as that at Bretford and have that again in exchange This Geffrey de Clinton the second wedded Agnes the daughter of Roger Earl of Warwick and had with her in Frank marriage by the gift of her Father inter alia ten Knights Fees of those seventeen that were held by him of the said Earl de Veteri Feoffamento that is to say whereof he or his Father were enfeoffed in the time of K. H. 1. which ten by those covenants of marriage were to perform their military service in the custody of this Brandune whereby 't is plain that the Castle was then in being though it be hard to say whether Geffrey de Clinton the Father of Lescelina or her husband Norman de Verdune built it Bertramus de Verdon temp Conquestoris Normannus de Verdon Lescelina filia Gaufridi de Clintona Bertramus de Verdon Rohesia Tho. de Verdon Eustachia postea nupta Ric. de Camvil Nich de Verdon 7 R. 1. mortuus 16 H. 3. Theobaldus le Butiller Rohesia filia haeres 16 H. 3. Marg. filia Gilb. de Lacy haeres Walteri de Lacy avi sui uxor 1. Joh. de Verdon 31 H. 3. obiit 2 E. 1. Elianora uxor 2. Theobaldus de Verdon fil haeres 2 E. 1. obiit 3 E. 2. Joh. obiit in Hib. vita patris 25 E. 1. Eliz. filia Gilb. de Clare Com. Gloucestriae uxor 2. Theobald de Verdon obiit an 1316. 10. E. 2. Matildis fil Edm. de Mortimer de Wigmore 30 E. 1. ux 1. Isabella Johanna uxor Tho. filii heredis Tho. d. Furnivall Eliz. uxor Barthol Burghersh Margeria primò nupta Will. le Blount postea Marco Husee ult Joh. Crophull Matildis ux Ioh. Fitz-Alan Comit. Arundeliae 30 E. 1. In the line of which Norman it continued for divers ages as the descent here inserted sheweth their principal seat being at Alton-Castle in Staffordshire But little do I find memorable of it other than that in 7 R. 1. it was garrison'd by VVill. fil Ricardi a great man in this County as in Wroxhall shall be manifested who had then the custody thereof by reason of the minority of Bertram son and heir to the before specified Norman de Verdon To which Bertram succeeded Nicholas who in 11 H. 3. had a Charter of Free-warren granted to him and his heirs in all his demesn lands here And raised a Pool in this place to so great a height as that the Monks of Combe brought an Assize of Novel-disseisin against him for drowning their lands in Stretton thereby But it was not long afterwards ere that this Castle underwent the fate which is incident to such strong holds in time of hostility for it appears that the partakers with Simon Montfort E. of Leicester who in 39 H. 3. held Kenilworth Castle against the King taking notice that Iohn de Verdon Grandchild to the before specified Nicholas had Commission to raise Forces in Worcestershire against thâ—se Rebels issued out of of that place and pulled it down To which Iohn succeeded Theobald who abâ—ut the beginning of E. 1. time extended his Free warren here beyond the bounds of his Barony 〈…〉 lands oâ— the Prior of Coventre and Abboâ— of Combe and ingrossed the whole fishing oâ— Avon on the one side to himself viz. from Bretford to Mervines-mill which had wont to be common It seems he rebuilt the Castle for I find that it was then again in being though now nothing remain thereof but the moats and heaps of rubbish and had a Park thereto containing a mile in length As also that his Tenants were thus distinguisht viz. by Servants Cottagers and Free-holders Of the first sort there being xxv that held xii yard land and a half in servage that is to say besides payment of a certain Rent each of them to find one workman at the Lords disposal to labour from Monday next after the feast day of St. Peter and Paul untill the feast of St. Peter ad vincula which is the first of August in every week two daies and after that time till Michaelmass to find one man working two daies one week and three daies another by turns at such imployment as the Lord should appoint And the Cottagers to find each of them every week from the first of August till Michaelmass one labourer to work upon Monday onely as the Lord should appoint But the Free-holders which were onely three held by a certain Rent and homage and to do service to his Court every three weeks It was likewise then found that he had Free-warren here of the grant of K. H. 3. and how he had incroacht upon the Prior of Coventre and Abbot of Combe as also that he had a Court Leete Gallowes with assize of Bread and Beer for a Palfrey yearly payable to the K. Unto which Leet his Father being a powerfull man had drawn the Hamlets of Thurlaston and Ashoe without any justifiable authority but as to the rest of those priviledges being questioned in 13 E. 1. by what authority he claimed them he pleaded prescription which was allowed To which last mentioned Theobald succeeded Theobald his son and heir and to him his four daughters and heirs whereof Elizabeth the wife to Bartholmew de Burghersh had inter alia this Lordship in partition assigned unto her Whose son and heir viz. Sir Bartholmew shortly after past it unto Sir VValter Pavely Kt. and other feoffees who in 43 E. 3. conveyed it to Sir Iohn Delves a Staffordshire Kt. from whom it came to Sir Iohn Arundell Kt. who in 3 R. 2. dyed seized thereof and so descending to Sir Richard Arundell fell by partition in 16 H. 6. unto Elianore wife of Sir VVilliam St. George Kt. one of the two daughters and heirs to the said Sir Richard which Elianore departing this life without issue it divolved to Sir Robert VVilloughby of Eresby Kt. son and heir of Thomas VVilloughby Esq and Ioane the other sister and co-heir which Sir Robert VVilloughby dyed 5. E. 4. leaving Robert his son and heir within age but Sir VVilliam St. George had the possession thereof during his life as Tenant by the curtesy of England and dyed 11 E. 4. the reversion thereby coming to Christopher VVilloughby brother of the last mentioned Robert who was at that time 19 years of age From which Christopher by Thomas a third son one of the Justices of the Common Pleas in the later end of K. H. 8. reign descended Sir Percivall VVilloughby Kt. late of Middleton in this County as I shall further shew when I come to speak of that place who sold it to Sir Henry Yelverton Kt. Atturney General to K. Iames within our memory Bretforde THis was a member of Brandon as will appear by what I am now
certain things to be performed by Iohn Copley his nephew gave it to him the said Iohn and the heirs male of his body Marclive THis place taking its name from the Marly-Cliff or descent which we see on the Southern side of Avon was at first a member of Bidford and therewith past from Baldwin Wake and the before specified Hawisia to Rob. Burnell Bishop of Bathe and Wells in 8 E. 1. but then was it written only Clive and in 9 E. 2. as a Hamlet of Bidford was held by Aliva Burnell in dower It seems that much of it was sold long since by the Burnells to ordinary persons which may well be the cause that there is so little notice taken thereof in Record for I find that in 29 E. 3. Walt. Lenche father of Ioh. Lenche then living had purchased two messuages 1 yard land 1 acre of meadow and xxv s. yearly Rent lying in this place of Alice the widow of Edward Burnell and Nich. Burnell her husband's nephew of some part whereof Iohn Rous of Ragley dyed seized in 20 R. 2. But in 16 H. 7 Will. Harewell of Wotton-Wawen dyed seized of the whole Mannour Bickmersh THis Village is in the Parish of Welford in Gloucestershire but by antient depopulation much shrunk from what it heretofore was Part hereof did K. Edgar in the year of Christ 967 grant to Brithnothus his servant for life which Brithnothus transmitted his right therein to the Monastery of Worcester with his son whom he thither sent to live a religious life In that grant of King Edgar it is written Bicamnersce but it seems that afterwards the Church of Worcester became possest of the whole Village for it appears that Edwin brother to Earl Leofrick in Edw. the Confessor's time unjustly seized upon it yet did not long enjoy the fruits of his rapine being ignominiously slain by Griffin King of the Britans whereupon Wulstan the then Prior hoping to regain it went to Alritune and required the lands belonging to his Monastery but all that he could get was only the meadow lying at Marclive the rest being never restored In the Conquerors Survey it is recorded under the title of Elemosinae Regis and written Bichemerse being there certified to contain 5 hides which were then valued at C s. and held of the K. by one Eddid a woman who was also owner thereof in Edward the Confessors dayes After which till the beginning of King Iohn's time I have not seen any further mention of this place but then doth it appear that Robert Foliot was Lord of it and in minority who in 14 H. 3. had a suit with the Parson of Welneford for the Advouson of the Chapell here at Bikemers-Foliot for so it is written claimed by the said Parson as a Chapell belonging to Welneford in which pleading the Composition under the seal of the said Robert was produced manifesting that the Tithes with the parochiall rights of the Court id est the Mannour house did belong to the said mother-Church of Welneford In 20 H. 3. upon collection of the Aid for marriage of the King's sister to the Rom. Emperour it answered for one Knights Fee being there certified under the Fees of Hugh de Albini and expressed to be held of him by Corbeth But in â—6 H. 3. it is recorded to be of the Earl of Gloucester his Fee and then held by Rob. Foliot What right it was that Corbet had here I know not but it seems that he did not quietly enjoy it for first I find that in 32 H. 3. Roesia Foliot brought an Assize of Novell disseisin against Will. Corbet for lands here and in 45 H. 3. Ioan Foliot an Assize of Mort d'ancester against him for this Mannour which Will. Corbet was of Chadsley-Corbet in Worcestersh I am of opinion that this Ioane Foliot was daughter and heire to the before specified Robert and married to Ric. de Williamescote for by a pleading in 52 H. 3. I find that the said Richard and Ioan his wife had to do here and in 4 E. 1. the said Ric. was presented for withdrawing his suit due to the Hundred Court for this Village To which Richard succeeded Henry de Willemscote that sold this Mannour to Iohn de Bloxam in 35 E. 1. Who in 18 E. 2. past it away to Will. de Bereford which Will. died seized of it in 20 E. 2. Whereupon it was inter alia assigned to Margaret his widow in dower In the family of Bereford whereof I shall speak in Langley it continued for some descents S r Baldw. de Bereford Knight grandchild to the beforespecified Will. having Free-warren granted to him in all his demesn lands here But it seems that this S r Baldw. having no issue male of his body the reversion thereof after the decease of Eliz. his wife was setled upon Thomas the son of Philip St. Clere for upon her death in 1 H. 6. the said Thomas was found to be next heir thereto though what relation he had to him in blood I am not very certain which Thomas in 13 H. 6. dyed seized of it leaving Eliz. Alianore and Edith his daughters and heirs Eliz. being afterwards married to Will. Lovell Alianore to Iohn Gage and Edith to Ric. Harecourt Esquiers But farther as to its succession can I say no more than that it was about the beginning of Q. Eliz. time purchased by the Lady S. Iohn widow to S r Edw. Griffin of Dingley Atturney Generall to Q. Eliz. for S r Ries Griffin her son by the said Sir Edward which Sir Ries left issue Edward his son and heir now owner thereof It should seem that a good proportion of this Hamlet was antiently belonging to the family of Morehall of Morehall juxta Wicksford for in 20 E. 3. Amicia de Morehall with VVill. de Audley were certified to answer for one Knights Fee here held of VVill. Corbet and by him of the Honour of Gloucester â— and so divolving to Clopton as the Mannour of Morehall did was past therewith by S r VVill. Clopton Kt. to Thomas Crewe Esq for life After which Sir Iohn Burgh Kt. held it for life as Tenant by the Curtesie of England being of the inheritance of Ioane his wife daughter and coheir to the said VVill. Clopton which Ioane had likewise severall daughters and heirs as in Morehall is shewed amongst whom this with the rest of her lands wâ—re divided The Chapell here is very antient having been founded by Will. Foliot in H. 2. dayes to whom succeeded Robert before mentioned About the beginning of K. Iohn's time there was one R. Foliot Parson here betwixt whom and the Monks of Tewksbury there growing some dispute as to the right of the Tithes g arising out of the Court or Mannour House an Agreement was made and confirmed by Malgerius then Bishop of
