[47] The market appears to have been granted by charter, 10 Edward II. (Harl MS. No. 797.), and for some time held a rivalship with Halifax; but for many ages the market has been discontinued.
[48] Lockwood appears to have been a quarrelsome person, for in the court rolls at Wakefield, 35 Edward I., John de Lockwood, of Lockwood, was presented and afterwards found guilty of having forcibly ejected one Matthew de Linthwaite from his free tenement, and when the earl's grave and bailiff came to take possession thereof, he made an attempt, with others unknown, to have slain them, so that they barely escaped with their lives.
[49] "The remains of a wet ditch surrounding Crossland hall are visible to this day; but neither Quarmby nor Lockwood houses had the same advantage."—Watson's Hist. of Halifax.
[50] It is stated in Hopkinson's MSS. "that when sir John Eland gave bread to Adam Beaumont, he threw it at him with disdain; on which sir John said he would weed out the offspring of his blood, as they weed out the weed from corn;" but this threatening was so far from being verified that sir John's male issue were entirely cut off, whilst that of Beaumont continued in John the third son. The preceding verse mentions only "two boys;" but the pedigree of the family gives a third, who probably was an infant at the time, and therefore too young to be noticed. Adam appears to have only been about five years of age; this may account for the different behaviour of the two boys.
[51] Some copies read Cromwelbottom hall; the residence of Lacy.
[52] "This verse," says Watson, "cannot be explained, for no authority which I have seen shows the name of sir John's son and heir."
[53] The half brother mentioned was a son of sir John's lady, who was daughter of Gilbert Umfravile, and widow of Robert Coniers of Sockburn, in the county of Durham.
[54] After the death of sir John Eland, and his son and heir, sir John Savile of Tankersley, purchased, in 1350, the wardship of Isabel Eland, daughter of the said sir John, from the lord of the honour of Pontefract, for 200l. See Comput. Seneschall honoris de Pontfrete, p. 17. After this purchase he married her, and in her right became possessed of the estates belonging to that family.
[55] Hopkinson's MSS. says "that the town and neighbourhood were raised by sound of horn, and ringing the bells backways."
[56] "In an ivy tree, with an intent to have been saved."—Hopkinson's MSS.