levy a Fine together with other Mannours iâ— Com. Leic. and Berks. to Ric. Buckland and his heirs with warranty against the heirs of the said Elianore which argues that she was an Inheritrix but it seems the uses were to the said Tho. Chaumbre for in 10 H. 6. the said Thomas by the name of Thom. Chaumber of Spretton in Com. Northhampt Esq was certified to hold the same by the 4 part of a Kts. fee. How it came from Chaumber to Vaux I have not yet seen but in 1 E. 4. it eschaeted to the Crown by the attainder of Sir Wâ—ll Vaux Kt. and the same year was giveâ— away by the K. tâ— Raph Hâ—stings Esq and his heirs which grant K. Ric. 3. by his Letters Pat. dated 10 Aug. 1 of his reign confirmed Neither can I say any more thereof than that 3 parts in 4 of it were sold to Thom. Deacons of Napton Gent. 15 Nov. 36 Eliz. by Laurence Eyton of ...... in Com. Northhampt Gent. and Edw. Eyton his son which Thomas upon the marriage of Will his son with Grace one of the daughters of Hugh Beresford late of Slateley in this County by his Deed dated 20 Iunii 12 Iac. entailed it on the said Will with divers remainders And of Browns I find that the family of Brown being possest of several parcels of land here that came in time to have the reputation of a Mannour at length by Ioane the daughter of Henry Browne wife to Iohn Cranow they descended to Christopher Cranow their son and heir which Christopher by his Deed dated 10 Martii 24 H. 7. past all his right therein unto Ric. Willys and his heirs from whom descended George Willys late of Fenni-Compton Gent. who in 16 Car. aliened the greatest part if not all of them to Ric. Shukburgh Esq but now Kt. the present owner thereof The Church dedicated to S. Laurence was in an 1291. 19 E. 1. valued at xxv marks the perpetual patronage whereof Sir Iohn de Pulteny Kâ— obtained procuring Ric. de Napton Rector of the Church of Whelton in Com. Northamp 22 E. 3. to release unto him all his title therein and thereupon the same year had license of the K. to bestow it on the Church of S. Laurence in Candlewyk-street London by him the said Sir Iohn then newly founded But before it was appropriat thereto as he intended Iohn Stratford Archb. of Cant. got it with intent to annex it to the Chapel of S. Thomas the Martyr then also newly by him founded at Stratford super Avon in this County Howbeit this purpose of the Archb. was not effected for it appears that Rob. de Stretford Bishop of Chichester brother and heir to the Archbishop of Canterbury granted it to Will. de Shareshull and others in 35 E. 3. who by the K. Letters Pat. dated 4 Dec. the same year had license to bestow it on the Monks of Combe which they did not accordingly do but in 37 E. 3. passed it to Ric. Earl of Arundell and his heirs whereby at length it came to the said Coll. Church of S. Laurence-Pultney and was incorporate thereto by Pope Vrban the vi the Vicaridge being endowed in 11 R. 2. by Ric. Scroope Bishop of Cov. and Lich. which Vicaridge in 26 H. 8. was valued at ix l. xiiii s. per ann over and above viii s. allowed for Procurations and Synodals Within the precincts of this parish was there a Chapel of S. Laurence as appears by a License in 16 R. 2. granted by the B. unto one Iohn Odams of Napton that he might have divine service celebrated therein Patroni Ecclesiae Incumbentes temp Inst. Will. de Peyto hac vice Tho. de Morhall 5 Cal. Iunii 1358. D. Will. de Shareshull mil. Tho. de Ludlow Will Banaster hac vice Ioh. Reynald Cap. 7 Id. Sept. 1361. Ric. Comes Arundell Surr. Ric. de Tysho 15 Cal. Iunii 1367. Patroni Vicariae Magr. Cap. Collegii S. Laur. Pultney Ioh. atte-Well Pbr. 8 Maii 1388. Magr. Cap. Collegii S. Laur. Pultney Ioh. Almonbury Cap. ult Iunii 1428. Magr. Cap. Collegii S. Laur. Pultney Henr. Villers Pbr. 2 Sept. 1430. Magr. Cap. Collegii S. Laur. Pultney Will. Wattus Pbr. 18 Sept. 1436. Magr. Cap. Collegii S. Laur. Pultney Rog. Crispe Cap. 10 Ian. 1452. Magr. Cap. Collegii S. Laur. Pultney Ioh. Scoley Cap. 17 Iunii 1541. Edw. Napper gen Ioh. Wâ—lks Pbr. 28 Apr. 1556. D. Eliz. Regina Ioh. Bell Cler. 24 Nov. 1569. D. Eliz. Regina Tho. Hancock Cler. 22 Ian. 1572. Iacobus Rex Tho. Fosset Cler. 3 Oct. 1604. Iacobus Rex Henr. Tayler Cler. 22 Iun. 1608. Iacobus Rex Ioh. Bowyer Cler. 3 Maii 1619. Arms in the Church windows Sable a Cheveron betwixt 3 mullets Arg. quartering Napton and Lunel Shukburgh Or upon a fesse azure 3 Escalops Arg. Napton Gules 3 hands couped Argent Dyssart Southam FOllowing this little stream I come next to Southam situate on the North side thereof This with a great part of Lodbroke and Rodburne was given by K. Ethelred about 80 years before the Norman Conquest unto Earl Leofwyne as by his Deed where the metes and bounds in the Saxon language are set forth may appear and by Earl Leofrik son to the said Leofwyne bestowed on the Monks of Coventre upon his foundation of that Monastery in an 1047. 1 Edw. Conf. By the Conq. Survey I find that it contained 4 hydes having 2 Mils rated at iiii s. and woods of one mile in length and half a mile in breadth which were in the K. hands at that time but where those woods stood is hard to find out for now there is scarce a tree left In that Record it is written Sucham the t being mistaken as is usual for c. which name doubtless it had by reason of its Southern site from some former plantation the word ham with our ancestors signifyâ—â—g the same with habitatio To the Monks of Coventre it continued even till the dissolution of that Monastery and had a weekly Mercate on the Wednesday first granted thereto in 11 H. 3. with a Faire yearly to last for 8 dayes beginning on the day of S. Leodegarius the Martyr which falls out 2 Oct. But these dayes for the Mercate and Faire being not found so fit for this place in 23 H. 3. they were by a new Charter altered viz. the Mercate to the Monday and the Faire to S. George his day and 7 dayes after Divers priviledges had the said Monks here as well as in other their lands which I shall forbear now to mention in regard that I have in Cov. taken notice of them at large But upon the dâ—ssolution of that Religious House this Mannour was in 34 H. 8. granted to Sir Edm. Knightley Kt.
Henrici Moton de Peckleton in Com. Leic. Rob. le Harpour miles temp E. 2. Isabella filia Ioh. Herci domini de Pilardington Iohanes le Harpour 6. E. 2. Elizab. filia ..... Lisle de Moxhull Ric. le Harpour frater haeres Alicia filia Rogeri de Culi Iohanes le Harpour filius haeres Isabella filia Rob. Applebi mil. Ioh. le Harpour obiit s. prole Iohanna filia Ric. Vernon de Harlaston Brunus Constantia Henricus del Broc de Cestreton temp R. 1. Hawisia ux Walt. de Elmedon Hawisia soror haeres Ricardus de Broc Robertus de Broc obiit s. p. 48. H. 3. There was also a certain place here held likewise by the said Gilbert le Harpour of the K. by Grand Sergeanty viz. to keep the Hay called Teddesley-Hey within the Forrest of Canoke at his proper costs And that the Ancestors of the same Gilbert had some possessions in this County long before is very probable for it appears that one Hugh Harpur was a witnesse to the Grant of certain lands made to the Canons of Kenilworth by Hugo fil Richardi in the time of K. H. 1. From which Hugh I find the line of his Descendants thus deduced by the learned Cambden and the Seals of Arms of some of them so drawn from certain original Charters by that judicious Antiquary my worthy friend Sr. Tho. Shirley Kt. as they are here expressed But the last of this Family that had to do here was Iohn the son of Iohn le Harpour who in 25 E. 3. past away all his lands in this place as also what he had in Pillardinton Hercy unto Will de Peito and his Heirs so that since that time the Descendants of the said Will. have enjoy'd them together with the other Mannour here in Chesterton whereof I have allready spoke Which Iohn dying with our issue left Richard his Brother and Heir and he Iohn from whom the Harpours late of Rushall in Staffordshire who flourisht there in an eminenr condition for divers Ages did descend Edward Harpour Esq being the immediate Heir male to them and now living The Church dedicated to S. Giles was given to the Canons of Kenilworth by Will. Croc in H. 2. time as I have already shewed yet I find that K. Ric. 1. by his Letters Pat. bearing date 10. Aprill 5. of his reign presented thereunto one Eustace a Clerk upon the vacancy thereof by reason that Rob. de Broc whose daughter and heir became wedded to Hugh de Loges before recited was then dead and his lands at that time in respect of the Tenure in Sergeanty in the Ks. hands However the K. then presented there is no doubt but that the right was in the said Canons of Kenilworth and so continued till they past it away to Rog. Molend B. of Cov. and Lich. and his successors in 12 E. 1. After which sc. in 19. E. 1. I find it valued at 24 Marks and in 11. E. 2. that the K. in consideration of the Mannour of Greneford in Com. Midd. which Walt. Langton then Bp. of Coventre and Lich. as also L. Treasurer u of England and one of the Executors to K. E. 1 gave unto him granted License to the said Walter and his Successors that he or they might dispose and assigne the Advouson thereof inter alia in pure Almes to be appropriated for the founding of Chantries and performance of other pious works for the soul of K. E. 1. and his Ancestors Kings of England but no performance was made thereof accordingly the said Bp. as also his two Successors Rog. de Northburgh and Rob. de Stretton retaining z the same in their hands till 45 E. 3. that the K. being very much moved directed his Precept a to the said Roger de Stretton bearing date 8 Aug. commanding him upon his Allegiance that he should proceed in fullfilling the pious intention of K. E. his Father therein before the Feast of St. Michaell ensuing That there was a new License granted by K. H. 4. bearing date 1 Dec. 14. H. 4 giving power to the then Bp. to bestow it upon the Vicars Chorall of Lichfield and that the said Vicars should appropriate the same is evident Howbeit the Record of its Appropriation I have not seen but do suppose it was made by Iohn Burghill Bp. of Coventre and Lich. in H. 4. time or begining of H. 5. For upon the institution of the first Vicar thereto Iohn Lacy by name 10 Maii an 1414. 2 H. 5. the Vicaridge is there said to be de novo ordinata which Iohn Lacy is he I suppose whom the Record calls Iohn Prest who had the Ks. Letters Patents of pardon granted to him for receiving and harbouring Sr. Iohn Old Castle Lord Cobham here at Chesterton upon the Monday next following the Feast of S. Peter ad vincula commonly called Lammas in 3. H. 5. knowing him to be an Heretick and holding divers opinions contrary to the Catholike Faith for which he then stood indicted as the Pat. importeth But in 26 H. 8. the Vicar here had no more than 5 l. 6 s. 8 d. for his annuall stipend from the Vicars of Lichfeild to whom the Church was so appropriated as I have shewed Patroni Ecclesiae Incumbentes c. Dominus Rex Nich. de Guldeford Cler. 16 Oct. 1296. D. Episc. Cov. Lich. Thomas de Clopton Pbr. 4 Cal. Sept. 1328. D. Episc. Cov. Lich. Iohn de Deping 6 Cal. Oct. 1328. D. Episc. Cov. Lich. Rob. de Patricha Pbr. 3. Id. Maii 1340. D. Episc. Cov. Lich. Ioh. de Northburgh Cler. 18 Cal. Martii 1341. Patroni Vicariae D. Episc. Cov. Lich. Ioh. Mondevill Cler. 15 April 1375. D. Episc. Cov. Lich. D. Ioh. Lacy 10 Maii 1414. D. Episc. Cov. Lich. Will. Ives Pbr. 19 Iunii 1426. D. Episc. Cov. Lich. Rob. Saxundale Pbr. 15. Feb 1441. D. Episc. Cov. Lich. Ioh. Welford Canonicus de Stone 3 April 1452. D. Episc. Cov. Lich. Ioh. Audley Pbr. 13 Oct. 1453. Kingston alias Little Chesterton THis being in the parish of Chesterton is also by depopulation reduced only to one House but it was given by Turchill de Warwick to the Monks of Abingdon in Will the Conq. time Siward son to the said Turchill then a youth consenting thereto and the K. himself confirming it By the Conq. Survey it was valued at C s. and certifyed to contain 1 hide one Alwol having held it in Edw. the Conf. days At the time of the said generall Survey the Abbot of Abingdon had another hide of land in this place rated at L s. pawn'd onely to him by the said Turchill which I suppose was not redeem'd for by an antient Roll written about K. Iohn's time it appears that the Monks of Abingdon then possest it and that the extent thereof amounted
this place as Gerold de Pilardestone in 16 H. 2 Roger de Pilardinton in K. Iohn's time Steph. de Pilardestone and Richard his son and heir temp H. 3. But none of these were Lords of the place for ought I could ever discerne for certain it is that one Gilebert de VVasevill possest it in R. 1. time and by committing Felony whereof he was convicted forfeited his whole estate which occasioned the King to seize upon this Lordship and bestow it upon Hugh de Hercy But not long after came VValeran Earl of Warwick to the said King Richard and petitioned for the same as his right forasmuch as the forfeiture thereof belonged to him in regard it was of his Fee and obtained it accordingly yet at the King's request that the before specified Hugh de Hercy might enjoy it did thereupon make a grant thereof to him Unto which Gilb. de VVasevill I find that Hugh de Gornai was the immediate Tenant thereof and that upon a suit in the Kings Court in 5. Ioh. Osbert de Roneray recovered the possession of it against him the said Hugh but within 3. dayes after that Geffery Fitz piers then Iusticiarius Angliae had command to restore it unto Hugh de Hercy Neverthelesse H. de Gornai retained it for awhile so that the said Hugh de Hercy was exposed to a suit at law for it for in the same year wherein the suit was commenced it appeareth that the King to make satisfaction to Gornai to whom he formerly had given possessiof it commanded that the Sheriff of this County should deliver unto the said Hugh de Hercy seisin of the Mannour of Kineton which he had before granted to him in exchange for Pilardinton upon condition that if the said Hugh de Hercy could obtain Pilardinton of Gornai either by a friendly agreement or a lawfull triall that then Kineton should revert to the King By which of these means it was that Hercy had it I cannot directly tell but that his posterity enjoy'd it is very certain This Hugh de Hercy gave for his Armes only a labell of 5. points and left Iohn his son and heir in ward to Thomas Basset in 13 Ioh. From which Iohn descended Iohn de Hercy I suppose his grandson who in 7. E. 1. held this Mannour of the Earl Warwick by the service of one Knights Fee having at that time one carucate of land in demesn and seven Tenants holding severall proportions by particular Rents and sundry servile imployments But this Iohn had no issue as I guesse for in 35 E. 1. he setled it after the decease of himself and Lettice his wife upon Thomas Wandak and Alice his wife and the heirs of the said Thomas covenanting to receive of the same Thomas during his own and his said wifes life six quarters of Wheat and six quarters of Barley and bore for his Armes a Fesse with a labell of 3. points in chiefe From which Hercyes was it for a long time called Pillerton-Hercy by way of distinction from the other Pillerton called Pillerton-Priors To the before specified Thomas Wandak succeeded Iohn betwixt whom and Will. Spine there was a suit for the title to this Mannour in 29 E. 3. the said VVill. recovering the possession of it against him the said Iohn and Catherine his wife as also against Thomas Paynell others After which the next mention thereof that I meet with is by a Fine levied in 48 E. 3. betwixt Thomas de Wencote and Alice his wife Plantiffs and Henry de Etynton and Kath. his wife Deforc. Whereby the said Henry and Kath. for themselves and the heirs of the said Katherine quitted all their interest therein to the same Thomas de Wencote and Alice and the heirs of the said Alice for ever in consideration whereof the same Henry and Katherine were to receive yearly during their lives x l. sterling so that 't is not unlike but that the saâ—d Alice and Kath. were daughters and coheirs to the above specified Iohn Wandak Yet how it comes to passe I cannot well imagine but the year ensuing the said Fine so levied Iohn de Hastings Earl of Pembroke was found to dye seized thereof Anne his widow having it inter alia assigned to her in dower So likewise did Iohn de Hastings son and heir to the said Earl in 13 R. 2. leaving Reginald Grey of Ruthin his cosin and heir But in 2 H. 4. I find that the heirs of S â— Iohn Thornbury Knight held a Knights Fee here of the Earl of Warwick and that in 10 H. 6. S r Philip Thornbury of Bygrave in Com. Hartford Knight was Lord of this Mannour As also that in 36 H. 6. Richard Thornbury Esq with Thomas his son demised it to Hugh Dalby Gent. for certain years Howbeit all that I have farther seen relating thereto is that in 34 H. 8. there was a Fine levied thereof betwixt VVill. VVhorwood Esq Plantiff and Iohn Mawdley Esq and others Deforc. but to what uses I know not And that in 1. 2. Ph. M. the Q. granted to VVill. Rice Esq the moytie of the same which had eschaeted to the Crown by the attainder of S r Ambrose Dudley Knight Touching the Church dedicated to the blessed Virgin I find that in King Iohn's time there were great suits betwixt the Monks of S. Neofs and Thomas Basset who had the wardship of Iohn son and heir of Hugh de Hercy for the right of Presentation thereto the Monks pretending that the said Hugh de Hercy gave them the perpetuall patronage thereof but in 14 Ioh. they came to an Agreement whereby they concluded to presenâ— joyntly to the Rectory and likewise to the Vicaridge by consent of the Parson so that the Vicaâ— should pay yearly to the Parson 4 marks saving alwayes the right of the said heir and of the Monks In an 1291 19 E. 1. it was valued at xx marks out of which the Prior of Ware had a portion of Tithes amounting in value to 7. marks and a half Upon what title it was I know not but I do find that Thomas de Tydinton a Priest recovered by a tryall at Law against Iohn de Hercy the advouson thereof which he after past away to Guy de Beauchamp Earl of Warwick by his Deed dated at Elmeley the Wednsday after the Feast of S. Mich. an 1309. 3 E. 2. whose son and heir viz. T. Beauchamp Earl of Warw. in 8 E. 3. gave the said advouson to the Canons of his Coll. Church at Warwick who with in 7. years after obtained an appropriation of the fruits thereof from VVolstan thâ—n Bishop of Worcester bearing date at Hertlebury 6 Dec. an 1341 15 E. 3. which was so granted by that Bishop towards the support of their charge in building of the Steeple of the
whom this Mannour was so given I find that she continued many years a widow after her Husbands death And in 18. of E. 1. granted to her Son Stephen all her Lands in Melton Burgh b. Mariae Langham Burmingham Snitterley Wineton Glamforde Saxlingham Scharnton Est-Todingham Hinmingland Hindringham Hyldolveston and Norwich in the County of Norff. which descended to her by inheritance after the death of Geffrey the Son of Peter Constable of Melton her Brother And if there be truth in tradition as there is likelyhood for antiquity that fair Monument of Free-stone with the statue of a Woman excellently wrought lying in the midst of the South Isle of Hill-Morton Church was erected for this Edith whereof the tabernacle or cover over her head is very like to that of Queen Elianor's Wife to K. Edw. 1. which is of brass in Westminster Abby This Thomas to whom Hill-Morton was so given by his Father obteined to himself and his Heirs in 49. H. 3. a Charter for a weekly Mercate here upon the Saturday and a Fair yearly to begin on the even of St. Iohn Baptist and to continue for three dayes which Grant being made at such time as the King was a Prisoner the Barons excercising regall authority in his name held not valid and therefore in 52. of the same Kings reign he procured a new Charter ratifying the Fair but altering the Mercate to Wednesday At which time he also had Free-warren granted to him and his Heirs in all his demesn Lands here For this Thomas who dyed before the 13. of E. 1. is there yet standing a very fair monument betwixt two Pillars in the Church of Hill-Morton opposite to that of his Mother Edith whereon his statue of free-stone lyeth cross leg'd in Armor of Male as when I come to speak of the Church may be seen whose Brother and Heir viz. Raphe de Astley in 13. E. 1. claymed a Court Leet and other Priviledges in this Mannour by Prescription and likewise exhibibited K. H. 3. Charter for the Mercate Fair and Free warren last before mentioned all which were allowed To whom succeeded Thomas his Son and Heir certified to be Lord of Hill-Moreton in 9. E. 2. who liking not the Wednesday Mercate there procured a new Patent in 8. E. 3 for to have it upon â—he Tuesday continuing the Fair as formerly and renewing the Charter of Free warren And in the same year obteyned Licence for amortizing of certain Lands lying within this Lordship to maintain a Chantry-Priest to sing Mass for ever in the Chappel of our Lady contiguous to the Parish Church of Hill-Morton for the Souls of him the said Thomas and Margery his wife As also of Edith Astley before mentioned and of the Father and Mother of the said Thomas their Heirs and Ancestours and all Christian Souls deceased This Thomas in 9. E. 3. had a speciall Patent exempting him from Knighthood And in 17. E. 3. gave the perpetuall Patronage of the Church of Hill-Morton to the Dean and Canons of the Colledge of Astley then newly founded by Thomas Lord Astley the chief of that family and dyed before the 20. of E. 3. But of his descendants forasmuch as their residence hath been in Norfolk I have here no more to say The Church Dedicoted to St. John Bapt. IN An. 1291. 19. E. 1. the Rectory was valued at xviii marks And in 26. H. 8. The Vicaridge at vi l. x. sol At which time the Procurations and Synodalls payd out thereof were viii sol Out of which Rectory is there a Pension of xiii sol iiii d. yearly payable to the Bishop originally reserued upon the appropriation thereof as all others of that kind were in recompence of the benefit that he and his Successors might receive out of the Church in case no such Appropriation should have been made Patroni Ecclesiae Incumbentes temp Instit. Thomas de Estleya miles Philippus de Estleya Cleric frater ejusdem Thomae Sans date Pr. Conv. de Erdbury Thom. de Dunton diac an 1286. Patroni Vicariae Decan Cap. de Astley Will. de Walton Pbr. 4. Non. Sept. An. 1343. Decan Cap. de Astley Galfr. de Lyllburne xiii Kl. Martii An. 1349. Decan Cap. de Astley Ioh. de Rokeby Pbr. iiii Kl. Oct. An. 1350. Decan Cap. de Astley Ioh. Rolf. Pbr. vi Id. Ian. an 1362. Decan Cap. de Astley Will. Meeke Cap. viii Kl. Dec. An. 1386. Decan Cap. de Astley Riâ— Millford Pbr. xxvi Aug. An. 1428. Decan Cap. de Astley Cato Halys Cap. 1. Oct. An. 1428. Decan Cap. de Astley Will. Nicholl Cap. vi Oct. An. 1433. Decan Cap. de Astley Ioh. Coton Pbr. ii Dec. an 1442. Decan Cap. de Astley Ioh. Kempe Pbr. iii. Iunii an 1447. Decan Cap. de Astley Edw. Bate Pbr. xi Oct. An. 1493. Decan Cap. de Astley D. Thom. Morres ult Apr. An. 1521. Decan Cap. de Astley D. Ioh. Grendon Cap. xvii Apr. An. 1525. Henricus Dux Suffolciae Edw. Hopkynson Cler. xxiiii Iunii An. 1553. Edw. Comes Hertfordiae Rob. Wigston Cleric xii Apr. An. 1565. Eliz. Regina Thom. Hodgkinson Cleric viii Apr. An. 1602. But there is something else which I must not pass by before I leave this place and that is the foundation of two Chanteryes here The one of them by Sir Edmund Trussel Knight in the Chappell of our Lady adjoyning to the Parish Church for the soul of Thomas Astley deceased and the good estate of Margerie late Wife of the said Thomas of their Children that were then living and for the souls of their Children deceased as also for the Souls of Iohn Primrose and of the Lady Edith Astley and for the good estate of Sir Raphe Astley Knight and Dame Agnes his VVife Sir Edmund Trussel Knight and Dame Margerie his VVife and of Thomas Meilour Priest and for their souls after their decease The Patronage of which Chantry by the Bishops Instrument for Ordination thereof was reserved after the death of the same Sir Edmund Trussell to be in the Heirs of the said Thomas Astley and Margery And for the maintenance of a Priest perpetually to sing Mass there for the purposes above mentioned the King gave Licence to the said Sir Edmund to amortize four messuages fifty acres of land seaven acres of meadow and xxvi sol Rent in Hill-Morton as it may seem by the Jurors certificate returned upon the Writ of Ad quod dampnum thereupon This Sir Edmund Trussell bore for his Armes a crosse formè fleuritè debruised with a bendlet as appears by the impression of his Seal which I have seen affixed to his first Instrument of Presentation to the said Chantery And I suppose that he marryed Margery the VVidow of the said Thomas Astley though it be not directly exprest in
This Henry was a Knight for so by his grant under seal he is stiled whereby with the consent of Ranulph his son and heir he gave a yard land in Rokeby to the Prior and Monks of Kirby And in the 39 of H. 3. obtained for himself and his heirs a Charter for a weekly Mercate here every Saturday and for a Fair yearly beginning on the Even of St. Laurence to endure for three daies with Free warren in all his demesn lands in Warwickshire For the advantage of which Mercate the Abbot of Combe earnestly moved the Monks of Pipwell for permission that they might purchase or erect a house in Rokeby to receive those Monks of theirs as they should have occasion to imploy thither Howbeit in 13 E. 1. Annabilla the Widow of the said Henry holding this Mannour in dower and claiming Free warren with a Mercate and Faire here for which she exhibited the Charter of K. H. 3. extended her claim further than that Charter warranted as it seems for it was then found that she challenged liberty to punish the breakers of the Assize of Bread and Ale whereof being not seized the Shiriff entred upon the Market Fair and Free warren for the King To which last mentioned Henry succeeded Ranulph his son and heir who dyed before 20 E. 1. for in the 24 of that Kings reign Raph Basset son and heir of Simon Basset of Sapcote granted the custody of Annabil his daughter and heir with her marriage to Peter de Leicester Clerk Which Annabil was the wife of Sir Iohn Goband Kt. Howbeit Annabil her mother being married to ......... Mundevill held Rokeby in dower 3 E. 2. In 1 E. 3. the before specified Iohn Goband and Annabil his wife had a Court Leet and other priviledges granted to them in this their Mannour of Rokeby after which it continued not long in that family for in 23 E. 3. Iohn the son and heir of Sir Iohn Goband Kt. past the inheritance thereof with the advouson of the Church to Raph Lord Stafford and Sir Iohn Oddingsells Kt. and their heirs In which grant he makes mention that the same was setled upon Iohn Brown and Annabil his wife and upon him the said Iohn Goband and his heirs by Iohn Charnells Parson of the Church of Swepston in Leicestershire I suppose that this Annabil married to her second husband the before mentioned Iohn Brown for in 20 E. 3. Iohn Brown is said to be Lord of Rugby which doubtless was in her right After which in 24 E. 3. Sir Thomas Charnells Kt. releast to the said Raph Lord Stafford all his interest in this Mannour And in 7 R. 2. Nicholas Goband Rector of the Church of Cley did the like to Hugh Earl Stafford son of the said Raph in consideration whereof he received xl l. sterling Which Nicholas Goband sealed with three Crosses crosslets fitchè upon the fesse to difference him from the principall branch of that family who bore a plain fesse and 3. besants in chief The Release of Sir Iohn Odingsells to the said Baron of Stafford I have not seen Howbeit there is no question but that such a thing there was for in the same 23. year of E. 3. the Lord Stafford as Patron of the Church exhibited his Clerk to the Abbot of Leicester according to the Agreement before exprest This Mannour continued in the Family of Stafford till the death of Humfrey Duke of Buckingham in 38. H. 6. but how much longer I have not yet seen for the next mention I find thereof is that Ric. 3. an 1. of his Reign granted it to Iohn Lord Dudley and to the Heirs of his body in which Patent it appears that it came to his hands by the death of Margaret Countess of Richmund who was mother to K. Henry 7. and that he so gave it to the Lord Dudley for his faithfull service in favouring his usurped title to the Crown It should seem that Thomas Lord Stanley who was Husband to the Countess of Richmund held it during his life for I have seen a Grant by the said Lord Dudley dated 1 Aug. 2. R. 3. whereby he makes dilectum consanguineum for so he calls him his beloved Kinsman Will. Catesby Esq. Steward thereof whensoever it should come into his hands or the possession of his Heirs and to receive for his yearly Fee ten marks sterling In which grant it is exprest that the said Lord Stanley then had it for that term But I perceive it came again to the house of Stafford though I have not yet seen how nor when for immediatly upon the attainder of Edward Duke of Buckingham Henry 8. granted it to Sir Gilbert Talboys Kt. and Elizabeth his Wife and the Heirs of their two bodies expressing that it was Edward late Duke of Buckingham's attainted Which Sir Gilbert and Elizabeth had issue Elizabeth their Daughter and Heir wedded to Ambrose Dudley afterwards Earl of Warwick who in 2 Eliz. sold it together with the advowson of the Church to Iohn Wyrley and Dorothe his wife Which Dorothe dyed seized thereof ult Martii 28. Eliz. Francis her Son and Heir being then 40. years of age In an 1291. 19. E. 1. the Church dedicated to St. Andrew was valued at seaven marks and a half And in 26. H. 8. at xvii li. xix s. ii d. over and above xx sol yearly Pension issuing out of it to the Abb. of Leicester and ix sol vi d. for Procurations and Synodalls Patroni Ecclesiae Incumbentes temp Instit. Abb. de Leic. ad nominationeÌ„ Henrici de Rokeby milit secundùm tenorem cyrographi inter ipsos Alex. de Rokeby Cleric ... an 1253. 37. H. 3. Annabilla domina de Rokeby Rog. Capellanus ... an 1291. 19. E. 1. D. Rad. Basset ratione custodiae haeredis de Rokeby ...................... D. Petrus de Leycest Rob. de Halughton Pbr. iiii Non. Iulii an 1301. Annabilla de MuÌ„â—â—vile D. de Rokeby Ric. de Toucestre accolitus xii Kl. Dec. an 1313. Ioh. Gobant Radulphus Gobant Cleric ... an 1313. Abb. conv Leic. ad nominationeÌ„ Ioh. Goband D. de Rokeby Ioh. Falconarius .... an 1314. Abb. C. de Leic. ad nominationem D. Ioh. Goband mil. D. de Rokeby Ric. de Walton Pbr. Nonâ— Iunii an 1332. Abb. conv Leic. Will. de Lyons Pbr. vi Id. Martii an 1341. Ioh. Goband Will. le Pyndere Capell .... an 1349. 23. E. 3. Abb. C. de Leic. ad denominationem D. Baronis de Stafford Petrus de Bilney Câ—p. xii Kl. Aug. an 1349. Abb. C. de Leic. Will. Parker Pbr. iii. Kl. Sept an 1361. Abb. C. de Leic. ad nominationem D. Rad. Comitis Staff Rog. Geffen Pbr. xiii Kl. Ian. an 1361. Abb. C. de Leic. Will. de Langton Cler. xi Kl. Sept. an 1375.
them the said Thomas and Maud and their heirs by the service of 1 d. to be paid yearly at Easter Which Robert in consideration of xxx marks of silver soon after granted the inheritance thereof unto Henry de Hastings son and Heir of Sir Henry de Hastings Kt. to hold of him the said Robert and his heirs by the service of a pair of white Gloves or 1 d. yearly at Easter But this Henry kept it not long for I find that Sir Thomas de Bray purchased it of him within a short time after to whose posterity residing here it continued for divers descents and at length as it should seem by Elene one of the daughters and co-heirs of Richard Bray wife of Edmund Starky Gent. in H. 6. time divolved to that family in which it rested till 4 Eliz. that William Starky sold it by the name of the capital messuage and certain lands c. in Stretton to the Lady Longvile upon whose death it descended to Bartholmew her son and heir by Bartholmew Tate of de la Pre juxta Northhampton her first husband which Bartholmew in 23 Eliz. conveyed it to Anthony Tate his younger brother who left issue George Tate of Sutton-Bonington in Com. Nott. that by his deed dated 6 Iulii an 1620. sold them to Ric. Taylor of Binley in this County to whose posterity they still continue There is within this Village a Chappel of All Saints which had a Chantry therein founded by Thomas de Wolvardynton Parson of the Church of Lobenham in Leicestershire for two Priests to sing Mass daily at the Altar of St. Thomas the Martyr for the good estates of the said Thomas William Clinton Earl of Huntingdon Richard Earl of Arundell Iohn Peyto the younger as also of Alice and Margaret sisters to the said Thomas the Founder during their lives and of the reverend Father in God Roger Northburgh then B. of Cov. and Lich. and for all their souls after their departure out of this life as also for the souls of Sir Peter de Wolvardington Kt. and the Lady Aliva his Wife Father and Mother of the said Thomas and of the souls of Iohn de Wolvardynton William and Peter brethren of the said Thomas deceased and of all faithfull people departed For the maintenance of which two Priests King E. 3. in 19 of his reign granted licence to the said Thomas de Wolvardynton to amortize three messuages three yard land four acres of meadow three acres of wood and xx sol rent with the appurtenances in Stretton aforesaid After this viz. in 2 R. 2. licence was also granted to Robert de Stretton then B. of Cov. and Lich. to amortize four messuages and eight yard land with the appurtenances lying in this Village of Stretton for the maintenance of a Priest to sing Mass daily in the abovesaid Chappel for the good estate of the said King whil'st he lived and for the health of his soul when he should depart this life as also for the souls of the Kings Father and Grandfather and all the faithfull deceased Whence I conclude that this B. was born here and took his name of the place having been first a Canon of Litchfeild and Chaplain to the Black Prince K. Richard the 2. Father but an illiterate man he was saith Godwin in so much as he found it a very difficult matter to obtain Consecration which nevertheless through the Kings power at length he got in 35 E. 3. The lands of the Chantry here founded by Thomas de VVolvardynton were in 26 H. 8. valued at iiii l. xiiii sol per annum but upon the survey taken 37 H. 8. at iiii l. xvii s. per annum Prinsthorpe OF this place lying in the Parish of Wolston but Southwards from it about two miles do not I find any mention till 4. E. 1. at which time it was written Prenesthorpe As for the name it proceeds doubtless from some antient possessor thereof the latter sillable viz. Thorpe signifying a Village or Hamlet for so in the Saxons time they were called the Dutch to this day whose Language hath a great affinity with our old English calling such Villages Dorpes pronouncing d instead of th In xx E. 3. it answered with Stretton upon the Aid then collected And in 31 E. 3. there was a Fine levyed thereof betwixt William de Peeke Parson of the Church of Wapenbury pl. and Nicholas de Stoneley and Hugh de Geydon Priests Deforciants whereby it was setled upon the said William de Peeke for life the remainder to Sir Richard Trewlow Kt. and the heirs of his body and for lack of such issue to Iohn Hockele and Cecelie his wife and the heirs of their two bodies and for default thereof to Nicholas le Eyr and his heirs After which I have seen little considerable of it till it came to the Hugfords of Emscote in H. 6. time but whether by Metley's heir or not I am yet to learn In which family it continued till 9 H. 8. that Iohn Hugford sold it to Sir William Compton Kt. whos 's great Grand-child Sir Henry Compton Knight of the Bath and brother to William late Earl of Northampton now enjoyes it an 1640. Brandon THis being a part of Wolston Parish lying on the other side of Avon and situate at the foot of a Hill the soyl whereof is sandy and dry makes me conjecture that it might originally have its name from the effect that the Sun by heat doth oft-times produce upon such high ground or otherwise because being antiently woody it was first made fit for tillage by burning the thickets that naturally grew thereon In the Conquerours dayes Turchill de Warwick was possest thereof Wlsi then holding it of him By the general Survey then taken where it is written Brandune the extent of it is certified at half a hide the woods containing four furlongs in length and two in bredth and the whole esteemed at xxv sol there being then a Mill rated at xxvi d. But Turchill's lands being by the Conquerour for the most part disposed of to others as I shall have occasion in due place to shew this was it seems given to Geffrey de Clinton Chamberlain and Treasurer to K. H. 1. and Founder of the Castle and Priory of Kenillworth of whose advancement and what else is memorable I am to speak in Kenillworth whose daughter Lescelina being married to Norman de Verdune brought it with other lands to that noble family but Geffrey her brother had a hope to regain it for having given lands in Bretford near adjoyning to found there a small Cell for Nuns as in Bretford I purpose to declare which lands were by those Nuns very soon after granted to the Monastery of Kenillworth and confirm'd by him covenanted wich the Canons of Kenillworth that if he recovered Brandone he would give them as much land in value
daughters and heirs whereof Lucie the youngest was married to Thomas Cotton of Connington in Com. Hunt Esq formerly in ward to the said Thomas Harvey Upon partition of whose Lands this inter alia being alotted to her is descended to Sir Thomas Cotton now of Connington Bt. great Grandchild to that Thomas Unto whom for his singular favours in most freely communicating to me many rarities out of that inestimable Library which with great cost were gathered by his worthy Father and with no less care preserved by himself I stand highly obliged After the dissolution of the Abbyes that part of this Lordship with the Rectory belonging to the Monastery of Nun Eaton was granted unto Sir Marmaduke Constable Kt. together with the site of that Religious House and divers other Lands but since by purchase is come to Iohn Hele Esq The Church being granted very antiently to the Monastery of Nun Eaton was also appropriated thereto and in an 1291. 19 E. 1. valued at 7 marks and a half but in 26 H. 8. at 4 l 14 s. 2 d. over and above ix s. vi d. for Procurations and Synodals being not a Presentative but the Cure served by a Stipendiary in which Church are neither Arms nor Monuments Shirforde FRom Burton-Hastings towards the South lyeth Shirford whereof there now remains nothing but part of the antient Mannour-house This place may seem to have taken its name from the Forde or Passage over that little Torrent which runs on the West part thereof towards Nun-Eaton as the Map will shew Shirs signifying clear and in that sense we still use the word upon some occasions As it lyes within the Parish of Burton-Hastings so was it antiently a member thereof and held likewise of Ferrers but the first mention that I find of it is in H. 2. time where Raph the son of Robert de Chartres a man in some eminency at that time as I apprehend by the stile of his Deed confirms unto the Canons of Erdbury in this County a yard Land lying in Sireford for so is it there written and by the consent of Richard his son granted unto them ten acres more in pure alms Amongst the Witnesses to which Deed were Randolfe Truwe and William his son Not long after which time viz. about the beginning of H. 3. reign at the farthest certain Lands there were given to the Monks of Combe by Thomas Trove who stiles himself in his Grant Dominus de Schireford From which Thomas as I guess did descend Iohn de Shireford who in 20 E. 3. with Robert de Herle answered for half a Knights fee in Broughton and Shirford then held of the Honour of Tutbury This Iohn de Shirford was also Lord of the moytie of the Mannour of Church-waver but leaving no issue male these his Lands divolved to the family of Purefey Margaret his Daughter taking to Husband Philip Purefey of Munsterton in Leicestershire In whose line this Mannour of Shireford continued till H. 8. time being their principal seat in this County Will. Purefey de Munsterton temp E. 1. E. 2. Philippus Purefey 3 48 E. 3. Margareta filia haeres Joh. de Shirford Will. Purefey 6 21 R. 2. Will. Purefey 21. R. 1. 1. H. 5. Margareta filia Will. Chetwin de Ingestre mil. 21. R. 2. Will. Purefey obiit 6. E. 4. Mariana filia haeres Alani Alott de Shalston in Com. Buck. Philippus Purefey obiit 8. E. 4. Isabella nupta Joh. Denton 12. E. 4. Joh. obiit sine prole Nich obiit s. p. Will. obiit s. p. Joh. Purefey 12. E. 4. Nich. Purefey qui vendidit M. de Shirford temp H. 8. Thomas Purefey Legis-perirus de consilio Ric. de Bellocampo Warwici Comitis 6. H. 5. Which Philip was son to W. Purefey of Munsterton who bore for his Arms upon a fesse betwixt 3 pair of gantlets handing each other 3 martlets and being learned in the Laws became Steward to Raph Earl Stafford for holding his Courts as also a Justice of Peace in this County from the 38 till the last of E. 3. reign He had issue William and Thomas which Will. in 14 R. 2. had licence granted to him by Ric. Scroope B. of Cov. and Lich. to have an Oratory or private Chappel in his house here at Schireford being also in Commission of the peace in this County from the 6 to the 20 of K. R. 2. reign viz. 13 14 17 and 20. But Thomas was train'd up to study the Laws and in 8 R. 2. had an annuity of xx s. granted to him by Sir Iohn Warren Kt. with a Robe aad Hood of the better sort of that sute which he gave to the rest of his Esquires to be yearly paid him out of the Mannour of Rotley pro consilio suo impenso impendendo He was also in Commission for conservation of the peace in this County from the 13 of R. 2. till 6 H. 5. and had a memorable Grant from Iohn de Whellesburgh of the inheritance in reversion of Fenny Drayton and Whellesburgh two good Mannours in Leicestershire whereby the same Iohn did also pass his Arms to be born by him the said Thomas his heirs and assigns as entirely as he himself or his Ancestours had born them all which appears by the Deed sealed with his Seal of Arms and bearing date at Fenny-Drayton 21 R. 2. which Arms viz. Or 3 piles gules and upon a Canton arg a mullet Sable have ever since been born by his Descendants quarterly with their own This Mannour continued to William son and heir of the last mentioned William who marryed Margaret the daughter to Sir William Chetwynd Kt. in 21 R. 2. Which William in 6 H. 4. was joyned in Commission amongst others to treat with the people about a loan of Money for the K. special service and rested in Commission for the peace in this Shire from 8 H. 4. till 1 H. 5. But how long he lived I find not for the name of William holding on to his Posterity doth so confound the descent as that without more particular light than I have yet had I must onely by circumstances distinguish them which I presume is here right enough done for the next mention of them that I meet with is in 10 H. 6. where VVilliam Purefey of Shirford is certified to hold the Mannour of Wover now Church-Over in this County whereof I have already spoke This is that VVilliam who marryed Mariana the daughter to Alan Ayott of Shalston in Com. Buck. and in 12 H. 6. when all the men of note through England were sworn to observe divers Articles agreed on in the Parliament then held is recorded amongst others in this County having then his residence here at Shirford In 19 H. 6. he had Commission to treat for another loan and was a Justice of Peace from the
touching the first of that Order erected here in England I find some difference amongst our Historians some affirming it to have been Rievaulx in Yorksh. Bernard Abbot of Clerevaulx sending over part of that Covent to plant there and to instruct the Monks thereof in that Rule which foundation was so made by Walter Espec in an 1132. 33 H. 1. But that Waverle in Surrey preceded it whereof this of Cumbe was a daughter I am much the more confident in regard 't is clear that Will. Giffard B. of Winchester was Founder thereof which Will. dyed 25 Ian. 29 H. 1. four year before Rievaulx is said to be founded And to confirm this that I say hearken to what our old Poet Robert of Gloucester hath to that purpose Houses of Religion as I seide er I wene Kynge Henry lovede moche as hit was wel sene For the ordre of Graye-monkes thorwz then men brouzt Furst here into Englonde and peraventer men him bisouzt As in the Abby of Waverle that hit furst become As in the eizte and twenty yeer of his Kyngdome Having said thus much of their original and first coming into England I shall adde a word or two of the strictness in their Rule and so proceed with my discourse touching the further endowment of this Monastery First for their habite they wear no Leather or Linnen nor indeed any fine Woollen Cloth neither except it be in a journey do they put on any breeches and then upon their return deliver them fair washt Having two Coats with Cowles in Winter time they are not to augment but in Summer if they please may lessen them In which habite they are to sleep and after Mattens not to return to their beds For Prayers the hour of Prime they so conclude that before the Laudes it may be Day-break strictly observing their Rule that not one jote or tittle of their service is omitted Immediatly after Laudes they Sing the Prime and after Prime they go out performing their appointed hours in work what is to be done in the day they act by day-light for none of them except he be sick is to be absent from his Diurnall hours or the Compline When the Compline is finished the Steward of the House and he that hath charge of the guests go forth but with great care of silence serve them For Dyet the Abbot assumes no more liberty to himself then any of his Covent every where being present with them and taking care of his flock except at meat in regard his Table is alwaies with the strangers and poor people nevertheless wheresoever he eats is he abstemious of talk or any dainty fare nor hath he or any of them ever above two dishes of meat neither do they eat of fat or flesh except in case of sickness And from the Ides of September till Easter they eat no more than once a day except on Sundays no not on any Festivall Out of the precincts of their Cloyster they go not but to work neither there or any where do they discourse with any but the Abbot or Prior. They unweariedly continue their Canonicall hours not peicing any service to another except the Vigils for the deceased They observe the Office of St. Ambrose so far as they could have perfect knowledge thereof from Millain and taking care of strangers and sick-people do devise extraordinary afflictions for their own bodies to the intent their souls may be advantaged Which Rules were duly observed by the first Abbot and Covent but afterwards somewhat was abated of that austerity but their habite is still white and nothing different in the fashion from the Monks of St. Benedict's Rule except a girdle which these wear about their middle Being now to speak of the particular endowments which this Monastery had I shall but onely point at the Benefactors with the places where those lands and possessions so given were situate in respect that the substance of them were in this County so that as they fall in my way I omit them not And first touching the posterity of Camvill I onely find that Gerard de Camvill son and heir to Richard the Founder and Nichola de Haya his wife Daughter of Geffrey de la Haya gave to these Monks C. sol to keep his Anniversary there for ever but Nigel de Moubray added all the rest of the woods which adjoyned to those that Roger his Father had bestowed on them before Will. de Moubray son to the same Nigel confirming whatsoever his ancestors had given The other speciall Benefactors were these Richard de Morevill who gave certain lands in Withibroke Thurbert de Bilneie with some others a large part of Bilneje Laurence Prior of Coventre with the Covent of that place half a hide of land in the said town of Bilneje Herbert Putot certain lands in Hopsford Thomas the son of Laurence de Stoke xxiiii acres of land in Withibroke and all his errable land in Bilneje Seher the son of Hugh le Harper of Stoke a wood called Harpers wood lying in Stoke Alice the wife of Walter Britton Wikin-mill which lyeth near Sow and a messuage there Rob. Chetwode and Sibil his wife Purmilne in Stretton super Fosse Agatha le Strange divers lands in Wlricheston now Wolston Ric. de Frevile Merston mill Hamund de Thurvile lands in the same Merston Will. de Borthun Blakedon-mill in â—he Parish of Lillington Walter Spigurwell of Emscote certain Common of pasture in the said Blakedon In Church-Lawford were there divers petty parcells of land given to these Monks some by Roger Hayrun Lord thereof and some by inferior men So also in Ansti and Shulton by Rog. de Buschervill and others Little-Lawford was wholy bestowed on them by Iohn de Chavini Lord of that Mannour In Herdeberwe were divers small parcells of land given by ordinary persons so likewise in Burthingbury In Little-Copston and Wolvey by Rob. Basset and Reginald his son which Reginald gave also the moytie of the Church of Wolvey In Shirford and Bromcote they had lands also given by Thomas Trove Lord of Shirford and others And in Merston Iabet divers petty parcels by inferior persons besides all that Iohn de Merston otherwise called Iohn Iabet had in that Village Part of which lands in Merston were particularly assigned to find shoos for the poor that were dayly releived at the Abby-gate So likewise were certain lands in Bilney and some houses in Coventre In Cotes id est Coton juxta Church-Over and Neuton they had much of the grant of Hugh Bagot Symon Bagot and others In Church-waver they had also divers small parcells bestowed on them by Rob. de Waver and others In Holme now called Biggin the Mill there with certain lands In Caldecote half a yard land given by Emme
the Free-hold of one Uluuinus in Edw. the Conf. time and the E. of Mellent one hyde rated at xx s. which Chentvin possest before the Norman invasion But in Domesday-book it is written Franchetone the k being not then used by the Norman Clerks How to reconcile this with what I find by other Records viz. that it was inter alia given by E. Leofrike to the Priory of Coventre at his foundation thereof 1 Edw. Conf. and that it continued to that Monastery even till its dissolution being reputed de Baronia Prioris de Cov. as the Record in 9 E. 2. manifesteth I do not well know That the advouson of the Church and some lands in Frankton were in other hands is apparent but these were of so small a proportion that I cannot conceive they extended to more than what the E. of Mellent had and therefore taking the liberty to conjecture I shall by the help of strong circumstances conclude that what Rog. E. of Shrewsbury had here at that time he enjoyed by intrusion upon the right of the Monks which was no strange act amongst those bold persons who had such large shares in this Kingdome upon the Conquest thereof and that the Church was founded and endowed out of the E. of Mellent's part of the probability wherof I shall make some further observation anon Touching the Priors Mannour I find that K. H. 3. granted to the Monks of Cov. Free-warren in all their demesn lands here 30 Iulii 41 H. 3. and that Rog. Meyland B. of Cov. and Lich. in an 1260. 44 H. 3. gave them immunity from payment of any tythes out of all their demesn lands lying therein Other priviledges the said Monastery had here as appeareth by the Quo VVarr Roll of 13 E. 1. whereunto I refer my Reader for satisfaction as I also do to the Leiger-book of that House f. 217. a. and 220 a. for the extent with the metes and bounds thereof After the dissolution of the Monasteries it continued in the Crown till 32 Eliz. and then was granted to Tho. Thornton and Tho. VVoodcock and their heirs who sold it to Iohn Temple which Iohn gave it unto Iohn Temple one of his younger sons whose son and heir Thomas now enjoys it I now come to the other part which the E. of Mellent held with the advouson of the Church This as most of that Earls lands did came to Hen. de Neuburgh the first E. of Warw. after the Conquest or to Rog. his son For in 12 H. 2. Will. E. of Warw. certifies that Rob. de Frankton held one Kts. fee of him de veteri feoffamento whereby 't is clear that the ancestor of the said Rob. was enfeoft thereof temp H. 1. which Kts. fee was held of the succeeding Earls by Will. de Frankton in 20 H. 3. From whom descended Raph de Frankton who past this Mannour to Rog. de Elinhale and he to Raph de Okeover and Alice his wife sister to the said Roger. Which Raph in 4 E. 2. alien'd to Ioh. le Palmere of Frankton and his heirs the said advouson of the Church with one mess. 2 yard land 3 acres of meadow and 3 s. 1 d. rent To whom succeeded Will. le Palmere which Will. in 20 E. 3. with Henry de Hinton was certified to hold half a Kts. fee here of the heirs of Rob. Champayn and he of Raph Basset and he of Will. le Boteler of Oversley and he of the said E. of Warw. So that it appears that Boteler was originally enfeoft thereof by the E. of Mellent or the E. of Warw. who possest so much of Mellent's lands and granted it to Basset and he to Champayne of whom Palmer had it In whose male line it continued till the beginning of H. 6. time and then came to Iohn Hereward by Kath. the daughter and heir of Tho. Palmer as the Institutions to the Rectory manifest But the next possessor thereof that I find was Ric. Duke of Newenton-Purcell in Com. ...... Gent. who lived in the beginning of H. 8. time whose grandchild Iohn Duke dyed seized of it in 7 Eliz. leaving Ric. his son and heir 2 years old Since which one Tho. Leeson and after him Edw. Yorke and George his son have been owners of it and so also Iohn Shukburgh Esq by the marriage of Mr Yorke's daughter as I have heard In an 1291. 19 E. 1. the Church was valued at v marks and a half but in 26 H. 8. at Cxii s. over and above viii s. allowed for Procurations and Synodals and iiii l. yearly paid to the Priory of Coventre for the use of the Sacrist Patroni Ecclesiae Incumbentes temp Inst. Rob. de Hokovere Alicia ux ejus Ioh. de Clungunford Diac. 9 Cal. Oct. 1304. Ioh. lâ— Palmâ—r Ioh. de Chaddesden Cler. 9 Cal. Martii 1338. Ioh. lâ— Palmâ—r Ioh. Palmer Cler. 4 Id. Apr. 1342. Will. le Palmer Ioh. fil Will. le Palmer Cler. 4 Non. Iulii 1346. Ioh. le Palmer Ric. Boule Cler. 16 Cal. Ian. 1350. Ioh. le Palmer Tho. le Palmer Id. Ian. 1350. D. Episcopus Tho. Barwe Cler. 8 Feb. 1372. Henricus de Wentebriggs Magr. Walt. London 5 Iunii 1404. Tho. Palmer Will. Couper Cap. 13 Febr. 1408. Tho. Palmer Ioh. Everard Cap. 1 Oct. 1410. Tho. Palmer Ric. Wodyngtone Cap. 13. Maii 1411. Ioh. Hereward uâ— ejus filia haeâ—es Tho. Palmer de Frankton Ric. Pracy Pbr. ult Ian. 1427. Ioh. Hereward uâ— ejus filia haeâ—es Tho. Palmer de Frankton Henr. Coventre Cap. 15. Febr. 1451. Reynburn Balguy alii hac vice ratione concess Ric. Duke de Newenton-Purcell gen Edw. Stretehey art Magr. 19 Apr. 1529. Will. Hancok hac vice ex concess Ric. Duke Bernardus Massy Cler. ..... 1547. Anthon. Leeson de Abthorpe in Com. Northampt. Gen. Ioh. Newton Cler. 27 Ian. 1560. Anthon. Leeson in leg bacc Tho. Dagly Cler. 7 Ian. 1563. Wilfridus Leutiâ— hac vice Will. Câ—ver 3 Dec. 1566. Henr. Clever de Herdwicke Ioh. Smyth 11 Aug. 1569. Georgius Yorke ar Ric. Shughborough Cler. art bacc 16 Iunii 1619. Cath. Densey ex concess Ric. Shughburgh G. Yorke Ioh. Biker art Magr. 20. Iulii 1626. Wapenbury NExt below on the same side of Leame stands Wapenbury one of the Lordships in this Shire given by K. Will. the Conq. unto Geffrey Wirce of whom I have spoke in Monkskirby Which Geffrey being a good Benefâ—ctor to the Monks of S. Nicholas at Angiers in France bestowed on them inter alia the greatest part of the tythes in this Village By the Conq. Survey 't is certified that this place contained 5 hydes and that there was then a Mill rated at vi s. viii d. with woods of half a mile in length and 2 furlongs broad all being then valued at Cx s.
Thorp-Mundevile Pbr. 6 Cal. Oct. 1346. Prior Conv. de Kenilworth Hugo Aleyn Pbr. 7 Id. Dec. 1348. Prior Conv. de Kenilworth Thom. Silvestre Cap. 7 Id. Maii 1349. Prior Conv. de Kenilworth Will. Haywoll Cap. 17 Cal. Nov. 1349. Prior Conv. de Kenilworth Ioh. Blacfordby Cap. 6. Febr. 1401. Prior Conv. de Kenilworth Thom. Halford Cap. 7 Oct. 1402. Prior Conv. de Kenilworth Tho. Hulle 28 Ian. 1410. Prior Conv. de Kenilworth Ioh. Marchall Cap. 4 Oct. 1421. Prior Conv. de Kenilworth Walt. Lydom 19 Dec. 1422. Prior Conv. de Kenilworth Rog. Wylkins 4 Oct. 1425. Prior Conv. de Kenilworth Ioh. Hull Cap. 9 Iun. 1427. Prior Conv. de Kenilworth Will. Loweles Pbr. ult Ian. 1428. Prior Conv. de Kenilworth Rob. Wells Pbr. 15 Nov. 1437. Prior Conv. de Kenilworth Steph. Percivall Pbr. 20. Iunii 1439. Prior Conv. de Kenilworth Ioh. Gybbys 24 Ian. 1441. Prior Conv. de Kenilworth Ioh. Huggeford Cler. penult Iulii 1444. Prior Conv. de Kenilworth Rog. More Cap. 5 Febr. 1450. Prior Conv. de Kenilworth Will. Sherdun alias Iordan Cap. 26 Sept. 1454. Prior Conv. de Kenilworth Ric. Marten Cap. 4 Maii 1457. Prior Conv. de Kenilworth Ric. Alryche alias Lyllyngton Pbr. 23 Febr. 1511. Prior Conv. de Kenilworth Rob. Wylliamson Cap. 1. Maii. 1533. Edw. 6. Rex Angl. Magr. Ioh. Olde 22 Martii 1548. Edw. Bowne gen ratione concess Ioh. Hanby ar D. Will. Ludmans 19 Nov. 1554. Anth. Shughburgh gen Ioh. Dasset gen ratione conces Tho. Shughburgh Tho. Gardiner art Magr. 16 Oct. 1557. Benedictus Shukeburgh ar Ioh. Lounde in Leg. Bacc. 20 Febr. 1561. Benedictus Shukeburgh ar Will. Catherall Cler. 27. Oct. 1564. Will. Catherall hac vice ex assign Bened Shukeburgh Rog. Barker Iunii 1569. Bened. Shukeburgh Georgius Burley Cler. 18. Nov. 1572. Bened. Shukeburgh Ric. Marrell 27 Nov. 1581. Will. Lisley de Evenley in Com. North. ar Ioh. Harper Cler. art Mr. 23 Martii 1626. Lillington LOwer yet on the same side of Leame stands Lillinton perhaps so called from the old English word Lytlan which signifies small or little wherein the E. of Mellent held 4 hydes in the Conq. time with a Mill valued at vi s. viii d. and woods of a mile in length and half a mile in bredth all which were valued at xl s. having been the Free-hold of one Edric in Edw. the Conf. dayes Here was also half a hyde more which Rog. de Olgi then held of Turchill de Warwick valued at xx s. There is no question but that the E. of Mellent's part was by K. H. 1. or by the E. of Warwick upon such terms as the K. directed given to Geffr de Clinton Founder of the Castle and Priory of Kenilworth For by the foundation Charter of that Monastery he granted thereunto 2 hydes of land in this place And as for the half hyde which belong'd to Turchil de Warwick I presume that Hugo fil Ricardi of whom I am to speak in Wroxhall and Hatton was enfeofft thereof inter alia by the said Earl who had the most of Turchil's lands For I find that immediatly upon the foundation of the before specified Monastery the Canons of Kenilworth had the same by his grant in consideration whereof they rendred to him the said Hugh the Churches of Snitenfeld and Claverdon which they held of him and gave him over and above a Cloak valued at vi marks of silver and to Margaret his wife a saddle Nag After which K. H. 1. added his Charter of confirmation and so also did Roger E. of Warwick But the other two hydes belonging to the E. of Mellent above mentioned were as I am induced to believe given by the said Geffr de Clinton with his daughter Lescelina in marriage to Norman de Verdon for I find that they were held of the heirs of the said Norman and her by Rob. de Verdon and of him by Peter de Wolvardington by the service of half a Kts. fee. The extent whereof in 7 E. 1. was certified to be one carucat which the said Peter had in demesn and eleven yard land occupyed by ten servants who did manage that carucat for the benefit of the same Pet. This P. de Wolvardington granted to the Monks of Cumbe that his tenants here in Lillington should grind their Corn at their Mill called Blakedon mill Of the successors to the said Peter in this Mannour I cannot give a perfect account but of what I have found from Record relating thereto I will here adde which is that in 20 E. 3. Margaret de VVolvarton and Iohn de VValdgrave answered for half a Kts. fee in this place held of the heirs of Theob de Verdon and that in 10 H. 6. Iohn VValdgrave of the County of Buckingh Gent. and Ric. Beauchamp E. of Warwick held the same by the name of a Mannour by the service of half a Kts. fee. As also that in 10 H. 7. VVill. Grey Esq dyed seized thereof leaving Thomas his son and heir 15 years of age from whom it came to Edw. Grey who in 28 H. 8. was owner of it I now return to that which the Canons of Kenilworth had in this place which in 7 E. 1. was certified to be one carucat of land then held by them in demesn and 16. yard land managed by xx servants who performed divers servile works for the said Canons and payd also certain yearly Rent for the same Here the said Canons had a Court-Leet and other priviledges as appears by their claim in 13 E. 1. But this coming to the Crown at the dissolution of that House was by Q. Eliz. in 2. of her raign granted unto ...... Gerard and others and in 6. to Ambrose Earl of Warwick and the heirs male of his body but in 38 Eliz. being again in the Crown by reason of the death of the said Earl without issue was in consideration of the good faithfull service which Sir Iohn Puckering Knight then Lord Keeper of the great Seal of England had performed as the words of the Patent do import passed by the said Queen together with the advouson of the Church unto William Borne and Iames Orenge esquiers and their heirs Which William and Iames for a certain sum of money to them payd by Thomas Puckering son and heir of the â—aâ—d Sir Iohn then deceased and in performance of a Decree in the Court of Wards made 23. Oct. 38. Elâ—z sold and confirmed the said Mannour to the same Thomas afterwards Knight and Baronet and his heirs by their deed bearing date 27. Iunii 39. Eliz. The Church dedicated to S. Mary Magd. was â—â—igâ—nally belonging to the Canons of Kenilworth from the very foundation of that
Mâ—nastery as a member and Chappell of Wotton out of which upon the appropriation of Wotton to those Canons half a marke per annum was reserved for their use but afterwards it seems they had it wholly for so doth the Record of 7 E. 1. express whereby it also appears that it was endowed with a yard land and half having been appropriated to them the very preceding year by R. de Meulend Bishop of Coventre and Lichfield and and confirmed by the King In anno 1291. 19 E. 1. it was valued at viii marks and the Vicaridge at two marks but the Vicaridge in 26 H. 8. was rated at Cxiii s. iv d. per annum over and above 8 s. 4 d. yearly allowed for Procurations and Synodals That which now beareth the name of Blakdon is onely a hilly ground in Lillington-field having originally had its denomination from the dark colour thereof done or dune signifying a Hill The Mill which yet also retains the name thereof lyeth upon Avon at the skirt of the same field and was given to the Mâ—nks of Combe by William de Burton as in Bourton super Dunsmore I have shewed Whether there were ever any village at this Blakdon I know not but do findâ— that it was part of that which the Canons of Kenilworth had in Lillinton though not of the Mannour it and Wridfen being held of Verdon's heirs by a Knights fee and half Patroni Vicariae Incumbentes temp Inst. Prior Conv. de Kenilworth Will. de Kylkeni an 1252. Prior Conv. de Kenilworth Maâ—r Wâ—scard an 1255. Prior Conv. de Kenilworth Ioh. Camezane Auditor contradict D. Papae an 12â—6 Prior Conv. de Kenilworth Rog. de Reygate an 1284. Prior Conv. de Kenilworth Ioh. dictus Lok Diaâ— 8. Id. Oct. 1308. Prior Conv. de Kenilworth Will. de Henyugham Cap. 5. Cal. Apr. 1344. Prior Conv. de Kenilworth Ric. de Rodburne 5. Id. Ian. 1375. Prior Conv. de Kenilworth Ioh. Robolot Pbr. 13. Iunii 1397. Prior Conv. de Kenilworth Ric. Stamford Pbr. 5. Feb. 1398. Prior Conv. de Kenilworth D. Adam Felchyn 9. Maii 1401. Prior Conv. de Kenilworth Ioh. Racheford Cap. penult Ian. 1421. Prior Conv. de Kenilworth Rad. Wikeley 17. Ian. 1425. Prior Conv. de Kenilworth Ioh. Blaby Pbr. 29. Oct. 1431. Prior Conv. de Kenilworth Ioh. Cowper Pbr. 16. Febr. 1435. Prior Conv. de Kenilworth Ioh. Normanton Pbr. 17. Apr. 1493. Prior Conv. de Kenilworth Will. Snelston Cap. 10. Febr. 1506. Will. Pynnok ar ratione concess Pr. C. de Kenilw. Ioh. Shirburne art Magr. 7. Martii 1552. Henr. Porter alii ratione concess Rob. Grey gen Agnetis Grey Viduae Thom. Badnall 24. Iulii 1554. Rob. Craston Brigittaux ejus Rob. Chewe Clâ—r 3. Apr. 1566. Laur. Grey gen Ioh. Brooke Cler. 8. Apr. 1594. Iana Domina Puckering de Warwick Thom. Mayoe Clâ—ric 16. Martii 1598. Tho. Puckering Mil. Bar. Will. Cooper Cler. in art Bacc. 20. Iulii 1631. Wolphamcote HAving thus followed the Northern side of Leame till it meets with Avon it now remains that I ascend to the South-east part thereof where it enters this Hundred which is within the precincts of Wolphamcote This is now vulgarly called Ovencote contaning within its parish the villages of Flekenhâ— Nethercote and Sawbridge in all which there are decayed Chappell 's and in the Conq. time was possest by Turchill de Warwick the content thereof being certified at 4. hides and a half valued at lx s. having also a Church situat therein but in that Survey it is written Ulfelmescote and was before the Norman invasion the freehold of one Aschil As for the originall of the name 't is evident enough that it sprung from some antient planter or Inhabitant there in the Saxons time Wlfelmus being a usuall appellation amongst them and the Word Cote as I have elsewhere observed being the same with domus or habitatio To the before specified Turchill succeeded Siward de Arden his son and heir who being permitted to enjoy this as part of his rightfull inheritance granted it to Lecelina daughter to Geffrey de Clinton and her heirs Ailwin the then Bayliff of Flekenho and his sons being some of the witnesses thereto qui reddiderunt pecuniam as the Deed expresses id est making attournment by paying some money in token thereof Which Lecelina marryed to Norman de Verdon as in Brandon I have shewed and had issue by him Bertram de Verdon in whose line it continued till towards the end of H. 3. time that Iohn de Verdon past it away by the name of a Mannour to Walter de Langlegh and Alice his wife and their heirs for the service of half a Knights fee provided that they the said Walter and Alice and their heirs should appear in their proper persons twice a year with their tenants at the Court-leet of him the said Iohn and his heirs at Flekenho in case they did reside here at Wolfhamcote and if not then their Bayliff to supply their room Which grant though not dated was made as I guess about 40 H. 3. For in 41. the said Walter and Alice had a Charter of Free-warren granted to them in all their demesn lands here But the said Alice surviving her husband did in 23 E. 1. settle it upon Robert de Langley her younger son and his heirs To whom succeeded Margaret his daughter and heir wedded to William de Peto whereby it divolved to that family about the beginning of E. 3. reign From which time I shall not need to instance by particular proof from Records that their descendants were successively Lords thereof for they continued so till within these few years that Sir Edward Peto of Chesterton Kt. in consideration of 2520 li. by his Deed dated 2. Apr. 11. Iac. sold it to Rob. Clerke Yeoman then his tenant thereof This Lordship being antiently held of Verdon as I have shewed upon partition of Verdon's inheritance was held of Will. de Ferrers son and heir of Isabell one of the coheirs to the last Theob de Verdon William de Peto grandchild to the before specified Will. doing his homage accordingly for the half Knights fee here unto William Lord Ferrers of Groby in 2 H. 4. But further than what I have said I do not find any thing memorable of this place other than the complaint which our Countrey-man Rous long since did make of the Depopulation here as well as in many other towns of this County In An. 1291. 19 E. 1. the Church dedicated to S. Peter was valued at xxv marks the advouson whereof was in 38 E. 3. granted by Sir Iohn de Peto Kt. Ian. 9. unto Thomas de Beauchamp Earl of Warwick and to Thom. B. his
they had of his gift in this place To him succeeded Will. his son and heir who exceeded his father in bounty to those Monks for he bestowed on them above CC acres and half a yard land with pasture for 600 Sheep five Sows with their Pigs one Boar 2 teams of Oxen 5 Kyne with their Calves and one Bull 2 young Heifers with their Calves and his Sheep-cotes on the Hills for their Sheep all in this his Lordship of Rodburne Neither was Michael his son streight-handed to them nor almost any other that had Free-hold in this place as may appear by their particular grants of several parcels of land some of them therewith bequeathing their bodyes to sepulture in that Monastery Which Monks obtained divers priviledges here viz. Court-leet Assize of Bread and Beer Gallows c. as appeareth by their claim in 13 E. 1. whereunto K. E. 1. added his Charter of Free-warren dated at Westm. 18 Febr. 18 of his reign But the posterity of Arden who were Lords of this Mannour having their seat here sometimes called themselves de Rodburne as by divers Records besides these which I have in the margent pointed at might be instanced yet the last of them scil William assumed the name of Arden again and in 43 E. 3. sold all the interest he had here to Iohn the son of Will. Catesby at which time Hugh de Prestwode and Agnes his wife past their whole right therein to the said Iohn by a Fine then levyed with warranty against the heirs of the said Agnes So that it seems she was an heir and probably of the same Will. de Arden Which Catesbyes were of Ashby Legers in Com. Northampt. and afterwards had the Mannour of Lapworth in this Shire where I purpose to speak historically of them In 13 H. 4. after the death of Iohn de Catesby the purchaser I find that Enime his widow and Iohn his son had a Charter of Free-warren granted to them inter alia in alâ— their â—emeâ—n lands here And that in 21 E. 4. the Monks of Combe quittâ—d all their interest here by the name of the Mannour of Rodburne grange to Will. Catesby Esq son and heir of Sir Will. Catesby Kt. for which alâ—enation K. H. 7. granted his pardon to the said Monks in 13 of his reign But this Will. Catesby having been a great Favourite to K. Ric. 3. was attainted in the Parl. of 1 H. 7. whereupon his lands eschaeting to the Crown this was by the K. given away to Sir Iohn Risley Kt. and the heirs male of his body Whether it came again to the Crown for want of issue male by the said Sir Iohn Risley I cannot say but in 2 3 Pâ— M. the Q. granted it to Thom. Wilkes Meâ—chant of the Staple and his heirs whose brother and heir viz. Will. Wilkes dyed seized thereof 27 Sept. 15 Eliz. leaving Robert his son and heir then aged 12 years Which Rob. dyed 26 Iulii 19 Eliz. withouâ— issue whereupon his 3 sisters became his heirs as in Hodnell I have shewed But that part of this place which is called Little-Rodburne did heretofore belong to the Priory of Coventre and coming to the Crown at the general dissoluâ—ion of the Religious Houses was in 6 Eliz. granted by the Q. to Henry Goodere of Polesworth Esq and Clem. Throgmorton Esq and their heirs Which Henry by his Deed bearing date 26 Nov. 8 Eliz. released all his right therein to the said Clement and his heirs who in 15 Eliz. sold the same to Will. Catesby of Ashby-Legers in Com. Northampt. Esq and his heirs After whichâ— viz. in 43 Eliz. Rob. Catesby Thomas Leigh and others all Feoffees in trust of Catesby's lands as it seems by their Deed of bargain and sale past it to Ranulph Crew Esq afterwards Kt. and chief Justice of the K. Bench whose grandchild Iohn Crew son and heir to Sir Clipsby Crew his eldest son in Easter Term ann 1650. sold the same to Sir Iohn Dreyden of Cannons-Ashby before mentioned That the Church was very antiently appropriated to the Nuns of Henwood I have already shewed but how long they took benefit thereof I know not for it appears that the Catesbyes presented thereto as a Rectory and that in 26. H. 8. the Parson received onely iiii l. xvi s. ii d. yearly besides ix s. vi d. for Procurations and Synodals from Ric. Catesby Esq then his Patron whereby it seems that there was no Church then standing but how long it had been down I am not yet certain for our Countryman Rous complains of the depopulation here amongst the rest of the Villages in this County which in his time were ruined by inclosure Patroni Ecclesiae Incumbentes temp Inst. Ioh. Catesby ar D. Ioh. Steward Cap. 27. Apr. 1417. Ioh. Catesby ar Ioh. Watson Pbr. 22 Nov. 1431. Will. Spenser mil. ratione custodiae gard Ric. Catesby fil haer Georgii Catesby D. Thom. Palmer Cap. 24 Maii 1527. Venerab vir Ric. Catesby ar D. Rob. Holme Cap. 20. Ian. 1540. Henr. Philips ar D. Eliz. Catesby ux ejus Tho. Thackam art Magr. 20 Iulii 1573. Edw. Onley ar Gryffin Lhoyde Cler. 16. Dec. 1573. Ran. Crew miles capit Iustic ad Plac. Tho. Wilbraham jure Eliz. ux ejus Sym. Venables Cler. 6 Martii 1625. Ladbroke ABout 2 miles lower on the Northern bank of the same Torrent stands Ladbroke which I suppose had its name originally from the dirty soyl and clay where the stream runneth Llaid in the old British signifying the same with lâ—â—um and limus but it is frequently written in all antient authorities Lodebroc the a being changed into o. In the Conq. time the E. of Mellent had two hydes here then valued at 50 s. Turchill de Warwick 3 hydes with 4 yard land and better whereof one the Priest held and the other two one William whom I suppose to be progenitor of the family which afterwards assumed this place for their sirname And Hugh de Grentmaisnill three yard land with a Mill of iii s. That Turchill's lands for the most part came to Henry E. of Warwick before the end of the Conq. reign I have in Warwick sufficiently manifested but of what family he was whom the succeeding Earls enfeoft of this place I cannot certainly discover but Will. de Lodbroch the first that I find to have assumed his sirname from hence in 11 H. 2. was certified to hold a Kts. fee of Will then Earl of Warwick de veteri feoffamento that is to say whereof himself or his ancestor was enfeoft in H. 1. time so that I am induced to believe that the brother of this Will became so enfeoft For in the Confirmation which the said Will. made to the Canons of Kenilworth of the Church of Herberbury given originally unto them by G. de Clinton
3. time and then by a daughter and co-heir came to Gâ—iffith as the descent here drawn will shew The principal feat of these Somerviles was at Whichnoure in Coâ— Staff which with Barton aâ—joyning thereto K Will. the Conq. gave unto Sir Gualtier de Somervile a Norman from whom descended the before specified Walter that wedded Cecelie de Limesi and from him the fifth in descent Iohn as the Pedegree sheweth who questioned the Prior of Hertford for the advouson of the Church here at Stokton in 27 H. 3. deducing his right thereto from Roger his great grandfather Unto whom the Prior pleaded that he was at the disposal of the Abbot of S. Albans and could not without him give answer thereto But Iohn replyed that the said Prior upon a former suit for this advouson impleaded him by a Writ of Quare impedit as Prior of Hertford without naming the Abbot of S. Albans therein and recovered it And further alledged that the Priors of Binham Tinmouth and other Cels belonging as this of Hertford did to S. Albans alwaies used to plead in their own names yet so as the said Abbot should have Summons to joyn with them if he pleased What the success of this suit was I have not seen but it seems the Prior thought fit to strengthen his title for I find that in 56. H. 3. he procured the said Iohn to levy a Fine thereof to the use of him and his successors for which besides a C l. in money given him for so doing he was made partaker of all their prayers and other devout exercises Cecelia de Limesi Walterus de Somervile 11 H. 2. Rog. de Somervile 26 H. 2. Edelina filia Rob. Pincernae de Engleby 28 H. 2. Rog. de Somervile defunctus 2 Joh. Matilda defuncta 4 H. 3. Rog. de Somervile infra aet 4 H. 3. Joh. de Somervile defunctus 8 E. 1. Rob. de Somervile miles ob 25 E. 1. Isab. una filiarum haered Rog. de Merlay Robertus Rogerus Adam Iohannes Edmundus obierunt sine prole masc Philippus de Somervile miles ob 23 Jan. 28 E. 3. Joanna ux Rhesi ap Griffith mil. 30 E. 3. Rhesus ap Griffith 30 E. 3. Tho. Griffith ar 9 H. 5. Ioh. Griffith ob 11 E. 4. Walt. Griffith miles ob 21 E. 4. Walt. Griffith aet 8. ann 21 E. 4. Eliz. ux Ioh. Stafford Matilda ux Edm. filii Ioh. Vernon 29 E. 3. Walt. de Limesi Philippus Whether this Church was originally granted to the Monks at Hertford before mentioned by Rob. de Limesi Founder of that Cell in H. 1. time or whether by Cecelia de Limesi and Walter de Somervile her husband he having a more than ordinary respect to those Monks for her ancestors sake I cannot positively affirm but that it was so given by one of them is not to be doubted To this Iohn succeeded Sir Rob. de Somervile Kt. who in 18 E. 1. had a Charter of Free-warren inter alia in this his Mannour of Stokton Which Sir Rob. left issue divers sons whereof Adam was one of the Knights for this Shire in the Parl. of 1 E. 3. But all dying issueless Philip the youngest a Kt. likewise in 11 E. 3. enjoyed the estate and in 12 Edw. 3. entailed this Mannour upon the heirs male of his body by Margaret then his wife but for lack of such issue on Rese ap Griffith and Ioan his wife for the life of the said Ioan and after her decease on Thomas the son of the said Rese with divers remainders Which Sir Philip dyed 23 Ian. 28 E. 3. leaving issue Ioan his eldest daughter wife of Sir Rese ap Griffith Kt. above mentioned and Eliz. of Iohn Stafford Betwixt whom partition being made the inheritance of this Lordship went with Ioan and so came by descent to Sir George Griffith Kt. who in 35 H. 8. aliened it to Sir Walt. Smyth Kt. which Sir Walter sold it to Nich. Purefey in 1 E. 6. From whom descended George Purefey of Drayton in Com. Leic. Esq who in our memory past it to Iohn Clapham one of the six Clerks in Chancery which Iohn dying without issue left Iohn Clapham late of Winnall juxta Coventre his heir The Church dedicated to S. Michael belonged to the Priory of Hertford as I have already shewed and in ann 1291. 19 E. 1. was valued at ix marks but in 26 H. 8. at x l. vii s. over and above xxx s. allowed for Procurations and Synodals But what the said Priory of Hertford had here in Stokton was after the dissolution of that Religious House together with the site thereof granted in 29 H. 8. to Anthony Denny and his heirs Patroni Ecclesiae Incumb temp Instit. Ysabella de Sumervill Domina de Stocton Magr. Ric. de Lynton Anno 1249. Prior Monachi de Hertford Ric. de Kilkenny s. date Prior Monachi de Hertford Elias de S. Albano Cleric Anno 1315. Io. de Odingsells miles Ioh. de Wapingbury Anno 1315. Io. de Odingsells miles D. Will. de Brymmesgrave Pbr. Anno 1315. Prior Conventus de Hertford Petrus de Hercle 14. Cal. Iunii 1316. Prior Conventus de Hertford Will. Sars accolitus 5. Nov. 1320. Prior Conventus de Hertford Ric. de Meere Pbr. 4. Id. Nov. 1358. Prior Conventus de Hertford Ioh. Plumbe Pbr. 18. Mar. 1396. Prior Conventus de Hertford Philippus Polton 6. Sept. 1414. Prior Conventus de Hertford Ioh. Bote Cap. 16. Nov. 1417. Prior Conventus de Hertford D. Ric. Bredrod Cap. 16. Aug. 1424. Prior Conventus de Hertford Ioh. Byrtley 1. Apr. 1435. Prior Conventus de Hertford Ric. Ricards Pbr. 21. Apr. 1436. Prior Conventus de Hertford Thom. Hayward Cap. 20. Apr. 1458. D. Anth. Denney miles Will Crooke Cap. 3. Maii 1545. Gerv. Lassells de Collingham in Com. Nott. ar Nath. Baxter Cler. 14. Aug. 1590. Thom. Davies gen Thom. Lever Cler. 26. Martii 1628. Long-Ichington THis containing the Hamlets of Bascote and Stonithorpe had its name originally from the River Ichene on the banks whereof 't is situat In the Conquerors time being possest by one Cristina who had it of the same Kings gift it was by the Survey then made certified to contain 24. hides and is there written Icentone At that time it had a Church for there were then two Priests as also two Mills rated at vi s. viii d. with woods of two furlongs in length and one in breadth all being valued at xx li. But when the King gave it to the said Cristina it yielded xxxvi li. This with the other lands belonging to the said Cristina came to the family of Limsie antiently men of great note having
by her Deed bearing date 17 Iunii appeareth Which Iâ—an then levyed a Fine thereof to themâ— by the name of Ioan Hall widow lately called Ioan Corbet in Hill Term 23 H. 8. But it seems that the said Conveyance and Fine was to the use of the said Edw. and his heirs for by the Inquis taken after his death he is certified to dye seized thereof 7 Martii 1 E. 6. leaving Thomas his son and heir 26 years of age To whom succeeded Iohn Underhill which Iohn in 1 Mar. past it to Thomas Freeman and others I come now to that which Henry de Ferrers had here in Herberbury by the Conq. gift though when his posterity granted it away I cannot positively averr but finding that Rob. fil Odonis was possest of a great part thereof in the beginning of K. Iohn's time and that in 12 H. 2. Odo fil Iohannis father of the said Robert was certified to hold one Kts. fee of Will. de Boskervill which Will. held 3 Kts. fees of the Earl Ferrers de veteri feoffamiento I doubt not but that I may safely enough conclude that Rob. first Earl Ferrers son of the said Henry granted it to the father or grandfather of the said Will. de Boskervill for which Kts. fee lying here and in Chesterton Isabell the widow of Raph de Boschervili impleaded the said Rob. fil Odonis in 4 Ioh. alledging that she was endowed by her said husband Whereunto Robert answered that Odo his father dyed seized thereof and that it thereupon descended to Will his son and heir who likewise dying seized of it left a certain daughter his heir and within age by reason whereof the E. Ferrers as superior Lord of the Fee had the custody of it with the said daughter and that she dying in her minority he went to the Earl and gave him such satisfaction that he had livery thereof as right heir But the next year following they came to an Agreement whereupon there was a Fine levied thereof betwixt the said Isabell by the name of Isabell de Say and him the said Robert by which Fine it appears that Burga then the wife of Hugh de Picheford was daughter and heir to the before mentioned Raph de Buschervill and that the said Rob acknowledged the same to be her right the meaning whereof I conceive to be that he held it immediatly of her and not of the Earle Ferrers the said Earle being the cheif from whom her ancestors held it for in 36. H. 3. it appears that Odo de Herberbury who was doubtless the son of the said Robert held the same Kts fee expressed to lye here in Herberbury of Raph de Pichford and that the said Raph held it over of the E. Ferrers This Rob. Fil. Odonis was a benefactor to the Canons of Kenilworth by giving them part of his possessions lying in this place whereof two Acres were for the celebration of a Masse every Saturday the whole in 7. E. 1. being certifyed at 2. yard land and ix acres of which all but the ix acres was then held by 4. servants who performed severall kinds of servile labour for them and the ix acres by 3 Freeholders that payd particular Rents for the same But the last of the before-specifyed family of whom I finde any mention was another Rob. fil Odonis whom I take to be the son of that Odo de Herberbury above mentioned and grandchild to the before recited Robert for he is called Robertus fil Odonis de Herberbyry Which Rob. by his deed recorded in the Rolls of the Chancery 20. Apr. 7. E. 1. bestowed upon the monks of Combe his Mannour house and all else that he had here as also in Chesterton extending to 95. Acres and a half for the health of his soule and of the souls of Eliz. his wife and of all his Ancestors and Successors wherein the said Monks had Court-Leet with other Priviledges Odo fil Iohannis 12 H. 2. Rob. fil Odonis 4 Ioh. Odo de Herberbury 36 H. 3. Rob. fil Odonis 7 E. 1. Will. fil Odonis .... filia obiit s. prole All which they held till the dissolution of the Monasteryes after which this Mannour was by Q. Eliz. granted out of the Crown to Edw. Frost and Iohn Walker and their heirs 19. Ian. 24. of her reign From whom it became aliened to Thom. Wagstaff and from him to Will. Cookes of Snitfeild whose posterity do now enioy it But that which the Canons of Kenilworth had here except the advouson of the Church was granted out of the Crown by Q. Eliz. in 4. of her reign to Iohn Fisher and Thomas Dabridgcourt by the name of a Mannour in which Pat. also past whatsoever belong'd to the Monastery of Nun-Eaton lying in this town And from them the same year unto Thomas Fisher then of Bishops-Ichington and his heirs which Thomas dyed seized thereof 12. Ian. 20. Eliz. leaving Edward his son and heir then 30. years of age and he Iohn who past it away to Thomas Coxe of Bps. -Ichington From whom 16. Iunii 19. Iac. it was purchased by Ric. Wagstaff whose heirs to this day enjoy it Besides these severall Mannours already mentioned I find that in 10. H. 6. Iohn Mallory of the County of Leic. Gent. held another by the 4. part of a Kts. Fee though what became thereof I know not Having thus done with all the distinct Mannours I may not omit to mention that in 7. E. 1. Eustace de Hatch of whom I shall speak in Morton-Morrell held 3. carucats of land here excepting x. acres of Iohn de Lodbrok having tenants that occupied the same who performed divers servile labours for it as the usuall custome of those times was paying but a small Rent Somthing more he held here of the Honour of Leicester but it was not of much moment That the Church dedicated to All Saints was given to the Monastery of Kenilworth by G. de Clinton the founder thereof temp H. 1. I have already shewed which grant of his I find confirmed by Ric. Peche Bp. of Coventre in H. 2. days To whom ere long succeeded G. Muschamp who in K. Iohn's time appropriated it to those Canons assigning half a mark yearly to them out of the Vicaridge In An. 1291. 19. E. 1. it was valued at xviii marks iiii s. viii d. over and above a Pension of x s. per ann payd out of it to the Prior of Warmington and another of xii s. per ann to the Prior of Tutbury at which time the Vicaridge was rated at two marks but in 26. H. 8. at C. sol over and above ii s. yearly for Synodalls Patroni Vicariae Incumb temp Inst. Prior et Conv. de Kenilworth Rob. de Gouteby Cap. An. 1251. Prior et Conv. de Kenilworth Ric. de Northampton Cap. An. 1283. Prior et Conv. de Kenilworth Sym.
