m.1. Nicholas WORTLEY, Esq. geb. c. 1400

m.1.  Nicholas, Esq. geb. c. 1400,  oorl. c. 1485 x 1431/2 met Isabella TUNSTALL, geb. c. 1414, Thurland Castle, Lancashire, Engeland, testament, 01/03/1492, proved at York on the 21st of the same month, begr. St Michael and All Angels Churchyard, Thornhill,, Metropolitan Borough of Kirklees, West Yorkshire, England, d.v. William Tunstall van Thurland en Anne Parr.

Nicholas was die seun van Nicholas Wortley en Elizabeth Waterton.

(Foster, Joseph:  Pedigrees of the County Families of Yorkshire, Vol. 2, West Riding. London. 1874)

Konflik het gevolg uit die Honderdjarige oorlog en die swak regering van Henry V.  Koning Henry VI, (r.1422-1461) en weer vanaf (r.1470-1471).  Die Wars of the Roses  was 'n reeks dinastiese oorloë vir die troon van Engeland.  Dit was geveg deur die ondersteuners van wedywerende takke van die royal House van Plantagenet, die huise van Lancaster en York. Die gevegte het hoofsaaklik tussen 1455 en 1487 plaasgevind, maar daar was ook gevegte voor en na hierdie tydperk.  Dit het vir Richard, Duke of York aangemoedig om die troon te eis.  York is in 1460 vermoor en sy seun Edward IV (r.1461-1483) het hom opgevolg.  Hy was opgevolg deur sy 12 jarige seun Edward V (nooit gekroon) en daarna deur sy broer Richard III (r.1483-1485).  Die finale oorwinning is deur die Lancastrian, Henry Tudor, behaal, wat die laaste Yorkse koning Richard III, by die Slag van Bosworth Field verslaan het.  Edward IV and Richard III both made a point of hearing cases in the King's Bench, to revive the symbolism of the monarch as righteous judge, but they were the last monarchs to do so.  It was also considered desirable for the courts to sit in the most public and accessible part of the Palace.  http://www.parliament.uk/about/living-heritage/building/palace/westminsterhall/government-and-administration/later-law-courts/  As the King's throne remained permanently in Westminster Hall, it emphasised the source of the courts' authority, especially in the case of the King's Bench.

(http://www.parliament.uk/about/living-heritage/building/palace/westminsterhall/government-and-administration/later-law-courts/)

Nicholas trou 1431/2 met Isabella Tunstall.

Dodworth's Yorkshire Notes - The Wapentake of Agbrigg (1884)

At the date of the Norman Conquest (1066) Tunstall was one of the manors in Bentham held by Chetel. In the following century it was included in the Hornby fee held by the Montbegon family who granted a moiety of the lordship of Tunstall to a family, using the local name, who fixed their residence in Tunstall Hall but subsequently changed it to Cantsfield. The other moiety appears to have been in the hands of a family of de Hornby. Later this moiety was acquired by the Tunstalls of Thurland who thus became lords of the whole manor.  William de Tunstall III who succeeded was a minor in 1315, when his wardship was claimed by John, son of Robert de Harrington, and he came of age in 1328 when the Abbot of Croxton claimed a debt of 20 marks from him, in which suit he was described as William son of John son of John. He left a son and heir: William de Tunstall IV who was in possession of the estates in 1359, when a John de Tunstall made a claim against him. He acquired the manors of Over Burrow, Nether Burrow and part of that of Leck in 1370 and obtained a charter of free-warren in his demesne lands in Tunstall, Cantsfield, Burrow, Leck and Newton in 1376. He was knight of the shire in 1384, died in 1387 and his wife Katherine is named in the licence given to his son for founding a chantry in Thurland Castle. His wife Isabel was the wife of Sir Nicholas Harrington. In 1402 he had licence to crenellate his house of Thurland (Thurland Castle) and to enclose 1,000 acres. In 1413 he obtained the wardship of the heir of John de Parr of Kendal, a Thomas de Parr, to whom he married his daughter Alice.  He died in 1415. His family consisted of William, Thomas, Katherine, who married Sir John Pennington, and Alice Tunstall who married Sir Thomas de Parr of Kendal. William Tunstall V had a wife (said to have been a daughter of Parr, in Harleian MS. 1549). He had an only child, Isabel, who in 1432 contracted to marry Sir Nicholas Wortley, of Wortley, Yorkshire. Sir Thomas Tunstall, knight succeeded as heir to his brother William. Before the year 1400 he, or his father had obtained the mesne lordship of the fourth part of the manor of Kirkby Lonsdale. It remained in the Tunstall family until Francis Tunstall, about 1605, sold his Lancashire and Westmorland estates before leaving Thurland.  (Col. W.H. Chippindall's history of the parish of Tunstall: (quotation excerpts, pages 1-25)  Tunstall, (Durham; and Thurland, Yorks, 4^th Edw. III) sa three combs ar. Two nd one, crest, a cock ar. Combed, wattled and legged or;  in the mouth a scroll, with the motto, Droit.  (Robson, Thomas: The British herald; or, Cabinet of armorial bearings of the nobility & gentry of Great Britain & Ireland. Vol II. 1850)

 

(Foster, Joseph, Hon. M.A. Oxon:  Some feudal coats of arms, London, 1902)

 

Visitations of the North

(Norcliffe, Charles Best, M.A. of Langton ed.:  The Visitation of Yorkshire in the years 1563 and 1564 made by William Flower, Esquire.  London 1881.)

Margaret, bef 1438 sister of Sir Thomas Wortley married in 1460 to John More of More hall in Bradfield, s.v. Thomas More of More hall and Margaret (21 Hen VII) (Hallamshire: The History and Topography of the Parish of Sheffield : with ... By Joseph Hunter.)  This marriage is cited by antiquarian Joseph Hunter as taken from a Visitation of the More family in Burghope, Herefordshire in 1634 but is not corroborated by pedigrees of the Wortley family. Children:  Thomas MORE ( - ); George MORE ( - );  Margaret MORE (bef1492-1557).

Daar was ten minste vier en twintig ridders in die West Riding in 1400, maar in 1430 was daar slegs twaalf.  'n Paar ridderlike families het in die manlike lyn uitgesterf gedurende die periode.

West Riding Distrainees, 1410-1465.

Distrainees = Eligible knights.  Distrainees were identified not as holders of knights’s fees but as holders of lands worth a certain amount, in case estates worth twenty pounds per annum.  (For Honour and Fame: Chivalry in England, 1066-1500  By Nigel Saul)

John Wortley        Wortley           1410

Nicholas Wortley  Wortley           1439, 1457,  1458,  1465

Richard Wortley    Wortley           1465

(Punshon, Mark Christopher:  Government and political society in the West Riding of Yorkshire 1399 – 1461.  Submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philoosophy. The university of York. Department of history. Aug 2002.)

