Johannes de Builli Idonea fil haer Rob. de Veteri ponte ob 12 H. 3. Johannes ob 25 H. 3. Rogerus de veteri ponte ob 49 H. 3 -Isabel sor cohae Ric. Fitz-Joh Isabella cohae 1. Rogerus de Clifford ob 11 E. 1. Rogerus de Leyburne Rob. de Clifford ob 8 E. 2. Matildis amica una haered Tho. de Clare Robertus de Cliffor ob 15 E. 2. sine prol Robertus de Cliffo ob ante fratrem Isabella postea nupta Tho. de Mucegros milit Robertus de Clifford sine prole Eufemia fil Rad. domin Nevil post nupta Walterede Heselarton Rogerus de Cliffor mil. ob 13 R. 2. Matilda fil Tho. de Bello-campo Com. Warw. ob 4 H. 4. Thom. de Cliffor Chr. ob 4. Octob. 15 R. 2. in part transmar Elizabetha fil .... St. Johan de Com. Ebor. ob Mar. 26.2 H. 6. Johannes Domin Clifford Chr. ob Mar. 13.9 H. 5. Elizab. fil Henrici Percy Chr. occisi apud Shrowsbury ob 15 H. 6. Thom. dominus Clifford natus die lunae post festum Assumpt Mariae Virg. 2 H. 5. Joanna fil Tho. domini Dacres de Gillesland Willielmus de Clifford Chr. ob 6 H. 5. s. p. in fâ—sto Annunc die veneris Anna fil una haeredum Tho. dom Bardolf post nupta Regin Cobham mil. s. p. Johan Tho. And. Johan Idonea cohae 2. Beatrix Henricus Johannes Henricus Alicia Comitissa de Augi Henricus com de Augi Mon. Angl. vol. 1. p. 916. Robertus de veteri ponte and Idonea his Wife by fine 6 H. 3. released all their right from themselves and the heirs of Idonea in the Castle and Town of Tikhill excepting six Knights fees and an half which they formerly held to Alice Countess of Augi or Ewe who confirmed the said Knights fees to them and the heirs of Idonea for the service of one Knights fee they lay in Mauteby Samdeber Kimberwurth Sauteâ—y Faldam Stanford upon Sore Peverelthorâ—e Bradelwurth and Torlakeston H. de Bargo chief Justice put to the Kings claim both for demesnes and services It seems what lay in this place came according to this descent to the Family of Clifford for it appears that Roger de Clifford Chr. died 13 R. 2. seized of one Knights fee in Stanford upon Sore which Robert de Swillington Chivaler then held and that it was worth twenty l. per annum when it happened and of one fee in Torteston which Robert Barry Chr. then held worth xiv l. in all its issues yearly and of half a Knights fee in Shelton in the Vale which Thomas de Staunton Chr. and his Parceners then held worth when it should fall C. s. per annum and of half a Knights see in Peverelthorp which the Lord le Spencer held worth when it happened lxvis. viiid. per annum And that Thomas de Clifford Chivaler died seized of the same fees 15 R. 2. leaving Thomas his Son and Heir who either died young or else is mistaken for Iohn as by the Genealogy may be observed Those who held this Mannor had their name from the place for Peter de Stanford is certified to have held one Knights fee here of the Countess of Ewe And Hugh de Stanford 4 E. 1. recovered his presentation to this Church against the Prior of Wulvescroft because the Jury found that Richard de Trowell had presented to it alone Here was another Mannor which before the Conquest was Alfags for which he paid to the Geld or Tax as ten Bovats The Land of it was four Carucats or Plowlands Robert Fitz-William whose fee it was afterwards had there one Carucat or Plow 4. Sochm 7. Villans 2. Bordars having 7. Plows or Carucats There was the seat of a Mill and fifteen Acres of Medow This in the time of King Edward the Confessor was valued at 40s. William de Trowell paid one Mark for the third part of a Knights fee which he held in Stanford and Léek of the fee of Raph de Mortimar The Jury found 32 E. 1. that Philip de Kyme held Trowell and Stanford upon Sore for three Knights fees There was a partition of Lands here betwixt the co-heirs of Ric. Pigot 23 E. 1. The Mannor and advowson of the Church of Stanford with the appurtenances and xixs. ivd. rent in Great Leyk and Brokilstow were by a fine 3 E. 3. between William the son of Hugh Bigg of Stanford and Ioan his Wife Compl. and Tho. de Hoppescotes Parson of the Church of Appelby and Roger de Astacton Parson of Hokesworth Def. settled on the said William Bigg and Ioan his Wife and the heirs of William viz. two parts in present and the third which Alice who had been Wife of Hugh Bigg then held in Dower after her decease This Mannor with the appurtenances except one Acre and the Advowson of the Church which Ioan who had been Wife of William Bigge of Stanford held for her life was by a fine 29 E. 3. between Rich. de Willughby the elder Chr. Compl. and Benedict de Vlvescroft Hugh Sammeson and Iohn son of Robert de Donington Deforc. conveyed to the said Richard and his heirs and the Advowson also after the death of the said Ioan. The Jury 16 R. 2. found it not to the Kings loss if Tho. de Sutton and Rich. Baxter of Wulvescroft gave two Mess. and six Acres in this Stanford then held of Roger Swillington to the Priory of Wulvescroft one of which Messuages was charged with the yearly payment of xxd. to the Priory of Bermondesey Sir Richard Illingworth Knight had this Mannor as in Boney may be noted in the time of E. 4. King Philip and Queen Mary by their Letters Patent dated the ninth day of November in the fifth and sixth year of their Reign granted to Robert Raynes the Queens Goldsmith the whole Demesne and Mannor of Stanford And 11. Mess. 14. Cottages one Horse Mill 50. Acres of Land 100. of Medow 300. of Pasture 3. of Wood 1000. of Furz and Heath with all their Appurtenances in Stanford and the whole Fishing and liberty of Fishing in the water of Soore and the yearly rent of vis. id. ob q. in Stanford aforesaid and the yearly rent of xvs. issuing out of the Lands of Barlow Esq in Boney which were lately parcel of the possessions of Thomas Kniston Gent. attaint of High Treason And the Advowson and right of Patronage of the Rectory and Church of Stanford and the third part of a Wood called Boney Wood in Boney containing by estimation ten Acres and parcel of the possession of the said Thomas all which were then extended at xxixl. iiis. vd. ob q. To have to the said Robert Raynes and the heirs males of his body lawfully begotten Nicholas
heir called also Rese Here were divers 13 R. 2. who held of William Bardolf of Wirmegey Iohn de Loudham a sixteenth part of a Knights Fee in Neuton and Shelford Iohn Lord Grey of Codnar as much in Birton Iorce William de Russeby Hugh de Annesâ—â—y Roger de Duffeild and Thomas de Whatton half a Fee in Carleton Gedling Colwyk and Stoke Iohn Burton and his Parceners a sixth part in Newton Iohn de Babington a sixteenth part of a Knights Fee in Neuton The Prior of Shelford and his Parceners a twelfâ—h part in Shelford Roger de Stanbridge a sixteenth part there William de Wymondeswold a thirteenth part in Gedling and Stoke William Clark and William de Kirketon a twentieth part in Carleton and Gedling Iohn de Birton Chr. and Hugh de Annesley a twentieth part in Carleton This William Bardolf in his life time had the Advowson of the Priory of Shelford which was then valued at twenty Marks per annum and the moyety of the Advowson of the Church of Gedeling at ten Marks The Jury 15 R. 2. returned it not to the Kings loss to grant Iohn de Landfort Vicar of the moyety of the Church of Gedling and Iohn Ward of Shelford licence to give three Mess. twenty two Acres of Land eight Acres and an half of Medow and 26s. 8d. Rent with the Appurtenances in Shelford and Stoke Bardolf to the Prior and Covent of Shelford Henry Plesyngton Knight and Isabel his wife 27 H. 6. claimed against Alice Leek one Mess. two Carucats of Land thirty Acres of Medow and 43s. Rent with the Appurtenances in Gedling and Stoke Bardolf Edmund Molyneux Esquire 30 H. 8. suffered a Recovery of three Mess. two Cottag one hundred Acres of Land three hundred of Medow three hundred of Pasture c. and 4l. Rent c. in Stoke Bardolf Shelford Gedling Burton Iorce and Newton and called to warrant George Gryffyth Knight Gedling Ghelling BEsides what hath been mentioned before in Stoke Bardolf and Carleton of Goisfrid de Alselins Fee in the Conquerours great Survey there is mention of another Mannor in Ghellinge which before his coming was one Dunstanes and answered to the Tax for nine Bovats and an half and a third part of a Bovat The Land two Car. There afterwards Roger de Busâ—i whose Fee it was had two Car. and nine Vill. one Bord. having two Car. and ten Acres of Medow Pasture Wood two qu. long one qu. broad In the Confessours time this was 32s. value then 40s. Richard de Normanvile and Henry de Walleye held half a Knights Fee of Alice Countess of Augi in Carleton Gedling Stoke and Weston The Mannors of Gedling and Weston were both by Fine and Recovery 16 E. 4. passed to Robert Roos of Laxton Esquire by Thomas Normanvile Knight and Elizabeth his wife with warranty in the Fine against Thomas Abbat of Kirkestall and his successours Thomas Bek held in Gedling 15 E. 1. the sixth part of a Knights Fee of Robert de Everingham then dead whose son and heir Adam de Everingham was but seven years old at that time By a Fine at York 2 E. 3. Roger Boteler of Stok and Amicia his wife passed twenty Acres of Land in Gedling to Roger Duket and Margaret his wife and the heirs of their bodies in default whereof the heirs of Roger Duket were to have ten Acres lying in Podhâ—â—h and the heirs of Margaret the other ten lying it a place called Blesedale Alexander de Lee son and heir of Alexander de Lee son and heir of Alexander de Lee and Maud the daughter of Gilbert de Brunneslegh which last named Alexander was also son and heir of Alexander de Lee and Sarra his wife 3 E. 3. claimed an Acre of Land in Gedling against William son of Gilbert de Gedling Iohn de Cave of Nott. 10 E. 3. held in Carleton by Gedling seven Mess. and seven Bovats of Land of Hugh Bardolf and his Ancestors Roger de Pilley held then in Gedling one Mess. and one Bovat of Adam de Everingham of Laxton Richard Ingram held of him a Mess. and four Bovats in Gedling and so did Thomas de Whatton of Stoke Bardolf hold one Mess. and six Bovats of the said Adam The King Feb. 5. 31 H. 8. granted to Michael Stanhope Esquire and Anne his wife amongst other things the Mannor of Shelford with its members and Appurtenances late belonging to the Monastery of Shelford and likewise all the Woods called the Priors Park and Eshawe containing one hundred and forty Acres in Gedling And the Rectories of the Parish Churches of Shelford Saxendale Gedling Burton Ioys and North Muskam Also all Mannors Mess. Lands Tenements c. in Shelford Saxendale Neuton Brigford Gunthorp Loudham Cathorp Horingham Bulcote Gedling Carleton Stoke Lamcote Flintham Long Colingham Caunton the Town of Nott. Newark Burton Ioys and North Muskam to the said Monastery belonging The Parson of the Church of Gedling 12 E. 2. had one hundred and ninety foot long and twenty foot in breadth of Land granted to enlarge the Church-yard of that Church The Rectory of the Mediety of Gedling was twenty Marks and the King Patron The Vicarage of the other Mediety was twelve Marks and the Prior of Shelford Patron the Rectory is now 14l. 6s. 0d. ob and the Vicarage 6l. 16s. 8d. value in the Kings Books and Philip Earl of Chesterfeild Patron of both In the North I le East Window Azure three Cinquefoyles Or Bardolf quartering Azure a Lion Ramp and flowers de Lis Or Beaumont There is also Arg. on a Fesse double Cotised Gules three Flowers de Lis of the Field Normanvile quartering Azure a Chevron between three Birds Arg. In the East Window of the South I le Azure three Cinquefoyls Or Bardolf In the Parsonage Chamber Window Lord Crumwell with Tateshal quartering Everingham Lambley LAmbley in the Book of Doomsday is said to be of the Tayn-land where Vlchet had a Mannor before the Conquest which paid the Tax for two Car. and as many Bovats The Land was three Car. Alden held it of King William the first and there had one Plow or Plow-land or Carucat twenty Villains three Bordars having four Plows or Carucats three Sochm. with one Plow or Car. on half a Car. of Land here were two Mills 20s. and twenty Acres of Medow Pasture Wood one leu long four qu. broad In the Confessours time and in the Conquerours this kept the value of 60s. This Aldene was Lord also of Crumwell of which place the ancient owners of this Mannor took their name the first of which whom I have seen any thing of was Raph de Crumwelle son of Hugh de Crumwelle who about 12 H. 2. held a Knights Fee of the Bishop of Lincolne of the old Feoffment Raph de Crumwell 22 H. 2. gave account of ten Marks of the Amercements of the Forest. The Inquisition taken before
I HENRY Earl of Peterborow Deputy with His Majesties Approbation to the Right Honourable Henry Earl of Norwich Earl Marshal of England having perused a Book Entituled The Antiquities of Nottinghamshire Written by Robert Thoroton Doctor of Physick And finding that it contains only what the Title doth import and nothing contrary to the meaning of the Act of An. 14. Car. 2. Cap. 33. for preventing abuses in Printing c. do therefore License the Printing thereof Dated under my Hand this Third day of May 1677. PETERBOROW D. E. M. THE ANTIQUITIES OF Nottinghamshire EXTRACTED Out of Records Original Evidences Leiger Books other Manuscripts and Authentick Authorities Beautified with MAPS PROSPECTS and PORTRAICTURES BY ROBERT THOROTON Doctor of PHYSICK Quid genus proavos strepitis Si primordia vestra Authorémque Deum spectes Nullus degener extat Ni vitiis pejora fâ—vens Proprium deseret ortum Boet. de Consol. Phil. lib. 3. LONDON Printed by Robert White for Henry Mortlock at the Sign of the Phoenix in St. Paul's Church-yard and at the White-Hart in Westminster-Hall 1677. REVERENDISSIMO In CHRISTO Patri ac Domino D no GILBERTO Providentiâ Divinâ ARCHIEPISCOPO CANTUARIENSI Totius ANGLIAE Primati Metropolitano ET AUGUSTISSIMO PRINCIPI CAROLO II. Magnae Britanniae Franciae Hiberniae Regi E Secretioribus Consiliis Nottinghamiensi olim Advenae Et Exinde Plusquam indigenae Fautori Robertus Thoroton M.D. Hanc Otiis vix indulgendis Commutationem longe Imparem Merito D. D. D. TO MY WORTHY FRIEND William Dugdale Esq Norroy King of Arms. Sir BY your hand as it were I present these Collections to the Nobility and Gentry of our County and to all other lovers of this kind of knowledge that your name may procure the Book that esteem which its own worth cannot give it This priviledge I claim and use with the greater confidence not only because I am sufficiently assured of your kindness and good nature but also because indeed you put me upon the work and therefore though I may not have done so much or so well as you intended I should I think you are a little obliged to countenance your own choice of the Instrument You may remember that some very few years after your Visitation of our County you and I being with our Friend Mr. Gervas Pigot since deceased at his House at Thrumpton he brought us a kind of a Transcript of something which your old Acquaintance Gilbert Boun Serjeant at Law my Wives Father was designing or beginning towards a Description of Nottinghamshire whereof he had been Feodary which proved to be only Doomsday Book and a short Note or two on every Town but that served to give occasion to both your importunities that I should attempt something further in it which I proved more willing than able effectually to obey notwithstanding your promised assistance and directions which indeed my profession and other concerns would not suffer me in all things exactly to follow for I could never get opportunity to go my self and stay at York to abstract what might be useful for me from that Registry as you ever advised me and others it seems could not well do it for me for I had several undertakers who all failed in the point Yet I have made hard shift to be as little justly to blame in other things as possibly I could so that I hope you will not disown me and if you do not I shall be less sollicitous what others think for I allow no man for a Iudge who hath not done something of this nature himself And they that have even for your sake I am sure will be apt to be merciful to Carcolston Munday in Easter-week Apr. 16. Anno Dom. 1677. Your Faithful Friend and Servant ROB. THOROTON THE PREFACE THE Art of Physick which I have professed with competent success in this County not being able for any long time to continue the people living in it I have charitably attempted notwithstanding the difficulty and almost contrariety of the study to practise upon the dead intending thereby to keep all which is or can be left of them to wit the shadow of their Names better than precious Oyntment for the body to preserve their memory as long as may be in the World Though for this latter undertaking I expect no more Glory than I have gotten Riches by the former well knowing this place not to be the best chosen for either and the times such that too few are much concerned either for what is past or to come But seeing that by the especial favour and Providence of God I have lived happily in it beyond my own reasonable hopes or the opinions of my wisest Friends who would have set me on a better Stage I have thought my self bound to my Country to make it this further return of gratitude however it may relish or please which no body else of better abilities and qualifications hath hitherto performed and I have put it in the form of an Olla Podrida which any of them who shall be half so fond as I may the more easily augment or new model when they shall think fit and every Reader or rather looker on it for it cannot expect many more thorough Readers than a Dictionary may by the help of the Indexes pick out only those names of Places or Persons which he desires without being obliged to read very much of the rest which may be thought impertinent enough especially by those who will not consider that I present not here what I would have chosen but what I could find and that for the most part will be judged too little by any concerned and too much by others Yet the time this Work can pretend to is very little above six hundred years in the first third part whereof there is not too much to be found the oldest general Authentick Record we have being that most famous Survey made by King William the first in the latter part of his Reign which still remains in the Treasury of the Exchequer and is called Doomsday Book and was finished near about two hundred years after the first perfect Division of England into Shires or Counties or of them into Hundreds and Tythings by King Alured or Alfred as is said but hath respect also to the several Lands and their owners in the time of King Edward the Confessour This most noble light of those times as far as concerns this County of Nottingham I have therefore exhibited at large as plainly as I well could yet because the Phrase or Language of it is not suitable to this present Age I conceive it not amiss briefly in this place to observe and explicate some few things which may render it and some other things in this Book more easie to be understood To begin then with Shire as the Saxons called it or County as now more frequently is used we may know it to be one of those Shares Portions or Provinces whereinto this Kingdom
judge Causes and levy Forfeitures and Amercements arising amongst the people resident within such Circuit or Territory part whereof was ever as well by the King in his as other Lords in theirs kept in his or their own respective hands or Tenencies for the sustenance or support of his or their particular Family there which is now called the Demesne the rest is well known by the name of Tenements being held by others Of which one part by the Saxons were called Boke Lands because the King or other Lord gave them to some Thaines or Freemen by Charter to inherit either for their Services in the Wars or Contribution thereto or else for finding a competent proportion of Corn or other provisions for the Kings or other Lords use which latter Tenure we understand now by Free Socage as we do the other by Knights or Military Service These men however for such their Lands in any Mannor or Soke of the Kings or of another mans were named Socmen especially in Doomsday Book where they are most often mentioned as they have been Thaines Men Barons Knights and Free-holders and are indeed the very Barons whereof as the Lawyers say there must be two at the least to make that we now call a Court Baron in the reason of which name it seems divers most Learned men have been mistaken calling it from some insufficient Authority A Barons Court or Court of a Baron as is manifest in that the King himself not to be called a Baron sure in any sense except only the Masculine had a Court of the Barons of his Mannor as suitable and necessary for the Affairs of that as the great ones were for the business of his Kingdom after the Model whereof this was partly governed which Court in old time had the name of Hallmote the Kings as all others were being most usually kept in the Capital Messuage or Mannor House then and still called the Hall whereunto these Sokemen or Barons Men Knights Thaines or Free-holders were once in three Weeks to attend Some of the Kings Socmen were great as were also some of those of the larger sort of other great mens and had Mannors within the Soc which sort we now call Mesne Lords being in the middle as it were between their own Socmen who held of them and the supreme or Paramount Lord of whom they held themselves but the most generall sort of them were such as the Saxons called Less Thaines the Danes Young-men and we still Yeomen and were as I guess made most ordinarily of the younger sons or brothers of the Lords of the less sort of Mannors being certainly Free of Blood and fit for honourable Service some marks whereof yet remain in the Kings Houshold and divers other places These Sokemen of the Kings Mannors now known by the name of Free-holders by Charter in Antient Demesne are free from all manner of Toll for any thing concerning their own Provisions or Husbandry and from many other payments which others are liable to neither can they be drawn into Plea for any thing concerning their Lands out of their own Court wherein from the very first beginning without doubt was exercised all manner of Law requisite for the Kings Tenants as well concerning right as peace as likewise 't is probable there was in all or most other very great Mannors or Sokes which contained several Tythings or Townships whence arose also the Court-Leet as we now call it wherein chiefly all those Saxon Customs distinguished by several names or Laws concerning the Peace were executed which by many Lords in their several Sokes was claimed by prescription and since the Conquest hath been granted to others by the name of View of Frank-pledge The other part of the Tenements of a Mannor by the Saxons called folk-Folk-Lands were occupied or held for the most part by the people bred and born in the Villages and of Servile condition called in Doomsday Book Villains and since Natives or Bondmen being such as our Husbandmen or Farmers are now for those who were like our Cottagers held very little or no Land and in that Record are called Bordars most likely because they had their meat where they did their work which Custom remains amongst us in some places still However all these men and all they had went with the Lands of their respective Mannors wherein they lived and were saving their lives as much and intirely at the will and disposition of their several Lords who finding no great profit in keeping alive many such Lazy Families as they were bound to do grew more willing to Manumit and make them Free or else to suffer them to hold their Lands under such Rents and Services as they thought fit to impose which being entred in their Court Rolls they made little other use of their Authority over them so that Copyholders also now have almost utterly worn out the memory of any such condition as well as any of that formerly most numerous Servile sort of people whereof for the greater part of these last two hundred years there have scarcely been any who would not have despised those who should not have esteemed them as Free-born English men as the best as the late times have more especially shown The last thing which should be distinguished a little more clearly from a Mannor or Soke Constablery or Tything Town Village or Hamlet is a Parish which amongst us signifies a certain portion of Land or Territory within the particular charge of a Priest who is to Administer the Holy Sacraments and other Divine Offices to the Inhabitants thereof the Precinct or bounds of which are commonly best known by those of the Mannor or Mannors the Tythes whereof belong to that Church though some portion of them may have been given to some other for it frequently happens that a Township Hamlet or Constablery is in several Parishes the Church Founded in it alwaies having the Tythes of it except a Portion was by chance given to some Religious House and we see a Parish as before was said of a Mannor may contain one or more Townships or Hamlets or only part of one or more Nay in some places we have two Parishes in one Town and but one Church which must needs arise from several Mannors the Lords whereof joyned in Founding or Building but not in endowing the Church each keeping apart his Tythes and what else he would give for the sustenance of his own Clark whom he intended to present to the Bishop for the Ministerial care and Government of his own Tenants who with the Lands they occupied made up one Parish as the others did another yet both had use of the same Church These are ordinarily called Medieties perhaps because the use of the Church may be equal though the Parishes or profits be not The Kings Mannors before the coming of the Normans were furnished with Churches and Chapels in the Hamlets also not far short of Parochial Churches and so were most other great
Mannors and some little ones too but some have no mention in Doomsday Book of any Church in them at that time which yet manifestly had not very long after so that it seems the Norman Lords built Churches presently and fixed their Tythes within their own Mannors which before were paid to uncertain places the Dedications or Consecrations of most of which Churches or Chapels by the Bishop are still remembred in these parts by the respective Parishioners in celebrating a certain yearly Feast commonly called the Wakes But we must further consider that the great Root and Measure of all was Agriculture Husbandry or Tillage which necessarily imployes supports and multiplies People as they must Houses and Mannors whereof consist Towns Hundreds and Counties and of them a Kingdom so that the King in his Political capacity as well as his natural is fed by the Husbandman concerning whom our Laws are so old natural and fundamental that the certain original of them appears not to the deepest searcher supposing nothing before them but a King to give and People to receive them for the Learned Selden who went as far as he or any one else could in that particular in his Ian. Anglorum is fain to cite out of Authors whom he judged of little or no credit in the point that Donuallo Molmutius and his son Belinus after him who Reigned four or five hundred years before our Saviour Christs time when certainly the Inhabitants of this place were not much civilized Ordained That Plows Temples and Wayes leading to Cities should have the priviledge of Sanctuary And furthermore lest the Land should wax empty or lest the People should be frequently pressed with want of Corn or be diminished if only Cattel should occupy the Fields which ought to be Tilled by men He the said Belinus constituted how many Plowes each County as we now call them should have and appointed a Punishment for them by whom the number should be diminished And forbad the Beasts which should serve the Plow to be taken away by the Magistrates or assigned for debt of money to Creditors if other Goods of the Debtor were sufficient besides However these Laws and Customs have been antient and certain enough whoever made or begun them and all Measures of the Country have been taken from the Plow as long as any memorials of such things are extant for a Family or Manse or Hide with the Saxons or Carucat with the Normans are of the same signification which is that we call a plow-Plow-land and was as much Arable as with one Plow and Beasts sufficient belonging to it could be Tilled and ordered the whole year about having also Medow and Pasture for the Cattel and Houses also for them and for the Men and their Housholds who managed it This is the great Measure so often repeated in Doomsday Book in most Counties by the name of Hide but in ours Darbyshire and Lincolnshire only Carucats are found which are the very same with the other and esteemed to contain an hundred Acres viz. sixscore to the hundred but assuredly were more or less according to the lightness or stiffness of the Soyl whereof one Plow might dispatch more or less accordingly Thus unequal also were the Virgats whereof four made a Carucat and so were the Bovats or as we call them Oxgangs of which most commonly eight went to a Carucat or plow-Plow-land one of them being defined to be as much Land as one Ox might Till through the year which for the reason before could not be equal in all places but in some places was twelve in some sixteen in some eighteen or more Acres Nay the Acres were not equal for some had sixteen some eighteen some twenty and some more Feet to the Perch of which forty make a Rode and four of them an Acre but the Foot it self was also customary in some places twelve Inches in some eighteen more or less so that we must not too peremptorily determine the quantity of a Leuc or Quarenten in Dooms-day wherewith the Pasture or other Woods were measured and perhaps sometimes Medow though 't is sure enough the first meant our Mile and the other a Furlong viz. forty Perches which yet cannot be precisely judged to an Inch. By these kind of Measures though were the ancient Surveys made of every Mannor and part thereof and by these were regulated all manner of Taxes as well before the Conquest as after for though the Knights Fees then first brought in with their incidents Ward and Marriage c. became a Measure for divers Aids or Taxes afterward yet even they consisted or were made up of five or eight Carucats or Plow-lands apiece and the respective Tenants paid for so many whole Fees or parts of one or more as they agreed with them who first enfeoffed them according to such proportions of Carucats or Bovats as were the subject or ground of such agreements so that still the Plow upheld all as the Laws did it indifferently well till that stupendous Act which swept away the Monasteries whose Lands and Tythes being presently after made the Possessions and Inheritances of private men gave more frequent encouragement and opportunities to such men as had got competent shares of them further to improve and augment their own Revenues by greater loss to the Common-wealth viz. by enclosing and converting Arable to Pasture which as certainly diminisheth the yearly fruits as it doth the people for we may observe that a Lordship in Tillage every year affords more than double the profits which it can in Pasture and yet the latter way the Land-lord may perhaps have double the Rent he had before the reason whereof is that in Pasture he hath the whole profit there being required neither men nor charge worth speaking of whereas in Tillage the people and their Families necessarily imployed upon it which surely in respect of God or Man Church or King make a more considerable part of the Common-wealth than a little unlawful increase of a private persons Rent must be maintained and their publick duties discharged before the Land-lords Rent can be raised or ascertained But this Improvement of Rent certainly caused the decay of Tillage and that Depopulation which hath much impaired our County and some of our Neighbours and which divers Laws and Statutes have in vain attempted to hinder I shall only take notice of the thirty ninth year of Queen Elizabeth when one Statute was made against the decaying of Towns and Houses of Husbandry and another for maintenance of Husbandry and Tillage in the Preamble of the first is mentioned thus And where of late yeares more than in times past there have sundry Townes Parishes and Houses of Husbandry bene destroyed and become desolate c. the second is after this manner Whereas the strength and flourishing estate of this Kingdome hath bene alwayes and is greatly upheld and advanced by the maintenance of the Plough and Tillage being the occasion of the increase and multiplying of
Radeclive upon Sore in Notinchamsire with all the appurtenances and the fourth part of the Mills of the same Town and the Tythes of the other three parts the Church of Kneshal and Tythes of the Mills there and the Tythe of Allerton Mill in this County Howbeit the Family of Picot held this Town and Kinston of the King in capite by the Serjeancy of keeping Hawks for him of the old Feoffment viz. in the time of King Henry the first Peter Picot gave account of 100l. for having the Land which was Peter Picots his Father in the time of King Iohn Thomas Picot had free warrant granted in Radclive and Kineston 37 H. 3. he is sometimes called Thomas de Hedon by reason of his residence at that Mannor of his in Essex The Serjeancies here were let out for rent in King Henry the thirds time by Robert de Passelewe several persons had shares and some paid rent to Thomas Pigot besides the Kings Elias Pikot held four Virgats for 20s. per annum to the King at Mich. and Easter Letice Pikot one Virgat for 5s. Ernold the son of Elias one Virgat or Yard-land for 6s. per annum Iulian the daughter of Roger de Hamstede one Virgat for half a Mark. Iohn le Hostricer or the Hauker held two Virgats for 10s. rent and service to Thomas Pikot for making the Mutes The heirs of Thomas le Taylour William Pimme and Thomas le Paumer each a Virgat for 4s. and service to Thomas Pikot as before Iohn de Leke three Virgats in like manner for a Mark. Richard Seaman one Virg. ½ ¼ for 4s. Felice the daughter of William Pinguant Anketill the son of Thomas and the Prior of Bredon each two Virg. Stephen the Cook one Virgat for half a Mark whose son William brought his suit against Peter Picot the son of this Thomas 53 H. 3. for distraining him for 2s. rent which he pleaded to be part of the half Mark and said that neither he nor his Father Stephen ever paid it but that after the Battel of Evesham Peter Picot came to Radclive and exacted it of him and threatned him of his life so that he was forced to pay it for fear The Prior of Norton recovered the Advowson of this Church 2 E. 1. by Assize and Jury yet Peter Pigot Grandclild of Peter and son of Thomas 9 E. 1. claimed it against the said Prior who called to warranty Henry de Lacy Earl of Lincoln who came and defended the right by the body of a certain Free-man of his called Iohn the son of Richard de Baynbrigg but there was no Judgement upon the Duel This Peter was a Knight and dead 14 E. 1. He held besides this Lordship Lands in the Counties of Kent Essex and Herâ—ford of all which his son Iohn was then found to be his heir and twenty four years old but Iohn Picot 22 E. 1. was also dead and his Brother Peter then of the age of thirty years and upwards was found his heir Roger de Bathesworth Robert de Monteney Peter Picot and William de Montecaniso were 29 E. 1. parceners of the inheritance of Stephen de Somery A Fine was levyed 6 E. 2. between Raph Basset of Drayton Compl. and Peter Picot Deforc of the Mannor of Radclive upon Sore with the appâ—rtenances except one Mess. one Virgat and sixteen Acres of Land The third part of this Mannor was then Thomas Barkebyes in right of his Wife Helewisia who held it in Dower the Reversion of which the said Peter did pass to the said Raph Basset and his heirs likewise this was in Easter Term. Another Fine was passed in Trinity Term and another in Michaelmas Term the same year wherein Raph Basset settled the premises both Possession and Reversion upon Peter Picot and Ioan his Wife for both their lives which after the Death of Peter Picot 8 E. 2. was again confirmed in Court to Ioan his Widow by the said Raph Thomas Barkby and Helewisia consenting and there doing her fealty Peter Picot dyed seized of the Mess. Virgat and sixteen Acres of Land parcel of the Mannor of Radclive 7 E. 2. Simon Seuville the son of Margery one of the Sisters and Isabella Touke the other Sister of the said Peter being then found his heirs Simon forty and Isabel sixty years old of whom the said Raph had that Land also the next year after viz. 8 E. 2. In the 35 E. 1. Peter Picot and his heirs were to have view of Frankpledge Assize of Bread and Ale Pillory Tumbrell Infangetheof and Gallows in their Mannor of Radclive for a certain rent yearly paid to the King by the hands of the Sheriff This Family of Pigot had interest at Barowe in Leicestershire where I find Alexander Pigot and Robert and others resident in the time of H. 3. E. 1. and E. 2. c. Peter Picot gave account of Barow 27 H. 2. and 30 H. 2. Petrus Picot 27 H. 2. defunct 13 Joh. Petrus Picot 13 Joh. Thom Pigot dictus etiam de Heydon Petrus Pigot miles Margeria Simon Seuvill aet 40. 7 E. 2. haeres Petri. 1 Johannes sine prole 2 Petrus Pigot s. p. -Joana relict 7 E. 2. Isabella ux ... Touk aet 60. 7 E. 2. haeres Petri. The Jury 33 E. 1. found it not to the Kings loss if he granted Iohn de Byern leave to infeoff Mr. Richard de Hertford and Peter the son of Robert de Herteford and the heirs of Peter in two Mess. and thirty two Acres of Land in Radclive Nor 9 E. 2. to the Kings loss to grant to Roger de Raumpaine and Cicely his Wife to give one Mess. and one Virgat and to Peter de Herteford to give two Mess. and thirty Acres of Land to Thomas de Barkeby Thomas de Radclive upon Sore 8 E. 3. settled one Mess. two Virg. of Land here upon himself and Alice his Wife and the heirs Maâ—es of their bodies and for want of such to Adam de Cradeley and Ioan his Wife and the heirs of their bodies remainder to the right heirs of Thomas besides which this Thomas had a Mess. and Carucat of Land here and in Kinston Thomas de Ratcliff on Sore late under-Sheriff of Nott. 13 E. 3. gave account of 17l. 6s. 8d. of the fines for divers transgressions charged upon him his pledges were Iohn de Mounteney and Thomas de Neumarch Knights Raph Lord Basset of Drayton by his Testament Ian. 16. 13 R. 2. gave certain Mannors Lands and Tenements and amongst others this Radclive to Sir Hugh Sherly his Nephew and the heirs Males of his body on condition that he and they should bear his Name and Arms and for want of such to William de Stafford Brother of Edmund Earl Stafford on the like Conditions and for want of such heirs or conditions to Iohn de Grey Brother of the Lord Grey on the like and after him to Sir William Lisle as
before Sir Hugh Shirley performed not the Conditions nor did he quietly enjoy the Lands of the Lord Basset so devised by the said Will Edmund Earl Stafford being through an old intail made of them by Raph Lord Basset his Grandfather in 13 E. 3. found heir to the rest opposing him therein Howbeit there was an agreement at length and though the said Earl and Sir Hugh were both slain in the Battel of Shrowsbury 4 H. 4. before it was sealed yet the Feoffees of the Lord Basset 2 H. 6. released all their interest here and in Colston Basset in this County and in the Mannors of Rakdale Willowes Radclive super Wreke Barrow super Sore Dunton and Watton in the County of Leicestershire of West-Halle and East-Halle in Sheldon in the County of Warwick unto Sr Raph Shirley son and heir of Sir Hugh and the heirs Males of his body which Sir Raph had his residence at this Manner of Radclive 10 H. 6. This Mannor was granted with some others 1 R. 3. to Sir Gervas Clifton as part of the forfeited Lands of Henry Duke of Buckingham Yet Edward Duke of Buckingham 5 H. 8. suffered a recovery of the Mannor of Ratcliff on Sore and Knesale After the Attainder of Humfry Duke of Buckingham this Mannor came to Sir Richard Sacheverell Knight who left it to Raph Sacheverell his Brother or near Kinsman in which Name and Family it continued till Henry Sacheverell Esquire the last owner thereof who purchased also from the Crown the Rectory impropriate there that lies in Ratcliff estated the same on Sir Thomas Hutchinson his Sisters son but he out of tenderness to his Cousin Elianor the Wife of Roger Columbell Esquire the sole daughter and heir of the said Henry Sacheverell his Uncle agreed to divide it between them and so one moyety of this fertile inclosed Lordship remains to the heirs of Iohn Columbell son of the said Elianor who married .... Hickman sister of the present Lord Windsore who now takes care of her Children and the other moyety was by Colonel Iohn Hutchinson eldest son of the said Sir Thomas sold to Alderman Ireton Radulphus Sacheverell de Hopwell in Com. Derb. Dom. Ric. Sacheverell miles ob 25 H. 8. Sepult in le Newark in Leicester s. p. -Maria domina Hungerford Relict Ed. dom Hastings matris Com. Huntington Joh. Sachev de Morley Hopwell 2 Radulphus Sacheverell de Radclive 25 H. 8. ob 31 H. 8 -Cecilia-Anna Henricus Sacheverell de Radcliff ob Jul. 29.5 6 P. M. -Lucia fil haer Joh. Pole de Hertington in Com. Derb. Ar. 1 Henricus Sacheverell de Radclive aerat 16. an ad mortem patr -Jana filia Germani Ireton 5 6 Ph. Mar. Hen. Sacheverell de Radclive .... Boughton-Tho Grantham miles Marit 2. Elianor post ux Will. Hasard -Roger Columbell de Derley Johannes Columbell ... fil Hickman Ed. Marow de Berkswell Com. Warwick -Anna Dom. Sam. Marow miles ... fil Arth. Carey mil. Jana ux Thom. Hutchinson 2 Johannes 1 Hen. Sacheverell de Morley miles Brother of Henry Ireton the great instrument in the unhappy Wars This Elianor after her Husband Columbells decease Married her servant William Hasard who proved a good Husband to her and a kind and careful Father to her Children they dwelt in an house built at the Red hill by the side of the River Soure between Radclive and the Trent The Abbat and Covent of the House of the blessed Mary of Norton in the County of Chester 11 H. 4. released to the Prior and Covent of Burscogh and their Successours all their right in the Advowson of the Church of Radclive upon Sore sometime Iohn de Winwicks The Vicarage is in the Kings Books 6l. 13s. 4d. and so it was valued when the Prior of Burscogh was Patron Upon a Tomb in a little Chappel on the North side of the Church Hic jacent Radulphus Sacheverell Ar. nuper Dominus de Ratcliff super Sore Cecilia Anna uxores ejus qui quidem Radulphus ob 14 Aug. 1539. praedicta Cecilia ob 27 Jun. 1538. praedicta Anna migravit ab hoc saeculo Vpon a fair Tomb in the Chancell Here lyeth the Bodyes of Henry Sacheverell Esquire and Lucy his Wife daughter and heir of Iohn Pole Esquire which Henry dyed 29 Jun. 1558. and Lucy dyed 10 Febr. 1554. upon whose c. Upon a plain Stone Hic jacet Elizabetha uxor Anthonii Babington Ar. filia una haeredum Johannae Ormond filiae haeredis Willielmi Chaworth Militis ac unius Consanguinearum haeredum Roberti Laâ—home ... Caltoft Johannis Bret Thomae Aylesbury Thomae Keynes Militum ac Rad. Basset Johannis Engaines Baronum quae Elizabetha ob 28 Nov. anno 1505. Upon another plain Stone close by that Hic jacet Isabella quondam uxor Johannis Babington de Dethik Ar. ac Domini de Kinston quae obiit 18 Mar. Anno Dom. 1486. In the Chancell upon a plain Stone Hic jacet Jacobus Damport filius Domini Tho. Damport Militis qui obiit 15 die Aprilis Anno Dom. 1458. Upon a Stone near that for a Child Hic jacet Jacobus Eadmunson filius Edwardi Eadmunson qui Jacobus ob 27 Dec. 1519. Upon another plain Stone somewhat higher Cy gyst Johan file heire Tho. Basset Fitz S. John Basset de Br .... la feme Sir Raph Shirley Fitz heire Hugh de Shirley Upon a plain Stone in the body of the Church Hic jacet Thom. Fyndern Ar. Eliz. uxor ejus filia Rad. Sacheverell Ar. qui Tho. ob 24 Sept. anno dom ... Eliz. ob ... 1574. Thrumpton Doomsd. Turmodeston SO called from Turmod some old owner 't is like In it before the Conquest Leuvin and Elvod were rated at seven Bov. to the Tax for their Mannor The Land whereof was two Carucats There Roger de Busli whose Fee it was had one Carucat three Sochm two Villans two Bordars having one Carucat and an half this in the Confessours time was valued at 40s. in the Conquerours at 20s. Here was another Mannor of William Peverells fee which before the Conquest Stapleuvin owner also in Stapleford had rated to the Geld at three Bov. â…“ The Land one Car. There afterwards four Sochm. had one Car. and five Acres of Medow This kept the old value 5s. 4d. Here was another parcel Soc to Edwalton of the fee of Hugh de Greatmaisnill rated to the publick Tax at one Bov. and an half The Land was one Car. There were two Sochm. two Bordars with two Carucats or Plows and three Acres of Medow It lay in Sandiriuca or Sandiacre on the other side the Trent in Darbishire That of Buslies fee was held by the Family of Putrell who had their seat here and continued owners till the 5 Iac. that Tho. Poutrell and Iohn his Brother sons of Walter Poutrell conveyed it to Gervase Pigot Gent. Grandfather of Gerv. Pigot Esquire the present owner 1672. It was with
soul of the Earl of Winchester his Uncle and of Robert de Quinci son of him the said Saier and the said Roberts Brethren Nunc Amâ—nissimae ville Nottinghamiae Icomsum Posteris DD Rich Slatâ—r Arm et Comitat ejusdem vicecomes Ano. 1577 Simon de Musegros and Ascelin his Wife made Hugh de Rempeston their Atturney against Nic. de Aâ—bin and Maud his Wife Leodegar de Diva Raph de Estun and Albrea his Wife Agnes de Neuthorp Thomas son of Peter Hugh son of Oto and Robert Despenser concerning Customs and Services of his hold in Gatham Sutton Keworth c. in the County of Nott. 11 H. 3. Hugh de Hengston and Agatha de Ratinden his Wife about 9 E. 1. passed all their Mannor of Gotham to Roger de St. Andrea and Agnes his Wife and their heirs in exchange for the Mannor of Sipfeud with whose posterity two parts of this Town have ever since continued At the instance of William Fitz-William King Edward the first granted Roger de St. Andrew a Charter of Free-warren in Gotham in Nottinghamshire in Haddon in Northamptonshire and Hengeston in Cambridgeshire dated the fourth of August in the fifth year of his Reign In the 25 E. 1. Laurence de St. Mauro who held the other third part of Goteham was dead and his Son and heir Nicolas twenty eight years of age between whom and Roger de St. Andrew there was a Fine levyed 31 E. 1. concerning the Advowson of this Church viz. that the said Nicolas and his heirs should have one Turn and the said Roger and his two Thomas de St. Maur or Seymour who had upon his Seal two Chevrons and a file of five Labells and held a Capital Messuage in Goteham commonly called West-Hall and 50s. Rent of Assize c. was dead 32 E. 3. and Iohn Worthy found his next heir viz. son of Beatrix Worthy sister of the said Thomas Iohn de Worthe Knight by fine 50 E. 3. and afterwards 2 R. 2. by another fine granted to Iohn Samon of Nottingham the third part of the Mannor of Goteham and the Advowson of the third part of the Church of the said Mannor excepting 102s. 6d. Rent in that third part of the said Mannor which yet he granted together with the Homages and whole Services of Samson de Strelley Knight Iohn Fraunceys and Agnes his Wife and many others to have to the said Iohn Samon and his heirs Iohn Samon at the Assizes at Nott. 8 H. 4. recovered his Seizin of 32s. Rent Service in Goteham from Henry Nevill Knight Robert Nevill and William Draper Robert Nevill 9 H. 6. was found to have dyed seized of four ruined Messuages forty Acres of Land eleven Acres of Medow in Goteham four in Kinston and as many in Thrumpton and that Iohn Nevill was his heir By an Inquisition taken at Nott. Oct. 29.5 6 Ph. and Mar. it appears that Henry Sacheverell of Ratcliff upon Sore then dead had this Mannor or share of Goteham which since B. it seems was purchased in by ... St. Andrew and in the division was allotted to Barbara the youngest daughter and heir of Iohn St. Andrew Married to Sir Oliver St. Iohn Baronet who sold it to Gervase Pigot of Thrumpton Esquire possessed of the principal part of this Township by his Marriage of Mary the eldest daughter and co-heir of the said Iohn St. Andrew which he settled upon Mary his only daughter by that Wife whom he disposed to Robert Burdet Esq and she bore him an only daughter named Elizabeth the heir of that part but Mr. Pigot left this to his son and heir Gervase Pigot of Thrumpton Esquire the present owner Elizabeth the middle daughter and co-heir of the said Iohn St. Andrew was Married to Francis Thornhaugh Esquire eldest son of Sir Francis Thornhaugh of Frenton and by him hath issue but her purpart of St. Andrews inheritance is not here she is since become the Wife of William Skeffington Esquire The Free-holders in this Town are not very considerable yet there is one Spenser whose Ancestors have held something two Yard-land I think and been resident here since the time of Sir Saher de St. Andrew about the beginning of the Reign of King Henry the third The Church in the Kings Books is now 19l. 8s. 6d. ob Before the dissolution of Monasteries when Mr. St. Andrew and Mr. Salmon were Patrons the value was 24l. In the Church on a plain Stone Hic jacent corpora Johannis Santandra Ar. Aliciae uxoris ejus qui Johannes ob in festo St. Lucae 1510. dicta Alicia ob 14 Apr. 1509. Upon it a Chevron between three Waterbougets Upon another plain Stone Hic jacet Dominus Heugo Santandra qui quondam fuit Rector de Goteham ob 20 Apr. 1528. On another Hic jacent corpora Willielmi St. Andra Ar. Margaretae uxoris ejus qui Willielmus ob 3 Dec. 1565. dicta Margareta rather 1535. St. Andr. there impales with Arg. a Fesse sable and three Lozenges in chief sable Aston Upon a Tomb. Here lyeth the Body of George St. Andrew Esquire which departed this life 27 Aug. 1584. This George had to Wife Barbara Nevill by whom God sent him Children Gervis William George Iohn Francis Winifrid Iane Barbara A Monument of W. S Andrewes at Gotham South Wall in the Chancell Iohn S Andrew on the North Wall at Gotham Leke Doomesd Leche SO called from the passing of the Water or Leaking from the Saxon Leccian to water or moisten which is done by a small Brook in this place to both the Hamlets or Townships of Great or East Leak and Little or West Leak On the North side of this Lordship on a knoll called Court-hill near the bounds of Goteham about a flight-shot from Cuckow bush the Hundred Court hath been kept Here was in Leche Soc to Gatham as much as paid the Geld for two Bovats of Land and some belonging to Stanford of Robert Fitz-Williams Fee which was one Bovat ad Geld. The Land four Bovats There two Suchm had one Carucat In Leche before the Conquest Godric who also had one in Plumptre had a Mannor which was Taxed to the Dane Geld as two Bovats ¼ The Land was four Bovats There afterwards Ernulph the Man or Tenent of Roger de Busli whose Fee it was had two Carucats two Vill. with half a Car. and eight Acres of Medow In the time of King Edward the Confessour the value of this was 40s. in King Williams but 10s. The principal Mannor in Leche before the Norman Invasion Siuvard had and for it paid the Tax as two Carucats The Land of it was then for six Plows or six Carucats There Henry de Ferrariis had afterwards in Demesne four Car. sixteen Sochm. sixteen Vill. having seventeen Car. or Plows There was a Priest and a Church one Mill 2s. and fifty Acres of Medow small Wood two qu. long one broad This in the
some of the Lands before the Statute de Donis Conditionalibus and some after he only recovered the latter and the Tenents whom he impleaded kept the former Here was a Family which had their name from this place and became of very great note in the beginning of the Reign of King Henry the fourth Galfr de Rempeston Hugo de Rempeston Robertus de Rempeston .... Alicia fil Walteri de Snaynton ux prima Tho. de Rempeston 18 E. 1 -Cecilia Johannes de Rempeston 2 E. 2. 22 E. 3. Tho. de Remston miles Garterii temp H. 4 -Margareta-Godefr Foliambe marit 2. Thom. de Rempston miles ob 15 Oct. 37 H. 6 -Alicia fil haer Thom. Bekering Elizabetha-Joh Cheyney miles Isabel-Brian Stapleton miles Brian Stapleton miles-Jana fil Joh. dom Lovell Marga◠-Ricardus Bingham junior Robertus Amicia ux Walteri de Finchfeild 2 Rad. de Sutton-Alicia 19 E. 1 -1 Ph. le Clerk Thomas 1 Brian Stapleton mil. ob 2 Apr. 4 E. 6 -Eliz fil Hen. dom Scroop -Jana fil Tho. Basset Ric. Stapleton miles ... ... Brian Stapleton Ar. Willielmus Brian vir Aliciae fil Franc. Roo◠2 Georgius Stapleton de Rempston ob 6 Eliz. -Marg fil Will. Gasgill Hen. de Rempston ob 29 Eliz. Dec. 28. Fides ux Math. Babington s. p. Anthon. vir Aliciae Roos post Brian Georgius Gertrud ux Baldw. Aclond Willielmus Johannes Stapl. vendidit Joana ux Will. Perpont Robert de Rempeston who lived in the time of King Henry the third Married for his first Wife Alice the daughter of Walter de Snaynton who gave him two Mess. and five Bov. in Rempston in Frank-marriage but he had only a daughter by her called Alice His son Thomas de Rempston who succeeded him here was by another Wife The Prior and Covent of Lenton by their instrument dated 1267. granted that Robert de Rempston might have a Chantry in his Chappell of his Mannor of Rempston so as he did not admit the Parishioners to hear Divine Service in prejudice of the Mother Chuch and that his Chaplain should swear fealty to the Rector Iohn de Lymar of Stanton and Cecily his Wife 2 E. 2. levyed a Fine of five Mess. twenty three Bovats of Land 40s. Rent and the third part of a Mess. with the Appurtenances in Rempeston to Iohn son of Thomas de Rempeston Iohn son of Thomas held the fourth part of a Knights Fee in Rempston 22 E. 3. and then paid 10s. for it to the Aid to make the Kings son a Knight The next whom I could observe to succeed here was Sir Thomas de Remston possibly son of Iohn He was 1 H. 4. Constable of the Tower of London and Admiral towards the West parts 2 H. 4. His Constableship he had in the fourth year of that King Nov. 14. and in the seventh year also Iune 20. He was also Knight of the Garter His son Sir Thomas Rempston the younger had respite of Homage Nov. 19. 4 H. 6. and had to Wife Alice the daughter and heir of Thomas Bekering and of Isabel his Wife daughter and co-heir of Sir Iohn de Loudham and of Isabel his Wife daughter and heir of Sir Robert Breton of Walton in the County of Darby This younger Sir Thomus died 15 Oct. 37 H. 6. and left Elizabeth then wife of Iohn Cheney Esquire after Knight Isabel of Sir Brian Stapleton Knight and Margaret wife of Richard Bingham the younger his daughters and heirs He lies buried in the midst of the Chancell at Bingham whereof he was also Lord as in that place will be noted which Mannor as this of Rempston did it seems fell to the Family of Stapleton which made this the inheritance of a younger son viz. of George Stapilton of Remston second son of Sir Brian son of Isabel Rempston before named which George died Mar. 25. 6 Eliz. seized of this Mannor and divers Lands and 5l. Rent in Rempston Wodeborough Stanford Bradmere Costock Great and Little Léek and Newton in 〈◊〉 to him and the heirs Males of his body he had divers sons Henry Anthony George William whereof William only had issue Male viz. Iohn Stapleton who sold these Lands to ... Feld and he to Gabriel Armstrong and so this place became the seat of that Family with which some interest here still continueth Henry Stapleton of Rempston made his Will 8 Mar. 25 Eliz. and died there 28 Dec. 29 Eliz. leaving Faith his only daughter and heir to whom he gave all these Lands by his said Will She was wife of Matthew Babington and died 1 Iun. 31 Eliz. without issue at Cussington in the County of Leicester Anthony Stapleton married Alice the daughter of Francis Roos of Laxton named in Burton Iorce the Relict of his Cousin Brian Stapleton but I think he had no Child Gertrud the wife of Baldwin Acland the daughter of George the Brother of Henry Stapleton would have been his heir the said Henry had this Mannor of Rempston one Mess. four Virg. and an half in Little-Léek one Virg. in Great-Léek one Mess. two Virg. in Costock one Virg. in Bradmere two in Stanford one Mess. four Virg. and one Cotag. in Burton on the Wolds in Leicestershire one Mess. two Virg. in Waltham on the Wolds and one Mess. and Close in Wimeswold in that County all then esteemed parcel of the Mannor of Rempston and the Mannor of Woodborough and fourteen Virg. 36s. Rent and five Mess. c. belonging to it Richard Hebbe claimed against William Pegge and William Bowes 38 H. 6. one Mess. three Tofts four Virg. of Land and eight Acres of Medow in Rempston There yet remain some of that name who have Free-hold there The Rectory was valued at twenty Marks when the Prior of Lenton was Patron 't is now 13l. 2s. 6d. in the Kings Books and Gabriel Armstrong Patron In the Church Here lyeth Henry Stapleton Esquire Patron of this Parish Church of Rempston who gave ten pounds for ever to the use and help of the Husbandmen of the same Town he was the first son of George Stapletune Esquire He left behind him Elizabeth his Wife Patroness when they had lived vertuously together 26 years and Faith their only daughter He departed this world in the true Faith of Christ 28 Dec. 1586. Upon the Tomb Arg. A Lyon Ramp Sable impales with Arg. 3 Broad Arrow-heads Or Phaeons Sable upon a Chief Sable a Hound Argent Upon the Lyon is a Crescent for a difference and in the other Coat A Mullett Wishou or Wisoe PRobably an Hill of Plants or Custome Hill In this place before the Normans came Estan Elsi and Gladwin had three Mannors which were Assessed to the publick Geld for three Carucats The Land was three Car. There afterwards the Great Roger de Busli had a Man or Tenent called Roger who had three Car. in Demesne and fifteen Villanes five Sochm. on si◠Bovats of this Land and one
of the Mannor of Wisoe so making three again as there were before the Conquest That Richard de Lovetot son of Roysia and Hubert de Bromford had to wife Christian ... and was dead 19 H. 3. left his son Roger de Lovetot then within age who was High Sheriff of these Counties 39 41 and 42 H. 3. and passed the Mannor of Wishou to Robert de Derley reserving 10l. per annum to him and his heirs Thomas de Lovetot 2 E. 1. was his son and heir and succeeded his Father the said Roger in this place Sir Iohn de Lovetot Knight brother of Roger last named was sometimes called Clark because of his learning in the Law I suppose for he was one of the Judges of the Kings Bench and conveyed to William de Henovere the Custody of the heir and Lands of Robert de Derley then dead viz. 9 E. 1. in Wisoe and elsewhere which the said Iohn had of the Grant of the forementioned Thomas de Lovetot who recovered the same against the King in the Kings Court before himself and his Council Iohn de Lovetot son of Sir Iohn by Fine 11 E. 3. and 13 E. 3. passed to Richard de Willughby and Ioan his wife four Knights Fees and 10l. Rent with the Appurtenances in Wisowe Kercolston Eâ—leston Flintham and North-Clifton together with the homages and services of Matilda de St. Andrea Thomas de Widmerpole and Elizabeth his wife William Deyncourt Roger de Whatton Iohn de Gloucester Galfr. de Staunton Thomas de Golhall Iohn son of Iohn Pigoâ—t of Dodington Henry Torald William de Asteley and Isabel his wife and Iohn the son of Iohn de Hose and their heirs for the Tenements they held of the said Iohn de Lovetot To hold to the said Richard and Ioan and the heirs of Richard Robert the son of Iohn de Lovetoft by his Deed dated on Thursday in Whitsun-week 31 E. 3. released to Richard de Willughby the Elder Knight all his right and claim in ten pounds Rent issuing out of the Mannor of Wisow and five Knights Fees which the said Richard had of the Feoffment of Iohn de Lovetoft his Father It appears that Edward de Lovetot 30 E. 3. was son and heir of this Iohn Robert having no issue and had a daughter and heir called Margaret married to Sir Iohn Cheyney Knight This continued long to the Family of Willughby which they had from these Lovetofts Patricks part I suppose came to William de Sheffeild Nephew to Nigellus de Lovetot possibly by a second Husband of his Sister Margery if he was not his own natural son and so called as the Pope doth however he gave him by that addition of Nephew five Virgats of Land in the Town of Wishou viz. that which Raph de Buney held c. The Witnesses to his Deed were William Picot William de Villariis Richard de Lecâ— william de Bowis Hugh de Rempeston Thomas de Rempston Reginald Picot Hugh his brother Robert de Luvetot William de Valle Rad. Gard. William de Wandreshelf Richard de Wishou the Clerk and others The said Nigellus de L. gave by another Deed to the said William de Schefeld fourscore and one Acres of his Demesne in Wishoe To this were Yvo de Heriz Helias de Marten Rad. de Iorge Gervas de Somervill Galfr. de Somervill Hugh de Rempston William de la Valle William de Bradewar Walter de Wisho Richard de Greinvill William de Waldeschef and Henry his brother c. Richard de Lovetot of Wishowe gave to William de Shefelt the whole Medow of his Demesne upon the Wald of Wishowe viz. that which lay between the Medow of Warin de Vernun and the men of Wishowâ— William gave him four Marks of Silver for it The Witnesses were Iohn de Heriz Helias de Martini Hugh de Rempston Philip de Cortingstok William de Waldeself William Brodey Walter de Wishou Warinus de Vernun and Margery his Wife also passed Lands to this William de Sheffeld Witnesses Nigellus de Mundevill Richard de Lovetoft William Waldeseiff c. Margery who had late been Wife of Warin de Vernun confirmed to William Sheffeud that which William Father of the said William had of the gift of the said Warin de Vernun in Wishou witness Iohn de Lyâ—lebyri c. William de Schefend 22 E. 1. stiles himself Lord of Wishou and upon his Seal of Arms within the circumscription of his name had a Lyon Rampant and above the Shield a Crescent in imitation of Lovetots Lyon perhaps There was a Fine levyed 35 E. 1. between William de Shefeld Quer. by Durand de Wydemerpol put in his place to get or lose and Mr. Raph Barry Deforc. of ten Mess. two hundred and forty Acres of Land six of Medow 20s. and 6d. Renâ— with the Appurtenances in Wysowe and Willughby whereof nine Mess. two hundred and sixteen Acres of Land six of Medow with the Appurtenances were settled after the decease of William on Thomas son of Nicolas de Wydemerpol and on Elizabeth his Wife daughter of the said William and the heirs which the said Thomas should begâ—t on the body of the said Elizabeth remainder to the right heirs of Elizabeth Thomas son of Adam Walkelin of Thorlaston and Margery his wife daughter and one of the heirs of William de Schefeld of Wishou released to Thomas de Wydemerpole and Elizabeth his wife and the heirs of their two bodies their whole purpart of the service c. in Wishou Thomas the son of Nicolas de Wydemerpole and Elizabeth his wife 16 E. 3. setled on Robert their son and Alice his wife c. This continueth still with the Family of Widmerpole Mundevils part I guess was 28 E. 1. by Richard Ayleston for the summ of 370 Marks paid beforehand conveyed to William de Berge Arch-Deacon of Berks for his life and after to Iohn the son of Sir Robert Poutrell Knight and his heirs Robertus Poutrell mil. de Prestwold Joh. Poutrell-Matilda Fin. 8 E. 2. Ricardus Poutrell Matilda-Waltrus de Goteham Robertus fil Joh. Perte -Joana Robert de Pulteney -Cecilia Robertus 31 E. 3. Rog. de St. Andr. Will. Poutrell de marit secund Prestwo Fin. 8 E. 2. This Iohn Poutrell had to wife Matilda afterwards third wife of Sir Roger de St. Andrew of Goteham and two sons Richard Poutrell who paid together with the Abbat of Geroâ—don 22 E. 3. for a Knights Fee here 40s. whereof he paid 35s. and the Abbat discharged the other five with his Writ and Robert Poutrell Richard had three daughters and heirs Maud married to Walter de Goteham Ioan the wife of Robert Pert and Cecily of Robert Pulteney of whom about 32 E. 3. Sir Richard Willughby purchased it and his son Hugh the Clerk progenitor of the Family of Risley about 11 R. 2. passed it to Robert Armstrong of Thorpe in the Clotts whose son
Iohn Armestrong married Felice the daughter of the said Hugh afterwards wife of Raph Bingham she was said to hold a Knights Fee in Wissawe which sometimes was Elias Maundevills The Family of Armstrong still inherit at Wishou Alice the wife of William Thrumwin senior who held a Virgat of Land in Canock Staff held jointly with her Husband twelve Bovats in Wishow and a Wind-mill c. 24 E. 1. of Thomas de Rempston by a penny a year and suit of Court at Tikhill Castle and at Wishow Court from three weeks to three weeks Nigellus de Lovetot gave one hundred and also twenty Acres of Land in Wishow Margaret his wife joyning at the latter parcell and 3s. Rent Nigellus his son gave 20s. Rent there and Elias de Amundevill the Nephew of Nigellus de Lovetot gave four Acres and an half of Medow to the Abby of Geroudon in Leicestershire The Church or Rectory of Wissall alias Wisshawe late belonging to the Priory of Wirksop and all Lands and Tenements belonging to it King Edward the sixth Ian. 2. in the sixth year of his Reign among other things granted to Thomas Reve and George Cotton The Vicarage was eight Marks value when the Prior was Patron now in the Kings Books it is 4l. 11s. 0d. ob and .... Stopford Esq Patron In the Church of Wishow Hic jacent Johannes Armstrong Gen. Johanna ux 3. ejusdem Johannis qui quidem Johannes obiit 4 die mensis Julii Anno Dom. 1485. praedicta Johanna ob in festo decollationis St. Johannis Baptistae Anno Dom. 1483. Upon the Tomb is Arg. two bars Azure the uppermost charged with two Cinquefoyles the other with one Or Teverey Hic jacet Thom. Armstrong Ar. fil Johannis Armstrong de Wysowe qui quidem Thom. ob 1 die Januarii Anno Dom. 1513. Hic jacet Philippa Armstrong ux Tho. Armstrong fil Ric. Villers Vpon a fair Tomb. Here lyeth the Bodies of Hugh Armstrong Esq and Mary his wife daughter of Henry Sacheverell of Ratcliffe upon Sore which Hugh died 22 Dec. 1572. and the said Mary dyed 20 Maii 1562. About the Tomb are his daughters Matches Turvile Or three Chev. varry impales with Armstrong three dext Arms Armed and the hands open Fitz-Herbert gules three Lyons Ramp Or with a Labell of three points and a Crescent impales with Armstrong Raynes Cheque gules and Or upon a Bend vert a Moors Head between two Annulets Or and a Canton Ermine with a Mullet Or in the middle impales with Armstrong In the window Arg. on a bend Azure three Flowers de Lis Arg. Poutrell VVilloughby Doomsd. VVilgeby SO called from Willowes Was of divers Fees That of Roger de Buslies Odincar had before the Change and paid to the Dane-Geld for his Mannor as six Bov. The Land was six Bovats There were two Sochm. or one Bov. of this Land and three Vill. fifteen Bord. having four Car. or Plowes and thirteen Acres of Medow In the Confessours time this was 20s. when the survey was made in the Conquerours 10s. This William de Lovetot had in the time of Henry the first and then gave the Church to his Priory of Wirkesop as in Wisoe is noted Here of the Fee of Rogerius Pictavensis were two Mannors which Godric and Erwin had before and paid for them as six Bovats ½ ⅔ to the publick Tax The Land was twelve Bovats There was at the time of the Survey in Demesne one Carucat ½ and two Sochm. six Vill. two Bord. having two Carucats ½ There was nine Acres of Medow this was then 22s. value in the Confessours time it was 50s. Here was of the Land of the Tayns two Mannors which Sbern and Vlmer had and were assessed for them to the Dane-Geld as three Bovats The Land was three Bov. Elwin and Erwin held it of the King William it was then waste There were five Acres of Medow and five Bord. This in the Confessours daies was 10s. 4d. but in King Williams 2s. value Another small parcell of the Fee of Henry de Ferrariis belonging to Lech rated to the Geld as one Bov. ½ The Land was three Bovats Soc in Badeleye waste also there was six Acres of Medow And here was also of William Pevrels Fee two Bov. ½ of Clifton Soc. About 32 H. 2. Robert de Heritz Lord of Widmerpole confirmed the Grant of Richard son of Gervas of Lands in Willughby to the Knights Hospitallers of St. Iohns of Ierusalem which the Prior granted to Peter son of Raph and Athelicia paying 4s. per annum and the third part of all Goods for a Mortuary Reginald de Colewyke lived an hundred years but was dead 36 H. 3. he died seized of nineteen Bovats of Land in Willughby on the Wold for which he gave the King an Horse of 5s. 4d. price was to find Sac◠and Broch when the Army went into Wales Philip his son and heir was then above forty years old William de Colwick 16 E. 1. held the third part of a Carucat here William de Nodariis Lord also at Colwick 8 E. 1. levyed a Fine of the Advowson of this Church to Alan Prior of Wirkesop This Sir William de Nowers 20 E. 1. granted to his son William de Nodariis his Mess. in Wileby and all his Lands and Tenements Rents and Services Villains and their Sequels c. reserving a Rose yearly To have to the said William and the heirs of his body lawfully begotten remainder to the right heirs of Sir William It appears that Odo son of Pigot de Wylughby and Iohn son of Geoffrey de Willughby Cousin and heir of the said Odo gave Lands to the Prior and Covent of Sempringham the Tenents whereof should be quit of doing service at the Court of Wysowe Iohn son of Geoffrey de Willoughby 25 H. 3. gave an acquittance to Raph Bugge for all was due to him for Lands which the said Raph Bugge bought of him in Willoughby excepting six Marks He promised also to get the Deed of Sale confirmed to the said Raph by the chief Lords of the Fee Iohn de Eriz and Robert le Vavasor Hugh de Rutinton 43 H. 3. sold to Richard Bugge a Sack of Wool for security of the delivery whereof he gave him seizin of an Oxgang of Land in Rutinton Ralph Torkart 44 H. 3. confirmed to Richard son of Ralph Bugge one Selion of Land with the Appurtenances in Willughby which he had of the gift of Robert son of Iohn Torkart Roger de Somervill 42 H. 3. released half the Fishing in Trent with a Tenement in Engelby in Darbyshire Here divers persons conveyed Lands to him whereby he became a great man he was called Richard Bugge of Wiluby and his son Richard de Wyllebi son of Richard Bugge who also encreased his Patrimony exceedingly and was a Lawyer and very rich as by his Will made 31 E. 1. appeareth wherein he appointed his Body to be buried
thirty years of Age. There was a Fine levyed 4 E. 4. by Humfrey Bourchier Knight Lord Crumwell and Ioan his wife one of the heirs of Raph Crumwell Knight late Lord Crumwell and Sir Gervase Clifton Knight and Maud his wife another of the heirs of the said Lord Crumwell to Thomas Tirrell Knight Thomas Billing and Richard Illingworth of the Mannors of Boney and Stanford on Sore and seven Mess. four Tofts one Dove-coat twelve Bovats of Land fifty Acres of Medow and 30â— Rent in Staunton on the Wold Hickling Great and Little Léek Sutton Boninton and Bradmere and the Advowson of Stanton Church in this County and of the Mannor of Bredesâ—ale called the Netherhall and sixteen Mess. four hundred Acres of Medow two hundred and twenty of Pasture two of Wood and 26s. Rent in Breydeshall in the County of Darby Robert Dixson of Quadring in the County of Lincoln Husbandman Cousin and heir of Nicholas Dixson Clark released 8 E. 4. to Sir Richard Illingworth all his right in the Mannors of Boney and Stanford and the rest of the aforesaid Lands Richardus Illingworth miles 8 E. 4. Cap. Baâ—o 2 E. 4. Radulphus Illingworth-Agnes Ricardus Illingworth-Elizab fil Ric. Boughton Ar. Georgius Barloe-Joana Thom. Barley-Dorothea Meverell Humfredus Barlo-Elizabetha fil Aden Berisford de Fenny-Bently Com. Derb. -Ricardus Parkins Ar. marit secundus ob 1603. Ursula Georgius Parkins miles-Maria fil Ed. Isham de Walmercasil in Cantia Isham Parkins ob 1671. 2 Thom. Parkins vicecom 1672. Cressy Parkins 1 Theophilus ob ante patrem fine prole ... Ricardus Joh. Kniveton-Alicia Tho. Kniveton Aâ—tinct ... Dethick Maria. Johannes Dethick Anna ux Joh. Eaton Thom. Parkins de Mattisfelde in Com. Berks Willielmus Parkins Ricardus Parkins Humfredus Barlo-Elizabetha fil Aden Berisford de Fenny-Bently Com. Derb. -Ricardus Parkins Ar. marit secundus ob 1603. There was an Indenture dated Febr. 25. 19 E. 4. between Raph Illingworth Esquire on one part and Richard Boughton Esquire on the other That where William Chauntre Dean of the new work of Leicester and divers others have recovered the Mannor of Boney in Nott. and other Lands in Boney by a Writ of Right and where the same William and the rest were enfeoffed in divers Lands in Kirkeby in Ashfeild Kirkby Woodhouse and in Hardwick in the County of Nott. to them and their heirs by a Deed dated Ian. 20 in the year aforesaid and where they be also enfeoffed in the Mannor of Stanford in the County of Nott. and the Mannor of Bradsale in the County of Darby and of Lands in Stanford and Bradsale and in certain Lands in Apurknoll and Oneston in the County of Derby and Lands in Penington in the Parish of Leghe and in Leghkirk in the County of Lancaster The Entent of the said Recovery and Feoffment is thus That the Mannor of Bredsale and the Lands there and in Apurknoll and Oneston and Penington aforesaid be to the use of Rauff and Agnes his wife for their lives and after to the use of Richard son of the said Raph and the heirs of his body the other Mannors Land and Tenements in Hardwick to the use of Richard the son and Elizabeth daughter of the said Richard Boughton during their lives and to the heirs of the Body of the said Richard the son The Mannor place of Boney and certain Lands there to the value of 20l. to the use of the said Richard Illingworth and Elizabeth and the heirs of the body of the said Richard It seems her Father gave her 80l. Raph son and heir of Richard Illingworth Knight 17 E. 4. acknowledged himself to hold the Mannor of Boney by one Knights Fee and the Mannor of Shelford called Everingham Fee of the King in Capite for half a Fee It seems it went to the heirs Female of Illingworth for after the death of Iohn Eaton Gent. 't is said the Lands which he held by the Law of England by reason of issue between them were after their deaths to descend to Iohn Dethick Esquire son and heir of Iohn Dethick son and heir of Mary one of the sisters of the said Anne and to Thomas Barlo as son and heir of Ioan another of her sisters and to Thomas Kniveton as son of Alice another of the sisters of the said Anne which said Thomas was attaint for counterfeiting the money of England called Mary Groats the said Iohn Eaton died Dec. 10 3 Eliz. he held eight Mess. six Cottages six hundred Acres of Land two hundred of Medow three hundred of Pasture half a Wind-mill sixty Acres of Wood and Free Warren in Boney parcel of the Mannor of Boney Richard Parkins Gent. and Elizabeth his wife suffered a Recovery of the said eight Mess. c. 16 Eliz. and called Iohn Dethick Esquire The said Richard suffered another of one Mess. one Toft one Dovecote one Garden one hundred Acres of Land c. in Boney and Bradmere and called to warranty Iohn Smith 18 Eliz. Richard Parkins Esq an Apprentice of the Law of the Inner Temple and a Reverend man in his time for his learning and judgement purchased the intire Mannor of Boney and with his Posterity it still continueth William Harvey Clarencieulx 18 Aug. 1559 granted to Richard Parkins of Mattisfeâ—d Gent. and his posterity a Pine-Apple branch vert the Apple proper for a Crest which Richard was son and heir of Richard son and heir of William son and heir of Thomas Parkins Gent. of the said place in the County of Berks. Hugh Shirley Chr. 4 H. 4. died seized of 13s. 4d. Rent in Boney held of the King in capite Raph his son and heir was then twelve years of age Ancher son of William son of Froue of Boney or Bradmere gave three Roods of Medow in Boney to God and the Hospital of St. Anthony at Lenton in pure Alms. In the year 1288. the official of York gave definitive sentence That the two parts of the Great Tythes of Elias de Bradmere Raph de Frecheville Lord of Boney the Lady Maud Torkard Agnes de Staynton Richard son of Felice Maud Dolfin William Smith of Boney Amice Poyne of Bradmere and William son of Raph of the same within that Parish did belong to William Heceredibire Rector of Boney and not to the Prior and Covent of Lenton The Chapter of Southwell 17 E. 2. granted and appropriated the Church of Boney to make a Chauntry for the soul of William Arch-Bishop of York in the Chappel of our Lady Richard de Grey keeper of the Land and heir of Anker de Frecheville 5 E. 1. recovered by Assize the Advowson of the Church of Boney against the Chapter of Southwell The Vicarage of Boney was 8l. and the Prior of Ulvescroft Patron Now it is in the Kings Books 6l. 15s. 0d. and Isham Parkins Esquire Patron In the Church Windows Azure 2. Chevrons and a Bordure Or Musard Azure a Bend between 6 Escallops
Land here was also a Mannor which before the Norman change Algar had and paid for one Bov. ½ ¼ The Land was one Car. There Sauvinus afterwards had one Vill. and two Bord. with three Oxen plowing and three Acres Edmundus Dominus de Morle Walterus-Elizab Robertus fil Walteri -Dina Isouda Simon de S. Maâ—ro marit secundus -Philippus de Derbi defunct 4 Joh. Hugo de Morle fil Phil. de Derbi Hugo fil Hugonis de Morle Ricardus de Morley -Joana fil Willielmi una cohaer Johannis de la Laund milit Lucia-Hugo de Russelep-Willielmus de Moston marit secundus Lucia-Rogerus de Masci de Sale Com. Cestr. Goditha ob 5 H. 5 -Radulfus de Stathum ob 3 R. 2. Thomas de Stathum-Eliz fil Rob. Lumley Johannes Stathum ob 1454. Nov. 6 -Cecilia fil .... Cornwall ob 1444. Thom. Stathum mil. ob 1470. his marit Henr. Stathum ob 1481. ter marit -Eliz St. Low Joana fil unica haeres postea ux Willielmi Zouch senioris de Bulwick in Com. Northampt. -Johan Sacheverell ob 1485. Ric. miles in bello Ric. 3. juxta Bosworth Henricus Sacheverell de Morley miles-Isabella fil Nic. Montgomery 1 Johan Sachev de Morley -Eliz fil Will. Perpont mil. Johannes Sachev -Katheriâ—a fil Ant. Fitz-Herbert mil. Henricus Sacheverell -Jana fil Humfrid Bradburn mil. Jacinthus Sacheverell dedit Morley Henrico .... fil Ric. Harpar mil. 2 Will. de Staunton juxta Swarston ob 1558 -Maria fil haer Clem. Low Isabellae ux haer Joh. Strelly Radulphus -Emma fil Wil. Dethick Will. Sacheverell de Barton -Tabitha fil haer Jacobi Spenser de Alvaston C. Derb. Henricus de Barton Morley -Jocosa fil haer Francisc. Maunsfield Willielmus Sacheverell de Barton Morley 1672 -Maria fil Willielmi Staunton de Staunton Robertus Sacheverell aet 3. 1672. Katherin ux Franc. Sitwell Jacosa ux â— Milward Henricus Tho. Harrington marit 2. Robertus Harington 3 Ricardus-Eliz fil haer Hen. Grey Henricus Sacheverell dedit Barton Radulpho Radulphus de Radcliff super Sore Ricardus 14 R. 2. Alicia-Williel de Verdun Amphelisia ux Ph. de Wastenes Edwardus filius Primogenitus-Johannes de Sautcheverel .... fil cohaer Rad. fil Ertaldi Robertus de Saucheverel-Hawisia soror Eustachii de Moretan fil Adae Robertus de Saltucapreoli Oliverus de Saltucapris Patricius de Saucheverell-Joana fil Roberti le Vavasor Robertus de Sautcheverel miles 15 E. 1. Willielmus de Saltcheverel Willielmus de Saucheverel-Isabella fil .... Okeover Johannes de Saucheverell Robertus Sacheverell Johannes Saucheverell Rad Sacheverell ..... fil Jon. Curson of Medow In King Edward the Confessours time this was 10s. when the survey was made in King Williams 3s. value Odo de Boney at the first endowment of Lenton in King H. 1. time gave this Church and half the Church of Chillwell or Attenborow which a Successor of his called Edward and Aeliz his wife confirmed as in Boney may be seen Leonia de Rennes wife of Robert Stotevill and Mother of Henry de Stoteville had this Mannor 6 Ioh. They had Kirkeby in Ashfeild also where I shall place their Descent Barthon is said to be an Eschaet of the Kings of the Land of the Normans which Henry de Stoteville forfeited and that the value of it was 20l per annum and that Earl Warren then held it Yet Iohn de Stotevill paid nine Marks shortly after in the time of H. 3. for four Knights Fees and an half in Barton and other places And Estut de Stuteville son of Iohn 4 E. 1. is certified to hold three parts of the Town of Barton of Robert de Stotevile by the service of one Knights Fee His Grandchild Stute or Stout son of Sir Nicolas de Stutevill passed it away with Bradmere 6 E. 3. to Richard Lord Grey of Codnor as in that place is noted which Richard by Fine the year following viz. 7 E. 3. settled it on himself and Ioan his wife and to the heirs of himself Iohn Lord Grey of Codnore had Free Warren granted Aug. 13. 21 E. 3. in all his Demesne Lands in Barton upon Trent This Mannor continued with that Noble Family whereof I shall place the Descent in Boueton till after the death of Henry last Lord Grey of Codnor who by his Will made 18 H. 7. appointed his Feoffees Thomas Leeke of Kirketon by Screveton Esq and Roger Iohnson to convey it to Henry Grey his natural Son who about 13 H. 8. married Elizabeth his daughter and heir to Richard the third son of Sir Henry Sacheverell of Morley in the County of Darby by whom she had a son and heir called Henry Sacheverell who gave it to his Cousin Raph Sacheverell son of William second son of the said Sir Henry Sacheverell with whose posterity it still continues That Elizabeth married to her second Husband George Bougham and gave away some Lands which are now the inheritance of Francis Marshall Else the whole Lordship saving that of Peverells Fee which descended with Holme Perpoint to the Right Honourable the Marquess of Dorchester two or three Farms being bought in by his Father and Great Uncle remains the inheritance of William Sacheverell Esquire Lord also of Morley in the County of Darby whereof he is now one of the Knights of the Shire who hath exceedingly enlarged and new builded this Seat That of William Peverells Fee in this place is called Gerbodthorp from Gerbod de Eschand to whom H. 2. gave Clifton and Langar and other of William Peverells Lands It was accounted twenty Bovats 8 E. 3. after the death of Robert de Perpoint who held it of Sir Gervase de Clifton by the service of a Clove and it was then to descend to Henry son of Henry son of Robert de Perpoint The Court Leet at Normanton upon Sore heretofore the Prior of Durhams hath some suiters here Nicolas son of Hugh de Wermundesworth and Raph and Robert the son of Robert Constentin had interest here about the time of E. 1. Geoffrey de Constentin 12 H. 2. is certified by Hubert Fitz-Raph to hold two Knights Fees and an half of him and Robert de Barton half of one The Priory of Newsted had Lands here demised to Iohn Rotheram at 24s. per annum and were in the tenure of Simon Callis when Queen Elizabeth Iuly 2. 41 Eliz. granted the whole Tenement to Thomas Estechurch and Henry Best and their heirs Queen Elizabeth 8 Apr. in the second year of her Reign granted â—o Iohn Doddington and Iohn Iackson Lands in â—â—â—ford and Barton late belonging to the Coâ—ledge of Clifâ—on Sir Iohn Stanhope Gervas Handley of Wilford and Francis Wallis were Free-holders here 1612. and I suppose owners of some or all of that Land purchased in by Mr. Sacheverell before-named About the year 1266. a great Suit was ended between Roger Prior of Lenton and Mr. Bartholomew called Tortus son of the Noble Knight Adam Wlf Canon of
Marks and a Palfrey to be justly and according to the custom of England brought off from it but she in the same Pipe Roll is said to owe forty Marks and one Palfrey for having her reasonable Dower out of the Freehold of her said Husband in Nottinghamshire Alveredus de Clifton miles Dom. Manerii de Wilford Guardianus Castelli Nott. temp Will. Peverell Robertus de Clifton miles Dom. de Wilford Gardianus Castelli Nott. c. Gervasius de Clifton 33 H. 2. 1186. 5 Joli -Ismania 5 Joh. Gervasius de Clifton 20 H. 3. .... fil Robeâ—â—i de Alvideleg 5 Joh. Dom. Gervasius de Clifton 52 H. 3. ob 17 E. 2 -Amflisia fil Will. Sampson de Eperston mil. 25 E. 1. Gervasius de Wilford de Clifton ob in vita patris vir Margar. 9 E. 2 -Alicia postnata fil haer Roberti de Rabacin 27 E. 1. Dom. Robertus de Clifton aetat 25. anno 17 E. 2. defunct 1 E. 3 -Emma filia Dom. Willielmi Moton milit Dom. Gervasius de Clifton aet 14.1 E. 3. superst 51 E. 3 -Margareta fil Rob. Perpoint 3 E. 3 -Isabella 22 E. 3.33 E. 3. Robertus de Clifton-Isabella 19 E. 3 -Agnes fil .... de Grey 35 E. 3. Dom. Johannes de Clifton ob 4 H. 4. occiâ—â—s apud Salopiam -Katherina fil Dom. Joh. Cressisor cohaer Hug. -Rad Makarell Dom. marit secund decâ—llat to E. 4. Dom. Gervasius de Clifton ob 8 Dec. 32 H. 6-Isabella fil Roberti Franceis mil. Dom. Robertus de Clifton aet 30.32 H. 6. ob 18 E. 4. Apr. 9 -Alicia fil Johannis Bothe de Barton Com. Lanc. Sor. Willielmi Laurentii Archiepisc. Ebor. Dom. Gervasius de Clifton Ar. Corp. E. 4. mil. Baln R. 3. ob 6 H. 7 -Alicia fil Tho. Nevil de Rolleston relict Ric. Thurland -Agnes fil Constable relict Walteri Griffith Dom. Gervasius de Clifton ob 23 H. 7. Jun. 5 -Agnes fil Walt. Griffith Agnetis -Joana fil Johannis Bussy relict Nic. Byron mil. Robertus de Clifton Ar. ob 9 H. 8 -Alicia fil Sim. Digby L. Turris Lond. -Anna fil ... Domini Clifford Dom. Gervasius de Clifton aet t. 8 H. 8. Mar. 26. ob Jan. 20. 30 Eliz. -Maria fil Dom. Johan Nevil de Chete Ebor. -Winifreda fil haer Will. Thwaits de Oulton Com. Suff. rel Geo. Perpont milit Georgius Clifton Ar. ob 29 Eliz. Aug. 5 -Winifreda fil Dom. Antonii Thorold Annae uxoris filiae cohaetedis Dom. Joh. Constable de Kinalton -Henricus Kervile marit secundus Dom. Gervasius Clifton mil. Baronet 9 Jac. duxit 7. ux ob 1666 -Penelope fil Com. Warwick ob 1613 -Frances fil Fr. Com. Cumberl ob 1627 -Jana fil Ant. Eyr Dom. Gervasius Clifton Bar. s. p. ob Januar. 14. 1675 6. Dom. Clifford Clifton mil. ob 1670 -Frances fil Henag Finch mil. Dom. Willielmus Clifton Bar. aet 13. 1676. Kath. Arbella Robertus- .fil Farkhurst Hugo Robertus fil haer Clericus aet 30. ampl 7 H. 7. Robert Archi-Diaconus de East Riding Com. Ebot Gervasius-Isabella Finch Matilda cohaer Dom. Crumwell Cecilia relict 3 Joh. Roger. Cressi Gervasius de Rabircy de Glapton Gervasius Robertus Rabacy de Glapton Gervasius de Wilford de Clifton ob in vita patris vir Margar. 9 E. 2 -Alicia postnata fil haer Roberti de Rabacin 27 E. 1. Richardus Martell-Marg 27 E. 1. and that she should not be compelled to Marry There was a Fine levyed at Leicester in the fifth of King Iohn wherein Gervas de Clifton and Ysmania his Sister restore and quitclaim all writings made between the said Gervase and Robert de Alvideleg concerning covenant of Marriage of the Son of Gervas and the daughter of Robert and all other Covenants between them the said Gerv. and Robert and the writings and Charters concerning the inheritance of the said Robert for which the said Robert gave to the said Ysmania the Land which was his Uncles Richard Barionas in Gedling and Stoke during her life Gervase son of Gervase de Clifton 5 H. 3. was detained in Prison for Robbery Sir Gervase de Clifton Knight this mans son and Successor in his Lands here must be accounted a principal advancer of this Family for he purchased the Mannors of Clifton and Wilford as before is shown and the Mannor of Broughton Sulâ—ey of Iohn son of Alvered de Soleni who in the sixth year of E. 1. levyed a Fine to him of eight Virgats of Land there which Adam de St. Lo and Sibyl his wife held in Dower of his inheritance This Sir Gervase was Sheriff of Nott. and Derb. 9 E. 1. and 13 E. 1. and the 20 E. 1. the Sheriff of Nott. and Derb. was commanded to attach him to make his account for Yorkshire for the time he was Sheriff there Robert de Tibtot the Constable 12 E. 1. demised Nottingham Castle with the Appurtenances to him for 68l. per annum which if there were no other reason might occasion the story of the Guardianship He Married Amfelisia the daughter of Sir William Samson of Eperston in this County Knight and over lived his Son Gervas who was sometime called of Glapton where he lived having married Alice one of the daughters and co-heirs of Robert son of Gervas de Rabacy who held some Lands there by finding an under Bâ—yliff to make summons and distresses in the Court of Peverell Richard Martell 27 E. 1. had to wife Margaret Sister of the said Alice This Sir Gervase himself was also sometimes called of Wilford as in the 13 E. 1. where he is a Witness by the name of Gervas de Wilford to the Deed whereby Iohn son of Gerard de Rodes passed to the said Robert de Tibtot the Mannors of Langar and Barneston c. together with the Homage of Gervase de Wilford for the Mannors of Clifton and Wilford of Henry Perpont for Barton and of Robert Lutterell for Brigford and Gamelston c. yet there was a branch of this Family kept the Sirname of Wilford whereof one Gervase de Wilford was Remembrancer of the Exchequer 14 E. 3. and Chief Baron of the Exchequer 24 E. 3. But the posterity of this Sir Gervase keep the Sirname and Mannor of Clifton to this day Sir Robert de Clifton 17 E. 2. his Grandchild was found his heir and above twenty six years of age who married Emme the daughter of Sir William Moton by whom having a Son named Gervase he married him young to Margaret the daughter of Robert Perpont which said Gervas 1 E. 3. was by the Jury found to be but fourteen years of age that year after the death of his said Father Sir Robert The Jury 22 E. 3. found it not to the Kings nor any others loss if he granted unto Gervase de Clifton Chivaler licence to give eleven Mess. five Virg. and one Bovat of Land in Stanton on the Wold and Clifton and the Advowson of Staunton to three
Car. There was eighteen Sochm. having three Car. and thirty three Acres of Medow Here was also some of Robert Malets Fee Soc to Bradmere taxed usually as one Bov. â…“ The Land being two Bov. Some of this Town had Soc in Bradmere Robert de Paveilli gave two parts of the Tyth of his Demesne to the Monks of Lenton his Brothers Hugh and Stephen consenting Robert de Veteriponte 1 Ioh. accounted to the King for the Farm of Hocton Suleby and Pery which had been the Lands of Robert de Paveley and the same year viz. 1 Iohannis Galf. de Paveilli gave account of fourscore pounds and a hundred Shillings for the Fine of his Land Galfr. de Paveilli 4 Ioh. fined for four Knights Fees in Northamptonshire The same Galfr. 5 Ioh. gave account of 1. m. for an Assize of Mort de Ancester which was summoned between him and Agnes the wife of Will. de Rutington concerning 3. Bov. of Land in Rutington Rob. Pavilli dyed seized of the Mannâ—â— of Pery and Suleby and part of the Mannor of Hocton in Northamptonshire about 35 H. 3. and certain Lands in Rudington and Wetlegh in this County which are said to be held of Edm. Lascy so that 't is probable this was of the Fee of Gaunt Robert de Pavilli his Son was then twenty three years of age I find Richard de Pavelli Knight 26 E. 1. resident at Ruddington William Peverell enfeoffed Robert de Pavelli and his heirs in Piry and Hoghton in Northamptonshire and in Risle and Wingfeild in Darbyshire which King Edward the third confirmed in the first year of his Reign to Laurence Pavely who was heir of Robert some Copies have it Raph Pavely of this Mannor of Rudington This Laurence was Father of Sir Robert Pavely Knight 23 E. 3. Roger and Iohn which Sir Robert was Father of Laurence Paveley the last I have noted here Robertus de Paviliaco temp H. 1. Robertus de Pavelli Galfr. de Pavelli 1 Joh. 13 H. 3. Robertus de Pavelli 12 H. 3. Robertus de Pavelli at 23. 35 H. 3 -Sara Richardus de Pavelli miles 26 E. 1. Laurentius- 11 E. 2. Robertus Paveli mort 20 E. 3. Laurentius Pavelli haer Rob. 20 E. 3. Robertus Paveli miles 23 E. 3. Laurentius Pavely Rogerus Johannes Rob. Nic. Tho. Rog. Will. Joh. Laurentius Hugo Stephen Galfr. About the latter end of E. 3. and in the Reign of R. 2. I find Hugh de Annesley a considerable man here which Family it seems succeeded the Paveleys in this place and continued the name of Hugh very much Hugh Annesley Senior 16 H. 8. dyed seized of Pavelys Mannor and Bugges Mannor which was but a Mess. so called in Rudington and two Mess. in Bradmere and of a Mannor in Hucknall Torcard his son and heir Hugh Annesley Esquire being then above fifty years of age who died 30 H. 8. and left his son Gervase 28. Another Gervase Annesley sold it to the Earl of Kingston who purchased also that belonging to Plumtre and all or most of the rest considerable and the R. H. the Marquess of Dorchester is now owner Hornius who might possibly be predecessor of a Family named of this place gave all the Tyth of his Demesne here to the Monastery of Lenton offering his gift with his Knife upon the Altar Margery his wife and William his son and Duran the Deacon of Flaufore praising the act and being Witnesses Richard de Roll. confirmed the gift of Michael son of Richard de Rutington of four Bovats of Land which were Fulco's the Brother of the said Richard which William his son held Richardus de Rutington Michael de Rutingtona Ricardus de Rotington -Margareta Willielmus de Rutington -Agnes Ricardus de Rutington 1234. Fulco Willielmus after him to the Monastery of Lenton and that they might be more secure William de Roll. his son and heir and Raph his Brother did quit their claim in his presence to the said Monastery William son of Richard de Rotington confirmed the gift of Galfr. de Malquinci his Uncle of four Acres to the said Priory And Richard son of this William confirmed the gifts of Richard his Grandfather son of Michael de Rutinton and likewise gave his Medow called Godwinesholm which lay near Clifton Water-milne in the year 1234. being at Lenton Fair to that Monastery This last Richard de Rutinton 12 H. 3. claimed against Robert Paâ—illi ten Bovats of Land in Burton and four Bov. and an half here as heir to Galfr. de Malquinci who died without issue in the time of R. 1. for which there was a Duel waged and fought and the man of Robert Pavilli was vanquished in the Field The Sheriff of Nott. 14 H. 3. was commanded that the imparlance loquela which was in his County between Richard de Rudington and Robert Pavilis concerning that that the said Robert should do suit to the Court of the said Richard at Rudington should be respited while the said Robert was in the Kings service beyond the Seas the King at that time made his Voyage into Britany Iohn son of Sigerus de Clifton remised to Richard called Martell of Rodinton Lands sometime the Bishop of Dunblanes the Witnesses were Sir Iohn de Leke Sir Galfr. de Stapleford Knights Richard de Pavelli of Rodinton Henry Poutrell of Thurmeton c. in the time of E. 1. 'T is like the Bishop was of this Family and that Rodintons were afterwards called Martells Anker de Freschevill 45 H. 3. was found heir of Raph his Father Lord of Boney who held half a Knights Fee in Rotinton of Iohn de Musters of the honour of Richmond William son of Thomas de Plumire 15 E. 1. could not deny but that he was to acquit Richard de Bingham whose name was Bugge as in Léek and other places may be noted against all persons whaâ—soever of the service which Henry de Lascy Earl of Lincolne exacted of him for one Mess. one Bovat and four Sesions of Land in Rutington and the Advowson of the Church which Sir Richard de Bingham Knight 46 E. 3. by Fine passed to Sir Iohn de Nevill Knight with two Bovats and William Bonde his native with his sequell In the same 15 E. 1. Paulinus son of William son of Thomas de Plumptre claimed against Thomas son of William de Plumptre a yearly Rent of ten Marks Sterling in Plumptre one Virgat of Land with the Appurtenances in the same Town two Bovats of Land and an half and seven Carucats of Land with the Appurtenances in Rutington which William de Plumptre gave to Thomas son of the said William and to the heirs of his body and which after the death of the said and of William his son ought to descend to the said Paulinus son of the said William as Cousin and heir of the said Thomas to whom the said William de
Plumptre gave the said yearly Rent of ten Marks out of his Lands Medows and Pastures in the territory of Plumtre and the said Virgat of Land with the augmentation of three Acres of his Demesne in the same Town 〈◊〉 these two Bovats and half and seven Carucats in Rotington by which gift the said Thomas was seized in his Demesne as of Fee and Right in the time of Peace in the time of King Iohn Grandfather of the King then dead But Thomas the son of William pleaded that the said William only gave the said Thomas and Avicia his wife the premiss for their lives and afterwards to remain to the right heirs Maâ—â—s of the said William whereupon the said Paulinus was cast Ruddingtons Mannor came to Richard called Martell for he lived there in the time of E. 1. and Hugh Martell of Chilwell 3 E. 3. claimed view of Frankpledge and all things belonging to it of all his Tenents in Rudinton He afterwards viz. 16 E. 3. did or was about to found a Chantry in the Chappel of St. Andrew in the Church of St. Peter of Flawfore to which he gave or intended to give two Mess. and three Virgats in Rotindon and one Bovat and an half and half a Mess. in Clifton But it seems to have been perfected 37 H. 6. by William Babington Esquire son of Sir William Babington Knight and of Margery his wife whom I judge to have been the daughter and heir of Robert Martell for three Chaplains officiating two in this Chappel of St. Andrew in Flaforth Church and one in the Chappel within the Mannor of Chilwell who were to pray for the good state of King H. 6. Margaret his Queen Edward Prince of Wales c. of William Babington the founder and Elizabeth his wife and for the Souls of Sir William Babington Knight and Margery his wife c. and also for the souls of Mr. Robert Prebend sometime Bishop of Dunblane of Richard Martell Hugh Martell and Robert Martell and for the Souls of them to whom the said Mr. Robert and Sir William are held bound in the sight of God This was 〈◊〉 called Babingtons Chantry it had 21. 〈◊〉 yearly Rent out of twenty eight Bovats of Land and eighteen Acres and one Rood of Medow in Chilwell twelve Bovats of Land and Medow in Clifton and Glapton sixteen Bovats of Land and four Acres of Medow in Bramcote and forty Acres of Land and sixteen of Medow in Lenton for the Warden and the said three Chaplains and their Successours for ever which Lands were of the yearly value of 25l. At the Assizes at Nottingham 10 H. 4. the Prior of Newstede recovered a Mess. and one Bovat of Land in Rodinton which had been held of the Priory since the time of H. 3. by the service of 5s. and fealty because Iohn Hutt the late Tenent died without heirs The Rectory was appropriated to the Colledge of Durham in Oxford lately dissolved and was rated at the yearly value of 26l. 13s. 4d. There was also in the Town a house and certain Tythes of Corn and Hay appropriated to the Priory of Lenton rated at the yearly value of 3l. 15s. all which is now the inheritance of the Right Honourable the Earl of Devonshire The Vicarage was 8l. value when the Prior of Durham was Patron It is now 6l. 13s. 4d. in the Kings Books and the Countess of Devonshire Patroness There is a Church-like Chappel in the Town but the Parish Church stands in the Field and is called Flawforth Church betwixt the Towns of Edwalton Plumptre Keyworth Boney and Bradmere whereof some parts of the three last are belonging to the Parish It was parcel of the possessions of St. Iohn's of Ierusalem and the Tythes being thereunto appropriate are sold as divers Portions in the several Townships In that Church is a South Quire called Dumlaws Quire corrupted I suppose from Dunblane the Bishop whereof I guess built it in the middle of which upon one Stone are cut the Figures of a Man and a Woman which seem very ancient with this Inscription about the sides DIC IACET IN TVMVLO MATILDIS CVM GALEFRIDO ..... .... PON .... ARE BARTVN QI. TENVERE Galfr. de Malquinci and Matildis his wife held West-Burton in Bassettlaw Wapentack He died in the time of R. 1. as before is noted Upon another very hard Stone is a picture of a woman it seems with a strange old Cap and about the sides in great Brass Letters ... WOSRE PASSEG PAR ICI PRIEB PV ... L ...... ME MAR GERI NE DEV LE PACE MARCI AMEN If this be for Margery the wife of Hernius 't is very old I do not think it to be Margery the wife of Sir William Babington There is a Grave-stone for William Babington with his Arms at each corner by his head Ten roundels and a File of three Labels On another Grave-stone Hic jacet Sidonia Al soror Mari Babington quae obiit vi die Maii Anno Domini M. CCCC.XL.VIII Close by the Wall one cross-leg'd his Gown or Surcoat reaching below his knees In the Chancell a Priest and a Chalice by his head and about it Hic jacet Dominus Willielmus Jokin vicarius de Rodington qui obiit xxv die mensis Novembris Anno Domini Millesimo D.XV. cujus animae propitietur Deus Amen And upon one in the Church Orate pro anima Margaretae nuper uxor Henrici Vinir qui obiit apud Rodyngton xv Octob. Anno Domini M. CCCC.XXX.IX Cujus animae propitietur Deus Amen And divers others without Inscriptions In an old Hall Window at Rodington Pa'y of 6. Arg. and Azure a bend Gules Annesley impaling Azure a Chevron between 3. Mullets Or. Plumptre and Normanton HEre were two Mannors in Plumptre in the time of King Edward before the Norman Invasion which Vlfac and Godric had rated to the publick Geld for twelve Bov. The Land was then esteemed sufficient for three Plows or three Carucats It afterwards was the Fee of Roger de Busli who had there in Demesne three Car. thirty three Vill. having five Car. There was a Church and twenty three Acres of Medow This then kept the old value 3l. having Soc in Rodintone In Normentune Vnfac had a Mannor Taxed at six Bov. before the Conquest the Land whereof was three Car. There Roger de Busli had also in Demesne two Car. six Vill. three Bord. four Sochm. with three Car. The value of this had been in the time of King Edward the Confessour 40s. but then was but 30s. Here was also a Berew Taxed at four Bov. and an half The Land half a Carucat There were two Vill. one Bord having half a Car. It lay in Plumptre to which more of the Soc also lay in Stantune and Cauord Plumptre hath been esteemed a kind of Wapentac or Hundred and belonging to Donington Eastie as the Earl of Chetters concerning which something is already noted in the beginning of this Rushcliff
Leek 2 Tho. Leek de Will. thorpe 2 Tho. Leek de Hasland vide Leke Thom. 36 H. 6. Joh. Walsh mar primus 4 H. 4 -Isabella cohaer ob 14 H. 6. s. p. -Humfridus Halloughton Johannes 10 E. 2. Rogerus de St. Andr. -Agnes Ric. Grey de Landford Ric. Grey mil. de Landford Philippas Grey ob 1 R. 2. Ric. Gray de Landford ob infra aet 6 R. 2. Alianora sor haer obiit infra aet s. p. 8 R. 2. Lucia haer Richardus s. p. Ric. de Grey Dom. de Codenhour -Lucia fil haer Johannis de Homaz 13 H. 3. Pip. Staff Esquire his daughters and heirs Emelina the wife of Iohn Grey abut 13 H. 6. died seized of the Mannor of Landford and three Mess. with the Appurtenances and three Virgats and other Lands and Rents and the Advowson of the Church in Hykeling Then her daughter Isabell had married one Humfrey Halloughton but shortly after about 14 H. 6. she left her sister Leek her heir There was a Fine 10 E. 2. between Margaret the daughter of Hugh de Eyton Quer. and Hugh de Eyton of Hickeling and Felice his wife Deforc. of twenty two Acres of Land two of Medow and an half and half a Mess. with the Appurtenances in Hickeling thereby settled on the said Margaret and the heirs of her body remainder to Iohn son of William le Gray of Sandiacre and the heirs of his remainder to the said Hugh and Felice and the heirs of Felice At the Assizes of Nottingham 29 E. 3. William de Rempston recovered seisin of one Mess. twenty Acres of Land and three of Medow in Hykeling and Iohn de Rempston was amerced Anthony Fitz-Hubert Sergeant at Law and diverse others claimed against Iohn Leek Esq in recoveries which he suffered 5 H. 8. the Mannors of Sutton in le dale Sandiacre and Kirkehalome with the Appurtenances and also one huâ—dred Mess. c. in Sutton Sandiacre Kyrkehalome Normanton by Hastond and Chesterfeild and the Advowson of the Church of Sutton in le dale in Derbishire the Mannors of Landford Collyngham Elston Hykling Gedling Huknall Torcard and Leek with the Appurtenances and also two hundred Mess. c. in Landford Collingham Elston Hykling Gedling Huknall Torcard Little Leyk Great-Leyk Saxendale Stoke by Newark Stoke Bardolfe Colwyke Wyverton Byngham Carleton Karcolston and Holme by Newark with the Advowsons of the Churches of Elston and Hykling in this County the Mannor of Harston in Leicestershire the Mannor of Crowenest with the Appurt in Worcestershire This Mannor after the Leeks was Stapletons This is certainly a mistake for though Rempstons Land here as elsewhere might descend to Stapleton and Cheynè of which latter the Lord Vaux became heir yet I find that Francis Leek of Sutton in le Dale Esquire 16 Feb. 34 H. 8. for the summ of 276l. sold the Mannor of Hickling with the Appurtenances and Advowson of the Church whereof he levyed a Fine in Easter Term that same year to Iohn Cunstable of Kinalton Esquire afterwards Knight and his heirs Which Sir Iohn Cunstable 1 Octob. 6 E. 6. sold the premises to Iohn Ingleby a younger son of William Ingleby late of Ripley in Yorkshire Esquire then deceased And Iohn Ingleby of Rudby Ebor. 7 Septem 42 Eliz. conveyed them to Iohn Ingleby his son Which Iohn or another of his name then dwelling at Hickling in the Vale by Indenture dated 2 Iuly 1 Iac. for 534l. sold to William Farborne of that Town Gent. the Mannor of Hickling with all the Appurtenances whatsoever in Hickling Kinalton Over Broughton Staunton Colson Bâ—sset and Withmerpool in this County except the Advowson of the Church and also excepting that Mess. and seven Oxgangs of Land c. which he had then sold to Thomas Beane the elder of Aâ—â—octon and William Beane his second son Which said Iohn Ingleby and William Farborne 2 Oct. 2 Iac. conveyed the said Mannor to Gervase Farborne son of the said William Iames Wilson Gent. and George Ward claimed in Michaelmas Term 9 and 10 Eliz. against Iohn Smyth alias Walton and Raph Smith the Mannor of Hyckling with the Appurtenances and diverse Lands there who called c. William Vaux Lord Harowdon Hickling is now in the hands of very many Freeholders King Edward the sixth by his Letters Patent dated 30 Iune in the sixth year of his Reign granted to Lyonell Duckett and Edward Whitchurch the Lands and Rents in Hickelinge belonging to the Monastery of Thurgarton excepting the Tythes belonging to that Monastery which August 16. 5 Eliz. were granted by the Queen to Sir Thomas Gresham Knight and his heirs The Mannor which was Leeks is now the inheritâ—nce of Richard Maunsfeild of Leek Esquire who had it after the death of Francis Maunsfeild his Uncle The Rectory of Hiclinge was 22l. when Mr. Leek was Paâ—ron In the Kings Books it is now 18l. 8s. 4d. and Sara Bardsey widow Patroness Kinalton Doomsd. Chinelton Kineldestowe and Newbold PArt of this Town in the Book of Doomsday is said to be of Walter de Ayncurts Fee and of the Soc of Graneby where his Seat was in this County it was rated to the Tax or Geld as seven Bovats The Land was two Carucats There was nine Sochm. four Bord. having three Car. or Plows and seven Oxen plowing or draught Oxen and twenty Acres of Medow Another part of Chinelton is there certified to be of the Land of the Taynes where one Azor before the Conquest was rated to the Dane-geld at one Bov. for his Mannor The Land whereof was three Bovats The son of Azor held it afterwards of the King and there had three Vill. with three Oxen plowing and three Acres of Medow In King Edward the Confessours time the value of this was 10s. in the Conquerours 2s. 8d. By what appears in Hickling it may well be concluded that the Family of Fancurt held Deyncourts Fee in this place but it is certain enough that Gerard de Fancourt held a Knights Feâ— of Oliver de Aynecurt in Hickling and Kinalton Adam de Sutton Prior of Thurgarton for 18s. of Silver yearly by the consent of the whole Covent granted and confirmed to Raph de Fanecurt all the Land which the said Raph held in the Town and Territory of Kinalton of Sir Gerard son of Sir Elias de Fanecurt Elias de Franencurth gave twelve Bovats in the Territory of Newbold to the Abby of Swinshead in Lincolnshire which King Henry the second confirmed as he did also in this same place of the gift of William de Vilers and Paganus his son two Carucats of Land and two Bovats and an half and Keteleswang and Holeboldeswang and seventeen Acres of Land at Cranemere and four Tofts with Crofts and the whole Brusâ—am Brouse which belonged to Neubold In Doomsday Book there is mention of Newbold in those daies a very considerable place but now 't is well-nigh lost
-Helewisa ux 1. Radulphus Basset de Drayton ob 17 E. 3 -Joana B. ob 27 E. 3. fil Tho. de Bellocamp C. Warw. Rad. Basset de Drayton ob ante patrem -Alicia fil Nic. Dom. de Audeley Radulphus D. Basset de Drayton aet 16. 27 E. 3. ob s. p. 13 R. 2 -Joana de Bretagne superst 20 R. 2. Thom. de Shirley mil. -Isabel Will. Heriz-Matild Jordanus le Bret mil. -Joana Rogerus Bret miles Johannes Bret miles Johannes Bret miles s. p. -Joana Joh. de Caltoft mil. -Catherina Willielmus de Chaworth-Alicia fil haer aet 30 14 R. 2 -Thom Hethe mil. marit prim Ed. Scafford-Margar Rad. Com. Staff Hugo Comes Stafford Thom. Com. Staff haer 14 R. 2. Edmund Com. Staf. 4 H. 4. Humfr. Dux Buckingham Humfr. Com. Staff Henricus Dux Bucks Edwardus Dux Bucks Attinct 13 H. 8. Rich. Basset de Weldon haer Galfr. 33 H. 2. Willielmus Basset .... Rob. de Cauz Matildis-Rad Fitz-Stephen Camerar H. 2. Geva fil Hugonis Com. Cestriae-Galf Ridel Justic. Angliae temp H. 1. Richardus Basset Justic. Angliae temp H. 1. Steph. -Matildis Ridel Raph Basset held Coleston of him which was of the honour of Warengford for the service of a Knights Fee which Raph Basset the said Galfr. his Grandfather held which last mentioned Raph Basset Father of Raph was one of the heirs of Geva daughter of Hugh Earl of Chester and Galfr. Ridel was another and both of their Grandfathers Chief Justices of England for King H. 1. as was also Richard Basset the first Raphs son before spoken of which Richard was likewise Grandfather to Raph son of Raph Basset before mentioned who held this Coleston which from this Family received the addition Basset to distinguish it from another Coleston in this Wapentac called Ear-Colston Raph Basset of Draiton held a Knights Fee here and was summoned 27 H. 3. to answer the Prior of Laund that he should hold his Covenant formerly made by his Indenture or Cyrograph concerning Common of Pasture in Colston which he did accordingly Raph Basset 12 E. 1. had Market and Fair in this Town Raph the last Lord Basset of Draiton dyed May 12. 13 R. 2. and by the Inquisition taken the year following viz. 14 R. 2. Thomas Earl Stanford aged 24 years was found one of his heirs as son of Hugh son of Raph son of Margaret sister of the said Raph Lord Bassets Grandfather and Alice the wife of Sir William Chaworth another of his heirs as daughter of Catherine daughter of â—ohn son of Roger son of Ioan daughter of Matildis another sister of the said last Lord Bassets Grandfather which Alice was then viz. 14 R. 2. a great deal more than thirty years of age it seems the women married young and Matilâ—is was much the eldest daughter of Raph Basset because this time over goes that of Stafford two Descents in four Ioane who had been wife of Raph son of Raph Basset of Drayton held the third part of the Mannor of Colston Basset and the Mannor of Radcliff on Sore for life the Reversion belonging to Walter Skirlaw Bishop of Durham but the Jury 4. H. 4. found Edmund Earl Stafford son of Hugh Earl Stafford son of Raph Earl Stafford son of Margaret sister of Raph Father it should be Grandfather of the said Raph Basset was Cousin and heir of that last Lord. This Mannor was sold by Edward Stafford the last Duke of Buckingham of that Family who suffered a recovery oâ— it 4 H. 8. before his Attainder to ... Kitson whose heir Sir Thomas Kitson sold the same to Mr. Golding his Steward whose Grandchild and heir Edward Golding was by King Charles the first at the beginning of the War created a Baronet and was proprietor of the whole Town and impropriate Rectory saying that part which his Father who inclosed most of the fields sold to Mr. Francis Hacker whereon he built an house which was by Francis Hacker his eldest son forfeited by his Attainder with the rest of his Lands which the Duke of York favourably sold to Colonel Rowland Hacker his next brother who hath since sold his interest here to Iohn Grubham Howe of Langar Esquire the present owner of that part Richard son of Gervas de Barneston gave to the Priory of Lenton two Bovats of Land in Coleston with the Man who held them which his Father gave by the consent of his faithful wife Margaret and of this Richard his son and heir when he confirmed the gift of Richard his Father of two Bovats in Wiverton with him that held them This grant of Richard the Grandchild was made at Notingham before the Kings Justices Iohn Cumin Alan de Furneus Mr. Hugh de Raberst William de Beâ—ding which was 25 H. 2. and before many other Witnesses Robert de Davidvill Serlo de Grendon William Fitz-Ranalf Samson de Strelley Gervas de Wiverton son of that Richard I suppose and very many others G. Ridel restored to Gervas son of Richard de Wiverton his inheritance viz. Dukmantan in Darbishire to him and his heirs to hold of the said G. and his free and quiet for the service of a Knights Fee for Duchemanton and for the Land of Coleston which he held of the brother of the said G. because it was recognized in the Court of the said G. that W. brother of Gervas son of Richard in his free power rendred up Duchemanton to the said G. that he might pass the inheritance to the said Gervas which he did and likewise to Richard son of Gervas afterwards called Sir Richard de Wyverton Knight who for forty nine Marks of Silver which Galfr. Fitz-Peter gave him conveyed his whole Land of Dukmanton to the Abby of Wellebek which Gervas his son confirmed and Thomas de Mellys son and heir of Adelina sister of the said Sir Richard de Wiverton by releasing There is an errour in the Register or Leiger book of Wellebek page 58. which hath misled many excellent Genealogists viz. that Galfr. Ridel and Richard Basset Father of Raph Basset of Welledon were brothers and that Galfr. dyed without heir and his inheritance descended to the said Richard his brother and so to Raph Basset whereas it is manifest that this Galfr. Ridel or Basset for he was son of Richard Basset and Matildis Ridel his wife had two wives and by his first left Richard Basset who about the 33 H. 2. was heir of his second wifes Dower whose name was Sibylla the sister of William Manduit and she was then fifty years old and had two sons and one daughter to confute the story further which were not heirs of her Dower by reason of the said Richard Basset her husband the said Galfr. Ridels son by his first wife The line of the Bassets of Drayton which were all Raphs that I have met with except their wives and times of their deaths could be certainly found cannot be exactly described Mr.
