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A36791	The antiquities of Warwickshire illustrated from records, leiger-books, manuscripts, charters, evidences, tombes, and armes : beautified with maps, prospects and portraictures / by William Dugdale.	Dugdale, William, Sir, 1605-1686.	1656 (1656)	Wing D2479; ESTC R4379	1,795,370	725

Abby in 30 H. 8. there was first a Dean and Prebendaries setled but soon after a Bishop who being shortly removed the whole City of Westminster and Countie of Middlesex were added to the Dioces of London Nicholas Ridley then Bishop possessing this Mannour which it seems with some other lands that had belong'd to the Abby of Westminster were granted to him But ere long after it came to Iohn Greswould and by Alice his eldest daughter and one of the coheirs to her brother Richard to Thomas Dabridgcourt descended by a younger branch as their Pedegree sheweth from the famous Sanchio Dabridgcourt one of the Founders of the most noble Order of the Garter which Thomas having been a Justice of Peace in this Countie from 16 Eliz. for many years and high Shiriff of the Shire in 29 Eliz. died 12. Maii 43 Eliz. leaving issue by the said Alice four daughters his heirs viz. Katherine married to Iohn Fullwood of Ford-Hall Anne to Thomas Hugford of Henwood Christian to William Belcher of Gilsborough in Northamptonshire and Grace first to William Cartwright and afterwards to William Dabridgcourt Which Iohn Fulwood had issue by the same Catherine divers daughters and heirs as in Ford-Hall is shewed whereof Frances married to Will. Noell of Wellesborough in Com. Leic. Esquire whose posteritie as part of her inheritance do still enjoy it Henwood THis place being originally a part of Langdone last spoken of was about the beginning of King H. 2. reign given by Ketelberne then owner of that Lordship to the Nuns of Estwell for so was the Monasterie upon its first foundation called being built neer a fair Spring lying Eastward of the said Langdone and dedicated to S t Margaret Which Ketelberne by his Charter whereby he so disposed of it setteth forth the metes and bounds thereof as followeth viz. from the Ditch called Hinewudshed by Murrewei to Coleford and thence along the River Blithe to the confluence thereof with Merebroch and ascending Merebroch till it meet with Rodbroch and from thence to the head of the said Rodbroch and so by the midst of Timbresceage unto the Ditch called Hinewudshed excepting Muchelingewich Granting likewise unto them a Free Court with all Customes and Liberties in as ample manner as he the said Ketelberne had his own Court with Customes and Liberties from Hugh de Arden his superiour Lord And pasturage for all their Cattell Horses Sheep Goats and Hoggs in every place where his own used to feed without paunage or any custome at all to be payd for them And in defect of any of his own that theirs might depasture where his should be in case he had any And moreover gave them power to take timber in Langdon-wood for the structure of their Church and other buildings with leave to erect a Mill wheresoever they could find a fit a place upon any part of their land his lying opposite thereto But afterwards the name of Estwell growing out of use it came to be called Hean-wood by reason of the tall Oakes there growing the word hean in our old English signifying high Unto these Nunns which were of S. Benedicts Rule did Pope Gregory the ix in Anno 1228. 12 H. 3. confirm all such Tithes as they had obtained within the precincts of Solihull together with the rest of their possessions whereof I shall here exhibite a short view with the Donors names viz. one yard land in Rodburne by William de Arden given to them about the beginning of H. 2. reign as may seem by the confirmation thereof made by Walter Bishop of Chester as also the advouson of the Church which was appropriated to them by G. Mushchamp Bishop of Coventre in King Iohn's time To these did Ralph de Lande adde all his Land and Wood called Havekeseard with a Mill situate upon the River of Blithe now called Henwood-Mill And Iames de la Lande his son certain lands and Houses lying in that part of Langdon called Suthey As also Roger de Camvill an Annuitie of viii s. issuing out of lands in Shustoke in this Countie which in his grant are particularly named In 33 E. 1. the Abbot of Westminster bestowed on them xv Acres of Waste belonging to his Mannour of Longdone before specified and in 4 E. 3. Richard de Feure of Brandon two Mess. xxx acres and half of land xii acres of Meadow and xxviii s. iv d. Rent lying in Bretford Church-Lawford Stretton Prinse●horpe Merston juxta Lalleford and Bereford juxta Warwick And besides these inferior persons I find that King Ric. 2. was likewise a Benefactor to them granting the advouson of the Church of Chorleton de O●temore to this House in 22. of his reign So also King Henry 4 th who gave them the perpetuall patronage of the Church of Everdon in Northamptonshire in the first year of his reign both which Churches were appropriated by Pope Innocent the vii in anno 1404. 