to concert the time, method, and means of bringing it about ; and it was here that 
 
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 these gentlemen finally arranged their plans for the seizure of York for William, Prince of Orange, 
 which took place 22nd November, 1688. 
 
 This meeting is mentioned by Lord Danby in his letters, published in 17 10, in the following 
 words : — 
 
 " And he (speaking of the Duke of Devonshire) came to Sir Henry Goodrick's house in Yorkshire purposely 
 to meet me there again, in order to concert the times and methods by which he should act at Nottingham (which 
 was to be his post,) and me at York, (which was to be mine ;) and we agreed that I should first attempt to surprise 
 York, because there was a small garrison with a governor there, whereas Nottingham was but an open town, and 
 might give an alarm to York, if he should appfear in arms before I had made my attempt upon York ; which was 
 done accordingly." 
 
 How these plans were carried out, and the part that Sir Henry took in them will be seen in 
 the following extracts : — 
 
 " It had been arranged that Danby should seize York, and that Devonshire should appear at Nottingham. At 
 Nottingham no resistance was anticipated ; but at York there was a small garrison under the command of Sir 
 John Reresby. Danby acted with rare dexterity. A meeting of the gentry and freeholders of Yorkshire had been 
 summoned for the twenty-second of November to address the King on the state of affairs. All the Deputy- 
 Lieutenants of the three Ridings, several noblemen, and a multitude of opulent esquires and substantial yeomen 
 had been attracted to the provincial capital. Four troops of militia had been drawn out under arms to preserve the 
 public peace. " (Macaulay.) 
 
 Sir John Reresby in his " Memoirs " writes : — 
 
 "The day being come, and the fatal one, I would not go to the Common hall, where the meeting was 
 appointed. Nor, indeed, was I very able, being ill bruised by my horse falling upon me as I came from home ; 
 but I heard that, amongst about 100 gentlemen that met. Sir Henry Goodricke spoke to this purpose, that there 
 having been a great endeavour by the Government to bring popery into this kingdom of late years, and to invade 
 the laws many ways, that there was no way to redress grievances of this and other natures but by a free 
 Parliament ; and therefore this was the only time to petition the King for it ; and a better pattern could not be 
 followed than what the lords spiritual and temporal, or some of them, had done before, which he read there before 
 them. Some differed from him in this matter, as Sir Thomas Yarburgh, Sir Lyon Pilkington, and one Mr. Stock- 
 dale, who said it ought to be moderated in some expressions, and that at the same time that we petitioned we ought 
 to assure the King to stand by him in these dangers which threatened both him and his kingdoms, with our lives and 
 fortunes ; but it was opposed. When such a draft was finished as Sir Henry and his party approved of, though 
 many that disliked it went away, they began to sign ; and when Mr. Wortley Montagu and Sir Henry had done, 
 before a third man could sign, Mr. Tankard runs into the hall and cries that the papists were risen and had fired 
 at the militia troops. At this all the gentlemen ran out, and those that were privy to the design got their horses, 
 which were laid ready for them, as Sir Henry Goodricke, Mr. Wortley Montagu, Mr. Tankard." 
 
 I conclude the account of this interesting event with another extract from Macaulay's 
 History : — 
 
 " At this moment Danby at the head of about a hundred horsemen rode up to the militia, and raised the cry, 
 ' No Popery ! A free Parliament ! The Protestant religion ! ' The militia echoed the shout. The garrison was 
 instantly surprised and disarmed. The governor was placed under arrest. The gates were closed. Sentinels were 
 posted everywhere. The populace was suffered to pull down a Roman Catholic chapel ; but no other harm 
 appears to have been done. On the following morning the Guildhall was crowded with the first gentlemen of the 
 shire, and with the principal magistrates of the city. The Lord Mayor was placed in the chair. Danby proposed 
 a declaration setting forth the reasons which had induced the friends of the Constitution and of the Protestant 
 religion to rise in arms. This declaration was eagerly adopted, and received in a few hours the signatures of six 
 peers, of five baronets, of six knights, and of many gentlemen of high consideration." 
 
 Sir Henry's action in opposition to Sir John Reresby was not destructive of the friendship 
 between them, as is abundantly shown in Sir John's memoirs, written by himself. Sir Henry 
 tried to win him over to his views, but unsuccessfully. Sir John Reresby writes, on 26th 
 November, 1688 : — 
 
 " Sir Henry Goodricke would have persuaded me the same day to have signed the 
 declaration, but I told him I could not do it. For though I should agree with the matter of it, 
 yet since they were now in arms to assert it, the signing of the declaration and petition was no 
 less, in my judgment, than joining in the force." 
 
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 Sir Henry lost no time in proceeding to Knaresborough, where he interrupted a meeting of 
 Roman Catholic gentlemen in the Commission of the Peace, assembled in the Town Hall, and 
 drawing his sword, informed them that the authority under which they were sitting was superseded, 
 and proclaimed William the Third King. 
 
 Sir Henry was appointed Treasurer in respect to the collection and disbursements of the 
 taxes in co. York for the Prince of Orange, and in April 1689 he was advanced to the post of 
 Lieutenant-General of the Ordnance in succession to the Earl of Shrewsbury. He was a Privy 
 Councillor to William III. and to Queen Anne. 
 
 Sir Henry Goodricke repaired very extensively, if he did not actually rebuild, a large 
 portion of the mansion-house at Great Ribston. The saloon, which is 44 feet by 31, is very 
 handsomely decorated in Italian style, and is said to have been completed in his time. 
 The date 1674 is above the outside central door, which communicates with the terrace. The 
 view of Great Ribston which I give here is a reduced photo-lithograph of an old print now in 
 possession of John Dent-Dent, Esq. 
 
 In the chapel on the south wall is a tablet bearing the following inscription : — 
 
 this antient free church of andrew was 
 repaired and embellished by s-^ harry goodricke 
 in the twelfth year of king william our deliverer 
 from popery and slavery who with mary his, 
 beloved wife design to be interred in god's 
 apointed time in the new vault at the west end 
 This church, she was daughter to coll: w» 
 legge and sister to george li dartmouth 
 and has lived with her husband 
 in great union neare 36 yeares 
 
 1703. 
 
 This slab was formerly on the front of the Communion-table. 
 
 Sir Henry died after a long illness at Brentford in Middlesex, 5th March 170I, and his 
 remains were sent to Ribston to be buried with his ancestors. His will bears date three days 
 previous to his death, and was proved in London 24th of the same month, by his widow Dame 
 Mary Goodricke, sole executrix. The portrait of him is from a mezzotint in the British 
 Museum. Dame Mary Goodricke, his widow, died 19th March, i7x|, aged 68, and was buried in 
 the Dartmouth family vault in Trinity Church in the Minories, London. 
 
 ©it %^Xi (SOODriCfee, third Baronet, was only son of Sir John, the first Baronet, 
 by his second wife, EHzabeth, relict of William, third Viscount Fairfax, of Gilling. He was 
 born 1 6th October, 1654, and resided at Altofts, near Normanton, where he had a mansion- 
 house, and where several of his children were born. He succeeded, under his father's will, 
 to a farm at Haddockstones, near Ripon, and it is probable that he lived there during the 
 earlier part of his life. He married Sarah, daughter of Sir Richard Hopkms, of Coventry, 
 Knight, Serjeant-at-Law, M.P., by whom he had five sons and six daughters. 
 
 His sons were — 
 
 1. Henry, born 8th September, 1677, who succeeded, loth December, 1705, as fourth 
 
 Baronet. 
 
 2. Francis, baptized at Normanton, co. York, 14th March, 1682-3. He was a merchant 
 
 in Liverpool in 1706, and one of the Bailiffs" for that town in 1709. He married, 
 22nd November, 1705, Mrs. Jane Prescot, of Liverpool, by whom he had a daughter, 
 Sarah, born 15th October, 1706, and baptized at St. Peter's, Liverpool, 24th 
 
History of the Goodricke Family. 
 
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 February, 1707. Her uncle, Sir Henry Goodricke, was her godfather. She was wife 
 of John Timperton, Esq., of York ; married 20th July, 1738 ; and was living in 1787. 
 
 3. Richard, baptized at Normanton 31st July, 1685; was educated at Oxford — P.A. 13th 
 
 February, 1706, M.A. 29th October, 1709. He died of small-pox at Oxford, 24th 
 November, 1710, He was in deacon's orders, and unmarried. His portrait is at 
 Gilling Castle (1884). 
 
 4. John Savile, baptized at Normanton i6th January, 1689-90, was a captain in Colonel 
 
 Roger Handasyd's Regiment of Foot, 20th June, 1727. He married at Chester, 
 8th August, 171 7, Adeliza, daughter of George Herbert, Esq., a younger brother 
 of 0 . . Herbert, Esq., of Oakley Park, near Ludlow, by whom he had two 
 daughters, viz. — 
 
 (1) Adeliza, born at Kinsale, in Ireland, 4th March, i7yIj was sempstress to King 
 
 George HI., " an appointment of £,^oo per annum.". She died unmarried 
 9th June, 1779. 
 
 (2) Mary, who was living unmarried in 1784. 
 
 Captain John Savile Goodricke died in London, and was buried at St. James's, 
 Westminster, 20th February, 1731. His will, dated i8th February, 1731, was 
 proved by his widow, in London, 8th February, 1732. In the "Baronetage" 
 published by Thomas Wotton in 1727 he is stated to have had two sons, Richard 
 and Theophilus ; but only one son, who died young, is recorded in the pedigree at 
 College of Arms. 
 
 5. William, baptized at Normanton 7th November, 1694, was an ensign in the company 
 
 in the ist Regiment of Foot Guards commanded by James, Duke of Ormond, 
 28th October, 17 13, and appointed quartermaster to a battalion detached out of 
 that regiment for service on an expedition, 19th July, 17 19. He died at Galway, in 
 Ireland, in September 1728, at which time he was a lieutenant in Dormer's Regiment 
 of Foot. He married, 2nd February, i7x|, Mrs. Mary Russell, of London, and by 
 her, whose will, dated 5th March, 1755, was proved in Dublin 24th May following 
 he had issue — 
 
 (1) John, born in London 6th November, 17 14, died 9th September^ 1717. 
 
 (2) Katherine, born at Stanmore, co. Middlesex, 17th November, 17 16, died 
 
 1 6th April, 171 7. 
 
 (3) Henrietta, born at Stanmore 2nd May, 17 18, married by license, at Dublin, 
 
 3rd June, 1740, to Charles D'Arcy, Esq., of DubUn, by whom she had 
 a son, Emanuel Goodricke D'Arcy, of Greek Street, Dublin, and a daughter, 
 Mary Ann, both living in 1788. 
 
 (4) Henry, born in 1723, was rector of Coulsdon, co. Surrey, from 1774 to 1807. 
 
 He died s.p. 5th January, 1807, and was buried at Coulsdon. His will, 
 dated 26th February, 1805, was proved in London, 23rd February, 1807. 
 He was twice married: his first wife, Mary, died in 1774; his second, 
 Deborah, resided at Croydon during her widowhood. Her will was proved 
 in London, 7 th April, 1814. 
 
 (5) Catherine, wife of . . . Rider, Esq. 
 
 (6) Elizabeth, married after 1755. 
 
 Sir John Goodricke's daughters were — 
 
 I. Katherine, married at Ribston, loth April, 1708, to Charles Mosley, Esq., eldest son 
 
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 History of the Goodricke Family, 
 
 of Alderman Mosley, of York, by whom she had a son, Charles, born 3rd June, 
 1709, died 22nd June, 1710. Mr. Charles Mosley died 31st January, 1703?^. She 
 was married, secondly, to the Rev. Jaques Sterne, LL.D., Rector of Rise, Canon of 
 York, and Prebendary of Durham, who died in 1759. (He was uncle of the celebrated 
 Lawrence Sterne.) She died s.p. in 1741. 
 
 2. Elizabeth, baptized at Normanton, 5th December, 1687, married at Ribston, ist October, 
 
 17 19, to William Thomson, Esq., of York, but had no issue. 
 
 3. Mary, married in York Cathedral, 8th November, 1707, to John Stainforth, Esq., Mayor 
 
 of York, second son of the Rev. William Stainforth, D.D., Canon Residentiary of 
 York, by whom she had issue — 
 
 (1) Sarah, born T6th April, 1709. 
 
 (2) William, born at Ribston 25th June, 1710, christened in the chapel there; 
 
 was Storekeeper of His Majesty's Mews in 1754. 
 
 (3) Mary, born at York 28th April, 17 14. 
 
 4. Anna Maria, baptized at Normanton 29th December, 1688, married, nth April, 17 10, 
 
 to Edward Botterell^ jun., Esq., of Ludlow, by whom she had issue — 
 
 (1) Sarah, born at Ludlow i6th January, i7xy' 
 
 (2) Anna Maria, born at Ludlow 20th April, 17 13. 
 
 (3) Edward, born at Ludlow 3rd May, 17 14. 
 
 (4) Henry, born at Ludlow 25th April, 17 15. 
 
 (5) John, born at Ludlow ist July, 17 16. 
 
 (6) Henrietta, born at Ludlow loth August, 17 18. 
 
 (7) Thomas, born at Ludlow i9th July, 17 19. 
 
 5. Henrietta, baptized at Normanton 17th November, 169T ; was wife firstly of the Rev. 
 
 . . . Hill, and secondly of . . . Johnson, Esq., of Liverpool, and died about 1762. 
 
 6. Sarah, baptized at Normanton 15th January, 1695-6. 
 
 Sir John succeeded his half-brother, Sir Henry, in March 1705, being then in his fifty- 
 first year ; but he survived him only a few months, dying on loth December following. 
 
 His will, dated 21st November, 1705, was proved at York 22nd September, 1706, by his 
 eldest son, Sir Henry. He gives "unto Sarah Goodricke my deare and loving wife all and 
 singuler my goods 'chattels and household stuff whatsoever as the same are stand and be at 
 my mansion house at Altofts in y® said County of Yorke and also all y^ gold and plate 
 whatsoever in her or my possession to her own use and to dispose of as she thinks fitting and 
 convenient." All the rest of his goods, chattels, and personal estate, and all the lands purchased 
 by him in co. York, and the houses in York called Trinityes, he gives unto his eldest son, Henry, 
 subject to the following legacies. To Francis, his second son, ^600 ; to Richard, his third son, 
 £Zoo\ to John Savile, his fourth son, ^700; to William, his youngest son, ^1000; and to 
 Katherine, Mary, Elizabeth, Anna Maria, and Henrietta, his daughters, each the sum of 1000. 
 
 Dame Sarah Goodricke resided at Altofts after her husband's death. She made her will 
 23rd February, 1731, and it was proved at York, 5th March, 1732, by her grandson, John Good- 
 ricke, Esq. She leaves the whole of her personal estate to her grandson, John Goodricke, subject 
 to some small legacies to her daughters and grandchildren. 
 
 ©It l^Cnrp (SOODriCfeC, fourth Baronet, was born 8«^ September, 1677. At the age 
 of seventeen, 30"^ November 1694, he received a Commission as Ensign in Lieutenant- Colonel 
 W.iliam Ashton's Company of the i^* Foot Guards, commanded by the Earl of Romncy. He 
 
History of the Goodricke Family, 
 
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 was a Justice of the Peace for the West Riding of Yorkshire. The following letter from him 
 to Mr. Thomas Wotton, commenting on the account of his family which had been published 
 in the "Baronetage" for 1727, is interesting and important: — 
 
 " Ribstan, July f^, 1728. 
 
 " S'. 
 
 " In preface to your account of Baronets, you not only give leave, but desire that each Baronet will send 
 any defect or mistake he may observe in the account of his own ffamily that it may be rectifyed in another Editioc, 
 And in the next page we read y* your design (amongst other things) is to give account of the Daughters & their 
 respective marriages, which last I find wholly omitted in the account of our family, tho' two Baronets (viz : 
 Hawkesworth & Wentworth, of Howsham) are descended from Daughters of our ffamily ; & my own sisters (tho' 
 four of them are well married) are not named. 
 
 " There is a mistake in the date of my ffather's death w"^'' shou'd be Dec lo**" instead of Sept. lo'**, 1705. 
 
 " The arms are also wrong blazoned, w ^ should be as follows : Argent on a ffess gules between two Lyons 
 passant Guardant sable, a ffleur de Us or, between two Crescents, Argent : this I copy from S'' William Dugdale's 
 pedigree of our family. The Crest has been since altered in King William's Time & the patent for it I have now 
 before me, therefore shall copy the words. ' That Henry Goodricke & his only Brother John Goodricke & his 
 male descendants have ye following Crest assigned, viz : a demy Lyon Ermines armed and langued gules, issuing 
 out of a Ducal Coronet or, holding in his paws a Battle Ax proper, helved or, as depicted in the margent.' 
 
