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commissioner on the Marches for settling disputes on the border,332 and he occurs, with his brother Sir Robert Ogle, as a commissioner for trespasses.333 On the 21st of September, 1431, he was appointed commissioner with respect to concealments in Norhamshire and Islandshire. 334 He was again high sheriff in 1430 and also in the years 1434 and 1438. In 1433/4, with Sir Robert Ogle, senior, and Sir Robert Ogle, junior, he was a commissioner for the’ correction of violations against the truce, 335 and on the 7th of February, 1434, the baron of Greystock and he had power given them to grant safe conduct to persons coming from Scotland into England. On the 30th of June, 1437, he gave to William Wedell, chaplain, tenements in Sheepwash and Ashington with the liberty of fishing in the Wansbeck. 336 On the 31st of March, 1438, with the dukes of Gloucester and Norfolk, Sir Robert Ogle and others, he was appointed a conservator of the truce with Scotland, and on the 2nd of April following, he was deputed to set off to the garrison and inhabitants of Berwick and Roxburgh proper limits, within which they might have pasturage and hay for their cattle, etc. 337 In 1439, he and John Ogle witnessed together.338 He had a natural son Edward,339 who was a witness to a charter of his father on the 30th of June, 1437,340 and died twenty-four days after the battle of Towton from wounds received on that Palm Sunday, leaving Jane, a daughter and heir, represented by Thomas Bates of Prudhoe,341 but there appears to have been an Edward Bertram aged fifty-two in 1444, who had a daughter Joan.342 This Edward was sheriff of Newcastle in 1431 and sat in parliament for that town in 1441 the arms he used were or, an orle azure with a cresent sable in the middle chief 343. Sir John Bertram died in 1449, in which year (27 Henry VI)[1428] his inquisition post mortem was taken; he held Bothal, Earsdon, Eshot, Tritlington, Fenrother, Pigdon, and had the ward of the castle of Newcastle 344.

He married Joan, daughter of Sir John Loudham, knight.345   She is mentioned on the 21st of January, 1451 as his late wife, and held for her life lands, etc., in Earsdon, Tritlington, Fenrother, Hebburn, Pigsmoor and Newmoor.346   She was widow of Sir John Swillyngton.* (To XII. K.)

Joan, an infant, with her sister, Margery, in 1374/5 when their father gave them and William de Eland parson of Ingram, lands in Longwitton.

Margery had a grant of land in Longwitton as above in 1374/5.347 She married Robert., son of Hugh Raymes.348 Robert Raymes is mentioned in her father’s will.349

Z.—Sir John Ogle, knight.  In the year 1435, Sir Robert Ogle, senior, was constable of Norham castle, and Sir Robert Ogle, junior, captain of Berwick, who with a force of 4,000 men made an inroad ravaging the country between Halton and Paxton: he was met and defeated in September at Piperdon by William Douglas, earl of Angus, with an equal number of Scots. The English lost. 40 knights and 400 men, including Sir Henry Cliddesdale, Sir John Ogle, Sir Richard Percy and 300 prisoners, including Sir Robert Ogle, were captured.350

XII.—Robert, first Lord Ogle of Ogle and Redesdale, knight, was born in 1406. He occurs in the annals of history in 1434, when he and his father were appointed commissioners to prevent violations of the truce with Scotland,351 and appears to have been, with William Bertram, a knight of the shire in 13 Henry VI.352 In the same year he was, as Sir Robert Ogle the

