Judith was die dogter van John Wortley en Jane Saville.
(Foster, Joseph: Pedigrees of the County Families of Yorkshire, Vol. 2, West Riding. London. 1874)
All
these deeds belong to an early period in the reign of Edward I. or even to the
reign of Henry III. It would seem as if they showed the Byrtons acquiring their
rights here. Roger, son of Henry de Gunthwaite, charged his lands there with
the payment of 12d. annually to the church of Peniston, one half to the light
below the cross, the other half to the service of St. Mary. That was done
before dates were in use in charters. He, it may be presumed, is the Roger de
Gunthwaite who in 7 Edward I. took a quitclaim from John, son of John Aye del
Rodes de Gunnildthwayt, who calls him his lord, of lands held of Roger in
Gunthwaite. The date is die Martii prox. post pasche floridum. In 1281, John,
the son of John de Rodes de Gunnildthwayt, quit-claimed to Henry de Byrton, his
lord, all advantage of his waste belonging to Gunthwaite, so that neither he
nor his heirs should make any claim to it; and that neither he nor his heirs
should alienate without consent of Henry first obtained, and that if they do so
they shall pay to him a mark for each acre so alienated, with power to distrain
for the same. In this deed were witnesses Matthew de Oxspring and Robert his
son or brother, “f.’’ John de Peniston, William de Denby, and Robert his son,
Thomas de Veteri Campo, Simon de Birchworth, John son of Alan de Denby, and
Richard de Calthorn, clerk. In 1310 Roger de Gunthwaite granted to William le
Couper and Agnes his wife lands at Gunthwaite for thirteen years at a rent of
4s. 8d. and to grind his corn at the mill there pro vicesimo grano. There are
several other charters of Roger de Gunthwaite, who was certainly the head of
the family, extending to 1321, after which he does not appear. His wife was
Isabel, and he had a son John, as appears by one of his charters respecting
lands at Barnsley in 1316. In 1348, John, son of Roger de Gunthwaite, appears
with Christiana his wife, when they took a tenement in Gunthwaite from Robert,
son of Roger Milner, of Gunthwaite; and in 1359 he took the grant from Darcy.
In that year began (as far as the evidence before us shows) the connection
between the Gunthwaites and the Bosviles. We have, 1, a deed of October 20 in
that year, by which Thomas Bayliffe, of Barnsley, and Thomas, son of Robert the
clerk, of Barnsley, give to John de Gunthwaite and Christiana his wife, for the
lfe of both of them, the manor of Gunthwaite with water mill and suit of
tenants, which we have of the gift of the said John, with remainder on their
decease to Thomas de Bosseville de Erdesley for term of life, remainder to
Alice, wife of the said Thomas for life; remainder to Thomas, son and heir of
the said Thomas; remainder to Richard and William, other sons, and their
respective heirs male; remainder to the right heirs of Thomas de Bosseville.
This entail bears date at Gunthwaite on Sunday, October 20, 1359. Aymer Burdet,
John de Dronsfield, and John de Stainton, were among the witnesses. In 1374
John de Gunthwaite was dead, and Christiana in her pure widow- hood released
her life-interest in the manor of Gunthwaite to Thomas Bosvile, of Erdsley, and
his heirs, for a rent of ten marks to begin at Pentecost 1375. To this deed is
a seal in red wax, with the arms of Bosvile with the three bears’ heads in
chief. There is nothing in any charter I have seen of either Gunthwaite or
Bosvile, to show on what inducement the Gunthwaites assigned this manor to
Bosvile, but the opinion in the Bosviles always was that Alice, the wife of
Thomas, was the daughter and heir of John and Christiana, and this opinion is
countenanced by the arms of Gunthwaite having been allowed by the heralds as a
quartering to the later Bosviles; and by the non-appearance of any other person
as the wife of the said Thomas. (https://huddersfield.exposed/api/content/books/ocr/17984/)
