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The temptation to join in rebellion proved too strong for Sir John. He actively supported the insurrection against Henry IV, headed by Archbishop Scrope, and paid the penalty of failure by losing his head at Durham some time in July, 1405. On the 22nd of that month the bailiffs of Yarum were ordered to place his head on the pillory (collistridium) of that town, and let it stay there as long as it would last.1

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On his forfeiture, his property was divided amongst adherents of the winning party. His office of steward of the Forest of Galtres was granted to John de Etton and Miles, his son. John Fox, constable of Jedburgh Castle, got twenty marks a year from Budle and Spindlestone, near Bamburgh, Colville property in Northumberland; and the inhabitants of Kilburn, as a recompense for the losses they had sustained at the hands of the rebels, had a grant of 445 sheep, probably pasturing on the moors about Colville's estate at Dale Town, not far from Kilburn. His courser, which was in the keeping of Walter Fauconberge, his cousin, was ordered to be delivered to William Fulthorpe, knight, for the king's use. 5 Sir John's widow, Alice, daughter of John, Lord Darcy, claimed the manors of Sigston, West Rounton, and Thimbleby, and that of Clowecroft in Durham, under a settlement.

The Colville coat (7×6 in.), Or a fess gules in chief three torteaux, as well as the bearings of Wassand and Sigston, formerly in the east window of Kirby Sigston church, are now in the window of the new aisle. In 1284-5, Sir William Colville held half the manor of Sigston, but by 1315-6 his son, Sir Robert, had acquired the whole manor." It remained in the possession of his descendants till the extinction of the family in the earlier part of the fifteenth century, when it came into the possession of the Mauleverers of Arncliffe, as representing one of the coheiresses. A full account of this family is given in a former volume of the Journal, to which the reader is referred for further information.9

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The attribution of the arms on the remaining shield (7×5 in.) is not free from doubt. The arms depicted are, Argent a cross

1 At the same time orders were sent for the head of John Fauconberge, knt., to be set upon the pillory of Guisborough, of Ralph Hastynges, knt., on that of Helmsley, of John Fitzrandolph, knt., on that of Richmond, and of Thomas Forster on that of Scarborough. The head of William Fuster, chaplain, was placed on the Ouse Bridge, York, and those of Richard de Aske and Ranulph del See on Bootham Bar. Sir Henry de Boynton's head was sent to Newcastle,

to be placed on the bridge there (Ibid.
(1405-6), p. 69), but a day later orders
were given that it should be taken down
and handed over to his widow(Ibid., p.68).
2 Ibid., p. 21.
3 Ibid., p. 45.
Ibid., p. 56.
5 Ibid., p. 78.
6 Ibid., p. 148.

Kirkby's Inquest, pp. 102, 341.
8 Y.A.J., xvi, 217.
Ibid., xvi, 166.

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