332 Cal. Scot. 333 Ridp. p. 394. 334 Raine, p. 46. 335 Roll Scot. II., p. 286. 336 Ap. 79. 337 Cal. Scot.; Ridp., p. 404. 
338 Hodgson II., i., p. 169.  339 Dods. MS., 45 f. 130, 61 f. 51.  340 Ap. 79.  341 Pro. Ant. II. Dods. MS., 61 f. 51. 
342 Arch. Ael. XXII. p. 128.  343 Surt. Soc. 41, 55 & 50, p. XII.  344 Ap. 245.  345 Harl. MS. 1554.  346 Ap. 81.  347 Ap. 60.  
348 Dods. MS., 52 1. 67 b.   349 Ap. 332.  350 Hodgson I., p. 318; Ridp. p. 400.  351 Roll Scot. II., p 286.  352 Mackenzie II.
* Cal. Pat. 1425.
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younger, captain of Berwick, and, after laying waste the country, was attacked by the Scotch under the earl of Angus at Piperdon and completely defeated, he being taken prisoner and Sir John Ogle and others killed 353. His name occurs as member of Parliament from this year to the year 1441.  In 1436. after his father’s death, he had livery of his lands in Ogle, Hepple, etc., and on the 24th August of the same year was appointed constable of Norham castle, seneschal, sheriff and escheator in Norhamshire and Islandshire for 20 years 354. He was high sheriff of the county in 1437, 355 and in that year was commissioned to give safe conducts on the East Marches of which he was, in conjunction with Sir Ralph Grey, appointed a warden in April, 1438, and again on the 5th of February, 1439, and was appointed to carry out the array of Northumberland for the defence of the Border in the same manner as the late Sir Henry Percy had done.   He, with Humphrey, duke of Gloucester, John, duke of Norfolk, Henry, earl of Northumberland, Sir John Bertram and others, was a conservator of the truce concluded with the Scotch the last day of March, 1438, to hold from sun rising the 1st of May next to sun setting the 1st of May, 1447 356. One matter in dispute in 1438, was the question of a compensation due to him on account of his having been seized and held to ransom (for 750 marks) by the Scots in time of truce between 1426 and 1435 357.   It was agreed that he should be indemnified with a Scottish ship which had been seized at Newcastle, but this was found to have been sold by the admiral or his lieutenant and Sir Robert was involved in a dispute with the latter which was not ended until 1442 359.  The wardens must then have dwelt at Roxburgh castle, for as such they are mentioned as being there on the 26th of November, 1438 359.   He was also one of those, whom with Sir John Bertram, his uncle, were appointed to settle the bounds between the two kingdoms between Berwick and Roxburgh castle 360. In 1439, Thomas Lyle, esq., gave Sir Robert. Ogle and •John Swinburne, probably in trust, the manor and ville of Felton, the witnesses of which were his uncle, John Bertram, and his brother, John Ogle, esq. : 361 this probably concerned the settlements of his sister, who married Thomas Lisle on the 1st of February.   On the 2nd of November of that year. as cousin of our lord bishop (Robert Nevill), he was appointed constable of Norham castle, seneschal, sheriff and escheator for life 362, which was confirmed the next year.   In 1444. Ralph, Lord Greystock, made two indented grants in trust to Sir Robert Ogle and others 363.   His name occurs at Bamburgh. 25 Henry VI., 1447 364.   He occurs as writing to the prior to inform him that John Gisseburn, the vicar appointed in 1447, should either reside on his benefice or provide a curate, that otherwise the parishioners would pay no more tithes, the vicar being some time afterwards admonished 365.    In 1448, the English made an unsuccessful inroad into Scotland.   In 1449, his two sons, Sir Robert and Thomas Ogle, were outlawed for raiding 366.     The same year, on a truce made with the Scots to hold during pleasure by Robert, bishop of Durham, Sir John Beauchamp, constable of England, and others, he was one of the conservators thereof 367, and also the year after, when the truce was extended to the 15th of August, 1454.   Being at Fowberry on the 16th of September, 1449, as Robert,  Lord Ogle,  senior,  knight,  he granted to Robert Fowberry all his lands in Fowberry for life.   In 1450, he and William Bertram, esq.,  attested a charter whereby the earl of Northumberland bestowed the advowson of Leconfield on Ainwick abbey 368, and in August he gave his brother William the reversion of Longwitton held by Matilda his mother for life. In 1452,

353 Hodg. I., p. 318;   Ridp. p. 400. 354 Raine, p. 46.  355 Brand II.   356 Rymer X., p. 687;   Cal. Scot.; Ridp. p. 404.  357 Roll Parl. V., p. 44;   Ordinances of the Privy Council, V. pp. 93, 162. 167.   358 Nat. Bio. 42.   359 Cal. Scot.; Ap. 153.   360 Rymer X., p. 695.  361 Dods.   MS. 68 f. 18.   362 Raine, p. 47.  363 Ap. 264.   364 Hist. North. I., p.130.  365 Raine, p. 262.  366 Ap. 191.  367 Rymer XI., p. 253.
368 Hist. North. V., p. 46.   369 Ap. 82.

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the earl of Douglas committed excesses. on the border with a design of involving the king in war, which was averted by the forbearance of the English government who sent letters to Lord Poynings, Sir Robert Ogle, the bailiff and lieutenant of Tynedale, John Heron of Ford, and Ralph Grey, that they were under no circumstances to make reprisals 370.   Tynedale has also been called a lordship 371. He was also a commissioner to collect loans and contributions, and also, on the 9th of January and 5th of February, 1453, with others, was appointed by Robert Nevill to enquire into divers concealments and nuisances, etc., in Norhamshire and Islandshire 372, and mentioned as receiving (?) the tithes of Horncliffe 373, and, in 1454, as a tenant of lands in Ancroft under the monastery 374.  The next year saw the opening of the Wars of the Roses and. the first battle of St. Alban’s.   Six hundred men were brought from the Marches, probably under the earl of Warwick, warden of the West Marches, who is stated to have caused the movement by which the Yorkists broke into the town 375; the credit of which by another account is given to Sir Robert Ogle; he was also one of the commissioners appointed by the victorious party to raise money for the defence of Calais 376.   On the 12th of September he gave to John, his brother, the manor of North Middleton, near Angerton for his life, William Bertram, his cousin, being a witness.   In 35 Henry VI. [1457] he was, as he had also been for four years previously, constituted ambassador to treat with Scotland for a truce, and soon after he, William Bertram, and others, were appointed commissioners to raise archers in the county 378.   On the 27th of February, 1459, Sir Ralph Grey and he are spoken of as late wardens of Roxburgh, so their office must have terminated after twenty years service 379, but Sir Robert Ogle was still escheator of Norham that year 380.   In October, he and his son, Sir Robert Ogle, knight, Sir John Middleton of Belsay, knight, the prior of Hexham, and others, were appointed ambassadors to treat with ambassadors of Scotland for a truce 381.   He was also a conservator of the truce with the dukes of Buckingham Norfolk, and others 382.   In 38 Henry VI. [1460] he gave his son, Sir Robert Ogle, knight, and Joan, his wife, an annual rent issuing from a messuage in Newcastle-on-Tyne 383.   In this year James, king of Scotland was killed in his attempt to take Roxburgh, which, however, was subsequently taken.   On the 10th of July, 1460, at the battle of Northampton, Henry VI. fell into the hands of the Yorkists.   On the 30th of December, Richard, duke of York, was killed at the battle of Wakefield; Edward his son, then duke of York, cut his way through the Lancastrians at Mortimer’s Cross and was proclaimed king on the 4th of March. 1461, and the victory at Towton on the 29th following, where the earl of Northumberland and Sir John Nevill were killed, secured his throne.   Sir Robert Ogle probably took part in these battles, and Hodgson says that he was on the 16th of March of this year constituted warden general of the East Marches with large powers 384: after Towton, however, he, with Sir John Conyers, were reported to be besieging Henry VI in a place in Yorkshire called Coroumbr 385.   He had a commission to take into his hands the castle of Harbottle and the lordship of Redesdale and the castle of Ford, and further had a grant for life in these estates; he had a commission, with John Nevill of Montague and William Ogle, to array the king’s forces for Northumberland and he had another for the forces in Westmoreland 386.   He was summoned the 26th of July, by Edward IV. as baron Ogle of Ogle to his first parliament to meet on the 4th of November following. On the 8th of August he had a grant for life in the offices of seneschal and constable of the lordships and castles of Ainwick, Warkworth, Prudhoe, Rothbury, Newburn, Newburn Haven, formerly belonging to the

