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[27] WILLIAM BOYNTON, Esq., heir apparent of Sir Francis Boynton, 2nd Bart., was born 31st August, 1643. He was the first of the Boynton family to reside at Burton Agnes. He married Elizabeth, daughter and co-heir of Edward Barnard and Elizabeth, his wife, of Hull. The marriage settlement being dated 12th October, 1661. At this time the Boynton property consisted of the Barmston and Burton Agnes estates, also land in Thornholme, Rudstone (with Rectory, parsonage, impropriate church glebe lands, tithes, profits, etc., belonging to the Rectory), the manors of Roxby, Greno, East and West Scaling, and land in Little Kelk, Boynton and Haisthorpe. There is a certificate at Burton Agnes—with other papers from which the above information is derived—to the effect that William Boynton, of Barmston, did receive the Sacrament at Lissett on the 22nd June, 1673, and declared against, and took the oath of supremacy and allegiance.

William Boynton was M.P. for Hedon 1680 to 1685, and when King James II proposed the repeal of the Penal Laws and Test Act in 1688, William Boynton was considered to be a suitable person to be employed as a Justice of the Peace for the East Riding of Yorkshire.

William Boynton's wife Elizabeth, daughter and co-heir of Edward Barnard, survived her husband many years, built a hospital at Burton Agnes for four widows of tenants, and resided latterly with her son-in-law at Ripley, where she died, Easter Day, 4th April, 1708, and was buried at Burton Agnes, 29th April, 1708.