Complete Peerage provides a brief biography of Roger de Newmarch, brother and heir of John de Newmarch, noting that Roger de Newmarch was summoned "for military service from 1310 onwards, and, as a knight, to the Great Council, 1324. In 1322 his lands were seized as a partisan of John de Mowbray, who was executed at York; Newmarch was pardoned. Under Edward III he served on numerous commissions, and was chief commissioner for widening the River Don. He served in France in 1346 or 1347." [1]
1330 "Gloucester. June 23. To John de Bolyngbrok, escheator beyond Trent. Order not to inter meddle further with the manors specified below, and to restore the issues thereof, as the king learns by inquisition taken by the escheator that Amice, late the wife of John de Novo Mercato, held no lands at her death of the king in her demesne as of fee, but that she held on that day the manors of Wodhale in the park of Wilmersle and Thorpe in Balne as of the purchase of her and John, to them and to the heirs of their bodies, with remainder, in default of such heirs, to the right heirs of John, and that the manor of Le Wodhale is held of Queen Philippa as of the honour of Pontefract by the service of a twentieth of a knight's fee, and that the manor of Thorp is held of Henry le Vavasour by certain services, and that John and Amice died without an heir of their bodies, and that Roger de Novo Mercato, brother of John, is John's next heir and is of full age." [2]
1351/52 Roger de Newmarch died on March 11. "25. Roger Neumarche, knight, or Roger de Neumarche. Writ, 20 March, 26 Edward III. York. Inq. taken at Doncastre, Saturday before St. Mark, 26 Edward III. Thorp in Balne. The manor (extent given, with field names) held for his life of the grant of Henry de Belle Monte, late earl of Boghan, with reversion to the said Henry and his heirs. Part of the said manor is held of John de Rithre, knight, as of the manor-of Heselwod, by knight's service and by rendering to the said John and his heirs, lords of the said manor, 10s. yearly. Certain tenements in Ouston, which pertain to the said manor, are held of the duke of Lancaster by fealty and by service of 3s. yearly. One bovate of land in the said manor is held of Hugh de Hastynges, knight, by fealty and by service of 16d. yearly. The meadow del Hallegarth, which pertains to the said manor, is held of William de Scargill by fealty and by service of 18d. yearly. The extent includes a fishery in the river Done. He held no other lands &c. for life in the county. He died on Sunday in the second week of Lent last. Henry de Bello Monte, son and heir of John de Bello Monte, late son and heir of the aforesaid Henry de Bello Monte, late earl of Boghan, aged 8 years and more, is heir of the said Henry de Bello Monte of the said manor of Thorp. Robert Neumarche, son of Adam Neumarche, son of the deceased, aged 8 years and more, is his heir in blood." [3]
[1] George E. Cokayne, H. A. Doubleday, Howard de Walden, eds., The Complete Peerage, rev., Vol. 9, Moels to Nuneham (London: St. Catherine Press, 1936), 548.
[2] Calendar of the Close Rolls, Edward III, Vol. II, 1330-1333 (London: HMSO, 1898), 42, [InternetArchive], [HathiTrust].
[3] Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem, Vol. 10, Edward III (London: HMSO, 1921), 8-9, [HathiTrust].