370 Hodg. I., pp. 320-1.   371 Cat. Anct. I.   372 Raine, p. 47.  373 Raine, p. 280.   374 Raine p. 223.   375 Paston Letters I., p. quoted. 376 Ord. Privy Council V., p. 244 quoted.   377 Ap. 83, 168.   378 Brand II., p. 424.  379 Cal. Scot.  380 Raine p. 47.   381 Roll Scot. II., p. 392.   382 Rymer XI., pp. 426-434.   383 Ap. 84.   384 Ridp., p. 425.   385 Pastons Letters II., p. 7 quoted.   386 Cal. Pat.
 
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earl of Northumberland,387 and on the 5th of November, was appointed ambassador’s plenipotentiary of England to treat with deputies of the crown of Scotland for a cession of hostilities between the two realms 388.   As Lord Ogle he was appointed, the 2nd of March, 1461 (?) a justice of the peace, etc. 389   On the 28th of January, 1462, the king granted to him and his heirs male in special tail the lordship of Redesdale and the castle and borough of Harbottle, with all royal franchises forfeited by Sir William Tailboys; the ville of Ellington which had belonged to Lord Welles who was killed at Towton; a rent of £8 a year out of Beneley, and the towns of Shilbottle, Rennington, Gysens, Middleton and the lands called Talbottes lands in Tyne dale, all late belonging to the earl of Northumberland 390.   After Towton, Henry VI and his queen fled to Berwick, which they surrendered to the Scotch, and in April, 1462, Queen Margaret went to France.   In that year Alnwick, it appears, was still in the hands of the Lancastrians, and it was taken by Lord Hastings and Sir Ralph Grey, but Robert, Lord Ogle and others are reported to have taken possession of it on the 30th of July.   After it was evacuated Queen Margaret with her General do Brezé landed near Bamburgh on the 25th of October, and the three castles of Alnwick, Bamburgh and Dunstanburgh either then fell into her hands or were already in possession of the Lancastrians. Hearing of the earl of Warwick's advance, Margaret with de Breze escaped on the arrival of the French fleet which was afterwards wrecked on Holy Island on its attempt to get to Berwick, where Lord Ogle captured many Frenchmen with their leaders.   On the 10th of December. Alnwick, Dunstanburgh, and Bamburgh were invested under the earl of Warwick whose headquarters were at Warkworth. Lords Montague and Ogle were before Bamburgh which capitulated on the 24th of December and Dunstanburgh three days afterwards. It is probable that Lord Ogle and a part of his force assisted before Dunstanburgh after Bamburgh had fallen 392. On the 6th of January, 1463, Brezé with the assistance of the Scotch under the earl of Angus was enabled to bring off the greater part of the garrison of Ainwick which finally capitulated on the 30th of January. However, by treachery and by others, these three castles again fell into the hands of the Lancastrians, and in the early summer, Henry VI., Margaret and Brezé were in Bamburgh castle with 2,000 men, and Henry, with the king of Scots, afterwards laid siege to Norham, from which they were driven by the earl of Warwick and Lord Montague.   On the 30th of July, Margaret, her son, and Breze sailed for Flanders. In the meantime Henry VI reigned over Bamburghshire and Ainwick.   In March, 1464, Robert, Lord Ogle, was a commissioner for treating with Scotland for terms of peace and he was subsequently on other commissions 393.   On the 25th of April, Lord Montague (or Montacute) defeated the Lancastrians at Hedgely moor and on the 8th of May, they were again defeated by Lord Montague at Hexham. The 13th of June following, the earl of Warwick forced the surrender of Alnwick, and on the 2 of that month, he with his brother Montague, then earl of Northumberland, took Bamburgh. Robert, Lord Ogle, was made constable of that castle and receivers of the revenues of its lordships by a patent of Edward IV., in his 4th year 394.   In the year 1465 Lord Ogle had another grant of Redesdale and Harbottle which no doubt altered the grant in tail male of 1462 395.   On the 20th of June, the king at Westrninster commissioned John Nevill, earl of Northumberland, Lord Ogle and others to treat with James, king of Scotland about his marrying with some person of the king of England’s allegiance 396.   He and Ewyn, his son and heir, granted to John do Murray, chaplain, a messuage in Great Tossan; this deed is dated at our castle of Bothal on the

