speak historically of this family which was the stock whence the Astleys of Hill-Morton and Wolvey in this County and of Patshull in Staffordsh are of younger branches descended I have set down the Pedegree so far as it relates to this place beginning with the before mentioned Philip de Estley for his fathers name I cannot discover and have fixt thereunto that part of Grey's descent as through Astley's daughter and heir became Lords thereof Philippus de Estlega 12 H. 2. Ala-Tho de Estlega 9 Ioh. Matilda soror cohaeres Rog. de Camvill Tho. de Estley miles caesus in praelio de Evesham 49 H. 3. Iohanna filia Ernaldi de Bosco Isabella ux Wil. de Bermingham Andreas de Estley defunctus 29 E. 1. Sibilla 11 E. 1. Nich. de Astley fil haeres 29. E. 1. Egidius de Astley miles 7 E. 2. Alicia filia haeres Tho. de Wolvey mil. Tho. de Astley consangu haeres Nich. 19 E. 2. fundator eccl Colleg. de Astley Eliz. filia Guid. de Bello-campo Comitis Warwici Will. de Astley miles 11 R. 2. Regin Grey de Ruthin mil. 13 R. 2. Iohanna filia haeres defuncta 27 H. 6. Tho Ralegh 1 maritus Edw. Grey miles dom de Groby jure ux 27 H. 6. Eliz. filia Henrici Ferrers filii Will. Ferrers de Groby mil. 23 H. 6. Edw. Grey Vic. L'islle 1 R. 3. Ioh. Grey Vic. L'isle duxit Murielam fil Tho. D. Norf. obiit 6 Sept. 20 H. 7. Eliz. nata post humatum patris aet 7 dierum 20. H. 7. Anna uxor Ioh. Willoughby 25. an 20. H. 7. Eliz. ux Edm. Dudley soror cohaeres aet 23. an 20 H. 7. Ioh. Grey miles filius haeres 36 H. 6. caesus in praelio S. Albani 39 H. 6. Tho. Grey mil. erectus in Marchion Dors. 18 Apr. 15. E. 4. Thomas marchio Dorset ob 22. H. 8. Ioh. Grey miles à quo Henr. Baro Grey de Groby modò Comes Stamfordiae Henr. M. Dors. erectus in D. Suff. decoll 1 M. Francisca filia Car. Brandon D. Suff. obiit 2 Eliz. Adrianus Stokes ar 2. maritus Iana ux Guilfordi Dudley mil. decollata 1 M. Kath. aet 19. an 2 Eliz. nupta Edw. Comiti Hertf. Maria aetat 13. an 2. Eliz. nupta Martino Keys ar obiit s. prole Tho. de Astley miles 2 R. 2. à quo Astlei de Paâ—shull in Com. Staff Egid. de Astley de Wolvey 18. R. 2. Sibilla ux Will. le Boteler de Werington Tho. de Estley miles caesus in praelio de Evesham 49 H. 3. Editha filia Petri Constable de Melton in Com. Norf. Thomas de Estley cui pater dedit Hil. Morton 47 H. 3. Philippus Rector eccl de Hil-Morton That they took for their Arms Azure a cinqfoile ermine which hath so near a resemblance to the bearing of the antient Earls of Leicester is very well known And that it hath been no unusual thing for younger branches or those who held their lands of such great persons or had other near relation to them so to do I could manifest by sundry examples which was the case here in part if not in all these instances for Thomas de Estley son to Philip was not onely Bayliff to Simon Montfort E. of Leic. who had that Honour conferred on him by K. Iohn in regard he had marryed Amicia the eldest sister and coheir of Rob. Fitz-Parnel E. of Leic. as appears by a Fine that he gaâ—â— to the King 9 Ioh. viz. fourscore marks and a palfrey to be discharged of the issues required of him for that Earls lands whil'st he had to do with them but held certain lands by military service of that Honour In 12 Ioh. this Tho. de Estley gave a Fine to the K. of C. marks that he might not go beyond Sea the Record expresses not whither but 't is plain that the K. went that year with a great Army into Ireland and setled that Realm in obedience to him therefore thither it was without doubt that he had command to attend him After which viz. in 17 Ioh. being in Arms against the K. with the rebellious Barons he was committed Prisoner to the Castle of Bedford whereof Falcasius de Breant then had the custody But in 1 H. 3. submitting to obedience or rather being forc't thereto by the wisdome and courage of the famous Will. Marshall then E. of Pembroke who had the tuition of the young K. and government of the Realm he had his lands which were forfeited for that offence restored to him and in 4 H. 3. was in Commission for the Goal-delivery both at Warwick and Leicester So also in 5 H. 3. for seizing into the K. hands all the demesns whereof K. Iohn was possest at the beginning of the wars with the Barons and likewise to take Eschaets as well those lands which were belonging to Normans and Britons as other strangers that either came to the K. hands or his fathers before the said war in the war or after it and to certifie the stock thereupon with the value as also in whose possession they were But after this do I find no more mention of him than that he wedded Maud one of the sisters and coheirs to Rog. de Camvile of Creek in Northamptsh and that he left issue Walter of whom K. Iohn exacted Scutage for military service in Poictou in 16 of his reign as of all others that held by that tenure Which tax being so great viz. 3 marks for every Knights fee was never paid in regard that the Barons hereupon took occasion to rebel at which time they brought in Lewes the eldest son to K. Philip of France took the City of London and grew very outragious as our Historians relate This Walter was possest of lands in Whichford which in 17 Ioh. were given by the K. to Alice de Moyun of whom I shall speak more fully when I come to that place But in 1 H. 3. he received favour of the K. as his father had done and in 19 H. 3. answered for one Kts. fee in this County two marks upon payment of the Aid for marriage of Isabell the K. sister to the Emperour To him succeeded Thomas who was a Kt. in 26 H. 3. and then constituted one of the Justices for the Goal-delivery at Warwick so also the year following in which he paid to the K. 15 l. for his Releif In 32 H. 3. he was sent with divers other great men into Gascoyne but within few years after taking part with the rebellious Barons in 47 H. 3. joyned with those that seized upon the K. profits in this County and Leicestersh which the then Shiriff Will. Bagot had in charge to receive and grew so eminent for his activeness that upon the Agreement in 48 H. 3. betwixt the said K. and the Barons wherein the K. to satisfie them submitted
made him begin too late to repent of his doings After this it was not long ere that Symon de Montfort Earl of Leic. with divers of the Barons taking advantage of certain miscarriages in government occasioned by this Geffrey and such other who had abused the power and trust committed to them put themselves in Armes under pretence of asserting the Laws and subject's liberties the particulars of which story I must not here stand to tell but so much thereof as relates to the said Geffrey I shall briefly touch Which is that amidst those turbulent doings in 48. E. 3. he was trusted with the custody of Windsor-Castle as appears by his render thereof upon the Kings command being then necessitated to submit unto a dishonourable truce with the Barons Certainly he was a man of extraordinary note for I find him in the Catalogue of those great men who stood stoutly to the King against his rebellious Barons and lived to a great age for he departed not this world till 2. E. 1. and then Walter his son and heir doing his homage had livery of his lands A younger son he had named Geffrey who was in the Welch expedition with his brother Walter in 41. H. 3. But of him and his descendants I have said something already in Shortley and shall have occasion 〈◊〉 say more when I come unto Atherston super Stoure and therefore now return to Walter This Walter had his Christen name as 't is most like from Walter Marshall Earl of Pembroke under whom his father executed the officâ— of Marshall in the K. houshold And in 36. H. 3. obtain'd a speciall Pat. exempting him from serving on any Juryes so long as he lived The next year following he attended the King into Gascoign and in 41. H. 3. went into Wales with the Royall Army In 3. E. 1. he was constituted onâ— of the Justices for the Gaol delivery at Warwick And in 7. E. 1. being certified Lord of this place had here ten Cottiers holding nine Cottages for which they payd severall Rents performed divâ—rs services in Harvest and gathered Nutts for one day He had then also 3. Carucats of land and 3. acres and a Water-myll in demesn and kept a certain outwood containing 5. acres inclosed as a Park which had wont to be common The same year I find that he was again a Justice for the Goal-delivery at Warwick and so likewâ—se the year following in which he dyed leaving his son and heir viz. Iohn de Langley 22. years of age who did his Homage and had livery of his lands immediatly after And had also a younger son called Râ—bert of whom and his posterity I shall speak it Wolfhamcote Which Iohn who had the inheritance of this mannour as also of Wikin and Milcote had summons to be at London with many other great men the Sunday next after the Octaves of S. Iohn Baptist 25. E. 1. to attend the K. in his expedition beyond Sea And in 29. of the said Kings raign had the like summons to be at Barwick upon Twede at the feast of the Nativity of S. Iohn Baptist to wait on the K. in his Scottish war wherein he was knighted as 't is probable for the same year he so stiled himself In 5.6 and 7. E. 2. he was constituted one of the Justices for the Gaol-delivery at Warwick In 8. he and Henry de Erdington were appointed to levy and collect in this County and Leicester-sh the Scutage due to K. E. 1. in 34. of his raign when his Army came together at Carleol which was not till then received And the next ensuing year was in Commission for making choyse of one stout and able Footman in every village throught-out this County to march with the King in person against the Scots as also to see that they were sufficiently armed according to the Statute of Winchester In 10. E. 2. he had the like imployment for choosing one Footman in every village of this Shire for the war of Scotland and to see them sufficiently arm'd with Haketones Bacenets Swords Bows and Arrows as also with Slings and such other weapons that were proper for them In 12. E. 2. he with Rob. de Stoke were assign'd to collect an eighteenth in this County In 13. E. 2. for levying and collecting Scutage for the Scottish war In 14. and 15. E. 3. he was again in Comission for the Gaol-delivery at Warwick And in 18. entail'd this Lordship with other lands upon his son Geffrey and his heirs After which I neither find more mention of him nor any historicall matter relating to his descendants excepting of Ioan his great-grandchild and heir to this branch of that family who being wedded to Iohn the son of Sir Alan Charlton of Apley Knight was forcibly taken from him by Sir Iohn Trillow the younger Kt. and kept as his wife many years during which time the same Sir Iohn and she by their deed dated 39. E. 3. granted this Mannour to Sir Baldwin Frevill the elder Kt. and his heirs Who for the corroborating of his title had a Release from Sir Peter Careswell Kt. son and heir to Sir Will. Careswell Kt. of all his interest therein bearing date 3. Maii 46. E. 3. which Ioan was afterwards reconciled to her first husband but dyed without issue Upon the partition of Frevill's lands 31. H. 6. whereof in Tamworth I shall speak this Mannour was allotted unto Robert Aston esq son and heir to Ioyce one of the three Sisters and coheirs to the last Sir Baldwyn Since which it hath continued in the line of Aston till of late time for in 39. Eliz. did Sir Edw. Aston of Tixhall in Com. Staff Knight dye seized of it leaving Walter his son and heir who in 1. Caroli or about that time sold it to severall Coventre men then his tenants to the particular parcells thereof Whitley A Little lower upon the Eastern-bank of Shirburn stands Whitley where there is now no more than a Mannour-house with an old Chappell and a Mill to be seen but antiently it was a village of divers Inhabitants yet is there no mention of it in the Conq. Survey for as much as it was then involved with Coventre As for the name I suppose it proceeds from a Brittish originall viz. Coit id est a wood and by corruptness in pronouncing is come to be writter Whit the latter syllable Ley being also from the Brittish I le which is the same with locus or sedes Nor till K. Stephen's time have I seen it at all mentioned but then did Ranulph Eeal of Chester of whose fee it was render the Chappell thereof to the Monks of Coventre In 34. H. 3. upon the passing of Coventre in Fee-ferm by Roger de Montalt and Cecily his wife to the Monks amongst certain reservations made to
which did exceed the value of ten Franks And if he or they hapned to take any prisoners he should not permit them to be ransomed without the consent of the said Earl or his son And lastly that himself with his Men and Horses should be upon all occasions shipt to and fro at the charge of the said Earl In 3. H. 4. he was Receivour generall to the same Earl and the same year joyned in Commission with the Shiriff for levying and collectâ—ng the Aid in this County for marriage of Blâ—nch the Ks. eldest daughter In 5. H. 4. he served as one of the Knights for this Shire in the Parliament then holden And in 9. H. 4. was Surveyour of all the said Earles lands In 19. H. 6. he was one of the Commissioners appointed to treat with the people for a loan to the King In 20. one of the Knights for this Shire in Parliament And upon renewing the Commissions for the peace in this County from 17. till 27. H. 6. still joyned therein He was also Constable and Governour of Warwick-Castle and Supervisor of all the fishings pools and Swans belonging to Henry Duke of Warwick in this County and Stafford-shire In consideration whereof he had an annuity granted to him by the said Duke's Letters Pat. dated 5. Iunii 24. H. 6. And in 28. H. 6. in Commission about levying the Subsidy then granted to the King in Parliament So likewise from 30. H. 6. till 9. E. 4. upon all renewings of the Commissions for the Peace made one As also Squier of the body to the K. E. 4. and to Richard Nevill Earl of Warwick Surveyor of his lands And as his publick imployments were very great so were Iohn Hugford his son's whom I find in 34. H. 6. Steward to Richard Nevill Earl of Warwick As also a Justice of peace in this County from 1 E. 4. during the whole reign of that K. and of his brother K. Richard 3. as appears by the Records of their times This Iohn having been Shiriff of the Countyes of Warwick and Leic. in 12. and 18. E. 4. in consideration of the acceptable services which the said King acknowledged he had done was constituted Constable of Warwick-Castle as also Steward of Warwick and all the Lordships in this Shire then in the King hands in respect of the minority of Edward son to George Duke of Clarence by reason of the Earledome of Warwick Which office together with the place of Surveyour of all the Parks and Chases in this County King Richard 3. by his Letters Pat. dated 15. Nov. granted also to the said Iohn and Humfrey Beaufo esq in regard of the minority of the aforesaid Edward He was also a great Benefactor to the Abby of Stoneley as appears by the large quantity of land given thereunto by him lying in Ashoe and other places And having much augmented his fortune by the marriage of Margaret daughter and heir to Nicholas Metley as in Wolston and Merston I have shewed departed this life on the feast day of S. Nicholas the B. 1 H. 7. leaving issue by the said Margaret three daughters which were his heirs viz. Ioan marryed to Humfrey Beaufo of Bereford-S Iohn in Oxford-shire esq Alice to Richard Cotes esq and Anne to Gerard Danet esq upon the partition of whose lands this with Milverton came to Iohn Beaufo son and heir to Humfrey Beaufo above mentioned and Ioan the eldest daughter of the said Iohn Hugford Which Iohn in 20. H. 7. had livery of his inheritance without proof of his age that is to say of all the lands descended to him from Humfrey Beaufo his father Ioan his mother and Gerard Danet which Gerard was tenant by the curtesy to such lands as belong'd to Anne his wife another of the daughters and heires to the said Iohn Hugford and departing this life on Michaelmass day Anno 1516. 8 H. 8. lyeth buried together with the severall Hugfords before specified in the South part of the Collegiate Church at Warwick as their Monuments which I have here exactly represented do manifest From whom is lineally descended Henry Beaufo esq Lord of this Mannour Anno scil 1640. Willoughby HEre at Emscote it is that Avon is enlarged by the confluence of Leame which having its head in Northampton-shire about Bramiston and Daventre entreth Warwick-shire betwixt Wolfhamcote and Willoughby Touching its name I mean the etymologie it may seem to be derived from the Greek word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which signifyeth a pool or lake for our antient Saxon language is affirmed by very learned men in both to have its originall from the Greek Neither is this conjecture improbable for as much as this River is of a muddy disposition having some standing holes in the nature of lakes or ponds in sundry places thereof And we find at this day that divers of those artificiall Rivers in Cambridg-shire antiently cut to drayn the Fens do bear the name of Leame as Watersey-leame New leame Morton's-leame c. being all muddy channells through which the water hath a dull and slow passage But leaving the better interpretation thereof to those that have more skill I come to Willoughby The occasion of this Towns name is evident enough the last syllable scil Bye in the old English signifying a Village as we use it in some sense to this day calling those orders which are made in a Court-Baron Bye-Laws id est the Town-Laws and the first willough importing that divers of such trees did antiently grow there In the Conq. time most of it was in the possession of Turchill de Warwick and the rest of Hugh Grentemaisnill howbeit the proportion which each had doth not directly appear for as much as it is in the Record confounded with other places But it is there written wilebere wilebej and wilebec which last if it were the originall name must be interpreted the willough-brook for Bee in the Saxon signifieth a little stream How it came into the Kings hands I have not seen but it seemes that King H. 1. possest it and enfeoft one Wigan his servant of 12. yard land here in Sergeanty then valued at xii li. which Sergeanty as well included lands in Dunchurch Thurlaston and Hulle as this viz. to find at his proper costs a man in harness for the Kings service with two Horses in every Army of his within England and wales Which Wigan held this willoughby all his life From whom it descended to Raph his son and heir and from Raph to Will and from Will to Ivo Which Ivo dying without issue it resorted to Thurstane his uncle who granted the whole Mannour with the advouson of the Church to the Hospitall of S. Iohn without the East-gate in Oxford founded by King Henry 3. in 17. of his raign ut ibidem infirmi peregrini suae remedium
the place of her birth of which Monastery she was reputed Patroness And that upon her death in 6. Ioh. the K. directed his precept to the Shiriff of Yorksh. commanding him to take order with the Abbot of Fountains and Henry de Percy her Executors that they should forthwith according to the custom of the Kingdom discharge those debts which were due to his Exchequer But by neither of these wives had he any issue so that departing this life in the Holy land 15. Nov. An. 1184. 30 H. 2. Waleran his Brother succeeded him in the Earldom and estate which Waleran in 2 R. 1. payd 51. l. 03. s. -04 d. to the K. for scutage in respect of the military service he ought to have personally performed in Wales but it seems he had not absolute possession of this Earldom till 7 R. 1. that he gave xx marks to have the tertium denarium de placitis Comitatus Of this Earl I find that in 9 R. 1. he stood charg'd to the K. in xlii l. iiii s. viii d. debt in the nature of scutage towards the payment of a Fine for the K. redemption who had been made Prisoner upon his return from the Holy land And in another debt of a C. l. for license to return into England and in a third debt of C. marks for leave to marry Alice the daughter of Rob. Harecurt and widow unto Iohn de Limesey As also that he had much adoe a great part â—f his time touching this inheritance there being one that feigned himself his elder Brother which dyed in the Holy land who put him to great vexation so that my Author is of opinion that the grant which he made to Hubert Archb. of Canterb. and Chancelour of England of the advouson of all the Prebendaries belonging to the Collegiat Church in Warwick to hold during his life was to purchase his favour in that weighty business But I do not finde that this Earle was a benefactor to any Religious-house other than the Hospitall of St. Michael in Warwick whereunto he gave all the Tith arising out of the assarts of Wedgnock as also of the paunage and Venison and to the Nuns of Pinley and Wrockshall in this County to the first whereof he gave certain Lands situate in Curdeshale within the Liberties of Claverdon and to the other a yard Land lying in Brails He had two wives Margaret the daughter to Humfrey de Bohun Earle of Hereford and Alice the daughter of Iohn de Harecurt but widdow of Iohn de Limesi before mentioned and deparâ—ing this life in 6. Ioh. left issue divers Children of which Henry his eldest son succeeded him in the Earldom Waleran another son had the Mannours of Gretham and Cotesmore in com Runtl given to him by his father with certain Lands in Worcestersh but dâ—ed without issue Alice his daughter by Alice his last wife wedded to Will. Mauduit of Hanslape in com Buck. and had by her father 's appointment the Mannour of Waâ—ton now called Walton-Mauduit in this County for her marriage portion as is evident by K. Iohn's confirmation thereof to her bearing date 30. Nov. in the x. of his reign but at that time she was not married yet it seems she had a husband very young for it appears that she continued in the custody of her mother after she was so espoused by reason of her minority Gundred his other daughter was brought up in the Abby of Pinley before mentioned together with Isabel his Neice for whose education he gave in his life time to the Nuns of that house two Marks of silver yearly to be paid by the hands of his Steward at Claverdon and at the same time bestowed on them the redecimation of his Lordship of Walton in pure Almes for the health of his Soul and the Soul of Margerie his Countesse as also for the Souls of E. Roger his father Gundred his Mother Earle Will. his brother with all his Ancestors and Successors I finde that the same year of E. Waleran's death Alice his Countesse gave a fine of a thousand pounds and ten Palfreys that she might continue a widdow as long as she pleased so that the K. might not compell her to marry as also that she might have the custody of those Children she had by Earle Waleran and lx l. Lands per ann which he gave her freely to dispose of And likewise her reasonable dowry both of her husbands Lands Fees neverthelesse she was not to chuse a husband for her self without the K. approbation After which scil the next ensuing year she gave 3. Palfreys more to the K. that she might have a Jury of xii lawfull Knights to admeasure her dowry out of the Lands and Fees of E. Waleran her late husband but what was done therein appears not howbeit within 2. years after she came to a conclusion with Earle Henry whereupon she had the mannours of Tanworth and Claverdon in this County and of Cheddeworth in Gloucestersh with the service of two Knights Fees the one in Lodbroke and the other in Loxley assigned unto her This Earle Henry being in minority at the death of his Father was committed to the custody of Thom. Basset of Hedindon near Oxford which Thomas for a Fine that he paid to the King had a grant of his marriage 5. May 7. Ioh. to the intent he might match his daughter to him as was afterwards accordingly done though she was not his first wife and had also livery of all his Lands together with the Castle of Warwick by Hugh de Chaucumb then Sheriffe of this County to whom the K. had directed his Precept for that purpose bearing date 24. Aug. ensuing Upon Inquis taken in 12. and 13. Ioh. what number of Knights Fees the great men that held of the K. in Capite had there are fourscore and seventeen certified to belong unto this Earle in Warwicksh For which with the rest being all in number C ii and a third part he paid at the same time CC iiii marks viii s. x. d. for scutage upon the K. expedition with his Army into Wales viz. duaâ— marcas quo quolibet scuto In 15. Ioh. he came of age as I gather for by the K. special Writ bearing date 1. Iunii that year and directed to the Sheriffe of this County he had the tertium denarium de comitaetu Warewic delivered unto him as his Ancestors were used to have In 16. Ioh. he contributed xlii marks to the K. towards the support of his wars in Poictou but was by a special Writ acquitted of the Scuâ—age then exacted from him for that service And did so faithfully adhere to K. Iohnâ— when the Barons rebelliously took up Arms against him that the said K. by his Letters P. bearing date 10. Iunii
D. Berkley ux 1. Magar ux Ioh. Talbot Comitis Salop. Iohannes Talbot erectus in Vicecomitem L'isle 22. H. 6. Iohanna filia cohaer Thomae Chedder eq aur Thom. Talbot caesus apud Wotton subt Edge s. p. Eliz. filia cohaeres Edw. Grey erectus in Baronem L'isle per Regem E. 4. in Vice com l'Isle 1. R. 3. Eliz. ux Edm. Dudley aetat 23. ann 20. H. 7. posteà Arthuri Plantaginet filii nothi Regis E. 4. Ioh. Dudley erectus in vicecom L'isle 34 H. 8. in Com. Warwici 1. E. 6. in Ducem Northumb. 5. E. 6. decollatus 1. M. Iana filia Edwardi Guilford eq aur Henr. ob s. p. Ioh. ob s. p. Ambrosius D. erectus in Com. Warwici 4. Eliz. primò duxit Annam fil cohaer Will. Whorwood Atturnati generalis Regis H. 8. secundò Eâ—â—z filiam Gilb. Talbot mil. tertiò Annam filiam Francisci Comitis Bedf. obiit 32. Eliz. sine prole Robertus Dudley erectus in Comitem Leic. per Eliz Reginam Henricus occisus apud S. Qâ—intins in Gallia Carolus ob in pueritia Maria ux Henr. Sidney Ordinis Gart. mil. Margar. ob in pueritia Cath. ux Henr. Hastings Comitis Hunt Temperantia obiit in pueritia Anna ux Ioh. Willoughby ar aet 25. ann 25. H. 7. Ioh. Grey vic L'isle obiit 6. Sept. 20. H. 7. Eliz. nata post humatum patris Margareta ux Georgii Vere eq aur Alianora primò nupta Thomae D. Ros posteà Edm. Beufort D. Somers Elizabetha ux Georgii Nevil D. Latimer Reinburn Will. de B. D. de Bergavenny Iohanna sor coh Tho Co Arund Matild ux Rog. D. Clifford Rogerus Philippa ux Hug. Co. Staff Alicia ux Ioh. Beauchamp de Hach Iohan. ux Rad. Basset de Draiton Isab. uxor Rob. de Ufford Margar. ux Guid. de Montforti Agnes 1. ux Cokesey postea Bardolf Kath. monial apud Wroxhall Inliana ob coelebs Ioh. de B. Admir Angl. ob s. p. 34. E. 3. Emma ux Roul Odingsels Isabella ux ..... Clinton Lucia ux Rob. de Napton Isab. ux Blount Matild ux Rither Wenthlean ux Talbot Margar. ux Sulby Robertus obiit infans Johannes ob vita patris Iac. de Bello-campo 5. E. 1. Joanna ux Barth de Sudley Sarra uxor Ric. Talbot On the 19. of October in that year was it that King Iohn dyed before which all things were not compleated touching the restitution of this Walter 's lands for it was but the 8. of August before that he went to obtain his absolution but what was not effected then became shortly after accomplisht for I find that the 25. of March ensuing he had livery of the Castle of Worcester with the Shirivalty which were committed before to the custody of Iohn Marshall as it seems And further of this Walter have I made no discovery till 20 H. 3. and that is upon occasion of another atonement made with the King for which as the Record expresses he gave 50. marks Fine besides the Aurum Reginae to the Queen whereupon he was received to favour and had a redelivery of the Shirivalty of Worcestershire which in respect of his misdemeanour was seised into the Kings hands and at that time in presence of the King did he constitute Hugh le Poher his deputy in that office whereupon issued a Precept unto the Barons of the Exchequer for his admission 'T is very like that the offence for which he so suffered was a taking part with the discontended Barons in 18 H. 3. by reason that through the perswasion of Peter de Rupibus Bishop of Winchester so many Poictovins were brought into the Realm But long after this he did not live for in 20 H. 3. had Will. de Beauchamp his son and heir livery of his lands doing his homage and giving security to pay C li. for his Relief Which William in 37 H. 3. attended the King in his expedition for Gascoign and after that did very notable service in Wales in consideration whereof the King at the request of Richard Earl of Gloucester respited the payment of certain moneys due by him to his Exchequer till a further time In 42 H. 3. he had summons to be at Chester on the munday next before the feast of S. Iohn Baptist well furnisht with Horse and Armes to march in that expedition against the Welch then in Rebellion and in 44 H. 3. he had again command to be at Shrewsbury sufficiently accoutred for the like purpose There was it seems an accord betwixt this William and Peter de Montfort a great Baron in these parts as in Beldesert I shall shew that there should be interchangeable marriages betwixt both their eldest sons and eldest daughters for K. H. 3. in 32. of his raign gave his allowance thereto saving that he would have the custody of the lands of either who should happen to be in minority at his fathers death till he came of full age Whether that marriage took effect I cannot affirm but certain I am that his son and heir did not marry Montfort's daughter as shall be shew'd anon This William himself wedded Isabell the daughter of William Mauduit of Hanslap in Com. Buck. Chamberlain to the King in his Exchequer with whom by Agreement he was to have xx li. lands per annum in consideration whereof the said William Mauduit assigned unto him in Frank-marriage with her all his lands in Ledecumbe with proviso that if those did not amount to that value he would make it up elswhere To the Abby of Bordsley he gave certain lands situat in Bivinton and by his Testament bearing date at Wauberge the morrow after the Epiphany Anno 1268. 53 H. 3. bequeathed his body to be buried in the Church of the Friers-Minors at Worcester appointing that at his Funerall a Horse compleatly harness'd with all military caparisons should proceed before his corps which usage hath continued in the solemnizing of Funeralls for great persons even till our times Of his Legacyes therein I shall recite the most memorable viz. to a Priest to sing Mass daily in his Chapell without the City of Worcester neer the said House of Friers-Minors for the health of his soul and the souls of Isabell his wife and Isabell de Mortimer and all the faithfull deceased he gave all his Rent of the fee of Richard Bruli in Wiche and Winchester with supply of what should be too short out of his proper goods To Walter his son signed with the Cross for a Pilgrimage to the Holy-Land in the behalf of him the said Testator his father and Isabell his mother two hundred marks To Ioan his daughter a kind of Canopy sometime belonging to S. Wolstan and a book of Lancelot which he the said Testator had lent her To Isabell his daughter a silver cup. To Sibill his daughter towards her marriage all the money due to him from his son