 " Our family also used two naked Boys for supporters, as our old Monuments Evince, and perhaps amongst our 
 old writings may be found authority for it, but the oldest monument with a date & supporters is of my Ancestor 
 Richard Goodricke Esq"-, the date being 157S, w'='' makes it probable we had this Honour from Queen Eliz. To the 
 seats may be added Altofts in the West Riding of Yorkshire tho' now in joynture to my mother. 
 
 " Your Leave in the preface must be my Excuse for y^ trouble from 
 
 " 
 
 " Y' Humble Serv' 
 
 " Hen. Goodricke," 
 
 From this letter it will be seen that Sir Henry was very anxious that errors should not 
 be allowed to creep into the printed accounts of his family, and the neatly written pages 
 in the Family Bible containing the entries made by him testify to the value he set upon 
 such records ; but unfortunately his entries cease in 17 19, the marriage of his sister Elizabeth 
 Goodricke being the last event he noted. 
 
 Sir Henry enters his own marriage in his Bible thus ; — 
 
 *< April 26*^, 1707. I was married to M*^^ Mary Jenkyns in York Minster." 
 
 Mrs. Mary Jenkyns was only daughter of Tobias Jenkyns, of Grimstone, co. York, Esquire, 
 by his second wife, Lady Mary, 2nd daughter of Charles Paulet, first Duke of Bolton. 
 The issue of this marriage was : — 
 
 1. John, born at Ribston 20th May, 1708, succeeded his father as fifth Baronet 21st 
 
 July, 1738. 
 
 2. Henry, born at Ribston 24th August, 17 10, died at Hunsingore 20th January, i7xx> 
 
 and was buried under the font in Ribston Chapel. One of his godfathers was 
 Captain George Goodricke, of Chatham. 
 
 3. Thomas, born at Ribston 12th March, 17^!, was educated for the Church, but 
 
 eventually entered the Army, receiving a commission as Ensign in the Regiment of 
 Foot commanded by John, Earl of Rothes, 8th February, 1738. He was Lieutenant- 
 Colonel in the 25th Regiment of Foot. His will, dated igch July, 1757, was proved 
 in London, 29th July, 1803. He married, at St. Margaret's, Rochester, 26th June, 
 1757, Elizabeth, daughter of James Button, Esq., of Rochester, and by her, who 
 was living July 1803, he had: — 
 
 (1) John, a captain in the ist Regiment of Foot Guards, who was killed at 
 York Town, Virginia, 15th March, 1781, aged 24. 
 
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 History of the Goodricke Family, 
 
 (2) Thomas Francis Henry, who succeeded to the title as eighth Baronet on 
 
 the death of Sir Harry James Goodricke in 1833. 
 
 (3) Henry, died in infancy, 
 
 (4) Harriet, born at Rochester 29th November, 1769, died unmarried. 
 
 (5) Elizabeth, died in infancy. 
 
 4. Henry, born at Ribston 20th October, 17 19, was Sub-Dean of Ripon 22nd October, 
 1750, a Prebend of York loth January, 1752, and in 1798 Vicar of Hunsingore. 
 He married, firstly, Margaret, daughter of John Taylor, Esq., of Beverley ; and 
 secondly, Ann, daughter of Philip Harland, Esq., of Sutton Hall, co. York, but 
 died without issue at Sutton on the Forest, 24th October, 1801, and was buried 
 in the church there. His widow married, secondly, Charles Hoare, Esq., who took 
 the surname of Harland, and was created a Baronet in 1808. 
 
 The following obituary notice appeared in the Gentleman^ s Magazine for 1801 : — 
 
 " At Sutton on the Forest, near York, aged 82, the Revd Henry Goodricke, Prebendary of Grindale, 
 in that Cathedral, Rector of Hunsingore, and Vicar of Aldborough, both in that county, and younger 
 brother of the late Sir John Goodricke, Bart., of Ribston park. He was a gentleman long and well 
 known on the turf ; kept many fine race-horses, some of the best now existing ; but in respect for his 
 clerical character, he always ran them in the names of some other gentleman." 
 
 Monument in Sutton Church. 
 
 "SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF THE REV. HENRY GOODRICKE, 
 YOUNGEST BROTHER OF THE RIGHT HONOURABLE SIR JOHN . 
 GOODRICKE, BART.. LATE OF RIBSTON, IN THIS COUNTY. 
 HE WAS TWICE MARRIED, AND HIS REMAINS ARE DEPOSITED ' 
 NEAR THOSE OF THE RELATIVES OF HIS SECOND WIFE, ANNE, 
 DAUGHTER OF THE LATE PHILIP HARLAND, ESQ. HE DIED 
 OCT. 24, 1801, IN THE 82ND YEAR OF HIS AGE." 
 
 By his will, bearing date nth January, 1800, with codicil dated 7th June, 
 1801, which was proved at York 24th November, 1801, he bequeathed the bulk 
 of his property to his grand-nephew Edward Clough, Esq., of Kirkham Abbey, 
 CO. York, desiring that he should assume the additional surname of Taylor. 
 
 Sir Henry's daughters were : — 
 
 1. Mary, born at Ribston i8th June, 1709. 
 
 2. Elizabeth, born at Ribston 6th July, 17 13, died unmarried 8th January, 1761. 
 
 3. Sarah, born at Ribston 29th March, 17 15, married 9th October, 1742, to Thomas Clough, 
 
 Esq., of Otley, co. York, by whom she had issue : — 
 
 (1) Plenry, died in infancy in 1744. 
 
 (2) Henry, born 23rd July, 1745, died young. 
 
 j(3) William, born 30th December, 1746, died in Africa, i8th August, 1767. 
 
 (4) Thomas, born 23rd April, 1748, died 9th January, 1838, 
 
 (5) Francis, died in infancy in 1750. 
 
 (6) Edward, born 5th May, 1753, died at Antigua 9th December, 1777. 
 
 {7) Mary, born 7th October, 1744, died at Ripon 3rd March, 1817. She was 
 executrix to the will of Dame Mary Goodricke 1792. 
 
 (8) Sarah, born 13th June, 1750, died at Ripon 24th February, 1844. 
 
 (9) Harriet, born 5th February, 1752, died at Ripon 17th April, 1850, 
 
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 Thomas, Sarah, and Harriet were legatees of Sir John Goodricke, fifth Bart. 
 Thomas Clough married in 1785 Susanna, daughter of John Tyler, Esq., 
 by whom he had a son, Edward Clough, of Kirkham Abbey, born 28th 
 January, 1786, who assumed the additional surname of Taylor, in compliance 
 with the will of his Grand-uncle Rev. Henry Goodricke, of Sutton on the 
 Forest, and whose son is the present Edward Clough-Taylor, of Firby, 
 Kirkham Abbey, co. York, Esquire. 
 4. Jane, born at Ribston 24th October, 1716, married there 26th April, 1739, to Rev. Francis 
 
 Wanley, D.D., Vicar of Hunsingore, who was afterwards Dean of Ripon. She died 
 
 ist May, 1788, leaving issue. 
 
 Sir Henry died 21st July, 1738, and was buried at Ribston. His monument on the inner 
 south wall of the chapel bears the following inscription : — 
 
 NEAR THIS PLACE 
 LIES SIR HENRY GOODRICKE 
 BARONET. OF GREAT RIBSTAN 
 
 IN THE COUNTY OF YORK. 
 HE WAS BORN SEPT. sth 1677 
 AND SUCCEEDED HIS FATHER 
 SIR JOHN GOODRICKE 
 DEC. loTH, 1705. 
 HE MARRIED APRIL 26TH. 1707 
 MARY THE DAUGHTER OF 
 TOBIAS JENKYNS, ESQ. 
 BY THE LADY MARY POWLET, 
 DAUGHTER TO THE iST DUKE OF BOLTON, 
 AND HAD ISSUE BY HER, EIGHT CHILDREN, 
 TWO WHEREOF DIED YOUNG, VIZ., 
 
 HENRY, AND MARY. 
 THE OTHER SIX SURVIVED HIM, 
 NAMELY, JOHN, THOMAS, AND HENRY, 
 ELIZABETH, SARAH, AND JANE. 
 OB. : JULII 21ST, 1738, CETATIS, 6j. 
 
 Sir Henry's will, dated nth February, 173I, was proved at York 31st July, 1738, by Rev. 
 Jaques Sterne, D.D., and Rev. Francis Wanley, two of the executors. He desires to be buried in 
 the chapel yard at Ribston. He was succeeded by his eldest son — 
 
 Cbe iRigftt ^onouratile 3[o6n ©ooDricfee, ffftft IBaronet, who was 
 
 born at Ribston 20th May, 1708. 
 
 Sir John was appointed Resident at the Court of Brussels i8th August, 1750, and Envoy 
 Extraordinary to the Court of Stockholm 14th March, 1758, which office he still held in 1771. 
 He was M.P. for Ripon, and a Privy Councillor to George IH. September ist, 1773. He 
 married, at Hendon, co. Middlesex, 28th September, 1731, Mary, daughter of the late Robert 
 Benson, Baron Bingley. Lord Bingley was cousin to Sir John Goodricke, his mother being 
 Dorothy, daughter of Tobias Jenkyns, Esq., of Grimstone, and half-sister to Mary Lady 
 Goodricke, Sir John's mother. For his services to the State Lord Bingley obtained from the 
 Crown an extensive tract of land called Bramham Moor, in Yorkshire, where he erected a 
 magnificent mansion called Bramham Park, the grounds being laid out in the Italian style. Sir 
 John Goodricke resided here after his marriage with Miss Mary Benson, who possessed 
 Bramham after her father's death. He had issue one son and two daughters only. viz. : — 
 
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 History of the Goodricke Family, 
 
 I. Henry, born at Boulogne-sur-Mer, France, 6th April, 1741, baptized in the Parish Church 
 of Saint Nicholas there, the i8th of the same month. 
 
 1. Mary, born at Ribston 23rd October, 1732, died July T4th, 1733. 
 
 2. Henrietta (christened Harriet), born at Bingley House, London, 9th March, 1735, baptized 
 
 at Marylebone Church 29th same month. Died in London I74f. 
 
 Sir John's son, Henry Goodricke, Esquire, married at Woldhuysen in East Friesland, 31st 
 January, 1761, Levina Benjamina, daughter of Peter Sessler, of Namur, and continued for some 
 years to reside at Groningen in Holland. In 1766 he published at Groningen a work in Latin 
 entitled " Tentamina Jurisprudentiae rationalis de Jure puniendi Divino et Humano." His 
 children were : — 
 
 1. John, bom at Groningen 17th September, 1764, baptized on 19th of same month in the 
 
 Anglican Church there. He was a clever astronomer, and distinguished himself by 
 his discovery of the Period of the Variation of Light in the Star Algol, for which he 
 was awarded one of the two medals, on Sir Godfrey Copley's donation, by the Royal 
 Society in the year 1783. Full particulars of this will be found in the " Philosophical 
 Transactions" of the Royal Society, vol. 74, p. viii ; vol. 73, p. 474; and vol. 75, 
 p. 153. He died, unmarried, at York, 20th April, 1786, and was buried in a new 
 family vault at Hunsingore. His portrait, taken about 1785, is now at Gilling Castle, 
 York. 
 
 2. Henry, born at Groningen 12th October, 1765, baptized on 15th of same month at 
 
 St. Martin's Church there, succeeded his grandfather as sixth Baronet. 
 
 1. Harriet, born at Groningen 20th October, 1767, baptized on 23rd of same month at St. 
 
 Martin's Church, married at Hunsingore, April 1794, to Thomas Francis Henry 
 Goodricke, Esq., who succeeded to the title in 1833 as eighth Baronet. 
 
 2. Mary, born at Groningen, married at St. Martin's Church, Coney Street, York, 9th June, 
 
 1794, to Charles Gregory Fairfax, Esq., of Gilling Castle, co. York, leaving at her 
 death, on 28th January, 1845, 
 
 (1) Charles Gregory Fairfax, Esq., who married Mary, daughter of M. Tasburgh, of 
 
 Burgh Wallis, co. York, Esq., but died without issue, 21st April, 187 1, and 
 was succeeded by his sister Lavinia. 
 
 (2) Lavinia, married in 1837 to Rev. James Alexander Barnes, Rector of Gilling, 
 
 who died s. p. in 1869. 
 
 (3) Harriet, married 22nd February, 1839, to Francis Cholmeley, of Bransby Hall, 
 
 CO. York. 
 
 3. Elizabeth, born at York 28th January, 1776, died unmarried, at Cheltenham, 8th 
 
 March, 1838, and was buried at Gilling. 
 
 4. 5. Thomas and Ann, died in infancy. 
 
 To return to Sir John Goodricke : — As stated before, he resided chiefly at Bramham Park, 
 and appears to have preferred the mansion there to his paternal estate. My grandfather, William 
 Goodricke, of Durham, has often described the scenes of hospitality and the large gatherings of 
 gentlemen he witnessed at Bramham on the occasion of a visit he paid, when a boy, during the 
 hunting season, to his kinsman Sir John. 
 
 In 1784 (9th July) Sir John sustained a great loss in the death of his only son and heir, 
 Henry Goodricke, of York, in his forty-fourth year; and two years later, 20th April, 1786, his 
 
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 eldest grandson, John Goodricke, then his heir, and a young man of great promise, died at the 
 
 early age of twenty-two. 
 
 Sir John was now in the decline of life, being in his seventy-eighth year. His near male 
 
 relatives were few. His brothers Thomas and Henry were far advanced in years, and his grandson 
 
 Henry, aged twenty-one, and his nephew Thomas Francis Henry, aged twenty-four, were the only two 
 
 young members of his family, in his immediate line, who remained. Sir John appears to have 
 
 contemplated the possible contingency of his grandson Henry dying issueless, and of the family 
 
 estates passing to his nephew, or even a more collateral branch ; and in order to prevent, so far as 
 
 it lay in his power, any alienation of any portion of the property he enjoyed and which he had 
 
 power to dispose of, he made his will 20th May, 1788, with the following stringent clauses : — 
 
 ' ' I give the use and occupation of all my household furniture plate linnen and china earthenware and all 
 implements of household which shall be in my mansion house at Great Ribston or belonging to me at Bramham 
 Park or elsewhere in the county of York at the time of my decease and which I have power to dispose of unto 
 my said wife for the term of her natural life and after her decease then to the person or persons who for the 
 time being shall be in possession or in receipt of the rents and profits to the said mansion house at Ribston ard 
 its demesnes appertaining and I do order and direct that all such household furniture plate pictures linnen china 
 and other implements of household shall from henceforth from time to time descend and go along with and 
 be considered as heirlooms belonging to the freehold and inheritance of my said mansion house and its 
 appurtenances." 
 
 Codicil, 2nd February, 1789: — 
 
 " This is a codicil to the last will and testament of me Sir John Goodricke of Bramham Park in the county 
 of York Baronet. Whereas by my last Will and Testament bearing date the twentieth day of May one thoiisand 
 seven hundred and eighty-eight I have ordered and directed that all my household furniture plate pictures linen 
 and china earthenware and all implements of household which shall be in my mansion house at Great Ribston 
 or belonging to me at Bramham Park or elsewhere in the county of York at the time of my decease and which I 
 have power to dispose of should be considered as Heir Looms to attend the Inheritance of the said mansion house. 
 
 " Now to the intent that my said directions should not be frustrated I do hereby give and bequeath the same 
 together with all my books wheresoever dispersed unto Sir George Allanson Wynn of Varley in the county of Essex 
 Baronet his executors administrators and assigns for ever and I do hereby also give and devise unto the said 
 Sir George Allanson Wynn his heirs and assigns for ever all my estate at Hunsingore in the said county of York 
 which I lately purchased of my brother the Reverend Henry Goodricke upon the special trust and confidence 
 nevertheless that the said Sir George Allanson Wynn shall and do permit and suffer the person who for the time 
 being shall be in possession of my said mansion house and the estate belonging thereunto to receive the rents and 
 profits of my said purchased premises and to have the use and possession of my said household furniture pictures 
 plate books &c. and to the end and intent that the same may be preserved so as to attend the Inheritance of my 
 said Mansion House at Ribston T do hereby order and direct my executors in the said Will named immediately 
 upon my decease to cause a rental of my said hereby divised estate and also an Inventory to be made of all my 
 said household furniture plate pictures books linen china earthenware and other implements of household and that 
 they do sign two dupUcates thereof one of which shall be deposited with the person who for the time being shall 
 be in possession of my said mansion house and the estate thereunto belonging and the other of them retained 
 by my said executors and in order to guard against the waste loss or spoil thereof which might otherwise happen 
 I do hereby direct that the person who for the time would by this my codicil be entitled to the use thereof shall 
 not be so entitled until he she or they shall have made a fair copy of such Inventory and shall have signed the same 
 with their own hand thereby acknowledging that they are about to take possession thereof and promising to preserve 
 and use the contents thereof so as to "prevent any voluntary or careless loss waste or spoil thereby which said fair 
 copy so signed he she or they so about to take possession thereof shall cause to be delivered to the hands of the 
 said Sir George Allanson Wynn his heirs executors administrators or assigns to enable him or them to see to the 
 due execution of this my Codicil." 
 