Nicholas de Tydeswell and Isabell 30 E. 3. Warinus de Boyvile held the Land in Cotegrave for the Barony of Byron 4 E. 1. That other part of this Town which was of the Fee of Roger Pictavensis it seems was given to Swinsheved in Lincolneshire King H. 2. in the twelfth year of his Reign confirmed to the Monks of Swinsheved the whole Land of Robert de Gresley in Cotegrave and the moâ—ery of the Church and one Car. of Land in Cotegrave of the gift of Robert de Arcâ—is and whatever Robert de Gresley and Albert his son the Founders gave to the said Church of Swinsheved fourteen Acres which Robert Roseâ—â— gave â—nd the exchanges which Roger de Buruâ— and his men i. e. those who held of him made with the said Monks and likewise of the gift of William de Vilers and Paganus his son of two Car. and two Bov. and an half c. in Neubold and of Elias de Fanencourth of twelve Bovats in the same territory Robert Greâ—e gave one Bovat of his Fee in Cotegrave to the Church of Lenton to which Raph his Priest of Cotegrave was a Witness Maurice de Creâ—n 28 H. 2. gave account of two hundred Marks for having the wife who was Albert Gresle's with her reasonable Dower Wido de Creâ—â— 1 R. 1. ought 7l. 6s. 8d. for the very same Gilbert Basset and Alan and Thomas his brothers 2 R. 1. gave account of five hundred and fifty Marks for the custody of the son of Albert Gresle with his heir and Land Albert Gresâ—y had one son and three daughters and their Uncle Gilbert Basset with his Father Thomas Basset had the keeping of them about 33 H. 2 but out of diverse of their Lands money was received by Nigeâ— Fitz-Alexander and Robert de Burrun King Henry the eighth for the summ of 684l. 16s. 8â— in the 31 year of his Reign granted to Harold Rosel of Cottegrave the Mannor of Cotgrave 〈◊〉 belonging to the Monastery of Swyneshed and Cotgrave Grange Herteswell Grange and Broughton Grange c. all which except Herteswell Grange in Kinalton he had licence to pass to George Pierpont Esquire and Elizabeth his wife which still continue with their posterity the Right Honourable the Marquess of Dorchesâ—er Binghaâ—â—s Land here went with Clipston Kinalton c. to the Family of Rempston Harold Scrimshire purchased a Farm called Rempâ—â—on Hall in Codgrave of Brian Stapleton of Carleton by Snayth in Yorkshire and another of .... Roselâ— wherein his brother Thomas lived which was purchased together with Walter Whalleys and Richard Champions ..... Scrimshire Harold Scrimshire de Codgrave-Margareta fil ..... Heâ—son alias Hall Willielmus Scrimshire-Elizab fil Nic. 〈◊〉 de Estwell in Com. Leicest Johannes Scrimshire-Margar fil Mic. Wright de Bricksworth Will. Scrimshire de Cotgrave 〈◊〉 32. 1672. 〈…〉 Rob. Frank de Pâ—â—tefract Johannes Scrimshire aet 4. 1672. Eliz. -Clifton Rodes Joh. Mich. Sam. Willielmâ—â—-Kâ—â—h fil Geo. Underwood de Wittlesea 1 Willielâ—â—s 2 Hugo 3 Sam. Thoâ—as 〈…〉 Rectâ—r de Codgrave Thomas Whalley of Cotgrave held a Farm there under Richard Whalley of Kirkton by Screveton and was his Kinsman probably Thom. Whalley-Margareta fil .... 〈◊〉 Walterus Whalley-Cecilia fil .... Efcogâ—â—on de Broâ—ghton in Com. Staff Johannes Whalley-Maria fil Willielâ—â— Midleton de Waâ—â—esley Walterus Whalley-Maria fil Mich. Wright de Bricksworth Walterus Whalley aet 23. 1672. Michael Georgius â—rosell -Margaret Ursula-Franc 〈◊〉 ..... Champion is now chief Constable of the Hundred The King and Queen May 31. 3 and 4 Ph. and Mar. granted to Thomas Wâ—â—â—e and Agnes his wife and the heirs of the body of Thomas the Mannor of Cotgrave with the Appurtenances late belonging to the Monastery of Lenton c. Thom. White de Com. Suff. vel Johannes Thom. White de Woodhead in Com. Rutland-Agnes Dom. Johannes White de Tuxford miles-Dorothea fil Dom. Johannis Harpur de Swarkeston mil. 3 Thom. White tandem haeres .... fil Dom. Ed. Hartup de Buckminster in Com. Leicest Johannes White de Cotgrave-Jana fil Dom. Thom. Williamson de Markham Bar. 2 Gervas s. p. 1 Rich. White s. p. Ricardus Cecil Thom. White de Woodhead in Com. Rutland-Agnes Willielmus Cecil Dom. Burleigh Mr. White now makes this the place of his residence and the Marquess of Dorchester keeps a Court here which was Shelfords and belonging to the Knights Hospitallers of St. Iohn of Ierusalem The Advowsons of both the Rectories 28 Iuly 36 H. 8. were granted to George Pierpoynt and his heirs The Medieties of this Church were each 16l. when the Abbat of Swinshed and Prior of Lenton were Patrons Now the first part is 10l. 7s. 1d. and the second 9l. 14s. 9d. ob in the Kings Books and the Marquess Patron of both In the Church in the low South-East Window there is Or on a Fesse Gules three Water Budgets Arg. Or Ermine Bug. or Bingh Azure a Lyon Ramp Or on his shoulder Martlett On a Stone in a Seat in the Chancell Arg. a Piller Gules between three Coughs sab or Gules quartering ... on a Fesse Gules between three Bells sable as many Cross Croslets Or. Sub atrato hoc marmore tutò recumbunt sepositae Johannis Scrimshire nuper de Cotgrave Com. Nott. Gen. exuviae quem juris simul aequi dudum Cultorem princeps patria habuerunt fidelem uxor liberi nec non alii ejus indigentes auxilio patronum ac patrem ubique solicitum Obiit 2. Decembris Anno Aetat 61. Sepultus 4. Decembris Anno Dom. 1669. Hic jac et alter Johannes Charissimus superioris filius Artium magister utriusque hujus medietat is curialis-Rector Qui divinae voluntatis studios us heu brevis instituto pius ac severus cum tam exemplis quam prâ—ceptis per turbidos hujus mundi fluctus rectam ad aeternae salutis portum viam exhibuisset è vivis discessit Festo die S. Johannis Baptistae Anno Aetat 28. Dom. 1669. Tollerton Torlaston Torlaveston Roclaveston THis Town in Doomsday Book is called Roclaveston in which it was certified to have been the Mannor of one Elsi before the Conquest who paid for it as two Car. to the Geld. The Land was four Car. There afterwards Roger de Busli had in Demesne one Car. ½ eleven Vill. one Bord. having three Car. eight Sochm. with three Car ½ and two Mills 3s. There was a Church and thirty Acres of Medow In the Confessours time it was 40s. then 60s. value Not far from hence a place called Warberge or Warbey must needs lie now utterly lost but the great survey of the Conquerour shows that in it Godric Lord of Plumtre had a Mannor before the Normans came rated to the Geld at twelve Bovats The Land twelve Bovats but it then was waste There was ten Acres of Medow In the Confessours time it was 20s. value then but 5s. this was then of Roger de Buslies Fee but another Mannor
a Bovat The Land was two Carucats There eight Sochm. had three Car. and five Acres of Medow Another part of it was Soc to Clifton of William Peverels Fee as much as was Taxed for five Bovats and one third of a Bovat The Land was one Car. There two Sochm. and two Bord. had one Car. and seven Acres of Medow This was chiefly enjoyed by the Family of Lutterell with Bridgeford at the Bridge-end and Gamelston already mentioned in Rushcliff Wapentak The other the Lords of Holme had of whom the Barryes Lords of Torlaston held a considerable part Michael de Maunvers levied a Fine 3 Ioh to Walter de Hulme his brother of thirteen Bovats in Basingfeild for the which the said Walter gave him three Marks of Silvâ—â— and quit-claimed to him all his right in two Bovats in the said Town which William de Leek held of the said Michael and the service of one Bovat which the said William held of the said Walter in this place There were very great Suits in Edward the firsts time between Richard Barry and Henry Perpunt and Annora his wife 15 E. 1. 18 E. 1. in which Record the Clark who ingrossed it hath inserted a Leonius and a Michael in the pleading more than the time can possibly admit which I have therefore omitted in the Descent The quarrel was for 10l. Rent out of certain Lands in Basingfeild which Iames de Hulme sometimes also called of Keyworth reserved when he passed the Estate to Iohn Barry the said Richards Father from which Iames dying without issue the right devolved to one Michael brother of Walter the said Iames his Grandfather from which Michael it descended to Leonius his son and heir from Leonius to Michael his son and heir from that Michael to Leonius that Michael's son and heir from this Leonius to Michael his son and heir which last Michael had two Wives by the first he had Leonius and Iohane by the second Iohn and this Annora who was cast because none of her Ancestors were seized of the Rent Iames the Feoffor dying before it became due but being notably versed in Law Suits as in Sueynton may be noted she obtained a Writ of Errour and got the better of him at length and likewise 20 E. 1. when her Husband was dead This Town of Basingfeild is part of the Parish of Bridgeford and part of the Parish of Holme whereof the greatest part except the Demesnes was either Barryes or Bonitons Barryes Lands there in King Henry the seconds time were granted to William the Clark of Hulme by Leonius de Maunvers by the name of two Carucats of Land in Basingfeild which grant was confirmed by King Henry the second They were sold by .... Pendock to Sir Henry Pierrepont Knâ—ght deceased Bonitons were lately sold by one of that name to Robert Earl of Kingston whose inheritance the whole Township was together with Boughton Grange a single Farm unto which did belong anciently twelve Oxgangs of Land dispersed in the Fields and Territory of Basingfeild Leonius de Maunvers superstes 24 H. 2. Michael Leonius de Malnoers Michael Leonius Michael .... ux 1. .... ux 2. Leon. de Maunvers-Marger Johanna Johannes Henricus Pierpont defunct 20 E. 1. mil. -Annora consang haer Jacobi 12 E. 1. Robertus Pierpont miles-Sara soror Johannis de Heriz militis Henricus de Pierpont-Margareta fil Willielmi Fitz-William mil. 2 Edm. Pierpont mil. 29 E. 3 -Joana fil haer Geo. Monboucher mil. Edmundus Pierpont miles 1 H. 6 -Frances fil haer Willielmi Franke de Grimsby Henricus Pierpont miles 19 H. 6 -Elena fil Nich. de Langford mil. Henricus Pierpont-Thomasâ—na fil Johannis Melton militis 2 Franciscus Pierpont-Marg fil Joh. Burdon Willielmus Pierpont miles-Joana fil Briani Stapleton mil. ux 1 -Jana fil Ric. Emson mil. Cancellar ducaâ—us Lanc. Elizab. -Joh Sacheverell Georg. Pierrepont mil. -Eliz fil Anth. Babington mil. ux 1 -Winifreda fil Will. Thwaits-Gerv Clifton mar secundus· Annora-Joh Rosel Henricus Pierpont miles -Francesca fil Will. Cavendish mil. Robertus Pierpont Comes Kingston occisus Gertruda fil cohaer Henric. Talbot ... uxor ejus fil haer Will. Raynor milit Hen. Marchio Dorcestriae aet 65. 1672. ... fil cohaer ... vic Baâ—ning .... fil Com. Derby Will. aet 64. .... fil haer ... Harris Serv. ad Legem Franciscus ob Jan. 30. 1657 -Eliz fil Bray Anna-Joh Dom. Roos Gracia Rob. Pierpont ob fil ... Evelyn Comitissa Ogle Comitissa Clare Gertruda 2. ux Geo. Vicecom Hallifax Robertus de Nott. -Anna fil Henrici Murrey Franciscus Pierponte aet 12. Mar. 10. 1674. Georgius aet 9. Willielmus aet 4. Anna nat 1674. Georg ob fil .... Jones Gerv. Franc. ux .... Rolston Georgius Mauners mil. -Gratia Ric. Stapleton-Eliz Th. Comes Kelly in Scot. -Fran Fulco Cartwright -Mariâ— Tho. Thorold marit 1 -Anna-Franciscus Beaumont Joh. Harpur-Isabella Gerv. Willielmus 1 Henricus Pierpont mil. 13 E. 4. ob s. p. ... fil ... Roos de Ingmanthorp 1 Henricus fin 3 E. 3. Robertus fin 3 E. 3 -Cecilia 1 Rob. 2 5 Rog. 6 Georg. 3 Joh. Fin. Rad. 4 3 E. 3. Edm. Eliz. jun. Agath Marg. Agnes Cecilia Annor Alicia Eliz. sen. Walterus de Hulme 1 Johannes Jacobus de Keyworth nepos Rad. fil Nich. pat 11 H. 3. m. 2. Willielmus Agnes Petrus Johannes superst 20 E. 1. Agnes fil Suani de Hoiland Willielmus Reg. Lent p. 6. Holme Pierrepont IN Holme Toret before the Invasion of King William was rated to the Dane-geld at twelve Bov. for his Mannor The Land whereof was sufficient for three Plows or three Carucats There afterwards Roger de Busli had two Car. fourteen Vill. two Bord. having five Car. and one Mill 5s. and eighty Acres of Medow This was valued both before and after the Conquest at 6l. having Soc in Basinfelt The heir of Leonius de Malnuers is certified to hold a Knights Fee here of the old Feoffment that is whose Ancestor was infeoff'd in the time of King Henry the first Raph Plucket levied a Fine 3 Ioh. of the Town of Aneston in Yorkshire and this Holme to Michael de Maunuers and his heirs to be held of the said Raph and his heirs by the service of two Knights Fees excepting only to himself and his heirs one presentation of a Clark to the Church of Holme after the death of Walcran the Parson Pip. 6 Ioh. Michael de Maluniers ought C. m. for having that presentation which the King had by reason that Raph Plucket who reserved it was departed from his Faith with that King Iohn de Rye 52 H. 3. had a Charter of free Warren granted in Holme Basingfeld Lambcote Adbolton and Anstan This man called himself Lord of Holme and was so stiled 1 E. 1. On his Seal were Barres Gemelles and on a Chief three Escallops Raph Fitz-Nicholas 11 H. 3. the Kings Steward had the custody of the Lands and heirs of Robert
the Church South I le Or 5 Palets Sab. Azure Semi de Lis Or. Arg. a Lyon Ramp Sab. quartering Or. A Castle sable Paly of six Arg. and Az. Strelley Arg. on a Bend sable three Roses Or quartering Arg. a Fesse Dancè and Billettè Gules Rosell with Basily In the East Window of the Chancell Azure Billettè with a Fesse Dancè Or Deincourt In the North I le of the Church Barry of six Arg. and Azur with a Bendlet Sinister Gules Grey The same impales with Quarterly Arg. and Azure a plain Crosse counterchanged Upon a Brass in the Wall ... A Gryphin .... impales with .... on a Chevron between three Demi Lyons Passant with a chief Party per Fesse indented through or else upon it three Piles three Roundlets Anne the wife of William Ballard of Wimeswould Com. Leic. Esquire 1626. and George Adrian miles Daniel Bowyt and Gabriel their Children Lambecote THere is not much left visible of this Town at present saving two Farms and ten Cottages and some Leyes and Closes at the end of Radclive with which it was intermixed which yet bear the name of Lambecote Leyes and Lambecote Closes Here were two Mannors before the Conquest which Franc and Odincar had afterwards of Roger de Busties Fee They defended themselves in the publick payments for seven Bov. â…“ The Land was one Car. There Roger de Busli had one Car. ½ one Vill. and two Acres of Medow This kept the ancient value 13s. Another Mannor here was Vlchets and paid the Dane-geld for five Bov. There Osmund the Man of Raph de Burun whose Fee it was had one Car. one Vill. and six Acres of Medow This retained the old value also 10s Here was another Mannor of the Taynland which Vlchet had before the Conquest and paid to the Gâ—ld for it as five Bov. ½ This afterwards Aldene held of the King and had here one Car. in Demesne and six Acres of Medow This in the Confessours time was 10s. then but 5s value Roger de 〈…〉 or most of it was I suppose held by the Lords 〈…〉 in which Pariâ—â— all or a great part of the Hamâ—et is for Michael de Malnoers about King Iohn's time passed several small parcells here to Eâ—stachius the Clark of Ludham who was Sherâ—ff or â—t least accounted for Philip Marc 16 Ioh. for these Counties of Nott. and Derb. Thomas the Son of Geoffrey the Knight of Lambcote passed all his Land in Lambcote which he held of Geoffrey Torcard who also himself confirmed it to the said Eustachius de Ludham This was the Fee of Raph de Burun Galfr. de Wellebof gave four Bov. here to the said Eustachius reserving 11s. Rent yearly Iohn the son of Robert Torcart of Hokenale released to Sir Walter son of Sir Walter de Loudham the homage and all the service due and accustomed for a Knights Fee which he held of him in Lambcote and Hokenal Robert son and heir of Geoffrey de Stretley released to Iohn son of Sir Walter de Loudham 11s. Rent in Lambcote Sir Iohn de Loudham Knight 7 E. 2. let to Farm his Mannor of Lambcote to Robert Rasen and Annora his wife for their respective lives reserving sixteen Marks Sterling per annum to be paid to the said Sir Iohn and Alice his wife Sir Iohn de Ludham 11 E. 2. passed this Mannor to Thomas Basily and his heirs in exchange for his Lands in Newton and Shelford Henry Fenepar had anciently a Mannor here The Jury 3 E. 4. found that Agnes Marmion was seized of the Mannor of Lamcote and passed it to Thomas Stathom Knight and William Babington Esquire and that Agnes the wife of Thomas Pilkington was her Cousin and heir and then 26 years of age and that she had also Lands in Riseley in Darbyshire George Pilkington of Croxton Curyall in the County of Leicester Esquire 7 Eliz. sold his Mannor or Capital Mess. of Lambcote to Iohn Rosell of Radcliff Esquire with whose posterity it still continueth The next year he the said Iohn Rosel suffered a recovery of this Mannor of Lamcote c. and free Fishing in the Water of Trent in Lambcote which Thomas Cranemere Esquire and George Cartwright Gent. claimed against him and he called to warrant the said George Pilkington Here was a Mess. Barne and Croft and two Bovats of Land in Lamecote in the Parish of Holme late belonging to the Monastery of Newstede granted Feb. 19. 16 Eliz. to Christopher Fenton and Barnard Gilpin Gent. and their heirs Crophill Bishop And Crophill Butler THese two Towns I suppose had their name Crophill from a Round Hill which is between them now called Hou Hill they lie near together and have Lands intermixed in one Field and have been esteemed as one For in an old Book of Fees in the Exchequer it is Recorded that the Chapter of Suwell and Prior of Lenton of Thurgarton rather held the whole Town of Crophill in pure Alms of the Fee of Iohn de Vilers except fourteen Bov. of Land which William Gernet held of the said Iohn by 6s per annum but they are very distinct Lordships and Crophill Bishop now commonly called Great Crophill in Doomsday Book is reckoned amongst the Lands of Thomas the Arch-bishop of York but did then belong to St. Mary of Sudwell there certified to have a Mannor in Crophill and a Berew in Hegeling wherein was two Car. ½ for the Geld. The Land seven Car. There the Canons had in Demesne two Car. there were seven Sochm. twelve Vill. four Bord. having six Car. two Bov. and twenty Acres of Medow In King Edward the Confessours time valued at 3l. then at 50s. Robert son of Raph de Hickling for the love of God and of his Lord William Peverell gave 2 Bov. of Land in Crophill Bishop to the Priory of Lenton where he the said Robert himself and Dame Adelina his wife and William his son offered the gift with their own hands on the Altar There was a Fine levied 5 E. 2. between Iohn de Sandwich and Margaret the daughter of Walter de Lumby Quer. and Nicholas de Haliwell Deforcient of three Mess. four Bov. of Land and 8s. Rent in Crophill Bishop one Mess. one Bov. and thirty Acres and an half and three Acres of Medow and an half with the Appurtenances in Goverton Bleseby and Gippesmere whereby they were settled on the said Iohn and Margaret for life afterwards on Idonea the daughter of Iohn and the heirs of her body remainder to William her brother and his remainder to Iohn his brother and his remainder to Iohn de Sandwich and his heirs The whole Lordship of Crophill Bishop except three or four not very considerable Freeholders together with the Tythe of Corn and Hay and two good Farms in Hickling makes part of the two Prebends of Oxton belonging to the Collegiate Church of Southwell in very near equal proportion but the provision
for the Vicar is so small as it too often happens both in this Church of Southwell and many others of like sort that it is not to be mentioned without a good wish that the Law did not or might not suffer any alienation of profits from Churches great or small without a more effectual reservation of a competent share to that to which they did and do originally belong For the Layety to have good Leases may be good policy in some sort to preserve the Church but for so many places to be so extraordinarily ill supplied cannot consist with Religion or good Government whatever some modern Statesmen fancy The Lessees of the two Prebends of Oxton are at present Patricius Viscount Chaworth of Armagh and Sir William Child for Mr. Iohn Andrews his Son-in-laws Children The Freeholders are George White Ioseph Henson Thomas Haukinson Thomas Mabbott c. The Vicarage was ten Marks 'T is now 5l. 3s. 4d. in the Kings Books and the said Prebendaries Patrons as they ever were Crophill Butler SO called because it was long held by the Family of Butlers of Warington in the County of Lancaster In the Conquerours great survey it appears that Vluric had a Mannor here in the Saxon Government which defended it self against Foreign or Publick payments for two Car. and six Bov. The Land of it was six Car. And that it became after the change the Fee of Roger Pictavensis who had here three Car. eight Sâ—chm and seventeen Vill. having six Car. There was twenty Acres of Medow Pasture Wood â— leuc long four qu. broad In the Confessours time the value of it was 8l. in the Conquerours 5l. In Crophill were two Mannors which before the Conquest Vlviet and Godriâ— had rated to the Robertus Pincerna-Ivetta Richardus Pincerna Willielmus Pincerna Almericus Pincerna Pip. 18 H. 3. fil haer Willielmi Willielmus Pincerna de Werington 22 H. 3 -Dionysia Henricus le Botillet Willielmus le Botiller 13 E. 1. voc ad Parl. 25 E. 1. Willielmus Botiller mil. 6 E. 3 -Elizab 17 E. 3. Johannes Botiller mil. 17 E. 3. Willielmus Botiller Chr. Johannes Botiller 4 H. 5. Johannes Botiller Thom. Botiller Marg. fil Johannis Delves mil. de Dodington in Com. Cestr. Thom. Botiller temp H. 8. Cecilia fil Petri Leicester de Lyme in Com. Cestr. Tho. Botiller de Beausey juxta Warington Alianora fil Johannis Huddleston Edw. Botiller Margareta Elizab. Johannes Richardus s. p. Normanus 42 E. 3. Walterus de Staunton-Albreda de Vilers Walterus de Staunton 20 H. 3 -Agatha Walterus de Staunton-Alicia Robertus de Staunton de Crophill Robertus Pincerna Johannes Dane-geld at four Bov. The Land two Car. Of this Land Ilbert de Laci was seized but when Roger of Poytiers or Pictavensis received his Land he seized that Mannor over Ilbert The Wapentach bore testimony that Ilbert was seized when Doomsday Book was made it was in the Kings hand except the third part and the Tene or Tayn Teneum qui est Cap. Maner who was chief of the Mannor whom quem Ilbert held There was then in Demesne one Car. and four Sochm. having nine Oxen in Plow or nine Bov. in Car. and six Acres of Medow In the Confessours time this was 16s. value in the Conquerours 10s. Here and in Wivreton was some of Walter de Ayncurts Fee Soc to Granby which was rated at four Bovats to the Geld. The Land being one Car. There were four Sochm. seven Bordars having two Carucats and thirteen Acres of Medow This Roger Pictavensis was third son of Roger de Montgomery first Earl of Shrowsbury after the Conquest And gave amongst many others the Churches of Cotegrave and Crophill to the Monastery of St. Martins at Sais in France which 't is like his Ancestors founded howbeit they were afterwards disposed otherwise The Sheriff 23 H. 2. gave account of 51s. 8d. of the firm of Crophull for the half year which had been the Lands of Richard the Butler Robert the Butler of Ranulf Gernons Earl of Chester was Father of Robert and I suppose of William le Botyller and Richard his brother who lived in the time of Henry the second and possibly of Iohn also who had interest at Outhorp 6 Iohn William the Botiller Pincerna 9 H. 3. gave account for four Marks concerning two Knights Fees in Crophill and Uvetorp and Keniton and Caverton Aumericus the Botiller son and heir of William the Butler 18 H. 3. gave account of 30l. of the Fine for his relief of six Knights Fees which the said William held of the King in Capite William Earl Ferrars 19 H. 3. gave 100l. for having the Custody of the Land and heirs of Aumerick le Buteler untill they should be of age together with their marriage William le Butiler seems to be of age 22 H. 3. for then he accounted to the Sheriff for six Marks William son of Almeric le Botiller confirmed to the Priory of Thurgarton for the health of his own soul and of Dionysia his wifes several gifts viz. two Bovats of Walter de Stauntons who married Albreia de Vilers who was daughter of Richard Butler and had a son and Grandson of his own name who succeeded him here which last Walter de Staunton had a son named Robert resident here also This William Butler likewise confirmed the gift of Sir Matthew de Vylers his Grandfather who by the consent of his heirs viz. Robert son of Helgod and Beatrix his own daughter and of his brothers Thomas and William de Vylers gave to the Canons and Brethren serving God and St. Peter at Fiscarton upon Trent one Carucat of Land in Crophill of his Demesne for which the Canons gave him their habit and made him a Brother who had been a Benefactor This Matthew and his Brothers William and Alan and Thomas de Vylers gave to God and the Church of St. Peter at Thurgarton with Richard his brother all his Land of Lound and the service of Raph de Sanchr and his Church of Warington and the Church of Tytheby and Chappell of Crophill and Thomas his brother gave the Church of Outhorpe and the said Matthew granted the Lambskins of his house Walter de Staunton for the soul of Albreiâ— de Vylers his wife confirmed the said gifts of Sir Matthew and his Successors c. Walter de Staunton his son for the soul of Agatha his wife who I suppose was daughter of Godfr le Angevin confirmed also all the forementioned gifts There were other Benefactors here to the Priory of Thurgarton of less condition as William son of Robert de Leik and Idonia his wife who gave a Toft and one Bovat in Crophill and Petronilla and Alice daughters of William Gernet and several others William le Botiller of Werington 13 E. 1. had a Charter of Free Warren in Crophill There was a Fine levyed 8 E. 2. between Robert son of William de Kercolston
places then to the Lady at Graneby or in her absence to the chief Servant or Bayly or in want of such to the Vicar or Chaplain of Graneby and so if it should happen that the Barony should descend to daughters c. There were five Mess. and five Bovats of Land in Granby and Sutton settled by Fine 18 E. 3. on William son of Richard de la Launde for life remainder to William his son and Isabell his wife and the heirs of their bodies remainder to Thomas brother of William son of William and the heirs of his body remainder to the right heirs of the said William son of Richard de la Launde The Rectory was appropriated to the Priory of Thurgarton and granted 18 Eliz. to Roger Manners Esquire and his heirs and is now the inheritance of the said Earl of Rutland Walter Grey Arch-bishop of York made the Vicarage here only to consist of the Altarage unless it should seem necessary to augment it which now it certainly doth It was tâ—n Marks when the Prior of Thurgarton was Patron And is now 6l. 3s. 6d. ob in the Kings Books and not more in the common reputed real value too little to sustain a married Priest Elton Doomsd. Ayleton IN Ayleton before the Normans began thâ—e change Morcar was Taxed for his Mannor to the Dane-geld at seven Bovats The Land was four Carucats There afterwards Raph the Man or Tenant of Roger de Busli whose Fee it was had four Car. three Sochm. eleven Vill. having six Oar. There was a Church and twelve Acres of Medow In King Williams time it kept the same value it had in King Edward the Confessours viz. 4l. In the year of our Lord 1088. 2 Willielmi Ruf. Roger de Busli and Muriel his wife amongst other things gave all Elleton and whatsoever belonged to it to God and the Church of St. Mary at Blyth and the Monks there serving God to which Monastery it belonged till the dissolution after which it was granted to ..... York who sold it to Sir Iohn Lion Citizen and Alderman of London who dyed the seventh of Septemb. 6 Eliz. Richard Lion son of Henry Lion brother of the said Alderman being then his heir and aged thirty two years In King Iames his time George Lion Esquire sold it to ... More and Alexander his eldest son deceased whose widow was married to Peregrine Mackworâ—â— left it to Gabriel More Esquire his son the present inheritor who is Nephew to Henry More D. D. fellow of Christs Colledge in Cambridge who was Nephew to Gabriel More D. D. heretofore Fellow of the same House and after Prebendary of Westminster I do not find exactly how the Sochmen which we now call Free-holders or the Villains now Husbandmen those that held Lands in bondage and were with their whole off-spring totally at their Lords dispose were increased in the time of two hundred years viz. from the time that the Survey of this Mannor was made by King William with the rest till one I find made in the year 1283. which shows that the Rents in money were not much increased amounting at that time in all but to 4l. 13s. 11d. ob and were paid by several small parcells customarily at ten or eleven Feasts or Seasons in the year unequally viz. St. Mich. St. Martin Ember in Advent Purification Ember after Ashwednesday quatuor temporum Cinerum Annunciation Easter Pentecost Trinity St. Botulf and Nativity of Mary But the Monastery had other waies to make the utmost profits this Lordship was any way able to yield then as well as the present owners do by the extremest rack Rents now paid which I shall set down that some comparison may be made of times this being near upon four hundred years from the former account as that was two hundred from Doomsday and this Lordship is as little altered in the use or husbandry of it as any that I know in the whole County for there is but 22l. 13s. 4d. of inclosure now belonging to it in all the Territory To proceed then with the middle Survey the Priory had besides the money two Hens and a Cock at Michaelmas and forty Hens and an half at Christmas and two Capons at Whitsunday and fourteenscore and three Eggs at Easter besides an uncertain proportion of paunage of Hogs or Swine feeding and likewise their Summage or Rent Corn which was forty quarters and two bushels which two bushels according to the continued phrase of this County make half a quarter or four London bushels which here are called four Strikes whereof two make a bushel This Corn was yearly paid by eighteen several Tenants whereof eight paid three quarters apiece and eight more half so much viz. each one quarter and two bushels and the other two Tenants each of them two quarters and one bushel And each Bovat of Land ought yearly at Blyth the carriage of six bushels of Corn. Another part of the profits was made out of the Services of the Tenants in ordering the Demesne and otherwise as by an Inquisition taken in the Chappel of Elleton the Thursday after the Feast of All Saints in the year of our Lord 1283. by Robert de Bâ—kyngham then Steward to the Priory concerning the Diets or daies labour of the Bond-men of Elleton appeareth which day William de Pavely and Gilbert praepositus the Reeve being sworn said upon their Oaths That every Bovat or Oxgang as we now call them of Land of the Bondmen of Elleton ought two daies work in every Week viz. in one Week Munday and Thursday and in another Munday and Saturday and so of the rest and he who hâ—ld two Bovats ought four daies work or diets viz. Munday Tuesday Thursday and Saturday and if any of those daies between Michaelmas and Lammas happened to be a Festival it was quit but from Lammas to Michaelmas another day was to be given for it in that Week And they further said that every Bovat ought to Plow halt an Acre through the year and for that plowing it was freed that week from one Diet or daies work And he or those who held the Bovat ought that same half Acre of Land trahare sarclare metere and cariare to Harrow or Clott Weed Reap and Carry and for every of those to be freed from half a daies work They said likewise that every Bovat ought trahare to Harrow one day in the time of Wheat and another in the time of Pease or Barley and every Bovat was to make carriage thrice in the year to Blith every time half a quarter of Corn. The carriage made in Winter was for three daies in Summer but for two daies work And they said that he that held one Bovat or Oxgang of Land was to find half a Cart in Winter to carry Wood out of the Forrest of Shirewode and he who held two Bovats a whole Caâ—t and then they should be freed from one Diet or daies
Rob. de Toâ—neyo Agnes-Hubert de Rya Henricus de Rya Galfr. Oliver Ewan Gaufr de Cabivin Walterus de Espec 3 Petrus de Ros. -Adelina Robertus de Ros. -Sibylla de Valoniis Everardus de Ros. -Rosa fil Will. de Trusbut tand haer Robertus de Ros dictus Fursan -Isabella fil Regis Scotiae Willielmus de Ros-Lucia Isabella de Albini sola haeres-Robertus de Ros. Rob. de Ros de Wark Everardus de Ros. 2 Albreda ux Nic. Trayly 1 Hawisia ux Will. Bussy de Espec slain in the flower of his youth by a fall from a swift running Horse which kind of creature the young man loved too well He by the consent of King Henry the first in the twenty second year of his Reign and of Adelina his own wife and by the consent of his Nephews the sons of his sisters of which William de Bussey Iordan and Roger de Bussy sons of his eldest sister Hawisia Galfr. de Trayly William Nicholas and Gilbert de Trayly sons of Albreda his second sister and Everard de Roos and Robert de Roos sons of Adelina his youngest sister were Witnesses to his Charter of Foundation Founded the Priory of Kirkham in Yorkshire to which he gave the right and Patronage of seven Churches in that County and Northumberland to be appropriated and eleven hundred Marks of Land and Rents in the same Counties and in the year of our Lord 1131. by the like consent and to which Charter of Foundation his said Nephews were likewise witnesses he Founded the Abby of Rivall in Yorkshire also to which amongst other things of its very ample indowments he gave all their Easements in his Mannor and Forest of Helmestat to wit materials and wood for their proper uses c. which I mention to interpret the word Easements mentioned before in this Chapter and to note that in the time of Henry the first a Subject might have a Forest or something then called so In the year 1136. he Founded the Monastery of Warden and took a Monks habit at Riâ—vauâ—r two years before his death which was 1153. It is not unlike but that he might be most kind and settle the greatest share upon his Sister Adelina because such vast possessions descended from him to the Lords Roos and he gave her the Advowsons of his Monasteries Her son Robert de Ros married Sibylla de Valâ—niis and by her had Everard de Ros who married Roesia the daughter of William de Trusbut son of Gaufr Fitz-Pagan and after the death of her brothers Richard Gaufr and Robert de Trusbut coheir together with her sisters Hillaria and Agatha â—efore mentioned not only to her Fathers estate but also to her Mothers who was widow and called Albreda de Harcurt daughter of Roysia one of the daughters and coheirs of Pagan Peverell who was Standard-Bearer to Robert Câ—rthose the Conquerours eldest Son in the holy Land Her Sisters the said Hillaria and Agatha failing of issue her posterity the Lords Roos became also Barons of Trusbut her son and heir was Robert de Ros called Fursan who married Isabell daughter of the King of Scotland and by her had two sons William and Robert This Rob. Fursan built the Castles of Helmesly and Wark and gave to the Templars the Preceptory of Ribstan in Yorkshire To his son William he gave the Castle of Hemmisly with the Appurtenances and the Advowsons of the Monasteries of Kirkham Rivalle and Wardon and to his son Robert the Castle of Warke with the Appurtenances and a Barony in Scotland to be held of William his brother and his heirs by Knights Service Which William de Ros son of Robert Fursan had by his wife Lucia Robert de Ros the fore-mentioned husband of our Isabella de Albini who besides their son Nicholas spoken of before and Robert and other children had William de Ros their heir who married Maud the daughter and co-heir of Iohn de Vaulx and his son William de Ros married Margery one of the co-heirs of Gyles Baddlesmeye mentioned in Langar and begot on her William Thomas Margaret and Maud. William de Ros married Margaret the daughter of Raph Lord Nevill Earl of Westmerland but died in the holy Land withouâ— heirs and Thomas his brother succeeded him who married Beatrice daughter of Raph Earl Stafford and by her had Iohn William Thomas Robert Elizabeth and Margaret Iohn de Roos had to wife Mary de Orrebe sister of the Earl of Northumberland but dyed at Cyprus going towards the holy Land without issue male and William de Roos his brother succeeded who by his wife Margaret the daughter of Sir Iohn de Arundel had Iohn William Thomas Robert Richard Beatrice Alice Margaret and Elizabeth Iohn de Roos his son and heir married Margery the daughter and heir of Philip Despenser but died in France on Easter Eve 1421. with his brother William without issue and Thomas de Roos their brother inherited and married Elianor daughter of Richard de Beaucamp Earl of Warwick by whom he had Thomas Lord Ros born Sept. 7. 1427. 6 H. 6. who married Philippa the eldest daughter of the Lord Tiptoft and sister and co-heir of the Earl of Worcester of whom he begat Edmund Alianor Isabell Margaret and Ione In this Thomas Lord Ros his time he being attaint this Mannor of Orston amongst others was granted by King Edward the fourth to Iohn Earl of Sâ—rowsbury but Edmund his son being restored 1 H. 7. it came again to the Family And Elianor eldest sister of this Edmund who died without issue 23 Oct. 1508. brought it together with her great inheritance to the Family of Maunors of Northumberland her husband being Sir Robert Maunors by whom she had George Edward Elizabeth and Cicely George married Anne the daughter of Anne Ducâ—ess of Exeter sister of K. Edw. the fourth by her husband Sir Thomas St. Leiger by whom he had Thomas created by King Henry the eighth Earl of Rutland and a numerous issue besides Earl Thomas had likewise many children His eldest son Henry Earl of Rutland by his wife Margaret daughter of Raph Earl of Westmerland had Earl Edward whose daughter and heir Elizabeth was married to Sir William Cecill and had issue William who claimed to be Lord Rosse and King Iames determined that he should be Lord Roos of Holdernes and have the ancient Seat of the Lord Ros in Parliament but that the Title of Lord Ros of Hamlaâ— Trusbut and Belvoyr should still remain to Francis then Earl of Rutland who was brother and heir of Earl Roger son of Earl Iohn brother of Earl Edward This Earl Francis was a very great man and Father of Katherin Duchess of Buckingham to whom he gave Hemesly Castle and the ancient Yorkshire Lands and likewise this Mannor of Orston which shortly after was sold and thereby became the possession of Robert Earl of Kingston and now remains the inheritance of the Right Honourable Henry Marquess of Dorchester
his son and heir Francis was followed in the Earldom of Rutland by his brother George who dying without issue left it to the Right Honourable Iohn the present Earl who was son of Sir George Maunors son of Sir Iohn Maunors second son of Thomas the first Earl of this Family which Sir Iohn married Dorothy the daughter and co-heir of Sir George Vernun of Haddon in the County of Darby from whom that Mannor and divers others are descended to this Earl who together with his Countess Frances the daughter of Edward Lord Mountague of Boughton hath rebuilt this Castle pulled down by Ordinance of Parliament in the Rebellion and made it a Monument of their Magnificence The posterity of Roger Bozon before named continued their possessions here till after that Family was broken into coheirs as in Screâ—eton may be noted and then it was sold and likewise became the inheritance of the said Earl of Kingston and with his Family continueth William Rufus gave this Church with what belonged to it in the time of Edward the Confessour to the Church of St. Mary of Lincoln and Robert the Bishop and all his successours in perpetual possession And the Dean and Chapter of the Cathedral Church of Lincolne still have and of ancient time had the whole Rectory of Orston which was confirmed to them also by William de Albini the first owner of this Lordship of that name 〈◊〉 the Dean and the Chapter of the Church of Lincolne granted five Bovats of Land in the Territory of Horskinton temp Ioh. vel H. 3â— to Robert son of William de Derebi and his heirs paying 10s. a year as in those times was usual The Dean and Chapter 3 E. 3. claimed emendation of the Assize of Bread and Ale broken of their Tenents in Orston and Richard or rather Nicholas de Ros at the same time a Court-Leer in his Mannor of Orston Mr. Iohn Kerchevall holds the Tythes and five Bovats of Land in Lease of the Church of Lincolne as his Ancestors have done he hath two Bovats and ten Oxgangs and some inclosure Freehold Six Oxgangs and two Cottages were sold by his Father Iohn or his Grandfather Hugh to Mr. Welby of Hather There are very many small Freeholders William Malthy hath six Oxgangs Iohn Marshall five Iohn Cliff four ½ Iohn Challon four William Clark three formerly Mr. Kerchevalls Mr. Halford of Weston in Rutland owner of part of Aslacton two ½ Henry Norman two ½ William Wright two Robert Braunston three formerly Beanes c. The Vicarage was 12l. And is now 12l. 4s. 7d. in the Kings Books and the Dean and Chapter of Lincolne Patrons who have Augmented it since the Kings return it serves the Cures of Thorâ—ton and Scarington In Orston Church were Collected by Mr. St. La Kniâ—eton Gules two Cherâ—â—s Or. Azure six Flowers de Lis Or. Gules three Water bougets Arg. Lord Ros. Upon a plain Stone Here lyeth the Body of Iohn Kerchevall foâ— unto Heugh Kerchevall ob 9 Apr. 1597. STaunton lieth in Newark Hundred but a good share of it is a Berew or Hamlet of Orston and payeth all sorts of Duties with it in Bingham Hundred It belonged to the Priory of Haverholme in Lincolneshire but since the dissolution is become the inheritance of Staunton of Staunton and therefore I shall refer it to that place Thoroton Thurverton and Torverton THis Town was ever an Hamlet or Berew of the Soc of Orston the Book of Dooms-day shows that it was assessed or rated to the publick payments of those times as twelve Bovats The Land being before the Conquest esteemed four Carucats When the Survey in the time of King William was taken there was one Sochm sixâ—een Villains one Bord having seven Plows Carucats or Plowlands there was also then a Friest It is most reasonable to conjecture that the posterity of that Sokman or Freeholder as we now call him took their Sirname from this place howbeit the first that I have any good authority to fix any time to certainly was Roger de Thurverton a considerable owner and resident here in the time of King Henry the third who had a son called William de Thurverton living till towards the latter end of the Raign of King Edward the first and another called Roger. William together with his wife Matilda 32 E. 1. did make a demise of certain Lands in Newton to one Raph del Clay of Bingham for twelve years which the said Matilda and Margaret her sister held by right of inheritance which I conclude with very good probability was from Walter de Boyvill their Father who was resident at and owner of some Lands in Torlaston and of the Family of Wariâ—us de Boyvill of Cotgrave for I have only one other Deed which is without date but the Witnesses show it to be about the latter end of Henry the third concerning those demised Lands by which Alesia the daughter of William Bellard of Herdeby gave to Walter de Boyvill her Nephew and his heirs those and some other Lands in Newton and some in Carcolston and a Croft there called Tuâ— Croft reserving to herself 40s. a year for her life The Croft in Carcolston was afterwards called Boyvile-croft and I have a Close there which yet bears the name of Bellard or Bullard Leyes This William de Thurverton out-lived Galfr. his son as I suppose whose son Robert and Marjory his wife passed away some few Acres in Orston by a Deed without date though in the time of Edw. 2. This Robert had a brother called Hugh who in his latter time became a Clergy-man and was Parson of Kilvington whose son Iohn hath on his Seal to his Deed bearing date at Thurverton 1360. which yet remains amongst my own Eviâ—ences A Fesse between three Hunters Horns in imitation I guess of the Family of Otringham in Yorkshire with which there was some intercourse about those times but whether any marriage or no I cannot certainly say This Roberts son was Roger de Thurverton who in the beginning of King Edward the thirds time had to wife one Lecia and was Father of several sons Roger a Clergy-man and Iohn but William de Thurverton was his son and heir who married Agnes one of the daughters and co-heirs of Iohn Morin of Carcolston who was son and heir of Robert Morin of Kilvington and of Ioan his wife eldest daughter and at length co-heir of Oliver de Lovetot Lord of Carcolston by whom inheriring some Lands in Carcolston and Screveton they the said William and Agnes made the latter a dwelling for Richard de Thurverton their son and the 15 R. 2. passed to him their Lands at Kercolston reserving to themselves out of them five Marks per annum during their respective lives Agnes I find was living 1 H. 6. very old which gave further occasion for her posterity to continue their residence at Screveton and so to neglect and diminish their
patrimony here which was done so effectually in a few generations that 13 H. 8. Robert Thoroton then removed to Carcolston where I shall place the whole Descent passed all his Lands and Tenements in the Town and Fields of Thoroton to George Barret his Ancestors having parcelled away a considerable part before His Grandfather Robert Thoroton of Skreveton suffered a recovery of eight Acres here 4 H. 7. to one Thomas Orston Iohn Barret of Horbling in the County of Lincolne about 36 H. 6. married to his second wife Margaret one of the daughters of Thomas Staunton of Staunton in this County of Nott. Esquire this Iohn we suppose to be Grandfather of the before named George Barret as we guess Thomas might be his Father but certain it is that Richard Barret of Thoroton his son married ..... one of the three sisters and heirs of Richard Claxton son of Edmund Claxton of Balderton by whom he increased his Patrimony here and at Oxton in this County and had also his son and heir Richard Barret who to his first wife had Katherin the daughter of Thomas Shipman of Scarâ—ington to his second ..... the daughteâ— of .... Brookesby of Kilbington and to his third Dorothy daughter of ... Bingham By his first he had George Barret of Thoroton who first married Anne Beaâ—mont and after her decease Anne daughter of Iohn Savile of Oxton by whom he had Richard who by Frances daughter of Iohn Owtram of Carcâ—lston his wife Cousin German to my Grandfather Robert Thoroton had my kinsman Thomas Barret the present owner and other Children Richard George Iohn Frances and Anne Johannes Barret de Horbling Com. Linc. -Margareta fil Tho. de Stutton ux secunda Thom. Barret Georgius Barret de Thoroton 13 H. 8. .... fil ..... Pierpoâ—t Rich. Barret de Thoroton 38 H. 8. 4 Eliz. .... fil una 3. cohaer Edm. Claxton Rich. Barret de Thoroton 23 Eliz. -Katherina fil Tho. Shipman ... fil ... Brokesby-Dorothea fil .... â—ingham Georgius Barret 38. Eliz. -Anna fil .... Beaumont-Anna fil Joh. Savile Richardus Barret de Thoroton-Frances fil Joh. Owtram ob 1672. Thom. Barret de Thoroton Richardus Georgius Johannes My Cousin Barret hath about twenty one Oxgangs and I hold the Tythes and Glebe with the third part of the Tythes of Screveton c. by Lease under the Dean and Chapter of Lincolne as a portion or part of the Rectory of Orston which I had of Sir Edward Lake Baronet and he of the Marquess of Dorchester who held during the life of Nicholas Timperley of Norfolk Esquire Here were some Lands given to the Priory of Haverholme the Tenants whereof pay some Rents and Suit the Court-Leet at Staunton sometime belonging to that Priory to which part of a Farm of four Oxgangs also belonged and was bought of William Staunton Esquire by one .... Sprigge it was lately the inheritance of Grace the daughter and heir of William Sudbury of Sutton upon Trent first married to Gilbert Radford my School-master then to William Thâ—rold who died 1658. and left her four sons and a daughter Richard Thorold the eldest married Anne the youngest sister of Thomas Barret but the third husband of that Grace was Iohn Meringe son of William son of Iohn Mering and Dorothy his wife daughter and co-heir of Iohn Smith of Sutton upon Trent afterwards married to Nath. Lodge This Mr. Mering had a son William by this Grace on whom this Farm was settled but she hath since his death married another husband one .... Fancourt in it now dwells Henry Hall the son of Mr. Henry Hall who hath lately sold his Farm of four or five Oxgangs to .... Marriot the rest of the â—reeholders are but very few and very small yet some Land here was belonging to Belvoyr Priory and some very little to Sibthorp Colledge This Church is Dedicated to St. Elena the Queen Scarington THis was also a Berew of Orston and rated to the Dane-geld at two Car. The Land three Car. There the King William had two Plows or Car. and twenty three Villains and four Bordars having five Car. and an half The Chief Court of Orston hath been anciently and is still divided saving that all appear at Orston on St. Thomas day else there have ever been and yet are two distinct Courts kept one now at Screveton for those in Scarington Carcolston and Screveton c. the other at Orston for Orston Thoroton and that neighbouâ—hood that of Screveton in the 19 E. 1. and I believe before that time was kept at Scarington and since too for I have an old Writ by me of 10 E. 3. directed to the Bayliff of Robert de Whatton of Skerington It seems it was purchased of Roger Boson named in Orston by Robert Bardolf and Lora his wife which Robert 33 E. 1. left Amicia his daughter and heir then thirty years old and the wife of Ingeram Belet it was then called the Sâ—k of Scarrington as I have seen it since called the Sok of Screveton at lengâ—h it returned again to the Lords of Orston with whom it continues It was together with that fourth part of a Knights Fee mentioned in Orston which William de Audeley had here Roger de Whattons in the 27 E. 1. who was younger brother of Sir Richard de Whatton Knight which Roger was then called de Skerington and had married Ioan the relict of Robert Moryn one of the three sisters and co-heirs of Iohn son of Oliver de Lovetot of Carcolston named before in Thoroton by whom he had Lands and a son called Richard de Wâ—atton who married Agnes daughter and one of the co-heirs of Alice who had been the wife of Iohn le Palmer of Nottingham before spoken of in Wiverton by which Agnes the said Richard de Whatton had parcells of Land in Bingham Wiverton and Titheby formerly the possessions of Sir Richard de Wiverton Knight All which together with a considerable part of his other inheritance were by Fines 10 H. 5. and after 2 H. 6. by Margaret who had been the wife of Sir William Bagot Knight and sister and heir of Robert Whatton passed to Margaret who had been the wife of Sir Thomas de Rempston Knight and her heirs viz. the Mannor of Skeryngton with the Appurtenances eighteen Mess. one Toft forty six Bovaâ—s of Land one hundred and forty Acres of Medow 13l. 4s. and 8d. ob Rent the Rent of a pair of Gloves and three grains of Pepper in Skerington Bingham Kercolston Wiverton Tytheby Kneveton Aslacton and Whatton Iohn de Knyveton and Agnes his wife held one part and â—oyce de Plumton another for life there is mention also of Maud and Margery after whose decease all should come to the said Iohn and Agnes if they chanced to over-live the said Ioyce Maud and Margery for their lives the Reversion to the Lady Bagot who conveyed it to the Lady Rempston before named who it seems had a
son besides Sir Thomas Rempston called Robert Rempston Esquire who died seized of these Lands about 16 E. 4. Thomas Cheyne Esquire then aged above twenty six and Isabella Stapleton aged fifty years being at that time his Cousins and heirs I cannot learn what relation this Iohn Knyveton and Agnes his wife had to these Whattons but I perceive 2 H. 4. there was a recovery of these Lands wherein they were parties The 10 H. 4. there was one which was the Execuâ—ion of a Fine levied Hill 4 R. 2. between Robert Skipwith son of Iohn de Whatton and Alice his wife Complainants and Robert Smyth of Bautre Deforcient of the Mannor of Skerington and the very same Lands And again 11 H. 4. In the division of Rempstons Lands between Stapleton and Cheyne this Mannor it seems was of Stapletons part for 4 H. 8. Thomas Stapleton and Elizabeth his wife suffered a recovery of it and it was not long after in the Family of Eltoft of Knottingley in Yorkshire but continued not there for Thomas Shypman 9 Eliz. suffered a recovery of it and called to warrant Edmund Eltofts Esquire Thomas Shipman was son of Richard and had by Isabell Hutchinson his wife three sons Richard Thomas and William Richard â—by Elizabeth Bruntz his wife had Elizabeth Shipman who carried this Mannor to Gervase Armstrong her husband a younger brother of the house of Rempston and the most excellent in Hawking Hunâ—ing Fishing and Fowling that ever I knew He married a second wife Fortune Pacy and by her had very many children whereof George his eldest reproved a vile Parliament Souldier for Swearing and Cursing and was by him stab'd to death and left two daughters and heirs by his wife .... the daughter of ... Aufeild afterwards married to Captain William Warburton one of them is now the wife of Richard â—anes and the other of .... Parker who inherit the Tythes and six Oxgangs of Land and two little Closes and one called Haverhâ—lme or Hareham Close in Aslacton by Scarrington But by his first wife the said Elizabeth Shipman the sad Gervase had Thomas Armstrong who married Mary Enderby by whom he had Gervase bred abroad beyond the Seas and divers other children Willielmus Shipman de Scarrington 4 H. 8. defunct 16 H. 8. Willielmus Shipman defunct 31 H. 8 -Magareta Richardus Shipman 38 H. 8. Thom. Shipman de Scarrington-Isabella fil .... Hutchinson Rich. Shipman-Elizab fil Bruntz Elizab. Shipman sola haer -Gerv Armstrong-Fortuna Pacy ux 2. Tho. Armstrong-Maria fil ... Enderby Gervasius Georgius Armstrong .... fil Awfeild -Will Warburton marit 2. ... ux Parker ux Rich. Janes Will. Tho. -Maria Ellis Willielmus-Joana fil .... Hall Thom. Shipman-Philippa fil cohaer Jo. North de Lowdham Elizab. fil Kendall -Will.-Sara fil .... Parker Alderm de Nott. ux 2. Thom. Shipman -Marg fil ... Trafford Trafford Shipman Willielmus Thom. Will. Gerv. Johan Anna c. Edw. Margareta to whom this Mannor doth still belong Richard Shipman Father of the first named Thomas was son of William Shipman of Scarrington and had also a son named William Father of Thomas Shipman who was a very prudent man and raised a fair Estate he married Philippa one of the daughters and co-heirs of Iohn North of Lowdham by whom he had several children To .... his daughter married to Richard Marshall of Brandon in the County of Lincolne he gave a great deal yet left his son and heir William Shipman a considerable Estate here and in Aslacton with the Rectory of Whatton and Lands in other places as Flintham Torlaston Carcolston c. Some of the Lands lying in the Territories of Scarrington and Aslacton which are much intermixed were heretofore the inheritance of a Family who had their name from this place of which I have seen three or four Descents Roger father of Iohn father of Iohn father of Roger de Skerington who lived in the time of Edward the third and of a third Iohn also and some others It seems to me that Nicholas de Leek of Scarrington had this Land in the time of Henry the fourth and that afterwards it was Binghams of Carcolston There were some Lands likewise purchased of the Cranmers of Aflacton This William Shipman to his first wife had Elizabeth the daughter of ... Kendall of Smithesby by whom he had two daughters his second wife was Sara daughter of ... Parker Alderman of Nott by whom he had many children Thomas Shipman his eldest son a good Poet and one of the Captains of the Trained Bands of this County the present owner married Margaret the daughter of .... Trafford Esquire who brought him a good inheritance at Bulcote about three miles distant settled upon her by her Grandfather Simon Wood whose daughter and heir Margaret was her mother she hath born him several sons The Tythes of Scarrington part of the Rectory of Orston are held by Mr. Thomas Porter of Blyth to whose father old Mr. Hugh Kerchevall sold his interest in them by Lease as he did in two Oxgangs of Glebe belonging to them to William Oliver who had also Free-hold here now sold to Thomas Castledine The present occupant of the Tythes is Thomas Ialland who married my sister Mary and hath a pretty Free-hold here and in Aslacton and Carcolston his Cousin Will. Ialland or Chalon hath a Farm likewise the rest of the Freeholders are not considerable In Scarrington Church was Collected by Mr. St. Lo Kniveton Gules a Bend Ermine betwixt six Bezaunts Arg. the first Quarter Ermine A Crosse Gules Carcolston IN Coleston of the Soc of Orston Ancient Demesne the Land of King Edward the Confessour there was a portion rated to the Danegeld at four Bovats and four Acres The Land was then esteemed to be one Carucat There in King Williams time were five Sochmen or Free-holders who had one Carucat and an half four of these five Sochmen whereof I am for one my self remain visible at this day the Land of the fifth hath been long dispersed into several hands That Carucat and half in Doomsday by a Rental of Orston renewed 16 H. 8. appears to be above nine score Acres of which the heirs of Thomas Cheyney named in Scarington whose Land was formerly Whattons and descended from the Family of Cheyney which had it by inheritance from that of Rempston to William Lord Vaux of Harrowdon who 8 Eliz. sold it to William Alvey held thirty nine Acres Richard Whalley formerly the Leeks and before them Kirktons forty four Acres Richard Bingham now Mr. Bromes thirty six Acres and Robert Thoroton thirty two ½ the chief Rents of them respectively amounts to 2d. an Acre the fifth share is now amongst Dr. Brunsell William Arnall and Thomas Wilford and some others But the principal Mannor in Colesâ—on was the Fee of Roger de Busli which Vlviet had before the Conquest rated to the publick payment of the Dane-geld at six Bovats and one Acre The Land
being then returned to be five Carucats There afterwards Roger the Man or Tenent of Roger de Busli had two Carucats in Demelne thirteen Sochm. three Vill. seven Bordars having eight Plows or Carucats there was seventeen Acres of Medow This in the Confessours time was valued at 30s. in the Conquerours at 40s. Another Mannor here was which Tori Lord of Aslacton and many other Towns in this and other Counties had in which he was succeeded after the Normans came by Walterus de Ayencurt whose Fee it was and whose Man or Tenent Walchelin who held Aslacton also of him held it being rated to the Tax at two Bovats and an half and one Acre The Land one Carucat Here one Bordar plowed one Bovat and here was three Acres of Medow this was 10s. value in the Confessours time when the Conquerour took his Survey but 5s. That Roger before named who held that of Roger de Buslies Fee here held several very considerable Mannors of him in this County besides this viz. at Flintham Wisoe Gresthorp Normanton Clifton below Newark Tireswell Gringley Walkringham and Wirksop as the Book of Doomsday manifesteth in all which he was succeeded in the time of King Henry the first by William de Luvetot a very great man who by the consideration and consent of Emme his wife and their children which Emme I therefore conjecture was heir of that Roger did amongst the rest of the Churches of his Demesne of the honour of Blyth the Seat of the said Roger de Busli give this Church of Coleston to the Priory of Radford by Wirksop which he then Founded and besides his other endowments gave to it the tenth penny of all his set Rents both in Normandy and England Richard de Luvetot son of the said William the Founder by the consent of his own son and heir William confirmed and inlarged his Fathers gifts as here in Colestun the Church and two Bovats of his Demesne with one dwelling house In Wyshou also two Bovats of his Demesne and the like which Matilda de Lovetot daughter and heir of the latter William and wife of Gerard de Furnivalle also confirmed Yet the first William de Lovetot had another son besides Richard called Nigellus whose Barony lay in Huntingtonshire having only five Knights Fees of the Honour of Blyth added to it as by the Red Book in the Exchequer is manifest which five Knights Fees in this County lay all on this South side the River Trent And the said Richard and his posterity who had also Sheffeild and Halomshire in the County of York inherited only those Lordships of the first William Lord Lovetots which lay on the North side that River in this County of which Wirksop was the chief which accordingly descended through the Lords Furnivalls Nevill and Talbots Earls of Shrowsbury to the present Duke of Norfolk as in Wirksop more particularly will be declared Nigellus de Lovetot had his Seat at Wishou as in the Notes concerning that place may be observed as also the confirmations both of himself and of his sons as particularly that of his son Richard who by the consent of his brethren Roger Nigellus Robert and William de Lovetot his other sons confirmed the gifts of his and their ancestors to the said Priory of St. Cuthbert at Radford by Wirksop to which Robert de Lovetot who it seems had his residence here so as to be called of Coleston by the consent of Hugh his heir gave the Church of Coleston and the whole Village or Town of Sloswiâ— His next successour here whom I suppose son of Hugh was Robert de Lovetot who held a Knights Fee in Carcolinston of the honour of Tikhill whose son and heir was Oliver de Lovetot who had a son called Iohn who died about 26 E. 1. seized of this Mannor or Capital Messuage and Lands in Flintham c. leaving his three sisters his heirs Ioan first married to Robert Morin of Kilvington and then to Roger de Whatton called in several Records Roger de Skerington from his interest or residence there at that time having that Mannor of Scarington Isabell the second sister wife of Ranulf Morin and Alice the youngest then wife of William Morin The said Roger de Skerington and Ioan his wife and the rest of the said sisters and heirs of the said Iohn de Lovetot with their said husbands did homage and had Livery of their Lands 27 E. 1. and divided them and 28 E. 1. paid Relief for a Knights Fee here held of the honour of Thekill To Roger de Whatton King Edward the second committed the Mannor of Kesclingbury which was Warinus de Insula's and the Rent which Iohn de Insula had there being forfeited for Rebellion but upon the said Iohns making Fine to the King he had order to deliver it back the same year viz. 16 E. 2. so that I suppose neither he nor his posterity was much the richer for it His interest here which he had by the division of this Mannor went with Scarrington in which share happened to be some of the Lands of Deincourts Fee also which descending to Cheyney as in Scarrington may be observed came amongst others to William Vaux Lord Harowdon before named who 20 Ian. 8 Eliz. sold it being three Closes and twelve Oxgangs of Land to William Alvey for 161l. 13s. 4d. who settled it on Robert Alvey his younger brother whose son Robert Alvey sold two Medow Closes of which his said Father had good share at the inclosure of this Lordship whereof he is said to have been a principal promoter to Robert Earl of Kingston which are now the Marquess of Dorchesters And his son the third Robert Alvey sold about half the remaining part to Henry Sherwin of Nott. and not many years after viz. about 1669. the rest to Isaac Hodgekin of London Vintner Ranulf Morin who married Isabella de Lovetot the second of the co-heirs had a son named Iohn and he one called Thomas Morin of Carcolston Willielmus de Luvetot fundator de Wirksop temp H. 1 -Emma Nigellus de Luvetot 7 H. 2. lib. râ—br 12 H. 2 -Margareta Robertus de Coleston Hugo de Lovetot haer Roberti Robertus de Lovetot Dom. de Coleston Oliverus de Lovetot de Carcolston-Alicia Joh. de Lovetot ob 26 E. 1. s. p. Rob. Morin marit 1 -Joana-Rog de Whatton de Skerington dict Johannes Morin de Carcolston Joana Morin Agnes fil haer Rich. de Whatton Isabel. ux Ranulfi Morin Alesia ux Will. Morin Radulphus Willielmus Nigellus Rogerus Rich. de Lovetot Nigellus ult Baro. ut in Wishou -Rogerus de Thurverton Will. de Thurverton-Matilda fil cohaer Walteri de Boyvill ut suppon Galfridus de Thurverton Hugo Johannes 1360. Robertus Rogerus de Thurverton -Lecia John Morin-Will de Thurverton Richardus de Thurverton-Christiana Johannes de Thurverton-Joana-Simon de Bredsale marit 2. Robertus de Thoroton de
Screveton Johannnes Thoroton ob 1513 -Alicia-Johannes Brocock marit 2. Robertus Thoroton de Carcolston ob 4 E. 6 -Margareta fil .... Bingham ut suppon -Joana.-Emota Robertus Thoroton de Carcolston ob 3 Mariae-Agnes relicta Roberti Kellum-Henr Ward marit 3. Robertus Thoroton obiit 1604 -Maria fil Ric. Owtram Robertus Thoroton ob 1646 -Dorothea fil .... Olney Robertus Thoroton aetat 71. 1672. ob Feb. 15. 1673 -Anna fil Petri Chambers Robertus Thoroton de Carcolston in Med. Doctor hujus libri Author aetat 49. 1672 -Anna fil Gilberti Boun serv. ad legem Anna aet 23. 1673 -Philippus fil Philippi fil Will. Sherard Baronis le Trim. Philip Thorotonus Sherard natus in festo Sim. Jud. 1674. Johannes Turner de Swanwick in Com. Derb. -Elizabetha aet 18. 1672. Richardus Gervasius Rich. Joh. Thom. Tho. aet 9. 1672. Thom. aet 57. 1672. Walterus Thom. Johannes Rogerus Apprenticius 7 H. 5. Nicolaus Capellanus Rogerus Capellanus Johannes Richardus de Luvetot-Cecilia Will. de Lovetot-Matild Matild de Lovetot â—ola haer ut in Wirksop -Gerard de Furnivalle And William who had to wife Ales the youngest of those co-heirs had by her Robert Morin Lord of Kilvington but further I find not of them for Iohn de Gloucester son of Roger and Nephew of Henry the Clergy-man who had also a share in the Mannor of Sutton upon Trent was possessed of the greatest part of this Mannor of Carcolston by purchase I suppose in the former part of the Reign of King Edward the third as by the Fine in Wishou 11 E. 3. and 13 E. 3. between Lovetot and Willughby and by Evidences in my own and several of my Neighbours hands appeareth and with that Family of Gloucestre continued till the time of King Henry the seventh Henry de Gloucester being the last that I have met with who suffered a recovery of this Mannor and Sutton upon Trent 20 H. 7. There is a broken window in the East end of the North I le of this Church wherein was left Agnetis Will Mering Militis and the Arms which I guessed to be Gloucesters Sable a Chevron between two Martlets and a Crosse croslet Botony Fitchy Arg. which makes me conclude that Sir William Meringe Knight married Agnes the heir female of this house and the rather because upon his Grandchild Sir William Merings marriage with Margaret the daughter of Thomas Cave of Stanford 38 H. 8. this Mannor and Sutton amongst the rest were to be settled and the 4 and 5 Ph. Mar. Sir William Meringe by fine passed it to Edwarâ—â—yfeild and he by another Fine 7 Eliz. to Robert Bulby which Robert or Nicolas Bulby or both conveyed it to Richard Whalley of Screveton Esquire towards the latter part of Queen Elizabeths Reign who having near about that time viz. 38 Eliz. bought of Sir Francis Willoughby of Wollaton and Dorothy his wife for the summ of 220l. another Mannor then in Lease to Richard Owtram and Dorothy his wife and Iohn their son for their respective lives at the Rent of 4l. 13s. 7d. per annum and inheriting some other Lands here from his Ancestors he prevailed with the rest of the owners though they were neither very few nor very inconsiderable to inclose the Fields after which I do not find that either lie or they or any of them ever found any great improvement in their fortunes or conditions though the Rents were much increased nor have their posterity much reason to brag most of them having resigned their shares to new purchasers Mr. Whalleyes being together with Hawkesworth and Flintham Grange made Collateral security for the quiet enjoyment of Sibthorp which he sold not well freed from incumbrances it seems became by that means at length the inheritance of the Earl of Newcastle who being driven out of the Kingdom in the time of the late Rebellion his son the Lord Maunsfeild with others his Trustees sold all the said Lands and many others towards payment of debts and raising portions whereby Peniston Whalley Esquire Grandson and heir of the said Richard became purchaser of the Mannor and those Lands on the East part of the Lordship which lie before and behind his house as Francis Hacker did of those lying in the West part towards Bingham which latter parcel belonging to Willoughbys Mannor was by the Kings favour upon his return Col. Fr. Hacker then proving Attaint restored and still remains the inheritance of his Grace the now Duke of Newcastle who during his life enjoies Mr. Whalleys part also Richard Whalley his Grandfather before named sold the Sites of both these Mannors That of Willoughbyes which is called the Hall-Close to Mr. Brome it lying near his house The other which was Bulbyes and lies over the way North from the Church is through many hands come to Thomas Wilford the present owner The said Mr. Whalley sold likewise several Messuages and some Lands to .... Thurbarne or Fairbarne he to ... Lathom he to Mr. Shipman of Scarrington whose Grandchild hath sold them to Richard Porter of Bingham the present owner William son of William of Coleston called Lord or Loverd held half a Knights Fee of the honour of Tikhill but immediately of the Lovetots of Wisoe Roger de Lovetoth who was High Sheriff of these Counties 39 H. 3. c. did release by his Deed without date to William de Colliston for the summ of 20s. the Suit of Court to Wisho from three weeks to three weeks which he ought for that be held of him in Colleston reserving his attendance there only twice a year upon summons timely given to him and his heirs at the Court next after Michaelmas and that after Easter to which were Witnesses Robert de Torlaston Iohn Barry of the same Simon de Aslacton Henry de Houtheâ—p Nicholas de Schiventon Robert de Rempston Robert de Lovetoth of Colleston Oliver his son Roger de Fanecourt William de Sceflet c. William son of William de Colleston married Alice the daughter of Sir Robert de Burstall Knight and had many children Raph Mr. Iohn Robert and others In 16. R. 2. I find that which was Robert Loreds to be Edmund Willughbyes which Family I suppose obtained it about the time or shortly after that Sir Iohn de Lovetot had sold his interest in Wishou which was confirmed by Robert de Lovetot his son 31 E. 3. to Sir Richard de Willughby the elder the great advanter of that Family with which this Mannor continued till Mr. Whalley bought it as before is mentioned Sir Iohn de Lovetot the elder Father of Iohn before named and brother of the said Roger the Sheriff by his Deed not dated on the Seal whereof within the circumscription of his name is his Image on horse-back in a long Coat with his Sword drawn in his right hand and upon his Shield on his left arm a Lyon Rampant and likewise upon the cloathing of his horse passed to
William de Weston Rector of Kercolston a Messuage lying between the Parsonage and the common Moor or Green which the said Parson who was son of Sir Richard de Weston Knight settled upon Mr. Iohn the son of William Lord before named and 30 E. 1. ten Acres more on the said Mr. Iohn and Alice his wife Iohn son of Mr. Iohn had a son called Robert who married Agnes the daughter of Iohn de Scarrington and after her one named Margaret after whose decease and his own these Lands were estated on Iohn Lord of Eyleston and Alice his wife who had a daughter and heir called Margaret married to Hugh Wymbish who 25 H. 6. gave this Mess. and all his Lands in this Town of the Sok of Orston to Iohn Arnall and Elizabeth his wife and the heirs of Iohn whose heir male William Arnall still enjoyes it Willielmus Arnall 2 H. 5. Johannes Arnall 14 H. 6 -Elizabetha Willielmus Arnall Johannes Arnall Willielmus Arnall Richardus Arnall Willielmus Arnall Willielmus Arnall Willielmus Arnall-Alicia fil Tho. Kirk Will. Arnall â—t 1672 -Maria fil ... Thompson Anna â—â— 16â—2 Maria Ric. Joh. Thom. Greg. Who succeeded Walkelin before spoken of in that Mannor which was of the Fee of Walter de Ayencurâ— immediately I cannot say Iordan de Coleston held it by the Service of half a Knights Fee and his son Gilbert after him who had a daughter named Aâ—ice and certain sons one named Roger but no mention is further made of his posterity that I can find but of the heirs of Gilbert de Carcolston in general Oliver de Lovetots wife was Alice and most of the Lands of that Fee were amongst his as by thâ—t share which Roger de Whatton had and at length came to the Lord Vaux may in some other place be noted however it is evident that several persons of note had interest here very anciently Robert de Somerville Lord of Oxton whose two daughters and heirs were married to Walter de Strelley and Hugo de Capella as in that Town will be shown confirmed to Robert son of Randolf de Colston the Land which his said Father Randolf had viz. Ketellescroft the greatest piece of old inclosure in the whole Lordship heretofore banked on the sides with broad Walks and lying near the Capital Messâ—age or Mannor house to which it doth still belong and an Oxgang of Land which was Tokes for which the said Robert de Somerville was to have the yearly Rent of six shillings and four Capons of the said Robert son of Randolf whose Step-mother Hawisia was to hold Ketelcroft for her life and to pay her Son-in-law 2s. and two Capons yearly Philip de Paunton Knight gave to Thurgarton to sustain the Pitance of the Canons there 15s. and six Capons yearly Rent of William son of Reginald de Kercolston and 3s. and two Capons of William son of Lâ—cia of the same with their Homages Services Wards and Reliefs c. Some of the Demeâ—ne and some of the Tenements likewise which belonged to this Mannor were of the Soc of Orston and lay in Screveton as partly appears by a Fine levied in the Court of Roger de Boun or Bozon at Screveton being that which belongs to Orston wherein divers Fines have been levied by the Kings Writ as this was 41 H. 3. And the High Sheriff before spoken of Roger de Lovetot and four other Knights viz. Adam de Novomercato Henry de Bec Roger de Alneto and Raph de Charnels came accordingly to see right fully held by the said Writ between Roger de Fanecourt of Coleston and Robert son of Thomas and Thomas son of the said Robert of Screveton concerning a Toft and two Bovats of Land excepting one Acre in Screvetoâ— which after their disavowing they acknowledged to yold of the said Roger and then agreed to increase the old Rent of 3s. 4d. per annum to 4s. which is the only Chief Rent now left to this Mannor and is paid by Richard Howytt who is also to appear at Orston Court on St. Thomas day only by the said Fine Sir Gerard de Fanecourt Knight who held in many other places Lands of Deyncourts Fee and was a great Benefactor to Thurgarton Priory to which he gave the Rents Homages Services Wards and Reliefs of divers of the Tenents of this Mannor both in Screveton and this Town exchanged it with Oliver de Lovetot for his Lands in Hickling which he also gave to the same place as in that Town is manifested Cecilia married to Walter Cuily Laderina the wife of William Tesserand Elizabeth and Amicia the four daughters and heirs of Hugo de Capella in 6 E. 1. recovered their seism of five Tofts six Bovats 6s. 4d. Rent and two Capons in Screveton Kercolston Herdeby Hertewell and Everton and William de Stokes and Brian de Herdeby were amerced and against Oliver de Lovetot 3s. and two Capons Rent in the same Towns Oliver de Lovetot settled the Capital Messuage with Garden and Dove-coat and all the Lands he had of the said Sir Gerard de Fanecourt in this Town and out of it also viz. one Mess. one Cottage and four Bovats of Land c. in Screveton with all their Appurtenances on Ioan his daughter and the heirs of her body lawfully begotten in which Deed he mentions a Custom of making a Feast every third Christmas which it seems the three Mannors did by turns and had several Lands which contributed thereto by their tenure This Ioan the eldest daughter of Oliver de Lovetot was married to Robert Morin of Kilvington as before is said and by him had a son called Iohn Moryn and other children Robert and Emme and the 22 E. 1. was a widow she continued not long so for to her second husband she had Roger de Whatton before spoken of who 19 E. 2. passed all the Lands he held in Kercolston and Screveton by the Law or Courtesie of England after the decease of Ioan Morin his quondam wife to her son Iohn son of Robert Morin of Kilvington which she the said Ioan had of the gift and Feoffment of Oliver de Lovetot Those Lands she had by inheritance from her brother he made a shift to secure to his own posterity The Jury in 10 E. 2. found it not to the Kings loss if he granted licence to Raph son of Henry de Kilvington and to Alice his wife to give or enfeoff Richard son of Roger de Whatton in two Mess. fifty eight Acres of Land sixteen of Medow and 28s. Rent with the Appurtenances in Kercolston held of the honour of Tikhill Iohn Morin lived here most of his time which gave this place the name of Moryn-hall â—he 14 E. 3. infeoff'd Raph de Bredon a Clergy-man and Richard son of Thomas of Carcolston in all his Lands here and at Screveton and Alverton to which Deed as to divers others of his the Seal is Quarterly the
first and fourth party per pale deeply indented on the second and third each a Flower de Lis. His said feoffees 23 E. 3. settled those Lands on him the said Iohn Morin for his life afterwards to his daughters and heirs Ioane and Agnes and the heirs of their bodies Agnes was married to William son of Roger de Thurverton with whom continuing at Thoroton they both 15 R. 2. passed their estate here to Richard their son then dwelling at Screveton reserving five Marks per annum Rent during their respective lives as in Thoroton is already said This place became ruinous by the absence of the owners who continued their residence at Screveton for the most part Richards son was Iohn who lived at Thoroton 9 H. 6. and 16 H. 6. and had interest in the Tythes there belonging to the Church of Lincolne but his son Robert Thoroton was most at Screton for he together with Ioane the then relict of Simon de Bredsale whom I suppose his mother 3 E. 4. demised this Moryn-hall in Carcolston to William Arnall for eight years So that neither this Robert nor his son Iohn â—hough I find them both sometimes said to be of Carcolston were constant here but Robert the son of Iohn Thoroton 10 H. 8. conveyed this Morin-hall to Henry Bingham and others for a joynâ—ure for Margaret his wife and made it habitable by laying Thatch upon the Slates where any were left in which Condition it descended to me Robert Thoroton who in the year 1666. part of it being not to be mended pulled it down and built it new not in the very same place but a little North-west-ward to joyn it to a Messuage in old time called Toke place which in the time of Henry the third was Sir Roger de Alneto's and remained to his son Roger de Launey 23 E. 1. and lasted in that name till 12 H. 4. that Roger Launey and Maud his wife passed it with another less one to William Arnall whose son and heir William passed it away to Robert Gourton and his â—on Iohn 13 H. 7. to Robert Wilkinson his son Richard 2 H. 8. to Thomas Bowdon Otwell Bawdin 1 E. 6. to Iohn Brandreth whose son Christopher gave it 40 Eliz. to his son Thomas and he to his brother Roger who sold it in King Iames his time to my Grandfather Robert Thoroton and I have sold part of the Lands with some other of our old inheritance to Samuel Brunsell D. D. Rector of Bingham who hath also bought a Mess. and certain Lands of William Kirke which in the time of Richard the second were Robert Chaworths and lasted in that Family three or four Descents where the said Doctor hath built a Brick-house being very near Screton Church of which he was also Rector At the South-west-end of the Town lying next Bingham is scituate a Mess. which in the time of Edward the first was the dwelling place and inheritance of Iohn in le Willughes and continued in that name two or three Descents more There were Covenants 4 E. 3. made between the last Iohn in the Willughes who had then to wife Anneys ... and William his son and heir on the one part and Richard de Strouxton on the other to whom this was conveyed but not long after was the Binghams In the year 1392. 16 R. 2. Maud the relict of Thomas de Bingham of Kercolston passed her interest in all the Lands which were of the gift of Robert son of Iohn in the Willows which Robert was Parson of Freton in Norfolk to Raph son of Thomas de Bingham Tho. de Bingham 39 E. 3. 11 R. 2 -Matilda Rad. Bingham de Carcolston 6 R. 2. 1 H. 6 -Elizabetha Johannes Bingham 3 E. 4. ob 1488. Thom Bingham defunct 19 E. 4 -Mageria-Joh Bell mar 2. Richardus Bingham 8 H. 7. 10 H. 8. Thom. Bingham de Carcolston 26 H. 8 -Agnes Johannes Bingham de Glaston in Com. Rutland 2 Eliz. Henricus Willielmus 2 H. 7. Henricus 10 H. 8. Willielmus Johan senior Johan junior This Raph had two brothers both named Iohn whereof one might possibly be the Father of Sir Richard Bâ—ngham the Judge who was very much concerned in all the affairs of this Family in his time 3 E. 4. He passed these Lands to Iohn son and heir of Raph in whose posterity they lasted till they were purchased by William Henson alias Hall in the beginning of Queen Elizabeths time to which William Iohn Bingham of Glaston in the County of Rutland 2 Eliz. was bound in 300l. to perform certain Covenants Gregory Henson his son and heir lived to see the Lordship inclosed and his own only son William Henson buried at the age of twenty six years May 4. 1604. unmarried but his daughter called Alice he married to Gervase Annesley of Ruddington who left only daughters by her so that the said Gregory Henson married her again to Thomas Brome of Caunton and intailed all these Lands on Henson Brome and Gregory Brome her sons except a Close called Boresmore which he gave to the poor and anoâ—her called Sharp-close which he gave to the Church of Carcolston Henson Brome died before his Parents a batchelor Gregory his brother married Mary the daughter of William Palmer of Soâ—thwell Esquire by whom he hath left a son Gregory too now almost of full age 1672. to inherit the Estate being with the fore-mentioned Hall-close and Pilkinton's Farm which also lay near the house and was purchased by the said Gregory Henson a very pretty Seat Besides these there was at the inclosure of this Lordship William Tenman whose Lands since passed through several owners .... Wilford and ..... Hamerton till at length they were purchased by Iohn Machin and Mr. Edward Winter Vicar of this Church and divided between them chiefly by the Lane called Tenman Lane which leads to the Fosse way from the Town Mr. Winter's whose father Robert Winter was Vicar here also and a forward man at the inclosure having married the widow of ... Ward a Free-holder remain to his son Edward but Iohn Machin's is parcelled away one Close by the Fosse way being sold by his son Lancelot to whom he gave it to the said Mr. Porter of Bingham and the next to it by Edward his Grandchild son of his son Robert to Thomas Wilford who had to his first wife Ellen the relict of Iames Iohnson Vicar here and by that maâ—ch was better enabled to purchase that Wards Land which he did of ... Flint who went into New-England Mr. Iohnson was between the two Mr. Winters and the most famous Countrey Schoolmaster of his time he wrote a Book of Epigrams in Latine Printed at London by Iohn Beale 1615. Thomas Wilford hath also purchased the Site of the principal Mannor of one Henry Willmâ—t where was a House which Mr. Whalley made of the materials of the Parsonage house and intended as the people of that time reported for an house of Correction which the said Thomas
four Mess. and ten Acres of Land here which ought Service from three weeks to three weeks to this Court. It continued to the posterity of this Simon which may be more particularly noted in Sibthorp though I do not exactly find how long There was a Recovery suffered 4 E. 4. of the Mannor of Stanton on the Wolds which also did belong to this Family of Sibthorp and this Mannor of Hoxworth which William Leybourn the younger claimed against Sir William Chaworth Thomas Nevill Esquire and Iohn his son and heir Iohn Metheley and Iohn Staynton There was another 14 H. 8. wherein Amon Sutton Robert Sutton Vincent Grantham and Nicholas Sutton claimed against Thomas Blesby and Katherin his wife one of the daughters and heirs of Richard Dysney then dead the moyety of five Mess. two Tofts one Windmill one hundred Acres of Land sixty Acres of Medow and one hundred Acres of Pasture with the Appurtenances in Hawkesworth and Denthorp and the moyety of the Advowson of the Church of Hawkesworth Here was William Wymbish and Iohn his son after him and William his Grandchild lived in the time of Edward the third and here were likewise some Descents of Grants Robert le Graunt paid the Priory of Thurgarton for a Toft Croft and three Bovats of Land 30s. a year when all their Revenue here amounted but to 55s. 0d. ob in the year 1328. Raph de Handelby before 17 E. 1. made a Chartel to Mr. Robert called de Belver Rector of the Church of Moston and his heirs of one Mess. four Bov. ½ of Land in Houkesworth Raph son of Peter and his three Partners are said to hold of Gilbert de Gaunt a Knights Fee in Hokesworth and Adam de Novo Mercaâ—o paid for three Fees of that Honour in the time of Henry the third in Whatton Aslacton and Hokesworth Queen Elizabeth 14 Iuly in the third year of her Reign granted to Richard Whalley Esq and his heirs the Demesnes and Mannors of Whatton Hawkesworth and Tawton and the Advowson of the Rectory and Church of Hawkesworth late parcell of the Possessions of Sir Maurice Dennys Knight with all the Mess. Lands and Tenements to them belonging Mr. Whalleys interest here went to the Duke of Newcastle and is now become the Possession of Mr. Robert Butler What belonged to the Colledge of Rotheram here Mr. Whalley had also as in Sibthorp will be noted There was a good share was Mr. Grices a London Taylor which is now sold to Mr. Iohn Hacker of Flintham One Thomas Barret hath a Freehold the rest are not considerable In the ninth of King Iohn William de S. Paulo claimed against the Prior of Thurgarton the Advowson of the Church of Hawkesworth The Prior showed the Charter of Confirmation of Roger late Arch-bishop of York that they should have it to their own uses but the Canons of the Hospital of St. Katherin Lincolne pleaded that they had the Charter of Alexander Father of William of the same Church The Rectory of Hawkesworth was 10l. when the Prior of Thurgarton and Mr. Mydleson were Patrons 'T is now 8l. 13s. 9d. in the Kings Books and Mr. Robert Butler Patron Over the entrance into the Porch in a Stone is Engraven Gauterus uxor ejus Cecelina fecerunt facere Ecclesiam istam in honorem Domini nostri Iesu Beatae Mariae virginis omnium Sanctorùm Dei simul In the Windows is Gules on a Bend Arg. 3. Crosse Crosletts Azure Gules a Lion Rampant Arg. over all a Bend Azure charged with three Escallops Or Mydleton of Fulbek Com. Linc. Sibthorp Arg. on a Saltier engrailed Sable five Annulets Or Leek Arg. three Birdbolts Gules Bozom In the Chancell about the year 1659. was buried Robert Rockhold the most ingenious Rector of this place aged about 60 years A Batchelor and a great example of Piety Charity and Eloquence Aslacton TOri before the Conquest whose Lands were afterwards Walter de Ayncurts had a Mannor in Aslactune which was rated to the Tax for one Car. The Land was three Car. There Walchelin the Man or Tenant of Walter de Aincurt had two Car. and one Sochm. on one Bovat of this Land six or seven Vill. two Bord. with one Car. ½ and twenty four Acres of Medow This kept the old value 30s. having Soc in Hochesword Another Mannor with Soc and Sac had Leving which discharged it self to the Dane-geld for one Bovat The Land was half a Car. After the Conquest Vluric held it of Ilbert de Lacy whose Fee it became and there had two Oxen plowing two Sochm. one Bord. having half a Car. and eight Acres of Medow This kept the value also which it had in the Confessours time viz. 5s. 4d. Another Mannor here was of the Tainland which Levric had before the Normans came and discharged it likewise to the publick Geld for one Bov. The Land was four Bov. Vluric held it afterwards of King William and there had two Oxen in Plow and two Sochm. one Bord. with half a Car. there was likewise eight Acres of Medow and it kept the old value 5s. 4d. In Aslacton was some ancient Demesne of the Soc of Orston the Kings Mannor as much as was rated to the Geld at one Bov. There was one Villain In Haslacheton was there likewise of the Soc of Whatton of the Fee of Gislebert de Gand which used to be rated to the Geld for half a Car. The Land was one Car. and an half There nine Sochm. had four Plows or Carucats This part it seems had the preheminence to carry the Tythes or else the nearness of that Church made the rest of the Lords less careful to get one of their own and so the whole Township hath been ever esteemed in Whatton Parish and the Church interest except that little of Orston went with that Rectory in the time of Henry the second to the Abby of Wellebek to which Henry Crok son and heir of Walter Crok of Aslacton gave the Homage and Service of Mr. Raph son of Mr. Richard for two Oxgangs of Land in Aslacton and of divers others and also divers other Lands Another part was held by the Family which took their name from Button near Nottingham in the Wapenâ—ac or Hundred of Thurgarton called Burton Iorz and is still distinct from the rest and now in the tenure of Mr. M. Hawford of Eedy Weston in Rutland as I take it But the most considerable part of this Township viz. both Deyncourts and that of the Fee of Gaunt which 32 E. 1. Iohn de Newmarch is said to hold here and in Hawkeworth were very anciently the Aslactons who held of the Newmarches of Whatton and they of the other Newmarches and they of Gaunt and after of Bellâ—monte Reginaldus de Aslacton probably descended from Vluric or Walchelin was a Witness as was also Roger de Burton to the Lady Adelina de Whattons Deed who by the consent
of William de Heriz her Husband gave to the Priory of Lenton her two Men or Tenants Hugh and Henry with the three Bovats of Land they held in Aslacton which gift she and her said Husband offered on the high Altar of the holy Trinity at Lenton Simon son of Reginald de Aslacton gave to the Priory of Thurgarton a Toft and Croft here which was Ordric's and one Acre of Medow of the Fee of Oliver Dayencourt and a great Land or Selion whereon was a Windmill all which H. Prior of that place gave to Maud the wife of Simon de Aslacton and the heirs on her begotten Raph Bozun or Bugun gave to Reginald son of Simon de Aslacton 22s. yearly Rent out of Thurverton and Skerington with Maud his sister in Franke marriage Simon de Aslacton who was Sheriff of this County 44 and 45 H. 3. I take to be son of this last Reginald and father of another who was also father of Reginald de Aslacton Knight who by Fine between himself and Roger de Aslacton Parson of Hawkesworth 2 E. 3. settled this Mannor of Aslacton on himself for life then to his son Iohn the elder and the heirs of his body for want of which to Iohn the younger then to Simon then to Roger his other sons and the respective heirs of their bodies successively for want of which to the right heirs of himself Iohn the elder had two Wives by his first called Alice he had William de Aslacton mentioned in Torlaston his second was Iohan the relict of Peter Hodle and sister and co-heir of Iohn son of Simon de Kirketon in Holland Lord of Sibthorp but by her he had no issue Iohn de Aslacton Clark 30 E. 3. was impleaded by Nicholas de Langford Junior and Alice his wife and Iohn Ryvell Chr. and Ioan his wife daughters and heirs of Roger Deyncourt Reginaldus de Aslacton temp H. 2. Simon de Aslacton-Matilda Reginaldus de Aslacton-Matilda soror Rad. Bozun Simon de Aslacton vicecom Nott. Derb. 44 H. 3. Reginaldus de Aslacton Reginaldus de Aslacton miles-Alicia Joh. de Aslacton Sen. -Alicia-Joana for cohaer Joh. fil Sim. de Kirketon s. p. Willielmus de Aslacton Isabella fil haer -Edmundus Cranmer Johannes Cranmer de Aslacton-Alicia fil ..... Marshall Thomas Cranmer-Agnes fil Laurentii Hatfeild Johannes-Joana fil Joh. Frecheville Thomas Cranmer-Cecilia fil ..... Quadring Thom. Cranmer de Aslacton-Alicia fil Joh. Lucy ux 1 -Elizab fil Thom. Hutchinson relict Will. Erookesby Maria haeres-Johannes Rosell de Radcliff Gâ—orgâ—â—â— Rosell Thom. Molyneux marit 1 -Alicia haer-Joh Thorold mil. Johannes Molyneux Baronettus Richardus Carolus Margareta Thom. Archiepisc. Cantuariens Dorothea ux Haroldi Rofell Anna ux Edm. Cartwright Johannes Jun. cler Sim. Roger. Hugo de Cranmer-Matilda fil Willielmi de Sutterton Gilbertus Cranmer-Ida fil Adae de Loughton Hugo Thom. Cranmer Isabella fil haer -Edmundus Cranmer Johannes for violent ejecting them from the custody of the Land and heir of Iohn de Aslacton being then under age which Iohn dyed seized of one hundred Acres of Land forty of Medow and the third part of the Mannor of Aslacton which he held of the said Roger Deyncourt by Knights Service viz. by Homage and Scutage for a Knights Fee whereupon the Jury gave them 20l. damage and they desired Execution and had it This heir then in minority was William it seems whose daughter and heir Isabell was married to Edmund Cranmer and to that Family carried this Mannor of Aslacton Edmund Cranmer of Aslacton and Isabell his wife 4 H. 6. claimed against William de Sibthorp Esquire two Mess. one Toft twenty six Acres of Land and two of Medow in Aslacton She left 〈…〉 Iohn Cranmer who by Alice the daughter of .... Marshall of Muscam had a son named Thomas Cranmer who married Agnes the daughter of Lawrence or Stephen Hatfeild of Willoughby in Thurgarton-a Lée Hundred and by her had his eldest son Iohn Cranmer whose first wife was Ioan daughter of Iohn Frecheville Esquire and his second Margaret daughter of Iohn Fitz-Williams of Sprotburgh another of his sons was Thomas Cranmer Arch-bishop of Canterbury and Martyr fit to weigh down the Scale against Thomas Becker his Predecessour another son was Edmund Cranmer Arch-deacon of Canterbury he had also divers daughters Iane wife of Iohn Monings Lieutenant of Dover Castle Isabell of Sir ... Shepey Knight Anne of Edmund Cartwright and Dorothy of Harold Rosell of Radcliffe on Trent Tat hanc pià in tanti Praesulis simul et Martyris memoriam Munificentiâ proprâ—s impensis câ—elari fecit Guilielmus Cartwright 〈◊〉 de Ossington in Com. Nottingh His Nephew Thomas Cranmer son of his brother Iohn by his said first wife dyed seized of the Rectory of Whatton and Aslacton 8 Decemb. 5 E. 6. to whiâ—h belonged one hundred Acres of Land twenty of Medow thirty of Pasture in Whatton and Aslacton and also of the Mannor of Aslacton six Mess. c. and two Mess. in Whatton c. and left his son Thomas Cranmer his heir then above twenty two years of age Which latter Thomas had two Wives by his first he had Mary wife of Iohn Rosell of Radcliff on Trent Esquire Grandson of Harold before named and by his second Elizabeth daughter of Thomas Hutchinson and widow of William Brookesby of Grimsby he had Alice wife of Thomas Molyneux and after of Sir Iohn Thorold his daughters and heirs and died 8 Decemb. 1 Eliz. Sir Iohn Molyneux Baronet son of the said Alice and Thomas and Father of Sir Francis sold the Cranmers interest which descended to him And the Mannor is now the Marquess of Dorchesters the Tythes and some Glebe with the Parsonage House c. were Mr. Gervas Armstrongs of Scarrington as in that place is noted Thomas Bean had a good Freehold here part whereof is my Brother-in-law Thomas Iallands And there are some other small Freeholders Thomas Castledine Thomas Draper both of Scarrington with some others divers of the Tenants in Aslacton do suit to the Court-Leet at Cotgrave formerly belonging to St. Iohns of Ierusalem There was a Chappell in the Town which is now a dwelling House Whatton VVatone THis Town so called from the watry scituation the River Smite being close by it which sometimes continues longer full of water than other swifter Rivers do unless the Channel be very well cleansed was before the Norman Invasion the Land of one Vlf who was charged to the Tax for his Mannor here as two Car. and an half The Land being then accounted sufficient for nine Plows or nine Car. There Robert the Man or Tenant of Gislebert de Gand whose Fee it afterwards became had three Car. twenty eight Vill. twelve Bord. having nine Car. and one Mill 4s. and eighty Acres of Medow There was one Molaria ubi molefodiunt of three Marks of Silver which I know not how to render except it be Marle In these parts Mold