and lands of Geffrey de Moubray lying in that Kingdom excepting the Mannour of Okeford neer Roxborough as also with the lands of Iohn de Strivelin and the Castle of Amesfeld with the land of Drungrey that belong'd to Andrew de Chartres which they the the said Geffrey Iohn and Andrew were seized of on the day of S. Mary Magdalen the same year that battail was fought The next year scil 27 E. 1. he was imployed beyond Sea in the Kings service In 31 E. 1. he attended the King again into Scotland and was in person with him at that memorable siege of Kaerlaverok In 34 E. 1. he had summons with divers other great men to appear at Westminster the morrow after Trinity-Sunday there to consider and advise with the King concerning an Aid for making his eldest son Knight The same year I find that he had license to entail all his lands upon Philip the son of Hugh le Despenser for lack of issue male of his own body And in 35 E. 1. the King taking into further consideration his many and great services gave unto him and his heirs Bernard-castle in the Bishoprick of Durham which eschaeted to the Crown upon the forfaiture of Iohn de Baliol King of Scotts This was the last year of King E. 1. but therein I meet with no more mention of this Earl I come now to Edw. 2. time In the fift yeare of whose reign I find that he took part with Thomas Earl of Lancaster and some other of the Nobility who being discontended that Piers de Gaveston then E. of Cornwall was so much in favour with the King put themselves in Armes and took him at Scardeburgh but the King hearing thereof desired to speak with him and that his life might be saved promising that he would in all things satisfy their requests Which motion and assurance so wrought upon the Earl of Pembroke who was one of the great men then acting in this tragedy that he undertook upon forfeiture of all he had that if they would consent to the Kings proposalls he would take care that Peirs should not escape but after conference with the King should stand to the Judgments of the Barons which was yielded unto and a day and place assigned when he should be delivered back to them Whereupon the Earl of Pembroke resolved to carry him unto Wallingford but being on the journey at Dedington in Oxford-shire where he had left a guard of his own servants to look to him himself and his Countess lodging at the next town this Guy Earl of Warwich came in the night time with a number of armed men and carryed him back to Warwick-Castle where consulting with those about him what then to do they presently determined without delay to cut off his head and accordingly did so upon a rising ground called Blacklow-hill about a mile Northwards from Warwick whereof I have elsewhere already spoke Which being done the Friers-Preachers took care of his body and conveyed it to Oxford whence after two years the King removed it to Langley in Hertford-shire causing it to be interred in the Church of the Friers-Preachers which he there founded to pray for the soul of the said Piers and his Progenitors It seems that this Piers had much angred the E. of Warwick in calling him the Black Dog of Arderne because he was of a black and swarthy complexion but what sway the great men then bore having insinuated to the people that all they did was for the honour of God and good of the Realm may easily be seen for though the King did sufficiently take this murther to heart for it was no better he knew not how to punish any one Actor in it nay so glad was he to please them that within two years after he granted to every of them a Pardon by particular name amongst which as servants or Reteinours to this Earl I finde William Trussell Piers de Limâ—sey Osbert de Clinton Rauf de Grendon Edmund le fitz Edmund Trussell Tebaud de Garton Iohn de Nasford Thomas de Clinton Iohn de Mountfort Iohn de Odingsells Hugh de Culy and Iohn de Beauchamp all of this County But however this Earl thus obtained pardon I do not find that he was heartily reconciled to the King For upon his advance that very year towards Scotland and expecting at Barwick the assistance of all those which held of him by military service he forbore then to do his duty Nay my Author says that there was latens odium inter Regem Proceres praecipuè inter Comitem de Lancastria Comitem de Warwico adhaerentes ejusdem As I cannot coÌ„mend his demeanor in these things last spoke of so do I not discern that he had any great comfort thereof himself for t is plain enough that he enjoyed not the felicities of this world full xiv months after as I shall shew by and by Wherefore coming now neer his death which hapned in the prime of his days viz. about the xliv th year of his age let us see what preparations he made for it And herein I find that for the good estate of himself and the health of his fathers and mothers souls and all his Ancestors and successorsâ— he gave to the Monks of Bordesley in Worcester-shire the advouson of the Church of Wickwane in Com. Glouâ— How far further he was a benefactor to that Monastery I cannot say but 't is very like that something more he gave for it appears that the Monks of that House by their publique Instrument in a full Chapter granted unto him and his heirs by the attribute of dilecto speciali amico nostro power to present two Monks successively in their Covent that should sing Mass daily in the Church of what Monastery for the health of his soul and of the souls of Earl William his father Maud his mother and their Ancestors for ever And besides this he was the first Founder of that Chantry or Colledge of Priests at Elmely in Worcester-shire I now come to his Testament which bears date at Warwick-Castle the Munday next after the feast of S. Iames the Apostle Anno 1315. 9 E. 2. by which he bequeathed his body to sepulture in the said Abby of Bordesley but willed that his funerall Rites should be performed without any great pomp To Alice his wife who was the sister and heir to Robert de Tony he devised a proportion of his plate with a Cristall Cup and half his bedding as also all the Vestments and books pertaining to his Chapell the other moity of his Beds Rings and Jewells to his two daughters To Maud his daughter a Cristall Cup. To Elizabeth his daughter he gave the marriage of Astley's heir whom she took to husband as in Astley I have already shewed To Thomas his son his best coat of Maile Helmet
Knightlow-Hundred whereunto I shall adde that 't is probable it might proceed from the Saxon word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which signifieth the same with Collis the situation thereof upon a little hill savâ—uring this my conceipt But I now come to what I find memorable in relation to this place In 51 H. 3. Barthol de Suthleg being then Lord thereof had a Charter granted to him and his heirs for a Mercate to be kept every Friday weekly here and a Fair annually for three days viz. the Eve of S t Iames the Apostle and two days after And in 7 E. 1. Iohn de Suthley was certiâ—iâ—d to be Lord hereof where it is written Magna Dercet but said to be a member of Suthley as also to be held by him of the King in Câ—pâ—â—e with his Barony by the service of two Knights fees And that he had at that time here Liii servants holding xix yard land and a half paying severall Rents and performing divers servile labours with xxiv Freeholders holding 24. yard land and a half And moreover it there appears that the Chief Chanter of the Church of Lichfield held here at that time a fourth part of one yard land and the Canons of Erdbury two yard land one whereof the Church was endowed with As also that the Templars of Balshall then had xi Tenants here who held four yard land paying severall Rents and performing severall servile labours The Liberties and Priviledges which the said Iohn de Suthley then had in this Lordship were the Mercate and Faire whereof I have already toucht Free-warren Court-Leet Gallows Cuckstool and Pillory with Assize of Bread and Beer All which together with weyfs as also to be quit of Murther and suit to the Hundred and County Court he claimed partly by Prescription and partly by Charter but it being then found that for Murther he used to partake with the Hundred he was amerc't for that undue claim the rest of his Challenge being fully allowed Which Iohn de Sudley became a speciall Benefactor to the Monastery of Erdbury of his Ancestors foundation by the grant of lands and other advantages thereunto out of this place as I shall punctually shew when I come to speak of that Religious House I often find in Record that this town is called Cheping-Derset the reason whereof is because of the Mercate for Cheping with our Ancestors did signify the same that buying and selling doth with us whence it is that Cheping-Norton in Oxford-shire Chepinham in Wilt-shire and Chepstow in Monmouth-shire had their names But the last of the Sudleâ—'s that had to doe here was Sir Iâ—hn de Sudley Knight who dying without issue in 41 E. 3. left Thomas Boteler son of Ioan his eldest sister then dead and Margerie his younger sister his heirs whereby as also by the death of the said Margerie afterwards without issue the said Thomas became possest of this and all the rest of Sudley's lands which Thomas being afterwards a Knight dyed seized of this Mannour jointly with Alice his wife daughter to Sir Iohn Beauchamp of Powyk 21. Sept. 22 R. 2. then leaving Iohn his son and heir xiv years of age who in 8 H. 4. confirmed the estate for life therein which had been granted by certain Feoffees unto the said Alice she being at that time marryed to Sir Iohn Dalyngrugge Knight This Iohn and William his brother were sons to Sir Thomas Boteler by his first wife but both dyed without issue as it seems for upon the death of the abovespecified Alice in 21 H. 6. Sir Raph Boteler Knight was then found to be heir unto her and begotten by the said Sir Thomas being then xl years of age which Sir Raph became a man of great note in H. 6. time as it seems for I find that being Knight for the Body to the King â—e was made his Standard-bearer 28. Martii 17 H. 6. And by Letters Patent dated at Westminster x. Sept. 20 H. 6. created Lord Sudley with the grant of CC. marks per annum to himself and his heirs for the better maintenance of that dignity He was also constituted Lord Treasurer of England 7. Iulii 22 H. 6. which office he held about three years but in 13 E. 4. he departed this life leaving Sir Iohn Norbury Knight and William Belknap his heirs which Sir Iohn Norbury was son of Sir Henry Norbury Knight by Elizabeth and Will. Belknap son of Hamond Belknap by Ioan sisters to the said Raph for he left no issue male Sir Thomas Butler his only son dying in his life time which Sir Iohn Norbury and William Belknap in 16 E. 4. had livery of all the lands descended to them by the death of the abovespecified Sir Raph Boteler The partition whereof was made betwixt the said Sir Iohn and Edward Belknap Esquier son of Henry brother and heir to William Belknap aforesaid in 13 H. 7. whereby this Mannour inter alia became assigned to Belknap for in 2 R. 3. William dyed without issue leaving Henry Belknap his brother and heir 50. years of age which Henry by his Testament dated 25. Iunii anno 1488. 3 H. 7. bequeathed his body to be buried in the Chapell of our Lady at Bekle in Sussex It seemes he lived there for by the same Testament he gave to the high Altar in that Church xx d. in lieu of his Tithes forgotten and not payd and departed this life 10 Iulii following leaving the said Sir Edward his son and heir xvii years of age who became a man of much publique action for in 2 H. 7. he was one of the Commanders in the Kings Army at the Battail of Stoke In 6. a Commissioner of Array in this County In 12. a Commander in the Battail of Blackheath in Kent against the Western Rebells In 17. he had the custody of Warwick-Castle committed to his charge being at that time Squier of the Body to the King And from 8 H. 7. for the most part during all that Kings raign was in Commission for the Peace in this County as appears upon the severall renewings thereof and sometimes for Gaol delivery In consideration of whose acceptable services the said King by a speciall Patent dated 14. Apr. 24. of his raign granted him immunity from being troubled or questioned for that Inclosure and depopulation which he had made in this Lordship contrary to the Statute in the third of his raign He was also Squier of the Body to King H. 8. being in the first of his raign again constituted Constable of Warwick-Castle for he resided at Weston subtus Wethele in this County as it seems by what I have there manifested And in 8. a Knight The Depopulation and Inclosure that he made within this Lordship scil in 14 H. 7. was of xii mess. and CCClx. acres
brother to the said E. of Mellent had of that Earl's lands is not to be doubted forasmuch as 't is plain that the Ancestor of Peter de Montfort became enfeoft thereof in H. 1. time it being questionlesse part of those x. Knights Fees and a fourth part which Thurstane de Montfort in 12 H. 2. certified that he then held of William Earl of Warwick de veteri feoffamento for in 20 H. 3. the said Peter de Montfort held it of the Earl of Warwick by the service of one Knights Fee After which viz. in 32 H. 3. there being some difference betwixt the beforespecified Peter and Simon de Montfort Earl of Leicester then Lord of Ilmendon whereof I have lately spoke touching the bounds of each Mannour the King directed his Precept to the Shiriff of this County to cause perambulation to be made there betwixt them Whereupon in 34. H. 3. this Peter obtained a Charter of Free-warren in all his demesn lands here but being slain in the battaill of Evesham anno 49 H. 3. fighting against the King this with the rest of his lands was seized on which neverthelesse by the Decree called Dictum de Kenilworth â— came to Peter his son who in 7 E. 1. held it of the Earl of Warwick by the service of one Knights fee having four carucates of land in demesn as also divers Tenants holding severall proportions by certain Rents and servile imployments together with a Court-Leet and Free-warren Which Peter in 13 E. 1. exhibâ—ted his claim for those priviledges and likewise for a Gallows with Assize of Bread and Beer producing King H. 3. Charter for the Free-warren manifesting that himself and his Ancestors had enjoyed all the rest of those immunities time out of mind and had allowance of them accordingly To this Peter succeeded Iohn and to him Peter as in Beldesert is shewed which last mentioned Peter in 20 E. 2. entailed it with other lands upon Iohn de Montfort his son by Lora de Ullenhale a Concubine Other Entails do I also find thereof viz. on Guy de Montfort the legitimate son to the said Peter and Margaret his wife daughter to Tho. de Beauchamp Earl of Warwick and the heirs of the body of the same Guy begotten on her the said Margaret and for lack of such issue on the said Thomas E. of Warwick and Katherine his wife and the heirs of the said Earl Which Guy departing this life without Children as in Beldesert shall likewise be shewed the said Earl in 35 E. 3. entailed it again as also divers other Lordships in this and other Counties upon Thomas Beauchamp his eldest son with severall remainders But notwithstanding all this the heirs generall of Iohn de Montfort father of the last recited Peter scil Sir Baldwin Frevill and Sir Thomas Boteler Knights recovered it with other lands by a writ of Formedone through the advantage of a preceding Entail but making partition betwixt them in 9 R. 2. as cosins and heirs to Sir Peter de Montfort it was allotted to Boteler whose heirs at length marrying to Norbury and Belknap as the descent in Griff sheweth and their lands thereupon divided betwixt Sir Iohn Norbury Knight and Edward Belknap Esquier this Mannour inter alia was in 13. H. 7. allotted to him the said Edward who made much depopulation and inclosure here but being one of the Esquiers to the body of Henry 7. in 24. of that Kings raign obtained a Pardon for the same and afterwards viz. in 4 H. 8. past it away with other lands in exchange unto Iohn Cotes of Honingham in this County From whom it came to Anthony Cotes of Benefeild in Com. Northampt. Esquier which Anthony in 25. H. 8. depopulated the Capitall Messuage and inclosed C. acres of land there and in 1. 2. Ph. M. levied a Fine thereof to Thomas Gibbons The Church in anno 1291. 19 E. 1. was valued at xxv marks and in 26 H. 8. at xxi li. vi s. viii d. the Procurations and Synodalls being ix s. v d. ob Patroni Ecclesiae Incumbentes c. D. Ioh. de Monteforti miles Will. de la Plaunch Cler. crast Purif b. M. 1293. D. Alicia de Monteforti D. Walt. de la Plaunche 7. Cal. Ian. 1297. D. Alicia de Monteforti Will. de la Plaunch Accol 19. Cal. Feb. 1298. D. Petrus de Monteforti miles Will. de Stodley Pbr. 18. Feb. 1336. D. Petrus de Monteforti miles Ric. de Budeford Pbr. 25. Aug. 1349. D. Petrus de Monteforti miles Adam Alreshawe Accol 5. Apr. 1357. Thomas Comes Warwici Rog. de Tangeley Cap. 7. Iunii 1382. D. Tho. Boteler miles Dominus de Suydley D. Thomas Knyzt Pbr. 25. Iunii 1392. Will. Boteler ar Magr. Regin Povy 26. Sept. 1410. Rob. Buyschell Ioh. Eburton sen. Ioh. Eburton Cler. penult Feb. 1415. Alicia nuper ux Will. Boteler mil. Ioh. Balle 20. Ian. 1419. Alicia nuper ux Will. Boteler mil. D. Ioh. Smith Cap. 23. Iulii 1420. D. Walt. Taylboys Dominus de Kyma D. Rog. Bealfitz 1. Dec. 1442. .......... D. Steph. Russell Cap. 4. Maii 1443. .......... Ioh. Elys 20. Martii 1451. Rad. Boteler miles Dominus de Sudley Thomas Thornton in S. Theol. Scholar 9. Febr. 1460. Rad. Boteler miles Dominus de Sudley D. Will. Thommes Cap. 4. Iunii 1462. Edw. Belknap ar Will. Urmeston Pbr. 6. Nov. 1493. Edw. Belknap ar D. Will. Cokkes Prior de Erdbury 15. Iulii 1504. Edw. Wotton miles Maria Danet vidua Anth. Cook ar Magr. Rob. Serle S. Theol. Bacc. 16. Ian. 1539. Rob. Brook ar Tho. Callow gen ex concess Anth. Cook mil. Nich. Underhill 19. Iunii 1571. Crimscote OF this place is there no particular mention in the Conquerors Survey neither have I seen any thing thereof till 7 E. 1. at which time Peter de Montfort held it with Whitchurch whereof originally it was a member without question having divers Tenants holding their lands by performance of sundry servile employments and some small Rents together with certain Freeholders with which Lordship it came to Sir Edward Belknap who possest it in 1 E. 6. As for the name I am of opinion that it first proceeded from some antient Inhabitant here in the Saxons time though antiently it be written in a various manner scil Kenermarcote Kilmescote Kirmiscote and Kenemyscote but of its Owners I can say no more Wimpston THis being also a member of Whitchurch and possest by the Family of Mountfort therewith was heretofore written Wilmeton Wilmeston and Wilmyston and yet is reputed as part of that Mannour Broughton THis Hamlet antiently written Brocton and so called by reason of its situation neer the Stoure which passeth on the Western side thereof was originally a member of Whitchurch as may be inferred from the Roll
Newnham in this County to the Canons of Kenilworth in King H. 1. time and gave unto them certain lands in Lillington all which the said King ratifyed To the Priory of Warwick he gave the Church of Snitfeild and to the Nuns of Polesworth confirmed the grant of Oldbury which was of his Fee being bestowed on them by Walt. de Hastings and Hathâ—wis his wife Richardus Hugo fil Richardi cognominatus de Hatton Will. fil Hugonis Matilda Ric. cognom de Saunford obiit s. prole Hugo fil Willielmi 3 Ioh. obiit s. prole Hawisia de Tracy Matilda ux Steph. de Nerbon Margeria de Stivichale 36 H. 3. Ranulphus de Stivichale fil haeres Ioclinus de Stivichale Margeria ux Osberti de Clinton Osbertus de Clinton Thomas de Clinton miles Iacobus de Clinton Osbertus Iohannes de Clinton Thomas de Clinton Ioscelinus fil Hugonis But the issue male of this Family extinguishing as the Descent sheweth and this Lordship thereby coming unto daughters part thereof divolved by Margerie one of the coheirs to the Clintons but the residue the Nuns of Wroxhall and the Canons of Studley had Which part so coming to Clinton was by Sr. Thomas de Clinton Knight grandchild to the before specified Margerie given by the name of his Mannour of Hatton and Beausale unto Iames his younger son and to his heirs reserving to the said Sir Thomas and his heirs a peny to be paid yearly at Christmass for all secular service and demands whatsoever But it should seem that Iames quitted his title therein to Iohn his elder brother's son for in 13 Edw. 1. the said Iohn commenced suit against Will. de Beauchamp Earl of Warwick for the whole Mannour excepting two messuages and two yard land therein in which the said Earl claimed right by virtue of a grant from Hamon le Strange Howbeit the Earl pleading that he held but a third part thereof whereas the other chalenged the whole had by reason of that advantage the better in the suit so that the said Iohn within a short time after came to an Agreement with him and past unto him one mess. 1 Mill 27. acres of land 4 acres of meadow xl acres of wood 7 Rent and the Rent of 2 li. of pepper with two pair of Gloves price iid yearly quitting wholy also all his title and claim that he had to this Mannour To whose posterity it continued till 3 H. 7. that all the lands belonging to that great Earldome were given up to the King by Anne Countesse of Warwick as in Warwick I have more fully shewed Since which I have not seen any more thereof That which belong'd to the Nuns of Wroxhall being in E. 6. time reputed for a Mannour was then in the Kings hand In an 1291 19 E. 1 the Church dedicated to the holy Trinity was valued at five marks and had a portion of iiiiâ— issuing out of it to the Canons of Warwick but in 14 E. 3. at vi l. xiii s. iiii d. being not presentative Shrewley THis Village is in the parish of Hatton and being possest by Hugh de Grentemaisnill in the Conquerors time was then certified to contain three hides valued at xxx s. the woods thereof extending to one mile in length and half a mile in breadth all which before the Norman invasion had been the freehold of one Toli But soon after this Rob. Earl of Leic. the first of that name had it and enfeoft Ernald de Boss thereof as it seems for in a grant which the said Ernald made to the Nuns of Pinley of one carucate of land here in Sravesle for so it was then written he expresses it to be by the consent of Rob. E. of Leic. his Lord which grant the same E. for the health of his own soul and the souls of his father and mother as also of the soul of K. H. 1. confirmed The next mention I find thereof is that in 6 H. 3. Magr. Henry de Waltham had livery of those lands here together with the rest in Wileby which Will. fil Wigani his uncle held of the K. in Capite And in 33 H. 3. I find that Iohn de Screveila held a yard land in this vâ—llage of the King by Sergeantie in Capite which Iohn was Lord of the Mannour as it seems for in 13 E. 1. it appears that Fouk de Lucy had kept a Court-Leet here in prejudice of the said Iohn he holding of the King by Sergeantie and that the said Fouk had without authority erected a Gallows in this Village wherefore it was determined that the said Gallows should be pulled down and that the same Iohn might enjoy his Court-Leet again Neverthelesse upon the death of the said Fouk de Lucy in 31 E. 1. I find that he dyed seized of this Mannour and held it of Maud the daughter and heir of Iohn de Shrevele Will. de Lucy his son and heir being then 26. years of age But the said Will. enjoy'd it not accordingly for Maud the wife of Walt. de Culy whom I conclude to be her that is before exprest having license from the King in respect of the tenure in Sergeantie sold it for CC li. to Iohn de Dufford and his heirs in 1 E. 2. Which Sergeantie was to find one armed man with an Hauberk on Horsback in the Kings service for the space of xl days viz. to ride personally with the K. in his expedition for Wales Which Iohn de Dufford was a Knight in 3 E. 2. and in 6 E. 2. sold it to Philip the son of Philip de Gayton who departed this life in 9 E. 2. leaving his two sisters his heirs sc. Iuliana â— the elder wife to Sir Thomas Murdak Knight and Scolastica the younger wedded to Godfrey de Meaux being also heirs to their brother Theobald Of the moitie whereof the said Scolastica had livery in 10 E. 2. she being then a widow But all that belong'd to Iulian as I can find was but one carucate of land which eschaeted to the Crown by reason of her forfeiture in conspiring with Sir Iohn Vaux Knight to murther her husband for which she was burnt the inheritance whereof was given by the King to Henry Earl of Lanc in 23 E. 3. it then passing by the name of one messuage 26 acres of land and one roode of meadow a pasture called Berry-more and x s. iii d. ob Rent Neither did that which her sister Scolastica had here goe any longer by the name of the moitie of the Mannour for in 27 E. 3. she was found to dye seized of one messuage xx acres of land 3 acres of meadow and viii s. Rent held of the King in Capite by the eighth part of a Knights fee