de Salford An. 1285. Prior et Conv. de Kenilworth Ioh. Lipener Cap. Cal. Iunii 1308. Prior et Conv. de Kenilworth Henr. de Barewe Pbr. 4. Cal. Aug. 1320. Prior et Conv. de Kenilworth Ioh. de Westbury Cap. 11. Cal. Dec. 1331. Prior et Conv. de Kenilworth Will. de Leycester Cap. 17. Cal. Iulii 1332. Prior et Conv. de Kenilworth Thomas Crowe Pbr. 2. Id. Oct. 1361. Prior et Conv. de Kenilworth Rad. Boy Pbr. 10. Apr. 1379. Prior et Conv. de Kenilworth Walt. Maltelby Cap. penult Oct. 1410. Prior et Conv. de Kenilworth Thomas Boteler Cap. 21. Aug. 1416. Prior et Conv. de Kenilworth Ric. Clare 5. Iunii 1421. Prior et Conv. de Kenilworth Will. Warde Cap. ult Martii 1425. Prior et Conv. de Kenilworth Will. Warde Cap. 28. Sept. 1429. Prior et Conv. de Kenilworth Will. Watson Pbr. 7. Maii 1430. Prior et Conv. de Kenilworth Thomas Prate Pbr. 16. Feb. 1431. Prior et Conv. de Kenilworth Thom. Wylmot 22. Dec. 1436. Prior et Conv. de Kenilworth Will. Parker 8. Iunii 1456. Prior et Conv. de Kenilworth D. Iac. Hynches penult Maii 1521. Prior et Conv. de Kenilworth D. Alex. Acotte penult Maii 1536. Nich. Cooke alii hac vice ex concess Pr. C. de Kenill D. Ric. Badger Cler. 18 Sept. 1550. D. Regina Eliz. Math. Pickering Cler. 8. Dec. 1572. Ric. Wagstaff de Herberbury gener Will. Spycer Cler. 15. Sept. 1612. Idem Ric. Walt. Iackman art Magr. 13. Sept. 1622. Idem Ric. Ric. Watts Cler. 2. Martii 1622. Vfton THis is one of those towns that E. Leofrike gave to the Monastery of Coventre at his foundation thereof 1. Edw. Conf. in whose Charter it is written Ulfetune and in the Conq. time certifyed to contain 4. hides then valued at C s. but in that Survey recorded by the name of Ulchetune However it be thus written as also afterwards I am of opinion that its denomination was originally occasioned from on Ulfe whose seat and possession in the Saxons time it had been But it seems the Monks were disturbed of their enjoyment thereof shortly after though by whom or upon what pretence appears not for I find that in K. Steph. confirmation made to them of this and other Mannours whereof they were possest in the time of K. Edw. the Conf. and K. William his grandfather he mentions this for one and that they had then newly recovered it After which viz. in 41. H. 3. they had Free-warren granted to them in all their demesne lands here which in 7. E. 1. extended to two carucats of land then held in demesn at which time they had xxx servants holding xv yard land who performed divers kindes of servile imployments for those Religious persons And likewise 4 Cottiers that did the like as also six Free-holders who held 4. yard land and a fourth part and moreover a certain wood containing x acres with Court-leet Assize of bread and beer and other priviledges But in that Record it is written Olneweton Oulfton Olufton and Olughton The next observable passage relating thereto is that in 13. E. 1. Rob. de Pinkney commenced suit against the Prior of Coventre for it and layd his claim from Gerard de Limesy his ancestor alleadging that the said Gerard was seized thereof in K. Iohn's time whose descent J have made plain in Long-Ichington But hereunto the Prior answered that E. Leofrik before mentioned by the license of K. Edw the Conf gave it to the Monastery of Coventre and that the said K. Edw confirmed the donation as also K. Will the Coâ—q K. H. 2. and K. H. 3. And yet notwithstanding all this the said Prior was content to make an agreement with him the said Robert who thereupon acknowledged the right of the Monks by a Fine levied Octab. Ioh. Bapt. 14. E. 1. and for so doing was made partaker of all their prayers and devout excercises From which time the Monks peacebly enjoy'd it till the dissolution of their House in 30 H. 8. that it came to the Crown wherein it continued till 37 of that Ks. Reign but then was granted inter alia to Thomas lord Wrio thesley at that time L. Chancelour of England and his Heires who the very same year past it to Will. Stanford Esq and his Heires which Will. the next year following conveyed the Inheritance thereof to Sr. Andrew Flammock Kt. and Eliz. his VVife whose son and heir Francis Flammock Esq in 1 Eliz. sold it to Sr. Iohn Spenser of Althorpe in Com. Northamp Kt. by which means it came to Tho. Spenser late of Clardon in this County Esq a younger son to the said Sr. Iohn The Church dedicated to St. Michael was appropriated to the Priory of Coventre by Rog. de Molend Bpp. of Cov. and Lich. 5. Non. Nov. An. 1260. 44 H. 3. having antiently been endowed with 1 yard land and in An. 1291. 19. E. 1. was valued at xiiii Marks but by the certificate made in 26 H. 8. I find that it belonged to two Prebendaries in the Cath. Church of Lichfeild who provided a stipendiary to serve the Cure unto whom they then allowed certain small Tithes to the value of iiii li. xiii s. iiii d. per an Honingham BElow Ufton there is no other Village situate on the western bank of Ichene so that now I come to observe the next that comes in my way after the conjunction of it with Leam viz. Honingham In the Conq. time Will. fil Corbucionis of whom in Studley I have spoke further held it Osmund and Chetel being his tenants thereto It then contained 3. hides and a half which were valued at iii l. and in Edw. the Conf. time was the freehold of Eneuui and Saulf In Domesday-book it is written Huningeham which name I conceive was first occasioned from some possessor thereof in the Saxons time ham signifying in our old English an habitation or dwelling In the family of Corbicun it did continue till about the beginning of H. 3. reign as I guess for Sir Geffrey Corbicun Kt in K. Iohn's time gave unto Edm. Rector of the Church of Wapenbury and his successors with the allowance and consent of Sir Ric. de Wapenbury the Patron thereof one mess. with half a yard land and a floud-gate lying in this Honyngham but adjoyning to the Miln-holme of Wapenbury with all the Tithes of his Fee there for the maintenance of a Preist to celebrate divine service 3. days in the week in his Chappel here viz. Sunday Wednesday and Fryday and upon all the double Festivalls with Mattens Mass and Vespers Which grant so made by the said Sir Geffrey was in respect of the dangerous passage to the mother Church of Wapenbury at such times as the River Leame exceeded its bounds And
obiit 3 H 7. Goditha filia Thomae Throgmorton mil. relicta 17 H 7. Petr. Peto Card. Marg. filia Ioh. Baynam mil. nupta 4 H 8 Ioh. Peto 18 H 8 Agnes filia Ric. Cooke 17 H 7. Ioh. Peto obiit 5. 6. Ph. M. Anna filia Ioh. Ferrers de Tamworth militis Humfr. Peto obiit 27 Eliz. Anna filia Basilii Feilding de Newnham ar Will. Peto ar obiit an 1619 Elianora filia Walt. Aston de Tixhall in com Staff mil. Edw. Peto miles Elâ—z filia Adae Newton de Charlton in Com. Cantii mil. Bar. Edw. Peto ar Eliz. filia Grevilii Verney de Compton eq aur Ric. de Loges miles 50 H. 3. ob 21. E. 1. Hugo de Loges Ric. de Loges obiit 28. E. 1. Eliz. filia haeres Nich. de Warwick 6. E. 2. In 3. he was one of the Justices appointed for conservation of the Peace In 4. one of the K t s for this Shire in the Parl. then holden at Westm. at which time he was called Ioh. de Peito senior in regard his eldest son bore that name who before that time acted in sundry publick employments as I shall shew by and by In 9. E. 3. he was one of the two Commissioners constituted for the arraying of all men in this Shire according to their estates and degrees as also for conservation of the Pâ—ace according to the statute of Northampton In 12. E. 3. one of the Justices for Goal delivery at Warwick In 14. one of the Commissioners assigned for selling the Nones of Sheaf Wool and Lamb as also for levying and collecting a Tenth then granted unto the K. in Parliament and in 21. and 22. E. 3. was in Commiss for the Gaol delivery at Coventre but he wrote himself of Drayton where he held lands of Iohn de Trussel by the x â—â— part of a Knights fee. It seemes that in his age he travelled into those parts of France from whence his ancestors came for I find that he dyed in Gascoin and left issue 2 sons Iohn and Will both well advanced by good marriages whereof Iohn had to wife Alice the widow of Iohn de Langely one of the daughters and coheirs of Isabel de Hâ—lles which Isab. was daughter and coheir to Rog. de Herdebergh as in Wilie I have already declared Will married Margaret daughter and heir to Rob. de Langley â— as in Wolfhamcote I have shewed whose posterity became heirs also at lengthâ— to Geffery de Langley the principall branch of that family But with Iohn called Ioh. de Peito junior during his fathers life time I will proceed The first mention I find of his publick employments is in 6. E. 3. and then was he in Commission in this County for assessing and collecting a xv and x granted to the K. in Parl. Iâ— 7. E 3. â—e â—ad the office of Escâ—aetor for the Câ—unâ—â—es of Heref. Glouc. Worcester Salopâ— Staff and the Marches of Wales and substituted Iohn de Saundersâ—ed of Wotton-Wawen in this shire his deputy therein for the Counties of Salop Staff and Mâ—rches of Wales which office this Iohn de Peito held for 2. years In 10. E. 3. the K. having a x â—h granted to him in the Parl. then held at Nottingham for support of his warâ—s against the Scots he was appointed to be one of the Receivers thereof for this County in which year the K. by his special Pat. exempted him from Knighthood during his life except he himself should be wâ—lling thereto and made him one of the Commissioners for to hear and determine matters of felony and misdemeanor in this Shire The next ensuing year was he again assigned to be one of the Receivers of the xv th and x â—â— then granted to the K. in Parl. and also one of the Commissisioners this County Leicestershire for explaning the K. meaning in certain particulars handled in that Parl. In 15. E. 3. was he appointed one of the Assessors and Collectors of the Nones of Sheaf Wool and Lamb in this County granted to the King in Parliament the preceding year In 17. E. 3. he had a Pat. specially exempting him from the office of Sheriff Eschaetor or any other as also for serving upon any Jury without his own good will In 20. E. 3. he should have attended the K. in person over into France with his Army and for that purpose did array himself accordingly but by a particular Pat. he had then leave to stay behind and was also exempted from contributing to the charge of that voyage and not onely so but at the special request of William de Clinton Earl of Huntingdon had the Kings Letters Patents of priviledge granted to him that he should not during his life be exposed to attend him in any warlike service nor be charged with finding any men at Armes Hoblers or Archers except he himselfe were willing thereto This Iohn was also a Lawyer as well as his father and of Councel to Wolstan Bishop of Worcester in all his affairs relating to this Shire and so likewise to the Prior and Monks of Worcester with whom he became retained in 17. Edw. 3. and covenanted to be for them in all causes and upon all occasions and not against them or their Monastery for any person whatsoever To his second wife hee wedded the Lady Beatrice de Bishopsden widow of Sir Iohn de Bishopsden Knight but daughter and heir to Iohn de Sheldon and bearing a venerable respect to the Canons of Kenilworth in this County not only gave them the advouson of the Church of Locksley to be appropriated to the use of that Monastery but lands of good value in Locksley in consideration where of they assigned a certain Annuity to be paid to a Chantry Priest which should sing Masse daily in the Chapel of our Lady adjoyning to the Parish Church of Sheldon for the good estate of him the said Iohn and the Lady Beaâ—r his wife Thomas de Beauchamp Earl of Warwick and the Lady Catherine his wife and William de Clinton Earl of Huntingdon during their lives and afterwards for the health of their soules as when I come tâ— Sheldon shal be more fully shewed In 7. Edw. 3. he bore for his Armes three Maydenheads as his father had done but afterwards scil 16. Edw. 3. he changed that coat and gave upon a Cheveron betwixt 6. Crosses Crosslets fitchè 3 mullets which armes he assumed as I conceive out of some special relation that he had to William de Clinton Earl of Huntingdon of whom in Maxstoke I have spoke who bore for his coat Arg. 6 Crosse Crosslets fitchè sable upon a cheif azure two mullets Or peirced gules But in 47. Edw. 3. he dyed without issue leaving his brother William his heir then lx years of age Which Williams having
the Patent expresseth the King was pleased to pardon him a very great misdemeanour viz. the drawing of his knife at the publique Assizes held at Coventre before Ric. de Wilughby and other the Kings Justices there sitting to the great terrour of the people then present Which Sir Iohn in 19 E. 3. sold this Mannour of Morton D'aubeny with the advouson of the moytie of the Church to Thomas Beauchamp Earl of Warwick To whose posterity it continued till all the possessions of that great Earldome came to the Crown in 3 H. 7. as it Warwick is manifested After which it was granted by K.E. 6. to Iohn Dudley Earl of Warwick who had the Castle of Warwick and divers Mannours in this County formerly belonging to those Earls which Iohn after he was advanced to be Duke of Northumberland past it away to Iohn Coleburne gent. 28. Oct. 6 E. 6. who dyed seized thereof 13. Iunii 1. M. leaving Iohn his son and heir two years of age which Iohn had issue Sir Edmund Coleburne Knight who sold it to Richard Murden gent. which Richard left issue one onely daughter called Mary wedded to Sir Stephen Harvey Knight of the Bath by whom she had two sons viz. Francis and Richard both dead unmarryed and five daughters viz. Mary Elizab. Sara Elianore and Stephana The Church dedicated to the Holy Crosse being in aâ— 1291. 19 E. 1. valued at xv marks was then divided betwixt two Rectors In 6 E. 3. Sir Iohn de Bishopsdon Kt. gave the advouson of his moytie thereof to the Hospitall of S. Iohn Baptist in Warwick which was appropriated thereto 16. Apr. anno 1359. 33 E. 3. there being a Pension of 2 s. per annum thereupon reserved to the said Bishop and his successors The other moytie was intended to have been appropriated to the Nuns of Pinley in this County who had obtained the Kings License for that purpose as appears by a Petition exhibited to W. then Bishop of Worcester by one Rob. de Holand in their behalf but whether it were so appropriated or not I cannot say Patroni medietatis Ecclesiae Incumbentes D. Eustachius de la Hacche miles Magr. Ioh. de S. Brigida Pbr. Non. Martii 1280. D. Eustachius de la Hacche miles Alanus de Barkeby 15. Cal. Iunii 1282. D. Eustachius de la Hacche miles R. Clericus D. Petri de Leicester Subdiac Id. Iun. 1283. Gilbertus de Kirkeby Clericus Rad. de Kirkeby 7. Cal. Martii 1283. Gilbertus de Kirkeby Clericus Rob. Tancard Subdiac 4. Cal. Nov. 1288. D. Eustachius de Hacche Ioh. Trimenell Cler. 5. Cal. Martii 1291. .......... Achardus de Longo Prato ..... 1293. Rad. de Kirkeby Thomas de Iccumbe 16. Cal. Nov. 1294. Eustach de Hacche miles Magr. W. de Coventre 2. Cal. Apr. 1299. Rad. de Kirkeby Rob. de Wylewys Cler. 16. Cal. Ian. 1300. .......... Will. Brett accolitus 2. Id. Iunii 1303. Nich. Trimenell Rad. de Snellestone Pbr. 16. Kal. Iulii 1314. Ioh. fil D. Nich. de Trimenell D. Andreas de Herberbury Cap â—1 Kal. Maii 1322. Magr. Confratres Hosp. S. Ioh. Warw. D. Thom. de Goldlesdone Pbr. 26. Oct. 1339. Monumentall Inscriptions in the Chancell on the South side Elizabeth Infant daughter of Stephen Harvy of Milton-Malsoures in the County of Northampt Esq. by Mary his wife sole daughter and heir of Richard Murden Esq. Lord of this town Obiit Iulii 3. 1623. Memoria Iustorum non labilis Richardus Murden de Morton-Morrell Armiger qui vita simul Provincia Vicecomitis Warwicensis excessit Oct. xxx M. DC xxxv Et Maria uxor ipsius filia Thomae Woodard de Butlers-Merston in eodem agro armigeri Quorum filiam unicam haeredem Mariam duxit Stephanus Harvey Northamptoniensis ex honorando ordine Balnearum Eques Expectamus adventum Domini Iesu Christi Qui legis in propriam discede paratior urnam Maturè cineres qui sapit ille sapit Newbold-Pacy ABout a mile lower lyes Newbold commonly called Newbold-Pacy for distinction from those other Newbold's already spoke of in Knightlow-Hundred in regard that the family of Pacy were antiently Lords thereof This was one of those towns which Hasculf Musard of whom I have spoke in Lemington-Hastang had of the Conquerors gift at the time of whose generall Survey Hunfridus progenitor to the family of Hastang held it the extent thereof being then certified at five hides and the value C s. Whether it was Atropus Hastang the son of Hunfridus above specified or the second Atropus that enfeoft Pacy thereof I cannot certainly determine but that it was one of ther is not to be doubted for it appears that Adam de Pasci possest it in K. Iohn's time which Adam had issue Robert who in 2 H. 3. was one of the Sureties for Robert Marmion the younger that he should faithfully keep the Castle of Tamworth in this County for the Kings use and deliver it up to him if occasion should be which Robert had issue Will. the father of another Robert and of Will as I take it who in 7 E. 1. was certified to hold this Mannour of Robert de Hastang by the service of one Knights fee having then in demesn only half an acre of land and xiv Tenants occupying 8. yard land for which they were to perform divers servile employments As also 5. Cottiers and 3. Freeholders holding severall proportions At the same time I find that the Knights Templars had 8. yard land in this Lordship viz. 4. in demesn and 4. held in villenage all which were granted to them by Eustache Fitz-Hugh and Clement Fitz-Robert Of this Will. de Pacy it appears that being impleaded by the Canons of Nostell in 28. E. 1. touching the Advowson of the Church here at Newbold he obtained a Mandate from the King directed to the Justices of the Common pleas commanding them not to take any advantage of his absence in regard he was then employed in his service To which Will. succeeded Ric. de Pacy of whom I find no mention after the 21. of E. 3. nor after that time any thing considerable in reference to what that family had here saving that it was antiently depopulated But that which the Templars had here was in 7 E. 6. passed out of the Crown to Thomas Lucy Esquier and his heirs The Church being given to the Canons of Nostell in Com. Ebor. by Atropus Hastang in H. 1. time was in anno 1291. 19 E. 1. valued at 13. marks After which it came to the Provost and Scholars of Queens Colledge in Oxford who obtained an Appropriation thereof from the Pope whereupon the Vicaridge was endowed as appears by the Bishops Instrument bearing date at London 20. Oct. anno 1349. 23 E. 3. who reserved a Pension of half a mark to himself
well of the demesns as of the lands held in bond service together with the third sheaf As also one yard land with the housing and orchard belonging to it After which viz in an 1291 19 E. 1 the profits belonging to the Rectory were estimated at xx marks and a half and the Vicars portion at xviii marks but in 26 H. 8. the Vicaridge was rated at xxli Patroni Vicariae Incumbentes c. Prior Conv. de Kenilworth Magr. Richardus temp R. 1. Prior Conv. de Kenilworth Magr. Alex. de Manestoke an 1211. D. Rex ratione Vacationis Priorat de Kenilw. Magr. Hillarius Cler. 6. Ioh. D. Rex ratione Vacationis Priorat de Kenilw. Ric. de Tirinton 9. Ioh. Pr. Conv. de K. D. Hugo de Kenilworth Pbr. 14. Cal. Nov. 1300. Pr. Conv. de K. Gilb. de Wythibroke Pbr. Id. Sept. 1313. Idem Pr. C. de Kenilworth Magr. Ioh. de Chelmundescote Diac. 6. Cal. Apr. 1325. Idem Pr. C. de Kenilworth Rog. White Pbr. 5. Martii 1353. Idem Pr. C. de Kenilworth Rob. Mile 16. Sept. 1360. Idem Pr. C. de Kenilworth Will. de Bradway Pbr. 13. Dec. 1361. Idem Pr. C. de Kenilworth D. Rob. Scharborleyn 22. Feb. 1398. Idem Pr. C. de Kenilworth Io. Bentham cap. 7. Dec. 1419. Idem Pr. C. de Kenilworth D. Rob. Bandy 2. Apr. 1433. Idem Pr. C. de Kenilworth Magr. Thom. Taylard penult Feb. 1455. Idem Pr. C. de Kenilworth D. Ioh. Mud Cap. ult Martii 1467. Idem Pr. C. de Kenilworth Thom. Yardley Cap. 10. Aug. 1479. Idem Pr. C. de Kenilworth Magr. Hugo Chysenall art Magr. 20. Sept. 1458. Idem Pr. C. de Kenilworth D. Ioh. Hill Cap. 3. Iulii 1489 Wil. Gower de Woodall in com Wig. ar ratione concess Pr. C. de Kenilw. Ric. Bishop Cler. 12. Martii 1540. Phil. M. Rex Regina Magr. Thomas Bastard S. Theol. Bacc. 14. Dec. 1556. Ioh. Tonly de Burmington Ioh. Bishop de Brailes gen Will. Tovye Cler. art Magr. 20. Iunii 1584. Walt. Savage de Broadway Will. Sheldon Will Sheldon Andr. Dakers Cler. 26. Apr. 158. Barnabas Bishop Iac. Pallawyne Cler. S. Theol. Bacc. .... Feb. 1611. Cancellarius Magistri Scolar Univers Oxon. virtute Actus Parl. Gerardus Verrier Cler. art Magr. 4. Aug. 1624. Monumentall Inscriptions in the Church HERE LIETH the body of John Davis Gentleman a faithfull lover of Gods VVord who departed this life the seventh day of March A o domini 1609. HERE LIETH the body of Helen Davis the wife of Thomas Davis who was buried the 4 th day of Aprill A o domini 1621. JOHN BISHOP gentleman son of Barnabas Bishop who dyed the fift of October 1627. HERE LYETH buried the body of Helen Bishop the wife of John Bishop of Brayles gent. which Helen deceased the xxx th of December A o domini 1588. JOHN BISHOP Patron of this Church who lived 92 years in good credit and made an happy end the third day of Aprill 1601. God grant him a glorious resurrection Amen HERE LYETH the body of Robert Davis gentâ— eldest sonne of Richard Davis who by an happy exchange forsooke the earth to enjoy heaven the first of Novembr 1625. Epitaphium Reader should I bost my prize I might too much wrong thine eyesâ— And reduce thee to that state VVhich was Niobies sad â—ate Let this suffice then here doth lye Stout Mars and witty Mercury HERE LYETH the body of Elizabeth the daughter of Richard Davis gent. whos 's virtuous life is now her best and surviving monument and plainly declareth her unto all that she changed this life for a better the fifth of August 1623. EPITAPHIUM WHAT FEMALE Sexe doth often sever This Phoenix hath conjoyn'd together Virtue and beauty seldome greeting In her congratulate their meeting Loe then interr'd within this place The Virgins glory and the Maydens grace In this Church of Brailes there was a Gild founded by Ric. Nevill Earl of Warwick by the name of a Wardenâ— Brethren and Sisters with two Priests to celebrate divine service every day and to pray for the souls of the said Founders the revenew whereof in 37 H. 8. was certified to be xviii l xiii s ii d ob out of which a Grammar School was then here maintained There was also here a Chantry of two Priests of a much elder foundation but because it relates most to Chelmescote I purpose there to speak of it Chelmescote OF this place I doe not find any mention till H. 3. time it having been originally a member of Brailes and possest therewith by the old Earles of Warwick but in 20. of that Kings reign Roger de Crafâ—e and Sim. de Turvill were certified to hold halfe a Knights fee here of the Earl of Warwick and in 36 H. 3. Rog. de Crafte and Iohn Mace In that Record it is written Chelmundescote whereby 't is apparent that it had at first its appellation from one Ceolmunde an usual name in the Saxons time Howbeit afterwards was the family of Hubaud whereof I shall discourse in Ipsley possest thereof it being seized into the Kings hands in 50 H. 3. for the rebellion of Henry Hubaud then in Kenilworth Castle against the King But things being composed by the Decree called Dictum de Kenilworth the same Henry enjoyed it again and in 7. E. 1. was certified to hold it of the Earl of Warwick by the service of the fourth part of a Knights fee at which time he had five yard land here in demesn and four held by several Tenants of him in villenage All which did his son Iohn Hubaud possesse in 9 E. 2. But after that time till about Lxx. years I have seen no more of it than that Reginald Lord Grey of Ruthin in 1 H. 4. conveyed it unto one Iohn Lee which Iohn by certain Feoffees past it to Baldwin Boteler in 10 H. 6. whose daughter and heir Elizabeth brought it in marriage unto Eustace de Grenevil about the 38 of H. 6. Since which time the descendants of the said Eustace have enjoyed it till of late years I am of opinion that the said Eustace de Grenevill began the depopulation thereof for our countryman Rous who lived in that time complains of it After wich others followed his example for by the Inquis taken in 9 H. 8. it appears that Henry Grenefeild gentâ— depopulated 3. mess. and 1. Cottage inclosing Cxx. acres of land the Master and Brethren of the Trinity and S. George his Gild in Warwick 1. mess. with a carucate of land and a halfe containing lx acres and the Chantry Priest here at Chelmescote 1â— mess. and 50 acres of land From which Henry Grenefield descended Richard that dâ—ed seized of this Mannour in
intimation I find of it is in 20 H. 3. where half a Knights fee in this place is certified to be held of Raph de Todneye yet who it was that then so held it is not exprest but in 36 H. 3. it appears to be William le Bretun The next that had to do here I mean in this part was Walter Pykerell yet not reputed Lord of the Mannour though he had the advouson of the Chapell so that considering that the Abbot of Bordesley was shortly after certified to be Lord of this town as I shall more plainly shew by and by I may without much presumption conclude that by one means or other the Monks of that Monastery obtained a large proportion in this part thereof after that Walter Cumin as I shall declare anon had given them all that he had here Which Walter in 10 E. 2. levied a Fine of what he had here and in Hilborough viz. two mess. three carucates of land and eight marks Rent with the advouson of the Chapell whereby he entailed it upon â—he issue of his body by Agnes his wife the remainder to Iohn de Leicester Priest But it seemes that Pikerell had no children by that woman for Leicester enjâ—yed it according to this Entail and presented to the Chapell as will appear anon From whom it came to Roger Hillary who had Free-warren granted to him in all his demesn lands in this place and in Stafford-shire 4. Maii 18 E. 3. and held what he had here oâ— the Earl of Warwick by the fourth part of a Knights fee. Which Roger was a Kt. and had issue Sir Roger who dying childlesse in 1 H. 4. Sir Iohn Rochford Knight son of Saer de Rochford by Ioan his elder sister and Eliz. daughter to Will. de la Plaunch by Eliz. his other sister became his heirs which Eliz. had 4 husbands First Sir Iohn Bermingham Knight Secondly Sir Iohn Russell Knight Thirdly Sir Iohn Clinton Knight and Lastly Robert Lord Grey of Rotherfeild whereupon by partition betwixt these coheirs in 13 H. 4. the said Eliz. had inter alia this Mannour allotted to her but dying without issue in 2 H. 6. the posterity of Sir Iohn Rochford became her heirs as to it viz. Ioan the wife of Sir Robert Roos Knight Margaret the wife of Frederick Tilney and Alice of Iohn Gibthorp Betwixt whom partition being made it was assigned to Ioan for Sir Robert Roos presented to the Church in 5 H. 6. and dyed ult Sept 20 H. 6. leaving Margaret the wife of Thomas de Pinchbeck and Alianore his daughters and heirs which Margaret was afterwards marryed to Iohn Wittlebury But from Witlebury it ere long divolved to Sir Richard Clement Knight by Anne a daughter and heir as I guesse by the Presentations The other part of this town possest by Osbernus filius Ricardi in the Conquerors time as I have shewed was by Osbertus filius Hugonis grandchild to the said Osbern granted to Hugh Hubald progenitor to the Hubauds of Ipsley and his heirs to hold by the service of one Foot-man in the Marches of Wales for 8. dayes yearly upon xv days notice which Hugh past it away to Walter Cumin reserving the said service Osbertus filius Hugonis confirming the grant But it continued not long in the line of Cumin for Walter Cumin son to the said Walter gave it to the Monks of Bordsley at which time it was accounted three hides whose grant Henry Hubauld of whom it was held confirmed for the yearly Rent of x s. and the before specified service of a Footman c. which was to be performed in the guarding of Ricards-Castle as that Charter testifieth But it seems that the Monks of Bordsley obtained more lands here in Stretton besides these for in 4 E. 1. I find that they had 4. hides and in 9 E. 2. were certified to be Lords of the town which being the greatest part thereof continued to them till the dissolution of that House but soon after scil in 37. H. 8. was past out of the Crown together with the Grange unto Thomas Badger Thomas Fowler and Robert Dyson From whom it came at length to one William Freeman who in 1 Eliz. dyed seized thereof leaving Iohn his cosin and heir xv years of age In anno 1291. 19 E. 1. the Church here was not valued but in 14 E. 3. I find it rated at iii. marks and a half yet is there no mention of it in 26. H. 8. Patroni Ecclesiae Incumbentes c. Walt. Pykerel Ioh. de Cestaneslade Cler. 8. Id. Oct. 1298. Ioh. de Leicester Cler. Henr. de Schulton Cler. 17. Iulii 1330. Ioh. de Leicester Cler. Ioh. de Wentebrig 10. Nov. 1339. Ioh. de Leicester Cler. Rog. Clonne Pbr. 27. Apr. 1340. Walt. de Leicester Cler. D. Thomas de Bernak Cap. 2. Martii 1341. Rog. Hillarie miles Henr. de Ombrysley Pbr. 23. Martii 1393. Rog. Hillarie miles Ioh. de Sloghtre Pbr. 24. Iulii 1361. Ioh. de Hampton Dominus de Stretton D. Ioh. le White Pbr. penult Oct. 1371. Rog. Hillarie miles Rob. de Caldecote Pbr. 6. Dec. 1361. Rog. Hillarie miles D. Ioh. Sweter Cap. 28. Nov. 1368. D. Eliz. Domina de Clinton Gilb. Bury Cap. 5. Martii 1412. D. Eliz. Domina de Clinton D. Ioh. Handy Cap. 28. Aug. 1420. Rob. Roos miles Ioh. Staundford Pbr. .... 1426. Thomas Pinchebek ar D. Ioh. Westbury Pbr. 21. Nov. 1429. Ioh. Wittlebury ar Margar. ux ejus D. Ioh. Sonwyn Cap. 24. Ed. 1442. Ioh. Wittlebury ar Margar. ux ejus Will. Lumbard Cler. 11. Martii 1444. Rob Wyttelbury ar D. Rob. Lowth Cap. ult Iunii 1484. Anna Wittelbury D. Will. Flocton Cap. 18. Feb. 1506. Ric. Clemens ar VVill. Robyns 8. Dec. 1524. Anna Grey vidua nuper ux Ric. Clement militis Hugo Zulley Cler. 6. Apr. 1549. Rad. Sheldon ar Thomas Evans Cler. 29. Iulii 1575. Nich. Hobday Yeoman ex concess Rad. Sheldon ar D. Franc. Hunt Cler. 28. Aug. 1581. Barcheston SToure being increast with this torrent which passes by the skirts of Stretton hasteth Northwards and on its Eastern bank leaveth Barcheston with Willington a petty Hamlet Part of this town viz. two hides and a half belonging to Will. fil Corbucionis in the Conquerors time of whom in Studley I have spoke was then held of him by one Iohais and valued at xl s. having a Mill therein rated a C d. But the residue viz. one hide and half a virgate Aluriâ— then held of the King which is certified in the generall Survey amongst the lands of Ric. Forestarius and valued at xl s. All which with the two hides and a half before exprest was the freehold of one Wiching in Edward the Confessors dayes In Domesday book it is
the name of Bergavenny which stood undemolished about the later end of King H. 8. time the said Gate-house being ruin'd long before The next possessor of it that I find was Iohn Duke of Bedford third son to King H. 4. though how he obtained it I have not yet seen who in 10 H. 6. held it by the fourth part of a Knights Fee This Duke first made the Park and built that little Castle of brick and stone within the compasse of it which was such an eye-sore to the Earls of Warwick as Leland affirmeth and dyed seized thereof in 14 H. 6. leaving King H. 6. his nephew his cosin and next heir who in 28. of his raign granted the custody thereof to Iohn Talbot Lord L'isle to hold during life and to make use of the buildings therein for his own proper habitation at all times except when himself should be there Being thus in the Crown I find that K.E. 4. in 2. of his raign gave it unto Richard Nevill Earl of Warwick and his heirs after whose death at Barnet-field the Park was granted to George D. of Clarence to hold during life who shortly after obtained an estate in tail thereof to himself and the heirs male of his body upon the attainder of which Duke in 18 E. 4. it was certified that the before specified Castle of brick was ruinous so likewise the Gate-house of stone and the Lodge as also a Chapell which in times past had been a parish-Parish-Church After this viz. in 2 H. 8. the custody of the Park was granted to Thomas Lucy then one of the Sewers to the King to hold during pleasure But in 1 E. 6. Iohn Dudley Earl of Warwick obtained the inheritance of it together with the Castle of Warwick and divers other great Lordships upon whose attainder which hapned in 1 Mariae as I have elsewhere shewed the Qu. passed it unto Sir Francis Englefield Knight to hold in Capite Since which it is come to the Lucies of Cherlecote by purchase the last Sir Thomas having renewed the Park and by the addition of Hampton woods thereto enlarged it much Touching the Depopulation here I find that it hath been very antient for in 6 H. 6. there were but 4 Inhabitants nay very shortly after our Countrey-man Rous makes this complaint Apud Fulbroke saith he quondam erat Rectoria Ecclesia destruitur Villanis effugatis solùm Manerium remanet residuum imparcatur he means inclosed per Johannem D. Bedfordiae fratrem Regis Henrici quinti qui ibi aedificavit turrim nobilem Castro aequipollentem sed modo quasi nihil est And a little further he goes on thus per talem imparcationem via olim secura modò per sepes palos obtenebrata fit latibulum latronum carcer fidelium locus multiformis supplicii c. Which Castle being ruinous as I have said was pulled down in the beginning of H. 8. time by Sir Will. Compton Knight who had then the custody of the Park and the materialls thereof carried to build his House at Compton-winyate The Church in 14 E. 3. was valued at lx marks but in 26 H. 8. no notice is taken of it having been demolish'd before that time Patroni Ecclesiae Incumbentes c. D. Will. de Clinton Comes Huntindon Henr. de Burlyngham Pbr. 30. Apr. 1337. D. Will. de Clinton Comes Huntindon Ioh. Wodecock Pbr. 6. Cal. Oct. 1337. D Sym. Geynesbury Rector Eccles. de Hampton Episc. Sim. le Bakere Pbr. 22. Apr. 1338. D. Iuliana Comitissa Huntind Henr. Spenser ult Ian. 1358. D. Iuliana Comitissa Huntind D. Will. de Stanceby 19. Iulii 1363. Ioh. de Hastings Comes Pembr Ric. Taylour Pbr. 14. Iunii 1370. D. Episc. contemplatione Nich. Lylling mil. D. Ric. de Whashford Pbr. 18. Martii 1383. D. Ric. 2. Rex Angl. ratione terr Ioh. de Hastings Com. Pembr in manu sua c. Thomas Shepey 23. Apr. 1384. D. Ric. 2. Rex Angl. ratione terr Ioh. de Hastings Com. Pembr in manu sua c. Ioh. Harry Cap. penult Mati 1388. D. Ric. 2. Rex Angl. ratione terr Ioh. de Hastings Com. Pembr in manu sua c. D. Henr. Norreys Pbr. 28. Iulii 1389. D. Philippa Comitissa Pembr Thom. Tymburland 1. Oct. 1398. D. Episcopus Edm. Hecker Cler. 24. Oct. 1457. D. Episcopus Rob. Enkbarow Cler. 4. Iulii 1468. D. Episcopus Ric. Newman Cler. 6. Oct. 1470. D. Episcopus Ric. Ewer in Sacra Theol. Bac. 2. Nov. 1543. Hampton super Avon A Little lower upon an ascending ground stands Hampton heretofore called Bishops Hampton for the reasons I shall forthwith shew but of later times Hampton super Avon which being given to the Bishoprick of Worcester in the Saxons time was then involved with Stratford super Avon and by the Conquerors Survey certified to contain xii hides there being then a Church as also a Mill rated at vi s. viii d. and Woods of a mile in length and as much in breadth all which together with three Houses in Warwick as part thereof were at that time valued at xx li. Continuing to the said Bishops it was in 33 H. 3. found to be one of the towns belonging to their Barony and in 39 H. 3. Walt. de Cantilupe the then Bishop obtained a Charter of Free-warren for himself and his successors in all his demesn lands thereof After which viz. in an 1291. 19 E. 1. the value of it is thus set forth scil in Rent of Assize vi li. Three carucates of land at xx s. a carucate One Dovecote at vi s. one Mill at xx s. The Pleas and perquisits xx s. and the profits of the store xx s. But in 3 E. 6. for so long it continued to the succeeding Bishops did Iohn Dudley Earl of Warwick obtain it inter alia in exchange from Nich◠Heath Bishop of Worcester for certain lands in Worcester-shire and the same year parted with it again to the King for a more advantagious bargain of lands lying in Oxford-shire and elsewhere but having a design to repossesse it once more he accomplisht his purpose the next year following in exchange for lands lying in Northumberland and other places howbeit his attainder shortly after ensuing Queen Mary in 3. 4. of her raign granted the inheritance thereof together with the advouson of the Rectory unto Thomas Lucy of Cherlecote esquire whose posterity do enjoy it at this day The Church dedicated to S. Peter ad Vincula was in an 1291. 19 E. 1. valued at xlv marks there being then a Portion of xx s. to the Monks of Coventre issuing out of it But in 26 H. 8. I find it rated at lv li. xiii s. iv d. vi s. viii d. being then allowed for Synodalls and Procurations and iv li. for a Pension to the Vicar of
next Bishop of Chichester and then Chancelour of England brother likewise to Iohn de Stratford Archbishop of Canterbury of whom I shall speak anon who assuming his sirname from hence being the place of his birth bore a more than ordinary affection thereto In 13 E. 3. Iohn de Peito junior who was a Lawyer as in Chesterton I have shewed obtained a Lease for life of this Mannour from Wolstan then Bishop of Worcester at the Rent of lx li. per annum But little is there memorable of the succeeding Bishops relating to this place till 3 E. 6. that Nicholas Heath past it away to Iohn Dudley Earl of Warwick in exchange for certain lands in Worcestershire which Earl the same year parted with it to the King upon an advantagious bargain for lands in Oxfordshire and other places but with an eye to have it again as it fell out he had in 7 E. 6. by another exchange Upon the attainder of which Iohn in 1. Mariae being then Duke of Northumberland this called by the name of the Mannour of Old-Stratford with the rest of his lands eschaeting to the Crown was immediatly granted by the Queen to Ioan his Dutchesse but afterwards scil in 3. 4. Ph. M. to the Hospitall of Savoy in the suburbs of London The next thing I am to take notice of concerning this town that is by the Kings Letters Patent bearing date 28. Iunii 7 E. 6. it was made a Corporation consisting of a Bailiff and Burgesses who were to bear the name of Aldermen and to have a Common Seal c. The Church here dedicated to the holy Trinity is of a very antient structure little lesse than the Conq. time as I guesse by the fabrick of the Tower-steeple but part thereof besides hath been rebuilt at severall times viz. the South I le by Iohn de Stratford Archbishop of Canterbury about the beginning of Edward 3. time the Quire by Thomas Balshall Doctor in Divinity and Warden of the same Church being then Collegiate in E 4. time and the North and South Crosse by the Executors of Hugh Clopton sometime Lord Maior of London in H. 7. time The Rectory as it extended to the Chapelries within the Parish was in anno 1291. 19 E. 1. valued at xxxv marks but the Patronage thereof belonging to the Bishops of Worcester was purchased by Iohn de Stratford Archbishop of Canterbury in 10 E. 3. from Simon Montacute then Bishop of Worcester which Archbishop gave it to the Chantry founded by himself in a certain Chapell adjoyning to the said Church on the South side buâ—lt by him to the honour of God and of S t Thomas the Martyr for the appropriation whereof unto that Chapell he gave unto the same Bishop of Worcester and his Successors in recompence of the damage which they might thereby sustain one mess. one carucate of land and x s. Rent with the appurtenances in Perseley-Grove juxta Hampton super Avon to the yearly value of x. marks But there is no particular valuation of this Church in 26 H. 8. other than amongst the revenues of the Chantry before specified which then had the reputation of a Colledge whereunto it was appropriated Neither was there any Vicaridge endowed till after the dissolution of the said Colledge as by the Institutions thereto may be discerned Patroni Ecclesiae Incumbentes c. D. Episc. VVigorn VVill. de Grenefeld Cler. 10. Cal. Oct. 1294. D. Episc. VVigorn Iac. de Anisio Cler. Cal. Iulii 1310. D. Episc. VVigorn Ioh. Vanne Cler. 11. Cal. Apr. 1313. D. Episc. VVigorn D. Henr. de Hastings Cler. Non. Sept. 1316. D. Rex ratione vacat Episcopat Wigorn Ioh. Geraud 18. Martii 1334. Patroni Vicariae D. Maria Regina ratione attinct Ioh. Ducis Northumb. Rog. Dioos Cler. 15. Nov. 1553. D. Eliz. Angl. Regina Ioh. Brechgirdle art Magr. 27. Febr. 1560. Ambrosius Comes Warwici Magr. Ric. Barton Cler. 17. Febr. 1584. Ric. Alchurch ex concess Ioh. Rushton Ioh. Rushton Cler. 26. Febr. 1589. Edw. â—revill de Milcote ar Ric. Bifeild Cler. 23. Ian. 1596. Iac. Rex Angl. Thomas Wilson Cler. 22. Maii 1619. At the upper end of the Quire is a fair Monument having a statue thereon cut in Alabaster and in a gown with this Epitaph HERE LYETH interred the body of Iohn Combe Esquireâ— who departing this life the tenth day of Iuly A o D. 1614. bequeathed by his last Will and Testament to pious Charitable uses these summes ensuing annually to be payd for ever viz. xx s. for two Sermons to be preach't in this Church vi li. iii s. iv d. to buy ten gownes for ten poore people within the Borough of Stratford and one hundred pounds to be lent to xv poore tradesmen of the same Borough from three years to three years changing the parties every third year at the rate of 50 s. per annum the which increase be appointed to be destributed towards the reliefâ— of the Almes-poor there More he gave to the poore of Stratford xx lâ— Virtus post funera vivit On the North side of this Quire is a very large and goodly Monument raised neer four foot high from the ground and curiously carved The portraiture in brasse fixt on a great Marble stone which covereth it hath been long since torne away as also the Inscription on the verge thereof but Leland affirmeth it to have been erected for Doctor Balsall sometime Deane of this collegiat-Collegiat-Church who built the said Quire as I have in my discourse of the Church already observed In one of the windows as by M r Belcher's notes I find was written Thomas Balshall doctor of divinity reedifyed this quier and dyed anno 1491. In the Arch betwixt the said North Ile and the Church is there a fair tablet with the Armes of Clopton empaling Kyte and this Inscription To the memory of THOMAS CLOPTON of Clopton in the County of Warwick Esquier and Eglentine his wife one of the daughters of Iohn Kyte of Ebrington in the County of Glocester Esquier The said Thomas departed this life the 22 th day of August Anno Domini 1643. The said Eglentine departed this life 22 th day of November An. Dom. 1642. They left issue two sons Iohn and Thomas Clopton In the body of the Church lyeth in fair marble with a portraiture a brasse thereon and this Inscription Anno milleno C. quater lx quatriplato vnicus eximitur annus Pagete obit Agnes et nonas Innij gylde fuit illa magistra annis undenis cuia mansio sit modo celis Monumentall Inscriptions in the Quire HERE LYETH interred the body of Anne wife of William Shakespeare who departed this life the 6. day of Aug. 1623. being of the age of 67 years Ubera tu mater tu lac vitamque dedisti Ve mihi pro tanto munere Saxa dabo Quam mallem amoveat lapidem
body in 6 R. 2. as I have already shewed and was one of the most eminent men in Warwickshire of his time for it appears that he served as one of the Knights for this shire in the several Parliaments of 1.2 and 4 th of H. 4. held at Westminster as also in 9 H. 4. at Gloucester and was Shiriff of this County and Leicestershire in 4 H. 4. In 9 H. 4. he was constituted Eschaetor for these Counties in 6 H. 5. one of the Commissioners of Array in this Shire In 7 appointed with others to treat with the people for lending money to the King and both in K. H. 4. and H. 5. time a Justice of Peace in this County for divers years but of his posterity farther than the Genealogic before inserted expresseth I can say little other than that Thomas Trussell Esq boâ—e the Office of Shiriffe for this County and Leicestershire in 23 H. 7. and bequeathing his body to be buried in the Church here at Billesley departed this life in 7 H. 8. and that Thomas the fifth in descent from him sold this his so antient patrimony in our time to S t Robert Lee K t son and heir to S t Rob. Lee Alderman of London which S r Robert having so purchased it new built a great part of the Mannour House and made it his chief seat being a Justice of Peace in this County a great pat of K. Iames his time and afterwards as long as he lived and High Shiriff in 17 of his reign The Church dedicated to All Saints was in an 1291 19 E. 1. valued at xi marks and in 26 H. 8. at v li vi s viii d at which time the Synodalls and Procurations amounted to ii c iiid. Patroni Ecclesiae Incumbentes c. Will. Trussell Will. de S. Mauro Cap. .... 1280. Will. Trussell Ric. Trussell Cler. 3 Cal. Ian. 1288. Ioh. Trussell de Cublesdon Rog. de Coningesby Cler. 9 Iunii 1339. Ioh. Trussell de Cublesdon Ioh. de Hobonere Cler. 1 Oct. 1349. D. Will. Trussell de Cublesdon miles Henr. Coppenhald Pbr. ult Iulii 1357. D. Will. Trussell de Cublesdon miles Alanus de Vyse Pbr. 15 Ian. 1361. D. Aluredus Trussell miles Thomas Ungueon Pbr. 5 Iunii 1392. D. Episc. per lapsum Ric. Burton Abbas de Alencestre 2 Oct. 1454. D. Episc. per lapsum D. Will. Shirwood 23 Apr. 1460. Thomas Trussell generosus D. Rob. Mercer Pbr. 12 Iulii 1498. Alveredus Trussell ar D. Thomas Taylor Pbr. 26 Nov. 1538. Alveredus Trussell ar D. Thomas Daygle Cap. 8 Iulii 1546. D. Episc. per lapsum Thomas Clerke Cler. 27 Febr. 1560. Ioh. Trussell ar Rob. Spenser Cler. 29 Oct. 1574. Rob. Lee miles Ric. Wright Cler. 6 Oct. 1619. Rob. Lee miles Magr. Ric. Wright Cler. 20 Oct. 1624. Temple-Grafton THis containing the Villages of Ardens-Grafton and Hilborough was one of those towns given to the Abby of Evesham shortly after the foundation thereof but through the oppression of certain potent men with divers other lands belonging to that Monastery was taken away from the Monks long before the Norman Invasion so that upon the Conquest by Duke Will. it became disposed of to some of his followers for by the generall Survey shortly after made whereby 't is certified to contain 5. hides valued at 4 li I find thaâ— Osbernus fil Ricardi of whom I shall speak in Aston-Cantlow possest it at that time there being then a Church and that one Gilebert was his Tenant thereto as also that Mervin Scotin Toti and Tosti held it in Edw. the Confessors dayes but in that Record it is written Grastone the f being mistaken for an s for out of doubt it was originally both written and called Graestone or Graevetone having its appellation from bushes which in our old English were called Greves Whether the Monks of Evesham did ever actually enjoy it again is hard to say though it be plain that much of their antient possessions was afterwards through the prudence of some succeeding Abbots regained but certain it is that Abbot Mauricius who lived in the reigns of K. Will. Rufus and H. 1. made a grant thereof to Raph Boteler of Oversley a great man in these parâ—s Howbeit long was it not after ere that one Bernard de Grafâ—on became owner of it for by the grant of a messuage here from Henry the son of Rob. Parker unto Geffrey Pancefoth and his heirs scil about K. R. 1. time which messuage is said to be de feodo Henrici Bernardi no lesse may be inferred I have not yet seen by any Record till 26 H. 8. that it had the name of Temple-Grafton for antiently it was called Grafton superior and by that name I find it in 20 E. 3. and that which is now called Arden's Grafton Grafton inferior By which name viz. Temple-Grafton it might be supposed that the Knights Templars were sometime seized of all or a great part of this town howbeit I do not discern that they had any thing to do here either by that Survey taken of their lands in an 1185 31 H. 2. or in that of 1 E. 2. which was after the dissolution of their Order but in truth it was the Knights Hospitalars upon whome the Templars â—lands were bestowed who were possest of it some whereof they had by grant from Henry the son to Bernard de Grafton before specified as appeareth by their publique Instrument bearing date an 1189. 1 R. 1. whereby they gave to Simon de Arden and his heirs half a hide of land lying in this place being all or part of that which they had acquired of the said Henry paying to them and their successors xii d per an for all services so that at the decease of him and his heirs the third part of the Chattells which should happen to be upon that land might for the health of his soul remain to their house But though Henry was son to the before specified Bernard he was not his heir as I conceive but rather Raph de Grafton of whom I find mention in 33 H. 2. and 7 R. 1. betwixt which Raph and Will. Picot a fine was levied in 1 Ioh. of one hide of land lying in this place Which Raph was dead without issue before the 6 year of K. Iohn for then did Raph Boteler of Oversley give a Fine to the K. of an Câ— that he might seize those lands which the said Raph de Grafton held untill it should be determined by a legall triall whether he had more right to them than Henry de Bereford What title it was that the said Raph Boteler challenged I find not but plain it is that he prevailed not for Henry de Bereford enjoyed it having obtained the interest that Margaret daughter to Will. de Grafton
Gascoigne under Sir Thomas Nevill in the service of King Ric. 2. and after the decease of an elder brother called Edmund that he returned into England where he was likewise entertained in the said King's service but afterwards upon the deposall of the said King Richard by Henry of Lancaster being constrained to slee into France in regard that he took part with the Earles of Huntingdon Salisbury and Kent c. against the said Henry of Lancaster after one years abode in Paris he travailed with one Robert Arden Esquire his companion into Italy where they served under Iohn Galeas Duke of Millain against the Emperour Rupert and after the death of the said Duke returned into Brabant where they met with two English Friers going to Rome from whom they received tidings that William Curson a younger son of Sir Iohn Curson and cosin Germain to the said Iohn was Abbot of S. Osithes in Essex whereupon he hasted towards England by Amsterdam and arriving at Ipswich Anno 1404. thence presently sped to S. Osithes where changing his name into Smyth but privately making himself known to his kinsman the Abbot was by him curteously entertained who bestowed upon him good means and advanced him in marriage to Milicent the daughter and heir of Robert Laynham by Alice the daughter and heir to Iohn Hend Major of London The Church dedicated to S. Peter was given to the Monks of Conchis in Normandy by Robert de Stadford before spoken of shortly after the Conquest of England by Duke William and appropriated to them by Roger Bishop of Worcester 3. Non. Nov. Anno 1178. 25 H. 2. In Anno 1291. 19 E. 1. it with the Chapells belonging thereto was valued at Lii marks the Vicars portion being at that time seven marks and a half But in 26 H. 8. the Vicaridge was valued at xii li. out of which did yearly issue x s. v d. ob for Procurations and Synodals Patroni Vicariae Incumbentes c. Procurator Abbatis de Conchis Ioh. de Wotton Diac. Non. Apr. 1306. Prior de Wawens-Wotton Ioh. fil Rob. Sutoris Cap. 3. Id. Sept. 1325. Abbas Conv. de Conchis Frater Ioh. le Tonnelier 26. Iulii 1328. Abbas Conv. de Conchis Ioh. Corpe Pbr. 5. Cal. Iulii 1335. Procurator Abb. Conv. de Conchis Petrus de Loversey Pbr. 4. Oct. 1336. Prior de Wotton Rob. Wykwane 10. Oct. 1367. Ric. Rex Angl. ratione temporal Priorat de Wotton in manu sua c. Ric. Hemery Pbr. 2. Maii 1378. Rolandus Leynthall miles D. Nich. Wedon Cap. 22. Sept. 1425. Rolandus Leynthall miles Will. Saunders Cler. 22. Febr. 1436. Prior Conv. de Wotton-Wawen D. Ioh. Berston Cap. 23. Martii 1445. Prior Conv. de Wotton-Wawen D. Rog. Wheler Cap. 22. Apr. 1446. Praepos Socii Collegii Regal Cantab. D. Ioh. Dalton Cap. 7. Martii 1449. Praepos Socii Collegii Regal Cantab. D. Ioh. Russell Cap. 17. Ian. 1458. Praepos Socii Collegii Regal Cantab. D. Will. Harryes Cap. 9. Feb. 1460. Praepos Socii Collegii Regal Cantab. Rog. Iordan in art Magr. 26. Martii 1468. Praepos Socii Collegii Regal Cantab. Brianus Esthorp in S. Theol. Scholar 3. Iulii 1489. Praepos Socii Collegii Regal Cantab. D. Ioh. Botreye Pbr. 16. Martii 1514. Praepos Socii Collegii Regal Cantab. Thomas Hartwell in S. Theol. Bac. 17. Dec. 1523. Praepos Socii Collegii Regal Cantab. Thomas Goldston in art Magr. 13. Maii 1545. Praepos Socii Collegii Regal Cantab. D. Edw. Alcock Pbr. 17. Febr. 1556. Praepos Socii Collegii Regal Cantab. D. Rad. Olton Pbr. 24. Martii 1557. D. Episc. per lapsum Will. Bolton Cler. 23. Apr. 1579. Praepos Socii ut suprà Ioh. Mascall Cler. 23. Aug. 1580. Monumentall Inscriptions upon Grave stones in the South I le of this Church In brasse upon a Marble Here lyeth the body of Lady Agnes Smyth late wife of Sir Iohn Smyth Knight one of the Barons of the Eschequer daughter of Iohn Harewell Esquier and one of the coheirs of Thomas Harewell Esquier her brother which Agnes dyed the xix â—h of February Anno 1562. Upon one of Alabaster Hic jacet Iohannes Allesbury qui obiit septimo die mensis ................... cujus anime propitietur Deus Amen The Priory I Now come to speak of that little Monastery of Benedictine Monks which sometime stood here and was one of those we call Priories Alien having been a Cell to the Abby of Conchis in Normandy â— Of which kind there were few that had any formall Foundation as in Wolston I have already shewed For the first grant to that forrein Monastery by Rob. de Tonei son doubtless unto Roger who founded Conchis and Nicholas de Stafford his son was no other than verball as it seems by that confirmation thereof which Rob. de Stafford son to the same Nicholas made in H. 2. time wherein he makes mention that his said grandfather and father gave thereunto this Church of Wotton together with the Tithes and oblations of the whole town and one hide of land adjoyning to the same Church as also another hide called Doversele and the lands which the Monks of Conchis had then in tillage here in exchange for the Mannour of Edricston now Edston which at first belong'd to those Monks But I make a question notwithstanding the first grant so made by the before specified Robert de Tonei whether any Monks setled here till after his death for in an Instrument of later time made by the Abbot and Monks of Conchis whereby they constituted a Prior here it is said to be de Fundatione nobilissimi domini Nicholai Stafford which is some argument that he first erected their Mansion here Touching the appropriation of the said Church made in 25 H. 2. to the peculiar benefit of those Monks having already spoke in Wotton I shall now endeavour the discovery of what farther augmentation they had by other Benefactors wherein I find that Robert the son of Herveus de Stafford gave unto them divers particular parcells of land lying in Ullenhale Henry de Montfort the Mill at Henley Robert de Chaucumbe divers Lands in Mockle and Ullenhale Will. de Burley a yard land with a croft and messuage in Burley with all his interest in the Chapell there Geffrey de Pauncefote and Iohn Durvassall certain lands in Buckele juxta Beldesert And to all these had they the addition of the Mannour of Monkenlane in Herefordshire which with severall other lands and Tithes in that Countie were originally granted to the said Monks of Conchis by Raph de Tonei brother to our Robert who in the confirmation of them made by Will. de Vere Bishop of Hereford in H. 2. time is called Radulfus senior de Tonei As to the originall seizures
begotten and for lack of such issue to Thomas de Morehall with remainder to Iohn de Clopton and his heirs By which entail it should seeme that it came to the same Iohn de Clopton for it appears that Thomas de Crewe had to do here in right of Iulian his wife mother to Sir Will. Clopton Kt. and widow as I guess to the same Iohn de Clopton Of which Thomas in respect of his residence here and relations to this County I may not omit to declare what I find memorable In 2 H. 4. he was Atturney to Margaret Beauchamp Countess of Warwick mother to Earl Richard In 6 o one of the Knights for this Shire in the Parâ— then held at Coventre In 7 o a Commissioner for enquiry touching the King's debts In 8 H. 4. and 1 H. 5. one of the Justices of Peace in this Shire In the same first year of H. 5. Shiriff of this Countie and Leicestershire and in 3 H. 5. chief Steward to Richard Beauchamp Earl of Warwick and one of his Councell This Iohn by his Testament bearing date 5 Sept. 6 H. 5. bequeathed his body to be buried in the Chapell of S. Iohn Bapt. adjoyning to the Church of St. Milburge the Virgin here at Witlaxford giving to certain Priests to celebrate divâ—ne Service for the health of his soul C. marks as also to poor people to pray for his soul the like summe constituting Elizabeth his sister then Prioresse at Chester to whom he also gave C. marks together with Will. Clopton and Ioane his wife his Executors and departing this life the same year lyeth buried under a very fair Monument of gray Marble raised about 18 Inches from the ground in the midst of that Chapell whereon are the portraitures in brasse of himself and his wife as when I come to speak particularly thereof shall be shewed But the interest which he had heâ—â—â— was only for terme of life by the assignation of Sir Will. Clâ—pton before specified in whom the inheritance rested which Will. having by a certain Feoffment bearing date 7 Maii 7 H. 5. declared his intentions for the setling of his estate dyed leaving only two daughters his heirs viz. Agnes the wife of Thomas Herberd and Ioane marryed to Iohn Burgh betwixt whom the inheritance descending to them was by Indenture dated 22 Febr. 22 H. 6. divided and this Mannour of Morehall with Wichfford inter alia allotted to Ioane who left issue by her said husband four daughters and heirs sc. Eliz. married to ...... Newport Ankaret to Iohn Leighton Isabell to Sir Iohn Lyngen Kt. and Sibill to Thomas Mitton Esq. The Chapell dedicated to S. Milburge now reputed a Parish Church was originally belonging to Saltford and therewith given by K. H. 1. to the Canons of Kenilw. shortly after the Foundation of that Monastery and confirmed by several Arch-Bishops of Canterbury but after that viz. in 5 Steph. Raph Boteler upon his foundation of the Priory at Alcester gave the Tithes of this place to that Religious house though by what colour of right I find not Which grants occasioned the Monks of Evesham to look about them who being Lords of the Mannour conceived that they had a good title to the patronage of the Chapell whereunto they made their claim but at last they came to this Agreement with the Canons of Kenilworth viz. that the said Canons should yearly have the summe of viii s. which they had wont to receive for the Tithes of this Village and whatsoever Parochial benefit they had used to have therein excepting the Tithes of those lands which particularly belonged to the said Monks of Evesham In consideration whereof the same Canons of Kenilworth were yearly to pay to the Monks of Evesham X s. at the Feasts of S. Mich. th'Archangell and the Annuntiation of our Lady by equall portions and to cause divine Service to be celebrated three days a week in the said Chapell sc. Sundays Wednsdays and Fridaysâ— which Agreement was confirm'd by Roger Bishop of Worcester in H. 2. time But thereof had not the Monks of Alcester any benefit wherefore insisting upon their right in this Chapell there was at length a fair conclusion made betwixt the said Canons of Kenilworth and them in the presence of Iohn de Constantiis Bâ—shop of Worcester and others at the appointment of the Archbishop of Canterbury whereby it was concluded that the Monks of Alcester should thenceforth receive the whole Tithes of the demesns of this Lordship for ever and the Canons of Kenilworth the Tithes of that held in Villenage And in like sort that the Monks should receive all the Tithes of Budeley now called Morehall except of those lands which belong'd by inheritance unto Ric. de Eccleshale Godfrey de Budiford as also to Norman and Will. Parmentier at the time when this Agreement was made Of which lands the said Monks and Canons should divide the Tithe-Corn betwixt themâ— but the parochiall right with the small Tithes of those 4 persons and their successors in the said lands to belong to the Canons for ever The Chantrie In 26 H. 6. one Will. Wolashull obtaining License from the King founded a Chantry here for one Priest perpetually to celebrate divine Service to the honour of our Lady and S. Iohn Baptist in the Chapell annext to this Parish Church for the good estate of the said King with Margaret his Queen and of the said Will. during their lives in this World as also for their soules after their departure hence together with the souls of Thomas Crewe Esq and Iulian his wife Sir William Clopton Knight and Ioane his wife their parents and friends unto whose maintenance he gave in pure Almes a certain dwelling House situate here in Wykâ—ford called Prâ—â—ts-place with a Close adjoyning thereto containing two acres But by the Survey taken in 37 H. 8. I find it certified that this Chantrie had no foundation at all and that the Priest serving there was Chaplain to one Dame Sibill Mytton who in her life time had made instant labour unto Richard Mytton her son and heir to grant him an annuity of Cvi s. viii d. out of his lands for terme of life at whose request the said Richard was contented it being at his the said Richard's pleasure whether he would grant more Annuities to any other after the death of one Richard Elias at that time Chantrie Priest Aspley juxta Wicksford THis is a depopulated place and not mentioned in any Record that I have seen till 18 E. 3. that Gilbert Chasteleyn releaseth to Sir Fouk de Bermingham Knight all his right and title therein nor afterwards till â—fter the death of Thomas Crewâ— of whom in Wicksford I have spoke at which time it was found that he held it during his life by the assignation of Sir William Clopton Knight together with Wicksford and Morehall since
sort the memory of whom is still famous for his singular learning as Master Cambden observes Vir rarâ doctrinâ insignis saith he qui Saxonicam Majorum nostrorum linguam desuetudine inter-mortuam oblivione sepultam primus nostra aetate resuscitavit But though he was a man so eminent in that kind it seems that his dexterie and diligence in teaching Scholars fell far short of what they expected For it appears that soon after his feeling here the Corporation took great exceptions at him for the neglect of his School and exhibited Articles against him in the Chancery wheâ—eupon after the sitting of a Commission and sundry depositions taken he procured Letters from the Councell Table admonishing them â—â—at they should not go about his removall except aâ—y notable crime could be proved against him so that in conclusion finding such slender esteem amongst them he accepted of his arrears and a gratuitie of ten pounds whereof the said Bâ—shop of Exeter gave five marks and in 1 Edw. 6. resigned â—o that his stay in this place was not much more than a year But how long these Trustees continued so zealous for the good of the School and faithfull in diâ—posing the profits of the lands before specified to the designed uses I cannot affirm perhaps whilst the Bishop lived which was till towards the end of Queen Maries reign Sure I am that to such an height of covetousness they did in time grow that to prevent the Schoolmasters from enjoying what was justly due unto them they contrâ—ved to elect them of their Societie I mean of the Corporation before they could be acquainted with their right so that hauing made Leases of their Lands to their Children or friends for small Rents reserved it should not be in the School-master's power being so bound up as one of that Body politique to question the same Thus was the pious intent of the well-meaning Founder abused till that within these few years the fraud being discovered some remedie was had by a Chancerie Decree at the prosecution of Iohn Michaell the then Schoolmaster that famous man the Lord Coventre being Lord Keeper of the great Seal Hill and Little Sutton THese two petty Hamlets I now joyn together because I find that a good part of them antiently belong'd to the Little Priorie of Canwell situate on the borders of this Countie but witâ—in Staffordshire Which lands as part of Sutton were first given thereto by one of the antient Earls of Warwick as I guess for it appears that Waleran Earl of Warwick made a confirmation to the Monks of that House of three yard land lying in Hulle which is this Hill given to them by Earl Roger his Father To which Monasterie they continued till the dissolution thereof in 17 H. 8. but then by the name of the Mannours of Hull and Little Sutton were they granted together with the site of that Religious house and other its possessions by the King's Letters Pat. dated 20 Ian. the same year unto Cardinall Wolsey who soon after conferr'd them on the Dean and Canons of his Colledge then called Cardinall-Colledg in Oxford Maney and Warmley THese Hamlets are parcell of the Lordship of Sutton and therefore not to be farther spoke of Wigginshill THis being possest by Turchill de Warwick in the Conqueror's time was by the generall Survey certified to contain 3 yard land having Woods of two furlongs in length and as much in breadth one Bruning being then his Tenant thereto whose freehold it had been before the Norman invasion but in that Record it is written Winchicelle and valued at v s. With the rest of Turchill's lands it came to the Earls of Warwick as is evident by the Certificate of their Fees in 20 H. 3. at which time one Will. Bonchivalier enjoyed it but afterwards sc. in 36 H. 3. Raph de Wylinton held it together with Chiriton of the same Earls by the service of a Knights Fee To whom succeeded Iohn de Wylinton in 9 E. 2. who held it single for the fourth part of a Knight's Fee and there it is written Wyginghull The next possessor thereof that I find was Will. de Lucy who in 20 E. 3. held it by the same fourth part of a Knights Fee of Iohn de Hull and he of the before specified Iohn de Wylinton and he of the Earl But by a Court Roll of 35 E. 3. Baldw. de Bereford owner of Langley hard by is said to be Lord of it whose Ancestor Osbert de Bereford had lands here in E. 1. time And in 10 H. 6. Iohn Hore of Wishaw Esq descendant of the same Baldwin yet not by the name of a Mannour but three Messuages and that he held them by the fourth part of a Kts. Fee Which Messuages were in Q. Eliz. time sold to Thomas Gibons then of New Hall by Rob. Pudsey Esq heir to the same T. Hore as in Langley appeareth reserving the antient Rent viz. xlvi s. ii d. ob per an to himself and his heirs There was antiently a suit betwixt the Abbot of Leicester as Rector of the Church of Curdworth and the Parson of Sutton for certain Tithes arising out of nine yard land lying in this Hamlet whereof six were of the Earl of Warwick's Fee and the other three of the Fee of Thomas de Arden and pertaining to the Church of Curdworth And because it was a hard matter to distinguish betwixt these Fees at length by authority from the Pope certain Judges were appointed to determine the businesse who decreed that two parts of the Tithe Corn of the said nine yard land should be payd to the Church of Sutton and the third to Curdworth And also that the Inhabitants upon the same six yard land of the Earls Fee should repair to the Mother-Church of Sutton on the Feast days of the Assumption of our Lady and Easter and there communicate and that the Priest of Sutton should shrive them in Lent and on their Death-beds And moreover that at Sutton they should bury their dead and pay to that Church all their small Tithes throughout the year But because of their great distance from the said Mother-Church they could not without much inconvenience go thither that they should pay all their Oblations and Obventions to the Priest ministring at Curdworth from whom they might receive spiritual comfort as occasion should require As also that the Priest of Sutton should yearly pay to the Church of Curdworth iiii d to buy Frankincense And lastly that the Inhabitants upon the other three yard land of Arden's Fee should be answerable to the Mother-Church of Curdworth for all Obventions and Oblations Langley THat this was originally a member of Sutton in which parish it lyes I incline to believe for in 37 H. 3. which is the first mention that â— ever saw of it Walter de Bereford did inter alia grant to Walter his son L. acres of
Hugh de Vienna that in 14 of that Kings reign he quitted to the Kts. Hospitalâ—rs the totall interest that he had in Riton super Dunsmore in 15. sold the Mannour of Rotley with the advouson of the Church unto Nic. de Eton and about that time likewise granted unto Thomas de Arden of Hanwell and â—ose his wife the inheritance of the Mannour of Pedimore and of all his lands lying here in Curdworth as also in Moxhall Minworth Echenours and Overton and to shut himself out of all made a conveyance unto Will. de Beauchamp then Earl 〈◊〉 Warwick and Maud his wife and the heirs of the same Earl of all the Fees throughout England that were held of him The Armes â—e bore were Chequi Or and Azure a Cheveron gules which his Ancestors assumed as it seemes 〈◊〉 regard that they held their lands of thâ— Earls of Warwick whose Cheveron was Ermine in the like 〈◊〉 but whether he left any issue I make a question I now come to Thomas de Arden of Hanwell unto whom this Lordship with other lanes were past by the last mentioned Sir Thomas whâ—â—◠〈◊〉 was at Rotley This Thomas was in that Welch expedition of 5 E. 1. but little else have I seen of him that is very memorable other than the Agreement betwixt the Earl of Warwick and him whereof I have spoken in Pedimore and the bearing of his Armes viz. Eâ—mine a Fesse Chequie as appeareth by his Seal as also that he married Rose daughter unto Raph de Vernun by wâ—om I think he had the said Lordship of Hanwell and left issue one only daughter called Ioan. wedded to Sir Iohn Swinford Knight To whom succeeded Robert his brother who living at Wykham near Banbury became Governour of Banbury Castle in 15 E. 2. and in 16 E. 2. was â—n the Scotch Expedition This Robert was in 3 E. 3. a Knight After which viz. the next ensuing year he obtained License of the King to fortifie his Mannour house at Wykham with an embattelled Wall of lime and stone and in 5 E. 3. departed this life seized of a very fair estate scil the Mannours of Draiton Hanwell Hornle Horynton Dunstuwe Yolughbury Wykham and Swalweclyve in Oxfordshire Wapenham and Sudburgh in Northamptonshire wâ—â— Perchingâ— Adburton Fulking Lawike Hangelton and Note-Knolle in com Suss. Whose grandson Giles being the last male of this branch left an only daughter called Margaret married to Lodowik Grevill Esq from whom the Grevills of this County did descend But the next possessor of this Mannour of whom I have seen any mention was Raph the son of Raph a younger son to Sâ—r Thomas Arden of Hanwell This Raâ—h was in 17 E. 2. certified to be one of the principal Esquires in this County and by Isabell his wife daughter unto Anselme de Bromwich left issue Iohn and Henry Which Iohn bore for his Armes Ermine a Fesse Chequie and in 33 E. 3. being a Knight as also a powerfull man in this County as my Author saith impleaded the Abbot of Leicester for the Mannour of Berwode with the advouson of this Church of Curdworth given to the Canons of that House by his Ancestors many ages before whereupon the Abbot fearing partiality in hearing the cause for it was to be tryed at Warwick procured the King's Letter to the Judges of this Circuit viz. Sir Iohn de Moubray and Thomas de Hingylby requiring them that he might have equal right by means whereof the Verdict past for the Abbot This Sir Iohn de Arden resided at his Mannour of Pedimore as it seems by a License to have divine Service celebrated in his Oratory there but left no other than heirs female whereof Rose was married h unto one Thomas Pakeson and the rest dyed issulesse which Pakeson was outlawed for Felony in 43 E. 3. and dyed in 2 R. 2. leaving Iohn his son 7 years of age 〈…〉 our Historians make ample mention and attempted the raysing forces in Shropshire but being laid hold on before their successe at S. Albans had made them so powerfull he was attainted of high Treason by Iames Earl of Wiltshire Richard Bingham and Iohn Portington Judges appointed to try him and others of that party and lost his life for the same offence on Saturday next after the Feast of S. Laurence the Martyr 30 H. 6. the custody of his lands being committed to Thomas Littleton Sergeant at Law Thomas Greswould and Iohn Gamell Esquires To whom succeeded Walter his son and heir by Eliz. daughter and heir to Ric. Clodshale which Walter having within two years after his Father's death obtained the King's Precept to his Eschaâ—tor for render of those lands in this County of his mothers inheritance and likewise of some other became ere long possest of the residue and wedded Elianore the daughter to Iohn Hampden of Hampden in Buckinghamshire But little else have 〈◊〉 of him that is memorable other than that by his Testament bearing date ult Iunii An. 1502 17 H. 7. he bequeathed his body to be buried in the Câ—urcâ— of S. Peter and Paul at Aston juxta Bermingham and to the Vicar of Aston for his 〈◊〉 and his Tithes forgotten his best Oxe â—ppointing â—â—kewâ—se thereby that at his burial xii li. oâ— Wax shâ—uld be â—pent in Lights and six Torches â—orn by six poor men each of them having a black Gown for that service As also a Trentall of Masses sung for his son and for the souls of his Father and Mother and all Christen souls constituting Flâ—aâ—ore his wife Executrix and Edw. Belbnap Iâ—hn Bâ—acebrigge with Iohn Boteler of Solihull Overâ—eers thereof Thâ—s Walter left issue Iohn Arden his son and heir one of the Esquiers of the Body to K. H. 7. Which Iohn wedded Alice daughter to Ric. Bracebrigge of Kingsbury Esq But concerning this marriage there aâ—ose no smal dâ—fference betwixt the Parents on each side Walter Arden the Father alledging that the said Richard and his servants had stolen away his son Howbeit at length by a reference to Sir Sim. Mountfort of Colshill Kâ— and Sâ—r â—ic Biâ—gham the Judge who then 〈…〉 Midlâ—ton it was determined that the marriage shâ—uld be solemnized betwixt them in February 13 E. 4. and in consideration of CC. maâ—ks portion a convenient Jointure setled as also that for the â—e passe done by the same Richard Bracebrigge in so taking away the young gentleman he shâ—uld give to the before specified Walter 〈◊〉 the best Horse that could by him be chosen in Kingsbury Park Wâ—â—câ— Iohn Arden bequeathed also his body to be buried in Aston Church beforementioned before the 〈◊〉 Image of our blessed Lady of Pitie 〈◊〉 whose Tâ—stamâ—n bearing date 4 Iunii 17 H. 8. here being some things very memorable I shall here recite them Item I bequethe for my Mortuary or Câ—rs present a
purchase of more from Richard de Kyncton as also of a Mill with two Pooles called Horn-Poole and Nes-poole from Gerard de Alspath and Maud his wife in 12 E. 2. obtained a speciall Charter from the King for a weekly Mercate upon the Tuesday at this his Mannour of Alspath and a Faire yearly to last for eight days beginning on the Eve of S t Laurence the Martyr From which Family with their other lands it came to the Moubrays Dukes of Norfolk by a daughter and heir as in Caludon appeareth in whose line it continued till Edward the fourth's time But the next posseâ—or of it of whom I have found mention was Thomas Earl of Derby in 11 H. 8. to whose posterity it continues till this present anno scil 1640. A fourth part of a Mannour here had one Thomas de Paunton who levied a Fine thereof to Sir Henry de Ardern Knight and others in 38 E. 3. though not recorded till 1 R. 2. which was sold afterwards to Wyard if my Author mistake not and from him came to Robert Castell as I guess for in 11 H. 4. had the said Robert a Charter of Free warren in all his demesn lands here This being that as I conceive which Iohn Waldeff Esquire and Margaret his wife were possest of in 15 H. 6. Within the precincts of this Parish also had the Family of Waldeif antiently a Seat which continued in that line for divers descents but at length by a daughter and coheir came to Walshe whereupon it had the name of Walshe-Hall as we find at this day the first of them for whom I have seen any good authority being Gerard Waldeive who bestowed on the Monks of Coventre certain lands here To which Gerard succeeded VVilliam who about the beginning of K. Edward the first 's time gave the yearly Rent of xx d. for the maintenance of two Lamps to burn before the Altar of S t Laurence and S t Nicholas in the Church of Alspath as also two Waxen Tapers to be lighted at the Elevation of the Host in the said Church And after him another William but whether he were his son or grandson I know not which VVilliam was in Commission for levying and collecting a xth and xvth in 23. E. 3. And having been one of the Coroners in this Countie for some time was in 34 E. 3. by reason of his debilitie discharged of that Office This last mentioned William had issue Alan Waldeyffe who by the marriage of Ioane daughter and heir to Richard de Whitacre became possest of Elmedon and there resided in 17 R. 2. The next year ensuing he was Eschaetor for this County and Leicestershire In 21 R. 2. in Commission for levying and collecting a xvth and xth In 2 H. 4. Eschaetor again In 3 H. 4. in Commission for levying and collecting the Aid for marriage of Blanch the King's eldest daughter and left issue two daughters and heirs viz. Margaret the wife to Thomas Hore of Elmedon and Elene married to Richard Walsh by which means these lands in Alspath came to Walsh the said Richard being certified in 1 E. 4. to hold the fourth part of a Knight's Fee here of the Duke of Norfolke as of his Mannour which was Segrave's It seems that the heires male of this Richard Walshe continued the possession hereof for divers descents for I find that Sir Richard Walshe of Sheldesley in Com. Wigorn. Knight was possest of it about the beginning of King Iames his reign and that he left two daughters and heirs scil Ioyce married to Sir Rowland Cotton of Alkington in Com. Salop. Knight and Anne to Sir Thomas Bromley Knight Of which Sir Rowland and Dame Ioyce it was purchased by William Andrews of Northfield in Câ—m Wigorn. Gentleman and William Replingham of Harborow in this County Gentleman 1. Sepâ— 16 Iac. who within four years after sold it unto Sir Robert Fisher of Packington Knâ—ght and Bar. the now owner thereof Anno scil 1640. In 24 H 8. Roger Wigston Esquire purchased certain lands lying here in Alspath of one Robert Crowe and others by the name of the fourth part of the Mannour of Alspath and in 25 H. 8. of Richard Hoo and others by the name of the Mannour of Alspath which Richard Hoo as it seemes had a grant of then from Iohn Walsyngham all which were given by the same Roger to the Hospitall of Bablake in Coventre The Church dedicated to S. Laurence being very antiently given to the Monks of Coventre and appropriated in 44 H. 3. was in anno 1291. 19 E. 1. valued at six marks over and above an yearly Pension of three marks issuing out of it to the Dean and Chapter of Lichfield And in 26 H. 8. at Cxii s. besides ix s. vi d. allowed for Procurations and Synodals In the South I le of this Church there was a Chantrie founded by Iohn Wyard in 5 H. 4. whose Monument is also there and endowed with lands to the value of C s. per annum Which Iohn being an Esquire to Thomas de Beauchamp Earl of Warwick and in 2 R. 2. one of the Knights for this Shire in the Parliament then held at Westminster had his residence in this place But that which belong'd to this Chantrie was in Rents issuing out of lands lying remote from hence and amounting to iv li. per annum as was certified in 26 H. 8. upon the Survey then made Patroni Vicariae Incumbentes c. Prior Conventus de Coventre Will. fil Gerardi de Alespath 4. Cal. Dec. 1301. Prior Conventus de Coventre Ioh. de Kirkeby Cap. Non. Sept. 1312. Prior Conventus de Coventre Thomas Legat Pbr. 19. Cal. Iulii 1321. Prior Conventus de Coventre Ioh. Moyses Pbr. 6. Cal. Sept. 1361. Prior Conventus de Coventre Thomas Lucas Cap. 25. Maii 1411. Prior Conventus de Coventre Ioh. Heyfield Pbr. 20. Iunii 1422. Prior Conventus de Coventre Ioh. Brokesby Pbr. 2. Dec. 1423. Prior Conventus de Coventre D. Will. Hancock 20. Apr. 1425. Prior Conventus de Coventre Rob. Yronmonger 15. Oct. 1426. Prior Conventus de Coventre Thomas Waghan Pbr. 13. Apr. 1445. Prior Conventus de Coventre Ioh. Caryngham Pbr. 25. Febr. 1448. Prior Conventus de Coventre Ioh. Summerland Pbr. 17. Ian. 1492. Prior Conventus de Coventre Rob. Sherwood S. Theol-Professor 24. Martii 1528. Prior Conventus de Coventre D. Will. Wyrlyche 21. Nov. 1529. Prior Conventus de Coventre Ric. Mason Cap. 18. Iulii 1533. Rob. Acres alii ratione Concess Pr. Conv. de Coventre D. Ric. Wenlok Cap. 20. Maii 1544. Margeria Belcher vidua Henr. Williams Cler. 6. Oct. 1582. Guliel Wheate
heirs release the said x s. annuall Rent unto Geffrey Sauvage brother and heir of the said Elias And moreover that the same William Burdet acquitted to Sir Philip Marmion all his right in the Homage and services of William le Salvage successor to the before specified Geffrey for these lands in Povele which from thenceforth were held immediatly of the Marmions by the service of the said Sore-Sparhawk or ii s. to be payd at the Feast of S. Iames the Apostle in the nature of a Socage tenure But by a daughter and heir of Sauvage as the Descent in Baginton manifesteth it came in processe of time to Sir Thomas de Endeshoure of Endeshoure in Com. Derb. who sometimes residing here obtained a speciall License from Pope Urban the ivth for to build a Chapell within the precincts of this Lordship and to have a Priest for celebration of Divine Service and administring the Sacraments therein by reason of the flouds at sometimes especially in Winter which hindered his accesse to the Mother-Church Howbeit in the Family of Endeshoure it rested not two Descents ere by an heir female it came to Herthull in whose male line it continued for divers ages and at length divolved to Cokain by Eliz. the daughter and heir of Sir Richard de Herthull Knight wife to Edm. Cokain Esquire From which Edmund and Elizabeth is â—ineaâ—ly descended Sir Aston Cokain Baronet now Lord of this Mannour Ioh. Cokain de Ashburne in Com. Deâ—b 44 E. 3. Edm. Cokain ar 5 R. 2. Eliz. filia haeres Ric. de Herthull militis Ioh. Cokain miles obiit 16 H. 6. Isabella filia Hug. Shirley mil. Will. Cokain à quo Will. Cokain eq aur Alderm Civiâ— London temp Regis Iacobi Ioh. Cokain ar obiit 20 H. 7. Anna filia Ric. vernon mil. Thomas Cokain cesus per ...... Burdet vivente patre Agnes filia Rob. Barlow Thomas Cokain miles obiit 28 H. 8. Barbara filia Ioh. Fitz-Herbert Remem Regis H. 7. Franciscus Cokain ar 28 H. 8. Dorothea filia cohaeres Thomae Marrow servientis ad legem Thomas Cokain factus miles apud Leith per Edw. Com. Hertf. 36 H. 8. Dorothea filia Humf. Ferrers mil. nupta 31 H. 8. Franciscus Cokain duxit Annam fil Valentini Knightley mil. obiit s. prole 38 Eliz. Edw. Cokain frater haeres obiiâ— anno 1606. Iana filia Nich. Ashby Thomas Cokain ar Anna filia Ioh. Stanhope de Elvaston mil. Aston Cokain Baronettus anno 1655. .... filia Gilberti Kniveton de Mircaston in Com. Derb. Bar. Alicia ux Edw. Litleton 36 H. 8. Alicia ux Rad. Shirley mil Ioh Cokain de Bury-Hatley in Com. Bedf. Regin Cokain 4 H. 5. These Cokains being Derbyshire Gentlemen originally and of a very antient Family had their chief seat at Ashburne in that Countie But it seems that Sir Iohn Cokain Knight son and heir to the before specified Edmund and Elizabeth made his residence here at Pooley for some time for it is evident that in 13 H. 4. when he was to go into France in the King's service in aid of the D. of Orâ—eans against the D. of Burgundy he made his Will at this place which bears date the Thursday next after the Feast of S. Barnabas the Apostle the same year whereby it appears that having enfeofâ— Sir Iohn Dabâ—idâ— court Knight and others in his Mannour of Badsley-Endsor in this Countie to the end that a certain summe of money might bâ— raised out of the profits thereof for payment of us â—â—oâ—s and towards a marriage portion for 〈◊〉 Elyn he directed that then his said 〈◊〉 should make an estate thereof unto Io 〈…〉 his son and heir and the heirs of his 〈…〉 appointed that if the said Iohn did happen to 〈…〉 â—ssue it should be amortized to find as many Priests singing to the worlds end for his soul his wifes his Children and all his Ancestors â—ouls as the Rent thereof would reasonably maintain viz. in S. Marie-Chapell at Polesworth five pounds to one Priest in S. Marie Chapell near Ashburne seven marks to another Priest and the remnant to be spent in Wax Vigils and Almesdeeds on the Eve and day of his Obit But after this voyage he lived many years for certain it is that he was a Justice of Peace in this Shire from 5 H. 5. till the end of that King's reign and a Commissioner of Array in 6 H. 5. This Sir Iohn Cokain bore the Armes of his Mothers Familie for the most part scil Argent two Barrs vert she being an eminent heir and died in 16 H. 6. leaving issue Iohn his son and heir and William a younger son from whom Sir William Cokain Knight Alderman of London in King Iames his time deduced his descent Which Sir William was father to Charles erected to the dignitie of Viscount Colâ—in by the late King Charles now residing at Râ—shton in Northamptonshire Of the last mentioned Iohn I finde that he had issue Thomas who dwelling here at Pooley and having difference with Thomas Burdet of Bromcote Esquire his neer neighbour so irritated him with affronts that he was slain by Burdet in his passage to polesworth-Polesworth-Church as the tradition is Which unhappy accident fell out in his Father's life time so that Thomas his son upon the death of Iohn the grandfather in 20 H. 7. became heir who being a brave spirited Gentleman and with King H. 8. at the Seiges of Therovene and Tourney was then Knighted This Sir Thomas built the Mannour-House here at Pooley of Brick as is yet to be seen having in 22 H. 7. imparked the Woods lying Westwards thereof but by his Testament bearing date 4 Apr. 28 H. 8. bequeathed his body to sepulture in our Ladyes Quire at Ashburne where his Ancestors lye interred before the Image of S. Modwen appointing that his Executors should cause a Tombe of Marble to be made there for him which was accordingly performed with this Inscription thereon Here châ—sted in this Tombe and closed in this Clay Doth lie Sir Thomas Cokain Knight and must till Iudgment Day This martiall man so bold and eke this warlikâ— wight At Tyrwyn and at Turney siege was dub'd a worthy Knight Three goodly Houses he did build to his great praise and fame With profits great and manifold belonging to the same Three Parks he did impale therein to chase the Deere The lofâ—y Lodge within this Park he also builded here He did his House and name renew and â—herestore Which others had with negligence in time decayed before This virtuous Knight had issue male three sonns of manly port And eke three daughters virtuous and married in this sort The eldest to her husband had a Knight of worthy same Sir William Basset Lord of Blore he called was by name To Vincent Lowe of Denby Squier the second married was The third to Robert Burdet Squyer as fate