Sir Richard de Whatton lies buried in this Church under a well cut Stone Tomb whereon is his Pourtraiture with his Shield having his Arms imbossed upon it which the Windows also show to be Argent on a Bend Sable between six Crosse Crosletts Gules three Besants his name was on the side where yet some Gilding is visible Robertus de Watune temp Willielmi 1. Dom. Willielmus de Watuna Robertus de Watton-Beatrix Reg. Lent 51. Aelina fil haer -Willielmus de Heriz s. p. Walterus de Wathon Richardus Willielmus de Whatton Richardus de Whatton miles -Agnes Robertus de Whatton-Roger 3 E. 2. Johan Johannes de Whatton 41 E. 3. 9 H. 4 -Margeria Rich. Roger. de Whatton dict de Skerington -Joana fil Oliveri de Loverot -Robertus marit 1. Rich. de Whatton-Agnes fil Joh. le Palmer 8 E. 3. Johannes de Whatton Alicia 4 R. 2 -Robertus de Whatton vel Skipwith 10 H. 4. Will. Bagot miles-Margar sor haer Roberti Morin-Henr Richardus Henricus de Whatton 3 E. 3 -Marg fil Hug. Saunssaile Ada. Benedict Robertus What appears concerning his brother Rogers posterity is notâ—d also in Scarrington There was a Fine levied 9 H. 4. between Iohn son and heir of Robert de Whatton and Margery his wife Quer. and Iohn de Knyveton and Agnes his wife Dâ—forc of five Mess. 160 Acres of Land 30 of Medow and 20s. Rent in Whatton whereby they were settled on Iohn and Margery and the heirs of their bodies remainder to the right heirs of Iohn de Whatton Richard son of Henry de Whatton 3 E. 3. settled by Fine a Mess. and four Bovats of Land and 16 Acres of Medow in Whatton on Henry his son and Margaret the daughter of Hugh Saunsfail and the heirs of their bodies remainder to Adam and his remainder to Benedict and two other of his sons How these Lands passed I have found no further light certainly to determine Thomas Savile Gent. and Iohn Hanston in a Recovery 10 Eliz. claimed against Edmund Stevenson Gent. and Iohn Blodworth 4 Mess. 4 Cottages 4 Tofts 1 Dovecote 6 Gardens 400 Acres of Land 100 of Medow and 200 of Pasture with the Appurt in Whatton and Bingham and called Iohn Blythe Esq The next year Brian Stapleton suffered a Recovery of 4 Mess. 3 Cotag. c. 200 Acres of Land c. in Bingham and called to warrant the said Iohn Blythe Esquire Mr. Whalleys Mannor of Whatton which was Sir Maurice Dennys his mentioned in Hawkesworth I suppose was sold to some of the Gelsthorps whereof William Gelsthorp hath now eight Oxgangs and three Cottages and Francis Cook five which were heretofore purchased of Mr. William Gelsthorp of London Eight Oxgangs more were bought of ... Gelsthorp of Fishlake in Yorkshire whereof four are Iohn Iallands and four the heirs of Francis Haines and were lately Peter Gelsthorps son of Iames. Queen Elizabeth 7 Iun. in the twelfth year of her Reign granted Licence to Thomas Cranmer Esquire to alienate the Rectories and Churches with the right of Patronage of the Vicarages of the said Churches of Whatton and Aflacton to Nicholas Rosell and Robert Brookesby and the heirs of Nicholas Sir Iohn Molyneux sold twelve Oxgangs accounted Parsonage Land whereof Robert Clark hath 9 and 2 others and the said Francis Cooke 3. He likewise sold 12 Oxg. of other Land 6 to Henry Cooke father of Thomas father of the said Francis and of Tho. Cooke his elder brother Chief Constable of this Hundred the present owners my Kinsmen by their mother the daughter of Edward Oldney of Hawton Six Oxgangs more were sold to Thomas Sawell whereof three remain to his Grandchild Richard son of Henry The Tythes were purchased by Thomas Shipman of Scarrington whose Grandson Thomas Shipman is the present owner and hath half an Oxgang of Land also The Vicarage of Whatton was ten Marks when the Abbat of Wellebek was Patron 'T is now 5l. 6s. 8d. in the Kings Books and Thomas Shipman Esquire Patron In the Church in the North I le near Sir Richard Whattons Tomb whereon was his name on the side is another plain one whereon is Hic jacet Thomas Cranmer Armiger qui obiit 27 Maii 1501. cujus animae propitietur Deus Amen Upon it ... A Chevron between three Cranes ... Cranmer And Arg. on five Fusells in fesse Gules each an Escallop Or Aslacton Which is also in the Windows and so is Arg. five fusells in Fesse Gules Newmarch And Arg. on a Bend sable between six Crosse. Crosletts Gules three Bezants Whatton And Gules A Lion Ramp with a Bordure engrailed Arg. And Sable A Chevron between ten Crosse Crosletts Arg. In the middle of the East end of the South I le lyeth one well cut in Alabaster in Maile and rich Armour upon his Helmet the Head and part of the body of a Gryphin compassed with a Coronet on the Border by his left Cheek is Adoramus te Christe and on the right Ih'e .... A ... Newmarch at the Head below is five fusells in Fesse and on his Breast and at the feet that impaâ—ing a Chief and three Crosse Crosletts Botony Fitchè on the sides are eighteen several Shields of Arms embossed ... A Chevron and file of three Labells ... a Lion Ramp ... Quarterly 2 and 3 fretty a Bend ... two Chevrons ... A Lion Ramp with double Queve ... A Lion Ramp amongst Cinquefoils ... a Fesse with a file of three Labells ... three Pickaxes ... six Roundels 3.2.1 these are on the South side On the North side is Barry of six three Roundels in Chief Quarterly per fesse indented Party per fesse in the upper part two Mullets of six points pierced A Chief and three Crosse Crosletts Botony Fitchè ... a Fesse between three Cinquefoiles Ermine A Chief indented .... three Bends two others are broken away There was in a Window Gules A Lion Ramp Arg. crowned Or the Crest an Eagles Head betwixt the wings sable coming out of a Crown Arg. Galfr. Arch-bishop of York appropriated this Church of Whatton to the Abby of St. Iames at Welbeck saving alwaies a competency for the Vicar that should Minister viz. the third part Bingham AFter the Conquest this became wholly the Fee of Roger de Busli before which Tosti had a Mannor here rated to the Geld for three Car. two Bov. ½ The Land was then five Car. There Roger had in Demesne four Car. twenty six Vill. five Bord. fourteen Sochm. having twelve Car. ½ Pasture wood one leu long and eight qu. broad In King Edward the Confessours and in King Williams time this was 10l. value having in Nivueton as much as paid the Tax for three Bov. Here were also before the Conquest two Mannors which Hoge and Helga had and were rated for them as five Bov. â…” There one Sochm. eight Vill. one Bord. had one Car. and twenty four Acres of Medow In the Confessours time this was
whom 9 E. 3. the Land was divided The said Thomas and Philip 3 E. 3. claimed Court-Leet Tumbrell and Pillory here and Philip a Market on Tuesday and two Fairs granted 1 E. 3. to the said Philip de Caltoft Roger le Brabazon held the Mannor of Est-Briggeford one moyety of the inheritance of Beatrix his wife to them and the heirs of their bodies the other moyety for term of his life of the grant of Iohn de Caltoft and Agnes his wife and Iohn de Multon and Isabell his wife as the inheritance of them the said Agnes and Isabell Roger and Beatrix died without heirs of their bodies and so the Reversion of their moyety 11 E. 2. came to the said Agnes wife of Iohn de Calisft then aged forty years as Cousin and heir of Beatrix and to Thomas de Multon son of the said Isabell the other heir which Thomas was then above fifteen years old It appears that Iohn Caltoft son of Philip 25 E. 3. infeoffed Sir Iohn de Loudham Knight Richard Pensax and others in his moyety of this Mannor which descended to Alice his daughter and heir who it seems was first married to Sir Thomas Hetke and after to Sir William Chaworth Multons moyety was become Deyncourts in the time of Edward the third The Jury 27 E. 3. found it not to the Kings loss if he granted leave for William Deyncurt to give a Mess and three hundred Acres of Land with the Appurtenances in this place to three Chaplains to celebrate in this Church of East-Bruggeford The King 35 E. 3. granted to Thomas atte Herbe and Alice his wife who held one moyety of this Mannor and to Robert Deyncourt who held the other that they should have a Market here on Tuesdayes and two Pairs yearly to them and their heirs In 49 E. 3. Alice who had been formerly the wife of Sir Thomas de Heth Knight made William Carboneâ—â— Rector of the Church of Alyngton her Atturney to deliver seisin to Sir Iohn de Loudham Chivaler the younger Iohn de Weâ—by and to Iohn de Stamford Rector of the Church of East-Bridgeford of her Mannors of Est-Brigeforth Thoresby Alyngton and Toynton The circumscription of her Seal is Sigillum D. Aliciae de Hethe and on the Shield is a Bend between two Cotises Dance impâ—ling an Escutcheon within an Orâ— of Câ—nquefoyâ—s viz. Hethe impâ—ling Caltoft Thomas Deyncourt of Upminstre in Essex 36 H. 6. demised to Thomas Southwick and Henry Normanvile Esquire his Mannors of Alington alias West Alington which was also Bisets Land in the County of Lint Est-Briggeford and the Advoâ—son of that Church in Nott. Walley Hall in Darbishire Ketlethorp in Keton in Rutl. and one Mess. called the Hall in Kyrton and all his Lands and Tenements in Alger Kirk Soterton Bykirke Wygtoft and Boston and a certain Rent annually of ten Marks out of the Demesne of Turford Howbeit it appears 20 H. 6. that Robert Deyncourt died seized of the moyety of this Mannor and ten Marks yearly Rent in Turford Ales the wife of William Lord Lovell and Margaret of Raph Lord Crâ—â—well being then by the Jury found his Cousins and heirs Raph Boteler Lord of Sudeley Knight and Ales his wife daughter and heir of William Deyncourt Knight 8 E. 4. remitted all their right and claim to William Bishop of Winchester in the moyety of the Mannor of East-Briggeford and Advowson of the Church and in ten Marks Rent in Turford c. And there was a Fine levied 20 E. 4. between the said William Bishop of Winchester and Sir Thomas Billing Knight Quer. and Iohn Deyncourt and Ioane his wife and Robert Deyncourt their son and heir Deforc. whereby this moyety of the Mannor and Advowson were settled on the said Bishop and his heirs who gave it to Magdalen Colledge in Oxford which he Founded whereto it still belongs The other half which was Sir Iohn Caltofts before mentioned and with his said daughter and heir Alice went to the Family of Chaworth as in Wiverton is also shown was it seems settled on Thomas Chaworth her son and heir and Nicola daughter of Sir Reginald Braybrooke his first wife and the heirs of their bodies By an Inquisition taken at Nott. 24 Ian. 12 H. 7. after the death of William Claxton Esquire who died the Wednesday next before Whitsunday 11 H. 7. leaving Raph his son and heir twenty six years of age and upwards It appears the Jury found that Elizabeth Scroop widow late wife of Iohn Scroop of Massam â— Knight and daughter and heir of Nicola sometimes wife of Thomas Chaworth Knight seized of the Mannor and Advowson of the Church of East-Briggeford 29 Apr. 38 H. 6. gave them to the said William Claxton Esquire then her servant and to Elianor his wife daughter of the said Elizabeth for term of their lives after whose decease at the time of the Inquisition they were the inheritance of Henry Scroope Esquire and Elizabeth his wife daughter of Thomas son of Thomas son of the said Elizabeth Scroop who 6 E. 4. left her son the said Thomas Scroop of Massam thirty years old This remains the inheritance of Simon Scroop Esquire who hath been and is still a good Landlord to his Tenants here I find Iohn Babington resident at Briggeford in the time of Richard the second and Henry the fourth Sir Iohn Babington Knight died seized of a Mannor here 20 of March 16 H. 7. and Etheldena his sister then widow of Iohn Delves entred as heir and died 20 Apr. 19 H. 7. leaving her daughter Elena the wife of Sir Robert Sheffeild her heir who had a son called also Sir Robert Sheffeild who died Nov. 15. 24 H. 8. leaving his son Edmund then nine years of age eleven Months and twenty five daies he was Lord Sheffeild and died 1 Aug. 4. E. 6. his son and heir Iohn Lord Sheffeild being then above twelve years old The Lord Sheffeild sold this to Iohn Hacker who left four sons Francis his eldest succeeded him here Iohn was of Trowell Richard of Flintham and Rowland had a Lease from Magdalen Colledge of their principal Farm in this Town which he left to his only Child ..... the wife of Roger Waldron whose son Roger died lately in it and hath left Roger his son scarcely of age yet who hath also Lands in Scalford and Goteby in Leicestershire Francis Hacker eldest son of Francis and his heir of this Land was a Colonel for the Parliament and Attaint so that his younger brother Rowland by the favour of his Royal Highness the Duke of York who sold him his brother the said Francis his Estate is the present owner He was a Colonel for the King in whose Service he had a younger brother called Thomas Hacker slain in his Company about Colston Basset where their Father old Francis had an Estate also which he purchased of Mr. Golding and had built an House as in that place
she Anne match'd her selfe with Wilyam Snowe Whose life was shorte we reede Yet yssue had he to be seene Iohn and Richarde indeede Ellen the next wedde Wilyam Wilde Of Nettelworth Lord he was After him a yonge man she tooke Cotes brought it soe to passe Ellen to Wilde did bear a sonne Edwarde we doe him call The onlie heire of all his Landes If right may to him fall And Brigit like a woman wise Was match'd with Ierome Brande Lorde of West-hall or Stauntons Grange For so I understande Though his life shorte yet children foure Robert Wilyam also Isbell and Anne he did beget God send them well to do Katherin Staunton Brigits sister A lovinge housebande tooke Richard Marshall a proper man Most comelie on to looke And Sithe her sister was not wedde God lov'de her not amisse The earth her body hath entoumb'd Her Soule remaines in blisse This Anthonie the brother of Theis godlie children all Buil'te Stauntons Chimney as it stands And Windowe in the Hall And soon after was laide downe flatte And chested under stone Over whose Toumbe you may discerne That there lies suche a one Hic jacet Anthonius Staunton Armiger filius Thomae Staunton Armigeri Sitha uxor ejus filia Roberti Nevell Senioris de Ragnell Armigeri Qui obiit Septimo die Februarii Anno Christi 1569. Quorum animabus propitietur Deus Amen Anima Domino Deo meo vivet Et semen meum serviet ipsi En Dieu maffie Robert Staunton was eldest next And Anthonies heire by bludde For he was worthiest of theim all A famouse Squire and good His doinges in his Fathers life To small gaine did amounte Eight hundred poundes then did he owe And more by just accounte Yet in few yeares discharg'd it all Without raiseing of Rente Fewe Leases likewise did he make To furnishe his intente And or he dide such order tooke That thirtie poundes by yeare Soone purchased of Landes in Fee And left theim to his heire Well learn'd he was and studiouse His Bookes and writeings shewe His deedes and notes are wonderfull To prove the same most true He built the Porch at Stauntons house And other buildings faire Towardes the Southe next the Orcharde Which remaines to his heire Hic jacet Robertus Staunton Armiger filius haeres Anthonii Staunton Armigeri Qui quidem Robertus obiit 19 Junii 1582. Wilyam Staunton being under age Is Lord of all his Lande His mother likewise gave him hers Confirmed with her hande To Edwarde Ros Earle of Rutland This Wilyam warde was founde In Newarke by a Jury juste Thrughe tenor of his grounde Which Wilyam in minoritie He so his God dothe feare Hundreds of poundes his fathers debte He doth alreadie cleare At Schoole he learn'd to serve the Lorde His learninge standes in steade Good fathers steppes let him out-trace And his Bookes often reade This Wilyam married Eâ—â—zabeth God graunt theym still accorde Daughter to Daniell Disney ' Squire Of Norton Disney Lorde An house of greate antiquitie As many that I can name And when that she a mayden was All did commende her fame Most vert'uslie she was brought up According to her age On Instruments she can well plaie Modest she is and sage Both Booke and Needle she can use And Romaine write full well With qualities moe she is indu'de Which were too longe to tell In Romaine letters Capitall Thy Stauntons Posy trust En Dieu maffoye writte first above Which Christians followe must The Disneys Posy not forget Which is Suffrance doth ease Then without doubt for to be toulde Fewe folkes you maie displease Nowe farewell Wilyam with thy Spouse God graunt worshippe increace And Nestors years to live on earthe And youre love not to seace God graunt you off-springe to your â—oye God grant you have his grace God grant that I may see in heaven You all look face to face And all that knowe you saie Amen No other cause ye have Yf any thing be done amisse Free pardon I doe crave Finis then Qd. a freende of yours And servaunt in his trade Which writeing wrought and Verse alsoe His name is Robert C. â—ade The mistakes committed by this Bard may easily be corrected and pardoned On the South side the Church at Staunton Betweene the Church North I le at Staunton this On the North side at Staunton On the North side at Staunton In the Church is Arg. two Chevrons sable with a Bordure Engrailed sable also And without a Bordure for Staunton And Gules a Fesse Ermine between three Waterbougets Arg. or Ermine And Gules a Bâ—nd Or. And Azure a Fesse Dancè and Billettè Or Deyncurt And there was also Hic jacet Tho. de Staunton Armiger filius Thom. de Staunton Armigeri Qui obiit nono die Augusti Anno Domini 1482. Kilvington Chelvington IN this Town there was Sok to Newark of the Bishop of Lincolnes Fee as much as paid the Geld for one Bov. Here was some also Soc to Sibetorpe of Ilbert de Lacies Fee but the Mannor in Chelvington and Alvreton which one Colegrim had before the Conquest was the chief part which he then discharged to the publick Tax or Geld for three Bov. The Land being two Carucats After the Conquest Hugh the Sheriff son of or Fitz-Baldric had it of whom one Ausger held it and had here two Car. and one Sochm. of half the Land and three Vill. two Bord. having two Car. and twenty Acres of Medow The value of this in King Edward the Confessors time was 30s. in King Williams but 20s. The next to Ausger that I have seen was in the time of Henry the second William Morin who married Beatrix daughter of Randulf and sister of Robert to whom he confirmed two Bovats of Land one in Kilvington and the other in Alurington which the said Robert's father had given him to be held of the said William Morin for 2s. per annum These two Bovats were confirmed to this Robert son of Randulf also by Ranulf Morin son of the said William Morin to whose Deed were also Witnesses Ranulf the Clark and Eustacinus Bailiffs of Newerch Malger de Staunton Galfr. de Musters William de Stâ—kes Raph son of Robert de Sibetorp c. This Ranulf Morin was living and Lord of this Mannor in the former part of the Reign of Henry the third William Morin succeeded him and in the time of Edward the first three of these Morins married the three daughters of Oliver de Lovetot of Carcolston as in that place is shown Robert Morin had Ioan the eldest Ranulf his brother had Isabell the second and William Morin had Alice the youngest of the three which were sisters and at length heirs of Iohn de Lovetot son of the said Oliver William Morin had a son called Robert who held this Mannor of Hugh de Rabaz of Ardingworth by the service of 3s. 4d. which said service he the said Hugh 21 E. 3. conveyed to
Sir Geoffrey de Staunton Knight but before that this Robert Morin and Ioane his wife had passed away most of their interest here as by Fine they did 15 E. 3. seven Mess. one Mill sixteen Bovats of Land forty Acres of Medow and 6s. 8â— Rent in Kilvington and Alverton to Sir William de Bingham Knight and his heirs reserving both their own lives in them only And the said Robert had in the time of Edward the second passed several of his Villains to Robert le Vou of Steinwath who 18 E. 2. manumitted Isabell the daughter of Raph son of Richard of Kilvington and her two daughters Maud and Margery and several others as the said Robert Morin had granted him power to do Sir William de Bingham 18 E. 3. by Fine settled these Lands together with some in Clipston on Richard de Bingham his son and Annora his wife then in the custody of Robert de Meaux their Guardian and the heirs of their bodies with remainder to the right heirs of the said Richard Ioane the widow of Robert Morin then held these for her life Iohn Loudham the elder Knight and Edmund de Bingham Parson of Plumtre 48 E. 3. confirmed to Simon de Leek Knight and Iohn Payn Citizen of London all the Lands in Kilvington Alverton and Flawburgh which they had the year before viz. 47 E. 3. of the gift of Richard de Bingham Knight who had power to redeem them in six years for 226l. 13s. 8d. to be paid to the said Citizen Iohn de Leek Chr. and Isabell his wife 6 H. 4. by Fine settled the Mannor of Kilvington four Mess. sixty four Acres of Land sixteen of Medow and 20s. Rent with the Appurtenances in Kilvington Staunton Flawburgh Dalington and Newarke on Simon de Leeke and Ioane who had been the wife of Sir Thomas Malâ—ry Knight and the heirs of their bodies but if the said Simon and Ioane should fail of issue to remain to them the said Iohn and Isabell and the heirs of Iohn This Ioane was the daughter and heir of Sir Iohn Talbot of Swannington in Leicestershire and bore to the said Simon Leeke Lord of Cotham as in that place may be seen four daughters and heirs whereof Mary was second wife of Sir Giles D'anbeney and bore him a daughter called Iane who carried her inheritance to Sir Robert Markham of Cotham her husband with whose posterity these Lands continued till the year of our Lord 1574. that a threefold exchange was made between Robert Markham of Cotham Esquire who passed his Lands in Kilvington Alverton Flawburgh Dalington and Staunton to Robert Staunton of Staunton Esquire who passed his in Basingham Quarington and Sleford to Anthony Thorold of Marston Esquire who passed his in Cleypoole to the said Robert Markham But Robert Staunton had the hardest bargain for he gave not only 6l. per annum more Rent of Land to his Cousin Thorold but also 40l. in money to his Cousin Markham to whom he was also to give 100l. more if his son William Staunton when he came to the age of nineteen should refuse to take to his wife Frances the daughter of the said Robert Markham though he was not obliged to give her any portion This was after two or three years talking of at length agreed and effected by the mediation of Thomas Markham of Ollarton Esquire Robert Wood of Lamley Esquire chosen for the said Robert Markham the said Anthony Thorold and William Sutton of Averham chosen for Robert Staunton at Cotham 18 Sept. 1574. as before is said This made intire the Lordships of Staunton Kilvington Alverton and Flawburgh saving part of this Town which Francis Brookesby inherited from George Staunton mentioned in Staunton and the Priory Lands in Staunton then Ierome Brands but afterwards purchased by William Staunton of Robert Brand as before is also shown This Mannor and Advowson of the Church since the death of the last William Staunton the Colonel is sold to William Cartwright before named in Staunton and remains the inheritance of William Cartwright his son and heir Raph de St. Paul Lord of Sibthorpe noted also in that place whose daughter and heir Dionisia was married to Alexander Bozon of Kirketon in Holland whose son was called Raph de Kirketon and gave this Advowson with his sister as in Staunton is shown if this latter Raph be not also sometimes called Raph de St. Paul or some other of that name passed by Fine 10 Ioh. one Bovat here to Hugh son of Roger. The Rectory of Kilvington was 10l. and Mr. Staynton Patron Now it is 6l. 12s. 1d. in the Kings Books and the Church of Southwell Patron Mr. Colston is a Freeholder in Kilvington I think that which was Brookesbies heretofore and not long since Mr. Iosuah Wrights Alverton Alvrington IN Alvreton Flodberg and Dallington there was of the Sok of Stauntune of the Fee of Walter de Ayncurt as much as paid the Geld for six Bovats The Land two Car. There twelve Sochm. had three Car. and one hundred Acres of Medow this Malger held as in Staunton may be observed Another part here was Soc to Sibthorp of Ilbert de Lacies Fee and another to Kilvington of Hugh Fitz-Baldric's Fee which Auger held and afterwards the Family of Morin as in Kilvington is noted Iohn the son of Robert Morin of Cartolston 17 E. 3. passed a Mess. here to Iohn son of William Morin of Kilvington and to Alice his wife Simon de Leek named before in Kilvington 1 H. 6. made a Letter of Atturney to take seisin of Agnes who had been the wife of William son of Roger de Thurverton in one moyety of a Toft and three Bovats of Land seven Acres of Medow c. in Alverton which descended to the said Agnes by right of inheritance after the death of Iohn Morin of Kercolston her Father and in the Reversion of the other moyety after the death of Raph de Bingham of Kercolston who then held it by the Law of England after the death of Elizabeth late his wife all which the said Simon had of the gift and grant of the said Agnes according to the force and effect of a certain Instrument or Chartel thereof by her made to him This went with Kilvington to the Family of Staunton as there is shown and William Staunton son of Robert who made the exchange falling into the hands of Henry Hewyt Citizen and Cloathworker of London for whom he proved too weak gave him possession of Alverton and an enclosed part of Kilvington 10 Dec. 1590. 33 Eliz. with whose Family viz. Sir Thomas Hewyt son of William it still continues William Wright elder brother of Iosuah the Grazier had a Freehold and built an house there now the inheritance of Iohn Dickinson of Claypole in Lincolnshire Flawborough And Dalington Flodberge BEsides that which in Doomsday Book is mentioned to be of Walter de Ayencurts Fee and of the
Soc of Stantune here was also of his Fee another parcell Soc to Cotes now Cotham which paid the Dane-geld as one Bov. ½ The Land being one Car. There was twenty four Acres of Medow There five Sochm. had one Car. ½ and twenty four Acres of Medow Here was also a Mannor in Flodburge which Vlvric had before the Conquest and discharged it to the publick Tax for two Bovats The Land then was certified to be one Car. There Walter de Ayncurt had afterwards one Car. four Vill. with one Car. This kept the old value it had before in the time of Edward the Confessour viz. 20s. Here was another small part went with Shelton of Roger de Buslies Fee the Tythes whereof are paid thither still Here was a Family called de le Hou from their residence on the Hill the lower part is usually called Dalington Of them Gerard and after him Walter de le Hou and in the latter end of Henry the third and beginning of Edward the first Robert del How who passed some parcels in Flawbergh and Dalington to Robert Morin were of most note though afterwards 13 E. 3. I find William but I think most of their Lands were gone first yet in some writings it is still called Flawborough del How Galfr. Bugge of Wester Leke in 26 E. 1. sold to Sir William de Staunton six Bov. and an half of Land with the Villains in Flawburgh for fifty Marks to be paid in the Mannor House of Sir Richard de Bingham brother of the said Galfr. Bugge The greatest part of this Township became the possession and inheritance of the Family of Staunton shortly after as I guess for in the Record of Nomina Villarum 9 E. 2. it is certified to be half a Villa and Sir William de Staunton Lord of it where Kilvington Staunton and Alverton answered for a whole one and Sir William de Staunton and Robert Morin were Lords However when the exchange in Kilvington was made that Markhams part wherein 't is like was also some or all of that share belonging to Cotham came to the Stauntons it made it entirely enough theirs but it was not very long so for in the time of the late troubles it was sold by the then Earl now Duke of Newcastle or his Trustees to Sir Iohn Cropley whose son hath been at great charge and loss to spoil a good Lordship for Corn by inclosing and depopulating it as we think Some of this Town was of Orston Soc as in that place is mentioned viz. some of the lower Town called Dalington and 26 H. 3. held by Roger Bozon this is still in Orston Parish but the main of the Township is Parish to Staunton Mr. Cropley I see is now rebuilding some good Farm-Houses viz. 1675. but the Lordship I doubt will not hastily recover its former state Shelton IN Sceltune and Colingham was a Mannor of the Fee of Raph de Limesi who had Thorpe and Holton and one in Dordenthorpe in this Wapentak This was rated to the Geld at five Bov. and an half The Land four Car. There were eight Sochm. five Vill. having three Car. and sixty Acres of Medow two Acres and one Virg. of Wood or Pasture In King Edward the Confessours time this was valued at 4l. but in the Conquerours at 40s. In Scelton and Flodberge of the Fee of Roger de Busli was a Mannor which before the Conquest Alsi had and paid for it to the publick Tax as seven Bov. ½ The Land two Car. ½ There Robert the Man or Tenant of Roger had one Car. six Vill. two Bord. having two Car. There was a Church and a Mill and thirty Acres of Medow This in the Confessours time was 40s. in the Conquerours but 30s. value Here was also of the Fee of Ilbert de Lacy Soc to Sibetorp in Scelton Alvreton Chelvinton and Torverton as much as paid the Tax or Geld for three Bov. The Land one Car. There six Vill. and one Bord. had two Car. and thirty Acres of Medow 'T is like the posterity of that Robert had their name from this place however it is certain that a Family of that name here was very anciently Lucia the daughter of Edward Foliot and Ioane her sister 33 E. 1. passed a Mess. and a Car. of Land in Shelton by Fine to Walter Bedewynde The Mannor and Advowson of the Church of Shelton 7 E. 2. by Fine were settled on Iohn de Shelton and Alice his wife and the heirs of Iohn In the 9 E. 2. Sibthorp and Shelton answered for one Vill. and Sir Iohn de Charnels Iohn de Bedewynde Iohn de Schelton Iohn de Thorpe and Simon de Sibthorpe were certified to be Lords A Fine was levied of this Mannor and Advowson 10 E. 2. between Iohn de Shelton and Alice his wife Quer. and Robert de Helpeston Parson of Houton Deforc. whereby they were settled on the said Iohn and Alice for their lives and to remain after their decease to Nicolas de Widmerpole and Alice his wife and the heirs he should beget on her body and for default of such issue to the right heirs of the said Nicolas Thomas de Staunton and Alice his wife 2 R. 2. and afterwards 8 R. 2. levied a Fine of one Mess. in Newarke and the Mannor of Shelton and Advowson of the Church to Thomas de Hatfeild Bishop of Durrham and Iohn de Popham Sir Thomas de Staunton Knight and his parceners 13 R. 2. were found to have held half a Knights Fee here of Roger de Clifford and 15 R. 2. of Thomas de Clifford whose son Thomas de Clifford was then found heir of the said Thomas de Clifford Knight Walter Parker of Segbrok Cousin of the Lady Alice sometime wife of Sir Thomas de Staunton Knight 7 H. 5. released to Symon de Leke Knight and his heirs all his right in the Mannor of Stoke nigh Newarke called Overhall and in the Mannor of Shelton and Advowson of the Church with the Appurtenances in Shelton and Flawburgh and in one Mess. in Newarke The Mannors of Kilvington Shelton and Overhall in Stoke by Newark with the Appurtenances and eighteen Mess. twelve Tofts fifty Bovats of Land two hundred Acres of Medow with the Appurtenances in Thorpe Elston Staunton Kilvington Alverton Flawburgh Shelton and Stoke by Newark were 18 H. 6. by Fine settled on Richard Willughby and Anne his wife one of the four daughters and heirs of Simon Leke of Cotham Esquire and the heirs of their bodies remainder to the right heirs of Anne Richard Bingham of Watnow Esquire and Anne his wife suffered a Recovery 3 H. 8. wherein Sir Henry Willughby Knight Anthony Fitz-Herbert Serjeant at Law Nicholas Fitz-Herbert Nicholas Purefey Esquire Iohn Savage Esquire Nicholas Strelley Esquire and Iohn Newton claimed against them the Mannor and Advowson of Flaburgh two Mess. two Tofts one hundred and sixty Acres of Land forty of
value 10s. The greatest share in Elvestune was of the Fee of Ilbert de Lacy one part whereof was that wherein Goduvin in the Saxon times had his Mannor which was rated to the Geld at six Bovats The Land being then certified to be sufficient for three Plows or three Carucats This afterwards Armegri held of Ilbert and there had one Car. or Plow three Sochm. on two Bovats of Land and one Vill. five Bord. having two Car. or Plows There was thirty Acres of Medow In the Confessours time this was 40s. value in the Conquerours 35s. Another part was three dwelling houses mansur which Ilbert had in which were two Sochm. one Bord. belonging to Stoches They had not the Land Ilbert claimed upon Bishop Remigius the Land of the Priest and in Stoches he claimed or challenged the fourth part of the Town The Family of Bussy of Hogham in Lincolneshire named more particularly in Balderton had the Bishop of Lincolnes Fee as will appear by several instances Roger de Buslies the Lord Lovetoâ— named in Wisou had and thereof infeoffed the Ancestor of Galfr. de Estanton in the time of King Henry the first for half a Knights Fee Geoffrey de Staunton son of William de Staunton recovered against Sir Iohn de Staunton of Eyleston Knight and Amicia his wife 15 E. 3. fifteen Bovats of Land in Eyleston which Walter de Evermue gave to Galfr. de Staunton and Alice his wife and the heirs of their bodies who had issue William de Staunton and he William the Father of the said Geoffrey then claiming It was a very great Suit tried in several places and at length brought into the Parliament and excellently argued on both sides and the Errors discussed very elegantly This Sir Iohn de Staunton was son of Iohn son I suppose of Sir Geoffrey and dwelt in Devonshire and had a son called Iohn also 37 E. 3. but Sir Geoffrey de Staunton the Plaintiff who it seems carried it had a son and heir called Sir William de Staunton Knight as in Staunton is said who was twice married his first wife was Katherin his second Elizabeth daughter of Brian Thornehill relict of Henry Mâ—â—ers by whom he had a daughter and heir called Elizabeth who was the wife of William Hamsterley and died seised of a certain Mannor in Eyleston about 15 R. 2. called Stouhall Fee with sixteen Oxgangs of Land held of the honour of Tikhill and Gollhall Fee and sixteen Oxgangs of Land held of Sir Iohn Bussy Lord of Hogham William Hamsterley son of the said William being then found her heir and sixteen years of age William Hamstrelley the husband of Cecilia the daughter of Sir Iohn Bussy slew Thomas Duke of Gloucester and had a son called also William Hamstrelley who had two daughters Aâ—ne wife of Richard Banister and Ioane of William Orme or Orome who had Hamond Orome who inherited this Mannor and was May 6. 16 E. 4. at Balderton Court and there acknowledged to hold Gollhall Fee of Sir Thomus Bussy William Hamsterley went into France and there died and he had two daughters which the Lady Roos after the death of his wife at Staunton took Ward and William Eyton sold them to Raph Banister whose two sons Richard and Roger married them but it seems Roger died and left his wife for William Orme before named whose posterity continued to our time viz. the latter end of King Iames his Reign that Captain .... Orme sold his Lands here some to George Lascells Esquire who paid to the honour of Tikhill of which he was Feodary for eighty Acres of this Land for respite of Homage c. as Mr. Wightman did who paid for thirty and Mr. Robert Poole Gent. for his House and seventy Acres William Bristowe for forty Alexander Watson for eighty the heirs of Robert Greaves for his House and ninety Iohn Hollingworth for his House and forty Acres .... Gamble for nine Richard Elston for seven c. and others who bought the said Mr. Ormes Lands Lacies Fee which Arnegrim held who also held of him in Sibthorpe came to Sir Stephen Waleys who 17 E. 1. did implead Robert de Eyleston that he should do him certain Customs and Services for two Car. of Land in Eyleston which he held of him by Homage and the Service of 29s. and Suit of Court of the said Stephen in Eyleston from three weeks to three weeks whereof his Ancestor was seised in the time of King Iohn c. Sir Iohn de Depeden Knight and Elizabeth his wife daughter and heir of Sir Stephen Waleys 19 R. 2. passed 50s. Rent in Sibthorpe and Eyleston and some places thereabout to Sir Iohn Leek Knight Richard de Sceckton Rector of the Church of Burgh Waleys and William de Leeke of Kirketon and the heirs of William whose heir is Peniston Whalley Esquire to whom some of the Rent yet remains viz. 30s. out of Elston paid by Mr. Lassells yearly The Seals show Depedens Arms to be Ermine on a Chief three Lioncells Rampant and Waleys his to be quarterly and a Bend. Robert de Eyleston 5 E. 3. passed by Fine to Richard de Gauy and Maud his wife one Bovat and two Acres and an half in Elston There was a Fine 13 E. 3. between Robert son of Iohn de Eyleston and Elizabeth his wife by Iohn de Misterton put in her place to get or lose and Hugh son of Richard de Thorpe of the Mannor of Eâ—leston and the Advowson of the Church whereby they were settled on the said Robert and Elizabeth and the heirs of their bodies remainder to the right heirs of Robert There was a Fine levyed at Nott. 3 E. 3. between Henry son of Laurence de Stoke and Maud his wife on the one part and Robert de Hickling Vicar of Granby on the other part concerning two Mess. three Bovats of Land twenty six Acres of Medow and 2s. Rent in Eyleston and Stoke by Newark which were thereby settled on the said Henry and Maud for life remainder to Henry Gauy of Stoke and Iâ—ane his wife and the heirs of their bodies remainder to the right heirs of Henry Gauy To this Robert de Nuncormesby and Iohn son of Robert de Eyleston put to their claim There was a Fine 33 H. 6. and afterwards 35 H. 6. between Thomas Rempston Knight and Henry Wheteley Quer. and Nicholas Wymbysh Clark and Hugh Wymbyshe and Margaret his wife who was daughter and heir of Iohn Lord of Eyleston mentioned in Carcolston Deforc. of the Mannor of Elston with the Appurtenances and four Mess. two hundred Acres of Land thirty of Medow ten of Pasture and 6s. Renâ— and the Rent of three pair of Gloves and of 1l. of Cummin with the Appurtenances in Elston whereby they were settled on the said Hugh Wymbish and Margaret his wife for life then to Alice the wife of Iohn Leeke of Landford Esquire for her life then to Thomas
Leeke son of the said Iohn and the heirs of his body for want of which to the heirs of the body of the said Iohn and in default of such to the right heirs of the said Alice There was another Fine 36 H. 6. between Thomas Leeke of Landford Quer. and Hugh Golhall of Wodeburgh and Alice his wife Deforc of the Mannor of Elston called Elstons Mannor with the Appurtenances and the rest of the particulars as before which were then settled on the said Hugh and Alice during their lives and after on Ioane Golhall daughter of the said Hugh during her life then to revert to the said Thomas Leeke and his heirs for ever There was a Recovery 32 H. 8. wherein Thomas Rooper and William Wright Clark claimed against Francis Leeke Esquire the Mannor of Elston with the Appurtenances and three Mess. two Cottag one Dovecote one hundred Acres of Land forty of Medow forty of Pasture 8s. Rent and the Rent of 1l. of Cummin-seed two pair of Gloves and a Steel Needle in Elston Thorpe and Stoke by Newarke There was a Recovery 38 H. 6. wherein Iohn Metheley the younger claimed against Iohn Compton five Mess. two Cottages one hundred and twenty Acres of Land forty of Medow and 24s. 8d. Rent in Elston Flintham and Sireston Johannes Metheley Johannes Metheley de Elston Joana soror Edm. Percy Decan Sacelli relict Hansard Christoph. Metheley-Anna fil Tho. Lister de Wakefeild Barthol Metheley de Elston -Joanna fil .... Bingham de Carcolston Elizabetha fil haer -Johannes Lascells fil tertius Georgii Lascells de Stourton Gateford Georgius Lascells de Elston -Anna fil Gervasii Wirrall de Leversall in Com. Ebor. Johannes-Lascells ... fil ... Coppinger Georgius Lascells ........ fil Franc. Leek de Balderton haer -Anna fil Hercy Pate relict Rob. Waring Barthol ... fil Deisney Ropers Mannor which before was Leekes and Metheleys Lands the Capital Mess. whereof heretofore was called Carues place Mannor are now the Inheritance of George Lascells Esquire The Rectory of Elston was ten Marks and some Prebendary Patron 'T is now 9l. 8s. 9d. in the Kings Books and William Wightman Esq of Stoke Patron Cotham Doomsd. Cotes HEre before the Norman Invsiaon were divers Mannors one was the Freehold of Leuric who paid for it to the Dane-geld as three Bovats The Land then twelve Bovats This afterwards was the Fee of Odo Bishop of Baion's whose Man or Tenant Wacelinus had here one Car. five Vill. and one Bord. having half a Car. and twenty Acres of Medow This in the Confessours time was 40s. value in the Conquerours 30s. Here was likewise of Walter de Ayncurts Fee the principal part of the Township in which before the Conquest were two Mannors which Suen and Tori had who paid the publick Tax for them as nine Bovats The Land being then certified to be six Car. There afterward Walter had in Demesne one Car. ten Vill. eight Bord. having three Car. There was a Priest and a Church and six Acres of Medow This was in the Confessours time 100s. in the Conquerours 6l. value when Doomsday Book was made Walter de Ayencurt gave his Tythes here and at very many other places to the Monastery of St. Maries at Yorke which had a Pension of 24s. per annum in the year 1344. as in the Visitation of William Zouch Arch-bishop of York appeareth But Raph Dâ—yncourt when he Founded Thurgarton gave this Church called there Cotes as in Granby is said And in the year 1352. the Abbat and Covent of St. Maries at Yorke agreed to let the Prior and Covent of Thurgarton have their portions of Tythes in the Arch-deaconry of Nott. viz. two parts of the Tythes of the Demesne Lands in Graneby and Hikling and the like in Cotum for ten Marks of Silver yearly for ever In the eleventh year of King Iohns Reign there was an Assise to try if Robert Rusell and others had unjustly disseised Henry de Mar. and Petronilla his wife of their Common of Pasture and Turbary and Marish in Cotes and Beninton which belonged to their Freehold in Cotes The Jury found that Robert Russell and Richard the Parson had carried away Turf which the men of the said Richard had wrought in the Common of the said Henry and so had disseised him the rest had leave from the Earl of Chesters Baylys and that it was alwaies lawful for the said Earl and the said Henry to give leave to others to cut Turf In the twelfth year of King Iohn Petronilla the daughter of Guido de Croun gave to Paganus son of William de Mara and his heirs her whole Land of Cotun reserving two pound of Pepper yearly Rent She married to her first husband William de Longechamp and by him had Henry de Longechampe who had a daughter called Alice who was married to Roger Pedwardyn But the said Petronilla the daughter and heir of Guido de Croun had another husband called Oliver de Vaux by whom she had a son called Iohn de Vaux There was an Assise at Derby 53 H. 3. before Iohn le Breton to try if Stephen Father of William de Cotone was seised of one Toft and two Acres of Land in Cotone which Adam de Hâ—tot held who called to warrant before Iohn le Bretone Alane le Breton who came and summoned to warranty Stephen the son of Stephen de Haya Walter de Hayea paid 40d. for the eighth part of a Fee in Coton The Jury 8 E. 1. found that Roger de Vallibus held in Cotum sixteen Bovats of the Fee of Dovor which I take to be that of Odo Bishop of Bayon of Stephen de la Hay which the said Stephen was wont to hold of the King in Capite by the service of finding a man of Arms Armigerum forty daies at his own charge in the time of War There was an agreement made between Roger de Vallibus and Robert de Cumpton 8 E. 1. also concerning right of Common in which the said Robert granted that the proper Goods of the said Roger might Common in the Territory of Houton except the several after the Corn was carried away excepting Swine and Bidentibus Sheep so that neither his Freeholders Servants Villains nor Cottagers did Common And another bargain was then also made touching the entring of their Cattel into both their Territories as well Houton as Cotum and for the manner of replevying It was adjudged 10 E. 1. that Roger de Vallibus and Clementia his wife should recover their seisin of certain Customs and Services which divers Men and Tenants of Cotum ought to do for their Land there Roger de Vallibus 15 E. 1. was found to have greater right to hold sixteen Bovats except seven Acres and one Rod in Cotum than the King and that this Mannor was held of the Castle of Dovor as before but then the Rent was raised to 40s. per annum
the Kings loss if he granted Henry son of Laurence de Stoke licence to give a Mess. in Stoke to the said Hospital nor 21 E. 3. for Iohn le Veynour of Stoke nor Robert Moge to give a few Acres in Stoke nor for William son of William son of Stephen de Stoke and Simon de Sibthorp to give 10s. Rent in Stoke nor for Gilbert son of Lene of Holme by Newark to give a Mess. three Acres of Land and five Acres of Medow in Holme aforesaid to the said Hospital I have met with very many such small Contributers Thomas Ogle Clark 16 R. 2. and Alice Porter a Mess. and half an Acre in Stoke held of Iohn del Car in right of Alice his wife who held of the Lord Deyncourt Iohn Cony another Mess. held of the same persons and the like By a Fine at York 27 E. 1. between William de Westwode and Maud his wife and Henry son of the said Maud on the one part and Elias de Bekingham on the other six Mess. one hundred Acres and five Bovats of Land thirty Acres of Medow five of Pasture 45s. 9d. Rent and Rent of a pound of Pepper and a pair of Gilt Spurs in Stokes Sireston Eyleston Newark and Balderâ—on were settled on the said William Maud and Henry 'T is like Maud was the sister of Iohn de Stoke before named There was another Fine levied at York 16 E. 2. between Roger de Stokes and Petronilla his wife Quer. and Robert de Helpeston Parson of Houton Deforc. whereby the Mannor of Stoke was settled on the said Roger and Petronilla for life afterwards on Peter son of Nicholas de Wydemerpole and Alice his wife and the heirs of Peter on the body of the said Alice remainder on Reginald brother of Peter and the heirs of his body remainder on Maud sister of Reginald and hers remainder to Nicolas de Wydemerpole and Alice his wife and the heirs of the said Nicholas these last are mentioned in Shelton Peter de Wydmerpole and Alice his wife by Fine 17 E. 3. passed to Henry Gauy and Ioane his wife two Bovats in this Stoke I find Galfr. de Butiler about 8 E. 1. granted for himself and his heirs that Richard Ingeram and his heirs should have Commons for two Cows in the one hundred Acre Moore of Stoke By a Fine at York 7 E. 3. Sir Iohn de Mounteney Knight settled thirteen Mess. one Mill nineteen Bovats and an half and twenty three Acres and a Rood and half of Land fifty two Acres and an half of Medow thirteen Acres of Pasture and 40s. and 3s. Rent in Stoke Thorpe and Eyleston and the Advowson of the Church of Eyleston on himself for life then to Iohn his son and the heirs Males of his body remainder to Robert brother of Iohn and his remainder to Arnald brother of Robert and his remainder to the right heirs of Sir Iohn himself Johannes de Mounteney miles-Constantia Johannes de Mounteney Constantia fil haer -Johannes Bosvile de Chete Ebor. miles 3 Johannes Bosvile .... fil Percivalli Amyas C. Ebor. Johannes Bosvill .... fil .... Radcliff de Ordsall Com. Lanc. Willielmus Boswell de Chete 1 Elizabetha fil cohaer -Joh Nevill mil. ex familia de Leversege Henricus Nevill Georgius Nevill de Chete 1581. 2 Rob. Nevill de Ragnell-Alicia fil cohaer Georgius Nevill-Barbara sor cohaer Joh. Hercy mil. Johannes Nevill-Gertruda fil Richardus Whalley Hercy Nevill de Grove-Brigitta fil Hen. Savill 2 Thom. s. p. 1 Achilles s. p. Robertus s. p. A Fine was levied of the Mannor of Stoke called the Overhall 13 R. 2. between Elias de Mydylton Raph de Staunton Iohn Bozon Vicar of the Church of Stoke Hugh Bozon Parson of the Church of Haukesworth William de Leeke and Walter de Topclif Quer. and Thomas de Staunton Chr. and Alâ—â—e his wife Deforc. whereby it was conveyed to the said Hugh and his heirs Thomas Bozome brother of Sir Richard had his residence here William Leek of Léek died seised of six Acres of Land and two of Medow in Stoke about 37 H. 6. held of Richard Willughby and Anne his wife as in the right of Anne She was one of the co-heirs of Simon Leek of Cotham Iohn Leek was then found to be son and heir of the said Will. I. Bosvyle of Stoke descended by an heir female from Sir Iohn de Mountenay held a Mannor in Stoke called Nether-hall of Bussy and some Lands of Richard Willughby William Bosvyle's daughter of Chete in Yorkshire called Elizabeth one of the co-heirs married Sir Iohn Nevill and the other called Alice brought this Mannor to Robert Nevill of Ragnell her husband and by Iohn Nevill son of George it was sold to ...... Wightman whose posterity still enjoyes it The Mannor of Stoke called Overhall is the inheritance of the Honourable Arthur Stanhope younger son of Philip first Earl of Chesterfeild Queen Elizabeth 30 March in the eighteenth year of her Reign granted to Iohn Mershe Esquire and Francis Greneham Gent. amongst other things the whole House and Site of the Hospital of St. Leonard of Stoke by Newark and all Houses Buildings c. except two Houses or Cottages in Stoke called Bedehouses where two poor people dwelt Mr. Robert Butler hath some interest in this as I take it and Mr. Philip Lacock of Woodborough had considerable Lands here and in Elston which remain to his son Charles Francis Viscount Lovell the heir of the Lord Deyncourt was Attaint because it appeared he was with Iohn Earl of Lincolne at this Stoke 20 day of Iune 2 H. 7. where a great Battel was then fought The Tythes of Stoke with some in Elston and Sireston and Codington belong to the Chancellor of the Church of Lincolne who is Patron of the Vicarage of Stoke which was 7l. and is now 8l. in the Kings Books The Vicar serves at all the forenamed places which find him work In the Church Windows of Stoke were Arg. a Chevron Gules betwixt three Whales Heads or such like set foreright not erected Sable Quarterly per Fesse indented Arg. and Gules Gules a Lion Rampant Or. Paly of six Arg. and Azure upon a Bend Or three Iewes Harpes or such like Sable this is oft Arg. three Fusells in fesse Gules Quarterly Arg. Gules fretty Or a Bend of the second Markham quartering Leek Arg. two Barrulets and a Palet Gules impale with Gules a Crosse of four Hearts Arg. Arg. a Crosse Croslett Botony Sable Arg. three Bird Bolts Sable Arg. three Pincers Sable Arg. upon a Bend Azure three Crosse Croslets Arg. Arg. upon a Fesse Sable a Lion passant Arg. Hose Quarterly Gules and Ermine upon the first and fourth a Goats Head Erased Arg. the Horns Or Moreton Arg. five Fusells in Fesse Gules three Martlets in Chief Sable The same again with A File of three Labells Azure Gules three Waterbougets Arg. Lord Ros. Ermine
liberty he should use himself if he would have made one and would that all his heirs should know that he gave it for a sin which he did agâ—inst them and that they should remit it and grant him and his heirs to be paâ—takers of all the good which they should do William Clement Prior of Hellesham was a Witness to his Deed. Alice the daughter of Elias de Amundevill in the Sheriff of Lincolnshire's account 2 Ioh. ought twenty Marks for having recognizance whether Elias her Father gave her the Town of Wintertorp to marry her so that she was seized of it in her Fathers life time and after his death till Ioslenus her brother disseised her while she was in his custody This Iolanus son of Elias de Amundevill confirmed the Hospital of Ellesham he married Ermetrida Niece to the Earl of Aumerle and his son Peter de Amundevil left a daughter and heir called Ermetrida married to William de Dive whose son Iohn Dive mentioned in Balderton left his Estate to his two sisters and heirs there named which were married to the two excellent Families Bussy and Deisney some of which are yet in being though much lessened in Estate This last mentioned Wintertorp may perhaps be in Lincolneshire for this Wynethorp is said to be an Eschaet and that it was of 12l. yearly value and that the Bishop of Lincoln Lord of Newark held it of the gift of King Iohn with which place it hath usually gone Howbeit certain it is that the Prior of Ellesham was Patron here of this Rectory in whose time it was valued at 10l. 'T is now 7l. 11s. 0d. ob in the Kings Books and his Majesty Patron 'T is now reported to be annexed to Newark in the new Charter Feb. 8. 1672. Landford AT this place before the coming of the Normans Leuric had a Mannor which usually answered to the Publick Tax at two Car. three Bov. 1 â— The Land of it being for eight Plows or eight Car. Afterwards it became the Fee of Goisfride de Wirce whose Man or Tenant Ranulf is certified to have had two Car. ½ and sixteen Sochm. seventeen Villains four Bord. having seven Car. There was a Priest and a Church two Mills 12s. one Piscary one hundred Acres of Medow In King Edward the Confessours time this was 4l. value in the Conquerours 4l. 10s. Mr. Dugdale in his Book of Warwickshire shows that Wirce his Lands were by King Henry the first granted to Nigel de Albany Progenitor of the Family of Mowbray who 't is likely did enfeoff Robert de Ayvill mentioned in Egmanton of this Mannor For Iohn de Auvill gave 40s. in the seventh year of King Iohn for having a certain Precipe that William de Mumbray should restore unto him Landford with the Appurtenances to wit a Knights Fee which Robert de Auvill Father of the said Iohn gave in marriage to Roger de Caily with Iane his sister then dead who had a son who died without any heir at all so that for want of heir the Fee ought to return to the said Iohn son and heir of the said Robert The next I find here was Richard de Grey of Codnor paying his Mark for half a Knights Fee in the former part of the Reign of Henry the third William de Grey of Sandiacre in Darbishire 53 H. 3. had Free Warren here who I suppose was enfeoffed of this Mannor by the said Richard whom I guess to be his brother William died about this year and his son Richard was his heir who married Lucia the daughter and heir of Robert de Harestaâ— Lord of Sutton in the Dale in Darbishire and Harestan in Leicestershire and Hickling in this County as in that place may be seen where it also appears that this Lordship with the rest became the inheritance of Iohn Leek said to be younger brother of Simon Leek of Cotham in right of his wife Alice Grandchild of Edward Hillary and Alice Grey by Iohn Grey their son and heir This Iohn Leek and Alice his wife who after the death of her sister Isabel without issue about 14 H. 6. became sole heir had a son called William Leek who by Catharin his wife the daughter of Sir Thomas Chaworth Knight had a younger son called Thomas Leek of Hasland whose daughter Elizabeth the wife of Iohn Hardwyk Esquire was mother of Elizabeth the wife of Sir William Cavendish afterwards Countess of Shrowsbury the great instrument of placing the two Illustrious Houses of Newcastle and Devonshire in these parts but his eldest son was Iohn Leeke of Sutton who by his wife Elizabeth the daughter of Sir Iohn Savage had two sons Iohn and Thomas and three daughters Catharin wife to Sir Godfr Foljambe Miriel to Sir Thomas Waterton and Elizabeth to Iohn Frechevile He was buried in Sutton Chancel 24 March 1504. and by his Will committed the said Thomas his son who was called Leek of Williamthorpe to Thomas Savage Lord Arch-bishop of York to be ordered concerning his marriage and gave to Thomas Leek of Hasland his brother before named and noted more particularly in Leke Lands in Carleton juxta Gedling this same Iohn Leek had Lands in the Counties of Nott. Derb. Linc. Leicest and Worcester he gave four hundred Marks towards the building of Sutton Church making of his Tomb and paying his debts and was succeeded by Sir Iohn Leeke his son and heir who 10 Decemb. 14 H. 8. 1522. being about to go in the Army into Scotland under the most Noble Captain the Kings Lieutenant General and Steward of England the Earl of Showsbury made his Will and either died or was slain for it was proved 10 Oct. 1523. whereby it appears that he had three natural daughters Susan Elizabeth and Dorothy begotten on the body of Anne Mainwaring who was with Child when he made his Will His wife was Iane the daughter of Henry Foljambe Esquire by whom he had Anne and Katherin the wife of Francis Mering and two sons Francis who married Elizabeth and Iohn who married Margaret the daughters of Sir William Paston of Norfolk the Lands mentioned in his Will are at Sutton in le Dale Sandiacre Hickling Normanton Chesterfeild Huknall Torcard Little Léek Great Léek Notingham Stoke by Newark Lanforth Colewick Carcolston and Wiverton His son Sir Francis Leeke in the beginning of the Reign of Queen Eliz. obtained the other part of this Lordship whereof Robert de Perpount was Lord in 9 E. 2. to whose Family it continued with Holme Perpont where it is also mentioned till that time but he shortly after sold the whole to George then Earl of Shrowsbury It hath since been purchased by Iohn More Dr. of Physick and by him left to Sir Edw. More his Nephew Baronet of Nova Scotia who leaving four daughters and no son Iohn More of Kirtlington another of the Doctors Nephews succeeded and left Iohn More his son and heir the present owner
two Villains likewise two Bov. three Car. if it be not mistaken for three Acres I cannot certainly understand this repetition of three Car. and eight Acres of Medow In King Edward the Confessours time the value was 10s. in the time of Doomsday Book 6s. Another Mannor there was in Clifton but of Roger de Buslies Fee which before was Ougrim's and paid the Tax for six Bovats The Land whereof was three Car. There Roger the Man of Roger de Busli had one Car. one Sochm. on one Bov. of this Land and seven Villains with three Plows or Car. and the fourth part of a Church and thirty Acres of Medow Pasture Wood two qu. long and half so much broad In the Confessours time this was 40s. value in the Conquerours when the Survey was taken 30s. This of the Fee of Roger de Buslie in the time of King Henry the first was William de Lovetots as was all that which this Roger the Man or Tenant of Roger is said to hold in this County by which William was the Ancestor of William Picot then enfeoffed of two parts of a Knights Fee and Richard de Cliftons Ancestor of one part as the Red Book in the Exchequer in the Certificat of Nigellus de Luvetot to King Henry the second of his Knights Fees in Huntendoâ—ser and of the honour of Roger de Buisli in this County doth manifest which is noted in Wisowe as is also in the Fine in the 11 E. 3. whereby Iohn de Lovetot conveyed to Richard de Willughby and Ioane his wife four Knights Fees and 10l. Rent with the Appurtenances in Wisowe Kercolston Eyleston Flyntham and this North Clifton together with the Services of divers persons who held them and amongst the rest of Iohn son of Iohn de Pigot of Dodington in Lincolneshire but not far distant I suppose the Suttons of Averham had their first interest here by the marriage of a daughter or heir geeral of Pigot Iohn de Willughby son of Robert de Willughby late Lord of Eresby and Katherin his wife 4 H. 5. granted and to Farm let to Henry de Sutton Esquire Hugh Huse Chr. William Compton Esquire and others Lands and Tenements in Averham together with the Mannors of Kertlington Cliftun Hardeby and Kelum There were two Fines levied in the Octaves of Sr. Iohn Baptist 22 H. 6. in the same words except the names of the persons One was between Sir Thomas Chaworth Knight Quer. and Richard Sutton Esquire and Katherin his wife Deforc. of the Rent of a pound of Pepper with the Appurtenances in Hardeby and of the Mannor of Kertlington called Pigots Mannor or Pigot Hall with the Appurtenances except seven Mess. one Toft two hundred Acres of Land forty of Medow ten of Pasture and twenty of Wood with the Appurtenances in the same Town of Hardeby and North Clifton in the same Mannor The said Richard and Katherin acknowledged the premises to be the right of the said Thomas Chaworth to whom they further granted together with the said Rent the Homages and Services of Iohn Pigot Knight and his heirs for the Tenements which he held of them in the said Town of Hardeby c. The other Fine was between the same Sir Thomas Chaworth and Thomas Curson Esquire and Margaret his wife There was also a Fine levied 21 H. 6. between Iohn Arch-bishop of Yorke Raph Crumwell Knight William Babington Knight William Babington Esquire Iohn Cokfeild Esquire c. and Thomas Howson Quer. and William Skypwith of Haburgh Esquire and Ioane his wife Deforc. of the Mannor of South Clifton with the Appurtenances thereby recognized to be the right of Thomas c. There was a Recovery suffered by George Chaworth Esquire 15 Eliz. wherein Edward Earl of Rutland Lord Ross William Paston Thomas Stanhope Bartholomew Armin and Henry Chaworth Esquire claimed against him the Mannors of South Marneham North Marneham Cropwell Butler South Clifton and Annesley c. In another 17 Eliz. the same Earl and others claimed against Nicholas Buller and Iohn Gelsthorpe the same Mannors with Burton Iorce and Bridgeford on the Hill who called to warranty George Chaworth Esquire Hugh Willughby of Risley 22 H. 7. suffered also a Recovery of three Mess. six Bovats of Land and 40s. Rent in South Clifton and 6s. Rent in Trowell Augustine Earle 15 Eliz. claimed against George Willughby Gent. and Iohn Willughby his son and heir the Mannor of South Clifton with the Appurtenances and eight Mess. four Cottages eight Tofts one Dovecoat eight Gardens three hundred Acres of Land sixty of Medow seventy of Pasture twenty of Wood one hundred of Moore and 4l. Rent with the Appurtenances in South Clifton North Clifton and Spaldforth William Brun of Clifton held one Bov. in Clifton of Constancia de Lysures about 50 H. 3. he committed Theft for which he was hanged William Cause held Lands in South Clifton of Richard de Howell by the Service of the eighth part of a Knights Fee Thomas Cause 20 E. 2. was found his son and heir and to be then twenty five years of age and upwards and that he had Lands at Laceby in Lincolneshire By an Inquisition taken at Nott. 18 Sept. 32 H. 8. it appears that William Dymock of Eyton in Leicestershire Gent. died seized of Lands in South Clifton and Spaldforth 10 Iun. 1 H. 8. whose sister Margaret married to ... Alyn had Iohn Alyn whose sister Elena was his heir and wife of William Gregory who had a son called Thomas Gregory the Cousin and heir of William Dymock and was forty years old at the time of the taking the Inquisition Laurence Sturtivant 21 H. 8. claimed against William Abys two Mess. thirty Acres of Land six of Medow ten of Pasture in Hareby and North Clifton Here were some Lands belonging to Torkesey Priory in the County of Lincolne as in Saundby will be noted 35 H. 8. granted to Philip Habbye but 14 May 3 and 4 Ph. and Mar. Raph Parker Gent. and Henry Parker his son and heir had licence to Alienate the Demesnes and Scite of that Priory and all and singular the Mess. houses c. in the Counties of Lincolne Nott. and York belonging to it and all Mess. Lands and Tenements in the Parishes of Saunby Clyfton Rampton Cotham Retford and Sturton in this County to Iohn Fenys Esquire and his heirs The Vicarage of Clyfton was 10l. and the Prebendary there I suppose of Lincolne Patron The Vicarage of North Clifton is now 7l. 6s. 0â— ob in the Kings Books and the Prebendary Patron Spaldford THe greatest part of this Town was of the Soc of Newark which before and in the time of King William was rated to the publick Tax at three Car. and an half which together with the parcels in Scorveley Greton Torneshay Wiggesley Herdrebye and Cotum together paid the Geld for six Car. and an half and half a Bovat though the parcels summ'd
together amount to more The Land of all was twenty one Car. three Bov. There were seventy one Sochm. seven Bord. having twenty one Car. and an half There was two hundred and eighty Acres of Medow Pasture Wood five qu. long four broad This was the Bishops of Lincoln's But here was some Soc to Clifton of Roger de Buslies Fee which paid the Geld for four Bov. The Land one Car. There two Sochm. had half a Car. and twelve Acres of Medow in Clifton which Town and Spaldford 9 E. 2. answered for one Villa and the Bishop of Lincolne and Iohn de Bussy were then Lords of them It appears that about 36 E. 3. Sir Richard Willughby had interest here And the Certificat of the Lands of the Templars taken in the time of King Edward the second shows they had something here as also in Codington Thorpe by Newark Stoke Sireston Elston Gretton Newark Colingham Sibthorpe Flaufore Barneby Landeford and many Towns in Lincolneshire thereabouts At the Assises at Nott. 10 H. 4. Thomas Chaworth and two others recovered their seisin of one Mess. one Toft twenty seven Acres of Land and nine Acres of Medow in Spaldeford and Wyggesley and Raph Whytle and two others were amerced A Farm Mess. and one Bov. of Land with the Appurtenances in the Tenure of Nicholas Borell in Spalford late belonging to the Preceptory of Willoughton in the County of Lint and parcel of the possessions of the Hospital of St. Iohns of Hierusalem 25 August 37 H. 8. were granted to Charles Sutton Esquire Richard Welby Esquire and Thomas Yorke Gent. and their heirs Spaldford is within the Parish of Clifton Thorney Thorneshagh IN Torneshay of the Soc of Newark there was a parcel charged to the Dane-tax at one Car. and was reckoned together with those Towns before named in Spaldford of the Bishop of Lincolne's Fee Yet Walter de Clifford and Agnes his wife by Fine in the third year of King Iohn conveyed the Advowson of the Church of Turnehage to Thora Prioress of Brodholme and her Nuns there for which they received the said Walter and Agnes into all the benefits of that House Henry de Lacy Earl of Lincolne 10 E. 1. had Free Warren here in Thornehagh Fulc le Strange and Alianora his wife held the third part of this Mannor and he after her death by the Courtesie of England Iohn le Straunge 17 E. 2. was found by the Jury their son and heir and to be then above eighteen years of age he had Lands in Huntingtonshire and Shropshire In 27 E 3. I find Sir Thomas Bret Knight called of Thornehagh and after and sometimes written Byrt and sometimes Bert. It is said 10 R. 2. that Giles D'aubeney Chr. then dead long before his death enfeoffed Henry Molyns William D'aubeney and Iohn Haywood Chaplain of Lands here as parcel of the Mannor of South Ingleby in the County of Lincolne and it appears 12 R. 2. that Gyles Daubeney Chr. died seised of one hundred Acres of Wood one hundred Acres of Pasture with the Appurtenances in Thornehagh by Brodholme as parcel of the Mannor of South Ingleby in Lincolneshire of the grant of Mary the wife of Raph D'aubeney his Father paying her for the whole Mannor fifty Marks per annum during her life which Mannor was held of the Lord Ros as of his Castle of Bever by the Service of 32s. yearly Rent George Nevill Esquire 9 Eliz. suffered a Recovery of the Mannor of Thorney with the Appurtenances and sixteen Mess. twelve Cottages eight Tofts one Dovecoat twenty Gardens four hundred Acres of Land one hundred of Medow three hundred of Pasture three hundred of Wood forty of Marsh one thousand of Moore sixty of Turbary one thousand of Furz and Heath and 7s. Rent and 1l. of Pepper with the Appurtenances in Thorney Wiggesley South Clifton North Clifton and Spaldford and called c. Sir William Mering Knight This Mannor was purchased by George Nevill of Grove Esquire being the inheritance of the Merings and by him settled upon two of his younger sons Gervas Nevile and Dionyse Nevile whose heirs the Neviles hold it at this day Georgius Nevill-Barbara soâ—oâ— una cohaereduâ— Johannis Hercy mil. Georg. Nevill-Gervas s. p. Georg. Nevill de Thorney ... fil .... Terwhyt 2 Georg. Nevill de Thorney -Alicia fil Georgii Stow relict Will. Rothwell Georg. Nevill de Thorney aet 39. 1676 -Maria fil Tho. Boswell de Edlington in Com. Ebor. ux 1 -Elizab fil Jeremi Halâ—head ux 2. Georgius Nevill aet 13. 1676. Elizabetha gemella cum Georgio aet 13. Maria aet 12. Anna 10. Jana 8. Brigit 6. Edwardus Nevill aet 1. 1676. 1 Gervas N. de Hadington in Com. Linc. mil. -Kath fil R. Hutton Justic. Anthon. s. p. Dionysius ... fil .... Gernon Gervasius Nevill de Thorney-Elizab fil Nic. Rayner Joh. Nevill aet 55. 1676. vendidit terâ— in Thorney Georgio Nevill de Thorney -Rebecca fil Rad. Clark Dionys. Nevill de Eastwood in Rotheram Ebor. aet 25. 1676. Joh. Nevill de Grove-Gertrud fil Ric. Whalley The Rectory of Thorney and right of Patronage of the Vicarage late belonging to the Priory of Brodholme 1 May 35 H. 8. was granted to Edward Fynes Lord Clynton and Saye and Rob. Tirwhit Esquire and their heirs who 3 May had licence to alienate it to William Mounson Esquire and his heirs who 20 Novemb 37 H. 8. had likewise licence to alienate the said Rectory and Advowson and forty Acres of Land twenty of Medow and forty of Pasture with the Appurtenances in Thorney Wiggesley and Brodholme to Roger Frape and his heirs Here was a Mess. and some Lands lying in Thorney in the occupation of Edward Lee also belonging to the Monastery of Brodholme 20 Aug. 36 H. 8. granted to Robert Brookesby and Iohn Lyon and their heirs The Vicarage of Thorney was eight Marks when the Prioress of Brodholme had the Patronage 'T is now 4l. 7s. 6d. in the Kings Books and Iohn Disney Esquire Patron Hareby Herdeby Herdrebye IN Herdrebye there was some Soc to Newark which paid the Dane-geld for one Bov but besides that the Bishop of Lincolne had a Mannor which before the Conquest was Godwins and paid the Tax for six Bov. The Land whereof was two Car. There was when Doomsday Book was made five Vill. had two Car. and twelve Acres of Medow Pasture Wood half a leuc long and half a leuc broad This before in the Confessours time had been 40s. but then was fallen to 20s. value The Baylisss of the Bishop of Lincolne for Newark about 53 H. 3. distreined Bryan de Herdeby by nine Oxen worth 4l. to pay 5l. to the Abbess of Grace dieu The Jury 9 E. 1. were to determine whether forty Perches in length and eight in breadth with the Appurtenances in Herdeby were Frank Almaigne belonging to the Church of Clifton of which William de Langwath was
Seal of Arms circumscribed with his name is A Waterbouget and on a Chief two Mullets 10 R. 2. released all his right and claim in Saxelby and the Advowson of Brodholme which were his Uncles the said Sir Gilbert Bridesalls to Sir Iohn Marmion Lord of Tanfeild and others This Mannor and Advowson remained to the Bâ—ssets of Fledborough Iohn Basset Esquire Henry Basset Clinton Basset and Edward Basset his brothers and Elizabeth Basset widow 37 Eliz. levied a Fine of the Mannor of Saxelby to Henry Ballard of Southwell Gent. to whom it was then sold. Thomas Ballard of Saxelby 6 Car. 1. Mortgaged it to Thomas Atkinson of Newark Gent. son of Gilbert and is now the possession of Robert Atkinson of Newark Gent. his son King Richard the second 19 Febr. 12 R. 2. committed to Alionor who had been wife of Giles D'aubney Chr. deceased the custody of the Mannor of South Ingleby in Saxelby and Brodholme in the Counties of Linâ— and Nott. till his heir should be of full age The Jury 1 H. 4. found that Elianor wife of Sir Giles D'aubeney held of the inheritance of Sir Gyles her husbands son while she lived the third part of the moyety of a certain Pasture called the South-dike by Brodholme and the third part of the Wood. It appears likewise 19 H. 6. that Elizabeth who had been wife of Warin Walgrave and formerly of Iohn Daubeney whose brother Sir Giles was his heir held a third part of two parts of 13s. 4d. Rent of Assize of the Prioress and Covent of Brodholme and the third part of two parts of fourscore Acres of Medow called Burton Ings and the third part of two parts of fourscore Acres of Pasture lying at South-dike c. and that Thomas Goldington was her next heir Gyles Daubeney mentioned in Câ—tum about 24 H. 6. left William Daubeney his son and heir of this great Medow Pasture and Wood as parcel of his Mannor of South Ingleby held of the Lord Roos of Bever Alice the widow of Sir Giles about 33 H. 6. left her interest here and three daughters her heirs Amice Isabell and Alianor There was a Recovery 30 H. 8. wherein Thomas Dymock Esquire and Iames Smyth Gent. claimed against William Mounson Esquire forty Acres of Medow sixty of Pasture thirty of Wood and several Fishing in the Water called Newpyttys in Brodeham Saxelby and Thorney who called Henry Earl of Briggewater The Site and House of the Priory of Brodholme and all the Demesne Lands c. 30 Iune 6 Eliz. were granted to Iohn Conyers and William Haber Gent. and their heirs lately in the Tenure of William Mounson Esquire and of the yearly value of 10l. 10s. 4d. Newarke THis Noble Mannor of Newerh was by the famous Leofric Earl of Mercia and his most pious Lady Godiva given with Flatburch in this County now Fledborough to the Monastery of Stow near Lincolne in the time of King Edward the Confessour who with his Queen and Nobles was present at and consenting to the Agreement made between the said Earl and Countess and the Bishop Wulwi that they should have Priests there â—nd altogether the same Service which was St. Paul's at London and that the Lands they should give should be for the Food and Rayment of the Brethren or Friers there And that the Bishop might have for his Table all those things which Aetheric the Bishop and Aednoth the Bishop had before him of those things by right belonging to his Bishopric to wit two parts of all things coming to that Monastery and the Priests the third King William the first confirmed their gifts and at the request of Remigius the Bishop gave to Stow the Church of Eynesham in Oxfordshire and all the Land belonging to it though Stow was accounted but a Cell of Eynesham to which Bishop Robert the Successour of Remigius gave in exchange for Newerch and Stow before or about the tenth year of King Henry the first who by the consent and counsel of his Bishops and Barons had restored and repaired Eynesham Cherlebery Stoches Wdcote and in Cantebriggesâ—yr in Histon fifteen Hides and three Virgats and the Tythe of Thame to wiâ— in Corn Cattel Wooll and Cheese and one Bordar with two Acres Likewise the Tythe of Bannebery and of Croppery with the Bordars Likewise Middelton Tythe and the Tythe of Wax of the Altar of Stow. The Conquerours famous Survey shows that Godeva the Countess paid the Dane-geld the publick Tax of that time for her Mannor of Newarke with the two Berues Baldertune and Farendune as seven Carucats and two Bovats of Land Yeâ— the Land of it in her own time in King Edward the Confessors Survey was returned twenty six Carucats There after the Conquest Bishop Remigius of Lincolne had in Demesne seven Car. and fifty six Burgesses forty two Villains four Bordars having twenty Car. or Plow-lands and an half There were ten Churches and eight Priests having five Car. There were seven French or Freemen Franci homines having five Carucats and an half There was one Mill 5s. 4d. and one Piscary or Fishing To Newerche lay all the Customs of the King and Earl of that Wapentac In King Edward the Confessours time the Rent of it was 50l. in the latter end of the Conquerours but 34l. It had Soc. in Balderton Chelintone Scireston Elvestone Stoâ—hes Holton Cotintone Barnebye Wymunthorpe Storveley Greton Spaldford Torneshay Wiggesley Herdrebye and Cotum St. Remigius in the twenty fourth year of his Pontificate 4 W. 2. viz. 1091. confirmed this Lordship to Stow. Rob. Bloet succeeded him and made the exchange with the Abby of Eynesham Alexander the next Bishop of Lincoln is said to have built the Castle in King Stephen's time though it seems by what follows to be of older date and therefore might possibly be but a re-edifying or repairing it as may by some of the gifts of Robert the second Bishop of Lincolne who immediately succeeded Alexander which King Henry the second confirmed to the Priory of St. Katherins which by the consent of the Chapter of Lincoln he Founded near that City of the Order of Sempingham be partly manifested Amongst which were the Churches of Newerc Norton Martune and Newetune and two Mess. or dwelling Houses in the Borough of Newerc and the Houses with the Land on the North East part of the Mother Church and four Bovats of Land in the Fields of Newerc with the dwelling Houses and twenty Acres in the Heath and a dwelling house which the Church of Newerc had before with two Bovats of Land in the Fields And the Chappel of the Apostles Philip and Iames Founded in the Castle of the same Town and Anciently given to the Mother Church with the tenth penny of the whole Toll of the Borough of Newerc except the Fairs And 4s. Land which Malger held in Newerc Simon son of Robert son of Malger de Newark passed to Warin son of Hugh upon Fosse
of Newark his Tenement in Milnegate he paying 6d. to the Bishop of Lincolne and 10d. to the Prior of Thurgarton to whom the said Symon afterwards wholly released it There were some other small parcells belonging to that Monastery as there were to divers others viz. St. Katherins Kirkestede and Neubo in Lincolnshire Croxton and Burton Lazars in Leicestershire Mountgrace in Yorkshire Shelford Brodholme and St. Leonards Hospital in this County and some others Besides here were a great company of Chantryes in the Church of Newark which is now one of the fairest Parish Churches I ever saw but I cannot think the present Fabrick older than Henry the sixth if so old Yet I suppose it better than all the ten mentioned in Doomsday Book which I guess were not all in the Town though in the Soc. Who built it or Founded all the Chantryes I cannot yet discover Here was one at the Altar of All Saints two at the Altar of the Holy Trinity one of St. Nicholas one of Corpus Christi one of Mary Magdalen another called William Saucemers another William Newarks Besides here were divers parcels of Land and several Houses given to the maintenance of Priests that were in the nature of Chantries Here was also a certain great House of Friers of the Order of St. Augustine which was granted from the Crown 35 H. 8. to Richard Andrewes and Nicholas Temple and their heirs Sir Iohn Markham had it and since it was Sir Francis Leekes dwelling House and also the Lord Deyncourts his sons but his son the present Earl of Sâ—arsdale sold it lately to Mr. Matthew Ienison the present owner Next it Southwards stands another great House called the Chantry in which dwelt William Leck half brother of the said Lord Deyncourt and Father of the present Sir Francis Leek Knight and Baronet who made it also his principal residence Next that is the Free-School which together with a Song-Schoole scituate on the North-west point of the Church-yard for an Organist and six Queristers was Founded by Thomas Magnus Arch-deacon of the East Rideing of Yorkshire and Warden of the Colledge of Sibthorpe in this County which after the dissolution he had for life it being granted to him and Richard Whalley Esquire and the heirs of Richard 37 H. 8. as in that place is shown By an old Tradition in the Town Printed by Dr. Thomas Fuller in his Englands Worthyes he is said to have been found in the Church Porch of Newarke and having neither Father nor Mother was by the people called Thomas Amang us but it appear to be otherwise in his Deed of Settlement wherein he mentions Iohn Magnus his Father and Alice his wife his Mother and Ioane Elizabeth and Katherine his sisters His Arms possibly but of his own time are still in several places of the School and other-where Bendy of six pieces Vert and Gules on a Fesse Or a Lion Passant between two Cinquefoiles of the second with his Motto under AS GOD WILL. The Lordship of Everton in this County was the pricipal part of the indowment for the said Schools with which he chiefly trusted the Vâ—car of Newarke and Brethren of Trinity Guild then the most considerable Governours of the Town of Newarke but shortly after viz. 1 Ianuar. 3 E. 6. it was made a Corporation of one Alderman and twelve Assistants and 2 C. 1. upon renewing the Charter the Alderman Commenced Major and the twelve Assistants Aldermen and so it continues with what additions our present Soveraign King Charles the second hath made in the new Charter as chusing two Burgesses to serve in Parliament inlarging the compass of their Jurisdiction by annexing several Towns and the like The whole Mannor Sok and Wapentak continued to the Bishops of Lincolne till the time of Edward the sixth that Rands alias Holbech then Bishop of Lincolne surrendred it to the Crown in which it still remains It was usually divided into the Borough of Newark and Northgate at the further end whereof from the Town stood a fair House belonging to the Hospital of St. Leonard of Stoke commonly called the Spittie which Sir Robert Constable had by Lease the interest whereof his son Henry Constable had and from him it came to William Cecill Esquire late Earl of Exeter who built a goodly House there which after his decease was by Act of Parliament 17 C. 1. exchanged from the Hospital for Lands of better value and estated upon his widow Elizabeth the Countess Dowager of Exeter and her heirs Shortly after the Wars happened and Newarke became one of the most considerable Garrisons the King had in which the Loyalty and courage of the Townsmen were ever remarkable and sufficiently manifested in all the three Sieges at the first whereof Sir Iohn Henderson the prudent Governour caused all Northgate and that fore-mentioned House the Spittle to be burned yet the Case of it made a receptacle for the Enemy at the second Siege where Prince Rupert took a goodly train of Artillery which I saw together with their Foot Arms when he so fortunately relieved the Town then under the Government of Sir Richard now Lord Byron but before the third there was not one Stone left unthrown down and in or near the place a strong Fortification raised in Sir Richard Willis his time as I remember and called the Kings Sconce which by his Majesties Special Command then in the Scots Quarters on the North side the River Trent was about the sixth of May 1646. with the Town and Castle and the rest of the Fortresses concluded by the Commissioners of the Right Honourable Iohn Lord Bellasis the last Governour to be Surrendred the Saturday following though 't is said that Mr. Smith the valiant Major upon his Lordships communicating to him the Kings Order urged the said Governour with Tears to Trust God and Sally rather than think of yielding the Town which indeed at that time suffered more by the Plague within than the Enemy without The Vicarage of Newark was 18l. when the Prior of St. Katherins was Patron 'T is now 21l. 5s. 2d. in the Kings Books and his Majesty Patron Upon the upper part of the North Porch on a Shield there is a Crosse Croslet Botoné The great Window of the Cross South I le sâ—ems to have been given by William Philpot wherein the Arms of Deyncourt are often placed In the contrary I le is Arg. a Chief Gules and Bendlet Azure Crumwell quartering with Cheque Or and Gules a Chief Ermine Tateshal Gules three Sheaves within a Bordure engrailed Or Arch-bishop of Cant. Arg. a Chevron with a Cinquefoil sable in the first quarter Rempston Azure two Chevrons Or Chaworth quartering Arg. an Orle of Cinquefoiles about a Scutcheon sable Caltoft Azure five Fusills in Fesse Or each charged with an Escallop Gules Plumpton quartering Sable A Bend between six Scallops Or Folejambe Arg. three Birdbolts Gules Bozome Arg. on a Saltier engrailed Sable
Stone there was also Here lieth Thomas Trowell and Dianise and Margaret his wives Henry Iohn William Iohn Elizabeth Annes Iohn Margaret Alice his Children by Dianise his wife which Thomas died Anno 1536. the 2d. of May. Chillewell IT seems by the Book of Doomsday that here were two Chillewelles one whereof was call'd Estre Cillewelle both Soc to Barton of Raph Fitz-Huberts Fee and answered the Tax or Geld as three Car. and three Bov. of Land The Land was four Car. and an half There Raph had one Car. and two Sochm. and five Vill. and thirteen Bordars having six Car. or Plows and two Draught or Plowing Oxen. There was seventy Acres of Medow and half a Church and four Acres of small Wood and four Acres of Oziers or Holt. In Childewelle of that Soc five Bovats for the Geld were in Tolvestone Here was also of William Peverells Fee Soc to Tovetune as much as was rated to the publick Geld at three Bovats And in Estre-Cillewelle of the Taynland here was a Mannor which before the Conquest Dumine had and paid to the Tax for five Bovats for it The Land being then certified to be five Bov. Erwin after the Conquest had there one Villain with half a Car. and twelve Acres of Medow In the Confessours time the value was 5s. 4d. in the Conquerours but 3s. 4d. Odo de Bonâ—y and his successour Edward already mentioned in Barton and several other places were undoubtedly the first Tenants of Fitz-Huberts Fee howbeit Raph Fitz-Stephen and Hubert Fitz-Raph passed afterwards to the Abby of Derley the Land of Pentric and of Rippele and of Ulkerthorp and the Land of Chillewell belonging to the Mannor of Pentriz Norman de Montfautrell as other of Peverells Men did in several places gave two parts of the Tythes of his Demesne in Chillewelle which Will. Arch-bishop of York afterwards confirmed to Lenton Priory as in that place may be noted Iohn Constable of Chester gave to God and the Church of the holy Trinity at Lenton and his Brethren the Monks there serving God any first draught of Sperlencs so in Lancashire and Cheshire they now ordinarily call Smelts therefore I here suppose Gudgeons next after the draught of his Steward in his Fishing of Chillewell and whatsoever in the said draught God should bestow on the said Brethren as Salmon or Lamprey or any other kind of Fish he gave them freely The Witnesses were Henry Biset and Albreda de Lisures his wife sister of the Constable and Geoffrey the said Constables son Sanson de Strelley Gaufr Hugh and Philip his sons Roger de Weston and many others At another time he gave the said Monks a draught in the River of Merse called Sandwarpe so that the Fish should be for the Monks own use and not let to Farm and there he mentioned the third draught in the Fishing of Chillewell where he also gave them an Acre of his Demesne to enclose to make a dwelling for their Servants to look after their Fishing for which they were to make an Anniversary for his Father and Mother during his life and afterwards for himself to this were Witnesses after some Clergy Robert Constable of Chester his son miswritten I suppose for Roger Raph de Furneis Samson de Siretley Richard and Gaufr sons also of the said Constable Iohn and others The Family of Strelley held Lands here from the time of Henry the first till about 27 H. 8. that Thomas Poutrell by partition had them as one of the four co-heirs of Iohn Strelley Esquire with which Family of Poutrell some of them yet continue Robert de Moyz 14 H. 3. claimed against Robert de Estradlegh two parts of three Bovats of Land with the Appurtenances in Chelewell whereof Robert de Moyz his Father was seised in the time of Henry the second and eleven Bovats of Land with the Appurtenances in Chelewell as his own right whereof one Isilia his great Grandmother was seised in the time of H. 1. There were Lands parted to the five sons of Isilia whereof three Robert Henry and Richard she had by her first husband William de Moyz but Samson and Rog. she had by her second husband Walter de Stradlegh Samson was Father of Walter de Strelley the Father of Robert the Defendant who pleaded that Robert son of Will. de Moiz and Isilia had no son by his married wife as he did likewise the same Term concerning twenty four Bovats in Haselbech in Darbishire which he had passed to Philip de Stradlegh about which Nicholas de Karl Adam de Herthell Iohn Bret and Roger de Ayencurt were the four Knights summoned to chuse twelve to make a recognition of the Grand Assize between the said Robert de Moyz Complainant and Robert son of Walter de Stradlegh Defendant They came and chose Richard de Cursun Hugh Pycot Richard Putrell c. Robert de Strelley died seised about 12 E. 1. of twelve Bovats here and likewise of sixteen more which he held of Henry de Grey His son and heir Robert was then found to be above thirty years of age and his son and heir Robert de Strelley 30 E. 1. was found to be twenty years old on St. Matthews day There was then mention of a Wind-mill and customary Tenants at Chilewell Robert de Strelley is certified to have held here the fourth part of a Knights Fee of Henry de Grey and the Abbat of Derley the third part of one of the heir of Anker de Frechevill and Robert Dethec a fourth part of a Knights Fee of the Abbat of Derley Richard Martell and William Torkard held shares here also in the time of E. 1. The Prior of Sempringham 8 E. 1. had a Tryal wherein Geoffrey de Southcolme and Ioane his wife were cast concerning two Mess. and two Bovats of Land in Westrechilewell In 9 E. 2. Chillwelle answered for a whole Villa and the Abbat of Derley Robert de Strelley and Richard Martell were certified to be Lords of it These Martells had interest in Ruddington as in that place is shown whose heir was married to Sir William Babington Sir Iohn Babington his Grandson had a sister called Ethelaâ—na married to ..... Delves as in Bridgeford is shown who had a daughter and heir called Elena who carried a great Estate in this County to the Family of Sheffeild viz. the Mannors of Chillewell Ruddington and Béeston that in Bridgeford and Lands in Newton Bramcote Allesworth Stapleford Attinborough Notingham Hucknall Torcard Clifton Bradmere Rolleston and Kellum This Mannor was sold by the Earl of Mulgrave to .... Pymme and since that it is purchased by .... Poutrell who hath also Strelley's part as before is said Certain Lands in Chillwell and the Fishing in Trent belonging to the Monastery of Derley 16 Aug. 38 H. 8. amongst many other things were granted to Robert and Hugh Thornehill Gent. and their heirs And all the Lands
Ioanes late wife of Iohn Lord Grey of Codnor deceased which after the death of the said Ioane came into the Kings hands by reason of the minority of Henry de Grey son and heir of the said Ioane with the marriage of the said heir but he died about that time and the forementioned Henry brother of the said Iohn was Lord Grey and had to wife Margaret the daughter and co-heir of Henry Percy d' Atholl Knight whose son and heir Henry de Grey after her death 4 E. 4. was found to be about twenty eight years old being above nine years of age at the death of his Father the said Henry Lord Grey which was 17 Iuly 22 H. 6. Henry Lord Grey and Katherin his wife said to be the daughter of the Earl of Devonshire suffered a Recovery 5 H. 7. of the Mannors of Estwayt Toueton Barton Radcliff and Dunham in this County to Thomas Leek and Roger Iohnson who were appointed by the last Will of the said Henry Lord Grey bearing date 18 H. 7. to convey them to his two sons natural One of them I suppose the elder called Henry Grey of Towton 13 H. 8. gave three Mess. c. here in marriage with Elizabeth his daughter and heir to Richard third son of Sir Henry Sacheverell of Morley mentioned in Barton and himself died about 23 H. 8. This Mannor in the year 1568. 10 Eliz. was by Richard Whalley of Welbeck Esquire settled one half on his son Thomas who had married Elizabeth and the other half on his son William who had married Barbara the two daughters and co-heirs of Henry Hatfeild In the 13 Eliz. Thomas Stanhope and Edward Stanhope Esquire suffered a Recovery of this Mannor and called to warrant the said Richard Whalley and William his son and Thomas his son and heir In 27 Eliz. and 42 Eliz. Iohn Zouch of Codnor Esquire claimed as son and heir of Sir Iohn Zouch Knight son and heir of George Zouch Esquire son and heir of Iohn Zouch Knight son and heir of Iohn Zouch Esquire son and heir of Elizabeth Grey Cousin and heir of Henry Lord Grey viz. daughter of Richard Lord Grey Father of Henry Lord Grey Father of Henry last Lord Grey Richard Whalley of Screveton then claimed as son of Thomas son of Richard son of Thomas Whalley son and heir of Ioane mistaken for Elizabeth Leek daughter and heir of Thomas Leek as in Screveton may be seen How they ended their Suits I have not found but shortly after the forementioned Settlement and Recovery it was Sir Thomas Stanhopes and Sir Iohn Stanhope of Elvaston in the County of Darby left it to Iohn Stanhope Esquire his son and heir who first Mortgaged and after sold it to Arthur Waren son of Sir Arnald Waren of Thorp Arnald descended of those mentioned in Costock who hath inclosed the Fields and sold some of the ancienter Inclosure lying towards the Trent side to William Sacheverell of Barton Esquire with the Ferry Bramcote Broncote PArt of Broncote the Book of Doomsday shows to belong to Ernehale the Kings Mannor and was rated to the Tax at six Bovats the Land of it being six Bovats And part to Olaveston now Wollaton of William Peverels Fee charged to the Dane-geld as six Bovats also yet at that time Waste But the principal part seems to be four Mannors which Vlchel Godric Alvric and Levric had before the Conquest and paid to the Dane Tax as twelve Bovats for them The Land whereof was then certified to be no more Afterwards William Ostiarius the Usher or Porter whose Fee it was had two Car. four Vill. four Bord. having three Car. ½ This part in the Confessours time was 60s. value but when the great Survey was made by the Conquerour 20s. was the rate of it Herbert de Brampcote confirmed to the holy Trinity and the Monks of Lenton the gift which Azor son of Vlfac made of two Carucats of the Fee of Arnale which the said Herbert held in Brampcote leaving his heirs the Curse of Almighty God and his own if they should ever attempt to go against his Grant H. de Nevill confirmed eight Bovats of Land in Brampcote and four in Sutton of his Soc of Arnale concerning which there had formerly been some controversie in the Kings Court to the said Priory reserving 12s. yearly Rent to himself and his heirs to this Deed were Witnesses H. de Burgo the Kings Justice William Briwer Stephen de Sedgrave Raph de Nevile Philip Marc William Rufus Robert de Harleston Walter de Estwayt Iohn de Leke Helyas Briton Gervas de Arnale Herbert de Riseley and William de Riseley and the Nuns of Sempringham held half a Knights Fee here which is said to be of the Fee of Mortimer and Henry de Birchinwood the sixth part of a Knights Fee Nicholas Birchwood did Suit for eight Bovats of Land in Bramcote to the Honour of Pevrel 21 E. 1. In the Nom. Villar 9 E. 2. Robert de Byley and the Prior of Sempringham are certified to be Lords And in 3 E. 3. Robert de Billy of Bramcote claimed Assize of Bread and Ale of his Tenants in Bramcote As the said Prior did Free Warren in his Demesne Lands here at Trowell and Chillwell Afterwards Iohn de Beley held that which was Riseleys and 22 E. 3. that which was Birchwoods was become Richard de Willughbyes of Wallaton with which Family it continued and with his posterity Lords of that place still remaineth Richard son of Richard de Willughby 13 E. 2. released to Iohn del Ker of Rotington 9s. 8d. Rent out of 10s. 4d. which the said Iohn was to pay to Richard as part of 1l. 9s. 4d. which Richard had by the grant of Iohn de Thorneton out of a Mess. and four Oxgangs in Bramcote which the said Iohn was to hold of the said Richard by service c. Here was a place called Karr Mannor and some Lands which were Sir William Babingtons Lord of Chillewell whereof his son William Babington Esquire was found heir 33 H. 6. Some part of this Town belonged to Attenborow Parish as in that place may be discerned The Mannor of Bramcote formerly belonging to the Priory of Sempringham was by Queen Elizabeth by her Letters Patents dated 14 Iuly in the sixth year of her Reign amongst other things granted to Charles Iackson and William Mason and the heirs of Charles Richard Handley Yeoman purchased the Sempringham Lands and left his son Henry Father of Henry at Bramcote and Gervas his second son who married An. the daughter of Ierome Brand of Staunton at Wilford where his posterity in the Male-line still continueth Richardus Handley de Wilford .... fil .... Fitz-Williams de Com. Ebor. Henricus Handley de Bramcote-Alicia fil .... Bray Henr. Handley de Bramcote .... Percivall Handley s. p. Gerv. Handley de Wilford-Anna fil Jer. Brand. Richardus H.
