it when the Conquerours Survey was taken Gocelinus is mentioned in Lenton amongst William Peverels Men who gave two parts of the Tythes of their Demesnes to that Priory at the Foundation In 13 Ioh. Robert son of William de Alfreton was certified to hold three Knights Fees in these two Counties of Nott. and Derb. of the Escheat of Peverell viz. in Moniasse and Roudesle one Fee in Calvour half one in Watenho half one in Woodburgh half one and in Hadsop and Bramcote half a Knights Fee this descended by inheritance to the Family of Chaworth as it seems another part of this Township did from the Lords of Greyseley to that of Cantelupe which made the common distinction which is yet in use of Watnow Chaworth and Watnow Cauntcliff the latter of which all or most of it became the possession of Bevall Priory by the gift of the Founder as in that place may be discerned and some likewise that Monastery got afterwards in the former Raph son of Hugh de Redinges sometimes as I take it called Hugh de Watenhou gave to the Priory of Lenton a Bovat of Land in Watenhow which Toly held and afterwards Galfr. Stoyle which during his life he held himself paying the Monastery 16d. a year but after his death the Priory might dispose of it as their other Lands and he granted Common to their Tenant as the rest of the Men of Watenhow had in all places he gave it to the Monks to make an Anniversary for his Father and left a bitter Curse for his heirs if any of them should attempt to go against or hinder his gift The Monks demised it to Robert son of Roger de Watenhow for his life and after that when Sir Simon de Hedon was Sheriff in the time of Henry the third to Sir Robert de Lathom during his life for a Noble yearly and afterwards in 5 E. 1. to Robert son of Robert de Watenhowe for the same Rent during his life This half Fee which Thomas Chaworth had lay half of it in Ridinges in Derbishire Hugh de Watenhow paid for half a Knights Fee here one Mark in the beginning of Henry the third and Robert de Watenhow afterwards held it Hugo de Redings vel de Watenhow Matheus Radulphus Rogerus Robertus de Watenhou Robertus de Watnow But in Nom. Vill. 9 E. 2. Robert de Kinmarley is certified to be Lord. William Fox and Margaret his wife 8 E. 1. acknowleded one Mess. and sixteen Acres of Land in Watenowe and Brokebresting to be the right of Robert de Strelley A Fine was levied at Nott. the Munday next after the Feast of St. Martin 3 E. 3. between William de Mekisburgh of Nottingham Quer. and Iohn de Hacunthorpe of Watnowe Chauworthe and Agnes his wife Deforc. who acknowledged the Mannor of Watnowe Chauworthe the inheritance of the said Agnes whereof Ioan who had been the wife of Stephen de Kinmarle then held two parts in Dower to be the right of the said William When the Aid 22 E. 3. of forty shillings for every Knights Fee to make the Kings eldest son a Knight was gathered William de Amyas was found to hold the fourth part of a Knights Fee in Watenhowe which Robert de Kynmerley held in former time Iohn Wollaton of Nottingham Cousin and heir of William Amyas late of Nott. remised 20 H. 6. to Iohn Vicount Beaumont and others all his right in the Mannor of Watenowe Chaworth late William Wollatons his brothers William Wollaton pardoned the Prior and Covent of Bevall for acquiring of Robert Vicar of Greseley without his licence one Mess. and one Bovat in Watnow Chaworth sometime Hugh Cressyes and eight Acres of Land which was Richard Selstons in the same Town held of him and five Tofts and fifteen Acres of Land in Brokebresting sometimes Iohn de Pynkestons and others which were held of him and Iohn Skiffelyn of Broxtow which he and Iohn his son also confirmed to the Priory Richard Bingham of Watnow Chaworth married Anne one of the four sisters and heirs of Sir Nicholas Strelley of Lindeby and by her had Anne the wife of Rafe Purefey of Drayton and Margaret the wife of Raph Rolleston lineal Ancestor of Lancelote Rolleston the present owner as I suppose This Richard de Bingham and Anne his wife 7 H. 8. suffered a Recovery of the moyety of the Mannor of Ryddinges and of this Mannor and Shelton as in that place is noted And 3 H. 8. also of Ryddinges which it seems went along with this Mannor Kymberley Doomsd. Chinemerley IN Chinemarlye before the Conquest Azor paid the Geld as four Bov. for his Mannor and Grimchetell likewise four Bov. for his The Land was one Car. There William Peverell whose Fee it became had two Sochm. one Vill. five Bord. having three Car. and an half small Wood four qu. long two broad This kept the old value 10s. Raph son of William de Toueton gave to the Church of the holy Trinity at Lenton and the Monks there serving God all his Rent he had in Kymberley viz. half a Mark of Silver yearly To his Deed were Witnesses the Abbat of Derley Sampson de Stretley Warner de Beheleg Richard de Roissalt Robert son of or Fitz William Mr. Henry Richard de Hartill Hugh son of Sampson William his brother Raph son of Hugh de Watenhow Matthew his brother Gilbert de Bâoculstow and others This Mannor seems to have been held by a Family who had their name from their residence here In 9 E. 2. it went for the fourth part of a Villa and Robert de Kynmarley was certified to be Lord of it Iohn de Kynmerley Clark son of Robert late Lord of Kynmerley 9 E. 3. passed this Mannor and the Advowson of the Church and all the Land he had in Neuthorp of the gift and feoffment of his said Father to Sir Ioh. de Monte Rector of Greyseley together with all his Goods Iohn de Monte 12 E. 3. conveyed it to Nicholas de Cantelupe Lord of Ilkeston who Founded Bevall and Richard del Hull of Little Halum brother of Iohn de Monte confirmed it Sir Nicholas de Cauntlowe 29 E. 3. passed it to Robert Bernak and William de Braydiston Clark who the same year settled it on Hugh de Cressy of Selleston for his life and afterwrds on the Prior and Coyent of Beauvale and their Successours Hugh de Cressy and Cecilia his wife 33 E. 3. released the premises in Kinmerley and Newthorp to the said Religious people for 7l. 10s. per annum during his life and 4l. 10s. during hers if she over-lived him to begin after his death for which in case of non-payment they might distrein in the Priory Lands in Selleston Watnow Greysely and Mourhouses Another parcell went with Greyseley which after the death of Sir Nicholas de Cantelupe and Ioane his wife came to Nicholas son of William
son and Amicia his wife The Jury 6 E. 3. found it no loss if the King granted to Iohn de Sutton of Ashefeld Clerk that he might give ten Acres and an half of waste in Sutton held of the King by 5s. 3d yearly to the Exchequer to Robert de Hânoure of Sutton and his heirs Males remainder to Alianor daughter to the said Robert and hers remainder to Beatrix her sister and hers remainder to Iohn son of Iohn de Sutton and Avicia his wife and the heirs Males of the body of the said Avicia for want whereof to revert to the said Iohn de Sutton and his heirs Thomas de Mareslee purchased one Mess. one Bovat and one Acre of Land half an Acre of Medow with the Appurtenances in Sutton in Ashfeild of Roger de Somervile who bought them of Iohn de Sutton By a Fine 20 E. 3. they were settled on Tho. de Merseley and Agnes his wife during their lives and afterwards on Iohn de Montford and Maud his wife and their heirs Roger Grenehaugh Esquire of Teversholt died 23 Ian. 5 Eliz. seised of this Mannor Elizabeth the wife of Francis Molyneux and Anne the wife of Gervase Nevill Esquire daughters and co-heirs of Thomas Grenehalgh Esquire son and heir of the said Roger being then his heirs There was a Recovery 14 Eliz. wherein Robert Rockley Thomas Draxe and Henry Nevile Esquire claimed against Gervase Nevile Esquire and Anne his wife the Mannor of Sutton in Ashfeild and ten Mess. ten Cottages twenty Gardens ten Orchards five hundred Acres of Land two hundred of Medow four hundred of Pasture twenty of Wood and twenty of âurz and Heath with the Appurtenances in Sutton Ashefeild Claworth Bekingham Hothewayt and Sellefton and likewise the Mannor of Rowthorne in Darbyshire And another Recovery 16 Eliz. wherein Nicholas Hardwick and Richard Eckingfeild claimed against Iames Hardwick Esquire these Lands in larger particulars who called to warrant Gervase Nevyle and Anne his wife This Mannor remains the Inheritance of the Right Honourable William Earl of Devonshire who is son of Earl William son of Earl William son of Elizabeth Countess of Shrowsbury sister of Iames Hardwick Esquire In 1612. the owners of Sutton in Ashefeild are set down William Lord Cavendish Edward Langford Thomas Clark William Lyndley of Skegby Gent. and Edward Fitz-Randolph Gent. The Forest Book mentions many Essarts and Inclosures made in Fullwood an old decayed Wood now only a great Common without Wood to belong to Hucknall Howthwayte At the Assises at Nott. 28 E. 3. Iohn son of Hugh Cole recovered his seisin of one Mess. one Carucat of Land and 20s. Rent in Hothewayts Hokenale and William son of Iohn Cole was amerced In the year 1328. the Church of Sutton on Ashefeld yielded twenty Marks yearly Rent to the Priory of Thurgarton aed there was then half a Carucat which then also was a Mark Rent and the Tyth of the Watermill was then 5s. and Iohn Fraunceyes paid for a Toft 2s. which made the whole 14l. 7s. per annum Skegby SChegeby was also a Berew of the great Sok of Maunsfeild Ancient Demesne of the Crown King Iohn 28 Aug. in the eighth year of his Reign granted to Godfrey Spigurnell his Serjeant of his Chappel five Bovats of Land and his Mill with the Appurtenances in Scheggeby to Fee Farm 20s. whereof the Tenants used ancâently to pay Galfr. Spigurnell the Kings Servant viz. Sealer of Writs 11 H. 3. had the Customs and Services of the Kings men of Skegby holding twenty Bovats of Land in Fee Farm for 54s. 4d. in number per annum 8 Apr. 11 H. 3. he had it granted with the Kings stock and the 18 Apr. as before is said the same year The Jury 24 E. 1. found that Edmund Spigurnell who had also the Mannor of Staundon in Essex held this Mannor in Fee Farm for 4l. 4s. 4d. per annum being a Capital Messuage with five Bovats in Demesne and a Water-Mill and twenty Bovats which the Tenants held by the Custom of the Mannor of Maunsfeild and two Bovats in Bondage and that Iohn Espigurnell his brother and heir was then forty years of age Iohn Spigurnell 2 E. 2. left his son and heir Edmund aged twenty three years Edmund Spigurnell about 8 E. 2. died seised of this Mannor and left his daughter and heir Ioane half a year old Howbeit he eiâher as I suppose left his wife with Child or else that Ioane should have been Elizabeth for in the Quo Warranto of 3 E. 3. Thomas Gobion and Elizabeth his wife daughter and heir of Edmund Spigurnell claimed view of Franke pledge in the Mannor of Skeggeby The Jury 8 E. 3. found it not to the Kings loss but gain if he granted Thomas Gobion the younger and Elizabeth his wife licence to enfeoffe Richard de Pensax in the Mannor of Skeggeby To have to him and his heirs for ever because the said Richard held 100s. Land c. in Belgrave in the County of Leicester of the Earl of Lancaster and 100s. Land and Rent in Wysowe in this County of Maud de St. Andrew Lady of Wysow whose custody belonged to the King This Maud was widow of Sir Roger de St. Andrew and before that of Iohn son of Sir Robert Poutrell in whose right she then held Wissowe in Dower Richard Pensax 35 E. 3. left William his son and heir and the Jury 40 E. 3. returned it not to the Kings loss if he granted licence to Percivall Pensax to have to him and his heirs one Mess. and twenty Acres of Land in Sutton in Ashefeild and the Mannor of Skegby with the Appurtenances and Easements except one Mill forty Acres of Medow ten of Wood and the moyety of the Capital Mess. and five Bovats of Land in the same Mannor which the said Percivall purchased of William Pensax by the Kings licence One of the Family of Linley in Yorkeshire married a daughter of Pensax and with them it continueth Percivallus Linley-Elena fil Will. Pensax de Hernegate in Com. Ebor. 2 Willielmus Linley-Joana fil Roberti âighley de Newhall in C. Ebor. Thom. Linley de Althorp-Margareta fil .... Evers de Axholme 1 Willielmus Linley de Skegby 1659-Margareta fil Joh. Farmery Com. Linc. Franciscus Linley 1614 -Jana fil Franc. Molineux de Teversalt 1 Thom. Linley-Rosafil Godfr Clark de Somerfall Com. Darb. 2 Percivallus .... ux Roberti Morton de Morton Richard s. p. Elizab. Elianora 2 David-Anna fil .... Rothwood Johannes Linley 1 Thom. Linley sine prol masc .... fil haer Joh. Gowland Hugh son of Hugh de Skeggeby for the health of his Soul and his wife Mauds gave 4d. a year to the Priory of Thurgarton to be paid by himself and his heirs for ever at the Feast of the Nativity of the blessed Mary In 1612. the owners here were William Lyndley Gent. Lord of the
The Jury 19 E. 2. found that Robert de Wolrington of Eaton held two parts of the Mannor of Eton and the Reversion of the third part which Agatha his mother held in Dower of the Honour of Tikhill by the service of two parts of two Knights Fees and 13s. 4d. to the Castle of Tikhill for Ward fee and that he had four daughters by his said wife Margery his heirs of this Mannor Elizabeth the first eleven years old and above Alianor nine Isabell eight and Alice seven and upwards But Robert de Wolrington was his son and heir of his other Lands in Eton and Stretton c. In 21 E. 3. it was not found to the Kings loss if he granted Iohn de Wystowe Chaplain licence to give two parts of a Mess. in Eton by Retford to the Mansion of Mr. Gilbert de Welton Prebendary of the Prebend of Eton in the Church of St. Mary of Southwell and the third part of a Mess. and one Acre and an half of Land and half an Acre of Medow in the same Town to Henry de Swinstede Vicar of the Church of Eton and there remained over and above to the said Iohn one Mess. and thirteen Acres of Land in Eton. The Jury 37 E. 3. found that Iohn Ward outlawed for Felony held in Eton the fourth part of a Mess. four Acres of Land and half an Acre of Medow of Mr. Iohn de Welton Robert Breretwisel and Henry de Bolyngbroke by the service of 1d. q for Ward fee and that they held of Queen Philip as of the Honour of Tikhill In the time of Henry the sixth the Tenants of Iohn Leverwick held a third part Iohn Cutt a third part and Thomas Wortley another third part Shortly after this time it became the inheritance of Sir Iohn Savage who enfeoffed Sir Thomas Chaworth and others of two parts and Sir William Babington and Thomas Nevill of the third to the use of Hugh Hercy Humfr. Hercy Esquire 8 H. 8. claimed against Iohn Daniel of Eton three Mess. eighty Acres of Land twelve of Medow twelve of Pasture with the Appurtenances in Eton. In the disposing of Hercyes Lands this Town was allotted to George Markham who was the Nephew of Sir Iohn Hercy It was after by that Markham conveyed unto and became the Inheritance of Thomas Markham of Allerton It was lately the Inheritance of Nicolas Stringer whose father purchased it of Mr. Pilkington to whom it was Mortgaged by the feoffees of Mr. Markham and now continueth the possession of Francis Stringer Esquire Johannes Stringer 2 Ricardus Stringer-Maria fil Joh. Poutrell de Westhalum Robertus Stringer de Eaton alias Idleton ... fil .... Hales Eborac Nicol. Stringer de Eaton 1614 -Maria fil Valentin Hartop de Com. Leic. Nicol. Stringer ... fil Fran. South mil. Franciscus Stringer ... fil Joh. Newton Bar. Anna-Tho Jobson Eliz. -Joh Copley Joh. Stringer fil haer Robert Watson 8 Eliz. claimed against Edward Rosse two Mess. two Tofts two Gardens thirty Acres of Land and one Acre of Wood with the Appurtenances in Eton by East Retford who called to warrant Edward Blakenall The owners of Eaton Town in 1612. are said to be Nicolas Stringer Gent. Edward Pilkington de Stanton in Com. Derb. Esquire ... Hublat Gent. Iohn Blaknall The Vicarage of Etton was 4l. 13s. 4d. or seven Marks and so it still continueth in the Kings Books and the Prebendary Patron Grove Grave SOme part in Grave as before is noted in Hedune was ancient Demesne of the Soc of Dunham but the principal part was of the fee of Rog. de Busli viz. that which before his coming was the Freehold of Alwin and Osmund and paid for four Bovats and an half to the Common Taxation of those times The Land then being known to be three Car. There afterwards Robert the Man of Roger had one Car. and an half and ââx Vill. three Bord. one Sochm. having two Car. and an half There was a Priest and a Church and eight Acres of Medow Pasture Wood one leu long and half so much broad It kept the value of 40s. having Soc in Ordesale and Ranby The next successour of Robert which I have yet found was Gerbert de Archis who 22 H. 2. gave account of ten Marks of the Forest Amercements whose son Gilbert de Arches 28 H. 2. gave account of fifty Marks for the Fine of his Fathers Land he had a son called also Gilbert de Arches as in Weston may be observed Malvesin de Herci and Theophania his wife and William Ruffus and Isabella his wife 11 Ioh. gave account of fifty Marks and two Palfreys for having two Knights Fees with the Appurtenances which were Gâlbert de Arches father of the said wives who were his heirs Malvesin de Hersey 5 H. 3. was Constable of Tykhill He in 17 H. 3. had a Release for two Knights Fees which he ought to the Castle of Tykehull Gilbert de Arches who gave his whole Land of Gledethorp to God and the Church of St. Iames at Wellebek and the Canons of that place was Lord of Grove near Retford and had the Barony of Grove intire he begat two daughters Theophania and Isabella and so was the Barony divided between the said two daughters There came one who had the Sirname of Hercy and married Theophania the first begotten of whom was then viz. about the latter end of Edward the second Sir Hugh de Hercy A certain Knight called William Rufus married the second daughter Isabella and begot of her a certain daughter Eyncina by name who was married to one of the Sirname of Mortayn who begot on her two sons William and Robert de Morteyn The said Eyncina after the death of her husband gave to Robert her son the Mannor of Grove because William his brother was heir and Robert had not whereof he might live Of William the elder the Inheritance descended to Sir Roger de Morteyn who then was as son and heir from Robert the second son the Inheritance of Grove descended to Stacy de Morteyn who then was as son and heir The Jury 27 E. 1. found that Robert de Morteyn held in Grove c. doing homage and fealty to Hugh de Hercy and paying to Tykhill Os. yearly for Ward Fee c. and left Eustachius de Morteyn his son and heir above thirty years old Grave and Hedon made an intire Villa 9 E. 2. and Hugh de Hercy Eustachius de Morteyn and Laurence de Cheworthe were then Lords Hugh de Hercy the younger 16 E. 2. had pardon for acquiring the Mannor of Grove held in Capite of the King of the Honour of Tykhull The King 10 E. 2. wrote from Woodstok 27 of Iune to Robert de Perpount Iohn Deincourt and Hugh de Hercy for two thousand footmen of which two hundred Miners to be chosen out of Nott. and Dabyshires and to be led to Newcastle
remainder to the right heirs of Cecily from this man 't is like it had the name of Stanton Lymar There was another Fine 10 E. 2. between Nicolas de Wydmerpole and Alice his wife and Robert son of the said Nicolas Quer and Durand de Wydmerpol Deforc. of six Mess. and eight Virg. of Land with the Appurtenances in Widmerpole and Staunton by Wydmerpol thereby settled on the said Nicolas Alice and Robert for life remainder to Thomas son of Nicolas and the heirs of his body remainder to the right heirs of Nicolas Iohn son of Iohn de Staunton Lymar held at the day of his death the Mannor of Stanton Lymar of Thomas de Widmerpole by the service of the service of the eighth part of a Knights Fee Cecily and Margaret 3 E. 3. were found to be his dauââters and heirs The Family of Sibthorp as in that place may be seen had interest here So that of Swillington as in Boney and so had that of Clifton as in that place may be observed which now remains intire owners of this whole Enclosed and depopulated Lordship The Rectory was 46s. 8d. and Mr. Stainton Patron Now in the Kings Books it is 2l. 13s. 4d. and Sir Ger. Clifton Patron as his Ancestor was in the time of Edward the third Keyworth Doomsd. Cauord PRobably Cai's Hall or Village Here Stori named in Stanton before the Normans came had a Mannor rated to the Tax as three Bov. â
The Land of it was sufficient for one Plow or one Car. There Alured the man or Tenant of R. Earl Moriton whose Fee it was had two Sochm. one Vill. one Bord. with one Car. ½ This in King Edwards time was 20s. in King Williams time 10s. Here was some of Roger de Busli's Fee Soc to Normanton rated to the Geld as two Bov. There two Vill. had half a Car. this belonged to Plumptre but of his Fee here were also three Mannors which before he came Harold Richard and Frane had rated to the publick Tax as six Bov. â 3. The Land was two Car. There Roger had four Sochm. three Vill. two Bord. having three Car. There was sixteen Acres of Medow In King Edwards time this was 30s. in King Williams 17s. Of Raph Fitz-Huberts Fee In Caworde Frane had a Mannor before the Conquest rated to the Tax at five Bov. The Land one Car. ½ There afterwards Raph had one Car. ½ and three Acres of Medow In King Edwards time valued at 20s. in King Williams at 10s. This usually went with Boney or most of it That of Roger de Buslies Fee which went not with Plumptre seems to have been held by the Family of Malnoers or Malnuers Lords of Holme A Fine was levyed 24 H. 2. before the King at Northampton the Tuesday next after the Feast of St. Matthew between the Prior and Canons of Thurgarton and Leonius de Malnuers of the Land of Kaword for which the said Leonius gave them 7s. Rent in Medow viz. four Acres wanting a Rood in Estemore in the Mannor of Holme and all Wolrichemedwe Walter de Hulmo at the request and with the consent of Agnes his wife and Iohn his heir gave the Church of Kaeworth to God and the Church of St. Peter at Thurgarton for the health of his own Soul and his Ancestors and for the soul of Swain de Hoiland his wives Father and the soul of Robert son of Levenad who gave the same Church to the said Priory Iohn son and heir of the said Walter confirmed the gift Iames de Keworth son of this Iohn enfeoffed Iohn Barry of Lands in Basingfeld as in that place may be observed and I suppose here also Henry Perpount and Annora his wife 12 E. 1. claimed against Maud Barry wife of Iohn two Mess. and five Virgats of Land in Kewrth and against Richard Barry her son five Mess. and six Virgats of Land and ten shillings Rent in the same Town and Basingfeild of which Iames de Kewrth Cousin of the said Annora whose heir she then was was seized Richard Barry pleaded the said Iames dyed not seized and the Jury found for him accordingly The Jury found 13 E. 1. that Iohn Barry quondam Husband of Maud had his Bull and Boar at Keiworth free to go and eat in the Corn Medows or any other place in the said Town where he would And that it was as the said Maud alledged in her answer by reason of the Tenements and Advowson of the Church in the said Town in which she was at that time indowed Therefore Thomas de Rempston who had taken and impounded ãâã Bull because he eat of his Corn was in mercy cast These Barryes were Lords of Torlaston where more concerning them is noted the heir of the last of them being married to ... Pendock William Pendocke and Iohn his son sold their interest here to diverse Freeholders and the Advowson of the Church to Sir George Parkins in our time This Mannor and Advowson whereof Thomas Barry dyed seized 18 H. 8. March 4. leaving Iohn his son and heir about twelve years old was held of Sir William Perpount of Holme except one Mess. and four Bovats of Land held of the heirs of Henry Ellershawe in socage by fealty and 6d. rent yearly There yet remains of this last name in the Town Hugh son of Hugh de Somervile of Keword gave to God and the Church of Lenton one Bovat of Land in Keword which Azor held to which Deed were Witnesses Mr. Richard his brother and Gervas his brother Robert Andegavensis c. Gervas son of Gervas de Clifton Stephen the Priest of Wilford and Elias his son Geoffrey Lutterell Gervase de Somervile acknowledged to owe to the Lord of Boney yearly the service of the fourth part of a Knights Fee for twelve Bovats or Oxgangs which he held of him in Kaworth and 8s. for ten Bovats more of another part Walter de Holme passed the Church of Kaword to Geoffrey de Somerville Philip Marc and Anne his wife purchased Lands of several people here which was of the Fee of Hugh de Bellomonte which I take to be of that which was Earl Moritons nine Bovats whereof the said Philip who was Sheriff of Nott. and Derb. the latter part of King Iohns Reign and seven or eight years of the beginning of Henry the thirds gave with his Body to Lenton where it lay honourably entombed as his said wifes confirmation imports And Sabina who had been the wife of Hugh Bellomont for 4s. and a quarter of Rye in her very great need released her Dower in three Bovats and an half of the nine to the said Priory and swore upon the holy Gospels a custom very common in those times and occasions that she would never go against her release nor any way else disturb the quiet possession of them Here then were other owners as Robert de Orleans and one Robert de Glamorgan Knight who
between this Lordship and Colston Bassett which is not in that Record described at all by any other name that I know of besides Newbold yet the name of the Mannor of Newbold hath been longest preserved in memory in Kinalton where there yet remains some obscure knowledge of it therefore it is not amiss to insert what that famous Record hath of it in this place which shows that Eârl Morcar had a Mannor in it Taxed at three Carucats The Land whereof was eight Car. before the Conquest afterwards King William himself had there 3 Car. thirteen Sochm. thirteen Vill. three Bord. having seven Car. and two Acres of small Wood. There was a Priest and a Church In the Confessours time this was 4l. but in the Conquerours improved to 10l. value In Newbold also was another Mannor which Morcar likewise had for which he paid as ten Bovats to the publick Geld. The Land two Car. There William Pevrell the Conquerours natural son had afterwards in Demesne one Car. ½ and nine Vill. having three Car. and forty Acres of Medow This kept the old value 3l. How the two Townships parted this Newâold I cannot discover for I find the Family of Vilers sometimes Paganus de Vilers primo âcoffat H. 1. Willielmus de Vilers Paganus de Vilers H. 2. Willielmus de Vilers-Petronilla relict 13 H. 3. Johannes de Vilers de Newbold Willielmus de Vilers 9 E. 1. Matheus de Vilers .... Clementia Paganus de Vilers miles de Kinolton 11 E. 3. de Newbold-Isabella Avena dicta fil .... Ireland de Hartshorne Com. Derb. -Godefridus Foliambe miles morâââs 6 R. 2. ãâã Folejambe-Margareta 40 E. 3. Godfr Folejambe infra aetat 6 R. 2. Alicia fil haer Godfr Foljamb milit -Robertus de Plumpton Willielmus Plumpton mil. ob 15 Oct. 20 E. 4 -Eliz fil Briani Stapleton-Katherina fil Tho. Wintringham Willielmus de Plumpton .... fil Dom. Clifford Elizabetha aet 19 20 E. 4 -Henricus Sotâhill vel Johannes Henricus Sothill-Jana fil âic Empson Jana-Joh Constable de Kinalton mil. Anna-Anth Thorold miles Winifred-Georgius Clifton Ar. marit 1. Gervasius Clifton mil. Bar. ob 1666 -Frances fil Fr. Clifford Comitis Gumbr Clifford Clifton miles ob 1670 -Fran fil Heneagii Finch mil. Dom. Willielmus Clifton Bar. aet 13. 1676. Katherina Arabella Will. Bevercotes marit 1 -Cicely ... Oglethorp Willielmus Drury de Com. Suff. mil. -Elizab Joh. vel Rob. Rocliff-Margareta aet 21. 20 E. 4. Brian Roâcliff-Margeria fil Thom. Metham mil. Johannes Roâcliff Ingeram Clifford miles ãâã Robertus de Plumpton miles-Agnes fil Will. Gascoign mil. Godfr Math. Beatrix Almus Robertus 16 H. 3 -Maria sor Rad. fil Rad. fil Sim. fil Ric. relict 20 H. 3. Robertus de Vilers 40 H. 3. Thom. Ricardus Almus called of Neubolt sometimes of Kinolton and the Vicar of Colston Basset esteems himself Parson of that Neubold which is now known in Kinolton Lordship Paganus de Vilers in the time of King Henry the second gave and granted to Roger Arch-bishop of York and his successors for the use and house-keeping or hospitality of the Archbishops that no other Parson should be instituted into the Church of âitrelâe stowe with the whole Garden as well belonging to the Church as not belonging and four Bovats of Land which the Church had before and one Toft belonging to those Bovats with all other their Appurtenances and furthermore twelve Acres of his own gift with Common of Pasture through the whole Territory of the Town as much as belonged to aâl the said Lands to this grant there were above threescore Wââââsses and their names expressed in it The Family of Vilers held this Lordship of the Bâââers of Werington in Lancashire so that 't is like the Castle mentioned in Gotham to be sciâââre in this place was of the Earl of Chesters Party of whom that Family had dependance Wiliââs Bââler had seisin in King Iohn's time of one Knights Fee in Newbot and Outhorp And Wiliam Bâtler is certified to have held two Knights Fees in Crophill and Kinalton and ãâã Paganus de Vilers was a great man and had many sons He gave his son William Newbolt Perriâila who had been wife of William de Vilers 13 H. 3. claimed against Alexander de Vilers fâât Bovats of Land and the third part of one Bov. and three Tofts with the Appurtenances in Newbolt as her Dower Iohn son of William de Vilers held a Knights Fee in Neubold of Lancaster Fee Rapâ Bagge held Lands here which descended to his Posterity of Bingham with Clipfton William de Villers pâssed one Mess. and âen Bov. of Land by Fine 9 E. 1. to Richard son of Raph Bagge in this Town of which when Thomas Earl of Lancaster after the death of William Baâler the Tenant exacted relief the Sheriff had a precept to compel Matthew son and heir of William Vilers to show cause why he should not acquât the said Richard who came and 33 E. 1. pleaded that he had no Lands or Tenements descended to him by inheritance from his Father The last of this Family that I have seen any thing of was Paganus de Vilers of Kinalton Knight 11 E. 3. on whose Seal was six Lyoncels 3.2.1 There was a Fine 40 E. 3. levied between Sir Godfrey Foljambe Knight Quer. and Henry Dale and Maâd his wife Deforc. of twelve Mess. twelve Virg. of Land and twenty Acres of Medow in Kinalton and another the same Term Triâ 40 E. 3. between Godfr son of Godfr Fâlâambe and Margaret his wife Quer. and Robert Dalâport Clark Deforc. of the Mannor of Kynalton whereby it was settled on the said Godfr and Margaret and the heirs of their bodies remainder to the right heirs of Godfr The King 5 March 6 R. 2. committed to Sir Iohn Leeks Chr. the custody of the Lands which were then in his hands by reason of the minority of Godfr son of Godfr son of Godfr ãâã Knight deceased whose wifes name was Aveâa and might have been supposed an heir of Vilers but that in a Pedegree of Foljambe I find she is said to be the Daughter of ... Ireland of Hartshorne However Alice the daughter and heir of Sir Godfrey Foljamb was married to Sir Robert Plumpton Knight and had issue Sir William Plumpton Knight whose first wife was Elizabeth daughter of Brian Stapleton by whom he had William Plumpton who left two daughters and heirs Margaret wife of Iohn Rocliffe aged 21. and Elizabeth wife of Iohn Sothill aged 19 years and something more at the death of their Grandfather Sir William Plumpton which was 15 Oct. 20 E. 4. This Mannor descended to these two co-heirs of their Father but their said Grandfather dyed seized of a great number of other Mannors and Lands which were intayled on Sir Robert Plumpton his son by Catherin daughter of Thomas Wintringham viz. in Darbishire the Mannors of Okebrok Chaddesdon Derley Staunton Edinsor Pillesley Hassep Wormill
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 tân 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 thâe 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 Mackworââ 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 Bâkyngham 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 hâld 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 Caât and then they should be freed from one Diet or daies