387 Ap. 265.  388 Roll Scot. II., pp. 401, 404.   389 Raine, p. 47.   390 Cal. Pat.   391 Cowen. 
392 Brand TI., p. 427; Hist. North. II., p. 173.   393 Cal. Pat., pp. 414, 417, 418.   394 Ca. & Ogle, p. 350.  
395 Ap. 193.   396 Cay. & Ogle, p. 350.
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20th day of October, 5 Edward IV; 397 [1466] so it appears they were wardens of this castle after the death of Sir William Bertram the same year, the heir being a minor. The 20th of November following, Lord Ogle was commissioned with George, archbishop of York, Richard Nevill, earl of Warwick, and John Nevill, earl of Northumberland, the two latter being his cousins, to treat with Colin, earl of Argyle, at Newcastle, the 4th of December next, for the redressing of in juries which had been done contrary to the truce; and on the 12th, a truce was concluded which was to hold until the last day of October, 1479. On the 10th of October, 1466, he, with his two cousins above, and others, were commissioned to settle all affairs regarding the truce 398.  The same year ho was mentioned as Sir Robert Ogle, knight, lord of Ogle and Redesdale and superintendent of the borough of Holy Island, 399 and 20th of April, 1467, as Robert, lord of Ogle and Redesdale, a Ewyn, his son and heir, by an indenture at Bothal, and sealed with a bulls head crest, granted a tenement in Morpeth to Thomas Spore 400, and on the 20th of May, granted Ewyn, his son and heir, and Eleanor, Ewyn’s wife, the manor of North Middleton 401. In 1468, his name occurs as seneschal of the bishop’s borough of Holy Island 402. He died on the 1st of November, 1469; his inquisitions were taken at Carlisle on the 5th and at Newbiggin on the 8th of February, 1470. He held Thursby in Cumberland, and in Northumberland, manors and tenements in. Hepple, Ogle, Twisell, Shilvington, half of Thirnam, Fowberry, one third of Ingram and Horsley, Bamburgh, Newhall, Clifton, East Hartington, Morpeth, the lordship of Redesdale, and the castle and borough of Harbottle 403. Dugdale says he was summoned to parliament the 1st, 2nd, 6th, and 9th years of Edward IV's reign [1470].  
He married Isabel, daughter and heir of Sir Alexander Kirkby, eldest son of Sir Richard Kirkby of Kirkby, Lancashire 404, the latter of whom, is mentioned in Lady Ogle’s will, dated at Chipchase the 2nd of January, 1477, in which she desired to be buried in the monastery of St. Andrew, Hexham; she had property in Lancashire which came to her on the death of Sir Richard Kirkby, who had survived his son. Her will was proved at Gates- head on the 5th of February, 1477 405   (To XIII.)

John Ogle 406. (See the Ogles of Lancashire page 168.)
He married Margaret, daughter and co-heir of Roger Booth, of Prescot, Lancashire.

William Ogle 407. (See the Ogles of Choppington, etc., page 175.)
He married and had issue.

Margaret married, first Sir Robert Grey, knight, secondly Nicholas Bellingham 408.  Hodgson states that these marriages occur in Glover’s pedigree.

Margery married Robert Harbottle, son and heir of the late Robert Harbottle, esq., and Dame Isabel, his wife, for whom covenants were drawn up; 409 and Sir Robert Ogle, knight, on the 20th of August, 1424, settled land in Ellingham on the pair and their heirs for which they were to render annually a rose on the Nativity of St. John the Baptist, and, in case of failure of issue, with remainder to the direct heirs of Robert Harbottle paying forty pence annually 410. The trustees of the late Robert Harbottle, on the 24th of August, conveyed his estates in Ellingham to the pair 411. He apparently was Sir Robert Harbottle in 18 Henry IV [1470]; their grandson was Sir Ralph, who, in 1502, met Margaret, daughter of Henry VI., at Newcastle on her way to her marriage with James IV. of Scotland; this Queen Margaret

397 Ap. 77.   398 Cav. and Ogle, p. 350.   399 Raine, p. 156 N.   400 Ap. 87; Hodgson II., i., p. 392.
401 Ap. 85.   402 Raine, p. 47.   403 Ap. 192 and 193.   404 Harl. MS., 1554.   405 Ap. 336.   406 Ap. 83.   407 Ap. 82.   408 Harl. MS., 1554; and Hanl Soc. XVI.   409 Ap. 73.   410 Ap. 74.   411 Ap. 75.
 
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lived as a widow at Harbottle castle 412.   Sir Ralph’s granddaughter married Sir Thomas Percy, who was executed for his share in the rebellion called the Pilgrimage of Grace, and Sir Thomas Percy’s son, Henry, earl of Northumber land, was beheaded in 1572, for his share in the rebellion of 1569.