de Wilford Gerv. Gervas Handley de Wilford-Kather fil ..... Wharton Rectoris de Wilford Gervas Handley de Wilford aet 31. 1673. Rob. Hen. Hunt Sir William Segar Garter 21 Iune 1614. granted Arg. a fesse Gules betwen three Goats passant sab garnished Or c. Henry Handley had a Mannor here whereof he having buried his only son Percivall Handly made some settlement for pious or charitable uses but his kinsman Robert Harding Barrester at Law keeps it in his possession though Gervas Handly of Wilford did make some attempt to obtain it before he died by suit at Law Beeston Bestone IN Bestune before the Conquest were three Mannors which Alfeg Alwin and Vlchel held who were rated for them to the Tax then paid at three Carucats The land was then certified to be four Carucats There afterwards William Pevrel had in demesne two Car. 17 Vill. 1 Sochm. having nine Car. There also was meadow 24 acres The value in the Confessours time and then likewise was 30s. when the Conquerours survey was taken This Mannor after it was escheated was granted from the Crown to a branch of the family of Bellocampo Miles and Richard paid two Marks for one Knights fee in the beginning of the Raign of H. 3. and Iohn de Beauchamp 40s. another time In the year 1241. Richard de Beauchamp gave two Bovats in Beston which Iordan son of Yvo held together with the said Iordan and all his sequel to the Priory of Lenton Sarra Wawton the wife of Adam de Hockewold joyned with the said Adam in confirming the gift of her Uncle the said Richard who it seems was son of Richard de Bellocamp who had another son of that name and one called Hugh who all died without issue and left their sisters heirs viz. Isabell mother of Robert de Souleby Matilda mother of Iohn de Croxton and Philippa mother of Sarra the wife of Adam de Hockewold who in the right of Sarra his said Wife together with the Prior of Wimundley Robert Daft and William de Ley held this town 21 E. 1. Robert de Whatton is reckoned with the rest instead of the said Adam and his wife by Richard Martel Bayliff of the Honour of Peverell who gave into the Exchequer an account of the Knights Fees 7 Novemb. that year and there Rafe Bellocamp is mentioned to have held it in former time In the Nom. vill 9 E. 2. Roger de Bellocampo is returned Lord of it And after him his son Roger 22 E. 3. as appears by the Inquisition taken the Saturday after the feast of St. Laur. at Nott. before Iohn de Vaus Iohn de Mustiers and Iohn del Kerr Collectors for the aid of 40s. for every Knights Fee to make the Kings son a Knight William de Beston Parson of Cotegrave held divers lands here of Roger de Bellocamp whom I take to be son of Roger son of Ralph son of Roger de Bellocamp of whom the forementioned persons held William de Beston otherwise called William de Beckeford Parson of Cotegrave founded a Chauntry in the Church of Beston for his own Soul and the souls of Iohn his father and Felice his mother and of Alice de Langeton and of his brothers and sisters to which he first presented Iohn son of Iohn de Beston to whom and to his Successors he gave one Mess. and two Bovats in Beston which Matilda Rotour then lately held And one Mess. in the same Town which was Hugh Maistersons together with the reversion of two Bovats of land with the appurnances lying to the said Mess. which Margaret Hereward held for term of her life Likewise one Mess. and one Bovat which were Iohn de Stretleyes of Nottingham and the reversion of a place of Medow called Doddesholm under Lenton and 12d. yearly rent He likewise gave to the said Iohn two Mess. and thirty four Acres of Arable land in Lenton which he had of Iohn de Tumby of Nottingham c. which was confirmed by Iohn Arch-bishop of Yorke by his Instrument bearing date at his Mannor nigh Westminster May 19. 1356. and in the fourth year of his translation Gaâ—fr Poutrell son of Robert P. 3 E. 3. claimed lands here which Henry Putrel of Thurmeton his great Grandfather settled on his Grandfather Henry Putrell and Wilimina his wife in the time of E. 1. Richard de Willughby had some interest here also 27 E. 3. The Mannor of Beeston late belonging to the Priory of Wymondley in the County of Hartford 12 Apr. 29 H. 8. was granted amongst other things to Iames Needham Gent. paying 69s. 4d. yearly rent He sold it to William Bolles from whom coming again to the Crown Queen Elizabeth passed it in the fourty second year of her Raign amongst others to Ben. Harris and Robert Morgan gent. at the extent of 9l. Beauchamps Mannor seems to go by inheritance from Delves to Sheffeild as in Chillwell the Lord Sheffeild hath sold it to divers free-holders of whom I take Mr. Charleton of Chillwell to be chief The Priory of Lenton got the Rectory appropriated and the Church to be made as a Chappel only and Lenton to be the mother Church by the help of the Popes Alexander the third and Lucius 3. whose Letters they produced against the Parishioners and poor Vicar before Iohn de la Laund and William de Hundon Rectors of Arnale and Barneburgh Commissaries especially deputed to determine the cause concerning the repair of the Chancel by the Parish and the payment of 22s. yearly by the Vicar to that Covent in the year 1330. The Vicarage of Beiston was eight Marks when the Prior of Lenton was Patron 'T is now 4l. 15s. 0. in the Kings books and the Earle of Devonshire Patron Stapleford IN Stapleford before the Norman invasion were four Mannors which Vlcicilt Staplewin Godwin and Gladwin had and were rated for them to the Danegeld the tax of that time at two Car. and six Bov. The land of them being then returned to be sufficient for three Plows or three Car. r There afterwards William Pevrel of whom Robeâ—t I suppose de Heriz held it had in demesne three Car. six Vill. and two Servants with six Car. or Plows There was then a Priest and a Church and 58 Acres of Medow In the Confessours time the value was 60s. in the Conquerours 40s. Gaufr de Heriz held it at the foundation of Lenton Priory in the time of King Henry the first by William Pevrel who gave two parts of the tythe of his demesne here to that Monastery as in the rest of his Lands King Stephen confirmed that which Gaufr de Heriz by the consent of his mother gave to that Church The Sheriff 25 H. 2. gave account of lxxixs. and viiid. of Stapleford the Land of Robert de Heriz Galfr. de Heriz Lord of Stapleford had descending of him Robert who died without issue and Agnes who died without
sable with a chief Gules charged with a Lion of England for Creveceur all which impale Azure a Chevron Ermine between three Libards heads Or Ashby of Quenby On a Grave-stone Hic jacet Robertus Tevery conjugio junctus Katherinae Chaworth quae cum tres liberos ei edidisset Johannem Georgium Dorotheam circa festum Pentecosti Anno salutis 1553. Ã marito morte correpto deseritur superstatque eum usque ad annum salutis 1571. Quo tempore faâ—is concessit terrasque relinquit Trowell Doomsd. Torwall THE principal Mannor in this Town before the Norman Invasion was Verebrands who paid the Dane-geld for it as one Carucat and an half The Land was then found to be twelve Bovats Afterwards it became the Fee of William Ostiarius mentioned in Bramcote who had here one Car. six Villains with four Car. Here was a Priest and half a Church and six Acres of Medow This was valued in the Confessours time at 100s. but in the Conquerours when Doomsday Book was made at 20s. Here were of the Land of the Taynes three Mannors more each of them answering the Tax for half a Carucat one of them was Vlchels the Land whereof was four Bovats and waste after the Conquest Alden had it there was Medow two Acres This Mannor had been 10s. but in the time of the Survey 14 W. 1. was but 5s. 4d. value Another Mannor Aluric had the Land whereof was also four Bovats who still continued and held it of King William the Conquerour and had there three Vill. with two Car. and two Acres of Medow This kept still the old value of 9s. The other Mannor Vluric had The Land of which was half a Car. when the Conquerour made his Survey Eruvin had one Bord. one Vill with one Car. and two Acres of Medow in the Confessours time this was valued at 10s. then at 5s. 4d. There lay one Bov. of Land Soc which was waste It seemeth that William Ostiarius his interest came to Mortimer of whom held Philip de Kyme and under him the family of Trowell named in Stanford on Sore Richard de Trowell paid for a Knights fee here in the former part of the raign of H. 3. William son of Richard de Trowell gave to God and the Church of St. Mary in Stanley Park called Dale Abby and the Canons of the Order of the Praemonstratenses there serving God all the lands and the rents of them which Richard his father held in Trouwelle with the homages and services of the Tenants and with the woods of Estlound and Broxhale and with the right of the Patronage of the moyety of the Church which was known to belong unto him Richard de Trowell gave them 3s. rent which he was wont to receive of William de Stanley for two Bovats which he held of him in Trowall And he likewise gave them towards their Pytance the homage and service of Hugh son of Thomas de Corsale with the yearly rent of 7s. which he was wont to receive of him for land which he held of him in Corsale which he bought of Stephen Grenehod William son of Raph de Trowelle gave them the homage and whole service of Hugh Balok of Trowell and his heirs and the rent of 11s. yearly which the said Hugh paid for four Bovats of Land in Trowelle for which Sir Robert de Esseburne gave him seven Marks in a gross-summ and by the consent of the Abbot and Covent the 11s. rent was atturned to the Sacrist of Stanly Parc to buy wine for celebrating the Eucharist in that Church for ever The other Mannors of the Tayns William Pevrel got and so they were escheated to that Crown and were held by the Nuns of Sempringham the family of Brunnesley and the family of Strelley Robert son of Walter de Stretleg for the health of his Soul and of all his Ancestors and Successors but especially for the Soul of William de Dyve gave to the said Monastery of Dale or Stanly Parc three Bovats of Land with the appurtenances in Trowelle one which Thomas Son of Galfr. le Ryver held in villenage with him the said Thomas and all his Cattel and his whole sequell and two more which Letice the widow of Robert son of Henry held in like manner with all her cattel and her whole sequell from the time of making that writing to be begotten And likewise all the Medow which Robert le Vavasor had of the gift of Walter de Halum in Kirk Halum Parc for the sustentation of one Canon dayly celebrating Mass in the said house of the Parc for the Soul of the said William de Dyva in Sutton upon Sore and for the souls of all the faithful departed Strelleys Mannor descended to the family of Poutrell by Margaret one of the daughters and co-heirs of Iohn Screlley and in the year 1612. was Iohn Poutrells Esquire There was a fine 20 H. 3. between Robert de Brunnesley Quer. and William de Stanley Imped concerning two Bovats of Land in Trowell with the appurtenances the right of the said Robert de Brunesley paying yearly a pair of white gloves and doing a foreign service Robert Broun of Brunnesley and Ioane his wife who was daughter and heir of Iohn son of Robert son of Galfr. son of Roger son of Gilbert de Brunnesley who held it in the time of H. 3. levyed a fine 8 H. 6. of the Mannor of Trowell one Mill thirty acres of Land in Brunnesley and Trowell and the moyety of the Advowson of the Church of Trowell to Iohn Cockfeild Esquire Iohn Curson Esquire Thomas Makworth Esquire Iohn son of Henry Bothe Esquire and Robert Oelage of Brunnesley This Brounes posterity probably were called Brunnesleys after their mother as hath been very usual for this Mannor descended to Francis Brunsley as appears byâ—an office taken at Nottingham 15 March 39 Eliz. after his death whose son Gervase Brunsley Esquire sold it to Iohn Hacker Gentleman with whose posterity it continues The rents of Assize of the Free-holders viz. 14s. 11s. per annum three Mess. one Bovat and Trowell Mill with the waters and fishing belonging to it c. formerly belonging to the Monastery of Dale amongst other things 21 Iuly 10 Eliz. were granted to Percivall Bowes and Iohn Moysier Gent. and the moyety or purpart of the Mannor of Trowell demised before to William Cox for 6l. per annum together with the right of Patronage of the Rectory of Trowell sometimes belonging to the Priory of Sempringham 9 Iuly 16 Eliz. were grant-to Drugo Drurie Esquire and Richard Downing These Monastery Lands Sir Percivall Willoughby of Wollaton had The Rectories of each moyety of Trowell were x. Marks a piece when the Prior of Sempringham and Mr. Cockfeild for Brunnesleys were Patrons They are now 4l. 14s. 6d. a piece in the Kings Books and Sir Francis Willoughby and William Hacker Gent. Patrons The Arms of Brunnesley viz. Quarterly per
process or Plaints He likewise granted them daily two Cart-loads of dead Wood and Heath in Bescowod and also Royal Liberties and Customs viz. Sach Soch Tol Them and Infangenthef and quittance from Scyre and Hundreth from Wapentach and Treding or Frankpledge from Army and every Custom and secular exaction except Murder and Dane-geld King Stephen being at Notingham at the very earnest intreaty of William Peverell the younger together with Oddona his wife and Henry his son confirmed what William Peverell his Father or William himself or any other Benefactors had done to this Priory of which besides those already named Robert Earl of Medlent who gave the Churches of Wiggeston and Withingston in Leicestershire Hugo de Burun who by the consent of his sons Hugh and Roger gave the Church of Horseley in Darbishire and Cotegrave in this County with a Virgat or more Land there with some in Almton given in exchange for the Church of Ossington formerly given to this Priory by the said Hugh de Burun and after to the Knights Templars and Odo de Boney who gave two parts of the Tythe of his Demesne and the Churches of Barton and Adinborow were the chief The succeeding Kings were not wanting in their respective confirmations but added more and augmented the priviledges of this place so that at the dissolution it was valued at 329l. 15s. 10d. ob King Henry the eighth Mar. 23. 36 H. 8. in consideration of the good true faithful and acceptable service of his beloved and faithful servant Francis Leek Knight to him before those times many waies performed granted him many Lands and Tythes in Darbyshire belonging to several Monasteries and amongst the rest some Lands and Tythes in Home Duston Whitwell and Ledworâ— in the Peak late belonging to the Monastery of Lenton and then in the Kings hands by reason of the Attainder of Nicholas Heathe last Prior of that Monastery lately Attaint and Convict of High Treason The Mannor of Lenton amongst other things was by Letters Patents bearing date 9 Sept. 4 C. 1. granted in Fee Farm to Edward Dichfeild Salter Iohn Highlord Skinner Humfrey Clarke Dyer and Francis Mosse Scrivener Citizens of London who by the appointment of divers Aldermen and Commoners of the City of London constituted Commissioners and Authorized by divers Acts of the Common Council of Major Aldermen and Commoners of the said City to sell and dispose of the Mannors Lordships Lands and Tenements to them by the said King granted did by their Indenâ—ure bearing date the sixth day of November in the sixth year of the said King Charles the first for the summ of 2500l. paid to Robert Bateman then Chamberlain of London sell to William Gregory of Nott. Gent and his heirs the said Mannor of Lenton with the Fair and all Royalties and Priviledges Rents and Services thereto belonging reserving the Fee Farm Rent of 94l. 5s. to the said King his heirs and successours who by his Letters Patents dated Decemb. 16. in the thirteenth year of his Reign amongst other things did grant the said Fee Farm Rent of 94s. 5s. per annum to the Right Noble Iames Stuart Duke of Richmond and Lenox who by his Indenture bearing date Febr. 20. Anno Dom. 1650. for the summ of 1460l. sold the same to Iohn Gregory son and heir of the said William and to George Gregory his son and heir the present owner who obtained the present King Charles the second his Letters Patents bearing date 9 Novemb. in the fifteenth year of his Reign for another Fair to be kept at Lenton every year on the Wednesday next after Pentecost and six several daies following but the Demesne of the Abby of Lenton was granted to William Hicks Esquire now Sir William Hicks 20 Iun. 2 Iac. And Mr. William Nix Alderman of Nott. had Lands there which are now Mr. Thomas Charletons who married his daughter Tabitha There was only one square Steeple left of the Monastery which not long since fell down and the Stones of it were imployed to make a Causey through the Town The Vicarage of Lenton was 12l. when the Prior was Patron 'T is now 9l. 2s. 6d. in the Kings Books and the King Patron Radford Redeford IN Redeford in the time of King Edward the Confessour Alvric had a Mannor which paid the Dane-geld for three Car. The Land of it being then returned to be three Carucats There William Peverel whose Fee it afterwards became in Demesne had two Car. eleven Vill. four Bord having four Car. There were four Mills 3l. and thirty Acres of Medow and three Acres of small Wood and half a Piscary or Fishing This retained the old value 3l. Of this same Land Vlvod held one Bovat in Tayn-Land This Town William Peverel gave to the Monastery which he Founded at Lenton as before is shown with which it was ever mixed and so continues Robert son of Philip of Radeford granted and confirmed to God and the Church of the holy Trinity at Lenton four Bovats of the Villanage of Radeford quit of all Service belonging to him and twenty four Acres of his Demesne with the Appurtenances which his Father gave and granted to that Church to which he also gave all the Land in Aldiswrd which was of his Fee with a Medow called Bradmedow Walter Arch-bishop of York 12 Kalend. of March in the eighth year of his Pontificate being then at Lenton admitted Mr. Raph the Clark presented by the Prior and Covent of Lenton to be perpetual Vicar of the Church of Radeford which Vicarage he made to consist of the whole Altarage of that Church and four Bovats belonging to that said Altarage with the Tythes coming of those four Bovats and likewise the Tythe of two Mills and all that Toft which lies between the Toft of that Church and the Water which is called Lene but the Vicar was to sustain the burdens of the Bishop and Arch-deacon viz. Synodals and Procurations c. Thomas Eâ—inham Prior of Lenton and that Covent 9 H. 5. demised to Hugh Willoughby Richard Nicholas and Thomas his sons their Land which lay within the Precinct of Radford between the inclosure called Stokkinge on the South part and the Field of Broxtow on the North and abutted on the inclosure of Iohn de Brokstow on the West and on the East head on the High-way which leads from Brokestow to Radford during all and any of their lives paying 2s. per annum by equal portions at the Feasts of the Invention of the Cross and St. Martin in Winter but every day the Rent should happen to be unpaid after the set time it was to be doubled and the Priory was to have free passage over it with Carriages all the time as the said Hugh and his sons had The Reversion of the Herbage and Paunage of Aspley Wood in Radford parcel of the Mannor of Lenton demised to Edward Southworth Gent. for twenty one years was granted 6 Eliz. to Richard
Pype of London Leather-seller and Francis Bowyer of London Grocer together with the Site of Wallingwells Priory and many other things August the fifth Aspley-Wood Hall was the dwelling place of Thomas Blyth named in Mapurley in the time of Queen Elizabeth The Vicarage of Radford was 5l. when the Prior of Lenton was Patron 'T is now 3l. 9s. 4d. in the Kings Books and his Majesty Patron Sutton Passeys OF the Taynland were two Mannors in Suton which before the Conquest Aluric and Brun held rated for them to the Dane-geld at twelve Bovats and Vlsi then Lord of Olaveston now Wollaton in which the Soc lay had one Car. and an half for the Geld. The Land was three Car. There was also in Sudtune Soc to Olaveston of the Fee of William Peverel which paid the Tax for twelve Bov. The Land three Car. but was waste in the time of King William the Conquerour as some other Lands of that Soc at that time were Robert son of Raph and all his heirs gave to God and the Church of the holy Trinity at Lenton two Bovats of Land here One of them was that which Erchin held with a Toft divided into three parts the other was half a Bovat which Matthew held but he filled it up and made a whole one of it out of his Demesne This Alms he offered before God and his Saints upon the Altar of the holy Trinity at Lenton for the health of the Soul of his most dear wife Adelina that her memory might be made every year The Witnesses were Richard Abbat of Lecester Robert Avenell Roger son of Adelina Peter de Sandiacre Iofrid Bochart Gubert de Nottingham Herbert son of Gladwin Raph son of Lewin Hugh de Sutton Helric de Sutton Grunquetel Anselinus de Radclive Everard de Lenton and Gervase his son and many others Robert de Passeys gave to God and the work of the Church of the holy Trinity at Lenton for the health of his Soul and of Alice his wife and William his Father and Edelina his former wife fifteen Acres of his Demesne in Sutton William de Passeys son of Robert de Passeys confirmed the fifteen Acres of the gift of his Father and gave four Acres himself In the year 1278. Robert son of William Gyon of Bramcote gave to the Prior and Covent of Lenton 4s. yearly Rent which Hugh de Stapleford Clerk was bound to pay him for four Bovats in Sutton with Homage Ward Relief and all the Appurtenances to this were Witnesses Sir Robert de Stratley Sir Galfr. de Dethec Sir Raph de Arnale Knights Iohn de Cortlingstok Henry de Watenâ—ou Iohn Passeys William Torcard and others William Mailard paid two Marks for a Knights Fee in Sutton in the former part of the Reign of Henry the third But it appears in several other places that the Family of Passeys held it by Serjeancy of finding a Horse and Sack in the Army in Wales In one place it is Recorded that Robert Passeys held two Carucats and an half and that there were two Bovats here of the Soc of Arnale which used to pay 5s. and that Hugh de Nevill held them in his own hand Alice daughter of Robert Passeys had four Bovats of this Serjeancy in Sutton and paid the King a Mark per annum Alan Passeys son of Robert had one Bovat for 4s. the Prior of Lenton sixteen Acres for 3s. William Passeys afterwards came and warranted that Land to the Prior and held the rest of the Serjeancy then valued at 100s. Iohn Passeys of Sutton 7 E. 2. left his son Iohn his heir twenty two years old he held a Mess. and six Bovats of William Mortein at Wollaton besides some Land in Sutton In the Record of Nom. Vill. 9 E. 2. Sutton Passeys answered for a whole Villa and Iohn Passeys was then returned Lord of it The Jury 19 E. 2. found it not to the Kings loss if he granted licence to Iohn Watnowe to enfeoffe Iohn le Colyer of Nottingham in fourteen Acres in Sutton Passeys having 40s. Land and Rent in Notingham besides In 16 E. 3. the Jury likewise returned no loss to the King if Iohn de Colier of Not. gave a Mess. a Toft and five Bovats of Land in Sutton Passeys to a certain Chaplain to celebrate in the Church of St. Mary at Sutton Passeys which Mannor was then become the possession of Richard de Willoughby Lord also of Wollaton with which Family it continued and is now and long hath been totally decayed and only known by the name of Wollaton Parke and other the Demesnes of that Mannor howbeit the Parishioners of Radford say it is in that Parish and within their Perambulation Wollaton Olaveston IN Olaveston through corruption of speech now called Wollaton there was of William Peverells Fee a Mannor which before the Conquest Vlsi had who paid for it to the Dane-geld after the rate of a Carucat and an half The Land was then for twelve Oxen or twelve Bovats There afterwards Warner the Man of William Peverell had one Car. seven Sochm. four Vill. having four Car. small Wood one leuc long one qu. broad In King Edward the Confessours time this was valued at 100s. but when the great Survey was made towards the latter end of the Conquerours Reign but at 60s. The Soc extended into Cotteshale Bruncote and Sudtune The Family of Mortein were the next successours to Warner in this place of which Robert de Mortein lived in King Henry the firsts time at the Foundation of Lenton Priory and Adam de Moretonio 22 H. 2. gave account of xxx Marks of the Amercements of the Forest. Eustachius de Moretoin gave Henry son of William Hamelyn of Wollaton his Villain with all his sequel and Cattel to the Priory of Lenton Eustace Robertus de Moretein Adam de Moretein Eustachius de Moretein pip 9 R. 1.7 Joh. Eustachius de Moretein Willielmus de Mortayn Rogerus Rogerus de Mortein-Isabella una haered neptis M. Will. de Luda Episcop Eliens Willielmus de Mortein Isabella ux 1 -Richardus de Willughby mil. Justic. de Banco-Joâ—na 11 E. 3 -Elizab Ricard de Willubi mil. s. p. soror Joh. dom Grey Hugo Cleric ob 1 Sept. 7 H. 4 -Joana de Riseley Hugo de Willubi ob 10 Sept. 3 H. 5 -Joana fil Joh. Dabridge-court mil. Hugâ— Willoughby de Riseley ob 12 Sept. 1491 -Isabella fil Gerv. Clifton ob 3 May 1462. Johan ob infra aet 1 H. 6. Felicia-Joh Armstrong Thom. s. p. Alicia monialis Rog. s. p. Sibylla ux Bertram Momboucher Bertram Momboucher Bertram consangu haer Hug. Willughby Cler. 7 H. 4. Marger ux Joh. Malory Robertus Malory Williel Malory cons. haer Hug. 7 H. 4. Adam Radulphus Bugge de Notingham Richardus Bugge de Wiluby Ric. de Willughby mil. ob 18 E. 2. Isabella ux 1 -Richardus de Willughby mil. Justic. de Banco-Joâ—na 11
a-year and that Iohn son of the said Warin was his next heir The Jury 7 H. 6. found that William Skevington Esquire held the Mannor of Cosshale of King Henry the fifth by the Service of the fourth part of a Knights Fee of the Honour of Peverell and that Humfrey Skevington his son and heir was one and twenty years of age the first of Iune then past The Jury 13 H. 6. found that Humfrey Skevington held this Mannor of Cossale by the Service of the twentieth part of a Knights Fee the day that he died and that Hugh Skevington was his brother and heir it was 23 May 11 H. 6. in the Kings hands because Hugh was under age and Humfrey dead In a Recovery 15 H. 7. Sir Henry Willoughby Knight claimed against Iohn Marmion Rob. Laurense Clark and Rob. Skevington the Mannor of Cossale Thomas Thurland Iohn Marmion and others 22 H. 7. claimed against Elizabeth Willughby four Mess. one hundred Acres of Land sixty of Medow eighty of Pasture four of Wood forty of Heath and 20s. Rent in Cossale she called to warrant Hugh Willughby and so did Thomas Willughby and Isabell his wife against whom the same persons claimed three Mess. thirty Acres of Land twenty of Medow thirty of Pasture one Water-Mill and 13s. Rent in Lenton and Cossale The Mannor of Cossal alias Cossal Marsh late belonging to the Monastery of Newstede and in the occupation of Francis Willughby 21 Iuly 10 Eliz. was granted to Percivall Bowes and Iohn Moysier Gentlemen The Monastery of Dale had a Wood of fifteen Acres in Shortwood in the Parish of Cossale 9 Iuly 14 Eliz. granted to Sir Christopher Hatton The Priory of Felley had a portion of Tythes in Cossale which King Iames 2 March 2 Iac. granted to Sir Iohn Ramsey Knight and Thomas Emerson This place remains to the Willughbyes and George Willughby Nephew of the last Sir Francis hath a Seat there Strelley Stradleg And Straley IN Straley were three Mannors two whereof were of William Peverells Fee but the third was of the Land of the Taynes and had been Vlchels who paid for it to the Geld as three Bovats The Land of it being so much In the Conquerours time Vlsi and Godwin held it of the King and had there four Vill. one Bord. In the Confessours time this was 4s. value then but 3s. One of the other Mannors before the Normans came was Godrics and paid to the Dane-tax as six Bovats The Land of it being for six Oxen. Afterwards in King Williams time Godwin the Priest had one Car. three Vill. two Bord. having two Car. this kept the old value 10s. The other Mannor was Bruns before the Conquest which was then rated to the Geld at three Bovats This Ambrose held of William Peverell being valued at 12d. though in King Edward the Confessours time it was 3s. The next owner that I have met with any certain knowledge of was Walter de Stradlegh who married Isilia the widow of William de Moiz in or near the time of King Henry the first as in Chillewell is said by whom he had a son called Samson de Stradleg who 22 H. 2. gave account for ten Marks of his amercements in the Forest. In King Richard the firsts time this Samson suffered much as most of our Nottinghamshire Gentry did for being in Rebellion with Earl Iohn William Briewer the Sheriff 6 R. 1. accounting for half a year reckons for 46s. 3d. of the Land of Samson de Stradley then seised by the King as other of his Enemies Lands and Goods at that time were This Samson gave account 7 R. 1. of four Marks for having his Land again but it seems 10 R. 1. that it cost him thirty Marks to have seisin of his Fathers Land because he was with Earl Iohn who as it appeareth esteemed him well when he was King In the fifth year of his Reign he sent his Precept dated at Tikehull the nineteenth of February to William Briewerr to deliver to this Samson de Stratleg the Mannor of Horseley in Darbyshire for his sustentation while he had the Castle of Horestan the Seat of the Burons not very long before His son Walter de Stradleg 9 Ioh. was reckoned to owe a Falcon for having seisin of the Land which was his Fathers at the time of his death This Walter and Hugo de Capella married the heirs of Robert de Sumervill of Oxton Philip brother I suppose of Walter de Strelley had the custody of the heir of this Walter from Galfr. de Mandeville to whom King Iohn gave it Cecilia wife of Walter had the third part for Dower his Land out of which she had it was then valued at 100s. per annum Philip de Stradleg seems to have had some good interest in Geoffrey Fitz-Peter Earl of Essex because 7 Ioh. he was his pledge for the Fine viz. 10 Marks one Palfrey and one Falcon which the said Philip gave the King for having the post-humous daughter of Richard Fitz-Roger to wife with her Land belonging to her besides I perceive that G. Fitz-Peter made the Fine of twenty Marks and one good Palfrey for having the custody of the Land and heir of Walter de Stradlye which in 4 H. 3. Hugh Fitz-Roger the Seneschal or Steward of Philip de Stradly was then making up the arrears of The 20 Iuly 13 H. 3. Robert son of Walter de Stradley did homage and had seisin of his Lands Robert de Strelley was taken at Kenilworth as the Kings enemy and the King 50 H. 3. granted his heir to William de Mortein A Fine was levied 9 E. 1. between Alexander de Hotham Quer. and Robert son of Walter de Stradley and Hawisia his wife Deforc. of the Mannor of Esk which seems to be then settled on the heirs of Hawisia This Robert died about 12 E. 1. leaving then his son and heir Robert above thirty years old who married Elizabeth the daughter and heir of William Vavasour of Shipley in Darbishire by whom he had Bilborough the next Lordship to Strelley Samson de Strelley another of his sons married Luciae the daughter and heir of Sewall le Fone and Amicia his wife one of the daughters and co-heirs of Hugo de Capella before named from this Samson descended the Strelleys of Woodborow in that place to be noted more particularly Robert de Stradley 30 E. 1. left Robert his son and heir aged twenty three years at the Feast of St. Matthew There was a Protection 4 E. 2. for Robert de Vmfravile Earl of Angus Nicholas de Segrave Robert de Strelley and Iohn son of William Howard who had taken a Journey into Scotland with Peter Gavestone Earl of Cornewall Walterus de Stradlegh-Isilia temp H. 1 -Will de Moiz mar prim Samson de Strelley 4 Philip 3 Hugh 2 Gaufr 1 Walter de Stredlegh mil. -Cecilia cohaer 1 Robertus de
while in possession of this Lordship which said Nicholas Strelley lives now in Nottingham upon some ingenious Manufactures in Glass which he spins and orders very commendably The Coals the chief profits of Strelley are not so plentiful now as formerly William de Strelley son of Galfr. de Strelley by a Fine 14 E. 2. settled one Mess. ten Bov. and an half and one Rood of Land with the Appurtenances in Strelley Cossale and Bilburgh on Sir Robert Strelley Knight for life and afterwards on William son of Sir Robert for life remainder to Sir Robert and his heirs The Rectory of Stirley was 8l. 'T is now 6l. 4s. 9d. ob in the Kings Books and the last Patron that I have seen was Nicholas Strelley Esquire as his Ancestors the Strelleys had ever been in all my observations Bilborough Bilburch THere was one Bovat of this Township Soc to Ernehale the Kings own Land but here were two Mannors which Aylric and Vlsi Swen had before the Conquest which were accounted to the Dane-geld for seven Bovats The Land being for so many Oxen. There Ambrose the Man or Tenant of William Peverell whose Fee it was had one Car. two Sochm. three Vill. four Servants with one Plow or Carucat There were eight Acres of Medow and small Wood. In the Confessours time this was 30s. value in the Conquerours 20s. Herbert de Bilburc gave to the Priory of Lenton one Mark yearly out of a Mill which is between Blaccliff and Radford This Herbert gave in Gunnovelston and Molinton also Symon son of Simon son of William gave a Mark of Silver yearly of his Mill in Bilboro called Bobursmilne to Lenton for the Soul of Walter de Kime his brother Petronilla who was wife of Stephen de Faukonberg came and quit-claimed to Walter de Ryebof and Isabell his wife all the Land which was Simons son of Simon in Nott. and Derbishires for her self and heirs for ever these persons are named in Cuckeney There was a Fine at Notingham 4 Ioh. whereby William de Gatton passed his right and Title in three Bovats of Land in Bileburgh to Walter de Riboef and Isabell his wife Robert Fitz-Aman in King Iohns time claimed as his right against Simon de Kime whom Walter de Ribof and Isabell his wife called to warrant half a Knights Fee in Bilenburch whereof Ivicia his Grandmother was seised in the time of King Henry the first and from her the right descended to Robert her son and from him to Raph his brother Father of the said Robert Fitz-Aman Simon pleaded that the said Ivicia had an elder sister called Emme who had a certain son called Robert who had a son called Ivo de Heriz then alive who had as much right and without him he would not answer Robert acknowledged that Emme was the elder sister but when the Inheritance was divided to Emme were assigned Gunnolveston and Keilmerse as her purpart whereof her heirs were yet seised and that to Ivicia were assigned Molinton and Bloubroc to which the said half Knights Fee belonged for her purpart Simon de Kime produced the Charter of King Henry the second wherein was contained that he granted and confirmed to Simon son of William which Simon was Grandfather of the said Simon de Kime all the Tenements which he held of him in Capite to wit Bileburch Robert had the better at that time Philip de Kyme was found 11 E. 1. to have had a Knights Fee in Bilburgh Robert de Strelley held in Bilborough in the right of Elizabeth his wife half a Knights Fee of Walter Rybof of the Eschaet of Peverell Richard Rybof is also mentioned to pay for half a Knights Fee here But Robert le Vavasor was the constant owner in the time of Henry the third in whose Reign he was many years High Sheriff of these Counties of Nott. and Derb. viz. the 20 and 22 and 23 and the 30 till the 39. This Mannor hath gone along with Strelley as it still doth some part of it being in Strelley Park The Rectory of Bilburgh was 10l. 'T is now 6l. 2s. 6d. in the Kings Books and the last Patron that I have found is George Strelley as his Ancestors used to be formerly Broxtow Broculstowe 'T Is like this place in ancient time was made use of for the people of the Hundred to meet in because it gives name to the Wapentak Here was of the Soc of Ernehale Ancient Demesne as much as was rated to the Dane-geld at one Bovat but in the time of the Conquerours Survey it was waste and of William Peverells Fee here were five Acres which lay to Nuthale but here was also a Mannor in Broculstowe of the Fee of Robert Fitz-William which before the Conquest was Godrics and answered the Tax for three Bovats the Land of it being so much here the said Robert had one Car. and one Vill. Small Wood one q. long and one broad In the Confessours time it was 16s. in the Conquerours but 8s. value Gilbert son of Eustachius de Broculstowe gave to the holy Trinity of Lenton and the Monks there serving God one Toft in Broculstowe on the East part of the Church Galfr. de Broculvestowe held the Bovat of the Soc of Arnale for 12d. yearly He held there also two Bovats of H. de Nevill and other Lands In the 9 E. 2. Broxstowe answered for half a Villa and Iohn de Broxstowe was Lord of it By an Inquisition taken at Nott. the Saturday after the Feast of St. Michael 7 H. 6. before Thomas Mapurley and his fellow Commissioners it appears that the Jury of which Iohn Broxstowe was one found that in the Parish of Broxtowe there were not then ten Inhabitants who were House-keepers or Housholders Henry Lord Grey of Codnour about 22 H. 6. died seised of this Mannor then said to be held of the Soke of Arnale The Mannor of Brokestow with the Appurtenances two Mess. one Vill. sixty two Acres of Land and thirty two of Medow in Baseford and Allesworth were settled by a Fine 14 E. 4. on Thomas Parker and Ioane his wife and the heirs of their Bodies remainder to the heirs of Ioane In 7 H. 8. Henry Willughby Knight Iohn Markham Knight Richard Egerton Clark and Thomas Thurland Esquire claimed against Anthony Fitz-Herbert Serjeant at Law and William Whithalgh the Mannor of Broxstowe with the Appurtenances as also four Mess. ten Tofts one Mill two hundred Acres of Land forty of Medow two hundred of Pasture and forty of Wood with the Appurtenances in Brokstow Bilborough Basford and Alsworth who called to warrant George Parker Gentleman Another Recovery was suffered 7 E. 6. wherein Walter Whaley Esquire claimed against Hugh Willoughbie Knight and Ioane his wife the Mannors of Brocstow and Basford with the Appurtenances and fourteen Mess. two Mills c. with a great number of Acres and 30s. Rent in Billeborough and Basford and
principal Farm was by him repurchased in his life time which now with Copleyes Mannor remains the Inheritance of the Earl of Clare Cokfeilds came to Taylboys and the next descent to Iohn Ayscough son and heir of Sir Will. Ayscongh the Judge in whose Family it continued till Sir Rog. Ayscough sold it amongst Freeholders Another Mannor in Baseford was called Algarthorpe and afterwards Eland-Hall from the possessors of it of that name Eustachâ—us de Moreton Lord of Wollaston confirmed the Alms which Robert de Moreton his Grandfather and Adam his Father gave to God and the Church of the holy Trinity at Lenton and the Cluniac Monks there serving God viz. 16s. per annum out of that which Gerard de Algarthorp held of him and his Ancestors viz. 10s. at Pentecost or within the Octaves and 6s. within the Octaves of St. Martin This was also confirmed by Adam son of Adam de Moretuin brother of the said Eustachius Robert Daft paid 10s. in the time of Henry the third for the fourth part of a Knights Fee which he held in Algarthorp In 28 E. 1. by a Fine levied at York Adam le Paumer and Isabell his wife passed the Mannor of Algarthorp to Iohn le Paumer the younger and his heirs William de Eland the Kings Servant valettus who lately had the custody of the Castle of Nott. and the Bayliwick of the Honour of Peverell in the Counties of Nott. and Derb. for life had the said Bayliwick 26 Septemb. 10 E. 3. granted to him and his heirs paying fourteen Marks yearly William son and heir of William de Eland 41 E. 3. acknowledged himself to hold the Bayliwick of the honour of Peverell in the Counties of Nott. and Derby of the King by the Service of paying 14s. yearly William Eland married Cecily the co-heir of Robert son of Sampson de Strelley as in Radcliff may be noted Stephen de Strelley 28 E. 3. passed Lands and Rents in Radclive and Lamcote to William Eland and Cecily his wife and William their son This Family had their chief residence at this Algerthorp which gave it the name of Eland-Hall William Eland Esquire possibly the Grandchiâ—d of the first about 8 H. 6. left his son William his heir above nine years old William Eland died the 27 Decemb. 17 H. 6. and left his son and heir William aged twenty weeks and four daies 3 Iun. when the Inquisition was taken in the tuition of Margaret his widow mother of the Infant By an Inquisition taken at Nott. 31 Octob. 9 H. 7. it appears that Henry Eland who it seems was brother and heir of Thomas Eland and forty years old 5 E. 4. when his said brother left the Bayliwick of Peverell in both these Counties to descend to him died 8 Sept. 9 H. 7. seized of this Mannor there said to be held of Sir Henry Willoughby as of his Mannor of Wollaton some small parcels in Radcliff and Lamcote and diverse other places as Adbolton Calverton Bagthorp Brigford at Brig end and an Essart called Eland Close and that Mary Eland daughter of Thomas Eland son of the said Henry was his Cousin and heir then aged one year and one month She married Roland Revell and after his death the 8 Novemb. 23 H. 8. conveyed this Mannor and all her Lands Rents and Services in Algarthorp Basford Adbolton Oxton Radcliff Calverton Lamcote Eland and elsewhere in the County of Nott. together with the Bayliwick of the honour of Peverell in the Counties of Nott. and Derb. to Randall Revell because he had holpen her in the great Suits she had with Nicholas Styrley Esquire concerning her said inheritance and for that Hugh Revell his son was her Cousin and next heir viz. son of Ioan sister of Thomas Eland her Father It was afterwards sold to Thomas Hutchinson of Outhorp who gave it to Iohn-Hutchinson his second son whose Grandchild Iohn Hutchinson was Lord of it It is now sold to ...... In Basford Town 1612. were owners William Lord Cavendish Sir Iohn Hollys Sir Iohn Byron Sir Percivall Willoughby Knights Godfrey Copley Esquire George Strelley Esquire Mary Hutchinson widow George Hutchinson Gent. Geoffrey Brock Gent. Iohn Speed Clerc Francis Byfeild Gent. Iohn Kyme of Nott. Gent. c. The Rectory of Basford 8 Ian. 4 Eliz. in the occupation of Roger Woâ—d late parcel of the possessions of the Priory of Catesby in the County of Northhamton was granted to Iames Hardwicke and his heirs This Church of St. Leodegarius of Baseford with the Lands Tenements and Appurtenances there was given by the before named Robert son of Philip to the Prioress and Nuns of Catesby of which place he seems to have been a principal Founder his son William was likewise a Benefactor The Rectory it should be Vicarage of Baseford was ten Marks when the Prioress of Cateswyke or Catesby had the Patronage The Vicarage is now in the Kings Books 8l. 17s. 6d. and in his Majesties Patronage In the South Window of the Chancel Arg. a Chevron between three Pâ—ts with Ears and three feet a piece Gules within a Bordure sable Besanty Mounboucher impaling Sable a Bend between six Escallops Or Folejambe Azure a plain Crosse countercompony Arg. and Gules Cokfeild impaling Folejambe and Folejambe impaling Arg. a Bend Azure Crusuly Arg. it should be Or Lowdham On the Church North I le East Window Paly of six Arg. and Azure a Bend Gules Annesley Paly of six Arg. and Azure Strelley Arg. a Chief Gules and Bendlet Azure Crumwell Arg. a Lion Rampant Queve Furchè sable Cressy Arg. a Bend Azure Crusuly Or Lowdham Arg. on a Saltier engrailed sable nine Annulets Or Leek Annesley with a Mullet on the top of the Bend. Strelley with a Cinquefoyle Gules in the middle Strelley of Woodborough Maperley THE Wood of Basford which was Iohn de Cokefeuds and Robert de Orrebyes 15 E. 1. was found wholly wasted and had been so of old Iohn son of Robert de Orreby and Iohn Cokfeld had taken 2s. 6d. a year for five and twenty years last past and appropriated the Wood to themselves without warrant and therefore were amerced Hugh de Nottingham Clark 25 E. 1. had Lands in Nottingham called Cornerwong confirmed to him and his heirs by Bounds c. In 31 E. 3. it was found that Iohn Montgomery then dead made one Essart of old besides the Kings Wood of Nottingham that was called Cornerwong and it contained thirty Acres of ground and was sown since the last regard The heirs of Alice Palmer held one Essart of old called Basfordwong containing twenty Acres William Eland was then Tenant viz. some while after 31 E. 3. about which time that Essart was thought to be made Adam Palmer made one Essart of old of five Acres and one Rood of the Kings Demesne at Algerthorp of this William Eland was also Tenant In the time of Richard the second Thomas Mapurley was a
considerable Man at Nottingham on his Seal was a Bend between six Crosse Croslets He or his posterity became possessed of the chiefest part of these Grounds which was the occasion of their being called Maperleys Closes and since there being a Cottage House or two and some odd Barns erected it goes for a small Hamlett called Mapurley Iohn Mapurly Esquire 3 H. 8. then living at Bullwell suffered a Recovery of two hundred Acres of Land in Basford called Cornerwong with the Appurtenances to Thomas Archer and Iohn Byron Esquire Iohn Byron and Iohn Byron his son 1 March 1609. for the consideration of 100l. alienated the premises to Robert Staples of Nottingham together with a Cottage or Tenement and Barns thereto belonging Robert Staples and Maud his wife 1612. settled in consideration of marriage Cornerswong or Mapurly Closes containing sixty Acres with one Cottage c. on Alexander Staples and Ioane his wife and the heirs of their two bodies and in default thereof on Alexander and his heirs Robert Querneby of Nottingham son and heir of Elizabeth wife of Humfrey Quarneby daughter and heir of Robert Mellors and Iulian his wife daughter I suppose and at length heir of Iohn Mapurley by his Deed dated 14 Decemb 31 Eliz. in consideration of marriage which had been before that time solemnized between Thomas Blyth one of the younger sons of William Blâ—â—he and Mary one of the daughters and heirs of him the said Robert Querneby settled on George Beardmore and William Monk and their heirs certain Lands and Tenements in Nottingham and five Closes in the Lordship or Parish of Basford in trust for himself and his heirs His other daughter and heir Elizabeth was married to Iohn Kyme as in Nottingham will be shown In the third year of King Charles the first 11 Apr. 1627. Thomas Blyth the elder and Mary his wife and Thomas Blyth the younger and Magdalen in consideration of 500l. sold to Robert Staples and his heirs five Closes in Cornerwong or Maperley On the Seals of Blyth are a Chevron between three Lioncells Rampant and upon some for a Crest a Lion passant on the top of a Tower These are called Nether or Lower Maperley and are now with the other also the Inheritance and Possessions of Samuel Staples who I think had them for names sake settled on him or his Father by the Purchaser Robert Staples in whose House in Nottingham the said Samuel now lives and hath rebuilt part of it of Brick and Stone which before was but like the rest of Wood. And hath also since that built a little Brick house at this Mapurley Arnall Ernehale IN Ernehale King Edward the Confessour had a Mannor which answered the Geld or Tax of those times for three Plow-land or three Catucats The Land was three Car. There King William had one Car. or Plow twenty Vill. and four Bordars having seven Plows or seven Car. pasture Wood in several places three leuc long and three leuc broad The value in King Edwards time was 4l. and two Sextaries of Honey but in K. William's 8l. and six Sextaries of Honey This Mannor had Soc in Broncote Waleton I suppose meant for Wollaton Lenton Broculstow and Bilburch Here was a Family took their name from their Residence at this place whereof Richard de Ernehale 22 H. 2. gave account to the Sheriff of x. Marks for his amercement for his Forest trespasses William de Beleu son of Robert de Beleu who married Alice the daughter of William de Arnal gave her in Dower at the Church door before marriage all his Land in Lamcote remainder to the heirs of their bodies to this were Witnesses Mr. H. de Arnall Walter de Sneyaton Henry de Bully Chaplains Adam de Burgunvill Raph son of William de Arnall William Marescal c. Raph de Arnale in 1278. was a Knight The Jury 19 E. 1. found that Raph de Arnehale held of Iohn de Nevill in the Town of Arnehall one Mess. with a Garden and three Bovats of Land paying him 22s. 4d. a year and an Essart in the Fields of Basford of Iohn de Cokfeild and Stephen de Pancester for 2s. per annum and of divers others as of Raph son of Raph de Crumwell in Lamley two Bovats and the like Raph son of William son of the said Raph de Arnall was then his heir Gervase son of Richard de Arnall 14 H. 3. held three Bovats and one Culture with Essarts But in a Book of Fees in the Exchequer Herbert de Nevill rather Hugh as I suppose is said to hold the whole Town of Arnall and the fourth part of Woodbourgh for which he paid yearly 10l. King Iohn in the fifth year of his Reign the fourth of May at Winchester granted to Hugh de Nevill and his heirs the Mannor of Blanston for the fourth part of a Knights Fee and the Mannor of Ernehale in Fee Farm for 10l. and the Service of the fourth part of a Knights Fee and fourscore and ten Acres of Essart in the said Mannor of Ernehale free and quiet from the regard and view c. and all manner of priviledges Hugh de Nevill held the fourth part of a Knights Fee in Arnall which Hugh de Nevill his Father held The Jury before Galfr. de Neyvill and Henry de Perepont Justices of Assize at the Inquisition at Blitheworth the Wednesday next after the Feast of St. Iohn Port Lat. 8 E. 1. found that Iohn de Nevile held Pleas in his Court of Arnall concerning trespasses made of the Vert in his Wood of Arnal which is within the bounds of the Forest and made Attachements for the same and suffered not his Dogs to be expeditated and not by his own proper authority but as his Ancestors did from the time of Hugh de Nevill the Justice who held Pleas for the King concerning the Forest and was Grandfather of this said Iohn who held the Mannor of Arnall at the time of that said Inquisition Robert Bishop of Bath 18 E. 1. impleaded Sampson de Stredeley and others for cutting the Woods at Arnall who pleaded that the Bishop had nothing in that Mannor but in the name of Guardian of Hugh son and heir of Iohn de Nevill whose that Mannor was and seeing he was not so named they demanded Judgement c. upon which the Bishop desired licence to recede and had it The Jurâ— 2 E. 2. said that Iordan the Rector of the Church of Arnall cut took 20 Okes whilest that Mannor was in the Kings hands William de Arnall sixteen and Raph de Arnall six c. The Mannor of Arnall 4 E. 2. was settled by a Fine on Hugh de Nevill and Ida his wife and the heirs of their bodies remainder to the right heirs of Hugh who 9 E. 3. lest Iohn de Nevill his son and heir Hugh de Nevill son and heir of Iohn de Nevill 13 E. 3. gave
Newthorp which the Jury found to be so and that the said Parson ought not to Common there A Fine was levied at York 10 E. 3. between Ranulf Pascail of Estweyt Quer. and Iohn Arnald Deforc. of the third part of the Mannor of Estweyt which was thereby settled on the said Ranulph for life remainder on Ranulf his son and Ioane the daughter of Roger de Vston and the heirs of their bodies remainder on William brother of the said Ranulph the son of Ranulph and the heirs of his body remainder to Ioane the sister of William and the heirs of hers then to Isabell and then to Agnes her sisters in like manner remainder to the right heirs of the said Ranulph Pascail Pascails part became the Tevereys of Stapleford Hugh Teverey son and heir of Robert Teverey Esquire and husband of Elizabeth daughter of Hugh Willoughby of Riseley 7 Mar. 8 H. 8. died seised of 10s. yearly Rent here which 24 H. 7. was passed to Thomas Bapthorp Chr. son and heir apparent of Raph Bapthorp and others for the use of the said Hugh and his said wife Elizabeth by the name of the Mannor of Estwayt but the Jury at that Inquisition taken at Stapulford 25 Oct. 9 H. 8. after the death of the said Hugh who left his son Robert Teverey his heir and then above twenty one years old found that the said 10s. Rent was held of Sir Henry Willoughby as of the Mannor of Estwayt However some Lands here came by inheritance from the Tevereys to William Palmes Esquire with Stapleford and Eyton in Darbyshire and other Lands which he got an Act of Parliament to enable him to sell and hath sold this accordingly to Hen. Harrison 1668. The Lord Greyes part descended it seems to the Family of Zouch as in Toueton may be seen Sir Iohn Zouch 19 Iun. 28 Eliz. died seised of it leaving Iohn Zouch Esquire his son and heir five Months above twenty one years of age and more as the Inquisition taken at Darby that year 19 Sept. after his death shows Howbeit I find that this Mannor after the death of the last Lord Grey was bought of the King by Sir Henry Willoughby who sold it to Sir Iohn Port and so it afterwards came to the Family of Stanhope by the marriage of Margaret one of his daughters and co-heirs to Sir Thomas Stanhope and as I think was sold by Arthur Stanhope Esquire one of the sons of Philip first Earl of Chesterfeild not long since viz. 1657. to Huntington Plumptre Esquire Doctor of Physick whose son and heir Henry is now Lord of it Thomas Aleyn and Emme his wife 21 E. 4. levied a Fine of twenty Acres of Pasture in Estwayt called Gressebréeches to Gervas Clifton Esquire and 22 E. 4. of thirty Acres of Land there The Rectory of Estwait was 6l. when H. Lord Grey of Codnor was Patron 'T is now in the Kings Books 4l. 13s. 1d. ob and Arthur Stanhope Esquire Patron But now viz. 1674. Henry Plumptre Esquire is Patron Newthorpe PArt of this Village was of R. Earl Moritons Fee in the time of the Conquerour which before was Aelayns or Aluins who had one Bov. for the Geld. The Land was two Bov. There was Pasture Wood eight qu. long half .... broad This was 2s. value in the Confessours time in the Conquerours but 12d. But the better part of this Township was William Peverells Fee wherein before he had it was a Mannor or two which Grunchel had one whereof was rated to the Geld at 5â— Bovats The Land being half a Car. In the Conquerours time this was waste and but 2s. In the Confessours it had been 5s. Another was taxed at five Bov. to the Geld. And the Land of it was also half a Car. and had a Bâ—rew in Chinemerley where were two Bov. waste William Peverell gave what he had here to his Priory of Lenton as in that place may be seen and Robert son of Iohn de Newthorp gave to it something in Folewoode Earl Moritons Fee it seems came very anciently to the honour of Leicesâ—er and was held of the Lords of Goteham Sir Iohn de St. Andrew 28 E. 3. gave 8s. Rent issuing out of a Mess. and Virgat of Land in Neuthorp to find a Light in the Conventual Church of Lenton as he should order it Iohn of Gaunt confirmed to Robert de Teversalt Vicar of Greseley who had it for and conveyed it to the Priory of Beauvale one Mess. seven Tofts two Bovats and sixty Acres of Land and 12s. 7d. yearly Rent with the Appurtenances which he held of Iulian the relict of Sir Iohn de St. Andrew Chr. and Iohn Samon in Newthorpe by the Service of 2s. per annum and they of the Honour of Leicester Robert de St. Andrew of Goteham granted licence to the said Vicar of Greseley to give it to the Priory of Beauvale and so did Iohn Samon of Nottingham for a third part according to the division mentioned in Goteham This Land was most of it held by William Ferrour of Neuthorp who passed it to the Vicar also and his son Iohn Ferrour confirmed it being all the Land Rents and Services which the said William had in Neuthorp except the Mess. he dwelt in which was not passed at that time William de Hickeling Rector of Thornore referred a Controversie between him and the Prior of Beauvale concerning a certain Rent of 6s. 6d. issuing out of a Mess. and two Bovats of Land and one Cottage of his inheritance in Neuthorp which was held by William Ward of Kymerley husband of his sister Maud to Sir Nicholas Strelley William Babington Thomas Hunte and William Wollaton to Arbitrate who determined the Rent to be due to the Priory seeing the Land was held of Robert de Kemerley as of his Mannor of Kemerley whose right the Priory then had Beatâ—ix sometime wife of Robert de Watton gave to the Priory of Lenton two Bovats in Neuthorp reserving 2s. a year Rent by the consent of William de Heriz her Son-in-law and her daughter his wife Robert son of Robert de Kynmerley and Roger Prior of Lenton agreed that there should be a division made between the Woods of the said Priory and the Wood of the said Robert in Neuthorp Robert le Vavaâ—ur of Chyppeley was to fence the Priors Wood which lay next a certain Holme in Newthorp which Roger the Prior of Lenton gave him and his heirs from any loss or damage it should sustain or have from his Millers or people coming to his Mill or else suffer the Prior to shut it up close The Prior of Lenton enfeoffed Hugh son of Peter de Halum in one Bovat in Newthorp for the summ of four Marks and an half which William and Raph his sons returned to the Monastery again Iohn son of Thomas Leech medicus of Neuthorp 22 E. 1. released all Actions and demands to William Prior of Lenton who
Ioane by the name of Ioane de Kym whereby she released the said Tenements and the Castle of Greseley in the County of Nott. but she denied it to be her Deed and recovered the Mannor of Ilkeston as she did at the Assizes at Nottingham the same year 30 E. 3. the Castle of Greseley thirteen Mess. three Carucats of Land twenty Acres of Medow two hundred of Pasture one thousand of Wood and 10l. Rent and William de Cantelupe and the rest were amerced In Trinity Term 13 R. 2. William la Zouch of Bramfeild son and heir of William la Zouch of Haringworth Knight then dead held the Mannor of Elkeston of the Lord of Bello-monte then within age and in the Kings custody as of the honour of Folkingham and the same Term William la Zouch of Harringworth Knight held the Castle of Greyselegh and a certain parcel of Land in Kymerle c. By an Inquisition taken in Yorkshire 26 Feb. 14 R. 2. it appears that William de Cantelup Chivaler then dead held the Mannor of Ravensthorpe with the members viz. Thrilly and Boltby and divers Lands in Azerlawe and Braythwat and that Iohn son and heir of Iohn de Hastings late Earl of Pembroke son of Iohn son of Laurence son of Iohn son of Iohn son of Ioane daughter and one of the heirs of Will. de Cantelupe brother of Nic. de Cantelupe Father of Will Father of Nic. Father of Will Father of Will. de Cantelupe who died within age without heir of his body and Will. la Zouche Chr. son of Eudo son of William son of Millecente daughter and another of the heirs of William de Cantelupe brother of Nicolas Father of William Father of Nicolas Father of William Father of the said William de Cantelupe who died without heirs of his body were at that time found the next heirs of the said William de Cantelupe c. William la Zouche about 19 R. 2. died seised of this Castle and Mannor and the Advowson of the Priory of Beauvale and William le Zouch his son was found his heir William le Zouch Chr. who long before his death settled the Castle of Gresseley on William Lord Roos of Hamlak Chr. and others about 3 H. 5. left William his son and heir From the Lord Zouch this Lordship came to the Crown and was by King Henry the seventh granted to Sir Iohn Savage Knight mentioned in Granby Sir Iohn Manners Grandfather of the present Earl of Rutland who is now Lord of it Iune 16. 1673. purchased it of Sir Iohn Savage and Sir Thomas Savage Lord Savage Father of Iohn Earl of Rivers and Grandfather of the present Earl Thomas The Vicarage of Gresâ—ey was 8l. when the Prior of Beauvale was Patron 'T is now 8l. 5s. 0. in the Kings Books and Arthur Capell Esquire Patron Bevall Beauvale NIcolas de Cantelupe Lord of Ilkeston in Darbishire mentioned in Greseley having obtained licence of King Edward the third dated 22 Septemb. in the sixteenth year of his Reign Founded a Monastery in his Park of Greyseley for a Prior and twelve Monks of the Order of the Carthusians to which he gave ten pounds per annum of Land and Rent in the Towns of Gryseley and Selleston together with the Park of Gryseley and the Advowsons of the Churches of both the said Towns which he got appropriated And this he devoutly did for the glory of Almighty God and the increase of Religion and the Divine Worship and for the good or healthful state of the said King Edward the third and of William la Zouch the Lord Arch-bishop of York his most dear Lord and Cousin and of the Lord Henry de Lancastre Earl of Darby and of himself and Ioane his wife and William his son and heir while they should live and for the Souls of the said King and of all the rest when they should die and for the Soul of Tiphania his former wife and of his Father and Mother and all his Progenitors and heirs wherefore he by his special Deed gave to God and the blessed Trinity Father and Son and Holy Ghost and the Prior and Monks of the Carthusian Order in the Monastery called the fair Vale Bellavallis which he had builded for them in his said Park of Gryseley and their Successors there serving God according to the Custom Order and Rule of the Mother Church of the Carthusians the said Monastery and Park of Gryseley adjoyning and three hundred Acres of Land ten Mess. twelve Bovats with the Appurtenances in Gryseley which Richard le Carter Iohn Pygot Robert Neubell Iohn le Carter Thomas Dey Roger Pygot Hugh son of Agnes Iohn le Maisterman Henry le Cartre Richard Sareson Roger Dey Thomas de Fulwode and Hugh de Pynkeston his Natives or Villains held of him in the said Town in Villanage together with the said Villains their Chattels Sequels and Sects and also 3s. Rent of Iohn Whitteberwe in the Town of Selleston and 4s. 4d. of like yearly Rent of Iohn Arnold in the same Town As also thirteen Messuages and seventeen Bovats and an half with their Appurtenances in the said Town of Selleston which Robert le Coke Iohn above the Kirke Nicholas le Schipherd William le Tayllour William son of Richard le Wright Thomas le Mough Nicola who had been wife of Richard le Wright Iohn son of Richard le Wright Robert son of William Coke and Thomas Cabald his Natives held in that Town in Villanage together with those Natives and all that were born of them and their Suits and Services here also called Sects and Sequells and likewise the said Advowsons of the Churches of the said Towns of Gryseley and Selleston with all their rights and Appurtenances He also granted that the said Prior and Monks and their successours should have Common of Pasture for all manner of Catâ—le whatsoever wheresoever they couched or from whencesoever they came through his whole Dominion or Lordship and Demesnes of Gresly and Selleston in all places and times where his other Freeholders had and that they should have Stone for all the work of the Church and their Houses and Marle to Marle their Lands in all the said places except his Park of Kirkestall To this Deed were Witnesses his said Cousin the Arch-bishop of York Richard Bishop of Durham Thomas of Linc. Roger of Coventre and Lichfeild Henry de Lancastre Earl of Darby William Earl of Northampton and William Earl of Hundyngton Iohn de Grey William Dencourt William de Grey of Sandiacre Knights William his own son and heir and Nicholas son of that William Robert Barnak William Facumbrige and others this was dated at Gryseley 9 Decemb. 1343. 17 E. 3. as was also another of his partly to this purpose but something shorter which had other Witnesses viz. Sir Richard de Wyleby Robert de Streuley William de Grey Iohn de Annesley Knights Hugh Martell Iohn Aâ—tecarre William Dauvers and
what the said Canon is to do and have bears date at Wandesley 1279. the Tuesday after the Feast of St. Edmund the King and Martyr the Witnesses being Sir Richard Launcecumbe Rector of the Church of Derle Sir Roger le Power Rector of the Church of Penkeston and Sir Robert de Stretley and Sir Robert Saucheverell Knights and Roger de Burnisle and Hugh de Chauomer and others In 33 E. 1. there was a partition made of the Mannor of Wannesley between William de Gratton and Isabel his wife and William de Cressy and Iohan his wife A Fine was levied in the Kings Court at Yorke 33 E. 2. and afterwards Recorded the same year at Westm. between Roger de Cressy Querent and Thomas de Cressy and Margery his wife Deforcients of fourteen Mess. fourscore and thirteen Bovats of Land and an half seven Acres of Medow 27d. Rent and the third part of two Mills and of three hundred Acres of Wood with the Appurtenances in Wandesley Selston and Brunnesley In a Plea for a Mess. in Nottingham â— E. 3. before William Herle and his fellows the Munday after St. Martin at that place Iohan who had been wife of William de Cressy daughter and one of the heirs of Ranulph de Wandesleye and William son of William Folejambe of Gratton Cousin and the other of the heirs of the said Ranulph were called to warrant At the Inquisition taken at Nott. the Saturday after St. Laurence day 22 E. 3. before Iohn Vaux Iohn de Musters and Iohn del Ker Collectors of the Aid of 40s. for every Knights Fee to make the Kings son a Knight the Jury found that Thomas de Gretton and in some other Inquisitions the heirs of William de Gratton Iohana de Cressy and Hugh de Cressy held a Knights Fee in Wandesley which Ranulph de Wandesley held in times past Raph de Cressy of Selston granted to Thomas Columbell of Sandiacre his brother his Mannor of Wandesley Thomas Columbell of Thorp in the Clorts passed it to Sir Henry Perpownt Knight Iohn Bowes of Cortingstok Iohn Manchester Iohn Melton of Normanton Thomas Derley of Thorpe and Thomas Waryn Clerk of Boney who after the rest had released to him 13 Febr. 8 H. 6. passed it to Iohn Cokfeild of Nuthall Esquire Thomas Wartre Iohn Oteway Thomas Woodhall Clark and Iohn Chamberlain of Watnow who passed it to Sir Robert Strelley Knight William Vout Clark Iohn Milner Clark and Robert Brige of Selston Raph Shelton of Shelton in Norfolk Esquire Cousin and heir of Iohn Cokfeild released it to Iohn Fitz-Herbert Galfr. Staunton Iohn Bland Clark Robert Trewluffe Clark and Iohn Hygate Clerk who 8 Novemb. 11 E. 4. passed it to Gervase Clifton Esquire upon Condition that he should pay 120l. he being Sheriff of this County Iohn Rosell Esquire and Iohn Kelom the Coroners made warrants for his seisin of Lands in Selston which he recovered before Judge Litilton at Nott. on Saturday the Feast of St. Iames 12 E. 4. against Thomas Brige of Selston viz. fourteen Mess. one hundred and sixty Acres of Land seven of Medow ten of Wood and one hundred of Pasture He passed it to Richard Middelton Esquire and the Lady Maud Greene his wife Robert Throgmorton Esquire and Nicholas Russell Clark to whom also Thomas Brigge of Nott. son and heir of William Brigg theretofore of Selston released all his right in the Mannor of Wandesley with the Appurtenances in the Town and Parish of Selleston Richard Middelton and Maud his wife 18 E. 4. levied a Fine of the Mannor of Wannesley called Cressy Fee to Iohn Stanhope Iohn Fitz-Herbert Thomas Molyneux Thomas Orston Robert Yo le Iohn Blande Clark and Robert Treulofe Clark Iohn Bland passed or released it to Iohn Prior of Beauvale and the Covent of the same with which it remained and amongst the rest of the Lands of that Monastery came to the Lord Capeli with whose posterity viz. the Earl of Essex it still continueth There were two Recoveries in 18 H. 7. wherein Thomas Medylton claimed against Robert Throkmorton Knight and William Rolleston the moyety of the Mannor of Wannesley with the Appurtenances and ten Mess. four hundred Acres of Land one hundred of Medow three hundred of Pasture four hundred of Wood one hundred of Furz and Heath and 40s. Rent in Wannesley and Selston The same Thomas Medylton at the same time claimed the Mannor of Gratton in Darbishire against the same persons There was a Recovery 4 Eliz. of these two Mannors wherein Iohn Byron Knight and Francis Molyneux claimed against Robert Flecher and Edmund Stephenson who called to warrant Robert Agarston alias Middelton This Robert seems to be son of Gilbert as was also Francis his younger brother buried at Selston Aug. 10. 1558. Robert himself was buried there also May 3. 1567. and was Father of Wlli Midleton buried at Selston Sept. 18. 1624. which William died at Cotgrave where he had a daughter Mary the wife of Iohn Whalley her Mother was Troth daughter of Roger Columbell of Darley in the County of Darby she was also Mother of Iohn Middleton who died about 1642. and had to wife Anne daughter of Raph Bache of Stanton in the Peak by whom he left issue William Middleton of Wannesley and Iohn who died a Batchelor William was aged about forty four years 1673. and by his first wife Martha daughter of Brian Norton of Bullingbrook in the County of Lincolne had a son Iohn Midleton heir apparent of this Mannor and Gretton in Darbishire and of a parcel in Brunnesley but he and his son who as I have heard married ... the widow of ... Shepheard of Hempshill are now viz. 1675. both dead Selston Doomsd. Salestone SAlistune before the Conquest had three Mannors in it of three Bovats which Vlmer Gladuin and Vluric had The Land whereof was one Car. This afterwards became the Fee of William Peverel and there four Vill. two Bord. had two Car. There was a Church and three Acres of Medow In elder time the value was 8s. when the Conquerours Survey was taken 10s. Ranulph de Wandesley is certified to hold Seliston of Robert de Stoteville who succeeded Hubert Fitz-Raph so that it seems the greatest part of this place was with Wannesley of the Fee of Raph Fitz-Hubert except the fourth part which William de Roos mentioned in Greseley is said to hold in the right of Eustachia his wife which was Peverells Fee wherein was the Church which Nicholas de Cantelupe gave to the Priory of Beauvale at the first Foundation as in that place is shown William de Roos and Eustachia his wife having in 17 E. 1. and 18 E. 1. recovered it against Ranulph de Wandesly Hugh Fitz-Raph Ancestor of Eustachia mentioned in Greyseley for the Love of God and for the health of his Soul and for the Souls of Agnes and Idonea his Wives of Raph and Hugh his sons and for the
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
de Hamlak Henricus Petrus Petrus Johannes Hugo Meschines fil haer Monachus sine prole wife daughter of Sir William Bernak Knight had Sir Iohn Byron Knight who died without issue and Sir Richard Byron Lord of Clayton who to his second wife had Ioane daughter of William de Colwick and heir of her brother Thomas which brought this Family to have a considerable interest in this County again by her he left a son and heir called Iohn le Byron of Clayton Knight who by Margery his wife had Sir Nicolas Byron of Clayton Knight who married Alice the daughter of Sir Iohn Boteler of Beausey in that County of Lancaster Knight by whom he had Sir Iohn Byron who married Margery the daughter of Sir Robert Fowleshurst Knight but died without issue 1488. having been made by King Henry the seventh so soon as he began his Reign almost viz. Sept. 22. 1 H. 7. Knight and Constable of Nott. Castle and Porter of the same Steward and Warden of the Forest of Shirewood and of the Parks and Woods of Billay Birkeland Rumwood Ouseland and Fulwode with 40l. c. for the said Offices and Sir Nicolas Byron of Colwyck and Clayton his second son who married Iane the daughter of Iohn Bussy of Hougham in Lincolnshire afterwards married to Sir Gervas Clifton by whom he had Sir Iohn Byron Steward of Manchester and Rachdale and Lieutenant of the Forest of Shirwood this was called little Sir Iohn with the great Beard who had this Priory granted as before is said his first wife was Isabell the daughter of .... Lemington by whom he had no issue his second was Elizabeth the daughter of William Constantine and the relict of Roger Halgh on whom he begot soon enough Sir Iohn Byron of Newstede who married Alice the daughter of Sir Nicolas Strelley of Strelley and by her had Sir Iohn Byron of Newstede the husband of Margaret the daughter of William Fitz-Williams by whom he had Sir Iohn Byron of Newstede who had to wife Anne the daughter of Sir Richard Molyneux of Sefton in the County of Lancaster Knight and Baronet who brought him many Children his eldest was Sir Iohn Byron Knight of the Bath created by King Charles the first Baron of Ratchdale he married Cecily daughter of Thomas West Lord de la Ware and after her as I remember Elinor Needham the Lord Kilmurreys daughter but died without issue in France in the year 1652. after he had eminently served the King as his Uncle Sir Nicolas Byron Baronet a Twin with his Father and his brothers Sir Richard William Sir Thomas Sir Robert Gilbert and I think Philip did he was esteemed one of the best accomplished Gentlemen of his time His brother Sir Richard now Lord Byron succeeds in this place who married to his first wife Elizabeth the daughter of George Rosell of Radcliff Esquire the relict of Nicolas Strelley Esquire and to his second Elizabeth the daughter of Sir George Booth of Dunham in Cheshire Baronet by whom he hath no issue by his first he hath William Byron and Katherin William married Elizabeth the daughter of Iohn Viscount Chaworth by whom he hath three or four daughters and a son named William In the Bow Window of the Hall at Newstede there is yet W. S. P. William Savage Prior and the Arms of Newstede Priory viz. England with a Chief Azure in the middle whereof is the Virgin Mary with the Babe Or and Quarterly France and England And Azure a Pall Arg. impaling Arg. a pale deeply indented or Lozengy Sable Savage Bishop of ...... In the Pantry Grey of Codnors and Crumwell quartering Tateshall In Henry the sevenths Lodgings the Pictures of King Henry the seventh and Elizabeth his Queen and Prince Arthur In the next Pane of the same Window Arg. ten Torteauxes and a file of three Labels Azure ... Babinton Militis Barry of six Arg. and Az. Henrici Grey Sable a Bend between six Crosse Croslets Arg. Arme Iohannis Stanhope Armig. These Canons at several Altars were to pray for the Souls of King Henry the second and all the Kings their Founders of Robert Lexington who gave the Towns of Routhorn and Scarcliff in Derbishire and Starthorp to supply four Canons of William Cossall who gave his Mannor of Cossall and Bullwell Wood and divers Lands and Tenements in Nott. and Egmanton of Iohn Longvylers who gave Tuxford Church of Robert and Henry Edenstow Brothers who gave North Muskam Mannor excepting the stipend of the Chaplains at Edenstow of Elias Breton who gave diverse Tenements in Huknall of Dionysia Eynell who gave Tenements in Tershill of Robert Ripers Alice Palmar Hugh Ropley and of Thomas Sutton Kirkeby And Woodhouse THis place in the great Survey called Dooms-day Book is certified to be of the Fee of Raph Fitz-Hubert but before the Conquest in Chircheby Levenot had for his Mannor Land which paid the Dane-geld for ten Bovats being then accounted two Carucats There Raph had in Demesne three Car. and one Sochm. on one Bov. of this Land and twenty Vill. and six Bord. having twelve Car. There was a Church and a Priest and two Mills 3s. and three Acres of Medow Pasture Wood by places two leu long and two broad In the Confessours time this was valued at 4l. then in the Conquerours but at 3l. Here was another Mannor of the Tayn-land which Alvric had before the coming of King William which was rated to the Geld at two Bovats and the Land of it returned then to be so viz. two Bov. He afterwards held it of King William and there had one Car. This was valued then as before 11s. There was also another Bovat which was then waste Henry de Stuteville about 33 H. 2. gave account of 15l. of the Scutage of the Fee which was parted between him and Hubert Fitz-Raph The wife of Robert de Stutevill not long after was in the Kings custody and of the Parentela linage of Edward de Salesbery on the part of her Father and of the part of her Mother of the Progeny of Roger de Rennes she had one Town called Diham which was her Inheritance which was yearly worth 24l. She had one son and two daughters their age was not then known to the Jurors She was usually named Leonia de Reines by whom her husband the said Robert de Stuteville had one son called Henry de Stoteville who inherited the Barony and another named William mentioned to be living 2 R. 1. Afterwards there is mention of the Honour of Iohn de Stuteville concerning the moyety of the Barony of Hubert Fitz-Raph and that there was paid by the said Iohn for fifteen Knights Fees in Kirkeby with the Appurtenances About 45 H. 3. Robert son of Iohn de Stotevill had Market and Fair and Free Warren granted in Kirkeby in 〈◊〉 It appears 12 E. 1. that Robert de Stoteville showed great disobedience and contempt in not coming upon the Kings summons to Aid him
in Kirkeby in Ashfeild and Iohn Thorkard was amerced Sir Henry Pierpoint Knight 27 H. 6. released to Richard Illingworth and his heirs all his right in a Medow called Akbrigge near Hardwick in the Parish of Kirkeby in Ashefeild and in all the Lands and Tenements in the Fields and Gardens of Hardewick aforesaid Elena his Lady 31 H. 6. after his death did the same Henry Pierpoint Esquire 39 H. 6. son and heir of Henry Pierpoint Esquire son and heir of Henry Pierpoint Knight did likewise In 20 E. 4. the Custody of two hundred Acres of waste in the Forest of Shirewood the Lands and Tenements of Richard Illingworth Knight mentioned in Bony called Hardwick Closes and Akebrigge and a Water-Mill called Sutton Mill in the said Forest between Maunsfeild and Hardwick aforesaid were committed to Raph Illingworth and others for ten years Iohn Strelley of Lindby died seised of three Mess. twelve Bovats of Land twenty Acres of Medow and as many of Pasture in Kirkeby in Ashefeild 2 H. 7. Iohn Langton of Kirkeby about 9 H. 6. held when he died one Mess. called Langton Place and six Closes with the Appurtenances of Elizabeth and Margery daughters and heirs of Philip Darcy by the Service of the hundredth part of a Knights Fee Richard Langton was then his son and heir There is an ancient House and Demesnes within Kirkeby called Langton Hall alias Westwood it was granted out by Iohn Lord Stotevile in Henry the seconds time I suppose it should be Henry the thirds and so it first was written to Richard son of Hugh de Ruddington and his heirs by particular Metes and Bounds and shortly after this Ruddington granted the said Lands to Geoffrey de Langton reciting the former grant from the Lord Stotevile to him and that he was in seisin thereof 34 H. 2. 34 H. 3. rather In Langtons Family it continued till Henry the eighths time that Cuthbert Langton dying without issue Male it fell to Fitz-Randolph by the marriage of Langtons daughtâ—â— and heir in whose name it continued till of late Cuthbert Langton 6 H. 8. of Midleton in the County of Warwick Gent. enfeoffed Iohn Markham Iohn Zouch Knights Iohn Willowby Iohn Fitz-Randolph Edward Willowby Nicolas Strelley Esquire Iohn Savidge c. in his Mannor of Langton Hall in Westwood Lands in Huknall Torkard Durty Huknall Maunsfeild Woodhouse Kirkeby in Ashfeild and Watnow Chaworth in the County of Nott. and Birchwood in the County of Darby And there were Covenants of marriage between Christopher Fitz-Randolph on the one part and the said Cuthbert Langton on the other for Christopher Cousin of the said Christopher and Ioane one of the daughters and heirs apparent of the said Cuthbert Christopher Fitz-Randolph de Langton Hall-Joana fil haer Cuthberti Langton Thom. Fitz-Randolph-Kath fil Godfr Folejambe mil. Johannes Jacobus Fitz-Randolph-Kath fil Walteri Mantlemil de Com. Northampton 1 Philalethes at 22. 1614. s. p. 2 Thom. s. p. 3 Ferdinand s. p. Isabell. Edward Christoph. Some Lands in this Kirkeby belonging to Felley 25 Mar. 36 H. 8. were granted to William Berners and his heirs In the year 1612. Sir Charles Cavendish Sir Henry Pierpoint Knights Iames Fitz-Randolph Gent. and Iohn Newton Senior Thomas Newton Christopher Newton c. were owners William Newton son of Christopher or Laurence died this year 1673. without issue and left his brother Iohn his heir The Rectory of Kirkeby was 20l. when the Lord Conyers was Patron 'T is now 18l. 1s. 8d. value in the Kings Books and the Duke of Newcastle Patron and Clement Ellis the worthy Incumbent In the Chancel is England and France quartered And Azure three Cinquefoiles and Crusuly Arg. Darcy impaling Azure three Bars gemelles and a Chief Or Meinill And the Monument of William Coke of Trusley in Darbyshire and his two Wives the first the daughter of ... Aâ—sop in le dale the second the relict of Mr. Gilbert of Lockhagh In an high North Window in the Church Sable a Fesse between three Mullets Arg. quartering Paly of six Arg. and Or. And Arg. a Fesse Or between three Escallops Sable And Arg. two Bendletts engrailed Sable over them a Fesse Gules There is in the same Window the last Quartering the Fesse and Escallops and another in the third place broken away and in the fourth place the first of the former mentioned Coats viz. Sable a Fesse between three Mullets Arg. In a low Window in a Square Barry of four Arg. and Azure Sutton in Ashfeild AND Hucknall Huthwayt THis Sutune with Hochenale Houthweit and Skegeby were Berues of the Sok of Maunsfeild which was King Edward the Confessours Land and afterwards King William the Conquerours Gerard son of Walter de Sutton gave to God and the Church of St. Peter at Thurgarton two Bovats of Land with his Mother when she took the habit of Religion and the Church of the same Town his brother Robert being converted to Religion or dead Ranulph the Sheriff of Nottinghamshire confirmed it for the Soul of his Lord King Henry 2. Iordan de Snitterton Darbish had some yearly Rents by the Assignation of William de Ferrariis sometime Earl of Darby whereof there was an arrear which Robert de Marcham and Sarra his wife 42 H. 3. by Fine released to Robert son of Harvey viz. 40s. and so did Gerard de Sutton as in right of Alice sometimes his wife which Sarrah and Alice were daughters and heirs of the said Iordan Iordan son of Gerard de Sutton added some small parcels also to the Monastery of Thurgarton Sulton in Ashfield and Hucknall were a whole Villa and not Gildable being of the ancient Demesne of the Crown except the fourth part which Iordan of the same held of the King with the Advowson of the Church The Jury 16 E. 1. found that Iordan de Sutton held in Darbishire something in Snitterton of his own in Matloc Iboll Peuerwich of the Inheritance of Amicia his wife in this Sutton he held one Mess. and twelve Bovats of Land and two Bovats in Hothweit for which he paid 14s. per annum to the King and did Homage and Service and Suit to Maunsfeild Court from three weeks to three weeks and Suit in the Kings Army in Wales for forty daies with one Man Horse Haubergeon Cap of Iron Lance and Sword he held likewise ten Acres where the Mill used to be set in Sutton Sâ—hawe he had 24s. Rent in Sutton on Sore and Bonington and 60s. 6d. of the heirs of Sir Hugh de Capella 〈◊〉 Kirketon and Sereveton as in those places is said Iohn his son and heir was then above seventeen years of age About 33 E. 1. Iohn de Sutton died seised of this Mannor and the third part of Suitterton leaving Iohn his son and heir sixteen years old and more Iohn de Sutton 16 E. 2. had licence to alienate two parts of the Mannor of Sutton upon Ashefeild to Iohn his
Mannor Roger Swinstone Clark Richard Tomlinson William Butler Francis Swinstow William Osborne Iames Cowper of Tibshelf Thomas Iackson of Askam c. Teversalt Teâ—sall THis in the Conquerours Survey is certified to be of the Fee of Raph Fitz-Hubert and before that to have been the Free-hold of Leuric who had in Tevreshalt a Mannor which answered the Dane-geld or Tax for six Bovats of Land The Land was then returned to be one Car. and an half There Raph had one Car. and one Sochm. on one Bov. of Land and nine Vill. having three Car. and an half there was one Mill 16d. and eight Acres of Medow and small Wood one leu long and one broad In the Confessours time this was 60s. value in the Conquerours but 30s. and then Godefrid held it his posterity I suppose had the name of Barre Raph Barret 5 Steph. gave account of xiil. ixs. iiiid. of the old Farm of the Land of Odo Fitz-Raph Galfr. Barre 12 H. 2. held two Knights Fees of the Barony of Hubert Fitz-Raph whereof his Ancestor was enfeoffed before the death of King Henry the first Galfr. Barret 22 H. 2. gave account as many others at that time did of x. Marks of the Amercements of the Forest. Raph Barre 3 Ioh. by Fine passed four Bovats of Land with the Appurtenances in Teveresholt to William Barre The Abbat of Beauchief 53 H. 3. offered himself against Raph Barry in a Plea that he should permit him to have Common of Pasture in Tevershall which belonged to his Free-hold in Stanle of which Galfr. Barre Father of the said Raph whose heir he then was unjustly disseised Roger sometime Abbat of Beauchief his Predecessour c. The Seal of Sir Galfr. Barre with his name circumscribed in the year 1244. was Barry of eight or ten with a File of five Labells and so were the Seals of Raph his son and William Barre Knight his Grandchild Galfr. Barry for the health of his own Soul and of Alice his wife gave to the Canons of Felley the Homages Rents and Services of Nicolas le Crouer and Adam le Glay and their heirs for the Lands which they held of him in Whyteberugh and all the Land which Robert son of Henry de Bosco held of him there for which one Canon of that House was to celebrate every day at the Altar of St. Edmund Arch-bishop of Canterbury in the Church of Felley for the Souls of the said Galfr. and Alice and for the Souls of their Parents Brothers Sisters Sons Daughters Ancestors and Successours for ever and if the Service was not performed the Lands and Premises were to return to his heirs the Witnesses were the Prior of Newstede Reginald de Annesley Nicolas Sprigonell Iocelin de Steynesby Ranulph le Poer Mr. William Barry Roger le Poer Raph Breton of Annesley Woodhouse Walter Faueley and others Raph Barry son and heir of Sir Galfr. Barry confirmed and added to his Fathers gifts and so did William Barry son of Raph Barry of Tiversalt and gave to the said Canons of Felley all that place called Dobbe Pyngyll which lay in breadth between the Land which Galfr. Barri his Grandfather gave to the said Canons with his body and between the divisam Boundary or Mere which Raph the said Williams Father made for Roger Godefridus temp W. Conq. Radulphus Barre 5 Steph. Galfr. Barre 22 H. 2. Radulphus Barre 3 Joh. Galfr. Barre mil. 1244 -Alicia Radulphus Barre Will. Barre mil. 1294 -Eliz mater Thom. Thom. Barry Dom. de Tiversalt 1328 -Isabella Thom. Barry 30 E. 3 -Alicia Thom. Barry-Agnes relict 2 H. 4. Johan Barry 12 H. 6 -Eliz Christina Greenhalgh vidua 9 E. 4. Radul Grenalgh de Tevershalt 23 H. 7. Roger. Greenhalgh fil haer ob 23 Jan. 1562 -Anna fil Tho. Babington ob 19 Jun. 1538. Thom. Greenhaugh 2 Anna fil cohaer -Gervas fil Henr. Nevil Elizabetha fil primogenit -Franciscus Molyneux Thom. Molineux ob 1597 -Alicia fil cohaer Tho. Cranmer Joh. Molineux mil. Bar. ... fil Joh. Markham de Sedgebrook-Anna fil Jac. Harington mil. relict Tho. Foljamb Franc. Molyneux Bar. aet 71. 1673. ob Oct. 12. 1674 -Theodosia fil Ed. Heron mil. Balnei Johannes Molineux de Teversalt aet 50. 1673 -Lucia fil Alex. Rigby relict Rob. Hesketh Com. Lanc. 1 Franciscus aet 1673. 2 Johannes 3 Thom. Franciscus ... fil .... Darcy relict .... Best Mos. Janes 1 Darcy Molyneux aet 21. 1673. 2 Franc. Roger. Molyneux ... fil coh Ro. Mounson Isabel. Sibylla-Willielmus Willielmus de Molans fr. sen. Vivian de Molans temp Conq. Adam de Molineus Dom. de Sefton in Com. Lanc. -Annora fil haer Bened. le Garnet Dom. de Espec Robertus Molineux-Beatrix fil Roberti de Villers de Crosby Richardus de Molineus de Sefton 12 Joh. -Editha soror Almerici le Boteler Adam de Molineux 12 H. 3. mil. -Leticia de Brinley Willielmus Molyneux de Sefton mil. 40 H. 3 -Margar fil Alani Thornton mil. Richardus Molineux mil. -Emma fil .... Donne Will. Molyneux de Sefton Banneret 14 E. 1 -Isabella Skatsbreck Rich. Molyneux de Sefton mil. -Agath fil haer Rog. Ilerton mil. Will. Molyneux mil. ob Cantuariae 1372 -Joana fil haer Jordani Ellol forestarii de Wyrdsall temp E. 2. Willielmus Molineux de Sefton-Jana cohaer Rob. Holand Dom. de Tukeston Elena fil Tho. Urswick mil. -Rich Molyneux mil. Vieec Lanc. pro vita Ric. Molyneux de Sefton mil. -Joana haer Gil. Haddock-Elen relict ... Harington 2 Eliz. fil Rob. Markham mil. ux 1 -Thom Molyneux de Hawton Banneret ob 6 H. 7 -Kath fil Joh. Cotton ux 2. Rob. Molyneux -Doroth fil Tho. Poutrell 1 Thom. s. p. 2 Rich. Molyneux de Hawton -Margaâ— fil Edm. Bussy de Hather Elizabetha fil primogenit -Franciscus Molyneux Edm. mil. Baln Justic. Johannes de Thorp Edm. Molineux-Etheldr -Brigit cohaer Rob. Sapcotes Johan Molineux de Thorp mil. 1 Rich. Molineux de Sefton de Somervill and which in length extended it self from the Hedge of Hokenale unto the Marle pit of Wheteberogh excepting one itinere way in which men may carry of that Marle Marlera without the impediment of the said Canons or their Successors William Barry also confirmed all the Lands which Galfr. his Father and Raph his brother gave to the said Canons and by the Concession of his heirs gave as an augmentation pasture for one hundred Sheep in the pasture of Tiversalt and of Dunshill and of Stanley for the Soul of Sibyll his wife c. William Barre Knight the Fryday after the Conversion of St. Paul 1294. at Tiversalt released to these Canons all the Service of the Clausturae fence of his Park of Tiversalt due to him for the Lands and Tenements which sometime were Roger and Richard Bryd's of Tiversalt excepting only that which belonged to the Croft of Roger Bryd and for which distress should not be made upon what they held besides it Sir
The King 2 R. 2. March 12. committed the Custody of the Mannor of Maunsfeld to Iohn the son of Iohn de Burle Knight The Jury 11 H. 6. found that Alianor who had been wife of Nicolas Dagworth Chr. when she died held the Mannor of Maunsfeld and Lindeby and that Iohn Inglefeild Esquire was then her son and heir King Henry the sixth in the thirty first year of his Reign granted the Mannors of Maunsfeld and Lindeby to Edmund Earl of Richmond his brother and Iasper Earl of Pembroke and likewise the Mannor Demesne and Town of Clipston in Shirewood Henry Earl of Richmond was son and heir of the said Edmund By Act of Parliament 6 H. 8. the Mannors of Clipston Lindeby Maunsfeld Maunsfeld Woodhouse and Sutton in Ashfeild amongst very many others in other Counties were settled on Thomas Duke of Norfolk for his great Victory over the King of Scotland at Floddenfeild but were then exchanged by the King for some others and this is now the Inheritance and makes part of the Titles of his Grace the Duke of Newcastle The Men of Maunesfeild 1 Ioh. gave the King fifteen Marks for having Common of Pasture in the Park of Clipeston as they were wont to have it before the Park was inclosed King Henry the third 11 H. 3. granted the Men of Mansfeld that they and their heirs should have a Market at his Mannor of Maunsfeld and commanded the Sheriff accordingly It seems they gave the King five Marks for his Charter to have a Market there on Mundayes It appears 14 H. 3. that the Men of Maunsfeld are to have Housebote and Haybote in the Forest of Shirewood And in 1 and 2 E 3. that the Tenants were to have Common of Pasture in a place called Woodhouse Wood. King Richard the second in the first of his Reign granted a Fair every year on the Feast of St. Peter In a Forest Book of Parchment written 1520. or 1533. wherein are the Customaries of the Mannors of Arnall Mauncefeld Edwynstowe and Southwell in this County and of Horeston and Bollesour in Darbishire and to which is annexed that of Warsop in Paper the Customary of Mauncefeld begins thus Be it bad in mynd that the Towne of Maunsfeld Wodâ—ouse was burned the Saturdaye nexte afore the Fest of Exaltation of the holy Crosse the yere of our Lord M.CCC.IIII And the Kirk Stepull with the Belles of the same for the Stepull wes afore of Tymber werke And part of the Kyrk wes burned Afterwards there followeth several Heads of the Customs of the Mannor as That the Tenaunts be fre of blode and lefully may marye them after ther willes aswell men as women That the Eyres as sone as they bene borne byn of full age That Lands are departabil betwex sonnes or doughters if ther be no sonne and the like William de Steynesby held some small parcells of Lands in Mansfeld and Mansfeld Woodhouse for 3s. 1d. per annum and had two sons found his heirs and of full age according to the Custom of the Mannor Iocelin nineteen years old and Nicolas fourteen The Jury 12 R. 2. found that Godfrey Foljambe Chr. son of Godfrey son of Godfrey Foljambe Knight held when he died one Mess. and half a Carucâ—â— of Land in Mansfeld Woodhouse ancient Demesne of the Mannor of Maunsfeld by diverse Services viz. 13s. 4d. per annum Rent and Suit to the Court from three weeks to three weeks of being the Kings Forester there Frank-pledge Constable of the Peace as oft as his course shall happen or he be chosen by the neighbours c. Alice his daughter being his heir Sir Robert Plumpton Knight was her husband and about 11 H. 6. died seized of one Bovat in Mansfeld Woodhouse called Wolfhunt Land and one Essart in the same Town at Wadgate near Woodhouse Mill held by the Service of winding an Horn and driving or frighting the Wolves in the Forest of Shirewood William Plumpton was his son and heir by the said Alice This amongst other Lands is now the Inheritance of Sir Iohn Digby Knight who hath his residence here Rowland Dand Esquire hath also an House and good interest here Sir William Willoughby Baronet had a House which Sir Thomas Blackwell built which is now Mr. William Pinkeneys who hath made a Park towards Shirbrook and Warsop this year 1673. Mr. William Clarkson of Kirkton hath also an House here and Richard Neale and diverse oâ—hers William Chappell D. D. the Reverend Bishop of Cork and Ross in Ireland was born here his brother Iohn Chappell was also a Learned mâ—n Richard Sterne now my Lord Arch-bishop of York was born at Maunsfeild There were in the Church of Maunsfeild before the time of Edward the sixth ten Chantries whose Lands Queen Mary gave in Fee to Christopher Granger Clark the Vicar and William Wilde and Iohn Chambers the Church-Wardens of the Parish Church of Maunsfeild by the name of the Governours of the Lands and possessions of the Parish Church of Maunsfeild 24 Febr. 4 and 5 Ph. and Mar. to sustain one Chaplain or Priest The Vicarage of Maunsfeild was 8l. 'T is now 7l. 7s. 6d. value in the Kings Books and the Dean of Lincolne continueth Patron In the year 1339. Iohn the Prior of Felley and the Covent of the same obtaining the Church of Annesley for their proper uses at the request of Robert Stuffyn of Neuwerk who had acquired and bestowed on them the Advowson of the Church of Adyngburgh besides many other Munificences ingaged for themselves and their successours to find a secular Chaplain and to pay him and his successours six Marks of silver yearly to pray for the said Robert and Alice his wife whilst they should live and for the Souls of Richard Stuffyn their Fathers Mothers and Ancestors and for the Soul of Iohn son of Hugh de Portesmouth of London and after the death of the said Robert and Alice for their Souls and all the faithful at the Altar of the blessed Mary in the Church or Chappel of Mammesfelld Wodhous which said Robert Stuffyn during his life in every vacancy was to present a fit Chaplain to the Arch-bishop of York the See being full or else to the Dean and Chapter of York and after his decease his sons Richard Robert William and Iames which of them should survive him according to their seniorities for their respective lives within fifteen daies of the avoidance afterwards the Prior of Felley or if he slipt the fifteen daies the Vicar of Maunsfeild and if he did the Arch-bishop or Dean and Chapter of York In Mansfeild Church South I le East Window Arg. a Lion Ramp sable amongst Cinquefoiles Gules Pierrepont quartering Arg. six Annulets sable 2.2.2 Maunvers And Azure three Hedgehogs Or 2.1 Heriz with a Fox for the Crest and two more for supporters Sable a Buck couchant Arg. impaling Arg. a Falcon rising Sable This is again in another South
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
Clopton in Suff. in exchâ—nge for the Mannors of Keâ—ington and Faukeshall in Surrey Agnes the wife of Thomas Bardolf had this Mannor in Dower and left it to her son Iohn 31 E. 3. who about 45 E. 3. left it with Wyrmegey and other great Mannors which made up twenty nine Knights Fees belonging to his Court of Shelford to his son William Bardolf of Wirmegey Chr. who 9 R. 2. did the like to his son Thomas Lord Bardolf then but seventeen years old or little more which Thomas was the last Lord Bardolf of the Male-line and Attaint in the time of Henry the fourth in whose Reign about 9 H. 4. he died leaving two daughters Anne first married to Sir William Clifford and after to Sir Reginald Cobham but his other daughter Ioane who married Sir William Phelips was Lady Bardolf and then after her death William Beaumont son of Elizabeth her daughter wife of Iohn Viscount Beaumont was found her heir William Viscount Beaumont died without issue and his sister Iane married to Iohn Lord Lovell was his heir who had Francis Viscount Lovell slain in the Battel of Stoke in this County against the King 16 Iune 2 H. 7. by whose Attainder or it seems before this Mannor came to the Crown he had two sisters Iane the elder married to Sir Brian Stapleton and Frideswid to Sir Edward Norreys by whom she had Henry Norreys to whom and to his heirs Males 10 H. 8. the King granted this Mannor of Stoke Bardolf with Gedling Crophill Bishop Newton and Carleton late William Viscount Beaumonts Goysfridus de Alselin Radulphus de Hanselin Radulphus Hanselin Rosa fil haer-Thom Bardul Dodo Bardulf-Beatrix fil Willielmi de Warenna relict 11 Joh. Willielmus Bardulf 2 H. 3. ob 4. E. 1. Willielmus Bardulf ob 18 E. 1. Hugo Bardulf ob 32 E. 1 -Isabella ob 16 E. 2. 28 Maii. Thom. Bardulf aet 22. ad mortem patris ob 3 E. 3. Johannes Bardolf aet 17. 3 E. 3. ob 45 E. 3 -Elizab fil haer Rogeri Damory Gulielmus Bardolf ob 9 R. 2. Thom. Bardolf aet 17. 9 R. 2 -Avicia Joana Bardolf ob 26 H. 6 -Willielmus Phelips Dom. Bardolf 9 H. 5. Elizabetha-Johannes Vicecomes Beaumont-Katherina Ducissa Norfolc ux 2. Willielmus Vicecom Beaumont Dom. Bardolf aet 9. 26 H. 6. Attinct per Parl. 4 Nov. 1 E. 4. Johannes Dom. Lovell -Jana for haer fratris Franciscus Vicecom Lovell occisus in bello de Stoke 16 Jun. 2 H. 7. 1 Brian Stapleton mil. -Joana Brianus Stapleton Richardus Staplâ—ton miles 2 Eduardus Norreys -Frideswid Johannes Norreys s. p. Henr. Norreys attinct 12 May 28 H. 8. Henricus Norreys restitut 31 H. 8. Reginaldus Cobham 2 -Anna-Willielmus Clifford marit 1. Willielmus Bardolf miles 4 H. 6. Willielmus Robert de Cauz King Edward the fourth 15 E. 4. granted to Galiard de Durford Lord of Duras and his heiâ—s Males the Mannor of Shelford Stoke Bardolf and Gedling in this County and others in Derbishire Henry Norreys being Attaint about 12 May 28 H. 8. it came again to the Crown and was after granted to the Lady Anne Stanhope great Grandmother to the first Earl of Chesterfeild whose Posterity enjoyes it wiâ—h Shelford to this day Here were many held shares of these Lands as may be gathered from what is already formerly set down Hugh de la Basage or Bastre held in Carleton Gedeling and Stoke half a Knights Fee of the old Feoffment of William Bardolf And Reginald Vrsell and Hugh de Tytheby held in Gedeling Carleton and Stoke another half Knights Fee of the old Feoffment of Robert de Everingham Robert son of Hugh de Titheby gave an Acre in Carleton to Thurgarton Priory for the health of his Soul and Isolda his wife to which Church Hugh son of Alred of Carleton gave also a Toft and Croft which were Auki's and a Bovat of Land in Carleton which William and Robert his sons severally confirmed The Jury 15 E. 1. found that Reginald de Haslacton held in Carleton and Colwick of Robert de Everingham the sixth part of a Knights Fee valued then at five Marks the heirs of Richard Vrsell in Carleton as much valued at 52s. Henry de Whatton in Stokes and Carleton an eighth part of a Knights Fee valued at 44s. William son of Richard de Birton in Birton a sixth part valued at 66s. 8d. Mr. Thomas Beck in Gedling a sixth part Galfr. le Botiler in Stokes as much Alexander de Le in Gedling a tenth part and William Mascy as much there also The Jury 5 E. 1. found that two Tofts and two Bovats of Land in Stoke and four Tofts and one Bovat in Gedling were Frank Almaigne of the Rectors of Gedling and not Lay Fee of Galfr. de Botiler who called Adam de Everingham to warrant which Adam was then Amerced Alexander de Whatton of Karleton 12 E. 1. recovered against Henry son of Richard de Watton and six others four Mess. four Bovats of Land and two parts of a Bovat except one Acre and twenty Acres of Land and 5s. Rent in Karleton and Colwyk They had great Suits afterwards about this Land and 19 E. 1. pleaded Bastardy and Errour At the Assizes at Nott. 23 E. 1. Cecily the daughter of Roger Millott recovered her seisin of one Mess. and one Bov. of Land in Carleton near Nott. and William son of Roger Milott was Amerced A Fine at Westm. the day after St. Iohn Baptist 8 E. 2. between Richard son of William de Basage and Maud de Kirkeby Querents and William le Moigne the younger Deforcient of one Mess. and twelve Acres of Land in Carleton by Nott. settled them on the said Richard and Maud for life and after on Richard son of Maud and the heirs of his body remainder to William his brother and the heirs of his remainder to the right heirs of Richard son of William Another on the same day of the Term 12 E. 2. between Robert Iorce the elder and Idonia his wife Quer. and Roger le Botiller and Amicia his wife and Iohn their son Deforc. of sixteen Acres of Land in Gedling and Stoke Bardolf settled them on the said Robert and Idonia and the heirs of their bodies remainder to William son of Robert and the heirs Males of his body remainder to the right heirs of Robert The Jury 29 E. 3. found that Philip de Somervill held the day that he died 10l. Rent per annum in Shelford Stoke Bardolf Gedling Birton Iorz and Neuton of Adam de Everingham of Laxton by the Service of a pair of white Gloves and that Iohane the daughter of the said Philip whom Rese ap Griffith Chr. had to wife and Maud the daughter of Iohn de Stafford and Cousin of the said Philip whom Edmund son of Iohn de Vernon had to wife were heirs of the said Philip. Rese left a son 30 E. 3. his