Kt. brought it to that family in which it rested till the attainder of Humfrey Stafford Esq 1 H. 7. whereof with what else I have found memorable I purpose to speak in Lemington-Hastang And being thus come to the Crown it was given by the K. inter alia to Sir Edw. Poynings Kt. and to the heirs male of his body But whether the same Sir Edw. dyed without issue or was compounded with I cannot directly affirm for I find that after the restauration of Humfry Stafford son and heir to the said Humfry in 6 H. 8. that family of Stafford were again possest thereof and so continued till Iohn Shukburgh of Birdingbury one of the six Clerks in Chancery purchased it from Sir Humfry Stafford of Blatherwik about the later end of Q. Eliz. reign whose great grandchild Thomas Shukburgh still enjoys it In an 1291. 19 E. 1. the Rectory was valued a xii marks but in 26 H. 8. at xix l. xvii s. ii d. over and above ix s. vi d. allowed for Procurations and Synodals Patroni Ecclesiae Incumbentes c. Rob. de Garshale Thom. de Ravensthorp Pbr. 10 Cal. Nov. 1332. D. Rob. Burdet de Honecote miles Rob. Burdet Cap. 4 Id. Apr. 1347. D. Eliz. de Burgo domina de Clare ratione minoris aet Rob. fil haer Rob. Burdet mil. Will. de Dynton Cap. 12. Cal. Apr. 1357. Execut. Testam D. Eliz. de Burgo ratione ut suprà Nich. de Brunne Pbr. 10. Kal. Iulii 1361. Execut. Testam D. Eliz. de Burgo ratione ut suprà Ioh. Chateriz Cler. 9 Cal. Oct. 1361. Rob. Burdet de Honecote Rog. de Shepesheved Cler. 3 Id. Dec. 1367. Humfr. Stafford ar Nich. Mayne Cler. penult Sept. 1413. Humfr. Stafford de Grafton miles Ioh. Laykan 14 Decemb. 1432. Edw. Poynis miles Will. Skinner art Magr. 9 Iunii 1501. Humfr. Stafford miles D. Tho. Wyrley in art Bac. 28 Martii 1533. D. Maria Regina Ric. Hutton Cler. 8 Iulii 1554. Anth. Skynner ar rat concess Humf. Stafford mil. Henr. Skynner Cler. 23. Iulii 1555. D. Humf. Stafford de Blatherwik miles Iac. Tanfeild Cler. 16 Oct. 1557. D. Humf. Stafford de Blatherwik miles Will. Goddard Cler. 16 Feb. 1558. D. Humf. Stafford de Blatherwik miles Ric. Proude Cler. 20 Ian. 1561. Ioh. Shukburgh ar Will. Gilbert Cler. 28 Sept. 1596. Will. Gilbert S. Theol. bacc ratione advoc sibi concess per Henr. Shukburgh ar Ioh. Gilbert Cler. 13 Apr. 1629. Draycote OF this place I have not seen any mention at all in Record till 5 Ioh. that Iohn de Draicote levyed a Fine of a yard land lying therein unto Ric. Corbicun and touching the denomination thereof shall onely deliver my conjecture which is that it had its original from one Drogo heretofore a name in use but commonly called Dru and that thence by corrupt pronunciation it came to be written Draicote It should seem that upon partition of that inheritance betwixt Garshale and Verdon whereof in Bourton I have spoke Verdon had this Lordship and resided here I shall therefore proceed with what I have found historical relating to that family beginning with Robert grandchild to Ioan one of the daughters and co-heirs to Henry de Burton This Rob. de Verdon was in Commission for the Goal-delivery at Warwick in 1 2 3 and 6 E. 1. In 7. Shiriff of Warwicksh and Leicestersh and in 8 9 11 12 and 14 E. 1. again in Com. for the like Goal-delivery So also in 25. E. 1. for assessing the Nones of all moveable goods then given to the K. in Parl. upon his confirmation of the great Charter and Charter of the Forrest In 29. summoned with divers other persons of great quality to attend the K. at Barwick upon Twede on the Feast-day of the Nativ of S. Iâ—hn Bapt. furnish'd with Horse and Arms to march against the Scots In 1 E. 2. he was one of the two that were joyn'd in Commiss with the Shiriff of this County for conservation of the peace and bore for his Arms Azure a plain cross Or frette gules To him succeeded Iohn de Verdon his son whoâ— with Rob. Burdet in 20 E. 3. answered for half a Kts. fee in Bourton and this place hold of the heirs of Theob de Verdon Which Iohn was one of the Kts. for this Shire in Parl. an 29. and 37 E. 3. And in 45 E. 3. in Commiss with others for assâ—ssing the Subsidy of 1061 l. 7 s. within this County In 43 E. 3. upon the purchase of Brandon by Sir Iohn Delves he made attournment to him for this and Draicote as held thereof and left issue Nicholas who had his residence here and sold this Lordship as I believe to Sir Will. Bagot of Baginton For amongst other the lands of the said Sir W. Bagot which were in the hands of the Bishop of S. Davids and the rest of his Feoffees and wherof they the said Feoffees released their interest to the said Sir VV. in 5 H. 4. this is mentioned After the death of which Sir Will. Isabell his daughter and heir with her husband Tho. Stafford Esq aliened it to Iohn of Ganâ— D. of Lanc. whereby it descended to Henry of Bullenbroke his son and heir afterwards K. of England by tâ—e name of Henry 4. who by his Letters P. bearing date 23. Iulii 13 of his reign gave it to the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiâ—t-Church in Leic. called New-worke and their successors for ever reserving the rent of x maâ—ks to be yearly paid by them out of the same to the Chantry-Priests in that Church to celebrate divine servâ—ce for the good estate of him the said K. and for the health of the souls of his father 〈◊〉 D. of Lanc. before mentioned and Constance his mother whose body lay interred there Unto which Coll. Church it continued till its dissolution but then did K. E. 6. by his Letters P. dated 24. Apr. 3 of his reign pass it inter alia unto Tho. Hawkins alias Fisher of Warw. and his heirs who by his Deed of bargain and sale dated 27 Iulii 3 E. 6. granted it to one Iohn Smyth then Fermour thereof Which Iohn dyed seized of it 20. Martii 7 E. 6. leaving Alice Agnes and Margerie his daughters and heirs Of these Agnes was marryed to Ric. Mathew but dyed without issue Margerie to Tho. Worcester and Alice to Tho. Flamell which T. Worcester and Margerie had issue Will. who purchased the other half from Flamell so that T. VVorcester son and heir to the said Will. is now possest of the whole Frankton THE next parish is Frankton wherein I find that Rog. E. of Shrewsbury of whom I have spoke in Wolston held in the Conq. time four hydes excepting one virgat valued at lx s. which was
Fullwode and others divers lands for to find two Priests celebrating divine service here for ever all which being forfeited to the King in regard of such disposall made of them without the Royall License contrary to the Statute in that case made and provided were thereupon given away by K. Ric. unto one Iohn Swet who having a desire to assign over his right and state in them unto Rose Mountfort then a great woman in this Parish obtained a Pat. from K. H. 4. in the first year of his reign whereby the said K. gave them unto her and her heirs for ever to the intent that shâ— and they should provide and maintain two Chantrie-Priests to celebrate divine service daylie in this Church at the Altar of our Lady before mentioned aswell for the good estate of the said K. Henry during this life and afterwards for the health of his soul and the souls of his Mother and Queen deceased as for the soul of the said Rose and the souls of her ancestors and heirs and other Benefactors to the said Chantrye Which Rose by her Deed bearing date 8 Maii in the same year reciting the grant so made to her as abovesaid gave those lands unto Iohn Blakenhale and Ric. Boys Priests serving at the before specified Altar to hold to them and their successors Priests of that Chantrie to celebrate divine service there for ever according to the limitations before mentioned The advouson of which Chantrie descended by the said Rose Mountfort to the Catesbies but by reason of the attainder of Sir Wil. Catesbie in 1 H. 7. was granted in 3 H. 7. to Sir Iames Blount and to the heirs male of his body In â—6 H. 8. the lands belonging thereto were valued at xiii l. vi s. viii d. per an but in 37 H. 8. to no more than vii l. vii s. iiii d. at which time I find it certified that this Parish was xx miles in compass so that in case of Plague or ohter sickness there the Priests belonging thereto did use to assist the Vicar in ministring the Sacraments and Sacramentals The lands of both which Chantries were granted in 7 E. 6. to Kenelm Throkmorton Clem. Throkmorton and Iohn Throkmorton Esquires and their heirs I now come to the particular places of note within this Parish viz. Umberslade Monkspath Cley-Hall Codbarow Cheswikes Betlesworth Lodbroke's-Mannour Sidenhale and Crewenhale of which in their order Vmberslade THis being onely an antient Mannour house was in H. 2. time partly given by Henry de Vilers Sewer to Will Earl of Warwick unto Rob. Archer and Seliit his wife and to the heirs of Seliit in which grant it is termed terra de Ombreslade and the said Robert called Rob. Sagittarius and partly by Roger de Hulehale to her the said Seliit onely From which Robert and Seliit I have on the next page represented the lineall descendants with their matches clearly warranted from the originall Charters and evidences of this antient Family whose principall seat it still continues Of William the son to Rob. and Seliit I find that he had a grant of much land here in Tanworth by VValeran Earl of Warwick about the beginning of K. Iohn's reign which is set forth by speciall boundaries according to the use of those times and likewise a Bull from Pope Gregory the ix th for a peculiar Chapell at this place bearing date in 19 H. 3. In the Windows whereof are yet standing and of no less antiquity than E. 3. time the Arms of Beauchamp E. of Warwick Clinton Earl of Huntingdon as also of this Family as they were then set up in the Glass Which VVill. left issue Iohn who being Champion to Thomas Earl of Warwick obtained a speciall Charter from the said Earl to himself and his heirs for freedom to hauk and hunt every where within the territories of Tanworth excepting the Park and to excercise all other Liberties belonging to the said Earl within Monkspath and Ombreslade paying therefore unto him and his heirs xii broad Arrow heads a couple of Capons at Whitsontide yearly This Iohn had issue Iohn and divers other children whereof Thomas was Lord Prior of the Hospitall of St. Iohn of Hierusalem in England in 14 E. 2. which Iohn the younger matching with Margery the daughter of Sir VVill. Traci of Todington in Gloucestershire an eminent family in those parts left issue Iohn and Thomas Of which Thomas I find that having been in that Rob. Sagittarius temp H. 2. Seliit Ricardus Johannes Will. le Archer obiit circa 23 H. 3. Margeria Iohanna ux Walt. filii Sim. de Cherlecote Isab. ux Wil. filii Rad. de Lee. Thomas Joh. le Archer obiit temp H. 3. Christiana secundò nupra Will. de Berneville Tho. Prior S. Ioh Hicrosol in Anglia 14 E. 2. Wil. Rector Eccl. de Pilardinton Rob. Rector Eccl. de Queinton Ioh. le Archer ob ante 28 E. 1. Margeria filia Will. Traci de Toding ton in Com. Glouc. Ric. Rector Eccl. de Ilmindon 23 E. 3. Will. le Archer 2 E. 2. Thomas 10 E. 2. Ioh. le Archer obiit circa 22. E. 3. Isabella filia Rad. Escote 1 E. 3. Ioh. le Archer 16 E. 3. Thomas le Archer obiit 46 E. 3. Margareta filia .... Cleburie Gilbertus le Archer Agnes filia Walteri Cokesey mil. Thomas le Archer obiit 4 H. 6. aetat 84. an Alicia ux 2. Alicia filia Will. Hugford de Midleton in Com. Salop mil. obiit 8. H. 5. Ric. Archer obiit 11 E. 4. aetat 85. Margareta relicta Tho. Newport de Ercall ar ux 2. Alicia filia haeres Wil. Lea de Stotfold ux 3. Ioh. Archer obiit 3. E. 4. vivo patre Christiana sola filia haeres Rad. de Blacklow Civis Lond. relicta Hen. Sewall nupra 25 H. 6. Ioh. Archer obiit 4 Dec. 11. H. 8. Alicia filia Baldwini Mountfort de Colshill mil. nupta 7 E. 4. Ioh. Archer obiit 16 Apr. 12. H. 8. Margareta filia Humfridi Staftord de Blatherwick nupta 19 H. 7. obiit 21. H. 8. Edw. Archer obiit coelebs temp Iac. Regis Iohannes Robertus Ric. Archer ob 5. Oct. 36. H. 8. aet 39. Matilda filia cohaer Nich. De la mere de Hereford parva ob 23. Aug. 6 5. Ph. M. Edw. Fulco Miles Francisca Wimfrida Anna Humfr. Archer obiit 24 Oct. 4. Eliz. Anna filia Rob. Tounsend de Ludlow mil. Capit Iustic Walliae obiit 28 Nov. 5. Iac. Ioh. Archer duxit Elianoram fil haer Ric. Frewin de Handley in Com. Wigorn. Andreas Archer ob 23. Apr. An. 1629. Margar. filia Sim. Ralegh de Farnborough at obiit 16 Aug. 1614. Ric. Archer de Nethorp in Com. Oxon. duxit MariaÌ„ fil haer Roul Bull de Nethorp Simon Archer natus 21 Sept. 1581. factus eq aur per Regem Iac. 21 Aug. 1624. Anna filia Ioh. Ferrers de Tamworth castro eq aur
