Sir Roger de Coverley

In one of your early numbers was a query on this subject, which I do not think has been yet answered. I have a MS. account of the family of Calverley, of Calverley, in Yorkshire, an autograph of Ralph Thoresby in the year 1717, in which occurs the following passage:— "*Roger*, so named from the Archbishop" (of York), "was a person of renowned hospitality, since, at this day, the obsolete known tune of *Roger a Calverley* is referred to him, who, according to the custom of those times, kept his *minstrells*, from that their office named *harpers*, which became a family and possessed lands till…