of the Justices of Peace in this County in 1 R. 2. Upon the Insurrection of the Rebells under the conduct of Iack Straw and Wat. Tiler 5 R. 2. he was joyn'd in Commission with the E. of Warwick and other eminent persons for suppresâ—ing of all unlawfâ—ll Assemblies in this Countie tending to the disturbance of the publick Peace In 6 R. 2. he was again in Commission to the like purpose In 16 R. 2. one of the Kts. for this Shire in the Parl. then held at Winchester So likewise in 17. and 22. R. 2. as also in 1. and 2. H. 4. upon the severall renewing of the Commissions for the Peace one of the number then joyned therein being a person learned in the Laws as it seems for it appears that he was Steward of the Earl of Warwick's Courts for his lands in Northamptonshire about the later end of R. 2. reign and Atturny generall for prosecuting their affairs in the Exchequer in 5 H. 5. Of this Iohn I find that he bore the Armes of Lodbroke scil Azure a cheveron ermine quarterly with his own whereby it should seem that some Ancestour of his married a daughter of that Family through whose right after the issue male was extinct he did it Neither is it unlikely in respect of that entail of Lodbroke upon Will. de Catesby his Father as in my discourse of that place is shewed and that he wedded Emme the daughter and heir of Rob. de Craunford by whom the Lordship of Ashby-Legers in Com. Northampt. came first to this Family Which Emme with Iohn her son for Will. the elder Brother was then dead in 13 H. 4. obtained a Charter of Free-warren to themselves and their heirs in all their demesn lands of Rodburne Lodbroke and Shukborough in this Countie as also of Ashby-Legers Walton and Watford in Northamptonshire This second Iohn was in Commission for conservation of the Peace in this County in 5 H. 5. in 6. for arraying of men being the first of the Family that had to do here in Lapworth as hath been already observed To him succeeded Will. his son and heir constituted Shiriff of Northamptonshire in 21 H. 6. with which office he had the custody of Northampton Castle assigned unto him In 30 H. 6. he came into Commission for conservation of the Peace in this County so continuing for the remainder of that King's reign And being again made Shiriff of Northamptonshire had the like charge of the same Castle I am of opinion that he was Knighted that very year for in the next mention I find of him viz. the year following he is so stiled In 34 H. 6. he became the third time Shiriff of Northamptonshire and Governour of that Castle and having been one of the Sewers to K. H. 6. had two wives first Philippa one of the daughters and heirs to Sir Will. de Bishopsden Kt. and secondly Ioan daughter of Sir Thomas Barre Kt. and Alice his wife Sister of Iohn Talbot Earl of Shrewsbury but widow of Humfrey de la Bere departed this life in An. 1470. 10 E. 4. lying buried at Ashby-Legers before mentioned By which wife he had issue Will. his son and heir and by his second wife Iohn Catesby of Althorp in Northamptonsh as also Thomas Catesby from whom those sometime of Wavers-Merston in this County did descend Which Will. being a great Favourite to K. Ric. 3. was made Squier of the Body to himâ— and in 1 of his reign constituted Chancelour of the Marches for life and one of the Chamberlains of his Exchequer The same year was he also made one of the Justices of Peace in this County and a Commissioner to enquire of any Insurrections here or in Leicestershire and the next year following a Commissioner for the Gaol delivery at Warwick in which he had a grant from the said King bearing date under his Signet at Kenilworth Castle 28 Maii of an hundred Oaks to be taken within the said Ks. old Park of Tanworth and Earl's wood in Tanworth within this County and 500 Trees for Railes in Lodbrokes-Park within the said Lordship of Tanworth for making his new Park here at Lapworth But following the fortune of that King and stoutly fighting for him at Bosworth field he was there taken Prisoner and beheaded at Leicester within 3. days following where before his Execution he made his Testament as followeth This is the Will of William Catesby Esq. made the xxv th of August 1 H. 7. to be executed by my dere and welbeloved wife to whom I have ever be trew of my Body putting my sole trust in her for the execution thereof for the helth of my soul the which I am undoubted she will execute and for my Body when she may to be beryed in the Church of S. Leger in Aâ—sby and to do such memoriall for me as I have apointed byfor and to restore all land that I have wrongfully purchased and to pay the residue of such land as I have bought truly and to demene hit among her children and myne as she thynketh good after her discretion I doubt not the King will be good and gracious Lord to them for he is called a full gracious Prince and I never offended him by my good and free Will for God I take to my Iuge I have ever loved him Item that the Executors of Nich. Couley have the lande ageine in Everâ—oâ—te without they have their Cl. Item in likewise Renet his lande in Buckby Item in likewise that the Coparceners have their part in Roden hall in Suff. if they have right thereto or else to be restored to them that had it before and the lond beside Kymbalton be disposed for my soul and Evertons and so of all other landes that the parte hath righte in Item that all my Faders detts be executed and paied as to the House of Catesby and other Item that my Lady of Buckingham have Cli. to help her children and that she will see my Lordiâ— detts paied and his Will executed and in speciall for such land as shall be amortised to the House of Plashy Item my Lady of Shaftsbury xl mark Item that John Spenser have his Lxli with the olde money that I owe. Item that Thomas Andrews have his xxli And there as I have be Executor I beseech you see the Will executed and that all other bequests in my other Will be executed as my speciall trust is in yow Maisteres Margarete and I heartily cry you mercy if I have delyd uncurteously with yow and ever pray you to live sole all the deys of yowr life to do for my soul. And I pray of Lord of Winchester my Lord of Worcetur my Lord of London to help yow to execute this my Will and they will do somewhat for me and that Richard Frebody have his xxli and Badby xli
what his Ancestors had granted to them in Wenge before mentioned To the Nuns of Pinley in this Countie he gave the tenth part of the povision in victuall for his Household viz. Bread Beer Flesh Fish and other things pertaining to his Kitchin whose munificence therein was so highly esteemedâ— that he and his posterity were reputed for no lesse than Founders of that Religious House Upon his death in 18 Ioh. the wardship of Peter his son and heir together with the custody of his lands was comitted to William de Cantilupe Which Peter in 11 H. 3. obtained a Charter bearing date 10 Febr. for a weekly Mercate at this his Mannour of Beldesert upon the Munday that granted to Thurstane his Ancestor being grown out of use I presume By the same Charter was there also a Fair granted to him and his heirs at this place to be yearly kept for three days viz. the Even day and morrow after the Feast of S. Giles the Shiriff of this County having comand to proclaim it accordingly But it seems he was not out of his wardship at that time for the same year did the said William de Cantilupe his Guardian procure authoritie from the King for receiving reasonable Aid from all the Tenants of the said Peter in this his Mannour of Beldesert and Henley This Peter upon the King's transfretation with his Army into Gascoin in 27. of his reign had power to receive Scutage of all his Knights Fees that he held of the Earl of Warwick according to the rate of xl s. per Scutum but being of a turbulent spirit he ever sided with the rebellious Barons of that age who the better to shadow their disloyall practises first plotted their meetings under colour of exercising themselves in martiall Tourneaments which were forbidden by the King who well foresaw the danger that might ensue yet such was their boldnesse as that notwithstanding the same Prohibition they met at Cambridge amongst whom he made one whose lands thereupon for that disobedient contempt were presently seized on By which timely care of restraining them all things were fairly quieted again at least in shew so that within three years after he and many more of those haughty Spirits attended the King in person into Gascoign And that he was a person of great qualitie in those times may appear by the Agreement betwixt him William de Beauchamp then E. of Warwick for an inter-marriage betwixt each of their eldest sons and eldest daughters whereupon they obtained a speciall Patent from the King that in case either of them did die before the accomplishment of such marriage and that his heir should be in minority the intended match might notwithstanding hold saving to the King onely the custody of the land Which Patent was so granted to them 20 Aug. 32 H. 3. immediatly before that voyage for Gascoin After which viz. in 34 H. 3. he obtained a Charter of Free-warren in all his demesn lands here and in divers other places and in 35 H. 3. was constituted Governor of Horestan-Castle in Derbyshire But amongst these his secular actions I may not omit to tell what I find of his pious works which is that about this time he confirm'd what his Ancestors had granted to the Monks of Thorney within his Lordship of Wenge in Rutl. And for the health of his soul and the soul of Alice his wife as also of his Father Mother Ancestors and friends whose bodies lay buried in the Prioty of Studley gave to the Canons of that House all his demesn land called the Uineyard situate within the Lordship of Studley In 37 H. 3. he obtained the King's confirmation of a marriage for one of his sons with Agnes the eldest daughter to Roger Bertram of Mitford a great Baron in the North. In 40 H. 3. he was sent Ambassador from the King into France In 41. being made Warden of the Marches towards Montgumeri for his better performance of that service he had at the instance of Prince Edward the custodie of the Counties of Salop. and Staff as also the Castles of Salop. and Bruges to dispose of the profits therein arising as he should think best during the continuance of the Warrs with Wales so that for the first year he was to hold those Counties he should answer nothing to the Exchequer but at the years end make his Account in the King's Wardrobe In the next year following he was constituted Governour of the Castles of Bruges and Ellesmere in Shropshire In 43 H. 3. he attended the King into France and bore for his Armes Bendé of six pieces Or and Azure yet all these high favours and Acts of trust from that King towards him could not allay the heat of his proud and lofty stomack For no sooner had the Rebellious Barons made head at Oxford where they forcing the King's assent to their disloyall and unjust Ordinances caused a choise of xxiv persons to to be made by whose discretion the Kingdom should be governed than that this Peter shew'd himself the most forward amongst them being not onely one of those xxiv so chosen to rule as aforesaid but when all the rest of them except himself and four others calmely considering the great confusion variance and petill then imminent by reason of that strange rupture were content that those Ordinances should be made void and the King restored to his former condition he joyned with them in opposing thereof Howbeit so confident was the King that his own candid intention towards them had wrought a change in their affections that in Ianuary follâ—wing he sent him Summons to appear at Hereford on Munday nexâ— after the Feast of the Purification oâ— our Lady weâ—l â—urnâ—shâ— with Horse and Armes to oppose the pâ—wer oâ— Lâ—â—elin Prince of Wales then in Rebelliâ—n 〈…〉 make a question wheâ—her he obeyed 〈…〉 for in the beginning of 〈…〉 was in Armes agâ—â—â—st the King 〈◊〉 Northampton â— with a muâ—â—itude 〈◊〉 the other rebe 〈…〉 and there taken upon the storming 〈…〉 town by the King's forces on the fiâ—t of 〈…〉 together with his two sons Peter and â—obert who were all sent Prisoners to the Cassle of Windsore Which distresse moved them and the rest to hearken unto termes of accord with the King from whom they soon obtained peaceable conditions so softned was his Prâ—ncely heart with theâ—r seeming fair intentions for the future whereupon by his Precept to Drogo de Barentine then Constable of Windsore Castle dated the 17. of the same month of May he appointed that the said Peter and his sons before specified should be immediatly set at liberty But loe the perfidiousnesse of these Conspirators for within two dayes following they gave the King battail at Lewes in Sussex where through the Prâ—nce his too eager purâ—uit of that part of the Rebells Army which he
H. 6. Ioh. de Stanford 15 E. 2. Margeria Matilda 12 R. 2. Ioh. de Stanford obiit s. p. 37 E. 3. Iohanna secundò nupta Thomae dâ— Morâ—hall his Armes Argent upon a Fesse wavy sable three Hares heads cooped Or vith a labell of three points in Chief and by his last Will and Testament bearing date the Tuesday next after the Feast of the Conception of our Lady anno 1428. 7 H. 6 wherein he stiles himself Esquier bequeathing his body to sepulture in the Church of S. Peter here at Wootton and vi li. xiii s. iv d. to the reparation of the great road-way leading betwixt the said town of Wootton and the Heremitage at Sillesburne departed this life the same year leaving issue divers Children of some whereof I shall speak anon in the mean time taking notice of what I have seen in relation to his brother Thomas In 3 H. 5. he was Eschaetor for this County and Leicestershire In 5 c a Justice of Peace for this Countie in which imployment he continued till his death And having been one of those three who with the Shiriff in 7 H. 5. made that return of the names of such gentlemen of note in this Shire which bore antient Armes from their Ancestors and had summons to serve the King in their proper persons for defence of the Realm dyed without issue in 22 H. 6. leaving Thomas son of Roger son of Iohn his brother his next heir But I return to the issue of Iohn elder brother to the said Thomas which were Roger his son and heir that enjoy'd these lands in Wootton Richard who by his Fathers Testament had the Mannour of Shoterich in this County bequeathed to him and lyeth buried before the Altar of S. Andrew the Apostle in the Church of the Holy Trinity at Stratford super Avon William sometime Lord of the Mannour of Stoâ—rton and Iohn that had Whitley Which Roger wedded Agnes the daughter coheir of Sir William Clopton of Clopton in Somersetshire and had issue by her William Harewell who by the death of Ioan daughter and heir to the before specified Richard without issue had the Mannour of Shoterich of his grandfathers inheritance This William was a trusty friend to the House of Lancaster as it seems for upon the regaining of the Kingdom by King H. 6. he had the custody of this Countie and Leicestershire and before the end of that his Shirivealtie fought stoutly on King Henrye's part at Barnet field in which battail being taken prisoner r he was thence carried to Windsor-Castle whereupon also his lands were seized by the King and bestowed on Humphrey Stafford Esquire to hold during the King's pleasure But after a while through the solicitation of his kinsman Iohn Leighton Esquire made with Iohn Talbot then Earl of Shrewsbury he was released of his imprisonment and restored to his lands For which favours the said Earl had first xl li. that the same Iohn Leighton promised to give him for obtaining his enlargment lands and xl marks more which he exacted over and above But after this in 14 E. 4. he was constituted one of the Justices of Peace in this County yet I do not find that upon the next renewing of those Commissions or ever after that he had the like imployment during King Edward's reign howbeit in 2 R. 2. he was appointed one of the Commissioners of Array in this Shire All that I have seen more of him is that in 16 H. 7. he founded a Chantrie in the Friers Preachers at Warwick of which I have particularly spoke in my discourse of that place and that departing this life 2. Dec. the same year he was there buried leaving Iohn his son and heir 30. years of age Which Iohn in 18 H. 7. being constituted one of the Justices of Peace in this County was the same year made Constable of Maxstoke Castle by Edward Duke of Buck. and by his Testament bearing date 8. Apr. Anno 1505. 20 H. 7. gave to the said Duke whom he there calls his Lord his great Dun Horse for a Heriot and by Anne his wife daughter and heir to Richard Midleton had issue two sons and five daughters whereof Thomas the elder dyed without issue before 3 H. 8. and William was a Priest whereupon the sisters came to inherit viz. Elizabeth Anne Brigit and Agnes for Maud the Eldest wife of Iohn Leighton dyed without issue before the partage was made betwixt them Of which Elizabeth first the wife of Anth. Ralegh and afterwards of Leonard Rede had for her share the Mannours of Bear-cracombe and Copland in Somersetshire and vi s. viii d. yearly Rent issuing out of the Mannour of Thongland in that County Anne wife to Iames Clifford of Frampton in Com. Glouc. the Mannours of Knoll and Broseley in the Counties of Somerset and Salop. as also certain lands in Sturmister-Marshall in Dorsetshire and Billingsley in Shropshire with iii s. annuall Rent issuing out of Fentre in Com. Salop. and vi s. per annum out of the Mannour of Thongland in that Countie Brigit the wife of Thomas Aâ—hton of Ashton in Cheshire the Mannours of Ashley Water-Eaton and Longnore in Staffordshire the Mannour of Billingsley in Shropshire and certain lands in Walkeslow before mentioned to the value of ten marks per annum with xxiii s. iv d. yearly Rent issuing out of the said Mannour of Thongland Agnes the wife of Iohn Smyth one of the Barons of the Exchequer for her part this Mannour of Wootton called Lucies Mannour and the Mannour of Shoterich as also certain lands in Stratford super Avon Henley Preston and Edstonia this Shire with divers lands lying in Mickleton in Com. Glouc. the Mannour of Milinchop in Com. Salop Lands in Hungerford Postern magna Postern parva Mounslow and Dydlebery in Shropshire and x s. iv d. yearly Rent issuing out of the before specified Mannour of Thongland the same Partition bearing date 4 Febr. 25 H. 8. From which Baron Smyth by the said Agnes is Sir Charles Smyth Knight since erected to the dignity of Lord Carington and now residing here descended as the Pedegree before inserted sheweth Of whose Family I may not omit here to observe what I have seen attested by Sir William Dethick sometime Garter principall King of Armes and Robert Cooke Clarenceux viz. that the said Iohn Smyth the Baron was grandchild to Iohn Carington and the said Iohn Carington lineally descended from Sir Michaell Carington Knight Standard-bearer to the famous King Richard the first in the Holy Land And of this Iohn Carington as to the occasion that he changed his name to Smyth they do specially certifie from the credit of an antient Manuscript written with the proper hand of him the said Iohn in K. Henry the fourth's time that in his youth he was bred up in
as good value in recompence thereof that Charter of confirmation bearing date at Wenloc 26 Maii. Of which noble person I further find that he obtained the Advouson and patronage of the Priory of Studley near this place as I have there shewed from Peter de Corbucon heir to the Founder whereunto he gave a fair portion of lands lying in Shotswell That he also built an Hospitall at the Gates of that Monastery That he bore for his Armes Gules 3 flower de lices Or as by his Seal appeareth within the compasse whereof scil towards the lower part of the Shield there is a Star with a Cressant which is a Badge as hath been observed by judicious Antiquaries of his service in the Holy warrs And that he departed this life 7 Id. Apr. 23 H. 3. being then very aged leaving issue several sons viz. William his son and heir Walter a Priest and imployed by King H. 3. as his Agent to the Court of Rome afterwards elected Bâ—shop of Worcester â— whose story I refer to Godwyn Iohn Lord of Snitfield in this Countie and Nicholas of whom I find no more than the bare mention Which Will. being a martial man as well as his father and accompanying him at raising the seige of Lincolne Castle in 1 H. 3. had in 15 H. 3. much of his father's estate past over to him for which he then did his homage to the King And in 24 H. 3. obtained a special Charter for exempting him from any suit to the County or Hundred Courts Leet Aid to the Shiriff and Hidage for all his lands in England After which viz. in 26 H. 3. he attended the King in that his French expedition which was so unprosperous and having been in 28 H. 3. sent with other of the great Nobilitie to solicite the Prelates for an Aid of money according to the Popes Letters on the King's behalf was the next ensuing year one of those that went Embassiador to the general Councell then held at Lions there to complain of the grievous exactions used here in England by the Court of Rome as well from the Clergie as Laitie and to crave remedie for the same Which William bearing a devout affection to the Canons of Studley before specified gave to the Hospital of his Father's building there lands to the value of x li. per an lying within this Lordship as also certain Rent and pasturage for Cattell in Southernkeston with the Church of Hemeston in Devonshire And having besides all this obtained a special Charter for exempting their Woods situate within the Forest of Fekenham from any view of the King's Foresters and Verderers and been Steward to the King as his Father was as also a most faithfull Councellor left issue by Milisent the daughter of Hugh de Gornay Will. his son and heir Thomas Bishop of Hereford who in 34 E. 1. was canonized for a Saint and Iulian the wife of Sir Rob. de Tregoz and departed this life in 35 H. 3. immediatly whereupon William his eldest son performing his homage and giving security for payment of his Relief which was C li. had livery of his lands Which William in 37 H. 3. obtained a pardon from the King for pulling down the Castle of Penros in Wales belonging to Iohn de Monemuth as also for five marks at which this his Mannour of Aston was amerced for protecting one Rob. de Shelfhill who had been indicted for certain misdemeanors and in 38 H. 3. was constituted Governor of Bovelt Castle in Brecknockshire To the before specified Hospitall built at the Gate of the Priory of Studley he gave the advouson of the Church here at Aston and having wedded Eva one of the daughters aad coheirs to Will. de Braose of Brecknock with whom he had the territory of Upper Went and other lands in England and Wales departed this life in the flower of his youth to the great grief of many leaving issue by her the said Eva George his son and heir and two daughters Of which George being scarce 3. years old at that time I have found very little that is memorableâ— his death hapning before he arrived to years whereby he could be qualified for any great action viz. in 1 Edw. 1. Therefore whether the marriage betwixt him and Margaret the daughter of Edmund de Lacy was ever consummated as their parents had designed when he was scarce two years old I cannot tell but sure I am that he had no issue for Iohn the son of Henry de Hastings and Milicent then the wife of Eudo or Yvo la Zouche were found to be his sisters and heirs Which Henry being in minority in 36 H. 3. and in Ward to Guy de Luzignian the King 's half brother had the benefit of his marriage then disposed of by the said Guy unto Will. de Cantilupe before specified who gave his daughter Ioane thus in wedlock to him Whereupon by partition made betwixt those coheirs the said Milisent had for her share the Castle of Totenesse in Com. Devon the Mannours of Eyton â—n com Bedf. and Haringworth in Northamptonshire â— with other fair possessions in England and Wales as also the advouson of the Priory of Studley in this County And Iohn de Hastings the son of Ioane beforementioned had Bergavenny with the Castle and Honour which were of the inheritance of Eva de Breause his grandmother together with the Castle of Kilgaran in Com. Pembr and amongst other large territories in England and Wales this Mannour of Aston then valued at Lix li. iiii s. i d. per an all which were in the King's hands at the time of the said Partition made by reason of his minority But touching the Family of Hastings I shall speak historically in Fillongley and therefore purpose to make no other mention of them here than what particularly relates to this place In 13 E. 1. this Iohn de Hastings claimed a Court-Leet with Assize of Bread and Beer Weifs Gallows and Free warren within this Mannour by Prescription all which were allowed From which time this Mannour was for divers descents enjoy'd by the posterity of the said Iohn as I could sufficiently demonstrate if need were except for so long as Will. de Clinton Earl of Huntingdon held two parts of it in right of Iulian his wife widow to Iohn de Hastings father of Laurence Earl of Pembroke After the death of which Laurence it appears that it was held of the King in Capite by the service of one Foot souldier in the Warrs of Wales with a Bow without a string and a Helmet for his head by the space of xl dayes at his own proper costs as often as there should be any hostility in Wales From which Family of Hastings it descended not to the Lord Grey of Ruthin
to speak Arrow DEscending lower by the bank of Alne I come forthwith to its conjunction with Arrow which being the more eminent stream carrieth on that name till it meets with Avon The first place of note that presents it self to my view below this confluence is Arrow taking its name from the River on the West side whereof it is seated Before the Norman invasion this having been the freehold of one Leuuinus but by the Conqueror's disposall possest by Odo Bishop of Baieux half Brother to the K. whose under-tenant thereof was one Stefanus was by the Survey then taken found to contain 7. hides and a half having a Mill prized at vi s. viii d. with Woods belonging thereto that extended to a mile in length and two furlongs in breadth all which were valued at iiii l. That this Bishop adhered to Rob. Curthose eldest son to the Conqueror and for that respect was constrain'd to quit England in the time of K. Will. Rufus our Historians do shew at large so that the said King then seizing his lands gave this as 't is probable to Roger Marmion for it appears that the said Roger did possess it and that from him it descended to Robert his grandchild which Rob. past it away to Geffrey Marmion his uncle in consideration whereof the same Geffrey released unto him all his right that he had in the Fee of Manser Marmion aswell in England as in Wales according to the tenor of K. H. 2. Charter To which Geffrey succeeded Albreda his daughter and heir who granted this Lordship of Arewe to Will. de Camvill and his heirs for the service of half a Kts. Fee but afterwards became his wife as it seems The descendants of which Will. during the continuance of the male line made this their principall seat and after them the Burdets by marriage of the heir female of that Family Which Will. de Camvill being a younger son to Ric. de Camvill Founder of Combe Abby in this Countie and by the marriage of the said Albreda invested with Marmion's rightâ— obtained a Release from Raph Boteler of Oversley of all his claim in this Lordship touching which he had been impleaded by him the said Raph and left issue by the same Albreda Geffrey de Camvile his son and heir from whom the Camviles of Clifton in Staffordshire descended whose heir female called Isabell in E. 3. time was wedded to Sir Ric. Stafford Kt. William his second son who had this Mannour as also Sekindon and Thomas a Priest as the Descent sheweth Which last mentioned Will. in 18 Ioh. had a grant of the lands in Alencester belonging to Peter Fitz Herbert to hold during the King's pleasure But this Will incurring the King 's sore indignation for cutting down a Wood of his own here at Arewe it being within the precincts of Fekenham Forest had for that offence part of his lands seized on by the Shiriff howbeit in 12 H. 3. in consideration of L. marks Fine for payment wherof securitie was then given obtained restitution of them again and was received into favour and in 16 H. 3. the better to fortifie his title to this Lordship procured from Maurice le Boteler of Oversley son and heir to the before specified Raph a confirmation thereof for which he gave C s. sterling Bnt all that I further find of him is that in 19 H. 3. he was constituted one of the Justices for the Gaol delivery at Warwick and that about the 25 H. 3. he withdrew his suit for this Mannour from the Countie and Hundred Courts having got a discharge from Philip de Ascells the then Shiriff for his so doing in consideration of half a mark to be yearly payd to him the said Philip and his successors To this Will succeeded Thomas de Camvill betwixt whom and Geffrey de Camvile of Clifton there was some controversie touching the Customs and services which he the said Geffrey required of him for this Mannour whereupon they came to Agreement in 3 E. 1. by which it was concluded that for the time to come the said Thomas and his heirs should pay xx s. for Scutage levied after the rate of xl s. and for more or less according to that proportion as also Homage and Releif when cause required From which Thomas descended Sir Gerard de Camvile Kt. who in 19 E. 1. was imployed into Scotland for the King's service and so likewise in 29 E. 1. having then summons amongst sundry other persons of eminency to attend the K. at Barwick upon Twede well furnisht with Horse and Armes for to march into Scotland Of this Sir Gerard is that fair portraiture yet standing in a South window of the Church here at Arrow in his military habite of that time and a Surcoat of Armes who kneeling before St. George the Souldiers Saint implores his remembrance as the sâ—râ—ul proceeding from his lips viz. Qui fueram Miles recole me G. sancte sheweth which where I speak of the Church is lively exprest But after him I find mention of Henry de Camvill at this place for some few years about the beginning of E. 2. reign though by what title I am not able to say Perhaps that being of the name and a younger branch of this Family he had got Elizabeth daughter and heir to the said Gerard into his power with hopes to make her his wife and thereby gain that fair inheritance belonging to her for it appears that in 33 E. 1. she was under age and that in 6 E. 2. upon a complaint by him made to the King that Robert Burdet Gerard de Sekindon and others had forcibly taken away Elizabeth his wife residing here at Arwe together with his goods and Caâ—â—ell a Commission was issued out unto Henry Spigurnell Nich. de Langelond and Ric. de Châ—seldon to make enquiry thereof by the Oaths of honest and lawfull men and to certifie the truth therein so that it is not improbable that this Eliz. was the daughter and heir to the before specified Geraâ—d de Camvile whom the said Robert Burdet lawfully wedded and through whose right this Lordship and other lands came to his posterity Having thus shewed how the Burdets were first possest of this Mannour where they afterwards seated themselves for divers ages and findâ—ng that they had lands in this Countie long before I shall here take notice of what I have met with in an historicall way relating to them The first of this name of whom I have found mention is Robert Burdet one of the witnesses to that notable Charter made by Geffrey de Wirce to the Monastery of St. Nicholas at Angiers which beareth date at Monkskirby in this Countie in the twelfth year of K. Will. the Conqueror's reign Whether the said Robert was paternall ancestor to those of this Family whereof I am to speak I cannot certainly