neer those petty streams which run into it beginning always with that wherein the Church is seated and then proceeding with the severall small Hamlets or places of note whether depopulated or otherwise contained within the same Parish setting forth a succession of their antient possessors by which the rise growth continuance and decay of many Families with their most memorable actions are manifested And have also adorned it with those Armes and Pictures of many eminent persons in their times which being antiently set up in the windows of severall Churches and Houses did continue till of late And that there may want nothing conducible to the honour aswell of the Families long since extinct as those that remain I have to my utmost preserved their very Monuments and Memorialls yet remaining following the Example therein of the famous Sertorius Ursatus in his Monumenta Patavina well knowing of what high and venerable esteem such things were with the most civill people of the world in so much as amongst the Romans the defacing and violation of them was punished by great pecuniarie Fines cutting off Hands Banishment nay sometimes by Death according to the merit of the transgressors Most of which through the pious respect of the immediate heirs or neerest relations to those their worthy Ancestors and to their lasting memorie are represented excepting such Plates whereof the persons therein mentioned by particular Inscriptions partly out of some speciall respect to those that they have thus memorized and partly as an ornament to the work have born the charge And excepting these three in p. 188.498 and 758. of the following work viz. 1 of the Hugfords and Beaufoes Lords of Emscote interred in the Collegiate Church at Warwick men of great note in their days as by my discourse of them in that place appeareth whose lineall heir and successor in that estate is Henry Beaufoe now of Emscote Esquire 2 Of Thomas Spenser late of Clardon Esquire a person of much eminencie in this Shire in his time and for his large and noble Hospitalitie the honour of all these parts whose great-grandson and heir male aswell as by adoption is Sir Thomas Spenser now of Yarnton in Com. Oxon. Baronet 3 And that of Sir Richard Bingham Knight one of the reverend Iudges of the King's Bench temp H. 6. who lieth buried at Midleton with the Ladie Margaret his wife daughter and coheir to Sir Baldwin Frevill of Tamworth-Castle Knight and widow of Sir Hugh Willoughby Knight From which Sir Hugh and Margaret is Sir Francis Willoughby now of Midleton Knight descended possessing that Lordship as heir to her Which three last Monuments had I confesse been omitted could I have doubted that the persons here mentioned considering such their relations and the estates they so enjoy would have refused the preservation of their memories by a small charge to the Graver as these following are for the very same reason and no other as is well known viz. 1 of the Temples at Dasset whose heirs and successors in that estate there are Sir Richard Temple Baronet and the Lady Viscountesse Baltinglasse 2 Of Richard Murden Esquire at Morton-Morell whose sole daughter and heir is the Ladie Harvey widow of Sir Stephen Harvey Knight of the Bath 3 of Sir Edward Ferrers at Badsley-Clinton whose heir is Henry Ferrers Esquire now Lord of that place 4 And of Sir Edward Devereux Knight and Baronet at Aston juxta Bermingham whose grandson and heir is the present Viscount Hereford Of the Religious Houses Hospitalls and Chantries those signall Monuments of our Forefathers Pietie I have shewed their Foundations endowments and continuance with their dissolutions and ruine which gave the greatest blow to Antiquities that ever England had by the destruction and spoil of many rare Manuscripts and no small number of famous Monuments And to the end that my discourse of the severall places may be the more perspicuous taking notice of that excellent expression of Arias Montanus viz. Si enim absque locorum observatione res gestae narrentur aut sine Topographiae cognitione Historiae legantur adeò confusa atque perturbata erunt omnia ut ex iis nihil non obscurum nihil non difficile elici possit I have drawn exact Schemes of the severall Hundreds wherein besides the rectifying of divers places which stand amisse in the ordinarie Maps are inserted many that were hitherto omitted fixing them according to their direct stations as also the depopulated Villages and other places of note whereof there is mention in the following work extending the Rivers neerer their originall heads and adding sundry petty streamlets heretofore not taken notice of by our Geographers In etymologizing the names of Towns and Places I have not been over-bold because most of them had their originall denomination from the Britans or Saxons and that Time hath much varied the antient name by contracting it for the more ease in pronunciation or in some sort altered it from what it was at first as is evident in most of them Nor should I have adventured thus far had I not received much light from that learned Gentleman Mr. VVilliam Somnâ—r of Canterbury my singular friend unto whom I cannot attribute enough for his great knowledge in Antiquities and those commendable works which he hath already published and is now taking pains in Much variation there is I confess in the names of sundry places and persons which perhaps may cause some doubt of my care therein but in that I have been very curious having Records or other authentique writings for my authoritie which I thought much more fit to follow than to deliver the names as they are now written And as my chief aime hath been to illustrate the Antiquities of this Countie so must I desire my Readers to observe what intricate parts I have walkt in to make good that undertaking scil the whole series of publick Records and a multitude of antient and obscure Manuscripts as the references to them do shew for the better understanding whereof because the narrownesse of my Margent hath confined me to such brevitie I have added a short Scheme adjoyning to my Index which will plainly demonstrate what those pieces of words and single Letters do mean with notice where the said Records and Manuscripts were when I had the perusall of them And whereas I have cited nothing to give testimonie of the Churches Dedications that what I have said therein of them is from divers old VVills Testaments and other authorities in the Registries of the Bishops of Coventre Lichfield and Worcester which to have instanced particularly could not well be done in regard they were all in loose parcells And moreover it is to be noted that to such or such parts of the Pedegrees where no quotation at all is entred the proof to make them good will appear in the historicall part And lastly that the passages of later times are obvious to the present age wherein we live
Aug. an 1367. Pr. Conv. de Kenill Rog. de Wavere Pbr. xiii Kl. Sept. an 1374. VVill. Purfray ar Ioh. Grantham Cap. iiii Ian. an 1403. Pr. Conv. de Kenill Will. Treberveth iiii Maii an 1433. VVill. Purfray ar dom de Church-waver Symon Moss x. Kl. Aug. an 1433. Pr. Conv. de Kenill Ric. Aystowe xx Maii an 1435. Mag. Thom. Purefay ar hac vice ex concess Nich. Purefay ar Hugo Purefay Scolaris xv Iunii an 1533. Edw. North gen hac vice Patr. ratione concess Pr. Conv. de Kenil D. Thom. de Warmyngton cler 6. Aug. an 1535. D. Episcopus Rog. Eliot art Mag. xvi Ian. an 1566. VVill. Dixwell gener concessione Ioh. Purefey ar Will. Bentley Cleric xxix Iunii an 1566. Thom. Leigh de Stonley miles Rob. Myddilmore Cler. vi Aug. an 1566. VVill. Leigh miles Rog. Vicars Cleric v. Ian. an 1596. Coton juxta Church-over COton â—ntiently called Cotes is in this Parish Cote and Cotan in the Saxon signifying a House of Habitation as we know in our ordinary language but being a Member of Church-Over is not mentioned in the Conq. Survey Nor afterwards that I have seen till Hugh Bagot gave it with Newton to Ingeram his Brother as in Newton I have observed which gift Roger Bagot Son of the said Hugh confirms for Cotes onely wherein is exprest that William Trussell as chief Lord of the fee ratified the same being one of the Heirs of Robertus filius Odonis as when I come to Loxley I shall have occasion to shew and thereupon received homage of the said Ingeram in the Hundred of Barlichway Here was a family to whom this place antiently gave name scil de Cotes who held that which they had of the abovementioned Bagots and were Benefactors to Combe as appears by some pettâ— grants of Land given to those Monks one of which line had Buriall at Combe as may seem by bequeathing his Body thither with a Rent of iii. sol per annum to boot But Simon Bagot in H. 2. time was he that gave most Land here to that Monastery besides the homage and service of Robert de Cotes and his Heirs for all that the said Robert held of him in Neuton which William Trussell before mentioned confirmed So that what the Monkes of Combe had in Cotes was half a Knights fee which they held of William Trussell and he of Raphe de Mora and he of the Baron of Stafford in 36. H. 3. Wherein they claimed a Court-Leet in 13. E. 1. with other Priviledges calling it the Mannour of Cotes super le waus or super waldas as it is recorded 4. E. 1. these Hilly parts being then and after called Wouldes as many other of that kind are to this day in other Counties And in 18. of E. 1. they obteined a Charter of Free-Warren to them and their successours in all their demesn Lands here The quantity of their possessions in R. 2. time being rated at ix yard Land lxxxiiii Acres and a half accounting 48. Acres to a yard Land But after the dissolution of the Monasteries this Mannour so belonging to the Monkes of Combe then called Coton lay wood was granted out of the Crown inter alia to Edward Clinton in 5. E. 6. who as it seems soon past his title therein unto Thomas Marrow for in the same year I find that the said Thomas had Licence to alien it unto William Dixwell Esquire to whose descendants it still continues Hill-Morton REturning now to the South side of Avon I find below Clifton a little rivulet falling into that Channell This rising about Creek in Northampton-shire comes through Hill-Morton which Town takes its name from the situation Hill antiently written Hull conteyning that part standing on the Bank and Moreton where the Church is that below in a moorish flat ground In the Conq. time it was in the possession of the Earl of Mellent who had a large share in this County as by the particulars when they come in my way I shall shew Howbeit I do not find that this Earl of Mellent continued long owner of all those Lands in this County bestowed upon him by the Conq. but that his Brother Henry de Neuburgh advanced to the Earldom of Warwick towards the later end of the Conq. time possest the greatest part of them and amongst the rest had this Hill-Morton then called Mortone as appeares in Doomesday-Book For in 11. H. 2. when William Earl of Warwick certifies what Knights Fees he held de veteri Feoffamento that is whereof they that so held them were enfeoffed of in the time of H. 1. the Record says that Philippus de Estlega held 3. Knights Fees And though the names of the places where they did lye be not there exprest 't is very evident by the subsequent testimonies which I shall produce that Hill Morton was one for the Receivers of the aid for the Marriage of the Kings Sister to the Rom. Emperour 20. H. 3. do certify for Astley and Milverton one Fee and a half Wetington one Fee and Mortone super Dunsmore which is this Hill-Morton half a Knights Fee all which were then held of the Earl of Warwick by Walter de Estleg Grand-child of the above mentioned Philip and do make up three in number being the proportion the said Philip enjoyed which Fees in 36. H. 3. were held by Thomas de Astley Son of Walter of those Earls But Astley is the place where I purpose to speak Historically of this antient family and therefore here shall onely trace down the succession to this which went out with a younger branch For the above mentioned Thomas de Astley marrying a second Wife as the descent herewith drawn doth shew had issue by her severall Sons To Thomas the eldest of them he gave Hill-Morton and the advouson of the Church entayling it upon any Brother or Sister of the whole Blood in case Thomas should dye without issue which grant bears date in May 47. H. 3. But this Thomas the donee about the beginning of E. 1. time dyed without issue leaving his Brother Raphe his Heir from whom in a direct line did descend Sir Francis Astley of Melton-Constable in Norff. Knight Lord of this Mannour lately deceased .uxor prima Thomas de Esteleg miles 47. H. 3. Editha filia Petri Constable de Melton in com Norff. .relicta 18. E. 1. Andreas de Estleg 3 Steph. de Est-ley 18. E. 1. 12 Rad. de Astley haeres fratris 13. E. 1. 28. E. 1. Thomas de Astley 9. E. 2. Margeria relicta 26. E. 3. Rad. de Astley miles 26. E. 3. Thomas de Astley miles 7. R. 2. Catherina relicta 14. R. 2. 1 Thomas de Esteley 47. H. 3. 52. H. 3. mortuus sine prole 13. E. 1. Of Edith Mother to Thomas to
the Ordination before specified It is very like that this Chantry swallowed up that whereof I made mention in 8. E. 3. viz. which Thomas Astley had Licence to found for upon the Survey taken an 37. H. 8. there was no other but this in that Chappell of our Lady the lands belonging whereunto were by the Commissioners in 37. H. 8. certified to be of the the yearly value over and above all reprises of iiii l. xviii sol x. d. For the other Chantry was in a Chappel of St. Iames in Hull super Dunsmore as the Record expresses which is that part of the town situate upon the Hill Westwards from the Church and founded by Mag. Thomas de Morton in 18. E. 3. The certificate in 37. H. 8. expresly says he was a Priest and the word Mag. imports as much yet in the Licence given to him to amortize lands thereunto viz. one messuage one yard land and four acres as also four acres and one rode of meadow in Hill Morton aforesaid it is for a Priest to sing Mass for the good estate of him the said Thomas and Alice his Wife and Margerie their Daughter during their lives and for their souls when they should depart this world As also for the souls of Adam de Morton his father and their ancestours c. But it seems he was a marryed man and a professour in some other science The value thereof in 37. H. 8. was certified to to be xlvi s. viii d. In this Lordship of Hill Morton there were also eight messuages and one yard land and a quarter given by one William Poyntell to the Hospitall of St. Iohn Baptist in Luterworth for the finding of a Chantry Priest there to sing Mass for the souls of him the said William and his VVife 3. E. 3. In the middle I le of this Church are two grave-stones of marble each of them having small portraictures in brass of a man and a woman with divers children on one of them is this Inscription Here lyeth Thomas Perkins and Alice and Elizabeth Our Lord save their souls from everlasting death Amen On the other this Here lyeth Richard Tant and Margaret his wife God bring their souls to everlasting life Amen Rugby ON the South-VVest side of this little Rill which comes from Hill Morton lyes Rugby bounded with Avon towards the North but in Doomesday-Book written Rocheberie Beriâ— signifying with our ancestours a Court or habiâ—ation of note And Roche a rock or quarry of stone for such there is VVestwards from this town about half a mile and 't is very like that the ground whereon the town stands being high is of the same condition though that the quarry lye not very near the surface of the earth so that then the nature of the soyl may be the occasion of the name Howbeit in all the elder times sithence it is written Rokeby with a K. instead of the Ch. In the Conquerours time Turchil de Warwick of whom I have already made mention was owner of it one Eddulfus for so he is called in the Conq. Survey then holding it of him it being then certified to contein two hydes and a half the posterity of which Eddulfus continued possest thereof holding it by half a Knights Fee of the said Turchill's Heirs till it went away with a Daughter and Heir in Edw. the first his time as the descent will shew Eddulfus tempore Conquestoris Thurbertus filius Hadewolfi Henricus de Rokeby Henricus de Rokeby Annabilla Ranulphus de Rokeby Annabilla filia haeres uxor Joh. Goband militis But Thurbert the son of this Eddulfus is sometimes called Thurbertus filius Hadelwolfi de Bilneja for it seems he had also a Seat at Bilney now called Binley and sometimes Thurbertus de Rochebe and was a notable benefactor to the Monks of Combe giving a large precinct of his land in Bilney adjoyning to Smite within which Smite the monastery was founded the lands being exprest by boundaryes after the antient manner which grant was ratified by Henry son to the same Thurbert who calls himself Henricus de Rokeby filius Thurberti de Bilney adding to his fathers gift the Mill of Bilney and some other land for the better assurance whereof Henry de Arderne grandson to Turchill confirms the grant though that with a great part also of his inheritance was taken away by the Conquerour or King H. 1. and given to the Earl of Warwick as I think before that time which was in the reign of K. Steph. Roger Earl of Warwick being a witness thereunto for Earl William son of Roger adds his Charter of confirmation to them all which needed not had he not been possest of Arden's lands Here was a little Castle at Rokeby which stood about a furlong from the Church Northwards as is to be seen by the banks of earth and part of the moat yet remaining I am of opinion that this was one of those Castles which were built in King Stephens time for fearing the coming of the Empress as saith mine Author concessit ut quilibet procorum suorum munitionem seu castrum in proprio fundo facere posset Almost all which were demolished by the command of K. H. 2. about the third year of his reign And besides the probability thereof the Inhabitants have it by tradition that it was Sir Henry Rokebye's castle This Henry de Rokeby was a benefactor to the Abby of Pipwell in Northampton-shire as appears by what he gave in Rokeby where the Monks of Pipwell had a grange He also gave all the land which he had in Holme to the Canons of Leicester whereof I have already spoke for the advouson of the Chappel of Rokeby which was a member of Clifton and belonging to that Abby touching which Chappel there was a sute betwixt the said Henry and the Abbot of Leicester in the 2. year of K. Iohn and bequeathing his body to be buried at Combe therewith gave the yearly rent of half a mark of silver issuing out of the Mill of Aston juxta Bermingham in this County which Henry had issue Henry who consumed all the grants to that Abby made by his grandfather and father adding something from himself in Bilney But it seems that the difference concerning the advouson of the Chappel of Rokeby ended not till this time For by a fine levyed 5. H. 3. betwixt Henry Rokeby and the Abbot of Leicester it was concluded that the said Henry and his heirs should exhibit a fit Clerk to the same Abbot and his successours whom they might present to the Bishop which Clerk should pay to them yearly the antient and due pension that the Abby of Leicester had wont to receive out of the said Chappel of Rokeby in right of their Church of Clifton And to perfect this agreement the said Henry gave to that Abby for ever a yard land in Holme
the said Prior and Covent of Carthusians and their successours for ever All which was confirmed by the K. Letters Patents bearing date 5 Iulii 20 of his reign upon the return of a Writ of Ad quod dampnum thereupon and thenceforth continued to the said Carthusians till the general dissolution of all the Monasteries by K. H. 8. After which it came to the hands of Roger Wigston descended from a family of the Wigstons in Leicester divers whereof were Merchants of the Staple Which Roger being a Lawyer I suppose for he was Steward to the Monastery of Pinley in this County by his Will dated 34 H. 8. bequeath'd his body to be buried in the Church of Wolston having been Shiriff of this County and Leicestershire in 33 H. 8. and in commission of the peace for divers years And left issue William VVigston a Justice of Peace likewise in this County and Eschaetor towards the latter end of K. H. 8. reign as also Shiriff in 5 E. 6. but Knighted in 2 3 Ph. M. who dyed 27 Sept. 19 Eliz. and lyeth buryed in the Chancell at Wolston Roger his son and heir being then xl years of age which Roger having no issue male left the inheritance of his lands to his two daughters whereof Susanne was the wife of Nicholas VVentworth Esq who in her right became Lord of this Mannour for so it is now reputed to be and left it to Sir Peter VVentworth Knight of the Bath his son and heir the now owner thereof The Church dedicated to St. Margaret IN an 1291. 19 E. 1. the value of the Rectory here was certified at xxxiii marks out of which besides the sum of xiii sol iiii d. due to the Bp of Coventre and Lichfeild for the time being as a pension there was liii sol iiii d. yearly to be paid to the poor there as the composition manifesteth The Vicaridge in 26 H. 8. was valued at xv l. x sol over and above viii l. yearly allowed for the stipend of two Priests serving in two Chappels within this Church and ii sol per annum for Synodals The appropriation of the Fruits of this Church to the Monastery of St. Peter sup Dinam was antient for I have seen a very old Copy of the ordination of the Vicaridge commonly called the Composition made by Alexander de Savensby Bp of Cov. and Litch about the beginning of H. 3. time who at his institution of Henry de Leicester Priest upon the presentation of the Prior of Tutbury Procurator general to the above mentioned Abbot and Covent makes this appointment in the behalf of the said Vicar and his successors viz. that they shall have all the Obventions of the Altar as well of the Mother Church as of the Chappels with a Messuage and a croft which one Alanus then held the Vicar out of these being to pay Synodals and to see that the Chappels were served by honest and able persons But by another Instrument of the said Bp. it appears that by the consent of the before mentioned Prior of Tutbury there was an assignation made of four marks yearly to be paid to the Vicar for the time being out of the profits of the Rectory by the hands of the Procurator of the said Abbot and Covent whoever he should be at Wolfricheston at two terms in the year viz. two marks at the day of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin and two marks on the day of her Purification out of which the Vicar was to give yearly xiii coats each containing three ells and xiii pair of shoes to the poor of the parish by the oversight of the Archdeacon of the place or his Official and whatsoever was remaining himself to have towards the maintenance of one Priest there assisting him There is one thing more that I am not willing to pass by touching this Vicaridge viz. a Commission which I find granted by the Bp. of Cov. and Lichf bearing date 1 Dec. an 1454. 33 H. 6. to certain persons there named and entrusted by him to enquire of the Ordination thereof forasmuch as the present Incumbent had signified to the said B. that the same was so slenderly endowed that having there the cure of souls he could not maintain himself in that fit manner as he ought out of the profits thereof nor well undergo what was incident to him as Vicar and thereupon humbly craveâ— remedy from the B. By which Commission the B. gives power to the persons therein mentioned to call before them the Prior and Covent of Carthusians near Coventre to whom the Rectory was appropriate appointing that this enquiry should be made by persons of credit both of the Clergy and Laity and upon oath as also thereupon to proceed in augmentation thereof as there should be cause with power of Canonical câ—eÌ„â—cion By which it appears that though the Vicaridge were formerly endowed yet if in the discretion of the B. or his successours at any time after the fruit issuing out thereof to the present Incumbent were not esteemed sufficient to maintain him in a fit manner there might be an enlargement made out of the profits of the Rectory And that the B. may lawfully do this I could manifest by very good authorities as well as undeniable reason but in regard this Argument belongs to men of another profession and that there is already a very handsome Discourse written upon this subject by Dr Ryves a learned Civilian entituled The poor Vicars plea I will spare that which otherwise I could have said therein Adding this onely that if respect be to be had that the Vicar is to have that competent and laudable support as is sutable to his degree and quality for work he may not by the Laws being to follow his study maintain hospitality releive the poor pay Procurations and defray all other charges incident to his Benefice and that the Laws do allow him to marry whereby the charge of a single person as antiently they were is by wife and children much in all probability increased then no doubt many hundreds in England ought to be in this case regarded Neither can the Impropriator justly say he hath wrong though he purchased the Rectory at a dear rate for he must needs know that it is divolved to him with no more priviledge than the Monks had it who were alwaies subject to coertion for the like augmentation as cause required it being not originally intended that they who lived plentifully in their Cloyster should sweep away the chief fruits of the Church the Parish which paid duely their Tithes having little advantage from them and that the Vicar who daily served at the Altar should snap on short commons but if there were sufficiency for both each to have share otherwise if one must want it should not be he that did undergo the work I know this will sound harshly in Impropriators ears
and Maud and for lack of such issue to the said Maud and the heirs of her body the remainder to his right heirs Which Maud was heir to the above mentioned VVilliam de Bosco as the descent in Clifton sheweth In the line of Zuche whose chief seat was at Haringworth in Northamptonshire by inheritance from Milesent de Cantilupe it continued for divers generations Guliel de Cantilupo obiit 39. H. 3. Georg. de Cantilupo obiit sine prole Johanna soror cohaeres ux Henrici de Hastings .... de Monte alto 1. maritus Milisenta alterasororum cohaeredum defuncta 27 E. 1. Eudo la Zuche 2. E. 1. Will. la Zuche filius haeres obiit 10. Martii 26 E. 3. Matilda filia haeres Joh. Lovel mil. Isabellae ux ejus sororis haeredis Will. de Bosco Eudo de la Zuche obiit vita patris Will. la Zuche aetat 30. an ad mortem avi obiit 5. R. 2. Will. la Zuche aetat 40. an 5. R. 2. obiit 3. H. 5. Will. la Zuche aetat 13. an 3. H. 5. obiit 8. E. 4. Joh. dom Zousche aetat 8. an 8. E. 4. attinctus in Parl. 7. Nov. 1. H. 7. Joh. Zouche fil haeres 23. H. 7. Ric. dom Zouche Geo. dom Zouche plenae aetat 6. E. 6. obiit 19. Junii 19. Eliz. Edw. fil haeres accrevit plenam aetatem 6. Junii 19. Eliz. In 7 E. 2. the K. granted Free-warren to the before specified VVilliam and Maud his wife in their demesn lands here at Bulkinton Weston Riton Brancote and Wolfarshull all in this Parish But afterwards do I meet with nothing more of that family relating to this place further than their dying seized thereof till Edward the principal male branch of those Barons who wasting that great Patrimony descended to him from his Fore-fathers sold this Lordship with the rest of the Hamlets in this Parish to Humfry Davenport Esq and one Richard Bucknam Gent. Which Humfrey and Richard past the one moytie thereof to Sir Christopher Yelverton Kt. one of the Justices of the K. Bench temp Iac. R. whose Grandchild Sir Chr. Yelverton of East-Neston in Com. Northampt. Kt. of the Bath now enjoys it And the other moytie to George Purefey fifth son to Michael Purefey of Caldecote Esq which George had issue Gamaliel Purefey who sold it to Anthony Stoughton now of St. Iohns in Warwick Esq the present owner thereof The Church dedicated to St. Iames being granted to the Abby of Leicester as I have allready shew'd was antiently appropriated to that Monastery and upon the endowment of the Vicaridge a pension of xxvi s. viii d. per annum was reserved out of the same In an 1291. 19. E. 1. the Rectory was valued at xxvi marks and the Vicaridge at 11 marks But in 26 H. 8. I find the Vicaridge rated at vi lib. x sol vi d. over and above ix s. vi d. allowed for Synodals and Procurations Which Rectory being in the Crown as parcell of the possessions belonging to the dissolved Monastery of Leicester was granted by Q. Eliz. in 33 of her reign to the Free-school of Uppingham in Com. Rutland Patroni Vicariae Incumbentes Abb. Conv. de Leic. Warinus de Swanington Pbr. an 1258. Abb. Conv. de Leic. Rob. de Bengrave 5. Id. Dec. 1305. Abb. Conv. de Leic. Ioh. Bernard Pbr. 4. Non. Apr. 1326 Abb. Conv. de Leic. Dom. Ric. de Chedle 4. Id. Aug. 1361. Abb. Conv. de Leic. Will. Granger Pbr. 26. Martii 1428. Abb. Conv. de Leic. Ric. Wylkyns Pbr. 21. Iulii 1430. Abb. Conv. de Leic. Hen. Awbell Pbr. 20. Aug. 1443. Abb. Conv. de Leic. Tho. Sawnder Pbr. 8. Dec. 1444. Abb. Conv. de Leic. Tho. Hille Pbr. 17. Febr. 1444. Abb. Conv. de Leic. Will. Gregg Pbr. 13. Aug. 1449. Abb. Conv. de Leic. Ioh. Webbe Cap. 22. Martii 1453. Abb. Conv. de Leic. D. Tho. Lyndon Cap. 11. Apr. 1525. H. 8. Rex Angliae ratione dissolut Abb. Leic. D. Tho. Mower Cap. 4. Sept. 1540. Hen. Waver de Coventre Mercer Will. Smyth Cler. 12. Maii 1557. Hen. Waver de Coventre Mercer Ric. Briscow Cler. 6. Dec. 1557. Hen. Waver de Coventre Mercer Edw. Iurdayne Cler. 2. Iunii 1561. Ric. Waver alias Over Walt. Enderby 6. Aug. 1575. Geo. Belgrave de Belgrave in Com. Leic. ar Henr. Bradshaw Cler. Weston in Arden THis taking its name from the Western situation from Bulkinton was also in the Conq. daies in the possession on the Earl of Mellent and then certified to contain two hydes which were valued at xl sol Since which time the possession thereof hath gone along with Bulkinton till now therfore shall I not need to make instance by particular proofs in regard that all those Records that I have made use of for Bulkinton do manifest the same Yet because there are some things peculiar hereunto onely I shall in their order take notice of them amongst which this is not the least observable that of all these places in the Parish of Bulkinton it hath not onely the priority in rank where they are mentioned together in the Records but even Bulkinton it self with the rest are accounted as members of it the reason whereof can be no other than that the Lord of them all had his Mannour-house here where the Leet being kept not onely the Inhabitants of the other Villages met but from other places both in this County and Leicestersh which were the Lord Zouches lands viz. Clifton Browns-over Wyhtoâ—t Bulkinton and Ryâ—on in Com. Warr with Ulsthorpe Elmesthorpe and Cleybrooke in Leicestersh as by Court-Rolls in H. 6. time I have seen Upon the death of the last Ernald de Boys 5 E. 1. it was found that this Mannour was by him held in capite of the heirs of the Earl of Winchester in right of their partage in the Honour of Leicester paying yearly unto them one Hound called a Brache and seven pence in money for all services Afterwards scil in 7 E. 2. Will. la Zuche and Maud his wife had Free-warren granted to them here and in divers other places as in Bulkinton hath been said Which Will. in 19 E. 3. had licence for amortizing of 8 Messuages 9 yard land and a half and xxx s. annual Rent with the appurtenances lying in Cleybroke and Leyre in Com. Leic. this Weston in Arden Merston-Iabet Coton and Ryton juxta Bulkinton Com. Warr. for the maintenance of two Priests to sing Mass daily in the Chappel of our Lady within this his Mannour of Weston for the good estate of himself whilst he lived and for the health of his soul after he should depart this world as also for the soul of William Danet and for the
were at that time betwixt the Abbot of Combe and the before mentioned Giles touching the metes and bounds of their lands on Wolvey-heath and concerning common of pasture which the said Giles challenged in those C. acres of land long before granted to the Monks of Combe by Rob. Basset and Reginald his son as is before exprest and concerning the sole presentation to the Heremitage before specified and commoning upon all that Heath by which Arbitrators it was determined that the said Abbot and Giles should present to the Heremitage in Common and hold all the said Heath in Common except the above mentioned C. Acres of land But all that I further find of this Giles is that he dyed at Dunstaple upon the day of St. Nicholas the Bishop an 1427. 6. H. 6. After which viz. in 16. H. 7. Will. Astley his great Grand-child presented one Iohn Iddezeard to the Heremitage From which VVilliam is Giles Astley Esq. now Lord of the same Mannour descended Having thus deduced the succession of Astley's Mannour I am next to take notice of what the Templars had here Of which the first mention I find is in the Shiriffs account of 1. E. 2. after the seizure of the lands belonging to the Templars into the K. hands wherein he certifies vii s. Rent of Assize received at the Feast of the Annunc of our Lady next before of certain Free-holders and Cottagers there and xx s. at the same terme for the Rent of a Water-mill and a VVind-Mill let to ferm at xl s. per an which possessions were antiently held by the Templars of Alan la Zouch by the fourth part of a Kts. Fee That the Templars were supprest and how their lands came to the Hospitalars I shall shew when I come to Balshall in Hemlingford-Hundred And that the Hospitalars possessions came to the Crown in 31. H. 8. upon that great dissolution of the Monasteries is known sufficiently at which generall deluge this Mannour of theirs in Wolvey was swept in being then accounted as a Member of the Preceptorie of Balshall above-mentioned and continued in the K. hands till 7. E. 6. but was then granted inter alia to Edw. Aglionby of Balshall Esq. and Henry Hugford of Solihull Gent. and their Heirs which Edw. in 3. 4. Ph. M. aliened the same to Thomas Marrow Esq. who the same year granted it to Will. Newman of whom in 3. Eliz. it was purchased by Edmund Scarning Esq. which Edmund dyed seized thereof 3. Apr. 1. Iac. leaving issue Ezechias his son and heir then aged 34. years Touching that Mannour which belong'd to the Monks of Combe I further find thereof this that in 8. H. 6. it was granted by the then Abbot and Covent of that Monastery to Humfry Earl Stafford and his heirs the advouson of the Church with the lands in Little-Copston belonging thereto excepted Here it hapned that K. Edw. 4. being surprized by Ric. Nevill the stout E. of Warwick was carryed away Prisoner to Midleham-Castle in York-shire the circumstances whereof I have briefly touched in my discourse of that Earl in Warwick In an 1291. 19. E. 1. the Church dedicated to St. Iohn Bapt. was valued at xx marks the one moytie being then a Prebend of Lichfield at which time the Vicaridge was rated at 1. mark But in 26. H. 8. at vi l. vi s. iiii d. over and above ix s. allowed for Procurations and Synodals Patroni vicariae Incumbentes Abb. Conv. de Cumba Hen. de Thurlauston Pbr. 3. Id. Febr. 1301. Abb. Conv. de Cumba Ioh. le Smith Pbr. 12. Kal. Nov. 1352â— D. Tho. Clerc Canon Eccl. Cath. Lich. Ioh. Osmunderley 3. Nov. 1429. Abb. Conv. de Cumba Ioh Ioykin Pbr. 14. Ian. 1438. Prebend de Wolvey Ric. Blockley diac 28. Nov. 1493. Abb. C. de Cumba D. Rog. VVyldie Cler. 3. Febr. 1537. VV. Marton Preb. de VVolvey in Eccl. Cath. Lich. Ric. Palmer Cler. 10. Iulii 1564. Humf. Perot de Belne in Com. VVigorn Gen. Geo. VVilcockson Cler. 10. Dec. 1619. Copston-parva NOrthwards from Wolvey and in the same Parish lyeth Little-Copston now a depopulated place and known onely by the name of Copston-Fields which originally had its denomination from one Copsi possessor thereof in the Saxons time as I guess that being a name then in use but in the Conq. Survey is there not any express mention thereof so that I do conceive it was involved with Wolvey for in the beginning of H. 2. time Ivo de Harecurt granted all his land in this place together with Wolvey unto Rob. Basset in frank marriage with Beatrice his Sister as in Wolvey is shewed Which Robert very suddainly after gave to the Monks of Combe one carucat of land here In villa igitur mea quae dicitur parva Copston saith he unam caruc terrae c. in perpetuam elemosinam dono So that it seems he was then owner thereof which grant K. H. 2. confirmed Here was antiently a Chappel as appears by the Composition touching the Church of Wolvey betwixt G. Muschamp B. of Coventre and the Abbot of Combe 34 H. 3. whereof I have already spoken How it past from Basset's posterity I have not seen but in H. 3. time Thomas de Asteley had it for after he was slain in the battail of Edâ—sham 49. H. 3. as in Astley is shew'd this with the rest of his lands being confiscate was given by the K. to Warine de Bassingburne But after the Decree called Dictum de Kenilworth whereby they which were not slain in the battail aswell as the posterity of those that lost their lives were admitted to Composition for their forfeited estates as in Kenilworth is manifested Andrew de Astley son and heir to the said Thomas past away this his village of Little-Copston with the appurtenances to the Monks of Combe and their successors for ever in consideration of CCCxx marks sterling which he received of them to redeem his lands so forfeited as hath been said After which viz. in 18. E. 1â— the said Monks obteined a Charter of Free-Warren in all their demesn lands here whose possession it continued in till the dissolution of that Monastery Wibtoft I Now come to Wibtoft a petty village but eminent for its situation for it lyeth in one of the Corners where the two famous old Romane ways viz. UUaflingstreet and Fosse do meet in which place once also stood a flourishing City of the Romans called Cleychester as the tradition goes whereof I can say no more than what Mr. Cambden in Leicester-sh hath already spoken the very foundations thereof being now for the most part turn'd up by the Plough and spade and large stones Roman-brick with Ovens and Wells nay Coins of Silver and Brass mixt with its ruins frequently discovered the earth so far as it extended being of a darker colour then the rest thereabouts
the mention of what the Abby of Combe and Monks of Kirby had viz. Combe 3. Mess. and 33 acres of Land and the Monks of Kirby the 4 th part of a Kts. Fee Newbold super Avon THis is one of those places which Geffrey Wirce before spoke of held in the Conq. days out of which he gave to the Monks of S. Nich. at Angiers two parts of the Tythes of corne and cattell and all the Tythe of Wooll and Cheese as also of the mill and a man to gather them After which time by the generall Survey it is certified to contain 8 hides then valued at C. s. and that Leuuinus held it before the Norman invasion But with VVirce his lands it came to Nigel de Albani progenitor to the family of Moubray as I have formerly intimated which Nigel enfeoft thereof Robert de Stutevill in H. 1. time as it seemes for in 12 H. 2. Roger de Moubray son to the same Nigel certified that Rob. de Stutevill then held of him 8 Kts. fees de veteri seoffamento id estâ— whereof his Ancestour had been so enfeoft temp H. 1. the most whereof lay in York-shire where the chief seat of this family was From which Robert descended Roger as the Pedegree on the next page inserted sheweth who granted away this Lordship to Roger Pantolf his nephew by Burgâ—a his sister to be held by the service of 1 Kts. Fee all which was confirmed by the Charter of the said Burgia and of Iseud Pantolf her grandchild But these Pantolfs enjoy'd it not long for Will the son and heire to the before specified Roger dyed without issue leaving his two sisters his heirs viz. Burgia and Emma Which Burgia gave her part to the Monks of Pipwell and Emme marryed to Sir Robert de Waver Kt. of whom in Thesterwaver I have spoke which Will. Pantolf before mentioned betook himself to a retired life and resided in the Monastery of Pipwell having a Chamber assigned him by the Monks there where he determined to end his days and to have been a good benefactor to them but on a time the Monks removed him out of that lodging in respect of an entertainment they gave to a great Judge who travailed it seemes that way which caused him to take such distast that he presently left the House and came to Monkskirby where he after dyed giving to that Monastery what he intended to Pipwell viz. the capitall mess. or Mannour-house of this Neâ—bold with 3. carucates of Land and fishing in the water of Avon To Sir Rob. de Waver and Emme succeeded Sir Will. de Waver Kt. betwixt whom and the Monks of Pipwell partition was made in 35 H. 3. of all the Lands that belong'd to the said sisters and heirs in respect that Burgia had given her part to that Monastery as I have said being at that time sirnamed de Bending After which viz. in 11 E. 1. the Abbot and Covent of Pipwell had inter alia Free-warren granted to them in all their demesn Lands here in Newbold And in 13 E. 1. they claimed a Court-Leet and divers other priviledges therein for which they exhibited the Charters of K. R. 1. and K. H. 3. whereunto allowance was given But it seems that the Monks of Kirby having the Mannour-house obtained some further grant of Lands in this Lordship afterwards for in 4 E. 1. I find that they had the moytie of the Mannour then written Newbold-Paunton and in 33 E. 1. obtained power to keep a Court-Leet for their Freeholders and Tenants here with other priviledges As also a Charter of Freâ—warren in all their demesn Lands of this place Yet I perceive that VVaver's interest in Newbold was not utterly quitted fot in 26 E. 3. it appears that Thomas de VVaver held the 4 th part of a Kts. fee here of Ioane late Countess of Kent heir to Stuteville as the descent sheweth Rob. de Stutevill senior dictus Grundebeof Rob. de Stutevill jun. Rob. de Stutevill Will. de Stutevill ob 4. Ioh. s. p. Nich. de Stutevil 14 H. 3. Hugo Wac Iohanna f. haeres Hugo Bigot Com. Norf. Baldw. Wake fil haeres Iohannae Nich. de Stutevill frater haeres Joh. de Stutevill 6 H. 2. Ioh. de Stutevill Rog. de Stuteville Burgia ..... Pantolf Rog. Pantolf Râ—heis Will. Pantolf ob s. p. Burgia soror cohaer Emma ux Rob. de Waver mil. Will. de Waver ... Pantolf Iseud Pantolf Walter de Tatshall Rob. de Tatshall Rob. de Tatshall duxit Mabiliam sororem haeredem Wil. de Albani Co. Arundeliae Which is it as I think that one VVill. Barbour purchased in E. 3. time for I find that the said VVill. bought certain Lands within the precinct of this Lordship which descended to Iohn his son by whose daughter and heir called Agnes wife to Richard Dalby of Brokhampton they came to that Family and had the reputation of a Mannour whereof the said Richard died seized in 20. E. 4. leaving Robert his son and heir 30 years of age After the dissolution of the Monasteries that which the Monks of Pipwell had here came thus to be disposed of viz. all those Lands called Newbold-grange to Edw. Boughton Esq. and his heirs by a grant from the Crown in 33 H. 8. but the Mannour one Thomas Wightman obtayned who in 4 Eliz. sold it to Sir Tho Leigh Kt. Alderman of London whose great-granchild Francis Lord Dunsmore had a confirmation of it from the K. in 15 Car. But the other Mannour which belong'd to the Monks of Kirby did the Boughtons of Lawford obtain as it seems for in 15 Car. Will. Boughton Esq had the Kings confirmation thereof The Church dedicated to St. Botulph belong'd to the Monks of Kirby very antiently for Geffrey Wirce granted to them the greatest part of the Tythes And by a confirmation thereof made to that Monastery from Roger de Stutevill he relates to the grants not onely of Iohn his father but of his Ancestours he means the former possessors thereof viz. Geffrey de Wirce and Nigel de Albaâ—i In K. Iohns time G. Muschamp then B. of Coventre confirmed it to the said Monks of Kirby upon condition that during the then Incumbent's time whose name was Alardus they might receive annually six marks out of it and afterwards two parts of the profits to their proper use but that to the third the Prior of Kirby should present a fit Clerke to the Bishop who was to discharg Synodals â— all other duties belonging thereto In the year 1291 19 E. 1. it was valued at xix marks and the Vicaridge at v. marks but in 26 H. 8. the Vicaridge was rated at viii l. xii s. over and
Rob. Brokk Cler. 6. Aug. 1538. In the middst of this Church before it was pull'd down by reason of the steeple's ruine as I have observed was a fair raised monument for Thomas Grey the first Marq. Dorset of his family and his Lady whereupon their statues were excellently cut and under the same a vault adorned with the pictures of Bishops Cardinalls and Monks in which their bodyes lay but by the fall of the steeple before specified it was totally broken and spoiled In the Chappell which stood on the Southside of the Quire stood likewise two fair monuments the one of Thomas the second Marq. Dorset and his Lady on the heads of whose statues were Coronets and the other of Edw. Grey Visc. L'isle his Lady on the sides whereof were xvi persons and eight of them in religious habits Both which monuments at the removall of the same Chappell to the east end of the Quire where it now serveth for a Chancell were pull'd down and utterly defaced In the same Quire before the said alteration were also some other monumentall stones of marble with portraitures in brass upon them besides those whereof I have already taken notice upon one of which was this Epitaph Ex Astley domo Miles fuit iste Willielmus Heres magnanimus Thome Astlei viralmus Hic fundatoris fuit largus hospes honoris Et dignus mores strenuus sequitur genitoris Migravit celis animatum luce soleâ—â—i M. C. quater bis Domino regnante perciuit Bedworth FOllowing the stream of this small Brook called Sow I come next to Bedworth a place very well known in regard of the Coal-mines there As for the name thereof I conceive it did originally proceed from some one that possest it in the Saxons time whose name was Bede for that the said appellation was then in use those who are conversant in our English Histories do well enough know the later sillable worth signifying a habitation In Domesday-book it is written Bedeword the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 wanting a stroke through it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which with the Saxons stood for th and by that Survey is rated at 4 hydes the woods extending to one mile in length and half a mile in bredth all being then valued at xl s. and whereof Edwyn Earl of Mercia was possest before the Norman invasion but afterwards by the E. of Mellent most of whose lands in this County his brother the E. of Warwick within a short time had from whom some one of the family of Hastings obtained it as it seems for I find that they held it by Kts. service of his descendants together with Wiley whereof I have already spoke I am of opinion that the families of Turvile and Craft were enfeofft thereof by Hastings for it is evident that they antiently possest it mention being made of William de Turevill in 1 Ioh. and in 20 H. 3. that Simon de Turvill and Rog. de Crafâ— held one Kts. fee here But towards the later end of H. 3. time Will. de Charnells had to do here though I am not able to say upon what title unless it were by descent from Beatrix his mother whom I conjecture to have been the heir of Craft as in Bilton you may see Neither can I discern how or when Turvill absolutely quitted his interest in this place for in 20 E. 3. Will. de Charnells and Oliver de Turvill answered for half a Kts. fee here which they held of the heirs of Hastings And yet I find that in 28 E. 1. Will. de Charnells wrote himself Dominus de Bedworth and in 9 E. 2. Henry de Charnels his father is solely certified to be Lord thereof Wanting therefore such light as might guide me in the full discovery of the successive Lords thereof I have added so much of the descent of both these families viz. Turvill and Charnells as I have found by Record to have had relation thereunto Will. de Turvill 20 H. 2 1 Joh. Simon de Turvill 20 H 3. Will. de Turvill 53 H. 3. Magister Philippus de Turvill rector eccl de Bedworth 28 E. 1. Rob. de Turvile 23 E. 1. Oliverus de Turvile 20 E. 3. Beatrix relicta 34 H. 3. Will. de Charnels Will. de Charnels 55 H. 3. Nich. de Charnels miles Dom. de Bilton 28 E. 1. Wil. de Charnels Dom. de Bedworth 28 E. 1. miles 31 E. 1. Henr. de Charnels D. de Bedworth 9 E. 2. Will. de Charnels de Bedw miles 23 E. 3. Ioh. Charnels de Bedworth 6 R. 2. Eliz. relicta â— H. 4. Of these Iohn Charnels was the last for ought I have seen that had it but of that family so possest thereof or of the Turviles have I not seen any thing very memorable other than the founding of a Chantry in this Church at the Altar of our blessed Lady by Philip de Turvile the Parson here presented in 28 E. 1. as his Institution manifesteth Which was performed in 6 E. 3. and endowed with a good proportion of land some lying in Eccleshale but the greatest part in Bedworth the ordination thereof being made by Rog. Northburgh B. of Cov. and Lich. 5 Id. Iulii an 1332. the same sixth year of E. 3. whereby it also appears that the said Philip was then a Canon of Lichâ— In 4 H. 4. there being a Fine levyed betwixt Sir Will. de Astley Kt. and others Plantiffs and Iohn Attehale and Ione his wife Deforc. of 24 mess. 5 carucats and 9 yard land 46 acres of meadow 12 acres of pasture 32 acres of wood and 12 marks 1x s. rent lying in Bedworth Astley Corley and many other places with th'advouson of the Church those lands with the said advouson were thereby vested in the said Sir Will. de Astley and his heirs paying yearly to the said Iohn and Ioane onely during the life of Eliz. the widow of Iohn Charnels x l. sterling and after her decease xx marks yearly to the same Iohn and Ioane during their two lives in case they survived her But in 10 H. 6. it was certified that Iohn Clerke of Coventre Gentleman and the Lady Margaret Astley widow to Sir VVill. Astley before mentioned held this Mannour by the service of half a Kts. fee. So that it seems either the Mannour past by vertue of that Fine or else was granted to the Lord Astley by some other Act for it appears that from that time the heirs of Astley were owners of it and that Regin Lord Grey of Ruthin who marryed the heir female of Astley leas'd the Mannour-house and demesns there for years in 18 H. 6. As also that Thomas the second Marq. Dorset descended from the said Reginald as the Pedegree in Astley sheweth by his Testament bequeath'd it to Edward one of his younger sons for life assigning out of it to the poor of his Hospital which
he appointed to be founded at Astley their stipends and liveries but the inheritance remained to his heir and so eschaeting to the Crown by attainder of Henry D. of Suff. as in Astley is manifested was in 2 Eliz. granted unto ..... Gerard and others to hold in Capite Howbeit afterwards viz. in 44 Eliz. to Clement Fisher Esq and his heirs together with the mines of Coal and advouson of the Rectory But touching the succession of the other Mannours lying within the precincts of this Parish I can say little and therefore shall pass them by The Church dedicated to S. ....... in the year 1291. 19 E. 1. was valued at viii marks but in 26 H. 8. at x l. iii s. x d. over and above ix s. vi d. allowed for Procurations and Synodals Patroni Ecclesiae Incumbentes Will. de Charnels dom de Bedworth Magr. Phil. de Turvill 1300. Henr. de Charnels Ioh. Popard 4 Non. Iulii 1309. Will. Charnels Hug. de Stoke Diac. 4 Non. Iunii 1331. Will. Charnels miles Ioh. de Greneburgh Pbr. 6 Kal. Sept. 1349. Margareta Charnels domina de Bedworth Henr. Hud Pbr. 7 Id. Febr. 1366. Margareta Charnels domina de Bedworth Will. de Ashton Pbr. Non. Maii 1368. Margareta Charnels domina de Bedworth Ric. Waltham 3 Id. Maii 1369. Margareta Charnels domina de Bedworth Ioh. le Hay Id. Iunii 1370. Ioh. Charnels domicellus Ioh. Lavender Pbr. 11 Oct. 1397. Ioh. Charnels domicellus Ioh. Othehull Pbr. 7 Sept. 1400. Dom. Margareta de Astley Tho. Belgrave Pbr. 8 Oct. 1431. D. Regin Grey Will. Bele Pbr. 14 Ian. 1438. D. Iohanna Grey Rog. Webster 5 Novemb. 1445. D. Eliz. domina Ferrers de Groby Rog. Creke Pbr. 1 Iulii 1458. D. Arth. Plantaginet jure Eliz. ux suae Vicecomitissae de L'isle D. Sampson Webbe Cap. 8 Iunii 1520. Henr. Marchio Dorset D. Rob. Cowper Cap. 16. Nov. 1542. Henr. Marchio Dorset D. Edw. Bromley Cap. 11. Sept. 1543. Will. Sanders gen Ric. Palmer Cler. 20 Apr. 1569. D. Regina Ric. Brisco Cler. 25 Maii 1569. Smercote magna THis hath been of long time a depopulated place lying for the most part if not all in Bedworth-parish and in the Conq. Survey is joyn'd with Soule now called Soule-end in Astley parish the E. of Mellent then possessing them both which are certified to contain one hyde having woods of a mile in length and half as much in breadth In that Record they are written Smerecote and Soulege and valued at 5 s. having been the free-hold of one Sexi in Edw. the Conf. dayes After which till H. 3. time have not I seen any more thereof but then did Roger de Craft bring an Assize against VVill. de Charnells and others for common of pasture and certain lands lying here and in Bedworth And in 13 E. 1. VVill. le Boteler of Werington had a grant of Free-warren in all his demesn lands lying in Eccleshale Folkeshull and this place Which said Charter was exemplified by Sir Tho. Boteler Kt. in 15 H. 7. But the substance of both these Smercotes did as it seems belong to the Hospital of S. Iohn Bapt. in Coventre whereof I shall treat in its due place and after the dissolution thereof was past with divers other lands of that kind to Iohn Hales Gentleman and his heirs in 37 H. 8. from whom it divolved to Charles Hales late of Newland Esq descended from a younger brother to the said Iohn Following the stream of Sow it leads me next into the precincts of Coventre now a County of it self but originally part of this Hundred whereof taking my leave for a while I purpose to observe what memorable places are or have bin within that Cities liberties all which by the guidance of this torrent together with Shirburne that passeth through the Esterne part thereof I shall without much thwarting my resolved method industriously performe Hawksbury ON the East-side of this Brook lyeth Hawksbury in the Parish of Sow which antiently belonging to the Priory of Coventre had the reputation of a Mannour the rent or ferm whereof in 26 H. 8. was certified to be C s. Upon the dissolution of which Monastery it was in 34 H. 8. granted out of the Crown by the name of the Mannour Messuage and Ferm of Hawksbury and Hawksbury-grove to the Mayor Bayliffs and Commonalty of the City of Coventre and their successours who are still owners thereof Ansty IN the furthest nook of Coventre liberties North-eastwards stands Ansty which before the Norman invasion being part of the possessions that Godâ—va wife to Earl Leofrike had was after the Conquest in the K. possession and let out to ferm at the time of the general Survey unto one Nicholas but the number of hydes which it then particularly contained cannot be known in regard Folkshill and it are there joyned together which were then certified to be ix hydes and valued at xii l. In that Record it is written Anestie which differs nothing in effect from the present name but the original thereof was Heanstige as I think which for easiness of pronunciation is thus turn'd to Anstie for being so it is significant as to the situation hean in the Saxon high and stige a path-way That these lands which belong'd to the said Countess came afterwards to the Earls of Chester I shall in Coventre declare at large but the first particular person that I find possest thereof and by grant without doubt from one of those Earls was Roger de Burchervill or Buschervill in 30 H. 2. it being then held by him for half a Kts. fee. This Rog. de Buschervill gave some lands lying here to the Monks of Combe so also did one Henry de Buschervill by a daughter and heir of which family it divolved to Ireys as the descent here inserted doth shew Thomas le Ireys in 27 H. 3. being certified to hold it by half a Kts. fee. Tho. Fitz-Lucian Baro de Donnore in Ultonia infra reg Hib. Agnes de Boschervill D. de Ansty Galf. le Ireys miles Johanna de Charnels Rog. de Culy 16 E. 2. Tho. de Culy ob 8 R. 2. Joh. de Culy ob s. p. Eliz. ux Joh. Stanhop de Rampton 8 R. 2 Ric. Stanhope miles ob 14 H. 6. Joh. de Culy mil. 11 E. 3. Thomasina filia co-haeres Hugo de Culy ob s. p. Rogerus Hugo de Culy defunctus 11 E. 3. Rog. de Culy miles ob s. p. 33 E. 3. Margeria soror Tho. de Erdeswike ob 6 R. 2. Ioh. Deincourt de Blankney 2. maritus Rog. Deincourt fil haeres aet 15.17 R. 2. Henr. le Ireys Oliva Mandevill de Hib. Matilda Guliel Prior de Coventre Galfr. canon de Kenilworth
find that Henry de Neuburgh the first E. of Warwick after the Conquest in imitation of K. H. 1. who made the Park at Woodstoke containing 7 miles in compass and which was the first in England did impark it but at that time it contained no more than what now is called the Old-Park the rest having been enlarged by the succeeding Earls who had as it seems a Mannour here for so it is called in that settlement made 31 H. 3. by Iohn de Plesseâ—s E. of Warwick upon Will. Mauduit and Alice his wife And concerning this place I further find that the tythes of the assarts here as also of the paunage and venison were by Margery Maresâ—hall Countess of Warwick in H. 3. time given to the Hospital of S. Mich. in Warwick in pure alms And that in 26 E. 1. upon the extent of the lands belonging to Will. Beauchamp E. of Warwick then deceased it was certified that he had here at Wegenok besides the Park containing xx acres a little Pool and eight acres of arable land As also that in 9 E. 2. the underwood of this Park did yeild 26 s. 8 d. per an the herbage 10 s. and the paunage with the Nuts 6 s. 8 d. Howbeit in those dayes the Park was but small till Tho. Beauchamp E. of Warw. enlarged it with certain woods called Wegenok-Donele lying within the parish of Hatton and adjoyning thereto which he purchased of the Lady Scolastica de Melsa After which it continued to the succeeding Earls even to the last of that family but coming to the Crown with the rest of their lands was by K.E. 6. in 1. of his reign granted with the Castle of Warwick and divers other Mannours unto Iohn Dudley E. of Warwick upon whose attainder in 1 M. the Q. demised the herbage and paunage thereof to Henry Iernegan for 30 years at x marks per ann And Q. Eliz. in 14 of her reign past the inheritance of it together with the wood called Fernehill and the Mannour-house named Goodrest to Fulke Grevill Esq and his heirs Which Fulke being created Lord Brooke by K. Iames as I have elswhere shewed setled this and many other lands on Rob. Grevill his kinsman now sc. 1640. Lord Brooke by vertue of an entail with that Honour Touching the said Mannour-house called Goodrest first built by Tho. Beauchamp the second of that name Earl of Warwick in part of E. 3. and R. 2. time I suppose it was so called in respect that some of the Countesses of Warwick to avoyd much concourse of people retired hither when they were near the time of Child-birth for 't is plain that many of their children were born here as I have elswhere observed But all the further mention that I find thereof is that K. H. 7. the Earldome of Warwick being in his hands granted the custody of it with the Gardens and Waters in the Park to Edw. Belknap Esq of the body for life cuckow-Cuckow-Church THat which beareth this name is onely certain grounds lying within Wedgnok-park where antiently stood a Chapel which was of the Earl of Warwick's patronage How long it is since that Chapel fell to ruine is uncertain but in 16 H. 7. the K. by his Letters Pat. dated 18 Martii reciting that it had been down to the ground of a long time and that the place where it stood with the Chapel-yard had also been and then was imployed to prophane uses As also that there were no Inhabitants there which should rebuild it to the intent that the same place formerly so consecrated might thenceforth be converted to pious uses bestowed it on the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiat-Church in Warwick and their successors together with xl s. yearly rent thereto belonging formerly given to the said Chapel in recompence of the glebe pertaining thereto which the Earls of Warwick had obtained in exchange for the said xl s. rent But the Village whereunto this Chapel did belong many years since depopulated was called Rykmersbery See more thereof in Beausall Blacklow-hill THere is nothing else memorable in the parish of Wotton but Blacklow-hill where the Earls of Lanc. and Warwick having at Dedington in Oxfordsh surprized Piers de Gaveston Earl of Cornwall a great Favourite to K. E. 2. beheaded him without judgement of his Peers or any course of Law on the day of S. Gervasius and Prochasius 7 E. 2. scil mense Iunii under the side of the hill in the place where since that time stood a Cross called Gaverston's-Cross Guyes-Cliffe THis being a great Cliff on the Western bank of Avon was made choyce of by that pious man S. Dubritius who in the Brittons time had his Episcopal seat at Warwick for a place of devotion where he built an Oratory dedicated to S. Mary Madg. unto which long after in the Sâ—xons dayes did a devout Heremite repair who finding the natural Rock so proper for his Cell and the pleasant Grove wherewith it is back'd yeilding entertainment fit for solitude seated himself here Which advantages invited also the famous Guy sometime E. of Warwick after his notable atchievements having weaned himself from the deceitfull pleasures of this world to retire hither where receiving ghostly comfort from that Heremite he abode till his death as by my discourse of him in Warw. shall more fully be manifested It seems that this place continued in the same condition for a long time afterwards For I find that in 8 E. 3. one Thomas de Lewes being a Heremite here had the K. Letters of protection for himself and all his goods in which Record it is written Gibbeclyve And that in 10 H. 4. one Iohn Burry at that time likewise Heremite here had C s. per ann salary for to pray for the good estate of Ric. Beauchamp then E. of Warw. as also for the souls of the father mother of the said Earl Whether it was out of respect to the memory of the famous Guy before mentioned or to view the rareness of its situation I cannot say but certain it is that K. Henry 5. being on a time at Warw. came to see it and did determine to have founded a Chantry here for 2 Priests had he not been by death prevented After which the before specified Ric. Beauchamp E. of Warw. bearing a great devotion to the place whereupon then stood nothing but a small Chapel and a Cottage in which the Heremite dwelt in 1 H. 6. obtained license to do the like sc. for 2 Priests which should sing Mass in the Chapel there daily for the good estate of him the said Earl and his wife during their lives and afterwards for the health of their souls and the souls of all their parents friends with all the faithfull deceased Of which Chantry Will. Berkswell afterwards Dean of the Collegiat-Church in Warw. and one Iohn
I make a question For I find that in 10 H. 6. Iohn de Weston Sergeant at Law had it And that in 33 H. 6. Richard Knightley recovered it against Iohn Wode As also that in 5 H. 7. Sir Edw. Cornwall Kt. dyed seized thereof leaving Thomas his son and heir 16 years of age Howbeit about the beginning of H. 8. time if not before did the said Sir Edw. Belknap possess it Which Sir Edw. of whom in Dasset I have historically spoke being a man of great note had his residence here and new built the Mannour-house one of the fairest structures of Timber that I have seen on several parts whereof his Arms are cut in wood quartering the Coats of Sudley Mounifort and Boteler And by his last Will and Testament dated 12 H. 8. bequeathed it to Dame Alice his wife for term of her life After which it came to Iohn Skelley Esq cosin and heir to the said Sir Edw. by Alice his sister Which Iohn dyed seized thereof 4 E. 6. But the next owner thereof that I meet withall was Sâ—r Thomas Neunham Kâ— fâ—om whom it came to the Crown though how I yet know not And in 4 5 Ph. M. was by the Q. granted to Sir Edw. Sanders Kt. chief Baron of the Exchequer and to Thomas Morgan and their heirs which Tho. marryed Mary sole daughter and heir to the said Sir Edw. but having no issue that survived and being desirous to preserve the memory of his name entailed it upon Bridget Morgan the onely child of his brother Anthony and the heirs male of her body begotten by any bearing the sirname of Morgan Whereupon the said Bridget took to husband Anthony Morgan of Mytchell-town in Monmouthshire by whom she had issue Thomas Morgan Esq the present owner thereof Ann. 1640. The Church dedicated to S. Michael hath antiently belonged to the Canons of Erdbury and been many ages since appropriated thereto as by the presentations to the Vicaridge appears And in 19 E. 1. was valued at viii marks and a half and the Vicaridge at two marks But in 26 H. 8. the said Vicaridge was rated at Cix s. 53 s. 4 d. yearly Pension being paid thereto by the Prior and Covent of Erdbury over and above viii s. per ann allowed for Procurations and Synodals Patroni Vicariae Incumbentes temp Inst. Prior Conv. de Erdbury Thom. de Suham Cap. 1301. Prior Conv. de Erdbury Walt. de Coventre C p. 5. Cal. Iunii 1316. Prior Conv. de Erdbury Wâ—ll de Hull Cap. 2 Id. Febr. 1340. Prior Conv. de Erdbury Ioh. Gybons Pbr. 2 Cal. Dec. 1354. Prior Conv. de Erdbury Walt. Dyk Pbr. 4 Cal. Dec. 1370. Prior Conv. de Erdbury Rob. de Hoghton Pbr. 8. Cal. Martii 1373. Prior Conv. de Erdbury Will. Chapman Pbr. 8 Iulii 1390. D. Episc. per lapsum Ioh. Fanne Pbr. 22 Nov. 1392. Prior Conv. de Erdbury Ioh. Hâ—nkley Canon 22. Aug. 1398. Prior Conv. de Erdbury Ioh. de Segrave Cap. 20. Oct. 1405. Prior Conv. de Erdbury Will. Hopwode Cap. 8. Martii 1412. Prior Conv. de Erdbury Ioh. Radford Cap. 6 Sept. 1414. Prior Conv. de Erdbury Will. Sheyntonâ— Pbr ..... Iunii 1424. Prior Conv. de Erdbury Will. Watton Cap. 26 Sept. 1426. Prior Conv. de Erdbury Ioh. Parker Pbr. 9 Martii 1428. Prior Conv. de Erdbury Ioh. Huswife Pbr. 28. Nov. 1430. Prior Conv. de Erdbury Ioh. Parker Pbr. 21 Martii 1434. Prior Conv. de Erdbury Ioh. Hewes Pbr. 10 Aug. 1439. Prior Conv. de Erdbury Will. Waynflete Pbr. 3. Martii 1439. Prior Conv. de Erdbury Ric. Gloucester Canon de Erdbury 15 Aug. 1440. Prior Conv. de Erdbury Will. Parker Pbr. 26 Aug. 1452. Prior Conv. de Erdbury David Vagham Cap. 18. Dec. 1500. D. Alicia Belknappe hac vice Rob. Pendilbury 25 Nov. 1525. Prior Conv. de Erdbury D. Thom. Holme 1 Maii 1530. D. Rex ratione dissolut Priorat de Erdbury D. Will Squyer Cap. 8 Maii 1541. D. Thom. Newnham miles D. Ric. Symonds Cler. 12. Maii 1551. Tho. Morgan arm Hugo Iones 20 Ian. 1576. Will. Foster hac vice ex conc T. Morgan Nich. Daniel Cler. 10. Nov. 1581. Thom. Morgan de Heyford in Com. Northampt. ar Tho. Huntâ— Cler. 29. Martii 1598. Thom. Morgan de Heyford in Com. Northampt. ar Henr. Wilke Cler. 6 Maii 1600. On the East wall of the North I le is there a Monument for Sir Edward Sanders sometimes chief Baron of the Exchequer His portraiture kneeling in a Scarlet Robe is placed on the one side thereof and the like of his Lady on the other side but no writing thereon other than sentences of Scripture relating to the Resurrection and Ascension of our Saviour Christ which are represented in the carved work The Coats of Arms thereon are these Sanders alone viz. party per cheveron sable and argent 3 Elephants heads erazed and counterchang'd of the field 2 Sanders empaling Makeins 3 Cave empaling Marvin 4 Sanders empaling Cave 5. Sanders empaling Englefield 6 Sanders empaling Hussey On the same wall is a fair Tablet of Brass fixed on Marble with this Inscription Margeriae Saunders artus sunt morte soluti Perpetua foelix mens requiete jacet Donec enim vixit coelestia semper amabat Assidua venerans religione Deum Conjug is Edwardi casto flagravit amore Praefuit magna cum ratione domi Morbus exhaustum corpus cum frangere cepit Ad dominum junctas sustulit illa manus Inde crucis Christi symulachrum laeta poposcit Hoc oculis animo sensibus aegra notat Hinc nequit evelli mens in meditando triumphâ—ns Atque suum coluit non saciata Deum Egregiam vitam mors est praeclara secuta Margeriae faelix vita quae morsque fuit Here Margerie Saunders lyeth whose mortal lymms are dede But to enjoy immortal rest her soul to Heaven is fled Whyles lyf did last she was a paterne of good lyfe Devout to God good to the poore a chast and perfit wyfe A housewyfe of great skill setting her whole delight In her just love and wed did make Sir Edward Saunders Knight For Christ his crosse she calâ—d amiddis the pangis of death Whiche she with minde je beheld untill her later breath And so gave up her gost to God which lyf did lend Who for her good and worthily gave her a happy end The corps of dame Margerie Saunders daughter of Sir Thomas Englefeld Knight and of dame Elizabeth his wife on of the daughters of Sir Robert Throgmorton Knight lyeth in this Tome whos soule God pardon She dyed the xi of October Anno Domini 1563. In a large Tablet of Alabaster fixed on the North wall is this Inscription Here lyeth
entayled this Mannour then called Est-Leminton upon his descendants by Eva his wife left issue Thomas who had the custody of Bishops-Castle in Shropshire committed to his charge in 15 E. 2. and in 18 E. 2. was constituted one of the Commissioners appointed for choosing out Cccc. footmen in this County excepting Warwick and Coventre as also to arme them for defence of the Kingdom In 6 E. 3. he was a Knight and in 12. in Comiss both for conservation of the Peace in this Shire and arraying of men according to the Stat. of Winchester In the time of this Sir Thomas I meet with a Richard Hastang whom being often and eminenâ—ly imployed in this County and his brother as by some circumstances may be deemed I may not pass by In 15 E. 2. he was one of the Knights for this Shire in the Parliament then held and in 17 E. 3. in Comiss. with other persons of quality to find out and arrest such Proctors as were imployed by the two Cardinalls then sent into England for disposing of Ecclesiasticall benefices that were or might become void and to bring them before the King and his Councell Concerning which business the King then wrote an excellent Epistle to Pope Clement the vi Wherein he complaineth of the great in jury done to the Church and Kingdom by those Cardinalls and such as they imployed by authority from his Holiness which with the Popes answer thereunto is well worth the reading In 19. and 20 E. 3. he was in Comiss. for arraying of Archers in this County and in 21. for levying the Subsidy imposed upon Woolls and granted to the King in Parliament for the maintenance of his Warrs in France But I return to Sir Thomas who had issue Sir Iohn Hastang a Knight in his fathers life time which Sir Iohn whilst his father lived bore for his Armes A Lion rampant with a Labell of five points as appeareth by his Seal but afterwards a Chief with a Lion rampant over all And having 2. wives viz. Blanch daughter of ....... and Maud of Sir Waryn Trussell Knight dyed in 39 E. 3. leaving Maud and Ioan his daughters and heirs both within age the Custody of whose lands were by Pat. bearing date 7. Maii 44 E. 3. granted by the King to Iohn de Beauchamp and Iohn Rous who by their Deed dated 20. Oct. 45 E. 3. past the same over to Raph Earl Stafford which perhaps might be the reason that Maud the elder of them was afterwards wedded to Raph de Stafford descended by the Staffords of Sandon and Bromshull in Staffordshire from the antient Barons of Stafford Which Maud in 49 E. 3. had livery of her lands at that time proving her age her said husband then doing fealty for them and had for her part inter alia this Mannour of Lemynton with the Mannour of Grafton in Worcestershire Her sister Ioan wife to Sir Iohn Salisbury having the Mannours of Upton-waryn in Com. Wigorn and Chebsey in Com. Staff for her part To this Raph and Maud succeeded Sir Humfrey Stafford of Grafton Knight their son and heir who being one of the Knights for this Shire in the Parl. begun at Westminster the munday before the Feast of All-Saints 7 R. 2. was in Dec. following constituted Shiriff of Staffordshire which office he also bore in 12 R. 2. This Sir Humfrey marryed Eliz. the daughter to Sir Iohn Burdet of Huncote in Com. Leic. by whom he had a fair inheritance and dyed seized of this Mannour in 7 H. 5. leaving Iohn his son and heir xx years of age afterwards a Knight Which Iohn dyed 10 H. 5. without issue whereupon his brother Sir Humfrey became his heir who underwent the Shiriffalty of Staffordshire in 5 H. 4. as also for this County and Leicestershire in 2.9 and 17 H. 6. In 18 H. 6. he was one of the Knights for this County in the Parliament then held In 21 22. and 23. in Comiss. for conservation of the peace in this shire And having wedded Alianore one of the sisters and heirs to Iohn the son of Sir Thomas Aylesbury Knight by whom the Mannour of Blatherwike in Northamptonsdire came to this family was slain by the Commons of Kent in that insurrection of Iack Cade 28 H. 6. with his brother William the Lady Alianore his wife surviving him who at length became one of the coheirs also to Iohn Cressy and in 16 E. 4. founded a Chantry for one Priest to sing Mass daily at the Altar of our blessed Lady in the Church of Bromesgrove in Com. Wigorn. for the good estate of King E. 4. Eliz. his Queen her self Thomas her son and for the health of the soul of Sir Humfrey Stafford of Grafton her late husband and all the faithfull departed To the last mentioned Sir Humfrey succeeded Sir Humfrey his son and heir who together with Thomas his brother joyned with the Lord Lovell and others in that Insurrection of 1 H. 7. begun in Worcestershire as our Historians doe observe But the Lord Lovell hearing that the King had set out a Proclamation of Pardon mistrusted his men and fled privately into Lancashire which so disheartned these two brothers that despairing of success they took Sanctuary at Colnham neer Abingdon out of which place their priviledge being viewed in the Kings Bench and judged not sufficient they were taken whereupon Humfrey suffered death at Tiburn and was buried in the Chapell of our Lady within the Gray-fryers Church neer New-gate but Thomas as being seduced by him had pardon Shortly after which ensued the attainder in Parliament of the said Humfrey whose lands being so forfeited were given away by the K. Grafton in Com. Wigorn. one of their chief seats with the Mannour of Upton-Waryn in that County to Sir Gilbert Talbot Knight and the heirs male of his body from whom the present Earl of Shrewshury who now enjoys them is descended And this of Leminton to Sir Edward Poynings Knight and to the heires male of his body But Sir Humfrey Stafford Kt. son and heir of this Humfrey being afterwards restored repossest this Lordship and departing this life 37 H. 8. lyeth buried at Blatherwik before specified From whom descended as the Pedegree before inserted sheweth Will. Stafford of Blatherwik esquire who in 5 Car. sold this Lordship to Sir Thomas Trevor Knight then one of the Barons of the Exchequer descended of a very antient family of that name in the County of Denbigh in North-wales where it hath flourished for many ages and still continueth inricht with ample possessions The Church dedicated to All-Saints having been given to the Canons of Nostell by Attrop Hastang in H. 1. time as I have already shewed was appropriated to that Monastery by
recited in their Chapter and that after such his decease the said enlargement of Dyet for the Nuns should be changed from the before mentioned Tuesday to the day of his Obâ—t But these Hodenhulls came in process of time to be distinguisht otherwise than they were at first the one being called Hodenhull-Gurmund by reason that one Gurmundus held the 5. part of a Knights fee here of the Earl of Warwick and the other Hodenhull-Osbert from one Osbert who held the fourth part of a Knights fee of those Earles which family of Gurmund continued here for some descents for it appears that in 36 H. 3. Thomas Gurmund held the said 5. part of a Knights fee of the Earl of Warwick at which time one Simon de Hodenhull answered for half a Knights fee in the other then called Schiten-Hodenhull Touching that which the Monks of Combe possest here I find that it had antiently the reputation of a Mannour for by that name in 13 E. 1. they claymed a Court-Leet and other priviledges therein and had allowance of them as I have seen by the testimony of an antient Roll being vi mess. with vi yard land and a half 48 acres going to a yard land which part was also called Schiten-Hodenhull But the Monks of Combe continued not owners thereof till the general dissolution of the Religious Houses For in 16 E. 4. Will. Catesby Esq son of Sir Will. Catesby Kt. obtained the same together with the Mannour of Rodburne and what they had in Ascote to himself and the heirs male of his body from the Abbot and Covent of that House Other persons there were also that held lands in this place viz. in 20 E. 3. Iohn Burnell the 8 part of a Kts. fee Simon Gurmund the 4 part And about the 44 E. 3. Rob. Burnell by marriage of the heir the 4 part of a Kts. fee in Hodinhull-Bruiz and Ric. Gurmund a 5 part in Hodenhull-Gurmund which 5 part Iohn Harryes was found to hold in 2 H. 4. But the Mannour which belong'd to Nun-Eaton continued to that Monastery till 30 H. 8. that all the great Houses went to wrack After which it was purchased from the Crown as I have heard by Iohn Spenser whose ancestours had their residence here in H. 7. time and one Tho. Brauncefeild Which Iohn and Thomas sold it to Thomas Wilkes a Merchant of the Staple who dying without issue it divolved to Will. Wilkes his brother and so by reason that Robert his onely son dyed without issue to his daughters and heirs whereof Anne the eldest was marryed to Sir Will. Kingsmill Kt. Frances the second to Erasmus Dreyden Bar. and Margaret the third first to Francis Dimock and afterwards to Thomas Gibbs whereupon partition being made Old-Hodnell being that part thereof where the Mannour-house sometime stood fell to the said Erasmus Dreyden whose son and heir Sir Iohn Dreyden now of Canons-Ashby in Com. Northampt. enjoys it Ascote another part of it to Sir Will. Kingsmill who had issue Sir Henry Kingsmill of Sydmenton in Com. Sutht Kt. and he Sir Will. the present owner thereof And Watergall likewise parcel thereof to Thomas Gibbs whose son Edward still hath it Touching the depopulation here I find that in 18 H. 6. there were but 4 Housholders yet the Church was standing in 23 H. 8. for Tho. Spenser before specâ—fied by his last Will and Testament made at that time bequeathed his body to be interred before the Image of our blessed Lady in the Chancel thereof near to the place where his father was buryed and over and above xl marks that he gave by his said Testam to this Church dedicated to S. Helene appointed that his Executors should cause the Church-yard to be paâ—ed round and to be so kept Which Thomas gave also C marks to a C poor mens daughters such as dwelt nearest to Hodenhull to buy them Kyne at their marriages and entailed his lands upon Thomas son and heir to Will. Spenser of Badby The Church in old time but a Chapel had a mark per ann and a Stone of Wax granted out of it to the Canons of Kenilworth by G. Muschamp B. of Cov. in K. Iohn's timeâ— and being appropriat to the Monastery of Nun Eaton very antiently was in ann 1291. 19 E. 1. valued at v marks but never any Vicar endowed Neither in 26 H. 8. upon the valuation of the Church-livings doth it appear that here was so much as a Curat the Tythes being then let by the Nuns of Eaton to Iohn Audley Esq for xi l. xiii s. 10 d. per ann Ascote THis was originally a member of Hodenhull but antiently written Astanescote and Estanescote which shews that the name at first sprung from some possessor thereof in the Saxons time perhaps Estanus for that was an appellation then in use I find that the Monks of Combe had divers petty parcels of land granted to them by sundry persons of mean rank all which Will. de Ludinton confirmed But there is little further memorable of this place in particular considering that the several Mannours in Hodenhull extended into it other than that it hath been long since a Village of many Inhabitants though since depopulated with Hodenhull â— and that there was a large quantity of land lying within it granted by K. H. 7. to Sir Iohn Risley Kt. with the Mannours of Lodbroke and Rodburne 3 H. 7. Rodburne THis also from a Village of divers Inhabitants and having a Church is now by depopulation shrunk into one dwelling and had its original name from the little Brook near which the town was seated and the road from Southam towards Daventre over it burne in our old English signifying a petty rivulet and Rode a passage where people ride and travel as is commonly known All the mention that I find of it in the Conq. time is that Turchill de Warwick held something here but it being in the Survey then made joyned with Lodbroc I cannot distinguish the exact proportion thereof Whatever it was more or less his posterity possest it yet with the rest of his lands that the Conq. was pleased that they should enjoy to be held of the Earls of Warw. by the x part of a Kts. fee. Of which line Will. de Arden great grandchild to Turchill viz. son of Henry son of Siward as in Curdworth I have manifested was the first that made it their seat This Will being a good Benefactor to the Nuns of Henwood besides the grant of one yard land lying here which Walâ— Durdent B. of Cov. in H. 2. time confirmed gave them the Church of this Rodburne which G. Muschamp his successor in K. Iohn's time ratified with allowance that they should receive the fruits thereof to their proper use Neither was he less liberal to the Monks of Combe as appears by what
it to the abovenamed Benedict Medley 12. Maii 14 H. 7. which Benedict was Cleke of the Signet to K. H. 7. at the same time and bore for his Armes sable 2. barrs gemells Arg. upon a chief of the second three Mullets of the first and dyed 13. Oct. 19 H. 7. leaving Will. his son and heir 23. years of age who marryed Margaret the daughter of Sir Robert Wotton Kt. and had issue George Medley esq that wedded Mary the daughter of Gerard Danet which George left issue Henry Medley esquire who by Frances the daughter of Clem. Throgmorton of Haseley esq had issue Henry 14. years of age in 21 Eliz. To whom succeeded Clem. Medley who in 2 Iac. past away this Mannour to Robert Wale gent. The Church dedicated to S. Margaret was given to the Canons of Kenilworth in H. 1. time or thereabouts by Atrop Hâ—â—tang concerning which I am to observe one thing further which is that the said Atrop then confirmed 18. Acres of land that his Tenants viz. Freeholders nere in Whitnash gave thereunto at its Dedication Whereby may be discerned that so fervent was the zeal of those elder times to Gods service and honour that they freely endowed the Church with some part of their possessions and that in those good works even the meaner sort of men as well as the pious founders were not backwards Amongst divers other concessions made by G. Muschamp Bishop of Coventre to the Canons of Kenilworth in K. Iohn's time I find that one was of two shilâ—ings yearly Pension granted to them out of this Church which had been endowed of one yard land and a half as the Record expresses In An. 1291. 19 E. 1. it was valued at vi marks and in 26 H. 8. at Cix s. viii d. over and above the yearly Pension of ii s. payable to the Monastery of Kenilworth and-viii s. for Procurations and Synodalls Patroni Ecclesiae Incumb temp Instit. Prior Conv. de Kenilworth Sim. de Redeswell subdiac prid Non. Iunii 1300. Prior Conv. de Kenilworth Henr. de Compton Pbr. 3. Non. Apr. 1302. Prior Conv. de Kenilworth Osb. de Banneburi Cler. 5. Id. Dec. 1326. Prior Conv. de Kenilworth Thomas de Brayles Cap. 2. Cal. Maii 1332. Prior Conv. de Kenilworth Will. de Wigorn. Cap. 7. Id. Iulii 1336. Prior Conv. de Kenilworth Will. Comyn de Neubold Cler. 5. Cal. Ian. 1352. Prior Conv. de Kenilworth Will. de Feryby Pbr. 26. Iunii 1372. Prior Conv. de Kenilworth Ioh. Brikstok Pbr. 15. Cal. Aug. 1378. Prior Conv. de Kenilworth Thomas Durich 25. Iulii 1393. Prior Conv. de Kenilworth Ioh. de magna Cotes Pbr. 10. Iunii 1398. Prior Conv. de Kenilworth Ioh. Normanby ult Martii 1406. Prior Conv. de Kenilworth D. Walt. Smyth 1. Iulii 1445. Prior Conv. de Kenilworth Ric. Geydon Cap. 5. Oct. 1453. Prior Conv. de Kenilworth D. Ric. Benet Pbr. 8. Oct. 1492. Mr. Edw. Litleton ar T. Rowley hac vice ex concess Pr. C. de K. D. Edw. Bolyfant Cap. 12. Ian. 1354. Humfr. Riddel gen ex concess Pr. C. de K. Humfr. Weyring Cler. 10. Oct. 1554. D. Regina Eliz. Rad. Kent Cler. 16. Febr. 1572. In the Chancell is a Marble Grave-stone with this Epitaph Hoc loco sepelitur dominus Ricardus Bennet Artis sacre Magister huius quondam Ecclesie diligens Pastor qui fatis concessit octavo die mensis Februarii Anno D. M. D. XXXi cuius anime propitietur Deus Amen Leminton-Priors THis for distinction from the former called Leminton-Priors hath its name as the other had from its situation upon the same river In the Conquerors time Earl Roger. scil de Montgomeri of whom I have spoke in Wolston held it the extent thereof being then certified at 2. hides which were valued at 4 li. having two Mills rated at xxiv s. But before the Norman invasion Oluuinus was owner thereof whom I suppose to be the same man which is elsewhere written Aluuinus father unto Turchill de Warwick It seemes that one of the Bishops of Coventre and Lichfield in those days called Bishop of Chester by reason of his residence in that City possest this place in H. 1. time but which of them it was is not exprest for in the grant made thereof by Geffrey de Clinton Founder of the Castle and Priory of Kenilworth to Gilbert Nutricius of Warwick and his heirs to hold by the service of half a Knights fee in consideration whereof the said Gilbert gave to the above mentioned Geffrey ten marks with a silver cup and to Agnes his wife a Besantine of goldâ— is is said to be de feodo Episcopi Cestriae And if I may have liberty to guess how the said Bishop had it I shall not doubt but that it was given to him by the King upon the forfeiture of Rob. de Belesmo E. of Shreusbury son to the before recited Earl Roger. Whether the before named G. Nutricius dyed without issue and that thereupon this Mâ—nnour returned to Geffrey de Clinton son to the donour or whether he made any agreement by Exhange or otherwise appears not but certain it is that the same Geffrey gave it to the Canons of Kenilworth â— together with the Church and Mill of this village It seems that the service of half a Knights fee by which the said Canons held it though in the grant there be no mention thereof was by the Bishop past over to the Monks of Coventre for in 20 H. 3. the Prior of Coventre certifying what Kts. fees were held of that Monastery makes instance of half a Knights fee in Leminton juxta Warwick held by the before specified Canons The like was signified in 36 H. 3. Which Canons in 7 E. 1. had a watermill 3. yard land and a 4. part and the half of another Mill here in demesn as also ix servants holding 3. yard land and 3. quarters performing divers servile labours 8. Cottiers holding 8. Cottages and 8. acres of land and xi Freeholders which held 13. yard land and a 4. part with the other half of the Water-mill And besides all this a Court-Leet Gallows Assise of bread and beer by the grant of K. H. 3. together with the Church appropriat endowed with two yard land All which was enjoyed by them till the dissolution of the Monasteries by K. H. 8. but then came to the Crown wherein it continued till 6 Eliz. that the Q. granted it to Ambrose E. of Warwick and the heirs male of his body All that is further observable touching this place is that nigh to the East end of the Church there is a Spring of Salt-water not above a stones-throw from the river Leame whereof the Inhabitants make much use for seasoning of
