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James IV., king of Scotland 509. In 21 Henry VII, Sir Humphrey Lisle made some grants to Lord Ogle 510 which may have concerned the marriage settlements of his son Humphrey and Lord Ogle’s daughter.  Owing to Henry VII‘s method of hardly ever assembling a parliament, he was not summoned until the first year of Henry VIII's reign, and he was also summoned in the third year of the same reign.   His name occurs in a list of fortresses in Northumberland dated the 21st of August, 1509, which includes a list of holds and townships which were to lay in garrisons at the beginning of Henry VIII's reign, and his places of Ingram and Hepple were to be garrisoned with 40 and 20 men
respectively 511. On the 10th of October, 1510, he gave his son William the manor of La Hirst near Woodhorne 512.   On the 3rd of January, 1512, Christopher Ward and Robert Plompton, knights released to him the castle of Ogle and the demesne lands which they held together with Guy Fairfax by a charter dated the 21st of January, 1485 513.   On the 3 of June of the same year, as the right honorable the Lord Ogle and Bothal, he granted Robert, his son and heir, the whole demesne of the castle of Ogle for ten years, with remainder to Margaret, the mother of Robert 514.   He died in January, 1513 and was buried in St. Andrew’s church, Bothal, under a fine tombstone, see page 336.   His inquisitions were taken at Morpeth on the 16th of March and at Durham on the 25th of April following, where it is shown he held Bothal, Whitworth. Pigsworth, Tritlington, Longhirst, Ashington, also the third part of Ingram, Little Tossan, Bikerton, Warton, all in the barony of Hepple, also Saltwick, Horsley, Stanton Sheles, lands, etc. in Morpeth, Bolsdon, Ponteland, Woodhorne, Seton, Heugh.   Before his death he enfeoffed Thomas Forster of Adderstone and John Heron (probably his son-in-law and first cousin) in the manor of Ogle, lands, etc., in Whalton, Fenrother, Clayfern, Old moor, Wellclose, Flotterton, Sharperton, Shipbanks, Thirnam, Foxdene, Middleton-morell, Druridge, Newham, Longwitton and Hurst.   He gave William, his son, Twisell, the fourth part of South Dissington and Tossan, for life, and to his son, John, a fourth part of South Dissington, for life 515.   In the bishoprick he held Netherton, land in Camboise, Choppington, Windlestone and West Herrington, the two last of which lie left to his son, John, for life 516.

He married Margaret, daughter of Sir William Gascoigne and Margaret, his wife, daughter of the third earl of Northumberland, whose father, Sir William Gascoigne,  married Johanna, daughter and heiress of John Nevill, and Elizabeth, his wife, daughter and heiress of Robert Newmarch 517.   An ancestor Sir William Gascoigne, was chief justice to Henry IV and married Elizabeth. daughter and heiress of Alexander Mowbray.   An interesting account of this Sir William is given in the lives of the chief justices by Campbell, 1849 518.   On the 10th of June, 1515, Robert, Lord Ogle, granted his mother, Margaret, all lands in Hurst near Woodhorne which Ralph, Lord Ogle, his father, had of the gift of Wedell, with remainder to William, his brother 519; and this Margaret, the 6th of May of the same year, had given to her beloved servant and kinswoman Isabel, wife of Gilbert Ogle, an annuity out of Thirnam 520.   On the 6th of July, 1516, she consented to a grant of the manor of Horton 521.   She is mentioned in 1527 as Dame Margaret Ogele and as living in 1515/16 522.   Her effigy is on Lord Ogle’s tomb at Bothal, on which the impaled arms show those of Gascoigne, Mowbray, Butler and Nevill, see page 337. (To XV.)

Robert Ogle is shown as brother to Ralph, Lord Ogle, in Harleian Society, vol. xvi., and in 7 Henry VII., Ralph, Lord Ogle, and Robert Ogle attested a

509 Hist. MSS., XII.   510 Hodgson ii., i., p. 169.   511 Hodson I., p. 339.   512 Ap. 92.   513 Ap. 93.   514 Ap. 94.   515 Ap. 201.
516 Ap. 202.    517 Harl. MS., 1178 f. 109; 774.   518 Dods. MS., 81 f. 168; Harl. MSS., 805, 1047, 2118   519 Ap. 95.   520 Ap. 96.
521 Ap. 97.   522 Cal. For.
 
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charter to Newminster abbey.523   This Robert could not have been the son.   It is supposed he was father of Gilbert Ogle, whose wife, Isabel, is mentioned the 6th of May, 5 Henry VIII, as a kinswoman of Margaret, widow of Ralph, Lord Ogle.524   He may have died before his brother, as there was an inquisition taken in 1508 after the death of a Robert Ogle in Northumberland.525   There was however, a Robert Ogle living on the 6th of July, 7 Henry VIII, but there is reason for supposing he was Lord Ogle.526   (To XV. J.)