to this Mannour in regard that Sir Baldwyn his Father finding that Sir Edm. Mountfort his half brother before spoken of had backt himself with the countenance of the D. of Buck. a mighty man for the Lancastrian interest made a Feâ—ffment thereof unto this King when he was but Earl of March the better to maintain his title thereto After which viz. in 11 E. 4. he underwent the S. iâ—ffaltie of this Countie and Leicestershire and was retained by the said King to serve him in the wars of France for one whole year with five Spears himseâ—f accounted and Lx. Archers well and sufficiently armed and arrayed taking for himself ii s. per diem for the rest of the said Spears xviii d. and for the Archers vi d. a peice the King to have the third part of all prizes in war taken by him or any of his retinue In 9 E. 4. he had the Lieutenâ—ncie of the Isle of Wight and Castle of Caresbroke under Sir Anth. Widvile Kt. Lord Scales of Nucells and of the said Isle And being made a Kt. Baneret 24 Maii 11 E. 4. served in the wars of Normandie in 15 E. 4. And was in all Commissions of the Peace during the whole reign of that King as also of Array Gaol-deliverie and levying of Subsidies for the most part imployed So also in H. 7. time till the xâ— of his reign being likewise in 4. a Commissioner in this Countie for assigning and choosing of Archers for releif of the Dutchie of Brittanie which imployments do argue that he was a person of great wisdom and courage But such an unhappy fate attended him that by attainder in 10 H. 7. he lost his life whereby his possessions which were very large became confiscate to the utter ruin of his Familie The crime of Treason layd to his charge was this viz. that he sent xxx l. in money by Henry his younger son unto Perkin Warbeck who counterfaiting himself to be one of the murthered sons of K. Edw. 4. did make severall attempts for the obtaining of the Crown In the behalf of which Perkin much hath been said by some arguing that he was really the second son to K. Edward Whether he was so or not I will not stand to dispute but doubtless many did really beleive him so to be of which number this Sir Simon was one having been a stedfast friend to the House of York for it appears that upon his triall in Guild-Hall London the Friday next before Candlemass-day 10 H. 7. in the presence of Edw. D. of Buck. Thom. Marq. Dorset Thom. Earl of Arundell and others Commissioners for that purpose he denied not the charge having thereupon Judgement to be drawn through the midst of the Citie as also hang'd and quartered at Tiburne and being executed accordingly was attainted in the Parl. begun at Westm. 14 Oct. the year following which sad Catastrophe did put a period to the greatness of this antient Familie the line whereof the Pedegree before inserted doth shew till these present times but what I have farther to say thereof is in Kingshurst Upon the confiscation of whose lands this Mannour was soon disposed of by the K unto Simon Digby Deputie to Iohn Earl of Oxford then Constable of the Tower which Simon Digby brought this unhappy Gentleman to the Bar at his said Triall the Patent extending to the heirs male of his body and bearing date at Westminster 23 Dec. 11 H. 7. to whom it still continues Everardus Digby miles coesus in praelio apud Touton 1 E. 4. Everardus Digby mil. a quo Digby de Stokedrye in com Rutl. Sim Digby de Colshill ar ob 12 H. 8. Alicia filia haeres Ioh. Waleys Regin Digby ar ob 25 Apr. 3 E. 6. Anna filia cohaer Ioh. Danvers ar Ioh. Digby ar obiit 15 Nov. ult Mariae Anna filia Georgii Throkmorton de Coughton mil. Georgius Digby factus eques aur in obsid. de Zurphen in Handria per Rob. Comitem Leic. 28 Eliz. obiit 4 Febr. seq Abigal filia Arthuri Heveningham mil. secundò nupta Edw. Cordell ar Rob. Digby factus eq aur apud Dublin in Hibern per Rob. Com. Essexiae an 38 Eliz. obiit .... Maii 16 Iac. Leticia filia haeres Geraldi Fitz-Gerald fil haer Geraldi Comitis de Kildare Robertus Digby erectus in Baronem Digby de Geashill in Hibern per Regem Iac. Sara filia Ric. Boyle Comitis de Corke in Hibernia Catherina Leticia Kildare Baro Digby infra aet an 1640. Ioh. Digby erectus in Baronem Digby de Shiâ—burne Com. Bristoll per Regem Iac. Thomas Digby de Mansfeild-Woodhouse in com Not. Touching the Ancestors of which Simon I find that they having antiently their residence at Tilton in Leicestershire thereupon assumed then sirname from thence in H. 2. time but afterwards fixing at Digby in Lincolnshire were called of that place which ever since hath been the known name of this Family Of which line was Iohn de Digby one of the Commissioners for the Gaol-deliverie at Warwick in 11. 12. 14. 15 32. and 33 E. 1. But I return This Simon was second son to Sir Everard Digby of Tilton Kt. which Sir Everard and three of his Brethren lost their lives at Touton-field in Yorkshire on K. H. 6. part But our Simon after he saw that the House of Yorke prevailed carried himself so obsequiously to Edw. 4 th that in 18 of that King's reign he had a grant of an annuitie of x l. per an issuing out of Retford-Mills in Nottinghamshire in consideration of his faithfull service done and to be done as the Patent doth import And within two years after pro bono commodisero servicio quod idem Simon multimodis laboribus expensis nobis per-antea multipliciter impendit as the King expresseth had the Forestership of Thornwodes in the Southern part of Shirewood bestowed on him for life also with the Fee of iiii d. per diem for the performance of that Office Yet no sooner did the Earl of Richmund appear in England though but with slender forces than that he with his six valiant Brothers viz. Sir Everard Digby of Tilton before specified Iohn Digby of Ketelby Rouland Digby of Welby both in Leicestershire Lybeus Digby of Luffnam in Rutland Thomas and Benjamin not forgetting the Lancastrian interest came in to him and fought stoutly on his part at Bosworth-field against K. Richard After which the said Earl having obtained a glorious victorie and being there crowned King by the name of Henry the vii th advanced Iohn and Thomas to the dignitie of Knighthood making the former also Knight-Marshall of his houshold and the other one of the Gentlemen-Huishers of his Chamber conferring on him the Bailywick of Olney in Buckinghamshire and Keepership of the Park there where he thenceforth made his residence
filia .... domini Say Barth de Sudley defunctus 20 E. 2. Matilda filia Ioh. de Monteforti Ioh. de Sudley defunctus 14 E. 3. Alâ—anora filia Rob. domini de Seales Ioh. de Sudley defunctus â— p. 41 E. 3. Iohanna ux Will. le Boteler mil. defuncta 41 E. 3. Iohanna filia Ioh. Beauchamp de Powyk mil. Thomas Boteler consangu haeres Ioh. de Sudley 41 E. 3. Alicia ux secunda postea nupta Joh. Dalingrugge mil. Ioh. Boteler deâ—unctus s. p. 5 H. 5. Will Boteler 5 H. 5. Rad Boteler miles Thesaur Angl. duxit Aliciam fil haer Will. Deincourt mil obiit 13 E. 4. Thomas Boteler miles duxit Alianorâ—m sororem Joh. Talbot mil. domini L'isle obiit vivo patre Eliz. ux ..... Norburie Henr. Norburie miles Joh. Norburie miles unuâ— consangu haered Rad. Boteler de Sudley mil. 13 E. 4. Anna filia haeres Ric. Haliwell Iana consangu haer Joh. Norburie mil. 15 H. 8. Edmundus Bray miles 15 H. 8. Anna ux ... Coâ—ham Eliz. 1. nupta Ric. Catesby mil. postea Wil. Clerke ar Fridiswida ux Percevalli Hart. mil. Maria ux Rob. Peckham mil Dorothea ux Edw. Domini Chaundos Francisca ux Tho. Lifeild Iohanna ux ..... Belknap Will. Belknap ar ob s. p. 2 R. 3. Henricus Belknap Edw. Belknap miles obiit 12 H. 8. Margeria ux Rob. Massy mil. defuncta â— prole 3 R. 2. pasturage for Cattell in Derset Radway and Chelverscote But after 20 E. 2. I have not found any more mention of him neither of Iohn his grandchild scil son of Bartholmew is there much to be sayd who died in 14 E. 3. leaving Iohn his son and heir little more than a twelve month old which last Iohn departed this world without issue in 41 E. 3. whereupon Thomas Boteler son of Sir Will. Boteler of Wemme by Ioane eldest daughter to the last Bartholmew and Margerie her sister afterwards married to Sir Robert Massy Kt. became his Cosins and next t heirs This Thomas Boteler was a Kt. in 9 R. 2. To whom succeeded as heir to his Mother Sir Raphe Boteler Kt. a man eminently imployed and highly advanced as I shall forthwith shew For having in 8 H. 6. served the King with xx men at Armes and Lx. Archers in his personall expedition for France he was in 20 H. 6. created Baron of Sudley with an Annuitie of CC. marks per an to himself and his heirs for the better support of that dignitie and became soon after Lord Tresurer of England But in that Office he continued not long for in 28 H. 6. he was retained by Indenture to serve the King for five years as Governour of the Cittadell at Calais with .... men at Armes on Horseback xxix men at Armes on foot and xx Archers all able men of war taking for himself ii s. per diem for his men at Arms on foot viii d. and for his Archers vi d. besides the speciall Fee of C s. the quarter for himself And immediatly thereupon being made the King's Lieutenant of that Town covenanted for the defence and saâ—eguard thereof and the Marches adjoyning to keep C. men at Arms over and above the number before specified and DCCCC Archers for a quarter of a year taking for his men at Arms xii d. a man and his Archers vi d. besides the reward accustomed And was in so great esteem with the Canons of Erdburie for his munifence to them in sundry wiâ—e but specially in procuring for them the Appropriation of the Church at Leyth in Lancashire dated 15 Ian. 28 H. 6. that in consideration thereof they did by their publick Instrument ordeign that two of their Covent should every day celebrate divine service in that Monasterie for the health of his soul appointing parâ—icular Masses for each day of the week binding themâ—elves and their successors to observe his Anniversarie after his decease with Placebo Dirige and Masse of Requiem and to spend vi s. viii d. yearly on the day of his said Anniversarie in their Covent by way of Pittance over and above their usuall allowance After which viz. in 30 H. 6. he had a speciall Pardon granted to him for all offences whereby any advantage mâ—ght be taken against him in respect of his great and generall imployments in which pardon his partâ—cular services to King H. 5. aswell as to the said K H. 6. in France and in the Dutchie of Normandieâ— even from his very youth are gâ—atefully â—cknowledg'd For he had been Lord Tresurer and Chamberlain to K. H. 6. and Standard-beaâ—er and chief Butler of England as also Knight of the Garter and Steward of his Household But after this I find no more of him till his death which hapned 2 Maii 13 E. 4. where it appears that Iohn Norburie and Will. Belknap were his câ—sins and heirs for Sir Thomas Boteler his son died before him without issue So that this Mannour came at length inter alia by Partition made 15 Maii 11 H. 7. to Sir Iohn Norburie and so by Iane his grandchild and heir to Sir Edmund Bray which Iane died seized thereof 24 Aug. in the last year of Q. Maries reign leaving severall daughters and heirs as the Descent before inserted sheweth whereof Frances married to Thomas Lifeild who by the name of Thomas Lifeild of Stoke-Dabernon in com Sur. Esq. together with the said Frances his wife did by his Deed of bargain and sale Dated 7 Maii 3 Eliz. in consideration of 1050 l. sell and convey it unto Iohn Giffard of Chillington in com Staff Esq. whose grandchild sc. Peter son of Walter Giffard in our memorie passed the Mannour consisting of a Royaltie and certain chief Rents to Sir Iohn Newdigate of Erdburie Kt. and the Demesns to certain persons in trust for the use of Thomas Lord Coventre late Lord Keeper of the great Seal of England So that at this day the said Mannour is now enjoyed by Ric. Newdigate Sergeant at Law son to the same Sir Iohn and the demesns by the Lord Coventre son and heir to the said Lord Keeper The Priorie of Erdburie WIthin the precincts of Chilverscoton Parish stood the Monasterie of Erdburie built in K. Henry 2. time by Raphe de Sudley for Canons Regular of St. Augustine the Foundation Charter whereof I never saw but do conceive that the substance wherewith he at first endowed it was as followeth viz. the Church of Chelverdescote with two yard land belonging thereto as also six yard land and a Wood there reputed for half a hide ten Acres of land lying in Broadmedow and a place called the Breche at Whitemore with certain messuages and half a VVood called the Hudells And besides this with some lands and a meadow at Sulingfen together with the Church of Dercet and CC. acres of land lying in one of Dercet fields As also ten
