From the Library of GEORGE CHARLES WILLIAMSON, Burgh House^ Hampstead. Shelf i9°7- mdxmii bpa>^ JO- Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2016 https://archive.org/details/b28035999 RECORDS OF THE LUMLEYS OF LUMLEY CASTLE k 7 r ” t > f' t' f. i I He d RECORDS OF THE LUMLEYS OF LUMLEY CASTLE BY EDITH MILNER C EDITED BY EDITH BENHAM LONDON GEORGE BELL AND SONS 1904 i.sa ^T- (l-S'l ; !_J^' CHISWICK PRESS: CHARLES WHITTINGHAM AND CO. TOOKS COURT, CHANCERY LANE, LONDON. PREFACE HRONICLERS are useful people, and are not as plentiful as they might be. Many interesting stories are thus lost, and tradition will perhaps in the near future become literally a thing of the past. It was due to the fact that one member of the Lumley family had a tenacious memory that this book came to be written. These memories were gathered to- gether, and soon grew into a considerable record. It then became necessary, if the book was to be of any public value, to verify the traditions. Family papers were put in order, searched and translated. The task outgrew the modest capacities of the author, and then the editor came to the rescue. After translating the family papers, searching the British Museum and the Record Offices, besides ob- taining access to vMuable papers in other families, notably those belonging to the .See of Winchester, Miss Benham was able to give the book value and authority; and if it should appeal to the thoughtful and learned, the thanks of the family and the author are due to her for the invaluable service she has rendered. The Appendix is chiefly her b VI PREFACE work. Both author and editor are greatly indebted to Mr. Algernon Graves, F.S.A., for the assistance he rendered in identifying the various portraits which illustrate the book, and beg to tender him their best thanks. — CONTENTS PAGE CHAPTER I Liulph, the founder of the family. —Uchtred ..... i CHAPTER II The three Sir William Lumleys. —Sir Robert.—Sir' Marmaduke Lumley and the Thweng arms.—Sir Ralph, first Baron Lumley. The rebuilding of Lumley Castle 8 CHAPTER III Eleanor, Lady Lumley.—Sir John Lumley and Chevy Chace.—His will ............ 14 CHAPTER IV Sir John Lumley.—Sir George Lumley and his alliance with the Thorntons of Newcastle.—Created Lord Lumley.—Richard, Lord Lumley 20 CHAPTER V John, Lord Lumley, and Flodden Field. —His son, George, be- headed. —Appendix containing account of Aske’s Rebellion and last letter of George Lumley to his wife 26 CHAPTER VI John, first Baron Lumley.—Plots with Queen of Scots. — Imprison- ment. —Debts of Lord Lumley and the Earl of Arundel.—Death and funeral of the Earl of Arundel 49 CHAPTER VII John, Lord Lumley ’s second wife, Elizabeth D’Arcy.—Letters from Lord Lumley to Mr. Hicks.—Death of Lord Lumley. — Portraits. Learning of his first wife. will of his — —Death and second wife . 74 CHAPTER VIII Captain John Lumley.—Richard, first Lord Viscount Lumley of Waterford.—His difficulties in the Commonwealth.—His wife . lOI — viii CONTENTS PAGE CHAPTER IX Richard, second Viscount Lumley of Waterford. —His connexion with the Dutch War. —Made Lieut.-Colonel of the Horse Guards. Adherence to William III. —Created Viscount Lumley of Lumley Castle and Earl of Scarborough.—Battle of the Boyne. —Letter from William III. — Death of Lord Scarbrough.—Account of his brother, Sir Henry Lumley .......... 115 CHAPTER X Richard, Lord Scarbrough’s sons. —His four daughters.—Richard, the second Earl. — His friendship with Lord Chesterfield. —Post as Master of the Horse. —The Excise Bill. —Letters to the Duke of — ” Newcastle. —His tragic death. “ The Court Secret H7 CHAPTER XI Thomas, third Earl of Scarbrough. —His money difficulties. Letters from his widow to the Duke of Newcastle .... 179 CHAPTER XII Richard, fourth Earl of Scarbrough.— Marriage with Barbara Savile. —Rufford Abbey. —Sir George and Gertrude Savile 195 CHAPTER XIII The Savile family. —Marriage of Arabella to John Thornhagh Hewet. “ ” —Gertrude Savile’s Diary.—Education of Miss Bab . 209 CHAPTER XIV Marriage of Richard, fourth Earl of Scarbrough, to Barbara Savile. —Gertrude Savile’s Diary ........ 223 CHAPTER XV Masquerade at Harewood.— Letters to Aunt Savile.—Letters from James Lumley to the Duke of Newcastle ...... 233 CHAPTER XVI Sir George Savile. — Relations between him and his nephews. Revolt at Eton. —Letters to Richard and George Augusta.—Death . 245 CHAPTER XVII Straitened circumstances. —George Augusta, fifth Earl. — Death of Barbara, Countess of Scarbrough ....... 265 CHAPTER XVIII Richard Lumley Savile’s marriage. —Death of the fifth Earl and succession of Richard. —Marriage of Frederick Lumley . 