Joan, shown as Johanna, wife of Robert Clavering.527

XV.—Robert, fourth Lord Ogle, of Ogle and Bothal, knight; was born in the year 1489, as he was more than twenty-three years of age when his father’s last inquisition was taken, and he must have married in the year 1508, but his name does not occur in deeds until the 3rd of June, 1511, when his father granted him the whole demesne of the castle of Ogle for ten years.528   In January, 1513, he succeeded his father, and on the 20th of June following, granted Margaret, his mother, lands, etc., in Hirst near Woodhorne, with remainder to his brother William,529 and the 1st of July, he and his grandmother Dame Eleanor, widow, granted lands in Ainwick fields to Thomas Tood (?) prior of Brinkburn.530   Soon after the peace with Scotland was broken Lord Home had entered on a marauding expedition with 8,000 men, but was intercepted at Millfield on the 13th of August by Sir William Bulmer, who, having concealed his men, attacked the Scots, killing and capturing 1,100 of them with only a loss of 60; the Scot however, were able to attack Norham on their return home.   On the 23rd of August, Henry VIII having invaded France, James IV crossed the Tweed with 100,000 men (which number however, was subsequently enormously reduced) and took the castles of Norham, Wark, Etal and later Ford, and besieged Heton castle in vain.   The earl of Surrey, who had assembled an army of some 26,000 men, was joined at Bolton by Thomas Howard, the lord high admiral.    On the 7th of September, a congress having been held, a challenge signed by these two chiefs, Lords Clifford, Ogle, Lumley, Sir William Percy, and others was sent to the Scotch king urging him to come off his strong position on Flodden hill and fight on Millfield plain.531  This being refused, the earl of Surrey promised him battle on the 9th and by a lengthy march placed himself between the Border and King James IV, who then changed his position to Branxton hill where he was attacked and routed, losing his own life and 11,000 men.   This Lord Ogle was one of the forty knighted by the earl of Surrey after the battle.   The following allusion is made to him and his arms in the ballad: —

The moone that day did shine full bright,
And the Luce-head that day was full bent,
The Red Crescent did blinde the Scots’ sight.
     .        .              .     
Sir William Percy and Lord Ogle both came,
And Sir William Gascoigne theyr cosyn was he.
                            Longstaff Percy Heraldry.

the Luce belonging to the Percies [Percys] and the Red Crescents to the Ogles.   He was evidently afterwards employed on the Borders, for Thomas, Lord Dacre, on the 13th of November, 1513 in a report to King Henry VIII, relating to Border raids and other matters, complains that Lord Ogle and others had not joined him as they had promised.532   On the 20th of May, 1514, he gave William Thomson of Hepscottes an annuity out of Shilvington.533   The next year, the 23rd of November, he was summoned to parliament, and this summons and one in 21 Henry VIII were the only two he received.534   On the 26th of

523 Surt. Soc. 66, P. 254.   524 Ap. 96, see also Ap. 105.   525 Ap. 199.   526 Ap. 97.   527 Harl. Soc. XVI.   528 Ap. 94.   529 Ap. 95
530 Ap. 91.   531 Hutch. I., p. 233, II., p. 13; Ridp., p. 489; Wallis II., p. 497.   532 Hodgson II., i.   533 Ap. 204.   534 Dug. Sum.
 
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October, 1514 he received a commission to make an inquisition post mortem,535 and the next year he and Sir Edward Musgrave received commissions for the peace.536   It is he who is probably meant in a deed dated the 6th of July, 1515, when Sir William Gascoigne, Robert Ogle, and William Ogle, esquires, Robert Wenslow, Thomas Forster and John Heron of Chipchase, esquires, with the consent of Dame Margaret, Lady Ogle, leased to Thomas Lisle the manor of Horton,537 and the same year, with his wife and Lady Musgrave, he met at Morpeth the queen of Scotland, widow of James Iv, who had proceeded from Harbottle to Sir Edward Radcliffe’s place Cartington and by Brinkburn onwards to Morpeth, and the next year he attended this queen whilst in England.538   However this year he committed some misdemeanour for which he was charged before the Star Chamber; the king’s letter comprises the following remark, ‘Sir, your matter concerneth murder of our subjects, which great offence is not only to us but to God, and therefore we remit you to the common law,539 but there is no record of his having suffered in any way.   He was captain of the castle of Norham, being a witness as such on the 4th of July, 1516, with William Heron of Ford, William Lisle, John Heron of Chipchase, Gawen and John Ogle, etc., when Cuthbert Ogle, rector of Ford, and others granted Thomas Strother the manor of Kirknewton.540   In 1517, he was appointed escheator in Norhamshire and Islandshire, but he was superseded in 1519.541   On the 8th of January, 1517, he demised a tenement in Nedderton to Agnes Ogle, a widow, for a yearly payment of £4 13s. 4d.542   There occurs a deed dated the 1st of March, 8 Henry VIII, 1517, but it should have been dated 18 Henry VIII, as this date coincides with the marriage of his son and with the date of his grandson’s birth, in 1528, the year after.543   In 1518, he is mentioned as having claim to land in Lancashire,544 which no doubt came into the family through the Kirkbys.   He was captain of Norham when on the 17th of January, 1518, at Norham he made an indenture with Edward Grey of Chillingham, esq., by which each bound the other concerning lands entailed or by descent, the former binding himself to allow the lands which lately were Sir Ralph Grey’s to descend to their heirs male of the said Edward Grey and for default of such issue to the said Robert, Lord Ogle, and his heirs according to the entail made for Thomas Grey of Heton, knight, and Margaret, daughter of William Pressfen.545   About this time there was an expedition into Scotland, for in the year 1519, Lord Ogle received a reward of £13 6s. 8d. for 'casting down' Blakatur, Cessford and other fortresses in that country.546

