Notices from Original Documents Relating To

III. NOTICES FROM ORIGINAL DOCUMENTS RELATIN JOHO GT N ANYSLEY, CONSTABLE OF NORHAM CASTLE, PRISONER IN SCOTLAND IN 1514, AND OF HIS MURDER ON HIS JOURNEY TO ENGLAND IN THAT YEAR EDWARY B . D PEACOC F BOTTESJORO K D MANOK, NEAR BRIGG, LINCOLNSHIRE, ESQ., F.S.A. The following document, although I cannot claim for it the merit of illustrating the national history of Scotland or England, at the eventful period of the battle of Hodden, is of considerable interest, from its con- nection with that memorable contest. It is also not without importance, fro lighe mth t lawlesthrowe i t th n o s stat societyf eo , which existen do borderse th . Norha lattee th mf r o day Castle f e Scotstakeo s son th en wa y no b , August 1513,1 but a very few days before the battle of Elodden. On the 4th of September, the Earl of Surrey issued from Alnwick his well-known challeng Kino et g James. Amon affrontmajeste e gth th o t Englansf y o d set forth therein thas Scottisi chiee e e th tth , on f h sovereig ncastd "ha e and betten down e casteeth Norhamef o l crewelld an , murdered aha d dan slayne mankyngee th f yo s liege people."" Of John Anysley's life littl knowns ei t leas a bees r ha ,o t n recoverable by me. We may, I think, assume without much fear of error, though there is, as far as I have seen, no proof of it, that he was a Northumbrian gentleman, of the same stock as the Aynsleys of Shaftoe and Little Harle Tower. The Durham records quoted by Mr Raine shew that he was latRaine r eM Th 1 e states tha29the th t felti n . o l North Durham. vi 2 Battle of Flodden, from a MS. in the possession of David Laing, Esq., LL.D., V.P.S.A. Scott. 168 . PROCEEDINGS OF THE SOCIETY, MAECH 13, 1871. constable of Norham in 1509-10, and that he received during that year .th f eL.15 o larg repairsr m 3efo su s origina Hi . l account boo r 151kfo 0 was in the auditor's office at Durham when Mr Eaine wrote his history;' a John Aynesley, no doubt the same person, was in the commission of the peace for Northumberland in 1512.2 One solitary despatch to his master, the Bishop of Durham, has been preserved haviny b , gooe gth d fortuninty owa fino the-hands t eit d f o s r RoberSi .formt w Cotton no portioa e svolum t th I f .o ne marked Caligula librare e Britis th th . vi. b f n , i ,o y hs bee Museumha n t i s A . given very full n abstracy i r Brewer,t needfuM no y s b ti reprin o t t l3i t detaile woule Th suce on sar s d. ha it expec commandane th t a grea f o t t border fortress to communicate to his superior in those disturbed times. Th ee documen datth f eo s llti t h September write1512e Th r. thinks the height of the war is over for this year, but advises that precaution should be taken against Scotland for the next. He goes on to inform the bishop, that his buildings at Norham go well forward. The west gate is completed, with two floors and a roof, " and atorngrece,4 with ninety-two nowelles,"8 and concludes by requesting him to send by the next ship a barre saltpetref o l , makinr "fo firf go e balls mendind an , g houre powder." The lette signes ri d John Anislow. After this meee w , t wit s namhhi e no more until afte fale thf th ro le fortres commandede h s Scottise Th . h Chamberlain rol151r lfo 4 furnishe s wit su informatioe hth s n thawa e th a captive in Scotland for thirteen weeks. " Compotum Eeverendissimi in Christo patris Jacobi Archiepiscopi 1 North Durham, 290. 2 Brewer's Cal. Stat. Pap., vol. i. p. 445. Rot. Pat. 4 Henry VIII., part i. m. 6. 3 . Vol414p . i .. A winding stair. Gryse is an old word for a step, perhaps not yet obsolete. 4 " Greece or tredylor steyre Gradv-s." Prompt. Parv. i., 209. "The lady .... glydes down the grece and go skyng.e toth " Early Eng. Allit. Poems. E. E. Text Soc., 85. " The steers or gryses coming vpp to the altare." [1566.] Peacock's Ch. Furniture, 81. e Newel5Th , Noe Nowelr o l l (Fr. Noyau de Montte d'Escalier),r o properls i e yth column round which the steps of the stairs wind, but as a section of the column is almost f eacalwayo hd stepen s e stepformee th ,th sy b dthemselve s were usually called newels, and the stairs are to this day usually spoken of by workmen as newel stairs. NOTICES FROM OKIGINAL DOCUMENT JOHF SO N ANYSLEY9 