5 H. 4. by whose Bull it appears that the Church of Bikenhull in this Countie was united to this Monasterie at the very first Foundation thereof and that at the time of the appropriation made of the Churches before specified the Nunns of this Covent were xii in number But it being one of the small Monasteries for in 26 H. 8. the yearly revenues belonging thereto were certified at no more than xxi li. ii s. ob it was dissolved by the Statute of 27 H. 8. whereupon Ioane Hugford the then Prioresse had an Annuitie of iii li. vi s. viii d. granted to her for life After which scil in 31 H. 8. the King by his Letters Patent dated 25. Febr. in consideration of CCvii li. v s. granted to Iohn Higford and his heirs the site thereof and divers lands thereto belonging lying within the Parishes of Solihull and Knoll in this Countie to be held in Capite by the twentieth part of a Knight's Fee paying xxiii s. i d. yearly to the King his heirs and successors in the name of a Tenth which Iohn being descended from the Hugfords of Edmescote of whom I have spoke by William Hugford of Prinsethorpe a younger son of that Family having so obtained it pulled down the Church transform'd the House and seated himself thereat To whom succeeded Iohn his son and heir and to him likewise another Iohn who sold it to M r William Spooner in our memory Patroni Priorissae de Henwood Abbas Westmonasterii D. Margareta le Corzon post cessionem D. Kath. Boydin An. 1310. Abbas Westmonasterii D. Milisanda de Fokerham 3. Cal. Apr. 1339. Abbas Westmonasterii D. Iohanna Fokerham 11. Cal. Sept. 1349. Abbas Westmonasterii Alianora de Stoke post mortem D. Iohannae de Pichford 20. Apr. 1392. Abbas Westmonasterii D. Iocosa Midlemore An. 1400. Abbas Westmonasterii Ioecia Midlemore 8. Ian. 1438. Abbas Westmonasterii D. Alicia Waringe Anno 1460.

the 23. Book wherein he seems to give notice that that manner of Buriall was in fashion long before the Trojan wars for Nestor calls that rising ground of which he forewarn'd his Son Antilochus in his chariot-race the monument of some man dead long before which agrees to that authority likewise which we find in the last Book of the Iliads in the Burial of Hector Et tumulum saxis ingentibus undique firmant Affundunt que super terram Now it is agreed upon by the best of Authors that not onely the Graecians but most of the Eastern Nations borrowed their Philosophy their ways of Sacrifice and Buriall from the Aegyptians and very probably this custom amongst the rest especially having so noble a pattern as those much fam'd Pyramids were which no man doubts to have bin the Monuments of some of their Kings And that this fashion did continue till Virgil's time his distich upon Balista will verify Monte sub hoc lapidum tegitur Balista sepultus c. A word or two now touching the burning of dead Bodies in regard it hath bin observed by some judicious persons who have dig'd to the bottom of divers heaps of earth which are called Lowes especially on Engleby-heath in Derby-shire that there have bin found burnt Bones and Charcole there So also at Lilburne in Northampton shire as Mr. Cambden observeth and in the Isle of Man severall Urnes with the like burnt Bones and Coal There is a remarkable place in Plinie out of which we learn that it was not an ordinary or usuall thing amongst the antient Romans to burn their dead Bodies yea that divers great families never did it but that it was most used about them who dyed in an expedition of a remote War amongst enemies thirsting after an inhumane and hostile revenge The custom it self and the reason thereof is set down by Plinie in the 54. Chap. of the VII Book of his Naturall History Ipsum cremare apud Romanos non fuit veteris instituti terrâ condebantur At postquam long inquis bellis obrutos erni cognovere tunc institutum Et tamen multae familiae priscos servavere ritus sicut in Corneliâ nemo ante Syllam Dictatorem traditur crematus Idque voluisse veritum talionem eruto C. Marii cadavere Varus Quinctilius his example