a Crosse engrailed Gules The Lady Alice Stauntons Tomb is mentioned in Staunton Thorpe by Newark IN Torpe the Fee of Rad. de Limesi before the Conquest Vlvric had a Mannor then rated to the Dane-geld at six Bov. and an half The Land four Car. There afterwards Manfrid the Man or Tenant of Raph de Limesi had one Car. and nine Villains and five Bordars having three Car. and seventy two Acres of Medow the value is omitted In King Iohns time Malger de Torpe was summoned to warrant to the Prior of Haverholme the Advowson of the Church of Thorp who came and confirmed the grant of it made by Walter de Torp his Father to the said Prior and his successors who then produced the Chartel or Deed of the said Walter And it appears 22 E. 3. that Priory enjoyed this Church accordingly In the Record of Nomina Villarum 9 E. 2. Thorpe and Cotum answered for a whole Villa and Richard de Thorpe and Iohn de Mounteney were certified to be Lords There was a Fine levied at Nott. 3 E. 3. between William de Thorpe Knight and Margaret his wife Quer. and Hugh de Goushull Parson of Radcliffe Deforc. of the Mannor of Thorpe with the Appurtenances five Bovats of Land five Acres of Medow seven Marks 2s. 1 ob 1 q. Rent and Rent of 4 Hens and 6 Geese in Stoke Eyleston Newark and Northgate by Newark whereby the premises were settled on the said Sir William and Margaret and the heirs of the body of Sir William remainder to Herbert his brother and the heirs Males of his body remainder to the right heirs of Sir William de Thorpe Sir Edmund Molineux who was Serjeant at Law and made Justice of the Bench during the Kings pleasure 22 Octob. 4 E. 6. was son of Sir Thomas Molineux of Hawton by his second wife the daughte of ... Cotton of Cheshire and had this Mannor and bought the Lands which were the Knights Hospitallers of St. Iohns of Hierusalem in this place belonging to the Preceptory of Eagle in the County of Lincolne formerly the Knights Templars of one ...... Thorpe who together with .... Lister had them from the Crown 35 H. 8. and was succeeded here by his son Iohn Molineux of Thorpe and he by his son Edmund who left a son called Sir Iohn Molineux who sold this place to Iohn Halsey and others The Township is inclosed and the Capitall Messuage and Grounds near the Town are now the inheritance of Robert Butler Esquire whose Father Robert Butler re-edified the ruined Church There was a Recovery suffered 6 Eliz. wherein Robert Flecher and Iohn Fawconer claimed against Iohn Molineux Esquire three Acres and one Rood of Medow and one hundred Acres of Moore in Thorpe and Stoke by Newark and Common of Pasture for all Mannor of Cattel in four hundred Acres of Land in Thorpe and Stoke and Robert Markham Esquire George Nevill Esquire and Iohn Arnald Gentleman were called to warranty Divers of the Closes are the inheritance of Sir Francis Leek Knight and Baronet whose Father William Leek was son of Sir Francis Leek by his second wife the daughter of ...... Edgioke after married to Sir Gervas Clifton which said Williams second wife .... the daughter of .... Orme of Elston still keeps them in Joynture She was since married to .... Druell who is also dead The Rectory of Thorpe was 10l. value when the Prior of Brodholme perhaps mistaken for Haverholme was Patron 'T is now 8l. in the Kings Books and the King himself Patron In the Church was an ancient Tomb whereon lay one in Armour and Mail cross-leg'd and on his Shield Azure a Fesse Arg. betwixt three Lions Rampant Or which is oft also in the Window Thorpe and the Inscription is Hic jacet Dom. Willielmus de Thorpe miles Domina Margareta uxor sua ... Here was Staffords and Bouns Earl of Northampton And Or a Lion Ramp Az. a Bend Gobony Arg. and Gules Barry of six Arg. and Az. Grey of Codnar Gules a Fesse Barry betwixt three Libards Heads Or. Quarterly Arg. and Sab. a Bend Gules Arg. three Martlets sab Quarterly per Fesse indented Ermine and Arg. Barry of six Or and Az. a Canton Ermine Or thrâe Chevrons Gules Gules a Saltier Arg. Nevile Azure on a Bend Arg. Cotised betwixt six Lioncels Ramp Or three Mullets Sab. Boun. Hawton Doomsd. Holton HEre was Soc to Newark as much as was rated to the Tax for two Bov. ½ of the Bishop of Lincolnes Fee and here was of Walter de Ayncurts Fee Soc to Stoches in Holton which paid the publick Geld for two Bovats The Land was one Car. There six Sochm. had two Car. and twenty Acres of Medow But the most considerable part of this Township was the Fee of Raph de Limesi wherein Tored had a Mannor which in the Confessours time paid the Dane-geld for four Bov. and an half The Land being then certified to be sufficient for two Plows or two Carucats There Raph de Limesi had two Car. and four Sochm. on two Bovats and an half of this Land and five Vill. five Bord. having three Car. There was a Priest and two Churches one Mill 5s. 4d. Here were likewise four Mannors in the Confessours time which Bugo Raynald Torvet and Bugo had and then discharged them to the publick payment or Geld for six Bov. ½ The Land was then returned to be two Car. ½ Soc also there which paid the Geld as five Bovats The Land two Car. Soc. In these Lands were eighteen Sochm. two Vill. ten Bord. having six Car. These five Mannors Alured held of Raph. In the Confessours time the value was 100s. when Doomsday Book was made 4l. 10s. Richard de Houton was the first Successour of Alured that I have found and he I suppose lived in the time of King Henry the second William son of Roger de Honton gave to Walter des Mores son of Rob. des Mores that Toft and two Bovats c. in Houton the Witnesses were Robert de Basingham Richard his brother William son of Richard de Houton William son of Roger de Stokes Walter del Howe Henry son of Thomas de Roldeston Walter son of Alured de Collingham Raph son of Robert de Collingham Robert de Stokes William son of Harvey Adam son of Albert Henry de Carleton Malger de Thorp Walter son of Henry and others Sir Roger de Howton son of William de Houton Knight gave with his body seven Bovats in Houton to the Priory of Thurgarton for the sustentation of a Caâon to celebrate Mass daily in that Church where he intended to be buried for the health of his Soul and of Agnes his wife and all his Ancestors and Successours Walter Arch-bishop of Yorke confirmed the Church of Houton to that Priory which it had of the gift of the said Roger son of William and afterwards granted the Prior and Covent two Besants yearly
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 faâis 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 byâan 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
Hawton is said this I suppose was of the Fee of Limosin most of which was held by the Family of Sampson Raph de Limesi gave to the Monastery of Hertford a Cell of St. Albans the Tythes of Hugh Samson of Aperston and of Torpe The House of Mr. Wood is in Eperston Parish and the Robertus del Wood de Enfeild in Com. Hertf. -Elizab fil cohaer Willielmi Slory Robertus Wood de Colwike-Margareta fil Edw. Mountague mil. Justic. Johannes Wood de Woodborow-Kath fil Will. Huson Johannes Wood aet 16. 1614. .... Chaworth Montague Wood de Woodborough aet 1673 -Brigitta fil Rich. Carell 1 Johannes Wood 2 Mountagu 3 Richard Kath. Eliz. Brigitta Phil. Edw. Georg. Gervas Edw. Thom. Mountague Simon Gerard. Tythes of that Land belonged to Hertford and were granted 29 H. 8. Feb. 9. to Anthony Denny Esquire and Ioane Champernowne as were all Mess. Lands Tenements and Hereditaments whatsoever in Lowdham Woodborough and Eperston late belonging to the Priory of St. Mary by Hertford Anthony Denny and Iohane his wife 37 H. 8. had pardon for alienating all these Tythes great and small in Eperston Woodborow and Loudham to Henry Strelley Esquire The Free-holders in Woodborow in the year 1612. were Christopher Strelley Iohn Wood of Lamley Iohn Crofts of Oxton William Owldney Iohn Clark Senior Thomas Wyer Henry Alvie Nicolas Lees c. In the year 1597. Febr. 27. Iames Chadock or Chadwick son of Iohn Chadwick or Chadock was baptized The Vicarage of Woodborough was eight Marks and the Prebendary Patron It seems now to belong to those of Oxton but being worth little or nothing a fair Church is unsupplied Upon the top of the out-side of the Chancel in the Stone and in the Windows are the Arms of Strelley Paly of six Arg. and Az. and that with a great Cinquefoyle Gules for Strelley of Woodborough Arg. a Chief Gules and a Bendlet Azure Crumwell In the Church in a North Window Gules on a Bend Arg. three Crosletts Flory sable Reresby In the South side of the Chancel Quarterly sab and Arg. Gules a Crosse Florè Arg. Paly of six Arg. and Azure a Canton or quarter Gules In the North of the Chancel Gules a Fesse countercompony Or and Azure between six Crossecrosletts Arg. Gules a Lion Ramp Varry a File of three Labells Or Everingham Gules a Bend between six Martlets Or Monteney Painted on the Church Wall Wood impaling Montague Eperston Epreston IN Epreston and Udeburgh Vlvric and Elsi had into their Hall or Mannor before the Norman Invasion six Car. of Land rated to the Geld at three Car. four Bov. There afterwards Raph de Limesin whose Fee it was had in Demesne three Car. and fourteen Sochm. on six Bovats and a Ferding or fourth part of a Bovat of this Land and twelve Vill. one Bord. having six Car. There was a Church and a Priest and four Mills 77s. and three Acres of Medow Pasture Wood two leâ long nine qu. broad In King Edward the Confessours time this was 5l. value in King Williams when Dooms-day Book was made 7l. In Epreston and Udeburgh Vlviet had a Mannor before the Conquest Taxed to the Danegeld at ½ a Car. The Land of it being twelve Bov. There afterwards Roger de Busli whose Fee it became had one Car. and two Sochm. on two Bov. of this Land and three Vill. having one Car. and ½ There was a Mill 5s. 4d. and three Acres of Medow In the Confessours time this was valued at five in the Conquerours at one Mark of Silver It appears that some of Roger de Buslies Fee in this place was held in the time of Henry the third by Thurstan le Dispenser and Iohn de Orreby being the third part of a Knights Fee of the Countess of Ewe or Augi then Lady of Tikhill But the greatest part of this Town was the Fee of Raph de Limosin who was Founder of the Priory of Hertford or else a very near successour of his of that Name who gave the Tythes of Hugh Sampson who held of him here in Apurston and Thorp in Newark Wapentac of the said Raphs Fee also to that Monastery as in Woodborough is already noted This Raph had to wife Hadwisia by whom he had Alan de Limesi the Father of Gerard who by Amicia his wife had Iohn de Limesi who married Alice the daughter of Robert de Harecurt and begat on her Hugh de Limesi but he dying without issue as his Uncles Gerard and Alan did this Barony was divided between Hugh de Odingselles a Fleming who married Basilia one of the daughters of the said Gerard de Limesi Grandfather of the last Hugh de Limesi and David de Lindesei a Scot who married Alianora another of the daughters of the said Gerard. Gerard de Odingsells son of Basilia and the said Hugh de Odingselles had a Knights Fee here in Eperston which William Sampson held of him in the time of H. 3. Hugh de Odingeselles son of Gerard 16 E. 1. impleaded Walter le Ken and fifteen others for throwing down his Ditch Bank at Eperston who pleaded That they had Common in the Lands inclosed and upon the same occasion 17 E. 1. for throwing in four hundred Perches of his Ditch about his Wood in Eperston Iohn de Heriz and Iohn le Provost pleaded that there Radulphus de Limesi fundator Prioratus de Hertford-Hadewisa Alanus de Limesi Gerardus de Limesi-Amicia Johannes de Limesi -Alicia fil Rob. Harcurt Hugo de Limesi s. p. Alanus s. p. Gerardus s. p. Hugo de Odingselles-Basilia Hugo de Odingsells s. p. Gerardus de Odingsells mil. 23 H. 3. Hugo de Odingsells 16 E. 1. Johannes de Odingsells 12 E. 2. mil. mortuus 10 E. 3 -Lucia-Emma 12 E. 2. Edmundus de Odingesells 12 E. 2. Johannes de Odingsells mil. ob 27 E. 3 -Amicia fil Rog. Corbet Johannes de Odingsels ob 4 R. 2. miles-Alicia fil Johannis S. John mil. Johannes de Odingsels miles ob 5 H. 4 -Maria fil ..... Bernak Edwardus de Odingsels miles ob 5 E. 4 -Marg fil Joh. Cokain-Alicia soror Henr. Sharpe Gerard. de Odingsells fil haer -Marg fil Henr. Sharp soror Aliciae Henricus Odingsells-Alicia fil Marg. Butler de Cobernes in Essex Richardus Odingsells-Alicia fil ..... Browne Johannes Odingsells-Anna fil cohaer Gabriel Barwick Gabriel Odingsells-Kath fil Joh. Markham Johannes Odingsells-Eliz fil Willielmi Sutton de Averham Johannes Odingsells s. p. Emanuel de Eperston 1673. ... fil Ric. Hacker relict .... Buckley Elizab. fil haer -Johannes Leek ob 1673. John Odingsels Leek aet 2. 1674. Gabriel Johannes Odingsels ... fil Buckley Paul Ed. s. p. Henricus de Colle-Joana fil Hen. Sutton mil Will. de Solihull Maxstoke Allanor ux David Lindesei was Common of Pasture belonging to their Freeholds in Gânaldeston The Mannor of Eperston 12 E. 2. by a Fine was settled on Iohn de
in Sudwelle with its Berues then numbred twelve were twenty two Car. and an half for the Tax or Geld. The Land twenty four Car. There Arch-bishop Thomas had ten Car. in Demesne ten Sochm. seventy five Villains twenty three Bordars having thirty seven Car. There were two Mills 40s. and a Fishgarth Piscina or Pool and a Passage 6s. Of this same Land held six Knights four Car. and an half Three Clarks had one Car. and an half according to my Copies or four Car. and an half as Mr. Dugdales of that were two Bovats in Prebend Two English-men had three Carucats and five Bovats The Knights had seven Car. in Demesne thirty five Vill. twenty eight or twenty three Bordars having twenty one Car. and one Mill of 8â or as Mr. Dugdale's Copy 3s. The Clarks had one Car. and an half in Demesne seven Vill. five Bord. having three Car. The English-men had four or three Car. in Demesne twenty Vill. six Bord. having six Car. and an half To Sudwelle belonged one hundred and fourscore and eight Acres of Medow Pasture Wood eight leuc long two quarentens and an half broad the half is wanting in the Monasticon Angl. vol. 3. part 2. page 10. Arable Land five leuc long three broad In the time of King Edward the Confessour it was valued at 40l. and when the Book of Doomsday was made at 40l. and 15â St. Mary of Sudwelle had a Mannor in Croppehille which had a Berue in Hegelinge which the Canons then had and another Mannor in Nortwelle but how many Prebendaries there were at this time or whether they held their Prebends distinct or in Common is not easie positively to determine yet seeing that in Woodborough it is recorded that a Clark whom I take for the Prebendary of that place held under the Arch-bishop Lands which answered the Dane-geld for one Bovat 't is most probable that every one enjoyed his own apart Now because in the White-Book of Southwell still remaining with the Chapter there is nothing of the Foundation of the Prebends of Woodborough Normanton the three of Norwell the two of Oxton that of North Muskam that of South Muskam nor of the Sacrista called Sakerson and Segiston and now Sexton it may reasonably be guessed these or the most of them were in being then or near that time viz. the latter end of the Reign of King William the first Most of the rest as by that Book appeareth were not long after for King Henry the first son of the said King William gave to Thurstan Arch-bishop of York the Church of Dunham that he might make it a Prebend in the Church of Southwell and likewise confirmed the gift which that Arch-bishop made of the Churches of his Mannors of North Leverton and Bekingham to make another Prebend in that Church King Henry the second confirmed to his Clark Roger the brother of Martin de Capella the Prebend which Roger Arch-bishop of York had made of the Land of Halton which William the Steward of the aforesaid Thurstan held in the time of the said King Henry the first and afterwards gave to the Church of Southwell Roger Arch-bishop of York certified King Henry the second that his Predecessours did enfeoffe more Knights than they ought to the King not for the necessity of the Service which they did owe but because they were willing to provide for their Kinsmen and Servants Pavia the daughter of Nigellus de Ramtun by the consent of Robert Malovell her son not long after gave the Church of Ramton with the Appurtenances to make another Prebend in this Church of Southwell And Iohn Arch-bishop of York in the year of our Lord 1289. made another of the Church of Eton. And in the year 1291. William Rotherfeild Prebendary of Bekingham resigning for that purpose the said Arch-bishop at his request and by the consent of the Chapters of York and Southwell did ordain the Church of North Leverton before a part of the Prebend of Bekingham to be a distinct one of it self and the Prebendary to have his Stall in the Quire on the North side next that of the Sacrist and his place in the Chapter-house duely assigned by the Chapter and to have and pay his Vicar Choral as the other Canons used and the said William Rotherfeild to enjoy Bekingham so divided during his time which made the number of the Prebends Sixteen as they now are which have been and are thus valued viz.   l. 3. d. Norwell Overhall or prima pars was 42l. is now 48 1 3 Norwell Palacehall or secunda pars was 30l. is now 27 19 7 Norwell tertia pars was 6l. is now 5 2 0 ob Normanton Prebend was 20l. is now 22 6 0 ob Halton or Halloughton was 10l. is now 8 -17 -6 Dunham before the Survey taken by H. 8. was 45 marks is now 23 11 3 Rampton then also was 24 mar is now 15 17 11 Woodborough is wanting in my Copy of the old but is now  9 17 11 Eton before the Survey of H. 8. was 10l. is now -2 11 3 South Muskham then also was 20 mar is now 13 4 7 Oxton prima pars was 40 mar is now 22 19 7 Oxton altera pars was then also 40 mar is now 24 10 0 Beckingham was 20l. is now 16 15 10 North Muskham was 34l. is now -32 5 0 Sacrista was in elder time 30â is now -1 3 4 North Leverton was 5l. is now 4 17 11 in the Kings Books and the Arch-bishop of York is Patron of all Very great and many priviledges were anciently granted to this Church by several Kings Archbishops and Chapters of York which Pope Alexander the third in the twelfth year of his Pontificate viz. 1171. refers to in his Bull wherein he confirmed to the Canons of the Church of St. Mary of Southwell amongst many others their ancient Liberties and Customs to wit the same which the Church of York had of old and were known to have then and that the Churches of the Prebends and also those belonging to the Chapter should be free from Episcopal Jurisdiction and that they might institute fit Vicars in them without any contradiction as the said Arch-bishops and Chapters of York ever suffered them and their Predecessours to do who likewise granted to them as was of long custom observed and also by the said Pope approved that both the Clergy and Laity of the County of Nottingham should at the Feast of Pentecost come to their Church with solemn procession and that every year according to the old and rational usage of that Church a Synod should there be celebrated and that thither the Chrisma should be brought by the Deans of the County from the Church of York to be thence distributed through the other Churches c. There is yet and from the beginning of this Church I suppose even hath been at Whit sunday a certain small Pension paid from
3. offered himself against Mr. Iohn Clarel Prebend of Norwell in a Plea by what right the said Iohn exacted Common in the Land of the said Gwichard in Kerleton seeing that he had none in his neither did the said Iohn do any service whereby he ought to have Common Thomas de Lanum about 30 E. 1. left his son Roger then above sixty years old his heir of what he held here of Guichard de Charun viz. one Toft twenty seven Acres of Land six of Medow and 7s. Rent Iohn de Crumbwell 2 E. 3. had Mercat and Fair in North Carleton Richard de Willughby in 27 E. 3. had priviledge of free-warren in Béeston Sutton Passe is Kelum and North Carleton though it might be suspected by a recovery which Richard Bingham and Margaret his wife suffered 31 H. 6. amongst many others concerning Lands belonging to the family of Willughby that in North Carleton there was only one Mess. ten Acres of Land two Acres and one Rode of Medow with the Appurtenances but it seems these were not all but some particular parcel wherein Margaret had interest for by a Fine 26 E. 3. William son of Iohn de Blyton of Ledenham and Ioane his wife passed to Edmund de Willughby and his heirs one Mess. and the moyety of a Mess. and 80. Acres of Land 24. of Medow 6s. 6d. Rent and the passage over Trent with the Appurtenances in Carleton by Crumwell which moyety and parcels or the other moyety in the same words by another Fine before that viz. 25 E. 3. Sir Iohn Burdon of Mapilbek Chr. and Elizabeth his wife conveyed to Iohn de Askam Clark and Iohn de Anlep Clark and his heirs Queen Elizabeth 28 Eliz. granted amongst other things to Thomas Iones and Edward Batherick and their heirs one Mess. and eighty Acres of Land twenty of Medow thirty of Pasture with the Appurtenances in Carleton upon Trent and Sutton late in the tenure of Iohn Sturtevant given to sing Mass in the Church of Southwell The several parts of this Township most comconly followed as I suppose the several Towns to which they belonged as Willughby Crumwell c. Peniston Whalley Esquire named in Willughby sold most of his share here to William Summers whose widow married as I remember to Iohn Douglasse of Newark George Fox and William Sturtivant and Charles Yarborough were also owners here 1612. Crumwell BEsides that part of Crumuuelle which was Soc to Aygrum of the Fee of Gislebert Tysun which was two Bov. ad Geldam the Land four Bov. where two Sochm. had one Car. there was a Mannor of the Tayn-land which Alden whose posterity took their name from this place held of the King paying to the Geld or Tax for it as two Carucats and six Bovats The Land of it was four Carucats Alden had then there one Plow or Car. and five Sochm. on one Carucat of this Land and eight Villains two Bord. having four Car. ½ There was a Church and a Mill 12d. and one Piscary or Fishing Medow six qu. long and three Broad In King Edward the Confessours time this was valued at 60s. when the Conquerours Survey was made at 40s. The Bishop of Lincolne it seems became supreme Lord of it because Raph de Crumbewell is certified to hold half a Knights Fee of him here of the old feoffment that is whereof his Ancestor was enfeoffed before the death of King Henry the first in whose time Alden or Haldoen who is most likely to be the Thayn in King Williams time or his son of that name was living as in Lambley and Widmerpole may be gathered This Noble Family continued Lords of this place in the Male Line till the death of the last Raph Lord Crumwell who it seems was Lord Treasurer of England 11 H. 6. and Lord Chamberlain of the Houshold 30 H. 6. By an Inquisition taken 20 Iun. 13 H. 7. after the death of the Lady Willoughby who died the last day save one of Aug. then last past being Niece and Heir of the last and great Lord Crumwell William Knivet Knight then aged fifty six years and William Fitz-Williams Esq aged seven years were found her Cousins and heirs of the Mannor of Crumwell with the Appurtenances in Carleton and the Advowson of the Church of Crumwell and Lands in Baseford as in Lamley is partly shown By another Inquisition taken at Newarke 6 Decemb. 8 H. 8. it appears that Sir William Knyvett of Norfolk died 25 Novemb. 7 H. 8. seized of the moyety of this Mannor and Advowson with the Appurtenances in Carleton by Crumwell and the moyety of the third part of the Mannor of Baseford and that Edmund Knyvet aged seven years and more at the taking the said Inquisition was found his Cousin and Heir viz. son of Thomas son of Edmund son of the said Sir William Knyvet The moyety of this Mannor together with the moyeties of Plumptre and Basforth 17 H. 8. were in feoffment to Robert Strey Chaplain William Shurbourne and Henry Rockeden 28 and 29 H. 8. claimed against William Hollys the younger Gent. the moyety of the Mannor of Crumwell with the Appurtenances and the moyety of forty Mess. three Mills four hundred Acres of Land two hundred of Medow three hundred of Pasture one hundred of Wood two hundred of Furz and Heath and 10l. Rent in Crumwellys also the moyety of the Advowson of the Church who called to warrant Edmund Knyvet Esquire This moyety is descended to the Earl of Clare who hath now also the greatest part of the other moyety which was Sir Thomas Williamsons Banonet excepting that which Mr. Robert Hoyes Tanner of Newark bought of the said Sir Thomas and still keepeth The Rectory of Crumwell was twenty Marks when Mr. Fitz-William was Patron 'T is now 13l. 2s. 3d. in the Kings Books and the Earl of Clare Patron Aldene sive Haldoenus de Crumwelle temp Conq. Hugo de Crumbwell Radulphus de Crumwell temp H. 2. Radulphus de Crumbwell Radulphus de Crumwell 5 H. 3. Radulphus de Crumwell ....... Mazera fil un cohaer Ph. Marmion Radulphus de Crumwell ob 27 E 1 -Margar un particip haer Nicolae ux Rog. de Someri Radulphus de Crumwell aet 7.27 E. 1. Radulphus de Crumwell jun. 14 E. 3. mil. 24 E. 3 -Amicia fil Rogeri Beler Radulphus de Crumwell de Tateshale miles 46 E. 3 -Matildis fil haer Joh. fil Will. Bernak Aliciae fil haer Joannae ux Rob. de Dryby fil Rob. de Tateshale Radulphus Crumwell-Elizab Radulphus Dom. Crumwell de Tateshall -Marg sor cohaer Will. fil Joh. Dom. Deincurt frat Rad. fil haer Will. sen. Matild 12 H. 4. ob 33. H. 6 -Ric Stanhop mil. Henr. Stanhop ob 31 H. 6. s. p. Humfr. Bourchier-Joana Matild Dom. Willughby de Eresby ob 30 Aug. 13 H. 7. nx 2. Tho. Nevill 1. Rob. Willughby 3. Gerv. Clifton -Elizabeth
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 ãâã 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
for advancing his fortune though he lost his head as in Shelford is said Sir Edward Stanhope's Lady was after his death married to Sir Richard Page Richard Stanhope Esquire eldest son of Sir Edward married Anne one of the four daughters and co-heirs of Iohn Strelley Esquire afterwards married to Sir Iohn Markham by her the said Richard had one only daughter and heir Saunchia wife of Iohn son of Anthony Babington which Iohn was Father of Original Babington who had to wife .... the daughter of .... Galley and by her had Iohn Babington of Rampton who married Elizabeth daughter of ... Bussy of Hather who brought him Iohn Babington whose wife was .... the daughter of Hercy Nevyll of Grove Esquire afterwards married to Anthony Eyr whose son Sir Gervas Eyr married Elizabeth one of her daughters and co-heirs by Iohn Babington Barbara the other was wife of Iohn Boswell of Edlington near Tikhill in Yorkshire of whom Sir Gervas Eyre purchased the other moyety of this Mannor the Lady Eyr after Sir Gervas was dead married William More D. D. by whom she had no child to Sir Gervas she bore Anthony Eyr and Mary wife of Sir Iohn Newton of Hather Baronet Anthony first married Lucia daughter of Sir Iohn Digby of Maunsfeild Woodhouse and since he was chosen to serve in Parliament as Knight for this County .... the daughter of Sir Iohn Packington Baronet In 1612. the owners of Rampton Town are said to be the heirs of Iohn Babington Esquire the heirs of George Smith the heirs of Francis Kitchen Iohn Hutton Prebendary Francis Busshy Esquire Robert Sampson a Plowland and an half Iohn Browne as much Richard Legat a Plowland William Barneby Edward Procter the like Iohn Legat Roger Fenton half a Plowland Thomas Cotton as much William Leggat six Acres Anthony Fenton a Cottage c. The Vicarage of Rampton was 8l. 'T is now 10l. value in the Kings Books and the Prebendary continueth Patron Stokeham Doomsd. Estoches IN Estoches in Berndeslaw Wapentak as it were Soc to Flodburg Godeva the Countess paid the Tax or Danegeld in the time of King Edward the Confessour for six Bovats of Land and a third and a fifteenth part of a Bovat The Land being then returned sufficient for twelve Oxen or twelve Bovats There after the Conquest Nigellus the Man or Tenant of the Bishop of Lincolne whose Fee it was which Nigel had also Fledburgh had five Sochm. and four Bord. having three Car. and six Acres of Medow and small Wood. In the Confessours time this was 20s. value in the Conquerours 10s. This place seems to have descended with Fledborough to the Families of Lysures and Bassett as in that place may be seen The Mannor of Stokeham about the eleventh year of Queen Elizabeth was the Inheritance of William Swift Ancestor to Sir Robert Swift and was afterwards Sir Robert Amstrudders who married the daughter of the said Sir Robert Swift The owners of Stoakham Town in 1612. are said to be Sir Robert Swift Knight Originall Browne Originall Byeron Iohn Bellamye Edward Clarke Anne Boyle Headon Hedune And Vpton SOme in Hedune was joyned with Grove of the Soc of Dunham the Kings Mannor and there was Soc to Grove in Hedune particularly of the Fee of Roger de Busli which paid the publick Imposition for one Bovat And besides that there was in Hedune of Roger de Buslies Fee a Mannor where before the Conquest Godric and other six Thaynes had each Man his Hall amongst them were eight Bovats and one third of a Bovat for the Geld. The Land was five Car. and an half There after the Conquest William the Man of Roger had two Car. fourteen Sochm. nine Vill. six Bord. having sixteen Car. there was twenty six Acres of Medow Pasture Wood five qu. long four broad In King Edward the Confessours time and then the value was 2l. having Soc in Vptune as much as paid the Geld for half a Bovat The Land two Bov. There were then three Sochm. and two Bord. with one Car. and two Acres of Medow In Vptune also Soc to Dunham there was one Bov. of Land for the Geld. The Land ... There four Sochm. and two Bord. had one Car. and an half and three Acres of Medow Pasture Wood two qu. long one broad Egmanton had Soc in Markham and belonging to that was there in Vptune as much as answered the Geld for two Bovats of Land and an half The Land two Car. There nine Sochm. and two Bord. had four Car. and six Acres of Medow This had Soc in Mercham and in Hedune there was Soc to Mercham one Bov. for the Geld. The Land two Bov. and two Acres of Medow There one Sochm. had two Bovats William the Man or Tenant of Roger de Busli held of his Fee in Outhorpe where a Family who had their name from their residence at this place had some interest as is there noted Hugh de Hedon son of Fulc gave to the Monastery of Blith a measure of Wheat then called Acrased and Acrasset of Blith i. e. Seed for an Acre to be paid yearly on the Feast of St. Katherin the Virgin and Martyr Hugh son of Hugh de Hedun confirmed it and added 12d. yearly Rent to be paid at the same time Simon de Hedun confirmed the gift of Hugh his Grandfather of a quarter of Wheat yearly at the Feast of St. Katherin and the 12d. yearly Rent which Hugh his Father gave Hugh de Heddun 14 H. 2. gave account of 10l. of the relief of his Land in the honour of Tikhill and 6 R. 1. being one of those Knights Fined for being with Earl Iohn he then gave 10l. for having seisin of his Land viz. one Knights Fee in Heddon He paid four Marks 8 R. 1. for two Knights Fees which he held of the honour of Tikhill Hugh de Heddon 7 Ioh. gave account of ten Marks in the sixth Scutage of the honor of Tykehull Simon de Heddon 43 H. 3. was Sheriff of this County and his son and heir Gerard de Hedon after him 51 H 3. and 53 H. 3. Roger de Essex and Simon de Heddon 54 H. 3. were Executors of Brian de Insula Gerard de Hedon had a Charter of Free Warren in his Mannor of Hedon granted by King Henry the third The Jury 24 E. 1. found that Iohn de Hedon had this Mannor and Advowson of the Church seven Acres of Medow in Rampton and Rents in Vpton 8s. c. and that Simon son of Simon de Hedon was his next heir and fifty years of age In the Pipe Roll for Yorkshire 29 E. 1. Simon is said to be son and heir of Iohn de Hedon and 14 E. 2. brother and heir There was a Fine levied at Yorke the day after St. Iohn Baptist 31 E. 1. between Laurence de Chauworth and Agnes his wife Pl. and Nicolas de Hedon Deforc. concerning the Mannor
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