it and by his last will and Testament dated 12 Nov. 16. H. 6. appointed that his Feoffees thereof should hold it to the use of Ioane his wife during her life and afterwards to the behoof of Margaret his Daughter by the said Ioane and her heirs for ever which Ioane took to her second husband one Richard Hotoft who was constrained to defend his wifes right therein against Thomas Throgmorton and one Iohn Brokesby in 30. H. 6. they then laying claim thereto but of this suit the Plantiffes had little benefit as it seems for after the decease of the said Ioane Iohn Hugford of Emscote possest it in right of Margaret his wife daughter to the before specified Nicholas Metley and dyed seized thereof 1. H. 7. leaving Iohn Beaufoe son and heir of Ioane his daughter Margaret Alice and Anne daughters to him the said Iohn and Margaret Metley abovesaid his next heirs as when I come to Emscote shall more plainly be shewed whereupon in 4. H. 8. scil 12. Aug. partition being made of Hugford's lands Iohn Cotes of Honingham in right of Alice his mother had these mannours of Wolston and Merston which Iohn by his deed bearing date xx Aug. the same year past them in exchange to Edward Belknap Esq. and his heirs as in Dercet I shall more fully shew This Edward Belknap was afterwards a Kt. and by his Testament gave Wolston with the mannour of Marston to his brother in Law VVilliam Shelley Esq and Alice his wife sister of the said Sir Edward and to the heirs of the said Alice reserving first an estate for life in them to his wife which VVilliam Shelley by the said Alice had issue Iohn Shelley his son and heir who dyed seized of them 16. Dec. 4. E. 6. leaving William his son and heir 12. years old who being attainted for treason committed xv Dec 25. Eliz. forfeited all the estate he had here which was no more than for life by reason of an entayl made 16. Ian. 23. Eliz. so that dying without issue 15 Apr. 39 Eliz. these Mannours by vertue of the said entail came to Sir Iohn Shelley Kt. and Bt. son and heir to Iohn Shelley brother of the said William which Sir Iohn by his deed of bargain and sale bearing date 19 Oct. 10 Iac. conveyed the same to George Warner Gent. and his heirs the present Owner thereof an 1640. I now return to the descendants from Robert de Chetwode by Sibilla the other daughter and coheir of Roger de Frevill before mentioned This Robert had issue Raph de Chetwode and William which Raph confirmed his Uncle Richard Frevill's grant of Merston-mill to the Abby of Combe but left no issue as it seems for VVilliam his brother inherited the estate and having given to those Monks certain errable lands in Wolston-field left one onely daughter and heir married to VVilliam le Bretun of Long-Ichington betwixt whom they had issue Guy le Bretun Which Guy in 15 E. 2. with other Commissioners was appointed to assess the sum of ccl imposed upon those Knights Esquires and other men at Arms in this County who being summoned to attend the King in person against the Rebels here in England viz. Thomas E. of Lancaster and his complices desired to be exempted from that service In 2 E. 3. he was one of the Knights for this Shire in the Parliament held at York And in 9 E. 3. one of the Commissioners assigned to assess and collect the sum of 120 l. in this County for the discharge of lx Hobelers and cc Archers which were to be chosen and armed as also conducted to Newcastle upon Tine In 14 15 E. 3. he was assigned with others to make sale of the Ninth of Sheafes Fleeces and Lambs in this County granted to the K. in Parliament as also to levy and collect a Tenth granted in the same Parliament and founded a Chantry in the Abby of Combe for one Monk to sing Mass daily there at the Altar of St. Edmund the Archb. for the soules of William le Breton his father and of Avice his wife and their ancestours which Avicia was a Benefactress in the enlarging and beautifying the Church of Wolston as her picture in a North window thereof doth manifest This Guy had issue Sir William Bretun Kt. Lord also of Wolverton in this County and one of the Knights for this Shire in the Parliament held at Westminster 45 Edw. 3. who being constituted Shiriff of the Counties of Warwick and Leicester 49 E. 3. in 1. R. 2. served again as one of the Knights for this Shire in the Parliament then held at Westminster and left issue Guy of whom I find nothing memorable neither can I trace down this descent any further I now come to the Monastery sometime here situate which being a Cell as I have said to St. Peters sup Dinam in France â— was one of those we commonly call Pryories-alien But of these Cels have I not seen many formal foundations the course being for the most part barely to grant the Land and Tithes as by a multitude of instances might be manifested After which the Monks beyond Sea partly to propagate more of their own Rule and partly to have faithfull Stewards to transmit unto them a good proportion of the profits arising out of such their new acquired possessions at so great a distance built competent places for the reception of a small Covent and then sent over such a number as they thought fit constituting Priors over them successively as occasion required which grants were all very antient I mean shortly after the Conquest being commonly made by such who had themselves been Founders of some Religious House or at least their Ancestours or near Allyes And that the grant of this at Wolston was about that time I have intimated these circumstances do much satisfie me for in our publick Records can I find nothing thereof First that the Fabrick of the Tower Steeple hath the apparent form of those Buildings which were in use soon after the Normans entrance And next that Roger de Montgomeri the Possessour of this place in the Conquerours time stood in a near relation of kindred to Robert Earl of Ewe who with his Brother Hugh Bp of Liseux assisted their Mother Lescelina in the foundation of St. Peters super Dinam before specified as the descent herewith drawn will shew and so consequently was the more like to be a Benefactor to that Monastery Quidam potens de nobili genere Danorum Richardus 1. dux Normanniae Gunnora Guillelmus Lescelina Hugo episcopus Lexovii Rob. Aucensis Comes Osbertus de Bolebec Wevia Hugo de Montegomerico â—oscelina Rogerius de Montegomerico But whether there was any grant thereof at all otherwise than verbal is somewhat disputable for in those elder times concessions by Charter were not very
Thorp-Mundevile Pbr. 6 Cal. Oct. 1346. Prior Conv. de Kenilworth Hugo Aleyn Pbr. 7 Id. Dec. 1348. Prior Conv. de Kenilworth Thom. Silvestre Cap. 7 Id. Maii 1349. Prior Conv. de Kenilworth Will. Haywoll Cap. 17 Cal. Nov. 1349. Prior Conv. de Kenilworth Ioh. Blacfordby Cap. 6. Febr. 1401. Prior Conv. de Kenilworth Thom. Halford Cap. 7 Oct. 1402. Prior Conv. de Kenilworth Tho. Hulle 28 Ian. 1410. Prior Conv. de Kenilworth Ioh. Marchall Cap. 4 Oct. 1421. Prior Conv. de Kenilworth Walt. Lydom 19 Dec. 1422. Prior Conv. de Kenilworth Rog. Wylkins 4 Oct. 1425. Prior Conv. de Kenilworth Ioh. Hull Cap. 9 Iun. 1427. Prior Conv. de Kenilworth Will. Loweles Pbr. ult Ian. 1428. Prior Conv. de Kenilworth Rob. Wells Pbr. 15 Nov. 1437. Prior Conv. de Kenilworth Steph. Percivall Pbr. 20. Iunii 1439. Prior Conv. de Kenilworth Ioh. Gybbys 24 Ian. 1441. Prior Conv. de Kenilworth Ioh. Huggeford Cler. penult Iulii 1444. Prior Conv. de Kenilworth Rog. More Cap. 5 Febr. 1450. Prior Conv. de Kenilworth Will. Sherdun alias Iordan Cap. 26 Sept. 1454. Prior Conv. de Kenilworth Ric. Marten Cap. 4 Maii 1457. Prior Conv. de Kenilworth Ric. Alryche alias Lyllyngton Pbr. 23 Febr. 1511. Prior Conv. de Kenilworth Rob. Wylliamson Cap. 1. Maii. 1533. Edw. 6. Rex Angl. Magr. Ioh. Olde 22 Martii 1548. Edw. Bowne gen ratione concess Ioh. Hanby ar D. Will. Ludmans 19 Nov. 1554. Anth. Shughburgh gen Ioh. Dasset gen ratione conces Tho. Shughburgh Tho. Gardiner art Magr. 16 Oct. 1557. Benedictus Shukeburgh ar Ioh. Lounde in Leg. Bacc. 20 Febr. 1561. Benedictus Shukeburgh ar Will. Catherall Cler. 27. Oct. 1564. Will. Catherall hac vice ex assign Bened Shukeburgh Rog. Barker Iunii 1569. Bened. Shukeburgh Georgius Burley Cler. 18. Nov. 1572. Bened. Shukeburgh Ric. Marrell 27 Nov. 1581. Will. Lisley de Evenley in Com. North. ar Ioh. Harper Cler. art Mr. 23 Martii 1626. Lillington LOwer yet on the same side of Leame stands Lillinton perhaps so called from the old English word Lytlan which signifies small or little wherein the E. of Mellent held 4 hydes in the Conq. time with a Mill valued at vi s. viii d. and woods of a mile in length and half a mile in bredth all which were valued at xl s. having been the Free-hold of one Edric in Edw. the Conf. dayes Here was also half a hyde more which Rog. de Olgi then held of Turchill de Warwick valued at xx s. There is no question but that the E. of Mellent's part was by K. H. 1. or by the E. of Warwick upon such terms as the K. directed given to Geffr de Clinton Founder of the Castle and Priory of Kenilworth For by the foundation Charter of that Monastery he granted thereunto 2 hydes of land in this place And as for the half hyde which belong'd to Turchil de Warwick I presume that Hugo fil Ricardi of whom I am to speak in Wroxhall and Hatton was enfeofft thereof inter alia by the said Earl who had the most of Turchil's lands For I find that immediatly upon the foundation of the before specified Monastery the Canons of Kenilworth had the same by his grant in consideration whereof they rendred to him the said Hugh the Churches of Snitenfeld and Claverdon which they held of him and gave him over and above a Cloak valued at vi marks of silver and to Margaret his wife a saddle Nag After which K. H. 1. added his Charter of confirmation and so also did Roger E. of Warwick But the other two hydes belonging to the E. of Mellent above mentioned were as I am induced to believe given by the said Geffr de Clinton with his daughter Lescelina in marriage to Norman de Verdon for I find that they were held of the heirs of the said Norman and her by Rob. de Verdon and of him by Peter de Wolvardington by the service of half a Kts. fee. The extent whereof in 7 E. 1. was certified to be one carucat which the said Peter had in demesn and eleven yard land occupyed by ten servants who did manage that carucat for the benefit of the same Pet. This P. de Wolvardington granted to the Monks of Cumbe that his tenants here in Lillington should grind their Corn at their Mill called Blakedon mill Of the successors to the said Peter in this Mannour I cannot give a perfect account but of what I have found from Record relating thereto I will here adde which is that in 20 E. 3. Margaret de VVolvarton and Iohn de VValdgrave answered for half a Kts. fee in this place held of the heirs of Theob de Verdon and that in 10 H. 6. Iohn VValdgrave of the County of Buckingh Gent. and Ric. Beauchamp E. of Warwick held the same by the name of a Mannour by the service of half a Kts. fee. As also that in 10 H. 7. VVill. Grey Esq dyed seized thereof leaving Thomas his son and heir 15 years of age from whom it came to Edw. Grey who in 28 H. 8. was owner of it I now return to that which the Canons of Kenilworth had in this place which in 7 E. 1. was certified to be one carucat of land then held by them in demesn and 16. yard land managed by xx servants who performed divers servile works for the said Canons and payd also certain yearly Rent for the same Here the said Canons had a Court-Leet and other priviledges as appears by their claim in 13 E. 1. But this coming to the Crown at the dissolution of that House was by Q. Eliz. in 2. of her raign granted unto ...... Gerard and others and in 6. to Ambrose Earl of Warwick and the heirs male of his body but in 38 Eliz. being again in the Crown by reason of the death of the said Earl without issue was in consideration of the good faithfull service which Sir Iohn Puckering Knight then Lord Keeper of the great Seal of England had performed as the words of the Patent do import passed by the said Queen together with the advouson of the Church unto William Borne and Iames Orenge esquiers and their heirs Which William and Iames for a certain sum of money to them payd by Thomas Puckering son and heir of the â—aâ—d Sir Iohn then deceased and in performance of a Decree in the Court of Wards made 23. Oct. 38. Elâ—z sold and confirmed the said Mannour to the same Thomas afterwards Knight and Baronet and his heirs by their deed bearing date 27. Iunii 39. Eliz. The Church dedicated to S. Mary Magd. was â—â—igâ—nally belonging to the Canons of Kenilworth from the very foundation of that
