Notarial instrument drawn up by John Deyce, clerk witnessing that, for the perpetuation...

Notarial instrument drawn up by John Deyce, clerk witnessing that, for the perpetuation of the testimony of George Newton, of Gaitforth, then over eighty years old, at the instance of Sir Thomas Darcy, lord de Darcy, knight, the said George deposed, 3 June, 1506, at Cawod castle, before Thomas, archbishop of York, that the said lord Darcy, then called Sir Thomas Darcy, knight, being about to cross the sea to Bullan in the army with King Henry VII, left his seal of 'lez buk hed' with the said George, then his steward, to be used only by the advice of Henry Rokley, his servant, John Topliff, and Thomas Grice; after Sir Thomas' departure, to wit on 30th October, Sir William Scargyl, knight, then called William Scargyl, the younger, came to him with a charter of feoffment and other writings, touching the manor of Temple Newsom, and induced him to seal it, on the ground that if it was not sealed before All Hallows day, then two days off, the said Sir Thomas would forfeit 1,000l. upon a writing obligatory; he sealed them, without taking advice; but the same night, at Thorp, William Scargyll, the elder, advised the said William Scargyll, the younger, his grandson, to desist from his project, etc. Witnesses: Sir Marmaduke Constable and Sir Edward Savage, knights, Sir William Draycotes and Sir John Symson, clerks, Thomas Hardy, esquire. Signature of the Archbishop. Yorkshire, West Riding.