- AGNES de-VESCY taxed the Burgesses of New Malton, kept a gallows and found St James chantry in the Castle in which JOAN de-COMYN and LADY ISABELLA de-KILDARE resided, and EDWARD 2nd (1307-27) visited, the castle came into the king’s possession, and JOHN de-MOWBRAY was constituted its governor.
- Edward II commanded the English army, but proved utterly inefficient, and the Scots, led with great skill by Robert Bruce, inflicted a crushing defeat on the English at Bannockburn on June 23rd.1307. William de Vesci of Malton fell in the battle. The Scots followed up their victory by invading the North of England, and the County of York suffered greatly in the years that followed. 'The northern part of England were laid waste by the Scots for twelve years in succession.
- Malton's first brewer was one Galfrid and in 1302 he paid 2/1d poll tax.
- In 1318 the Scots again invaded Yorkshire under the leadership of Sir James Douglas 'The Black Douglas.'
- ROBERT-the-BRUCE occupied Malton (and the Castle) in 1322, he sent out raiding parties.
- Evildoers held the castle against JOHN de-MOWBRAY in 1327. The great Castle fell slowly into ruin, (though its 12th Century chapel remained until 1543).
- LAY SUBSIDY- New Malton £3.6.8d, Old Malton £2.3.4d ,Norton £1.14.0d.
- In 1353 Edward III gave to the burgesses of Scarborough certain lands for the repair of St. Mary's Church, at Malton 'divers of the well disposed parishioners' left lands to maintain the services in the Chapel of St. Michael in the Parish Church.
- WILLIAM the son and successor of EUSTACE FITZ-JOHN (de-VESCI), subsequently the Baronetcy of Alnwick was alienated; and the Lordship of Malton came by inheritance to the Atons, one of whom had married MARGERIE, daughter and heiress of WARINE, second son of WILLIAM de-VESCI. This line ended about 1390, in three co-heiresses. One of them, KATHERINE, married SIR RALPH DE EURE, and had for her share part of the town and lordship of Malton, except the fairs etc.; the other two co-heiresses married into the families of BROMFLETE and CONYERS.
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