Apelby Walt. de Bereford Osbertus de Bereford 2 E. 1. Will. de Bereford miles 16 E 1. Iohanna ux Gilb. de Elsfield D. Gilb. de Elsfield 25 E. 3. Guliel de Elsfield obiit 21 R. 2. Anna filia cohaeres ..... Iohanna Ioh. Hore de Childerley 8 H. 4. Gilbertus Hore ar 16 H. 6. Thomas Hore obiit 20 H. 6. Gilb. Hore obiit infra aetat Ioh. Hore Rowl fil Henr. Pudsey de Barford Bolton in Com. Ebor. filii haer Ioh. Pudsey mil. Editha consangu haeres Gilb. Hore aet 40 an 7 H. 8. Thomas Fulthorp de Castro Bernardi 19 H. 7. Will. Pudsey Robertus Pudsey Alianora filia Hug. Harman de Morehall Georgius Pudsey ar Margareta filia Will. Gibbons Georgius Pudsey an 1640. Matilda filia Humfr. Cotton de Bothe ux r. Ric. Pudsey obiit sine prole Mich. Pudsey Georgius Pudsey Iuliana uxor Thomae de Loundres Margar. ux Jac. de Audle Agnes ux Ioh. Matravers Edm. de Bereford obiit 28 E. 1. Iohâ— de Bereford nothus Alianora filia Ric. Comitis Arundeliae Baldw. de Bereford miles frater haeres defunctus sine prole 1 H. 6. Joh. de Bereford 6 E. 2. Rob. de Bereford Which Iohn wedded Alianore daughter to Ric. Earl of Arundell and after that another wife but dying in Gascoin 30 E. 3. left Baldwin his brother and heir xxiiii years of age This Baldwin was a Knight in 36 E. 3. and in 1 R. 2. constituted by Thomas de Holland half brother to the K. chief Guardian of all the Forests on this side Trent his Lievtenant in that Office In 4 R. 2. he had Free warren granted to him in all his demesn lands and Woods of Brightwell Chalgrave Newnham and Rufford in Com. Oxon. Stene and Fernyngho in Com. Northampt. Bykmersh Shotswell â— and Wyshaw in this County with Sutton and Meysham in Derbyshire And in the same year was made Keeper of the King's Park at Eltham for life with a Fee of iii d. per diem to be received out of the Rents of that Mannour He was a speciall favourite and a powerfull man with K. Ric. 2. For besides the discharge of an C li. due by him for the Wardship and Marriage of Iohn the son and heir of Iohn de Odingsells he is noted to be one of those who had the Character of an evill Counceller given him by that tumultuous Parliament held in 11 R. 2. and thereupon with the Lord Zouch and divers other great men expelled the Court. But the affection born towards him by the King was not without great cause I presume For he had been servant to his Father the Black Prince retained by Covenant for life as well in Peace as Warr having an Annuity of xl li. per an granted unto him out of the Lordship of Coventre which the said King not only confirmed after his Father's decease whilst hâ— was Prince of Wales but again in the first year of his reign This Sir Baldwin had a Bear for his Crest in regard it alluded so near to his name a course very frequent in those times And having no issue he setled a great part of his estate by Fine upon Iohn Hore and Ioane his wife which Ioane was grandchild by a coheir to Will. de Ellesfield and he grandchild of Gilb. de Ellesfield by Ioane eldest sister to Sir Edmund de Bereford before spoken of as the Dâ—scent doth shew This Iohn being of Childerley in Cambridgshire and likewise Gilbert his his son resied wholy there After which ere long viz. about the beginning of H. â— time their male line extinguished and this Lordship with other lands came to the Pudseys For Edith cosyn and heir to the last Gilbert Hore residing at her Mannour of Ellesfield near Oxford having a speciall liking to Rowland Pudsey a younger son to Henry Pudsey of Barford and Bolton in Yorkshire then a Student in that University and a Genâ—leman much accomplisht took him for her husband the posterity of which Rowâ—and and Edith have ever since enjoy'd it New-Hall THis being a member of Sutton was about the beginning of H. 3. time possest by one Will. de Sutton of Warwick which Wâ—ll or his predecessors had it doubtlesse from one of the Earls of Warwick and granted it to one Rob. de Sutton a Merchant of Coventre who past it in 13 E. 3. unto Thomas de Beauchamp Earl of Warwick and Sir Iohn Lizours of Fledborough in Com. Nott. Knight to the behoof of the said Sir Iohn and his heirs as it seems for the next year following the said Earl released all his right therein accordingly in which Release it is termed one Messuage called New-Hall After this till 15 H. 6. I have seen no more of it but then did the Homage in a Court Baron held at Sutton present that Sir Ric. Stanhope Kt. died seized thereof by the name of the Mannour of New-Hall held of the Earl of Warw. by the serivce of x s. x d. per an a Heriot being then seized by the Bayliff Whereupon Iames Stanhope son and heir to Sir Richard exhibited a Deed whereby it appeared that his Father had in his life time enfeoft Sir Thomas Aston Knight Nich Goushall Esquier and others in this Mannour and other lands aswell in this County as elsewhere and therefore required a discharge from the Heriot But all that I have further seen thereof is that Katherine the widow of Will. Basset of Fledborough beforementioned demised it in 20 H. 6. unto Will. Deping of Sutton and Ric. Ley of Maney for 21 years by the name of Dominium Vocatum New-Hall Pedimore HEre is now no more remaining of an antient Mannour place that the Ardens had than a large double moat for after they setled in these parts having another House on the South side of Tame called Park Hall whereof I have already spoke they resided for the most part there and let this goe to ruine I do not conceive this to have been the inheritance of that antient Family so long as Curdworth and Minworth whereof I am next to discourse but am of opinion that they had it from one of the Earls of Warwick after Sutton within the territories whereof it lies came to their hands howbeit till 9 E. 1. I have not seen any mention of it at all no not so much as the name but then was it stiled the Mannour of Pedimore and passed by Thomas de Arden of Rotley unto Hugh de Vienna together with all his lands in Curdworth Minworth Moxhull c. Which grant was no other than a trust I suppose for very sâ—on after did the same Thomas convey the inheritance of it to Thomas de Arden of Hanwell and Roise his wife together with all his said lands in Crudeworthâ— Moxhull Minneworth Echenours and Overton as by his Deed whereunto Sir Richard de Mundevill
Pilgrimâ—ge And in 8 H. 3. was constituted Governour of the Castle and Honour of Lancaster Tâ—â— nâ—xt observable passage relating to this stout Earl â—â—â—rewith I have met is that upon the dâ—fference 〈…〉 the Kâ—ng and Richard Earl of Cornwall his Brâ—ther in 11 H. 3. whâ—re up â—n the King gavâ— away thâ—â—aid Earl of Cornwall's Castle of Berkhamsted he with others more resentinâ— the injury which he thought was ofâ—â—â—ed to the said Earl than the obligation of loyaltie to his sovereign stuck not to put himself in Arms on that Ear'ls paâ—t but the King wisely discerning that unavoidable mischief might have ensued by clashing with his Nâ—bilitie which were then so pâ—tent attributed the fault to hâ—â— Chieâ— Justice and fairly composed the business Nay thâ—s was not all for they threatned him that if he would not restore to them that Charter tâ—uching the Lâ—berties â—f the Forâ—h which he had lately cancelled at Oxford ipsi illum gladâ—is discurrentibus compellerent saith my 〈◊〉 but in all these things the King gave them satisfaction at Northampton in August f. â—â—â—ving In 13 H. 3. this Wâ—llâ—â—m Earl Ferrers was imployed by the Kâ—ng in his service of Wales In 8 H â— he had lâ—verie of the lands lying between Ribbel and Merse which belonging unto Ranâ—lâ—â— Earl of Chester 〈◊〉 wives Brâ—â—hâ—r were assâ—â—â—d â—nto Agnes 〈◊〉 wâ—â— in part of her pâ—rtion of the inheritance belonging to her self and her other sisters and coheirs â—â—r which he and she were then bâ—uâ—d to pâ—y yearly unto the Kâ—ng's Excâ—equer a Gosh 〈◊〉 xl s. In 21 H. 3. he was one of the three châ—ef Councellors recommended to the King by the Barons upon that reconciliation of their discontents for the violation of Magna Charta the King then renewing his promise for the strict observance thereof and those his Councell making Oath that they would not for any respects give him other than wholesâ—me advice which so well contented the people that they gave him a xâ—xth part of all their moveable goodsâ— excepting of Gold Silver Horse and Arms. But in 31 H. 3. scil 10 Cal. Oct. he died vir bâ—nâ—â— plenus dierum Math. Westm. calls him and Mâ—th Paris vir pacificus justus saying that he had lain long afflâ—cted with the Gout His Countess departing e this life the same month ejusdem aetatis famae bonitatis They had been man and wife at least Lxxv. years if my Author mistake not for he affirmeth that St. Thomas of Canterbury celebrated the marriage betwixt them who died in 18 H. 2. But I have seen an autograph mentioning their marriage to have been in an 1192. 4 R. 1. which falls short no less than xx years thereof To which Earl succeeded William his son and heir a discreet and good man saith M. Paris but troubled with his Father's infirmitie who the next year following viz. 32 H. 3. did his Homage and had liverie of Chartley-Castle and all other the lands of his Mothers inheritance and the same year sate in that Parliament held at London where the King made so stout an answer to the high demands of his impetâ—oâ—s Barons This Earl gave to the Canons of Derley in Derbyshire the Church of Bolesover â—n that Countie for the health of his â—oul whose grant Robert and William his two sons afterwards confirmed But there is no other matter memorable that I have seen of him till his death which hapâ—ed to be violent 9 Cal. Apr. 38 H. 3. for being carried in a kind of Chariot by reason of his Gout which through the unskilfulness of the Driver fell off the Bridge at S. Neots his limbs were so broke and body bruised that he quickly died thereof and was buried in this Abby of Merevale leaving issue by Margaret his second wife Robert his son and heir and William for by Sibill his first he had none but Daughters as the Dâ—scent sheweth Which Robert being then in minoritie for the custodie of whose lands the Queen and â—eâ—er de Savâ—â— gave six thousand marks till he should accâ—mpâ—ish his full age had the ill hap to be the last Earl of his Family for no sooner was he come to mans estate but that meeting with a discontented Nobilitie who under many fair and specious pretences infused into him all principles of disloialty his high and hot spiritted youth grew so inflamed as that in 47 H. 3. when the combustions of Civill war began to break out none was more forward to increase them than he yet nec â—iâ—us Regi neque Baronibus quasi non in Baronum numero saith Math. Paris but a world of mischief he did for having got a power of Souldiers at his heels he entred Worcester demolished that place there called the Jewrie plundred the Reâ—igâ—â—us Houses as well as other and destroyed the King's Parks thereabouts To retaliat which outrage the King sent Edward his eldest son down into Stafford and Derbyshires with a good Army where he wasted his lands and Mannours with Fire and Sword and demolished his Castle of Tutburie The next remarkable thing relating to him whereof our Historians make mention is that after the King and Prince were made Prisoners by that unhappy defeat of the Royall Army at Lewes and that Clare Earl of Gloucester grew discontented at the Earl of Leicester's assuming the rule of all to himself he secretly adhered to Clare Of which Leicester having notice layd hold on him but notwithstanding Clare stoutly adventured his life afterwards for the Royall interest yet did this Earl Ferrers no whit incline that way for though he were not in the battail of Evesham yet did he act otherwise with all the power he had so that being highly taken notice of for a most malevolent man to the King he was involved in that generall Sentence of disherison pronounc'd at Westminster on the Feast day of St. Edward's translation sc. 13 Oct. against the King's adversaries and being thereupon in person called into the Court before the King and charg'd with many high Crimes not daring to adventure that Judgement which he foresaw would be delivered against him de vita membris terris tenementis suis gratiae Regis se totaliter submisit saith the Record Whereupon the King out of his gracious disposition in consideration of a Cup of gold adorned with precious stones obtained by the said Earl from Michael de Toni for which he mortgaged to the said Mich. the Mannour of Pirie in Northamptonshire and for fifteen hundred marks to be payd at four severall payments within the compass of a twelve month pardoned his misdemeanours and undertook to secure him against Prince Edward and all others against whom he had been injurious at any time during the troubles untill the 5 th of Dec. 50 H. 3. as
to the before spefied Sir Iohn Botetourt through which means part of that fair inheritance came to this Familie of Ferrers By whom he had issue Baldwin xix years of age at his Fathers death which happened in 11 R. 2. But of this Baldwin I find nothing memorable excepting his marriage in 12 R. 2. with Ioane the daughter of Sir Thomas Greene Knight and his death which happened in 2 H. 4. To whom succeeded Baldwin his son and heir then but two years of age who departing this life in his minoritie scil 6 H. 5 leaving three Sisters and heirs the inheritance came afterwards to be thus divided in 31 H. 6. viz. to Thomas Ferrers then Tenant by the curtesie Elizabeth the eldest of those coheirs being dead and to Thomas son and heir of the same Thomas and Eliz. this Castle and Mannour of Tamworth the Mannours of Lee juxta Merston Stretford juxta Tamworth and Haverburgh in this Countie as also the Mannour of Stichall juxta Coventre the Mannour Tadington in Com. Heref. with lands and Rents in Waverton Allesley and Mereden in this Countie as also in Wiginton in Com. Staff To Robert Aston Esquire son of Ioice one other of the said Sisters and coheirs the Mannours of Ashsteds and Newdigate in Surrey Becknore in Com. Wigorn. Yatesburie in Com. Wilts Pinley within the Liberties of Coventre and the moâ—tie of the Mannour of Henley in Arden in this Countie with the advouson of the Church of Preston juxta Henley And to Sir Richard Bâ—ngham Knight then one of the Justices of the King's Bench and Margaret his wife formerly the wife of Sir Hugh Willoughby of Wollaton in Com. Nott. Knight the Mannours of Midleton and Whitnash with lands in Wilmecote in this Shire The Mannour of Wikin juxta Coventre with certain other lands and Rents lying within the Countie of that Citie as also the Mannours of Gunthorpe and Loudham in Com. Nott. with Bradford Ferne and Mawne in Com. Heref. Which Partition bears date 5. Oct. the year abovesaid This Thomas Ferrers was second son to William Lord Ferrers of Groby and underwent the Office of Shiriff for the Countie of Staff in 26 H. 6. but departed this life in 37 H. 6. being then the principall male branch of this line of Groby as the Descent in Merevale sheweth in token whereof he bore his Armes with a Labell of three points Azure To which Thomas succeeded as Lord of this Castle Thomas his son and heir then xxxvi years of age who was constituted Shiriff of this Countie and Leicester-shire in 39 H. 6. so also in 1 E. 4. Which Thomas having been a faithfull adherer to the House of Yorke and taken Prisoner in the battail of Wakefeild where he was put to CCC marks Fine obtained a speciall Precept from King Edward 4 th to the Barons of the Exchequer wherein is acknowledged his signall fidelitie to Richard Duke of Yorke Father to the said King and slain in that Battail commanding them to remit unto him CC. marks of the summe for which he was then accomptable to them by reason of his Receipts whilst he underwent that Office in which Precept it further appeareth that the said Thomas was then a Knight being so made as it seems by the same King Edw. in the first year of his reign Nay I find that after this he became a Knight of the Bath at the Creation of the Duke of Yorke 14 E. 4. and from 4 E. 4. till his deathâ— was in Commission for conservation of the Peace in this Shire as also in 8 E. 4. again Shiriff of this Countie and Leicester-shire and that by his Testament bearing date 10. Febr. 12 H. 7. he bequeathed his body to be buried on the North side of the Quire within the Collegiate Church here at Tamworth by Anne his wife appointing a marble to be laid over them with their portraitures and Armes in brasse and such Inscription as his Executors should devise departing this life 22. Aug. 14 H. 7. To whom succeeded Sir Iohn Ferrers Knight his grandchild and heir For Sir Iohn his son who in 15 E. 4. was in the King's service in Normandie died in his life time Of which Sir Iohn I find little memorable other than that he was one of the Knights for the body to King H. 7. and in Commission for the Peace from 18. of that King's reign till his death which happened in 1 H. 8. as appears by the Probate of his Will whereby he bequeathed his body to sepulture within th Chancell here at Tamworth before the Image of S. Edith Of whose descendants I shall say no more than that some of them have been Knights and in many publick imployments as by divers Comissions appeareth Iohn son and heir to the last Sir Humphrey being now owner of this Castle referring my Reader to the Pedegree before inserted which manifesteth their matches with sundry good antient Families Upon an Alabaster Tombe-stone lying in the midst of the Chancell at Tamworth under which is buried the body of Sir Iohn Ferrers Knight is this Epitaph If thou hast a minde to know Whose Corps interred lye below Lest thou thinke these words in stone Are all that 's left of him being gone Give eare unto the upright tongue Of whosoere he liv'd among Then free'd from doubt thou wilt consent He left a choicer Monument 1633. Upon another lying neer thereto Here lieth Sir Humfrey Ferrers Knight who married Anne one of the daughters of Sir Iohn Packington of Hampton-Lovet in the Countie of Worcester Knight By whom he had issue three daughters and one son His age was thirty and three years when he departed this life and he was here interred on the second day of November in the year of our Lord 1633. Bole-Hall I Now come to the particular Villages before mentioned which are within this Countie and in the Parish of Tamworth though the Church be in Staffordshire and first of Bole-Hall Of this place I have not seen any thing in Record till 13 R. 2. where with severall other Mannours Sir Iohn de Clinton of Maxstoke Knight entailed it upon the issue of his body by Elizabeth then his wife but from severall circumstances I am satisfied that it was originally a member of Amington which adjoyns thereto and whereof the same Sir Iohn was then possest From whom descended Iohn Lord Clinton who about the beginning of H. 7. time decayed the capitall Messuage here And from him Edward Lord Clinton and Say that sold it in 29 H. 8. unto Iames Leveson Merchant of the Staple which Iames gave it in marriage inter alia with Elizabeth his daughter unto Walter Aston son and heir to Sir Edward Aston of Tixhall Knight whose grandson Sir Walter Aston Knight of the Bath and Baronet sold it unto William Anson of Lincolns-Iâ—ne in Com. Midd. Esquire Of whom
hides and a half here which were then valued at xx s. and whereof before the Conquest 4. Theins were possest At that time there was one Anseisus who held also 4. hides more in this place which in Edw. the Conf. time were the freehold of Bruning These were likewise valued at xx s. there being then a Priest which shews that it had a Church so ancient and a Mill rated at xvi d. In that Record it is written Herdeberge which gives me occasion to conjecture that the name at first arose partly from the situation and party from the herds of cattell there kept the old English word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 signifying a Hill When it went out of the hands of these persons above specified I am not able to shew but long it was not ere that a family assuming their sirname from hence possest a great part thereof howbeit the residue in substance with the advouson of the Church being that part it seems which Anseius held in the Conq. time did very antiently come to the family of Langley for it appears that Geffrey de Langley gave some part thereof to the Monks of Combe in H. 2. time and that Geffrey his grandchild in 39. H. 3. sold to them all the rest that he had here amounting to 2. carcucats reserving only the said advouson and a rent of x. li. vj. s. sterling per ann to himself and his heires issuing out of those carucats and payable in the great Church of Coventre on Christmas eve Easter eve Midsummer eve and Michaelmass eve by equall portions But I returne to the line of Herdeberge Ansketillus de Herdeberg 16. H. 2. Hugo de Herdeberg 1. H. 3. Rog. de Herdebergh 33. H. 3. Hugo de Herbergh 53. H. 3. Isabella relicta 14. E. 3. Rog. de Herdeberg mortuus 14. E. 1. Ida relicta 14. E. 1. Ela filia cohaeres infra aet 14. E. 1. primò nupta Walt. de Hopton sâ—cundò Will. le Boteler de cujus progenie vide in Willey Isabella filia cohaeres Joh. de Hulls 33. E. 1. Ela â—ive-Ioh fil Ioh. Alicia f. de Peto cohaeres 2. maritus 18. E. 2. Joh. de Langley Galfr. de Langley defunctus 4. E. 3. Maria 18. E. 3. Will de Kareswell 2. maritus defunctus 33. E. 3. Galfr. Langley defunctus 33. E. 3. Iohanna filia haeres aet 17. ann 33. E. 3. ux Ioh. filii Alani de Cherleton militis Petrus Careswell miles 46. E. 3. Dionysia filia cohaeres ux Ioh. de Watervill 18. E. Hasculfus Of these Hugh de Herdeberg was one of that number who being in armes against K. Iohn return'd to obedience in 1. H. 3. having then restitution of his lands seized on for that offence His grandson Hugh in 3. E. 1. was constituted one of the Justices for the gaol-delivery at Warwick Whose son Roger left onely two daughters betwixt whom the inheritance of this mannour hapned to be divided as it seemes for it appears that Ela the widow of Walter Hopton in 33. E. 1. passing a way her right to Iohn Hulls and Isabell her sister and the heires of the said Isabell it came to Ela one of the daughters and coheirs of the said Isabell who taking to her second husband Iohn de Peyto joyned with him in the entayling thereof upon her issue by the said Iohn with remainder to Sir Walter Hopton Kt. and his heirs son to the before specified Walter as I guess By which means it divolved to Sir Iohn Hopton Kt. whose posterity in 1. H. 5. obtained that interest which Iohn de Langford son of Henry de Langford had here for some title they had it seems by descent from one of the coheirs to Will. le Boteler second husband to Ela de Herdeberg before specified as the descent in Willy doth manifest Of these Hopton's the last was Walter who departed this life in 1. E. 4. seized of the moytie of this mannour leaving Eliz. his sister and heire then 30. years of age and wedded to Roger Corbet of Morton in Com. Salop from whom descended Robert Corbet who died 30. Maii. 25. Eliz. leaving Eliz. and Anne his daughters and heires within age As for the other moitie â—tis plain that Iohn de Langley first husband to Ela one of the daughters and coheirs to Iohn de Hulls and descendant to Geffrey before mentioned had it in the right of the said Ela whose posterity past it away to Sir Baldwin Frevill the elder as it seemes for plain it is that upon the partition of Frevill's lands betwixt the sisters and heires of the last Sir Baldwin in 31. H. 6. thâ— same moitie there called the mannour was allotted to Thomas Ferrers Esq. in right of Eliz. his wife the eldest of those coheirs by which meaâ—s it descended to his posterity Lords of Tamworth-castle as by severall authorities appeareth But as for the x. li. vi s. rent and advouson of the Church I find that Sir Peter Careswell Kt. son and heire to Sir Will. Careswell second husband of Mary wife to Geffrey de Langley â— son and heire to the abovementioned Iohn and Ela obtained it and by their deed bearing date 45. E. 3. granted them unto the before specified Sir Baldwin and his heires by which means they divolved also with the mannour unto the family of Ferrers In An. 1291. 19. E. 1. the Church dedicated to All Saints was valued at vii marks and a half but in 26. H. 8. at xiv l. xiii s. ii d. over and above ix s. vi d. allowed for Procurations and Synodals Patroni Ecclesiae Incumbentes D. Ioh. de Langford miles Rob. de Farendon 13. Kal. Ian. 1305. D. Will. de Caverswell miles Adam de Sadyngton Pbr. 5. Kal. Martij 1335. D. Will. de Caverswell miles Will. de Thornton cap. Kal. Martij 1336. Ioh. Trillow Dominus de Pinleye Hen. Caytewayte Pbr. 6. Id. Aug. 1361. Fulco Bermyncham miles Procur generalis Baldw. Frevill militis Simon de Eston Pbr. 3. Kal. Martij 1366. Adam de Pâ—shale miles Will. Layscheser 8 Ian. 1404. Adam de Pâ—shale miles Will. Smyth Cap. 8. Nov. 1417. Tho. de Ferrers ar Rog. Aston miles Hugo Willoughby ar Tho. Roxson 8 Aug. 1421. Tho. de Ferrers Ric. Bingham Rob. Aston ar Ioh. Stodelay Cap. 20 Nov 1450. Tho. Ferrers ar Tho. Rogers Cap. 18 Oct. 1458. Tho. Ferrers mies D. Ioh. Paynell Pbr. ult Maii 1497. Will. Wirley alii ex concess Humfr. Ferrers de Tamworth militis Anselmus Seyll 18 Ian. 1540. Ioh. Ferrers Franc. Kymberley Cler. 16 Iunii 1557. Tho. Basset de Brouns-Over ex conc Will. Boughton de Lawford Tho. Basset sil dicti Thomae 21 Dec. 1629. Harborow-parva OF this place have I met with nothing but
and so strengthned to hold it to himself and his Heirs After which time 't is very like that he and his descendants whilst the Male line lasted made it sometimes their seat for it is evident that in 13 E. 3. Iohn his Grandchild had summons amongst the rest of our Warwicksh Kts. to be in readiness sufficiently furnisht with Horse and Armes on the Feast day of St. Laurence to attend the K. into France Which last mentioned Iohn leaving issue Eliz. his Daughter and Heir wedded to Iohn de Moubray of Axholme in Lincolnsh a great Baron this Lordship inter alia divolv'd to that Family Hence it was that Tho. Moubray D. of Norff. son to the said Iohn and Eliz. being accused by the D. of Hereford for certain words spoken in dishonour of the K. R. 2. having challenged the said D. to a Duell appointed at Coventre upon Gosford-green where lists accordingly were set up went upon the day assigned on a Horse barded with Crimson Velvet embroydered with Lions of Silver and Mulbery-trees the issue of which business is sufficiently known to all that are but indifferently acquainted with our English History But after three descents more was this Lordship by Female issue transferred as it seems to Iohn Howard D. of Norff. Son and Heir to Sir Rob. Howard Kt. by Margaret one of the daughters to the before specified Tho. Moubray For by certain Depositions it appeareth that K. H. 7. immediatly after Bosworth-field where the said Iohn fighting on K. R. 3. part was slain gave it unto Sir Gilb. Talbot Kt. his near servant who came in person to take possession thereof But it was not long that Howard had it for by a Fine levied in 10 H. 7. did Maurice Berkley Son to Sir Iames Berkley Kt. and Isabel the other Daughter to the before specified Tho. Moubray D. of Norff. entayl it upon his Heirs Male for corrobration of whose estate therein it was afterwards by partition betwixt Howard and him allotted inter alia to his share whence it descended to George Lord Berkley who by his deed of Bargain and sale dated 14. Iunii 7. Car. sold it to Tho. Morgan of Weston-subt Wetheley Esq. The Chappell here now ruinous was antiently a Presentative as the Institutions of the following Incumbents do manifest Patroni Incumbentes D. Ioh. de Segrave miles Petrus de Incbarwe Pbr. 6. Cal. Feb. 1334. D. Ioh. de Segrave miles Will. de Walys Pbr. 4. Non. Apr. 1346. D. Ioh. de Segrave miles Ric. de Overton Cap. 8. Cal. Sept. 1349. D. Ioh. de Segrave miles Ioh. fil Rob. de Segrave 13. Kal. Dec. 1351. D. Ioh. de Segrave miles Rog. de Belgrave 1359. Below Caludon there is not any other place of note situat on the Banks of Sow within the liberties of Coventre so that now I must ascend to the head of Shirburn which beginning above Allesley being increast with severall torrents passeth through Coventre and on the verge of that Cities Liberties hath its confluence with Sow The first villages bordering upon this little Brook are Allesley and Coundon both which heretofore were Members of Coventre yet neither of them now are within those bounds though the later be in the Parish but do still continue part of Knightlow-Hund as all that Cities liberties heretofore was Allesley OF this there is no particular mention in the Conq. Survey it being there involved with Coventre whereof it was then a Member and of the Parish as aâ—â—ears by that Licence which R. Clinton B. of Cov. temp H. 1. granted for building of the Chappell here at the request of Ran. E. of Chester in the behalf of poor people as was also then allow'd to the inhabitants of Ansty and others whereof I have already spoke with reservation of Sepulture to the Mother Church As for the name I suppose it proceeded from some antient possessor thereof in the Saxons time which probably might be Alsi for that was an appellation then in use When it came first to the family of Hastings or how I cannot positively say yet confident I am that it was before the Marriage of Henry de Hastings with Ada Daughter to David E. oâ— Hunt by Maud the eldest Sister and one of the Coheirs to Ran. the last E. of Chester of that name because I find it not assigned to the said Maud amongst the lands and fees in partition allotted to her But the first mention thereof that I have met with in Record is after the death of the said H. de Hastings in 34 E. 3. it being then in the K. hands by reason of the minority of his Heir and held of the Crown as in right of the Earâ—dom of Chester which the K. in 23. of his reign had taken into his own hands giving satisfaction for the same to the Sisters and Heirs of Ranulph the last Eâ— of that name In which 34. year I find that one Raph de Ierdele a Heremite had an annuity of three Quarters of Wheâ—tâ— allow'd him by the K. out of this Mannour whereof he had the custody for the reason above exprest which yearly allowance the said Heremit had used to receive out of the Mannour of Ierdele in Northamptonsh belonging to the same Henry The next year following did the said H. â—nlarge his Park here having obtained 24. Acres of Westwood-wast from Osbert then Abbot of Stoneley to that purpose And from him it descended to Iohn his Grand-child as the Pedegree in Fillonlâ—y manifesteth who in 7. E. 1. was certified to hold it of Rog. de Somery Husband of Nichola one of the Sisters and Coheirs of Hugh de Albany E. of Arundell son of Will. de Albany and Mabel his Wife one of the Sisters and Coheirs to Ran. E. of Chester before specified by the service of one Kt. Fee which Iohn had then 26. servants here holding xx yard land and a half at will paying certain Rents and performing severall services in time of Harvest As also 22. Cottagers holding so many Cottages at will likewise paying certain small Rents and performing the like services with xi Freeholders occupying 6. yard land and a half and 17. acres for severall Rents and suit to his three weeks Court And moreover 40. acres of out-wood with an antient Park containing 30. acres whereof 12. were parcell of the Mannour of Stoneley but by what authority inclosed within that Park not then known And lastly Freewarren and Weyfs within his liberties here as also Court-Leet Gallows Assize of Bread and Beer for a pâ—â—frey yearly payable to the King All which liberties with certain other Priviledges did he claim within this Mannour by Prescription in 13 E. 1. alledging that himself and his ancestors had enjoy'd them time out of mind From whom descended Iohn de Hastings E. of Penbroke his great Grand-child as the Pedegree in Fillongley sheweth which Earl entayling his lands as there appeareth and