Ph. Mark Sheriff of this County from about 12 Ioh. to 8 H. 3. shows that Raph de Crumwell held the Town of Lamley in Fee Farm for 10l. per annum of the honour of Tikehull Raph de Crumbwell 5 H. 3. was son of Raph son of Raph son of Hugh son of Aldene they were all Raphs down-ward to the last who was Raph Lord Crumwell of Tateshall who was constituted Lord Treasurer 11 H. 6. They were sometimes called of Lamley Hubert Fitz-Raph confirmed to Raph son of Raph de Lamly for his Homage and Service all the Land which the Uncle of Raph Thomas son of Alueric held of the said Hubert in Scartheclive in Derbish The fourth Raph I suppose married Mazera the daughter of Philip Marmion by whom he had a daughter and heir to her Mother called Ioane married to Alexander de Frevile but it seems by another wife he had Raph de Crumwell who married Margaret one of the co-heirs and Parceners of the Inheritance of Nichola who had been the wife of Roger de Somery as in the Pipe Roll of 16 E. 1. appeareth concerning the account of the Mannor of Olney which Isabell Countess of Arundell held in Dower This Raph died about 27 E. 1. and left Raph his son and heir seven years old who 14 E. 3. 12 Nov. was called Raph de Crumbewell the elder and was then Founding a Chantry in the Parish Church of the Holy Trinity at Lamley to which he gave one Mess. and 100s. yearly Rent in Lamley having one hundred Marks Land and Rent in Lamley and Crumbewell remaining over and above Raph the younger I take to be Raph de Crumbewell who married Avicia the daughter of Roger Beler by whom he had Raph Crumwelle of Tatteshale in right of his wife who was Matildis daughter and heir of Iohn son of William Bernak and Alice his wife daughter and heir of Ioane wife of Robert de Dryby and daughter of Robert de Tateshale by whom he had Raph the Father of the Lord Treasurer Crumwell before named and divers other Children as in the Descent in Crumbwell may be perceived Raph Lord Crumwell who married Margaret co-heir of the Lord Deincourt had no issue so that his sister Matildis whom he married to Sir Richard Stanhope about 12 H. 4. became his heir she was his second wife and by him had a son called Henry Stanhope who died without issue 31 H. 6. and two daughters Ioane wife to Humfrey Bourghchier who was therefore styled Lord Crumwell but had no issue that I have found and Maud first married to Robert Lord Willughby of Eresby secondly to Thomas Nevile and thirdly to Sir Gervas Clifton the said Maud their mother died 33 H. 6. Gervas Clifton Knight and Maud his wife late wife of Robert de Willughby 5 E. 4. granted to Anthony Wydevile Lord of Scales and of Newsells the Mannors of Candlesby Halem Lamley Snowdon Boston Bleseby Gippesmere Gourton Dranfeild Baseford Quynton Rasyn Lucton Belcheford and Tuxford with the Rent of Deyncourt there in the Counties of Linc. Nott. Derb. and Warw. also the Mannor of Tumby except the great Wood called Tumby Woods or Tumby Chase in the said County of Linc. which late were Raph Lord Crumwells together with the Advowsons of the Churches Chapells and Chantrys thereto belonging By an Inquisition taken 20 Ianuary 19 H. 6. concerning the Mannor of Hetherset in Norfolk it appears That this Lady Willughby Maud died 30 Aug. 13 H. 7. and that Sir William Knyvet at the time of the said Inquisition aged sixty years who was son of Iohn son of Elizabeth daughter of Constantine Clifton son of Iohn and Elizabeth daughter of Raph Crumwell Knight great Grandfather of the said Lady Willughby and William Fitz-William Esquire then aged thirteen years and above who was son of Iohn son of William son of William son of Iohn son of Iohn son of Maud another daughter of the said Raph Crumwell were found Cousins and heirs of the said Maud Lady Willughby This Mannor as in Arnall is said was Sir William Hastings who died 1 E. 5. and his wife Katherin had the profits till 20 Apr. 12 H. 7. and then Richard de Hastings his younger son A Recovery was suffered 21 H. 7. of the Mannors of Lamley and Bleyseby and the Advowson of the Church of Lamley c. which Thomas Iakes Richard Reynold of London Goldsmith Iohn Wotton and Iohn Parker claimed against Richard Hastings Esquire Michael Purfrey Esquire and Nicolas Beamont 5 Eliz. claimed against Henry Earl of Huntington the Mannor of Lamley c. Francis Willughby Esquire 17 Eliz. claimed against Elizabeth Beamont widow the Mannors of Lamley and Bleyseby c. who called to warrant Henry Earl of Huntington This Mannor of Lamley fell amongst the co-heirs of Sir Francis Willughby of Wollaton whereof Dorothy was married to Henry Hastings second son of George Earl of Huntington and another of them to Mountague Wood whose daughter Mary Wilzey Wright married and enjoyes part most of it being divided now amongst several Freeholders Two Sheaves of the Demesne Tythes seemed to belong to the Chappelry of Blyth wâ—ich King Iohn granted to Walter Arch-bishop of Roan but the Inquisition taken at Blyth 16 E. 3. returned that Roger de Heselarton whom Raph de Crumwell presented to be Parson of the Church of Lamley took all the Tythes and paid a Mark yearly to the Church of Loudham in the name of the Chappelry of Blyth but whether for those Tythes or no they knew not The Rectory of Lamley was 12l. when M. Hastings was Patron 'T is now 10l. 16s. 3d. value in the Kings Books and Iohn Wood Esquire Patron for a sixth turne according to the division made by the husbands of the six co-heirs of the Mannor Woods Waste and Advowson whereof this belonged to and was sold by Henry Hastings and Sir George his son another is in George Willoughby of Cossale Esquire two viz. the Lord Spensers and his own are in Edward Grandson of Edward Willoughby of Booreplace in Kent another viz. Mr. Pargiters in Iohn Marter of Normanton upon Sore Clerk and the other in Wilsey Wright viz. Mr. Mountague Woods of Lamley Burton Jorz Bertune THe Conquerours great Survey shows thaâ— there was in Bertune and Ludham some Land that was Sok to Gulnethorpe of the Fee of Roger de Busli viz. twelve Bov. ad Geld. The Land one Car. There four Sochm. two Vill. had one Car. There were four Acres of Medow but besides this there is mention of a Mannor in Bertune which was Sweynes before the Conquest who paid for one Carucat and a fourth part to the Tax for it The Land was two Car. There Goisfrid de Alselin whose Fee it afterwards was had one Sochm. of five Acres of Land and five Villains one Bordar one Servant one Maid together having three Car. There was a Church and a Priest sixteen Acres of Medow
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
Lowdham In the South West Window Paly of six Arg. and Gules on a Chief Azure a Fesse Dancè Or Hathersege North East Window Barry of six Arg. and Az. Grey of Codnor In the Church South I le East Window Arg. a Fesse and a Mullet in the dexter point Gules Odingsells In the Steeple Window Paly of six Arg. and Az. Strelley In the South West Window of the South I le of the Church Arg. a Saltier engrailed Gules Tibtot Calverton And Salterford IN the Conquerours Survey in Calverton was there certified to be a Berew of the Mannor of Blidworth of the Arch-bishop of Yorkes Fee and it answered the Dane-geld for six Bovats The Land being twelve Bovats There seven Vill. and two Bord. had two Car. There was a Church and a Priest and two Acres of Medow Pasture Wood eight qu. long three broad This made up the ancient value of the Mannor 40s. as in Blidworth is noted Here was also a Mannor which before the Conquest Vlvric had which paid the Geld for three Bovats The Land was for one Plow or one Car. This afterwards was the Fee of Rogerius Pictavensiis and here then were two Vill. and one Virgat of Medow In the Confessours time it had been valued to 20s. but then was 5s. 4d. In Caivreton of the Tayn-land Alvric had one Car. which paid the Dane-geld for three Bovats There two Sochm. four Vill had two Car. In former time this was valued at 16s. then at 10s. and the same Alvric continued to hold it In Salterford a Berew of Granby of the Fee of Osbern Fitz-Richard if this be not mistaken for some parcel of or about Colston Basset was as much as was rated to the Tax or Dane-geld at six Bovats and in the Conquerours time was waste as it is still there being scarce any memorial of it left but a place called Salterford Damm in the Forest near the beginning of the River Doverbek between Calverton and Oxton there was Pasture Wood one leue long four qu. broad The Prior of Land which Priory was Founded by the Bassetts was certified to hold the Town or Village of Salterford in pure Alms and so were the Chapter of Suwell and the Prioress of Brewode to hold three parts of the Town of Kalverton of the Honour of Peverell it seems William Peverel got the Tayn-land here as he did that at Woodborough That of the Fee of Roger Pictavensis was afterwards accounted of the Honour of Lancaster of which Honour William le Butiler held in Calverton and Crophill one Fee Likewise Iohn de Vylers who held of it one Knights Fee in Neubolt and Outhorp held the fourth part or one here at Calverton The Jury found that Paganus de Vilers who was first infeoffed gave to Alan his son five Carucats of Land in Knights Service The same Paganus gave to the Hospital of Hierusalem one Car. in Bekaneshon in Alms. The same Pagan gave to William de Vilers his son the Land of Newbold to hold by Knights Sâ—rvice which William the son of Paganus the younger then held by that Service The same Pagan gave to Thomas de Vilers the moyety of Uvethorp and the Land of Hole and the Land of Calverton in Knights or Military Service whereof Robert de Vilers held Hole and the moyety of Calverton except one Carucat which William de Vilers held The same Robert de Vilers held also the Land of Calverton by the same Service c. Raph de Vilers gave and confirmed to Robert his brother one Bovat of Land in Calverton which Bernard held reserving only one pound of Cummin or three half-pence at Easter this he gave to the Priory of St. Cuthbert at Radford by Wirkesop William de Vilers confirmed it and so did Robert son of Robert de Vilers and Iohn son of William de Vilers The fourth part of the Knights Fee of Iohn de Vilers Lord of Outhorpe was the Inheritance of Sir Thomas Hutchinson Knight the moyety whereof did descend to him from his Ancestors the other moyety he bought which was the Inheritance of ... Barton of Holme near Newark the chief of which Family Sir Thomas Barton Knight besides that Holme had great possessions in Lancashire By a Fine 5 E. 2. between Sampson de Stretley and Philippa his wife Querents and William son of Walter de Ludham Deforc. forty Acres of Land forty of Wood and 11s. Rent in Saltreford and Calverton were settled on the said Sampson and Philippa and the heirs which the said Sampson should beget on the body of the said Philippa remainder to the right heirs of Sampson Godefrey Folejamb 45 E. 3. who prosecuted against Sampson de Strelley Chr. for taking the heir and Lands of William de Strelley of Woodburgh whom he affirmed to hold of him Lands and Tenements in Calverton viz. six Carucats of Land and ten Marks Rent by Homage Fealty and Scutage c. surceasing his prosecution was Amerced The Free-holders of Calverton 1612. were Christopher Strelley Iohn Scurtivant Robert Cooper Iohn Lees Thomas Leeson Ed. Benet Iohn Barber Iohn Labrey Humfr. You le Euseby Marshall of Arnall Iohn Chaworth of Southwell Esquire Iohn Cressewell Colonel Iohn Hutchinson son and heir of Sir Thomas Hutchinson had that which he called the Mannor of Salterford in the Forest. At Calverton was born William Lee Master of Arts in Cambridge and heir to a pretty freehold here who seeing a woman knit invented a Loom to knit in which he or his brother Iames performed and exercised before Queen Elizabeth and leaving it to .... Aston his Apprentice went beyond the Seas and was thereby esteemed the author of that ingenious Engine wherewith they now weave Silk and other Stockings c. This .... Aston added something to his Masters invention he was sometimes a Miller at Thoroton nigh which place he was born The Vicarage of Calverton was eight Marks 't is now 4l. value in the Kings books The Prebendaries of Oxton should be Patrons or the Chapter of Southwell but this like Woodborough is a great and populous Village with an empty Church for the most part Oxton Oston ELvod paid for his Mannor in Oston before the Normans came to the Dane-tax then in use after the rate of six Bovats The Land of it being two Car. There afterwards Thomas Arch-bishop of York had one Car. in demesne and one Sochm. one Vill. one Bordar having two Car. Of this Land the King had one Bovat viz. lying to Arnall the rest lay in Blidworth In King Edward the Confessours time this was valued at 40s. when the book of Doomsday was made at 20s. In Ostune of Roger de Buslies fee were two Mannors which Thurstan and Odincale had before he came and answered the Geld for one Car. The Land being then accounted two Car. and an half There Roger had two Car. five Villains six Bordars having two Car. There was one Mill. 5s. 4d. In the Confessours time
this part was 40s. in the Conquerours increased to 60s. In this Town before the Conquest was another Mannor which Tori had and was rated for it to the Geld at four Bov. The Land being then found to be for twelve Oxen or twelve Bovats This afterwards became the Fee of Walter de Aincurt and there was one Sochm. on one third part of a Bovat of this Land with one Bordar had half a Car. and four Acres of Medow This in the time of Edward the Confessour was valued at 16s. in the Conquerours at 5â— 4d. This Town was anciently within the Forest but at the great perambulation in the time of King H. 2. left out Howbeit the men of the Town had Common in the Forest except the Hays and Demesne Woods of the King for all manner of Cattel both before and after the deaforesting yet upon their claim about 8 E. 3. Judgement was respited because the Court considered that the Town being put out of the Forest it was discharged from the Putura provisions of the Foresters and every other burden of the Forest neither did the Kings Deer common within the bounds of the said Town nor had the men or Tenants of the Town any Land within the bounds of the Forest to intitle them to challenge any Common there Whereupon the men desired the Common to be arrented and accordingly granted the King 5â— per annum for licence of Commoning at all times within the Forest with all manner of Cattel as they were wont and so it was determined The Archbishops Fee the two Prebendaries of Oxton who divide the Tythes here and in many other places besides where they have shares as at Calverton Blidworth Woodborough Crophill c. still continue their interest in and still have as they ever had the usual priviledges allowed as in Southwell may be discerned Roger de Buslies was held by Robert de Somerville of the Lord Lovetot of Wirksop Robert de Sumerville and his Son who was Robert also 22 H. 2. gave account to the Sheriff of x. Marks of the Amercements of the Forest. There was an agreement between the Abbot and Covent of Wellebek and Robert de Sumerville of Oxton and Hugh de Capella and Walter de Streitley who had the heirs of the said Robert to their Wives that the Abbat and Covent should have Common in the fields of Triberhagh and Holebek and further for so many Cattel as belonged to the Fee of Ivershagh and that the men of Triberhagh and Holebek should likewise have Common in the Fields of Ivershagh â—an ancient Hamlet it seems within the territory of Oxton and concerning some high ways and the like The witnesses were Robert Abbat of Neubo Henry Prior of Wirksop Galfr. Luterell Robert de Stokes William de Stokes Robert Lisieus William Basset Galfr. Columbin Iohn de Leke Richard his brother Henry de Rolleston Tho. Sampson Tho. de Wlrington Hugh de Rodmerthwait Mr. Robert de Sumervill Godfrey le Aungevin Richard his brother Hugh de Osmundthorp Galfr. de Sumerville Thomas de Sumerville the Wapentach of Thurgerton being then at Iverischagh The Sheriff had a precept from the King 1 H. 3. dated 17 March to give Tho. de Somervill seisin of the Land of Oxton Woodberig and Wiston whereof his Father Richard died seised if the said Thomas was right heir of the said Richard Robert de Stretlegh 36 H. 3. had free-warren granted in his Mannors of Stretlegh Trowell and Oxton It appears 8 E. 1. that this Robert son of Walter de Stredley gave to God and the Church of Suwell four Selions of Land lying to the Court of Mr. William de Clifford in Oxton Hugo de Capella had four Daughters and heirs as in Carcolston is noted Cecilia wife of Walter de Cuily Laderina of William Tesserand Elizabeth and Amicia who was married to Sewall le Foun as in Strelley is said by whom she had a Daughter Lucia the wife of Sampson de Strelley second son of the late named Robert This Sampson by his second wife Philippa had Stephen and Iohn who died without issue and Robert Strelley whose Daughters and heirs were Alice wife of Thomas Basily of Radeclive on Trent and Cecily of William Eland of Algerthorp near Baseford by his first wife the said Lucia he had Richard de Strelley of Woodborough whose Grandchild Elena together with her Husband Ivo Ieke by a Fine 5 H. 5. passed the fourth part of the Mannor of Oxton and two Mess. and twelve Bovats of Land six Acres of Medow and 2.6d. rent in Oxton to William Babington and his heirs The Principal family of Strelley continued to be Lords here till the division made by the co-heirs of Iohn Strelley Esquire which is noted in Strelley when as this Mannor became Thomas Aiscoughs Sir Nicholas Strelley Knight 33 H. 8. claimed it against Francis Aiscough Esquire In another recovery 12 Eliz. Edmund Assheton Esquire and Henry Townerawe claimed against Iohn Byron Esquire the Mannor of Oxton called Strelley Mannor and thirteen Mess. seven Cottages twenty six Tofts one Water-mill one Dâ—vecote twenty Gardens four hundred Acres of Land c. in Oxton who called to warrant Anthony Strelley Knight It is now parcelled the most considerable share seems to be that which is now the inheritance of Mr. William Savile whose Ancestor I suppose had it of Sir Iohn Byron in exchange for Lindeby But before that last recovery I find that Lancelot Rolleston of Hucknall Torkcard for the summ of 73l. 6s. 8d. by his Deed dated 10 Iuly 8 Eliz. passed to Thomas Sherbroke the moyety of one Mannor and of one Mess. c. in Oxton which Agnes Widow of Robert Rolleston of Oxton held for life and was sometime Sir Nicholas Strelleyes and of late parcel of the inheritance of Thomas Rolleston deceased Father of the said Lancelot amongst which was a parcel called Culy Park And George purefey of Drayton in the County of Leicester 14 Eliz. sold to Thomas Sherbrooke the fourth part of the Mannor of Cula c. in Oxton and Calverton Hugh Son of Iohn de Cuyly of Oxton 6 E. 3. passed the third part of the Mannor of Oxton to Roger de Cuylly by Fine and by another levyed 15 E. 3. between William de Cuylly Parson of Estweyt Complainant and Roger de Cuylly Chr. Deforcient the fourth part of the Mannor of Oxton was settled on the said Sir Roger for life afterwards on Maud who had been the wife of Hugh de Cuylly for her life remainder to Roger Son of the said Hugh and the heirs of his Body for want of which to Thomas son of the said Sir Roger de Cuylly for life remainder to Iohn younger Brother of the said Thomas for life remainder to the right heirs of the said Sir Roger. By another Fine 50 E. 3. Iohn Waltiers and Ioane his wife remised and quit-claimed the Mannor of Oxton from the said Iohn and
Ioane and the heirs of Ioane to Iohn de Stanhop and Eliz. his wife and the heirs of Eliz. This Eliz. was the Sister and heir of Iohn and Daughter of Thomas de Culy her Huâ—band was certainly Iohn the eldest Son of Elizabeth the Daughter and heir of Stephen Malonel of Rampton as in that place will appear but had not issue Iohn de Stanhop of Rampton and Elizabeth his wife by a Fine 3 R. 2. passed the Mannors of Oxton and Rampton in this County three Acres of medow in Burton upon Trent in Staffordshire the Mannor of Bresigcotes in Darbyshire of Radcliff Cuylly in Leycestershire and of Ansly in Warwickshire to Raph Aderley and his heirs William Digby of Ketelbye in the County of Leicester 5 E. 6. for 176l. conveyed to Thomas Sherebroke of Oxton all his Mess. Lands Tenements c. in Oxton The Granges of Yversage and Lovell or Loveley belonging to the Monastery of Wellebek 24 Apr. 34 H. 8. were granted to Sir William Newenham and Benedict his wife and their heirs William Newenham Gent. dyed 2 Iuly 3 Eliz leaving Isabell and Benedict his Sisters and heirs In 4 Eliz. Benedict was seventeen years old and married to Lancelot Mounteforth Isabell nineteen and afterwards married to Edward Samon Which Edward Samon or one of his name about 41 Eliz. slew Thomas Leek of Leek Esquire whose reputed Son Thomas Leeke for 880l. sold and by his Deed bearing date 30 Iuly 9 Iac. conveyed his moyety of the three Granges Farms Mess. c. viz. Saint Margarets in the Greaves Oxton Grange alias Eversedge Grange or Darton Grange and Lovely Grange to Rob. Shirbrook Gent. son of the before named Thomas who was son of Robert second son of Robert Shirebrook of Tibshelf in Darbishire This Robert Shirbrook of Oxton had to Wife Mary Daughter of Iohn Savile of Oxton by whom he had Thomas his only Son and heir who together with his said Father 29 Iuly 12 Car. 1. purchased a Farm in Oxton for 167l. of Iohn Cam of Eykering and Mat. and Iames his Sons This Thomas Shirbrook married Elizabeth the Daughter of Thomas Iopson of Cudworth in Yorkshire Esquire by whom he had many Children and died 1653. There are as I take it six Sons and six Daughters Robert the present owner is yet a Childless Widower Thomas married Sara his Cousin German the Daughter of Thomas Iopson of Cudworth Henry William Richard Iohn Mary Elizabeth Anne Margaret Rebekah Katherine They suppose and I have seen good probable authority for it that they are descended from one Iohn Lowes alias Shirebrooke who was Son of Nicolas de Lawes and Radegund his Wife Daughter of William Musters and Alice his wife who was Sister of Amicia wife of Isidor de Reresby and second Daughter and Co-heir of Iohn Deincourt and Amabilia his Wife after-born Daughter and Co-heir of Serlo de Plesley and Sister of Sarah Wife of Sir Robert de Willoughby mentioned in Felley The above named Iohn Savile had to Wife Margaret the Daughter of Thomas Tempest by whom he had many Daughters William his eldest Son by his first Wife the Daughter of ... Odingsells of Eperston was Father of Iohn Father of the present William and Iohn Thomas Savile another Son of the first Iohn married Elizabeth daughter and Co-heir of ... Samon of Darton Grange which still remains to their posterity Thomas Barret of Thoroton whose Grandmother was Anne daughter of the said Iohn Savâ—le hath Lands in Oxton descended to his Ancestor from .... Claxton who I guess had them by inheritance from .... Cade who I suppose might have them by inheritance from Iohn Strelley of Lindeby named in that place who died 2 H. 7. seised of five Mess. 200. Acres of Land fifty of Medow 100. of Pasture and 100. of Wood in Oxton and of one Close essarted in Calverton c. Anne Sister of my Grandfather Robert Thoroton was married to Thomas Walker Son of Robert Custans alias Walker of this Town who by her had a Son called Robert Walker an Apothecary in London who died young yet increased his Brother Williams patrimony here and disposed considerable summs of Money very charitably amongst his kindred and others his Nephews Thomas Robert and William Sons of his Brother William continue owners of the Land Roger Iackson is also an owner here The Vicarage of Oxton was 8l. 't is now 6l. value in the Kings Books and the Prebendaries patrons Gunnolston Gunnovelston And the Spittle or Hospital of Brodquske IN Gunnolvestone and Miletune before the Conquest Vlsi had a Mannor which paid the Tax for two Car. and two Bov. and two thirds The Land was for three Plows or three Car. There afterwards William Peverel whose Fee it was had in demesne one Car. and two Sochm. on three Bov. of this Land seven Vill. two Bordars two Censors having three Car. two Mills 40s. ten Acres of Medow pasture wood five qu. long three qu. broad In the Confessours time this was valued at 4l. when the Conquerours survey was made at 60s. Of the Tayn-Land likewise Soc to Wymarspole which Aldene progenitor of the family of Crumwell held Eruvin the Priest with four Sochm. had five Bovats for the Geld The Land twelve Bovats Here was Soc in Ernehale there four Sochm. had one Car. and five Acres of Medow and sixteen Acres of small Wood. Raph de Limesâ— Lord of Eperston had in Gunnulvestune five Bov. and one third for the Geld. Erbert a Knight of William Peverels in the time of H. 1. at the foundation of Lenton Priory gave to it as other of William Peverells great men or Tenants did two parts of the Tythes of his demesne here He was shortly after in the time of H. 1. also succeeded by two who were Sisters and co-heirs I suppose his daughters viz. Emma who had her part of the inheritance in Gunnolveston and Keilmerse and Ivicia who had hers in Molinton in Northamptonshire probably Mileton before named in Doomsday and Bilebourgh as in that place is noted Emma it seems was wife of Ivo son of Robert de Heriz who gave the same proportion of Tythes at the foundation of Lenton out of his demesnes in Hesburne and Oâ—â—â—cropht in Darbishire as others of Peverels great Tenants did and when that Robert gave to it his Mill at Wystandon this Ivo his son gave to the same Priory 10s. per annum In the fifth year of King Stephen this Ivo de Heriz gave account of several summs of Money of the old Farm of the Counties of Nott. and Dereb whereof therefore 't is like he was Sheriff before that time and likewise of five great or led Horses that he might hold the Land of Welgehi in Fee-Farm of two whereof he did acquit himself to the King at Winchester before Miles Earl of Gloucester and of the other three in Normandy The eldest son of this Ivo and Emme appears to
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
also nine Carucats of Land each worth 40s. per annum with the helps of the Natives or Villains Two Wind-Mills with Barail Mill and Snelling five Marks The perquisites of the Court 40s. The Wood for Fuel and other profits twenty Marks per annum The Garden 40s. per annum the summ 52l. The Rents of Assize of the Freeholders were 57s. 10d. ob The Natives or Villains which were such as we now call Husbandmen paid each a Cock and an Hen besides their Rent in money for a Toft and one Bovat of Land which was the ordinary and common proportion of their Farms for which they paid 4 or 5s. a piece more or less of these there were then in Thurgarton about eighteen and the summ of their Rents was 4l. 11s. 2d. ob The Cottagers were in number about forty five and each had a Toft and some a Croft 1 and two three or four Selions of Land Their Rents besides Cocks and Hens were usually 2 or 3s. a piece more or less the summ of these Rents then was 119s. 3d. ob Horsepoll whereof the Family of Kirioll were Lords and Iohn Kirioll then remained a Freeholder in it and paid an half penny at Christmas which made up the Rents of the rest of the Freeholders and Natives there 49s. 0. ob The summ of all the Rents of Assize of Thurgarton and Horsepoll was then 15l. 17s. 5d. The summ of Cocks and Hens in number six score and four 15s. 6d. These were paid the second day in Christmas and that day every one both Cottagers and Natives who gave Hens and Cocks did eat in the Hall and those who did not had a white Loaf a Flagon of Ale or Beer with one Dish or Mess from the Kitchin Every Native and Cottager gave 3d. in Reaping time except one William Spendâ—love and Douce Doffaire which joyned at 3d. and worked together in Harvest for one Toft whereof each held half the summ of all this Reaping money was 15s. Every Native or Husbandman gave ob for cleansing the Damm or Pool of Barhil Milne at Pentecost which made in all 9d. The Reve Greve or Provost for the time being paid neither for Reaping nor cleansing the Mill Damm nor Cock nor Hen. Edmund Freman and Reginald his son Freeholders owed to the Lord of the Mannor for their whole Tenement three arruras Plowing-daies with one Plow which were then worth by the year 12d. one in Winter another in Lent and the third in Summer likewise for the said Tenement three workings in Autumn for three daies viz. the first day with one Man the second with two Men and the third with five Workmen and one of themselves in person they were every day to have their refection these works in Harvest were valued at 13d. ob which made the summ 2s. 1d. ob All the said Natives or Husbandmen were to Plow with their Plows three times at the seasons beforesaid every Native with one Plow one day in each season or two two daies with one whole Plow if they held only one Bovat of Land They were likewise to Harrow as oft as need was and every Plow was to have four Loaves called Boneloves the said three seasons and the first day of Plowing in Winter and likewise in Lent they were to have their diet at the cost of the House but when they Harrowed they were to have their refection or diet as before and every Harrower was to have a Brown Loaf bissum and two Herrings in the day Likewise all the said Natives and Cottagers were to Reap from the beginning of Harvest to the end every other day viz. every Native with two Men and Cottager with one except that in the first day of Autumn or Harvest and the last all the Natives or Husbandmen Reaped only with one Man And the first day in which they Reaped every two were to have one brown Loaf and two toillects the second day two brown Loaves and one toillecte and afterwards every day on which they Reaped every two men to have three brown Loaves Likewise in or on the day of the great Bidripe which was called the Priour Bon every Native was to find three Workmen and Cottager one but Richard son of William de Horspoll that day was to find five Workmen and one free Servant And it is to be known that no man might work or carry on that day in the Territory of Thurgarton but Iohn Kiriell only Likewise every Native aforesaid was to carry every other day through the whole Harvest every Native with one Cart viz. those daies in or on which they did not Reap and likewise Hay in Hay-time and every day were to have their refection Likewise every of the said Natives were to make carriage from the Foreign Granges thrice in the year each with one Horse and every time they were to have each a small Miche or white Loaf And we must know that the work of every of the said Natives was worth 13s. 4. per annum and of a Cottager 20d. the summ of the works was 15l. 10s. All the Reapers in Harvest which were called Hallewimen with other workers in Harvest were to eat in the Hall one day in Christmas or afterwards at the discretion of the Celerer Likewise every She-native or Villain as oft or whensoever she took an Husband or committed Fornication was to give a Marchet for the redemption of her blood 5s. 4d. and if she was the daughter of a Cottager she gave only half the said Marchet Likewise every Native paid for Paunage when it was in the Park for every Swine 3d. The intire summ of the whole value of the Mannor of Thurgarton with the Church and all profits except Marchetts and Paunage when they should happen was then viz. 1â—28 fourscore and five pounds and nine pence half penny There was a Chantry Founded in the Church of All Saints at Chesterfeild and 8l. Rent issuing our of the Mannors of Thurgarton Fiskerton Crophill and Kelum about the 44 E. 3. and in 42 E. 3. one in the Church of St. Mary of Criche and 6l. Rent issuing out of the Mannors of Thurgarton Fiskerton Moreton Hoveringham c. Ales who had been wife of William Deyncourt Chr. 12 Ian. 9 H. 6. had leave to Found a Chantry in the Coventual Church of St. Peter at Thurgarton and to give 6l. yearly to the Chaplain About the year 1445. Sir William Babington Knight Nicolas Wymbish Clark Iohn Mykulberghe Chaplain and Robert Halome having obtained licence of the King 25 Iun. 20 H. 6. to Found a Chantry of two Chaplains at the Altar of St. Katherine in the Church of St. Peter of Thurgarton to pray daily for that King and William Lovell Knight and Ales his wife and Raph Cromwell Knight and Margaret his wife and the persons before named and for all their Souls when they should die and for the Souls of Ales who had been wife of William Deincourt Knight before mentioned of
Nicholas de Goushill Chr. his son and heir was then above sixty years old In 7 H. 4. it was found that Nicolas Gouxhill Chr. held when he died the moyety of the Mannor of Kynwaldmersh c. and left Nicolas Gouxhill his son and heir The seal of Sir Nicolas Goushill of Hoveringham to his deed concerning Lands in Flintham dated 16 R. 2. is Barry of six with a Canton Ermine Sir Robert Goushill Knight by his wife Elizabeth Dutchess of Norfolk who was daughter and heir of Richard Earl of Arundell and widow of Thomas Mowbray Duke of Norfolk had two daughters and heirs Elizabeth wife of Sir Robert Wingfield and Ioan wife of Thomas Baron Standley Anthony Wingfeld Esquire 5 H. 8. suffered a recovery of the Mannor of Barleburgh with the Appurtenances in Darbyshire And at the same time Humfrey Wyngfeld Esquire Francis Hall and others claimed against him the moyeties of the Mannors of Hoveringham and Flintham as in that place is said which Arthur Hall is supposed long after to fell to Trinity Colledge in Cambridge to which it now belongs There was a Fine levied at York 10 and 11 E. 3. between Thomas de Hotot mentioned in Radcliff quer and William de Hotot deforcient of the Mannor of Hoveringham with the Appurtenances two Mess. two Tofts six Bovats and one Acre of Land with the Appurtenances in Radecliff on Trent and Kneveton whereby the premises were settled on Thomas de Hotot for life remainder on Walter son of the said William de Hotot and on Alianor his wife and the heirs of their bodies remainder to the right heirs of William In the 27 E. 3. William Buxhum of Hekelinge and Robert Cok of Thurgarton Chaplains and Roger othe Halle of the same Feoffees of Tho. de Hotot gave the Mannor of Hoveringham with the Homages Rents and Services of the Free-holders named in his Deed to Robert the Prior and the Covent of Thurgarton and their successors This Lordship Thurgarton tenements and those in Flintham which belonged to this same Priory now belong to Trinity Colledge in Cambridge and Mr. Cecill Cooper continueth Grand Tenant to that Society as his family hath been formerly In Hoveringham Church North I le Paly of six Arg. and Gules on a chief Azure a fesse double dancè Or Hathersege Or 3. Chevrons Gules A chief varry St. Quintin perhaps In the South I le and Chancel Azure a fesse double dancy and Billittè Or Deincourt On a Plain Stone in the South I le Nicolaus de Gozill miles filius Thomae de Gousell militis qui obiit mortem die S. Priscae virginis Anno dom 1393. Upon the Wall is painted Here lyeth the body of Sir Nicholas Goushill son of Sir Thomas Gozill which Sir Nicolas died in the year 1393. St. Prisca the Virgin is 18. Ianuary By the Stone is a fair Tomb for Sir Robert Gousell and the Dutchess of Norfolk his Lady upon which are their statues as by the Coronet on the Head of hers is supposed Under his Head lyeth the figure of a Blackamores Head crowned and part of the Body with a wreath about the neck About the Tomb were the Arms of Leek Langford Babington Chaworth impaling Caltofts Rempstons and divers others which were worn out in Mr. St. Lo Knivetons time who notes that Sir Robert Gousell and the Dutchess were married 2 H. 4. Fiskerton And Moreton OF the Soc of Horingham in Fiscartune and in Mortune Walter de Ayncurt whose Fee it was had in each half a Car. for the Geld whereof the Soc belonged to Sudwell and in each he had one Car. and three Vill. having one Car. or Plow Here in Fiscartune was also a Mannor which Tori had before the Conquest rated to the Geld at two Car. two Bov. The Land whereof was then certified to be five Car. There the said Walter had in demesne one Car. eleven Vill. having four Car. There were two Mills one Piscary one Pessage 46s. 8d. forty two Acres of Medow Pasture Wood two qu. long one qu. broad In the Confessours time this was 3l. value in the Conquerours when the survey was taken 4l. Walter had Soc in this Fiscarton six Bovats of Land whereof the Arch-bishop had the Soc. There was some in Gipesmare and Mortun which was of the Fee of Raph Fitz Hubert and held by the Lords of Annesley This Town of Fiskerton Raph de Ayncurt gave to the Monastery of Thurgarton at the Foundation as in that place is said The Prior 54 H. 3. had Market and Fair granted in this Mannor of Fiskerton There was a Chapel dedicated to the blessed Virgin Mother founded within the Court of the Canons of Thurgarton upon the Trent at Fiskerton to which many persons gave Lands as Robert de Birstall who gave six Selions on the East part of the sike of Morton in Wra of his demesne and 3. others upon Irnore in pure Alms for the Souls of William his father and Agnes his mother his own and his wives and all his Parents departed Walter son of Pagan de Aslacton remised and quit-claimed all the right he had in one Bovat and an half in Fisk. to the said Canons which Lauretta the Daughter of Raph the Parson of Roldeston held of the said Prior and Canons of Thurgarton to whom Robert son of William de Haeg also released all his right in the Lands of the said Lauretta his Grandmother ' Osbert de Haneworth called also de Morton was a Benefactor to the said Chapel who had a Daughter married to Gaufr de Deresburgh sometimes called Iulian and sometimes Golderon by whom she the said Iulian or Golderon had likewise a daughter called Cecilia married to Robert son of Savain de Kelum She had half a Bovat in Morton in Frank-marriage which in her widow-hood she gave to the said Priory excepting the third part of her Toft and seven Rodes of Land and Medow which she gave to Osbert the Milner with Alice her daughter Hugh son of Galfr. de Deresburg brother to the said Cecilia in the year 1248. confirmed her gift to the Canons of Thurgarton Robert son of Raph de Fiskerton by the consent of Robert his son for the health of his own Soul and the Soul of Agnes his wife gave to the said Chapel a Selion which in times past Blacman and Wolsi of Mortun gave to the said Canons for their brotherhood and exchanged another for which the Canons gave him and his son 12s. and three quarters of Rye and one of Barley There were many other small benefactors In the year 1328. the Tythes of the Demesne and Natives of Fiskerton were valued at 100s. per annum There were three Carucats of Land each valued at 26s. 8d. The fishing then there was 66s. 8d. The Water-Mill there 26s. 8d. The Tythe of Roldeston Mill 3s. 4d. The perquisites of the Court 40s. The rents of Assize of the Natives each whereof for the
most part held one Bovat and an half of Land and paid about 3s. and one Cock and two Hens amounted to 49s. 4d. and thirty Hens and Cocks then valued at 1d. ob a piece 3s. 9d. The rents of the Cottagers 7l. 6.5d. ob The Natives or Husbandmen and Cottages here did more work than those of Thurgarton and had less meat except at Plowing and Harrowing and at Boondays only in Harvest which were once in a week during that time with two men for every Husband or Farm house besides four other working days in which there was no refection allowed when they had viz. at the said Boons every two had three Boon-loaves with Campanage On Saturdays they carried and did no other work All the Customary Tenants both in Fiskerton and Morton one day in the year found each a man to cleanse the Dam of Fiskerton Mill and if it needed more they were to be allowed out of their other works If any braciatrix braciaverit cereviciam Ale-wife brew Ale to sell she must satisfie the Lord for Toltester If any Native or Cottager sold a Male youngling after it was weaned he was to give 4d. to the Lord. If any Native or Cottager having a Swine above a year old should kill him he was to give the Lord 1â— and it was called Thistelcak The work of a Native was 12s. and of a Cottager 10â— They were to carry to or from the forraign Granges at the will of the Lord. And the women paid Marchetts as in Thurgarton The value of the works was 6l. 19s. 9d. The rents of Assize to the Priory in Morton were but 9s. 7d. Roger de Ayncurt is certified to have held a Knights Fee in Morton of Oliver de Ayncurt of the old Feoffment but 't is Morton in Darbyshire The Family of Cressover were owners and resident here There was an agreement between Henry de la Cressover and Richard the Prior of Thurgarton that the Prior should have the Fishing of Holmsike and a certain Barn or Grange built upon the land of the Monastery in the fields of Fiskerton and Morton without any disturbance and that only Henry and his heirs should fish in Livpole and Capelingpole and that he and his Successors should have a way under the Parc of the Prior and Covent towards Southwell and they should have reasonable passage for their Cattel of Fiskerton through his Medow on the Trent bank to their Ox-pasture Will. de la Cressovere of Morton by Southwell in 17. and 18 E. 3. by Fine conveyed his Mannor of Morton and one Mess. and two Bovats in Farnesheld to Benedict de Normanton excepting six Tofts fourteen Bovats of Land 7s. 1d. rent and the third part of a Mess. whereof he passed also the reversion part of it being then held by Clementia who had been wife of Iohn de la Cressovere and William brother of Iohn for life and some little by Maud and Amicia daughters of the said Iohn de La Cressovere Some of this Land 15 R. 2. belonged to the Priory of Thurgarton and I find that Thomas de Normanton 13 H. 4. had interest here but further I find not and therefore suppose it might be conveyed by him to the Priory as Annesleys Land was Viz. one Mess. two Tofts six Bovats of Land which Iohn de Horspole Clark Thomas Normanton of Normanton and William Snawe Chaplain had of the Feoffments of john Willughby Esquire and Thomas de Willughby Knight were the Wednesday after Christmas 13 H. 4. by their deed then dated at Morton whereto were witnesses Sir Iohn la Zouch Knight Sir Nicolas Strelley Knight Sir William Nevile Knight Sir Iohn Birton Knight c. Raph de Annesley Knight had two sons Reginald the elder and Raph to whom his Father gave the said six Bovats in Morton of this Raph came Robert de Annesley his son and heir of whom came Iohn the Father of another Iohn who had a daughter and heir called Isabell married to Iohn Ashewell to whom by Fine she gave the said Land who passed it to Richard de Winwyk and William de Gunthorp they to Richard de Crumwell he to Iohn de Willughby and others they to Iohn de Horspole and the rest as before is said There was an Assize 18 E. 1. between Robert de Annesley Plaintiff and Agnes who had been the wife of Henry son of Sewall Defendant concerning a place of Land sixty foot long and forty broad in Fiskerton and Morton the Jury said that Robert was never in seisin but they found that Term that she unjustly obstructed a certain way in Fiskerton and Morton so that the said Robert could not drive his goods directly from his Tenement in Morton to his pasture of Mardelok and the More c. Fiskerton Grange 3 and 4 Ph. and Mar. was granted to Edward Fynes Knight Lord Clinton and Say and Thomas Morryson it was rated at 7l. 12s. 8d. and in the Parish of Rolston Quen Elizabeth 21 Ian. 4 Eliz. granted to Thomas Cooper Esquire and his heirs all the Tythes and Demesne and Mannor of Fiskerton and Morton and the Capital Mess. called Ashwel-hall in Morton and a little Close called the Park and other Lands and Pastures belonging to it and other Lands with the Passage of Fiskerton and two Water-mills on the River Greet and Lands in Gourton and Bleseby belonging to the Priory of Thurgarton c. Sir Roger Cooper sold Ashwell-hall and the Mannor and some Farms in Moreton 1646. and the Mannor of Fiskerton and Moreton and the Ferry at Fiskerton and the Tythes and Farms there in the year 1649. to Huntingdon Plumtre Esquire Dr. of Physick whose son and heir Henry Plumtre Esquire is the present owner of the said Mannor and Farms in Morton and the Tythes of Fiscarton And I suppose Sir Roger sold some in Fiskerton about or before that time to Thomas Atkinson of Newark which Robert Atkinson his son hath since sold to Samuel Ellis And some more in Fiskerton was also purchased by Ed. Standish of Newark of the said Sir Roger Cooper which is also now the possession of the said Samuel Ellis all which was the Demesne and Thomas Cliffe and Iohn Cliffe of Stoke and Iohn Cliffe of Nott. have purchased the Ferry Farms c. of Fiscarton 1673. of the said Henry Plumtre as I hear Gourton Bleseby Noâ—â—own Gibsmere GOurton Bleseby and Noetown I suppose were involved in Suthwell in Doomsday Book wherein is shown that Raph Fitz Hubert had in Gipesmare and Mortun Land rated to the Geld or Tax at one Car. three Bov. of the Soc of Sudwelle which Land was three Carucats and an half and both before the Conquest and at the time of making that survey in the latter part of the Conquerours reign also was valued at 28s. This the Lords of Annesley held and it descended as in Moreton may be seen Robert de Burstall Knight gave to William son
of William of Car Coleston with Ales his daughter 6s. 6d. rent in the Town of Gouerton to be perceived of Iohn son of Hugh de Gouerton and his heirs the summ of 4â— and of Iohn son of Albert 2s. 6d. which the said William and Ales after him gave to the Priory of Thurgarton and the said Sir Robert de Burstall confirmed And also gave one Bovat of Arable with Medow in the Fields and Medows of Gouerton and Bleseby and all his Medow in Smething and a Toft in Bleseby and another Bovat in the said Fields and Medows and confirmed several Lands given to maintain the Fabrick of the Church of Thurgarton as for example one Wong with the head-land upon Brecum lying between land of the Chaplain of Bleseby on the West and the Land of Henry son of Robert de Gipesmere on the East which Thomas son of Alan de Gouerton sold to William de Blitheworth for five Marks who gave it for the Soul of Robert de Oxon Canon of Southwell all or most of which Iohn son of the said Sir Robert de Burstall also confirmed There were many other parcels in this territory given to the said Fabrick Dru son of Iohn son of Richard de Gipesmere gave five Selions which his father had given before Iohn son of Hugh de Gouerton gave an Acre of Medow in Smething and Richard called the Cementar son of Hugh de Gourton three Selions and an head-Head-land and the like which Iohn son of Robert de Burstal confirmed also to the said Fabrick lying all in the fields of Gouerton and Bleseby By a fine 13 E. 2. Robert de Burstall of Birton passed the Mannor of Bleseby to Iohn de Crumbewell and by another Fine 14 E. 2. it was settled on Richard de Crumbewell and the heirs of his body for want whereof it was to revert to the said Iohn de Crumbewell and his heirs Alice who had been the wife of Robert de Cressover then held the said Mannor for term of her life In the time of E. 3. it was Raph de Crumwells as in Baseford may be noted Maud the Cousin and heir of Raph Lord Crumbewell widow of Robert Lord Willoughby levied a Fine 21 E. 4. of the Mannor of Bleseby with the Appurtenances and of two Mess. four Tofts one hundred Acres of Land twenty of Medow sixty of Pasture and 29s. Rent with the Appurtenances in Bleseby Gourton and Gippesmere to William Hastings Knight William Chauntry Dean of the Colledge of the Newwork at Leycester William Moton Esquire William Grimmesby Esquire Robert Morne Clark and Thomas Kebeell whereby the premises were settled on her the said Maud for life and then to revert to the said William William William c. and the heirs of William Chauntry This came from the Family of Hastings as in Lambley may be discerned to Will. Willoughby of Wollaton and is now the inheritance of the Marquess of Dorchester purchased I suppose by his rather Robert Earl of Kingston There was a Fine levyed 20 E. 3. between Iohn son of Thomas de Sireston and Margaret his wife Quer. by William de Batheley Keeper or Guardian of the said Margaret and Thomas de Sireston and Amicia his wife mentioned in Streston Deforcients of two Mess. one Bovat and five Acres of Land fifteen Acres of Medow and 7d. Rent in Bleseby Gourton and Gipsmer whereby they were settled on the said Iohn and Margaret and the heirs of their bodies remainder to Thomas and Amicia and the heirs of Thomas Galfr. de Staunton at the Assizes at Nott. 31. E. 3. recovered his seisin of 2. Mess. 12. Bovats of Land fourty eight Acres of Medow eight of Pasture and 26s. 8d. Rent in Bleseby Gouerton and Gippesmere and Thomas Alweys was amerced The Jury 32 E. 3. found that William de Staunton had an estate in two Mess. 240. Acres of Land and 48. of Medow and 40s. Rent in Gouerton Bleseby and Gibsmere for the life of Iohn Alewys according to a writing dated at Gouerton 27 E. 3. which Lands were held of the Arch-bishop of Yorke by the service of 16â— per annum and three appearances yearly at his Court of Southwell I find no mention of Noetown and therefore suppose it only some houses which are parcel of some of these Hamlets In the year of our Lord 1612. Bleasby with Gibsmere and Gourton had these for owners viz. The Lady Arbella twenty nine Oxgangs William Cooper Esquire five Oxgangs and an half Michael Grundy of Thurgarton twenty six Oxgangs William More five Oxgangs and an half William Ferryman of Goreton four Oxgangs Richard Wightman Gent. a Wind-mill the Bayliff of East Retford seven Oxgangs and Iohn North of Lowdham two Crofts Mr. Iohn Grundy is now resident at Bleseby The Vicarage of Bleisby was seven Marks 'T is now 4l. value in the Kings Books and the Chapter of Southwell hath the Patronage Halloughton or Hawton THis makes a Prebend in Southwell as in that place is shown it was called the Lay Prebend having nothing spiritual but the Tythes of its own Lands Iohn Forest Gent. son and heir of Richard Forest brother of Roger Forest Esquire who died 10 May 1 Mariae seised of the Mannor of Fleton in Huntingtonshire and the Mannor of Halloughton or Haughton in this County was under age at the death of his said Uncle he had both Land and Tythes Sir Charles Owseley or Wolseley had it in Lease lately and I think still hath The Prebend of Halton was 10l. 'T is now 8l. 17s. 6d. value in the Kings Books Southwell Suell And Sudwell THis place with the Hamlets and Members of it which make up that which is now called the Soke before the Conquest was a distinct Hundred lying between the two Hundreds of Torgarton and Lyde with which it is now joyned and was sometimes called Southwell Hundred as out of Doomsday Book in Farnesfeld is manifest and sometimes as I suppose Cherlington Hundred corrupted at length into Chadlington Hundred for so it is called in the Patent 5 E. 6. which gave licence to Iohn Earl of Warwick to alienate it and this most ancient and Noble Mannor to Iohn Beaumont then Master of the Rolls and his heirs The Church is said by Sir Edward Cooke to be founded or built by Paulinus the first Arch-bishop of York who Baptized King Edwin on Easter day in the year of our Lord 627. which may likely enough be true but certain it is that in the year 958. King Eadwy granted to his beloved Bishop Oscytel who was also Arch-bishop of York part of his Land at Sudwellan twenty Farms for an Heritage with all their Appurtenances yet King Edgar brother and successour of Eadwy in the Certificate into the Court of Augmentation is said to be the ancient Founder However the Conquerours great Survey reciting the Land of the Arch-bishop of York in Snottinghamseire in Torgarton Wapentac shows that
the Canons there serving God six shillings of Silver for a Toft and Bovat of Land which he held of them which were sometimes Raph the Priest's of Dukmanton His Deed bore date at Kirtelington the Thursday next after the Ascension 1297. where were present as witnesses Sir Thomas de Furnival W. de Cressy W. de Goushull R. de Furraus Knights S. de Bella aqua his brother or Cousin German H. de Fauconberg After Sir Iohn was Thomas de Bella aqua possibly his brother the last of the Lords of this Mannor of this name was Iohn de Bella aqua whom for want of better light I must suppose son of Thomas Sir Iohn Annesley Knight and Robert Annesley Parson of the Church of Holme were seized of the Mannor of Bolton upon Derne in Yorkshire and the 18 E. 3. gave it to Iohn de Bella aqua and Isabell his wife and the heirs of their bodies on whom this Mannor was also settled by Fine 20 E. 3. and 11 H. 4. was an execution of it and several times after They had a daughter Lucia their heir married to Iohn Burgh who left Thomas and he Iohn upon whose seal is a fesse Dancè and on Katherin his wives impaled with that a fesse dancy between six escallops 5 R. 2. whose daughter and heir Margaret was wife of Sir Iohn Zouch Knight son of William Lord Zouch of Totnes and after of Sir Iohn Lowdham Knight by whom she had no issue but by her first husband left a daughter and heir Elizabeth married to Nicolas Bowett o◠Ripinghall who left two daughters Elizabeth wife of Sir William Chaworth and Margaret of his brother Iohn Chaworth whom the said Margaret wife of Sir Iohn Lowdham and formerly of Sir Iohn Zouch about 29 H. 6. left her heirs but each of them having a son Thomas Chaworth who both of them dyed without issue the said Elizabeth wife of Sir Wil Chaworth had a son by her second husband Iohn the son of Robert Dunham called Sir Iohn Dunham Knight who became inheritor of this Lordship after her death which was 20 Mar. 17 H. 7. he the said Sir Iohn Dunham being at the time of the taking the Inquisition viz. 18 H. 7. about 28. years of age He died 9 Sept. 30 H. 8. and by his first wife Iane daughter of Thomas Thurland of Gameleston had a son who died young and four daughters who became his heirs his second wife was Benett the daughter of Sir Godfr Folejambe The principal Mannor here was allotted to Fr. the wife of Iohn Hasilwood Esquire whose Grand-child sold it to Iohn More Doctor of Physick I find that Iohn Dunham Esquire 3 H. 8. suffered a recovery of the Mannors of Kirtlington and Rughagh and great quantities of Land in Kirtlington Rughagh Hockerton Halam Edingley Osmundthorpe Normanton Middlethorp Cawnton Harlesey Kyrsall Darleton Drayton Dunham Ragenhull and Wymton and called to warrant Iohn Dunham Knight Another small Mannor here which Sir Iohn Dunham bought in was alloted to Katherine another of the four daughters of Sir Iohn Dunham first married to Raph Okeover of Okeover Esquire and after to Henry Leigh of Rushall Esquire and was by Edward her son and heir afterwards Sir Edward Leigh sold to Sir Edward Stanhope Knight the Surveyer who also purchased the Park of Kirtlington called Belleu Parke so that this small Mannor together with the Park was sold by Sir Edward Stanhope of Grimston his son to the right Honourable the Earl of Kingston who sold the Mannor to the said Doctor More but left the Park to his son and heir the Right Honourable the Marquess of Dorchester and now all Kirtlington except the said Park is the inheritance of Iohn More son and heir of Iohn More brother of Sir Edw. More a Scotch Baronet Nephew and heir to the Doctor which Sir Edw. having only daughters 4. I think the said Iohn his brother succeeded by the settlement of his Uncle the said Doctor and hath made a very fair Park into which he hath taken part of Hockerton Lordship whereof he was also Proprietor which he left well stored with Deer to his said son Iohn who had married ....... Constable sister to the Earl of Dunbarr Raph son of Simon by the assent of Agnes his wife quit-claimed from him and his heirs Paulin son of Roger son of Cuthing of Kirtlington with all his Sect to St. Peter of Thurgarton and the Canons there serving God for which the said Canons gave him fifteen shillings of Silver There was a Mannor in this Town held by the family of Pigot Sir Hugh Pigot had a daughter and heir it seems called Isabell married to the first Sir Robert Sutton of Averham with whose posterity it continued long but he had a wife named Alice as in that place may be noted There were two Fines levied 22 H. 6. one between Thomas Chaworth Knight Quer. and Thomas Curson Esquire and Margaret his wife Deforcients and the other between the said Sir Thomas Chaworth Knight Querent and Richard Sutton Esquire and Katherin his wife Deforcients of the Rent of a pound of Pepper in Hardeby and of the Mannor of Kirtelington called Pigot Hall with the Appurtenances except seven Mess. one Toft two hundred Acres of Land forty of Medow ten of Pasture and twenty of Wood with the Appurtenances in the same Town of Hardeby and North-clifton in the same Mannor They granted besides the said Rent and Mannor to the said Sir Thomas Chaworth and his heirs the Homages and Services which Sir Iohn Pigot Knight and his heirs ought them for all the Tenements which he held of them in Herdeby William Sallowe died seized of Lands here about 12 H. 4. which seem to have been the inheritance of some younger branch of the Family of Bella aqua Thomas Flaxley 11 H. 4. had some concern in the conveying these Lands as appears by an Inquisition Ad quod Damnum George Sallowe succeeded in them who is called of Staunton by Sandiacre and had one Thomasia to wife he died 5 H. 5. leaving his daughter and heir Agnes the Mannor of Allesworth and this in Kirtelington Halom Osmundthorpe Normanton Eddingly and Hockerton Agnes Marmion about 3 E. 4. left this Mannor and Allesworth and the Mannor of Lamcote by Radcliff to Agnes the wife of Thomas Pilkington then above twenty six years of age In Kirtlington about the year 1612. the owners were Maryon Hasselwood Esquire Sir Edward Stanhope Knight Richard Eyre Widow Longman Laurence Leak of Osmundthorpe William Leek of Normanton Gentleman George Cartwright of the same Gentleman c. The Vicarage of Kirtlington is 6l. 13s. 4d. in the Kings books Rolleston THe Book of Doomsday shows that in the beginning of the Norman Government Rolleston contained three Mannors each belonging to a several Lord. One was then of Thomas the Arch-bishop of Yorkes Fee where Aluric had for his Mannor four
son Robert the present Lord Lexington under age at this day viz. Mar. 27. 1674. continueth owner of the whole Township inclosed by his father about 18. years since saving that which Mr. Wimondswold of Southwell hath which may possibly be that of the Churches Fee By a Fine at York 2 E. 3. between Thomas de Radeclive and Alice his wife Quer. and William de Radeclive Chappelan Deforc. one Mess. fifty Acres of Land ten of Medow 2s. and 6l. Rent with the Appurtenances in Roldeston were settled on the said Thomas and Alice for life remainder to Adam son of Iohn Biyonden and to Ioane his wife and the heirs of their bodies remainder to the right heirs of the said Thomas Sir William Babington Knight about 33 H. 6. was seized of the Mannor of Rolleston called Babington Mannor and of the Mannor of Lenton called Elme Mannor and that of Bramcote called Karr Mannor and one in Oxton called Yke or rather Ieke Mannor as in that place may be guessed William Babington Esquire was then found his son and heir Sir William Pierpount Knight 23 H. 7. suffered a recovery wherein Richard Emson Knight Brian Stapleton Knight Thomas Emson Esquire George Stapleton Esquire Edward Bulstrode Esquire Henry Pyerpont Esquire Richard Drewell Esquire and Roger Pyerpont Esquire claimed the Mannors of Rolleston Barton in le Beanes and Kirkeby in Ashefeld with the Appurtenances and twenty two Mess. twelve Tofts eight hundred and ten Acres of Land two hundred and ten of Medow two hundred and fifty of Pasture one hundred and ten of wood and 4l. 3s. 4l. Rent in Rolston Barton in le Beanes Kyrkeby in Ashefeld Newark Rolleston Codington Balderton and Skoke Mr ...... Pierpont hath the Rectory and some Cottages I suppose in Lease from the Church of Southwell The Vicarage of Rolston was 8l. 't is now 10l. 1s. 3d. value in the Kings books and the Chapter of Southwell continueth in the Patronage Starthorpe IN Staretorpe before the Normans came one Swayn Lord also of Aygrum and several other Towns in which he was succeeded by Gislebert de Tyson had for his Mannor nine Bov. ad Geldam The Land two Car. There the said Gislebert had afterwards one Car. and twelve Vill. four Bord. having four Car. and an half and one Mill 5s. and six Acres of Medow This in the Conquerours time kept the value it had in the Confessours viz. 60◠Adam de Tysun and William his son both benefactors to Rufford whose gifts were confirmed by King Stephen were the next that succeeded in this inheritance that I have yet discovered Hubert Hosatus or Hosè Rector of the Church of Egrum gave to that Monastery of Rufford for the souls of Henry Hosatus his father and of Avicia his mother whom I suppose sister of William Tysun called the Uncle of Henry Hosè brother of the said Hubert who will be again named in Averham in the year of our Lord 1218. three Acres of Medow in the territory of Startorp in the Medow called Eyngemer on the West part stretching from the South into the North from the Land of Startorpe which his said brother Henry Hosatus gave to him the said Hubert and his heirs The witnesses were Mr. Hugh son of Swayn then Chappellan of Egrum Matthew the Parson of Kelum Henry de Tuc Peter son of Maurice de Kelum Adam de Kellesholt Hervey de Muscam Mr. Philip de Brambelle Robert de Sandeburne Nicolas de Monteburg Raph Tysun Sir Henry Hosee in times past was Lord of Averham and the same Henry gave that Mannor to Robert de Laxton and the same Henry gave to Hubert Hosee his brother the whole Town of Sterthorp doing the foreign service except seven Bovats of Land which the same Henry Hosee had given before to Mauger de Stanton and Gauter Hosee Of Mauger de Stanton came Galfr. of whom came William de Stanton which William gave to the Ancestors of Sir Gerard de Hedon with his daughter two Bovats of Land parcel of the said seven Bovats with two Bovats Hugh Damysell held The said William de Stanton gave to the Ancestors of Sir Galfr. de Stoke two Bov. of the said seven which Iohn Clark held and the same William de Stanton gave with Margaret his sister to Roger de Thourleby three Bovats of Land parcel of the said seven which three Iohn le Ward Hugh de Stanton and Robert in the Willughes held and it is to be noted that by the said Hubert Hosee or his heirs the whole residue of the Town of Sterthorp in Demesne and Service came to the possession of the Abbat and Covent of Durford of whom afterwards the said Robert de Lexington acquired all those things with the Services of the Freemen and Villains and thereof enfeoffed the Prior and Covent of Newstede to whom he also gave Routhorne and Scardeliff with the Appurtenances in Darbyshire They esteemed the seven Bovats of the Fee of Stanton to be the third part of the Town of Sterthorp and therefore would have those Free-holders to pay the third part of the burden in Scutages and the like charges In the time of Edward the third Hugh de Stanton held one Bovat William de Kelum one Iohn de Maunsfeld one Hugh Damysell two Robert in le Willoghes and his heirs one Iohn le Ward one The Jury 9 E. 2. which were Robert de Lamley Robert de Rolleston Henr. de Rolleston Iohn de Halum Walter de Walour William Basage Richard de Iorz Robert de Burstall Richard de Basage William Kyriell Henry Gernonne and Iohn in le Wro found that the Prior of Newstede held two parts of half a Knights Fee in Sterthorpe of the Fee of Moubray to which Family it seems it was very anciently transferred and that Iohn de Maunsfeld Robert in le Wellues and William son of Richard de Kelum and the Parceners held the third part of the said half Fee and that Walter de Gousill and Raph de Crophill Collectors of the Scurage for the Kings Armies in Scotland in the twenty eighth thirty first and thirty fourth years of King Edward the first received for the said two parts only of the Prior and of William de Stanton and Iohn de Maunsfeld for the third as their Acquittances 9 E. 2. also show The possessions of the Priory of Newsted at the dissolution Rented at 22l. 19s. 1d. ob were by King Henry the eighth granted to the Master and Fellows of Trinity Colledge in Cambridge from whom the Family of Faunt of Foston in Leicestershire still have them in Lease The Abbat of Rufford had a Grange here granted to the Earl of Shrowsbury with Rufford 29 H. 8. Aram. Averham Aygrum Egrom SWayn mentioned in Starthorp for his Mannor here in Aygrum paid to the Common Tax or Geld as three Carucats The Land whereof was then known to be six Car. Gislebert Tyson whose Fee it became after the Norman Invasion had
said Iohn or his Ancestors held it on Andrew his son and Elena daughter of Alexander de Holm and the heirs of their bodies reserving to himself during his life ten Marks sterling yearly Willielmus le Butiler five Pincerna de Hocretun-superst 22 H. 2. Willielmus le Butiler Willielmus Pincerna miles Hugo le Butiler Johannes le Buteler Dom. de Staynton 1299. Andr. le Boteler 3 E. 3 -Elen fil Alexandri de Holm 1302. Johannes Boteler Johan Boteler-Margareta 40 E. 3. Elizabetha 16 R. 2 -Joh de Briggeford Sara 3 H. 6 -Willielmus Multon de-Rousby Com. Linc. Christiana .... Alford Robertus Alford unus consang haer Joh. Botiller 9 H. 7. Willielmus 42 E. 3. Henricus Botiller 9 R. 2. Will. Botiller de Tikhill capellan 24 H. 6. The Jury 18 E. 2. found it not to the Kings loss to grant Andrew le Botiler of Hokerton that he should enfeoff William Ayremine Clark of or in one Mess. one Car. of Land and 40s. Rent with the Appurtenances in Hokerton which were held of the King in Capite as of the Honour of Tikhill by the Service of the tenth part of a Knights Fee The Jury 23 E. 3. found it likewise not to the Kings loss if he granted Rich. de Marnham to give to the Prior and Covent of Thurgarton one Mess. one Bovat and fifteen Acres of Land and two of Medow held of Iohn de Odingselles in Eperston and there would remain at Hokerton and Rohagh one Carucat of Land held of Iohn de Belewe Iohn Boteler of Hokyrton 40 E. 3. granted to Iohn Boteler his son and Margaret his wife during the life of the said Iohn the Father one Mess. and one Car. of Land called Marnham Land with the Appurtenances in Hokyrton and also forty shillings Rent yearly to be perceived viz. 20s. out of the Lands and Tenements which Robert Roughshankes held 13s. 4d. out of the Lands and Tenements of William son of Thomas de Hokyrton and 6s. 8d. out of those of Henry son of Iohn Boteler in the same Town and he likewise gave him eight Acres of Medow in Hokyrton and ten Cart-loads of Thornes out of his Wood of Hokyrton yearly at their pleasure with Wards and Relief and other Appurtenances Iohn Stanhop of Rampton Eschaetor 49 E. 3. gave account concerning the Lands and Tenements which were lately Iohn le Botilers of Hockerton 16 April that year Robert Alford 9 H. 7. one of the Cousins and heirs of Iohn Botiller sometime of Hokerton viz. son of Christian daughter of Sara 3 H. 6. wife of William Multon of Rowsby in Lincolnshire daughter of Elizabeth as I take it 16 R. 2. wife of Iohn de Briggeforth daughter of the said Iohn Botiller released to Iohn Hunt of Nottingham Merchant in his possession being all his right and claim in one Mess. three Bov. of Land and Medow in Hokerton sometimes the said Iohn Botillers The Mannor of Hokerton about Richard the seconds time came to Iohn de Bridgeford and so to .... Bowman and .... Alford of whom Sir Iohn Dunham Knight bought it and in the partition of his Lands it was allotted to Katherin his daughter married to Henry Leigh of Rushall Esquire whose son and heir Edward Leigh then Esquire after Knight sold it by parcels to Iohn Boun Esquire Father of Gilbert Boun Serjeant at Law and to others Thomas de Bella aqua and Roger Robert de Cruche held half a Knights Fee in Hokerton of the Fee of Oliver Deyncurt Bellewes part lies near to Kirtlington and is a great part of the Demesnes used with Kirtelington House and I suppose makes a good share of the Park The first of the Family of Criche is Iohn Father of Reinband whom I have taken notice of the next Gaufr de Cruche who gave to the Monks Johannes de Criche Galfridus de Cruce Robertus de Cryche Richardus de Cryche 1299 -Christiana relict 5 E. 2. Richardus de Cryche-Magota 18 E. 2 -Margetia 44 E. 3. Johannes de Cryche-Margareta 44 E. 3. Johannes de Cryche 14 H. 4. Richardus de Cryche fil haer 1 H. 6. de Halom 9 H. 6. Willielmus 33 E. 3 -Cecilia ob 12 H. 4. s. p. Robertus capellanus Marjoria Agnes Alicia Reinbaldus Beatrix of Rufford the Homage and Service of Beatrix daughter of Reinbald his brother and her heirs with the Farm of 40d. which she ought him yearly for two Bovats of Land which she held of him in Hokerton Robert de Cryche son of Gaufr de Cryche passed a Toft and some small parcel to Iohn son of Iohn de Criche Richard de Cryche son of Robert in the year 1299. confirmed to Margery Agnes and Alice his sisters some small parcels their father the said Robert gave them To this Robert de Criche and his heirs in the year 1296. did Iohn le Botiler Lord of Hokerton give and confirm Robert Gervays of Southwell son of Iohn son of Sibyll de Hokerton his Native or Villain with all his Goods moveable and immoveable and all his Chattels acquired and to be acquired with all his Sequels yet afterwards he gave him liberty to be promoted to the Clergy and receive Ecclesiastical Tonsure and released him lest he should suffer any repulse from the Ordinaries by reason of his Servitude Christian sometime wife of Richard de Criche of Hokerton in her widowhood Iun. 7. 1328. released to Richard de Criche her son all her claim in her said husbands Lands Robert son of Richard de Criche of Hokerton and Hugh Gervays of the same Chaplains 44. E. 3. conveyed to Richard de Criche of Hokerton and Marjory his wife and to Iohn son of the said Richard and to Margaret his wife and the heirs of the bodies of the said Iohn and Margaret the Capital Mess. and all Lands Rents Farms Medows Pastures Buildings c. and another Mess. called Gervays place which they had of the gift and feoffment of the said Richard de Criche who in 33 E. 3. settled two Mess. on William de Criche his son and Cicely his wife who died without issue at Welbek 12 H. 4. Richard son and heir of Iohn Criche 1 H. 6. Iuly 1. released to Robert Warsop Clark and Robert Southwell all his claim in 2s. Rent issuing out of two Mess. in Rohagh and out of all the Lands which Iohn Lawrence sometimes held and which Richard de Criche his Grandfather whose heir he then was gave to Iohn Coke of Maplebeck and Alice his wife and the heirs of their bodies with remainder to himself and his heirs Iohn son of Iohn Criche the elder of Hokerton 14 H. 4. released to Iohn Briggeford of Hokerton Robert Warsop Parson of West Retford and Robert Southwell all his right in all the Lands in Hokerton which they had of the gift and feoffment of the said Iohn Criche his Father All Criches Lands were purchased by Iohn Hunt Merchant of the Staple
to Henry de Lacy Earl of Lincoln for his Service two Cantreds in Wales viz. of Roos and Roweignok He had by Margaret daughter of William Longespey Edmund de Lacy junior who died young and Iohn who was slain by a fall from a Tower in Pontefract Castle before he was marriageble and Alise his daughter and heir who at nine years old was betrothed to Thomas of Lancaster King Edwards Nephew son of Edmund Earl of Lancaster his brother which Thomas Earl of Lancaster her husband was beheaded in the year 1321. and she after married her old Love Ebulo le Strange but had no issue her Father the said Henry Earl of Linc. died 3 E. 2. 1310. aged sixty years having settled a great part of his Estate 22. E. 1. for want of heirs of his said daughter Alesia on the heirs of the said Thomas Earl of Lancaster her husband and thus ended this Noble Line Henry Earl of Lincolne died seiâ—ed of this Mannor of Knesale and the Wapentak of Allerton and other Lands of the Fee of Gaunt and Tikhill The heirs of Iohn Burdon held of him a Knights Fee in Maplebeck Kirketon and Bucketon Iohn de Kiâ—nesaâ—e in Kirnesale a 〈◊〉 part Raph de Welwike Iohn de Calneton Robert Coly and Richard Freman a fourth part in Kenesale Margery Foliot a Fee in Grimston with its members Richard de Sutton a Fee in Alerton William Fitz-William three parts of a Fee in Weston Sternethorp Sutton and in â—ieworth in Cotum by Dunham Marneham Batheley Muscham Karleton â—keggeby another Fee in Mareton Hareworth and Lympole half a Fee in Plumtre by â—areworth a sixth part of a Knights Fee in Sâ—yrap and Vlcotes a fourth part in Costerthorp and Hardwick another Fee in Claverburgh and Hayton the fourth and eighth part of a Fee in Clumbre a sixth part in Allerton a third in Drayton a fourth and an eighth part c. Iohn de Felton 3 E. 3. claimed to have view of Frank-pledge and Weyf and Free Warren in his Mannor of Knesale Thomas Earl of Norforlk and Suffolk and Marescal 6 E. 3. passed to the King and his heirs the Mannor of Knesall with many others in several Counties The Jury 34 E. 3. found that William de Bohun Earl of Northhampton held when he died the Mannor of Knesale by the Charter of King Edward the third and that Humfrey de Bohun was his son and heir The Jury 1 H. 4. found that Alianor wife of Thomas late Duke of Gloucester one of the daughters and heirs of Humfrey de Bohun late Earl of Hereford died feised of this Mannor of Knesale Anne wife of Edmund Earl Stafford Willielmus Boun Com. Northampton Humfr. de Bohun Com. Hereford-Essex Northampton Alianor-Tho de Woodstock Dux Glocestr Anna-Edmundus Com. Stafford Humfr. Dux Buckingham Humfr. Stafford Henricus Dux Buckingham Edmund Dux Buckingham attinct 13 H. 3. Joana at 15. 1 H. 4. Isabella aet 13. 1. H. 4. Ioane then aged fifteen years and Isabell thirteen were her three daughters and heirs In 4 H. 4. they found that Edmund Earl of Stafford when he died held the Mannor of Knesale of the inheritance of Anne his wife and that Humfrey his son and heir was then one year old she the said Anne afterwards 7 H. 4. was wife of Iohn William le Bourghchier Chr. Humfr. Duke of Buckingham about 38 H. 6. died seized of the Mannors of Radcliffe on Sore Knesale and Colston Basset leaving Henry son of Humfrey son of the said Duke his heir The Mannor of Knesall late Edmund Duke of Buckinghams 13 H. 8. was granted to Iohn Hussey Knight and the heirs males of his body Iohn Lord Hussey was attaint in Parliament 31 H. 8. and in 3 or 5 E. 6. this Mannor and many others were granted to Edward Fynes Lord Clinton and Say Lord Admiral of England and his heirs Robert Earl of Kingston had it and with his posterity it continueth There was a Chantry founded at the Altar of St. Nicolas in Knesall by one Iohn Chapman of the City of York Publique Notary who held Lands while he lived in Knéesall Ampton and Allerton which were granted by Queen Eliz. 18 Eliz. To Iohn Mershe Esquire and Francis Greneham Gent. there was a recovery 17 and 18 Eliz. wherein Iohn Meringe Gent. and Iohn Burton claimed against William Meringe Knight two Mess. one hundred Acres of Land five hundred Acres of Pasture in Knesall who called to warrant Thomas Meringe Esquire son and heir of the said William In the year 1612. the owners of Kneesall were reckoned to be Samuel Hartop Gilbert Rosse Gent. Robert Clark and William Walhead The Vicarage of Knesall was ten Marks when the Vicars Choral of Southwell were Patrons 't is now ten Pounds value in the Kings Books and the Church of Southwell retains the Patronage Kernesall Kersal Cheuersale THis was a Member as it were of Knesale yet there was a Grange or Hermitage in Kersale which Hugo de Burun a great benefactor and afterwards Monk of Lenton held who gave Land in Almeton to that Monastery but I suspect this Hermitage of Kersale might be in Lancashire Richard son of Robert de Croxton confirmed to the Canons of Stanley Parke otherwise called Dale-Abby the whole gift which his brother Iohn made to them of all his Land in Mickleverge in the territory of Kirnesale which the Abbat and Covent released to Avicia sometime wife of Sir Iohn de Kirnesale and her heirs Robert Walensiâ— son of Rob. Walensis of Kirneshal gave four Acres of Arable Land in an essart of Kirneshal to the Monastery of Rufford with his body paying the Lord of the Fee 6 d. per annum which it seems was one Thomas de Ywardeby Clark who wrote to Sir William de Sutton and Sir Robert his brother Knights Iohn Burdon Iohn de Kirmshale Rob. Maleshover Richard Freman and Henry son of Silvester de Kirmshale stiling them Noble and discreet men that he had released to the Monks of Rufford all his interest in the said Land which Robert Walensit gave of his Fee and likewise the 6â— per annum Rent due to him and his heirs and diligently intreated them that they would bear testimony to that Deed of release sealed with the same seal with which his Letters to them were sealed because they knew certainly that he had not a seal in which his proper name was contained Silvester de Kirneshale son of Henry de Laxton gave to the said Monastery of Rufford one Acre of Arable Land in Kirneshale of his Wong which lay on the North part of the way which leads from Kirneshale to the wood called Bergelhage the witnesses were Robert de Laxton Mr. Peter and Mr. Stephen his brothers Raph son of Henry de Laxton his own brother William son of Iohn de Kalnatheton Robert Broune Esquire Thomas Smith Richard Bevercotes Gent. and others 17 H. 8. claimed against Robert Kellome
Geld or Tax as four Carucats and five Bovats The Land was then returned sufficient for nine Plows and an half or nine Car. ½ There Arch-bishop Thomas whose Fee it was had two Car. in Demesne twenty Sochm. seven Vill. sixteen Bord. having six Car. there was a Mill 2s. and sixty six Acres of Medow and fourscore Acres of small wood In the Confessours time it was valued at 15s. In the Conquerours when the survey was taken at 10s. Here was another Mannor of the Land of the Taynes which Sortebrand had before the Normans came and for it paid the Geld as six Bov. The Land being one Car. ½ Sericus held it of King William and had there one Sochm. two Bord. with two Oxen in Plow and twelve Acres of Medow Pasture wood one qu. long and one broad In King Edward the Confessours time this was also rated at 16s. but in Kings Williams at 5s. There is a descent in the Monasticon Vol. 1. p. 963. which is also in the Register of Beauvale the latter part whereof is erroneous that Robert de Muskam Senescal of Gislebert de Gaunt was father of Hugh de Muskam who was a benefactor to Rufford whose gifts King Stephen confirmed This Hugh in the presence and by the consent of his Lord Henry Murdac Arch-bishop of Yorke who lived in that Kings time gave to that Monastery all that part of the Land of his Fee of Muscam which on the west side of his Park was shut in with the bounds of three Villages viz. Kelum Winkeburne and Thorpe now Middlethorp and the seat of a Grange in his Park which with what was noted in Kelum made the Hamlet or Grange called Parkelathes and the Land on the South side of his Park where the house of Fulc stood and a Wong of his Demesne near his Park on the East side called Geniwode which last gift he made when he rendred himself to the fellowship of the Monks and by the hand of Mat. the Abbat all which and sundry others Rob. de Muschamp his son and heir confirmed as he did also what his father gave in Shipley in Darbyshire adding to the new work of the Church of Rufford and after the finishing thereof to the light of that Church for the Souls of his father and mother his own and his wifes and for the Soul of Fulco de Castilon the brother of his wife half a Mark of Silver of the Farm which Rob. de Sipley was to pay the said Monks for ever To this Deed of Robert son of Hugh de Muscamp were witnesses Roger the Prior of Ruford Iohn the Celerer Roger de Novavilla Ernisius the Monk Ioslenus de Novavilla and others Robert de Sipley and William his son and heir swore upon the holy Gospels in the presence of their Lord Robert de Muscam that they and their heirs would yearly at Pentecost owe half a mark of Silver to the Monks of Ruford for what the said Monks had in Sipley The witnesses were Robert de Muscam Hugh his brother Hugh and Robert sons of the said Robert Walter de Scekebi Adam the Clark of Muscam William de Derby G. Parvo small or little the Cellerer of Ruford Likewise Gilbert son of Fulco de Kelum in the presence of his Lord Robert de Muscham and in his Court quit-claimed to the Monks of Rufford the Toft of Fulc his father called Brunecroft in the territory of Muscam in pure Alms free and quiet as the Chartels of Hugh de Muscham and Robert his son testified and over and above gave them two Acres and an half of Arable Land lying on the South part of the way which leads from the corner of the Park of Muscham towards Carleton which Richard his brother gave them and all that Wong in the territory of Karleton which Robert de Muscham gave to the said Monks with Robert his son buried at Ruford The said Gilbert gave also eleven Acres and an half in the territory of Kelum c. The witnesses were William de Muscam Arch-Deacon of Derbi William Botiler of Hokerton Walter Fitz-Pagan of Newerc and Ganfr his brother Yvo le Walur William son of Warm de Newerc Peter Beuwaleth and Alan his brother Henry son of William de Kelum Henry Ormal Richard son of Robert de Kelum Peter de Kelum Hugh the Clark of Calnadton Raph son of Thomas de Hokerton It appears that the sons of Robert de Muschamp died without issue Hugh eldest son of Robert de Muschamp by Idonea his wife had no heirs neither had his brother Robert by Agnes the sister of Almeric de Gassi Knight not their brother Andrew because Raph de Greseley 15 Ioh. as in Greseley is shown made Fine to the King of five hundred Marks for having the Land which was Robert de Muschamp's father of Isabella wife of the said Raph and that he might marry Agnes his daughter to Robert Lupus Love which marriage either came not to perfection or Rob. Lupus died without issue for Hugh Fitz-Raph and Agnes his wife daughter and heir of Raph de Greseley in 12 H. 3. gave account of 15l. for their relief of three Knights Fees which the said Raph de Gresele held of the Honour of Peverell Nott. viz. two in Claindon and one in Gresele with the Appurtenances Hugh Fitz-Raph for the safety or health of his own Soul and the Souls of his two wives and of Raph and Hugh his sons and all his ancestors and successors gave to the Monks of Ruford a certain part of his Wood of Muschamp near the Grange with the Land in which the Wood stood and certain Arable Land viz. that part of Wood and Land which lay on the South and West part of the new ditch which the Monks made from the corner of Bugwong named in Kellum Raph Fitz-Nicolas and Hugh-Fitz-Raph gave account of the gift of the Prelates granted to the King to marry c. Hugh Fitz-Raph held in Muschampe and Carleton one Fee of the Arch-bishop of York of the old Feoffment Hugh de Muscham in the time of H. 2. held two Fees of Roger Arch-bishop of York of the old Feoffment that is whereof his Ancestor was enfeoffed before the death of King Henry the first This Hugh Fitz-Raph left no son to succeed him but the Inheritance went to Eustachia daughter of his son Raph who was first married to Nicolas de Cantelup and after his death to William de Ros of Ingmanthorp Raph Fitz-William Lord of Grymesthorpe for a Release which Sir William de Ros of Ingmanthorp and Eustachia his wife made for themselves and their heirs to the said Raph concerning Lands and Tenements which they had in Nesham and Morton upon Swale gave to William de Ros son of the said William and Eustachia all his Mannor of South Muscham and Carleton in the year 1286. whereof a Fine was levied in 15 E. 1. William de Ros
Shrowsbury Iohn Gelston had Lands here which Edmund Claxton of Balderron got and left to his three daughters mentioned in Thoroton some whereof came to Scrimshire The owners of North Muskam Batheley and Holme in 1612. are thus set down The Bishop of Chichester and Church of Lincolne Sir Iohn Stanhope Knight Raph Barton Esquire Fowlk Cartwright Esquire Iulian Cardinal Widow The Town of Newark Francis Leak Knight Anthony Brackenbury Iohn Lilly Roger Skrimshawe Adam Wheatcroft William Levesye Raph Iohnson Barnabas Lillye William Merryweather Stephen Howes Raph Barton William Iohnson senior Iohn Bradley William Skrimshawe Ieffrey Fisher Richard Wittengton Edward Trevis Widow Mortone William Wolhouse Nicolas Iohnson Peter Iohnson and Richard Farneworth The Vicarage of North Muskham was ten Marks is now 5l. 6s. 8d. value in the Kings Books whereof the Prebendary continueth Patron still But there is another Vicarage which was 8l. when the Prior of Shelford was Patron 't is now 4l. 19s. 7d. value in the Kings Books and his Majesties Patron In the East Window of the North I le of North Muskam Church Arg. two Bendletts engrayled Sable Ratcliff Quartering Gules a Crosse engrayled Arg. Lee. And Arg. a Mullet Sable Ashton The fourth as the first Azure on a Fesse between three Bucks heads Cabossed Or a Mullet Sable impaling the former Quarterings with the second and third cotes repeated in the bottom to make up six Azure three Bucks heads Cabossed Or without the Fesse Quartering the six In a North Window of the same I le Arg. a Mullet Sable Ashton And Gules a Crosse engrayled Arg. Lee. Gules a Lion of Engl. in chief the rest broken Arg. three Bores Heads Couped two and one Gules Az. on a Fesse between three Bucks Heads Cabossed Or a Mullet Sable supposed to be Gernons In the East Window of the South I le The same impaling Arg. on a Saltier engrailed Sable nine annulets Or Leeke In a South Window Or on a Fesse Gules three Waterbougets Ermine Bingham impaling Gules a Saltier Ermine Nevill of Rolleston In a high South Window Azure six Eagles Heads Erased three and three Or impaling Arg. three Bores passant Sab. two and one Norwell And VVoodhous And Middlethorpe N Nortwell St. Mary of Sudwell had twelve Bov. ad Geldam for a Mannor The Land was for six Plows or six Carucats There were two Car. in Demesne and twenty two Vill. three Bordars having seven Car. There was a Church and a Priest and one Mill 12d. one Piscary 73. Acres of Medow Pasture Wood 2. Leuc. long 2. broad or 1. rather broad In the Confessors time 6l. value in the Conquerours 100 s It had Soc in Osmunthorp Wilgebi Calneston Ocretune Vdeburgh There are three Prebends belonging to the Church of Southwell as in that place is said which have their denomination and a good part of their provision from this place viz. Norwell Overhall Norwell Palace Hall or Palyshall and Norwell tertia pars or other Prebend The first is the chief and the best in that Church Iohn Clarell Prebendary 41 H. 3. had free-warren Mercat and Fair in Northwell Iohn de Thoresby Canon of Southwell Prebendary of the Prebend of Northwell 3 E. 3. claimed free-warren in all his Demesne Lands at Northwell and a weekly Market every Thursday and a yearly Fair for three days the Eve day and morrow after the Feast of the Holy Trinity and emendation for breaking the Assize of Bread and Ale Wil. de Melton 3 E. 2. Prebendary of Southwell after viz. 17 E. 2. Arch-bishop of York had free-warren in Northwell Woodhouse c. which 3 E. 3. Robert de Woodhouse claimed as in Southwell is said Nicolas Brett and Ioane his wife whose dower it was 49 E. 3. by Fine passed to Nicolas Dymok the third part of a Mess. five Tofts two hundred Acres of Land and six of Medow with the Appurtenances in Northwell and Northwell Woodhouse and the Advowson of a certain Chantry of two Chaplains in the Church of Northwell By another Fine 4 H. 4. Iohn son and heir of William Dymok conveyed to Nicolas Conyngston one Mess. five Tofts two hundred Acres c. as before and by another 14 H. 4. between Nicolas Conyngston and William Babington Quer. and Thomas Dymok Chr. and William Dymok and Cecily his wife and Iohn Lysours and Ioane his wife Deforc. the said parcels were settled on the said Nicolas Conyngston and his heirs William de Northwell Clark settled by Fine 12 E. 3. on Henry son of Richard Graving of Northwell and on Elizabeth his wife and the heirs of the bodies of the said Henry and Elizabeth 7. Mess. 2. Bov. one hundred and thirty seven Acres of Land twenty four of Medow with the Appurtenances in North Clifton and South Clifton Northwell Woodhouse Ossington Holme North Muskham Sutton and Kellum Iohn Cromwell son and heir of William Cromwell late of Northwell 1 E. 4. remised his right in a certain Mess. called Parkers Place and in a Toft and five Acres of Land and in a Toft and Croft and seven Acres of Land theretofore called Kendalls Lands and in eight Acres and an half of Land in the Town and fields of Northwell to Mr. Iohn Porter Prebendary of the Prebend of Northwell called Palyshall and his successors William Clifton 1 H. 7. Prebendary of the Prebend of Paleshall in Northwell offered himself the fourth day against Elizabeth Banaster Widow Iames Banaster Clark William Banastre and Iohn Banastre concerning a Plea of one Mess. three Tofts one hundred Acres of Land twenty of Medow forty of Pasture with the Appurtenances in Wodehouse near Norwell A Capital Mess. and good Demesne called Norwell Woodhouse was the inheritance of Sir Thomas Williamson Baronet Mr. Laurence Scurtivant is Tenant to the Prebendary of Palacehall and Mr. Ed. Lee son of Gervas to Overhall Middlethorp Mr. Hacker of Flintham had interest in The two Vicarages of Northwell were eight Marks a piece now Overhall is 4l. 12s. 6d. and the other 4l. 12s. 11d. in the Kings Books and the Prebendaries Patrons viz. altera pars or tertia pars as I think and not Palacehall In the East Window of the North I le and in other Windows of Norwell Church are Azure Semy de Lis Or and England And England with a File of three Labels Az. and England quartering Az. Semy de Lis Or. In the other North Window Chequer Or and Azure And in the East Window of the South I le Arg. a spread Eagle Sable In the Chancel England and that with a File as before and France and England quarterly and Az. on a Fesse Cotised Or three Libards Heads Gules Lee of Norwell These Arms within a Border Gobonè Erm. and Sab. Octob. 6. 1564. 6 Eliz. were granted by Sir Gilbert Dethick alias Garter to Elizabeth Lee daughter of Iohn Lee of Stanford Lincolsh wife to Sir Iohn Lyon Knight Alderman of London and her posterity for
Broome George deceased Thomas Christian William and Elizabeth deceased William Iohn Elizabeth and Hugh and deceased the last of December in the year of our Lord 1602. He was Sonn and heire of George Cartwright and of Dorothy sole heire of William Molineux The aforesaid Grace departed this life the 20 day of March in the year of our Lord 1633. At the vpper end of the Chancell on the North side at Ossington A PROSPECT OF OSSINGTON HOUSE FROM THE FEILD ON THE WEST SIDE AS IT now is some part haveing beene ruined in the late rebellious warr Sutton upon Trent IN Sudton of Roger de Buslies Fee there was Soc to Gresthorpe one Bov. ad Geld. but the Sok was waste There was six Acres of Medow and some was Soc to Scacheby one Bov. ad Geld. the Land half a Car. There one Sochm. had one Car. Before the Conquest William son of Scelward had a Mannor in Sudton which was chargeable to the publick Taxation of that time for two Car. and six Bovats The Land was five Car. This afterwards was given to Earl Alan of Richmond whose Man or Tenant there called Herveius had two Car. or Plows thirteen Sochm. on the moyety of this Land and seventeen Villains three Bordars having eight plows or Carucats There was a Priest and a Church and three Fishings and one hundred Acres of Medow Pasture Wood one leu long half a leu broad This kept the ancient value 4l. The Posterity of this Hervey took their Sirname from this place as it is very probable because the next owner I have had any notice of was of that name Hervey de Sutton and Robert his Man 22 H. 2. gave account of five Marks of the Amercements of the Forest. Hervey de Sutton and his heir Robert gave to the Canons of Radeford near Wirksop the Church of Sutton and the right of Patronage thereof and whatsoever other right they had therein And there was a Fine levied at Nottingham 20 H. 3. between Walter Prior of Wirksop and Richard de Sutton of the said Advowson whereby it was declared to be the right of the said Prior as that which he had of the gift of Hervey de Sutton Father of the said Richard whose heir he then was his elder brother Robert Herveius homo Comitis Alani tenuit Sutton 14 W. 1. ........ .......... Herveius de Sutton 22 H. 2. Richardus de Sutton haer 20 H. 3. Agnes-Gilb de Muscamp Adam de Muscamp Johannes de Sutton Steph. de Coverham-Marger Steph. de Coverham Alicia Guichard de Charrons-Maria Guichardus de Charron-Alicia 3 E. 2. Bertram Mounboucher 3 E. 3 -Joana 3 E. 2. Bertram Mounboucher ob 12 R. 2. Chr. -Isabel fil Ric. Willoughby mil. -Christ sor Joh. de Woderington Chr. ux 2. Bertram Mounboucher ob 1 H. 4. Bertr Mounboucher ob 2 H. 5. Bertram Mounbocher ob 4 H. 6. s. p. Henr. Heton Chr. -Isabella-Robertus Herbotell mar 2. Robertus Herbotell ob 22 H. 6. Bertram Harbotill ob 2 E. 4. Robertus Herbotell aet 9. 2 E. 4 -Richard Harbotel mil. -Jana fil Hen. Willoughby mil. de Wollaton Georgius Harbotell 20 H. 8. Alianora-Thom Percy Maria-Edward Fitton Edward Fitton miles Georgius Anthonius Steph. de Charron 34 E. 1. ... Faber-Eliz Willelmus de Caunton Johan Joh. Robertus fil haer ob ultra mare ante patrem s. p. Rolandus de Sutton-Alicia sor cohaer Rob. Dom. Lexington being dead beyond the Sea before his Father without issue This Church King Edward the first in the thirty second year of his Reign being at Strivelin 25 Ap. licensed to be appropriate to the Monastery of Wirkesop The Writ of Ad quod Damnum was returned the year before 31 E. 1. Richard de Sutton who held a Knights Fee in Sutton Carleton and Meringe had five daughters and heirs first Agnes married to Gilbert de Muscam by whom she had Adam de Muscamp and Iohn I suppose called also of Sutton secondly Margery married to Stephen de Coverham by whom she had Stephen thirdly Alice without issue a Benefactress to Newstede to which place she gave one Bovat in Sutton upon Trent which the Earl of Richmond confirmed she made Margery de Coverham her sister her heir of whom Thomas de Sutton their Uncle the Parson who was a great Benefactor also to Newstede acquired their parts as also of Agnes whose purparts were conveyed to Henry de Gloucestre Parson of Sutton from whom they descended to Iohn de Gloucestre his brothers son his heir which Iohn enfeoffed Hugh de Normanton who re-infeoffed him and Ioane his wife who had the moyety of the Mannor of Sutton upon Trent and 3 E. 3. claimed the priviledges accordingly The Jury 18 E. 1. in the Assize found that Iohn de Sutton not compelled by force or fear but of his own Will made the writings to Henry de Gloucester Parson of Sutton concerning one Mess. and thirty Acres of Land and two of Pasture in Sutton in which Deeds or Chartels he sold his Mannor there Fourthly Mary another of the daughters and heirs of Sir Richard de Sutton was married to Guichard de Charron who 4 E. 1. with Adam de Sutton whom I suppose the son of Agnes and Gilbert de Muscamp before named claimed several royalties in Sutton He had Free Warren granted here 18 E. 1. By his wife the said Mary he had a son named Stephen who enfeoffed his said Father in this Land which he settled on Guichard de Charun his son by a second wife to whom and to Alice his wife his brother the said Stephen de Charrun by Fine 34 E. 1. passed his Mannor of Sutton upon Trent which the said Gwischard the younger and Alice his wife by another Fine 3 E. 2. settled on Bertram de Mounboucher and Ioane his wife their daughter and the heirs which the said Bertram should beget on the body of the said Ioane reserving 20l. per annum during the life of the said Gwischard and after his death a Rose at Midsummer to his heirs Bertram and Ioane 3 E. 3. claimed a Market here every Munday and a yearly Fair for two daies viz. the Eve and Feast day of St. Iames the Apostle and Free Warren which King Edward the second granted 7 Aug. 2 E. 2. at Northampton to Guichard de Charrun father of the said Ioane whose heir she was There was another daughter of the said Sir Richard de Sutton fifthly Elizabeth who was married to a certain Smith by whom she had William de Caunton and Iohn de Caunton and Iohn de Caunton was heir of her Purpart and enfeoffed divers Tenants William Bevercottes had the state of the said Iohn de Calneton 3 E. 3. and at the said time he with Iohn de Gloucester Iohn de Bolyngbrok Peter Foune and Robert de Lanum pray'd that they might be admitted to Fine and use the priviledges in Common which could not be
