Lays and Legends of the English Lake Country: With Copious NotesWhite, John Pagen
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Lays and Legends of the English Lake Country: With Copious Notes
White, John Pagen
Lake District (England) -- Poetry; Legends -- England -- Lake District
Others relate that it was the baron who remained as hostage: and
that on his release from captivity by the Paynim's daughter, and
after his departure to his native country, urged by her love
towards him, she found her way across the sea, and presenting
herself at his castle-gate, with the hatterell of his hair which
she had preserved as a token, was joyfully recognized by the Baron,
who made her his wife and the mistress of his halls.
It is, on various grounds, an anachronism to refer this tradition
to the period when the Lucies were Lords of Egremont. For,
according to Denton, the great seignory of Millom "in the time of
King Henry I. was given by William Meschines, Lord of Egremont,
to ... de Boyvill, father to Godard de Boyvill, named in ancient
evidences Godardus Dapifer." This accords with the tradition, which
is very old, and is given by both Denton and Sandford, and which
makes, as we have seen, the Boyvills to be very near of kin to the
Lords of Egremont. It also particularises the occasion upon which
Millom was transferred to that family; who took their surname from
the place, and were styled de-Millom.
That some members of the family were engaged in the crusades, we
learn from the record that Arthur Boyvill or de Millom, the third
lord, and the son of Godardus Dapifer, granted to the Abbey of St.
Mary in Furness the services of Kirksanton in Millom, which Robert
de Boyvill, his cousin-german, then held of him; and soon after he
mortgaged the same to the Abbot of Furness, until his return from
the Holy Land.
The crest of Huddleston of Hutton John is, Two arms, dexter and
sinister embowed, vested, argent, holding in their hands a scalp
proper, the inside gules. The tradition of the Horn of Egremont
Castle, which could only be sounded by the rightful lord, and
which forms the subject of a fine poem by Mr. Wordsworth, is
said properly to belong to Hutton-John, an ancient manor of the
Huddlestons, who were descended from the Boyvills in the female
line; Joan, the daughter and heiress of the last of the de-Milloms,
in the reign of Henry III., having married Sir John Hudleston, Kt.;
and thus transferred the seignory into that family, with whom it
continued for a period of about 500 years.
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