The history and antiquities of Boston, and the villages of Skirbeck, Fishtoft, Freiston, Butterwick, Benington, Leverton, Leake, and Wrangle; comprising the hundred of Skirbeck, in the county of Lincoln. Including also a history of the East, West, and Wildmore fens, and copious notices of the Holland or Haut-Huntre fen ... sketches of the geology, natural history, botany, and agriculture of the district; a very extensive collection of archaisms and provincial words, local dialect, phrases, proverbs, omens, superstitions, etc. By Pishey Thompson. Illustrated with one hundred engravings.

ROS FAMILY. 507
John, the eldest, succeeded him; he was eminent both for his military actions,
shown in the wars with France and Scotland, and for his piety; this according
to the custom of that age, was manifested by his engaging in a pilgrimage to
Jerusalem, in which he died at Paphos, in the isle of Cyprus, the 17th Richard II.
(1394). His wife was Mary, daughter of Henry de Percy, by whom he had
no issue. William, his next brother, became his heir; who, in the 4th of
Henry IV., was constituted Lord-treasurer of England, in which office he continued till the 7th of Henry IV., and was held in such esteem by the King, that
his residence near the court was thought absolutely necessary, and he had the
town of Chingleford in Essex allowed him for lodging his servants and horses.
He was summoned to Parliament from the 18th of Richard II. to the 1st of
Henry V. He died 2d I-Ienry V. (1415), at Belvoir, where he was buried;
leaving behind him five sons and three daughters by Margaret, daughter of Sir
John Arundel.
John Ros, his eldest son, succeeded him; he was slain at the battle of Baugie,
8th Henry V. (1421), where also his brother William lost his life. John married Margery, daughter of Sir Philip Wentworth, whom he left a young widow,
without issue.
Thomas Ros, his brother, succeeded him; he died 18th August, 1431, and
was succeeded by his son, Thomas Ros, who was a firm adherent to Henry VI.;
in consequence of which he was, after the overthrow of the Lancasterians at
Towton, attainted in Parliament, 1st of Edward IV.; his lands were confiscated,
and the Castle of Belvoir given to Lord Hastings. He died in 1461, the same
year in which he was attainted.
In 1472-3, the act of attainder was repealed, on the motion of Sir Henry
Ros, knight. Edmund Lord Ros succeeded his father Thomas, the attainted
lord, and died in 1508. Dying without issue, his sisters were heirs to the
estates; and Eleanor, the eldest, marrying Robert de Manners, of Ethale in
Northumberland, the ancestor of the present Rutland family, the estates became
vested in him and his heirs.
The successive Lords Ros, down to 1478, are recorded, in various documents,
to have held the manor of Ros Hall in Freiston, and Ros Hall in St. Botulph's.
In 1485, an inquisition was held in the Duchy Court of Lancaster, 1" whereby
it was found that Thomas Welby, at the time of his death, was seised of the
manor of Freiston and Multon, &c.; and divers messuages, lands, and rents in
Freiston, Butterwick, Multon, Spalding, Holbeach, and Fleet, which he granted
to Edward Burgh and others to the uses of his will."' We do not know what
manor in Freiston this refers to; we do not think it relates to the manor of
Ros Hall, but have placed it here, because we know no better position for it.
In 1563 (5 Elizabeth), the manor of Freiston, near Boston, with its rights,
members, and appurtenances, was said to be held of the heirs of Walter Pedwardine,2 by military service; and to be worth, by inquisition, 921. 6s. 8d.;
and, by the supervision of an official appointed by the master of the Courts of
Wards, 981. 10s.3 Lord Ros had much property in Freiston in 1613, but it
appears to have been sold previous to 1651.4 "Roos Hall and Manor" were
the property of Andrew Baron in 1714, and of Andrew Taylor in 1729; and
either he or his son of the same name held them in 1760. Stanley Marshall
and George Marshall, gentlemen, are described as the lords of the manor of
1 Proceedings in the Duchy Court of Lancaster, first husband, whilst the Ros' were the descendants
vol. i. p. 118. of Sir John de Vaux, her son by her third husband.
2 The Pedwardines were the elder branch of the 3 Bibl. Ha}l. 4135, folio 99.
De Croun family, being descended from Sir Henry 4 Hundred Rolls.
Longchamp, the son of Petronilla de Croun by her