Name Suffix:<NSFX> Knight
Name Prefix:<NPFX> Sir
TO THE COMMISSIONERS APPOINTED FOR KEEPING THE GREAT SEAL OF ENG
LAND NOV 1647.
Orator Sir Richard Hawksworth of Hawksworth, County, York. Wherea
s your said Orator about 23 years ago took to wife Mary dau. o
f Sir Henry Goodrick, late of Ribston, co. York, Knight, decease
d, with whom he lived sometime comfortably and had issue one so
nand one daughter, and so might have long lived in a comfortabl
e condition with continuance of his love towards her and her lov
e and due complyance towardshim according to their conjugal obl
igacious before God, but that she being animated by some of he
r friends of great intimacy with the late Archbishop ofYork, an
d other Coom.rs, for causes ecclesistical within the Province, t
heyand especially Willm. Goodrick of Skidby, County, York, esp., h
er uncle, and one Miles Dodson, esq. did animate her to live apa
rt from your Orator against his consent and to live at Ribston
, and other their houses, and then caused asuit to be commence
d against your Orator in her name in the High Commissioners Cour
t for alimony, alleging sundry scandalous untruths against him
, and finding himself much overborne, and to save further vexati
on was forced to agree that his wife should receive a yearly mai
ntenance, and by Indenture 17th April, 4th year of Charles 1st
, made between him of the one part, Sir Peter Middleton, Knt, si
nce deceased, William Goodrick and Miles Dodson of the other,di
d demise and let to the said Sir Peter and the others named, th
e messuage called Mitton Hall, with appurtenances thereto, and c
ertain closes called Dickmire Hill, the two Westfields, Sellay R
idding, Calverd Leas, Mylne Hill, Calfecroft Leggs, and Little M
ouses, being parcel of the Manor of Mitton, foreighty years, i
f said Orator and his wife live so long, meant in trust for th
e said Dame Mary, and that she should dwell there during the sai
d term. And by another Indenture of about the same date did giv
e to the sd., Sir Peter,etc., a yearly annuity of 120 pounds pe
r annum, issuing out of Mitton and Edisforth, in trust to be pai
d quarterly for the said Dame Mary's us, but if she did not inha
bit the said mansion house, then the said 20 pounds rent charg
e should cease, and the said annuity has been duly paid till th
e jurisdiction of the HIgh Commissioner ceased at the beginnin
g of the Wars, when one SirJohn Goodrick, Mnt., and Baronet, he
r brother, being a Colonel for the King,and your Orator havin
g declared himself for and furnished money and arms forthe Parl
iament, the said Sir John in October, 1642, sent one of his Capt
ains with a squadron of horse and apprehended your Orator at Haw
ksworth and brought him prisoner to York, where he remained pris
oner for 20 months, until therendition of the City, during whic
h time his whole estate was Granted to others, and notwithstandi
ng the Parliamentary forces have prevailed the said William Good
rick, Miles Dodson, combining with Francis Goodrick, gent, anoth
erbrother of your Orator's wife, William Dawson, Edward Criplin
g, and Henry Robinson, the said Sir John Goodrick having reside
d of late years beyond seas,Wm Goodrick and Myles Dodson, by co
lour of the said deeds, altho your Orator's wife hath not dwel
t for several years at Mitton Hall, and also her annuityhas bee
n duly paid, the said persons mentioned do contrive estates of y
ourOrator's property among themselves and do vex your Orator'
s tenants with distresses and suits and are encouraged thereby i
n that during your Orator's imprisonment, they the said persons
, or one John Scaife and....Robinson did breakopen your Orator'
s study at Hawksworth and carried away all his deeds and writing
s, and the counterparts of above indentures, and refuses to deli
ver the same to be cancelled, nor doth he know in which of thei
r hands they remain.Prayeth that they may answer before the Co
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