Elizabeth (?) married, first Sir William Heron of Ford 413 she however, is called Anne by Raine, who says he died on the 1st of September 1425 414, but on the 13th of January, 1411/2, there was a dispensation given for William Heron and Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Robert Ogle, Knight, to marry, they being related in the fourth degree 415, but at this date a daughter of Sir Robert’s could not have been more than thirteen years of age, so there is some doubts to the facts. A William Heron of Whittingham was a witness to the deeds affecting her sister Margery, in 1424 416.   Elizabeth (?) married secondly Sir John Middleton 417.   Ewyn, Lord Ogle, was a trustee for one of the same name the 25th of March, 1483.418

Constance married Sir John Mitford, knight 419.   He was born in 1402 and died 1437.420   A John Mitford of Mitford died on the 6th of May, 1437, seized of the manor of Molesdon and messuages at Newton.   Constance was living on the 6th of October, 38 Henry VI [1460]421.  

Joan married Sir Robert Manners, knight; he was aged thirty in 1438, when he married and he was buried 1488 422.   A Sir Robert Manners and Henry, earl of Northumberland, had in 1449, a joint grant of the goods aad chattels of Sir Robert Ogle, knight, then outlawed 423, who was Joan’s nephew 424.   Their son, Sir Robert Manners, married Eleanor, daughter and heir of Thomas, Lord Ros 425, and the present duke of Rutland is descended from them.   Joan has also been called Jennet.

[Concerning three daughters]  Agnes 426,   Jennet (?)   Anne (?)
   One daughter married Sir Matthew Whitfield, knight, who was a witness 13 Henry VI 427, and had a son Robert.  
   Another married John Lilburne who was a witness 33 Henry VI 428,  and had a son John.  A Thomas Lileburne occurred as a witness to Margery's settlements as above in 1424 429.  
   Another daughter married Thomas Lisle and had a son, Thomas, who married a sister of Sir Thomas Bellingham, knight 430.   Hodgson in his pedigree gives these marriages as taken from Glover.

K. -- Sir William Bertram, knight, baron of Bothal, was forty years old in 1449, when his father’s inquisition was taken, and so he was about twenty-five years of age in 1434, when he seems to have been a knight of the shire.   In 1440, one of the same name was in the service of the earl of Northumberland 431, and in 1450, Sir Robert Ogle and William Bertram, esq., attested a charter by which the earl of Northumberland bestowed the advowson of Leconfield on Alnwick abbey 432, but he must then have been baron of Bothal and appears to have still been knight of the shire.   On the 21st of January, 1451 he confirmed to his mother, Joan, the lands she held in Earsdon, Tritlington, Fenrother, Hebburn, Pigsmoor and Newmoor, to which deed his brother Robert was a witness 433.   His name occurs in the Fines of the 4th of September, 30 Henry VI. as son and heir of John Bertram, knight, deceased, and also in 1 Edward IV 434, and in 1451/2, the rent tithe of Norhamshire was sold to one of the same name.   He attested a charter of his cousin Sir

412 Hutch. II., p. 82.   413 Harl. MS., 1554.   414 Raine, p. 305.   415 Surt. Soc. 41, p. 821.   416 Ap. 74 and 75  
417 Harl. MS. 1554.   418 Raine, pp. 10, 11.   419 Harl MS., 1554.   420 Burke Corn.   421 Hodgson II ii p.46   422 Raine p. 212.
423 Cox, p. 650.   424 Ap. 191.   425 Harl. MS., 1554.   426 Harl. MS., 1594 f 132 133.   427 Ap. 164.   428 Ap. 83.   429 Ap. 75.
430 Han. MS., 1554.    431 Hist. North. V., p. 134.   432 Hist. North. V., p. 46.   433 Ap. 81.   434 Dods. MS., 52, f. 182, 194.  
435 Raine, p. 280
 

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Robert Ogle on the 12th of September, 1454 436, and was a trustee to the same cousin for Middleton near Angerton 437.    In 1457/8, he, Sir Robert Ogle, and others received a commission to raise archers in the county 438, and in 1458 he was high sheriff 439.   In 1461, he was mentioned as deceased and as owing to the prior and convent of Durham £25 11s. 8d 440.   He died about this time, his inquisition post mortem was, however, not taken until 5 Edward IV.   He held the barony of Bothal, etc., as shown in the appendix, his son being aged sixteen 441.   On the 20th of October of this year Lord Ogle and Ewyn, his son and heir, dated a charter at our castle of Bothal 442, they thus seem to have had the wardship of his lands, the son being a minor.
He married Alianor,* daughter of Sir Thomas Kempston. (To XIII. K.)

Robert Bertram (or Ogle) was mentioned the 21st of January, 29 Henry VI. as brother of \William Bertram, when he made certain grants to his mother, Joan 443.   In a survey taken in 1585 a Robert Bertram, Lord of Mitford, (sic) had held land in Shilbottle 444.

He married Mary, daughter of John Fenwick, and had a son Robert who died young: they have been however, also shown in a lower generation 445.   (To XIII. L.)

