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      229376. Roger Bradshaw, MP, born Abt. 1382 in of Derbyshire; died 1452. He was the son of 458752. Roger Bradshaw, MP and 458753. Muriel Le Walais. He married 229377. Margaret De Mesnil 1406.

      229377. Margaret De Mesnil, born Abt. 1386 in of Langley Mesnil, Derbyshire; died Unknown. She was the daughter of 458754. Sir Ralph De Mesnil~ Lord Of Langley Mesnil.

More About Roger Bradshaw, MP:
Heir 1: 1423, To his brother
Heir 2: Considerable property in Derbyshire [which settled on his 2nd son] by right of his wife from her father.
Political: Member of Parliament for Derbyshire
Property: 1424, Paid his relief and had livery of the sheriff of his lands in Lancashire on his eldest sons death.

More About Margaret De Mesnil:
Heiress: Co-heir to her father

More About Roger Bradshaw and Margaret De Mesnil:
Marriage: 1406
     
Children of Roger Bradshaw and Margaret De Mesnil are:
  114688 i.   Ralph I Bradshaw, died 1480.
  ii.   Sir Thomas Bradshaw, died Unknown.
  More About Sir Thomas Bradshaw:
Lineage: ancestor of the Bradshaws of Bradshaw Hill, Derbyshire.
  iii.   Murial Bradshaw, born Bef. 1368; died Unknown; married John Croft; born Bef. 1364 in of Dalton, Lancashire; died Abt. 1419.
  More About Murial Bradshaw:
AKA (Facts Pg): Mabel Bradshaw

  More About John Croft:
Spouse: which was his wife?



      233472. John Lowther866, died Unknown. He was the son of 466944. Hugh VI Lowther and 466945. Matilda De Tilliol. He married 233473. Margaret De Kendall.

      233473. Margaret De Kendall, died Unknown.
     
Child of John Lowther and Margaret De Kendall is:
  116736 i.   Sir Robert Lowther, Kt, born Abt. 1368 in Lowther, Westmoreland; died 1431; married Margaret Strickland Abt. 1391.


      233474. William Strickland Bishop Of Carlisle867, born Abt. 1330 in of Sizergh Castle; died 1419 in Rome. He was the son of 466948. Sir Thomas I Strickland and 466949. Cecily De Welle, Nun At Greenfield.

More About William Strickland Bishop Of Carlisle:
Religion: 24 Aug 1400, consecrated bishop868
     
Child of William Strickland Bishop Of Carlisle is:
  116737 i.   Margaret Strickland, born Abt. 1370 in of Sizergh Castle, Westmoreland; died 1440; married (1) Sir John De Derwentwater Bef. 1390; married (2) Sir Robert Lowther, Kt Abt. 1391.


      233480. William Lancaster, born Abt. 1350 in Barton, Westmoreland; died Unknown. He was the son of 466960. Gilbert Lancaster and 466961. Elizabeth~. He married 233481. Margaret Warcop.

      233481. Margaret Warcop, born Abt. 1356 in Smerdale, Westmoreland; died Unknown. She was the daughter of 466962. Thomas~ Warcop.
     
Child of William Lancaster and Margaret Warcop is:
  116740 i.   Thomas Lancaster, born Abt. 1385 in Barton, Westmoreland; died Unknown; married Christian Salkeld.


      233482. Hugh~ Salkeld, born Bef. 1364; died Unknown. He married 233483. Margaret~ Tympron.

      233483. Margaret~ Tympron, born Bef. 1366; died Unknown.
     
Child of Hugh~ Salkeld and Margaret~ Tympron is:
  116741 i.   Christian Salkeld, born Abt. 1390 in Rosgill, Cumberland; died Unknown; married Thomas Lancaster.


      233484. Sir Walter Strickland, Kt, born Abt. 1325 in Sizergh, Westmorland; died Abt. 1408. He was the son of 466948. Sir Thomas I Strickland and 466949. Cecily De Welle, Nun At Greenfield. He married 233485. Margaret De Lathom.