as antiently were given thereto For in Anno 1291. 19 E. 1. it was certified that the Prior of Ronton had here three yard land and a half then valued at 24 s. xxv s. iv d. yearly Rent of Assise and of the profit of their store yearly x s. At which time the Church appropriat to that Monastery was valued at xxx marks and the Vicaridge at vi But the Vicaridge was again endowed by Walter Langton Bishop of Coventre and Lichfield xvi Kal. Maii An. 1321. 14 E. 2. Which it seemes was more enlarged than the Canons of Ronton well lik't for in 2 H. 4. they obtained License to appropriat the same wholy to the use of their Monastery by which Appropriation it was provided that the Bishop should appoint a competent sum out of the fruits thereof to be distributed yearly to the poor of this Parish according to the Statute of xv R. 2. Cap. 6. But what was done therein I know not Which Vicaridge in 26 H. 8. was valued at C s. Patroni Vicariae Incumb temp Instit. Prior Conv. de Ronton Rob. de Calk Pbr 7. Apr. 1305. Prior Conv. de Ronton Galfr. de Caldecote Prid. Id. Aug. 1305. Prior Conv. de Ronton Henr. Hamond Pbr. 4. Id. Ian. 1328. Prior Conv. de Ronton Ioh. de Plumpton Pbr. 1. Maii 1375. Prior Conv. de Ronton Ric. atte Brugg Pbr. 18. Apr. 1383. Prior Conv. de Ronton Rob. de Pollesworth Pbr. penult Ian. 1384. Prior Conv. de Ronton D. Will. Perbyn Pbr. 13. Oct. 1388. Prior Conv. de Ronton D. Will. Pyrbin Cap. 7. Apr. 1403. Prior Conv. de Ronton Ioh. Hyldes Cap. 2. Oct. 1407. Prior Conv. de Ronton Will. Screyfeyld Cap. 8. Oct. 1417. Prior Conv. de Ronton Henr. Coventre Pbr. 8. Oct. 1445. Prior Conv. de Ronton Ioh. Parkyns Cap. ult Feb. 1451. Prior Conv. de Ronton Nich. Rushall Cap. 15. Oct. 1458. David Poole Decret Dr. ratione concess Pr. C. de Ronton D. Edw. Iurdeyn Cler. 19. Iulii 1558. D. Regina Iac. Fundernell 20. Nov. 1571. D. Regina Thom. Davies Cler. 12. Aug. 1581. Tho. Davyes de Greneborough gen Petrus Gibson 2. Sept. 1611. Iac. Rex Ioh. Reason Cler. 4. Dec. 1611. Ioh. Dormer miles Georgius Bealâ— Cler. 20. Iulii 1615. In a North window of the Church these Armes Argent semé of Crosses Croslets fiché with three Liberds heads jesant flower de Luces sable Bereford Woscote THIS is a small Village and hath had its name from one Wulf an antient Inhabitant or possessor thereof in the Saxons time for in old Records it is written Wulvescote but accounted a member of Granborough for as much as the Prior of Coventre's and Catesby's Lordship there as also certain lands belonging heretofore to the Canons of Raunton in Staffordshire extended into it The greatest part of which lands having come by purchase as it seemes to the Fardons were by Margaret daughter and heir to the last of that name who took to husband one Iohn Bishop of Brayles in this County in her widowhood setled upon Thomas her son and heir 27. Oct. 3. 4. Ph. M. by the name of Fardons-place c. which Thomas had issue Iohn who together with Iames his son and heir by their Deed bearing date x. Febr. 39 Eliz. aliened it to Thomas Burman whose son and heir scil Iohn Burman now enjoys it Walcote OF this place now consisting of no more than 3. Houses and called Walcote-end I find mention in the Conq. time one Ordric being certified to hold certain lands here of Turchill de Warwick From which Turchill it came to the Earls of Warwick as it seems for in 20 H. 3. it was held of them by the 5. part of a Knights fee. Which in 36 H. 3. one Warine de Walcote held of Thomas de Arden and he of the Earl of Warwick and afterwards viz. in 9 E. 2. Will. Reymund But in 20 E. 3. this 5. part was shrunk to a sixt at which time Thomas de Flamvill held it of the then Earl Out of this village there was a yard land and quarter antiently given to the Hospitall of S. Iohn situat without the East-gate at Oxford by one Gricia de Wellecote And further I have not met with any thing memorable of this place other than the mention of particular lands which are reputed part of those other Lordships in Granborow before specified Caldecote THIS is now a depopulated place and hath been so a long time In the Conquerors days Turchill de Warwick possest it and had severall tenants that held it of him the extent thereof being somewhat more than one hide But with the rest of Turchil's lands it came to the E. of Warwick for Earl Roger in 23 H. 1. gave to his Collegiat-Church at Warwick then newly founded half a hide in this village Of the rest I find not who was enfeoft but it seemes that the heir female to whom it descended became the wife of Will. Pludio which VVill. gave half a yard land of this her inheritance to the Monks of Cumbe Part of that which Richard Forestarius in the Conq. time held in Greneberge extended into this village For Gilb. de Crok of whom I have there made mention enfeoft Adam de Crok therein But it seems that the family of Verdon had also some interest here for in 36 H. 3. Geffrey de Simely was certified to hold half a Knights fee lying in Ashoâ— and this place of Roes de Verdon which she held over of the Earl of Warwick whereof there is frequent mention in Records the heirs of the same Geffrey answering for it Other matters memorable I have not found thereof till 6 E. 6. that Sir Thomas Newnham Kt. sold it to VVill. Marquess of Winchester then Lord Treasurer of England who setled it upon the Lord Giles Poulet one of his younger sons Which Lord Giles by severall conveyances dated about the 15. and 20. of Queen Eliz. raign past iâ— to Thomas Stapleton Gent. and his heirs from whom or his son the Lord Stanhop of Harington hath since purchased it Lemington-Hastang THIS containing the villages of Hill Herdwick and Bradwell was in the Conquerors time possest by Hasculf Musard the extent thereof being then certified at xii hides and a half with half a virgat whereunto belonged a Mâ—â—l rated at ii s. and a Church All which were valued at xii li. having been the freehold of Azor in Edward the Confessors time In that Survey it is written Lunintone not without some mistake by the transcriber as I think for there is no question but that it had its name originaâ—ly from the River Leame on whâ—se Southern bank it stands This Hasculf Musard was a great man in those dâ—ysâ— and
preferred to a Schollars place in the University grew such a proficient that the Monks resolved to make him a Sollicitor for managing their Law-suits and to that purpose from the University placed him at the Inns of Court where he grew so skilfull in his profession that finding King H. 7. politiquely resolving to raise great summs of money by taking the forfaiture of penall Lawes which he conceived would be much more plausible to his subjects than the exacting from them by Loans Subsidies and such other ways of tax as his predecessors had used applyed himself to his service wherein being very officious and bringing store of money to the Kings Coffers he obtained a grant of the Wardship and Marriage of Elizabeth daughter and heir to Edward Grey Visc. L'â—sle before mentioned whom he made his wife That the later part of this Story is true I find testimony enough but that the father of Edmund was a Carpenter is not very likely in regard he marryed so eminently viz. Elizabeth one of the daughters and coheirs to Iohn Bramshot Eâ—quier seized of the Mannours of Gatton Calbourne and Whitwell in the Isle of Weight as also of Bramshot in Hant-shire which Eliz. dyed 12. Oct. 14 H. 7. leaving Edmund her son then 36. years of age the other coheir called Agnes being the wife of Iohn Pakenham whence I conclude that he was a Gentleman as some others of the name of Dudley in severall parts of England are though perhaps not of the Baron of Dudley's line therefore how this formall Story of the Carpenter should rise I cannot well imagine unless the grandfather or great-grandfather of Edm. had been of that trade for it is no wonder to see those that are sprung from as poor Mechanicks by their activeness in the world to get wealth and assume the title of Esquire or Gentlemen without controull yea and be allowed so do Neither do we often find that those which are in truth of right noble extraction will boggle at matching their children with them But I return unto Edmund Dudley He was a man well vers't in the Law and one of the Privy Councell to that prudent Prince King H. 7. chosen in the first year of his raign propter prudentiam singularem fidem gravitatem saith Polydore In 19 H. 7. he was Speaker of the Parliament and should the same year have been made a Sergeant at Law on the 13. of November but for what reason I will not take upon me to assign he desired that he might be discharged from assuming that degree whereupon the King directed his Precept to Will Bishop of London then Lord Keeper of the great Seal commanding his forbearance of making out any Writ to him for that purpose In 22 H. 7. he had the Stewardship of the Rape of Hastings granted to him by Patent and wrote a Book called Arbor Reipublicae Whether he with Richard Empson another Lawyer but a Sive-makers son in Touceter as our Historians affirm discerning King Henry to be of a frugall disposition did project unto him the taking aduantage of such as had transgrest by exacting the forefaitures of penall Statutes or whether the King seeing so fair a gap open for him to rake vast summs of money from his subjects and finding those persons to be sit Instruments for his purpose did put them upon such courses of filling his Coffers 't is hard to say certain it is that these were the men he constituted his Iudices fiscales Dudley being an eminent man and one that could put hatefull business into good language as Sir Fr. Bacon saith and after he had long made use of their service to that end exposed them to those advantages which the discontented people could justly take for their abhominable extortions For their course was to proceed secretly to the Outlary against men and then seize their estates And besides that they had packt Jurors upon all occasions who were sure to them in any verdict which served for their purpose but at last found they a just reward for such their service for King H. 8. in the first year of his raign being desirous of popularity made known by his Proclamations that whosoever had received injury by the unjust oppressions of any should upon complaint to him have redress which liberty did so so animate the vulgar who were sufficiently imbittered against them that nothing then would satisfy but their lives so that the King to appease the multitude gave way that they might be legally proceeded against which accordingly was done Dudley being thereupon arraigned in Guild-Hall London on Munday next after the xv of S. Iohn Baptist 1 H. 8. before Edward Duke of Buck. Henry Earl of Northumberland Thomas Earl of Surrey George Earl of Shrewsbury Thomas Earl of Derby Thomas Prior of S. Iohns of Hierusalem in England Charles Somerset of Herbert Knight Stephen Iennings Knight Mayor of the City of London Iohn Fineux Knight Robert Rede Knight William Hodie Knight Robert Brudnell Humfrey Coningesby Iohn Fisher Knight Iohn Boteler William Grevill Thomas Lovell Knight Edward Poynings Kt. Henry Marney Knight Thomas Englefield Knight and Robert Drury Knight Justices to enquire c. Where the said Edmund being indicted of divers high Treasons was on wednesday next before the Feast of S. Margaret the Virgin attainted in Parliament and had his head cut off on Tower Hill with Empson who was tryed at Northampton through the peoples clamours and for their satisfaction 18. August 2 H. 8. by vertue of the K. speciall Writ for that purpose Having said thus much of the parentage of this Iohn Earl of Warwick I will now go on with my story of him At his fathers death he was scarce eight years old having to his Guardian Edward Guilford Esquire of the Body to the King who by his Petition exhibited in Parliament 3 H. 8. obtained an Act for the repeal of the said Edmund's attainder and the restitution of this Iohn in name blood and degree to enjoy all his said fathers lands Being therefore thus young it was a great while ere he came to appear in any publique employments so that till 24 H. 8. I have not yet seen any farther mention of his name but then I finde he was a Knight though how long he had been so I am not certain After which about ten years he was created Visc. L'isle viz. 12. Martii 34 H. 8. in respect of his descent on the mothers side as I have shewed and the same year made Lord Admirall of England for life Of person he was very comely and of a Spirit highly aspiring saith my Author neither wanted he skill industry nor resolution to attempt great matters In 36 H. 8. he landed the Kings Army at Leith in Scotland with a Fleet of CC. sail on which after they had wasted Edenburgh they also set fire The