and was buried at Warwick but upon the new building of the Quire in E. 3. time whereof I shall elsewhere speak both his Monument and divers more of his Ancestors were removed never set up again After whose death Ela his Widow had by the K. Precept bearing date 29. Iulii following the Mannours of Tanworth Claverdon and Sutton in this County as aâ—so of Hoke-Narthon and Bradam in com Oxon with all the Corn and Hay then being upon them assigned for her dowry And by virtue of another Mandate from the K. to the Archbishop of York and Will. de Cantelupe had an augmentation thereto for I finde that besides all these she was afterwards possest of the Mannours of Hatherop and Chedeworth in Gloucestersh and had of the K. gift also for her better support the Mannour of Dymmock in the same County during her widowhood Wich Mannour upon her marriage with Philip Basset was at the request of Ric. E. of Cornwall the K. brother granted to her by the said King for term of life This Philip Basset being an eminent man in that time was one of the Peers that went to Pope Innocent the fourth in An. 1245. 29. H. 3. then sitting in the Council of Lyons with Letters from the rest of the Nobility and Commons of England representing the great oppressions under which this Realm at that time suffered by the Court of Rome and desiring relief and afterwards faithfully adhering to the said King in that great Rebellion of his Barons was taken prisoner with him in the Battail of Lewes 49. H. 3. in which year he had a grant from Will. Mauduit then E. of Warwick of the Mannours of Sutton-Colfield Claverdon and Tanworth in this County and the third part of the Mannour of Cheddeworth in Gloucester-shire of the dowry belonging to the before specified Ela his wife to hold during his own natural life in case he should survive her which grant was confirmed by a special Charter in 54. H. 3. wherein the said Philip is stiled by the King amicus noster specialis But to return unto Ela. She was a benefactresse to the Monks of Reading to the Canons of Oseney to the Nuns of Godstow and to the Canons of S. Sepulchers in Warwick to which last she gave all those Lands in Claverdon that were granted to her by Sr. Henry Lodbrok Knight and others And so great a friend was she to the University of Oxford that she caused a common Chest to be made and put therein Cxx. Marks out of which such as were poor Schollars might upon security at any time borrow something gratis for supply of their wants In consideration whereof the said University were obliged to celebrate certain solemne Mâ—sses every year in S. Marie's Church which Chest was in being in K. Edw. 4. time and called by the name of Warwick Chest. To the Gray-Friers in London she gave a parcel of Land with the buildings thereupon for the enlargement of their house In 17. E. 1. she released to Will. Beauchamp E. of Warwick all her interest in the Mannours of Tanworth in this County which she held in dower and departing this life very aged in the year M.CCC was buried before the high Altar in the abby-Abby-Church of Oseney at the head of the Tomb of Henry d'Oilly under a fair flat Marble in the habit of a vowesse graven on a Copper plate I now come to Margery Sister and Heir to Earle Thomas who had that Christen-name as I suppose in memory of Margery her Mother Sister Heir to Henry d'Oily before specied This great Lady was first married to Iohn Mareschall brother of Will. Mareschall E. of Pembroke as some say but how long before her brother Thomas his death I cannot affirm Certain it is that he continued her husband but a short time after for he was dead 9. Ian. following as appears by the K. Mandate then dated and directed to the Archb. of York the Bishop of Earleol and Will. de Cantilupe requiring them that if the said Iohn Marshall before his death had not seisin of Warwick-Castle and other the Lands which were of the inheritance of Margery his wife that then they should retain the said Castle and Lands in the K. possession till she the said Margery did perform what she ought to do in respect of them but in case she were already possest of them then to take good security of her that she might not marry to any man without the K. License and also appointed them that they should earnestly perswade with her as from him to take Iohn de Plessets for her husband who was one of his domestick servants and in his special fauour Nay so greatly did the K. desire she should wed this Iohn de Plessets that upon Christmas day before being at Burdeaux in France he sealed a Charter to the said Iohn whereby he granted him the marriage of her in case he could get her good will and if not that then he should have the fine due from her thereupon to the King And by another Precept sent to the said Archb. and Will. de Cantilupe bearing date the 26. of March ensuing reciting that whereas divers Ladies of this Realm neglecting to give such security to the King as in that case by the Laws and Customes thereof they ought to do had match't themselves without the K. consent to the great prejudice and dishonour of himself and his Crown to the intent therefore that the like inconvenience for the time to come might be avoided he gave them the said Archb. and Will. de Cantilupe strict command that forasmuch as the said Margerie sister to the late E. of Warwick being one of the most noble Ladies of England and possest of a Castle extraordinarily strong situate also towards the Marches and that it would be most perillous that she should take to husband any person whatsoever of whose fidelity the King had not as great a confidence as of his own they should forthwith take the said Castle of Warwick and what other Lands of hers they themselves thought fit as a pledge besides the ordinary security due from her that she would not marry to any man living without the K. License so that in case she should be so rash as to do otherwise the same Castle and Lands should be for ever forfeited to him the said King and his Heirs whereupon it seems she gave such security as was satisfactory for I finde that in Iune following she had Livery of the Earldom of Warwick as appears by the K. Precept directed to the Sheriffe of this County commanding him quod illas decem libras quas Thomas quondam Comes Warwici percipere consuevit per annum nomine Comitatus praedicti Margeriae sorori haeredi praedicti Comitis reddi faciat eo modo quo praedicto Comiti priùs reddi consueverit
and suit of harness with all that belong'd thereto To his son Iohn his second coat of Maile Helmet and harness and appointed that all the rest of his Armour Bows and other warlike provision should remain in the Castle of Warwick for his heir constituting these his Executors viz. Alice his Countess Sir Iohn de Hastings Iohn Hamelin Piers le Blund Parson of Hanslape Adam de Herewynton Richard de Brumesgrave Henry de Sidenhale Simon de Sutton Parson of Luffenham William de Wellesburne Parson of Berkeswell with Roger Caumpere Parson of Kibworth and departed this life 12. August next following in his said Castle of Warwick by poison as some thought but had sepulture in Abby of Bordsley before specified Before his death he obtained a grant from the King that his Executors when it should fortune him to depart this life might have the custody of his lands during the minority of his heir being answerable for the value of them to the Exchequer at Michaelmass and Easter every year saving that his Castles of Elmeley and Warwick should not be disposed of to any without the Kings speciall license which grant was confirmed to Iohn Hamelyn and the rest of the Executors in December following his death Neverthelessâ— so much was the K. wrought upon by them whose miscarriages afterwards gave the discontented Nobles opportunity to work his own ruine as that notwithstanding the grant before recited made to those Executors about two years after he passed the custody of them by a new Patent to Hugh le Despenser the elder in satisfaction of a debt of 6770 li. due to him from the said King as was pretended But before I proceed to speak of Thomas Earl of Warwick son and heir to the said Guy I have a word or two to say of the Countess his mother and the rest of her Children which is that she was the daughter of Raph de Tony of Flamsted in Hertford-shire widow of Thomas de Leybourn and at length heir to Robert her brother In November following the Death of her husband she had assigned to her in dowrie the Mannours of Hanslape in Com. Buck. Lygthorne Beausale Haseley Claverdon Berkswell with the third part of the Templars Mannour in Warwick and Shirburne and divers Knights fees all in this County And the next year following gave a Fine of 500. marks for license to marry with William La Zouch of Ashby in Com. Leic. to whom she was accordingly wedded but dyed in 18 E. 2. The other children of Earl Guy were Iohn a martiall Knight Emma the wife of Roul Odingsells Isabell married to ...... Clinton Elizabeth to Thomas Lord Astley and Lucia to Robert de Napton Which Iohn was a man of singular note in his time for in 22 E. 3. the King in consideration of his great services made him a Banneret and gave him Cxl li. per annum out of the Exchequer for his better support In 25 E. 3. he was Governour of Caleis In 26 Iohn Darcy to whom the King had granted the Constableship of the Tower of London for life for the great affection he bore to this Iohn de B. past over his interest in that Office to him which the King also ratified but within two years through the sinister suggestions of some he became much offended with him and put him out of that place constituting Barthol de Burghersh in his stead and after his death Robert de Morley but at the length it appearing to the King that those suggestions were false he received him again into favour and in consideration of his speciall services restored unto him the custody of the said Tower of London by his Letters Patents bearing date 25. Ian. aâ— the town of S. George neer the Castle of Beaufort in France and the same year constituted him Constable of Dovor-Castle Warden of the Cinque-ports for life and Admirall of the Seas for the North and West coasts He was also one of the Founders of that noble Order of the Garter instituted by King E. 3. and departing this life without issue 2. Dec. 34. E. 3. lyeth buryed betwixt two pillars on the South part of the Cathedrall Church of S. Paul in London before the Image of our Lady where he had a fair Monument lately demolisht which was through mistake usually called Duke Humfrey's Tombe I now return to Thomas the succeeding Earl born in Warwick-Castle having to his Godfathers Thomas Earl of Lancaster and Henry his brother with Thomas de Warington Prior of Kenilworth This Thomas was very young at his fathers death but who had the custody and tuition of his person during King Edward 2. reign I find not Most likely it is that Hugh le Despenser the great favourite at that time having a grant of his lands as abovesaid had also the charge of his person but in 1 E. 3. the Castle of Warwick with the rest of his lands were committed to Roger Mortimer of Wigmore till he should arrive to his full age and in 3 E. 3. the King being minded to afford speciall favour to him as the very words of the Writ do importâ— accepted of his homage though he was not then of full age commanding that he should have livery of all his fathers lands and the next year following admitted him to the office of Shiriffalty for Worcester-shire which was of his inheritance as also to that of the Chamberlainshâ—p in the Exchequer with power to appoint whomsoever he should think â—it for the execution of them in such sort as in his Ancestors times had been used 'T is not to be doubted but as this Earl was descended from an antient race of worthy Progenitors and by many noble heirs so were his vertues no less eminent than the chiefest of them for from the time that he came to mans estate even till his death which hapned in 23. of King Edw. 3. raign was he scarce ever cut of some notable and high imployment whereof in order I will briefly make recitall In 5 E. 3. he had the goverment of the Isles of Gernsey Serke and Aureney In 6. he was joyn'd in Commission with Raph Lord Basset and William de Shareshull a great Lawyer and afterwards Chief-Justice for conservation of the peace in this County and Worcestershire In 7. to attend the King in his expedition for Scotland at which time Edward de Baliol King of Scotts did homage to King Edward for the Realm of Scotland with the adjacent Isles In 9. he had the custody of the Marches of Scotland committed to him All which was whilst he lived a batchelour For I find that in 12 E. 3. the King in satisfaction of a great summe of money that he owed to Roger Lord Mortimer for the time that he was his Lieutenant of Ireland
granted unto him the benefit of his marriage whereupon he became wedded to the Lady Kath. his daughter After which was he the same year put again in Commission for conservation of the Peace in this County and Worcestershire and likewise in the County of Oxford and in 17 E. 3. marcht into Scotland with Henry Earl of Lanc. as also many other great persons with a numerous Army for raysing the siege of Louhmaban-Castle whereof William de Boun Earl of Northampt. had the custody In 18 E. 3. he had the Shiriffalty of this County and Leicestershire committed to him for terme of life and in the same year was constituted Marshall of England in which he entailed the Castle of Warwick with divers great Lordships in this and other Countyes upon his issue male mentioning the names of his severall sons then living In the month of Iuly 20 E. 3. he attended the King in his French expedition and arrived with him at Hoggs in Normandy where getting on shore he manifested his valour to admiration by making the first attempt himself in person with one Esquiâ—r and six Archers though he had but a weak Horse under him with which and those few men he encountred with an C. Normans whereof they slew 60. thereby making way for the Army to land And at the same time was he one of the principall Commanders that with the Black-Prince led the van of his Army in that famous battail of Cressy where the English got such lasting honour In 21. E. 3. he was at the siege of Caleis with three Bannerets Knights 61. Esquiers 106. and Archers on Horsback 154. In consideration of which notable services and other his heroik actions the King gave him the summe of 1366 li. 11 s. 08 d. and the next ensuing year assigned unto him a thousand marks per annum during his life partly in recompence of his faithfull services and partly as wages for attendance upon his person with C. men at Armes according to certain Indentures of Covenants betwixt them In 26 E. 3. he recovered the dominion of Gowher in Wales from Iohn Lord Moubray whose title thereto accrued by Aliva his mother daughter and heir to William de Brews to whom King Iohn during the minority of Henry Earl of Warwick Ancestor to this Thomas wrongfully gave the same In which suit I find that Simon Pakeman of Kirby in Com. Leic. did him especiall service 't is like as sollicitor in consideration whereof he gave him the inheritance of all the Lands and Rents he had Over Botyndon in Comâ— Northampt. In 27 E. 3. he was sent with Edw. Prince of Wales Henry D. of Lanc. and Raph Earl Stafford to protect Sir Richard de Willughby and Sir William de Shareshull Justices Itinerant whilst they sate at Chester for fear of any insurrection by the people In 29 E. 3. he attended the said Prince into France this being the time that King Edward hearing that Philip King of France was dead as also that Iohn his eldest son then newly crown'd had given unto Charles the Daulphin of Uiennois the Dukedome of Aquitane whereat being much moved he called the said Prince with divers of his Nobles before him and assigned the said Dukedome of Aquitane unto him but before the revolution of one year after such their arrivall in France hapned that memorable battail of Poictiers in which the K. of France being taken prisoner this Noble Earl gained high renown for his marvailous valor and no small advantage for he had no less than 8000 li. for the redemption of Will. de Melleun Archbishop of Seinz whom he himself took likewise in that fight Nay of so heroik a spirit he was that about 37 E. 3. he travailed into forrain parts and having spent full 3. years in warring against the Pagans at his return brought with him the son to the King of Lituania whom he Christened at London and being his Godfather named him Thomas In 40 E. 3. he was sent upon speciall service by the K. into Flanders having an allowance assigned to him out of the Exchequer of 5. marks per diem for his charges and two marks and a half per diem by way of reward in which year his Commission for Marshall of England was renewed But having now no more to say of his publique imployments saving of that last wherein he dyed and that he was one of the Founders of that Noble Order of the Garter instituted by King E. 3. I will here take notice of his pious works as also of his Testament and then come to his death with the circumstances thereof To the Collegiat-Church of Warwick he gave the advouson of the Church of Pillerton-Hercy in this County To the Canons of Kenilworth two mess. and one yard land lying in Radford-Semeli To the Priory of Clatercote in Com. Oxon. the patronage of the Church of Rotley in this County To the Hospitall of S. Iohn Baptist in Warwick the moity of the Church of Morton-D ' â—ubney in this shire To the Canons of Mâ—xstoke one yard land and one acre lying in Yerdley in Com. Wigorn. with the advouson of the Church To the Collegiat-Church of Astley the advouson of the Church of Long-Stanton in Com. Cantab. And that he was a good Benefactor to the Monks of Abingdon I shall not doubt though I have not seen in what particulars for I find that the Abbot and Covent of that Monastery by their publique Instrument beaâ—ing date 5 Id. Martii Anno 1344. which doth give a generall testimony thereof not only made him a speciall partaker of all their devout exercises but declared that whensoever the tidings of his death did come to their knowledge the like solemn office should be perform'd for him aswell in all the Covents of their Order within this Realm as in their own and not only so but by divers Canons-Regular too as was used to be done for any of their own fraternity friends or benefactors His Testament bears at date Chelchench vulgò Chelsey juxta Westminster on Tuesday 6. Sept. 1369. 43 E. 3. Whereby he bequeathed his body to be buried in the midst of the Quire of the Collegiat Church at Warwick To every Church within each of his Mannours he gave his best Beast which should there be found in satisfaction of his Tithes forgotten to be payd To Thomas his son and heir a Ring and Cup with Cover the best next that which his daughter Stafford should choose with the Sword and Coat of maile sometime belonging to the famous Guy of Warwick appointing that all his harness weapons and such like habiliments aswell for peace as warr should be equally divided betwixt his two sons viz. Thomas and William To his said son William he gave a Ring and a Cup with Cover the best next after his elder brother had chosen with
thereto The next ensuing year viz. 47 E. 3. he was again retained to serve the King in his French warrs for one whole year with CC. men at Armes and CC. Archers well mounted armed and arrayed under the conduct of Iohn of Gaunt Duke of Lancaster of which men at Armes besides himself there were to be Lix Knights and Cxl. esquiers And in 49 E. 3. was sent by Commission from the King into Scotland with whom were joyned Sir Guy de Brienne and Sir Henry le Scrope Bannerets to treat with William Earl of Douglas and others appointed by the King of Scotts touching restitution of those lands which by the truce formerly made did belong to the English The same year also did he accompany Edmund E. of Cambridge the Kings son into Britanny on the behalf of Iohn de Montfort Duke of Britanny where they had great success in taking of severall Castles till they were recalled by the King upon a truce concluded betwixt him and the French In 50 E. 3. he was constituted Governour of the Isles of Gernsey Serke and Aureney In 51 E. 3. he had Commission with divers gentlemen of note for arraying of men in this County so also in 1 R. 2. at which time he was by Indenture retain'd to serve the King with CC. men at Armes and CC. Archers beyond Sea for a quarter and half of the year viz. besides himself a Banneret four Knights with Clxiv Esquiers well and sufficiently mounted armed and accoutred for that voyage In 3 R. 2. he was again in Commission for arraying of men in this Shire and by the Commons in Parliament at the same time held at London chosen Governour to the King then but young as being a man most just and prudent for which service he was to have a convenient allowance out of the Kings publique Treasury In 5 R. 2. that foul Insurrection of the Commons under the conduct of Iack-Straw happening whereof our Storyes have a full relation he was sent to protect the Monastery of S. Albans then much endangered by that Rebellious Rout and to do Justice upon the Villains but as he was marching thitherward with a thousand stout men well armed and the Lord Thomas Percy in his company News came to him that the like commotion was broke out where his own estate lay which occasioning him to divert his intended course and to send part of his souldiers to the aid of the Abbot did much animate those bold Rebells that had gotten head at S. Albans Whether in this County or where els the Insurrection was I cannot directly say but I find that there were speciall Commissions directed to him with other persons of quality in this Shire to suppress any that should make head therein In 8. of the same Kings reign he had againe Commission to put the men of this County in Arâ—ay But I cannot point out the direct extent of time that the King continued under his tutelage yet certain it is that before he arrived to mans estate he took the reins of government into his own hand or suffered them to be guided by some speciall Favorites of whose misdoings he himself had at last wofull experience the chief of which were Robert de Vere Earl of Oxford advanced to the title of Marquess of Dublin and afterwards D. of Ireland upon whom dâ—vers of the Nobility had therfore cast very envious eyes but so much did the King affect the Marquess that discerning who they were that thus maligned him he laid trains to murther them as saith my Author of which number were Thomas Duke of Glouc. the Kings own Uncle and our Earl of Warwick who being men of haughty Spirits and apprehending some danger towards associated more to their company and put themselves in Armes at Haringey Park whereupon they constrained the Kâ—â—g to call a Parliament the next ensuing year but what exorbitant things were done therein through their potency our Annalls of that time will tell you Howbeit about a twelve month after the Kâ—ng assembling his Nobles told them he was now of age to govern himself and the Kingdom and thereupon chang'd some of his great Officers and Câ—uncellers whereof this Thomas E. oâ— Warwick was one that he said aside who thenceâ—â—â—â—â— retiring himself built that strong and stately Tower standing at the Northeast corner of the Castle here at Warwick the cost whereof amounted to CCCXCV li. v s. ii d. As also the whole body of the Collegiat Church of our Lady both which were finished in 17 R. 2. but from that time forwards never could he get the Kings favour again so that Thomas de Moubray Earl Marshall and Notingham taking advantage of the Kings displeasure against him and of the countenance that he himself then had at Court brought his Writ of Error to reverse the Judgement given in 26 E. 3. on the behalf of Thomas then Earl of Warwick for the dominion of Gowher in Wales aâ—â—eadging that the Process whereupon the suit in E. 3. time had been commenced was directed to the Shiriff of Hereford-shire whereas the land of Gowher in question lay in Wales yet so hapned the issue of that business though this errour if it were one related nothing to the just title that in 20 R. 2. Moubray recovered it Nay this was not all for jealousyes and secret grudges harboured by dâ—veâ—s greaâ—men towards them that had most interest with the King and doubtless were his advisers in what he had done as also by him against them began now to shew their effects so that the King having wedded Isabell daughter to the King of France a girl scarce eight years old for better securing the xxx years Truce concluded with that Nation whereby he apprehended that nothing could now disturb him in doing what he listed caused his uncle the Duke of Glouc. to be layd hold on at Pleshy in Essex when he least thought of such a thing and hurryed thence to Caleys where he was secretly murthered by the said Thomas Moubray not without the Kings privity as 't is said And the same day that the Duke of Glouc. was so seized on did he invite this our Earl of Warwick to a Feast who suspecting nothing came but found very harsh entertainment for there did he cause him to be arrested and carryed away Prisoner who putting himself upon the Parliament for Justice and acknowledging the meeting at Haringey-Park had Judgment of death past upon him Howbeit the King qualified that sentence and gave him his life in exchange for a perpetuall banishment to the Isle of Man where he was to continue Prisoner directing his Letters Patents to William le Scrope Earl of Wiltshire who then had the dominion of that Isle and to Sir Stephen le Scrope Knight bearing date at Westminster 12. Oct. in the xx year of his
ever after found yet by his Cote of Arms discovering who he was they might have been buried together the state and lustie of whose equipage in that journey may in some sort be discerned by his Painters bill which I have here from the Original transcribed having with him a peculiar Officer at Arms called Warwick-Herauld who had a grant from him of an Annuity of x. Marks Sterling per annum Thes be the parcels that Will. Seburgh Citizen and Peyntour of London hath delivered in the monthe of Juyll the xv yeer of the reign of Kyng Harry the sixt to John Ray Taillour of the same Citee for the use and stuff of my Lord of Warwyk Ferst CCCC Pencels bete with the Raggidde staffe of silver pris the pece v. d. 08. l. -06 s. -00 Item for the peynting of two Paveys for my Lord the one with a Gryfon stondying in my Lordis Colours rede white and russet pris of the Pavys 00-06-08 Item for the other Pavys peyntid with blak and a Raggid staffe bete with silver occupying all the felde pris 00-03-04 Item one Cote for my Lordis body bete with fine gold pris 01-10-00 Item other two Cotes for Herawdes bete with dymy gold pris the pece xx s. 02-00-00 Item iii. Baners for Trumpetis bete with dymy gold pris the pece xiii s. iiii d. 02-00-00 Item iiii Spere shafts of reed pris the pece xâ—i d. 00-0â—-00 Item one grete Burdon peynted with reed 00-01-02 Item 1. nother Burdon ywrithyn with my Lordis Colours reed white and russet 00-02-00 Item for a grete Stremour for the Ship of xl yerdis length and viii yerdis in brede with a grete Bere and Gryfon holding a Raggid staffe poudrid full of raggid staves And for a grete Crosse of S. George for the lymmyng and portraying 01-06-08 Item a Gyton for the Shippe of viii yerdis longe poudrid full of raggid staves for the lymmyng and workmanship 00-02-00 Item for xviii grete Standards entretailled with the Raggid staffe pris the pece viii d. 00-12-00 Item xviii Standardis of worsted entretailled with the Bere and a Cheyne pris the pece xii d. 00-18-00 Item xvi othir Standardis of worsted entertailled with the Raggid staffe pris the pece xii d. 00-05-04 Item 3. Penons of Satyn entreteylled with Raggid staves for the lymmyng full of raggid staves pris the pece ii s. 00-06-00 Item for the Cote armour bete for George by the commandement of my Lord pris 00-06-08 But he safely arrived though not without much difficulty and continued in that high imployment till his death which hapned about 4. years after as I shall shew anon using this title in his Charters Ric. de Beauchamp Comes de Warrewyk de Aumarle seign L'isle Capitayne de Roven Having thus manifested the chief of his publick imployments I now come to speak of those pious works which for his Souls advantage he either performed himself in his life time or by his Will appointed that his Executors should do Of the first was the foundation of that Chantry at Guy-Cliff in 9. H. 6. whereof I have there spoke at large but the rest being left to his Executors performance viz. to perfect the building at Guyes-Cliff the building of that magnificent Chapel in honour of our Lady adjoyning to the Collegiat Church in Warwick where his Monument now is of which I shall speak more fully there the amortizing of Lands for the maintenance of 4. more Priests and 2. Clerks in the said Collegiat Church over and above the number there before and of Lands to the value of xx Marks per ann to his Colledge at Elmley for the maintenance of one more Priest to be added to the number at that time there By his said last Will and Testam bearing date at Caversham in Oxfordsh 8. Aug. An. 1435. 15. H. 6. which is very memorable he appointed that first and in all haste possible after his decease there should be five thousand Masses said for his Soul Next his debts to be truely and wholly paid Then that untill the Chapel above specified were finisht his body should be laid in a Chest of stone before the Altar on the right hand of his fathers Tomb in the said Collegiat Church of Warw. afterwards removed thither where he ordained 3. Masses every day to be sung as long as the world might endure one of our Lady with Note according to the Ordinale Sarum The 2. without Note of Requiem The 3. also without Note viz. the Sunday of the Trinity the Munday of the Angels the Tuesday of S. Thomas of Canterb. the Wednesday of the Holy-ghost the Thurâ—day of Corpus Christi the Fryday of the Holy Crosse the Saturday of the Annunciation of our Lady for performance of which he appointed xl l. Lands per ann over and above all reprises to be amortized viz. for every of the four Priests above specified x. Marks per ann and for every Clerk v. Marks and x. Marks to be divided amongst the said four Priests and other six Vicars of the Colledge to increase their yearly salary viz. to each of them xiii s. iiii d. And besides this that his Executors should treat with the Abbot and Covent of Tewksbury and agree that in their Monastery his Obit might be yearly kept as also one Masse sung every day there for his Soul which to be the first if it might be if not the last To the Collegiat Church of Warwick he gave an Image of our Lady in pure Gold there to remain for ever in the name of a Heriot and appointed that his Executors should cause four Images of Gold each weighing xx li. to be made like unto himself in his Coat of Arms holding an Anker betwixt his hands and so to be offered and delivered in his name viz. one to the Shrine in the Church of S. Alban to the honour of God our Lady and S. Alban another to the Shrine of S. Thomas at Canterbury the third at Bridlington in Yorksh. and the fourth at the Shrine in the Church of S. Winifride at Shrewsbury And moreover that a goodly Tombe of Marble should be erected in the Abby of Kingswood in Com. Glouc. upon the grave of Eliz. his first wife as also restitution made for any wrong done by him and his servants to be rewarded To Isabell then his wife he gave all the silver vessel bedding and houshold stuffe that he had with her and over and above all that and whatsoever else she had since they were married two dozen of silver dishes xii Chargers of silver xii saucers of silver a pair of Basyns covered silver and gilt four other Basyns of silver four Ewers of silver xii pieces of silver of one sort with his Arms enameled on the bottom of them likewise the great Paytren bought of the Countesse of Suff. sometime belonging to the Earle of Salisbury and to his Son Henry the Cup of Gold with the dance of men and women
All Saints accordingly an sc. 1128. 29. H. 1. And united and annext the Churches above specified unto this Colledge of our Lady to be possest by the same Dean and Canons for their own proper behoof as also by Thomas Archb. of Canterbury commonly called St. Thomas by Pope Eugenius the 3. Adrian the 4. King H. 1. and other succeeding Bishops Canonicus Secularis Little can I say touching this sort of Canons for as much as they were no other than Priests and called Secular in regard they performed the Offices of such in serving the world by administring to lay people upon all occasions whereas those as lived Regularly did not so do Neither had they their diet or lodging in common like the Monks and Regular Canons but habitations apart and their maintenance several by distinct shares called Prebendaries assigned unto them as those in our Collegiate and Cathedral Churches even till these times used to have their habite not differing as by this here represented from an ancient Monumental Portraiture in brasse still remaining upon a Marble in the body of this Church may be seen Of which kinde were those that before King Edgar's time had got footing in divers of our Monasteries but through the advice of St. Dunstan â— and power of that devout Monarch were ejected and the Monks again restored consonant to the minde of their pious founders Much ado there was betwixt the Dean and Canons of this Church and the Prior of S. Sepulchers in Warwick the said Prior making claim to a right in this Parish but these differences were at length determined by Pope Adrian the 4. about the beginning of K.H. 2. reign and the right therein adjudg'd to the said Dean Canons all which was afterwards confirm'd by other Popes and Bishops In 8. E. 3. T. de Beauchamp Earl of Warwick out of the great respect he bore to this Collâ—dge of Priests gave them the perpetual advouson of the Church of Pillerton-Hercy in this County which was approriated thereto for augmentation of their maintenance in An. 1341. 15. E. 3. But such was the regardlesness of the rights belonging to this Church by those that had to do in the government thereof that in processe of time it received no small losse by the alienation of a great part of its possessions till Will. Wirleseâ— B. of Worcester afterwards Archb. of Canterbury moved thereto by the said Earle restored unto it the greatest part of those ancient rights which before it had howbeit by that Instrument it appears that whereas the Pâ—iory of S. Sepulchers in Warwick was founded where the Churches of S. Sepulchers and S. Helens stood and that the Church of Gretham in Rutland had been very anciently appropriated to the said Priory of S. Sepulchers in consideration whereof the Canons of that House perpetually found at their charge one Sub-Deacon to serve in the said Collegiate Church there was an impossibility of restoring them thereto As also whereas the Churches of S. Iohn S. Michaell S. Laurence S. Peter and S. Iames all standing within the Precincts of this Town whereof the most wanted Church-yards for Sepulture and the rest were grown ruinous there was no necessity at all of repairing them forasmuch as this Collegiate Church had capacity sufficient to receive all the inhabitants coming thereto and the Church-yard spacious enough for to bury their dead that from thenceforth they should constantly come to this Church there to make their Processions and hear Divine service as heretofore upon Sundays and Festivals in acknowledgement of subjection thereto it being the mother Church they had used to do and have sepulture in the Church-yard there in regard that by this Decree and Constitution all other places within the compasse of this Town except the Church Church-yard of S. Nicholas were thenceforth prohibited from having any Ecclesiastick burial in them Which Decree and Constitution whereby also several Pensions are assigned out of the revenews belonging to the Colledge for the Canons-resident differing in proportion from the non-resident bears date at Hertlebury 24. Dec. An. 1367. 41. E. 3. After this divers eminent persons became Benefactors thereto viz. Sir Will. Beauchamp Knight a younger son to the before specified Earle who in March 15. R. 2. gave the advouson of the Church of Spellesbury in Oxfordsh for augmentation of their maintenance to the intent that they should pray for the good estate of K. Ric. 2. Q. Anne his consort and for their Souls after their departure out of this world as also for the good estate of him the said Sir Will. and Dame Ioane his wife during this life and for their Souls afterwards together with the Souls of the said Kings Progenitors his own Ancestors and all the faithfull deceased which Church was appropriated thereto 18. Martii the same year And in April following Thomas B. then E. of Warw. elder brother to the said Sir Will. considering that this Coll. Church so founded by his noble Ancestors was not sufficiently endowed did for the good estate of the said K. and Q. of himself and the Lady Margaret his wife Sir Will. Beauchamp his brother and Dame Ioane his wife as also of all their children during this life and for their Souls after their departures out of this world together with the Souls of their Progenitors Ancestors and all the faithfull deceased bestow upon the said Dean and Canons and their Successors in further enlargement of their maintenance half an Acre of Land in Haselore with the perpetual patronage of that Church a quarter of an Acre of Land in Wolfhamcote with the advouson of the Church both in this County and a quarter of an Acre of Land in Wytlesford in Cambridgesh with the advouson of that Church which said Churches were appropriated accordingly viz. that of Wytlesford in Dec. following that of Haselore in Oct. 18. R. 2. and that of Wolfhamcote in Nov. 19. R. 2. And upon the Feast day of S. Michael 18. R. 2. did the before specified Sir Will. Beauchamp then stiled Lord Bergavenny give further to this Coll. Church half an Acre of Land in Chadsley-Corbet in Com. Wigorn. with the advouson of the Church to be appropriated thereunto to pray for the good estate of himself and Dame Ioane his wife Tho. E. of Warwick his brother Margaret his wife as also for their Children during this life and for their Souls after their departure hence which Church was accordingly appropriated in Octob. following And notwithstanding all this the said Earle thinking their endowment too slender by his Charter bearing date 20. Sept. 19. R. 2. gave thereunâ—o his Mannour of Haseloure in this County And not onely perfected the work of that stately Quire begun by his Father in the mid'st whereof his said fathers and mothers Monument doth stand but built anew the whole body of the
De presepe Domini columpna ad quam fuit ligatus quando fuit flagellatus De petra super quam fuit vinctus post mortem De sepulchro S. Catherinae Virginis De genu S. Georgii de petra super quam sanguinavit in martyrio suo De ossibus S. Brendani De facie S. Stephani De veste capillis S. Mariae Magdalenae De rupe in qua S. Anna jacet De capillis beati Francisci De vestimento S. Agnetis De velo tunica beatae Clarae De reliquiis S. Ceciliae I now come to that fatall Survey in 26. H. 8. the fore-runner of its dissolution whereby I finde that the yearly revenues belonging thereto were then certified to be CCCxxxiiii li. ii s. iii. d. ob Out of which was allowed w per ann to the Dean for his stipend 26. li. -13 s. -04 d. To Iohn Watwood one of the Prebends called S. Peters 13-06-08 To Iohn Fisher another of the Prebends called S. Iohn Bapt. 13-06-08 To David Vaughan another of the Prebends called S. Laurence 02-00-00 To Thomas Leason another of the Prebends called S. Michaels 02-00-00 To Robert Wythington another of the Prebends called S. Iames. 02-00-00 To Robert Hoole Curate of this Parish Church 06-13-04 To ten Priests which were Vicars dayly serving in the said Collegiate Church 07-06-08 a piece To six Choristers 02-00-00 a piece The yearly Obits kept in this Church for which also there were several allowances were these Of Thomas Beauchamp the father and Thomas his son both Eaâ—ls of Warwick Of Margaret Countesse of UUarwick wife to the last Thomas Of Ric. Beauchamp E. of Warw. Of Ric. Duke of York Of Rich. Nevil Earle of UUarwick Of K. Henry 7. Of Walter Power and of William Peito As also of Iohn Young Raph Power Thom. Rowse Will. Launder Iohn Allestre and Iohn Acreman which last mentioned six were Ecclesiastick persons as it seems Henry Grey Marquesse Dorset being then high Steward of the said Colledge having an annuity of xl s. per ann Patroni Decanatus Decani Will. de Bellocampo Co. Warw. Magr. Will. de Apperleg 7. Id. Dec. 1296. Guido de Bellocampo Co. Warw. Mr. Rob. Tankard Pbr. 6. Id. Iulii 1306. Guido de Bellocampo Co. Warw. Rob. de Geryn accol post resign Ric. de Alencester ult Decani 18. Cal. Septemb 1314. Thom. de Bellocampo Co. Warw. Magr. Thom. de Lench Cler. 10. Feb. 1338. Thom. de Bellocampo Co. Warw. D. Nich. Southam Pbr. 1. Dec. 1361. Thomas de Bellocampo Co. Warw. Thom. Younge Cler. 27. Sept. 1395. Ric. de Bellocampo Co. Warw. D. Ioh. Porter Cap. 10. April 1432. Firmarii dom Regis c. terr Ric. Comit. Warw. D. Rob. Cherbury Cap. 4. Maii 1443. Nobilis praepotens D. Ric. Comes Warw. D. Will. Berkeswell 15. Dec. 1454. Nob. praepotens Ric. Co. Warw. Sarum Mr. Ioh. Southwell 11. Martii 1469. D. Episcopus Mr. Edm. Albone in medicinis Dr. Pbr. 17. Oct. 1481. Ric. Rex Angl. ratione minoris et Edw. Com. Warw. Mr. Ric Brakenburgh 18. Maii 1485. Henr. 7. Rex Angl. ratione Comitatus Warwic in manu sua exist Mr. Will. Stokdal S. Theol. professor 13. Iulii 1498. Henr. 7. Rex Angl. ratione Comitatus Warwic in manu sua exist Edw. Haseley Cap. 10. Dec. 1498. Henr. 7. Rex Angl. ratione Comitatus Warwic in manu sua exist Mr. Rad. Colingwode S. Henr. 7. Rex Angl. ratione Comitatus Warwic in manu sua exist Theol. prof 29. Maii 1507. Henr. 8. Rex Angl. ratione supra Mr. Ioh. Allestre Cler. 22. Aug. 1510. Henr. 8. Rex Angl. ratione supra Mr. Ioh. Knyghtley Cler. 15. Maii 1542. But this Collegiate Church with many more being dissolved in the Parliament of 37. H. 8. was the same year inter alia granted out of the Crown by Letters Pat. bearing date 15. May to the inhabitants of Warwick by the name of the Burgesses of Warwick and their Successors Here was one only Chantry founded by Rob. Waldene of Warwick in 2. H. 4. for a Priest to sing Masse dayly at the Altar of S. Anne for the good estate of Henry 4. then K. of England Margaret Countesse of Warwick Richard her Son then E. of Warwick and Eliz. his wife and of him the said Robert and Elene his wife during this life as also for the Souls of Thomas Beauchamp late Earle of Warwick and of Alice sometime wife of the said Rob. Waldene and likewise for the Souls of their Children Ancestors and all the faithfull deceased for the maintenance of which Priest he gave C. iiii s. iiii d. yearly Rent issuing out of divers messuages lâ—ing in Warwick Mâ—ton Longbridge Lee Bereford and Preston-Bagot all in this County Inscriptions upon the Bells in this Church 1 2 Vox domini Iesu Christi vox exaltationis 3 Aeternis annis resonat Campana Iohannis 4 Isabel Beauchamp first founded me 5 Trinitati sacra fiat haec Campaena beatae 6 Dat sonitum plenum Ihesus modulamen amoenum Ihesu have merci on me Isabell. About the skirt thereof 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Having in my Story of the Earls represented their Monuments which are within this Church Quire and our Lady Chapell I shall here exhibite the residue now remayning with such monumentall Inscriptions as be yet undefaced In the body of the Church upon Marble grave-stones with plates of brasse Hic iacent Willielmus Hopkins quondam burgensis ville Warwici qui obiit vii die Februarii Anno Domini M. CCCCliiii Et Margareta uxor eiusdem que obiit xiii die Februarii Anno Domini MCCCCli quorum animabus propitietur Dens Amen Hic iacet Ricardus Ellyn bocher quondam burgensis magister Oplde istius ville qui obiit ii die mensis Martii Anno Domini M. CCCClxvi Cuius anime propitietur Deus Amen Hic iacet Magister Iohannes Stonys quondam Canonicus istius Ecclesie ac Rector de Hanslap Bukby qui obsit xliii die Augusti Anno Domini M. CCCClxxxvi cuius anime propitietur Deus Amen Orate pro animabus Benedicti Medley et Agnetis uxoris tius Hic iacet Dominus Iohannes Walker Capellanus Cantarie gilde qui obiit vicessimo primo die Augusti Anno Domini M. CCCC nonagessimo primo cuius anime propitietur Deus Amen Hic iacet Ricardus Bothe quondam burgensis Warwici Et Alicia uxor eins quorum animabus propitietur Deus Amen Hic iacet Dominus Oliverus Alwode quondam Canonicus istius Ecclesie as Rector de Ilmyndon Bukbroke qui obiit ii die Novembris Anno Domini Millesimo CCCCxxxxi cuius anime propitietur Deus Amen Near the Belfrey-dore Quae fuit Edmundi conjux Prior Elizabetha Gregorii gentis Radclifforum edita stirpe Fratris Appollinea clari doctoris in arte Hìc placidè fatis defuncta in pace quiescit Mille novem demptis Christi numeravimus
Antiquary Iohn Rous of whom I have spoke in Guy-Cliffe who built a Library over the South porch of this Church and dyed 14. Ian. Anno 1491. 6 H. 7. And lastly the no less famous in his kinde Thomas Cartwright whom Mr. Cambden calls inter Puritanos ante signanus and whom the Earl of Leicester who bore such a sway in those days thought it no small policy to court his party in this Realme being so considerable insomuch as he made him Master of the Hospitall then newly by him here founded But before I further proceed with my Monumentall matters in this Church give me leave to digress a little in relating briefly the occasion that moved this Cartwright to broach those Tenets so much tending to the disturbance of the Churches peace as from credible tradition I have heard Being of Trinity Colledge in Cambridge where Doctor Whitgift was Master he made suit to be one of the disputants before Queen Elizabeth at her entertainment in that University and was admitted so to be but missing of such applause and advancement which he thereupon expected and apprehending that the Doctor had been his back-friend he quitted the Colledge and going beyond Sea wrote against him in a Schismaticall manner Of which writings I shall say no more than what the learned Whitaker in few words expresseth Quem Cartwrightus saith he speaking of his second Reply nuper emisit libellum ejus magnum partem perlegi ne vivam si quid unquam viderim dissolutiùs ac penè pueriliùs Verborum satis ille quidem lautam ac novam supellectilem habet rerum omnino nullam quantum ego judicare possum Deinde non modò perverse de Principis in rebus sacris atque Ecclesiasticis authoritate sentit Sed in Papistarum etiam castra transfugit à quibus tamen videri vult odio capitali dissidere verùm ne in hac causa ferendus aliis etiam in partibus tela à Papistis mutuatur Denique ut de Ambrosio dixit Hieronymus verbis ludit planèque indignus est qui à quopiam docto confutetur And I have been told from good authority that the reverend Bishop Andrew's observed that this Cartwright was the first that in the Church of England began the way of praying ex tempore before his Sermon which some call by the spirit From the body of the Church I next come to the Quire On the North side of this Quire towards the upper end lyeth interred William Parr Marquesse of Northampton as by his atchievements viz. coat of Armes Sword Shield Helme and Crest which I have seen there hanging appeareth but forasmuch as there is no Monumentall Inscription I have here transcribed what Mr. Cambden in his Annals of Q. Eliz. Anno 1571. hath said of him Supremum vitae diem hoc anno placidè egit Guliemus Parrus Marchio Northamptoniae amaenioribus studiis musicis amatoriis ceterae Aulae jucunditatibus versatissimus qui ab Henrico octavo primùm ad dignitatem Baronis Parr de Kendalia deinde ad nuptias Annae Bourcheirae Comitis Essexiae unicae haeredis simul ad Comitis Essexiae titulum cum Rex ejus sorerem duxisset atque ab Edwardo sexto ad Marchionis Northamptoniae stylum honorem provectus Sub Maria quòd pro Jana Greja Regina subornatae arma sumpserit Majestatis damnatus ab eadem tamen mox condonatus ad patrimonium ut postea ab Elizabetha ad honores restitutus Liberos genuit nullos sed Henricum Herbertum Pembrochiae Comitem ex altera sorore nepotem reliquit haeredem Monumentall Inscriptions Hic facet Katerina primogenita nobilis viri Domini Thome de Belloc impo quandam Comitis Warwici qui facet humatus in aula australi istius Ecclesie que obiit in Festo Concentionis beate Marie Uirginis Anno Domini Millesimo CCClxx octavo An Epitaph upon the death of M rs Eliz. Chowne who died the last day of August 1597. Here lyes Elizabeth twice happy wife Of two good vertuous men blest from above With both Io ' without both a godly life Till seventye five she lived in perfect love Resting a widow eight and twenty yeares Loving to see her dearest issue wed Before her God in glory she appears Her corps feed wormes her soule by Christ is fed Anno aetatis suae 75. Memoriae sacrum Ceciliae Puckering filiae natu secunda Thomae Puckering Militis Baronetti quae Xpo desponsata obiit 9. die Aprilis An. Do. 1636. aetatisque suae 13. ANAGRAMMA Mistres Cissely Puckering I sleepe secure Christ's my King Death's terrors nought affright mee nor his sting I sleepe secure for Christ's my soveraigne King Epitaphium Birth breeding beauty grace and carriage sweete In thee dear Saint did altogether meete The Sunne ne're saw a comlier face then thine Nor heaven receiv'd a spirit more divine Thrice happy parents such a childe to breede Begott again of God's immortall seede Cease sorrowing then sith Saints and Angels sing To see her match't with an eternall King Memoriae Sacrum Thomae Rous filii natu quarti Thomae Rous de Rous-Lench in Comitatu Wigorniae Baronetti qui primis aetatis suae obiit nono die Septembris Anno Domini 1645. Our Lady Chapell ON the South side and adjoyning to the Quire of this Church stands that stately and beautifull Chapell dedicated to the honour of the B. Virgin the fabrick whereof was begun by the Executors of Richard Beauchamp Earl of Warwick according to the appointment of his Will in 21 H. 6. and perfected in 3 E. 4. together with that magnificent Tombe for the said Earl inferior to none in England except that of K. H. 7. in Westminster Abby the charge of all which came to no less than 2481 li. -04 s. -07 d. ob as by the particular accompts appeareth but to how vast a sum such a piece of worke would have amounted to in these days may be easily guest by that great disproportion in the prizes of things now from what they were then the value of an Oxe being about that time xiii s. iv d. and of a quarter of bread-corne iii s. iv d. That the beauty of this goodly Chapell and Monument through the iniquity of later times is now much impaired all that have seen it may easily discern and thereby guess at the glory wherein it once stood to such therefore would there be no great need to say more thereof but for the satisfaction of others I have here thought fit to insert a brief of the Covenants betwixt the said Executors viz. Thomas Huggeford Nich. Rodye and Will Berkswell and the severall Artists that were employed in the most exquisite parts of its fabrick and ornaments as also of the costly Tombe before specified bearing date xiii Iunii 32 H. 6. Iohn Essex Marbler Will. Austen Founder and Thomas Stevyns Copper-Smith do covenant with the said Executors that they shall make forge and worke in
from Iohn Carpenter then Bishop of Worcester Besides this goodly Tombe of Earl Richard which in the story of his life I have accurately represented there are in the same Chapell these following Monuments viz. of Ambrose Dudley Earl of Warwick Robert Dudley Earl of Leicester and of Robert his son who dyed young as doe here follow Here under this Tombe lyeth the corps of the Lord Ambrose Duddeley who after the deceasses of his elder brethren without yssue was sonne and heir to John Duke of Northumberland To whom Queen Elizabeth in the first year of her raigne gave the Mannor of Kibworth-Beauchamp in the County of Leyc to be held by the service of being Pantler to the Kings Queens of this realme at their Coronations Which office Mannour his said father other his Ancestours Earles of Warwick held In the second yeare of her raigne the said Queen gave him the office of maister of the Ordinance In the fourth yeare of her said raigne she created him Baron L'â—sle and Earle of Warwick In the same yeare she made him her Lieutenant generall in Normandy and during the time of his service there he was chosen knight of the noble order of the Garter In the twelveth year of her raigne the said Earle and Edward Lord Clinton Lord Admirall of England were made Lieutenants jointly and severally of her Majesties Army in the North parts In the thirteenth year of her raigne the said Qu. bestowed on him the Office of chief Butler of England And in the xv th yeare of her reign was sworn of her privy Councell Who departed this life without issue the xxi th day of February 1589. at Bedford house neer the Citty of London from whence as himself desired his corps was conveyed and interred in this place Neare his brother Robert Earle of Leicester and other his noble ancestors which was accomplished by his last Will and welbeloved wife the Lady Anne Countesse of Warr. who in further testimony of her faithfull love towards him bestowed this Monument as a remembrance of him John Dudley esquire second sonne to John Lord Dudley and knight of the Garter marryed Elizabeth daughter and heire of John Bramshot Esquier and had issue Edmund Duddeley Edmund Duddeley Esquire one of the privy Councell to king Henry the 7 â—h married Elizabeth sister and sole heire of John Grey Viâ—ount L'sle descended as heire of the eldest daughter and coheire of Richard Beauchamp â—â—wl in Warwick and Elizabeth his wife daughter and hèir of the Lord Berkley and heir of the Lord L'ysle and Ties and had issue John Duke of Northumberland John Duke of Northumberland and Earle of Warwick Vicount L'isle and knight of the Garter marryed Jane daughter and heire of Sir Edward Guildford knight and Elianore his wife sister and coheire to Thomas lord la Warre and had issue the said Lord Ambrose The said Lord Ambrose Dudley marryed to his first wife Anne daughter and coheire of William Whorwood esquier Attorney generall to King Henry the eight The said Lord Ambrose married to his second wife Elizabeth daughter of Sir Gilbert Taylbois knight sister and sole heire of George Lord Taylbois The said Lord Ambrose after he was Earl of Warwick marryed to his third wife the Lady Anne daughter to Francis Earle of Bedford Lord Russell and knight of the Garter DEO VIVENTIUM S. SPE CERTA resurgendi in Christo hîc situs est illustrissimus Robertus Dudleyus Johannis Ducis Northumbriae Comitis Warwici Vicecomitis Insulae c. filius quintus Comes Leicestriae Baro Denbighiae Ordinis tum S. Georgii cùm S. Michaelis eques auratus Reginae Elizabethae apud quam singulari gratia florebat Hippocomus Regiae Aulae subindè Seneschallus ab intimis Conciliis Forestarum Parcorum Chacearum c. citra Trentam summus Iusticiarius Exercitus Anglici à dicta Regina Eliz. missi in Belgio ab anno M.Dlxxxv ad annum M.Dlxxxvii Locum tenens Capitaneus generalis Provinciarum confederatarum ibidem Gubernator generalis Praefectus Regnique Angliae Locum tenens contra Philippum ii Hispanum numerosa Classe exercitu Angliam Anno M. Dlxxxviii invadentem Animam Deâ— servatori reddidit Anno Salutis M. Dlxxxviii die quarto Septembris Optimo charissimo marito moestissima uxor Leticia Francisci Knolles Ordinis S. Georgii equitis aurati Regiae Thesaurarii filia amoris conjugalis fidei ergò Posuit It now remains that I take notice of what else I have found worthy of note in relation to this Chapell and not already publiquely known which is that Sir Henry Nevill Kt. son and heir to George Nevill Lord Latimer by Eliz. the third daughter to the noble Earl Richard before remembred who dyed in his fathers life time was here interred at the head of the said Earl as appears by the Testament of the Lady his widow daughter to Sir Iohn Bourchier Lord Berners who also bequeathed her body to be here buried And to the intent that the Dean and Canons of this Coll. Church should devoutly pray for her soul and for the soul of her said husband and all Christen people departed she gave unto them two Gowns of blew Velvet wherewith to make a Vestment and Copes so far as they would reach to be used in the same Colledge one of which gowns belong'd to her said husband And direrected that if those two gowns would not suffice to make a Chesiple two Tunicles a Cope with Altar clothes and frontell that then her Executors should buy as much plain blew Velvet as might compleat the same for to serve to the Altar in the said Chapell And farther appointed that her said Executors should find a Priest to sing in the said Chapell for her soul and the soul of her said husband and all Christen people deceased for the space of three years next ensuing her decease And to this Church she also bequeathed her Crysome gown of fine thred and lawn to be disposed of for a Corporas Other memorable Legacies which she gave by this Testament were these viz. a Ring of gold with a table Diamond to be offered at the Shrine of S. Thomas of Canterbury in the honour of God and that blessed Martyr To her brother Sir Humfrey Bourchier Knight a Ring of gold with a flower de Lyce of Rubyes To her brother Thomas Bourchier an Ouch of gold made like a trunk with a Dyamond two Rubies and two Pearles To Dame Eliz. Lady Wells her sister a flower of gold with a Ruby and two half Pearls To her son the Lord Latimer her wedding Ring To the Parson of S. M. Magd. at old Fish-street end a Cruse of silver and to Thomas Nevill her son her great Primmer Of which Testament she constituted Executors Sir Iohn Bourchier Knight Lord Berners her father Dame Margery his wife her mother Thomas Bourchier her brother and Iohn Bradshaw the same bearing date 2. Octob. Anno 1470. 10 E. 4. and proved the
amounted then to C s. per ann but had a Church-yard and Ecclesiastique sepulture In 22 R. 2. it was appropriated to the said Collegiat Church of our Lady a Pension of iii s. iv d. per ann being thereupon reserved to the Bishop and his successors out of it and in 26 H. 8. valued at iii li. vi s. viii d. per ann which sum the Dean and Canons of the said Collegiat Church then received Patroni Incumbentes c. D. Episc. auctoritate Diocesana Gilb. de Kyneton Cler. 10. Non. Feb. 1282. Canonici Eccl. B.M. Warw. Gilb. de Kington Subdiac 14. Cal. Dec. 1283. D. Episc. Henr. de Olney Cap. 6. Id. Nov. 1322. D. Adam de Herwynton Canon Praeb Eccl. Coll. B. M. Warw. Thom. de Burneby Cler. 9. Kal. Iunii 1325. D. Adam de Herwynton Canon Praeb Eccl. Coll. B. M. Warw. Will. de Walsh accol Non. Oct. 1338. Praebendarius de Comptox Adam Coriate Pbr. ..... 1339. Ioh. de Bokyngham Praeb Ioh. Roer Pbr. 15. Iunii 1357. Praebendarius de Compion Murdak Ric. de Broughton Pbr. 27. Aug. 1380. The Church of S. Iames being originally but a Chapell and founded over the West gate of this town was given to that of our Lady by Roger Earl of Warwick upon the making thereof Collegiate by him in King Henry 1. time as I have already shewed And in 41 E. 3. was presentable by the Dean and Canons of the above recited Colledge but being at that time void as it had been for many years had no more revenue than xx s. per ann belonging to it and neither Church-yard nor Ecclestique sepulture In 6 R. 2. the advouson thereof was bestowed on the Gild of S. George in Warwick whereof I shall speak anon Patroni Incumbentes c. Will. de Bellocampo Comes Warw. Thom. de Beoleg Pbr. 3. Id. Iunii 1294. Thom. de Bellocampo Com. Warw. D. Will de Benynton Pbr. 22. Iunii 1330. Thom. de Bellocampo Com. Warw. Rob. Sotemay Pbr. 27. Iulii 1339. Thom. de Bellocampo Com. Warw. Philippus Bosse Pbr. 18. Maii. 1340. Thom. de Bellocampo Com. Warw. D. Walt. de Ulnehale Cap. 20. Martii 1342. Thom. de Bellocampo Co. Warw. Ioh. de Harwode Pbr. 19. Iunii 1374. Thom. de Bellocampo Co. Warw. Ric. Colet Pbr. 12. Sept. 1374. Thom. de Bellocampo Co. Warw. Hugo de Pykton Cler. ult Dec. 1378. The Priory FRom hence I come to the Priory of S. Sepulchers situate on the North side of this town on a most pleasant ascent the Foundation whereof was begun by Henry de Neuburgh the first Earl of Warwick after the Conquest in K. H. 1. time the occasion thereof being by the recourse of divers Pilgrims in great devotion to the Holy Land the Christians prevailing much about that time who solicited this Earl to erect a Monastery in imitation of those Canons Regular there instituted in the Church of the Holy Sepulcher of our blessed Saviour which Canons used the like habite that other Regular Canons did adding onely a double red Cross upon the brest of their Cope this being the first House of that peculiar Order either in England Wales Scotland or Ireland But after the destruction of Hierusalem again which hapned in Anno 1188. 35 H. 2. almost all the Houses of this Rule began to decay so that then the Religious persons of this Order betook themselves to solicit and implore the aid of good people for help to regain the Holy Land having power to bestow great Indulgences upon those that were bountifull thereto their habite being then chang'd to a gray Cloake and the Prior going with a Pastorall staff howbeit all their endeavours for regaining the Holy Land at last comming to nothing their lands and revenues were transferred to the Order of Friers of the Holy Trinity for redemption of Captives touching the first Institution whereof I have spoke in Thelesford Canonicus Regularis S. Sepulchri The Church of Snitfield given by Hugh fil Ricardi Certain lands lying betwixt Tunstall and Stochull near Warwick by Geffrey de Vinea A stone-house and some particular ground in Warwick by William the son of Gilbert Nutricius Those grounds called Levenhull situate on the Northwest side of Warwick by Robert de Morton in 29 H. 3. One yard land in Lighthorne confirm'd i by Nigell de Mundevill which his father gave when he bequeath'd his body to sepulture here Certain lands in Upton by Thomas de Arden The Church of Hasele confirm'd by Thomas de Cherlecote Lord of Hasele having been given by some of his Ancestors Certain lands in Solihull by Sir William de Odingsells An annuity of 50 s. by Margery de Nerburne given out of Austrey in this shire Certain lands in Claverdon by Ela Longespe Countess of Warwick which she gave for the health of her soul and for the soul of Thomas Earl of Warwick her husband William Earl of Salisbury her father Ela her mother VVilliam and Richard her brothers and Ida her sister sometime wife of VValter fil Roberti Besides all these there belong'd thereto five Mess. one carucat of land and x s. x d. yearely Rent lying within the parish of S. Clements-Danes in the suburbs of London together with the advouson of the said Church of S. Clements all which the Prior and Canons of this House exchanged away unto VValter Stapleton Bishop of Exeter to the use of his Bishoprick for eight acres of land in Snitfield before specified with the advouson of the Church in 17 E. 2. Which Church they had then License to hold appropriate to them and their successors and did accordingly so that it seems the former title they had thereto by the grant of Hugh fil Ricardi either was not good or else they had aliened it away soon after It also seems that much of the lands they had here at Warwick was antiently Common for by an Inquis taken 9 H. 8. I find that they had inclosed foure hundred acres here and depopulated one mess. whereunto eighty acres belonged But over and above these lands had they sundry liberties and priviledges granted to them by King Henry 2. and Richard 1. and confirm'd by King Hen. 3. and Edw. 3. so great an esteem had they of that Order as the Preamble of King Henry 3. Charter implies scil pro reverentia S. Dominici Sepulchri And by the Survey taken in 26 H. 8. it appears that besides the Rectories of Snitfield and Haseley above specified there belong'd to this Monastery the Church of Gretham in Com. Rutl. antiently of the Earl of Warwick's advouson though when given thereto I am not very certain all which with the rest of its possessions lying in Warwick Hatton Claverdon Church-Lawford Austrey Snitfield Pinley Solihull and Fenni-Compton were then rated at no more than
except Kings Kings sons or any of the blood royall of France or any of the principal Commanders of the French Kings Army bearing the arms of France or of the Constables or Marshalls of France or those which were Actors in or consenting to the murther of Iohn D. of Burgoin At that time he bore his own paternal Coat quarter'd with Langley viz. Arg. a Fesse sable with 3 pellets in Cheif and for his Crest upon a Torse a pair of wings as is to be seen by the impression of his Seal In 15 H. 6. he was Shiriffe of this County and Leicester-shire and the next year following had a special Patent exempting him from the office of Shiriffe Escheator Coroner or any other as also from serving on Juries which favour the K. granted to him in recompensationem bonorum obsequiorum quae fidelis miles noster Will. Peito nobis in guerris nostris altâ—er impendit adhuc impendet as the words thereof do import In 17. H. 6. being again retained to serve the K. in his Warrs of France and Normandy for halfe a year where the said K. or his Councel there or his Lieutenant or Governour in that Realm or the Dutchy of Normandy should think most fit he was to have 50 men at Arms and 210 Archers well and sufficiently mounted armed and arrayed and in consideration thereof 2 s. per diem wages for himself 12 d. per diem for each of his men at Arms with the reward accustomed and 6 d. for his Archers as also the benefit of all Prisoners as upon his former retainer which Indenture bears date 25 Maii the same yeare After which viz. in Iune following he shipt over his forces with divers other retained in like sort and mustered by Sr. Io. Montgomery K. Io. Stanlaw Treasurer of the Dutchy of Normandy â— and Ric. Curson Esquires and being thus honourably employed spared not his own purse for advancement of the Ks. service as the large summes of mony taken up on trust for which Sr. Will. Mountfort Kt. Iohn Curson Esq Sr. Iohn Gresly Kt. Will. Lucy Rob. Franceys and Iohn Pultney Esq stood engaged with him in Statute a merchant do manifest Of this Sr. William I further find that he was Lieutenant generall of the Marshallship of France under the famous Iohn Talbot E. of Shrewsbury in An. 1448. 27. H. 6. and Captain of the Bastile before Diepe but was there taken prisoner by the French and put to ransome himself at a very great Fine for raising whereof he had the Ks. License to mortgage this Lordship of Chesterton with those of Sow and Wyrley before specifyed and in 30 H. 6. pawned them to Sr. Drew Barentine Kt. Walt. Mauntell and others for 390 li. In a Grant of his that I have seen he stiles himself Guillaume Peto chivalier maistre d'ostell de treshaut puissant Prince Mons. le Duc de Somerset general Governeur en France et Normandy But after this misfortune befell him at Diepe I have not observed any thing very notable of him so that 't is like he retired from those publike services He married Katherine the daughter of the before specified Sr. Iohn Gresly Kt. about the 4 of H. 6. and departed this life in 4. E. 4. leaving issue Iohn his Son and Heir then 30 years of age who in 32 H. 6. wedded Elianor the daughter of Rob. Mantfeld and had livery of his lands in 7 E. 4. at which time the K. respited his Homage The next year following he payd 8 l. Releife to the K. for this Mannour held by grand Sergeanty to keep the Forrest of Canok as I have already said But of him I have seen nothing further memorable than that he rebuilt the antient Mannour house of this Lordship as the Armes in a great Canton Window of the Hall which I have in pag. 377. represented do shew and that he dyed on the Even of the blessed Virgins Assumption 3. H. 7. leaving issue Edward his Son and Heir then 30 years of age which Edward had to wife Goditha the daughter of Tho. Throgmorton Esq and departed this life at Throgmorton in Com. Wigorn her fathers house as it seems for 〈◊〉 Fladbury which is the parish Church to it he lieth buried as his Monument whereof this is a true shadow witnesseth having issue Iohn 9 years old and upwards and a younger sonn called Peter a Cardinall in Q. Maries daies Which Iohn being thus in minority was committed to the tuition of Rob. Throgmorton his Uncle but afterwards had 2 wives first Anne the daughter of Ric. Cooke and secondly Margaret daughter to Sr. Iohn Baynham Kt. and left issue Iohn who married Anne the daughter of Sr. Iohn Ferrers of Tamworth Castle about the 33 of H. 8. Which Iohn dyed 11 Sep. 5 6. Ph. M. leaving Humphrey his Son and Heir then 26 years of age who in 1. M. married Anne the daughter to Basill Fielding of Newnham Esq and in 27 Eliz. dyed To whom succeeded Will. and to him Sr. Edward c. as the Pedegree before inserted sheweth Within the Precincts of Chesterton was there another Mannour whereof one Gilbert le Harpour dyed seized in 32 E. 1. but whether this was that proportion that belong'd originally to the Monks of Coventre in the Conquerors time or that which Henry de Feriers then held whereof I have already spoke or both is hard to say Evident it is that one Geffrey le Brune possessed certain lands here in H. 2. time and had a Daughter named Constance wedded to Henry del Broc from which Henry descended the same Gilbert le Harpour but the said land did not all come to him by her for it apears that Brune bestowed part of it on the Templars and that Ieffrey Fitz-Stephan the first Master of the Temple here in England in H. 2. time by the common consent of the rest of that Order in this Realm here at London gave that part so bestowed on them to the said Henry and Constance and their Heirs paying to the Knights Templars and their Successors 20 s. per Ann. Howbeit the rest that Brune had here descended as I conceive to the said Constance For I find that Rob. fil Odonis at that time Lord of Herberbury confirmed it unto the said Henry and Constance to enjoy as freely as the same Brune held it the extent thereof being 4 Messuages and 4 yard land and held of his Heires by the service of 20 s. payable at the Annuntiation of our Lady and St. Michael the Archangell by even portions Hugo Harpur temp H. 1. Hugo le Harpur temp H. 2. Rob. le Harpur tenuit Brocton in Com. Wig. Saherus le Harpur de Stoke Rog. le Harpur Gilbertus le Harpur Hugo Gilb. le Harpur temp E. 1. Isolda filia
which in the Conquerors Survey was certified to contain five hides and written Wasmertone there being then a Mill rated at xx s. At that time also it yeilded four Horse-load of Salt and a thousand Eeles per annum â— having woods of half a mile in length and two furlongs in bredth all being valued at lxx s. But in H. 2. dayes the Monks of Conventre past away this Lordship to Walter de Cherlecote of Cherlecote close by which grant was confirmed by K. R. 1. and King Iohn and enjoyed accordingly the greatest part of H. 3. time for in 36. H. 3. William de Lucy heir to the family of Cherlecote was certified to hold it of those Monks by the fourth part of a Knights fee but by some Agreement made with this William as it seems they got it again for in 41 H. 3. I find that they had Free-warren granted to them therein together with their other lands And in 51 H. 3. in that ample Charter whereby their possessions which they then peacebly enjoyed were confirmed to them it is amongst the rest there mentioned I am of opinion that the extent of the woods which by the Conq. Survey it was certified to contain were wholly in Packwood that being a member thereof and lying in the Wood-land In 7 E. 1. I find that the Monks of Coventre had two carucats of land here in demesn and xxii tenants holding xiv yard land at will and performing sundry servile labours in stead of Rent as Plowing Mowing Reaping making Hay and the like aswell at Coventre as here as also 3. Cottiers which payd some Rent in money and did some work according as the Prior should direct And fishing in Avon so far as their Lordship stretched As for the priviledge of having a Court-Leet here Gallows Assize of Bread and Beer Weyfs and the like which they had in all their Lordships I need not so particularly enumerate them having in Coventre fully shew'd that they were aâ—â—owed upon their claim in 13. E. 1. After the dissâ—lution of which Monastery this Lordship contâ—nued in the Crown but a short time for in 31 H. 8. the King by his Letters Patent dated 16. Apr. past it away to William Whorwoâ—d Esquier his Solicitor generall and to William Walter and Katherine his wife and their heirs which William Whorwood as it seems releas't his interest to the said William Walter for I find that William Walter of Wimbleton in Com. Surr. Esquier dyed seized thereof 10. Sept. 29 Eliz. from whom it came to Kath. one of the daughters of Sir William Walter Knight now the wife of Sir Simon Fanshaw Knight as in Binton is more fully manifested The Church dedicated to S. Iohn Bâ—ptist was antiently a Chapell belonging to Hampton Episcopi having always used to be presented to as a Vicaridge by the Parson of Hampton which Vicaridge in 26 H. 8. was valued at 5 l. per annum Patroni Vicariae Incumbentes Rector Ecclesiae de Hampton Episc. Galfr. de Hulle Cap. 2. Cal. Sept. 1279. Rector Ecclesiae de Hampton Episc. Will. dâ— Alâ—ewâ—ch Pbr. 2. Id. Iulii 1285. Rector Ecclesiae de Hampton Episc. D. Ric. de Stuford Cap. 7. Id. Dec. 1309. Rector Ecclesiae de Hampton Episc. Rog. Patthelow Pbr. 2. Maii 1339. Rector Ecclesiae de Hampton Episc. Henr. Dicon Pbr. 21. Iunii 1339. Rector Ecclesiae de Hampton Episc. D. Iâ—h de Pebworth 17. Sept. 135â— Rector Ecclesiae de Hampton Episc. Hen. Hynâ—es Pbr. 17. Iunii 1354. Rector Ecclesiae de Hampton Episc. Walt. Muleward Pbr. 10. Iunii 1357. Rector Ecclesiae de Hampton Episc. Ric. Purcas Cap. 12. Cal. Aug. 1367. Rector Ecclesiae de Hampton Episc. Ioh. Parkere Cap. 23. Oct. 1381. Rector Ecclesiae de Hampton Episc. Will. Stephens Pbr. 26. Ian. 1386. Rector Ecclesiae de Hampton Episc. Ioh. Repyndon Cap. 27. Iunii 1411. Rector Ecclesiae de Hampton Episc. Ioh. Hanne Cap. 3. Martii 1412. Rector Ecclesiae de Hampton Episc. D. Ioh. Bukley Cap. 17. Martii 1466. Rector Ecclesiae de Hampton Episc. D. Will. Lynne Cap. 26. Oct. 1475. Rector Ecclesiae de Hampton Episc. D. Thomas Lownde Cap. 20. Iunii 1505. Rector Ecclesiae de Hampton Episc. D. Ioh. Swanson 21. Sept. 1515. Rector Ecclesiae de Hampton Episc. Magr. Will. Palden in decr Bacc. 14. Iulii 1531. Rector Ecclesiae de Hampton Episc. D. Ioh. Pole Pbr. 17. Maii 1532. Rector Ecclesiae de Hampton Episc. D. Thomas Wylson Pbr. 17. Apr. 1543. D. Episc. per laps Hamo Leghe Cler. 8. Iulii 1581. Rector Eccl. de Hampton Episc. Will. Harvey Cler. 23. Apr. 1588. Upon a Gravestone in the Church is this Inscription Hic jacet Thomas Crosse quondam Firmarius de Wasperton qui obiit XIII die mensis Aprilis Anno D. MCCCClxxiii Cujus animae propitietur Deus Amen Hethcote THis is in the Parish of Wasperton but whether it was ever a Village or not I cannot affirm howbeit the appellation shews that there hath been a House at least the last syllable viz. Cote signifying as much And it is probable that the ground hath formerly been of a Heathy condition for so doth the first part of its name intimate though now by good husbandry it be of a better kind As it was originally a member of Wasperton so did it pass therewith from the Monks of Coventre to Walter the son of Thurstan de Cherlecote being confirm'd by King Richard 1. but in that grant it is called Terra de Hethcote so that it had not then the reputation of a Village It should seem that it came not to the Monks of Coventre again with Wasperton but was given by â—â—me of the Lucâ—es descendants of the before specified Walter de Cherlecote unto the little Monastery of Thelesford close by yet when or by which of them I have not seen Nether do I find more of it than that in 19 E. 1. it was certified that the Prior of Coventre had a portion of x s. per annum out of it which by the Inquis taken in 26 H. 8. doth appear to have been in lieu of Tithe-corn And that after the dissolution of the said House of Thelesford it was granted to Thomas Ardern and William Walter and to the heirs of William Walter by the name of five severall pasture grounds called Hethcote since which time it hath appertained to the posterity of the said Will. VValter as Wasperton hath done Lighthorne A Little below Wasperton Avon is somewhat increased with a torrent called Thelesford brooke which riseth in Lighthorne as the Map will shew Ascending therefore to the head of it I first come to Lighthorne In King Edward the Confessors days Raph Earl of Hereford was owner of this place who being ruined by VVill. the Conquerour as most of the English-men were it was bestowed with
other lands in this County upon VVilliam Buenvasleth a Norman and at the time of the generall Survey certified to contain five hides besides the Inclosure there being at that time a Grove containing two furlongs in length and xx perches in bredth all which were rated at vii li. But the direct time or manner how it came first to the family of Mundevile I have not yet discovered yet do believe it was very early that is to say in H. 1. time for in H. 2. days did Nigel de Mundevile confirm to the Canons of S. Sepulchers in Warwick a yard land lying in this Lordship which his father bequeathed to them with his body to be buried in that Monastery whose name as I take it was Ranulph de Munnevile for such a one lived in this County in H. 1. time and was a witness to that Charter of Earl Roger 23 H. 1. whereby he founded the Collegiate Church at Warwick as also to his grant of Salford to the Canons of Kenilworth about the same time And by what afterwards appears 't is most certain that Henry de Newburgh the first Earl of Warwick of the Norman line had these lands of VVilliam Buenvasleth by Agreement or otherwise and thereof enfeof't Mundevile together with Berkswell to hold by the service of one Knights fee for of a Knights fee was he enfeof't in H. 1. time and by the service of one Knights fee was Richard de Mundevile certified to hold this Lordship and Berkswell of the Earl of Warwick in 20 H. 3. in both which he had Free-warren granted to him as also in Thorp-Mundevile in Com. Northampt. by the Kings Charter dated at Clarendon 19 Nov. 37 H. 3. As for the name I find it variously written in antient Records viz. Leitethorne Littethirn Lichthirn Lythtehirne and in Domesday-book Listecorne where doubtless some Letters are mistaken for I am confident that the last syllable should be hirne which in our old English signifies a corner and by what I guess at the former syllable viz. Lich which is the same with Cadaver I suppose that it had originally its name from some sepulture of dead bodies there Of these Mundeviles I shall say more in Berkswell because that was their seat the beforespecified Richard being the last of them that had to do in this County for in 6 E. 1. he past away his interest in the reversion of these Mannours to VVill. Beauchamp Earl of Warwick reserving onely an estate for life to himself and Maud his wife and the longer liver of them in consideration whereof the said Earl granted to them his Mannour of Brayles to enjoy during that terme In 7. E. 1. it appears that the said Richard and his wife so held it for life and that there was then a certain Park here containing four acres and five carucats of land held by the Lord in demesn as also xxi Tenants holding ten yard land and a fourth part performing sundry servile works and ...... Freeholders holding two yard land and a half under certain Rents and doing suit to his three weeks Court And likewise that what the Canons of S. Sepulchers in Warwick had here was then held by Freeholders paying severall Rents After which viz. in 13 E. 1. the beforespecified Richard de Mundevill challenged a Court-Leet here with Assize of Bread and Beer by Prescription but it being found that the King was in possession of those liberties he was amerc't for that claim Which Richard and his wife were dead before the 29 E. 1. as it seems for by the Inquis taken after the death of Maud de Beauchamp widow to VVilliam de Beauchamp Earl of Warwick I find that she dyed seized of this Mannour Guy de Beauchamp Earl of Warwick her son and heir being then of full age Upon the death of which Guy scil 9 E. 2. it was inter alia assigned to Alice his Countess in dower and after the attainder of Thomas Beauchamp Earl of Warwick in 22 R. 2. given by the King to Thomas Holland Duke of Surrey But the deposition of King R. 2. shortly after ensuing annihilated that grant so that in 2 H. 4. the said Earl dying seized thereof it was assigned to Margaret his Countess as part of her dower and continued to the successive Earls till it came to the Crown with the rest of their lands as in Warwick I have shewed After which I find that King H. 8. made a Lease of it in 21. of his reign for xxi years to Roger Wigston Esquier and in 36. by his Letters Patent dated 9. Apr. in consideration of 536 li. 18 s. 11 d. sold it to Sir Thomas Pope Knight and his heirs together with the advouson of the Church and the next year following granted to him the said Thomas and his heirs all the lands lying within this town and formerly belonging to the Priory of S. Sepulchers at Warwick which are at this day possest by his descendant viz. Sir Thomas Pope of Wroxston in Oxfordshire a younger son to the late Earl of Downe In anno 1291. 19 E. 1. the Church dedicated to S. Laurence was valued at xxvi marks and in 26 H. 8. at xv li. vi s. viii d. Patroni Ecclesiae Incumbentes Guido de Bellocampo Comes Warw. Magr. Henr. de Hampton Pbr. 15. Cal. Iulii 1307. D. Rex ratione custodiae terrae haered Guidonis Com. Warw. Ioh. de Asheberghe Cler. 10. Cal. Maii 1327. Thomas de Bellocampo Co. Warw. D. Will. de Chilmersh Diac. 4. Iulii 1331. Thomas de Bellocampo Co. Warw. Ioh. de Blockley Pbr. 7. Aug. 1349. Thomas de Bellocampo Co. Warw. Rob. Childe Cap. 1. Dec. 1382. Henr. Rex Angliae ratione minoris aetat Ric. filii haered Thomae Com. Warw. VVill. Kydermyster 18. Iulii 1402. Ric. de Bellocampo Com. Warw. Thomas Taylard Cap. 19. Iulii 1431. Attornati Ricardi Comitis Warw. D. Ioh. Nowell Cap. 13. Martii 1437. D. Henr. 6. Rex Angl. Thomas Canke Cap. 23. Iunii 1460. Henr. 7. Rex Angliae VVill. Benet Cler. 19. Aug. 1494. Henr. 7. Rex Angliae D. Alanus Hynske 6. Aug. 1501. Leonardus VVorsley gen ratione advoc sibi concess per D. Regem D. VVill. Benet Pbr. 21. Apr. 1541. Thomas Pope miles D. Ioh. Vernam Pbr. 20. Apr. 1548. Will. Pope de Wroxton in Com. Oxon. ar Rad. Lees Cler. 24. Ian. 1602. In a South window of the Chancell these Armes Chequy Or and Azure a Cheveron ermine old Earls of Warwick Gules a fesse betwixt 6. Crosse Croslets Or. Beauchamp E. of Warw. Of these Incumbents Iohn de Blockley in 37 E. 3. intended the foundation of a Chantry here and to have endowed it with lands of good value as may seem by the return of a Writt of Ad quod dampnum to that purpose but I do not discern
his learning and holiness of life that divers eminent Prelates came to be his assistants at his first Masse in the performance whereof at the Elevation of the Host an Angell cloathed in white appeared before him bearing a Crosse of red and blew upon his brest having also his hands a Crosse layd upon the heads of two slaves that kneeled down by his side From which time God revealed unto him how he would be served in the foundation of a new Religious Order inciting him to leave all his goods to forsake the present world and to retire himself into the Desart which he accordingly did and distributing all that he had to the poor resorted to an holy Anachorite called Foelix de Valois who lived in an Hermitage within the Dioces of Meaux six leagues distant from Paris called Cerfroy in Latine Cervus frigidus in regard that there at the foot of a little hill was a fair clear and cold Fountain within which a white Hart used to come for refreshment Which two devout Hermites began within this solitary place an Order of the holy Trinity for the Redemption of Captives about the year of grace M. CXCIV where they continued for the space of three years living in great austerity from any company of men and being on a day in Prayer were inspired of God to goe to Rome there to declare their intentions to his Holiness and to receive from his hands the Habit and Rule of the Order which they desired to institute for the better effecting whereofâ— they had Letters testimoniall from the Bishop of Paris making mention of the vision which the said Iohn de Matta had at the time that he first celebrated Masse When they came to Rome they were courteously received by Pope Innocent the 3. who forthwith celebrating the holy Masse on the 28. of Ian. being the Octaves of St. Anne did at the time of his elevation of the Host behold the like vision of an Angell cloathed in white as aforesaid with two Captives chain'd whereof the one was a Christian the other a Moore After which he assembled his Cardinalls and made known what he had seen and sent for the Anachorites declaring also to them that the Spirit of God did conduct them to those their designes and that he was the onely Author of the Order they would institute whereupon he gave them white Robes with a Crosse red and blew as on the following page is to be seen declaring to them the mystery of his vision scil the white Robe representing the candour of an innocent life and the purity of conscience The three colours scil of the habite and Crosse signifying the three persons of the holy Trinity the white the Father Eternall the blew which was the traverse of the Cross the Son in his Passion and the red the Charity of the holy Ghost and the two Prisoners bound and fettered had relation to the redemption of Captives appointing that this Institution should be called The Order of the holy Trinity for the Redemption of Captives and that all the possessions which they should enjoy might be equally divided into three parts viz. the one for the entertainment and reception of Religious persons the other to relieve the poor and the third to redeem Christians kept Captive by the Infidells Trinitarianus Having signified thus much as to its Foundation I will now enumerate the severall Benefactors that the Canons of this Priory had beginning with the posterity of the pious Founder whereof Fouk de Lucy his grandchild was the first who gave them leave to inclose a way which interposed betwixt the Church of Teflesford and their habitation To him succeded Sir William de Lucy Knight which William gave them liberty to inclose two acres of land lying neer to their House and joyn them to the Court thereof as also a certain parcell of ground called the Hay lying at the head of those two acres along by the brook called Theulisforbrok so far as the breadth of those two acres extended In Bereford much was given thereto scil by Alice the wife of Walter de Bereford and daughter to Reinbald de Cherlecote five yard land By Philip de Kynton a good proportion which he had purchased of Henry de Bereford and others By Henry de Bereford the Church of Bereford and certain lands within that Lordship By Wâ—ll de Nasford sometime Lord of Bereford the fishing in Avon from Le-Milne to his own Mill poolâ— with liberty to make a Pâ—und upon their land at Bereford to keep in such cattell as should trespass upon them as also three yard land called the Free hide exempr from Warth and Scutage and all secular services and to have free ingress and egress to and from the Câ—mâ—on of pasture at Bereford for their cattell By Richard Malore son to VVilliam Malore of Kirkby in Leicester-shire certain lands in the same Kirkby with the advouson of the Church as also the Chapells of Shilton and Pakinton in that County By VVilliam Putot a yard land with a messuage and 4. acres lying in Ashorne in consideration whereof he and his tenants were to be quitted from paying any small Tithes for their lands in Newbold as also of Chircheset By VVilliam de Odingsells certain lands lying within his Lordship of Solihull at a place called Hundeshale By VVilliam de Beauchamp Earl of Warwick three parcells of errable land the one called Cley-pits the second Morecroft and the third Ferny-furlong with Common thereto belonging when the fields are open By Roger de Cherlecote all his lands and tenements in Hethcote viz. from Godewyneschich above Hethcote along to Newbold brook and from the torrent which runneth through the midst of Hethcote to Newbold brook in bredth unto the way leading from Newbold towards Warwick Divers petty grants of sundry others for brevity I omit Which endowments by severall persons so conferred enlarged the revenues belonging to this Monastery so much as that the Canons built their Church a new about the beginning of Edward 1. time as may seem by the Consecration thereof upon the day of the translation of S. Thomas the Martyr Anno 1285. 13 E. 1. which was solemnly performed by Godfrey Giffard the reverend Bâ— of Worcester who then preacht upon this Text there Domus tua decet c. The Benefactors that it afterwards had were these In 28 E. 3. Thomas Lucy then Lord of Cherlecote and Philippa his wife who gave certain lands in Cherlecote to these Friers that they should celebrate divine service and pray devoutly for the soul of VVilliam de Clinton sometime Earl of Huntingdon as also for the souls of them the said Thomas and Philippa In 18 R. 2. Sir VVilliam Lucy Knight Roger Straunge and Iohn Vicar of the Church of Wellesburne gave unto them one meâ—s xl acres of land and vi acres of meadowâ— lying in Ashorne and Newbold-Pacy and in 7 H.