      233485. Margaret De Lathom, born Abt. 1342 in Sizergh, Westmorland; died Unknown. She was the daughter of 466970. Unknown De Lathom.

More About Sir Walter Strickland, Kt:
Political: Esheater for the king in the inquisition of Thomas de Ross.
     
Child of Walter Strickland and Margaret De Lathom is:
  116742 i.   Sir Thomas Strickland, Kt, born Abt. 1367 in Sizergh, Westmorland; died 30 Jul 1455; married Mabel Betham 1405.
     
Child of Walter Strickland and Isabella De Olney is:


      233486. Sir Thomas Betham, Kt869, born in of Beetham Manor, Westmorland; died 1314. He was the son of 466972. Sir Robert Betham Lord Of Betham. He married 233487. Emma Le Fleming.

      233487. Emma Le Fleming, died 1334. She was the daughter of 466974. John Le Fleming.

Notes for Sir Thomas Betham, Kt:
http://www.stevebulman.f9.co.uk/cumbria/beetham.html

Beetham Parish

Is bounded on the west and south by Lancashire, and the sands of Morecambe Bay, and on all other sides by the parishes of Burton, Heversham, and Kendal. It is a large mountainous and romantic district, on the south western extremity of the county, intersected by the rivers Kent and Belo1, with several minor streams, and is divided into four townships and one chapelry, viz., Beetham, Farleton, Haverbrack, Meathop and Ulpha, and the chapelry of Witherslack.

BEETHAM township has a neat and well built village lying in the romantic vale of the Belo, one mile and a half S. of Milnthorp2, on the road leading from Lancaster to Ulverston. This road was formed about the year 1820, and is here carried over the river near the roaring cataract at Beetham mill. The rock3 crosses the river and is sixteen feet in perpendicular height, down which the liquid element, after heavy rains, tumbles "with a mighty noise," but in dry weather the water is nearly all diverted to the paper and corn mills on the opposite shore. The river, in old records, is called Betha, and has evidently given name to the village, whose beauty it considerably enhances. In 1311, Thomas de Betham obtained a charter from Edward II for a weekly market to be held here, but it has long been obsolete...

The manor of Beetham is of the Richmond fee, but at the conquest was possessed with the rest of the parish, by Tosti, Earl of Northumberland, and at the time of the Domesday Survey, belonged to Roger of Poictou, under whom it was held by Eruvin, the priest, "Nunc habet Rogerus Pictaviensis et Eruvin presbyter sub eo." - Domesday. It was afterwards held by a family of its own name, one of whom is Thomas de Betham, who was several times knight of the shire for Westmorland, and who died in A.D. 1314. It was afterwards carried in marriage to the Middletons, the last of whom on record is Sir George Middleton, who was knighted by Charles I. Lord Clifford sold this manor in 1767, with the demesne called Cappleside, to Daniel Wilson, Esq., of Dallam Tower, for £2560, whose descendant, George Wilson, Esq., is the present owner. He holds a court leet and baron and view of frankpledge here, yearly, within a month of Michaelmas. Arbitrary fines and heriots are paid on the death of lord or tenant, but many of the estates have been enfranchised. Cappleside had anciently a hall, "containing in front, including the two wings, 117 feet," and appertained to the chapel, already noticed.