16 . Glasguensis camarari e Fiid i f redditum apud Edinburgh, secunde odi mensis Augusti anno Domini millessimo quingentessimo decimo quarto. Expense ...... Et allocatur compotanti pro expensis quondam Johannis Hainsly capitanii de Norhame et Edwardi Gray capitanei de Chillinghame presunariorum'in quadraginta marcis remanendo cum dioto computante in Falkland ad spacium tresdecim septimanarum tempor dicto qu ea castr t fortalieiae a erant expugnat t deiectae terraid aa r quondanpe m dictum regem Jaeobum quartum pie memorie prout constat auditoribus super compotum xxvjle xiij" iiij."' No otter recor Johf do n Anysley's murde knows ri n than what follows. objece murdererTh e th t vien i wd ha muss t ever remai nmysterya e W . may surmise, however, withou violeny an t t improbability s a,n thawa t i t act of revenge committed by Englishmen on Scottish, soil, as a retaliation for som e numeroueth injurf o e r affronyo s on powerfue cadeto t th t f o s l hous Greyf eo . No famil mors ywa e widelo s y hav w spreadd fe ha e d an , grea lond an tg continued influence. Possibly ther havy eema been some quarrel between the murdered man and Edward Grey,2 the captive governor of Chillingham. Hia murderers, if at all related to Sir Edward Grey, were but very distant cousins ; the Sir Eoger Grey of the text is undoubtedl r EogeySi r Gre Hortonf yo , Knight marrieo ,wh dsistera f 3o Thomas Lord Darcy beheades , wa K.G. o 1538n dwh ,i . Thi r EogesSi r had a brother Lionel, who was sometime porter of Berwick. The two families became unitesixteente th f do towardd h en centurye e th sth y b , marriage of Sir Ealph Grey of Chillingham with Isabel, daughter and co- heiresr ThomaSi f s o r EogesSi Gree th rHortonf d hei yo f an o r n so , mentione text.e t th woulI n 4di interestin e db ascertaio gt n whethee rth Chillingham and Horton Greys were kinsmen, or. but namesakes; my firm conviction is, that future research will prove them to have been of 1 Chamberlain Roll 349 H.Mn ,i m, 4 .. Register House, Edinburgh. r EdwarSi 2 d Grey, Knt. f "Warkeo , , Chillingham stils n Hetond a wa l an ,e H . Esquire onl n 1529yi s outlawe, whewa e sui e f th Nicholah o n tt da s Horsleyf o , Ulehester. North Durham, 328; . 3 Her name is given variously, Jane or Isabel. See ped. in Baine's North Durham. 4 0 17 PROCEEDING SOCIETYE TH F SO , MARC , 1871H13 . " one blood; .the heraldic, evidence, such as it is, goes however the other way. Grey.of Chillingham bore Gules a lion rampant within a border engrailed argent. Gre f Hortonyo , x barryargentsi azure,f d o a an n o bend gules bezant.a Clement and Cuthbert Muschiaunee, i.e. Muscamp, do not occur in the . printed pedigree ;' there cannot be much doubt, however, that they were sprung from that Eobert de-Muscamp (de-musco campu), on whom Henry . conferreI barone dth Woolerf yo direce Th baroniae ,t linth f eo l house ende n daughterdi s circa 1249 t member bu ,famil e th f yo s e occuth n i r succeeding reigns, till tha f Henro t y VIII., whe e finw nd 'Edward Muschampe of Barmoor,2 son of George, son of John of the sanie, marry- ing a daughter of Sir Eoger Grey of Horton. The printed pedigree is very imperfect; although Clement and Cuthbert Muscamp do not appear therein, it is highly probable that they were near relations of Sir Eoger Grey's son-in-law. Nothing can be more positive than the statements we have, that the castle of Norham was utterly destroyed, " caste and betten downe," says Lord Surrey, speaking perhaps on .vague rumours. " Expugnata et deiecta ad terram," says the Archbishop of Glasgow, who must have known the truth well enough. Such strong contemporary evidence woul e receive db moste th y db sceptica mattey an n ro l where thers wa e not absolute proof to the contrary. No one, however, who knows the existing remains, either from personal inspection or accurate representa- tionS doubn ca j t tha massive tth e tower, which still mirrorse itselth n i f Tweed, is at least as old as the time of Bishop Pudsey. The original fortres buils Ealpy wa sb t h Flambard, bisho f Durhapo m112n i 1d ;3an it was the opinion of the elder Eaine, that some portions of Flambard's work were embodied in the present keep.4 '- North Durham, 266.

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