small Shield in Stone A Spread Eagle In the North Windows of the Church are the Arms of England and Spensers Syreston HEre was some of the Soc of Newark the Fee of Remigius Bishop of Lincolne which discharged it self to the Tax for one Bov. ½ but besides that in Sireston were three Mannors one of the Fee of Earl Alan of Richmond which Aylric had before and paid for it to the publick Tax for three Bovats The Land of it was a Carucat and an half which three Sochmen had There were twelve Acres of Medow Robert de Musters held it of Earl Alan It had been 40s. value but was then fallen to 20s. Another was of the Fee of Berengarius de Todeni which Sbernecroc had before the Conquest and paid for it to the Dane-geld as two Bov. ½ The Land was one Car. Goduvin held it of Berenger and there had one Car. one Sochm. two Vill. with half a Car. There was ten Acres of Medow This in the Confessours time was 30s. value then but 20s. Another was the Kings Tayn Land which Turvert had and discharged for two Bovats to the Geld. The Land was five Bov. There two Vill. one Bord. had one Car. and five Acres of Medow This in the time of King Edward the Confessour was 10s. value then but 5s. The Family of Mustiers had the Richmond Fee whereof I find Galfr. de Mustiers who 6 Ioh. gave account of fifty Marks for having to wife Amicia de Sablello with her Land Walter de Wyldeker paid 5s. 4d. for the fifth part of a Knights Fee which he held in Sireston in the former part of the Reign of Henry the third Galfr. de Stokes was found 51 H. 3. to have held four Bovats in Sireston of Galfr. de Musters William Hagh recovered seisin 14 E. 1. of one Mess. two Bovats of Land and 14s. Rent in Sireston against Iohn son of Paulinus de Stokes who was Cousin and heir of the said Galf. de Stokes by default Sir Robert de Musters held two Knights Fees in Knyveton Sireston Sybthorp Tyreswell Ketelthorpe and Wynelingham for 20s. a year and Ward of the Castle of Richmond 10 E. 1. In the Nom. Vill. 9 E. 2. Sireston and Eyleston answered for one Vill. and Henry de Musteres and William de Heygh are certified to be Lords There was a Fine levied at York 10 E. 3. between Henry de Musters Quer. and William Bernak Parson of Gonaldeston Deforc. of the Mannor of Sireston whereby it was settled on the said Henry for life afterwards on Iohn son of Richard Sutton of Averham and Ioane his wife and the heirs of their two bodies and for want of such issue to the right heirs of the said Henry de Musters I do not find that the said Iohn de Sutton had any issue by her though some Pedigrees seem to affirm it but have seen a note of Mr. George Lâ—ssells his hand to the contrary There was a Fine also at Nott. 3 E. 3. between Robert de Syreston and Emme his wife Quer. and Robert son of Iohn de Eyleston Deforc of four Mess. six Bovats and the third part of a Bovat of Land eighteen Acres of Medow 7s. 2d. and two Geese Rent with the Appurtenances in Syreston and Gypesmere which were thereby settled on the said Robert and Emme for their lives and after on Thomas son of Robert de Syreston and Avicia his wife and the heirs of their bodies remainder to Simon brother of the said Thomas and the heirs of his body remainder to Nicholas another brother and the heirs of his remainder to Richard in like manner remainder to the right heirs of the said Robert de Syreston William son of Iohn son of William de Hagh 23 E. 3. confirmed to Iohn Cosyn Warden of the Chappel of Sibethorpe one Mess. two Bov. of Land 13s. and 5d. Rent with the Appurtenances in Sireston which Iohn the younger son of Simon de Sibthorp had of him when he was under age and passed to Thomas de Sibethorp the Founder In this Record the Prior of Hagh is said to be chief Lord of the Fee Sir Iohn Markham the younger the Chief Justice had a sister called Margaret married to Walter Pedwardyn who had a daughter named Katherin married to Nicholas Deuyn or Deane of Sireston who by her had Iames Deuon whose daughter and heir Dorothy was first married to Sir Richard Bozome mentioned in Screveton whose Ancestor was of Sireston in the time of Henry the fourth and afterward wife of William Vernon son of Raph younger brother of Sir Henry Vernon of Haddon by whom she had Anne some call her Iane the wife of Henry Seyvile as there is also noted where the many daughters and co-heirs of Sir Richard Bozon are likewise set down George Pole son of Raph Pole of Wakebridge in Darbishire by his second wife Anne the daughter of Philip Leche succeeded here and by Alice his wife the daughter and co-heir of the said Sir Richard Bozom had a Son called William Pole of Sireston In the year 1612. Robert Poole Gent. was owner here Ioane the daughter of Iohn Bussy wife of Sir Nicholas Byron and after of Sir Gervase Clifton had some inheritance here It is all now become the possession and inheritance of Robert Sutton of Averham Lord Lexington whose son and heir Robert Lord Lexington is in minority at this time There was a Recovery 13 Eliz. wherein Adam Arnold and Iohn Nutkin claimed against Matthew Gybon one Toft thirty Acres of Land six Acres and three Rods of Medow seven Acres of Pasture with the Appurtenances in Syerston who called to warrant Richard Whalley Esquire and Thomas his son and heir William Hamond had a good Freehold here which is now William his sons I suppose this Town is in Stoke Parish for the Vicar comes and serves the Cure here Elston Elveston THE Book of Doomesday shows this Town to have been in those daies much divided One Bov. was of the Soc of Newark that is to say Land so rated in the Publick Taxation which was of the Fee of the Bishop of Lincolne who besides that had two Mannors here which before the Norman Invasion Leuvin and Pileuvin had which they discharged in publick Levies or Gelds for two Bovats The Land was then accounted four Bovats There one Vill. and three Bord. had one Car. There was twelve Acres of Medow This part when the Book was made in the time of King William 1. kept the former value 10s. Ranesford and Armgri then held it of the Bishop Another part of this Town was of the Fee of Roger de Busli wherein was a Mannor which Oudencare had before the Conquest and paid for it to the Dane-geld as two Bov. The Land was half a Car. There Norman the Priest had of Roger five Villains having five Bovats in Car. or in a Plowland or in Tillage this also kept the old
while before William Leek left to descend with his Mannor of Little Léek and other Lands in Gedling Carleton Stokebardolf Colwyke Saxendale and Stoke by Newark to Iohn Leek his son and heir Iohn Leeke Knight held the Mannor of Hucknall Torcard of the Crown by Knights Service and also by the Service of carrying one Gerfalcon from Michaelmas till Lent at the Kings cost with Horses and 2s. a day and half a Cistern of Wine and two Robes when he was warned to do the Service Iohn Biron Knight and Iohn Palmer of Hucknall purchased Lands and Tenements in Hucknall of Francis Leek Esquire to the value of 3l. 2s. 8d. per annum held of the Queen Eliz. in Capite Sir Iohn Leekes Mannor was in my time the inheritance of Lancelot Curtis The dispersed parcels passed through many hands Roger Porter son and heir of Maud Porter 33 E. 3. had a Mess. and eighteen Acres c. of this Fee and Thomas Breton brother and heir of Iohn Breton 41 E. 3. acknowledged to hold the two Bovats before noted to be William le Bretuns by Petit Serjeancy The Fee of Rad. de Burun William Briewer had in the beginning of King Iohn's time or sooner from whom it descended to Baldwin de Wake Lord of Brun or Burne in Lincolnshire of which Mannor 10 E. 1. Iohn Torcard and William Pitie were found to have held two Knights Fees in Lambecote and Hukenhale The first of the Torcards which succeeded Osmund and by their continuance here left their name to distinguish the place whom I have light upon was Gaufr Torcard who with the consent of Maud his wife and Henry his son for the health of his Soul and of his Ancestors and Successours and for the Soul of Alexander de Chiney gave to God and the Church of the Holy Trinity at Lenton and the Monks there serving God one Cart to be continually wandring about to gather up his dead Wood of Huckenale The Witnesses were Raph Murdac Raph de Chelnei Hugh his brother Philip de Beaumes Hugh de Lichelade Gilbert the Chaplain of the Castle Alan Robert Gregory Clarks Mr. Silvester Gaufr Torcard of Chillewelle William de Davidvill Henry Torcard his own son and others There was a Fine levyed 10 R. 1. between Galfr. Torcaz and Maud his wife Petents and William Pitie Tenent of two Knights Fees in Huckenhale and Lambecote whereof they all gave the Church of Huckenhale and five Bovats of Land there to the Church of Newstede and the rest equally divided between Galfr. and William Henry the eldest son of Galfr. had then married Alin the daughter of William who was then also his heir with whom he gave the third part of his share in marriage but if William should happen to have an heir Male Henry and Alina his wife were but to have half of Williams part after his death Roesia Torkard paid four Marks for two Fees in Huckenhale and Lambcote and Iohn Torkard the like summ afterwards for two Fees in Huckenhale then held of Iohan the relict of Hugh Wake who paid also 20s. for half a Fee in Kyleburne in Darbyshire which was also part of Buruns Fee Henry de Winkeburne was Lord of Hucknall 9 E. 2. Henry de Winkeburne and Albreda his wife did by Fine 5 E. 3. pass the Mannor of Hukenale Torkard to Alexander de Gonaldeston and his heirs The said Alexander and Alice his wife by another Fine conveyed it to Raph de Crumbewell and Avicia his wife during their lives and after their decease to Vlker son of the said Raph and Avicia during his life remainder to the right heirs of Raph. Raph de Crumbwell and Avicia his wife made a certain Causey otherwise than had formerly been to increase the Water to serve their Mills which was it seems in the Ditch and upon the Soil which belonged to the Prior of Newstede and extended from the Church-yard to the head of the Damm toward the East for which they gave the said Prior three Roods of Arable Land lying in the East field in diverse places at the Towns end towards Nottingham but the said Raph oppressed the Priory more in causing it to pay more than it ought in the several Scutages for in 5 E. 1. in that for the Welch expedition it paid but for the third part of a Knights Fee and there were Tenants who held ten Bovats of Torkards Fee and eight of Lutterells of Gamelston besides but this Raph Crumbwell got an Inquisition which found the Priory to have two parts of a Knights Fee in Demesne and Service of Tenants so that the Prior was forced to intreat that he might pay but for half a Fee which he thought too much before Vlgar Crumwell it seems gave his interest to the Priory of Beauvale which paid also for half a Knights Fee Raph de Crumbewelle Lord of Tatershale in the County of Lincolne passed his Mannor of Hukenall Torkard which his brother Vlker had for life to Richard de Chesterfeild Clark Richard de Tyssington Clark William de Wakebrugg and Iohn de la Pole of Asseburne to whom he levied a Fine of it Trin. 43 E. 3. They passed it to Hugh de Annesley of Rodyngton as did also Maud de Crumbewell Lady of Tatershall the better to convey it to the Priory of Beauvale with some other small things to which it was confirmed by the feoffees of Raph Lord Crumbewell after his death viz. William Bishop of Winchester William Gray Bishop of Ely Iohn Earl of Shrowsbury Iohn Lord Stourton Knight Iohn Fortescue Knight Chief Justice Walter Moyle one of the Justices of the Common Bench Iohn Radcliffe Esquire Thomas Teryll Knight Mr. William Say Clark Thomas Bylling Iohn Say Esquire William Venour Thomas Young Iohn Taylboys Senior Esquire Robert Scheffeild Richard Illingworth Richard Waterton Esquire Iohn Langholme Edward Blake Thomas Palmer William Stanlowe Iohn Vincent and Richard Flynt the rest were dead viz. Reginald Bishop of Coventry and Lichfeild Thomas Clifford Lord Clifford Robert Beaumont Clark Iohn Saucheverell Esquire and Iohn Stathum Beauvale 7 H. 6. paid for one half of a Knights Fee and Newstede for another After the dissolution they partly followed the fortune of those places with which they still continue The Rectory with the Patronage of the Vicarage 25 Ian. 24 Eliz. was granted to Edward Downinge and Peter Ashton The same Queen 27 Iun. 42 Eliz. granted to Michael Stanhope Esquire one of the Grooms of the Privy Chamber and to Edward Stanhope Doctor in the Laws the Mannor of Hucknall Torkard which did belong to Newstede to which at the Foundation King Henry the second gave the Church of Hokenhale which King Iohn confirmed 6 Ioh. at the yearly value of 13l. 9s. 10d. But now the principal part of this Township is the inheritance of the Lord Byron as it was in the time of King William the Conquerour There are now reckoned four or five Mannors
in the last Expedition into Wales for which the King pardoned him upon his submission he paying for every Knights Fee which he held one hundred Marks which Iohn de Vescy Iohn de Evill and Iohn de Lâ—vetot undertook he should perform the Barons upon the Kings Precept searching the Rolls of the Exchequer found that Iohn de Stotevill Father of the said Robert held fifteen Fees of the Barony which was Hubert Fitz-Raph's and that the said Robert held five Fees of the Inheritance of Alianor de Genevere his wife to whom Roger de Bertram granted and demised the Castle of Mitford with the Fees and other Appurtenances which made in all twenty Fees Robert de Stotevile about 34 E. 1. died seised of the Mannor of Ekinton in Darbishire and of this Henr. de Stuteville Robertus de Stuteville-Leonia de Rennes 6 R. 1.6 Joh. Henricus de Stotevill Johannes de Stoteville Johannes de Stotevill 36 H. 3. Rob. de Stotevile-Alian de Genevere Johannes de Stotevile Robertus de Stotevill intra aet 17 E. 2. Studo de Stotevile Nicolaus de Stotevile Studo sive Stoutus de Stotevile 6 E. 3. Willielmus 2 R. 1. Mannor leaving his son and their Iohn de Stoteville twenty four years of age who was heir to his Mother Alianora de Genevere wife of the said Robert to whom Alianor Queen of England the Mother of King Edward the first gave the Castle of Mitford and diverse Lands in Northumberland she died about 4 E. 2. The Jury 16 E. 2. found that this Iohn de Stotevile was to pay out of this Mannor the yearly Rent of 40s. to buy Wine and 6s. 8d. or a quarter of Wheat of that price to make Wafers Oblata to celebrate the Eucharist in the Church of St. Mary at Newstede which Iohn de Stutevill Triavus Grandfathers Grandfather of this Iohn then viz. 16 E. 2. lately dead charged upon this Mannor and King Henry Grandfather of that King in the twenty ninth year of his Reign confirmed but I suppose it is a mistake for avus or at most for proavus and then there must be two Iohns which is all the time will well bear from 29 H. â— to 16 E. 2. that this Iohn son of Robert was dead who left his son Robert born beyond the Seas his heir then aged seven years William son of Gilbert le Warner of Kirkby upon Ashfeild 13 E. 3. Ian. 27. made Fine with the King for pardoning the transgression which the said William and Gilbert made in acquiring certain Tenements of Iohn son of Robert de Stutevill Knight in Kirkeby upon Ashfeild in the time of the Kings Father and entring them without licence being held of the said Kings Father in Capite Thomas de Langton and Robert de Barton 13 E. 3. paid 20s. of the remainder of their account of the Mannor of Kirkeby on Asshefeld which was Lora de Stotevills an Alien King Edward the third by his Letters Patents dated 1 March 14 E. 3. granted the Mannors of Ekinton in Darbyshire and Kirkeby in this County which were late Iohn Stotevills and by the forfeiture of Robert Stotevill son and heir of Iohn were come into his hands together with the Mannors of Louthe and Baliogary and other Lands in Ireland to Iohn Darcy sometimes called le Cosyn sometimes le Piere and in some other Records le Nevew and his heirs for ever who had licence 21 Ian. 18 E. 3. when also he had his confirmations of these and many other things to inclose and make Parks of his Woods at Temple Newsom and Temple Hirâ—â— in Yorkshire at Torkesay in Lincolnshire Ekington in Darbyshire and Kirkeby in this County He was a very great man both in England and Ireland his principal Seat was at Knayth in Lincolnshire he is supposed to be Nephew of Thomas and son of Norman and brother of Philip Lords Darcy of Nocton in that County the old Seat of that Illustrious and ancient Family King Edward the second 15 E. 2. at the request of his well beloved and faithful men Robert Darcy Iohn Darcy his brother and Iohn Darcy le Cosyn of his especial grace granted to them Philip Darcy and Norman Darcy his Enemies and Rebells taken and detained in his Prison at Yorke to be delivered or otherwise disposed according to their wills saving to the said King the Eschaet and forfeiture of their Lands and Tenements Goods and Chattels belonging to him on that occasion Iohn Darcy le Nevew 21 Aug. 2 E. 3. was constituted Justice and Keeper of Ireland Iohn Darcy le Cosin 19 Febr. 3 E. 3. is so constituted Iohn Darcy Justice of Ireland being about to go by the Kings command to the parts of the Dutchy of Aquitaine Roger Vtlagh Prior of the Hospital of St. Iohns of Hierusalem 31 May 4 E. 3. was made by his consent Lieutenant till his return Johannes Darcy le Piere ob 21 E. 3 -Emelina fil haer Walteri fil Will. Heyrun-Joana ux 2. Johannes Darcy le Fitz ob 30 E. 3 -Elizab fil haer Nic. Menill Philippus Darcy-Elizab Johannes Dom. Darcy-Margareta ob 33 H. 6. Philippus Darcy fil haer -Alianora fil Henr. Dom. Fitz-Hugh .... Tunstall mar 2. Margeria-Johannes Conyers Johannes Conyers mil. Gart. Willielmus Conyers aet 21. 5 H. 7. Elizab. -Jacobus Strangways Junior Johannes-Margareta Richardus Willielmus Darcy aet 4. an 32 H. 6. Johannes fil haer s. p. Iohn Darcy was Justice of Ireland and Thomas de Burgh Clark Treasurer of Ireland 8 E. 3. by the Kings Letters Patents dated at Notingham 16 Iuly was made Lieutenant of the Justice of Ireland as often as he should happen to be absent Anno Domini 1333. William Earl of Ulster was slain by his own men viz. by the Maunvilis and the same year Sir Iohn Darcy Justice of Ireland went into Ulster with a great Army to revenge the death of the said Earl but before he came the men of that Country had done it and the Justice with his Army went into Scotland to the King of England who at that time was there in War and left Sir Thomas Burke his Lieutenant in Ireland And in the Eve of St. Margaret there was a great slaughter in Scotland by the Irish by the said King in one part and the said Justice in another and so was conquered the King of Scotland and they made Sir Edward Bayloll King of Scotland and the said Sir Iohn Darcy came again Justice of Ireland and delivered Walter Bermegham out of the Castle of Dublin Iohn Darcy le Piere 20 E. 3. had the Custody of the Tower of London for his life but it seems he continued not long for he died 30 May 21 E. 3. seized of this Mannor and Ekinton in Darb. of the Reversion of Temple-Newsom after the death of Mary de St. Paul Countess of Pembrook and many other Lands and Mannors in Yorkshire amongst which were the Mannors of Notton
here in Demesne two Car. and eight Sochm. upon six Bovats of this Land and twenty one Villains sixteen Bordars having twelve Car. Here was then a Church and a Priest and one Mill 5s. and eighty Acres of Medow small Wood eight qu. long four broad In the Confessours time the value was 6l. and when the Conquerours great Survey was taken 10l. There were appendant to this Mannor five Sochm. in other Hundreds it had Soc in Crumwelle Adam Tisun 5 Steph. gave account of ten Marks of Silver for a Plea of Duel between him and the Man of Hugh de Luvetot and of 32l. and 2s. for the debts of his Father and of fifteen Marks of Silver that he should not plead concerning his Land until the son of Nigellus de Albini should be a Knight Adam Tisun gave to God and St. Peter of Thurgarton and the Canons there serving God that Bovat of Land in Egrum which Leuric Hog held and Henry Hoset would have the Men of the Honour of Egrum to know that by the consent of Avicia his wife he confirmed that Bovat which Adam Tisun gave to that Church free and quit of all secular Service for the safety of Henry son of the Empress and for his own safety his wifes and all his Henry Hose for the safety or health of the Souls of his Father Mother and Ancestors his own and his wifes confirmed to the said Monastery the said Bovat which the said Leuric Hog held as the Charters of Henry Hose his Father and those of his Ancestors did witness William Tisun gave to God and the Brethren of Ruford all his Land in Hecthus of Aghrum Adam Tisun his Father confirmed it so did Henry Hose son of Henry Hose who 13 Ioh. levied a Fine at Westminster to Walter the Abbat of Rufford of sixty Acres in Egrum whereof there had been contention between them in the said Court whether they lay within the bounds mentioned in the Charter of William Tysun Uncle of the said Henry which the Abbat produced Hugh Hose brought to Matthew Abbat of Rufford the Testament or device of Henry Hose his brother who with tears and grief of heart at his death repented that he had disquieted the Monastery and with tears also begg'd their pardon and earnestly besought his heirs that they should permit the Monks to hold their Lands in peace whereof discord had been between them of this the said Hugh was a most faithful witness having the said devise of his brother sealed with the Seal of Iocelin the Queens brother who by the Kings command brought the body of the said Henry into this Land and the said Iocelin had the devise sealed Isabell wife of William le Herper sometime wife of Raph son and heir of Ranulph had Land in Egrom about 7 H. 3. Raph de Chesneduyt and Maud his wife 27 H. 3. claimed against Robert le Sauvage the Mannor of Egrom except 100 Acres of Land in Scarethorpe as their right and inheritance c. He called to warrant Iohn de Gatesden who came and warranted and said That Maud while she was sole and in lawful power gave the said Mannor to him and his heirs for ever for the Service of two Knights Fees whereof there was a Fine between them in the Kings Court before the Justices at Bermondesey Maud and her husband pleaded that she never was selfed of that Mannor so that she might enfeoff the said Iohn thereof and said that when the said Fine was made between them and after the said Maud was in the Custody of the said Iohn and the said Mannor likewise Robert also produced the Chartel of the said Raph of his quit-claiming the Mannors of Egrum and Edling Robert le Sauvage acknowledged that he granted to Robert de Lexington the Mannor of Egrum which he held for term of life of Iohn de Gatesden and remised c. and for this the said Robert de Lexington acquitted the said Robert le Sauvage of a great summ of money wherein he was bound to Aaron the Jew of Yorke The said Iohn de Gatesden acknowledged that he gave to the said Robert de Lexington the said Mannor of Egrum and by his Letters Patents produced before the Justices commanded the said Robert le Sauvage that he should be intending to the said Robert de Lexington as he was to himself Robert de Lexington had Free Warren here about 27 H. 3. This Mannor was found in the time of H. 3. and E. 1. to be of the Honour of Moubray Anno 1250.34 H. 3. the fourth of the Kalends of Iune died Robert de Lexington the Kings Clark and special or spiritual Counsellour who continuing long in the Office of a Justice heaped up to himself ample possessions and enlarged the Kings Treasures The same year his eldest brother Iohn de Lexington who 18 Sept. 31 H. 3. undertook the Custody of the Seal went from the Court and the Seal was committed to P. de Riovallis and Mr. W. de Kilkenny but 37 H. 3. May 15 it was committed to P. Chaceport and him again This Iohn de Lessington was Lord Keeper first in 22 H. 3. secondly 26 H. 3. and thirdly 32 H. 3. c. Sir Robert de Lexington was an Ecclesiastical person and one of the Kings Justices and died without heir of himself and had three brothers and two sisters as followeth Iohn elder brother of the said Robert and Lord after him who also dyed without heir of himself Peter de Laxton Parson of Gedlinge likewise died without heir of himself and so did Henry de Laxton Dean and after Bishop of Lincolne Cecilia the sister of Sir Robert de Lexington was married to one Sir Richard rather William de Marcham of whom came Sir Robert de Marcham Alice the other sister of the said Robert de Lexton was married to Richard it should be Roland de Sutton upon Trent who had two sons both Knights his eldest was Sir William de Sutton and the other Sir Robert de Sutton to whom his said Uncles gave the Mannor of Averham in old writings called Egrom Robert de Sutton son of William de Sutton granted confirmed and quit-claimed to the said Robert son of Roland de Sutton the said Mannor of Egrum with the Advowson of the Church and Knights Fees c. as Sir Iohn de Lessington held it and also the whole Land of Kelum with the Appurtenances to be held of him and his heirs for the Service of two Knights Fees c. Richard de Sutton Canon of Southwell mentioned in that place was son of Robert de Sutton and Alice his wife who also had a son called Iohn Parson of Lexington but I find it was another elder Robert and Alice and in the Pedegree of this Family this Robert de Sutton is said to have married Isabell daughter and co-heir of Sir Hugh Picot Knight as in