BEETHAM HALL, or, as Leland5, who visited this place in the reign of Henry VIII, calls it, castle, stands in an area seventy yards long and forty broad, enclosed by a wall three and a half feet thick, with loop holes for the archers at proper distances, being about three feet from the ground, two and half feet in height and breadth, sloping out to three and a half inches. The front of the house was eighty-seven feet in length, but a great part of it has long been in ruins. The hall was thirty-nine feet long and thirty-five wide, and its windows had "much Gothic work about them." At the foot of the southern descent from the "castle is a good spring, which supplies two large ponds with water," and Camden says that another spring near the ruins of the park lodge, is of a petrifying quality. Beetham Hall is now occupied as a farm house...
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Beetham Parish Index
Kendal Ward

Beetham Parish

THE DE BETHAMS, OF BEETHAM
DECEMBER 24, 1927
TO THE EDITOR OF THE WESTMORLAND GAZETTE

Sir, - The family of de Betham can be traced back to the time of Henry II (1154-1189), when Ralph de Betham was a witness to the foundation charter of Cockersand Abbey, which was founded by William de Lancaster I. This Ralph de Betham "for the health of his soul, and the soul of his wife, Ingaretha, gave a salt work with two patellę in Beetham to the Abbey of Furness." - There is still at Arnside, which was in earlier times a part of the parish of Beetham, a house called "Saltcotes Hall" and at Sandside was the old salt warehouse (where the Northern Quarries now are). The coasting vessel from Liverpool used to unload their cargoes at this place, in the days when Milnthorpe was a seaport.

In the grant conferring Kendal Church on the Abbey of St. Mary of York by Gilbert, sixth baron of Kendal, at the end of the 12th century, Adam de Bietham is mentioned as one of the witnesses. Another witness was Gervase de Aincourt, of Sizergh Castle. At this time the Stricklands were still at Strickland in Morland. The mention of the de Bethams in these old deeds is proof of their having been a family of the highest rank and eminence in their day, as only such persons could be witnesses in those early times. Ralph de Betham mentioned above had a son, Thomas, who married Amuria, daughter of Richard Fitz-Roger, lord of Wood Plumpton, in Lancashire. Their eldest son, Ralph de Betham, was one of those persons who were delivered as hostages to King John in 1216 for the future fidelity of Gilbert Fitz-Reinfred, baron of Kendal, under whom the de Bethams held their lands. Ralph's father, Thomas, was living in 1242, being then a witness to a grant of lands by Sir John Fleming of Beckermet. After Ralph, came Thomas de Betham who was knight of the shire for Westmorland in the years 1308-1309-11-12. "In 1311 he obtained a charter for a market and a fair in Beetham" - which of course, has long been obsolete. His wife seems to have been a le Fleming. She survived him for in 1334 we find "Iyan, wife of John le Tours (Towers), lord of Lowick and daughter of Sir John le Fleming, had settled on her the reversion of what Emma de Betham then held in dower." The son of Thomas and Emma married Pamel, daughter of Sir Robert de Burton, knt., and sole heir of her brother who died without issue. Thus was the manor of Burton brought into the de Betham family. The next Sir Ralph de Betham, knt., son and heir of Thomas and Pamel in 1335 had a grant of free warren in Beetham.

In 1347, writs were directed to Ralph de Betham, together with Thomas de Ross of Kendal Castle, to send their prisoners from their castles to the Tower of London. - This shows the former importance of Beetham Hall, then a castle. This Ralph de Betham held his lands of Joan de Coupland by "homage and fealty and the service of 32s. a year." "The Manor of Farleton at the same time was held by Nicholas de Haverington under the Lord de Betham. The same Ralph de Betham was a witness to a grant made by Sir Walter Strickland, of Sizergh, to his son John, of certain lands etc." The de Bethams had, at some time, been connected by marriage to the Stricklands as their arms were to be seen in the stained glass at Sizergh Castle.