great and speciall considerations the gift of an Clx li. bestowed upon him by the King out of the profits of this County and Leicestershire being the same year made Shiriff of these Counties In 20 E. 4. I find that he was a Knight In 1 H. 7. created Knight of the Bath at the Queens Coronation In 6 H. 7. constituted one of the Commissiâ—ners of Array in this County for setting forth men in defence of the Realm against Charles the 8. King of France then threatning an invasion thereof being also in Commission for Conservation of the Peace in this Shire at the same time In 7 H. 7. he quitted to the Canons of Thelesford those liberties which he and his Ancestors used to have in Thelesford viz. Toll Tack Stallage and Bloodshed as in Thelesford I have shâ—wed And by his Testament bearing date 2. Iulii anno 1492. in the same 7 year of King H. 7. bequeathed his body to be buried in the Chancell of the Parish-Church of Stratford super Avon â— in this County To eight Churches next adjâ—yning to Cherlecote viz. Hampton Wasperton Bereford Newbold Wellesburne Loxley Alveston and Shirburne he gave vi s. viii d. a piece To the reparation of the high Altar in the Church of Cherlecote vi li. xiii s. iv d. and an acre of his demesn lands in Cherlecote to be for ever at the disposition of the Church-Wardens there for the behoof of the same Church To the House of Thelesford for the observation of his Exequies xl s. To the Nuns of Pinley for the like xl s. To the Canons and Vicars of the collegiate-Collegiate-Church in Warwick for the like xx s. To the Warden and Priests of Stratford for the like xx s. And constituting Sir Edward Raleigh Knight Robert Throkmorton and Thomas Breton Esquiers his Executors departed this life 3. Iulii the same year leaving issue Edmund his son and heir 28. years of age with William Henry and Humfry his younger sons and Mary a daughter And of the Lady Alice his widow I find that by her Testament dated ult Sept. 1494. 10 H. 7. she bequeathed her body to sepulture within the Chancell of the said Collegiate Church of the Holy Trinity in Stratford super Avon before the high Altar on the left side her said husband To the before specified Sir William succeeded the said Edmund Lucy his son and heir by Margaret his first wife which Edmund was a Commander in King H. 7. Army at the battail of Stoke â—uxta Newark in the second year of that Kings raign and in Aprill 7. H. 7. retained by Indenture to serve the said King in his Warrs for one whole year with two men at Armes having with him his Custrell and his Page and three Demilances xxx Archers on foot and vi Bills of good and able persons taking for himself and his men at Armes xviii d. per diem wages for his Demilances ix d. per diem and Archers and Bills vi d. per diem this being the time that King Henry took his voyage into France and besieged Bulloin till a truce was taken In 10 H. 7. 20. Sept. â—e had Summons amongst divers others of great qualâ—â—y to atâ—end the King in person upon the Feast day â—f All Saints the same year ready fitted to be made Knight of the Bath with Henry the Kings son who was also to be at the same time created Duke of Yorke But it seems he did not accordingly appear for in Aprill following his Testament bears date wherein he is stiled Esquier by which Testament he bequeathed his body to be buried in our Lady Chapel within the Monastery of Thelesford on the North side of his mother Margaret Lucy To the said House of Thelesford he bequeathed a Crosse of silver and gilt of ten pounds value to be bought by his Executors Fourty marks he appointed to be spent and given on the day of his buriall by the hands of his Executors to Priests Clerks and poor people And also willed that at his Months mind xii poor men holding Torches should have each of them a black Gown and hood and iv d. in money Likewise that his Anniversary should be kept at Thelesford for the space of xx years after his death and xl s. spent thereat for Dirige overnight Masses and to poor people He further willed that one Priest of the same Order of those at Thelesford should sing in the said Chapell for his soul for the souls of Iane his wife and Sir William Lucy Knight his father and all Christen souls by the space of six years next after his decease And that the same Priest should have yearly for so doing during the said six years 8. marks to be payd by the hands of his Executors And that a Marble stone of 7. foot in length and 4. foot in breadth with the Armes of himself and his wife and their portraictures together with an Inscription might be laid upon his grave Of which Testament he constituted Sir Reginald Bray Kt. a great man in that time to be Supervisor When he dyed I am not certain but the Probate thereof bears date 19 Maii anno 1498. 13 H. 7. By Iane his wife he left issue Thomas one of the Sewers to K. H. 8. in the first year of his reign which Thomas had by the Ks. Letters Pat. bearing date 21. Sept. the same year the custody of all the lands belonging to George Catesby of Ashby-Legers in Com. Northampt esq then deceased to hold during the minorâ—ty of Will. Catesby his son and heir and took to wife Eliz. the widow of the said George daughter to Sir Ric. Empson of Easton-Neston in that County This Thomas was a Knight in 6 H. 8. but how long before I am not certain and in 16 H. 8. Shiriff of this County and Leicestersh By his Testament bearing date ult Iulii 17 H. 8. he bequeathed hâ—s body to be buried in the Gray-Friers at London appointing that within a year after his decease there should be a stone laid upon his grave with the portraiture of himself his Lady and children and his Armes at the 4. corners thereof as also such an Inscript as his Executors should devise to the intent that good people might have remembrance to pray for his soul and all Christen souls for those are his words He also willed that a Priest should be found by his said Executors to say Mâ—â—tâ—â—â—nd to pray for his soul in the parish-Parish-Church of Cherlecote or Ashby for the space of 3. whole years after his decease and left issue by the sayd Eliz. 3. sons Will. Thomas and Edmund and 3. daughters scil Anne Radegund and Barbara To Thomas he gave the Mannour of Cleybrook in Com. Leic. and to the heirs male of his body with remainder to his son Edmuâ—d to whom he bequeathed â—he Mâ—nnours of Bekering and Sharpenho
in Seginho and Richmont in Bedfordsh with remainder to his son Thomas for want of â—ssue male of the said Edmund and departing this life on the 3. of Sept. 1525. 17 H. 8. was buried before the Altars in the Gray-Friers Church before specified which Church is yet standing and now commonly known by the name of Christ-Church near Smithfield in the Suburbs of London but if you look there for his Tombe stone it is not to be found For of Cxiv persons that were buried there whereof Iohn Stow makes mention reciting the name of each that had a Monument amongst which is Margaret daughter to Philip K. of France and wife to K. E. 1. Isabell wife to K. E. 2. Ioan Q. of Scotts daughter to K. E. 2. with divers of the English Nobility and other persons of speciall quality and in particular the name of this Sir T. Lucy there is not now one to be seen And if you desire to know what is become of their Tombes hearken to what the same Author says viz. All these and five times so many more have been buried there whose Monuments are wholy defaced for there were ix Tombes of Alabaster and Marble inviron'd with strikes of iron in the Quire and one Tombe in the body of the Church also coped with iron all pulled down besides Cxl. grave-stones of Marble all sold for fifty pounds or thereabouts by Sir Martin Bows Goldsmyth and Alderman of London Thurstanns de Cherlecote Rog. de Cherlecote 7 R. 1. Thomas de Cherlecote 7. H. 3. Tho. de Cherlecote 51 H. 3. Rob. de Hasâ—le 30 E. 1. Ioh. de Hasele de Whitnash 36 E. 3. Ric. de Hasele 36 E. 3. Henr. de Cherlecote Rog. cogn de Witele Walt. de Cherlecote miles 5. Ioh. Cecilia Ysab. filia Magistri Absolonis de Aldermoneston Will. cogn de Lucy 1 H 3. Matilda soror cohaeres Ioh. Cotele Williel de Lucy 34 H. 3. Amicia filia haeres Will. de Furches Fulco de Lucy obiit 31 E. 1. Domina Petronilla Will. de Lucy miles aet 26. an 31 E. 1. Elizabetha 2 E. 2. Will. de Lucy jun. 15 E. 2. Eliz. relicta 28 E. 3. Thomas de Lucy 25 E. 3. Philippa ux 2. 28 E. 3. Will. de Lucy miles 5 R. 2. Thomas Lucy miles obiit 3 H. 5. Alesia soror haeres Will. Huggeford 1 H. 5. Ric. Archer 2. maritus 3 H. 5. Will. Lucy obiit 6 E. 4. Alianora filia Reginaldi D. Gray de Ruthin Will. Lucy miles obiit 7 H. 7. Alesia ux 2. obiit 10 H. 7. Maria ux Ioh. Densell Will. Lucy 10 H. 7. Edw. Lucy Margareta filia Ioh. Brecknock thesaur Regis H. 6. Edm. Lucy aet 28. an 8 H. 7. Iohanna 9 H. 7. Radegunda Edm. Tho. Lucy miles ob 17 H. 8. Eliz. filia Ric. Empson mil. relicta Georgii Catesby ar Edm. Lucy Thomas Lucy Will. Lucy ar ob 5 E. 6. Anna filia Ric. Farmer ar Edm. Timoth. Will. Ric. Tho. Lucy factus miles 7 Eliz. Jocosa filia haeres Thomae Acton ar Thomas Lucy factus miles 36 Eliz. obiit 1 Iac. Constantia filia haeres Ric. Kingsmill Franc. Lucy Will. Lucy S. Theol. Dr. Ric. Lucy eq aur de Broxburne in Com. Bedf. Tho. Lucy miles obiit 7. Dec. 1640. Alicia filia haeres Thomae Spenser de Claverd ar Fulco Thomas Georgius Ric. Lucy Rob. Lucy Spenser Lucy ob s. p. Const. ux Will. Spenser eq aur Marg. ux Briani Broughton ar Elizab. Maria. Jana Martha Jocosa Anna. Radegunda Barbara Anna 10 H. 7. .... ux Galfr. fil Rob. Lascells Eliz. filia haeres Guidonis filii Roberti 25 E. 3. Galf. de Lucy 48. H. 3. Of William Lucy son and heir to the said Sir Thomas I find that he wedded Anne the daughter of Richard Farmer esquier and dyed ...... 5 E. 6. leaving issue Thomas his son and heir afterwards a Knight Richard William Timothy and Edward and these daughters viz. Alice Mary Iane Martha and Ioyce which Sir Thomas in 1 Eliz. built the House here at Cherlecote of brick as it now stands But of his descendants I shall need to say no more than what the Pedegree here inserted together with their Monumentall Inscriptions do shew That which I have else to take notice of relating to this place is that it is one of the towns whereof our Countreyman Rous temp Edw. 4. complained of for Depopulation And that the Church in H. 1. time being a Chapell of Wellesburne was by Simon Bishop of Worcester then confirmed to the Canons of Kenilworth having been annexed to the said Church of our Lady in Wellesburne by Henry de Newburgh the first Earl of Warwick of the Norman line as appears by the Confirmation thereof made by William Earl of Warwick grandchild to the same Henry in H. 2. time What agreement was made touching it with the said Canons of Kenilworth by the Cherlecotes who were antiently Lords of this Mannour as I have shewed hath not yet appeared to me but some such thing there was for otherwise could not William de Lucy Founder of the Monastery of Thevelesford in H. 3. time have given the advouson thereof as he did to the Canons of that House It seems there was a portion of xx s. per annum then reserved to the Priory of Kenilworth for so much doe I find that they had out of this Chapell in anno 1291. 19 E. 1. In 14 E. 1. it was valued at 4 marks And by a Certificate upon an Inquisition taken in 12 H. 7. it appears that upon the grant thereof to the said House of Thelesford by William de Lucy before specified it was appropriated to that Monastery but that Robert Prior in E. 1. time gave the right of Presentation to the Vicaridge unto Fouk de Lucy then Lord of Cherlecote and his heirs with whom it continued till about the beginning of H. 7. time that Sir Will. Lucy Kt. bestowed the same patronage upon the Canons of Thelesford and their successors Edmund his son and heir confirming the grant At the time of this Inquisition taken the Vicaridge was found to be of xii marks per annum value being endowed with all Oblations and Obventions Tith corne only excepted and that the Vicar there was lyable to find Bread Wine and Wax for the daily Celebration of Divine Offices and in every usuall Visitation to pay xii d. towards the expences of the Ordinary Patroni Vicariae Incumb tempt Instit. Fulco de Lucie Ioh. de Wilee Cler. 18. Kal. Dec. 1268. Fulco de Lucie Ioh. de Wyk Pbr. Id. Iulii 1285. Will. de Lucie Rob. de Syleby Pbr. 2. Id. Iulii 1306. Attornati Baldwini de Bereford mil. D. Rob. Pardu 11. Cal. Ian. 1366. Baldw. de Bereford miles Will. Manning
Pbr. 17. Oct. 1378. Baldw. de Bereford miles Ioh. Cook Pbr. penult Oct. 1386. Will. Lucie ar Will. Onne Cap. 17. Iunii 1431. Will. Lucie ar D. Thomas Buschebury Pbr. 2. Martii 1435. Will. Lucie ar D. Steph. Heyward Cap. 24. Nov. 1463. Will. Lucie ar D. Will. Smyth Cap. 26. Oct. 1475. Will. Lucie ar D. Tho. Suarte Cap. 12. Dec. 1483. Will. Lucie ar D. Will. Blamford Cap. 16. Febr. 1485. Minister Confratres de Thelesford Ioh. Wilson Confrater Domus de Thelesford 29. Iulii 1504. Minister Confratres de Thelesford Ioh. Brokeden Pbr. 23. Iun. 1515. Ric. Verney ar D. Eliz. Lucy ux ejus nuper ux Th. Lucy mil. defuncti D. Andreas Warburton Pbr. 24. Maii 1534. Tho. Lucie ar D. Nich. Smith Cler. 23. Iulii 1562. Tho. Lucy miles Ioh. Davies Cler. 21. Aug. 1577. Tho. Lucy miles Ric. Southam Cler. 25. Maii 1582. Thomas Lucy miles Mich. Wood Cler. 10. Aug. 1619. HERE ENTOMBED LYETH the Lady Ioyce Lucy wife of Sir Thomas Lucy of Cherlecote in the County of Warwick Knight daughter and heir of Thomas Acton of Sutton in the County of Worcester esquire who departed out of this wretched world to her heavenly kingdome the tenth day of February in the year of our Lord God 1595. and of her age lx and three All the time of her life a true and faithfull servant of her good God never detected of any crime or vice in religion most sound in love to her husband most faithfull and true in friendship most constant To what in trust was committed to her most secret In wisdome excelling in governing of her house and bringing up of youth in in the feare of God that did converse with her most rare and singular A great maintainer of hospitality greatly esteemed of her betters misliked of none unlesse of the envious When all is spoken that can be said a woman so furnished and garnished with vertue as not to be bettered and hardly to be equalled by any As she lived most vertuously so she dyed most godly Set down by him that best did know what hath been written to be true Thomas Lucy On grave stones of marble in the body of the Church Hic iacet Edmundus Wykham quondam filius Thome Wykham generost cuius anime propitietur Deus Hic facet Dominus Iohannes Marsker quondam Capellanus â—stius Ecclesâ—e cuius anime propitietur Dens Amen THOMAS LUCIE MILES AGRI VARVICENSIS DECUS ET DELICIAE antiquissimâ oriundus familiâ virtute nihil duxit antiquius quâ majoribus suis etiam perillustribus emicuit si fas dicere maâ—or illustrior Quantus extiterit in illum patria amor quanta illius in patriam pietas publica regni comitia quibus saepenumero popularis illum ardor inservit abundè perhibent Rei familiari splendidissimae nemo aut meliùs prospexit au minùs serviit promentibus indies liberalitate magnificentiâ quae frugalitas condiderat Patrem familias praestitit qualem perpauci Famulorum si quem morbus corripuerat ipse statim male habuit adhibuit medicum suis sumptibus restituit Qui pater in hero erga servos facile judices quid fuerit in patre erga suavissimam prolem in marito erga dilectissimam uxorem Mensae quae nunquam non opipera bonus quisque gratissimus accubuit praesertim si Theologiam sapuit musas imbibit quarum ipse sitientior dubium an scientior fuerit Musaeum cerâ—è animatum audiit Neque minus benigna pauperculis janua Cui samem omnibus eximenti qui vaâ—edixit etiam benedixit Multas operas praecipuè ne nihil agentes malè agerent quotidiè exercuit Multis opidulis etiam plaustra cibariorum quotannis transmisit Bellatorem equum qui apud illum plurimus et nusquam loci pluris nusquam generosior animi gratia saepiusculè pressit cui nisi callidiùs fuisset quam sibi moderatus nam equo intentior laesit intestina nondum ille quo fuimus foelices quo non alter fuit in terris foelicior fuisset in coelis foelicissimus Nobis autem occidit sibique exortus est Decembris viii anno Dom. M.DC. XXXX Aetatis suae Lvi ET ALICIA UXOR IPSIUS FILIA ET HAERES Thomae Spenser de Claverdon armigeri Cujus eximias virtutes prohibet hoc marmore quod nec illas capit nimia superstitis modestia Hoc solum patitur fuisse conjugis dum erat in vivis observantissimam posuisse mortuo hoc qualecunque monumentum factumque prae amore atque moerore uti cernis marmoreum A little below Cherlecote is Avon increased by the confluence of another Torrent which hath its rise from the Eastern side of this Hundred as the Map will shew But such is the hillynesse of that part wanting the like streames to water it which in most other places are to be seen as that the situation of the towns cannot be observed as elsewhere Taking notice therefore of them by those other eminent marks as may best demonstrate how 〈◊〉 wherein that mountanous tract called Edge-Hill will stand me in much stead I shall begin with Herdwick-Priors in which Parish are contained the Villages of Priors Merston and Shukborough-inferior Herdwick-Priors THis was one of those xxiv towns which Earl Leofrike gave to the Monks of Coventre in Eâ—ward the Confessors days when he founded that Monastery as in Coventre I have manifested and in the Conquerors Survey is certified to contain xv hides then valued at x li. In that Record it is written Herdwiche but touching the Etymologie of its name I need not here speak having already in Herdwick juxta Lemington delivered my opinion all places of the same denomination proceeding from the like cause There is not much to be said of this Lordship in regard that it continued to the Monks of Coventre so long as that Monastery stood which Monks had Free-warren granted to them in all their demesn lands here in 41 H. 3. viz 5. carucats as appears by that Inquis of 7 E. 1. the rest being held by Tenants whereof xxix were such as occupyed 17. yard land for which they payd certain particular Rents and performed divers servile duties Besides which Free-warren they had also at that time a Court-Leet and Gallows But after the dissolution of the Monasteries it was by the Ks. Letters Patent dated 25. Apr. 34 H. 8. granted unto Sir Edm. Knightley Kt. and to the heirs male of his body with remainder to Valentine Knightley his brother c. with Offchurch as I have there more fully shewed Which Sir Edm. dying 12. Sept. in the same 34. year of H. 8. without issue male his brother Valentine then a Knight became possest thereof who by a speciall Patent dated 4 5 Ph. M. had License to alien it unto Sir Iohn Spenser Knight and Edward Griffin Atturney generall to the Queen and their heirs
find that Nicholas the Son of Hugh de Fernberge in Ric. 1. time made a grant that in case it happened he should sell or pawn any of his lands to the Canons of Claâ—ercote or any other Religious House it might be no prejudice to the Church of this place in their Tithes arising out of any Cattell depasturing thereon And that Sir Thomas de Say Kt. in H. 3. time granted to Thomas de Wymundham then Parson thereof the homage and service of Will. de Williamscote uncle to him the said Sir Thomas and of his heiâ—s for 1. mess. and 1 yard land which he the said Will. held of him here in Farnborough In an 1291. 19 E. 1. this Rectory was valued at xi marks and in 11 E. 2. the advouson thereof was granted by Iordan de Say Lord of the Mannour unto Iohn de Ralegh and his heâ—rs After which viz. in 13 E. 3. I find that Sir Will. Shareshull Kt. purchased it of Thomas de Hulhampton Kt. and Margaret his wife but how they had Iohn de Rale's title therein I know not And the next year following granted it to the Canons of Lilshull in com Salop. and their Successors which Canons obtained an appropriation thereof from Roger de Northburgh Bishop of Cov. and Lich. 3 Non. Martii an 1345. 19 E. 3. the Vicaridge being endowed the xii Cal. of Dec. following and a Pension of v. sol per an granted to the Dean and Chapter of Lichfield and their Successors by the said Canons of Lilshull out of the fruits of the same Rectâ—â—y But the said endowment was made void as it seems for it appears that by an Instrument bearing date x. Kal. Iulii 1367 41 E. 3. upon a Petition exhibited to the Abbot of Lilshull by the Canons of that House setting forth how short their maintenance was the said Abbot by the consent and License of Rob. de Stretton then Bishop of Cov. and Lich. granted all the profits thereof unto them for augmentation of their dyet and clothing though what was thereupon reserved for the Vicar I have not seen which Vicaridge in 26 H. 8. was rated at C xii s. over and above viii s. allowed for Procurations and Sinodals Patroni Ecclesiae Incumbentes c. D. Episc. per lapsum Wâ—ll de Pichford Pbr. crast Apost Petri Paulâ— 1307. Gâ—lf de Cornwayl miles Petrus de Norton Pbr. 16. Kal. Maii 1323. Patroni Vicariae Abbis Conv. de Lilshull Ioh. de Waverton Cap. 2. Cal. Dec. 1345. Abbis Conv. de Lilshull Rog. de Wâ—â—thynton Cap. Id. Ian. 1352. Abbis Conv. de Lilshull Ioh. Morys Cap. 5. Id. Nov. 1361. Abbis Conv. de Lilshull Wiâ—â— Power Pbr. 4. Id. Nov. 1363. Abbis Conv. de Lilshull Râ—b de Kitton Pbr. Non. Martii 1364. Abbis Conv. de Lilshull Thomas aâ—â—e Nashe Pbr. 2. Aug. 1375. Abbis Conv. de Lilshull Hâ—go de Wardyngton Pbr. Non. Apr. 1367. Abbis Conv. de Lilshull Ric. Câ—lâ—e Pbr. 25. Nov. 1391. Abbis Conv. de Lilshull Ioh. Gâ—over Cap. 22. Nov. 1414. Abbis Conv. de Lilshull Thomas Alfoâ—th Pbr. 12. Maii 1427. Abbis Conv. de Lilshull Ioh. Stoke Cap. 8. Oct. 1432. Abbis Conv. de Lilshull Ioh. Kirge Pbr. 16. Apr. 1436 Abbis Conv. de Lilshull Ioh. Edwardâ— Pbr ..... 1440. Abbis Conv. de Lilshull Petrus Green Pbr. 17. Ian. 1443. Abbis Conv. de Lilshull Ric. â—ele 19. Dec. 1444. Abbis Conv. de Lilshull Ioh. Wesâ—ourne Pbr. 11. Dec. 1449. Abbis Conv. de Lilshull Wâ—ll Bradbury Cap. 22. Nov 1453. Abbis Conv. de Lilshull Ioh. Vlceby Cap. 28. Sâ—pt 1454. Abbis Conv. de Lilshull Hâ—nr Syddall Diac. 24 Maii. 1533. Abbis Conv. de Lilshull D. Hâ—go Lache Cap. 6. Dec. 1534. Dominus Rex D. Thomas Cotton Cap. 8. Iunii 1546. Symon Ralegh arm Thomas Rowley Cler. 4. Iunii 1569. Symon Ralegh arm Thomas Warde Cler. 23. Martii 1577. Symon Ralegh arm VVill. Hobson Cler 2. Iulii 1581. Edw. Ralegh miles Samps Gaâ—ge Cler. in art Bac. 6. Iulii 1620. Cancellarius Magistri Scolar Uuiversitatis Oxon vigorâ— Actus Parl. Tâ—om Gâ—stelow S. Theol. Bac. 6. Martii 1629. In the Church windows are no Arms by reason the whole fabrick hath of late times been rebuilt Mollington THere is but part of this town in Warwick-shire the rest lying in Oxford shire wherewith I am not to meddle That which is certified by the Conq. Survey to be in this County was then rated at v. hides which were valued at lx s. and possest by Osbernus fil Ricardi of whom in Aston Cantilupe I have spoke but before the Norman invasion belonged unto the Mother of Leuvinus de Niâ—ueham From the descendants of which Osbernus the one half thereof came to Iuliana de S. Remigio who bestowed it upon the Canons of Kenilworth about K. H. 2. time to whom it continued tâ—ll the dissolution of that Monastery but then coming to the Crown was purchased by Fouk VVoodhull Gent. in 37 H. 8. who had a grant thereof bearing date 12. Iunii the same year to himself and his heirs to hold in Capite by the xl th part of a Kts. fee paying x s. ix d. ob yearly Rent Which Fouk had issue Leonard and he Iohn that dyed seized of it 30 Ian. 30 Eliz. leaving Anthony his son and heir then of full age But the other part came to Thomas de Arden of Rotley or his Ancestor by grant from some of the descendants of the before specified Osbernus to hold by the half of a Kts. fee for by the Record of 36 H 3. it appeareth that Agnes Cagthelewe then held â—t of the said Thomas and he of Ricards-Castle From which Agnes it divolved to Alianore dâ— Claâ—e who in 1 E. 2. held it of the heirs of Ricards Castle by the like service and in 5 E. 3. dyed seâ—zed of it leaving Iohn her son and heir 22 years of age After which Iohn de Herdwike in 20 E. 3. held it by the third part of a Kts. fee at which time the Prior of Kenilworth's part answered for no more but in 13 R. 2. it went for half a Kts. fee as formerly Howbeit in 18 R. 2. Edm. Waldeyve was found to dye seized thereâ—f and that he held it in right of Margaret his wife as of her inheritance leaving Thomas his son and heir xiiii years of age But how to derive the title that these had from each other is past my skill except I had the sight of private evidence And as much am I to seek in the discovery of its succession till of late for after this till H. 8. time I have not seen ought else thereof neither then do I find any more but two Fines the one levied
being then held by Almarus of Turchill de Warwick and valued at C s. but before the Norman invasion it was the freehold of one Ordric In that Record it is written Roteleâ— and doubtless had its name originally from the redness of the soil all Edg-Hill being of the like colour which is the reason that the rich vally below is called the Uale of Red Horse as when I come to Tishoe shall be more certainly manifested That the possession of this Lordship continued to the posterity of the same Turchill the enjoyment thereof by Hugh de Arden his grandchild in H. 2. time plainly sheweth which Hugh was a Benefactor to the Monks of Stoneley by the gift of certain lands here as I shall have occasion to demonstrate when I come to speak historically of that family in Hemlingford Hundred So also was Thomas de Arden his nephew whose grant to them inter alia of three carucats of land here is by his own deed interpreted to be CCCxxx acres which Thomas held this Mannour of the Earl of Warwick by the service of a Knights fee But in 50 H. 3. I find it extended and valued at vi li. per annum For if not he his son Thomas was taken prisoner in the battail of Evesham fighting on the Barons part but by the Decree called Dictum de Kenilworth he repossest it again and in 7 E. 1. was certified to hold it of the Earl of Warwick by the service of a Knights fee having two carucates of land in demesn and a small piece of inclosure containing two acres as also the patronage of the Church and Free-warren together with xviii servants who held xi yard land of him under severall Rents and divers services It was then also found that the Monks of Stoneley held foure yard land here in demesn given to them by the Ancestors of the same Thomas which Thomas in 15 E. 1. in consideration of an C li. sold this Mannour excepting the Capitall messuage and Park to Nich. de Eton and and afterwards the same year by another Dâ—ed wherein he is stiled Thomas de Arden de Rotley miles past unto him and his heirs the said Mannour-house with the advouson of the Church whereupon the said Nicholas de Eton did his homage for the same to William de Beauchamp E. of Warwick at his Mannour-house of Beoley in Worcester-shire upon S. Stephens day the year following And having in 18 E. 1. obtained a Charter of Free-warren in all his demesn lands here did in 30 E. 1. entail it upon the issue of his body by Margerie his wife with remainder to his right heirs But all that I further find of this family is that Nicholas his grandchild was one of them whose name in 17. E. 2. was certified into the Chancery amongst the Knights and men at Armes then residing in this County by whose daughter Cecilie it came to the family of Warren as the descent here inserted sheweth Nich. de Eton 34 E. 1 miles 1 E. 3. Margeria Nich. de Eton miles dominus de Stocport 34. E. 1. Iohanna filia cohaeres Râ—c de Stocport mil. 34 E. 1. Nich. de Eton 1 E. 3. Cecilia haeres Isabellae filiae Ric. de Eton. Edw. Warren miles Ioh. Warren Rob. de Eton aliter dictus Stockport Isabella filia Ioh. Davenport militis relicta 46 E. 3. Ric. de Eton 26 E. 3 Isabella obiit sine prole Of which was Laurence Warren who in 21 H. 8. levied a Fine of it to Thomas Tropnell and others though to what uses I know not But it was not long after this that Iohn Warner purchased it for before the latter end of H. 8. reign I find that he was seized thereof and in 1 E. 6. a Fine was levied thereupon unto him by Francis Englefield Esquire and others From which Iohn Warner the present Lord of this Mannour is lineally descended The Church dedicated to S. Peter ad vincula was in anno 1291. 19 E. 1. valued at xvii marks It seems that Thomas de Ardern Lord of this Mannour in E. 1. time as I have shewed notwithstanding the grant he had made to Nicholas de Eton before mentioned past away his right in the advouson thereof to the Monks of Stoneley for so doth their publique Instrument whereby they gave it unto one Guy de Gyllebroke a Priest and his heirs import whereunto the said Thomas added his confirmation which Guy immediatly disposed of it to William de Beauchamp Earl of Warwick whose grandchild Thomas Earl of Warwick in 16 E. 3. conferred it on the Canons of Clatercote in Oxford-shire whereupon they obtained an appropriation thereof within two years following from Roger de Northburgh then Bishop of of Coventre and Lichfield who 8. Id. Apr. anno 1348. 22 E. 3. ordained the Vicaridge Which in 26 H. 8. was valued at vi li. x s. over and above viii s. per annum for Procurations and Synodals Patroni Ecclesiae Incumbentes Thomas de Arden miles Philippus de Sapelton Cler. anno 1251. Guido de Bellocampo Co. Warw. Philippus fil D. Ioh. de Clinton de Colshill 5. Apr. 1305. Guido de Bellocampo Co. Warw. Will. de Clinton Accol 2. Non. Martii 1309. Thomas de Bellocampo Comes Warw. Henr. De Grendon Clâ—r 11. Cal. Oct. 1330. Patroni Vicariae Prior Confratres de Clatercote Rob. de Newentham Pbr. 6. Id. Martii 1347. Prior Confratres de Clatercote Ioh. de Westwardyn Cap. 3. Non. Martii 1348. Prior Confratres de Clatercote Ioh. atte Bourne Pbr. 14. Apr. 1380. Prior Confratres de Clatercote Nich. Henry 8. Iulii 1398. Prior Confratres de Clatercote Ioh. atte Bourne Pbr. 7. Dec. 1398. Prior Confratres de Clatercote Thomas Wayte 13. Apr. 1404. Prior Confratres de Clacercote D. Will. Nicolus 8. Dec. 1414. Prior Confratres de Clatercote Will. Breton 29. Aug. 1424. Prior Confratres de Clatercote Thomas Bright Pbr. 12. Oct. 1429. Prior Confratres de Clatercote Thomas Deffâ—e Pbr. 2. Iulii 1430. Prior Confratres de Clatercote Ioh. Wyndesoever Pbr. 4. Iulii 1431. Prior Confratres de Clatercote Will. Henlaâ— Pbr. 13. Ianuarii 1433. Prior Confratres de Clatercote Ioh. Reynold Pbr. 18. Aug. 1435. Prior Confratres de Clatercote Thomas Reyâ—ford Pbr. 21. Apr. 1438. Prior Confratres de Clatercote D. Alex. Baron 18. Nov. 1457. Prior Confratres de Clatercote D. Oliverus Wiganne Cap. 18. Apr. 1505. Marg. Will. Peter lâ—gum Doctor D. Christoph. Sylbarne Cler. 4. Feb. 1538. D. Rex D. Henr. Lâ—ke alias Wise Cap. 14. Apr. 1546. D. Regina Elizab. Rob. Perry Cler. 13. Nov. 1578. Iacobus Rex Thom. Brandon alias Berryman Cler. 19. Feb. 1620.
Stafford as I have shewed there â—s cut upon the side of Edg-Hill the proportâ—on of a Horse â—n a very large forme which by reason of the ruddy colour of the Earth is called the Red Horse and giveth denomination to that fruitfull and pleasant Câ—untrey thereabouts commonly called The vale of Red Horse The Trenches of whâ—ch ground where the shâ—pe of the said Horse is so cut out being yearly scoured by a Free-holder in this Lordshâ—p who holds certain lands there by that service The Church dedicated to the Assumption of the B. Virgin beâ—ng given to the Canons of Stone by Rob. de Stafford grandchild to the first Robert who lived in the Conq. time was in an 1291. 19 E. 1. valued at xxx marks and appropriated to those Canons by Godfrey Giffard B. of Worcester in an 1294. 22 E. 1. and in 26 H. 8. the Vicaridge at x li. Patroni Vicariae Incumbentes c. Prior Conv. de Stanes Hugo de Bidulph Cap. 12. Cal. Maii 1249. Prior Conv. de Stanes D. Rob. de Codeshale Pbr. 5. Id. Sept. 1316. Prior Conv. de Stanes Ioh. de Wotton Pbr. 6. Maii 1357. Prior Conv. de Stanes Ioh. Prymme Pbr. 8. Sept. 1369. Prior Conv. de Stanes Ioh. Bleech Cap. 3. Apr. 1426. Prior Conv. de Stanes Thom. Blome 19. Martii 1438. Prior Conv. de Stanes D. Ioh. Cowpland Cap. 1. Martii 1451. Prior Conv. de Stanes D. Ioh. Lyngard Cap. 24. Maii 1462. Prior Conv. de Stanes D. Walt. Busby Cap. 3. Sept. 1471. Prior Conv. de Stanes D. Ric. Hyndman 7. Sept. 1486 Prior Conv. de Stanes D. Ric. Shoulde ult Dec. 1526 Will. Barnes gen Will. Edwards Cler. 23. Martii 1563. Monumentall Inscriptions Upon a Marble grave stone in the Chancell ............. Uxor Edmundi baronis de Stafford ................... On another towards the North side of the Church Hic iacet dominus Thomas Mastropp qui mortem obiit xxix Novembris anno M. CCCClxv Westcote THis place lying Westwards from Tisoe was involved therewith at the time of the Conq. Survey but till 3. Ioh. I have not seen it mentioned in any Record and then was there a Fine levied betwixt one Alardus de Westcote and Basilia de Mora of certaâ—n lands here it being of her inheritance as one of the three daughters and coheirs of Rob. fitz Otes who was Lord of Locksley also and held it of the Barons of Stafford by one of which either himself or one of his Ancestors was it seems enfeoft Which said Basilia being marryed to Peter de Mora had issue 5. daughters the eldest whereof was wife to Raph le Falconer otherwise called Raph de Mora the second to Rob. de Offeworth the third to Rob. Balance the fourth to Paulyne Peyure and the fift to one Leonard a Kt. This Raph le Falconer alias de Mora had issue by her a son named Peter de Mora which Peter about the 38 H. 3. past away all this Village of Westcote to the Canons of Kenilworth so that in 7 E. 1. the Prior of Kenilworth was certified to be Lord thereof holding it of the Baron of Stafford by the service of half a Kts. fee. But at the same time had the Hospitall of S. Iohn situate without the East gate at Oxford where Magdalen Colledge now stands a carucate of land in this Village and the Monks of Stoneley 1. yard land which proportion belonging to the said Hospitall being purchased by the Master Brethren and sisters thereof about the beginning of Edw. 1. reign was in 13 E. 1. found to be 4. yard land Upon the Foundation of which Colledge temp H. 6. the lands here in Westcote with the rest that belong'd to the above mentioned Hospitall were transmâ—tted thereto as in Willoughby I have â—ntimated But that which the Canons of Kenilworth had here was in 34. H. 8. granted to Ric. Andrews and Leonard Chamberlain and the heirs of Andrews Kyte-Herdwike THis being also a member of Tisoe and possest therewith by the antient Barons of Stafâ—ord â— was by Râ—b de Stafford Grandchild to the first Robert given unto Will. Gâ—ffard who bestowed 〈◊〉 whole hide thereof upon the Canons of Kenilworth in H. 2. time in recompence for the wrongs he had done them and for the pardon of his sins which grant the said Robert confirm'd But how or when Giffard parted wâ—th his interest here I cannot shew Howbeit in 36 H. 3. it appears that the heir of Raph de Mora held half a Kts. fee in this place of Robert de Stafford And in 7 E. 1. Ric. de Bleys was certified to be Lord of part thereof which he held of the said Baron of Stafford by the service of two parts of a Kts. fee and Iohn de Cantilupe owner of another part of it held it of the said Baron by the service of the third part of a Kts. fee and 1 pound of Cumâ—n I have not found the true reason of its being called Kyte-Herdwike but that it was usually so termed appears by severall Records In 10 H. 6. Will. Verney of Wolford Esq. was Lord thereof and held it by the third part of a Kts. fee. From whom â—t paâ—t to Ric. Dalby of Brokehampton as it seems for the said Richard dyed seized thereof in 20 E. 4. leaving Robert his son and heir xxx years of age Compton-Winyate FUrther Southwards stands Compton-Winyate being so called for distinction from the other Comptons in this County having had that addition in respect that long since there was a Vineyard within the Lordship as by tradition of the Inhabitants appeareth And as all others of the same name was originally â—o called from its situation in a low and deep valley the word Cwin in the Brittish and Cumbe in the Saxon importing no less In the Conq â—â— time it being possest by Turchill de Warwick contained viii hides and one Virgate two whereof were held by Almarus of the said Turchill and valued at xl s. Three and a Virgate by one Roger which were rated at L s. and the rest by Aluâ—inus prized at iiii l. That the greatest part of Turchil's lands came actually to Henry de Newburgh the first Earl of Warwick of the Norman line and that the residue which the said Turchil's heirs enjoy'd was by them held of the said Earl and his descendants is plain enough by what I have so often exprest but whether the first that assumed his sirname of this place was immediatly enfeoft thereof by one of those Earls or by any of Turchill's posterity I cannot positively affirm in regard that the Record of 20 H. 3. and that of 36 H. 3. do not directly concur the former of them intimating that the half Kts. fee which Philip de Cumton then had
a very large exâ—ent yet antiently more spacious for Tanworth which is of itself a great one was heretofore a member thereof as â—n my discourse of that place is manifested the whole being certifyed by the Conq. Suâ—vey to contain 46. hides having woods of 3. miles in length and 2. in breadth All which then yeilded to the K. yearly Lv l wiâ—h xx horse loads of salt and then were in his own hands But before the Conquest it was part of the possessions belonging to Edwine Earl of Mercia Which part wherein the woods were so contained I conclude to be Tanworth whereof there is no expresse mention by name in the said general survey I am of opinion that it was given to Henry de Newburgh Earl of Warwick by K. Will. the Conq. for clear it is that the said Earl possessed it It should seeme that in the grant thereof the number of hides which it contained were exprest and very likely the same that the general Survey before mentioned had recorded but that either the measure was too large or that K. Stephen had a mind to get some mony from Roger Earl of Warwick under that pretence for it appears that about the beginning of his reign he put him to CC marks fine for the overplus of the hides â—n this Mannour After which his posterity enjoy'd it till K. Henr. 7. in 3. of his reign got all the possâ—ssions belonging to that great Earldome as in Warwick I have manifested In 31. H. 3. upon the agreement betwixt Iohn de Plessets with Will. Mauduit and Alice his wife it was inter alia setled upon the said Iohn for life he having wedded Margery the daughter and heir to Thomas Earl of Warwick as in my story of the Earls hath been shewed which Iohn together with his said wife the next ensuing year obtained a Charter from the King for a Mercate here upon the Munday every weeke and a Fair to begâ—n on the Even of S â— George and to continue for the space of two dayes following After which viz. upon the death of Will. Mauduit Earl of Warwick in 52. H. 3. it was by agreement betwixt Alice his widow and Will. de Beauchamp the succeeding Earl assigned to her as part of her dower But in 7. E. 1. was in the possession of the said Will. who then held in demesn 3. carucates of land here as also a certain Park containing xxx acres with Warren and other liberties Which Earl had lx yard land here held of him by sundry Tenants under several rents and certain particular services whereof in regard that in those times the like was usual in most places I will here give instance in one viz. Adam Underwood who holding one yard land payd for the same 7 Bushells of Oats yearly and a Hen being to work for the Lord from the feast of S t Mich. th'arch-Angell till Lammas every other day except Saturday viz. at mowing as long as that time should last for which he was to have as much grasse as he could carry away with his Sithe at the end of Hay-harvest he the rest of his fellow Mowers to have the Lord 's best Mutton except one or xvid in money with the best Cheese saving one or vid in money and the Cheese-fat wherein the said Cheese was made full of salt As also that from the said Feast of Lammas till Michaelmas he was to work two dayes in the week and to come to the Lord's Reap with all his houshold except his wife and his Sheepherd and to mow down one land of Corneâ— being quit of all other work for that day That he should likewise carry two Cart loads and a half of the Lords hay with seven Cart load of stones for three days and gather Nuâ—ts for three dayes And in case that the Lord should keepe his Christmasse at this his Mannour of Brailes he to find three of his horses meat for three nights That he should plow thrice a year for the Lord viz. 6. selions and do the same tillage within xx miles And moreover to make 3. Quarters of Malt giving for every Hogg above a year old id and for every one under a half peny And lastly that he and the rest of the said Tenants here should give xii marks to the Lord at Michaelmasse yearly by way of Aid and not marry his daughter nec filium coronare id est nor make his son a Priest without license from the Lord. That being an usuall restraint of old in Villenage tenures to the end that the Lord might not loose one of his villeins by coming into holy Orders As for the Freeholders here I shall only mention some of them viz. Nich. de Segrave who held at that time viii yard land of the Earl by the service of the sixth paâ—t of a Knights fee Theobald de Nevill and Robert de Hastang viii yard land by the service of a pair of gilt spurs and Peter de Montfort xvi yard land by the 4 th part of a Knights fee. At that time the Nuns of Wroxhall had one yard land here which was given to them in pure Almes by Walleran Eâ—râ— of Warwick So also had the Canons of Kenilworth 4. yard land but that was in right of the Church as part of its glebe After this viz. in 13. E. 1. Will. de Beaucamp Earl of Warwick claim'd by prescription to have certain priviledges here viz. Gallows with Assize of Bread and Beer which were allowed For iâ— is a large and goodly Mannour the yearly value whereof in 9 E. 2. being rated at no lesse than 93 05 s 04 l ob q. There is little else memorable touching this Mannour so long as it continued to the Earls of Warwick But shortly after it came to the Crown as aforesaid it was leased to Richard Hungerford and Iohn Hopper for xl years and afterwards viz. in 21 H. 8. the site thereofâ— and all the demesn lands with the Mercate and Fair as also the water-Mill and Warren of Coneys to VVill. VVillington of Bercheston for xxi years which VVill. held it not out the whole terme for in 30 H. 8. there was another Lease made thereof to VVill Rainsford one of the Gentlemen huishers to the King for xxi years And in 30 Henry 8. the King past away the inheritance thereof to Thomas VVymbush Esq and the Lady Eliz. Talboys his wife and to the heirs of the said Elizabeth Which Thomas and Eliz. in 1 E. 6. sold it to VVill. Sheldon of Beoley in Com. VVigorn whose great grandchild VVilliam now enjoyes it The Church dedicated to S. George was given to the Canons of Kenilworth in King H. 1 time by Roger Earl of Warwick Simon then Bishop of Worc. confirming the grant whereupon in R 1 time ensued the endowment of the Vicaridge by Iohn de Constantiis Bishop of Worc. with all the Altarage and small tythes as
12 Iac. whose grandchild Richard about 12 Car. sold it unto Ric. Shukborough of Shukborough Esq Besides this Mannour already spoke of is there another here at least in reputation for in 30 H. 8. Will. Walter was possest thereof in right of Isabel his wife Which Will. demised the same to Will. VVillington Esq of whom in Barcheston I have spoken who in 1 E. 6. converted 4 mess. here into cottages as also 200 acres of arable land into pasture And being seized in Fee-simple of one mess. and lx acres of land more did the like by it All which by his last Will and Testament he bequeathed inter alia to his cosyn Will. Barnes and his heirs upon condition that he should distribute certain summs of money to the poor of Brailes Shipston and Tysoe In the Chapell here at Chelmescote there was a Chantry founded by one Thomas de Pakinton of Brailes in an 1322 16 E. 2 as appears by a certain Agreement indented made the 16 day of Ian. the same year betwixt Thomas Cobham then Bishop of Worcester the Prior and Covent of Kenilw. and Gilb. de Wythibroke Vicar of Brailes on the one part and the said Thomas de Pakinton on the other part whereby the same Prior and Covent with the said Vicar of Brailes do grant liberty to the said Thomas and his heirs to provide a fit Priest for celebration of Divine service in the Chapell before-specified and to maintain him at his and their proper charges which Priest was to be presented to the Vicar of Brailes for the time being by the said Thomas and his assignes making oath to be accountable unto him for all Tithes obventions and oblations there received as due to the mother Church of Brailes provided that he the said Thomas with his Tenants and neighbours of Chelmescote might have divine service in that Chapell if they thought fâ—â— so that they did perform all parochiall ritesâ— and receivâ— the Sacraments at the Church of Brailes and in acknowledgement of their duty therâ—â—n to repair thither on Christmasse day Candlemasse Good Friday Easter day Whitsunday S t â—eorge his day and All Saints as also on the day of the Dedication of the said Church of Brailes there to hear divine service and visit the said parish Church except manifest and reasonable cause should appear to the contrary and that on those days there should be no service at all in that Chapell All which was confirmed by Simon Mountacute Bishop of Worcester in an 1334. 8 E. 3. But in 21 E. 3 the said Thomas de Pakinton then Parson of Maple-Derham in Oxfordshire by his Instument dated Feb. 25. setling upon Nich. Laumprey of Wroxston his nephew the inheritance of four Messuages and four yard land lying in Over Brailes and of the Fee called Segrave's Fee together with lxvis ob yearly Rent issuing also out of certain lands there did appoint that with the profits of the said land and rent two Priests should be perpetually maintained to celebrate divine service dayly in the parish Church of Brailes for his noble Lord Thomas Beauchamp Earl of Warwick his ancestors kindred and heirs As also for himself his parents kinsfolks and their posterity and for the souls of all faithfull people deceased Howbeit the compleat Ordination of this Chantry was not till the year 1348 22 E. 3 And then did the said Thomas de Pakinton declaring himself to be the Founder of a Chantry consisting of four Priests within the Parish of Brailes appoint and direct that they should clebrate divine service for his Lord the Earl of Warwick his Countesse children and ancestors as also for him the said Thomas and all his ancestors and kinsfolke in manner following viz. two of them which were to inhabite near the said Chapel at Chelmescote in the house there assigned for them every day to sing the Mattens of our blessed Lady and the Mattens of the day with all Canonical hours distinctly and openly and to celebrate Masse dayly in manner and forme following unlesse they should be hindred by sufficient cause viz. One of them every sunday and on the great Festivalls and on Munday the Masse of the holy Trinity Tuesday of S t Thomas the Martyr Wednesday of S t Katherine and S t Margaret Thursday of Corpus Christi Fryday of the Holy Crosse and Saturday of the Annuntiation of our Lady The other Preist to celebrate every day the Masse of Requiem for the soules of all the faithfull departed this life And in every Masse except by reason of solemnizing the Festivall he should be hindred to say seven Collects one of the celebration of the Masse The second for him the said Thomas de Pakinton viz. Deus qui caritatis c. The third also for him likewise after he should be departed this World Deus cujus misericordiae non est numerus suscipe pro anima famuli tui c. The fourth of S t Thomas the Martyr The fift of the Annunciation of the blessed Virgin The sixth for the soules of the deceased beginning with Inclina The seventh the generall Collect which beginneth thus Sanctissime Dei genetrix Maria especially naming therein the said Earl his Countesse and children as also him the said Thomas de Pakinton and all his kindred And upon all Holy dayes and others except the solemnity of the Festivall did hinder to say a Placebo and Dirige with commendation of the souls of the persons before spoken of for the souls of all the faithfull deceased And likewise ordained that the other two Priests should also live together near the said mother Church of Brailes in the house assigned for them and be daily present therein at Mattens and all other Canonicall houres to joyne with the Priests belonging to the Church except just cause and hinderance hapned and dayly sing Masse at the Altar near his Father's grave behaving themselves in Masses and all other things in such sort as is directed for the two Priests at Chelmescote And moreover that all these Priests before their admission to these Chanteries should take their corporal oaths before the Vicar of Brailes for the time being that they would preserve the mother Church of Brayles indempnified and observe all other orders as aforesaid to their utmost power Which Ordination was confirmed accordingly by the Canons of Kenilworth as Rectors of the said Church of Brailes as also by Iohn de Chelmescote then Vicar of Brailes â—he Earl of Warwick and Bishop of Worcester Winderton THis being also a member of Brailes is not very antiently for ought I have seen mentioned in Records for the first time that I meet with it is in 20 H. 3. Where it appears that it was held of the Earl of Warwick by half a Kts Fee one of the D'Eivills of Walton-Deivill in this County being possest thereof and in 36 Henry 3. Robert D'Eivill It seemes that D'Eivill became first enfeoft thereof by Roger
like Rents and services as those of Honington performed But by the Act of Dissolution in 30 H. 8. it came with Honington to the Crown as parcell of the lands belonging to the Priory of Coventre and so being involved with that Mannour in the Patent to Robert Gibbs is now the inheritance of Sir Henry Gibbs before specified Idlicote NOrthwards from Honington but at a little farther distance from the bank of Stoure stands Idlicote which in the Conquerors time being possest by Rob. de Stadford and by the generall Survey certified to contain five hides was valued at viii li. having been the freehold of Anegrin and Ordric before the Norman invasion In that Survey it is written Etelincote which shews that its originall denomination proceeded from some antient dweller there in the Saxons time But from the said Robert or Nicholas his son was this Mannour past to Geffrey de Clinton Chamberlain and Treasurer to King Henry 1. and by himâ— upon his Foundation of the Monastery of Kenilworth in this County given inter alia thereunto In that Charter it is written Itelicote but afterwards for the most part Utelicote which grant was confirmed by the said Nicholas de Stafford who acquitted the Canons of Kenilworth from the service of one Knights Fee whereby the same Geffrey held it of him in consideration whereof he gave to this Nicholas v. marks of silver and to Maud his wife ii marks In 7 E. 1. the Canons of Kenilworth being Lords thereof had 3. carucats of land here in demesn and a Windmill as also severall Tenants holding xv yard land and a half by certain Rents and services scil plowing mowing making Hay c. together with a Court-Leet and Court Baron which priviledges with certain others viz. Gallows Weifs and to be quit of all secular exactions suits to the County and Hundred Courts and from Common amerciaments did they claim in 13 E. 1. by the grants of divers Kings and had the same allowed And in 19 E. 1. obtained a Charter of Free-warren in all their demesn lands here But upon the generall dissolution of the Monasteries it came to the Crown and was soon after viz. in 33 H. 8. past away together with the advouson of the Church unto Thomas Cawarden Esquier and Eliz. his wife and the heirs of the body of the said Thomas lawfully begotten Which Thomas left no issue as I suppose for it reverted to the Crown and in 4 Eliz. was granted to Ludowik Grevill and others but soon after to Underhill as it seems for in 12 Eliz. did Will. Underhill dye seized thereof leaving Will. his son and heir xiiii years of age and upwards whose granchild S r Hercules Vnderhill Knight now enjoys it The Church dedicated to S t Iames was in an 1291 19 E. 1. valued at vii marks the Canons of Kenilworth then having a portion out of the Tithes thereof to the value of x s. But in 26 H. 8. at xiii l. vi s. viii d. there being at that time ix s. v d. yearly payd by the Incumbent for Synodalls and Procurations Patroni Ecclesiae Incumbentes c. Prior Conv. de Kenilworth Rob. de Ketene Accol 3. Non. Iulii 1301. Prior Conv. de Kenilworth Thomas de Tydinton Cap. 11 Cal. Iunii 1310. Prior Conv. de Kenilworth Magr. Ioh. de Badington Cler. 19. Cal. Sept. 1325. Prior Conv. de Kenilworth Rog. Dod Pbr. 15 Oct. 1361. Prior Conv. de Kenilworth Ioh. Kynarton 25 Apr. 1402. Prior Conv. de Kenilworth Ioh. Hull Cap. 28 Martii 1428. Prior Conv. de Kenilworth D. Iohan. Slatter 1 Iulii 1430. Prior Conv. de Kenilworth D. Ric. Yonge Pbr. 12 Oct. 1437. Prior Conv. de Kenilworth D. Thomas Nele Cap. 2 Feb. 1442. Prior Conv. de Kenilworth Mr. Will. Clopton in art Magr. 12. Ian. 1451. Prior Conv. de Kenilworth D. Ioh. Letteworth Cap. 18 Iulii 1454. Prior Conv. de Kenilworth D. Ric. Stephyn 8 Aug. 1456. Prior Conv. de Kenilworth D. Rad. Vaudray 9 Apr. 1457. Prior Conv. de Kenilworth Hugo Kyrkland art Mr. 15 Martii 1462. Prior Conv. de Kenilworth D. Rog. Sylvester Cap. ult Apr. 1470. Prior Conv. de Kenilworth Nich. Snede Cap. 29 Ian. 1501. Prior Conv. de Kenilworth Ioh. Blythe Cler. 8 Maii 1510. Thomas Caverden ar Ric. Bushop Cler. 26 Maii 1544. Will. Underhill Gen. D. Rog. Clerke Cler. 6 Sept. 1556. Will. Underhill Gen. Will. Stocke S. Theol. Bacc. penult Ian. 1583. D. Eliz. Regina per lapsum Ioh. Brokes Cler. 24 Maii 1593. Ioh. Such Gen. ex concess Herculis Underhill Gen. Nich Hill Cler. 5 Ian. 1602. Whatcote BElow Idlicote is Stoure more augmented by a rivulet that hath its rise about the foot of Edghill on the South side of which torrent stands only Whatcote whereof I purpose next to speak This in the Conquerors Survey is written Quatercote and certifyed to contain v. hides having then a Church and was at that time possest by Hugh de Grentemaisnill the value therof being vii l. but before the Norman invasion it was the inheritance of one Toliâ— From which time till 7 E. 1. I have not met with any light whereby the successive owners thereof may be discovered howbeit then I find that Iohn de Lou and Philip his son were Lords thereof as also Patrons of the Church and that they held it of the Abbot of Westminster by the service of half a mark And moreover that they then had two Carucates of land in demesn with a Court-Leet and all other priviledges that the said Abbot had and likewise 8 Tenants holding severall proportions of land paying certain Rents and performing sundry servile imployments After this viz. in 3 E. 2. Philip le Wolf or Lou for I find he is the same man and Margery his wife levied a Fine of the moity of this Mannour by which it was settled upon the heirs of her the said Margerie Whereupon I suppose it to have been of her inheritance and that Amicia the wife of Iohn le Lou and she were sisters which being so then will it appear by what I shall shew in Hampton in Arden that they were heirs to Richard de Arden It seems that the whole interest that the same Iohn le Lou and Amicia had in this Mannour came to the said Philip and Margery for in 9 E. 2. Philip le Lou is certifyed to be Lord thereof whose name also I find in 17 E. 2. amongst those Knights and other men at Armes in this County then returned into the Chancery In 3. E 3. it appears that the said Margerie then his Widow entailed it by Fine after her own decease upon VVill. the son of Iohn de Heyford and Amicia his wifeâ— and the heirs of their two bodies but for
lack of issue by them on Iohn the brother of the said VVilliam and Lora his wife and the heirs of their two bodies with remainder to Iohn the son of Robert VVolf and his heirs By which entail the moytâ—e thereof divolved to Ioan the wife of Iohn son to Richard de Foxcote who past it away together with the advouson of the Church unto Thomas de Morehall Clerk But it was not long after that the whole Mannour became the possession of Edmund Earl of Stafford who being slain in the battail of Shrewsbury 4 H. 4. Anne his widow had it inter alia assigned to her in dower After which the posterity of the said Earl enjoy'd it till 12. H. 8. that Edw. D. of Buck. past it to Richard Bishop of Winchester and others to the use of S Will. Compton Knight from whom the Earl of Northampton now Lord thereof is descended The Church dedicated to St. Peter being originally endowed with half a yard land was in an 1291. 10. E. 1. valued at vi marks and a half the advouson whereof in 3. E. 2. had Philip le Lou and Margerie his wife License from the King to grant unto the Nuns of Pinley in this County Neverthelesse they did not so dispose thereof for in 41 E. 3. Thomas de Morehall had the like License to passe it to the Canons of Little-Maldern in Worcestershire and they leave to appropriate it which was performed the 5. of Iune an 1368 42 E. 3. by Will. VVittlesey Bishop of Worcester Another Instrument of the like nature did Henry VVakefeild Bishop of Worcester make dated at Hertlebury 21. Nov. an 1388 12 R. 2. whereupon a yearly Pension of iiis iiiid was reserved to the said Bishop and his successors to be paid out of the fruits thereof But notwithstanding all this those Canons of Malverne never took benefit of these appropriations for it continued a Rectory and in 26. H. 8. was valued at xiiil vis viiid over and above ixs vd ob allowed for Procurations and Synodalls Patroni Ecclesiae Incumbentes c. Ioh le Lou Amicia ux ejus Philippus le Lou Margeria ux ejus Ioh. le Lou Cler. 5. Id. Maii 1281. Margeria le Wolfe domina de Whatcote Will. le Brut Pbr. 12. Iulii 1329. Margeria le Wolfe domina de Whatcote Rad. de Snelleston Pbr. 8. Dec. 1329. Ioh. de la Morehall Thomas de la Morehall 24 Nov. 1340. Thomas atte Morehall resignavit presentavit Barth de Brechinham Pbr. 18. Iunii 1359. Phil. de Todenham Rog. Dod Ric. de Mene Ric. West Ioh. Mulward Pbr. 3. Dec. 1361. Prior Conv. de Malvern minori Frater Thomas Bandy monachus 5. Cal. Iunii 1368 Prior Conv. de Malvern minori D. Ric. de Depedale 11. Apr. 1374. Prior Conv. de Malvern minori Rog. de Caldecote 12. Oct. 1380. Prior Conv. de Malvern minori Ioh. Kyldale 14. Oct. 1384. Hugo Comes Staffordiae Ioh. Clifford Pbr. 27 Maii 1385. Prior Conv. de Malvern minori Ioh. Wygot 10 Maii 1392. Prior Conv. de Malvern minori Ioh. Aspele 3 Iulii 1409. Prior Conv. de Malvern minori D. Ioh. Taylour 13. Ian. 1409. Prior Conv. de Malvern minori D. Thomas Stanford 4. Nov. 1413. Prior Conv. de Malvern minori D. Ioh. Aspele Cap. 10. Martii 1414. Prior Conv. de Malvern minori Ioh. Hancock Cap. 26 Aug. 1414. Prior Conv. de Malvern minori D. Thomas Chyn Cap. 23. Martii 1426. Prior Conv. de Malvern minori D. Christoph. Strange Cap. 29. Iulii 1440. Prior Conv. de Malvern minori D. Thomas Nelle Cap. 4. Dec. 1451. Prior Conv. de Malvern minori D. Will. Aldyngton Cap. 23. Iunii 1486. Will. Hill ratione concess Pr. Conv. de Malvern Rob. Maud Cler. 2. Maii 1511. Henr. 8. Rex Angl. Nich. Austin Cler. 26 Apr. 1542. D. Anna Comitissa Penbrochiae Henr. Michell Cler. 14. Iulii 1573. Ioh. Morell ex concess Will. Domini Compton D. Ioh. Damport Cler. 20. Dec. 1597. Oxhill ON the North side this torrent lyes Oxhill in the Conquerors Survey written Octeselve and being possest by the same Hugh de Grentemaisnil of whom I have made mention in Whatcote was then certified to contain x. hides having a Mill rated at xvid but the value of all together was xil and before the Norman invasion belong'd to the same Toli who had Whatcote After this viz. in H. 2. time Engelram de Dumart became owner thereof whose sisters named Emma and Aeliz by reason of his death without issue succeeded him in the inheritance of it and had livery thereof in 31 of that Kings reâ—gn Upon what occasion it was that K. Iohn seized upon it appears not but in 18 of his reign the Shiriff of this County received command to deliver possession thereof to Thodoric de Whicheford to whom he had given it in which Record it is wrâ—tten Hocteshulve howbeit in 3 H. 3. Thomas de Periton had restitution thereof as heâ—r to Engelard Dummarish sive Dumart his uncle Which Thomas departing this life in 11 H. 3. Adam his son and heir had livery of these lands in Ofteschelfe for so it is written of his inheritance and the next year following was acquitted of the Scutage for half a Knights fee here due upon the expedition of Kerry which Adam bore for his Armes Barry of six peices and upon a Canton 3. barrs wavie But from the family of Periton it divolved to S t Will. de Keyns K t by Margaret a daughter and heir as the Descent sheweth which S r Will. had issue Robert who in 7 E. 1. held it of the King in Capite by the service of one Knights fee having one carucate of land in demesn and five Tenants holding severall proportions by performance of certain servile labours and payment of particular Rents As also divers Freeholders It was likewise then found that the Prior of Ware had one yard land here and the Monks of Bordesley 2 carucates and 6 virgates bestowed on them by Geffery de Beningworth three virgates by Nich. de Donington one by Ric. Clerke and one by Rob. Dumbard As also that they had ix Tenants holding sundry proportions by several Rents and servile imployments with a Court-Leet by the grant of K. H. 3. Which Family of Keyns being of eminent note possest Dodford in Northamptonshire Combe-Keynes and Tarent-Keynes in Dorsetshire and other lands of good value held by Barony but afterwards for want of issue male this Mannour divolved to Cressy through a coheir Sir Iohn Cressy of Dodford before specifyed being owner of it in 10 Henry 6. who departing this life without issue in 31 H. 6. Alianore the wife to S r Humfrey Stafford of
Grafton Knight and Isabell the wife of S r Thomas Chaworth Knight were found his heirs Whereupon by partition made betwixt Chaworth and Stafford it was allotted to the said Elianore as it seems for I find that upon an Assize of Novell disseisin brought by Iohn Hathewyk who claimed an estate in tail thereof as heir unto Keynes he recovered it against her in 2. E. 4. and that afterwards by his Deed of bargain and sale bearing date 4. Ian. 21 E. 3. in consideration of CCâ—â— he past it to Will. Catesby and his heirs Which Will. being attainted in the Parl. of 1. H. 7. as in Lapworth I have declared it eschaeting to the Crown was by the Kings Letters Pat. bearing date at Westm. 2. Iulii 4 H. 7. granted to S r David Owen Knight and the heirs male of his body lawfully begotten From whom descended Iohn Owen Esq who by a Fine levied in 1 E. 6. passed it unto Iohn Houghton of Wootton in Com. Sur. Yeoman for xl years at the yearly Rent of viâ—â— xiil. Which Lease the next year following was assigned by the said I. Houghton to Leonard Savage of Kington in this County Gent. Engelardus de Dumart defunctus 31. H. 2. â— p. Emma soror cohaer ux .... de Piriton 33 H. 2. Thomas de Piriton defunctus 11 H. 3. Adam de Piriton 11 H. 3. Margareta filia haeres Will. de Keynes 48 H. 3. Robertus de Keynes miles Rob. de Keynes miles obiit s. prole 7 E. 1. Will. de Keynes miles frater haeres Letâ—cia ux de Ayote Laurentius de Ayote Will. de Ayote miles obiit s. prole Matilda consangu cohaer Eliz. de Keynes amitae Wentelinae Will. de Cressey Ioh. de Cressy Ioh. de Cressy Thomas Cressy obiit s. prole Ioh. Cressy frater haeres obiit 31. H. 6. s. prole Margar. ux Will. de Wotton Rob. de Keynes mil. ob s. prole Ioh. de Keynes miles Ioh. de Keynes ob 9. Martii 49. F. 3 s. p. Wentelina soror haeres obiit s. prole Eliz. obiit â—5 E. 3. sine prole Hawisia ux Rob. de Daventre mil. Hawisia filia haeres Ioh. de Lodbâ—ok chivalier Alicia filia haeres ux Ludov. Cardian Cath. filia haeres Will. Hathewyk Ioh. Hathewyk 2. E. 4. Will. de Keynes Lucas de Keynes Ioh. de Keynes Rob. de Keynes Margar. fâ—lia hâ—â—â—es ux ... Aylesbâ—â—y Thomas Alesbury â—oh Aylesbury Thomas Aylesbury miles Alianora una fil cohaer ux Humfridi Stafford de Grafton mil. Isabella ux Thomae Chaworth militis Aeliz But the inheritance of the Mannour still resting in the line of Owen together with the Rent reserved upon the said Lease to Houghton was by Henry Owen son and heir to the before specified Iohn sold to Sim. Walweyn Gent. by Deed dated ... Aug. 10 Eliz. the said Simon being possest of certain lands in Oxhill before which Simon dyed seized of it 15 Apr. 20 Eliz. leaving Mathew his son and heir xxix years of age who by his last Will and Testament bearing date .... Martii 4 Iac. entailed it upon the issue male of his brother Francis and for default thereof upon Ursula daughter to the said Francis and her heirs Which Vrsula by virtue of that Entail became seized thereof and took to husband Math. Clerke Gent. who had issue by her Will. Clerke his son and heir lately deceased leaving William his son and heir within age But that which the Monks of Bordsley had here was past out of the Crown by Q. Mary 18 Iulii 2. of her reign to Peter Temple Esq and Ric. Petiver Gent. and their heirs which Peter in 1 Eliz. sold it to George Bishop and Ioh. Bishop son to the said George whose posterity do as I think still enjoy it The Church dedicated to S. Laurence was in an 1291 19 E. 1. valued at viii marks and in 26 H. 8. at xv l xvi s viii d over and above ix â— v d ob for Synodalls and Procurations Patroni Ecclesiae Incumbentes c. Will. de Keynes D. Ioh. de Boclande Cler. 21. Ian. 1330. Will. de Keynes Walt. de Burtiton Pbr. 14. Martii 1335. Will. de Keynes Rob. Godesale Pbr. 11 Sept. 1336. Will. de Keynes Ioh. de Egge Pbr. Id. Feb. 1337 Will. de Keynes miles D. Ioh. Davy 14 Oct. 1339. Will. de Keynes miles Ioh. de Baynton 6 Aug. 1340. Ioh. de la Hale miles Walt. le Hoppere Cap. 13. Aâ—g 1349. Ioh. de Keynes miles Will. Blockley Pbr. 7. Sept. 1375. Will. de Brantingham miles VVill. Lambley 4. Oct. 1398. Ludov. Cardigan ar D. Ioh. Tuttebury Cap. 28 Iulii 1414. Ludov. Cardigan ar Sim Sloley 26 Maii 1416. Alicia nuper ux Ludov. Cardigan Ric. Norton Cap. 15. Martii 1422. Alicia nuper ux Ludov. Cardigan D. Ric. Smith Cap. 13 Iulii 1425. David Owen miles Magr. Ric. .... in leg Bacc. 1510. Exec. Testam Davidis Owen mil. D. Will. Lathener sacellanus 22 Feb. 1540. Will. Hunter ratione Concess Ioh. Owen ar D. Henr. ... art Magr. 20 Ian. 1558. Nich. Clerke de Tiso yeoman ex concess Math. Walwyn D. Iac. Balwin S. theol Bacc. 13. Feb. 1597. Anth. Bishop gen ratione concess M. Walweyn Daniel Smarte Cler. 2 Iulii 1624. Nether Pillerton BElow Oxhill about a mile lies Nether Pillerton which containeth in its parish Over-Pillerton and Merston-Boteler In the Conquerors time Hugh Earl of Chester had 1 hide and 3. virgates of land here then held of him by one VValeran and valued at xxxs. which before the Norman invasion was the inheritance of Hugo Camerarius But the residue of this town at that time possest by Hugh de Grentemaisnill and written Pilardetune contained x. hides besides the woods extending to one mile in length and as much in bredth there being a Mill rated at v s and a Church all which amounted to xviiili. and in Edw. the Confessors dayes was the freehold of one Baldwin It was not long that these two great men sc Hugh Earl of Chester and H. de Grentemaisnill continued owners thereof for King H. 1. as it seemeth gave the same either to Henry de Newburgh Earl of Warwitk or else to Earl Roger son to the same Henry as may appear by the certificate made in 12 H. 2. Where VVill. Earl of Warwick inter alia declareth that he held it by one Knights Fee de veteri Feoffamento and that Robertus fil VVillielmi was his Tenant thereof which Robert I take to be the man who is written R. de Pilardinton being Founder of the little Monastery at Pinle in this County Howbeit others there were that bore the sirname of
he of the Earl Ferrers which shews that part of Nether-Etindon extended into this And that in 7 E. 1. Henry de Brandeston had xx Tenants in this Village holding severall proportions of land As also that Thomas the son of Thomas de Etindon had two yard land and a half in demesn and certain Tenants holding other lands of him by particular Rents and divers servile employments besides some Freeholders And moreover Iordanus de Pilardintone four yard land held of Iohn de Warwick by the service of a pair of Gloves which Iohn held it over of William le Boteler and he of the Earl of Leicester But this I believe was part of that proportion which Hugh de Grentemaisnill had in thâ— Conquerors time as abovesaid as was that without question which Henry de Brandestor hâ—ld For in 27 E. 1 upon the death of Hugh de Brandeston it is evident that he had much land in this Village whereof xii Tenants held xii toftes and twelve yard land in Villenage then valued at vi li. as also that he the said Hugh so held them all of William le Boteler of Wemme by the service of the fourth part of a Knights Fee And that the Progenitor of Boteler was enfeoft thereof either by Hugh de Grentemaisnill himself or by Robert Blanchmains Earl of Leicester who wedded the daughter and heir to the said Hugh as I have elswhere observed there can be no doubt Afterwards viz. in 20 E. 3. Iohn Lord of Over-Etingdon held the seventh part of a Kts. Fee here of the Earl of Lancaster From which time till 23 H. 8. I find not a syllable of this place worthy the taking notice of in an historicall way But then did Thomas Porter possesse a good part of it by the name of the capitall messuage and certain lands in Over Etingdon and dyed seized thereof leaving Fouk Porter his son and heir within age which Fouk departing this life 28. Febr. 12 Eliz. left Simon his son and heir 19. years of age In 4 E. 1. there was a Chantry founded in the Chapell of our Lady within this Village by William de Ichington who gave thereunto one messuage one tofte one yard land and a half two acres of meadow and four marks yearly Rent with the appurtenances in Over-Etindon and Newbold for the maintenance of a Priest to sing Masse dayly there for the health of his soul as also for the souls of his Ancestors and all the faithfull deceased the Ordination of which Chantry was made xii Cal. Maii anno 1316. 10 E. 2. by the Prior Covent of Kenilworth unto whom the Church of Etindon inferior was appropriated as I have already observed upon the Petition of the said William de Ichington the Founder then Vicar of Nether-Eatindon before specified at the instance of Thomas Earl of Lancaster for the health of the souls of the said Earl and of his father and mother and of Sir Robert de Holland as also for the soul of the said William de Ichington By which Ordination it appeareth that the said Earl and his heires were to present thereto so oft as occasion should be but that the Chantry Priest there celebrating should not receive any Offrings or Tithes from the Parishioners nor administer the Sacraments to them in prejudice of the mother Church And that upon these Festivall days under-written he should repair to the said mother Church at Nether-Eatendon and there celebrate divine service viz. Christmasse-day Candlemasse-day Palm sunday Good-friday Easter-day Ascension-day Whitsunday Trinity-Sunday the Nativity of S. Iohn Baptist the Assumption of our Lady All-hallown-day and the day of the Dedication of the said Church And moreover that he and his successors should in the Chapter house at Kenilworth always make Oath of their fidelity to the said Canons of Kenilworth upon admission thereto as also to perform all and singular the Articles above mentioned Which Ordination was confirmed by Walter de Maydenston Bishop of Worcester with the Prior and Monks of that Church To this Chantry did Henry de Brandeston also give viii s. yearly Rent issuing out of two messuages and two yard land lying in this Village of Over Eatendon So that the revenue belonging thereto in 26 H. 8. was valued at vii li. vi s. viii d. the Rent of xviii d. per annum being then payd out of it to Francis Shirley Esquier But in 37 H. 8. at vii li. viii s. iv d. the like Rent of xviii d. per annum being reckoned as due to Shirley and xviii d. more payable to the Bishop of Worcester to be deducted Fulridy IN the Conquerors time did the same Ermenfridus who held one hide of land in Over-Eatendon of Turchill de Warwick hold of him another in this place as appears by the generall Survey in which it is written Fulrei But the Progenitors of Shirley were antiently enfeoft thereof as it seems for in 36 H. 3. it was certified that one Robert de Fulri held half a Knights Fee and the sixt part here of Sewall de Etendon and in 7 E. 1. that Iohn de Weston held it of Raph de Shirley by the service of half a Knights Fee Which Iohn then had half a carucate of land in demesn and two Tenants holding certain lands by servile tenure with some Freeholders But after this viz. in 20 E. 3. Iohn Dimok and Iohn Bardolf answered for half a Knights Fee here held of the Earl of Lancaster and the Lord Stafford Howbeit I do not find that this was ever reputed to be a distinct Mannour of it self but that the Mannour of Nether-Eatendon did extend into it and that the Inhabitants thereof do their suit to the Court-Leet at Nether Eatendon granted by King Iames to Sir George Shirley Baronet in 16. of his raign Thorndon THis Hamlet long since depopulated being a member of Nether-Eatendon is not particularly mentioned in the Conquerors Survey but was possest therewith by Shirley's Ancestors for in 36 H. 3. it appears that William de Bissopesdon held three parts of a Knights Fee here of Sewall de Etendon which argues that Fraricus de Bissopesdon Progenitor to the said William of whom in Fulridy I have made mention was first enfeoft thereof by the Ancestors of the said Sewallus In 7 E. 1. this William de Bissopesdon for I suppose it might be he was Lord hereof and held it of Raph de Etendon for so it seemes that Raph de Shirley was called when he resided at Eatendon by the service of half a Knights fee and had two carucates of land here in demesn with xv Tenants holding seven yard land and a half by severall Rents and sundry servile imployments But of this family of Bishopesdon I shall particularly speak in Bishopesdon where the descent is inserted In 13 E. 2. Iohn de Bishopesdon had a Charter of Free-warren to him and his heirs