De presepe Domini columpna ad quam fuit ligatus quando fuit flagellatus De petra super quam fuit vinctus post mortem De sepulchro S. Catherinae Virginis De genu S. Georgii de petra super quam sanguinavit in martyrio suo De ossibus S. Brendani De facie S. Stephani De veste capillis S. Mariae Magdalenae De rupe in qua S. Anna jacet De capillis beati Francisci De vestimento S. Agnetis De velo tunica beatae Clarae De reliquiis S. Ceciliae I now come to that fatall Survey in 26. H. 8. the fore-runner of its dissolution whereby I finde that the yearly revenues belonging thereto were then certified to be CCCxxxiiii li. ii s. iii. d. ob Out of which was allowed w per ann to the Dean for his stipend 26. li. -13 s. -04 d. To Iohn Watwood one of the Prebends called S. Peters 13-06-08 To Iohn Fisher another of the Prebends called S. Iohn Bapt. 13-06-08 To David Vaughan another of the Prebends called S. Laurence 02-00-00 To Thomas Leason another of the Prebends called S. Michaels 02-00-00 To Robert Wythington another of the Prebends called S. Iames. 02-00-00 To Robert Hoole Curate of this Parish Church 06-13-04 To ten Priests which were Vicars dayly serving in the said Collegiate Church 07-06-08 a piece To six Choristers 02-00-00 a piece The yearly Obits kept in this Church for which also there were several allowances were these Of Thomas Beauchamp the father and Thomas his son both Eaâ—ls of Warwick Of Margaret Countesse of UUarwick wife to the last Thomas Of Ric. Beauchamp E. of Warw. Of Ric. Duke of York Of Rich. Nevil Earle of UUarwick Of K. Henry 7. Of Walter Power and of William Peito As also of Iohn Young Raph Power Thom. Rowse Will. Launder Iohn Allestre and Iohn Acreman which last mentioned six were Ecclesiastick persons as it seems Henry Grey Marquesse Dorset being then high Steward of the said Colledge having an annuity of xl s. per ann Patroni Decanatus Decani Will. de Bellocampo Co. Warw. Magr. Will. de Apperleg 7. Id. Dec. 1296. Guido de Bellocampo Co. Warw. Mr. Rob. Tankard Pbr. 6. Id. Iulii 1306. Guido de Bellocampo Co. Warw. Rob. de Geryn accol post resign Ric. de Alencester ult Decani 18. Cal. Septemb 1314. Thom. de Bellocampo Co. Warw. Magr. Thom. de Lench Cler. 10. Feb. 1338. Thom. de Bellocampo Co. Warw. D. Nich. Southam Pbr. 1. Dec. 1361. Thomas de Bellocampo Co. Warw. Thom. Younge Cler. 27. Sept. 1395. Ric. de Bellocampo Co. Warw. D. Ioh. Porter Cap. 10. April 1432. Firmarii dom Regis c. terr Ric. Comit. Warw. D. Rob. Cherbury Cap. 4. Maii 1443. Nobilis praepotens D. Ric. Comes Warw. D. Will. Berkeswell 15. Dec. 1454. Nob. praepotens Ric. Co. Warw. Sarum Mr. Ioh. Southwell 11. Martii 1469. D. Episcopus Mr. Edm. Albone in medicinis Dr. Pbr. 17. Oct. 1481. Ric. Rex Angl. ratione minoris et Edw. Com. Warw. Mr. Ric Brakenburgh 18. Maii 1485. Henr. 7. Rex Angl. ratione Comitatus Warwic in manu sua exist Mr. Will. Stokdal S. Theol. professor 13. Iulii 1498. Henr. 7. Rex Angl. ratione Comitatus Warwic in manu sua exist Edw. Haseley Cap. 10. Dec. 1498. Henr. 7. Rex Angl. ratione Comitatus Warwic in manu sua exist Mr. Rad. Colingwode S. Henr. 7. Rex Angl. ratione Comitatus Warwic in manu sua exist Theol. prof 29. Maii 1507. Henr. 8. Rex Angl. ratione supra Mr. Ioh. Allestre Cler. 22. Aug. 1510. Henr. 8. Rex Angl. ratione supra Mr. Ioh. Knyghtley Cler. 15. Maii 1542. But this Collegiate Church with many more being dissolved in the Parliament of 37. H. 8. was the same year inter alia granted out of the Crown by Letters Pat. bearing date 15. May to the inhabitants of Warwick by the name of the Burgesses of Warwick and their Successors Here was one only Chantry founded by Rob. Waldene of Warwick in 2. H. 4. for a Priest to sing Masse dayly at the Altar of S. Anne for the good estate of Henry 4. then K. of England Margaret Countesse of Warwick Richard her Son then E. of Warwick and Eliz. his wife and of him the said Robert and Elene his wife during this life as also for the Souls of Thomas Beauchamp late Earle of Warwick and of Alice sometime wife of the said Rob. Waldene and likewise for the Souls of their Children Ancestors and all the faithfull deceased for the maintenance of which Priest he gave C. iiii s. iiii d. yearly Rent issuing out of divers messuages lâ—ing in Warwick Mâ—ton Longbridge Lee Bereford and Preston-Bagot all in this County Inscriptions upon the Bells in this Church 1 2 Vox domini Iesu Christi vox exaltationis 3 Aeternis annis resonat Campana Iohannis 4 Isabel Beauchamp first founded me 5 Trinitati sacra fiat haec Campaena beatae 6 Dat sonitum plenum Ihesus modulamen amoenum Ihesu have merci on me Isabell. About the skirt thereof 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Having in my Story of the Earls represented their Monuments which are within this Church Quire and our Lady Chapell I shall here exhibite the residue now remayning with such monumentall Inscriptions as be yet undefaced In the body of the Church upon Marble grave-stones with plates of brasse Hic iacent Willielmus Hopkins quondam burgensis ville Warwici qui obiit vii die Februarii Anno Domini M. CCCCliiii Et Margareta uxor eiusdem que obiit xiii die Februarii Anno Domini MCCCCli quorum animabus propitietur Dens Amen Hic iacet Ricardus Ellyn bocher quondam burgensis magister Oplde istius ville qui obiit ii die mensis Martii Anno Domini M. CCCClxvi Cuius anime propitietur Deus Amen Hic iacet Magister Iohannes Stonys quondam Canonicus istius Ecclesie ac Rector de Hanslap Bukby qui obsit xliii die Augusti Anno Domini M. CCCClxxxvi cuius anime propitietur Deus Amen Orate pro animabus Benedicti Medley et Agnetis uxoris tius Hic iacet Dominus Iohannes Walker Capellanus Cantarie gilde qui obiit vicessimo primo die Augusti Anno Domini M. CCCC nonagessimo primo cuius anime propitietur Deus Amen Hic iacet Ricardus Bothe quondam burgensis Warwici Et Alicia uxor eins quorum animabus propitietur Deus Amen Hic iacet Dominus Oliverus Alwode quondam Canonicus istius Ecclesie as Rector de Ilmyndon Bukbroke qui obiit ii die Novembris Anno Domini Millesimo CCCCxxxxi cuius anime propitietur Deus Amen Near the Belfrey-dore Quae fuit Edmundi conjux Prior Elizabetha Gregorii gentis Radclifforum edita stirpe Fratris Appollinea clari doctoris in arte Hìc placidè fatis defuncta in pace quiescit Mille novem demptis Christi numeravimus
xvi th of that month which shews that she dyed soon after it was made About ten years after this viz. 20. Sept. Anno 1480. 20 E. 4. Dame Eliz. Lady Latimer third daughter to the said Earl declared her last Will and Testament whereby she bequeathed her body to be interred in this Chapell at the head likewise of her noble father betwixt the above specified Sir Henry Nevill her son and Oliver Dudley her son in Law and appointed that there should be 4. stones of fair Marble with portraitures upon them of copper and gilt according to her estate and degree with Epitaphs representing their births and deceases and other fit things to such purposes cut upon the same and be layd upon the graves of her husband her son her son in Law beforementioned and her self And further ordained that lands of x l. per annum value should be put in Feâ—ffees hands to the end that with the revenue thereof a Priest might be maintained for the saying of Masse and other Divine services at the Altar in the aforesaid Chapell of our Lady to the honour of God and remission of the offences of her said Lord and Father her mother her husband her self her sons and all Christians till such time as the Kings license could be procured for amortizing of lands to that value to the purposes abovesaid And moreover with parcell of those revenues bought a pair of goodly vestments of white Damaske powdred with Bears and ragged staves of gold and in the orfray the Scocheon of her Armes to be well and richly embroydered and delivered to the said Chapell And that a pair of Vestments of black stuff with a like Scocheon in the orfray Crosse to be used in the Church of Wells in exercising the observances for her Lord and husband's soul who was it seems there interred In the East window of this Chapell there are besides those costly portraitures in glasse of Earl Richard with his wives and children which in my story of his life are represented the pictures in their full proportions of St. Alban the protomartyr of England St. Thomas of Canterbury St. Iohn of Bridlington and of St. Winifride unto each of which the renowned Earl Richard by his last Will and Testament bequeathed his Image in pure gold weighing xx li. in weight and in his surcoat of Armes holding an Anker in his hand appointing them to be offered at their severall Shrines in his name as in my story of him I have already declared so great an honour did he bear as it seems to those Saints On the North side of the Quire is a fair room built eight square which was heretofore the Chapter house for the Dean and Canons of this Collegiat Church but in our time converted to another use by the right honorable Foulk Lord Brook who in his life time erected therein a very stately Monument for himself of black and white Marble the representation whereof is on the next page truly exhibited his body being enbalmed and put into a coffin of lead in the Vault below Of the particular Churches which were heretofore in Warwick and so united to this Collegiate Church of our Lady as I have intimated I will here briefly say something That of S. Helene stood where the Priory of S. Sepulchers was founded as I have already shewed and by that means became swallowed up therein S. Michaells at the lower end of the street called Saltford on the North part of the town out of which the Canons of S. Maryes had a portion viz. xi s. per annum as in 19 E. 1. was certifyed and the Lepers in the Hospitall there vi s. viii d. But in 14 E. 3. the great and small Tithes with all oblations thereto belonging were rated at v. marks and a half This Church was governed antiently by its own proper Rector who used to be presented by the Dean of the Collegiat-Church of our Lady and the Prebendary thereof jointly but in 41 E. 3. the number of its Parishioners was so much decreased as also the yearly revenue belonging thereto that it became reduced in a manner to nothing having but three Parishioners and those onely Cottiers so that the yearly value thereof scarce reach't to one mark the Church it self being very ruinous the Church-yard small and not any House for the Parson then standing Patroni Ecclesiae Incumb temp Instit. Decan Canonici Eccles. Coll. B. Mariae Warw. Will. de Kenilworth Cap. 4. Non. Dec. 1296. Decan Canonici Eccles. Coll. B. Mariae Warw. Rob. de Breodun Cler. 26. Dec. 1329. Decan Canonici Eccles. Coll. B. Mariae Warw. Rob. fil Ioh. in le Gate 22. Apr. 1338. Decan Canonici Eccles. Coll. B. Mariae Warw. Reginaldus Dod Pbr. 15. Dec. 1349. Thomas Comes Warwici Henr. Hynks Pbr. 12 Febr. an 1353. Ric. Comes Warwici Ric. Wellys Cap. ult Sept. 1421. Ric. Comes Warwici D. Will. Berkswell Canon 3. Febr. 1434. The Church of S. Iohn Baptist stood in the midst of the Mercate place the outward fabrick whereof is yet to be seen whereunto in 41 E. 3. there was a Rector belonging presentable by the said Dean and the Prebendary of the Prebend but without any mansion for his dwelling the yearly value thereof then scarce amounting to four marks above all charges but this Church had neither Church-yard nor any Ecclesiastique sepulture pertaining thereto the Parishioners being buried in the Church-yard of S. Maries Patroni Incumbentes c. Decanus Canon Eccl. Coll. B. M. Warwici Hugo de Beoley Cap. 10. Kal. Nov. an 1281. Decanus Canon Eccl. Coll. B. M. Warwici Henr. de Compton Pbr. 2. Kal. Aug. 1315. Decanus Canon Eccl. Coll. B. M. Warwici Will. de Lalleford Pbr. 24. Dec. 1349. That of S. Peters antiently stood in the midst of the town whereunto in 14 E. 3. nothing but small Tithes appertained This also in 41 E. 3. had a Rector presentable by the said Dean and the Prebendary of that Prebend the value thereof being then scarce v. marks per annum having no dwelling house and without either Church-yard or Ecclesiastique sepulture the Parishioners burying their dead at S. Maries whereunto it was appropriated afterwards sc. in 22 R. 2. But in K. H. 6. time pulled down whereupon that of S. Peter in stead thereof was in those dayes newly built over the East gate The Church of S. Laurence standing at the lower end of the West street in the suburbe was in 19 E. 1. valued at viii marks and a half and in 14 E. 3. at ix marks In 41 E. 3. the Parson was presentable thereto by the Prebend thereof at which time the Dean of the Collegiate Church and the Prebendary received two parts of the Tith corne belonging to it the Colledge onely two parts of the Tith hay Mills and all small Tithes and the Rector the third throughout which scarce
