Melton Hall Deeds

MHD/1-350: Records of the estates of the Fountayne and Montagu families at High Melton, Yorkshire (West Riding) and other places.

• <famname>Fountayne family of High Melton, West Riding of Yorkshire</famname>
• <famname>Montagu family of High Melton, West Riding of Yorkshire</famname>

Revocable deposit 1968

Accession numbers: MHD/1-348: 64806-64822,64824-64846

MHD/349-350: 65006-65007

There is a pedigree of the Fountaynes of Melton on the Hill in J. Hunter's 'South Yorkshire' vol. 1, p. 367, which traces the descent of the family from John Fountayne of Saul, Norfolk, died 4 June, 1671. The Court Rolls of the Manor of Old Hurst, Huntingdonshire, 1668-1689, indicate that John Fountayne and Thomas Fountayne were Lords of the Manor there 1668-1679 and 1681-1689 respectively. In the period 1668-1670 John Fountayne is described as 'serjeant-at-law'.

The Montagu and Fountayne families were connected by the third marriage of the Very Rev. John Fountayne D.D., Dean of York, with Ann, only daughter of Charles Montagu of Papplewick, who died 12 September, 1786. An account of the descent of the Fountayne family from John Fountayne, Serjeant-at-Law (grandson of Arthur Fountaine of Salle, Norfolk), who died in 1671, the connection of the Fountaynes and Montagus by marriage, and their descendants, is given in Burke's 'Landed Gentry' (1952) pp. 1809-1810.