Anno 1453. as also was his son Iohn Talbot Viscount Lisle whom he had by his second wife Margaret the daughter of the famous Richard Beauchamp Earl of Warwick The body of our Noble Earl was brought over and buried at Whitchurch after whose death Burdeaux was presently taken by the French and an end made of that War and the Civil Wars begun here by the Dukes of York and Somerset Iohn the second Earl of Shrowsbury his son by his first wife the forenamed Matilda was a most excellent young man and most like his ancestors he fell in the Battel of Northampton the sixth of the Ides of Iuly 1460. fighting on the part of King Henry the sixth who was then taken Captive by his Adversaries Elizabeth daughter of Iames Botiller Earl of Ormond was his wife and Sir Humfr. and Sir Christopher Talbot his brothers He was buried here and had Inscriptions upon his Tomb Prose and Verse c. He and his father were both Knights of the Garter as these Earl usually were and he 35 H. 6. was Lord Treasurer He had sons Iohn Iames Gilbert of Grafton Knight of the Garter and Banneret father of Iohn father of Iohn c. of whom the present Earl of Shrowsbury is descended and Christopher another son of this great Earl who was Arch-deacon of Chester and Rector of Whitchurch nigh Blackmere and George Anne the daughter of this second Earl was wife of Sir Henry Vernon of Haddon His said son Iohn Talbot the third Earl of Shrowsbury Weishford and Waterford was born on the Eve of St. Luke the fourth hour after midnight 1448. he married Katherin daughter of Henry Stafford Duke of Buckingham and died in the City of Coventry the fourth of the Kalends it should be Ides of Iuly 1473. and was buried in the Chapel of St. Mary at this Wirksop The Inquisition saith his death was on the Saturday next after the Feast of the Nativity of St. Iohn Baptist 13 E. 4. otherwise 28 of Iune which is 4 of the Ides of Iuly and that George his son and heir was then above three years old This George the fourth Earl was also Knight of the Garter and a great man with King Henry the eighth His first wife was Anne the daughter of William Lord Hastings Chamberlain to King Edward the fourth by whom he had his eldest son Francis and many children his second wife was Elizabeth daughter and heir of Sir Richard Walden of Kent by whom he had a daughter Anne the heir of her mother married to Peter son of Sir William Compton to whom she brought Henry Lord Compton Ancestor of the Earl of Northampton and was after married to William Herbert Earl of Pembroke This Earl George died the twenty sixth of Iuly 1538. and was buried at Sheffeild To his son Francis Earl of Shrowsbury did King Henry the eighth 22 Novemb. 33 H. 8. grant the whole Scite and Precinct of the Monastery or Priory of Worksop and all Mess. and Houses and several Closes and Fields and four Acres of Arable in Manton in the Parish of Worksop c. to hold to him and his heirs of the King in Capite by the service of the tenth part of a Knights Fee and also by the Royal service of finding the King a Right-hand Glove at his Coronation and to support his Right-arm that day as long as he should hold the Scepter in his hand paying yearly 23l. 8s. 0d. ob Rent His first wife was Mary daughter of Thomas Lord Dacres of Gillesland she died 28 March 1538. His second was Grace the daughter of Robert Shakerley This Earl Francis was also Knight of the Garter as was also his son and heir George whose first wife was Gertrude daughter of Thomas Lord Ros. and Earl of Rutland by whom he had Francis Gilbert Edward and Henry Katherin the wife of Edward son and heir of William Herbert Earl of Pembroke Mary the wife of Sir George Savile Ancestor of the Lord Halyfax and Grace married to Henry Cavendish eldest son of Sir William Cavendish whose widow this Earl George took to his second wife she was Elizabeth the daughter of Iohn Hardwick of Hardwick in the County of Derby Esquire and first married to ... Barlow of that County next to Sir William Cavendish by whom only she had issue then to Sir William St. Low and lastly to this great Earl she adorned these Counties with the magnificent Houses of Chattesworth Hardwick Oldcotes and this Worksop Mannor and with her Illustrious Off-spring the Families of the Earls of Devonshire and Duke of Newcastle The four sons of the Earl her husband before named three whereof were Earls all failed of issue Male so that the Lands of this mighty Earldom and this Lordship became divided Francis married Anne daughter of William Earl of Pembroke without issue His brother Gilbert Earl after him married Mary daughter of Sir William Cavendish and of the said Elizabeth the Countess his Mother-in-law by whom he had three daughters and heirs Mary wife of William Herbert Earl of Pembroke without issue Elizabeth of Henry Earl of Kent she was acquainted with the great Antiquary I. Selden and accused for cutting down the best Oaks of all England both here and at Sheffeild she also left no child and Aletheia the wife of Thomas Earl of Arundell she bore him Henry Earl of Arundell who by his wife Elizabeth daughter of Esme Stuart Duke of Lenox begot Thomas since the Kings return restored to the Dukedom of Norfolk and Henry Lord Howard and Earl Marshall of England his brother who manageth all this Noble Inheritance for him whilest he remains not so capable of such affairs in Italy A SOUTH-WEST PROSPECT OF THE CHURCH OF RADFORD BY WORKSOP A. 1677. A SOUTH PROSPECT OF WORKSOP MANNOUR The old Abbey Gatehouse at Radford by Workshop as it now is A. 16â—6 A good part of the Church is yet standing in which lay William de Lovetot the Founder on the North side by the wall at the lowest step tending to the high Altar he died 7 Id. Apr. Richard de Lovetot his son is buried below his father under a white stone at the left side of Sir Thomas Furnivall William Lovetot son of Richard by the lowest step in the same pavement The last Thomas Furnivall lyeth in a Tomb of Alabaster beyond the principal Quire on the North side and William on the South side Ioane the wife of Thomas Nevill was buried above the principal Quire and lay with her Image of Alabaster very near her husband Maud their daughter was buried in the Chapel of St. Mary before the Image of the blessed Mary near the side of the Stall Thomas de Furnivall son of Bertha buried at the bare-foot Friers in Doncaster died the fourth of the Ides of May. The Inscription upon the Tomb of Iohn the second Earl of Shrowsbury in this place was thus Sepulchrum magnanimi ac praepotentis Domini Domini Johannis Talbot Comitis Salopie
I HENRY Earl of Peterborow Deputy with His Majesties Approbation to the Right Honourable Henry Earl of Norwich Earl Marshal of England having perused a Book Entituled The Antiquities of Nottinghamshire Written by Robert Thoroton Doctor of Physick And finding that it contains only what the Title doth import and nothing contrary to the meaning of the Act of An. 14. Car. 2. Cap. 33. for preventing abuses in Printing c. do therefore License the Printing thereof Dated under my Hand this Third day of May 1677. PETERBOROW D. E. M. THE ANTIQUITIES OF Nottinghamshire EXTRACTED Out of Records Original Evidences Leiger Books other Manuscripts and Authentick Authorities Beautified with MAPS PROSPECTS and PORTRAICTURES BY ROBERT THOROTON Doctor of PHYSICK Quid genus proavos strepitis Si primordia vestra Authorémque Deum spectes Nullus degener extat Ni vitiis pejora fâ—vens Proprium deseret ortum Boet. de Consol. Phil. lib. 3. LONDON Printed by Robert White for Henry Mortlock at the Sign of the Phoenix in St. Paul's Church-yard and at the White-Hart in Westminster-Hall 1677. REVERENDISSIMO In CHRISTO Patri ac Domino D no GILBERTO Providentiâ Divinâ ARCHIEPISCOPO CANTUARIENSI Totius ANGLIAE Primati Metropolitano ET AUGUSTISSIMO PRINCIPI CAROLO II. Magnae Britanniae Franciae Hiberniae Regi E Secretioribus Consiliis Nottinghamiensi olim Advenae Et Exinde Plusquam indigenae Fautori Robertus Thoroton M.D. Hanc Otiis vix indulgendis Commutationem longe Imparem Merito D. D. D. TO MY WORTHY FRIEND William Dugdale Esq Norroy King of Arms. Sir BY your hand as it were I present these Collections to the Nobility and Gentry of our County and to all other lovers of this kind of knowledge that your name may procure the Book that esteem which its own worth cannot give it This priviledge I claim and use with the greater confidence not only because I am sufficiently assured of your kindness and good nature but also because indeed you put me upon the work and therefore though I may not have done so much or so well as you intended I should I think you are a little obliged to countenance your own choice of the Instrument You may remember that some very few years after your Visitation of our County you and I being with our Friend Mr. Gervas Pigot since deceased at his House at Thrumpton he brought us a kind of a Transcript of something which your old Acquaintance Gilbert Boun Serjeant at Law my Wives Father was designing or beginning towards a Description of Nottinghamshire whereof he had been Feodary which proved to be only Doomsday Book and a short Note or two on every Town but that served to give occasion to both your importunities that I should attempt something further in it which I proved more willing than able effectually to obey notwithstanding your promised assistance and directions which indeed my profession and other concerns would not suffer me in all things exactly to follow for I could never get opportunity to go my self and stay at York to abstract what might be useful for me from that Registry as you ever advised me and others it seems could not well do it for me for I had several undertakers who all failed in the point Yet I have made hard shift to be as little justly to blame in other things as possibly I could so that I hope you will not disown me and if you do not I shall be less sollicitous what others think for I allow no man for a Iudge who hath not done something of this nature himself And they that have even for your sake I am sure will be apt to be merciful to Carcolston Munday in Easter-week Apr. 16. Anno Dom. 1677. Your Faithful Friend and Servant ROB. THOROTON THE PREFACE THE Art of Physick which I have professed with competent success in this County not being able for any long time to continue the people living in it I have charitably attempted notwithstanding the difficulty and almost contrariety of the study to practise upon the dead intending thereby to keep all which is or can be left of them to wit the shadow of their Names better than precious Oyntment for the body to preserve their memory as long as may be in the World Though for this latter undertaking I expect no more Glory than I have gotten Riches by the former well knowing this place not to be the best chosen for either and the times such that too few are much concerned either for what is past or to come But seeing that by the especial favour and Providence of God I have lived happily in it beyond my own reasonable hopes or the opinions of my wisest Friends who would have set me on a better Stage I have thought my self bound to my Country to make it this further return of gratitude however it may relish or please which no body else of better abilities and qualifications hath hitherto performed and I have put it