and bargain settled July 15, 6
Elizabeth (A.D. 1564). {25b} A dispute arose in the following year
between Richard Thymelby and Robert Savile, which was submitted to
arbitrators (Feb. 15, 7 Elizabeth), who ordered Richard Thymelby to pay
Robert Savile 1,500 pounds, and Robert Savile should then convey all to
Richard Thymelby. The 1,500 pounds was paid and afterwards the two
"confederated to defraud the said Richard Gardiner and conveyed the said
manors to John Kent." The judgment of the court is not given, but
neither of the defendants, surely, cut a very creditable figure, and
Richard Thymelby, suitably, we must admit, passes from the scene.

Of the Saviles we may here give a few more particulars. Gervase Holles,
the antiquary, mentions in his _Collectanea_ (vol. iii, p. 770) John
Savile, Esq., as Lord of the Manor of Tetford, in this neighbourhood, in
the reign of Elizabeth, and as joint Lord of Somersby with Andrew Gedney,
Esq. (of the latter and his wife there is a very fine sepulchral monument
in the church of the adjoining parish of Bag Enderby). The most
distinguished literary member of the family was Sir Henry Savile, a
learned mathematician, Fellow and Warden of Merton College, Oxford, and
Provost of Eton; a munificent patron of learning, founding Professorships
of Astronomy and Geography at his University; he wrote a _Treatise on
Roman Warfare_, but his great work was a translation of the writings of
St. Chrysostom, a monument of industry and learning; he was knighted by
James I., and his bust is carved in stone in the quadrangle of the
Bodleian Library at Oxford, among those of other benefactors. Charles I.
conferred the Earldom of Sussex on Thomas, Lord Savile of Pontefract.
Several members of the family were Seneschals, or Stewards, of Wakefield.
George was created Marquis of Halifax, another was Baron of the
Exchequer. The name is given in the Conqueror's Roll of Battle Abbey
(A.D. 1066), Hollinshed's version, as Sent Ville, in Stow's version as
Sant Vile, while a Chancery Inquisition (of 18 Henry VII., No. 46,
_Architectural Society's Journal_, 1895, p. 17) gives it as Say-vile, and
on the analogy of Nevill, formerly de Nova-villa, we may perhaps assume
that the original form was de Sancta-villa (or "of the Holy City"); which
may well have been adopted by one who had made a pilgrimage to
Canterbury, Rome, or Jerusalem itself.

I should, however, add that a member of the family, Miss Elizabeth J.
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