Hodgson gives the year as 1520 and makes him have a double grant of this sum, the latter of which was for himself and ‘his retinue’ for their good diligence in ‘casting down’ Cessford and other places.   In 1522, in another expedition P. Dacre, Sir William Percy, Lord Ogle and 2,000 men from Berwick, in a skirmish, killed Lance Carr and forty other persons, losing themselves one man.547   On the 18th of June, of the same year, he gave to William Gallond of Trewhit an annual rent of forty shillings with the tower in Great Tossan for life,548 and on the 7th of August following he gave to William and John Ogle, esquires, the manors and castles of Great Tossan, Hepple and Lorbottle to hold until they had received £100, Thomas Ogle being appointed attorney.549   He was at Wark on the 3rd of October, 1522, when he wrote to the earl of Surrey about Albany’s movements.550   Lord Ogle and parson [Cuthbert] Ogle were at Bolton in 1523 before the Scots attacked Wark and
Norham: Lord Dacre had prepared to burn Kelso, Kelso abbey, Sindlawes, Ormyston, Mossehouse, and Lord Ogle and Sir Cuthbert Ogle, parson of Ford, were ordered to join.551   On the 15th of April, the marquis of Dorset wrote from Ainwick giving the list of gentlemen who went with Lord Dacre into

535 Cal. Sta.  536 Cal. For.  537 Ap. 97.   538 Cal. For.   539 Arch. Lond. XXV.  540 Laing.  541 Raine, p. 49.   542 Ap. 99.
543 Ap. 98.   544 Cal. For.   545 Ap. 100.   546 Cal. For.   547 Cal. For.   548 Ap. 204.   549 Ap. 101.   550 Cot. MS., Cal. B. f. 105.
551 Cal For.
       8
 
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Teviotdale, burning villages and returning with 4,000 head of cattle which list included Lord Ogle with all his name and friends.552   Lord Ogle received the king’s thanks for the last raid, and the earl of Surrey sent him to Wark with 100 men and he kept Surrey informed as to the Scotch movements.553   Some time this year the Scotch besieged Wark, during which the earl of Surrey was at Alnwick with a great army, where he was joined by the earls of Northumberland and Westmoreland, Lord Ogle and others, and by his advance caused the Scotch to abandon the siege who had barely crossed the Tweed when the advanced guard of the English appeared on the scene.554  The earl of Surrey is mentioned as commanding in the war when a raid was made. into Teviotdale, burning Jedburgh, and reducing the abbey to ruins,  Wark castle being also besieged.555  On the 6th of October, Lord Ogle wrote to the earl of Surrey about intelligence he had received from the prioress of Eccles and others about Albany's arrival in Scotland and his preparations.556   On the 7th of October, the garrison of Wark was the Lord Ogle, captain, with Sir William Lisle as his deputy, John Ogle, brother to Lord Ogle, W. Lisle, T. Lisle. Thomas Ogle, George Ogle, John Ogle, William Ogle, Richard Ogle, etc., the sum being 100 spearmen and gunners and 14 archers and 12 others, the number of all the soldiers of the retinue of Lord Ogle being one hundred and thirteen.557   The names of the persons who went into Scotland at the last raid to Gedworthe with Robert and Richard Bowes included Lord Ogle, John Ogle his brother, with 131 spears, archers, gunners and mariners.558   In 1525 a peace with the Scotch was concluded for three years, which was later renewed for five years.   On the 20th of January of that year he gave to John Ogle of Ogle castle for faithful services all his land in Ogle, under certain tenures, of the yearly value of £6, and also gave him the office of constable of Ogle castle.559   In 1526, he was one of those gentlemen to whom the king’s patent of annuities had been given and he was certified to be able to dispend in the king’s service £100 a year from the lands in possession and £100 from lands in reversion with his name was linked Sir William Ogle, John Ogle of Kirkley, George Ogle of Ogle castle, described as a younger brother without lands, John Ogle of Ogle castle, 'whyche mene be well myendyd to justice and maye serve the kynge whyth themsellse and friends the number off VIx or VIIx horssmen.’ 560   In the same year T. Magnus wrote to Cardinal Wolsey about. a meeting, in which he mentioned the earls of Westmoreland and Cumberland, Lord Ogle, Sir William Heron, Sir William Eure.561   On the 10th of May of that year he released to Sir William Ogle of Cockle Park, the manor and park of Cawsey park and the enclosures called the Southfield and Baronsfield:562 this release was evidently not absolute, for the next Lord Ogle dealt with the property in 1537.   On the 23rd of August, 1526, he for faithful service granted to Edward Gallone, esq., all his lands in Sharperton under certain tenures, also an annuity out of Hepple, together with Slipbanks and another annuity out of 'Fawsyd' in Sharperton.563   On the 12th of January, 1527, he demised to John Ogle of Ogle castle and John’s son, Lancelot, all his lands, etc., in Saltwick for forty-one years for a rent of £5:564 two days afterwards he gave the former the manor and castle of Ogle for forty-one years at a rent of £14 a year.565   On the 1st of March, 1527, by a deed which is misdated by ten years, he made John Widdrington, John Ogle of Hurst, John Mitford of Seghill, trustees for North Middleton (or Middleton-morell), Fenrother and Shilvington, for the use of Robert, his son and heir, and Dorothy, daughter of Sir Henry Widdrington, deceased.566   On the 12th of June, he made an indenture with Cuthbert Ogle, clerk, concerning the manor of Ingram, Huntlaw and Greenshields, and the advowson of the church there:567 these places were afterwards

