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Thomas Lascelles (Captain) The register of the parish church of Leeds contains the following brief notice of the mortality caused by the conflicts between the parliamentary party and the royalists, in and about Leeds, in the years 1642-44:- 23rd January, 1642-43, Leeds was taken by Sir Thomas Fairfax; eleven soldiers slain, buried 24th; five more slain two or three days after; six more died of their wounds. Buried 1st April, 1643, Captain Bowel, slain at Seafront battle, and six soldiers. A gentleman and two common soldiers, slain in Robert Williamson's house, Hunslet, were buried 13th April, 1643. Five soldiers more slain. Nine more in May, 1643. Sixteen more in June, under Captain Lascelles, Major Gifford, Sir George Wentworth, Captain Thornton, and the earl of Newcastle. Twelve more in July, under General King, Sir Ingram Hopton, and Sir William Wilmington. Twenty-six soldiers buried in July and August, 1644. 19 soldier buried in the Old School Garth. Several soldiers and Captain Cox, from Newcastle slain at Bradford, February, 1643-44, also buried at Leeds. http://freepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~wakefield/history/baines2.html

LASCELLES, Thomas (1624-1697), of Mount Grace Priory, East Harlsey, Yorks.

Constituency

NORTHALLERTON

1660

NORTHALLERTON

1689 - c Nov. 1697

Family and Education

bap. 5 Aug. 1624, 4th s. of William Lascelles alias Jackson of Stank Hall by Elizabeth, da. of Robert Wadeson of Yafforth, Yorks.; bro. of Francis Lascelles†. m. Ruth, 3s. (1 d.v.p.) 4da. (1 d.v.p.).1

Offices Held

Capt. of ft. (parliamentary) 1644–at least 1652.

Bailiff, Northallerton by 1679–c.1685.

Housekeeper, Excise Office 1693–d.2

Biography

Lascelles had a significant electoral interest at Northallerton, where he owned many of the burgages. A Dissenter, and possibly a Whig collaborator during the reign of James II, he was returned unopposed in March 1690, when he was classed as a Whig by Lord Carmarthen (Sir Thomas Osborne†). In April 1691 Robert Harley* listed Lascelles as a Court supporter. However, Lascelles was not an active Member. In May 1693 he was appointed housekeeper to the Excise Office at a salary of £200 p.a., and thereafter was noted as a placeman in several parliamentary lists. Before the 1695 election, Carmarthen (now Duke of Leeds) pressed the archbishop of York and the bishop of Durham, who was lord of the manor at Northallerton, to ‘agree upon another in the room of Mr Lascelles’ as candidate for the election, on the grounds that ‘the Dissenters are neither sparing of their money nor their power to secure their elections’. However, Lascelles was returned unopposed. In January 1696 he was forecast as likely to support the Court in the divisions over the proposed council of trade, and he signed the Association promptly. He died in 1697, and was buried at Northallerton on 4 Nov. In April 1699 an Act was passed appointing trustees to sell his estates in order to clear his debts.3

Ref Volumes: 1690-1715

Authors: E.C./C.I.M. End Notes 1.    T. D. Whitaker, Loidis and     Elmete, 168–9; Bean, Six     Northern Counties, 959; Yorks. Arch. Jnl. vii. 481. 2.    Cal. Treas. Bks. x. 182, 527–8;    xiii. 158. 3.    Glos. RO, Sharp mss 4/K27, Leeds to abp. of York, 10 Sept. 1695; Add. 70018, ff. 94–95; CSP Dom. 1697, pp. 464–5. LASCELLES, Thomas (1624-97), of Mount Grace Priory, East Harlsey, Yorks. Constituency & Dates

NORTHALLERTON

1660, 1689, 1690, 1695 - 9 Nov. 1697

Family and Education

bap. 5 Aug. 1624, 4th s. of William Lascelles alias Jackson of Stank Hall, and bro. of Francis Lascelles. m. Ruth, 3s. (1 d.v.p.) 4da.1

