Stephen# Hamerton

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Info from http://www.kittymunson.com/GEDbrows/g074.html#I01488

Here (Hamerton) was a Chantry founded by Stephen de Hamerton, in the chapel of St. Mary, within his manor of Hamerton, in 1332, for a competent secular chaplain, presentable by himself during his life, and after his decease, by his son John, and his heirs, in the said chapel, to celebrate masses, &c. for the said Stephen, Richard his father, and Agnes his mother. For the support of which chaplain, he amortized two messuages, thirty six acres of land, and twenty acres of meadow, in Slaidburn, and New Laund in Rowland, for ever. This endowment was confirmed by William, Archbishop of York, in February, 1332. Two institutions only occur for this chantry, and as it does not appear in the catalogue of Archbishop Holgate or Browne Willis, it seems most probable that it fell long before the general dissolution.

'Wigglesworth Hall' by G.Wigglesworth;
"In 1316 Stephen de Hamerton was benefactor of Kirkstall Abbey and founded a chantry at Hamerton".

Hellifield Peel;
Hellifield, anciently Helgefelt, or the field of Helgh, its first Saxon possessor, was held by its mesne Lords of the Knights of St. John of Jerusalem, and by them of the Percies, as chief Lords of the fee. In the 9th of Edward II. it appears from Kirkby's Inquisition that Sir John de Harcourt and the Prior of St. John of Jerusalem, were joint Lords of this Manor. Sir Stephen Hamerton, in 1537, joined the insurgents, in the great northern insurrection; and after having availed himself of the King's pardon, revolted a second time; after which, having been taken prisoner, he was conveyed to London, and shortly after attainted and executed. Hellifield was, however, preserved by a settlement for the life of the widow of John Hamerton, who was mother of Sir Stephen. But Hellifield Peel remained in the Crown till 37th Henry VIII. when it was granted by that King to George Brown and his heirs, to be held of the King in capite, for the consideration of £296. 9s. 2d. In the 3rd of Elizabeth, it returned to the family again in the person of John Hammerton, Esq.; and where it has remained ever since. The first of the name of Hammerton that occurs here, is Richard de Hamerton, in 1170, 26th Henry II. --Whitaker's Craven.

Stephen# married.