be there buried and of that his Testament constituting Rauf Boteler Lord Sudley then Treasurer of England his Overseer departed this life the same year as appears by the Probate thereof leaving Alianore his wife surviving Thomas his son heir and Iohn a younger son from whom the Throkmortons of Gloucestershire are descended Which Thomas his said mother in 26 H. 6. gave lands of six marks per annum value to the Monks of Evesham for the maintenance of a Priest to sing divine service perpetually at the Altar of our Lady in their Conventuall Church at Evesham for the good estate of King Henry the 6. Q. Margaret his royall consort and of them the said Alianore and Thomas during this life and for the health of their souls after their departure hence as also for the souls of the said King's father and grandfather late Kings of England of Katherine late Queen of England and for the soul of Iohn Throkmorton before specified Thomas his father and Anne his mother with their Ancestors and all the faithfull deceased Which King also in consideration of the good service performed by the said Iohn Throkmorton deceased to himself and to Henry the fourth and fift his father and grandfather late Kings of England in the Office of Chamberlain of the Exchequer gave further license to them the said Thomas and Alianore that they or either of them or the heirs of the longer liver of them might found a Châ—ntry of one Priest to sing divine service every day during the woâ—ld at the Altar of the B. Virgin in the Parish-Church of Fladbury before specified for the good estate of him the said King and of all those above mentioned and to endow the same with lands to the value of x li. per annum Till the time of the said Thomas Throkmorton it seemes that this family was not wholy possest of Coughton but then did Iohn Tracy son and heir of Alice the other daughter and coheir of Sir Guy Spine by his Deed bearing date 29. Maii 27 H. 6. grant unto him the said Thomas and his heirs that moitye thereof by inheritance belonging to him Of which Thomas all that I have seen further memorable is that in 5 E. 4. he underwent the Office of Shiriff for this County and Leicestershire and that he departed this life in 12 E. 4. leaving Robert his son and heir xxi years of age whom I find a Justice of Peace in this County from 2 R. 3. till towards his death as by the renewing of those Comissions at severall times appeareth In 2 H. 7. this Robert made the Park here at Coughton inclosing therewith a certain Common ground called Wike-wood whereunto he afterwards added Samburn-heath and Spiney's-Leys lying within the said Lordship of Samburne and the same year was a Commander in the Kings Army at the battail of Stoke In 5 6 15 17 21 and 23 H. 7. he was in Commission for the Gaol delivery at Warwick In 6 H. 7. for arraying of men against the preparation made by Charles the eight King of France then threatning England with an Invasion In 10 H. 7. he received summons with divers other persons of quality to appear before the King in person upon the Feast day of All Saints the same year to receive the Order of Knighthood upon advancement of Henry the Kings second son to the Dukedome of Yorke and creating him Knight of the Bath in honour whereof these were to be made Knights of that Order yet do not I find by any Comission that he had the title of Knight attributed to him till 17 H. 7. That he was a man of singular piety the sundry bequests contained in his Testament do sufficiently manifest and of no lesse devotion as may seem by his Pilgrimage to the Holy Land which in 10 H. 8. having setled his estate he undertook but dyed beyond Sea in that journey By which Testament bearing date on the Feast day of S. Philip and Iacob anno 1518. 10 H. 8. he bequeathed his body to be buried in the Parish Church here at Coughton under the Tombe in the midst of the Church in case he should dye within this Realm appointing that not above vi li. xiii s. iv d. should be spent at his said buriall and Months mind and that to be given to Priests celebrating thereat nor any entertainment in meat and drink for other than such Priests and Clerks with poor people that lived by Almes And further directed that forthwith after his buriall there should be said for his soul in the Monasteries of Studley and Evesham xxx Masses of Iesu every Priest saying such Masse to have iv d. for his labour And moreover wiâ—led that the East window of the Chancell at Coughton should be glased at the charge of his Executors with the story of the Dome as alâ—o that xx s. should be given to the glasing of the East window of the North I le there with the representation of the seven Sacraments and as much for the East window of the South I le that to be of the seven works of Mercy He also willed that the Image of our Lady should be set on the North side at the end of the Altar in the said South Ile and the Image of the Angell Gabrael on the same side of the I le at the pillar between the I le and the Chancell with a Roll in his hand of greeting looking towards our Lady And at the South end of the said Altar the Image of S. Raphael painted and gilded And that in the North I le at the North end of the Altar the Image of the Trinity to be placed and at the South end the Image of S. Michael all which Images to be richly painted and gilded And besides this he further willed that certain lands to the then value of xvi li. per annum purchased by him of sundry persons there named should be put into the hands of Feoffees to the use of a Priest to sing perpetually in the North I le of Coughton Church for his soul and the souls of his Ancestors and that thenceforth the said Ile should be called the Trinity Chapell and the Priest the Trinity Priest which Priest also to teach a Grammar School freely for all his Tenants Children and to have yearly thereof viii li. and his Chamber but the residue of the said xvi li. to be payd monthly to five poor men dwelling in the Almeshouse here in Coughton viz. every one vii d. a week and his Houâ—-room for ever the residue viz. viii s. viii d. to go to the reparation of the Almeshouse And that the said Priest should every Sunday say a Masse of the Trinity Wednsday Masse of Requiem and Friday Masse of Iesu in case he were disposed and once in the week Dirige for his soul and all Christen souls except the dayes before rehearsed fell upon
Cal. Nov. 1311. Ioh. Burdeth miles Ioh. de Thurstynton 18. Cal. Maii 1333. Thom. de Bellocampo Com. Warw. Ric. Colet Accol 12. Cal. Oct. 1349. Thom. de Bellocampo Com. Warw. Henr. de Wirley Pbr. 10. Cal. Dec. 1361. D. Thomas Burdet miles Rog. Newbrugg Pbr. penult Sept. 1387. Thom. Mottelow persona Eccl. de Arrow alii Alanus de Thame Cap. 3. Ian. 1410. Thom. Mottelow persona Eccl. de Arrow alii Will. de Erdington 28. Apr. 1411. Thom. Mottelow persona Eccl. de Arrow alii Rob. Evynton Pbr. 13. Martii 1421. D. Thomas Burdet de Arrow miles Nich. Cowper Pbr. 28. Apr. 1439. Thomas Burdet ar Rob. Burton Canon Regularis 10. Martii 1445. Ioh. Burdet ar Ioh. Baker Cap. 13. Febr. 1491. Ioh. Burdet miles D. Thomas Chare 6. Iulii 1521. Thomas Burdet ar D. Will. Lawnslyn 8. Iulii 1530. Thomas Burdet ar Will. Heys Pbr. 5. Aug. 1560. Thomas Burdet ar Ioh. Barwell Cler. 13. Febr. 1577. Tho. Burdet de Bramcote arm Henr. Cowper Cler. 20. Febr. 1617. Thomas Burdet Baronettus Sam. Wollaston ult Iulii 1629. The Church in anno 1291. 19 E. 1. was valued at ...... but in 26 H. 8. at Cxvi s. over and above ix s. vi d. allowed for Procurations and Synodals Shuttenton OF this place there is no particular mention in the Conqueror's Survey it being then involved with Sekindon and of that part as I guesse which the Earl of Mellent then possest from whom or his son Robert sirnamed Bossu Earl of Leicester was William Burdet enfeoft thereof who upon his Foundation of the Monasterie at Aucote on the other side the River gave it wholy thereunto excepting those lands called Coppenhull which he had disposed of to the Nuns of Polesworth At that time it was written Schetynton and continued a pretty Village till about the beginning of King H. 8. time that the Monks of Aucote depopulated six Messuages and two Cotages therein which I take to be a third part thereof After the dissolution of which Monasterie it continued in the Crown till 34 H. 8. but then did the King passe it away unto Thomas Lord Audley Chancelour of England inter alia in exchange for other lands who the next year following sold it together with the site of the said Priorie of Aucote unto Ioane Robinson the widow of George Robinson of London Mercer Since which time it hath past with Aucote to such particular persons as I have there manifested The Church was very antiently appropriated to the Monks of Aucote and in 26 H. 8. valued at Xl s. But upon the grant of the Rectorie together with the site of the Priorie of Aucote unto Thomas Lord Audley in 34 H. 8. there was vi li. per annum reserved for a Curate to serve therein I cannot find that there hath ever been any more than one Presentation to this Church that was by the Prior of great Malvern in anno 1341. Aucote being a Cell subordinate to that Monasterie Which Prior of Malverne presented one Richard then Prior of Aucote thereto who was instituted 14 Cal. Aug. in the year abovesaid Aucote-Priorie THis place being originally a member of Sekindon and with Shuttenton obtained from the Earl of Leicester by William Burdet was in anno 1151. scil 5 H. 2. granted therewith to the Monks of great Malvern in Com. Wigorn. upon condition that they should send two of their Covent to serve in the Church here from the Feast of S. Michaell till that time twelve-month and the next year following to adde unto them two more And moreover that afterwards so soon as the building of the Monasterie here couâ—d be compleated according to the capacitie thereof more Monks to be received therein by the advice of the Abbot of Westminster and other Religious Persons of these parts and the Prior to be constituted always by the Prior of Malverne before specified Unto which agreement so made betwixt the said William Burdet and Roger then Prior of Malverne in the presence of the before mentioned Abbot of Westminster as also the Abbots of S. Albans and Malmesburie Robert Earl of Leicester amongst others was a witness The occasion whereupon this little Monasterie was founded is said to be this viz. that the said William Burdet being both a valiant and devout man made a journey to the Holy Land for subduing of the Infidells in those parts and that his Steward whil'st he was thus absent solicited the Chastitie of his Ladie who resisted those his uncivill attempts with much scorn whereupon he grew so full of envie towards her that so soon as he had advertisement of his Master's arrivall again in England he went to meet him and to shadow his own foul crime complained to him of her loosness with others Which false accusation so enraged her husband that when he came home and that she approacht to receive him with joyfull embraces he forthwith mortally stab'd her and that to expiate the same unhappy Act after he understood the truth he built this Monastery Of this storie though I have nothing but by tradition yet that he was the Founder hereof is most certain from what I have before exprest and doubtless that Monument situate in an Arch of the wall on the North side of the Church here at Aucote is for him which is only a plain Free-stone covering the Coffin wherein his Body resteth curiously embossed with the sculpture of a large Crosse. The Benefactors that this Priorie had were but few that I finde viz. Robert de Bramcote who gave a Meadow called Bramcote-Meadow and William Burdet grandchild to the Founder who having conferred thereunto the Rent of xii d. issuing out of a certain tenement in Aucote for the maintenance of a Lampe to burne before the Altar of our Lady in the Church here of S. Blase when he lay upon his death-bed added the grant of half a yard land and a Water-Mill lying in Radelive in Com. Leic. So that all the revenues belonging thereto were by the Survey made in 26 H. 8. valued at no more than xxxiv li. viii s. Out of which Lx s. being yearly payd to the Priorie of Malverne whereunto it was a Cell xx s. to Sir Humphrey Ferrers Knight then high Steward thereof and other Reprizes which in the whole amounted to vi li. ii s. x d. left the clear yearly value but xxviii li. vi s. ii d. In so much as it being exposed to dissolution by the Statute of 27 H. 8. and so coming to the Crown was granted out in 34 H. 8. together with Shuttenton unto Thomas Lord Audley Lord Chancelour of England and by him to Ioane Robinson widow who died seized thereof in 1 Eliz. leaving William her son and heir Which William had issue Thomas who mortgaged it with Draiton-Basset in Com. Staff to one William
