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[12] SIR HENRY BOYNTON, KT. [1497-1501], the eldest son of Henry (XIII), was knighted in Scotland by Thomas, Earl of Surrey, the King's Lieutenant in 1497. He died in 1501.

THOMAS BOYNTON [1501-1523], of Roxby, brother of Sir Henry Boynton, Kt. (XIV), and second son of Henry Boynton (XIII), was in 1514 party to a dispute with Ralph Claxton over a rent of ten shillings from a house in Marton-in-Cleveland. In 1519 he petitioned the Cardinal of York, Legate to Pope Leo X, to have the Chapel and Chapelyard of Roxby consecrated de novo and sacraments administered there; Roxby paying all dues to the Church of Hinderwell.

Thomas Boynton married Cecily, daughter of Sir James Strangeways of Sneaton, and had issue.


 * 1) Matthew (XVI).
 * 2) William.
 * 3) Jenet or Jane, married to Thomas Goldsbrough, dispensation for marriage dated 23rd November, 1519.
 * 4) Anne, married to Robert Haldenby.

Thomas Boynton was buried at Roxby, and on a slab to his memory are a brass effigy, an inscription plate and four shields bearing the arms of Boynton.

By his will dated 14th May, 12 Henry VIII (1520), and proved 23rd April, 1523, he left to Hinderwell Church 10s., to