in the form of an Olla Podrida which any of them who shall be half so fond as I may the more easily augment or new model when they shall think fit and every Reader or rather looker on it for it cannot expect many more thorough Readers than a Dictionary may by the help of the Indexes pick out only those names of Places or Persons which he desires without being obliged to read very much of the rest which may be thought impertinent enough especially by those who will not consider that I present not here what I would have chosen but what I could find and that for the most part will be judged too little by any concerned and too much by others Yet the time this Work can pretend to is very little above six hundred years in the first third part whereof there is not too much to be found the oldest general Authentick Record we have being that most famous Survey made by King William the first in the latter part of his Reign which still remains in the Treasury of the Exchequer and is called Doomsday Book and was finished near about two hundred years after the first perfect Division of England into Shires or Counties or of them into Hundreds and Tythings by King Alured or Alfred as is said but hath respect also to the several Lands and their owners in the time of King Edward the Confessour This most noble light of those times as far as concerns this County of Nottingham I have therefore exhibited at large as plainly as I well could yet because the Phrase or Language of it is not suitable to this present Age I conceive it not amiss briefly in this place to observe and explicate some few things which may render it and some other things in this Book more easie to be understood To begin then with Shire as the Saxons called it or County as now more frequently is used we may know it to be one of those Shares Portions or Provinces whereinto this Kingdom
-Helewisa ux 1. Radulphus Basset de Drayton ob 17 E. 3 -Joana B. ob 27 E. 3. fil Tho. de Bellocamp C. Warw. Rad. Basset de Drayton ob ante patrem -Alicia fil Nic. Dom. de Audeley Radulphus D. Basset de Drayton aet 16. 27 E. 3. ob s. p. 13 R. 2 -Joana de Bretagne superst 20 R. 2. Thom. de Shirley mil. -Isabel Will. Heriz-Matild Jordanus le Bret mil. -Joana Rogerus Bret miles Johannes Bret miles Johannes Bret miles s. p. -Joana Joh. de Caltoft mil. -Catherina Willielmus de Chaworth-Alicia fil haer aet 30 14 R. 2 -Thom Hethe mil. marit prim Ed. Scafford-Margar Rad. Com. Staff Hugo Comes Stafford Thom. Com. Staff haer 14 R. 2. Edmund Com. Staf. 4 H. 4. Humfr. Dux Buckingham Humfr. Com. Staff Henricus Dux Bucks Edwardus Dux Bucks Attinct 13 H. 8. Rich. Basset de Weldon haer Galfr. 33 H. 2. Willielmus Basset .... Rob. de Cauz Matildis-Rad Fitz-Stephen Camerar H. 2. Geva fil Hugonis Com. Cestriae-Galf Ridel Justic. Angliae temp H. 1. Richardus Basset Justic. Angliae temp H. 1. Steph. -Matildis Ridel Raph Basset held Coleston of him which was of the honour of Warengford for the service of a Knights Fee which Raph Basset the said Galfr. his Grandfather held which last mentioned Raph Basset Father of Raph was one of the heirs of Geva daughter of Hugh Earl of Chester and Galfr. Ridel was another and both of their Grandfathers Chief Justices of England for King H. 1. as was also Richard Basset the first Raphs son before spoken of which Richard was likewise Grandfather to Raph son of Raph Basset before mentioned who held this Coleston which from this Family received the addition Basset to distinguish it from another Coleston in this Wapentac called Ear-Colston Raph Basset of Draiton held a Knights Fee here and was summoned 27 H. 3. to answer the Prior of Laund that he should hold his Covenant formerly made by his Indenture or Cyrograph concerning Common of Pasture in Colston which he did accordingly Raph Basset 12 E. 1. had Market and Fair in this Town Raph the last Lord Basset of Draiton dyed May 12. 13 R. 2. and by the Inquisition taken the year following viz. 14 R. 2. Thomas Earl Stanford aged 24 years was found one of his heirs as son of Hugh son of Raph son of Margaret sister of the said Raph Lord Bassets Grandfather and Alice the wife of Sir William Chaworth another of his heirs as daughter of Catherine daughter of â—ohn son of Roger son of Ioan daughter of Matildis another sister of the said last Lord Bassets Grandfather which Alice was then viz. 14 R. 2. a great deal more than thirty years of age it seems the women married young and Matilâ—is was much the eldest daughter of Raph Basset because this time over goes that of Stafford two Descents in four Ioane who had been wife of Raph son of Raph Basset of Drayton held the third part of the Mannor of Colston Basset and the Mannor of Radcliff on Sore for life the Reversion belonging to Walter Skirlaw Bishop of Durham but the Jury 4. H. 4. found Edmund Earl Stafford son of Hugh Earl Stafford son of Raph Earl Stafford son of Margaret sister of Raph Father it should be Grandfather of the said Raph Basset was Cousin and heir of that last Lord. This Mannor was sold by Edward Stafford the last Duke of Buckingham of that Family who suffered a recovery oâ— it 4 H. 8. before his Attainder to ... Kitson whose heir Sir Thomas Kitson sold the same to Mr. Golding his Steward whose Grandchild and heir Edward Golding was by King Charles the first at the beginning of the War created a Baronet and was proprietor of the whole Town and impropriate Rectory saying that part which his Father who inclosed most of the fields sold to Mr. Francis Hacker whereon he built an house which was by Francis Hacker his eldest son forfeited by his Attainder with the rest of his Lands which the Duke of York favourably sold to Colonel Rowland Hacker his next brother who hath since sold his interest here to Iohn Grubham Howe of Langar Esquire the present owner of that part Richard son of Gervas de Barneston gave to the Priory of Lenton two Bovats of Land in Coleston with the Man who held them which his Father gave by the consent of his faithful wife Margaret and of this Richard his son and heir when he confirmed the gift of Richard his Father of two Bovats in Wiverton with him that held them This grant of Richard the Grandchild was made at Notingham before the Kings Justices Iohn Cumin Alan de Furneus Mr. Hugh de Raberst William de Beâ—ding which was 25 H. 2. and before many other Witnesses Robert de Davidvill Serlo de Grendon William Fitz-Ranalf Samson de Strelley Gervas de Wiverton son of that Richard I suppose and very many others G. Ridel restored to Gervas son of Richard de Wiverton his inheritance viz. Dukmantan in Darbishire to him and his heirs to hold of the said G. and his free and quiet for the service of a Knights Fee for Duchemanton and for the Land of Coleston which he held of the brother of the said G. because it was recognized in the Court of the said G. that W. brother of Gervas son of Richard in his free power rendred up Duchemanton to the said G. that he might pass the inheritance to the said Gervas which he did and likewise to Richard son of Gervas afterwards called Sir Richard de Wyverton Knight who for forty nine Marks of Silver which Galfr. Fitz-Peter gave him conveyed his whole Land of Dukmanton to the Abby of Wellebek which Gervas his son confirmed and Thomas de Mellys son and heir of Adelina sister of the said Sir Richard de Wiverton by releasing There is an errour in the Register or Leiger book of Wellebek page 58. which hath misled many excellent Genealogists viz. that Galfr. Ridel and Richard Basset Father of Raph Basset of Welledon were brothers and that Galfr. dyed without heir and his inheritance descended to the said Richard his brother and so to Raph Basset whereas it is manifest that this Galfr. Ridel or Basset for he was son of Richard Basset and Matildis Ridel his wife had two wives and by his first left Richard Basset who about the 33 H. 2. was heir of his second wifes Dower whose name was Sibylla the sister of William Manduit and she was then fifty years old and had two sons and one daughter to confute the story further which were not heirs of her Dower by reason of the said Richard Basset her husband the said Galfr. Ridels son by his first wife The line of the Bassets of Drayton which were all Raphs that I have met with except their wives and times of their deaths could be certainly found cannot be exactly described Mr.
Yorkshire Hameldon in ..... c. Roger le Scrope Chr. when he died held this Mannor joyntly with Margaret his wife and 8 H. 4. left Richard le Scrope his son and heir or sooner On the Seals of Roger and Stephen le Scrope and Philip le Dispenser circumscribed with their names 9 R. 2. are yet visible on Rogers a Bend and likewise on the said Stephens with a large Mullett added to the top of the Bend on Philips is Barry of six a Canton Ermine with a file of three Labels two in the said Canton or rather quarter for 't is a large one and the other towards the Sinister part of the Escutcheon This Mannor descended as the Genealogy shows transcribed out of the Sicling of the great Gallery at Langar from Richard Lord Scrope to Emanuel the last Lord Scrope created Earl of Sunderland who married Elizabeth daughter of Iohn Earl of Rutland but having no issue by her he settled it and the rest of his Estate upon his natural issue which he had by Martha Ianes yet living of which his only son Iohn died unmarried the last of Iuly 1646. aged about twenty years but his three daughters which by that means divide the whole inheritance amongst them are yet living Oct. 2. 1672. Mary the eldest was first married to Henry Cary Lord Lepington eldest son and heir of the Earl of Monmouth but he leaving her a widow without children she is since become the wife of Charles Lord St. Iohn of Basing eldest son and heir of Iohn Marquess of Winchester and by him hath issue Elizabeth the second daughter is wife of Thomas Earl Rivers and Annabella the third of Iohn Howe second son of Sir Iohn Howe of Compton in Gloucestershire Baronet by whom she hath many children Her eldest son Sir Scrope Howe Knight hath lately married the Lady Anne daughter of Iohn Earl of Rutland and is heir apparent of this Mannor which in the division fell to the share of his Mother to whom our present Soveraign King Charles the second by his Letters registred in the Office of Arms bearing date the first day of Iune 1663. in the fifteenth year of his Reign in consideration of the good and acceptable service done and performed by Iohn Howe of Langar Esquire her husband and for a mark of his especial Grace and Royal favour granted and ordained that she the said Annabella should be had taken and esteemed as the daughter of an Earl of this Kingdom of England and that for and during her natural life she have hold use take and enjoy the Stile place degree precedency and priviledges thereof in as full and ample manner as if she had been the Legitimate daughter of Emannuel late Earl of Sunderland with a precept of obedience to all and every of His Majesties Subjects since when she is usually stiled the Right Honourable the Lady Annabella Howe Oliver de Eyncourt released to Raph de Rodes thirty one Bovats of Land and fifteen Tofts in Langar and Barneston which he had brought a Writ of right for in King Henry the thirds time for which the said Raph gave him 50s. of Land in Barneston