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[44] from the his father had held there. Sir Robert held of Nicholas de Meinell by the service of half a knight's fee, one carucate and two of land in Boynton, and three in Thorpe. He held in Hunmanby one sixth of a knight's fee, and he held freely a and a carucate of land rendering eightpence annually in Hunmanby, and rendered service to Joan, widow of Robert, son of Robert de Tateshele, and he also held one-tenth part of a knight's fee of Thomas de Cailli, kinsman and co-heir of Robert de Tateshele. He acquired too of Gilbert de Gaunt a, a toft and two and a half bovates of land, thirteen acres of meadow, twenty acres of pasture, and fifty acres of moor in Hunmanby, held in chief and entered without licence; also in the time of Edward II, he acquired of Robert de Burton, Vicar of Boynton, a messuage and land in Hunmanby held in chief with remainder to John de Bovington in fee-tail, etc.

Sir Robert de Bovington with others rendered an account of the fifteenth of Yorkshire at the exchequer.

Sir Robert married Constance, and had issue by her—
 * 1) John (IV).
 * 2) Walter (VI).
 * 3) Roger (VII).
 * 4) Lambert, a Canon of Newborough.
 * 5) Alice.
 * 6) Constance.