(The Yorkshire Archaeological Journal . http://www.mocavo.com/The-Yorkshire-Archaeological-Journal-Volume-8/953026/38#37)

1433/34: Bond: William Randalph of Horncastell bound to Nicholas Wortley Sen and Nicholas Wortley Jun in 6 marks. (Savile of Rufford: Deeds and Estate Papers – The National archives)

1440/41: Bond: Nicholas Wortley Sen Esq and Nicholas Wortley Jun bound to Ralph Lord Cromwell in £200. (Savile of Rufford: Deeds and Estate Papers – The National archives)

1444. Sept. 21: 23 Henry VI grant by William Brodelegh son of John Brodelegh, to Nicholas Worteley, Esq., James Wodehous, and John Risschworth of Hymyseworth, of all the same premises; (Clay, Charles Travis: Yorkshire Deeds:, Volume 5. P 137)

 
Die eerlike Yeomans van Edward III se tyd is gedemoraliseer deur die langdurige en sombere Honderdjarige Oorlog van 1337-1453 en het in professionele huursoldate verander. Aan die einde van hierdie oorlog, is duisende booswigte in Engeland losgelaat. Terselfdertyd het die mag van feodalisme gekonsentreer geraak in die hande van 'n paar groot lords, wat ryk genoeg en sterk genoeg was om koning-makers te word. (Lancastrianhttp://www.luminarium.org/encyclopedia/warsoftheroses.htm) In Augustus 1453 het koning Henry VI 'n katastrofiese geestelike ineenstorting gehad. Richard 3rd duke of York het die county as Lord Protector regeer gedurende Henry VI se waansin.

 
Toe konflik ​​tussen die dukes gedurende die Wars of the Roses (1455-1487) ontstaan het, het baie van die gevegte in Yorkshire, waar hulle landgoedere ineengeskakel en verbind was, plaasgevind. Die leading families in die Oos- en Wes-Ridings het die Huis van Lancaster oorweldigend ondersteun, maar in die North Riding was die lojaliteit verdeel. Die Nevilles van Sheriff Hutton en Middleham, die Scropes van Bolton, die Latimers van Danby en Snape en die Mowbrays van Thirsk en Burton in Lonsdale het die House of York ondersteun.   Die Nevelles se grootste mededingers, die Percies, saam met die Cliffords van Skipton, Ros van Helmsley, Greystock van Hinderskelfe, Stafford van Holderness en Talbot van Sheffield het vir die Lancastrians geveg. John of Gaunt, 1ste Hertog van Lancaster het invloed oor baie mense in die noorde van Engeland gehad en Yorkshiremen het onder sy bevel in die Honderdjarige Oorlog geveg. Die ontbinde huursoldate van die Honderdjarige Oorlog het aan enige kant aangesluit, en het voortgegaan met die slegte gewoontes van die Franse oorloë deur die platteland te plunder, met moord en geweld, waar hulle ook al gegaan het. (Lancastrian http://www.luminarium.org/encyclopedia/warsoftheroses.htm)

Map of the Wars of the Roses.  (http://www.luminarium.org/encyclopedia/rosesmap2.jpg)

“In that pleasant district of merry England which is watered by the river Don, there extended in ancient times a large forest, covering the greater part of the beautiful hills and valleys which lie between Sheffield and the pleasant town of Doncaster. The remains of this extensive wood are still to be seen at the noble seats of Wentworth, of Warncliffe Park, and around Rotherham. Here were fought many of the most desperate battles during the Civil Wars of the Roses(1455 – 1487); and here also flourished in ancient times those bands of gallant outlaws, whose deeds have been rendered so popular in English song.” (Walter Scott, Ivanhoe. (andyhemingwat.wordpress.com)

1454, The manor of Newhall: Indenture: Lease:  Nicholas Wortlay [Wortley] Esq of Newhall in Sitlington and Isabella his wife with consent of John Banester tenant, to John Catlyn, mason, tenement and lands in manor of Newhall and Miggelay at 4 marks p.a. for 40 years. [TNA DD/SR/209/88 1454] (http://midgleywebpages.com/new hall.html)

1456. June 20.  34 Henry VI.   Grant by Richard Pek son of John Pek of Southourom to Nicholas Worteley, esq., Thomas Wylkynson, vicar of Halyfax, John Sayvill of Copley, John Ryshworth of Coldeley, and John Stansfeld, of all the messuages, lands and tenements, meadows, woods, pastures, rents and services, which he lately had of the grant and feoffment of the said Nicholas together with James Wodhous and John Ryshworth of Hymmysworth. (Clay, Charles Travis ed.:  Yorkshire Deeds:, Volume 5. P. 138)

Die verband is vermoedelik afbetaal en Worteley, Wodehous, en Risschworth vir wie Brodelegh voorheen enfeoffed het, het die perseel aan Pek, toegestaan soos uiteengesit in die volgende akte. (Clay, Charles Travis ed.:  Yorkshire Deeds:, Volume 5. P. 138)

1458-9.  Jan, 4.  Grant by Nicholas Worteley esq., Thomas Wylkynson, vicar of Halifax, John Sayvyll of Coplay, John Rysshworth of Coldley, and John Stansfeld, to Thomas Neylson, citizen and merchant of York of all the messuages, lands and tenements, meadows, woods, pastures, rents and services, which they lately had jointly of the grant and feoffment of Richard Pek younger son of John Pek, in the vill and territory of Southourom, and which formerly belonged to William Brodeleih of Shepedeyn.  (Clay, Charles Travis ed.:  Yorkshire Deeds:, Volume 5. P.139)

Darfield Deed 1462:  Settlement by William Norton of Bylburgh (Bilbrough) to Nicholas Wortlay, Robert Nevill, John Wodrove, Thomas Everingam, esqs., and John Nevill of Leversege (Liversedge) of his manor of Newhall with all his lands etc in Derfeld (Darfield), Wombuelhill (Wombwell), Edyrthorp (Edderthorpe), Mylnhous (Millhouses) and Midylwood (Middlewood) formerly the property of John Bosewell father of William Bosewell, with a piece of land called Elyntreflatt at Ederslay (Ardsley), for the lives of Henry Langton and Isabella his wife, and after their deaths, the manor etc. to go to Edward fitz William, Robert Roclyff, John Dawnay and John Bosewell, clerk, in fee simple. Witnesses; John Sotell, esq., Adamer Burdhed, Thomas Ann, Richard Syms, William Taillor, etc. Dated 20 August 1462.  (ref. SY 293/Z/4/1)

26 September 1469:  Grant by Alexander Drax, son and heir of Robert Drax to Thomas Wortley, son and heir of Nicholas Wortley,  esquire, Joh Woderove, Henry Sothill, Thomas Everyngam, Nicholas Mounteney, Robert Barneby, esquires, Sir William de Barneby, vicar of a mediety of the church of Darfeld, and John Lake, their heirs and assigns, of the manor of Wodehalle with all the appurtenances exept the advowson of a mediety of a church of Darfeld. He also granted to the same parties all other his lands, tenements, rents and services with all the appurtenances, which he has in the vills of Wodehall, Darffeld, Wombwell, Worsburgth and Ardyslay, together with the reversion of his manor of Collone, with their appurtenances, and of all other his lands and tenements in Crome, Wodehall and Darffeld… Dated at Wodehall, 9 Edw. IV. (Abstracts of the Chartularies of the Priory of Monkbretton  edited by John William Walker)

Dit wil voorkom asof die militêre veldtogte van die laat 1450s en vroeë 1460's bygedra het tot die herlewing van ridderskap.  'n Paar esquires uit die Riding het ridderskap ontvang na die slag van Wakefield op 30 Desember 1460, waartydens Richard of York dood is en sy seun Edward IV (r.1461-1470) hom opgevolg het. Teen 1461 was daar ongeveer twintig ridders in die Riding.  

