Gents Mag 1848 part 1 p.375

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	Gentleman's Magazine 1848 part 1 p.375 Church, and all his land in the forest of Whinfell and Hamels, to Robert de Veteripont, on condition that the other half should be free from that tenure to him and his posterity. Of late years Henry Browham, esq. a descendant of the said Gilbert, sold the possession, and removed to Scailes, with the parish of Skelton, co. Cumb. where some account has been given of the family." In the margin is added in a later hand, "In this year 1716 John Browham, esq. repurchased the estate, and is now in possession of it." The first of the names is Walter de Browham, antecedent to the Conquest, and the next Wilfred, whose cross-legged skeleton was discovered in the church. In the records of the Exchequer is a document showing that he was fined in the 22d year of Henry II. for joining the rebels Barons, and he is there called "Udardus de Broham." He was governor of Appleby castle, and was beaten, together with Gospatrick, son of Orme, at Appleby, by William King of Scots, who had entered the northern provinces 1174, with an army of 80,000 men, during the absence of Henry in France. He took the castles of Carlisle, Penrith, and Appleby, the last being then considered the key to England, being the guard of the mountain pass of Stainmore. In fact Udard, his kinsman De Morville, Earl Gospatrick, and others were at this time rebelling against Henry, so that their opposition to the King of Scotland was not likely to be very strenuous. These internal disturbances brought Henry back from France, who quickly defeated the Scotch, and brought the rebellious Barons under subjection, Udard and others escaping abroad, and joining the second Crusade. Gilbert de Broham his son gave up half his estate to Robert de Veteripont, who was then sheriff of Westmorland, but not in the time of Edward I., as stated in the Markham MS., but in the reign of King John, as shown by a deed now in the Rolls Chapel. He paid a fine for his non-attendance upon that monarch into Normandy, and his name appears on the "oblata roll" of the 2nd of King John, preserved in the Tower of London, amongst the Drenges of Westmoreland,- "Walter de Harcla," "Tailboys Baron of Kendal," "John de Morvill," and "Gilbert de Broham." In the deed with Veteripont he spells his name "de Burgham," but here "de Broham." It appears that the Norman tower forming the keep to the castle of Brougham (afterwards so long one of the residences of the powerful family of the Cliffords, Earls of Westmorland, but now in ruins), together with the advowson of the church and a considerable estate, at this time passed from the family; but they never parted with the manor. To Gilbert succeeds Henry de Burgham, less celebrated than his modern namesake, and to him John de Burgham, sheriff of Westmoreland in 1351. Sir John de Burgham, knight, the next in descent, settles a disputed boundary with Sir Roger Clifford, knight; and their instrument, dated 2nd of Richard II., is in the Rolls Chapel. In 1383 Sir John de Burgham was knight of the shire for the county of Cumberland. His son, John de Burgham, also sat in Parliament for Carlisle, 1394 and 1396, and was succeeded by Thomas de Burgham, who in 1486 also was member for Cumberland. Succeeding him, we have John Burgham, the prefix "de" being now laid aside, who, by post mortem inquisition in 1494, is found seized of the manor of Brougham. John his son, 1504, married a daughter of Dudley of Yanwath Hall; succeeded by Gilbert Burgham, temp. Henry VIII. Thomas Burgham next follows, Lord of Brougham, A.D. 1553; married Jane, daughter of John Vaux of Catterlen and Tryermayne - hence the title Lord Brougham and Vaux. Henry Burgham, temp. Elizabeth. Thomas Browham demises to Agnes, his widow, "all that manor, capital, messuage, and demesne lands called Brougham Hall," &c. He died childless, and was succeeded by Peter Brougham, his uncle, who married Anne, daughter and heiress of John Southaic, of Scailes Hall, in Cumberland, representative of the Boyvills, feudal barons of Levington, and descended also from Ivo de Tailboyes, lord of Kendal. Henry Brougham, of Scailes and Blackhall, about 1622. Thomas Brougham, of Scailes Hall, sheriff of Cumberland, died 1645. Henry Brougham, esq. of Scailes Hall, his son, is thus mentioned in Bishop
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