Right Reverend Lord Bishop of Lincolne of this Family was the most diligent collector of Genealogies I ever knew in these parts especially of Lincolneshire where he continued Rector of Boothby Paganell a long time and being also Prebendary of Southwell served as one of the Clarks in the Convocation for the County or Arch-deaconry of Nott. in the former part of the long Parliament The owners of Blyth Town 1612. are thus expressed William Sanderson Gent. William Wood Christopher Crosdale Thomas Chaulner Richard Smith Iames Dawson Robert Metcalf William Andrews George Rogers Edward Mortone Robert Tibbott Robert Eyre Gent. George Eyre Gent. William Gregory of Barneby Gent. Robert Worthin Iohn Marshall Iohn Chadwick Cler. Richard Bingly junior William Browne Nicolas Heppensall Thomas Iudson Iohn Stirk Peter Tibbott Richard Barneby Iervas Ingleby Serleby Barneby on the More Ranskill And Torworth A Luric had a Mannor in Serleby before the Conquest which paid the Geld for one Bov. and an half The Land being then one Car. There Gislebert the Man of Roger de Busli whose Fee it was afterwards had one Car. and five Vill. and eight Bord. with three Plows or Carucats and one Mill of 3â The value was 20s. in the Conquerours time as it had been in the Confessours Matilda de Mules 10 R. 1. ought one Mark for licence to make a Ditch between the Wood of Serleby and the Fields Matild de Moles in the former part of the Reign of Henry the third paid one Mark for half a Knights Fee in Serleby and another time Hugh de Serleby paid 30s. for three parts of a Knights Fee in Serleby of the Honour of Mumbray Hugh de Serleby married Matild de Moles to whom Roger de Mowbray gave the Mannor of Serleby in the time of King Iohn or before There was a Fine levied at Leicester the first Munday after the Feast of St. Andrew 10 Ioh. between Osmund the Abbat of Roch Petent and Thomas de Sandale and Matild his wife summoned to warrant to the said Abbat one Bovat of Land with the Appurtenances in Torthewrth whereof the said Abbat and Covent had the Charter of the said Matild in these words Be it known that I Matildis de Moles have given and by this my Charter confirmed to God and St. Mary of Roch and the Monks there serving God one Bov. of Land with the Appurtenances in Torthewrthe viz. that which was Alexander Crassi's and one Culture of Land of thirty and eight Acres in the territory of the said Town and Pasture for an hundred Sheep every where in the Common Pasture of the said Town and furthermore all the Lands which the Men of Blyth held of Hugh de Moles my brother and afterwards of me in the Fields of Serleby and Torthewrthe and all the Rents of those Lands c. In Turdeworde before the Conquest Brixi and Caschi had two Mannors which paid to the Geld for six Bov. The Land being one Car. Afterwards Azo the Priest had it of Roger de Busli and it was waste There was Pasture Wood one leu long and one qu. broad In King Edward the Confessours time this was valued at 20s. in the Conquerours at 3s. Hugh de Molis for the health of his Soul and of his fathers and mothers Souls and also of his Predecessours gave to the Church of St. Mary of Blyth five Bov. of Land and an half with all their Appurtenances in Tordeord viz. two Bov. ½ which Osbert held and one which Reginald held and one which Robert held and one Bovat which his own mother held on condition that the Children of Henry de Bilbi should hold the said Land of the said Monastery by right of Inheritance yielding to the Monks a pound of Pepper yearly at Blyth Fair for all Services saving the Foreign Service This gift he made to those Children for the payment of eight Marks which he ought them of the divise de divisione of Henry their father Hugh de Moles granted and released to God St. Mary and the Monks of Blyth Robert son of Siward who was his Man and Native he renounced also his claim which he had against Ginet Magnus of Blyth and Thomas Leman and all his brothers and sister and their whole Progeny then present and to come this claim he quit before the Kings Justices at Blyth viz. Hubert Walter and others who were with him when the King caused him to gather the tenths through England Maud the daughter of Henry de Wincester by the consent of Richard de Lindesey her husband gave to the Monks of Blyth the whole Medow which lay to that Bovat of Land which fell to her in Blyth of the Land of Hugh her brother This Alms she gave that day in which the said Monks took her for a sister Matildis de Moles in her widowhood granted to Robert de Kelesolt the firm of three Acres which Roger Knodi held of her in the Fields of Torrewrd and the whole Service c. William son of William de Kelesalth gave to the Prior and Covent of Blyth 12d. Rent to be received yearly of Roger Cnodis and his heirs for three Acres of Land in the Fields of Torthewrd Serleby and Tordworth 9 E. 2. answered for half a Villa and Hugh de Serleby was then Lord. The Jury 29 E. 1. said that Hugh de Serleby held the Mannor of Serleby with the Hamlet of Tortheworth by the Service of a Knights Fee of Roger de Moubray then dead This Hugh was son of Robert son of the first Hugh and Matildis de Moles and his son was Oliver de Serleby who 3 E. 3. claimed to have Free Warren in all his Demesne Lands of Serleby and Thoresworth granted to Hugh de Serleby 25 E. 1. Serleby hath been anciently enjoyed by one of that Name until our time that Anthony Serleby Esquire the Lord of that Lordship and of Hugo de Serleby-Matild de Moles Robertus de Serleby-Susanna Hugo de Serleby-Alicia Oliverus de Serleby-Alicia Johannes de Serleby-Joana soror Jacobi Kinalton persona de Hedon Nicol. de Serleby temp H. 4 -Marjoria neptis Thom. Aldham de Tikhill Johannes de Serleby 23 H. 6 -Agnes Willielmus de Serleby-Agnes fil Willielmi Burton de Kinesley Ebor. Johannes de Serleby Hugo de Serleby-Margareta Thom. de Serleby-Joana fil Tho. Rockesby de Somercliff-Grange Ebor. Willielmus de Serleby Antonius de-Gertruda fil Rad. Leek de Hasland postea ux Serleby s. p. Geo. Chaworth mil. tandem Rad. Bulloke 1 Jocosa 2 Isabel. 3 Elizab. 4 Doroth. 5 Maria. 2 Nicolas 3 Hugo Joana Doroth. Muriel Elizab. Robertus Johannes Willielmus 2 Willielmus 2 Willielmus Hugo de Moles s. p. Harthill and Woodhall in Yorkshire having no issue estated them both upon Gertrude his wife the daughter of Raph Leek of Halland Esq for her life and twenty one years after whereupon the heir of the Family and Name being poor hath sold it to
Queen Elizabeths time 3s. 4d. for half a Knights Fee in Harworth sometime Henry Bisets wasted the Estate he was Father of Robert Moreton who sold Hareworth to Mr. William Saunderson Hamo de Burton gave to the Monks of Blith one Bovat of Land in Farewad which Robert de Farewad gave him for his Service Elias de Moles gave them the Land which Hamo Buche held of him by 10l. Rent and that which Elys Pin held of him for 2d. ob and Pasture for two hundred Sheep in his Land of Farewad and Common Pasture in all his Commons Elyas son of Robert de Farewad gave to the said Monks five Acres of his Land which Haco son of Roger held of him and three Rods virgas of Land which Elys Pin held of him Elyas son of Elyas de Farewad gave them one Culture of his Land in the territory of Farewad called Hevedlands as it bore in length and breadth from the Street which leads towards Bautre unto the Street of Tikehill Elias de Farewat son of Elias confirmed it so he did other gifts of his father and released 18d. Rent which Elias son of Alewy of Stirap was wont to pay his said father for half a Bovat of Land in Farewad which his said father sold to Mr. Iohn son of Alice de Styrap for a Mark of Silver which he gave him in his great need Ingeram de Stirap gave to Frier William de Well Prior of Blyth and the Monks there a certain Culture of Land in the territory of Farewat with all the length and breadth as it lay between the way which leadeth from Blyth to Tikhill and the Land of Robert son of Beatrix de Stirap and abutted on one head on the head-land of the said Prior and Covent and on the other on the way which leads from Stirap towards Serleby Dionysia the relict of the said Ingeram also released all her right of Inheritance or otherwise By a Fine at York 13 E. 2. the Mannor of Farewath was settled on Hugh de Serleby for life remainder to Oliver son of the said Hugh and to Alice his wife and to the heirs of their bodies remainder to the right heirs of the said Hugh Iohn Flandrensis of Claverbure gave to God and the Monks of Blyth Raph son of Balde of Heselay and his whole Sect and the whole Land which he held of him in Heselay viz. nine Acres Gaufr son of William le Hoser released the nine Acres in Heselay which the said Iohn Flandrensis gave to the Monks of Blyth William son of or Fitz William son of or Fitz Goderic gave those Monks one Mark of yearly Rent of the three which the Lord Archbishop of York was bound to pay him for Plumcrefeld Robert Strey Chaplain Thomas Elys and William Bradford 17 H. 8. claimed against Charles Moreton Esquire one Mess. ninety five Acres of Land thirty four of Medow twenty six of Pasture and ten of Wood in Limpole and Hesley Peter son of Willâam de Marton gave to the Monks of Blithe one Carucat of Land invigedun with all Appurtenances and further granted them Timber in his Wood to make them lodgeings Herbergagia and convenients for fire and a Toft in the same Town and free Multure in the Mill of the same Town They were to receive him into their Society when God should give it into his heart Agnes the wife of Nicolas de Marton did Fealty to the Prior of Blyth the Fryday next after the Ascension of our Lord 1289. in the name of Roger her son then under age for two Bovats of Land in Marton which the said Roger claimed to hold of the said Prior and acknowledged to owe 4s. per annum and gave for relief 8s. There was a Fine levied 5 E. 3. between Hugh de Hercy Chr. Quer. and Thomas de Multon of Kirketon Chr. Deforc. of the Mannor of Marton near Bautre which Gerard de Sekinton and Ioan his wife held as dower of the said Ioane and another 40 E. 3. and afterwards 43 E. 3. between Robert de Morton of Bautre and Ioan his wife and William Strete Quer. and Hugh de Hercy Chr. Deforc. of the Mannor of Marton by Bautre which the said Hugh acknowledged to be the right of the said Robert and was after the death of Ioan the wife of Gerard de Sekyngton who held it in Dower and had demised it to Anna le Despenser to revert to the said Robert and Ioane his wife and William and the heirs of the said Robert The Moretons did Found an Hospital in the uttermost edge of the Parish near Bautrey Town in Yorkshire to which there is also a Chapel yet standing wherein they of the Family have used to be buried and amongst the rest there lies Katherin daughter of Iohn Boun Esquire by his first wife and so half sister of Gilbert Boun Sergeant at Law who was widow of George Moreton elder brother of the before named Robert who sold Hareworth which George died long before the said Anthony his father These Moretons bore Quarterly Gules and Ermine the first and last charged with each a Goates Head Erased Arg. The Church of Harewode with the Chapel of Serleby and of Marton with all their Appurtenances were by King Iohn granted to the Church of Roan with many others as part of the Chapelry of Blyth and with that of East Markham and the rest came 6 E. 6. to the Earl of Shrowsbury as in Lowdham and other places is noted The owners of Marten Hesley and Harworth in 1612. are thus set down Gilbert Earl of Shrowsbury George Chaworth Knight Anthony Morton Esquire William Gregory for Lands in Hesley William Weste Esquire Thomas Wright of Rossington George Wagstaffe of Harworth Iames Hall of the same Henry Stryng Nicolas Strea Iohn Robinson Lewes Weste The Vicarage of Harworth was 11l. when the Abbat of Westminster was Patron 'T is now 5l. 9s. 7d. value in the Kings Books and the Duke of Norfolk Patron Auclid Alkeley And Finingley IN Feningley before the Conquest Swayn answered the Tax or Geld at six Bovats for his Mannor The Land whereof was three Car. There afterwards Gislebert Tyson who had most if not all the said Swayns Lands in this County had half a Car. and fifteen-Vill four Bord having five Car. and an half Pasture Wood two leu long two broad In the Confessours time this was valued at 40s. and when the Conquerours Survey was taken at 41s. The Lands of this Gislebert Tysons Fee in this County did afterwards belong to the Family of Moubray as in Averham Kelum Winkburne and Sterthorp may be observed The Jury after the death of Roger de Moubray 29 E. 1. found Nicolas de St. Elena and Alice Touke to have held of him certain Lands and Tenements in Alkeley and Fyningley by the service of one Knights Fee Fyningley and Alkeleye 9 E. 2. answered for half a Villa
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 ãâã 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
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-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
Upton in the Clay and some others the fee of Raph Tilly who 't is likely enfeoffed Putrell Richard Putrell gave to God and the Church of St. Peter at Thurgarton the gift which Gilbert his Predecessor of Thurmeston gave viz. half a Carucat of Land of his Demesne with a dwelling House and Common of Pasture His Successours here usually paid the said Prior 5s. per annum for four Bovats of Land and one Toft Reginald Basset and Richard Puterel released all their right and claim to the Advowson of the Church of Thurmodeston by fine 12 Ioh. to Ranulph Prior of Norton and his Successours Peverells part was held by the Family of Stapleford of Heriz Lord also of that place with the heir female whereof it descended to Teverey being three Mess. twenty one Bovats and twenty Acres of Medow Gilbertus Ricardus Puterell Ricarduâ Puterell Henricus Puterell miles -Sibilda Henricus Putrell-Willimina 1256. Robertus Galfr. Poutrell -Joana 12 E. 2 -Agnes 38 E. 3. Ricardus Poutrell receptor pro E. 3. ob 1 H. 4. s. p. -Alesia Tho. haeres fratris Isabella Poutrell .... Smith Tho. Smith de Breydeston dictus etiam Poutrell Tho. Poutrell 3 E. 4 -Katherina fil Johannis Cotton de Ridware -Tho Molyneux de Nauton marit 2. Johannes Poutrell-Margaret fil una cohaer Joh. Strelley Tho. Poutrell ob 10 Aug. 4 5 Ph. Mar. -Dorothea fil coh Will. Basset -Eliz fil dom Walt. Rodney superst 5 Eliz. Walterus Powtrell de West Hallam -Cassandra fil Fran. Shirley Thom. Poutrell 5 Jac. Johannes Nichol Serv. ad leg s. p. -Anna filia Walteri Rodney mil. Henricus Galfr. Ricardus s. p. Edm. haeres Frat. -Joana 20 E. 3 -Elizab relict 38 E. 3. Johan Laverok de Chaddosden 2 H. 5 -Agnes fil haer Ricardus Walter Johannes s. p. .... fil Humlock Robertus Poutrell .... fil .... Brailesford The third part or share it seems went with Sandiacre for Richard de Riston son of William son of Andrew de Rixton conveighed three Bovats of Land in Turmodeston to Iohn the son of William de Leke which continued long with that Family To this Deed were Witnesses Peter de Sandiacre Samson de Stretleg Robert de Stapleford Richard his son Richard Putrell Richard his son Peter son of Richard de Stanford Richard de Trowell Stephen son of Richard de Kineston Thomas and Anketill his Brothers Iohn de Touke Robert son of Gocelin Raph Rosell William de Boves Roger de Bromley Richard de Potloc and others it is sealed with his Image on Horse-back And Albreda the daughter of Peter de Sandiacre by another Deed in the custody also of Gervase Pigot Esquire passed likewise three Bovats I suppose the same to the same person and had the same Witnesses Reginald Marc was certified to hold twelve Bovats in Thurmodeston worth 60s. which he bought of Reginald Basset and Iohn de Leke three Bovats worth 15s. by Richard de Rixton Reginald Marc gave his to the Knights Hospitallers and there he is said to be infeoffed by Richard de Risseton It was by the Jury at Thrumpton 20 Dec. 25 E. 3. returned not to be to the Kings loss if he granted the Prior and Brethren of the Hospital of St. Iohn of Ierusalem in England licence to give their Mannor of Thurmeston to Sir Iohn Waleis Knight in exchange for the Mannor of Dalby in the County of Leicester and that here was then one Mess. with a Close adjoyning worth 16s. one hundred and fifteen Acres of Arable Land worth so many shillings twelve Acres of Medow 2s. the Acre and 24s. yearly rent and that Hugh de Meyvill had the Mesnalty of the Mannor of Thurmeton between Iohn Waleis and the King About the year 1261. Sir Henry Putrell of Thormoudeston Knight granted three Virgats of Land to Henry his son for threescore Marks of Silver to acquit him from Judaisme Vsury Aymo de Trumberch Knight who married one of the heirs âf .... Tilly confirmed 45 H. 3. to Henry the son of Henry Putrell and to Guillimina his Wife six Virgats in Thurmeton On his Seal is a Chief charged with three Roundels Henry Putrell with the consent of Willimina his Wife settled the Capital Mess. and eight Virgats of Arable Land in Thurmeton upon Robert his son and in defect of heirs of him to Henry Geoffry Richard and Walter his other sons respectively and their heirs paying the said Henry their Father 20l. per annum during his life Robert Putrell of Thurmeton 12 E. 2. settled upon Geoffrey his son and Ioan his said sons Wife Iohn Munchensy 38 E. 3. settled on Geoffrey son of Robert Putrell and on Agnes his Wife and after the death of Geoffrey to Richard Putrell who was a very considerable man and some kind of Receiver under King Edward the third he dyed 1 H. 4. without issue His Seal is a Fesse between three Cinquefoyles Iohn Laverok of Chadesden and Agnes his Wife daughter and heir of Edmund Poutrell Brother and Heir of Richard Poutrell son and heir of Geoffrey brother and heir of Robert Poutrell son and heir of Henry Poutrell and Willimina his Wife passed 2 H. 5. all their right in Thrumpton to Sir Raph Shirley But there was another claim which carried it viz. Henry Putrell had issue Robert he Geoffrey his son and heir whose son and heir was Richard whose brother and heir Thomas Poutrell had a daughter and heir called Isabel from whom Thomas Smith of Breydeston claimed as her son and heir and after him 3 E. 4. Thomas Poutrell his son and heir Maud who had been Wife of Sir Gervase Clifton Cousin and one of the heirs of Raph Cromwell late of Cromwell Knight and Robert Ratcliff and Ioan his Wife Cousin and the other of the heirs of the said Raph conveyed by fine 7 E. 4. the Mannor of Westhallam with the Appurtenances one Mess. two Bovats four Acres of Medow and fifty of Pasture with the Appurtenances in Westhallam and Mapurley and the Advowson of the Church of Westhallam to Thomas Poutrell Raph Fitz-Herberd and William Poutrell and the heirs of Thomas Poutrell Westhallam is still the seat of the Family in Derbishire King Iames by his Letters Patents dated 9. Iuly in the second year of his Raign granted to Gervase Pigot Gent. the Rectory of Ratcliff on Sore in Thrumpton and the Chappell of Thrumpton with all its rights and Appurtenances c. He came from Weston upon Trent in Darbyshire not far from this place and acquired most of this Lordship some belonged to the Family of Willoughby and here was a Family had their Name from the place which had .... Bovats His last Wife is yet living she was sister to Sir Thomas Milward the Judge by her he left an only Son Gervase Pigot Esq who hath inclosed the Fields and very much improved and adorned the Seat so that 't is now as pleasant and convenient both within and
Acres of Medow with Pasture for six Oxen in the Hall Lesue and 25s. Rent with the Appurtenances in Esterleke and Westerleke with the Homages and Services of Peter de Godeham William Attemilne and Iohn Legett and their heirs thereby settled on the said Richard and Elizabeth for life remainder to Iohn Leek Chr. and Isabell his Wife and the heirs Males of the Body of Iohn and for want thereof to Isabel the Wife of Iohn Bonyngton and the heirs of her Body remainder to the right heirs of the said Iohn Leek There was the same Term another Fine levyed between Iohn de Leek Chr. and Simon his son Quer. and Richard de Leek and Elizabeth his Wife Deforc. of five Mess. four Tofts eleven Bovats of Land sixteen Acres of Medow and 11d. Rent with the Appurtenances in Saxendale Byngham Wireton Carcoston and Aslacton settled on the said Iohn and Simon and the heirs of Iohn Simon was his eldest son and Married Ioan the daughter and heir of Sir Iohn Talbot of Swawnington in Leicestershire the Relict of Sir Thomas Malory Knight as in Kilvington is noted by whom he had only four daughters Iohn Leek his second son Married Alice the daughter and heir of Iohn Grey named in Hicling who brought a great increase of Lands to this Family and was Mother of William Leek who about 37 H. 6. died seized of Leeks Mannor here and Lands in Saxendale c. leaving âohn his son and heir whose Posterity is mentioned in Landforth but Thomas Leek of Haslond second son of the said William and his Posterity were usually stiled Leek of Léek and inherited here though the other Line of Sutton in the Dale of Darbishire had to do here also as in Landforth and other places may be observed His son was Iohn Leek of Hasland who died the 21 Jun. 37 H. 8. leaving Raph Leek his son and heir twenty one years of age the third of May then past Raph was Father of Thomas and Gertrud first Married to Anthony Serleby then to George Chaworth who claimed to be heir to her brother slain about 41 Eliz. by ... Samon without issue but he had a natural son called Thomas Leek who bangled away his Estate and died an old man in Prison 2 Car. 2. having been brought over from Ireland in the beginning of the long Parliament to Witness against Thomas Earl of Strafford he is said to have left a daughter Married to one .... Bull. Elias de Staunton 9 E. 1. offered himself the fourth day against Thomas de Meverell and Agnes his Wife Roger de Mercinton and Elianor his Wife Raph de Munjoy and Isabell his Wife Henry de Kniveton and Isabell his Wife Iohn de ârendon and Iohan his Wife Richard de Draycote and Agnes his Wife and Thomas de Lokesle in a Plea that they together with Roger le Botiller and Marjory his Wife should acquit him of the service which Edmund the Kings Brother exacted of him for his Freehold in Esterleke which he held of them the said Thomas Agnes Roger c. By a Fine 12 E. 2. between Richard le Botiller and Mary his Wife Quer. and William de Stocton Cler. Def. eight Mess. and four Virgats and one Virgat of Land with the Appurtenances in Esterleke or Great Leke were settled on the said Richard and Mary and the heirs of their bodies remainder to the right heirs of Richard By a Deed dated at Esterleke the Thursday next after the Feast of the Conversion of St. Paul 4 E. 3. and after inrolled Robert de Iorce Knight settled on Sir Iohn de Leek Parson of the Church of Humbriston and Richard his son and the heirs of the body of Richard 39s. 1d. ob with the Appurtenances in Esterleke together with the homages and services of Sir William de Staunton Iohn son of Iohn son of Simon William son of Iohn son of Simon and divers others particularly expressed with remainders over to William and then to Iohn brothers of the said Richard and likewise to Beatrice and then Maud sisters of the said Richard which form of Entail is several times repeated by several persons of several parcels in Esterleke A Mannor in Esterleke 2 H. 5. was settled on Roger son of Raph Pare and on Ioan his Wife and their heirs and Thomas Staunton the elder of Sutton Bonington upon Sore Esquire 18 E. 4. whose son and heir was Thomas Staunton passed his Mannor in Esterleke to the said Raph Pare and Roger amongst many others viz. Sir Richard Noele the Justice Iohn Babington Esquire Chr. Neele c. Raph Pare of Great Leake in the County of Nott. Yeoman was Out-lawed in the County of Stafford concerning a Plea of Debt 30 H. 6. which Out-laây was afterwards annulled by the grace of the Court in Michaelmass Term 31 H. 6. bâcause the said Raph alledged and the Jury found that he was a Gentleman born His Seal of Arms was a Chevron engrailed between three Crosse Crosselets which was affixed to his Deed bearing date Iuly 7. 21 E. 4. wherein he conveyed the Mannor of Hermeston in the County of Lincolne to Robert Crosseby and Isabell his Wife daughter of him the said Raph and heir to his Wife Isabell her Mother daughter and heir of Iohn Blake of Hermeston This Isabell Married to her second Husband Thomas Griffith and the said Robert Cosbe being dead the 7 H. 8. her self died seized 34 H. 8. of a Mannor in Great Leak or Esterleke and five Mess. three Cotag. one hundred Acres of Arable Land forty Acres of Medow and thirty of Heath and 4s. 4d. Rent of Assize in Great Leak held of the Honour of Tutbury by the service of the twentieth part of a Knights Fee and 6s. 8d. Rent Richard Cosbe son of her son Iohn Cosbe being then her heir and above twenty six years of Age. This Mannor came afterwards to be the possession of the Family of Armstrong of Rempston The Family of Rempston had some Lands in West-Leke which descended to Bingham as in Bingham and Rempston may be observed and were by Iohn Stapleton about the latter end of Queen Elizabeths Reign sold to Bar. Rag and George Bird the Tenents whose Posterity still have them this paid 17d. yearly or 13d. and a pair of Spurs of a Groat to the Mannor of Westleke which as also Cosbyes in Great Leak is of the Fee of Tutbury in the Baylywick of prima pars Agard which Family of Agard of Fosron ancient Bayliffs to the same and now Farmers have by Patent a Court-Leet here and at Bingham with Weyfs and Streys and Felons Goods c. The Advowson of the Church of Great Leak 8 E. 1. was determined to belong to the Prior of Repingdon And the Archbishop of York had a Mandate notwithstanding the claim of Iohn de Beningworth Elias de Staunton and Geoffrey son of Raph Bugg to admit a fit person to that Church upon the presentation
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 Margaâ -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. Rooâ 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 ãâã 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 siâ Bovats of this Land and one
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 â
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 Sacâ 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
brother William Pietas Pitty and Roger his brother Robert the Sheriff and William his brother Robert Raph and William his son Henry the Clerk of the Sheriff and Henry of Huccanal and Henry Medicus Leech Roger de Burthon and Peter Palmer Reginald de Aslacton Walter de Whatton and Richard his son Ambrose and Iohn Plungun and Fulc servants of Sir Vlf de Wydmarpole and Gilbert the Parson and many others there named Robert de Heriz his brother confirmed the gifts and gave his whole Portion of Corn growing on his Land at Widmerpole with his Body to be there viz. at Lenton Christianly buried Ivo de Heriz 13 Joh. is certified to hold four Knights Fees of the honour of Peverell in Nott. and Derb. viz. in Oxcroft half a Fee in Gunnelveston half a Fee in Widmarepol one Fee in Tibbesell Oggedestone c. one Fee The last Iohn de Heriz by Fine 18 E. 2. settled this Mannor of Gunaldeston and the Darbishire Lands Winfeild and Tibghelf on himself for life then on Roger Beler for his life then to Roger the son of the said Roger Beler and Margaret the elder daughter of Richard de la Rivere Knight and the heirs of their Bodies then to Thomas Beler son of Roger and to Margaret the younger daughter of the said Richard de la Revere and the heirs of their Bodies remainder to the right heirs of the said Iohn de Heriz This Mannor and that of Gunaldeston after they had passed through the Families of Beler and Swillington by the help of another Fine levyed 9 H. 5. or 1 H. 6. by Sir Iohn Gray of Ingleby in the County of Lincoln and Margaret his wife daughter and after the death of her brother Iohn heir of Sir Roger Swillington wherein the last remainder was to the right heirs of Sir Iohn Heriz and by a great suit in the time of Henry the sixth were amongst others upon attonement obtained by the Family of Perpoint descended of Sarah sister of Sir Iohn Heriz and the Right Honourable Henry Marquess of Dorchester is now Lord of this Mannor by inheritance from his Ancestors of Heriz There is an Ancient Family which had their Sirname from their residence here which are still owners of considerable Lands in this Lordship The first that I have noted of them out of their own Evidences is in the time of Henry the third where Iohn the son of Iohn de Leke conveyed three Bovats and one Messuage in Widmerpole to Nicolas the son of Henry de Tydesworth and in another Deed Walter son of Walter Salmon of Widmerpole and Alice his wife released all their claim in three Bovats and one Mess. viz. those two which Iohn de Valeye Father of Alice held of Iohn Plunchun and one Bovat of Iohn de Heriz to Nicolas son of Henry de Diddisworth William de la Valeye 12 E. 1. of Widmerpole passed four Henricus de Diddisworth Nicolas de Widmerpole Nicolas de Widmerpol -Matilda 12 E. 1 -Alicia 10 E. 2. Thom. de Widmerpol 15 E. 2 -Elizabetha fil haer Will. 10 E. 2. 31 E. 1. Robertus de Widmarpole-Alicia 16 E. 3. Nicolas de Widmerpole Johannes de Widmerpole Ar. -Fina 16 R. 2. Nicolas de Widmerpole-Elizabetha 22 H. 6. Johannes de Widmerpole senior 5 H. 7. Johannes de Wydmerpole Ar. 6 H. 8. Edwardus Widmerpole de Everton 6 Eliz. Dorothea fil ... Danby Com. Ebor. Will. Widmerpole 6 Eliz. Anna fil ..... Grimston de Need in Com. Ebor. Georgius Widmerpole de Wid. 1614. Jana fil Termine Russell de Torchaster Josephus Widmerpole sine prol -Anna fil Mat. Palmer mil. relict ... Daniel Nicol. Josephus Widmerpole Nicolas Georgius Thom. Hug. Robertus 10 E. 2. Willielmus de Sheffeildnepos Nigelli de Lovetot Rob. Will. de Shefeud Dom. de Wisou 15 E. 1 -Avicia 27 E. 1. Thom. de Widmerpol 15 E. 2 -Elizabetha fil haer Will. 10 E. 2. 31 E. 1. Tho. fil Adae Walkelin -Margeria Acres of Land there to Nicolas son of Nicolas de Widmerpole and Maud his wife Iohn son of Sir Iohn de Heriz Knight 31 E. 1. granted and released to Nicolas son of Nicolas de Widmerpole marriage relief c. for Lands which the said Nicolas held of William son of Robert de la Valeye then within age Thomas son of Nicolas de Widmerpole married Elizabeth daughter and heir of William de Sheffeld of Wisou as there is shown by whom he had issue Robert which made a great increase in the Patrimony of this Family there and elsewhere which yet continueth at this place The Rectory was 15l. and Mr. Perpoint Patron Now in the Kings Books it is 14l. 16s. 0. ob and the Marquess of Dorchester Patron Staunton on the VVolds Stony Town THere was a Mannor in Stauntune of the Fee of R. Earl Moriton which before the Conquest Stori a great man in these parts had and discharged it to the publick Tax for 3. ½ Bovaâ The Land was one Car. There Alured the man or Tenant of the Earl had one Car. six Vill. three Bord. with two Car. or Pâowes there was twenty Acres of Medow This in the Confessours time was 40s. value in the Conquerours 20s. Another Mannor here of the ãâã Earls Fee Frane had before the Conquest and paid to the Geld for it as one Bov. â
the Land was half a Car. when the survey was made three Vill. had there one Car. or Plow In Stantune belonged to Plumptrée as much as paid the Dane-Geld for half a Bovat There one Vill. had five Oxen in Flow this was of the Fee of Roger de Busli Here was also some of William Peverells Fee of the Soc of Clifton which paid the Geld for two Bov. ¼ which with what was of that sort in Willebe Cauord and Normantune was two Car. of Land and there were upon it four Sochm. one Vill. one âord having three Car. There William Peverell had in Stantune one Car. or Plow and two Acres of Medow Peter Fitz or son of Osbert held the fifth part of a Knights Fee here in the time of Henry the third of the Honour of Peverell and about 21 E. 1. Cecilia daughter of Seman de Stokes held the eighth part of a Fee of the same Honour Nicolas son of Seman de Stoke could not say in a suit he brought but that three others not named held Lands in Staunton upon Seggeswold besides Thomas de Rempston and Cecilia his wife who were therefore dismissed Robert de la Sauce held here the eighth part of a Knights Fee of the Honour of Peverell all the time of Henry the third and is mentioned still 11 E. 1. There was a Fine levyed at York 30 E. 1. between Raph de Vylers Quer. and Iohn de Lymare and Cecilia his wife Deforc. of the Mannor of Staunton by Keworth whereby it was settled on the said Iohn and Cecily and the heirs which he should beget on her Body