which together with his other Lands there and some other in Braunceton in Lincolneshire the said Oliver gave to the Priory of Thurgarton to find two Chaplains to celebrate for him his Ancestors and Successors for ever Richard de Wiverton Knight gave also three Bovats in Barneston and Wiverton and two Acres of Medow in Berneston with his body to the said Priory of Thurgarton to find a Secular daily to celebrate Divine Service at the Altar of our Lady there for his Soul and his Wifes Thomas Artebrig 10 E. 3. had licence to give 63s. 6d. Rent out of Langar and Wiverton to make a Chantry in the Church of St. Andrew in Langar Queen Elizabeth 7 of Iune in the thirteenth year of her Reign granted to Henry Lord Scrope of Bolton the Lands late belonging to Thurgarton in the Fields of Langar and Barneston And to Iohn Dudley and Iohn Aiscough 29 Ianuary 17 Eliz. the Tythes in the Parish of Langar in the tenure of Sir Iohn Chaworth Knight at 12l. per annum late belonging to the Priory of Lenton These Tythes I suppose Mr. Howe purchased of the Lord Dunbar as he hath since done a Mess. and some Lands of Moses Foxcroft son of Iohn Rector of Goteham which were Henry Flowers of Langar and by Henry Walker a Captain for the King in the unhappy wars and Anne his wife sister and heir of Thomas Flower heir of the said Henry sold to the said Mr. Iohn Foxcroft so that now the whole Lordships of Langar and Barneston except the said Mrs. Walkers house and some little Medow which was her Ancestors the Flowers is become the possession of Mr. Howe who hath made a convenient Park of the Closes which he found nigh the house which is well stored with Deer much better than the Towns are with people where so considerable parts of the Fields are inclosed the too common fate of good Land in this County A Quare impedit 6 H. 6. was recovered by Guy Fayrfax and William Akworth Plaintiffs against Iohn Elingham Prior of Lenton and Thomas Smith Clark of the Advowson of the Church of Langar The Rectory of Langar which hath but the third part of the Tythes was 10l. and the Lord Scrope Patron 'T is now 10l. 7s. 11d. value in the Kings Books and Mr. Howe Patron In the South Cross-Ile is a fair Tomb for Thomas Lord Scrope and his Lady whereon lie their Effigies at full length at the feet whereof is the figure of their son Emanuel kneeling in much less proportion the Top or Canopy of the Tomb whereon are their Arms with quarterings is supported by tall Pillars of black Marble well polished In the windows on that side is Arg. a Saltier engrailed Gules Tiptoft And in some places Azure a Bend Or Scrope quartering the former In the North Ovire at Langar the feet against the East wall On the Lord Scroop's Tomb. On the North side in two Tables The Right Honourable and Noble Lord Thomas Lord Scroope Baroâ— of Bolton Masham and Upshall of the most Noble Order of the Garter Knight Lord Warden of the West Marshes Steward of Richmond and Richmondshire and Bow-bearer of all His Majesties Parks Forests and Chases within the same Lyeth here buried and died the 2 day of September Anno Dom. 1609. On the South side in two Tables The Right Honourable Thomas Lord Scroope c. married the Right Honorable Lady Philadelphia daughter to the Right Honourable Lord Henry Cariâ— Baron of Hunsdon Lord Chamberlain to our late Queen Elizabeth her Majesties Houshold who died the 3 of February 1627. and had issue only one Son Emanuel Scroope At the feet of the Tomb this Emanuel Scroope son and heir of the Right Honourable Thomas Lord Scroope and of the Right Honourable Philadelphia
together amount to more The Land of all was twenty one Car. three Bov. There were seventy one Sochm. seven Bord. having twenty one Car. and an half There was two hundred and eighty Acres of Medow Pasture Wood five qu. long four broad This was the Bishops of Lincoln's But here was some Soc to Clifton of Roger de Buslies Fee which paid the Geld for four Bov. The Land one Car. There two Sochm. had half a Car. and twelve Acres of Medow in Clifton which Town and Spaldford 9 E. 2. answered for one Villa and the Bishop of Lincolne and Iohn de Bussy were then Lords of them It appears that about 36 E. 3. Sir Richard Willughby had interest here And the Certificat of the Lands of the Templars taken in the time of King Edward the second shows they had something here as also in Codington Thorpe by Newark Stoke Sireston Elston Gretton Newark Colingham Sibthorpe Flaufore Barneby Landeford and many Towns in Lincolneshire thereabouts At the Assises at Nott. 10 H. 4. Thomas Chaworth and two others recovered their seisin of one Mess. one Toft twenty seven Acres of Land and nine Acres of Medow in Spaldeford and Wyggesley and Raph Whytle and two others were amerced A Farm Mess. and one Bov. of Land with the Appurtenances in the Tenure of Nicholas Borell in Spalford late belonging to the Preceptory of Willoughton in the County of Lint and parcel of the possessions of the Hospital of St. Iohns of Hierusalem 25 August 37 H. 8. were granted to Charles Sutton Esquire Richard Welby Esquire and Thomas Yorke Gent. and their heirs Spaldford is within the Parish of Clifton Thorney Thorneshagh IN Torneshay of the Soc of Newark there was a parcel charged to the Dane-tax at one Car. and was reckoned together with those Towns before named in Spaldford of the Bishop of Lincolne's Fee Yet Walter de Clifford and Agnes his wife by Fine in the third year of King Iohn conveyed the Advowson of the Church of Turnehage to Thora Prioress of Brodholme and her Nuns there for which they received the said Walter and Agnes into all the benefits of that House Henry de Lacy Earl of Lincolne 10 E. 1. had Free Warren here in Thornehagh Fulc le Strange and Alianora his wife held the third part of this Mannor and he after her death by the Courtesie of England Iohn le Straunge 17 E. 2. was found by the Jury their son and heir and to be then above eighteen years of age he had Lands in Huntingtonshire and Shropshire In 27 E 3. I find Sir Thomas Bret Knight called of Thornehagh and after and sometimes written Byrt and sometimes Bert. It is said 10 R. 2. that Giles D'aubeney Chr. then dead long before his death enfeoffed Henry Molyns William D'aubeney and Iohn Haywood Chaplain of Lands here as parcel of the Mannor of South Ingleby in the County of Lincolne and it appears 12 R. 2. that Gyles Daubeney Chr. died seised of one hundred Acres of Wood one hundred Acres of Pasture with the Appurtenances in Thornehagh by Brodholme as parcel of the Mannor of South Ingleby in Lincolneshire of the grant of Mary the wife of Raph D'aubeney his Father paying her for the whole Mannor fifty Marks per annum during her life which Mannor was held of the Lord Ros as of his Castle of Bever by the Service of 32s. yearly Rent George Nevill Esquire 9 Eliz. suffered a Recovery of the Mannor of Thorney with the Appurtenances and sixteen Mess. twelve Cottages eight Tofts one Dovecoat twenty Gardens four hundred Acres of Land one hundred of Medow three hundred of Pasture three hundred of Wood forty of Marsh one thousand of Moore sixty of Turbary one thousand of Furz and Heath and 7s. Rent and 1l. of Pepper with the Appurtenances in Thorney Wiggesley South Clifton North Clifton and Spaldford and called c. Sir William Mering Knight This Mannor was purchased by George Nevill of Grove Esquire being the inheritance of the Merings and by him settled upon two of his younger sons Gervas Nevile and Dionyse Nevile whose heirs the Neviles hold it at this day Georgius Nevill-Barbara soâ—oâ— una cohaereduâ— Johannis Hercy mil. Georg. Nevill-Gervas s. p. Georg. Nevill de Thorney ... fil .... Terwhyt 2 Georg. Nevill de Thorney -Alicia fil Georgii Stow relict Will. Rothwell Georg. Nevill de Thorney aet 39. 1676 -Maria fil Tho. Boswell de Edlington in Com. Ebor. ux 1 -Elizab fil Jeremi Halâ—head ux 2. Georgius Nevill aet 13. 1676. Elizabetha gemella cum Georgio aet 13. Maria aet 12. Anna 10. Jana 8. Brigit 6. Edwardus Nevill aet 1. 1676. 1 Gervas N. de Hadington in Com. Linc. mil. -Kath fil R. Hutton Justic. Anthon. s. p. Dionysius ... fil .... Gernon Gervasius Nevill de Thorney-Elizab fil Nic. Rayner Joh. Nevill aet 55. 1676. vendidit terâ— in Thorney Georgio Nevill de Thorney -Rebecca fil Rad. Clark Dionys. Nevill de Eastwood in Rotheram Ebor. aet 25. 1676. Joh. Nevill de Grove-Gertrud fil Ric. Whalley The Rectory of Thorney and right of Patronage of the Vicarage late belonging to the Priory of Brodholme 1 May 35 H. 8. was granted to Edward Fynes Lord Clynton and Saye and Rob. Tirwhit Esquire and their heirs who 3 May had licence to alienate it to William Mounson Esquire and his heirs who 20 Novemb 37 H. 8. had likewise licence to alienate the said Rectory and Advowson and forty Acres of Land twenty of Medow and forty of Pasture with the Appurtenances in Thorney Wiggesley and Brodholme to Roger Frape and his heirs Here was a Mess. and some Lands lying in Thorney in the occupation of Edward Lee also belonging to the Monastery of Brodholme 20 Aug. 36 H. 8. granted to Robert Brookesby and Iohn Lyon and their heirs The Vicarage of Thorney was eight Marks when the Prioress of Brodholme had the Patronage 'T is now 4l. 7s. 6d. in the Kings Books and Iohn Disney Esquire Patron Hareby Herdeby Herdrebye IN Herdrebye there was some Soc to Newark which paid the Dane-geld for one Bov but besides that the Bishop of Lincolne had a Mannor which before the Conquest was Godwins and paid the Tax for six Bov. The Land whereof was two Car. There was when Doomsday Book was made five Vill. had two Car. and twelve Acres of Medow Pasture Wood half a leuc long and half a leuc broad This before in the Confessours time had been 40s. but then was fallen to 20s. value The Baylisss of the Bishop of Lincolne for Newark about 53 H. 3. distreined Bryan de Herdeby by nine Oxen worth 4l. to pay 5l. to the Abbess of Grace dieu The Jury 9 E. 1. were to determine whether forty Perches in length and eight in breadth with the Appurtenances in Herdeby were Frank Almaigne belonging to the Church of Clifton of which William de Langwath was