Simon son of Galfr. de Whiten the Lands and Tenements given to the said Abby in Whiten and that demand concerning one Palfrey or the value as before Joceus le Flemangh venitad Conquest Angl. Rich. temp W. 1 -N de Nott. ux 1 -Hawifia consanguin Comitis de Ferrariis ux 2. Rich. de Cukeney Rich. de Cukeney Tho. de Cukeney Willielmus Goschire Joana 8 E. 1 -Rob le Porter Joh. suspensus An. 1200. Ric. Germanus de Cukeney Isabella Thom. de Cukeney Radulphus de Cukeney Rich. Rad. Silvan-Margareta Osbertus Silvan Rad. Selvein Osbert Seilvan miles 1246. Radulphus Salvayne -Marger fil cohaer Nic. fil Anketini Malory Anketinus Salvayn Anketinus Salvayn mil. de Thorp Thomas fundator Abb. de Welbek-Emma Emma ux Gerardi de Glanvill Simon Fitz-Simon-Isabel Walterus de Faucomberg -1 Agnes Per. de Fauconberg Walterus de Fauconberg Walterus de Fauconberg Johannes de Faucomberg Walterus de Rieboef -2 Isabella Stephanus de Faucomberg -3 Petronilla Willielmus de Fauconberg -Ida fil Adae de St. Martino Hen. de Fawcomberg 38 H. 3. Willielmus de Faucomberg 8 E. 1. ob 29 E. 1. ... fil Matildae Dom. de Goushull 1 Johannes stultus 23 E. 1. aetat 23 an 2 Henricus de Fauconberg miles -Elena fil Dom. Rob. de Hertford 3 Willielm Hugo Stephen who married the third daughter Petronilla begot on her a son named William This William was in the Custody of King Iohn and the said King gave his Wardship or Custody and marriage to Adam de St. Martin and the said Adam gave to the said William Ida his daughter to wife and the said William begot on the said Ida a son Henry by name Between the said Henry and William son of Thomas a certain Fine was levied of all Lands and Tenements in Cukeney and the said Henry took up the said Land and gave for relief to the King 100s. and to the said King did Homage The said Henry begot a son by name William who took to wife the daughter of Matilda Lady of Goushull and begot on her three sons Iohn Henry and William The aforesaid William father of the said Iohn Henry and William released to the said Abby his whole right concerning all Customs and Services and concerning the prestation or giving of a Palfrey at every removal or creation of the Abbat of the said Abby as appeareth by the Fine That Iohn the first begotten of the said William was a Fool neither could he hold the Land of his father But Henry the second son made Fine with the King for the said Land with such condition that he should sustein his elder brother but he died shortly after And so the said Henry held the said Land and afterwards espoused the daughter of Sir Robert de Hertford Elena by name and as it is more fully found in the Book of Memorand's in the Exchequer 31 E. 1. William de Faucomberg Knight son and heir of Sir Henry de Faucomberg Knight granted for himself and his heirs to the Abby and Covent of Welbek all and all manner of Common which they had in Burneflat c. Petronilla daughter of Simon Fitz-Simon in 2 Ioh. ought 20s. for having her imparlance Loquela in tâ—e Kings Court at Westminster against R. W. de Faucomberg and Agnes his wife and Walter de Rieboef and Ysabel his wife concerning her reasonable part of the xxth part of one Knight in Kukeney and the sixth part of one Knights Fee in Hocwell Sir Henry de Fawconberg Knight by his Deed dated at Yorke the last day of September Anno Dom. 1329. 2 E. 3. mistaken for 3 E. 3. passed to Iohn de Hotham Bishop of Ely his whole Mannor of Cukeney with the Appurtenances together with the Knights Fees and Advowsons as well of the Abby of Wellebecke as others with all his Lands and Tenements in Holbeck by Cukeney as well those which he lately acquired in Fee of Thomas de Furneux as others c. in the Towns or Hamlets of Cukeney Langwath Bondbusk Holbeck Woodhouse Milnethorpe Cloun and Norton or otherwhere in this County c. all which the said Bishop conveyed to the Abbat and Covent of Wellbeck in the time of the Justices Itinerant at Notingham 4 Decemb. 1329. 3 E. 3. by his Deed then inrolled Henry de Faucomberg 10 E. 2. had Marker and Fair granted at Cokeney and his Grandfather Henry de Faucomburge in 38 H. 3. had Free Warren there The process of the Land of Cukeney of the Honour of Tikhill was as followeth Ioceus le Flemingh came to the Conquest of England in the time of William Duke of Normandy and got in Cukeney the third part of a Knights Fee and the said Ioce begot a certain son by name Richard This Richard took a wife in Notingham by name N. and begot on her a certain son by name Richard This Richard enfeoffed the House of Welbek of the whole third part of a Knights Fee aforesaid viz. of the Land of Langwat with the Hay of Cukeney reserving to himself the Capital Mess. in Cukeney and nine Bovats of Land and did the Service to the chief Lords of the Fee of Tikhill for the said Abbat and his successours This Richard begot a son named Richard who confirmed the gift of his father This Richard begot a son by name Thomas This Thomas impleaded the Abbat of Wellebek concerning the third part of a Knights Fee and at length there was a final concord made between them before the Justices Itinerant at Bristoll so that the Abbat should give him 10s. per annum for making Suit to the Court of Tikhill for the said Abbat and his successours This Thomas begot a certain son by name William Goschite This William begot a certain daughter by name Ioane and enfeoffed the House of Welbek of six Bovats of Land reserving to himself two Bovats of Land and the Capital Messuage afterwards he sold all his right to Iohn his brother who for Theft or Larceny was hanged at Notingham and his Land was an Eschaet in the hands of the Lords of Tikhill Afterwards came Ioane the daughter of the said William and impleaded the Lords of Tikhill concerning the said Land and got it before the Justices at Nottingham and enfeoffed Robert le Porter of Welbek who afterwards married her That Robert afterwards enfeoffed Henry de Screveton of that Land That Henry enfeoffed Petronilla de Sulkholm and afterwards married her Henry died without children And the said Petronilla feoffed Benedict de Thornebiry who afterwards married her That Benedict after the death of Petronilla sold his whole right to the Abbat and Covent of Wellebek by the Kings licence And the Abbat did Suit at the Court of Tykhill from three weeks to three weeks for the said Land Memorandum Anno Dom. 1201. 2 Ioh. the day of the Translation of St. Martin Iohn son of Thomas de Cukeney was convict by a certain appealer viz. Raph de Edenestowe and afterwards hanged and
made his Fine before the Treasurer and Barons of the Exchequer of 40s. for his relief of the Lands which he had by Inheritance of the said Sibyll his mother She was it seems daughter and heir of Iohn de Braytoft William son of Roger de Cressi 13 E. 2. made Fine with the King of 40s. concerning his relief for certain Lands and Tenements which he held in Surflet of the King in Fee Farm paying 40s. per annum for all service by pretext of a Charter of King Richard the first made to Walter de Braytoft Ancestor of the said William de Cressi Rogerus de Cressi Dom. de Hodesac temp H. 2. ... ux 1 -Cecilia fil Gerv. de Clifton Willielmus de Creffi 2. Joh. Rogerus de Cressy-Sibylla fil haer Dom. Willielmus de Cressy 9 E. 1 -Joana Hugo de Cressy Johannes de Cressy miles 21 E. 3. 6 R. 2 -Agnes Hugo de Cressy ob s. p. temp H. 4. Johannes de Clifton Kath. miles 2 H. 4 -Rad Makarell mar 2. Johannes de Markham miles -Elizab Kath. -Joh Erghom mil. Elizab. .... Vavasor Joanna Rogerus Hugo Walterus de Braytoft Com. Linc. Johannes de Braytoft Rogerus de Cressy-Sibylla fil haer Edmund de Cressy Knight held this Mannor for his life and in 3 E. 3. claimed the Priviledges Yet I find that Hugh de Cressy son and heir of William son of Roger de Cressy 9 E. 3. gave the King 40s. for â—is relief of the Mannor of Kysegate in the Town of Surflete in Lincolneshire There was also a certain Hugh de Cressy who 9 E. 2. had licence to give seven Mess. and four Bov. of Land in Blyth and Hodesake to three Chaplains in the Chapel of St. Iohn the Evangelist near Blyth c. because the said Hugh had committed Felony There was a Fine 21 E. 3. between Iohn son and heir of Hugh de Cressy of Rysgate Chr. Quer. by Raph de Quadryng his Guardian ad Lucrandum and Richard de Colishull and Ioane his wife Deforc. of the Mannor of Hodisak with the Appurtenances which Edmund de Cressy Chr. held for term of his life of the Inheritance of the said Ioane and which after his decease should have reverted to the said Richard and Ioane and the heirs of Ioane but by that Fine was settled on the said Iohn and his heirs By and her 1 R. 2. between Iohn de Annesley Chr. Peter de Dalton Clark Robert de Morton and Iohn de Kyneton Clarks Quer. and Iohn de Cressy Chr. and Agnes his wife Deforc. of the Mannor of Hodesak c. whereby it was settled on the said Iohn and Agnes and the heirs of Iohn de Cressy The Jury 7 R. 2. found that Iohn de Cressy Chr. died seized of this Mannor and that Hugh de Cressy was his son and heir And in 9 H. 4. the Jury said that Hugh son of Sir Iohn de Cressy Chr. when he died held in Fee Tayl the Mannor of Risgate and the fourth part of the Mannor of Braytoft in Lincolneshire and the Mannor of Hodsak c. and that Katherin late wife of Iohn de Clifton Chr. and Robert Markham were his heirs The Partition was made at Retford 10 H. 4. between Sir Iohn Markham the elder Judge and Raph Makarell who married Katherin the relict of Sir Iohn Clifton as in Clifton may also be seen The Mannors of Risegate Braytoft and Exton in Lincolneshire of which last Hugh de Cressy of Oulecotes held the moyety for his life fell to the share of the Judges posterity and since Sir Robert Markham of Cotham destroyed the Family Cressy Hall in Lincolneshire became the Seat of Sir Edward Heron Knight of the Bath whose son Sir Henry Heron now hath it and all or most of these Lands Hodsak yet remain to the Family of Clifton and is now the Inheritance of William Clifton under age only son of Sir Clifford Clifton Knight son of Sir Gervas Clifton Knight and Baronet Raph Makarell 7 H. 5. had on his Seal within his name Three Fishes erect 2. and 1. I suppose Makarells Sir Iohn Markhams Seal 10 H. 4. is Party per Fesse and on the upper part a Demy Lion Rampant and so are the Arms in Sedgebrook Hall in Lincolneshire set up by Sir Iohn Markham the Lord Chief Justice his son by another venter as in Maplebec is said who built the House from whom it is descended to Sir Robert Markham Baronet only there is A Border Arg. for a difference the upper part is Or the other Azure and the Demy Lion Gules but now they only make a Chief of the upper half like the Seal of Richard de Furneux mentioned in Carleton In the year 1188. on the Eve of St. Iames in the Monastery of Blyth was there an agreement between R. de Pauliaco Prior of Blyth and Galfr. son of Richard de Hodesac who confirmed Wlmerus de Hodesac Richardus de Hodsac Galfridus de Hodisoc 1188. Rogerus de Hoddishoc Thom. de Hodesak 31 E. 1. Johannes de Hodsak Custancia-Henr de Grendon Henricus de Grendon 18 E. 3 -Isabella Willielmus Will. de Grendon Rector de Babworth 31 E. 1. Willielmus to that Priory all the Land which Wlmer his Grandfather gave and the moyety of the Medow called Fleucesheng which Richard his father gave and engaged himself to pay yearly to the said Priory 18d. whether with the Aid or help of the Prior and Monks he could hold that Land or nor Adam de Novomercato confirmed to Roger son of Galfr. de Hodishoc the whole Land of Wermeswrth with the Appurtenances which Henry de Novomercato his brother sold him William de Cressy Lord of Hoddesak and Thomas son of Roger de Hoddesak in the year 1272. agreed concerning the Chapel of the Town of Hoddishac saving to the said Thomas his wife and heirs free ingress to hear Divine Service the rest he released to the Community of the Town of Hoddisac Thomas de Hoddesac and William de Grendon Rector of Babworth 31 E. 1. agreed that the said Thomas should give his whole Mannor of Wermundesworth with the Advowson of the Church c. and whatsoever the said Thomas had in Hoddesok Woodhouse Holme Blyth and Flyxthorp to Henry de Grendon brother of the said William and Custancia daughter of Iohn son of the said Thomas and their heirs and the said William was after forty daies to re-infeoff the said Thomas in the said Mannor c. for life and to sustain the said Custance with meat and drink c. Henry de Grendon and Isabell his wife 18 E. 3. gave and conveyed to Custance de Grendon his mother and William her son 34s. 8d. yearly Rent out of their Lands in Blyth together with the whole Rent of Holme and 5s. and one pound of Cummin in Flixthorpe Hermeston IN the time of William Arch-bishop of York who lived 18 Steph. William de
the Bonytons holds a Mannor there to this day And Stauntons came part to Tate and part to Shirley of Staunton Harold in Leicestershire where Sir Robert Shirley Baronet Father of the present Sir Robert built a very beautiful Church He hath here three Farms having twelve yard Land belonging to them Mr. Anthony Tate hath seven yard Land and an half which with his house came by his mother the daughter of Richard Stanley who dwelt in it Lands belonging to the Monastery of the holy Trinity at Repingdon in Sutton Bonington and West Leke and also the Advowson of the Church of St. Helen of West Leke descended to the Earl of Huntington from Sir Iohn Porte Knight who was one of the Justices of the Kings Bench 24 H. 8. and married Ioan daughter and heir of Iohn Fitz-Herbert of Etwall in Darbyshire by whom he had Sir Iohn Port Knight his son who left three daughters and heirs Elizabeth Wife of Sir Thomas Gerard Knight Dorothy Wife of Sir George Hastings Earl of Huntingdon and Margaret of Sir Thomas Stanhope named in Shelford The Rectory of Bonington in the forementioned Ms. is xiil. value and Mr. Barkeley Patron The Rectory of Sutton viii Mark and Prior of Repingdon Patron In the Kings Books now the Rectory of St. Michaels in Sutton Bonington is 15l. 2s. 1d and the Rectory of St. Annes there 4l. 17s. 6d. and the Lord Barkeley Patron of both In Sutton Bonington Church upon an old Tomb there Hic jacent Thom. Staunton Ar. Milisenta uxor ejus filia Willielmi Meringmilitis quae Milisenta obiit 12. Aug. 1456. He bears Varrey Arg. and sable an Annulet Or and impales with Mering Arg. upon a Chevron sable three Escallops Or. Another Staunton about that Tomb impales with Arg. a Pile in Point Gules Chandoys Upon another Tomb in the Chancel Orate pro animabus Johannis Berwyke Margaretae uxoris suae Jacobi filii eorum qui de hoc saeculo migravit anno 1528. He bears Arg. 3. Bears Heads erased sable In a Window there Or a Lyon Ramp Azure the Lord Segrave and Gules a Lyon Ramp Or rather Arg. if it be Mowbray Vpon a Tomb there Here lyeth Myghell Stanley deceased the last day of May 1564. and Mary his Wife that was with Child the same day and delivered of a son named Myghell the second of October the same year This same Myghell Stanley deceased was son of Iohn Stanley and left his Brethren William and Henry to see this Work made He bears Or three Birds Legs erased gules Upon a Chief indented Azure three Stags Heads Or impales with a Chevron betwixt three Towers In the other Church an ancient Tomb defaced it seems it was a Staunton Varrey Arg. and sable a Cressent for a difference impales with Mering as before upon that Tomb is Bassets Arms c. Anthony Feilding sold Mr. Grey of Langley the house and ten yard Land heretofore belonging to Repton Priory who since bought of old Mr. Tate of Sutton about three yard Land and an half Mr. Grey disinherited his eldest son for matching against his consent so his two youngest sons share with the eldest Thomas Gadde hath 3. yard Land and an half in Sutton descended from his Ancestors Charles Cock hath four Tho Strong four bought heretofore of Sir George Hastings Gilbert Millington attaint had four also Kinston IN Doomesday Book written Cheniston so called probably from some owner as most Towns of that termination in this County generally are Two Mannors in it at that time were made the fee of Hugh Earl of Chester which before the Conquest Leuvin and Richard had and paid for them to the publick Geld as three Bov. and an half The Land of them being then ten Bov. there under Earl Hugh one Sochm. had half a Carucat and nine Acres of Medow This in the time of Edward the Confessour was 30s. value then but 10s. Here were also several Mannors of the Land of the Taynes one Algar had before the Norman Invasion which paid for three Bov. The Land was two Car. This afterwards was held by Sauvinus of King William and he had there two Vill. with one Plow or Carucat and the seat of a Mill and ten Acres of Medow This in the Confesours time was 20s. value in the Conquerours 10s. Another Mannor of the â—aynland Vlchet had and paid the Assesment to the Geld for it as one Bov. and an half The Land was one Carucat This when the Conquerours survey was made Godric held but the men of the Country knew not by whom nor how There was one Vill. and six Acres of Medow In King Edwards time this was valued at 20s. then at 3s. Of the Tayn-land also in Chineston was there Soc to Radeclive as much as paid for one Carucat to the Tax The Land was two Carucats There eight Sochm. three Villans had three Carucats or Plows This Town was commonly esteemed a member of Radcliff upon Sore and the Tythes went to the Priory of Norton accordingly Peter Picot son of Peter Picot Lord of Ratcliff on Sore gave to God and the Church of the blessed Mary and St. Hardulf of Bredon in Frank Almes two Virgats of Land in Kingston Half a Carucat of Land here held of Thomas Picott 41 H. 3. was taken into the Kings Hand for a year and day being held before by one out-lawed for Felony There was a Tryal 10 E. 1. between Peter Picot Plaintiff and William Hasard and Hawisia his Wife Adam le Tailour and Robert le Irot Iort and their Wives for service of Land in Ratcliff and Kinston but the Judgement was for the Defendants that they ought none Thomas Hasard aged twenty eight years was 27 E. 1. found heir of William Hasard who had a House and some little Land here held of the King for 3s. 8l. Philip Hasard aged 〈◊〉 seven years 2 E. 3. was certified heir of Thomas William Seman 3 E. 2. is certified to be son and heir of Richard Seman who held a Mess. and two Virgats here of the King for 14s. per annum and doing homage and fealty to Sir Peter Picot and the service of 7s. per annum and a pair of Gilt Spurs Iohn de Leyk is certified 17 E. 2. to have held besides a certain Mannor in Leyk c. here in Kynston eight Virgats of Land four of the Prior of St. Cuthberts of Durham by the service of 12d. and four of Iohn de Langeton for 4s. per annum Iohn de Leyk his son and heir being then above fifteen years of age Nicholas the son of Adam le Taylour was also certified 17 E. 2. to have held here and in Ratcliff the third part of two Mess. and two Virgats of Land of the King in Capite paying 3s. 8d. yearly by the hands of the Sheriff Alice the daughter and heir of the said Nicholas being then above twenty years of age The Jury
There two Sochm. had one Car. and seven Acres of Medow And there William Peverell had in demesne two Car. and eleven Vill. and four Bord. having four Car. In Adbolton of the same Soc was there also six Bov. ad geldam There was also a Mannor in Adbolton which Godwin the Priest had before the Conquest rated to the Tax at six Bovats The Land one Car. There William Peverell had in Demesne one Car. and six Vill. and one Bord. having two Car. or Plows There was a Church and six Acres of Medow The value of this in the Confessours time was 10s. in the Conquerours 20s. The Family of Lutterell were the most eminent and ancient owners of Gamston that I next meet with The Sheriff William Briewerre 6 R. 1. gave account of xxxiiiis. of the Lands of Galfr. Luterell who had been misled as most of our Gentry were by Earl Iohn into a Rebellion against his brother King Richard the first In the first year of King Iohn the said Galfr. gave account of fifteen Marks to have seisin of xlivs. and viiiid. Land in Clifton Soke whereof he was disseised by occasion of Earl Iohn In the second year of King Iohn he with William Fitz-Walkelin was an over-seer of Hugh Bardolfs expence of xxxl. for inclosing of Bolsovre Park for King Iohn Andrew Lutterell 30 H. 3. had Free Warren in his Demesne Lands in Gameleston and Bruggeford 36 H. 3. he gave the King three Marks of Gold to have the liberty not to be Justice Sheriff or any other Bayly for the King during his whole life and that he should not be in Assizes Juries or recognizances In the 49 H. 3. Galfr. son and heir of Andrew Luterell deceased did his homage Robert Luterell 9 E. 1. claimed against Richard son of Raph Bugge seven Virgats and twelve Bovats and an half of Land with the Appurtenances in the County of Nott. as his right And Richard called to warrant Agnes de Vescy who came upon summons and further called to warrant Iohn de Ferrars under age son of Robert Galfr. Luterel 6 R. 1. 2 Joh. -Frethesenta-Henr de Novo mercato Pip. 3 H. 3. Ebor. Andreas Luterel 14 H. 3. Pip. Ebor. Galfr. Lutterell 49 H. 3. Robertus Luterel Chr. 9 E. 1. ob 25 E. 1 -Joana Galfr. Lutterell-Agnes Andreas Luterel Chr. -Beatricia fil Galf. Scrope 13 E. 2 -Hawisia Andreas Lutterell mil. ob 21 R. 2. Galf. Luterell Chr. defunct 7 H. 5 -Maria superst 7 H. 5. Godfr de Hilton 6 H. 5 -Hawisia-Thom de Belesby marit 1. Godfr Hilton fil haer 1 E. 4. Galfr. Hilton aet 15. 12 E. 4. Ric. Thymelby Ar. -Eliz una fil haered Johannes Thymelby mil. ob 3 E. 6 -Marg filia Joh. Boys Rich. Thymilby mil. -Katherina filia Rob. Tyrwhit mil. Johannes Thymilby Ar. -Maria filia Georgii S. Paul Elianora-Thom Goodhall Tho. Belesby infr aetat 1 H. 6. Johannes Pygot -Elizabetha haeres frat Fin. 8 H. 6. m. 16. Galfr. -Constantia fil Galfr. Scrope Guido Robertus Rector de Irnham de Ferrars by the Charter of William de Ferrariis Grandfather of the said Iohn his heir which Testified That the said Will. de Ferrariis gave the said Land to William de Vescy in Frank Marriage with Agnes his daughter Robert Luterell 25 E. 1. was dead he held certain Lands and Tenements in Gameleston and Bridgeford with the Advowson of the Church of Bridgeford of Robert de Tiptoft by the Service of half a Knights Fee and a Capital Mess. in Gameleston and xii Bovats in Demesne in Bridgeford he held in Gameleston five Virg. of Annora de Pierpont and five Bovats in Huckenhall belonging to the Mannor of Gamelston Galfr. Luterel his son and heir was then above 21 years of age Mr. Robert Luterell Parson of Irnham who about the year 1303. gave Lands to the Priory of Sempingham in Ketton Cotesmore Casteeton in the County of Rutland and in Stanford in the County of Lincolne to maintain three Chaplains one in the Church of St. Andrew at Irnham another in the Chappell of St. Mary beneath the Mannor he gave in Stanford and the third in the Conventual Church of Sempingham celebrating for his Soul and to sustain Scholars studying Divinity and Philosophy at Stanford in convenient times was of this Family it seems Galfr. Lutterell by his Deed dated at Irnham in Lincolnshire the first Sunday after Trinity 13 E. 2. settled the Mannor of Gameleston and Bruggford with the Advowson of the Church of Brugeford with all his Lands and Tenements in Basingfeild and other places which the Lady Ioane wife of Sir Robert Lutterell held for her life on Guy Lutterell during the life of the said Galfr. afterwards to Andrew son of the said Galfr. and to Beatrice his wife daughter of Galfr. Scroop and the heirs of their bodies for want of which to Galfr. brother of Andrew and to Constance his wife sister of the said Beatrix and the heirs of theirs remainder to the right heirs of Galfr. the Father There was a like settlement then made of Irnham and Salteby and Lands in Correby Kesseby and Haverthorp c. in Lincolneshire It appears that Sir Andrew Lutterell settled the Mannor of Gameleston and Briggeford and the Advowson of Brigsford and all his Lands in Briggesford Gameleston Basingfeld Normanton Torlaston Keworth and Nottingham on himself and Hawisia his wife and the heirs of their two bodies remainder to his right heirs and that 14 R. 2. Sir Andrew Lutterell Chr. was the heir of the said Sir Andrew the elder Galfr. Lutterell settled this Mannor with the Advowson of the Church of Brigford on William Belers and others Galfr. Loterell Chivaler Lord of Irnham about 6 H. 5. died seised of the Mannor of Gamelstone and Brigeford and Hoton Paynell in Yorkshire c. leaving the Lady Hawisia de Belesby the wife of Galfr. de Hilton his sister and heir Galfr. or Godfr de Hilton was his son and heir 1 E. 4. who had daughters and heirs one I guess was Hawisia wife of Laurence Brewerne but 't is certain that Elizabeth wife of Richard Thymelby Esquire was one whose son and heir Sir Iohn Thymelby did his homage 14 H. 8. after the death of his Father the said Richard which happened 24 Apr. then last past being seised of the moyety of the Mannors of Gamelston and Brigford and Advowson c. the said Sir Iohn being then above forty years of age who died 3 E. 6. and left Richard Thimelby his son and heir whose son Iohn Thimelby Esquire as I take it sold his interest to Sir Henry Pierpont Father of Robert Earl of Kingston Father of the Right Honourable Henry Marquess of Dorchester the present intire owner of all the three Townships There was a Fine levyed 14 and also 15 H. 7. between Sir Henry Willughby Knight Thomas Hunston and Thomas Hartwell Compl. and Lawrence Brewerne