Chelmerdon Lands in Spondon viz. two Mess. in Eneston Martinside Combes Batfeild in Hurdlow Broughton Tiddeswall c. In Yorkshire the Mannors of Plumpton Steton Garsington Idoll amongst which only Kinolton and Maunsfeild-woodhouse are numbred in this County Elizabeth Sothill widow died 21 Sept. 22 H. 7. leaving three sons Henry Iohn and Gerard. Henry Sothill had two daughters and heirs by his wife Iane or Ioane the daughter of Richard Empson King H. 8. Aug. 22. in the first year of his Reign granted to Sir William Perpoint Kt. the Custody of Ioane and Elizabeth Southill and their Marriage He also had Iuly 24. 2 H. 8. the Lands and Tenements which were Henry Sothills and Elizabeth Sothills widow as long as they remained in the Kings hand Elizabeth the daughter and co-heir of Henry Sothill was wife of Sir William Drury of the County of Suffolk Knight and Ioan or Iane his other daughter of Sir Iohn Constable of Kinalton Knight who bought Harteswell Grange in this Lordship formerly belonging to Swinsheved Abby which Harold Râsell of Cotgrave May 4. 31 H. 8. had licence to alienate to the said Sir Iohn and Ioane his wife who had issue Cicely first the wife of William Bevercotes and afterwards of .... Oglethorpe and Anne the wife of Sir Anthony Tâorold by whom she had Winifrid her daughter and heir the Mother of Sir Gervas Clifton who purchasing of the Lord Savile what he had got from ... Oglethorp which was three parts of the Mannor and half the Grange for ... Oglethorpe prevailed with his Mother to disinherit her son by Bevercotes and bought Druryes part became Lord of the whole and his posterity now have the whole Township except a Farm which was Sir Thomas Hutchinsons which his Ancestors bought together with the Mannor of Outhorpe and another which is William Dayes formerly belonging to Thurgarton Priory which Queen Elizabeth Iune 16.29 Eliz. granted to Edward Heron Esquire and Iohn Nicholas Gent. being four Bovats There is also a little Freehold which Francis Hacker gave to his son Rowland Hacker of East-Bridgeford The Rectory is appropriate to the Arch-bishoprick of York and in Lease to the Family of Clifton The Vicarage is 7l 18s. 11d. ob in the Kings Books and hath Episcopal Jurisdiction in the Parish Newbolt Chappel which I suppose is that now used in the middle of the Town was annexed to the Parish by Walter Grey Archbishop of York in the beginning of the Reign of H. 3. The Church is quite out of the Town on the top of the Hill not far from the Fosse way whither the Parishioners do seldom resort Owthorpe IN Ouethorpe Helge before the Conquest had a Mannor which paid the Tax for half a Car. The Land was three Car. There William the man or tenent of Roger de Busli whose Fee it afterwards was had one Car. four Sochm. eight Vill. having three Car. There was twelve Acres of Medow This in the Conquerours time and before was 30s. value Another Mannor Rolf had in the Confessours time rated also to the Geld at half a Car. The Land three Car. Likewise there Durand Malet whose Fee it was in the Conquerours time had one Car. four Sochm. three Vill. having two Car. or Plows There were twelve Acres of Medow too but the value was shrunk from 30s. to 20s. Tochi a great man and Lord of Shelford and many other Towns in this County before the Norman Conquest had a Mannor here also which paid the publick Geld for a whole Plowland But when Goiffrid de Alselin succeeded him as he did in all or most places in the time of the Conquerours Survey here was nothing to be had That of Roger de Buslies Fee I suppose the Posterity of that William before mentioned who had their name from this place continued long possessors of Iohn son of William de Outhorpe gave to the Priory of Thurgarton the right of Patronage which he had in the moyety of this Church Iohn de Vvitorp was disseised and paid Cs. Fine 7 R. 1. for being with Earl Iohn And 2 Ioh. Iohn de Vvitorp ought Cs. for having his Land in Yorkshire in the Honour of Tikhill Gervas son of Iohn de Outhorpe confirmed to the Canons of Thurgarton five Bovats of Land in the territory of Outhorpe viz. two Bov. with one Toft and two Crofts which Robert Bude held and two which Robert son of William held and one which Robert de Camera held with their homages and services as the Chartels of Ywein le Bretun and William Brito his Father testified reserving 16s. per annum Rent and likewise two Bovats which the said Iohn de Outhorp his Father gave to Raph son of Simon son of Richard reserving 4s. per annum and by the consent of Felice his wife added more to his other gifts Henry son of Gervase de Outhorpe released xx â yearly Rent which the said Priory paid him for vii Bovats held of him and xiis. per annum Rent issuing out of a Toft and one Bovat held likewise of him in Outhorpe Iohn son of Henry de Outhorp granted and confirmed seven Bovats to the said Priory Raph de Outhorp confirmed all the Lands and Tenements to Willielmus de Outhorpe Johannes de Outhorpe Gervasius de Outhorpe-Felicia Henricus de Outhorpe Johannes de Outhorp Radulphus de Outhorpe Johannes de Outhorpe 10 E. 3 -Margeria the said Monastery which they held of his Fee in Outhorpe so free that neither the Canons nor any of their men nor Tenents should do any suit to his Court nor to any of his heirs or successors neither should they be distreined by him or his Bayliffs to answer any in his said Court. There was a Fine levied 10 E. 3. and afterwards 11 E. 3. of the Mannor of Outhorpe between Iohn son of Raph de Outhorpe and Margery his wife Quer. and Reginald son of Simon de Siâthorpe Deforc. whereby it was settled on the said Iohn and Margery and the heirs of their bodies remainder to the right heirs of Iohn at that time Iohn de Oxford and Maud his wife held the third part of it in Dower Simon de Hedon and Gervase de Vvetorpe paid for two Knights Fees in this place in the former part of the Reign of H. 3. At another time Simon is certified to hold but three parts of one Knights Fee here Robert Wasteneys held in Hedon and Outhorpe two Knights Fees about the time of E. 4. That of Durand Malets Fee became it seems part of Lancaster Fee and was held of Butler of Werington in the County of Lancaster by the Family of Vilers The Sheriff of Nott. was commanded 6 Ioh. without delay to make Iohn Botiler have such seisin of the Land of Wulmer de Wudehus in Hilla Hole and Wudhous and Huverthorpe as the same Wulmer had when he forfeited it to King Henry the second and such as the
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Roger le Scrope Chr. when he died held this Mannor joyntly with Margaret his wife and 8 H. 4. left Richard le Scrope his son and heir or sooner On the Seals of Roger and Stephen le Scrope and Philip le Dispenser circumscribed with their names 9 R. 2. are yet visible on Rogers a Bend and likewise on the said Stephens with a large Mullett added to the top of the Bend on Philips is Barry of six a Canton Ermine with a file of three Labels two in the said Canton or rather quarter for 't is a large one and the other towards the Sinister part of the Escutcheon This Mannor descended as the Genealogy shows transcribed out of the Sicling of the great Gallery at Langar from Richard Lord Scrope to Emanuel the last Lord Scrope created Earl of Sunderland who married Elizabeth daughter of Iohn Earl of Rutland but having no issue by her he settled it and the rest of his Estate upon his natural issue which he had by Martha Ianes yet living of which his only son Iohn died unmarried the last of Iuly 1646. aged about twenty years but his three daughters which by that means divide the whole inheritance amongst them are yet living Oct. 2. 1672. Mary the eldest was first married to Henry Cary Lord Lepington eldest son and heir of the Earl of Monmouth but he leaving her a widow without children she is since become the wife of Charles Lord St. Iohn of Basing eldest son and heir of Iohn Marquess of Winchester and by him hath issue Elizabeth the second daughter is wife of Thomas Earl Rivers and Annabella the third of Iohn Howe second son of Sir Iohn Howe of Compton in Gloucestershire Baronet by whom she hath many children Her eldest son Sir Scrope Howe Knight hath lately married the Lady Anne daughter of Iohn Earl of Rutland and is heir apparent of this Mannor which in the division fell to the share of his Mother to whom our present Soveraign King Charles the second by his Letters registred in the Office of Arms bearing date the first day of Iune 1663. in the fifteenth year of his Reign in consideration of the good and acceptable service done and performed by Iohn Howe of Langar Esquire her husband and for a mark of his especial Grace and Royal favour granted and ordained that she the said Annabella should be had taken and esteemed as the daughter of an Earl of this Kingdom of England and that for and during her natural life she have hold use take and enjoy the Stile place degree precedency and priviledges thereof in as full and ample manner as if she had been the Legitimate daughter of Emannuel late Earl of Sunderland with a precept of obedience to all and every of His Majesties Subjects since when she is usually stiled the Right Honourable the Lady Annabella Howe Oliver de Eyncourt released to Raph de Rodes thirty one Bovats of Land and fifteen Tofts in Langar and Barneston which he had brought a Writ of right for in King Henry the thirds time for which the said Raph gave him 50s. of Land in Barneston which together with his other Lands there and some other in Braunceton in Lincolneshire the said Oliver gave to the Priory of Thurgarton to find two Chaplains to celebrate for him his Ancestors and Successors for ever Richard de Wiverton Knight gave also three Bovats in Barneston and Wiverton and two Acres of Medow in Berneston with his body to the said Priory of Thurgarton to find a Secular daily to celebrate Divine Service at the Altar of our Lady there for his Soul and his Wifes Thomas Artebrig 10 E. 3. had licence to give 63s. 6d. Rent out of Langar and Wiverton to make a Chantry in the Church of St. Andrew in Langar Queen Elizabeth 7 of Iune in the thirteenth year of her Reign granted to Henry Lord Scrope of Bolton the Lands late belonging to Thurgarton in the Fields of Langar and Barneston And to Iohn Dudley and Iohn Aiscough 29 Ianuary 17 Eliz. the Tythes in the Parish of Langar in the tenure of Sir Iohn Chaworth Knight at 12l. per annum late belonging to the Priory of Lenton These Tythes I suppose Mr. Howe purchased of the Lord Dunbar as he hath since done a Mess. and some Lands of Moses Foxcroft son of Iohn Rector of Goteham which were Henry Flowers of Langar and by Henry Walker a Captain for the King in the unhappy wars and Anne his wife sister and heir of Thomas Flower heir of the said Henry sold to the said Mr. Iohn Foxcroft so that now the whole Lordships of Langar and Barneston except the said Mrs. Walkers house and some little Medow which was her Ancestors the Flowers is become the possession of Mr. Howe who hath made a convenient Park of the Closes which he found nigh the house which is well stored with Deer much better than the Towns are with people where so considerable parts of the Fields are inclosed the too common fate of good Land in this County A Quare impedit 6 H. 6. was recovered by Guy Fayrfax and William Akworth Plaintiffs against Iohn Elingham Prior of Lenton and Thomas Smith Clark of the Advowson of the Church of Langar The Rectory of Langar which hath but the third part of the Tythes was 10l. and the Lord Scrope Patron 'T is now 10l. 7s. 11d. value in the Kings Books and Mr. Howe Patron In the South Cross-Ile is a fair Tomb for Thomas Lord Scrope and his Lady whereon lie their Effigies at full length at the feet whereof is the figure of their son Emanuel kneeling in much less proportion the Top or Canopy of the Tomb whereon are their Arms with quarterings is supported by tall Pillars of black Marble well polished In the windows on that side is Arg. a Saltier engrailed Gules Tiptoft And in some places Azure a Bend Or Scrope quartering the former In the North Ovire at Langar the feet against the East wall On the Lord Scroop's Tomb. On the North side in two Tables The Right Honourable and Noble Lord Thomas Lord Scroope Baroâ of Bolton Masham and Upshall of the most Noble Order of the Garter Knight Lord Warden of the West Marshes Steward of Richmond and Richmondshire and Bow-bearer of all His Majesties Parks Forests and Chases within the same Lyeth here buried and died the 2 day of September Anno Dom. 1609. On the South side in two Tables The Right Honourable Thomas Lord Scroope c. married the Right Honorable Lady Philadelphia daughter to the Right Honourable Lord Henry Cariâ Baron of Hunsdon Lord Chamberlain to our late Queen Elizabeth her Majesties Houshold who died the 3 of February 1627. and had issue only one Son Emanuel Scroope At the feet of the Tomb this Emanuel Scroope son and heir of the Right Honourable Thomas Lord Scroope and of the Right Honourable Philadelphia
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 Scarâington 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 Beaâmont and after her decease Anne daughter of Iohn Savile of Oxton by whom he had Richard who by Frances daughter of Iohn Owtram of Carcâlston 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 ..... Pierpoât 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 .... âingham 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 Thârold 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 âreeholders 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 neighbouâhood 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 Sâk of Scarrington as I have seen it since called the Sok of Screveton at lengâh 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 Wâatton 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 Bovaâs 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 âoyce 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
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 ât 1672 -Maria fil ... Thompson Anna ââ 16â2 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 Aâice 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 thât 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 Messâage 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 Lâcia of the same with their Homages Services Wards and Reliefs c. Some of the Demeâne 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 âhe 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
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 Mercaâo 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 Wapenâac 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 Bellâmonte 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 Gâorgâââ 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 ãâ¦ã 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 proprâs impensis câelari fecit Guilielmus Cartwright ãâã 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 whiâh 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
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
Medow and forty of Pasture with the Appurtenances in Bramcote Shelton Flaburgh and Dalington They suffered another 7 H. 8. wherein Sir William Mering Knight Rowland Digby Esquire Everard Digby Esquire Nicholas Strelley of Linby Esquire Nicholas Strelley of Strelley Esquire and Iohn Digby Gent. claimed against them the Mannors of Watnowe Chaworth and Shelton and the Advowson of Shelton Church Robert Markham Esquire suffered a Recovery to Francis Leek Esquire and Thomas Markham Esquire of the Mannor of Shelton with the Appurtenances and two Mess. one Cottag two Tofts one Dovecote three Gardens two hundred Acres of Land forty of Medow sixty of Pasture with the Appurtenances in Shelton Dallington and Flawborowe and called to warrant George Purefey Esquire 10 Eliz. Sir Robert Markham the destroyer of that Family sold it to Sir Thomas Bennet an Alderman of London whose issue enjoyes it at this day intire and inclosed The Rectory of Shelton was 8l. and Mr. Markham and Mr. Bingham Patrons 'T is now 6l. 15s. 2d. ob in the Kings Books and Simon Bennet Esquire Patron Sibthorpe Sibetorpe THis is no great Lordship for content of ground only the soil may be thought tolerably good because the Book of Doomsday gives us notice that in those daies here were four or five several Mannors whereof Earl Alan of Richmond had some viz. two which were Vnspaec's before the Conquest who paid the Geld for them as two Bov. ½ The Land being then one Car. Fredgis held this of Earl Alan and there had one Car four Sochm. on one Bovat and two Bordars having one Car. There was a Priest and a Church to which belonged the fourth part of the Land There was ten Acres of Medow The value of this in the Confessours time was 20s. then 12s. Another Mannor in Sybetorpe this Earl had which before was Osberts who was rated for it to the Dane-geld at one Bov. and three Acres The Land half a Car. There was a Priest two Bord. four Acres of Medow This had been 10s. but then was 4s. value Of William Peverells Fee here were two Mannors which before the Normans came Leuvine and Turvert had and were rated for them to the Geld at four Bov. The Land of them was thirteen Bovats There Robert the Man or Tenant of William Pevrel had one Plow or Car. and five Villains with one Plow or Car. and one Mill 20d. and seven Acres of Medow This was in the Confessours time 40s. value then but 24s. Here was another Mannor which before the Conquest Pileuvin had for which he paid the Tax as two Bov. ½ The Land of it was one Car. Afterwards when this great Survey was made by the Conquerour Ilbert de Lacy had it Arnegrime held it of him There was one Car. in Demesne and three Sochm. on half a Bovat of Land and sixteen Bordars having three Plows or Carucats and the third part of a Mill 10d. and ten Acres of Medow The fourth part of this Land belonged to the Church of the same Mannor There was a Priest This kept the old value 30s. Earl Alans part here as most of the Richmond Fee in these parts was held immediately of the Family of Musters of Treswell in this County where Robert de Musters their Ancestor had his residence and was called the Man of Earl Alan in Doomsday Book Iohn de Musters of Tireswell Chr. 22 E. 3. claimed 3s. Rent here whereof his Ancestor Iohn de Musters was seised in the time of King Richard the first the right of which descended to Robert his son and heir and from the said Robert to Iohn his son and heir who dying without issue it was inherited by William his said sons brother who in like manner left it to Robert his brother from whom it came to his son and heir the said Iohn de Musters who then claimed it Iohn de Musters of Tireswell Chivaler by Fine 22 E. 3. passed to Thomas de Sibethorp Parson of Bekyngham 3s. Rent in Sibethorpe together with the Homages and Services of Robert son of William del Grene of Sibthorp Robert Adam William Elys Henry Elys Robert de Stridelington Parson of Skeldingthorpe Isabell who was the wife of Robert de Stridelington Robert son of Robert de Stridelington and Isabell his wife Iohn Alisaundre of Sibethorp Simon de Sibethorp and Iohn his younger son William son of Simon de Sibethorp and Cecily his wife Constance daughter of Roger de Botelesford of Sibthorp Alice daughter of Constance de Botelesford Sarra who had been wife of Walter de Essewellethorp of Sibethorpe Henry son of Walter de Essewellethorpe of Sibethorp Hughde St. Paul Geoffrey Bythelane of Sibethorpe Iohn son of Geoffrey by the Lane William son of Iohn Iohn de Cougham William de Middelton and Elias de Middelton and their heirs for all the Tenements they held of the said Sir Iohn de Musters in Sibthorpe Robert son of William del Grene of Sibthorpe 20 E. 3. claimed an Acre of Medow and 16d. farthing Rent in Sibthorpe as heir to Goscelinus de St. Paul son of Roger de Sibthorpe Rogerus de Sibthorp Goscelinus de St. Paul R. 1. Thomas Rogerus Alicia fil haer Willielmus Robertus del Grene de Sibethorp 20 E. 3. Tericius de Sibethorp temp R. 1. Petrus Robertus Henricus Nicole fil haer -Will de Middelton Elias de Middleton 23 E. 3. Willielmus de Middleton 23 E. 3. which Gocelinus had it in the time of Richard the first and left it to his son and heir Thomas who had a son called Roger who left it to his daughter and heir Alice the mother of William father of the said Robert del Grene who passed it and other things to the said Thomas de Sibthorp so did Elias de Middleton and William his son 23 E. 3. which Elias claimed two Mess. three Tofts three Bov. ½ of Land ten Acres of Medow and 20s. Rent in Sibthorpe and Syreston from Tiricius de Sibethorp his Ancestor in the time of Richard the first who left his right to Peter his son and heir who did the like to his son Robert who had Henry father of Nicola wife of William and mother of the said Elias de Middleton The rest who held any of this Fee or most of them before named conveyed their several interests to this Thomas de Sibthorp Parson of Bekingham Lacies Fee it seems came to Sir Stephen Waleys of whom it was held in the time of Edward the third The most ancient Lord of this Mannor that I have met with was Raph de Sancto Paulo who had a daughter and heir called Dionysia married Radulphus de Sancto Paulo Dionysia fil haer -Alexander Bozon de Kirketon in Hoyland miles temp R. 1. 1 Radulphus s. p. -Alicia relict 2 Hugo Simon de Kirketon in Holand miles Johannes de Kirketon s. p. Margareta ux Johannis fil Rad. Chaumpeneys de Quaplade Alicia ux Fulc
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 Dâyncourt 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 Hâtot 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
Cony de Kirton Anthonius Meeres-Catharina fil Jac. Crewes Edmundus de Hather -Alicia Culpeper Edw. Bussie de Hather -Jana sor coh Joh. Hercie de Grove mil. Johannes Bussie de Hather ... fil ... Pole de Radburne mil. Rhod. Ed. Bussie miles -Christoph Carolus Francisc. feodar Com. Nott. Edward Willielm Johannes Rogerus de Amundevilla .... fil Gerardi Sylvan Jolanus de Amundevil-Beatrix fil ... Paganel Walter s. p. r. Willielm s. p. â Elias de Amundevil 3 -Emma Bâlemer Joâlan de Amundevil-Ermetruda neptis C Aâmerle Petrus de Amundevil-Joana de Acclum Ermetruda de Amundevilla fil haer -Willielmus de Dive mil. Lambertus Bussie-Elizabetha cohaer ob 22 E. 1 -Johannes de Albiniaco marit 2. Johannes de Dive s. p. Willielmus de Isney -Joana-Rad de Trehampton Radulph Alan Jordan Johannes Robertus Barneby in the Willows HEre was belonging to Newark of the Bishop of Lincolnes Fee as much as answered the Tax or Dane-geld for two Bovats ½ But the chief part of this Town was the Fee of Odo Bishop of Bayeux which Mannor was Vlurics before the Conquest and was charged to the Dane-geld the Tax then usually paid at or according to seven Bovats The Land of it being then for three Plows or three Carucats There afterwards Losuardus the Man or Tenant of the said Bishop of Baion had one Car. and 4 Sochm. upon two Bov. of this Land and nine Vill. and six Bord. having four Car. and an half There was a Priest and a Church in which lay half a Bovat of this Land and one Mill 5s. 4d. and thirty Acres of Medow and a small Wood. All this kept the value it had in the time of Edward the Confessour viz. 40s. Much of this Bishops Land in this County became afterwards parcel of Richmond Fee In 10 E. 1. Sir Hugh de Babington and Sir Henry de Perepont held a Knights Fee of that Honour in Rolleston Cotington Barneby and Colingham and paid 10s. per annum to the Ward of the Castle of Richmond Iohn de Dyve 15 E. 1. or before granted to Andrew de Nevill for that one time the presentation to the Church of this Barneby on Wythem saving his right otherwise Andrew de Nevill granted this presentation for one turn to Roger de Brinkill who granted that Andrew and his heirs should present ever after In a great Assise 18 E. 1. the Jury found that Andrew de Nevill named in Rolleston had more right to hold the Advowson of the Church of Barneby near Newarke than William de Wyvill In the Record of Nom. Vill. 9 E. 2. Winthorpe and Barneby answered for one Villa and the Bishop of Lincolne Iohn de Nevill and Alexander de Percy were then certified to be Lords The fourth part of the Mannor of Barneby on Wythem was by Fine 10 E. 2. settled on Alexand. de Percy and Iulian his wife and the heirs of their bodies remainder to Iohn son of the said Alexander and the heirs of his remainder to the heirs of the said Alexander It is called Barneby in the Willowes for distinction from Barneby in the More Here was a Mannor anciently Houghes from whom it came to Aâdeley whose daughters and heirs were married to Edmund and Robert Thorold sons of William Thorold of Marston in Lincolneshire and brothers of Sir Anthony Thorold Knight This was Roberts part and his son Anthony sold it to .... Brownlow It is parcelled out and part thereof is the inheritance of ... Kellet and a great part of Mr. Robert Butler The Mannor of Barnâby about 12 H. 7. was exchanged betwixt .... Strangewayes and .... Suthiâl The Earl of Westmerland who had Richmond Fees this way had Lands here 6 E. 4. The Rectory is appropriate to Southwell Here are some Grounds on the North part of this Lordship called the Mannor of Flaufore which heretofore was the Knights Templars and after the Hospitallers of St. Iohns of Hierusalem which Thomas le Archer the Prior and the Brethren of that house granted to Thomas de Sibthorp Parson of Bekingham who gave it to a Chantry which he Founded there and had it confirmed to him with Free Warren in it and all the Appurtenances both in Lincolneshire and Nottinghamshire by King Edward the second 20 Nov. in the nineteenth year of his Reign It is now the Inheritance of William Cartwright Esquire The Vicarage of Barneby was ten Marks It is now 5l. 9s. 9l. ob in the Kings Books and the Chapter or Church of Southwell Patrons Coddington Cotinton THat part of this Township which was reckoned with Newark and more especially Soc to it paid the Geld as two Car. but the Bishop of Lincolne had two Mannors here besides one whereof Vluric had before the Normans came and paid the Tax or Geld as one Bov. The Land was two Bovats There afterwards the Bishop had half a Car. and one Acre of Medow This in the time of King Edward the Confessour was 40s. value when King Williams Survey was made 20s. Another Bugo had and was charged for it to the publick Tax at two Bovats and an half The Land whereof in the Confessours time was certified to be half a Car. but was waste Botild held it and it was 2s. value there was two Acres of Medow Here were two other Mannors likewise of the Fee of Odo Bishop of Bayon one of which Vluric had before the Conquest and was Taxed at three Bov. and an half for it The Land being then found to be twelve Bovats There Losuardus the Man or Tenant of the Bishop had two Vill. and four Bord. with one Car. and three Acres of Medow In the Confessours time this was 20s. in the Conquerours 10s. value Another Mannor Leuric had before the Norman Invasion rated at five Bov. to the Dane-geld The Land two Car. There Oulchell under the Bishop had half a Car. and four Sochm. on four Bovats of this Land and three Bord. with half a Car. and five Acres of Medow Robert Peysun by the consent of William his brother gave one Bovat in the Fields of Codington of his Demesne between his own Lands next the Sun to God and St. Peter of Thurgarton and the Canons there serving God and four Selions to make a Toft nigh the Cross without the Town of Codington on the West This was confirmed by William son of Walter son of Paganus de Newarke and Sara wife of the said William to whom it was re-conveyed by Elias the Prior to be held of that House by him and his heirs for 4s. per annum In the year 1328. Sir Robert Perpoint held it accordingly of that Monastery By a Fine at Nott. 8 E. 1. Robert Aâtebek and Odierna his wife and Mariot and Alice her sisters daughters of William Henning passed one Toft seven Acres and an half of Land and three Acres of Medow with the Appurtenances in Codyngton to Henry de Percpunt and his heirs By an
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 agâinst them and that they should remit it and grant him and his heirs to be paâtakers 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
who married my Lord of Dunbar's sister Sir Francis Leek died 1 Aug. 22 Eliz. and left a son and heir of his own name who was Knighted at Gréenwich 1 Iun. 1601. 43 Eliz. and made Baronet at the first Creation of that honour 9 Iac. His first wife was Frances the daughâer of Robert Swift by whom he had Sir Francis Leeke creaâed Lord Deyncourt and afterwards Earl of Scarsdale Father of Nicolas the present Earl His second wife was Mary the daughter of Iohn Egioke of Worcestershire after his death married to Sir Gervas Clifton on whom he begot William Leek commonly called âquire Leak the Father of Sir Francis Leek of Newark Knight and Baronet the present Lord of Sandiacre There was a Moore and Common in Landford belonging to St. Iohns of Hierusalem which 18 Decemb. 6 E. 6. were granted to Edward Fynes Knight Lord Clynton and Saye and Henry Hereson and their heirs there were Lands and Commons in Barnebie and Landford late belânging to the said Priory of St. Iohns of Ierusalem 4 Oct. 28 Eliz. granted to Sir Christopher Hatton Knight and his heirs And 21 Oct. 30 Eliz. to Edward Wymark Gent. and his Possibly that Priory had the Church also Mr. More hath the Tythes Mering KIng Williams Land here was rated to the Geld at six Bovats and an half It should seem it or part of it became afterwards of the Earl of Richmonds Fee because Richard de Sutton is said to hold of that Honour a Knights Fee in Sutton Carleton and Meringes And before that I find that Alan de Mering son of Harvei by the grant of Hervei de Sutton his Lord gave one place of Land in the territory of Mering to the Canons of Radeford by Wirksop The first of this Family which had their name from their residence here that I can reconcile to any certainty of time was Gillebertide Meringes who granted to Raph Murdac High Sheriff of these Counties 30 H. 2. six Acres of Medow in Meringes in that called Esteng which Roger de Caisneto held of him for 2s. per annum as the said Raph Murdac was to do who gave it away to the Priory of Lenton for the health of his own soul and of Alexander de Cheinai's and together with it for the more abundant firmness and security of his said gift the writing which he had from the said Gilbert de Meringges for which after his death the Monks were to make him a perpetual Anniversary as for one of their Advocates or principal Benefactors The next whom I have found of this place was Gerard de Mering in the beginning of the Reign of Henry the third In the 40 H. 3. Roger de Luvetot the Sheriff gave account of 2 Marks of Gilb. de Mering and Ivetta his wife for having a Writ of Attaint Robert de Mering 32 E. 1. claimed the hearing of a Writ which Guychard de Charun Lord of Sutton by Mary his wife one of the co-heirs procured against him for services at Mering due to the said Guichard but it appeared by the date of the Writ that it was obtained eight daies before the fault was said to be made therefore he had nothing by it But this Guichard I take upon further consideration to be son of him who married the co-heir but not by her as in Sutton may be observed for I find Sir Robert de Mering Knight held of Iohn de Muscam son of Gilbert and Agnes de Sutton another co-heir all his Tenements in Mering by Foreign service and that the said Robert redeemed the said Service and Ward of his hâirs of the said Iohn After the said Robert succeeded Iohn de Mering his son whose son and heir Thomas married the daughter of Peter Foun of Marcham who had the custody of the said Thomas under age Peter Foun had a son and heir called Iohn who died without issue and Thomas Mering became his heir in right of his wife Alice who had been the wife of Nicolas de Widmerpole and Robert son of Nicolas de Widmerpole had a Suit against Sir Thomas son and heir of Iohn son of Robert de Mering 3 E. 3. A Fine was levied at York 11 E. 3. of the Mannor of Mering between Thomas the elder son of Iohn de Mering and Elizabeth his wife Quer. and Richard de Kelum of Sutton Chaplain Deforc. whereby it was settled on the said Thomas and Elizabeth and the heirs Males of their bodies remainder to Bertram Thomas and Iohn sons of the said Thomas and the heirs Males of theirs successively remainder to the right heirs of the said Thomas son of Iohn Thomas de Mering who was Tenant by the Courtesie of England after the death of Elizabeth his wife of the third part of the third part of the Mannor of Turford c. which her Father Peter Foun had by Margery her mother one of the three daughters of Agnes one Herveius Alanus de Meringa Gillebert de Meringges Godardus sive Gerardus de Mering 3 H. 3. Gilbertus de Mering 40 H. 3 -Ivetta Robertus de Mering mil. 32 E. 1. Johannes de Mering Thom. de Mering mil. 3 E. 3. ...... Elizabetha Bertram de Mering 11 E. 3. Tho. Joh. 2 Alexander de Mering Willielmus Mering-Elizabetha fil Tho. Nevill de Rolleston Willielmus Mering miles Willielmus Mering Ar. Will. Mering mil. -Agnes fil haer Hen. Gloucester de Carcolston Sutton ... ... Johannes Mering-Katharina sor haer Johannis Hercy militis Willielmus Mering miles-Margareta fil Thom. Cave de Stanford 1 Thom. Mering aetat 26. 1576. 2 Willielmus 3 Ambros. Franc. Thom. Johan Tho. Mering ... fil Thwaits· Franc. Alicia ux Ric. Sutton Elizab. -Robertus Markham Alex. Mering de Collingham Eliz. ux Joh. Strelley Jac. Savage Marg. ux Tho. Bassete 1 Franciscus de Mering 36 E. 3. Richardus de Lexington Robertus de Lexington -Matildis Rich. de Marcham potius Willielmus -Cecilia Robertus de Marcham Willielmus de Sancta Cruce -Agnes 2 Petrus Foun-Margeria Johannes Foun sine prole 1 Joana ux Joh. Bayeux Rob. Hakthorn 3 Elizab. ux Joh. Barkworth Willielmus de Lungvillers -Bertha Johannes de Bray marit 2 -Cecilia Richardus de Marcham s. p. Johan Dom. Lexington custos sigil H. 3. Rob. Dom. Lexingt -Hen Episc. Linc. Alicia ux â de Sutton of the three daughters of Robert de Marcham son of Cecilia one of the sisters and heirs of the Lord Lexington left a son about 42 E. 3. called Francis de Mering who was his heir but it seems he died without issue because Alexander Mering another of his sons had a son called William Lord of this Mannor who married Elizabeth one of the eight daughters of Thomas Nâvill of Rolleston and by her had Elizabeth wife of Iohn Strelley and after of âames Savage and Margery wife of Thomas Basset of Fledbourgh mother of Katherin wife of Thomas Sutton of Averham Ancestor