in the last Expedition into Wales for which the King pardoned him upon his submission he paying for every Knights Fee which he held one hundred Marks which Iohn de Vescy Iohn de Evill and Iohn de Lâ—vetot undertook he should perform the Barons upon the Kings Precept searching the Rolls of the Exchequer found that Iohn de Stotevill Father of the said Robert held fifteen Fees of the Barony which was Hubert Fitz-Raph's and that the said Robert held five Fees of the Inheritance of Alianor de Genevere his wife to whom Roger de Bertram granted and demised the Castle of Mitford with the Fees and other Appurtenances which made in all twenty Fees Robert de Stotevile about 34 E. 1. died seised of the Mannor of Ekinton in Darbishire and of this Henr. de Stuteville Robertus de Stuteville-Leonia de Rennes 6 R. 1.6 Joh. Henricus de Stotevill Johannes de Stoteville Johannes de Stotevill 36 H. 3. Rob. de Stotevile-Alian de Genevere Johannes de Stotevile Robertus de Stotevill intra aet 17 E. 2. Studo de Stotevile Nicolaus de Stotevile Studo sive Stoutus de Stotevile 6 E. 3. Willielmus 2 R. 1. Mannor leaving his son and their Iohn de Stoteville twenty four years of age who was heir to his Mother Alianora de Genevere wife of the said Robert to whom Alianor Queen of England the Mother of King Edward the first gave the Castle of Mitford and diverse Lands in Northumberland she died about 4 E. 2. The Jury 16 E. 2. found that this Iohn de Stotevile was to pay out of this Mannor the yearly Rent of 40s. to buy Wine and 6s. 8d. or a quarter of Wheat of that price to make Wafers Oblata to celebrate the Eucharist in the Church of St. Mary at Newstede which Iohn de Stutevill Triavus Grandfathers Grandfather of this Iohn then viz. 16 E. 2. lately dead charged upon this Mannor and King Henry Grandfather of that King in the twenty ninth year of his Reign confirmed but I suppose it is a mistake for avus or at most for proavus and then there must be two Iohns which is all the time will well bear from 29 H. â— to 16 E. 2. that this Iohn son of Robert was dead who left his son Robert born beyond the Seas his heir then aged seven years William son of Gilbert le Warner of Kirkby upon Ashfeild 13 E. 3. Ian. 27. made Fine with the King for pardoning the transgression which the said William and Gilbert made in acquiring certain Tenements of Iohn son of Robert de Stutevill Knight in Kirkeby upon Ashfeild in the time of the Kings Father and entring them without licence being held of the said Kings Father in Capite Thomas de Langton and Robert de Barton 13 E. 3. paid 20s. of the remainder of their account of the Mannor of Kirkeby on Asshefeld which was Lora de Stotevills an Alien King Edward the third by his Letters Patents dated 1 March 14 E. 3. granted the Mannors of Ekinton in Darbyshire and Kirkeby in this County which were late Iohn Stotevills and by the forfeiture of Robert Stotevill son and heir of Iohn were come into his hands together with the Mannors of Louthe and Baliogary and other Lands in Ireland to Iohn Darcy sometimes called le Cosyn sometimes le Piere and in some other Records le Nevew and his heirs for ever who had licence 21 Ian. 18 E. 3. when also he had his confirmations of these and many other things to inclose and make Parks of his Woods at Temple Newsom and Temple Hirâ—â— in Yorkshire at Torkesay in Lincolnshire Ekington in Darbyshire and Kirkeby in this County He was a very great man both in England and Ireland his principal Seat was at Knayth in Lincolnshire he is supposed to be Nephew of Thomas and son of Norman and brother of Philip Lords Darcy of Nocton in that County the old Seat of that Illustrious and ancient Family King Edward the second 15 E. 2. at the request of his well beloved and faithful men Robert Darcy Iohn Darcy his brother and Iohn Darcy le Cosyn of his especial grace granted to them Philip Darcy and Norman Darcy his Enemies and Rebells taken and detained in his Prison at Yorke to be delivered or otherwise disposed according to their wills saving to the said King the Eschaet and forfeiture of their Lands and Tenements Goods and Chattels belonging to him on that occasion Iohn Darcy le Nevew 21 Aug. 2 E. 3. was constituted Justice and Keeper of Ireland Iohn Darcy le Cosin 19 Febr. 3 E. 3. is so constituted Iohn Darcy Justice of Ireland being about to go by the Kings command to the parts of the Dutchy of Aquitaine Roger Vtlagh Prior of the Hospital of St. Iohns of Hierusalem 31 May 4 E. 3. was made by his consent Lieutenant till his return Johannes Darcy le Piere ob 21 E. 3 -Emelina fil haer Walteri fil Will. Heyrun-Joana ux 2. Johannes Darcy le Fitz ob 30 E. 3 -Elizab fil haer Nic. Menill Philippus Darcy-Elizab Johannes Dom. Darcy-Margareta ob 33 H. 6. Philippus Darcy fil haer -Alianora fil Henr. Dom. Fitz-Hugh .... Tunstall mar 2. Margeria-Johannes Conyers Johannes Conyers mil. Gart. Willielmus Conyers aet 21. 5 H. 7. Elizab. -Jacobus Strangways Junior Johannes-Margareta Richardus Willielmus Darcy aet 4. an 32 H. 6. Johannes fil haer s. p. Iohn Darcy was Justice of Ireland and Thomas de Burgh Clark Treasurer of Ireland 8 E. 3. by the Kings Letters Patents dated at Notingham 16 Iuly was made Lieutenant of the Justice of Ireland as often as he should happen to be absent Anno Domini 1333. William Earl of Ulster was slain by his own men viz. by the Maunvilis and the same year Sir Iohn Darcy Justice of Ireland went into Ulster with a great Army to revenge the death of the said Earl but before he came the men of that Country had done it and the Justice with his Army went into Scotland to the King of England who at that time was there in War and left Sir Thomas Burke his Lieutenant in Ireland And in the Eve of St. Margaret there was a great slaughter in Scotland by the Irish by the said King in one part and the said Justice in another and so was conquered the King of Scotland and they made Sir Edward Bayloll King of Scotland and the said Sir Iohn Darcy came again Justice of Ireland and delivered Walter Bermegham out of the Castle of Dublin Iohn Darcy le Piere 20 E. 3. had the Custody of the Tower of London for his life but it seems he continued not long for he died 30 May 21 E. 3. seized of this Mannor and Ekinton in Darb. of the Reversion of Temple-Newsom after the death of Mary de St. Paul Countess of Pembrook and many other Lands and Mannors in Yorkshire amongst which were the Mannors of Notton
de Clarofagio Lisures -Avicia fil Will. de Taneia Joh. Lacy Constab. Cest. Pip. 12 H. 2. Ebor. -Alicia Vere ux Will. Mandevill suit fil Aliciae de Essex Amitae Comit Will. sor Com. Alberici Rot. de dominabus pueris c. Rogerus Constab. Lacy dictus Hell ob 1211 -Matilda de Clare Joh. Lascy Constab. Cestr. Com. Linc. jure ux ob 1240 -1 Alicia fil Gilberti de Aquila-2 Margareta fil Rob. de Quanci Edmundus Constab. Cestr. non Com. Linc. quia mater supervixit ob 1258 -Alecia fil ... Marchionis de Saluces Henricus Lacy Com. Linc. Constab. Cestr. ob 1310. aet 60 -Margareta fil Will. Longespe Alesia fil haer ob 1348. aet 67. s. p. -Thom Com. Lanc. mar 1 -Ebulo le Strange mar 2. Eustachius Ric. Cestr. Lent 131. Gaufr Lent 46. b. Rob. Constab. Reg. Lent 131. Robertus Hospital Sara ux Rob. Alford Aubrea de Lisures ux Hen. Biset Lent 46. b. .... de Lusoriis Toraldus de Lusoriis 1088 -Beatr Will. de Lisoriis Fulco de Lisoriis 1088-Albreda Rob. de Lisoriis Pip. 5 Steph. -Albred sor Will. de Vesci -Hen de Lacy. Richardus Constab. Cestr. -Albreda de-Will de Clarofagio Lisures -Avicia fil Will. de Taneia Ilbertus de Lacy-Havisia Rob. de Lacy-Matild Rob. de Lisoriis Pip. 5 Steph. -Albred for Will. de Vesci -Hen de Lacy. Robertus Lacy s. p. -Isabella Ilb. -Alic de Gaunt s.p. the Duttons Edward Wolmer Horswin and Wolfan came with Hugh whom William the Conquerour made Earl of Chester to hold as free by his Sword as himself all England by his Crown which said Earl Hugh gave this Nigellus the Barony of Halton to which belonged nine Knights Fees and an half and a fourth part and a fifth part of a Fee by the name of the Constabelry of Chester and made him his Marshall and Constable so that whensoever the said Earl should move his Army towards Wales the said Nigellus and his heirs should go first in and come last out William the Constable son of this Nigellus Founded an House of Canons at Runcorne 1133. he was very old then and was buried at Chester where he died William the younger his son who succeeded in the Inheritance transferred the Canons to Norton and died without heirs of his body leaving his sisters Agnes and Matilda his heirs The story makes Agnes married to Aubert Grelly but certain it is that Anneissa daughter of William the Constable of Chester was second wife of Eustace Fitz-Iohn and over-lived him whose son and heir by her was Richard Constable of Chester who married Albreda the daughter and heir of Robert de Lisures son of Fulc de Lisures and of Albreda his wife This Robert de Lusoriis 5 Steph. gave account of viiil. vis. viiid. that he might marry the sister of Ilbert de Lacy. Ilbert Lacy who lived in the Conquerours time begot of his wife Havisia Robert Lacy who by Matilda his wife had Hilbert and Henry and Founded a Monastery at Pontefract their principal place of residence where he was buried in the time of William Rufus Ilbert his son had to wife Alicia Gaunt but no issue Henry his other son married Albreda it seems the sister of William Vesci Governour of Berwic and by her had Robert Lacy his son and heir who died about 4 R. 1. 1193. and having no issue by Isabell his wife Albreda the daughter of Robert de Lisoures his sister by the mothers side became his heir and carried a very great inheritance to the Constables of Chester though besides her husband Richard before named she had one called William the Ancestor of the Fitz-Williams named in Plumtre By her husband the said Richard she had Iohn Laci Constable of Chester and Robert the Hospitaler and Sara wife of Robert de Alford and Aubrea de Lisures wife of Henry Biset In the year 1186. Garner de Naples Prior of the House of the Hospital of Hierusalem in England by the consent of the Chapter granted to Iohn Constable of Chester and his heirs their whole Town of Knesale which they had of the gift of the said Iohn to be held of their House by the Rent of two Marks of Silver yearly yet so as that at his death and likewise at the death of each of his heirs the third part of his and their substance which they shall have in Knesale shall remain to their said House of Hospitalers for the health of his or their Souls This Iohn had to wife Alice Vere who was also married to William Mandeville she was daughter of Alice de Essex Aunt of Earl William and sister of Earl Alberic Adelicia sometime wife of Iohn Constable of Chester granted and confirmed to the Monks of Rufford her whole Land of Almeton which belonged to her Fee of Cnesale which was of her Dower according as it was confirmed in the Charters of the said â—ohn her Lord and Roger de Laci her son reserving 10s. per annum Rent This Iohn is said to be slain in the Holy Land the fifth of the Ides of Octob. 1183. but that agrees not well with what before is set down except Robert Lacy his Uncle over-lived him and the Hospitalers Deed should be dated 1168. instead of 1186. This Iohn had several sons Eustachius Richard Chester Gaufr Robert Constable of Chester but his eldest son Roger Lacy the Constable for troubling the Welch got the name of Helle he with a sudden raised Company of Shoomakers and Players relieved Ranulf Earl of Chester Besieged in a Castle in Wales for which the said Earl gave him and his heirs the Dominion and Advowson of those kind of people which it seems this Roger gave to his Senescal one of the heirs of Hudard whom his brother Nigellus before-named made Senescal of his Barony because the Duttons Jurisdiction and Inheritance is excepted out of the Statutes 39 Eliz. and 1 Iac. concerning Vagabonds and Rogues This Roger married Matilda de Claere sister of the Treasurer of the Church of Yorke and by her had Iohn the second Constable of Chester whom he left to succeed him 1211. after whose death the said Iohn took to wife Alesia daughter of Gilbert de Aquila and after her death Margaret the daughter of Robert de Quenci Niece of Ranulf Earl of Chester and by-her was made Earl of Lincolne 1221. 5 H. 3. on whom he begot Edmund de Lacy Constable of Chester but not Earl of Lincolne because his mother over-lived him Iohn died the eleventh of the Kal. of August 1240. 24 H. 3. and his son Edmund 1248. after he had begotten his son Henry de Lacy Earl of Lincolne on his wife Alesia daughter of the Marquess of Saluces in Italy her mother after the death of her husband the said Marquess was married to Menfred son of Frederic the Emperour who begat on her Constancia wife of Peter son of Iames King of Arragon In the year 1282. King Edward gave