which Stephen de la Hay 11 E. 1. said he was wont to receive out of Cotum in the name of Service The Mannor of Cotum by a Fine between Iohn de Ludham and Iohn de Vallibus at York 31 E. 1. was settled on the said Iohn de Vallibus and Constancia his wife and the heirs which he should beget on her body remainder to the right heirs of the said Iohn de Vaux By another Fine at York 2 E. 3. between Iohn de Vaus and Sibyll his wife and Thomas de Sibethorpe Cler. it was settled on the said Iohn and Sibyll and the heirs of their bodies for want of which on Arnold son of Iohn de Mounteney and the heirs of his remainder to Robert brother of Arnald and the heirs of his body remainder to Iohn brother of Robert and his remainder to the right heirs of Iohn de Vaus In the Record of Nomina Villarum 9 E. 2. Iohn de Monteney was certified to be Lord of this place 't is possible it might be by the marriage of Iohn de Vaus his mother Thomas de Leyk Knight 38 E. 3. was certified to hold a Knights Fee in Cotham of William Deyncourt This afterwards became the inheritance of that Family whereof there was said to be two or three Sir Iohn Leeks the last whereof had two sons the younger of which was Iohn Leek who married Alice the daughter and heir of Iohn Grey and was Progenitor of the Earl of Scarsdale and of Sir Francis Leek of Newark Knight and Baronet the elder was Simon Leek who married Ioane the daughter and heir of Sir Iohn Talbot of Swannington in the County of Leicester the widow of Sir Thomas Malory Knight and by her had four daughters and heirs the second whereof Margaret was married to Sir Iohn Markham the Chief Justice Progenitor of Sir Robert Markham of Sedgebrook in the County of Lincolne Baronet Elizabeth the third was wife to Sir Hugh Hercy of Grove Anne wife of Richard Willoughby was the fourth but Mary second wife of Sir Gyles D'aubeney was the first in whose right the said Sir Giles held by the Courtesie of England the Mannors of Cotum and Houghton by Newarke and left a daughter and heir by her called Ioane who carried this Lordship to Sir Robert Markham her husband son of Sir Robert brother by their Father Sir Iohn Markham the elder one of the Justices of the Kings Bench to the said Sir Iohn Markham the Chief Justice who made the match In Peverton in the County of Somerset was this Epitaph Hic jacet Domina Maria D'aubeney â—xor Egidii D'aubeney militis quondam filia Simonis Leeke Armigeri Com. Notinghamiae quae obiit 17. mensis Februarii Anno Domini 1442. Sis testis Christe Many make this Simon Leek a Knight but the mistake I suppose came by reason there was a Knight of that name living in the latter end of the Reign of Edward the third as in Kilvington may be observed The Family of Markham made this their principal Seat and were of great note Sir Iohn Markham was a Captain at Stoke Field Anno 1488. but as the Tradition goes was an unruly spirited man and striving with the people of Benington in Lincolneshire about the Boundaries of their Lordships which are contiguous he kill'd some or other of them some have it that he hang'd the Priest for which retiring he lay hid at a place in Lincolneshire which the elder Sir Iohn Markham his great Grandfather had by his wife Elizabeth the sister and co-heir of Hugh and daughter of Sir Iohn Cressy of Hodsak from them called Cressy Hall where as saith my Author Francis Markham it was his good Fortune to entertain the Lady Margaret mother to King Henry the seventh who not only beg'd his Pardon but married her Kinswoman Anne the daughter of Sir George Nevill to his son who was likewise called Sir Iohn Markham and had a son by her called Iohn who died before him but left a son born at Sireston 1536. called Robert but after her death he married Margery the daughter of Raph Langford by whom he had a son named Robert and a daughter married to Robert Moreton of Bawtrée and eleven more Children after her he married a third wife Anne the daughter and likewise sister and coheir Johannes de Markham legis peritus .... fil Nic. Bothomsell Robertus de Markham legis peritus ..... fil ... de Caunton Johannes de Markham mil. Justic. de Banco -Elizabetha sor cohaer Hug. Cressy -Millecent fil .... Bekering relicta Nic. Burdon mil. Robertus de Markham mil. -Elizab fil haer Nic. Burdon mil. Robertus Markham mil. de Cotham -Joana fil Egidii Daubeney haer matris Mariae fil ejusdem Simonis Leek de Cotham Ar. Johannes Markham miles-Alicia fil Willielmi Skypwith mil. Johannes Markham mil. ob 1558. 1 Eliz. -Anna fil Georg. Nevile milit -Margeria fil Rad. Langford -Anna fil cohaer Johannis Strelley relict Richardi Stanhope Johannes Markham Ar. ob ante patrem-Katherina fil Antonii Babington Robertus Markham-Maria fil Franc. Leeke mil. -Jana fil Willielmi Burnell de Winkeburne Robertus Markham miles de Cotham -Anna fil Johannis Warburton Com. Cestr. mil. -Anna fil Rob. Thorold de Haugh vel Winifrid 1 Johan Markham 2 Robert 3 Daniel 4 Alexand. 5 Philip. Philip. Markham ob ap Haugh in Com. Linc. 1669 Franciscus Thomas à quo familia de Allerton Johannes Markham mil. Capital Justic. -Margareta fil cohaer Simonis Leeke Ar. of Iohn Strelley Esquire the relict of Sir Richard Stanhope Knight and by her had Thomas Markham who married Mary the daughter of Rese Griffin and was Progenitor of the Markhams of Allerton and two or three daughters and died 1 Eliz. 1558. He was in very great prosperity but at length utterly ruined yet the Earl of Shrowsbury whom he unadvisedly made his enemy help'd to raise his Children His Grandchild Robert succeeded here whose first wife was Mary daughter of Sir Francis Leeke his second Iane daughter of William Burnell of Winkeburne by whom he had Roger Markham By his first wife he had many Children His eldest son Robert had also two Wives his first Agnes daughter of Sir Iohn Warburton of Cheshire his second Winifred daughter of Robert Thorold by whom he had Philip Markham Esquire who died 1669. the rest were dead before This last Sir Robert was a fatal unthrift and destroyer of this Eminent Family he had a brother called Francis Markham who was a Souldier and a Scholar he was admitted into the University of Heidelberg 12 Febr. 1595. He collected the History of his own Family and wrote certain Decades of Epistles to Eminent Persons concerning the Art of War which he Printed This Township is now decayed the Houses pulled down and most of it inclosed being the inheritance of his Grace the Duke of Newcastle The Rectory of Cotteham and Advowson of the Vicarage late belonging to the
Priory of Thurgarton 24 Nov. 38 H. 8. were granted to Iohn Bellowe and Iohn Broxholme Esquire together with the Tythe Barn of Cotteham with the Appurtenances then in the tenure of Iohn Markham The Vicarage of Cottome was 8l. when the Prior of Thurgarton was Patron 'T is now 7l. 18s. 1d. ob in the Kings Books and I suppose the Duke of Newcastle Patron who alloweth towards 20l. a year to one to officiate sometimes but none have been presented of late In the Chancel by the North Wall is a good Tomb of .... Markham In the Windows is Cheque Arg. and Gules a Bend sable Bekering And Arg. a Lion Ramp queve furchè sable Cressy Stoke by Newark Stoches and Efloches THis Stoches was very much parcelled in old time and so continues some of it which was rated to the Dane-geld at one Bovat and an half was of the Soc of Newark and of the Bishop of Lincolnes Fee which some Sochmen held Another part of this Town of Stoches was the Fee of Walter de Ayncurt where before the Conquest Tori had a Mannor which was discharged to the publick Tax for six Bovats The Land then was certified to be two Car. There was afterwards in Demesne one Car. three Vill. five Bord. having half a Car. and sixty Acres of Medow In the Confessours time this was 6l. sclo or 60s. in the Conquerours 40. Osbert held it And it had Soc in Holton Another part was of Ilbert de Lacies Fee which Turchill had before and discharged his Mannor to the Geld for five Bovats though the Land was then known to be two Car. Manfrid held it of Ilbert and there had half a Car. and three Sochm. five Bordars having one Car. and two Oxen plowing and sixty four Acres of Medow In the Confessours time this was 20s. in the Conquerours 15s. value Another Mannor in Stoches before the Normans came had Sbernecroc which he paid for as two Bovats and an half to the Geld. The Land was one Car. This afterwards became the Fee of Berengarius de Todeni which Raph his Man held and there had one Car. two Vill. three Bord. plowing with two Oxen. There was forty Acres of Medow This in the time of King Edward before the Conquest was 12s. when King William made his Survey 10s. value Here was a Family which took their name from this place of which I find several but cannot give an exact account of them The County of Nott. 11 May in the sixth year of King Iohn was committed to Peter de Stokes as long as the King should please Robert son of Stephen the Knight of Stokes by the consent of Margaret his wife and Stephen his son and heir gave to God and the Church of St. Peter at Thurgarton two Selions or Leyes by Templecroft without the Town of Stoke towards Newark to make a Toft and one Bovat of Land and all his Medow in Withenes and a Path for Foot-men and Horse-men to Fiskerton Ferry over the Cheveciis Heads of his great Furlong by the Trent and the like which Stephen son of this Sir Robert de Stokes Knight confirmed Here were many Benefactors to the Priory of whom that Covent got small parcells of Land Hugh Blanchard the Chaplain of Stoke gave part of a Toft four Selions of Arable Land a Rood of Medow and the like which he had of Iohn de Roldeston of Stoke chief Lord of the Fee whose wife Maud the daughter of Robert de Harston in her widowhood confirmed it so did William the son of the said Iohn de Roldeston Robert Payn of Neuwerks gave a Toft and Croft in Stoke and some small Rents and half an Oxgange of Arable c. which Hugh Cundi held of him in Villanage together with the said Hugh his whole off-spring and all his Chattels Thomas de Bekering Knight son of Thomaâ— released all his right and title in half a Bovat of Land which should descend to him by inheritance after the death of Thomas de Bekering his great Grandfather to the said Prior and Covent And Roger de Stokes confirmed to them all the Lands and Tenements they had of his Fee in Stoke by Newark which confirmation seems to bear daâ—e 15 E. 2. Iohn the Prior and the Covent of Thurgarton passed to Sir Iohn de Munteney and the Lady Constantia his wife a Toft and Croft containing three Roods lying next the Messuage of the said Sir Iohn on the East in Stoke to them and the heirs of their bodies paying 2s. a year for the security of which the said Sir Iohn made a Bovat which Robert Moxly held of him in Stoke in Villanage to be liable to their distress Robert de Stokes paid two Marks for one Knights Fee here which I take to be of Deyncourts part The Bishop of Lincolne infeoffed the Ancestor of Dive Lord of Kingerby in Lincolneshire who had his Court kept at Balderton and was succeeded by Bussy of Hogham as in Balderton more particularly Galfr. de Stokes was found 51 H. 3. to have held something in Darbishire of Richard de Sandiacre and likewise of the Fee of Kinnerby in Stoke twenty Bovats in Newark four Bovats and in Balderton eight Bovats of the same Fee of the Fee of Bekering in Stoke ten Bovats four in Sireston and sixteen in Screveton there noted Iohn son of Paulinus de Stoke was found Cousin and heir of this Geoffrey And Matilda sister of Iohn de Stokes 21 E. 1. was found his heir An Assize 16 E. 1. came to be recognized before the Justices at Nott. if Robert de Stokes the Uncle of Robert de Omesby and of Robert de Ayleston was feised of one Mess. one Wind-mill one hundred and fifty one Acres of Land thirty five of Medow nine of Pasture 6l. 9d. Rent in Stokes by Farndon which Henry de Gauy and Isabell his wife then held and called to warrant Stephen de Stokes who was summoned in Northamptonshire and came and voided the warranty because the Jury found that Isabell had not done him Homage which she pleaded she did at Siberton In the Record of Nom. Vill. 9 E. 2. Stoke answered for a whole Villa and Henry de S. Licio and Isabell de Gauy are certified to be Lords of it The year before 8 E. 2. Henry de S. Licio had an Ad quod Damnum that he might give ten Acres and an half to the Master of the Hospital of S. Leonard at Stoke and his Successours which shews he held of Iohn de Bussy and he of the Bishop of Lincolne This Hospital is very ancient for Raph de Aincurt in the time of Henry the first when he Founded the Priory of Thurgarton excepted 10s. per annum of his gift to the infirm of Stokes but who Founded it I have not yet discovered It had Lands in Newark and very many other Towns within that Soc given by several Benefactors The Jury 12 E. 3. found it not to
eleven Tofts and four Bovats in Dornethorpe and Colingham in the year of our Lord 1263. and levied a Fine at Lincolne 47 H. 3. five weeks after Easter the same year for which the said Roger and Amabil were to be taken into the benefits and Prayers which should from that time be done or made in that Church for ever Adam de Harthill had two Bovats here by Fine 16 H. 3. from Nicolaus de Breydeston and Alice his wife before Stephen de Segrave Adam de Novomercato William de Eboraco William Basset Mr. Robert de Shardeslogh Mr. Roger de Cantelupe and William de Insula the Kings Justices Itinerant at Notingham the day after Trinity Sunday The Prior of Thurgarton and the Abbat of Peterborow agreed that all the Tenants of that Prior and Covent in Dornethorp ought and were accustomed each to Plow three daies in the year viz. in Winter Seed time in Lent Seed time and in the time of Fallowing Warecti Each Plow was to have every day four Loaves and four Herrings They were likewise to Reap two daies and an half in Autumn and to have their wonted meat of the Abbat once in the day and the second day likewise if he would have them all the day otherwise after nine of the Clock they were to go away without meat the third day they were not to Reap but till nine of the Clock without meat Besides they were to put into the Abbats Fold all the Sheep which they had in their possession or custody in the Winter except their own or their childrens which lived with them in the house manu pasti and if any were sold or removed from them they were to procure as many others in their places for the Abbats Fold Besides they were to attend the Courts at Colingham and the like Grey of Landford had a Mess. and twelve Acres of Land here and as much in Landford said to be held by petty Serjeancy of the King in Capite by paying 11s. 8d. per annum The Mannor of Darnethorpe late belonging to the Monastery of Thurgarton together with the Lands and Tenements and appurtenances thereto belonging there and in South Colingham 4 Iuly 36 H. 8. were granted to Iohn Bellowe and Iohn Broxholme and their heirs The Church I believe hath been long gone Scarle Doomsd. Scorveley And Besthorpe THis was of the Sok of Newark and was rated to the publick Geld in the time of King William at two Carucats and an half In the Record of Nom. Vill. 9 E. 2. Scarle and Besthorp answered for one Villa and the Bishop of Lincolne was certified to be Lord. There was a Recovery 1 H. 8. wherein William Pocklington and Elizabeth his wife claimed against Robert de Lawethorpe of Yorkshire Gent. one Croâ—â— fourteen Acres of Medow eighty Acres of Land and twenty of Pasture in South-Scarle The Vicarage of Scarle was 10l. and a Prebendary there I suppose of Lincolne Patron 'T is now 5l. 2s. 6d. in the Kings Books and the King Patron Gretton Girton Doomsd. Greton THis was also the Bishop of Lincolnes of the Soc of Newark and paid the Tax for one Car. and an half The Knights Templars got some interest here and the Jury 8 E. 1. found that the Master had straitened the passage of the water of Trent with his Weres at Gretton Howe so that Boats and other Vessels could not pass as they were wont which was a great Nusance for which he was amerced and the Sheriff had a Precept to inlarge is as it formerly had been at the costs of the said Master of the Templars by view of the Jury In Nomina Villar 9 E. 2. Gretton and Mering answered for one Villa and the Bishop of Lincoln and the heirs of Iohn de Mering were then the Lords Wiggesley THis place also is reckoned with several others of the Soc of Newark and was rated to the Dane-geld or publick Tax of those times at seven Bovats King Henry the second confirmed the gift which Robert the second of that name Bishop of Lincolne made to the Priory of St. Katherins of five Bovats in Wiggesle Hugh son of Lambert de Bussy 41 H. 3. had Free Warren granted in Wigisille And Iohn Dyve had likewise 5 Iun. 5 E. 1. Free Warren in Balderton and Wiggesley which Iohn de Bussy claimed at Nott. in the Quo Warranto 3 E. 3. The Prior of St. Katherins without Lincolne at the same time claimed to have the liberty to hold all his Tenements in Newarke Codington and Wygesle well and peaceably and in the 5 E. 3. he had Free Warren granted in the two latter Thornehawe and Wygesleye 9 E. 2. answered for one Villa the Lords then were said to be Richard Peres Iames Peres and Iohn de Ely But it appears that 11 H. 7. Edmund Bussy Esquire suffered a Recovery of the Mannor of Wygesley one Mess. three hundred Acres of Land fifty of Medow one hundred of Pasture and sixty of Wood with the Appurtenances in Wygesley Spaldford North Clifton and South Clifton and called c. Iohn Smalley and the same Edmund and Alice his wife 16 H. 7. suffered another of the same parcellâ— Bussies Mannor held of Newarke Castis and is now become the inheritance of Sir Rich. Earl St. Katherins share was granted 36 H. 8. to Iohn Bellowe and Edward Bales and their heirs Cliftons North and South IN these Towns were four Mannors of the Bishop of Lincolne's Fee and one of Roger de Buslies One Mannor Vlviet had before the Conquest and was rated to the Dane-tax for it at six Bov. and an half The Land being then certified to be three Carucats There afterwards had Bishop Remigius three Sochm. on three Bovats of this Land and one Bordar with one Car. there was thirty one Acres of Medow Pasture Wood half a leuc long and three qu. broad In the Confessours time this was 20s. value in the Conquerours 10s. Raph held it Another Mannor before the Normans came Frane had which was rated to the Geld at three Bov. and an half The Land of it was twelve Bov. There Bishop Remigius had one Car. six Vill. and two Bord. having one Car. and an half there was fourteen Acres of Medow This was 40s. in the Confessours time when the Conquerour made the Survey but 20s. value Siuvale held it Another Mannor in Clifton Vlviet had before the change which he paid the Dane-geld for as one Bov. and an half It was waste Raph held it There was the fourth part of a Church and eight Acres of Medow In the Saxon times the value was 10s. then in the Norman beginnings but 5s. Another Mannor Agemund had and in the Confessours time paid the Geld for it as two Bov. and an half The Land was then found to be one Car. The same Agemund held it under the Bishop and had two Bov. of Land three Car. and
seven Car. and three Acres of Medow pasture Wood one leu long and one leu broad This kept the value it had in the Confessours time viz. 40s. When the Conquerours Survey was taken one Richard held it who probably was Father or Ancestor of Raph called Brito who together with his son Reginald de Anesleia gave the Church of Felley to the Priory of St. Cuthbert of Radeford near Wirkesop in the year 1156. 2 H. 2. which was shortly after confirmed by Pope Alexander the third in the second year of his Pontificate in the year of our Lord 1161. I find in the Pipe Rolls 22 H. 2. that Reginald de Anneslega gave account of one hundred Marks of the Amercements of the Forest. The next that I have noted was Raph or Ranulph de Anesley to whom the Sheriff of Nottss was by the Kings Precept 1 H. 3. to deliver seisin of all his Lands which he had in this County when he departed from the Faith and Service of King Iohn Father of that King to whose Faith and Service he was then returned The next year viz. 2 H. 3. Raph de Anesley was quit from the Office of Coroner in this County because he had a great infirmity Reginald Marc made an House in the Forest of Shirewood at Aneslegh so strong and built after such a manner that 4 H. 3. it was thought it might chance to bring damage to the neighbouring parts Reginald de Anesley son of this Raph confirmed to the Priory of Felley the gift which his Father made to Walter the Prior and the Canons of Robert son of Richard del Broc his Villain with his whole sequel and likewise one Bovat which Galfr. son of Richard del Broc held in the Fields of Annesley which his said Father Raph gave to God and the Church of All Saints at Annesley to find a Lamp burning all the hours which were Sung in that Church Baldwin de Paunton the Sheriff gave account amongst other things 25 H. 3. of one Mark of Reginald de Annesleg and Sibyll de Sancta Maria for having four justices 't is likely to see the acknowledgement of some Fine in those times ordinarily performed in several Courts by four lawful Knights upon the Kings Writ for the having or executing whereof I suppose the Mark was paid an example of which is also noted in Carcolston Reginald de Annesley paid 4l. for two Knights Fees in the time of Henry the third in Annesleg with the Appurtenances then held of Raph de Fressenville who had part of the Barony of Hubert Fitz-Raph the other part was then Iohn de Stutevilles of Kirkeby viz. fifteen Knights Fees Iohn de Annesle was High Sheriff of these Counties of Nott. and Derb. 14 E. 1. and so continued five or six years together as appears by the Pipe Rolls of those times By a Fine 18 E. 2. the Mannor of Annesleye with the Appurtenances and twenty five Mess. one Mill thirty three Bovats of Land fifty seven Acres of Medow three of pasture twelve of Wood 34s. 8d. Rent and the third part of a Mill and Rent of one pound of Cummin in Gypesmere Gouerton Bleseby Morton Birton Bulcoâ—e Lowdham Kneveton and Crophill Botiller were settled on Iohn de Annesleye and Anora his wife and the heirs of their bodies remainder to the right heirs of Iohn Iohn de Annesley in the great Eyre before William de Herle and his fellow Justices at Nott. 3 E. 3. pleaded that King Edward the first by his Charter bearing date at Newstede in Shirewood 4 Octob. in the eighth year of his Reign granted and confirmed to Iohn de Annesley his Father whose heir he was that he and his heirs should have Free Warren in all their Demesne Lands in Annesley whereupon it was allowed by the Court The King 2 E. 3. granted to Iohn de Annesley the custody of the Honour of Peverell in these Counties of Nott. and Derb. Iohn de Annesley Chivaler married Isabell the daughter and heir of Margaret one of the three sisters and heirs of Sir Iohn Chaundos and had Livery 23 May 50 E. 3. of certain Lands in Oxfordshire which Sir Richard Damory held for life in Fee Farm for fourscore and one pound per annum viz. the Mannor of Hedyngton and Hundred of Bolynden and Nethyate but it seems by Mr. Robert Glover's Scheme of the Descent of this Family which for want of other light I am forced to make use of in this place almost against my judgement by reason the time will scarce bear it that he had no issue by her but a son called also Sir Iohn Annesley by another wife who was Father of Thomas Father of Thomas Father of the last Iohn de Annesley William de Wakebrugge and Robert de Annesley Parson of Rodyngton Founded a Chantry in the Church of Annesley for a Secular Priest whereof Iohn de Breton was the first to make special mention of them two and Iohn de Annesley in his Mass whilest they should live and for their Souls when dead as also for the Souls of Iohn de Annesley Knight and Annora his wife and of their Father and Mother The presentation of a fit Chaplain was to remain to the said William and Robert during their lives then to devolve to the said Iohn de Annesley and the heirs Males of his body and â—or want of such to Thomas his brother and the heirs Males of his for want whereof to their brother Gregory and the heirs Males of his and in case of failure of all to the Prior and Covent of Felley and their successors The Writ of Ad quod damnum was 35 E. 3. upon which the Jury found it not to the Kings loss if he granted them licence to give eight Mess. and ten Bovats of Land whereof five Mess. and six Bovats were in Annesley Annesley Woodhouse and Kirkby Woodhouse and three Mess. and four Bovats were in Bleseby Gourton and Gippesmere and that there then remained to the Feoffees of Sir Iohn de Annesley besides twenty Marks per annum and Lands in Cruch held of Roger Beler and in Rudington held of Iohn Pavely at which place a Branch of this Family of Annesley was shortly after resident which continued there almost till my time The Kings licence for this Chantry was dated 10 Febr. 36 E. 3. and Iohn Arch-bishop of York his Confirmation 27 Ian. 1373. Thomas de Annesley Lord of the Town 1 H. 5. required of his Free-holders and Tenants within his dominion of Annesley that he might inclose a certain place called Nicoll leys to his own profit for one year because of dolationis the laying out a certain Hedge between the Fields of Wodhouse Field for which he gave them before-hand 3s. 4d. for the Fabrick of Annesley Church The Ground plat of the South East Corner of Ausâ—ey Parâ— with the Redeings â— Iohn de Annesley 14 H. 6.