Furnivall had disseised the said Alda of her free-hold in the said Whystan and in Handesworth Thomas de Furnivall the elder 19 E. 2. held the Mannor of Gresthorp William Farnell Lord of half Bochumsell if not mistaken for Furnivall held in Normanton and Gristhorpe the fourth part of a Knights Fee of Matilda de Lovetot and she of the Countess of Ewe and she of the King of the old Feoffment The Jury 6 E. 3. found that Thomas de Furnivall senior when he died held the Mannor of Wirkesop and this of Gresthorpe of Philip Queen of England as of the honour of Tikhill and that Thomas de Furnivalle son of the said Thomas de Furnivalle the elder was then his heir Michael de la Pole 28 E. 3. had free-warren in Gresthorpe Michael de la Pole 7 R. 2. settled the Mannor of Greysthorpe with Rents of Assize and seven Bovats of Land in North Clifton on Michael de la Pole his son and Katherin his wife The Jury 7 H. 5. found that Katherine who had been wife of Michael de la Pole Earl of Suffolk when she died held the Mannor of Gresthorpe with the Appurtenances in Gresthorp Sutton Normanton and North Clifton and that Katherine Elizabeth and Isabell daughters of Michael de la Pole son of the said Earl and the said Katherine were her Cousins and heirs The Jury 28 H. 6. found that William late Duke of Suffolk when he died held joyntly with Alice his wife then living the Mannor of Gresthorp and Normanton c. and that Iohn Duke of Suffolk was his heir This Mannor was lately Scymour Daniel's and his son William Daniel as I think sold it to Edward Phynney There was a Chapel in Gristhorp founded in the Honour of St. Iames become ruinous and converted into a Cottage and Barne which Queen Elizabeth among other things 2 Apr. 16 Eliz. granted to Alexander Rigby and Percival Gunston Gent. and their heirs and the next year 22 Iun. 17 Eliz. to Iohn Sonkey and Percivall Gunston certain parcels of Land and Medow in Gristhorpe called Priest Land containing sixteen Acres and one little Croft called Priests Yard given for the sustentation of a Priest in the said free Chapel of Saint Iames in Gresthorpe The owners of these Towns 1612. are said to be Thomas Deane Nicolas Taylor Symon Gyles Thomas Walker Richard Gray Richard Weighton William Shepherd Richard Cossen Gregory Sudbury Iohn Ryley The Vicarage of Normanton was eight Marks when the Prior of Wirksop was Patron 't is now 4l. 5◠0d. in the Kings Books and An. Darlin or Daniel Patron VVeston WEstune was also of the Fee of Roger de Busli in which before the Conquest Elmer Elwin Osbern Grim Edric Stenulph had each man his hall and each one Bov. of Land They paid the Tax amongst them for six Bov. and an half The Land was for four Plows or four Car. There after the Conquest Fulc Robert and Turold the men of Roger de Busli had four Car. and an half and one Sochm. fourteen Vill. three or four Bord. having three Car. ½ There was a Church one Mill thirty Acres of Medow Pasture wood half a Leu. long and as much broad In the Confessours time this was valued at 70s. when Doomsday Book was made in the Conquerours time at 50◠There was Soc in Odesthorp and Redford The next successour of that Robert who also held Grove of Roger de Busli whom I have noted was Gerbert de Archis Lord also of Grove the head of his Barony in the time of King H. 2. Gilbert de Archis son of Gerbert 28 H. 2. paid L. Marks fine for the Land of his father Gilbert de Arches gave the Church of Weston to the Monastery of Blith which Roger de Busli founded and Gilbert de Arches his son confirmed his fathers gift There was an agreement between the Monks and Gilbert de Arches that they should present to the Arch-bishop the next vacancy Humfr. de Tikhill the Clark of Ostrefeild if he should be living or some other fit Clerk at the request of the said Gilbert to be Parson of Weston which they did it seems and after him R. de Caneton and upon their presentation of Raph de Wadwrd Walter Arch-bishop of York gave him institution reserving an annual pension of five Marks to the said Monastery to increase Hospitality by his Instrument dated at Scroby 4 Id. Iune in the thirty fourth year of his Pontificat Robert de Hersin son and heir of Theofania daughter of Gilbert de Arches released to Theobald the Prior and to the Covent of Blith all his right in the Advowson of this Church of Weston for which they received him and his heirs in to all the benefits and Orisons which should from thenceforth be made or done in that Church of Blith for ever Mr. Robert de Hersin and Walter de Bakepuz by their instrument dated on St. Simon and Iude's day 1255. at Blith certified the Dean and Chapter of York of their release Walter de Bakepuz and Elizabeth his wife also released to Theobald the said Prior. Malvesinus de Hercy father of the first named Robert and William Ruffus paid four Marks for two Fees in Grove Ordeshale and Weston in which places Hugh de Hercy Knight 3 E. 3. claimed free-warren as son of Hugh son of Hugh de Hercy brother and heir of the said Robert to whom King H. 3. 10 Decemb. in the thirty ninth year of his reign granted it Hugh de Hercy and Alice his wife by a Fine 15 E. 3. settled the Mannor of Weston and five Marks and 12d. Rent in Cusseworth on Iohn de Hercy and Ioane his wife and the heirs of their bodies remainder to the right heirs of the said Hugh Eustachius Morteyn son and heir of Robert Mortein 2 E. 2. had three parts of a Knights Fee in Grove and four parts in Weston then in the Kings hands This Robert de Morteyn was son of Eustachius and Eincina daughter and heir of William Ruffus who married Isabell the other daughter and heir of Gilbert de Arches and gave Weston Mill to the Abby of Welbek The interest of the family of Morteyn was sold to that of Hercy in this place which descended as in Grove may be seen to Sir Iohn Hercy the last male of that noble race who limited it to Sir William Meringe his sisters son and he sold it to Peter Roos of Laxton whose unthrifty son Gilbert Roos sold it to Sir Iohn Whyte I take it to be Sir Brian Broughtons at this present Iun. 26. 1674. Roger de Weston whom I suppose a successour of Fulc first named released also to God St. Mary of Blith and St. Katherine and the Monks there serving God his claim also in the Church of Weston and so did Sir Richard de Weston who was to be received into the good Deeds and Orisons of that
old Weres Gurgites at Marneham to the damage of the Town of Nottingham one Mark because the Boats could not pass as they were wont Thomas de Chaworth settled the Mannor of Marneham by a Fine 12 E. 2. on Thomas de Chaworth his son and the heirs of his body which he should beget on Ioane his wife reserving his own life in it and excepting a passage over Trent in the same Mannor with a remainder to the right heirs of himself and by another Fine likewise 3 E. 3. at Nottingham this Mannor and Osberton wherein he gave his said son the remainder in Fee This younger Thomas died before his father and had a second wife named Margaret after his death 47 E. 3. married to William de Spaigne of Boston by whom he this said younger Thomas had William de Chaworth who was eighteen years old at the death of his Grand father the said elder Sir Thomas which was about 42 E. 3. being a very old man This William de Chaworth married Alice the daughter and heir of Sir Iohn de Caltoft Lord of East Bridgeford as in Wiverton is said where there is also an account of this excellent family with which this Mannor viz. both the Hamlets of Kirke Marneham and Ferry Marneham or North and South Great and Little Marneham continued till Elizabeth the daughter and heir of Sir George Chaworth was married to Sir Anthony Copes son of William with which family it still continues Sir Thomas Chaworth had a Mercat every Thursday and a yearly fair of two days viz. the Eve and day of the decollation of Saint Iohn Baptist granted 22 Mar. 24 H. 6. at Marneham Chaworth with licence to impark two hundred Acres of Land and Wood of his Demesne at Wiverton and free-warren there Iohn de Lessington about 41 H. 3. and after him his brother and heir Henry de Lessington Bishop of Lincolne 42 H. 3 died seized of the fourth part of a Knights Fee in Marneham held of Richard de Weston for a pound of Pepper yearly Richard de Marcham and William de Sutton were found the heirs of the said Bishop Robert de Markham son of Richard 17 E. 1. left a Capital Mess. seven Bovats of Land in bondage c. in this Marneham held by the service of the eighth part of a Knights Fee and one pound of Pepper of Richard de Weston to his three daughters and heirs Cecilia wife of Iohn de Bray then aged thirty years Bertha wife of William Lungevillers and Agnes of William de Sanctacruce with Tuxford and the rest of his share of the Lord Lexingtons Lands This parcel I suppose came to the family of Willughby of Wollaton afterwards Richard Byngham and Margaret his wife the Widow of Hugh Willoughby 31 H. 6. suffered a recovery of eight Mess. eight Bovats of Land eight Acres of Medow and four of Pasture with the Appurtenances in North Marneham South Marneham Skegby and Sutton upon Trent as they did at that time of divers other Lands belonging to that family Iohn the Constable of Chester is said to have given this Church to the Templers The Rectory and disposition of the Vicarage of Marneham late belonging to the Preceptory of Egle in Lincolneshire parcel of the possessions of the Priory of Saint Iohns of Hierusalem was granted 20 Iune 36 H. 8. to Thomas Babington and Iohn Hide and all Lands Medows c. to the Rectory belonging then in the tenure of Andrew Norwell Esquire Queen Elizabeth granted it 5 Aug. 33 Eliz. Anthony Babington of Kinston being Attaint to Peter Wilcox and William Wyn Gent. together with the reversions of that Mannor and a Mess. in Aldesworth and some other Lands of the said Anthony The owners of Marneham in 1612. are said to be Sir William Cope Knight Adam Nicholson Iohn Harrison and Iohn Hanson The Vicarage of Marneham was 10l. when the Bayliff of Egle was Patron 't is now 8l. 9s. 2d. value in the Kings Books and Sir Anthony Cope Patron Fledborough Fladburge THis Mannor was Godeva's the famous Countess of Earl Leuric of Mercia and by them given with Newark as in that place is shown in the time of Edward the Confessour to the Church of Stow in Lincolneshire The Book of Doomsday shows that Godeva the Countess for her Mannor in Flodburg answered the Dane-geld or publick Tax for one Car. and three Bovats The Land then being certified to be sufficient for four Plows or four Car. There after the Conquest Nigellus the Man or Tenent of the Bishop of Lincolne whose Fee it then was had two Car. and an half and sixteen Vill. five Sochm. on one Bov. of Land having five Car. There were five Plows or Car. There was then a Priest and a Church and one Mill 12d. Pasture wood one leu long and half one broad In the Confessours time it was 8l. when the survey was made in the Conquerours but 5l. value It had Soc in Normentune and in Estoches and in Doomsday Book is accounted in Berndeslaw Wapentak Nigellus de Fleburg held of the Bishop of Lincoln three Knights Fees Nigellus de Flaburg 22 H. 2. gave account of x. Marks of the Amercements of the forest Nigellus de Lysurs held of the Bishop of Lincolne in Normanton Fletburgh Stokum and Darnethorp three Knights Fees of the old Feoffment Iohn de Leysures 19 E. 1. impleaded Peter de Warkerley Bayliff of the Bishop of Lincolne and many others for taking many of his goods at Fledburgh who pleaded that as Bayliff of the said Bishop he seized the said Mannor into the Bishops hands as chief Lord after the death of Nigellus de Lysures who was his Tenent for that Alice the wife of the said Nigellus was thought to be with child Iohn de Liseus 14 E. 3. had view of Frank-pledge granted in Fledburgh and 15 E. 3. Free Warren there and in Woodcotes and 16 E. 3. 18 Iun. all manner of liberties of a Leer Infaengethef and Outfangenthef c. He Founded a Chantry 17 E. 3. in the Church of Fledburg to which he gave one Mess. three Bov. of Land and afterwards King Edward the third being then in the parts of Normandy in the twentieth year of his Reign he obtained licence dated 6 Nov. to appropriate the Church of Fledburgh to certain Chaplains for that purpose Iohn de Lyseux Lord of Fledburgh 34 E. 3. had to wife Isabella by whom he had a son called Iames de Lyseus who 38 E. 3. had to wife Maud as in Brodholme is shown who it seems had no issue Male because this Mannor and other Lands then settled came to the Bassets there mentioned to be of Normanton William Basset the elder 6 R. 2. is stiled Lord of Fledburgh on whose Seals are Three Pales and a Canton Varry His wife Margaret 11 H. 4. was a widow Richard Stanhope Knight 10 H. 6.
leu long and one qu. broad There was Soc in Wirchenfeild as much as paid for one Car. to the Geld. A Berue then waste and now unknown Galfr. Tregoz held the whole Town of Bildesthorpe in Demesne of the Soc of Maunsfeld of the gift of Robert de Greule with his daughter in Frank-marriage and did no Service there for it nor any where else Sir Iohn de Lowdham about 12 E. 2. died seized of six Mess. twelve Bovats of Land four Acres of Wood in Bildisthorp which he held joyntly as he did many other Lands with Alice his wife of Sir Henry de Beaumont by the Service of the sixteenth part of a Knights Fee leaving his son Iohn de Lowdham his heir with which Family this Land which afterwards viz. 29 H. 6. had the reputation of a Mannor descended as in Lowdham may be seen In a Recovery 17 H. 7. George Fitz-Hugh Dean of Lincolne and others claimed against Thomas Cheyne Knight the Mannors of Lowdham Laxton Bylsthorp Carcolston and Hikeling with the Appurtenances in those Towns and twenty Mess. five hundred Acres c. There was a Quare Impedit 16 H. 8. between Godfr Folejambe Knight Quer. and Anne Cheyne widow and Thomas Huddleston concerning the Advowson of the Church of Billesthorp The Folejambes might possibly keep some interest here from Thomas Folejambe who married Margaret the sister and co-heir of Sir Iohn Loudham by whom they had Walton in Darbyshire Elizabeth Vaux widow 20 Novemb. 3 and 4 Ph. and Mar. died seized of the fore-recovered Lands William Vaux Lord Harrowdon her son and heir being then of full age The Lord Vaux sold all these Lands which were Cheyneys and this is now the Inheritance of Sir Brian Broughton Knight and Baronet elder brother of Peter Broughton of Lowdham Gilbert Roos of Laxton had it in 1612. or then abouts The Rectory of Byllesthorp was 13l. when the Lady Chenie was Patroness 'T is now 5l. 1s. 8d. value in the Kings Books and Sir Brian Broughton Patron William Chappell Lord Bishop of Cork and Ross in Ireland spent some time here with Gilbert Benet Rector of this Church during the Rebellion and in it lies buried Eykering Doomsd. Echering THere was of the Soc of Maunsfeild the Kings ancient Demesne in Echering two Car. which paid the Geld for two Bov. ½ Pasture Wood six qu. long four broad And some little Soc to Laxton of Goisfrid de Alselins Fee which paid the Danegeld but for half a bovat and was waste Besides these parcels here were two Mannors of the Fee of Gislebert de Gand whereof before the Conquest Ingulf had one which paid the publick Tax for six Bov. The Land of it being two Car. There afterwards William the Man or Tenant of Gislebert had one Car. three Sochm. on three Bov. of this Land and two Vill. three Bord. having two Car. There was a Church and three Acres of Medow Pasture Wood six qu. long four broad In the Confessours time this was 20s. value when the Conquerour made his Survey 16◠The other Mannor Echebrand had which also defended it self for six Bovats to the Geld. The Land likewise two Car. This Mannor Echebrand held of Gislebert still and had there one Car. and six Sochm. on four Bov. of Land and two Vill. two Bord. having two Car. ½ There was three Acres of Medow and Pasture Wood six qu. long and four broad and value both before and after the Conquest like the former viz. 20s. before and 16s. after King William the Conquerour was Uncle to this Gislebrict de Gaunt who was succeeded by his son Walter de Gaunt Father of Gilbert the Earl of Lincolne and of Robert Earl Gilberts daughter and heir Alice the Countess was married to Simon de St. Liz who had no issue Gilbert de Gaunt gave to God and St. Mary of Rufford and the Monks there serving God in increase of his first Donation his whole Demesne in Eikering Earl Simon gave to that Monastery the right of Patronage of the Mediety of the Church of Eikryng Alice the Countess daughter of Earl Gilbert de Gant for the safety of her Soul and Earl Simons her Lord confirmed to God St. Mary and the Monks of Rufford the whole right of Advowson and Patronage of half the Church of Eykryng which belonged to her Fee as free and quiet as ever Walter de Gant her Grandfather and Gilbert de Gant her Father had it Robert de Gant certified that Earl Gilbert his brother in his own Court disrationavit cleared his Demesne of Eikring of Purpresture and in the same Court gave it all to the Abby of Rufford William de Aubani granted to Gilebert and William sons of Wulsi ten Acres of Land in the Fields of Heicring to be held of him and his heirs by them and theirs by the yearly Service of 12d. Mahuld de Sanliz and William her son were Witnesses his own wife and son as I suppose Gilbert de Scheigebi gave to the Monks of Rufford ten Acres which his Father held of William de Albani for which he only took of them a Mare and her progeny and they were to receive him into their Fraternity to sepulture when he made his end if it could be done regularly Wiliam de Aubeni confirmed this and what they held of his Fee for which he was to be concerned in all the Benefits of the House and when he died to have service performed for him as for one of their own Monks Aeliz de Cundey and Roger her son gave to God and the Church of St. Mary at Rufford two Mansuras dwellings containing two Acres viz. that which was Arnewies and that which was Turchil Prats in Eicring the same also gave Hugh Bardulf and Hugh his heir Wulsi son of Wlf de Eycring gave three Acres to the Monks of Rufford which he held of them which were of the Demesne of Walter de Gaunt and Earl Gilbert de Gaunt his son belonging to that part of the Demesne of Rufford which the Monks held who for the love of God and brotherly Charity were to keep Godwin son of the said Wulsi till he should be of age in their House and there if he would be made a Convert he should be received in the Order of Converts but if he would not they should keep the Land Gaufr de Eycring for the health of his Soul and his wifes and for the health or safety and honour of Walter his brother whom the Monks of Rufford took into their Congregation gave them a certain parcel of Land between the bounds of Eycring and of Cratele called Elfe Lands of Eicring to his Deed whereto he affixed the Seal of his Lord Gilbert de Gaunt Earl of Lincolne his own son Henry de Eycring was a Witness Roger de Meinill by the Consent of Agnes his wife who was the daughter of Hosbert de Capella gave one Acre and one Rode of Land Robert
de Bella aqua and Dionysia his wife gave two Tofts and Ranulf son of Ranulf Heleweis who held them with his Chattels and whole Sequell saving to them and their heirs their other Servants William de Bella aqua son of William de Bella aqua released 2s. yearly which he was wont to receive of the said Monks for two Tofts in Eycring and so did Thomas son of William de Bella aqua Sibylla the daughter of Richard le Angevin confirmed all the Land which her Cousin William le Angevin whose heir she was gave to the Monastery of Rufford with his body viz. the Homage and Service of Alan de Wilgebi 3s. of Silver yearly and one Bovat which Roger de Lunde held and the said Roger with his Sequel and one Toft which Matildis de Camera held with the said Matildis and hers reserving to her self and her heirs a pound of Cummin seed at Candlemas and 12d. which ought to be paid to Sir Richard Folìot and his heirs for that Bovat which Roger de Lunde held to her Deed were Witnesses Thomas de Bella aqua Robert le Vavasor William le Botither c. Robert Scarlett and Beatrix his wife in the presence of their Lord Roger de Hayra and of their Lady Matildis de Hereford his wife and in their hands before the Alinâ—ot of Aicring by Wood and Wand lignum baculum rendred and quit-claimed to the Monks of Rufford those two Bovats of Land in Aicring which sometime had been Ougrims the Forester of Walter de Gant for which the Monks gave him a She-Goat and his wife a Cow and granted them the Toft for 4d. per annum during both their lives to their Deed they also put to the Seal of their said Lord Roger de Hayra Cog de Karlaton was a Witness Raph de Hereford son of William de Hereford confirmed to the Monks of Rufford all the Land which they had of his Fee viz. nine Bovats which were Angots and afterward Osbert de Capella's and his son Iohns and all the Land called Brakynsâ—ort and the Land called Iohns Wood and a Bovat and an half which was Herbert Scakells and two Bovats which they had of the gift of William Andegavensis with the Toft adjoyning which were sometimes Reginalds the son of Wyot of Cratle and a Toft which was sometimes Hermers and Wyots Wood which they had of the gift of Bete le Turner daughter of Robert son of Wyot and the Land which they had of the gift of Roger de la Haye and of William Scakell or of any other of his Men of Eycring Sir Robert de Lexington and Sir Henry his brother were Witnesses Raph de Hereford in the presence of the Court of Earl Simon recognized and rendred to the said Monks the Alms of Earl Gilbert in the hand of Abbat Elias whereof Controversie had been between them Robert son of Raph de Hereford was to hold some of those Lands during his life by another agreement between him and the Abbat William son of Richard Foliot demised to Walter de Winkeburne 10l. Land in Ekeringe for term of his life which Walter afterwards thereof infeoffed Hugh de Birne and his heirs and afterwards the said William enfeoffed thereof Walter de Stirkeley and Alice his wife and their heirs who 10 E. 1. recovered their seisin accordingly the Jury finding as before is said that Walter de Winkeburne had but Estate for life Henry de Eykring held a whole Knights Fee here And the Abbat of Rufford the fourth part of one William de Sutton held the twentieth part of a Fee of Gilbert de Gaunt in Eykring There was an agreement made in the year 1242. the day before the Ides of May between Gaufr the Abbat of Rufford and the Covent on the one part and William de Sutton and Matilda his wife on the other upon a Controversie concerning the common Wood of Eykring viz. the Abbat and Covent granted to the said William de Sutton and Matilda and their heirs all that Essart which the said William had made on the West part of the Wood called the Common Wood and abutted on the Essart towards the South which Raph de Hereforth gave to Rodland de Sutton Father of the said William saving to the said Monks Common of Pasture after the Corn and Hay should be carryed away to whom the said William and his wife granted another portion of Land with the Wood therein growing upon the like terms But the whole Wood between the said Lands with the Land in which it stood even to the bounds of Winkeburne was to be equally Common to the Monastery and the said William and Maud and their heirs and each party was to have their proper Forester and nothing to be taken without the consent and view of the other party who was to have Tree for Tree c. Robert de Sutton son of William 2 E. 1. left his son Richard eight years old his heir of this Mannor Warsop and in Tuxford c. as in Sutton is said Richard de Sutton 34 E. 1. had Free Warren granted at Ekering The Jury 16 E. 2. found that Iohn de Somery held the Mannors of Warsop and Ekering except the Advowson of the Churches of the said Towns for term of life of Iohn de Sutton son of Richard and that Margaret then aged thirty years wife of the said Iohn de Sutton and Ioane aged twenty nine the wife of Thomas Bottetourt were sisters and heirs of the said Iohn de Somery Lord Dudley who had Lands in the several Counties of Warwick Stafford Berks Surry Southampton Worcester Buckingham Rutland and Huntington Iohn son of William de Ros of Hamlak 3 E. 3. claimed Free Warren in all his Demesne Lands at Eykring which 12 E. 3. he left with Warsop to William de Roos his brother and heir This Mannor descended with Orston Warsop and Sutton upon Trent to Roger Earl of Rutland who sold it and so it was the possession of Robert Earl of Kingston and continues the inheritance of the Right Honourable the Marquess of Dorchester his son That which the Monastery had came with Rufford from the Earl of Shrowsbury by descent to the present Lord Hallifax In the year 1612. here seemed to be many Free-holders viz. Iohn Bristowe of Malebeck Francis Bristowe of Morton Iohn Greaves of Béestrop George Bilby Richard Tomson George Reasby Richard Foster William Iohnson Iohn Wright Thomas Tomson Randolph Camme William Bunbie Richard Brimscall Roland Birkett William Wager Raph Frith Thomas Cooper The Rectory of Eykering was twenty Marks when the Lord Ros was Patron 'T is now 9l. 16s. 0d. ob value in the Kings Books and the Lord Viscount Hallifax Patron Welley Grymston Doomsd. Creilege Cratela WElhay is not found in Doomsday Book which shows that in Creilege before the Conquest Rolf had a Mannor which defended it self for two Car. ½ to the Dane-geld
Besthorpe with the Soc of Grimston and Members and that Iordan was above fifty years old and died within five weeks of his Father leaving his wife Margery behind him and his son and heir Richard Foliot then about fifteen years old and that he had Lands in several Counties Yorkshire Norf. c. Margaret Foliot 4 E. 3. had Mercat and Fair in Wellehagh The Jury 4 E. 3. found that Margery Foliot held when she died the Mannor of Grymeston of the inheritance of Margery and Margaret daughters of Richard Folioth of Thomas de Thornhaw as of his Mannor of Thornhaws by the service of one Knights Fee and that Margery aged then seventeen years the wife of Hugh de Hastings and Margaret sixteen the wife of Iohn de Camoys daughters of Richard Foliot were then her heirs and that there was at Welhawe stallage of the Market and Fair on Saint Swithuns day there valued at 40s. yearly Hugh de Hastings 21 E. 3. was found heir of his Father Hugh de Hastings who held the Mannor of Grimston An. who had been wife of Sir Hugh de Hastings Knight and of Thomas Lord Morley left her son Edward Hastings Knight 5 H. 6. her heir and above forty four years of age Iohn son of Edward Lord Hastings and Stotevile Knight 14 H. 6. released to Robert Clifton Knight and others and their heirs his right in the Mannor of Grimston and Township of Welhawe and in other Mannors in Yorkshire Norf. and Suff. By vertue of that Feoffment which it seems Edward had made before Iohn Hastings Esquire 16 H. 6. was found heir of his Father the said Sir Edward Hugh Hastings Knight made his Will 14 Decemb. 32 H. 8. which was proved 9 Febr. following viz. 1540. whereby it appears that he had Lands in Elsing and Wesenham in Norfolke in Fenwyk Norton Mosseley Smeton South Caves Snayth Pollington Askerne Elmeshall Thorpe in Balne Barneby upon Don Cusseworth and Bramwick in Yorkshire Elias Foliot Jordanus Foliot 13 H. 3. Richardus Foliot miles Jordanus Foliot-Margeria superst 27 E. 1. Richardus Foliot aet 15. an 27 E. 1. Margeria aet 17. 4 E. 3 -Hugo de Hastings Johannes de Hastings 21 E. 3. Hugo de Hastings miles-Anna-Thom Dom. Morley mar 2. Edward de Hastings miles Dom. Hastings Stoteville aet 44. ampl 5 H. 6. Johannes Hastings 16 H. 6. Hugo Hastings miles-Katherina Johannes Hastings 1540. Anna. Elizab. Martinus Joh. Camoys-Margareta aet 16. 4 E. 3. the Mannors of Wellowe and Grimston in this Country and in Whitley c. his Wifes name was Catherin he had a son called Iohn and two daughters Agnes and Elizabeth and a brother named Martin Hastings a Nephew called Laurence and Hugh and William Hastings his Cousins The Jury in Assize 10 E. 3. found that Iohn Enneston dyed seized of thirteen Mess. seven Tofts thirteen Stalls fourscore and ten Acres of Land seven of Medow and 3s. 10d. Rent in Grimston and Knesale and that he had two Wives viz. Maud on whom he begot Agnes the wife of Iohn in the Lane of Eckering and Alice the second wife on whom he begot Alice Ioan and Margaret which two latter dying without issue Alice recovered their purparts as heir of the whole blood There was a recovery 8 H. 8. wherein William Basset Esquire Richard Basset Knight Thomas Sutton Knight Edward Basset Clark and Iohn Hall Clerk claimed against Richard Clark Edward Beresford and William Robertson the Mannor of Grimston with the Appurtenances and three Mess. fourteen Tofts two hundred Acres of Land twenty of Medow and 19s. 8d. Rent with the Appurtenances in Grimston and Welhagh who called to warrant Richard Stanhope Esquire son and heir of Edward Stanhope Knight Roger Norton and Francis Gardiner 16 Eliz. claimed against Rowland Tayler one Mess. one Garden 46 Acres of Land five of Medow 7. of Pasture with the Appurt in Welley and Grimston who called Edward Basset Esquire The free-holders in Welley and Ampton 1612. are these Michael Clarkson of Kirton Gent. Iames Bacon of Welley Gent. Hugh Taylor Seth Batcheler Iohn Lownd Thomas Lownd Simon Grange Stephen Camme Richard Cooke Iohn Taylor Thomas Kitchen Robert Gibson Richard Birket Henry Vauntinge Richard Radford William Walkeden William Smith Miles Cosson Iohn Fresure Widow Stanfeild Robert Gillowe of Ampton Almton Ampton Dooms Almentune THis Township in the Book of Doomsday is represented to be Soc to several other Mannors of differing places and Lordships Here was Sok to the Kings great Mannor of Maunsfeld one Bov. ½ for the Geld to Lexington of the Fee of Goisfrid de Alselin two Bov. ad Geldam that was then waste to Oschinton of Raph de Burons Fee as much as answered the Geld for three Bov. The Land was one Car. There two Bord. had one Car. and to Chenesale and Cheversale of the Fee of Gislobert de Gand one Bov. ad Geldam The Land two Bov. There two Sochm. one Bord. had two Car. This last parcel with Knesale belonged to the Constables of Chester and Anneyssa the daughter of William Constable of Chester gave to the Church of Saint Mary of Ruchford and the brethren there living all the Land she had in Helmetun viz. two Bov. and an half in perpetual Alms for the health or safety of her Soul her Fathers and Mothers and Children and also for the Soul of Eustace son of or Fitz-Iohn her Lord who in his life time promised it in recognition or acknowledgment of this gift she received of the brethren ten and eight Marks Iohn the Constable of Chester for the health of his Soul and of his Wife and Children and of his Father and of his Grand-father Eustace and all his Ancestors gave and confirmed to God Saint Mary and the Monks of Ruford all the Land which he had in Elmetun reserving to himself and his heirs xs. per annum and forreign service except the enemy of the King and in time of War which he and his heirs would acquit and the Land defended it self against forreign service for two Bovats and an half and if it should happen that he could not warrant it to them they should have all the Cattel and whatever was builded upon it safe and over and above forty Marks of Silver for the exchange of that Land within half a year before they should be disseized of the Land for which concession they gave him twenty Marks of Silver in the beginning of that agreement Adelecia his wife confirmed it as in Knéesale is said so did Roger the Constable son of Iohn Constable of Chester and Iohn de Laci Earl of Lincolne and Constable of Chester son of Roger who also released to the Monks suit of Court for ten Bovats which they held of him in Almeton and for the Lands which Robert de Lexington gave them in Buketon Henry de Lasci Earl of Lincolne and Constable of Chester confirmed the gift of Iohn the
Constable his Ancestor reserving the 10s. per an and the small forreign service viz. aid of the Sheriff and the like yet to be free from scutage and all services and exactions that by reason of scutage might be exacted of those Tenements by him or his heirs for ever There was a Fine levied at Nottingham the day after Saint Iohn Baptist 16 H. 3. between Galfr. de Almeton and Alice his wife Richard Friday and Letice his wife and Hugh Freman and Ioane his wife Petents and Simon Abbat of Rufford Tenent of ten Bovats of Land in Almeton which they released to him and his successors Alice daughter of Walter Freman of Kneshale confirmed to the Monks of Rufford all her right and claim which she had or should have in ten Bovats of Land with the Appurtenances in Almeton which she claimed by a Writ of right against the Abbat and Monks in the Court of Iohn Constable of Chester In whose Court at Bukton the Saturday after the Ascension 41 H. 3. she as all the other fore-named parties likewise did swore upon the holy Gospels and bound their Lands and goods in the sum of 100l. a piece to submit to the Jurisdiction of the Arch-deacon of Nottingham without any appeal or priviledge of Court to be compelled by Ecclesiastical censures to make the security greater Hugh de Almeton son of Alexander de Muscam gave and confirmed to Hugh his Nephew son of Thomas de Muscham six Bovats of Land which he had and held in Fee in Almeton as his inheritance paying yearly to Sir Thomas de Muscham his Nephew also and his heirs 3s. per annum Richard son of Hugh de Muscamp in Almeton exchanged Common of Pasture with the Monks in a certain Close which they had on the North part of the Grange of Almeton and gave certain parcels which Robert son of Richard Muscham and after him Margery his wife confirmed This Richard de Muschamp in the year 1263. agreed with the Abbat of Rufford concerning selling Oaks in Almton wood viz. he the said Richard to have twenty and the Abbat for twenty four Bovats which he had a hundred forty and ten and neither party at that time to have any more nor afterwards without mutual consent for the performance of which agreement both parties submitted to the coercion of the Arch-Deacon of Nottingham William son of Robert de Almton about 10 E. 2. begun to parcel it at length most or all of it came to the Monastery as did also that of Raph de Burons Fee Hugh de Buron considering out of the reason given him of God the life of this sliding age to be short and troublesome and that he that giveth to the poor of Christ lendeth to God that day when the Lady Albreda his wife was buried for her Soul his own his Sons and Daughters and all his Ancestors by the consent of his sons Hugh and Roger gave to the Church of the holy Trinity at Lenton his Land of Almeton which gift he and his beloved sons laid on the greater Altar in the presence of Humfr. the Prior the Covent of Brethren Hugh Rosell gave to the brethren of Ruford all the Land which he held in Elmeton in Fee and Inheritance by the consent of his Lord Hugh de Burun and Roger his son reserving 10s. at the feast of Saint Iohn Baptist. Raph Rosell son of Hugh Rosell confirmed to the Monks of Ruford his whole Land of Halmeton viz. twelve Bovats reserving 6s. to himself and his heirs at Midsummer and 6s. to the Prior of Lenton at the feast of Saint Martin in Winter but there was a Fine levied in the Kings Court at Doncaster the Wednesday after the Feast of Saint Margaret 4 Ioh. between Peter Prior of Lenton and Ernis Abbat of Rufford who called Raph Rosell to warrant the twelve Bovats in Elmeton for which he and his heirs were to have but 4â— per annum and the Prior of Lenton 6s. who had also thirty five Marks of Silver of the Abbat for the bargain Raph released also afterwards the 4s. Rent and so most of this Township became the possession of the Monastery of Rufford and with it is become the inheritance of the Lord Visc. Hallyfax Laxton Lexington And Morehouse TOchi before the Norman invasion had a Mannor in Laxington which discharged it self to the publick imposition or Geld of that time for three Car. The Land then being found to be six Car. There afterwards Walter the Man or Tenant of Goisfrid de Alselin whose Fee King William made it had one Car. 22. Vill. seven Bord. having five Car. five Servants one Maid Servant and forty Acres of Medow Pasture Wood one leu long half a leu broad In the Confessours time the value was 9l. in the Conquerours 6l. It had Sok in Schidrington Wilgebi Walesbi Echering Almentune Chenaptorpe Calneston Besthorpe and Carleton The Fees of this Goisfrid de Alselin were divided early I suppose in the time of H. 1 or sooner between Raph de Alselin or Hanselin and Robert de Calz perhaps son of this Walter before-named which Robert was a witness to the foundation Charter of Lenton made by William Peverell in that Kings raign and had a son 5 Steph. named Walter whom I take to be Father of Robert de Canz who sent his Certificate to King H. 2. as other Barons did 12 H. 2. which shows that he had fifteen Knights Fees for which he was to answer the King Raph de Alselin had twenty five as in Shelford his chief seat is noted This place was the principal Mansion and Head of the Barony of Robert de Calz who as Anneis his mother did gave something to the Knights Hospitallers of Saint Iohns of Hierusalem He left his wife a Widow being fifty years old or more about 33 H. 2. she was daughter of Richard Basset and sister of William and had a dâ—ughter wife of Raph Fitz-Stephen Chamberlain to King H. 2. who 6 R. 1. gave account of 12l. 10s. for the Knights Fees of Robert de Calz in the Scutage for Redemption of that King Her name was Matildis de Cauz and she had another Husband called Adam son of or Fitz Peter who it seems 5 R. 1. had a Duel with Simon de Lacells and recovered twenty four Car. of Land in Birkin in Yorkshire of which place his posterity and himself too I suppose had their name Matildis de Cauz gave the Town of Ronstone in Lincolneshire in which County a good share of this Barony lay with the Advowson of the Church to the Knights Templars and it belonged to the Preceptory of Temple Bruer i. e. on the Heath to which Robert de Everingham afterwards gave and confirmed that Mannor Her husband Adam Fitz-Peter and she gave to God and Saint Iohn and the Monks of Pontefract half the Mill of Stainburgh to which Deed Thomas Fitz-Peter and Roger Fitz-Peter his brothers Walterus
temp Will. 1. Robertus de Calz temp H. 1. Walterus de Calz 5 Steph. -Anneis Rob. de Cauz 12 H. 2. ... sor Will. Basset fil Ric. Basset aet 50. 33 H. 2. Rad. fil Steph. Camerar H. 2 -Matildis de Cauz-Adam fil Petri de Birkin Johannes de Birkin-Joanna Tho. de Birkin 11 H. 3 -Joana-Hen de Longcamp 15 H. 3. Rob. de Everingham 15 H. 3 -Isabel sor haer Tho. Adam de Everingham ob 9 E. 1. Robertus de Everingham obiit 15 E. 1. Robertus Adam de Everingham Chr. sen. ob 15 E. 3. .... Margareta ux 2. Adae-Johannes de Eyvill mar 1 Adam de Everingham Chr. ob 8 Febr. 11 R. 2 -Joana fil haer Joh. de Eyvill Willielmus de Everingham ob vivente patre 43 E. 3 -Alicia fil Joh. Grey de Codnor Robertus de Everingham fine prole Katherina aet 23.11 R. 2 -Joh fil Tho. Etton mil. 1 Milo Etton miles Isabella 13 H. 6 -Joh Roos Robertus Roos Elizab. fil Willielmi Middleton mil. Willielmus Roos-Elianor fil Christoph. Wainsford mil. Humfr. Roos ob 17 Jul. 13 H. 8 -Anna fil Ric. Restwold-Margareta Linne ux 2. de Southwyk Com. Northampt. s. p. Willielmus Roos-Maria Eliot Barnard Roos de Egmanton Will. Roos de Egmanton-Sara fil cohaer Joh Samon de Tuxford Sara Roos un haer W. Roos de Egmanton -Edm Lacock S. Theol. Baccalaur Roos Lacock ob in puerit Eliz. fil coh Ed. Lacock ux J. Dickinson de Clayp in Lincoln Debor. fil coh Ed. Lacock Sarae ux ejus -J Ouseley Rectore de Panfeld in Essex Johannes Ouseley Edmundus Maria. Franciscus Roos de Laxton aet 15. 13 H. 8 -Elizab fil Tho. Scrimshire Petrus Roos ... fil Jac. Harvey mil. -Brigit un haer Rob. Roos de mar 2. Ingmanthorp ux 2. Anna ux Griff Markham mil. Gilbert Roos Orrell-Pet Killegrew mil. mar 2. ... ux ... Thomas de Com. Essex Pet. Roos deKnesale -Franc fil ...... Marshall Gilb. Roos de Knesale ob 1661 -Eliz fil August Hinde de Laxton-More-house Gilbert Roos aet 14. 1670. Pet. aet 11. 1670. Maria. Franc. Troth Tho. Roos ....... fil Main waring-An Pickston ux 2. Ed. Petrus Franc. Roos -Eliz fil Pet. Orell de Southcave Ebor. Joh. Roos de Laxtō -Jan fil Tho. East de Carberton Fr. Roos aet 22. 1670. Joh. 15. Tho. 13. Pet. 8. Eliz. 18. Mar. 16. Sara 12. Jana 6. an aet Franc. Petrus Valent. Johan Roos -Eliz Roos de Weston Will. Roos de Laxton -Anna-Grisilda relict ..... Cooper ux 2. Joh. Roos aet 8. 1666. .... ux Fairfax de Gilling .... ux Broughton .... ux Stapleton .... ux Scrimshire de Norbury .... ux Maxfeild .... ux Whitmore Eliz. 11 H. 6 -Joh Northwood Margareta-Rob Moresby Anna-Robertus Rowcliff 2 Ivo 3 Willielmus 4 Alexander Will. Elys mil. -Joana-Joh de Waterton mar 2. Agnes fil Joh. Lungvillers-Reginaldus de Everingham Chr. ob 22 R. 2. Joana Edm. de Everingham ob 22 R. 2. in custodia Regis s. p. aet 15. Rob. Georg. Edm. Alex. Nicol. Petrus Rogerus Willielmus Robertus Aeliz Essulf Petrus Rad. fil Steph. Camerar H. 2 -Matildis de Cauz-Adam fil Petri de Birkin Thom. Rogerus Rob. de Aivile Robertus de Eivile Robertus Johannes de Eyvill 9 Joh. Joh. de Eyvill Robertus de Dayville Johannes de Eyville Adam de Everingham Chr. ob 8 Febr. 11 R. 2 -Joana fil haer Joh. de Eyvill and Robert his son amongst the rest were Witnesses He likewise gave and confirmed to them half a Bovat in Fareburne His son Iohn for the health of his own Soul and of Ioane his wife and for the safety of their bodies gave and confirmed to the said Monks thirteen Acres of Medow in Smethall which his said Father gave and two Oakes every year against Christmas in his wood of Byrkin and one Buck in his Park in the Feast of Saint Iohn before Port Latin and half the Mill of Stainburg with the suit belonging to the moyety of the Mill. Peter and Roger and William his brothers were witnesses amongst the rest to his Deed. The Land of Matilda de Calz viz. Lessinton with the Appurtenances was in the Custody of Richard de Lessinton who 7 Ioh. gave account of 7l. 17s. 6d. of the Rent of Assize of Lessinton of the term of Saint Michael the year before and of 43l. 0s. 4d. of the Rent of Assize that year and of 30l. 18s. 10d. of Corn of that Mannor sold and of 40l. of Bacuns sold and of 25. Marks of the Scutage of 12. Fees and an half and for 8. Oxen bought 100s. by the Kings writ Richard de Lessinton and Robert his son for him 9 Ioh. accounted for 16l. Rent of Assize for half a year of Lessington the Land of Matilda de Cauz Richard de Lessington 9 Ioh. ought two hundred Marks for having the Kings favour and seisin of his Lands whereof he was disseised by occasion of the custody of the Kings Forest 30l. and 15s. being computed to him which Brian de Insula took of the Chattels of the said Richard sold. In 13 Ioh. this was called the Barony of Lexington whereof Brian de Insula for the Scutage that year gave account the other was not yet in being and Robert afterwards Lord Lexington son of Richard before-named had his name from his Ancestors residence and holding Lands here of this family of Cauz but the most of his Land he purchased in other places as in this Book may easily be noted To this Barony of Cauz belonged the custody of the Forests in the Counties of Nott. and Derb. which Matildis de Cauz had by inheritance and Iohn Earl Morton afterwards King confirmed to her and her husband Raph Fitz-Stephen and her heirs as in the Forest book is noted and in that place may be recited more particularly It appears that in the beginning of the raign of H. 3. for a small Fine the said Matildis had seisin of her Lands her self and in 4 H. 3. that Matilda de Cauz ought fourscore Marks for having seisin of the custody of the Forests of Nott. and Derb. which belonged to her by right of inheritance The Sheriff 14 May 8 H. 3. was commanded to take into the Kings hands all the Lands which were hers the said Matildis Cauz who had been the wife of Raph Fitz-Stephen and was then dead Iohn de Birkin 8 H. 3. the heir of Matildis de Cauz having made Fine to the King of three hundred Marks for his relief of the Lands which were hers and for having the custody of the Forests of Notss and Derb. which concerned him as his inheritance did his homage 25 May to the King who certified Robert de Lexinton c. Thomas de Birkin son and heir of Iohn de Birkine 11 H. 3. made Fine of two hundred Marks for having seisin of the Lands which were the said Iohns with the Bayliwik of the Forest
of Shirewood and 12 H. 3. 22 Octob. gave account of the two hundred Marks accordingly Robert de Everingham and Isabell his wife sister and heir of Thomas de Birkin 15 H. 3. made the like Fine of two hundred Marks for the same seisin and did homage Novemb. 21. The Jury 36 H. 3. said that Isabell de Everingham and her Ancestors had the custody of the Forest of Shirwode and for that the forreign service of twelve Knights Fees and an half was released to her Ancestors by the Kings Ancestors Her son Adam de Everingham had the suit with William Burdolf mentioned in Shelford for the Advowson of that Priory The Jury 9 E. 1. said that Adam de Everingham held when he died of the King in Capite the moyety of the Barony of Shelford where he had a free Court from 3. weeks to 3. weeks the Custody of Shirewood this Mannor that of North Leverton and Gedling and that Robert de Everingham was his son and heir who about 15 E. 1. left all these matters to his son Adam who 4 E. 2. had an Ad quod Damnum returned for settling the Mannor of Westburgh in Lincolneshire on Thomas de Suthwell c. By a Fine 7 E. 3. he settled this Mannor of Laxton on himself for life and then to Adam de Everingham his son whom 15 E. 3. he left his heir He had other sons Robert Edmund Alexander and Nicolas This Adam de Everingham Chr. 33 E. 3. had an Ad quod Damnum returned concerning his settling 10l. and 9s. rent in Gedling Nottingham Colewyke Stoke Bardolf Schelford Neuton and Carleton by Gedling and eight Marks and 6s. 8d. Rent issuing out of the Lands and Tenements of the said Adam in Gedling on William his son and Alice his wife daughter of Iohn Grey of Godnor William it seems 43 E. 3. died before his said Father and so did Robert son of this William Adam died 8 Febr. 11 R. 2. his son Reginald de Everingham Chr. was his heir male and then aged thirty years which Reginald by his wife Agnes the daughter of Iohn Lungvillers Lord of Hoghton upon Idell had a great estate but no issue by her but by another wife called Ioane he had Edm. de Everingham who died at 15. years of age in the Kings custody without issue so that Ioane and Katherine his elder brother William de Everinghams daughters were his heirs as they were their Grand-fathers the said Adam son of Adam c. Ioane was married to Sir William Elys who died at Saint Albans in his journey towards Calis and had a son by her called Robert she after married Iohn de Waterson Catherin was wife of Sir Iohn Etton son of Sir Thomas which Sir Iohn had several sons Miles Ivo William Alexander but this Mannor descended to the four daughters and heirs of Sir Miles Etton who died before his father the said Sir Iohn who held this Mannor of Lâ—xton with the Advowson of the Church and the Mannors of Egmanton and North Leveeton by the courtesie of England after the death of his wife the said Katherin till 11 H. 6. that he left it to his Grand-children Elizabeth the wife of Iohn Northwood Isabell of Iohn Roos Margaret of Robert Moresby and Anne of Robert Roucliffe The posterity of this Iohn Roos got all or most of this Mannor by purchase or otherwise his sons name was Robert Roos and he had to wife Elizabeth daughter of Sir William Midleton and by her William Roos who married Eleonor daughter of Sir Christopher Wainsford who brought him Humfrey Roos who for his first wife had Anne daughter of Richard Restwold and his second was Margaret Linne of Southwyke in Northamptonshire he died 17 Iuly 13 H. 8. leaving Francis Roos his son by his first wife his heir which Francis by Elizabeth his wife daughter of Thomas Scrimsal of Morbery in the County of York had Peter Roos who first married .... the daughter of Sir Iames Harvey by whom he had a daughter married to Sir Griffin Markham and after to his second wife had Brigit the only heir of Robert Roos of Ingmanthorp by whom he had Gilbert and Peter This woman after her husbands death married one Richard Clark and as the inhabitants say by her own misfortunes and the wicked unthriftiness of her son the said Gilbert Roos the last Lord of Laxton of this noble race was reduced to so great poverty that she gleaned Corn amongst other poor people in Laxton Field Peter Roos her husband had a brother named Thomas of whom there are many Grand-children yet alive and six sisters married one to ... Fairfax of Gifling another to ... Broughton another to ... Stapleton named in Burton Iorz another to ... Schrimshire of Norbury another to ..... Maxfeild another to ... Whitmore Gilbert Roos married .... the daughter of ... Orrell afterwards wife of Sir Peter Killegrew and by her had two daughters one married to ... Thomas of the County of Essex who had part of North Leverton with her the other never married Peter Roos of Knesale his brother had to wife Frances the daughter of ... Marshall and by her four daughters and a son Gilbert Roos who married Elizabeth the daughter of Augustin Hinde of Laxton Morehouse and died 1661. and left issue Gilbert Peter Mary Frances and Troth There was a Quare impedit recovered 13 E. 4. by Richard Roos Esquire against Isabell Roos Widow Robert Roos Esq and William Roos Chaplain of the Advowson of the Church of Laxton The Earl of Kingston had the Mannor of Laxton which remains with his posterity That Mannor of Lexington which was held by and gave name to the Lord Lexingtons Ancestors descended to his heirs as in Tuxford and other places will be shown Sir Brian Broughton Knight and Baronet hath I suppose all or most of it bought of the Lord Vaux as Bildsthorp and Lowdham were or perhaps of his Kinsman Gilbert Roos The Rectory of Laxton was appropriated to the Colledge of Iesus in Rotheram founded there by Thomaes Rotheram sometime Bishop of Lincolne There was a Chantry in the Church of Laxton to which Lands in Laxton did belong Near this Town lies a small Hamlet called Laxton Morehouse where there was a small Chapel and Lands which belonged to a Guild there Laxton Morehouse is now the inheritance of Augustin Hinde Gent. descended from one of that name Alderman of London and Elizabeth his wife after his decease married to Sir Iohn Lyon Alderman of London also she was a Lee as in Norwell may be noted she made her Will 10 Ian. 1566. which was proved 21 Ian. 1569. by which it appears Henry Lee was her brother and that by Augustin Hinde she had four sons Roland Austine Edward and Iohn and two daughters one married to Edward Gresham who had Richard and the other to ... Dodsmore The owners of Laxton Town
for ten Plows or ten Car. There afterwards Rogerius de Busli whose Fee it was had four Car. and thirty two Vill. and two Bord. having fourteen Car. and one Mill 10s. 8d. In King Edward the Confessors time the value of this was 10l. in the Conquerors when the Survey was taken 8l. it had Soc in Schâ—drinton and Walesby When Halan son of Iordan gave to Galfr. de le Phremunt the Land of Wallesby and of Circheton in Fee and Inheritance to him and his heirs as in Kirketon is noted and the Sarts and Alnatas Osier or Alder holts which belonged to it for half a Mark of Silver yearly he furthermore ordered that whether he was present or absent the said Galfr. should prosequut his Pleas if need were and maintain his Men to or at the Cunty and the Triding and the Hundred The Witnesses to this Charter were Iohel and Michel and Galfr. and Henry the Priest of Marcham and Thoca the praepositus Reeve of Tuxford and the rest of that Town This Halan I should rather suppose great Grandfather than Father of Oliva daughter of Alan son of Iordan named in Kirketon but that she was old as in West Markham may be noted she it seems was married to Roger de Monte Begonis who 7 H. 3. had Estovers in his Woods of Wirsop Tukesford and Legerton as he was wont but she was before viz. 1179. 26 H. 2. wife of Robert de St. Iohn or St. Martin and Roger de Munbegun 2 Ioh. gave account of five hundred Marks for having her to his wife with her Inheritance of which Fine Eustachius de Vesci was pledge for three hundred m. and Raph de Mara for one hundred Marks This Roger was son of Adam de Munbegun and 9 R 1. ought King Richard the first five hundred Marks for having seisin of his Land whereof he was disseized for the Service of Earl Iohn which the King then held in his hand whether William de Albeni restored to him the said Roger that Land of his which the King gave the said William or not I do not find that this Oliva had any Children by either or any of her husbands Henry de Munedegen 18 H. 3. next heir of Roger de Montebegonis paid for relief in Lincolneshire c. After his death I guess she sold this Mannor Warsop c. to Robert de Lexington who 20 H. 3. had a confirmation of it from the King and 21 H. 3. the said Robert made a Charter to Iohn de Lexinton his brother of the Mannor of Tuxford and Hamlet of Warsop of which 41 H. 3. he died seized and of the Land in Leslinton held of Adam de Everingham which descended from their Father Richard son of Robert de Lexinton named in Kirketon which Richard had the Custody or Baylywick of the Barony of Lexinton which belonged to Matilda de Cauz and brought up his sons so fortunately that Robert who was a Clergy-man Canon of Southwell became a great Judge and Baron making this place the principal Seat of his Barony which he left to his said brother Iohn who was Lord Keeper and the eldest son and had to wife Margery Merlay as in Averham is said but no issue for Henry de Lessinton the youngest brother aged above sixty years 41 H. 3. Dean and after Bishop of Lincolne was heir to his brother the said Iohn Lord Lexington Peter and Stephen their brothers both Clergy-men being I suppose dead before and the year following viz. 42 H. 3. Richard de Marcham and William de Sutton were found the next heirs of the Bishop who held this Mannor and the rest and the Wong and Wood called Herteshorne in Knesale of Edmund Lascy for a Sparrow-Hawk or 2s. yearly c. The partition of Lexingtons Lands was made 43 H. 3. by Fine between William Sutton son of Rolande of whom the Lord Dudley descendeth and Richard Marcham son of William Robertus de Laxton Richardus de Lessinton-Matildis Joh. de Lexington custos sig H. 3 -Margeria de Merlay s. p. Ric. de Marcham vel Willielmus -Cecil Robertus de Marcham mort 17 E. 1 -Sarra fil cohaer Jordani de Snitterton Com. Derb. 42 H. 3. .... de Bekering-1 Cecilia aet 30. an 17 E. 1 -Joh de Bray mar 2. Tho. de Bekering mil. ob 19 E. 2. Tho. de Bekering Chr. ob 26 E. 3. Johannes de-Joana Bekering Tho. de Bekering ob 1 R. 2. Tho. de Bekering ob 4 H. 6 -Isabella sor cohaer Joh. de Lowdham mil. Alicia de Bekering aet 30. ampl 4 H. 6 -Tho de Rempston mil. Willielmus de Lungvillers -2 Bertha Joh. de Lungvillers ob 25 E. 1. s. p. Tho. de Lungvillers-Chr aet 19. 25 E. 1. Joh. de Lungvillers Chr. -Eliz Tho. de Lungvillers Chr. Agnes ux Reginaldi de Everingham Rob. Malovell-Eliz Steph. Maulovell Johannes Stanhop -Elizabetha fil haer -Rogerus Arden mar 2. Joh. Stanhop fil haer s. p.-Eliz fil Hen. Pierpont mil. Eliz. ux 1 -Ric Stanhop mil. -Matilda for haer Rad Dom. Crumwell Willielmus de Sanctâ cruce -3 Agnes aet 24. 17 E. 1. 1 Joan. ux Joh. de Baiocis Rob. Hacthorn 2 Marger -Petr Foun Joh. Foun s. p. Eliz. -Thom de Mering Franc. de Mering 3 Eliz. -Joh de Barkworth Joh. de Barkworth 28 E. 3. Richardus de Marcham fil haer s. p. Rob. Dom. Lexington Bato de Tuxford Hen. Episc. Linc. Petr. Step. Alic. ux Rol. de Sutton ut in Aram. Richard de Marcham held of the King in Capite half a Knights Fee which Margaret sometimes wife of Iohn de Lexinton at the time of his the said Richards death had in Dower and half a Knights Fee in Lexinton and the Culture or Wong and Wood in Knesale and in Strathaw three Cultures of Iohn de Eyvile and in Marnham Marcham and Allerton Robert de Marcham his brother and heir was thirty five years old at the time of the Inquisition Robert de Markham about 17 E. 1. left the Park Mannor and Advowson of the Church of Tukesford which Margery de Merley widow of Iohn de Lessington had in Dower c. to his three daughters and heirs and their issue viz. Cecilia wife of Iohn de Bray then thirty years old his eldest daughter Iohn son of William de Longvillers and of Bertha sometimes his wife another daughter of the said Robert and Agnes twenty four years old wife of William de Sancta Cruce Robert Lord Lexinton made two Families of his sister Suttons sons William the eldest had Warsop c. as in that place will be noted and Robert had Egrom or Averham as in that place is said Robert son and heir of William de Sutton gave to Mr. William de Laxton for sixty Marks of Silver and 1d. per annum his Park of Tukesford which the said William de Lessington Dean of Lincolne gave to the Monks of
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
upon Tyne by the said Robert and Hugh Gerbertus de Archis Baro de Grove Gilbertus de Arches 28 H. 2. Gilbertus de Arches Theophania-Malvesinus de Hercy Robertus de Hercy fil haer 39 H. 3. ob s. p. Hugo de Hercy Hugo de Hercy Hugo de Hercy mil. 3 E. 3. 40 E. 3 -Alicia Johannes de Hercy miles 15 E. 3 -Joana 15 E. 3. Robertus de Hercy fil haer 33 E. 3. Tho. de Hercy-Elizab 40 E. 3. Willielmus Hercy ..... relict Will. de Saundeby Tho. Hercy miles-Kath fil Tho. Comberford mil. -Joh Constable mar 2. Hugo Hercy miles-Elizab fil cohaer Simonis Leeke Hugo Hercy-Margeria fil Ric. Bingham Justic. Humfr. Hercy-Joana fil Joh. Stanhope Humfr. Hercy-Eliz fil Johannis Digby de Ketelby mil. Joh. Hercy mil. ob 12 Eliz. s. p. -Eliz fil haer Joh. Stanley mil. s. p. 5 Georg. -Nevill.-Barbar Johannes Nevill-Gertruda fil Ric. Whalley Ar. Hercy Nevill-Brigitta fil Henr. Savile de Lupset Gilbert Nevill-Marg fil Tho. Bland de Kipax Park mil. .... relict Marmad Dorrell ux 2. Edward Nevill-Maria fil .... Scott de Camberwell Edward Nevill mil. 1674 -fil ..... Holt relict ..... Kiderminster Anna-Johannes Millington .... Anthonius 1 Johan Mering -Kath 2 Nicol. Denman -Ann 3 Henr. Hatfeild -Alic.-Robert Markham 4 Ed. Bussy -Jan 6 Johan Little bury -Ursul Franc. Mackworth -7 Elen. Fran. Hotham mil. -8 Mari. Marmaduc Constable 2 Baldwin de Hercy 1219. Willielmus Ruffus-Isabella Eustachius de Morteyn-Eyncina 2 Robertus de Morteyn Eustachius de Morteyn fil haer aet 30. ampl 27 E. 1. 1 Will. de Mortein fil haer Rog. de Morteyn Eustachius de Morteyn by a Fine levied at York 2 E. 3. passed the Mannor of Grove to Mr. Henry de Clyf who by another 5 E. 3. settled it on Hugh de Hercy and Alice his wife and the heirs of Hugh Hugh de Hercy Knight 3 E. 3. claimed to have in his Mannor of Grove Park Infangenthef Gallows and Free Warren in his Demesne Lands of Grove Ordeshale and Wâ—ston as son of Hugh son of Hugh brother of Robert de Hercy as in Weston is noted By a Fine 15 E. 3. between Thomas de Everingham Parson of Berkin and Richard de Ampcotes Parson of Scalleby Plaintiffs and Hugh de Hercy Deforc. the Mannor of Grove and one Carucat in Ravenesfeild and the Advowsons of the Churches of West Retford Ordesale and Grove were settled viz. two parts on the said Hugh for life remainder to Iohn his son and the heirs which his said son should beget on Ioane his wife remainder to the right heirs of Hugh The third part with the Advowson of West Retford on the said Iohn de Hercy his son and Ioane his wife and the heirs of their bodies remainder to the right heirs of the said Hugh Iohn Hercy Knight son and heir of Hugh Hercy Knight 33 E. 3. sold the marriage of Robert his first begotten son and if he failed of Thomas his second son to Richard Stanhop Burgess of Newcastle upon Tyne By a Fine 40 E. 3. between Hugh de Hercy Chr. and Alice his wife and Robert de Musters Parson of the Church of Kyrtelington Quer. and Richard Parson of the Mediety of the Church of Tyreswell and Iohn Parson of the other moyety of the Church Deforc. the Mannors of Grove and Weston in the Clay with the Appurtenances and the Advowsons of the Churches of the said Mannor of Grove Ordesale and West Retford were settled on the said Hugh Alice and Robert for life remainder to Thomas son of Iohn de Hercy Knight and to Elizabeth his wife and the heirs Males of their bodies c. remainder to the right heirs of Hugh Who succeeded this Thomas I have not certainly found but not very long after his time William Hercy perhaps his son or Nephew who married .... the relict of William de Saundeby sold some of his Inheritance and left a son called Sir Thomas Hercy who married Katherine the daughter of Sir Thomas Comberford afterwards wife of Iohn Constable and mother of Marmaduk Constable this Sir Thomas had Sir Hugh Hercy who had to wife Elizabeth one of the daughters and co-heirs of Simon Leek of Cotham Esq by whom he had Hugh Hercy Esq husband of Margery daughter of Sir Richard Bingham the Judge and father of Humfr. Hercy Esq who begot on his wife Ioane the daughter of Iohn Stanhope Humf. Hercy Esq who married Eliz. daughter of Sir Iohn Digby of Ketelby and by her had Sir Iohn Hercy the husband of Elizabeth daughter and heir of Sir Iohn Stanley or Sir Iames but having no issue this Sir Iohn Hercy disposed his great Patrimony amongst his eight sisters to Barbara the wife of George Nevill he gave this Mannor of Grove though she was the fifth daughter of his Father Katherine his eldest sister was wife of Iohn Meringe Anne the second of Nicolas Denman Alice the third of Henry Hatfeild and afterwards of Robert Markham Serjeant at Arms Iane the fourth of Edmund Bussy of Hather in Lincolneshire Vrsula the sixth of Iohn Littlebury of Higmore in the same County Ellen the seventh of Francis Macworth of Empingham in Rutland and Mary the eighth of Sir Francis Hotham of Scorburgh in Yorkshire George Nevill was son of Robert named in Ragnell and by the said Barbara Hercy had Iohn Nevill his son and heir husband of Gertrud one of the daughters of Richard Whalley of Welbeck or Screveton Esquire who brought him Hercy Nevill who by Brigitt the daughter of Henry Savile of Lupset in Yorkshire his wife was father of Gilbert Nevill whose wife was Margaret the daughter of Sir Thomas Bland of Kipax Park in Yorkshire by whom he had Edward and Anthony a Major for the King in the late Rebellion and several daughters he afterwards married ..... the widow of Sir Marmaduc Dorrell who before that had been wife of .... Clapham and was after some years married to Colonel .... Sandys Edward Nevill was husband of Mary the daughter of .... Sâ—â—it of Camberwell in Surrey and by her left issue Sir Edward Nevill now of Grove Knight who married .... the sister of Sir Robert Holt of Warwickshire the relict of .... Kiderminster who had him in tuition after his fathers death Anne Nevill elder sister of Sir Edward is wife of Iohn Millington Barrester at Law .... the younger is .... The Rectory of Grove was 10l. when Mr. Hersey was Patron 'T is now 11l. 14s. 2d. value in the Kings Books and Edward Nevile Esquire now Knight Patron Truswell Tireswelle IN Tireswelle and a place now unknown called in the Book of Doomsday Cledreton before the Normans invaded this Kingdom Godric and Vlmar had each a Mannor besides that which belonged to the Kings Soc of Mansfeild in Cledreton which answered the Geld for twelve Bovats the Land being four Car. There twenty two Sochm. and eleven Vill. had nine Car. These Sochmen paid 20s. to the
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 Raph and Maud for life remainder to Raph his son and the heirs of his body remainder to Iohn another son and the heirs of his remainder to Nicolas brother of the said Iohn and his heirs for ever Robert son of Avicia daughter of Thomas de Eyvill Knight by his Deed dated at Nott. on Saturday the morrow after St. Ceadde the Bishop 4 E. 3. remised and released to Roger de Crophull and Raph de Crophull father of the said Roger and the heirs of Raph all his right in the Mannor of Tireswell with all the Appurtenances with general warranty for which release and warranty Thomas de Furnivall senior in acquittance of the said Roger and Raph paid the said Robert and Avicia his said mother 106l. 13s. 4d. This Mannor held of the Honour of Tikhill was Iohn Merburyes and Agnes his wifes as in Arnall is seen Walter Devereux son of Walter son of the said Agnes married Elizabeth daughter and next heir of Iohn Merbury In 9 H. 8. Robert Fingham Thomas Elton Chaplain and Seth Godley Chaplain claimed against Iohn Roper and Iohn Lascells fourteen Mess. fourteen Gardens five Tofts two hundred Acres of Land one hundred of Medow one hundred of Pasture eighty of Wood and 100s. Rent with the Appurtenances in Tireswell and the moyety of the Mannor of Tireswell with the Appurtenances who called to warrant Walter Devereux of Ferrers and Chartley Knight Iohn Babington and Saunchea his wife 23 H. 8. claimed against Anthony Babington Esquire one hundred Acres of Land and ten of Wood with the Appurtenances in Trysswell upon a formedon There was a Quare impedit 27 and 29 H. 8. recovered by Iohn Hercy Esquire against Edward Arch-bishop of York together with Sir William Gascoigne the elder Knight and Edward Sayle Clark of the Advowson of the Church of Tyreswell called the West Part. Sir Iohn Hercy had both the Parts of Mannors and gave the West Hold to Iohn Littlebury and the East Hold to Edward Bussy Both the Mannors came to the hands of Peter Roos Esquire and by his heir Gilbert Roos the greatest part was sold to Peter Broughton Esquire and so were the inheritance of Thomas Broughton his Nephew In 1612. Truswell had many owners viz. George Leggatt William Porter Thomas Howton Nicolas Steedman senior Augustine Steedman Palamedes Gilby Gregory Vickers one Mess. one Cottage one Garden one Orchard sixty eight Acres of Land Iohn Hoggard Thomas Sibthorp Iohn Chambers Cott. Rowland Hall Cott. c. many more Cottages and some other owners Iohn the Prior of St. Cuthberts of Wirkesop by Fine 33 E. 1. conveyed the Advowson of the Mediety of the Church of Tyreswell to William the Dean and the Chapter of York and their successours Each Mediety or Rectory of Truswell was xl. the Chapter of York having the Patronage of one and Mr. Gascoigne of the other The East Part Rectory is now 8l. 1s. 5d. ob and the Dean and Chapter of York Patrons And the West Part 9l. 16s. 0d. ob value in the Kings Books and Mary Saunderson Patron NORTH-CLAY Division Cottham And Cotes Aug. 5. 1674. THese places are the first in the Division of Bassetlow Hundred or Wapentak called the North Clay wherein I have not met with so many Notes as some Readers may expect of desire though more than most will trouble themselves to go through where they are not concerned In Cotune of the Fee of Roger de Busli one Hardulph before the Conquest had a Mannor which defended it self in publick payments as the Dane-geld and the like for four Bovats The Land of it in those times was certified to be sufficient for two Plows or two Car. There afterwards Fulco the Man or Tenent of Roger de Busli had eight Vill. with four Car. Plows or Plow-lands This in King Edward the Confessours time when a former Survey was taken like that in King Williams was valued as it was also then at 16s. William son of Remigius de Ingham and Maud his wife and Roger his son gave to Herbert son of Adelard and to Agnes his wife and their heirs all the Land of his Fee in Cotes both within the Town and without to be held of them and their heirs by the Rent of two Marks yearly which Land the said Herbert and Anneis gave to the Abby of Wellebek The gift of the Land was confirmed by the said William son of Remigius to the brethren of Wellebek and Richard son and heir of William son of Remigius de Hingham released the said two Marks of Rent issuing out of Chotes yearly to the said Abbey The Jury 2 E. 1. found that Robert de Sutton one of the heirs of the Lord Lexington who had by that means Warsop Tuxford Sulkholme Allerton and Eykering had also in Cotum eight Bovats of Land which with the Cottagers then yielded 6l. per annum a certain Fishing and a Wind-mill In 17 E. 1. Richard de Sutton his son is said to have held of Robert de Markham then dead who came of the elder sister of the Lord Lexington a Mannor in Cottum of 10l. per annum value The Jury 22 R. 2. said that Reginald de Everingham Chr. and Agnes his wife the heir of the family of Lungvilers and partly of Lexington too had Lands in North Cotum and South Cotum in the latter is reckoned eight Mess. ten Bov. of Land twenty four Acres of Medow and two Fishings The Mannor of South Cotum came to the family of Stanhop of Rampton as heirs of the said Agnes These Hamlets are of the Sok of Oswardbek and in the Parish of South Leverton The Priory of St. Mary of Torkesey had a good part in Cotum There was a free Chapel dedicated to the Holy Trinity The owners of Cothame Town in 1612. are said to be Thomas Keyworth Thomas Munke Iohn Clarke Iohn Theaker William Browne Richard Cobb Robert Smith Thomas Wilson Cottag Chr. Clark Cott. Iohn Cob Cott. and Iohn Chaworth South Leverton Legreton BEsides that Legreton accounted as a Berew of Lanum of the Arch-bishop of Yorkes Fee I find no other mentioned in Doomsday book This South Leverton is a principal Hamlet of Oswardbec Soc in which it was at that time I suppose included that Soc being accounted a Wapentak then and contained all this North-Clay Division and Rampton and Tireswell now esteemed in the South-Clay most of it if not all besides the Arch-bishops was either of Roger de Buslies Fee or ancient Demesne Soc to the Kings great Mannor of Maunsfeld with which that Soc or Mannor of Oswaldbek and this Mannor of Leyrton were granted 22 H. 3. to Henry de Hastings and Ada his wife and the heirs of Ada as in Maunsfeld may be noted with which family it descended Lisiard de Musters held thirteen Bovats in Legreton paying 10s. yearly Lisiard de Musters called in 4 R. 1. de
Monasterijs gave to the Priory of Thurgarton that Bovat of Land in Leyrton which was Vlfkells viz. that which Adam and Ernis held Roger de Capella confirmed it of whom the said Adam and Ernis held it and so did Henry de Capella This was in the year 1328. divided and Henry de Wentelane and Emme Arnwy then paid each of them 2s. 2d. for each of them paid half a Bovat to the said Monastery in Leverton The Jury 24 E. 1. found that Robert de Hayton when he died held Lands here viz. one Mess. three Bovats five Acres c. of Iohn de Hastings in Socage for 18s. 7d. Rent and that Thomas and Robert his sons were his heirs as in Hayton will also be noted The Jury 8 E. 3. found that Thomas Latymer Bouchard held when he died joyntly with Lora his wife 30l. and 12d. Rent for term of life whereof in South Leverton 11l. 9s. 4d. ob q. in Cotom 22s. 2d. ob in Stretton Fenton Littelburgh Clareburgh Wellum Morehouses Wheatlye Wyston North Woodhouse c. certain Rents of the free-holders and Oswardbek Court then held of the King by reason of the minority of Lawrence son and heir of Iohn de Hastings In 22 E. 3. Lawrence de Hastings late Earl of Pembrok was found to have held the said Rent of the free-holders and a certain Wong in South Leverton containing an Acre and an half and halfe Rood and other very small parcels in some of the other Towns Laurence Moigne and Elizabeth his wife who 10 H. 6. had the Mannor of Hayton and Marshall Hall had also something in South Leverton Iohn Wimbish and Ioane his wife 3 H. 8. suffered a recovery of twenty Mess. one Dovecote one thousand Acres of Land three hundred of Medow one hundred of Pasture one hundred of Moor and 46s. Rent with the Appurtenances in South Leverton North Leverton Cotom East Retford West Retford Wellum Moregate Clareburgh Norwell and Heydon which Simon Stalworth Clark Iohn Byron Esquire Richard Basset Esquire Edward Bussy Esquire Gyles Husey Esquire and others claimed against them In 14 H. 8. the same persons with Hamond Sutton Gent. and others claimed against the said Iohn Wymbyshe and Iohan his wife the moyety of the said twenty Mess. one Dovecote one thousand Acres c. in the said places Humfr. Bentley Gent. 36 H. 8. claimed against Thomas Wymbyshe Esquire twenty Mess. c. in the said places William Oglethorp and Iohn Mason 11 Eliz claimed against William Bette and Isabell his wife two Mess. two Tofts one Dovecote two Gardens eighty Acres of Land thirty of Medow twenty of Pasture six of Wood forty of Marsh and 2s. 1d. Rent with the Appurtenances in South Leverton and Cotham who called Robert Harryson Gent. Ed. Pickering Gent. and William Caryer 17 Eliz. claimed against Hugh Monnock Robert Caworth and Alexander Sampson three Mess. three Tofts three Gardens one hundred Acres of land thirty of Medow thirty of Pasture and four of Wood with the Appurtenances in South Leverton and Cotham by Cotes who called Iohn Bussy Esquire There was a fair house and Demesnes with divers Tenements and Farms heretofore of long time the inheritance of Nevile of South Leverton sold in our times by the Neviles now of Mattersey unto the Right Honourable the Earl of Kingston with whose posterity it continueth In 1612. the owners of South Leverton Town are said to be William Keyworth Thomas Sampson Edward Barker Henry Sampson William Sampson Alexander Carrier Hugh Husband Robert Porter Edward Carrier Cott. Thomas Tong c. The Vicarage of South Leverton was eight Marks and the Chapter of Lincoln had the Patronage 'T is now 6l. 13s. 4. value in the Kings Books and the Dean of Lincolne Patron as he is of Maunsfeld with which 't is like this Church passed to that of Lincolne by the gift of King William 2. Rufus noted in Maunsfeild Little Greeneley Greenlege THe greatest part of this Hamlet was of the Soc to Dunham the Kings Land to which there belonged in Greeneleigâ— as much as answered the ordinary Tax of that time viz. before the Conq. for two Bovats and the sixth part of a Bovat The Land being then also two Car. There five Sochm. and one Bord. had two Car. and Pasture Wood four qu. long and four broad Another less parcel in Greeneleig was of the Arch-bishop of Yorks Fee and Soc to Sudton and Lund and Scroby c. being as much as paid to the Geld for one Bov. and ¼ Mr. Alan de Bolleshoure brother and heir of Henry Norreis gave to his Nephew Henry Norreis and his heirs all his Land which he had in the Clay viz. in Greenley and in Stretton in Wyston in Fenton in Leieton paying yearly to him and his heirs a pair of Gilt Spurrs at Whitsontide for all services And he gave him likewise the moyeâ—y of the Mills of Redford with the Suits works Fishings and all Customs paying to him and his heirs yearly four Marks of Silver and he would acquit the said Henry and his heirs against the King concerning 20s. and a pair of Guilded Spurrs and other 20s. against the Lords of Wheteley The King 30 E. 1. granted Alexander le Norreys upon his Fine leave to give to Richard de Fenton during his life with remainder to the said Alexander and his heirs one Mess. eighty Acres of Land and ten Acres and four of Medow with the Appurtenances in Greeneley which were held of the King in Capite The Jury 9 E. 2. found that Alexander le Norreys held of the King in Capite or Chief by the service of a pair of Gilt Spurrs in Greenely Retford and Wiston one Mess. sixty six Acres of Land c. and in Claworth of Robert de Hardreshull one Mess. thirty Acres of Land c. by the service of 24s. per annum and that Iohn le Norreys son of the said Alexander was his next heir Robert Blackwall Clark one of the Masters of the Kings Chancery Robert Lytton Knight Iohn Morton Esquire William Bolling Gent. and Roger Bryde Clark 15 H. 7. claimed against Iohn Bolore son and heir of William Bolore one Mess. eighty Acres of Land eleven of Medow forty of Pasture and 12s. Rent with the Appurtenances in Gryngley East Radford and Wellom Iohn Hercy Esquire 1 Febr. 35 H. 8. had licence to alienate one Mess. fourscore Acres of Land twelve of Medow forty of Pasture and 12s. Rent with the Appurtenances in Grinley East Retford and Wellome to Iohn Clark and his heirs Lion Sherbroke 8 Eliz. claimed against Brian Clark one Mess. one Toft one Garden one Orchard 100. Acres of Land 100. of Medow 100. of Pasture one hundred of Wood and one hundred of Furz and Heath with the Appurtenances in little Grynley by Grove East Retford and Wellom There were fifteen Oxgangs of Land of the Soc of Oswaldbek in this place
the Demesne of Gringeley and by Emme the wife of William de Luvetot Founder of the Church of St. Cuthbert near Wirksop with the Consent and Confirmation of Richard de Lovetot her son given to that Monastery to buy Wine for the use of the Mass together with an Essart of Asaley to make Wafers William de Lovetot son of Richard also confirmed that gift of his Grandmother and so did Matilda de Lovetot wife of Gerard de Furnivall only daughter and heir of the said William Lord Lovetot which said Matilda de Luvetot confirmed also to the said Monastery all Bollum in Lands and Medow and Mill to which Richard de Luvetot her Grandfather had given it King Henry the eighth by his Letters Patents dated 28 Octob. 36 H. 8. granted to Robert Swyft and William Swyft and their heirs the Mannor of Bollome and two Mills in Bollome within the Parish of Hayton one called a Walk Mill and two Gardens within that Parish called the Chappell and the Old-yard and five Tofts in East Retford c. all which and many other Lands and Tenements then granted were late belonging to the Priory of Wirkesop and from Swyft it was conveyed to Francis Worteley and Mary his wife and the heirs of Mary 7 Eliz. It was lately the Inheritance of Francis Worteley Knight and Baronet The Tythes of the Mills of Bolum were part of the Vicarage of Clarburgh by the Ordination of Sewall Arch-bishop of York 1258. The Arch-bishop of York gave the Church of Bolum with the Appurtenances which might be worth ten Marks and belonged to a Prebend at York viz. in the Chappel of St. Mary and All Angells mentioned in East Retford to William de Lanum in the absence of the Prebendary Wellome WEllum and Suventon of the Kings great Soc of Maunsfeild lying in Oswardbek Wapentak afterwards called only Oswardbek Sok paid the Geld or Tax as five Bov. â…“ The Land two Car. Five Sochm. one Vill. one Bord. had two Car. Medow one qu. ½ long one qu. and ten Perches broad Pasture Wood nineteen quar long and two qu. ½ broad the value 10s. 8d. Of the Arch-bishops great Sok of Sutton Wellum and Suventon answered for five Bovats ¼ being near alike to the former parcell Matilda de Luvetot sometime wife of Gerard de Furnivall gave to the Canons of Radford near Wirksop for the safety of her Soul and of the Souls of her sons Thomas de Furnivall and Gerard his brother her whole Land which she had in the Territory of Wellum with the Homages and Services of the Men and their Sequells c. There was a Suit 5 E. 2. for Lands in Wellum Clareburgh and Bolum partible amongst heirs Males Adam Prat of Redford who lived in the time of Henry the third had three sons Iohn Walter and Thomas Iohn had Thomas Prat the Plaintiff Adam Robert and William Walter had Adam Iohn and Thomas and Thomas the son of the first named Adam had Thomas Prat of Retford the Defendant There was a Fine at York 9 E. 3. between Iohn son of Iohn de Boughton and Constantia his wife Plaint and Richard son of Walter de Bildeswath Def. of five Mess. three Tofts two hundred sixty nine Acres of Land and forty two Acres of Medow and 50 and 6s. and 8l. Rent with the Appurtenances in Wellum Haâ—ton Grenley and Clareburgh whereby they were settled on the said Iohn and Constantiae and the heirs of their bodies remainder to the right heirs of Iohn It appears 8 E. 3. that in Wellum with Morehouses 49s. Rent was yearly paid by the Freeholders to the Lords of Oswaldbeck Sok Humfrey Hercy Esquire 8 H. 8. claimed against Iohn Brig of East Retford one Mess. eighty Acres of Land twelve of Medow forty of Pasture and 12s. Rent with the Appurtenances in Grynley and Wellom The Priory of Wirksop had chief Rents in Wellome 21s. 6l. and Lands there Rented at 5l. 5â— 8d. besides 5l. 7â— 8d. in the Parishes of Clareborough Bolome Wellome and Hayton The free Chapel of Tilne in the Parish of Hayton had Lands here and so had the free Chapel of our Lady and All Saints called Sepulchers Chapel near the Minster at York George Lesemore and Iohn Strangman 13 Iul. 37 H. 8. had licence to give a Mess. and Tenement in Wellome late belonging to the Priory of Worksop to Richard Richardson junior of Clareborough and Alice his wife and their heirs Gabriel Richardson Gent. 1 Ian. 7 Eliz. had licence to give it to Chr. Twiselton and Anne his wife George and Brian Twiselton and their heirs Mr. Edmund Browne built a pretty House at Wellome and left two daughters his heirs about 1673. Tilne North and South THe Kings great Soc of Maunsfeild extended it self into Oswardebek Wapentak to which was belonging in Tilne as much for the Geld as was in the same Town of the Arch-bishop of Yorkes Fee belonging to Sudton viz. two Bovats and ¼ The Land one Car. There two Sochm. one Vill. one Bordar had six Oxen in their Plow or six Bovats in their Carucat There was a Mill 32s. and six Acres of Medow the value was 40â— 'T is like the Arch-bishops part was about the same value for he had in Tilne a Mill also yielding 30s. which is said to belong to Lanum King Henry the thirds Precept to the Sheriff of Nott. dated 1 Decemb. 5 H. 3. shows that King Iohn gave to Roger de Lanum Father of Thomas de Lanum who then had paid his Fine of five Marks and done his Homage for it four Marks Rent with the Appurtenances in two Woods and one Mill in Tylne which the Sheriff was then to give the said Thomas seisin of accordingly The Jury 30 E. 1. found that Thomas de Lanum held Lands in Tylne in Hayton and Clareburgh Church and in Carleton upon Trent twenty seven Acres of Land c. and that Roger de Lanum his son and heir was then above threescore years old Roger de Lanum held twenty Bovats of Land in Tilne with the Mill of the gift of Thomas de Lanum and paid yearly 40. and Thomas was enfeoffed by King Iohn for a Sparhawk and it was of the Soc of Oswaldbek It appears by the return of the Ad quod Damnum 32 E. 1. that Roger de Lanum enfeoffed Robert le Power and Roger his son of 13s. 4d. Rent in North Tilne and South Tylne held of the King as of the Soc of Oswardbek paying a Sparrow-Hawk yearly to the Exchequer on the Feast of St. Iames the Apostle The Jury 18 E. 2. found that Robert Power of Tylne held in Tilne 13s. 4d. of the King in Capite as in petty Serjeanty by the Service of 2â— yearly to the Exchequer for a Sparrow-Hawk And one Mess. and two Bovats of Land of the Arch-bishop of York for 2â— per annum and Suit to Lanum Court And twenty Acres
at Lound of Sibyl de Furneis by the Service of 4d. and that Iohn his son and heir was then above twenty nine years old The King 24 Apr. 49 E. 3. took the Homage of William Power son and heir of Iohn Power deceased for Lands in Tilne There was a Fine 30 H. 6. between Raph Crumwell Knight William Stanlowe and Iohan his wife and Richard Illingworth Plaint and Iohn Pouer Def. of the Mannor of Tylne with the Appurtenances twelve Mess. four Tofts two hundred Acres of Land forty of Medow forty of Pasture forty of Marsh two of Wood and 10â— Rent with the Appurtenances in Tylne Hayton Clareburgh Wellum juxta Clareburgh Wellum Morehouse Grynley East Retford and Ordeshall which the said Iohn acknowledged to be the right of the said William Isabell who had been wife of William Pouer mother of the said Iohn held part in Dower and the third part of the Mannor of Tilne There were Lands in Tylne in the year 1460. belonging to the Priory of Wirkesop whereof every Acre contained eight Virg. Rods or Roodes King Edward the sixth Aug. 3. in the second year of his Reign granted to Robert Swift and William Swift and their heirs amongst other things the free Chapel of Tylne in the Parish of Hayton with the Appurtenances in East Retford Wellum Morehouse Bollome Tylne Hayton and Ordesall Hayton THis place I find not expressed in Doomsday Book howbeit it appears to be much as the rest of these Townships of the Fee of the Archbishop of York viz. of the North Sok The Church Arch-bishop Roger gave to the Chapel which he Founded near the Minister at York as in Retford hath been noted and Sewall the Archbishop 4 or 3 of the Nones of May 1258. ordained that the Vicar of Hayton should have the Altarage and Land of the Church of this Town with a Garden and that the Sacrist of the fore-mentioned Chapel should give yearly to the poor of this place three Marks Adam the Chaplain of Radeford gave to God and St. Mary of Blyth and the Monks there serving God all his Rents and Lands which he bought and held of Iohn Fleming of Claverburgh of Richard son of Thomas Hasart and Dieva de Biam and of Nicolas son of Thorald in the Town of Claverburg and all the Land which he likewise bought and held of William son of Hubert de Haiton of Maud the daughter of Ernald de Tilne of Thomas son of Richerius de Haiton of Hugh son of Toke of Albreda daughter of Roger de Haiton and of Alunna daughter of Roger de Haiton in Haiton Robert de Everingham for the health of his Soul and of Isabell his wife quit-claimed to Walter the Prior of Wirkesop c. the Suit to his Court of Leyrton for the Land held of his Fee by that Priory in the Town of Hayton Robert le Ventrer and Matilda his wife 17 E. 1. acknowledged one Mess. two Bov. of Land and two Acres of Medow in Heyton to be the right of Robert Pauleyn and his heirs for ever Hugh son of Osbert of Laxton Morehouses and Isabell his wife and Iohn son of Richard le Grunger of Laxton Morehouses and Alice his wife by Fine 10 E. 2. conveyed to Iohn de Markham of Wyston and his heirs twenty seven Acres of Land six and an half of Medow and 8s. 4d. ob Rent with the Appurtenances in Hayton Tylne Clareburgh North Leverton Lound and Schaftworth The Jury 24 E. 1. found that Robert de Hayton held one Mess. and seven Bovats in Hayton and Claverburgh of the Arch-bishop of York in Socage and Lands in South Leverton Misterton Lound and in Clumber a Water-Mill and eighty Acres in West Retford and that Thomas and Robert were his sons and heirs the elder being two years old at the Feast of All Saints and that several others held of him the said Robert de Hayton The Jury in 4 E. 2. found it no damage if the King granted Robert le Power licence to give one Toft and three Acres of Land with the Appurtenances in Hayton to Henry de Sibthorp the Vicar of that Church and his successours to augment the sustentation of a certain Chaplain c. The Jury 17 E. 3. found that Iohn de Carewell of Hayton held when he died two Mess. and fourscore Acres of Land in Hayton and Clareburgh of the Arch-bishop of York by making two appearances at his Court at Lanum And that Iohn son of the said Iohn de Carewell was his son and heir Laurence Moigne and Elizabeth his wife levied a Fine 9 H. 6. of the Mannor of Hayton with the Appurtenances and four Mess. sixteen Tofts four hundred sixty five Acres of Land and an half ninety two of Medow and an half and 46s. Rent with the Appurtenances in Hayton Clareburgh Wellum Morehouse Lound Walkringham Misterton and Stokyth whereby they conveyed to Gilbert Grayff Clerk and others and warranted against the heirs of the said Elizabeth The Jury in 14 H. 6. said that Raph Makarell and Margery his wife had the Mannor of Hayton and a Capital Mess. a Horse-Mill one hundred Acres of Land forty of Medow and 60s. Rent in Stretton and Fenton in the Clay and Lands in Misterton and Stokyth and Walkringham c. and that Hugh Makarell was son and heir of the said Raph. By an Inquisition taken 21 Septemb. 14 H. 7. it appears that Iohn Fitz-William Lord of the Mannors of Athewyk Warenhall and Potter Newton in Yorkshire died the 4 of Ianuary 13 H. 7. seised of the Mannor of Hayton and that of Stirton called Makerells Mannor and Lands in Stokwith Walkringham Moregate Styrap Blyth Misterton Lownde Clareburgh and Wellum and that Iohn Fitz-William son of his son Iohn was his Cousin and Heir and above nine years old By another Inquisition taken 9 Novemb. 4 H. 8. is shown that Iohn Fitz-William of Athewyk Esquire died 25 Sept. 4 H. 8. leaving Anne Fitz-William his daughter and heir one year five months and two daies old to whom he left the fore-mentioned Mannors and Lands and several others Another Inquisition 8 Octob. 20 H. 8. shows that Anne Fitz-William died 9 Septemb. 7 H. 8. seized of this Mannor Stirton c. and that Thomas Pogge son of Thomas son of Iohn son of Iohn son and heir of Cecilia sister of Margery mother of Iohn father of Iohn father of Iohn father of the said Anne was one of her Cousins and heirs and Richard Laken son of Andrew son of George son of Elizabeth one of the daughters and co-heirs of Agnes another sister of the said Margeries and William Winslowe son of Cecilia the other co-heir and daughter Nicol. Fitz-William-Margeria Johannes Fitz 13 H. 7 -William ob 4 Jan. Johannes Fitz antre patrem -William ob Johannes Fitz 25 Sept. 4 H. 8 -William ob -Eliz Anna Fitz-William ob 9 Sept. 7 H. 8. sâ—ne prole Agnes-Tho Flower
Stokham and Matilda his wife concerning a plea of Covenant of five Acres of Land three Rod of Medow and two parts of a Mess. with the Appurtenances in Clareburgh and they had a Cirograph viz. a Fine Sir Robert Waterton Knight whose sister and heir Iane was wife of Leo Lord Welles and by him had four daughters and heirs had Lands in Clareburgh Wellum Wellowe Amton Scaftworth Gringley Walesby and Boughton in this County the Mannors of Metheley and Woodhall in Metheley Barley and Houghton and Lands in Potterton in Yorkshire the Mannor of Dobbledyke and Lands in Gosberton Pinchbek Spalding Quadring and Waterton in Lincolneshire of which a partition was made by consent 26 Apr. 2 H. 7. between Sir Christopher Willughby Knight son of Robert Lord Willoughby and Cicely the first daughter Sir Robert Dymmock Knight son of Sir Thomas and Margaret the second and Thomas Lawrence Esquire son of Sir Iames Lawrence and Elianor the third and Katherine first wife to Sir Thomas de la Laund Knight and after to Robert Tempest Esquire the fourth daughter and heir of the said Iane Lady Welles sister and heir of the said Sir Robert Waterton Alexander Banester and Marmaduk Fankys 28 H. 8. claimed against William Banester twenty Mess. ten Tofts four hundred Acres of Land forty of Medow one hundred of Pasture and forty of Furz and Heath with the Appurtenances in Clareburgh Wellum Morehouse Bollome Tylne and Ordsall Thomas Denman and Thomas Dawes in another Recovery 16 Eliz. claimed against Francis Denman Clark two Mess. c. in Clareburgh The Freeholders in Clareburghe Town 1612. Thomas Fee Gent. Alexander Sherbrook senior Iohn Sherbrooke senior de Gringley Parva Edward Clark of the same Thomas Seaton Thomas Sowtheworthe of Wellam George Browne Richard Otter of Wellam William Barker Iohn Otter of Clarebroughe Richard Sowthworthe William Aston Charles Oxenforthe of Bole Alverey Keyworth of Moregate William Childers of Moregate Robert Parnell William Howle Richard Elsam Iohn Spybye Thomas Eastwood Iohn Garlick of Heaton Dennys Huddlestone Richard Harpham The Vicarage of Clareburgh was 8l. when the Sacrist of St. Maries Ebor. was Patron 'T is now 9l. 15s. 5d. value in the Kings Books and the Earl of Devonshire Patron North Leverton LEgreton is certified to be a Berew of the Arch-bishop of Yorkes great Soc of Lanum and no other mention can I find of it in Doomsday Book There was a Fine at Nott. the Saturday after the Feast of the Apostles Peter and Paul 4 Ioh. between Gilbert de Everingham Pet. and Robert de Everingham Tenant of one Bovat of Land with the Appurtenances in Leghirton which Gilbert remised to the said Robert and he for it gave the said Gilbert in Helpirthorp one Bovat of which Land twelve Carucats made one Knights Fee This Mannor continued to the Family of Everingham as in Laxton may be discerned Robert son of Alexander 31 H. 3. called to warrant Adam de Everingham concerning fourteen Acres of Land in North Leirton which Simon son of Alexander claimed against him Richard son of Moysy 10 E. 1. by his Atturney claimed against William de Knapton and Matild his wife one Mess. and one Car of Land in North Leyrton to whom he afterwards remitted his whole right By a Fine 2 E. 2. between Adam son of Robert de Everingham and Claricia his wife Plaintiffs and Thomas de Staynton Deforc. the Mannor of Leverton with the Appurtenances was settled on the said Adam and Claricia and the heirs of their bodies remainder to the right heirs of Adam Robert de Dyggeby and Sibyll his wife 2. E. 3. levied a Fine at York of the Mannor of Leyrton to Adam de Everingham of Laxton By another Fine at York 11 and 12 E. 3. between Adam de Everingham the elder Quer. and Nicolas de Scalton Parson of Laxton Deforc. this Mannor was settled on the said Adam for life and after his decease the moyety with the Appurtenances towards the East to Adam de Everingham the younger and the heirs Males of his body remainder to Robert his brother and his remainder to Edmund his brother and his remainder to Alexander his brother and his remainder to Nicolas his brother and his remainder to the right heirs of the said Adam de Everingham the elder The other moyety was likewise intailed much after the same manner George son of Adam de Everingham made a Deed of release 28 May 7 H. 4. to Robert de Waterton son of William Elys Chr. and to the heirs of the said Robert son of William and heir of William son of Adam de Everingham Knight concerning his whole right c. in the Mannor of North Leverton and other Lands which Mannor Robert de Elys was to have for life after the decease of Robert de Waterton c. In a Recovery 9 H. 7. Robert Moresby claimed against Iohn Babington Knight the Mannor of North Leverton with the Appurtenances seventy five Mess. one thousand Acres of Land six hundred of Medow eight hundred of Pasture forty of Wood 8l. Rent and Rent of fifty Cocks and one hundred Hens with the Appurtenances in North Leverton Cotes Habilsthorp Bole and Bekingham William de Chadworth Chr. in the time of Edward the first gave the Mannor of North Leverton to Elen the daughter of Iohn de Bosevill and the heirs of her body which Elen 3 E. 3. had a son and heir named Thomas Shadworth The Mannor of North Leverton was heretofore William Willoughbyes and after Katherins the wife of Iohn Eaton and after Christopher Kendalls After the death of Christopher Kendall Esquire 25 Oct. 3 Eliz. who held the Mannor of North Leverton of the Arch-bishop of York of his Mannor of Scrowby called the North Soke by fealty and 2s. per annum Marmaduk Kendall his son and heir was found of the age of nineteen years and seven Months It was of late the Inheritance of Peter Roos and since of Thomas Broughton Esquire .... Norton of Yorkeshire had Lands there which came to the Crown by his Attainder in the Northern Rebellion and were granted to Appleby and Shepston in Fee 22 Eliz. The Freeholders of North Leverton Town 1612. were many viz. the heirs of Edward Nightingale Iohn Cotton William More Alvered Gelland Roger Fretwell Henry Parnham of East Retford Nicolas Colton Iohn Spencer William Butler Peter Sawe Iohn Hopkinson Thomas Bunby Iames Husband Edward Burden Iohn Draper c. The Church is appropriated to and makes a Prebend in the Collegiate Church of Southwell as is there noted The Vicarage of North Leverton was ten Marks but is now 5l. value in the Kings Books and the Prebendary continueth Patron Littleburgh Segelocum HEre was a famous passage over Trent and near it have been found some old pieces of Roman Antiquities Coyns or the like as I have heard which I suppose determined this place to be the Agelocum corrupted from
Adelocum or Segelocum of Antonine which yet Mr. Cambden thought once was to be sought for in vain any where but on the Banks of the River Idle or Ydle now Eaton signifies Water Town and is upon that River and may as well by that reason be called Idleton and Id or Yd in the British Language signifies Seges Corn and Ydlan Area ubi reponuntur collectae segetes which in these parts we call a Stack-yard so that it seems the River Idle had its name from Corn with which the neighbouring Fields ever abounded and Adelocum was intended by the Romans for the place upon Ydel after the broad pronunciation of Ai for I which is still frequent in this Country as Segelocum after the signification Ydle signifying a Granary amongst the Britains Littleburgh was of the Soc of Maunsfeild the Kings great Mannor as much of Oswardbec Soc was whereof this was also part and answered the Danegeld or Tax before the Conquest for four Bov. The Land being one Car. There fourteen Sochm. two Vill. four Bord. had afterwards five Car. Medow three qu. and ten Virg. long two qu. broad this Soc was in the Conquerours time valued at 10s. King Iohn being at Nott. when he was Earl Moreton gave to the Church of Wellebec and the Monks there whatever belonged to him of the Church of Littilburgh with the Appurtenances viz. the Advowson and Presentation and the very Church to be converted to their proper uses as much as belonged to him or his heirs and G. Arch-bishop of York appropriated it accordingly to that Abby Hugh son of Hugh de Stretton gave twelve Acres of Medow which he held of Roger de Trehampton in the Marsh of Lée and two Fishings in the Water of Trent viz. one called Gosegarth .... the Church of Littilburgh and the other called Wlvetgarth which is between Littilburgh and Cotes to that Abby of Wellebec to be held in Fee Farm of him and his heirs for 5s. per annum Raph son of Roger de Treanton confirmed to that Abby ten Acres of Medow in the Marsh of Lée which Hugh son of Hugh de Stretton gave In the year of our Lord 1253. the Tuesday after .... the Court of Oswardebec was held at Stretton and an Inquisition made by the Oathes of twelve lawful men Iohn de Applesthorp Elias Hakun c. whether the Abbat of Wellebec ought to make the Stone-Bridge between Littilburgh and Leverton and the Jury found that one Adam Abbat of that place of his own will made that Bridge for the easement of a certain Grange which that House had beyond the Trent but never did it as due neither ought he to make it and therefore was quit for ever The like Inquisition was made at Retford the Saturday after the Feast of St. Matthew the Apostle 18 E. 1. before Iohn de Annesley then High Sheriff by the Kings Precept or Writ upon the Oathes of good and lawful Men of the Wapentak of Bersetlawe viz. Elias de Wheteley and others who found as before and that Stretton and Fenton ought to make the said Stone-bridge There were certain Tenants of small parcels of Land which were to repair the Stone-bridge between Littilburgh and Happlesthorp To the first Inquisition William de Eaton Bailiff of the Court of Oswardbec under his Master Iohn de Raygate then the Kings Escaetor put his Seal with the Juries to the latter the said Sheriff The Freeholders in Littlebroughe Town 1612. are said to be Robert Sherbury William More William Turuell of East Markham Richard Rawlin Iohn Deane Thomas Wright Iohn Bercock Edward Horley Thomas Truswell Henry Bromeheade Thomas Bingham Iohn Quippe Clerk Edward Clark Thomas Cartwright Iohn Calton George Holmes Thomas Nettleship and Thomas Seaworth Fenton OF Oswardbec Soc in Fenton half a Carucat was the Kings Land and Soc to Maunsfeild But in Oswardebec Wapentac Roger de Busli had in Fentune three Mannors which before the Conquest Vlfac Leuric and Grim had and paid to the Geld or Tax for one Bov. of Land and the third part of a Bovat The Land was waste except one Bordar In the Confessours time the value of this was 5s. There also had Speranoc two Bovats and ⅔ for the Geld. The Land one Car. Sac and Soc without an Hall This was waste too There was six Acres of Pasture Wood and kept the same value it had in the time of the Confessour viz. 10s. 8d. There was a Fine 24 H. 3. between Robert de Aldwerk and Isabell his wife Quer. and Ranulf de Fenton Tenant of seven Bovats of Land and 7s. 1d. Rent in Fenton and Sturston c. The Jury 23 E. 1. found that Thomas de Normanvile held in Egmanton seven Bovats of Land in Bondage and two Tofts of Iohn de Eyvile then in the custody of Roger de Moubray by the service of a Rose and that he held likewise the Mannor of Fenton of several mean Lords and that Edmund his son and heir was then about four years old An ancient Gentleman called Fenton had his House and Lands here of which name I have seen one Pedigree beginning with Sir Richard Fenton Lord of this place and ending with Katherine wife of Sir Rich. Boyle Earl of Corke in Ireland Another in the Visitation of Norroy 1614. Tho. Fenton de Fenton Willielmus de Fenton .... fil .... Abdy de Abdy in Com. Ebor. Thom. Fenton de Fenton-Jana fil naturalis ... Nevill de South Leverton Laurentius Fenton de Fenton-Katherina fil Joh. Legat de Sturton Nicolas Fenton de Fenton 1614 -Gracia fil Steph. Casely de Com. Devon Willielmus Fenton de Fenton 1614 -Sarah fil Will. Tacy de insula Vectis ... fil .... Monteford de Littleburgh ux 2. Willielmus Fenton fil haer aet 19. 1614. 2 Georgius 3 Francisc. 4 Carolus Maria ux Will. Estrop de Com. Linc. Elizab. Gracia 2 Thom. 2 Carolus The greatest part of this Hamlet was the Inheritance of Sir Francis Thornagh Knight descended unto him from Francis Thornagh his Grandfather and Sir Iohn Thornagh his father his House and Seat was here and is now possessed by Iohn Thornbagh Esquire his Grandchild eldest son of his son Francis who married Elizabeth one of the daughters and co-heirs of Iohn S. Andrew of Gotham Esquire by whom he left issue the said Iohn and others he was a valiant man and a Colonel of Horse for the Parliament in whose service he lost his life by a Scotch Lance as it is said at the Battel begun near Preston in Lancashire between Duke Hamilton and that Party his widow was afterwards married to William Skeffington Esquire and is yet living with him Johannes Thornhaugh Averey Thornhagh de Fenton-Ellena fil haer .... Ripers de Leversall Ebor. John Thornhaugh de Fenton-Eliz fil haer Briani Bailes de Potters Newton Ebor. Johannes Thornhagh miles de Fenton .... fil Fran. Rodes Justic. Franc. Thornhagh miles aetat 21.
