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 It was from this Woderofe (Woodruffe) family that the Wentworths of Woolley bought that estate about 1600.

This last-named Thomas Bowden is given in the "Freeholde Booke" for about 1660 as in possession of considerable estate at Cawthorne, the rental given to it being exactly what the Barnby estate is valued at in the above-mentioned "Parish Survey" of 1648:

A Mr. Thomas Bowden died at Barnby Hall in 1681, aged 44, and was buried at Cawthorne, April 15th. We shall see the recently discovered monuments of his mother, who died in 1665, and of her father, Thomas Barnby, who died at Barnby Hall in 1668, in the description of the Church.

The other sister and co-heiress, Beatrix, who married John Allott of Bentley Grange, had a son John, who married Elizabeth, daughter of William Bosvile, of Gunthwaite. They had one daughter and heir, Mary, who married Godfrey Copley, of Skelbrook, Esq., and had no issue. "Mr. Godfrey Copley and Mrs. Mary Allott married October the 3rd, 1689."—''Par. Reg''. In Hunter he is given as selling the moiety of Barnby Hall to Mr. John Spencer in 1701. He died, however, in 1700, and Mr. Spencer was a trustee under his will, the estate being heavily involved. A Mr. Dickens is spoken of at this time as having "a great deal of money on the Barnby estate."

A letter of Tho. Simpson to Sir John Kaye of Woodsome, dated Wakefield, 23 Sept., 1701, says, "Barnby is sold to Mr. Spencer."

Mr. William Spencer, his son, bought the other moiety of the Barnby estate from Sir John and Lady Ramsden in 1755 for £6,400, and the property continues part of the Cannon Hall estate.