[16] John Stephenson was the owner of a "capital messuage" in Coney-street, York, which was occupied by himself and Ralph Rokeby, Esq., one of the secretaries of the Council of the North, and which was at one time distinguished by the sign of the Bear, and afterwards of the Golden Lion. In 1614, Margaret Stephenson and her son, John Stephenson (the nephew to whom Lancelot Turner bequeathed all his books, except his song-books), sold the messuage to Thomas Kaye, who established there an hotel which he called the George Inn, a name it retains to this day. [17] Miles Newton was the name of the town-clerk of York who died in 1550, and was succeeded in that office by Thomas Fale, the first husband of the testatrix. He was very probably the same person who is named in the Newton pedigree of 1585 as the grandfather of the Miles Newton who married Jane Beckwith. [18] _Pope Tract_, p. 32. [19] Mr. John Darley, of York, and of Kilnhurst in the West Riding, was a younger son of William Darley, Esq., of Buttercrambe, near York. His wife was Alice, daughter of Christopher Mountfort, Esq., of Kilnhurst. Mr. John Darley bought the manor of Kilnhurst of his wife's brother, Lancelot Mountfort, Esq. _Vide_ Hunter's _South Yorkshire_, vol. ii. p. 49. Mr. Darley's town residence was in Coney-street, and it is very probable that he was officially connected with the Council of the North. His daughter, Elizabeth, the god-daughter of Mrs. Eymis, married, for her second and third husbands, Sir Edmund Sheffield and Sir William Sheffield, sons of the Earl of Mulgrave, who was made Lord President of the North upon the accession of James I. [20] George Hervey of Merks in the county of Essex, Esq., married Frances, one of the daughters of Sir Leonard Beckwith. [21] William Allen married Jane Beckwith, sister of Sir Leonard Beckwith. He was an alderman of York, and Lord Mayor in 1572. [22] _Eboracum_, p. 358. [23] The will of Robert Gylminge is dated April 20, 1571. "I bequeath my soule to Almightie God and to all the celestial company of Heaven." He makes his wife, Nicholas his son, Mary, Agnes, Meriall, and Jane, his daughters, his executors; and his brother William Gylminge, and William Alleyne, draper, supervisors. Proved June 25, 1580. [24] Mr. Drake states, that in the year 1604, the number of persons who died of the plague in York, was 3512. _Eboracum_, p. 121. The parish of All Saints Pavement lost more than one-third of its population. [25] _Pope Tract_, p. 31. [26] See _Athenæum_, Nov. 21, 1857. [27] In his will dated 8th Dec. 1595, Thomas Buskell of York, Esquire, speaks of his "house wherein I do now dwell, which I purchased of Lancelot Turner of York gentleman." [28] _Pope Tract_, p. 28. [29] Corporation Archives.