552 Tate I., p. 225.   553 Cal. For.   554 Ridp., p. 517: Wallis II, p. 371.   555 Tate I., p. 226.   556 Cot. MS., Cal. B. f. 58.   557 Ap. 289.
558 Cal. For.   559 Ap. 204, 206.   560 Ap. 292.   561 Cal. Sta.   562 Hist. MSS., Vol. VI. 56   563 Ap. 204.   564 Ap. 204.   565 Ap. 204.
566 Ap. 98.   567 Ap. 762
 
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purchased by the Ogles of Eglingham.   Eight days afterwards he granted to the same Cuthbert all his lands and tenements in Fowberry in exchange for lands in Oldmoor, 2 Newmoor, Longhirst and Earsdon, and one of the two attorneys appointed to deliver possession was William Ogle of Causey (?) park.568   On the 16th of July, he gave a Deed Poll to Sir Thomas Forster, Lionel Grey, Robert Ogle, clerk, and Matthew Forster, relating to the manor of Ingrain and the advowson of the church.569   In 1528, there is an account of payment to the gentlemen of Northumberland in fee with the warden, which includes this Lord Ogle, Sir William Ogle, Cuthbert Ogle of Choppington, and John Ogle of Ogle castle.570   He made a presentation of the church at Bothal on the 31st of July, 1528,571 and the 14th of September following, made a covenant with Sir Edward Radcliffe that he would before Christmas make a grant of Flotterton to him and to Margaret Ogle,572 and in the same month granted to my father-in-law Sir Edward Radcliffe of Cartington, knight, and to my well-beloved kinswoman, Margaret Ogle,’ the town of Flotterton;573 how Sir Edward was his father-in-law is not obvious.   On the 10th of December of the year he demised to John Ogle of Kirkley the town of Twisell for the term of thirty-one years for the annual payment of £10.574   On the 4th of March, 1529, by reason of the affection which he bears towards his dearly beloved kinsman John Ogle, son of Gilbert Ogle,’ he gave to George Ogle of Bothal, Oswin Ogle, gentlemen, etc., all his lands and tenements in Oldmoor near Longhirst575 for the use of the above named John Ogle,576 and on the 26th of June he granted to Thomas Clarke an annuity out of Pegsworth.577

In 1530, he sold Fallowless, consisting of 1,246 acres, to John Hall of Otterburn,578 and on the 5th of March of the same year, he gave to George Ogle for good and faithful service his water mill of Bothal,579 and on the 4th of April, gave to William, his brother, and to his wife, Margery, and to Robert, William’s natural son, all his lands in Hebburn,580 and on the 26th of April, granted [a lease of ?] Shilvington to Robert Ogle,581 and gave in trust to Sir Ralph Fenwick, Anthony Fenwick, Thomas Fenwick of Little Harle, and Roger Heron of Meldon. all his lands in Shilvington and Whalton under certain tenures for the use of the wife of John Ogle.582   On the 22nd of June, he sold to Sir William Ogle, 30 acres in Horsley,583 and on the 28th of September, granted William Ogle, formerly of Cockle Park, knight, his brother, and to James, son of William, lands and tenements in Earsdon and Earsdon Forest for their lives paying a rent of £3 a year.584  

In 1531, he is mentioned as a commissioner for the peace.585   On the 15th of January, 1532, the warden had proclaimed a warden court to redress the enormities in Redesdale and Tynedale, but Sir Thomas Percy interfered, requesting authority of the king, upon which this Lord Ogle, or his son (?), John Widdrington, and Sir Roger Grey, wrote on the matter to the earl of Northumberland.586   He died at the end of 1531 or early in 1532, for on the 26th of January, of the latter year, Sir Thomas Hilton and others received a commission to make an inquisition post mortem on the lands and heir of ‘Sir Robert Ogle. Lord Bottell and Ogle,’ and in July following a similar commission was issued.587

He married Anne, daughter of Sir Thomas Lumley, son and heir of George, Lord Lumley, 20 Edward IV a knight banneret. George, Lord Lumley. married Elizabeth, daughter and heiress of Roger Thornton of Newcastle.589   Thomas, his son, married Elizabeth Plantagenet and died before his father, who was succeeded by his grandson, Richard.590   The Lumleys are one of the few families of undoubted Saxon descent and claim to

568 Ap. 763.   569 Ap. 764.   570 Cal. For.   571 Ap. 114.    572 Ap. 103.   573 Ap. 104.   574 Ap. 204.   575 Ap. 105.   576 Ap. 102.   
577 Ap. 204.   578 Hodgson II., 1., p. 089.   579 Ap. 204, 206.    580 Ap. 106.   581 Ap 206.    582 Ap. 204.   583 Hist. MSS. VI.   
584 Ap. 206.  585 Cal. For.  586 Cal. For.  587 Cal. For.; Ap. 203.  588 Durham Via. Ped. 1575, 1615, 1666. Surtees and Surt. Soc. 41, p. 27.   589 Harl. MS., 806.     590 Harl. MS., 806.
 
