MORTHYNG, William

Aside from his election to represent Carlisle in the Parliament of 1435, only one reference to William Morthyng has been traced. In October 1439 he was a juror at Armathwaite, some ten miles to the south-east of Carlisle, at the inquisition post mortem taken on the death of George Warwick of Warwick near Carlisle.1 C219/14/5; CIPM, xxv. 148. It may be that he numbered among the kinsmen of the deceased. In 1408 William Strickland, bishop of Carlisle, had recovered by assize of novel disseisin 30 acres of land at Linstock, near Warwick, against George and his wife Alice and Richard Morthyng and his wife Maud.2 JUST1/1517, rot. 63d. Richard had been in the garrison of Carlisle castle in the 1380s: E199/7/11, m. 7. Another Morthyng, John, served in the retinue of Sir John Neville, son and heir apparent of Ralph, earl of Westmorland, in the French campaign of 1417, and under another northern lord, John, Lord Clifford, in that of 1421.3 E101/50/1, m. 1; 51/2, m. 22.