and many such like terrified them Ipsius quoque Consulis Corpus saith Florus Lib. IV. Cap. 12. where he speaketh of Varus quod militum pietas abdiderat effossum Neither had they any reason to expect better usage of the Britans than of the Germans seeing divers of their Generals as Caractacus Galcacus and others had sufficiently declared how they took it that the Romans came in such away to disturb the tranquillity of their Island and studied to enslave them all It seemeth therefore that any Consul or eminent warriour dying in such an expedition was for that reason burned upon the level near the via strata or militaris And having by this course deprived the exasperated enemies of their hope in ever being able to abuse the dead Body they did moreover hinder them to scatter the very Bones in hast when the whole Army congested upon them pure grassy turfes cut from the surface of the ground which is the reason why it doth not appear by any hollowness whence the earth was taken that raised the Tumulus And thus much shall suffice for these Tumuli or Lowes of which kind there are many more in this County a good part whereof I do acknowledge to have received from the learned Franc. Iunius my worthy friend As for the first syllable Knight this Tumulus being called Knightlow it is a Saxon word and hath divers significations sometimes it is used for a Man-Child sometimes for a Young Man Servant Batcheler or unmarryed Man In the Saxon Gospels the Disciples of our Saviour are called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 but most commonly is that name of Knight attributed to a Souldier or one that beareth Armes for the antient manner of conferring the honour of Knighthood was baltheo militari decorare We call them now in Latine Milites the Italians Cavallieri the French Chivaliers in regard they serve as Souldiers on Horse back but I will not enlarge my self further on this subject it being so fully handled by others concluding that this Low was the Tumulus or monument doubtless of some eminent Souldier in the Romans time But the Cross sometime there was of later erection as in most publick places of concourse the like hath bin to put people in mind of the great benefit God hath vouchsafed for the Redemption of mankind by the passion of his Son which no doubt to all pious Christians is of very good use however upon pretence that they were idolized are now demolished in most pa●ts of this Kingdom According to my proposed method beginning with the River Avon which hath its head near Navesby in Northampton-shire I shall observe that the original thereof is Brittish Aufona or Avon with them signifying the same as Fluuius in Latin and that at its entrance into this County it meeteth the great Road called Watling-street whereof I hope it will not be thought incongruous to take here some speciall notice That it was a work of the Romans is not to be doubted Whilst Agricola saith Tacitus governed Britane severall wayes were enjoyned and far distant places by the purveyours commandement that the Countrey should carry from the nearest standing Camp or wintering places to those that were far of and out of the way and the Britans complained as the same Tacitus writeth that the Romanes wore out and consumed their bodies and hands in clearing of woods and paving the Fens with a thousand stripes and reproachfull indignities And we read saith Mr. Cambden in antient Records That in the days of Honorius and Arcadius there were made in Britaine certain beaten wayes from Sea to Sea And that this was the Romans work Beda testifyeth The Romans saith he inhabited within the wall which Severus had made overthwart the Island towards the Southern side which the Citties Churches and Street-wayes there made do witness at this day From this Way was that antient City Verolamium near St. Albans called in the Saxons time Wetlingaceaster as appeareth by K. Ethelreds Charter whereby he granted lands to the monastery of St. Alban in the year of Christ 996. Great was the cost and labour in carrying of Stones Gravell and Sand for the making those ways firm and lasting as may yet be seen in divers parts where the soyl it self within many miles yeildeth not such materials Nay it hath bin observed that near St. Albans in digging the ground where Watlingstreet-way antiently went Gravell and Sand hath bin found ten foot deep in the earth and eighteen foot in breadth with great flint stones in the bottom such belike saith mine Author as were at first upon the top thereof And in what great account these