ten and eight Bovats of his Land in Tibbeself to sustain two Canons of that Covent who should daily celebrate in that Church of Felley for ever The Witnesses were William the Prior of Thurgarton Robert de Wylieby Galfr. Berri William de Heriz Reginald de Annesley Yvo de Heriz Roger de Aencort Raph de Wynfeld Roger de Somervill Ywan Baeton and others William Pitè of Tibbeself released to the Canons of Felley and their Successours the Homage and all the right and claim which he had in the heirs of Sir William de Heriz and in all that Land with the Appurtenances which Thomas the Miller sometime held of Warin Pitè his Father in Wylleby on the Wold Galfr. de Langley for the health of his own Soul his Fathers Mothers and his Wives Christina and Matilde his Children Ancestors Successours Friends and Benefactors and all the faithful departed gave to God St. Mary and Sir Raph the Prior of Felley and the Canons there serving God and their Successours his whole Land which he had in Essover viz. Peynstonhyrst which he bought of Symon de Marcham Rector of the Church of Essover and Willamfeld which he bought of William de Vston so that his name and the names of his Wives before mentioned and the Souls of his Ancestors and Successours should be daily named and specified in the Mass which is sung for the Benefactors of the said house and that every year one Mass should be solemnly celebrated with Placebo and Dirige on the day of his death or obit as for a Prior of that House and on that day for his Soul and all the aforesaid thirteen poor people should be fed whereof every one should have one white Loaf Micham and two should have one sufficient Mess Ferculum and one Flagon Lagenam of the better Beer or Ale and one other Mass should be celebrated for the Soul of Maud his wife on the day of her Anniversary viz. on the Translation of Benedict the Abbat and on that day five poor people were to be fed as before is mentioned c. The Witnesses were Sir Gilbert de Preston and Iohn de Octon then the Kings Justices viz. 52 H. 3. Galfr. de Langley his son William de Langeford Knights Robert de Wylleby Raph de Rerysby Galfr. Dethek Roger de Somervill Hugh de Chaunny and others These Lands were confirmed by Robert son of Raph de Rerysby and Robert son of Sir Robert de Wilweby who were heirs of Serlo de Plesley a Benefactor also and formerly Lord of Essover now Ashoure in Darbishire They had many other Benefactors some whereof will be noted in other places of this Book as others have been already where the Land lay There is the Exemplification of a Charter of King Henry the third in 18 E. 1. which shows that the Canons of Felley should be quit of Toll and all custom throughout all England King Edward the first in 34 E. 1. granted to the Priory of Felley the Tythes coming of the Kings Essarts in the Hayes of Lindeby Romwood and Willey which are out of the Bounds of any Parish whatsoever In Attenborow is shown the interest which this Monastery had in that Church The House and Site of the Priory or Monastery of the blessed Mary of Felley and all Messuages Houses Orchards Gardens Lands and Tenements within and without the said Site in Felley and Annesley and forty Acres of Arable Land and an half twenty of Medow three hundred fifty six of Pasture with the Appurtenances in Felley and Annesley also one Mess. one Barn one Water-Mill called Felley Mill and two parcels of Medow c. Sept. 1. 30 H. 8. were granted to William Bolles and Lucy his wife They were granted 4 and 5 Ph. and Mar. to Sir Anthony Strelley Knight and Ioane his wife and the heirs of their bodies King Iames 7 Iun. 1 Iac. granted to Anthony Millington and his heirs the Reversion of the House and Site of the Priory of Felley c. which King Henry the eighth had of William Bolles at the yearly Rent of 17l. 3s. 0d. It was Gilbert Millingtons Attainted named in Brunnesley yet I think it remains to Edward Millington his son or to Edwards son his Grandchild Hucknall Torcard Hochenale ONe part of Hochenale was of William Peverells Fee in which two brothers answered to the Geld for four Bovats The Land of their Mannor being half a Carucat There three Villains had then one Car. This in the Confessours time was valued at 8s. but then viz. in the latter end of the Conquerours at 2s. Some Soc lay to it in Hamsell But the greater part was of the Fee of Raph de Buron in which Vlchel before the coming of the Normans had twelve Bov. for the Tax or Geld. The Land of his Mannor being for two Plows or two Car. There Osmond the Man or Tenant of Raph had one Car. and five Villains had three Car. ½ pasture Wood one leu long and ½ leu broad In the Confessours time this was 30s. in the Conquerours 15s. value William Peverells part it seems was held by Serjeancy William son of Costè held in Hukenhall the Wainage of one Carucat and certain Essarts and a certain Mill the whole valued at 6l. 10s. by the Serjeancy of keeping a Falcon which William then said that he had the Kings Falcon at his House Hugh son of this William 2 H. 3. made Fine for having seisin of the Land of Huckenhale and the Mill of Radeford c. and held it after him in his time it was valued at eight Marks This was at length dispersed into many hands William le Bretun had two Bov. of the Serjeancy of Hugh Fitz-Costè in Hokenale Radford and Kirkeby and paid the King 5s. per annum Richard Freman one Bovat and paid 2s. 6d. Elias le Bretun eight Acres and paid 18d. per annum The Prior of Felley three Acres and paid 1s. 6d. Iohn de Perpunt three Roods and paid 3d. and some others had such other small parcels Hugh Fitz-Costè held the rest himself then valued at ten Marks by the Service of carrying the Kings Gerfalcon at the Kings cost having 9d. a day when he did the Service I suppose this or most of it came to the Family of Grey of Sandiacre Simon de Greenhill and William his brother 7 E. 2. had interest for life in half a Carucat here the third part whereof was of Peverells Fee and the other two parts were then held of Henry Winkeburne Richard de Grey of Sandiacre about 3 E. 3. Lord of Sutton in the Dale in Darbyshire held diverse Lands in this Hukenhale where was also a Capital Messuage with a certain Garden and thirty Acres of Land and two of Medow William Grey his son and heir being then left twenty six years of age This I take to be that which was afterwards viz. 37 H. 6. called Leekes Mannor which some
of which the Honourable William Byron hath two the Earl of Essex Lord of Beavale hath one Lancelot Rolleston Esquire one and .... Curtis one c. The Vicarage of Hucnall was 8l. when the Prior of Newstede was Patron 'T is now in the Kings Books 4l. 18s. 1d. ob and William Byron Esquire Patron In Hucknall Torcard Chancel upper South Window Barry of six Arg. and Azure a file of five Labels Or Gray of Sandiacre Arg. a file of five poynts Or I suppose the same the Azure only worn off Paly of six Arg. and Azure a Bend Varry Or and Gules Painted on the Wall Byron with quarterings impaling Molyneux In a South Window of the Church these five 1. Barry of six Arg. and Azure Gray of Codnour 2. Or three Piles meeting in the base Gules a Canton Ermine Basset of Drayton 3. Arg. on a Pile Gules a Falcon of the first Crowned Or impaling Paly of six Arg. and Azure a Bend Gules Annesley 4. Or on two Bars Gules three Waterbudgets Arg. Willoughby of Wollaton 5. Sable a Lion Rampant amongst Cinquefoiles Arg. Clifton And in another South Window 1. Arg. a chief Gules and Bendlet Azure Crumwell 2. Arg. a Chevron Gules a file of three points Ermine 3. Sab. a Bend between six Scallops Arg. a Canton Or. 4. Paly of six Arg. and Azure a Bend Gules charged on the upper part with a Mullet of the first In the North I le East Window Or a Lion Rampant purpure In a North Window Arg. two Barrs Sab. a Martlet Gules in the dexter point Paly of six Arg. and Azure a Bend Gules Annesley and above also Gules a Fâ—sse Varry between three Libards heads â—esant three Flowers de Lis uppermost Or. Beskwood Parke KIng Henry the first granted to the Priorâ— of Lenton to have two Carts to fetch 〈◊〉 Wood and Heath out of Bescwood King Henry the second granted that Covent to have every day two Carrs or three Carretts to bring them dead Wood or Heath as much as they should need for their own use In the Inquisition taken at St. Iohn's House in Nottingham the fourth of the Nones of Iuly in 35 H. 3. before Geoffrey Langley Justice of the Forest it is called an Hay or Park of our Lord the King wherein no man Commons In the Regard 31 E. 3. the Kings Hay of Beskwood is said to be closed in with a Pale and to be then in the keeping of Richard de lawche de la Vache Knight King Edward the third by his Letters Patents dated at his Park of Beskwood 1 Sept. 37 E. 3. pardoned and released certain Rents issuing out of Lindeby Hay and Bullwell Rise to the Priory of Newstede The Wood of Beskwood was 2 E. 3. granted to Richard de Strelley for his life paying ...... the extent thereof yearly having had an Ad quod Damnum the same King 22 Febr. 8 E. 3. granted him all the dry Zuches which in English were then called Stovenes or Stubbes within his Hay of Beskwood This Richard Strelley is there stiled Dilecto valecto nostro Philip de Willughby mentioned in Bullwell about 33 E. 1. held one Toft there and two Bovats of Land with the Appurtenances by the Service of being Forester in Beskewood and likewise the fourscore Acres there noted in Bullwell Ground His brother William de Willughby was then found his heir It hath a very fair Lodge in it and in respect of the pleasant Scituation of the place and conveniency of Hunting and pleasure this Park and Lodge hath for these many years been the desire and atchievement of great men three Earls of Rutland had it Roger Francis and George before that Thomas Markham a great Courtier and Servant to Queen Elizabeth had it and before him little Sir Iohn Byron a great favourite to King Henry the eighth It is now in Lease to William Lord Willughby of Parham Before the troubles it was well stored with Red Deer But now it is parcelled into little Closes on one side and much of it hath been plowed so that there is scarce either Wood or Venison which is also too likely to be the fate of the whole Forest of Shirewood Lindeby IN Lindeby three brothers had before the Normans came three Mannors which paid to the Dane-geld as one Carucat and an half The Land was for two Plows or two Car. There afterwards William Peverell had three Car. and twelve Vill. and two Bord. having five Car. There was a Priest and a Mill 10s. pasture Wood one leu long and one leu broad In King Edward the Confessours time this was valued at 26s. 8d. but when Doomsday Book was made at 40s. In Paplewic five Bovats of Land lay to this Mannor William Peverell the younger granted to God and the Church of the Holy Trinity at Lenton and his Brethren there serving God the Town which is called Lyndeby and whatsoever he had in it viz. Lands Tilled and untilled in Wood and in Plain in Medows and Pastures with the Church of the same Town and the Mill of Blaccliff for the Treasures which his Mother bestowed on that Church and he compelled by very great necessity took and for all other excesses in which he by the instinct of the enemy against that Church imprudently had exceeded contrary to the Command of his Father and the Bargain which he made with him and with his Mother William Abbat of Leycester and Robert Prior of Kenelingwrd by the Authority of Pope Alexander 3. made an agreement that Robert the Priest of Edingla who gave the Monks of Lenton five Marks should hold the Church of Lyndeby while he lived Secular paying that Priory half a Mark of Silver yearly at Martinmas in the name of a Pension which one Henry the Clark was also to have if he over-lived Robert paying the like Pension William Cursun Clark obliged himself to make it a whole Mark Pension to the Covent of Lenton when there should be a solid establishment made of the Parsonage and Vicarage which Adam the Chaplain was to acquit him of so long as the said Adam continued in secular habit The Town of Lyndeby was an Eschaet of the Kings of the Honour of Peverel of Nott. and Will. de St. Michael of London had one moyety of it of the gift of King Iohn paying yearly in the Kings Chamber a Furr of Gris and that half was worth 7l. 6s. per annum and Peter de Lettris and his brother had the other half by the Kings Counsel as long as the King pleased which was of the same value The King 36 H. 3. held half of it and it was valued at 7l. 14s. 100s. of old and 46s. of old increase and 8s. of new Robert de Marys held the other half by occasion of the Wardship of Laurence heir of Laurence de St. Michael and paid a Furr of seven Tyres Fessis yearly The Jury in 5 E. 2. found that
at Blithewurth where Wood was not which were Essarted in the time of King H. 2. his Father I suppose this Lordship ever remained intirely as it yet doth to the Arch-bishops of York The Jury found at the Inquisition taken at this place the Wednesday before the Feast of St. Iohn before the Port Latin 8 E. 1. mentioned in Arnall before Galfr. de Neyvill and Henry de Perepunt Justices of Assise by the Kings Writ open or Patent that William the Arch-bishop of York then held pleas of Trespass made upon the Vert in the Wood of Blithworth and received the Amercements in his Court of Suwelle as all his Predecessours had done from W. de Gray sometime Arch-bishop of that See but by what warrant they did it was not found The Chapter of Southwell 3 E. 3. claimed Assize of Bread and Ale of their Tenants here amongst the rest The two Prebendaries of Oxton divide the Tythes here The Vicarage of Blythworth was eight Marks 'T is now 3l. 17s. 6d. value in the Kings Books and the two Prebendaries of Oxton continue Patrons Thurgarton and Lythe Hundred Thurgarton a Lee Wapentac WAs in the Conquerours time two Torgerton and Lyda which I suppose now only make the two Divisions the first contains the Townships from Nottingham down the River Trent as far as Averham and the other all below In the Record of Nom. Vill. 9 E. 2. the King is Lord of the Wapentach of Thorgarton and Lythe and so still continueth as I think The first Township we are to note in it now which was not in it then being truely a part of Nottingham is Sneynton Snotinton Notinton THis Township is adjoyning to and part of St. Maries Parish in Notingham and in Doomsday Book is called Notintone and in other ancient Records Snotinton and Snodinton as Notingham was Snodengaham and Snotingeham and was also the Kings Land in the Conquerours time which answered the Geld for one Car. The Land of it was two Car. There eleven Vill. had four Car. and twelve Acres of Medow it was then valued at 3l. King Iohn in the sixth year of his Reign granted to William Briwerre the Mannors of Cestrefeld in Derebisyre with Bruminton and Witinton and the Sok and the whole Wapentac of Scarvedale and many priviledges and likewise his Mannor of Snodinton in Notingehamsyre to be held in Fee Farm for 8l. per annum in number to the Exchequer and likewise the Mannor of Arminster in Devonshire and the Fishing of Kingswere in Somersetshire and the Service of Peter de Sandiacre which he ought for the Land which he had in exchange for the Land of Horseleg the Fee Farm Rent of all which was 112l. yearly paid into the Exchequer King Iohn 27 Iuly 15 Ioh. granted to William Briwer the Custody of the Land and heir of Baldwin Wake with the marriage of Isabell the daughter of the said William formerly wife of the said Baldwin In the same year the said King granted to Richard son of William Briewerre Cestrefeld c. and Snotinton c. and took homage of the said Richard for these Lands which the said William his Father held Ioan Wake who was the wife of Hugh Wake had the custody of the Land and heir of Hugh Wake to wit Cesterfeld with the Wapentac belonging except 16l. Land which William de Percy held in the name of one of the heirs of William de Bruer and the said Ioan with other heirs of William de Bruer as well out of the Mannor of Cesterfeld as out of other Lands in very many Counties held by the Service of three Knights Fees as in Cesterfeld Sneynton Axminster Kingswere in the County of Somerset and this was of the feoffment of King Iohn Henry de Perpunt and Annora his wife in the former part of the Reign of Edward the first were attached to answer Henry Fitz or son of Robert William de Blackwell Richard del Hull William Arnold Walter le Chapeleyn William de Lyndeby Raph and Iohn his brother Richard le Fâ—nere and Theobald his brother Roger Bere Robert Fraunceys and very many others the Men or Tenants of the said Henry and Annora his wife of the Mannor of Sneynton which is ancient Demesne of the Kings Crown why they contrary to the Kings Precept exacted other Services and Customs of the said Men than they were wont to perform when the said Mannor was in the hands of King Iohn viz. whereas they were wont to hold a Bovat of Land for 4s. per annum and Suit of Court from three weeks to three weeks for all Services the said Henry and Annora exact for the said Bovat of Land 13s. per annum And whereas they were wont to plead by a Writ of right close and to have their Essoines according to the Custom of the Mannor the said Henry and Annora would not suffer them to plead nor have Essoines and whereas they were wont to be amerced by their equals or Peers Pares and that according to the quantity of the fault they amerced them out of the Court according to their own will and whereas they were wont to have a common Parâ— or Pound in the same Town they did not suffer them to have one And also the said Henry and Annora Taxed the said Men or Tenants one hundred Marks where they were not wont to be Taxed and for the said one hundrd Marks took their Cattel in Sneynton and drove them out of the Liberty of Sneynton to Holme The said Henry and Annora by their Atturney pleaded That the said Men were not upon the Kings ancient Demesne but were their Villains The Court gave day that the Book of Doomsday might be searched wherein Notinton was found to be the Kings Land but in Easter Term 15 E. 1. they got a Jury to find that Sneynton was never called Notinton but alwaies Sneynton and that Notinton was a part of Notingham on that side towards Arnchall which surely is the most evidently false of any thing that ever pretended to be called a Verdict as may be sufficiently discovered by what is here set down but it served to get the Tenants amerced and finally to submit to what had been some while before it seems attempting against them for I find that in 4 E. 1. Iohn de Sutton â—ayliff of Henry de Albiniaco contemned or refused to admit of the Kings Writs which the Kings Sokemen of Sneynton brought to him that year Henry de Perepont and Annora his wife 17 E. 1. offered themselves against Robert de Tibetoft and Eva his wife that they should warrant to them the third part of the Mannor of Sneinton which Hugh le Dispenser and Isabell his wife claimed in Dower This Eva was daughter of Patricius de Cadurcis vulgo Chaworth There was an Inquisition taken at Nottingham the last day of March save one 13 H. 6. before Raph. Crumwell Knight Thomas Chaworth Knight Hugh Willughby
them his life and his wife Cecilia after him unjustly occupied them till Iohn Clyde the last Predecessour of the said William brought a Writ of Vâ—rum against her concerning the said Tenements to be pleaded before the Justices of the Kings Bench during which time she passed them to Richard de Hegham and Idonia his wife her daughter but they perceiving by the continuance of the Process that their Estate in them would not be good 19 E. 3. restored them effectually to the Church without any fraud Richard Prior of Thurgarton and the Covent granted and confirmed to William de Belloprato one Toft in Birton with two Acres of Land which Ailward held sometime before so that he nor his heirs should dispose of them no way without their consent and for which he was to pay 4s. yearly That Covent in the year 1328. received of Robert de Iorz for a certain place in his Mannor in which his Dovecote was scituate and for a place of Medow 4s. yearly and as much of William de Holdernesse for a Toft and another place of Medow In the second year of Queen Mary Raph Leigh and Raph Barlow claimed against Thomas Knyveton Esquire the Mannor of Burton Iorce c. and called to warrant Marc Menell Gent. William Babthorp Knight Christopher Twysilton Esquire Iohn Langton and Humfrey Shellow 9 Eliz. claimed against Richard Stapleton Knight and Brian Stapleton Esquire his son and heir and Elizabeth wife of the said Brian the Mannor of Burton Iorce with the Appurtenances and fifteen Mess. ten Cottages twenty Tofts one Dovecote twenty Gardens five hundred Acres of Land one hundred of Medow one hundred of Pasture forty of Wood and one hundred of Furz and Heath with the Appurtenances in Burton Iorce Gedlinge Stoke Bardolf Snainton and Colwicke This helped to transfer it to the Family of Stanhope with which it continueth Yet in the time of Henry the eighth Iohn Walker of Eperston Gent. Petitioned the King and Council for assistance against Sir Bryan Stapleton of Burton Knight then too powerful in this County as his Ancestors also were for his recovering the possession of the Mannor of Burton whereof William Iorce died seized and then ought to descend and come to the said Iohn Walker as Cousin and next heir unto the said William Iorce that is to say son of Iohn son of Henry son of Elynor daughter of William son of Iohn Father of Robert Father of the said William Iorce The Vicarage of Burton was eight Marks when the Prior of Shelford was Patron 'T is now 4l. 19s. 2d. value in the Kings Books and the Earl of Chesterfeild Patron In the North side of the Church is a plain Stone Tomb whereon lyeth the Image of an Armed Knight on whose Shield is embossed a Bend and on it three Waterbougetts and on one Shield on the South side of the Tomb is A Lion Rampant Crowned and upon another Shield the same with that on his Arm. In the East Window of the Chancel is represented a woman praying viz. on her knees with her hands held upwards her upper Coat is Paly of six Or and Gules on a Bend sable three Waterbougetts Arg. In the same Window is Azure a Bend between six Escallops Arg. with a Mullett on the Bend Frecheville In the same also Azure a Fesse Arg. betw In another South Window Paly of six Or and Gules on a Bend sable three Waterbudgetts Arg. Jorz I suppose In the North side of the Chancel on a plain flat Alabaster Tomb underbuilt with ordinary Stone Here lyeth Ser Brian Stapiltun Knyght and Barinet wyche dypartyd the second daye of Aprell in the fourt yere Kyng Edward the syxt The sayd Ser Brian had to his ferst wyf Dame Elsabethe Stapiltun doughtar to the Lord Hare Skroup of Bolton in Rychemondshyer and by her he had Rechard hes eldest son And the sam Ser Brian had to his second wyf Dame Jane Stapiltun doughtar of Thomas Baset Esquere of North Lofnam in Rotlandshyar and by her he had Brian hes second son At every corner is Arg. a Lion Rampant sable Stapleton On another Tomb like this on the South side of the Chancel Here lyeth the Body of Alis Rouse doughtere of Francis Roos of Laxston in the County of Notingham Esquier first wiffe to Brian Stapiltun Esq younger sonn of Sir Brian Stapiltun Knyght after wiffe to Anthony Stapilton of Remson Esq last wiffe to Thomas Leeke of Hasland in the County of Darby Esq The said Alis was buryed the 3d. day of January in the yeare of our Lord MVC.D. AVE perhaps 1595. is intended Upon a kind of a Tablet Psalm 116.15 and Ps. 112.6 In perpetuam virtutis memoriam Aliciae nuper charissimae conjugis Georgii Lacock Generosi quae coelo migravit 25 Augusti A. Dom. 1617. aetatis suae quinquagesimo Sancta Deo Conjux sponso castissima prolis Cauta gubernatrix Dulcis amica suis. Hospita larga tamen frugalior Hospita tecto Non fugiens alio non aliena suo Pauperibus nutrix agilis matercula servis Pacificans lites foemina pauca loquens Consultrix juveni prudens submissa minori Inter majores grata venusta pari Cuncta ferens aequo vitâ modò pace peractâ Pacificè moritur mortua pace viget Bulcote IN Bulecote Suencilt had a Mannor before the Normans became possessed of it which answered the Dane-geld as two Car. and two Bov. and there was Soc of this Mannor which answered to the Geld for fifteen Bov. and an half The Land then being esteemed five Car. and an half There when it was become the Fee of Walter de Aincurt was in Demesne one Car. eight Sochm. eleven Vill. twelve Bord. and two Servants with three Car. or Plows There was seventy six Acres of Medow Pasture Wood by places one leâ— long eight qu. broad in the Confessours time and then the value was 4l. In the former part of the Reign of Henry the third Adam de S. Maria paid two Marks for a Knights Fee which afterward Reginald de Annesley Sibyl de S. Maria and Adam de Ridewale are certified to have held of Oliver Deincourt in Bulcote Adam de S. Maria was son of Paganus de S. Maria and was Lord of Roumarsh in Yorkshire and Bulecotes and Knyveton in this County He gave one Acre and three Rodes of Medow in the Medows of Bulecotes to the Abby of Welbek for the Souls of Alice his wife and Barth his son to change their bodies from Lay Sepulture which they had being interdicted to Ecclesiastical Burial to his latter wife he had Albrâ—da the daughter of Iordan de Chevercourt who before was the wife of Robert de St. Quintin and made Fine to King Iohn 27 Novemb. in the fifteenth year of his Reign of three Palfreys that she might marry this Adam de S. Maria. He had three daughters to whom his Inheritance descended his eldest was called Lucia who was the wife