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spring from Liulph and his wife, Agatha, a great granddaughter of King Ethelred. Liulph’s son L Uchtred took the name of Lumley. Ralph appears the first who was called Lord Lumley, and John, his son, and George above, a grandson. Anne, married, secondly, George Ogle, sometime of Ogle castle, who was mentioned about the year 1536, as living with the then Lord Ogle, his wife’s son, and as being a sharp forward man.591   Before this, in 1526, he was mentioned as of Ogle castle and a younger brother without lands,592 and was often named as one of those receiving pay or pension as one of the gentlemen of the Marches.593    On the 24th of May, 1537, Robert, fifth Lord Ogle, George Ogle of Bothal, gentlemen, and Lady Anne Ogle, his wife, late wife of Lord Ogle, gave to George Lumley an annuity out of Shilvington.594   There is reason for supposing that this George was also of Hirst.   Anne had for her dower lands, etc., in Earsdon, Cockle Park, Hebburn, Fenrother, Saltwick, Tritlington, Seaton and Ogle with the castle.595   (To XVI.)

Oswin Ogle, second son of Ralph, Lord Ogle.596   A letter with reference to a pedigree of the Ogles of Kirkley, dated Heralds College, January 5th, 1850,’ calls Owen one of the sons, but it is clear that Sir William Ogle was third son and is mentioned on the tombstone of James Ogle of Causey park as second son,597   so that this Oswin must have died without issue.   There was however, Owen Ogle mentioned as a debtor to Henry VII in 1512.598 *

Sir William Ogle of Cockle Park,599 married Margery, daughter of Sir John Delaval. (See the Ogles of Causey park, page 83.)

John Ogle of Kirkley,600 married Sibyl, daughter of Sir John Heron. (See the Ogles of Kirkley, etc., page 106.)*

George Ogle of Hirst was mentioned as a younger brother without lands in 1526, but was then living at Ogle castle.601   He married Anne, daughter of Sir Thomas Lumley and widow of Lord Ogle. (See the Ogles of Hirst page 160.)

Anne married, first, Sir Humphrey Lisle,602 secondly, Sir John Delaval,603 but The Harleian Society, vol. xvi., has Agnes as her name, stating that a note in Sir John Delaval’s will, 1562, informs us that it was her son Sir John who married . . . . . . . Ralph, Lord Ogle; and he made his will in 1572.

Dorothy married, first, Sir Thomas Forster, Marshall of the town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, who was buried at Bamburgh, his will being dated the 4th of March, 1526, Sir Cuthbert Ogle, parson, of Ford, being a witness thereto.604   Secondly, Sir Thomas Grey of Horton, son of Sir Roger Grey of Horton, by ‘whom ten daughters and co-heiresses, one of whom married Lancelot Ogle of Ogle castle, another, Isabel, married Sir Ralph Grey of Chillingham, which Isabel, as a widow, lived afterwards at Ogle castle and made her will in 1581,605 having had Thomas Ogle as her second husband.

Margaret married George Harbottle but died without issue.606

J.—Gilbert Ogle was living on the 6th of May, 5 Henry VIII, 1514,607 and was mentioned on the 4th of March, 1529.608   He married Isabel . . . . . . . to whom Margaret, widow of Ralph, Lord Ogle, gave, the 6th of May, 1514, an annuity out of Thirnam and calls her ‘my beloved servant and kinswoman.’609    Her will is dated 1539, and proved

591 Ap. 296.   592 Ap. 292.    593 Ap. 297, 298.   594 Ap. 204.    595 Ap. 204.   596 Harl. MS., 760, p. 311.    597 Hodgson II., iii., p. 130; Harl. Soc. XVI.    598 Cal. Sta.    599 Ap. 201. 606    600 Ap. 201, 202, 822.   601 Ap. 292.   602 Hodgson II 1., p. 174.
603 Harl. MS. 1153 f. 52; Geis. J,    604 list. North. I., pp. 223, 228; Ap. 337; Vis. T. Philhipps.    605 Harl. MS. 807 1. 28 b. ; Raine, pp. 826, 328; Surt. Soc. 38 ; Wallis II., p. 414; Coll, Peer; State Papers Domestic Elizabeth, Vol. 246 f. 280.    606 Hodgson; Cav. & Ogle, p. 351.
607 Ap. 96.    608 Ap. 102, 105.     609 Ap. 96.    * See Addenda.
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in 1549 in which she calls herself Bell Ogle of Bothal, and desires to be buried in the church of St. Andrew.608  (To XVI. J.)