had newly advanced to the degree of a Baron had performed on his behalf 〈◊〉 sundry Battails against K. Henry the 6. and his Complices and particularly against Henry D. of Exeter Iâ—sâ—eâ— Earl of Penbroke and this Iames Earl of Wiltshire in consideration thereof granted it to the 〈◊〉 VValter and the heâ—rs maâ—e of his body together with the Mannour of Sutton-Courtney in Berkshire and other great possessions Howbeit Thomas Brother and heir to the said Earl finding favour with K. Edw. being shortly after restored by Act of Parl. to his lands had it again whereupon it descended to his Daughters and heirs viz. Margaret marryed to Sir VVill. Bullein Kt. and Anne the wife of Sâ—r Iames St. Leger Kt. After which scil temp H. 8. Bullein's moytie was past away unto certain Feoffees to the use of Sir Will. Compton Kt. from whom is lineally descended the now Earl of Northampton as in Compton Winyate is shewed the present owner thereof I now return to that Mannour here which was granted â—o Mâ—â—un in E. 1. time This continued in that line till the reign of H. 4. but then Sir Iohn Mohun Kt. dying without issue male it came by parâ—â—tion to Ric. le Strange son and heir of Iohn le Strange of Knokyn by Maud the youngest of the three Daughters and coheirs of the said Sir Iohn Mohun which Richard dyed seized thereof in 27 H 6. leaving Sir Iohn Strange his son and heir who departing this life without issue male Iâ—an his Daughter and heir by marriage wâ—th Geâ—rge eldest son to Thomas Lâ—rd Stanley afterwards Earl of Derby brought it to that family Edw. Earl of Derby son and heir of Henry proving hâ—s age having every thereof accordingly in 14 Eliz. To which Edw. succeeded his Brother Wâ—â—â— Earl of Derby who in our time sold it as I have heard to VVill. Earl of Northampton Grandfather to the present Earl now owner thereof That the Church here is of no less antiquity than the Britains time I shall vouch the authority of an old Historian whereby it will appear that the payment of Tithes was very antient if his relation have credit with my Reader About the year of our Saviours incaâ—nation DC iiii St. Augustine being arrived in England to preach the Gospell came hither whereupon the Priest of this Parish repaired to him and made a complaint that the Lord of the Town not paying his Tithes though admonished was by him excommunicated and yet stood more obstinate St. Augustine therefore conventing him for that fault demanded the reason of such his refusall Knowest thou not quoth he that they are not thine but Gâ—â—'s To whom the Knight answered Did not I plow and sow the land I will therefore have the tenth sheaf aswell as the nine Whereupon St. Augustine replyed If thou wilt not pay them I will excommunicate thee and so hastâ—â—ng to the Altar publickly saidâ— I command that no excommunicate person be preâ—â—â—t at Masse Which words were no sooner spoke than that a dead man that lay buried at the entrance into the Church immediatly arose out of his Grave went without the compass of the Church yard and there stood still during the time of Mass. Which being finished St. Aug. went to him and said I command thee in the name of God that thou tell me who thou art To whom he made answer I was Patron of thiâ— place in the time of the Britains and though frequently warn'd by the Priest yet never would pay him my Tithes and so dyed excommunicate and was thrust into Heâ—l Which answer occasioned St. Augustine to command him to shew where the Priest was buried that so excommunicated him who being accordingly directed to his Grave said To the end that all men may know that life and death are in the hands of God to whom nothing is impossible Arise in his name for we have need of thee Who thereupon came out of hâ—s Grave and stood befâ—re them To whom St Augustine said Brother dâ—'st thou know this man yes quoth he but I would I had never known him for he was alwaies aâ— Râ—bell to the Church a with holder of his Tâ—â—hes and even to his last a very wâ—cked man which occasioned me to excommunicate him Augustine replyed Brother thou knowest that God is mercifull therefore we must have pity on this miserable creature who is the image of God and redeem'd with his bloud having so long endured the pains of Hell Whereupon delâ—vering to him a scourge he kneeled down and cravâ—ng absolution with tears had â—t granted and so by St. Augustine's command returning to his Grave again was immediatly resolved to dust Then said St. Aug. to the Priest How long hast thou been buried Above an hundred and fifty years quoth he Aug. How hast thou fared hitherto Well quoth the Priest enjoying the delights of eternal Life Aug. Art thou contented that I should pray unto God that thou may'st return again to us and by thy preaching reduce many souls unto him that are deceived by the Devill Far be it from thee O Father quoth the Priest that thou shouldest so disturb my quiet as to bring me back to the troublesome life of this World Aug. Go thy way then and rest in peace praying for me and for the Universall Church of God So accordingly entring his grave he fell also to dust Then turn'd S. Augustine to the Knâ—ght and said Wilt thou now pay thy Tithes to God my son Who trembling and weeping fell at his feet and confessing his Offence craved pardon and shaving himself became a follower of S. Augustine all the days of his life Hoc miraculum saith my Author videbitur illis incredibile qui credunt aliquid Deo esse impossibile Sed nulli dubium est quod nunquam Anglorum duras cervices Christi jugo se submisissent nisi per magna miracula divinitùs sibi ostensa But descending to later times and of more certainty I find that about the beginning of King Steph. reign Geffery Magnavil gave this Chuâ—ch to the Monastery of Walden in Essex which he had newly founded In an 1291 19 E. 1. accounting xii marks per an which the Canons of Walden had out of it as also certain Pensions to the Nuns of Hurley in Berks. and to the Chapell of Plessy it was valued at xxiii mâ—rks and afterwards sc. Non. Dec. an 1316. â—10 â— 2. appropriated to the said Monastery of Wâ—lden by Walt. de Maydenston Bishop of Worcester And in 26 H. 8 the Vâ—caridge rated at xâ—ii l vi s viii â— the Procurations and Synodals then payd out of it being xi s vid. That which the Canons of Walden had here was after the dissolution of that Monastery granted away by the King to Thomas lord Audley Chancellour of England and his heirs by the name of a Mannour together with the Rectory of this place but it came again to the Crown as it seems
for in 4. 5. Ph. M. S â— Thomas Pope K t had a grant thereof Patroni Ecclesiae Incumbentes c. Patroni Vicariae Abbas Conv. de Walden Ioh. de Dersete Pbr. 9. Cal. Iulii 1289. Abbas Conv. de Walden D. Will. Hankyn 6. Cal. Maii 1319. Abbas Conv. de Walden Will. le Fullare Pbr. 28 Maii 1339. Abbas Conv. de Walden Will. in le Lane Pbr. 19. Feb. 1361. Abbas Conv. de Walden Ioh. Baynton 9. Iunii 1389. Abbas Conv. de Walden Ioh. Aldestre penult Martii 1390. Abbas Conv. de Walden Edw. Normanton Pbr. 11 Iunii 1406. Abbas Conv. de Walden Will. Gilbert penult Maii 1430. Abbas Conv. de Walden D. Will. Whithmale Pbr. 8. Maii 1455. Abbas Conv. de Walden Ioh. Toly Cap. 10. Maii 1465. Abbas Conv. de Walden D. Ioh. Mason Cap. 4. Iunii 1485. Abbas Conv. de Walden D. Richard Mason Pbr. 8. Dec. 1504. Praepos c. Colleg. Reg. de Eton. Egid. Cartwright Cler. 8. Aug. 1571. Praepos c. Colleg. Reg. de Eton. Ioh. Ivie Cler. 12. Nov. 1573. Praepos c. Colleg. Reg. de Eton. Will. Scooler Cler. 21 Martii 1577. Weston juxta Chiriton THat this was originally a member of Long Compton I have in my discourse of that place already intimatedâ— From Marshall Earl of Pembroke it came to Raph Pipard and from him to one Iohn de Weston soe called frâ—m his residence here as I guesse which Iohn in 7 E. 1. held it of the said Raph by the fourteenth part of a Knights Fee having then two carucates of land in demesn as also one Water mill with certain Tenants holding 8 yard land of him by several services as plowing sowing reaping making malt and the like but with his said Tenants made two appearances yearly at the Court Leet of the said Raph. at Compton paying iiiâ— to him at the Feast of S t Martin and iiid at Warth which Iohn de Weston in 27 E. 1. entailed this Mannour after his own decease upon Iohn de Broughton and Kath. his wife and the heirs of the said Iohn de Broughton whereupon the said Iohn within two years following obtain'd a Charter of Free-warren to himselfe and his heirs in all his demesn â—ands at Broughton near Banbury in Oxfordshire as also here and other places in this County Howbeit after this till E. 3. time I find no farther mention thereof worthy the notice but then was it setled upon Raph Earl Stafford and Will. de Peito for their two lives and afterwards upon S r Iohn de Peito Kt. son of the said Will. and Alianore his wife and Iohn the son of the said Iohn and Alianore and the heirs male of his body and for want of such issue on Hugh the son of the said Earl and the heirs male of his body by Philippae his wife with remainder to the right heirs of the said Will. de Peito as appeareth by a certain Feoffment bearing date here at Weston on the Munday next after the Feast of S t Thomas the Apostle the same year Whâ—ch Will. de Peito was justled out of it as by hâ—s Petition to King Ric. 2. appeareth the substance whereof I have here added viz. that one Walter de Chiriton being indebted to Kâ—ng E. 3. command was given unto one Rich. de Foxton then Eschaetor to enquire of what lands or Tenements he was seized of in the xx xxii and xxiiith years of his reign and afterwards in respect that he the said Walter had been a Fermour to the King and never accounted Whereupon by the corrupt procurement and abetting of Alice Perers who had been concubine to King Edw. then wâ—fe of S â— Will. Windsor Knight and for her behoofe it was falsly certified by the Enquest that the same VValter had an estate in Fee simple of this Mannour whâ—ch the said VVill. de Peito then held who upon the return of the Inquisition into the Chancery traversed the same shewing by good evidence that the said VValter had no right therein farther than for the life of Iohn de Segrave of Folkestane which Iohn had granted the reversion thereof to certain persons whose estate in Fee simple the said Will had obtaâ—ned Whereupon another Inquis was made but through the unjust procurement of the saâ—d Alice and the menaces made to the Jury by S â— Baldw. Frevill and S â— Thomas de Morehalle they durst not give any other Verdict than what had been before and that by this means â—t being seised into the Kâ—ngs hands was granted by him to Rob. Broune of Warwick Stewaâ—d to the said Alice and to one Iohn Vincent of London to her use who held it accordingly at the tâ—me of the said Petâ—tâ—on exhibâ—ted Whereupon the King referred the examination of the matter to S r Iohn Knyvet to make report but it seems there was nothing done therein to the advantage of the saâ—d VVill. de Peito for upon the attainder of the before specifyed Alice it being seized into the Kings hands the custody thereof was committed to S â— Iohn VVorth Knight and shortly after the inheritance of it given by the said Kâ—ng to the before specified S â— VVill. VVindsor Whâ—ch Sâ— VVill. past it into the hands of S â— VVill. de Beauchamp S r Hugh Segrave S r VVill. Cossington Knights and others and their heirs who granted their râ—ght therein to S t VVill. Murrers Knight and Christian his wife and the heâ—rs of their two bodyes lawfully begotten to hold untill such time as the debt due to the Kâ—ng by VValt de Chiriton formerly mentioned should be fully satisfyed Whâ—ch S â— VVill. Murrers and Christian past over their estate therein to Iohn Carpe and Raph Kâ—steven to enjoy accordingly till the said debt should be satisfied who upon the grant made by VVill. de Chiriton son and heir of the same VValter to the said S â— VVill. Murrers and his heirs of all his right therein by their deed bearing date at London 20 Iunii 8. R. 2. quitted their â—nterest â—n the reversion thereof unto the saâ—d S â— VVill. and his heirs Howbeit after thâ—s I find that Thomas Moubray D. of Norff. had an interest herein though by what means I know not but by one Inquis taken after his death in 22 R. 2. it appears that he granted it to the above specified S â— VVill. Morers Knight and Christian his wife to hold during their lives and by another that he past it to Ric. de Burgh Esq to hold likewise during his life And it was also found that he dyed seized of two parts thereof which two parts thereupon coming to the Crown by reason of the minority of Iohn Moubray brother and heir of Thomas Earl Marshall were in 11 H. 4. assigned to him by the King towards his maintenance