• General Notes

  Speaker of the House of Commons
  
  YORKSHIRE FORTIFICATIONS
  Harsley
  SE 998426
  Northallerton
  
  Fortified Manor
  
  Strangway
  
  Sable, two lions passant in pale, paly of six argent and gules with a canton of the second
  
  Leland states : these men be of most name in Northallertonshire, Strangway of Harsley, where Stangway the judge builded a praty (pretty) castle.
  Source: http://www.yorkshirehistory.com/section%20f%20to%20i.htm
  
  The farmhouse incorporates part of C14 castle but is mainly of C19 date. The building is of two storeys and is of rendered stone with a pantile roof. The house is of four bays, the right hand bay has a lower roof. Bay two contains a four-panel door with overlight set in a plain doorcase with pilasters, frieze and cornice. Stables at Harsley Castle Farmhouse. Part of the early C15 castle keep, now stables. The single storey, three bay building is of coursed rubble stone and has two plain waggon openings to the centre and left, to the right is a smaller doorway. There are three chambers with stone barrel vaulted roofs, the chamber to the left has the remains of a large chimney.Castle was in existence by 1423 when Sir James Strangeways took it over. It later fell into disuse after the manor was forfeited to the crown in C16. A moat still survives as do the massive vaulted undercrofts which are used as cellars.
  
  Source: http://homepage.mac.com/philipdavis/English%20sites/2083.html

Details of Sir James' family with Elizabeth D'Arcy