THE ANCESTOR i6i The Answer Willi : Baildon was first, & dwelled att Baildon in second of Henery [IV]. Nicholas Baildon, his sone, maried one of William's daughters in Henry y® sixt dayes. Walter Baildon maried one of Caluerleye's in Henry y^ seventh's dayes. John Baildon maried one of y^ Haldenbye's daughters in Holdernesse in Henry y^ seuenth dayes. Robert Baildon maried Merfeild's daughter in Henry y^ eight dayes. Nicolas Baildon, my father, maried one of the Waterhouse's daughters in King Henr : the eight's dayes. & I maried one of Maude's daughters in this queen's dayes. I pray yow to take paines to make me a letter according to this instructions & letter sent to me of the other side, & I shall pay yow for y"" paines. Y"" freind to Command, The letter of Edward Baildon and Robert's answer are both written on one sheet of paper and in the same hand.^ The recipient of the above letter was Robert Baildon of Baildon, in the county of York, eldest son and heir of Nicholas Baildon by his wife Sibil, daughter of Robert Waterhouse of Halifax. Robert was baptized at Halifax July 19, 1541, in accordance, no doubt, with the well known custom for a bride to go to her parents' house for her first confinement. In 1585 he entered his pedigree at the Visitation of Yorkshire by Robert Glover, Somerset Herald, but does not go beyond his great-great-grandfather, Walter. He records his wife, Isabel, daughter of Thomas Maude of West Riddlesden, and his three children, William, son and heir, then aged twenty-two, and two daughters, Anne and Bridget. He died intestate in 1599. 1 The facsimile is taken from a better signature, dated 1585 ; Exchequer Depositions, Michaelmas Term, 27 & 28 Elizabeth, No. 7. 2 The volume containing it (Stowe MS. 713, fo. 175^) is a collection of coats of arms, of the seventeenth century, which belonged to William Brack of York in 1735, and to * Thomas Beckwith of York, painter and F.A.S.,' in 1783. At the end are bound up a number of pages which have nothing to do with the subject matter of the volume, and amongst these is the sheet above printed.
