St. Andrews in Boynton

Bointon (Boynton) Church, 15 Novembris, 1620

A hansome tombe in the North wall.

In brasse the portraiture of a man in armor kneeling, on his brest, quarterly, 1[sa.] on a chevron entre 3 pheons [arg.] 3 molletts gu. [Newport], 2 quarter, or, on a cross sa. 3 bull heads cabaged ar. [Boynton], 3 as 2, 4 as 1. Behind him, 8 sonnes kneeling, Under:

Hic jacet Robertus Newport,² amiger, qui obiit xxiij^o die Mali anno Domini MCCCCLXXXIIJ, cujus amina requiescat in pace. Amen.

Translation: Here lies Robert Newport, esquire, who died on the twenty-third day of May in the year of [our] lord 1483, may the soul of whom rest in peace. Amen

His wief with 7 daughters. On her brest, quarterly, . . . a chevron entre 3 swannes, 2 quarter, [or] a chevron gu. a cheif vaire or nebulee. [St. Quintin.]

Orate pro anima domine Margarete, uxoris ejus, que obiit xviij die mensis Septembris anno Domini MCCCCLXXXXIIJ, cujus anime propietietur Deus Amen.

Translation: Pray for the soul of lady Margaret, his wife, who died on the eighteenth day of the month of September in the year of [our] lord 1493, to whose soul may God be propitious. Amen.

On a stone.

Hic jacet Thomas Nevport³ et Elisabet, uxor ejus, filia et heres Johannis Boynton, filii et heredis Domini Roberti Boynton, militis, qui Thomas obiit xv die Novembris anno Domini MCCCC. . . Et illa v [six] obiit iiij die Octobris anno Domini MCCCCXXIIJ, quorum animabus propicietur Deus. Amen.

Translation: Here lies Thomas Nevport and Elisabeth, his wife, daughter and heir of John Boynton, son and heir of lord Robert Boynton, knight, who (Thomas) died on the fifteenth day of November in the year of [our] lord 14. . . And she died on the fourth day of October in the year of [our] lord 1423, to whose souls may God be propitious. Amen.

Another stone.

Hic jacet Willelmus Newport, armiger, qui obiit decimo die mensis Novembris anno Domino Millesimo CCCCLXXX, cujus anime propicietur Deus.

Translation: Here lies William Newport, esquire, who died on the tenth day of the month of November in the year of [our] lord 1480, to whose soul may God be propitious.

On that stone, a chevron entre 3 pheons, -- [Newport.]

South window.

A. 3 barrs gemewise or.

Or on a cross sa. 3 bulls' heads cabaged ar. [Ayton or Boynton]¹

Or a fess entre 3 crescents gu. -- [Boynton]

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Translations by Virginia Murphy, medieval scholar.

² Robert Newport made his will 20 October 1481, proved at York 26 June, 1484. There seems no pedigree of Newport, or any printed information about the family.

³ Thomas Newport, Esq., of Boynton, made his will Tuesday following Feast of St. John the Baptist, 1441, proved at York 29 November, 1442. In the pedigree of Boynton in Foster's Yorkshire Families, it states that Sir Robert was a son of Sir Thomas Boynton, of Acklam, and that he was Governor of Berwick Castle circa 1381, and married Isabel, daughter of Sir william Normanvile.

¹ There seems to have been litigation between Sir William de Aton and Sir Robert de Boynton as to the right to use these arms. [See the paper by A. S. Ellis in the Yorkshire Archaeological Journal, xii, 263.]

Clay, J.W., ed. (1904) Yorkshire Church Notes 1619-1631, by Roger Dodsworth, Yorkshire Archaeological Society Record Series, vol. 34, pp. 167-168.