Thomas de
Hotham son of Robert de Hotham I and his wife Agnes Arundel succeeded his
father early in the thirteenth century. He is said by Dodsworth to have had a
wife named Anora [1],
although in 1222, his widow's name was Margery or Margaret.
On 27
September 1213, Thomas de Hothum (de Holm)
paid a fine of 500 marks and 5 palfreys to have the lands of magister Roger
Arundel his uncle which were his inheritance [2].
In 1217, Thomas de Hothum had letters of protection after swearing loyalty to
Henry III [3].
In 1219,
Peter de Mauley I and Isabel [de Thurnham, the heir of the Fossards] his wife
claimed against Thomas de Hothum, 57½ acres of land in Byland with the
appurtenances as the inheritance of Isabel. Thomas came to the court and
recognised that the land was the right of Isabel and gave it back to her [4].
On 19 June
1221, the sheriff of Yorkshire was ordered that if William Constable of
Flamborough and John of Belvoir, co-parceners of Thomas of Hotham, Nicholas of
Ainsty and Thomas of Birkin for lands formerly of master Roger of Arundel, will
give him surety for rendering to the king as much as pertains to them of the
debt that Master Roger, whose heirs they are, owed to the king, so that they
answer the king at the Exchequer of Michaelmas in the fifth year for the term
of St. John the Baptist last past and for the same Michaelmas term, and at the
other terms thereafter that Thomas of Hotham, Nicholas of Ainsty and Thomas of
Birkin were given at the Exchequer, then he is to cause William and John to
have full seisin without delay of the parts that fall to them of the aforesaid
lands in his bailiwick of which they were disseised by reason of this debt [5].
About 1221-2,
Thomas de Hotham (Howim), William
Constable, Nicholaus de Aynesti, Thomas de Birkin and John de Beauuer, the
heirs of Roger Arundel, quit-claimed all their rights in the presentation to
the chapel of Scorborough, to Sir Richard de Percy [6].
It appears
that the Hotham family gained their first land holdings in Scorborough from
Thomas de Hotham's portion of the lands of Master Roger Arundel. His son Robert
later consolidated the Scorborough holdings by an exchange with one of the
other heirs.
Thomas de
Hotham died before Michaelmas term 1222, when Margery or Margaret, (Marg.) widow of Thomas de Hotham claimed
dower from lands in Hotham, Scorborough, Birsay, Easthorpe, North Cave,
Beswick, Rishton, Newbiggin, Aldborough, Kilham, Stamford Bridge and Catton [7].
[1] Dodsworth MSS as cited in
Philip Saltmarshe, History and Chartulary of the Hothams of Scorborough in
the East Riding of Yorkshire 1100-1700 (York, 1914), 26.
[2] Thomas Duffus Hardy, ed., Rotuli
de Oblatis et Finibus in Turri Londinensi Asservati Tempore Regis Johannes
(London, 1835), 491.
[3] Thomas Duffus Hardy, ed., Rotuli
Litterarum Clausarum in Turri Londinensi Asservati, vol. 1 (London, 1833),
376.
[4] Curia Regis Rolls of the Reign of Henry III,
vol. 8 (HMSO, London, 1938), 35.
[5] Calendar of Fine Rolls, 5 Henry III, No.
199.
[6] M. T. Martin, ed., The Percy
Chartulary, Surtees Society 117, 1909, 135, No. 413.
[7] Facsimile of Coram Rege Roll,
Michaelmas 1222 in Saltmarshe, History of the Hothams, 28–9.
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