Henry Percy, 6th earl of Northumberland to William Plumpton

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Reference

WYL655/2 No. 16, p. 196

Date

17 December 1527

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Transcript location(s) in printed volume(s)

Stapleton, 'To other members of the Plumpton family', item 5; Kirby, item 224

Transcript from Joan Kirby, 'The Plumpton Letters and Papers'

224 Henry Percy, 6th earl of Northumberland to William Plumpton, 17 December
1527 (No. 16, p. 196)

Right trusty and welbeloued,^a I commend me unto you, signefiing vnto
you I am informed on the behalfe of my right welbeloued in God, the
prior of the monestry of St John Euanglist, Helagh Park, of my
foundation, of certaine trau[er]sie depending bet[wixt]^b him <and>
owne Georg Fulbarne for the right & intrest of one spring liing within
the [town] ship^c of Litle Ribston,^d within my lordship of Spoforth, which,
as I perceiue, you haue bought of the said Georg, and so intendeth to
fell it to your loss. I desire, and also chargeth^e you that ye sufer the
sauing of it vnto the time the better we may know to whome the right
of the same belongith. Written at Siningfeild the xvij day of December
in the xix yeare of the reign of our souraign lord King Henry viij.

H: Northumberland^f

Endorsed: To my right welbeloued William Plompton esquire

^a Marginal note: 16 letter by H: earle of Northumberland.

^b MS betelbe.

^c MS celbinship.

^d Marginal note: A spring liing in Litle Ribston.

^e prefex dis deleted.

^f Marginal note: Copied the 9 of June 1612, Friday.

Transcript from Thomas Stapleton, 'Plumpton Correspondence: A series of letters, chiefly domestick, written in the reigns of Edward IV, Richard III, Henry VII and Henry VIII'

LETTER V.

To my right welbeloved William Plompton, esquire,

Right trusty and welbeloved, I recomend me unto you, signe-
fiing unto you I am informed on the behalfe of my right welbeloved
in God, the prior of the Monesty of St. John Evangelist, He-
lagh Park, of my foundation,a of certaine traverses depending
betewt him and owne Georg Fulbarne for the right and intrest
of one spring liing within the tewinship of Litle Ribston, within
my Lordship of Spoforth, which, as I perceive, you have bought
of the said Georg, and so entendeth to fell it to your los. I
desire and also chargeth you that ye sufer the saving of it, unto the
time the better we may know to whom the right of the same
belongeth. Written at Livingfeid, the xvii day of December in
the xix yeare of the reign of our sovraign Lord, King Henry viii.

(17 Dec. 1527.) H. NORTHUMBERLAND.^b

^a Leland in his Itinerary says. "From Helagh pryory, scant a mile to Helagh vil-
lage, I saw great ruins of an ancient manor of stone, with a fair wooded park thereby,
that belonged tot he Earl of Northumberland. It was, as far as I can perceive, sum-
tymes the Hagets' land." Geoffrey Haget was the founder of the monastery in
Helagh-park, for Regular Canons, of which Richard Roundale was at this date Prior;
but how or at what time the lands and representation of the Hagets were acquired by
the Percies, I have not seen any account.

^b HenryPercy, sixth Earl of Northumberland, K.G. ob. 1537, s.p.