which were anciently the inheritance of Henry Norreys and of late the inheritance of Robert Waring of Witford Gent. named in Staunton It is within the Parish of Clareburgh East Retford Redeford THis is an ancient Boâ—ough and sendeth two Burgesses to serve in Parliament yet I find nothing of it in Doomsday Book considerable saving that in Redford was a Mill belonging to Sudâ—on of the Fee of the Arch-bishop of York In the record of Nomina Villarum 9 E. 2. the King is certified to be Lord of it The men of Retford by the consent of the Burgesses of Nottingham ought to take Thurtoll viz. pâ—ssage Toll through these bounds viz. at the Head or Townesend of Velhagh at Mirell Brigg at Wyston and in all other places where the Burgesses of Notingham were wont to take Roger Arch-bishop of York founded and built and dedicated a Chapel under the name of the Virgin Mary and All Angels near the greater Church of York in which Chapel he placed thirteen Clarks of several orders viz. four Priests four Deacons four Sub-deacons and one Sacrist to celebrate divine service according to the constitution of that Church of St. Peter for whose support he gave the moyety of the Church of Otteley the Church of Everton the Church of Sutton with the Chapel of Scrooby and the Church of Hayton the Church of Beardsey The Church of Claverly was of the gift of Wiliam Scoty that of Hoton of William Pannel that of Harewood of Amicia de Rumelly and that of Thorpe of Adam de Bruis and Ievetta de Arches his wife Hamo the Chanter of York was by the said Arch-bishop Roger made Sacrist of the said Chapel of St. Mary and All Angels that in it he might dispose and order the Service and procure and minister to the Chaplains Deacons and Sub-deacons what the Arch-bishop had constituted for their Food and Rayment c. Every Priest was to have yearly ten Marks every Deacon 100. and every Sub-deacon six Marks of Silver by the hand of the Sacrist who was also to have yearly ten Marks though the Rents whereof he was made procurator should happen to fall short to the rest and the surplusage of all the Rents but was to act with all diligence according to the will and direction of the said Arch-bishop In the year 1258. Mr. Gilbert de Tyva was made the Sacrist by Sewall Arch-bishop of York and on the Saturday next after the Feast of St. Martin inducted into the possession of the Church of St. Swithin of Retford The same year the 4th or 3. of the Nones of May the said Arch-bishop Sewall ordained the Vicarages of Sutton Everton Hayton Clarburgh and Redford and likewise of Thorp Arches Colingham Beardssey Otteley Calverley and Hoton Painell in Yorkshire in which ordination it is expressed that if any of the said Vicars should happen to have less than 10. Marks per annum the Vicarage was to be augmented as it should please the Arch-bishop The Vicar of Redford was to have 100s. of the Alcarage and the small Tythes viz. of Chickens Pigs Geese and the Bread and Wine or Ale or Beer which should happen to be brought to the Altar And the Sacrist was to give to the poor of that Town the Tythes of the Mills Philip de Houlecotes Cousin and heir of Mr. Alan de Bolleshoure mentioned in Little Gréeneley gave the moyety of the Mills of Retford to the Abbey of Wellebek according to the tenor of the Charters of King Richard 1. and King Iohn for the sustentation of two Chaplains in the Church of Wellebek and of one in his Church of Stirape to celebrate divine service for ever for the Soul of the said Philip c. Alicia de Stirape eldest daughter of Gerard de Stiraepe Knight confirmed the gift which the said Philip de Houlecotes her brother made of the moyety of the Mill of Retford which belonged to her Hamelin de Buggethorp and Margaret his wife confirmed to the said Abbey the gift of the moyety of the Mills of Retford and all other donations which the said Philip de Houlecotes their predecessor had made The King 11 H. 3. Apr. 17. gave to the Abbey of Wellebek the Mills of Ratford to be holden of him in Fee Farm for 10l. per annum saving to the heirs of Raph Tessun if he should recover his inheritance in Watelegh 40. per annum which the said Abbat and Canons were to pay besides the said 10l. per annum Hubert de Burgo Earl of Kent Justice of England considering the love of God and for the safety of his own soul and of his wife 's Margaret the daughter of the King of Scotland and of their heirs gave to God and the Church of St. Iames at Wellebek and the Canons there serving God and to serve God 40s. yearly Rent which he had out of the Mills of Ratford which Raph Tessun was wont to receive and likewise granted that his Men of Wheteley should do Suit to the said Mills of the said Abbat and Covent according as they ought and were wont It was adjudged in the Exchequer 8 May 47 H. 3. that the Men of Retford should do Suit to the Mills of the Abbat and Covent of Wellebek at Retford duely as other the Kings Burgesses and Sokemen then did and it was there noted that the Men of Retford who would be called Burgesses were the Kings Sokemans and so called in the Doomsday Hugh Levyn and other men of Retford withdrew themselves from the Suit whereupon the Abbat 4 E. 1. procured a Precept or Writ to the Sheriff to distrain them according to the former Judgement The King H. 3. for the bettering of his Borough of Retford granted to the Burgesses thereof that they and their heirs for ever should have every year one Fair there to indure for eight daies viz. the Eve day and morrow of the holy Trinity and five daies following They 30 H. 3. had Acquittance from Tallage They in 44 H. 3. had a Fair and other liberties granted And in 7 E. 2. the Borough had a Fair. And 46 E. 3. the Town had a Fair. They Petitioned the Parliament at Westminster 4 E. 3. after the Feast of St. Kath. concerning pardon of their Burgesses there .... by reason of their Poverty There was a Charter of confirmation of the Liberties of the Town of Retford 9 E. 3. by which it was granted that the Inhabitants of the said Town to wit the Burgesses and their heirs resident in the said Borough should not be put in Assises Juries or any recognizances with Foreiners by occasion of their Forein Lands and Tenements The Jury 6 E. 1. found that Walter Prat held a Mansion or dwelling House in Retford of Iohn Prat his brother in free Burgage likewise of Thomas son of Raph de Hayton two Acres ½ of Medow and of divers other small parcells in several places and
HATFEILD Division NOw followeth Hatfeild Division of this great Wapentac of Bersetlow which is that which lyeth on the West side of the River Idle and as the South and North Clay Divisions which lie on the East side have ever been famous for plenty of Corn so this for Woods and pleasant Waters insomuch that in it alone have been Founded well-nigh as many Monasteries as in the whole County besides for in it were the Abbies of Rufford and Wellbeck the Priories of Wirkesop Wallingwelles Blyth and Mattersey which are not far short of all the rest as by this Catalogue of their values taken before that of the 26 H. 8. may appear wherein Lenton is 620l. per annum Thurgarton 350l. Shelford 200l. Newstede 240l. Felley 44l. Beauvale 200l. Brodholme 10l. Rufford 220◠Welbeck 300l. Wirksop 240l. Wallingwelles 78l. Blyth 107l. and Mathersey 50l. per annum Rufford Rugford on the River Maun IN Rugforde before the Norman Invasion Vlf whose Lands in these parts became the Fee of Gislebert de Gand had a Mannor which defended it self in paying to the Dane-geld or Tax of that time for twelve Bovats The Land of it being then known to be sufficient for four Plows or four Car. There Gislebert had in Demesne one Car. ten Vill. having three Car. There was twenty Acres of Medow Pasture Wood one leu ½ long one leu broad In the Confessours time it was 6l. value in the Conquerours when the Survey was taken 60s. it had Soc there and in Bildesthorp and in Wirchenfeild Gislebert de Gaunt son of Baldwin Earl of Flanders came with William the Conquerour his Uncle into England and took to wife Alice de Montefort and had issue Walter and Robert and died in the time of William Rufus and was buried at Bardeney Walter his eldest son took to wife Matilda daughter of Earl Stephen of Britanny and begot Gilbert his eldest son who afterwards in his wifes right was Earl of Lincoln and Robert Gilberts wife was Roesia Countess of Lincolne by whom he had Alice married to Simon de St. Liz Earl of Huntington and Northampton Gilbert Earl of Lincolne Founded the Abby of Rufford of the Cistercian Order in the year 1148. about the thirteenth of King Stephen which said King for the Soul of King Henry his Uncle and his other Ancestors and for the health or safety of his own Soul and of Queen Matilda his wife and Eustace his son and his other Children confirmed the gift of Gilebert de Gant which he made to God and the Church of the blessed Mary at Rievalls and the Monks there serving God of the Mannor of Ruford to his Charter dated at Lincolne were Witnesses Robert the Chancellour and Earl Simon and Earl William of Arundell By another dated at Yorke to which were Witnesses the said Robert the Chancellour Earl Simon and Robert de Ver he confirmed to the Abbat and Monks of Ruford the gift which Gilbert de Gant made to them of the Land of Cratela wherein we suppose Wellehagh was in the Book of Doomsday included as in that place is noted By another dated at Wirchesop wherein the Bishop of Durrham and Richard de Luci and William Peverell and Richard de Camuil were Witnesses he the said King Stephen confirmed to the Church of St. Mary of Rufford and the Monks there serving God the gifts which Hugh de Muscam and Adam Tisun and William Tisun his son and Gaufr de Stanton and Malger de Rolleston and Gilbert de Chelum and Raph Silvan made of Lands of their Fees part whereof was in Kelum as the Charter of Confirmation made by King Henry the second manifesteth in which the said King Henry the second also granted that those Monks should have their proper Forester to keep their Wood as Walter de Gant had in the time of King Henry the first that Kings Grandfather and that they should freely and peaceably take of the Forest whatever was needful for their own use and that no man of his own Wood might give or sell without their licence as it was in the time of King Henry the first his said Grandfather and besides all the forementioned gifts he confirmed that of Galfr. de Eicring and Rocelinus and Raph his brother of the Wood called Rahage and likewise granted the Land which Raph de Hocreton held called Wudehus and granted them all free Customs and Liberties Soc Sac Tol and Them and Infangetheof c. King Henry the third confirmed all the forementioned gifts and enlarged their priviledges besides several others mentioned in his Charter as the gift of Robert Furnell of the mediety of Mortone which is next Bomeshill which Adam de Wellum and his other Men in times past held and that gift of Raph de St. George of his moyety of Mortone