The Fauconberge Memorial: an account of Henry Fauconberge, Beccles, and of the endowment provided by his will to encourage learning and the instruction of youth, with notes and incidental biographical sketches . .CCNBERGE CF BECCLES. /nnrniiiirriiP nf T must be acknowledged that the genealogical connexionof the ancient and modern families of Fauconberge is involvedin obscurity. At South Otterington near- Thirsk, in the north ridingof the county of York, we have seen that Isabel deFauconberge- held manorial property about the beginningof the fifteenth centuiy.^ And as early as


The Fauconberge Memorial: an account of Henry Fauconberge, Beccles, and of the endowment provided by his will to encourage learning and the instruction of youth, with notes and incidental biographical sketches . .CCNBERGE CF BECCLES. /nnrniiiirriiP nf T must be acknowledged that the genealogical connexionof the ancient and modern families of Fauconberge is involvedin obscurity. At South Otterington near- Thirsk, in the north ridingof the county of York, we have seen that Isabel deFauconberge- held manorial property about the beginningof the fifteenth centuiy.^ And as early as the reign of Henry viii, aRoger Fauconlridge was settled in the same place. From his son Christopher 1 No pedigree is registered at the Heralds College by which this connexion can be clearly traced. Supra p. 9. Mr. Poulson gives from Dodsworth three generations as lineal descendants ofWalter and Isabel de Fauconberge, but afterwards cites the inquisition by which it appears that Walterde Fauconberge left no issue by her. By the conquerors survey it appears that the soke of the lands in Otrinctun belonged to thekings manor of Alertune [Northallerton] which earl Edwin had in the time of Edward the confessor ;that there were two manors in Ostrinctunc, namely, Ege


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