Z.—Sir Richard Ogle, knight.   In 1450/51, Thomas Warde, prior of Holy Island, in some controversy, mentioned Richard Ogill and one other as wanting half the goods of St. Cuthbert 446, and in 1464 occurs a letter written to Domino Richard Ogle 447.   In the same year Sir Richard Ogle, knight, was appointed to the office of constable and receiver of Bamburgh with the fees attached, and in 1466 a commission was issued to Sir Robert Ogle of Ogle, knight, and Sir Richard Ogle, knight to arrest certain persons 448.   In 1473, he surrendered his grant of £100 a year for keeping the castle of Bamburgh and received in compensation £40 a year 449.

He married about 1440, Joan (Johanna), eldest daughter and co-heiress of Roger Thornton of Witton castle 450, but died without issue 451.

Sir John Ogle, knight, occurred with William Bertram as knight of the shire for Northumberland 29 Henry VI 452.   One of the same name is mentioned by Raine 453.

XIII.—Sir Robert Ogle, knight, was probably born about the year 1428, and is mentioned by Raine as Robert, son of Sir Robert Ogle 454.   On the 20th of June, 1449, he, as Sir Robert Ogle the younger, knight, of Ogle, and Thomas Ogle, brother of the same, esq., and others, took by force of arms many head of cattle, sheep, etc., within the liberty of West Sleekburn and Camboise. On account of this raid an inquisition was taken at Bedlington on the 24th of July, following 455, and he and his brother were probably soon after outlawed, for we find that Sir Henry Percy, afterwards third earl of Northumberland, and Robert Manners had a joint grant of the goods and chattels of Sir Robert Ogle, knight, who had been outlawed 456.   It is probable that as both these gentlemen were connected to Sir Robert Ogle the grant was in trust only.   Ten years after, in 1459, Sir Robert was sent with his father as ambassador to Scotland 457.   In 38 Henry VI., 1460, his father gave him and Joan, his wife, an annual rent out of a messuage in Newcastle-on-Tyne 458.   In 1461, a commission was issued to John Nevill of Montague and Robert Ogle, possibly his father, to array the king’s forces in Westmoreland, and in 1462 a commission was given to Robert Ogle of Ogle, knight., and another commission in 1466,

436 Ap. S3.   437 Ap. 168.   438 Brand II., p. 424.   439 Brand II., 426 N.   440 Surt. Soc. 44; Ap. cii.   441 Ap. 246.   442 Ap. 77.
443 Ap. 81.   444 Hist. North. V., p. 424 N.   445 Harl. MS., 1554.   446 Raine p. 120.   447 Raine, p. 355.   448 Cal Pat. 
449 Arch. Ael. XIV; Hist. North. I. p. 45.   450 Burke’s Com. II., p. 330.   451 See also Brand II., p. 380.   452 Mackenzie II
453 Raine, p 280.   454 Raine p. 210   455 Ap. 191.   456 Cox., pp. 650, 708,   457 Roll Scot. II., p. 392.   458 Ap. 84.
* D Banco, 21 H 6
 
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was given to Robert Ogle of Ogle, knight., and Richard Ogle, knight, with power of arrest 459.

He married Joan, who, it is inferred, was daughter of Sir William Eure 460.  She was mentioned as Joan with her husband in 1460,461 and as my daughter Dame Johan Ogle in the will of Matilda, widow of Sir William Eure in 1466 who was described as of Kirkley and sheriff in 1426 and 1436 462, and on the 13th of August, 1467, an oratory was granted to Dame Joan Ogle and Henry Eure esq., within the diocese of York; a note states, this Lady Ogle, sister of the testator is mentioned in her mother’s will 463.   On July the first 1472, Philip Cardinal authorized Joan, widow of Sir Robert Ogle, knight, to marry John Penington; this was ratified at Beverley on the 15th of October by a dispensation for John Penington and Joan, widow of Sir Robert Ogle, to marry, being twice related in the third degree 464.   Hodgson says he married Johanna, eldest daughter of Roger Thornton of Witton castle 465, and that she died without issue, but by Burke’s Commoners,’ vol. ii., this lady married Richard Ogle (see above) 466.   Joan, it is said, was daughter of Roger Thornton of Newcastle, and married Sir Robert Ogle, lord of Bothal, and died without issue, but this is clearly wrong 467, and there is no evidence of the marriage in the Thornton pedigree 468.

Thomas Ogle occurs in an inquisition taken at Bedlington on the 24th of July, 1449, as brother to Sir Robert Ogle, these two having on the 24th of June, by force of arms possessed themselves of cattle, etc., in West. Sleekburn and Camboise and other places 469, for which Sir Robert was outlawed, and it is possible this Thomas was also outlawed and that he is the same person who, with William Manners, was living with Andrew Crauford, at Edinburgh, in 1456 470.