Praeturae mortuus ante diem Tempore Praeturae tribus plus partibus anni Officio functus scandet in astrapoli On a grave-stone near the same Wall HAEC ANNA CLARIS NUPER CONIUX DOCTORIS Hollandi filia fuit Gulielmi Bot alias Peyton quondam de Perry-hall in Com. Staff armig HIc Recubat dilecta Philemonis uxor Holandi Anna pudicitiae non ulli laude secunda Quadraginta octoque annos quae nupta marito Septem illi pueros enixa est tresque puellas Lactavitque omnes genitrix eadem est pia nutrix Septuaginta duos vitae numeravâ—rat annos Laetatis erebros morbi cum passa labores Omnibus defuncta mali in pace quievit Quodque unum potui supremi pignus amoris Filius hoc dedit Henricus ad carmina marmor Sancta vixit Sancta obiit In festo omnium Sanctorum In coelum Sanctorum transmigravit 1627. In resurrectione Sanctorum resurget Percye's Chantry THis being the antientest Chantry of any that were founded in Trinity-Church was endow'd in 23 E. 3. by Nich. Percy Iohn de Fylingley and Henry Mollyng with six mess. one shop six acres of land and 40. s. rent lying in Coventre for the maintenance of one Priest to Sing Mass dayly at the Altar of All-Saints for the good estate of the said Nich. and Beatrice his wife and of Iohn Percy Priest whilst they should live in this world and for their souls after their departure hence as also for the souls of Iohn Percy and Peter Percy and of the father and mother of the said Nicholas with all the faithfull deceased But afterwards was there another Priest added thereto towards whose maintenance in 9 H. 4. Will. Botoner Iohn Egeston the elder and Iohn Drye of Coventre Priest gave one mess. and 24. acres of land lying in this City The value of all which was in 26 H. 8. certified to be 10. l. 10. s. per an over and above reprises but upon the Survey taken in 37 H. 8.11 l. -19 s. -08 d. The Chantry of the Holy Cross. THis was founded in 30 E. 3. by Will. de Davyntre Henry Molling Rob. le Spenser Gilb. de Peek Ric. de Fillyngley Iohn Luk Ric. de Godesvowes Ric. de Northampton Geffrey de Peek Iohn le Baxtere Henry de VVhitemore Adam de Keresleye and Ric. Teynton of Coventre for two Priests to Sing Mass dayly at the Altar of the Holy Cross in this Church for the good estate of K. Edw. the 3. and of Isabell Q. of Engl. his mother Q. Philipa his consort and of all their children As also for the good estate of the said Will. Henry and the rest aforementioned And likewise of all the Brethren and Sisters of the Fraternity of the Holy Cross of Coventre whilst they lived and for their souls after their decease And for the souls of all the said K. progenitors and of the ancestors of the said Will. de Davyntre c. For the maintenance of which two Priests they gave 7. mess. 14. shops and six acres of land lying in this City Lodyngton's Chantry THis was founded in 16 R. 2. by VVill. Haynton and Iohn Bromcote Priests for one Priest to Sing Mass in this Church for the good estate of Alice the Widow of Roger de Lodyngton and for her soul after her departure out of this world And for the soul of the said Roger de Lodington his father and mother and of all the faithfull deceased The clear Revenue whereof in 37 H. 8. being certified at 02. l. -00-03 d. per an was allowed to the Vicar of Exhall in augmentation of his living the small tythes belonging thereto extending to no more than 03. l. -06 s. -08 d. per an Corpus-Christi Chantry ALL that I find of this Chantry is that the Prior of Coventre presented three Priests unto it successively in E. 3. time but when it was founded by whom or how dissolved I cannot say Allesley's Chantry THis was founded by one VVill. de Allesley in E. 1. time for one Priest to Sing Mass daily at the Altar of S. Thomas the Martyr in a Chappell near adjoyning to the Church-porch the clear yearly value of all the Rents belonging thereto over and above reprises being in 26 H. 8. certified at 04. l. -17 s. but in 37 H. 8. ato 4. l. 08 s. -06 d. Cellets-Chantry THis was founded by one VVill. Cellet in E. 3. time for one Priest to Sing Mass dayly for the soul of the said VVill. and his parents But I find no more than one onely Priest presented to it by the Prior of Coventre scil 4. Cal. Oct. 1356. And that in 37 H. 8. the clear yearly value thereof being certified at 03. l. -04 d. ob per an was allow'd by the last Prior of Coventre to the Vicar of Stoke in augmentation of his living then worth but 40. s. per an The dissolution of all which Chantryes was by Act of Parl. in 1 E. 6. as the Printed Statutes do manifest In the next place I come to speak of the other Religious-houses within this City as also of the particular Gilds or Fraternities disperst in the severall parts thereof All which I shall take in order according to their antiquities St. Iohns Hospitall THis was first founded by Laurence Prior of Coventre and his Covent about the beginning of H. 2. time at the request of Edmund then Archdeacon of Coventre ad susceptionem pauperum infirmorum as the words of the grant import which Edm. procured a confirmation thereof from Ric. Archb. of Cant. T. Becket's successor and was at charge of the buildings In an 1221. 5 H. 3. Pope Honorius the 3. by his Bull dated at Lateran 15. Cal. Iunii granted unto the Friers of this Hospitall a speciall protection as to their persons and possessions and by name for their land at Smercote in Bedworth-Parish which as 't is like was given them at the foundation of their House The first of their other Benefactors whereof our publick Records do take notice were Rog. de Montalt and Cecilie his wife who in 33 H. 3. upon their grant of the Mannour of Coventre to the Monks in Fee-ferme whereof I have formerly spoke reserved a Cart-load of wood every week out of the woods belonging to Coventre to be delivered by the Foresters of the Pr. and Covent for the time being unto the Friers of this Hospitall After which they obtain'd of K. H. 3. Letters of protection bearing date 24. Iulii 45 H. 3. extending the same likewise to such their Messengers as they should imploy and send abroad to receive Almes for their behoof who in that Pat. recommended their condition to be so far tendred by all they should so repair unto as they might expect to be rewarded from God and have thanks of him As also severall Bulls from P. Urban the 4. and 5. of immunities from all secular
to belong unto the Monks of Coventre I have not seen any thing notable thereof Shortley A Little lower lyes Shortley antiently a member of Coventre and held of the E. of Chester's heirs by the service of 2 l. 17 s. per ann a pound of Pepper yearly and Heriots But before 17 E. 1. I find it not particularly mentioned at which time there was a Fine levyed thereof betwixt Geffrey de Langley pl. and Ric. de Waldeshef and Beatrice his wife deforc Whereby it appears that at the request of the said Ric. and Beatrice the same Geffrey granted an estate for life therein to Hugh de Vienna with remainder to him the said Geffrey and his heirs Which Geff. was a younger son to Geffr de Langley of whom in Pinley I have spoke From this Geffrey it descended unto Edmund de Langley his son and heir who having issue Ioan a daughter gave it in marriage with her as it seems to Edmund de Chesterton for the same Edmund de Chesterton was seized thereof in 42 E. 3. as appears by his feoffment then made to Sir Fulk de Bermingham and others How he was justled out of it I know not but within 4 years after viz. 46 E. 3. I find that Sir Baldwin Frevill the elder Kt. enfeofft Sir Will. Beauchamp Kt. and divers moe in this Mannour with Pinley Wykin and other lands to stand seized of them to certain uses as in my discourse of that family when I come to Tamworth shall be shewed and in 49 E. 3. dyed seized thereof leaving Baldwin his son and heir 24 years of age Which Baldwyn dyed in R. 2. time leaving his heir within age and what estate he had herein to Ioyce his widow who taking to husband Sir Adam Peshale Kt. was in R. 2. time with him impleaded for the title hereof by Iohn Brandesley in right of Eliz. his wife daughter and heir of Roger Chesterton son and heir of Edmund Chesterton before mentioned and Eliz. his wife daughter unto Edm. de Langley from whom the said Iohn and Eliz. claimed How this difference determined I have not seen but in 4 H. 5. by a Fine then levyed betwixt Sir Iohn Berkley Kt. Iohn Brut the elder with others plaintiffs and Edw. Chesterton deforc it was setled upon the said Iohn Brut and his heirs In which Fine it appeareth that the above mentioned Iohn Barndesly held it by the curtesy of England for life It seems that the heir male of this line afterwards came to possess it again for in 22 E. 4. Will. Langley dyed seized of it leaving Iohn his son and heir 16 years of age at which time the proportion of land that he had here was certified to be C. acres of pasture wherein a certain Mannour-house had in former time stood but then was utterly down and wasted How it came to the Crown I know not but I find that K. H. 8. in 12 of his reign granted it to Edw. Langley Esq and his heirs Which Edw. in 17 H. 8. was seized thereof and past it as I guess to Rog. Wigston Esq and Will. Wigston his son and heir for it appears that in 30 H. 8. they were seized thereof But the said Will. in 37 H. 8. his father being then dead granted it to certain Feoffees to the use of Edw. Pye of Maxstoke Esq and the heirs of his body Which Edw. in 3 E. 6. sold it to Giles Forster then of Balshall Esq. But the said Giles within less than a month after in consideration of 200 l. sterling re-conveyd it to certain Feoffees to the use of the before specified Will. Wigston who being so seized thereof by his deed bearing date 29 Martii 1 M. being then a Knight sold it to Edw. Aglionby of Balshall Esq and to Kath. his wife sister of the said Sir Will. After which I have seen no more thereof than that Iames Fitz-Herbert of Stoke juxta Coventre and Ric. Fitz-Herbert of Shulton in Com. Leic. Gent. in 33 Eliz. aliened it to Edw. Brabazon of Estwell in the same County of Leic. Esq and Mary his wife The Charter-house WIthin the precincts of Shortley sometime stood a very fair Monastery of Carthusian Monks but before I speak of its foundation it will be proper enough to digress a little in shewing how and when that Order first began with the strictness of their Rule The Author thereof was one Bruno born at Colein in Germany a very learned man and Philosophy-Professor in the University of Paris where being present at the Funerall of his friend that had been a man of good conversation and observing that whilst they were celebrating the office for the dead the Corps raised it self up on the Bier and uttered at several distances these words Iusto Dei judicio accusatus sum Iusto Dei judicio judicatus sum Iusto Dei judicio condemnatus sum he became so astonisht as that considering if such were the condition of one whose life had been free from any eminent vice what should become of himself and many others that were in no better state he thereupon with six more of his company who were moved with the same apprehension resolved to seek some desert place where they might end their daies in an austere and mortified course of living without any disturbance of worldly matters which at length they found in the Diocess of Grenoble at a place called Carthuse in the mountainous parts of a vast wilderness and obtaining an assignation thereof from the Bishop erected a Monastery instituting most severe and strict Rules for himself and his Covent viz. wearing hair shirts never to feed on flesh on the Fridays to eat nothing but bread and water to live apart in particular Cells and thither to have their diet singly brought them except on certain Festival daies when they dined together Not to converse with each other but at certain times None to go out of the Monastery but the Superior and Procurator and they onely about the affairs of the Covent Their habit a white loose coat with a cowl of the same but when they go out a case of black stuff all over it being shaved and shorn just as the Benedictines are Into their particular Cells which are low built and do contain 3 or 4 several rooms on the ground-floor onely having behind each of them a little garden environ'd with an high wallâ— is their diet brought to them by Lay-brothers and put in at a little door in the wall near the entrance thereof unto which there is a lock whereof the key is kept by him that serves them At the hours of publick prayers they meet in the Quire But women are not permitted to come within the precincts of their Monastery nor a man to speak with any of them without special license given by the Superior The Lay-brothers are not shaven but their hair on the head is cut
short and round their habit being the same with the Monks saving the scapular which reacheth but a little below the middle and is girt close to them Which Institution by Bruno was in the year 1080. as Polydore affirmeth but others say in ann 1084. Howbeit they observe the Rule of S. Benedict as to their diurnal and nocturnal offices yet have not antiently in any one Covent exceeded the number of xiii persons Into England they were first brought by K. H. 2. in ann 1181. 27 H. 2. who founded a Monastery for them at Witham in Somersetsh whereof Hugh Bishop of Lincoln was the first Prior. But now returning to this in particular I will begin with the time and occasion of its foundation Ordinis Carthusiani Monachus In the year 1381. 5 R. 2. Will. Lord Zouch of Haringworth in Northamptonsh having a desire to found a House of this Order near Coventre in honour of S. Anne obtained from Sir Baldwyn Frevile the elder Kt. 14 acres of land here at Shortley where he purposed to build the House resolving to endow it with sufficient possessions but being the same year prevented by death lying upon his sick bed he appointed that C marks per ann should be paid out of his lands untill his heirs did procure as much in Churches appropriate to be setled thereto Which Legacy his Confessor and others who were then about him thought too large and therefore prevailed with him that it should be no more than lx l. per ann The great affection that he had to the founding of this Monastery occasioned him to procure from the House of Carthusians in London three Monks viz. one Robert Palmer at that time Procurator there and the originall mover in that business Iohn Netherby then Vicar of the same Monastery and Edmund Dalling who accordingly came to Coventre on the Eve of S. Andrew the Apostle and began their abode in the Hermitage of S. Anne In which place associating to themselves three Monks from the Monastery of Beauvale in Notingham-sh and four more who were then newly profest of this Order they continued by the space of seven years But the Lord Zouch departed this life in Lent following whereupon his good intentions and fair beginnings were prosecuted by others For Rich. Luff sometime Mayor of Coventre and Iohn Botoner his fellow Citizen bestowed no less than 400. marks upon the Quire Church and Cloysters with three Cells in the east part next to the Chapter-house and making of seven ponds Iohn Holmeton of Sleford 180. li. towards the structure of the Quire and with xx li. of the goods of Will. Tilney whose Executor he was made the Cell at the West-corner of the Cloyster The fourth Cell on the East side was built by Margery Byri of Newarke who thereupon and for the Books of Isaiah and Ieremie with Coments bestowed xx li. The fift being the utmost on the said East side by the Lady Margerie Tilney of Rotston who gave x. li. also to the making of the East window of the Quire The sixt by Iohn Bokingham B. of Lincoln The seventh next to it on the same side by Thomas Beauchamp E. of Warwick And K. Rich. 2. returning from Scotland in the year 1385. about the Nativity of the blessed Virgin and coming to Coventre on Satturday within the Octaves of that Feast at the speciall instance of Q. Anne his consort with his own hands layd the first-stone of the Church viz. at the East end of the Quire publiquely protesting in the presence of his Nobles as also of the Mayor and Citizens of Coventre that he would be the Founder thereof and bring it to good perfection Neither were others slack in so pious a work For the eight Cell viz. the third on the South side was made with xx li. given as a Legacy thereto by Adam Botoner Citizen of Coventre The ninth next to it by Sir Nigel Loryng Knight at the procurement of Rob. Braybrok B. of London The tenth viz. the first in the West corner out of the goods of Will. Tilney before mentioned The eleventh by Iohn Morton Canon of Lichfeild But further I cannot go in the description of these Cells in regard I have not seene any more of the history of its Foundation Neither should I have delivered thus much but that by the care and affection of my worthy friend Mr. Iohn Langley whose delight and knowledge in Antiquities deserves greater commendation then I can in a few lines express the fragment whence I had this being a Manuscript of two leaves in Parchment and written in R. 2. time was redeemed from utterly perishing having been by some ignorant person made the Cover to a School-boy's Book I shall now therefore proceed with what I have from our publique Records wherein I find that K. Rich. 2. by his Precept bearing date 18. Martii in the said fift year of his raign directed to Sir Baldwin Frevill Kt. Rich. Dodenhale then Major of Coventre and Rich. Luff wherein he expresseth that Iohn Netherbury was assigned Prior of this House so intended to be founded in Shortleyfield within the libertyes of Coventre And declaring the bounds of those 14. acres of land so given by Sir Baldwin Frevill viz. in length from the path-way leading towards London on the East part to the river of Shirburne on the West and in breadth from the common road which goeth towards Warwick on the South part to the Mill called Bushele-milne on the North part doth command that the said Sir Baldwin Richard and Richard shall deliver possession thereof unto the same Prior and Monks Soon after which did the said K. grant license to these Monks that they might obtain advousons of Churches to be appropriated to the value of c. li. per annum over and above what should be assigned for endowment of Vicars in the same And within two years following bestowed on them the advouson of the Church of Walton super Trent in Derby-shire In 9. of his reign he gave them the advouson of the Church of Ecclesfeild in York shire In 13. he granted License to the Monks of S. George at Bauquerville in Normandy that they might settle their mannour or Priory of Edweston in Rutland upon them And in 16. in recompence for the advouson of the Church of Walton before mentioned which he had granted with the Mannour to Iohn Delves esq gave them license to purchase the Priory of Lymberg alias Limbroke in Hereford-shire with the parcells of Curtelyngton and Ashby-Mares together with the advouson of the Vicaridges all which belong'd to the Abby of Aveneye in Normandy Certain it is that the strictness of their Rule begot an exceeding regard towards them from many good people as by the increase of their possessions is evident For in 17. R. 2. they had license to purchase from the Abbot of S. Sergius and Bachus in Normandy the Mannours of Swauseye and Dry-Drayton in
son Whâ—ch Thomas the younger afterwards being E. of Warwick having obtained the Kings license for the same by his deed dated on Tuesday the feast of S. George 15. R. 2. inter alia pass'd it unto the Dâ—aâ— and Canons of the Collegiat-Church in Warwick and their successors for the good estate of the said King Ric. and Q. Anne as also of him the said Earl and Margaret his wife Will. Beauchamp his brother and Ioan his wife with their Children during this life and for the health of their souls after their departure hence and likewise of the souls of their Progenitors Ancestors and all the faithfull deceased Whereupon it was appropriated to the use of the said Colledge by the consent of Richard Scroope then Bishop of Cov. and Lich. ann scil 1395. 19 R. 2. xiii s. iv d. yeerly Pension being reserved out of the fruits thereof to the said Bishop and his successors for the indempnity of their Churches of Coventre and Lichâ—â—ld and ii s. to the Archdeacon of Coventre In 26 H. 8. the Vicaridge was valued at xii li. xviii s. ii d. over and above 8 s. -6 d. allowed for Procurations and Synodals Patroni Ecclesiae Incumb temp Instit. Galfr. de Langele miles Henr. Capellan An. 1248. Rob. de Langele D. Petrus de Leycestria 1299. Will. de Careswell miles Ioh. de Nayleston Cler. 3. Cal. Maii 1334. Thom. Comes Warwici Sim. de Catesby Cler. 12. Iulii 1375. Patroni Vicariae Decan Cap. Eccl. Coll. B. Mariae de Warwico Rob. Plumbe Pbr. 26. Iunii 1399. Decan Cap. Eccl. Coll. B. Mariae de Warwico Regin Carix 6. Nov. 1404. Decan Cap. Eccl. Coll. B. Mariae de Warwico Ric. Hayward Cap. 20. Ian. 1416. Decan Cap. Eccl. Coll. B. Mariae de Warwico Hugo Ruhale Cap. 15. Mart. 1416. Decan Cap. Eccl. Coll. B. Mariae de Warwico Thom. Walsham 25. Aug. 1421. Decan Cap. Eccl. Coll. B. Mariae de Warwico Nich. Segrave 27. Dec. 1432. Decan Cap. Eccl. Coll. B. Mariae de Warwico Rob. â—everley Pbr. 21. Sept. 1492. Decan Cap. Eccl. Coll. B. Mariae de Warwico Ioh. Allestre Cap. 28. Apr. 1504. Decan Cap. Eccl. Coll. B. Mariae de Warwico D. Ioh. Watwood 12. Febr. 1521. Ric. Bidle hac vice ratione concess D. Cap. Warw. D. Ioh. Fisher Cap. 13. Dec. 1542. Eliz. Regina Laurentius Bonde Cler. 9. Iulii 1586. Thom. Spenser ar Thom. Fosset Cler. 10. Iulii 1596. Thom. Spenser ar Ioh. Goode in art Bacc. 8. Dec. 1604. Thom. Spenser ar Laur. Hill Cler. 14. Iunii 1606. Rob. Raynsford de Staverton in Com. North. arm Edw. Nowell 8. Martii 1621. Rob. Raynsford de Staverton in Com. North. arm Ric. Crosse art Magr. 18. Aug. 1623. Flekenho THIS is the largest and chief of the Villages within the parish of Wolfhamcote and wherein one Leuuinus in the Conq. time held 1. hide and a half of the K. then valued at xxx s. which he purchased of Aluuine his brother As also 2. hides and half a yard land of Ulstane commonly called S. Wolstan Bishop of Worcester then likewise rated at xx s. more But the Bishop fayling to make good his title Leuuinus was at the Kings mercy for it At the same time one Oslach held here 2. hides and a half of Turchill de Warwick which were the freehold of Eduuinus before the Conquest And Ailricus one hide and half a yard land all which were valued at lx s. being part of that which Turchill's posterity enjoyed for Siward de Arden his son gave some of it to the Monks of Thorney in Cambridgshire But how long the family of Arden kept it I cannot directly say in regard I find that the Verdons who had also Wolfhamcote were possest hereof very antiently Roes de Verdon in 20 H. 3. answering for three parts of a Knights fee lying here and in Wolfhamcote Of the rest which Leuuinus held in the Conq. timâ— it seems that Musard was shortly after enfeoft and tâ—at the family of Hâ—stang had it from them as welâ— as the other lands that they held in this County And likewise that Verdon having the most of this village to make it all intirely his own obtained that which Hastang had here This is my conjecture but grounded â—pon great probabilities for I find that in 6 H. 3. Rob. Hastang clayming the service for â—alf a Knights fee here from Nich. de Verdon they came to an Agreement whereupon there was a Fine levied which expressing as much further sheweth that the said Nicholas and his heirs should perform those services to the above specified Robert and his heirs for ever Which half Knights fee in 20. H. 3. was answered for amongst the rest that Hastang held in this Shire under the title of Feoda Roberts Musard But to Nicholas de Verdon succeeded Roes his daughter and heir as in Brandon is shewed which Roes gave unto Iohn Fitz-Alan with Mâ—ud her daughter in Frank-mariage 23. mess. and 20. yard land in this place all which the said Maud Iohn Fitz-Alan her son did entail upon Rich. de Mundevill and Isabell his wife sister to the said Iohn and the heirs of their two bodyes but for lack of such issue to return the said Iohn and his heirsâ— which Richard had no issue by her as it seems so that the land reverted to the family of Fâ—â—z-Alâ—n For I find that Edmund Fitz-Alan Earl of Arundell grandchild to the before mentioned Iohn enfeoft Iohn de Segrave the elder and Christian his wife inter alia of these lands to hold for life and after their decease Stephen de Sâ—grave and Alice his wife and the heires of their two bodies lawfully begotten By which means they descended with Calâ—don already spoke of to Moubray and so to Berkley and were by Henry Lord Perkley temp Eliz. Reg. sold to Edw. Boughton of Causton esq as I have been informed Of whom the particular tenants purchased their severall Fermes so that now the reputation that it had of a Mannour is utterly lost And whether ever really it was so I make a question for the owners thereof never held any Court-Baron there but had a kind of yearly meeting for the Tenants which they called a Court whereat they usually demised their land and entred the Agreement in a Roll insted of making any formall Lease thereof as was usuall in antient time Out of which lands a yearly Rent of 3 s. 4 d. being due to the Mannour of Flekenho that was Verdon's is now payd by the Purchaâ—ers according to the proportion of the land they bought I now return to the rest that Verdon had here in Flekenho which was indeed the Mannour it self with lands of good value thereto belonging wherein I find that Iohn de Verdon son and heir of Roes before