270 — — CONTENTS IX PAGE CHAPTER XIX Sir William Lumley.—Captain J. R. Lumley.—Letters from Nelson and Collingwood. —Marriage of Frederick Lumley and the Beres- ford connexion. —Their children. —Letters from George IV. and William IV.—Death of sixth and seventh Earls. — Litigation. Beresford ghost story . - 277 CHAPTER XX Richard, ninth Earl of Scarbrough.—Ride in Wheatley Park. —Miss Georgina Lumley 307 CHAPTER XXI Marriage of Richard, Lord Scarbrough.— His illness and death. Aldred, tenth Earl. —Lumley Castle and the Dowager Countess of Scarbrough . - 316 Appendix. Account of the Lumley estates . .321 Index 373 Pedigree of the Lumley Family at end » i ^' ' j:',. 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' - • ,; rj > i.', f-.T' ^ ITf* ,-»j' ^,'!tTS.' ‘‘V %*.- i,V .' •'’* “*'• ' fit *^I»'*-''V'-1''.‘- r^>.y‘’yL~xU'.'^i.'rJ^ .'f) •''*!|a; ’ ' ' :' V- , 'f" ;/ *r- - .-1 W a ' .'jiy. •: k . • 'V. .* A^^: ’ , LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS FACE PAGE Lumley Castle, East Front . Frontispiece Liulphus 4 King Richard II. conferring Patent of Nobility ON Ralph Lumley . , . 12 t John, Lord Lumley, in Chancellor’s Robes . 88 Richard, first Earl of Scarbrough . ? Wissing 128 Died 1721. ^ General Sir Henry Lumley, Brother of first Earl {c. 1700) . G. Kneller 142 Hon. Richard and Hon. Thomas Lumley, Sons OF FIRST Earl of Scarbrough . .150 Afterwards succeeded as second and third Earls. Father (first Earl) died 1721; second Earl died 1740; third Earl died 1752; the picture must therefore have been painted before 1721, and during lifetime of eldest son, who died as Lord Lumley in his father’s lifetime. Richard, second Earl of Scarbrough G. Kneller 1 72 - Died 1740. There is a print of him after Vanloo, and one in the Kit Cat Club after Kneller. Countess of Scarbrough, Wife of third Earl Sir Peter Lely 182 xii LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS FACE PAGE Barbara, Wife of fourth Earl, with her Son, George Augusta, fifth Earl SirJoshua Reynolds 236 Daughter of Sir George Savile, seventh Baronet, and sister and co-heiress of Sir George Savile, eighth and last Baronet. Sir George Savile, Bart. ? Reytiolds 256 Born 1726; died January loth, 1784. Nollekens exhibited a marble bust of him in 1785. Benjamin AVilson painted a whole length of him before 1770; the plate, engraved by Basire, was exhibited at the Society of Artists in 1770. It would be difficult to say who painted this : it is good enough for Reynolds, but of a much later date than the Countess of Scarbrough (the date is probably 1783), and might be by B. Wilson, who did not die until 1788; he exhibited up to 1783. Mr. G. W. Fitzwilliam, of Milton House, Peter- borough, has a Reynolds of him. Richard George, ninth Earl of Scarbrough . 310 Born 1813; succeeded, 1856, his cousin; Lieut.-Colonel of West Yorkshire Yeomanry Cavalry; married 1846; diedi884. His father assumed the name of Savile in 1834. Painted as cornet in 7th Hussars. This is by Andrew Morton; he ex- hibited a Richard Lumley, Esq., at the Royal Academy in 1839- Lumley Castle . 31S RECORDS OF THE LUMLEYS OF LUMLEY CASTLE CHAPTER 1 Liulph, the founder of the family.—Uchtred. O write the record of a family intimately asso- ciated with the history of the great English- speaking race from Anglo-Saxon times down to the present day is a task of no small magni- tude. When the present writer began, it was her intention to embody the early records in a preface, or at most an introductory chapter, and write a chatty account of the recent events in the Lumley history. When, however, the mass of family documents was put into her hands, she found so much material out of which to weave a veracious story, thrilling as any romance, that she attacked the work in a different spirit, and with the assistance of a friend who translated and arranged the documents at Sandbeck, and found others in the Record Office and at the British Museum, she has gathered together a consecutive history, which she hopes will be found full of interesting matter. The earlier records gather round Lumley Castle, which for long was the only family seat. In Camden’s “ Britannia,” first translated into English by Philemon Holland in i6io, “ we find the following ; From thence Were passeth by Lumley Castle, standing within a park, the ancient seat of the Lumleies, who descended from Liulph^ a man in this tract of right great nobility in the time of King Edward the Confessour, who married Aldgitha, the daughter of Aldreci B — 2 RECORDS OF THE LUMLEYS Earle of Northumberland.