Kaiusboio with more f)rces thither, appointing hlui to command in tlie room of Sir Hugh Cholmely. Wliilst he was preparing for that service, being at Doncaster, ten or twelve nules from Pomfret, with a considerable force in the town, a party of horse dismounting at liis quarters and going up as friends to his chaniber, under pretence of liaving business with him, seized lilm first, and upon his refusal to g ) silently with them, murdered him. After his death, another comraaniler being appointed to carry on the siege, tliose in the castle were reduced to sucli extremities that some of the most desperate of them resolved, together with the governor, one Morris, who had been a page to the Earl of Stafford, to endeavor the breaking through our forces on horseback, which they attempted ; and, taongh most of llie.u were beaten back to thj castle by tho besiegers, yet this Jlorris made his way through, but was afterwards taken as he passed th.'-ough the country, in the disguise of a beggar, and carried to York, where he was arraigned before Justice Thorpe, and, being found guilty of treason, was executed for the same,"'^

a Ace. of tao f.inuly of T^torris by Vak'ntinc Morri.s, 1790.

6 '1 Qi.i p'.-operty iiu^v b,lija:;i t > .loha i;uire, Esii , v.iio obtaia.'J it by a marriafre with a FlelUiiiir, wiiich faniilv g >t it trom tho Duk>s of IVanfort, desccudimts of tlio MarquiiOf Wo;- c '.i'-er, to wtioia Cliarles First gave it, liaviri;; taken it froin old Lewis Jlorris uudur forleitnre.