The Boynton Lineage at Acklam And Roxby

The Boyntons were the major land owners and lords of the manor in Acklam and Roxby for about four centuries. The accounts of the lineage in the Victoria history are the same except at a single point; the Acklam account does not include the Sir Thomas who is buried at Roxby and the Roxby account includes him. It is an odd discrepency given the very visible proof of his existence on the floor of the church at Roxby.

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The Victoria county histories was a project sponsored by Queen Victoria, and the research and writing was generally done in the first quarter of the 20th century. They are very well documented accounts of the land transfers in the counties of England. Both Acklam and Roxby are in the North Riding, and the text, which is summarized in the table, is below.

Acklam

Hugh son of Norman, Earl Hugh's tenant in 1086, was perhaps succeeded by Alvered, or Alfred, lord in about 1120. Roger, son of Alvered's grandson William de Acklam, had two daughters, one of whom, Joan, was sole heir of her father's lands after her sister's death without issue. She was the wife of Ingram de Boynton. William the son and heir of this marriage, who was living in 1256 and lord of Acklam in 1284-5, had been succeeded by his son Ingram before 1303. From Ingram de Boynton Acklam descended to his eldest son Walter, who died not later than 1340, when the manor was settled on his son Thomas with his wife Katherine. From Thomas, lord in 1365, Acklam descended to his son the second Sir Thomas Boynton, who was succeeded in 1402 by his son Henry, executed three years later for joining the rebellion of the Percys. The manor of Acklam was granted with Kirk Leavington (z.v.) to Roger Thornton and was in his possession in 1428, but afterwards reverted to Henry Boynton's heirs. William, his second son, is said to have held it after the death of his brother Thomas, and in 1460 or 1461 Thomas son and heir of William died lord of Acklam. From his son Henry, who was dead in 1495, the manor came in direct line to Henry's grandson Mathew, seised at his death in 1540, when he left a son Thomas, aged three. Thomas was succeeded in January 1581-2 by his son and heir Francis, lord in 1613, and it is said, until 1617. Twenty years later Acklam was sold by his son Sir Matthew Boynton, bart., to William Hustler.

William Page, ed. (1923) The Victoria History of the County of York North Riding, Volume Two, The St. Catherine Press, p. 221-223.

Roxby

Roger de Acklam, probably lord, granted to Hugh son of Patrick 14 acres of land here between the foot of the moor and the waterfall, except the wood of Roucegrive. He died before 1230-1 leaving two daughters and heirs, Agnes who married Henry son of Ralph and died childless, and Joan who married Ingram de Boynton. William, said to be son of Ingram, was lord in 1284-5. He married Alice daughter and heir of Ingram de Monceaux and had a son and heir Ingram, assessed for the subsidy in Roxby in 1301-2, and lord of Roxby and Acklam from that date to 1316 or later. His son, described as Walter de Boynton 'of Acklam,' lord in 1325, was succeeded by a son Thomas who made a settlement of the manor in 1340, received a grant of free warren here in 1365 and was succeeded by a son Thomas. Henry son and heir of Thomas rose with the Percys in 1405 and was executed and attainted, but as his widow Elizabeth had not maintenance for herself and six children or money to pay her husband's debts she was allowed to retain this manor for life. On the death of Elizabeth it was seized by Henry V and was still in the hands of the Crown in 1425 when William, eldest surviving son of Henry Boynton petitioned for its restoration. Roger de Thornton, to whom it had probably been granted with Acklam, held the Boynton lands in 1428, but they were ultimately restored to their old owners. William Boynton had a son and heir Thomas, father of Henry, who married one of the co-heirs of Barmston. Henry left a son and heir, Thomas Boynton 'of Roxby,' who died in 1523. Matthew son and heir of Thomas died seised of the reversion of the manor (on the death of his mother Cecily) in 1540 leaving a son and heir Thomas, Cecily died in 1550-1 and was buried in Roxby chapel. Thomas, with whom the family begin to be described as of Barmston, was knighted in 1578 and died in January 1581-2 leaving a son and heir Francis. Francis, knighted in 1603, was succeeded in 1617 by his son Matthew, knighted in May 1618 and created a baronet six days later. Matthew took the Parliamentary side in the Civil War, assisted in the capture of Sir John Hotham, was governor of Scarborough Castle and colonel of a troop of horse. He died early in 1646-7 leaving a son and heir Francis. His first wife Frances and widow Katharine are both buried at Roxby. Francis made a settlement of the manor in 1649, succeeded to the Griffith estates at Burton Agnes, and died in 1695 ... His son and heir Griffith died in 1778 leaving a son and heir Griffith, who before his death in 1801 sold this manor to John Turton of Edinburgh.

William Page, ed. (1923) The Victoria History of the County of York North Riding, Volume Two, The St. Catherine Press, p. 366-371.