Feast of St. Nicolas the Bishop before William Babington Knight Thomas Greyseley Knight Thomas Fulthorpe William Ascogh Iohn Curson Esq and Robert Cokfeld Esquire the Kings Justices assigned to take that Assise where Sir Henry Pierpount pleaded that he was Cousin and heir of the said Sir Iohn Heriz viz. son of Edmund son of Edmund son of Henry son of Sara the sister of the said Sir Iohn de Heriz and that the said Roger son of Roger Beler and Margaret his wife the elder daughter of the said Sir Richard de la Rivere had a daughter called Margaret married to Sir Robert de Swillington Knight by whom he had Sir Roger Swyllington Knight who had a daughter married to Iohn Graa of South Ingleby in the County of Lincolne who together with his said wife Margaret also by name intailed this Mannor and Wydmerpole and the Advowsons of the Churches by a Fine 1 H. 6. upon themselves and the heirs of their bodies remainder to the heirs of the body of the said Margaret remainder to Edmund Perpoynt Knight and after his death to Henry Perpoynt Knight and the heirs of his body remainder to the right heirs of Henry Perpoynt Knight Margaret died without heir of her body afterwards Edmund Perpoynt died afterwards the said Iohn Graa after whose death the said Henry Perpoynt Knight entred and had issue Henry Perpoynt Esquire who had issue Henry Perpoynt Knight then heir of this Mannor and Advowson and of the Mannor of Wydmerpole c. Elizabeth wife of Robert Sampson of the County of Suffolk about 8 H. 6. was found heir of Margaret wife of Iohn Gray Knight as in Boney is set down Yet they prevailed not here for I find that Sir William Pierpont son of Francis brother of the last Sir Henry 5 H. 8. suffered a Recovery of the Mannors of Tybshelf and Assheover and many oâ—her Lands in Darbyshire and of the Mannors of Sneynton Wydmerpole Gonaston and Bromwoodhouse with the Advowsons of the Churches of Gonaston and Wydmerpole and the Chapel of Bradbuske in the Parish of Gonaston in this County about which time he sold this Mannor to ...... Monox an Alderman of London whose posterity viz. Sir Humfrey Monox or his son still enjoy it There was a Chantry or Hospital Founded there by ..... Heriz called the Chantry or Hospital of Brodbusk in Gonaston which through many Patents of Concealments continueth an Hospital at this day and is called Gonaston Spittle The Rectory of Gonalston was 10l. value and Mr. Monox Patron which shows that older rate of Church livings was in the former part of the Reign of King Henry the eighth 'T is now 7l. 19s. 2d. in the Kings Books and Sir Humfr. Monox Patron On the North side of the Church at Gunnalston In Gonaldston Church three ancient Stone Tombs low on the ground two of Knights cross-leg'd upon one of their Shields three Hedge-hogs were imbossed the third is a Woman In the Chancel Quarterly Or and Azure Arg. a Chevron Azure a File of five Labells Gules Swillington Arg. on a Bend Azure three crossecrosletts Or. Azure three Hedgehogs Or 2.1 Heriz Arg. on a Chevron Azure three Besants a croslet Moline below Or. In the North Window of the Church Gules three Waterbougetts Az. Roos of Hamlake In the East Window of the North I le of the Church Party per pale Gules and Sable a Lion Ramp Arg. Belers Azure three Hedgehogs Or Heriz Arg. a Chevron Azure a File of three Labels Ermine Swillington In a North Window Paly of six Az. and Arg. a File of six Labels Gules In small Borders there is Heriz and Azure a Fesse Dancy and Crusuly Or. And in another the last Coat with Or a Lion Ramp sable interchangeably round the whole Pane. On the Wall Painted Arg. on a Chevron sable between three Oken-leaves proper three Plates and on a Chief Gule a Bird between two Anchors of the first quartering c. The Crest a Stock-dove with an Oke-branch in her Beak Monox Thurgarton Turgaston And Horspole THis place with Horspole and what belonged to it in Tideby in the Confesours time was valued at 3l. but when the great Survey was made in the Conquerours at 4l. being then the Fee of Walter de Aincurt who had in Turgaston and Horsepole in Demesne two Car. and ten Sochm. on nine Bov. of this Land which before the Conquest was Swains whose Mannor here paid the Tax for three Plow-land or Car. and three Bovats The Land being then found to be six Car. or for six Plows Raph de Ayncurt for the safety or health of his Soul and of his sons and daughters and for the Soul of his Father and of his Mother and for the Soul of Basilia his woman or wife and of all his Parents and Ancestors Founded an House of Religion at Thurgarton and in or at the Foundation of that House gave and granted to the Canons there regularly serving God and St. Peter by the Counsel and intreaty of Thurstin Arch-bishop of York of pious memory in pure Almes all Thurgarton and Fiskerton and the Park by Thurgarton and all the Churches of his whole Land to wit of Graneby c. as in that place is already set down which Alms of his he prayed all the sons of the Holy Church to maintain and defend and to his heirs if they preserved and sustained it with all its liberties he left Gods favour and his fatherly blessing for ever but if any did not he should incur Gods anger and his curse except he repented King Henry the second commanded the Sheriff of Nottss and the Men of the Soc of Dunham that the Canons of Thurgarton should well and peaceably hold their Mills upon Trent He likewise confirmed to them what Raph de Ayincurt had given and all the forementioned Churches viz. Graneby Elmeton Cotes Swafeild Haneword Scaupewick Kirkeby Braunceton Tymberland Blankeney and of the gift of William Fitz or son of Ranulf the Church of Blackwell of the gift of Matthew de Vilers the Church of Warinton in Lancashire the Church of Titheby the Chapel of Crophill and one Carucat of Land in the same Town of his Demesne of the gift of Gerard son of Walter de Sutton the Church of Sutton in Ashfeild and two Bovats of Land in the same Town of the gift of William Carpintar the Mill of Clive of the gift of Henry Hoseè one Bovat of Land in Egrum of Robert de Cauz the Mill of Doverbeck of William de Bella aqua 2s. out of the Mill of Kirlington of William Sampson the Land called Cressewelle of Robert de Hoveringham the Church of Hoveringham of Raph de Bellofago the Mill of Doverbéek which is called Snelling Milne with the Land and Medow lying to it of William de Bereville one Bovat of Land in Kirkeby of Hugh de Hoveringham seven Bovats of Land in Titheby which Emme his Grandmother and Robert his Father gave of Walter Willan of
Geffrey Ridel Ranulf le Meschines and Peter de Valoniis to Yorke that they might inquire what were the said Customs of the Church of St. Peter who to that end called to them the most prudent English-men of that County whom they caused to swear by the Faith they ought to the King to tell the truth viz. Vitreth the son of Alwin Gamel the son of Swarterol Gamel the son of Grim Norman the Priest William the son of Vlf Frenger the Priest Vitreth the son of Turkill Norman the son of Baling Thurstin son of Turmot Gamel son of Ormi Morcar son of Ligulf and Vlvet the son of Forno by right of inheritance the Lagaman of the City which may rather be interpreted Lawyer or Judge possibly as Recorder is now than lawful-man or free-man who then also was Prefect and thus discoursed before them Ausketinus de Bolomer the Praepositus of the Northrideing being his interpreter That they all remembred and testified that all the Land belonging to the Prebends of the Church of St. Peter was so quiet and free that neither the Kings Officer nor any other could have Law nor take a distress there till the Canon of that Prebend was first required and if he refused the Dean should set a day and do right at the Church door And if any person whatsoever shall take and detain any man though guilty and convict of any Crime or wickedness whatever from within the Porch he shall alwaies be judgeâ— to make amends by six Hundreths if from within the Church by twelve if from within the Quire by eighteen every Hundreth containing six pounds the Kings Charter saith eight pounds and for every the said faults or any shall be injoyned Penance as for Sacriledge But if any should be so mad and instigated by the Devil as to presume to take one from the Stone-Chair by the Altar which the English call Frithstol that is the Chair of quiet and peace for so wicked a Sacriledge no Judgement nor summ of money can acquit him but is by the English called Botelesse i. e. without Emendation These Amends Emendations or Amerciaments belong not to the Arch-bishop but to the Canons c. Thus it goes on reciting many other like Priviledges besides those of Soc Sac Toll Them Infangthef Intol Vtol c. as in the said Kings Charter also may be seen most or all of which the Church of Southwell had and used as occasion required and had them in other names as the use of words and things changed with the times allowed and confirmed and others granted by succeeding Kings King Stephen by his Precept dated at York directed to William Peverell of Nott. and the Sheriff and his Ministers commanded that the Canons of St. Mary of Suwell should have the Woods of their Prebends in their own hands and custody and thence take what they should need as in King Henry's time and that his Foresters be forbidden to take or sell any thing there King Henry the second King Richard King Iohn King Henry the third all of them and indeed those Kings who came after them made the several Arch-bishops in their respective times and this Chapter very secure of their Liberties within the Forest of Shirwood The Justices in Eyr were to hear and determine all Pleas touching the Chapter Canons their Tenants and Servants at the South door of the Church except Pleas of the Crown which they were to hear and determine at the House of any of the Canons out of the Sanctuary which was presented by the Wapentac of Thurgarton and Lyth and claimed by the Chapter among other priviledges allowed in Eyre before William Herle and his fellow Justices the third year of King Edward the third at which time besides the Chapters view of Frank-pledge of all their Tenants in Southwell Northwell South Muskham North Muskham Calneton Oxton Calverton Wodeborough Crophill Blitheworth Halghton Bekingham Dunham Halam Edingley and Normanton and their Court-Leet held twice every year at Southwell for their Tenants residing in Southwell Halum and Newton and likewise that held in like manner for Edingley Robert Woodhouse Prebendary of Norwell claimed and had the like view of all his Tenants in Norwell Woodhouse Willoughby and Middelthorpe kept twice in a year at Norwell and Wayf in the said Towns And Robert de Notingham Prebendary of Oxton and Crophill the like of his in Oxton Blitheworth Calverton Woodborough and Crophill and Hickling and Wayf also Lambert de Trikingham Prebendary of Halton the like of his there Henry de Edenestow Prebendary of Oxton and Crophill as before Robert de Bridelington Prebendary of Woodburgh the like of his in Woodburgh and Edingley William de Barneby Prebendary of Bekingham the like of his in Southwell and Edingley held twice a year at Southwell and of those in Bekingham held twice a year there William de Newark Prebendary of North Muskham the like of his in North Muskham Calneton South Muskam North Carleton Normanton by Southwell held twice a year at North Muskam and Wayf as the rest Thomas de St. Albano Prebendary of Dunham the like of his Tenants in Dunham Derleton Wymton Ragenhull held twice a year at Dunham Iohn de Sandale Prebendary of Normanton the like of his in Southwell and Normanton kept likewise twice a year at Southwell The Courts of the Prebendaries were all subject to that of the Chapter and Causes upon Errour or other lawful reason might be removed thither and there determined The Lands and Tenements of this Church either belonged to the Prebendaries resident called the Commons of the Church or to the several Prebends or to the Fabrick called our Ladies works or to the Vicars Chorall or to the Chantry Priests The Residentiaries Commons it seems were but short and therefore for their Augmentation Walter Arch-bishop of York about the fifth year of King Henry the third conferr'd the Church of Rolleston upon them which he obtained of the Prior and Covent of Thurgarton who had it of Henry the son of Thomas de Rolleston Knight and of Iollanus de Novavilla which said Henry confirmed it also to the Chapter and Benedict the son of Thomas de Rolleston Knight for the summ of twenty Marks sterling did likewise confirm what his Predecessour Sir Henry had done But the provision of the Residentiaries was very slender still and therefore Iohn Arch-bishop of York in the year 1291. did by the good will and submission of Mr. Iohn Clarell Sir William de Rotherfeud and Sir Richard de Bamfeud Canons of Southwell decree and ordain That the portions of Corn and Hay in the Parish of Vpton by Southwell which theretofore belonged to their Prebends should for the future be for the Commons or common uses of the Chapter and Canons resident the Chapters of York and Southwell consenting and King Edward the first confirming the same The Fabrick had divers parcels of Land in Southwell and Normanton and Henry de Southwell gave a Rent of
his Parents and Ancestors one Bovat of Land in the territory of Mapilbech as intire and free as himself had it with all the Appurtenances and namely Pasture for one hundred Sheep five Cowes and one Bull and eight Oxen and ten Swine and one Horse and one Masage scituate on the West part of the Town for building the Houses in which are contained fourteen Selions and several other Sarts one having sixteen Selions another six besides Shrubs belonging to it when he gave it the Monks received him his heir Iohn and his own wife into their Fraternity and to Sepulture and his body to be buried under their Roof For the better security of this Alms he was to procure the Confirmation of the Constable of Chester and did put to the Seal of the Chapter of Southwell together with his own Seal to this Chartel Roger the Constable of Chester did accordingly confirm it to whose Charter were Witnesses Richard Chester his brother Iohn Burdun the younger Hugh Dispenser Thomas his brother William de Lungvillers and others William Burdun and Roger his brother were Witnesses to Iohn Burdons Deed and I supppose his sons William Burdun 7 R. 1. complained of Hugh de Redmerstweit that he drew Agnes the wife of him the said William into pleading in the Court Christian contrary to the Kings prohibition he came and acknowledged it and was Amerced three Marks and forbidden to draw her into Plea Iohn Burdon son of this Iohn the Benefactor to Rufford as I guess married Alice daughter of William de Bucton who gave Lands in that Johannes Burdon Johannes Burdon Johannes Burdon-Aeliz fil Willielmi de Bucton Johannes Burdon 1224. Johannes Burdon miles Johannes Burdon de Bucton 6 E. 2. Johannes Burdon Dom. de Malebeck 2 R. 2. 11 R. 2. Nicol. Burdon miles 4 H. 4 -Millecent fil .... Bekering-Joh Markham mil. Justic. de Banc. mar 2 -Eliz fil cohaer Joh. Cressy ux 1. Elizabetha filia haeres-Robertus Markham mil. Robertus Markham de Cotham mil. -Jana fil haer Egid. Daubeney ex Mariā fil cohaer Sim. Leek de Cotham Johannes Markham mil. Capit. Justic. -Margar cohaer Sim. Leek Elizabetha filia haeres-Robertus Markham mil. Robertus 14 H. 3. Basilia Amabilia-Hingram Bluet Willielmus Rogerus Willielmus 7 R. 1 -Agnes Town to Blyth Monastery and brought a good augmentation to this Family as in that place will be noted and by her had a son named also Iohn Burdon who in the year 1224. confirmed his mothers gift to that Monastery and likewise his sister Basilia's and her daughter Amabilia's the wife of Hingram Bluet as did also Iohn Burdon his son he also made agreement with the Abbat of Rufford concerning his Fathers and Grandfathers gifts to Rufford and augmented them and at the intreaty of William the Abbat his Kinsman he gave him and the Covent Robert son of Gaufr the Carpentar with all his Chattels for which the said Abbat gave him half a Mark of Silver and a quarter of Wheat The Witnesses to this were Robert de Muscam Hugh and Robert his sons c. Iohn Burdon likewise confirmed to those Monks the gift which Hugh de Muscham made in the territory of Mapelbek viz. a Wood called Miclehage which the said Hugh held of the Fee of Gilbert Earl of Lincolne paying only 4d. for it yearly to the men of Mapelbek William Burdon was long Prior of Blyth he was there 1273. and 1300. Iohn Burdon son and heir of Sir Iohn Burdon Knight was resident at Bucton 6 E. 2. and in 2 R. 2. Iohn Burdon was Lord of Mapelbek Nicolas Burdon 4 H. 4. did Service in the Battel of Shrowsbury where he was slain his wifes name was Milicent Sir Nicolas Burdon Knight married Millesent the daughter of .... Bekering by whom he had a daughter and heir Elizabeth married to Sir Robert Markham Knight son of Iohn Markham the Judge and Elizabeth the daughter of Sir Iohn Cressy his former wife which Sir Iohn Markham afterwards married the said Millecent widow of Sir Nicolas Burdon and by her had Sir Iohn Markham the Chief Justice who married Sir Robert Markham his Nephew both by his brother and sister to his wifes Niece Ioane the daughter of Sir Giles D'aubeney and heir to her mother Mary his wife one of the daughters and co-heirs of Simon Leek of Cothum Esquire as in that place is shown By a Fine 23 H. 6. the Mannors of Mapulbek and Bughton and the moyety of the Mannor of Caunton were settled on Sir Robert Markham Knight and Elizabeth his wife and the heirs of their bodies remainder to the right heirs of Elizabeth With the Family of Markham of Cotham this Manor continued till Sir Robert Markham Knight the destroyer of that Family sold it to the Earl of Clare with whose posterity it remains There was a very fair House at this Town built by some of the Markhams which as the Tradition is cost near as much as the whole Lordship was sold for which in the year 1666. the present Earl pulled down and sold the Materials whereof amongst others I bought some small part which I used in rebuilding my own House at Carcolsion Robert Filiol of Mapelbek gave to Rufford with his body certain small parcels there which Thomas the husband of Serith his daughter confirmed There was a Fine at York 28 E. 1. between Durand de Wydemerpol Quer. and Alan de Threngston and Elena his wife Imped of 10s. Rent with the Appurt in Mapulbek the right of Durand for which he gave them 10l. sterling The Mannor or Grange here parcel of the possession of the Abby of Rufford was granted with that Monastery 29 H. 8. to the Earl of Shrowsbury Kneesale Chenesale ULF whose Lands after the Conquest became the Fee of Gislebert de Gand had in Chenesale and Cheversale twelve Bovats for the Geld. The Land of his Mannor was for four Plows or so many Car. There Gislebert had in Demesne three Car. eight Sochm. on three Bov. of Land and sixteen Vill. four Bord. having twelve Car. There were twenty two Acres of Medow Pasture Wood one leu long half a leu broad In the Confessours time it was 8l. value in the Conquerours 6l. having Soc in Almentun and Mapleberg The Constables of Chester held this Mannor very anciently and when they were Earls of Lincolne are certified to have held of the Fee of Gilbert de Gaunt three Knights Fees in Knèesall with the Appurtenances of the old Feoffment The Church was given by some of the first Constables to the Priory of Norton in Cheshire of their Foundation as in Radclive on Sore is noted The first Constable of Chester was Nigellus who with his five brothers Hudard Ancestor of Nigellus Constabularius Hugonis Comitis Cestr Willielmus Constabularius Will. Const. sine prole Matild vel Agn. ux Alberic Gredeley Anneissa-Eustach fil Joh. Richardus Constab. Cestr. -Albreda de-Will
ever On a Monument for Gervas Lee Esquire in Norwell Chancel Az. on a Fesse Cotised Or three Libards Heads Gules Lee. Quartering Sable a Lion Ramp between three Crosletts patè Or Ayloff and Arg a Lion Ramp Gules And Sab. a Chevron Gules between three Crosletts Elory Or with a Crest Pieria a Demy Queen of Mauritania party per pale Arg. and Gules holding in her right hand a Diamond Ring proper Willoughby VVilgebi IN Wilgebi there was Soc to Nortwell of the Arch-bishop of Yorks Fee as much as answered the Tax before and after the Conquest for three Bov. and an half The Land one Car. There were four Sochm. three Vill. having two Car. and sixteen Acres of Medow In Wilgebi there was also of the Fee of Roger Pictavensis where before the Conquest Eruvin had five Bovats of Land for a Mannor The Land being then returned to be sufficient for so many Oxen. There were two Car. with one Vill. six Bord. and four Acres of Medow when the Conquerours survey was made being then valued at 10s. but in former times had been 20s. value This if it belong not to Willughby by Walesby of the Soc of Hâ—â—â—â—ton in Bassetlawe Hundred I doubt should have been noted at Willughby on the Wolds in Rushcliff Hundred where Erwin was certainly an owner and Roger Pictavensis also as in that place may be seen The most ancient owners which I have light upon in this place were the family of Malet Sir Walter named in Southwell By a Deed without date Robert son of Alan Malet of Wilheby passed to Hugh Lysurs the Land sometime Henry Malet's and Lands some time Alan Malets and Lands which he had of the gift of Henry Malet his brother Stephen de Weston 8 E. 2. conveyed to Henry son of Sir Thomas Malet Knight of Wyleby Peter de Lysurs and Ioane his wife 4 E. 3. were concerned in Lands sometime Robert Malets Iohn Lysurs 50 E. 3. was of Willughby Sir Thomas Rempston Knight Richard Bingham Thomas Leek of Newark William Scrimshire c. 21 H. 6. conveyed to William Foljambe one Mess. c. in Willughby which they had of the gift of Iohn Lysours or of Peter Lysours father of the said Iohn By a Fine 33 H. 6. William Foljambe and Nanarina his wife conveyed two Mess. sixty Acres of Land six of Medow and six of Pasture with the Appurt in Willughby in the Parish of Norwell and North Carleton to Iohn Markham Iohn Stanhope and William Waren who 34 H. 6. passed them to Laurence Hatfeild and Alice his wife who 36 H. 6. conveyed their Lands in Norwell Willughby Sutton upon Trent and North Carleton to Richard Bingham the Justice Sir Richard Tunstall Knight Iohn Stanhope Iohn Wasteneys Esquire and William Warren This Laurence Hatfeild had another wife the daughter of William Marshall by whom he had Stephen Hatfeild and Iohn both Merchants of the Staple in the time of R. 3. Stephen it seems married Elizabeth the half sister of Edmund Molyneaux by whom he had Henry Hatfeild who in the year 1527. making his Will settled Lands on Bartholomew his brother with some remainder to the heirs males of his Uncle Edmund Molynux Howbeit before he died which was about seven years after viz. Iun. 27.26 H. 8. he had by his wife Alice one of the sisters and co-heirs of Sir Iohn Hercy Elizabeth six years old and Barbara two his daughters and heirs both afterwards married to Thomas and William sons of Richard Whalley of Screveton Esquire as in that place is said Henry Ward about 18 R. 2. had the Mannor of Willughby Thomas Ward 1 H. 5. conveyed the Mannor of Willughby to Richard Stanhope c. On his seal within the circumscription of his name is a Bend within a Bordure engrayled and is usually blazoned Arg. a Bend Az. a Bord. engrailed sable Iohn Bekard 26 H. 6. had part of the Mannor of Welowby and 4 H. 7. enfeoff'd Sir Robert Markham Sir Gervas Clifton Iohn Stanhope Iohn Markham Esquire Thomas Robert Richard Molyneux Gent. c. There was a recovery 24 H. 7. wherein Stephen Hatfeild William Clayton Clark and Christopher Smith Chaplain claimed against Robert Belwode and Agnes his wife five Mess. one Garden one hundred Acres of Land nineteen of Medow one hundred of Pasture twelve of Wood and 4s. 4d. Rent with the Appurtenances in Willoughby North Carleton and Newarke and the fourth part of the Mannor of Willoughby with the Appurtenances and seven Mess. five Gardens five Acres of Land one of Medow ten of Pasture with the Appurtenances in Willoughby North Carleton Norwell and Newark Another 5 H. 8. wherein the same persons claimed against Katherin Bekard almost the same parcels and fourth part of the Mannor of Willoughby Another recovery was 6 H. 8. where the said Stephen Hatfeld c. claimed the like parcels and fourth part against Edward Wayte and Dorothy his wife And another 8 H. 8. where they claimed the like parcels and fourth part of the Mannor against Elizabeth Bekard The one moyety of this Lordship descended from Thomas Whalley before named and Elizabeth his wife to Peniston Whalley of Screveton Esquire as in that place may be seen who sold it to Sir William Willoughby Baronet who left it with some other of his purchased Lands to Hugh Willughby his natural son under age now deceased 1675. The other moyety came to the family of Yarborough by the daughter and heir of the said William Whalley and Barbara with which part of it still continueth North Carleton OR Carleton upon Trent THis Carleton of which name as well as Willughby there are so many in this County that they are difficultly distinguished in the Book of Doomsday I find to be of very many parcels some belonging to Norwell some to Willughby some to Besthorp some to Sutton upon Trent some to Crumbwell and some to Laxton and that the principal which was rated to the Dane-geld at one Car. The Land one Car. There four Sochm. had two Car twenty Acres of Medow Pasture Wood four qu. long and four broad This was the Fee of Goisfrid de Alselin In Carlentune of the Land of the Tayns before the Conquest Vlchel had for his Mannor three Bov. for the Geld. The Land six Bovats Aldene progenitor of the family of Crumwell held it of the King William the Conquerour There were two Bord. having three Oxen Plowing or draught Oxen and ten Acres of Medow Pasture Wood two qu. long and half a qu. broad In elder time 10s. when the Conquerour made the survey 5s. 4d. value Robert de Everingham was certified to hold a Knights Fee of W. Arch-bishop of York in Nord-Carleton of the old Feoffment The Prior of the Temple held one Bovat of Land in North Carleton in frank Almaign of the Fee of Robert de Everingham of the old Feoffment Guychard de Charun Lord of Sutton by his Atturney 53 H.