Wortley Village   Yorks W.R. 132    Sir J. Wortley of W. > Sir Thos (eldest son  GLOS. By ‘82

                           YKS W.R. 132    Wortley of Wortley      Sir John (Father

                           YKS W.R. 132    Wortley of Wortley      Sir Thos. (eldest son)  GLOS (prob by 1482

(Jones, Michael Ryan, Dr.:  Wars of the Roses.  A Gazetteer- Part. 2)

1470.  Henry VI is restored to the throne of England by Richard Nevill, earl of Warwick, the “kingmaker”  Edward IV regeer weer van 11 April 1471 tot sy dood in 1483.

1475.  Alhoewel die Honderdjarige oorlog amptelik oor was in 1453 was Engeland en Frankryk steeds formally at war vir die volgende 20 jaar.  Payments of one quarter's wages to sir John Ferrers, Walter Hungerforde, sir John Maulyverer, and 102 others, engaged to serve the K. in the war with France.  O. xi. 844. H. v. p. iii. 56.  Nicholao Wortley pro uno Homine ad Arma & pro ij Sagittariis, xjl. vijs. vjd.  (Rymer, Thomas, ed.:  'Rymer's Foedera with Syllabus: January-February 1475', in Rymer's Foedera Volume 11, (London, 1739-1745), pp. 842-852)

John Cutler, who resided at Wortley in Yorkshire, with his kinsman, Sir Nicholas Wortley, was standard bearer (vaandeldraers) in the wars of the Roses (1455-1487).   (Burke, John:  A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Commoners of Great ..., Volume 4) John Cutler, thought to originate from the Midlands, was a standard bearer for Sir Nicholas Wortley during the Wars of the Roses in the late 1400’s. Following the Wars he returned to the district with Sir Nicholas and became a tenant farmer at Rockley Old Hall, Worsbrough. (http://www.silkstonereflects.co.uk/PDF/Cutler%20Booklet-2%20Paul.pdf)

1485/86:   Appointment of attorney: Nicholas Wortley, son of Nicholas Wortley Esq, and Isabella  his wife appoint John Skyres to receive seizin of 1 messuage in Bough and 1 messuage in Shefeld.  (Nottinghamshire Archives)

Daar bestaan nie baie inligting oor die kerk van Wortley gedurende die jare 1318 en 1600 nie.  In the will of Nicholas de Wortley in 1485 there is a bequest of 20 shillings for „ fábricae Ecc/es: de Wortley “- to the building of the Church of Wortley — which can be assumed to mean a grant to the “Repair Fund” of the church.  (St. Leonard’s Wortley church, Wortley)

Isabel Tunstall het haar man oorleef en op 1 Maart 1491-2 maak sy haar testament op Newhall which was proved at York on the 21st of the same month en vra om in die kerk van St. Michael op Thornhill begrawe te word.  Sy laat aan haar seun Nicholas (die jonger broer van Sir Thomas 10/.  Aan Ralph Barnby, haar kneg, 10 mark.  Aan Joan Eland en Thomas Store, haar knegte en Peter Eameher chaplain, elk 20s.  Die res gaan aan Thomas Wortley, haar seun en eksekuteur.  (Full text of "Testamenta eboracensia; or, Wills registered at York, illustrative of the history, manners, language, statistics, &c., of the province of York, from the year 1300 downwards")

Kinders:

n.1.  Effame, geb. 1432 in Wortley, Yorks, Engeland;  x 1453 met Thomas COPLEY; geb. c. 1428 in Doncaster, Yorkshire, Engeland, oorl. c. 1453, Doncaster, Yorkshire, England, s.v. Sir Richard de Copley of Batley en Elizabeth Harington.

n.2.  Thomas, geb. 1433, iWortley, Yorkshire, England, oorl. 08/08/1514, begr. Hemsworth, x 31/03/1463 met Catherine FITZWILLIAM, geb. c. 1447, oorl. 1474, d.v. Sir William Fitzwilliam van Sprotborough and Emley en Elizabeth Chaworth,  xx  04/06/1479 met Joan BALDERSTON, d.v.  William Balderston of Balderston, Lancashire en Margaret Stanley, xxx  23/05/1491 met Elizabeth FITZWILLIAM,  d.v. Sir Richard Fitzwilliam of Aldwark en Elizabeth Clarell.

n.3.  John, geb. 1435, Wortley, Yorkshire, Engeland.

n.4.  Robert, geb.  1437, Wortley, Yorkshire, Engeland.

n.5.  Nicholas, Esq. geb. c. 1439,  Wortley, Yorkshire, Engeland, oorl. 25/12/1492,  begr. Parish church South Kirkby x 10/01/1485/6 (by dispensation) met Isabel OSBALDESTON, geb. 1464; d.v. John Osbaldeston (1427-1475) en Elizabeth Balderstone 1431 -)  Kind:  Nicholas.

n.6.  Jane, geb. c. 1441, Wortley, Yorkshire, England, oorl  voor 1480, trou c. 1468, Wortley, met  Sir Richard WOODRUFF, geb.  c. 1436, Woolley, Yorkshire, Engeland, oorl. 1522, Sheriff of York,  s.v. John Woodruffe en Elizabeth Hammerton;

n.7.  Muriel,  geb. 1443, Wortley, Yorkshire, Engeland x Peter FRECHEVILLE, of Staveley.

n.8.  Elizabeth,  geb. 1445, Wortley, Yorkshire, Engeland x John BOSVILE of Ardsley & Newhall Yorkshire,  s.v. Thomas Bosvile & Isabel Hastinges of Fenwyke.

n.9.  Joan,  geb. 1447, Wortley, Yorkshire x 1456 met Alexander DRAX, 1427-1501, s.v. Robert Drakes en Elnor Rockley of Rockley.

n.10.  Isabel, geb. 1449,  Wortley, Yorkshire, Engeland x Robert MOUNTENEY of Cowley.

n.11. Cecily, geb. 1451, Wortley, Yorkshire, Engeland x Mr. EYRE of Padley.

l.1. Sir Nicholas WORTLEY, geb. c. 1378

l.1.  Sir Nicholas, geb. c. 1378  in Wortley, Yorkshire, England, oorl 1448, His estate was probated on 22 January 1448 , begr. St. Helen Churchyard, Hemsworth, , Metropolitan Borough of Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England x 1400 met Elizabeth WATERTON, geb. c. 1382, Yorkshire, Engeland, d.v. Sir Robert Waterton en Agnes Fairfax (dau. of Sir Guy Fairfax) xx Miss MOORE.

Nicholas was die seun van John Wortley en Elizabeth de la Haye.

(Foster, Joseph:  Pedigrees of the County Families of Yorkshire, Vol. 2, West Riding. London. 1874)

Sir Nicholas leef in die regeringstyd van Konings Henry IV (r.1399-1413), Henry V en Henry VI.  Koning Henry VI die seun van koning Henry V, regeer (1422-1461) en weer vanaf (1470-71).  Anders as sy pa wou Henry VI nie oorlog maak nie.  Hy wou nie voortgaan met die Honderdjarige Oorlog teen Frankryk nie.  Toe Joan of Arc  Franse patriotisme laat herleef het, het die Engelse stelselmatig hulle Franse besitting begin verloor.  Teen 1453 was Calais, die enigste van sy pa se oorwinnings, wat oor was.  Die regering was ongewild, veral na die verlies van Engelse verowerings in Frankryk.

