23. Boynton of Barmston, Yorkshire
Created Baronet May 25, 1618

This is a family of very great antiquity, and the first mentioned in the pedigree is Bartholomew de Boynton, who was seized of the manor of Boynton, from whence the family were denominated: he lived in 1067, and was succeeded in his estate by his son Walter, who lived in the time of William Rufus, 1091. Some time after we meet with

1. Bruis de Boynton, a witness with the Prior of Tinmouth, and others to a donation in frank Algoimne, made by Ranulf de Merley, in 1129, confirming to the monks of Durham, Morvic, with the appurtenances, that by his father William de Merley had before granted them. He was succeeded by

2. Sir Ingram de Boynton, Knt. who had issue,

3. Sir William, his son and heir, living in the reign of Edw. I. father to another

4. Ingram de Boynton, who left issue, by Margaret his wife, daughter of Sir Walter Grindal, Knt.

5. Walter, his son and heir, who was knighted in 1356, being in the service of Edward prince of Wales, in Britanny, had the king's letters of protection, dated the 8th Feb. the same year. He had issue,

6. Sir Thomas Boynton of Aclam, who married Catherine daughter and coheir of Sir Gifford Rossels of Newton under Gundsbrough, in Cleveland, and is the same person who, jointly with Thomas de Ingelby, had a grant from King Edw. III. in the 39th year of his reign, for free warren, in Aclam in Cleveland, Aresome, Rouseby, Neuton, Swaynton, and Boynton in Yorkshire. He was succeeded by his son,

7. Thomas de Boynton,* who was likewise a knight, and Margaret his wife, daughter of ---- Sawcock, left a son,

8. Henry de Boynton, son and heir of Sir Thomas, was suspected to be in the interest of Henry Percy, earl of Northumberland, and his son, who had taken arms against King Henry IV, for in the fourth year of the reign of that prince, when the battle of Shrewsbury was fought, John Wokerington, Gerald Heron, and John Mitford, were commissioned to tender an oath to this same Henry de Boynton and others, to be true to the king, and renounce Henry Earl of Northumberland and his adherents; yet three years after this he was concerned with the same earl, Thomas Mow-

* Contemporary with the said Sir Thomas was Robert de Boynton, governor of Berwick Castle; and in 1 Rich. II. a commissioner, among others, for receiving at Berwick 4000 marks from Robert king of Scots (in part of 56,000 marks) which he had orders to pay to William de Melton, chevalier, mayor of the city of York.

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bray, earl marshall, Richard Scroope, archbishop of York, and others, who had taken arms in 7 Henry IV. and flying to Berwick, was apprehended, on the surrender thereof to the king, and seven others executed, being then a knight. He had issue by Elizabeth his wife (afterwards the wife of John Felton) two daughters; Elizabeth, the wife of Thomas Marton of Marton, in Cleveland; and Jennet, of John Wydisworth: likewise two sons, Thomas de Boynton, who died without issue, and

9. Walter; other pedigrees say, William, temp. Henry VI. who by his wife Jane, daughter of Simon Harding, left issue,

10. Sir Thomas Boynton, Knt. his son and heir; who by marriage with Isabel, daughter to Sir William Normanville of Kilnwick, in Yorkshire, Knt. had issue two sons; Henry, hereafter-mentioned, and Sir Christopher, progenitor to the Boyntons of Sadbury, in the liberty of Richmond of Yorkshire, the eldest line whereof expired in one daughter and sole heir, Isabel, wife of Henry, second son to Sir William Gascoigne of Gawthrop, Knt. and from a second son of this branch descended the Boyntons who settled at Willerby, and afterwards at Rawcliff; which likewise expired in heirs females, one of whom was mother to Boynton Appleyard Esq. who bears the name of Boynton-Boynton, by right of substitution and adoption.

11. Henry Boynton, Esq. son and heir of Sir Thomas, beforementioned, and elder brother of Sir Christoper, increased his fortune very considerably, by marrying Margaret; daughter and co-heir of Sir Martin del See, lord of Barmston in Yorkshire, by Margaret his wife, daughter and co-heir of Christopher Spencer, for thereby he enjoyed a large estate of her inheritance, and principally the manor of Barmston, anciently possessed by John Mounceux; whose daughter and heir, Margaret, married to Bryan at See, brought it to Sir Martin del See, son of the said Bryan; and from the aforesaid marriage with Boynton, it accrued to this family, and has been their principal seat ever since. The said Henry Boynton had a daughter Isabel, the wife of Bryan Tonstall; and four sons, Thomas, Martyn, Cuthbert, and Henry.

12. Thomas Boynton, Esq. the eldest, succeeded at Barmston and Aclam, and married Cicely, daughter to Sir James Strangeways of Smeton, in Yorkshire, Knt had issue two daughters; Anne, the wife of Robert Haldenby of Haldenby; Jane, of Thomas Goldsborough of Goldsborough Esqrs. and a son,

13. Matthew Boynton, Esq. who had a grant for life from King Henry VIII. in the 29th year of his reign of the office of steward of all his lordships, &c. in the counties of Lincoln and York, that were forfeited by the attainder of William Wood, late prior of Bridlington. He married Anne, daughter of Sir John Bulmer, Knt and had issue a son Thomas, and three daughters; Margaret, the wife of William Frobysher; Anne, of William, fourth son of Richard Norton of Norton, in Yorkshire, and Cecily, maid of honour to Queen Elizabeth, and afterwards the wife of Edmund Norton, third son of Richard.