of the present Lord Lexington and a son called Alexander Mering of Collingham besides his son and heir Will. Mering father of William Mering Father of Thomas Mering of Newark as I guess to whom King Richard the third by his Letters Patents dated the fourth of March in the second year of his Reign granted the Mannors of Raunardwyke Ikylford and Piryton in the County of Hartford and Lands in Arkesey in the County of Bedford which were Sir Roger Towcotes Knight then a Rebell to have to him and the heirs Males of his body and likewise Father of Sir William Mering who was thrice married one of his Wives I suppose to be Agnes heir of Henry Gloucester of Carcolston by whom he had Iohn Mering who married Katherin one of the eight sisters and co-heirs of Sir Iohn Hercy of Grove and by her had Francis Thomas and Iohn besides Sir William Mering who had to wife Margaret the daughter of Thomas Cave of Stanford and by her three sons Thomas William and Ambrose and many daughters but of them I can say no more saving that this Lordship was sold to George Earl of Shrowsbury and is now the possession of his Grace the Duke of Newcastle Now some begin to esteem it out of this Wapentac but in Nomina Villarum there was no doubt of it for there 't is joyn'd with Gretton as in that place is noted Colingham North and South BEfore the Normans invaded this Country St Peter of Burgh had a Mannor in Colingeham rated to the publick payment of that time at four Car. and half a Bovat The Land whereof was then certified to be fourteen Car. There when King William made his great Survey in Demesne were two Car. and thirty seven Sochm. on two Car. and three Bovats of this Land and eight Villains and twenty Bordars having fourteen Car. There was a Priest and two Churches and two Mills 20s. and two hundred Acres of Medow small Wood two qu. long and 1 qu. broad This continued the former value 9l. Here was some part also which went with Shelton of Raph de Limesies Fee and some part was accounted of Richmond Fee but the main of both the Towns continued to the Abbat of Peterborow who had Free Warren granted here 35 H. 3. Yet the Bishop of Lincolne 14 E. 1. complained of him that he had set up Gallows at Collingham and there hanged a Thief to the derogation of the liberty of his Wapentach of Newark which the Bishop held of the grant of the Kings Predecessours to which the Abbat answered That the Kings Father in the thirty seventh year of his Reign granted to him and his Successours Infangthef and Utfangthef in all his Hundreds and Demesnes and so he avowed his Gallows and complained against the Bishop That he took two Horses and six Cows at Newark and drove them to his Parc or Pound and there detained them The Bishop pleaded that he held the Wapentac of the gift of the King within which are the two Towns of Collingham which the said Abbat held and for which he ought to make suit at the said Wapentac by three men of each Town from three weeks to three weeks and because the suit was with-drawn he took the Horses and Kine at last they agreed the Abbat being constrained to pull down his Gallows and submit The Bishop of Lincoln 10 E. 3. impleaded divers men of North and South Colingham for that when his Bayly had taken divers Cattel of several condemned and out-law'd persons of the said Towns same whereof were hanged as the Goods of Felonâ and Fugitives belonging to him in right of his Wapentac of Newark and impounded them the said men broke the Pound and took the Cattel and had them away for which they answer They are not culpable but the Agreement before mentioned 14 E. 1. between Oliver Bishop of Lincolne and the Abbat will end the strife The Grand Assise 53 H. 3. at Darby between Rob. de Collingham and Iohn de Hyrst Compl. and Walter son of Galfr. and Walter de Markham concerning Common of Pasture which the two Walters exacted in the Lands of the said Robert and Iohn in Collingham was respited till the Octaves of St. Michael at Leicester because Nicholas de Eyvill Robert de Markham Robert de Burstall Richard de Weston Benedict de Rolleston Richard de Grey Raph Barry Philip de Colewick Bryan de Herdeby Simon de Gringeley Walter de Touk Thomas de Bella aquâ Galfr. de Staunton Robert de Stokes Iohn de Vilers Roger de Alneto Knights chosen came not and were therefore amerced Here was a Mannor in North Colingham which the Leeks of Landforth held of the Abbat of Peterburgh These Towns still belong to that Church and the Honourable Anchetill Grey son of Henry Earl of Stanford is the Grand Lessee he married Anne the eldest of the three daughters and co-heirs of Sir Henry Willoughby of Risley in Darbishire the relict of Sir Thomas Aston and mother of Sir Willoughby Aston The Rectory of South Collingham was 20l. when the Abbat of Peterburgh was Patron 'T is now 14l. 1s. 10d. in the Kings Books and the Bishop of Peterburgh Patron The Vicarage of North Collingham was 8l. when the said Abbat was Patron 'T is now in the Kings Books 8l. 19s. 2d. and the Dean and Chapter of Peterborow Patrons The holy Abbess St. Ebba and her Nuns who defaced themselves lest they should be deflowred by the Heathen Danes are reported to have had their residence at Collingham but I having seen nothing certain of it must leave her to Coldingham in Scotland a Cell of Durrham where there is more certain notice of her Dernethorpe Dordenthorpe MOst of this Hamlet seems to be involved in Collingham yet the Book of Dooms-day shows part of it to be of the Soc of Houton of the Fee of Raph de Limesi which was rated to the Geld or Tax at one Bov. The Land was two Bov. There five Sochm. and six Bord. had two Car. or Plows There was a Church and a Priest with one Car. and fourscore Acres of Medow William son of Roger de Houton released to Adam son of Richard de Harthill and his heirs all manner of demand concerning Customs and Services for the Land which the said Adam held of him in the Town of Dornethorp Adam de Hertehill gave to Roger son of Roger Deyncurt with Alice his daughter in Frank-marriage all his Land in Derlesthorpe or Dornethorpe with all Homages Reliefs and Services Sir Richard de Hortehill confirmed to his sister his Fathers gift of all his Land in Dornethorpe and Collingham reserving to himself and his heirs the Service of the twelfth part of a Knights Fee Alice after the death of her husband Roger Deyncurt gave all her interest to the Priory of Thurgarton to which Roger de Brettevile and Amabilia his wife named in Houton also released their claim in
and Rents formerly belonging to that Monastery in Chilwell Bramcote and Adenborough 28 Novemb. 42 Eliz. were granted to Hercules Witham and Francis Thekeston Gent. and their heirs Nicholas Charleton Father of Thomas Charleton Esquire late High Sheriff of this County left him an House and considerable Lands here which were purchased of ... Pymme William Sacheverell of Barton Esquire hath purchased of Mrs. Poutrell the widow of Iohn Poutrell Lands lying on the South side the River of Trent called Chillwell Borresse adjoyning to the Lordship of Barton In the old House in a Chamber-window at Chilwell Babington impales with Arg. three Hammers or Pickaxes Gules Martell This Mannor Tythe and Demesne were given by the said Mrs. Poutrell to her Nephew Sir Henry Hunlake of Wingerworth in Derbyshire Baronet whose Ancestor Nicholas Humlake was an owner hereabouts in the time of H. 8. Toueton MIstaken by Dr. Thomas Fuller in his Ecclesiastical History for that in Yorkshire where the great Battel was fought 1461. between the Houses of York and Lancaster and so many slain viz. 35091. and K. Henry the sixth defeated This was of the Fee of William Peverell and one Aldric had it before the Conquest who was rated for this Mannor to the publick Tax at three Carucats The Land whereof was then three Car. and an half Here Warner the Man or Tenant of William had three Car. or Plows and four Sochm. on three Bov. of this Land and 16 Vill. three Bord. having six Car. or Plows Here was half a Church and a Priest and two Mills 8s. one hundred Acres of Medow and a small Ozier Bed or Holt It continued the old value 60s. having Soc in Chilewelle Robert son of Warner at the Foundation of Lenton Priory by his Lord William Peverel in the time of Henry the first gave as others did two parts of the Tythes of his Demesne here in Toueton By an Inquisition taken 13 Ioh. it appears that Henry de Grey had then six Knights Fees of the Honour of Peverell which came to the King by Escheat in the Counties of Nott. and Derb. viz. in Henour one in Normantone one in Sirland one in Codenour and Toueton one in Radeclive one and in Beâley one The Sheriff William Briwerre 8 R. 1. gave account of the Scutage of the Honour of Pevrel of Nottingham assessed the year before being the second for the Army in Normandy and likewise of Henry de Grey Cs. of his Scutage for five Knights Fees because he was in the Kings Service beyond the Sea His Seal within the Circumscription of his name hath upon it Barry of six which were Arg. and Azure as in Radcliff upon Trent may be observed His wife was Isolda whom Mr. Burton in his description of Leicestershire affirms to have been the daughter and heir of Hugh Bardolf He was undoubtedly a great man and I think had divers sons Iohn Father of Reginald de Grey who had Shirland and William Lord of Sandiacre mentioned in Hickling but the eldest son and heir both of him and Isolda his wife who after his decease was married to Reginald de Mendre was Richard de Gra Lord of Codenhour in Darbyshire who married Lucia the daughter and heir of Iohn de Homaz The Jury 56 H. 3. found that Iohn de Grey held the Mannor of Radeclive as belonging to this of Toueton which he held by Barony viz. in Capite together with Codenowre said to be an old Escheat and many other Lands in several Counties and that his son Henry de Grey was his heir and fourteen or fifteen years of age Henry de Grey 29 E. 1. entred into a recognizance of ten thousand pounds to Robert Fitz-Payn before Roger de Brabauzon and his fellow Justices which yet was to be void if the said Henricus de Grae-Isolda-Reginald de Mendre marit poster Richardus Dom. Gra de Codnour-Lucia fil haer Joh. de Humez Claus. 7 H. 3. Norf. m. 8. Johannes Dom. Grey ob 56 H. 3 -Lucia Henricus Dom. Grey ob 2 E. 2. Richardâs Dom. Grey mort 9 E. 3 -Joana Johannes Dom. Grey miles Gart. in primâ fundatione-Alianora 18 E. 2 -Alicia de Insula Henricus Dom. Grey Richardus Dom. Grey miles Gart. mort 6 H. 5 -Elizab fil cohaer Rad. Basset de Sapcote ob 29 H. 6. Esc. Derb. 1 Johannes Dom. Grey mort 9 H. 6 -Joana Henricus s. p. 2 Henricus Dom. Grey ob 22 H. 6 -Margareta fil cohaer Hen. de Percy d' Atholl mil. Ric. Vere marit alter Henricus Dom. Grey aet 28.4 E. 4. ob 18 H. 7 -Katherina Henricus Grey Elizab. Grey-Ric fil 3. Hen. Sacheverell mil. Henricus Sacheverell s. p. Henr. Grey Elizab. -Joh Zouch mil. Joh. Zouch-Eliz fil Joh. St. John de Bletsoe Joh. Zouch mil. de Codnour-Margareta fil Hen. Willughby mil. Anna fil .... Geinsford-Georgius Zouch-Elianor fil ... Lane ux 2. Johan Zouch de Codnor mil. -Eliz fil Ric. Whalley Ar. Johannes Zouch factus mil. 1 Jac. aetat 10. 1559 -Maria fil Henr. Barkley mil. Elenor. -Tho Hutchinson de Owthorp Willielmus Johan Henry did not sell nor Alienate the Mannors of Toueton and Estwayt in this County but leave them to Richard de Grey his son and heir and to the heirs of his body In 2 E. 2. Henry de Grey was dead and his son Richard de Grey his heir was then found to be twenty six years of age Richard de Grey of Codnour 3 E. 3. claimed the Emendation of the Assise of Bread and Ale broken in Toueton as a member of Codnour He left Ioane his widow 9 E. 3. and his son Iohn his heir then aged twenty eight years The Jury 18 E. 2. found it not to the Kings loss if he granted Iohn the son of Richard de Grey and Alianor his wife to retain the Mannor of Hoo in Kent to themselves The Castle of Codnour with the members in Darbishire and the Mannor of Towton in Nottss remaining over c. This Iohn Lord Grey was Knight of the Garter at the first Foundation his Grandchild Richard Lord Grey was also Knight of that Order who was son and heir of Henry eldest son of the said Iohn by Alice de Insula his wife This Richard married Elizabeth daughter and co-heir of Raph Basset of Sapcote Knight she was born at Castle Bytham in the County of Lincolne and Baptized in the Church of St. Iames there the Sunday before the Feast of St. Iames the Apostle 46 E. 3. and was fourteen years old 22 Iuly 10 R. 2. He was 26 Apr. 2 H. 4. constituted Admiral from the mouth of Thames towards the Northern parts of England as Sir Thomas Rempston was 21 Apr. towards the West She bore him two sons Iohn and Henry both Lords Grey whom she out-lived The King 9 H. 6. Decemb. 18. committed to Iohn Duke of Bedford the Custody of the Castles Mannors c. which were
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 Indenâure 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 Eâinham 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
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
ten Mess. ten Cottages c. in Mapurley in Darbyshire The Mannor of Broxtow and Maperley in Darbyshire late in the possession of Thomas Whalley Gent. and Richard Whalley Esquire Iuly 21. 12 Iac. were by the King granted to Philip Stanhope Knight his heirs and assigns as late the Lands of Richard Whalley Esquire paying 21l. 4s. per annum to the Exchequer This Mannor hath since passed through the Families of Byron and Stanhope and Isham Parkins Esquire sold it to Thomas Smith younger son of Sir Francis Smith of Ashby Folevile in Leicestershire who builded the House and adorned the Seat and in the Wars received the honour of Knight-hood but not long since it was sold to Sir Francis Top then Servant to his Grace the Duke of Newcastle his Lady was Elizabeth Chaplan whon had been Servant to the Duchess since her child-hood it remains Sir Iohn Toppes Baronet her son's 'T is now esteemed as I take it in the Parish of Bilborough Baseford And Algarthorpe or Eland-Hall THere were many Mannors in Baseford of William Peverells Fee and one which was Tayn-land which Aluric had before the Conquest paying to the Geld for four Bovats The Land was half a Car. He continued to hold it of King William when the great Survey was made and there had one Vill. holding one Car. and one Acre of Medow and two Mills 16s. and small Wood one Acre This held 20s. value as it had been formerly Alcwin had a Mannor here before the Conquest rated to the Geld at ten Bovats The Land was then twelve Bovats There afterwards Safred the Man or Tenant of William Peverell had one Car. two Vil. ... Bord. one Sochm. having two Car. ½ There was a Priest and three Acres of Medow and one Acre of Wood this likewise kept the old value 20s. Two other Mannors here Alfeg and Algod had which answered the Tax for two Car. and two Bov. The Land whereof was so much There Pagen and Safred the Men of William Peverell had one Car. two Vill. five Bord. having two Car. and three Mills 25s. 4d. and six Acres of Medow and a small Wood this also kept the old rate 40s. There was besides these another parcel one Bovat for the Geld which Escul held Philip son of Safrid and Maud his wife by the consent of William Peverell gave to the Monks of Lenton in honour of the High and undivided Trinity twenty four Acres of their Demesne viz. a little Essart at Broculstow and a Tilled place or Wong called Trucchere welle and another called Thorniwang another Copperodes besides two Bovats which William son of Gilbert held and two which Alfer had in Baseford Robert son of Philip de Baseford confirmed the four Bovats of the Villenage of Baseford and the twenty four Acres of Demesne which his Father gave and likewise confirmed to that Church of Lenton all the Land in Aldesworth of his Fee with a Medow called Brademedoe he likewise released to the same Church a Medow which he once sued the Monks for viz. the upper Island which the water of Lene did anciently compass One of these Mannors Iohn de Orreby held and Gilbert de Orreby 52 H. 3. had Free Warren here The Jury 19 E. 2. said that Simon de Orreby held Lands here during his life of the Inheritance of Alveredus de Sulney who was then found heir of the said Simon and above 26 years of age By an Inquisition taken 7 H. 6. it appears that Margery Langford held some of Sulneys Lands here and Iohn de Cockfeild others whose Family held also another Mannor in this place which went with Nuthall as in that place is shown Sir Raph Langford Knight was seised of eight Mess. two hundred Acres of Land ten of Medow ten of Pasture with the Appurtenances in Baseford which he passed to Anthony Fitz-Herbert Serjeant at Law and others 14 Ian. 2 H. 8. to fulfill his last Will he died 1 Febr. 5 H. 8. his Grandchild Raph Langford son of his son Nicholas then above four years old being found his heir This was a Family of principal note and great possessions in Darbyshire and other Counties William Hollys the younger Gent. 29 H. 8. claimed against Raph Langford and Dorothy his wife the Mannor of Baseford and likewise the Mannors of Blakwell Whitwell and Cressewell in Darbishire and the Advowson of the Church of Whitwell In 37 H. 3. the Mannors of Betewast in the County of Northampton of Lubbesthorp in Leicestershire and Basford in this County were confirmed to William de Cantelupe George de Cantelupe 1 E. 1. is found to have held nothing in Demesne in Basseford but that Stephen de Brokelstow held of him one Mill three Acres of Land and two of Medow in Fee for xiis. iiiid. and likewise held of him in Bondage fifteen Bovats and an half of Land for lxiis. and seven Cottages which yielded xvs. iiiid. His two sisters were his heirs of which Millecent de Monte alto who also married Eudo le Zouch succeeded him in this place The Jury 17 E. 2. found it not to the Kings damage if he granted to Thomas le Zouch that he should retain to himself five Mess. and eleven Virgats of Land with the Appurtenances in Basford which he had acquired of William de la Zouch A Fine 24 E. 3. of Lands in Baseford was levyed between Raph son of Raph de Crumwell and Maud his wife Quer. and Raph de Crumwell Chr. and Amicia his wife Deforc. whereby they were settled on Raph son of Raph and Maud his wife and the heirs of their bodies remainder to Raph and Amicia and the heirs of Raph. Another Fine was levied 46 E. 3. between Raph son of Raph de Crumbewell Knight and Elizabeth his wife Quer. and Raph de Crumwell Chr. and Maud his wife Deforc. of the Mannors of Baseford and Bleseby by which they were settled on Raph the son of Raph and Elizabeth his wife and the heirs of their bodies remainder to Raph and Maud his wife and the heirs of Raph quit from any other heirs of the said Raph the son of Raph and Elizabeth Gervas Clifton and Maud his wife late wife of Robert de Willughby 5 E. 4. granted to Anthony Wydevile Lord Scales and Newsells these Mannors and many others which were late Raph Lord Crumwells William Shirbourn 28 H. 8. claimed against William Hollys of London the younger Gent. the moyety of twenty Mess. c. in Basford who called to warrant Edward Knivett Esquire He and Fitz-Williams were the heirs of the Lord Crumwell as in Crumwell may be observed Sir William Copley in the right of Dorothy his wife died seised of the moyety of the Mannor of Basforth 28 Apr. 2 and 3 Ph. and Mar. as in Plumptre is said These came to the Family of Hollis and were by the last Earl of Clare save one dispersed amongst Freeholders but the
for this Mannor of Brunnesley Howbeit in the Records I find that 1 H. 4. Robert son of Robert son of Iohn de Brunesley was out-lawed Rogerus de Brunnesley defunct 12 H. 3. Gilbertus de Brunnesley ob 7 E. 1. Rogerus de Brunnesley aet 30. 7 E. 1. ob 5 E. 3. Galfr. de Brinsley aet 50. ad mortem patris Robertus de Brynnesley Johannes de Bronesley-Elizabeth Willielmus de Brunesley 3 H. 5. Johannes Brinsley .... fil Galfr. Holmes de Henour Com. Derb. Johannes Brendesley .... fil ..... Kirby Robertus Brinsley de Brinsley-Elizab fil Radulphi Poole de Wakebridge Com. Derb. Franciscus Brinsley 1569 -Kath fil Joh. Stephen Salop. s. p. ux 1 -Beatrix fil Georg. Nevill de Grove Gervasius Brinsley de Brinsley -Maria fil Edw. Onley de Catesby in Com. Northampt. Jana-Richardus Lewys de Selston Johannes Lewes de Leadston in Com. Ebor. mil. Bar. -Sara fil haer Tho. Foot Alderm London mil. Bar. 1 Elizab. aet 19. 1673 -Theophilus Com. Huntington 2 Maria-Rob Dom. Deincurt fil haer Nic. Com. de Scarsdal Maria-Dom Steph. Butler Johannes de Blyth Spittle -Constanc fil ..... Farndon Joana 4 H. 6 -Robertus Broun in this County and that Iohn Brynnesley held when he died about 3 H. 5. the Mannors of Brynnesley and Trowell c. and that William Brynnesly was then found his son and heir and Iohn de Brynesley about 13 E. 4. left Iohn Brynnesley his son heir of these Mannors then aged twenty five years And this Mannor certainly enough continued to the Brinnesleys Brounes posterity possibly being so called after their Mother as Poutrells of Thrumpton were for Gervas Brinnesley Esquire who sold it was son of Francis and Beatrix his second wife daughter of George Nevill of Ragnell or Grove which Francis was son of Robert Brendesley and Elizabeth his wife daughter of Rauf Pole of Wakebrige which Roberts Father was Iohn son of Iohn Brendesley of Brendesley as it appears in the Visitation of Robert Glover Somerset Herald who visited for William Flower Norroy in this County in the year 1569. at which time the said Gervas Brinsley is said to be but two years old That Norroy granted to the Brinsleys to bear for their Arms Party per pale Or and sable a Chevron between three Escallops Counter-changed but the ancient Coat yet remaining in the Church of Trowell is Or and sable quartered with a Chevron it self also quarterly between three Escallops Counter-changed This Gervase sold the Tenements to Gilbert Millington Esquire since better known by the Chair of the Committee for plundered Ministers and the Kings death The Demesne and Capital Mess. to Patric Cocke and others It is parcel of Greyseley Parish Some of the Grand Serjeancy was Grettons and descended to Iohn Middleton of Wannesley Wandesley LEuric before the coming in of the Normans had a Mannor in Wandeslei which paid to the Geld or Tax of those times as five Bov. of Land The Land of it was then found to be sufficient for one Plow or one Carucat Afterwards it became the Fee of Raph Fitz-Hubert who had there half a Car. and three Vill. and two Bord. There was a Priest and half a Church and four Acres of Medow feeding or pasture Wood four qu. long and four broad In King Edward the Confessours time the value of it was 8s. in the Conquerours when the Book of Doomsday was made 10s. Ranulf de Wannesle is certified to hold a Knights Fee of Hubert Fitz-Raph in the time of Henry the second of the old feoffment that is whereof his Ancestor was enfeoffed before the death of King H. 1. In the Pipe Rolls of 22 H. 2. William de Wandeslega gave account of two Marks of the Amercements of the Forest and Ranulf de Wandeslega of three Marks Raph de Wandesleia gave to God and the Church of St. Mary of Felley and the Canons there serving God the whole Land which Richard son of Walter held with all its Easements and Appurtenances and the said Richard with his Sect with all liberties belonging to the Town of Wandesleia Witness Philip Marc the Sheriff of Nottss Adam de Seyn Martyn Stephen the Dean of Gresley Adam Parson of Selston Galfr. de Insula Herbert his brother Richard his son Walter de Estweyt Raph le Poer Saphri le Frop c. Nicolas de Wandeslei confirmed to the same Church the Land which Richard Naht held in Thorp viz. that which Raph de Wandesley his brother gave The Witnesses were Sir Walter de Estwayt Iwan Briton Raph de Poer Reginald de Annesley Roger de Watenowe Henry de Estweyte Peter de Russale Iohn de Perepount Thomas the Clark of Annesley Galfr. del Held and many others Henry son of Paschal de Estweyt 4 H. 3. had a pardon for the death of Ranulf son of Ranulf de Wandesle Nicholas de Wandesley his heirs and successours and their Tenants or Men were to make reasonable Hedges and Fences about their Winter-seed in their Assarts and about the Assarts which were made in his Fee before Easter day 15 H. 3. which Walter the Prior of Felley obtained by an Assize against him the said Nicholas and Peter de Russale and Alexander son of Hubeââ and Iordan de Bothweyt and Iuge de Berhis and William Bausaw and William son of Swane and Richard son of Swane and Raph Tâstard and Adam son of Walter of Selston and Godfr de Westwood and Ranulph de Westwood in which there is mention of a way which was considered by the view of Walter de Estwayt at that time High Sheriff and by the view of twelve Knights which were in the Assize Walter the Prior of Felley and the Covent of the same agreed with Alexander de Wandesley concerning a certain Assize of Novell disseism of Common of Pasture of a certain Assart of the said Alexander in Wandesley in a place which was called Drihirst in which they released all their right and claim in forty Acres of it measured by the Perch of twenty four feet which was assarted and inclosed at the Purification of St. Mary 24 H. 3. Ranulph de Wandesley son of Alexander de Wandesley gave to the Priory of Felley for the sustentation of one Canon of their number daily celebrating Divine Service in his Chappel of Wandesley beneath his Mannor the Rent of sixty shillings yearly to be received of certain of his Freeholders and their Lands and Tenants in Selston Westwode Thorp and out of his Mills Thomas the Prior and the Covent of Felley bound themselves and their successours to Sir Ranulph de Wandesley Knight and his heirs and Assigns possessing the Mannor of Wandesley by any Title whatever to find one religious Canon of their House in the Chappel beneath his Mannor of Wandesley for the said yearly Rent of sixty shillings which he gave them Their Instrument wherein is contained all the several Articles of their agreement
Witnesses were Andrew the Canon of Suthuel Drogo brother of the said Reinald Alan the Chaplain of Suell Robert son of Azor Lisia de Barton Reginald de Insula William Brettun Hugh de Anneslei Daniel son of Swan de Annesley There was also another Writing with an oblong Seal of old Green Wax hanging at it the impression whereof contained the Image of a certain Bishop standing in his Pontificals holding his Episcopal Staff in his left hand and lifting up his right hand to bless the circumference of it being Sigillum Gaufridi Dei graciâ Ebor. Archiepi The Tenor whereof imported that Gaufr by the Grace of God Arch-bishop of York and Primate of England seeing the controversie between Lyonca de Raines and Henry her son and Reginald de Annesley and Hugh Parson of the Church of Kyrkeby concerning the Church of Annesley was appeased in his presence by all of them giving their right to the Canons of Felley he therefore confirmed it to them for their proper uses There likewise were produced Letters Apostolical Signed with the Subscriptions of very many Cardinals and their Marks with a true Leaden Bull or Seal hanging in a Silk string in which Bull on one side appeared the heads of the blessed Peter and Paul the Apostles with Superscriptions set to them on the accustomed manner and on the other side was Coined Celestinus Papa iii. The Tenor of it imported that Pope Celestine the third took the Church and Prior and Covent of Felley into his own and St. Peter's protection and confirmed to them the rule of S. Augustine for ever what ever Possessions or Goods they then had or afterwards by the grant of Popes bounty of Kings or Princes offering of faithful people or other just waies they could get particularly the place where the Church was scituate with all the Appurtenances of the gift of Raph de Anneslei the Church of Anneslei with all its Appurtenances Bradelei with the Seat of a Mill Lamberstorth the Sart of Raph Sauteclif the Sart of Robert the Sart of Gocelin Clauerthwayt the Sart of Gilbert Kyrkeleis with the Appurtenances the Rent of Notingham of the gift of Serlo de Pleslei the Land of Huluesdis with the Appurtenances of the gift of Hubert Fitz-Raph five shillings of the gift of Peter de Le twelve pence of the gift of Robert de Heriz the Land of four shillings of the gift of William Briton one Acre of Land and fifteen pence of Rent at Chesterfeild of the gift of Reginald de Insula two Bovats of Land of the gift of Galfr. Barre one Bovat of Land and twenty Acres at Tiversold the Land of Suell of the gift of the Constable of Chester half a Mark at Newark of the gift of Simon de Leleshauc two Virgats of Land at Hoverton and one Bovat at Colwyc and that none should presume to exact Tythes of their Arable Lands which were in their own hands or Tilled at their costs or of the nourishments of their Cattel and that it should be lawful for them to receive to Conversion Clarks or Lay Free and absolved flying from the world and them without any contradiction to retain and forbad that any of their Brethren after profession made in their place should depart without licence of the Prior except to obtain a more strict Religion and that none should dare to retain any so departing without the caution of common Letters And that when there should be a general interdict of the Land it should be lawful for them the gates being shut excommunicate and interdicted persons excluded the Bells not stirred to celebrate Divine Offices with a low voice And inhibited lest any should presume to publish sentence of Excomunication or interdict against them or their Church without manifest and reasonable cause or grieve them in new debts or exactions And farther decreed that the Sepulture of this place should be free that none should hinder the Devotion and last Will of them who should have delivered themselves to be buried there except by chance they were excommunicate or interdicted yet saving the right of those Churches from which the bodies were taken and the like as free choice of the Prior and security from all manner of trouble or disturbance and a great Curse and Excommunication for all infringers of their liberties c. It was signed by all or most of the Cardinals then at Rome and bore date Anno Domini 1194. and in the fourth year of Pope Celestine the third the 14 of the Kalends of August Iohn the Prior and the Covent of Wirksop seeing that many times contentions were moved between them and the Prior and Covent of Felley both because they were wont to receive ten shillings of that House yearly due to them from the beginning of it by the imposition of the Founder and also challenged certain subjections and obediences and to have interest and voice in their elections and for these causes saw themselves burdened and wearied with expensive and laborious prosecutions as well as the said House in the like defences by the advice and consent of the Reverend Father and Lord Godefr Arch-bishop of York released all in his presence the rest of the Witnesses being the Abbats of Rufford and Welbeke the Priors of St. Oswald Thurgarton Newstede and Shelford Mr. Iohn Clarell Sir Richard de Sutton Canon of Suthwell Sir Rob. de Stotevill Walter de Ludham Regin de Annesley Galfr. Barri Simon de Aslacton Knights Sir Will. Rector of the Church of Kyrkeby Alexander de Wandesley and others for which release Henry Prior of Felley and the Covent of that place granted to the Church and Canons of Wirksop the yearly Rent of twenty shillings which compotsiion was confirmed by the said Godefr Arch-bishop of York by his Instrument dated at Scroby 5 Non. March 1260. and in the third year of his Pontificate Yvo de Heriz for the safety or health of the Soul of his brother William gave to God and St. Mary of Felley and to William de Lovetot the Prior and the Canons there serving God twenty Acres c. in Oggeston and Brachinpheyt The Witnesses were Hubert de Crich William Barry William de Heriz of Wyverton Raph le Poer Raph de Annesley William Pytè Symon the Chaplain of Wynfeld and very many more Robert de Heriz gave them a Sart in Oggedeston which Edward the Smith of Wistanton held The Witnesses were Sir Walter Abbat of Darby Gilbert Prior of Thurgarton Albred Prior of Newstede Symon son of or Fitz Richard Philip de Belmes Philip de Vston Richard Aaron Robert le Aungevin William Pitè Roger Pitè Iohn Plungun William de la Vale Galfr. de Heriz Robert son of Robert de Heriz the Donour Yvo de Heriz confirmed this according to the Deed which the Monks had of his Father Iohn de Heriz for the health of his Soul and of Sarra I suppose his wife gave to that Church of Felley
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
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 âan 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 Dâvecote 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