Nicholas Wortley het in ongeveer 1400 met Elizabeth Waterton, die dogter van Sir Robert Waterton en Agnes Fairfax getrou.

The Watertons derive their name from Waterton, in Lincolnshire.  They came into England at the time of the conquest;  and, have, since that period retained their name and estate directly in the male line.  They were the founders of the churches of Royston, Felchurch and Methley and of two others in the vicinity;  and were lords of Cawthorne Park.  Sir Robert Waterton seneschall of Pontefract, was master of the horse in the several reigns of Henry IV, Henry V and Vl.  (Fox, George:  The History of Pontefract, in Yorkshire.  Wakefield. 1827)  Robert Waterton was Esquire of the Body to Henry Bolingbroke, Duke of Hereford (Henry IV), with whom he went on Crusade to the Holy Land.  He was High Steward of the Duchy of Lancaster, Master of the King's Horse & Armour & Master of the King's Running Hounds. Jailer to James I King of Scots & Scots Nobles & many French Nobles from Agincourt all of whom were confined in the Castle of Pontefract.  (Fox, George:  The History of Pontefract, in Yorkshire.  Wakefield. 1827. P. 68)  He was Constable of the castles of Pontefract (1399-1425), Tickhill & Castle Donnington.  During his tenure as Constable at Pontefract Castle, Richard II was imprisoned, subsequently dying in mysterious circumstances February 1400.  In the 9th year of Henry VI [1441]  Robert Waterton, miles.of Methley Hall was a sheriff for Yorkshire.  He acted as the guardian for Richard Duke of York, the disputed father of Edward IV. Richard was raised at Pontefract Castle and Methley Hall. (Heraldry of some Yorkshire Families.  http://www.midgleywebpages.com/westyorksarms.html)   In the reign of Henry VI they possessed twenty-four manors in England.  The Watertons were dispossessed of Methley by king Henry VIII on their refusing to take the oath of supremacy.  The monumental effigy of Sir Robert Waterton are in the church at Methley.  The five daughters of this Sir Robert, worked in  tapestry the model for the north window in the cathedral church of York.  (Fox, George: The History of Pontefract, in Yorkshire. Wakefield. 1827)  Arms: Gules, three bars ermine, over all three crescents sable.  The Waterton's on the distaff had a shield of six equal horizontal divisions, starting at the top with ermine then gules repeated. Three crescents sable are placed over this field in a manner which one would expect to find with three crescents displayed on a single colour shield [Barry of six ermine gules three crescents sable].  (Heraldry of some Yorkshire Families.  http://www.midgleywebpages.com/westyorksarms.html)

(Foster, Joseph, Hon. M.A. Oxon:  Some feudal coats of arms, London, 1902)

  

(Foster, Joseph:  Pedigrees of the County Families of Yorkshire, Vol. 2, West Riding. London. 1874)

Sir Nicholas de Wortley het vir ‘n tweede keer met Miss. Moore getrou.

More of More-hall.  More-hall stands in a charming valley near the Don, and enjoys a luxuriant view of the woods and rocks of Wharncliffe.  It is understood that it stands within the manor of Bolsterstone;  but the late Godfrey Bosville of Gunthwaite esquire, in some memoirs which he left of his own family, states that it is within his manor of Oxspring and pays to him a rose yearly.  There are no remains of the ancient house of the Mores, who may be regarded as a family indigenous to Hallamshire, an unknown but careful and skilful hand having collected their genealogy in the time of Charles I. and shown them resident on this spot in times when in their rank of society the use of hereditary surnames was unknown.  I shall present it to the reader as it is found in C. 25, f. 45, in the College of Arms, entered by George More of Burghope in Herefordshire, at the visitation of that county in 1634.  The crest was formerly to be seen carved in stone above five feet long at the north-east corner of Bradfield church.  (Hunter, Joseph:  The History and Topography of the Parish of Sheffield : with Historical and Descriptive Notices of the Parishes of Ecclesfield, Hansworth, Treeton and Whiston, and of the Chapelry of Bradfield. London. 1819)

(Foster, Joseph, Hon. M.A. Oxon:  Some feudal coats of arms, London, 1902)

(Hunter, Joseph:  The History and Topography of the Parish of Sheffield : with Historical and Descriptive Notices of the Parishes of Ecclesfield, Hansworth, Treeton and Whiston, and of the Chapelry of Bradfield. London. 1819)

Directory of West Riding Gentry, 1399-1461

Key  * knight  @ distrainee  & esquire  $ gentleman

                                        1^st ref or birth         last ref or death                Residence

@ John Wortley I            1406                        1429                                 Wortley

John Wortley II               1414                        1414                                 Wortley

@ Nicholas Wortley I     1414                         c. 1449                            Wortley

@ Nicholas Wortley II   1440 *                                                               Wortley

@ Richard Wortley        1414                         1435                                 Wortley

(Punshon, Mark Christopher:  Government and political society in the West Riding of Yorkshire 1399 – 1461. submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philoosophy the university of York, department of history. Aug 2002.)  Distrainees = Eligible knights

By deed dated at Denby 20 June 1410, William de Maltby and John Walker of Mirfield, chaplain, grant to Richard Burdet, lord of Denby, and Joan his wife, and the heirs of the body of the said Richard, the manors of Denby and High Hoyland ; if Richard die without issue, which God forefend, to: remain to Nicholas, son of John de Wortley, and the heirs of his body, with remainder to Richard and John, brothers of Nicholas. (https://huddersfield.exposed/api/content/books/ocr/17984/)

12 Aug 1414.  Robert del Stones was ‘n getuie toe Nicholas de Wortley (q.v.) en sy broers al sy pa se grond in die gemeente van Birstall, West Riding Yorkshire aan Richard de Popelay (q.v.) toegestaan (granted) het.  (Yorkshire Deeds. Vol.VII.  P.79)   Birstall Parish in die Dewsbury distrik, West Riding, Yorkshire, is in 'n heuwelagtige gebied, 7 myl suidwes van Leeds en 6.4 myl Suid-wes van Wortley geleë.  Die ou gemeente van Birstall het bestaan uit die agt townships van Cleckheaton, Drighlington, Gomersal, Heckmondwike, Hunsworth, Liversedge, Tong en Wike.  Die dorp Birstall het sy naam aan die gemeente gegee, maar is in die township of Gomersall.  Ander villages of hamlets in die Birstall gemeente sluit in: Great en Little Gomersal, Stubley, Littletown, Robertown, Long Liversedge, Hoaton, Okenshay, Moore Lawe, Doghouse, Scholes, en Berkonshay.  http://www.maggieblanck.com/Land/Birstall.html 

1414:  Wortley, William, draper, Collector of a tax in York.  Draper:  one who made woollen cloth. 

(Calendar of the fine rolls vol. XIV.  Henry V A.D. 1413-1422.  London.  1934)

1422.  Richard de Wortelay, esquires, of the county of York, John de Wortelay junior, esquire, and Henry Langus of Wirkesburg in the same county of York, of all those messuages, lands and tenements, woods, meadows and pastures, with all the appurtenances, which lately descended to the said Elizabeth, William’s wife, by hereditary right after the death of William de Wigfalle, her father, in Wigfalle in Wirkesvurg and within the bounds of the same.  Dated at Wygfall in Wirkesburg, 1 September 1422.  (Abstracts of the Chartularies of the Priory of Monkbretton  edited by John William Walker)  Worsbrough is 'n gebied sowat twee kilometer suid van Barnsley, Suid-Yorkshire, Engeland.