next the Town of Bomeshill which Hugh de Stretton and other his Men or Tenants held that of Raph de Hereford of his whole Land which he had in Ekering that of Raph de Furnell of all the Land which they had of the gift of his Ancestors in Bomeshill that of Ranulph son of Roger de Maresey of a certain part of Land and Medow in Hocton with the water of Hiddell as far as that Land extended it self that of Hugh Fitz-Raph of all his Demesne in Kirketon Wilegby Walesby and Bestorp of William son of or Fitz William Land which they held in Bestorp of Iohn Burdon in Maplebek that of Elias de Whitchurch and Idonia his wife of three Bovats in Kelum that of Thomas de Rolleston of Land in Kelum that of Lanceline de Stocks and Amicia his wife of the moyety of the Mannor of Albeney that of Hugh Folenfant and Richard Folenfant of certain Lands in Moretone that of Robert son of Waltheof de Morneshalle of the moyety of the Town of Brithrithefeud Iohn de Vescy made also a Deed of Confirmation to Thomas de Stayngrene Abbat of Rufford c. of eight Bovats in Roderham and the whole Demesne of his whole Mannor of Roderham with all the Appurtenances and the Advowson of the Mediety of the Church of that Mannor with the Homage and Service of Thomas de Furnivalle and his heirs for Land which William de Vescy father of him the said Iohn gave to William de Furnivall Uncle of the said Thomas in Roderham and the Service of William de Cantelup for Lands which the said William de Vescy gave him in the said Mannor and with all the right he could have in the Tenements which Hugh Frassell of Roderham sometime Parson of the Church of Penyeston held of the Fee of the said Iohn de Vescy in Roderham with the Homage of Wil. Lovel son of Will. Lovel for the Tenement which he held of him in Roderham and the Mill of the same Town and the Homage and Service of the heir of Iohn de Lexington for the Land which was sometimes Raph Tillyes with the Lordship of half
Sheffeild of Butterwick and by her had Sir Iohn Hollys created by King Iames Baron of Houghton Iuly 9. in the fourteenth year of his Reign and in the twenty second year Earl of Clare 2 Novemb. Anne the daughter of Sir Thomas Stanhope was his wife and bore him Iohn Earl of Clare and Densill Hollis who married Dorothy sole daughter and heir of Sir Francis Ashley Knight of Dorchester Serjeant at Law by whom he hath issue William c. He was by this King in the thirteenth year of his Reign created Lord Hollis of Ifeild in Sussex His brother the said Iohn Earl of Clare married Elizabeth eldest daughter and co-heir of Sir Horatio Vere Lord Vere of Tilbury and by her had Gilbert the present Earl whose Countess is .... the daughter of the Honourable William Pierrepont West Drayton OF Roger de Buslies Fee in Drayton Suen and Vlstan paid to the Geld for their Mannors before the Conquest as four Bov. â…” The Land whereof was two Car. There afterwards two Men of Rogers had one Car. eight Vill. one Bord. having two Car. There were three Mills 5s. and seven Acres of Medow Pasture Wood three qu. long half a qu. broad In the Confessours time this was 30s. value in the Conquerours when the Survey was made 17s. 4d. Here was then also of Roger Pictavensis his Fee which before the Conquest was Swains who answered the Tax for his Mannor as two Bov. and one third The Land being one Car. When Doomsday Book was made Vsi or Vlsi held this of Roger Pictavensis and had here half a Car. and one Vill. one Bord. with half a Car. Here were three Acres of Medow Pasture Wood one qu. long half a qu. broad In the Confessours time the value was 10s. then but 5s. 4d. Thomas Fitz-William held of the Countess of Augi or Ewe in Clarborough and West Drayton three parts of one Knights Fee as in Clarborough is noted this was Roger de Buslies and the Family of Maresey held that of the Lancaster Fee as in Gameleston and other places may be observed Merriell Bridge THomas Fitz-William gave to the Church and Monks of Blith the Rent of 40s. sterling per annum viz. his moyety of the Mill of Mirihil Bridge with the whole Suit and all things belonging to him by reason of that Mill for 30s. and one half Mark yearly in which the Archbishop of York was held bound to him for himself and his successours for a Tenement which he held of him in Plumtrefeld and one Mark of Silver which William son of H. de Adwic was held to him for a Tenement which he held of him in Adwic to be paid to the said Monks by the hands of the said William and his heirs every year at the Purification of the blessed Mary c. Richard de Marcham obliged himself by Oath to pay 20s. yearly to the Monks of Blith for the moyety of the Mill of Mirihild Bridge which they granted to him and his heirs who were to do Homage and Relief and take their Oaths to pay the said 20s. per annum whether Thomas Fitz-William did warrant the Suit to the Mill or not else the Prior to re-enter into the possession of the whole Mill. Murilde Brigg 3 E. 3. was to be repaired c. This Bridge lies at the entrance of this small Township in Yorke Rode Way betwixt Tuxford and Scroby the Town is in the Parish of Elkesley and the Chapel esteemed part of Tikhill as the rest In the beginning of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth this Mannor was the Inheritance of William Swift The owners of West Drayton in 1612. are set down thus Robert Swift Knight .... Meverel Esquire Robert Brett Richard Whitlam senior Nicolas Whitmore William Simpson Richard Whitlam junior Bothumsell Bodmeschel And Lound Hall IN Bodmeschell Earl Tosti had twelve Bovats for the Geld. The Land eight Car. But after the Conquest the King had there five Vill. and one Bord. with two Car. and one Mill. 8s. and forty Acres of Medow Pasture Wood half a leuc long and four qu. broad In the time of Edward the Confessour the value was 8l. when King William took the Survey but 60s. This Mannor had Soc in Elchesleig both Mortunes Babword Oglesthorp and Ordeshale Ranesby and Sudershale Raneby Madrisseig Lund and Barneby In 9 H. 3. of the Scurage of Mungumery Raph de St. George and Richard de Furnells gave account of two Marks concerning one Fee in Bodemescill Richard de Furnell son and heir of Robert de Furn. which Robert was husband of Isabell daughter of Iordan de Chevercourt released all his right in the Chapel of Bomeshull to the Abby of Wellebec and acknowledged it to belong to the Mother Church of Helkesley of that Abbies Patronage The same did Raph de St. George The said Raph and Richard are said to hold this Fee in Bodmescill of the King in Capite but in a later Inquisition Robert de Furneus and Robert de St. George are said to hold it of the Honour of Lancaster of the old feoffment Robert de St. George 18 H. 3. gave five Marks for relief of the Lands which Raph his father held in Lancashire The Jury 30 H. 3. said that Robert de St. George late husband of Petronilla held in the Town of Bodmeshill with the Sok two Car. of Land and an half of the King in Capite by the service of half a Knights Fee whereof he had in Demesne fifty Acres c. he held divers Lands in Lincolneshire Raph de St. George his son and heir was then fifteen years old The King that year viz. 30 H. 3. committed the Custody of the Lands and heirs of the said Robert de St. George to Robert le Norreis In the Scurage of Wales 39 H. 3. and 44 H. 3. Raph St. George and Robert Furnels paid 40s. for one Knights Fee here and one in Lancashire That moyety of this Mannor which belonged to the Family of Furnalls descended with it as in Carleton in Lindrick will be noted The Jury 25 E. 1. said that Richard de Furnous and Richard de Boselingthorpe held a Knights Fee in Bothemsell of Edmund Earl of Lancaster paying 10â— per annum to the Ward of that Castle And in 19 E. 2. the Jury said that Richard de Boselingthorp held this Mannor when he died by the Law of England of the Inheritance of Isabella his quondam wife and that Iohn de Boselingthorp was their son and heir which Iohn 5 E. 3. had a Charter of Fee Warren for Bothmeshull Raph Brasebrigg Chr. 19 R. 2. by one Fine passed the Mannor of Bothumsell to Iohn de Markham and Elizabeth his wife and the heirs of Iohn and by another 110l. Rent in Bothumsell Robert Fletchar and William Bull 8 Eliz. claimed against William Swyft Esquire the Mannors of Bothumsell Vpton and Elkesley with the Appurtenances and twenty
fil Will. Compton ex quib Com. Northam Gilb. Talbot de Grafton mil. Gart. -Eliz Greystok-Andrea Cotton ux 2. Gilb. Joh. Talbot antecess moderni Com. Salop. Humfr. Christoph. 1 Gilbertus Talbot -Joana fil Tho. Duc. Glocest. Ankareta fil haer s. p. Will. de Monteacuto Com. Sarum Gerardus de Furnivall-Christiana Ledec Gerard. de Furnivall Lora de Furnivalle fil haeres -Gerardus Uflet Willielmus de Furnivall Ernulphus de Mandevill Nigellus de Lovetot Baro in Com. Hunt -Margareta Rich. ut in Wishou Rog. de Lovetot Nigel Rob. de Coleston Will. de Lovetot Ernulph de Mandevill was a Witness to this After the great controversie concerning many demands on both parts between her and Wal. the Prior and the Covent of Wyrkesop the said Mat. in her free Widowhood and lawful power on the day of the translation of St. Thomas the Martyr 33 H. 3. confirmed all the gifts of William de L. her father and Richard de Luvet her Grand-father and Gerard de Furnivall her quondam Husband who was entombed at Ebrard in Normandy in his own Demesne which is called Furnefall he begot Thomas Gerard and William Thomas was slain in the holy Land by the Saracens and his brother Gerard after his death returned from thence But the said Maud his mother taking it ill that her son Thomas should remain amongst Heathens sent back the said Gerard that he might bring the Bones of the said Thomas his brother by which means he was intombed in this Monastery on the North side with his Helmet adorned with Gemms and a noble Carbuncle upon his head The said Sir Gerard her son lay on the South side under a Marble Stone next the Chapel of St. Peter and the said William their brother in the middle of the Chapel of the blessed Mary not far from Maud the wife of Iohn first Lord of Furnivall in a Tomb of Stone inscribed thus Me memorans palle similis curris quia calle De Fournivalle Pro Wilielmo rog◠psalle These Chronicles of Wyrksop are not exact in this descent which I suppose misled Mr. Robert Glover in the draught of that noble Pedigree which he designed for George late Earl of Shrowsbury and Earl Marshall of England Lord Talbot Furnival Verdun Lovetoft and Strange of Blackmer Knight of the Garter c. 22 Eliz. 1580. wherein he makes Ger. son and heir of this Thomas de Furnivall to be father of Thomas c. which he was not He indeed married Maud the sister and coheir of Richard Fitz-Iohn Fitz-Geoffrey the Justice of Ireland who was afterwards married to William Beauchamp Earl of Warwick by whom she had Guy Earl of Warwick twenty six years of age and above 26 E. 1. her heir which shows that her former husband the said Gerard de Furnivall had none by her but it further appears for Gerard son and heir of Thomas de Furnivall gave with his body the third part of the Mills of Bradfeld with the suit of his men of the Sok of Bradfeud to this Monastery and Thomas son and heir of Thomas de Furnivall confirmed this gift which Gerard de Furnivall his brother had conferred and Bertrea or