 After bequeathing legacies to his brother Thomas, his nieces, granddaughters, grandson 
 Henry, and his nephew Thomas Clough, he leaves the residue of his personal estate to his nephew, 
 Thomas Francis Henry Goodricke, whom he appoints one of his executors. 
 
 Dame Mary Goodricke, Sir John's wife, joined him heartily in his action in regard to the 
 heirlooms, and made her will containing similar terms. It is dated 26th September, 1787, with 
 three codicils in 1789 and 1790. The following are extracts : — 
 
 " I do hereby give and devise my gilt plate unto my grandson for and during the term of his natural life and 
 ' do direct that the same shall afterwards go along with the Ribston estate in the nature of an Heir Loom." 
 
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 History of the Goodricke Family, 
 
 Codicil, dated 17th September, 1789 : — 
 
 " I Dame Mary Goodricke of Ribston in the County of York widow do by this Codicil (which I hereby desire 
 may be taken as part of my last Will and Testament) give and bequeath unto Sir George AUanson Wynn of 
 Bramham Biggin in the said county Baronet and unto his heirs executors and administrators all my gold plate 
 late the property of Lady Bingley but upon this special trust and confidence nevertheless that he do permit and 
 suffer my grandson Sir Henry Goodricke Baronet and the heirs of his body to have the use and enjoyment thereof 
 during their several natural lives and on failure of issue of his body then I do hereby order and direct the said Sir 
 George Allan son Wynn to dehver the same over to James Fox Esquire nephew to the late Right Honourable 
 George Lord Bingley for his own sole and separate use and I do order my executors to make an inventory of the 
 said plate which my said grandson and his issue taking possession thereof shall respectively sign and deliver to the 
 said Sir George Allanson Wynn Baronet thereby promising to preserve and use the same carefully and I do hereby 
 confirm my said will &c." 
 
 It is impossible to read the extracts I have given from Sir John's will without seeing in 
 almost every line of them his anxious wishes for the family properties to be held firmly together 
 by his successors ; and one can readily imagine the depth to which his disappointment and anguish 
 would have reached had he been able to look forward only for the space of fifty years, to see his 
 wishes frustrated, every acre of his paternal estate given by his great-grandson to a stranger \ 
 and his nephew, who had been executor to his estate, certainly wearing the title to which he had 
 succeeded, but stripped of all its old associations and surroundings — a poor baronet, living in 
 a poor street in London, and accepting the miserable pittance of twenty pounds a year from 
 the possessor of Ribston ! 
 
 Sir John's death took place on the 3rd August, 1789, and he was buried in the new 
 vault the family had erected at Hunsingore. His nephew, Thomas Francis Henry Goodricke, 
 administered to his estate, his will being proved in York, 29th August, 1789. His portrait 
 is at Gilling Castle. 
 
 Dame Mary Goodricke died 4th March, 1792, aged eighty, and was buried in the 
 Hunsingore vault. Her will was proved at York, 3rd April, 1792, by Robert Stockdale, 
 Esq., and Mary Clough, joint executors. 
 
 Mrs. Levina Benjamina Goodricke, widow of Henry Goodricke, Esq., Sir John's son, 
 continued to reside at York, and died at her house there, 22nd April, 1809, aged seventy- 
 four years. Her remains were laid by the side of those of her husband in the Hunsingore 
 vault. 
 
 %\X ll)enrg ©OODriCfee, sixth Baronet, only surviving son of Henry Goodricke, Esq., 
 of York, and grandson of Sir John, fifth Baronet, was twenty-four years of age when he 
 succeeded to the title and family estates. He married at Mold, co. Flint, 30th November, 
 1796, Charlotte, fourth daughter of the Right Honourable James Fortescue, of Ravensdale 
 Park, in Ireland, and sister to William Charles, second Viscount Clermont ; and by her, who 
 died at Hampton House, loth August, 1842, he had an only son, Harry James, born in 
 Dublin 26th September, 1797. 
 
 Sir Henry died in the prime of life, 23rd March, 1802, and was buried in the vault at 
 Hunsingore. By his will, dated 9th December, 1801, proved at York 31st July, 1802, he 
 appointed his wife, William Charles Fortescue, Peregrin Dealtry, and Edward Wolley, Esq., 
 guardians of his son, then only four years of age. 
 
 @lt ^artp 3Ianie0 ®00tinC&e, seventh Baronet, was born in N. Earl Street, Dublin, 
 26th September, 1797. He was baptized at the Parish Church of St. Thomas, Dublin, 23rd 
 October, 1797, and this baptism was publicly declared and confirmed in the Chapel at Ribston, 
 
History of the Goodricke Family. 
 
 41 
 
 30th July, 1798, in the presence of Sir Henry Goodricke his father, and the Rev. Henry 
 Goodricke, then Vicar of Hunsingore. He inherited an estate which, at the time, was spoken 
 of and acknowledged to be one of the finest in the northern counties. Ribston, the home 
 of his ancestors for nearly three hundred years, was full, too, of memories teeming with interest 
 for the possessor of such a patrimony. 
 
 Sir Harry, however, appears to have thought lightly of these things ; his father's early death 
 no doubt tending to dull the effect that his family history and traditions would otherwise 
 have made on his mind. His chief pleasure was hunting, his time, during the season, being 
 entirely devoted to its pursuit ; and being possessed of an ample fortune he was able to 
 indulge his taste in this direction to the fullest extent. He died, unmarried, at Ravensdale 
 Park, CO. Louth, 21st August, 1833. His remains were brought over and interred in the 
 Hunsingore vault. 
 
 *^The following obituary notice I copy from the Gentleman! s Magazine^ for 1833, vol. 103, 
 part ii., page 368. 
 
 "Aug. 22. At Ravensdale Park, co. Louth, in his 36th year, Sir Harry James Goodricke, the seventh Baronet, 
 of Ribstone Hall, Yorkshire (1641). 
 
 "This wealthy Nimrod was born September 16*'', 1797, the only son of Sir Henry, the sixth Baronet, by 
 Charlotte, second daughter of the Right Hon. James Fortescue, of Ravensdale Park, co. Louth. He succeeded 
 to the Baronetcy when only in the fifth year of his age, on the death of his father, March 23rd, 1802, and was 
 educated at Rugby. The death of his maternal uncle William-Charles, second and last Viscount Clermont, in 
 March 1829, left him possessed of very large estates in Ireland ; and the aggregate of his income is said to have 
 amounted to 40,000/. a year. He served the office of Sheriff of Yorkshire in 1831. 
 
 * ' Sir Harry Goodricke had been known in Leicestershire for the last ten years as a leading member of the 
 Quom Hunt, of which he became Master on the retirement of Lord Southampton two years ago. He kept the 
 whole of the establishment at his own expense, and resided during the winter season, in conjunction with Lords 
 Gardiner and Rokeby, and L. Gilmour, Esq., in a spacious house at Melton Mowbray, At Thrussington, about 
 seven miles from that town, he only last year completed a fine range of stabling, kennels, etc. ; and his stud 
 usually averaged between fifty and sixty of the finest horses. At the period of his death seventy-five capital 
 hunters were in his stables, ready to commence the next season with renewed vigour and spirit. In the voluntary 
 duties which he had thus assumed. Sir Harry Goodricke was exceedingly popular ; and his courtesy, hospitality, 
 and attention were as fully evinced towards the neighbouring farmers as to the opulent and titled members of the 
 Hunt. 
 
 " His life was finally sacrificed to his ardour in all the pursuits of the sportsman. He had experienced an 
 attack of influenza ; from which he had scarcely recovered, when he sailed in his yacht to visit his Irish estates. 
 He was there superintending considerable improvements ; and, when indulging in a favourite sport, that of otter 
 hunting, caught a severe cold, which proved fatal in forty-eight hours. He had promised to join a numerous circle 
 of noblemen and gentlemen in the Highlands during the present shooting season. Many of them had already 
 arrived at his shooting-box, Marr Lodge, which he recently purchased of the Earl of Fife ; and the feelings of 
 the guests may be better conceived than described, on the intelligence of the premature demise of their hospitable 
 host." 
 
 Under Sir Harry's will, dated 25th July, 1833, not only a large personalty, but the whole 
 of the Goodricke family estates, were bequeathed to a mere sporting acquaintance, Mr. Francis 
 Lyttelton Holyoake, who received permission, on the 12th December, 1833, to assume the 
 additional surname and arms of Goodricke, and who was created a Baronet 31st March, 1835. 
 The Louth and Armagh estates, which Sir Harry had enjoyed from his uncle Lord Clermont, 
 passed, as provided, to Thomas Fortescue, Esq., of Dromisken, who, on nth February, 
 1852, obtained a revival in his favour of the Barony of Clermont. 
 
 Sir Harry left annuities of one thousand pounds each to his mother, Lady Charlotte 
 Goodricke ; George Francis Barlow, Esq., of Bryanstone Square, London ; and Charles Grantham, 
 Esq., of Ketton Cottage, co. Rutland. The clauses under which Mr. Holyoake succeeded 
 to his estates run as follows : — 
 
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 History of the Goodricke Family, 
 
 " I give and bequeath all and singular my manors messuages lands tenements hereditaments and premises 
 situate in the County of Norfolk in that part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland called England, 
 commonly called or known by the name of the Clermont estate {formerly the Estate of the Right Honorable William 
 Charles late Lord Clermont deceased) together with all and singular the rights members and appurtenances thereunto 
 belonging and the rents issues and profits thereof and of every part thereof unto my mother Dame Charlotte 
 Goodricke for and during the term of her natural life to and for her sole use and benefit free and discharged of and 
 from all or any debts legacies charges or incumbrances whatsoever created by this my Will or otherwise Provided 
 always and I hereby declare my will to be that it shall not be lawful for or in the power of the said Dame Charlotte 
 Goodricke to sell assign convey or dispose of or to let set or demise the said Norfolk estate or any part thereof for 
 any estate term or interest whatsoever save and except to Francis Littleton Hollyoake hereinafter named his heires 
 or assigns And from and after the decease of the said Dame Charlotte Goodricke I give and devise my said estate 
 in the County of Norfolk and its appurtenances as aforesaid unto Francis Littleton Hollyoake of Studley Castle in 
 the County of Warwick Esquire his heirs and assigns for ever to and for his and their own absolute use behoof and 
 benefit 
 
 " I give and devise all and singular my said several estates manors messuages lands tenements hereditaments 
 and premises situate in the said Counties of York and Leicester, and the said Cities of York and Westminster in that 
 part of the United Kingdom called England and in the Counties of Meath Louth and Monaghan in that part of the 
 United Kingdom called Ireland hereinbefore more particularly mentioned together with all and singular the rights 
 royalties hereditaments and appurts to the same and every of them belonging and the rents issues and profits 
 thereof and every part thereof (but subject as aforesaid) unto the said Francis Littleton Holyoake Esquire his heirs 
 and assigns to and for his and their own absolute use behoof and benefit for ever." 
 
 This will was proved in Dublin 26th October, 1833, and in London on 27th November 
 following. 
 
 Mr. Holyoake now took possession of Ribston, which he let temporarily, and in 1836 
 entered into negotiations with Mr. George Robins, the well-known estate agent of the day, for its 
 sale, and in September 1836 this property was sold to Joseph Dent, Esq. Mr. Robins stated in 
 a pamphlet which he published in 1840, that he was prohibited by Mr. Holyoake (then Sir 
 Francis Lyttelton Holyoake-Goodricke) from any public announcement of the intended sale, 
 and not even allowed to mention the name of the property. Sir Francis being desirous that the 
 transfer should take place with as little publicity as possible. The following is a copy of the 
 circular Mr. Robins drew up in September 1836, for distribution among capitalists. 
 
 " IN YORKSHIRE.— IMPORTANT INVESTMENT. 
 
 " Mr. George Robins has been instructed to offer, by private treaty, to the attention of the monied world, one 
 of the Most Important Landed Investments that has been in the market since the memorable time of 1825, when 
 he had the good fortune to sell the extensive estates of the Earl of Ormonde. In this case it is only intended to 
 give a very faint outline, as the full particulars will be reserved far those only who are disposed to embark in this 
 most favorable opportunity to invest largely and in perfect security. 
 
 " The property is situate in the most favoured part of Yorkshire, not far distant from Weatherby and Ferry- 
 bridge : it embraces a mansion of importance, with extensive grounds in the highest possible order, hot and 
 succession houses of great extent, and which is at present most respectably but inadequately let with the extensive 
 gardens. The offices of every description are in good keeping with the residence. 
 
 " The estate surrounding it, which may be termed a little principality, extends to 4,110 acres of land, in the 
 highest possible state of cultivation, lying entirely within a ring fence, the reduced rental from which is ^^5860 
 a year. 
 
 ' ' It may be well to observe, and especially to those who have been led to believe that a present rental is not a 
 criterion always to be relied on, that the whole estate was re-let, and a considerable abatement made, so lately as 
 Lady-day, 1835, at a time, it should be remembered, when agricultural pursuits had put on a most unfavourable 
 and cheerless aspect. The present income is therefore one that must induce a purchaser to rely on a considerable 
 augmentation ; and if an additional argument would be needed, it will be found in the short analysis that will 
 presently follow 
 
 Acres 
 
 Meadow and Pasture Land 13°° 
 
 Plantations and Woods ... ... 144 
 
 Gardens and Pleasure Grounds . . . . . • 16 
 
 Arable Land . 2650 
 
 Total . . . 41 10 acres. 
 "The present reduced rental is Five Thousand Eight Hundred and Sixty pounds a year, independently of the 
 
History of the Goodricke Family. 
 
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 value of the mansion and grounds, manors and manorial rights. It is nearly exempt from tythe and an unusually 
 low poor rate ; there is also a valuable advowson. 
 
 " It may be well to observe here, that a dediiction for land tax, and other matters, will reduce the rental about 
 £200 a year. The clear rental would be nearly ,,1^5, 000 a year. 
 
 " Mr. Robins will be but too happy to confer with those who are seriously disposed to purchase, and he can 
 assure them most confidently that, as it regards the present investment, he can give them the most satisfactory 
 information." 
 
 CfiOmaS jFranCiS ^enrg (SOODriCfee, eighth Baronet, was only surviving son 
 of Colonel Thomas Goodricke, and grandson of Sir Henry, the fourth Baronet. He was born at 
 Rochester, 24th September, 1762, and was consequently in his seventy-first year when the baronetcy 
 fell to him. He married, at Hunsingore, April 1794, Harriet, eldest daughter of Henry 
 Goodricke, Esq., of York, and granddaughter of Sir John Goodricke, fifth Baronet ; but by her, 
 who pre-deceased him, dying in Edward Square, Kensington, he bad no issue. Sir Thomas died 
 at No. I, Star Street, Edgware Road, London, 9th March, 1839, and was buried in Kensal 
 Green Cemetery, where a stone bearing the following inscription marks his grave : — 
 
 SACRED 
 TO THE MEMORY OF 
 SIR THOMAS F. H. 
 GOODRICKE. BART. 
 OB. 9TH OF MARCH, 1839, ^. 78. 
 
 Sir Thomas's will, dated the day before his death, was proved in London, 23rd March, 1839. 
 He bequeathed his property of Trinity Gardens, in the city of York, to Major John Jeffrey 
 O'Donoghue, subject to the payment of an annuity of £,20 to his sister Harriet Goodricke, 
 to whom he gave a legacy of ;^2o. As stated in a former page. Sir Thomas was in reduced 
 circumstances during the latter part of his life : the fact that he accepted an annuity of ;^20 from 
 Sir Francis Lyttelton Holyoake-Goodricke sufficiently corroborates this. This wretched amount 
 used to be paid to him by Messrs. Glyn Mills & Co., Sir Francis' bankers, by quarterly 
 instalments. 
 
 Sir Thomas Francis Henry Goodricke was the last Baronet 
 
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PON the death of Sir Thomas Francis Henry Goodricke, eighth Baronet, 
 the representation of the Yorkshire family in the male line fell to his 
 kinsman William Goodricke, Esq., of Durham^ who was fifth in descent 
 from Lieutenant-Colonel William Goodricke, second son of Richard 
 Goodricke, of Ribston, Esq,, by his wife Muriel, daughter of William, 
 Lord Eure. 
 
 iLieutenant^Colonel aBilHam ©ooDricfee was next brother to 
 
 Sir Henry .Goodricke, of Ribston, Knight, and uncle of Sir John, first Baronet; it is necessary, 
 therefore, for me to revert to the family history of this period in order to pursue my narrative to 
 the present time. 
 
