ng many
Riottous personez aboute hym" When the little cavalcade of mounted men and
servants reached Roxby they found that Sir Roger Hastings had left for
Scarborough. He describes the procedure of the Cholmley party in a most
picturesque fashion, stating that within an hour after the delivery of the
Privy Seal they "came Ryottously with the nowmbre of xii persons, with
bowis arrowes longe sperys in maner and furme of warre." In another place
he details their armour and arms saying that they were arrayed with "Cures
(cuirass) Corsettes (armour for the body) Brygendyns, Jakkys, Salettis (a
light helmet), Speris, Bowes, Arrowes, Sourdis, byllys and Launcegays, (a
small lance) with other maner of wepyns defencive." As Sir Roger and his
wife rode towards Scarborough they met "Sir Rauf Ivers, which in Curtes
(courteous) maner then departed." When he was thought to be on the road
homewards to Roxby, however, Sir Ralph Evers was accused of having laid
"in a wayte to have murderyd" Sir Roger Hastings at Brompton, for at that
place Evers and eight of his servants came upon Sir Roger's men who were
being sent ahead to discover the ambush that they had reason to fear.
When Sir Ralph found that the men who reached Brompton were only servants
and messengers, he was accused of having said to them "ye false hurson
Kaytyffes, I shall lerne you curtesy and to knowe a gentilman." Thereupon
Sir Ralph "set his arowe in his bowe, seying these wordes, 'And your
Master were here I wolde stoppe hym the wey.'" When they reached Snainton
twenty persons issued from the house of "one Averey Shymney, servant to
the seid Sir Rauf ... arrayed with bowys bent, arrowis, billis and
Gleyvis."

There is also a complaint against some of the servants of Sir Ralph Evers
who were held responsible for "an assaute and Fraye made upon my lady
Hastynges." Thomas Thirlwall, on being examined, said that "my lady came
rydyng that ways with vi horses with hir, and oone of hir servantz thet
rode afore, had a male [a portmanteau] behynd hym, and with a bowe in his
hand bent, and that the said servant rode soo nygh hym th[at] the male
touched hym and he bade hym ryde forther and asked, why his bow was bent,
and he said that was mater to hym, and the sayd deponent with I^d knyff
[in another place it is called a dagger] which he had in his hand cut the
bow string, bicause he rode soo nygh hym with horse that he had almost
stroken hym downe; And forther he deposith that my l