entayled this Mannour then called Est-Leminton upon his descendants by Eva his wife left issue Thomas who had the custody of Bishops-Castle in Shropshire committed to his charge in 15 E. 2. and in 18 E. 2. was constituted one of the Commissioners appointed for choosing out Cccc. footmen in this County excepting Warwick and Coventre as also to arme them for defence of the Kingdom In 6 E. 3. he was a Knight and in 12. in Comiss both for conservation of the Peace in this Shire and arraying of men according to the Stat. of Winchester In the time of this Sir Thomas I meet with a Richard Hastang whom being often and eminenâ—ly imployed in this County and his brother as by some circumstances may be deemed I may not pass by In 15 E. 2. he was one of the Knights for this Shire in the Parliament then held and in 17 E. 3. in Comiss. with other persons of quality to find out and arrest such Proctors as were imployed by the two Cardinalls then sent into England for disposing of Ecclesiasticall benefices that were or might become void and to bring them before the King and his Councell Concerning which business the King then wrote an excellent Epistle to Pope Clement the vi Wherein he complaineth of the great in jury done to the Church and Kingdom by those Cardinalls and such as they imployed by authority from his Holiness which with the Popes answer thereunto is well worth the reading In 19. and 20 E. 3. he was in Comiss. for arraying of Archers in this County and in 21. for levying the Subsidy imposed upon Woolls and granted to the King in Parliament for the maintenance of his Warrs in France But I return to Sir Thomas who had issue Sir Iohn Hastang a Knight in his fathers life time which Sir Iohn whilst his father lived bore for his Armes A Lion rampant with a Labell of five points as appeareth by his Seal but afterwards a Chief with a Lion rampant over all And having 2. wives viz. Blanch daughter of ....... and Maud of Sir Waryn Trussell Knight dyed in 39 E. 3. leaving Maud and Ioan his daughters and heirs both within age the Custody of whose lands were by Pat. bearing date 7. Maii 44 E. 3. granted by the King to Iohn de Beauchamp and Iohn Rous who by their Deed dated 20. Oct. 45 E. 3. past the same over to Raph Earl Stafford which perhaps might be the reason that Maud the elder of them was afterwards wedded to Raph de Stafford descended by the Staffords of Sandon and Bromshull in Staffordshire from the antient Barons of Stafford Which Maud in 49 E. 3. had livery of her lands at that time proving her age her said husband then doing fealty for them and had for her part inter alia this Mannour of Lemynton with the Mannour of Grafton in Worcestershire Her sister Ioan wife to Sir Iohn Salisbury having the Mannours of Upton-waryn in Com. Wigorn and Chebsey in Com. Staff for her part To this Raph and Maud succeeded Sir Humfrey Stafford of Grafton Knight their son and heir who being one of the Knights for this Shire in the Parl. begun at Westminster the munday before the Feast of All-Saints 7 R. 2. was in Dec. following constituted Shiriff of Staffordshire which office he also bore in 12 R. 2. This Sir Humfrey marryed Eliz. the daughter to Sir Iohn Burdet of Huncote in Com. Leic. by whom he had a fair inheritance and dyed seized of this Mannour in 7 H. 5. leaving Iohn his son and heir xx years of age afterwards a Knight Which Iohn dyed 10 H. 5. without issue whereupon his brother Sir Humfrey became his heir who underwent the Shiriffalty of Staffordshire in 5 H. 4. as also for this County and Leicestershire in 2.9 and 17 H. 6. In 18 H. 6. he was one of the Knights for this County in the Parliament then held In 21 22. and 23. in Comiss. for conservation of the peace in this shire And having wedded Alianore one of the sisters and heirs to Iohn the son of Sir Thomas Aylesbury Knight by whom the Mannour of Blatherwike in Northamptonsdire came to this family was slain by the Commons of Kent in that insurrection of Iack Cade 28 H. 6. with his brother William the Lady Alianore his wife surviving him who at length became one of the coheirs also to Iohn Cressy and in 16 E. 4. founded a Chantry for one Priest to sing Mass daily at the Altar of our blessed Lady in the Church of Bromesgrove in Com. Wigorn. for the good estate of King E. 4. Eliz. his Queen her self Thomas her son and for the health of the soul of Sir Humfrey Stafford of Grafton her late husband and all the faithfull departed To the last mentioned Sir Humfrey succeeded Sir Humfrey his son and heir who together with Thomas his brother joyned with the Lord Lovell and others in that Insurrection of 1 H. 7. begun in Worcestershire as our Historians doe observe But the Lord Lovell hearing that the King had set out a Proclamation of Pardon mistrusted his men and fled privately into Lancashire which so disheartned these two brothers that despairing of success they took Sanctuary at Colnham neer Abingdon out of which place their priviledge being viewed in the Kings Bench and judged not sufficient they were taken whereupon Humfrey suffered death at Tiburn and was buried in the Chapell of our Lady within the Gray-fryers Church neer New-gate but Thomas as being seduced by him had pardon Shortly after which ensued the attainder in Parliament of the said Humfrey whose lands being so forfeited were given away by the K. Grafton in Com. Wigorn. one of their chief seats with the Mannour of Upton-Waryn in that County to Sir Gilbert Talbot Knight and the heirs male of his body from whom the present Earl of Shrewshury who now enjoys them is descended And this of Leminton to Sir Edward Poynings Knight and to the heires male of his body But Sir Humfrey Stafford Kt. son and heir of this Humfrey being afterwards restored repossest this Lordship and departing this life 37 H. 8. lyeth buried at Blatherwik before specified From whom descended as the Pedegree before inserted sheweth Will. Stafford of Blatherwik esquire who in 5 Car. sold this Lordship to Sir Thomas Trevor Knight then one of the Barons of the Exchequer descended of a very antient family of that name in the County of Denbigh in North-wales where it hath flourished for many ages and still continueth inricht with ample possessions The Church dedicated to All-Saints having been given to the Canons of Nostell by Attrop Hastang in H. 1. time as I have already shewed was appropriated to that Monastery by
Of which Testament were Executors the Lord Cromwell the Lord Tiptoft Iohn Throkmorton Ric. Curson Thomas Huggeford Will. Berkswell Priest and Nich. Rody his Steward After which viz. ult Apr. An. 1439. 17. H. 6. he departed this life as his monumental inscription here most exactly imitated together with the true representation of his magnificent Tombe sheweth leaving issue by Eliz. his first wife daughter and Heir to Thom. L. Berkley three daughters viz. Margaret born at Good-rest in Wedgnok-park the next year after the Battail of Shrewsbury â— second wife to the famous Iohn Talbot Earle of Shrewsbury which Margaret died at Londonâ— An. 1467. 7. E. 4. and was buried under the Quire in the Cathedral of St. Paul commonly called St. Faiths Church Alianore born at Walkinston in Essex shortly after the feast of our Ladye 's Nativity 9. H. 4. first married to the L. Rosse â— and afterwards to Edm. Beaufort Marq. Dorset and D. of Somerset And Elizabeth born in Warwick-Castle wife to George Nevil Lord Latimer To his second wife he wedded Isabel daughter of Thomas le Despenser E. of Glouc. and by the death of her brother Richard and elder sister Eliz. without issue Heir to all his Lands but being the widow to Ric. Beauchamp E. of Worcest his Uncles son as in Fillongley I have shewed he had a special dispensation from the Pope to marry her The pictures of which his wives children together with his own as they stand in the East window of that stately Chapel before specified where his Monument is I have upon the next page exquisitely represented By this Isabel he left issue Henry and Anne of both which I shall speak in their order The Lands whereof he was possest were very vast as may seem by that computation of their yearly value extracted from the Accompts of his several Bayliffs through England and Wales in 12. H. 6. amounting to no lesse than 8306. Marks 11. s. 11. d. ob Which setting aside the good penniworths that his Tenants had of what they then held would in the dayes we live augment that sum sixfold at least considering that about that time Barly was sold for 4. s. 2. d. the quarter Oats at 2. s. 1. d. ob Capons at 3. d. a piece and Hens at 1. d. ob as by certain Accompts of his Houshold-Officers appeareth Of her death let us hearken to what the MS. Hist. of Tewksbury saith Isabella uxor Ricardi quinti patrona de Theokesbri rediit de Francia aliquandiu se in Monasterio Canonicorum de Southwyke resocillavit Haec Isabella sepulta est in Theokesbyri eodem anno quo obiit Ricardus quintus Comes de Warwike ejus maritus But of her Monument so designed as I have said there is no more now remaining than what I have here in this Figure exprest I now come to Henry the succeeding Earle Son and Heir to Richard by the said Lady Isabel. This Henry was born at Hanley-Castle in Worcester-shire on Thursday xi Kal. Apr. An. 1424. 3. H. 6. and baptized on the Saturday by Philip Morgan Bishop of Worcester having to his God-fathers at the font Henry Beaufort Cardinal and Bishop of Winchester with Humfry E. Stafford and to his God-mother Ioane Lady Bergavenny the same B. of Worcester being his God-father also at confirmation At his fathers death he hardly exceeded the age of fourteen years but was a person of extraordinary hopes as by the early appearance of his heroick disposition is evident for before he accomplisht full xix years of age he tendred his service for defence of the Dutchy of Aquitane in consideration whereof and to give him the more encouragement in that expedition the K. by his Charter bearing date at Dover 2. Apr. 22. of his Reign created him Primier Earle of England and for a distinction betwixt him and other Earles granted to him and the Heirs male of his body leave to wear a golden Coronet about his head as well in his own presence as elsewhere upon such great Festivals as the like used to be worn And within 3. dayes following considering the high deserts of his noble father of whom he hath this expression quem meaning Earl Richard dignissimè in Armorum strenâ—itate ut columnam immobilem belli fata pro nobis nostris magnanimiter libenter sustinentem suorum cognoscit commendat ingenia ex excellentia meritorum minimè per nos aut progenitores nostros huc usque remuncratorum c. advanced him to the title of Duke of Warwick granting him place in Parl. and all other meetings next to the D. of Norff. and before the Duke of Buck. and giving him xl l. per ann to be paid by the Sheriffe of Warr. and Leic. Shires for the time being out of the revenue of these Counties towards the better support of that Honour But this businesse of Precedency was so stomackt by Humfrey Duke of Buck. that had not the K. by Act of Parl. in 23. of his reign which was the next year ensuing the said Duke of Warwick's Creation qualified it much inconvenience had arisen upon it Therefore for appeasing the contention and strife moved betwixt them for that preheminence those are the words of the Act it was established that from the 2. of Decemb. then next following they should take place of each other by turn viz. one that year and the other the next and so as long as they lived together the Duke of Warwick to have the first years precedency and he which should survive to have place of the others heir male as long as he livedâ— And from that time that the heir male of each should take place of other according as it might happen he had livery of his lands before him After which he had a grant in reversion from the death of Humfrey Duke of Glouc of the Isles of Gerneseyâ— Iersey Serk Erm and Aureney for the yearly Rent of a Rose to be paid at the feast of the Nativity of S. Iohn Bapt. As also of the Monnour and Hundred of Bristoll in Glouchesterâ—sh for the yearly ferm of lx li. and besides this of all the Kings Castles and Mannours within the Forest of Dene for the Rent of C. l. per ann To all which Honours he had this further added viz. to be Crowned King of the Isle of Wight by the Kings own hands But this hopefull branch the onely heir male to these great Earlsâ— was cropt in the flower of his youth before the fruits of his Heroik disposition could be fully manifested to the world for upon S. Barnabas day sc. xi Iunii 1445. 23. H. 6. being but xxii years of age he died at Hanley the place of his birth and was buried in the Abby of Tewksbury about the midst of the Quire at the head of Prince Edw. Son and Heir to
they are most proper to be made when I come to speak in particular of the Church I have the rather inserted here because they give some light to the succession of the Mannour whereunto in those times the patronage of the Church was except very rarely belonging But for want of better help whereby a perfect discovery might be had I am constrained to make use of them being not able to manifest so exactly as I would through what paths the succession of it went till the Lucies became Lords thereof In 20 H. 3. William Bonchivalier answered for part of a Knights fee here then certified to be held of the Earl of Warwick and in 36 H. 3. Raph de Wylinton which Raph in that great defection of the Barons towards the later end of H. 3. time was in Armes against the King and of the retinue to Geffrey de Lucie and in 52 H. 3. held this Mannour by the service of a Knights fee of the Earl of Warwick as of the Mannour of Brailes whose Tenants in 7 E. 1. did their suit twice a year at the Court-Leet for Braâ—les To this Raph succeeded Iohn de Wilinton who in 9 E. 2. held a half and a fourth part of a Knights fee here of the said Earl But the next possessor thereof was Sir William de Lucy Knight viz. in 3 E. 3. Since which his posterity of whom I have spoke in Cherlecote have succeeded him therein to this day The Church in anno 1291. 19 E. 1. was valued at viii marks and in 26 H. 8. at xii li. out of which was payd for Synodals and Procurations ix s. v d. ob Patroni Ecclesiae Incumbentes c. D. Will. de Lucy miles Rad. de Sileby Pbr. 5. Febr. 1328. D. Will. de Lucy miles Leonardus de Lucy Cler. 29. Apr. 1337. D. Will. de Lucy miles Ioh. le Worner Pbr. 21. Apr. 1338. D. Will. de Lucy miles Ioh. de Geydon Pbr. 28. Maii 1339. D. Will. de Lucy miles Ioh. filius Nich. Gerond 25. Oct. 1348. D. Baldw. de Bereford miles D. Ric. Ernold Pbr. 27. Apr. 1362. D. Baldw. de Bereford miles Ioh. Aspele 26. Apr. 1388. Thomas Lucie miles Rich. Penne 14. Iulii 1413 Thomas Lucie miles Rob. Cramford 17. Iulii 1413. Ric. Archer ar Ric. Hony 9. Oct. 1416. Atturnati Ricardi Comitis Warwici D. Ric. Paris Cap. 16. Ian. 1420. Edw. Lucy ar D. Henr. Amott Cap. 24. Feb. 1467. Will. Lucie ar D. Ioh. Barret Cap. 12. Oct. 1485. Will. Lucie ar D. Ric. Newman Cap. 17. Aug. 1487. Edm. Lucie fil haeres Will. Lucie mil. Magr. Ioh. Verney in art Magr. 4. Oct. 1503. Will. Lucie ar D. Edw. Large Cler. 5. Nov. 1537. Barton on the Heath OF this place the onely mention in the Conquerors Survey is that one Grim held at that time half a hide of land here of Robert de Stadford then valued at xx s. but in that Record it is written Bertone which is a Saxon word signifieth the same that in some places we now call a â—oldyard yet intendeth all such barnes and out-buildings as belong thereto I am of opinion that the E. of Mellent or Turchill de Warwick had something here at the same time though no particular instance be made thereof in Domesday-book in regard that afterwards Thomas de Arden was found to hold part of a Knights fee here of the Earl of Warwick But there is so little light in those elder times from Record touching this place that I can give but a slender account thereof In King Iohn's time one Simon de Barton was impleaded for certain lands here descended to him from Ranulph de Barton his grandfather yet whether the said Ranulph or his Ancestor were enfeoft of the whole Mannour or onely of some lands here by one of the Barons of Stafford I will not take upon me to determine for in 20 H. 3. it is apparent that Thomas de Arden answered for the fourth part of a Knights fee here held of the Earl of Warwick And in 36 H. 3. Robert Mareschall and Ric. le Eyr had the same fourth part of the said Thomas at which time all that was found to be held of the Baron of Stafford here was but the xvi th part of a Knights fee then possest by Richard le Frankleyn To the descendants of which Rob. Marshall it continued till Queen Elizabeth's time one whereof scil Robert past away the advouson of the Church and some lands here to Nicholas Makarell of Carleton in Lindsey com Linc. in 11 E. 2. but afterwards they had it again and wrote their names Marshall alias Bery Of which line without doubt was Edw. Bery who upon the death of his father 5 E. 6. was 26. years of age and past it away to Will. Underhill of Idlicote who dyed seized thereof 31 Martii 12 Eliz. leaving William his son and heir xiv years of age and upwards But in this Family of Underhill it continued not long for clear it is that one of the Berryes had it again of whom it was purchased by Walter Overbury a younger son to Sir Nich Overbury of Bourton on the Hill in Com. Glouc. Knight about the later end of King Iames his time which Walter rebuilt the Mannour-house of stone in such sort as it now is The Church dedicated to S. Laurence in Anno 1291. 19 E. 1. was valued at vii marks and a half and in 26 H. 8. at xiii li. vi s. viii d. over and above viii s. xi d. ob allowed for Procurations and Synodalls Patroni Ecclesiae Incumbentes c. Ric. le Marshall de Barton Will. de Preston Subdiac 12. Cal. Martii 1295. D. Nich. Makerell Magr. Ioh. de Hamelden Pbr. 7. Cal. Sept. 1322. D. Nich. Makerell Gilb. de Welleton Cler. 4. Non. Nov. 1323. D. Nich. Makerell D. Henr. de Cokham Cler. 10. Cal. Aug. 1325. .......... Magr. Ioh. de Welton 24 Maii 1354. D. Gilb. de Welton Carleol Episc. D. Henr. de Cokham Pbr. 29. Oct. 1355. Will. Marshall alÃas Bury gen Magr. Thomas Wynchcomb Pbr. 19. Iulii 1471. Will. Marshall alÃas Bury gen D. Rob Beldon Pbr. ult Dec. 1492. Iâ—â— Marshall alÃas Bury Ric. a Prise Cler. 6. Nov. 1500. Iâ—â— Marshall alÃas Bury D. Alex. Nowers 27. Ian. 1524. Iâ—â— Marshall alÃas Bury D. Edm. Marchall 6. Sept. 1525. Thom. Underhill gen ex concess Thomae Turvill Eliz. ux ejus Will. Underhill Cler. 23. Iulii 1579. In the East window of the Chancell these Armes Arg. a Cheveron sable betwixt 3. Squirils gules Bury Upon a Marble Gravestone in the Chancell this Inscription Here lyeth buried the bodies of Edmund Bury and Eliz. his wife which Eliz. was the seventh daughter of Edward Underhill of Nether-Etingdon in the County of Warwick Esquier The
Hugh having at that time a Church as also a Mill rated at xvi d and woods extending to one mile in length and half a mile in breadth all which were valued at xl s but before the Norman Invasion it belonged to Earl Algar of wnomin Coventre I have spoke I am of opinio that this Hugh was progenitor to that antient family of Hubaud which hath continued Lords of this Mannour in a lineall succession till now for in H. 2. time I do find one Hugh Hubald tenant unto Osbernus fil Hugonis grancdhild to the before specifyed Osbernus though we now do and for a long time through corruptnesse in expression have pronounced it Hubaud changing the l into u as is frequent in the Northern parts and thereupon so written it to this day But the 〈◊〉 that I meet with in this Countie sirnamed Hubold is Will. Hubold in 5 Steph. whom I suppose to have been son to the first Hugh and father to the said Hugh Hubâ—ld for the time and other circumstances will well enough bear it To which Hugh succeeded Henry whom I find sometimes written Hubald and sometimes Hubaut and to him another Henry though I cannot perfectly distinguish where the first ceased wherâ—fore I have upon consideration of the time seated him for part of H. 2. Ric. 1. and King Iohn's reign and accordingly have framed the ensuing Pedegree Hugo Will. Huboldus 5 Steph. Hugo Huboldus Henr. Hubald 1 Joh. Henr. Hubaud miles obiit 15 E. 1. Dionysia relicta temp E. 1. Joh. Hubaud defunctus 12 E. 2. Joh. Hubaud miles 13 E. 3. Margareta filia Emerici de Pancevot 14 E. 2. Ioh. Hubaud ar 29 E. 3. Thomas Hubaud ar 2 H. 2. Ric. Hubaud ar 12 H. 6. Thomas Hubaud ar 20 E. 4. Ric. Hubaut ar 5 H. 7. Anna filia Thomae Burâ— et de Arrow Joh. Hubaud ar 21 H. 8. Nich. Hubaud ar obiit 7 E. 6. Joh. Hubaud mil. obiit 26 Eliz. s. p. Maria filia Georgii Throkmorton eq aur Radulfus Hubaud frater haeres Joh. Hubaud anâ— 1642. .... filia Henrici Poole de Okeley in com Wiltes eq aur Radulfus Hubaud fil haeres Anna filia haeres Gervasii Teverey de Stapleford in Com. Nott. ar Will. Thomasâ— Robertus Galfridus This elder Henry was a partie to severall Fines levied of lands lying in this place and elswhere about the beginning of K. Iohn's time in which it is written Ippeslei and Yspelei but I suppose he was dead before the 13 of that Kings reign for then doth it appear that Dionysia de Bereford answered for half a Knights Fee here in Hipeley for so it is recorded which was then certified amongst the fees belonging to the Honour of Ricards-Castle in Herefordshire And in 20 H. 3. Henry Hubouth son to the said Henry was taxed for one Knights fee in Ippesleg under the title of those Fees belonging to the before specified Castle so also in 36. H. 3. Which Henry became a person of much action in this County during the time he lived for in 45 H 3. I find him in Commission for the Gaol delivery at Warwick and in 49 H. 3. one of those that helpt to hold out Kenilw. Castle against the K. for w ch this Mannour with the rest of his lands were seized on but that offence of his and others being wiped off by the Decree called Dictum de Kenilworth as I have elswhere shewed he was again a Commissioner for the Goal delivery at Warwick sc. in 53 54 56 H. 3.1 2 3 6 and 7 E. 1. In 13 E. 1. being questioned for withdrawing his suit from the County Court and claiming a Court Leet within this his Mannour of Hyppele by one Inquis it appears that he disclaimed any such challenge yet by another whereby Iohn de Hastings was required to shew by what authority he excercised that libertie in his Mannour of Aston-Cantilupe and extended it into this of Ipsley it is evident that VVill. de Cantilupe the elder together with this Henry had done it in K. Henr. 3. time whereupon that Prescription was allowed which Cantilupes were great men and having an eminent seat there coveted to get the observance of those neighbouring Inhabitants as it seems pretending that this Lordship was immediately held of that their Mannour of Aston and it of Ricard's Castle in regard that all of them were possest by Osbernus fil Ricardi in the Conquerors time For though by some Inquisitions it is said to be held of Ricard's-Castle yet in others was it found to be held of that Mannour and at last viz. in 1 E. 1. whether by the potency of Cantilupe or whether by agreement with Mortimer of Ricard's-Castle heir to Osbernus fil Ricardi as in Farnborough is shewed I know not was certified to be held of George de Cantilupe and so also in 15 E. 1. of Iohn de Hastings heir unto Cantilupe upon the death of the same Henry Hubaud himself and at severall times after To which Henry who was a Knight before he died succeeded Iohn Hubaud within age at his Father's death for in 12 E. 2. did Sir Eymerie Pauncefote K t grant and sell to S r VVill. Lucie of Cherlecote K t the marriage of the said Iohn to the intent that he should take to wife Magaret the daughter of the said S r VVill. Lucie which it seems he did accordingly as may appear by a Fine levied in 14 E. 2. whereby two parts of this Mannour were setled upon the said S r Emeriâ— and Ioan his wife for the life of the said Ioan whom I suppose to have been mother to the same Iohn and afterwards to return unto the same Iohn Hubaud and Margaret and the heirs of the said Iohn This Iohn Hubaud with many other persons of quality was in 15 E. 2. imployed into Wales upon the Kings service for which he had special Letters of Protection In 13 E. 3. he was a K t and in 18. one of the Commissioners in this County assigned to enquire what persons were seized of Lands to the yearly value of C s. and so upwards to a thousand pounds per an over and above reprises and to certifie the same In 19 E. 3. he had Summons to furnish himself with Horse and Armes against the Feast of S. Laurence to attend the King in his French Expedition and was also assigned one of the Commissioners of Array in this County as to the providing of Archers for that service but he then went not as it seems for I find that within 3 months after such his Summons the K. receiving advertisement that he was somewhat weak in body so that he could not well undergoe that imployment as also that two of his sons were then in his service beyond Sea viz. the one in Britanny and the other in Gascoign he had
default of such issue male he the said Earl and his heirs to do it After which establishment so made the said Richard de Montfort and his fellow Founders by their Deed indented bearing date at Toneworth the Tuesday next after the Feast of the Epiphany 49 E. 3. setled the said lands and Rent upon Iohn Iori the first Chantrie-Priest there and his successors to celebrate divine service daily in the said Chapell of our Lady and S. Thomas the Martyr for the souls of Thomas de Beauchamp Earl of Warwick the Lady Katherine his wife William Witlesey late Archbishop of Canterbury Sir Peter de Montfort Knight and Margaret his wife Sir Baldw. Frevill Knight Henry de Wolfrigeston late Vicar of Toneworth Sir Iohn de Montfort Knight Isabell late wife of Richard de Montfort Hugh de Brandeston and Christian his wife Nicholas Durvassall and Iohn de Honygton and for the good estate of T. de Beauchamp Earl of Warwick son and heir to the before mentioned Earl and Margaret his consort Sir William de Beauchamp Knight Sir Iohn de Clinton Knight Sir Baldw. Frevill Knight son and heir to the said Sir Baldwin Sir Henry de Arderne Knight Richard de Periton Priest Iohn Harewood Priest Lora de Astley Baldwyn de Montfort the Lady Alice de Langley Richard de Montfort and Rose his wife Thomas le Archer Philip de Aylesbury and Agnes his wife Roger de Ulbarwe and Alice his wife William de Montfort Clerk Richard Dolfyn Priest Richard Lyndsey Priest Roger de Green of Lapworth and Iohn Anketill and for every of their Children during this life and for their souls after their departures hence and the soules of all the faithfull deceased the value of which lands over and above reprises in 37 H. 8. were rated at Ciii s. ix d. Besides what belong'd to this Chantrie the Church of Lapworth had certain lands given thereto in 18 H. 6. by George Ashby the Elder viz. one messuage 12. acres of land and one acre of meadow then in the occupation of Thomas Hilton and Agnes his wife and another mess. with fifty acres of Land five acres of Meadow 31. acres of Pasture five acres of Wood two acres of Moore and viii s. vi d. Rent lying in Lapworth and Nuthurst All which were granted by the said George to Raph Perot then Parson of that Church and his successors to provide a certain Lamp to burne there and to performe other works of Charitie But these by Act of Parliament in 1 E. 6. coming to the Crown with all others of that kind were past away to ..... Grey in 18 Eliz. as concealed lands Before I leave Lapworth there are two things which I desire to cleer the one is how it comes to passe that it lying so far distant from Kineton Hundred is neverthelesse reputed to be parcell thereof and the other touching Bushwode which is a small Village of some scattering Houses within the precinct of this Lordship upon what reason it is in the parish of Old Stratford so many miles from it and in another Hundred To the first I answer that Lapworth coming by descent from Grentemaisnill to the old Earles of Liecester and that Earldom being at length swallowed up in the Dutchy of Lancaster it was antiently joyned with those towns in Kineton-Hundred which were certified under the title of Lancastriae Ducatus viz. â—â—â—â—â—ndon Foxcote Eatendon Thorndâ—n Fenni-Compton Oxshulf Tachebrokeâ— Merston-Boteler and Compton-wynzate and so still continuing in all assesments and otherwise is accounted part of that Hundred And yet in 9 E. 2. it was reputed as part of the Hundred now called the Libertie of Pathlow as Stratâ—ord still is And to that of Bushwode I say that it having long before the Norman Conquest been parcell of the possessions pertaining to the Bishops of Worcester as Stratford and Lapworth were and not disposed by the Conqueror with Lapworth to H. de Grentemaisnill but continuing to that Bishoprick was held by some of the succeeding Bishops as part of the demesn of Stratford their chief Mannour in this County being a meer Wood and therefore called Bissopeswude and so through corruptnesse of pronunciation Bushwode It seems that Frethric de Bishopesden was enfeoft thereof together with Bishopsden by Sampson Bishop of Worcester in H. 1. time for I find that he afterwards quite claimed his right therein and so did William his son and heir to Iohn de Constantiis Bishop in 9 R. 1. and his successors so that ever after it continued to that Bishoprick as a member of Stratford untill Nich. Heath Bishop of that See in 3 E. 6. past it with Stratford unto Iohn Dudley Earl of Warwick of which Mannour it still continues a member But that which is now called Bushwood-Hall hath no relation to it being the Mannour-house of Lapworth and indifferently stiled Lapworth-Hall or Bushwood-Hall because of its situation neer Bushwood Kingswood partly in the Parish of Lapworth and partly of Rowington OF this place by the name of the Mannour of Kingswood I have not seen any particular mention in Record till H. 5. time it having been antiently part of the possessions belonging to that great Family of Montfort Lords of Beldesert in this County as may appear from what I have observed in Wellesburne-Mountfort where it is taken notice of as a Wood lying at Badsley unto which it is contiguous and there it did passe with Wellesburne so that it seems it had long before that time been reputed a member thereof which is the reason why to this day it is accounted part of the Constablery though so far distant thence But from these Montforts by a daughter and coheir it came to Butler as Wellesburne did and in 13 H. 7. to Edward Belknap then of Merston juxta Wolston in this County Esquire upon partition made betwixt him and Sir Iohn Norbury Knight of all Butler's lands Which Edward by his Deed bearing date 16 Ian. in the year abovesaid sold it to Nich. Brome of Badsley-Clinton Esquire from whom it divolved with that Lordship to the Family of Ferrers and is so possest at this day Rowington FOllowing this petty torrent which cometh from Lapworth it soon leads me into the Hundred of Barlichway again where it forthwith meets with another little brook that hath its rising in Hemlingford Hundred on the Western side whereof Rowington vulgarly called Rownton is situate whereof I am next in order to speak This town standing upon a rocky ground had originally its name from thence as may seem by the antient Orthographie thereof viz. Rochintone for so it is written in the Conqueror's Survey where it is certified to contain three hides having a Church and woods belonging thereto then esteem'd at one mile in length and half a mile and eight furlongs in bredth All which having been the freehold of one Baldwin in Edward the Confessors days were then possest by Hugh de