Z.—John Ogle of Hurst was a trustee for Lord Ogle 1st March, 1527.609

XVI.—Robert, fifth Lord Ogle, of Ogle and Bothal, knight, is first mentioned on the 1st of March, 1527, when his father gave to John Widdrington, John Ogle of Hirst, and John Mitford of Seghill, North Middleton, Fenrother, and Shilvington, for the use of Robert Ogle, his son and heir, and Dorothy, daughter of Sir Henry Widdrington, deceased, Robert Ellekar and Robert Fenwick being the attornies to deliver possession.610    On his father’s death in 1532, he succeeded to the title and estates, the latter he dealt with in 1535,611 although there is no mention of his having livery of his lands until the year 1540.612    In 1532, the Scots burnt Fowberry tower in a retaliatory raid.    In April, 1533, the two brothers of the earl of Northumberland, John Ogle, Sir John Widdrington and others invaded Scotland, passing over Coquet Vale to ‘Howeham’ (Hounam) and burnt all the towns near the ‘Water of Caille’ (kale river).613    On the 21st of September, 1535, he granted Cuthbert Horsley an annuity out of the barony of Hepple, and on the 20th of November following, he granted to Robert, natural son of Sir William Ogle, a lease of lands, etc., in Hebburn for eighty years.615    In a return made out about this time he is described as the Lord Ogle of Bothal and may dispend 300 marks in possession and reversion, he may serve the king with 100 horsemen, he is a true young man and a good housekeeper’ in the same return ‘George Ogle hath married the Lord Ogle’s mother and is both in house with the said Lord Ogle;’ also the names John Ogle of Ogle castle, John Ogle of Kirkley, and Sir William Ogle who is described as the Lord Ogle’s uncle.616    In 1536, John Ogle gave up Oldmore which he had by the grant of Robert Ogle, deceased, father of this Lord Ogle.617   On the 22nd of April, 1536, he granted to George Ogle, Newhall, near Harbottle, Hirst, Newintone, Gallowclose, Gallowfleld, Newclose, and Wheit Northrnore.618    In 1536 the rising in the North known as the 'Pilgrimage of Grace' to re-establish the old religion, broke out. The earl of Northumberland had appointed Lord Ogle vice warden of the Marches,619 and Sir Thomas Percy, who joined the rising, tried by proclamation to get the office, he and Sir Ingram Percy hindered the Warden Court at Morpeth held by Lord Ogle as vice warden, stopping the letters to Lord Ogle and others, and Sir Thomas and Sir Ingram Percy on the 17th of January, 1537, caused a cry to he made at Morpeth promising redress of grievances, upon which Sir John Widdrington and Lord Ogle caused a proclamation to be made forbidding more than two persons of any town to meet together, and wrote to the two Percys about their misdoings.    Humphrey Ogle, dean of Hereford, appears to have sided with the rebels.620   In this rising King Henry’s minister, Cormwell, promised reforms through Norfolk, but the next year, 1537, he disgracefully threw aside his promises and executed many of the leaders, amongst whom was Sir Thomas Percy who was hung at Tyburn.    Cromwell a few years later suffered for his misdoings, being himself executed.    In 28 Henry VIII, ‘Sir Robert Ogle, lord of Ogle and Bottell’ released and quit-claimed to Sir William Ogle, his uncle, common of pasture, etc., in Earsdon, Tritlington, Fenrother for the yearly rent of one pound of pepper.621    On the 24th of May, 1537, he George Ogle of Bothal, Lady Anne, his wife, late wife of Lord Ogle, deceased, gave George Lumley an annuity out  of Shilvington.622    In the same year his name occurs very often as one of the officers on the Borders, his fee being £50 per annum, and with him were associated Sir William Ogle, John Ogle of Kirkley, George Ogle, John Ogle of Ogle castle.623    He appears to have

608 Ap. 337*   609 Ap. 98.   610 Ap. 98.   611 Ap. 107.   612 Cal. Sta.   613 Cal. For.    614 Ap. 204, 206.    615 Ap. 107    616 Ap. 296.  
617 Ap. 108.    618 Ap. ‘206, 204.    619 Surt. Soc. 44, cxxxiv. N.    620 Cal. Sta. 1536, 1537; Surt. Soc. 44,   621 Hist. MSS. VI.   
622 Ap. 204.    623 Cal. Sta.; Ap. 297.
 
