b'BelthorpeThe Manor of BelthorpeKate PrattF rom The Survey of the county of York, taken bySir Hugh Bethell was from a Herefordshire John de Kirkby, commonly called Kirkbys Inquest made in 1284/5, we get a potted reference to 5family (the Welsh-sounding ap Ithells), and was generations of the family who owned the Manor ofSurveyor of the East Riding to Queen Elizabeth, Belthorpe at that time. who granted him the Manor of Ellerton (south Sir Thomas de Belkerthorpe had a son calledof Sutton on Derwent). Sir Hughs father was William (also made a knight in his turn) who, in aboutThomas Bethell of Maunsell, and his mother 1210, gave lands in Gowthorpe to the Church of Stwas Elizabeth, daughter of George Rogers. Sir Peter in York, ie the Minster. In 1260 Sir Williams son,Hugh had a daughter but no son, so took his Sir Thomas de Belkerthorpe, held 4 carucates of landnephew as his heir. Before his death in 1612, in Ulverstorpe for 19/4d rent 1 , and his son William whohe endowed almshouses in Ellerton for 3 poor also held the Manor of Marston, rented 18 bovates ofwomen and 3 poor men. He was bequeathed land in Fangfoss for 2/3d 2 . He was succeeded by histhe Manor of Rise (between Beverley and son John de Belkethorp. Hornsea) by Blanche Parry, Queen Elizabeths Here our information lapses for 300 years, until weservant, equally with Francis Vaughan, the pick it up in the 16th century. We do not know whoQueens Chief Steward in the East Riding, some owned the Manor, or how it got into Royal ownership,time before 1591, when Vaughan released his but a possible explanation is that it was at some timeinterest to Sir Hugh Bethell. He was succeeded given to York Minster, and then confiscated at thein the leasehold by his brother Roger, who died Reformation. in 1626. Roger had a son, Hugh of Rise, who married Ellen, daughter of Thomas Johnson Esq of Bishop Burton.The Pew Dispute (see page 29) was between Sir William Hildyard Kt of Bishop Wilton and Hugh Bethell, Gent. This must have been Rogers son, Hugh of Rise and of Grays Inn.On 12th March 1580 the Manor of Belthorpe and land there was granted by Elizabeth I to Edward Clinton, Lord High Admiral of England, who had been made the 1st Earl of Lincoln in 1572; it is mentioned in his will of 1584 as Burthrop. It then passed through various hands to Sir Hugh Bethell who says in his will of 1610 that he bought it from Sir Henry Jenkins, who was a Sheriff of York and MP for Boroughbridge. Sir Hugh left Belthorpe to Hugh Bethell of Grays Inn (or failing him to his servantwho was yet another Hugh Bethell!).It would appear that Hugh Bethell of Grays Inn sold the Manor, including all edifices, buildings, barns, stables, dovecotes, garths, orchards, gardens, lands, tenements, meadows, pastures, ings, moors, marshes and fishpondto a George Whitmore in 1625, and it was from the Whitmore family that Francis Barlow bought the Manor estate in 1718 [see Edward Clinton, Earl of Lincoln following article by Diana Forrester] 3 . 1Yorkshire Inquisitions, p 75, Extent of Pocklington, 1260, see www.pocklingtonhistory.com2As above.3All information in this paragraph is from documents held at the Borthwick Institute, University of York,ref: R DRU 43-69BULLETIN 17 335'