Iohn Deincourt Knight and of Iohane his wife c. annexed it to the Chantry of Ales Deincourt before noted Thomas Dethick 28 H. 8. resigned the Priory of Thurgarton and Iohn Berwick was admitted Prior by the King The Priory of Thurgarton was granted to William Cowper the Kings Servant and Cecily his wife and their heirs 30 H. 8. Cecilia was daughter and heir of Iohn Toll of Willielmus Cooper de Thurgarton-Cecilia fil haer Johannis Tolle de London Thom. Cooper de Thurgarton-Elianor fil Mich. Stanhop mil. Willielmus Cooper .... fil .... Hutton Justic. Rogerus Cooper miles ... fil ... Harpur Cecil Cooper Ar. -Sara fil Johannis Hotham Baronetti Cecil Cooper aet 4. 1673. Johannes Cooper-Doroth fil Hen. Gilbert Carolus Johan Willielmus Dorothea Rogerus Ann. 2 Drury s. p. Thom. fil haer occisus s. p. Ann. Joana Willielmus Cooper -An fil Jac. Mering Richard Oliva s. p. London she had three sons Thomas Cooper Esquire who married Elianor one of the daughters of Sir Michael Stanhop William who married An. daughter of Iames Mering of Rolleston and Richard Cooper and a daughter called Oliva wife of Ed. Sutton of Averham but she died without issue her eldest brother the said Thomas Cooper had Thomas Cooper his eldest son who was slain without issue and William Cooper his second son who was heir to his brother and married .... the daughter of Judge Hutton by whom he had Sir Roger Cooper a worthy honest Gentleman whose fidelity and constancy to the Royal interest weakened his fortunes so that Cecill Cooper Esquire his son will have too hard a task to make this House and Demesnes intirely his own the Woods being also extremely wasted His brother Iohn Cooper second son of Sir Roger was Carver to his Majesty that now is King Charles the second and a very industrious person but died 1672. in his Majesties debt having been receiver general of the Royal Aid and Additional supply and Collector of the Harth-money c. in this County The Rectory and a great part of the Township of Thurgarton was granted by King Henry the eighth to Trinity Colledge in Cambridge of whom the Coopers have usually held it in Lease and Mr. Iohn Cooper built a Brick-house in the middle of the Town upon one of the Farms now almost all inclosed Hoveringham SWayne before the Conquest had a Mannor in Hoveringham which answered the publick Tax or Geld for two Car. two Bov. The Land was four Car. There afterwards Walter de Aincurt whose Fee it became had one Demesne two Car. and six Sochm. on three Bovats and one third of a Bovat of this Land nine Villains three Bordars having four Car. There was a Priest and a Church and two Mills 40s. two Piscaries 8s. and fourty Acres of Medow In the Confessours time it was valued at 4l. and when the Book of Doomsday was made at 10s. more having Soc in Fiscartune Mortune and Farnesfeld Hugo de Hoveringham paid four Marks for two Knights Fees in the time of H. 3. he was a benefactor to Thurgarton as was also Robert his Father and Hugh his Grandfather and Emme his Grandmother named in that place to which this Church was given by Robert his said Father They had interest in Flintham and Radcliffe on Trent as in those Towns may be perceived as had also the Family of Gousell who continued here long after them whereof Ruph de Gousle son of Robert had a son called Sir Walter de Goushill who married Matilda one of the two co-heirs of Mathew de Hathersege the other sister Cecilia was the wife of ...... Langford Robertus de Gousle Radulphus de Gousle 10 Joh. Walterus de Goushill miles-Matilda fil cohaer Matth. de Haverseche Johannes sive Walterus de Goushill 53 H. 3. Walterus de Goushill miles defunct 20 E. 2 -Margeria Thomas de Goushill Chr. defunct 48 E. 3 -Agnes Nicolas de Goushull Chr. aetat 60. an 48 E. 3. defunct 7 H. 4. ob 16 R. 2. anno dom 1393 Nicolaus de Goushull Chr. Robertus Goushill miles-Elizab fil haer Ric. Comitis de Arundell relicta Thom. Mowbray Ducis Norfolk Robertus Wingfeild mil. -Elizab fil cohaer Thom. Baro Stanley-Joana fil cohaer Simon and mother of Nigellus Father of Oliver father of Iohn father of Nicolas de Langford who lived 4 E. 3. Matilda who had been wife of Sir Walter de Goushill purchased of William son of Hugh de Hoveringham a certain place in the West part of the Medow of Hoveringham called Yirne or Thirne upon which the Medow of the Prior of Thurgarton and Iohn de Gousill abutted on the West part and the Common Medow of Hoveringham on the East for which she gave him 40s. and a quarter of Barley he reserving only a Penny rent yearly to be paid at Christmas to him and his heirs which said rent Hugh Sharpe and Matilda his wife released to the Prior and Covent of Thurgarton to whom Simon de Gousil son of Matilda first named together with some other Medow which his said mother gave him conveyed it and Walter de Goushull Knight Grandson of the said Matilda by her eldest son Walter or Iohn confirmed the gift of the said Sir Simon his Uncle The Jury 20 E. 2. found that Walter de Goushull and Matilda his wife who 30 E. 1. levyed a Fine at York to Lambert de Trickingham then held in Hoveringham Flintham Kneveton and Radcliff on Trent in this County and the Mannor of Barleburgh with its members viz. in Cressewell Whitewell and Columbes and Kinwalinerst Barleburgh Woodhous and Rouley c. in Darbyshire and that Thomas de Goushill son and heir of the said Walter was then above thirty years of age The Father of this Walter was certainly Iohn de Gousehull though in some pleading or other I have seen it Walter also for Adam de Gouschull 4 E. 3. claiming free-warren in Haverseche in Darbyshire makes Tho. de Gouschull son of Walt. son of Iohn son of Matilda daughter of Matthew de Hathersege to be one of the heirs of the said Matthew to whom it was granted Oct. 25. 33 H. 3. as Nicolas de Langford before named was the other And I find that 53 H. 3. Iohn de Gousell offered himself in a plea at Darby against Peter de Monteford Lord of Gunthorp and others demanding by what right they exacted Common in his Land of Hoveringham seeing he had none in theirs and they did no service to him for it The Jury 15 E. 2. found that Stainwath was in Hoveringham and not in Gunthorp and that William Baron and others had forceably pastured the separate Grass of Walter de Goushull with their Cattel to his damage 100s. The Jury 48 E. 3. found that Thomas de Goushill Knight with Agnes his wife joyntly held when he died the Mannor of Kynwaldmersh and two parts of Barleburgh c. and that
Geffrey Ridel Ranulf le Meschines and Peter de Valoniis to Yorke that they might inquire what were the said Customs of the Church of St. Peter who to that end called to them the most prudent English-men of that County whom they caused to swear by the Faith they ought to the King to tell the truth viz. Vitreth the son of Alwin Gamel the son of Swarterol Gamel the son of Grim Norman the Priest William the son of Vlf Frenger the Priest Vitreth the son of Turkill Norman the son of Baling Thurstin son of Turmot Gamel son of Ormi Morcar son of Ligulf and Vlvet the son of Forno by right of inheritance the Lagaman of the City which may rather be interpreted Lawyer or Judge possibly as Recorder is now than lawful-man or free-man who then also was Prefect and thus discoursed before them Ausketinus de Bolomer the Praepositus of the Northrideing being his interpreter That they all remembred and testified that all the Land belonging to the Prebends of the Church of St. Peter was so quiet and free that neither the Kings Officer nor any other could have Law nor take a distress there till the Canon of that Prebend was first required and if he refused the Dean should set a day and do right at the Church door And if any person whatsoever shall take and detain any man though guilty and convict of any Crime or wickedness whatever from within the Porch he shall alwaies be judgeâ to make amends by six Hundreths if from within the Church by twelve if from within the Quire by eighteen every Hundreth containing six pounds the Kings Charter saith eight pounds and for every the said faults or any shall be injoyned Penance as for Sacriledge But if any should be so mad and instigated by the Devil as to presume to take one from the Stone-Chair by the Altar which the English call Frithstol that is the Chair of quiet and peace for so wicked a Sacriledge no Judgement nor summ of money can acquit him but is by the English called Botelesse i. e. without Emendation These Amends Emendations or Amerciaments belong not to the Arch-bishop but to the Canons c. Thus it goes on reciting many other like Priviledges besides those of Soc Sac Toll Them Infangthef Intol Vtol c. as in the said Kings Charter also may be seen most or all of which the Church of Southwell had and used as occasion required and had them in other names as the use of words and things changed with the times allowed and confirmed and others granted by succeeding Kings King Stephen by his Precept dated at York directed to William Peverell of Nott. and the Sheriff and his Ministers commanded that the Canons of St. Mary of Suwell should have the Woods of their Prebends in their own hands and custody and thence take what they should need as in King Henry's time and that his Foresters be forbidden to take or sell any thing there King Henry the second King Richard King Iohn King Henry the third all of them and indeed those Kings who came after them made the several Arch-bishops in their respective times and this Chapter very secure of their Liberties within the Forest of Shirwood The Justices in Eyr were to hear and determine all Pleas touching the Chapter Canons their Tenants and Servants at the South door of the Church except Pleas of the Crown which they were to hear and determine at the House of any of the Canons out of the Sanctuary which was presented by the Wapentac of Thurgarton and Lyth and claimed by the Chapter among other priviledges allowed in Eyre before William Herle and his fellow Justices the third year of King Edward the third at which time besides the Chapters view of Frank-pledge of all their Tenants in Southwell Northwell South Muskham North Muskham Calneton Oxton Calverton Wodeborough Crophill Blitheworth Halghton Bekingham Dunham Halam Edingley and Normanton and their Court-Leet held twice every year at Southwell for their Tenants residing in Southwell Halum and Newton and likewise that held in like manner for Edingley Robert Woodhouse Prebendary of Norwell claimed and had the like view of all his Tenants in Norwell Woodhouse Willoughby and Middelthorpe kept twice in a year at Norwell and Wayf in the said Towns And Robert de Notingham Prebendary of Oxton and Crophill the like of his in Oxton Blitheworth Calverton Woodborough and Crophill and Hickling and Wayf also Lambert de Trikingham Prebendary of Halton the like of his there Henry de Edenestow Prebendary of Oxton and Crophill as before Robert de Bridelington Prebendary of Woodburgh the like of his in Woodburgh and Edingley William de Barneby Prebendary of Bekingham the like of his in Southwell and Edingley held twice a year at Southwell and of those in Bekingham held twice a year there William de Newark Prebendary of North Muskham the like of his in North Muskham Calneton South Muskam North Carleton Normanton by Southwell held twice a year at North Muskam and Wayf as the rest Thomas de St. Albano Prebendary of Dunham the like of his Tenants in Dunham Derleton Wymton Ragenhull held twice a year at Dunham Iohn de Sandale Prebendary of Normanton the like of his in Southwell and Normanton kept likewise twice a year at Southwell The Courts of the Prebendaries were all subject to that of the Chapter and Causes upon Errour or other lawful reason might be removed thither and there determined The Lands and Tenements of this Church either belonged to the Prebendaries resident called the Commons of the Church or to the several Prebends or to the Fabrick called our Ladies works or to the Vicars Chorall or to the Chantry Priests The Residentiaries Commons it seems were but short and therefore for their Augmentation Walter Arch-bishop of York about the fifth year of King Henry the third conferr'd the Church of Rolleston upon them which he obtained of the Prior and Covent of Thurgarton who had it of Henry the son of Thomas de Rolleston Knight and of Iollanus de Novavilla which said Henry confirmed it also to the Chapter and Benedict the son of Thomas de Rolleston Knight for the summ of twenty Marks sterling did likewise confirm what his Predecessour Sir Henry had done But the provision of the Residentiaries was very slender still and therefore Iohn Arch-bishop of York in the year 1291. did by the good will and submission of Mr. Iohn Clarell Sir William de Rotherfeud and Sir Richard de Bamfeud Canons of Southwell decree and ordain That the portions of Corn and Hay in the Parish of Vpton by Southwell which theretofore belonged to their Prebends should for the future be for the Commons or common uses of the Chapter and Canons resident the Chapters of York and Southwell consenting and King Edward the first confirming the same The Fabrick had divers parcels of Land in Southwell and Normanton and Henry de Southwell gave a Rent of
Bov. ½ for the Geld or Tax The Land was for one Plow which he had there and five Vill. There were twelve Acres of Medow in former time it had been 20s. then was 10s. value Another and that much the best was of the Fee of Odo Bishop of Bayon which before he came was Godwins and rated to the Dane-geld at two Car. and an half and the fourth part of a Bovat The Land being six Car. There Lesoardus the man or Tenant of this Bishop had one Car. and eleven Vill. and nine Bord. having four Car. ½ There were four Mills 27â and sixty eight Acres of Medow In King Edward the Confessours time this was valued at 8l. then viz. in the Conquerours at 4l. 10s. To this Mannor belonged seven Sochm. in Opeton and Colingham The third was of the Fee of Walter de Ayncurt who succeeded Tori whose Mannor here paid the Tax as eleven Bov. and a quarter The Land was two Car. There was one Car. in Demesne eight Vill. six Bord. having three Car. three Bov. There was a âriest and a Church thirty two Acres of Medow Pasture Wood four quarters long two broad In the Confessours time this was 40â then 60â There was Soc of this Mannor in Calun Malgerus de Rolleston was a benefactor to Rufford Monastery whose gifts King Stephen being at Wirchesop confirmed Thomas his son held two Knights Fees of Walter de âyncurt Henry son of Thomas de Rolleston confirmed to the Monks of Ruford whatsoever his Grand-father Malger gave or his father Thomas in Kelumshrubs between the bounds of Muskham and Hegrum which Thomas son of this Henry and also Benedict son of that Thomas de Rolleston confirmed Benedict de Rolleston Knight gave and confirmed to God and the Church of St. Peter at Thurgarton and the Canons there serving God several Lands in Rolleston in the Tenures of several persons so free that neither he nor his heirs should for the future claim or challenge any aid of the said Tenements or the Natives or Villains who held them or their sequells or Cattel to make their eldest sons Knights or marry their eldest daughters Dionysia his Lady also released her dower in those Lands which her said husband gave Benedict son of Thomas held of Oliver de Eynecourt in Rouleston and Kelum a Knights Fee and an half of the old feoffment The Jury found that the Lady Amflisia de Roldeston who had been wife of Iollanus de Nevill a Justice Itinerant 18 H. 3. held her Land in the Wapentag of Turgartun of the Honour of Richmond whither it seems the Lands of the Bishop of Bayons Fee in this place were transferred and that the value was ten Marks per annum but they did not know whether she was of the Kings gift or the Earl of Chesters Iolanus de Novilla gave to the Priory of Thurgarton the whole Tythe of his Mill of Roldestun by the consent of his heir Iohn and of his wife Amfelisa to whose dower that Mill belonged in pure Alms for the souls of his father and mother and brother R. saving to himself the Multure of his house of Roldestun This gift he made when he took his journey from Roldeston to Hierusalem Iohn de Nevill held one Knights Fee of the Honour of Richmond in Roleston with the Appurtenances of the old Feoffment viz. whereof his Ancestor was infeoff'd in the time of King H. 1. The Jury 4 E. 1. found that Roger de Eynecurt the Earl of Lincolne Andrew de Nevill and Henry de Perpunt claimed certain Royalties in Rolleston but they knew not by what warrant Andrew de Nevil 9 E. 1. offered himself the fourth day against Hugh de Babington and Ioane his wife in a Plea that they should hold covenant with him made between them concerning the Mannor of Roldeston with the Appurtenances Sir Hugh de Babington and Sir Henry de Perpoint 10 E. 1. held one Knights Fâe in Rolleston Cotington Barneby and Colingham of the Honour of Richmond for 10â per an c. Iollanus de Nevil 3 E. 3. summoned to answer the King by what warrant he claimed to have free-warren in all his Demesne Lands in Roldeston pleaded that King Edward the first 26 May in the thirty fifth year of his reign granted a Charter to him the said Iollanus and his heirs but the Jury finding that the said Iollanus put no custody in the said Warren and that he permitted any body to course at their pleasure without licence either asked or obtained the Judgement was that he should lose it There was a Fine then levyed at Nottingham viz. the Munday after the Feast of St. Martin 3 E. 3. betwen the said Iollanus de Nevill Quer. and Henry Gernoun and Alice his wife Deforcients of one Mess. with the Appurtenances in Roldeston by which it was passed to the said Iollanus Sir William Nevill Knight of Rolleston granted licence to the Prior and Covent of Thurgarton to make obstruction in the water of Gréete the Land of the said William being on both sides the water in a place called Old Milnestede in the fields of Rolleston or in any other place of the water between that and their Medow called the Priour Carre and to make a Mill Damm and build a Water-mill 5 R. 2. paying him and his heirs 6l. 8â per annum This Sir William Nevill was a witness 15 R. 2. and 16 R. 2. to the writings whereby Mr. Richard de Wynwick and William de Gunthorp Clarks passed to that Monastery by the Kings Licence several Lands in Rolleston Southwell Edingley Farnesfeld Bleseby Gourton Gypesmere Morton and Halum This mans Grand-child Sir Thomas Nevill of Roldeston married Elizabeth the daughter of Sir William Babington the Judge by whom he had many daughters married to the principal Gentry of that time besides his sons one whereof William Nevill married ..... the daughter and heir of Thomas Palmer Esquire of Holt in Leicestershire which occasioned the remove of this family to that place Anselm Blount and Iohn Smalley claimed against Iohn Kellam Gentleman and William Wilson the Mannor of Rolstun with the Appurtenances c. 6 Eliz. and 20l. Rent with the Appurtenances in Rolston Farneton Newark Codington and Barneby and another recovery was suffered 12 Eliz. in both which Sir Thomas Nevill Knight was called to warrant Sir Thomas Nevill of Holt the said William Nevills great Grandchild in the time of Queen Elizabeth sold this Mannor to .... Lodge an Alderman of London from whom by mean conveyance it is become the inheritance of Robert Sutton Esquire Lord Lexington of Averham descended from Elizabeth wife of William Meringe Esquire one of those daughters of Sir Thomas Nevill before-named she being Mother of Margery the wife of Thomas Basset of Fledburgh whose daughter Katherine was the wife of Sir Thomas Sutton of Averham and Ancestor of the said Robert whose only
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. 60â 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
three sons more Nicolas Edmund Iohn and three daughters Iane Elizabeth Olive Sir William married Susan daughter of Thomas Cony of Basingthorpe in Lincolneshire on whom he begot Robert Sutton Esquire and three sons and four daughters more Richard Henry Gervas Alice Susan Elizabeth Mary Robert to his first wife had Elizabeth daughter of Sir George Manners of Haddon in Darbyshire sister to Iohn now Earl of Rutland his second was Anne daughter of Sir Guy Palmes and widow of Sir Thomas Browne of Walcott in Northamptonshire Baronet by whom she had two daughters Elizabeth and Anne widow of .... Lord Pawlett since married to ... Stroud his third was Mary daughter of Sir Anthony S. Leger Warden of the Kings Mint by whom only he left issue Robert Bridgett and Anne born after his death which was Oct. 13. 1668. his Lady died at Paris Sept. 1669. from whence she was brought and laid by him at Averham Sept. 25. 1669. He very much increased his Patrimony ever kept a plentiful sober House and was much out of purse for King Charles the first who created him Lord Lexington of Averham 21 C. 1. Richard Sutton his brother married .... Stanhope half sister of Philip first Earl of Chesterfeild and had a son Robert Sutton who was Captain of a Troop of Horse which he carried into Portugall he died without issue Male. Henry Sulton next brother of the Lord Lexington married Mabel daughter of Henry Faunt and hath several sons Robert William Gervas Robert married Katherine Shirbourne and hath issue Robert and Richard The Rectory of Averham was 16l. But is now 20l. in the Kings Books and the Lord Lexington is Patron as his Ancestors the Suttons have been In the Church upon a small Monumental Stone ......... obiit vi Kal. Octobr. Ao. Dom. mo. ccco. viio. Upon a fair Tomb M. S. Illustrissimo D o Gulielmo Sutton de Averham Equiti Aurato Generis nobilitate virtutum dotibus ornatissimo Qui post annos xxvii cum conjuge amantissimâ peractos octo filiorum totidemque filiarum pater factus Deo dilectus patriae charissimus suis desideratissimus citâ nec improvisà morte obiit in Christo Anno Dom. MDCXI aetatis suae LII D. Susanna conjux Moestissima Officii peitatis ergo P. Siste morae nec te pigeat nisi nosse recuses Quo juvet exemplo vivere quove mori Vive Deo patrie vicinis conjugi amicis Charus quoque ortus sanguine vive memor Et quocunque vocet fati Deus impiger ito Alea ceu vitae jacta suprema foret His titulis surgit lapis hic sic vixit obitque Suttonus quali carmine dignus Eques Sir William Suttons Corps here Toombed sleepes Whose happy Soul in better mansion keepes Thrice nine yeares liv'd he with his Lady faire A lovely noble and like virtuous payre Their generous of-spring Parents joy of heart Eight of each sex of each an equall part Usher'd to Heaven their Father and the other Remain'd behind him to attend their Mother On the out-side of the Steeple there is cut in Stone Sir Thomas Suttons Arms which was Arg. a Canton Sable and his Ladies viz. 3. Piles a Canton Varry which was Bassets of Fledborough nigh which was T. S. and two Tuns Kelham Kelum Doomsd. Calune And Parke Lathes THis place the Book of Doomsday shows to have been of several Seigniories the most considerable was of the Fee of Roger de Busli where in Lyde Wapentac before the Conquest Turchill and Godric are said to have had in Calun ten Bov. â
ad Geld. for two Mannors The Land whereof was three Car. There afterwards Turold the man or Tenant of Roger had one Car. and seven Sochm. on five Bov. of this Land and three Vill. and three Bordars having two Car. ½ There were twenty two Acres of Medow small wood sixteen qu. long and seventy four Virg. broad In King Edward the Confessours time this was valued at 60s. in King Williams at 28s. Another great parcel of this Township was of the Fee of Walter de Ayncurt and Soc to Rolleston which answered the Geld or Tax for nine Bovats and one third of a Bov. The Land being two Car. and an half There eighteen Sochm. and three Bord. had seven Car. and an half and sixteen Acres of Medow small wood nine qu. long fifty Virg. or rods broad Another part was of the Fee of Raph de Buron where Osmund before the Norman invasion paid to the Geld as two Bov. â
for his Mannor There William the Man or Tenant of Raph had one Car. and two Bordars with two Oxen plowing and nine Acres of Medow small wood eight qu. long twelve Virg. broad In the Confessours time this was 4s. in the Conquerours 15s. value Another parcel in Calum was of the Fee of Gislebert Tysun which before the Conquest was Alurics who had two Bov. ad Geld. for his Mannor The Land whereof was six Bovats There were two Sochm. one Bord. with half a Car. and six Acres of Medow small wood eight qu. long fourteen Virg. broad In the Confessours time 16s. value at the time of the Conquerours survey 3s. Another parcel was of the Land of the Taynes which Vlchell before the Conquest had his Mannor being then rated to the Geld at one Bov. and two thirds of a Bovat The Land six Bovats There Aldene progenitor of the family of Crumwelle afterwards had two Vill. two Bord. with one Car. and six Acres of Medow small wood eight quarters long and eight Virgats broad In the Confessours time 20s. value in the Conquerours 10s. That of Roger de Buslies Fee Lord of the Honour of Tikhill was held by Gilbert de Chelum whose gift to the Priory of Rufford King Stephen confirmed and William de Tulc or Tuk who for five Marks sold his in the presence and by the consent of Raph Silvain his Lord who also confirmed to the brethren of Rufford all that Land of the Fee of Tikhill which Gilbert de Kelum and William de Tulc held of him in the territory of Kelum from the west side of Buggewonge and that also tilled and untilled unto the bounds of Wyncheburne c. VVilliam del Tulc son of VVilliam del Tulc confirmed the fore-mentioned Land which his father gave in which the Sheep-house or Lathe Bercaria of the Monks was scituate which I take to be the original of Parkelathes a Grange or Hamlet in this Lordship belonging to that Monastery which was made up by the Gifts of many several persons VVilliam Tuke son of VVilliam Tuke of Kelum gave twenty four Acres of his Demesne measured by the Perch of sixteen foot lying between the Wong which Malger de Rolleston gave the said Monks and five Bovats which Malger de Staunton bestowed on them which twenty four Acres stretch from the west into the east viz. from Souhtwell way which is the bound between the fields of Wynkeburne and Kelum unto the wood
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
parcelled and were admitted accordingly It seems that Bertram de Mounboucher son of this Bertram and Ioane married Isabell the daughter of Sir Richard Willoughby of Wollaton to his first wife and afterwards Christian the sister of Sir Iohn de Woderington and died leaving his son Bertram who was by his first wife his heir 12 R. 2. and also a daughter called Isabell first married to Henry Heton Chr. and afterwards to Robert de Herbotell Esquire by whom she had Robert Herbotell who died 22 H. 6. and was Father of Bertram Herbotell who 2 E. 4. left his son Robert nine years old heir of this Mannor by descent from the said Isabell his great Grandmother who 5 H. 6. died seised of two parts of this Mannor called South Hall together with the Reversion of the third part which fell to her after the deaths of three Bertram Mounbouchers viz. her brother who died 1 H. 4. his son her Nephew 2 H. 5. and the last Bertram son and heir of her said Nephew who died without issue 4 H. 6. George Harbotell 20 H. 8. left his two sisters heirs of the Mannor of Dalton Travers in Northumberland and of this also viz. Alianor who was married to Thomas Percy and Mary late the wife of Edward Firton There was a Recovery 30 H. 8. wherein Raph Byrkheved and Christopher Harbotell claimed against Alianor Percy widow the moyety of the Mannor of Sutton c. and another 3 and 4 Ph. and Mar. wherein Robert Thomson and Richard Kynge claimed against Iohn Smyth the Mannor of Sutâon upon Trent c. and 6l. Rent with the Appurtenances in Sutton upon Trent Strarnethorpe and Wested who called Edward Fytton Knight Iohn Meringe of Sutton married Dorothy the daughter and co-heir of Iohn Smith and by her had William Meringe of Sutton Father of Iohn Father of William fourteen years old 1674. she was after married to Nath. Lodge Gloucesters Mannor continued in that name and Family long Henry Gloucester 20 H. 7. suffered a Recovery to Edward Stanhope Knight of the Mannors of Sutton upon Trent and Carcolston with the Appurtenances and fourteen Mess. two hundred Acres of Land forty of Medow one hundred of Pasture and 26s. 8l. Rent in Sutton and Carcolston These were shortly after Sir William Merings as in Carcolston is said This was Mr. Richard Hackers of Flintham his son Iohn sold it not long since to Hugh Shepherd who hath built a pretty little House and lives there The Jury 2 E. 1. found that Robert de Sutton held a Mannor in Sutton of Wiscard de Charron and his heirs he held likewise Warsop and Eykering c. he was son of William Sutton son of Roland whom I suppose to be a younger son of Harvey de Sutton before named and marrying the sister of Robert de Lexington advanced his posterity thereby aâ in Warsop and other places of this Book may be noted This Robert de Sutton left his son and heir Richard de Sutton then viz. 2 E. 1. eight years old Who afterwards had a son called Iohn who married one of the co-heirs of Iohn de Somery Lord Dudley and his posterity becoming Lords Dudley this Mannor and Warsop as in that place will appear shortly came to be the inheritance of the Lords Ros of Hamlak The Jury 26 E. 3. found that William Lord Roos of Hamelak when he dyed held Orston and the Mannor of Warsop joyntly with Margaret his wife and the Mannor of Sutton upon Trent of Philip Queen of England as of the Honour of Richmond and that Thomas de Roos was his brother and heir Thomas de Roos of Hamelak Chr. 7 R. 2. held it when he died joyntly with Beatrice his wife as he did Screveton parcel of Orston and also Warsop Iohn de Roos Knight was then found their son and heir who about 17 R. 2. left it to his brother William and so it descended as in Orston may be seen to Roger Earl of Rutland who sold it to Fulc Cartwright Esquire Lord also of Ossington where William Cartwright Esquire his son resides who hath an house here also The owners of this Sutton 1612. are said to be Gilbert Earl of Shrowsbury who I suppose had the Rectory and what belonged to Wirksop which his Grace the Duke of Newcastle sold to ... Clark Fulk Cartwright Esquire Mrs. Lodge Thomas Lee Gent. Edward Sudbury Senior Thomas Truswell Senior William Truswell Thomas Childers Barth Cade c. The Vicarage of Sutton was ten Marks when the Prior of Wirksop was Patron 't is now in the Kings Books 5l. 6s. 8d. value and the Duke of Newcastle Patron Gresthorp And Normanton THese both were of the Fee of Roger de Busli after the Conquest before which they were in many hands In Gresthorp Dunning and Gran. for their two Mannors answered the Tax for six Bov. and an half and a fourth part of a Bovat The Land was two Car. There afterwards in King Williams time Roger the Man or Tenant of the said Roger de Busli had two Car. and four Sochm. twelve Vill. one Bord. having five Car. There were three Mills 20s. and twelve Acres of Medow and four Acres of Pasture Wood. This part retained the old value 3l. having Soc in Sudton In Normentune before the Conquest five Taynes Iustan Durand Elward Elmar and Alsi had every one his hall and every one was chargeable to the Dane-geld for one Bov. and the fifth part of a Bov. The Land was twelve Bov. There afterwards Roger the Man of Roger de Busli had nine Sochm. four Bord. having three Car. and twelve Acres of Medow In the Confessours time the value was 10s. in the Conquerours 6s. Here was also a parcel Soc to Scacheby half a Bov. ad Geldam There two Vill. and two Bord. had one Car. Another part was Soc to Fladburg of the Bishop of Lincolnes Fee which was six Bov. ad Geldam The Land twelve Bov. There eleven Sochm. had three Car. and six Acres of Medow Here was also a parcel Soc to Dunham the Kings Land which was one Bov. ½ to the Geld. One moyety of this Land belonged to Bodmeschell and the other to Dunham it was then waste Pasture Wood three qu. long two broad These townships as most or all of that Rogers did came to William de Lovetot who gave amongst the rest this Church of Normanton to the Priory which he founded at Radeford by Wirksop in the time of H. 1. as in that place will be shown Matildis de Lovetoft his great Grand-child who was sometime wife of Gerard de Furnivall gave the Mannor of Gresthorp with the Appurtenances and Whistan in Yorkshire except the Advowson of that Church to Alda who had been wife of William de Furnivall her son in lieu of her dower in the Mannors of Grengeley Whystan and Gresthorp during her life but it seems that before 52 H. 3. Thomas de