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been a widower for a few years, but on the 8th of July, 1537, he covenanted to wed Jane, eldest daughter of Sir Cuthbert Radcliffe of Dilston, before the Assumption of Our Lady next,624 and on the 6th of October following gave the manor of Causey park, forty acres of land in Earsdon and Horsley called the [Southfield] and Baronsfield and common of pasture with appurtenances in Tritlington and Earsdon to Sir William Ogle, who was to pay £200, and also 40 shillings a year.625   In March, 1538, he, Sir William Ogle, and Cuthbert Ogle, clerk, received commissions for the peace, and on the 17 of September, Sir Reynold Carnaby sent in a list of the warden and pensioners on the Middle and East Marches, which included Lord Ogle, the captain of Berwick, Sir William Ogle, John Ogle of Ogle, John Ogle of Twisell, and George Ogle and Sir Reynold informed the Council of the North of the names of those appointed to meet at midnight on the 13th of September of the same year for an expedition into Tynedale, which included the king’s deputy warden with twenty men, Lord Ogle with twenty men, Sir William Ogle with ten men, parson Ogle with ten men, John Ogle of Ogle with ten men, John Ogle of Twisell with twenty men.626   In 1539, three years after the dissolution of the lesser monasteries, the greater monasteries were dissolved and their revenues seized by the crown.   In February, 1540, Sir Robert Ogle, Lord Ogle of Bothal, received livery of his lands as son and heir of Robert Lord Ogle deceased,627 but he had had charge of his lands before this. He was never summoned to Parliament, as Henry VIII, with his ministers Wolsey and Cromwell, used autocratic power for all they did.   On the 6th of April of the same year, his name occurs in State Papers as a pensioner on the Marches, Sir William and John Ogle of Kirkley and others, occurring in the lists;628 and on the 20th of November following, with the consent of Sir William Ogle of Cockle Park, the tenant for life, he gave Tritlington for life to John and Matthew, sons of William.629   On the 7th of June, 1541, he gave Lewis Ogle an annuity of £3 out of Earsdon.630   On the 24th of August, 1542, Lord Angus, Sir Robert Bowes, Sir Cuthbert Ratcliffe, Lord Ogle with 3,000 men having burnt in 'Tevidaill' (Teviotdale), Maxwell Heugh, Hetone of the hill (Heiton), Syndelaw (Sunlaws), Grymsley (Grahamslaw) were attacked by the Scots under the earl of Huntley at Hadden Rig, who, by the timely arrival of Lord Home with 400 lances, defeated the English, who fled losing four or five hundred prisoners, including Sir Robert Bowes, Sir Cuthbert Radcliffe. and parson Ogle,631 but the loss was not sufficient to prevent the duke of Norfolk., afterwards burning Kelso and Kelso abbey.   On the 15th of September, 1542, he gave North Middleton in trust to Oswin Ogle his brother, George Ogle of Hirst, Cuthbert Horsley of Horsley, and Anthony Wake for the use of his son, Cuthbert Ogle, and by another charter gave to the same trustees Lorbottle for the use of his son Thomas Ogle.632   On the 25th of November, the Scotch were routed at the battle of Solway Moss.   On the 19th of the next month the Scotch contemplated a raid, which was put off on account of the death of the king of Scots; Lord Ogle being mentioned in connection with these arrangements.633   On the 5th of May, 1543, being 'commanded to invayd the realme of Scotland in the Kynges Majesties warres if caice that I he slayne be chaunce of warres thus I maik my laste will and testamente,' 634 whither he went, but he lived to return from the expedition, which was probably with Sir Ralph Eure when Jedburgh, Kelso, and 192 towns, towers, etc., were destroyed, 400 Scots slain, 816 prisoners, etc., taken635 and he was back again on the 4th of April, 1544, when he granted to the same trustees as above lands, etc., in Earsdon, Cockle Park, Hebburn, Fenrother, Saltwick, Tritlington. Woodhorne, Ogle, for his own, Robert, Lord Ogle’s use and Jane, his wife,636

624 Ap. 109.   625 Ap. 204.   626 Cal. Sta. ; Ap. 299.    627 Cal. Sta.   628 Cal. Sta. Ap. 300.    629 Ap. 204.   630 Ap. 204, 206.
631 Cal. Ham. ; Ridp., p. 539.   632 Ap. 204, 206, and 110.    633 Cal. Sta.    634 Ap. 338.    635 Tate I., p. 232; Ridp. p. 550.
636 Ap. 204, 206, 111.
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but not long after he was again across the Border with Sir Ralph Eure and Sir John Widdrington, when, with the garrison of the Middle and some of that of the East Marches, in all 2,300 men, they burnt Old Roxburgh, New Roxburgh, New Town, Stokes, Strother, Hutton-on-the-Hill, and rode a foray to Makerston and Rotherford taking 320 nott (sic), 200 sheep, 60 nags, 12 horse men, 20 foot prisoners, besides those slain.637   In July, Duns and Greenlaw were also burnt.   It was probably about the same time (i.e., in. the spring) that the earl of Hereford and John Dudley landed at Leith and burnt Edinburgh.   There is no notice of his having returned to his own country, for in 1545 the wasting war carried on by Henry VIII produced a union of Scotland against him, and the earl of Angus, who was on the English side at the battle of Hadden Rig, appears now on the Scotch side with. a strong force encamped at Pannier Hugh [penielheugh], while the English, under Sir Ralph Eure, Lord Ogle, Sir Brian Laton, were at Auerum moor near Jedburgh.   It seems probable that there had been skirmishes both at Bromhouse and at Moorhouse, as these places have been mentioned as the name of the battle, but at the battle at Auerum moor or Penielheugh on the 6th of March, after a severe conflict, the English were defeated and the leaders, including Lord Ogle, were killed.   Lord Ogle is mentioned by his brother Oswin as being killed at Pamir Heugh,’ and the skirmish at Moorhouse took place on the 27th of February, preceding.638   Cuthbert Ogle, clerk, was taken prisoner at Auerum moor anti identified the body of Sir Ralph Eure,639 and the earl of Arran is mentioned as embracing the earl of Angus on the battle field.   Lord Ogles body was taken into his own county and buried at Bothal in St. Andrew’s church.640   His, inquisition was taken on the 30th of May, 1546, at Alnwick, where his lands are fully set forth and will be found in the appendix:   Robert, his son and heir, was then aged eighteen years.641

He married, first, Dorothy, daughter of Sir Henry Widdrington, who was dead on the 1st of March, 1527 when the marriage settlements were drawn up,642 by whom he had Robert and Margery,643 and Dorothy (‘?).   She was buried iii the church of Bothal. (To XVII.)