1614 -Jana fil Joh. Jackson de Hickleton Ebor. mil. 1 Francis Thornhaugh occisus in praelio de Preston -Eliz fil cohaer Joh. St. Andrew de Goteham Ar. -Will Skeffington Ar. mar 2. Johannes Thornhaugh Ar. ... fil Earle 2 Henr. 3 Johan 4 Ant. Penelope Jana Eliz. ux Joh. Jackson mil. Brigitta ux Willoughby Hickman Sturton Streton Estreton THere was belonging to Maunsfeild in Estreton as much as was charged to the Geld at two Car. The Land being six Car. and in King Williams time there twenty four Sochm. eleven Vill. seven Bord. had eight Car. Medow one leu long one qu. broad Pasture Wood one leu long and five qu. broad This Soc was valued at 40s. In Oswardbec Wapentak likewise of Roger de Buslies Fee there were in Estreton two Mannors which Speranoc and Archill were possess'd of before the Norman invasion who discharged the publick Taxation or Dane-geld for four Bov. and an half The Land then being known to be two Car. and an half There were two Vill. two Sochm. two Bord. having seven Bov. in a Car. or seven Oxen in Plow and eight Acres of Medow Pasture Wood six qu. long and three quar and an half broad in the Confessours time and then also this yielded two Marks of Silver Thomas son of Hugh de Stretton gave to the Church of Blyth one Acre of Land in Clachescroft which one Robert held of him and the whole Gare which was in Neuvinge and an Acre of Medow at Sanbrige The Jury 28 H. 3. found it not to the Kings loss if he granted Thomas de Stretton leave to inclose his Wood of Stretton with the Wong or Culture and thereof to make a Park Iohn de Stretton about 15 E. 1. was hanged for Felony who held two Acres and an half and half a Mess. with the Appurtenances of Walter Oliver and half an Acre of Land of William son of Adam de Stretton and one Acre of Medow of Nigellus son of Richard de Stretton and one Rode and an half of Iohn Remay of Fenton and the Jury likewise found that the Township of Stretton should answer the King for his year and day Henry le Noreys held fifteen Bovats of Land in Gréeneley six Bovats of Land in Stretton and one Bovat in Leyrton of the Fee of Thomas de Stretton by the service of two Gilded Spurrs which Thomas only paid and it was of the Soc of Oswaldbek The Jury 30 E. 3. found that Alexander son of Henry le Norreis of Claworth had diverse Tenents who held of him in Stretton in the Clay by homage and fealty and 14s. Rent and that Alexander held them of King E. 2. in capite and that William Prat of Stretton was cousin and heir of Walter The Jury 7 R. 2. found that Thomas le Prat then dead was once seized of 22s ....d. and one Pound of Pepper Rent of Assize issuing out of certain Lands and Tenements in Stretton Fenton South Leverton and Wiston together with Lands in Grenly by Retford c. and that Beatrix wife of Iohn de Croftes daughter and heir of William le Prat then also dead son and heir of the said Thomas le Prat was his Cousin and heir Philip de Baggesoore 3 E. 3. who married Hawisia the daughter and heir of Thomas son of Nigellus de Stretton who lived in the time of E. 1. claimed ..... in Stretton in the Clay Roger Smith and Erasmus Smith 15 Eliz. claimed against Thomas Sturton Gent. four Mess. three Cotag. one Dovecote five Gardens three Orchards two hundred Acres of Land sixty seven of Medow one hundred of Pasture with the Appurtenances in Stourton Fenton and Littelborowe This Thomas Stourton was son of Thomas and married Frances the daughter and heir of ... Smith of Whillcots in Rutland by whom he had four sons Roger his eldest of Sturton whose daughter Elizabeth died unmarried Iohn Sturton of London his second who had Humfr. and other children Edward Sturton of Norbrough in Leicest his third who was Father of Erasmus of whom came as I remember Edward Stourton of Spalding in Lincolnshire Doctor of Physick and Thomas Sturton of Ireland the fourth Rog. de Osberton is said to have held the whole Town of Stretton of Alice the Countess of Ewe Roger Monachus paid two Marks for one Knights Fee there in the time of H. 3. Roger de Osberton gave with Elizabeth his daughter in Frank-marriage to Simon de Whitington Rent in Stretton which Galfr. de Dethek son of Elena daughter of the said Simon and Elizabeth claimed 3 E. 3. There was a Fine levied at Westminster that year viz. 3 E. 3. betwen Iohn Darcy le Cusin Quer. and Raph de Boselingthorp and Isabell his wife Deforc. of the Mannor of Stretton in Le Clay with the Appurtenances which was thereby settled on the said Raph and Isabell for life remainder to the said Iohn Darcy and his heirs to which Iohn de Boselingthorp put to his claim The Jury 30 E. 3. said that Iohn Darcy held the Mannor of Kirkeby in this County of the King in Capite of 20l. value and the Mannor of Stretton of the heirs of the Earl of Pembroke in Socage by the service of 48s. per annum and of William Prat the fifth part of a Knights Fee by the service of 3s 2d. and that Iohn Darcy was then his son and heir as in Kirkeby in Ashfeild is noted with which this Mannor descended In 37 H. 6. Margaret who had been wife of Iohn Darcy Knight was found to have held in Dower the Mannor of Stretton in the Clay called the Vpper Hall in which there was 40s Rent of Assize issuing out of the Lands of divers Free-holders in Wyeston Littilburgh and Stretton and in it likewise was part of the passage over Trent at Littilburgh which was worth above all reprises 5s per annum and in it likewise a Court which besides the Stewards Fee yielded nothing she was then dead her husband died the Saturday after the feast of the Ascension 32 H. 6. which cannot be 25 Mar. as in Kirkeby but possibly of May William Darcy his Grand-child son of his son Richard was found to be his heir and then nine years old viz. in the Feast of the Epiphany 37 H. 6. when the Inquisition was taken at Nottingham after the death of the said Margaret King H. 8. by his letters patents dated the first of May 32 H. 8. granted to George Lascells Esquire and his heirs the Mannor of Sturton with the Appurtenances and all Mess. Lands c. in Sturton Wiseton Whetley and Littlebrough which were late Thomas Darcies Knight Lord Darcy Attaint His Grandchild Sir George Lassells Knight was of great years but left only a daughter and heir married to Sir Francis Rodes whose son and heir Sir Francis Rodes married Anne one of the daughters of Sir Gervas Clifton mother of the present Sir Francis
Rodes Baronet and another of his sons named Clifton Rodes who hath some interest in this place married Letice another daughter of the said Sir Gervas Clifton but had no issue by her he since married Elizabeth the daughter of Mr. Iohn Scrimshire of Cotgrave Here was a Mannor called Makarells Mannor which descended to Fitz-Williams as in Hayton may be observed William Fitz-Williams and George Fitz-Williams paid in the time of Queen Elizabeth for Lands in Scretton alias Scurton sometime Walter Olivers and Philip de Sherfords held by the service of two parts of one Knights Fee and a sixth part 5s. 6d. ob dim q. At the Assizes at Nottingham 4 H. 4. Iohn de Willughby recovered his seism of two Mess. one Toft one hundred and sixty Acres of Land forty of Medow with the Appurtenances in Stretton in the Clay and Iohn Dogode and Cecily his wife were amerced The Priory of Matersey had also Lands here granted by King H. 8. to Sir Anthony Nevill Knight with the Monastery which Lands after came to Sturton of Sturton and afterwards became the inheritance of Iohn Millington Esquire The Vicarage of Styrton was xx Marks and the Chapter of York had the Patronage 'T is now 5l. 7s. 3d. ob value in the King books and the Dean of York Patron West Burton PArt of this was a Berue of the Arch-bishop of Yorkes Soc of Lanum besides which there was a Mannor which Speranoc had before the Conq. which paid to the Geld for six Bov. The Land two Car. There afterwards Goysfrid the man of Roger de Busli whose Fee it was had one Car. one Sochm. one Vill. two Bord. having one Car. ½ there was one Fishing yielded two hundred Ecles small Wood one qu. long one broad In King Edward the Confessours time the value of this was 20s. in the Conquerours 40s. having Soc in Evereton and Herewelle In the record of Nom. Vill. the fourth part of Bole and the half of Burton answered for a whole Villa of which Iohn de Nassington Canon of York was then Lord viz. 9 E. 2. Before that time 56 H. 3. Mr. Simon de Preston had Mercat and Fair at Burton in le Clay This I suppose to be the Arch-bishops Fee In the said record of Nom. Vill. 9 E. 2. Saundeby and the half of Burton answered for a whole Villa and the King and Robert de Saundeby were then returned Lords but the most ancient Lord of this place after the record of Doomsday book whom I have yet found was Gaufridus de Malquinci who gave to the Canons of Radeford near Wirksop the Church of St. Elen of Burton his wifes name was Matildis his Nephew Gaufr de Paveli was a Witness and confirmed the Charter of the said Gaufr de Mauquinci his Uncle and gave Lands in Saundeby to that Priory Richard de Rutington gave to the said Canons and confirmed the Advowson of the Church of St. Elen of Burton upon Trent as both this and Burton Iorz may well be called though neither of them now retain that Addition and remitted likewise his whole right and claim in all the Lands and Tenements which Gaufr Mauquinti his Ancestor gave them This Gaufr and Matildis seem to lie buried at Ruddington where they had interest and are named as in that place may be seen in Flauforth Church in the Fields There was a Fine at Westminster 17 H. 3. between Walter Prior of Wyrkesop Quer. and Richard de Ritinton Deforc. of the Advowson of the Church of Burton which was appropriated to that Monastery to which also Richard de Rutington son and heir of William de Rudington gave and confirmed Lands in this Burton upon Trent The Prior of Wyrkesop 53 H. 3. offered himself against Robert de Saundeby concerning the Plea Quod permittat that he should permit him to have Common of Fishing in the water of Burton Henry de Ednestow and the Clark his brother 16 E. 2. granted by their Deed that if they might peaceably possess thirty Acres in Burton in the Clay which they bought of Philip do Baggesoure and Hawisia his wife without the interruption of them the said Philip and Hawisia and their heirs that then the recognizance of forty Marks acknowledged by the said Philip in the Common Bench should be of no force In a recovery 20 H. 6. Katherin who had been the wife of William Sheffeild claimed against Henry Warwike three Mess. one Toft and four Bov. of Land in Burton and Stretton in the Clay In another 20 H. 7. Robert Nevill William Clarkson Iohn Elton Chaplain and Iohn Shaa claimed against William Spylman and Anne his wife the Mannor of West Burton with the Appurtenances and three Mess. four Tofts one hundred and forty Acres of Land forty of Medow sixty of Pasture and 20s. Rent with the Appurtenances in West Burton Bole Styrton in the Cley Lytilburgh Grynley Saâ—onby East Retford Wellom Wellom Morehouse Clareburgh and Moregate The Rectory of Burton 36 H. 8. late belonging to the Priory of Workesop and all Mess. Mills Houses Edifices Lands Tenements Medows c. to it belonging were granted to William Nevill Gent. and his heirs 3 March Both the Mannor and Rectory were late the inheritance or possession or at the disposition of Edward Nevill of Grove Esquire father of Sir Edward The owners of West Burton Town in 1612. are said to be Gilbert Nevell George Holmes Iohn Williamson Gent. Edward North of Watkeringham Esquire Robert Sturton of Sturton Anthony Dickens of Bole Thomas Oxenforth of Bole Richard Cave of Bole Anne Birchâ— of Bole and Thomas Bingham of North Wheatley Hablesthorp Absthorp THis place I find not in Doomsday In Nom. Vill. 9 E. 2. North Leverton Hablesthorp and Cotes answered for one whole Villa whereof Mr. Lodovic de Bellomonte and Adam de Everingham were then Lords This whole Hamlet of Hablesthorp makes a Prebend in the Cathedral Church of Yorke and was of xl. value The owners of Hablestrop Town 1612. are said to be Michael Bland Gent. Iohn Hewett of London Gent. Iohn Clark Robert Cottham Thomas Taylor Widow Munke Widow Rye William Sooby Iohn Chaworth William Fox Abraham Gelland Iohn Thoracton Henry Parnham Anthony Chaworthe Iohn Thorneaughe Esquire VVheatley's VVateley THere was in Wateleg besides what was a Berue of Lanum the Arch-bishop of Yorks great Mannor of the Kings Wapentac or Soc of Oswaldbec which then belonged to Maunsfeld as much as paid the Geld or Tax for two Bov. The Land two Car. There six Sochm. one Vill. had two Car. Pasture Wood one leu and one fourth long one qu. ½ broad In King Edward the Confessours time it was valued at 3s. in the Conquerours at 7s. But the principal part of this place was of Roger de Buslies Fee where before his coming five Tayns had five Mannors which answered to the Geld for nine Bovats The Land eight Car. There
Roger had in Demesne four Car. four Sochm. twenty five Vill. having twelve Car. ½ and five Acres of Medow small Wood one leu long one qu. broad This continued the ancient value 8l. Martin de Watelega 5 Steph. gave account of 46â— 8d. of the Pleas of G. de Clinton William son of Robert de Waytele gave to the Monks of Blyth 7s. â—d. Rent which he was wont to receive of certain Tenents for Lands in Waytele which he sometimes passed to Ela de Warenna for seven Marks of Silver But it seems Raph Taisun of which name one had pardon 5 Steph. by the Kings Writ for 9s. 9d. in the Sheriffs account was owner of Wetele which Eschaered to the Crown and sometimes Brian de Insula had it in Ward and then it was valued at 26l. 13d. King Iohn let Nicholas de Lettris hold it and then it was valued at 30l. The King 4 H. 3. commanded the Sheriff of Notss to give Roger de Monte Begonis possession of the Land of Oswaldebec and the Mannor of Wateleg which was Iohn Malherb his brother's both which King Iohn had granted to the said Roger the first in Fee the other for life only but the Sheriff was then to keep Claworth in the Kings hand still Hubert de Burgo 13 H. 3. had the Mannor of Watle which he held of the Countess of Ewe or Augi as Raph Teisun was also said to do Iohn de Burgo 44 H. 3. had free warren in Wacley Iohn de Burgo the elder son of Hubert Earl of Kent 2 E. 1 granted the Mannor of Wheteley with very many other in several Counties to the King in Fee who then granted the said Iohn for life the Tower of London and Castle of Colchester and hundred of Tendring 18 Decemb at St. Martins in London Mr. Philip Boulton 6 E. 1. remised to the King and his heirs ten Marks Rent of the gift and grant of Iohn de Burgo son of Hubert de Burgo sometime Earl of Kent issuing out of Tenements in Misterton Stretton Misne and Bolum belonging to the Mannor of the said Iohn viz. of Whetelaye In Nom. Vill. 9 E. 2. Whetley and the fourth part of Bole answered for an intire Villa whereof the King was Lord. Gaufr de Mauquinci gave to God and the Canons of Felley 12d. yearly in that Bovat of Land which Roger son of Swan held of him in Whetley for his own soul and Maud his wifes The Witnesses were the Prior and Covent of Wirkesop Wil. son of Rich. de Rudington Galfr. de Paveli Ioel the Chaplain of Wirkesop Thomas the Dean Math. the Clark c. Laurence de Pavelli about 11 E. 2. held 40s. Land and Rent in Whetley of the Arch-bishop of York by the service of suit to his Court from three weeks to three weeks Michael de la Pole Earl of Suffolk held before his forfeit the Mannor of Normanton and Weston and Lands in South Whetley There was a Fine 2 H. 6. between Matthew Horneby Esquire Quer. and Iohn Spenser of Winterton and Isolda his wife daugther and heir of Robert Knight of Stokwyth Deforc. of three Mess. thirty Acres of Land and the moyety of one Acre of Medow with the Appurtenances in South Bek Whetelay whereby the premises were made the right of Matthew quit from the heirs of Isolda The Rectory was part of the Chapelry of Tykhill and disposed with that as in Lowdham and other places may be noted The owners in South Wheatley Town 1612. are said to be Charles Markham Gent. and Thomas Markham Gent. in North Wheatley Gilbert Earl of Shrowsbury Thomas Osborne Thomas Bingham Iohn Iames Thomas Cartwright and Henry Bromehead The Rectory of South Wheatley was xl. and is now 6l. 14s. 2d. value in the Kings books the Patronage still belonging to the Chapter of Southwell The Vicarage of North Wheatley was ten Marks when the Abbat of Westminster was Patron 'T is now 3l. 18s. 11d. ob value in the Kings Books and the Marquess of Dorchester Patron Claworth Clavord IN Clavord of the Kings Soc of Maunsfeld in his Wapentac of Wardebec or Oswaldbec was one Car. and six Bov. for the Geld. The Land three Car. Twelve Sochm. one Vill. eighteen Bord. had ten Car. Medow two quarent long one qu. and an half broad The value in the Conquerours time was 26s. 4d. at which time there was of Roger de Buslies Fee which before the Conquest Grumchell had who paid for his Mannor to the Geld as two Bov. The Land four Bov. There Fulco the Man of Roger had three Sochm. three Bord. with three Car ½ Medow two quarent and an half long and eighteen Perches broad Pasture Wood three qu. and ten Perches long and as much broad The value of this in King Edward the Confessours time was 4s. then in King Williams 5s. In the record of Nom. Vill. 9 E. 2. Clauworth and Wyston answered for a whole Villa The King Thomas de Latymar and Robert de Hardeshull are there certified to be Lords This Robert and his ancestors had their name as in Mr. Dugdale's Book of Warwickshire may be seen from a place called Hartshill in that County where it seems they had their principal or most usual residence The â—â—rst notice that I can take of any of them in relation to this County is 2 H. 2. when Ranulf Fitz-Engelram the Sheriff accounted for Lands granted to Robert son of Hugh in Claword C. and xiis. and the like I Ioh. to William son of Hugh viz. C. and xiis. in Clawrd William de Hardredesfeild 10 Nov. 6 H. 3. made Fine for having the Town of Claworth which concerned him as his inheritance Robert de Hardreshull 10 H. 3. made Fine for his relief and had the Land which William his father held of the King in Capite in Claworth Will. de Hardredeshull 31 H. 3. paid a Mewed Spar-hauk into the Exchequer for certain Lands which he held in Claworth of the King Berta de Herdreshill held the whole Town of Claworth except six Bovats of Land which were held in Dower William son of Robert held one hundred and 12s. Land in Claworth paying yearly a Mewed Sparhawk it was then in the Kings hand and William de Hardreshill made Fine of one hundred Marks for it but then had not found Pledges which it seems he did ere long for the Sheriff of Warwick and Leycestershires 8 H. 3. put into his account that Wil. de Hardredeshill ought twenty Marks for his relief for having Claworde in Notess by the pledge of the Earl of Chester and Falkes de Breant His Fathers name was Robert and so was his sons Robert de Hardreshull 10 H. 3. made Fine and had seisin c. as before is noted Nicolas de Hekham Dean of Lincolne in 9 E. 1. recovered the presentation to three parts of the Church of Claworth
son of Hugh de Saundeby one Mess. and one Bovat and an half of Land in Saundby for life and afterwards by levying a Fine remised to him his whole right in the premises the Court judged the said William son of Hugh to be discharged and William son of Iohn to be amerced Alice Ioane and Sarra de Saundeby 17 E. 1. who were Plaintiffs concerning one Mess. thirty two Acres of Land and six of Medow in Saundby did not prosequute c. against Hugh de Hercy who called to warrant Oliver Bishop of Lincolne therefore Hugh and the Bishop were without day and the women Amerced There was granted to Philip Hobbie amongst other things 3 Apr. 35 H. 8. all Mannors Mess. Lands c. in the Towns Fields and Parishes of Saundby Clifton Rampton Cotham Retford and Sturton late belonging to the Monastery of Torkesey in Lincolneshire Robert Markham Esquire and George Chaworth Esquire 18 Eliz. claimed against Iohn Syddenham the Mannor of Saundby with the Appurtenances and eight Mess. c. in Saundby Burton Bole Mysterton Heyton Welham c. and free Fishing in Babworth who called to warrant Thomas Grene Esquire The Queen 11 Sept. 32 Eliz. granted the Chantry in the Parish Church of Saundeby to Edward Downeing and Roger Rant having one Mess. and ninety Acres of Land and another with seventy six Acres and two Cottages then valued at Cxiiis. iiiid. In Queen Elizabeths time Henry Leeke Esq for his Lands in Saundeby late Sir Iohn Hercys held by the service of a Knights Fee and the eighth part of a Fee paid 7s. 6d. Sir Iohn Hercy disposed it to .... Hotham his Nephew with the Advowson of the Church there it came after to Leek and lately to .... Elwish who sold it to Iames Forsett a Londoner It was the Earl of Kingstons and now remains with his posterity the Right Honourable the Marquess of Dorchester The owners of Sawnby Town in 1612. are represented thus Iervas Elwaies Knight Thomas Wawine of Claworth Esquire Iohn Symons Gent. the heirs of Shadford the heirs of William Smith Robert Carnhill and George Netleship The Rectory of Sandby was 16l. when Mr. Hersy was Patron 'T is now 14l. 9s. 2d. value in the Kings Books and the Marquess of Dorchester Patron Beckingham BEchingham was a Beru of Lanum the Arch-bishop of Yorks Sok There was also a Mannor of Roger de Buslies Fee which before his time Osbern had and discharged the Geld or Tax for it as three Bov. The Land one Car. There Goisfrid the Man or Tenant of Roger had one Plow or Car. and fifteen Acres of Medow Pasture Wood seven qu. long one broad In the Confessours time this was valued at 10s. in the Conquerours at 16s. when the great Survey was taken Roger son of Alexander 9 H. 3. had an Attaint upon an Assize between Roger de Beutoft and Petronilla his wife c. concerning Tenements in Beckingham In an Assize 12 E. 1. Thomas de Bekingham juxta Saundby was Plaintiff Roger de Beutoft Henry le Ken of Beutoft and Walter le Clerk Defendants concerning Common of Pasture in Beckingham in twenty Acres of Wood and More which the Jury found for the Plaintiff The Jury 18 E. 1. found that Alan de Bekingham was Appealed concerning the death of Peter de Dynington by Eva wife of the said Peter in the thirteenth year of Edward the first before the Kings Justices and he pleaded that he was a Clerk and a member of the Church so that he could not nor would answer there whereupon the Justices took an Inquisition Ex officio which found that he was culpable concerning the said death and therefore he was reposed in Nottingham Gaol and there died and that he held Lands in Bekingham of William Iustice and that Iohn de Bekingham was his son and heir who by the Kings favour 20 E. 1. had seisin granted of two Tofts twenty two Acres of Land ½ four Acres of Wood and 13d. ob Rent in Bekingham which were seised into the Kings hands by reason of the death of Peter de Dynington whom the said Alan his father slew and afterwards died in Prison before he was Convict c. the Lands were held of Robert de Beltoft and Guerrina his wife who had seised them as their Escaet by a Jury Alice and Isabell sisters of Iohn de Beltoft 24 E. 1. recovered their seisin of seventeen Acres of Wood and one Acre and three Roods of Medow in Bekingham and Roger de Beltoft and others were in mercy or amerced The Jury then found that Hugh son of Roger de Bekingham enfeoffed Idonea his daughter of or in one Mess. one Mill and one Carucat of Land in Bekingham c. wherefore she was dismissed without day and Iohn Winter and Elizabeth his wife in mercy In 9 E. 2. Bekingham was half a Villa and the King and Chapter of Southwell were returned Lords There was a Fine levied at Westminster 5 E. 2. between Robert son of Alan de Bekingham Quer. and Robert son of Robert de Bekingham and Cecilia his wife daughter of Henry de Sutton Deforc. of one Mess. eighty four Acres of Land twenty of Medow five of Wood and 8s. Rent with the Appurtenances in Bekingham whereby they were settled on the said Robert son of Alan for life and afterwards on the said Robert son of Robert and on Cecily and the heirs of Robert son of Robert The Jury 18 R. 2. found it not to any damage if the King granted to Iohn Bekingham of Bekingham in the Clay Esquire that he might give two Mess. two Tofts fifty Acres of Land ten of Medow six of Wood and 6s. 8l. Rent with the Appurtenances in Beckingham to the Chaplain of the Chantry of the blessed Mary in the Parish Church of Beckingham in the Clay all which were held of Thomas Arch-bishop of York in Socage paying 3s. yearly There was the like return of another Ad quod damnum that year that the said Iohn might give four Mess. twelve Tofts one Wind-Mill two hundred and sixty Acres of Land fifty of Medow twenty and four of .... shillings Rent with the Appurtenances in the said Bekingham to the Prioress of Brodholme all which were likewise held of the said Thomas Arch-bishop of York in Socage for 2◠per annum for all services And there was another that he might give one Mess. twenty four Acres of Land five of Medow with the Appurtenances in the said Bekyngham in the Clay to Richard Vicar of that Church which were likewise held in Socage of the said Arch-bishop paying 12◠per annum Elizabeth wife of Philip Darcy Chr. 1 H. 4. claimed against Thomas Darcy divers Lands in Bekingham and Walkringham In another Recovery 4 and 5 H. 8. Iohn Wylloughby Esquire Iohn Markham Esquire Robert Molyneux Esquire Robert Sheffeild junior Esquire Iohn Dawney Esquire Iohn Thymylby of Beillesby
Robert Sheffeild of Scotter and Stephen Hatfeild claimed against Robert Belwode and Agnes his wife six Mess. fifty eight Acres of Land eleven of Medow eight of Wood with the Appurtenances in Bekyngham in le Cley In another 32 H. 8. William Spurr claimed against Iohn Mounson senior Esquire two Mess. one Cottage one hundred and forty Acres of Land forty of Medow forty of Pasture and four of Wood with the Appurtenances in Bekyngham and Boyle In another 12 Eliz. Robert Browne and Richard Fraunces claimed against Barth Fraunces three Mess. two Cottages two Tofts six Gardens six Orchards one hundred Acres of Land forty of Medow eighty of Pasture twenty of Wood and twenty of Marsh with the Appurtenances in Beckingham who called to warrant Thomas Mounson Gent. All that Tenement lying in Beckingham late belonging to the Priory of Brodholme and late in the Tenure of William Spurre and all Lands and Tenements with it demised Feb. 24. 34. H. 8. were granted to Iohn Williams Knight and Edward North Knight and to the heirs of Edward who had then also licence to alienate Lands there in the Tenure of William Spenser to William Spurre and his heirs whose daughter and heir was married to Sir Brian Lascells Knight who procured her to convey her Land in Beckingham to Gervas Lascells his younger son whose Grandchild and heir enjoyed it Iohn Beer and Henry Lawrence and the heirs of Iohn 36 H. 8. had two Mess. c. in Beckingham late belonging to Brodholme late in the Tenure of William Marshall and Thomas Ellys extended at 15s. 4d. together with a Mess. c. in Walkringham belonging to Wirksopp at 7s. per annum granted in the same Patent amongst many other things The Chantry of Beckingham 6 E. 6. Ian. 2. then in the Tenure of William Mering was granted to Thomas Reeve and George Cotton who Ian. 23. had licence to alienate the whole to Robert Harryson and his heirs The Church of Beckingham as in Southwell may be seen together with the Lands c. anciently did and do still belong to and make a Prebend in that Collegiate Church notwithstanding that 4 and 5 Ph. and Mar. Ian. 19. Hugh Thornebill had licence to alienate the Capital Mess. and all Glebe Lands Tythes c. late belonging to that Church to George Nevill and others for the use of himself the said Hugh and Elizabeth his wife and the heirs of the said Hugh on the body or upon the body of the said Elizabeth begotten The owners of Beckinghame Town 1612. are thus set down Sir Richard Williamson Knight Sir Bryan Lassels Knight the Church of Southwell Francis Williamson of Walkringham Gent. Iohn Hall Roger Nettleship Iohn Damms Hamond Calton Roger Hall Martin Hill Nicolas Noddell Iohn Dawson Iames Taylor William Halles Iohn Fraunces Charles Hall Richard Hodgeshon Robert Noddell Gyles Maire c. The Vicarage of Bekingham was ten Marks 'T is now 6l. 5s. 5d. value in the Kings Books and the Prebendary continueth Patron In this Town was born William Howell Dr. of Laws who compiled the History of the World and as I hear since the death of Sir Edward Lake is made Chancellour of the Diocess of Lincolne 1674. Alderman Mennell purchased Lands here which are now his sons Gringeley Greenelege THere was of the Kings Land in Gréeneleg Soc to Maunsfeld in Wardebec Wapentac two Bov. ½ for the Geld. The Land one Car. There six Sochm. one Vill. one Bord. had two Car. Pasture Wood six qu. long four qu. broad valued at 10s. But there were seven Mannors which seven Taynes had in Gréeneleya which were after the Conquest of the Fee of Roger de Busli and were charged to the Geld for three Car. The Land being eight Car. There Roger the Man or Tenant of Roger de Busli had three Car. and ten Vill. and six Bord. having eight Car. there was a Church and one Piscary of a thousand Eeles and forty Acres of Medow Pasture Wood one leu long three qu. broad In King Edward the Confessours time this was valued at 10l. and when the Conquerour made his Survey but at 4l. This Roger the Man of Roger de Busli was succeeded here as in other places by William de Lovetot as in Coleston is noted who Founded the Priory of Wirkesop to which he gave amongst the rest the Church of Gringelai which his son Richard de Luvetot confirmed and gave in Gringeley by the Church on the East side a Mess. or Mansure on the South side another for the proper Houses of the Canons with a certain space to make an Orchard as it was inclosed by the Bank and the whole gravam graffe as it was incompassed with the Bank and one Mansure without the Bank atte vinas These things Matildis de Lovetot also confirmed and gave to that Priory the Wind-Mill at Gringeley with the Suit of the whole Township so that the Suit should be done as anciently it was wont This Mill which was scituate on the West side of the Town she gave for the Soul of Sir William de Furnivall her younger son to whom she gave this Mannor and he 37 H. 3. had Market and Fair granted in it Gerard son of Gerard de Furnivall released to Henry son of Richard King of Almaine and his heirs all the right and claim he had or should have in the Mannor of Gringeley and Lands and Tenements in Wiseton Claworth Misterton Walcringham and Stokheyth which were sometimes William de Furnivalls his Uncle Thomas de Furnivall by his Deed dated at Canterbury on St. Simon and Iudes day 50 H. 3. released this Mannor to Sir Henry eldest son of the Illustrious King of Almaine being part of his Fee of Tikehill to have to him and the heirs of his body lawfully begotten and in default thereof to remain to Sir Edward the eldest son of the Illustrious King of England and his heirs The Witnesses were Sir Hugh de Bigod Roger de Mortuomari Roger de Leyburne Robert Walerand Roger de Clifford c. The Jury 8 E. 1. found that the Prior of Wirkesop ought to perceive the Tythes of the yearly Rents of Mault and of Paunage of Hens Eggs and of all other issues coming out of the Mannor of Grengeley and that all the Priors of that place his predecessors were wont to have them and were seised thereof in the time of Matilda de Lovetot William de Furnivall and their Ancestors Lords of the said Mannor of Grengeley untill it came to the hands of Sir Henry de Allemania whose Bayliff took the said Tythes from Iohn the Predecessour of the said Prior and the Bayliffs of Constancia wife of the said Henry then unjustly detained By a special Verdict taken in an Assize in the fourth year of King Edward the first father of King Edward the second in the nineteenth of whose Reign there was another hearing it appeareth that Matilda de
per annum and that Iohn his son was his next heir Iohn Helwys Clark and Iohn Hanley 21 H. 7. claimed against Iohn Cley Esquire one Mess. three Tofts eighty Acres of Land twelve of Medow 2s. Rent and two Fishings in the water of Idell with the Appurtenances in Skafteworth and Raunswell Reginald Pegge George Emeryson and Henry Wyat Esquire 22 H. 7. claimed against Richard Wyat Clark and Iohn Scotte Esquire one Mess. one hundred and twenty Acres of Land forty of Medow eight of Wood and 2s. and 6d. Rent with the Appurtenances in Everton Harewell Sturton and Clayworth who called Iohn Clay to warrant these are named again in Finningley Iohn Twyselton Edward Lee Raph Rowlett and others 11 H. 8. claimed against Roger Copley Esquire the third part of the Mannor of Scaftesworth with the Appurtenances and the third part of twenty Mess. ten Cottages three hundred Acres of Land forty of Medow twenty of Wood three hundred Acres of More and 3s. 4d. Rent with the Appurtenances in Scaftesworth Clareburgh Wellome Walesby Boughton and Grynley The same persons claimed against Richard Devenysshe Esquire the like third part and parcels The same persons also claimed against Sir Richard Carew Knight the like third part and parcels Iohn Markham Knight Seth Snawsell Thomas Langton Iohn Chapman William Burdon Clark Adam Langley and others 19 H. 8. claimed against Edmund Molyneux Robert Chaloner and Richard Chirden fifteen Mess. one hundred Acres of Land one hundred of Medow one hundred of Pasture one hundred of Heath two hundred of More two hundred of Marsh and a certain Fishing also the moyety of the Mannor of Herwell with the Appurtenances in Herwell and Everton and called to warrant Thomas Wentworth Knight Iohn Markham Knight Edmund Molyneux Esquire Seth Snawsell Esq Robert Chaloner Raph Aunger and others 20 H. 8. claimed against Thomas Wentworth the younger Esquire and Anne his wife six Mess. three Cottages one hundred Acres of Land sixty of Medow forty of More fifty of Marsh and 15d. Rent with the Appurtenances in Everton and Herwell and called to warrant Thomas Wentworth Knight George Lassells Esquire 37 H. 8. claimed against Richard Towneley Esquire the Mannors of Gatford Everton and Harwell with the Appurtenances and one hundred and twenty Mess. forty Tofts one Dovecote one hundred and twenty Gardens one hundred and twenty Orchards two thousand Acres of Land two hundred of Medow one thousand of Pasture two hundred and fifty of Wood one hundred of More forty of Turbary and 40s. Rent with the Appurtenances in Gateford Everton Harwell Worsop Shyreokes Est Retford West Retford Grynley Hayton Wellome Moregate Bole Babworth Ordesall Styrton Eton Milneton Little Markham Blyth Ravenskill Torworth Madersey and Kylton Robert Northfeild 2 Eliz. claimed against Christopher Twiselton Esquire the Mannor of Scaftworth and one Mess. four Tofts â— with the Appurtenances in Mattersey Scrowby Everton and Harwell There was a Mess. and certain Houses Lands c. late belonging to the Priory of Matersey in Everton 24 Iuly 4 and 5 Ph. and Mar. granted to William Rigges Esquire and William Buckbert Gent. The principal House and Lands in Everton at this day belong to the Corporation of Newarke and were demised to Mr. Rogers their Tenant They have a Mannor in Harwell which was Wentworths heretofore I suppose Thomas Magnus bought it and gave it Anthony Gylby who was Lieutenant Colonel to Sir Iohn Digby in Newark Garrison and as I take it is now Tenant The owners of Everton cum Scaftworth in 1612. are thus set down the Lady Portington widow George Nevell Gent. Robert Williamson Timothy Broomehead of North Wheatley Richard Drewe senior Robert Howton Roger Harrison Robert Flower Peter Hallam Nicolas Bonner Stephen Wood Iohn Cowper Richard Drewe Henry Flower Widow Hill Iohn Booth Iohn Wilson William Hollingworth Thomas Richardson Hercy Norfolk William Fitz-Williams Gent. Sir George Chaworth Nicolas Sanderson Henry Webster Gent. George Tomkinson Iohn Hydes Thomas Broomehead Robert Catstine Richard Bridg William Rogers Esquire Edward Reynes The Vicarage of Everton was ten Marks when the Sacrist of St. Maries at York was Patron 'T is now 7l. 2s. 3d. ob value in the Kings Books and the Earl of Devonshire Patron Walkeringham IN Walthringham of the Kings ancient Demesne of Maunsfeld in Oswardebec Soc was as much as paid the Geld for twelve Bov. ½ The Land four Car. Three Sochm. two Vill. three Bord. had four Car. Medow six qu. long four qu. broad Wood eight qu. long four broad the value 20s. Of Roger de Buslies Fee there was a Mannor which Adestan had and paid for it to the Geld or Tax of those times as ten Bovats ½ There Roger the Man of Roger de Busli had four Sochm. one Vill. five Bord. having two Car. Medow two qu. long one broad Wood four qu. long one broad In King Edward the Confessours time this was 20s. value in the Conquerours 15s. William de Lovetot who in the time of Henry the first Founded the Monastery of Radford near Wirksop gave to it the Church of Walcringham amongst the rest which he held of the Honour of Blyth the Seat of the said Roger de Busli whose Man or Tenant Roger the said William succeeded in his Tenency in this County and Richard de Luvetot his son and William his Grandchild and Matilda de Lovetot daughter and heir of the latter William and wife of Gerard de Furnivall confirmed as she did the gift of a Mess. in Walcringham of one Acre without the Graffe or Ditch of Gringley and three Bovats of Land with the Appurtenances which Nicolas Ingeniator gave to the said Monastery and her father the said William de Lovetot confirmed and the Mill of Walfrey with a certain Mess. or dwelling House likewise two Tofts in Walcringham which William son of Ketelber and Robert son of Wlstan sometime held c. Most of the Kings ancient Demesne was given to the Priory of Newstede in Shirewode at the foundation by King H. 2. before which time viz. in the Reigns of William Rufus H. 1. and King Stephen the names of certain of the old Tenents were Toke Armwy Wilac Arkep Gamel Grim Wace by whom many others were enfeoffed and were Tenents at the time of the enfeoffment of the Priory of which number were Henry Briton and Henry de Shepewik from whom the anâ—â—stors of Henry de Trent in Walcringham were enfeoff'd who were to pay for every Bovat of Land one Mark and for every half Bov. of Land half a Mark. This Henry was the son and heir of Thomas de Trent and dyed in the pestilence 1349 and 1350. leaving a daughter and heir called Ioane two years old concerning whom Sir Richard de Trent Canon of Wirkesop and brother of the said Henry applied himself to Fryer Hugh de Colyngham then Prior of Newstede and showed him the Chartels of his Ancestors and paid him
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
Feast of St. Andrew 10 Ioh. Iohn Chamberlayn and Orencia his wife passed to Iohn de Levesham and Emme his wife and Martin de Minsterton two Bov. and the fourth part of a Bov. in Misterton for which the said Iohn and Emme passed to Iohn and Orencia and the heirs of Orencia the fourth part of a Bovat and a Toft which Walter Hobel held and one Bovat which Walter son of Hugh held which were to be held of the said Iohn and Emme by the free service of paying 6d. per annum Robert Barnetby and Margery his wife 14 H. 6. claimed against Iohn Boys Esquire and four others five Mess. forty Acres of Land eleven of Medow 2s. 2d. q. and a pound of Pepper Rent in Misterton Iohn Orston Clark 9 E. 4. claimed against Nicolas Gaynesford Esquire 16s. Rent with the Appurtenances in Misterton Robert Thornehill and Leonard Warcappe 29 Iun. 38 H. 8. amongst other things had a piece of Land called the Laund and a Wind-Mill and Lands and Tenements in Misterton in the Tenure of Henry Stokwyth late belonging to the Priory of Axholme in Lincolneshire and a Close called the Nunne Close in the Tenure of the said Henry Stokewyth in West Stokewith between a Close of Land of Sir Thomas Wentworths Knight on the West and one called Sharecroft by the Medow of Nicolas Denman on the East and a Selion of Land in the Tenure of the said Henry Stokewith and Common of Pasture in Stockwith and a Mess. and Lands in Mysterton late belonging to the Priory of Hevenings in Lincolneshire and a Cottage in Misterton late belonging to the Priory of Wirkesop granted to them and their heirs Iune 27. 7 E. 6. a Close of Land in Misterton in the Tenure of Humfrey Stockwith Gent. late belonging to the Priory of Wirkesop was granted to Robert Dudley Knight and William Glaseour Gent. and to the heirs of Robert Iohn Eyre senior Gent. Iohn Eyre junior and Iohn Routh 2 and 3 Ph. and Mar. claimed against George Conyers Gent. one Mess. sixty Acres of Land 20. of Medow 100. of Pasture five of Wood with the Appurtenances in Misterton The Chantry of Misterton 2 E. 6. then dissolved was let to Farm to Robert Thornehill Gent. Iohn Flower Gent. 4 and 5 Eliz. claimed against Hugh Thornehill Gent. one hundred Acres of Land twenty of Medow and forty of Pasture with the Appurtenances in Misterton and Walkringham Iohn Standley Gent. and Hugh Childers 6 and 7 Eliz. claimed against Richard Childers one Mess. two Cottages three Gardens one Orchard twenty Acres of Land six of Medow ten of Pasture forty of Turbary and one hundred of More with the Appurtenances in Misterton Moregate and Clarbourgh William Mason Gent. and Tristram Dayntree 18 Eliz. claimed against Humfrey Stockwith Gent. one Mess. one Toft one Garden sixteen Acres of Medow twelve of Pasture with the Appurtenances in West Stokwyth and Misterton Robert Williamson 19 Eliz. claimed against Thomas Coringham one Mess. two Tofts eighty Acres of Land thirty of Medow ten of Pasture in Misterton .... Peake and .... Broxham 19 Eliz. claimed against .... Williamson divers Lands in East Stokwith who called to warrant Edward Stokwith Gent. Edward Wymark Gent. 25 Febr. 29 Eliz. had the Priors Close then divided into two in Stockwith belonging before to Newstede and Lamp-land in Misterton granted with many other small parcels of Land In 21 Eliz. Septemb. 22. twenty Acres in the Town and Fields of the Marish of Misterton in a place there called Bleford sometime given by Thomas Darnall for observation of his Obit were amongst many other things granted to Edw. Grimston senior and Edward Grimston junior and their heirs Haytons Mannor came to Poge and after the time of Henry the eighth Cogans Tong and Pettinger had Lands of that Tenure About the year 1612. the owners of Misterton Town are said to be Sir Thomas Iervas Knight Darcy Poge Gent. Francis Williamson of Walkeringham two Mess. one Cott. three Tofts one Dovecote three Gardens ninety Acres of Land Iohn Baxenden senior Arnall Reasby Gent. the heirs of Thomas Thornehill Thomas Dawson the heirs of .... Wilbore Robert two Iohns Hugh and William Tonge Thomas Sirringham senior William Dickenson William Howton Percivall Clifton Anne Norfolk Edward Wilbore Edward Edlington one Wind-Mill thirty seven Acres of Land the heirs of .... Conyers widow Tompkinson William Ellwick Robert Spavold widow Stoakham the heirs of Pettinger Roger Gregory Gent. Edward North Esquire and above forty more In the Town of Stockwith the owners then were ..... Moseley of Carberton Gent. William Brownelowe Gent. Symon Hall Gent. Thomas Wakefeild Thomas Wilbore Richard Fish Philip Andrew Barnabas Williamson of Bothomsell Gent. widow Coggan and fifteen others The Vicarage of Mysterton was 10l. and the Chapter of York had the Patronage 'T is now 10l. 5s. value in the Kings Books and the Dean and Chapter of York Patrons Misne Myssen THe King had in Misne which seems to be of the Soc of Flintham three Bov. ad Geld. Tofts had it There were six Vill. with three Car. Soc in Circeton Here was of Roger de Buslies Fee one Bov. ad Geldam belonged to Ettone but of the Tayn Land in Misna Cnut before the Conquest had a Mannor which paid to the Geld for one Bov. and an half The Land three Bov. Ernuvin had there four Vill. with half a Car. two Sochm. with one Car. and a Fishing 3s. Pasture Wood one qu. long one broad The value of this was 8s. Here was Soc three Bov. ad Geld. the Soc of Chiricton There six Vill. had three Car. This Kirketon is in Lincolneshire and therefore it may reasonably be guessed this place was named Misen because it is intermixed or in the middle between the two Counties The Family of Maresey Lords of Gamelston had some interest here as in that place is noted Pope Celestin committed a Cause between A. Abbat and the Covent of Welbek and Mr. R. de Sempingham and the Canons of Marishey concerning the Churches of Bolton and Marishey of Misne and Gameliston and Helkisley to W. Abbat of Derley and Mr. Simon de Apuleia Chancellour of the Church of York and Mr. G. Canon of Southwell before whom this composure was made at Blith on St. Nicholas day 1192. viz. the said Abbat and Covent renounced to the said Mr. R. and the Canons of Marishey or Mattersey all the right which they claimed in the said Isle and Churches except that of Helkesle which was to remain intirely to Wellebec It was found by the Jury 18 E. 1. that Thomas son of Sabina de Mysne and ten others had disseised Thomas de Eyvill of his Common of Pasture in about two thousand Acres of Wood Pasture and More in Mysne And upon that came the Earl of Cornewalls Bayliff and said That the Wood and Soyle in which the said Thomas claimed Common was the
HATFEILD Division NOw followeth Hatfeild Division of this great Wapentac of Bersetlow which is that which lyeth on the West side of the River Idle and as the South and North Clay Divisions which lie on the East side have ever been famous for plenty of Corn so this for Woods and pleasant Waters insomuch that in it alone have been Founded well-nigh as many Monasteries as in the whole County besides for in it were the Abbies of Rufford and Wellbeck the Priories of Wirkesop Wallingwelles Blyth and Mattersey which are not far short of all the rest as by this Catalogue of their values taken before that of the 26 H. 8. may appear wherein Lenton is 620l. per annum Thurgarton 350l. Shelford 200l. Newstede 240l. Felley 44l. Beauvale 200l. Brodholme 10l. Rufford 220◠Welbeck 300l. Wirksop 240l. Wallingwelles 78l. Blyth 107l. and Mathersey 50l. per annum Rufford Rugford on the River Maun IN Rugforde before the Norman Invasion Vlf whose Lands in these parts became the Fee of Gislebert de Gand had a Mannor which defended it self in paying to the Dane-geld or Tax of that time for twelve Bovats The Land of it being then known to be sufficient for four Plows or four Car. There Gislebert had in Demesne one Car. ten Vill. having three Car. There was twenty Acres of Medow Pasture Wood one leu ½ long one leu broad In the Confessours time it was 6l. value in the Conquerours when the Survey was taken 60s. it had Soc there and in Bildesthorp and in Wirchenfeild Gislebert de Gaunt son of Baldwin Earl of Flanders came with William the Conquerour his Uncle into England and took to wife Alice de Montefort and had issue Walter and Robert and died in the time of William Rufus and was buried at Bardeney Walter his eldest son took to wife Matilda daughter of Earl Stephen of Britanny and begot Gilbert his eldest son who afterwards in his wifes right was Earl of Lincoln and Robert Gilberts wife was Roesia Countess of Lincolne by whom he had Alice married to Simon de St. Liz Earl of Huntington and Northampton Gilbert Earl of Lincolne Founded the Abby of Rufford of the Cistercian Order in the year 1148. about the thirteenth of King Stephen which said King for the Soul of King Henry his Uncle and his other Ancestors and for the health or safety of his own Soul and of Queen Matilda his wife and Eustace his son and his other Children confirmed the gift of Gilebert de Gant which he made to God and the Church of the blessed Mary at Rievalls and the Monks there serving God of the Mannor of Ruford to his Charter dated at Lincolne were Witnesses Robert the Chancellour and Earl Simon and Earl William of Arundell By another dated at Yorke to which were Witnesses the said Robert the Chancellour Earl Simon and Robert de Ver he confirmed to the Abbat and Monks of Ruford the gift which Gilbert de Gant made to them of the Land of Cratela wherein we suppose Wellehagh was in the Book of Doomsday included as in that place is noted By another dated at Wirchesop wherein the Bishop of Durrham and Richard de Luci and William Peverell and Richard de Camuil were Witnesses he the said King Stephen confirmed to the Church of St. Mary of Rufford and the Monks there serving God the gifts which Hugh de Muscam and Adam Tisun and William Tisun his son and Gaufr de Stanton and Malger de Rolleston and Gilbert de Chelum and Raph Silvan made of Lands of their Fees part whereof was in Kelum as the Charter of Confirmation made by King Henry the second manifesteth in which the said King Henry the second also granted that those Monks should have their proper Forester to keep their Wood as Walter de Gant had in the time of King Henry the first that Kings Grandfather and that they should freely and peaceably take of the Forest whatever was needful for their own use and that no man of his own Wood might give or sell without their licence as it was in the time of King Henry the first his said Grandfather and besides all the forementioned gifts he confirmed that of Galfr. de Eicring and Rocelinus and Raph his brother of the Wood called Rahage and likewise granted the Land which Raph de Hocreton held called Wudehus and granted them all free Customs and Liberties Soc Sac Tol and Them and Infangetheof c. King Henry the third confirmed all the forementioned gifts and enlarged their priviledges besides several others mentioned in his Charter as the gift of Robert Furnell of the mediety of Mortone which is next Bomeshill which Adam de Wellum and his other Men in times past held and that gift of Raph de St. George of his moyety of Mortone next the Town of Bomeshill which Hugh de Stretton and other his Men or Tenants held that of Raph de Hereford of his whole Land which he had in Ekering that of Raph de Furnell of all the Land which they had of the gift of his Ancestors in Bomeshill that of Ranulph son of Roger de Maresey of a certain part of Land and Medow in Hocton with the water of Hiddell as far as that Land extended it self that of Hugh Fitz-Raph of all his Demesne in Kirketon Wilegby Walesby and Bestorp of William son of or Fitz William Land which they held in Bestorp of Iohn Burdon in Maplebek that of Elias de Whitchurch and Idonia his wife of three Bovats in Kelum that of Thomas de Rolleston of Land in Kelum that of Lanceline de Stocks and Amicia his wife of the moyety of the Mannor of Albeney that of Hugh Folenfant and Richard Folenfant of certain Lands in Moretone that of Robert son of Waltheof de Morneshalle of the moyety of the Town of Brithrithefeud Iohn de Vescy made also a Deed of Confirmation to Thomas de Stayngrene Abbat of Rufford c. of eight Bovats in Roderham and the whole Demesne of his whole Mannor of Roderham with all the Appurtenances and the Advowson of the Mediety of the Church of that Mannor with the Homage and Service of Thomas de Furnivalle and his heirs for Land which William de Vescy father of him the said Iohn gave to William de Furnivall Uncle of the said Thomas in Roderham and the Service of William de Cantelup for Lands which the said William de Vescy gave him in the said Mannor and with all the right he could have in the Tenements which Hugh Frassell of Roderham sometime Parson of the Church of Penyeston held of the Fee of the said Iohn de Vescy in Roderham with the Homage of Wil. Lovel son of Will. Lovel for the Tenement which he held of him in Roderham and the Mill of the same Town and the Homage and Service of the heir of Iohn de Lexington for the Land which was sometimes Raph Tillyes with the Lordship of half
the Kings Wood of Carberton towards the repair of their Chapel The men of Carberton complaining against the Abbar of Welbek said their Town was ancient Demesne where no writ was current except the Kings small Writ Close by which they could get no remedy against the said Abbat except by petition which therefore they did exhibit in French by the Command of Wanter de Langeton late Treasurer of England to the Kings Counsel at Northampton within fifteen days of St. Michael in the beginning of the Reign of King E. 2. wherein it was shown that the said Abbat in Welbek had inclosed a certain parcel of Land called Carberton Storth of twenty four Acres of Arable Land lying near the Gate of the said Abbey in prejudice of the said Town because they were wont to have Common therein and to the disherison of the King c. and likewise the said Abbat stop'd â—he Course of the running water by making Damms and fitting it to his house c. and likewise inclosed two places of Wood in Rumwood in the Forest of Shirewood where they also were wont to Common c. The Counsel ordered the parties to follow the suit in the Kings Bench and the petitions were delivered to Roger le Brabazon and his fellow Justices before whom the Abbat easily answered the soyl was his own c. The Royalties and Wasts of Edenstowe and Carberton are the inheritance of his Grace the Duke of Newcastle by Agreement his servant Captain Iohn Mazine hath builded at Carberton and Mr ..... Moseley had a seat there whose daughter and heir is married to Mr ...... Flower Half of Thouresby went with Peverell Thorp as in that place will be shown Thoresby was the Earl of Kingstons and is now one of the places of residence of the Honourable William Pierpont his second son The Vicarage of Edenstowe was 12l. 'T is now 14l. value in the Kings Books and the Patronage remains with the Dean and Chapter of Lincolne Allerton Alreton THis is also in the Parish of Edenestowe yet there were in Alreton two Mannors one of the Fee of Roger de Busli where before the Conquest Alwold paid for two Bov. ½ to the publick Tax The Land one Car. There in King Williams time five Sochm. and one Vill. had two Car. and one Mill of 6s. 8d. The value of this continued as in the time of the Confessour 20s. The other of the Fee of Gislebert de Gand which was one Wades before the Conquest and answered for five Bov. ½ to the Geld. The Land three Car. There William the Man or Tenant of Gislebert had one Car. six Sochm. on two Bov. of Land and three Vill. having six Car. There were two Mills 16s. Pasture Wood one leu long four qu. broad In the time of King Edward the Confessour this was 40s. value when the Survey was taken in the Conquerours 30s. The Fee of Gaunt in this and diverse other places became the Inheritance of the Constables of Chester as in Knesale may be seen and accordingly descended to the Earl of Lancaster who in the Record of Nom. Vill. 9 E. 2. is returned Lord of this place The Jury 4 E. 3. said that Edward Earl of Kent held when he died the Mannor of Allerton under Sherewode of the Honour of the Castle of Donnington and in 26 E. 3. they said that Iohn Earl of Kent left it with the Wapentaks of Risecliff and Plumtre on the night following St. Stephens to Ioane his sister and heir wife of Thomas de Holland Chr. and in 35 E. 3. the Jury likewise said that the said Thomas held at his death of the Inheritance of Ioane his wife 40s. Rent here and a Water-Mill and that Thomas his son was his heir In 9 R. 2. they found that Ioane Princess of Wales died seised of this Mannor and the Wapentag of Plumtre and 10s. Rent in Rodington which Rent was held of the King as Earl of Chester and parcel of the Castle and Mannor of Donyngton and that Thomas Holand son and heir of the said Ioane was then above thirty years old And in 10 H. 4. they said that Edmund de Holland Earl of Kent held when he died in Fee tail the Mannor of Allerton in Sherwood and that Edmund son of Alianor Countess of Marth Ioane Dutchess of Yorke Margaret wife of Iohn Earl of Somerset Alionor wife of the Earl of Sar. and Elizabeth wife of Iohn Nevill were his heirs And in 1 H. 6. they found that this Elizabeth had a son and heir called Raph Nevill then above sixteen years old and that she enfeoffed Sir Iohn Etton Chr. Edmund Hastings Chr. and others in this Mannor And in 4 H. 6. the Jury said that Ioane who had been wife of Iohn Grey Chr. died seised in Fee Tail of the third part of 35s. 8d. Rent issuing out of this Mannor and that Henry Grey her son and heir was then seven years old and more In 5 H. 6. they said that Raph Earl of Westmerland had this Mannor and in 16 H. 6. Further I cannot yet trace this Seignory William de Sutton and Matilda his wife gave to the Monastery of Rufford Raph Viel of Alreton their Native or Villain with his whole Sequel and all his Chattels Robert de Sutton son of that William 2 E. 1. left Richard de Sutton his son and heir eight years old as in Sutton upon Trent Eykring and Warsop c.. who held the moyety and a part more of the Town of Allerton of the Earl of Lincolne by doing Suit at his Court at Allerton from three weeks to three weeks By a Fine 18 E. 2. Iohn de Sutton son of that Richard passed the Mannors of Aykeringe and Alverton under Shirwode and the Advowsons of the Churches to Hugh le Despenser Earl of Winchester and his heirs The Jury 17 E. 1. said that Robert de Marcham the other sharer of the Lord Lexingtons Lands held in Allerton a Water-Mill and Lands there of William son of Thomas Fitz-William paying to the Master of the Hospital of Nusham 14s. per annum And in 25 E. 1. they found that Iohn de Longvilers one of the heirs of the said Robert as in Turford may be seen held the moyety of the Water-Mill and Natives or Bond-men in Allerton of William Fitz-William Sir William de Bevercotes Knight and William de Marcham of Laxton were of this Jury at the taking the Inquisition Sir Iohn Markham to his third wife had Anne one of the four sisters and heirs of Iohn Strelley Esquire the relict of Richard Stanhope of Rampton by whom she had only a daughter Saunchia married to Iohn Babington but to Sir Iohn she brought sons William Markham of Okeley her eldest who married Elizabeth one of the daughters of Sir Edward Mountague by whom he had only two daughters she was the relict of Richard Cave and Thomas Markham of
Allerton her second son Standard-bearer to Queen Elizabeths Band of Pensioners who married Mary daughter and heir of Rice Griffin of Dingley slain at Norwich by whom he had Sir Griffin Markham Knighted at Roan but at length banished and very many other children of which George Markham of Allerton married Iudith daughter and heir of Iohn Withernwick of Claxby in the County of Lincolne Esquire by whom he had Thomas Markham of Allerton slain or fighting on the Kings part driven with many others into the Trent and drowned at Gainsburgh in the year 1643. being a Colonel and much lamented But besides Sir Griffin and his brother George before named Thomas Markham of Allerton son of Sir Iohn had other sons viz. Robert Markham who died at Rome William and Iohn who had to wife Mary daughter of Sir Robert Markham of Cottham whose children died without issue Thomas and Charles Twins Charles had a daughter Anne the wife of Thomas Waterton of Waterton in Yorkshire and of Sir Iohn Middleton Knight This Thomas Markham had four daughters married viz. Elizabeth to Ed. Sheldon of Beoly Anne to Sir Francis Smith of Wotron Iane to Sir Iohn Skinner of Castle Comps and Marg. to Nicolas Longford of Longford His son George Robertus Markham de Cottham miles -Joana fil Egidii D'aubency Mariae secundae uxoris ejus cujus haer ipsa suit Johannes Markham miles-Alicia fil Willielmi Skypwith militis Johannes Markham de Cottham miles ob 1558. 1 Eliz. -Anna fil Georg. Nevil mil. ux 1 -Margeria fil Rad. Langford mil. ux 2 -Anna fil cohaer Joh. Strelley Ar. -Ric Stanhop mar 1. Johannes Markham ob ante patrem Willielmus Markham Tho. Markham de Allerton -Maria fil haer Ricei Griffin Griffin Markham miles exul -Anna fil Petri Roos de Laxton Ar. Georg. Markham de Allerton -Judith fil haer Joh. Withernwik Tho. Markham de Allerton occisus apud Gainsburgh 1643 -Ursula fil Will. Clopton de Sledwick in Episc. Dunelm -Henricus Nevill alias Smith de Holt marit 2. Tho. Markham de Allerton Ar. aet 30. 1670 -Anna fil Will. Nevill alias Smith fil Henrici praedicti de Holt. Thom. Markham aet 5. 1670. Maria. Ursula Anna. Georgius Markham de Wirkshop Lodge aet 54. 1670 -Eliz fil Marmad Tunstall Georgius aet 11. 1670. Kath. Eliz. Rob. Will. Joh. Thom. Carol. Saunchia ux Johannis Babington had besides his eldest son Thomas before spoken of a son called George Markham of Wirksop Lodge who married Elizabeth daughter of Marmaduk Tunstall of Wycliff and Hutton and by her had a son George and two daughters Katherin and Elizabeth his sister was Katherin and seems to be almost twenty years younger than he his elder brother the said Thomas Markham when he was slain left a son of his own name about three years old by his wife Vrsula one of the daughters of William Clopton of Sledwick in the Bishoprick of Durrham after his death married to Henry Nevill alias Smith of Holt to whom she brought Henry Anne and Vrsula Her son Thomas Markham now of Allerton married Anne daughter of William Nevill alias Smith son of the said Henry her husband on whom he hath begotten a son of his own name also and three daughters and may have more The owners of Ollerton in 1612. are set down to be the Lord Vaux George Markham Gent. Thomas Stirrop of Normanton Gent. Iames Bacon of Wesley William Walheade Mary Huddleston widow William Yarwood Robert Hooton Robert Bullock Boughton Bucton THis Town as Alreton was of two Fees viz. G. de Gands and Roger de Buslies who had that Mannor in Bucheton which Eduin had before the Conquest and answer'd the Geld for three Bov. The Land of it being then three Car. There the said Roger had in Demesne one Car. and two Vill. and one Bord. with one Car. or Plow In King Edward the Confessours time this was 20s. value in King Williams when the Survey was taken 10s. Another Mannor like this before the Norman Invasion Vlf had which likewise defended it self to the Dane-geld for three Bov. the Land being also three Car. There Gislebert de Gand had three Vill. one Sochm. one Bord. having three Car. ½ there was four Acres of Medow Pasture Wood three qu. long and three broad The value as the former 20s. in King Edward and 10s. in King Williams time Aeliz the daughter of William de Bucton gave to the Monastery of Blith which the said Roger de Busli Founded the Advowson of the Church of Bucton and three Bovats of Land which Alan de Bucton held and three Acres of her great Medow called Bradeng lying between the Town and the water called Fulbek and Common in every Pasture where her own Cattel fed she had been wife of Iohn Burdon Lord of Maplebek as in that place is noted Iohn Burdon son and heir of Alice de Bucton confirmed his mothers gifts in the Court of Tikhill 1224. to the said Monastery Basilia de Bucton the daughter of Iohn Burdon had a Culture or Wong of forty Acres given her by Aeliz her mother in the Fields of Bucton which lay between the Field of Walesby and the Land of the Monks of Ruford and stretched from the way which is between Allerton and Walesby to the way which is between Allerton and Bucton which she gave to the Prior and Monks of Blyth and Amabilia her daughter who had been wife of Hyngram Bluet confirmed it Iohn Burdon son of Iohn Burdon confirmed also the gifts of Aeliz his Grandmother and Basilia his Aunt William son of William de Mering in Bucton by his Deed dated at Bucton the Fryday after Sr. Thomas day 17 E. 1. granted to the Prior and Covent of Blith to pay to Sir Iohn Burdon and Matilda his wife and their heirs 2s. per annum which they were wont to pay to him and the Prior and Covent paid the 2s. Rent accordingly to the said Sir Iohn Burdon and Matilda his wife and the heirs begotten between them by the said Assignment of William son of William de Mering in Bucton William son of Eudo de Bucton gave to the Monks of Blyth one Acre and an half lying between their Land and the Land of Robert de Lexinthon which he bought of Iohn de Malesours and Ivetta his mother There was a Fine at Leicester the Thursday after the Feast of St. Andrew 10 Ioh. between Walter son of Ivo Petent and William Malesour and Ivetta his wife Tenents of five Bovats of Land with the Appurtenances in Bucton whereof they called Alice de Bucton to warrant who came and called Iohn Burdon to warrant who came and did warrant viz. the said Walter remised all his right to the said William and Ivetta and the heirs of the said Ivetta Iohn Burdon held four Bovats of Land in Demesne in Buketon of the Honour of Tikhill by the service of one Horse and one Sack when the Constables of Chester ought
to go into Wales in the Kings Service He held half a Knights Fee in Bucton of the Earl of Lincolne of the old feoffment The Jury 11. R. 2. found that Thomas de Bekering mentioned in Tuxford held some Rent of Assise in Bughton of the heir of Iohn Burdon of Maplebek by the Service of a Rose per annum This Mannor came with Maplebek to the Family of Markham as in that and other places may be noted Robert Wood and Nicolas Blunston 8 Eliz. claimed against Thomas Markham Esquire the Mannor of Boughton with the Appurtenances and ten Mess. eight Tofts one Mill one Dovecote sixteen Gardens three hundred Acres of Land two hundred of Medow two hundred of Pasture forty of Wood one hundred of Marsh forty of Alders and 30s. Rent with the Appurtenances in Boughton Kirketon and Wallesby and called to warrant Robert Markham There was received in the time of Queen Elizabeth by the Collector of Thomas Markham Esquire of Allerton for his Lands in Boughton late Sir Robert Markhams Knight and sometime Nicolas Burdons held by the Service of three parts of one Knights Fees 2s. 2d. ob dim q. By an Inquisition taken 29 Oct. 38 H. 8. it appears that Michael Clarkeson died 9 Oct. 38 H. 8. seized of Boughton Grange and by Saunchia his wife had a son named Iohn Clarkeson his heir aged sixteen years May 22. then past This Family had their most usual Residence at Kirketon as in that place may be seen The owners of the Towns of Houghton Walesby Willoughby cum Boughton 1612. are thus set down Sir Iohn Hollys Knight Michael Clarkson Gent. of Kirton Prebendary of Southwell Richard Hurst of Walesby two Oxgangs Mrs. Talbott one Oxgang and an half William Baker one Oxgang and an half Richard Browne half an Oxgang Iohn Walker the like William Caede of Boughton an Oxgang and an half Anne Browne widow half an Oxgang Richard Hooton Thomas Stocks Iames Iohnson George Markham Gent. three Tenements in Boughton Budby THere were in Buteby of the Soc of the Kings great Mannor of Maunsfeld two Carucats It still continueth a Member of Maunsfeld and consists of ancient Demesne Copy-holders of that Mannor and is within that Parish and since the Forest got the use of Lime is become a pretty Town Perlethorp Peverelthorp THis Town is not thus named in Doomsday Book howbeit there is of the Fee of Roger de Busli a Town called Torpe which I judge may be this in which before the alteration made by King William the Conquerour Thurstan and Vlmer had two Mannors which answered the Geld or Tax as ten Bovats The Land was enough for three Plows or three Car. There Richard the Man of Roger had four Car. and five Vill. and four Bord. having two Car. and an half and seven Acres of Medow Pasture Wood .... qu. long and four broad In the time of the Confessour the value was 40s. in the Conquerours but 20. having Soc in Glethorpe King Henry the second gave the Nuns of Haverholme 4l. Land in Orston in exchange for the Mannor of Peverelthorpe Thomas de Bussey 9 H. 3. claimed against Robert de Veteriponte the Mannor of Peverelthorpe and the moyety of the Mannor of Turesby whereof Vmfry de Bussey his father was seised in Demesne in the time of Henry the second Robert de Vipont 10 H. 3. answered to the like claim that he could not nor ought to plead because the King ought to warrant him that Land and produced the Charter of King Iohn which witnessed that he gave the said Robert that Land In Easter Term following Robert offered himself against Thomas de Bushey the fourth day but he came not and was amerced and Robert dismissed This Robert de Veteriponte married Idonia the daughter and heir of Iohn son and heir of Richard son and heir of Iordan son and heir of Ernald brother of Roger de Bully or Busli whose only son Roger died without issue in the time of Henry the first and in her right therefore 4 H. 3. claimed the Castle and Town of Tikhill against Alice Countess of Augi or Ewe who in 14 H. 3. was found to be daughter of Henry son of Iohn son of Henry son of Beatrix sister and heir of Roger de Buylly who died without issue in the time of H. 1. But they agreed as in Stanford upon Sore is noted before that time by the Fine in 6 H. 3. concerning Tikhill Castle and Town for six Knights Fees to the said Robert and Idonea whereof part was in Peverelthorp Roger de Clifford had the Custody of Isabella the elder daughter and co-heir and Roger de Leyburne of Idonia the younger daughter and co-heir of Robert de Veteri Ponte son of Iohn or Ivo son of the said Robert and Idonia as appears by a Partition made between them 52 H. 3. The King 11 E. 1. by Iohn le Fawkener claimed against Roger de Leyburne and Idonia his wife and Isabell who had been wife of Roger de Clifford the Mannor of Peverilsthorp but upon producing Kings Iohns Charter bearing date the twenty sixth day of May in the eighth year of his raign made to Robert de Veteriponte ancestor of Idonia and Isabella they recovered it against the King The Jury 12 E. 1. said that Roger de Leyburne held the Mannor of Peverelthorp of the inheritance of Idonia his wife and divers others in several Counties and that Iohn his son and heir was then four years old There was a Fine levied at York 30 E. 1. between Iohn de Crumbwell and Idonia his wife Quer. and Gilbert de Ellesfeld Deforc. whereby the Mannors of Kymbreworth in Yorkshire of Eyworth in Bedfordshire and the moyety of Wyntreslowe in Wiltshire and Peverelthorp in this County were settled on the said Iohn and Idonia and the heirs of their bodies remainder to the right heirs of Idonia Iohn de Crumbwell 2 E. 2. had free-warren in Malteby Peverelsthorp and Stavely Darbysh The Jury found it no damage 7 E. 3. if he gave two Acres in Penreth in Cumberland to the Priory there and that there remained over to him this Mannor which with Thuresby in 9 E. 2. answered for half a Villa whereof the King and the said Iohn were returned Lords The Jury 8 E. 3. said that Idonia de Leyburne held when she died the Mannor of Peverelthorp joyntly with her husband Iohn de Crumbwell by reason of the Fine before noted of the honour of Tikhill and that here was a certain Capital Mess. two hundred Acres of Arable Land twenty of Medow c. Edward le Despenser in 10 E. 3. was Tenent of the Lands which were Idonia de Leyburnes Niece and one of the heirs of Ric. son of Iohn and gave for the relief of the said Idonia concerning the moyety of the fourth part of her inheritance viz. for this Mannor and the third
35 E. 1. was Chancellour of Scotland King Edward the second in the beginning of his Reign sent to Robert Clifford his Warden William de Bevercote his Chancellour and Mr. Iohn de Weston his Chamberlain of Scotland certain Petitions exhibited by divers men of that Country to him in Parliament at Westminster to the intent that the men might be before them the said Robert William and Iohn at Berwick upon Twéed within a Month of Easter and be recompenced out of the Kings Money and Victuals in those parts according to their several deserts and the Kings honour In the view of the Account of Walter de Goushull and Reginald de Aslacton Collectors of Scurages 28 E. 1. and afterwards it is said that Sir William de Bevercotes held the Mannors of Bevercotes Markcham Milneton and Elkesley for one Knights Fee and that in 4 E. 2. Sir Iohn de Bevercotes held the said Mannor and so did when the view was taken and that the said Walter de Goushull who was Collector for the Scurages of Scotland Nort. and Derb. 28 31 and 34 E. 1. received 31 E. 1. of Iohn Bevercotes 40s. for one Knights Fee in Bevercotes of the Honour of Tykhull William de Bevercotes 3 E. 3. claimed to have Free Warren in all his Demesne Lands of his Mannor of Beverescote There was a Fine 26 H. 6. between William Staynford Quer. and Richard Bevercotes Esq Def. of the Mannor of Bevercotes with the Appurtenances and of five Mess. one Mill one hundred sixty and eighteen Acres of Land eighteen Acres of Medow and 14s. 5d. Rent with the Appurtenances in Milton Houghton Elkesley Little Markham Great Markham and Walisby whereby they were settled on the said Richard for life remainder to Alexander Bevercotes and Anne his wife and the heirs which he should beget on the body of the said Anne remainder to the right heirs of the said Richard William Wilbram and Ioane his wife held the Premises except the Mannor and one Mess. and 14s. 2d. Rent in Milton and Houghton during the life of Ioane There was an Inquisition taken 9 Ian. 3 E. 6. after the death of Cuthbert Bevercotes who died the sixteenth of Octob. then last past and held the Mannor of Bevercotes of the Honour of Tykhill Cuthbert Bevercotes junior was his Cousin and next heir nine years old the fourteenth of May then also last past There was a Fine 8 Ioh. betwixt Raph Fitz-Simon the Dean and Chapter of Rothomag and William de Bevercotes touching the Advowson of the Chapel of Bevercotes The last heir Male Cuthbert Bevercotes died without issue Male and having a daughter called Mary he married her to Rutland Molyneux younger son to Iohn Molyneux Esquire son and heir to Sir Edmund Molyneux one of the Judges of the Common Pleas and in marriage conveighed to them this Bevercotes and his other Lands Rutland Molyneux sold Bevercotes to the Earl of Clare lately deceased and it is the Inheritance of the Earl of Clare that now is his Grandson Houghton Hoctone THere was a Mannor in Hoctune which became the Fee of Roger Pictavensis and before the Conquest was Baldric's who for it paid the Geld as twelve Bovats The Land then being four Car. but was waste when the Survey was taken in the time of King William the first There were sixteen Acres of Medow Pasture Wood one qu. long eight Perches broad In the time of King Edward the Confessour the value of this was 60. in the Conquerours 20◠it had Soc in Walesby This came to be of the Fee of Lancaster as the rest of Roger Pictavensis his Lands in this County did The Family of Maresey or Mattersey held it as in Gameleston is already shown Yet the Chapel was accounted to belong to Tikhill as in many places may be noted Henry Earl of Lancaster and Leicester 3 E. 3. claimed to have in the Towns of Bothumsell Gameleston Hoghton Crophull and Holme with all their Members which are of the Fee of Lancaster return of all Writs Pleas of Withernam view of Frankepledge with all things which to view belong Waif and Stray c. and all Freedoms and Priviledges c. The Jury 35 E. 3. found that Iohn de Lungvillers had in Houghton two Mess. and half a Car. of Land ten Acres of Medow and two Water-Mills which he held of Nicolas Monboucher by the Service of a Rose and Thomas de Lungvilers was heir of the said Iohn as in Tuxford is also shown Upon the River Idle lies Houghton in Common Appellation called Houghton Lungvillers It came to Mallovell Lord of Rampton by the marriage of the heir of Lungvillers and afterwards to Stanhope in which Family it continued till Iohn Babington and Saunchia his wife daughter and heir of Richard Stanhope sold it to Sir William Hollis or his father great Grandfather to the Earl of Clare the Seat of which Family it still continueth Anthony Stapleton and Iohn Stanley Gent. 29 H. 8. claimed against Iohn Babington Esq and Saunchia his wife the Mannors of Hoghton Laxton and Egmanton with the Appurtenances and forty five Mess. c. in Hoghton Laxton Egmanton Little Markham Milneton South Marneham Walesby Ellesley South Leverton Cottum and East Retford Sir William Hollys and the Lady Elizabeth his wife sister of Thomas Scopeham mentioned by Mr. Dugdale in his Book of Warwickshire at Coventry Cross I take to be the Parents of this William Hollys the younger who became the Willielmus Hollis miles Major Civit. London-Elizab fil Georgii Scopham Willielmus Hollis de Houghton mil. 1 E. 6 -Anna fil haer Joh. Densell Serv. ad legem Densel Hollis-Elianora fil Edm. Dora Sheffeild Joh. Hollis mil. Com. Clare-Anna fil Tho Stanhope mil. Johannes Com. Clare-Eliz fil cohaer Horat. Dom. Vere de Tisbury Gilbertus Com. Clare ..... fil Willielmi Pierrepont .... Dom. Houghton Densel creat Dom. Hollis 13 C. 2. Gerv. Hollis-Franc fil haer Petri Frechevile Frechevile Hollis-Eliz fil haer Joh. Kingston de Grimsby Gerv. Hollis magist Supplic libell C. 2. Frechevile Hollis miles Joh. mil. Thom. mil. Good Sir William and married Anne the daughter and heir of Iohn Densill of Cornewall Serjeant at Law by which Lady for he after her death had also to wife Iane daughter of .... Grosvenor he had Denzill Hollis and Gervas who married Frances daughter and heir of Peter Frechevile of Stavely in Darbyshire and Elizabeth his wife only daughter of gentle Sir Gervas Clifton and Mary his wife daughter of Sir Iohn Nevill by whom the said Gervas had Frechevile Hollis who married Elizabeth daughter and heir of Iohn Kingston of Grimsby in Lincolneshire which Frechevile Hollis was father of Gervas Hollis one of his Majesties Masters of Requests a great Lover of Antiquities whose son Sir Frechevile Hollis lost an Arm in the Dutch War at Sea and since that his life Densill Hollys son of Good Sir William married Elianor daughter of Edmund Lord
Newcastles Here dwelt before the Wars Mr. .... Lukin father of Mr. William Lukin and Sam. sometimes of Christs Colledge in Cambridge it is now the place of residence of Mr. Iohn Rolleston Secretary to his Grace the said Duke of Newcastle In 49 H. 6. and of the retaking his Royal power again the First Iohn Craven enfeoff'd William Craven his son Iohn Bride junior Thomas Chaterton Chapellan Richard Merser of Wersop Richard Colyngworth of the same Raph Bekwith Thomas Bekwith Robert Craven and Walter Graver in all his Lands and Tenements Rents and services with the Appurtenances in Sukholme Witness William Champen of Sukholme Iohn Plumtre of the same c. Norton Cuckeney Langwath Bonbusk Walley Milnethorp Holme Howbeck VVoodhouse Hatfeild Colingthwait Belgh or Bellers Grange THe Principal part of Cucheney the chief of all these and perhaps some other small Hamlets was the Fee of Hugh Fitz-Baldric and before the Conquest the free-hold of Swen who then answered for his Mannor to the Geld or Tax as two Car. The Land four Car. when the Conquerour took his survey one Richard held it of Hugh and there had in Demesne two Car. and three Sochm. on two Bov. of Land and ten Vill. five Bord. having three Carucats or Plows There was a Priest and a Church and two Mills 8s. Pasture Wood four quar long and four qu. broad This kept the value it had in the time of King Edward the Confessour viz. 30s. In Cuchenay there was also of the Fee of Roger de Busli where before the Conquest Alric and Vlsi had two Mannors answering the Tax for one Car. The Land whereof was sufficient for two Plows or two Car. There afterwards Goisfrid the Man or Tenent of Roger had one Car. and nine Vill. having three Car. Pasture Wood two qu. long two qu. broad In the Confessours time this was 20s. value then when Doomsday Book was made 2s. less Ioceus de Flemangh came to the Conquest of England in the time of William Duke of Normandy and acquired in Cukeney the third part of a Knights Fee and the said Ioce afterwards frequently called Coste begot a certain son Ric. by name In the same Town of Cukeney there dwelt or remained a certain man who was called Gamelbere or Gamelkere who was an old Drenghe or Dreyinghe before the Conquest interpreted by the learned Sir Henry Spelman a Knight or one that held Lands as it were by Military or Knights service and accordingly he held two Carucats of Land in the same Town of the King in Capite for such service of shooing the Kings Palfrey upon four feet with the Kings Nails or shooing Materials de Cluario or Cloera Domini Regis as oft as he should lie at his Mannor of Maunsfeld and if he put in all the Nails incloaverit the King should give him a Palfrey of four Marks or he was to have the Kings Palfrey giving the King five Marks of Silver as the Jury in 3 E. 3. found the service as he was also if he lamed the Horse pricked him or shod him strait c. inclaudet or includat as it was found 23 E. 1. not so agreeably And if an Army should be in Wales he was to do service according to the quantity of two Carucats of Land and likewise for Homage Gamelbere dyed without heirs of himself and the Land was an Eschaet in the hand of King Henry the first And that King gave that Land to Richard son of the said Ioce and his heirs to be held of him by the said service And the said Richard took a wife in Nottingham by name N. and begot on her a son called Richard she died and this Richard took another wife Cousin of the Earl of Ferrers and that Earl would not give him his Cousin unless he would give his said Cousin and her heirs of her to be begotten some Land And the said Richard before he married Hawise the Cousin of the Earl gave her and the heirs of her to be begotten two Carucats of Land in Cukeney which the said King gave him by the said service which some will think had relation to the name of Ferrers And the said Richard on her begot a certain son by name Thomas and the said Thomas was nourished in the Kings Court and after the death of Richard his father held that Land by the service aforesaid of the said King well and in peace untill the old War and then he made himself a Castle in the said Land of Cukeney for this Thomas was a warlike man or Souldier in the whole War And after the said War the Kingdom of England being pâ—cified and King Henry the second Reigning he Founded the Abby of Welbeck This Thomas took to wife Emma and begot on her a daughter Isabell by name After the death of the said Thomas the said Isabell his daughter was in the Custody or Wardship of the King by reason of the two Carucats of Land in Cukeney And the said King gave the Custody and Marriage of the said Isabell to Simon Fitz-Simon who married her who gave the Mill of Cukeney with the Appurtenances and Custom and Works lying to it to the Abby of Welbeck and all their Land in Deystorth and Bastegate and their whole Land which they had at Langwaith and one Bovat in the Field of Cukeney upon Hattefeild c. And the said Simon begot on the said Isabell three daughters viz. Agnes Isabel and Petronilla or Parnell and after the deaths of Simon and Isabel their said three daughters were in the Kings Custody and the King gave their Custody and Marriage to Sir Walter de Fawcomberg and the said Walter himself married the said Agnes the eldest and gave Isabell the second to Walter de Riebof to wife and Petronilla the third he gave to Stephen de Faucomberg his brother to wife with the said two Carucats in Cukeney which he held of the King reserving to himself and his heirs the Advowson of the Abby of Welbek quit from the said Petronilla and her heirs as appears by a Fine levyed between them in the Kings Court The said Walter and Agnes confirmed to the said Abby all the gifts of the said Thomas de Cukeny and Simon Fitz-Simon and Isabell his wife as did Gerard de Glanvill and Emme his wife c. Peter son of Walter de Faucomberg released from himself and his heirs to the said Abby all the right in that demand which he had against the said Abby concerning the prestation or performance of one Palfrey to him to be done of every Abbat newly made or created Walter de Faucomberg son and heir of Peter de Faucomberg likewise released all that demand which he exacted concerning the Palfrey c. Walter son of Walter de Faucomberg granted to the said Abby all the right and claim which he had in that Toft upon Humbre in Whiten Iohn de Faucomberg son of Walter de Faucomberg confirmed to
