Sir William Babthorpe , eldest son. He lost almost all trhe family property due to having had a massive fine imposed as well as being imprisoned for harbouring RC priests. BRACKENHOLME WITH WOODHALL n 1086 2 bovates in Babthorpe formed a berewick of the bishop of Durham's manor of Howden, and 3 carucates and 2 bovates were soke of Howden. (fn. 32) The overlordship descended with Howden. (fn. 33) The demesne lords of BABTHORPE manor were a family taking their name from the township. The first member is thought to have been Ralph of Babthorpe (fl. c. 1190), who had earlier been known as Ralph of Hunsley. (fn. 34) The Babthorpes enjoyed unbroken ownership until the death of Sir Ralph Babthorpe in 1490; his daughter Isabel had married Sir John Hastings, who was in possession of the manor in 1492. Hastings died in 1504 and the estate passed to Isabel's cousin, another Isabel, wife of William Plumpton. At Isabel and William's marriage in 1496, however, it had been agreed that the manor should be assigned to William Babthorpe of Osgodby. Disputes over its ownership were not finally settled, in the Babthorpes' favour, until 1565. (fn. 35) In 1621 the manor was conveyed by Sir William Babthorpe (d. 1635) to Richard Bowes, (fn. 36) whose family sold it c. 1665 to James Strangeways (d. 1670). (fn. 37) Babthorpe apparently passed like Hagthorpe from Thomas Strangeways (d. 1702) to his son Thomas (later Thomas Robinson), and in 1710 it was sold to Boynton Boynton. (fn. 38) At his death in 1725 Boynton's heirs were his daughters Elizabeth, who married Richard Langley, and Judith, who married John Twisleton (d. 1757). (fn. 39) Babthorpe evidently passed to the Twisletons and from them to John Twisleton's nephew Thomas Cockshutt, who took the surname Twisleton and died in 1764. From Josias Cockshutt Twisleton (d. 1823) Babthorpe passed to his nephew Bache Heathcote, and in 1843 C. T. Heathcote sold it to John Banks. (fn. 40) The Banks family retained it until 1920, when William Banks sold it, then comprising 276 a., to the East Riding county council, together with 17 a. in Hemingbrough and 13 a. in South Duffield. (fn. 41) ----- In 1086 a carucate and 6 bovates in Brackenholme, out of the 2 carucates and 5 bovates recorded in the township, were said to belong to the bishop of Durham's manor of Howden. (fn. 43) The overlordship descended with Howden. (fn. 44) By 1284 11 bovates in the township were held in demesne under the bishop by Ralph of Babthorpe. (fn. 45) This estate, comprising BRACKENHOLME manor, descended in the Babthorpe family until 1620, when it was sold by Sir William Babthorpe to George Wentworth. (fn. 46) At the death of Sir George Wentworth in 1660 the manor passed to his daughter Anne, wife of William Osbaldeston, (fn. 47) and it subsequently descended like Hunmanby manor in the Osbaldeston and Osbaldeston-Mitford families. (fn. 48)
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