 Lieutenant- Colonel William Goodricke was born about 1581. He was admitted to Gray^s 
 Inn at an early age (22nd November, 1598). About 1613 he married Sarah, one of the daughters 
 of William Bellingham, of Bromby, co. Lincoln, Esq., by his wife Frances, only daughter of 
 Alexander Amcottes, of Aisthorp, co. Lincoln, Esq., and sister of Richard Bellingham, Esq., who 
 was Governor of Boston, New England. Under an indenture dated 16 13, Sir Henry Goodricke 
 settled upon William Bellingham, Esq., Sarah's younger brother, and Sir Francis Baildon, Knt., 
 a moiety of the manor of Walton Head, for the benefit of Sarah Goodricke during her natural 
 life. Lieut. -Colonel Goodricke has generally been described as of Skidby, near Hull ; and 
 here he undoubtedly lived during the greater portion of his early life. 
 
 About 1633 his brothers-in-law Richard and William Bellingham emigrated to New England, 
 having previously sold all their estate in England. Under a deed enrolled loth October, 1633, 
 Richard Bellingham and Elizabeth his wife sold to Lieut. -Colonel William Goodricke portions of 
 their estate situated in cos. Lincoln and York for the sum of £,2'^o. 
 
 During the Civil War Lieut. -Colonel Goodricke had a command in the Parliamentary army, 
 and appears to have been actively engaged during the whole of those troublous times, as is shown 
 in the numerous letters from him still extant. 
 
 In 1 65 1, when trustees were appointed for the sale of the late king's manors, etc., Lieut. - 
 Colonel Goodricke purchased the Manor of Westwange-in-the- Would, co. York. The deed 
 conveying this property was enrolled ist December, 1652. It has been stated that he was also 
 one of the tripartite purchasers of the manor and Palace of Richmond, co. Surrey, and that 
 the forfeiture and restitution of this property to the Queen, 23rd June, 1660, caused him and 
 his family much trouble. This purchase seems, however, to have been only partially on his 
 account, and actually made by his son, Major William Goodricke, on a joint account, as will be 
 seen further on. 
 
History of the Goodricke Family, 
 
 45 
 
 That troubles befel the Colonel in his advanced years is seen from the following letter, 
 which was written by his daughter Elizabeth, in 1662. The causes of these anxieties, however, 
 are not very clearly stated, though, as I shall suggest later on, they may very likely have 
 followed upon the restoration of the monarchy and consequent restitution of the Crown manors 
 and lands. 
 
 "D Uncle, 
 
 ' ' My father Comanded me to lett you know by these that he and my mother are yet alive, though much 
 trubled both in body and speritt through ould age and many infirmetys and tryalls arising from the present times : 
 We desire the Contenewance of your prayers for us, and that the Lord would grant us strenght through faith and 
 patience to walke on to the inheritance beloved and promesed. We are very glad to heare of your healths which 
 we pray God to contenew to you and in his apoynted time to give us a gloryous meetting in the kingdom of his son, 
 who is gon before us to prepare mantions for us and for all thatt love his coming. Amen, 
 
 " So rests your Ever loveing Nese 
 
 ' ' Elizabeth Goodrick. 
 
 "Will: Goodrick. 
 ' ' Sarah Goodrick, 
 
 " York, 16 May, 1662. 
 " (Superscribed) These ffor. 
 Mr. Richard Bellingham in New England. 
 
 " To be left with Mr. Gorge May, Marchant in Boston, to be Delived as above. New England." 
 
 Lieut-Colonel Goodricke died about 1662-3, ^J^d his will, dated York, 21st September, 1662, 
 in which he describes himself as of Walton Head, was proved in London 25th January, 1664, by 
 his son William. The testator simply leaves legacies to his daughters Sarah and. Elizabeth 
 Goodricke, and Mary Ewald (or Elwald), and his nephews Sir John Goodricke and Sir Francis 
 Goodricke, and appoints his wife, Sarah, and his ** best beloved sonne William Goodricke " joint 
 executors. He does not mention his son Henry, nor his daughter Frances. 
 
 His children were — 
 
 1. William, of Tickenham, co. Somerset, and Ely, co. Cambridge, a major in the army. 
 
 2. Henry, of the city of York, a captain in the army. 
 
 The histories of these two sons and their descendants I will proceed with presently. 
 
 3. Sarah, 1 
 
 4 Elizabeth i living in York, and unmarried in 1668. 
 
 5. Mary, wife of Mathew Ewald or Elwald, 
 
 6. Frances, living in York in 1668. 
 
 Of the above daughters Mary appears to have been the only one who married. Two very 
 interesting letters written by her in 1668 and 1669 to her uncle Governor Bellingham at Boston, 
 have been preserved, and as in them she tells her own history they will be very fittingly introduced 
 here. 
 
 "Dear Uncle 
 
 " About seaven or eight yeares past, I did make bold to write unto you, and acquainted you how neare I was 
 related to you, being one of M^ W™ Goodricks daughters of Kilby, neare Hull, in Yorkshire, and withall intimating 
 how precious the very remembrance of you was throughout all our family. I heard my Ire came to your hands, and 
 you were pleased at the returne of y^ same shipps to desire your friends to inquire of mee and my husband, but it 
 was never my happiness to meet with the partie ; but those things being probably out of your mind at this time, I 
 shall take upon me to give you notice both of mine and familyes Conditions. 
 
 " My husbands name is Mathew Elwald, a gentlemans son in Yorkshire who formerly was bred a merchant, 
 But when the Duch Warres were in Olivers time, and that Olivers fforces Entered fflanders, his ffactor being i 
 
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 History of the Goodricke Family, 
 
 Papist runne away to the mine of my husbands estate. Now hee keepes a Scriviners shopp neare the Pumpe in 
 Chancery lane, London, where (God be thanked) wee make an indifferent good Shift to Uve Comfortably. But the 
 truth is wee have had soe many discouragem'^ by reason of the many divisions and distraccons which hath 
 happened amongst us within these late years (especially in time of the plague when Gods heavy hand was upon us), 
 though we are in an Especial manner to take notice and be thankefuU for his wonderful! providence over us ; wh»n 
 every house round about us was visited, and about Nine score Souls perished, yete blessed be the God of Mercys, 
 wee were preserved in health all that time. 
 
 "a'y Hee was pleased in judgm* to suffer the sword of our neighbour Nacons to be drawn ag' us to 
 the shedding of much blood, and quite damping of all trade. And 
 
 " 3'y That signal! of Gods judgm^s in the fatal! destruccon of London by a most wonderful! and dreadful! fire, 
 in losse of which wee were partly sharers, all which judgm*^ so lately befalme us hath much made the times more 
 uncertaine then they have been which draws us to a consideracon of the uncertaine time when our certain change 
 shall come, and endeavour to gett our hearts fixt and establisht upon the sure mercies of David, ffor the rest of our 
 family there is only left my Bro. Henry and three sisters, ffrances, Sarah and Bette which all livs at Yorke. 
 
 ' ' My Cosen Sam, your son (while in London) was pleased to visite us several! times and had an extraordinary 
 kindness for us, and at his departure out of Engld Injoyned my husband to see his son Sam, whose death wee 
 cannot but bemoane for the hope that was in him. If my husband or myselfe could have any incouragemt we 
 would (God willing) come by y^ next returne of the Shipps. Deare Uncle, I know you cannot but thinke I hope you 
 will remember me, since it hath pleased God to endow you with so many signall blessings, and truly to speake out my 
 mind in regard of my neare relation to you, I hope you will not forget mee, for the sake of my prcious mother who 
 long since departed this life. Wee begg to heare from you by next returne of the Shipps and in the meane time 
 youre praiers for us I rest 
 
 Your Loveing and dutiful! 
 
 " Niece, 
 
 ' ' Mary Elwald. 
 
 London y^ 23 
 
 " May 1668. 
 
 " You may be pleased to direct your letter to us, at Mr. Coves house, a Joyner in Chancery lane. The Cap*, 
 and I remembered you in a friendly way by drinking a glass of wine to you. 
 
 (Superscribed) "These for the Worppll Richard Bellingham Esq. now Governor of Boston in New England. 
 Capt, Scarlett, pray deliver this letter with your own hands, according to the direccons a!x)ve, and so y® 1 .ord 
 preserve you and blesse you, 
 
 " Most Deare, 
 
 ' ' And precious S' I have taken upon me to write unto you by several! opportunitys, which I hope are all by 
 this time come to your hand, and upon your serious consideracon will be acceptable. I writt you by way of a 
 Shipp goeing for ffrance, to be laden with salt intended (God willing) for your Port. I have not more to inlarge then 
 what I have writt formerly only something to informe you of the Bachus family which I shall not impart till please 
 God I see you, and till then my husband who presents his must humble service to you, beggs your praiers and 
 wisheth the right and the left hand blessing (soe farre as the Almighty is pleased) to bestow upon you, and 
 humbly subscribes her selfe 
 
 " Most Dear S', 
 
 '•Your truly affected 
 
 " Niece and Serrant, 
 
 " Mary Elwald. 
 
 " London y^ 3** 
 
 " ffeb 1668-9. 
 
 " To the Right Worpp^ 
 
 Richard Bellingham, Esq. 
 
 " liveing at Boston in New England." 
 
 It seems probable that not only the writer of the above letters, but also her sisters 
 Sarah, Elizabeth, and Frances were in much reduced circumstances about this time. Both their 
 brothers William and Henry Goodricke, upon whom they had no doubt relied to a large extent, 
 were then dead. This condition of things prompted their uncle Governor Bellingham to afford 
 them some assistance; and in his will dated at Boston, New England, 25th November, 1672, 
 he inserted this clause : — 
 
 "Item, the other two farms where John Belcher and goodman Townesend are 
 tenants I doe give the rent of them towards the relief of four daughters of Col. William 
 Goodrick so long as they shall have urgent need to be paid to their certain Attorney 
 here and by him to be sent to the elder sister to dispose of for their use." 
 
f 
 
 History of the Goodricke Family, 47 
 
 Colonel Goodricke's daughters did not benefit under this clause, as Governor Belling- 
 ham's will was set aside by the Court in answer to the petition of his widow, ist June, 
 1677- 
 
 ^a/Or Ci93lHiam ©OODnCfee was the eldest son of Lieutenant-Colonel William 
 Goodricke. The earliest date at which I find his name mentioned is in an Indenture, 27 th 
 May, 1647, under which he purchased from his uncle Robert Goodricke, Esq., of Malton, co. 
 York, for the sum of ;£"62o, the annual rental of ;£"3o issuing out of lands in Brawbye, 
 CO. York, which had been settled upon Robert Goodricke for life by his cousin William, 
 the fourth Lord Eure, under an Indenture bearing date 24th October, 1617. In this document 
 Major Goodricke is described as of Skidby, co. Yorlc, Gentleman. 
 
 The earliest record of his military career is in 1649. In 1650-51, he accompanied 
 Cromwell's army in the expedition against the Scots, and was with the forces under General 
 Monk which were left to complete the reduction of Scotland when Cromwell pursued the young 
 king's army into England. 
 
 Major Goodricke was prominent among the purchasers of the properties lately owned by 
 the Crown. There are two deeds recording his transactions. The first is dated the 23rd March, 
 1 65 1. Under it William Goodricke, described as of the Middle Temple, London, purchases 
 from the Trustees for the sale of the fee farm rents belonging to the Commonwealth, the fee 
 farm rents payable in respect to the Manors and Rectory of Hunsingore, Walshford, etc., 
 then the property of Sir John Goodricke, Baronet. The consideration money was 
 
 The second deed, made 23rd April, 1651, conveys to Major Goodricke, jointly with 
 Thomas Rookby and Adam Baynes, of Knowstrop, co. York, in consideration of the sum 
 of ;£i34562 OS. 6d,, "The Manor of Richmond with its appurtenances, the Palace or Richmond 
 Court, with the site thereof, and sundry other premises." This purchase seems to have been 
 in reality an assignation to Major Goodricke and other creditors for arrears of pay due to 
 themselves, other officers and men in the Parliamentary army, as can be seen more especially 
 from Add^ MSS., 21,429, pp. 103, 104. In this document Lieut.-Colonel Goodricke and his 
 son Major Goodricke's joint proportion of the 13,562 purchase money is put down at 
 ;^8,i9o 2s. id., but a portion of this was on account of other creditors. 
 
 Richmond was re-sold to Sir Gregory Norton, Baronet, the materials being valued 
 at ;^io,782 19^. 2d. At the Restoration this property was given back to the Queen (23rd 
 June, 1660), being forfeited by Sir Gregory Norton, who was excepted out of the general 
 pardon, in consequence of the part he had taken at the trial of the late King, having been 
 one of the signatories to the warrant for his execution. 
 
 It is quite possible that the purchase money was never paid by Sir Gregory, and that 
 this was one of the troubles referred to in the letter from Elizabeth Goodricke to her uncle 
 Bellingham, which I gave at page 45. 
 
 The next event, in point of time, which I find relating to Major Goodricke, is his 
 marriage to Eleanor, widow of Nicholas Poyntz, Esq., and only child of Rice Davis, of 
 Tickenham Court, co. Somerset, Esquire, by his third wife, Mary Pitt, widow of Robert 
 Owen, Esq., of Bristol. Eleanor Davis was born in 161 7. She inherited under her mother's 
 post-nuptial settlement, dated i6th December, 1624, the Manors of Tickenham and Backwell 
 Park, and other estates in Somersetshire, this settlement being confirmed by her father in his 
 will, dated 22nd August, 1638. Her first husband, Nicholas Poyntz, a son of Sir John Poyntz, 
 Knt., of Iron Acton, co. Gloucester, died nth February, 165^, and was buried in the Savoy 
 
48 
 
 History of the Goodricke Family 
 
 Church, London. In the following year she was married to Major William Goodricke, as 
 before stated, and they appear to have continued to reside at Tickenham Court. 
 
 In July 1653 "William Goodrick of Tickenham, co. Somerset, Esquire," acquired the 
 property at Ely, co. Cambridge, known as the '* Lower House " and " the Bell " and other lands, 
 houses and properties in the Parish of Holy Trinity, Ely. The deed transferring these properties 
 was enrolled 19th July, 1653, Thomas Steward, Esq., appearing personally and confirming the 
 conveyance. 
 
 Major Goodricke continued his active services in the army, but he appears to have been 
 suspected by Cromwell of a leaning towards Royalistic views, for I find in a letter dated 19th 
 May, 1657, written by Colonel Lilburne to Luke Robinson, Esq., at Pickering in Yorkshire, the 
 following paragraphs occur regarding the Major : — 
 
 "I must intreate you to desire Captaine Strangewayes to inquire privately, how Major Goodericke carry es 
 himselfe at his being now in the country, for I heare hee's much a new royahst, and is supposed will make his , 
 observations upon the souldiery in the North, by trying their tempers. There is something more than ordinary 
 in his coming downe at this time, and I desire you to instruct Capt. Strangewayes thus much, and to give notice 
 privately to the officers and souldiers to beware of him, and if 'twere also hinted to my lord Lambert's regiment, it 
 would not be amisse, if you know Capt. Strangewayes (as I presume he is) to be against kingship. I had rather 
 put this trouble upon him, because he is both faithful! and prudent, if he pleases to communicate it to some 
 officers with naming mee, and give me some account of it, wil be very acceptable." 
 
 Col. Lilburne then adds : — 
 
 " The question of changeing the name of King to Protector was carryed almost 3 to one." 
 
 Major Goodricke was among those who received the Royal Pardon at the Restoration 
 (December 1660). He was then residing at Tickenham. About 1664 his wife died, and from 
 this period he appears to have lived at Ely, Cambridgeshire. On 25th January, 1665, he 
 received letters of administration, in London, to his late wife's estate, and probate was also 
 granted in his favour to his late father's will on the same day. He did not long survive his wife, 
 however, dying at Ely July 1666, and was buried on the 26th of that month, in Holy Trinity 
 Church there. 
 
 Major Goodricke had two daughters only, Eleanor and Mary, both under age at the time 
 of his death. 
 
 Under his will, dated 12th May, 1666, which was proved in London on 3rd November 
 following by his cousin Sir Francis Goodricke, Knight, he bequeathed the whole of his lands in 
 Somersetshire, the inheritance of his late wife, to his daughter Eleanor Goodricke, and to his 
 daughter Mary Goodricke he gave the sum of one thousand pounds. His property in Stuntney, 
 in the Isle of Ely, known as Thorney Manor Farm, and his four closes in Stuntney and their 
 appurtenances, he left to his cousin Sir Francis Goodricke, Walter Hawkesworth, Esq., and Walter 
 Bethell, Esq., as trustees for his nephew John, eldest son of his brother Henry Goodricke, 
 faiUng whom for George Goodricke, the second son, and so on. 
 
 The estates in Somersetshire, situated at Tickenham and Backwell, inherited by Eleanor 
 Goodricke, were considerable. Her mother (Eleanor Davis) had succeeded to them to the 
 exclusion of her half-sisters, Joan, Elizabeth, and Margaret, daughters of Mr. Rice Davis by his 
 wife Dorothy Rodney, through whom the property had come into the possession of the Davis 
 family. Constant disputes and litigation arose between Eleanor Goodricke and her relations on 
 her mother's side, in connection with her estate ; and Sir Francis Goodricke mentions in his will 
 the fact that he was largely out of pocket for purchases of lands in dispute in order to settle the 
 law- suits to which Eleanor Goodricke was a party. 
 