The next in succession was Robert, who had a son, John de Betham, who, in 1407, represented Westmorland in Parliament. He married Margaret, sister of Sir William Tunstall, knt., and they had a son, Sir Thomas Betham, to whom, in 1416, "a commission of array was issued and directed by Henry V., to muster all men of arms." This Sir Thomas was living in 1444. He had two sons, Edward and Roger, and a daughter Elizabeth, married to Sir Richard Musgrave, of Hartley Castle, knt. There is (or was) a tomb in Kirkby Stephen Church to the memory of Sir R. Musgrave, and his wife, Elizabeth Betham. The elder son of Sir Thomas Betham married Joan, daughter of William Nevil, Lord Faulconberg, and Earl of Kent, but he had no issue, whereupon his brother Roger inherited the estate. He had an only child, Anne, who in the reign of Richard III (1483-5) was married to Sir Robert Middleton, of Leighton Hall (who was a son of Sir Geoffrey a younger son of John Middleton of Middleton Hall), and thereby the large estate of the of the de Betham family passed into the Middleton family. The male line of the Middletons terminated with Sir George, who was knighted by Charles I and who afterwards suffered heavily for his attachment to loyalty.

About this time the Manor of Beetham came into the Stanley family. The neighbouring Manor of Farleton, which was held by the Harringtons, under the lords de Betham, passed into the hands of the Stanleys after Bosworth Field (1485). The Harringtons and de Bethams both fought on the losing side in that battle and thus forfeited their lands, which were granted, either wholly or in part, to the Stanleys, who gained so much from that war; they having fought on the victorious side, or, (as some historians say), having 5,000 men stationed between the rival armies of York and Lancaster, who had communications open with both. At any rate, they ended up on the winning side.

The old hall at Beetham which was anciently a large and handsome building, was long the home of that illustrious family, the de Bethams. In "Domesday Survey," the place was called "Biedun." The early owners (as was the custom) took the name of the place; thus we have de Betham, whose home on the Betha (now Bela) river, must have seen many strange scenes enacted from the time of the Conquest, when its owners came into the limelight. At that time, we are told, the "Curfew" was enacted, "as a means of preventing the English people from assembling together in order to plan schemes of rebellion against their Norman oppressors." - Longfellow tells us about the primitive use of the "Curfew Bell" in the stanza:-

"Solemnly, mournfully dealing its dole,

The curfew bell is beginning to toll;

Cover the embers, and put out the light,

Toil comes with the morning, and rest with the night."

Then came the crusades, when, perchance, some members of the de Betham family might have gone forth with Richard Cœur de Lion wearing the badge of a crusader- the "Red Cross." About this time a de Betham was witness to the grant of Kendal Church to St Mary's Abbey, and a little earlier, about 1189, happened that awful massacre of the inhabitants of Kendal who had fled to the Church for protection, when Duncan, Earl of Fife, with a Scotch Army had entered the town. When Magna Charta was signed in 1215, the de Bethams were powerful landowners. All throughout the succeeding generations - when Cressy, Poitiers and Agincourt were fought and won, in honour of which the conduits of London ran wine instead of water, - they played their part until Bosworth field (1485), when the fortunes of the family began to wane.

The old Hall at Beetham was described by Mr. Hutton, a former vicar of the parish as follows:- "By an easy ascent from the river, we come to a gateway, being the grand entrance into the castle-yard. Entering there, we find ourselves in a fine large open area, 70 yds. Long by 44 in breadth. On the right appears to have been some buildings as low as the walls of the yard to the length of 98 feet, like barracks for soldiers. On the left, we have a charming view of the castle, standing at the south of the area. The walls of the yard are 31/2 foot thick, with loop-holes for the archers at proper distances. They are 12 foot high below the parapet. The loop-holes are about 3 foot from the ground, 2 foot and a half in height and breadth, sloping outward to 3 in length 87ft., of which the east wing is 22, and the west 26. The remaining space of 39ft. makes the hall, which is in breadth 25ft. The windows in the hall, which are high up in the wall, are small in proportion to the room, with much Gothic work about them. Indeed, in all the old houses in the country, the windows (for defence), have been small, and strongly secured with cross bars of iron. The doors of the rooms are all little, and one above another through each story. Up one pair of stairs there hath been a chapel, with a back staircase to it whereby the tenants and neighbours might come to prayer without disturbing the family. Southward from the castle, there is a fine descent, at the foot of which is a good spring that supplies two large ponds with water. Behind the house was a park, and in one of the walks there are the remains of a lodge, and near it a good spring of water."