Ewyn, second Lord Ogle, of Ogle, Redesdale, and Bothal, knight, was born about the year 1439, as he was thirty years old when his father’s inquisition was taken 471.   Hodgson quotes ‘Cambden’s Remains,’ p. 66, to show that ‘Sir Owen Ogle’ is often written in Latin records Eugenius Ogle.   He says this Lord Ogle styled himself of Ogle and Redesdale, but apparently only till 1472 (or 1477 ?), when Harbottle and Redesdale were restored to Sir Robert, son of Sir William Tailboys 472.   He and his father on the 20th of October, 1465, dated a charter ‘at our castle of Bothal’ giving a messuage in Great Tossan to John de Murray, chaplain 473, they thus seem to have been the wardens of the heir and his lands, the heir being a minor, for on tile 20th of April, 1467, also at Bothal the same two leased a tenement in Morpeth to Thomas Spore 474.   On the 26th of May of the same year his father gave him and his wife, Eleanor, the manor of North Middleton 475; this probably fixes the date of his marriage.   On the 1st of November, 1469, after his father’s death, he succeeded to the title and the estates, and on the 9th of March, 1471, gave to his uncle John Ogle the manor of North middleton near Angerton for life 476.   In the year 1480, the English besieged Berwick by sea and land in vain, but two years afterwards an army of 22,000 men, led by the earl of Northumberland, the dukes of Albany and Gloucester, reduced it.  In 1482, a lease of Norham was granted to Sir John Middleton by an indenture dated the 25th of March 22 Edward IV,  for which Ewyn, Lord Ogle entered into a bond In 1482/3, he and William Ogle of Ogle were on the inquisition post mortem of Dame Elizabeth Burcester 478, and his name occurs in the Historical Manuscripts as certifying a deed without date 479.   He appears to have had his first

459 Cal. Pat. 460 Harl. Soc. XVI.   461 Ap. 84.   462 Brand H., pp. 424, 436.   463 Ap. 335. 464 Surt. Soc. II., ii., p. 285, and XLV., pp. 222 N, 341.   465 Hodgson II., i., p. 317.   466 Harl. Soc. XVI   467 Harl. MS., 774.   468 Hodgson II., i., p. 317.  469 Ap. 191.
470 Cal. Ex.   471 Ap. 192, 193.   472 Hodgson II., i., p. 63. Collectanea Typo". and Genea"., Vol. II., p. 194.   473 Ap. 77.   474 Ap. 87.
475 Ap. 85.   476 Ap. 88.   477 Raine, pp. 10, 11. 478 Fam. Carr.   479 Hist. MSS., XII.
 
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summons to parliament in 22 Edward IV., 1482 480, but a licence to Owine Ogle, son and heir of Sir Robert Ogle, and Isabella, his wife, deceased, to enter upon his lands with a pardon for all contempts, is said to be dated in the time of Richard III 481, but he seems also to have been summoned the first year of that reign, 1483, and the first year of Henry VII, 1485, in which year, on the 21st of January, he had settled the castle of Ogle and the demesne lands in trust on Guy Fairfax, justice of the King’s bench, and other trustees, the following being witnesses, Peter Middleton and Robert Manners, knights, John Harbottle, John Lilburn and Thomas Middleton, esquires 482.   The 31st of January, of the same year, 1 Henry VII., he is mentioned in the inquisition post mortem of Humphrey, Lord Dacre, as holding lands in Thursby and Crofton 483, and again as Ewyn, baron, son and heir of Robert Ogle, knight, and John Swinburne releasing to Humphrey Lisle, esq., Felton, that which they had of the gift of Thomas Lisle 484, but Hodgson’s date is 3 Henry VII.; this grant was a release of the trusteeship given to his father and John Swinburne, 17 Henry VI 485, He seems to have been on the Royalists’ side at the hard contested battle of Stoke near Newark against John, earl of Lincoln on the 16th of June, 1486, the date of which is often placed to the next year 486; he may have been wounded at this battle and have afterwards died of his wounds, for his death occurred on the 1st of September following.   The inquisitions taken immediately after his death were not preserved, but one was taken at Bedlington on the 28th of July, 1492 (?) when Ralph, Lord Ogle, his son, was twenty-four years of age, and one was taken at Haltwhistle on the 30th of September, 1506, when it is stated he died possessed of Bothal, Weteworth, Newmore, Pegsworth, Hebburn, Fenrother, Tritlington, Earsdon, Longhirst Old Moor, Ashington, Hepple, Bikerton, Little and Great Tossan, Flotterton, and half of Trewhit, for the service of four knight’s fees, and that he died on the 1st of September, 1486, his son and heir, Ralph, being then eighteen years old 487.

He married Eleanor, daughter of Sir William Hilton, of Hilton castle, probably just before the 26th of May, 1467, when Robert, Lord Ogle, granted Ewyn, his son and heir, and his wife, Eleanor, lands in North Middleton 488.   She married secondly George Percy, esq., who on the 4th of July, 1491, with the Lady Eleanor, his wife, late wife of Ewyn, Lord Ogle, released to Ralph, Lord Ogle, all right in the lands which Eleanor held in dower 489.   By this marriage probably West Herrington and Windlestone in the county of Durham, came into the family.   On the 1st of July, 1513 (?)  Dame Eleanore, widow, and Robert, Lord Ogle of Bothal, granted lands in Ainwick fields to Thomas Tood (?), prior of Brinkburn 490.

The Hiltons were, it is said, settled at Hilton before the Conquest, and sprung from a Saxon maiden confined in a tower on the banks of the Wear in order to protect her from a Danish chieftain, who however, eventually married her.   Lancelot Hilton is said to have lived in the time of the Conqueror.   On the outside of the chapel of St. Katherine are a number of stone shields of the Hiltons and their alliances.   At Hilton castle is a shield with the Ogle arms emblazoned thereon.

