[Footnote 46: Son of William de Beaumout, of Whitley, in the parish of Kirkeaton. He married, _circa_ 20 Edward II., Grace, daughter and heiress of sir Edward Crossland, of Crossland, co. Yorkshire, knight, by whom he had Adam, named hereafter Thomas, who died _s. p._, and John, who married Alice, daughter of John Soothill, esq., by whom he had Richard, from whom descended a race who lived in splendour to the reign of Charles I.] [Footnote 47: The market appears to have been granted by charter, 10 Edward II. (_Harl MS. No. 797._), and for some time held a rivalship with Halifax; but for many ages the market has been discontinued.] [Footnote 48: Lockwood appears to have been a quarrelsome person, for in the court rolls at Wakefield, 35 Edward I., John de Lockwood, of Lockwood, was presented and afterwards found guilty of having forcibly ejected one Matthew de Linthwaite from his free tenement, and when the earl's grave and bailiff came to take possession thereof, he made an attempt, with others unknown, to have slain them, so that they barely escaped with their lives.] [Footnote 49: "The remains of a wet ditch surrounding Crossland hall are visible to this day; but neither Quarmby nor Lockwood houses had the same advantage."--WATSON'S _Hist. of Halifax_.] [Footnote 50: It is stated in Hopkinson's MSS. "that when sir John Eland gave bread to Adam Beaumont, he threw it at him with disdain; on which sir John said he would weed out the offspring of his blood, as they weed out the weed from corn;" but this threatening was so far from being verified that sir John's male issue were entirely cut off, whilst that of Beaumont continued in John the third son. The preceding verse mentions only "two boys;" but the pedigree of the family gives a third, who probably was an infant at the time, and therefore too young to be noticed. Adam appears to have only been about five years of age; this may account for the different behaviour of the two boys.] [Footnote 51: Some copies read Cromwelbottom hall; the residence of Lacy.] [Footnote 52: "This verse," says Watson, "cannot be explained, for no authority which I have seen shows the name of sir John's son and heir."] [Footnote 53: The half brother mentioned was a son of sir John's lady, who was daughter of Gilbert Umfravile, and widow of Robert Coniers of Sockburn, in the county of Durham.] [Footnote 54: After the death of sir John Eland, and his son and heir, sir John Savile of Tankersley, purchased, in 1350, the wardship of Isabel Eland, daughter of the said sir John, from the lord of the honour of Pontefract, for 200_l_. See _Comput. Seneschall honoris de Pontfrete_, p. 17. After this purchase he married her, and in her right became possessed of the estates belonging to that family.] [Footnote 55: Hopkinson's MSS. says "that the town and neighbourhood were raised by sound of horn, and ringing the bells backways."] [Footnote 56: "In an ivy tree, with an intent to have been saved."--HOPKINSON'S _MSS_.]