Bertha sometimes wife of Thomas de Furnivall in her Widowhood for the health of her Soul and of the Souls of Sir Thomas de Furnivall her quondam husband and of Sir Gerard his brother confirmed 4l. of Silver to be taken out of her Mill at Bradefeld yearly during her life Thomas de Furnivall Lord of Halumschire son and heir of Thomas de Furnivall confirmed to these Canons all Lands c. in which they were seised in the time of Matildis de Luvetot his Grand-mother The Prior of Wyrkesop 53 H. 3. offered himself the fourth day against Thomas de Furnivall in a Plea wherefore he made waste sale and destruction of his Park of Wirksop by which means the said Prior for the future could not as he ought have two Carts to bring dry wood every day to the Monastery c. There was a licence 54 H. 3. granted to Thomas de Furnivall to build a certain Castle at his Mannor of Sheffeild in the County of York Thomas de Furnivall son of Thomas de Furnivall confirmed with his body presentè the yearly rent of six Marks out of the Mill of Bradefeud viz. that Rent which the Canons had of the gift of the Lady Bertr de Furnivall his mother during her life Bertra who had been wife of Thomas de Furnivall 7 E. 1. was Fined 40s. because she retracted or withdrew her self c. Thomas son and heir of Thomas de Furnivall 1 E. 1. was under age and married to Ioane the daughter of Hugh le Dispenser Thomas de Furnivall the third Lord of Hallumshire and of Wyrkesop confirmed to this Priory eight Marks of yearly Rent out of his Mills of Wirkesop and 30s. 6d. in the name of the Tythe of his Rents of his Mannor of Wyrkesop and 10s. in the name of the Tythe of his Mannor of Glesthorp of old constituted or set in this County and twelve Marks of his Mills of Bradefeld per annum and five Marks yearly Rent of his Mills of Brekesherth and also 60. and 6s. and 1d. in the name of Tythe of the yearly Rents of his Mannor of Sheffeld in Hallumshire in the County of York and Pasture for 40. Cartel in his Park and this bore date at Nottingham the Thursday after the Feast of St. Augustine the Apostle of the English An. Dom. 1328. 2 E. 3. Thomas de Furnivall senior 19 E. 2. atturned in his place William de Sheffeld and Adam son of Henry de Sheffeld to prosequnt in the Court of the Exchequer concerning a debt which the said Thomas had paid to the King by Roger de Somervill Sheriff of Yorkshire It appeareth also in 19 E. 2. that the said Thomas de F. senior was amerced as a Baron in several Courts before the 14 E. 2. but he pleaded he was no Baron neither did he hold his Land by Barony nor part of a Barony whereupon several Inquisitions were taken by Robert de Nottingham Remembrancer of the Exchequer assigned thereto viz. one at Rotheram where it was found that the said Thomas de F. senior held the Mannor of Sheffeld in the County of York of the King in Capite by Homage only and the Mannor of Whystan of Galfr. Luterell in Capite by the service of three Fees and an half of a Knight by right of inheritance Another at Nottingham the Saturday next before quindena Paschae where it was likewise found that he held the Mannors of Wyrkesop and Gresthorpe with the members in this County of the King as of the Honour of Tykhull by the service of four Fees and the fourth part of a Knights Fee by right of inheritance after the death of Thomas de F. his quondam father whose heir he was And the third Inquisition was taken before the said
Robert de Nott. at Darby the Fryday before where it was found that the said Tho. de F. senior held in the County of Darby the Mannor of Eyum of the King of the Honour of Peverell of the Castle of the High Peke 1. f. which Mannor he bought of Roger Morteyn And that he held the Mannor of Middelton of Thomas de Chaworth by the Service of half a Knights Fee and that he had of one Richard de Bernake who held it of the said Thomas by the same Service And that he held the moyety of the Town of Bracington as parcel of the Wapentac of Wyrkesoorth which was an Eschaet of the Kings by the forfeiture of Thomas late Earl of Lancaster by the Service of finding two Frank-pledges in that Wapentach and that a certain Ancestor of him the said Thomas de Furnivall had that moyety and held it to him and his heirs by the gift of a certain Earl of Derby who held that Wapentach of King Henry the third Grandfather of the King viz. Edward the second in Fee Farm for ever and the said moyety of the Town of Bracington gave to the said Ancestor of the said Thomas de F. in Frank-marriage with a certain daughter of the said Earl And the said Thomas de F. senior held of Nicolas de Langford as of his Mannor of Haversedge in the said County an Hamlet called Bauntford c. but none by Barony or part of a Barony c. Yet it appears that he was called to all the Parliaments as other Barons were as for example in the 23 E. 1. to one to be held at Westminster the first of August and to another the same year the Sunday next after the Feast of St. Martin in Winter and that at St. Edmunds Bury the day after All Souls 24 E. 1. and that in 12 E. 2. and that in 13 E. 2. and in 14 E. 2. to that to be held at Westminster three weeks after the Nativity of St. Iohn Baptist both Thomas de Furnivall senior and Thomas de Furnivall junior were summoned Thomas de Furnivall senior 6 E. 3. held this Mannor with the Appurtenances and Gresthorp as in that place is noted The Jury 28 E. 3. said that Elizabeth de Monteacuto held the Mannor of Wyrksop of the endowment of Thomas de Furnivall her quondam husband and of the Inheritance of Thomas de Furnivall who then was Cousin and heir of her said husband viz. son and heir of Thomas de Furnivall son and heir of Thomas her husband She was daughter of Peter de Montford and widow of William son of Simon de Montacute and mother of William de Montacute Earl of Salisbury There is a Monument of Marble for her yet standing on the North side of the Quire at Christs Church in Oxford Thomas de Furnivall junior was above forty years old at the death of his father which was the day after the Purification 1332. He married Ioane the eldest daughter and co-heir of Theobald de Verdun Lord of Alveton Castle in Staffordshire Baron of Webley in the County of Hereford the relict of William de Mountague This Thomas de Furnivall Lord of Alveton in Staffordshire died at Sheffeld the day before the Ides it should be Nones of October 1339. the Inquisition saith the Thursday next before the Feast of St. Dionis 13 E. 3. which is on Oct. 9. leaving then his son and heir Thomas de Furnivall about seventeen years old whose brother William de Furnivall which afterwards was his heir and did his Homage 39 E. 3. was born at Alveton Castle the tenth of the Kalends of September 1326. Their father who died about 14 Octob. Anno Dom. 1339. was buried the Munday within the Vtas of the Ascension of our Lord next following in the Abby of Beauchief by the Abbat of Crokesden his said wife Ioane the Lady of Alveton died in Child-bed 6 of the Nones of Octob. 1334. of the age of thirty years and two Months and was honourably buried the seventh of the Ides of Ianuary following at Crokesden amongst her ancestors of the Family of Verdun Founders of that place Her son Thomas de Furnivall 17 E. 3. had an Ad quod Damnum for settling the Castle and Mannor of Sheffeld and in 18 E. 3. the Castle and Mannor of Alveton to the use of him the said Thomas and Margaret his wife and the heirs of their bodies as William de Furnivall his said brother and heir had 40 E. 3. to settle the Mannor of Farneham in the County of Bucks to the use of him the said William and Thomasia his wife and the heirs of their bodies William de Furnivall Chr. dyed the twelfth of Aprill 6 R. 2. seised of this Mannor c. Thomasina his wife held the Mannor of Coggeshalis in Elmedone in Essex and the Mannor of Dagworth in Suffolk Ioane the daughter of the said William wife of Thomas de Nevill was then found his heir and above fourteen years old This Thomas Nevill was brother to Raph first Earl of Westmerland He was Treasurer of England but is not in Mr. Dugdales Catalogue which makes these Chronicles of Wirksop more doubtful and in right of his wife Lord Furnivall he was buried here most magnificently and lieth in the middle above the Quire He died the Munday next before Palmsunday 8 H. 4. leaving behind him another wife who was Ankaretta daughter of Iohn le Strange of Blackmere and widow of Richard son of Gilbert Talebot and mother of the famous Iohn Talbot she and he in her right held the Mannor of Swynden in Wiltshire and the third part of the Mannor and Hundred of Shryvenham in Barkshire of the Dotation of Richard Talbot Chr. her former husband the heirs of the said Thomas de Nevill were then found to be Matilda and Ioane his daughters Thomasia who had been wife of William Furnivall Chr. died on the Feast of St. Margaret the Virgin being Saturday 10 H. 4. Matilda was found Cousin and heir and aged seventeen years viz. the daughter and heir of Ioane the daughter and heir of the said William and Thomasia and the said Iohn Talbot had then taken her to wife This Iohn was brother of Gilbert Lord Talbot and after the death of Ankaretta his said brothers daughter his heir He was in his said wifes right Lord Furnivall and had respite of Homage 7 H. 5. Febr. 12. He was created by King Henry the sixth at Windsor May 20. 19 H. 6. Earl of Shrowsbury He was Earl of Weishford in Ireland by Inheritance and created Earl of Waterford 17 Iuly 24 H. 6. and Steward of that Kingdom and afterwards Marshal of France most worthily where he wan so many Battels and was so formidable to the French during the twenty four years of his most glorious Warfare there He was slain at the Siege of Chastilion the fourth of the Ides of Iuly