leaving Sir Iohn de Meaux Knight her son and heir then xl years of age Which Sir Iohn sold the same before the 38 of E. 3. to Nich. Fililode and Will. Fililode his brother passing it by the name of the moitye of the Mannour of Shrevesie Nich. having but an estate for life and the inheritance to Will The custody of which moitye was in 6 R. 2. committed by the King to Iohn Horewode one of the Grooms of his Chamber in respect that Iohn Fililode heir to the said W. was under age which Iohn dyed seized thereof 1 H. 4. leaving Giles Fililode his Uncle his next heir who departed this life in 2 H. 6. Katherine the widow of Iohn Blike being found his sister heir To whom succeeded Ric. Blike her son and heir who had livery thereof in 4 H. 6. and to him Richard and to Ric. Humfrey But the last of the Blikes that had to do here was Iohn Blike Gentleman who sold all his interest to Iohn Oldnale in 4 E. 6. by the name of one mess. CC. acres of land xl acres of meadow C. acres of pasture x. acres of wood and lxxx acres of Heath and Furs part thereof lying in Pinley all which in 4 Eliz. the said Iohn Oldnale conveyed to Thomas and Clement Walford But besides this moytie and the other which so came to the coheirs of Philip de Gayton 't is certain that the Lucies of Cherlecote had a Mannour here for in 16 E. 3. the Lady Eliz. the widow of Sir Will. de Lucy Knight had a grant thereof together with the Mannour of Cherlecote made by Sir Will. de Lucy Knight son to the said Sir Will. to hold during her life in consideration whereof she released her interest in other lands which she had right to have held And it is plain by sundry Records that the posterity of the said Sir Will. Lucy possest it till H. 7. time but how much longer I find not Beausale THis is also in the parish of Hatton and by the Conquerors Survey certified to contain half a hide being at that time possest by Odo Bishop of Baieur the Kings half brother but then held of him by one Wadardus and under him by Geroldus the woods containing two furlongs and the whole valued at xx s. In that Record it is written Beoshelle But very shortly after this it came to the hands of Hugo fil Ricardi also Lord of Hatton as hath been shewed and so by Margerie his grandchild and heir to Osbert de Clinton which Osbert had issue Osbert and he Thomas by whom the inheritance thereof was given together with Hatton to Iames de Clinton his younger son Whether this grant to Iames proved invalid or that he quitted his title therein to Iohn his elder brother's son I know not but certain it is that the said I. pass'd it with Hatton unto W. de Beauchamp E. of Warw. and his heirs And for the better strengthening of their title did Maud Countess of Warwick after the death of the said Earl her husband purchase from Sir Hamon le Strange Knight all his right therein which Hamon had a grant thereof from Sâ—r Thomas de Clinton above specified but I suppose it to have been only as a trust for it continued with Hatton to the succeeding Earls of Warwick as by several instances I could manifest Within the precincts of this Lordship there was antiently a Chapell dedicated to S. Iohn the Evang and endowed with Glebe and Tithes by Margerie de Clinton wife to Osbert de Clinton above specified as is exactly exprest in a special grant made by her thereto and confirmed by Ioh. de Abetoth her 2 husband Amongst the particulars whereof are mentioned the Tithe of the Foul caught in the Park and of the Fishes in the Pool there as also of the Venison viz a shoulder of each with the Tithe of the paunage and pasturage in the same for six beasts seven Hogs one Sow a Mare and Cole with two loads of wood at Christmasse yearly All which were antiently given and united to the Collegiate Church of our Lady in Warwick as it seems after the Mannour of Beausale was so possest by the Earls of Warwick as abovesaid For at the death of Thomas Beauchamp Earl of Warwick who dyed towards the later end of E. 3. time and in R. 2. time did the Canons of that Church enjoy them But this is now included within Wedgnok Park and was of later time called by the name of Cuckow-Church whereof in my discourse of Wedgnock I have alreade spoke Haseley NExt unto Hafton on the other side of that rivulet which cometh fromwards .... standeth Haseley which in the Conquerors time was possest by Hasculf Musard but of him held by Hunfridus progenitor to the Family of Hastang as in Lemington-Hastang appeareth and then certified to contain 3. hides and half a virgate of land there being a Church as also a Mill rated at iiii s. and the woods belonging thereto extending to a mile in length and two furlongs in breadth all valued at xxx s. having been the Freehold of Azur before the Norman Invasion But it continued not long in the Family of Hastang for Aytrope Hastang granchild to the before specified Hunfredus in consideration of lxxx marks of silver sold it to Will Turpin a gentleman of the Kings Bedchamber reserving from the said W. and his heirs to him the said Aytrop and his heirs the like service as was due by him to his Lord for the same viz. the half and the tenth part of a K t s Fee By which grant the said Aitrop also covenanted that every of the heirs to the said W. Turpin should be quit of their Relief for one Besantine From this W. Turpin was it soon after conveyed to Rog. the son of Thurstane de Cherlecote and his heirs By which grant it appeareth that the Knights service due in respect thereof was as much as belong'd to two hides whereof five made the service of one Knights Fee And for the better confirmation thereof did Osbert Turpin brother to the same Will levy a Fine unto Thomas de Cherlecote son to the above mentioned Roger in 7 H. 3. Of which branch of Cherlecote's Family residing here at Haseley and assuming it for their sirname as I shall shew anon I must not omit to mention what I have met with in an historicall way the descent being placed in Cherlecote In 12. H. 3. the King remitted to Thomas de Cherlecote the Scutage then due from him viz. for half a Knights Fee and a fourth part where he is called Thomas de Cherlecote Vadletus Magistri Stephani de Lucy which shewes he was Lucie's servant though in what capacity is hard to say And in 20 H. 3. accepted of 5 marks instead of xx which were due from him unto the Exchequer for
divers defaults of his in the Iters of the Kings Justices But this Thomas came to an untimely end for he was strangled by three of his own servants viz two men and one woman and afterwards cast into a pool here at Haseley which till the murther was found out occasioned such a suspicion that he had drowned himself that his goods and Catalls were seized into the Kings hands and then valued at 71 li. 05 s. 04 d. But the truth at last appearing the Mâ—rtherers had their demerits by judgment of the Kings Justices and restitution was made of those his goods unto his heirs to dispose of for the health of his soul. To him succeeded Thomas his son and heir who by a Charter bearing date 3 Maii 51 H. had Free-Warren granted to him in all his demesn lands here This Thomas was one of the Commissioners for the Gaol delivery at Warwick in 53 and 56 H. 3. so also in 1.2 and 3 E. 1. In 6 E. 1. he was Shiriff of this County and Leicestershire and in Commission likewise for the Gaol delivery at Warwick as also in 11.12 and 14 E. 1. In 15 E. 1. he was constituted one of the Commissioners in this County for conservation of the peace and taking care that the statute of Winchester should be observed The same year and the two next years following he was again one of the Justices for the Gaol delivery at Warwick in severall of which years he is indifferently written sometimes Thomas de Cherlecote and sometimes Thomas de Hasele and was a Knight But his son and heir sc. Robert past away his title in this Mannour to Guy de Beauchamp Earl of Warwick in 30 E. 1. to whose posterity it continued till all the lands belonging to that Earldome came to the Crown in 3 H. 7. as in Warwick I have manifested out of which it was granted together with the Castle of Warwick and many other Lordships by King E. 6.22 Iunii 1. of his reign unto Iohn Dudley Earl of Warwick and his heirs and in 3 E. 6. past back to the King by the said Earl inter alia for lands in Oxfordshire and other Counties Howbeit the next year following he had it again with the rest in exchange for certain Mannours in Northumberland and elsewhere But upon the attainder of the said Iohn then D. of Northumb in 1 Mariae the Q. granted it to Mich. Throkmorton Esq and his heirs who aliened it the year ensuing to Clem. Throkmorton his Nephew third son to Sir George Throkmorton of Coughton in this County Knight who had issue Iob Throkmorton one of those notable Zelots in Q. Eliz. time of whom with some other of the like spirit Mr. Cambden in his Annals of that Queens reign an sc. 1588 hath this expression Hi itaque in Hierarchiam in Praesules probrosis editis libellis quibus tituli erant Martinus Praesulibus exitiosus vel Praesulomastix Minerali Diotrephes Demonstratio disciplinae c. calumniis convitiis virulentissimis adeo scurriliter debacchati sunt ut authores non pietatis cultores sed è popina ganeones viderenter Authores tamen erant Penrius Udallus Verbi Ministri Jobus Throgmortonus vir doctus facetè dicax Fautores Ricardus Knightleius Will Wigstonus equites aurati viri alioquin boni graves prudentes sed à quibusdam ministris sibi sapientibus circumventi qui crimen gravi mulcta in Camera stellata irrogata luissent nisi Archiep. Cantuar. qua fuit ille lenitate Reginam aegrè exorasset Which Iob had issue Sir Clem. Throgmorton Knight a Gentleman not a little eminent for his learning and eloquence having served in sundry Parliaments as one of the Knights for this shire and undergone divers other publique imployments of note and he Clement Throkmorton Esq now Lord of this Mannour The Church dedicated to the Visitation of the blessed Virgin was given to the Monastery of S. Oswald at Nostell in Yorksh. by Anfride Hastang brother to the first Aytrope in H. 1. time but how or when the Canons of Nostell quitted their title thereto I know not Howbeit I find that the Canons of Warwick had it afterwards and that there grew some question betwixt Thomas de Cherlecote Lord of this Mannour and them for the right of patronage thereto which the said Thomas at the length released to them In an 1291. 19 E. 1. it was valued at 5 marks at that time the portion therein belonging to the Canons of Warwick being iiii s. And in 26 H. 8. at iiii li. xiii s. iiii d. a Pension of iiii s. being payd yearly out of it to the Priory of Warwick and for Procurations and Synodalls iiii s. more Patroni Ecclesiae Incumbentes c. Prior Canonici S. Sâ—pulcri Warw. Thomas Tankard 9 Cal. Iulii 1298. Prior Canonici S. Sâ—pulcri Warw. Ioh. Mile subdiac 6 Cal. Iunii 1304. Prior Canonici S. Sâ—pulcri Warw. Mr. Ioh. de Wulfreton Cler. 16 Cal. Nov. 1317. Idem Prior Canon S. Sepulcri Warw. Ric. de Mesford Cap. 15 Cal. Ian. 1320. Idem Prior Canon S. Sepulcri Warw. Henr. de Bradewas Cap. Id. Iulii 1325. Idem Prior Canon S. Sepulcri Warw. D. Thomas de Baddesley Pbr. 5. Feb. 1328. Idem Prior Canon S. Sepulcri Warw. D. Will. de Nayleston 17 Dec. 1359. Idem Prior Canon S. Sepulcri Warw. Will. Warde Pbr. 29 Maii 1364. Idem Prior Canon S. Sepulcri Warw. Rob. Felde Pbr. 8 Sept. 1369. Idem Prior Canon S. Sepulcri Warw. Will. atte Hulle 17 Iunii 1370. Idem Prior Canon S. Sepulcri Warw. Rad. Daston 4 Sept. 1388. Idem Prior Canon S. Sepulcri Warw. Laur. Staundene 12 Iulii 1404. Idem Prior Canon S. Sepulcri Warw. Ioh Aynolph 21 Aug. 1406. Idem Prior Canon S. Sepulcri Warw. Robertus Grene 12 Nov. 1409. Idem Prior Canon S. Sepulcri Warw. Ioh. Clerke 3 Novembris 1410. Idem Prior Canon S. Sepulcri Warw. Henr. Mackley 24. Martii 1410. Idem Prior Canon S. Sepulcri Warw. D. Rad. de Herleston Cap. 1 Sept. 1414. Idem Prior Canon S. Sepulcri Warw. Frater Ricardus Canon in dome Hosp. S. Ioh. Warwici 10 Ian. 1433. D. Episc. per lapsum Phil. VVorthyn Pbr. 24 Nov. 1468. D. Episc. per lapsum D. Iob. Somburne Cap. 24 Feb. 1471. D. Ric. Mores Cap. hacvice Patronus Frater Rob. Ychinton Canon ... Oct. 1512. Pr. Canon S. Sepulcri Warwici D. Ioh. Uttynge Cap. 4 Dec. 1526. Iob Throgmorton VVill. Meacock Cler. 16 Iulii 1594. Claverdon AScending another torrent which meeteth with that last spoke of a little below Haseley I come to Claverdon In the Conquerors time this being possest by the
inricht his kinred much as elswhere I have in some sort shewed disposing of this Lordship to Bartholomew his third brother who dyed seized thereof 15. Febr. 41 Eliz. leaving Bartholmew his son and heir thirty years of age which last mentioned Bartholmew being afterwards made a Knight by King Iames and having no issue did in consideration of 1500 li. payd in hand and 500. marks at his death where he should appoint settle it upon Stephen Hales of Newland Esquire his neer kinsman and his heirs whose grandchild scil Stephen now enjoys it The Church dedicated to S. Iames was given to the Canons of S. Sepulchers in Warwick by Hugo fil Ricardi about King Stephens time as I have already intimated But in 20 H. 2. there growing a Controversie betwixt the said Canons and William Cumin then Rector thereof the same was determined by Roger Bishop of Worcester and Adam Abbot of Evesham as Delegates from Pope Alexander the third in this manner viz. that the said William should yearly pay to those Canons in the name of this Church one mark of silver yearly within the Octaves of S. Michaell and when it should become void that Walter Cumin the Patron and his heirs might present thereunto but that the Parson presented before he did receive institution should give security to the said Canons by his corporall Oath to make just payment of that sum yearly unto them In anno 1291. 19 E. 1. this Church was valued at xx marks the Canons of Warwick receiving one mark as a Portion out of the same but about 17 E. 2. Walter Stapleton Bishop of Exeter obtained the perpetuall Patronage of it from Walter de Cantilupe and made an exchange thereof unto the Canons of Warwick before specified for certain messuages and lands lying without Temple-barr in the Parish of S. Clement Danes within the suburbs of London together with the advouson of the said Church of S. Clement at which time the said Canons had the Kings license for appropriating thereof to their own use it being accordingly effected by Thomas Cobham Bishop of Worcester 3. Id. Iunii 1325 18 E. 2. and the Vicaridge ordained by Adam de Orlton his successor 14. Ian. 1330. 4 E. 3. which Vicaridge was in 26 H. 8. valued at x li. Patroni Ecclesiae Incumbentes c. D. Ioh. de Cantilupo Walt. de Cantilupo Subdiac Cal. Iunii 1288. D. Episcopus Wigorn. Philippus de Hambury Cler. 5. Id. Dec. 1326. D. Episcopus Wigorn. Will. de Lemynton Pbr. 15. Dec. 1330. D. Episcopus Wigorn. Walt. Powyk Pbr. 3. Matii 1386. D. Episcopus Wigorn. D. Will. Walton Pbr. 15. Sept. 1432. D. Episcopus Wigorn. D. Ioh. Chestryfeld Pbr. 28. Oct. 1444. D. Episcopus Wigorn. D. Ric. Harryes Pbr. 2. Ian. 1444. D. Episcopus Wigorn. ..... 10. Iulii 1465. D. Episcopus Wigorn. D. Rog. Clarke Cap. 3. Iunii 1485. D. Episcopus Wigorn. D. Ioh. Done Pbr. 6. Iunii 1515. D. Episcopus Wigorn. Thomas Hargreve Pbr. 3. Iunii 1541. D. Episcopus Wigorn. D. Thomas Burton Pbr. 18. Maii 1557. D. Episcopus Wigorn. Ioh. Peder in S. Theol. Bac. 26. Sept. 1561. D. Episcopus Wigorn. D. Thomas Ferymon Cler. 15. Oct. 1571. D. Episcopus Wigorn. Ioh. Smyth Cler. 20. Apr. 1597. Wolvertonâ— IN the Conquerors time Robert de Stadford was possest of one hide one virgate and a third part lying in this Village valued at xx s. and then held of him by Urser all which before the Norman invasion belonged to one Simund a Dane The residue viz. two hides and a half and two parts of a virgate did Will. fil Corbucionis hold with the woods thereto belonging which were in length one furlong and half a furlong in breadth as also one House of viii d. rent lying in Warwick be-being a member thereof all which were rated at xxx s. and had been the freehold of one Ernvin in Edward the Confessors days In the generall Survey then taken it is written Ulwarditone which shews that the originall denomination thereof proceeded from some antient possessor that it had in the Saxons time But touching that proportion so held by Robert de Stadford I find no further mention under the name of Wolverton which makes me suppose that the Village called Norton-Limesi is it and that what Peter Corbucion son to the same William granted to William the son of Remfred and his heirs by the appellation of Wolfordintone was the same part and no more than is above mentioned which he gave to hold of him the said Peter and his heirs by the third part of a Kts. Fee yet so as that xx s. yearly whereof x s. to to be payd at Easter and x s. at Michaelmasse should suffice in lieu of that service Remfredus Will fil Remfredi temp Regis H. 2. Petrus de Wulwardinton 1 H. 3. Walt. de Wolwardinton Margeria Petrus de Wolwardinton miles 7 E. 1. Aliva Tho. de Wolvardington Rector Eccl. de Lobenham 19 E. 3. Will. de Wolvardinton Petrus de Wolvardinton defunctus 10 E. 3. Ioh. de Brome defunctus 10 E. 3. Eliz. filia haeres Eustach de Folvill Will. de Brome fil haeres 25 E. 3. Ioh. de Wolvardinton 1 E. 3. Alianora 10 E. 3. Will. Mufard 2. maritus Margeria filia haeres Ioh. Walgrave Warinus Walgrave Walterus Walgrave Ioh. Walgrave 7 H. 5. To this William the son of Remfred succeeded Peter who residing here assumed his sirname from this place Of whom what I find most memorable is that he was in rebellion against K. Iohn by reason whereof his lands were seized but in 1 H. 3. returning to obedience he had restitution of them again And that in 18 H. 3. he gave one mark fine to the King for coursing in the Forest. Which William had issue Walter who gave to Richard then Rector of the Church of S. Mary Magdalen at Tanworth in this Countyâ— and his successors one mess. situate in Tanworth to hold of him the said Walter and his heirs in pure Almes his Deeds whereby he made that grant having a large Crâ—ssant betwixt two Starrs in the impression of the Seal which hath been esteemed by skilfull Antiquaries for a badge only used by those who had made a journey to the Holy Land To the said Walter succeeded Peter who being a Knight in 7 E. 1. as also one of the Justices for Gaol-delivery at Warwick was in 33 E. 1. one of the Knights for this Shire in the Parliament then held at Westminster which Peter had issue Iohn William and Peter as also Thomas Parson of Lobenham in Leicester-shire and Founder of the Chantry at Stretton super Dunsmore in this County But all these dying without issue male Elizabeth daughter to the last Peter became his heir and was first the wife of Iohn Brome
afterwards seen any thing thereof till 8 E. 3. that upon the taxation of a Fifteenth and Tenth it was certified to bear somewhat a greater proportion than Alveston yet was it not a distinct Mannour of it self but a member of that and so past from the Crown in 33 H. 8. to the Dean and Chapter of Worcester before specified and is at this day reputed parcell thereof Bridg-town THis place hath its name by reason of the situation thereof so neer to Stratford-bridg but the chiefest thing memorable in it is that there hath been an Heremitage whereunto the Chapell of S. Mary Magdalen in this village belonged which Heremitage was antiently endowed with lands by some of the Powers of Ryen-Clifford for reparation of the before specified Bridg all which were confirmed thereunto by Thomas Power Esquier in 22 H. 6. who constituted one Iohn Rawlyns to be Heremite there during his life appointing that he should yearly celebrate an Obit in the parish-Parish-Church of Stratford before mentioned upon the Eve of Corpus Christi for the souls of the Parents and Ancestors of him the said Thomas Power The donation of which Heremitage upon the grant of Ryen-Clifford from Christopher Power to William Clopton in 5 H. 8. is therewith past to him the said William and his heirs since when and not before that ever I could see this place hath been reputed a Mannour the said William Clopton being certified to dye seized thereof 4. Ian. 1 Eliz. From whom is descended Thomas Clopton of Clopton that hath the like right therein at this day but the site of the Heremitage was in 3. 4. Ph. M. granted to the Hospitall of Savoy in the Suburbs of London Loxley THis place was given by Offa King of the Mercians unto the Church of Worcester about CCC years before the Norman Conquest and continued thereto till the time of King Canutus the Dane but then the whole Realm being burthened with grievous taxes and a Constitution made that if any place did fail in payment by the space of 3. days of what was so exacted he that should deposite the money to the Shiriff might presently possesse himself thereof this with divers other lands whereof Ludington Draiton and Milcote in this County were part was by that crafty advantage most injuriously taken from it Sed Deus hanc sui rapinam absque ultione non dimisit saith the Monk of Worcester nam unusquisque eorum qui huic fraudi operam dederunt digna ultione percussi aut luminibus privati aut paralysi dissoluti aut in insaniam versi sunt plurimi etiam semetipsos interfecerunt But at the Norman invasion one Eatstanus had the greatest part of it as his freehold which by the Conq. was disposed of inter alia to the E. of Mellent as may appear by the generall Survey shortly after made where it is written Locheslei certified to contain 4. hides all which excepting one virgate held by Hugo fil Constantii of Hugh de Grentemaisnill and valued at v s. were rated at iv li. xv s. there being then a Church Another hide by the same Survey may seem to have been here though it be in that place written Lochesham which was then in the Bishop of Worcester's hands and rated at xxv s. But that which the Earl of Mellent had came to his brother Henry de Newburgh Earl of Warwick as it seems with the rest of those lands in this County which the same Henry and his posterity enjoy'd for by what I shall shew anon it will appear to have been of their Fee Whether Robert fil Odonis who lived in H. 2. time was the first that had it by the Earl of Warwick's grant or whether it were his father I am not sure but that the said Robert possest it and made it the place of his residence is out of doubt for in his grant to the Canons of Kenilworth of Cxx. acres of his demesn lands here with a messuage toft and croft and ii s. Rent which for xii marks of silver he sold to them he writes himself Robertus fil Odonis de Lochesleia And besides this so sold by him he gave unto them for the health of his fathers soul whose body lay buried in that Monastery and for the good estate of himself and his posterity pasturage for x. Oxen and C. Sheep in his demesn lands here Which Robert left issue onely 3. daughters his heirs whose matches and descendants I have here inserted Rob. fil Odonis de Locheslei Basilia Petrus de Mora senior ux Rad. le Falconer sive de Mora. Petrus de Mora senior ... ux Rob. de Offeworth ... ux Rob. Balance ... ux Paulini Peyvre ... ux Lenardi .... mil. Agnes ux Will. Trussell Margeria ux Will. Bagod Of Peter de Mora great grandchild to Rob. fil Odonis I find that he was a liberall Benefactor to the Canons of Kenilworth for it appears that about 38 H. 3. he gave them the Mannour-house here at Loxley and all his possessions belonging thereto besides his lands at Westcote and Morton-Bagot with the advouson of that Church Will. Mansell being then high Shiriff of this County and a witnesse thereto which was confirmed to them by Will. Mauduit Earl of Warwick in 47 H. 3. And that the Canons of Kenilworth had here in 19 E. 1. one carucate of land valued at xvi s. in Rent of Assise viii s. and one Mill rated at iv s. at which time the Monks of Worcester had xviii s. Rent of Assize in this Lordship But it seems that the Ancestour of Iohn de Wauton Lord of Walton D'eivile was enfeoft by the Canons of Kenilworth in the greatest part of this Lordship for it appears that the said Iohn held the same of them by Knights service and in 20 E. 3 Baldw. Frevill and William Trussell answered for half a Knights Fee in this place Which Canons having a great share here in 25 E. 3. purchased of Iohn the son of Iohn de Peyto xiv messuages more with two carucates five yard land three acres of meadow and x s. ob Rent in this place All which together with the rest whereof they were possest before coming to the Crown upon the dissolution of that Monastery was 28 Martii 33 H. 8. granted to Thom. Cawarden Esq. and Elizabeth his wife and the heirs of the body of the said Thomas and afterwards coming to Lodowyk Grevill Esquier and Francis Gyll Yeoman was by them sold to Edward Nevill Esquier but continued not long with him for in 12 Eliz. William Underhill dyed seized of it leaving William his son and heir aged xiv years and six months The Church being given to the Monastery of Stone in Staffordshire which was a Cell to the Priory of Kenilworth by Rob. fil Odonis before specified
then Bp. of Worcester and hâ—s successors for ever purchasing the advouson of the Church of Stratford from the said Bishop and adding it thereto which was forthwith appopriated unto it as I have already declared And for the farther advantage of these his Chantry-Priests and their successors did he obtain divers immunities and priviledges both to themselves and their tenants as appeareth by K. Edw. 3. Charter bearing date at Westminster 26. Martii 11. of his reign and confirmed by other succeeding Kings And yet thinking all too little did he more augment their possessions giving unto them one messuage and two carucates of land lying in Inge before mentioned three mess. and 6. tofts situate in Stratford super Avon with 7. other mess. lying also there The other Benefactors that it had were these Adam de Styvinton of Stratford who gave thereunto 4. acres of land lying in Ingen Nicholas de Dudley Parson of Kings-Swinford in Worcestershire 4. mess. 70. acres of land 3. acres of meadow and xv d. yearly Rent with the appurtenances in Dudley Com. Wigorn. with Common of Pasture for all manner of Cattell except Goats in the wood called Pensyned neer Dudley aforesaid And Iohn Noie and Reg. le Dishere Priests eight mess. three shops and three tofts in Stratford abovesaid The House of square stone for the habitation of these Priests adjoyning to the Church-yard was built by Raph de Stratford first a Canon of Pauls and afterwards Bishop of London whose good affections to this town being his birth place stir'd him up to that pious work of which he began the structure in 26 E. 3. with ten Carpenters ten Masons and their servants as by the Kings Letters Patent of speciall protection to them till the same should be finished appeareth And after this did King H. 5. in 1. of of his raign grant thereunto an ample Charter of priviledges wherein that of King E. 3. is recited and confirmed So that now being thus fitted with a Mansion as also their revenues and immunities much increased it was not long ere it had the reputation of a Church Collegiate for by that title was the Custos or Warden thereof presented in anno 1423. 1 H. 6. unto which Thomas Balshall D r of Divinity and Warden in E. 4. time added a fair and beautifull Quire rebuilt from the ground at his own costs on the North side whereof he lyeth entombed under a goodly raised Monument whereupon his portraiture in brasse with an Inscription was set which are now utterly torn away To whom succeeded Raph Collingwode D r likewise in Divinity and Dean of Lichfield who pursuing the pious intent of the said D r Balshall which was not in his life time accomplisht instituted to the honour of Almighty God the Holy Trinity the blessed Virgin and S. Thomas the Martyr by the consent of Sylvester Gygles then B p of Worcester four Children Choristers to be daily assistant in the celebration of divine service in that Church as also nominated and admitted by the Warden for the time being which Choristers by his said Ordination should always come by two and two together into the Quire to Mattens and Vespers on such days as the same were to be sung there according to the Ordinale Sarum and at their entrance into the Church bowing their knees before the Crucifix each of them say a Pater noster and an Ave. And for their better regulation did he order and appoint that they should sit quietly in the Quire saying the Mattens and Vespers of our Lady distinctly and afterwards be observant to the Offices of the Quire That they should not be sent upon any occasion whatsoever into the town That at Dâ—nner and Supper-times they should constantly be in the Colledge to wait at the Table and to read upon the Bible or some other authentique book That they should not come into the Buttry to draw beer for themselves or any body else That after Dinner they should go to the singing School and that their School-master should be one of the Priests or Clerks appointed by the discretion of the Warden being a man able to instruct them in singing to the Organ as also that they should have one Bed-chamber in the Church whereunto they were to repair in Winter time at 8. of the Clock and in Summer at nine in which lodging to be two Beds wherein they were to sleep by couples And that before they did put off their clothes they should all say the prayer of De profundis with a loud voyce with the prayers and orisons of the faithfull and afterwards say thus God have mercy of the soule of Rauf Colyngwode our Founder and Master Thomas Balshall a speciall benefactor to the same And for the maintenance of these Choristers he enfeoft S r Edw. Grevil Kt. Io. Grevil Esq. others in certain lands situate in Stratford Drayton and Binton within this County which Feofment bears date 7 Octob. 7 H. 8. But it was not long after that this Colledge thus compleated came to ruine with the rest as a preparative whereunto was that Survey in 26 H. 8. by which the revenue of the lands and tithes belonging to it is certifyed to amount to Cxxviii l. ix s. i d. At which time besides the Warden sc. M r Iohn Bell and the Sub-warden there was one Priest who served the cure for the Parishioners and had vi l. xiii s. iiii d. salary 3 Chaplains 3 Clerks and 4 Choristers whose severall salaries for brevity I omit to mention Robert Porter being then Steward of their Court whose fee was xx s. per. an and Hugh Reynolds their Bayliff who had also xl s. annuity Howbeit at the suppression thereof in 37 H. 8. by the Statute made that year I find another Survey taken where the yearly value is certifyed to be no more than Cxxvii l. xviii s. ix d. Anthony Barker being then Warden and having a stipend of Lxviii l. v s. v d. per an Out of which was paid to D r Bell then Bishop of UUorcester the preceding Warden as hath been observed the yearly summe of xxii l. for a Pension The site of which Colledge in 4 E. 6. was granted to Iohn Earl of Warwick and his heirs who being attainted in 1 Mariae as I have elswhere shewed it came again to the Crown and therein continued long it seems for in 18 Elizabethaeâ— Ric. Coningsby had a Lease thereof granted to him by the Queen for 21 years Patroni Cantariae Custodes sive Gardiani Ioh. Winton Episc. Ioh. de Offchirch Pbr. 22 Oct. 1331. Ioh. Winton Episc. Mr. Ioh. de Suthwaltham Pbr. 12 Iulii 1336. D. Episc. VVigorn Magr. Ioh. Geraud 14 Ian. 1339. D. Episc. VVigorn D. Hugo de Ferrariis ..... 1354. D. Episc. VVigorn D. Will. Boys Pbr. 27 Martii 1368. D. Episc. VVigorn Thomas at
consideration he therefore commandeth that if they would use their private Oratories otherwise than onely for their private Prayers the Bishop should appoint them a Clerk whom they might entertain for that purpose All which is plain by later Constitutions made in the time of Leo It was thought good saith the Emperour in their judgement which have gone before that in private Chapells none should celebrate the holy Communion but Priests belonging unto greater Churches which order they took as it seemeth for the custody of Religion lest men should secretly receive from Hereticks insted of food the bane of their souls pollution insted of expiation To the descendants of which Iohn Harewell did this Mannour continue so long as the male line lasted and then by partition made betwixt the Sisters and coheirs of Thomas Harewell bearing date 4 Feb. 25 H. 8. was it allotted to Agnes the wife of Iohn Smith one of the Barons of the Kings Exchequer in whose line together with Wotton-wawen before specified it still continueth Ludington THis place being in the Saxons time belonging to the Bishoprick of Worcester and by the power of the Danes in the reign of Canutus with other lands taken from that Church was in Edw. the Confessors time possest by 4 Theins and reputed for two Mannourss but after the Norman conquest by the Earl of Mellent being esteemed at xii hides by the Survey then taken which were held of him by 4. Knights and valued at vi l. In which Survey it is written Luditone having had its originall appellation from the name of some antient possessor thereof as I guess From this Earl it came to Henry de Newburgh Earl of Warwick his Brother and was granted by him or Earl Roger his son to the ancestour of Rob. de Valle in H. 1. time as that certificate made by Will Earl of Warwick in 12 H. 2. doth manifest at which time Rob. de Valle held it of the same Earl by the service of half a Kts. fee in whose line it continued till the issue male failing it came by a daughter and coheir to Burdet as the descent here inserted doth shew Of these the third Robert was a Justice of Assize in this County in 17 and 20 H. 3. and his son Robert a Kt. in 21 E. 1. as also in 3 E. 2. in Commission for assessing and collecting a xv th and tenth and afterwards a Coroner in this County but being not able to attend that office in respect of his great employment for severall eminent persons the Shiriff in 14 E. 2. had command to cause another to be chosen To which Robert succeeded his son called Rob. de Vaal jun. who went in that Welch expedition of 15 E. 2. which I take to be it that was occasioned by the difference betwixt Iohn de Moubray Rog. Mortimer and Hugh le Despensor the younger touching the land of Gowher in Wales This Robert was in 18 E. 2. constituted one of the Commissioners for conservation of the peace in this County and for taking care that the Articles contained in the Statute of Winchester should be observed and in 20 E. 2. and 1 E. 3. one of the Justices for the Gaol delivery at Warwick as also a Commissioner for assessing and collecting a xx th in this County and in 7 E. 3 being a Kt. bore for his Armes a Fesse chequy betwixt 3. Lions rampant Rob. de Valle 12 H. 2. Robertus de Valle 6 Ioh. Nichola filia Ade de Crumbe Robertus de Valle 17 H. 3. Rob. de Valle miles 2 E. 1. Petronilla 9 E. 2. Rob. de Valle jun. 15 E. 2. miles 7 E. 3. Ioh. de Valle ob s. prole 34 E. 3. Elianora uy Gerardi Burdet de Sâ—kindon Ioh. Burdet alter consangu haered Ioh. de Vale 36 E. 3. Cath. ux Henrici filii Ric. le Noreys 7 E. 3. Ioh. Norrys 36 E. 3. Eliz. relicta Steph. de Aldermarston To whom succeeded Iohn his son and heir a Commissioner likewise for levying a xv th and x th in this County in 27 and 28 E. 3. which Iohn died without issue in 34 E. 3. leaving Iohn Burdet and Iohn Norrys his Cosens and heirs murthered as it seems for I find that Will. Abbot of Evesham had in 39 E. 3. a pardon for the same by means whereof the inheritance of this Lordship came at length to Burdet though an estate therein some other persons had for a while for in 2 H. 4. Iohn Wyard of whom I shall speak in Alspath was certified to hold the 4 th part of a K. s. fee here in right of his wife of the Earl of Warwick and in 11. H. 4. Rob. Castell had Freewarren granted to him in all his demesn lands here and in Alspath aforesaid And in 10. H. 6. it was found that Sir Thomas Burdet of Arrow in this County Kt. together with Iohn Welsh of Sheldesley in com Wigorn Gent. held two messuages and 2 yard land here by the service of the 4th part of a Kâ—s fee To which Sir T. Burdet the whole right in this Mannour came at length to be fixed as by his Feoffment thereof in 21 H. 6. appeareth and so descended to his great grandchild Ric. Burdet as the Pedegree in Arrow sheweth To whom succeeded Anne his daughter and heir married to Edw. Conway Esq. by which means the inheritance hereof divolved to their posterity Edw. Vicount Conway of whom and his family I shall speak in Ragley and Arrow now possessing it The Priest serving in this Chapell had in 26. H. 8. v li. vi s. viii d. per an for his stipend payd unto him by the Warden of the Collegiate Church at Stratford super Avon and the like salary had his successor in 37 H. 8. but I find no more than one presentation thereto and that was by the Warden of the Chantry at the Altar of S. Thomas the Martyr in the said Collegiate Church of one Iohn Pebworth Priest 20 Apr. an 1420. Ruin-Clifford IN the Conqueros time Rob. de Stadford possest one hide and 1. virgate of land here then held of him by one Hugh but before the Norman invasion it was the freehold of Saward the rest of this Hamlet being a member of Stratford as I shall shew by and by I am of opinion that the posterity of the said Hugh residing here assumed from hence the sirname of Clifford the last male branch of which family that continued owners hereof was Iohn de Clifford who in H. 3. time past away all his lands here to Raph le Power Son of Margerie his Sister which makes me conclude that he had no Children of his own It is very like that Hugh le Poer an assistant to the Barons against K. H. 3. became Husband to her the said Mergerie for I find that the same Hugh was seized
heir to Geffrey de Langley bearing date at Milcote 5 Nov. 22. R 2. which VVill Grevill being so possest thereof entailed it in 3 H. 4. on the issue male of his body by Ioan his wife and for want of such issue upon his other Sons and the issue male of their bodies successively scil Iohn Lodowick and Wil. with remainder to his right heirs Will. Grevill de Campden obiit 2 H. 4. Johanna soror Philippi Thornbury militis obiit 37 H. 6. Ludovicus Grevill 3. H. 4. Margareta filia haeres Egidii Arden de Draiton mil. Will. Grevill fil haeres obiit 39 H. 6. .... Grevill Cath. soror cohaeres Rob Pointz Ioh. Grevill de Milcote 14 H. 7. Iohanna Edw. Grevill miles obiit 20. H. 8. .... filia Thomae Denton Ioh. Grevill miles obiit 2 E. 6. Edw. Grevill miles obiit 2 Eliz. Margareta filia una haered Wil. Willington ar Ludovicus Grevill ar morte multatus apud Warwick Thomasina filia Will. Petre mil. Edw. Grevill miles Iohanna filia Thomae Bromley milâ— summi Angliae Cancellarii Ioh. Grevill obiit s. proleâ— Iocosa ux Edw. Whitacre Marga. ux Ed. Pennel Maria ux Arth. Ingram eq aur Kath. ux ... Ingram Iana Elix Constancia ob s. p. Fulco Grevill miles à quo Dominus Brooke .... uxor Edm. Tame militis Joh. Grevill de Campden 3 H. 4. Walterus Cokesey Iocosa relicta Beauchamp Joh. Grevill de Charlton râ—gis in com Glouc. miles obiit 20 E. 4. Iohanna relicta 20 E. 4. Tho. Grevill alias Cokesey miles defunctus s. piole 14 H. 7. Anna. Margareta Hugo Cokesey Of this name viz. Greyvill or Greynvill for both ways it is written there was of an elder date in this County as in Burmington I have shewed but whether that they of Campden were of the same line I cannot say and therefore of what family this Will. Grevill was I am yet to learn as also what is memorable of him other than his death which hapned in 2 H. 4. at Campden above specified in the Parish Church whereof he lyeth buried leaving Ioane his wife Sister of Sir Philip Thornbury Kt. surviving who lived a long time after and Iohn his son and heir but by a former wife as may seem by the Entail before mentioned which Iohn resided also at Campden and being Shiriff of Gloucestershire and the Marches of Wales in 6 H. 4 bore for his Arms Or upon a Cross engrailed within the like border sable x annulets of the first with a mullet of 5. points in the dexter quarter This Iohn wedded Ioyce Sister to Hugh but daughter of VValt Cokesey by reason whereof Thomas her grandchild became heir to Cokesey's lands as I shall shew by and by But Iohn the son and heir to the same Iohn and Ioyce dwelt at Cherleton-Regis in com Glouc. and by the death of Ioane his grandfathers second wife hapning in 28 H. 6. came to possess this Mannour of Milcote which she held during life where making then his residence he became first a Justice of Peace in this Shire from the last year of K. H. 6. reign then scil in 1. E. 4. Shiriff of this County and Leicestershire In 5 E. 4. he was Knighted In 13 E. 4. he again bore the Office of Shirâ—ff for these Shires in which year he had livery of the lands descended to him by the death of his mother and in 17 E. 4. being then Shiriff the third time bore the â—ame coâ—e that his father did excepting the Annulets upon the Cross as by his Picture together with his wife both kneeling in their surcotes of Armes in the East Window of the Parish Church at Binton in this County appeareth but departed this life 6 Aug. 20 E. 4. and was buried in the Church of Weston super Avon as may seem by the direction of his Testament leaving Thomas his son and heir and two daughters viz. Anne and Margaret which Thomas in respect of the inheritance he enjoyed by descent from his grandmother assumed the sirname of Cokesey and having forthwith livery of his said fathers lands being then 26 years of age residing here at Milcote was the same 20 E. 4. constituted Shiriff of this County and Leicestershire and at the Coronation of K. H. 7. one of the Knights of the Bath then created concerning which Order I shall here take leave to make a short digression That the making of Knights by this solemn manner of Bathing and other sacred Ceremonies notwithstanding the originall thereof cannot now be discerned is of no less antiquity than the times of our ancestors the Saxons is not I think to be doubted for though in that mention made by Will. Malmesb. of K. Alfred making his grandson Athelstan a Knight he instances no more than the purple Robe with the Sword and rich Belt yet 't is apparent that when Geffrey of Anjon in order to his marriage with Maud the Empress onely daughter to our King H. 1. was made Knight at Roan by the same K. Henry on Whitsunday an 1227. 27 H. 1. it is said by Iohn the Monk of Marmonstier that he with xxv Esquires then attending him were Bathed according to antient Custom Illucescente die altera Balneorum usus uti Tyrocinii suscipiendi consuetudo expostulat paratus est saith he And concerning Robes and other ornaments goeth thus on Comperto Rex à Cubiculariis quod Andegavensis qui cum eo venerant ascendissent de Lavacro jussit eos ad se vocari Post corporis ablutionem ascendens Comitis Andegavorum generosa proles Gaufredus bysso retorta ad carnem induitur Cyclade auro texta supervestitur Chlamide conchylii muricis sanguine tincta tegitur caligis holosericis calceatur pedes ejus sotularibus in superficie Leunculos aureos habentibus muniuntur Ejus verò consodales qui cum eo militiae suscipiendae munus expectabant universo bysso purpura innovantur And moreover Talibus itaque ut praetaxatum est ornamentis decoratus c. adducti sunt Equi allata sunt Arma distribuuntur singulis prout opus erat There being put upon him harness of double Mail and gilt Spurs a Shield of the Lions of Anjou hung on his neck a rich Helm on his head and an armed Spear put into his hand and lastly a Sword out of the King's store ab antiquo saith he ibidem signatus in quo fabricando Fabrorum superlativus Galannus multa operâ studio desudavit And that thus armed he mounted a Spanish Horse which was also first given him by the King the Feast that belong'd to his reception of this dignitie called Festum Tyrocinii being honoured with Tourneaments and Masques which lasted no less than seaven days Of which Courtly Ceremonies most plain it is that the use hath continued ever since even through all ages till towards
be without prejudice of the mother Church which License was to continue only for two years To him succeeded Laurence his son and heir who by marriage with Maud daughter and heir to Sir Thomas Charnells of Aylmesthorpe in Com. Leic. much increast his estate and amongst other lands of her inheritance had the Mannour of Bilton in this County as in my discourse of that place is shewed Which Laurence had issue by her Sir Will. Trussell Knight who by the death of Margaret the wife of Sir Fouk Pembruge Knight daughter of Sir VVill. Trussell of Acton-Trussell before specifyed and heir not only to her fathers estate but also at length to the lands of Sir Iohn Trussell her Uncle as hath been already shewed became possest of Cublesdon and Acton-Trussell with divers other Lordships lying in the Counties of Staff Salop. Northampt Berks. Norff. and Essex and left issue Sâ—r Thomas and he another Sir VVill. Shiriff of Staffordshire in 6 H. 5. but had his residence in Leicestershire at Aylmesthorpe in H. 6. time Which Sir VVill. Trussell in 11 E. 4. being then the Kings servant in the Office of Valâ—t de Chambre had a grant of the custody of the Kings private Pallace at Westminster for life But afterwards scil in 14 E. 4. he was one of the Kts. for the body to the same K. retained by Indenture to serve him in his French wars for one whole year with six spears himself accounted for one and Lx. Archers well and sufficiently armed and arrayed taking for himself ii s per diem wages xii d per diem for the other Spears and for the Archers vi â— In 15 E. 4. he bore the Office of Shiriff for this County and Leicestershire and dyed 22 Ian. 20 E. 4. seized of the Mâ—â—nours of Acton-Trussell Bedenhale Shiriff-Hales and Thriff-Haly lying in the Counties of Staff and Salopâ— Waburne in Norfolk Shotesbroke in Berks. Aylmesthorpe in Câ—m Leic. Langport Eston-Maâ—duit Merston and Thorp-Malesours in Com. Northampt. Kenington and Wâ—nington in Essex as also of this our Billesâ—ey in Warwickshire but how that comes to passe I doe not apprehend leaving Edw. his son and heir who departed this life 10 Iunii 14 N. 7. Eliz. his daughter and heir being then not much above two years of age whose wardship and marriage in 22 H. 7. was granted by the King to Iohn Vere then Earl of Oxford and to Iohn Vere cosyn of the said Earl which Iohn marryed her and became afterwards Earl of Oxford in whose family most of the lands of her inheritance continued till of late time I now come to Sir Edmund Trussell Kt. second son to Will by Roese the daughter and heir to Will. Pantulf of Cublesdon He marryed Margaret the daughter to Walt. de Osevile and left issue Will. and Edmund which Edmund having to do at Mancestre and other places in this County as shall there be shewed was a man of some note and action as well as his elder brother for I find that he assisted Guy de Beauchamp E. of Warw. and his complices in the murther of Piers de Gaveston It seems that he and his brother had committed some high misdemenour about the 16 of E. 2. for that year did the K. by a speciall Pat. dated at Yorke 20 Sept. appoint Robert de Digby to pursue arrest and seize upon them In 12 E. 3. being â—hen a Knight he founded a Chantry at Hill-Morton as I have there shewed and gave for his Armes argent a Crosse fleurè gules debruised with a bend .... but whether he left any issue or not I cannot determine So likewise was Will. his elder brother a K t in 12 E. 2. and then gave for his Armes Argent a Crosse fleurè gules but his principall seat was at Flore in Northamptonshire though he also possest Morton-Bagot and Nuthurst in this County This is the man that was imployed by the Commons in that wofull convention of theirs in 20 E. 2. called by themselves a Parliament who pronounct the words of Deposition to that unhappy King in this manner as Knighton relates Ego Will. Trussell vice omnium de terra Angliae totius Parliamenti Procurator tibi Edwardo reddo homagium prius tibi factum extunc diffido te privo omni potestate Regia dignitate nequaquam tibi de caet ero tanquam Regi pariturus There are some circumstances that induce me to think that he did repent of this strange fact or at least that he did abhominate that cruell murther of K. E. 2. which so soon followed his said deposal for thouh his lands were seized on as a Rebell by King E. 3. after the beginning of his reign yet upon his submission in the Parl. held at Winchester he was received into favour again having had restitution of them and pardon for his offence which as I conceive was for adhering to Edmund Earl of Kent brother unto the murthered King at that time when being made to believe K. Edw. the second was alive he designed the delivery of him from imprisonment for during that Parliament held at Winchester 1 E. 3. was the said Earl of Kent arrested and lost his life for that buisnesse It seems he was a man of great abilities for immediately upon receipt of his pardon the King made him his Secretary sent him Embassadour to the King of Arragon to treat for a marriage â—etwixt Peter his son and heir and Alianore sister to our K. Edward which took not effect After which I find him imployed as a Commissioner in this County and Leicestershire upon sundry occasions viz. in 6 E. 3. for the Gaol delivery at Warwick In 10 E. 3. for hearing and determining cases of Felony and other misdemeanours In 11 E. 3. for declaring the Kings purposes to the Clergy and Laitie upon their lending money to prevent war betwixt England and France In 12 E. 3. for conservation of the peace in this County as also in the Counties of Worcester and Oxford In 19 E. 3. again for conservation of the peace in this County In which year being of the Kings Councell as the Pat. expresseth he had a grant of xl â—â— per an fee to be received at Michaelmas and Easter yearly out of the Exchequer so long as he should attend that imployment To which Will. succeeded Theobald and to him Iohn of whom and his descendants I shall here say no more than that he was Lord of Solihull in this County about the latter end of E. 3. and beginning of R. 2. time in right of his wife as when I come to that place shall be manifested whose issue male became shortly after extinct so that Sir Alured Trussell Knight his brother became Lord of this Mannour it being setled upon him and the heirs of his
William This Peter was a most devout man for to the Monks of Bordsley he gave lands in Hilborough To the Knights Templars the Mill here at Stodley and certain lands besides And moreover was the pious Founder of that Monastery for Canons Regular here in Studley whereof together with its particular endowments benefactors and dissolution I shall speak by and by But to him succeeded Peter his son heir who left very little here to his descendants for it 2 Ioh. he sold to his Tenants of this Mannour all his wood called the Haye to the intent that they and their heirs should have Common of Pasture therein for their Cattell saving onely to himself and his heirs the paunage and agistment for Hoggs Besides this it appears that he gave to Henry de Montfort Lord of Beldesert a large proportion of lands here with Emme his daughter in Frank marriage and likewise divers tenements and particular parcells of ground in exchange for that which the said Henry recovered at Hildeburgewerthe now Hilborough in the Kings Court at Westminster by a triall at Law And moreover to Thurstan Montfort son to the said Henry the intire Park of Stodley with severall other tenements So that accounting also the homage and services of certain particular Tenants in this place which together with the advouson and patronage of the Priory he granted to William de Cantilupe I do not find that he left his posterity much more than the bare name of the Mannour for those of the Inhabitants here that held of Cantilupe by reason of the grant to him so made as aforesaid appeared at his Court-Leet for Aston-Cantilupe and did partake with the Tenants of that Mannour in sundry other priviledges Of the particulars which Montfort had here I find this mention in 24 E. 1. Upon the Extent of Iohn de Montfort's lands viz. that he had ix s yearly Rent payable from five Freeholders at the Feasts of S. Michael and the Annunciation of our Lady as also a Park and a certain Meadow held of the Earl of Warwick by the fourth part of a Knights Fee which Park was then in the hands of the said Earl as it seems for that very year did there a Commission issue out to certain persons to enquire who those were that had entred therein and killed his Deer But these came at length to William Beauchamp Lord Bergavenny in such sort as the Castle of Beldesert and town of Henley did As to what the Templars had here the extent thereof upon the death of Guy de Beauchamp Earl of Warwick was signified to be one mess. one carucate of land ten acres of meadow two Mills and xxx s. Rent all which he had seized into his hands and held during his life as superior Lord of the Fee upon the suppression of that Order in 4 E. 2. But it was not long after that the Knights Hospitalars possest the same with the rest of the Templars lands as in Balshall shall be manifested That which the heirs of Cantilupe had here was held of them by the third part of a Knights Fee Iohn the son of William de la Hay to holding it of Iohn de Hastings Lord Bergavenny in 18 E. 2. from whom it came to William Beauchamp before specified with much more of Hastings lands And touching the Mannour the substance of what else I have seen is that Peter Corbison in 29 E. 3. enfeoft the then Vicar of Studley therein together with pasturage for a Horse called a Hackney in a meadow there known by the name of Castle-meadow to be tyed and flitted with an iron chain from the Feast of the Purification of our Lady untill the said meadow should be mowed reserving an yearly Rent of three broad Arrow heads to the chief Lord of the Fee for all services Which Peter Corbison had issue one only daughter and heir called Felicia married to Iohn Barret of Shelfhull unto whom the said Vicar of Studley past the premisses in 9 R. 2. which Iohn and Felicia left also a daughter and heir wedded to ..... Atwood who had onely issue Female one whereof became the wife of ... Hunt in H. 8. time from whom .... Hunt who now possesseth the site of the before specified Castle derives his descent The Church being given to the Canons of Studley upon the Foundation of that Monastery as shall anon be shewed and in anno 1291. 19 E 1. valued at xv marks and a half was very antiently appropriated to the Priory here and in 26 H. 8. the Vicaridge rated at viii li. not in Tithes but a meer stipend payable by the Canons to the Incumbent for the time being Patroni Vicariae Incumbentes c. Prior Conv. de Stodleg Adam de Hemburi Pbr 4. Id. Iulii 1290. Prior Conv. de Stodleg Adam de Stodley Pbr. 12. Cal. Iulii 1293. Prior Conv. de Stodleg Nich. de la Sale Pbr. 3. Id. Dec. 1338. Prior Conv. de Stodleg Ioh. de Walton Pbr. 3. Dec 1345. Prior Conv. de Stodleg Rob. de Ordelescote 4. Iulii 1354. D. Episcopus Henr. de Geydon Pbr. 14. Dec. 1362. Prior Conventus de Stodleg Thomas Newman Pbr. 6. Martii 1364. Prior Conventus de Stodleg Petrus Dycones Pbr. 13. Ian. 1375. Prior Conventus de Stodleg D. Ioh. Litster alias Tiyhill Pbr. 16. Aug. 1414. D. Episc. per lapsum Ioh. Campion Pbr. 23. Dec. 1437. Prior Conv. de Stodleg Rob. Ekynton Pbr. 14. Nov. 1438. Prior Conv. de Stodleg D. Ioh. Morton Canon 26. Apr. 1458. Prior Conv. de Stodleg D. Milo Sheghe Cap. 2. Iunii 1461. Prior Conv. de Stodleg D. Thomas Dawes Cap. 13. Aug. 1479. D. Episcopus Magr. Rob. Knowles S. Theol. Dr. 6. Aug. 1536. Edm. Knightley miles D. Ric. Kylmar 14. Sept. 1541. Ioh. Knotsford de majori Malvern unus servien D. Regis ad Arma Iana ejus conjux una haered Edm. Knightley mil. D. Ioh Coxetur Pbr. 23. Sept. 1546. Ioh. Knotsford de majori Malvern unus servien D. Regis ad Arma Iana ejus conjux una haered Edm. Knightley mil. Rob. Dowse Cler. 21. Martii 1550. In this Church there hath been a Chantry founded in 7 H. 4. by Thomas Middlemore of Edgbaston for a certain Priest to sing Masse daily at the Altar of the blessed Virgin on the South part of the same Church for the good estate of him the said Thomas during this life and the health of his soul after his departure hence as also for the souls of his Father and mother and all the faithfull deceased Which Chantry was endowed with Lxxx. acres of land x. acres of meadow and xiii s. iv d. yearly Rent lying in Studley above mentioned the revenues whereof in 26 H. 8. were rated
be there buried and of that his Testament constituting Rauf Boteler Lord Sudley then Treasurer of England his Overseer departed this life the same year as appears by the Probate thereof leaving Alianore his wife surviving Thomas his son heir and Iohn a younger son from whom the Throkmortons of Gloucestershire are descended Which Thomas his said mother in 26 H. 6. gave lands of six marks per annum value to the Monks of Evesham for the maintenance of a Priest to sing divine service perpetually at the Altar of our Lady in their Conventuall Church at Evesham for the good estate of King Henry the 6. Q. Margaret his royall consort and of them the said Alianore and Thomas during this life and for the health of their souls after their departure hence as also for the souls of the said King's father and grandfather late Kings of England of Katherine late Queen of England and for the soul of Iohn Throkmorton before specified Thomas his father and Anne his mother with their Ancestors and all the faithfull deceased Which King also in consideration of the good service performed by the said Iohn Throkmorton deceased to himself and to Henry the fourth and fift his father and grandfather late Kings of England in the Office of Chamberlain of the Exchequer gave further license to them the said Thomas and Alianore that they or either of them or the heirs of the longer liver of them might found a Châ—ntry of one Priest to sing divine service every day during the woâ—ld at the Altar of the B. Virgin in the parish-Parish-Church of Fladbury before specified for the good estate of him the said King and of all those above mentioned and to endow the same with lands to the value of x li. per annum Till the time of the said Thomas Throkmorton it seemes that this family was not wholy possest of Coughton but then did Iohn Tracy son and heir of Alice the other daughter and coheir of Sir Guy Spine by his Deed bearing date 29. Maii 27 H. 6. grant unto him the said Thomas and his heirs that moitye thereof by inheritance belonging to him Of which Thomas all that I have seen further memorable is that in 5 E. 4. he underwent the Office of Shiriff for this County and Leicestershire and that he departed this life in 12 E. 4. leaving Robert his son and heir xxi years of age whom I find a Justice of Peace in this County from 2 R. 3. till towards his death as by the renewing of those Comissions at severall times appeareth In 2 H. 7. this Robert made the Park here at Coughton inclosing therewith a certain Common ground called Wike-wood whereunto he afterwards added Samburn-heath and Spiney's-Leys lying within the said Lordship of Samburne and the same year was a Commander in the Kings Army at the battail of Stoke In 5 6 15 17 21 and 23 H. 7. he was in Commission for the Gaol delivery at Warwick In 6 H. 7. for arraying of men against the preparation made by Charles the eight King of France then threatning England with an Invasion In 10 H. 7. he received summons with divers other persons of quality to appear before the King in person upon the Feast day of All Saints the same year to receive the Order of Knighthood upon advancement of Henry the Kings second son to the Dukedome of Yorke and creating him Knight of the Bath in honour whereof these were to be made Knights of that Order yet do not I find by any Comission that he had the title of Knight attributed to him till 17 H. 7. That he was a man of singular piety the sundry bequests contained in his Testament do sufficiently manifest and of no lesse devotion as may seem by his Pilgrimage to the Holy Land which in 10 H. 8. having setled his estate he undertook but dyed beyond Sea in that journey By which Testament bearing date on the Feast day of S. Philip and Iacob anno 1518. 10 H. 8. he bequeathed his body to be buried in the Parish Church here at Coughton under the Tombe in the midst of the Church in case he should dye within this Realm appointing that not above vi li. xiii s. iv d. should be spent at his said buriall and Months mind and that to be given to Priests celebrating thereat nor any entertainment in meat and drink for other than such Priests and Clerks with poor people that lived by Almes And further directed that forthwith after his buriall there should be said for his soul in the Monasteries of Studley and Evesham xxx Masses of Iesu every Priest saying such Masse to have iv d. for his labour And moreover wiâ—led that the East window of the Chancell at Coughton should be glased at the charge of his Executors with the story of the Dome as alâ—o that xx s. should be given to the glasing of the East window of the North I le there with the representation of the seven Sacraments and as much for the East window of the South I le that to be of the seven works of Mercy He also willed that the Image of our Lady should be set on the North side at the end of the Altar in the said South Ile and the Image of the Angell Gabrael on the same side of the I le at the pillar between the I le and the Chancell with a Roll in his hand of greeting looking towards our Lady And at the South end of the said Altar the Image of S. Raphael painted and gilded And that in the North I le at the North end of the Altar the Image of the Trinity to be placed and at the South end the Image of S. Michael all which Images to be richly painted and gilded And besides this he further willed that certain lands to the then value of xvi li. per annum purchased by him of sundry persons there named should be put into the hands of Feoffees to the use of a Priest to sing perpetually in the North I le of Coughton Church for his soul and the souls of his Ancestors and that thenceforth the said Ile should be called the Trinity Chapell and the Priest the Trinity Priest which Priest also to teach a Grammar School freely for all his Tenants Children and to have yearly thereof viii li. and his Chamber but the residue of the said xvi li. to be payd monthly to five poor men dwelling in the Almeshouse here in Coughton viz. every one vii d. a week and his Houâ—-room for ever the residue viz. viii s. viii d. to go to the reparation of the Almeshouse And that the said Priest should every Sunday say a Masse of the Trinity Wednsday Masse of Requiem and Friday Masse of Iesu in case he were disposed and once in the week Dirige for his soul and all Christen souls except the dayes before rehearsed fell upon
double Festivalls Which poor men so to be placed in the said Almeshouse to be chosen out of those that had been his Tenants or serving men at the discretion of his son and heir and heirs successively Advertising his son and heir that if he should so amortize this land for those uses it would be a meritorious deed and for which he should have Gods blessing and his and adjuring that none should break this his Will under pain of the Churches Curse Whereunto when he was upon his Pilgrimage to the Holy Land as I have said he added that Anthony his son should have his best ambling Horse to offer at S. Thomas Hospitall in Rome for a Morâ—uary his son Michael his next best Horse and that his goods which he had sent before to Florence should be divided betwixt the said Anthony and Michael Which Will was dated 10. Aug. anno 1518. and proved 9. Nov. anno 1520. To this Sir Robert succeeded George his son and heir who being a Knight in 17 H. 8. was one of those that attended in Court at that solemn Coronation of Queen Anne in 25 H. 8. and in 18. and 35 H. 8. executed the office of Shiriff for this County and Leicestershire This Sir George built that stately Castle-like Gatehouse of free-stone here at Coughton intending as it should seem to have made the rest of his House sutable thereto and having erected a fair Monument for himself and the Lady Catherine his wife standing towards the North-side of the Chancell as I shall shew by and by bequeathing his body to be buried under the same departed this life in 1. Mariae as may seem by the Probate of his Testament leaving issue a fair ofspring Of which I find that Robert the eldest was Shiriff of this County and Leicestershire in 1. M. being then a Knight That Clement the third son was of Haseley in this County of whom and his descendants I have there spoke That Nicholas the fourth was a Knight and in 1 Eliz. imployed as Embassador to Francis the second King of France and Mary Queen of Scots his consort to expostulate the matter with them for assuming the Armes of England in their quarterings and afterwards scil in anno 1567. 9 Eliz. into Scotland at which time the said Queen was most barbarously kept in prison by her rebellious subjects where and when they extorted a resignation of the Regall power from her unto which he having perswaded her to subscribe signified to Queen Eliz. that it was of no validity forasmuch as she had been constrained thereto by the terror of a base imprisonment His other negotiations I shall not stand to particularize referring my Reader to M r Cambden's Annals of Queen Eliz. raign Anno scil 1570. where he speaks of his death and unto Stow's Survey of London for his Epitaph on a fair Monument of Alabaster wherein his statue in armour is cut situate on the south side of the Chancell in S t Catherine Creechurch near Algate within that City But touching the other sons of the said Sir George I find not much memorable except it be of Sir Iohn his seventh son Knighted by Queen Eliz. in the first year of her reign whose Epitaph upon his Monument in the Chancell here at Coughton doth sufficiently declare his eminency and worth Which Sir Iohn had issue Francis attainted in 26 Eliz. for Treason layd to his charge as having conspired God knows what in behalf of the Queen of Scots To the before specified Sir Robert eldest son of Sir George succeeded Thomas and to him Iohn and to him Sir Robert Throkmorton Baronet erected to that dignity by Letters Patent bearing date at Nottingham 1. Sept. 19. Caroli and to him Sir Francis now living whose severall marriages the Pedegree before inserted sheweth The Epitaph upon Sir Robert Throkmorton's Monument represented at the bottome of pag 562. Here lyeth buried Sir Robert Throkmorton Knight son ad heir of Sir George Throkmorton Knight which Sir Robert was twice wedded in the fear of God first to Merell Barkley one of the daughters of the Lord Barkley and did beget on her bodie 3. sons and 4. daughters second to the Lady Elizabeth Hungerford sometime wife of the Lord Hungerford and one of the daughters of the Lord Hussie by whom he did beget two sons and five daughters who departed this life for happier estate the day of Anno Domini 15 .... On the other side of this Monument are these verses Conditur hoc tumulo generosae gloria plebis Luget ut amissum patria chara patrem Nam plebs patronum clari sensere parentem Fautor erat miseris pauperibusque pius Religiosus amans observantissimus aequi Sincerus cultor principis atque Dei. Armatum sensere hostes sensere togatum Pacificum cives clarus utroque fuit Auxerunt famam neptes clarique nepotes Undique multiplici prole beatus erat Erudienda bonos virtutis semina liquet In cinerem rediit qui fuit ante cinis Vita dedit mortem letam mors ultima vita Vita fugax obiit vita perennis adest Magne Roberte vale divae virtutis alumnae Namque tenes superas non rediture domos Circumscribed on the freeze of this Monument O miser respice finem qualis sum in brevi eris vigila ergo quia nescis diem neque horam Upon a plate of brasse fix't on the North wall of the Chancell is this Inscription Of your charite pray for the soul of dame Elizabeth Throkmerton the last Abbas of Denye and Aunt to Sir George Throkmerton Knight who deceassed the xiii day of Ianuarye in the yere of our Lord God a. MCCCCCxlvii who lieth here tumilate in this tumbe on whoze soule and all Christen soules Iesu have mercy Amen Vivit post funera virtus Patroni Vicariae Incumbentes c. Prior Conventus de Stodley Ioh. Grenhull Pbr. 29. Maii 1339. Prior Conventus de Stodley Ioh. de Somburne Pbr. 23. Apr. 1378. Prior Conventus de Stodley Thomas de Balle Cap. 1. Oct. 1434. Prior Conventus de Stodley Rob. Cowper Cap. 20. Sept. 1440. Prior Conventus de Stodley D. Hugo Lynesay Pbr. ult Apr. 1471. D. Henr. 8. Rex Angliae D. Henr. Shelmerdyne Cler. 23. Apr. 1541. Thomas Throkmorton generosus Thomas Ireland Cler. 6. Apr. 1593. Ric. Berkley de Lancombe in Com. Gloucest ar Will Norwood de Lech-Hampton in dicto Com. ar Leonardus Digby Cler. 10. Dec. 1624 The Armes which were lately standing in the windows being onely such as had been set up at the new glasing of them in Sir George Throkmorton's time I have purposely omitted in regard they were no other than such as be in the windows of the Mannour-house whereof I have taken notice Samburne OF this place having its originall denomination from that little Sandy brook nigh unto which it stands I find very antient mention
to the before specified Henry And continuing to the succeeding Earls it was in 9 Ioh. inter alia assigned to Alice the widdow of Earl Waleran to hold in dower during her life and in 26 H. 3. to Ela the widdow of Earl Thomas and after this viz. in 31. H. 3. upon the Agreement betwixt Will. Mauduit and Alice his wife and Iohn de Plessets and Margerie then Countess of Warwick his wife which Alice was Aunt and heir to the said Countess it was one of the Mannours setled upon the same Iohn de Plessets for life in case he survived the said Margerie But Ela the Countess being then living it rested in her possession who had a Charter of Free-warren granted to her for life here and in the rest of the Lordships of her dowrie bearing date 2 Nov. 36 H. 3. Which Ela afterwards marrying to Philip Basset had in 49 H. 3. not onely a Confirmation for her enjoyment hereof during her own life by Will. Mauduit then Earl of Warwick but likewise a grant that the said Philip her husband might hold it during his life in case he should survive her Howbeit in 13 E. 1. I find that Will. de Beauchamp then Earl of Warwick claimed a Court Leet Assize of Bread and Beer Freewarren Gallows Infangthef Tumbrell and Weifs within this Lordship by Prescription all which were allowed whereby it seems that he had then possession thereof though the before specified Ela was then alive by some Agreement 't is like for she did not totally quit her interest here till 17 E. 1. but then by her Deed bearing date at Osney 1 Iunii she passed over and releast the same unto him In 9 E. 2. being in the King's hands by reason of the minority of Thomas son and heir to Guy de Beauchamp Earl of Warwick and valued at xxxiv l. xvi s. iiii d. ob per an it was with the Castle of Warwick and the rest of his possessions in regard of the notable services performed by the said Earl as the grant imports assigned to his Executors for the use of the said Thomas But notwithstanding that assignation it was with divers other great Lordships part of the possessions of the deceased Earl again resumed into the Kings hands and in 11 E. 2. disposed of to Hugh le Despenser the elder to hold till the heir should accomplish his full age After which viz. in 18 E. 3. did T. de Beauchamp the succeeding Earl entail it together with the Castle of Warwick and divers other Lordships upon his issue male where the names of his severall sons are recited To whose posterity it continued till 3 H. 7. as in my discourse of those Earls is manifested but then coming to the Crown was by K. H. 8. in 36 of his reign in consideration of 630 l. 16 s. 2 d. granted unto Sir George Throgmorton Kt. to be held in Capite by the xx th part of a Kts. fee in whose Family it continued till Thomas Throgmorton Esq. by virtue of an Act of Parl. in 2 Iac. sold it to Andrew Archer Esq. whose son and heir viz. Sir Sim. Archer Kt. now enjoys it That the Church dedicated to St. Mary Magd. was originally but a Chapel belonging to Brailes and therewith granted to the Canons of Kenilworth in H. 1. time I have already shewed but in 3 Ioh. it had the reputation of a Church if not before for then by an Agreement betwixt those Canons and Waleran Earl of Warwick touching the future Presentation thereto it was determined that whensoever it might happen to be void the Earl and his heirs should nominate a Clerk to the Canons of Kenilworth and they to present him to the Bishop and that the said Canons should thenceforth receive out of it at the hands of the present Parson incumbent a yearly Pension of two marks of silver upon the Feast days of St. Mich. the Archangell and the Annunciation of our Lady by equall portions and a stone of Wax on Candlemass day for ever About that time I find that Iohn Arch-Deacon of Worcester being Parson here had a Vicar under him called Roger de Warwick the son of one Godwin presented thereto by the Canons of Kenilworth which Vicar did then pay to the said Arch-Deacon yearly in the nature of a Pension two Marks at Easter and Michaelmass by equall portions and to the Canons of Kenilworth other two Marks and a stone of Wax as antiently they had used to receive out of the same But all the Glebe belonging thereto was not given at the first Foundation thereof for it is evident that Walter the son of Peter de Wolvardington did about the beginning of H. 3. time grant unto Richard Lungespe the then Incumbent and his successors in pure Alms a certain Messuage with the appurtenances situate here in Tanworth the witnesses to his grant being Rob. de Lexinton Iolanus de Nevill and Gilbert de Preston then Justices of the Court of Common Pleas with others In An. 1291 19 E. 1. this Church was rated at L. marks but in 9 E. 2. the advouson thereof being assigned to Alice the widdow of Guy de Beauchamp E. of Warwick as part of her dowrie it was valued at no more than xxx Marks After which viz. in 14 E. 3. the interest that the said Canons and Earl had therein was past away to Will. de Clinton Earl of Hantingdon that of the Canons upon the Sunday next after the Feast of St. Mathew the Apostle reserving to themselves and their successors the Pension of two Marks and a stone of Wax yearly at which time also they granted to them a Messuage adjoyning to the Church yard which was part of the Glebe And that of the Earls by Thomas de Beauchamp then E. of Warwick 1 Martii the same year all which was confirmed by the King Whereupon the same Earl on the first day of May next ensuing bestowed that advouson with the appurtenances on his Priory of Maxstoke in this County then newly founded by him as I shall hereafter shew whereunto likewise the before specified Earl of Warwick and Canons of Kenilworth did seal Releases of their severall interests scil the Earl on the Thursday being the Feast day of St. Luke the Evang. and the Canons on the Feast day of S. Vincent the Martyr in 15 E. 3. reserving still the said Pension of two Marks and a stone of Wax to themselves and their successors for ever after which ere long the said Canons obtained an appropriation thereof scil ult Dec. the same year from Wolstan Bishop of Worcester whereby it appears that the perpetuall Vicar having the cure of souls here was to have a competent portion assigned unto him out of the fruits of the Church extending to xx marks sterling per an but that the said two marks per an and the stone of Wax to the Canons of
Elizab. Penelope ux Erasmi de Ligne ar Anna ux Phil. Yong de Kineton in Com. Salop. ar Humfridus Tho. duxit Annam fil Ric. Leigh Mercat Lond. Ioh. Archer ob coelebs Henricus Rebellion with Thomas Earl of Lancaster in E. 2 time he obtained a pardon by the means and intercession of his Uncle the Prior of S. Iohns But to the before specified Iohn succeeded Thomas and to him another Thomas who by his deed bearing date the Munday next after the Feast of the Purification of our Lady 49 E. 3. did for the reverence he bore to the said blessed Virgin as also to S. Thomas the Martyr and All Saints and for the health of his and his wifes souls and of the souls of Thomas le Archer his Father Margaret his Mother his ancestors and heirs and all the faithfull deceased grant License to Ric. de Montfort and others to amortize certain lands lying in Tanworth and held of him for the founding of a Chantrie in the Chapell of our Lady and S. Thomas the Martyr within the Church of Lapworth as I shall there more fully shew which Thomas was one of the Esquires to Thomas de Beauchamp Earl of Warwick as appears by the said Earl's grant bearing date at Worcester 20 Martii 1. R 2. whereby he conferred upon him by the title of dilecto nobis Scutifero Thomae le Archer pro bono laudabili servicio quod nobis impendit impendet in futurum for so are the words of his Charter a certain yearly Rent of Ci s. iiii d. issuing out of sundry tenements of the said Earls in Worcester to enjoy during his life and in 21. R. 2. was in Commission for the assessing and collecting a xv th and x th then granted to the K. in Parliament This Thomas wedded Agnes the daughter to Sir Walter Cokesey of Worcestershire and had a speciall Indulgence from Pope Boniface the ix th for the making choice of a Confessor that might pronounce plenary remission to them of all their sins whereof with contrite hearts they should make confession at the time of their deaths To him succeeded Richard his son and heir who took to his first wife Alice the daughter to Will. Hugford of Midleton in Shropshire and at length heir to her brother being then the widow of Sir Thomas Lucy of Charlecote Kt. from which Lady the Families of Lucie and Archer are both descended Which Richard was one of those persons of note in this County who in 7 H. 5. had command to serve the King in person for the defence of the Realm all those then required so to do being such as did bear antient Arms by descent from their Ancestors as the words of the Writ do import But afterwards marrying severall other wives viz. Margaret the widow unto Thomas Newport of Ercall in Shropshire by reason whereof he resided there upon her jointure and Alice the daughter and heir to Will. Ley of Stotfold in Saffordshire he was in 20 H. 6. constituted Shiriff of Staffordshire In 35 H. 6. suggesting that he was to attend the King's service at Barwick upon Twede under the command of Henry Percy Earl of Northumb. then Captain of the said town and Castle he had a Patent of protection dated 8 Iunii but the King being advertised that he did not go with the said Earl accordingly revoked it In his later time he lived at Stotfold before mentioned and there made his Testament 18 Ian. 9 E. 4. whereby he bequeathed his body to sepulture in the Church of St. Mary Magd. here at Tanworth giving unto the fabrick thereof four marks and appointing that xii pounds of VVax should be burnt about his Hearse on the day of his Funerall as also that there should be viii new Torches made and lighted at his said Exequies especially during the celebration of Mass which Torches to be held by 8. poor men each of them having a russet Gown with meat and drink for that day and departed this life in 11 E. 4. being then 86 years of age To whom succeded three Iohns as also another Richard one of the Esquires of the body to King Henry the 8 th whose great grandchild Sir Simon Archer Kt. being a Gentleman much affected to and very well verst in Antiquities hath besides the view of his own private evidences whence what I have exprest of this Family is faithfully asserted with great freeness and curtesy imparted unto me very many rarities for the furtherance of this present work which through his publick respects to this County having with no small industry and cost been got together I have in acknowledgement of the favour and to his lasting honour cited in all places where they are made use of Monkspath THis though it be onely a large tract of ground without any habitation there upon carrieth the reputation of a Mannour having been given by Will Earl of UUarwick in H. 2. time to Roger de Hulehale aud his heirs to hold with other lands by the service of the 4 th part of a Kts. Fee the bounds thereof being in that grant set forth by certein High-ways small brookes and other noted marks one whereof is called Monkespethe and gave denomination at first thereto Which Path I suppose was so named in regard that the Monks of Stoneley past so oft that way to Bordsley Abby in UUorcestershire for the reasons I have in my discourse of Stoneley expressed To the posterity of the said Roger de Hulehale it continued for 4. descents but then did Will. his great grandchild scil son of Robert son of Will son to the said Roger sell it unto Iohn the son of Iohn le Archer in H. 3. timeâ— for Lx. marks Robert his son in 20 E. 1. confirming the grant Since which time it hath continued in the Family of Archer and is to this day in the possession of Sir Sim. Archer Kt. of whom in Umbreslade I have already made mention But besides this Mannour before spoken ofâ— there is another here vulgarly called Little Monkspath and held of the Mannour of Tanworth by the 4 th part of a Kts. Fee having been antiently possest by the Mountforts of Colshill and sold in our time by Sir Edw. Mountfort Kt. to .... Warner Vicar of Tanworth Cley Hall THis being heretofore called Fulwode gave first the sirname unto an antient Family which descending by a younger son from the Offords of Offord juxta Wotton-Wawen made their residence here Of these Iohn Fullwode who bore for his Armes gules a Cheveron betwixt three Mullets Argent in 19 R. 2. obtained License from Tideman Bishop of Worcester for a private Oratory thereat which License was renewed to him by his successor Ric. Clifford in 4 H. 4. and left issue Richard Eschaetor for this County and Leicestershire in 37 H. 6. which Richard had issue Robert a Lawyer and a