History of the Goodrtcke Family » . 49 
 . J 
 
 Eleanor Goodricke married Edmund Ashfield, Esq., they resided at Tickenham Court, and 
 the issue of this marriage was : — 
 
 1. Forest Edmund Ashfield, baptized at Tickenham 3rd March, 167I. 
 
 2. Mary, who died unmarried, and was buried at Tickenham 3rd June, 1730. 
 
 Edmund Ashfield died i6th January, 1678, and was buried in the north aisle of Tickenham 
 Church, where there is still, in perfect preservation, a black marble slab bearing this 
 inscription : — 
 
 EDMUNDUS ASHFEILD DE 
 TICKENHAM ARMIGER OBIJT 
 DECIMO SEXTO DIE MENSIS 
 JANUARIJ ANNO DOMINI 
 1678. 
 
 Eleanor Ashfield married secondly, in 1685, Richard G. Glanville, Esq., Lord of the Manors 
 of Elmsett and Somersham, co. Suffolk, by whom she had : — 
 
 1. Richard Glanville, born loth February, 1687. 
 
 2. Eleanor Glanville, born at Weston-super-Mare, 8th December, 1688; was living, unmarried, 
 
 at Rome, in 1733. 
 
 At the time of her marriage to Glanville, Eleanor Ashfield possessed in her own right an 
 income of jQdoo per annum and ready money to the amount of 0,000. Her husband settled 
 upon her for life, under a deed dated 24th January, 169I, his manors of Elmset, Somersham and 
 Offton, which estates were to descend to their son Richard after his death and Eleanor's 
 decease. 
 
 Eleanor's second marriage, however, was an exceedingly unhappy one, and she was soon 
 separated from her husband. Her son Richard was cheated out of his patrimony by his own 
 father. He settled at Wedmore, co. Somerset, and was ancestor of the Glanvilles, who still hold 
 property there. I must refer my readers to the exhaustive Records of the Anglo-Norman 
 House of Glanville," published in 1882 by W. U. S. Glanville-Richards, Esq., for the history 
 of this family continued to the present time. 
 
 Eleanor Glanville died in 1709. By her will, dated 30th July, 1705, proved in London by 
 Sir Henry Goodricke, fourth Baronet, 21st April, 1709, she bequeathed her manors of Tickenham, 
 Rodney Stoke, etc., and her lands in Backwell and Loxton, etc., to Sir Henry Goodricke, who 
 took possession of the properties. 
 
 In 1 7 12, however, Forest Ashfield claimed Tickenham as heir-at-law to his mother, and 
 entered a suit against Sir Henry to have his mother's will set aside — having been, he declared, 
 made by her under the impression that her children had been changed by Fairies ! After trial 
 and examination of one hundred witnesses at the Wells Assizes, in 1712, the will was upset on the 
 ground of testatrix's insanity. 
 
 Forest Ashfield afterwards sold Tickenham to Mr. Brickdale, of Bristol ; but he continued 
 to live in the neighbourhood. He died unmarried, leaving no will, and such property as 
 remained to him — ;probably very little — was divided among his relatives. He was buried at 
 Tickenham, nth August, 1721. 
 
 7 
 
50 
 
 History of the Goodricke Family, 
 
 Having related the history of the family of Major William Goodricke, I will pass on to the 
 consideration of that of his brother, 
 
 Captain I^enrg ®ooDricfee, of the dty of York, second son of Lieutenant- Colonel 
 
 William Goodricke and his wife Sarah {vide p. 45). He was an officer in the Parliamentary 
 army. He is mentioned in a letter written by his father to Captain Baynes, dated York, 3rd 
 August, 1649. Referring to some debentures he forwards to Captain Baynes, Colonel Goodricke 
 says there is "a little roll of one and twenty debentures belonging to the last reducement 1647 ; 
 amongst which there is one of my younger Sonne's. He was my ensign and then reduced." He 
 is also mentioned in a letter from his sister Mary Ewald to her uncle, Governor Bellingham, 
 dated London, 23rd May, 1668. She says: ''ffor the rest of our family there is only left my 
 Bro. Henry and three sisters ffrances, Sarah and Bette which all livs at Yorke " {vide p. 46). He 
 married Jane, daughter of Henry Gascoigne, of Thorpe-on-the-Hill, co. York, Esq., and by 
 her, who died in York and was buried in the choir of St. Mary's Church, Bishophill Senior, 
 15th November, 1676, he had issue — 
 
 1. John, born 1654. 
 
 2. George, born 1658. 
 
 3. William, born 1662. 
 
 4. Bellingham, died in infancy. Buried at York nth December, 1664. 
 
 5. Richard, died in infancy. Buried at York 20th July, 1666. 
 
 6. Jane, wife of William Ingram, Esq., of Thorpe-on-the-Hill, co. York, by whom she had— 
 
 (i) & (2) William and Evereld Ingram, legatees of their uncle, George Goodricke. 
 
 (3) Goodricke Ingram, born 1700, married at Kirk Burton, nth December, 
 1733, Grace, daughter of A. Wells, Esq., by whom he had an only child, 
 Dorothy Ingram, who died at Kirkby Malzeard, January 1738, He was 
 vicar of Kirkby Malzeard, and died s.p. ist April, 1755. Buried at Knot- 
 tingley. 
 
 7. Frances, born 1659; ^- Katherine, born 1661 ; 9. Katherine, born 1665; all died in 
 
 infancy. Baptized and buried in York. 
 
 Captain Henry Goodricke died in York, and was buried in the choir of St. Mary's Church, 
 Bishophill Senior, 27th November, 1668. Administration to his estate was granted to his widow 
 at York, 26th May, 1669. 
 
 As has just been shown, he left a family of three sons and a daughter, all very young, the 
 eldest being only about fourteen years of age. Major William Goodricke, of Ely, their uncle, 
 had died two years previously, having settled his Ely property of Thorney Manor Farm, Stuntney, 
 in trust for his nephew John Goodricke, the eldest of these sons, failing whom then to the others 3 
 and he provided that John should be brought up and educated under the care and direction of 
 Sir Francis Goodricke, which arrangement was carried out. All the sons were brought up in 
 close connection with their cousins at Ribston, and more particularly under the care of Sir 
 Henry Goodricke, second Baronet, under whose influence they obtained commissions in the 
 army. 
 
 3[0f)n (©OODtlCfeC, the eldest son, born 1654, succeeded to his uncle William's property at 
 Ely called the Thorney Manor Farm, and was the registered owner of it 17th July, 1677 (Bedford 
 Level Commission). I may here note that in 1659 this property stood in the names of Horatio 
 Eure and Walter Bethell, who were most probably trustees for Major Goodricke. (Fen Office, 
 Ely.) 
 
History of the Goodricke Family, 
 
 51 
 
 John Goodricke died abroad, unmarried and intestate, at which time he held a lieutenant's 
 commissipn in Colonel Tidcomb's Royal Irish Legion. Administration to his estate was granted 
 in London, 15th October, 1702, to his brother and heir George. 
 
 (5COtg:0 (SOOlinCfeC, of Chatham, CO. Kent, born 1658, was a captain in the Earl of 
 Drogheda's Regiment of Foot at the time of its disbandment in Ireland in 1698. There is an 
 entry in the Family Bible recording that he stood as sponsor for Henry, second son of Sir Henry 
 Goodricke, 4th Baronet (17 10). He died unmarried. His will, dated 14th June, 17 12, was 
 proved in London, 3rd October, 1717. His brother — 
 
 lOilUam (SooDric&e, bom 1662, was also an officer in the army. He married Jane, 
 
 daughter of — Gibson, Esq., of the city of Durham, and died at Montpelier in France, leaving 
 three children — infants — viz., i. Henry. 2. John. 3. Jane. 
 Henry, the eldest, died unmarried. 
 
 3[0f)n (SOODriCfee, the second son, born 1700, married in 1739 Elizabeth, daughter of 
 — Hutchinson, Esq., of Matfen, co. Northumberland, by whom he had issue — 
 
 1. William, baptized i8th April, 1742. 
 
 2. John, baptized 27th March, 1744. He married Susannah, daughter of , and died 
 
 in 1790, leaving a son, John, who died s.p. 
 
 3. Jane, baptized i8th March, 1740, married 1769 to Francis Hunt, Esq., of Hill Close 
 
 House, near Darlington, by whom she had — 
 
 (1) John Hunt, born 1774, married in 1799 Margaret, daughter of — Corner, 
 
 Esq. , and had six sons and three daughters. 
 
 (2) George Hunt, born 1782, married in 1812 Mary, daughter of — Eales, Esq., 
 
 and had seven sons and three daughters. 
 
 (3) Elizabeth, born 1772, was wife of John Hawdon, Esq., of Walkerfield, by 
 
 whom she had issue. 
 
 (4) Frances, born 1776, was wife of William Poole, Esq., of Lowfields, near 
 
 Catterick, and had issue. 
 
 (5) Hannah, born 1778, died unmarried at Carthorpe, 15th June, 1872. 
 
 4. Elizabeth, baptized 25th May, 1746, was wife, firstly, of Lancelot Turner, Esq., by whom 
 
 she had a daughter, Elizabeth,, who died unmarried ; and secondly of — Locke, Esq., 
 but by him she had no issue. 
 
 5. Deborah, died young and unmarried. 
 
 6. Isabella, baptized 27th November, 1750, was wife of Robert Pinkney, Esq., a merchant 
 
 of Newcastle-on-Tyne, by whom she had — 
 
 (1) Robert, whose son is the present Robert Pinkney, Esq., of St. James' Palace 
 
 Chambers, Ryder Street, London, S.W. 
 
 (2) & (3) John and Elizabeth,, died in infancy. 
 
 (4) & (5) Maria and Isabella, both died unmarried. 
 
 (6) , (7) & (8) Jane, Elizabeth, and Ann, were all married. 
 
 John Goodricke died 29th July, 1752. His widow was married, secondly, to John Graham, 
 of Newcastle-on-Tyne, and died in 1777. 
 
 9j23llUam ®OOtlriCfeC> the eldest son, baptized i8th April, 1742, purchased properties 
 in 1772 in the city of Durham, where he resided. He was a keen sportsman, and a regular 
 guest, during the hunting season, at Bramham Park, then one of the residences of his kinsman 
 
5 2 History of the Goodricke Family, 
 
 Sir John Goodricke. He married, 22nd February, 1766, Elizabeth, daughter of John Richardson, 
 Esq., of Durham, and died in September 1778, at the early age of 36, leaving issue— 
 
 1. William, born 29th October, 1769. 
 
 2. John Hutchinson, baptized 9th October, 1774. His wife's name was Elizabeth, but 
 
 he died s.p. in 1803. 
 
 3. Thomas, born 14th December, 1776, died 8th March, 1859, leaving by his wife, Jane, 
 
 daughter of — Carpenter, Esq., who died May 1873, an only son, John Richardson 
 Goodricke, born 5th March, 181 6, whose family I will record further on. 
 
 the eldest son, born 29th October, 1769, married, 23rd April, 
 1803, Thomasine, daughter of — Joplin, Esq., of London, and died loth October, 185 1, having 
 had issue an only son — 
 
 CiKlIHam ®O0tlriCfee, baptized 17th April, 1805, and died 27th November, 1854. 
 He married, 24th December, 1833, Isabella Mary, eldest daughter of George Walker, Esq., 
 of Durham, and by her, who died 27th November, 1874, in her 70th year, he had issue : — 
 
 I- ffiUlIUam ^entg <©OODriCfee, bom 3rd November, 1834, died 2nd May, i860, 
 having married, 21st December, 1858, Dorothy, second daughter of the late William 
 Archbold, Esq., of Newbottle, co. Durham, by whom he had an only child : — 
 Isabella- Maria, born 19th December, 1859. Unmarried in 1885. 
 
 2. ©eOrge 9@lCf)ael ®OODriCfee, bom 13th April, 1837, now collector of Calcutta, 
 
 East India. He married, 15th August, 1872, Ada Mary, eldest daughter of the 
 late Mark Ord, Esq., of Sands, Sedgefield, co. Durham, and has issue : — 
 
 (1) William George Ord, born in Calcutta 29th October, 1875. 
 
 (2) Lionel Fairfax, born in London 26th February, 1877. 
 
 (3) Arthur Francis, born in London 19th August, 1882. 
 
 (4) Georgina Mary, born in Calcutta 2nd June, 1873. 
 
 3. John Walker, born nth October, 1838, died 2nd January, 1839. 
 
 4. Harry Urquhart, born 27th August, 1844, died 26th February, 1845. 
 
 5. Charles Alfred, born 24th June, 1847 ; married, loth November, 1874, Eliza Fanny, 
 
 eldest daughter of B. Garnham, Esq., of Gloucester. 
 
 6. Elizabeth Thomasine, born 21st December, 1835; married, 28th May, 1870, to Robert 
 
 Barker, Esq., M.R.C.S., who died in London 21st January, 1884. 
 
 7. Isabella Mary Urquhart, born 27th January, 1841, died 22nd June, 1841. 
 
 8. Isabella Mary, born 20th March, 1842, died 5th December, 1842. 
 
 9. Isabella, born 6th May, 1843, died ist October, 1843. 
 
History of the Goodricke Family, 
 
 53 
 
 f)OmaS (SOOOriCfee, third son of Wmiam Goodricke {vide p. 52), bom 
 14th December, 17765 left by his wife, Jane, an only son 
 
 3[06n EiCftarDSOn ©OOUriCfee, bom sth March, 1816, advocate 
 and attorney of the Supreme Court of Natal, South Africa. He married, 
 13th January, 1842, Charlotte Duncan, daughter of WiUiam Waygood, Esq., 
 of Somersetshire. He died i6th September, 1878, leaving issue: — 
 
 1. ®eOrffe Duncan (©OOOnCfee, of D'Urban, Natal, barrister-at-law, born 19th 
 
 November, 18433 married, 6th July, 1871, Elizabeth Catharine, daughter of F. R. 
 Carter, Esq., of Torquay, co. Devon. 
 
 2. Richard Taylor, born loth December, 1847, died, unmarried, ist December, 1880. 
 
 3. John, of D'Urban, born 3rd February, 1853, married, 1876, Helen Bridget, daughter 
 
 of Frederick J. Herron, Esq., by whom he has : — 
 
 (1) George Herbert Herron, born 23rd January, 1878. 
 
 (2) John Richardson, born 23rd May, 1880, died February 1881, 
 
 (3) Cecil Fairfax, born 1883, 
 
 4. Mary Ottley Duncan, born i6th March, 1845, unmarried in 1885, 
 
 5. Caroline Pickering, born 2nd September, 1849, married, 24th January, 1867, to 
 
 William Davenal Cattell, Staff Surgeon, now R M. O. at Halifax, Nova Scotia, 
 by whom she has issue living : — 
 
 (1) Mary Charlotte Emily, born at Pietermaritzburg 7th December, 1867. 
 
 (2) Gertrude Caroline, born at Pietermaritzburg 19th May, 1869. 
 
 (3) Herbert William James Goodricke, born in the Mauritius 28th February, 
 
 1871. 
 
 (4) Frances Helen, born at Simla, East India, i6th October, 1876. 
 
 (5) Arthur Shelton Goodricke, born at Aldershot, Hants, 21st February, 1882, 
 
 6. Sarah Isabella, born 20th February, 1858, married, loth March, 1877, to Henry 
 
 Kennard Bill, Esq., of Swansea, South Wales, attorney, and by him, who diec 
 at Coventry, nth April, 1884, she has: — 
 
 (1) Frances Mary Dorothea, born at Swansea 3rd August, 1878. 
 
 (2) Gwenllyan Helen Gordon, born at D'Urban, Natal, 1881. 
 
mhmn in 1798. 
 
 ( Hargrove s Knaresbrotigh.'^) 
 
 IBSTONE HALL, situated on a fine eminence, nearly encompassed by the 
 river Nidd, and commanding a wide, extensive, and beautiful prospect. 
 All the apartments are well finished, and throughout the whole 
 building elegance and utility are everywhere united. In the saloon 
 are the following pictures : — 
 
 " The Virgin at Work, attended by Angels,'* copied by Pietro 
 Angeletti from an original by Guido in the Pope's domestic chapel 
 at Monte Cavallo, in Rome. The Descent of the Cross " : this picture exhibits one of 
 the most interesting groups of figures imagination can conceive, copied by Signor Lud. Sterne 
 from an original in the Church of Trinitata de Monte, in Rome, by Daniel de Volterra. 
 