granted to William Basset Esquire son and heir of Thomas Richardus Basset de Normanton Willielmus Basset senior 6 R. 2 -Marg relict 11 H. 4. Thom. Basâet Willielmus Basset defunct-20 H. 6 -Katherina sor Ric. Stanhope .... Tunstall mar 2. Thom. Basset aet 34.17 E. 4 -Margeria fil Will. Mering Richardus Basset miles-Elizab fil Joh. Dunham Ar. Johannes Basâet ob 20 Maii 36 H. 8 -Agnes fil Tho. Dom. Burgh 21 H. 8. Edwardus Basset ob 22 Eliz. .... Eliz. fil Georgii Lassels ux 2. Johannes Basset-Anna fil Fran. Rodes Clinton Henr. Edw. Willielmus Basset de Muskham Katii .... Basset Richardus Basset 38 E. 3. Basset a certain yearly Rent of 12l. to be perceived out of the Mannor of Fledburgh and his Lands in Starnethorpe Normanton Woodcotes Est Drayton Dunham and Stokhum which lately were the said Tho. Bassets Will. Basset son of Thomas Basset of Fledburgh 10 H 6. released to Sir Richard Stanhope Knight and his heirs all his right in his Mannor of Fledburgh and Advowson of that Church and all his Lands Tenements Rents c. in Fledburgh Starnethorpe Normanton Woodcotes Est Drayton Dunham and Stokhum in this County Bernangle Sutton and Wilmincote in Warwickshire Katherin the relict of William Basset of Fledburgh demised Newhall a member of Sutton in Warwickshire 10 H. 6. for twenty one years Katherin Tunstall the sister of Richard Stanhope who had interest here and was dead 17 E. 4. I suppose was that relict of William Basset the younger and Thomas Basset who by the Inquisition is found to be then thirty four years old viz. 17 E. 4. I take to be son of William the younger This Thomas married Margery the daughter of William Mering and Elizabeth his wife daughter of Thomas Nevile of Rolleston by whom he had Sir Richard Basset his eldest son and William Basset of Muskham who had two daughters Katherin the wife of Guy Fairfax and after of Ed. Bussy which Guy had by her Thomas Fairfax who married the daughter of Ed. Thurland Esquire the other daughter of the said William Basset was married to Thomas Poutrell and brought him Frances the wife of Iohn Dethick Besides these two sons the said Thomas Basset had Edward a Clergy-man and several daughters one married to William Beaumont of Cole Orton and Katherin to Thomas Sutton of Averham Richard Basset Knight had to wife Elizabeth daughter of Iohn Dunham and by her had Iohn Basset who married Agnes daughter of Thomas Lord Burgh and died 20 of May 36 H. 8. leaving Edward his son and heir above twelve years old He held the Mannors of Adlingflet in Yorkshire Saxelby in Lincolnshire Fledburgh and Normanton and Lands in Fledburgh Normanton Woodcotes Stokam Sterthorp Est Drayton South Clifton and North Clifton and Lands viz. fourteen Acres in Ragnell and Darleton and the Mannor of Skegby and Normanton Mess. Lands and Tenements in Welley and Grimston Edward died 22 Eliz. and left Iohn Clinton Henry Edward and daughters Iohn married Anne the daughter of Francis Rodes and after he had sold all the rest sold Fledborough to the Feoffees of the then Earl of Shrowsbury in the beginning of King Iames his Reign since when this goodly Mannor came to the possession of Robert Earl of Kingston and now remains to the Right Honourable Henry Marquess of Dorchester his son and heir The owners of Fledbrough Kinshah Woodcotes and Normanton 1612. are said to be Iohn Basset Esquire William Reason of Askham Gent. Augustin Earle Esquire Rutland Mollineux of West Markham George Stowe Edward Mercer Hersy Lassells Gent. The Rectory of Fledburgh was 10l. and Mr. Basset Patron 'T is now 9l. 7s. 6d. value in the Kings Books ââd the Marquess of Dorchester Patron Skegby Scacheby And Woodcotes And Strathaw HEre in Scacheby before the Normans were Masters Alwold and Vlchel for their Mannors had Land sufficient for two Plows and an half or two Car. ½ And paid in the Assessment for the Dane-geld for one Car. There afterwards two Men or Tenants of Roger de Buslies whose Fee it was had in Demesne three Car. seven Vill. two Bord having three Car. There was sixteen Acres of Medow Pasture Wood half a leu long three qu. broad In Edward the Confessours time it was 48s. in William the Conquerours 40s. value There was Soc in Sudtone and Normentune Iohn or Robert de Avill and Iohn de Nuvelors held of the Countess of Ewe one Knights Fee of the old Feoffment they held also one Fee of Thomas Fitz-William and of the Countess of the new in Skegby because they took it with the marriage of the sisters of the said Thomas Iohn de Lessington about 41 H. 3. held sixty Acres of Land in Strathaw of Matilda de Lovetot and sixty in Skeghawe of Iohn de Eyvill This part descended with Tuxford as in that place may be seen through Marcham Lungevillers and Mallovell to Sir Richard Stanhope In 9 E. 2. the two Marnhams Fledburgh and Skegeby answered for a whole Villa the Lords then being Thomas de Chedworthe Iohn de Deivile Iohn de Lisours The Wapentach of Thurgerton and Lythe at that time returned a great many considerable Townships together to answer for a Villa of which this is the least the other Hundreds did not so There are within this Parish and Township two small Hamlets Skegby and Woodcotes both heretofore Bassets Inheritance and part of Fledborough Woodcotes became the Inheritance of Rutland Molyneux a younger Grandchild of Sir Edmund Molyneux the Judge And Skegby is now the Inheritance of Ed. Mâllish Esquire by the gift of William Reason his Uncle Bassetlaw Hundred Bassetlawe Wapentak Bernedeslawe Bersetlaw c. Doomsd. Iul. 1. 1674. THis Wapentac is as great as three of the former and contains therefore three Divisions South Clay North Clay and Hatfeild though not long since made so Oswardebec Soc was in Dooms-day Book called a Wapentak as hereafter will be noted containing all or most of the North Clay Division of this In that Record besides the names above it is called Bernedsetlawe and in Nomina Villarum 9 E. 2. Bersetelowe the King being then Lord of it Robert de Perepont Richard de Willughby and Richard de Whatton 12 E. 2. were assigned Justices to enquire of the transgressions made by Iohn de Lanum one of the Kings Bayliffs of the Wapentach of Berteselowe SOUTH-CLAY Division Bildesthorp THis place in the great Survey returned in the time of King William the first is mentioned only as Soc to Rugford which before that Kings time was the Free-hold of Vlf as many other good Lordships were which by the said King William were made the Fee of Gislebert de Gand as this also was which paid the Geld or Tax for two Car. The Land being found sufficient to imploy six Plows or six Car. There were thirteen Sochm. six Bordars having six Car. and four Acres of Medow Pasture Wood one
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 16â 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 Alinâot 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 Brakynsâort 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
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 dâughter 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
Johannis White filia Johannis Harpur de Swarkeston in Com. Derb. militis in piam posteritatis memoriam spem certam futurae resurrectionis monumentum hoc posuit Obiit die Ano. It was never filled up West Markham OR Little Marcham WAS of the Fee of Roger de Busli one Mannor in it before the Conquest Eduin had which paid to the publick Taxation or Geld as nine Bovats The Land four Car. There Goysfrid the Man or Tenant of Roger had one Car. and nine Vill. and five Bord. having three Car. There was a Church and one Mill 16s. This in King Edward the Confessours time was 3l. when the great Survey was made in King William's 4l. value In West Mercham before the Conquest Godric had a Mannor which paid but for four Bov. to the Tax though the Land was returned two Carucats There Roger de Busli had afterwards two Car. four Vill. two Bord. having two Car. and sixteen Acres of Medow Pasture Wood five qu. long three qu. broad The value of this continued 40s. Aron held it Here were other parcels Soc to this one which had six Bov. to the Geld. The Land three Car. Soc in Tuxfarne There six Sochm. five Vill. had four Car. and an half There were sixteen Acres of Medow Another paid for one Bov. to the Geld Soc in Grave and one Bov. ad Geld. Soc in Farne and one Bov. ad Geld. Soc in Drayton The Land half a Car. There three Sochm. had two Car. There was a Composition made between the Church of West Marcham and the Chapel of Tuxford at Lanum before the Lord Richard perhaps it should have been Roger Arch-bishop of York in the year of our Lord 1179. 5 Calend Decemb. 26 H. 2. that the said Church of West Marcham should have in Tuxford of seventy three Bovats each one Thrave of Corn and the Chapel of Tuxford the rest of the Tythe Corn and the said Church was to have the small Tythes of those living on that Land viz. Calves and Foals Lambs and Goats and Piggs and Eggs at Easter and the men thrice in the year were to go with their Offerings to West Marcham viz. on All Saints day and that of the Purification of St. Mary and at Easter and to be Confessed there in Lent and receive Communion there at Easter and the bodies of the husbands and wives to be buried there and the said Church was to have two parts of the Tythe Corn growing on the Demesne of Tuxford and likewise of all the Essarts that then were or should be and the Chapel of Tuxford was to have the remaining third part and all the small Tythes and Confession and Communion and Offerings and the bodies of all dwelling on the Demesne and in the Town except the husbands and wives on the said seventy three Bovats and all the Tythe of Flax Milk Wooll Hens Geese Apples Gardens and all Churchings and Weddings of the whole Town of Tuxford the said Chapel was to have and that this agreement might be firm Robert de St. Iohn then it seems husband of Oliva Lady of Tuxford Patron of that ground made his Affidavit in the hand of the Lord Arch-bishop of Yorke and so did Henry the Priest of Marcham and William the Parson of Tuxford and Iacob instead of his Master Walter de Constanciis Chaplain of Tykhill and Richard Parson of Walesby The Arch-bishops Seal was put to it and so was Robert de St. Iohns and the said Iacobs This was certified by Thomas de Maryng Abbat of Barlings and that Covent to be in their Registry 4 Iun. 1307. It seems probable that the successours of that Aron mentioned in Doomsday Book took their name from this place howbeit the first I can certainly fix on was Sir Richard de Marcham or William who married Cecilia the sister of Robert Lord Lexington as before is in several places noted by whom he had Richard and Robert but what sons else I have not yet discovered Robert de Marcham was a great Man and had an Esquire named Robert de Fowich 2 E. 1. he confirmed his Uncle the said Robert de Lexingtons gift of Lands in Scardcliff Rothorne and Sterthorp to the Priory of Newstede he held when he died about 17 E. 1. a Capital Mess. in West Marcham and sevenscore Acres of Arable Land in Demesne and twenty of Medow and a Water-Mill paying the Prior of Monkebreton 8d. per annum and the Nuns of Wallendewelles 6d. c. This Mannor was divided amongst his daughters and heirs as in Tuxford may be discovered with which it continued in the several branches as they were sub-divided Agnes de Sanctâ cruce had a Free-holder William de Marcham who held of her two Bovats of Land and an half 29 E. 1. when she left her share to her daughters as in Tuxford is described From this William de Marcham possibly a younger brother or Cousin of Robert might descend the Ancestors of Sir Iohn Markham the Judge who had a Monument in Markham Church with this Inscription Orate pro anima Johannis Markham Iusticiarii qui obiit in festo S. Silvestri Anno Dom. 1409. His Fathers name was Robert and his Grandfathers Iohn both Lawyers Iohn married the daughter of Nicolas Bothomsell and Robert of Sir Iohn Caunton The Judges posterity may be noted in Maplebeck and Cotteham Iohn Stanhope Knight 9 H. 6. in a recovery claimed against William Lassells Esquire the Mannor of Little Markham with the Appurtenances This surely is miswritten John for Richard or Knight for Esquire Iohn Stanhope son of Richard son of Sir Richard married Elizabeth the daughter of Sir Thomas Talbot and by her had several sons one son named Henry the husband of Ioane the daughter of Henry Rochford Esquire who brought him a son named Edmund Stanhope who by Alice his wife had a daughter Margaret the wife of Thomas Skessington Esquire she died the first day of Ianuary 31 H. 8. seized of the third part of the Mannor of Little Markham and of Lands in Darlington and Ryton her husband had them by the Courtesie or Law of England till Iuly 29. 35 H. 8. that he died leaving William Skevington son and heir of the said Margaret to succeed who was above one and twenty years of age at the death of his Mother Thomas Rayner of East Drayton and Emme his wife 7 H. 6. by Fine passed to Iohn son of Henry de Drayton and to Alice his wife one Mess. twenty six Acres of Land four of Medow with the Appurtenances in Little Markham quit from the heirs of Emme The owners of West Markham cum Milneton in 1612. are said to be Rutland Molyneux Mr. .... Leake Francis Chapman Cler. Robert Belyalde Richard Salmon Thomas Pettinger William Haslaby William Owldham Richard Whitlam Senior and Junior Thomas Heslaby Lawrence Spyby William Turtale Anthony Cawthorne Thomas Butler Henry Wright of Egmanton the Master and Fellows of
the wife of Reginald de Everingham Chr. who was daughter and heir of Iohn Lungvillers whose sister Elizabeth was mother of Stephen Malovel Father of Elizabeth mother of the said Richard Stanhope who thereby became heir of both Families Mallovell and Lungvilers as in Turford is shown already to whom also the third part of that Mannor likewise descended from the heirs Female of the Families of Marcham and Lexington At the Assizes at Nott. 29 E. 3. Galfr. de Cotes Parson of the Church of Ketelby impleaded Roger de Maloell of Rampton Iohn Braytoft Henry Wright of Lanum and Henry Bere of Torkesey concerning his Free-hold in Rampton viz. a Were c. They came not but William Heron answered for them that Stephen Maloell was sometime seized of the Mannor of Rampton of which that Were was part which he held of Queen Philip as of the Honour of Tikhill and thereof died seized after whose death the said Queen seized the said Mannor into her hand by reason of the minority of Elizabeth daughter and heir of the said Stephen and conferred the Marriage and Custody of her the said Elizabeth on Roger de Bellocampo c. The Jury found that the said Galfr. was disseized by Iohn Braytoft only but the Judges could not proceed to Judgement by reason of the fore-mentioned Wardship without the Kings knowledge The Mannor of Rampton with the Appurtenances was by Fine 38 and 39 E. 3. between Will. de Eton Vicar of the Church of Rampton and Iohn son of Robert de Lanum Plaintiffs and Iohn de Stannop and Elizabeth his wife Deforc. settled on the said Iohn and Elizabeth and the heirs of their bodies remainder to the heirs of the body of Elizabeth remainder to Richard Stannop for life remainder to the right heirs of Elizabeth Peter Malovell and Thomas his brother 39 H. 3. had a Writ c. The Jury 20 E. 1. found that Simon Maulovell of Rampton and Iohn Furmery were not blameable for eating the Acorns with their Swine in the Woods of Robert de Musters in Tyreswell in which they claimed Common c. There was a Fine levyed at York 16 E. 2. between Iohn Maulovell of Rampton and Katherine the daughter of William Ablot of Pokelington Plaintiffs and Raph Maulovell of Rampton Deforc. of one Mess. sixty Acres of Land thirteen of Medow with the Appurtenances in Rampton which were thereby settled on the said Iohn and Katherine and the heirs of their bodies remainder to the right heirs of Katherine To this Fine Robert Maulovell of Rampton put to his claim There were Covenants of Marriage 3 R. 2. made between Sir Edmund Pierpont Knight and Iohn his brother on the one part and Iohn Stanhope on the other for the Marriage of Iohn Stanhope his son and heir with Elizabeth sister of the said Sir Edmund but whether it took effâct or no is uncertain but that he had no issue is certain and that he had to wife the heir of Cuily that year as by the Fine noted in Oxton and what is sâid before out of Mr. Dugdale's Anâiquities of Warwickshire appeareth though his wife might die that year and a new match be treated on Sir Richard Stanhope was brother and heir of Iohn who married Cuily but could not be son as in that place is supposed because it is evident he was son and heir of Elizabeth the daughter and heir of Stephen Malouvell in 22 R. 2. as before is noted This Sir Richards first wife was Elizabeth but by others said to be Ioane the daughter of Robert and sister of Raph Staveley or Staley by whom he had divers Children Richard Thomas Iames Elizabeth and Agnes There were Covenants of Marriage 10 H. 4. between Sir Richard Stanhope and Sir Nicolas Strelley for the marriages of Agnes daughter of Sir Richard to Robert Strelley son of Sir Nicolas The Covenants of Marriage between Sir Richard Stanhope and Sir Raufe Cromwell for Mand sister of the saâd Sir Raufe to the said Sir Richard were dated 12 H. 4. By her he had Henry Stanhope who died without issue 12 Aug. 31 H. 6. and was buried at Lamley and Matilda first married to Robert Lord Willoughby secondly to Thomas Nevile and thirdly to Sir Gervas Clifton and Ioane married to Humfrey Bourchier as in Lamley is noted Sir Richard Stanhope 5 H. 6. covenanted with Sir Iohn Assheton and Elizabeth his wife sometime wife of Sir Thomas Talbot of Bashall in Lanc. for the marriage of Iohn Stanhope his Grandson Nephâw to Elizabeth daughter of the said Sir Thomas Talbot Sir Richard Stanap about 14 H. 6. died seised of this Mannor of Rampton half Egmanton and the third part of Tuxford the Mannors of Skegby and South Cotum c. leaving the said Iohn Stanap his heir viz. son of his son Richard Stanap Esquire whose death was on the second of March 10 H. 6. as by his Tomb in Tuxford may be seen whereon is only the Coat of Lungvilers viz. A Bend between six Crosse-croslets which notwithstanding in a Window of that Church there is on the Surcoat of Iohn Stanhope Azure a Crosse Moline Or was most constantly used by this Family whilest they continued Lords of this place for their paternal Coat perhaps sometimes counterchanging the colours for I have not seen the Arms of the present Earl of Chesterfeild borne by any but the posterity of Sir Michael Stanhope Elizabeth the daughter of Iohn Markham was wife of Richard Stanhope Esquire and when she died viz. about 16 H. 6. held two parts of Longvilers Mannor in Tuxford settled on her by Sir Richard Stanhope Iohn Stanhope son and heir of that Elizabeth was then also found Cousin and heir of Sir Richard Stanhope viz. son of Richard Stanhope Esquire son of the said Sir Richard Iohn Stanhop Esquire 14 May 33 H. 6. paid Relief for Lands in Rampton Tuxford and Egmanton which till that year Matilda the wife of his Grandfather the said Sir Richard Stanhope held This Iohn's eldest son was Thomas Stanhope Esquire who by his wife Mary the daughter of Edward Ierningham of Sommer Laytun in Suff. was father of Sir Edward Stanhope and his second son Henry Stanhope 17 E. 4. married Ioane the daughter of Henry Rochford Esquire of Stoke in Lincolnshire by whom he had Edmund Stanhope whose daughter and heir Margaret was wife of Thomas son of Sir William Skoffington Sir Edward Stanhope had to his first wife Adelina daughter of Sir Gervas Clifton by whom he had Richard Stanhope Esquire his eldest son and Sir Michael Stanhope who seconded by his son Sir Thomas raised a greater Family as in Shelford may be observed Sir Edwards second wife was Elizabeth daughter of Fulk Bourchier Lord Fitz-Warin by whom he had Anne the wife of Edward Seymour Duke of Somerset Lord Protector in the time of Edward the sixth by whose means her brother Sir Michael Stanhope a great Courtier before might receive some assistance
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 ãâã 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
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 Saâonby 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
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 2â 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 12â 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 anââstors 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
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 âhe 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
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 20â 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
the Monks held in Fee Farm of the said Thomas and his heirs for 8s. and the whole part of the Land of Verbert de Aâches which they likewise held in Fee Farm for 5s. of the said Verbert and his heirs for all Services with the Appurtenances of the said Town of Gledthorp And the Land of Cotes Linc. which they held in Fee Farm of William son of Renâr and his heirs for a Mark as his Chartel or Deed and that of Herbert son of Alard witnessed Of the gift of Peter de Cotes the Church of Cotes and the Lands and Medows as the Deed or Chartel of the said Peter witnessed and the Land of Cressewell which was Raph Cordus his which they held in Fee Farm of Iohn de Aiencurt and his heirs for 5s. per annum Of the gift of Simon Fitz-Simon and Isabell his wife two Bovats of Land of their Demesne in Hertewell and the Church of the said Town of Hertewell which they confirmed to them and the space of Wood c. as before Robert de Manill sometimes Lord of Whitewell in the County of Derby gave to the Church of Welbek a Quarry in his Land where ever it could be found most convenient to build the Church of St. Iames and other offices and free ingress and egress for those that carried necessaries for the building Walter de Goushull Knight granted a Quarry through the whole More between the Town of Whitewell and Belgh and other-where in the said Common Pastures of the Parish of Whitewell where ever it could be found and free leave to discover dig work and carry c. as the Charter of the said Robert de Menill his ancestor mentioned without contradiction Raph de Basset by the consent of William Basset his faâher and Matildis his mother whose Inheritance they were gave to the Canons of Wellebek his Mills of Languat the condition whereof was That the Men of the Town of Languat and of Hoghton were to make the House and Damm of the Nether Mill at their cost and to grinde the Corn of their proper Wanage or Tillage at the sixteenth grain and what they bought at the twentieth and the Abbat and Covent were to make the Vpper Mill and Damm at their costs and it was lawful for the said William Basset and his heirs to Fish in the upper Pool whensoever they would as the Abbat did Walter de Haincourt by the consent and favour of Iohn his son and heir gave to God and the Church of St. Iames at Welbec the whole Land which Gaufr de Kressewell held of his father and Raph his son of him free from all service belonging to him except five Shillings yearly and three preces Boons of one Plow or Carucat and three preces Boon daies in harvest viz. the first with one Man the second with two and the third with as many as shall be found there daily reaping And free from all service to the King except Dana-geld or the Kings Common Aid by his command should be levied through the whole Country in every County likewise the Sheriffs and the Kings Bayliffs praepositi the Canons were to pay for that Land This grant he made at the intreaty and by the consent of the said Raph son of Gaufr who surrendred the Land to him that he might grant it to the said Church of St. Iames and the Canons who gave the said Raph a Mark of Silver and four Goats The Witnesses were Robert the Presbyter William de Cukeney and Thomas Lord of Cukeney c. Oliver de Eyncuria son of Iohn de Eyncuria gave to the said Church of Wellebek the Tythe of his Multure of his whole Mill at Cressewell and of the issues and profits which Olyver Deyncourt his son recognized 16 H. 3. before S. de Segrave and his fellow Justices Itinerant Roger Deyncourt gave to the Church of Welbek to sustain three Canons to celebrate Divine Service in that Covent his whole Land and Medow in Wynefeild with Common of Pasture in Loghagh except the Advowson of the Church of Wynfeld and the Land which belonged to the Bovat of the Parkhuse c. Iohn de Eyncourt Rector of the Church of Wynefeld brother of Sir Roger de Eyncourt sometimes Lord of the Park of Morton Derbishire for the health of his Soul and the Soul of the said Roger his brother Lord and Ancestor and of the Lady Alice wife of the said Roger confirmed the gifts of his said brother viz. his whole Land of Winnefeld c. and the homage of William de Eyncourt brother of the said Iohn and of the rest of the Free-holders and Services of the Natives with their Sequels and that whoever should hold the Mannor of Park should defend the said Land from all Suits c. Roger de Eyncurt brother of the said Sir Roger Lord of Park made the like confirmation William Deincourt was called Basset after whose decease Iohn Deyncourt entred Sir Richard de Wyverton for forty nine Marks of Silver given him by Galfr. Fitz-Peter gave to the Abby of Wellebek the Town of Dukmanton in Derbysh. which Sir Richard Basset confirmed and so did Henry de Stuteville and Leonia de Reynes his mother of whose Barony it was held There were many Benefactors of several Counties most of this County are noted in the places where the Lands lay as this Sir Richard de Wiverton is in Colston Basset King Edward the first by his Charter bearing date at York 5 Apr. 19 E. 1. granted the Abbat and Covent of Wellebec and their successours Free Warren in all their Demesne Lands in Whyten Filingham Ingham and Cotes in the County of Linc. Whatton Aslacton Flintham Kniveton Yvershagh Gledthorp Hatfeild Hirst Belgh Cukney Colingthwait Languat Cloune Norton Milnethorpe Swaynthorp Vlecotes and Stirape in this County Dukmanton Winefeld Newbold and Cressewell in Darbyshire The same King by another Charter dated at Keneylleworth 1 Iune 29 E. 1. granted his whole part of the Wood and Soyl of Roumwood between the Wood of the said Abbat and the Parc of Thomas de Furnivall extending it self by the Kings High-way between Wirkesop and Warsop towards the West and containing sixty Acres by the Perch of the Forest together with that place of Land which was called Carberton Storth by the said Wood paying 28s. per annum for all Services which last the said Abbat had licence to inclose and make a Park of and to destroy and sell the Wood and Essart the Soyl or otherwise to make profit as he should see convenient and by this warrant 3 E. 3. they claimed c. where the Jury found the Abbat and all his Predecessors and Canons but not their Tenants or Men quit from Toll of all things which they could secure to be their own Demesne and from Bridges except the Town Bridge of Nottingham was broken The Composition between l. de Nottingham Abbat of Wellebech and the Covent of that place and
Title nor Propriety nor indeed of God himself could in this place secure or preserve a Church against a King and Parliament professing the same God and the same Religion I cannot perceive how the most obstinate and zealous pretenders to Religion and property of this time can justly wonder though his Grace be not much concerned for the ruinous Chapel The woods especially those nigh the house are better preserved The number of the Acres of the woods of the Abbey of Wellebek were Of the first foundation of the house in Woods about the house sixscore Acres Of the gift of the King of England in Roumwood fivescore and ten Acres Of the gift of Richard son of Richard in the Hay of Cukeney fourscore Acres Of the gift of Thomas de la Rivere in Hesellund eight Acres Of the gift of Brian de Insula in the Wood of Eskeshagh fourscore Acres These Acres were measured by the King Perch containing twenty four Feet The summ is three hundred thirty eight Acres sixscore to the hundred VVorksop VVirchesop And Radford ELsi before the Norman invasion had two Mannors in Werchesope which paiââo the Geld as three Car. The Land being then sufficient for eight Plows or eight Car. There afterwards Roger de Busli whose Fee the Conquerour made it had one Car. in Demesne and twenty two Sochm. on twelve Bovats of this Land and twenty four Villains and eight Bord. having twenty two Car. and eight Acres of Medow Pasture Wood two leu long three quar broad In the time of Edward the Confessour this was valued at 8l. when the survey was taken in the Conquerours at 7l. In Rolneton nigh Wirksop also of Roger de Buslies Fee were two Mannors before the Conquest which Vlsi and Alchill had and paid the Geld for one Car. The Land two Car. There afterwards Roger the Man or Tenant of Roger de Busli had one Car. and four Sochm. on two Bov. of this Land and one Bord. with one Plow or one Car. There were two Acres of Medow Pasture Wood six qu. long and three qu. broad In King Edward the Confessours time 20s. value in the latter part of the Conquerours 10s. There was one Bov. ad Geld. Soc and then waste This Elsi was one of those who were noted in the Book of Doomsday to have Soc and Sac and Toll and Thaim and the Kings Customes of 2d. and particularly upon Werchesoppe and he is there called Elsi son of Castbin but the third penny of the Earl was not his This Roger the Man of Roger de Busli held very many Mannors of him in this County in all which in the time of H. 1. succeeded William de Luvetot who had Sheffeild and Halumshire in the County of York as in Carcolston may be seen and was a principal man in Huntingtonshire where he left a Barony to his second son Nigellus de Lovetot as in Wishou is noted Here the third of the Ides of May in the third year of King Henry the first he founded a Monastery for Canons of the Order of St. Austin in the Church of St. Cuthbert of Wirkesop to which he afterwards by the concession and consideration of Emme his wife and of his sons or Children granted and confirmed by his breve writing his gift which he had made to God and the holy Church and the Canons of St. Cuthbert of Wirkesop in perpetual Alms. First the whole Chapelry of his whole house with the Tythes and Oblations Then the Church of Wirkesop in which the Canons were with the Lands and Tythes and all things belonging to that Church and the Fish-pond and Mill by or nigh that Church and the Medow by the said Mill and Fish-pond And furthermore all the Tythes of the pence of all his set Rents as well in Normandy as in England In the Field of Wirkesop one Carucat of Land at Inwar and the Medow of Catala And all his Churches of his Demesne of the Honour of Blith viz. the Churches of Gringelai of Misterton of Walcringham of Normanton of Coleston of Wylgeby of Wyshou and his part of the Church of Tyreswelle with all Lands Tythes and things belonging to the said Churches And likewise the Tythe of his Paunage and of Honey and of Venison and of Fish and of Fowl and of Malt and of his Mills and of all things of which Tythes were wont or ought to be given This was directed to T. Archbishop of York Thurstan Arch-bishop of York Alexander Bishop of Lincoln and Walter Espec and Alan de Perci and others were Witnesses to King Henry the first confirmation of this gift which William de Luvetot made William de Luvetot in the Pipe Roll of the fifth of K. Steph is said to give account of the half year of the Farm of Blith and of 236l. of the Pleas of G. de Clinton and for the Land which Robert de Calz had with his mother and of two hundred Marks of Silver that the King should pardon him the Pleas whereof he was impleaded at Blith His son Richard de Lovetot 2 H. 2. gave account of twenty Marks for the marriage of his wife whereof ten were in the Treasury and ten he then ought and one Norroy-hawk and one Gerfalcon her name was Cecilia and she gave the Church of Dinisiey in Hertfordsh to this Covent which amongst the gifts of her husbands father and of others was confirmed by Pope Alexander the third in the second year of his Pontificate Anno Domini 1161. This Richard de Luvetot confirmed the said William his Fathers gift to God and the Church of St. Cuthbert of Wirkesop adding his part of the Church of Claverburgh and two Bovats of Land in Herthewik at Vtwar and in Wirkesop the Land which was Wulvet the Priests and Hugh his brothers to wit that between the way and the Park and Impecroft to make a Holt for Twigs virgultum He confirmed also his own proper gift which he made to that Church after the death of his father viz. the whole site of the Town of Wirksop near the Church as it was shut in by the great ditch unto the Medow of Bersebrigg And without the Ditch the seat of a Mill with one dwelling house and the Medow of Buselin which is between the virgultum Holt of the Church and the Water But on the other part of the Water towards the North the Medow and Land by the bound of Kilton from the Water unto the way under the Gallows towards the South and by the Crosses which he himself and William his son erected with their own hands unto the Moore that is the mucky and moist plain the Land also towards the South from the Head of the Causey beyond the Plain as it was girt in by a Ditch to the water In Mauton the Mill with the Fish-pond And all Sloswik He confirmed also the gift of his mother Emme which she gave by his concession to the Church of St. Cuthbert viz.