Staffordshire which Will. had issue by her Thomas and he Thomas and he Iohn Parker who dyed 18 H. 8. leaving issue Alice his daughter and heir wedded to Thomas Greswould second son to Ric. Greswould of Solihull in this County from whom the Greswoulds of Cobington who now enjoy this place are descended Packwood ALne having thus past that large Parish of Tanworth enters the Hundred of Barlichway wherein before it hath gone two miles the access of a petty stream called Silesburne which hath its beginning in the nook of Kineton Hundredâ— before mentioned about the edge of Packwood â— enlargeth its Chanell This place sc. Packwood lying in the utmost corner of Barlichway Hundred and bordering upon Hemlingford is reputed to be a member of Kineton Hundred and as it hath in all Taxes antiently payd therewith so doth it still the reason whereof I conceive to be because it was originally a member of Wasperton whereof I have already spoke though it lye at so great a distance from thence and so consequently belonging to the Monks of Coventre which was no strange thing consisidering what I have said in Tanworth relating to Brailes Yet the first mention that I do find in Record of it by name is in 7 R. 1. where Philip de Kingtone levied a Fine thereof to Roger de Cherlecote But it afterwards came again to those Monks it seems for in 41 H. 3. upon that grant of Freewarren which they had in divers of their Mannours this of Packwood is instanced for one and in 44 H. 3. upon the appropriation of all the Churches and Tithes which were within any of their lands it is there enumerated amongst the rest Howbeit that which chiefly shews it to have been a member of Wasperton and so consequently to have past therewith to the Monastery of Coventre upon the very Foundation thereof by Earl Leofrike is the Record of 7 E. 1. where it being certified that the Prior of Coventre was Lord of both for they are there joined together it is said thus Et tenet per Cartam Warrantum S. Edwardi Regis per confirmationes plurimorum Regum At which time viz. 7 E. 1. the Monks had here two Carucates of land in demesn and two tenants which held one yard land by performing divers servile labours being subject to what taxe and exaction the Prior was pleased to impose upon them As also six Freeholders who held two yard land and a half under severall Rents and suit of Court twice in the year and at the same time a certain Park inclosed with an Out-wood and not within the precincts of any Forest But to put it out of all doubt that it was a member of Wasperton I shall vouch one more authority viz. the taxation of the Temporalties belonging to the Religious houses in an 1291. 19 E. 1. where it is said thus Prior de Coventre habet apud Pacwode quod est membrum de Wasperton duas carucat asterrae valet Carucata x s. de redditu Assisa vii marc unum molendinum aquaticum quod valet vi s. viii d. de placitis perquisitis ii s. The metes and bounds of which Mannour are exactly set forth in the Leiger book of Coventre where divers other things relating thereto that for brevitie I omit are to be found As for the particular privileges that the Monks had here I shall not need to recounc them forasmuch as in Coventre it appeareth what they were throughout all their Mannours in 13 E. 1. In 26 H. 8. upon the Survey then taken the value of what the before specified Monks had in this place was thus certified viz. in Rent of Assise ix s. v. d. In lands tenements pastures and a Mill xiiii l. viii s. iiii d. and the ferm of the Mannour vii l. xiiii s. iiii d. Out of which was allowed to Thomas Hugyn then Bayliff an Annuity of xxvi s. viii d. But coming to the Crown at the generall dissolution in 30 H. 8. it was by the said King's Letters Pat. bearing date 8 Feb. 35. H. 8. past inter alia to Will. Willington then of Barcheston Esq. and Will. Sheldon of Beoley who had wedded one of his daughters and to the heirs of the said Will. Sheldon together with the advouson of the Church to be held in Capite Which W. Sheldon granted it to Rob. Burdet of Bramcote Esq. who died seised thereof 11 Ian. 2 E. 6. leaving Thomas his son and heir xvi years of age which Thomas had issue Robert who in consideration of two thousand pounds demised it to Thomas Spenser Esq. late of Claverdon for 2000 years by which means it came to Sir Will. Spenser of Yarnton in com Oxon. upon whom a great part of the said T. Spenser's estate was setled The Church dedicated to S. Giles antiently appropriated to the Monks of Coventre as I have already intimated was long after viz. in H. 6. time reputed but for a Chapell Wasperton doubtless being the mother Church and therefore not Presentative the Curate having then allowed unto him for his annuall Salary the small Tithes with the Altarage the Tithe Corn and all living Mortuaries being received by the said Monks All which Tithes and Oblations together with the Glebe being allowed to the Curate for his stipend were in 26 H. 8. valued at C s. per an In 30 Eliz. amongst divers other things there was a grant made by the Queen to one Ed. Wymerke of the Chapell here by the name of libera Capella de Pacwode cum pertinentiis but this as I conceive is of the same nature as those Patents were to Tipper and Daw apprehending it to be concealed land Lapworth THis being given to the Bishoprick of Worcester by Kenulph K. of Mercia in the time of Denebert the ix th Bishop of that See continued thereto till the days of K. Canutus the Dane but Brightegus the then Bishop being sent into Saxony to conduct Gunnilda the King's daughter wedded to Cono the Emperour having a speciall servant called Hearlewinus attending upon him in that journey as a reward for his pains and travail bestowed upon him this Village then reckoned for no more than half a hide reserving xiid. yearly to be payd at the Feast of the Assumption of our Lady in acknowledgement of the Church its right as the Register of Worcester manifests where it is written Lappawurthin so that after that time the Bishops had no more to do here In the Conquerours time Hugh de Grentemaisnill held it as appears by the generall Survey then made in which it is written Lapeforde and certified to contain 1 hide the woods extending to two miles in length and 1 in breadth the whole being valued at xx s. But immediatly before the Norman invasion it was the freehold of one Baldwinus who afterwards being glad to stoop as most others then
did became Tenant thereof to the said Hugh as an antient Register belonging to the Bishops of Worcester sheweth wherein it is written Lappewrte and said to be de Soca Episcopi being held of the Bishops Mannour of Old-Stratford From hence till K. H. 3. time having no light from Record to guide me I must by what appears afterwards onely guess at the most probable course of its succession which I conceive was thus viz. that with the rest of Grentemasnill's lands it came by the daughter and heir of that Family to Rob. sirnamed Blanchmains Earl of Leicester in H. 2. time unto whom 't is manifest that she was wedded and that the ancestour of Henry Pipard who lived in H. 3. time obtained it by Feoffment from that Earl or the said Henry himself from some of his descendants for certâ—in it is that those Earls of Leicester were superior Lords hereof and that this Henry was possest of it I have testimony enough But the first particular mention relating to him that I haue met with which hath any date is in 20 H. 3. where it appears that there was a Fine levied betwixt him and Nichola his wife on the one part and Iohn Comin Geffrey Corbizon and Iulian his wife on the other of two yard land here And there is no doubt but that this was his seat for in sundry Deeds which I have seen he is not onely stiled Capitalis Dominus Feodi de Lapworth but it is evident that there was a Mannour house here in those times It should seem that he was a man of the superior rank for in â—5 H. 3. I find him in Commission for the Gaol delivery at Warwick and likewise one of the Justices of Assize so also in 26. and 31. H. 3. In 34 H. 3. he bore the office of Eschaetor in this County In 36 H. 3. he was again one of the Iustices for the Gaol delivery at Warwick and left issue two daughters his heirs viz. Dionysia the wife of Sir Rob. de Harecurt Kt. and Cecilie married to Sir Thomas de Bishopsden Kt. upon partition made betwixt which coheirs this Lordship fell to Dionysia as it seems for I find that in 49 H. 3. it was in the hands of Sim. de Mountfort Earl of Leicester in respect of the minoritie of Will. de Harecurt son and heir to the said Robert which Will. about the beginning of E. 1. time granted unto Henry de Braunteston and his heirs a certain part of his Court and Capitall mansion here viz. that lying towards the West from the great gate by the Wall which then extended to an Oak standing before the dore of the old Grange with the advouson of the Church and the homage and service of sundry Freeholders To which Dâ—ed is his Seal of Arms affixed scil Or two bars gules And after this did the said Will. grant or rather confirm unto Sâ—r. Will. de Bishopsden his nephew viz. son and heir of Sir Thomas de Bishopsden certain lands lying here which Henry Pipard before specâ—fied had formerly given to Sim. Bagot of Preston together with the advouson of the Church and divers other lands lying also here in Lapworth which the said Sir Will. de Bishopsden and Sir Thomas de Bishopsden Father of the said Will. had obtained from sundry other persons for which grant he reserved to himself and his heirs the Rent of one barb'd Arrow to be payd yearly at the Feast of Pentecost for all services D. Hugo de Brandeston miles obiit 27 E. 1. Henricus de Brandestone 11 E. 2. Petronilla 11 E. 2. Hugo de Brandeston defunctus 36 E â— Sibilla Nich. Dur vassall 1 maritus Ronsia una filiarum cohaer Ric. de Miteforti nothus 47 E. 3. D. Petrus de Monteforti dominus de Bellodeserto Will. Montfort fil haeres 14 R. 2. Agnes Margareta filia haeres Ioh. Catesby de Ashby-Legers in com Northamp Will. Catesby miles Philippa filia una haered Will. Bishopsden mil. Elena uxor Ricardi Merebroke Thomas Montfort Agnes uxor Philippi de Ailesbury postea Joh. Bukmore Rog. Ailesbury de Lapworth Beatrix monialis apud Wroxhale Leticia Magister Henricus de Brandestone 7 E. 1. Of Henry de Brandeston above mentioned I find that he was a Priest or professor in some learning for he hath the addition of Magister and that he granted this Mannour to Hugh de Brandeston his brother and Margaret his wife and to the heirs of their two bodies lawfully begotten which Hugh being a Knight in 13 E. 1. had in 21. E. 1. a Charter of Freewarren granted to him in all his demesn lands here from 23 till 27 E. 1. was every year one of the Commissioners for the Gaol delivery at Warwick But after the death of Edmund Earl of Lancaster in 25 E. 1. it was certified that the said Sir Hugh held this Mannour of him by the service of half a Kts. fee doing homage and suit to the Court held for the same Honour of Leicester every three weeks and that all his Tenants did use to repair to the Court Leet belonging to that Honour And upon his death which hapned in 27 E. 1. it appears that the extent of what he had here in Lapworth over and above the Mannour was 3 Carucates of land every Carucate containing 3. Virgates and every Virgate xvi acres Henry his son and heir being then 16 years of age Which Henry in 11 E. 2. acquired from Hugh de Lodbroke Parson of Blaby in Leicestersh the inheritance of another Mannour here whereof Latice daughter to him the said Henry had an estate for life by grant from the said Parson But after this it was not long ere that the same Henry past away one of these Mannours to Sir Iohn de Bishopsden Kt. as appeaâ—s by his deed and a speciall Mandate directed to all his Freeholders and Customary Tenants here in Lapworth for to attourn unto him which I conceive to be that called Bushwood Hall for at Bushwood there written Bispwode doth the same bear date in 14 E. 2. To which Henry succeeded Hugh his son and heir whom I find frequently stiled Dominus de Lapworth having in 11 E. 3. obtained a Lease thereof from Sir Iohn de Bishopsden Kt. for xl years In 33 E. 3. being constituted one of the Commissioners of Array in this County he bore for his Armes two Bars with a bendlet over them and dyed in 36 E. 3. as it should seem for then doth it appear that Sibilla his wife was a widow leaving issue 3 daughters viz. Beatrice a Nun at Wroxhall Agnes wedded to Philip de Aylesbury and Rose to Richard de Montfort betwixt which two last mentioned daughters his inheritance here became divided in 43 E. 3. and that of Letice their Aunt in 47 E. 3. Which
default of such issue male he the said Earl and his heirs to do it After which establishment so made the said Richard de Montfort and his fellow Founders by their Deed indented bearing date at Toneworth the Tuesday next after the Feast of the Epiphany 49 E. 3. setled the said lands and Rent upon Iohn Iori the first Chantrie-Priest there and his successors to celebrate divine service daily in the said Chapell of our Lady and S. Thomas the Martyr for the souls of Thomas de Beauchamp Earl of Warwick the Lady Katherine his wife William Witlesey late Archbishop of Canterbury Sir Peter de Montfort Knight and Margaret his wife Sir Baldw. Frevill Knight Henry de Wolfrigeston late Vicar of Toneworth Sir Iohn de Montfort Knight Isabell late wife of Richard de Montfort Hugh de Brandeston and Christian his wife Nicholas Durvassall and Iohn de Honygton and for the good estate of T. de Beauchamp Earl of Warwick son and heir to the before mentioned Earl and Margaret his consort Sir William de Beauchamp Knight Sir Iohn de Clinton Knight Sir Baldw. Frevill Knight son and heir to the said Sir Baldwin Sir Henry de Arderne Knight Richard de Periton Priest Iohn Harewood Priest Lora de Astley Baldwyn de Montfort the Lady Alice de Langley Richard de Montfort and Rose his wife Thomas le Archer Philip de Aylesbury and Agnes his wife Roger de Ulbarwe and Alice his wife William de Montfort Clerk Richard Dolfyn Priest Richard Lyndsey Priest Roger de Green of Lapworth and Iohn Anketill and for every of their Children during this life and for their souls after their departures hence and the soules of all the faithfull deceased the value of which lands over and above reprises in 37 H. 8. were rated at Ciii s. ix d. Besides what belong'd to this Chantrie the Church of Lapworth had certain lands given thereto in 18 H. 6. by George Ashby the Elder viz. one messuage 12. acres of land and one acre of meadow then in the occupation of Thomas Hilton and Agnes his wife and another mess. with fifty acres of Land five acres of Meadow 31. acres of Pasture five acres of Wood two acres of Moore and viii s. vi d. Rent lying in Lapworth and Nuthurst All which were granted by the said George to Raph Perot then Parson of that Church and his successors to provide a certain Lamp to burne there and to performe other works of Charitie But these by Act of Parliament in 1 E. 6. coming to the Crown with all others of that kind were past away to ..... Grey in 18 Eliz. as concealed lands Before I leave Lapworth there are two things which I desire to cleer the one is how it comes to passe that it lying so far distant from Kineton Hundred is neverthelesse reputed to be parcell thereof and the other touching Bushwode which is a small Village of some scattering Houses within the precinct of this Lordship upon what reason it is in the parish of Old Stratford so many miles from it and in another Hundred To the first I answer that Lapworth coming by descent from Grentemaisnill to the old Earles of Liecester and that Earldom being at length swallowed up in the Dutchy of Lancaster it was antiently joyned with those towns in Kineton-Hundred which were certified under the title of Lancastriae Ducatus viz. â—â—â—â—â—ndon Foxcote Eatendon Thorndâ—n Fenni-Compton Oxshulf Tachebrokeâ— Merston-Boteler and Compton-wynzate and so still continuing in all assesments and otherwise is accounted part of that Hundred And yet in 9 E. 2. it was reputed as part of the Hundred now called the Libertie of Pathlow as Stratâ—ord still is And to that of Bushwode I say that it having long before the Norman Conquest been parcell of the possessions pertaining to the Bishops of Worcester as Stratford and Lapworth were and not disposed by the Conqueror with Lapworth to H. de Grentemaisnill but continuing to that Bishoprick was held by some of the succeeding Bishops as part of the demesn of Stratford their chief Mannour in this County being a meer Wood and therefore called Bissopeswude and so through corruptnesse of pronunciation Bushwode It seems that Frethric de Bishopesden was enfeoft thereof together with Bishopsden by Sampson Bishop of Worcester in H. 1. time for I find that he afterwards quite claimed his right therein and so did William his son and heir to Iohn de Constantiis Bishop in 9 R. 1. and his successors so that ever after it continued to that Bishoprick as a member of Stratford untill Nich. Heath Bishop of that See in 3 E. 6. past it with Stratford unto Iohn Dudley Earl of Warwick of which Mannour it still continues a member But that which is now called Bushwood-Hall hath no relation to it being the Mannour-house of Lapworth and indifferently stiled Lapworth-Hall or Bushwood-Hall because of its situation neer Bushwood Kingswood partly in the Parish of Lapworth and partly of Rowington OF this place by the name of the Mannour of Kingswood I have not seen any particular mention in Record till H. 5. time it having been antiently part of the possessions belonging to that great Family of Montfort Lords of Beldesert in this County as may appear from what I have observed in Wellesburne-Mountfort where it is taken notice of as a Wood lying at Badsley unto which it is contiguous and there it did passe with Wellesburne so that it seems it had long before that time been reputed a member thereof which is the reason why to this day it is accounted part of the Constablery though so far distant thence But from these Montforts by a daughter and coheir it came to Butler as Wellesburne did and in 13 H. 7. to Edward Belknap then of Merston juxta Wolston in this County Esquire upon partition made betwixt him and Sir Iohn Norbury Knight of all Butler's lands Which Edward by his Deed bearing date 16 Ian. in the year abovesaid sold it to Nich. Brome of Badsley-Clinton Esquire from whom it divolved with that Lordship to the Family of Ferrers and is so possest at this day Rowington FOllowing this petty torrent which cometh from Lapworth it soon leads me into the Hundred of Barlichway again where it forthwith meets with another little brook that hath its rising in Hemlingford Hundred on the Western side whereof Rowington vulgarly called Rownton is situate whereof I am next in order to speak This town standing upon a rocky ground had originally its name from thence as may seem by the antient Orthographie thereof viz. Rochintone for so it is written in the Conqueror's Survey where it is certified to contain three hides having a Church and woods belonging thereto then esteem'd at one mile in length and half a mile and eight furlongs in bredth All which having been the freehold of one Baldwin in Edward the Confessors days were then possest by Hugh de
Grentemaisnill and held at that time by Roger his under-tenant But from Grentemaisnill it soon returned to the Crown though by what agreement I have not seen For certain it is that King Henry 1. had it in his hands and gave it to the Abby of Reading in Berkshire of his Foundation whose grant together with the Church King H. 2. his grandchild confirmed In the succeeding times I find it variously written viz. Ruhinton Ruchinton Rokintone and Rowintone and in anno 1291. 19 E. 1. that the extent of what the Monks of Reading had here was found to be three carucates of land valued at x s. a carucate two water-Mills and one Wind-Mill rated at vi s. viii d. In Rent of Assize xi li. and that the profits of their own store in this place amounted to one mark and the Pleas and perquisites one mark and a half Whereunto some Freeholders in this town made a little addition viz. Thomas de Rivere and Richard Goodman by the gift of one mess. Lxix acres of land with viii acres and a half of Meadow or the maintenance of one Monk being a Priest f to celebrate divine service every day in the abby-Abby-Church of Reading above specified for the good estate of the said Thomas during his life in this world and for his soule after his departure hence as also for the soules of his Ancestors and heirs All which lands were by them held of the Barons of Stafford who answered to the King the fourth part of a Knights Fee for the same upon occasion as by sundry Records is evident But after the dissolution of the greater Monasteries in 30 H. 8. Iohn Oldnall the next year following obtained a Lease of this Mannour from the King for xxi years which Lease was it seems ere long surrendred for in 35 H. 8. the King upon the marriage of Katherine Parr his sixt and last wife past it inter alia unto her as part of her jointure Which Katherine dying in 2 E. 6. it returned again to the Crown and in 7 E. 6. was by that King past away with other lands in exchange to Iohn Dudley D. of Northumberland and his heirs whose attainder hapning soon after as in my story of him amongst the Earls of Warwick is shewed Queen Mary became possest of it and in 5. of her reign granted unto the said Iohn Oldnall another Lease for xxi years which he enjoyed not for in 5 Eliz. the Queen past an estate for life therein unto William Skinner Gentleman Alice his wife and Anthony their son but neither did this demise hold for in 6 Eliz. the said Queen gave it to Ambrose Dudley Earl of Warwick and the heirs male of his body who dying issuelesse it came again to the Crown wherein it remaineth to this day having been since leased to sundry persons The Church dedicated to S. Laurence was in anno 1291. 19 E. 1. valued at xx marks the Vicars portion at that time being esteemed at viii marks but in 26 H. 8. the Vicaridge was rated at viii li. out of which the Synodalls and Procurations yearly payable amounted to viii s. v. d. ob Patroni Vicariae Incumbentes c. Abbas Conv. de Reading Ioh. Tacham Pbr. 15. Oct. 1347. Abbas Conv. de Reading Hugo de Heyham 4. Sept. 1388. Abbas Conv. de Reading D. Will. Godfrey 11. Mar. 1400. Abbas Conv. de Reading Rob. Belde 21. Iulii 1402. Abbas Conv. de Reading Ioh. Hawkys 4. Aug. 1412. Abbas Conv. de Reading D. Ioh. Racheford 24. Ian. 1424. Abbas Conv. de Reading Ioh. Cook Pbr. 12. Dec. 1438. Abbas Conv. de Reading Ioh. Browne Cap. 3. Dec. 1458. Abbas Conv. de Reading Thomas Vtting Cap. 27. Aug. 1499. Abbas Conv. de Reading D. Thomas Heyward Cap. 3. Aug. 1536. Phil. Maria Rex Regina Angl. D. Ric. Heith Pbr. 17. Feb. 1556. Ambrosius Comes Warwici Philippus White Cler. 16. Ian. 1576. Ambrosius Comes Warwici Christoph. Kirkland in S. Theol. B. 14. Apr. 1578. Ambrosius Comes Warwici Magr. Henr. Heycrofte art Ma gr 23. Sept. 1584. Anna Comitissa Warwici Henr. Clerke Cler. 4. Nov. 1600. Iâ— a North window of the Church these Armes Argent upon a Fesse gules three Garbs Or. Preston-Bagot DEscending lower on the Western side of the before specified brook I come to Preston-Bagot which in the Conqueror's time Robert Earl of Mellent possest and by the generall Survey then made wherein it is written Prestetone was certified to be of a large extent viz. x. hides five whereof with a Mill rated at xvi s. and woods of a mile in length and half a mile in bredth were in his own hands and valued at L s. which had been the freehold of one Turbern before the Norman invasion the other five of which Britnod was owner in Edward the Confessor's days one Hugh then held of the said Earl they being estimated at xl s. But that which now and for a long time hath been reputed for Preston-Bagot is of a narrower compasse for out of doubt the places where both Beldesert and Henley do now stand together with most part of what belongeth to them whereupon there was no habitation was taken out of it This therefore coming from the said Earl of Mellent as the greatest part of his lands in this County did to his brother Henry de Newburgh Earl of Warwick was disposed of in H. 2. time as I guesse by William Earl of Warwick to Ingeram Bagot from whom it had the present name for distinction from other Prestons all which I conclude from severall circumstances the succeeding Earles of Warwick being chief Lords of the Fee as I shall shew by and by and the said Ingeram being possest of lands here at that time To which Ingeram Bagot succeeded Simon his son and heir who in 20 H. 3. answered for part of a Knights Fee here held by him of the Earl of Warwick and gave to the Monks of Reading two Mills lying within this his Lordship Which Simon had issue Robert and he a daughter and heir called Isabell married to Thomas de Etingdon From this Simon or if not from some other who was only the Instrument to convey it as I think did the Knights Hospitalars obtain it in H. 3. time for in 36 H. 3. it appears that Simon de Stoke and divers other held one Knights Fee here of the heir of the same Simon Bagot and that the said heir held it of the Hospitalars and they of the Earl of Warwick And by the Record of 4 E. 1. it is manifested that the Knights Hospitalars had it about 30 H. 3. for from that time had they withdrawn their suit due to the Hundred Court in respect thereof That this is but a small Village may appear by what was certified in 6 H.
retinue to Maurice de Berkley an English Baron But about the 33 E. 3. the said Gerard departed this life leaving Iohn his son and heir under age the custodie of whose lands together with his marriage was granted in 33 E. 3. by Sir Ric. Stafford Kt. unto Ric. de Clodshale of Saltley in this Countie which Iohn by the death of Iohn de Vale his Uncle by the Mothers side without issue in 34 E. 3. was found to be one of his Cosins and next heirs and in 2. R. 2. being then a Kt. was constituted one of the Commissioners in this Countie for taxing a subsidie at that time granted to the K. in Parliament To whom succeeded Sir Thomas Burdet Kt. his son and heir a person honoured with divers great imployments in his time In 5 R. 2. he was constituted one of the Commissioners for arraying of men in this Countie being then of the retinue unto Thomas de Beauchamp Earl of Warwick In 17 R. 2. he served in the Parlâ— then held at Westm. as one of the Kts. for this Shire so also in the Parliaments of 2. and 8. H. 4. In 3. H. 5. he was made Shiriff for this Countie and Leicestershire In 6 H. 5. again one of the Commissioners of Array in this Shire and the next year following jointly intrusted together with the Shiriff and some other select persons to treat with the people for a loan of money to the King In 9 H. 5. he was in Commission for assessing and collecting a Subsidie then granted to the K in Parl. and left issue Nicholas his son and heir of whom I find that being one of those who bearing Armes from his Ancestors as the Writ and Return thereof specially intimates he had Summons to attend the King in person at Westminster upon Tuesday in the first week of Lent 7 H. 5. for defence of the Realm Shortly after which he was retained to serve the said K. in his wars for by an Indenture bearing date at Suthwike 6 Maii 8 H. 5. it appears that he received in hand from Iâ—hn Sâ—lvâ—â—â—e Treasurer at Wars to the D. of Bedford for himself two men at Arms and seaven Archers xxix l. xi s. vi d. for one quarters wages And continuing in those wars in 3 H. 6. was one of those that defended the town of S. Iames de Bevuron situate on the frontiers of Normandy towards Britany and upon the siege thereof by Arthur Earl of Richmont and Yverie Constable of France made a courageous â—ally wherein 7 or 800 of the enemy were slain 50 Prisoners 18 Standards and one Banner taken In 15 H. 6. he was a Knight but being afterwards made chief Butler of Normandy and Governour of Cureur in that Dutchy was slain in the battail of Pontoise 18 H. 6. To whom succeeded Thomas his son and heir which Thomas in 28 H. 6. being imployed in this Countie about levying the subsidie then granted to the K. in Parl. was from the 7 th to the fourteenth of E. 4. reign in Commission for conservation of the Peace But in 17 E. 4. having incurred the King's displeasure for his good affections to the D. of Clarence so strict were the eyes and ears that were set â—ver him that an advantage was soon taken to cut of his Head for hearing that the King had killed a white Buck in his Park here at Arewe which Buck he set much store by passionately wishing the Hoâ—es in his Belly that moved the K. so to do being arraigned and convicted of high Treason for those words upon inference made that his meaning was mischievous to the K. himself he lost his life for the same his Body being buried in the Chapell of All Saints within the Gray-Friers Church near Newgate with this memoriall in their Martyrologe viz. that he was valens Armiger Domini Georgii Ducis Clarenciae After the death of which Thomas their grew great suits for this Mannour and other lands betwixt Richard Burdet his son by a former wife that â—ad been for nearness of kindred divorced from him and Iohn Burdet his son by Margaret a later wife For the said Thomas by License obtained from the K. in 12 E. 4. had aliened his lands to his younger son to the disherison of the elder of which he became afterwards so sensible that as he was drawn from the Tower to the place of execution espying his eldest son in Westchepe over against St. Thomas Becket's Hospitall now Mercers Chapell he caused himself to be stayed and there asked his said son forgiveness and acknowledging the wrong he had done him concluded that to be the cause of Gods vengeance then against him But in that suit before mentioned the said Iohn the younger son prevailed Margaret his Mother holding her estate therein for life who shortly after married to Thomas Woodhill Howbeit after this it was not long ere that the before specified Ric. Burdet so wrought with his Brother Iohn as also with the said Margaret and her husband that they levâ—ed a Fine of this Mannour and other lands whereby the same Richard became vested into the present possession thereof the remainder to Thomas his son and for want of issue by him to Robert his other son and the heirs of his body and for lack of such issue to the right heirs of Richard Which two sons died young in their Fathers life time and Richard himself left no heir male The consideration whereof much moving the said Iohn forasmuch as this Mannour and the rest of those entailed lands were like to be transferred to another Familie by Anne the daughter and heir of the same Richard he exhibited a Petition in Parl. to K. H. 8. about the beginning of his reign wherein the better to ingratiate himself he set forth his adherence to Henry D. of Buckingham in the behalf of Henry Earl of Richmund afterwards King by the name of H. 7. against Ric. 3. King in deed but not of right alleadging that upon the miscarriage of that Duke in his said attempts he himself was taken at Gloucester and there kept Prisoner and moved that the said Fine should be made void so that himself and his heirs might enjoy this Mannour with the lands before mentioned in such sort as he and they should and ought to have done hat it not been levied This Iohn Burdet was one of the retinue unto Sir Edm. Howard Admirall in 4 H. 8. for scouring the Seas on the Southern coast of England and in no small favour at Court as it seems for his Petition took such effect that he pursued his claim to this Lordship and all other the lands whereof his Father was seized against Edward Conway and Anne his wife daughter and heir to the before specified Ric. Burdet as if there had been no such entail as hath been said Which suits
per an yearly paid out of it to the Canons of Kenilworth and ix s. v d. ob for Synodalls and Procurations Patroni Ecclesiae Incumbentes c. Prior Conv. de Kenilworth Rob. de Cestenflod ......... 1292. Prior Conv. de Kenilworth Petrus de Eston Accol Cal. Iulii 1301. Prior Conv. de Kenilworth VVill. de Eston Pbr. 16 Cal. Oct. 1305. Prior Conv. de Kenilworth Ioh. Oweyn Pbr. 6 Id. Maii 1328. Prior Conv. de Kenilworth Thomas de Hampton Accol 3 Apr. 1338. Prior Conv. de Kenilworth Rog. Mayel Pbr. 28 Iunii 1339. Prior Conv. de Kenilworth Ric. de Hertyndon 18 Sept. 1351. Prior Conv. de Kenilworth Rob. Daunstre Pbr. 13 Oct. 1361. Prior Conv. de Kenilworth D. Rad. Haywarde ult Oct. 1391. Prior Conv. de Kenilworth Rob. Flage penult Ian. 1391. Prior Conv. de Kenilworth D. VVill. Sly 6 Oct. 1401. Prior Conv. de Kenilworth D. Ioh. Aston 7 Iunii 1413. Prior Conv. de Kenilworth D. Ric. VVrygth 28 Oct. 1413. Prior Conv. de Kenilworth Ioh. Chalow 10 Oct 1419. Prior Conv. de Kenilworth D. Rad. Philippe 21 Dec. 1420. Prior Conv. de Kenilworth D. Thom. Faucumberge 29 Nov. 1433. Prior Conv. de Kenilworth D VVilll Chapman Cap. 18 Feb. 1432. Prior Conv. de Kenilworth D. VVill. Glover 10 Iulii 1436. Prior Conv. de Kenilworth D Rog. Coton 15 Aug. 1436. Prior Conv. de Kenilworth Ioh. VVitgrove 10 Apr. 1437. Prior Conv. de Kenilworth D. Henr. Faukus 16 Nov. 1446. Prior Conv. de Kenilworth Thomas VVyeth Cler. 26 Apr. 1456. Prior Conv. de Kenilworth D. VVill. VVilcocks 16 Iulii 1460. Prior Conv. de Kenilworth D. Ric. Castenell Pbr. 27 Iunii 1498. Prior Conv. de Kenilworth D. Ric. Goldsmyth 21 Iunii 1510. Prior Conv. de Kenilworth D. Thomas Rawlins monachus 9 Dec. 1531. Ric. Hoo c. ratione Concess Abb. Conv. de Kenilw. D. Edw. Pipe Accol 22 Dec. 1557. Eliz. Angl. Regina Rob. Barker Cler. 6. Nov. 1571. Iacobus Rex Angl. c. Ioh. VUilliams Cler. 8 Martii 1603. In a place of Brasse upon a raised Monument of free-stone adjoyning to the North wall of the Church this Epitaph Here lyeth buried the bodies of Iohn Walsingham late of Exhall in the County of Warw. Esq and Elenor his wife one of the daughters of Humfrey Ashefield of Heythropp in the Câ—lâ—tâ— of Oxford Esquier the same Iohn decessed the xx of Ian. 1566 and the said Elenor decessed the ...... Wicksford More-hall THis place being part of the possessions belonging to those which were reputed Earle of Warw. in the Saxons time was by Ufa one of that number whom my Author calls potens homo Vicecomes super Warwykeschire gâ—ven to the Monastery of Evesham together with his body to be there buried about the year of Christ 974. scil 17 Edgari but it so hapned that those Priests which were placed therein upon the expulsion of the Monks by Godwine a powerfull man who had purchased of K. Ethelred brother to K. Edw. the Martyr for CCC manes of gold the inheritance of that Abby granted it to Wulfgeat son and successor to the before specified Ufa for life upon condition that it should afterwards return unto them with all the stock upon it yet notwithstanding this plain Agreement did the successors to the said Wulfgeat detain it untill the days of K. Edw. the Conf. that Abbot Agelwyne purchased it again from Wygod a potent Baron and successor to the same Wulfgeat for a valuable price Being therefore thus repossest by those Monks it was under the title of the lands belonging to the Monastery of Evesham by the Conq. Survey certified to contain 5 hides having at that time a Mill prized at x s. and xx sticks of Eeles with Woods of one furlong in length and half a furlong in breadth the whole being rated at Ls. But there it is written Witelavesford which shews that the originall denomination proceeded from some antient possessor thereof called Witelaf a name not unusuall in those elder times After which ere long viz. about the beginning of K. Will. Rufus his reign I find that Abbot Robert without his Covent past it away in Fee Ferme for 4 li. per an unto Raph Bâ—tâ—ler of whom in Oversley I have made mention and that in 4 E. 1. it was certified to the Justices Itinerant that the Abbot of Evesham held the Hundred of Wytlaxford by grant from K. H. 3. for xv s. per an and that the Hamlet had heretofore been of that Hundred but was aliened from it about 30 years sithence as also that the said Abbot had Assize of Bread and Beer with a Gallows within the same Hundred Which Abbot in 13 E. 1. challenged a Court Leet here with divers other priviledges by Prescription but for the better justifying his claim exhibited the grant of K. H. 3. being an Inspeximus of a Charter made by K.H. 1. whereby the said K. confirm'd to the Monks of Evesham the Hundred of Blackhurst with all that thereto belonged which Hundred of Blackhurst I suppose to be the same that afterwards was called the Hundred of Wytlaxford as abovesaid and 't is like did contain all the lands belonging to the said Monks of Evesham in this County But that which then had the reputation of a Hundred and was called the Hundred of Wytlaxford being a Roialty which the K. resolved to keep he demanded of the Abbot of Evesham in the same 13 th year of his reign whereupon the Abbot disclaimed it to be an Hundred alledging that Wytlaxford was only a Mannour scituate within the Hundred of Barlichway of which Hundred he acknowledged the said K. to be in possession Touching the extent of this Lordship in 15 E. 1. upon the death of Iohn le Boteler of Oversley I find it thus certified viz. that the Mannour House here with a Dovehouse Lx. acres of land xii acres of meadow two groves of Wood and the Rent from the Freeholders was valued at xxx s. and that there were xii yard land held in Villenage yeilding Cx s. per an all being held of the Abbot of Evesham in free Socage paying iiii li. iiii s. iiii d. ob per. an which differs not much from what is recorded in 19 E. 1. viz. Coquinarius Abbatis de Evesham percipit apud Withlackford de Reditu Assis. 4 li. Et habet unum Molendinum quod valet vi s viii d. Which Mannour is it that is now called Morehall The next mention whereof that I have met with is in 2 R. 2. where Robert Parson of the Church of Eccleshale grants it to Iohn de Morehalle and Agnes his wife and the heirs of their two bodies lawfully
nuper ux T. Holt ar D. Thomas Byrde Cler. 25. Maii 1552. Ambr. Cave miles ratione dotis Margeriae ux suae nuper ux T. Holt ar Laur. Blakeway 30. Maii 1561. Thomas Holt de Dudston miles Ioh. Machon Cler. 1. Martii 1603. Thomas Holt de Dudston miles Ric. Dickleg Cler. 1. Maii 1611. Thomas Holt miles bar Ioh. Grent art Magr. 12. Dec. 1621. Erdington's Chantrie IN 27 H. 6. Sir Thomas Erdington Knight founded a Chantrie in this Church for one Priest to celebrate divine service daily at the Altar of the blessed Virgin perpetually for the good estate of King Henry the sixt and of him the said Sir Thomas and Ioyce his wife during their lives in this world and for the health of their soules as also the souls of their Progenitors Parents and Benefactors and all the faithfull deceased The revevenues whereof in 26 H. 8. were certified to be vii li. xix s. ob over and above iii s. iv d. for the Anniversarie of the Founder and xvi s. ob in Rents to the Lord of the Fee Howbeit in 37 H. 8. considering an Annuitie of xl s. granted out of the lands belonging thereto unto Iohn Throkmorton gentleman for life the cleer yearly value amounted to no more than vi li. But after the generall dissolution of the Chantries this with the lands belonging to it was by Letters Patent bearing date 9. Sept. 2 E. 6. inter alia granted to Ric. Pallady gentleman and Francis Foxall Citizen and Mercer of London and their heirs and the next year following another Patent thereof made to Thomas Hawkyns alis Fysher of Warwick and his heirs In the utmost window on the South side towards the West of those that perteine to the body of the Church is this inscription Orate pro bono statu fratrum de Bromwich qui hanc fenestram fieri fecerunt In the next window is this coat of Armes viz. Argent a Cheveron gules between 3. lozâ—nges sable And under it the portraiture of a man kneeling in a surcoat of the same Armes with 4. sonns behind him over whose heads is this in a scroule Mater Dei memento mei Behind them is the portraiture of a woman in a scarlet gown with 4. daughters having a scroule over her head in which is written Fili Dei miserere mei And under them all this Inscriptoin Orate pro bono statu Roberti Massey Elisabethe vxoris sue In the fourth window on the same South side is this coat viz. Argent a Lyon rampant sable Stapleton empaling Massy and under it the following Inscription Orate pro bono statu Roberti Massey Elizabethe ejus vx qui hanc fenestram fieri fecerunt In one of the like windows on the North side are the portraitures of the same Walter Ardern and Alianore his wife kneeling whose monument is in the Chancell and in the same surcoats of Armes as thereupon are exprest Over his head is this scroule Iesu Fili Dei miserere met Over hers Mater Dei memento mei And under them both this written Orate pro bono statu Walteri Arderne armigeri Elianore vxoris ejus On a stone fixed in the North Wall of the Chancell is this Inscription Henry Williams Vicar once of this Church and Parson of Aberfro in Anglicey lyeth here under who died Anno 1603. Febr. 14. Quod sibi quisque serit praesentis tempore vitae Hoc sibi messis erit cum dicitur Ite Venite On another stone in the same Wall Memoriae Sacrum Pientissimi atque optimi juvenis Olliphi Boys ex antiquâ generosa Boysiorum in Cantio stirpe oriundi patre Antonio Boys verbi divini Ministro apud Cullesden in Surria nati in celeberrima Wichamicorum societate Wintoniae primùm deiâ— Oxoniae educati bonis literis egregiè instructi gradu Magisterii in artibus ornati sacrisque ordinibus initiati Qui cum una altera Concione ad populum habitâ magnam apud omnes spem sui expectationem fecissit gravissimis calculi doloribus interceptus ac demum oppressus hic apud affines suos expiravit die 5. Augusti An. D. 1630. aetatis suae 31. Monumentum hoc Dorothea Gilmin mater amantissima L. M. Q. Posuit On the same side of this Chancell there is a very noble Monument for Sir Edward Devereux Kt. and Baronet grandfather to the now Vicount Hereford erected by his Lady who survived him the Figure whereof I have here omitted for the reasons exprest in my Preface but have added the Epitaph Here lyeth Sir Edward Devereux of Castle-Bromwich Knight and Baronet youngest son of Walter Lord Ferrers of Chartley and Viscount Hereford by Margaret his second wife daughter of Robert Garnish of Kenton Hall in Com. Suff. Esquire who married Katherine eldest daughter of Edward Arden of Park-Hall Esquire by whom he had issue five sons and four daughters Sir Walter Knight and Baronet William George Edward and Henry Margaret Anne Howard and Grace Sir Walter married Eliz. daughter and heir of Robert Bayspoole of Aldeby in Com. Norff. Esquire who died without issue Secondly he married Elizabeth second daughter of Thomas Knightley of Broughall in Com. Staff Esquire brother to Sir Richard Knightly of Fausley in Com. Northampt. Kt. George married Blanch daughter and heire of Iohn Ridge in Com. Salop. gent. Henry married Barbara daughter and heir of Robert Smallbrook of Yardley Gent. William and Edward died unmarried Margaret married Sir Hugh Wrottesley of Wrottesley in Com. Staff Kt. Anne married Robert Leighton of Wattelsborow in Com. Salop. Esquire Howard married Thomas son and heir of Sir Thomas Dilke of Maxstoke Castle in Com. Warr. Esquire Grace the youngest Which Sir Edward died the 22 th of Sept. An. D. 1622. Here lieth Lady Katherine wife to Sir Edward Devereux who died the second of November 1627. To whose memorie Sir George Devereux her second son caused this part of this Monument to be erected according to her command Nechells OF this place there is no mention at all in the Conqueror's Survey forasmuch as it was theâ—â—â—voâ—ved with Aston but the name thereof scil Nechels or Echels for it is indifferently 〈◊〉 discovereth it to have been a Wood at first Echel signifying the same in the German language whereof our 〈◊〉 is a branch as Quercus in the Latine I am of opinion that one of the old Barons of Dudley granted it originally unto one of the Family of Parles together with Hanneworth now called Hansworth in Com. Staff For I find that Osbert de Paâ—les had a Bastard son called Reynald de Asseles on whom he conferred the inheritance of all his lands here in Assells or Nechels Osbertus de Parles Reginaldus de Asseles nothus Simon de Asseles Aliva obiit s. prole Rob. de â—andsacre miles ... Agnes Alicia Georgius de Castello mil. Will. de Castello Matilda Georgius de Castello Margeria Which Reynald had issue Simon
Iohn the son of Iohn de Barre the elder passe away the whole Mannour excepting C. acres of Pasture and xl s. Rent to Richard the son of Richard de Pyrie and his heirs To whom succeeded Philip de Pyrie whose widow Marion held it in 35 E. 3. And in 47 E. 3. one William de la Hay with Marion his wife which Marion was in all probabilitie daughter and heir to the said Philip From whom with Marion his daughter and heir it dâ—volved to Thomas East then Yeoman of the Crown who in 5 H. 6. enjoy'd it Which Thomas had issue Thomas and he Henry East of Hay-Hall in Yardley Com. Wigorn. that sold it to Iohn Bâ—nâ— a rich Draper in Coventre of whom in Ward end I have made mention who having 3. daughters and heirs whereof Alice was married to Michaell Ioyner of Coventre this by Partition fell to her and by her and her said husband was sold in 15 Eliz. to Edward Kynardsley Esquire that had marryed Margaret one of the other sisters From which Edward it descended to Iohn his son and heir who having first past away the Fermes to sundry persons in 18 Iac. aliened the Mannour unto William Booth Esquire an utter Barister of the Middle Temple descended by a younger son from the Booths of Cheshire as I have heard whose son and heir William now enjoys it being a Gentleman so well affected to Antiquities that by his judicious observation of sundry notable things concerning this part of the Countie which with much freenesse he hath imparted toward this present work he deserves a better acknowledgment from me than by a few words can be exprest Erdington BEfore the Norman Invasion Edwine Earl of Mercia was owner of this town but afterwards through the Conqueror's favour did the same William Fitz Ausculf of whom I have spoke in Aston possesse it By the generall Survey then taken it was estimated at three hides valued at xxx s. having a Mill rated at iii s. and woods containing one mile in length half a mile in breadth As for the name I am of opinion that it originally proceeded from some antient possessor of it in the Saxon's time perhaps Harding for in Domesday-book it is written Hardintone Till King Stephan's or the beginning of H. 2. time certain it is that the successors of the above mentioned William Fitz Ausculf in the Barony of Dudley continued owners of this place but then was it granted to Henry sirnamed de Erdinton in respect of his residence here by Gervase Paganell one of those Barons to hold by the service of a Knights fee To whose descendants in the male line it continued till after the beginning of ward the fourth's reign and being their principall seat was strongly fortified with a large double moat on the front and two other sides thereof having the River for its better defence on the back part within which moat was also an antient Chapell peculiar to the House as by its ruines may be seen Henricus de Erdinton 12 H. 2. Will. de Erdinton Thomas de Erdinton 6 Joh. Roesia de Cokefield relicta 2 H. 3. Egid. de Erdinton 14 H. 3. Domina Roisia de Erdinton Matilda ux Joh. de Lee fil Thomae fil Joh. Lee mil. Henr. de Erdinton miles 7 E. 1. Matilda filia Rog. de Someri 1 E. 1. Will. de Bifield secundus maritus Henricus de Erdinton 19 E. 1. Johanna filia una haered Thomae de Wolvey militis 35 E. 1. Egidius de Erdinton miles 31 E. 3. Eliz. filia Thomae Tolthorpâ— de ..... in Com. Rutl. relicta 49 E. 3. Thomas de Erdinton miles 9 R. 2. Margareta filia Thomae Corbet de Morton-Corbet in Com. Salop. Anna filia Thomae de Harecourt 18 R. 2. Thomas de Erdinton 6 H. 4. Sibilla ux secunda 13 H. 6. Thomas Erdinton miles 19 H. 6. Maria ux Will. filii Alani 2 H. 3. To which Henry succeeded William and to William Thomas de Erdinton who in 6 Ioh. had the Shirifalty of Salop. and Staffordshires And at that time a Chapell within his Mannour-house here at Erdington concerning which there grew a difference betwixt the then Parson of Aston and him which was at length thus determined viz. that the Parson should receive from the said Thomas the Tithe of all his profit arising out of Aston Mill and he the said Thomas to make Oath that the mother Church of Aston should not have any detriment in Tithes or Oblations in respect thereof the Priest there serving promising faithfully as much As also that on the principall Festivalls he the said Thomas with his wife children and Family should repaire thither except there were good cause to the contrary and especially upon the Feast day of S. Peter and Paul bringing with him three Tapers of wax weighing two pounds This Thomas was Chamberlain to King Iohn and received many great favours from him In the eight of his reign he had the Mannours of Kington and Norton and in 14. the Lordships of Welinton and Shawbury in Shropshire bestowed on him by that King with whom he had so much trust that the next year following he with Raph Fitz Nicholas of whom in Stretton-Baskervile I have made some menâ—â—on was privatly sent Embassador to Admiralius Murmelius great King of Aphrica Marrochia and Spain to let him know that he would willingly deliver up this Kingdom to hold of him by a certain Tribute as also forsake the Christian Religion and cleave to the Law of Mahomet in case he might have assistance from him to such a desperate condition was he exposed by his rebellious Nobility Upon his return from which Embassie I find that he compounded with Stephen de Staunton and Robert de Staunton son and heir to the said Stephen for their title to the Honour of Montgomeri and the Mannours of Badmundfeld Pulton Acton and Lideham belonging thereto and had the King's confirmation thereupon It seems that he had some title to that Honour by descent from Baldwin de Bollers unto whom King H. 1. gave it with Sibill de Falcise his neice being sprung from the said Baldwin by his second wife In 16 Ioh. he purchased the wardship and marriage of the son and heir to William Fâ—tz Alan a great Baron in Shropshire with purpose to marry his daughter Mary unto him which was accordingly effected in consideration whereof he was to pay five thousand marks for the performance whereof Ranulph Earl of Chester and severall other of the great Nobilitie became his 〈◊〉 And in 17. Ioh. had command from the King to hasten with some of his forces unto Tamworth Castle in this Countie to take out of it â—â—l the Prisoners Horse Armes and amunition therein and to pull it down to the ground After which ere long scil in 2. H. 3. he died
whereupon this Lordship together with Aston was inter alia assigned unto Roese de Cokefeld his widow for her maintenance untill such time as her dowrie should be set forth leaving Giles his son and heir of whom in 14 H. 3. the King accepted of C s. per annum to be payd into his Exchequer till all his Father's debts were run up or that the said King should please to require them From the 34. to the 51. of which King 's reign this Giles was a Justice of Assize in this Countie He was also a Benefactor to the Canons of S t Thomas juxta Stafford for it appears by a speciall Instrument under their Covent Seal that they granted to him the admittance of a Canon into their Monasterie upon his Presentation and his heirs successively to celebrate divine service there at the Altar of S t Thomas the Martyr for the health of his soul as also for the souls of his Father Mother and Ancestors And likewise that at the celebration of the Masse of our Lady in the Collect for the dead the name of the said Giles should be always remembred and after his decease his name registred in the Martyrologe and his Aniversary duely kept in as ample manner as for their Patron To the Monks of Tâ—kford in Buckinghamshire had he likewise been a friend as may appear by their assignation of a Monk of that Covent at their own proper costs to sing for his soul and the souls of his parents within that Monasterie To which Giles succeeded Henry his son and heir who in 5 E. 1. was of the retinue unto William de Beauchamp Earl of Warwick in the Warrs of Wales and made a Knight in that expedition as I think for in 7 E. 1. he had that title This Henry married Maud daughter of Roger de Someri Baron of Dudley one of the coheirs of Nichola daughter and coheir to Hugh de Albini Earl of Arunrundel for which respect as 't is most probable he bore for his Armes Azure two Lions passant Or and sometimes with a border of Besants having so neer a resemblance to the Coat of Someri scil Or two Lions passant Azure He also for the health of his soul and the soul of her the said Maud gave to the Nuns of Catesby in Com. Northampt. towards supporting the charge of their Habits and relief of poor people the perpetuall patronage of the Church at Yerdley in Worcestershire to the intent that the fruits of the same Church should be appropriated to their use in consideration whereof the said Nuns covenanted with him that so soon as they could obtain an appropriation thereof they would thenceforth appoint one of the Canons of that their Monasterie to celebrate divine Service daily to the worlds end for the souls of him the said Henry and Maud. and of Giles de Erdinton his Father with all their Ancestors and Successors and likewise solemnly keep the Anniversaries of him the said Henry and of the Lady Roese his sister and lastly after his decease bury his body in the Chapell of S. Edmund before the Altar there within the precincts of their Monasterie And departed this life in 10 E. 1. possessed of a fair estate in this County so likewise in the Counties of Leicester Salop. Staff then seized into the King's hands by reason of the minoritie of his heir of which lands this Mannour of Erdington was inter alia assigned for the dowrie of the before specified Maud his wife who shorthly after married to William de Bifeild without License from the King whereupon she gave C li. Fine for her Pardon To this Henry de Erdinton succeeded Henry his son and heir who doing his homage in 23 E. 1 had liverie of his Father's lands and in 30 E. 1. performing the like homage had also liverie of those lands which descended to him by inheritance from his mother then deceased This last mentioned Henry in 3 E. 2. procured Walter Laugton then Bishop of Coventre and Lichfield to ordain one Iohn de Hull-Lemynton a subdeacon to celebrate divine Service within the private Chapell of his Mannour-house here at Erdinton undertaking to settle the sum of Lx s. per an for his maintenance and to preserve the said Bishop indempnified therein For his publique employments I find that in 7 E. 2. he was constituted one of the Assessors and Receivers of a Fifteenth as also a Commissioner for conservation of the Peace in this Countie In 8. one of the Justices for the Gaol-deliverie at Warwick In 9. one of the Collectors of Scurage in arrear to the King for the Warrs of Scotland in 28.31 and 34. years of his Father's reign In which year likewise he was assigned to supervise that both Men Armes in this Countie were in a fit order and readinesse according to the Statute of Winchester for the Scotch expedition being also constituted one of the Justices for the Gaol-delivery at Warwick and conservation of the Peace In 11 E. 2. he was in Commission to enquire what persons had or should retain any souldiers Horse or Foot or to make confederacies or private meetings within this Shire From that time till 14 E. 2. he was again one of the Justices for the Gaol-delivery at Warwick and in 17. of that Kings reign he is in the list of those Knights and other men at Armes of this Countie whose names were then certified into the Chancerie This is he as I suppose that built the South I le to the Parish-Church of Aston commonly called Erdingtoâ—s Chancell for I find that in 12 E. 2. he gave a certain Rent seck of vi d. per annum to the maintenance of the Gutter betwixt the Church and it in which grant he calls it Nova Capella beatae Mariae de Aston and by Ioane his wife one of the daughters and heirs unto Sir Thomas de Wolvey of Wolvey in this Countie had issue Giles de Erdinton who in 19 E. 3. had a Pardon for not appearing to receive the honour of Knighthood before the Feast of S. Laurence the same year according to the form of the King's Proclamation This Sir Giles in 20 E. 3. was in the Warrs of France the King himself being there in person being of the retinue of Iohn de Montgomery in that servâ—ce and in 23 E. 3. in Commission for the levying of a xvth and Tenth in this Countie So also in 26 E. 3. In 31 E. 3. he was a Knight and bore for his Armes a bend over his Lions passant and in 33 E. 3. one of the Commissioners in this Countie assigned for the arraying of men for defence of the Realm in the King's absence which is the last mention I have seen of him To whom succeeded Thomas his son and heir xxviii years of
H. 6. that the price of 〈◊〉 Fish in thâ—se days compared with other thâ—ng may the bâ—tter appear Item John Buâ—bage and Will Lâ—mpe â—â—r â—â—â—hing on Wensday nexte bâ—â—â—r the Exaltacion of the â—ros and dyde â—â—ke it Brews and were lade to my Lorde to Lychefelde be Will. Alyn And to the seyde Fycâ—ers â—yre and fâ—r her 〈…〉 meâ—e and horsmete iii s. x d. Item the same Fychers were send for again on Thursday nexte afâ—â—r the Exaltacion and was theâ— Thursday Frydaie and Setyrday and 〈…〉 Brenis ther hyre and ther costs iiii s. viii d. Iâ—â—m the â—osts of bâ—kyng the seyde iiii 〈…〉 xii d. Item in Spâ—e Pepâ—r Safâ—â—rm Ciâ—â—â— and Synamum vi d. Iâ—em the costs of carynâ— the seyd iiii Breâ—â—s to Mydlam to my Lord in the North Câ—ntrey be Thomas Harys of Suttun x s. Item for the Swans fâ—ur quarter â—teâ— and a bushell two quarter of hem a 〈…〉 quarter and a bushell a streke iii d. vii â— x â— The Church dedicated to the H ◠〈◊〉 was in an 1291. 19 E. 1. valâ—â—d aâ— xx 〈◊〉 and in 26 H. 8. at xxxiii l. ix s. over and abâ—vt xii s. yearly allowed for Procuratâ—â—es and Synodalls Here was in this Church a certain 〈◊〉 fâ—unded by one Thomas Broad 〈◊〉 but 〈…〉 when appears not for one 〈…〉 anâ— to pray for the soul of the said 〈◊〉 Parents the value of the Lands and 〈◊〉 belonging thereto being in 26 H. 8. 〈◊〉 at Cvi s. viii d. and in 37 H. 8. at Câ—â— Patroni Ecclesiae Incumbenâ—eâ— c. Edwardus Rex Anglâ—â— hac vicâ— Patronus Râ—â— â—illari 7 Id. Maii 1317. Thomas de Bello-campo Comes Warwici Ioh. de Bukâ—ingham Accol 4 Nor. Ian. 1345. Thomas de Bello-campo Comes Warwici Will. de Sharneburne Cap. 2 Id. â—an 1348. Thomas de Bello-campo Comes Warwici Sim. Basset de Sapcote Cler. 3. Cal. Sept. 1349. Thomas de Bello-campo Comes Warwici Will. de Barton Cler 15 Cal. Aug. 1361. Thomas de Bello-campo Comes Warwici Rad. de Friseby Pbr. 12 Cal. Sept. 1361. Thomas de Bello-campo Co. Warw. Rog. de Tangley Pbr. 3 Sept. 1382. Thomas de Bello-campo Co. Warw. Nich. Stokes 5 Iunii 1389. Thomas de Bello-campo Co. Warw. Rad. Bromley Cler. 13 Sept. 1391. Thomas de Bello-campo Co. Warw. Thomas Henster Pbr. penuli Ian. 1391. Thomas de Bello-campo Co. Warw. Ric. Penne 16 Apr. 1397. Thom. Dux Surr. Co. Cantii Ioh. de Malverne Pbr. 4 Ian. 1397. Henr. Rex Angl. ratione minoris aet Ric. Comitis VVarw. Ric Penne Cap. .... 1401. â—ic de Bellocampo Co. VVarw. Ludov. Beelte 15 Maii 1412. Ioh. Verney alai Ric. Comite Ioh. Arundell 8 Apr. 1431. VVarw. in part transmar existente Ric. de Bellocampo Comes Warw. Ioh. Adams Pbr. 2 Martii 1433. Ric. de Bellocampo Comes Warw. Thomas Hill Cler. 12 Dec. 1436. Henr. 7 Rex Angl. Edw. Scot Legum Dr. 24 Apr. 1499. Henr. 7 Rex Angl. Magr. Ioh. Taylour Decret Dr. 4 Feb. 1504. Henr. 8 Rex Angl. D. Georgius Henege 15 Ian. 1516. Henr. 8 Rex Angl. Ioh. â—urges S. Theol. Bac. 27 Maii 1521. Henr. 8 Rex Angl. Rad Wendon 29 Martii 1527. Thomas Gybbons ar Iâ—h Fâ—don Cler. 2 Nov. 1563. Eliz. Angl. Regina Petrus Sankeâ—â—â— in Art Magr. 28 Nov. 1583. â—liz Eâ—yot vidua Râ—ges Eâ—â—et Cler. 5 Oct. 15â—5 Rob. Shâ—lton Gen. Ioâ— â—urges in Art Magr. Medâ—ciâ—ae Dr. 14 Iâ—lii 16â—7 Monumentall Inscriptions in the North I le Hic iacet Agnes Filia junior Willielmi Harman domini de Morehall nupta Willielmo Gibons per quem habuit duos Filios Iohannem clericum Thomam tres Filias seniorem nuptam Thome Keene tertiaâ—â— nuptam Edwardo East que Agnes mater obiit 5. die Februarii an MD xx Orate pro animabus Iohannis Leveson Amicie uroris sue qui habuerunt exitum Willielmum Cancellarium ecclesie cathedralis Exon. Eliz. nuptam Thome Yard armigero comitatus Devonie ac Annam nuptam Georgio Robinson Mercatori Londinensi The Grammar School here founded by the before mentioned Bishop of Exeter after this sort FIrst whereas the annuall Rent of vii l. formerly by virtue of a certain Feoffment had been received to the disposall of the same Bâ—shop either for the maintenance of a Priest to celebrate divine Service â—â—â—ce every week in the Parish Church of Sutton or else of an hâ—â—est Lâ—y-man â—uffiâ—enâ—â—y learned and skilfuâ—l to teach Grammar and Rhetorâ—que within the â—aid town was by him appointed to be allowed and payd for the 〈◊〉 of a fiâ—man to teach â—rammar and Rhetoâ—ique as abovesaid and that together with his Scholars should daylie say the Psalm of De profundis for their Benefactâ—rs And in 〈◊〉 a meet person should not be found then to be imployed in the providing of certain Lay-Artificers to teach their trades within this 〈◊〉 of Sutton there living well and honesâ—ly or else to other piâ—uâ— uses ordained and declarâ—d by the saâ—d Bishâ—p And wheras for perfâ—rmance the 〈◊〉 be appoinâ—edâ— that whensoever it hapned â—hat ix of the xxi Feoâ—fees by him constituted shâ—uld be departed this life that then the xii â—urviving ought within one month after to 〈◊〉 otâ—â—r 〈◊〉 of the most substantiall Inhabitants from time to time for ever And whereas by the saâ—d Fâ—â—ffees not performance of what was so ordainedâ— and for certain â—â—ther causes the said settlement therâ—â—f became void in Law he being in full power to dâ—â—pose otherwise of the same out of his wonted pious regâ—rd to the publick benefit of the Common-wealth and this his native Countrey made a Feâ—ffment of divers lands lying withâ—n the precincts â—f this Parish unto the Warden and Fellowship of Sutton bearing date the first day of October in 35 H. 8. to the intent that the said Warden and Fâ—llowship and their successors with the profits thence arising should find a certain learned Lay-man fit and skilfull to teach Grammar and â—hetorique within the same Parish who togâ—ther with 〈◊〉 Scholars ought daily to say the Psalm of De Profundis for the souls of their Bâ—nefactâ—rs and â— such person could not be found thâ—n to â—â—â—vide certaine skilfull Artificeâ—s to teach 〈◊〉 trades as abovesaid or to distribute the Reâ—â—â— and profits of those Lands for the discharge of Tallage Taxes or other impâ—siâ—iâ—ns made by the King's authoritie upon the pâ—or people of the Parish or else to be imployed for the marriage of poor Maidens or Orphans or to some other charitable secular use within this Lordship of Sutton Whereupon the said Warden and Fellowshâ—p by their publick Instrument dated 6 Apr. the year ensuing constituted one Iohn Savage Schoolmaster there for life granting him an Annuitie of x l. per an issuing out of those lands And on the first of October in 38 H. 8. conferred the same again upon Laurence Noel in like
that of Robert de Winchelsie Arch-Bishop of Canterbury in An. 1294. 23 E. 1. Quia inter Rectores Ecclesiarum Parochianos suos lites cupinius extinguere quae frequenter oriuntur Statuimus quod si decedens tria ad minus vel plura cujuscunque generis in bonis animalia habueret optimo cui de jure fuit debitum reservato Ecclesiae suae à quà recepit Sacramenta dum viverit melius post optimum reservetur id est the best being reserved for the Lord as an Heriot the Church to have the next for a Mortuarie Which Constitution was farther and more fully explained by Sim. Langham Arch-Bishop of Canterbury about Lxxx. years after where he alledges the occasion of that payment to be pro recompensatione subtractionis Decimarum personalium necnon Oblationum as I have already intimated the truth whereof I somewhat doubt for the reasons before exprest though Lindwood in his Glosse upon that Constitution saith Quia non remittitur Peccatum nisi restitutione factâ ideo statuit quod pro compensatione sic subtractorum secundum melius animal defuncti Ecclesiae dampnum debet applicari He means ut dampnum Ecclesiae resarciat to make some recompence for the Tithes and Oblations withheld Now that the manner of their payment was antiently by leading driving or carrying the same before the Corps of the Defunct on the day of his sepulture I shall demonstrate by these ensuing testimonies 1. William de Beauchamp father to the first Earl of Warwick of that Family who died in 52 H. 3. scil near 400 years since in his Testament hath these words Et corpus meum terrae sepeliendum in Ecclesia Fratrum Minorum Wigorniae coram corpore meo unum Equum ferro coopertum ut decet cum stramentis militaribus 2. In 12 E. 1. Roger de Clifford a great Baron in his Testament hath it thus Et Corpus meum sepulturae matrici Ecclesiae de Dore cum corpore meo Dextrarium meum coopertorium vel xxx marcas 3. And in 20 E. 1. Sir Hugh de Plessets Knight thus Et Corpus meum ad sepeliendum in Ecclesia Conventuali de Mussenden juxta Monumentum patris mei ibidem quondam defuncti cum corpore meo nomine Principali Palefridum meum album cum armatura qua decet 4. Adde to these that of Sir Walter Cokesey Knight in 24 E. 1. Item lego Corpus meum ad sepeliendum in Ecclesia Fratrum Minorum Wigorniae cisdem Fratribus x. marcas argenti pro omnibus Armis meis coram corpore meo venientibus quae quidem Arma integraliter Waltero filio meo remanebunt quidam Equus coram corpore meo veniens tunc ibidem dicta Arma deferens cum dictis Fratribus remanebit 5. And that of VVilliam de Beauchamp the first Earl of Warwick of that name in 25 E. 1. who bequeathing his Body to be buried in the Quire of the Friers Minors at Worcester as his Father did goeth on thus Lego etiam duos magnos Equos coram corpore meo Arma mea secunâ—ùm quod decet portantes ut praedicto loco ubi câ—rpus meum sepelitur remaneant 6. As also of Râ—c de Mundevile of Berkswell in this Countâ—e in 27 E. 1. Do lego Corpus meum Ecclesiae Conventuali Canonicorum de Chaucumbe humanae tradendum seputurae juxta patrem meum coram eodem unum Equum precii xx maâ—carum vel valorem xx marcarum And to descend unto later times that of Sir Robert de Legh Knight in 9 H. 4. Item lego unum â—alefridum nigrum coram Corpore meo die sepulturae meae transiturum nomine Herietis As also that of Iohn Marclefeld Clerk in 9 H. 5. Item lego Equum meum vocatum le Bay aumbler vt efferatur ante Corpus meum in die sepulturae meae nomine Principali By which instances that already said is not onely made good but the originall occasion and practise of Horses being led and Armour carried before the Corps at the Funeralls of great persons which perhaps most men suppose to have been rather as a badge of their militarie services sufficiently manifested Many more of which nature I could exhibite were it not for brevities sake but to make the matter more cleer I shall further observe that in a very antient autograph of no less antiquity than Henry 3. time in which the Depositions of sundry persons is recorded to prove what Priviledges the Abby of Pershore had forasmuch as their Charters and evidences had been unhappily consumed by Fire when that Monastery was burnt and wherein Walter the then Prior sworn and examined having declared his knowledge touching the right of Sepulture which that Abby had unto the Bodies of the Inhabitants not onely of Pershore but of xxxiiii other Villages there named Requisitus de Testamentis dictorum hominum saith my Authoritie dicit quod Principale legatum debet deferri ante corpora defunctorum ad Ecclesiam de Persore ibi per Sacristam illius Monasterii Capellanos dictorum locorum estimari factâ estimatione mediet as debet residere penès Sacristam alia medietas penès Capellanos dictorum locorum c. And consonant to this did Iohn Fillol an Essex man by his Testament dated 20 Iulii An. 1390. 14 R. 2. who bequeathing his Body to be buried in the Church of Thorpe saith Item lego ad fugandum ante Corpus die sepulturae meae unum Bovem meliorem Nay that it was the Custome of those elder times so to do observe this following instance by Thomas Frembaud Esquire in 8 H. 6. Ac Corpus meum ad sepeliendum in Coemeterio Ecclesiae Oninium Sanctorum de Badlesden c. meum melius animal coram corpore meo ut mos exigit die sepulturae meae nomine Principali And now a word or two to shew that the Mortuarie and Legacie for Tithes forgotten though at first they were different things as by what hath been said may appear came at length to be thrust together and therefore might cause that expression in the Canon of Simon Langham before specified I find that Thomas de Beauchamp Earl of Warwick who died in an 1369. 43 E. 3. by his Testament thus bequeatheth Item ieo devise a chescun Eglise ou ieo su Segneur ay per mez ministrez ma menere en mon â—emps ma mellour Beste illoques trove en nom de Principal pur gree faire de mez Dismez obliez And Thomas his son and Successor by his Testament bearing date in 2 H. 4. Item â—eo devise a chescun luy on ie suy Seigneur ou Patron xx s. de monoie en nom de mon Principal forspris si aveigne que me tollu la vie à Warrewyk ie devise à l'esglise de nostre Dame suisdit sc. Ecclesiae Collegiatae Warwici le meillour
of Anne the wife of Sir Edward Boteler Kt. brought a Writ of Scire facias against the said Earl of Pembroke traversing that Inquisâ— whereby it was found that Thomas le Despenser had an estate in reversion therein after the death of Sibill the widow of the said Sir Hugh le Despenser but I do not find that he got any thing thereby I suppose that K. E. 4. upon the attainder of the said Iasper in the first year of his reign and for that disaffection that he bore unto young Henry Earl of Richmund son to the before specified Edmund who afterwards fled the Realme seized those Mannours into his hands for about seaven years after he gave them unto Richard Nevill Earl of Warwick after whose attainder whereof in Warwick I have spoke this Mannour was granted viz. 25 Martii 12 E. 4. to George Duke of Clarence for life without rendring any thing for the â—ame and afterwards scil 28 Iulii 14 E. 4. to him the said George and the heirs male of his body But within a short time it eschaeted again to the Crown by reason of his the said Duke's forfaiture so that in 18 E. 4. the King granted the Bailiwick of it to Thomas Boteler one of the Grooms of his Chamber Neither do I find that it was out of the said King's hands nor his successors till 5 H. 8. that Thomas Howard Earl of Surrey for that signall service done against the Scots at Flodden field obtained a Patent dated 1 Febr. whereby he had not only an advancement to the Dukedome of Norfolk but the inheritance of this Lordship with the advouson of the Church and divers more in sundry other Counties bestowed on him with a limitation to the heirs male of his body as also a speciall Augmentation to his Armes To which Duke succeeded Thomas Duke of Norff. his son and heir who by his Deed bearing date ult Nov. 20 H. 8. past a way the inheritance thereof together with Sheldon before mentioned unto Edm. Knightley Esq. and Eustace Kitteley Gent. to the use of Sir George Throkmorton Knight and his heirs From which Sir George it descended to Thomas his grandchild who by his Deed bearing date 16 Maii 2 Iac. in consideration of 1080 l. sold it to Edm. Hawes of Solihull Gent. and Humfrey Coles of the Middle Temple from whom it was purchased by Sam. Marrow of Berkswell Esq. who past it to Sir Ric. Greves of Moseley in Com. Wigorn Kt. Which Sir Richard sold it to Sir Sim. Archer of Tanworth Knight the present owner thereof The Church dedicated to S. Alphage was in an 1291 19 E. 1. valued at xxx marks over and above two marks which were yearly payd out of it to the Priory of Hertford of Limsie's Foundation as I have already shewed But in 26 H. 8. the value thereof over and above the said Pension of two marks per an to the Prior of Hertford xxii d. yearly Rent to the Chantrey here at Solihull and xi s. xd. paid annually to the Bishop and Archdeacon for Synodalls and Procurations was certified to be xxiiii l. xviiâ— s. iâ—ii d. Patroni Ecclesiae Incumbentes c. Rad. de Limesi Iohanna de Odingsels ux ejus ratione dotis ejusdem Iohannae Regin de Tykeham an 1286. D. Eustach le Poer Ela de Ordingsels ux ejus ................... D. Ioh. de Grey miles D. Rad. de Hengham Cler. an 1303. Quatuor fil heredes D. Ioh. de Odingsells D. Ioh. de Stanstede Pbr. an 1310. Will. de Bromwich Procurator D. Eust. le Poer Ioh. de Everdon Cler. an 1310. D. Alicia de Caunton domina de Pyriton Ioh. de Sandale subdiac 4 Cal. Nov. 1311. Ioh. de Hothum Elien Episc. Rob. de Beverlaco Pbr. 3 Non. Sept. 1319. Ioh. de Hothum Elien Episc. Will. de Stow Pbr. 5 Cal. Ian. 1329. Ioh. de Hothum fil Ioh. de Hothum mil. Tho. de Glaston Pbr. 10 Cal. Apr. 1336. Ioh. de Hothum fil Ioh. de Hothum mil. Galfr. Scroope Cler. 17 Cal. Dec. 1342. D. Anna le Despenser Ioh. Digg Pbr. 8 Id. Dec. 1362. D. Rad. de Ferrers D. Hug. le Spenser milites Ric. Birches Pbr. 5 Cal. Apr. 1371. Ioh. Trussell Dominus de Solihull jure Aliciae de Hothum ux suae Will. de Newhagh Cler. 6 Dec. 1375. Ioh. Trussell Dominus de Solihull jure Aliciae de Hothum ux suae D. Thom. de Baddeby 4 Febr. 1378. Ioh. Trussell Dominus de Solihull jure Aliciae de Hothum ux suae D. Will. de Newnham Pbr 21 Maii 1379. D. Hugo le Despenser miles Ioh. de Salford Pbr. ult Dec. 1384. D. Hugo le Despenser miles Ioh. Everingham Pbr. 5 Ian. 1394. D. Hugo le Despenser miles Tho. de Collum Cler. 20 Sept. 1399. D. Iac. Fenys Dominus de Say Sele miles Ric. Donyngton Pbr. 28 Martii 1449. Iasper Dux Bedf. Rob. Bryan Decr. Dr. 5 Nov. 1492. Dominus Rex Walter Walmer Clâ—r .... an 1508. Thomas Bleverhayset miles Thomas Bleverhayset 1 Maii 1527. D. Georgius Throkmorton miles Mr. Ioh. Fekenham alias Howman in S. theol Bac. 17 Martii 1544. Rob. Throkmorton de Coughton miles D. Thomas Barnes ult Aug. 1554. Rob. Throkmorton de Coughton miles Will. Hubawd Cler. 16 Iunii 1557. Rob. Throkmorton de Coughton miles Will. Barnes 15 Ian. 1558. Rob. Throkmorton de Coughton miles Magr. Ioh. Bavand Cler. 12 Sept 1560. Will. Bavand ex concess Rob. Throkmorton mil. Henr. Smyth 9 Iunii 1570. Monumentall Inscriptions in the Church Upon a plate of brasse fixt on a marble gravestone lying in the North I le Hic humatur cum parentibus Iohannes botiler olim causidicus Nonis Februarii mundo ademptus Cujus animam suscipiat alti thronus Anno domini MCCCCCxii Amen On an Alabaster stone whereon is the portraiture of a man in his gowne Here lieth the body of Henry Huggeford of Solihull gent. deceased the xiii th of November in the year of our Lork God 1592. To whom the Lord grant a joyfull resurrection Amen Upon a tablet fixed in the North wall of the Church are the portraitures of a man and his wife with 4 sons and 4 daughters and this Inscription 1610. William Hawes aet 80. Ursula Coles aet 76. Here William Hawes and Ursula his wife Their bodyes lye their soules with Christ in life Whose holy Spirit did so direct their wayes That in his Fear they lived to aged dayes In endlesse joy with Christ they now remain By whose blood all salvation do obtain Upon a marble tombe-stone in the body of the Church whereon are portraitures in brasse Of your charity pray for the soules of William Hill gent. and for Isabell and Agnes his wifes Which William deceased the vi day of December in the year of our Lord God MCCCCCxlix On whose soules