14. Thomas Boynton, Esq. son and heir of Matthew, was sheriff of Yorkshire in 18 Eliz. and afterwards had the honour of knighthood from the queen, at Hampton Court, in Jan. 1577. He had two wives, Frances, daughter of Francis Frobysher of

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Doncaster, by whom he had his son and heir, Francis, and Anne, the wife of Francis Vaughan of Sutton-Darwent, in Yorkshire. By his second lady, Alice, daughter of Nicholas Tempest of Holmeside, in the bishoprick of Durham, Esq. he had no issue; and she, afterwards marrying Sir Christopher Place of Halnaby, in Yorkshire, Knt. had, among other issue Dorothy (at length sole heir of that family) who was the wife of the aforesaid Francis Boynton, Esq. eldest son and heir of Sir Thomas, which

15. Sir Francis was sheriff of Yorkshire in 28 Eliz. and received the honour of knighthood at York the 17th of April, 1603, when King James passed through that city in his way from Scotland. He left issue by the said Dorothy, daughter and co-heir of Christopher Place, Knt. and Alice his wife, relict of Nicholas Tempest of Holmeside, and Anne his wife, daugter of John Marley, Esqrs. a daughter Dorothy the wife of Sir Henry Bellingham of Levinz, Knt. and a son,

I. Sir Mathew Boynton, who was knighted by King James I. at Whitehall, May 9, 1618; and on the 25th of May following was advanced to the dignity of a baronet. He served in parliament for the borough of Heydon in the reign of King Charles I. and was one of those the rebels chiefly entrusted in Yorkshire; for when Sir John Hotham and his son, captain Hotham, were contriving the surrender of Hull to the king, this Sir Matthew Boynton had orders from the parliament, to have an eye on them, and endeavour to preserve the town if he perceived it in danger; pursuant to which he contrived the seizing him; and colonel Boynton, his son, actually took Sir John prisoner. He died in the year 1646, and by Frances his wife, daughter of Sir Henry Griffith of Agnes-Burton, Knt. and Bart. (and heir to her brother, Sir Henry) had seven sons and four daughters; Mary died unmarried; Dorothy was wife of John Anlaby of Etton, in Yorkshire; Elizabeth, of John Heron, son of Richard Heron of Bockenfield, in Northumberland; and Margaret, of John Robinson of Rither, in Yorkshire, Esqrs. Sir Frances, successor to the title and estate; Matthew married Isabel, daughter of Robert Stapleton of Wighill, Esq. and was slain at Wigan, in advance of the army of King Charles II. out of Scotland, towards Worcester. He left issue two daughters, one of them was the wife of the nominal duke of Tirconnel, when colonel Talbot, and the other to the celebrated earl of Roscommon; Marmaduke; 4, John; 5, Gustavus; 6, Cornelius, and 7, Charles, all died unmarried.

II. Sir Francis Boynton, Bart. son and heir of Sir Matthew, aged 47 years, 1665, married Constance, daughter of William viscount Say and Seal, who bore him a daughter Frances, the wife of George Whitchote of Harpswell, in Lincolnshire, Esq. and three sons; 1, William; 2, Nathaniel, who died unmarried; 3, Henry, rector of Barmston, who married first Dorothy, daughter of Alexander Amcotts, of the bishoprick of Durham, Esq. and had issue Sir Francis Boynton of Beverley, of whom hereafter; and Elizabeth, who died young. He married secondly Margaret, daughter of --- Robinson of Newton-Garth, in the east riding of Yorkshire, Esq. who died without issue. William Boynton, Esq. eldest son and heir apparent to Sir Francis, died before his father, about the year 1689; and by Elizabeth his wife, daughter and co-heir of John Bernard of Kingston upon Hull, Esq. left issue Sir Griffith Boynton, Bart. successor to his grandfather, and a daughter Constance, the wife of Richard Kirshaw, D.D. rector of Ripley in Yorkshire.

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III. Sir Griffith Boynton of Burton-Agnes, Bart . . .

IV. Sir Francis Boynton, Bart. . . .

V. Sir Griffith Boynton . . .

VI. Sir Griffith Boynton, . . .

VII. Sir Griffith Boynton, Bart. . . .

ARMS -- Or, a fess between three crescents, gules; though the fes was formerly charged with a lion passant, or.

CREST -- On a wreath, a goat passant, sable, guttee d'argent, beard, horns and hoofs, or.

MOTTO -- Il tempo passa.

SEAT -- At Burton-Agnes in the east riding of Yorkshire.

Betham, William (1801) The Baronetage of England, or the History of the English Baronets, and such Baronets of Scotland, as are of English Families; with Genealogical Tables, and Engravings of their Coats of Arms, vol. I., Ipswich.