by whom he had Thomas Burgh Knight created Lord Burgh by King H. 8. and made Knight of the Garter by Queen Elizabeth which Thomas Lord Burgh married Agnes daughter of Sir William Terwhit Knight who brought him William Lord Burgh whose wife was ... the daughter of Edward Lord Clinton and his eldest son Henry was slain without issue The owners of Dunham in 1612. are said to be Gilbert Earl of Shrowsbury Gervas Markham Esquire Hugh Dobson of Ragnell Gent. Thomas Worsley Robert Iackson Martin Worsley Robert Balding George Owing Robert Berridge William Hawksmore Robert Ellis Iohn Baldinge The Vicarage of Dunham was x. Marks and is now 4l. 13s. 4d. value in the Kings books and the Prebendary Patron There is a free Chapel in Ragnell and another in Derleton now in use Laneham Lanum IN Lanum with its Berues which were Ascam Beckingham Saundeby Bolum Burton Wateleg and Legreton the Arch-bishop of York had a Mannor which was charged to the publick Geld as nine Car. and two Bovats The Land was for twenty seven Plows or so many Car. In the Demesne of the Hall were ten Bovats of this Land the rest was Soc when the Conquerours great Survey was made Arch-bishop Thomas had there four Car. and an half thirty five Vill. 6 Bord. having sixteen Plows Carucats or Plow-Lands There was a Church and a Priest and two Piscaries or Fishings 8s. one Mill 16s. Pasture Wood three leu long one leu ½ broad one hundred Acres of Medow In the before named Berues belonging to this Mannor were thirty eight Sochm. seventeen Vill. twenty Bord. having fourteen Car. ½ There were other thirty three Sochm. six Vill. fifteen Bord. having fifteen Car. these with their Land two Knights held of the Arch-bishop The Jury 7 E. 1. found that Walter Giffard Arch-bishop of York held of William de Belu in Lanum one Toft and sixteen Acres and Godfr Giffard Bishop of Worcester was then found his heir William de Melton was Prebendary of Southwell 3 E. 2. and had free-warren in Northwell Woodhouse as in that place already is noted In 17 E. 2. William de Melton Arch-bishop of York had free-warren in Southwell Lanum Scroby Askham Sutton and Plumptre There was a Fine 25 H. 6. between Robert Ayscogh Doctor in Decretis Richard Sutton Esquire Thomas Nevill and Richard Chaterley Ouer. and Henry Boson otherwise called Henry Bosom Esquire and Alice his wife Iohn Wastenes Esquire William Nevill of South Leverton and Iohn of the Vicars Deforc. of the Mannors of Orston and Lanum with the Appurtenances and of six Mess. two Cottages eight Tofts fourteen Bovats one hundred forty six Acres of Land forty four of Medow with the Appurtenances in Orston Lanum and Newark thereby acknowledged to be the right of the said Robert Another Fine was levyed the day after all Souls at Westminster 34 H. 6. between Richard Earl of Salisbury Iohn Earl of Shrowsbury Raph Crumwell Knight Richard Byngham one of the Justices of the Kings Bench Hugh Hercy Esquire Thomas Moygne Iohn Thornhagh Robert Braton and Thomas Coke Chaplain Quer. and William Nevyll and Iohan his wife Deforc. of three Mess. five Tofts one hundred and fifty Acres of Land thirty of Medow 5d. Rent and the moyety of a Dove-cote with the Appurt in Lanum Rampton and South Leverton thereby passed to the said Thomas Moygne William Whorwood 37 H. 8. claimed for the King against Robert Arch-bishop of York the Mannors of Scroby Ravenskeld Lanum Askham Sutton and North Soke c. In Laneham Town 1612. were many owners Gervas Bellamy Gent. Gervas Booth Gervas Gilby Leonard Vpsall William Baynby Robert Draper Rob Farrowe Greg. Sowby Greg. Bellamy Wil. Vpsall Originall Cottam Rowland Hall Augustin Draper Thomas Scarborrow Gervas Sibthorp Widow Minnet Iohn Sowkyn Gervas Markham of Dunham Esquire Oliver Bowyer of Great Markham Originall Bellamy of the same and divers others The Vicarage of Lanum was 7l. value and the Chapter of York had the Patronage 'T is now 5l. 3s. 4d. in the Kings Books and the Dean and Chapter of York Patrons East Drayton And Askham AScham was a Berue of Lanum and involved with 〈◊〉 Drayton was a Berue of the Kings Mannor of Dunham and in it answered the Geld for two Car. and three Bov. The Land being five Car. There sixteen Sochm and seventeen Vill. had thirteen Car. and twenty Acres of Medow There was Pasture Wood one qu. long half so much broad These with Lanum belonged to the Arch-bishops of York who had the Tythes also appropriated yet 9 E. 2. East Drayton answered for an intire Villa and the King and Adomar of Valence were then Lords The King was also by the death of the Arch-bishop of York then Lord of Lanum and Askham wherein Adam de Everingham and Stephen de Bro ... were likewise Lords Thomas Reyner and Robert Ripars 9 H. 4. impleaded very many for eating their Grass in a place at Drayton called Oldlands in which the Tenents pleaded they ought to have Common every third year In a recovery 7 H. 8. Humfr. Hercy Esquire Robert Nevill the younger Esquire and Robert Rayner claimed against Nicolas Martyn one Mess. and an half two Tofts eighty Acres of Land seventeen of Medow twelve of Pasture and sixty of More with the Appurtenances in East Drayton The most considerable share of Drayton I suppose was Iohn Rayners who was Sheriff of this County and proclaimed the King at his return 1660. The owners of East Drayton 1612. are said to be Sir Robert Swift Knight Nicolas Reynor Gent ..... Meverell Gent. Edward Ormerod Cler. the wife of ... Fox Iohn Barthropp Richard Marshall Senior William Gabatus Junior William Northefolke Richard Gabatus Robert Pharrow of Laneham Henry Swift George Sturgeous William Hawksmore of Ragnell Iohn Ward George Rayner William Mynnett Robert Mynnet Edward Rayner c. and Sir Nicolas Sanderson Knight The Vicarage of Est Drayton was ten Marks 'T is now 9l. 3s. 4d. value in the Kings Books and the Dean and Chapter of York have the Patronage which the Chapter had formerly In the South I le of East Drayton Church within a Garter Azure three Flowers de Liz Ermine quartering quarterly Or three Pallets Sab. and Or a Lion Ramp Azure Lord Burgh Arg. three Barres Azure Rampton Rameton IN Rametone before the Normans came seven Taynes had seven Mannors or Mansions which paid the publick Tax for two Garucats three Bovats and one third part of a Bovat The Land was seven Car. and an half There after the Conquest Roger de Busli with his four Men or Tenants had three Car. eleven Sochm. eight Vill. six Bord. having five Car. and an half There was a Church three Fishings and an half 3s. 6d. there was sixty five Acres of Medow In King Edward the Confessours time the value was 54s. in King Williams when the Survey was made four shillings less there was
latter wife the relict of Richard Stanhope and one of the sisters and co-heirs of Iohn Strelley of Strelley Esquire it is now with Houghton the inheritance of the Right Honorable the Earl of Clare who hath also Thurland House in Nottingham where lived Thomas Thurland the great Merchant of the Staple and thereby the raiser of that Family This Church was accounted as part of the Chapelry of Blith but it appears 16 E. 3. that the Prior of Madersay was Patron of whom Richard de Willoughby obtained it and presented Rog. de Willughby who was Parson of Gameleston at that time The owners of Gamston 1612. are said to be Sir Iohn Hollys Knight Sir Robert Swifte Knight Robert Meunell Esquire of Staffordshire Robert Brett The Rectory of Gamylston was twenty Marks when the Prior of Mathersay was Patron 'T is now 11l. 16s. 5d. ob value in the Kings Books and the King Patron In Gamulston Church in a Window Orate pro bono statu Magistri Thomae Thurland Ar. Isabellae uxoris ejus pro anima Elizabethae uxoris ejus Upon a fair Tomb in the Chancel Hic jacet Thomas Thurland Ar. Dom. de Gamstone qui ob in die S. Gervasii Protasi Anno Christi 1497. Upon which Tomb in divers places was Ermine upon a Chief Gules 3 T. Arg. and upon that in the middle a Mullet In a Window Richard Thurland and Alice his wife There Thurland impales Willughby of Wollaton and Gules a Saltier Ermine Nevill of Rolleston There is Arg. a Chevron between three Pitchers or Fleshpots Gules within a Bordure sable Bezanty that is also upon the Shield of a Stone Statue on a Tomb Monboucher In the North Window of the Chancel Arg. a Crosse Chequey Or and Gules Cokfeild impales Sable a Bend between six Scallops Or Foljambe On the Surcoat of a Man there Ermine on a Fesse Azure three Eglets displayed Or. On the Surcoat of a Woman Vert a Chevron Gules between 3 Garbes Arg. In the North Window of the Church Or three Bendlets Azure with quarterings impaling Gules on a Fesse Dancette Arg. between six Lioncells Rampant Or three Martlets sable with quarterings Arg. a Mullett sable impaling vert a Chevron Or between three Befants Thurlands Chief is indented and upon it a file of three Labells instead of the three Taus Adelocum vel Agelocum Antonini Eton. Eyton Attune Idleton IN Attune which Roger de Busli became possessed of after the Conquest were before that change ten Mannors ten Taynes had each man his Hall they then between or amongst themselves paid to the Dane-geld the Publick Tax of that time for six Bovats one half and one sixth part of a Bovat The Land being then known to be four Carucats There Fulco the Man of Roger had one Car. and fourteen Vill. nine Bord. having seven Car. and two Mills 20s. and sixty Acres of Medow Pasture Wood five qu. long and three broad In King Edward the Confessours time the value was 6l. in the Conquerours when Doomsday Book was made but 3l. Here was some also in this Town of the Arch-bishop of Yorks Fee Soc to Sudton and Lound and Scrooby and Madrissey c. which paid the Geld for two Car. Robert de Wolrington and Iohn de Eyton held the whole Town of Eyton of Alice Countess of Augi for two Knights Fees Iohn de Heton paid for a third part Ramietta wife of Thomas de Wurlington 7 R. 1. gave account of 40s. for having 20s. Rent with the Appurtenances in Hardeshull and in Redford and in Etton whereof he was disseised for being with Earl Iohn Thomas de Wlverton and Ramietta his wife 10 R. 1. gave account of twenty Marks for having one Knights Fee with the Appurtenances in Etton three Bovats and one third of a Bovat less Thomas de Wulrinton 4 Ioh. gave account of one Mark that the Assize which was summoned between him and Ramietta his wife and Alice the daughter of Alexander might be taken before Hugh Bardulf and his fellows There was a Fine levyed at Doncaster the Tuesday after the Feast of St. Mary Magdalen 4 Ioh. between Robert son of Richard Petent and Thomas de Wilfrinton and Rametta his wife Tenants of three Bovats and the third part of a Bovat of Land and the third part of two Mills and the third part of the Advowson of the Church with the Appurtenances in Etton which the said Robert remised to Thomas and Rametta and their heirs for which they granted him and his heirs one Bovat in Ordeshall and six Perches of Medow in Eton which lye in the East part of Ydele by Eton Spring and 12d. Rent in Bevercotes and the Service of Roger de Bevercotes and six Tofts and an half in Retford and Common of Pasture in Eton for the Demesne Cattel of the said Robert and Paunage for his Demesne Swine in the Woods of Eton and Estovers there to build his Houses and to burn in his House for his own use by the view of the said Thomas or his Forester Robert de Ripariis son of Robert de Ordeshal 13 H. 3. claimed against Robert de Wlrincton son and heir of Thomas de Wlrincton and Rametta the third part of the Mannor of Eton. Thomas de Wlverthon and Rametta his wife gave to the Canons of Radeford the Church of Eton with all the Appurtenances Robert son of Thomas de Wlvrington confirmed the gift Robert son of Herbert de Wolrington released all his right in the Advowson of the Church of Eton near Ordesale to the said Canons of Wirkesop by his Deed dated at London 21 Octob. 1286. to which were Witnesses Elias de Sutton then the Kings Justice Robert de Swillington Canon of Lincolne Gerard de Heidon Robert de Morteyn Roger de Beltoft Knights c. Robert son of Herbert de Wolrington remised to the Prior and Covent of Wyrksop all his claim in the Advowson of the Church of Eton by Ordesale and also by another Deed of the same date viz. 1 Octob. rather 21 Octob. as before 1286. to Iohn Arch-bishop of York who it seems carried it for in the year 1289. he made it a Prebend in the Church of Southwell as in that place may be observed and so it still continues though 15 E. 1. the Prior had judgement to hold the Advowson by reason of the default of the said Robert de Wolrington who put himself on the grand Assize Robert Violett of Ordeshale and Elizabeth his wife held certain Lands in Ordeshale of Robert de Wolrington by doing Suit to his Court at Eton from three weeks to three weeks in 20 E. 1. By a Fine 7 E. 2. between Robert de Wolrington and Margery his wife Quer. and Henry son of Roger de Bradburne Deforc. the Mannor of Eton by Hedon was settled on the said Robert and Margery and the heirs of their bodies remainder to the right heirs of the said Robert
Dane-geld of Custom In that which was Earl Alans Fee of Richmond in Cledreton Godric and Vlmar had seven Bovats and one third of a Bov. for the Geld. That Land held Earl Alan and Roger de Busli until the making of the great Survey by King William the Conquerour The Land then was eleven Car. the value 20s. In Cledreton Soc to Treswell of Roger de Buslies Fee were three Bovats and an half and two fifths of a Bovat for the Geld. That Land had Roger and there had seven Villains having one Car. and an half There was half a Church Pasture Wood one qu. and an half long 1 qu. broad and Medow one qu. and an half long one qu. broad of this Wood and Medow Roger had the moyety the value was 10s. The Land one Car. In Treswell Godric's Mannor answered the publick Taxation for six Bovats of Land and a third part and a fifteenth part of a Bovat The Land was four Car. There Roger the Man of Roger de Busli had two Car. and fourteen Vill. and five Bord. having five Car. Medow four qu. long one qu. and an half broad This in King Edward the Confessours time and then also kept the value of 50s. That Mannor in Tireswell which Vlmar had before the Conquest paid then for six Bovats and one third to the Common charge The Land being then four Car. Afterwards Robert de Musters the Man of Earl Alan had one Car. eight Vill. five Bord. having four Car. forty Acres of Medow Pasture Wood four qu. long one qu. and an half broad This also retained the old value it had in the time of King Edward the Confessour viz. 40s. The Family of Musters or de Monasteriis the posterity of this Robert had their residence here Iohn de Mustiers of Tireswell Chivaler 22 E. 3. said that his Ancestor Iohn de Mustiers was seized of 3s. Rent in Sibthorp as in that place is already mentioned in the time of King Richard the first and from him the right descended to Robert his son and heir and from Robert to Iohn his son and heir but Iohn died without issue so that William was his brother and heir who likewise left Robert his brother his heir which Robert was father of Iohn de Mustiers who then claimed By a Fine at York 1 E. 3. William de Mustiers settled the Mannor of Tireswell and the Advowson of the moyety of the Church of the said Mannor on himself for life and after his decease on Iohn son of Robert de Mustiers and on Alice his wife and the heirs of the bodies of the said Iohn and Alice remainder to the right heirs of Iohn William de Musters 3 E. 3. claimed to have emendation of the Assize of Bread and Ale broken in his Mannor of Tyreswell In an Assize 21 E. 1. between Adam de Eyvill Plaintiff and Robert de Musters Defendant for Common of Pasture in sixscore Acres of Wood with Swine in the time of Pesson Paunage in Tireswell the Jury found that the Ancestors of Thomas de Eyvill and of the said Robert were Parceners of the said Town in Lands Woods and Commons c. and that the said Robert disseized the said Adam of the said Commons and required a special verdict It seems the fore-named Sir Iohn de Musters had a son and heir called Henry de Musters Knight whose first wife was Alice but by his second who 〈◊〉 Elizabeth daughter of Sir Brian Thornton he had an only daughter and heir named Elizabeth who was first married to Alexander de Robertus de Musters homo Comitis Alani ..... de Musters ..... de Musters Johannes de Musters temp R. 1. Robertus de Musters Johannes de Musters s. p. Willielmus s. p. Robertus de Musters Johannes de Musters Chr. -Alicia 1 E. 3. Henricus de Musters miles-Alicia ux 1 -Eliz fil Briani Thornton mil. Elizabetha Musters unica fil haer -Alexander de Moubrey mar 1 -Joh de Wandesford de Westwik in Com. Ebor. mar 2. ob 1395. Elizab. fil haer -Will Gascoigne capital Justic. 2 H. 4 -Jana ux 2. Willielmus Gascoigne miles-Jana fil haer Henr. Wyman Willielmus Gascoigne miles-Marg fil Tho. Clarell relict Joh. Fitz-Williams Willielmus Gascoigne miles prout in Whatton-Jana fil haer Joh. Nevill mil. Joh. de Wandesford de Kirtlington in Com. Ebor. natus 1370. Moubrey and after his death to Iohn de Wandesford of Westwike in Yorkshire by whom she had a son and heir called Iohn de Wandesford of Kirtlington in that County born about 45 E. 3. of whom there is a Family still remaining but by her husband Moubrey she had a daughter and heir Elizabeth the first wife of Sir William Gascoigne the Chief Justice by whom she had Sir William Gascoigne the father of Sir William c. whose Family had interest here Sir William Gascoigne the younger Knight and Margaret his wife 7 H. 8. suffered a Recovery of the Mannor of Tyreswell and Advowson of the Church also of ten Mess. two hundred Acres of Land one hundred of Pasture sixty of Wood 60s. Rent with the Appurtenances in Tyreswell to Sir Iohn Cutt Sir Richard Cholmeley Sir Henry Wyott Richard Broke Serjeant at Law Miles Gerard and Iohn Wood. This part of Treswell which belonged to the Family of Musters was called the West Hold and was of Richmond Fee as the other which was of Tikhill Fee was called the East Hold being that Mannor which Roger the Man of Roger de Busli had which as the rest of his Lands did came to William de Lovetot Lord of Wirkesop in the time of H. 1. who gave his part of the Church here to the Priory he there Founded as in that place will be shown Reginald Tailbois 6 Ioh. put in the place of Gerard de Furnivall and Matildis his wife daughter and heir of William de Lovetot Grandson of the former offered himself against Hugh Ridell then under age in a plea of right concerning the fourth part of a Knights Fee with the Appurtenances in Tireswell and Hugh prosequuted not c. Galfr. Rydell 3 E. 3. claimed the Mannor of Tireswell as Cousin and heir of Alice de Loveton who was seised in the time of H. 3. as son of Hugh son of Hugh son of the said Alice de Lovetot great Grandmother of the said Galfr. There was a Fine 1 E. 2. between Roger de Morteyn and Cecilia who had been wife of Richard de la Rokele Quer. and Simon de Walcote Deforc. of the Mannor of Tyreswell whereby it was estated on Roger and Cecilia for life remainder to Nicolas son of the said Cecilia for life remainder to Iohn brother of the said Nicolas for life remainder to the right heirs of Roger. Another was levied at York 16 E. 2. between Raph de Crophill and Matilda his wife Quer. and Alan de Hothum Clerk Deforc. of the Mannor of Tyreswell thereby settled on
the said Iohn de Bekering Ioane who had been wife of Iohn de Bekering 9 E. 3. holding Lands which were the said Iohns gave the King 6d. for a pair of Gilt Spurrs for fifteen Acres of Land with the Appurtenances in Wyston which Iohn de Bekering father of the said Iohn late her husband held of the King in Capite Iohn son and heir of Alexander le Norreys 16 E. 2. had ten Acres and 2s. Rent in Wyston c. The Jury 3 E. 3. also found that Iohn de Markham when he died held Lands and Tenements in Wyston of Thomas le Latymer by the service of 2s. 4d. and two appearances at his Court yearly for all services and that he held likewise other Lands in the same Town of Alan de Bekingham by the service of 5d. per annum and that Elizabeth twelve years old and Cecilia ten years old and upwards were the daughters and heirs of the said Iohn de Markham The Priory of Mattersey 20 E. 4. had Lands in Wyeston by Claworth which were granted to Sir Anthony Nevill with the site of that Monastery by King H. 8. The Priory of Wirkesop had Lands here at the dissolution rated at 5l. 3s. 0◠The owners of Wiston Town 1612. are said to be Oliver Bromhead Anthony Whitwell Thomas Smith Thomas Draper Bole. BOle and Bolum are not distinguished in Doomsday Book being both there written Bolum and some of the Arch-bishop of Yorkes Fee and some of the Fee of Roger de Busli There was a Mannor in Bolun which Vlmer had before the Conquest and answered the Geld as one Bov. and an half for it The Land one Car. There Roger de Busli had one Car. and the fourth part of a Church and two Mills 32s. and ten Acres of Medow this continued the old value it had in the Confessours time viz. 40s. The application of this record is so uncertain that what is set down for Bollum may possibly belong to this place and this to that The Mannor and Rectory of Bole do make a Prebend in the Cathedral Church of York valued heretofore at xx Marks The Jury 17 R. 2. found it no damage if the King granted to William Rothewell of Bole leave to give and assign to Gilbert Tynne Vicar of the Church of Bole and his successours eight Acres of Land and six of Pasture with the Appurtenances in Bole to help to sustain them which Lands were held of Iohn Danby Clark as of the Prebend of Bole by two appearances at the Court of Bole and paying 2d. And the said William held a Mess. and twenty Acres of Land and Pasture with the Appurtenances of Iohn Duke of Lancaster as of the Honour of Tykhill and the said William held a Mess. and one Acre ½ of Land in Bole of Mr. Thomas Arundel Arch-bishop of Yorke as of his Mannor of Scrooby paying 5d. per annum and some other small parcels there of the said Prebendary Duke and Arch-bishop The owners of Boale Town in 1612. are reckoned The Lady Elizabeth Gilby Widow Hugh Hodgeson Charles Oxenford Iennat Asheton Widow Katherine Gregory Widow Charles Asheton Anthony Dickens William Rodgers Dorothy Birche Widow William Bradley Edward Kirkeby Richard Carre Iohn Frances Henry Broomehead of Wheatley The Vicarage of Boole was five Marks 'T is now 4l. 13s. 4d. value in the Kings Books and the Prebendary continueth Patron Saundeby SOc to Maunsfeld in Wardebec Wapentac in Saundeby one Villan held one Garden to find Salt for the Kings Fish in Bigredic The rest of Saundeby was a Berue of the Arch-bishops great Soc of Lanum Gaufrid de Mauquincy gave to the Church of St. Peter at Thurgarton and the Canons there in pure Alms Hugh son of Aufrid with his Land viz. one Bovat which he held in Saundebi with the Appurtenances for his own Soul and the Souls of his Father and Mother and for the Soul of Matilda his wife and of all their Parents departed Robert de Saundeby 11 H. 2. ought his relief for two Knights Fees of Tikehull Honour Hugh de Saundebi 7 R. 1. gave account of twenty Marks for having 8l. Land which was his Fathers in Marcham and in Sandebi and in Burton and in Bekingham and in Misterton and in Babewurd and in Wellum and in Warshop and in Wudehus and in Greseley and in Quikene and in Tikehull Hugh de Sandebi 2 Ioh. accounted for twenty Marks for having seisin of his Land in Saundebi whereof he was disseised by occasion of Earl Iohn Alice sometimes wife of Hugh de Sandeby 5 Ioh. ought twenty Marks and one Palfrey for having the custody of the Land and heir of the said Hugh until the said heir should be of age to hold the Land The Sheriff 25 H. 3. accounted for a Mark of William de Saundeby for having a Precept or Wri◠William de Saundeby paid for half a Knights Fee and a ninth part 15 s In Nom. Vill. 9 E. 2. Saundeby and the half of Burton answered for a whole Villa and the King and Robert de Saundeby were certified to be Lords By a Fine 8 E. 2. between Robert de Saundeby Quer. and Isabell de Musters of Basingham Linc. Deforc. the Mannor and Advowson of the Church of Saundeby were settled on the said Robert for life remainder to Thomas son of the said Robert and to Isabell his wife and the heirs of their bodies remainder to the right heirs of the said Robert By another Fine 2 R. 2. this Mannor and Advowson were settled on Bertram de Saundeby and Ioane his wife and the heirs of the body of the said Bertram remainder to Meliora wife of Adam de Rotherfeild Chr. and the heirs of her body remainder to William de Saundeby and his heirs Iohn Tee and Meliora his wife 18 R. 2. by Fine passed the Mannor of Saundeby with the Appurtenances except four Mess. three Tofts two Bovats of Land and 10s. Rent to William de Saundeby and his heirs wherein it seems the said Meliora had interest for her life Elizabeth the wife of Hugh Hercy held the moyety of the Town of Saundeby by two parts of the service of one Knights Fee and held in Saundeby Misterton Holbek Woodhouse and Burton one Fee and the eighth part of a Fee and paid for Ward of the Castle xs. xvd. and for the meat of the Watchmen 9d. and for Common Fine 10s. and to the Sheriffs aid 9d. Sir Iohn Markham the Chief Iustice Elizabeth one of the daughters and heirs of Simon Leke late of Cotum Esquire widow of Hugh Hercy late of Grove Esquire Richard Willoughby Esquire Gervas Hercy Esquire and Geoffrey Staunton 11 Novemb. 6 E. 4. had licence to purchase Lands to Found a Chantry of one Chaplain in the Church of St. Martin of Saundby In 10 E. 1. because it was found that William son of Iohn de Saundeby demised to William
