ady light downe from
hir horse hirself and said that, 'and she liffed, she would be avenged';
and thereupon Ric: Brampton came to hir and said, 'Madame be not afferd,
for here shall noo man trouble you nee yours.'"

The accusations of attempts on the part of Sir Ralph Evers and the
Cholmleys to stir up trouble between their servants and those of Sir Roger
Hastings are very numerous and involved, but despite the elaborate details
given by the owner of Roxby the case went against him at the court of the
Duchy of Lancaster at Westminster Palace. Sir Roger seems to have been too
high handed in his dealings with his neighbours, even for the unsettled
times in which he lived. Some of the items against him throw a vivid light
on his proceedings. "Itm the said Ser Roger Hastynges with hys household
servants, daily goyng and rydyng trough the Countrey more like men of warr
then men of peas, in ill example to other, thrught the Kinges markettz and
townez of hys liberte of Pykeryng lith, with bowes bent and arrowes in
ther handes, feryng [frightening] the Kinges people and inhabitauntes of
the same, whereupon the Countrey diverse tymes hath compleyned thame to
Roger Cholmeley, there being hys brother's depute and baylly etc."

"Itm the wyeff of the said Sir Roger Hastynges with here awn company of
houshold servants as forcaid (?) come into Blandisby Park, and there found
a Fat Stott [a young ox] of Rauff Bukton, and with dooges toke the said
Stott and slowe hym and ete hym and no mends will make etc.

"Itm that the said Sir Roger Hastynges the xiii day of October last past
[circa 1496] with Force and armz of the nyghtertall [night time] sent his
houshold servantes to the Castell of Pykeryng, and abowt mydnyght with
lothus [qu: ladders] clame ore the walles, and then and there brake the
kinges prison, and toke owt with them oon John Harwod, the which was set
there for diverse Riottes by hym made agayns the kinges peas, wherefore he
was indited; and aftirward the same nyght when he for thought that he had
done, prively sent hym in agayn; howbeit the kings prison and hys Castell
was broken."

[Illustration: A Section of one of the Oldest Type of Cottage to be found
near Pickering.

Some of these ancient buildings are still inhabited; several of the
survivors are in ruins. The details given in this drawing are taken from a
cottage at Thornton-le-dale; one end has already been demolished (Oct.
1905). The low walls appear to have be