Secondly, to Jane, eldest daughter of Sir Cuthbert Radcliffe of Dilston, whom her husband covenanted to marry before the Assumption of Our Lady next dated the 8th of July, 1537.644   Anne, daughter and heir of John Cartington, married Sir Edward Radcliffe of Derwentwater. whose son was Cuthbert above.   Sir Edward Radcliffe of Cartington appears also to have married a Margaret Ogle, or had a daughter of that name.645   Jane had for her dower lands, etc., in Earsdon, Earsdon Forest, Cockle Park and Tower, Hebburn, Fenrother, Saltwick. Tritlington, Seaton near Woodhorne, Ogle and Ogle castle, which had been also the dower of Anne, Lady Ogle.646   Jane married afterwards Sir John Forster who was knighted in 1547,647 and was for 29 years lord warden of the Middle Marches;648 they were both living on the 14th of June, 1564.    This Sir John was son of Sir Thomas Forster by Dorothy, daughter of Ralph, Lord Ogle.649   (To XVII. C.)

. . . . . . Ogle. The names of these sons is uncertain, and there was a natural son named Lewis.

Oswin Ogle of Shilvington, who occurs also as Owen and fourth son,650 was probably born about the year 1515.   On the 15th of September, 1542, his brother, Lord Ogle, made him, George Ogle of Hirst., and others, trustees for North Middleton for the use of Cuthbert, afterwards Lord Ogle, and the. same parties were, on the same date, made trustees for Lorbottle for the use of

637 Scott: Ridp., p 552.   638 Cal. Sta. ; History of Scotland, p. 337; Ridp., p. 552. n    639 Cal. Sta.    640 Ap. 338, 341.
641 Ap. 204.    642 Ap 98; See Gen. Mag. 1812.    643 Ap. 206.   644 Ap. 109.    645 Ap. 103, 104; see pp. 59, 65; Surt. Soc. 2, 266 N.
646 Ap. 204, 206, 338.    647 Hist. North. I., p. 156.    648 Ap. 206.    649 Ap. 337    650 Harl. MS. 1554.
 
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Thomas Ogle, this Oswin’s nephew.651   Robert, Lord Ogle, by will of the 5th of May, 1543, bequeathed to his brother Oswin all his lands and tenements in Twisell and the stone house there for life.652   Also the same lord on the 4th of April, 1544, appointed him and others trustees of the lands, the dower of Jane, Lady Ogle, see above.653   He was at the battle of Penielheugh or Ancrum moor on the 6th of March, 1545 and taken prisoner. On the 27th of July, 1562, Robert, Lord Ogle, by will gave his uncle Oswin the Rydding’ to occupy the same until he entered into Twisell, and also gave him the tithes of Ashington,654 but on the 20th of October, 1564, he was in possession of Twisell worth £10 per annum.655   In 1583, he was living at Shilvington, when Cuthbert, Lord Ogle, having no heirs male, asked of the Crown, permission to destroy the male entail of the property and to confer his estates on Jane, his daughter and her future husband, Edward Talbot, son of the earl of Shrewsbury, upon which Oswin wrote the following letter:

" To the Queen’s most excellent Mtye
" In most humble wise shewinge complayneth to yor most excellent Mtie yor Highness faithful subject Oswin Ogle of Shilvington in the county of Northumberland Esquire.   That whereas the house of the Lord Ogle beinge of greate antiquitye hath for many yeares done true service to yor Mty and yo progenitors since and before the memory of man as sondry of yor Highnes Council can testifie.   It is so that the L. Cutbert Ogle now livinge and havinge no heyres male goeth aboute to cutt of yor poor suppliante and his children from the benefitt of that whereby he is nowe Lord Ogle for he the saide L. Cutbert continued the entaile which was like to be cutt of and yet wold he nowe do the like to your said suppliante and his children being the next of blude in the entaile.   Wherfore, for that the cheife howse is in daunger of utter ruine which hath always doone yor Mty yor progenitors special service against the Scots who slew yor said suppliants brother and took him prisoner at Pamer-Heugh; thes are most humbly to beseech yor most gratious Mty to consider this case to maintaine the entaile in the heyres male and to will yor right honourable Counsaile to take order herein.   Then shall your Mty do a thinge to God acceptable yor poore Orator and all the name of the Ogles shall be bound in double duty to yor Highnes and great quietness may herby be mayntained wch otherwise would in time growe to great grudge and discention.  Yor Mties poore and daily, Suppliante Oswin Ogle.”656

This letter had no effect for on the 2nd of September, 1583, Cuthbert, Lord Ogle, had a licence to alienate his property to Edward Talbot and Jane the said Cuthbert’s daughter.657

He married Jane, daughter of John Horsley of Milburne Grange.658  
(To XVII. I.)

Agnes.659

Dorothy occurs as a daughter of the fourth Lord Ogle, by Glover’s pedigree, Herald’s College, and married to Sir Thomas Grey of Horton, but there is an insertion changing the name of the Lord Ogle from Robert to Ralph, who was third lord. It has also been said that she married Sir Thomas Forster.660   She probably belongs to the previous generation and certainly could not have married Sir Thomas Forster.

.J.—George Ogle, eldest son, was probably a trustee for Oldmore661 and is mentioned in the will of Bell Ogle in 1539.662    Some of his history may have been wrongly appropriated to the George in the previous generation.

651 Ap. 110, 204.   652 Ap. 338,   653 Ap. 204.   654 Ap. 341.   655 Ap. 206.   656 Lands. MS. No. 106,f. 51.   657 Ap. 211, 285.
658 Grover, Her. Coil.    659 harl. MSS. 1554 and 806. Additions to Glover,. Her. Coil.   660 Surt. Soc. 38 Note. Gen.    661 Ap. 105.
662 Ap. 337
 
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