In 1429 is daar ‘n Grant  van John Darell of Mesyn (Member of Parliament ) vir Kent aan Nicholas Worteley Esq and Elizabeth his wife vir 7½ acres arable and 6 swaiths meadow in Mesyn. (The National Archives Notinghamshire Archives 1146-1982)  Misne or Missin. The land belonging to this place is sandy, and lies in the counties of Nottingham and Lincoln. It contains, with the levels, 6000 acres.  (British history online.  http://www.british-history.ac.uk/thoroton-notts/vol3/pp331-333)

1440. Grant from Thomas Segrave to Geoffrey Segrave his son and Johanna his wife of the manor of Staley Wodethorp, with reversion on failure of issue to the heirs of the said Thomas and Margaret his wife. Witn. Nicholas, lord of Worteley, John de Keresforthe of Barnesley, Robert Hanson of Netherthorp, etc. Dat. Woodthorpe, 5 Oct., 19 Hen. VI. (Isaac Herbert Jeayes for Sir Henry Howe Bemrose, Descriptive catalogue of Derbyshire charters in public and private libraries and muniment rooms (London: Bemrose & Sons, 1906), 285, Item 2254)

Die titel van Earl of Shrewsbury is in 1442 aan John Talbot, 7de Baron Talbot, ‘n Engelse generaal in die Hundred Years' War toegeken.  Sir Thomas Harrington of Brierley, John Hastings of Fenwick,  Nicholas Wortley I (d.1448) of Wortley, Thurstan Banaster of Wakefield, Henry Stafford and Thomas Clarell II (d. 1450) of Aldwark served as feoffees for Sir John Talbot  during the 1440s.  (Punshon, Mark Christopher:  Government and political society in the West Riding of Yorkshire, 1399-1461. Submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.  The University of York.  Department of history.  Aug 2002)  Talbot of Shrewsbury – Nicholas Wortley c 1442-53 Feoffee  (Punshon, Mark Christopher:  Government and political society in the West Riding of Yorkshire 1399 – 1461. submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy the university of York. department of history. Aug 2002.)

Sir John Talbot.  His Sheffield councillors and feeholders, with the exception of Everingham, were men of obscure origin and but slight local standing.  Thomas Wortley was a younger son of Nicholas Wortley, who died in 1449.  The Reiceiver of Sheffield was similarly employed in legal word.  In October 1442, for instance, he went to Rotheram to support Talbot’s servant Thomas Wortley in a case against one Harry Boston.  (http://research-information.bristol.ac.uk/files/34502954/488666_vol2.pdf)

Nicholas Wortley sterf in 1448.

1448:  In Dei nomine. — In vig. S. Thomae Apostoli, A.D. M.CCC.XLVIIJ., Ego Nicholaus Wortley, dominus de Wortley — sepeliend. in ecclesia par. de Hymesworth. Lego fabrica ejusdem ecclesiae XX s. et in pane et cervisia pauperibus in die sepulturae meae viij. marcas. — Rectori de Tankersley unum equum nomine mor tuarii, vel xl s. Fabricae  ecclesiae  xx s. Fabricae eccles. de Wortley XX s. Nicholao,  filio et heredi meo, omnia instrumenta hereditaria, prout pater meus mihi dimisit, ac eciam fabricas meas cum omnibus instrumentis. — Matildas, filiae meae, vj. boves et vj. vaccas. — Dominae Katerinae Wortley, filiae meae, sex marcas, unam peciam argenti et unum cocliar argenti. Johanni filiae Nicholai  Wortley, filii mei xls. Johanni Wortley xl s.  Willhmo Wortley, fratri suo, xl s. Residuum Roberto et Thomae filiis meis  (Full text of "Testamenta eboracensia; or, Wills registered at York, illustrative of the history, manners, language, statistics, &c., of the province of York, from the year 1300 downwards")

(file:///C:/Users/wortleyh/Downloads/ThePublicationsoftheSurteesSociety_10256934.pdf)

Kinders:

m.1.  Nicholas, Esq. geb. c. 1400, oorl.  c.1485, x 1431/2 met Isabella TUNSTALL, geb. c.1414 in Thurland Castle, Lancashire, Engeland, oorl.  21/03/1492, begr. church of St Michael, Thornhill, d.v. William Tunstall van Thurland en Anne Parr.

m.2.  Robert, geb. c. 1402

m.3.  Thomas, geb. c. 1404, Wortley, Yorkshire, England

m.4.  Matilda, geb. c. 1406  

m.5.  Catherine, geb. c. 1407

m.6.  Maude, geb. c. 1409,  oorl. 1482  x  Peter FRESCHEVILLE, co. Derby, Esq;  Piers Fracheville, one of the Esquires of the body to King Henry VII, who died in 1503;  and Maud (Wortley) his wife.

m.7.  Rosamond, geb. c. 1411 x Thomas WICKERSLEY, of Wickersley,  Esq

m.8.  Jane, geb. c. 1413  x  Robert MALTBY

m.9.  Ursula, geb. c. 1415 x  Richard BEAUMONT of Whitley Hall, Esq, s.v. Richard Beaumont  en Cecilia Mirfield

m.10.  Mary, geb. c. 1417 x John LACY, Esq

2e huwelik:

11.  NN x John LEVENTHORPE, esq

m.12.  NN x HOPTON

k.1. John WORTLEY, Esq. geb. c. 1358

k.1.   John de, Esq. geb. c. 1358, (born on April 25 and came of age on April 25, 1373) Wortley, Yorkshire, Engeland, testament, 03/09/1436, estate probated 03/09/1437 begr. St Helen Churchyard, Hemsworth, Metropolitan Borough of Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England x 1377, Wortley, Yorkshire, Engeland met Elizabeth DE LA HAYE, geb.  c. 1360, Lincolnshire, Engeland, oorl. 1381, d.v. Sir. Peter de la Haye xx Jane SAVILLE, geb. 1853, Tankersley, Wortley, West Riding, Yorkshire, Engeland, oorl. Ashton-under-lyne, Lancastershire, Engeland. d.v. Sir John Saville High Sherriff of Yorkshire en Isabel Eland.

John was die seun van Nicholas Wortley en Katherina Lizours.