Offices Held

Capt. of ft. (parliamentary) 1644-at least 1652.2

J.p. Yorks. (N. and E. Ridings) 1652-Oct. 1660, (N. Riding) 1690-? d. ; commr. for assessment (N. Riding) 1657, Aug. 1660-1, 1673-80, 1689-90, militia, Yorks. Mar. 1660, maj. of militia ft. ?1689- d ; bailiff, Northallerton by 1679-c.1685.3

Housekeeper, Excise Office 1693- d. 4

Biography

Lascelles was in arms for the Parliament like his elder brother. He bought the bishop of Durham’s manor of Northallerton in 1649 and Mount Grace four years later from the royalist Conyers Darcy. These purchases seem to have crippled his financial resources, especially after the return of episcopal estates at the Restoration. He was returned with his brother for Northallerton, six miles from his home, at the general election of 1660, and classed as a friend by Lord Wharton, but played no known part in the Convention. He was cognisant of the Anabaptist plot in 1663, and was imprisoned in York Castle. He was again arrested during the second Dutch war on a charge of ‘turbulent and seditious practices’. Though he did not stand himself during the exclusion crisis, his interest returned two opponents of the Court at Northallerton and he acted as returning officer in all three elections. After the Rye House Plot arms were found in his house. He may have become a Whig collaborator, for in September 1688 the King’s electoral agents reported that ‘Mr Thomas Lascelles, that hath the interest of the place, will take care another good man shall be chosen’ at Northallerton. But in fact he was himself elected to the Convention, resuming his seat after a lapse of 28 years. He was not an active Member, being appointed only to the committees to inquire into the charges against William Harbord, to settle a maintenance on the children of Sidney Wortley Montagu, and to inspect the Poor Laws. Although doubtless a Whig, he was not listed among the supporters of the disabling clause in the bill to restore corporations. He continued to represent the family borough as a court Whig for the rest of his life, becoming a placeman in 1693. He was buried at Northallerton on 4 Nov. 1697. None of his descendants sat in Parliament.5

Ref Volumes: 1660-1690

Authors: P.A.B./P.W. End Notes 1.    T. D. Whitaker, Loidis and     Elmete, 167-8; Yorks. Arch. Jnl. vii. 481. 2.    Cal. Comm. Comp. 2872. 3.    Add. 29674, f. 161; Eg. 1626, f. 53. 4.    Cal. Treas. Bks. x. 182; xiii. 158. 5.    Cosin Corresp. (Surtees Soc. lv), 18-19; VCH    Yorks. N.    Riding, ii. 29; Yorks. Arch. Jnl. vii. 480; CSP    Dom. 1663-4, p. 16; 1664-5, p. 201; 1667-8, p. 273;    SP29/86/68; HMC Astley    , 38; HMC Var. ii. 117; Cal. Treas. Bks. xiii. 158.

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6 1691. Nov. 12. Mr. Thomas Lascell, of Mount Grace, and Dorothy Gibson, married. Stockton Registers.

I. Thomas Lassells of Durham, married 9 Sept., 1669, at St. Margaret's,

Frances, daughter of William Heighington of Durham, and died circa 1672; (his widow marrying secondly James Church, attorney). He had issue: — Thomas II.

Margaret, posthumous daughter, baptized at St. Margaret's, 18 Oct., 1672, and dying 28 July, 1684, was buried at the same church.

II. Thomas Lassells of Mount Grace, baptized at St. Margaret's, 27 Oct.,

1670, married at Stockton, 12 Nov., 1691, Dorothy Gibson, and was buried at St. Margaret's, 1 April, 1717, having had issue : —

III. William Lassells, baptized at St. Margaret's, 29 November, 1692,

married Alice Woodmas, and had (perhaps with

other) issue, a daughter, Dorothy, who married, 6 April, 1749, John Fenwick of Bywell.

Cf. Surtees, Durham, vol. i., p. 99

July, 1649. Anthony, baptized at St. Mary-le-Bow, 18 Nov., 1651. James Church of Durham, attorney, baptized at St. Mary-le-Bow, 22 Aug., 1653, married Frances, widow of Thomas Lassells, and daughter of William Heighington, both of Durham, buried, St. Margaret's, 23 Aug., 1693. Mary, baptized at St. Mary-le-Bow, 3 Mar., 1644/5, married,