Robert Girlington to Mrs Isabel Plumpton

250 Robert Girlington¹ to Mrs Isabel Plumpton, 10 February
         [1549/50]         (No. 8, p. 187)

Right worshipfull and my singuler good Aunt,^a my deuty to you
premised, I haue me recommended vnto you. This shall be to certyfy
you that according to your commaundment haith kept your cort at
Sacompte, and there Setle, your servant, reseiued of [. . .]^b <tow> men
that was admited tennements at this your cort iiijli saue 40d; and of
one power woman xiijs 4d; [. . .]^c <which> was admitted tennements
in reverscion he did receiue xjs, which I haue written to you, ouer and
aboue your rents and your estreats. And I desire you, good Aunt, to
let me know how you will haue your corts ordered, whether you will
haue them kept one or tow times in the yeare, by your next letter; and
I, acording to your commaundement gevin I shold doe, with the grace
of almighty Jesus, who haue you, yours and all your houshold in his
blessed keping. Written the xth of Febuarij

                          By yours to comaund            Robart Girlington^d

Endorsed: To his right worshipfull aunt Mrs Isabell Plompton at Plompton
Hall deliuer this

     ^a Marginal note: 8 letter by Rob: Girlington.

     ^b Tolle deleted.

     ^c whitch deleted.

     ^d Marginal note. Copied the 6 of June 1626, Tewsday.

     ¹ Possibly Robert, a younger son of Nicholas Girlington, of Hackforth, Richmondshire.
His father, or grandfather, supported Sir Robert at the York assizes 1502. Stapleton
suggests that Robert may have been related to Isabel Plumpton through his father’s
marriage with William Elleson’s sister Joan, Flower’s Visitation, 141; Stapleton, 256n.; CB,
824; 129, 162; App. II, 68.

                                         LETTER XXX.

    To his right worshipfull Aunt, Mrs. Isabell Plompton, at Plomton
                                    Hall, deliver this.

    Right worshipfull and my singuler good Aunt, my deuty to you
premised, I have me recommended unto you. This shall be to certyfy
you that according to your commaundment haith kept your cort
at Sacompte, and there Setle^a, your servant, reseived of tow men that
was admited tennements at this your cort iiij ^li save 40^d, and of
one power woman xiii^s. 4^d; which was admited tennements in re-
scion he did receive xi^s, which I have written to you, over and
above your rents and your estreats. And I desire, good Aunt, to let
me know how you will have your corts ordered, whether you will
have them kept one or tow times in the yeare, by your next letter;
and I according to your commanundement terein I shold doe,
with the grace of Almighty Jesus, who have you, yours, and all
your hoshold in his blessed keeping. Written the Xth of
Februarii.

                                               By yours to comaund

                                                                  ROBART GIRLINGTON.^b

    ^a By charter dated 6th Jan. 5 Edw. VI. 1551-2, Isabella Plumpton granted to
Robert Sittills, for term of his life, an annuity of 261, 8s. 8d. issuing out of lands in
Kirkby-upon-Wharfe, or elsewhere within the county of York. (Towneley MSS.
G.24).

   ^b A nicholas Girlington was one of the many friends and lovers who rode with Sir
Robert Plumpton to York, to maintain him in his suit with Suttell and Rocliffe, at the
Lammas Assize in the year 1502, and to William Girlington, gent. William Plumpton,
and Isabel or Elizabeth his wife, y their deed dated 3 Mar. 22 Hen. VII. 1506, con-
veyed their lands and tenements in Eastofts, in the county of York, for 33l. 15s.
(Chartul. No. 830.) Burton, in the Pedigree of Babthorpe, printed in his Specimen
History of the parish of Hemingborough, marries Robert Babthorpe, the father of Isasbel
Plumpton, to Joan the daughter of Nicholas Girlington; but this statement is dis-
proved by the evidence that Glover had seen, which renders it more than probable
that she was by birth a Hagthorpe. I venture, therefore, to infer from the testimony
of this letter a marriage between the father of Robert Girlington, mistaken for
Robert Babthorpe, and joan, half-sister of Isabel Plumpton, of the family of Elson of
Selby; for it is only upon this supposition that I can account for her being addressed
by him as "my singuler good Aunt." (See the Note to Letter CLXXIX. p. 118.)