Hanselin c. William Peverell his son by ill advice took them away for a long time but repenting he for love of the Worship of God and for the safety of the Souls of his said father and mother by the consent of his heir William the younger restored them again The Witnesses to this Deed were Hugh de Burun William Avenell Adam de Morteyn Oddo de Boney Robert de Heriz Gilbert de Macuinci Norman de St. Patricio c. Anno 1155. King Henry the second disinherited William Peverel because of poyson given to Ranulph Earl of Chester About those times there were three Peverels of great note viz. Peverel of Dovor and Peverel of London and our Peverel of Notingham who is certainly intended by the last noted Chronicle as may further appear by an Instrument yet remaining in Sir Iohn Cotton's Library Sealed by Henry Duke of Normans c. afterwards King Henry the second being then at the Divises to Ranulph Earl of Chester wherein he gave him besides the said Earls own Inheritance in Normandy and England wholly as his Ancestors ever had it that in Normandy very particularly recited the whole Honour of Earl Roger Pictavensis where-ever and all the said Duke Henries Honour of Blye where-ever it was in England and the Honour of Eye as Robert Malet Uncle of the said Earl Ranulphs mother ever had it Moreover he gave him Stafford and Staffordesir and the County or Earldom of Stafford wholly whatever he had there in Fee and Inheritance except the Fee of the Bishop of Chester and of Earl Robert de Ferrariis and of Hugh de Mortuomari and of Gervas Paganell and except the Forest of Canoc which he the said Duke then retained in his hand He gave him the Fee of Alan de Lincolne who was also Uncle of the said Earls mother and the Fee of Ernis de Burun as his own Inheritance and the Fee of Hugh de Scoteiney where-ever it was and the Fee of Robert de Chalz where-ever it was and the whole Fee of Robert Fitz or son of Odo and the whole Fee of Norman de Verdun and the Fee of Robert de Stafford where-ever it was and 30l. Land which the said Duke Henry had in Grimesby he gave him and Notingham Castle and the Borough and whatever the said Duke had in Nottingham in Fee and Inheritance he gave to him and his heirs and the whole Fee of William Peverell where-ever it was unless he could dirationare se clear himself in the said Dukes Court of the wickedness and Treason except Hecham And if Engelram de Albamarlâ— would not take with the said Duke nor Earl Simon and he the said Duke could take the said Hecham by force he would restore it to the said Earl Ranulph if he would have it and Torchesci and Oswardebec Wapentac and Derby with all the Appurtenances and Maunsfeld with the Soch and Roclar with the Soch and Stanley by Coventre with the Soch and of Belvar he would hold him right as soon as he should be able as of the said Earls Inheritance and to the said Earls six Barons he would give each an hundred pound Land which they should chuse of those which the said Duke should happen to get of his enemies and to all the said Earls friends parentibus he would restore their Inheritance whereof he had power c. Howbeit the said Earl Ranulf of Chester did not enjoy any long possession of those places in this County for the Sheriffs answered to the King for the profits of the Lands of William Peverell and the Scutages of the Tenants of his Fee as in the Pipe Rolls of Henry the second and the succeeding Kings may be seen and in divers other places of this Book for the rest Margaret the daughter and at length heir of William Peverell of Nottingham was wife of William Earl of Ferrars and Derby son of Robert the younger Earl of Ferrars and of Nottingham and she had a son Robert Earl of Ferrars who in the time of King Henry the second perhaps because he could not inherit was the more willing to burn Nottingham which he did it seems together with his son William Grandson of the said William and Margaret which said William Earl of Ferrars the Grandson was outed of his Earldoms of Nottingham and Derby by King Richard the first who gave them to Iohn Earl of Moreton afterwards King his brother who thereupon 't is like grew more willing to interest himself in these parts which he did by granting a Charter to this Town of Nottingham and some way or other pleasing of the Gentry of the Country so well that he led the most of them into Rebellion as in sundry places of this Book concerning divers particular persons of them may be observed But of these Peverells I have found no more saving that there was a Fine in the Kings Court at Nottingham the Fryday after the Feast of St. Bartholomew 4 Ioh. before I. Bishop of Norwic Hugh Bardulf Iohn de Gestling Mr. Roger Arundell Hugh de Bobi the Kings Justices and others then there present between William Peverell Petent and Beatrice de Curcon Tenant of two Bovats of Land in Palterton thereby passed to her and her heirs paying 6d. per annum c. 'T is certain then that from the beginning of the Reign of Henry the second this Castle of Nottingham hath for the most part belonged to the Crown neither is there any place anything near so far distant from London that I know of in all England which hath so often given entertainment and residence to the Kings and Queens of this Realm since the Norman Conquest It is said that in the year 1194. King Richard being first loosed from his bonds the Castles of Nottingham and Tykehull resisted with force but the Castles of Lancaster and Merleburg and Mount Michael rendred themselves King Iohn in the sixth of his Reign commanded Reginald de Clifton that immediately upon sight of his Letters he should deliver to Robert de Veteriponte the Castle of Nottingham c. The like Command at that time had Hugh de Nevill for the Castle of the Pec William de Briewer for that of Bollesour and Sampson de Straclee Strelley concerning the Castle of Hareston Raph Fitz-Nicholas 10 H. 3. was Warden of Nottingham Castle he was Steward to William de Ferrariis Earl of Derby it seems King Henry the third being at Windsor 29 April 32 H. 3. committed to Robert le Vavassur the Countys of Nottingham and Derb. to be kept paying to the King 100l. per annum at his Exchequer for the issues of the said Counties besides fifty Marks which he was to pay every year to the Warden custodi of Nottingham Castle for the keeping thereof After the Battel at Lewes between King Henry the third and the Barons for determining the strife Edward the Kings eldest son was delivered for Pledge and afterwards was freed from
Elizab. uxor ejus charissima hic consepulti jacent egregium par amantium quos una eademque domus ut vivos ita mortuos tenet Diem Annum utriusque obitus supra positum dabit monumentum On an Alabaster Grave-stone Here lyeth the body of Iohn Cave Gent. the fourth son of Roger Cave of Stanford in Northamptonshire He died the 3d. of May 1639. in Joyfull hope of Resurrection to Eternall Life On another course Stone Here lyeth interred the body of George Hutchinson Esq who died the 30. day of March Anno Dom. 1635. being about the age of 59 yeares and 3. Monethes He had to wife Katherin Russell Gen. by whom he had issue Iohn Mary Anne and Katherine Hic reposita sunt ossa Georgii Lacock Gen. qui decimo die Martii Anno Dom. 1647. in manus Dom. Jesu Christi salvatoris ejus emisit spiritum Annoque Aetatis suae 83. qui ante obitum hoc sequens Epitaphium hic insculptum irimandavit Nascimur Querimur Morimur Here lyeth the body of Anne Gregory the wife of William Gregory late Alderman of Nott. She died the 7. day of March 1664. in the 81. year of her age Here lyeth the body of Elizabeth late wife of Robert Bingham Esq Steward to the Right Honourable Henry Lord Marquess of Dorchester She dyed the 6. of March Anno Dom. 1670. in the 54. year of her age after she had been married 22. years She was one of the daughters of Francis Blaney of Kinsham in the County of Hereford Esq In the body of the Church Here lyeth the body of Francis Toplady late Alderman of this Town He dyed the 28. day of Iune 1665. the 84. year of his age On a Pillar Near this place lyeth the body of William Flamstead Gent. late Steward and Town-Clark of Nottingham who for his exemplary piety eminent parts and singular fidelity lived much desired and died no lesse lamented the 38. year of his age August 24. 1653. The Memory of the Just is blessed On a Brass Plate in the North I le Exuviae Josephi Gardiner Med. D. Qui obiit Mar. 4. 1669. On another Hic jacet Hen. Farington servus fidelis D. H. Plumptre qui obiit Jul. 16. 1645. On a Grave-stone in the North I le Domus aeterna Johannis Plumptre Anno M. D. LII defuncti The Arms A Chevron between two Mulletts and an Annulett On an Alabaster Grave-stone in the South I le To the memory of Margaret late the vertuous wife of William Greaves Gent. one of the Aldermen of Nottingham who died the fifth day of March Anno Dom. 1671. Here also lieth buried Margaret late daughter of the said William and Margaret Greaves she departed this life the xxiii day of Ianuary Anno Dom. 1668. In a Window of the South I le Quarterly Gules a Lion Ramp Or and Cheque Or and Azure all within a Bordure engrailed Arg. quarterly France and England and that again impaling quarterly Or a Spread Eagle Sable and Gules a Lion Ramp Arg. Gules a Saltire Arg. Nevil In a high Window of the middle and on an old Tomb Azure a Crosse patè with a Basis and supporting Laces between four Mulletts of six poynts within a Bordure engrayled Or. By the West Doora large Table intended for the Arms of the Earls of Nott. 1. Quarterly Gules a Lion Ramp Arg. and Varry Or and Azure 3. as 2.4 as 1. William Peverell created by Will Conq. 2. England with a Bendlet Azure John Plantaginet by R. 1. 3. John Mowbray by R. 2. Gules a Lion Ramp Arg. 4. Gules a Chevron and Crosletts patè Arg. William Lord Barkly by R. 3. 5. Quarterly France and England within a Bordure also quarterly Ermine and Counter-compony Or and Azure an inescutchion of Peverell Henry Fitz-Roy by H. 8. 6. Gules a Bend between six Crossecroslets Fitchè Arg. charged with a Mullett Charles Lord Howard by Q. Eliz. And the Towns Arms Gules three Crowns Or with a Crosse Raguled and Trunked Vert set in the lowest In St. Peter's Church The East Window of the North I le ARg two Bars Azure three Torteauxes in Chief impaling Azure a Cinquefoyl Arg. Gules seven Mascles voyded Or 3.3.1 Azure a Lion Ramp Or. Quarterly Arg. a Cheif Gules and Bendlet Azure and Cheque Or and Azure a Cheif Ermine Crumwell and Tateshall In a high South Window of the middle I le Sab. two Bars nebulè Arg. on a Chief Gules a Lion of Engl. Arg. a Saltier engrayled sab between four Roses Gules In a North high Window Paly of six Arg. Azure an Annulet Gules Strelley Arg. a Chevron between two Malletts pierced and an Annulett Sab. Plumptre There are divers Marks and Letters in Shields with Crosses and the like In the Chancel East Window Barry of six Arg. and Azure Grey Arg. a Fesse Varry between three Flowers de Lis. On a Monument Memoriae Sacrum Pientissimae conjugis Margaretae Domini Mathaei Saunderii Shanctoniensis in agro Leicestrensi Equitis Aurati filiae Quae cum optimis naturae dotibus ex instinctu praedita tum virtutibus parentum curâ diligentiaque summum quasi ad vestigium aucta quintum vicesimum aetatis annum agens Johanni Lockeo Regiensi in sedibus Hertfordianis Generoso nupta est Quo cum ut piissime conjunctissimeque suum uxoris per tres annos conjugale munus obiit sera sibi cita suis carnem hic depositura se ad plureis penetravit quarto Idus Septembris Anno Verbi incarnati 1633. Cui officii amoris ergo monumentum hoc maritus ille moestissimus extruxit Eja age siste locum tenet hunc matrona sacratum Clara venusta pudens religiosa gravis Ergo jacent charitas pietasque sed astra vicissim Hac poterant aliâ non reperire viâ Margarita jacet non Annis dempta sed anni Vt spectes animum dant obiisse senem Above these Inscriptions are the Arms of Locko and Saunders impaled viz. Arg. a Bend between two Waterbougets Sable Locko Party per Chevron sab and Arg. three Elephants Heads erased Counterchanged Saunders On another Tomb for a second wife are impaled the same Arms of Locko With Gules on a Fesse Arg. between three Crescents Or as many Escallops Azure Ellis of Grantham The Inscription Ad memoriam sempiternam Janae suae Dom. Thomae Elisio de Granthamia in finibus Lincolniensibus Equiti aurato unique à Conciliis Domino Regi in provincia Boreali minoris natu filiae morum pariter formae spectabilis venustate sibique post quadrennium interrupti foelicissimi conjugii paribus auspiciis in secundi tori matrimonium collocatae cui ut ferè quae sunt cordi maximè vertente biennio Nottinghamie accidit humanitus fato praematuro cedere calendis sextilibus Annosque jam haud uno viginti amplius habenti ad humanae salutis M. DC XXXIX Johannes Lockeus Hertfordiensis de Rigia Generosus monumentum hoc desiderii conjunctionis ergo