 The Rape of Helen," by Guido, in the palace of the Prince of Spada in Rome. 
 One of Helen's attendants is employed in carrying a favourite little dog, another a casket, 
 supposed of jewels, whilst a slave is engaged in conducting a squirrel. Attention to such 
 subjects, on such an occasion, proves a levity of character very well becoming a lady in 
 a state of elopement. " The Death of Dido," by Guercino, in the same palace as the 
 former. Here Dido is represented at the instant she has thrown herself on a sword, her 
 sister and others running in distress to her assistance : Cupid having, done the mischief 
 flies away, and the fleet of ^neas is seen at a distance in full sail. The above two 
 copies are the work of Signor Francesco Smuglandientz, pensioner to the King of Poland. 
 
 Bacchus and Ariadne," by Guido, in the Pope's collection at the Capitol in Rome. 
 Ariadne is supposed to have been abandoned by Theseus, and discovered by Bacchus, 
 who not only relieves her from her distressed situation, but, as is well known, becomes her 
 lover. The figures that attend Bacchus are such as are supposed to be his attributes. 
 
 A copy of "Aurora" by Guido, in the palace of Prince Russigliose in Rome. Apollo 
 is represented in his chariot, drawn by four horses, and the Hours dancing most gracefully 
 round him. A copy of Aurora," by Guercino, in Villa Ludovise, belonging to Prince 
 Prombinio, in Rome. Here Aurora herself is seated in her chariot, with the Hours before 
 her as putting out the stars ; behind her is the figure of an old man, meant to represent 
 Night. A copy of the Aldobrandini Marriage," an antique painting, found in the baths 
 of Titus, in Rome, now in the villa of Prince Aldobrandini, which gives name to the 
 work. The Marriage of Helen and Paris," taken from a most elegant bas-reUef on 
 an antique vase. 
 
 In the drawing-room are several good pictures of the ancestors of the family. 
 
 In the chapel are the following monuments : — On a tablet of white marble, fixed 
 against the wall, is an inscription in Latin to the memory of Richard Goodricke, Esq., 
 his lady, and a numerous issue, date 1652. 
 
History of the Goodricke Family. 
 
 55 
 
 On the opposite wall is a monument to the memory of Sir Henry Goodricke, who 
 died in the year 1738. 
 
 On each side of the altar- table is a tomb supposed to inclose the remains of two 
 Knight Templars formerly belonging to a commandry of that order founded on the spot by 
 Robert Lord Roos, in the year 1224. 
 
 In the chapel-yard is a very curious and remarkable monument of the standard- 
 bearer to the ninth Roman legion, which was dug up in Trinity Gardens, near Micklegate, 
 in York, in the year 1688. In his right hand is the ensign of a cohort, and in his left a 
 measure for corn. 
 
 This place is remarkable for the produce of a delicious apple, called the Ribstone 
 Park Pippin ; the original tree was raised from a pippin brought from France, from which 
 tree such numbers have been propagated that they are now to be met with in almost 
 every orchard in this and many other counties. Notwithstanding the increase, the fruit 
 still retains its value, being preferred before every other apple this country produces. The 
 old tree is yet standing, and in the year 1787 produced six bushels of fruit. 
 
 On the left hand, as you approach the house, is the much admired Oriental Platanus, 
 whose principal limb extends forty-four feet from the bole ; and near the chapel is a large 
 mulberry tree. 
 
 On the ripe^ or bank, of the river here, was formerly a marble quarry, from 
 which, probably, the village derives its name — Ripe-sten. 
 
 (Lewis^ Topographical Dictionary, 1844.) 
 
 RiBSTON, Great, with Walshford, a township in the parish of Hunsingore, Upper Division 
 of the Wapentake of Claro, W. Riding of York, 3J miles N. from Wetherby, containing 
 170 inhabitants. 
 
 This place was the site of a preceptory of Knights Templars, founded by Robert, Lord 
 Roos, and subsequently granted to the Hospitallers, and which continued to flourish till the 
 Dissolution, when its revenues were returned at £26^ gs. 6^, The site and demesnes became 
 the property of the Goodricke family, who converted the^ ancient monastery into a family resi- 
 dence, and of whom one was created a baronet in 1641. Within the last few years, the 
 property, consisting of the Hall and the estate annexed, comprehending almost the whole parish 
 of Hunsingore, together with the church patronage, passed to its present proprietor, Joseph 
 Dent, Esq. The township comprises by computation 1780 acres, and includes the villages 
 of Great Ribston and Walshford, both beautifully situated on the north bank of the river 
 Nidd. The celebrated apple called from this place the Ribston-pippin was first grown 
 here ; the original tree was raised from a pippin brought from France, and died in 1840. 
 Ribston Hall, the seat of Mr. Dent, is a noble mansion ; in the family chapel are several 
 memorials of the Goodricke family, and in the cemetery attached is the sepulchral monument 
 of the Roman standard-bearer of the ninth legion, which was found at York in 1638. The 
 chapel has lately been repaired and beautified by Mr, Dent, and is an interesting 
 object. 
 
{Hargrove's Knaresbrough^^ 1798.) 
 
 CJNSINGORE, formerly part of the possessions of the Knights Templars, 
 Since the suppression of that order^ this, with several other estates here- 
 abouts, hath belonged to the family of Goodricke, whose ancjent seat 
 was at this place, situated on a mountain, the sides of which were cut 
 in terraces, rising near ten feet above each other ; here were four of 
 these terraces, above which, on a flat area, stood the mansion, com= 
 manding a very extensive prospect. 
 Tradition says, this house was destroyed in the Civil Wars of Charles I., which is very 
 probable, as it is well known Sir John Goodricke took a very active part on the side of 
 royalty, in those perilous times. 
 
 The Church here, which hath been lately rebuilt, is a rectory, dedicated to St. John 
 the Baptist, rated in the King's books at jQ^ ip. ^^d. Sir Henry Goodricke, Bart., is 
 patron, and the present annual value is ^£300. 
 
 (Ze-wiY Topographical Dictionary^ 1844.) 
 
 HuNSiNGORE, (St, John the Baptist,) a parish in the Upper Division of the Wapentake 
 of Claro, W. Riding of York; containing 625 inhabitants, of whom 262 are in the 
 township, four miles (N.N.E,) from Wetherby. This parish includes the townships of Cattal, 
 Hunsingore, and Great Ribston v/ith Walshford, and comprises by computation 3743 acres, 
 of which about 984 are in Hunsingore township ; the river Nidd flows in a devious course 
 on the south of the village, and the parish is intersected by the great north road. The 
 ancient mansion of the Goodricke family, to whom the manor belonged, was destroyed 
 during the war in the reign of Charles I, The living is a vicarage, valued in the King's 
 books at;^5 17^. 3|^., net income, ;£30oj patron and impropriator, Joseph Dent., Esq. The 
 Church is an ancient structure with a square tower. There is a National School. 
 
Date of Will. 
 
 Testator. 
 
 Residence. 
 
 Date Proved. 
 
 Place. 
 
 I49i,.0ct. 
 
 8 
 
 John Goodryke .... 
 
 Bolingbroke . 
 
 1493. July 
 
 8 
 
 London. 
 
 1508, Sept. 
 
 
 Richard Goodryke .... 
 
 id. 
 
 1508, Nov. 
 
 17 
 
 id. 
 
 15 17, Mar. 
 
 20 
 
 William Goodryke .... 
 
 East Kirkby . 
 
 1518, May 
 
 7 
 
 id. 
 
 1540, May 
 
 II 
 
 John Goodryke .... 
 
 Calais . , 
 
 1540, June 
 
 5 
 
 id. 
 
 1553, March 
 
 I 
 
 Henry Goodricke .... 
 
 Ribston 
 
 1557, June 
 
 I 
 
 id. 
 
 1553, April 
 
 24 
 
 Bishop Goodryke .... 
 
 Ely 
 
 1554, Oct. 
 
 7 
 
 id. 
 
 1556, Nov. 
 
 20 
 
 Richard Goodrick . . 
 
 London 
 
 1563, Jan. 
 
 17 
 
 id. 
 
 1560, Dec. 
 
 16 
 
 Lionel Goodrick .... 
 
 East Kirkby . 
 
 " ' 
 
 ■ ♦ 
 
 id. 
 
 1 571, Dec. 
 
 27 
 
 Thomas Goodrick .... 
 
 Ely 
 
 1572, Feb. 
 
 8 
 
 id 
 
 161 5, August 
 
 16 
 
 Edward Goodrick .... 
 
 East Kirkby . 
 
 16 1 8, Marcl] 
 
 ^ 9 
 
 id. 
 
 1624, August 
 
 15 
 
 Daniel Goodrick .... 
 
 Ely 
 
 1624, — 
 
 " " ' 
 
 id. 
 
 1624, Oct. 
 
 23 
 
 Thomas Goodrick .... 
 
 Ely 
 
 1631, — 
 
 
 id. 
 
 1639, March 
 
 21 
 
 Sir Henry Goodricke, Kt, 
 
 Ribston 
 
 1 64 1, Dec. 
 
 17 
 
 York. 
 
 1640, March 
 
 27 
 
 John Goodrick . . . , . 
 
 Ely 
 
 1640, — 
 
 " 
 
 London. 
 
 1646, Feb. 
 
 9 
 
 Frances Goodrick . . • . 
 
 Ely 
 
 1648, — 
 
 
 id. 
 
 1653, Feb. 
 
 9 
 
 John Goodrick 
 
 Stickney 
 
 1054, March 
 
 8 
 
 Lincoln. 
 
 1662, bept. 
 
 21 
 
 Lieut. Col. W. Goodricke 
 
 Walton Head 
 
 1664, Jan. 
 
 25 
 
 id. 
 
 1666, May 
 
 12 
 
 Major W. Goodricke 
 
 Ely . 
 
 1666, Nov. 
 
 3 
 
 id. 
 
 1009, Sept. 
 
 19 
 
 Sir J, Goodricke, 1st. Bart. 
 
 Ribston 
 
 1670, Nov. 
 
 25 
 
 York. 
 
 1671, July 
 
 30 
 
 Sir Francis Goodricke, Kt. 
 
 Manby 
 
 1675, Feb. 
 
 15 
 
 London. 
 
 1672, — 
 
 ' 
 
 Bazoun Goodrick .... 
 
 — 
 
 1672, — 
 
 ■ 
 
 Norwich. 
 
 1674, Feb. 
 
 II 
 
 Peregrine Goodrick , , , . 
 
 London 
 
 1675, Jan. 
 
 3 
 
 London. 
 
 1676, March 
 
 14 
 
 William Goodrick .... 
 
 Stickney 
 
 1676, May 
 
 16 
 
 Tin coin. 
 
 1678, August 
 
 25 
 
 Dame Hester Goodricke . , 
 
 Manby 
 
 1679, — 
 
 ■ ' ■ 
 
 London. 
 
 1692, June 
 
 4 
 
 Dame Elizabeth Goodricke 
 
 Moulsham 
 
 1692, Sept. 
 
 15 
 
 id. 
 
 1692. — 
 
 
 Bazoun Goodrick .... 
 
 London 
 
 1692, 
 
 
 id. 
 
 1703? July 
 
 5 
 
 Richard Goodrick .... 
 
 London 
 
 1704, April 
 
 
 id. 
 
 1704, Sept. 
 
 29 
 
 Henry Goodrick , . . . 
 
 London 
 
 1705,- July 
 
 5 
 
 id. 
 
 1705, March 
 
 2 
 
 Sir H. Goodricke, 2nd Bart. 
 
 Ribston 
 
 1705, Mar. 
 
 24 
 
 id. 
 
 1705, Nov. 
 
 21 
 
 Sir J. Goodricke, 3rd Bart. 
 
 Ribston 
 
 1706, Sept. 
 
 22 
 
 ^ ork. 
 
 1 712, June 
 
 14 
 
 George Goodricke .... 
 
 Chatham 
 
 1717, Oct. 
 
 3 
 
 London. 
 
 1719, — 
 
 ~ 
 
 Richard Goodrick .... 
 
 Richmond 
 
 1719, — 
 
 
 id. 
 
 1 72 1, Sept. 
 
 10 
 
 Harcourt Goodrick .... 
 
 London 
 
 1 72 1, March 
 
 9 
 
 id. 
 
 1731, Feb. 
 
 18 
 
 John Savile Goodricke 
 
 London 
 
 1732, Feb. 
 
 8 
 
 id. 
 
 1 73 1, Feb. 
 
 23 
 
 Dame Sarah Goodricke . 
 
 Altofts . 
 
 1732, March 
 
 5 
 
 York. 
 
 1738, Feb. 
 
 II 
 
 Sir H. Goodricke, 4th Bart, 
 
 Ribston 
 
 1738, July 
 
 31 
 
 id. 
 
 1755, March 
 
 5 
 
 Mary Goodricke . • . . . 
 
 Dublin . 
 
 1755, May 
 
 24 
 
 Dublin. 
 
 1787, Sept. 
 
 26 
 
 Dame Mary Goodricke . 
 
 Ribston 
 
 1792, Aj)ril 
 
 3 
 
 York. 
 
 1788, May 
 
 20 
 
 Sir J. Goodricke, 5th Bart. 
 
 Ribston 
 
 1789, Aug. 
 
 29 
 
 id. 
 
 1800, Jan. 
 
 II 
 
 Rev. H. Goodricke .... 
 
 Sutton . 
 
 1 80 1, Nov. 
 
 24 
 
 id. 
 
 1801, Dec. 
 
 9 
 
 Sir H. Goodricke, 6th Bart. 
 
 Ribston 
 
 1802. July 
 
 31 
 
 York. 
 
 1805, Feb. 
 
 26 
 
 Rev. H. Goodricke .... 
 
 Coulsdon 
 
 1807, Feb. 
 
 23 
 
 London. 
 
 
 
 Deborah Goodricke .... 
 
 Croydon 
 
 1 8 14, April 
 
 7 
 
 id. 
 
 1833, July ■ 
 
 25 
 
 Sir H. J. Goodricke, 7th Bart. . 
 
 Ribston 
 
 1833, Nov. 
 
 27 
 
 London. 
 
 1839, March 
 
 8 
 
 Sir T. F. H. Goodricke, 8th Bart. . 
 
 London 
 
 1839, Mar. 
 
 23 
 
 id. 
 
 8 
 
INDEX. 
 
 Aberdeen, i8 
 Addy, 12 
 
 Adams, Margaret (Goodrick), lo 
 
 Aldermanbury, 12, 13 
 
 Alfuth, 14 
 
 Alfred the Great, 14 
 
 Aldburgh, 15, 36 
 
 Altofts, 32, 34, 35 
 
 Algol, 38 
 
 Amcottes, Frances, 44 
 
 Amcottes, Alex., 44 
 
 Anne, Queen, 32 
 
 Armour, Goodricke, 18 
 
 Ashton, Lieut.-Col. Wm., 34 
 
 Ashfield, Edmund, 49 
 
 Ashfield, Forest Edmund, 49 
 
 Ashfield, Mary, 49 
 
 Archbold, Dorothy (Goodricke), 52 
 
 Archbold, Will., 52 
 
 Aton, Katherine de, 14 
 
 Atkinson, Ralph, 19, 20, 
 
 Aussiter, Francis, 10 
 
 Aussiter, Dorothy (Goodrick), 10 
 
 Badbye, Dorothy, 7 
 
 Badbye, William, 7 
 
 Baildon, Margaret (Goodricke), 14 
 
 Baildon, Sir Francis, 14, 44. 
 
 Baldwin, Earl of Flanders, 14 
 
 Barnes, Lavinia (Fairfax), 38 
 
 Barnes, Rev, J. A., 38 
 
 Barlow, G. F., 41 
 
 Backhouse family, 46 
 
 Baynes, Adam, 47 
 
 Baynes, Capt., 50. 
 