paternall inheritance into which he was by the said Decree again so reinvested had restitution of an Annuitie of Lv li. per annum to be paid out of the Exchequer to himself and his heirs which had been formerly granted to his Father in lieu of certain woods lying in the Forest of Rutland wherein he had quitted his title to the said King After which I find that resolving on a Pilgrimage to S. Iames in Gallicia he constituted Humphrey de Hastang and Richard de Wrenhull or one of them his Atturney to transact his affairs in the mean time but whether he went the same year or not being 56 H. 3. I am not certain for in 3 E. 1. he had another License to that purpose and within a short space grew in such esteem with King Edward that being imployed in his service for the warrs of Wales 5 E. 1. in 8. of that King's reign he granted unto the renowned Queen Elianore the marriage of Iohn his son and heir with power that she should dispose of him in that kind to whom she pleased and in 11 E. 1. attended the King in that Welch expedition wherein those parts were wholy reduced to obedience for which service he was acquitted of L li. debt due by him to have been paid into the Exchequer This Peter altered his coat of Armes from what his Father and grandfather bore changing their Bendé of six pieces to Bendé of ten but retaining the Colours and departed this life in 15. E. 1. leaving issue Iohn his son and heir and Elizabeth a daughter afterwards married to Will son and heir of Simon de Montacute for which Lady there is yet standing a very beautifull Monument of Marble with her statue cut to the life on the North side of the Quire at Christ Church in Oxford heretofore the Conventuall Church of S. Fridiswides Monasterie there where there was afterwards a Chantrie of two secular Priests founded to celebrate divine service daily for her soul and for the souls of the said William de Montacute as also of Iohn Bokyngham Bishop of Lincolne Sir Peter de Montfort her father the Lady Maud her mother and of Iohn de Montacute William de Montacute Earl of Salisbury Simon de Montacute Bishop of Ely Edward de Montacute Alice de Aubenie the Lady Mary Cogan Elizabeth Prioresse of Haliwell the Lady Hawise Bavent the Lady Maud Abbesse at Berking the Lady Isabell a Nun of Berking children of him the said Sir William de Montacute and her and moreover for the souls of Sir Thomas de Furnivall her second husband Sir Peter Limsie her kinsman and Simon Islipâ— and for the souls of all her parents and friends But of the said Iohn de Montfort do I find very little memorable other than that he took to wife Alice the daughter of Will. de la Plaunche by whom he had issue Iohn and Peter with two daughters viz. Eliz. and Maud whose issue came to possesse a great part of the inheritance pertaining to this family as I shall shew anon for Iohn their elder brother who was one of the murtherers of Peirs de Gaveston having in 7. E. 2. received his Pardon for that offence march't with our English Army into Scotland and there lost his life in the battail of Strivelin without issue Peter the other brother having none legitimate Which Peter for I am next in course to speak of him was first in Holy Orders but after his brother's death enjoying a fair inheritance notwithstanding his sacred function was so dispensed with as it seems that he betook himself to the world and became a Knight And standing loyall to King E. 2. in the time of that great defection when so many adhered to Thomas Earl of Lancaster had a joint Commission with Will. de Beauchamp and Roger de Aylesbury for the safe custody of the City of Worcester In 20. of that King's reign he was made Governour of Warwick Castle then in the King's hands by reason of the Earls minority In 18 19 25 and 26. of E. 3. one of the Commissioners for conservation of the Peace in this County In 20. for arraying of Clx. Archers and in 29. for putting the Statute of Labourers in execution This Iohn took to wife Margaret daughter of the Lord Furnivall but by her had issue no more than one onely son called Guy betwixt whom and Margaret one of the daughters to Thomas de Beauchamp Earl of Warwick there was a marriage in 21 E. 3. by vertue of a speciall dispensation from Roger Northburgh Bishop of Coventry Lichfield having authority from Pope Clement the sixt for the same in regard they stood allied in the third and fourth degrees of Consanguinity which marriage was designed by the said Peter and the Earl for the better founding a league of friendship betwixt them and their posteritie in regard that many suits had been betwixt their Ancestors by reason that their lands in divers places lay contiguous Shortly after which marriage there was an estate in tail made of this Castle and Mannour with divers other Lordships lying in this Countie as also in the Counties of Nott. Rutl. and Surrey whereby for want of issue by the said Guy and Margaret they were after the decease of the said Sir Peter to remain unto Tho. de Beauchamp then Earl of Warwick and Katherine his wife and the heirs of the said Earl Which Thomas having obtained such an estate thereof in reversion in 35 E. 3. the same Guy being then dead without issue entailed the same upon Thomas his son and heir and the heirs male of his body and for lack of such issue on William his second son afterwards Lord Bergavenny and the heirs male of his body and for want of such issue on his own right heirs But all this while was Sir Peter de Montfort living who having had certain issue by an old Concubine called Lora de Ullenhale in E. 2. time daughter to one Richard Astley of Ullenhale took care for their advancement as may appear by those possessions they enjoyed whereof I have taken notice in due place And being grown an old man made his Testament bearing date on Saturday next after the Feast of the Conception of our Lady anno 1367. 41 E. 3. by which he bequeathed his body to sepulture in the Church of the Friers Preachers at Warwick whereunto he gave x li. that the said Friersâ— should pray for his soul. To the Nuns of Pinley he gave x. marks for the like purpose and to the Lady Lora de Astley his old paramour then a Nun there C s. To Sir Baldw. Frevill the elder Kt. his kinsman xx li. To his son Richard de Montfort all hâ—s silver and gilt plate as also all his goods moveable and unmoveable lying in his Mâ—nnours of Kingsâ—urst in this Countie and
of all his right title and claim that he had or could challenge thereto dated 18 o Iunii 26 H. 6. And for the better securing of their title did the said Provost and Scholars in 1 E. 4. procure a speciall Patent from that King of Confirmation for this and other lands of that kâ—nd which by the munificence of their pious Founder had been granted to them the same Patent bearing date at Westminster 22 Febr. Patroni Priores de Wootton Abbas de Conchis in Normannia Rog. de Pavilliaco monach 12. Cal. Ian. 1285. Abbas de Conchis in Normannia Frater Ioh. de Brocâ—a monach de Conchis 8. Cal. Iunii 1288. Abbas de Conchis in Normannia Frater Will. de Laverceye monach de Conchis 8. Id. Nov. 1309. Abbas de Conchis in Normannia Frater Ioh. le Tonnelier monach 26. Iulii 1328. Abbas de Conchis in Normannia Frater Iohâ— de Silvaneto 2. Ian. 1340. Abbas de Conchis in Normannia Frater Guillerinus Pinchart die Mart. post festum Dionysii martyris 1349. Abbas de Conchis in Normannia Frater Ioh. Maubert monach de Conchis 7. Martii 1370. Abbas de Conchis in Normannia Ioh. Soverain monach de Conchis .... 1400. Henr. 6. Rex Angl. c. Ioh. de Conchis monachus 17. Iunii 1438. Aspley OF this place there is no mention in the Conqueror's Survey and therefore I do conclude that it was at that time involved with Wootton Neither have I seen any thing of it in Record till 5 H. 3. that Alan de Bercheston impleaded Robert de Chaucumbe for certain lands here wherein it is written Apsele That this Robert de Chaucumbe was then Lord of it will appear by what I have next to say viz. that in 15 H. 3. by a Fine levied betwixt Gilbert de Segrave Annabil his wife Plantiffs and the same Robert de Chaucumbe deforc the said Robert having given her the said Annabil his eldest daughter in marriage to the same Gilbert and Milisent the other to Raph Basset setled his lands lying in the Counties of Northampt. Warwick Leic. and Linc. so as if he should fortune to have any other heir besides them two the said Gilbert and Annabil and the heirs of Annabil to enjoy the moitie only of this Mannour of Aspele and the other moitie to go unto the said Raph Basset and Milisent and the heirs of Milisent for ever But plain it is that the said Robert de Chaucuâ—be had no other issue so that upon such partition as was afterwards made betwixt those coheirs this Mannour of Aspele came wholly to Anabill whereupon the before specified Gilbert de Segrave her husband in 36 H. 3. obiained a Charter of Freewarren in all his demesn lands here having an antient Mannour-house upon it as it should seem by the large moat with a Park yet did not her issue by the same Gilbert enjoy it For being afterwards married to Roger de Somery whom she survived in her full and lawfull widowhood she granted it unto Iohn de Somery her son by that husband and to the heirs of his body lawfully begotten to be held of her and her heirs paying unto her and Nicholas de Segrave her son and heir and his heirs a pair of gilt Spurrs or six pence at the Nativity of S. Iohn Baptist yearly for all services Which Iohn in 13 E. 1. claymed a Court Leet here with Assize of Bread and Beer therein by Prescription whereof he had then allowance But at length it returned to the line of Segrave and in 18 E. 3. was with divers other Mannours in severall Counties entailed by Sir Iohn de Segrave Knight upon the issue of his body by Margaret his wife and for default of such issue upon his right heirs Which Margaret had it inter alia in dower as appears by the Inquis taken after the death of Sir Walter Manney Knight her second husband By vertue of which entail it divolved through an heir female to the Family of Moubray being in 1 H. 4. committed with divers other Mannours in this County to Sir Thomas Rempston Kt. in respect that Thomas the son and heir to Thomas Moubray Duke of Norff. was then in minority and by Moubray's daughter and coheir to Berkley Thomas Lord Berkley dying seized of it in 26 H. 8. leaving Henry his son and heir who accomplisht his full age in 2 3 Ph. M. Forde Hall THis lying within the precincts of Aspele was about the beginning of E. 1. reign granted by Sir Iohn de Somery before mentioned to one Roger de la Forde of Aspele and Agatha his wife and their heirs the Rent of xii d. yearly payable at the Feast of S. Michael and the Annunciation of our Lady by equall portions being thereupon reserved as also forrein service and suit to the Court of him the said Iohn and his heirs Hence came it in succeeding times to be called Forde Hall and in 5 R. 2. past by the name of a Mannour from one Nicholas Prylle of Ludlow to Henry de Bonnebury and his heirs but at length came to Iohn Fullwode about H. 8. time in marriage with Ioan the daughter and heir to Baldwyn Heath Which Iohn being second son to Robert Fullwode of Cley Hall in Tanworth had issue Iohn and he a third Iohn who by marriage with Katherine daughter coheir to Thomas Dabridgcourt of Langdon Hall left issue six daughters his heirs scil Frances the wife of William Noell of Welsborough in Com. Leic. Esquire Elianor of Sir Edw. Hampden Knight Alice of Sir George Fullwode Kt. Christian of Iohn Hales Esquire Grace of Angell Grey of Kingston in Com. Dors. Esquire and Katherine which Grace upon the partition of that inheritance had inter alia this for her share Mockley I Am of opinion that this now bearing the name of Mockley was part of that land which Robert de Stafford granted to the Monks of Conchis whereof in Wootton I have spoke but of it I do not find any particular mention till about E. 1. time and that is also accidentally Gilbert de Monkelee and William de Monkelee with Roger then Vicar of Wootton being witnesses to a grant of certain lands in Buckele lying hard by made to the Monks of Wootton whence I conclude that having belong'd to those Monks it therefore had the name of Monkelee and that by shortnes of pronunciation it is now called Mockle As part of the possessions therefore of that Religious House was it in 7 H. 5. granted by the King with the Priory of Wootton to Sir Rouland Lenthale Knight and in 22 H. 6. past therewith likewise to the Provost and Scholars of King's Colledge in Cambridge by the name of the Mannour of Molkele and being confirmed to that Colledge by King E. 4. is enjoyed accordingly at this day Vllenhale THis place having been part
heard who left two daughters and coheirs scil Margaret the wife of Sir Sim. Clarke Baronet and Elianor of Charles Stanford grandchild to Sir VVill. Stanford Kt. sometime one of the Justices of the King's Bench by Sir Rob. Stanford Kt. his second son Which Charles had issue Iohn and he VVilliam the present owner thereof About the time of K. H. 2. reign there was an Agreement made betwixt the Monks of Evesham and the Canons of Kenilworth touching the Chapell of this Little Salford whereby it appeareth that the said Canons released to those Monks all the land which had been given to maintain divine Service in that Chapell preserving always the first Composition made betwixt the Monasteries of Evesham and Kenilworth before the building of that Chapell And as for the meadow which was given to this Chapell the Monks by this Agreement granted that the Church of great Salford should have that part of it which lyeth betwixt the Water and the Foot-path leading from Salford Mill to Clive Mill by the upper Foarde but the other part of the meadow to continue as the demesn of the Abbot upon condition that it might not be grazed or mowed before the whole meadow should be cut Wood-Bevinton Cock-Bevinton THese two petty Hamlets being originally members of Salford-Priors were involved therewith both in the Conqueror's Survey and in the grant to the Canons of Kenilworth as appears by that Certificate made in 9 E. 2 wherein by the name of Byvinton major and Byvinton minor they were so reputed Of which Wood Bevinton the said Canons did make a Lease to VVill. Grey the elder in H. 7. time who in 21 of that King's reign depopulated here 6 Messuages and one Cottage xxx acres of arable land belonging to each Messuage which he converted unto pasture To whom succeeded Will. his son and heire who surrendring that Lease purchased the inheritance thereof from those Canons for a Fee-ferm Rent of xiiili xiiis iiiid per an and in 10 H. 8. when the Statute of Inclosures was lookt into reedifyed four of the said Messuages Which Will. had issue Eliz. his daughter and heire wife to Edward Ferrers second son to Sir Edw. Ferrers of Badsley-Clinton in this County Kt. who left only daughters whereof Elizabeth the eldest was married to Thomas Randolph son z and heir to Thomas Randolph of Codington in Com. Buck. who purchasing the interest of the other Sisters became intirely Lord of this Mannour and left issue Ferrers Randolph his son and heir now owner thereof Of Cock-Bevynton I can say no more than that it is now possest by Sir Simon Clerke Baronet together with Salford wherewith I suppose thath past ever since it was in the Crown Dunnington THis is also a member of Prior's Salford and involved therewith in all grants by which means it is now possest by the before specified Sir Sim. Clarke HEMLINGFORD HVNDRED THe place whence this Hundred takes its appellation is the Foard or passage over Tame somewhat more than a Flight shoot Southwards from Kingsbury Church of which likewise the Mill near unto it is still called Hemlingford Mill but antiently Colshill that stands about the midst of the Hundred gave name thereto as appears by the Conquerors Survey and to this day the Three-weeks Court held for the same Hundred is kept there 'T is very like that the original occasion of calling the Inhabitants to this place whereupon the name came so to be changed was for that some of the Ardens whose seat Kingsbury long since was being Shiriffs of the Countie caused the meeting of the Hundreders there in regard of their Vicinitie to it but leaving this as a conjecture I come to its antiquity the first mention that I find of its name being in 8 H. 2. Where Raph. Basâ—et the then Shiriff accompts for certain money by way of Amercement for Murther payd out of it and after this scil in 16 H. 2. two marks were answered into the Exchequer for it pro placitis concelatis yet there it is written Sipesocha de Humeliford and so are Cnuchtelaw and Chinton all which had the title of Hundreds soon after But doubtlesse it should have been Sithesoca the old Saxon 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 being mistaken for a p as in Knightlow I have already intimated which importeth as much as the Fraunchise Libertie or Jurisdiction of a certain company of men suppose an hundred or the like number coming from the Saxon 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 signifying a number multitude or company and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a priviledgeâ— Libertie or Jurisdiction And in 21 H. 2. xv marks was accounted to the King for three Murthers whereas it had been amerced but there it is written Sibbesocâ—â— de Humiliford the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 being mistaken for a b. as before it was for a p. So also in 24 H. 2. Howbeit in â— H. 2. 1 R. 1. upon the like amerciament for Murther it is called Humeliford Hundred which manifests that the word Sithesoca and Hundâ—edus do intend one and the same thing After which it is constantly termed Hundredus de Humeliford But in K. Iohn's time the Ferm thereof was xx marks the profits of the Leet xl s. the Shiriffs Aid xvii li. xviii s. and the Warth money v s. Which Warth silver now by corruption of speech called Wharfe money I take to have been at first a certain payment for service of warding the King's Castles in this County for antiently it is written Ward peny as by sundry authorities I could manifest In 21 H. 3. Will. de Luscy being â—hen Shiriff accounted For The Ferme thereof xx marks The Shiriffs Aid vi li. The Leet xli s. iiii d. Warth silver v s. In 4 E. 1. by Inquisition taken before the Justices Itinerant it was found that the profits of this Hundred besides perquisites amounted to xiiii li. iii s. ii d. ob per an and the perquisites xx li. it being then in the King's hand In 11 E. 2. the Bayliwick thereof was committed to one Will. Reymond to hold during the Kings pleasure paying yearly to the Shiriff of this County for the time being as much as others had used to doe so that he should keep the same Bailywick according to the forme of the Statute of Lincolne Nor can I find that it was ever out of the Crown untill 3 Eliz. that the Queen by her Letters Pat. bearing date 10 Ian. granted it with all the rights belonging thereto unto Brian Cave Esquier and Edw. Williams and their heirs to hold in Socage of the Mannour of East Grenewich To which Brian succeeded in the possession thereof Sir Ambrose Cave Knight who dying seized of it in 10 Eliz. left Margaret his daughter and heir then wife of Henry Knolls Esquier Which Henry having issue by her two daughters and heirs viz. Mary
and he three daughters that were his heirs with the eldest of whom he gave these lands of Nechels to Sir Robert de Handsacre Knight in frank marriage but she dying without issue they came to Alice her niece then the wife of Sir George de Castell Knight which Alice in her widowhood sc 4 E. 3. in consideration of xl li. of silver past away all her interest in this Mannour unto Simon del Holt of Bermingham and his heirs whose posteritie have continued Lords thereof ever since Sir Thomas Holt now of Aston Knight and Baronet being the present owner thereof Anno scil 1640. But it hath been long since totally depopulated though antiently it was a pretty Village as by severall instances might be shewed for in 34 E. 3. Sir Thomas de Arden Knight had a mansion here as appears by a License granted to him from Robert de Stretron then Bishop of this Dioces to have a private Oratorie or Chapell therein for himself and his own Family It seems that the same Philip de Aylesbury of whom I have made mention in Dudston had also some interest here in R. 2. time for he then wrote himself Dominus de Dudston de Nechells but of what extent it was I cannot say all which was passed by Sir William de Bishopsdon in 2 H. 5. unto Rich. de Clodshale of Saltley and his heirs being said to have sometime belong'd unto the same Philip de Aylesbury In 33. H. 6. there was a Fine levied betwixt Thomas Waldeyve and Williaem Leycroft Plantiffs and Robert Danvers Henry Fillongley and Iohn Holt Esquire deforciants of this Mannour for by that name it then passed by which it seemeth that the inheritance thereof became vested in the before specified Thomas Waldeyve perhaps to the use of the same Iohn Holt and his heirs for in 20 H. 8. Thomas Holt who then wrote himself de medio Templo London generosus was owner thereof which Thomas was grandfather to Sir Thomas above mentioned Dudston OF this Hamlet there is now no more left than the Mannour-house but by the name I should judge it to be a Village of great antiquitie and so called from Dode or Dud whence Dudley doubtlesse had the appellation But till E. 1. time I have not found any mention of it in Record in regard it was involved with Aston and so came to Sir Thomas de Erdington as a member thereof though it be not particularly named for it is evident that Henry de Erdington great grandchild to the said Sir Thomas did his fealtie to Ioane Botetourt Lady of Weoley as coheir to Someri Baron of Dudley on S. Mark 's day 17 E. 2. for this place together with Aston mention being made of their tenure by a pair of gilt Spurs or six pence as in the originall grant of Aston may be seen which Sir Henry for he was afterwards a Knight granted it by the name of Manerium de Dudeston to Thomas de Maidenhache and his heirs about the beginning of E. 1. time who had Free warren in all his demesn lands here together with Aston as by the King's grant thereof in 14 E. 1. appeareth but having severall daughters and heirs as in Aston is shewed this inter alia was allotted as a member of Aston unto Sibill the wife of Adam de Grymesarwe by means whereof it came to Iohn de Grymesarwe their son and heir who sold it unto Iohn atte Holt in 38 E. 3. for xl marks From which Iohn it is descended as the Pedegree in Aston manifesteth unto Sir Thomas Holt now of Aston Knight and Baronet the present Lord thereof and was his principall seat till he had built Aston house But notwithstanding the Mannour thus fixed in the Familie of Holt there was a considerable part of this Village antiently possest by the Aylesburyes of whom I have spoke in Edston for I finde that Roger de Aylesbury stiled himself Dominus de Dodestone in 5 E. 2. so also did Philip de Aylesbury in 10 R. 2. yet when or how it past from Aylesbury I have not seen but in 2 H. 5. Sir William de Bishopsden Knight granted to Richard de Clodshale all the lands and tenements lying here which had formerly belong'd to the before specified Philip de Aylesbury after which I have not met with farther mention of them Deretend THis place antiently written Dury-yatehend though it be within the Parish of Aston is parcell of the Lordship of Bermingham so that of it self there is nothing farther memorable than a certain Chapell erected about the beginning of King Ric. the second 's time wherein by an Agreement made 13. Iunii Anno 1381. 4 R. 2. betwixt the Monks of Tykford in right of their Rectorie of Aston before specified Richard Shobenhale then Vicar of Aston and Sir Iohn Botetort Knight Patron of the said Priorie of Tykford on the one part And Sir Iohn Birmingham Kt. Lord of this Hamlet Geffrey Boteler Robert Greene and others Inhabitants here and in Bordsley on the other part by the consent of Robert de Stretton then Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield the said Inhabitants of these two Hamlets partly in respect of the danger by flouds especially in Winter-time and their great distance from the said mother-Church of Aston and partly that their Children might not want Baptisme in case of necessity there should be a Font in the said Chapell and that they might have libertie to find at their own proper costs a fitting Priest to celebrate divine Service therein as also for Churching of women Provided that the same Inhabitants should repaire to the said Mother-Church of Aston on Easter-day Christmasse-day All-Hallown-day and the days of the Dedication of the said Church scil S. Peter S. Paul hapning next after the Feasts of the Nativity of S. Iohn Baptist and Purification of the blessed Virgin then and there to render and pay to God and the said Parish Church all their Tithes great and small with Oblations in such sort as they had antiently used and were of right to do to the same Church Which Priest so serving in this Chapell was by the before specified Agreement in case the Vicar of Aston for the time being or his Parochiall Priest could not attend it to visit the sicke of these two Hamlets and to administer unto them as also to confesse and absolve them so as they should shrive themselves once a yeare to the said Vicar of Aston or his Parochiall Priest as of right they ought After which viz. in 6 R. 2. did William Geffen Thoms Holden Robert of the Greene Richard â—ene Thomas de Belne and Iohn Smyth obtain License of the King to give certain lands of x. marks yearly value and lying within the said Parish of Aston for the finding of a Priest to celebrate divine Service daily in this Chapell But in 37 H. 8. were the possessions lying in Bordsley
