. The Redmans of Levens and Harewood : a contribution to the history of the Levens family of Redman and Redmayne in many of its branches . t behind him. What form his prodigality took we may never know;but just as Alan Bellingham, nearly a century later,squandered his fine patrimony at Levens, so this thir-teenth head of the Redman family played ducks anddrakes with his ancestral lands ; and the very time andplace of his death are unknown. As we have seen, Matthew had four years of minoritybefore him under the guardianship of Sir Anthony (?Humphrey) Brown, when his father died in 1544. In1548,
. The Redmans of Levens and Harewood : a contribution to the history of the Levens family of Redman and Redmayne in many of its branches . t behind him. What form his prodigality took we may never know;but just as Alan Bellingham, nearly a century later,squandered his fine patrimony at Levens, so this thir-teenth head of the Redman family played ducks anddrakes with his ancestral lands ; and the very time andplace of his death are unknown. As we have seen, Matthew had four years of minoritybefore him under the guardianship of Sir Anthony (?Humphrey) Brown, when his father died in 1544. In1548, when he had reached his majority, he gave an ac-count of his estate to the escheator of Yorkshire, fromwhich it appears that he owned the manor of Levens,with lands in Malynghall, Hind Castle, Birthwaite, andKirkby-in-Kendal, in Westmorland, which he held of theKing by knights service ; a moiety of the manor of Hare-wood and the Castle there ; and lands in Selside, La3-ton,Keswick, and Carleton, in Yorkshire, which he held of theKing in chief. (Harleian MSS. 4630, p. 484). Thus wesee that Levens and Selside still remained in Redman. IF ALTAK IDMB OF SIR \VM. permission of Mr. H. Speight. TO face p. REDMANS OF HA RE WOOD CASTLE. 113 hands after more than three centuries and a half of owner-ship ; and Harewood after a lapse of over a centurj and ahalf. In 1561 Matthew appears to have disposed of estates inWestmorland to Alan Bellingham, who a few years later(1568) was to gain possession of Levens, Hencaster,Heversham, and many another fine Redman property inthat county. Indenture, 18 June, 3 Elizabeth, between Matthew Readman, ofHarwood, Co. York, Esquire, and Alan Bellingham, of Helsington,Co. Westmorland, of a bargain and sale of lands and tenements inWhinfell (Quhinfell), Kendal, which was sometime the estate of SirEdward Redman, grandfather of the said Matthew. Five years later Matthew was called upon to shew bywhat title he held the Manor of Harewood. (JonessInde.
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