 Backwell Park, 47, 48, 49 
 
 Barker, Eliz. T. (Goodricke), 52 
 
 Barker, Robert, 52 
 
 Bennington, i, 2 
 
 Beavot, Elizabeth, 5 
 
 Beavot, Robert, 5 
 
 Beavot, Edward, 5 
 
 Beverley, 36 
 
 Benson, Mary (Goodricke), 37 
 Benson, Robert, Lord Bingley, 37 
 Benson, Dorothy, 37 
 Bellingham, Sarah (Goodricke), 44 
 Bellingham, William, 44 
 Bellingham, Richard, 44 to 47, 50 
 Bellingham, Elizabeth, 44 
 Belcher, John, 46 
 Bethell, Walter, 48, 50 
 Binns, Capt., 20 
 Bingley House, 38 
 Bingley, Lord George, 40 
 Bingley, Lady, 40 
 
 Bill, Sarah Isabella (Goodricke), 53 
 Bill, Henry Kennard, 53 
 Bill, Frances M. D., 53 
 Bill, Gwenllyan H. G., 53 
 Blagge, Sir George, 7 
 Blagge, Henry, 7 
 I^lag^e, Judith, 7 
 Bolingbroke, Baron of, i 
 Burton, 5 
 
 Bowes, Margery, 14 
 
 Bodinham, Sarah (Goodrick), 10 
 Bozoun, Susan (Goodrick), II 
 Bozoun, Hamon, ii 
 Botterell, Anna Maria (Goodricke), 
 34 
 
 Botterell, Edward, 34 
 Botterell, Sarah, 34 
 Botterell, Anna Maria, 34 
 Botterell, Henry, 34 
 Botterell, John, 34 
 Botterell, Henrietta, 34 
 Botterell, Thomas, 34 
 Bolton, Duke of, 37 
 Boulogne, 38 
 
 Brandon, Charles, Duke of Suffolk, 
 
 12, 13 
 
 Brawbye, 14, 47 
 Bradford, Attack of, 18 
 Brentford, 32 
 
 Bramham Park, 37, 38, 39, 51 
 
 Braken, Richard* 9, II 
 
 Braken, Francis, 11 
 
 Braken, Barbara (Goodrick), 10 
 
 Braken, Alice (Goodrick), 9, II 
 
 Bryan, William, 4 
 
 Brussels, Resident at, 37 
 
 Brickdale, Mr., 49 
 
 Button, Eliz. (Goodricke), 35 
 
 Button, James, 35 
 
 Buckworth, lo 
 
 Calais, 2, 4 
 
 Calthorpe, Audria, 5, 8 
 Calthorpe, Bartholomew, 5, 8 
 Calthorpe, Margaret, 5, 8 
 Cattail, 13, 14, 22 
 Carpenter, Jane (Goodricke), 52 
 Carter, Eliz. C. (Goodricke), 53 
 Carter, F. R., 53 
 
 Cattell, Caroline P. (Goodricke), 53 
 Cattell, Will. Davenal, 53 
 Cattell, Mary C. E., 53 
 Cattell, Gertrude C, 53 
 Cattell, Herbert W. J. G., 53 
 Cattell, Frances H., 53 
 Cattell, Arthur S. G., 53 
 Charterhouse, 15 
 Charles I., 18 
 Charles IL, 1 5, 25, 29 
 Cholmeley, Harriet (Fairfax), 38 
 Cholmeley, Francis, 38 
 Clifton, I 
 
 Clarendon, Lord, 27, 28 
 Claro, Sequestrators of, 22 
 Clough-Taylor, Edward, 36, 37 
 Clough, Thomas, 36, 37, 39 
 Clough, Henry, 36 
 Clough, Will, 36 
 Clough, Thomas, 36 
 Clough, Francis, 36 
 Clough, Edward, 36 
 Clough, Mary, 36, 40 
 Clough, Sarah, 36, 37 
 Clough, Harriet, 36, 37 
 Clough, Susanna (Tyler), 37 
 Clermont, Viscount, 40 
 
 Clermont, Barony of, 41 
 
 Clermont Estate, 42 
 
 Colthorpe, 13, 14 
 
 Conyers, 14 
 
 Coventry, Mr., 27, 29 
 
 Conye, Bridget (Goodrick), 10 
 
 Conye, Sir Rd., 10 
 
 Cole, Dorothy (Goodrick), 10 
 
 Cole, Sir Rd., 10 
 
 Coulsdon, 33 
 
 Copley^ Sir Godfrey, 38 
 
 Corner, Margaret, 51 
 
 Crew, Serjeant Major, 20 
 
 Croydon, 33 
 
 Cromwell, Oliver, 47, 48. 
 
 Danby, Lord, 30, 31 
 
 Dartmouth, Family Vault, 32 
 
 Dartmouth, Lord, 25 
 
 D'Arcy, Henrietta (Goodricke), 33 
 
 D'Arcy, Charles, 33 
 
 D'Arcy, Emanuel G., 33 
 
 D'Arcy, Mary Ann, 33 
 
 Davis, Rice, 47, 48 
 
 Davis, Eleanor (Poyntz, Goodricke), 
 
 47, 48 
 Davis, Joan, 48 
 Davis, Eliz., 48 
 Davis, Margaret, 48 
 Davis, Dorothy, 48 
 Devonshire, Duke of, 30, 31 
 Dent, Joseph, 42 
 Deal try, Peregrine, 40 
 Dormer's Regiment, 33 
 Doddington, 12, 13 
 Drogheda, Earl of, 51 
 Duke, Edward, 7 
 Dunstan-in-the-West, St., I2 
 Duel, Sir H. Goodricke, 25 
 Dugdale, Sir Wm., 35. 
 Durham, Properties in, 51 
 Dymoke, Andrew, 2 
 Dymoke, Sir Robert, 4 
 Dymoke, Sir Lionel, 4 
 Dymoke, Sir Thomas, 4 
 Dymoke, Margaret (Welles), 4 
 Dymoke, Margaret (Eure), 14 
 Dymoke, Sir Edward, 14 
 
 Easingwold, I 
 
 East Kirkby, 2 
 
 Eales, Mary, 51 
 
 Edward I., 14 
 
 Edward III., 14 
 
 Elizabeth, Queen, 10 
 
 Ely, Property at, 48 
 
 Elwald. See Ewald. 
 
 Elmset, Manor of, 49 
 
 Ernley, Mary (Goodrick), lO 
 
 Ernley, Sir Michael, 10 
 
 Eston, Margaret (Goodricke), 12 
 
 Eston, Thomas, 12 
 
 Etton, John, 6 
 
 Etton, Alice (Goodrick), 6 
 
 Eure, Muriel (Goodricke), 14, 17, 44 
 
 Eure, Will., 2nd Lord, 14, 17, 44 
 
6o 
 
 Index. 
 
 Eure, Will., 4th Lord, 47 
 Eure, Margaret (Dymoke), 14 
 Eure, Horatio, 50 
 Eure, Armorial bearings, 17 
 Evans, Col., 18 
 
 Ewald or Elwald, Mary (Goodricke), 
 
 45' 46, 50 
 Ewald or Elwald, Matthew, 45, 46 
 Eyre-Thompson, Mrs., 3 
 
 Fairfax, Lord, 18 
 Fairfax, Wm., Viscount, 24, 32 
 Fairfax, Eliz. (Goodricke), 24, 32 
 Fairfax, Cath. (Mildraay), 24 
 Fairfax, Thos., Viscount, 24 
 Fairfax, William, 24 
 Fairfax, Charles Gregory, 38 
 Fairfax, Mary (Tasburgh), 38 
 Fairfax, Lavinia (Barnes), 38 
 Fairfax, Harriet (Cholmeley), 38 
 Firby, 37 
 
 Fire of London, 46 
 Fox, James, 40 
 
 Fortescue, Charlotte (Goodricke), 40 
 Fortescue, Rt. Hon. James, 40 
 Fjrlescue, Wm. C., Viscount Cler- 
 mont, 40, 42 
 Fortescue, i'homas, 41 
 Fulnetby, Elizabeth, 4 
 Fulnetby, Jeffery, 4 
 Fulnetby, Catherine, 4 
 
 Gascoigne, Basse, 12 
 Gascoigne, Jane (Goodricke), 50 
 Gascoigne, Henry, 50 
 Garnham, Eliza Fanny (Goodricke), 
 52 
 
 Garnham, B., 52 
 Galway, 33 
 George IIL, 37 
 Gibson, Rev. Samuel, 22 
 Gibson, Jane (Goodricke), 5 1 
 Gilling, 24, 32, 38, 40 
 Glanville family, 49 
 Glanville, Eleanor (Goodricke, Ash- 
 field), 49 
 Glanville, Richard, 49 
 Glanville, Eleanor, 49 
 Glyn Mills & Co., 43 
 Goring, Col., 18 
 Godolphin, Sir Wm., 25 
 Goodrick of Cunningsby, I 
 Goodrick of Lincolnshire, I, 6 
 Goodrick of Bolingbroke, i, 6 
 Goodrick of Suffolk, i, 6 
 Goodrick of Easingwold, I 
 Goodrick of Clifton, I 
 Goodrick of Ely, 4, 9 
 Goodrick of Norfolk, 4, II 
 Goodrick, Ancient residence, 5 
 Goodrick — 
 
 Alice (Sapcottes), 4 
 
 Anne (Rolston), 4 
 
 Anna, 5, 7 
 
 Agnes (Seman), 5 
 
 Audria (Cakhorpe), 5, 8 
 
 Alice (Hutton), 4, 9 
 
 Anne (Pryme), 9, 10 
 
 Anne, 9, 10, 1 1 
 
 Abraham, 11 
 
 Bridget (Jermyn), 5 
 Bridget (Con ye), 10 
 Barbara (Braken), ii 
 Bazoun, 11 
 
 Christopher, 6 
 Catherine (Balam), 9 
 
 Goodrick {contimied') 
 Dorothy, 5, 8. 10 
 Dorothy (Badbye, Blagge, Jer- 
 myn), 7 
 Dorothy (Jermyn), 7, 8. 
 Daniel. 9, 10, ii 
 Dorothy (Leighton), 10 
 Dorothy (Cole), 10. 
 
 Edward, 5. 6, 7 
 Elizabeth (Goodrick), 5, 7 
 Elizabeth (Beavot), 5 
 Elizabeth, 6, 8, 10, 11 
 Ehza (Makey), 6 
 Eleazar, 8 
 Edmond, 8 
 Elizabeth (Wren), 9 
 Elizabeth (Webb), 9 
 
 Frances, 5 
 Frances (March), 9 
 Francis, 10 
 
 Hester, 5 
 Henry, 8, lO 
 Harcourt, 10 
 
 Jane (Bryan), 4 
 Jane, 6, 10 
 
 John, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, II 
 Judith, 5 
 
 Katherine (Palfreyman), 4 
 
 Lionel, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 13 
 
 Margaret, 6, 8, 10 
 Margaret (Calthorpe), 5, 8 
 Margaret (Adams), 10 
 Mary, 6, 1 1 
 Mary (Rushworth), 8 
 Mary (March), 9 
 Mary (Ernley), 10 
 Mary (Jenison), 10 
 Martha (Palmer), 6 
 
 Nicholas, 4 
 Nathaniel, 5, 8 
 
 Peregrine, 6 
 
 Richard, 5, 7, 8, 10 
 Rachel, 6 
 Robert, 1,5, 6, 8 
 Rebecca (Walden), lo 
 
 Samuel, 8 
 
 Susan, 5, 8 
 
 Susan (Bozoun), 11 
 
 Sarah, 6, 8, 10 
 
 Sarah (Bodinham), 10 
 
 Thomas, 4, 6, 8, 9, 10, ii 
 
 Winifred, 5 
 
 Winifred (Sapcottes), 5 
 William, 4, 6, 10 
 
 Goodricke — 
 
 Aldburgh (Langholme), 12, 13 
 Adeliza, 33 
 Adeliza ( Herbert), 33 
 Anna Maria (Botterell), 34 
 Ann, 38 
 
 Ann (Harland). 36 
 Ada Mary (Urd), 52 
 Arthur Francis,. 52 
 
 Goodricke {cont imed) — 
 Bellingham, 50 
 
 Christopher, 12, 13 . 
 Catherine, 15 
 Catherine (Rider), 33 
 Charlotte, Dame (Fortescue), 
 
 4c. 41, 42, 
 Charlotte Duncan (Waygood), 53 
 Charles Alfred, 52 
 Cecil Fairfax, 53 
 Caroline Pickering (Cattell), 53 
 Clare (Norton), 14, 17 
 
 Dorothy, 12 
 
 Dorothy (Archbold), 52 
 Deborah, 33, 51 
 
 Edward, 15 
 
 Eleanor (Davis. Poyntz), 47 
 Eleanor (Ashfield, Glanville), 
 
 48, 49 
 Elizabeth (Button), 35 
 Elizabeth, 14, 16, 17, 33, 36, 38, 
 
 45» 46, 47,- 52 
 Elizabeth (Went worth), 14 
 Elizabeth (Fairfax), 24, 32 
 Elizabeth (Hutchinson), 51 
 Elizabeth (Turner, Locke), 51 
 Elizabeth (Richardson), 52 
 Elizabeth Thomasine (Barker), 
 
 Elizabeth Catharine (Carter), 53 
 Eliza Fanny (Garnham), 52 
 Elizabeth (Thomson), 34, 35 
 
 Francis, 15, 32, 34 
 Francis, Sir, 15, 17, 23, 45, 48, 50 
 Frances, 45, 46, 50 
 Francis L. Holyoake, Sir, 41 to 
 43 
 
 George, Captain, 35, 48, 50, 51 
 George Michael, 52 
 Georgina Mary, 52 
 George Duncan, 53 
 Geoige Herbert Herron, 53 
 
 Henry, i, 2, 3, 4, 12, 14, 15, 17, 
 
 35, 36, 38,40, 51 
 Henry, Capt. (of York), 24, 45, 
 
 46, 48. 50 
 Henry, Revd. (of Coulsdon), 33 
 Henry, Revd. (of Sutton), 36, 37, 
 
 39, 41 
 
 Henry, Sir, Knt., 14, 15, 16, 17, 
 
 44 
 
 Henry, Sir, 2nd Bart., 18, 25 to 
 
 32, 34,. 50 
 Henry, Sir, 4th Bart., 10, 14, 32, 
 
 34, 35, 36, 37, 49, 5^ 
 F[enry, Sir, 6th Bart., 38, 40 
 Harry James, Sir, 7th Bart,, 40, 
 
 41, 42 
 
 LI ester, Dame (Warburton), 16 
 
 Henrietta, (D'Arcy), 33 
 
 Plenrietta (Llill, Johnson), 34 
 
 Plarriet, 36, 38, 43 
 
 Llarriet (Goodricke), 38, 43 
 
 Harry Urquhart, 52 
 
 Plelen Bridget (Herron), 53 
 
 Isabella, 52 
 
 Isabella (Pinkney), 51 
 
 Isabella Mary. 52 
 
 Isabella Mary Urquhart, 52 
 
 Isabella Mary (Walker), 52 
 
 Isabella Maria, 52 
 
Index. 
 
 Goodricke (contintted') — 
 John, 15, 33, 35, 38, 51 
 John Hutchinson, 52 
 John Richardson, 52, 53 
 John Walker, 52 
 John (D'Urban), 53 
 John (Doddington), 12, 13 
 John, Lieut., 48, 50 
 John, Sir, ist Bart., 15, 17, 18 
 
 to 24, 44, 45, 47 
 John, Sir, 3rd Bart., 24. 32, 34 
 John, Sir, 5th Bart., 34, 35, 37 
 
 to 40, 52 
 John Savile, Capt., 33, 34 
 Jane, 16, 51 
 
 Jane, Dame (Savile), 15} 16, 17* 
 18, 20, 22 
 
 Jane (Prescot), 32 
 Jane (Wanley). 37 
 Jane ( Ingram'^, 50 
 Ji.ne (Gibson), 51 
 Jane (Gascoigne), 50 
 Jar.e (Hunt), 51 
 Jane (Carpenter), 52, 53 
 
 Katherine, 33, 50 
 Katherine, Dame (Norclitie), 17, 
 18 
 
 Katherine (Mosley, Sterne), 33, 
 34 
 
 Lionel Fairfax, 52 
 LevinaBenjamina (Sessler), 38,40 
 
 Maude (Middleton), 12 
 Margaret (Rawson), 12 
 Margaret (Eston), 12, 13 
 Margaret (Baildon), 14 
 Margaret (Strickland), 15 
 Margaret (Taylor), 36 
 Muriel (Eure), 14, 17, 44 
 Mary, 33, 36, 38, 48 
 Mary (Hawkesworth), 16, 17 
 Mary, Dame (Legge), 25, 29, 30, 
 32 
 
 Mary (Russell), 33 
 
 Mary (Stainforth), 34 
 
 Mary, Dame (Jenkyns), 35, 37 
 
 Mary, Dame (Benson), 36, 37, 
 
 39, 40 
 Mary (Fairfax), 38 
 Mary (Elwald), 45, 46 
 Mary Ottley Duncan, 53 
 
 Robert (of Malton), 14, 17, 23, 47 
 
 Ralph, 15 
 
 Richard Taylor, 53 
 
 Richard, 3, 12, 13, 14, 15, 17, 
 
 23> 33, 34, 3S» 44, 5° 
 R,owland, 15 
 
 Savile, 15, 17, 18, 23 
 Susanna, 51 
 Sarah, 34, 45, 46 
 Sarah(Bellingham),l7, 44, 45,50 
 Sarah, Dame (Hopkins), 32, 34 
 Sarah (Tim per ton), 32, 33 
 Sarah (Clough), 36 
 Sarah Isabella (Bill), 53 
 
 Thomas, 15, 38, 52, 53 
 Toby, 15 
 
 Thomas, Colonel, 10, 35, 39 
 Thomas Francis Henry, Sir, 8th 
 ^ Bart., 36, 38, 39, 40, 43, 44 
 Thuiiiusiuc (Jopliaj, 52 
 Theophiius, 33 
 
 Goodricke (continued^ — 
 
 William, 12, 13, 38, 44, 50, 51, 52 
 William, Lieut. -Col., 14, 17,24, 
 
 44, 45, 46, 47, 50 
 William, Major, 14, 17, 24, 44, 
 
 45, 47, 48, 50 
 William, Captain, 33, 34 
 William Henry, 52 
 William George Ord, 52 
 