two Marks of Silver in the name of the marriage and Wardship or Custody of the said Ioane who was committed to Henry de Winchelse of Misterton and Walter son of Lambert de Stoketh as deputed Tutors Afterwards came one Ivo of the Isle of Haryholme and claimed the Custody of the said Ioane in the name of his wife as next in blood being Kinswoman and Aunt of the said Ioane but he was shown before the Priors Counsel learned in the Law that Henry de Shepewyk was the Kings Tenant in Walcringham from whom and others then Tenents the Ancestors of the said Ioane were enfeoff'd and that the said Henry de Shepewyk granted for himself and his heirs and surrendred to the Prior and Covent and their successours all his Lands and Tenements with all the services of all his Tenents in Walcryngham and Walcr and Shepewyk c. which excluded the said Ivo from his petition and further prosecution King Iohn when he was Earl Morton gave to the Priory of Newstede 7l. Land and 6d. Land in Walcringham and in Misterton and Sepewik and in Walcre besides the 100s. which his father King H. 2. gave in Sepewik and in Walcringham At the Assizes at Nottingham before William Skypwith and his fellow Justices the Tuesday after the Feast of Sr. Margaret the Virgin 27 E. 3. the Prior of Newstede had a Verdict that Richard de Halum late Prior and all his predecessours beyond the time of memory were seised of 15s. 2d. yearly Rent with the Appurtenances in Walcringham and likewise the then present Prior and therefore Roger Darcy Chr. Iohn de Okeburne of Walcringham and Godwin Greyveson or fil praepositi were cast in 10. Marks damage c. and the Prior to have his seisin The Prior and Covent of Newstede 4 H. 6. demised the dwelling house of the Mannor of Walkringham with all houses built beneath it and one hundred and eighteen Acres and one Rode of Arable Land and sixty Acres of Medow and a certain great Croft inclosed called the Southewod of the Demesne belonging to it to Nicolas son of William Tomkynson for thirty years paying nine Marks yearly if the said Nicolas should so long live whose father the said William held it likewise when he died with the Stock upon it whereof an Inventory was taken after his death viz. an Ox Teme and a Horse Teme with all things belonging to each Plow A Bull and a Bore and Swine c. In the Hall a Bason and Ewer and a Table Mensal with two Tristals c. In the Chapel one Missall one Chalice one white Chesulbe Casula with the whole ornament for the Priestly vestment one Phial of Lead one Sakrebelle three Coverings for the Altar one Corporas one Lead to put Holy water in in the Chapel then follows the number of Acres sown with Wheat Barley Beans and Pease c. Roger de Gringeley it seems was a Bastard and purchased a Mess. and six Acres of Land and three Rodes and one Acre and one Rode of Medow in Walkringham whom William de Anne Constable of Tikhill and Bayliff of the Mannor of Gringeley affirmed to be the Kings Villain although a Bastard cannot be called a Villain and took the Tenements into the Kings hand as the Kings precept to Richard Wynferthing and Richard de Iken Auditors of the Accounts of the issues of the Kings Mannor of Gringley expresseth yet the said Rogers Land in Walcringham Eschaeted to the Prior of Newstede he dying without heirs except some little which his brother Richard had with him joyntly Matilda Daynet or Daynel 4 E. 1. claimed against the Prior of Wirksop the Advowson of the Church of Walcringham whereof her Ancestor was seised in the time of King Henry that Kings Great Grand-father but 8 E. 1. it appears that the Prior of Wirkesop had more right to hold the Advowson of this Church than Matilda Danyell The said Prior of Wirksop 14 E. 1. had free-warren in Walkringham and Herthewik In an Assize 12 E. 1. William de Hamilton Parson of the moyety of the Church of Waltringham was Plaintiff and Richard de Wildhaver of Misterden and twenty others Defendents for their Common in Waltringham where it was complained that the Defendents had digged Turfes in a certain Marsh and made Ditches which hindred the Common but the Jury found that the Defendents might lawfully do it and judgment was accordingly for them Thomas Midleton Esquire William Thwayt junior Raph Hopton Esquire Iames Strangways Esquire and Robert Curtoys Chaplain 16 H. 8. claimed against William Malyverer Knight the Mannor of Walcringham with the Appurtenances and one hundred Acres of Land twenty of Medow one hundred of Pasture and 20s. Rent with the Appurtenances in Walkringham and Bekyngham Thomas Peek and William Woodmerpole 6 Eliz. at Hertford claimed against Robert Williamson two Mess. ten Tofts two Dovecotes six Gardens six Orchards four hundred Acres of Land two hundred of Medow eighty of Pasture one hundred of Furz and Heath and 6s. Rent with the Appurtenances in Walkeringham and Beckingham and called to warrant Edm. Malyverer Knight King Henry 8. by his Letters Patents dated 18 Novemb. 36 H. 8. granted to Sir Richard Lee Knight and his heirs the Grange and Firm of Walkeringham and all Lands Medows and Pastures there late belonging to the Monastery de Rupe alias Roch in Yorkshire then extended at 114s. King H. 8. granted amongst other things 25 Novemb. 38 H. 8. to Lawrence Harward and Stephen Termpte the Capital Mess. Grange and all Hereditaments with their Rights and Appurtenances in Walkeringham late belonging to the Priory of Workesop and many Acres of Land in the several Fields where the North Field is called Shepick Field from the Hamlet decayed as I suppose called Scepewick all which parcels were then in the Tenure of Giles Smith Richard Iervis 20 Novemb. 4 and 5. Ph. and Mar. had pardon granted for acquiring by the last will of Richard Iervis his father to himself and the heirs of his body lawfully begotten the Mannors of Walkeringham alias Walker Mysterton Stokewith and Gunthorp c. late belonging to the Monastery of Newstede One Gervas sold these Lands to the Earl of Kingston By an Inquisition taken at Nottingham 18 Iun. 3 and 4 Ph. and Mar. after the death of Roger North Gent. who died seised of five Mess. and the moyety of another Mess. ten Cotages nine Tofts and the moyety of another Toft one Wind-mill mill one Dovecote two Gardens and the twelfth part of the passage of the River Trent at Littlebrough Ferry and of three hundred Acres of Land 84. of Medow one hundred and ten of Pasture ... of Wood and 2s. Rent with the Appurtenances in Walkringham Beckingham Stourton Burton and Littlebrough it appears that he dyed the ninth of April then last past at Walkeringham and that Edward Lord North was his son and heir and above three years old
the Monks held in Fee Farm of the said Thomas and his heirs for 8s. and the whole part of the Land of Verbert de Aâ—ches which they likewise held in Fee Farm for 5s. of the said Verbert and his heirs for all Services with the Appurtenances of the said Town of Gledthorp And the Land of Cotes Linc. which they held in Fee Farm of William son of Renâ—r and his heirs for a Mark as his Chartel or Deed and that of Herbert son of Alard witnessed Of the gift of Peter de Cotes the Church of Cotes and the Lands and Medows as the Deed or Chartel of the said Peter witnessed and the Land of Cressewell which was Raph Cordus his which they held in Fee Farm of Iohn de Aiencurt and his heirs for 5s. per annum Of the gift of Simon Fitz-Simon and Isabell his wife two Bovats of Land of their Demesne in Hertewell and the Church of the said Town of Hertewell which they confirmed to them and the space of Wood c. as before Robert de Manill sometimes Lord of Whitewell in the County of Derby gave to the Church of Welbek a Quarry in his Land where ever it could be found most convenient to build the Church of St. Iames and other offices and free ingress and egress for those that carried necessaries for the building Walter de Goushull Knight granted a Quarry through the whole More between the Town of Whitewell and Belgh and other-where in the said Common Pastures of the Parish of Whitewell where ever it could be found and free leave to discover dig work and carry c. as the Charter of the said Robert de Menill his ancestor mentioned without contradiction Raph de Basset by the consent of William Basset his faâ—her and Matildis his mother whose Inheritance they were gave to the Canons of Wellebek his Mills of Languat the condition whereof was That the Men of the Town of Languat and of Hoghton were to make the House and Damm of the Nether Mill at their cost and to grinde the Corn of their proper Wanage or Tillage at the sixteenth grain and what they bought at the twentieth and the Abbat and Covent were to make the Vpper Mill and Damm at their costs and it was lawful for the said William Basset and his heirs to Fish in the upper Pool whensoever they would as the Abbat did Walter de Haincourt by the consent and favour of Iohn his son and heir gave to God and the Church of St. Iames at Welbec the whole Land which Gaufr de Kressewell held of his father and Raph his son of him free from all service belonging to him except five Shillings yearly and three preces Boons of one Plow or Carucat and three preces Boon daies in harvest viz. the first with one Man the second with two and the third with as many as shall be found there daily reaping And free from all service to the King except Dana-geld or the Kings Common Aid by his command should be levied through the whole Country in every County likewise the Sheriffs and the Kings Bayliffs praepositi the Canons were to pay for that Land This grant he made at the intreaty and by the consent of the said Raph son of Gaufr who surrendred the Land to him that he might grant it to the said Church of St. Iames and the Canons who gave the said Raph a Mark of Silver and four Goats The Witnesses were Robert the Presbyter William de Cukeney and Thomas Lord of Cukeney c. Oliver de Eyncuria son of Iohn de Eyncuria gave to the said Church of Wellebek the Tythe of his Multure of his whole Mill at Cressewell and of the issues and profits which Olyver Deyncourt his son recognized 16 H. 3. before S. de Segrave and his fellow Justices Itinerant Roger Deyncourt gave to the Church of Welbek to sustain three Canons to celebrate Divine Service in that Covent his whole Land and Medow in Wynefeild with Common of Pasture in Loghagh except the Advowson of the Church of Wynfeld and the Land which belonged to the Bovat of the Parkhuse c. Iohn de Eyncourt Rector of the Church of Wynefeld brother of Sir Roger de Eyncourt sometimes Lord of the Park of Morton Derbishire for the health of his Soul and the Soul of the said Roger his brother Lord and Ancestor and of the Lady Alice wife of the said Roger confirmed the gifts of his said brother viz. his whole Land of Winnefeld c. and the homage of William de Eyncourt brother of the said Iohn and of the rest of the Free-holders and Services of the Natives with their Sequels and that whoever should hold the Mannor of Park should defend the said Land from all Suits c. Roger de Eyncurt brother of the said Sir Roger Lord of Park made the like confirmation William Deincourt was called Basset after whose decease Iohn Deyncourt entred Sir Richard de Wyverton for forty nine Marks of Silver given him by Galfr. Fitz-Peter gave to the Abby of Wellebek the Town of Dukmanton in Derbysh. which Sir Richard Basset confirmed and so did Henry de Stuteville and Leonia de Reynes his mother of whose Barony it was held There were many Benefactors of several Counties most of this County are noted in the places where the Lands lay as this Sir Richard de Wiverton is in Colston Basset King Edward the first by his Charter bearing date at York 5 Apr. 19 E. 1. granted the Abbat and Covent of Wellebec and their successours Free Warren in all their Demesne Lands in Whyten Filingham Ingham and Cotes in the County of Linc. Whatton Aslacton Flintham Kniveton Yvershagh Gledthorp Hatfeild Hirst Belgh Cukney Colingthwait Languat Cloune Norton Milnethorpe Swaynthorp Vlecotes and Stirape in this County Dukmanton Winefeld Newbold and Cressewell in Darbyshire The same King by another Charter dated at Keneylleworth 1 Iune 29 E. 1. granted his whole part of the Wood and Soyl of Roumwood between the Wood of the said Abbat and the Parc of Thomas de Furnivall extending it self by the Kings High-way between Wirkesop and Warsop towards the West and containing sixty Acres by the Perch of the Forest together with that place of Land which was called Carberton Storth by the said Wood paying 28s. per annum for all Services which last the said Abbat had licence to inclose and make a Park of and to destroy and sell the Wood and Essart the Soyl or otherwise to make profit as he should see convenient and by this warrant 3 E. 3. they claimed c. where the Jury found the Abbat and all his Predecessors and Canons but not their Tenants or Men quit from Toll of all things which they could secure to be their own Demesne and from Bridges except the Town Bridge of Nottingham was broken The Composition between l. de Nottingham Abbat of Wellebech and the Covent of that place and
the long Ford between Hulecotes and Blyth towards the North of the Fee of William de Cressi yielding 17.d. Cecily daughter of Alan Castell by the consent of Roger de Osberton her husband released the 12d. William de Cressi son and heir of Roger de Cressy confirmed the gift of the said four Acres of Arable in the Fields of Holme and the whole Medow which the said Alan held in Locheng William de Cressi Lord of Hodesak son and heir of Sir Roger de Cressi in the year 1273. confirmed to that Church and those Monks all the Lands c. of his Fee of whose gifts soever they were within the Town of Dulecotes and without together with free Chiminage to carry their Hay and Corn through his Fee as well of their Grange of Hulecotes as other-where excepting the way before his Mannor of Hodesak By a Fine 4 E. 2. Hugo de Cressi settled the Mannor of Oulecotes and one Mess. one Car. of Land and 18s. Rent with the Appurtenances in Great Morton by Babworth on Robert Russel of Tikehull and Cecily his wife and the heirs which he should beget on the body of the said Cecily remainder to the right heirs of Robert Robert Russel 9 E. 3. granted a Mess. and twenty one Acres of Land with the Appurtenances to Laurence Mynyot for the life of the said Laurence By an Inquisition taken at Newark on Thursday 5 Iuly 2 H. 5. where Stirap was pleaded to have been an Hamlet of Oulcotes but the Jury found it otherwise viz. a Town of it self it appeared that Robert Russell and Cicely had a son named Robert Russell who had a daughter Sibyll the wife of Iohn Longespy of Dunham and a son named Edmund Russell of Oulecotes who gave the Mannor of Oulecotes and Lands in Stirap to Sir Iohn Cressy Lord of Hodesak who gave the Mannor of Oulecotes to Hugh son of William Cressy of Wadington and the heirs Males of his body which Hugh gave it to Thomas Hercy Chr. and others 9 H. 4. betwixt whom and the said Iohn Longespy was a special Assize 2 H. 5. concerning Lands in Oulecotes and Stirop Hugh Cressy held a Knights Fee in Oulecotes in the time of H. 6. and after him Christopher Cressy There was a Recovery 20 E. 4. wherein William Hynde claimed against Nicolas Worteley the Mannor of Oulecote with the Appurtenances and one Mess. one Car. of Land 18s. Rent c. in Great Morton by Babworth Gervase Cressy 8 H. 8. suffered a recovery of the same to Richard Sutton Adam Holland Henry Waren and William Clarkson In Queen Elizabeths time Henry Cressy paid 3s. 4d. for Lands in Oulecotes late Sir Iohn Byrons and formerly Christopher Cressyes held by the service of half a Knights Fee Iohn the Constable of Chester was Lord of the Fee of Oulecotes by Blyth Gerard de Sterape begat Gerard who begat Philip de Oulecotes Lord thereof who held the Mannors of Oulecotes and Sterap for one Knights Fee which Philip died without heir of his body but had five sisters who divided the inheritance amongst them being heirs of the said Philip their brother the first whereof was called Alice de Sterap the second Margery or Margaret the third Isabell the fourth Iuliana and the fiâ—th Constance Alice had three sons out of Matrimony viz. Ingeram to whom she gave three Bov. in the Town of Sterap Hamelin de Buggethorp married the second sister and begot on her Galfr. who begot Ingeram de Oulecotes who held the Mannor of Oulecotes and gave it to Roger de Arci about 2 E. 1. with all his Lands in Vlecotes and Stirap and Blyth on condition that the said Roger de Arci should procure him to be made a Knight at his own charge and find him and his three Men and three Horses meat drink and clothes during his life The third sister Isabell took an husband Thomas de Stretton Knight who died without children and in her widowhood sold part of her Inheritance to the said Ingeram and Norman de Sterap and part to the Abbat of Welbec The fourth sister took an husband Galfr. de Barneby who begot on her Norman de Sterap who begot Thomas who begot Iohn who begot Robert de Sterap who gave some Land to the Abby of Welbek The fifth sister Constantia took an husband Daniel of Newcastle who begot her son and heir Iohn de Adham who had part of the Inheritance in Northumberland likewise Apeltan in Sterap fell to him and one Bovat of Land and the Medow in Lokinton but the Lord of Oulecotes held that part because the said Iohn would not do him homage as all the other sisters did The Sheriff 6 R. 1. gave account of 32s. 3d. of the Land of Philip de Vlecot the Kings enemy of the Honour of Tikehill Robert de Veteriponte 9 R. 1. ought 4l. and 4d. of the firm of Stirap and Vlecotes which were Arnald de Diest's the whole year of the Escaets which were delivered to the Knights or Sâ—uldiers of Flanders Philip de Hulecote 1 Ioh. gave the King 100l. and a War Horse which he paid the King Iohn at Xantes for having Iohan daughter and co-heir of Robert de Mesnill the sister of the wife of Sewall son of Henry Progenitor of the Shirleys whom the King had granted before to the said Sewall to be married to his Nephew who was dead This Philip de Vlecotes was a very great Man all the time of King Iohn and Sheriff of Northumberland c. and had Writs to free him from Scutages as in the Pipe Rolls of that time is evident He was a Justice Itinerant 3 H. 3. in Cumberland Westmerland and Lancashire In 4 H. 3. Octob. 13. he was made Steward of Gascoigne and Poictou His five sisters and Gerardus de Styrap Gerardus de Styrap-Matilda Reg. de Blid. p. 73. Philip. de-Joan fil coh Rob. Ulecotes de Mesnill 1 Joh. post 6 R. 1.1 ux Walt. de Goder-Joh 5 H. 3. vill -1 Alic. Ingeram de Styrap -Dionysia relict 1278. Reg. de Blid. p. 76. Richardus de Stirap Willielmus de Stirap Rich. de Stirap petens 10 E. 2. Hamelin de Buggethorp fil Will. de Audreby Regist de Blid. 73 -2 Marg. Galfr. de Burgethorp Ingeramus de Oulecotes mil. 2 E. 1.8 E. 1. Reginald frater Ric. Capellani de Blid. -Aleonora Galfr. de Barne-by-4 Julian Normanuns de Stirap Thom. de Stirap Johannes de Stirap Robertus de Sterap 5 Daniel de Novocastro -Constan Johannes de Adham 3 Tho. de Stretton mil. s. p. -Isab heirs before named 5 H. 3. had the Lands of the said Phil. de Vlcotes the day that he went into Poictou by the Kings Precept and Galf. de Gurdon had the custody of the Land and heirs of Stephen de Muschamp in Biermare which Philip de Vlcotes gave him Walter Crec Hugh de St. Bermero and Galfr. de Cressy were then Knights
Hanselin c. William Peverell his son by ill advice took them away for a long time but repenting he for love of the Worship of God and for the safety of the Souls of his said father and mother by the consent of his heir William the younger restored them again The Witnesses to this Deed were Hugh de Burun William Avenell Adam de Morteyn Oddo de Boney Robert de Heriz Gilbert de Macuinci Norman de St. Patricio c. Anno 1155. King Henry the second disinherited William Peverel because of poyson given to Ranulph Earl of Chester About those times there were three Peverels of great note viz. Peverel of Dovor and Peverel of London and our Peverel of Notingham who is certainly intended by the last noted Chronicle as may further appear by an Instrument yet remaining in Sir Iohn Cotton's Library Sealed by Henry Duke of Normans c. afterwards King Henry the second being then at the Divises to Ranulph Earl of Chester wherein he gave him besides the said Earls own Inheritance in Normandy and England wholly as his Ancestors ever had it that in Normandy very particularly recited the whole Honour of Earl Roger Pictavensis where-ever and all the said Duke Henries Honour of Blye where-ever it was in England and the Honour of Eye as Robert Malet Uncle of the said Earl Ranulphs mother ever had it Moreover he gave him Stafford and Staffordesir and the County or Earldom of Stafford wholly whatever he had there in Fee and Inheritance except the Fee of the Bishop of Chester and of Earl Robert de Ferrariis and of Hugh de Mortuomari and of Gervas Paganell and except the Forest of Canoc which he the said Duke then retained in his hand He gave him the Fee of Alan de Lincolne who was also Uncle of the said Earls mother and the Fee of Ernis de Burun as his own Inheritance and the Fee of Hugh de Scoteiney where-ever it was and the Fee of Robert de Chalz where-ever it was and the whole Fee of Robert Fitz or son of Odo and the whole Fee of Norman de Verdun and the Fee of Robert de Stafford where-ever it was and 30l. Land which the said Duke Henry had in Grimesby he gave him and Notingham Castle and the Borough and whatever the said Duke had in Nottingham in Fee and Inheritance he gave to him and his heirs and the whole Fee of William Peverell where-ever it was unless he could dirationare se clear himself in the said Dukes Court of the wickedness and Treason except Hecham And if Engelram de Albamarlâ— would not take with the said Duke nor Earl Simon and he the said Duke could take the said Hecham by force he would restore it to the said Earl Ranulph if he would have it and Torchesci and Oswardebec Wapentac and Derby with all the Appurtenances and Maunsfeld with the Soch and Roclar with the Soch and Stanley by Coventre with the Soch and of Belvar he would hold him right as soon as he should be able as of the said Earls Inheritance and to the said Earls six Barons he would give each an hundred pound Land which they should chuse of those which the said Duke should happen to get of his enemies and to all the said Earls friends parentibus he would restore their Inheritance whereof he had power c. Howbeit the said Earl Ranulf of Chester did not enjoy any long possession of those places in this County for the Sheriffs answered to the King for the profits of the Lands of William Peverell and the Scutages of the Tenants of his Fee as in the Pipe Rolls of Henry the second and the succeeding Kings may be seen and in divers other places of this Book for the rest Margaret the daughter and at length heir of William Peverell of Nottingham was wife of William Earl of Ferrars and Derby son of Robert the younger Earl of Ferrars and of Nottingham and she had a son Robert Earl of Ferrars who in the time of King Henry the second perhaps because he could not inherit was the more willing to burn Nottingham which he did it seems together with his son William Grandson of the said William and Margaret which said William Earl of Ferrars the Grandson was outed of his Earldoms of Nottingham and Derby by King Richard the first who gave them to Iohn Earl of Moreton afterwards King his brother who thereupon 't is like grew more willing to interest himself in these parts which he did by granting a Charter to this Town of Nottingham and some way or other pleasing of the Gentry of the Country so well that he led the most of them into Rebellion as in sundry places of this Book concerning divers particular persons of them may be observed But of these Peverells I have found no more saving that there was a Fine in the Kings Court at Nottingham the Fryday after the Feast of St. Bartholomew 4 Ioh. before I. Bishop of Norwic Hugh Bardulf Iohn de Gestling Mr. Roger Arundell Hugh de Bobi the Kings Justices and others then there present between William Peverell Petent and Beatrice de Curcon Tenant of two Bovats of Land in Palterton thereby passed to her and her heirs paying 6d. per annum c. 'T is certain then that from the beginning of the Reign of Henry the second this Castle of Nottingham hath for the most part belonged to the Crown neither is there any place anything near so far distant from London that I know of in all England which hath so often given entertainment and residence to the Kings and Queens of this Realm since the Norman Conquest It is said that in the year 1194. King Richard being first loosed from his bonds the Castles of Nottingham and Tykehull resisted with force but the Castles of Lancaster and Merleburg and Mount Michael rendred themselves King Iohn in the sixth of his Reign commanded Reginald de Clifton that immediately upon sight of his Letters he should deliver to Robert de Veteriponte the Castle of Nottingham c. The like Command at that time had Hugh de Nevill for the Castle of the Pec William de Briewer for that of Bollesour and Sampson de Straclee Strelley concerning the Castle of Hareston Raph Fitz-Nicholas 10 H. 3. was Warden of Nottingham Castle he was Steward to William de Ferrariis Earl of Derby it seems King Henry the third being at Windsor 29 April 32 H. 3. committed to Robert le Vavassur the Countys of Nottingham and Derb. to be kept paying to the King 100l. per annum at his Exchequer for the issues of the said Counties besides fifty Marks which he was to pay every year to the Warden custodi of Nottingham Castle for the keeping thereof After the Battel at Lewes between King Henry the third and the Barons for determining the strife Edward the Kings eldest son was delivered for Pledge and afterwards was freed from