(Foster, Joseph:  Pedigrees of the County Families of Yorkshire, Vol. 2, West Riding. London. 1874)

Koning Richard II (r.1377-1399), die seun van Edward, the Black Prince, het sy oupa koning Edward III op die ouderdom van 10 jaar opgevolg en die regering van die land was aanvanklik in die hande van ‘n council of regency.  Sy oom, John of Gaunt het as regent vir hom gedien.  As jong man moes Koning Richard II die Peasants’ Revolt van 1381 hanteer. (History learning site)  Richard II is by Pontefract Castle vermoor.  Henry IV (r.1399-1413) was die seun van John of Gaunt.  Hy het die kroon geëis en daarin geslaag om sy magte te versterk, ten spyte van die herhaalde opstande van magtige adelikes.  Hy was egter nie in staat om die finansiële en administratiewe swakhede te oorkom, wat uiteindelik tot die val van die Lancastrian dynasty gelei het nie.  Hy is deur sy seun Henry V (r.1413-1422) opgevolg.  Henry V was knighted aged 12 by Richard II on his Irish expedition 1399, and experienced war early.  Campaigns in Wales against Owen Glendywr taught him the realities of siege warfare.  (Royal family history)  Na sy pa se dood het Koning Henry V (r.1413-1422) beheer oor die land geneem en oorlog met Frankryk aangevoer in die volgehoue Hundred Years' War (1337-1453) tussen die twee nasies. Henry V was ‘n genadelose en wrede soldaat, gerespekteer deur sy tydgenote as ‘n chivalric warrior.  (Royal family history)   Hy het gesukkel om die ondersteuning van Parliament en die clergy te hou en moes ook onrus van die baronne hanteer. In order to win support he had to conciliate the Church by a law for the burning of heretics, and to make many concessions to Parliament.  (Royal family history)

In 1377 trou John de Wortley met Elizabeth de la Haye.

Sir Peter de la Hay  Knt. de Spaldyngton (the head of a Yorkshire family of some eminence and distinction) had two wives named Elizabeth: one died before him, and he was survived by Elizabeth (Woodruff) (Cresacre) de la Hay.  Peter's daughter Elizabeth, married John Wortley of Wortley, and was the mother of Sir Nicholas Wortley of Wortley, co. Yorks.  Elizabeth (die eerste vrou van John Wortley), dogter van Sir Peter de la Hay, Knt. was klaarblyklik ‘n begunstigde in die will of Walter Skirlaw, Bishop of Durham, van 7 Maart 1403/4: ' Item Elizabethae del Hay unam ollam argenti et unum ciphum deauratum. '([Test. Ebor. I:313 (4)

(Foster, Joseph, Hon. M.A. Oxon:  Some feudal coats of arms, London, 1902)

Ralph de la Haye
       of Spaldington (fl. 1182)
                                ____I__________________________
          I                             I
      Richard                        Philip
    fl. ca. 1185-1200
          I
       ___I_______________________________
       I                                 I
     Philip  =  Agnes le             Sir Peter
     (dvp ?)     Constable            d. aft 12 May 1254
                                         I
                                         I
                                       John
                                      d. before 1285
                                         I
            __________________________I___________
            I                             I         I
          Peter         = Cecilia       John      James
   b. bef 7 May 1271/2  I            fl. 1310      clerk
   d. bef 31 Oct 1347  I                             fl. 1317
I
  ___________________I____________________
  I       I          I        I      I      I
John     Elizabeth   Joan   Katherine  I   Thomas =  Agnes
d. 1393  prioress           _________I  d. aft  I    le
  I      of Thickhed        I           21 Dec  I Botiller
  I                     Margaret         1379   I
Isabel                                                 I
                                 _____________I
                                 I
                1) Joan     =  Peter   =  2) Elizabeth
                3) Elizabeth   d. bef   I
                   Woodruff   11 AprI
                                     1431  I
            ___________________________I_________
            I                I       I          I
         Thomas           Peter   Robert     Elizabeth
    dvp aft 1 Jul 1426                     = John Wortley
     = Agnes le Botiller                    of Wortley
        

(https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/soc.genealogy.medieval/Mmo31vuzf5U )     

John de Wortley hertrou met Jane Savile, d.v. Sir John Saville  en Isabel Eland. 

The sixth generation has "Sir John Savile, knt., of Tankersley," and his son, grandson, great-grandson, and great-great-grandson, all Johns, are all described as "of Tankersley." The Tankersley property did not come to the Savilles until the marriage of the last-mentioned John with Isabel, the heiress of Thomas de Elland. Sir John was high sheriff of Yorkshire 3rd and 11th of Rich. II and knight of the shire for the said county, (Tankersley)  7th and 8th of the said king:  he married Isabel, daughter and heiress of Sir John de Eland, knt. by whom Sir John Eland, knt  and Henry, who married Elizabeth daughter and heiress of Simon Thornhill, of Thornhill, esq;  who bore gules, two bars gemells, and a chief, argent.  Also a daughter Jane, married to John Wortley, esq.  (Watson, John:  The History and Antiquities of The Parith of Halifax in Yorkshire. London 1775)  As early as 1246 (30 Henry III) and 1275 (3 Edward I) there was living at Elland Hall, near Halifax, a Sir John Eland, and descended from him was a Sir John, who was concerned in a quarrel which arose between Thomas the Earl of Lancaster and the Earl of Warren regarding Alice de Laci, heiress of Pontefract, Lancaster’s wife and daughter of the Earl of Lincoln. That Earl of Lancaster, grandson of Henry III., was beheaded in 1332, and his wife died in 1348, which dates give the time about which that deadly feud occurred, one of the results of which was the passing of Tankersley from the Elands to the Saviles.   For several generations the ancient family of the Elands had their seat at Elland Hall, on the north side of the River Calder, in the township of Elland-cum-Greetland, and lived there in great splendour until there occurred the feud by which the male descendants lost their lives.  In 1341 Sir John Eland was Sheriff of Yorkshire, and is mentioned as being in that year  “lord of Eland, Tankersley, Fulbridge, Hinchfield and Ratchdale”.  After his death and the death of his son Hugh, both in connection with that feud, a member of the ancient Yorkshire family of the Saviles became possessed of the estates which had been owned by the Elands.  Sir John Savile, Knight, purchased, in 1350 from the lord of Pontefract, for two hundred pounds, the wardship of the heiress Isabel Eland, daughter of the said Sir John Eland, and was married to her at some date prevous to the year 1399.  There is evidence that this Sir John Savile was son of John and Margery Savile, of Golcar.  (https://archive.org/stream/cu31924028079618/cu31924028079618_djvu.txt)  Sir John married Isabel, daughter and heir of Thomas de Elland, through whom Elland and Tankersley came to the Savilles. Only two children are recorded, John and Henry, but Thomas, the Serjeant at Arms (see below), was probably another son.  (http://www.medievalgenealogy.org.uk/sources/saville/baildon4.shtml)

(Norcliffe, Charles Best, M.A. of Langton, ed.:  The Visitation of Yorkshire in the years 1563 and 1564 made by William Flower, Esquire, London. 1881. P. 274)

(Foster Joseph:  Pedigrees of the county families of Yorkshire.  Vol II.  West Riding.  London 1824)

(http://wvancestry.com/ReferenceMaterial/Files/Pedigrees_of_the_County_Families_of_Yorkshire_-_West_Riding_England.pdf)

Visitation of the county of Lincoln in 1562-4, edited by Walter C. Metcalfe, F.S.A. London George Bell & sons. 1881.

Sir Simon Thornhill, of Thornhill, died 43 Ed. 3, at which date he held of the lord in Stansfeld, Skircoat, Ovenden, and Wadsworth certain tenement and lands in soccage. = Mary, or Elizabeth, daughter and co-heiress of Edward Babthorpe, of Babthorpe. succeeded his father in 1371 or before: grant dated 1371: ' Grant: John de Crousfeld of West Bretton to Simon of Thornhill manor of Hundesworth, Thornhill, Reswike and Langfeldhall. Hunsworth. grant dated 1369: ' Grant: John of Stansfield, John of Wortley, Richard Brande clerk and Richard of Catcham clerk to Elizabeth wife of Simon son of Brian of Thornhill knight, manor of Hunsworth.' (http://www.disnorge.no/slektsforum/viewtopic.php?t=7828)

Die Wortley familiewapen dateer uit die tyd van Richard II (1377-1399).  Dit is aangeteken in Sir Bernard Burkes General Armory.  Ulster King of Arms in 1884.