 Goodricke Arms, 12, 14, 17, 35 
 
 Goodricke Motto, 14, 17 
 
 Goodricke Monuments, 14, 17, 32, 35, 
 
 36, 37, 43 
 Goodricke Baronetcy created, 15, 18 
 Goodricke Wills, List of, 57 
 Goodricke Family Bible, 35, SI 
 Goodricke Heirlooms, 39 
 Goodryke — 
 
 Alice (Etton), 6 
 
 Agnes, I 
 
 Alice, 2 
 
 Anne, 4 
 
 Catherine (Massenden), 4 
 
 Edward, 2, 7 
 Elizabeth, 2 
 
 Elizabeth (Fulnetby), 4, 13 
 
 Jane (Williamson), 2 
 Johanne, 2 
 
 John (of Bolingbroke), I, 6 
 John (of Calais), 7 
 
 Margaret, 2, 4 
 
 Richard, i, 6 
 
 Thomas, Bp. of Ely, 2, 4, 7, 9, 
 12, 13 
 
 William, i, 2, 4, 12 
 
 Grewelthorpe, 14, 15, 22 
 Greystock, Eleanor, 14 
 Graham, Mrs., 30 
 Grindale, 36 
 Grimstone, 37 
 Groningen, 38 
 Grantham, Charles, 41 
 Graham, John, 51 
 Graham, Elizabeth, 51 
 
 Hastings, Muriel, 14 
 Hawkesworth Mary (Goodricke), 16, 
 17, 35 
 
 Hawkesworth, Sir Richard, Knt., 16, 
 17 
 
 Hawkesworth, Sir Walter, Bart., 16 
 
 Hawkesworth, Walter, 48 
 
 Haddockstones, 32 
 
 Handasyd, Col. Roger, 33- 
 
 Harland, Ann (Goodricke), 36 
 
 Harland, Philip, 36 
 
 Harland, Sir Charles, 36 
 
 Hampton House, 40 
 
 Herbert, Adeliza (Goodricke), 33 
 
 Herbert, George, 33 
 
 Hendori, 37 
 
 Herron, Helen B. (Goodricke), 53 
 Herron, F. J.. 53 
 Henry III., 14 
 Hieronymites, Convent of, 29 
 Hill, Henrietta (Goodricke), 34 
 Hill, Rev., 34 
 
 Plutton, Matthew, Archbp., 4 
 
 Hutton, Alice, 4 
 
 Plution, Alice (Goodrick), 9 
 
 Hutchinson, Eliz. (Goodricke), 51 
 Hunt, Jane (Goodricke), 51 
 Hunt, Francis, 51 
 
 Hunt, John ; Margaret ; George ; 
 Mary ; Elizabeth ; Frances ; Han- 
 nah, 51 
 
 Hunsingore, 13, 36, 37, 56 
 
 Hunsingore, Manor of, 12, 14, 22, 47 
 
 Hunsingore, Church and Rectory of, 
 12, 14, 22, 23, 47, 56 
 
 Hunsingore Hall, 20, 56 
 
 Hunsingore Stipend, 22, 23 
 
 Hunsingore, Curate of, 23 
 
 Hopkins, Sarah (Goodricke), 32 
 
 Hopkins, Sir Richard, 32 
 
 Hoare, Ann (Goodricke), 36 
 
 Hoare, Charles, 36 
 
 Horncastle, Baron of, I 
 
 Holyoake, Francis L., 41, 42 
 
 Ingram, Jane (Goodricke), 50 
 Ingram, William, 50 
 Ingram, Evereld, 50 
 Ingram, Rev. Goodricke, 50 
 Ingram, Grace, 50 
 Ingram, Dorothy, 50 
 Ircliester, 10 
 
 James I., 15 
 
 James, Duke of York, 15 
 
 Jenison, Thomas, 10 
 
 Jenison, Mary (Goodrick), lo 
 
 Jenkins, Mr., 29, 30 
 
 Johnson, Henrietta (Goodricke), 34 
 
 Jenkyns, Mary (Goodricke), 35 
 
 Jenkyns, Tobias, 35, 37 
 
 Jenkyns, Dorothy, 37 
 
 Jermyn, Bridget, 5 
 
 Jermyn, Sir Thomas, 5 
 
 Jermyn, Sir Ambrose, 7, 8' 
 
 Jermyn, Lady Dorothy (Goodrick), 7 
 
 Jermyn, Dorothy (Duke), 7 
 
 Jermyn, Hester (Blagge), 7 
 
 Jermyn, Robert, 7 
 
 Jermyn, Dorothy (Goodrick), 7, 8 
 
 Justice, Emanuel, 23 
 
 Kippax, 14, 15 
 
 Kippax Hall and Park, 12, 13 
 Kirkham Abbey, 36 
 Kinsale, 33 
 Knaresborough, 32 
 
 Lambert, Lord, 48 
 Langholm, Aldburgh (Goodricke), 
 12, 13 
 
 Langholm, Christopher, 12, 13 
 Langholm, Henry, 12 
 Langholm, Katherine, 12 
 Langholm, Lucie, 12 
 Legh, Gerard, 7 
 Levet, Peter, 30 
 
 Leighton, Dorothy (Goodrick), 10 
 Leighton, Sir W., 10 
 Legge, Mary (Goodricke), 25 
 Legge, Col. Sir Will., 25, 32 
 Legge, George, Lord Dartmouth, 
 
 25, 32 
 Lincoln's Inn, 15 
 Livingstone, Thomas, 18 
 Lister, Joseph, 18 
 Liverpool, 32 
 Liiburn, Col.. 48 
 Lieut. -Gen. of Ordnance, 32 
 London, Tower of, 20 
 London, Houses in, 23 
 Loxton, Lands at, 49 
 Locke, Elizabeth, 51 
 
62 
 
 Index. 
 
 Ludlowe, 14 
 
 Massenden, Catherine, 4 
 Massenden, Sir Thomas, 4 
 Marmyun, 14 
 Manby, 15 
 Manchester, 20 
 Mauleverer, Sir Thomas, 25 
 March, Mary (Goodrick), 9 
 March, Frances (Goodrick), 9 
 May, George, 45 
 
 Middleton, Maude (Goodricke), 12 
 
 Middleton, Thomas, 12 
 
 Mitcham, Houses in, 23 
 
 Mildmay, Benj., Lord Fitz waiter, 24 
 
 Morely, Margt. , 23 
 
 Montagu, Mr. Wortley, 31 
 
 Mosley, Katherine (Goodricke), 33 
 
 Mosley, Charles, 33, 34 
 
 Mosley, Alderman, 34 
 
 Mold, 40 ■ ' 
 
 Monk, General, 47 
 
 Namur, 38 
 Newport, 12, 13 
 Newport, Earl of, 19, 20 
 Newcastle, Earl of, 18 
 Nicholson, Capt., 29I 
 Norton, Clare (Goodricke), 14 
 Norton, Richard, 14 
 Norton arms, 14, 17 
 Norcliffe, Katherine (Goodricke), 17, 
 18 
 
 Norcliffe, Stephen, 18 
 Nottingham, Seizure of, 3 1 
 North Creake, 1 1 
 Norton, Sir Gregory, 47 
 Normanton, 32 
 Nortingley, i 
 
 Oakley Park, 33 
 
 O'Donoghue, Major, 43 
 
 Offton, Manor of, 49 
 
 Ord, Ada Mary (Goodricke), 52 
 
 Ord, Mark, 52 
 
 Ormond, James, Duke of, 33 
 
 Osborne, Sir Edward, 22 
 
 Owen, Robert, 47 
 
 Palfreyman, Thomas, 4 
 
 Palmer, Martha (Goodrick), 6 
 
 Palmer, William, 6 
 
 Paulet, Charles, Duke of Bolton, 35 
 
 Paulet, Lady Mary, 35, 37 
 
 Pilkington, Sir Lionel, 31 
 
 Pitt, Mary, 47 
 
 Pinkney, Isabella (Goodricke), 51 
 Pinkney, Robert, 51 
 Pinkney, John ; Elizabeth ; Maria ; 
 ^ Isabella; Jane; Ann, 51 
 Plompton, 14 
 
 Plague, The, in London, 46 
 Poyntz, Eleanor (Davis, Goodricke), 
 47 
 
 Poyntz, Nicholas, 47 
 Poyntz, Sir John, 47 
 Preston, Lord, 29, 30 
 Prescot, Jane (Goodricke), 32 
 
 Quorn Hunt, 41 
 
 Rawson, Margaret (Goodricke), 12 
 Rawson, Sir Christopher, 12 
 Rawson Arms, 17 
 Ravensdale Park, 40. 41 
 Reresby, Sir John, 25, 29, 31 
 Revolution of 1688, 30 
 Rents, Fee farm, 23 
 
 Ribston, 22, 41, 54, 55 
 Ribston Park, 22 
 Ribston, Great, 22 
 Ribston, Sequestration of, 20 to 23 
 Ribston, Manor of, 12, 14 
 Ribston Hall, 12, 30, 31, 32, 39, 4i> 
 54, 55 
 
 Ribston Chapel, 14, 32, 37, 54, 55 
 
 Ribston, Little, 14, 15, 22 
 
 Ribston, Purchase of, 12 
 
 Ribston, Sale of, 42 
 
 Rider, Catherine (Goodricke), 33 
 
 Rise, 34 
 
 Ripon, 36, 37 
 
 Richmond, Palace and Manor of, 44, 
 .47 
 
 Richards, W U. S. Glanville, 49 
 
 Richardson, Eliz. (Goodricke), 52 
 
 Richardson, John, 52 
 
 Rolston, 4 
 
 Robinson, N., 5 
 
 Robinson, Luke, 48 
 
 Romney, Earl of, 34 
 
 Rothes, Earl of, 35 
 
 Rochester, 35 
 
 Royal Society, 38 
 
 Robins, George, 42 
 
 Rookby, Thomas, 47 
 
 Rodney, Dorothy (Davis), 48 
 
 Rodney Stoke, Manor of, 49 
 
 Rushworth, Robert, 8 
 
 Russell, Mary (Goodricke), 33 
 
 Sapcottes, Alice, 4 
 
 Sapcottes, Henry, 5 
 
 Sapcottes, Winifred, 5 
 
 Savile, Jane (Goodricke), 15, 1 7 
 
 Savile, Sir John, 15, 17 
 
 Savile arms, 17 
 
 Savile, Sir W., 18 
 
 Savile, Mr. John, 22, 23 
 
 Scrivelsby, Baron of, i 
 
 Scarlett, Capt., 46 
 
 Scots, War with the, 47 
 
 Seman, Paul, 5 
 
 Seman, Agnes, 5 
 
 Sequestrators for Claro, 22 
 
 Sessler, Levina B. (Goodricke), 38 
 
 Sessler, Peter, 38 
 
 Shrewsbury, Earl of, 32 
 
 Skidley, 44, 47 
 
 Smith, Elizabeth (Fairfax, Goodricke), 
 24 
 
 Smith, Alexander, 24 
 Somersham, Manor of, 49 
 Spain, King and Queen of, 27 
 Spain, Ambassador to, 25 
 Stainforth, Mary (Goodricke), 34 
 Stainforth, John, 34 
 Stainforth, Rev. Will., 34 
 Stainforth, Sarah, 34 
 Stainforth, William, 34 
 Stainforth, Mary, 34 
 Sterne, Katherine (Goodricke), 34 
 Sterne, Rev. Jaques, 34, 37 
 Sterne, Laurence, 34 
 Stockholm, Envoy to, 37 
 Stockdale, Robert, 40 
 Stockdale, Mr., 21, 31 
 Stickford, Thomas, I 
 Stickney, Manor of, 4, 5, 6 
 Strickland, Margaret (Goodricke), 14 
 Strickland, Walter, 14 
 Stapleton, P., 21 
 Stanmore, 7, 33 
 Steward, Thomas, 48 
 Strangewayes, Capt., 48 
 Stuntney, Property at, 48 
 
 Sutton on the Forest, 36 
 Sutton Hall, 36 
 Swaffam, ii 
 S would, Maude, 12 
 S would, Ralph, 12 
 
 Talboys, 14 
 
 Tankard, Mr., 31 
 
 Taxes for William III., 32 
 
 Taylor, Margaret (Goodricke), 36 
 
 Taylor, John, 36 
 
 Tasburgh, Mary (Fairfax), 38 
 
 Tasburgh, M., 38 
 
 Thorescrosse, 14, 15 
 
 Thomson, Eliz. (Goodricke), 34 
 
 Thomson, William, 34 
 
 Thorney Farm, 48, 50 
 
 Timperton, Sarah (Goodricke), 33 
 
 Timperton, John, 33 
 
 Tickenham Court and Manor, 45, 47, 
 
 48, 49 
 Tidcomb, Col., 51 
 Tours, 20 
 Townesend, 46 
 Trinity Church, Minories, 32 
 Turner, Eliz. (Goodricke), 51 
 Turner, Eliz., 51 
 Turner, Lancelot, 51 
 Tyler, Susanna (Clough), 37 
 Tyler, John, 37 
 
 Walshford, 12, 13, 14, 22, 47 
 
 Waterton, 14 
 
 Walton Head, Manor of, 15, 16, 44 
 Warburton Hester (Goodricke), 16 
 Warburton, Peter, 15 
 Walden, Rebecca (Goodrick), 10 
 Walden, William, 10 
 Walden, Lionel, 10 
 Wanley, Jane (Goodricke), 37 
 Wanley, Rev. Francis, 37 
 Walker, Isabella Mary (Goodricke), 
 52 
 
 Walker, George, 52 
 Waygood, Charlotte D. (Goodricke), 
 53 
 
 Waygood, William. 53 
 Welles, Lionel, Lord, 4 
 Welles, 14 
 
 Wentworth, Eliz. (Goodricke), 14,35 
 
 Wentworth, Thomas, 14 
 
 Wentworth, Sir John, 14 
 
 Webb, Eliz. (Goodrick), 9 
 
 Webb, Thomas, 9 
 
 Westwang, Manor of, 44 
 
 Wedmore, 49 
 
 Wells, Grace (Ingram), 50 
 
 Wells, A., 50 
 
 Whissingset, II 
 
 Wildmore, I 
 
 Williamson, Jane (Goodryke), 2 
 Williamson, William, 2 
 Williamson arms, 12, 17 
 William I., 14 
 William III., 31, 32 
 Wisbeach, 12, 13 
 Widdington, 22 
 Wotton, Thomas, 14, 33, 35 
 Woldhuysen, 38 
 Wolley, Edward, 40 
 Wren, Eliz. (Goodrick), 9 
 Wynn, Sir Geo. Allanson, 39, 40 
 
 Yarburgh, Sir Thomas, 31 
 York, House in, 22, 23, 34 
 York, Seizure of, 31 
 York, Trinity Gar^icns, 43 
 York Town, Virginia, 35 
 
• " ' ' MR. JOHN PENT DENT'S Ftf NERAIi. 
 
 TO THE EDITORS OF THE MffiDSl MERCURY 
 
 Gentlemen —It wag not surprismg that Mr. Jonn 
 Dsnt had snch a magiiificent funeral— magnifacenfe 
 the concourse of mourning sympathisers, for he was a 
 man of genial temperament, dying all too^ soon. As 1 
 stood at the grave side and watched the dispersing multi- 
 tude, my mind travelled back sixty years, to a distant 
 homestead of modest pretension I had known aU my 
 life, and to a solitary wayfarer on a certain day, who, 
 twelve months afterwards, bad been buried m has owij 
 garden at Winter ton, without service or ceremony, 
 bequeathing to the farmer property estimated at over 
 a m-Uion. Of one thing I felt certain— nobody m that 
 crowd could realise as I did the marvellous transla- 
 tion " From Log Cabin to White House." Your readers 
 will' agree, there must have been something downrignt 
 ' genuine about that farmer. To have been raised, 
 i suddenly and unexpectedly, from a httle hold- 
 irlng under Mr. Childers at Cautley to a 
 'wealth beyond the dreams of avarice, was enough to 
 iiurn his head. What if he had " squandered " m drmk 
 land dissipation? He lived almost upon the Doncaster 
 ; Racecourse and within sound of its revelry. What, if 
 ihe had, as the saying is, "gone upon the turf?" or 
 lindulged other forms of speculation and extravagance? 
 But no! He sought good advice, and took it. He 
 purchased the Ribston estate, rich in historical tradi- 
 I tions ; removed there with his youthful family ; changed 
 his name ; educated his children ; rose to his altered 
 ' position ; and, having served his generation by the 
 will of God, went to his reward. " Verily the righteous 
 shall be in everlasting remembrance;" and what we 
 witnessed on Wednesday last was just the natural out- 
 come of the prudential instincts of the excellent person 
 I had respected since my childhood.— Yours. &c., 
 
 . W. E. SHIRLEY. 
 
 Harrogate, December 31st.