George Percy was third son of Sir Ralph Percy, the hero of Hedgely moor, who was seventh son of Henry, second earl of Northumberland. (To
XIV).

Isabel married first Sir John Heron of Chipchase 491, and had a son, John Heron of Chipchase, to whom together with her daughter and second husband, Isabel, Lady Ogle, by will, dated the 2nd of January, 1477, gave her lands and

480 Dugdale Sum.   481 Harl. MS., 433 f. 68.   482 Ap. 89.   483 Cal. Inq. p. m.   484 Dods, MS., 68 f. 18; Hodgson II., i., p. 169.
485 Dods. MS., 6Sf. 18.   486 Dug. II., p. 263.   487 Ap. 195 and 197.   488 Ap. 85.    489 Ap. 90.   490 Ap. 91.   491 Vis. 1615, 1666.
 

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tenements in Lancashire 492. She married secondly John Widdrington, mentioned in Lady Ogle’s will with his wife Isabel, to whom and John Heron she left her lands. He is also mentioned as a knight 493.

Z.—Sir Robert Ogle of Ogle, knight, is mentioned as receiving a commission of the peace in 1 Edward V and 1 Richard III 494; it is not know who he was.  In 1449, a letter mentions a Sir Robert Ogle; Eleanor, his widow, was living at Embleton in 1499, and a bearer of the tithes of Embleton church 495.

K.—William Bertram or Ogle, son of Sir William Bertram, baron of Bothal, was sixteen years old when his father’s inquisition post mortem was taken in 5 Edward VI.,496 and there is reason for supposing that he and his lands were in the ward of Robert, Lord Ogle, who dated a charter at our castle of Bothal’ the 20th of October, 5 Edward IV 497. He made proof of age in June, 1472,* but he appears to have held the property for a very short time, for he died without issue and the barony passed to Ewyn, Lord Ogle.

L.—Robert Bertram or Ogle died young 498.

XIV.—Ralph, third Lord Ogle, of Ogle and Bothal, knight, was born about the year 1468, as in an inquisition taken in 1506 he is stated to have been eighteen years old at his father's death on the 1st of September, 1486 499 ; however, his general pardon in 1509 from Henry VII. included all offences before the 23rd of April, 1486, and a pardon granted in 1494 for all offences before the 7th of November, 1489. marks the date of his coming of age 500.

Between 1486 and 1489, possibly a last stand of the earl of Lincoln’s adherents assisted by the Scotch, there appears to have been an act ion at Dunstanburgh, for it is recorded that Ralph, Lord Ogle, assisted by Edmund and Richard Crawcester,’ bailiffs of Bamburgh, J. Manners and Gilbert Errington, reduced Dunstanburgh and took the garrison prisoners 501.  The fact that there was some action here at this date seems borne out from the circumstances connected with the earl of Northumberland, who was taken prisoner at Bosworth field, and after his death Edmund Craster was, in consideration of his good services, appointed constable of Dunstanburgh, the 8th of July, 1489, with the fees and wages of 20 marks per annum with the ancient advantages and perquisites of that office 502.   His name occurs as a witness in 1492, 503 and also with Robert Ogle in a charter given in the Newminster Abbey Cartulary, 7 Henry VII 504.   Collins says that Polydore, Virgil and other historians called one of the Lords Ogle, George; and that lie marched with the rest of the northern barons under the earl of Surrey against the Scots in 9 Henry VII 505, and this appears to be the date when a force of 20,000 was assembled under the earl of Surrey, including Lord Ogle, and advanced against the Scots who were besieging Norham, but that they retired on the approach of the English. who afterwards took Coldstream, Hutton Hall, Edrington, Foulden and Ayton.  Collins however, gives the date four years later, and so does Hall, who says that in 13 Henry VII., Ralph, earl of Westmoreland. George, Lord Lumley, George. Lord Ogle, Sir William Gascoigne, etc., under the earl of Surrey, relieved Norham besieged by the Scots,506 but it seems that in this year a truce was concluded with the Scotch which was nearly broken by an accidental quarrel between some Scots and English of the garrison of Norham, when several of the former were killed. Hodgson Hinde however, gives 1497 as the date of the relief of Norham. 507   On the 1st of March, 1199, bishop Fox granted this Lord Ogle a pardon on entering the manor of Netherton 508.   In 1503 he accompanied Princess Margaret on her way into Scotland to her marriage with

492 Ap. .136.   493 Vis. 1615, 1666; Hoclgson II.. ii., p. 255.   494 Hodgson I., p. 332.   495 Hist. North. II., p. 68.   496 Ap. 246.
497 Ap. 77.   498 Harl. MS.. 1554.   499 Ap. 195, 197.   500 Ap. 266, 267.   501 Hist. North. II., p. 175; Arch. Ad. XIV. N. 
502 Arch. Ad. XIV, p. 181 Hodgson 1., 334335.   503 Hist. MSS., XIII.   504° Surt. Soc. 66, p. 254.   505 Cav. & Ogle, p. 351.  
506 Hall’s Chronicle.   507 Hodgson I., pp. 334, 335.   508 Raine, p. 372. * Arc. Ael. XXIV., p. 127.

 


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