We must now turn out thoughts to Beetham Church, the last resting place of the knightly family of de Betham, where there is a monument with two recumbent effigies cut in stone, - one a man clad in armour, the other a woman, covered with a shroud - which represent some members of the Betham family, but which is not quite certain. Some say it is the tomb of Sir Robert Middleton and his wife, Anne Betham, the last heiress of the direct line, but the various coats of arms on the tomb are somewhat of a puzzle to everyone. "Nicholson and Burn" says the arms of the de Bethams, as given by the Heralds College, were- "Or three flower de lys azure;" (placed in the same manner as the arms of the kings of France). The same arms were depicted in a window of the gallery of the old Hall at Leighton (once the home of the Middletons), quartered with Middleton and several other arms." The same arms of de Betham were to be found at Sizergh Castle quartered with Strickland, also at Burton-in-Kendal Church (Hill MSS.) quartered with Burton (Sir Thomas de Betham married Pamel, daughter and heiress of Sir Robert de Burton). But, says "Nicholson and Burn," "the flower de lys arms are not to be seen on the tomb at Beetham." Although there are many arms of families to whom the de Bethams had been allied by marriage, viz.:- Middleton, Burton, Strickland, Fitz-roger, Musgrave, Lawrence, Fleming, Tunstall, etc., the Flower-de-lys is missing. Is this to be accounted for by the fact that one member of the de Betham family, "Sir Richard de Betham com. Lance," had granted to him a separate coat (arg. chief indented azure; bendlet gules.) which arms are similar to the de Burton arms (or a chief indented sable) with a different colour? Was Sir Richard a younger son of Sir Thomas Betham and Pamel Burton the heiress; and did he take the arms of his mother, different only in colour and with the addition of a bendlet gules? West gives this coat as the arms of Betham; but from the evidence which was in the window of Leighton Hall (the three fleur-de-lys azure), which was especially named as for de Betham, and also at Sizergh and Burton, I think this was their original coat of arms.

The tomb in Beetham Church had the figures on it defaced by a fanatical zealot named Richard Sill, who, aided by a band of Cromwellian soldiers, broke into the church and destroyed all the pictorial windows which adorned the venerable edifice. In Mr. Machel's time, there were several defaced coats of arms in Beetham Church windows, amongst which were to be seen several times the name of Levens. This family was of Nether Levens of Under Levens, some of whom were styled of "Levens Hall" (the old hall, now a farm). Their arms were - argent, on a bend sable 3 escalops of the field; the crest; a slip of vine (in allusion to the name). It was the old custom to grant arms which had some allusion to the name, of some characteristic of the persons to whom granted. For instance, three asses heads for Askew; and three towers for the Towers family. Thus can we trace the rise and fall of various families, who from their original homes, which bore their name, have become scattered far and wide, bringing home to us those lines of the Poet Gray-

"The boast of Heraldry, the pomp of power,

And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave,

Await alike the inevitable hour;

The paths of glory lead but to the grave."

Yours, etc.

BELLE PRICKETT

Low Fields, Hincaster, Milnthorpe.
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More About Sir Thomas Betham, Kt:
Knighted: Several times knight of the shire of Westmorland
Political 1: 1302, MP for Westmorland
Political 2: 1308, MP for Westmorland
Political 3: 1310, Granted a weekly market at Betham for services rendered in Scotland
Political 4: 1312, MP for Westmorland
     
Children of Thomas Betham and Emma Le Fleming are:
  i.   Sir Robert Betham, died Unknown; married Maud; died Unknown.
  116743 ii.   Mabel Betham, born Abt. 1380 in of Beetham Manor, Westmorland; died Unknown; married Sir Thomas Strickland, Kt 1405.

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