and heir of Sir Henry Ferrers and Margaret Hekstall his wife of East Peckham in the County of Kent Knight He died th xxix th day of August 1535. leaving issue Henry Edward George and Nicholas Here also lieth Dame Constance his wife daughter heir to Nicholas Brome Esquire of this Mannour of Badsley-Clinton who died the xxx th day of September 1551. Here also lieth Henry Ferrers their eldest son and heir who married Catherine one of the daughters and coheirs of Sir John Hampden of Hampden in the Countie of Buck. Knight He died Anno D. 1526. leaving issue Edward Ferrers married to Briget daughter to William Lord Windsor of Bradenham 1548 and died Anno Dom. 1564. Ecce hic in pulvere dormimus Hic nostrae residet gloria carnis Disce mori mundo Vivere disce Deo Hodiae nobis Other Monumentall Inscriptions Upon a stone in the midst of the Chancell Here lieth Henry Ferrers Esquire son and heir of Edward Ferrers and Briget Windsor his wife who was sometime Lord of this Mannour and married Jane one of the daughters and coheirs of Henry White son and heir of Sir Thomas White of South-Warnborn He died the x th day of October Anno Dom. 1633. of his age the 84 th leaving issue Edward Ferrers Upon another near the former Here lieth the body of Edward Ferrers Esquire son and heir of Henry Ferrers and Jane White his wife sometimes Lord of this Mannour who married Anne the eldest daughter of William Peto of Chesterton Esquire and Elianor Aston his wife who died March the xx â—h aged 65. Anno à pariente Virgine 1650. leaving issue onely Henry Ferrers Haec mihi lapidea marmorea posita est immo tibi qui hoc legis quisquis es vigila dum vigilas in rem tuam maturè propera horam scit nemo Vale. In the body of the Church Here lieth Anne the eldest daughter of William Peto of Chesterton Esquire and Elianor Aston his wife who was married to Edward Ferrers Esquire Lord of this Mannour of Badsley the xii th day of February Anno Dom. 1611. and died in child-birth the xii th day of September Anno 1618. aetatis suae 33. leaving issue onely Henry Ferrers Inscribed on the South side of the Chancell in stone Edward Ferrers Esquire son and heir of Henry Ferrers and Jane White his wife did new build and reediâ—ie this Chancell at his own proper costs and charges Anno Dom. 1634. Monuments and Monumentall Inscriptions now defaced which were taken notice of by Mr. Henry Ferrers in Queen Elizabeth's time In the Chancell upon a raised Monument Hic jacet Beatrix Brome vidua filia Radulfi Shirley militis quondam uxor Iohannis Brome de Badsley-Clintoâ— armigeri que obiit â— die mensis Iulit anno Domini MCCCClxxxiii cujus anime propitietur Deus Amen Vpon a Marble there whereon was a large Portraiture in Brasse of a man in armour Hic jacet Philippus Purefey armiger filius heres Willielmi Purefey de Shirford in Com. War armigeri qui obiit xviâ— die mensis Septembris anno Domini MCCCClxviâ— cujus anime propitietur Deus In this Chancell there is a large grave-stone whereon is a plaine Cross but no Inscription under it lyeth buried Dorothy sole daughter and heir of Thomas Marrow Sergeant at Law who was first married to Francis Cokeyne of Pooley in this County Esquire and afterwards to Sir Humfrey Ferrers of Tamworth-Castle Under a large marble lying within the Church dore at the very entrance whereupon hath been a faire portraiture in brasse of a man in armour lyeth buried Nicholas Brome sometime Lord of this Mannour And under the next stone lyeth Elizabeth one of his daughters wife to Thomas Hawe of Solihull Under another neare thereto lyeth Edward Brome son of the said Nicholas by Katherine Lampeck his second wife which Edward married Margery the daughter to Iohn Bâ—aufo of Emscote in this County Eâ—quire and dyed Anno 1531. 23 H. 8. Church-Bikenhill REturning now to the stream of Blithe I come next to Church-Bikenhill This containeth four other petty Hamlets viz. Hill-Bikenhill Midle-Bikenhill Kingsford Wavers-Merston Merston-Culy and Lindon of all which Turchill de Warwick was possest in the Conqueror's time but then they were reputed for no more than two Villages the one certified to contain two hides with Woods of four furlongs in length and as much in breadth having been the freehold of Aluuardus before the Norman invasion And the other likewise two hides the Woods belonging thereto being xii furlongs in length and six in breadth all which one Aluric enjoyed in Edw. the Confessor's days In Domesday-book they are both written Bichehelle but afterwards Bychenhulle and Bigenhull wherefore considering therewith the present manner of pronouncing the word I do conâ—clude that the name originally grew from the old English word Biggen which signifieth a Hall on Mannour-House the later syllable shewing that it stood upon an ascent as we see this town doth It should seem that a younger branch of Arden's Familie whereof the said Turchill was the root had that which is now called Church-Bikenhill assigned for his patrimonie for in the Deed made by Henry de Arderne Turchil's grandson and heir of certain lands for the dowrie of Leticia his wife he likewise grants unto her servitium Eustachii de Arderne de Bychenhulla which it appears that he held of him But I am of opinion that the descendants of this Eustace forsook the name of Ardern and in respect of their residence here assumed the name of Bikenhull for in 33 H. 2. and afterwards I find mention of Thomas de Bikenhulle with relation to this place and about the beginning of H. 3. time Alexander de Bykenhull which Alexander bound himself in the summe of â—v marks of silver unto Sir Hugh de Arden of Hampton Knight that he would neither sell or pawn any part of his lands without the consent of the said Sir Hugh and in 19 H. 3. was one of the Justices of Assize in this Countie After which scil in 23 E. 1. Alice de Langley of whom in Wolfhamcote I have spoke wrote her self Domina de Bygenhull perhaps she was widow unto the said Alexander and yet the same year did Thomas whom I conceive to be his son stile himself so likewise But the next possessor of it though how I find not was Walter Parles about the later end of E. 2. time To whom succeeded William Parles who in 1 E. 3. past away his title therein unto Sir Iohn Peche of Hampton in Arden Knight whose grandchild Sir Iohn Peche in 28 E. 3. obtained a Charter of Free warren in all his demesn lands here From which time for want of light I have not discovered any more thereof The Church dedicated to S. Peter though at the first Foundation of the Monasterie of Henwood it was united thereto continued not 〈◊〉 â—o thâ—se Nunns but was transmitted
hac vice patronus Ric. de Somerdby 3. Cal. Dec. 1317. Tho. de Bellocampo Comes Warw. Rog. de Ledbury Cap. 3. Non. Apr. 1345. Tho. de Bellocampo Comes Warw. Ioh. de Harewode Pbr. 3. Non. Apr. 1362. Tho. de Bellocampo Comes Warw. Ioh. Midleton 1. Septemb. 1369. Thomas de B. Comes Warw. Will. de Brugg primam habens tonsuram Cleric 5. Maii 1382. Henr. Rex ratione custodiae fil haer T. Comitis Warw. VVill. Belle 17. Apr. 1402. Ric. Comes Warw. Thom. Caudray Cler. 9. Maii 1421. Ioh. Verney alii Attornati Ric. Comitis Warw. in partibus transmar exist VVill. Garwardby Pbr. 10. Nov. 1431. Ric. Comes Warw. Ric. Fisher Cap. 17. Iulii 1457. Thomas Marow Ric. Walker Cler. 11. Oct. 1557. Sim. Marow ar VVill. Bolton 3. Febr. 1570. Sim. Marow ar VVill. Stopton Cler. 16. Maii 1573. Humfr. Perrot gen per assign Edw. Marow eq aur VVill. VVincote Cler. 15. Aug. 1623. Iacobus Rex Ric. Gardiner S. Theol. Bac. 16. Febr. 1624. Rob. Lee de Bilsley miles Franc. Foliot in Art Magr. 5. Martii 1626. Upon a Marble whereon are the portraitures in brass of two persons in their Winding sheets under the man 5. Childrenâ— and under the woman two is this Epitaph Of your charity pray for the soules of George Mathew and of Alice his wife son and heir of Iohn Mathew sometime Skinner and Shirive of Coventre of them Iesu have mercy Amen This was made by me George Mathew Anno Domini 1538. Barston THis though it lye on the other side the River is in the Parish of Berkswell and was antiently a place of far greater note for by the Conqueror's Survey it is rated at x. hides mention being there made of it in two places scil under the title of the lands belonging unto Turchil de VVarwick and those appertaining to Robert Despenser the reason thereof as it appeareth by the Record being because Robert Despenser who in one place is called R. de Olgi had it in mortgage of the before specified Turchill unto which Turchil it came by descent from Alwine his Father who purchased it of one Ailmarus by the consent of King VVilliam the Conqueror At the time of the said Survey the Woods here were reputed to be half a mile in length and three furlongs in breadth and the whole together with a Mill of iv s. rated at C s. Besides these x. hides doth the same Record manifest that one Robert then held here of the King half a hide with a Mill esteemed at xx d. and both together valued at xx s. All which were of the said Turchill's inheritance But the name hereof is variously written viz. Bertanestone and Bercestone and doubtless originally grew from some antient owner of it in the Saxons time I am of opinion that it then extended into Berkswell and that almost all Berkswell was at that time included under the name of this place forasmuch as that which is certified by the said generall Survey to be in Bercheswell is so little and this so much but the extent of this Hamlet I mean so much thereof as bore the name of Berstanestone now Barston was antiently given partly to the Knights Templars and partly to the Hospitalars for in that Accompt of 31 H. 2. whereof I have spoke in Balshall the yearly value of what the Templars had here amounted unto iv li. vii d. and is said to be de feodo Roberti Marmionis the Donors name being not exprest But that which the Hospitalars had is recorded to be the one half of the village and was bestowed on them by Alan de Faleis as appears by King Iohn's Charter who in 1. of his reign confirm'd it to them together with the Park and Wood thereto appertaining Aâ—l which together with what belong'd to the Templars and came to the said Hospitalars with Balshall as I have there declared at the generall dissolution temp H. 8. being given to the King was granted out of the Crown in 4 Eliz. to Iohn Fisher and others The Custome for what belong'd to the Templars here was that their Tenants should mow three days in the year one at the cost of the House scil as to Diet and plow one day at the like charge reap two days one at their own finding but on the other to have half a Ramme or iv d. half a Cheese xii loaves and half a pail of Drink As also that they might not marry their daughters without the License of the Lord nor sell their Horse-Colts foaled upon the land without the like Lâ—cense The Chapell here dedicated to S. Swythin hâ—ving been long since annexed to the Church of Berkswell is provided of a Curate by the Parson oâ— that Parish Monumentall Inscriptions in this Chapell Here lieth Rafe Alesbury â—entleman and Alis his wife which Rafe died Anno 1523. Here lieth Baldwin Porter son and heir of Thomas Porter Esquire and Anne his wife eldest sister of Thomas Litleton of Frankley Knight and Iustice of the Common-Pleas temp â—dw quarti which Baldwin died ..... Anno 1499. and Anno ..... Anno 15â—6 Morcote-Hall THis place had its name originally from the situation thereof which is in a black mooâ—ish â—oil and for antiquitie may be rankt with many that are of greater note for it had a being in King Henry the second 's time and perhaps before as appears by Nâ—â—el de Amundevill's grant to the Canons of Kenilworth whereof I have spoke in Berkswell whereunto was witness Hamon de Moâ—cote To which Hamon succeeded Alan de Morcote of whom I find mention in 4 H. 3. whose son and heir Iohn is sometimes stiled Iâ—hannes de Warwick and at other Iohannes dâ— Morcote being owner also of a thâ—rd part oâ— Radway in this Countie After which Iohn there was one Walter de Morcote one of the four Coroners in this Shire in 1 Edw. 3. I am of opinion that Margaret the wife to William Warde of Charweltou in Com. Northampt. was daughter and heir to the same Walter for it appears that upon the â—aâ—e of this place called the Mannour of Morcote with the appurtenances in Berkswell by the said William and Margaret in 7 R. 2. unto one Thomas del Boâ—râ—e there is speciall warrantie against her heirs which shews that it was of her inheritance This Thomas being also one of the Coroners at that time died the year following in whose line it continued till about the later end of K. Edw. 4 reign but then did Iohn Mathew a Skâ—nner of Coventre marry the daughter and heir of that Family and dying in 13 H. 7. left issue George Mathew his son and heir 12. years of age whose great grandchild Henry now enjoys it ann scil 1640. and beareth for his Armes Sable a Lion rampant Argent deriving his Descent from George Mathew a Welchman father
after his Father's death as my authoritie saith he then made a new grant of the premisses to the same Lord Clinton during the minority of the heir then his Ward whereupon the said Lord Clinton in consideration of Lxx li. sterling made an assignation of the said Custodie c. unto Iohn Hales Gentleman at that time Clerk of the Hamper and a very active man in the world as in Coventre I have shewed To the posterity of which Sir Will. Compton it continued till that Will. Lord Compton his great grandchild by his Deed bearing date 3. Febr. 39 Eliz. sold it unto Sir Thomas Egerton Kt. then Lord Keeper of the great Seal from whom Thomas Dilke Esquire afterwards Knight purchased it scil 21. Iunii 41 Eliz. whose grandson William now enjoys it The Church dedicated to S. Michael was in anno 1291. 19 E. 1. valued at viii marks In 5 E. 3. Sir William de Clinton Knight purposing to found a Chantrie therein obtained License to bestow the advouson thereof inter alia upon the same with Lands and Rents to the value of xx li. per annum In pursuance whereof he gave to Iohn Lynie Priest Warden of the said Chantrie and his successors a certain piece of land lying then betwixt the road-way leading from Filongley towards Colshill on the one side and the Church-yard of Maxstoke on the other and extending in length from the Lord of Maxstoke's Quarrie to the Pale of his Park together with the advouson of the Church as by his Charter bearing date at Maxstoke on the Feast day of the Annunciation of our Lady 6 E. 3. appeareth And moreover by the same Charter granted unto the said Warden and his successors 8. Messuages six yard land lying in Long-Ichinton as also the Bodies of viii Natives dwelling there with all their Chattells and Off-spring And besides this xx s. yearly Rent payable by one William Snede and Iohn his son out of a Messuage lying in Long-Ichinton aforesaid with the reversion of the same Messuage and one yard land after their deceases and lastly 4. Acres of land lying in the said town of Ichinton together with the advouson of the Church Which endowment being so made he forthwith by the consent of Roger de Northburgh at that time Bishop of this Dioces Iohn Lynie the then Parson whom he constituted Warden as abovesaid Sir Iohn de Clinton Lord of Maxstoke his brother and Parishioner there as also all the other Parishioners of Maxstoke ordained that the said five Priests should thenceforth celebrate divine Servâ—ce daily in the same Church where the Bodies of his Ancestors lay interred for the good estate of him the said Sir William de Clinton Iulian his wife Sir Iohn de Clinton his brother Alice his wife and for the souls of Sir Iohn de Clinton his Father the Lady Ida his Mother as also for the good estate of Edward the third then Kâ—ng of England Laurence de Hastings and for aâ—l the Lords Hastings in time to come And moreover of the said Roger then Bishop of Coventre and Lichfield Henry Prior of Coventre and â—heir succâ—ssors and for the souls of all the Kâ—ngs oâ— England Lords Hastings Bishops of Coventre â—nd Lichfield Priors of Coventre Brethren and sisters Parents and benefactors and all the faithâ—uâ—l deceased Appointing that the said Warden and his successors as aâ—so the Subwarden and his should be always Priests in Orders admitted and instituted by the Bishop or Coventre and Lichfield for the time being and after the decease of him the said Sir William always presented by the said Sâ—r Iohn de Clinton his brother and his heirs having a House convenient for themselves and the other three adjoyning to the Churchyard of Maxstoke afâ—resaid there to inhabâ—te and lodge together And that the said Warden and his succâ—ssâ—rs shâ—uld pâ—â—vâ—de from time to timeâ— Bâ—â—â—ks Vâ—â—â—ments Lâ—ghts as also two Clerks fâ—r the use of himself 〈◊〉 Sub-warden and the other Priests aswell in the Church as in the Houseâ— viz. their Hall and Chamberâ— nâ—ght and day And mâ—reover that he and his said Sub-warden and thâ— othâ—r Priestsâ— shâ—â—â—d wear white Surpliceâ— with black Copes and Sâ—â—les after the manner of the Vicars-Chorall in the Caâ—hedrall of Lichfield whil'st they were about divine Service both in the Church and Quire And that the charge of the Books and Ornaments shâ—uld belong to the Sub-warden whose Office was to direct câ—ncerning the celebration of Masses viz. of whâ—m what howers and in what order by himself and the other Priests they were to be performed And that Bread Wine Water and Lights should be ready for the said Masses and divine exercises but at the charge of the Warden to be provided And further that aswell the Warden when he could fitly be at leisure and Sub-warden as all the Priests except some great occasion did hinder every day after dinner and before Vâ—â—pers should together in the said Church sing the full Office of the Dead viz. Placebo and Dâ—riâ—e except on double Fâ—â—tivalls and the time of Easter in whâ—ch theâ— ought to observe the custome of the Church of Salisbury in saâ—â—ing the said Office Aâ— also 〈…〉 and Canonicall howers with Note â— in the Qâ—â—re of the Church aforesaid admitting the Chaplains and Clerks of the same Church to sing with them if they pleased And likewise that after the Compline they should say the Commenâ—â—â—tion of the Dead â— in â—he said Quire according â—o the course above described And every Holy day in the Quire together the seven Penitentiall Psalmes and the â—v â—radualls with the Letanie and accustomed Prayers unless there were cause exprest by the Warden that they should say them out of the Quâ—re And that both the Warden and Sub-warden all the other Priests should every day celebrate their particular Masses in the said Church or Quire according to appointment except there were a lawfull impediment so that upon every Sunday the Masse of the B. Virgin should be celebrated with Note and the Mass of the day in such sort as was fit And upon every Munday one of them whom the Sub-warden should appoint to celebrate the said Mass of our Lady by Note with the Office for the Dead for the souls of the persons before recited and all the faithfull deceased And after the death of the said Sir William de Clinton and Sir Iohn his brother for their souls also And that another of the said Priests should celebrate the same day the high Mass of S. Michaell th'arch Angell Patron of that Church and of all the holy Angells with Note and the rest throughout the week thus Upon every Tuesday the Mass of S. Thomas sometime Archbishop of Canterbury by Note besides the high Mass of the day by Note also On Wednsday the first Mass of our blessed Ladie by Note and the high Mass of the said day with Note as also a memoriall of S. Katherine the Virgin On
Peto junior and Beatrice his wife to hold during their lives and the life of the Survivor of them reserving x li. per annum to be payd to himself and his heirs after the decease of the said Henry and Beatrice without issue which Henry and Beatrice confirmed that estate to them the said Iohn and Beatrice the next year ensuing This Beatrice the wife of Iohn de Peto was daughter and heir to Iohn de Sheldon of whose alliance to the said Henry I am not certain But unto Sir Iohn Murdak of whom in Compton-Murdak I have spoke succeeded Sir Thomas Murdak Kt Lord of this Mannour as heir to his Father which Sir Thomas in 48 E. 3. past away all his title therein unto Sir Roger Meres of Kyrketon Knight for CC li. sterling whose son scil Iohn Meres obtained a confirmation thereof from the before mentioned Beatrice the widow of the said Iohn de Peto to take place after her decease which makes me think that she was next heir in blood to the same Henry de Sheldon and in 9 R. 2. sold the same reversion unto Sir Raphe Basset of Draiton Knight who died seized thereof in 14 R. 2. leaving Thomas Earl Stafford and Alice the wife to William Chaworth his cosins and next heirs as the Descent here inserted sheweth .... Basset de Draiton Margareta .... Stafford Rad. Comes Staffordiae Hugo Comes Staffordiae Tho. Co. Staff consangu unus haered Rad. Basset de Drayt. Matilda Iohanna Rogerus Iohannes Catharina Alicia uxor Will. Chaworth altera cohaer Rad. Basâ—â— de Drayton Rad. Basset Rad. Basset Rad. Basset ob s. prole 14 R. 2. To which Thomas succeeded William Earl Stafford his Brother and heir and to William Edmund who in 4 H. 4. granted inter alia to Sir Hugh Shirley Knight this Mannour of Sheldon by the name of Est-Hall and West-Hall upon condition that if he the said Hugh should decease without issue mâ—le of his body then to revert to the before specified Earl and his heirs in confirmation whereof Iohn Browne Parson of Brochole in 2 H. 6. released to Sir Raphe Shirley Knight whom he calls cofin to Sir Raph Basset of Drayton Knight and to the heirs male of his body all his right therein and in other lands which he the said Iohn had together with Walter Skyrlaw Bishop of Duresme and other Feoffees by the grant of the before specified Raphe Basset in Fee-simple without any condition whatsoever Whereupon the said Sir Raph Shirley by the name of Sir Raph Shirley of Radclif super Sore in Com. Nott. Knight in 10 H. 6. was certified to be Lord of this Mannour and to hold it by the service of the fourth part of a Kts. Fee but long it was not ere that the said Earl Stafford had it again though by what agreement I have not seen for by a Bayliffs Accompt of Humfrey Earl Stafford's lands in 23 Hen. 6. it appears that the said Earl then possest it Which Earl being created D. of Buck. soon after died seized thereof viz. in 39 H. 6. leaving Henry his son and heir 4 years of age unto whom succeeded Edw. D. of Buck. attainted in 13 H. 8. by means whereof it came to the Crown and by Letters Pat. dated 29 Martii the same year was last granted out unto Thomas Grey Marq. Dorset for life and about two years after in Fee taâ—l to him and the heirs male of his bodie viz. 27 Iunii 15 H. 8. whose son and heir Hâ—â—râ— D. of Suff. being attainted in 1 M. as in Astley I have 〈◊〉 it resorted again to the Crownâ— and was by Q. Eliz. first granted to ..... 〈◊〉 and others in 2 of her reign but by other Letters Pat. in 17 H. 8. to Heâ— Grey Eâ—q in Fee taâ—l wh â—h 〈…〉 his estate therein to Sir George Digby or Colshill Kt. who died seized thereof in 29 Eliz leaving Robert his son and heir xii years of age and upwards which Robert for fâ—rther corroboration of his title in 3 Iac. obtained a Pat. thereof from the Crown bearing date 15 Nov. to himself and his heirs being thâ—n a Kt. Since which time his posteritie have enjoyed it Besides this Mannour of Est Hall and West-Hall there was another 〈…〉 Sheldon which originally being nothing else 〈◊〉 a mâ—mber of Solihull came in time to have the reputation of a Mannour but the first 〈◊〉 I â—ave seen of i◠〈◊〉 3 R. 2. where it is by 〈◊〉 found that Alice 〈…〉 Sir Hugh le Dâ—spenser inter alia Sulihull 〈…〉 Rent here in Sheldon pay the partly by Fee-holder and partly by those that held in Vilâ—enage which Alice had issue Sir Hugh le Desâ—enser Kt. who in 3 H. 4. died seized of viii l. Rent here leaving Aâ—â—â— the wife of Sir Edw. Boteler Kt. his Sister and heir Howbeit within two years after this which was no more than a certain Rent issuing out of sundry lands here was called a Mannour as appears by a Fine thâ—n levied the eof together with the Mannour of Solihull betwixt Sibill the widow of the said Sir Hugh le Despenser and the before specified Sir Edward Boteler Kt. and Anne his wife Of which forasmuch as it afterwards accompanied Solihull for a long time I shall not need to say more it being a member thereof as is farther manifested by the Inquiâ— taken after the death of George D. of Clarence upon whose attainder it came to the Crown where it rested till 12 H. 8. that the King by his Letters Pat. dated 12 Febr. granted it together with the advouson of the Church to Thomas D. of Norff. and the heirs male of his body which Duke in 20 H. 8. past it away with Solihull unto Edmund Knightley Esq. and Eustaâ—e Kitteley Gent. to the use of Sir George Throbmorton Knight and his heirs whose grandchild Thomas being seized of it in 23 Eliz sold it unto the before specified Sir George Digby as I have heard The Church dedicated to St. Gules was in An. 1291. 19 E. 1. valued at viii marks and in 26 H. 8. at viii l. x s. x. d. over and above ix s. vi d. allowed for Procurations and Synodalls Patroni Ecclesiae Incumbentes c. Rad. de Perham Thom. de Stodham 3 Id. Maii 1318. Will. de Clinton Co. Huntendoniae Nich. de Sheldon Pbr. 16 Cal. Dec. 1342. Ioh. de Peto junior Ioh. Sromer Cap. 6 Cal. Iulii 1349. Ioh. de Peto junior Ric. de Kinton Cap. 18 Cal. Ian. 1350. D. Rad. Basset de Drayton miles Nich. Nichols Pbr. ult Sept. 1387. Beatix relicta D. Hug. Shirley mil. Thom. Galpyn Cap. 7 Martii 1407. Beatix relicta D. Hug. Shirley mil. Rob. Greene Cap. 12 Maii 1408. D. Rad. Shirley miles Ioh. Parker Cap. 20 Oct. 1427. D. Rad. Shirley miles Thom. Gamul Pbr. 29 Ian.
not for taking part with Thomas Earl of Lancaster in 15 E. 2. he was beheaded at Yorke after which it became soon disposed of by the King together with Creke in Com. Northampt. unto Elianore the wife of Hugh le Despenser the younger to hold during her life to the use and behoof of Gilbert le Despenser son to the said Hugh which I suppose she held accordingly during the remainder of the said King's reign and no longer as may seem by an Inquis then taken and a confirmation made the year following by Iohn de Moubray son and heir to the last mentioned Iohn unto Sir Richard Pesehale Knight of the third part thereof together with the advouson of the Church which Aliva de Moubray mother of the said Iohn of whose dowrie it was had granted to him the said Richard to hold during life But besides this third part it seems that the said Sir Richard obtained an estate in the rest to hold likewise during his own life for in 16 E. 3. when William de Clinton then Earl of Huntendon had began the Foundation of Maxstoke Priorie having a minde to endow it with lands and possessions situate convenient thereto it appears that after he had agreed with the Lord Moubray to have this Lordship in Exchange for the Mannour of Hinton in Cambridgeshire he gave unto the said Sir Richard in lieu of his terme in this the inheritance of the Mannour of Gudlesdon juxta Colshill with leave to take down a new House which he had built here at Shustoke and to remove it whither he should think fit as also all such timber as was then fallen by the said Richard in the Park here at Shustoke and libertie to cut down in the said Park six more Oaks for Timber and six for Fewell the same grant bearing date 5 Ian. 16. E. 3. After which scil the morrow following Ascension day the said Lord Moubray granted the same with the advouson of the Church unto that Earl and his heirs for ever Whereupon he accordingly by his Deed dated the Saturday before the Translation of S t Thomas the Martyr setled it upon the Canons of Maxstoke and their successors who the next year following for their better conveniencie past it away unto Iohn de Clinton nephew to the before specified Earl in exchange for that part of Maxstoke which was afterwards and still is called the Priorie-Lordship Aâ—l which being thus performed the same Iohn de Clinton immediately granted it unto the said Earl his uncle to hold during life who being so seized thereof procured a Charter bearing date 20. Ian. the year ensuing that himself for his life and his said nephew and his heirs for ever should have a Court Leet within this Mannour extending likewise into the Hamlets of Bentley and Blithe within the same Parish together with Assize of Bread and Beer Pillorie Tumbrell as also the Liberties of Infangthef and Outfangthef Gallows and Weyfs rendring for the same to the said King his Heirs and Successors xviii d. yearly by the hands of the Shiriff in augmentation of the ferme of the Countie By which Charter there was farther granted to the said Earl as also to his nephew and his heirs Free warren in all his demesn lands within the precincts aforesaid Upon whose death in 28 E. 3. his said nephew Sir Iohn de Clinton had liverie thereof From whom descended Iohn Lord Clinton and Say whose lands were seized on in 38 H. 6. for adhering to the House of Yorke at which time this Lordship inter alia was given by the King to Sir Edmund Mountfort Knight one of his Kervers in consideration of his faithfull service against the said King's enemies but the deposall and ruine of King Henry hapned so soon after as that the Lord Clinton was not long out of possession thereof in whose line it continued till 31 H. 8. that Edward Lord Clinton and Say sold it unto Iames Leveson of Wolverhampton Esquire a rich Merchant of the Staple as by his Deed bearing date 6. Febr. the same year appeareth Which Iames gave it in marriage in 36 H. 8. unto Walter the son and heir of Sir Edward Aston of Ticksall in Com. Staff Knight whose grandson Sir Walter Aston Knight of the Bathe being plunged into vast debts by supporting himself in that Embassie of Spaine towards the later end of King Iames his time first sold the greatest part of the Fermes to the severall Tenants and soon after the Mannour it self unto Sir George Devereux of Sheldon Knight the now owner thereof The Church dedicated to S. Cuthbert was in anno 1291. 19 E. 1. valued at x. marks and the advouson thereof in 17 E. 3. given by William de Clinton Earl of Huntingdon together with the Mannour unto the Priorie of Maxstoke then newly by him founded whereupon soon ensued its appropriation scil 4. Id. Iulii the same year And in 26 H. 8. the Vicaridge was valued at Cvii s. over and above ix s. vi d. allowed for Procurations and Synodalls Patroni Ecclesiae Incumbentes c. D. Rad. fil Nicholai ex conces D. Regis ratione custodiae haeredis D. Will. de Eseby Rad. le Breton Cler. post mortem Gilb. de Camvile ult Rectoris an 1250. D. Ioh. de Moubray miles Ioh. de Acom Pbr. 3. Id. Oct. 1336. post mortem Ric. de Colshull ult Rectoris Patroni Vicariae Incumbentes Prior Conv. de Maxstoke Will. Edithe Cap. Cal. Martii 1343. Prior Conv. de Maxstoke Rob. le Spicer Cap. 4. Cal. Martii 1349. Prior Conv. de Maxstoke Will. Edithe Cap. 12. Cal. Aug. 1353. Prior Conv. de Maxstoke Ric. de Linley Pbr. 7. Id. Martii 1365. Prior Conv. de Maxstoke Ioh. Kytewyld Pbr. 21. Dec. 1390. Prior Conv. de Maxstoke Ric. Bishop Pbr. 24. Aug. 1398. Prior Conv. de Maxstoke Ioh. Pryce Diac. 21. Sept. 1425. Prior Conv. de Maxstoke Will. Orme Pbr. 5. Martii 1456. Prior Conv. de Maxstoke Ric. Eliot Cap. 18. Iunii 1494. Prior Conv. de Maxstoke Thomas Perkins Pbr. 20. Oct. 1500. Prior Conv. de Maxstoke Henr. Sutton Cap. penult Iulii 1501. Prior Conv. de Maxstoke D. Ioh. Robynson Cap. 7. Apr. 1536. D. Edw. 6. Rex Angliae D. Rad. Pykering 13. Febr. 1547. D. Eliz. Angl. Regina Nich. Haighe Cler. 9. Maii 1562. D. Eliz. Angl. Regina Georgius Mutley Cler. 2. Oct. 1576. D. Eliz. Angl. Regina Ric. Warde Cler. 29. Oct. 1594. Iac. Rex Angl. c. Iosepâ—â—s Harison Cler. ..... 1605. Carolus Rex Angl. c. Ioh. Warde in art Magr. 18. Maii 1632. The present fabrick of this Church was erected in King Edw. 2. time as is evident by the picture of Richard de Coâ—â—ull the last Rector which stood within these few years in a South
window thereof and therefore that portraiture in one of the North windows of Iohn Lord Moubray kneeling before S. Cuthbert must be of that Iohn that was beheaded at Yorke for his adhering to Thomas Earl of Lancaster which Iohn being doubtlesse a great Benefactor to that new structure and bearing an extra ordinarie respect to S. Cuthbert sometime Bishop of Duresme whose same for sanctitie and miracles was very great in the Northern parts where the said Lord Moubray's estate most lay did upon the rebuilding thereof honour him with the Dedication Bentley THis place though it do lye two miles distant interposed by Whitacre-superior 〈◊〉 Shustoke parish the reason thereof being plain viz. that in antient time being both possest by one and the self same Lord who founded and endowed the Church it was both lawfull and proper that he should dispose of the Tithes thereto arising out of it for the better support of the Incumbent the payment of them being then arbitrarie I mean to what Church any man pleased as in Church-Over I have shâ—wed which custome of payment ever after continuing to Shustoke hath fixt it to be of that Parish By the Conquerour's Survey having Woods of half a mile in length and three furlongs in breadth it was rated for one Hide and is there recorded by the name of Benechelie then being possest by Geffrey deâ— Wirce with Shustoke and valued at Lxiv pence at which time one Ansgot a Priest held it of the said Geffrey in pure Almes but afterwards with Wirce his lands it came to Nigel de Albani by whom as it appears by these authorities which I have cited in Shustoke the Ancestor of Walter de Camvile was first enfeoft thereof Which Camviles had large Woods here part whereof being given by Walter de Camvile in H. 2. dayes to the Monks of Merevale have since that time born the name of Monks-Park and been reputed a member of Merevale Out of the residue antiently imparked I find that King H. 3. gave command to the Shiriff of this Countie in 24. of his reign to deliver unto Alexander de Savensby then Bishop of Coventre and Lichfield six Bucks in which Precept it is said to have belonged unto Maud de Kamvile wife of Thomas de Astley as the Descent in Arrow sheweth by which Maud most of this Lordship upon partition betwixt those coheirs came to the Familie of Astley and was by Sir Thomas de Astley in King H. 3. time granted unto Iohn de Wilnechote of Winecote juxta Stratford super Avon and his heirs excepting the Park and Out-wood and the service of certain persons residing in the said Hamlet of Bentley to be held of him the said Sir Thomas and his heirs by the Rent of five marks of silver yearly payable at the Feast of the Nativity of S. Iohn Baptist and S. Andrew the Apostle by even portions for all services and demands whatsoever which grant was afterwards confirmed by Sir Andrew de Astley Knight son and heir to the before specified Sir Thomas who reduced the Fee-ferm Rent to xl s. per annum to be payd at the termes abovesaid Which Rent in 12 R. 2. did Sir William de Astley Knight lineall heir of the said Sir Andrew give to the Sacrist of the collegiate-Collegiate-Church at Astley and his successors for ever But of the Park above mentioned had the said Sir Thomas de Astley no more than a moytie for so it appears by the Extent thereof in 50 H. 3. Henry de Curson being seized of the other part by Descent from another coheir of Camvile Which Sir Thomas and Henry being both Rebells the one slain and the other taken Prisoner in that memorable battail of Evesham 49 H. 3. it was extended and valued at i li. vi s. viii d. About the beginning of King Edw. 2. time was this Mannour of Bentley for so I find it then called granted by the before specified Iohn de Wilnecote unto Henry de L'isle and Ioane his wife and the heirs of the said Henry to whom in the male line it still continueth as by the Descent in Moxhull the seat of that Familie it appeareth Here is now but the carcasse of a Chapell dedicated to the Holy Trinity which antiently was of use to the Inhabitants being a Presentative as the Institutions do manifest the Patronage whereof pertaining to the Lords of Shustoke and granted in 17 E. 3. with that Mannour and advouson of the Church by Iohn Lord Moubray unto Will. de Clinton Earl of Huntendon as also by the said Earl soon after to the Canons of Maxstoke became involved in the appropriation with Shustoke as being part of that Parish The endowment it had as by a Certificate to the Bishop in 34 H. 3. appeareth was an Annuitie of four Marks the Rectorie of Shustoke being then valued but at ten Marks which summe of four marks was payable by the heirs of Roger de Camvile viz. three marks and a half out of the Ferm of a Mill lying in Shustoke and the rest out of Ousthirne-grange all which being swallowed up by the Appropriation before specified there doth not appear to have been any more than one Presentation thereto afterwards and that as the words of the Institution do import to a Chantrie there so that how the Cure was served for a long time I have no certaintie Howbeit in 1 H. 5. did Sir William de Clinton Knight then Lord of Maxstoke and Iohn Boteler of Eccleâ—hale juxta Coventre by their Feofment bearing date on Michaelmass-day give a certain Tenement and half a yard land lying here in Bentley unto one Thomas Serjeant of Bentley and others and their heirs for the maintenance of a Priest celebrating divine Service every day in the said Chapell for ever But how or by whom this Priest was presented or placed there I have not seen till 2 R. 3. that the Canons of Maxstoke admitted one VVill. Moore thereto by a speciall Instrument dated 18 Iunii under the Covent Seal enjoyning him to perform divine Service therein onely upon Sundays and double Festivalls and at all other times at least three dayes in the week at the Altar of S. Catherine in the Priorie of Maxstoke in case he should be in bodily health and not otherwise lawfully hindred for the souls of the Founder and Benefactors of the said Chantrie and all the faithfull deceased Which Mill before specified did belong to this Chapell for by a Letter Patent from Iohn Lord Clinton directed to the Prior and Covent of Maxstoke and dated 6. Febr. 2 R. 3. taking notice that it was decayed and the VVater-course thereto filled up for want of clensing as also that the said Prior and Covent had a purpose to repair it for the benefit of this Chapell the said Iohn signified his pleasure that they should have leave so to do by cutting down wood in the antient Water-course and scouring
mention in Fillongley was enfeoâ—t and that from him Walkâ—line who assumed it for his sirname in respect of his residence here originally had it For though we have little light to discover the passages of these elder times the grant of lands being then not frequently by Charter as I have elsewhere observed yet from what is manifested by divers Records in reference to the tenure no less than what I have sayd may cleerly be inferred The male descendants of which VValkeline till E. 3. time continued Lords thereof but then by heirs Female other Families enjoy'd it as I shall forthwith shew But of this VValkeline de Mancestre I have seen no more than that he was witness to a Charter by which Rob. Marmion gave to the Nuns of Polesworth the Church of Quinton in com Glouc. about the beginning of K. H. 2. time and that he confirmed Oldbury to the said Nuns of Polesworth which VValter de Hastings originally gave to them To which Nuns was Hugh de Mancestre grandchild to the said VValkeline also a Benefactor by granting unto them some speciall favours concerning their Mill at Oldburie To whom succeeded Hugh his son and heir who in 29.30.31 and 32 H. 3. was one of the Justices for the Gaol-deliverie at Warwick and in 36 H. 3. obtained a speciall Charter of Free-Warren in all his demesn lands here for which he gave xi marks At which time he was one of the Coroners for this Countie and the next year after being made Eschaetor Walkelinus de Mancestre temp Regis Steph. Walt. de Mancestre 7 R. 1. Hugo de Mancestre 7 H. 3. Emma secundò nupta Gilb. de Croc. Hugo de Mancestre obiit 37 H. 3. Siâ— dâ— Mancestre 34 H. 3. Sim. de Mancestre miles 6 E. 2. Henr. de Mancestre 17 E. 1. Walt. de Mancestre 40 H. 3. Erneburga postea ux Joh. de Grendon Joh. de Mancestre miles 13 E. 1. Guido de Mancestre miles 14 E. 2. Cecilia 14 E. 2. Edm. de Mancestre miles obiit s. prole Margareta Roisia ux Leonardi Worthin 20 R. 2. Iohanna ux ..... Brokshole Galfr. Brokushole miles 20 R. 2. Johanna ux Thom. Aspal 8 H. 5. Margeria ux Ioh. Sumpter 8 H. 5. Lucia ux Petri Prilley Hugo Prilley ob s. prole Will. Prilley frater haeres 48. E. 3. departed this life leaving issue Walter and Simon which Simon setled himself within the Lordship of Tanworth where a certain large moated place though the buildings be gone beareth yet the name of his habitation and had issue Sir Simon de Mancestre Kt. who in 6 E. 2. was one of the Knights for this Countie in the Parl. then held at Westminster and gave for distinction in his Armes from those of the elder House three Lions upon the Bend. Of which Walter I find little memorable But to him â—ucceeded Sir Iohn de Mancestre Kt. who in 13 E. 1. covenanted to discharge the Nuns of Polesworth from any Scutage in respect of their lands situate here in Manceter and Oldburie and about that time claimed a Court Leet by Prescription within this Mannour as also Free-warren by virtue of K. Henrye's grant made to Hugh his grandfather both which were allowed In 16 E. 1. he was with the King's Armie in that Welch expedition under the conduct of Edmund Earl of Cornwall bearing for his Armes varrè Arg. and Sable with a Bend gules and left issue Sir Guy de Mancestre Kt. and he Sir Edmund who altered his Armes engrailing the Bend but dying without issue left the inheritance of this Lordship to the Children of his three sisters by which means it came to be divided and scattered For having issue Rose the eldest wife of Leonard VVorthyn from whom descended Sir Thomas Holt of Gristeburge in Com. Lanc. Kt. the said Sir Thomas sold his third part to one Robert Greene of Atherston of which Robert it was purchased by Thomas Ludford of Ansley Gent. whose posteritie enjoy it as I think at this day To Geffrey Brokâ—shole son of Geffrey who wedded the second succeeded Ioane the wife of Thomas Aspall and Margerie the wife of Iohn Sumpter as daughters and heirs whose third part came ere long to VVill. Harper Nich. Rouley both of this place and Thomas Arblastâ—r of Longdon in Com. Staff Esq. for in 10 H. 6. they were joyntly possest of it but made partition thereof as it seems for Thomas Harper the last of that name that had to do here sold his share to Iohn Glover of Baxterley in whose liâ—e it still continues the Mannour house being part of it But Rouley's and Arblaster's came to Thomas Lewes Gent. in Edw. 6. time of whose great-grandchild George did VVill. Cumberford of Cumberford in Com. Staff Esq. of late time purchase it And Prilley's by Aâ—â—e the daughter and heir of Edm. Prilley in H. 6. time to .... VVaver in marriage whose grandson Ric. VVaver in 7 H. 7. sold it to Ric. Cave of Stanford in Com. Nâ—rthampt Which Richard by his Deed bearing date 20 Iulii 9 H. 8. past it with certain lands in Dorstell Kingsburie and Nun-Eaton in this Countie as also in Swinford and Forton in Com. Leic. unto VVill. Filding of Newnham Esq. in exchange for divers lands is Stormysworth in the said Countie of Leic. Of whose great grandchild viz. Basill Filding Esq. did Alice Lady Dudley wife to Sir Robert Dudley Kt. about the twentith year of K. Iames his reign purchase it causing conveiance to be made thereof to the said King and to be enrolled in the Chancerie to the intent that his Majâ—stie should regrant the same to the then Incumbents of Manceter Leke-Wootton Ashow Kenilworth Monkskirby and Stonley for the augmentation of those small Vicaridges xx l. per an a piece which was accordingly done with proviso that the Patentees and their successors should preach one Sermon every Sunday throughout the year and upon every Whitsunday a speciall Sermon in commemoration of the said Ladie Dudley and Aleezia her daughter then deceased who by her last Will and Testament bequâ—athed most of her estate unto her said Mother to be imployed to such uses as she should think fit To each of which Churches this pious Ladie also gave a fair proportion of plate to be used at the Communion The Church was in an 1291. 19 E. 1. valued at xxii marks the advouson whereof in 28 H. 6. did the Monks of Merevale purchase from the then Lords of this Mannour sc. Thomas Arblaster the elder and Alice his wife Anne the widow of Thomas Porter Rob. Armeburgh Esq. Reginald Armâ—burgh Clem. Draper Ioan the Widow of VVill. Harper and Raphe Holt and Elene his wife whereupon the Appropriation of it soon ensued by VVill. Booth then Bishop of Cov. and Lich. the
yearly Pension of xiii s. iiii d. to him the said Bishop and his successors and iiii s. iiii d. to the Arcdeacon of Coventre being reserved As also a Vicaridge endowed whâ—ch Vicaridge in 26 H. 8. was valued at x. l. xiii s. iiii d. per an Patroni Ecclesiae Incumbentes c. Ioh. de Mancesâ—re miles Hugo de Stanford Cler. 1287. Rob. de Herle Ioh. de Herle subdiac 14. Cal. Apr. 1298. D. Guido de Mancestre miles Rog. de Crophul Pbr. 11. Cal. Apr. 1333. D. Guido de Mancestre miles Ric. de Bulcote 15 Cal. Aug. 1349. D. Edm. de Manceâ—tre miles Ric. de â—ybâ—â—smore Cap. Cal. Aug. 1349. D. Gaâ—f Brochull miles Petr. Prilley Leonardus Worthâ—â— Will. Bâ—â—â—kâ—â—w Pbr. xxii Iunii 1392. D. Epâ—â—c per laps Tho. Heton Cler. 10 Nov. 1432. Patroni Vicariae D. Episc. hac vice Ioh. Mâ—â—â—ford alias Barbour Pbr. 20 Feb. 1449. Abbas Conv. de Merevale Magr. Râ—b Whitinton 21. Aug. 1514. Abbas Conv. de Merevale D. Râ—b Barfâ—â— 14. Oct. 1530. Abbas Conv. de Merevale Thomas Allrad Cap. 1. Iunii 15â—8 Anna Hyll de Atherston Tâ—omas Smyth Cler. 9 Nov. 1553. D. Eliz. Regina Wilâ—â—â—dus Rosse Cler. 26. Aug. 1574. Iacobus Rex 〈◊〉 Abell â—ler Art Mag. 31 Iulii 1622. The Chantrie IN 37 â— 6. the Abbot and Covent of Merevale founded a Chantrie at the Altar of the holy Trinitie within this Church for one Priest to celebrate divine service daylie thereat for the soul of K. H. 6. after his departure out of this life and for the souls of Thomas Slawteley Alice and Catherine his wives and all the faithfull deceased The lands belonging whereunto lying in Whitington and Atherston were in 26 H. 8. valued at vi l. vii s. iii d. per an over and above all reprises and in 37 H. 8. at vi l. x s. ii d. ob The Gild. THis was likewise founded in the said 37 â—h year of K. H. 6. at the instance of Iohn Riggeley then Abbot of Merevale and did consist of divers men women Inhabitants of Atherston this Parish of Manceter who were every year upon Trinitie-Sunday to choose amongst themselves for the better rule and government of that Fraternitie two Masters unto which Gild did belong one Priest to celebrate divine service at the Altar of the blessed Virgin in this Church of Manceter for the good estate of the said K. H. 6. and his Queen during this life and for their souls afterwards as also for the good estate of all the Brethren and Sisters of the said Fraternitie Which Priest so serving there had in 26 H. 8. a Stipend of vi l. per an allowed unto him but in 37 H. 8. all the lands belonging thereto were valued at x l. x s. out of which xx s. was yearly given to poor people Hartshill THis place is joyned with Ansley in the Conq â—â—â— Survey where it appears that both of them were then esteemed for two hides and valued at C s. being then fermed out by the King together with Coventre and with Manceter doubtless came to the Earl of Chester for it appears that it was held of those Earls and their heirs and that one Hugh was the first that seated himself here assuming this place for his sirname having a fair Mannour house situate with very much advantage for defence viz. at the utmost point of a ridge that stretcheth ifself betwixt two deep and narrow Vallies and had the reputation of a Castle as the tradition is there being some embattelled Walls yet standing to testifie as much To this Hugh succeeded Robert and to him William who wrote himself Will. de Hardreshulle as his grandfather did and in 3 Ioh. underwent the Shiriffaltie of this Countie and Leicestershire for that great man Will. de Cantilupe of whom in Astonâ—Cantilupe I have made mention as also gave the Church of Ansley to the Nuns of Polesworth and left issue Robert his son and heir who in 2 H. 3. was one of the sureties in the behalf of Robert Marmion for his safe custody of Tamworth Castle to the King's use and in 5. and 6 H. 3. one of the Justices of Assize in this Countie Hugo de Hardredeshull temp H. 1. Rob. de Hardredeshull Will. de Hardredeshull 3 Joh. Rob. de Hardredeshull 2 H. 3. Will. de Hardredeshull deâ—unctus 46 H. 3. Matilda postea nupta Will. de Arderne Rob. de Hardreshull defunctus 1 E 1. Margareta â—oh de Hardeshull mil. defunctus 4 E. 1. Isabella 5 E. 1. Will. de Hardreshull defunctus 32 E. 1. Iuliana Ioh. de Hardreshull miles 10 E. 2. Margareta una fil cohaer Iac. Stafford de Sandon mil. Eliz. filia cohaer Ioh. Culpeper Thomas Culpeper de .... in com Cantii miles 1 R. 2. Alianora 1 R. 2. Ioh. Culpeper de Ashene in Com. Northampt. milâ—s 10 H. 6. Walt. Culpeper ar 16 H. 6. Thomas Culpeper miles Ioh. Culpeper miles obiit 22 E. 4. Alex Culpeper miles 27 H. 8. Thomas Culpeper de Bedgburie in Com. Cantii ar 3 E. 6. Iohanna ux Iac. de Burford mil. Margareta ux Ric. Talbot mil. Erneburga de Hardreshull Abbatissa de Pole sworth 29 E. 1. Ric. de Hardredeshull 23 H. 3. To which Robert succeeded Will. de Hardredeshull his son and heir who in 9 H. 3. gave xx marks to the King for his Releif and 447 l. 7 s. 5 d. being a debt due by him to the Jews In the same year he was in Commission for levying and collecting a xv th in this Countie and Leicestershire so likewise the next year following And for taking Assizes of Novel disseisin in this Shire In 23 H. 3. he gave x. Marks Fine for the custodie of the lands which were belonging to Ric. de Hardredeshull his Uncle and in 43. of the said King's reign did his Homage for all those lands in Lincolnshire which Grace de Li'sle died seized of and were of his inheâ—itance But in 46 H. 3. he departed this life leaving Robert his son and heir who gave Lx s. to the King as a Releif for the lands which his Faâ—her died seized of that were held of the said K. in Capâ—te and doing his Hâ—mage had liverie of them Which Robert â—iding with the Earl of Leicester and other the rebellious Barons in 49 H. 3. and being slain fighting on their part in the battail of Evesham his lands were seized and this Mannour by name given to Wâ—â—ine de Bassiâ—gburne yet to Margaret his widow the King allowed certain of her said husband's forâ—â—â—ted possessions lying in Pultenhethe and Paxton for the maintenance of her â—eâ—â— and her Children but what Children these were doth not appear to me nor what became of â—hâ—m for the inheâ—itance of this Lordship considering that the Dâ—ctum
by his speciall Pat. then bearing date appeareth Howbeit sub tali pacto fuit restitutus ut si fortè quoquo tempore residaveret sine spe restitutionis foret exhere dandus saith my Authoritie Et ad hoc tenendum tam per Sacramentum prestitum corporale quam per Cartam suam se Domino Regi gratis obligaverit But of that pardon he had no benefit partly for that the said sum was not accordingly payd and partly by reason of his second defection For the next Spring after he made head again in the Northern parts of Derbyshire contra Sacramentum suum cum copioso Excercitu unto which the King's forces under the conduct of Henry eldest son to the King of Almain shortly advanc'd and at Chesterfield on Whitson-Eve routed all his power whereof many were slain and of those that escap'd by flight he himself being one was hid in a Church but by the trecherie of a woman discovered and brought up Prisoner to London by the said Henry The authorities whereof I have been necessitated to make use for the better illustration of this Storie do I confess somewhat differ in point of time to reconcile them therefore I have followed those which have most agreed with our publick Records Hereupon in the Parliament held the same year at Westminster he was disherited according to the tenor of his obligation before specified and Edmund the King's son invested with his Earldome of Derby as my said Authoritie expresseth and as those that have written touching the succession of our English Earls do affirm but that he really was so though he had the greatest part of his lands and excercised perhaps the power of Earl in that Countie I am not satisfied forasmuch as I cannot find that the said Edmund had any Patent of Creation unto that Honour as he had to those of Leicester and Lancaster nor any other till Henry of Monmouth his grand-son who was afterwards made D. of Lancaster Which Edmund soon after viz. 28 Iunii next ensuing had a grant from the King of all the goods and Chattells whereof the said Robert Earl of Derby was possest upon the day of the skirmish at Chesterfield before mentioned and on the fift of August following of all the Castles and lands belonging to the same Earl to hold during pleasure It seems that this Robert continued a Prisoner for the space of three years or thereabouts for of his enlargement I find no mention till the beginning of May 53 H. 3. but then there was such mediation made for him that the King accepted of securitie whereby he might receive satisfaction for his misdemeanours committed in the turbulent times before spoken of and commanded the said Edmund to make restitution to him of his lands Hereupon as I guess was that agreement made betwixt them viz. that to quit all his interest in those Castles and lands so granted to him he should receive fifty thousand pounds all upon one day for payment whereof the said Earl procured Henry son to the King of Romans William Valence Earl of Pembroke Iohn Earl of Warren and Surrey William de Beauchamp Earl of Warwick Roger de Someri Thomas de Clare Rob. Walraund Rog. Clifford Hamon le Straunge Bartholmew Sudley and Robert Bruse all great Barons to be bound unto whom he passed by way of counter-securitie all his Castles and lands excepting Chartley in Staffordshire and Holbroke in Derbyshire which sum being not accordingly payd those his sureties past over their title therein unto the said Edmund and his heirs But hereupon there arose great suits in Law betwixt them about the beginning of King Edward the first 's time the Earl pleading that according to the Dictum de Kenilworth he was capable of redeeming his lands lying in the Counties of Stafford Derby Leic. and Lancaster excepting Chartley in Com. Staff and Holbroke in Com. Derb. for the sum of fifty thousand pounds and that they were both formerly so agreed In answer whereunto the said Edmund exhibited a certain writing made and enrouled in the Chancerie by which it appeared that he was to hold those lands untill the Earl did pay that sum at one intire payment Unto which the Earl replied that the said Writing ought not to oblige him forasmuch as it was made per dures but upon full hearing of the cause Judgement was given against him whereupon he lost Tutburie Castle and other vast possessions which came thereby to the said Edmund then Earl of Leicester and Lancaster as hath been shewed But this was not all for he lost his Earldome likewise All that I have seen farther memorable of the before specified Robert Earl Ferrers is that by his Letters Patent bearing date at Yoxhall on the Tuesday next after the Feast of St. Fabian and Sebastian in 46 H. 3. he gave libertie unto Sir Walter de Raleg and his heirs inhabiting at Uttoxater in Staffordshire to hunt and course the Fox and Hare within the precincts of his Forrest of Needwood in that Countie with eight Braches and four Greyhounds To which grant his Seal of Armes is affixed wherein it appears that upon his Shield and the Caparisons of his Horse waiving the border of Horse-shoos used by his Father he bore onely Varrè Or and Gules which Armes were afterwards continued by his posteritie the Lords Ferrers of Chartley so long as that line lasted and since according to the usage of later times by the principall male branch now remayning of this great and noble Family seated at Tamworth-Castle in this Countie As for the time of his death I cannot directly point it out but in sted thereof shall close up his story with the words of the M S. before cited viz. Robertus Comes de Ferrariis Christum dominum Regem viz. suum dominum Henriâ—um infestavit sine causa non tantum semel sed sepins precipuè cum esset Pax domini Regis per Regnum proclamata Ipse verò Robertus pauper obiit nichil praeter podagram possidens haereditatis sc. his Father's and Grandfather's infirmitie Two wives he had Mary the first neice to King Henry the third sc. daughter to Hugh le Brun Earl of Angolesm his brother by the mothers side being married very young he at nine and she at eight years of age And Alianore though whose daughter I cannot prove For the health of whose souls and his own he gave to the Canons of St. Thomas juxta Stafford two Messuages in Chartley before mentioned as also xvii acres of land and the advouson of the Church of Stow juxta Chartley appointing his body to be buried in the Priorie of St. Thomas whensoever he should depart this life To this Earl succeeded Iâ—hn his son and heir within age in 9 E. 1. but somewhat of his Father's spirit it seems For in
marriage inter alia with Eliz. his daughter unto Walter son and heir of Sir Edward Aston Knight From whom descended Sir Walter Aston Knight of the Bathe who in 1. Caroli or about that time sold it to the Tenants But that whâ—ch the Monks of Burton had here coming to the Crown at the generall dissolution of the Religious Houses in 30 H. 8. was in 33. of that King's reign given to the Collegiate-Church of Burton before specified for King Henry having outed the Monks placed a Dean and secular Canons in their roome But this Collegiate-Church soon following the fate which the Abbies had being likewise dissolved in 37 H. 8. the King by his Letters Patent bearing date 31. Ian. the same yeare granted this Mannour for by that name it is past unto Sir William Paget Knight and his heirs to be held in Capitâ—â— by the xxth part of a Knight's Fee Which Sir William by the name of William Lord Paget of Bendesert for so he had been created by his Deed dated 30. Dec. 1. 2. Ph. M. sold it unto the Lady Elianore Brereton widow sometime wife of Sir William Brereton Knight and to Richard Brereton Esquire her son and heir to the use of them the said Elianore and Richard and the heirs of the said Richard From which Richard it descended to George his son and heir late of Ashley in Cheshire who died seized thereof in 30 Eliz. leaving William his son and heir above xix years of age The Church dedicated to S. Nicholas was in 55 H. 3. given by Osbert de Clinton son of Thomas to the Monks of Burton and in anno 1291. 19 E. 1. valued at xvi marks as also appropriated to that Religious House by Pope Urban the sixt in 2 R. 2. In 26 H. 8. the Vicaridge was rated at viii li. over and above ix s. vi d. allowed for Procurations and Synodalls Patroni Ecclesiae Incumbentes c. Thomas de Clinton miles Williel de Cherlecote Philippus de Assellis anno 1248. Abbas Conv. de Burton D. Will. de la Warde 10. Cal. Febr. 1303. Abbas Conv. de Burton Ric. de Staunton Cap. 4. Cal. Iunii 1328. Abbas Conv. de Burton Rog. de Baukewell Cler. 4. Id. Febr. 1330. Henr. de Northwell Patronus hac vice Ioh. de Deping Pbr. 3. Id. Maii 1340. Abbas Conventus de Burton D. Ric. Lucas Pbr. 2. Oct. 1369. Patroni Vicariae Incumbentes c. Abbas Conventus de Burton Rob. Lucas Pbr. 2. Oct. 1378. Abbas Conventus de Burton Ioh. Ivelyth Cler. 20. Nov. 1404. Abbas Conventus de Burton Will. Batayll Cap. 27. Iunii 1413. Abbas Conventus de Burton Ric. Hasard Pbr. 11. Apr. 1429. Abbas Conventus de Burton Ioh. Alisawndre 9. Febr. 1437. Abbas Conventus de Burton Ric. Parker 3. Iulii 1438. Abbas Conventus de Burton Henr. Fulcock 5. Martii 1501. Abbas Conventus de Burton Will. Darley in art Magr. 12. Febr. 1524. Ric. Coton gen alii ex concess Abb. Conv. de Burton D. Thom. Farmer Cap. 7. Sept. 1542. Sim. Harcot ar Ranulphus Orton 19. Aug. 1567. Humfr. Ferrers ar ex concess Roberti Comitis Leic. Rog. Molde Cler. 8. Oct. 1583. Iacobus Rex Angliae c. Rob. Bostok Cler. 10. Iunii 1619. Iacobus Rex Angliae c. Mich. Bostok Cler. 3. Nov. 1620. Iacobus Rex Angliae c. Ioh. Prior Cler. in art Bac. 7. Nov. 1623. Newton THis seems to have been originally a member of Sekindon as by what I shall say when I come to speak of the Church will appear for there is no mention of it in the Conqueror's Survey and till 5 H. 2. it being in the King's hands was for that respect called Newton-Regis but then granted to Geffrey Sauvage it continued to his Descendants whilst the male line lasted and afterwards to the sisters and coheirs to the last William as the Pedegree in Baginton manifesteth Howbeit the second Geffrey was exposed to a defence of his title thereto in 7 R. 1. against Thomas de Arden the service by which he held it being half a Knight's Fee But by heirs female coming to Ednesoure and Meinill I find that in 13 E. 1. Thomas de Ednesoure and Philippa de Meinill jointly claimed a Court-Leet with Assize of Beer Gallows and Free warren therein by the grant of King H. 2. all which were allowed From which said Thomas son of Thomas by Lucia one of the Sisters and coheirs to the said Will. le Sauvage the one moitie thereof descended to the Herthulls of whom in Baginton I have spoke and from Herthull after divers Descents to Cokain as the Descent in Pooley manifesteth in which Family it continued till Sir Edward Cokain grandfather to Sir Aston Cokain Baronet now living sold it But from the before specified Philippa the second sister and coheir of Sauvage the other moytie came to the Meinills of Derbyshire â— she being the wife of Hugh de Meinill of Langley-Meinill in that Countie where the chief seat was sometime Steward to William de Ferrers Earl of Derby and continued in that line for divers Descents Sir Hugh Meinill great-grandchild to the said Hugh and Philippa having in 24 E. 3. a Charter of Free warren â—inter alia in all his demesn lands here To which Sir Hugh succeeded Sir Richard and to him Sir Raphe who died in 12 R. 2. without issue male whereby his four daughters became heirs to the estate viz. Ioane first married to Iohn Staunton and afterwards to Sir Thomas Clinton Knight Elizabeth to William Crawshawe Margaret and Thomasine betwixt whom Partition being made it was allotted to Elizabeth by which means it came to Sir Raph Shirley of Staunton-Harold in Com. Leic. Knight with Margaret her daughter and heir by the said Iohn and did continue in that Familie till that Sir Thomas Shirley Knight a younger son to Sir George Shirley Baronet within these few years sold it to the Tenants The Church dedicated to the Assumption of the blessed Virgin was in H. 2. time but a Chapell to Sekindon and in an 1291. 19 E. 1. valued at viii marks In 39 E. 3. upon some diâ—â—erence which arose betwixt the Parson of Clifton-Camvile in Com. Staff and the Parson of this Church touching the perception of certain Tithes I find that it was by Robert de Stretton then Bishop of this Diocess thus accorded viz. that of all Calves Colts and Lambâ— belonging to the Inhabitants of Newton and falling within Clifton-Parish as also for the Mâ—lk of the Kine there calving the Parson of Clifton should thenceforth receive according to the Custome of the Countrey id est for a Colt a penny a Lambe a half penny and for a Calf
Cal. Nov. 1311. Ioh. Burdeth miles Ioh. de Thurstynton 18. Cal. Maii 1333. Thom. de Bellocampo Com. Warw. Ric. Colet Accol 12. Cal. Oct. 1349. Thom. de Bellocampo Com. Warw. Henr. de Wirley Pbr. 10. Cal. Dec. 1361. D. Thomas Burdet miles Rog. Newbrugg Pbr. penult Sept. 1387. Thom. Mottelow persona Eccl. de Arrow alii Alanus de Thame Cap. 3. Ian. 1410. Thom. Mottelow persona Eccl. de Arrow alii Will. de Erdington 28. Apr. 1411. Thom. Mottelow persona Eccl. de Arrow alii Rob. Evynton Pbr. 13. Martii 1421. D. Thomas Burdet de Arrow miles Nich. Cowper Pbr. 28. Apr. 1439. Thomas Burdet ar Rob. Burton Canon Regularis 10. Martii 1445. Ioh. Burdet ar Ioh. Baker Cap. 13. Febr. 1491. Ioh. Burdet miles D. Thomas Chare 6. Iulii 1521. Thomas Burdet ar D. Will. Lawnslyn 8. Iulii 1530. Thomas Burdet ar Will. Heys Pbr. 5. Aug. 1560. Thomas Burdet ar Ioh. Barwell Cler. 13. Febr. 1577. Tho. Burdet de Bramcote arm Henr. Cowper Cler. 20. Febr. 1617. Thomas Burdet Baronettus Sam. Wollaston ult Iulii 1629. The Church in anno 1291. 19 E. 1. was valued at ...... but in 26 H. 8. at Cxvi s. over and above ix s. vi d. allowed for Procurations and Synodals Shuttenton OF this place there is no particular mention in the Conqueror's Survey it being then involved with Sekindon and of that part as I guesse which the Earl of Mellent then possest from whom or his son Robert sirnamed Bossu Earl of Leicester was William Burdet enfeoft thereof who upon his Foundation of the Monasterie at Aucote on the other side the River gave it wholy thereunto excepting those lands called Coppenhull which he had disposed of to the Nuns of Polesworth At that time it was written Schetynton and continued a pretty Village till about the beginning of King H. 8. time that the Monks of Aucote depopulated six Messuages and two Cotages therein which I take to be a third part thereof After the dissolution of which Monasterie it continued in the Crown till 34 H. 8. but then did the King passe it away unto Thomas Lord Audley Chancelour of England inter alia in exchange for other lands who the next year following sold it together with the site of the said Priorie of Aucote unto Ioane Robinson the widow of George Robinson of London Mercer Since which time it hath past with Aucote to such particular persons as I have there manifested The Church was very antiently appropriated to the Monks of Aucote and in 26 H. 8. valued at Xl s. But upon the grant of the Rectorie together with the site of the Priorie of Aucote unto Thomas Lord Audley in 34 H. 8. there was vi li. per annum reserved for a Curate to serve therein I cannot find that there hath ever been any more than one Presentation to this Church that was by the Prior of great Malvern in anno 1341. Aucote being a Cell subordinate to that Monasterie Which Prior of Malverne presented one Richard then Prior of Aucote thereto who was instituted 14 Cal. Aug. in the year abovesaid Aucote-Priorie THis place being originally a member of Sekindon and with Shuttenton obtained from the Earl of Leicester by William Burdet was in anno 1151. scil 5 H. 2. granted therewith to the Monks of great Malvern in Com. Wigorn. upon condition that they should send two of their Covent to serve in the Church here from the Feast of S. Michaell till that time twelve-month and the next year following to adde unto them two more And moreover that afterwards so soon as the building of the Monasterie here couâ—d be compleated according to the capacitie thereof more Monks to be received therein by the advice of the Abbot of Westminster and other Religious Persons of these parts and the Prior to be constituted always by the Prior of Malverne before specified Unto which agreement so made betwixt the said William Burdet and Roger then Prior of Malverne in the presence of the before mentioned Abbot of Westminster as also the Abbots of S. Albans and Malmesburie Robert Earl of Leicester amongst others was a witness The occasion whereupon this little Monasterie was founded is said to be this viz. that the said William Burdet being both a valiant and devout man made a journey to the Holy Land for subduing of the Infidells in those parts and that his Steward whil'st he was thus absent solicited the Chastitie of his Ladie who resisted those his uncivill attempts with much scorn whereupon he grew so full of envie towards her that so soon as he had advertisement of his Master's arrivall again in England he went to meet him and to shadow his own foul crime complained to him of her loosness with others Which false accusation so enraged her husband that when he came home and that she approacht to receive him with joyfull embraces he forthwith mortally stab'd her and that to expiate the same unhappy Act after he understood the truth he built this Monastery Of this storie though I have nothing but by tradition yet that he was the Founder hereof is most certain from what I have before exprest and doubtless that Monument situate in an Arch of the wall on the North side of the Church here at Aucote is for him which is only a plain Free-stone covering the Coffin wherein his Body resteth curiously embossed with the sculpture of a large Crosse. The Benefactors that this Priorie had were but few that I finde viz. Robert de Bramcote who gave a Meadow called Bramcote-Meadow and William Burdet grandchild to the Founder who having conferred thereunto the Rent of xii d. issuing out of a certain tenement in Aucote for the maintenance of a Lampe to burne before the Altar of our Lady in the Church here of S. Blase when he lay upon his death-bed added the grant of half a yard land and a Water-Mill lying in Radelive in Com. Leic. So that all the revenues belonging thereto were by the Survey made in 26 H. 8. valued at no more than xxxiv li. viii s. Out of which Lx s. being yearly payd to the Priorie of Malverne whereunto it was a Cell xx s. to Sir Humphrey Ferrers Knight then high Steward thereof and other Reprizes which in the whole amounted to vi li. ii s. x d. left the clear yearly value but xxviii li. vi s. ii d. In so much as it being exposed to dissolution by the Statute of 27 H. 8. and so coming to the Crown was granted out in 34 H. 8. together with Shuttenton unto Thomas Lord Audley Lord Chancelour of England and by him to Ioane Robinson widow who died seized thereof in 1 Eliz. leaving William her son and heir Which William had issue Thomas who mortgaged it with Draiton-Basset in Com. Staff to one William
the said Iohn whom she created Earle of Warwick was it bestow'd upon him and the Heirs of his body in 4. of her reign but he dying without issue as I have formerly observed it came again to the Crown and there rested till King Iames 9. Iuly in the second year of his Reign out of the great respect that he bore unto Sir Fouk Grevill Knight whom he afterwards advanc't to the Dignity of a Baron as in Beauchamps-Court I shall shew bestow'd it on him in Fee at which time it was a very ruinous thing the strongest and securest parts thereof being onely made use of for the common Goal of the County but he bestowing more then 20000. l. cost as I have heard in repairing and adorning it made it a place not onely of great strength but extraordinary delight with most pleasant Gardens Walks and Thickets such as this part of England can hardly paralell so that now it is the most Princely seat that is within these midland parts of the Realm Here is to be seen a large two handed Sword with a Helmet and certain Plate-Armour for Horse service which as the tradition is were part of the accoutrements sometime belonging to the famous Guy but I rather think that they are of a much later time yet I finde that in 1. H. 8. the Sword having that repute the King granted the custody thereof to Will. Hoggeson one of the Yeomen of his Buttry or his sufficient Deputy with the Fee of ii d. per diem for that service Near unto the Castle towards the North-East stands a place fenced with large and strong Walls of stone still called the Vineyard for so it was long since as it seems allowance of wages haveing been given to certain women for gathering of Grapes there during the space of five dayes in 3. H. 4. The next place of note within the precincts of Warwick is the Church of our Lady This in the Conq. time had 1. hide of Land lying in Miton belonging thereto valued at x. s. which it seems was given to it by Turchill de Warwick for by the Survey then made it was certified to be held of him The design for making of it Collegiate id est consisting of a Dean and secular Canons and uniting the Priests belonging to the Church of All Saints which stood within the Castle unto those here was originally laid by Henry de Newburgh the first Earle of Warwick of the Norman line who gave the Church of Compton Murdak for a Prebend to the maintenance of one Canon therein But the work being not effected by him Roger his Son and Successor in the Earldom did in the year MCxxiii 23. H. 1. consummate it with the assent and at the request of the Clerks of the before specified Churches so united and of S. Bishop of Worcester for the health of the Soul of K. Will. the Conq. Q. Maud his consort K. Will. Rufus and for the future advantage of the Soul of K. H. 1. Q. Maud his wife and their Children As also for the Soul of Roger de Belmund and Aelina his wife and of Earle Henry father to the before specified Earle Roger Robert Earle of Mellent and all the faithfull deceased to the end that all the said Clerks might serve God together Canonically night and day in the said Church of our Lady Granting unto them for their necessary sustenance the Church of S. Nicholas the Church of S. Laurence with x. Acres of Land and a House the Church of S. Mich. with 5. Acres of Land and three houses the Churches of S. Sepulcher and S. Helen with two parts of the Tithes of Bidford scil of the Inclosure In Wellesburn 2. parts of the Tith of the inclosed grounds and Chircheset so also in Herdwick with 2. Carucats of Land lying near Long-bridge In Cherlecote half a hide of Land with the Tyth of the demesnes and of the 2. Mills there In Fulbroc half a hide with 2. parts of the Tyth of the demesne 2. parts of the Tyth of the Mill belonging to that Village In Snitenefelt 1. hide with 2. parts of the Tyth of the Inclosure In Claverdon 2. parts of the Tyths of the Inclosure as also the Paunage of the whole Wood belonging to that Town In Shirburn half a hide with 2. parts of the Tyth of the Inclosure In Milverton half a hide vvith all the Tyth of the Earle of Warwick's Fee In Cotes all the Tythe as well in the Mills as other things living dead and likewise of two Carucates of Land lying in Stochull and Wodelaw In Comton 2. parts of the Tyth of the Inclosure In Walton-Theoderic all the Tyth of the demesne and of one Mill. In Walton-Spilibert 2. parts of the Tythes of the Inclosure as also of the 2. Mills and in the Meadow adjoyning to Bereford vi Acres Within and without the Town of Warw. lx houses In Miton all the Tyth and all the third part of the demesne as also the Land of one Neatheard and 4. Land And moreover the Church of Gretham with the Church of S. Iohn and 6. Acres of Land the Church of S. Peter with one house The Church of Budbroke and all the Tyth of that Village with all that belongeth thereto and the Tythe of the Rent of the Burrough of Warw. In Hethe 1. Hide In Caldecote half a Hide as also the Schools of Warw. together with judgement by Fire Water and Battail and lastly C. Acres of land in Cotes with the land of Wimund the Priest All which possessions he the said E. Roger ratified unto them by his Charter sealed granting that they might have a Dean and Chapter and a fraternal Covent in the said Church and to enjoy the premisses as freely and honorably as the Churches of Lincoln Salisbury or York did theirs And besides this did the said Earle Roger give to the Canons of this his Collegiate Church the Chapel of S. Iames built over the West-gate in Warwick with a croft thereto belonging lying without the Town ditch and extending in length from the said Chapel as far as S. Iohn's Chapel on the other side the way And to these grants did Robert de Curli add his confirmation of the Church of Budebroke acknowledging it to be a Chapel belonging to the said mother Church of our Lady to which Church of Budebroke did then belong lx Acres of Inclosure on the one side of the Town and as many on the other and a House for the Priests with certain crofts anciently belonging to that Church as also the whole Tythes of Budbroke Hamton Norton and Greve and of the Mill and Pool belonging to the Town provided that the said Canons did place a Vicar there with the consent of him the said Robert and his Heirs All which were confirmed by Simon Bishop of Worcester who in the third year of his Episcopacy translated the Priests out of the said Church of