Mr. William Saunderson of Blyth She was afterwards wife of Sir George Chaworth which easily brought Harchill and Woodhall to that Family so that it was very lately the Inheritance of my Lord Chaworth who indeed is descended from a daughter of Serleby as in Wiverton may be seen The Arms of Serleby which are at Annesley are Gules a Crosse Moline Arg. charged with Mulletts of six poynts Sable and over all a Bendlets Countercompony Arg. and Azure In Barneby of Roger de Buslies Fee were two Mannors which before he came were Turverts and Sores who paid for them to the Geld as one Bov. ½ The Land was for four Oxen or four Bovats It was waste There was one Acre of Medow Pasture-Wood one qu. long half a qu. broad In the time of Edward the Confessour the value was 10s. in the Conquerours 12d. There was some of Barneby with Lund Ancient Demesne of the Soc of Bodmescell Adam de Barneby by the assent and will of his wife and his heirs quit-claimed to the Monks of Birth all the right he had in the More of Barneby which the Prior had inclosed within his Court and within his Walls and released to them for ever all Nusance which should happen to his Fee from the Walls and Waters of the said Prior. William the Chaplain of Gameleston released to Sir William the Prior of Blyth his whole right in the whole Land of Barneby within the Town and without except that Bovat which Wyot held Wyot de Barneby released to the said Prior and Covent in the year 1235. all his right in the Wood of Barneby and in one Rood of Land within the inclosure of their Mannor of Barneby viz. that Rode next the two Rodes which Rob. son of Richard gave saving to him the said Wyot and his heirs only Common Pasture of Herb and Acorn for the Cattel of his own rearing nutriture with Common of Feuger and Common of dry Boughs prostrate on the earth by blast of wind or age so that neither the said Wyot de Barneby nor his heirs should without the special licence of the Prior stretch forth his or their hand to any Vert or Green viride in the said Wood. Thomas the Clark of Barneby released also his right in the said Wood of Barneby so did Walter son of Thomas de Barneby all that he pleaded to belong to seven Bovats or Oxgangs which he the said Walter and Robert and William Leman held of the said Prior and Covent whereof he impleaded them by the Kings Writ in the time of Stephen de Segrave saving to him his Common Pasture and Herb and Acorn of or for his proper Cattel of his own nurture or rearing while the said Wood should endure which it was lawful for the said Prior and Covent to Assert and Till when ever they should please without the impediment of the said Walter or his heirs and when the fruits were carried off the said Walter with the rest of the Men of the Town were to have Common for this the said Prior and Covent gave him six Marks of Silver Several others released what they had in the Wood called Ravelound .... the daughter of William Frer of Barneby made Fine with Sir William Burdun Prior of Blith for Leyerwith mulct for incontinence and for having licence of marrying her self whither she would she gave 2s. 6d. the Thursday in Easter week 1290. Roger son of Randulf son of Roger de Maresey granted and confirmed the whole gift of his Fee in the Town of Barneby as his Ancestors had made it to God and St. Mary and the Monks of Blyth to whom Thomas de Maresey also released all demand of Homage Fealty and Suit of Court Raneschell was of Arch-bishop Thomas his Fee with Ostone and paid to the Geld as four Bov. ½ The Land one Car. It was waste before the Conquest and so continued in King Williams time Godric held it before and the said Thomas Archbishop of Yorke after the Norman change The owners of Serleby Torworth and Fartworth in 1612. are thus set down George Chaworth Knight 13l. 6s. 8d. .... Wood Gent. 20s. Richard Newcombe junior three Oxgangs Iohn Dobson Richard Ollyver 13s. 4d. Robert Sturton 20s. Anthony Denton 20s. Henry Hawson Thomas Chawner Robert Tibbott Richard Newcombe senior .... Cartwright of Wheatley ... Browne widow Mrs. More widow 13s. 4d. The owners of Barneby Town 1612. are thus Sir Peter Fretwell Knight Robert Eyre Iohn Lyllye Thomas Crumwell Robert Vpton Thomas Meare Raph Wilson Andrew Barrett Alderman and Burgesses of Newark Roger Gregory The Vicarage of Blyth was twenty Marks when the Prior of Blyth was Patron 'T is now 14l. 9s. 4d. ob value in the Kings Books and the Patronage belongs to Trinity Colledge in Cambridge Harworth Farworth Plumtre Limpole Hesle And Marton BEfore the Conquest in Hareword Wade Vlfiet and Vlstan paid to the Geld for one Carucat of Land for their three Mannors The Land whereof was two Car. There afterwards Fulco the Man of Roger de Busli whose Fee it was had one Car. and eight Vill. and one Bord. with three Car. There was a Church Pasture Wood one leuc long one broad The value in King Edward the Confessours time was 40s. and when the Conquerours Survey was made 30s. having Soc in Martune one Car. ad Geld. The Land two Car. There ten Vill. had five Car. Pasture Wood one leu long half a leu broad Fulco de Lisoriis was the Tenant or Man of Roger de Busli it seems and gave to the Priory of Blyth two Bovats in Harewrd and the Multure of Harewrd and of the whole Soc belonging to it part whereof was the Hamlet called Plumtre which Robert de Lisoriis his son and others of his posterity confirmed as before in Oulecotes and other places may be perceived Raph Fraser the Kings Marescal gave to the Monks of Blyth two Bovats which Gamel held of him in Harewrd which gift was confirmed by Henry Cossard the son of Raph Cossard named before in Hodsak Thomas Fitz-William and Albreda de Bassingburne held the whole Town of Harworth of Alice Countess of Ewe or Augi by the service of one Knights Fee Albreda de Bassingburne held in Brigford and Hareword two Knights Fees by reason of the Wardship of the heirs of Iohn Biset She held but half a Knights Fee here In 9 E. 2. Hareworthe with the Soc answered for an intire Villa whereof William Fitz-William was then certified to be Lord. The Jury 14 E. 3. said that Galfr. le Scrop named in South Muscham held in Hareworth of Gerard de Seginton by the Service of 1d. per annum a Capital Mess. one hundred and ten Acres of arable Land ten of Medow c. This Town and the Hamlets have been of long time the Inheritance of Moreton an ancient worshipful Family until Anth. Moreton Esq who paid in
sister and heir of Iames Matthew and Roger sons of Iohn brother and heir of Adam and Robert sons of Gley the Britain Lord of the Mannor of Stiteley and Mekesburgh which Gley had a brother who begot Mabilia de Brochton of Craven who had to her husband Iohn de Mounden who begot on her a son named also Iohn which second Iohn had two daughters Matildis and Agnes who dyed without heirs so that Iohn le Vavasor son of the said Robert claimed to be heir of the said sisters and left the inheritance to William le Vavasur his son and heir It appears 5 E. 3. by a Writ of Certiorari that Isabella who had been wife of William de Saxam recovered by a Writ of Cui in vita against Henry le Scrop one Mess. and 100. Acres of Land in Little Morton as her right and marriage William son of Gilbert de Normanton by Bommsell perhaps the same with Norther Moreton did Fealty to William Burdon Prior of Blyth for half a Bovat with one Mess. in Normanton by Bothamsell and acknowledged to owe 4s. per annum and gave 8s. for Relief Normanton Grange belonged to Welbeck The owners of Babworthe Town in 1612. are thus set forâh Gilbert Earl of Shrowsbury William Lord Cavendishe Robert Swifte Knight Matilda Bevercotes widow William Iessop Gent. Nicolas Yonge of Babworth Anthony Iohnson Bryan Sturges Philip Collye Robert Hemsworth Robert White The Rectory of Babworth was 20l. when the Prior of Newstede was Patron 'T is now 14l. 19s. 7d. value in the Kings Books and Sir Edward Wârteley the last Patron Ordeshall THere was in Ordsall Soc of the Kings Mannor of Dunham one Bov. ad Geldam The Land one Car. There two Sochm. had one Car. and three Acres of Medow and three Acres of Wood. There was also Soc to Grove one Bov. ½ for the Geld. The Land one Car. Of the Tayn-land there was one Bov. ad Geldam The Land was for four Oxen Erwin held it At the making of Doomsday Book it was waste There were in Ordsall of the Fee of Roger de Busli four Mannors which before his coming with King William Osward Turstaun Oderic and Thurstan had and paid to the Geld as four Bovats for them The Land being four Car. There afterwards the Men or Tenants of Roger had three Car. and five Vill. and two Bord. having two Car. there was Medow of sixteen Acres Pasture Wood one qu. long half one broad In the Confessours time the value of this was 28. in the Conquerours 24s. The principal part of Ordesall went with Grove In 30 H. 3. Mauvesinus de Hercy was found to have held some here of Robert de St. George Lord of Bodmeshell viz. two Bov. for 5s. 4d. per annum Robert de Bakere of Retford 18 E. 1. was Plaintiff in an Assize against Hugh de Hercy Def. because he hindred him from Fishing in the Water of Iddell of Ordeshale unto Suthall The Jury said That the said Hugh did not hold the said Fishing in his several together with Robert Morteyne because said they that all who hold Lands abutting on that Water Fish in it at their pleasure unto the Threed Filum of the Water as they of Gréeneley on the East part and they of West Retford on the West part and they of Wellum on the East part they said further that a certain part of West Retford was of the Fee of Lancaster and abutted on the said Water and they of that Fee Fish there unto the File or Threed of the Water c. Hugh was amerced Upon the disposition made by Sir Iohn Hercy this Ordesall tell to the share of ... Mackworth It after came to Bevercotes a younger brother of the House of Bevercotes a Lawyer of good note here of the learned counsel at York and sometimes Feodary of this County and by the marriage of one of his daughters and heirs it went to Thomas Cornwallis who sold it to the Lady Worteley Countess of Devonshire and she estated it on Sir Edward Wortley her second son There was another part of this Township which belonged to and went with Eton as in that place may be perceived The Jury 9 E. 1. found twenty four Perches of Land and three in breadth twelve Perches of Marish in length and three in breadth with the Appurtenances in Ordeshale to be Frank Almoigne belonging to the Church of Eton in the Clay and not lay Fee Iohn de Ripariis 18 E. 2. levied a Fine to Henry de Faucomberge of the Mannor of Ordishale and of one Mess. two Tofts one hundred sixty one Acres of Land twenty three of Medow 36s. and 3d. Rent and the moyety of a Bovat of Land with the Appurtenances in Eton Retford Gameliston Clareburgh Hayton Wellum Stretton Bekingham Claworth Fenton East Drayton West Markham and Bughton Another Fine was levied at Nott. the Munday after the Feast of St. Martin 3 E. 3. between Iohn de Bolyngbrok Quer. and Iohn de Ripariis of Loversale Deforc. of the Mannor of Ordesale with the Appurtenances and five Tofts one hundred eighty eight Acres of Land twenty seven of Medow and 22s. 3d. Rent with the Appurtenances in Ordesale Eton Retford Gameleston c. whereby the said Iohn de Ripariis of Loversale granted for himself and his heirs that the said Mannor with the Appurtenances except two Mess. twenty seven Acres of Land and three of Medow in the said Mannor which Iohn de Ripariis of Ordesale held for term of his life and that one Mess twenty four Acres of Land and three of Medow in the said Mannor which Adam le Barkere and Dionysia his wife held for the life of the said Dionysia and that one Mess. and three Acres of Land with the Appurtenances which Robert Dokerel held for his life and twenty four Acres of Land eighteen of Medow 21s. and 3d. Rent with the Appurtenances in the said Towns of Eton Retford Gameleston Stretton Bekyngham Fenton East Drayton West Markham and Bughton which the said Iohn de Ripariis of Ordesale held for his life and that one hundred twenty two Acres of Land and an half and four Acres of Medow and an half in the said Towns of Ordesale and Eton which Iohn the son of Iohn de Ripariis of Ordesale held for his life and five Tofts forty one Acres of Land and an half c. in Ordesale which Richard son of Iohn de Ripariis of Ordesale held for term of life of the Inheritance of the said Iohn de Ripariis of Loversdale should remain to the said Iohn de Bolyngbrok and his heirs The Mannor of Ordesall in Ordesall with the Appurtenances and two Mess. and 8s. Rent with the Appurt in East Retford Wellum Morehouse and Eton which Iohn de Bozon and Elizabeth his wife held for the life of the said Elizabeth of the Inheritance of William de Saundeby were by Sir Iohn de Leeke Chr. by Fine 18
Hanselin c. William Peverell his son by ill advice took them away for a long time but repenting he for love of the Worship of God and for the safety of the Souls of his said father and mother by the consent of his heir William the younger restored them again The Witnesses to this Deed were Hugh de Burun William Avenell Adam de Morteyn Oddo de Boney Robert de Heriz Gilbert de Macuinci Norman de St. Patricio c. Anno 1155. King Henry the second disinherited William Peverel because of poyson given to Ranulph Earl of Chester About those times there were three Peverels of great note viz. Peverel of Dovor and Peverel of London and our Peverel of Notingham who is certainly intended by the last noted Chronicle as may further appear by an Instrument yet remaining in Sir Iohn Cotton's Library Sealed by Henry Duke of Normans c. afterwards King Henry the second being then at the Divises to Ranulph Earl of Chester wherein he gave him besides the said Earls own Inheritance in Normandy and England wholly as his Ancestors ever had it that in Normandy very particularly recited the whole Honour of Earl Roger Pictavensis where-ever and all the said Duke Henries Honour of Blye where-ever it was in England and the Honour of Eye as Robert Malet Uncle of the said Earl Ranulphs mother ever had it Moreover he gave him Stafford and Staffordesir and the County or Earldom of Stafford wholly whatever he had there in Fee and Inheritance except the Fee of the Bishop of Chester and of Earl Robert de Ferrariis and of Hugh de Mortuomari and of Gervas Paganell and except the Forest of Canoc which he the said Duke then retained in his hand He gave him the Fee of Alan de Lincolne who was also Uncle of the said Earls mother and the Fee of Ernis de Burun as his own Inheritance and the Fee of Hugh de Scoteiney where-ever it was and the Fee of Robert de Chalz where-ever it was and the whole Fee of Robert Fitz or son of Odo and the whole Fee of Norman de Verdun and the Fee of Robert de Stafford where-ever it was and 30l. Land which the said Duke Henry had in Grimesby he gave him and Notingham Castle and the Borough and whatever the said Duke had in Nottingham in Fee and Inheritance he gave to him and his heirs and the whole Fee of William Peverell where-ever it was unless he could dirationare se clear himself in the said Dukes Court of the wickedness and Treason except Hecham And if Engelram de Albamarlâ would not take with the said Duke nor Earl Simon and he the said Duke could take the said Hecham by force he would restore it to the said Earl Ranulph if he would have it and Torchesci and Oswardebec Wapentac and Derby with all the Appurtenances and Maunsfeld with the Soch and Roclar with the Soch and Stanley by Coventre with the Soch and of Belvar he would hold him right as soon as he should be able as of the said Earls Inheritance and to the said Earls six Barons he would give each an hundred pound Land which they should chuse of those which the said Duke should happen to get of his enemies and to all the said Earls friends parentibus he would restore their Inheritance whereof he had power c. Howbeit the said Earl Ranulf of Chester did not enjoy any long possession of those places in this County for the Sheriffs answered to the King for the profits of the Lands of William Peverell and the Scutages of the Tenants of his Fee as in the Pipe Rolls of Henry the second and the succeeding Kings may be seen and in divers other places of this Book for the rest Margaret the daughter and at length heir of William Peverell of Nottingham was wife of William Earl of Ferrars and Derby son of Robert the younger Earl of Ferrars and of Nottingham and she had a son Robert Earl of Ferrars who in the time of King Henry the second perhaps because he could not inherit was the more willing to burn Nottingham which he did it seems together with his son William Grandson of the said William and Margaret which said William Earl of Ferrars the Grandson was outed of his Earldoms of Nottingham and Derby by King Richard the first who gave them to Iohn Earl of Moreton afterwards King his brother who thereupon 't is like grew more willing to interest himself in these parts which he did by granting a Charter to this Town of Nottingham and some way or other pleasing of the Gentry of the Country so well that he led the most of them into Rebellion as in sundry places of this Book concerning divers particular persons of them may be observed But of these Peverells I have found no more saving that there was a Fine in the Kings Court at Nottingham the Fryday after the Feast of St. Bartholomew 4 Ioh. before I. Bishop of Norwic Hugh Bardulf Iohn de Gestling Mr. Roger Arundell Hugh de Bobi the Kings Justices and others then there present between William Peverell Petent and Beatrice de Curcon Tenant of two Bovats of Land in Palterton thereby passed to her and her heirs paying 6d. per annum c. 'T is certain then that from the beginning of the Reign of Henry the second this Castle of Nottingham hath for the most part belonged to the Crown neither is there any place anything near so far distant from London that I know of in all England which hath so often given entertainment and residence to the Kings and Queens of this Realm since the Norman Conquest It is said that in the year 1194. King Richard being first loosed from his bonds the Castles of Nottingham and Tykehull resisted with force but the Castles of Lancaster and Merleburg and Mount Michael rendred themselves King Iohn in the sixth of his Reign commanded Reginald de Clifton that immediately upon sight of his Letters he should deliver to Robert de Veteriponte the Castle of Nottingham c. The like Command at that time had Hugh de Nevill for the Castle of the Pec William de Briewer for that of Bollesour and Sampson de Straclee Strelley concerning the Castle of Hareston Raph Fitz-Nicholas 10 H. 3. was Warden of Nottingham Castle he was Steward to William de Ferrariis Earl of Derby it seems King Henry the third being at Windsor 29 April 32 H. 3. committed to Robert le Vavassur the Countys of Nottingham and Derb. to be kept paying to the King 100l. per annum at his Exchequer for the issues of the said Counties besides fifty Marks which he was to pay every year to the Warden custodi of Nottingham Castle for the keeping thereof After the Battel at Lewes between King Henry the third and the Barons for determining the strife Edward the Kings eldest son was delivered for Pledge and afterwards was freed from
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 diâi 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 Bâsides 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
he and his Ancestors were wont to pay them for two Bovats of Land here together with the Advowsons of the Churches of Cortlingstok and Rempeston which they held of them Iohn the son of Iohn the son of Hugh de Cortlingstok 24 E. 1. recovered seizin of one Mess. and one Car. of Land here and two Mess. and one Virgat at Rempeston William son of Iohn son of Hugh de Cortingstoke released to William de Weston and Agnes his Wife Robert Parson of Staneford and to sundry others and to Iohn de Segrave and his heirs all his right in two Mess. two Carucats and one Virgat of Land and two Acres of Medow with the Appurtenances in Cortlyngstoke and Rempeston which the said Iohn de Segrave had of the gift and Feoffment of Sir Iohn de Segrave his Father and by the grant and confirmation of Stephen de Segrave his the said younger Iohns brother besides all his right in the Rents and Services which the said Iohn had in the Town of Cotegrave this bore date at Nott. the Wednesday next after the Feast of St. Martin 3 E. 3. There was a Fine levyed 22 E. 3. between Richard de Willoughby the elder Knight Quer. and Iohn son of Iohn de Segrave Def. of four Mess. two Tofts thirteen Bovats and ten Acres of Land ten Acres of Medow 20s. and 8d. Rent and the fourth part of one Knights Fee with the Appurtenances in Cortelyngstoke Rempeston and Cotegrave by that made the right of the said Richard together with the Homages and Services of Iohn de Rempeston and others Here was another parcell of this Town Soc to Clifton the great Mannor of William Peverells Fee which paid to the Tax of that time for one Bovat The Land was one Bov. There one Sochm. had one Plow or Car. and two Acres of Medow Here was also a Mannor which Fredghis had before his time which was charged to the Geld as two Bovats the Land being two Bovats There Goduvin under William Peverell had one Car. or Plow or Plowland two Vill. and three Acres of Medow This in the Confessours time was 10s. when the survey was taken in the Conquerours 5s. 4d. value William Peverell son of this William I suppose gave thirteen Bovats of Land here to Geroudon Abby or else cânfirmed thirteen Bovats which Sampson de Strelley gave in whose Family some parcels of Land here continued long The Prior of Durham 3 E. 3. claimed view of Frankpledge of all resident on his Fee here amongst other neighbouring Towns as Normanton Bonington Kinston Barton Remston and Goteham The Jury 16 R. 2. found it not to the Kings loss if he granted Raph de Crumbewell Knight and Richard de Outhorpe Chaplain licence to give two Mess. one Virg. and twelve Acres of Land two Acres and one Rode of Medow and 37s. Rent with the Appurtenances in Nottingham Rempston Corthlingstoke and Boney to the Prior of Kirkeby upon Wretheke There was an inquisition taken 29 Oct. 36 H. 8. after the death of William Waring Gent. who dyed 19 Febr. 33 H. 8. seized in Fee of one hundred Acres of Land eighty of Pasture and forty of Medow in Cortlyngstok late belonging to the Monastery of Garrowden Thomas Waring his son and heir was thereby found to be seventeen years old at the time of his Fathers death Sir George Parkins purchased Lands here of Arnald Waring Esquire afterwards Knight who had them together with Thorp Arnald in Leicestershire by descent from his Ancestors Robert Hall purchased also of Iohn Horton and Mary his Wife who had licence to Alienate four Mess. two Cotag. six Tofts six Gardens four Orchards three hundred Acres of Land c. 22 Sept. 9 Eliz. and had a recovery in Michaelmass Term at which time there were others for less parcels as Iohn Leek and William Bolton against William Leck and the same againât Robert Leek who called c. âohn Bowes William Leek owner in Costok was Father of William Father of William Father of William Leek of Wimswould in the County of Leicester Esquire now living 1674. a Lawyer of great repute and worth The Church of Cortlyngestock viz. the Rectory when the Prior of Lenton was Patron was 12l. Now Mr. Gabr. Armstrong is in his place it is in the Kings Books but 7l. 18s. 4d. Rempeston or Rampeston THat which was of Roger de Buslies Fee here I perceive was held by the Family of Boues of Costock for there was a Fine levyed at Nott. 9 E. 1. between Roger Abbat of Geroudon Quer. by Fryer William de Hemington his Monk put in his place and William de Boues of Cortinstok upon this that the said William should hold to the said Abbat the Fine made in the Court of King Henry the third before the Justices at Westminster between Simon sometime Abbat of Geroudon predecessor of the said Abbat Quer. and the said William that he should acquit the said Abbat of the service which the Custos Warden of the Honour of Tykehull exacted of him concerning his Free-hold which he held in Rempeston of the said William viz. seven Virgats of Land with the Appurtenances for which he the said Warden distrained him to suit the Court of that Honour from three Weeks to three Weeks toward the Castle twice in the year to pay 2s. 6d. half penny farthing for a certain Palfrey 14d. for common Fine 2d. for the meat of a certain Watch-man and 1 cl ½ Aid to the Sheriff all which the said William as meane between him and that honour discharged him of for which the Abbat released all the damages he had sustained till that time In Rampeston William Pevrel had a Mannor which before Fredghis had and paid for it as six Bovats to the Geld the Land was six Bovats There five Vill. had one Car. and fifteen Acres of Medow In the time of King Edward the Confessour this was 10s. in King Williams 5s. 4d. value Rad. de Burun had also a Mannor here which before was Vlchetels who for it to the Dane-Geld paid as for 6. Bov. The Land of it was 6. Bov. it was then in K. Will. time waste and was valued at 2s. in the Confess it was 10s. There was ten Acres of Med. 'T is likely this was held by the Family of Rosell which had Lands here and at Cotgrave and Denbigh in Darbishire of the Fee of Raph de Burun Richard son and heir of Robert Rosel of Rempeston confirmed his own and his Ancestors gifts of Lands to Geroudon Hugh the son of Galfr. de Rempeston gave to the same Abby five Bovats in this Town and confirmed all it had of his Fee Iohn Crisp 17 E. 2. claimed Lands here as son and heir of Iohn his Father and Petronilla his Mother to whom the said Lands were given by Ranulph de Cortlingstok and to the heirs of their bodies but the Jury finding they had alienated
settled his Lands here and his Rent out of Bradmere upon his brother William Glamorgan for his Life in the year 1290. Mr. William de March the King of Englands Treasurer was a witness to his Deed. Richard de Lec 7 R. 1. paid one Mark to have seizing of four Bovats in Chaword which he forfeited for being in Rebellion with Earl Iohn a fault whereof many of this County were at that time guilty Sampson son of Alan de Leke 44 H. 3. for four Marks of Silver released to the Prior and Covent of Lenton four Bovats which he had recovered in the Kings Court so did Henry son and heir of Gervase de Wilford which his said Father recovered in the said K. Court before the Justices Itinerant at Nott. 43 H. 3. William son of Richard Sampson de Leyk 27 E. 1. remised to William de Schefeud and Avicia his wife Sir Iames de Sutton and Agnes his wife and to Alice Barry and their heirs the Homages fealty wards and relief of the Lands and Tenements which Raph Bugge had of the gift of Samson de Leyk his Grandfather in Keworth and granted that he the said William Samson would defend them against all men from the view of Frank-pledge There was a Fine levyed 4 E. 2. between Robert son of Robert son of Henry de Keworth and Alice daughter of Gervas le Frankeleyn of Keworth Quer. and Gervas le Frankleyne Deforc. of one Mess. five Bovats and an half of Land with the Appurtenances thereby settled on the said Robert and Alice and the heirs of their bodies remainder to the right heirs of the said Robert There was another Fine 19 E. 2. between Gerv. Frankeleyn of Keworth Quer. and Iohn Rosell of Cotegrave Deforc. of four Mess. and five Virgats of Land with the Appurtenances in Keworth and Wishowe by it settled on the said Gervase for life remainder to Richard son of Robert le Iorz of Lughburgh and Agnes his wife and the heirs of their bodies remainder to Agnes daughter of the said Gervas and the heirs of hers remainder to the right heirs of the said Gervas Two Tofts and three Bovats here in the Tenure of William Sewell were Nov. 24. 38 H. 8. granted by the King to Iohn Bellowe and Iohn Broxholme Esquire and their heirs which late belonged to the Monastery of Derley in Darbishire Queen Eliz. Feb. 27. in the eighteenth of her Reign granted to Anthony Rotsey and William Fisher one Mess. and seven Bovats with another Mess. and Croft and a Toft and half a Bovat in the occupation of Iohn Sewell c. lately belonging to the Monastery of Lenton in Keyworth The Rectory was 8l. and Mr. Barry Patron Now it is 7l. 5s. 0. in the Kings Books and Isham Parkins Esquire Patron Boney PRobably from Reeds This place in the time of King Edward the Confessour was the Freehold of one Levenot who had other considerable places in this County as Kirkeby in Ashfeild Annesley and some others in all which Raph son of or Fitz-Hubert is certified in the Book of Doomsday to be his Successor his Manner in Bonei was rated to the publick Taxation as two Carucats The Land was sufficient for six Plows or six Carucats There Raph had in Demesne two Carucats and eighteen Villains and seven Sochm. and two Bord. having seven Car. There was a Church and a Priest and one Mill 12d. and one hundred and sixty Acres of Medow and small Wood ten qu. long and one broad In the Confessours time it was 4l. value when the survey was made in the Conquerours 60s. Odo de Boneia held much Land hereabouts of the Fee of Raph Fitz-Hubert in the time of Henry the first for he then gave the Church of Barton and his part which was half the Church of Adinborow and two parts of the Tythe of his Demesne here and in Bradmere to the Church of Lenton at or near the foundation And not very long after one Edward and Aeliz his wife granted to the Church of the holy Trinity at Lenton whatsoever his Ancestor Odo gave to his Deed amongst others were Witnesses Raph Barre Ranulf de Insula Hugh de Boney and Raph his son Ernald and his sons There was a Precept to Ivo de Heriz 3 H. 3. to let Philip Marc have the custody and marriage of Raph son and heir of Anker de Fressunville and another to the Sheriff of Nott. 6 H. 3. to take into the Kings hand the Lands which Iulian the daughter of Hubert Fitz-Raph died seized of the marriage of her son and heir being granted by the King to Philip Marc. The seaâ of this Barony was at Cruch now Criche in Darbishire Raph de Fressenville held of the Barony of Hubert Fitz-Raph five Knights Fees and a tenth part in Boney Barton Bradmere Scardeâlive and Cruch with the Appurtenances The King being at Nott. Decemb. 1. 36 H. 3. granted to Raph de Frescheville free Warren in all the Demesne Lands of his Mannors of Boney in Notts Cruch Scardeclive Alwoldeston Chelardeston in Derbishire and Cusswortham in Yorkshire Raph de Frechevill confirmed to the Abby of Derley the gifts of his Ancestors viz. of William Fitz-Raph and Robert his Son of the Advowson of St. Michael in Darby and the Chappel of Alwoldeston of Hubert Fitz-Raph the Advowson of the Churches of Cruch and Scardecliff and Chappell of Palterton and some other things which he gave for the souls of Edelina and Sara his wives The said Hubert Fitz-Raph in the year 1175. confirmed to these Canons the Land of Pentriâ and of Rippele and of Ulkerthorp and that Land of Chilwell which belonged to the said Mannor of Pentriz which Land his Father gave and Raph Fitz-Stephen afterwards granted and divers other things this Hubert gave them and so did Hubertus de Ria Radulphus fil Huberti temp Will. Conq. Willielmus fil Rad Robertus Sara-Hubert fil Rad 1175 -Edelina ux 1 Ankerus de Freââunvile -Juliana defunct 6 H. 3. Radulphus de Freskenvill 3 H. 3 -Willimina Ankerus de Frescheynville defunct 53 H. 3 -Amicia Radulphus de Freschenvill aet 22. amplius 15 E. 1 -Margareta sor haer Nic. Musard Domini de Staveley ob 7 E. 3. Ankerus de Frechevilie defunct 14 R. 2. Rad. de Frecheville Chr. mort 4 H. 5. Gervasius Idiora haer frat 4 H. 5. Petrus de Frecheville Armig. H. 6. ob 1503 -Matilda ob 1482. Johannes de Frecheville ob Feb. 5. 24 H. 7. .... fil haer ... de Nutthill Johan Frechevil aet 15. marit ante ob Patris -Elizabetha fil Joh. Leake de Sutton Dom. Petrus Frecheville aetat 16. an 20 H. 8. ob 5 P. M. -Elizab fil Ric. Tempest mil. Petrus Frechevil-Eliz fil Gerv. Clifton mil. ..... Dom. Petrus Frecheville .... fil Fleetwood Johannes Frecheville creatus dom .... Frecheville de Staveley per Car. â Feb. 17. 1664. 16 Car. 2 -Sarah