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[8] SIR HENRY BOYNTON, KT. [1403-1405] son of Sir Thomas Boynton, Kt. (VIII), succeeded his grandfather Sir Thomas (VII), and was suspected to be in the interest of Henry (Percy) Earl of Northumberland and his son, who had taken arms against the King, Henry IV, for in the fourth year of his reign, when the battle of Shrewsbury (21st July, 1403) was fought, John Wockerington, Gerald Heron and John Mitford were commissioned to tender an oath to this Henry de Boynton and others, to be true to the King and renounce Henry, Earl of Northumberland and his adherents; yet three years after he was concerned with the said Earl, Thomas Mowbray, E. M., Richard Scrope, Archbishop of York, etc., who had taken arms against Henry IV. Sir Henry ﬂed to Berwick, was apprehended on the surrender thereof to the King, and with several others executed.

A mandate was issued to the Mayor of Newcastle-on-Tyne to receive the head of Henry Boynton, "chivaler," and to place it on the bridge of the town to stay there as long as it would last, but within a month another mandate was issued to the Mayor to take down the head, where it was lately placed by the King's command, and to deliver it to Sir Henry's wife for burial.

Sir Henry's property, the manor of Acklam in Cleveland, with all members being forfeited and in the King's hands, was granted to Roger de Thornton, Mayor of Newcastle-on-Tyne, but in the following August a grant was made for life to Elizabeth, late the wife of Henry Boynton, who had not wherewithal to maintain herself and six children or to