Esquier And to manifest that he was a person eminently qualified in 18 E. 2. he served in the Parliament then held at London as one of the Knights for this Shire having ii s. vi d. allowed him per diem for his expences during that imployment But in 1 E. 3. upon a strong suspition of Heresie suggested against him to the King a Commission to Will. de Clinton bearing date 3 Maii was forthwith issued out not only to arrest and take him but to seize on all his lands goods and Chattels of which being advertised he submitted himself to prison and brought in sureties to stand to a lawfull triall therein viz. Raph. de Crophull of Notinghamshire Walt. de Heselarton of Yorkshire Edm. de Shireford David de Caunton Rog. le Pledour and Iohn de Alspath of this County whereupon he was set at liberty and his lands and goods restored to him as by the King 's special Precept bearing date at Notingham 3 Sept. appeareth After which viz. in 5 E. 3. the said Lord Basset received his full accompt for all the time he had served and reâ—eined to him and gave him a generall Acquittance To whom succeeded Iohn who for the lands in Blaggreve which sometime belong'd to Rob. de Blaggreve his grandmothers Father obtained a Release from Sir Baldwin Frevill Knight heir â—o Marmion as to the suit due to his three weeks Court at Stipershull and all other services for that land during his own life and the life of Maud his wife saving to the said Sir Baldwin his homage and a pair of gilt spurs at the Feast of S. Edith yearly This Iohn in 30 E. 3. payd to Sir Iohn de Arden Kt. and Henry his brother Executors to Raph de Arden their father the sum of vi s. viii d. for reasonable Aid due upon the marriage of Sibill his eldest daughter in respect of the lands in Moxhull which he held of him by military service and at the same time xxxiii s. iiii d. for a Relief due to the before specified Raph for those lands and bore for his Armes three Eglets displayed gules as by his Seal and an old Glasse window in Bentley Chapell appeareth which coat or part thereof at least was assumed by Henry his Father for I have seen a Seal of his with one Eglet displaied within the compasse of a roundle and not in a Shield a course very antiently used before they put their Badges into Shields as I have observed in the Families of Beke of Eresby and Darcy the first of which bore their Crosse sarcilè so and the other their Cinquefoile Which Iohn bearing a singular reverence to the Monks of Merevale desired that his body might be there buried as may appear by certain land and Rent that he assigned to some friends in trust for the finding of divers wax Lights to burn every Sunday and Holiday in the Chapell of our Lady adjoyning to the gate of that Abby for which respect he had a special grant from Robert de Atherston Abbot of that House and his Covent under their publick Seal bearing date the Wednsday after Lammas 33 E. 3. of a certain proportion of ground within the said Chapell of our Lady containing seven foot square where he and Maud his wife at the death of each should have sepulture And that upon all great Festivall days aswell as Sundays five waxen Lights should be burning there as also that he the said Iohn and Maud should have liberty to set up Images in the same Chapell in honour of the blessed Virgin Henricus de Insula Will. de Insula 21 H. 3. Margareta Nicholaus de Insula 36 H. 3. Amieâ—a 41 H. 3. Iuliana filia haer Rob. de Blaggreve 1 E. 1. Ankitellus de Insula 22 E. 1. Christiana ux 2 obiit 33 E. 1. Philippus de Insula Rector Eccl. de Wishaw 4 E. 2. Henr. de Insula 4 E. 2. Iohanna 9 E. 2. Philippus de Insula Rector Eccl. de Cavendish 9 E. 3. Henr. de Insula 9 E. 3. Ioh. de Insula 9 E. 3. Matilda relicta 47 E. 3. Idonea 1 R. 2. Ioh. de Insula 6 H. 4. Margeria 13 H. 4. Will. de L'ile ar 29 H. 6. Iuliana filia Rob. Midlemore de Eggebaston Henricus de L'isle ob 20 H. 7. Eliz. filia Will. Morgan Iohannes L'isle obiit 29 H. 8. Anna filia haeres Will. Lecroft de Colshull 12 H. 8. Nich. L'isle obiit 32 H. 8. Anna filia Thomae Swinerton de Hilton in Com. Staff Thomas L'isle ob 23 Aug. 8 Eliz. Anna filia Georgii Masterson una sororum cohaer Thomae Ioh. L'â—sle obiit 24 Ian. 36 Eliz. Dorothea filia Georgii Willoughby filii Hugonis Wiloughby mil. Franciscus L'isle obiit infra aet 38 Eliz. Ioh. L'isle ar Brigitta filia Ioh. Knotsford de Studley Ioh. L'isle Maria filia Mathei Cradock de Caverswall-castro in Com. Staff ar Regin L'isle de quo illi de Bremor in Com. Suthâ— To which Iohn succeeded Iohn his son who in H. 5. time was retained by the Earl of Warwick amongst other of his Esquires to serve him with one Lance and one Archer at the seige of Caleis for which he was to receive xxl per an besides his diet And to him William and to William Henry who gave the Rectorie of Wilmecote with all the Tithes thereto belonging to Thomas Clapton Master of the Gild at Stratford super Avon to the intent that the Priest singing the first Masse every day in the said Gild should say De profundis before the holy Lavatorie for the good estate of him the said Henry and Elizabeth his wife and for their souls after their departure hence as also for the soules of his ancestors and successors Which Henry was Shiriff of this County and Leicestershire in the second and nineteenth years of K. H. 7. reign and by his Testament dated 13 Sept. 20 H. 7. bequeathing his body to be buried within his own proper Chapell in the Church of S. Chad at Wishaw before the Image of Henry the sixth sometime King of England departed this life about that time for the Probate of his Will beareth date the next month following Unto which Henry succeeded Iohn his son and heir who taking to wife Anne the daughter and heir of Will. Lecrofte had with der divers Houses and a great proportion of land lying in Colshill and other places Of this Iohn I find that upon the birth of Elizabeth second daughter to King H. 8. afterwards Qu. of England he received a special Letter from Qu. Anne dated at Greenwich 7 Sept. 25 H. 8. advertising him of the good speed she had in her deliverance and desiring his congratulation unto God for it as also his Prayers for the good health prosperity and continuall preservation of the said young Princesse To whom succeed Nicholas and to him Thomas who wedded
purchase of more from Richard de Kyncton as also of a Mill with two Pooles called Horn-Poole and Nes-poole from Gerard de Alspath and Maud his wife in 12 E. 2. obtained a speciall Charter from the King for a weekly Mercate upon the Tuesday at this his Mannour of Alspath and a Faire yearly to last for eight days beginning on the Eve of S t Laurence the Martyr From which Family with their other lands it came to the Moubrays Dukes of Norfolk by a daughter and heir as in Caludon appeareth in whose line it continued till Edward the fourth's time But the next posseâ—or of it of whom I have found mention was Thomas Earl of Derby in 11 H. 8. to whose posterity it continues till this present anno scil 1640. A fourth part of a Mannour here had one Thomas de Paunton who levied a Fine thereof to Sir Henry de Ardern Knight and others in 38 E. 3. though not recorded till 1 R. 2. which was sold afterwards to Wyard if my Author mistake not and from him came to Robert Castell as I guess for in 11 H. 4. had the said Robert a Charter of Free warren in all his demesn lands here This being that as I conceive which Iohn Waldeff Esquire and Margaret his wife were possest of in 15 H. 6. Within the precincts of this Parish also had the Family of Waldeif antiently a Seat which continued in that line for divers descents but at length by a daughter and coheir came to Walshe whereupon it had the name of Walshe-Hall as we find at this day the first of them for whom I have seen any good authority being Gerard Waldeive who bestowed on the Monks of Coventre certain lands here To which Gerard succeeded VVilliam who about the beginning of K. Edward the first 's time gave the yearly Rent of xx d. for the maintenance of two Lamps to burn before the Altar of S t Laurence and S t Nicholas in the Church of Alspath as also two Waxen Tapers to be lighted at the Elevation of the Host in the said Church And after him another William but whether he were his son or grandson I know not which VVilliam was in Commission for levying and collecting a xth and xvth in 23. E. 3. And having been one of the Coroners in this Countie for some time was in 34 E. 3. by reason of his debilitie discharged of that Office This last mentioned William had issue Alan Waldeyffe who by the marriage of Ioane daughter and heir to Richard de Whitacre became possest of Elmedon and there resided in 17 R. 2. The next year ensuing he was Eschaetor for this County and Leicestershire In 21 R. 2. in Commission for levying and collecting a xvth and xth In 2 H. 4. Eschaetor again In 3 H. 4. in Commission for levying and collecting the Aid for marriage of Blanch the King's eldest daughter and left issue two daughters and heirs viz. Margaret the wife to Thomas Hore of Elmedon and Elene married to Richard Walsh by which means these lands in Alspath came to Walsh the said Richard being certified in 1 E. 4. to hold the fourth part of a Knight's Fee here of the Duke of Norfolke as of his Mannour which was Segrave's It seems that the heires male of this Richard Walshe continued the possession hereof for divers descents for I find that Sir Richard Walshe of Sheldesley in Com. Wigorn. Knight was possest of it about the beginning of King Iames his reign and that he left two daughters and heirs scil Ioyce married to Sir Rowland Cotton of Alkington in Com. Salop. Knight and Anne to Sir Thomas Bromley Knight Of which Sir Rowland and Dame Ioyce it was purchased by William Andrews of Northfield in Câ—m Wigorn. Gentleman and William Replingham of Harborow in this County Gentleman 1. Sepâ— 16 Iac. who within four years after sold it unto Sir Robert Fisher of Packington Knâ—ght and Bar. the now owner thereof Anno scil 1640. In 24 H 8. Roger Wigston Esquire purchased certain lands lying here in Alspath of one Robert Crowe and others by the name of the fourth part of the Mannour of Alspath and in 25 H. 8. of Richard Hoo and others by the name of the Mannour of Alspath which Richard Hoo as it seemes had a grant of then from Iohn Walsyngham all which were given by the same Roger to the Hospitall of Bablake in Coventre The Church dedicated to S. Laurence being very antiently given to the Monks of Coventre and appropriated in 44 H. 3. was in anno 1291. 19 E. 1. valued at six marks over and above an yearly Pension of three marks issuing out of it to the Dean and Chapter of Lichfield And in 26 H. 8. at Cxii s. besides ix s. vi d. allowed for Procurations and Synodals In the South I le of this Church there was a Chantrie founded by Iohn Wyard in 5 H. 4. whose Monument is also there and endowed with lands to the value of C s. per annum Which Iohn being an Esquire to Thomas de Beauchamp Earl of Warwick and in 2 R. 2. one of the Knights for this Shire in the Parliament then held at Westminster had his residence in this place But that which belong'd to this Chantrie was in Rents issuing out of lands lying remote from hence and amounting to iv li. per annum as was certified in 26 H. 8. upon the Survey then made Patroni Vicariae Incumbentes c. Prior Conventus de Coventre Will. fil Gerardi de Alespath 4. Cal. Dec. 1301. Prior Conventus de Coventre Ioh. de Kirkeby Cap. Non. Sept. 1312. Prior Conventus de Coventre Thomas Legat Pbr. 19. Cal. Iulii 1321. Prior Conventus de Coventre Ioh. Moyses Pbr. 6. Cal. Sept. 1361. Prior Conventus de Coventre Thomas Lucas Cap. 25. Maii 1411. Prior Conventus de Coventre Ioh. Heyfield Pbr. 20. Iunii 1422. Prior Conventus de Coventre Ioh. Brokesby Pbr. 2. Dec. 1423. Prior Conventus de Coventre D. Will. Hancock 20. Apr. 1425. Prior Conventus de Coventre Rob. Yronmonger 15. Oct. 1426. Prior Conventus de Coventre Thomas Waghan Pbr. 13. Apr. 1445. Prior Conventus de Coventre Ioh. Caryngham Pbr. 25. Febr. 1448. Prior Conventus de Coventre Ioh. Summerland Pbr. 17. Ian. 1492. Prior Conventus de Coventre Rob. Sherwood S. Theol-Professor 24. Martii 1528. Prior Conventus de Coventre D. Will. Wyrlyche 21. Nov. 1529. Prior Conventus de Coventre Ric. Mason Cap. 18. Iulii 1533. Rob. Acres alii ratione Concess Pr. Conv. de Coventre D. Ric. Wenlok Cap. 20. Maii 1544. Margeria Belcher vidua Henr. Williams Cler. 6. Oct. 1582. Guliel Wheate
mention in Fillongley was enfeoâ—t and that from him Walkâ—line who assumed it for his sirname in respect of his residence here originally had it For though we have little light to discover the passages of these elder times the grant of lands being then not frequently by Charter as I have elsewhere observed yet from what is manifested by divers Records in reference to the tenure no less than what I have sayd may cleerly be inferred The male descendants of which VValkeline till E. 3. time continued Lords thereof but then by heirs Female other Families enjoy'd it as I shall forthwith shew But of this VValkeline de Mancestre I have seen no more than that he was witness to a Charter by which Rob. Marmion gave to the Nuns of Polesworth the Church of Quinton in com Glouc. about the beginning of K. H. 2. time and that he confirmed Oldbury to the said Nuns of Polesworth which VValter de Hastings originally gave to them To which Nuns was Hugh de Mancestre grandchild to the said VValkeline also a Benefactor by granting unto them some speciall favours concerning their Mill at Oldburie To whom succeeded Hugh his son and heir who in 29.30.31 and 32 H. 3. was one of the Justices for the Gaol-deliverie at Warwick and in 36 H. 3. obtained a speciall Charter of Free-Warren in all his demesn lands here for which he gave xi marks At which time he was one of the Coroners for this Countie and the next year after being made Eschaetor Walkelinus de Mancestre temp Regis Steph. Walt. de Mancestre 7 R. 1. Hugo de Mancestre 7 H. 3. Emma secundò nupta Gilb. de Croc. Hugo de Mancestre obiit 37 H. 3. Siâ— dâ— Mancestre 34 H. 3. Sim. de Mancestre miles 6 E. 2. Henr. de Mancestre 17 E. 1. Walt. de Mancestre 40 H. 3. Erneburga postea ux Joh. de Grendon Joh. de Mancestre miles 13 E. 1. Guido de Mancestre miles 14 E. 2. Cecilia 14 E. 2. Edm. de Mancestre miles obiit s. prole Margareta Roisia ux Leonardi Worthin 20 R. 2. Iohanna ux ..... Brokshole Galfr. Brokushole miles 20 R. 2. Johanna ux Thom. Aspal 8 H. 5. Margeria ux Ioh. Sumpter 8 H. 5. Lucia ux Petri Prilley Hugo Prilley ob s. prole Will. Prilley frater haeres 48. E. 3. departed this life leaving issue Walter and Simon which Simon setled himself within the Lordship of Tanworth where a certain large moated place though the buildings be gone beareth yet the name of his habitation and had issue Sir Simon de Mancestre Kt. who in 6 E. 2. was one of the Knights for this Countie in the Parl. then held at Westminster and gave for distinction in his Armes from those of the elder House three Lions upon the Bend. Of which Walter I find little memorable But to him â—ucceeded Sir Iohn de Mancestre Kt. who in 13 E. 1. covenanted to discharge the Nuns of Polesworth from any Scutage in respect of their lands situate here in Manceter and Oldburie and about that time claimed a Court Leet by Prescription within this Mannour as also Free-warren by virtue of K. Henrye's grant made to Hugh his grandfather both which were allowed In 16 E. 1. he was with the King's Armie in that Welch expedition under the conduct of Edmund Earl of Cornwall bearing for his Armes varrè Arg. and Sable with a Bend gules and left issue Sir Guy de Mancestre Kt. and he Sir Edmund who altered his Armes engrailing the Bend but dying without issue left the inheritance of this Lordship to the Children of his three sisters by which means it came to be divided and scattered For having issue Rose the eldest wife of Leonard VVorthyn from whom descended Sir Thomas Holt of Gristeburge in Com. Lanc. Kt. the said Sir Thomas sold his third part to one Robert Greene of Atherston of which Robert it was purchased by Thomas Ludford of Ansley Gent. whose posteritie enjoy it as I think at this day To Geffrey Brokâ—shole son of Geffrey who wedded the second succeeded Ioane the wife of Thomas Aspall and Margerie the wife of Iohn Sumpter as daughters and heirs whose third part came ere long to VVill. Harper Nich. Rouley both of this place and Thomas Arblastâ—r of Longdon in Com. Staff Esq. for in 10 H. 6. they were joyntly possest of it but made partition thereof as it seems for Thomas Harper the last of that name that had to do here sold his share to Iohn Glover of Baxterley in whose liâ—e it still continues the Mannour house being part of it But Rouley's and Arblaster's came to Thomas Lewes Gent. in Edw. 6. time of whose great-grandchild George did VVill. Cumberford of Cumberford in Com. Staff Esq. of late time purchase it And Prilley's by Aâ—â—e the daughter and heir of Edm. Prilley in H. 6. time to .... VVaver in marriage whose grandson Ric. VVaver in 7 H. 7. sold it to Ric. Cave of Stanford in Com. Nâ—rthampt Which Richard by his Deed bearing date 20 Iulii 9 H. 8. past it with certain lands in Dorstell Kingsburie and Nun-Eaton in this Countie as also in Swinford and Forton in Com. Leic. unto VVill. Filding of Newnham Esq. in exchange for divers lands is Stormysworth in the said Countie of Leic. Of whose great grandchild viz. Basill Filding Esq. did Alice Lady Dudley wife to Sir Robert Dudley Kt. about the twentith year of K. Iames his reign purchase it causing conveiance to be made thereof to the said King and to be enrolled in the Chancerie to the intent that his Majâ—stie should regrant the same to the then Incumbents of Manceter Leke-Wootton Ashow Kenilworth Monkskirby and Stonley for the augmentation of those small Vicaridges xx l. per an a piece which was accordingly done with proviso that the Patentees and their successors should preach one Sermon every Sunday throughout the year and upon every Whitsunday a speciall Sermon in commemoration of the said Ladie Dudley and Aleezia her daughter then deceased who by her last Will and Testament bequâ—athed most of her estate unto her said Mother to be imployed to such uses as she should think fit To each of which Churches this pious Ladie also gave a fair proportion of plate to be used at the Communion The Church was in an 1291. 19 E. 1. valued at xxii marks the advouson whereof in 28 H. 6. did the Monks of Merevale purchase from the then Lords of this Mannour sc. Thomas Arblaster the elder and Alice his wife Anne the widow of Thomas Porter Rob. Armeburgh Esq. Reginald Armâ—burgh Clem. Draper Ioan the Widow of VVill. Harper and Raphe Holt and Elene his wife whereupon the Appropriation of it soon ensued by VVill. Booth then Bishop of Cov. and Lich. the
to the French and regain his inheritance here in England that then he should pay back to the said Robert the younger so much of that summe as the profits of the lands of which he had received the issues did fall short thereof and that the said Robert should then enjoy the Lordships of Witringham and Coningeby in Com. Linc. Queinton in Com. Glouc. and Berewic in Com. Suss. As also that William his younger Brother should have Torinton in Com. Linc. and lands to the value of X li. per annum in Berewic abovesaid of all which they had speciall grants from their Father And further it was then concluded that the said Robert the younger should not only give the King good caution to keep this Castle to his use but upon occasion deliver it up into his hands For performance thereof these were his sureties scil Nicholas de Verdon Geffrey de Camvile William de Hardreshull Raphe fitz Raphe Thomas de Ofirton Iohn de Culi Richard Russell Robert de la Lande Robert de Passi William de Fou and Mathew de Charnels All which being effected he had the King 's speciall Precept to William de Harecurt then Governour thereof for the King to deliver it up unto him But it was not long after this that Robert the elder made his peace for in 5 H. 3. he had possession of this Castle delivered to him and the rest of his Father's lands as appears by the King's signification of his pleasure therein to all that held of it by Militarie service or otherwise as also to the Shiriff of this County So that here I must leave the said Robert the younger whose posteritie flourisht in Lincolnshire for a long time after and speak of the elder Robert I am of opinion that this Robert the elder return'd into Normandie in 17 H. 3. for in that year did he passe over the estate of all his lands in England for seven years unto Peter de Rupibus that potent Bishop of Winchester in those times together with the custodie of â—hilip his son and heir for to marry him where he should think fit without disparagement whereupon by the consent of the same Robert and Philip he made an assignation thereof unto William de Cantilupe Of this Robert I finde no more after that time than his death which hapned in 25 H. 3. But the said Philip became a person of no small account in the world for having married Ioane one of the daughters and heirs to Hugh de Kilpeck of Kilpeck Castle in Herefordshire whose custodie and disposall in marriage the said William de Cantilupe had in 33 H. 3. he was constituted Shiriff of this County and Leicestershire and Governour of the Castle of Sauvey which office he held for three yeares then next following and at that time obtained a Confirmation of the Charter of Free warren before mentioned granted to his Ancestor by King H. 1. But in 36 H. 3. he was questioned for sitting with Richard de Mundevill and the rest of the Justices for Gaol-deliverie at Warwick having no Commission so to do for which I do not find that the Kin'gs displeasure stuck long upon him in regard he attended him so soon after into Gascoin upon his return from which voyage he was taken Prisoner by the French in Poictoâ— with Gilbert de Segrave and divers other of the English Nobilitie notwithstanding that they had Letters of Protection from the French King The next mention that I find of him is that he was in that Welch expedition of 41 H. 3. and the year ensuing had Summons with divers other great men to be at Chester on the Eve of S. Iohn Baptist well furnisht with Horse and Armes to march into Wales against Lewelin ap Griffith then in Rebellion In 45 H. 3. he had the like Summons to be at London with all the chief Nobilitie upon the morrow after Simon and Iude's day in which year it was that the defection of the Barons began farther to shew it self by their intrusion upon the King's authoritie in placing Shiriffs for sundry Shires of this Realme In which respect this Philip Marmion as a person in whose fidelitie the King reposed much confidence had by speciall Patent the Counties of Norfolk and Suffolk committed to his custodie And in 47 H. 3. had summons amongst other great men to be at Hereford upon the Munday after Candlemas day well furnisht with Horse and Armes to resist the power of the before specified Lewelin so also to be at Worcester on Lammas day next ensuing in like sort accoutred to the same purpose Immediatly whereupon divers of the Barons put themselves in Armes to force the King's assent to those Ordinances which they had made at Oxford so much derogating from his regall power who seeing himself over-powred was necessitated to submit to the determination which the King of France should make therein and to bring in severall of the Peers and other eminent persons to give Oath for his performance thereof amongst which this Philip Marmion was one who likewise adhered stoutly to him throughout those turbulent times which soon after ensued For the next year following he was at the taking of Northampton and in 50 H. 3. as a reward for his faithfull services had a grant of all the King's demesns here in Tamworth aswell in that part which lyes in Staffordshire as of that in this Countie as also in Wyginton to hold during his naturall life for the Rent of xxxiv li. vi s. ix d. And was made Governour of Kenilworth-Castle immediatly upon the render thereof after that memorable six-months siege whereof I have elswhere spoke In 13 E. 1. this Philip claimed by Prescription a Court-Leet and Gallows here at Tamworth with all Weyfs found in a certain place called Asselonde within this his Mannour as also Free-warren in his demesn lands here and in those belonging to the Nunns of Polesworth all which were allowed And upon his death which hapned in 20 E. 1. it was certified that he held this Castle of the King in Capite by Knight's service finding three Knights at his own proper costs for xl days in the Warrs of Wales and that Ioane the wife of William Mortein Maud the wife of Raphe le Boteler Ioane the daughter of Raph Cromwell and Mazera his wife and Ioan Marmion were his next heirs as the Descent in the following page doth more plainly shew Which Ioan Mortein being the eldest daughter had this Castle for her share and died seized of it about three years after leaving no issue whereupon by Agreement betwixt the rest of the coheirs it was allotted to Ioane the wife of Alexander Frevile Which Alexander being brother and heir to Sir Baldwin Frevile Knight of whose inheritance he had fair lands in Norfolk and Herefordshire died seized
three days following and in xx H. 6. procured another Patent for taking Toll of all vendible commodities comming hither for the space of four years towards the finishing of the Pavement and repair of Bol-brigge After which I have not seen any thing more of â—t that is considerable till 3 Eliz. that the Queen by her Letters Patent bearing date at Westminster 24 Dec. taking notice that it had been a very antient Mercate-town and that the Inhabitants thereof by the name of the Bailiffs and Commonaltie had not only held it time out of minde of her Royall Progenitors in Fee-Ferme by the Rent of v. li xvi s. per annum but enjoyed divers Jurisdictions and Priviledges aswell by Prescrâ—ption as by severall Charters which Charters as they then suggested had been either burnt or casually lost imploring her Royall favour that she would for the better governing thereof vouchsafe to make it a Corporation did at that time ordâ—in it to be a Burrough Corporate consisting of two Bailiffs the one for that part of the town situate in this Countie and the other for that part lying in Staffordshire granting them libertie to have a Common Seal and assigning Peter Bradoke and Henry Draper the first Bayliffs As also that from thenceforth there should be xxiv of the most substantiall Inhabitants assistants to the said Bayliffs and called the principall Burgesses which said Bayliffs and Burgesses to have power as often as they should think fit to call a Court of themselves or the major part of them there to consult and determine of all things tending to the well goverment of it and to choose two Sergeants at Mace for performance of all Proclamations Arrests c. Which Bayliffs to be Justices of the Peace within the same Burrough And moreover that they should have power to keep a Court of Record upon Munday once in three weeks there to hold Plea c. after the usage of the Citie of London And likewise a Gaole for the imprisonment of Felons and Malefactors As also a weekly Mercate every Saturday and two Faires the one on the Feast-day of S. George the Martyr and four days following and the other on the Feast-day of S. Edward the King and Martyr and four days then likewise next ensuing Granting further unto the said Bayliffs for the time being that they should be Clerks of the Mercate within the precincts of the Burrough and to have a Court-Leet twice in the year scil within the compass of a month after Michaelmass and the like limit of time after Easter as also power to purchase or receive by gift lands to the value of Xl li. per annum notwithstanding the Statute of Mortmain And by another Patent bearing date xo Oct. in 30. of her reignâ— gave the inhabitants of this Burrough immunitie from being returned on Juries except they held lands out of the compasse thereof and likewise to choose a Recorder constituting Robert Devereux Earl of Essex their Steward and granting them another Faire yearly to begin on the Feast-day of S. Swithin and to endure for four days At which time she founded an endowed a Grammar School hereâ— but thereof forasmuch as it is situate on the Staffordshire side it concerns me not to speak Closing up therefore I shall observe that forasmuch as 't is not apparent by any of our publique Records that the Saturday-Mercate was granted by Charter till now it was held before by Prescription and questionlesse from the very time that the Saxon Kings had their residence here whereof I have already touched Nor it is to be doubted but that the Priviledge whâ—ch they had in sending of Burgesses to Parliament was of great antiquitie and used only by the like Prescription in such sort as other the antient Burroughs of this Realm did enjoy The Castle HAving now done with the Burrough I come to the Castle touching the Foundation whereof I have already spoke This being in the hands of King William after his Conquest was by him given towards the end of his reign as I guess unto Robert Marmion as my Story in Polesworth intimateth and as is verified by an antient window of this Church where the same King being depicted in his Robes of State and crowned stretcheth forth his hand to him holding a Charter therein neer the Gate of a faire Castle an exact representation whereof I have in page 822. exhibited Which Robert had issue Robert unto whom King Henry the first by his Charter dated at Canoc in Com. Staff granted Free-warren in all his lands within this Countie as Robert his Father had and by name here at Tamworth This last mentioned Robert was possest of the strong Castle of Fontney in Normandie which Castle Geffrey Earl of Anjou beseiged and razed in 4 o Steph. because he held out Faleis against him and gave the Church of Queinton in Gloucestershire to the Nunns of Polesworth Being a great adversarie to the Earl of Chester in 8. Steph. he entred the Priorie of Coventre neer unto which the said Earl had a Castle as I have elsewhere observed and expelling the Monks fortified it making in the fields adjacent divers deep Ditches lightly covered over to the intent that such as should make approaches thereto might be intrapt but it so hapned that as he rode himself to view the Earl's forces that began to draw neer it he sell into one of them and broke his Thigh so that he was forthwith seized on by a Common Souldier who immediatley cut off his Head To him succeeded Robert his son and heir by whose Certificate in 12 H. 2. it appears that he then held xi Knights Fees whereof his Ancestor was enfeoft in H. 1. time and three which he had obtained since for which in 14 H. 2. he gave vii li. xii s. viii d. Aid upon the marriage of Maud the King's daughter This Robert was a Benefactor to the Knights Templar's as by his grant to them of Barston Mill is manifested as also in 33 H. 2. a Justice Itinerant in this Countie and confirmed to the Nunns of Polesworth his Father's gift of the Church of Queinton But in the beginning of H. 3. time he died leaving two sonns by severall wives as it seems both of them bearing the name of Robert Of which Robert the younger gave the summe of 500 li. to the King in 2 H. 3. for the custodie of this Castle and to have possession of the lands whereof his Father died seized untill matters should be so setled as that Englishmen might peaceably enjoy their lands in Normandie and the Normans theirs in England in regard that the Dukedome of Normandie was seized on by the French about the beginning of King Iohn's time for the murther of Arthur Duke of Brittanie but with this condition too that if Robert Marmion his elder brother should make his peace with the King for it seems he then adhered