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
Iohn de Hothum Bishop of Ely bearing date 29 Decemb. 1329.3 E. 3. was to this effect viz. That for the Mannor of Cukeney with the Appurtenances and two Mess. one hundred and twenty Acres of Land eight of Medow six of Wood with the Appurtenances in Holbeck by Cukeney which the said Bishop gave to the said Abbat and Covent they the said Abbat and Covent without any compulsion freely bound themselves and their successours to find eight Canons in their Abby daily to celebrate Divine Offices for the Soul of Edward King of England Grandfather of the then King and for the Soul of Edward late King of England father of the said then King for the wholesome estate of the Lady Isabell Queen of England the said Kings mother and of her children and chiefly for the state of the King and the Lady Philippa his Consort Queen of England while they lived and for their souls when they should die Also for the souls of Alan and Maud father and mother of the said Lord Iohn de Hothum Bishop of Ely and for the souls of the children of them the said Alan and Matildis then dead and of the living when they should die and for the Soul of Frier or Brother William de Hothum sometimes Bishop of Dublin for the state of the Lady Mary de St. Paul Countess of Pembroke and her Soul when it should be separated from the body and also for the Soul of Peter de Gaveston late Earl of Cornewall and for the Souls of Sir Iohn de Wogan and Isabell his wife and for Sir Raph Camoys and Elizabeth his wife and for their Souls after death for Sir Iohn de Fawconberg and for his Soul after his decease and especially for the healthful state of the said Lord Bishop while he should live and afterwards for his Soul and for all theirs who had faithfully served him and bestowed benefits upon him and for all the faithful departed And besides this they and their successours to celebrate in their Abby as long as the world should endure the Anniversary of the said Lord Bishop with such solemnity as the Anniversary of their first and principal Founder as well in Alms to the poor as in Divine Obsequies was wont in times past to be celebrated and every day whereon Commemorations of the dead should be read in their Chapter House his Soul should therein be absolved by name And when any of the said eight Canons should by sickness or other lawful cause be hindred from celebrating another Canon of their House should faithfully supply his turn And when any of those eight should go the way of all flesh another Canon should immediately be put in his place They were also to swear that they would never diminish the number of eight but maintain the said celebration for ever decently and that they would never obtain any thing of the Pope or the K. of England or the superior of the Order of the Praemonstratenses or of any other whereby any thing should be subtracted from the said celebration And every new Abbat before the Covent should do him obeisance or he be installâ—d in the Monastery and every Novice before he should be admitted to probation in their Monastery should be bound by the same Oath faithfully to keep every Article of the said ordination according to his utmost power for ever Furthermore if their said Order which God forbid should by any emergent chance be suppressed or transferred to any other Order then they willed and granted by the Tenour of the said agreement that the said Bishop or his heirs without any obstacle might enter and peaceably enjoy the said Mannor of Cukeney and two Mess. one hundred and twenty Acres of Land eight of Medow six of Wood with the Appurtenances in Holbeck by Cukeney But that the present ordination might last for ever without any diminution the said Abbat and all the Priests of the Covent with Candles burning and Stoles hung at their necks solemnly excommunicated all and every one that should weaken break diminish or violate or procure the said ordination or any part of it to be weakned broken diminished or violated by any means or presume to go against it in any thing subjecting themselves and their successours in this to the Jurisdiction and cohercion of the Abbat of Neuhus father of their Abbat and of the yearly Visiteâ—s that if in their Visitation they found any thing of this ordinance violated or diminished they might proceed against them as guilty of Perjury and excommunicate And lest oblivion should obolish what gratitude had charitably instituted This Ordination was every year on All Souls day to be read through in their Monastery in the presence of all the Brethren But King Henry the eighth 26 Febr. 30 H. 8. granted to Richard Whalley and his heirs the Scite of the Abby of Welbeck and all the Houses and Lands beneath the Scite of it and the two Granges called Bellers Grange and Hirst Grange and the several Closes and Groves c. Queen Elizabeth 20 May 1 Eliz. granted licence to Richard Whalley Esquire and William Whalley Gent. to alienate the House and Scite of the Monastery of Welbeck by the name of the Demesne of the Mannor of Welbeck and the said two Granges Bellers and Hurst and the Grange of Gledethorpe and the Mannor of Norton and the Grange called Hardwick Grange to Edward Osborne Citizen and Cloathworker of London and his heirs She 9 Febr. 42 Eliz. granted to Robert Booth Esquire and Ranulph Catterall Gent. the whole Scite c. which sometime was belonging to and parcel of the Lands late of Richard Whalley Esquire It is now Nov. 11. 1674. the Mansion House of his Grace the Duke of Newcastle of whose Noble Atchievements I ought to have given some particular account but that the Dutchess his wife not long since dead hath done it far beyond my hopes in her famous Books especially that of his Life besides what himself hath communicated to the World in several Poems and his most excellent pieces concerning Horsmanship both in French and English whereof he is so great a Master that though he be above eighty years of age he very constantly diverts himself with it still insomuch that he is thought to have taken as great pleasure beholding his great store of choice well-managed Horses wherewith his fine stables are continually furnished appear to exercise their gifts in his magnificent Riding-house which he long since built there of Brick as in elder time any one could take to see the religious performances of the Monks in the Quire of the great Church of St. Iames now utterly vanished except the Chapel for the house was any part of it which of late years also hath lain buried in the ruines of its roof the want whereof doth a little diminish the glory of this brave Palace yet seeing that neither the Wisdome nor Piety nor Charity of those formerly concerned here nor their Right
fil Will. Compton ex quib Com. Northam Gilb. Talbot de Grafton mil. Gart. -Eliz Greystok-Andrea Cotton ux 2. Gilb. Joh. Talbot antecess moderni Com. Salop. Humfr. Christoph. 1 Gilbertus Talbot -Joana fil Tho. Duc. Glocest. Ankareta fil haer s. p. Will. de Monteacuto Com. Sarum Gerardus de Furnivall-Christiana Ledec Gerard. de Furnivall Lora de Furnivalle fil haeres -Gerardus Uflet Willielmus de Furnivall Ernulphus de Mandevill Nigellus de Lovetot Baro in Com. Hunt -Margareta Rich. ut in Wishou Rog. de Lovetot Nigel Rob. de Coleston Will. de Lovetot Ernulph de Mandevill was a Witness to this After the great controversie concerning many demands on both parts between her and Wal. the Prior and the Covent of Wyrkesop the said Mat. in her free Widowhood and lawful power on the day of the translation of St. Thomas the Martyr 33 H. 3. confirmed all the gifts of William de L. her father and Richard de Luvet her Grand-father and Gerard de Furnivall her quondam Husband who was entombed at Ebrard in Normandy in his own Demesne which is called Furnefall he begot Thomas Gerard and William Thomas was slain in the holy Land by the Saracens and his brother Gerard after his death returned from thence But the said Maud his mother taking it ill that her son Thomas should remain amongst Heathens sent back the said Gerard that he might bring the Bones of the said Thomas his brother by which means he was intombed in this Monastery on the North side with his Helmet adorned with Gemms and a noble Carbuncle upon his head The said Sir Gerard her son lay on the South side under a Marble Stone next the Chapel of St. Peter and the said William their brother in the middle of the Chapel of the blessed Mary not far from Maud the wife of Iohn first Lord of Furnivall in a Tomb of Stone inscribed thus Me memorans palle similis curris quia calle De Fournivalle Pro Wilielmo rog◠psalle These Chronicles of Wyrksop are not exact in this descent which I suppose misled Mr. Robert Glover in the draught of that noble Pedigree which he designed for George late Earl of Shrowsbury and Earl Marshall of England Lord Talbot Furnival Verdun Lovetoft and Strange of Blackmer Knight of the Garter c. 22 Eliz. 1580. wherein he makes Ger. son and heir of this Thomas de Furnivall to be father of Thomas c. which he was not He indeed married Maud the sister and coheir of Richard Fitz-Iohn Fitz-Geoffrey the Justice of Ireland who was afterwards married to William Beauchamp Earl of Warwick by whom she had Guy Earl of Warwick twenty six years of age and above 26 E. 1. her heir which shows that her former husband the said Gerard de Furnivall had none by her but it further appears for Gerard son and heir of Thomas de Furnivall gave with his body the third part of the Mills of Bradfeld with the suit of his men of the Sok of Bradfeud to this Monastery and Thomas son and heir of Thomas de Furnivall confirmed this gift which Gerard de Furnivall his brother had conferred and Bertrea or Bertha sometimes wife of Thomas de Furnivall in her Widowhood for the health of her Soul and of the Souls of Sir Thomas de Furnivall her quondam husband and of Sir Gerard his brother confirmed 4l. of Silver to be taken out of her Mill at Bradefeld yearly during her life Thomas de Furnivall Lord of Halumschire son and heir of Thomas de Furnivall confirmed to these Canons all Lands c. in which they were seised in the time of Matildis de Luvetot his Grand-mother The Prior of Wyrkesop 53 H. 3. offered himself the fourth day against Thomas de Furnivall in a Plea wherefore he made waste sale and destruction of his Park of Wirksop by which means the said Prior for the future could not as he ought have two Carts to bring dry wood every day to the Monastery c. There was a licence 54 H. 3. granted to Thomas de Furnivall to build a certain Castle at his Mannor of Sheffeild in the County of York Thomas de Furnivall son of Thomas de Furnivall confirmed with his body presentè the yearly rent of six Marks out of the Mill of Bradefeud viz. that Rent which the Canons had of the gift of the Lady Bertr de Furnivall his mother during her life Bertra who had been wife of Thomas de Furnivall 7 E. 1. was Fined 40s. because she retracted or withdrew her self c. Thomas son and heir of Thomas de Furnivall 1 E. 1. was under age and married to Ioane the daughter of Hugh le Dispenser Thomas de Furnivall the third Lord of Hallumshire and of Wyrkesop confirmed to this Priory eight Marks of yearly Rent out of his Mills of Wirkesop and 30s. 6d. in the name of the Tythe of his Rents of his Mannor of Wyrkesop and 10s. in the name of the Tythe of his Mannor of Glesthorp of old constituted or set in this County and twelve Marks of his Mills of Bradefeld per annum and five Marks yearly Rent of his Mills of Brekesherth and also 60. and 6s. and 1d. in the name of Tythe of the yearly Rents of his Mannor of Sheffeld in Hallumshire in the County of York and Pasture for 40. Cartel in his Park and this bore date at Nottingham the Thursday after the Feast of St. Augustine the Apostle of the English An. Dom. 1328. 2 E. 3. Thomas de Furnivall senior 19 E. 2. atturned in his place William de Sheffeld and Adam son of Henry de Sheffeld to prosequnt in the Court of the Exchequer concerning a debt which the said Thomas had paid to the King by Roger de Somervill Sheriff of Yorkshire It appeareth also in 19 E. 2. that the said Thomas de F. senior was amerced as a Baron in several Courts before the 14 E. 2. but he pleaded he was no Baron neither did he hold his Land by Barony nor part of a Barony whereupon several Inquisitions were taken by Robert de Nottingham Remembrancer of the Exchequer assigned thereto viz. one at Rotheram where it was found that the said Thomas de F. senior held the Mannor of Sheffeld in the County of York of the King in Capite by Homage only and the Mannor of Whystan of Galfr. Luterell in Capite by the service of three Fees and an half of a Knight by right of inheritance Another at Nottingham the Saturday next before quindena Paschae where it was likewise found that he held the Mannors of Wyrkesop and Gresthorpe with the members in this County of the King as of the Honour of Tykhull by the service of four Fees and the fourth part of a Knights Fee by right of inheritance after the death of Thomas de F. his quondam father whose heir he was And the third Inquisition was taken before the said
fathers gift and so did Robert son of William the gift of the said Robert his Grandfather Walter Arch-bishop of York appropriated it Thomas de Chawrth confirmed the gifts and confirmations which his Ancestors had made viz. the gift of Robert Fitz-Ranulph of the Church with all the Appurtenances and the confirmation of William his son and of Robert son of the said William together with the Land which the said Robert son of the said William de Alfreton Grandfather of him the said Thomas de Chawrth quit-claimed lying between Appelhayheved and the Wood of Osberton which Land was formerly in contention between the said Robert son of the said William de Alfertun and Robert de Pyckburn sometimes Prior of Wyrkesop and there was also a Fine levied of this Advowson 47 H. 3. between Thomas de Chawrth and Iohn Prior of Wyrksop Thomas de Chewrth Lord of Osberton gave and granted to the said Prior and Covent that way in Osberton which lay between the Church-yard of the same Town on the West and the Mannor of the Prior and Covent of Wyrksop on the East and stretched it self in length from the South corner of the said Church-yard to the North corner Roger de Osberton in the time of Henry the third held a Knights Fee of the Honour of Tikhill Thomas de Chaworth 3 E. 3. claimed Free-Warren in his Demesne Lands at Marncham Edwalton and Osberton Thomas Dynham Gent. 31 H. 8. claimed against Iohan Fitz-William widow the third part of the Mannors of Marneham and Osberton with the Appurtenances c. and the third part of the Mannors of Alfreton and Norton in Darbyshire all which continued long to the Family of Chaworth of which that Ioan was part of an heir as in the Descent may be observed King Henry the eighth 3 Iuly 32 H. 8. granted the Grange called Osberton Grange lying in Osberton in the Parish of Worksop which was not so anciently as what is here noted shows to Robert Dighton Esquire and his heirs amongst other things together with Graveslane in Oxton Hardwick Grange and Hardwick Wood late belonging to the Priory of Wirksop paying for the Lands in Oxton 2s. for Osberton Grange 7s. and for the Land in Hardewick 9s. 5d. Matildis de Luvetot confirmed to the Monastery the whole Village of Herthwik given by her Ancestors before Robert Dighton 12 August 32 H. 8. had licence to alienate Hardwick Grange and Wood with all Houses Buildings and Hereditaments in Osberton Hardwick and Worksop belonging to it to Richard Whalley and his heirs And all Mess. Lands and Tenements in Oxton and Osberton Grange and the Houses c. in Osberton Hardwick and Worksop to William Bolles and his heirs It was lately William Leekes son and heir of Herbert Leek late of Halam which William had it by his wife who was of the Family of Bolles of Osberton by whom he hath left a son or two to preserve the Inheritance Ratcliff IT seems was another Hamlet of Wirksop but I have not met with any further memorable concerning it Kilton THere was a Controversie moved between Sir Thomas de Furnivall and his Tenants of Kylton on the one part and Richard Rolston otherwise called Chamberlayn on the other about the way of leading the draught Beasts of the Tenants of Kelton to the Pasture of Romwod appeased on this manner 4 Apr. 1301. That the Tenants of Kylton ought to drive their Cattel backward and forward fugare refugare by the way of Bresbrig and so by the way of Radford and from Radford by the way unto Southcotes belonging to the Priory of Wirkesop and from thence unto Bryndhastedys and so by the said bounds and limits to Kylton This was entred in the Court Roll of the said Sir Thomas Lord Furnivall the day and year above-said Matthew Feild William Meredith and Richard Springham 8 Eliz. claimed against Edward Casteling twenty Mess. twenty Cottages two Dovecotes twenty Barns twenty Gardens twenty Orchards five hundred Acres of Land one hundred and fifty of Medow three hundred of Pasture twenty of Wood and two hundred of Furz and Heath in Worksop Wylloughby Kylton Skafgreves Clarburgh and Retford of the Clay also the Rectory of Willoughby upon the Woldes and Advowson of the Vicarage of Willoughby and the Tythes of Corn and Hay in Willoughby Scofton IN Thorp Scoteby and Rounton were two Car. Soc to the Kings great Mannor of Maunsfeld There was a Writ of false Judgement 21 H. 8. between Elizabeth Fenton widow Plaintiff and Iohn Hill Thomas Capstoke and Robert Iohnson alias Robert Smith concerning three Mess. two hundred Acres of Land forty of Medow twenty of Pasture four of Wood and 10s. Rent with the Appurtenances in Scofton in the Kings Court of Maunsfeild in Sherwood The prime Capital Mess. in Scofton hath for some time belonged to the Iesoppes Ryton IT appears 30 E. 1. that Stephen Malovel gave a Mess. two hundred and sixty Acres of Land and seven of Medow in Renetone nigh Wirksop to Alice the wife of Ranulph de Huntingfeld who bound himself to Iohn de Melsa in C. Marks by a Statute Merchant and failing in payment the Sheriff caused the Land to be extended at a reasonable price viz. 4l. 9s. 1d. and put the said Iohn in seisin in which he stood for a year and more until the said Ranulph and Alice disseised him c. Upon this came William de Dogmerfeld who said he was the Kings Bayliff of his Mannor of Maunesfeld and that Renetone was a member of the Kings said Mannor and the Tenements put in view Antient Demesne c. In this are Recorded very many of the Customs of Mansfeld which shows that they are as like Freeholders as Copyholders can be Reyton hath been and still is the place of Residence of a Family-named Eyre viz. William Eyre of Reyton descended from Eyre of Hope in Com. Derb. -Anna fil haer Dom. de Reyton Edm. Eyre de Reyton -Margeria fil Rob. Coyney de Weston Coyney Staff Robertus Eyre de Reyton -Dorothea fil Georgii Columbel de Darley Derb. Georgius Eyre de Ryton superstes 1614 -Anna fil Rob. Spark de Nantwich Ches Rob. Eyre fil haer aet 11. 1614 -Elizab fil Will. Saunderson de Blith 1 Will. Evre natus 1626. 2 Georg. 3 Gervas 4 Robert Franc. 2 Will. 3 Joseph 4 Thom. Clumber HAd three Bov. of the Soc of Maunsfeld and in Clumber were two Mannors of Roger de Buslies Fee which before the Conquest Adeluvol and Vlchil had and paid as for five Bov. to the Geld. The Land being two Car. Part of it viz. two Bov. was waste which Fulc held In the other Vlchel had under Roger one Car. and one Mill of 12d. Pasture Wood two qu. long one qu broad In the Confessours time this was 20s. when Doomsday Book was made 4s. The Woods of Clumbre were of the Sokage of Maunesfeld and
haer ..... Marmiâ—â— Willielmus Dom. Fitz-Hugh ob 22 Octob. 31 H. 6. Henricus Fitz-Hugh ob 8 Jan. 14 E. 4. Richardus Fitz-Hugh ob 3 H. 7. Georgius Fitz-Hugh ob 4 H. 8. sine prole Albreda ux Rob. de St. Quintin Ad. de St. Mar. Mabel Leticia-Ranulf de Novo foro Robertus de Novo mercato Juliana Richard Simon de Chevrolcurt Beatrix Bodinus de Ravensworth s. p. Bardolf Akarius Harveus Henricus Ranulfus de Ravenswath-Alicia fil haer Adae de Staveley Henricus Ranulfus s. p. Hugo-Albreda Henricos fil Hugonis Joana ob 23 E. 3. post fratrem-Henricus de Ravensworth when he died held 10l. Land and Rent in le Kingston of the King in Capite by the service of a pair of Gilt Spurrs or six pence yearly And that the said Richard together with Sibyll his wife joyntly feoff'd by Fine held the Mannor of Carleton of the Castle of Tikhill and the moyety of the Mannor of Bothumsell of the Earl of Lancaster and that William was his son and next heir and that the said Richard dyed the Wednesday next before the Feast of St. Luke the Evangelist that year and then his son William was above twenty one years of age In 9 E. 2. Carleton answered for a whole Villa and the Lords were certified to be William de Fourneaux and Sibylla de Fourneaux Sibylla 3 E. 3. claimed for her life Infangthef Gallowes and Park in the Mannor of Carleton in Lyndryk Thom. de Carleton then also claimed the Amends of the Assize of Bread and Ale broken of his Tenents in Carleton in Lyndryk William de Fountayns of Kingholm brother and heir of Richard son of William son of Richard son of Ivo son of Richard who lived in King Iohns time claimed against William de Furneus 3 E. 3.10l. Rent with the Appurtenances in Carleton in Lyndryk c. The Jury 23 E. 3. found that William Furneaux held when he died 10l. Rent with the Appurtenances in Carleton in Lyndryk c. and that Thomas le Latymer then aged twenty six years son of Sibyll le Latymer one of the sisters was one heir of the said William and Ioane his other sister then living whom Henry son of Henry de Ravenswath had to wife was his other heir The Jury 27 E. 3. said that this Ioane sister of the said William de Furneax over-lived her brother but a month and had a son named Henery heir of her and her said husband Henry son of Henery de Ravenswath who was called Henry Fitz-Hugh his Grand-father who out-lived his father being son of Hugh brother and heir of Ranulf son of Henery son of Ranulf son of Henery son of Harvey son of Akaris son of Bardolf brother and heir of Bodin de Ravensworth Akarius son of Bardolf founded Iorevault and Harvey his son was a great benefactor to it The Jury 30 E. 3. found that Thomas Latymer held when he died the moyety of the Hamlet of Kingeston in Carleton and the Mannor of Carleton which extended it self into Beyghton and the moyety of the Mannor of Bothumsell and that Henry son of Henery de Ravenswath was his next heir The Jury 10 R. 2. found that Henry Fitz-Hugh died seised of a certain Mannor in Carleton called Kingeston held of the King and of the Mannor of Carleton in Lindrik held of Iohn Duke of Lancaster as of the Honour of Tikhill and of the moyety of the Mannor of Bothumsell held also of him of the Honour of Lancaster and that Henry Fitz-Hugh Knight was his son and heir The Lands which were Henry Fitz-Hughes Chr. in the Counties of Yorke Northumberland Nott. and Cambridge were to be seised 22 Sept. 10 R. 2. Henry Fitz-Hugh Chr. 3 H. 6. left his son and heir William Fitz-Hugh Chr. of full age William Fitz-Hugh Knight son of Henry 31 H. 6. left Henry Fitz-Hugh his heir of full age 15 Febr. Patron of the Abbey of St. Mary of Iorevaux c. and Staveley and Brunsall Advowsons in Yorkshire and many Lands and Mannors there Henry Fitz-Hugh Lord of this Mannor 12 E. 4. left his son Richard his heir fourteen years old Richard Fitz-Hugh Lord Fitz-Hugh dyed 3 H. 7. leaving his son and heir George half a year old who dyed without issue about 4 H. 8. Thomas Fenys Knight Lord Dacre 5 H. 8. suffered a recovery of the moyety of these Mannors and called to warrant Alice Fenys Widow and Gregory Fynes alias Fenys Lord Dacre and Anne his wife 13 Eliz. suffered another of the Mannors of Bothumsall Carleton Kingeston and Carleton Baron c. Queen Elizabeth 8 Mar. 22 Eliz. granted to Iohn Molyneux Esquire the Lordships or Mannors of Carleton Kingston and Carleton Baron and all singular Mess. Lands c. in Carleton in Lindrick Worsop Ellesiey Normanton Little Morton Wallingwells Auste Reyton and Reyton Grange in the Counties of Nott. and York or other-where in this County then extended at 27l. 17s. 7d. per annum which were late the possessions of Thomas Lord Dacre Great Grand-father of Gregory the then Lord Dacre or of Thomas Lord Dacre father of the said Gregory Sir Iohn Molyneax the Grand-child of that Iohn leased it for eighty years to one .... Halsey and since that Vivian Molyneax Esquire son and heir of that Sir Iohn sold the inheritance of it to Sir Gervas Clifton Kt. and Baronet who hath in effect all the rest of the Lands in Carleton save what belongeth to the Monastery of Wallingwelles the scite whereof and much of the Lands 19 Feb. 5 E. 6. was demised to Iohn Frankwell Esquire for twenty one years at the yearly value of 12l. 13s. 3d. and by Queen Eliz. 5 Aug. 6 Eliz. granted to Richard Pype of London Lether-seller and Francis Bowyer Grocer and to the heirs of Richard Pype who afterwards as I suppose was Sir Richard Pype and father of Humfrey father of Richard Pype Esquire whose inheritance and place of residence it was in my time but his Nephew and heir .... Pype hath sold it not very long since to Major Sam. Taylor who for some time had the oversight of the Moll at Tangier for our present Soveraign King Charles the second The Jury 10 E. 2. found it not to the Kings loss if he granted Iohn de Loudham licence to give to Thomas de la Grene of Carleton 30s. Rent with the Appurtenances in Carleton in Lindrick c. It seems Sir Iohn Loudham with this Rent of Assize granted to this Thomas de Carleton one Mess. called White Hall and one Carucat of Land there held of the Mannor of Kingston in Carleton and by the Custome of the Mannor partible amongst all the sons Thomas de Carleton had a son Henry de Carleton which Henry and Mary his wife the Jury 13 R. 2. found were seised of 23s. Rent and the White Hall c. and that Henry had
four sons Thomas Iohn Henry and Walter de Carleton Esquire who had two sons Hugh de Carleton fifteen years old and Iohn de Carleton thirteen co-heirs and parceners of the said Walters part whereof 6 Novemb. 7 H. 5. they had livery according to the Custome of the Mannor Thomas Carleton Esquire when he died about 7 H. 5. held the 30s. Rent and the White Hall in Carleton in Lindrick and Walter Carleton was his son and heir W. Walter Carleton son and heir of Thomas de Carleton of Lyncolne 14 H. 6. passed this parcel to Raph Makarell Esquire and Margery his wife Thom. del Greene vel de Carleton Clericus Henricus de Carleton 13 R. 2 -Maria 1 Tho. de Carleton Walterus de Carleton 14 H. 6. 2 Joh. 3 Henr. 4 Walt. de Carleton Hugo de Carleton aet 15. 7 H. 5. Johannes aet 13. The owners of Carleton in Lindrick 1612. are thus set down Sir Gervas Clifton Knight Sir Iohn Moyneux Knight Humphrey Pype Esquire of Wallingwells Iohn Buck Clark Robert Glossop and Sam. Simpson The Rectory of Carleton was 20l. 'T is now 15l. 13 s 4d. value in the Kings Books and as it hath been remains in the Cullation of his Grace the Lord Arch-bishop of Yorke Hodsok with the Hamlets IN Odesache Vlsi before the Normans came had a Mannor for which he paid to the Dane-geld for two Car. The Land being then known to be sufficient for four Plows or four Car. There afterwards Turold the Man of Roger de Busli whose Fee it then was become had two Car. and three Sochm. on four Bov. of this Land and twelve Vill. having twelve Car. There were two Mills of 16s. 4d. and eight Acres of Medow Pasture Wood one leu long and half one broad The value in former time and then also was 3l. It had Sok in Blyth of three sorts as in that place will be noted That Turold the Man of Roger I take to be Thorald de Lisoriis brother of Fulc de Lisoriis both Witnesses to Roger de Busli's Charter of foundation of the Manastery of Blyth dated 1088. and both concerned in this place in which Fulco gave two Bovats to that Priory and two which Roger Escossard held of him in Hodesak Pagan son of Cossard granted the Land of Hodesar which Fulco de Lisouriis gave to St. Mary of Blyth as Alms which Land Cossard held of the said Fulco c. Raph Cossard gave to that Monastery six Acres of his Demesne in Cossard-thorpe which his Grand-father Roger gave and three Acres and a Toft which Walter Cossard his father gave The Sheriff 6 R. 1. accounted for 22 s 8d. of the Chattels of Raph de Cossard-thorp sold being one of the Kings enemies Raph Coshart 7 R. 1. gave account of five Marks for having seisin of his Land of Cossard-thorp which was taken into the Kings hands for his being with Earl Iohn Henry de Cossardthorp called also Henry Cossard son of Raph Cossard gave to the Prior and Monks of Blith Roger de Cossardthorp son of Thorald and Beatrix his mother with her whole sequel and their whole Land in Cossard Thorp paying him and his heirs 2s. per an This is an Hamlet of Hodsac now called Costrop But the next Lord of Hodsac that I have found was Roger de Cressey who gave to God St. Mary and the Monks of Blyth half a Bovat of Land in Oulecotes and the Tythes of all his Mills of the Soc of Hodesac and the Monks granted him perpetually four Masses in a week for himself his Ancestors and Successours as well living as dead This gift the said Roger made upon the Altar at Blyth before many Witnesses which was confirmed by his son William de Cressi William de Cressi 2 Ioh. gave the King twenty Marks and one Palfrey that he might justly and according to the Custom of England be brought off from the Dower which Cecily the daughter of Gervas de Clifton claimed against him Cecily who had been wife of Roger de Cressi 2 Ioh. gave the King forty Marks and one Palfrey for having her reasonable Dower which concerned her of the Freehold which was the said Rogers in this County William de Cressi 3 Ioh. pleaded that Cecily was not the wife of Roger de Cressi so the cause was transmitted to the Arch-bishop of York who signified she was lawfully married to him But William said he signified his own will against right and Ecclesiastical custom and offered pledges to try it c. and had day given c. There was a Fine at Clarendon the Munday after Midlent 5 Ioh. between Cecily who had been wife of Roger de Cressi Petent and William de Cressi Tenent concerning the reasonable Dower of the said Cecily which she claimed against the said William of the gift of her said husband Roger in Hoddishac Gedling Kelum Weston Rampton and Marcham all which she quit to the said William and his heirs for half a Knights Fee in Melton and five Acres of Medow in Lokenges for her life W. de Cressi gave to the Monks of Blith the Damms of his Mills from the Bridge of Gildenebriges unto the Land of Suain Sarpesive in the same state they were Anno Dom. 1225. and gave them free firmage firmuram of the Damm of the Mills of Westcroft in his Land paying out of that Mill of Westcroft half a quarter of Rye at Mich. yearly to him and his heirs He released likewise to them 12d. yearly which they paid him for Land in Holm c. William son and heir of Roger de Cressi who was in Ward of Alice Countess of Augi in the former part of Henry the third held of her the whole Town of Hodsok with the Soke by one Knights Fee William de Cressi son of Roger de Cressi confirmed two Bovats in Hoddesak with the Appurtenances which Fulc de Lisoriis gave to the Almoner of St. Mary of Blyth c. and all the Lands Rents and Possessions which the Monks had acquired of him or his Ancestors from the beginning of the world till the Feast of St. Martin 1273. William de Cressi Knight granted for himself and his heirs to the Religious men the Abbat of St. Katherin of Roan and the Prior and Covent of Blyth and their successours that from thenceforth they might Hang Thieves taken within their liberty of Blyth who deserved hanging on the Gallows of Emmeslawe without any contradiction or claim of him or his heirs saving that he or his heirs should Hang the Thieves taken within their Liberty of Hodisac which should deserve hanging on the said Gallows And that if the said Gallows should be thrown down it might be lawful for the said Prior and Covent and their successours to make new ones or set up and repair the old ones as they should please William de Cressi son and heir of Sibylla de Cressi 6 E. 1.
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 Lords then certified being Walter Touk and William de St. Elena But in the former part of the Reign of K. Henry the third Roger son of Richard is certified to have paid two Marks for one Knights Fee in Finhingle Hugh de Clyderhowe 11 E. 3. recovered his seisin of a House and a Mill in Alkeley into which Hugh de Eland had intruded himself saying they were his own and also recovered 10l. for his damages Guy Fairfax 14 E. 4. had some interest here Thomas Darcy Knight Lord Darcy Henry Wyat Esquire Richard Wyat Clark and Iohn Scott 21 H. 7. claimed against Iohn Cley the Mannor of Blythe with the Appurtenances and ten Mess. three hundred Acres of Land c. in Blyth Ranskyll Torworth Norney and Sterap also the Advowson of the Church of Fynnyngley Reginald Pegge George Emerysson and Henry Wyat Esquire 22 H. 7. claimed against Richard Wyat Clark and Iohn Scott Esquire one Acre of Land and the Advowson of the Church of Fynningley who called to warrant Iohn Cley and Margaret his wife Margaret who had been wife of Iohn Clay 35 H. 8. claimed against Thomas Fayrfax Serjeant at Law the Mannor of Fynnyngley also the Advowson of that Church Iohn Wormeley Gent. and Iohn Park 9 Eliz. claimed against Richard Fenton Gent. one Mess. thirty Acres of Land ten of Medow forty of Pasture c. in Aukeley and called to warrant Thomas Fayrefax Esquire Iohn Park 10 Eliz. claimed against Richard Fenton the Mannor of Fynnyngley with the Appurtenances and twenty Mess. twenty Tofts c. in Fynnyngley who called Thomas Fayrefax Hugh Iones and Iohn Ingham 17 Eliz. claimed against Richard Shirbourne Knight the Mannor of Awkeley and Finningley and divers Lands in those Towns who called Iohn Hopwood The Mannor was divided between Sherburne and Frobisher and besides Frobisher had the Grange of Finninglay which belonged to the Priory of Mattersey The Queen 18 Novemb 34 Eliz. granted the said Grange to Martin Frobisher Knight and his heirs and 10 Febr. 40 Eliz. she granted it to Peter Frobisher Esq Cousin and Heir of Sir Martin The owners of Finningley cum Auckley in 1612. are thus expressed Francis Frubiser Gent. Richard Sherborne Gent. William Fribiser Gent. Clare Gregory widow Nicolas Greson Iohn Tomson Bryan Mole Edward Fowler William Marselande Chr. Sampoll Edward Birkett Richard Norton William Atkin William Mowldson William Iackson widow Copstacke The Rectory of Finningley was twenty Marks when Mr. Wiat was Patron 'T is now 13l. 5s. 7d. ob value in the Kings Books and Iohn Gibbons or Robert Harvey Esquire Patron Scrooby IN the Book of Doomsday Scrobye is only a Berue or Hamlet of Sudton the Archbishop of Yorkes Mannor William de Melton Arch-bishop of York 17 E. 2. had Free Warren in Southwell Lanuth Scroby Askham Sutton and Plumtrie William Whorwood 37 H. 8. claimed for the King against Robert Arch-bishop of York the Mannors of Scrobye Raveneskeld Lanome Askham Sutton and the North Soke and twenty Mess. twenty Tofts ten Dovecotes twenty Gardens one thousand Acres of Land five hundred of Medow five hundred of Pasture five hundred of Wood one thousand of Furz and Heath and 20l. Rent and passage over Trent and several Fishing and Free Warren in the said Mannors with the Appurtenances in Scrobye Raveneskeld Lanome Askham Sutton North Soke Calff Holme Bownyng Dunwardeynge Westwode Hayton Clareburgh Tylne Everton Scafteworth Welholme Bole Whetle Cavome Everton Carr and Carr except the Advowsons of the Hospital of St. Iohn in Notyngham and of the Colledge of Sybthorpe the Rectory of Kenalton and the Advowson of the Church of the Vicarage of Kynalton the Advowson of Carleton in Lyndrick and except the Advowson of the Chapel of St. Mary in Southwell also except the Advowson of the Church of Barton in the Beanes with the Appurtenances Here within memory stood a very fair Palace a far greater House of receit and a better Seat for provision than Southwell and had attending to it the North Soke consisting of very many Towns thereabouts It hath a fair Park belonging to it Arch-bishop Sandes caused it to be demised to his son Sir Samuel Sands since which the House hath been demolished almost to the ground The Church a fair one too if not ruinous is Appropriated to the Arch-bishoprick of York Mr. Francis Saundes is the present Tenant The Freeholders in Scroby cum Ranskill Towns 1612. are set down thus Iohn Ashetone Richard Torre William Thorpe Anthony Denton Stephen Welles Thomas Hudson Symon Bucke Iames Lawe William Smith ... Fitz-Williams Gent. Thomas Crumwell of Sutton upon Lound Robert Smith Mattersey Mersey And Thorpe IN Madrisseig of the Kings Soc of Bodmeschell which before the Norman Invasion was Earl Tosti's was as much as answered the Geld for eleven Bovats The Land being sufficient for three Plows or three Car. There twelve Sochm. two Vill. three Bord had six Car. ½ Medow three qu. long one broad Pasture Wood one leuc long one qu. ½ broad Here was also of Roger de Busli's Fee Soc to Rametone one Bov. ad Geld. There was one Sochm. and two Acres of Medow Another part of this Township was a Berue of the Arch-bishop of Yorkes great Soc of Sudton with Scroby and Lund Here was a Family who had their name from this place who were Lords of Gameleston in this Wapentac as in that place may be seen and of other places in this County Lancashire and Lincolneshire who Founded a Monstery here of Gilbertines before the year 1102. as in Mysin may be noted The Prior of Marsey held two Bovats of Land in pure Alms of the Fee of Thomas the heir of Roger de Maresey in the time of H. 3. Isabell de Chauncy daughter of Thomas de Marsey in her widowhood for the safety or health of her Soul and of the Soul of Sir Philip de Chauncy sometimes her husband and for the Souls of all her Ancestors remised confirmed and quit-claimed to God and St. Helen of the Isle of Marsay and the Prior and Covent of the House of Marsay there serving God her whole Demesne with all Homages and Services of the Towns of Marsay and Thorpe and all Lands possessions and Tenements which they had and held of the gift and Feoffment of her Ancestors in the Villages or Towns of Marsay and Thorpe Gameleston Elkesley West Retford Misyn and Boulton or other-where of her Fee with the Advowsons of the Churches of Mersay Gameleston Misyn and Bouleton with free Court of their Tenants in the said Towns c. The Witnesses to her Deed were Sir Hugh de Hercy Sir Robert de Saundeby Sir Laurence de Chaworth Knights Robert Pouer Robert de Wlrington Robert de Lanum Robert de Bekyngham Henry de Sutton Iohn Fitz-Raph William de â—â—beny and others which was about the latter part of the Reign of E. 1. or beginning of E. 2. The
of hers remainder to Elizabeth her sister and the heirs of hers remainder to the right heirs of the said Thomas son of Adam de Lound Thomas Palmer sometime Parson of Blaunkeney 16 R. 2. had in Ad quod Damnum to give to the Dean and Chapter of Lincolne two Mess. one Toft one Bovat thirty five Acres of Land and one Rood of Land two Acres of Medow and 5s. Rent with the Appurtenances in Sutton by Retford in the Cley and Lound whereof twenty Acres in Lound were held of Tikhill by doing Suit at the two great Courts of Barsetlowe and one Messuage and fifteen Acres and one Rood of Land and two of Medow and 5s. Rent in Lound by Suit at the two great Courts of Bothumsell And that Messuage Toft and Bovat in Sutton were then held of Roger de Weston Prebendary of the Prebend of Clarburgh by the Service of 3s. 6d. and doing Suit at the Court of the Prebend of Clarburgh Thomas Vavasor 8 E. 4 was against Iohn Perin in a Plea for one Messuage and two Bovats of Land with the Appurtenances in Lound By an Inquisition taken at Retford 14 Octob. 4 H. 8. it appears that William Vavasor dyed 28 Apr. 3 H. 8. leaving his son and heir Thomas Vavasor twenty years old at the Feast of the Assumption of the blessed Mary the Virgin last past before the Inquisition which found that he had thirty three Acres of Land five Acres and one Rood of Medow and two Acres of Wood with the Appurtenances in Lound and one Messuage and two Acres in Styrton and a Wind-Mill in Burton All which Thomas Vavasor of Deneby in Yorkshire who dyed 2 Ian. 22 H. 8. left to Roger Vavasor his son and heir then aged sixteen years twenty weeks and five daies who married Elena the daughter of Thomas Reresby Margaret Wombell was wife of Thomas Vavasor and over-lived him as appeareth by the Inquisition taken at Tuxford 16 Aug. 23 H. 8. and had the Mannor of Deneby which extended it self into Deneby Newhall and Mekesburgh and the Mannor of Stanseby with Lands in South Kirkby and Bentley in the said County of York Robert Brokysby Iohn Allot Clark and Thomas Shawe 23 H. 8. claimed against Thomas Wentworth Knight and Isabell his wife eight Messuages one hundred and forty Acres of Land sixty of Medow eight hundred of Pasture one hundred of Common of Pasture and 12d. Rent with the Appurtenances in Sutton by Lownd Wyeston Lownde Missen Misterton South Clifton and North Clifton and called to warant Thomas Wentworth junior brother of the said Thomas Wentworth Knight The King 7 March 4 E. 6. granted to Walter Iobson and his heirs all that Messuage and Tenement with the Appurtenances and all Lands c. in Lownd in the Tenure of Cuthbert Clark late belonging to the Chantry of St. Iohn in Mattersey The owners of Sutton cum Lownde at least that of Tikhill Fee in 1612. are thus set down Iohn Colbye Thomas Hamond of Lownde Nicolas Hamond of Lownd Gent. Richard Ellis Edward Hartshorne of the same Raph Smith Henry Mattersey William Redshay senior of Lownde Henry Goodcoot Thomas Wadsley William Atkinson widow Ratcliff William Redshaye junior the heirs of .... Freeston Thomas Crumwell of Sutton Nicolas Stringer of Sutton Gent. The Vicarage of Sutton was 10l. when the Sacrist of St. Maries at York was Patron 'T is now of the same value in the Kings Books and the Lady Sara South Patroness West Retford THis Town seems part of East Retford being only divided by the River Idel It was of the Fee of Roger de Busli and in Dooms-day Book is joyned with Odesthorp which is now unknown There was Soc to Clumber in Odesthorp and Retford one Bov. ½ ad Geldam The Land four Bovats .... the Soc in Clumber was waste There was Soc to Westune half a Bov. ad Geldam The Land four Bov. There was one Villain one fourth of a Mill and four Acres of Medow But of the Tayn-land Vlmer had two Bov. ½ ad Geldam in his Mannor The Land one Car. There was in Demesne one Car. and half a Mill 4s. and ten Acres of Medow In the Confessours time this was valued at 40s. in the Conquerours but at 4s. Robert de Mortayne 4 E. 1. by concord in a Plea for Common granted to Iohn de Beringworth Parson of the moyety of the Church of West Retford and his successours Common of Pasture in his Pasture of West Retford with all manner of his animals in all places as freely as himself and predecessours ever had Robert de Hayton as in that place is noted held some Lands here The Jury 26 E. 1. found that Thomas de Maresey Lord of Gameleston held in West Retford eight Bovats freely for 6s. per annum This place for the most part went with Weston and Grove as in those places may be observed until the last Sir Iohn Hercyes disposition of that estate who it seems caused this Mannor to be settled on his sister Anne the wife of Nicolas Denman I find Edward Darrell son of Sir Thomas married Barbara daughter and co-heir of Francis Denman who in the year 1614. had by her three sons 1. Thomas then aged sixteen years 2. Brian and 3. Edward In 1612. these were owners in West Retford Edward Dorrell Gent. ..... Podge Gent. Philip Collye Thomas Lincolne Isabel Sloswick Iohn Colbye of Sutton Robert Gellande George Tompson Thomas Merebeck William Booth William Tomson Thomas Gellande widow Ienyver Richard Ellis The Rectory of West Retford was twenty Marks when Mr. Hersy was Patron 'T is now 9l. 13s. 4d. value in the Kings Books and Iohn Dorrell Esquire the last Patron Dr ..... Darrell hath given his Estate here to Found an Hospital which since his death is built where the Mannor stood for a Master .... Billeby And Ranby IN Billeby before the Conquest Trunchell had a Mannor which paid to the Geld for six Bov. The Land then three Car. There afterwards Ingram the Man of Roger de Busli whose Fee it was had one Car. nine Vill. and one Bord. having three Car. and six Acres of Medow In the Confessours time this was valued at 40s. in the Conquerours but at 20s. This Ingram may well be supposed the Ancestor of the Lords of Auferton whereof Ranulf son 〈◊〉 Engelram or Ingram was Sheriff of these Counties of Nott. and Derb. in the beginning of Henry the second and his sons Robert and William likewise Idonea de Blacquell the wife of William son of or Fitz Ranulf gave to the Canons of Wellebec the whole part of her Mill of Blackwell with her body half of that Mill with the whole Suit and all Customs belonging to that half to sustain and make yearly the Anniversary of Sir William Fitz-Ranulf her Lord and her own Anniversary for ever Isabella the daughter of William Fitz-Ranulf sometime wife of Iohn de Orreby
gave and confirmed to the Canons of Wellebec the Mill of Bileby which William Fitz-Ranulf her father gave with his body there to be buried and the moyety of the Mill of Blackwell which Idonea her mother gave to the said Canons with her body there to be buried also Gilbert son and heir of Iohn de Orreby gave to the said Canons all his right and claim in divers Tenants of Bileby with their sequels c. Thomas de Chaworth Knight called chief Lord of the Town of Bilby being heir of the elder House as in Weverton may be seen granted to the said Canons full and free Power to make and repair their Damm or Pool of Bileby as oft as need should be and to take and dig Turf and Earth on both sides of it with free passage to carry it through the Alderholt Alnetum of Bileby without the impediment of him his heirs or assigns as long as the Custody of the Town of Bileby should be in his hands or of his heirs or assigns Sir Thomas de Chaworth held half a Knights Fee in Billeby and in 4 E. 2. Sir Thomas de Chaworth son of Sir William held it And in the time of Henry the sixth or Edward the fourth Thomas Chaworth held three Fees in Alfreton Norton Bilby and Ranby Iohn de Orreby and Thurstan Despencer held in Bilby the third part of one Knights Fee and a twelfth part of the Countess of Ewe or Augi Lady of Tikhill Bilby 9 E. 2. answered for half a Villa whereof Iohn de Orreby was then Lord. In Queen Elizabeths time Edward Osborne Knight Alderman of London paid for his Lands in Bilby late Sir William Hewetts and before time Iohn de Orrebyes and Thurstan Dispensers sometime Thomas Chaworths held by the Service of a third part and a twelfth part of a Knights Fee 2s 9d. q. Richard Appleby 11 Eliz. claimed against Edward Osborne and Anne his wife the Mannors of Bilby and Ranby which William Gresley Esquire and others gave to Richard Appleby and Elizabeth his wife c. Sir Edward Osborne Knight and Baronet the Aldermans heir sold it to Sir Gervas Clifton Knight and Baroner and it continueth with his posterity Ranby is an old decayed Town where certain Oaks lately grew called Ranby Oaks It was most of it waste in the Conquerours time some of it was of the Soc of the Kings Mannor of Bodmescell Ranesby and Sudershale answered the Geld or Tax for five Bov. The Land was one Car. ½ waste There was also of that Soc in Raneby two Car. ad geldam The Land four Car. waste There was also of Roger de Busli's Fee Soc to Grove one Bov. ½ ad geldam The Land one Car. in Grove waste Soc also in Eton one Bov. of Land to the Geld. It went it seems with Bilby with which part of it is Parish to Blyth and part of Ranby to Babworth Babworth Moreton And Normanton SOC to the Kings Mannor of Bodmeschell which Earl Tosti had before the Conquest in Babworth Oglesthorp and Ordsall were six Bov. of Land and an half for the Geld. The Land three Car. was waste except that there were one Vill. and two Bord. with half a Plow or Car. There were ten Acres of Medow There was a Mannor in Babword of Roger de Busli's Fee which Vlmer had before who paid for it as two Bov. and an half The Land being two Car. There Goisfrid the Man of Roger had one Car. and one Bord. with half a Car. Pasture Wood two qu. long one broad In the Confessours time this was 40s. value in the Conquerours but 10s. It seems the Family of Saundeby had very anciently some interest here as in that place may be observed Babbeworth in 9 E. 2. answered for half a Villa and the Earl of Lancaster and Robert de Saundeby were then certified to be Lords of it William de Grendon held half a Knights Fee in Babworth of the old Feoffment of the Honour of Lancaster The Jury in 30 H. 3. found that William de Grendon held of Robert de St. George Lord of Bodmeshell in Babworth two Bov. and an half and paid 3s. 4d. per annum Robert de Swillington 22 E. 1. had free warren granted in Babworth There was an Assize taken before William Skippewyth and his fellows at Nottingham 28 E. 3. between Sir Thomas de Grendon Chr. and Henry de Grendon of Warmesworth his brother concerning the Mannor of Babword with the Advowson of the Church which the said Henry acknowledged to be the right of the said Thomas who afterwards sold it to Sir William Trussebutt and his heirs who within three years of his possession gave the Advowson of the Church of Babbeword to the Priory of Newstede and that he did by the Kings licence and the licence of Sir Thomas de Saundeby Chief and Mesne Lord whose Charters the Cannons had Sir Robert Trussebutt son and heir of Sir William entred after the death of his father into the said Mannor and Appurtenances and Rents but claimed nothing concerning the said Advowson nor meddled any thing with it And the Prior and Covent of Newstede in the life of Sir William Trussebutt presented to the said Church of Babbeword one William Dobyn of Burgh Clark in the Kings Chancery And the said Sir Robert Tâ—ussebutt within two years after the death of the said Sir William his father by the counsel of his friends sold the said Mannor of Babbeword with the Appurtenances to Sir Richard de Willughby Lord of Wollaton and his heirs making mention in his Deed of Sale saying thus with the Advowson of the Church of the said Town Yet the said Sir Richard de Willughby made no claim but the said William de Burgh continued Rector upon their presentation having held the Church above two years before the Sale and four years after In Queen Elizabeths time Richard Wortely paid for his Lands in Babworth sometimes William de Grindons held by the service of half a Knights Fee 3s. 4d. It was within memory sold to Sir Gervas Elwis Moretons THere was Soc to the Kings Mannors of Bodmeschell in one Moreton and the other Moretune ten Bov. ad Geldam The Land four Car. There seven Sochm. one Bord. had four Car. Pasture Wood two qu. long one broad Of Roger de Busli's Fee in Norther Moreton were two Mannors which before the Conquest Alfrid and Lufchell had paying to the Geld for two Bov. The Land two Car. was waste Pasture Wood one qu. long half one broad In the Confessours time the value was 16s. The Jury 30 H. 3. said that Thomas de Stratton held of Robert de St. George in Moreton two Bov. and an half of Land for 16s. per annum and Richard Abbat the third part of a Bovat in the same Town for 5s. Robert le Vavasor of Morton near to Retford married Matildis the
way beyond Rempston unto Redford in le North and from Thurmeston unto Newarke of all passing the Trent by the same Charter he grants to them That all men coming ad forum de Nottingham cum quadrigis summagiis suis à vespere diâ—i veneris usque ad vesperum diei Sabbati non namentur nisi pro firma Regis By all this it clearly appears they were a Corporation before and had those Free Customs kept a Market and paid a Ferme to the Crown King Iohn when he was Earl Mortayne had all Nottinghamshire and the Forest in a kind of Regal manner and in that time he granted to the Burgesses of Nottingham a Charter of Liberties to the same effect as he did in the first year of his Reign for that when he was King hath relation to the Charter he granted cum essemus Comes Mortayne and I have seen that old Charter without a Seal In his Charter as King he grants them in effect what his father had granted and what they held in the time of his great Grandfather and further gives them Gildam mercatoriam and appoints that whoever should by them be constituted Praepositus Bayliff of that Borough should pay the Kings Ferme at his Exchequer at Easter and Michaelmas and forbids the infringing of these Liberties upon forfeiture of ten pounds In the Charter of Henry the third the Ferme is expressed to be 52l. blank and for that Farm they had by that Charter the aforesaid Town given to them and their heirs a phrase in that ancient time including Successours and further that they should take Trouage and have Coroners Edward the first granted unto them that they might elect a Major and two Bayliffs Secundum consuetudinem utriusque Burgi and that their Major should be Escheator within the Borough The distinction of the Boroughs continues to this day and are called the English and the French Borough In the English Borough bloodshed is but 6s. 4d. in the French Borough it is 18s. And in the Plea Rolls of Common Pleas M. 5 E. 2. there is a Custom within the English Borough of Nottingham That Infants after fifteen years may sell their Lands as if they were of full age From Edward the first till the 27 H. 6. they continued Burgesses in their Corporation and then the King made the Borough a County and turned the Bayliffs into Sheriffs and incorporated them by the name of Major and Burgesses in which plight they continue at this day There was a Chapel dedicated to St. Iames wherein the Court of the Honour of Peverell as it seems used to be kept but King Edward the second in the ninth year of his Reign discharged it from that burden by his Charter to the Friers Carmelites There is a Lane in Nottingham called St. Iames's Lane at this day whereabouts that Chapel stood This House of Friers Carmelites called the White Friers whose scite is betwixt St. Iames's Lane and Frier Lane and denominates that Row of building towards the Market place to be the Frier Row was as I conceive some Religious House of Monks before Henry the seconds time for in the first year of Henry the second rather 5 Steph. there is mentioned Monachi de Nottingham which must either be the Monks of Lenton or some Religious persons here who after became Friers Carmelites whose Order was instituted Anno Dom. 1161. which fell to be about 7 H. 2. They are called Carmelites à Monte Carmel the place where Elias lived and they pretend to imitate the strictness of Elias his life The Scituation of this Town with the Streets Lanes and remarkable places is most aptly described by Iohn Speed's Map to whom I referr those that desire more exactly to know it Besides the Friers Carmelites before observed there was in Nottingham near the Léene in a place called the Broad Marsh an House of Friers Minors otherwise called the Gray Friers that were professed to live after the Rule of St. Francis There were three Rules of this St. Francis two of the Minors and the third of the Capuchins that pretend they imitated their St. Francis in his strictest way The two Minors do not differ in Rule nor otherwise save that upon a Garboyle amongst them some of them would needs have a Dispensation to take Lands and Possessions as Abbeis and other Priories had and the rest would not whereupon those that took Dispensations were called Fratres Gaudentiae and those that would not had the name of Fratres Observantis There was besides an Hospital Founded by Iohn Plumtre about Edward the thirds time consisting of two Priests and divers poor men and the Scite of it is near the Bridge of Nottingham called Towne Bridge or the Léene Bridge which is to be repaired at the charge of the Town and the whole County for in the Eyre Rolls of 3 E. 3. called Ragman there is this presentment Pons de Nott. vocat Tunebridge in defect villae totius Comitatus There was also an House called St. Iohns on the North side of the Town parcel of the Possessions of St. Iohns of Hierusalem who were Knights of a Religious Order vowing Chastity and most of their younger time living in Wars against the Turks and Saracens before the Turks grew great There was also in the Church of St. Mary a Guild or Fraternity of six Priests dedicated to the Holy Trinity and their House in the high Pavement is called Trinity House at this day There was in the same Church the Chantry of St. Mary the Chantry of St. Iames and Amyas Chantry who was a man of value in this Town about Edward the thirds time his House was on the long Row and from him called Amyas Place from whom it came to Allestree a Merchant of the Staple and is now the Inheritance of Henry Sherwin There was in St. Peters Church the Gild of St. George and the Chantry of St. Mary in St. Peters Church and another Chantry there and in the Church of St. Nicholas there was the Gild or Fraternity of the blessed Virgin Mary Bâ—sides these Seated in the Town These Religious Houses had Land and Houses in Nottingham The Rectory of St. Maries was appropriated to the Priory of Lenton the Monasteries of Rufford Newstede Wirkesoppe Thurgarton Bevall and Shelford in the County of Nottingham Swinshead and Sempringham in Lincolneshire Kings Mede Dale and Darley in Darbyshire and Geroldine or Garrowden Monastery in Leycestershire The Town is now Governed by a Major a Recorder six Aldermen two Coroners two Sheriffs two Chamberlains and a Common Council of persons whereof six are by a late Order to be such as have not born the Office of Sheriff or Chamberlain The Major hath a Clark called the Majors Clark and commonly the Town Clark The Sheriffs have an Officer called the Steward The Major hath a particular Court of Pleas of Land he hath two Serjeants at Mace The Major and Sheriffs have also there an ordinary Court of Pleas
Raynes succeeded and Robert Raynes Grandchild of the first Robert had it Anno Dom. 1641. He was a thrifty man and built his house on the top of the barren hill whither he intended to remove the Town also but his Son Robert was not like him so that 't is now become the possession of Thomas Lewys Alderman of London lately high Sheriff of this County The Church is in the Kings books 9l. 7s. 6d. and Mr. Thomas Lewis Patron at this time But in an old Ms. of Mr. Iohn Marters Rector of Normanton upon Sore made a little before the dissolution of Monasteries of the values and Patrons of the Rectories and Vicarages in this Diocess of York this Rectory is twenty Mark and Mr. Yngleworth Patron Upon a Tomb in the Chancel Hic jacent Radulphus Illingworth Ar. Agnes uxor ejus qui quidem Radulphus ob 1. die Mensis Augusti Anno 1498. quorum animabus propitietur Deus In the window there Arg. a Chevron Azur with a Labell of three points Ermine Swillington and Azur three Hedgehogs Or Heriz In the body of the Church Hic jacet Tho. Payre de Stoneford valect Agnes uxor sua quae Agnes ob 6. Jan. Upon a Tomb in the Church Hic jacent Magister Johannes Harrison Alicia Agnes uxores ejus qui quidem Johannes obiit 4. die Nov. 1532. In the window over that Tomb Arg. a fesse on both sides Flory between three Anchors sable quartering Arg. a fesse gules two Bars engrayled sable then the first again and then sable a fesse between three Stars Arg. all which together impale with Ermine a Cross engrayled sable and also Arg. a Chevron Azure betwixt three Staples sable The first alone impales in the same window with Arg. a fesse gules and two Bars sable And Erm. a Cross engrayled sable impales alone with Arg. A Chevr Azure betwixt three Staples sable Normanton upon Sore SO called from some owner in the time of the Saxons probably for Norman was then a a name frequently used and ton or tun is the same with Town now This place before the coming of K. William had very many Shares and several owners which made him parcel it out amongst his great men so that it is very difficult to give any exact or particular account of the Tenencies which in all likelihood were joyned to other more considerable possessions and so came to have little mention distinctly made of them in any Records that I have seen The Book of Doomesday shows that of Roger de Buslies fee here was Soc to Stanford as much as answered to the Tax or Geld for three Bovats The Land was one Carucat the Soc then waste there was four Acres of Medow the value was 4s. as in the time of King Edward the Confessor Here was also of Hugh Earl of Chesters fee Soc to Sudton two Bovats and two thirds ad geldam The Land was a Carucat but waste there was three Acres of Medow In the Confessors time this was valued at 5s. then at 3s. Here was a Mannor also of Earl Moritons fee which Story Lord also of Gotham and Sutton had before the Conquest for four Mannors rated to the Geld as ten Bovats The Land whereof was sufficient for two Plows or two Car. This Alden held of the Earl and there had one Car. or Plow two Sochm two Vill. three Bordars having two Caruc or Plows there was fifteen Acres of Medow In the Confessors time this was 40s. value in the Conquerours time but 30s. Of the Land of the Taynes here was a Mannor which Osgod had before the Conquest who paid for it to the Geld as three Bovats and an half The Land of it was one Car. there were two Villans and two Acres of Medow This in the Confessors time was valued at 20s. then but at 6s. Another Mannor in Normentune of the Tayn Land which Raven had and paid to the Danegeld for it as two Bovats In the second year of King Iohns raign Matthew de Eston released all his claim and right in the Advowson of the Church of Normanton to Bertram Prior of St. Cuthberts of Durham for which he was to have reception in all the benefits which were in that Church The Prior of Durham 3 E. 3. claimed a Court Leet for his Tenents in Normanton Bonington Kineston Barton Cortingstok Remston and Gotham Oddo the son of Iohn for the soul of his son Iohn and Matthew son and heir of Oddo for the soul of his brother Iohn gave to God and the Church of Lenton and the Monks there serving God the whole Land which Herbert the father of Iohn held the same sixteen Acres which lay at the West end of the Town on both sides the way with Ogga and Iunger which paid 4s. per annum Tho. de Arches by fine released to the Prior of Lenton all his claim in sixteen Acres of Land in Normanton 32 H. 3. for which the Prior gave him 100s. In the time of E. 1. Robert de Strelley gave eleven Bovats of Land in Normanton to Sampson de Strelley his son to his Deed hangs a fair seal of his Arms Paly of six Roger de St. Andrew and his partners are certified 25 E. 1. to have held a Knights fee in Gaham Normanton and Sutton of the Honor of Leicester Robert de Vaus and Amfelicia his Wife by fine 18 E. 3. pass the Mannor of Normanton upon Sore to Sir Gervas de Clifton Knight and his heirs for ever paying sixteen pounds per annum during the life of Amfelicia only who particularly in that fine released the third part of the Mannor her Dower distinct from the other 2. parts Here was a Mannor which was de La Pooles anciently and came to the Crown by the Attainder of Edmund de La Poole 2 H. 8. King H. 8. by his Letters Patents dated May 1. in the 36. year of his raign granted licence to Edward Elrington and Humfrey Metcalf Esquire to give a Mess. in Normanton on Sore to Richard Willughby Gent. and his heirs Richard Willoughby late of Nottingham who held one Mess. in Normanton on Sore and certain Lands there late belonging to the Monastery of Durham died Apr. 16.37 H. 8. leaving Thomas Willoughby his son and heir seventeen years of age Mar. 15. then last past William Willoughby claimed against Henry Strelley Gent. one Cottage one Toft one Garden sixty Acres of Land ten of Medow ten of Pasture four of Wood with the Appurtenances in Normanton on Sore 2 and 3 Ph. Mariae Iohn Rotheram and William Marwood Gent. claimed against William Willoughby Gent. divers Lands and Tenements in Normanton upon Sore who called to warranty George Eyre Gent. 19 Eliz. And in another Recovery which William Willoughby suffered 20 Eliz. of the Mannor of Normanton on Sore he called the said George Eyre Gent. who further called Thomas Eyre Gent. This whole Township is now Mr.
Daniel Earls saving five yard Land which Mr. Richard Fillingham inherits from his Ancestors he is now chief Constable and there are five more Freeholders but too small to mention Richardus Willoughby de Nott. ob 37 H. 8 -An fil Parmater 1 Thom. Willoughby at 17. ad mort Patris s. prole 2 Will. Willoughby de Normanton ob 1587 -An fil Joh. Rotheram de Nun-Eaton 1 Gilbertus Willoughby Margaret uxor Manly s. p. Franc. filia Sam. Marrow ux 1 -Frances fil Willielmi Walkeden Rectoris Eccles. de Clifton Camvile ux 2 -Petrus Columbell Ar. Marit secundus Willielmus Willoughby de Normanton ob May 4. 1629 -Susanna filia Will. Moulton de Toddenham in Com. Glocest ob 1635 -Edw Darling de London Ar. Marit secund 2 Will. Willoughby miles de Aston Com. Oxon. ob 1615. fil Young Rotheram Willoughby miles -Anna filia Ric. Wortly milits Will. Willoughby Ar. ob 1630 -Eliz fil una cohaered Timoth. Pusey de Selston Mariae uxoris ejus fil cohaer Joh. Clay de Crich ob Oct. 3. 1659 -Jo Coke miles Mar. 2. Will. Willoughby Baronettus ob Feb. 10. 1670 -Marg fil hae Abbat Willielmus obiit infans Maria-Beaumont Dixie Wulstan Dixie aet 14. an 1671. Beaumont aet 11. 1671. Johan aet 10. Will. aet 2. Ric. aet 1. aet Eliz. 16. Fran. 7. Mari. 13. Marg. 5. Eliza. ux Ant. Pel. mil. Marga. ux paramor An. ux Norwch Willielmus Johannes s. p. Richardus Willoughby Johannes Willoughby mercator de Bristow 1640. The first William Willoughby was buried in this Chancel Nov. 28. 1587. and hath a fair blew Stone over him but nothing written on it He gave out of some Lands which he bought in Nottingham and Lenton 8l. 6s. 8d. to be yearly paid to five Towns in course Normanton Great Marlow Nun-Eaton Nottingham and Wolvey There are two Monuments with these inscriptions in Marble Memoriae Sacrum Here lyeth the Body of Frances the Daughter of William Walkeden first married to Gilbert Willoughby Esquire by whom she had issue two Sons and one Daughter after married to Peter Columbell Esquire and by him had issue six Sons and three Daughters she died Aâ—g 12. Anno Dom. 1606. Posuit Willielmus Willoughby Armiger Memoriae Sacrum Near to this place lyeth the Body of William Willoughby Son of Gilbert Willoughby Esq and Lord of this Town by inheritance and close by this Wall lyeth Susanna his Wife daughter to William Moulton of Toddenham in the County of Glocester Esquire They were married at seventeen years of age and lived together twenty years and had no issue which William died the fourth of May 1629. Secondly she married Edward Darling of London Esquire and now Lord of this Mannor by purchase who lived together until the first of Iune 1635. And she dyed at Battersey in Surrey and left no issue which Edward Darling caused this Monument to be erected at his own charge in Remembrance of them both May the first 1636. The Rectory was 12l. when the Prior of Durham was Patron now 't is in the Kings Books 7l. 11s. 0. ob and Mr. Daniel Earle Patron Sutton Bonington NOw one Town heretofore two Sudton is the same with South-Town and Boniton probably was called so from Reeds growing thereabouts for such like signification Bon or Bun hath in the Saxon. The Book of Dooms-day shows them to be diversly shared both at that time and before and that Harold had in Sudton three Mannors which paid the Geld as a Caruc and half though the Land was but one Carucat which after the Conquest Hugh Earl of Chester had Robert Fitz-William held it of him and there had one Car. and an half three Sochm. six Vill. having three Car. and an half one Mill 20s. fifteen acr of Medow In the Confessors time and then valued at 40s. having Soc in Normanton In Boniton likewise Harold had a Mannor rated to the Dane-tax or Geld as six Bovats The Land was two Car. there Robert the man or Tenent of the said Earl Hugh had three Sochm. five Vill. having two Car. and an half there was ten acres of Medow In King Edward the Confessors time and then also valued at 20s. In Sudton likewise Stori named before in Normanton had a Mannor in the Saxon times rated to the publick payment for half a Car. The Land was twelve Bovats When the Conquerors survey was made there was one Plow or Carucat There R. Earl of Moriton had three Carucats three Sochm. in his Demenesne and five acres of Medow This in the time of King Edward the Confessour was valued at 3s. then at 20s. In Sutone also of the Taynland was a Mannor which Leuvord had before the Conquest rated to the tax at three Bov. afterwards Siuvard held it of the King Another Coleman had rated to the Geld at one Bov. and an half Of the Taynland also in Boniton there was Soc to Normentune as much as was rated at one Bov. and an half to the Geld. The Land half a Carucat There were five Vill. with one Car. and three acr of Meadow In the time of King Edward the Confessor and then valued at 6s. Soc to Lech of the fee of Henry de Ferrariis Siuvard had also in Boniton which paid to the tax as one Bov. and an half The Land was four Bovats There three Vill. had one Car. and an half and three acr of Medow this continued the old value 6s. Robert Patric paid two Marks for one Knights fee in Bonington in the time of King H. 3. and after I find William Patrick offered himself against Nich. de Segrave concerning his presentation to the Church of Bonington then void and in his gift The Advowson of this Church went with the Family of Segrave as Thorp in this Wapentak did to the Family of Mowbray and so to that of Barkley with which it continues Elizabeth Dutchess of Norfolk recovered the Advowson of the Church of Sutton Bouâ—ngâ—on upon a Quare impedit 13 H. 7. against Sir Henry Collet Knight William Stokes Clark together with Thomas Archbishop of York The Mannor of Bonyngton was by fine 5 E. 2. settled on Raph de Crophill and Maud his Wife and the heirs which he should beget on the Body of Maud the remainder to Thomas Son of the said Raph and the heirs of his Body remaining to the right heirs of Raph. The Jury 12 E. 2. found it not to the Kings loss if he granted to Raph de Crophull and his heirs for ever to inclose the way which led from the Church of Sutton upon Sore to the Church of Boniton on the West part of both Towns to inlarge his dwelling Raph de Crophull had view of Frank-pledge in Bonington and Sutton granted 1 E. 3. and free warren in Bonington and Tireswell in this County in Hemington and Braundeston in Leicestershire and in Downesby in Lincolnshire Raph de Crophill Chr. complained 3 E. 3. against
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
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
Robert Curson Esquire Gyles Heron Esquire Iohn Fysher Gent. and Robert Andrew Gent. claimed against Iohn Kelham Esquire the Mannor of Kelham with the Appurtenances and ten Mess. ten Tofts twenty Gardens four hundred Acres of Land c. in Kelham Deyncourts Fee here was held by the Families of Staunton and Rolleston as in those places may be perceived and Tysuns went with Averham from whose ancient Lords viz. the Lexingtons it descended by inheritance to the present Lord Lexington as in that place is shown Walter de Amundevilla testified that Gilbert de Kelum by the consent of Alase his wife gave in pure Alms to God and the Monks of Ruchford twenty Acres in the territory of Kelum nigh the Parc of Hugh de Muscam Amongst the witnesses were R. the Priest of Wymundetorpe Malger de Houcton and Hawisia his wife W. de Amundevill I suppose him the said Walter Lord of Winthorpe as in that place is said Wil. son of Thomas de Monteburgh of Egram released and quit-claimed to that Monastery all his right of Common of Pasture in the Essarts made in the territory of Egram on both sides the Redegate untill the Justices came to Nottingham in 20 H. 3. and likewise in Kelumshrubs where the wood stood Thomas de Roldeston son of Malger I guess confirmed the gift of his father in the Shrubs and other places of the territory of Kelum and promised the Monks that he would make them a Chartell or Deed sealed with his own seal when he should be made a Knight that which he then made being sealed with the Seal of the Chapter of Southwell as very many in those times were upon the like account Benedict de Rolleston son of Thomas de Rolleston confirmed to the Monks of Rufford three Bovats of Land in Kelum which they had of the gift of Elias de Wytthechirche and Ydonea his wife Ant of the said Benedict and the homage and service of the heirs of Walter Ormal which they had of the gift of Alan son of Hugh de Rodmarthwayt and all the Lands which they had of his Fee in the year 1254. whosoever gave them reserving to himself and his heirs 5â— yearly Rent and the foreign service at two times in the year viz. the feast of the Holy Cross after Easter and St. Martin in Winter Richard son of Iames de Sutton 3 E. 3. recovered against Edmund de Cressy Simon son and heir of Henry Touc of Kelum who held of the said Richard by Knights service seven Bovats of Land and half a Mess. in Kelum and by doing suit at the Court of the said Richard at Averham from three weeks to three weeks Richard de Willughby 27 E. 3. had free warren in Béeston Sutton Passeys Kelome and North Carleton At the Assizes at Nottingham 31 E. 3. Roger de Bakewell recovered his seisin of two Mess. two Bov. of Land and twenty Acres of Land and fifteen of Medow in Kelum and Thomas son of Eustachius de Kelum was amerced In a recovery 6 H. 8. Robert Lawrence Clark George Barton and Martin Cape claimed against Lucia Robertson Widow two Mess. two Tofts three Cottages one Barn one Dovecote three Gardens one hundred Acres of Land sixteen of Medow twenty of Pasture 6s. Rent and the Rent of 1l. of Cumin in Newark Kellom and Codington who called to warrant Henry Robertson son and heir of Thomas Robertson A great part of the Town and Fields of Kelham were of long time the inheritance of Robertson an ancient Gentleman of that Town all which by the death of Iohn Robertson the last heir Male of that house did descend to his sisters and co-heirs and their heirs who have all since sold their inheritances to the said Mr. Sutton late Lord Lexington The Abby of Roughford had diverse Farms there which together with Parkelathes and the said Abby were 6 Oct. 29 H. 8. granted to George Earl of Shrowsbury from whom by descent and mean Conveyance it came to Sir William Sayvile Baronet who sold his interest here to Mr. Sutton the said Lord Lexington who became Lord and owner of the whole township and territories of Kelham and in effect of the whole Island of excellent ground between the two currents of Trent that by Newark and that by Aram and Kelham where he hath since the wars built an house which he made his Mansion Aram House being ruined but there is still a fair Park well stored in that Lordship The Rectory of Kellome was xx Marks when the Abbat of Welbeck was Patron 't is now 19l. 8s. 4d. value in the Kings books and the Lord Lexington Patron Hockerton Ocretone And Hocretone THere was a small parcel in Ocretone Sok to Nortwell which belonged to St. Mary of Sudwell of the Fee of the Arch-bishop of York which at the time of the Conquerours Survey answered the Geld for one Bovaâ— There was then one Villain one Bordar and two Acres of Medow In Hocretune before the Conquest Vlsi and Turchill paid to the Tax or Geld for one Plow-land or Car. for their Mannors the Land whereof was two Car. and an half There afterwards Roger de Busli had in Demesne two Car. eleven Villains three Bord. having four Car. There was Medow of twenty six Acres There was a Church Pasture Wood one leu long four qu. and four Virg. broad In King Edward the Confessours time this was 4l. value then in the Conquerours 3l. Another Mannor in this Town before the Normans came Tori had which paid for three Bov. to the Geld. The Land was one Car. There afterwards Walter de Aincurt who succeeded Tori in all or most places had one Car. five Vill. five Bord. having half a Car. and sixteen Acres of Medow Pasture Wood one leu long one qu. ½ broad In the Confessours time valued at 20s. in the Conquerours at 15s. A. Alan Earl of Britan gave to Richard son of Bostarne a certain Wood Broccellam called Rahag in Fee to him and his heirs to increase a Knights Fee which he had there beyond Trent Rocelin son of Richard for the remedy of his own Soul and his Wifes and Childrens and for the Souls of his Father and Mother Brothers and Sisters gave the Wood called Rahaghe to the Monks of Ruâ—ford in pure Alms. Conan Duke of Britan and Earl of Richmond confirmed to God and the Church of St. Mary at Ruford the gift which Roscelin son of Richard and Raph his brother gave to the said Church to wit the Wood called Rahage To his Deed dated at Wassingburc were Witnesses Robert de Gant Roger de Mumbrey Hamon Botereux Peter Botereux Baldwin de Gant William de Vesci Gaufr de Gant Raph son of Richard Wygan son of Rad. Ioslenus son of Roselinus de Roldeston confirmed to the said Monks all the Land of his Fee called Rahage tilled and untilled as his Father had given it Raph son of Richard in the presence of
the Chapter of Suell now Southwell faithfully engaged himself that he would warrant the Land of Rahage as the Almes of Roselin his brother to the Brethren of Ruford and make them have the Charter of the Earl of Richmond and Confirmation gratis as speedily as he could receiving of them for the business two Marks of Silver The Chapter of Southwell likewise certified that Alured de Walur granted in their presence to the Brethren of Ruford two Bovats of Land in Hocretun with their proper dwelling Houses and other Appurtenances reserving 6s. per annum to himself and his heirs and that this was done by the consent of Basilia the wife of Gumbert and Adelina his own wife their daughter Basilia de Hokerton-Gumbertus Adelina-Aluredus le Walur de Neware Johannes le Walur 1183. Henricus le Walur Willielmus le Walur 6 E. 1. Walterus le Walur 9 E. 2. Henricus le-Alicia 19 E. 2. Walur Henricus 9 E. 2. Agatha ... de Stokes Johannes de Stokes Magota 19 E. 2. Robertus Milo Alicia Margareta Adelina wife of Alured le Walur of Newerc daughter of Basilia de Hocurtun and Milo her son confirmed to the said Monks the said two Bovats in Hokirton which they held in the life time of the said Alured and the Monks should only pay 5s. per annum for which concession they gave her 22s. and one Cow and one Calf and ten Lambs and released a Toft in that Town which they held in her said husbands life time for which they were to have 10d. of their yearly Farm remitted she and her son Affidaverunt did pass their credit in the hand of William le Tuke to observe this Covenant without any deceit and because they had not a Seal of their own put to the Chapters Seal of Southwell Adelizia and Margaret daughters of Miles le Walur in their Widow-hood and free power released to the said Monks the said 5s. per annum for the said two Bovats The Witnesses were Eustachius de Ludham then Sheriff of Nott. William de Staunton William le Butiler Robert Vavassor Robert de S. George Thomas de Roleston Peter de Kelum Gaufr the Constable of Newerch Alan Roald Henry le Walur In the year 1183. Iohn son of Alured le Walur by the grant and good will of Miles his brother granted the said Monks eighteen Acres of Arable Land lying not far from a Wong of theirs on the East side of the Town of Wodehus for ten years and in the hand of Hugh Folenfant passed his credit that they should enjoy the Land the pledges were Cog Battaile and Robert son of Basilia and Hugh de Osmundthorpe amongst the Witnesses were Robert de Furnewx and Philip his brother Hugh de Builli Hugh Folenfant Robert son of Gumbert Gerebert de Hodneskill Richard Barete Henry le Walur of Hokyrton confirmed the Wong culturam which Iohn le Walur his father gave Raph de Hokerton son of Thomas by the consent of his son Roger gave to the Monks of Rufford all the Land he had in Wudehus from the West part of the Ditch which was about the Chapel for 8s. per annum and two Acres and an half in anoâ—her place viz. nigh Hokerton Medow on the East and the Common Pasture of Hokerton the Witnesses were Roger le Grosse crasso Roger le Megre macro Canons of Southwell who lived in the time of King Stephen Malger the Priest of Winkeburne William the Priest of Kelum Maurice de Kelum William de Tulcba Hubert the Clark of Winkeburne Paulin de Osmentorp Richard son of Gumbert Norman de Suella Stori de Winkeburne Ingeram the Clark Roger monetarâ—o the Minter Goafrey le Angevin for the Souls of his Father Henry and of his Mother Aubrey gave to the said Monks that Wong in Hocreton which he held of Iohn son of Adam son of Griffin de Hocreton in the West Field lying between a Selion or Land which they had of the Land of Alfred le Walur and five Acres which they held of the Land of Iohn le Walur The Witnesses were Adam de Bella aqua Robert his brother William le Butiler of Hocreton Robert the Clark of Winkeburne Iohn le Walur of Hocreton Raph son of Thomas of the same Town This was confirmed by the said Iohn son of Adam de Hocreton to whose Deed these were Witnesses viz. Gaufr the Parson of Hocreton Gaufr de Iorz William Pincerna of Hocreton Richard de Lesington Robert his son Iohn le Walur of Hocreton Raph son of Thomas Remboud son of Iohn de Criche Gilbert son of Adam Gilbert Pincerna Habert de Hokerton son of Gilbert gave and confirmed to God and St. Mary and the Monks of Rufford four Selions of Land in the Territory of Hokerton which Monks were of their Charity to give him yearly during his life at the Feast of S. Michael a pair of Shooes sotularium or 4d. And moreover granted him their brother-hood and that after his death they would do for him as for a Convert And because he had not a Seal he caused the Seal of the Chapter of Suell for a Testimony to be hung at his Chartel The Witnesses were William the Canon of Muscham Alan the Canon of Pickering Matthew Barum Ingeram the Chaplain Henry Anselm Alexander Chaplains Gaufr the Parson of Hocreton and the Lady Matilda of the same Town who gave her consent as Witnessed also Raph de Suella sisters son sororio of Hub. de Hocurton William le Butiler of Hecreton sold to Robert Parson of Alreton for eight Marks of Silver all the Farm Rent which the Monks of Rufford were wont to pay him for the Land which they held of his Fee in Rahag wudehuse viz. 8s. which the said Parson bestowed on the said Monks and the said William confirmed Here were three successively of that name William Pincerna of Hokerton 22 H. 2. gave account of two Marks of the Forest Amercements William le Buttiler in the former part of the Reign of Henry the third paid for one Knights Fee in Hokerton two Marks and afterwards Hugh le Butiler is certified to hold a Knights Fee here of the Countess of Ewe Lady of Tikhill Iohn le Botiler 6 E. 1. impleaded William le Walur that he should do him Service and Suit his Court at Hokerton and pay 2s. 9d. ob for two Bovats which the said William acknowledged to hold of him but paid only 2s. 8d. for all Service William le Walour had two sons Walter and Henry and a daughter Agatha Walter had Henry In the year 1302. Iohn le Buteler Lord of Staynton settled his whole Mannor of Hokerton with all its Appurtenances and with the Villanages Villains their Chattels and Sequels and with all the Services of the Free-holders of the said Mannor as well in Kelum as in Hokerton together with Wards Reliefs Escaets Suits of Court and the Advowson of the Church of Hokerton so intirely as the