Die Peasants' Revolt was die resultaat van baie jare se onrus as gevolg van die Swart Dood.  Die oorloë met Skotland en Frankryk het baie geld gekos.  Dit het gelei tot die regering se heffing van drie poll taxes in vier jaar. The Poll Tax was first levied in 1377. It was paid by all the population, except beggars and children under 14, at a rate of fourpence a head. It was levied again in 1379 and 1381. (http://www.archives.wyjs.org.uk/archives-local-history.asp#tax )

Met die poll tax van 1379 is daar in elke dorp lyste opgestel van alle persone bo die ouderdom van 16.  Die bedrag van belasting het afgehang van die sosiale posisie van die persoon.  An esquire paid 20 shillings. Wealthy merchants and rich landowners below the rank of esquire paid 10 shillings, 6 shillings and 8 pence, 3 shillings and 4 pence 12 pence, or 6 pence according to their financial position. Everyone else over the age of 16 paid a minimum sum of 4 pence, which equaled a "groat". A husband and wife counted as one person. The clergy did not pay any tax. People with filius, filia, son or daughter after their names were children over the age of 16 who were still living with their families. All other single persons over 16 represented bachelors, spinsters, widows and widowers. A four pence or the "groat" was equaled to what the average man could earn in three days.  (http://www.maggieblanck.com/Land/York.html)

Die algehele grootte en struktuur van die gentry samelewing in die West Riding van die laat veertiende eeu kan verkry word uit 'n ondersoek van die opbrengste van die graduated poll tax van 1379.  Dit dui aan dat een en veertig ridders, of weduwees van ridders, en twintig ryker esquires wat geëvalueer is teen die ridderlike koers van 20s., grond in die riding gehou het. Daarbenewens het nege en dertig armer esquires en franklins tussen 3s. 4d. en 6s. 8d., betaal, terwyl 'n verdere vyftig individue van verskillende beroepe, insluitende geregsdienaars, handelaars en ambagsmanne, die gemiddelde 5s. 3d. belas is.

Subsidy Rolls (Poll Tax) for the year 1379 (Genuki.  UK & Ireland Genealogy)

Agbrigg wapentake, Kirkburton parish:  Shelley:  Robertus Wortleyman.  iiij.d.

Agbrigg wapentake, Kirkheaton parish:  Shepley:  Willelmus de Wortelay. iiij.d.

Staincross wapentake, Hemsworth parish:  Hemsworth:  Elizabetha que fuit uxor Nicholai de Wortelay Chiauler  xx.s.;  Henricus de Wytlay Margareta uxor iiij.d.;  Ricardus Wortlayman Isabella uxor iiij.d.. 

Staincross wapentake, High Hoyland parish:  Lower Cumberworth:  Johannes de Wortelay Magota uxor Mawer vj.d.

Staincross wapentake, Penistone parish:  Thurlstone:  Johanna Worthelay iiij.d.

Strafforth wapentake, Aston parish:  Aston:  Johannes de Wortelay, Marchaunt de bestes ij.s;   Elena de Wortelay iiij.d ;   Johanna de Wortelay iiij.d;  Thomas de Wortelay & Johanna uxor ejus, Armiger iiij.d.

Strafforth wapentake, Doncaster parish:  Doncaster: Johannes de Wortelay & Beatrix uxor iiij.d..

Strafforth wapentake, Todwick parish:  Todwick:  Edmundus de Wortelay & Matilda uxor ejus, Marchant de beste xij.d..

Tickhill wapentake, Barnburgh parish:  Barnburgh:  Cecilia de Wortelay iiij.d. .

Die derde poll tax 1381 het vereis dat 'n vaste koers van 12d per volwassene gehef word.  Dit was vir die kleinboere 'n groot bedrag geld. As hulle nie in kontant kon betaal nie, moes hulle met bv. met saad, gereedskap, ens, betaal.  Teen 1381 het die kleinboere genoeg gehad.  As a result of the revolt the people demanded:  The liberty to buy and sell in all fairs and markets, without being subject to taxes.  The abolition of villenage (the tenure of a serf to his lord).  In lieu of this compulsory service the tenant paid the annual cash rental of fourpence per acre.   (http://www.maggieblanck.com/Land/York.html)

Konflik was die grootste in die suide en die Midlands, waar grondeienaars groter beheer oor hul kleinboere uitgeoefen het en waar die markproduksie meer gevorderd was.  In 1380 was daar Markte by:- Barnsley, Bawtry, Bedale, Beverley, Boroughbridge, Bradford, Bridlington, Brough, Campsall, Conisbrough, Cottingham, Doncaster, Elland, Emley, Filey, Gisburn, Great Driffield, Guisborough, Harthill, Hedon, Hessle, Hornsea, Ilkley, Kingston On Hull, Knaresborough, Pickering, Pontefract, Rotherham, Scarborough, Selby, Sheffield, Stamford Bridge, Thirsk, Tickhill, Wadsley, Wakefield, Wath Upon Dearne, Wetherby, Whitby, Withernsea, Wortley, en York.  Discontent took the form of widespread refusal of labour services on the part of tenants, arrears of rent and flight from manors. Increasingly, claims were made for complete emancipation from serfdom. (Conisbrough Court Rolls http://www.hrionline.ac.uk/conisbrough/find/specimen_1380-81.html)  Konflikte in 1381 was met betrekking tot onbetaalde lone vir ploeg, sny (mowing), oes dienste (harvest service) en werk by die meul.  Wealthier tenants could hire poorer or landless inhabitants of the manor to work on their own holdings or to perform labour services they themselves owed. At the end of the 1380/81 it appears that wages paid by the lord of the manor for work outside the customary service works were: 2d/day for light work; 3d/day for heavy work; 4d/day for skilled work (carpentry).  Conisbrough Court Rolls http://www.hrionline.ac.uk/conisbrough/find/specimen_1380-81.html

Court Roll 1380-81: Wednesday 23rd January 1380/81.  Bailiff.

Magot wife of William Hoetson v John de Wrtlay. Debt and trespass. Agreed and John fined 2d for each case.

Aymer de Wrteley v John de Wrteley. 5 pleas of debt. Agreed and John fined 2d for each case.

(Conisbrough Court Rolls http://www.hrionline.ac.uk/conisbrough/browse/roll_1380-81_3.html) 

Daar is bewyse dat die 17de eeuse Wortley Top Forge, wat op die Don Rivier,  naby die dorp Wortley geleë is, alreeds in die veertiende eeu ysterwerke gehad het.  1379 - Wortley Records list  'Smyths' and a 'Master'. This is take to indicate that there was a bloomery in the area.  (Wortley Top Forge.  History of Iron Making at Wortley)

South Yorkshire Iron Works.  This building is by the River Don at Wortley Forge Museum.  (http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:South_Yorkshire_Iron_Works_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1022480.jpg)

1388-1389 Manumission: John de Wortley, Lord of Wortley, to Richard son of Robert de Wortley his son. (Nottinghamshire Archives)

1395:  Worteley John de, Collector of a tax in York.