the same River to Otter Brigge from thence by the great High-way of Nottingham to the Mill Ford from thence to Mayneshead from thence betwixt the Fields of Hardwick and Kirkeby to the corner that is called Nun Carre from thence by the Assert of Ewan Brittayne to the Earl Stigh and from thence to Stolegate from thence by the great High-way under the Castle of Annesley from thence by the great High-way to the Town of Linbye through the midst of the Town to the water of Liene so to Lenton and from thence by the same water as it was wont of old time to run into the water of Trent and so along the River of Trent to the fall of Doverbecke saving Wellay Hay and other the Kings Demesne Woods in the County of Nottingham This I have the rather done that most men may know when they are within and when without the Forest. And although there were some deafforestations after yet were they resumed so as the old Perambulation stands at this day without any remarkable alteration There have not been many Justice Seats in this Forest of Shirewood those that I have met withal I shall here observe The first was in Henry the second 's time before Hugh Bishop of Durrham Robert Bishop of Lincolne and Robert Earl of Leicester The next I find was in Henry the third's time before Robert Nevill and his fellows Justices The next after that was 15 E. 1. before William Vescy and his fellows and of this Justice Seat the Rolls are extant with the Chamberlains of the Exchequer in the Tallye Office as also the Rolls of the next Justice Seat of 8 E. 3. before Raph Nevill and his fellows The next Justice Seat I can meet with is 21 H. 7. before Simon Stalworth and Iohn Collier Clarks Robert Nevill and Iohn Port or Porter and before them as Deputies and Lieutenants of Sir Thomas Lovell Guardian and Chief Forester and Justice of the Forest of our Lord the King of Shirewood But this Seat I cannot find Recorded in any place although I made diligent enquiry for it upon a claim there for the Town of Nottingham and upon conference with William Noy the late Atturney General to his Majesty that now is he told me it was no where to be found where he had seen I have seen some claims as the beginning of another Justice Seat for this particular Forest 26 H. 8. before Thomas the first Earl of Rutland but no further proceeding therein that I could learn The last upon Record in the Exchequer in the same Tally Office is a Book wherein is entred the Claims and Commencement of a Justice Seat here before the then Lord Crumwell the Kings then Chief Justice in Eyre of his Forests on the North side of Trent The state of this Forest at this present consists of a Warden his Lieutenant and his Steward a Bow-bearer and a Ranger four Verderors twelve Regarders so reduced to the number of twelve by an Ordinance made in Edward the first 's time by William Vescy and his fellows four Agisters and twelve Keepers or Foresters in the main Forest besides there are now four Keepers in Thorney Woods where anciently there were but two one of the North Bayle another of the South they are all reduced under the Chief Forestor the Earl of Chesterfeild and his heirs whose Father Sir Iohn Stanhoppe had the same granted in Fee with liberty to destroy and kill at their pleasures reserving an hundred Deer in the whole Walk There are also besides the Forest-Keepers three in Beskwood Park that before Edward the third's time was an Hay or Wood uninclosed but sithence it was imparked the general Keeper of the Park hath had the Command of the other Keepers as I presume the general Forester of the Hay had before for I find Richardus de Strelley was Forester there 2 E 3. There is also one other Keeper of Nottingham Parke one other of Clipston Parke The twelve Forest Keepers are these One of Maunsfeilde one of Maunsfeild Woodhouse one of Annefley Hills and Newstede one of Papplewicke one of Rumwood and Oswald one of Rughford one of Billahay one of Birkeloud one of Calverton one of Farnesfeilde one of Langton Arbour and Blidworth and one of Sutton in Ashefeild The Castle and the Park of Nottingham was granted to the late Earl Francis of Rutland and is now the Inheritance of the Dutchess of Buckingham his daughter and heir Clipston Park is now the Inheritance of the Earl of Newcastle who is the present Warden of this Forest and his are also the perpetual placing of the Keeper of Romwood and Oswald The Keepership of Rughford is the inheritance of Sir William Savile Lord of Rughford Annefley Hills Papplewick and Newstéede are granted to Sir Iohn Byron Lord of Newstéede and the rest of the Walks are in the disposition of the Warden of the Forest. There are besides as members of the Forest several Wood-wards for every Township within the Forest and for every principal Wood one It would not be impertinent to set down how that in the beginning of the Reign of King Henry the second Ranulph the Sheriff Hugh de Buyrun Raph de Hanselin Robert de Perreriis Raph de Annesley Galfr. de le Fremunt Raph de Heronvill Hugh Fitz-Wlviet Robert de Hoveringham Alexander Fitz-Toche Simon Fitz-Richard Robert de Ripera Richard de Croxton William de Herys Walter de Amundevill Sampson de Stereley Gervas Fitz-Richard de Muey Ingelram the brother of the Sheriff Hugh Fitz-Roger William Fitz-Reyner Hugh Fitz-Albred Hardewin and Gaufr de Staunton swore at Nottingham in the presence of Robert Earl of Leicester who on the part of the King Commanded them that they should tell the truth concerning the Customs and Liberties which the Land of the Arch-bishop of York which is in Nottinghamshire and the Archbishop himself had in the same Shire in the time of King Henry the elder viz. the first and the year and day wherein that King Henry the first was alive and dead And after they had sworne they said That the whole Land of the Arch-bishop was without the Forest which was contained between the bounds underwritten As Doverbeck falleth into Trent and on the upper part from the water of Doverbeck unto Ciningeswad as the way of Blyth goes and all that Land which is beyond Ciningeswad and beyond the aforesaid way was out of the Forest unto Bykersdike so that no Forester of the Kings could intermeddle on the Kings part concerning that Land but the Arch-bishop and his men did freely both Essart and do what they would with it as their own And out of the afore-named bounds in the old Forest the Arch-bishop did Hunt nine daies in the year viz. three against Christmass three against Easter and three against Whit sunday through the whole Wood of Blythworth and in that Wood of Blythworth the Arch-bishop and his Canons and his men had all their Attachments without waste guasto
and had their proper Foresters and Aieryes of Hawks and Paunage This was Sealed by Robert Bishop of Lincolne and Hugh Bishop of Durrham Iohn Romanus Arch-bishop of York 15 E. 1. by Hugh de Stapleford his Atturney had great pleading before William de Vescy Thomas de Normanvile and Richard de Crepping Justices in Eyre concerning his holding Pleas of Vert in his Court of Southwell and many other Priviledges As William de Melton one of his successours Arch-bishop of York by William de Southwell his Atturney had 8 E. 3. before Raph de Nevill Richard de Aldeburgh and Peter de Midleton as may be seen at large in the Rolls of both these Justice Seats in the Tally Office But I shall not be further particular in exhibiting any further Collections on this subject because the pleasant and glorious condition of this noble Forest is now wonderfully declined And there is at present and long hath been a Justice Seat which is not yet finished and therefore cannot now be rendred a good account of held under my Lords Grace the Duke of Newcastle Justice in Eyre of all his Majesties Forests c. Trent North wherein it seems his Deputies or Lieutenants have allowed such and so many claims that there will not very shortly be Wood enough left to cover the Bilberries which every Summer were wont to be an extraordinary great profit and pleasure to poor people who gathered them and carried them all about the Country to sell I shall therefore at this time say no more May 24. 1675. FINIS The INDEX of the Names of Persons Acadus 488. Acclum 184. Acland 30 31. Adwik 444. Adderley 277 298 493. Adelington 303 146. Adys 182. Adam 168. Adham 471 472. Addy 388. Albani 38 72 113 114 115. 156 187 195 277 325 363 368 379 380. Albamarle 489. Adeluuel 463. De Albin 20. Allestre 153 491. Allot 482 503. Almton 348 372 373. Alchill 244 453. Alexander 135 168. Aldham 476. Alneto 73 111 124 125 190. Alford 333 335 338 339. Alsop 266. Alfer 233. Alfrid 484. Alfag 3 210 233 260. Algar 8 28 37 50 72 110. Alselin or Halselin or Hanselin 2 Amyas 242 491 493. Amys 156 178. Amundevill 32 33 34 183 184. 186 187 331 370 506. Ampcotes 402. Amstrudder 394. Anderson 341 445. Andrews 96 197 251 253 284 331 355 430 474 475. Anglicus 291. Angevin 42 97 255 369. Anlep 353. Antwysell 7. Or Entwisell 494. Angot 369. Annesley 38 43 65 97 99 101. 115 125 221 222 228 234 238 241 249 251 252 253 254 255 257 265 268 270 281 286 28â— 308 322 415 4â—8 506. Anneslow 498. Apsley 79. Arden 381 392 393. Apleby 343 344 414 483. Applesthorp 415. Arre 285 295. Armstrong 26 29 31 34 38 39. 119 140 221 222. Armine 101 192 333. Ashby 213 216. The INDEX of the Names of Persons A AAron 255. Abrincis or Auerenge 133 134 450. Ablot 393. Abbat 5 18 145 213. Abdy 415. Abys 193. Acadus 488. Acclum 184. Acland 30 31. Adwik 444. Adderley 277 298 493. Adelington 303 146. Adys 182. Adam 168. Adham 471 472. Addy 388. Albani 38 72 113 114 115. 156 187 195 277 325 363 368 379 380. Albamarle 489. Adeluuel 463. De Albin 20. Allestre 153 491. Allot 482 503. Almton 348 372 373. Alchill 244 453. Alexander 135 168. Aldham 476. Alneto 73 111 124 125 190. Alford 333 335 338 339. Alsop 266. Alfer 233. Alfrid 484. Alfag 3 210 233 260. Algar 8 28 37 50 72 110. Alselin or Halselin or Hanselin 2 145 146 147 279 280. 283 341 347 372 373 377 440 488 506. Almaine 424. Aluric 209 216 219 220 233 244 260 262 278 282 296 323 329 363 475. Alvey 120 121 154 293 319 335. Alweys 309. Amyas 242 491 493. Amys 156 178. Amundevill 32 33 34 183 184. 186 187 331 370 506. Ampcotes 402. Amstrudder 394. Anderson 341 445. Andrews 96 197 251 253 284 331 355 430 474 475. Anglicus 291. Angevin 42 97 255 369. Anlep 353. Antwysell 7. Or Entwisell 494. Angot 369. Annesley 38 43 65 97 99 101. 115 125 221 222 228 234 238 241 249 251 252 253 254 255 257 265 268 270 281 286 28â— 308 322 415 4â—8 506. Anneslow 498. Apsley 79. Arden 381 392 393. Apleby 343 344 414 483. Applesthorp 415. Arre 285 295. Armstrong 26 29 31 34 38 39. 119 140 221 222. Armine 101 192 333. Ashby 213 216. Ascough 93 105 230 234 243 244 245. 246 298 301 386 390. Askam 353. Asgill 247. Asseballoks 157. Aslacton 3 40 85 123 136 137 138. 143 169 171 255 280 291 303 307 442. Aslacby 169. Aston 7 19 20 158 190 297 413. Ashton 257 298 350 393 421 480 485. Astlyn 320. Alton 497 498. 500. Athorpe 499. Atkin 479. Atkinson 196 201 221 308 481 482. Arnall 121 123 124. 128 209 220 235 236 291 335 383. Arnald 39 172 180 237 240 276. Audeley or Alditheley 53 80 81 114 185. Avenell 218 220 450 488. Aldric 207. Aylric 171 231 239 247 447. Aylston 33. Aylward or Elward 285 361. Ayloff 129 130. Aylesbury 12 100 101 149. Ailesford 44 300. Alyn 193 237. Aluuin 2 210 238 244 313 400 492. Alewin 233. Alden 4 B. 39 95 195 216 244 282 290 299 329 342 353 354. Algod 233. Azor 2 42 49 75 102 209 254 475. Alsi or Elsi 167 361. Achard or Agard 27 86 236 259 389 481. Almar or Elmar 242 361 362. Aldeburgh 241 507. Alwold 366. Alured 41 180. Aldred 230. Augi or Ewe Earles 3 33. Archill 413 416. Arch-bishop of York 2. Archer 169 185 235 344. Arches 5 83 362 388 400 401. 407 446 451. Avetson 8. Averham 328 Alfreton or Fitz-Ranulph or the Sheriff 18 40 64 81 101. 242 245 270 302 363 385 387 388 419 435 461 483 505. Attebarre 317 318. Attemilne 26. Attebek 185. Asteley 33 271. Ashmole 57. Ashwell 101 186 308. Attebrig 105 318. Akworth 105. Arundell 115 144 318 421 489 494. Ashley 115 443. Aufeild 119. Auvington or Alverton 156. Ausger 165. Arnegrim 168. Armegri 172. Agemund 192. Algarthorp 234. Attewode 241. Attecarre ibid. Aldesworth 244. Agarston 250. Aungevin 297. Athelstan 313. Aquila 338 339. Arnewi 368 406 426. Aukeland 412. Aldewark 415. Aunger 426. Arkep ibid. Apuleia 430. Audreby 472. B Bacon 372 438. Batcheler 372. Baddeford 300. Bache 250. Bausaw 249. Berhis ibid. Balok 216. Bales 192 416. Baldok 170. Banes 319. Bardelby 170. Barde 383. Batherick 353. Baumburgh 170. Balde 476. Bakewell 331 492. Baker 133 244. 439 484. Bardsey 75. Barionas 54. Barlow 4 45 46 48 270 285 458. Baxter 4 204. Baynby 390. Odo Bayon Bishop 2 127 184 185. Babington 9 10 12 26 30 31 66 67 87 93 95 100 101 129 130 151 153 154 185 192 198 205 206 207 209 236 238 262 269 370 281 298 301 305 323 324 350 364 383 392. 394 398 404 414 437 438 443 445 494. Bachepuz 23 223 274 362 450. Bagot 119 142 464.
Pasture Wood one qu. long and one qu. broad In the Confessours time and then at the taking the said Survey valued at one Mark of Silver The Family of Iorz were ancient owners here which gave the Town the distinction of Burton Iorce which it yet retains Galfr. de Georz 30 H. 2. gave account of xxs. that the Deed or Charter which he had of William de Georz concerning the Land of Littlebury Lughburgh should be read in the Kings Court. Agnes who had been wife of Geoffrey de Georz 13 Ioh. gave account of 16l. 13s. 2d. for the Custody of the Lands c. Galfr. de Iorz paid two Marks for one Knights Fee in Birton in the former part of the Reign of Henry the third afterwards Richard de Iorz was found to hold a Knights Fee of Oliver de Eyncourt who held it of the King of the old Feoffment Robert Iorce of Burton son of Sir Richard Iorce Knight settled his Mannor of Burton by Bulcote and thirty and two shillings Rent with the Appurtenances in Hokkesworth and three Mess. and five Bovats in Gedeling and forty Robertus de Jortz 8 H. 2. Galfridus de Georz 30 H. 2 -Agnes vidua superstes 13 Joh. ...... de Jorz Galfr. de Jors Richardus de Jorz miles Dom. Robertus de Jorce superst 1 E. 2 -Isolda-Idonea superst 12 E. 2. 1 Richard de Jorz 2 Robert de Jorce miles -Isabella fil Will. de Wastenes 18 E. 2 -Nicol de Worteley mar 2. 17 E. 3. Alianora 18 E. 2. Isolda 18 E. 2. Marg. Johannes de Jorz-Matildis 17 E. 3. Robertus de Jorce 39 E. 3. Willielmus de Jorz aet 9. An. 49 E. 3. Willielmus Jorz s. p. Johannes Cecilia-Robertus de Hawburgh Robertus Hawburgh superst 6 H. 7. s. p. -Matild Willielmus Jorz Elianora-Johannes Walker Henricus Walker Johannes Walker de Eperston 6 H. 7 -Margareta Gardner Johannes Walker de Eperston temp H. 8. Humfridus Walker ob 20 Aug. 24 Eliz. -Katherina fil ..... Throcmorton relicta .... Clark ux 2. Johannes Walker aet 30. ampl 10 Jac. -Elianora fil Thom. Mather de Erleshagh Johannes Walker de Eperston aet 69. 1675 -Brigitta fil Ed. Andrewes Ar. de Pesbrook in Rutl. Johannes Walker aet 26. 1675 -Rebecca fil Thom. Shirbrook de Oxton Johannes Walker aet 3. 1675. Elizab. aet â— Cecilia Richardus de Jorce 3 Will. Jorz-Agnes 13 E. 2. Willielmus 30 H. 2. and one shillings Rent in Ester-Leyk in this County fourteen Mess. and fourteen Virgats of Land with the Appurtenances in Bakewell in Derbyshire and one Mess. and one Carucat of Land and thirty two Acres of Medow and 13l. 3s. 2d. Rent with the Appurtenances in Lughteburgh in Leicestershire on Richard his son and the heirs Males of his body lawfully begotten remainder to Robert de Iorz another son and his remainder to William another son and his râ—mainder to the right heirs of the said Robert de Iorz the Father on whose Seal as upon divers others of his Family is A Bend charged with three Waterbougets This Deed bears date at Burton Iorce the Munday before the Feast of St. Martin in Winter 1 E. 2. the Witnesses were Iohn de Herrys Raph de Crumwell Raph de Crophill Knights William son of Richard de Burton Robert de Burstall of the same Town Thomas le Palmer of the same Robert Iorce Cousin of the said Robert in Lughburgh Robert le Ster of the same c. Richard Aâ—re of Ebreston gave and confirmed his Mannor of Ebreston to Sir Robert de Iorce and Isolda his wife and the heirs of their bodies Their second son Robert de Iorz afterwards Knight married I suppose for his second wife Isabell the daughter of Monsieur William de Whasteneys after his death she was wife of Nicolas de Worteley on whose Seal 17 E. 3. is a Bend between six Marteletts charged with three Lozenges voyded and on hers her Picture holding in her right-hand hanging down the top of the Shield of Wastenes viz. a Lion Rampant and in her left that of Iorz viz. On a Bend three Waterbudgetts by her right shoulder is a Lion Rampant and by her left a Waterbudgett her name circumscribed Robert Iorz of Birton and Isabell his wife by a Fine 18 E. 2. entailed Lands and Rents in Bulcote Ester-Leke and Eperston and by another the same Term in Birton Iorz Stoke Bardolf and Gedling which he settled on himself and his heirs Males with remainder over to his daughters Margaret Isolda and Alianora and the heirs of their bodies but it seems his son Iohn had a son called Robert de Iorce or Ioce who left his son William de Iorz his heir 49 E. 3. then but nine years old The Jury 42 H. 3. found that William de Birton held ten Bovats of the Mannor of Loudham except two which his Ancestor gave in Frank-marriage with his sister of the King whereof six lay in Loudham and four in Burton and for which he paid the King yearly 7s. He held likewise in Birton of Richard de Grey of Codnor seven Bovats and as many of Adam de Everingham and of them both forty Acres in Demesne And twelve Bovats of William le Marescall in Radclive for 18s. per annum and the Foreign service for the fourth part of a Knights Fee and that Richard his son and heir was then sixteen years old That Williams Father I suppose to be Richard son of William de Birton who paid 32d. for the tenth part of a Knights Fee in Birton in the former part of Henry the third and his said son Richards son to be William son of Richard de Birton of whom Raph de Crumwell is said 27 E. 1. to hold a Wong culturâ—m containing fifteen Acres in Birton by the Service of one penny per annum Raph de Crumwell 10 E. 1. claimed before I. de Vaux Justice Itinerant in the County of Nott. against Iohn de Burstall whom Galfr. le Esquier of Birton and Margery his wife called to warrant and who did warrant to them one Mess. and four Bovats of Land in Birton as his right and called to warrant Nigellus de Ridware and Thomas his son and then relinquished his warranty and answered gratis and pleaded that the said Raph in the time of Henry the third was never seized of the said Mess. and Land and put himself on the Country to try William de Vpton Parson of the Church of Birton-Iorce got an Inquisition 21 E. 3. which found that one Mess. and two Bovats and five Acres of Land were the right of the Church of Birton Iorce and so had been from the very Foundation of it and the Predecessours of the said William de Vpton held them and that Mr. Robert de Blundesden sometime Parson of that Church demised them at Will to Robert Sareson of Birton Iorce and that after the death of Mr. Robert Iohn son and heir of the said Robert Sareson held
the Justices to deliver the Goal were Raph de Frechevile William de Mortein Hugh de la Chapele Simon de Hedon Ioane the daughter of William son of Thomas 8 E. 1. offered her self the fourth day against Aymon Earl of Gevenne and Constancia his wife in a plea of fifteen Acres of Land and 20. Rent with the Appurtenances in Cokenay which she claimed as her right c. Raph Silvan was brother of Thomas the Founder of Wellebek his son Osbert Silvan had the Mannor of Woodhouse and Raph Silvan was his son and heir and had a son and heir Osbert Selvan all of them Benefactors to that House Robert Pyrpount 3 E. 3. offered himself against Anketin Salveyn concerning a plea of the Mannor of Wodhous near Cokeney with the Appurtenances except one Mess. and twelve Acres of Land in that Mannor and he came not c. Robert Perpount Chr. pleaded likewise for Land in Kirkeby in Asshefeld Anketine Salveyn it seems 15 E. 1. was son and heir of Raph Salveyn and Margery his wife one of the daughter and co-heirs of Nicolas son of Anketine Malory This Family of Silvans seem to have had their Name from their residence at this Mannor in these Woods Barth Monboucher Chr. of the County of Northumberland and Robert Martell of this County and others 15 Iuly 6 R. 2. personally undertook in the Kings Chancery for Edmund Perpont Chr. under the pain of 1000l. that he should not do or procure any mischief to the Abbat of Wellebec his Canons or Men of his Council or Men summoned in a certain Assize of Novel disseisin between the said Abbat and him to be taken before the Justices of Assize at Nott. King Henry the eighth for the summ of 617l. 6s. 8d. Iuly 15. 32 H. 8. granted to George Perpoynt of Walley in the County of Derby Esq the Mannors of Bondbusk Langwith Howbeck and Woodhouse with the Appurtenances except the Tythe of Nether Langweth late belonging to the Monastery of Welbeck Sir George Pierpont likewise bought the Tythes of Corn and Hay in the Towns of Cuckney Norton Hatfeild Grange Milnethorpe Howbeck Woodhouse Bonbusk and Colingthwait and in 6 E. 6. the Mannor of Cuckney with all the Appurtenances and the Granges of Hatfeild and Colingthwait Langwith and the Park are now the Inheritance of William Earl of Devonshire The rest descended to Robert Earl of Kingston who dwelt at his ancient House of Woodhouse the most part of forty years but his son and heir Henry the Marquess of Dorchester resides at Holme by Nott. The owners of Norton Cuckney Town in 1612. are said to be Robert Perpoint Esquire Geoffrey Snowden William Barker Iohn Iepson one Mess. one Cott. two Orchards forty Acres of Land and Richard Sandford The Vicarage of Cukney was 10l. when the Abbat of Welbeck was Patron 'T is now 9l. 8s. 6d. ob value in the Kings Books and the Marquess of Dorchester Patron Wellbeck THis Monastery was begun in the time of King Stephen who confirmed the gift which Raph de Bellafago made to God and the Church of St. Iames at Wellebek of the Land of Clun of his Fee afterwards viz. 1 Ioh. called Hungreclun as appeareth also by the Deed of Raph Silvan and Margaret his wife directed to Henry Arch-bishop of York who lived in that Kings Reign wherein they gave and confirmed to Lord or Sir Gerlo Abbat of Neuhus and the Order of the Praemonstratenses and namely to the place of the Abby which his the said Raphs brother Thomas had begun in pure Alms all their part which they had in that place and the Wood which was between the Rivulet and the Cart-way which leads from the place of the Abby unto Belgh c. But the Founder Thomas de Cukeney son of Richard directed his Charter of Foundation to Roger Arch-bishop of Yorke who lived in the time of Henry the second wherein he gave and granted to Sir Berengarius Abbat of Wellebec and to all his successours and the Brethren of that place there according to the Order of the Praemonstratenses regularly serving God by the Counsel of Sir Serlo Abbat of Neuhus in free and quiet and perpetual Alms the place of the Abby of Wellebec where the Church of St. Iames was Founded and the whole Land which is from the place of the Abby unto a place called Belgh and Belgh and whatsoever was within the bounds of that place in Medows in Pastures in Woods in Lands Tilled and his whole Sart nigh Belgh viz. where Galfr. Hugh and Druing lived and the remaining part of the Sart which he had there And further as much as belonged to him the Church of St. Mary of Cukeney in which Parish was the place of the said Abby and the Church of St. Helen of Euwell Derbss and the Church of Whitene which were Founded in his Fee with all which belonged to them the Mill also of Languat and the whole Land of Hirst and Common of Pasture of his Land All these things he gave to God and the Church of St. Iames at Wellebec and to the said Abbat Berengar c. for his own Soul and his fathers and mothers and all his Ancestors and all theirs from whom he had unjustly taken their Goods All these things he gave by the consent of Emme his wife and Raph Silvan and Richard his brothers The Witnesses were William Prior of Radford Austin the Sub-Prior Fulc the Canon of that place Hugh son of Sewal the Canon Osbert Silvan the Canon William the Presbyter Galfr. de Tivereshat Peter de Scardeclyve William de Bolesovere William de Calum Hugh the said Thomas his son Rodb Avenell Rodbert son of Gaufr Gilbert son of Rodbert Rodbert son of the Sheriff Raph Barrè William son of Glai Roger de St. Audoeno Robert de Willeby Henry de Auring Walter de Sidenham Raph de St. Mary Walter de Bakepuez Roger de Wauton Raph the Clark of Warsop Richard de Flintham William his brother Hugh the Painter Swan the praepositus Provost of Normandy William son of Gilbert Raph de Mainill King Henry the second confirmed the Founders gifts and the before mentioned gift of Raph Silvan and besides that of one Bovat which was Leuric de Hirsts and one Bovat and one dwelling House in Norton which lay to that Bovat which Leveric de Hirst held and Common of Pasture of the Land of Raph Silvan of Norton and of Wodehous and all other things which the same Raph reasonably gave And likewise of the gift of Richard son of Richard son of Ioce his Culture of Bassegate of the gift of Richard his son his whole Land of Langwath with all the Appurtenances and one Bovat of Land with it one Toft in Cukenei which was Edwins and several Wongs or Cultures and his Mill of Cukeney with the Toft and Pasture for five hundred Sheep and the whole part of the Land of Tho. de Gledthorp which