 (Calendar of the fine rolls. Vol. XI.  Richard II A.D. 1391-1399.  London. 1929. P 141)

About 1400.-Isabel Sayville widow of Sir John Saville, filed a bill of complaint in Chancery, alleging that she was seised in her demesne as of fee of the manor of Tankeresley at the time of the last passage of the King to his Duchy of Normandy, and since then until one Richard Wortley ousted her, with the strong hand and against the King's peace, and he still holds it, to her great damage and  "final disheriteson," for which she has noremedy by assize. She prays for a writ of subpoena, directing Richard to come to be examined on the matter before the Chancellor in the Chancery, and also for restoration and damages. Pur die ii et en oeuvre de charitee. Her pledges for the prosecution were Robert Eland and Simon Louthe, both of Lincolnshire, gentlemen. (http://soc.genealogy.medieval.narkive.com/ZBo9fy6Y/early-saville-family-linked-to-butler-of-skelbrook)

(http://www.mocavo.com/The-Yorkshire-Archaeological-Journal-Volume-12/626197/318)

Rector of Hemsworth:  1410 - James Wortley

1412.  Lease: John, Lord of Wortelay to Robert Catelyn of HolandesWayne 1 assait in HolandesWayne called Stutt Rode for life at 28 p.a.

Na Henry IV (r.1399-1413) se dood het Koning Henry V aangehou oorlog voer in die volgehoue Hundred Years' War (1337-1453) tussen Engeland en Frankryk.   Hy het net soos Edward III beweer dat hy die regmatige koning van Frankryk was.  The French are under the rule of the partly mad ruler King Charles VI.  (https://web.cn.edu/kwheeler/Hundred_Years.html)

Die gebruik van knight service as 'n manier om weermagte bymekaar te kry, het tydens die vroeë 14de eeu uitgesterf. When the monarch needed soldiers he used a contractual system with 'indentures' between the King and his tenants in chief and then between them and their tenants and so on right down to the troops at the bottom of the hierarchy.  (http://www.towneley.org.uk/downloads/TTv4_web.pdf)

In 3 Henry V. 1415, John de Wortley with others were commissioned to muster the men-at-arms of the West Trithing and employ them for the defence of the sea coast and elsewhere, and also to place beacons in the usual places that notice might be given of the approach of the enemies in case they should attempt to make a descent while the king is beyond sea in his wars against France. (https://huddersfield.exposed/api/content/books/ocr/17984/)

John de Wortley, by letters dated 29 May 1415, commissioned to muster and array men at arms in the West Trithing (now corruptly called Riding) of the Co. of York ; and to employ them for the defence of the sea coasts, and elsewhere ; and also to place Bekyns in the usual places that notice may be given of the approach of the enemies, in case they should attempt to make a descent whilst the King was beyond the sea in his expedition against France." (Gatty, Alfred, rev.,  D.D. vicar of Ecclesfield, and sub, dean of York:  Wortley & the Wortleys - a lecture delivered before the Sheffield literary and philosophical society also the Rotherham literary and scientific society, 1877, Sheffield)  Commission of array to Robert Rokley, Richard Redmane, Henry Hoghton and Halnath Mauleverer, knights, Robert Waterton, William Grascoigne, Thomas Redmane, Edmund Fitz William, Thomas Clarell, John de Wortley, Robert Tempest, Ralph Pudsay and  Robert Mauleverer and the sheriff, in the West Ridingin the county of York.  (Membrane 37d. 1415.  May 29. Westminster. http://sdrc.lib.uiowa.edu/patentrolls/h5v1/body/Henry5vol1page0407.pdf)

In die somer van 1415 het Henry V in Frankryk met ongeveer 10,000 manskappe geland.  Sy eerste doelwit was Harfleur, 'n hawedorp in die noordweste van Frankryk.  Die siege het vir ongeveer 'n maand aangehou en alhoewel Henry die dorp suksesvol ingeneem het, was sy leër erg uitgeput - hoofsaaklik van siekte.  Sy volgende plek van inname was Calais, maar die Franse leër het hom onderskep by Agincourt op 25 Oktober 1415.  Henry V het opgeruk na Calais met sy weermag van ongeveer 6000 ridders, boogskutters en soldate.  Tydens sy opmars was die Franse leër van 20,000 in staat om hulself tussen Henry V en Calais te plaas.  Henry used a narrow front channeled by woodland to give his heavily outnumbered force a chance. The French deployed in three lines. The first line of French knights attacked only to be repulsed by the English longbowmen. The second line attacked and was beaten back, their charge bogged down by the mud on the field. The third line moved to engage but lost heart when they crossed the field covered with French dead; they soon retreated. Henry was left with control of the battlefield and a decisive victory. He soon resumed his march to Calais.  (https://web.cn.edu/kwheeler/Hundred_Years.html)  Henry V het vir King Charles VI gedwing om hom sy erfgenaam te maak en trou toe met Charles se dogter Catherine. (https://web.cn.edu/kwheeler/Hundred_Years.html)  Hy sterf in 1422 en laat ‘n baba as erfgenaam van die Engelse troon na.

Koning Henry V by die Battle of Agincourt, 1415, deur John Gilbert.  (http://www.historytoday.com/richard-cavendish/end-hundred-years-war)

(Walker, John William (Ed):  Abstracts of the Chartularies of the Priory of Monkbretton)

1429/30. 24 February:  Gift by John Wortley, lord of Wortley, to John Pawson of Wortley and Isabel his wife of 1½ acres of land in a field called le Hegh Felde between a certain way called le Grenelane and his land to the north, in exchange for 1½ acres in the field of Northorp abutting on a barcarius of Ralph de Wortley.  (Smith Hill Child Family of North Staffordshire.  Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent Archive Service, Staffordshire Record Office)

John Wortley, Esq. by his will dated on the 6th of December, 1436, and proved at York on the 3rd of September following, desires to be buried in the church of Hymmesworth. He makes John Wombwell his executor. The whole document is of a singularly uninteresting nature, and he mentions none of his relations eo nomine. (Full text of "Testamenta eboracensia; or, Wills registered at York, illustrative of the history, manners, language, statistics, &c., of the province of York, from the year 1300 downwards")  Dec. 6, 1436. John Wortley, arm. Sep. in eccl. de Hymmesworth. Johanni Wombwell x marcas et residuum. He executor. [Pr. Sept. 3, 1437.] (Beg. Test. Hi. 601 b.) 

Kinders:

l.1.  Sir Nicholas, geb. c. 1378  in Wortley, Yorkshire, England, oorl. 22/01/1448, begr. Hemsworth, x 1400 met Elizabeth WATERTON, geb. c. 1382, Yorkshire, Engeland, d.v. Sir Robert Waterton en Agnes Fairfax (dau. of Sir Guy Fairfax)  xx Miss MOORE.

l.2.  Mary, geb. c. 1380, Wortley x Richard OXSPRING;

Tweede huwelik:

l.3.  Christian,  x Sir Roger WALLIS;

l.4.   Judith, x John GUMBLETHWAITE;

l.5.  Anne, x Thomas ALDWARK, Esq, s.v. Reginald de Aldwark en Catherine Fleming.